What You See Is What You Get. This is a journal blog, an explore-blog, a bit of this and that blog. Sharing where the mood takes me. Perhaps it will take you too.
They are very much aware of war. I have had students well aware of war: I had students who fled the Gulf War, running into the hills to escape gunfire in Afghanistan, Vietnamese boat people. Many more have family members who suffer with PTSD. Kids who fled poverty, Somalia, and genocide. Thankfully, we can provide them with sanctuary in Canada.
OMW Yam, the last two flowers and the yellow cone shaped and the backside of the flower are AMAZING. giggling over the DUCK, I would assume it means either a duck lives there OR you must DUCK to get inside.
Ohhhhh you capture beautiful raindrops and we love your remnants from June 19
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Hi Yam - lovely flowers ... and the photos of the RAF museum somewhere with a delightful church - so British ... cheers Hilary
ReplyDeleteYou know I am drawn to the flowers...but the historical captures also grabbed my attention!
ReplyDeletePeeEss...Thank you SO MUCH for your kind advice for Jakey today!
We forget, and the next generation does not even know the depths of war.
ReplyDeleteThey are very much aware of war. I have had students well aware of war: I had students who fled the Gulf War, running into the hills to escape gunfire in Afghanistan, Vietnamese boat people. Many more have family members who suffer with PTSD. Kids who fled poverty, Somalia, and genocide. Thankfully, we can provide them with sanctuary in Canada.
DeleteYour leftovers are delightful!!! We are so impressed with all those flower shots - incredible.
ReplyDeleteSome very pretty flowers and other interesting things.
ReplyDeleteMerle............
I love the variety of things that you are sharing today. The flowers are gorgeous and make me long for spring.
ReplyDeleteis that a palm tree with the yellow/orange flowers?
ReplyDeleteHari OM
DeleteHeheh - no, that's a "red hot poker" flower (Kniphofia)... Yxx
OMW Yam, the last two flowers and the yellow cone shaped and the backside of the flower are AMAZING. giggling over the DUCK, I would assume it means either a duck lives there OR you must DUCK to get inside.
ReplyDeleteAwesome floral macro shots!
ReplyDeleteHappy Day to you,
A ShutterBug Explores,
aka (A Creative Harbor)
A lovely mix of 'leftovers'!
ReplyDeleteThat prickly looking flower made us smile
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Hazel & Mabel
What a wonderful collection. I love the raindrops on that first flower!
ReplyDeleteBeautiful flowers to accompany several sobering photos of how to survive a bomb hit. namaste, janice xx
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