Waterlelie

Prunus cerasifera of rode prunus

Love is the Sunshine blessing a flower
With sweet, gentle rays at dawn
"Wake Up!" nature nudges
Her petals open up, a gentle yawn

Phalaenopsis of vlinderorchidee

"A loaf of bread, the Walrus said,
 Is what we chiefly need:
Pepper and vinegar besides
Are very good indeed--
Now if you're ready, Oysters, dear,
We can begin to feed!"

Lewis Carroll
(Charles Lutwidge Dodgson) (1832-1898)
Alice Through the Looking-Glass

Wine comes in at the mouth
And love comes in at the eye;
That's all we shall know for truth
Before we grow old and die.
I lift the glass to my mouth,
I look at, and I sigh.

William Butler Yeats (1865-1939)

The Elephant

When people call this beast to mind,
They marvel more and more
At such a little tail behind,
So large a trunk before.

Hilaire Belloc 

Saying good bye.....

Amsterdam centraal station

Martine Victoria Chaplin

Amsterdam centrum

Vogelweg, Almere Hout, 08.00 uur in de morgen

Where rays of sunlight
Filter through the trees I see
In the middle of the path
Carpeted with fallen leaves
A clump of green grass growing.


Waka poem by His Majesty The Emperor of Japan

Anemoon in de namiddag

Anemoon

Inachus Io of Dagpauwoog

Robin

Special effects

Robin

Chasing shadows

Alf

Alf, de sphinx van de buren en speelkameraad van Gizmo

Jasper

Prille begin van mijn portretfotografie

Bijschrift toevoegen

Een van mijn eerste serieuze pogingen voor portretfotografie.

Prunus, oktober 2009, de herfst laat zijn sporen achter

Beauty......an image you see though you close your eyes and a song you hear though you shut your ears, 

Peter

Work is love made visible.....

from: The  Prophet by

Kahlil Gibran

Iris ensata

Dusseldorf, december 2009

Deze foto is geplaatst in het AD tijdens de winterfoto weken

Parbat

Passer domesticus of huismus

Ook deze mus is gered. Hij lag een beetje versuft op de grond in de huiskamer nadat hij tegen het raam was gevlogen. Even bijkomen......daarna weer weg, gelukkig maar!

Robin

Eyes wide open.....

Jasper

I still find each day too short for all the thoughts I want to think, all the walks I want to take, all the books I want to read, and all the friends I want to see.........John Burroughs

Mijn zus Maureen

Do not dwell in de past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment.......Buddha

The most unforgettable moments in life are often the unexpected; it's the ones that sweetly fall into place without you plotting a single thought in your mind.
The unforced, the natural, the simple. It just.......happens

Fery

The question is not what you look at, but what you see......Henry David Thoreau

Rely

Move along as fast as you wish world, I shall just sit here and take my sweet, sweet time....

Bert

Margot

The world is like a mirror, you see? Smile, and your friends smile back

Marcel

Anke

Gehakkelde aurelia

Pieris rapae of klein koolwitje

Nog een keer de rode libelle

Rode libelle