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I've been working so hard planting *all* the right flowers, trying to attract bees and butterflies to my yard. It's starting to pay off!
Excerpt from www.simcoepanorama.ca/:
The Simcoe Christmas Panorama has grown to more than 60 displays and 500,000 lights. Hundreds of decorated trees and our displays turn Simcoe’s downtown parks into a winter wonderland that generations have been enjoying for over 60 years. Come experience the magic and enjoy horse drawn trolley rides, character meet and greets, and a warm cup of hot chocolate while you walk under the lights at the Simcoe Christmas Panorama River of Lights!
This we found near Elk Rapids at the Walk of Art Sculpture Gallery. This specific art is called Blue Dragon. 15 acre outdoor gallery on East Grand Traverse Bay, where 35 sculptures grace the forest and beach. Never seen the likes and pretty darn cool.
Highlands, Iceland
The Highlands Saga - Chapter I
And in the summer, the snows melted and the passes to the highlands were open. Earl Thor took the two foreigners to the land where no one lived, because they wanted to see dragons. After many days they arrived at Langisjór, the long lake, where the dragon Jǫrmungandr lived. For many miles they walked and walked, up and down on the edge of the lake, and as the midnight sun turned to blue, they looked back. Whereat the two foreigners said to Thor “Show us this beast”, and Thor said “Be quiet; for you are standing upon its tail”.
Taken from a point on the shore this photo taken over a century ago, was probably quite carefully planned, yet, seeming spontaneous, it captures a moment of unalloyed content.
This image is from C.C.Lynam's 'The Log of the Blue Dragon' 1892-1904, London: A. H. Bullen 1907. The photo was taken in 1904 by Lynam of his family sailing in Loch Nevis - which is heaven in Gaelic. My seafaring mentor Denys Rayner, who read the book when at school, wrote that it infected him with "the sailing canker"
Denys Rayner (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denys_Rayner) shared Lynam’s preference for yachts in which the skipper removes ‘grease off a plate covered by the cold gravy of the mutton-chop’, keeps a cabin tidy and scrapes ice from its roof before dawn. Lynam was among the first to enjoy a kind of yachting that did not include much larger boats than the 'Blue Dragon' - 25 foot, 2.2 tonnes - and did not rely on paid hands or wearing blazers and caps and racing. He pre-dated by 20 years Kenneth Graham's 1917 remark through Rattie about the pleasures of messing about in boats in 'The Wind in the Willows'. I respect people who race around the world in sailing boats, but I find the idea of circumnavigating without stopping the opposite of how a small boat should be enjoyed. I have sailed across the Atlantic in a 22 footer but one of the tests of seamanship is finding and getting in and out of a multitude of different harbours and anchorages. Just as Lynam enthused Rayner, so Rayner infused me with the joys of visiting lots of places in small boats. www.flickr.com/photos/sibadd/414934102/
C. C. Lynam ("Skipper") was headmaster of Dragon School, Oxford, England 1886–1920,
Blue Dragon (Glaucus atlanticus). I found a few of these washed up on our locall beach after a storm alongside their jellyfish prey, Blue Bottles (aka Portugese man o' war). They are only an inch or so long, but have a potent stung, as they eat the tentacles of the jelly and reprocess them, using the stinging cells in their "wings". This one was resurrected after I put it in a bucket of seawater.
This is probably one of the best dragonfly shots I've ever captured, owed mostly to the cooperation of the insect, who really liked the particular stalk of grass that it kept returning to.
Until I started doing photography, I really didn't pay much attention to things like dragonflies. I noticed the ugly, brown ones that would swarm around when it was getting ready to rain, but it wasn't until I picked up my first digital camera that I began to notice all the different colors they came in! There were quite a few blue ones this particular day, but the one I dearly wanted to capture was a really large, red one, that was frantically maneuvering around the pond, but not landing on anything for me to get a fix on him! One of these days. At least the blues were agreeable, and I managed to capture a lot of good shots.
I wanted to wait for four photos to be made, but this is taking toooo long. And, I want to start a new contest soon. For 60 followers, I guess. I had a great idea for one... So,
3rd place goes to: Bluedragon 7477!!! With Batmerican Dad (name by me)
2nd place goes to: BrickMillan!! With fighting means family! (name by me, again.)
And 1st place goes to...
Brickpix!!! With "did the Joker just use his Loony Fumes, or am I just seeing things?" (for the last time, name by me.)
You win an an appearance in my comics! (specifically Mystic comics, otherwise you would have to wait a while.) Congratulations!
~Scarecrow
Glaucus atlanticus (common names include the sea swallow, blue angel, blue glaucus, blue dragon, blue sea slug and blue ocean slug) is a species of small, blue sea slug, a pelagic aeolid nudibranch. Size 3 cm.
KlvArea: Character by »Ephiq«, spotted in the Salt-Depot at night. Early December 2013. – Thanx to ›Ephiq‹ for support.
This species of nudibranch is found only in New South Wales and occurs often in the Sydney area. Its scientific name is pteraeolidia ianthina.
Cette espèce de nudibranche est endémique des Nouvelles Galles du Sud, et se rencontre plus particulièrement dans la région de Sydney. Son nom commun est "blue dragon" (dragon bleu) et son nom scientifique pteraeolidia ianthina.
mixed media, 24x32 cm
Last June I was on a canoe trip in Spreewald . I was so full of all I had seen and experienced that I have been painting 20 mixed media paintings about its mood and my memories, in the meantime. I might go on ...
The blue dragonflies fascinated me.Their blue could only be seen for a very short moment depending on the light and movement. So what pleasure to be able to " catch" it permanently in a painting!
There's a video about the trip here, too. You can see the surroundings from the boat.
Around Lake superior it was a festival of dragon flies sort of... they were every where.. This one was on the door to a shack... big and blue with those humongous eyes... I was able to creep up on him and click quite a few shots... He looked like he was modelling for me :) looking directly at my cam as it moved...
Roasting day+hangover=pain..but all good in the end.
Full joiner soon - Rmer,Hoxe,Mons,Solve,Biro & Mafia
"If I had to choose a religion, the sun as the universal giver of life would be my god."
Napoleon Bonaparte
"Some painters transform the sun into a yellow spot, others transform a yellow spot into the sun."
Pablo Picasso
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Saw this blue vapour like dragon image formed by trees near the sea at night. This photo and quote was taken and uploaded in October 2010 .
Below is an interesting passage on dragons taken from "Chinese dragon Wikipedia"
"Ruler of weather and water
....Dragon King
Chinese dragons are strongly associated with water in popular belief. They are believed to be the rulers of moving bodies of water, such as waterfalls, rivers, or seas. They can show themselves as water spouts (tornado or twister over water). …………There are four major Dragon Kings, representing each of the four seas: the East Sea (corresponding to the East China Sea), the South Sea (corresponding to the South China Sea), the West Sea (sometimes seen as the Indian Ocean and beyond), and the North Sea (sometimes seen as Lake Baikal).
Because of this association, they are seen as "in charge" of water-related weather phenomenon. In premodern times, many Chinese villages (especially those close to rivers and seas) had temples dedicated to their local "dragon king". In times of drought or flooding, it was customary for the local gentry and government officials to lead the community in offering sacrifices and conducting other religious rites to appease the dragon, either to ask for rain or a cessation thereof..."