I like these two because I just caught them out my car window and for some reason they both give me hope-- I think the flag w/ stormy clouds makes me think of the Star Spangled Banner. Though I wonder why the hawk does?
This makes me think of the pride of the people from the USA.. If you get time look at this.. your pictures go so well with these. http://www.eagleflag.com/
Thank you for posting you Sky Watch this week... catch up with you again soon
Each day comes bearing its own gifts. Untie the ribbons! ************ "Joy is what happens when we allow ourselves to recognize how good things really are." **************
"A vigorous five-mile walk will do more good for an unhappy but otherwise healthy adult than all the medicine and psychology in the world." --Paul Dudley White
************ "Now if you are going to win any battle you have to do one thing. You have to make the mind run the body. Never let the body tell the mind what to do. The body will always give up. It is always tired in the morning, noon, and night. But the body is never tired if the mind is not tired." - George S. Patton, U.S. Army General, 1912 Olympian
I am often asked to describe the experience of raising a child with a disability - to try to help people who have not shared that unique experience to understand it, to imagine how it would feel. It’s like this… When you’re going to have a baby, it’s like planning a fabulous vacation trip - to Italy. You buy a bunch of guide books and make your wonderful plans. The coliseum. The Michelangelo David. The gondolas in Venice. You may learn some handy phrases in Italian. It’s all very exciting. After months of eager anticipation, the day finally arrives. You pack your bags and off you go. Several hours later, the plane lands. The stewardess comes in and says, “Welcome To Holland”. “Holland?!?” you say, “What do you mean “Holland”??? I signed up for Italy! I’m supposed to be in Italy. All my life I’ve dreamed of going to Italy” But there’s been a change in the flight plan. They’ve landed in Holland and there you must stay. The important thing is that they haven’t taken you to a horrible, disgusting, filthy place, full of pestilence, famine and disease. It’s just a different place. So you must go and buy new guide books. And you must learn a whole new language. And you will meet a whole new group of people you would never have met. It’s just a different place. It’s slower-paced than Italy, less flashy than Italy. But after you’ve been there for a while and you catch your breath, you look around…and you begin to notice that Holland has windmills…Holland has tulips. Holland even has Rembrandts. But everyone you know is busy coming and going from Italy…and they’re all bragging about what a wonderful time they had there. And for the rest of your life, you will say “Yes that’s where I was supposed to go. That’s what I had planned”. And the pain of that will never, ever, ever, ever go away…because the loss of that dream is a very significant loss. But…if you spend your life mourning the fact that you didn’t get to Italy, you may never be free to enjoy the very special, the very lovely things…about Holland.
21 comments:
Beautiful. Always, hawks bring to mind John Denver's "The Eagle and the Hawk." Lovely photos.
I think any bird like a hawk or eagle flying with spread wings and just soaring away is very hopeful!
Very beautiful images, but the hawk photo it's excellent, well done.
This makes me think of the pride of the people from the USA..
If you get time look at this.. your pictures go so well with these. http://www.eagleflag.com/
Thank you for posting you Sky Watch this week... catch up with you again soon
Tom
Nice contrast .. two different feelings.
Two beautiful vews!
Luiz - from Brazil
Beautiful !!
great photos and he food below wow! looks yummy!
Very nice Love the flag flying in the wind
and long may she fly
Great Hawk picture as well :)
Nice photos!
Love so much your banner/header, just beautiful!
A very powerful contrast!
But in both one can feel the taste of freedom.
Beautiful photos. I think that the first one are wonderful!!!
Have a nice weekend:)
Love the hawk photo!
Love the hawk.
You have the hawk, and I have the Ern this weeek...
Shall we start a buisness toogether??? "Lerarning to fly..."
Nice weekend wishes to you, comes here from Norway.
Maybe the hawk picture reminds you of freedom. I wish "I" could fly! :D
They are both wonderful! My favorite is the first.
The first words that came to mind were, 'soaring on the wings of eagles', so I can see why it makes you think of the Star Spangled Banner.
Both of these are great shots! Great eye!
I hope you weren't driving when you snapped these! Hahaha
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