Photography or a single image I feel often captures those treasured moments in ones life, there is nothing quite like looking back and reflecting good or bad. But I also find that just like the act of writing our collective pictures can also be a art-form. The beauty and meaning of a photo can be expressed and shared in many ways including not even using a single word but instead just seeing what it makes you feel.

While I do enjoy photography I used to share those "everyday" type images that captures just those typical day to day activities, the feedback was mostly positive and so I continued sharing these "Ulog type" photos on Steemit.

Almost every picture as a story to tell right? Or at least that is what I was often been told by some of my followers when I first started sharing photos on here, and I would have to agree with them.

Today 18/10/2024 I share this capture.

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Images By: @simonjay

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Like I expected it to on my return things got back to normal however what I didn't expect was my father to turn up here to visit me so soon. This caused a few issues to get posts out but in the end I don't think any days were missed but it was close. It's because when my father is down visiting he can require a lot of attention. To put out a post may of not always been possible, but at least I have caught up on sleep compared to when he was down visiting. It's a big improvement but I still feel tired and could do with a little more rest. Last night I went to sleep just past the usual late hour as I was reading a article on how possibly the online dating scene is causing economic trouble, larger wealth caps between people. Falling asleep was a bit of a problem because of a unexpected cat guest who had placed herself in a location in which I could not reach her. I hoped she would come down eventually but this was not the case so I had to go fetch a ladder so that she wouldn't be shut in my room for the entire night while I sleep. Strangely with a little less sleep thanks to the cat I actually woke-up earlier. The weather this morning a little strange as it was initially very foggy which surprised me, then a improvement from yesterday we had sunshine which I hope will warm the place-up, the sky is mostly clear but yesterday the very dark clouds returned only later in the day. I woke-up 1 hour before my alarm and just rested until it was time to get started for the day, well I went past that again. Late again that even the cat started knocking at the door, but I didn't have work to be in for today which means this was a good opportunity to get a few chores done. But like yesterday I want to try again for some more Steem as it's been a little while since I have been able to do this because of travelling and then being visited by my father. I also must prepare for the big birthday of my friend tomorrow, lots to do for that I just hope I don't have to do any more shopping. Well that didn't turn out great as I still had to go out to make sure I had everything to complete the gifts. Next I lost a lot of time putting all the gifts together and packing them all up, it all took much too long😠. As for Steem hunting I'm unfortunately dealing with the same crap I was from yesterday and before I went travelling which is the sellers not respecting your time or even you as a customer, so yes today was unsuccessful again. So what else could go wrong today, well I was shocked to see that without warning my TRX wallet on Steemit just disappeared a long with all the funds I had in there. I learnt later that the TRX distribution code has been removed from the wallet by the Steemit developers. This was part of the condenser project to fix all the wrong display numbers from I rewards which I'm glad was fixed but I think removing the TRX wallet from the SteemitWallet is a downscaling move for Steem as a whole. At the moment I'm not even sure how to excess the funds I had in my TRX wallet which is very frustrating. After panicking for a bit I'm going to assume that perhaps the only way to recover the funds is to make a new tron account with TronLink and then if possible adding adding the Steem generated TRX account to that account? Regardless this is not the post for such a discussion however if anybody out there knows how I can recover my funds it would be much appreciated. Hope you have a good day or night and I will see you on the next Steemit post.

Today's Picture

As for the picture today I share some flower photography, a quick disclaimer I understand that this type of photography on Steemit has a bit of a bad reputation. This is because it was often used by spammers to make like 8 posts each day.
Hopefully as you can see from my blog I'm nowhere near making 8 or more posts per day on the topic of flower imagery.

This was captured on the way to work, just before the first actual road crossing and around this time the weather was starting to get better. Photographed in the very early morning and so for the time it would still be icy. In this particular photo even going for a closer look you can see the stems better, but because it's black and white you can't probably fully see that they are in-fact still slightly iced over. With them still being frozen and waiting for the sun to hit them we can see that there are still many Ragworts sleeping.

What we can probably see better in this image if looking closely, this will be mostly to the left side of the image are the leaf's, these are actually still frozen at the very edge forming a white circle on them.

The taller Common Ragwort get unfrozen first for various reasons and of course some likely will barely ever feel the sun.
Due to the nature of the image there is a eerie feel to it like these flowers only grow in the dark lands or something, I guess since we are approaching Halloween it's another reason as to why I wanted to share this image.

As we can see they are in clusters with flattened flower heads, they are a food source for many insects however they are said to contains many different alkaloids and thus making them a poisonous flower to certain animals. Strangely it seems that for a flower so common there is still much about it that is not fully understood as in some cases it's been said they can be used for medicine and that some animals are not affected by eating them.

I still believe these are indeed the Common Ragwort flower, and while this is likely what they are the plant itself however does give me some doubts. If you happen to know for sure, let me know in the comments section below, or tell me instead what it is you think they might be.

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Other Captures

Flower Photography B&W Feestroos Rosa And Bugs Overseer

Flower Photography B&W Common Ragwort SleepersSide

Flower Photography B&W, Rose Monster

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