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On Explore. Thank you ;-) Stock resources from faestock @ www.deviantart.com Thank you Jessica Texture from swimmer-girl @ www.deviantart.com Daffodils...Poem by William Wordsworth Daffodils I wandered lonely as a cloud That floats on high o'er vales and hills, When all at once I saw a crowd, A host, of golden daffodils; Beside the lake, beneath the trees, Fluttering and dancing in the breeze. Continuous as the stars that shine And twinkle on the milky way, They stretched in never-ending line Along the margin of a bay: Ten thousand saw I at a glance, Tossing their heads in sprightly dance. The waves beside them danced; but they Out-did the sparkling waves in glee: A poet could not but be gay, In such a jocund company: I gazed--and gazed--but little thought What wealth the show to me had brought: For oft, when on my couch I lie In vacant or in pensive mood, They flash upon that inward eye Which is the bliss of solitude; And then my heart with pleasure fills, And dances with the daffodils.

On Explore...Thank you The Grey Seal (Halichoerus grypus) is found on both shores of the North Atlantic Ocean. It is a large seal of the family Phocidae or "true seals". It is the only species classified in the genus Halichoerus. Its name is alternatively spelled Gray Seal and it is also known as Atlantic Grey Seal. Appearance It is a medium sized seal, with the bulls reaching 2.5 -- 3.3 m long and weighing up to 300 kg; the cows are much smaller, typically 1.6--2.0 m long and 100--150 kg weight. It is the typical seal of the northern and western coasts, the Common Seal being more often seen off southeastern coasts. Ecology In Britain and Ireland, the Grey Seal breeds in several colonies on and around the coasts; notably large colonies are at the Farne Islands off the Northumberland Coast (about 6,000 animals), and North Rona off the north coast of Scotland and Lambay Island off the coast of Dublin. In the Western North Atlantic, Grey Seals are typically found in large numbers all along the coast of North America up to about the coastal waters of New Jersey in the United States. In Canada, they are typically seen in areas like the Gulf of St. Lawrence, Newfoundland and the Maritimes, and Quebec. In the United States one finds them year round off the New England coasts (in particular Maine and Massachusetts) and slightly less frequently in the Middle Atlantic States, though their natural range extends to Virginia. During the winter months they can be seen hauled out on the rocks, islands, and shoals not far from shore, like great grey bananas in the sun, and occasionally coming ashore to rest. In the spring the recently weaned pups and yearlings occasionally strand on beaches after becoming "lost". Diet Grey seals feed on a wide variety of fish, mostly benthic or demersal species, taken at depths down to 70m (230ft) or more. Sandeels (Ammodytes spp) are important in their diet in many localities. Cod and other gadids, flatfish, herring and skates are also important locally. However, it is clear that Grey seals will eat whatever is available, including octopus and lobsters. The average daily food requirement is estimated to be 5kg (11lb), though the seals do not feed every day and they fast the breeding season. Reproduction The pups are born in autumn (September to November) in the eastern Atlantic and in winter (January to February) in the west, with a dense, soft silky white fur; at first they are small and shrivelled-looking, but they rapidly fatten up to look like over-filled barrels, from the extremely fat-rich milk they receive from their mothers. Within a month or so, they shed the pup fur and grow the dense waterproof adult fur, and soon leave for the sea to learn to fish for themselves. In recent years, the number of grey seals has been on the rise in the west, and in Canada there have been calls for a seal cull, however this does not appear to be coming to fruition any time soon. Status In the United States grey seal numbers are increasing as well; they have been protected under the Marine Mammal Protection Act for several years and it is still illegal to harm one. Before the act there were only a few isolated colonies in Maine and nowhere else. Today they are seen increasingly near New York and New Jersey waters and it is very likely they will establish colonies further and further south provided the main Canadian pupping grounds are not molested. It is also not very likely a seal hunt shall be instituted any time soon in the U.S. In the UK seals are protected under the Conservation of Seals Act 1970, however it does not apply to Northern Ireland. In the UK there have also been calls for a cull from some fishermen, claiming that stocks have declined due to the seals. A recent paper, however, from the Sea Mammal Research Unit at St Andrews University (www.smru.st-and.ac.uk/) clarifies that seals take less than 1% of the total stock biomass in the North Sea. The real problem is over fishing. @wikipedia An extra note...... The seal sanctuaries do an excellent job in rescuing injured seals, making them better ,then returning them to the sea. This one was seen in the Skegness Sanctuary, well worth a visit, if you are on the east coast, Lincolnshire.

On Explore, thank you Artwork used with permission from karenswhimsy.com Texture from serkettexture3 @ www.deviantart.com Slim Whitman...When I'm calling you.... youtu.be/DPgPyDBmY-k

Woman texture by 4pudding4 @ www.deviantart.com Points of view, a poem by Cyrus Diaz. On life, Life is so short never hold back, forgive like you have an amnesia, believe like a kid, love like crazy and regret not the things that made you happy. On forgiveness, Forgiveness is not something you do for yourself, it is something you do for your soul, something you do for humanity. If you want to see the rest of this quite long poem, you can see it here www.poemhunter.com/poem/points-of-view-3 f

On Explore, thank you very much ;-) Stock resources from justmeina @ www.deviantart.com Smoke texture from picmonkey Aicha, sung by Cheb Khaled youtu.be/vNol39IKNNs Aïcha, Aïcha, écoute-moi Aïcha, Aïcha, t'en va pas Aïcha, Aïcha, regarde-moi Aïcha, Aïcha, réponds-moi Je dirai les mots, les poèmes Je jouerai les musiques du ciel Je prendrai les rayons du soleil Pour éclairer tes yeux de rêve Taken from lyricstranslate.com/en/aicha-aisha.html#ixzz2uov8ZkHC Aisha, Aisha listen to me Aisha, Aisha don't go Aisha, Aisha look at me Aisha, Aisha answer me I would say the words, the poems I would play the music of the sky I would take the rays of the sun to light up your dreamy eyes Ooh! Aisha, Aisha listen to me Aisha, Aisha don't go

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On Explore...Thank you very much ;-) My pink planet fractal ;-) Using the Mandelbrot method. The mathematical roots of the idea of fractals have been traced through a formal path of published works, starting in the 17th century with notions of recursion, then moving through increasingly rigorous mathematical treatment of the concept to the study of continuous but not differentiable functions in the 19th century, and on to the coining of the word fractal in the 20th century with a subsequent burgeoning of interest in fractals and computer-based modelling in the 21st century. The term "fractal" was first used by mathematician Benoît Mandelbrot in 1975. Mandelbrot based it on the Latin frāctus meaning "broken" or "fractured", and used it to extend the concept of theoretical fractional dimensions to geometric patterns in nature. Gustav Holst..........The Planets youtu.be/Nz0b4STz1lo

On Explore..Thank you very much Bette Davis Eyes, sung by Taylor Swift youtu.be/dOdkgmqdWM8 Or another version by Kim Carnes F

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Ipernity Explore, front page. Thank you very much DALE CHIHULY, Artist Born in 1941 in Tacoma, Washington, Dale Chihuly was introduced to glass while studying interior design at the University of Washington. After graduating in 1965, Chihuly enrolled in the first glass programme in the country, at the University of Wisconsin. He continued his studies at the Rhode Island School of Design (RISD), where he later established the glass program and taught for more than a decade. In 1968, after receiving a Fulbright Fellowship, he went to work at the Venini glass factory in Venice. There he observed the team approach to blowing glass, which is critical to the way he works today. In 1971, Chihuly cofounded Pilchuck Glass School in Washington State. With this international glass center, Chihuly has led the avant-garde in the development of glass as a fine art. His work is included in more than 200 hundred museum collections worldwide. He has been the recipient of many awards, including twelve honorary doctorates and two fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts. The photo shown was taken at the Seattle exhibition which opened in 2012, and is ongoing.

On Explore...Thank you very much DALE CHIHULY, Artist Born in 1941 in Tacoma, Washington, Dale Chihuly was introduced to glass while studying interior design at the University of Washington. After graduating in 1965, Chihuly enrolled in the first glass programme in the country, at the University of Wisconsin. He continued his studies at the Rhode Island School of Design (RISD), where he later established the glass program and taught for more than a decade. In 1968, after receiving a Fulbright Fellowship, he went to work at the Venini glass factory in Venice. There he observed the team approach to blowing glass, which is critical to the way he works today. In 1971, Chihuly cofounded Pilchuck Glass School in Washington State. With this international glass center, Chihuly has led the avant-garde in the development of glass as a fine art. His work is included in more than 200 hundred museum collections worldwide. He has been the recipient of many awards, including twelve honorary doctorates and two fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts. The photo shown was taken at the Seattle exhibition which opened in 2012, and is ongoing.

Manipulated with Photoscape Ipernity Explore/Front page.. Thank you very much Time present and time past Are both perhaps present in time future, And time future contained in time past. If all time is eternally present All time is unredeemable. What might have been is an abstraction Remaining a perpetual possibility Only in a world of speculation. What might have been and what has been Point to one end, which is always present. Footfalls echo in the memory Down the passage which we did not take Towards the door we never opened Into the rose-garden. Poem by TS Eliot

On Explore....thank you very much ;-) A fractal is a never-ending pattern. Fractals are infinitely complex patterns that are self-similar across different scales. They are created by repeating a simple process over and over in an ongoing feedback loop. Driven by recursion, fractals are images of dynamic systems – the pictures of Chaos. Geometrically, they exist in between our familiar dimensions. Fractal patterns are extremely familiar, since nature is full of fractals. For instance: trees, rivers, coastlines, mountains, clouds, seashells, hurricanes, etc. Abstract fractals – such as the Mandelbrot Set – can be generated by a computer calculating a simple equation over and over.

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On Explore. Thank you very much Phil Collins - True Colours [OFFICIAL HQ MUSIC VIDEO] youtu.be/ZV3NpO7U0j0

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