Contributions of the group Closer to the Motive

El Farol

nobody@ipernity.com (Love Song) — Thu, 18 Jul 2013 12:08:19 +0000

è già fiorito !

nobody@ipernity.com (Nora Caracci) — Mon, 07 Dec 2015 09:48:32 +0000

Helleborus niger - Christmas star
L'Elleboro nero o Rosa di Natale è una pianta erbacea perenne, rizomatosa, dai grandi fiori bianchi, che fiorisce in inverno e inizio primavera. Appartiene alla famiglia delle Ranunculaceae.

Do not use my images on websites, blogs or other media without my explicit written permission.
All rights reserved - Copyright © Nora Caracci

Reflections

nobody@ipernity.com (RHH) — Thu, 24 Apr 2014 15:04:09 +0000

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Another shot taken in the tulip fields of the Skagit Valley. We had a very nice day, but the weather has been very wet this spring, as is obvious from the photo.

Juneteenth 2024 Wall Art

nobody@ipernity.com (William Sutherland) — Wed, 19 Jun 2024 00:31:48 +0000

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Mott, the Abolitionist by Kathrina Garcia Rupit, Larchmont, NY.

Kathrina Garcia Rupit (a.k.a. KinMx) is a world renown artist (born in Tulum, Mexico) who presently resides in Dublin, Ireland. Her wall art is featured in numerous countries.

This work of art was created in 2018 to honor James Mott (1788-1868), a well-known abolitionist who resided at 2137 Boston Post Road in Larchmont, NY as well as the freeing of slaves through the underground railroad, Emancipation Proclamation (1 January 1863) by President Abraham Lincoln and the great sacrifices made during the U.S. Civil War (1861-1865).

Juneteenth named a federal holiday in the USA in 2021 marks the freeing of the last slaves when Union soldiers arrived to Galveston Bay, Texas on 19 June 1865 and Major General Gordon Granger (1821-1876) proclaimed, "The people of Texas are informed... all slaves are free!"

Our Lady of Kazan

nobody@ipernity.com (William Sutherland) — Mon, 13 May 2024 16:16:56 +0000

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Created from a photograph of an icon of Our Lady of Kazan, circa 1970 in Sofrino, Russia. The original icon was created in Constantinople in the 13th century and brought to Russia shortly thereafter. When the Tatars captured Kazan in 1438 the icon disappeared. It was rediscovered under the ruins of a burnt down house in 1579 by a young girl Matrona who had received messages from the Virgin Mary.

This icon has a lot in common with Fátima, Portugal. Consequently, with the expansion of wars and hardening of the already rigid and unyielding positions by world leaders that reject compromise and who have discarded the concept of mutually assured destruction (coined during the Franco-Prussian War in 1870), the 13 July 1917 Fatima message to Lucia – “When you see a night illuminated by an unknown light, know that it is the great sign God gives you that He is going to punish the world…” – remains relevant and fitting today.

On 25 January 1938 an intense geomagnetic storm lit up the night sky all across Europe and could be seen as far south as Bermuda. A month later Hitler invaded Austria. Eight months later he invaded Poland and World War II was officially underway.

On 11 May 2024 an intense geomagnetic storm (perhaps the most intense since record-keeping began in1932) lit up the skies across much of the world. Auroral displays could be seen all across the United States into Mexico, in the Bahamas, western Africa and as far south as Australia, New Zealand, Chile and Argentina.

Could this be history repeating itself with the greater intensity warning of an even greater conflagration that leads to nuclear war? Let’s hope world leaders rediscover reason and pursue peace if we are to remain a planet of the living. In the meantime, as the Blessed Mother has repeatedly implored through the ages – La Salette, France (1846), Lourdes, France (1858), Fátima, Portugal (1917), Medjugorje, Bosnia and Herzegovina (1981), to name four such instances – we should pray for peace. And as we pray for peace Our Lady of Kazan can serve as a protector. Although we may not live to see that day when peoples and nations are reconciled to each other and live in peace, one day it will happen if humanity doesn’t first extinguish itself into extinction through nuclear war and consequent Armageddon.

Anthropocene Artifacts

nobody@ipernity.com (William Sutherland) — Fri, 26 Apr 2024 23:57:34 +0000

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Rye, NY

Sit Down (Hbm) beside the channel

nobody@ipernity.com (Fred Fouarge) — Sun, 21 Apr 2024 20:46:23 +0000

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dit kom je overal tegen,hele bankstellen die buiten worden gedropt---deze bank ziet er veel beter uit dan die van een kennis van de heerlerbaan-die zal nog wel goede vering hebben zodat je niet met je achterhoofd tegen de muur knalt

Mondriaan

nobody@ipernity.com (PhLB - Luc Boonen) — Mon, 16 May 2022 08:22:29 +0000

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For my blog about abstraction: The art of reduction

VESPA details

nobody@ipernity.com (Gabi Lombardo) — Mon, 26 Oct 2020 10:03:50 +0000

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Turn Left

nobody@ipernity.com (PhLB - Luc Boonen) — Mon, 14 Sep 2020 09:34:59 +0000

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With reality being everywhere, to me surrealism is a challenge;
the two are sometimes divided by a very narrow borderline

rusty details

nobody@ipernity.com (Gabi Lombardo) — Tue, 11 Aug 2020 12:11:33 +0000

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a look through the handle

nobody@ipernity.com (Gabi Lombardo) — Sat, 11 Jul 2020 10:26:24 +0000

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Pitcher Plant, Early Autumn

nobody@ipernity.com (Bob Taylor) — Fri, 15 Nov 2019 22:35:28 +0000

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Pentax 645, SMC Pentax-A 120/4, Kodak Ektar 100 ISO film, f5.6 - 1/125.

Mediterranian light

nobody@ipernity.com (PhLB - Luc Boonen) — Sat, 20 Oct 2018 10:24:25 +0000

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Breakdown

nobody@ipernity.com (Bob Taylor) — Tue, 24 Sep 2019 04:17:38 +0000

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On the forest floor, birch bark fraying.

Curvaceous Mushroom

nobody@ipernity.com (Bob Taylor) — Fri, 02 Aug 2019 17:01:31 +0000

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Not its official name, of course (which I do not know), but I did admire its curving tilt. Its neighbor is probably golden spindles fungus.

Webworms

nobody@ipernity.com (Bob Taylor) — Sun, 28 Jul 2019 23:00:52 +0000

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Not a pretty sight, but apparently they don't do much longstanding damage, coming as they do when leaves are already beginning their transformation.

tulp

nobody@ipernity.com (Trudy Tuinstra) — Sat, 08 Jun 2019 18:17:51 +0000

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Sauge au bord du chemin près de Lalinde (24)

nobody@ipernity.com (Nicole Merdrignac) — Fri, 07 Jun 2019 12:17:18 +0000

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(« Qui a de la sauge dans son jardin, n'a pas besoin d'un médecin » (dicton provençal)) Les sauges forment le genre Salvia. Ce sont des plantes de la famille des Lamiacées qui comprend plus de 900 espèces, annuelles, bisannuelles, vivaces ou arbustives. Une dizaine de sauges sont indigènes en Europe, par exemple la sauge des prés.

Les sauges étaient en effet considérées au Moyen Âge comme une panacée, certaines espèces possédant en effet de nombreuses vertus médicinales. Deux espèces étaient particulièrement utilisées pour leurs sommités fleuries et leurs feuilles, la sauge sclarée (Salvia sclarea) et la sauge officinale (Salvia officinalis), avec lesquelles on faisait des infusions et des décoctions.)

Blütennahrung

nobody@ipernity.com (Heide) — Fri, 07 Jun 2019 05:45:05 +0000

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