Happy Sunday, tried to bring you many colors here!
A short trip this morning after church for a cup of coffee on this first day of December.
We stopped at the Lourensford Wine Estate and whilst waiting for the coffee, I popped around with my camera. Kindly see below what I got and I hope that you will like the shots!
Seems that this flower has gone to seed!
Don't know what it is, but beautiful to see the wind picking up the little seeds and floating them all over!
This looks like the "Violet Dropwing Dragonfly"!
I've had a photo of a pure colored adult published in a USA wildlife magazine a few years ago.
Floating serenely on the water surface!
A bunch of lovely hanging bells!
The same dragonfly in a changed direction!
Here is another one on a water lily leaf!
This is the famous Sugarbird on a Pincushion!
A huge plant and I liked how the sun x-rays the leaves!
Little White Eye head upside down eating a palm tree fruit!
Here the White Eye is the normal way up!
Yellow on black enhanced the beauty of this flower!
A soft and gentle pink to please your eyes!
It looks like an Orange-winged Dropwing male!
A big Bear in the sky today!
And That's All Folks!
The beauty of nature, big and small resides within each of us. This is why those that are connected to mother nature can find such love and peace in her colors that she displays so freely to us. True beauty costs nothing, just the same as love and kindness. It comes at no cost to spread kindness to all of those that we come into contact with. A small word spoken in love can make a big difference in the life of someone else!
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The dragon fly is so awesome, and you got perfect photos of it. Love the lilly flower so much and the hanging belles too. !COFFEEA
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Thank you and so glad that you liked the post my friend.
Did another one today that you might also like.
Rushing now as we have a power cut at 6pm.
Blessings and thank you for the kind tip!
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The magical beauty in nature captured once again Stephen, so many things in life are free and entertaining.
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Thank you and so right Lady Joan. The idea is to get people off their couches and into nature Lol
That is for the 2 or 3 that actually read my posts hahaha.
Blessings!
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You've captured the dragonflies very well.
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Thank you my friend and glad that you liked it.
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You're welcome.
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Once again, more beautiful close-up nature photography from you.......love it everytime!
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Thank you my friend.
Glad that you liked the post!
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Thank you @innerblocks and @hafizullah for the kind support.
Blessings to the growth of your great site!
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You always bring beautiful content that can convey emotions, thank you very much for your work!
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Thank you for the kind words my friend.
I try my best to place uplifting posts.
Blessings to you and yours!
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The dragonflies are a beautiful vibrant color, Sir Stephen. Lovely captures of the Sugarbird and the White Eye.
Nice to see the colorful flowers - 🌸 it will be awhile before I see them outside here until winter passes. 🥶
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Yep, although things seem to be dreary during winter my friend, we know that Spring will bring with it the beauty that we long for. May it be that your Spring season is not too far off.
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Great gratitude here for your kind support!
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Thank you kindly @rem-steem and @helpiecake
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What a gorgeous series of shots all so wonderful
I am back from my break with family and settling back into normality
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Missed you and welcome back to steemit land JJ.
Glad that you liked the post, but more important I am glad that you could spend some quality time with the family!
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Ohh yes I had a great time with family, sleeping on the couch I dont sleep as well as normal so good to be back to my own bed lOL
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Ouch and ouch again, but the odd pain here and there are simply ignored in the great company I am sure.
Maybe in the new place you guys must look for something that has an extra room or two?
Nothing like a persons own bed my friend!
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I can sleep anywhere fortunately so it wasn’t really an issue
Next place will be a short drive from family so we can head home for the night to our own beds but we will look for something with a spare room
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Great to hear and a spare room always comes in handy my friend.
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Ohh yeah for sure, it will be my computer room as well :)
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Now that's great thinking JJ.
A place where you can control things, almost like a sort of nerve center.
Marian and I share the room here, as her computer and stuff is at the one end of the desk and mine at the other end.
The two screens are back to back with a gap in between so we can peep at each other when we chat Lol.
We both have various duties for the charity to perform and she marks her theology degree students afterwards while I do my steemit cruises.
Works like charm my friend!
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All the photographs are beautiful but i like 1st photograph most. Awesome click sir.
thanks for share with us.
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Thank you my friend.
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Really love your macro shots. It's these little fine details that make me cherish life even more! Love your photos
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Wow! Thanks and coming from you I know that I am doing something right my friend. Glad that you liked the post.
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Beautiful photography gentleman
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Thank you my friend and you are also a gentleman!
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Howdy sir papilloncharity! Wonderful photos as always and you did so well catching those dragonflies in great shots!
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Thank you Sir @janton and glad that you liked the post.
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Hi sorry to bother @janton .. I just want to ask a question... On the esteem app.. Under the leaderboard tab you are listed with the most activities.. What do you have to do to get those activities... Do you have to comment? Like or share stuff?
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Howdy technicalside! I believe that is just based on the number of comments made. I haven't looked at it for many weeks so I didn't even know I was still leading. lol.
Yes, it takes awhile to build up many good contacts who will converse with you as I'm sure you know by now, but once you do then it is easy to have a large volume of comments each day.
You are from South Africa? And you work on Subarus?
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Hey @janton Thnx for the response.. Ok I see now that you said it's comments I found myself on the leaderboard.. Ok that's great Thnx.. It is kind of easy to achieve then hey.. It would be much easier if people interacted with me aswell.. But hey..
And I am assuming the reward is the amount of esteem points gathered from the comments..
And yes I am from South Africa the rainbow nation... Where are you from sir?
I work on Subaru's yes but I am not qualified as such its just a passion of mine
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Subaru's are great cars, really well made, I agree. Yes the reward for the leaderboard is just the points earned. They just stopped giving SBI out to the top commenters, they figure the points will be valuable in the future.
It takes time to find good conversationalists that's for sure, many people work full time jobs and aren't online much. You will eventually find them though. I am living in Texas, United States. What part of South Africa are you in? I'm in contact with other South Africans on steemit too.
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They are indeed.. They just need love hey.. And it is the best toys for playing on the dirt tracks
So you are saying that I should try and keep the points for as long as possible.. Because my plan is to stack them alot. But it is tempting to use them
Yes I think people are really busy and also I don't think everyone has the mobile application. I think the app makes it alot easier for me.. It's also giving me exposure on the leaderboard now =)
I live in the Freestate. A little province located right in the middle of South Africa. In the town called Bloemfontein.
I live pretty much dead in the center of South Africa
Although I do love my country I would not mind getting an opportunity to work overseas
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Howdy today technicalside! Well, as far as the points, it is good to spend some while you are stacking them, I think esteem encourages that. I think they will be worth something in the future so your plan to stack them up now is a good one.
I have heard of the many troubles in South Africa, politically and economically and the rampant corruption draining the country..it is all very sad and hopefully honest and honorable people will be elected in the future who can straighten things out.
I know that many people who can leave have done so or are planning to. I don't blame them!
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Thank you kindly!
Blessings!
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Thank you kindly!
Blessings!😊
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