Swim With The Current or.....

November Beach Sunset in Florida

In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, stand like a rock.

~Thomas Jefferson~

HAPPY SUNDAY To You!

Susanne

HAPPY SUNDAY - #6 - 2012

Wishing you all a great weekend, my friends. I'm recovering slowly from a terrible cold and I have also my hubby finally back at home again, after he was very sick and has been hospitalized for over a week. But it looks like everything is going right now in a good and better direction,for him and for me too.

Have a wonderful Sunday

Schoenen Sonntag allerseits

Buona Domenica per tutti

Je te souhaite une merveilleux Dimanche

Szep vasarnapot kivanom!

See you next Sunday again - enjoy your life!

~Susanne

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I think this is a cosmos

I look out of this window and I think this is a cosmos, this is a huge creation, this is one small corner of it. The trees and birds and everything else and I'm part of it. I didn't ask to be put here, I've been lucky in finding myself here. 

Morris West 

Hi my friends,

I know, it's not Sunday now - I just want to say a quick "hello" to you all.

 I'm wishing you a very nice weekend, relax and enjoy life!

Susanne

Bring Color to your Life!

btw, my NEW CALENDARS 2012 are ready to buy now!

Together....

A dream you dream alone is only a dream. 

A dream you dream together is reality. 

John Lennon 

Hi my friends,

Thank you all for stopping by and for the comments on my blog. How do you like this quote from John Lennon?

Wishing you a wonderful day.

Let the sunshine in and live your dream!

~Susanne

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my portfolio for my European fans:

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All for One - One for All

Let's make it all for one and all for love. 

Let the one you hold be the one you want, 

The one you need, 

'Cause when it's all for one it's one for all. 

When there's someone that should know 

Then just let your feelings show 

And make it all for one and all for love.

Read the full lyrics by Bryan Adams here

Hi my friends,

thanks for all the nice comments to my last post, gladly appreciated!

Wishing you a great Wednesday - time is flying to fast, for me and I have still a lot to do, my agenda is full today :))

~Susanne

http://tinyurl.com/yatdh5x    My photography on FAA
http://tinyurl.com/2wf9qsh   My photography (Calendars 2011are on RedBubble
http://tinyurl.com/37ckddf    David's paintings+My photos are on ImageKind
http://tinyurl.com/37jkbtz    Dave's fine art paintings are now on FAA
http://tinyurl.com/2bsfvk9   Meine Europaeischen Fans+Freunde kaufen meine Fotos hier auf myGall. Versand in ganz Europa!

My Wordless Sunday - #17

Have a wonderful Sunday - Schoenen Sonntag allerseits - Buona Domenica per tutti - Je te souhaite une merveilleux Dimanche - Szep vasarnapot kivanom!

http://tinyurl.com/yatdh5x >>>  My photography on FAA
http://tinyurl.com/2wf9qsh >>> My photography (and Calendars 2011) are on RedBubble
http://tinyurl.com/37ckddf >>> David's paintings + My photography are on ImageKind
http://tinyurl.com/37jkbtz >>>  Dave's fine art paintings are now on FAA
http://tinyurl.com/2bsfvk9 >>> Meine Europaeischen Fans+Freunde kaufen meine Fotos hier auf myGall. Versand in ganz Europa!

My Wordless Sunday - #12

 

http://tinyurl.com/yatdh5x      My photography on FAA
http://tinyurl.com/2wf9qsh     My photography and Calendars 2011 on RedBubble
http://tinyurl.com/37ckddf     David's paintings + My photography on ImageKind
http://tinyurl.com/37jkbtz      Dave's paintings on FAA
http://tinyurl.com/2bsfvk9     Meine Europaeischen Fans kaufen meine Fotos hier auf myGall

Cats to be spirits come to earth...

I believe cats to be spirits come to earth.  

A cat, I am sure, could walk on a cloud without coming through.  

~Jules Verne~

 

 

 

Hi my friends,

I'm a BIG cat lover. This little furry fellow I have photographed out in Jetty Park's wilderness. He was a real wild cat - hungry and fully concentrated and just ready for something good to catch.... don't disturb me!

 

I could not get his attention at all, his future food was more important for him than giving me that irresistible sweet cat look in to my camera.

Thanks for all the comments to my last post!

Have a wonderful day, y'all!

See you soon...

Susanne

http://tinyurl.com/37jkbtz        Dave's paintings on FAA
http://tinyurl.com/yatdh5x       My photography on FAA
http://tinyurl.com/2wf9qsh      My photography and Calendars 2011 on RedBubble
http://tinyurl.com/37ckddf       David's paintings + My photography on ImageKind
http://tinyurl.com/2bsfvk9       Meine Europaeischen Fans kaufen meine Fotos hier auf myGall

It's spring fever....

It's spring fever. That is what the name of it is.  

And when you've got it, you want - oh, you don't quite know what it is you do want, 

but it just fairly makes your heart ache, you want it so!  

~Mark Twain~

 

 

 

 

Hi my friends,

 

Today is the first day in March - spring is getting ready for you!

 

I hope it's getting warmer up North a little bit - we arrived in the month of spring, he will be here soon. Let's celebrate! The dark days are over, the days of sun shine are getting longer with every day  -  and they will brighten up your soul!

Thank you all so much for the kind comments and compliments to my post yesterday, I do appreciate every single one.

 

Have a wonderful first day of March!

Susanne

http://tinyurl.com/37jkbtz        Dave's paintings on FAA
http://tinyurl.com/yatdh5x       My photography on FAA
http://tinyurl.com/2wf9qsh      My photography and Calendars 2011 on RedBubble
http://tinyurl.com/37ckddf      David's paintings + My photography on ImageKind
http://tinyurl.com/2bsfvk9      Meine Europaeischen Fans kaufen meine Fotos hier auf myGall

The rising sun can dispel the darkness...

The rising sun can dispel the darkness of night, but it cannot banish the blackness of malice, hatred, bigotry, and selfishness from the hearts of humanity.
David O. McKay

 

 

Hi my friends,

Thank you ALL so much for the wonderful comments to my last "fish" post. 

I appreciate also all the new faces visiting my blog and a special thank to Linda Ellerbee who is the creator of that quote I've used yesterday. Thank you Linda for your encouraging words to my post! It's a great honor for me to get a comment from the author herself.

I wish you all a sunny day!

~Susanne

http://tinyurl.com/37jkbtz        Dave's paintings on FAA
http://tinyurl.com/yatdh5x       My photography on FAA
http://tinyurl.com/2wf9qsh      My photography and Calendars 2011 on RedBubble
http://tinyurl.com/37ckddf      David's paintings + My photography on ImageKind
http://tinyurl.com/2bsfvk9       Meine Europaeischen Fans kaufen meine Fotos hier auf myGall

My Wordless Sunday - #45

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Living at risk...

Living at risk is jumping off the cliff and building your wings on the way down.
Ray Bradbury

Hi my friends,

Thank you very much for all your kind visits on my blog yesterday!

I hope you like my seagull photo. I used a post processing technique to give a simple photo a more exclusive look. The birds were captured in Sebastian, FL.

Have a wonderful Friday! Weekend is here...

~Susanne

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It's Christmas time!

Give a nice gift to someone you care: Buy my art and the NEW Calendars 2011 here:

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@ http://tinyurl.com/2bsfvk9 (mygall Germany Kalenders 2011+FineArt)

@ http://tinyurl.com/37ckddf (ImageKind FineArt)





There is only one day left...

There is only one day left, always starting over: it is given to us at dawn and taken away from us at dusk.
Jean-Paul Sartre

 

 

Hi my friends,

thank you for all the comments to my guest bloggers posting. They are very much appreciated.

I wish you a wonderful weekend ahead!

~Susanne

My Photography is available to purchase here - they make a nice gift for Christmas!

CALENDARS 2011 by Susanne Van Hulst - buy them here.

The Lighthouse on Cape Canaveral

The current Cape Canaveral Light is not the first lighthouse on Cape Canaveral. 

A 60-foot (18 m) tall brick structure was built on the Cape in 1848. The light consisted of 15 lamps each with a 21-inch (530 mm) reflector. The first lighthouse keeper left the lighthouse during a Seminole War scare, and refused to return to his post. Sailors heavily criticized the lighthouse, with complaints that the light was too weak and too low to be seen before ships were on the reefs near the Cape. the government contracted for construction of a new lighthouse in 1860, but the start of the American Civil War stopped work. The lamps and mechanism for the light were removed from the lighthouse and buried in the lighthouse keeper's orange grove to protect them from Federal raids.

At the end of the war construction resumed on the lighthouse. It was completed in 1868, receiving a first-order Fresnel lens. Erosion of the shoreline threatened the lighthouse, and the United States Congress appropriated funds to move the lighthouse inland. The old (1848) was blown up and the rubble used to prepare a foundation of the lighthouse. The cast-iron tower was disassembled, moved and reassembled at the new location. The move took 18 months, and the lighthouse was re-lit at its new location in 1894.

The Lighthouse today

When rockets began launching from the Cape in the early 1950s, all residents except the lighthouse keeper were relocated to other areas. In 1954, the need for a keeper to live nearby was eliminated by automating the light. Soon after, the keeper's homes were demolished. After it was discovered that strong vibrations that accompany launches were damaging the first-order Fresnel lens, it was removed in 1993 and placed on display in a museum at the Ponce de Leon Inlet Light. Since toxic lead paint was used to paint the lighthouse, in 1995, a restoration project began to sand blast the harmful paint off.

Ownership of the lighthouse was transferred to the United States Air Force in 2000 (the lighthouse is located inside the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station). 

It is the only fully operational lighthouse owned by the United States Air Force.

In 2003, the oil house was restored to its original (1890s) state (strong winds had damaged the roof in the 1970s and a window was added in the early 1900s). In 2006, another project restored the lantern room and the structure was repainted using modern materials. Ground sample tests, however, still show a very high level of lead in the soil around the tower. As a result, visitors are not allowed within fifty yards of the base until it is cleaned up.

 

The Cape Canaveral Lighthouse Foundation and volunteers are instrumental in restoration projects and in interpreting the lighthouse history. The Foundation has a website at http://www.CanaveralLight.org

 

 

 

 

Hi my friends,

I hope you find this interesting. The picture above of the lighthouse I made some days ago, the text is from Wikipedia. If interested to read more go to their site.

Thanks also for all your wonderful comments and compliments to my last post.

Next Thursday is "Photo-swap-Thursday" again, keep it in mind :))

Have a wonderful Tuesday!

~Susanne

A little bit of self promotion now:

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Looking trough the gates of Heaven

Sunsets are so beautiful that they almost seem as if we were looking through the gates of Heaven.
John Lubbock

 

 

Loneliness adds beauty to life. It puts a special burn on sunsets and makes night air smell better.
Henry Rollins

 

 

Hi my friends,

Two days ago we had such a wonderful sunset at the river - and happily I had my camera with me to get these two shots above - I hope you'll enjoy. Sunsets are always magical to me.

 

And yesterday, there was such a wonderful, almost double rainbow against the BLACK sky to the ocean

and you won't believe it,  I had NO camera with me!! :(

Thank you for the kind comment(s) from yesterdays "My Wordless Sunday" post!

Happy Monday everyone!

~Susanne

All my CALENDARS 2011 are available to buy here:  

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Christmas Gifts you can order any times over these links:

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My Fans in Europe buy my Photography here:

@ http://tinyurl.com/2bsfvk9

My Wordless Sunday - #42

Just living is not enough...

Just living is not enough. One must have sunshine, freedom, and a little flower.
Hans Christian Andersen

 

 

Hi my friends,

thanks again for all the comments and compliments.

You made my day for sure!

Have a wonderful weekend.

~Susanne

CALENDARS 2011 you can buy it here!

What is fear?

Fear is that little darkroom where negatives are developed.

                                                                                   - Michael Pritchard

Hi my friends, 

Thank you again for all the nice and friendly comments to my last post. I had no time to post anything recently, there was a lot to do....it's called "daily life", that's what we like to forget, when we are sitting in front of this computer for hours, the whole day long, I guess :))

I have a surprise for you in the next week - I'll let you know about after weekend. 

So, be patience and stay tuned with me!

Have a wonderful weekend too :))

~Susanne

YES, it's time to buy a new Calendar 2011 from me :))

Words have no wings...

 

 Words have no wings but they can fly many thousands of miles.

~Korean Proverb~

Thank you for all the nice comments yesterday, I'm happy you liked my post!

I'm running in and out today, that's why it's a short post now.

~Susanne

CALENDARS 2011 are available to buy here!

My Wordless Sunday #40