February 2012
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“You don’t make a photograph just with a camera. You bring to the act of...”
– Ansel Adams (via tonyharrattphotography)
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Well, Florida is known for its gators. They’re everywhere, literally…
Here are a couple more gator frames: this one and this one.
nirvanibliss replied to your photo: Buddies?! © Pamir Kiciman 2011 More in honor of…
Wow…Incredible shot!
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January 2012
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“Life is your art. An open, aware heart is your camera. A oneness with your world...”
– Ansel Adams
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Pamir's PhotoBlog: Nesting Black-bellied Whistling... →
Last repost, I promise… except there are a couple of good captures on this post (click it), and back when these were first taken there was:
Version IV and Version V.
pamirsphotos:
If you really want to know the Latin for these waterfowl, it’s Dendrocygna autumnalis.
Known for its high-pitched whistling call, the whistling duck’s long legs and neck are reminiscent of a goose. Males...
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Pamir's PhotoBlog: Nesting Black-bellied Whistling... →
Indulge me and take a look. Either link will take you to the full post.
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As you can see, they’re nesting on the “ground.” Well, in this case it’s on a thick layer of duckweed, which I documented here before, striking in how much like a carpet it is. And the parents have reinforced it with some reeds and twigs.
Black-bellies nest in tree cavities and, similar…
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Pamir's PhotoBlog: Nesting Black-bellied Whistling... →
My son and I were back at this wetland yesterday. These ducks were there, but not nesting that we could see and really not the main show like they were when these were captured. Reposting because these are moments to remember! Click either link to see full original post.
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Apparently these waterfowl are a rare sight in Florida. If it wasn’t for the wetland area that’s been preserved...
The Wisdom Of Trees (Leonardo Da Vinci Knew It)
Hurricanes topple plenty of trees, but when you think about it, the more amazing thing is that many trees can stand up to these 100-mile-per-hour winds.
Now a French scientist has come up with an explanation for the resilience of trees. And astonishingly, the answer was first described by Leonardo da Vinci 500 years ago.
Leonardo noticed that when trees branch, smaller branches have a...
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“Quit thinking about decent land-use as solely an economic problem. Examine each...”
– —Aldo Leopold (1887– 1948), from A Sand County Almanac, published posthumously in 1949 one year after Leopold’s death.
This widely cited book is considered a landmark in the American conservation movement for its call to create a land ethic. Leopold wanted to understand humanity’s relationship with...
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“We abuse land because we see it as a commodity belonging to us. When we see land...”
– Aldo Leopold (via intrepidwanderer)
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“The more I can love everything — the trees, the land, the water, my fellow men,...”
– Carl Simonton
“When we surround ourselves with sounds of nature, we are soothed and healed,...”
– Ani Williams
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“We see the world piece by piece, as the sun, the moon, the animal, the tree; but...”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
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On Being Blog: Illuminating Maine's Deep Winter... →
Click the link to see the incredible light show!
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by Nancy Rosenbaum, producer
“Castle in the Park” at Deering Oaks Park in Portland, Maine. (photo: David LaCasse)
The holidays are over and there’s no getting around the fact that it’s January and bitter cold in the Upper Midwest. The days, while inching longer into light, are still short. Now is the time of deep winter, when a...
December 2011
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“Miracles are to come.
With you I leave a remembrance
of miracles: they are by...”
– e.e. cummings (via whatshewanted)
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Christmas 2011
fromoutoftheblue:
I adapted this from the notes within A Course in Miracles.
http://www.fromoutoftheblue.com
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“Man is a microcosm, or a little world, because he is an extract from all the...”
– Paracelsus (via lucifelle)
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“… every day is a journey, and the journey itself is home.”
– Basho 1644 – 1694
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“In the end we will conserve only what we love. We will love only what we...”
– Baba Dioum, Senegalese conservationist (b. 1937)
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“A new consciousness is developing which sees the earth as a single organism and...”
– Carl Sagan (via oniverse)
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“We must protect the forests for our children, grandchildren and children yet to...”
– Qwatsinas, Nuxalk Nation (via celestialcat)
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Bodhi Day
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Thursday, December 8, is Bodhi Day, a Buddhist holiday that commemorates the day that the Buddha achieved enlightenment, translated as bodhi in Sanskrit or Pali. Bodhi Day is celebrated on the eighth day of the 12th lunar month and observed with meditation, dharma, and kindness toward others. Celebrating with metta & mindfulness.
“How do the geese know when to fly to the sun? Who tells them the seasons? How do...”
– Elizabeth Kubler-Ross (via theelegantuniverse)
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“Among the Brahma-Viharas, the word used for compassion is ‘karuna’. But almost...”
– A Rich Mandala on Anukampa.
Thank you dear one.
(via sharanam)