Graceful
Uploaded: April 01, 2014
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Exif: F Number: 3.5, Exposure Bias Value: -1.67, ExposureTime: 10/300 seconds, Flash: did not fire, compulsory flash mode, ISO: 500, White balance: Manual white balance, FocalLength: 4.40 mm, Model: FinePix F500EXR
Tiia Vissak April 01, 2014
great colors & shapes! #1568629Avril Young April 01, 2014
beautiful, lovely colour.. #11014635Laura E. Swan April 01, 2014
Oh, Mare! This is so California.You know we don't realize it as much when we live there but California has some of the most unusual and beautiful succulents of anywhere around. People don't realize until they see them in person how breakable and watery they are inside...really special looking, too, like this one!!! Wonderful job.
I have been feeling homesick lately. You know...The basic stuff. Missing the weather and landscapes, trees, plants,running around in shorts while other poor saps are wearing winter clothes in far off Northern Lands. Now I am that poor sap stuck in the tundra of snow in heavy clothes just to empty the garbage... HeeHee...
No bit of a joke, look what I just found in the Websters dictionary online.
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Definition of TUNDRA SWAN
: a native North American swan (Cygnus columbianus) that has a soft high-pitched call, breeds in the Arctic tundra, and winters in shallow fresh or salt water especially along the eastern and western coasts of the United States —called also whistling swan
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Does this mean I will be on the beach soon, whistling away?? A girl can dream!:D
Love your gallery that reminds me of home.
-PomTree
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Debbie Bray April 01, 2014
Lulu says the sweetest things, Mary!Jeff Robinson April 01, 2014
Excellent color, contrast and capture - Hard to top Laura's comment :-) #11014702Colette M. Metcalf April 01, 2014
Beautiful colors and image, Mary!!! #11014703Tammy M. Anderson April 01, 2014
Beautiful details, colors and capture, Mary. #11014706frank w. degenhardt April 01, 2014
A beautiful find Mary. I love the title as this is what the plant looks like it is doing, a lovely and graceful dance. Love the curve. Gorgeous color contrast with the green of the background. Love the details, the composing and framing. A beauty dear friend. Take care and enjoy the day. #11014726Joy Rector April 01, 2014
gorgeous #11014776Nancy L. Green April 01, 2014
GORGEOUS floral Mary, BEAUTIFULLY done!!! <>< #11014972John Connolly April 01, 2014
It sure is graceful Mary! What a wonderful capture and I love the background!Carol L. Fowler April 01, 2014
Gorgeous flowers! #11015313Mary K. Robison April 01, 2014
Tiia, Avril, Pom, Debbie, Jeff, Colette, Tammy, Frank,, Joy, Nancy, John, and Carol ~ thanks, everyone, for your supportive and friendly words. Glad you like it!Laura E. Swan April 02, 2014
The future will be bitter sweet. Whenlittle Fangy passes waway (that is the bitter part) then I willbe free to travel again and see my native land. (That is the sweet part). Until then I rejoice in the long suffering. In the back of my Bible it says that "Long Suffering" means Patiently Enduring. A young boy (River Phoenix) recently said, in a Harrison Ford movie called, "The Mosquito Coast", (Loosely quoted) That learning to be a Christian is to learn to be at peace with mundane chores and living. I found solace in that. Winter is 6 to 8 months long here. A bit much. ;) #11015445Mary K. Robison April 02, 2014
Pom, just continue to love your little Fangy every chance you get. And remember to make movies with your digital camera. Watching them(as I've learned with Riley's movies)--- THAT is bittersweet...Laura E. Swan April 02, 2014
Ooo! California SELFIES with MARE! Okay now I will go to sleep happy.I have movies of Lucky (Our Tuxedo kitty that passed 3 years ago.) When he was young. They are so brief and were taken at our first house here. He lived in 3 homes with us! :))) Lived to be 18. I wish I had done more. Fangy is old and limping now. Dare I do that at this stage? He is still beautiful at any age, right? I should do this. Thanks for the suggestion!
Night night, and Thank You.
xo-Pommy #11015470
Mary K. Robison April 02, 2014
DO it! :-D #11015547Ellen Hodges April 02, 2014
Soooooo very pretty, Mary!!! #11015627Mary K. Robison April 03, 2014
Thanks very much, Ellen! #11016519Kirsten Kiki Kjaer April 03, 2014
Oh, yes - that is the perfect title for this beauty, Mary.Mary K. Robison April 04, 2014
Hi, Kiki! Glad you like this. #11017115Barbara Waldoch April 04, 2014
It's a beauty, Mary! #11017604Mary K. Robison April 05, 2014
Thanks, Barbara! #11017675Jill Odice April 05, 2014
The perfect title, that was just what I was thinking when I looked at it! #11017964Mary K. Robison April 06, 2014
Thanks for commenting, Jill! #11018268Nadia Paul April 08, 2014
Love the graceful curve and the beautiful colours Mary - so well seen and taken my friend! #11019653Sign up for an interactive online photography course to get critiques on your photos.
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