a Haiku With a Cherry on Top

With a Cherry on Top, originally uploaded by EJP Photo.

Clouds of cherry blossoms!
Is that temple bell in Ueno
or Asakusa?

a Haiku from Baso*

*Basho (bah-shoh), pseudonym of Matsuo Munefusa (1644-94), Japanese poet, considered the finest writer of Japanese haiku during the formative years of the genre.

Auscultiamolo, sto cuore.

Auscultiamolo, sto cuore., originally uploaded by italida83.

a fine concept from Italida83

Imagine! no gods no master,,,

Imagine! no gods no master,,,, originally uploaded by brexians.

Imagine! no gods no master,,,

Agnosticism (Greek: α- a-, without + γνώσις gnōsis, knowledge; after Gnosticism) is the philosophical view that the truth value of certain claims — particularly metaphysical claims regarding theology, afterlife or the existence of deities, ghosts, or even ultimate reality — is unknown or, depending on the form of agnosticism, inherently impossible to prove or disprove. It is often put forth as a middle ground between theism and atheism,though it is not a religious declaration in itself.

"Ποταμοῖς τοῖς αὐτοῖς ἐμβαίνομέν τε καὶ οὐκ ἐμβαίνομεν, εἶμέν τε καὶ οὐκ εἶμεν."

"We both step and do not step in the same rivers. We are and are not."
Heraclitus the Riddler

the "earthy" me

the "earthy" me, originally uploaded by brexians.

with the help of www.wordle.net/.

"Ποταμοῖς τοῖς αὐτοῖς ἐμβαίνομέν τε καὶ οὐκ ἐμβαίνομεν, εἶμέν τε καὶ οὐκ εἶμεν."

"We both step and do not step in the same rivers. We are and are not."
Heraclitus the Riddler

DaisySun, BlueSea

Daisy (blog photo), originally uploaded by hmd962.

The Field Daisy

I'm a pretty little thing,
Always coming with the spring;
In the meadows green I'm found,
Peeping just above the ground,
And my stalk is cover'd flat
With a white and yellow hat.

Little Mary, when you pass
Lightly o'er the tender grass,
Skip about, but do not tread
On my bright but lowly head,
For I always seem to say,
"Surely winter's gone away."

Ann Taylor

"Ποταμοῖς τοῖς αὐτοῖς ἐμβαίνομέν τε καὶ οὐκ ἐμβαίνομεν, εἶμέν τε καὶ οὐκ εἶμεν."

"We both step and do not step in the same rivers. We are and are not."
Heraclitus the Riddler

the story of stuff

"Ποταμοῖς τοῖς αὐτοῖς ἐμβαίνομέν τε καὶ οὐκ ἐμβαίνομεν, εἶμέν τε καὶ οὐκ εἶμεν."

"We both step and do not step in the same rivers. We are and are not."
Heraclitus the Riddler

Chandra, Hubble, and New Horizon View Jupiter (Redux, 3/24/09)

Chandra, Hubble, and New Horizon View Jupiter (Redux, 3/24/09), originally uploaded by nasa1fan.

Chandra, Hubble, and New Horizon View Jupiter (Redux, 3/24/09)

This gorgeous view of Jupiter is from March of 2007. Still building older gems like this into the gallery. Hope this makes you guys feel "jovial." :)

Caption: On February 28, 2007, NASA's New Horizons spacecraft made its closest approach to Jupiter on its ultimate journey to Pluto. This flyby gave scientists a unique opportunity to study Jupiter using the package of instruments available on New Horizons, while coordinating observations from both space- and ground-based telescopes including NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory.

In preparation for New Horizon's approach of Jupiter, Chandra took 5-hour exposures of Jupiter on February 8, 10, and 24th. In this new composite image, data from those separate Chandra's observations were combined, and then superimposed on the latest image of Jupiter from the Hubble Space Telescope.

The purpose of the Chandra observations is to study the powerful X-ray auroras observed near the poles of Jupiter. These are thought to be caused by the interaction of sulfur and oxygen ions in the outer regions of the Jovian magnetic field with particles flowing away from the Sun in the so-called solar wind. Scientists would like to better understand the details of this process, which produces auroras up to a thousand times more powerful than similar auroras seen on Earth.

Image credit: X-ray: NASA/CXC/SwRI/R.Gladstone et al.; Optical: NASA/ESA/Hubble Heritage (AURA/STScI)

Read full caption of original image:
chandra.harvard.edu/photo/2007/jupiter/

Learn more about Chandra:
www.nasa.gov/chandra

p.s. You can see all of our Chandra photos in the Chandra Group in Flickr at: www.flickr.com/groups/chandranasa/ We'd love to have you as a member!

Uploaded by nasa1fan on 24 Mar 09, 10.19PM EEST.

Après une petite ballade dans les bois

brigitte 2, originally uploaded by sylvain.landry.

Vanessa Paradis Coupe Coupe Lyrics:

Coupe dans la brousse
Coupe dans les bois
Just cut, hey brother

Dans ta main tourne
Tout autour de toi
Le fer de ta machette

Coupe dans la brousse
Coupe dans les bois

Just cut, hey brother

Un grand soleil tourne seul
Autour de toi...
La canne a sucre est mure

Et couper c'est ton boulot
Il faut couper les roseaux
D'ou le sucre coule a flot

Coupe, coupe, brother
Couper c'est ton boulot

La machette te casse le dos
Fer forge...
Fer forge... sucre

Coupe les murailles
Coupe la tristesse

Just cut, hey brother

Dans ton coeur, tourne
Tout autour de toi
L'histoire des jours de fete

Coupe dans la brousse
Coupe dans les bois

Just cut, hey brother

Un grand amour tourne seul
Autour de toi
Il coupe la nuit qui dure

Et couper c'est ton boulot
Il faut couper les roseaux
D'ou le sucre coule a flot
Coupe, coupe, brother

Couper c'est ton boulot
La marchette te casse le dos
Fer forge...
Fer forge... sucre

megamouth shark

amazing!

fade blue dot words

"Ποταμοῖς τοῖς αὐτοῖς ἐμβαίνομέν τε καὶ οὐκ ἐμβαίνομεν, εἶμέν τε καὶ οὐκ εἶμεν."

"We both step and do not step in the same rivers. We are and are not."
Heraclitus the Riddler

the day that the animals revolt...

 hunters are killers

"Ποταμοῖς τοῖς αὐτοῖς ἐμβαίνομέν τε καὶ οὐκ ἐμβαίνομεν, εἶμέν τε καὶ οὐκ εἶμεν."

"We both step and do not step in the same rivers. We are and are not."
Heraclitus the Riddler

pale blue dot

If you look carefully at the NASA photo below, you will see a little white dot. This minute speck is Earth seen from the Voyager 1 spacecraft as it exits the solar system, nearly 4 billion miles away. The photo was taken back in 1990.

Look again at that dot. That’s here. That’s home. That’s us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every “superstar,” every “supreme leader,” every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there–on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam.
The Earth is a very small stage in a vast cosmic arena. Think of the rivers of blood spilled by all those generals and emperors so that, in glory and triumph, they could become the momentary masters of a fraction of a dot. Think of the endless cruelties visited by the inhabitants of one corner of this pixel on the scarcely distinguishable inhabitants of some other corner, how frequent their misunderstandings, how eager they are to kill one another, how fervent their hatreds.
Our posturings, our imagined self-importance, the delusion that we have some privileged position in the Universe, are challenged by this point of pale light. Our planet is a lonely speck in the great enveloping cosmic dark. In our obscurity, in all this vastness, there is no hint that help will come from elsewhere to save us from ourselves.
The Earth is the only world known so far to harbor life. There is nowhere else, at least in the near future, to which our species could migrate. Visit, yes. Settle, not yet. Like it or not, for the moment the Earth is where we make our stand.
It has been said that astronomy is a humbling and character-building experience. There is perhaps no better demonstration of the folly of human conceits than this distant image of our tiny world. To me, it underscores our responsibility to deal more kindly with one another, and to preserve and cherish the pale blue dot, the only home we’ve ever known.
– Carl Sagan, Pale Blue Dot, 1994


"Ποταμοῖς τοῖς αὐτοῖς ἐμβαίνομέν τε καὶ οὐκ ἐμβαίνομεν, εἶμέν τε καὶ οὐκ εἶμεν."

"We both step and do not step in the same rivers. We are and are not."
Heraclitus the Riddler

All we need is love

All we need is love, originally uploaded by maksid.

..love is all we need

There's nothing you can do that can't be done
Nothing you can sing that can't be sung
Nothing you can say, but you can learn
How to play the game, It's easy

Nothing you can make that can't be made
No one you can save that can't be saved
Nothing you can do, but you can learn
How to be you in time, It's easy

All you need is love
Love is all you need

There's nothing you can know that isn't known
Nothing you can see that isn't shown
There's nowhere you can be that isn't where
You're meant to be, It's easy

All you need is love
Love is all you need

Beatles


"Ποταμοῖς τοῖς αὐτοῖς ἐμβαίνομέν τε καὶ οὐκ ἐμβαίνομεν, εἶμέν τε καὶ οὐκ εἶμεν."

"We both step and do not step in the same rivers. We are and are not."
Heraclitus the Riddler

ΙΤΑΛΙΔΑ 83

pesce d'aprile #2, originally uploaded by italida83.

1. al supermercato, 2. cavallo goloso..., 3. micione che si gode il sole, 4. tenerezze, 5.specchio, 6. l'erba del vicino..., 7. ouzo & bicchiere, 8. blue flowers, 

9. la speranza, 10. felino in azione, 11. diamoci un taglio #3, 12. Scintille, 13. vecchia pellicola, 14. mr. lonely, 15. Oooocchi di ragazzaaa, 16. si sta come d'autunno, 

17. ouzo, 18. family portrait #color, 19. sputacchio di sapone, 20. rugiada / dew #2, 21.vidos island, 22. grasshopper, 23. inferriata, 24. heart, 

25. l'amore non è bello se non è litigarello, 26. tempo, 27. faggiano, 28. town, 29. drop, 30.forse in amore le rose non si usano più..., 31. Spicchi di cielo fra baffi di fumo, 32. vicini vicini, 

33. beer, 34. palme, 35. caicco a vidos, 36. asinelli, 37. yellow rose, 38. pink geranium, 39.I'm daisy, 40. pastels, 

41. little house in vidos island, 42. little house in vidos island, 43. greek flag, 44.primavera? #2, 45. curiosità felina, 46. basket ball, 47. un posto al sole..., 48. mimose, 

49. perdo rotelle..., 50. litte green bug, 51. relaxing, 52. piedino, 53. bicchiere, 54. cicogna - stork, 55. rampicante, 56. torta time, 

57. diamoci un taglio, 58. Macchie d'inchiostro, 59. un funghetto trallallà... XD, 60. family portrait #sepia, 61. bad doll / bambola cattiva, 62. other grasshopper, 63. ombra, 64.aspirina #2, 

65. aspirina, 66. prego, scusi?, 67. uuuh..., 68. il bello e il cattivo tempo, 69. fiore tifoso del lecce, 70. anfiteatro di lecce, 71. matrioska, 72. beer abbandonata

lovely, fine, amazing, photos from ΙΤΑΛΙΔΑ

"Ποταμοῖς τοῖς αὐτοῖς ἐμβαίνομέν τε καὶ οὐκ ἐμβαίνομεν, εἶμέν τε καὶ οὐκ εἶμεν."

"We both step and do not step in the same rivers. We are and are not."
Heraclitus the Riddler

Fulfilling the dream of flight in a high-tech wingsuit

"Ποταμοῖς τοῖς αὐτοῖς ἐμβαίνομέν τε καὶ οὐκ ἐμβαίνομεν, εἶμέν τε καὶ οὐκ εἶμεν."

"We both step and do not step in the same rivers. We are and are not."
Heraclitus the Riddler