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Aside from Wild Dogs, the one species I was most hoping to see was the Leopard. In the end, we actually saw seven different animals - I would have been over the moon with just one!
Here's a couple of images from two individuals, taken in Erindi and Okonjima game reserves...
Bird food is mostly always plentiful in my yard, but during this storm I saw very few of the usual skirmishes among the birds. I wonder if they were just more focussed on eating as much as they could?
House Finch and American Goldfinch
Housebound for the weekend of April 14 and 15 due to a severe wintery (!) spring storm, I decided to photograph my backyard friends dealing with the ice pellets, snow, freezing rain, sleet, and wind. This is one in a series of those images.
I went to Rotterdam to do the skill test for my SA226-227 type rating, but because of the weather first, and then because of technical problems, I couldn't do it. So I got stuck there for two days. I decided to rent a car and go urbexing to Belgium. I had no tripod, and no urbex clothing, but I went anyway.
I tried 8 locations, and unfortunately for me, 6 of them were already dead or rebuilt. At least I had the chance to visit this gorgeous train. Old classics never let you down!!
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New Orleans is a photographer's paradise. Aside from being a very vivid and colorful city that offers plenty of street photo opportunities, it has a strong architectural influence from 2 styles: French Colonial and Spanish. The heart of the city, also its oldest section, is named French Quarter and it was founded in 1718 by French people and naturally had many French colonial buildings. However, 2 great fires in 1788 and 1794 resulted in the destruction of the majority of the houses and as the area was ruled by Spanish at that time, when they rebuilt it, they decided to follow a different and more modern architectural style. As a result of this shift, most of the structures in the neighborhood had their balconies and galleries decorated with elaborate ironwork "fences" like the ones in this picture. The distinction between a gallery and a balcony is that while a balcony is self-supported and attached to the building, a galley is supported from the ground by columns and poles (which obviously were also decorated with fancy ironwork). As I post more photos of the city, you will see those "fences".
As it's a Friday, i thought it was the most appropriate day of the week to post those fences: HFF!!
Η Νεα Ορλεανη ειναι ο παραδεισος ενος φωτογραφου. Περα απο το οτι ειναι μια πολη ζωντανη και γεματη χρωμα που προσφερει αφθονες ευκαιριες για φωτο δρομου, εχει πολυ εντονες επιρροες απο 2 αρχιτεκτονικους ρυθμους: Γαλλικο και Ισπανικο. Η καρδια της πολης, που ειναι επισης και η παλαιοτερη περιοχη της, ονομαζεται Γαλλικη Συνοικια (French Quarter), ιδρυθηκε το 1718 απο Γαλλους και φυσιολογικα ειχε πολλα κτηρια Γαλλικου ρυθμου. 2 μεγαλες φωτιες το 1788 και 1794 ειχαν ως αποτελεσμα να καταστραφει η πλειοψηφια των κτηριων της συνοικιας και καθως οι Ισπανοι κυριαρχουσαν τοτε στην περιοχη, οταν την ξαναχτισαν, αποφασισαν να ακολουθησουν ενα πιο μοντερνο αρχιτεκτονικο στιλ. Αποτελεσμα αυτης της ροπης ηταν τα περισσοτερα κτηρια της Γαλλικης Παροικιας να εχουν τα μπαλκονια και τις στοες τους διακοσμημενα με ομορφα καγκελα οπως αυτα της φωτογραφιας. Η διαφορα μεταξυ μπαλκονιου και στοας ειναι οτι ενω τα μπαλκονια ειναι κολλημενα στο κτηριο και αυτο-υποστηριζομενα, οι στοες ειναι μπαλκονια τα οποια στηριζονται σε κολωνες και πυλωνες στο εδαφος. Καθως θα ανεβασω και αλλες φωτογραφιες της πολης, θα δειτε περισσοτερα κτηρια διακοσμημενα με τετοιυ ειδους καγκελα.
This started as a digitised copy of a half-frame colour slide taken many years ago on a camera long put aside! Found during a clear-out I photographed the slide using a desk lamp for illumination.
Converted to B&W and then slightly tinted.
Picasa 3, FastStone, IrfanView
Yi - XIAOYI 42.5mm f1.8
Two old enemies set aside their differences on the battlefield of Perryville, atop a smoothbore Union cannon. I've been in Kentucky touring some battlefields :) highly recommend Perryville
PSB [Bilingual]
www.youtube.com/watch?v=qn-tdtfX23k
Midday photograph at the back side of Firenze's Domo (Italy)
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Aside from the half-inch flowers spread along a seven foot stalk that grew over a path, what really intrigued me about this flower was that it was nocturnal. Well, it was supposed to be a night-bloomer because it is normally pollinated by moths. After watching this for five weeks, it must attract something in the day time because a third of the flowers were open every morning that I passed it.
The flowers are waxy, without much definition, yet still beautiful. The pod from which it springs is purplish, and it opens in less than 24 hours. I don't know why I took it upon myself, but every time a visitor would just pass it by, I thought I should educate him/her/them. One said to me, "But it's so small!" and I didn't know how to respond other than point out that many orchids are smaller. Then one asked where the orchids were, and I had to tell them that they don't bloom "here." The definition of "here" was up to them.
Hesperaloe (false yucca) is a genus of flowering plants in the family Asparagaceae, subfamily Agavoideae. "Aloe" does not refer to it being an aloe, and several professionals are still trying to get over the fact that now it's DNA says it's an asparagus (relative).
Aside from weddings, babyshowers have to be one of the most enjoyable events I am blessed to put together. Thank you to my boo Melodee Escardar for allowing me the honor in doing Tokez Escardar's babyshower. May the little one feel all the love and adoration entering into this world. It's been a pleasure! Til next time...Muah! ❤💋
remember where you put it :-)
Robert Brault
HBM!!
eastern swallowtail butterfly on zinnia, sarah p duke gardens, duke university, durham, north carolina
" But the flower leaned aside
And thought of naught to say,
And morning found the breeze
A hundred miles away..."
(- Robert Frost)
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Aside from a brief camping trip we've been at home since March, so this has definitely been the spring and summer of small bird photography. This bird bathes as a flycatcher does--on the wing--and as with the flycatcher I've yet to get the photograph of it at the critical moment despite a few months of trying. I'm scheduled to return to "work at work" instead of "work from home" at the end of August, but I have my doubts about whether that will really happen (and if it doesn't happen, who knows what will happen?). So, there may be lots of time yet to get the photo.... Hutton's vireo, backyard Olympia.
After the overnight train from Minsk, I arrived at Moscow Belorussky railway just after 5am on a Friday morning. It was incredibly peaceful on the three-mile walk from there to Red Square at that time of the morning, aside from a couple of small groups at the end of their night out.
Red Square itself was almost deserted at this time of the morning and it was great to see it with so few people around. One person turned up - a protestor with something written on a bedsheet, heading towards the Kremlin. A few people appeared out of nowhere and he was whisked off in the blink of an eye.
This is Saint Basil's Cathedral - one of the many beautiful buildings around Red Square.
Bagan, located on the banks of the Ayeyarwady (Irrawaddy) River, is home to the largest and densest concentration of Buddhist temples, pagodas, stupas and ruins in the world with many dating from the 11th and 12th centuries. The shape and construction of each building is highly significant in Buddhism with each component part taking on spiritual meaning.
With regards to tour comparison between this immense archeological site and the other significant archeological gem of Southeast Asia, the Angkor sites, this analogy may be helpful:
Angkor ruins are like a Chinese Lauriat banquet where food is presented in spectacular servings with a suspenseful wait between items which are hidden beneath curtains of forests. On the other hand, Bagan is served in Spanish Tapas style, the ingredients exposed to the customer and shown in small bite-size servings, with the next attraction close and visible at hand, in shorter intervals.
Another analogy between Angkor and Bagan Sites when distinguishing temple structures is through their stupa and spire shapes.
What makes the temples look romantic is the process of graceful aging. For some reason, there are no windbreakers around as shown by the barren, desert-dry mountain range to the west past the river, spinning occasional micro twisters that spawn loose dust particles everywhere from the eroded earth to the structures. This phenomenon had peeled off so much the stucco coating of the temples to reveal the brick structural blocks with its rusty, reddish, and sometimes golden brown-like patina when hit by the sun's rays.
Erosion is a significant threat to this area, not only the wind chipping away the buildings' plastering but also water from the mighty Ayeyarwady (Irrawaddy) River threatens the riverbanks. The strong river current has already washed away half of the area of Old Bagan. It used to be a rectangular-shaped piece of enclave protected by a perimeter wall. Now what remains is roughly the triangular eastern half part.
Other images of Bagan which make a lasting impression to tourists aside from the spire-fringed skyline; stupas sporting that tumbledown look yet crowned with glitter-studded golden miter-like sikaras; the ubiquitous pair of ferocious stone lions flanking a temple's door; the spiky and lacy eave fascia woodcarvings lining a monastery's ascending tiers of roofs; tall palmyras or toddy palms with willowy trunks, bougainvilleas, exotic cotton trees, and the likes bringing life to the arid landscape and abandoned ruins; squirrels playfully and acrobatically scampering on the walls and pediments of temples; horse drawn carriages lazily carrying drop-jawed tourists; sleepy moving grandfather's bullock carts grinding on a dust-choked trail; not to mention the garbage left around, stray dogs loitering, longyi clad men spitting betel chews in copious amounts everywhere, overgrown weeds and the pestering dust.
Aside from harrier, all four species of geese that are seen in the midwest were present: Snow, Cackling, Canada and great white fronted. These are Cackling geese.
My long johns are more than 10 years old and hardly the worse for wear, not surprisingly, given the few opportunities for them in southeast Texas. Nevertheless, they are a favored bit of gear because when I don them it means the morning will be cold and clear with a layer of mist on the bayou to soften the glare of the rising sun. Add in a few cooperative birds and the experience can border on magical.
Pied-billed Grebes on Mud Lake, Pasadena, Texas.
aside from british literature, painting is my favorite class.
it's comforting to know that i won't be graded on what i know or what i've memorized,
but what i can create.
#108: i like using pert plus shampoo because it smells nice and it's green.
This year we end the Seven Days of Thanksgiving series in Paprihaven on the day after. Why? While it is wonderful to have a day set aside specifically to acknowledge our impossible debt to God by expressing our gratitude, every day should truly be a day of thanksgiving. After the amazing celebration at the Simmons,* the girls are back at Tracy's house.
Tracy: Wow. So tired. What a great time. Thank you, God.
Buckley: I'm so stuffed! I'll sleep on this bench if I can't make it upstairs.
Tracy: Who said you're staying here??
Buckley: You gotta be responsible, Trace! You can't let me drive home in this condition.
Briar: HAHAHA!
Tracy: You're not drunk! You don't even drink!
Buckley: I'm loaded with tryptophan. I can't make it. I'm DONE FOR, offissaaAAaa!
Briar: HAHA! What's 'trippafan'?
Tracy: It's an amino acid in turkey that people say makes you sleepy. I think what happened is we all just ate too much.
Briar: I ate sooooo much! I looooved that corn casserole! Who made that?
Tracy: I think Honor did.
Buckley: Ooohhh, I'm gonna pop. Let's just all get in bed, under the covers, and tell stories til we fall asleep.
Briar: That's FUN!
Buckley: But y'all GOTTA CARRY ME UUUUUUP!
Briar: HAHAHA!
Tracy: Oh, good grief. I'm stuck with both of you tonight. Are you sure you even have homes? You're always here.
Buckley: Oh! Haha! On Paprichat, Sheila Harper posted a video of her poodle grabbing a piece of turkey from the table!
Briar: I want to see that!
Tracy: Can you not be on your phone for like two seconds? And, I want to see too. And, who's Sheila Harper?
Buckley: She's got that pretty green Jaguar? Always real shiny? **
Tracy: Oh, yes.
Briar: I wanna see the video!
Buckley: Then come over here.
Briar: Can't move. You come over here.
Buckley: Uh uh.
Briar: BuuUUUUCK!!!
Buckley: You're outta luck, kid.
*WOOF!*
Briar: Hey, Biff!
Buckley: The Biffster!
Tracy: Wow, what a great day. And now we're just chilling. Peace. Joy. Love. God is good.
Buckley: All the TIME!
Briar: All the time!
Tracy: And, all the time...
Buckley: God is GOOD!
Briar: God is good!
Tracy: Bible challenge, then we somehow struggle upstairs. God's loving kindness. Psalm 117:2, "For His lovingkindness is great toward us, and the truth of the Lord is everlasting. Praise the Lord!"
Briar: Psalm 63:3, "Because Your lovingkindness is better than life, my lips will praise You."
...
Tracy: Buckley...
Buckley: Um... What's the one? "Please answer me God because you are loving and kind... and compassionate?"
Tracy: Close enough! Psalm 69:16, "Answer me, O Lord, for Your lovingkindness is good; According to the greatness of Your compassion, turn to me." Okay, upstairs! Up!
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A year of the shows and performers of the Bijou Planks Theater.
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God wants you to give thanks.
Well, Thanksgiving came and went. Did your gratitude last beyond your afternoon nap? For many, that’s the extent of their thanksgiving—a one-time, get-it-out-of-the-way holiday that reminds them to reflect on how blessed they are. Too often and too quickly, people resort back to being ingrates. But God wills us to be thankful all the time, in all things. That’s the point of 1 Thessalonians 5:18 where Paul says, “In everything give thanks; for this is God’s will for you in Christ Jesus.” So if you’re saved, Spirit-filled, sanctified, submissive, and suffering, you have one thing left to do in order to follow God’s will—be saying thanks.
Paul’s simple, direct command—in everything give thanks—allows believers no excuse for harboring ingratitude. In everything carries an unlimited requirement. It refers to everything that occurs in life. With the obvious exception of personal sin, we are to express thanks for everything. No matter what struggles or trials, God commands us to find reasons for thanking Him always (Acts 5:41; James 1:2-3; 1 Peter 1:6-9). That’s His will.
If you’re not obeying that command, you’re not following God’s will. Think of it like this: If gratitude doesn’t come easy for you, neither will finding God’s will. Or to put it another way, if you struggle with being thankful, you’ll struggle with following God’s will. Need some motivation? Here are some reasons God wills you to be thankful:
God commands it:
Gratitude should come naturally to believers in response to all God has done on their behalf, but because of our hardness of heart, God enjoins us to thanksgiving with commands (Philippians 4:6; Colossians 2:7; 1 Thessalonians 5:18). Therefore, all forms of ingratitude are sinful. Paul commanded the Colossians, “And let the peace of Christ rule in your hearts, to which indeed you were called in one body; and be thankful” (Colossians 3:15).
When Paul describes the believer’s Spirit-filled life, he writes, “speaking to one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and making melody with your heart to the Lord; always giving thanks for all things in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ to God, even the Father” (Ephesians 5:20). God doesn’t merely command those expressions of gratitude and leave believers helpless to comply. He enables us to articulate them (Philippians 2:13), and is pleased when we do.
Joni Eareckson Tada, who was involved in an accident that left her paralyzed from the neck down, writes, “Giving thanks is not a matter of feeling thankful, it's a matter of obedience.”
Thankfulness acknowledges God’s sovereignty:
The single, greatest act of worship you can render to God is to thank Him. It’s the epitome of worship because through gratitude, we affirm God as the ultimate source of both trial and blessing—and acknowledge our humble acceptance of both.
With a thankful heart, you can say in the midst of anything, “God be praised.” That kind of attitude looks beyond the circumstance to the plan of God. It sees beyond the pain to the sovereignty of God. It remembers, “God causes all things to work together for good to those who love God, to those who are called according to His purpose” (Romans 8:28). An attitude of thankfulness enables us to deal with those who wrong us, saying with Joseph, “As for you, you meant evil against me, but God meant it for good” (Genesis 50:20). Those who are thankful see the providential hand of God everywhere and say, “God, I thank You for the peaceful times as well as the hard times—a difficult marriage, a challenging job, a severe illness—because I know You will use those things for my good and Your glory.”
The grateful Christian remembers that suffering perfects, confirms, strengthens, and establishes him (1 Peter 5:10). God wills that kind of thankfulness.
God judges ingratitude:
William Shakespeare wrote, “How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is to have a thankless child. Ingratitude thou marble hearted fiend.” If Shakespeare understood the hostile attitude behind thanklessness, imagine what God must think about it.
Ingratitude is the very essence of an unregenerate heart, ranking among the most intolerable sins in Scripture. The apostle Paul identified unbelievers as ungrateful: “For even though they knew God [through conscience and general revelation], they did not honor Him as God or give thanks, but they became futile in their speculations, and their foolish heart was darkened” (Romans 1:21). Because man in his pride fails to honor and glorify God as Creator, he also refuses to thank Him for His gracious provision. Ingratitude betrays unbelief, and both sins bring about God’s judgment.
Although God is the source of every good thing that men possess—giving life, breath, rain, sunshine, and other natural blessings to the just and unjust alike (Matthew 5:45; Acts 14:15–17)—the natural man refuses to thank Him. In his fallen mind, to thank God is to acknowledge his own obligation to worship Him.
In summary, God wills our being thankful in all things because gratitude is the ultimate expression of a transformed heart. But thanklessness can infest and destroy a church, marriage, family and home. So cultivate a heart of gratitude. Be thankful for all things and in all circumstances. That’s God’s will. Are you following it?
- John MacArthur, adapted from God Wants You To Give Thanks
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* As seen yesterday!
www.flickr.com/photos/paprihaven/54950920265
** As seen in BP 2021 Day 107!
www.flickr.com/photos/paprihaven/51121244013/
Previous Days of Thanksgiving on Paprihaven:
2015:
www.flickr.com/photos/paprihaven/22949342829/
2016:
www.flickr.com/photos/paprihaven/31221411415/
2017:
www.flickr.com/photos/paprihaven/37886668344/
2018:
www.flickr.com/photos/paprihaven/31063953947/
2019:
www.flickr.com/photos/paprihaven/49137396007/
2020:
www.flickr.com/photos/paprihaven/50649209702/
2021:
www.flickr.com/photos/paprihaven/51704094592/
2022:
www.flickr.com/photos/paprihaven/52521485290/
2023:
www.flickr.com/photos/paprihaven/53349976036/
2024:
Aside from old Acela train sets, the big thing on my hit list for my NEC min-trip was Conrail's local freight operations on the Northeast Corridor. Of these moves, the ME02 (or ME-2, or WPME02, or whatever you prefer) is generally the easiest to grab, making an appearance just after lunchtime on weekdays. In between passenger moves, they backed onto the main at and wasted no time pulling departing south, with their lead GP40-2 running long-hood forward.
Aside from humans (genus Homo), the macaques are the most widespread primate genus, ranging from Japan to the Indian subcontinent, and in the case of the Barbary macaque (Macaca sylvanus), to North Africa and Southern Europe.
Aside from the usual Canadian National and Illinois Central SD70s that live on Canadian National’s daily L5369124 job from Glenn Yard in downtown Chicago to Kirk Yard in Gary Indiana, this change of pace lashup consisting of an CN SD60 (CN 5442) that’s at the helm, along with an Illinois Central SD70 (IC 1017) and a CN SD40-2W (CN 5246) still in its original “Zebra” paint as the trailing units.
After getting light from RTC, the train charges southbound through one of the busiest junction’s in Chicagoland that is Kensington, a place that sees large amounts of passenger trains from Metra Electric, South Shore and Amtrak, as well as numerous freights from CN, South Shore and sometimes even NS. The train is seen here ducking under one of the handful remaining Illinois Central “bowling alley” signal bridges on the CN Chicago Sub, a frame that can only be done when they run Main 1, which is quite uncommon.
Taken: 3-9-24