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Just as spring brings life to flowers and the moon moves tides on the shores, nothing is simply chance. Everything happens for a reason. Everything is a routine.
~ Simeon Ivanov~
I sat still for a while and got several perspectives of this little guy as he searched through the rocks and debris piled up against the surf.
This is a photo I take every year when I visit the foals at our state stud at Marbach because I love to see them relaxing amongst the buttercups. The foal in this photo is an Arabian colt.
Ingalls Creek Trail-Wenatchee National Forest-Washington State
I just realized that I had already uploaded this same image...
A lesson of contrasts today -- the Killdeer and the Snowy Egret, making their homes in different environments.
Early morning drive to this location during a spectacular Palouse sunrise. It’s always a tough deciding where to go when you know of so many potential locations to photograph. I’m grateful I chose this one. Everything thing came together including the clouds and moon.
I was always fascinated with village weavers when I was young. They make their nests in trees right by the way side amongst all the hawkers and village street activities. They never seem to care about how close they were to humans. The chattering and the other noises always made me wonder how the people went about their business and never seem to care. This juvenile was very happy to pose for me on several occasions whereas the adults were a little shy. Taken on my recent tour to Ghana.
FACTS
Village weavers (Ploceus cucullatus) are among the most skilled builders in the bird world, best known for their extraordinary woven nests. Using only their beaks and feet, they weave long strips of grass into tightly knotted, hanging structures without any mud, glue, or adhesive. Each nest is created leaf by leaf, often completed in just a few days. During breeding season, a single male may build multiple nests at the same time to increase his chances of attracting a mate.
These nests play a key role in courtship. Female village weavers carefully inspect a male’s workmanship before choosing him. If she approves, she accepts both the nest and the builder; if not, she may tear the nest apart, even while the male is still present. To show off their skills, males wear bright yellow-and-black breeding plumage and often hang upside down from their nests, calling loudly to draw attention.
Village weaver nests are cleverly designed for protection. They are usually suspended over water or placed at the tips of thorny branches and feature a downward-facing entrance tunnel that helps prevent snakes and other predators from reaching the eggs and chicks. Despite being made entirely of grass, the tightly layered weaving shields rain effectively, keeping the interior dry even during heavy tropical showers.
These birds nest in large, noisy colonies, sometimes with hundreds of nests hanging from a single tree, creating a dramatic chandelier-like appearance. The constant movement, calling, and repair work make colonies lively and loud. Most nests are used for only one breeding season and then abandoned, which helps reduce parasites.
Nest-building skill improves with experience: young males often produce loose or misshapen nests, while older males craft tighter, more symmetrical structures. In many parts of Africa, village weaver nests are admired as symbols of patience, craftsmanship, and community—and they continue to fascinate observers as some of nature’s most impressive examples of animal architecture.
NS local C46 out of Norfolk Southern's Pitcairn Yard and intermodal terminal sits amongst the shining gold ginkgo (pronounced ging-kho) trees that line both sides of the 4 track trench. They are stopped waiting on a signal at CP-PENN to proceed into Island Avenue yard to make their set outs and pick ups to take back to Pitcairn with them. On the east end of the train was 1 of the 2 pairs of NS GP33ECO's that are assigned to the Pittsburgh area to improve air quality and reduce emissions.
These trees are just a small part of Pittsburgh's beautiful Allegheny Commons Park West that is located just a block or 2 away from both the Pittsburgh Pirate's PNC Park and the Pittsburgh Steelers Heinz Field. Traditonally these leaves are always some of the last, if not the very last in the city to change before the winter arrives.
Oddly enough this year, they are not despite reaching their prime peak about 2 weeks later than usual. Some parts of the city still actually have green leaves on the trees as of November 23rd...and it's 1 day until Thanksgiving! Absolutely insanity. I've never seen anything like this before.
Striking vivid colours amongst the barren rock landscape in quite a popular destination. Over 100,000 visitors a year walk the Tongariro Alpine Crossing which includes the descend on a volcanic rock scree track to the vivid Emerald Lakes, known as Ngarotopounamu (greenstone-hued lakes).
See www.josbuurmans.nz/Blog/Visual-Stories/Tongariro-Alpine-C... for the full story.
Amongst our yesterdays are snip-its of our tomorrows
Not always seen, until we research back in those moments in time
Finding truths, like little jewels along side the rubble.
Embracing them in the now and acknowledging them for what they really were.
The Shard - 309,7 meters - The tallest building in the UK.
Openend to the public 1st february 2013.
And Trees - - - Amongst Giants !!!
The Grant Grove Settlement was based on the ideas of John Muir, the first environmentalist (1838 – 1914). Muir helped preserve the Yosemite Valley, Sequoia National Park and many other wilderness areas. He is also the co-founder of the Sierra Club. His letters, essays, and books describing his adventures in nature have been read by millions.
Have been pretty busy with a few things the last number of days so not much time for shooting...this hummer seems to like the streptocarpella hanging basket...shot through the window and although it isn't the fastest shutter speed to freeze the action, I did like the square composition and sharp eye :) Catch up as I can!
I don't know its proper name, or even if it has a nickname, like "Butterscotch Wings", but there it was, and there I was with a camera. Couldn't ask for more.
Nearly a decade before the Potomac Eagle began services over the line, the fledgling South Branch Valley Railroad was operating with a small fleet of well-used Alcos. Here S1 switcher number 1 brings an empty ballast hopper north in the area between Romney and the “trough”, a confined valley that is now a tourist attraction thanks to the excursion trains.
Beautiful old chateau in the French countryside.
48 hour trip to Belgium and France with more seals than tupperware.
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I am grateful and very happy to announce that I have been selected to be part of THE DICKENS PROJECT OPEN ART SHOW, amongst many wonderful artists.
The opening will take part on Sunday, Dec. 22, 11am SLT.
Caledonia Skytower will be the DJ for the occasion.
Dress-code: (Victorian Attire Suggested)
Hope to see you there.
The picture was
taken at the Dickens project sim.
I would like to take the opportunity to wish each and every one of you a very Merry Christmas. I am GRATEFUL to all of you for your constant uplifting support and huge encouragement that you have given me. I so much appreciate you all.
As you all probably have noticed, I haven't been very active here on Flickr the past year and even less the past 6 months, and I haven't shared many Pictures in 2024.
My focus has been more or less in my RL. I have take up doing pictures in RL when ever I am out hiking or just walking.
Some of those pictures I have even shared with you here on Flickr, I have wanted to give you all some glimpse of my RL.
It has been a very hard year for me in RL, but also a very exciting and fulfilling year for me personally, in so many ways, but please, no worries, everything is alright with me, and things are looking brighter, and definitely going the way I want it to.
I can't wait to start the new year and I hope that I will find back to the inspiration of doing SL pictures as well as be more active on Flickr and hopefully I will be sharing more SL pictures in the new year.
I will most probably reopen all of my Flickr groups in the beginning of January 2025 as well, I am looking forward to that.
Thank you so much to each and every one of you for all your positive feedback on my work trough out the years and this past year as well. I am grateful.
Merry Christmas, and I wish you all a very happy New Year.
May 2025 be a wonderful year.
💖Especially with everything going on in the world these days, please take good care of your self as well as one another, we know nothing about what others are going trough, so therefor always be kind as well as thoughtful towards others. 💖
💖 Huge, huge hugs, light, peace and love to you all 💖.
Best regards
Lori 💖
Amongst the Ford and the Chevys that lasted ten years as they should, some GP30's afoot. Along with a bashed in turbine. 1969
Candid portrait of an elderly man in and amongst it at the 2019 City to Surf.
William Street, Sydney
August, 2019