Merry Christmas to all!!! Thankyou for the EXPLORE!! :)))))))))))))

This image gets the most views on my stream - I would love to know why!!!!!!????? any suggestions as I can't understand it myself!



Highest position: 158 on Friday, May 29, 2015
Highest position: 156 on Saturday, August 8, 2015

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WOW - Looks like the end of Flickr, killing off our pictures in 2019 - just sorting them out and doing some damage limitiation!

Nikon D800 105mm VR micro nikkor f/3 1/3205

Thankyou everyone so much for the faves and comments - so pleased!! Dave :) .............................................................................................

Life asked death, "Why do people love me but hate you?"
Death replied: "Because you are a beautiful lie and I am a painful truth"
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Highest position: 12 on Thursday, May 15, 2014

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Highest position: 6 on Wednesday, May 21, 2014

“For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson...........................................................................“It was only a sunny smile, and little it cost in the giving, but like morning light it scattered the night and made the day worth living.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald “HAPPINESS [is] ONLY REAL WHEN SHARED”
― Jon Krakauer, Into the Wild “When the first baby laughed for the first time, its laugh broke into a thousand pieces, and they all went skipping about, and that was the beginning of fairies.”
― J.M. Barrie, Peter Pan “It was only a sunny smile, and little it cost in the giving, but like morning light it scattered the night and made the day worth living.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald.........................................................................I hope you are happy today :)

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Just messin, Nikon D800 50 f1.4g Bella and the daisy's in bokeh - so nice! She ran around the garden like a nutter
wearing this - not seeing anything!! :)

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“If it takes a lot of words to say what you have in mind, give it more thought.”
― Dennis Roch ____________________________________________________

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"Chester" training his "person" in the art of running with the hounds....
He feels the need for speed...
....and Jemima is trying her best to keep up! :)

“Dogs got personality. Personality goes a long way.”
—Quentin Tarantino

“A dog can’t think that much about what he’s doing, he just does what feels right.”
―Barbara Kingsolver

Made with Nikon D800 70-200mm VRII at 200mm f2.8 1/2506 in the back garden!
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