I was hesitant to participate in anything as I know I won’t have time to be a proper participant. I leave tomorrow for a week-long getaway. Nature: mountains, rivers, and whatever you have to offer, here I come! That said, I figured I would use Crispina’s lovely image as an excuse to let ya’all know I’m not dissing you and will return to reading/commenting/participating in one week.
While searching for my matchy-matchy photo, I fell on the one directly below. It sparked an idea so I’m using it and have added the “real” matchy-matchy below, just because I can.
“The first stab of love is like a sunset, a blaze of color — oranges, pearly pinks, vibrant purples…”
― The Luxe
I’ll take a mix, please
Wild, hot, and exciting
Calm, peaceful comfort
Too much of either
Does not balance bring
All of one is exhausting
All of the other, dull
Keeping it alive require a little of both
In various combinations
Hour, days, weeks, months, years
Together and apart
Time is valuable
We must use it wisely
“They sit together, physically separate but utterly connected by the moment they’ve created”
― A Trick of Light
“Time is valuable. For all the time we’ve lost by not being together, it has made you the most valuable thing to me.”
― Pillow Thoughts
Beautiful photos, Dale.
And you’re right about balance.
Have a wonderful trip! 💙
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Thank you, Merril.
I like to think so 🙂
And I plan to! 🧡
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You’re welcome! 🙂
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Have a wonderful, happy and restoring time Dale! 🥰
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Thank you, Kiki! Will do my best!
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Exceptional. Enjoy your Nature vacay. No doubt you’ll fill your photo library with loads of wondrous images. Hugs and tail wags.
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Thank you, Monika. You know I will!
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Five day getaway – yay! Have fun, Dale. 😎
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Woot! Will do, Bruce!
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So beautiful! Enjoy your getaway!
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Thank you, lovely lady! xoxo
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You too, xoxo 😘
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😘
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Wow. I love the sentiments in this poem. Well done, Dale. And the pics are (of course) magnificent! 🙂
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Thank you, Bill. You are most generous!
And, I thank you (for the two that are mine) 😉
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🙂
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Nice pictures! Enjoy the break. And speaking of nice pictures, nice new one of you!
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Thank you, Di. I will do my best!
And thank you re: my photo (most recent 😉 )
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It’s lovely!
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Blushing 🙂
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🙂
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So true about the balance between exhaustion and dullness. The photos are lovely. Very balanced 😉
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Glad you agree, Ally 🙂
And thank you!
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Looks matchy-matchy, Dale. NIce job on the poem too.
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How sweet are you? You can see clearly already?
Things went well?
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Yes very well. I can see very clearly. What a world!!!
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Fantastico!!
Heard tell the VooDoo is in the bag 😉
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Be careful
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No one’s driving. 😉
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Yeah there is that too.
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Makes a huge difference 😉
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I’ll have the same mix as that lady over there please, it seems just perfect to me.
Have a stupendously superb sojourn and we’ll see you back perfectly relaxed with a bevy of stories and beautiful pictures to share.
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Sounds like a good thing to order 🙂
And I thank you. I shall do my utmost to not only enjoy it but have a little something to share with ya upon my return!
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Perfectly matched, perfectly written and ah, that sunset! Gorgeous all madame!
Enjoy and make the most of it! Mouwah, sweet CNL! xoxoxoxoxo
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You are so sweet and generous, my friend.
Thank you. And we will! MOUWAH!!!
XOXOXO
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Have a wonderful trip. I’m so happy for you.
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Thank you, Gigi. I am too 😉
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What a beautiful piece on love, life and peace of mind. All this beauty AND quotes to heighten the mood AND exquisite photographs. This post was a veritable hat trick, it had a lot bit of every single thing worth having.
MUAH!
B
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Thank you. So glad it resonated with you. I tried to put it together coherently! It had to be switched around but so glad you feel it worked.
MWAH!
Q
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Sho nuff!
Writing is like sewing, all those pieces have to find themselves a home and with time and patience, they always do.
MUAH!
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Sweet.
And nicely put. Time, patience and imagination to see the big picture.
MWAH!!
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Your reply got me thinking. Do we ever see the big picture when we’re writing something? Yes we have a plan of action and we set forth with the idea of what it will eventually come to be. But do we really have any idea as to what it will actually become? Hmmmm.
MUAH!!
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Sometimes. I’ll have an idea of what I want to write. Most times something else happens! Sometimes I have no idea whatsoever and next thing you know, paragraphs are written. (Guess I am a writer, eh?)
MWAH!!
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When I was looking back on stuff I wrote, I barely remembered any of it. So yeah, there is a cosmic energy happening in the writings.
MUAH!
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Absolutely. I look back too, sometimes. No memory whatsoever of some pieces.
MWAH!
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Amazing.
MUAH!
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It is! (And some of those writings were rather good, too 😉 )
MWAH!
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It just goes to show.
MUAH!
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Indeed.
MWAH!!
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MUAH!!
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😘😘
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Very catchy-matchy! Have a great vacation!
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Thank you, Eliza!!
Glad you like and I will!
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So beautifully stitched 🙂
Enjoy your getaway.
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Thank you, my friend.
I will 😊
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Beautiful photos and yes, balance is important. 🙂 Have a wonderful trip, Dale!
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Thank you, Robin. It was perfection. Sigh. Back to reality today…
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Deep and wise observation, Dale.
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Thank you, dear Ina 🙂
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Beautiful! All of it!
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Thank you, David!
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Amazing how the latter two photos match!! Enjoy your vacay!
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I was pretty pleased I found one that did! Thank you! And I did!
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And I do love your poem about balance. Perfecto.
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Thank you, lovely Marie! It was splendiferous!
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Wow Dale… especially that orange-pink & purple one! 😍😍 what an emotional photo.
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Thank you, Tara. I am particularly fond of that one myself 🙂
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Everyone’s said it, but I’ll say it again. Have a great vacation. Beautiful photos you give us, beautiful words, and excellent balance 😊😊😊 Enjoy your week away
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Thank you, Crispina. Glad you enjoyed and I did have a wonderful week! 🙂
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Oh, Thunder! Your shot is rich and exciting.
Your musing on time is as precious as time itself.
It slips away, even as I grab it.
xoxoxo
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Thank you, dear Sorceress. So very pleased you like!
xoxoxo
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I missed this one. What a lovely post.
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How sweet of you to come back to it.
Thank you.
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I was thinking I had missed another post, but that was Resa’s report, then I saw the sunsets.
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Aww shucks. I’m still chuffed you went back!
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