WAIT-NOT YET

Gives Freely

Thu, 24 Jul 2008 03:50:38 GMT

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Light gives of itself freely,

filling all available space.

It does not seek anything in return;

it asks not whether you are friend or foe...

It gives of itself and is not thereby diminished.

_Michael Strassfeld

tall pines - lake sunset - shenandoah valley/blue ridge mountains near staunton - va - _rRose

Unlimited

Sat, 28 Jun 2008 05:23:20 GMT

"LIFE IS A FIELD

OF UNLIMITED POSSIBILITIES" -

_D. Chopra

AOL Community Photo Challenge - The Magic Hour

Tue, 24 Jun 2008 05:34:52 GMT

AOL Community Photo Challenge

AOL Community Challenge-The Magic Hour-JUDGED

JUDGED Category

The Magic hour, or Golden hour is the first & last hour of sunlight.
It's the 1/2 hour before the sun rises, & 1/2 after the sun rises. It's also the 1/2 hourbefore sunset & 1/2 hour after.

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The Sun sets and waits for no man -

The Sun rises and waits for a woman - _rRose

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My goal for this photo challenge "Magic Hour," was to show the unique magical light play from sunrise and sunset - I can see the light color, and attempt to capture it through my camera lens. There aren't always ideal spots to just snap sunrise - sunset. I look for nearby places where the sun can be more easily seen rising or sinking over the mountain or slipping through the trees, etc. I manage to photograph more sunsets than sunrises. I love the "Magic Hour!"_rRose

~ Sunrise ~

Star Sunrise through Sycamore tree over Historic southern home. _rRose

~ Sunset ~

Mountain firey white Sun with firey red-orange rays setting among layered clouds over New River Gorge Mountain River. _rRose

AOL Community Photo Challenge The American Flag

Wed, 18 Jun 2008 03:29:27 GMT

AOL Community Photo Challenge

AOL Community Challenge-The American Flag*FUN*

Our June Photo challenge for FUN only, is

The American Flag.

Find a flag anywhere, on a flag post, a building, painted on something....or just the red, white & blue colors.

Fave Flag photos -

#1. "Forgotten Flag in Woods"

#2. 4th of July Festival-2005

"Night Flag on Historic Veteran's Bridge"_rRose

Greenbrier Co., WV

- Memorial Day - Flags_rRose

Summer Magic

Mon, 23 Jun 2008 05:41:51 GMT

THEN FOLLOWED THAT BEAUTIFUL SEASON -

SUMMER OF ALL-SAINTS!

FILLED WAS THE AIR WITH A DREAMY

AND MAGICAL LIGHT;

AND THE LANDSCAPE LAY

AS IF NEW CREATED

IN ALL THE FRESHNESS OF CHILDHOOD.

_Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Sound

Tue, 17 Jun 2008 04:55:03 GMT

The life in us is like the water in the river.

It may rise this year higher than man has ever known it, and flood the parched uplands; even this may be the eventful year, which will drown out all our muskrats.

It was not always dry land where we dwell. I see far inland the banks where the stream anciently washed, before science began to record its freshets.

_Henry David Thoreau, Walden, 1854

- The Sound of Mountain Water -

I gave my heart to the mountains the minute I stood beside this river with its spray in my face and watched it thunder into foam, smooth to green glass over sunken rocks, shatter to foam again. I was fascinated by how it sped by and yet was always there; its roar shook both the earth and me._Wallace Stegner

Hello June

Tue, 03 Jun 2008 05:24:09 GMT

"And the day came

when the risk [it took]

to remain tight in the bud

Was more painful than the risk it took to blossom."

_Anais Nin

- Memorial Day -

Tue, 27 May 2008 03:33:43 GMT

"The brave go on -

The brave go to do the necessary things" -

_J. Thompson

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Tread softly in the woods of spring -

Wild flowers are blooming there - _uk

AOL Community Photo Challenge Landscapes Black White

Sun, 04 May 2008 01:59:46 GMT

AOL Community Photo Challenge AOL Community Challenge•Landscapes in Black & White•FUN

FUN Category!
Take a Landscape photo in B & W

or transform a photo into B & W.

"Sometimes I do get to places

just when God's ready
to have somebody

click the shutter."
_Ansel Adams

Late February

Tue, 26 Feb 2008 04:26:31 GMT

"Late February, and the air's so balmy
snowdrops and crocuses might be fooled
into early blooming.

Then, the inevitable blizzard
will come, blighting our harbingers of spring,
and the numbed yards will go back undercover.

In Florida, it's strawberry season—

shortcake, waffles, berries and cream

will be penciled on the coffeeshop menus."

_Gail Mazur