Black & White Sunday: City

The city is humanity’ s laboratory, where people flock to dream, create, build and rebuild. /E.L.Glaesser/

Inspire and be inspired!
More about Paula and her Black & White Sunday Challenge here:

Weekly Photo Challenge: Converge

 To photograph is to hold one’s breath, when all faculties converge to capture fleeting reality. It’s at that precise moment that mastering an image becomes a great physical and intellectual joy. /Henri Cartier-Bresson/

Weekly Photo Challenge: Converge

Travel Theme: Broken

We are all wonderful, beautiful wrecks. That’s what connects us – that we’re all broken, all beautifully imperfect. /Emilio Estevez/

Ailsa’s Travel Theme

A Word A Week Photo Challenge – Chilled

A Word A Week Photo Challenge – Chilled

Carpe Diem Haiku Kai Shadow *Meadow*

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meadow silhouette
delicate frost work blossoms
across window panes

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Carpe Diem Haiku Kai Shadow

Carpe Diem Haiku *Belinda’s Raw Life*

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fleeting winter
puddle hidden under icy lid
crack of broken bones

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Carpe Diem Haiku Kai

Four Seasons

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pine scented vapours
out of sauna door in snow
all senses awake

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black streaks in white
fingertips trace curves of bark
sap keeps dribbling

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sun kissed skin
waves lapping softly at my toes
summer memoirs

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harvest moon
glistening by fireplace
entwined bodies

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Carpe Diem Haiku *Shikoku*

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Riga – Shikoku
mute plane on icy runway
walking stick comes handy

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Carpe Diem Haiku Kai

Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge: Walk 100 Steps or less and take new photos

Cee has come up with quite an idea this week – suggesting us not only to find photos, but also to make our steps count. So, I walked the walk…

Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge: Walk 100 Steps or less and take new photos

Walkthrough The White World

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White is not a mere absence of color; it is a shining and affirmative thing, as fierce as red, as definite as black. /K.Gilbert/

In the depths of winter I finally learned there was in me an invincible summer. /A.Camus/

One kind word can warm three winter months.
/Japanese proverb/

The snow itself is lonely or, if you prefer, self-sufficient. There is no other time when the whole world seems composed of one thing and one thing only. /J.Wood Krutch/

When there’s snow on the ground, I like to pretend I’m walking on clouds. /T.Ikkaku/

Winter makes a bridge between one year and another. /A.Goldsworthy/