The Annual Bloggers Bash Awards – Join Us On August 1st 2015

Hoping to go to the Annual Bloggers Bash? Find out more here – reblog via Hugh @Hughviewsandviews
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Love – Beautiful photos for Valentine’s day from Meditation Travelogue

This is gorgeous. Had to reblog for Valentine’s day from Meditation Travelogue. Happy Valentine’s Day !!!!

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No idea where these images are from. My Aunt Liz sent them in an email.

Ah Valentine’s Day… A chance to remember love, yes? If we let go of the chocolate, diamonds, and Hallmark cards what is left? What is love beyond this day of hearts and flowers?

It is your complete awareness of your beauty alone in the dark.
It is laughter at your own jokes.
It is a willingness to be yourself despite what anyone else thinks.
It is dancing badly and singing even worse.
It is having such faith in the sacredness of all life you leave all to be who they are.
It is remembering why you fell in love with a person, a place, a song.
It is risking your former self to discover who you haven’t met within you yet.
It is making sacrifices because your inner love can’t help but spill onto all…

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”You hope that what you take out of your own circumstances is sustaining”

Olive Cotton’s fantastic photography reblogged from The Art of Quotation. Fascinating effect ordinary objects make when shadowed.

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”You hope that what you take out of your own circumstances is sustaining,”

– Olive Cotton, 1911-2003, photographer, Australian

 
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A photographer whose work straddles pictorialism, modernism and documentary, Cotton maintained an independent vision throughout her working life, based on the close observation of nature. Her understanding of the medium of photography was not to do with capture, but rather ‘drawing with light’. ( http://www.artgallery.nsw.gov.au/collection/works/174.2006/ )
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Glacier Turquoise in New Zealand

Reblogged from Turquoise Compass. Tasman Glaciar. Beautiful

In the home of Aphrodite

Reblogging this from Ekaterina Botziou. This takes me back. I went to Paphos in Cyprus several years ago for a girls week away in the sun. Love the Aphrodite legend.

A Secret Love in Venice

Reblogging this from Bespoke Traveller. If you haven’t been to Venice you must go! Such a wonderful city. Loved it.