BIG Brother

BIG brother is waiting in the harbor at Port Canaveral, FL

Hi my friends,

What a difference in the sizes between these two "boats", right? 

Have you ever dreamed about making a Cruise with a BIG boat like this?  :)

Thank you very much for all the nice comments from yesterdays post.

Have a wonderful day!

Susanne

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Jetty Park at Port Canaveral, FL

A Manatee and a Sea turtle, captured in Jetty-Park, Cape Canaveral

Hi my friends,

Yesterday I have seen for the first time in my life for real a Manatee swimming in open waters. It was very impressive to see this protected animal of the sea in its natural habitat. Later on I've spotted a sea turtle peeping out from the water.

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Jetty Park 

is one of the most popular recreation spots in Brevard County. Besides the 4.5 acre family beach with its designated areas for swimming and surfing (lifeguards on duty year round), one of this park's best-loved features is the 1,200 foot Malcolm E. McLouth Fishing Pier - open 24 hours, paved, lighted, equipped with fish-cleaning tables with running water and fully accessible to the physically challenged. Specially designed beach wheelchairs give access both to the beach and pier. A recently renovated and expanded building on the boardwalk houses an air-conditioned refreshment center and a bait and tackle shop.

I wish you an interesting and fun day too!

Susanne

Add colors to your life!

Behind every mask...

Behind every mask there is a face and behind that a story. 

~Aphorism of the Day~

Hi my friends,

I have borrowed this saying from a blog friend who writes some wisdom  every day

on his blog "Aphorism of the Day". Thank you Marty for lending this to me.

Thank you all for your kind visits and words from yesterday, I'm so glad you like what you see.

Today's photo is a piece out of my ZEN-Photography-Collection. More ZEN you'll find also on my websites where I'm selling my Art printed, framed or stretched on Canvas. 

Go there, surf around and if you like something - buy something. 

Add some color to your life -pep up those gray walls at home and in your office!

And with your purchase you'll make my day too - Thank you!

Susanne

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ZEN Photography - Ten thousand question

The ten thousand questions are one question. 

If you cut through the one question, then the ten thousand questions disappear. 

~ZEN proverb~

Hi my friends,

I hope you had a nice weekend. 

Not all of us have a long weekend, 

some of us have to do some work again today, right? 

I wish you a great start in this new week, make it a good one.

Thanks you also for the comments yesterday. 

I appreciate all your visits.

Enjoy life :))

Susanne

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My Wordless Sunday # 18

Simplicity

As I have practiced it, photography produces pleasure by simplicity. I see something special and show it to the camera. A picture is produced. The moment is held until someone sees it. Then it is theirs.
~Sam Abell~

 

 

 

Hi my friends,

These words of Sam Abell are my words also.

That's why I love this quote so much because it is exactly what I'm looking for always in my subjects: 

"Simplicity".

Thank you very much for the comments from yesterday. 

See you again tomorrow!

Susanne

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If there is light in the soul...

If there is light in the soul, there will be beauty in the person. 

If there is beauty in the person, there will be harmony in the house. 

If there is harmony in the house, there will be order in the nation. 

If there is order in the nation, there will be peace in the world.

~Chinese  proverb~

Hi my friends,

Today, I'm back again to my ZEN photography.

I hope you like this picture as much as I do, and the proverb is so full of truth.

Thank you ALL for those wonderful comments and compliments from yesterday.

I wish you all a day full harmony!

Susanne

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Coming home...

Homecoming means coming home to what is in your heart. 

~Author Unknown~

Hi my friends,

I hope you had all a great weekend and a good start in this new week.

Thank you for all the wonderful comments!

Susanne

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It looks like rain...

It looks like rain...

Hi my friends,

Thanks for all your comments to my posting two days ago, very much appreciated.

Today is the Launch of the Space Shuttle this early afternoon. If I get some acceptable shots I'll show it to you - if not, you have to bear with my flower snaps or something else...LOL...

Have a nice day!

Susanne

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ZEN Photography III

Zen is a school of Mahāyāna Buddhism, translated from the Chinese word 禅 Chán to Japanese. This word is in turn derived from the Sanskrit dhyāna, which means "meditation"

Zen emphasizes experiential prajñā, particularly as realized in the form of meditation, in the attainment of enlightenment. As such, it de-emphasizes theoretical knowledge in favor of direct, experiential realization through meditation and dharma practice.

The establishment of Zen is traditionally credited to be in China, the Shaolin Temple, by the South IndianPallava prince-turned-monk Bodhidharma, who came to China to teach a "special transmission outside scriptures" which "did not stand upon words". 

The emergence of Zen as a distinct school of Buddhism was first documented in China in the 7th century AD. It is thought to have developed as an amalgam of various currents in Mahāyāna Buddhist thought—among them the Yogācāra and Mādhyamaka philosophies and the Prajñāpāramitā literature—and of local traditions in China, particularly Taoism and Huáyán Buddhism. 

From China Zen subsequently spread south to Vietnam, and east to Korea and Japan.

Hi my friends,

thanks for all the wonderful comments from yesterday. Today we'll learn a little bit about "What is ZEN". The text is from Wikipedia - not from me :))

See you again visiting tomorrow too? Where? Here....see you (t)here!

Susanne 

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ZEN Photography II

To learn something new, take the path that you took yesterday.  

~John Burroughs~

Hi my friends,

I think I have found a new challenge for me with these ZEN quotes and the passion to match the pictures, looking for the right subjects with the quotes in my mind. It is so much truth behind these words! 

I love it, it's so much fun to capture new exciting things!

Thank you for all the comments and compliments to my last sunset(s) - I'm so glad you like it.

Have a wonderful Tuesday afternoon or evening or maybe is there already Wednesday?

Susanne

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My Wordless Sunday in 2010 - # 15

A Spectacular Sunset on the Lake

This was yesterdays spectacular sunset at Lake Washington!

I hope you'll enjoy it like I did to capture it.

Have a wonderful day!

Susanne

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Among the Palms in Florida

Captured at the Space Coast in Florida

In Florida among the palms



Everybody sings of the sunny South

That's the song that clings to the singer's mouth

They ragtime it and boost the climate

Way up to the sky



I

Never cared a lot for the Swanee shore

There's another spot that I'm rooting for

I've been there and I must declare

It can't be praised too high



[Refrain:]

If I had my way, I'd always stay

In Florida among the palms

With its peaceful air of "I don't care"

And lazy atmosphere that calms

My one favorite haunt

Is a palm tree, and all I want

Is someone just to rest in my arms

I'd love to live among the bamboo huts, the coco nuts

There's something in the climate that charms

Heaven's corridor is sunny Florida

Home of the shelt'ring palms



[2nd verse:]

Florida was named very prettily

By the man who claimed its discovery

He spent hours among the flowers

And called it "God's Land"



And

Nature seems to sigh "it's my favorite"

That's the reason why Heaven gave her it

It was born from a diamond worn

Upon an Angel's hand





I hope you'll enjoy the picture - with the lyric.

Thanks for your visit, my friends.

Susanne









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Shrimp Boats in McClellanville, at the Coast of South Carolina

McClellanville, a small picturesque fishing village
at the Coast of South Carolina

I love harbor scenes and my first post about McClellanville is dedicated to the shrimp boats, sitting in the harbor, just coming back from the morning catch

I love details, like here: all the ropes they need on a boat

and the colorful nets

and all the poles in and around the boats

net details

more colorful details...

View in the back of a boat

Even rust can be beautiful...

pretty colors

Last Monday we drove up to the north at the coast line of South Carolina to visit a little fishing village with the name McClellanville. Today I'm showing you some picture impressions from the dock where the shrimp boats were sitting in the small harbor.

Tomorrow I will show you more photos from a picture book perfect surrounding and the small village it self. Stay tuned....


P.S. this is my #651 post today with more than 20'400 visitors!
Thank you all for stopping by almost every day and for having you as my loyal friends and for all your kind comments in all these days!