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• A quiet cup, a morning sky,
The breeze that wanders softly by.
No need for more than this small grace
A gentle heart, an open space.
The simplest things are slow to fade;
In silent moments, joy is made.
Less to carry, more to see
A lighter life, a spirit free.
Went out for some more sunrise photos but I couldn't capture the right lighting and fit and then I headed home.
Walking up from the beach I turned around and this reminds me of what every photographer suggests ... when you can't find you want in front of you ... turn around!
This seagull didn't even attempt to communicate with me but concentrated on what was happening far away: farther away than I could see. Strangely I heard a voice in the breeze about something about Hawaii ...
But it didn't matter because I captured the entire scene and now I get to show you what I almost missed if I continued to just look ahead ...
Alternate Story:
Seaguille awoke from the night before with a chainsaw hangover and realized he had to change the pattern of his life. It was simple. Stay where he was or quit the nocturnal flying and learn to live a normal life.
then he looked out across the Salish Sea and realized that the San Juan Islands were just the first step ... he was young, he was proud and Juanita was just down at the next lamp post. They could make a life somewhere, anywhere but here ...
When the sun hit sea, he had made his decision. Yes anywhere was different than here ... but he would always wake up with himself ... so he decided to stay, at least for a day.
Juanita flew closer and gave him the squawk. He smiled. It was settled. They found a perch on the cliffs and raised 17 broods of young seagulls who all longed to look at the sea ... but they all stayed home because home really is where the heart is ...
Coffee in the Moonlight tastes so much Better, and you can Hear the🎶 Moonlight Sonata🎶 very softly in the Darkness of the Night.....
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Autumn comes early and doesn't last long here above the 63rd parallel, but in its fleeting moment there is nowhere else on earth that can compare.
It's the final weekend of the 2017 summer passenger season and the third to last southbound Denali Star (train 230S), the flagship of the Alaska Railroad's fleet, is climbing the nearly 1% grade on the long tangent here at about MP 319.7 on the ARRC mainline. The foothills of the Alaska Range are wildly ablaze in hues of gold and crimson, and the SD70MACs leading the way are perfectly attuned to their native land.
Cantwell, Alaska
Friday September 15, 2017
...but I think it's a little small for me. From a cutout by Tea Makipaa at Laumeier Sculpture Park, St. Louis, MO, USA
A lovely little fir stands proud against its grown up neighbour. Taken in my favourite sea of ferns in Hillock Wood, Buckinghamshire.
Not the best photo, but it's a tiny raptor -- America's smallest falcon -- captured at a great distance under rain and wind with an underperforming camera. Those are my excuses, but I'm calling this a keeper anyway because I've finally been able to capture this kestrel female. She was hanging out at the intersection of U.S. 20 and Country Club Road; I've seen her there often. ©2020 John M. Hudson | jmhudson1.com
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But at her friend, not me who was working candidly :)
Seen in a stairwell at Auckland Art Gallery.
Have a good Sunday. Now we are supposed to be in Spring we had hail storms yesterday.
Blurred, but still my best (most complete) shot of Barbara Hepworth' sculpture (plaster, 1958). Seen in the Barbara Hepworth Museum in St. Ives, Cornwall. When I say "complete" I mean to be as close as possible to the sculptor's ability to let the sea speak through her. The weather and light that day were very poor and I also was not well enough to keep the camera still. Yet, the formidable power of the sculpture will hopefully get through.
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In my most prior post, you will see an immature male flame-colored tanager. This image shows an immature red crossbill, which is known as the common crossbill in Europe. Both posts show the patchy colouration of birds moulting into adult male breeding plumage. Personally, I find these immatures to be more appealing than the mature birds, in terms of plumage.
Red/common crossbills are quite wide-spread in the northern hemisphere and are resident as far south as Central America.
I've read that there are quite a number of subspecies, based on regional differences, with some differences being due to their primary food source. Their crossed bills can vary in shape depending on the conifer species they frequent. For example, heavier bills are needed for pine seed extraction than for fir or spruce seed extraction.
A knob billed duck male. Origin of his name is quite obvious from this image, although the female doesn't have this knob shape on the beak.
Compared to the simple door I posted yesterday, this is a much grander doorway in Chefchaouen, Morocco
Be the black sheep but not a statistic
May not know who you are but you know what you got
So hang on to the absurd
Hey, have you heard?
Hope's not a four-letter word
Taken at Sunnys
I posted a few frames of this bird after a fish, but never shared the one with its prize. He really worked to catch this needlefish. The rest of the series is in the comments.
This cub wanted to come check out my little den but I told him he needed to go downriver and catch up with his mom.
His mom was down in the water way over to the right and out of the frame. I'd been standing on the porch of my cabin waiting for the two of them to head on downriver so I could go get some coffee.
But this little guy was so curious and walked up close to my porch where I was standing. Don't worry, I was right by my door and could have stepped in very quickly.
He was just curious and wanted to check me out for a second and then went on down the way to catch up with mom.
There's no crop on this
Rivière du Gouffre, Baie-St-Paul (Charlevoix)
Ice is melting slowly but surely.
Budding will start and will grow quickly!
The summer season is not as so long than in other countries but the vitality of growing makes a difference and permit to join the great producers countries.
Le printemps est tardif cette année.
Mais l'effet combiné du vent et du soleil fait son oeuvre.
La glace fond lentement mais sûrement.
Le bougeonnement est débuté sans que cela ne paraisse trop dans bien des régions du Québec.
La saison estivale est plus courte que dans d'autres pays mais la vitalité de la croissance est si rapide qu'elle permet de figurer parmi les grands producteurs mondiaux en agriculture.
... but she liked me!
Don't know what flowers they are, but they looked lovely.
Anyone know what they are ... ?
Thank you to Helen Orozco for the ID.
Better viewed large and thank you for your favourites.
You're beautiful, that's for sure
You'll never ever fade
You're lovely, but it's not for sure
That I won't ever change
And though my love is rare
Though my love is true
[Chorus]
I'm like a bird, I'll only fly away
I don't know where my soul is (soul is)
I don't know where my home is
And baby, all I need for you to know is
I'm like a bird, I'll only fly away
I don't know where my soul is (soul is)
I don't know where my home is
All I need for you to know is
Your faith in me brings me to tears (oh)
Even after all these years
And it pains me so much to tell
That you don't know me that well
And though my love is rare
Though my love is true
I'm like a bird, I'll only fly away
I don't know where my soul is (soul is)
I don't know where my home is
And baby, all I need for you to know is
I'm like a bird, I'll only fly away
I don't know where my soul is (soul is)
I don't know where my home is
And baby, all I need for you to know is
It's not that I wanna say goodbye
It's just that every time you try
To tell me that you love me (oh, oh)
Each and every single day
I know I'm gonna have to eventually
Give you away
And though my love is rare
And though my love is true, yeah
Hey, I'm just scared
That we may fall through
Yeah, yeah-yeah, yeah, yeah
I'm like a bird (I'm like a bird)
I don't know where my soul is (soul is)
I don't know where my home is
And baby, all I need for you to know is
I'm like a bird, I'll only fly away
I don't know where my soul is (soul is)
I don't know where my home is
And baby, all I need for you to know is
I'm like a bird, I'll only fly away
(I don't know where my soul is)
I don't know where my soul is (soul is)
(I don't know where my home is, oh)
I don't know where my home is
And baby, all I need for you to know is
I'm like a bird, I'll only fly away
(I don't know where my soul is)
(I don't know where my home is)
I don't know where my soul is (soul is)
I don't know where my home is
And baby, all I need for you to know is
I'm like a bird, I'll only fly away
I don't know where my soul is (soul is)
I don't know where my home is
And baby, all I need for you to know is
I'm like a bird, I'll only fly away
I don't know where my soul is (soul is)
I don't know where my home is
~Nelly Furtado
Song: I'm Like a Bird
Male Impala (Aepyceros melampus) cautiously takes a drink from the Chobe River at sunset. He's thirsty, but there are Crocodiles in the water - so he's alert.
Sorry but I went back today in better light so just had to post some more shots of this stunning bird.
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There is no world without Verona wall , but purgatory torure hell itsele. Hence banished is banished from the world , end world's exile is death ........
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“I don't think of all the misery, but of the beauty that still remains.”
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