According to Buddha
Be motivated like the falcon, hunt gloriously. Be magnificent as the leopard, fight to win. Spend less time with nightingales and peacocks. One is all talk, the other only colour.
you just left one feather.
so i keep it in my pillow,
so i’ll dream of you at night.
and your feathers were the colour,
of the sun before it sets at night.
and your eyes were as sharp,
as the morning sunlight.
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peacock feather in yesterday’s sunshine ~ December 2020
Beautiful.
Thank you kindly Rabirius ~ always appreciated ~ have a creative and positive new year ~ joy and love to you and your loved ones ☺️❣️
Wooo amazing very nice
Thank you kindly ItsMoskey 🤓 appreciated ~ compose a beautiful day ~ smiles hedy ☺️💫
Brilliant!
Have the Happiest New Year Hedy!
Enjoy everyday
Thank you dear Eddie New Year happy! and yes wishing you positivity and health and all good things and also thank you for your teachings ~ hugs and love hedy ☺️🤗❣️
Hypnotic images. Happy New Year!
New Year happy Alex! sending you positivity and all good things ~ hugs 🕊 ❣️
Have the best New Year… beautiful post.
well it will be an adventure I’m sure…always is right…and yes I’m also wishing you the best for a year of positivity LA Scott ~ New Year happy! smiles hedy ☺️🙂🙃💫
These are beautiful.
Humble thank you Timothy ~ appreciated smiles hedy ☺️💫
Aaaahhhhh – these are exquisite.
Alison
☺️🙏thanks so much Alison for all your comments and kindness…always appreciated and I wish you and Don a year of joy and positivity! hugs and love we will hope to catch up in 2021 🤓🤍
Those close ups are amazing! 🙂
Thank you kindly Harrie…I also was amazed at the details…sending joy 💫☺️
Blessed New Year. ❤
Thank you Amber and yes New Year happy 🤍sending positivity
Mutlu yıllar
New Year happy liveterra ☺️🕊 compose a beautiful day ~ smiles hedy
I’d be happy to spend lots of time with THIS peacock! Fabulous, Hedy! You put your stamp on it. When you think of all the people who have photographed peacocks, your images stand out. 🙂
I remember them in Portugal…many of them…they are a very cool bird. I appreciate your comments Lynn…it was a joyful moment composing them ~ hoping you’re hanging in handing out ~ hugs hedy ☺️🤗❣️
We’re hanging in…once we get past Jan 20th I think we’ll feel better. What a zoo this country is becoming!
There were a few peacocks at a garden next to a cathedral in New York City…there’s a wonderful old coffee shop across the street, the Hungarian Coffee Shop….full of Columbia Univ. grad students…it was nice to have coffee there, sit and read, then go across the street and wander in the garden…long ago. 🙂
https://www.ediblemanhattan.com/eat/the-upper-west-sides-hungarian-pastry-shop-is-open-for-everything/
https://www.stjohndivine.org/
I love NY…ahhhhh I feel like leaving so much…it’s been a year now for me…and grad school also feels long ago now too…time…it’s been a rather fascinating weird week…I hear my father’s words of cautionary tales in my hedy head 🤓🧐 sending walking and outside joy ~ hugs hedy 😄☺️🤗
At least you got over to Vancouver! 😉 I haven’t even gone down to Seattle since this all started. Crazy. Yes, what a week. I’ve been saying for the last month that I was nervous about the 6th, but I didn’t think people would be breaking into the capitol…and everything else…now let’s see what’s going to happen on the 20th. It would be nice if our country could take a back seat on the news for a while. 😉 Wishing you creative times by the river!
yes once in June and then in September…BC is still under lockdown with no visitors until Feb 5th…here in Alberta who knows…each week it changes…we are to avoid all contact…I’m going with the believing story that goodness is deeper and with the images the world has seen perhaps, we can reimagine new ways of being…it’s about democracy…leadership…being heard…and I don’t know…bizarre times 🤓🙂🙃I do miss the coast/water and family…making some summery plans…some anticipation can feel so good! the river has been great company for sure…I’ve been documenting it a lot ~ hugs 🤗 ❣️
A thing that amazes me, best seen in the fourth photo, is that the colors of the peacock feather change along the length of individual strands of the feather–!!!–which means that as each of those strands grow that somehow the pigmentation and/or the physical structures that gives rise to color via various optical effects, must be varied in time as the strand grows out? And how to keep track of that for all of those individual strands so the coherent pattern of the entire feather emerges? It’s amazing!!!
Happy New Year, Hedy!
Peace
Michael
New Year happy! and yes peacock feathers are so bright…I love the iridescent, green and blue feathers and apparently they don’t bleach in the sun or discolor over time…so cool to me ~ I appreciate your response Michael ~ sending you joy and smiles ☺️🤍🕊
Such a magic structure that of feathers… Well done.
right. it’s amazing when you really look and see…humble thank you Brian ~ sending joy hedy ☺️💫and a hug!
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