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bjbdbest
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Persistence pays off in the end - unless contrary to the old proverb
----------------------------------------(a lesson one should heed)... "If at first you don't succeed, try, try again. Then quit. There's no point in being a damn fool about it."  -W. C. Fields ...j/k... “The best way out is always through.” ― Robert Frost Courage doesn't always roar Sometimes courage is a quiet little voice At the end of the day Saying I will try again tomorrow. |
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David Autumns
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LOL
---------------------------------------- Right one half of that Moon is clear overhead I'm off to take my Canon for a drive to a very dark high plateau in deepest Yorkshire. I'll be back  |
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bjbdbest
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Have fun..drop bread crumbs to find your way home.
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David Autumns
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straight from the camera no tricks no edits
----------------------------------------http://www.theglobalthermometer.com/wcg/neat.jpg absolutely freezing - next time gloves and a woolly hat Just the sound of birds quarrelling broke the complete peace No cars, nobody, just that magnificent sky. I need to look out farther but also closer |
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bjbdbest
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No need for tricks when connecting lunar purity with its many faces.
----------------------------------------The stunning stillness....A wonderful capture! “And he beholds the moon; like a rounded fragment of ice filled with motionless light.” ― Gustave Flaubert And this lovely quote I found ... The sun sees your body, the moon sees your soul. |
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bjbdbest
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UNDER A TELEPHONE POLE
----------------------------------------I AM a copper wire slung in the air, Slim against the sun I make not even a clear line of shadow. Night and day I keep singing--humming and thrumming: It is love and war and money; it is the fighting and the tears, the work and want, Death and laughter of men and women passing through me, carrier of your speech, In the rain and the wet dripping, in the dawn and the shine drying, A copper wire. Carl Sandburg |
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David Autumns
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As a Telecoms Engineer .. there is a reason why I do it :-)
----------------------------------------I went for a brief visit here today   It was typical Bronte Weather all bleak and windswept and Heathcliff I had a quick peek through one of the Parsonage's Windows but I don't think the Brontesaurus. (Sorry it was just there for the taking  ) Sadly the town of Haworth is now a parody of itself. Almost embarrassingly so. Looking forward to some brighter weather when I can get up and out on the moors [Edit 1 times, last edit by David Autumns at Mar 16, 2014 8:28:31 PM] |
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David Autumns
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"Sealed with a loving kiss."
----------------------------------------As I stood on that Platform, alone, with the dawn chorus I tried to catch hold of the warmth of a thousand love letters As the mail train rushed through. All too briefly It was gone. |
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bjbdbest
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"Sealed with a loving kiss"
----------------------------------------...How a few words can convey their message... (I remember licking envelopes and writing SWAK across the flap.)  "A pile of old letters lay forgotten in an attic, letters written long ago in the bloom of someone's youth. They were tied with a pink ribbon and kept preciously by someone I do not know. Each letter spoke of love, the yearning of being apart, and how good it would feel to be home once again. How wonderful it would be back in loves arms again away from a terrible war that had to part them too quickly shortly after their wedding day. They spoke of plans for their future and how their love would grow. They would start afresh at the beginnings of the first snow. Each letter was sealed with a kiss that was there for all to see. It told the story of unbroken love that would live on through every tragedy and sealed with a kiss. The last letter in the pile was tear stained and edged in black. It told the story that her lover never came back." |
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bjbdbest
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but I don't think the Brontesaurus No less than a dandy brontesaurus would romp those literary halls, don't you agree? Love is like the wild rose-briar, Friendship like the holly-tree— The holly is dark when the rose-briar blooms But which will bloom most constantly? The wild rose-briar is sweet in spring, Its summer blossoms scent the air; Yet wait till winter comes again And who will call the wild-briar fair? Then scorn the silly rose-wreath now And deck thee with the holly’s sheen, That when December blights thy brow He still may leave thy garland green. -Emily Brontë |
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