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Avoid Bay taken during our road trip to the Eyre Peninsula, South Australia.
Not sure why this beautiful beach has that name. But certainly a great beach scenery especially on a cold winter's day.
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Peaceful Travel Tuesday
This beautiful cat seems to be gone - forever, I'm afraid -- s/he loved to be with people, who showed him/her any interest... And just like so many cats she did not avoid vehicles.
While the barley field is avoiding the wind and deeply bowing down before it, a group of poppies is standing upright and resisting.
That's how it is everywhere, that's how it always has been and that's how it will be forever, no matter if the farmer doesn't like it, or the neighbours or the barley.
The true nature will always find a way and it never was the unquestioning conformity.
Während das Gerstenfeld dem Wind ausweicht und sich tief vor ihm verneigt, stehen ein paar Mohnblumen aufrecht und halten dagegen.
So ist es überall, so war es immer und so wird es immer sein, auch wenn das dem Bauern nicht gefallen sollte, oder dem Nachbarn oder der Gerste.
Die wahre Natur, findet immer einen Weg und dieser war nie die bedingungslose Konformität.
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Woe unto them that join house to house, that lay field to field, till there be no place that they may be placed alone in the midst of the earth!
-- Isaiah 5:8, The Bible, King James Version
[So endeth the Lesson for the day (and beyond)...]
"Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent."
- Victor Hugo
Musical Inspiration: Don't Put Dirt On My Grave Just Yet - Hayden Panettiere.
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A quiet spot on the summit of Snowdon last week ...
I'll certainly avoid this area for a few days ! ...Happy Easter to you all . X
This is somewhere between Gillette and Rawlins Wyoming, windy as I traversed from I-90 to I-80, I believe this was south of Casper on WY 220. I've never driven this route before, so a bit of a new adventure that I'll avoid in winter. The load I was hauling was pretty heavy, GVW (gross vehicle weight) just under 80, 000 lbs so the wind wasn't too much of a problem. The strange thing is the disorientating effect the snow had as it moved across the road, it visually felt like I wasn't moving, an optical illusion, I had to look into the distance to avoid the uncomfortable feeling it created. I've run across this at night and it's even worse.
If you don't like cats, just avoid my Flickr stream for the next week. Cats are a constant source of happiness for me and right now, seeing as how I can't see my family, they are my furmily.
This cat's name is PJ Harvey, in case you didn't know, and she's a very creative and talented meowsician from England.
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The site is located on the banks of River Jordan at 380 Meters Below Sea Level, just 5 miles North of the Dead Sea, the final destination of the river.
River Jordan gives the pilgrims and tourists alike the feeling of authenticity.
This site is considered a holy place as it is where Jesus Christ was baptized by John the Baptist an event that changed human history and marked the dawn of Christianity.
Also, there is a number of Churches in the area.
Worth visiting. better during cooler months to avoid the Jordan Valley high temperatures.
www.flickr.com/photos/128454275@N05/49580161987/in/photos...
Looking at our climate change problems.
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I will do anything to avoid speaking on the phone :-)
Debora Robertson, "It's not just millennials: the rise of the midlife phone-phobe," Telegraph.co.uk, 2018
HBW! it appears i have plenty of company who also prefer to avoid the phone
cornus, cornelian cherry dogwood, 'Spring Glow', j c raulston arboretum, ncsu, raleigh, north carolina
― Helen Keller
Our maiden voyage with our new UTV. It is something I have always wanted and constantly made up a reason not to get. With a recent health scare, I decided we were put here not to be afraid of taking risks, but to live life to the fullest. I always thought it was the things in life that we did that we eventually regretted. I soon realized that it is actually the things we didn't do, out of fear or anxiety, that we end up regretting. We only get one chance at life. There are no reset buttons, only a game over. I am going to try and get my one chance right.
P.S. I always have to name my vehicles. Just like a boat, everything must be named. Meet Tempy (Temperamental). :)
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The most water I've ever seen coming over this waterfall, which reduces to a trickle in dry weather. The whole bowl was filled with windblown spray and I couldn't avoid it, despite wiping the lens before each shot.
I usually avoid taking photos of a scene that I have seen photographed by so many before me. However not the other day. We finished a hike in the redwoods and when walking back to the car the sun broke through the clouds for a moment before setting so I set up my tripod and took this panorama.
HANDLEY PAGE VICTOR XL231_Yorkshire Air Museum_former RAF Elvington
The Handley Page Victor is a British jet-powered strategic bomber, developed and produced by the Handley Page Aircraft Company, which served during the Cold War. It was the third and final V-bomber to be operated by the Royal Air Force (RAF), the other two being the Avro Vulcan and the Vickers Valiant. The Victor had been developed as part of the United Kingdom's airborne nuclear deterrent. In 1968, it was retired from the nuclear mission following the discovery of fatigue cracks, which had been exacerbated by the RAF's adoption of a low-altitude flight profile to avoid interception.
A number of Victors were modified for strategic reconnaissance, using a combination of radar, cameras, and other sensors. As the nuclear deterrence mission was given to the Royal Navy's submarine-launched Polaris missiles in 1969, a large V-bomber fleet could not be justified. Consequently, many of the surviving Victors were converted into aerial refuelling tankers. During the Falklands War, Victor tankers were used in the airborne logistics operation to repeatedly refuel Vulcan bombers on their way to and from the Black Buck raids.
The Victor was the last of the V-bombers to be retired, the final aircraft being removed from service on 15 October 1993. In its refuelling role, it was replaced by the Vickers VC10 and the Lockheed Tristar.
Wikipedia
While staying at home to avoid Covid-19 I found a photography project in the back woods---the northern spring ephemeral wildflowers.
I dusted off my Lensbaby Velvet 56 and my Pentax 100mm macro and walked every morning looking for wildflowers in bloom. The nice thing is they come in waves---first the bloodroot, then violets, then mayapples, etc.
My goal has not been just to record the flower, but to make artistically pleasing images of them. This means taking a lot of pictures with various lens and then plenty of processing and cropping. I continue taking pictures of a particular species until I get what I want.
This image of False Solomon's Seal is the one I wanted!
false solomon's seal
arching out over the forest floor
a spring beauty
Image and haiku by John Henry Gremmer
To avoid predators a lot of caterpillars rely on camourflage, but some, like this Grey Dagger Moth caterpillar, advertise warning signs. Apart from the obvious dagger, by its striking red and yellow colouration it also signals it's poisonous to eat. This one appeared on a blackthorn bush in my garden, one of its host plants.
Many thanks for your comments. Wishing you well in all your undertakings.
To avoid any chance of the Woodland Pulp, LLC pulp and tissue paper mill shutting down as a result of the longer than normal period without rail service, Eastern Maine Railway rounded up enough manpower, including three supervisors, to operate the Jordan Spreader from Milltown to Woodland on Sunday to break the line open and spread the mill yard. The former Maine Central Woodland Branch is now owned by the mill with Irving's EMR subsidiary contracted to operate the line. Up until 2012 the branch was owned and operated by Pan Am Railways, isolated from the rest of their system when the Calais Branch was abandoned in 1985. The extra is about to pass under the Neilds Avenue overpass with the road to the new international border crossing in the background.
Calais, Maine
February 19, 2017
Photographed in my back yard, Yakima County, Washington. She is sticking her tongue out at me. She tried to head in a Golden Currant shrub so avoid photographs but I spotted her.
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We all know people who go to great lengths to avoid having their photo taken. . . even though Lynn has been subject to thousands of images over the years. . .
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Pied-billed Grebes are not very plentiful during winter in southern Ontario, since most suitable foraging locations are frozen.
All my life I avoided poinsettias.
First, their name is hard to spell.
Second, I found out that cats are allergic to them.
I saw them flooding the church I went to around Christmas time
I immediately wanted to hide under a pew
I thought…well, I guess this is not a feline friendly space
I didn’t want to get attached to them.
Also, I found them quite ugly to be honest
Their bright red petals did nothing for me at all
Almost a gaudy existence like bad nail polish
So, imagine my surprise when, at 45 years old
I walked into a conservatory in Rochester
With a poinsettias display
And I looked deep into the center and saw
A few sets of eyes gazing back at me.
I felt seen for the first time even if I didn’t want to be seen.
For my entire existence, the poinsettias saw
An awkward creature who was not quite sure of herself
Perpetually lonely even in a crowded room
Always a little uncoordinated or dyspraxic
Several different choruses going on in her head at once
I forgot that plants have ways of knowing who you really are.
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