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This Mimosa Tree blossom is not only an attraction to Butterflies and Hummingbirds, but it is so delicate and so colorful and it’s like a Mini – fireworks display – nothing short of an explosion of color! this tree came as a volunteer and was not even noticed for a few years…......my friend Bonnie Barry wrote a story once about a volunteer Mimosa Tree and has graciously consented to my using it along with this image….Bonnie, Thank you!!! You can check her works by just typing in Miracles in the search field. / / ____ Joyce, I thought you might like this little story I wrote years ago about a mimosa I loved. All the best, Bonnie Mimosa While I was watering the wilted caladiums near my angel statue, I looked up and noticed the mimosa in all its glory. Here I was working diligently to make the caladiums grow, yet there it stood, radiant without human effort. How many other plants had I set in this same spot through the years? The angel’s trumpet . . . impatiens . . . . those unusual little two-tone flowers whose names I can’t remember. All of them curled up and died. The soil was awful here; roots were knotted through the area; the trees sapped all the moisture. I’d wasted many a dollar on this spot, yet there was the mimosa looking down on me in gentle amusement. I had not planted the mimosa. I had never tilled the soil for it. I had not even watered it through the three-year drought. Yet three years ago it had been little more than a naked stick poking from the ground. The only reason it stayed put was that it was too close to the hurricane fence for Tommy to lop it as he mowed. The mimosa was a gift, a pure gift from God. I couldn’t claim any part in its flourishing. Either God’s wind had blown its seed to this corner or God’s birds had unwittingly deposited it. Only the miracle of nature could have made it grow like this without human care or cultivation. Yet now it produced all the color and vibrancy, all the grace and beauty that I had tried to achieve through the years with no success at all. / How like my life, I thought. Sometimes all my strained efforts are fruitless, yet in the midst of the sterility, God drops a single word, a single thought, and everything is suddenly alive and beautiful. Apart from Him, I can do nothing, yet I work like a Trojan to do it anyway. Maybe the gifts are rewards for my efforts, and maybe they are just freely given out of pure love. Who knows? Whatever the reason, the Source is undeniable. ___ “Every good gift and every perfect endowment comes from the Father of Lights,” (James 1:17) the mimosa whispers to me in gentle and amused remembrance. / __ / All The Materials Contained May Not Be Reproduced, Copied, Edited, Published, Transmitted Or Uploaded In Any Way Without My Permission. My Images Do Not Belong To The Public Domain. © 2006 Joyce Dickens: Using my images for any purpose and in any way, without prior permission, may lead to legal action!
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last night (or tonite? havent been to bed yet) wednesday night! / our volunteer fire dept got a call about a old restaurant here in townsend (old landmark) had smoke coming out of it, the restaurant had been closed for years, and even tho a tubing company had taken it over (which has been closed for two years now), the locals still refer to it as the old restaurant / just as we got there, we could see the fire, and of course started doing our thing…putting it out / within 3-5 minutes the house was completely engulfed in flames, my first mission (believe it or not) was to put fire out, and of course thinking the whole time..man i need to get shots of this!! (yes, im addicted to photography), but as we had some backup come in, and it was my time to take a break…straight for the camera i went / and grabbed over a 100shots, going around the building / we were there getting this completely out to where it was safe to leave until 1am. / talk about a total rush, meanwhile feeling a sadness as a townsend landmark is now rubble this shot was published in the Knox News Sentinal on Jan. 25,2008 :) , Knoxville Tn’s largest newspaper.
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another shot of the fire my volunteer fire dept was putting out wednesday night..this is a old landmark that used to be a restaurant, then a river tubing company, the river tube company has been closed for two years now. this was the 4th time this building has been caught on fire, this time..its a goner, happy to say no firefighters were harmed / you could feel the heat off this thing from 25-30 foot away! but then after all died down, we all like to have frozen our “hoses” off!! temps got down below 30 degrees (F), and we were all soaked! / it was a real challenge, shooting this , because the ony light was from the fire, and the trucks, and i hand held camera for all of the shots / im happy to say out of 112 shot, i only deleted close to 10, if that here is the link to the local tv station that has put my shots on there http://www.wbir.com/news/local/story.aspx?storyid=53827
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this is another shot of the fire my FD fought last wednesday night, this building had been built back in 1940, it was a historical place known as Kinzel restaurant, the place had been sold a few years back and a river tubing company took over, that has been close for 2yrs now / this is an angle where a couple of guys were trying to calm those flames down, within 3-5 minutes after arriving to the scene, the whole building was engulfed in flames / when i wasnt holding the hose to fight this blaze, i was holding my camera :) / no one was hurt, but now the building is officially..history
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This Nightjar is rarely seen but is relatively common along the entire East Coast of Australia. My neighbour is a volunteer wildlife carer for “WIRES” (Wildlife Information Rescue & Education Service Inc.) here in NSW and looked after this lovely bird when it was found with an injured wing. The carers for WIRES do an amazing job and pay out of their own pocket to feed and support the wildlife they look after. If I can, I would like to help these wonderful people by donating the proceeds of the sale of this card to assist them. For more information about NSW Wildlife Information Rescue & Education Service Inc. please visite their website here WIRES For better viewing See it in ” View larger”.
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to date, since i have been on the volunteer fire dept here in townsend, this was the hardest fire we have fought. this was richmont inn, located in laurel valley here in townsend, along a mountain side. this blaze literally wore us out. we fought it from 9:30pm til 6:10am, and then i had to return around 8:30am and fight it more til around 11am. i had already been up for over 24hrs. i was beat. there was one more call on this fire the next day, and again, a few of us showed up to “finish her off” / this was a task within itself, the inn was about 100foot from where we had to park our truck, and carry ALL of our gear down the mountain side to it. of course we started off at night, so having to watch your step along with carrying gear or a charged hose, was a challenge. / this shot along with 7 others will soon be published in 9-1-1 magazine, four from this fire..and three shots from the fire we had exactly one month to the day in january. two of the shots are already here on RB….”my volunteer job” and “battling the blaze”
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Tribute to those men and women who daily place themselves in danger to protect and save that which is precious to us…...... Proceeds from sale of this image will be donated to the Phoenix-Appeal * The hero is commonly the simplest and obscurest of men. ~Henry David Thoreau Shot taken 30th March 2008, North Island NZ* . / WARNING / ©2008 Globalphotos All rights reserved. / All photographs, text and images by Globalphotos are the exclusive property of Globalphotos – protected under Australian and international copyright laws. / These images may not be reproduced, copied or manipulated without written permission. / No use for Public Domain. / Use of any image for another photographic concept or illustration is a violation of copyright.
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This is what happens in the dense forest when a tree is cut down but the stump is left intact. Seeds fall on the top of the stumps, mix with water and other stuff that’s also fallen there, sprout, and seek a stable water supply by sending out roots down the outside of the stump. I passed this same phenomenon a dozen times with different types of stumps and different kinds of volunteer trees on top. In one of the strangest sights of all, a tree that had been blasted almost to the base by lightning, left a gutted stump with most of one side gone. What was left was a partial circle of just the outer rings of a large dead tree. On this precarious perch, a seed germinated on a platform of less then three inches but send down a monstrous root around the outside and down through the center of the burnt out shell of the original tree! The new trees have a great head start towards the forest canopy and eventual direct sunlight over all the seedlings that had sprouted on the ground as usual. With the very large sizes of these new ‘external’ root systems, it looks as if the loss of the original tree from beneath them wouldn’t matter much; they’ve created a toughened root system that will eventually become a traditional root system, supporting the tree. Outside Fort Bragg, California along one of the trails directly from the ocean upstream, you’ll find these wonders! Special thanks to the Red Bubble group Trees for the additional inspiration to make this a more informative post. :-)
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I need some simple thank you note cards for volunteers at my school. /
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The state of Tennessee, with a acoustic guitar as a symbol for Nashville, the home of country music.
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There’s fire. Tribute to those men and women who daily place themselves in danger to protect and save that which is precious to us…...... The hero is commonly the simplest and obscurest of men. ~Henry David Thoreau Shot taken 30th March 2008, North Island NZ . / WARNING / ©2008 Globalphotos All rights reserved. / All photographs, text and images by Globalphotos are the exclusive property of Globalphotos – protected under Australian and international copyright laws. / These images may not be reproduced, copied or manipulated without written permission. / No use for Public Domain. / Use of any image for another photographic concept or illustration is a violation of copyright.
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I did some snaps. But they’re pretty ordinary. Maybe if I am lucky and get a chance I’ll shoot some white-light pictures of the Doulos. But at the moment, this is the best I can offer.
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Prophecy? Four days ago I posted images on my other site (InAWE) of a bushfire near my home…. There goes the forest / and / There goes the farm Little did I know it would be almost prophetic as today it was our turn to face the horror of an out of control bushfire on the family farm – it was within 500 metres of our homes and only a shift in wind took it in a different direction or I would not be sitting here tonight writing about it. (Nor be in the mood to wander through the smoke and burned out area taking photos!) / I am so grateful to the volunteers fire fighters and the neighbours and friends who all came to help fight this fire, not to mention the police and fire brigades and three fire fighter airplanes ….. More photos can be viewed here
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Pastel on sanded Colourfix paper (burgundy) – 35m x 50cm On a day in Northern Victoria when the temperature is predicted to reach 40 degrees and a Total Fire Ban is in place, we are all extremely grateful for the volunteers of the Country Fire Authority! After fires devastated this area about 5 years ago, I went out with a group of these volunteers during their ‘mopping up’ operations, and this is one of the paintings that resulted. The fire came within a few metres of my chook pen!!! I was home alone and had to put our ‘fire plan’ into operation (a long story and a long day)! I have never been so terrified in my life! Consequently, days like today make me very nervous! Since I posted this work the fire that devastated Northern Victoria on the 7th February occurred. I have since been selling cards of this work in the Shire of Mitchell (where I live and where the first fire started) and donating the proceeds to the CFA. This work was featured in the groups ‘Mature Men’ and ‘Rural Around the Globe’ – Jan 2009 / Featured in the Buyers Club group – July 2009 / Featured in Colours of the Rainbow (Yellow) – Oct 2009
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Tim and Sandra, with Harry, Manny and Bob. ALL PROFITS FROM SALES OF MY WORK IN FEBRUARY GO TO THE RED CROSS VICTORIAN BUSHFIRE APPEAL.
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Donated by Christopher Ewing All profits from purchasing this work and any others in this profile will be donated to the victims of the Victorian bush fires
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for granma…..for mom .. for sister.. for daughters.. for wives.. for the ladies we love ..
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Trafalgar Square, London, April 2009 Nikkor 200mm Telephoto a volunteer from the audience © 2009 Urban Umbra
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This Purple Brazilian Shamrock grows right outside my door in a pot and is eight years old! Each year it dies back and each spring it comes back! / In spring 2008 it brought the “Green Volunteer” with it! / This year it just has its own lavender color delicate flowers with it…No Green Volunteer this year :( / so was very fortunate to get this shot last year! :) / / My Images Do Not Belong To The Public Domain. / All photographs in this portfolio are owned and copyright / © Linda Scott. / Any reproduction, modification, publication, transmission, transfer, or exploitation of any of the content, for personal or commercial use, whether in whole or in part, without written permission from ourselves is prohibited. All rights reserved. For licence fees please contact me on misslscott2005@yahoo.com /
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Up in Far North Queensland, Australia The Wet season struck with a vengance. It was a ‘Big Wet” this year so the locals inform me. / Hey I’ve been here a year! Am I a local yet? / Get the beer in and we’ll think about it The Einasleigh River was flowing wide and fast so the towns to the west were cut off. The locals on the Eastern side volunteered their services to keep the supply lines open.
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Ahhhh, it doesn’t matter what I plant, what I fertilize, what I water….there are always some delightful volunteers appearing in my garden. / This image was processed in PS. I took some photos of my dogs fur and used them as a texture for this piece. I know, unusual but it seemed to work! / Thank you for viewing my work and taking the time to comment.
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ALL SALE PROCEEDS GO TO THE VICTOR HARBOR PENGUIN CENTRE, GRANITE ISLAND. This little penguin is a resident of the Penguin Centre, Granite Island, Victor Harbor, South Australia. He is also known as a blue or fairy penguin. The penguin population on Granite Island has gone from 2000 to less that 170 in just 4 years! They are on the verge of completely disappearing. No one knows why and currently no research is being undertaken to find out why. The Penguin Centre runs on the generosity of 4 volunteers who care for 12 penguins who are in various stages of rehabilitation after being injured, attacked by dogs or rejected by their parents. The penguins nest in burrows and always hatch 2 eggs – a heir and spare. If the heir survives, the spare doesn’t get fed, so some of the penguins at the centre were the neglected ‘spares’. The centre does not receive any Government funding, instead it relies on admission fees from the public for the twice daily penguin feeding sessions. Recently I took a series of photos for the centre, with more to come next April when I return to Victor Harbor. It’s hardly enough. :( Check out the penguin centre here Penguin Centre Taken with Canon 5D and 100-400m L Series lens @ f9, 1/60th sec, ISO 250, handheld. Featured in Image Writing Group & Eye COntact Group, Oct 2009. Featured in Inside Solo Magazine (Solo Exhibition Group), Oct 2009.
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October 29 is National Cat Day, a holiday to celebrate cats for their unconditional love and companionship, and to welcome those in need into our lives through animal rescue. More cats than dogs are euthanized every year, mostly because they usually arrive at shelters without any owner identification. The Animal Miracle Network estimates that approximately 4 million cats enter shelters every year, and 1 to 2 million of them are euthanized. The primary goal of National Cat Day is to facilitate 10,000 incremental adoptions of shelter cats nationwide on October 29. This will be the first year that the Animal Miracle Network attempts to track the numbers for cats, but similar National Dog Day initiatives in the past have exceeded the goal by more than 12,000 dogs. National Cat Day founder Colleen Paige explains, “We put a lot of manpower into communicating with our affiliate event promoters and shelters around the country that signed up to participate. We’ll only take credit for the numbers we directly receive from our adoption sources.” You can still help homeless cats on National Cat Day if you’re unable to take on another pet. Visit a local animal shelter and offer to volunteer by cleaning cages or playing with the cats. You could also host your own event such as a bake sale and donate the proceeds to a shelter in honor of National Cat Day. If you’re already a proud cat owner, take some time on National Cat Day to show your pet how much you appreciate her. Paige recommends spoiling her with treats or a new litter box, or simply showing her some love. “In this difficult economy, if all you can afford is time, spend some of it with your furry feline,” recommends Paige. “That’s more important to them then all the catnip in the world.” If you’re looking to give a homeless cat a loving home, visit our pet search tool to meet your new best friend. With pet adoption, you’ll find that National Cat Day will be the first of countless great ones to come. Colleen Paige is the Editor-in-Chief of Pet Home magazine. Visit National Cat Day and Colleen Paige for more information. Proceeds from sales will be donated to pet welfare. Model: My rescue, the fab,”Binky” Canon
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