“Everything new and beautiful seems to arrive already haunted by its own demise.” — Caroline Evans
The Edge of Calypso by Michael Anderson (by AndersonImages)
“Life isn’t a support system for art. It’s the other way around.” — Stephen King
Heavy_Metal (by David_McD)
“Pressure is a word that is misused in our vocabulary. When you start thinking of pressure, it’s because you’ve started to think of failure.” — Tommy Lasorda
Explosion in Blue by Michael Anderson (by AndersonImages)
“The thing about light is that it really isn’t yours; it’s what you gather and shine back. And it gets more power from reflectiveness; if you sit still and take it in, it fills your cup, and then you can give it off yourself.” — Anne Lamott
doggie style ~ Explore 08.28.2009 (by ken m photography)
“I know what it’s like. I’ve seen it played out a zillion times. You’re waiting for that magical day when someone makes the connection and recognizes who you really are. Maybe they’ll first catch the sparkle in your eye. Or perhaps they’ll marvel at your insights and the depth of your spirit. Someone who will help you connect the dots, believe in yourself, and make sense of it all. Someone who will understand you, approve of you, and unhesitatingly give you a leg up so that life can pluck your ready, ripened self from the branch of magnificence. Well, I’m here to tell you, your wait is over. That someone, is you.” — Mike Dooley
Sunrise (by jaxxon)
“I can never decide whether my dreams are the result of my thoughts or my thoughts the result of my dreams.” ― D.H. Lawrence
Royal Turquoise (by cobalt123)
“Now stir the fire, and close the shutters fast,
Let fall the curtains, wheel the sofa round,
And, while the bubbling and loud hissing urn
Throws up a steamy column and the cups
That cheer but not inebriate, wait on each,
So let us welcome peaceful ev’ning in.”
— William Cowper
Casa Calvet (by Peter Nijenhuis)
More Info on this Building/Restaurant {HERE}
Turquoise colored water of Lake Pukaki (by Peter Nijenhuis)
Lake Pukaki is in Canterbury, 94 miles by road from Timaru. It has an area of about 31 square miles, and lies at about 1,620 ft above sea level. The country that comprises the 523 square miles of its catchment is drained by two main rivers, the Tasman and the Hooker. The Tasman River is fed by rainfall and melt water from the Tasman Glacier and its tributaries, the Murchison, Ball, Hochstetter, Rudolf, and numerous other glaciers. The Hooker River obtains its water from rain and melt water from the Hooker and Mueller Glaciers and their tributaries. The total inflow to the lake varies between 600 and 30,700 cusecs, with an average of about 5,000 cusecs, The lake water is not clear, as it carries much fine sediment in suspension, and is cold (46°F). The lake occupies the lower end of a glaciated valley and is confined by a moraine 16,000–18,000 years old.The outflow, and consequently the storage capacity of the lake, is controlled by a dam (the lake level can be varied between 1,610 and 1,637 ft above sea level), thus enabling more effective use to be made of the water by the 105-megawatt Lake Waitaki hydro-electric station. Other stations planned or under construction will also use water from Pukaki.
The meaning of the name is obscure but, according to a legend, Raikaihaitu (who dug out the Southern Lakes), noticing the bulging appearance of the outlet, gave this name, meaning “bunched-up waters”.
Info Found {HERE}
The turquoise Lake Tekapo (by Peter Nijenhuis)
Why is the water of Lake Tekapo turquoise?
The majority of water flowing into the headwaters of Lake Tekapo comes from large river systems that extend right back into the valleys of the Southern Alps. Feeding these rivers are large glaciers. Glaciers are slow moving rivers of ice.
Glaciers start as fallen snow high on the mountain plateaus of the Alps. As more and more snow falls, the weight of the new snow compresses the older layers until it becomes a thick, heavy layer of ice.
Gravity draws the ice from where it formed and down the slopes of the mountains.
Just like water, the ice collects in valleys and pushes its way down the valley, ripping loose rock from the valley walls and trapping it in the moving ice.
Any rock trapped against the sides of the ice flow is ground, with huge force, along the solid rock of the valley floor and walls. Such is the force, the grinding action of rock against rock results in a powder as fine as flour. It is often referred to as glacial flour.
The fine flour is carried with the ice down the valley until the warmth of the lower altitude reduces the ice to water.
In the case of Lake Tekapo, the glacial flour continues its journey in the river waters of the Godley, Cass and Macaulay rivers until it flows into the lake where the majority remains suspended within the water. This results in the turquoise colour.
More Info on this Lake & Tourism {HERE}
Neptune Pool at Hearst Castle (by Peter Nijenhuis)
The final version of the pool as it stands at the Castle today is 104 feet long, 58 feet wide and 95 feet wide at alcove. It is 3.5 feet deep at the west end, 10 feet at drains and holds 345,000 gallons of water. Other unique aspects of the Neptune Pool include the oil burning heating system, the light-veined Vermont marble decorating the pools and colonnades, and four 17-century Italian bas-reliefs on the sides of the colonnades.
More Info can be Found {HERE}
Diamond Turquoise Jewelry Photography Kevin Kish. New York, NY, NYC (by Luxury Ghalyah)
LOVEloveLOVE! :-)
Immersed in the crystal pools of blue that are your tranquil eyes, just let me drown in them.
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Chocolate cupcakes + bright icing - up close (by mejika)
“…I will speak until the hardness in you melts away and your heart is free…” — Stephen R. Lawhead
“And a rock feels no pain;
And an island never cries.”
— I Am A Rock, Simon & Garfunkel
Disperse (by Ahmed Zahid)
