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For the appreciation of the glorious beauty of nature and in unexpected places.
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Sunset tonight, right after a huge but brief thunderstorm passed over:
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Pretty!

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Wow, good capture.
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Beautiful!

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So atmospheric!
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I was hit hard by the Manchester bombing last night, the place where the bomb exploded was exactly at the spot where I used to collect my son after he had been at a concert at the arena.

Feeling lonely and a bit desperate I headed off to the most Southerly Point in the Island for some solace

this is the view to the south, the lump of rock you can see is called the calf of man

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Sun setting from SSW looking towards Ireland
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apologies for the bit of car and the litter bin, I have some nice old church yard pics to share with you much more my forte
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:hug: They are lovely pictures.
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Apparently there was a spectacular display of Northern Lights Saturday night, seen as far south as California. Alas, I didn't know and was asleep. Did anyone see it?

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I didn't hear about it! But I was offline.
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I didn't hear about it either. And I was not offline.

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I discovered a great stretch of nature trails today. Only about ten minutes' drive from my house.

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Very pretty! The purple asters are a favorite of mine, especially paired with goldenrod. (And even prettier if there's blackberry in the mix in the fall!)
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Oh, what a lovely getaway to have only 10 mins from home!

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I did! It is truly stunning. What caught my eye most often, though, was the stream of lights and the glow around them moving up the mountain toward the summit. A solid line of climbers who have to leave the last base camp not long after dark if they're going to make the summit in daylight.
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Ooooh, just gorgeous! :)
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This is what Ottawa looks like tonight:
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Beautiful, Jude! :love:
“There, peeping among the cloud-wrack above a dark tor high up in the mountains, Sam saw a white star twinkle for a while. The beauty of it smote his heart, as he looked up out of the forsaken land, and hope returned to him. For like a shaft, clear and cold, the thought pierced him that in the end the Shadow was only a small and passing thing: there was light and high beauty for ever beyond its reach.”
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:love:
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Wow. That’s just jaw dropping beautiful.
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