If there is magic on this planet, it is contained in water. –Loren Eiseley
Keep your feet on the deck, your hands on the tiller, your eyes on the horizon, and your beer in the fridge. –B.E. Marshall
Water is the driving force of all nature –Leonardo da Vinci
The sky broke like an egg into full sunset and the water caught fire. –Pamela Hansford Johnson
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Badfish & Chips Cafe 
All fabulous images but I like the video addition Badfish. Next thing you know there will be maps!
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I know…and next thing you know, somebody’s going to comp me a free beer or a coaster ride!!! Call me Sue2.
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Badfish I should likely save this comment and in a couple of years when you are freelancing around the world I will remind you of this. 🙂
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!!! I’m not going to be too upset when you remind me…. If there really is a god!
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Oh my Lord! That last picture is breathtaking! Wow!
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hey lady, thanks! you can’t mess with mother nature!
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Drollery loved the first one best. Are these pix going to be included in your “book?” (Hint, hint, hint! 😉 )
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Cool…I like that first one, too. But then, I like the third one, also. If there is a book…I’m hoping!!
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Seriously, Fish??? That would be so cool! Can we pre-order it??? 😀 (Happy dancing!)
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Right…$29.95 up front, please.
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Where shall I send the check??? (Btw, I think I’ve missed your posts about Prague. Gotta go check.)
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Right, the cash. Right. We’ll have to dream something up.
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Those penguins bring back such good memories of my recent trip to Prague – I fell in love with them while we sat on the terrace at the bar just by them, sipping away on our cold ciders 🙂
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the penguins bothered me for some reason…so out of place, but the beer by the river…that’s another story
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Cannt agree more, i used to live in Prague for a year. Beer by the river is one of my greatest memory(ies) 🙂
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Wow…a year in Prague. I would love that. Did you work there, or what?
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All three photos gorgeous, but the one with trees is my favourite, and the Pamela Hansford Johnson quote is brilliant!
Alison
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Alison, thanks. I like these too. And for some reason, really like the mono-ness of the tree shot. And yeah, the quote is very cool.
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When i saw the first photo I though wow, but the one with the trees totally bowled me over 🙂
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Yeah, but you’re so easily pleased sometimes, you know!
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The first photo and the last photo–the water is gorgeous.
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mother nature at her finest, eh!
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Since we all seem to be voting on best pics, I’ll say that #4 was the obvious winner – the blonde cheerleader with blue eyes, a button nose and straight white teeth. But #3 was the shy gal that on closer inspection was the true beauty. Now, why I chose this analogy with high school girls is beyond me! But it just jumped into my head as I looked at these a few times; perhaps I am reliving my teenaged social anxiety this morning.
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Lex….yes, I know what you mean. I feel the same about that shot, love it. It’s like her beauty is hiding behind those over-sized horn-rimmed glasses she wears!!
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These are all great photographs, but the color in the last one was amazing. 🙂
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thanks, Bun…water and light…gotta love the stuff!
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I love the reflection in the third photo, yellow and blue marry well.
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thanks so much, glad you enjoyed, and are hanging out here!!
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That last image is magical. Perfection with the quote!
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Yeah…I loved the quote to match so marvelously, eh?
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Great choices all of them – cannot have a favourite…except for that quote from PHJ
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Leya…gotta admit…love those words!!
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Wow, the tree photo is fabulous and the golden light in the last one is magical. Keep on looking, Badfish.
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Thanks, you know I love that photo too, it’s so calm, it doesn’t scream at you.
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These are spectacular photos!
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Thanks…glad you like them.
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Breath taking photos. I love all three. They should be in a famous gallery, or in a Big Bucks contest at least!
They could each easily be the centerpiece for an entire room in a mansion somewhere.
Oh, uncurl your toes. I’m just trying to say the are really some of the most beautiful photos I’ve ever seen.
Makes me want to make beaded jewelry using these colors! WOW. Seriously!
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You know, I have to agree. Someone should put them in a famous gallery some place!! Or in Starbucks in Hawaii. We could frame them with your beaded frames!!
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OK, I’m ON IT!!!
How big?
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how big…what?
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How big should I make the FRAMES for your famous Starbucks Galleria photos?
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Square…I think would be cool, I don’t know how big, everything is relative you know. I would love to see my photos in some gallery, or Starbucks. Some of the stuff you see in SB is just crap, even in Bali it’s gunk.
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Oh Badfish, these are all lovely but my favourite has to be the last one. Such beautiful colour on the water.
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Maybe…third one’s the charm!
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Great photos and I’m with you those penguins seem out of place. Could it be because they are yellow?
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I know…who thought yellow plastic penguins was a good idea, let alone call it art?
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So weird how this happens…what an image you shared, those dang penguins, and now I have seen them in 3 other places, including in some movie!
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synchronicity abounds when you’re open to anything
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Love all the images. I especially like the sky broke like an egg quote.
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I wish I’d have written that line…like an egg!!
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I love the colors of the first photo and the tranquility of the third one! The first photo literally made me give out a sigh of bliss upon seeing it… those colors, the strips of tgem…thanks for starting my day well 🙂
I am a triple fire sign, so water is hugely important to me… I love living near a body of water, being in it, on it and having it as a calming cooling visual. Therefore the quote by Eisely and Da Vinci, really speak to me!
Peta
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Who doesn’t love to look out at an ocean of green and blue, eh. And I also like the tranquil mood of the trees on the river shot. The blue Danubed turned gray!! Triple fire!! I think I’m all air…and can’t get my feet on the ground at all sometimes. Still meaning to reply about Hoi An apartment!!
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Hi bf!
62 days til is our next trip – hmmm
I like your different variety of water (teal layers and then penguins 🐧 watching out)
and unique quotes – not all deep and verbose – but light and fun-
Sky broke open like an egg- Ice
And keeping beer in fridge – oh such wisdom!
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Hey…someone just looked way back into one of my long-ago posts, and in the comment section, she noticed the book cover your made!!!
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That’s cool / but I barely remember – ha!
✌️️
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I know, I didn’t remember, but when I went back and looked, I then did! So cool…
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Thanks – and now I remember very well! And just FYI – I do not just make digital art for just anybody! Only special blog friends – consider yourself on the list! Ha – kidding!
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Well OK…I am honored!! And I have a cover…
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woo hoo – and I am not sure why that is not on a “age” somewhere – seemed to have lost my badfish 3 and avocado too – !
by the way – just bought the cutest avocado dish server – shaped like an avocado and holds three mashed up ones.
with a ceramic spoon too.
and was bummed that avocados are now 1.50 each – but then I thought about how much you have to fork over for them and realized it could be worse….
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mashed up for guacamole? I eat avos 3 or 4 times a week. and they are twice as expensive here!!
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…Beautiful…
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Thanks Keli471…471? what’s that about?
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Cause I’m crazy like that…no when I signed up for WordPress so long ago that’s what they gave me…not sure why and I never changed it, a lot of my passwords are still “password” HA!
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Haha! You know, you do get to choose your own name, right? They just offer you choices of “available” names, probably there were already 470 kelis before you. Or it was just random, especially if your real name is Sam. I think you can change it??? and…really…password?? HA!
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I don’t know mr badfish…I’m just not cool like you! Ha! But, now I am on a mission to come up with a new one!! Super freak was my theme song in college, but somehow that doesn’t seem appropriate for internet usage😉
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superfreak is appropriate for internet…but is it still appropriate for you? keli 471 does have a certain ring to it, though. Or perhaps you could change it to “password”
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Love this! Your post inspires me to a new post – I hope you don’t mind…
My fave quote is especially “Water is the driving force of all nature –Leonardo da Vinci” and the images are truly amazing!!
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Well, I do not believe I have been anyone’s inspriation before, so I’d be honored if you posted!! Can’t wait to see what you come up with.
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Soon!!
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I’m waiting…tic, toc
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You can always get me with water. That last shot is especially gorgeous. And I live by that B.E.Marshall quote ⛵️
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Lisa…thanks. I’m a fan of water myself…but you live on it!! And everyone should keep their beer in the fridge, eh!!
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…only ’til it is cold enough to drink. Arghhh ☠🍻
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that’s what they say…too much of a good thing (in the fridge is bad)
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In Taoism they say that water is strongest. Here’s another water quote for you:
“Water is fluid, soft, and yielding. But water will wear away rock, which is rigid and cannot yield. As a rule, whatever is fluid, soft, and yielding will overcome whatever is rigid and hard. This is another paradox: what is soft is strong.”
― Lao Tzu
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well, you just can’t discount Lao Tzu can you? thanks for that quote, I’m saving it for a later date!!!
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I love everything about this! Your style, the way you tell your story! Thanks for sharing I can’t wait to read more
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LadyR…well, thank you so much, I’m so glad you like it! And welcome to the party here!! Your blog is interesting, too…all you writers together…interesting!
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Awwwww… You’re most welcome! So happy that you like our articles!!
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