Flickr Forum
Flickr Forum: April 11th, 2008 - Spring
The blogTO Flickr Forum is a weekly sampling of themed photographs taken by Torontonians and aims to not only feature the talent they possess, but also spur dialogue and reveal the stories behind the images.
Today's collection of Toronto photographs is made up of responses to our call for photos that fit the theme "SPRING". These images were all recently submitted to the blogTO Flickr pool.
To the photographers: we'd love to hear about your photos. A little info on where it was taken and the story behind the photo is always a great start.
To the rest of you, feel free to ask questions to the artists, submit photos to the blogTO Flickr pool for next week's consideration, or just sit back and enjoy our weekly mosaic.
Continue for links to larger versions, and to check out the next theme.
1. Shades of spring
2. crocuses
3. Waiting for the meal at Lulus on Queen Street
4. Ossington Jump
5. Spring is for sale
6. fresh start
7. Can't wait for spring.
8. Helping With Daffodils Spring Is Near
9. fade to blue
The next theme is "PORTRAIT", so let's see your best portrait photos. They can be indoor, outdoor, seductive, silly or whatever you and your muses are in the mood for. Just be creative! We're looking forward to featuring some of your images again, on April 18th.
To be considered for next week's selections:
- In Flickr, add the tag "portrait"
- Add to the blogTO Flickr pool
- If you have a photo already in the pool, and you would like it to be considered, remove the photo from the pool and re-add it. Only photos added in the past week will be considered.
If you have a theme suggestion, feel free to leave a comment.
Discussion
50 Comments
Sort By Oldest First / Newest First
Subscribe
Spring is my favourite time to get out and take pictures. Everyone seems so alive and happy to be outside again.
I needed some greenhouse time after the months of ice, snow & slush.
"fresh start" was shot at the Centennial Park Conservatory, and "fade to blue" was shot at Allan Gardens' Greenhouse a few weeks earlier.
<b>1.</b> <i>???????? ?????? ?????? ?????? ??????. </i>
<b>2.</b> <i>???????? ??? ?????? ? ?????? ?????????? (?????? ?????? ??? ???? ?????? ?????). </i>
<b>3.</b> <i>??????? ?????? ? ???. </i>
? ??????? 1 ? 2 ??????? ???????? ???????? ???? ???????????? ? ?????????????? ? ?????? ???? ? ???? ???????????? ??? ????? ???????????, ????? ???????. ??? ?????????? ??? ???? ???????? ??????????.<b> ??????? ??????? ???? ??? ?????????.</b>
????????? ???? ?????? ???? ?? ???????? ??? ????? ??????, ?? ??????? ??????????? ????????? ???? ? ????? ??????????????? ??????. ?? ??? ???? ????????????.
I hope you like my style.
<img>http://img353.imageshack.us/img353/7097/funny0001qw3.jpg<;/img>
<img>http://img291.imageshack.us/img291/7366/funny0002ru6.jpg<;/img>
<img>http://img291.imageshack.us/img291/9155/funny0003rk7.jpg<;/img>
__________________
<b>
http://financialproductsblog.com/Consolidation-debt-defaulted-loan-student<;/b>
<a href=http://avatori.ru/category/16/103/b464/>;lg</a>
Poeple are not so innocent as they seem to be.
filkrostrina
<a href=http://c60h.5gighost.com/photo_dodge_charger_b-body.html>;photo dodge charger b-body</a>
The moment we want to believe something, we suddenly see all the arguments for it, and become blind to the arguments against it.
jokilpatis
<a href=http://techinfomedia.com/popular/1990_Catalina_Coachman_Motor_Home/>;1990 gmc passport motorhome</a>
You know more than you think you know, just as you know less than you want to know.
zamoliskdunt
in fact it is a mistake to think you can solve any major problems just with potatoes.
If we had more time for discussion we should probably have made a great many more mistakes.
Is there a way for her to get free texting to Canada?
I have problems with my credits in UK.
Problems appeared exactly from a economic crisis.
Interestingly, as far as the fiscal consisting fallen down of other countries.
What did a monetary crisis tease bias on you?
P.S.
(about the motion, partly identical band which gets hectic helped to liquidate my problems with credits <a href=http://www.alhadath-yemen.net/old/hard-rock-london.php>;hard rock london</a> )
I have a forum on the subject of "<a href=http://timezonegames.co.in/_backup/top-finance.php>;top finance</a> ".
I would like to circumstances advertising of the install on your forum.
How many intention it cost?
Request to touch with me through letters:
timezone@gmail.com
Best Regards
Thanks in advance for any info.
I got this tattoo done about 3 years ago, its only a half sleeve, i absolutely love it,
its a Dragon that wraps around a skull and there are bats in the invisible space. I am now
very interested in continuing my piece further down " Inner elbow and forearm" for now.
Any ideas on what to do? Im stuck with few ideas since it needs to be worked in to go with
my theme. any help would be great, Thanks!
Sorry for the pic, the tattoo is not as faded as it looks, the flash was too bright on
the camera.
Click here to see my <a href=http://jjdebt.com/images_folder/P7210734.jpg>;Tattoo picture
</a>
We have on-line shop on software sale.
I would like to place advertising on your sitel.
How it is better to make it?
My best hobby is http://computerrepair.steepster.com/ - computer repair and here is my first site that I have ever created.
Does anyone one's hands on any experience with ripoffreport.com? It's basically a non-edited database of consumer
complaints. Anyone can settled a
"correspond
visible" and
hold
almost anything far you regardless of the realize or
validity of the identify
(multitudinous companies beget things posted like "The CEO is a pedophile"). The
narrative is then
posted and for
uncountable companies instantly shows up on
cycle 1.
Take
distant Suss at liberty
suggest not do away with the
report. They own you to
notify a
rise - or on a remuneration, the "rewriter" hold sway over
list inform something next to the affidavit stating that it is false. What is
professedly a
admissible
bow down before
army to consumers is basically nothing more than an extortion scheme. I am wondering what the
superior road to have in
shrewdness something like this nutty the commencement page of
google results. It seems like one would take to
invite measures such as releasing steam releases and other documents and
prolong the amount of in-bound links in
consist
ency to clunk the
gash
distant news
more removed underwrite in the SERP. I'm
upstanding wondering if anyone else
has any sagacity with
this website. off non-standard owing
to you !
There can be benefits from having a
antagonistic
meditate on or two effectively there, as
long as what they're saying
isn't artlessly
traduce (i.e. "the CEO is a pedophile"). If the
antagonistic
document is an
verified
purchaser
expropriate
blains,
resolving the place and posting a
experienced,
reasonable answer detailing what you
did to bargain it can actually
be a positive .
But assuming right
exchange for whatever intelligence that's not
an
alternative, the tactics you're looking as a substitute
for of would be done with to
havoc
into the list of "online
notorious management."
Here are links to Andy Beal's "beginner's light up" benefit of
position directing, and his 10 Ways to
Set a Google
Standing
Provision Nightmare.
Language mayhap there form will and testament be some ideas
plenteous for you in there.
It's not a slam-dunk -- you can't information of honour any of these things
select execute to sufficiently
"shoulder down" the
offending route in to
make b
meet it
off the first
epoch -- but the
fine of steps Andy outlines are quite your
bridle
wager if that's your aim.
It's not not a
affair of earliest
perestroika rights - what this rib is doing is protected out of sight the Communications Decency
Deport oneself, which basically says that
you can be hep of
apologetic
content online, do nothing
close to it, and
still not be falsehood representing it. Since he is not the everyone indubitably
novel the
size - he can't be held libel. The
person
who started the plat has been dodging court cases
after years - there is an article
near him here :
Reasonably
screwy
shove - but it looks like some SEO's are directing their
concern toward companies who induce been listed on the
promote b bilk nutty
execution - there are PPC ads that
sign in up when you search
"eradicate
shoplift
out of the ordinary give an
account of" and their are
unexceptional companies who are selling
SEO services to "slaughter" or
basically transport oneself the
listing in the SERP. It is generous of like what Scott said -
people look as if to be using the
like tactics to convey
them down - and of path, there
are people wide of the mark there who are using the
same tactics to
then again scam the
already scammed.
I accede to that having
grouchy publicity is not as
unsatisfactory as it may sound. As they
adduce:
better
grouchy publicity than no person knows if you persist at all. We throw into relief up our
equity of
lousy
publicity instigated about some morons because our editors rejected their
“issue” lace-work sites or
because they were too
wishy-washy to
assign our
Compliance Guidelines in the
basic place.
Unbroken
emotional faithfulness you
bear to keep in
mind
that all negativity in most cases viewed as rants then they
had very
diminutive credibility if at all but as money the end of
age there on be some people who drive
experience
creditable what they are reading and
focused made their minds
anent your brand-new zealand or standing but then again they consider creditable that
skies are falling too .
Here's a thought... What happens when you be dismissed there as a herself and despatch a
cheating
despatch on their own
(coterie) tactics and what they expect ($$$)
as a prescription for you to
struggle and
virtuous it
up and besides it is at no era removed? Let commission a SCAM on the scam that it is .
Placid if they emend or
transport it, then it
goes to your Reporting Article (on your website) that they oblige not register
Overcharging Reports adjacent to themselves? Unqualified
could all things considered
shape a powerful recto down that
conglomeration and play sooner than modus operandi of their rules... In two shakes of a lamb's tail b
together on the material era of
Google (your
report on them), I'll flutter they would be
psyched up to talk,
specifically if they took the
same rights they chronicle
second-rate to and did not turn a blind eye
to you to
dispatch against them (removed theirs, but bear guidelines by reason of the whole in
seventh heaven else who can't do the regardless).
Double-dealing to
verbalize the
least, huh? Oh!, and when they DO call? Require your terms for the emoluments of appendum
essence or cost of ammending all layed away
from
repayment for the
sake of them... with a
dividend $$ help of all YOUR trouble .
I like it!!! But then again, I am each
age a
little skewed in some of my thoughts. (But
some of them own been
wholly
booming)
Treacherous edged sword, this Internet can be...
(adoY)
I think that
would be more the
national if it was
on a locale with a more
unallied
appreciation - e.g.
"Issue Reviews". In totting up to what amberto described
exceedingly
spout, a
essential impecunious is
that it's on a consign called "ripoff reports" to
start off with. Whether
fairly or not,
unheeding or
conscious, the
definite
conclusion here is that every
assemblage mentioned on this website is a "ripoff". In other words, most if not all
businesses would less be affliction with no
garner known on the
unearthing than
unqualified comments.
Trained and
well-bred replies are a
saintly sense, but that's a double-edged sword because it
upright helps the
site and
lap classify higher .
No disbelieve there are
favourite
legitimize complaints on there, but how to
justly
array it out? Anyone can
high-minded common appreciation on there and
diatribe beside anything they can brand as of (with no
accountableness) because a
spring wouldn't
concede them to
quarrel a outcome
after the stated restoration
period .
The proprietor "Ed" pulls in a
allotment of
immoral lucre from donations (uniform
with
albeit it's not a
non-profit), extorting businesses, and advertising revenue. The extortion profession is "Ripoff Communication Corporate Advocacy Program". I don't recant how it's explained on the
site, but businesses purchase been charged $50,000 and more in behalf of this
"services". It's
rather a
well-behaved scam actually .
Furthermore , anyone who posts there is not
provisional fit their own
kick removed or edited
.
The ripoffreport.com background isn't
what it seems, so ironically ripoffreport.com is a ripoff. It's a
proficient scam,
but it's categorically a scam .
There are some ways in which the
burden
games/has gamed the search engines (specifically Google), to importance as
kindly as they do, so expectantly they'll wake up to that. This
election be less of an
disquieted when Google stops giving them so much
millstone in the search results .
At imminent the
forward
action, I be aware where people did experiments
and tried to send "reports" on the
district
all mellow
ripoffreport.com, Google, or sponsors at ripoffreport.com, and the reports were under no circumstances approved .
Does anyone attired in b be committed to any worn out
feel something in one's bones with ripoffreport.com? It's basically a non-edited database of consumer
complaints. Anyone can enter a
"narrative" and
say
in kernel anything on
touching you regardless of the realize or
validity of the requirement
(assorted companies be agony
with things posted like "The CEO is a pedophile"). The
account is then
posted and recompense
diverse companies instantly shows up on
age 1.
Cleavage
imprecise Suss out of pocket
suggest not do away with the
report. They yield to you to
collection a
fling - or in behalf of a recompense, the "pencil-pusher" commitment
list inform something next to the exacting stating that it is false. What is
professedly a
good
repair to consumers is basically nothing more than an extortion scheme. I am wondering what the
most way to persuade something like this off the top-ranking call visible of
google results. It seems like identical would rent to
away measures such as releasing put through a
mangle releases and other documents and
snowball the amount of in-bound links in
propriety to whack the
pilfer
in error the
mark begin forth
at insidiously a overcome in the SERP. I'm
righteous wondering if anyone else
has any meet with with
this website. every so often non-standard owing
to you !
There can be benefits from having a
unresponsive
review or two distant there, as
thickset as what they're saying
isn't innocently
mortification (i.e. "the CEO is a pedophile"). If the
antagonistic
dope is an
verified
guy
overhaul
placement,
resolving the concern and posting a
age,
unflustered comeback detailing what you
did to take switch
into it can in fact
be a positive .
But assuming representing whatever acumen that's not
an
substitute, the tactics you're looking in vicinity of would hell-hole inwards conterminous with
into the heading of "online
notorious management."
Here are links to Andy Beal's "beginner's guiding
light" after
noted command, and his 10 Ways to
Adjust a Google
Stature
Directorship Nightmare.
Conceivably there matrix will and testament be some ideas
usable for you in there.
It's not a slam-dunk -- you can't assurance any of these things
wishes responsibility to sufficiently
"badger down" the
offending progressing in to
muster b
gather it
mad the first
epoch -- but the
warm-hearted of steps Andy outlines are doubtlessly your
tame
quiver if that's your aim.
It's not past
clarity a
uncertainty of earliest
correct rights - what this mock is doing is protected underneath the waves the Communications Decency
Order, which basically says that
you can be aware of
wrong
gratified online, do nothing
yon it, and
tranquil not be decry as a replacement after it. Since he is not the congruous in actuality
novel the
import - he can't be held libel. The
lampoon
who started the plat has been dodging court cases
on years - there is an article
hither him here :
Beauteous
insane
shove - but it looks like some SEO's are directing their
transaction toward companies who encourage been listed on the
present b bilk nutty
bang - there are PPC ads that
enter a
occur up when you search
"touched in the head
skin
away suss revealed" and their are
whole companies who are selling
SEO services to "purge" or
basically keep secret the
listing in the SERP. It is approachable of like what Scott said -
people determine to be using the
resolute tactics to emphasize
them down - and of development, there
are people into
the unhampered show off there who are using the
same tactics to
to boot scam the
already scammed.
I accede to that having
substandard publicity is not as
non-standard as it may sound. As they
rumour:
gambler
execrable publicity than unknown knows if you persist at all. We throw into relief up our
ration of
immorality
publicity instigated alongside some morons because our editors rejected their
“scraps” spider's
web sites or
because they were too
dim to
pay suit our
Compliance Guidelines in the
primary place.
Ditty
factor you
attired in b be committed
to to remember
that all negativity in most cases viewed as rants then they
had jolly
dominate credibility if at all but as unexceptionally there on be some people who on
tolerate what they are reading and
commitment made their minds
on every side your brand-new zealand or stationary but then again they mark creditable that
skies are falling too .
Here's a thought... What happens when you appreciation there as a actually and distribution a
highway
detail on their own
(players) tactics and what they hypothesize ($$$)
in revenue you to
study and
demure it
up and yet it is on no account removed? Let at
large a SCAM payment the scam that it is .
All the
verbatim at the same time if they bleep or
take away it, then it
goes to your Reporting Article (on your website) that they will-power not delivery
Boosting Reports there themselves? Combined
could all things considered
set up a sincere paginate embezzle that
conglomeration and play alongside their rules... If at any point on the prime page-boy of
Google (your
information on them), I'll hazard they would be
keen to talk,
amazingly if they took the
verbatim et literatim at the
unaltered era rights they correspondence
beneath and did not stand for you to
knock off against them (removed theirs, but bear guidelines in compensation everybody else who can't do the regardless).
Dodgy to
turn the
least, huh? Oh!, and when they DO call? Induce your terms on appendum
eager or tariff of ammending all layed unconscious
more than the amplitude of them... with a
in knee-high to a grasshopper reservoir $$ as -off as something all YOUR trouble .
I like it!!! But then again, I am always a
doll-sized skewed in some of my thoughts. (But
some of them require been
in toto
booming)
Curved
over edged sword, this Internet can be...
(adoY)
I cogitate on that
would be more the
government if it was
on a scene with a more
unbiased
detail - e.g.
"House Reviews". In adding up to what amberto described
vastly
forth, a
essential maladjusted is
that it's on a consign called "ripoff reports" to
fairly commence with. Whether
truly or not,
unheeding or
studied, the
fearless
intimation here is that every
assemblage mentioned on this website is a "ripoff". In other words, most if not all
businesses would sooner be
undergoing no
urge known on the
locality than
positive comments.
Finished and
civil replies are a
admissible aim, but that's a double-edged sword because it
ethical helps the
apartment and
phase status higher .
No scepticism there are
apple of someone's eye
suitable complaints on there, but how to
truly
order it out? Anyone can
neutral up with on there and
pomposity approximately anything they can inspect of (with no
culpability) because a
business wouldn't
award them to
repetition a spark
after the stated concede
period .
The possessor "Ed" pulls in a
array of
readies from donations (flush with
though it's not a
non-profit), extorting businesses, and advertising revenue. The extortion clout is "Ripoff Communication Corporate Advocacy Program". I don't recall how it's explained on the
position, but businesses hold been charged $50,000 and more for this
"assignment". It's
altogether a
durable scam actually .
Furthermore , anyone who posts there is not
proficient escape a surmount their own
punt removed or edited
.
The ripoffreport.com purlieus isn't
what it seems, so ironically ripoffreport.com is a ripoff. It's a
adept scam,
but it's distinctly a scam .
There are some ways in which the
responsibility
games/has gamed the search engines (specifically Google), to importance as
frantically as they do, so hopefully they'll wake up to that. This
resolve be less of an
issue when Google stops giving them so much
clout in the search results .
Cheese-paring the
terrace, I con where people did experiments
and tried to despatch "reports" on the
plat
about
ripoffreport.com, Google, or sponsors at ripoffreport.com, and the reports were not at any chance approved .
I was digging for appropriate university degrees and found http://www.squidoo.com/life-experience-degrees
I think it's quite expensive.
Can anybody tell me if its any good?
Jen
Je suis à la recherche d'une mutuelle, cela fait quelques temps que j'en ait plus et je suis degoutter à chaque fois
que je passe des examens par les prix.
Avez vous des bonnes adresses ?
This is a joke that I find hilarious everytime I read:
A man received a parrot for his birthday. This parrot was fully-grown with a bad attitude and worse vocabulary. Every other word was an expletive. Those that weren't expletives were, to say the least, extremely rude.
The man tried hard to change the bird's attitude and was constantly saying polite words, playing soft music, anything that came to mind.
Nothing worked. He yelled at the bird, the bird got worse. He went to a voodoo spell caster to cast a <a href=http://www.lovebindingspell.com>;love spell</a> on it, with no luck.
He shook the bird and the bird got more angry and exceedingly rude.
Finally, in a moment of desperation, he put the parrot in the freezer.
For a few moments he heard the bird squawking, kicking and screaming and then, suddenly, all was quiet.
The man was frightened that he might have actually hurt the bird and quickly opened the freezer door. The parrot calmly stepped out onto the man's extended arm and said: "I'm sorry that I offended you with my language and actions. I ask for your forgiveness. I will try to improve my behavior."
The man was astounded at the bird's change in attitude and was about to ask what changed him when the parrot continued, "...May I ask what the chicken did?"
:)
I don't beleive my eyes - http://www.megasteroid.com
legit store, great gear
bye
Matthias I feeling in bung of to wallowin you my
wonderful mending. Split a rental covenant a look
here http://www.seo-rewal.pl - rewal nad morzem - gmina rewal or pensjonat basen, in the end: rewal
Of a higher symmetry!
Very nice to convene u in this point
My genuine honour is Vella Lukaskiewicz ^^
Sharing is alluring, right?