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Published: 2004-03-10 16:42:37 +0000 UTC; Views: 135; Favourites: 0; Downloads: 14
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I love taking pictures when it's foggy outside...This is taken from about the same spot as my sunrise picture, right outside my "house."
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My folks are the reason I come back to that place...I said the same damn thing...I'm never coming back to this shithole.
And yeah, pictures are visual poetry. It's the old clichΓ©, a picture is worth a thousand words...it's true. Pictures just...say things sometimes that you have no words for. It's like, standing next to the one you love, looking at something so beautiful, but neither of you say a word because, there's nothing to say.
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I'd only come back for my Dad. I could care less about my mom....
There are just some things you can't put into words... You'd have to come up with a new word to explain it and it still wouldn't fit.. then you'd just be stuck with something that no one understood. And to top it off... everyone sees everything differently, has different connections on different levels with it.
Sort of like what I saw yesterday morning. They've started cutting down more trees and clearing more space... And I almost started crying when I saw it. I couldn't even look at it today...
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It's almost the other way around for me...My mom is wonderful...but my dad is...lacking, to say the least..but...he tries, I guess. I'm sorry you have trouble with your mom. Some people just should not have kids with the way they act.
You are exactly right. And most times, even if you don't come up with a new word, people don't understand you anyway. "Beautiful" is definitely relative. I've never understood how anyone could look at a forest and see freeway potential.
Some of my friends call me a tree-hugger. I may be a hippie in some respects, but not really a tree-hugger. I'm a Wiccan...I live for nature and I always try to give back to it. On my drive down here from Oregon, I cried halfway through California, looking at the...man-made desolation...landfills and clear-cuts...all I could think was...someday your grandchildren will live on top of that crap and play with dirty needles, because you were too lazy to recycle.
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It's almost the other way around for me...My mom is wonderful...but my dad is...lacking, to say the least..but...he tries, I guess. I'm sorry you have trouble with your mom. Some people just should not have kids with the way they act.
You are exactly right. And most times, even if you don't come up with a new word, people don't understand you anyway. "Beautiful" is definitely relative. I've never understood how anyone could look at a forest and see freeway potential.
Some of my friends call me a tree-hugger. I may be a hippie in some respects, but not really a tree-hugger. I'm a Wiccan...I live for nature and I always try to give back to it. On my drive down here from Oregon, I cried halfway through California, looking at the...man-made desolation...landfills and clear-cuts...all I could think was...someday your grandchildren will live on top of that crap and play with dirty needles, because you were too lazy to recycle.
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My Dad's awsome. He's very understanding of everything, it seems. My mom, on the other hand... She only tries because she knows she f*ed up on her other two children and knows I'm her last hope... But you can't fix what you've already broken and lost years ago.... She supposedly was a decent person once upon a time, though, until she started taking anti-depressant drugs... Then she just got messed up in the head. *shrugs* Oh well. I'll never have to talk to her again once I move out.
Most people seem to just look at trees and see them as being in the way. It makes me so mad... They're intending to cut down all the lovely trees acrosst the highway from my school and build a bunch of churches and new homes. I just hurts to see them all being cut down.
*smiles* I was starting to think that... I'm also Wiccan but even before I even called myself that, I had strong ties with everything natural. The trees.. the forest.. everything that humans haven't ruined yet. It makes me sad to see all the things humans have done to ruin nature...
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Yeah...I spent 20 years in Oregon. Do you know what the state motto is? "Oregon will never grow out of trees."
Isn't that just awful? All you see up there are mills and logging trucks...and every time one goes by, I just think...kill a few more you murderers.
When I was younger, I would rather play in our garden than hang out with my friends. Nature was my friend. I'm never lost in the woods...and I don't panic in the dark like some scary movie thing is going to reach out and grab me. There's just something about walking over fallen pine needles...or feeling the soft cool dirt between your toes...watching red-orange leaves flutter to the ground in the Fall. I've always been very drawn to the earth and the moon.
Unfortunately, I think by the time we "humans" pull our heads from our asses, it'll be too late. I look around and there isn't much that is still pristine and beautiful. It makes me very sad.
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Well, it seems everyone tends to think that the trees can just grow back once you cut them all down. But all those you're cutting down are hundreds of years old... Those don't just sprout back overnight. And besides, the younger trees make more oxygen, they say! And it's better for the trees and animals to thin the forests out! We're not here to use and abuse what's around us.. we're here to live with it, I think. It's a shame so few others see that...
I hate logging trucks... Yes, they're only doing their job, but still... Trees are worth more than lumber, just like animals are worth more than pelts and meat...
Only when I'm inside do I ever really panic any amount in the dark. I have an overactive imagination.... Although I don't get to do it all that often, I love to just stand in and walk through the woods... There's just an energy there that I'm attracted to. Over the summer, I went out at one or two in the morning and just laid out in the grass in the garden and stared up at the stars. It was great.
I think it's already almost too late and we're nowhere near realizing that we're screwing ourselves and future generations over. If there is such a thing as evil... it would be the human race for destroying everything. Yes, there are some good people, but still.
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Oh yeah...better for the trees and animals...what I wanna know is this:
What the hell did the trees and animals ever do before all of us "brilliant" humans came along to "help" them?!
It reminds me of a line by Agent Smith from Matrix...about how humans are a smelly, infectuous disease....I'd hate to include myself in that stereotype, but to some extent, it's true.
The way I see it, the reason we're looking at Mars right now is because we (scientists) already know that this planet is doomed and they want to colonize and start over. Something tells me they'd just ruin Mars too...and the Moon if they start there. I'll bet us humans could go through the universe until it's nothing but a big black hole.
Okay, that's a little extreme, but it's really how I feel.
I love the woods at night...especially when there's a full moon and you can see everything in the moonlight. When I lived at home, I practiced most of my candle magick outside in our garden...it was beautiful and tranquil and there were no sounds because my folks live out in a very rural area.
Our whole race is self-destructive. I'll have a nice helping of global warming, with a side of nuculear war and some starving children for dessert, please.
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I know... How did all these animals and forest survive without the helping hand of man?? It's a complete mystery to me...........
I've always thought that quote from Agent Smith from the Matrix was quite fitting. I don't humans will stop until there's no way to turn back the damage they've caused.
Another reason I think we're looking at Mars is because of population: we've passed the carrying capacity of Earth, so we need to spread out into the rest of the universe! Then we'll begin to wonder how everything hasn't managed to fall apart without our help again...
I live in a trailor park, so I have absolutely no privacy, though I did try some candle magick out on the porch once. Once wax went all over the place and was a horror to clean up off the bare wood, I don't think I'll be doing it again. 
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At the moment, I have no privacy either. I live in a place owned by Mormons, so I try not to practice anything where they might see it, because I don't want to get thrown out on my ass.
I'm usually careful not to get wax all over the place...however I did manage to get it all over my comforter last night and I wasn't even working anything...I just picked it up...it's been a hell of a weekend.
It's more difficult to find places in the city to work things where there's enough privacy to concentrate. I've pretty much given up on it. I'm going to get an apartment with a balcony, and do it there when I can see the moon. It's too urban here.
It'll be good for you to get in a place where you can do your own thing...and hopefully doing that will help with the fact that the company is less than desireable.
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Sounds lovely. A lot of people around here are very serious about religion and it probably wouldn't be the most wonderful thing for people to realize they have a witch living amongst them. Of course, I still wear my pentacle. No one knows what it is. *smirks*
Ack! Wax is no fun to clean up... But I have this really nice all-purpose cleaner that can clean it up pretty good if you get it before it's hardened completely.
I do mostly everything inside, so when I move to the city, I really shouldn't have much of a problem. Well, other than the fact I might end up in an apartment with other people...
I'm hoping so. Maybe getting to go outside and do things will help alleviate all the pent-up stress I've collected over the years from having to deal with... certain people.
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Yup, I like it.
You've captured such a beautiful, peaceful-looking scene. I never seem to have my camera around when opportunities like this come around.
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Ack! I've had more than one of those happen to me... I just try to take my camera with me as often as possible.. and with an empty memory card and fresh batteries. Of course, I've still seen some of the best pictures pass me by. Grr. Frustrating!
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Lol, my baterries are ALWAYS dead.
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hehe Use rechargeables! They're the best. ^^ And it only takes about forty minutes to an hour to recharge them into practically brand-new ones! Bwahahaha...
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I have rechargables, but they take about 4 hours to charge. It's enough to make me want to pull out my own hair!
You'd think they'd last a little longer since they take so long to charge.
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Eek! Yeah, you would think that.. Maybe just get a large cache of batteries so you always have a few to fall back on..?
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That'd be great, if only batteries were free.
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Yes, if only... 
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Well, then I'd be out of cows. So it makes no difference, really.
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Eh. True. You'd probably always end up being out of whatever you needed...
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