The beauty of this world has made me sad

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RE: The beauty of this world has made me sad - Mark - 03-22-2019

I was about to write something snarky about tulips and then I remembered some I've seen at a big estate garden in my area called FILOLI. In my area most fancy tulips must be refrigerated for a while in dormancy and even then they aren't reliably as vigorous the next year. At Filoli they dig up and discard many tens of thousands of bulbs every year and replace with new ones. Not a model of sustainability for sure. Still what they do with them is amazing.

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I took this one of my sister in law with her very young baby there. Sweet?

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RE: The beauty of this world has made me sad - KittyAnn - 03-22-2019

ohhh I love tulips, they are so unusual in shape and color..just amazing Big Grin

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RE: The beauty of this world has made me sad - Phaedrus - 03-22-2019

I'm the type of person who finds beauty in the darkness, in storms, in death.

RE: The beauty of this world has made me sad - pocaracas - 03-22-2019

Some random stuff I've seen?

Last February, the moon as seen from the top of Wittenham Clumps, right after sunset
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Not far, on the Abingdon lock, also by my phone, with some filtering by the automatic google assistant
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Somewhere over Europe, clumpy clouds below, slick clouds above and the sun setting in between
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Sintra, Portugal. Taken with a proper camera.
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Lisbon Oceanarium, taken with my Nikon
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Arundel's Castle gardens. Taken with the phone.
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Arundel Castle
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RE: The beauty of this world has made me sad - pocaracas - 03-22-2019

A flyby from the ISS

RE: The beauty of this world has made me sad - Red Belt - 03-22-2019

(03-22-2019, 12:46 PM)Phaedrus Wrote: I'm the type of person who finds beauty in the darkness, in storms, in death.

Same here. I find beauty in both actually. Nature is fascinating, yet deadly. From sunsets to tsunamis.

I enjoy a good stroll through a cemetery. Quiet, peaceful. Surrounded by both, life and death.

RE: The beauty of this world has made me sad - Red Belt - 03-22-2019

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RE: The beauty of this world has made me sad - Vera - 06-18-2019

"When it's summer people say
winter is the better season.
Such is human reason."

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RE: The beauty of this world has made me sad - Vera - 07-10-2019

We are all in the gutter but some of us are looking at trees...

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RE: The beauty of this world has made me sad - Link - 03-01-2020

Refreshing Thread.

RE: The beauty of this world has made me sad - Vera - 05-17-2020

Photographed this dog rose in bloom today... and found this "psalm" by critically aclaimed, albeit not that well known poet, Paul Celan to go with it...

"No one kneads us again out of earth and clay,
no one incants our dust.
No one.

Blessed art thou, No One.
In thy sight would
we bloom.
In thy
spite.

A Nothing
we were, are now, and ever
shall be, blooming:
the Nothing-, the
No-One’s-Rose."

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RE: The beauty of this world has made me sad - Mr Greene - 05-18-2020

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RE: The beauty of this world has made me sad - M.Linoge - 06-06-2020

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RE: The beauty of this world has made me sad - Gwaithmir - 06-07-2020

The Regal Moth (Citheronia regalis)

It eclosed from its pupa this morning.

RE: The beauty of this world has made me sad - Dānu - 06-07-2020

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RE: The beauty of this world has made me sad - Vera - 06-16-2020

The Wild Flower's Song

As I wander'd the forest,
The green leaves among,
I heard a wild flower
Singing a song:

"I slept in the Earth
In the silent night,
I murmur'd my fears
And I felt delight.

In the morning I went
As rosy as morn,
To seek for new joy;
But O! met with scorn."
William Blake

I'm in love with these little guys that I kept biking past for days... only to discover just how photogenic they are up close and personal Heart

These are lovely too.

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And tiny little snails...

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Biking in spring (and summer) is even more wonderful!

RE: The beauty of this world has made me sad - Dānu - 06-26-2020

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RE: The beauty of this world has made me sad - M.Linoge - 06-26-2020

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RE: The beauty of this world has made me sad - Mark - 06-26-2020

Here are a half dozen of my favorite nature/garden/plant photos taken by other people from flickr:

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RE: The beauty of this world has made me sad - Gwaithmir - 06-26-2020

“The Earth does not belong to Man; Man belongs to the Earth. Man did not weave the web of life, he is merely a strand in it. Whatever he does to the web, he does to himself.” (Chief Seattle)

RE: The beauty of this world has made me sad - Red Belt - 11-05-2020

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RE: The beauty of this world has made me sad - Vera - 03-07-2021

“Brute force crushes many plants. Yet the plants rise again. The Pyramids will not last a moment compared with the daisy. And before Buddha or Jesus spoke the nightingale sang, and long after the words of Jesus and Buddha are gone into oblivion the nightingale still will sing. Because it is neither preaching nor teaching nor commanding nor urging. It is just singing. And in the beginning was not a Word, but a chirrup.”

― D. H. Lawrence

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RE: The beauty of this world has made me sad - Dancefortwo - 03-07-2021

We don't have Nightingales here in the US. I'm not too sure about South America but I suspect it's true for them too. So the next best thing is video of this legendary bird of fairytales and poetry.

RE: The beauty of this world has made me sad - Vera - 03-07-2021

(03-07-2021, 07:38 PM)Dancefortwo Wrote: We don't have Nightingales here in the US. I'm not too sure about South America but I suspect it's true for them too. So the next best thing is video of this legendary bird of fairytales and poetry.

I love them so, so, SO MUCH! They used to sing very close to my window in years past but recently I only get to hear them in the distance... in the middle of the night. Because yeah, they do sing in the middle of the night and it;s the loveliest thing, in the quiet and peace of night, to hear them sing Heart

I still remember the first time I heard them (they sing during the day too esp. in quieter places) for the first time after I came back from Brazil last year. I was biking past some fields and trees and there it was - the loveliest sound in the world

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But first - I'm waiting for the storks to come back home! I was really surprised to learn that there are no storks in Italy - a friend told me she'd only seen them on TV Sad

And then I read storks (all of three pairs) were nesting in Britain after 600 years! There is a street in a nearby village where I go biking everyday and there are four nests on one of the streets where I bike (and three on the next one).

Once, they were ploughing a field I was biking past and there were about eight storks walking after the tractor and all over the field inlove

Not my photo but just look at this guy:

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(You're supposed to make a wish when you see a stork Tongue

Especially good if it's flying)

Can you maybe tell how excited I am about spring girl blushing

RE: The beauty of this world has made me sad - Dancefortwo - 03-07-2021

The Southern states across the US have Mockingbirds that sometimes sing in the middle of the night. They also sing during the day and a lot of people find them annoying but I love them, however we live little too far North and I haven't heard one in many years. They copy other birds and oddball noises. In the video this little guy does a perfect car alarm at 2:50 and the sound of a mourning dove taking flight at 10:21.