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Reflections - yet another gallery

http://Mascha.gaia.com — Sun, 05 Aug 2007 21:19:49 GMT

Okay, my obsession with serene visuals continues. As always, the photos are a collection from various sites on the web and you can use them for non-commercial purposes as far as I could determine. More will be added whenever I can find some... unless these pages suffer from a seizure due to overload and no one can access my blog anymore.

Let there be transparency and spiraling perspectives and drops

Rotterdam apartment building

Sunrise at Angkor Wat

View andrews sea's map

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Black kite reflected in building

Reflecting on the 'hood

Puddle in Vieux Lille, France

Wild river reflects delphinium garden

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Taken in Pont-rouge, Québec (See more photos here)

46°45' 23" N, 71°38' 49"

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From a dream: Transit travelers stuck in Customs in space

Loch Lomond - Scotland

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Taken in Milarrochy, Scotland (See more photos here)

56°7' 05" N, 4°35' 5

Always good to check

Aurorus Reflectus Colosseo, Rome

Moraine Lake, Canada

Stained glass windows reflected in Cathedral

Someone at the door

St. James Park - London

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The place to hide the bodies...

On the train in NYC

Ljubljana - Slovenia

San Francisco winter

The fear inside of Pisco Bandito spiraling

out of control

Yin Yang feet

Planet Golden Gate

Hm.

Looking at the backyard pool

From a vision: The Multiverse Theory --

Each bubble is a universe, and the big blue ball is surrounded by another universe.... And now imagine each bubble is a multidimensional yin yang with white holes out of which spring forth more universes, and black holes into which they disappear... each universe consisting of living, evolving yin yangs from the smallest subatomic wavicle to the greatest cosmic.... Ah, you get the picture.

Fried Yin Yang

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Icy

The poet

In a Venice store window

Chicago

Amigos

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Taken in Amsterdam, Noord-Holland (See more photos here)

52°21' 43" N, 4°53'

Tags: reflections, water, drops, spirals, transparent, multiverses, Yin Yang, mirroring, photo gallery

Lotus Pond 2

http://Mascha.gaia.com — Sun, 29 Jul 2007 19:30:26 GMT

Welcome, everyone. Please use any of these pictures in your own blogs and posts. They are for you, specifically.

The first lotus pond apparently couldn't handle all the flowers and frogs, so here comes No. 2.
It changes occasionally, whenever I have time.

View Jen 64's map

Taken in Brisbane, Queensland (See more photos here)

27°20' 36" S, 153°4' 07

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Taken in Brisbane, Queensland (See more photos here)

27°20' 36" S, 153°4' 07"

He made it onto his pad

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Tags: Lotus Eating, frog jumping into ancient pond, water lilies, lotus hearts, photo gallery No.3, Lotus Pond 2

The Lotus Pond

http://Mascha.gaia.com — Tue, 24 Jul 2007 06:59:01 GMT

Welcome. Take any of these pictures and do what thou wilt.

I'm just starting here, but there will be more and more

If you're tired of words, this will be hmmm.....

On the edge

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Taken in Brisbane, Queensland (See more photos here)

27°20' 36" S, 153°4' 07" E

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Taken in Nonthaburi, TH (See more photos here)

13°52' 51" N, 100°22' 16

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Tags: The Lotus Pond. Water Lilies Pictures. Wasserrosen

A Garden of Old Roses

http://Mascha.gaia.com — Thu, 19 Jul 2007 03:28:12 GMT

These are for everyone. Please pick as many as you like and send to friends and foes.

Tell me,
how is it possible that something like this could even appear to exist?

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Tiny waterdrops

Like jewels

This rose changes color in the sun

Tags: The Rose Garden; hunt for the imperfect red rose;, Everything's coming up roses

What do you appreciate most about your mother?

http://Mascha.gaia.com — Sun, 13 May 2007 09:46:30 GMT

Well, for one thing, my mother is a paragon of common sense.

When I was a kid, my mother often used to say with 100 % conviction, "What I can't afford, I don't want to have in the first place." She said that in German, and she meant it, you see?

Due to my father's long progressive illness, we fell on tough times, so for fun we'd sometimes walk through the beautiful areas of town, stop outside the gates of the loveliest mansions with fairy tale gardens and, without a trace of envy, point out all the best features in turn. After a while of revelling in admiration, my mama would sigh and say something like: "Mensch, am I glad that I don't have to clean that 14 room house."
That was my cue: "Good thing we don't own that Porsche in the driveway. Just imagine if it gets dented..."
"Let alone hit," my mom would add. "And what it would cost to MAINTAIN those gardens, fishponds, whatever else they've got there... You'd have to have servants. And that's the last thing we'd want to have to deal with, pfui."

All the way home we'd crack each other up by making the funniest remarks we could think of about the drawbacks of possessing too much stuff in this world. And then we'd look at each other, beaming, and conclude, "Hey, we're almost rich!"

That's still one of our favorite conclusions today, "Hey, we're so freakin' rich, we've got to give it away."

In gratitude to all mamas wherever they roam,

Mascha

Tags: QaR, mother, motherhood, mother's day, mom

Fearsome Dakinis and Dakas

http://Mascha.gaia.com — Sat, 12 May 2007 04:41:09 GMT

As you are awakening, all the gods and demons of your past, all the latent tendencies of the kosmic collective, will rise up within and without you to claim you as "one of their own."

So don't move. Stay as unbounded awareness itself. Let them arise... let these forces move and do what they will. They will transform whatever can be transformed within and without, but not You: the unchanging deathless never born everpresent Reality. Oh God, This beauty...

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