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Orbs, Bisbee Royale, performances, nature orbs

Fire Pit Orbs and Award Nominations!

Orbs gathered last night to enjoy a fire pit with friends.

The fun part for me was introducing orbs to the previously unaware.

The moon was quarter full and the stars were especially bright, so it was easy to identify the orbs as they appeared on my camera’s view screen after taking the picture.

Of course, those sitting around the fire pit tired of having my camera flash disturbing the peace. So we won’t be looking at them in these photos.

And, soon the orbs moved away to further out in the neighborhood.

For those of you who are new to this blog, or would like to refresh your memory as to what orbs are, perhaps this will help: https://orbsdelight.wordpress.com/2012/11/17/photographing-orbs/

Award Nominations!

Many thanks for the thoughtful nominations given to me by fellow travelers in this blogging universe:

The Versatile Blogger Award:

http://lgyslaine.wordpress.com/2012/12/26/versatile-blog-award-2012/

Thank you, Gys, for your appreciative consideration. Please visit her blog for poems of love and wonder.

http://85degrees.wordpress.com/2013/01/03/pop-them-up-two-awards-more/

Thank you, Uzoma, for your many appreciative comments and encouragements. Please visit this blog for African proverbs that will have you pondering their wisdom and advice.

The Beautiful Blogger Award was nominated by Sheri at The Other Side Of Ugly:

http://theothersideofugly.com/2013/01/05/beautiful-blogger-award/

who also nominated me for:

The Very Inspiring Blogger Award:

http://theothersideofugly.com/2013/01/18/illuminating-inspiring-and-gargie/

Thank you very much, Sheri, for including my blog in your recommendations to fellow bloggers. Please visit this beautiful blog for encouragement and solace.

Forest Orbs

The forest is wonderfully dark at night. Spooky with possibilities. And, yes, there are orbs as well.

Pale orbs among the tallest trees, cautious in their observance of the newcomer.

Sometimes lurking at the edge of a tree trunk, a little shy amongst the smoke of a fireplace.

Perhaps the newcomer isn’t so bad, let’s take a close look.

What orb can resist going for a walk with the dog?

Pale orbs overhead in the trees.

Might be the moon, if the moon had been full last night.

Why is the lone tear drop orb, always on the upper left?

This evening’s twilight orbs.

Another moon of an orb, on this moonless night in snow country.

For those of you who are new to this blog, or would like to refresh your memory as to what orbs are, perhaps this will help: https://orbsdelight.wordpress.com/2012/11/17/photographing-orbs/

Guest Finds “Clouds” while Questing for Orbs

Kathy Phelps has been a guest orb photographer on Orbs Delight a few times. You may remember her photos of “clouds” that appeared on her view screen after taking a photograph while questing for orbs. Well, she had another remarkable night. The following photos have been arranged chronologically based on the camera file numbers.

Maybe “remarkable” is too vague a word. How about “astounding!” You can see in the photo above that orbs did make an appearance.

Easy to imagine a spirit running out of camera’s view on the right, scarf flying in the wind.

Perhaps a parade of spirits sailing over the clothesline in Kathy’s yard, waving a greeting.

Kathy is a lightworker. To help explain what that might mean, she quotes Doreen Virtue: “Lightworkers are those that volunteered, before birth, to help the planet and its population heal from the effects of fear. Each lightworker is here for a sacred purpose…. Many lightworkers are discovering their innate spiritual gifts, such as psychic communication skills and spiritual healing abilities. These are the gifts that we volunteered to use to heal the Earth and her population during the crucial decades surrounding the millennium.”

Kathy says that she does a lot of energy work for the Earth, her inhabitants, and much more. She does sessions every New and Full moons and for both solstice and equinox. What she really means is that she facilitates the session. She channels light language that does what’s needed/requested. Light language is the language of the soul/spirit.

One can see a lot of images within these “clouds” that suggest Beings who are drawn to Kathy’s lightworker activities.

It must be fascinating for Kathy to receive visual confirmation of the energies she has been working with for the past 7-8 years. The age of digital flash photography is truly broadening our visible spectrum. To see more of Kathy’s love of nature, please visit: http://naturesnippets.com/.

For those of you who are new to this blog, or would like to refresh your memory as to what orbs are, perhaps this will help: https://orbsdelight.wordpress.com/2012/11/17/photographing-orbs/

Guest Orbs in Snow and Award Nominations

In celebration of snow, guest orb photographer, Kathy of Naturesnippets http://naturesnippets.com/ is sharing the orbs she found at her house this week. Looks as if a few of these are hexagons, so perhaps cold does slow down the speed of orbs. A hexagonal shape would indicate that the light of the orb reached the camera just as the shutter was beginning to close.

Here is an interesting blur of snow orbs flocking around a tree at Kathy’s place.

Kathy contributed the fantastic “clouds” as a guest a few posts ago. She was drumming ceremonially the night she took these pictures and that may be a contributing factor to the kinds of images she receives while questing for orbs. The first picture in this series was taken before she started drumming.

Another glimpse of a “cloud” with orbs from Kathy’s backyard. Eleven out of 77 pictures that night had some of these “white clouds”.

Kathy is new to the quest for orbs, inspired by the photos on Orbs Delight. I encourage all of you to set aside your usual tried and true photographic methods and try orb questing yourself. You’ll have a better chance of detecting the orbs if you use flash photography and if you use a camera that has a CCD sensor (almost any digital camera less than $500) the CMOS sensor of higher quality cameras censors out most orbs.

For those of you who are new to this blog, or would like to refresh your memory as to what orbs are, perhaps this will help: https://orbsdelight.wordpress.com/2012/11/17/photographing-orbs/

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And now, as we begin to ring in the New Year with the fireworks I can already hear soaring across my hillside, I would like to thank a couple of people for recent honors:

Thank you very much to Some Photos and Fancies for nominating Orbs Delight for Blog of the Year http://ellenpardee.wordpress.com/2012/12/14/blog-of-the-year-2012-award/. As we say in American parlance “that puts the cherry on top” or in Mexico “con queso” which indicates everything plus! For those of us new to blogging, this nomination of our endeavors adds to the delight of discovering the wonderfully supportive and encouraging community found on WordPress. Some Photos and Fancies is an excellent example of the conscientious effort put into blogging that benefits us all. Please visit Ellen’s blog for insightful questions as to the nature of our assumptions.

Thank you to Tuttacronaca for nominating Orbs Delight for the REALITY Blog Award http://tuttacronaca.wordpress.com/2012/12/29/proposito-per-il-2013-immergersi-nella-realta-e-portarla-alla-luce/. Now that is really going to tickle an orb’s delight after all the accusations of being a mere dust mote! Please visit Tuttacronaca for more reality than it is possible to assimilate in one hour, day, or week.

HAPPY NEW YEAR TO EACH AND EVERYONE!

MAY YOU ALL FIND THE JOY IN BEING YOU!!!

Hexagonal Orbs

Last night was cold in Bisbee, Arizona. Some of yesterday’s snow was still on the ground and I’m glad my jeans are baggy enough to accommodate long underwear. Because now that the world has ended and begun again, there are still some routines that must be done, like walking the dog at night. For a quester of orbs this is prime time to see who’s in the neighborhood.

These are all orbs lighting up the image, can’t say that I noticed them lighting up the night until I took the picture. Digital flash photography is my extra pair of eyes to discover the world around me. Some of you who are familiar with my blog have noticed that orbs are particularly attracted to dog walks with my husband, much more than if I’m out by myself with the cats. What is different about the photos in this posting is the hexagonal shapes of many of the orbs (you may need to enlarge the image on whatever computer device you are using to see the sharp edges).

The large orb at my husband’s shoulder has all the characteristic details we have come to know in orbs: the darker inner rim and interior modulations. But the hexagonal outer edge indicates that the orb’s light reached the camera when the shutter was beginning to close. At first I thought it was the cold that was affecting the speed of the light. However, I just double checked my camera and the top dial on the Canon G12 was set at AV instead of the usual Auto setting I use for orb photography. So, there goes my initial cold orbs are slower theory.

A few hours later and we’re back on the road with a party of orbs sailing overhead and all around. Nothing like a brilliant orb and the whole gang showing up on the view screen to bring a smile and shout of delight to this orb quester!

For those of you who are new to this blog, or would like to refresh your memory as to what orbs are, perhaps this will help: https://orbsdelight.wordpress.com/2012/11/17/photographing-orbs/

It has been a week since my last post, a time of holiday relaxation and fun with family. Yesterday I began to catch up on all the blogs that have been accumulating in my e-mails. What a busy and creative mix of passions and enthusiasms you all have to share! I was also startled to notice that I had been nominated for another award, The Versatile Blogger Award 2012, by Poèmes Français & Anglais, Poems French & English by Gys at http://lgyslaine.wordpress.com/2012/12/26/versatile-blog-award-2012/. Gys certainly is deserving of praise for her versatility in writing both French and English poems as well as her photo montages, all in celebration of love. Thank you for the honor, Gys, and I like the award’s image:

versatilebloggernominations

it brings out the historian in me.

Orbs Attend End Of World Sound Check

It was the night we all were anticipating, The End of the World, according to the Mayan Calendar experts. At least three End of World parties were held in Bisbee, Arizona. I only lasted until the beginning of the end, having arrived ahead of schedule. The orbs are probably still lingering in the upper corners of the Bisbee Royale.

Thank goodness there was a sound check for the band, Race You There. Too early for the actual show, at least the orbs and I had something to focus on.

The orbs gathered around the lead guitarist.

Orbs are always attracted to drummers.

I like the overlapping orbs on the left.

Perhaps the drummer is tuning into the orb above.

Some skeptics insist that orbs are merely dust. But they haven’t paid attention to the relationship between orbs and their response to music.

Even a simple sound check can light up an orb.

Musicians attract orbs.

The orbs are lining up for what sounded like an excellent Race You There performance. Sorry I missed the show when the orbs would really brighten with delight.

Thank you to the Bisbee Royale and the Tucson band Race You There for some early evening entertainment on this night at the End of the World.

For those of you who are new to this blog, or would like to refresh your memory as to what orbs are, perhaps this will help: https://orbsdelight.wordpress.com/2012/11/17/photographing-orbs/

Delighting in Rodeo Games of Summer

On this long-awaited day, December 21, 2012, I thought I’d step aside from the doom and gloom and revisit summer games held in a little Arizona town called Eager.

Each summer I look forward to Eager Daze, where adults and children compete to have the most fun, especially during the traditional Egg Toss.

Future ranchers work out their moves.

Obviously not the easiest job on the ranch.

The littlest ranchers watch and learn.

Sheep and the child are off into the great arena.

This boy has been studying rodeo technique.

With the luck of the draw, you might just get the sheep with the most bleat.

The youngest log cutter was not impressed with merely placing among the finishers. He really thought he should be number one.

There is still time to dream of becoming a genuine Mountain Man contestant going from town to town. I saw this log cutter at the next event hundreds of miles away a month later.

Hope you are all having a delightful time on this greatly anticipated day. I’ll be questing for orbs tonight, how about you?

Stormy Night Orbs

The sky tonight was so beautifully cloudy, I pulled out my camera to see if there were any orbs in the neighborhood.

Agave plants seem to attract the most orbs on our hillside.

What is particularly fascinating about tonight’s orbs is that they are windblown.

Most of these orbs are leaving trails and they are all heading south.

Never occurred to me that an orb could be windblown while sailing overhead.

I especially like the orb blowing by in front of the agave stalk.

You’d think we were experiencing a meteor shower of orbs.

These orbs above may be heading away from the camera.

The wind was so strong this evening that besides blowing the orbs to the south it motivated me to make sure nothing would blow from our yard into the street.

Again, one orb is just speeding past the arm of an agave. Who knew that the very physical characteristics of wind could have an effect on what Klaus Heinemann calls an “emanation of a spiritual being”?

For those of you who are new to this blog, or would like to refresh your memory as to what orbs are, perhaps this will help: https://orbsdelight.wordpress.com/2012/11/17/photographing-orbs/

Sun Orbs and Car Frost

Frost in the desert is a cause for celebration and race for the camera before it all melts away. The delight of today is ice crystals!

Usually the frost on our cars is flat, not these spiky crystals.

There were tufted areas on the glass that you can see on the upper right.

Couldn’t resist the snake totem.

All too soon it begins to melt away…

Let’s get back to the shade…

Just how tall were those ice crystals?

Sun orbs to give you a glow. Have a lovely day whatever your climate may be!

Cloud Orbs of a Guest

Kathy of Nature Snippets: http://naturesnippets.com/ is sharing photographs that she took this week in the early dawn. My first reaction was “Oh my gosh!”

Kathy says that she took 88 pictures, and had taken about 44 when the “clouds” started appearing, but not in every picture.

I asked if she felt, saw, or heard anything in relation to these “clouds” and Kathy replied that there was no direct communication, it was intuition. She didn’t see any of the “clouds” until they were displayed on the camera’s viewer after she took the picture.

She was so excited she could hardly think, but knew it was a special encounter. Gratitude was her only thought.

The photo above looks as if an orb was unleashing itself beyond its teardrop shape.

The challenge for Kathy now is not to expect to see these “clouds” every time she photographs while questing for orbs. When reading the Natures Snippets blog you’ll get a feeling of being addressed by a science writer who is enthusiastic about nature and is not someone who would blow smoke in your eyes.

For those of you who are new to this blog, or would like to refresh your memory as to what orbs are, perhaps this will help: https://orbsdelight.wordpress.com/2012/11/17/photographing-orbs/

Eye of the Camera

Photographing the Visible and UnSeen

Photography

Fire Pit Orbs and Award Nominations!

Forest Orbs

Guest Finds “Clouds” while Questing for Orbs

Guest Orbs in Snow and Award Nominations

Hexagonal Orbs

Orbs Attend End Of World Sound Check

Delighting in Rodeo Games of Summer

Stormy Night Orbs

Sun Orbs and Car Frost

Cloud Orbs of a Guest

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