Your choice of profile photo isn't great.
Go for the one with the neon yellow vest. That shows your face, a smile, much better photo!
I'm certain you'll get more interest with that.

As for the rest, fill out your profile. You need a profile text, there's nothing now.

Another thing that would put me off for sure: you are looking for relationship, dating AND intimate encounter.
I never ever get involved with a man who's also looking for easy & free sex.
I want a man who knows he wants love and a great woman by his side as a life partner.
If a man wants easy sex it says he's up for anything he can get his hands on, and thus not really all that serious. In that case he can sod off!

Now that's up to you of course. If that's what you want, fair enough.
But then you gotta accept that women who want a serious relationship (most) may pass you by.

Thanks, Julie :)

Doesn't stand out, all rather superficial, and again a guy looking for free sex.
That's how it comes across.
Photos... would've been better if they'd show a happy man.
Your profile photo is way too dark.

Well, I'm pretty much done with it.
Took me a few session to get both the mist back in, properly this time, and do the foreground trees.
These were deep dark purple without definition, now they're dark green and you can see definition of trees in there.
This is more accurate as I could see the trees when I zoomed into the reference photo.

I'm calling it a finished painting, and I'm happy with it now!
As it is I'm okay to put it up for sale. The way it was, not so much, hihi.

I love Skyfall too!
Have seen it many times, hihi.
Javier is great. Both Daniel & Judy Dench said in an interview he was the creepiest bad guy ever, hihi.
He's Penelope Cruz' hubby. His head is about 3x larger than hers?!
I was amazed -kinda shocked- when he was at Graham Norton's and his English turned out to be very bad? But a lovely man nonetheless.

One of the great scenes in Skyfall is with Javier and Bond deep in the Tube when he blows that hole in the wall and that train comes hurtling in.
If memory serves they had to get that scene one right in one go, couldn't do it over.

Meeting someone who's looking for a serious relationship isn't a problem.
Finding someone like that who is also a good match is.

Such a good question!
And so easy to just blurt out stuff, hihi.
I've been thinking about this Q for a few hours now, believe it or not.

Conclusion is I love who I am as a whole, as a being. My energy, my take on things and life.
I've got a "the sun is shining" feel, I see or look for solutions and I am very creative.
I love the way I've consciously chosen to live my life which is not the mainstream way.

I am a work in progress, I love to learn (think Gregg Braden, Dr Joe Dispenza, epigenetics etc.), I'm not the kind of person to get stagnant and stale as I'm so eager to learn, grow & evolve.
And I love that about myself too :D

And thank you for your question.
Taking the time to think about the answer was time well spent!

Thinking... it's about time the sun starts shining again and for spring to begin.
Fed up with misty grey days, rain, strong wind.
Today is the 3rd misty day in a row.

I like Pierce as well. Good actor, attractive, and indeed made a good believable Bond.

Nice, Merry! I didn't even know there was such a forum :)

I happened to recently watch the ones with Daniel Craig again :)

I never watch the ones before that again, the real old ones I've never seen. Too bland and old-fashioned for my taste.
And I need action scenes to be realistic otherwise I lose interest.
That's why I love the Daniel Craig movies so much!

Not sure if I'll watch whatever or whomever they come up next.
Daniel Craig is a very tough act to follow.
And no more Judy Dench...

Also... I didn't like the political correctness of getting a black woman in as 007 in the last movie. I'm not a fan of the political correctness hype.

I beg to differ with that conviction as well.
We are not here to play it small, to live in subconscious fear that if we don't we will get punished (judged) later on by a god.
We are all part of the Divine and we came here, descended until we could live in a physical body on a physical planet to learn and still keep our vibration high, right in the middle of duality.
In other words: descend, overcome limitations and obstacles that duality poses, and to ascend again to a higher vibration. The vibration of Oneness, Peace, Gratitude, Love, Compassion whilst living in a physical body.

So far we've made a right mess of it although we have had a golden era long time ago. That era ended as some got into their egos.

But there won't be any judgement. There is no punishment.
You can, however, disappoint your own self and Soul for not living your full potential, or at least trying to do so.

Instead of dimming your light lest you won't get judged/punished, we're meant to stand tall, shine our Light, embrace the greatness that we are!
Dare to stick your head above the parapet.

Unfortunately religion are construed to keep people in (subconscious) fear and they use very sexy marketing to sell that.
Even the nativity story that Jesus was born in a stable.
Total BS, meant to make people think that it's okay to be poor and live in lack. After all even Jesus and his parents lived that way!

If people would only educate themselves they'd learn totally different things than their religion spoon-feeds them.
Learn to think for yourself. Get wiser. Evolve.

Indeed not much to rate, what little there is does not come across as appealing.
I'd be very very fast to click "NEXT!!!" when seeing this.

Even your nickname is off-putting.

Not meaning to offend, but you asked.

What my stomach is telling me: food!!!!!!

I'm going to have fries. I will have fresh greens with them, I'm not keen on meals without greens.
I'll make the fries myself, not from scratch, but airfryer.

Some are serial-relationship-hoppers.
My last partner was like that too. After his divorce -then 12 years ago- he'd had 5 relationships. Not real relationship, more 'situationships'.
Because of how it felt between us I was certain it'd be different with us. But nope...
And after me he moved on with another woman, nr 6 or 7. Eventually he did move in with her.

I do recall him telling me very early on he still loved his ex wife and that would never change.
I should've bailed right there and then.

I have learnt from it, I will never get involved with a bloke who's had umpteen relationships. It's a clear sign, a huge red flag, screaming he's not ready for a real commitment.
I think such men bugger off as soon as the woman wants more than he can or is willing to give.
And/or when she begins to notice & sense he's not really the team-player he should be but only superficially committed.

I wonder why you're even on a dating site? You're so incredibly anti-woman and seem stuck in feeling sorry for men (yourself?), always taking men's side even if they're painstakingly wrong.

Men should become accountable for their own shortcomings and stop pointing fingers.
If they did, maybe there'd be less singles looking for love.

Not saying women are always right, but neither are men. To go on and on blaming one gender is like driving on the motorway with a blindfold on and then blaming other drivers when you end up crashing your car.

Thank you, Julie! :)

Thank you so much, Kristi!
And I bet you're proud of your grand daughter!

Today's work:
Changed the colour on the left hand side to a cooler one, it was too warm.
Some minor tweaks on the right hand side of Mt Shasta.

Then darkened the trees at the base of the mountain. These will be partly covered by mist later on.
In order to finish the mist it'll have to be completely dry first.




Just to compare... this is the same canvas, the way I'd painted it in 2015.

By the way, the exact same thing happened in the 16th century in the UK when Henry 8th wanted to divorce his wife, wasn't allowed to and broke with the Vatican.

He then founded the church of England and he and -again male- counsellors decided what was to be integrated in their newly created religion and what was to be left out or altered.

Yet to date people follow that religion, make themselves believe it is God-given. They conveniently forget it was merely created by 1 man with an attitude problem who needed a male heir.