My Blog primarily consists of close-up nature photos (that I've taken locally) combined with original holistic-truth oriented prose and/or poetry involving mindfulness/awareness. I love nature and I love understanding the whole (not merely the parts and the details). I'm a retired teacher of the multiply handicapped.
I have a number of interesting hobbies, such as fossil collecting, sport-kite flying, 3D and 2D close-up photography, holography, and pets. Most of all, I am into holistic self-awareness, spontaneous insight, unconventional observation/direct perception, mindfulness, meditation, world peace, non-fragmentation, population control, vegetarianism, and green energy.
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Thanks much, Mich! 🙂
I sure hope that that smoke and residue by you is subsiding; i sure hope that they are getting those terrible fires under control.
Oh my! Sad to read. Hopefully, things will get better (but i foresee this being more the norm in the future). If you can, keep me updated on this. Stay safe!
Your mention of your back yard reminded me of one of my favorite quotations, from the Swiss naturalist Louis Agassiz:
“I spent the summer traveling; I got halfway across my back yard.”
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That’s one great photo…
Thank you, 67, and it was taken right in the backyard. 🙂
Great Poem and macro, Tom
Thank you, Leyla! The backyard butterflies can be amicable and non-evasive. 🙂
Beautiful poem Tom..perfect for your lovely photo as well..
Thanks much, Mich! 🙂
I sure hope that that smoke and residue by you is subsiding; i sure hope that they are getting those terrible fires under control.
Oh no Tom..it has gotten worst..flights have been cancelled already… and we are just hoping for a big rain to come…😶😶
Oh my! Sad to read. Hopefully, things will get better (but i foresee this being more the norm in the future). If you can, keep me updated on this. Stay safe!
A great capture Tom.
One of our amicable and sweet butterflies in the backyard, Peter! 🙂
Wonderful poem and photograph, Tom! 🙂
Thank you, Sabine! It’s easy to photograph them when they are in your backyard and are your friends. 🙂
Your bugs are my hummingbirds! 😉 It’s just a matter of time before the hummers stop coming around. I will miss them … until they return in spring!
Yes, i’ll miss a lot of the outdoor critters, but there are a lot of indoor critters here with us so things will remain wonderful! 🙂
I hope the beautiful Painted Lady butterflies stick around for a long time. It’s amazing how you see an almost-hairy body when it is up close.
They are so hairy, they are flying gorillas! 🙂
Your mention of your back yard reminded me of one of my favorite quotations, from the Swiss naturalist Louis Agassiz:
“I spent the summer traveling; I got halfway across my back yard.”
🙂 I like that one!
from Walt Whitman:
The first step I say awed me and pleas’d me so much,
I have hardly gone and hardly wish’d to go any farther…