Our Kalanchoe beharensis standing tall in our backyard |
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A word of consolation |
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A merry dance in the forest. |
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Imprisoned |
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Elephant's ears in our backyard |
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I can feel the shadows lurking, I can feel them closing in... |
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Soft landing |
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Aleuria aurantia often called the "Orange Peel Fungus". |
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It is not only fine feathers that make fine birds. Aesop (620 BC - 560 BC) |
Never say there is nothing beautiful in the world anymore. |
Not here "For ivy climbs the crumbling hall To decorate decay". |
Today is a new day, turning over a new leaf, not holding grudges. |
Who is more foolish, the child afraid of the dark or the man afraid of the light? -Maurice Freehill |
Don't make a mountain out of a molehill. -proverb |
People who say it cannot be done should not interrupt those who are doing it. -Chinese Proverb |
Pride in wealth and position Is overlooking one's collapse. -Lao Tzu |
Gravity is only the bark of wisdom's tree but it preserves it. -Confucius |
Well lay down your swords, boys, lay down your guns.......Shawn Mullins album |
Every time when I look in the mirror...... |
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Constant development is the law of life..... |
However long the night, the dawn will break. |
Education is the movement from darkness to light. -Allan Bloom |
We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give. |
As I shuffle down the path leading through the park... |
... make us sing and dance, make faces... |
What we are doing to the forests of the world is....... |
Every beetle is a gazelle in the eyes of its mother. -Moroccan saying |
If you touch one thing with deep awareness, you touch everything. -Thich Nhat Hanh |
You can't hide your true colours as you approach the autumn of your life. -author unknown |
If I keep a green bough in my heart, the singing bird will come. -Chinese proverb |
Beauty in nature feeds the soul and I will always hunger for the visual delight. |
Happiness does not come from having much, but from being attached to little. -Cheng Yen |
Autumn's Last Stand |
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An age is called "dark," not because the light fails to shine but because people refuse to see it. -James Michener |
Any emotion, if it is sincere, is involuntary. -Mark Twain |
To live is so startling it leaves little time for anything else. -Emily Dickinson |
To dare is to lose one's footing momentarily. To not dare is to lose oneself. -Soren Kierkegaard |
I hear the wind among the trees... |
Patriotism is often an arbitrary veneration of real estate above principles. -George Jean Nathan |
War does not determine who is right - only who is left. -Bertrand Russell |
War is only a cowardly escape from the problems of peace. -Thomas Mann |
Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle. -Plato |
Till now man has been up against Nature; from now on he will be up against his own nature. -Dennis Gabor, |
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Such is the human race, often it seems a pity that Noah... didn't miss the boat. -Mark Twain |
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Wrinkles should merely indicate where smiles have been. -Mark Twain |
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Kalanchoe leaf |
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New leaf |
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Religious wars are basically people killing each other over who has the better imaginary friend. |
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Tanned by the summer sun. |
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Ficus leaves |
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Kalanchoe leaf |
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We do not inherit the earth from our ancestors, we borrow it from our children. -Native American Proverb |
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Know, first, who you are; and then adorn yourself accordingly. -Epictetus |
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Don't knock the weather... |
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Beauty is not in the face; beauty is a light in the heart. -Kahlil Gibran |
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Earned her stripes. |
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Be proud to wear the colours that you call your own... |
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Life is full of lots of up and downs..... |
Inside myself is a place where I live all alone and that's where you renew your springs that never dry up. - Pearl Buck |
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Life without liberty is like a body without spirit. - Kahlil Gibran |
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I don't need a friend who changes when I change and who nods when I nod; my shadow does that much better. -Plutarch |
No place to dwell on negative thoughts... |
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Starry eyed. |
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Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower. -Albert Camus |
Every artist was first an amateur. -Ralph Waldo Emerson |
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Photosynthetic pathways |
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Faith is often the boast of the man who is too lazy to investigate. — F.M. Knowles |
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A ray of sun between the showers |
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Stringy bark |
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Every leaf on every tree... |
Where the dead leaf fell, there did it rest. -John Keats |
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Smoke of the bushfires gave this backyard shot an eerie glow |
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Count your life with smiles and not the tears that roll |
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At last good soaking rain |
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George Santayana ... everything in nature is lyrical in its ideal essence, tragic in its fate, and comic in its existence. |
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I've been up the mountain and I had a choice. Should I come down? So I came..Bob Dylan |
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Those who contemplate the beauty of the earth find reserves of strength that will endure as long as life lasts -Rachel Carson |
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The fall of a leaf is a whisper to the living. - Russian Proverb |
Putting colourful Tasmania on the map |
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Nature's graffiti work |
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Spring will follow winter |
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Let my song be as simple as the waking in the morning... |
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When walking through the "valley of shadows," remember, a shadow is cast by a Light -Austin O'Malley |
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The day I see a leaf is a marvel of a day - Kenneth Patton |
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Australian scene made of bark |
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Pleasures lie thickest where no pleasures seem... |
In the woods and fields |
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Never let the fear of striking out, keep you from playing the game. |
Have a heart that never hardens, a temper that never tires, a touch that never hurts. -Charles Dickens |
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Look at everything as though you were seeing it either for the first or last time.Betty Smith |
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There is always something to make you wonder... |
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Nature will bear the closest inspection. |
Great acts are made up of small deeds. - Lao Tzu |
Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died. - Erma Louise Bombeck |
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But what is happiness except the simple harmony between a man and the life he leads? - Albert Camus |
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"The best thing to do with the best things in life is to give them up." -Dorothy Day |
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Don't fence me in. No. Poppa, don't you fence me in. |
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One life - a little gleam of Time between two Eternities. - Thomas Carlyle |
Always seek out the seed of triumph in every adversity. -Og Mandino |
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Reject your sense of injury and the injury itself disappears. - Marcus Aelius Aurelius |
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I'm hanging on today - And nothing's gonna stop me, anyway |
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And the despair of dark descent... |
No, you never get any fun out of the things you haven't done. -Ogden Nash |
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"It is easier to love humanity as a whole than to love one's neighbor." -Eric Hoffer |
I dress to kill, but tastefully. - Freddie Mercury |
fallen leaf - wet path - sky bound |
Nature never deceives us; it is always we who deceive ourselves. -Jean-Jacques Rousseau |
Living up to ideals is like doing everyday work with your Sunday clothes on. -Ed Howe |
Louis the fly doing a burnout and a donut |
Dreams are renewable... |
These walls exhibit more harmony than the colourful city councillors inside |
It is now possible to travel from coast to coast without seeing anything.-Charles Kuralt |
On pavements and the bark of trees I have found whole worlds. - Mark Tobey |
It's amazing what you'll find face to face. |
Oh, For The Time When I Shall Sleep |
Kalanchoe canopy |
One day your life will flash before your eyes. Make sure its worth watching. |
Blessed is he who expects nothing, for he shall never be disapointed. |
The desire to survive and the fear of death are artistic sentiments. -Salvador Dali |
Shaped by our thoughts |
All of us failed to match our dreams of perfection. -William Faulkner |
Carpet |
Great things are done when men and mountains meet. This is not done by jostling in the street. -William Blake |
The Ginkgo tree can have a long life span, 1,000 or older. In China the oldest Ginkgo is about 3,500 years old! |
An Elephant's Ear collects some Japanese Maple leaves |
Melancholic reflection of summer days past |
Had this eucalyptus leaf for ages, between the pages of a book that I didn't finish reading |
Shadow play |
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Flowers... are a proud assertion that a ray of beauty outvalues all the utilities of the world. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1844 |
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Life is a great big canvas, and you should throw all the paint on it you can. -Danny Kaye |
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Sun lit leaves |
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Decorated bridge over pond |
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They took all the trees.... |
A two-faced man is more venomous Than the snake with two fangs. |
Iron bark ( Eucalyptus sideroxylon ) |
Birch leaf shadow on bark |
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