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 1/12/2024 I share this capture.

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Images By: @simonjay

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I went to sleep at the ideal time last night, this happened because I was just not feeling good at all, I was extremely tired and had a terrible headache due to not drinking enough water. I was relieved that our unexpected cat guest was already indoors and I didn't have to worry about him being out in the cold. However it is likely he does have a home, still being late he might get accidentally locked out. Falling asleep wasn't a problem, which didn't surprised me considering how exhausted I was feeling, a long with this terrible headache. If not the cold would of perhaps bothered me more, but luckily the heating was on at the time. The weather this morning was the usual dark and cloudy type theme with some rain but saying that the past days were sunny. However it was strange because the forecast kept saying it was raining heavily outside yet I could barely tell it was even raining. The heating as been on more and so meaning I'm seeing money just burning itself away. I woke-up early 2 hours to my my scheduled alarm, I hope to stop doing this waking up 1 or 2 hours prior which as been happening on and off. But I think this happened this morning due to other reasons, people were being loud, the cold and I think I got thirsty. I have been resting a lot past the alarm lately, this is likely because of the cold, a seasonal issue I guess. This morning was a real struggle to get out of bed, this was a little surprising considering I got the hours I needed of rest, but I guess I was still catching up for all the other missed ones. It was too comfortable but mostly I didn't want to start because it was cold out of bed. With a late start I was glad I didn't have work to be in for today which means that this was a good opportunity to get on with some chores and other things. Well not fully true because I did have plans the meet with friends later, the plan is to likely go get food at a balti house but this was not yet confirmed. We had our unexpected cat guest stay in most of the day which doesn't surprise me due to the weather. I forgot to mentioned he seems fine now from he's inflamed arm, the swelling as gone down to almost nothing. Speaking of which I spent some time putting together a old dog house that I hope to place in the garden as shelter for him incase he does get stuck outside again in terrible weather. This is still not finished as the past week I have not had the time and thought it was already completed by someone else. However it's likely he won't be using it because he will stay indoors with us instead haha. Before leaving to meet with friends I skipped food, put my bag together, changed and then left home. It was confirmed that we would eat at a Balti house, luckily on the way there was no rain. The food was delicious but I started with the really hot stuff which I regretted slightly. But I'm learning how to replicate a combination that I really enjoyed. We spent a good amount of time there enjoying all the food before finally leaving. On the way back the weather was not as pleasant the wind picked-up and it started to rain more which it was not forecasted too but thankfully after a while the rain stopped. I wanted to try and get one of those small work-outs done but had no chance of that if I wanted to get any sleep. After I went for dinner, I didn't check-in with my father as it was already too late, and lastly I started to prepare to settle in for the night. Our TRX wallets on Steemit.com have been removed by the Steemit Developers a long with any funds. This was part of the condenser project to fix all the wrong display numbers from rewards. But I think removing the TRX wallet is downscaling the usefulness of the SteemitWallet and the Steem token as a whole. You can recover any funds by creating a new tron account with TronLink and then adding the Steem generated TRX account to that newly created account. Regardless I still think we should of kept the TRX wallet functional. If you agree on keeping the TRXwallet you can write to them here asking for it's return TRXWallet. 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, 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 a day after I had just finished work, I had already been home got changed and left again to meet with a friend at my closest green spot. There are some small hills in this area and this particular photo was captured near the top, there are some large bushes surrounding parts of the hills. It's near these bushes where I I spotted these flowers close to some grass.

Even with all the greenery in the area this beautiful flower caught my attention, sure it's not the main focus here because something else I also found interesting.

While that part of the image is no longer clear here because I wanted to focus on what I like to call the cone.
It's the same flower I fully shared on a previous post but this one is still completely closed, I think likely because it might be growing and not just in it's sleep phase. I said previously I might add some colour to the image so it can be seen better, but instead I took away the colour of the rest of the image keeping only the cone.

Still while not really captured in full here the actual flower is beautiful, it caught my attention especially because of it's purple like colour reaching out between the white, it's almost like it's been delicately painted, I will try to showcase this again on another post if I have anymore photos of it.

We can also notice that this is a hairy flower, not only is the stem looking hairy but so are it's leaves. Perhaps this is to protect it from certain insects and predators, it might also help us to try and identify it.

There was a moment when I thought these may have been the purple flowers from a previous post where I mentioned I couldn't find any open ones, but I don't believe these are related in any way.

Well I think it's obvious I don't know what these are called. But with this comes a opportunity for you, if you know anything about flowers, if you recognise it and know this flowers name, let me know in the comments section below and possibly win 🏆 a upvote from me.

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Other Captures

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Flower Photography Green Bug Close-up On Feestroos Rosa

Flower Photography, Wall Roses

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