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Zinnias ageing gracefully!
Lens: Super Takumar: f/1.4 X 50mm (f/8)
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Gracias por pasar con su flor. Sus comentarios y favoritos son apreciados!
Thanks for stopping by with your flower. Your comments and faves are appreciated!
Agradecimentos para parar perto com sua flor. Os seus comentários e favoritos são apreciados!
Merci pour votre visite avec votre fleur. Vos commentaires et vos faves sont appréciés!
Vielen Dank für das Stoppen mit Ihrer Blume. Ihre Kommentare und Favoriten werden geschätzt!
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WorldGranny
Ageing is not only a western problem. People in developing countries are getting older too. Pensions or home care services do not exist in most of these countries. Children are expected to take care of their parents. But nowadays the family circles are getting disrupted. Migration, urbanization, wars and the aids-epidemic take their toll. Many older people have to rely on themselves and as a result, they live in extreme poverty.
Besides that, more and more children are depending on their grandfather or grandmother in terms of care and finance.
On one of my travels to Zambia, I saw the strong women, who took care of their children.
Meet: Elika, 60 years, takes care of 8 children, Esther, 72 years, takes care of 1 child, husband and 3 children died of aids, Katerina, 60 years, lost 4 children, takes care of 9 children.
Tropical house, Botanical Garden of the University of Basel, Switzerland
The certainly over 18 years old male Plumed Basilisk (Basiliscus plumifrons) in the tropical house of the Botanical Garden of the University of Basel.
● Addendum: Basil died of his old age on the night of January 19, 2024. 💚
Das bestimmt über 18 Jahre alte Stirnlappenbasilisk - Männchen
(Basiliscus plumifrons) im Tropenhaus des Botanischen Gartens der Universität Basel
● Nachtrag: Basil starb in der Nacht vom 19. Januar 2024 an Altersschwäche. 💚
... in ceramic, but the glasses are no longer worn by yours truly. This object is actually designed for putting one's glasses on. It saves time looking for them.
Quite a 'spectacle'.
Large Banksia serrata mature flower spikes (inflorescences) about 200mm long each terminating its supporting branch. Seed pods eventually bulge from the mature spike and are often beautifully coloured. The nectar of these flowers is sought out by numerous native insects, birds mammals and marsupials.
Love me when I'm old and shocking
Peel off my elastic stockings
Swing me from the chandeliers
Let's be randy bad old dears
Push around my chromed Bath Chair
Let me tease your white chest hair
Scaring children, swapping dentures
Let us have some great adventures.
Take me to the Dogs and Bingo
Teach me how to speak the lingo
Bone my eels and bring me tea
Show me how it's meant to be
Take me to your special places
Watching all the puzzled faces
You in shorts and socks and sandals
Me with warts and huge love-handles.
As the need for love enthrals
Wrestle with my dampproof smalls
Make me laugh without constraint
Buy me chocolate body paint
Hold me safe throughout the night
When my hair has turned to white
Believe me when I say it's true
I've waited all my life for you.
~Bee Rawlinson
IMG_2660
15 Oct 10
Taken in the highlands of Santa Cruz island in Galapagos, this photo is only possible due to intervention efforts to protect the giant toirtoise on the islands. Invasive species (brought by man no doubt) such as rats and goats nearly wiped out the population, and some variations indeed already have been. After intense efforts to remove the invasive speices and incubate toirtoise eggs in captivity, the population is thankfully again beginning to thrive. But is a life that is desperately dependent on this level of human intervention a dignified one? Perhaps this leaf munching giant has the answer...
"I'm reeling,
A spinning top twirled out of sight,
Enchanted eyes withdrawn for the first time in half a dozen years,
Unobserved and ageing at last..."
(lyrics from my song, Anagrams)
Poor sleep, growing older (35 winters), 'time fading lines creeping into control'. My mother said my expression was anger, I suggested more confusion in an absurd world.
But I am happy.
Ageing Merseyrail electric 508141 pauses at Brunswick on a Hunts Cross to Southport service, 9th February 2023
Location: Igreja de Santa Maria - Praca Infante Dom Henrique - Rua do Castelo dos Governadores - Lagos Municipality - Faro - Algarve - Portugal - Pt - Europe - EU
Photographer: Mark
Photoshop Camera Raw Filter + Nik Efex Pro
Ageing away in some wooden barrels at the Cloudwater Barrelstore in Manchester.
(@cwbarrelstore on twitter)
7xp HDR, Canon 6D
This old boat is here for as long as i remember! although i have a few other shots in my stream of this boat i thought i would try HDR also there was very little decent light today :)
© Leanne Boulton, All Rights Reserved
Candid street portrait taken in Glasgow, Scotland. A fascinating close-up candid look at the process that comes to us all in time. Where skin thins and becomes flaky and where hair sprouts from everywhere. In fact I don't think I have ever seen hair growing on the front of the nose before. I loved this man's expression as he looked up the street and as you know, I love photographically studying human life and behaviour. Enjoy full screen by pressing 'L' or clicking the image.
Looking at my Flickr stream, I can see I have posted very little this year (comparatively).
2019 seems to have been a rather lupus-filled year (struggling with the illness and struggling to keep my little editing business going through yet another major flare). Now, having just turned 60, with my family somewhat in disarray, and winter light over Pembs that is flat and not at all inviting, I'm looking forward to a change of perspective.
So here's to 2020 - and a better year for photography, swimming, getting back to all the people who've emailed me and all the things I still want to achieve.
An ageing British Rail Class 155 2 car diesel multiple unit (DMU) 155343 as operated by Northern Trains at York railway station in the County of North Yorkshire (UK).
Only 7 of these nigh on 40 year old Class 155 DMU sets are left in service as of March 2026.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Rail_Class_155
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/York_railway_station
Photograph taken by and copyright of my regular photostream contributor David and is posted here with very kind permission.