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  What is Essential ~ Spirit of Alaska
  by Sharon Mau

  What is Essential From my collection: / Emerquinox ~ Spirit of Alaska ~ Alaska North Star Winter Scenics Emerquinox is a word I coined when I combined the words Emerge and Equinox. Copyright © Sharon Mau 2009 / All Rights Reserved “And now here is my secret, a very simple secret; / it is only with the heart that one can see rightly. / What is essential is invisible to the eye.” ~ Antoine de Saint – Exupery Canon EOS Digital Rebel XTi

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  James Cook Museum
  by Marilyn Harris

  Blossom’s_Photo_Gallery James Cook Museum Cooktown, Far North Queensland, Australia. 100% of proceeds received from Redbubble in respect to sales of “James Cook Museum” will be donated to “thegreataustraliancancerbushwalk” for the Cancer Council. Please check out Michael Mitchell’s website thegreataustraliancancerbushwalk The James Cook Museum is located in the former convent of St Mary. This Victorian Gothic-style Convent and School was built in 1887-1889 during the gold rush era. The double storey, red brick building was designed by the prolific late 1800’s architect, Francis Drummond Greville Stanley. / The existence of this large masonry building is indicative of Cooktown’s importance during the Palmer gold mining boom. The collection includes the HMS Bark Endeavour cannon, one of six jettisoned by James Cook when his barque, Endeavour, ran aground on the Endeavour Reef south of Cooktown in 1770. Special features include the original Endeavour anchor also recovered from the reef, items pertaining to Cooktown’s history and the beautiful convent chapel. / The museum is operated by the Queensland National Trust and is regarded as the best regional museum outside any capital city in Australia. It was also the first high school in North Queensland. Before Restoration / / The Queen’s visit to Cooktown in 1970 / During World War II, the building was used as a U.S. command post and the Sisters of Mercy were evacuated, never to return. The building fell into disrepair until 1969 when it was restored to its former glory and was reopened by the Queen in 1970 as the “James Cook Museum”. It was again refurbished in 1999. Canon PowerShot A650 IS / 12.1MP – 6x Optical Zoom – 4x Digital Zoom

• Weekly Features etc
  by Marilyn Harris

  Thank You for the following features: Pink_Frilly_Gladioli...

  Thank You for the following features: Pink_Frilly_Gladioli featured in Flowers_in_Macro Captain_James_Cook featured in History Three_Blue_Berries featured in The_Compact_Group A_Shower_of_Rain featured in Art_4_Charity Buttercup featured in Spring_Blooms Dainty_Swallowtail featured in Insects_Bugs_and_Creepy_Crawlies Grevillea featured in Grevilleas Saw_Leaf_Banksia featured in the Top 10 of Australian_Native_Plants Challenge Banksia Rusty_Palette featured in the Top 10 of Metallic_Junktion Challenge Metallic_Textures Love featured in Bits_and_Pieces And today, 2 Features in Textures Colours_of_a_Rusty_Sign and Underneath_the_Crusty_Bark_of_a_Fir_Tree I so appreciate all your wonderful comments and encouragement! Marilyn xo :o)

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  Happy is He Who Can Know the World's Origins ~ At the Outer Edge
  by Sharon Mau

  Alaska North Star Winter Scenics / From my collection: / Same Music ~ Different Station ~ Variation on a Theme Happy is he who can know the world’s origins ~ At the Outer Edge “Neither today nor ten times ten yesterdays, / in my backyard or in the tents of squalor that seem continents away; / neither at searing noon nor soaring midnight, beaten by the wind or bewildered at sea; Not ever, anywhere, has God’s omnipotence been hesitant about supplying good, / or constituting law, / or being All. Mind’s movement moves the universe; / Soul’s absolute precision marks no lapses, moratoriums, or negligence, / not now or then or sometime when ... Nothing has ever interfered with His eternal seeing, or with Love’s reality, / including man. / Including me. There is no dreamer of exceptions to His infinite control.” ~ Poetry by Darren (Stone) Nelson A Suspended Silence ~ Where the Wild Things Are Copyright © Sharon Mau 2009 / My images do not belong to the public domain. Reproduction is strictly prohibited. All rights reserved Beautiful Art and Greeting Cards For Sale ~ Shop securely and view my collection here Canon EOS Digital Rebel XTi / Shooting Date/Time 20 October 2007 11:54:28 / Tv Shutter Speed 1/250 Av Aperture Value 10 / ISO 400 Lens EF28-135mm f/3.5-5.6 IS USM

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  What is Love ~ Love is the Scent with the Lotus Born
  by Sharon Mau

  It is a beautiful golden sunset over a peatbog in a Boreal forest near Goldstream Alaska. / . / This is from my collection: / The Golden Threshold / Calendar coming soon….. Sunsets and scenics of Interior Alaska ~ Trumpeter Swans/Tundra Swans ~ Pond and Lake Reflections ~ Boreal and Permafrost Forests~ Poetry and Quotes Copyright © Sharon Mau 2009 / All Rights Reserved This image was dedicated to my beloved identical twin sister Karon ( stzar ) 11 September 2007 “What is Love ~ Love is the scent with the lotus born. It is the silent choirs of petals Singing the winter’s harmony of uniform beauty. Love is the song of the soul, singing to God. It is the balanced rhythmic dance of planets - sun and moon lit In the sky hall festooned with fleecy clouds Around the sovereign Silent Will. It is the thirst of the rose to drink the sunrays And blush red with life. ‘Tis the promptings of the mother earth To feed her milk to the tender, thirsty roots, And to nurse all life. It is the urge of the sun To keep all things alive. Love is the unseen craving of the Mother Divine That took the protecting father’form, And that feeds helpless mouths With milk of mother’s tenderness. It is the babies sweetness, Coaxing the rain of parental sympathy To shower upon them. It is the lover’s unenslaved surrender to the beloved To serve and solace. It is the elixir of friendship, Reviving broken and bruised souls. It is the martyr’s zeal to shed his blood For the well-beloved fatherland. It is the ineffable, silent call of the heart to another / heart. It is the God-drunk poet’s heartaches For every creature’s groans. Love is to enjoy the family rose of petal-beings, And thence to move to spacious fields - Passing by portals of social, national, international / sympathy, On to the limitless Cosmic Home To gaze with looks of wonderment, And to serve all that lives, still or moving. This is to know what love is. He knows who lives it. Love is evolution’s ameliorative call To the far-strayed sons To return to Perfection’s home. It is the call of the beauty – robed ones To worship the great Beauty. It is the call of God Through silent intelligences And starburst of feelings. Love is the Heaven Toward which the flowers, rivers, nations, atoms, / creatures’ you and I Are rushing by the straight path of action right, Or winding laboriously on error’s path, All to reach haven there at last.” ~ From: Songs of the Soul by Paramahansa Yogananda Canon EOS Digital Rebel XTi / Shooting Date/Time 10 September 2007 19:56:43 / Tv Shutter Speed 1/500 Aperture Value 20.0 / Evaluative Metering ISO 200 / Lens EF28-135mm f/3.5-5.6 IS USM

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  Ant Perspective
  by Danny Harrison

  close up of fungi on tree bark.