Deliberate.Serendipity

mmm…: I want one of those

Hey everyone, I’ve got one free Flickr Pro account (usually $24.95) to give away in the next week. So if any of you Flickr freebies would like one, please leave a comment here. I’ll be randomly choosing someone soon. No guarantees it will be you!

***UPDATE***

Winner has been chosen!

I have to laugh at the names that come up in my Junk mail for the sender. Do they really think that having a name like “Disheveled K. Antipastos” is going to inspire confidence in me? “Oh, yes, he must be some rich, yet frumpy, Italian gentleman who wants to give me some of his riches…”
Give me a break.

bubbles inside a bubble

I was having a play with Gimp today and discovered the ‘lens effect’; actually, I didn’t discover it today, but I finally found a photo that worked well with that effect.My kids have been studying our solar system at school, so should I tell them that a new planet has been discovered? What is its name?

:Originally uploaded by Green Velvet.

In memory of a friend, Susan, 35, who passed away on Tuesday. Sue, you were always so quick to say "how are ya?" whenever you saw me. I’ll miss your laugh and the stories we shared over a cup of coffee. God Bless and a safe journey.

Re-Birth From Grief

I saw a crumpled butterfly emerge
From out a pale green satin chrysalis
And as it paused, a fresh life seemed to surge
Through all its form and with the bliss
Of this new birth into a sunlit world
It rose and flew enraptured through the fields.

It rested where the lilac buds uncurled –
A strange enchanting potion each bloom yields
To so entice the bees into its heart!
The fragrant clusters whisper one by one:
“Come down and drink, Oh Butterly, then dart
Aloft; go high and higher to the sun.”

“Re-Birth from Grief” written by Hope Hollinshead published posthumously in 1942 in the book “The Oak and other Poems”, Albion Press. Hope was a distant cousin of mine. She died at age 20 in 1937.

Mountain view from my backyard: Everyday the mountain changes colors at sunset. Originally uploaded by chacal la chaise.

This wonderful photo reminded me of growing up in El Paso, with the Franklin Mountains an ever-present backdrop to everything I did. We lived on the other side of this peak, so had a different view of the mountain.Beautiful sunset picture. Thanks Chacal la chaise!