Janet Brien's photos with the keyword: bokeh

  • 82/365: "Joy in looking and comprehending is nature's most beautiful gift." ~ Albert Einstein
  • 81/365: "There is poison in the fang of the serpent, in the mouth of the fly and in the sting of a scorpion; but the wicked man is saturated with it." ~ Chanakya
  • 85/365: “Art is the unceasing effort to compete with the beauty of flowers - and never succeeding." ~ Gian Carlo Menotti
  • 83/365: “Can words describe the fragrance of the very breath of spring?” ~ Neltje Blanchan
  • Frosted Buttercup From Above
  • Henbit Deadnettle Blossom
  • Presenting The Purple Deadnettle Singing Trio!
  • Elegant White Blossoms
  • Heart of an Anemone
  • 86/365: “The moments of happiness we enjoy take us by surprise. It is not that we seize them, but that they seize us." ~ Ashley Montagu
  • Glowing Forsythia Blossoms
  • Magnolia Blossom and Buds
  • 87/365: “Joy is what happens to us when we allow ourselves to recognize how good things really are." ~ Marianne Williamson
  • Purple Deadnettle Blossom
  • 88/365: “A host of golden daffodils; Beside the lake, beneath the trees, Fluttering and dancing in the breeze." ~ William Wordsworth
  • Chickweed Seed Pod Forming, part one
  • Lovely Oregon Fawn Lilies
  • 89/365: “The purpose of our lives is to be happy." ~ Dalai Lama
  • 93/365: "What we call the beginning is often the end. And to make an end is to make a beginning. The end is where we start from." ~ TS Eliot
  • Chickweed Seed Pod Forming, part three
  • 92/365: "Beauty is eternity gazing at itself in a mirror." ~ Khalil Gibran
  • Chickweed Blossom Turns into Seed Pod (3 pix below)
  • Chickweed Seed Pod Forming, part one
  • Beautiful Jonquils Covered with Raindrops
  • 96/365: "It is better to travel well than to arrive." ~ Buddha
  • 94/365: "Rain is grace; rain is the sky condescending to the earth; without rain, there would be no life." ~ John Updike
  • 95/365: "Little drops of water, little grains of sand, make the mighty ocean and the pleasant land." ~ German Proverb
  • 100/365: “ I don’t know of any other city where you can walk through so many culturally diverse neighbourhoods, and you’re never out of sight of the wild hills. Nature is very close here." ~ Gary Snyder
  • 99/365: “Don't buy the house, buy the neighborhood.” ~ Russian Proverb
  • 97/365: "What we have to do... is to find a way to celebrate our diversity and debate our differences without fracturing our communities." ~ Hillary Clinton
  • 101/365: "A man's house is his castle." ~ James Otis
  • Pink Torch (4 pix below)
  • Lovely Desert Parsley
  • 104/365: "The only thing that scares me more than space aliens is the idea that there aren't any space aliens. We can't be the best that creation has to offer. I pray we're not all there is. If so, we're in big trouble." ~ El
  • 102/365: "Someone told me it's all happening at the zoo." ~ Paul Simon
  • 105/365: "Beauty is a fragile gift." ~ Ovid
  • I Spy With My Compound Eye, Another Seablush, To Which I Will Fly!
  • 107/365: "Blue thou art, intensely blue; Flower, whence came thy dazzling hue?" ~ James Montgomery
  • 106/365: "Happiness is like a kiss. You must share it to enjoy it." ~ Bernard Meltzer
  • Sporophyte Tear Drops
  • 110/365: "I'm always astonished by a forest. It makes me realise that the fantasy of nature is much larger than my own fantasy. I still have things to learn." ~ Günter Grass [Explore]
  • Channelling Red Stilletto
  • Spikey Moss
  • A Hug & Dedication to my Wonderful, Dear Friend in Athens, Desi!
  • Honey Bee on Maple Flower
  • Find of Yesterday: Tiny Red Frilly Flowers? Nope! :D
  • 113/365: "Romance is the glamour which turns the dust of everyday life into a golden haze." ~ Carolyn Gold Heilbrun
  • The Beautiful Klamathweed Beetle (2 pictures below!)
  • Psychedelic Rainbow Droplets OR Alice in Wonderland on LSD!
  • 120/365: "All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better." ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Dreamy Green Droplets
  • 124/365: "Friendship is a word, the very sight of which in print makes the heart warm." ~ Augustine Birrell [Explore to #6!]
  • 123/365: "The longer you look at an object, the more abstract it becomes, and, ironically, the more real." ~ Lucian Freud
  • 126/365: "Earth laughs in flowers." ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson [Explore]
  • 127/365: "Look at a tree, a flower, a plant. Let your awareness rest upon it. How still they are, how deeply rooted in Being. Allow nature to teach you stillness." ~ Eckhart Tolle
  • 125/365: "Life is the flower for which love is the honey." ~ Victor Hugo [Explore]
  • 131/365: "Dreams are the seeds of change. Nothing ever grows without a seed, and nothing ever changes without a dream." ~ Debby Boone [Explore]
  • 130/365: "Diligence is the mother of good luck." ~ Benjamin Franklin
  • 133/365: "Camouflage is a game we all like to play, but our secrets are as surely revealed by what we want to seem to be as by what we want to conceal." ~ Russell Lynes
  • 132/365: "You have to dream before your dreams can come true." ~ Abdul Kalam
  • Crab Spider on White Campion
  • Beautiful Blue Flax Blossom
  • 134/365: "Each of us is born with a share of purity, predestined to be corrupted by our commerce with mankind." ~ Emil Cioran
  • Jiminy Cricket!
  • Cluster of Maple "Bats"
  • 135/365: "Just as treasures are uncovered from the earth, so virtue appears from good deeds, and wisdom appears from a pure and peaceful mind. To walk safely through the maze of human life, one needs the light of wisdom and the guidance of virtue.
  • 136/365: "There are colors which cause each other to shine brilliantly, which form a couple which complete each other like man and woman." ~ Vincent van Gogh
  • 137/365: “Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.” ~ Martin Luther King Jr.
  • 138/365: “Nobody sees a flower really; it is so small. We haven't time, and to see takes time — like to have a friend takes time." ~ Georgia O'Keeffe
  • A Maple "Bat" is Born: Formation of a Maple Seed!
  • Swarm of Maple Bats!
  • 139/365: “Those who bring sunshine to the lives of others cannot keep it from themselves." ~ James Matthew Barrie
  • You Lookin' At Me?
  • 146/365: "Stuff your eyes with wonder, live as if you'd drop dead in ten seconds. See the world. It's more fantastic than any dream made or paid for in factories." ~ Ray Bradbury
  • Beautiful White Thistle
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