The Flickr Livecycleoftrees Image Generatr

"The beauty of still life lies in the simplicity of ordinary objects, captured in a moment of serenity."

Found in Schapenbout!

Schapenbout is a hamlet in the municipality of Terneuzen, in the Dutch province of Zeeland. The hamlet, in the region of Zeeuws-Vlaanderen, is part of the residential area Spui. Schapenbout consists of about forty dike houses on the Graaf Jansdijk. The name Schapenbout has nothing to do with sheep meat: the word bout here means 'end', namely of a dike. In this hamlet there was a remnant of a dike where sheep grazed. Hence the name.

Schapenbout became known through the television program Man bites dog, which went from Hongerige Wolf (province of Groningen) to Schapenbout in the 2003–2004 season to visit people.

These are climate trees and absorb a lot of Co2. They were planted last spring, but now they are only just starting to get above their "houses".
A field of trees that still have hard to grow!
Found is Spui, between Terneuzen and Axel.

"The trees, the flowers, the plants grow in silence. The stars, the sun, the moon move in silence. Silence gives us a new perspective." ~ Mother Teresa

I want to share some feelings with this lovely poem
about sadness and darkness in life!
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'Still I Rise'
By Maya Angelou

"You may write me down in history
With your bitter, twisted lies,
You may trod me in the very dirt
But still, like dust, I'll rise.

Does my sassiness upset you?
Why are you beset with gloom?
’Cause I walk like I've got oil wells
Pumping in my living room.

Just like moons and like suns,
With the certainty of tides,
Just like hopes springing high,
Still I'll rise.

Did you want to see me broken?
Bowed head and lowered eyes?
Shoulders falling down like teardrops,
Weakened by my soulful cries?

Does my haughtiness offend you?
Don't you take it awful hard
’Cause I laugh like I've got gold mines
Diggin’ in my own backyard.

You may shoot me with your words,
You may cut me with your eyes,
You may kill me with your hatefulness,
But still, like air, I’ll rise.

Does my sexiness upset you?
Does it come as a surprise
That I dance like I've got diamonds
At the meeting of my thighs?

Out of the huts of history’s shame
I rise
Up from a past that’s rooted in pain
I rise
I'm a black ocean, leaping and wide,
Welling and swelling I bear in the tide.

Leaving behind nights of terror and fear
I rise
Into a daybreak that’s wondrously clear
I rise
Bringing the gifts that my ancestors gave,
I am the dream and the hope of the slave.
I rise
I rise
I rise."
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Copyright Credit: Maya Angelou, "Still I Rise" from And Still I Rise: A Book of Poems. Copyright © 1978 by Maya Angelou. Used by permission of Random House, an imprint and division of Penguin Random House LLC. All rights reserved.
Source: The Complete Collected Poems of Maya Angelou (1994)

Be well my friends!

A water drop greatly enlarged.
This drop is now also the gallery award for:
Macro Droplets Gallery!

It looks like a spectacle lens ;-)

I had to post this one, because the new shoot of the tree is protected from frost by this drop. Saved new life ♥

“Winter is on my head, but eternal spring is in my heart.”
– Victor Hugo

pp: texture by Deviant art
image is from my archives

If you throw a stone in a pond... the waves which strike against the shores are thrown back towards the spot where the stone struck; and on meeting other waves they never intercept each others course... In a small pond one and the same stroke gives birth to many motions of advance and recoil.
— Leonardo da Vinci
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Thanks for the texture by Shadowhouse creations!

"Autumn is the year's last, loveliest smile."
— William Cullen Bryant

"So Long, Sweet Summer."

Thank you all so much for your visits, your warm and friendly words, your faves, but most of all your friendship!
Hugs to you by me and Beethoven

Wow, thank you so much for EXPLORE, September 12, 2024, position 106 ! my Explore page

pp: done with a texture by Tota and a Topaz filter

Just a feeling and a quote of Alan Watts.

“But I’ll tell you what hermits realize. If you go off into a far, far forest and get very quiet, you’ll come to understand that you’re connected with everything.”

- Alan Watts

The original image you find below!
pp: I used a texture of Deviant art! Thank you so much!!

Enjoy your new week ahead my dear friends!
Be well. Hugs by me and Beety!

"Photography is painting with light! The blurs, the spots, those are errors! But the errors are part of it, they give it poetry and turn it into painting. And for that you need as bad a camera as possible! If you want to be famous, you have to do whatever you're doing worse than anyone else in the whole world."
~ Miroslav Tichy

Have a fine and happy new week my friend!!
Hugs to you by me ♥ and a cuddle by: Beethoven

pp: blur and infrared with PSE and an unknown texture.
from my archives.

There's so much grey to every story - nothing is so black and white.
~Lisa Ling

Happy day and happy B-day to the members
on this Intercalary day!

View On Black

Hugs by me ♥ and Beethoven

Wow, thank you so much for Explore!
March 1st 2024 position #80 ! Makes me happy
while the sun 🌞 is shining too

pp: blurr texture and a Topaz filter
Picture is from my archives.

"Trees are poems that the earth writes upon the sky."
- Kahlil Gibran

Trees shaped by the sea wind.
A wild forest, near the sea at Oostkapelle The Netherlands

pp: done with Snapseed and Topaz filters

“The toughest battles in life are fought on the most delicate playgrounds of our minds.”
― Hrishikesh Agnihotri

Thank you so much my dear friends for your visits,
your warm words, you faves, your invites,
but most of all I appreciate your friendship.

Hugs by me 💞 and Beethoven

pp: digital painted with Topaz Filters

“I will love the light for it shows me the way, yet I will endure the darkness for it shows me the stars.”
― Og Mandino

Be well my dear friends. We are sending you hugs
and love ♥ 🌹 Adriënne and Beethoven
My four leggend friend!

Thank you all so much for Explore!!! October 1, 2023
Via Today's Explore at #63 on Fluidr

pp: texture by Deviant art and I used topaz filters

In the orchard with a little bokeh of light!
Taken during a bike ride in Schouwen-Duiveland (Zeeland)
At the other side of the water ;-)

Enjoy your weekend my dear friends
Thank you so much that you are always here for me.
With views, faves, comments and most of all your never ending friendship! Be well and a big hug by me 💕
and of course a big cuddle by: Beethoven 😻

pp: thanks for the texture by Deviant art !!!

At a Sunday morning walk, cold but with a sunny surprise!

And another surprise reached me:
my golden light is on EXPLORE!
February 3th, position 287! This really made my day!

Thank you all so much for the views, the comments, the awards, but most of all your friendship here in this digital world.

Be well everyone and stay safe!

No trespassing: silence zone!
“Silence is a source of Great Strength.”
― Lao Tzu

Taken yesterday during a lovely forest walk.
This image isn't edited; straight from my camera.
Please view LARGE; it's worth it!
Here Also On Black

Enjoy your week ahead dear friends!
Thank you for watching, your comments,
your faves and most of all your friendship!
Much appreciated!
We are sending you hugs and love.
Addy and ♱ Alfie

Time is like the ocean
Always there, Always different!
~ Osden Nash ~

Thanks for the texture clive sax and Telzey/ Lydia Marano I love them!

Also a big thanks for stopping by my dear friends!
Enjoy life.

Sending you hugs, love and peace
Addy & ✞ Alfie
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