hello my friends I took this Picture right now are 18 :20 PM and the moon appeared in all its beauty to illiminate the night that is coming , thanks for your visit

This nest was right against the wall of my bedroom and there was a constant stream of visitors which didn't appear to bother them in the slightest.

www.crannog.co.uk/oakbank-crannog

How Scots lived 2,500 years ago - did they use them to protect their families and livestock from the local Bears, Wolves & Lynx etc. as it would appear they traded, manufactured and farmed - it is also questionable that they ate fish despite the fact Loch Tay must have been full of Salmon & Trout.

photography symmetry appears when parts of your composition mirror other parts. It is created when two halves of your scene look the same and balance each other out.

The log was not level but that wasn't going to faze either of us!

Having a moment with a shy red squirrel at British Wildlife Centre, UK

Bar tailed Godwit - Liomosa Laponica

Norfolk

The bar-tailed godwit is a long-billed, long-legged wading bird which visits UK shores for the winter. Most usually seen in its grey-brown winter plumage, birds in spring may show their full rich chestnut breeding plumage. In flight it shows a white patch stretching from the rump up the back, narrowing to a point. It breeds in the Arctic of Scandinavia and Siberia and hundreds of thousands of them pass through the UK, on their way further south, or stop off here for the winter.

The bar-tailed godwit breeds on Arctic coasts and tundra mainly in the Old World, and winters on coasts in temperate and tropical regions of the Old World and of Australia and New Zealand. Its migration includes the longest known non-stop flight of any bird and also the longest journey without pausing to feed by any animal.

The bar-tailed godwit migrates in flocks to coastal East Asia, Alaska, Australia, Africa, northwestern Europe and New Zealand.

It was shown in 2007 to undertake the longest non-stop flight of any bird. Birds in New Zealand were tagged and tracked by satellite to the Yellow Sea in China. According to Dr. Clive Minton (Australasian Wader Studies Group): The distance between these two locations is 9,575 km (5,950 mi), but the actual track flown by the bird was 11,026 km (6,851 mi). This was the longest known non-stop flight of any bird. The flight took approximately nine days. At least three other bar-tailed godwits also appear to have reached the Yellow Sea after non-stop flights from New Zealand.

One specific female of the flock, nicknamed E7 flew onward from China to Alaska and stayed there for the breeding season. Then on 29 August 2007 she departed on a non-stop flight from the Avinof Peninsula in western Alaska to the Piako River near Thames, New Zealand, setting a new known flight record of 11,680 km (7,258 mi).

"All the variety, all the charm, all the beauty of life is made up of light and shadow."

-Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

Treecreepers almost appear to defy gravity, as they work their way up a tree trunk & along the undersides of branches. I find them fascinating little birds to watch. The Males are also coming into song at this time of year & I love to listen out for them in the small patch of woodland near my home.

Grey Squirrel [Sciurus Carolinensis]

Appearing then disappearing in the blink of an eye, this wee squirrel was helping herself to the bird seed in the feeders. Undeterred by people walking past or cars arriving and leaving, she would dart off into the hedge or under a car then reappear, deftly scooting round the branches of trees to get to the prize.

Here, she was making sure that I was still in the car...

Culzean: National Trust for Scotland

SW Scotland

This is the same kingfisher I posted a few days ago! I was behind a woven willow blind along the estuary shielding from the wind having a cup of tea! I normally stop there hoping the kingfisher would appear, I was in luck this time!

As the low level clouds cleared, this nice patch of Iridescent Cloud appeared above.

A magical time, The Dawn.CF011593.

In every sunrise there is a moment when the light appears to be suspended, a magical time, unique, during which all Creation holds his breath.

In ogni alba c'è un momento in cui la luce appare come sospesa, un momento magico, irripetibile, durante il quale tutto il Creato trattiene il respiro.

Hello everyone,

Thank you so much for your visit and support ..

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Fabrizio Massetti.

Cast iron pans with flat bottoms came into use when cooking stoves appeared in the mid 1800's. Before that, kettles and pots were the main utensils in open fireplaces, ovens and pits.

...appear lonelier than others

last night appeared to be very overcast and yet we decided to venture to the shore of Ullsfjorden fjord to take some long exposures and we found that above the flowing clouds was a beautiful Northern sky to admire with occasionally stars showing and green lights showing through. Standing there in this silent immensity puts many things in life into the real perspective: all our self-built worries and preoccupations appear to shrink into little or nothing when witnessing the grand scheme of nature.

National Geographic | BR-Creative | chbustos.com

Morning Glory flower up close, taken late morning in Port Elliot during our road trip to South Australia.

I like this optical illusion, the tubular section of the flower appears more like a solid round object rather than a hollow tube.

Many thanks for your visit, comments, invites and faves...it is always appreciated..

Peaceful Saturday

Sundogs can appear as bright coloured patches each side of the sun. Hexagonal plate shaped ice crystals in high cirrus clouds glint sunlight like jewels to produce the prismatic colours. atoptics.co.uk/halo/dogfm.htm

...and I raced out outside with new energy!

Gerbera jamesonii blooms. Laowa 60mm f/2.8 2x macro lens. Despite how this might look, the histogram remained within bounds ;-)

A pristine Scottish 'double-spotted' female (quadripunctata) - a late start to the season, only just beginning to appear along the Berwickshire coast line in the Scottish lowlands (UK) (1533)

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(Odiren) / Sam Leather Vest @TMD~Ends 30th November

(Cult) / Murder Rings @TMD~Ends 30th November

(Rebellion) / Toby Kicks Spitfire ED @TMD~Ends 30th November

Thanks to my love ❤Gara❤ for her support in this photo

You can visit his flickr at credits

More info in 4lementshs

Blackwater Falls State Park, West Virginia. Blackwater Falls, a 62-foot (19 m) cascade where the Blackwater River leaves its leisurely course in Canaan Valley and enters rugged Blackwater Canyon. It is among the most photographed venues in the state and appears on calendars, stationery, and advertisements. The river is named for its tannin-darkened water. (8/2022)

Taken along the edge of Grimms Ditch that runs through Barnes's Grove, Buckinghamshire, I was taken by the implied forward motion of some of these trees as they appear to be moving along the top of the bank and as we move into a new year seemed an apt image to post.

So on this new years eve can I wish you all the very best and lots of happiness for 2023.

This is what's left of a flower bed along the canal path in Erba Park. In the spring all of the tall grass will be cut down, and then it will grow anew along with the herbs and flowers that will appear again in this location. [SNY06331]

Thank you all for the clicks, comments & faves.

Each time dawn appears, the mystery is there in its entirety. Rene Daumal

A tiny percent of rain —and lack of wind—drew me outside to photograph wild daisies of some sort. Borrowed my husband's Nikkor 200mm macro/prime lens and rested it on the trusty monopod. On my knees shot.

I know, based on my husband’s reaction, that this will appear too shallow for many. Don’t worry; I don’t expect you to comment ;-)

There appeared to be plenty of good foraging on this buggy, seaweedy stretch of beach, but these two semipalmated sandpipers, part of a mixed flock that also included least sandpipers and a few semipalmated plovers, didn't seem to want to share. Southern Maine

from cataract to bubbling fountain... It has infinite variety, and no part is ever duplicated. Its colors, though many and complex at any instant, change with the ascending and declining sun; lights and shadows appear and vanish with the passing clouds, and the changing seasons mark their passage in changing colors. You cannot see the Grand Canyon in one view, as if it were a changeless spectacle from which a curtain might be lifted, but to see it you have to toil from month to month through its labyrinths :-)

J. W. Powell, Canyons of the Colorado, 1895

grand canyon national park, arizona

Chiba, Japan

This rainbow appears in the light of the moon.

It is said that you will be happy when you see Moonbow.

It appears this speed boat was not as good as 007’s. It couldn’t escape all the bullets being shot at it.

It is not a cigarette boat ...more like a cigar boat, I think.

This barn appears to have been patched up many times over the years. The roof, the sides, the additions. It all makes for a unique look. The dusting of snow adds a nice touch as well!

Harrison County, Indiana

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(I'm back from a short break - slowly trying to catch up!)

wasted on nothing

effortlessly you appear

sound of the thunder

reverberating your ear

this is a slow dance

this is the chance to transform

pause for the silence

inhabit the calm of the storm

this is your ocean

an ocean of night

this is an ocean

your ocean of night

this is your ocean

an ocean of night

this is an ocean

your ocean of night

love is a feeling

buried with me in the yard

gaze at the skyline

under the ocean of stars

this is your slow dance

and this is your chance to transform

lost in a moment

the moment your confront the storm

this is your ocean

an ocean of night

this is an ocean

your ocean of night

this is your ocean

an ocean of night

this is an ocean

your ocean of night

I am your hope down the wire, so you can hold back the fire ...

this is your ocean

an ocean of night

this is an ocean

your ocean of night

this is your ocean

an ocean of night

This is an ocean

your ocean of night

www.youtube.com/watch?v=nqlY2fxaFrw

Because he believes in miracles, miracles begin to happen. Because he is sure that his thoughts can change his life, his life begins to change. Because he is certain that he will find love, love appears.

featuring Candy

After atmospheric rivers, a new sandbar appeared under Cayucos pier

Well, I am sure, some of you know this situation, You came home after a stressfull day, you put on something comfy and then you start to prepare the dinner... and nobody appears... -.-

I posted a late afternoon image of Mt Shuksan reflected in Picture Lake recently. The morning light has such a different quality than the afternoon light.

The trees appear to be trying to block Mt. Shuksan! Happy Tree-mendous Tuesday!

Colmer`s Hill, Symondsbury, Dorset, rises 417ft above the rich fertile pastures of "The green and pleasant land" of England.

It looks like some giant hand has just planted it there as its perfectly symmetrical and it appears suddenly before you like some prehistoric iron age hill fort that has just sprung straight out of the earth.

However, the shape was created naturally over millions of years purely by erosion. The underlying strata consists of soft red sandstone which weathers easily especially in the open wind swept and wet countryside which is typical of the climate of south cost of England during the Winter months.

You can see the path winding its way to the top and the russet brown bracken fronds which are dying back for the winter and they give a nice tinge to the greenery on the slopes..

There are 7 Scots Pine { Pinus Sylvestris } growing on the top and they were planted by Maj W P Colfox during the first world war. For what reason, we dont know but Im certain he wouldnt have to have had a reason!!! They are called " The Magnificent Seven " and Im not going there! Dream on!!! Lol!

So there it stands and I think it looks wonderfully majestic in the soft fading light of a late September " Dorset " evening.

Ive had this pic since last year and Im only getting around to it now. I do hope you like it as much as I do and Im sure Ill find out soon enough!

I hope your week ahead is wonderful!

Hugs, P@t.

ubnr

Catnip can be quite invasive. It appears in all kinds of places in the garden (even in winter), to the delight of the cats and the annoyance of the gardener. Sethi immediately discovered this new one, growing on the garden path. Sorry Sethi, but this catnip plant will have to go !

The lamppost seems well insulated. The staircase can appear dark and eerie, inviting imagination and personal interpretation.

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Le lampadaire semble bien isolé. L'escalier peut sembler sombre et inquiétant, invitant à l'imagination et à l'interprétation personnelle.

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Nikon Z9

24-70mm f/2.8

was out for a very flat sunrise but when the sun did appear well redcar north yorks

It's been over a year since frost first appeared.

This is one of the pictures I took on the first day I used my new camera. At dawn, I went to a lake to see sunrise. Steam was coming off of the surface of the lake. Frost formed across the field surrounding the lake. Then I went to a nature park for hiking. The frost didn't melt for a while. In this picture, you see yellow foliage, a metal fence, and a frosty lawn in the background. My fingers and feet were numb with cold. I couldn't help going ahead because the frosty sight was beautiful under sunshine.

P.S., This picture was taken on the second weekend of October instead of November. I had my camera mistakenly set the date for a month during the first few weeks of use.

yes is a pleasant country:

if’s wintry

(my lovely)

let’s open the year

both is the very weather

(not either)

my treasure,

when violets appear

love is a deeper season

than reason;

my sweet one

(and april’s where we’re)

e.e. cummings

Thanks a lot Frank Busch for encouraging me to mess around with "spooky stuff" like lightroom ;-) and trying portraits... You're a great support and a wonderful friend!