Nature and garden

… Nature’s Blissful Desire for Peace & Harmony (Dedicated to my Friend Irene)…

Irene/weirena http://www.flickr.com/photos/weirena/

One of the strongest motives that lead men to art and science is escape from everyday life with its painful crudity and hopeless dreariness, from the fetters of one’s own ever-shifting desires.
– Albert Einstein

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An incredible sunset in the Painted Hills in Central Oregon.

May 2011 update – Replaced a 2 exposure HDR with a better single file edit accomplished using Adobe Lightroom.

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The Jardin Exotique de Monaco is a botanical garden situated in Monaco. It was opened in 1933, and has a wide variety of succulent plants, especially cactuses. Within the garden, there is a large underground cave in which there are many stalagmites and stalactites. Evidence of prehistoric human inhabitants has been found in the cave. There is a museum of Prehistoric Anthropology in the garden displaying many of those finds.

Aeonium arboreum – the genus Aeonium is distributed throughout the Canary Islands, Madeira, Morocco and eastern Africa. Each of the succulent stems will flower and fruit only once and then die back; in a single word, the plant is monocarpic.

De Jardin Exotique de Monaco is een botanische tuin in Monaco. Hij is geopend in 1933 en heeft een grote collectie succulenten waaronder veel cactussen. In de tuin is er een grote onderaardse grot met veel stalagmieten en stalactieten. Er is bewijs gevonden dat er in de prehistorie mensen leefden in de grot. Er is een museum van prehistorische antropologie die veel van de vondsten tentoonstelt.

Highest Explore Position # 390 on Monday, September 15, 2008

Secret Garden
By Bruce Springsteen

She’ll let you in her house
If you come knockin’ late at night
She’ll let you in her mouth
If the words you say are right
If you pay the price
She’ll let you deep inside
But there’s a secret garden she hides She’ll let you in her car
To go drivin’ round
She’ll let you into the parts of herself
That’ll bring you down
She’ll let you in her heart If you got a hammer and a vise
But into her secret garden, don’t think twice
You’ve gone a million miles
How far’d you get
To that place where you can’t remember
And you can’t forget
She’ll lead you down a path
There’ll be tenderness in the air
She’ll let you come just far enough
So you know she’s really there
She’ll look at you and smile
And her eyes will say
She’s got a secret garden
Where everything you want
Where everything you need Will always stay
A million miles away

and also….
Inspiring song from a Secret Garden http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wasYNNfnfVE

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Momiji Garden, East Vancouver.

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Flower

source: Orange Leaf

~~~~ Explore ~~~~

via Jeanne Kliemesch

Flower

like a flower, the poem blooms

out of our faintest expectation
nature might throw another verse
to lead us through its evolution game
blossoming of the mind

this goes on and on
until nature derives the stamp
of a mind that is working towards
its plan

a poem is nature flowering
in words

john tiong chunghoo

by T e e J e

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