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We had set up near the track but were moved by a steward, so I tried a shot with a longer lens. The Flying Scotsman at Fen Bog, today.
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*{Junbug}* Beltane [Cream]
LeLUTKA Nova Head 3.1
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pic taken at Wizardhat Studios
As I recover from shoulder surgery, I have assigned myself a big, major, huge project…and yes it concerns photography! My mission, should I decide to accept it (Mission Impossible reference) is to clean out and organize my 2TB external hard drive…that contains every digital photo that I have retained since 1985. The majority also have the RAW file associated with that photo attached. Files numbering in the tens of thousands that have been filed, misfiled, triple duplicated and thrown into folders as if I were dealing cards. My ADHD and sense of personal embarrassment will simply not allow this craziness to continue.
The blessing of this process is not just the discovery of photos long forgotten, but the memories contained. These files may well prove themselves to be priceless…not just for the memories depicted in the photos, but as a partner as I spent the next five weeks, the hours ahead fighting off my nemesis, boredom!
Here is one from a very good day…
You know that it was a very good day when you can remember everything about that day, the temperature, the warmth of the sun, the smell of a spring pasture and in this case anxiety of having to go to work when your best girl is about to give birth! It was the 13th of May, 2010 and our National Champion (Reserve Color Champion, 2006 AOBA Nationals) girl Rosalita was in labor. Joann and I both went to work to check in and start clearing the days schedule, both securing the day off with bosses and returning to the farm in record time.
A quick switch from work to farm cloths and a short trot to the front pasture found that Rosalita had already lost her mucus plug…her cria would be born anytime now. It was time to grab some lawn chairs, my camera and our birthing kit and just wait for things to progress. In the back of my mind, I prayed for a smooth, natural birth and that I would not have to put on the big gloves ever again and assist.
The next hour provided us with a memory of a lifetime as Giacomo would come into the world! A 19.2-pound male from Legend’s Challenger, at that time one of the top gray males in the country. The beauty of the moment, the cycle of life experience on such a beautiful May day is forever etched into my soul. Joann and I removed the remnants of the birth sack and dried our gift. The name Giacomo was chosen as it was in honor of my father who had passed some four years before. It was his childhood nickname and I know that it would have made him smile…like this photo does for me now as I utilize the editing program Lightroom to bring it to life.
This photo captures the bonding process/moment that alpaca mothers do just after birth. She gently takes her lips and nose and rub it against that of her cria, all the while making a clicking sound that bonds the two together for life. She will also use the same area to help her cria stay steady on its wabbly, minutes old legs.
What a blessing it is to witness not just the new physical body that God had created, but also the pure, palpable, natural love that was immediate between mother and son as well.
I didn’t know it then, but Giacomo would be the last cria born to us at Serene-n-Green Alpacas. In the early fall of 2010, a couple came to the farm and bought our last five alpacas, water buckets, farm name, logos, hay and trailer to start their own turn-key alpaca farm in Ohio.
Today, when anyone asks if I miss raising alpacas my response is immediate and direct. I miss birthing those babies!
Chase experiences, not things!
……This was a new route to Hawkers cove we found after chatting to an elderly local couple with their 3 dogs, we saw them a few times and asked how they got to where we saw them the second time! A great walk & nobody using it!! Local knowledge goes a long way and we always enjoy a chat with them - some visitors can be a bit ’sniffy’ and won’t even say good morning as they pass! Back home now & lawns to cut (after the rain!) and Jill’s got a mountain of washing after 10 days away!! And we’ve got to get ready for a visitation from family which will be great. Alan:-)
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I hadn't seen or heard the hawks in a long time. This one suddenly appeared this afternoon. I wonder if the continuous rain early this year didn't cause them to abandon their nest. It will be interesting to see the nest again once the leaves fall off the trees this autumn.
The moorings bob endlessly
missing their charge.
As the winter draws ever closer
they sway and lay redundant.
Till the warmth of next year they wait to be united with ....
Merlin,
Zanzibar,
Liberty Belle and the
MaryBee.
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The owner of this barn talked to me while I set up my camera in late November 2021. Her teenage son has requested permission to use some barn wood for a project and she told him sure. She assumed he would take some from the back where it was already falling down and was astonished to see he had dismantled part of the door on the most picturesque section of this barn! I couldn't decide whether to laugh or cry at her story... :)
taken from inside our car in the Lighthouse Park parking lot in Point Roberts Washington, the last time we were there before the borders closed ...
song - John Waite "Missing You"
Old barn beams were brought in to give the coffee house Double Shots atmosphere, I guess this beam connection was in the way so removed.
This Blue Jay seems to be wondering... what happened to my tail??? LOL I did a double take too, but he/she is a frequent visitor at the feeders and is definitely missing its tail feathers. :)
Found this one in my outtakes pile.
Went to #61 on Explore on 4/30/2011
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I can make you rich (I can make you rich)
I can make you this, baby, I can make you that
I could take you there, but baby, you won't make it back
Growing sick of this and I don't wanna make you sad
Do I make you scared? Baby, won't you take me back?
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Windowed Mode Patcher + SRWE
Borders Shader for AR setup - Crop
Coming to an end. Great right?