Afternoon Stories!

Emirates Towers against the afternoon sun.

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More the stories, higher the building! Buildings on Shaikh Zayed Road gleaming in the afternoon sun!
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A moment of peace in the morning rush!

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The stillness of the early morning scene enables me to take in and enjoy many things which pass me by during the bustle of the day. First, there are the scents, which seem even more generous with their offerings than they are in the evening.
~Rosemary Verey

A patch of green next to Sheikh Zayed Road, on of the busiest roads in Dubai.
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“Let us go in; the fog is rising.” ~ Emily Dickinson

Silhouette of the SZR towers in the morning fog!
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Shadow theatre with a mixture of sun light and fog.
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Battle for the sky! Sun rays clash with the morning Fog for morning supremacy!
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Holding head's High! Towering over the morning Fog!

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The fog is just a bus ride down the road!

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Sign boards are visible up close but where is my road?
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A walk in Fog Park?

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Even the Fog stops for the Red Light, leaving the junction visible!
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Where did the traffic go?
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Fog Boulevard!
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Moisture in the Fog! Nature's refreshing drink!
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Visibility reduced to a couple of meters!

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Vehicles at a crawling pace, searching for the road ahead!

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Is that a curve up ahead?
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Where did that car disappear?

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A bus camouflaged in the fog with no rear lights! An accident waiting to happen!
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The Fellowship of the Palm Trees!

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"If you are seeking creative ideas, go out walking.

Angels whisper to a man (woman) when he (she) goes for a walk."
~ Raymond Inmon

Chimneys of Oxygen!

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Tree, gather up my thoughts
like the clouds in your branches.
Draw up my soul
like the waters in your root.

In the arteries of your trunk
bring me together.
Through your leaves
breathe out the sky.
~ J. Daniel Beaudry, Breath

Achilles in Dubai?

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Achilles: [to his men] Myrmidons! My brothers of the sword! I would rather fight beside you than any army of thousands! Let no man forget how menacing we are, we are lions! Do you know what's waiting beyond that beach? Immortality! Take it! It's yours! ~Troy, (Film - 2004)

Why does a Cloud take its shape?

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“A cloud does not know why it moves in just such a direction and at such a speed...It feels an impulsion...this is the place to go now. But the sky knows the reasons and the patterns behind all clouds, and you will know, too, when you lift yourself high enough to see beyond horizons.”

~Richard Bach (American Writer)

Doorways of Perception!

“There are things known and there are things unknown, and in between are the doors of perception”~ Aldous Huxley (English Novelist and Critic, 1894-1963)
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Light is good from whatever lamp it shines

“Light is good from whatever lamp it shines.” A meeting of the morning and night light!
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Mannequins dressed for the day?

And where shall we go for the night? Definitely not window shopping!
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Another year with no dates! Just buddies and their reflections!
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Rays of the Sun!

Morning sun beams bursting through the thick rain clouds.
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The sun shining on a rain drenched desert!
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If there are pots of gold where the rainbow touches the ground, then what's might be there where straight lines of the sun touch?

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Dubai World Trade Center rising tall after the morning rains!
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The Dubai Clock Tower a monument truly part of Dubai's history, free of dust after the rains faithfully displaying the time as it has done over the last few decades.
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The tree which moves some to tears of joy is in the eyes of others only a
green thing that stands in the way. Some see Nature all ridicule and
deformity, and some scarce see Nature at all. But to the eyes of the
man of imagination, Nature is Imagination itself.
- William Blake, 1799, The Letters

The fountains and palm trees in the midst of the Dubai Trade Center roundabout, with the new Etisalat tower in the background.
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Flowers seem intended for the solace of ordinary humanity. ~John Ruskin
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Earth laughs in flowers. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
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“Count the garden by the flowers, never by the leaves that fall. Count your life with smiles and not the tears that roll.” ~Unknown
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Dune Bashing!
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Waiting for the sunset!
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Sun rays bursting through rain clouds.

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Dubai Clock Tower

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Nutmeg Fruit

Kodak Cyber-share Camera

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Nutmeg Fruit Tree

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Paradise

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Paradise Valley

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Bridge to Paradise
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Cool Streams
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Fishing in the Streams of Paradise!
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