Dreams Take Flight

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Dreams Take Flight

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Sorry I haven't been posting much lately. A bit busy with everyday life, trying to put a travel post together and not quite succeeding, but also .. lost in my thoughts .. taking walks along the beach [weather permitting] and wondering what dreams I might put into action. Dreams of flight.

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Do you have flying dreams? I can only recall dreaming this once although somehow I managed to restrict myself to flying up and down a narrow corridor trying to find some mysterious object behind the multitude of doors lining it's path! [where's Dr Freud when you need him?] I do have dreams of flying but they are based on flying in those big silver birds in the sky.

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Not this sort of bird

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In my dream I'm calmly packing for a trip when I realise my flight is that day. Big rush to the airport.. check in.. and just as I am about to board the plane, they ask for my passport. Uh-oh!! Where is the passport. I've left it at home... [don't ask me how I got past check-in.. it's a dream] I explain this to the nice man and he assures me 'He will hold the plane till I run home and get it. After all I do live close by! '. I think that is pretty darn considerate .. don't you? .. I dread this will really happen one day. Did I mention it is a reoccurring dream?

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So back to my preoccupation with flight, I think of it often walking along the beach, watching the kite surfers attempt to take flight and free themselves of gravity. Strangely the seagulls seem to mimic their actions and group at the same end of the beach taking turns to dip, turn, swoop and glide upon the breezes. Then with a quick about turn, they dart off to a distant location as if to mock us poor earth bound humans. Even the kite surfers seem a little envious.

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My father was a pilot in WWII and one of my brother's also has a pilot's license, so there must be some genetically embedded desire to soar through the clouds. But for me, the closest I have come to piloting my own craft is the swing in the local park. Remember how wonderful that felt as a child. The thrill of seeing the earth left behind, sky rushing towards you and then the sudden return to earth just as exhilarating, all the while wondering if your stomach might also take flight.

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I think I need to revisit some of these childhood wonders

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Ok.. back to preparing the travel post.

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IMAGE SOURCE: ALL Photography, text and photo editing by me - [Being Ruby]

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Freedom: Living At The Beach

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.. It's The Weekend ..

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Not to make you jealous or anything

But right now everyday is the weekend for me.

I'm taking an extended break from the day job, which leaves me extra time to do things like ...

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take afternoon strolls along the beach

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and snap a few photos

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of this

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and this

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.. So..

I won't make you jealous and tell you how good it feels to be FREE!!

I did though work hard to bring you these images!!

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Have a great weekend !!!

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Another Ruby Time Production:

Produced in association with Mr Fast Dwindling Savings Account and Lazy Buggers Anonymous.

ALL Photography and photo editing by ME - [Being Ruby] - Being Lazy!!!

Dedicated to those of us who cannot bear to live apart from the sea

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FREEDOM - Wind In My Sails

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FREEDOM

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Serendipity found me today arriving at the bay just as a flotilla of sailboats passed by. I stopped to watch these beautiful creatures hopscotch the bay, cloths billowing as they inhaled the sweet afternoon breeze

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THIS was my FREEDOM today!

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Somehow these beauties lifted my spirits and gave me a sense of personal FREEDOM. Beauty often does that. It changes the perspective, it glimmers with hope and possibilities. It whispers to you quietly MAYBE !

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MAYBE is a good word!

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A liberating word! A word to consider. To Plan. To Dream. MAYBE isn't as scary as I CAN or I WILL. Being less definite it leaves room for permutations, escalations and renovations of ones DREAMS. It allows flexibility and choice!

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MAYBE

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Can spell FREEDOM

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I have a flotilla of these photos to share from today's excursion, but for today

My wish for each one of you this weekend, is to find your personal FREEDOM

or MAYBE just to DREAM a little

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IMAGE SOURCE: ALL Photography and photo editing by ME - [Being Ruby]

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Down By The Sea - Kids At Play

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... 'Kids At Play' ...

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Today was a pleasant day. Finally not too hot... not raining.. not humid... just pleasant. The only dampener on my spirits, was the feeling that the light has changed.. that perhaps the summer sun has shifted slightly.. or was that just the crispness in the air? That feeling that perhaps summer is slipping away.. I'm not ready!!

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Every year I do the same thing. I miss spring and the beginning of summer, working away in a locked office. Mid summer always seems too hot.. and then just when I feel ready to get out into that sunshine.. it would seem summer is slipping away. I wonder if this is just a last minute attempt to get my act together. haha.. maybe... either way I feel the change is coming and I am not ready. It spells short days, a return to work and the sunshine and bright skies will be but a memory. I may hatch a plan to get around this. I don't know what the plan is yet!

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Just thinking and dreaming

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In my usual last minute fashion I went down to the beach in the late afternoon to saviour the sunshine and take a few pics. My camera does not have a viewfinder.. only the LCD screen which is rendered useless in bright sunshine. This is a big mistake if you are considering purchasing a camera.. I was warned about this .. but did I listen? Of course NOT! Yet I am always surprised by the incredibly sharp images full sunlight provides. Surprised as invariably it's a bit of aim and shoot and hope that I capture something other than the camera strap. All that is visible in the glaring sun is my grubby fingerprints on the LCD.

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Well as luck would have it I did manage a few images I liked. One of them being these kids at play in the late of the day. That sums up summer to me.. the freedom of being at play! Sand under foot and just running around carefree! Or.. choosing the lazy path like the sunbather behind them!

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.. That's it for today ..

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Just my little token of summer

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IMAGE SOURCE: ALL Photography and photo editing by me - [Being Ruby]

Sorry Lizzie I sort of plagiarized your blog title on that image text!

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Hello Beach Birdie !!

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Update: this is Percival.. Bart is his cousin

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Hello Beach Birdie!!

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I was hoping to bring you another travel post.. but can't get all my ducks in a row.. So lined up the seagulls instead.

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On another note, thank you to Cecilia from Desde mi Ventana for giving me this award earlier in the year... I'm a little late... Cecilia's blog is always filled with beauty and diversity.. Pop over and say hello!

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That's all folks!!!

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See you all soon !!!

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IMAGE SOURCE: Photography and photo editing by me - [Being Ruby]

Message to Becky... what was I thinking?? hehehehe

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