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Good morning everyone and I hope you had a nice weekend. As the title again indicates, today is the third in a series posted every Monday showcasing some of my favorite butterflies photographed in 2015.
Featured today is the Great Spangled Fritillary (Speyeria cybele). One of only two Fritillary butterflies found here locally; the other being the Variegated Fritillary, which was a no show this past season. Sad to say I never say a single one.
The Great Spangled Fritillary is a large butterfly with a wing span of 2 1/2 - 4 inches (6.3 - 10.1 cm) and as seen above, has a fondness for Common Milkweed. Which when it does begin to bloom is usually when this species of butterfly first appears locally.
Thank you for stopping by...and I hope you have a truly great day and week.
Lacey
ISO400, aperture f/11, exposure .004 seconds (1/250) focal length 300mm
They appear to be the strings department of an orchestra . . . Every afternoon at 3:30pm there is a show of feeding the pelicans at The Entrance, NSW. About 50 strong pelicans gather at the feeding point every afternoon. Thanks to the volunteers and patrons who make this event successful and ongoing. The Entrance is about 100 km north east of Sydney.
This image is included in a gallery entitled "Funny Birds" curated by erwan 2949.
Taken along the main street in downtown Mayville, Wisconsin.
Like much of downtown, this very cool old building appeared to be well maintained although the second floor looks like it may be vacant. Since they don't make 'em like they used to, I hope they continue to preserve it.
Another early start before the sun appeared over the horizon. All of my sunrises were taken from the same location so I apologise if the background appears to be familiar. After I had been there for a half hour or so the area around me started to come alive with people starting the day off jogging along the sea front; I don’t understand people who jog? Then this gentleman wandered into my line of sight walking along the water’s edge; a man after my own heart and stature I might add. So I waited until he appeared in the sun’s reflection on the water, took the shot, and here is the result.
Caleta de Fuste Marina, Fuerteventura, Canary Islands.
A rim of saliva appears around the open mouth and dropped lower lip of this Alaska brown bear as she continues to track the source of an interesting scent across the sand. A driftwood tree and sea wrack litter the beach. Cook Inlet, Alaska.
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This is among the first of the wildflowers to appear in the part of the world I live in, usually right behind the Siberian Squill. It grows on the forest floor, and its life plan depends on maturing before the leaves develop the forest canopy, shading out the floor.
What it gets called depends on where you live. I was always told it was a Trout Lily, so named for the brown mottling on its green leaves, said to resemble a trout. This name has the advantage of being more scientifically accurate, because it is indeed a member of the Lily family. But other parts of the country will call it Adder’s Tongue, after the shape of the petals when they come out of the ground, or Dogtooth Violet, a name it gets because of the corms in its root system.
The flower is said to be ‘nodding’, a reference to the bend in the stem at the base of the flower that causes the flower to point downwards. The French name, like the scientific name it mirrors, includes the Greek root ‘erythros’, meaning red, which refers to the rusty anthers that are my focal point.
Patches of leaves can be found in the woods, but they are often immature plants. Single leaves will show up for up to seven years before a second leaf joins it and the plant flowers. Some patches are thought to be as old as the forest, up to hundreds of years old. They reproduce both via the seeds that follow the flower, which ants help germinate by eating an outer layer, and via its root systems, making the plant rhizomatic.
My attempts to learn how to secure images of flowers continue.
While waiting for the aurora to appear tonight, took a test shot of the big dipper for focus and exposure. I kind of like the shot, and the aurora is just beginning to appear on the right side of the image. Hope it doesn't cause too much eye strain to find it.
Some of the city lights provide the nice orange glow.
My son, Kevin, who joined me on the photoshoot, had his headlamp on briefly before he realized I was taking the shot and scrambled to shut it off. It happened to provide just enough light in the foreground to make the image more interesting. Happy accidents do occur!
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Ghost screen appearing during a SL deconnexion. Only the left part (numbers rain) is edited.
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and a angel of the lord appeared to me . and said gawd luv a duck mate , is that a real camera OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA
The Hythe Ferry first appears on maps dated 1575. A hand-propelled Narrow Gauge railway was built on the pier in 1909, and was electrified in 1922. Hythe Pier stretches 700 yards (640 m) from the centre of Hythe to the deep water channel of Southampton Water, making it the 7th longest pier in the British Isles. It has been operating ever since then and is the longest continuously running pier train in the British Isles.
Frogspawn appeared in my small garden pond this morning. About a week earlier than the previous earliest appearance in the last 10 years. A male frog was encased in solid ice in the recent sub-zero temperatures and did not survive so I was not optimistic of seeing any spawn this Spring.
This would have been so much better half an hour earlier. But I was otherwise engaged with my daily cappuccino so there
A few deer images taken with the trail camera. Hunting season seems to have closed and the big boys are starting to appear.
Appears to be about 4 years old.
Bombay Hook Delaware.
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Centaurus A, also known as NGC 5128, is a peculiar lenticular galaxy in the constellation Centaurus, which appears to be an elliptical galaxy with a huge superimposed dust lane. It is one of the closest radio galaxies, and its active galactic nucleus has been extensively studied.
Discovery and Identity
NGC 5128 was discovered by James Dunlop on August 4, 1826. John Herschel was next to see it, from South Africa in 1834; he cataloged it as h 3501, which became GC 3525 in his General Catalogue of 1864, and NGC 5128 in J. L. E. Dreyer's New General Catalog. Herschel was first to note this galaxy's peculiarity, in 1847.
Halton Arp included NGC 5128 in his 1966 Atlas of Peculiar Galaxies as one of the best examples of a "disturbed" galaxy with dust absorption.
Amateur Observation
Centaurus A appears approximately 4° north of the naked-eye globular cluster Omega Centauri. At magnitude 7.0, this galaxy is the fifth brightest in the sky, making it ideal for observation, although it is only visible from the southern hemisphere and low northern latitudes. Centaurus A has been spotted with the naked eye by expert observers under very good conditions. The bright central bulge and dark dust lane are visible in finderscopes and large binoculars, and additional structure may be seen in larger telescopes.
NGC 5128 is a "lenticular" galaxy, of intermediate type between elliptical and disk (spiral) galaxies. Its main body has all characteristics of a large elliptical, but a pronounced dust belt is superimposed over the center, forming a disk plane around this galaxy.
The only supernova discovered in Centaurus A so far is SN 1986G, a Type Ia event that reached mag 12.5 in May, 1986.
Properties and Evolution
Centaurus A is located about 11 million light-years away, at the center of one of two subgroups within the Centaurus A/M83 Group. Messier 83 (the Southern Pinwheel Galaxy) is at the center of the other subgroup. These two groups are sometimes identified as one, since the galaxies around Centaurus A and the galaxies around M 83 are physically close to each other, and both subgroups appear to be stationary relative to each other. The Centaurus A/M83 Group is part of the Virgo Supercluster.
NGC 5128's strange morphology is the result of a merger between two smaller galaxies. The bulge of Centaurus A is comprised mainly of evolved red stars. Its dusty disk, however, has been the site of more recent star formation; over 100 star formation regions have been identified in the disk. As observed in other such "starburst" galaxies, a collision is responsible for the intense star formation. Scientists using the Spitzer Space Telescope have confirmed that Centaurus A is an elliptical galaxy going through a collision, devouring a spiral.
In the radio part of the spectrum, Centaurus A exhibits two vast regions of radio emission, running along the polar axis of NGC 5128's disk and extending hundreds of light years in both directions. A relativistic jet from what is believed to be a supermassive black hole at the center of the galaxy is responsible for emissions in the X-ray and radio wavelengths. Radio observations of the jet indicate that the inner parts of the jet are moving at about 1/2 the speed of light. X-rays are produced farther out, as the jet collides with surrounding gases, creating highly energetic particles.
Source: skysafari
RA: 13h 25m 27;8s
DEC: -43° 01’ 04"
Size: 28.9 x 28.9 arcmin
Orientation: Up is 0.397 degrees E of N
Location: Centaurus
Distance: 10-16 Mly
Magnitude: 6.8
Acquisition April 2021
Total acquisition time of 2.5 hours.
Technical Details
Data acquisition: Telescope.Live
Processing: Nicolas ROLLAND
Location: El Sauce Observatory, Rio Hurtado, Chile
L 6 x 600 sec
R 3 x 600 sec
G 3 x 600 sec
B 3 x 600 sec
Optics: Planewave 24“ CDK @ F6.8
Mount: Paramount ME
CCD: FLI PL 9000
Pre Processing: CCDstack, Pixinsight & Excalibrator
Post Processing: Photoshop CC
This seal appears on the cover of the US Patent Publications, often referred to as the "ribbon copy" once issued by the USPTO. While the embossed seal is still used, the red ribbon is no longer on the patent publication received by the patent owner/assignee.
Image stack (35 images) Shot with single off camera strobe (Godox AD200pro/Godox XPProII L tirigger), bare bulb, bounced off a 32 inch white umbrella, mounted on overhead boom, angled at 30 degrees.
Macro Mondays - theme embossed
size of seal - 51.5 mm
Appears out of the fog with 4O90 Leeds -Southampton Liner. Nothing but fresh air behind it. Elford. 4th December 2024
12:19 AM, seems to be a rush hour as the Navajo stream back home from visiting friends. One right after another, they came and went. The park closes at dark and is accessible only to the Navajo residents after that closing.
From my new set, "21 hours of light at Monument Valley".
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... Are Closer Than They Appear
And I'm real happy about that too...
After several rough weeks in dealing with my late father's affair's, Todd and I had a chance to take a couple days off and visit my brother and his family.
The young lady with the wind-blown look is my wonderfully talented niece, Brooke. We had just left the church where I had a chance to see my brother, Phil, perform with the church band, and we were soon on our way to watch Brooke practice with her novice ice skating team. In a few months they will be heading off to Ohio for a competition and should they place, they will be heading off to Spain for the internationals.
I'm sorry I haven't been in touch with everybody lately, but we're still handling a lot of loose ends with my late father's estate. The good news is that there is light at the end of the tunnel and we're finally finding some down time.
BT
I thought I would share this photo taken by my daughter of her beautiful Australian Blue (Red....think Chilli and Bingo)* deaf Australian Cattle Dog Bella getting her present from us on her 7th birthday. Of course the wrapping didn't last long. * Chilli and Bingo appear on the cartoon series "Bluey".
Appeared to be in use as a handyman car of sorts, although it was impressively clean for that!
A not too shabby 205k recorded at last MOT test.
This photo appeared in this week's North Hawaii News, which was published this morning.
This was the first assignment where I was both the story writer and photographer. The article I wrote is found below this photo's byline, seen here:
BILL ADAMS | NORTH HAWAII NEWS
2008 Grammy Award nominee Donald Kauli'a, left, prepares to begin a slack key guitar lesson for five students from Cornell University's Earth and Environmental Systems (EES) Field Program.
The students pictured are, from front-row-top, Kourtney Reynolds, a senior from San Diego, California, Hannah Kubica, a junior from Little Falls, New York, Keisuke Irie, a senior from Bergen County, New Jersey, Matt Connelly, a sophomore from Syracuse, New York, and Tyler Huth, a sophomore from Boston, Massachusetts. In the rear is EES Field Program Director and Professor, Dr. Alexandra Moore.
The session was held at the Waimea Music Exchange store in the Parker Ranch Center this past Saturday.
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Studies In The Art Of The Slack Key
by Bill Adams
The Waimea Music Exchange store at Parker Center was filled with the beautiful sounds of Hawaiian music this past Saturday morning as a group of students from Cornell University participated in a slack key guitar lesson taught by the Big Island's own Don Kauli'a, whose album "Sweet Wahine" was nominated for a 2008 Grammy Award.
The students are enrolled in Cornell's Earth and Environmental Systems (EES) Field Program. A 5-month course which spans the entire spring semester, students engage in field, class and laboratory studies focused on the various ecosystems of our Hawaiian island chain and of Hawaii's history and culture.
Led by Professor Dr. Alexandra Moore, the EES Field Program is based out of Waimea and hosted by the Hawaii Preparatory Academy. The students' living quarters is the 8-bedroom Waiaka House near the main campus of HPA.
Dr. Moore explained, "The students are immersed in studies geared towards "Kumu Pa'a I Ka 'Aina, which translates to 'Knowledge and understanding that comes from the land.'"
The stated mission of the EES Field Program is "To inspire stewardship of the Earth through first-hand experience with the power, and fragility, of Earth's interconnected systems."
Upon completion of the EES Field Program, students will achieve 18 credit hours from courses such as; Field Study of the Earth System, Biogeochemistry of the Hawaiian Islands, Field Study of Marine Ecosystems, Internship Experience, and an Introduction to Hawaiian History and Culture, which included Saturday's slack key guitar lesson.
The Program stresses the importance of respecting the Hawaiian ancestral lands and to give something back to the community by engaging in a variety of service learning (in class) projects and local volunteer opportunities. Students are also encouraged to explore ways in which they can contribute to the well-being of their adopted community.
Before Saturday's lesson began, the students were able to briefly meet and chat with another famous Big Island slack key guitar master, Sonny Lim, a 2007 Grammy Award winner for his work on the album, "Slack Key Guitar Volume 2".
Participating in Saturday's guitar lessons were a diverse group of five Cornell University students; Hannah Kubica, a junior from Little Falls, New York, Keisuke Irie, a senior from Bergen County, New Jersey, Matt Connelly, a sophomore from Syracuse, New York, Kourtney Reynolds, a senior from San Diego, California and Tyler Huth, a sophomore from Boston, Massachusetts.
More information about Cornell University's EES Field Program can be found on the Internet at www.geo.cornell.edu/hawaii.
What appear to be Autumn leaves swirling around this squirrel are the seed sail bracts of a lime tree. This year our trees seem unusually stressed and acers and limes in particular aborted their seeds long before maturity.
A great cloud floating behind them appeared like a vast mountain, and upon it Eliza saw her own shadow and those of the eleven swans, looking gigantic in size. Altogether it formed a more beautiful picture than she had ever seen; but as the sun rose higher, and the clouds were left behind, the shadowy picture vanished away.
hca.gilead.org.il/wild_swa.html
That’s my favorite story.
I still remember my Mum reading me the story so often, so I wanted to be called Eliza and have eleven brothers. We used to cry almost every time when reading this fairytale. It is still my favorite. It’s just now I cry for different things.
Nayla doesn't appear to like me looking at her. She stopped when I walked up yesterday, and mind you, I would have too if the glass was not there. I think she wanted to be at her nice heated spot up front.
Analogue / Film / Medium Format: Ensign Selfix 820 (folding camera with native 6x6 e 6x9 masks) + Ross Xpres 105mm f/3.8 + 8 speed Epsilon shutter + Fomapan 400 (pushed 2 stop)
This scene appeared absolutely uninteresting to me in the summer when all the plants were covered in green leaves. But as often when most of them has fallen, much more structure and character is unveiled. Love the shots with thousands of sticks, as it remembers me to pencil strokes. And for sure, the red color complements wonderfully the white snow.
December 2022 | Niefern
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The sun appears briefly across the limestone of Feizor. A place with history and atmosphere. It's a wonder this shot happened at all, really. Firstly, getting up for sunrise is still an effort..... The wind was fierce and it had, moments before,blown my camera over,smashed the lens hood and unknown to me, had knocked the camera onto manual focus. So it was luck that this appears to be in focus. A difficult exposure, and the tree was blowing so wildly that it appears to be moving, even in a still! Thanks for the new location Steve!
This ice appearers an old wood, in the wood need to be a special fungi that makes lots of small fissures by living from the wood . If temperatures fall slightly under 0° and humidity is high water out of the fissures makes crystals on the surface, the fungi produces gas by digesting the wood, that more water comes out the fissures and push the existing crystals forward and forward and make this fine structure
Explore: Aug 28, 2009 #11
And His glory appears
Like the light from the sun
Age to age He shine
Oh, look to the skies
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One of the pleasures of winter near the coast is the way water and wind work together to wrap, create terrific images. This makes a lombard poplar appear to be a fancy dancer
It would appear that the New Life Church had a busy congregation, this morning ... lots of cars parked along the entrance and street!
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Well, it certainly appears that the farmer has done a wonderful job in this field! I am sure that I recall noticing that the farmer had already gathered crops but now it looks like something else is being grown!
365/2025 - Still The Wheel Turns ...
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February 07, 2015
"Life appears to me too short to be spent in nursing animosity, or registering wrongs." - Charlotte Bronte
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A busy Saturday of running around and finishing up some errands from yesterday so there wasn't too much time for photography.
But that's okay because now tomorrow is pretty much freed up for whatever I'd like to do. Which will probably be some cooking, maybe some baking and hopefully a lot of reading... or you know, I'll find other things to keep myself busy and wonder where the day went. That does seem to be what happens more times than not with me.
Anyway, hope everyone has had a good day.
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Bailey Longcloth enters the med den heading for Ioh's bed. She check brain function and vitals all seeming to be unchanged from the morning. "Bro, you've got a lot of people worried about you." she'd stare down at her brother watching him appearing to be asleep
Bianca Bender comes up the stairs she'd see Ravi but heads straight into the Med Den, knowing Elise is following.
Ravenne Karu glances over and mewls to the two.
Bianca Bender blinks stopping inside the door...going forward..."Dazy...." sound suncertain...something..the build...the scent under the pink dye..isn't right...
Elise Capalini follows Bianca into the med den. That pink isn't right...and neither is that scent... "What the fuck is going on?" she growls.
Bailey Longcloth turns hearing her name, "O hai" she'd smile to both Bianca and Elise . She shrugs, "What do you mean? I know I haven't been around much but.."
Bianca Bender seconds Elise's growl...her's more confused..but relief as well...."Bails!" frowns when she says that...and looks at Elise....and back to Bails..."Cut it out...what the hell's going on..."
Bailey Longcloth rolls her eyes, "Not you too Bianca, I'm Dazy, -not- Bails"
Elise Capalini only stares, feeling like she's in a nightmare.
Bianca Bender would take a few steps forward...and reaches out fingering the very identafiable necklace around your neck unless you step back...she'd look up either way...gritting between her teeth..."Try...Again."
Bailey Longcloth steps back a bit before Bianca can grab the collar, "Yeah, it's Bails' I sent her home. She'd left it here when she woke up. I fixed the clasp and put it on so I didn't lose it" she'd shake her head at the stitcher, everyone had to be delusional
Bailey Longcloth stares back at Bianca, "Fine I'll do it but I checked him this morning and he's fine" she'd go over to the sink washing her hands before putting on gloves. She'd take a syringe out of the cabinet before turning to the med cabinet. She'd take her key out and unlock it taking the anticoagulant down, measuring the dosage and turning back to inject it into Ioh's IV
Elise Capalini shoves her PDA away, watching the Dazy-Bails with the drugs. Did Bianca trust her to actually do that? Shit....shit...shit. "Bianca, i want her strapped to the other bed. This isn't--right."
Ravenne Karu steps just inside still holding her PDA. She opens her mouth, then closes it, waiting for a moment.
Elise Capalini snarls as the doors open, but quiets when she sees Ravi. "Ravi--do you have intel on Dazy?"
Bianca Bender frowns...watching Bails follow her orders...and would stride forward reaching for Bails hand before she can inject the drugs into the IV, "Damn you...." pulls the hand back...."You should know that's to much..you'll turn his blood into water..." mrowls and looks over at Elise but nods, "See if you can find the other restraints in the work room." seeing as Ioh is already strapped down..why not make it a family affair.
Bailey Longcloth hears her name, "I'm standing right here!" she'd growl at no one believing she was who she said she was
Ravenne Karu shakes her head and murmurs quietly "No.. I was wonderinf if there was anything I could do... though.." she steps in closer and whispers to Elise, glancing over to the pink haired one.
Eamon Cale turns toward the warm feathered weight on his shoulder, and murmurs soft Gaelic to her. Lenore murrs and nibbles at his wild black hair, then she spreads her wings and launches into the gloom, winging her swift way to the top of the building before him, to wait. The priest watches her go, then he raps on the med den doors with the head of his cane.
Bailey Longcloth growls hearing the mention of restraints as Bianca grabs the syringe, "You are -not- restraining me! You know..." she'd begin to tense as if she was gonna run right past them all
Elise Capalini moves toward the work room, talking to Ravi as she goes. "You're a ghost--what's the first step? We gather intel. Dazy's last known location...search in and around the den for any evidence--is this tied to the bombings or is this something else?" She roots through lockers and finds restraints, her eye narrowing.
Bianca Bender would make a quick decision...she'd let the syring fall and would make a grab for Bails arm twisting it up and into her back..."No you don't." she'd felt the girls need to sprint.
Bailey Longcloth growls and tries to pull away from Bianca, "You can't... you wouldn't do this to me" she'd twist her head to look at Bianca, the fear and terror in her eyes plainly obvious
Ravenne Karu turns suddenly as there's a rap on the door. She steps forward to open it, then hears a commotion behind, turning back before she saw who was on the other side, having unlocked the door but not opened it quite yet. "Right. Was thinking on that."
Bianca Bender murrs and bites her lip hard...but keeps the pressure on Bails arm..."It's for your own good kitteh...don't want you out running around...with someone else brain in your head...or what ever the fuck is going on...." she'd look towards the door at the rap but keeps a tight hold on Bails, adding an arm wrapped around the front of her shoulders and pulling Bails back against her chest...."Don't fight...you'll end up dislocating..or having me break your arm...and we really don't want that now do we..." looks frantic as she sees Eamon coming through the door.
Eamon Cale hears the click of the lock, but no one opens the door. One dark brow arches slightly, and a bit more when he hears the sounds of a commotion on the other side. He shifts his cane beneath his arm and opens the door, and slowly steps inside... only to find himself faced with a psychedelic Bails. "What in the name o' the Mother o' God...?"
Elise Capalini comes back into the other room, still snarling, restraints held in one hand. "Dazy," she says to the cat who is obviously not Dazy, "this is for your own safety--we don't wnat you to hurt yourself...or Ioh...or anyone in here." She looks at Eamon and blinks. "Welcome to the mad house, love."
[Fall & Spring] In the Fall, thousands of Tree Swallows start migrating appearing like swarms of insects. Here, they blanketed the beach at Lake Erie. Maumee Bay.
This vessel appears to have broken its anchor cable or connection to a moorage buoy and then blown onto the mud flats in one of the recent wind storms. I have noticed this vessel at anchor within Cowichan Bay in the common anchorage area. As pointed out by Dave Forbes it does not appear to have propeller.