Live Long and Prosper, 3 Day Quote Challenge

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3 Day Quote Challenge, Day Two

Thank you Lucile, for nominating me to this challenge!

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“It’s worked so far, but we are not off yet” Dr McCoy, Star Trek

Live Long and Prosper

Today’s quote is near and dear to every Trekker on this planet called Earth, as quoted by the belowed character Mr Spock on Star Trek. Often also used in social media, is the abbreviation, LLAP.

“Live long and prosper” Mr Spock, Star Trek

The Vulcan salute was devised by Leonard Nimoy, who portrayed the half-Vulcan character Mr. Spock on the original Star Trek television series. A 1968 New York Times interview described the salute or greeting gesture as a “double-fingered version of Churchill’s victory sign”. Nimoy said in that interview that he “decided that the Vulcans were a ‘hand-oriented’ people.

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3 Day Quote Challenge, Day One

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Rules of the Challenge:

* Thank the blogger who nominated you
* Publish 3 quotes on 3 consecutive days on your blog. It can be your own, or from a book, movie or from anyone who inspires you.
* Nominate 3 more bloggers to carry on this endeavor

Thank you Lucile, for nominating me to this challenge, I hope I am up to it ;p 
My nominations are as follows: PorterGirl, Julia and Jessamayann

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“It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend.” William Blake

3 Day Quote Challenge, Day One

My quote for today is one of my own variations. The quote was revamped in jest, but, also applies to real life in so many cases…

“I’ll stab you in the back, if you’ll stab mine”

Is that a knife on my back or are you just happy to see me?

Call it suspicion or plain paranoia
Still not turning my back on ya
Perhaps a lack of trust in a fellow human
But definitely not a friendship in blooming…

Check out the original post of the same:
I’ll stab you in the back, if you’ll stab mine

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Camera Lucida: Reflections

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Poetry and Photography
Posted in week #13 of Camera Lucida Photo Challenge, Reflections

“It’s always interesting to look at reflections…are they really the same as the reality?
How many times did you look at your own reflection and wondered if that’s how the world sees you…?”

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“The world is a looking glass and gives back to every man the reflection of his own face”
William Makepeace Thackeray

Camera Lucida: Reflections

Glass, wood, concrete
How this scene to complete?
Add a dash of colour
Maybe a selfie to follow?

Through the looking glass
Time slowly will pass
The observer’s delight
Is the turning of the light

Scenery, water, skies
Even a high rise
At this altitude
The surprise is an absolute

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Sunset in November (SL WEEK 18)

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Photo Challenge by SYLVAIN LANDRY and in honour of the month of November
A response to Sylvain’s challenge theme of Sunset

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“Sunsets, like childhood, are viewed with wonder not just because they are beautiful but because they are fleeting.” Richard Paul Evans

Sunset in November

The start of November
Surely, it will be a month to remember
Sunsets most gorgeous
Twice now in as many days

Sky painted in various colours
Shape shifting clouds in abundance
Admiring the beauty of nature’s wonders
For a while only, but what seems like hours

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THE DAILY POST; TREAT

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The Daily Post photo challenge: Treat

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“Absolutely eat dessert first. The thing that you want to do the most, do that”
Joss Whedon

THE DAILY POST; TREAT

Middle of the day, a lunch date, a little treat
Nothing fancy, it seemed, at first glance
Pancakes, strawberries and whipped cream
But soon enough, the treat made me dance

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Lunch Time; Mundane Monday Challenge #31

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Poetry and Photography
Photo challenge for PhoTrabloggers Mundane Monday

“This is a challenge created to find beauty in almost everything. The challenge is simple : find beauty in everyday mundane things, capture the beauty and upload the photographs.”

MUNDANE MONDAY CHALLENGE #31

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“The biggest thrill wasn’t in winning on Sunday but in meeting the payroll on Monday”
Art Rooney

Lunch Time; Mundane Monday Challenge #31

Lunch time, Office, Espoo, Finland, 2nd of November, 2015

A week full of labour
Still, bearing its fruits

Lunch in the coffee area
No time for feeling inferior

Chums and colleagues take a stance
Together we eat, be merry and laugh
Even time for a wee Monday dance
Of course,
The sweet dessert all the previous enhanced 😛

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Blue Moment

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October: Month of wellingtons and mackintoshes
Photography and Poetry
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Posted in response to The Clinic-Photo Rehab hosted by Lucile De Godoy

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“Photography to me is catching a moment which is passing, and which is true”
Jacques-Henri Lartigue

Blue Moment

That moment at dawn
Has you quite drawn
The sky and nature
Of one blue creature
The coolest of blues
The nature in hue…

…A natural true blue

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Photo101 Rehab, The Clinic: Week 44 Wrap Up

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Photo101 Rehab, The Clinic: Week 43 Wrap Up

“Last year, after completing the Photo101 course, I opened the Photo Rehab Event in this blog, a ‘healing clinic’, for all of us who love photography (hobbyists, amateurs, pro-shooters and enthusiasts) who missed the course and daily interaction with other photobloggers.” Lucile De Godoy

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Check out all the magnificent photographs for this week from Lucile’s site:

Week 44: Wrap up Photo101 Rehab

Also featured Rantings Of A Third Kind:

“Gun from Rantings of a Third Kind blue poem and photos evoke peace and reflection. These images of the last sunset of October are breathtaking.”

Last Sunset of October

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Halloween Night on the Bench

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Poetry and Photography
Posted in Travel Words Bench Photo Challenge, the Bench Series

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“I must go in. The fog is rising” EMILY ELIZABETH DICKINSON

Halloween Night on the Bench

Surrounded by misty air
Missed the last fare
Sitting on the park bench
Wishing I had worn a trench
The eerie surroundings
Leaving my heart pounding
Not a soul in sight
On this mystical night
Wrapping my coat tighter
My mood getting lighter
I hear some noises
A car approaches
Finally, I have a ride!

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Nightfall, City Lights

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October: Month of wellingtons and mackintoshes
Photography and Poetry
&
Posted in response to The Clinic-Photo Rehab hosted by Lucile De Godoy

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“He should not vow to walk in the dark, who has not seen the nightfall” J.R.R. Tolkien

Nightfall, City Lights

The soft coloured city lights
Reflecting on the water
In the darkened nights
Of the month of October

Standing on the pier
No one else is near
Reflecting the day’s events
Before I finally relent

And start my journey home

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