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Besides all the beautiful swans to enjoy, there are ducks and geese by the thousands staging here along the Upper Mississippi River now too. The Mississippi River is one of major migration corridors for waterfowl, raptors, shorebirds and songbirds as all these birds make the smart move south from Canada to the Gulf Coast and beyond. No matter where you look across the wide Mississippi River valley here by Brownsville you can see dozens or hundreds of birds in the air almost all the time.
The first mention of Middachten appears in the year 1190, and although the castle dates from the early Middle Ages, the house in its present form was built towards the end of the 17th century and still includes some medieval parts. Middachten is unique in that it is still a real, working estate. Besides the castle, park and gardens, the estate also includes farms, woods and agricultural land.
Middachten has never been sold but has always passed from one generation to another. As a result of this, the interior of the castle is complete and still has many of the original household effects, including a large collection of portraits and much 17th, 18th, 19th and 20th century furniture. The castle also has the original cupboards filled with collections of china, silver and glass-wear, and antique linen. The management of the estate is in the hands of the 25th Lord of Middachten, Count zu Ortenburg.
Your wedding at Middachten Castle would be an unforgettable experience for you and your guests. You would be welcomed at the castle steps from where you would be led through the vestibule with its beautiful staircase to the great hall. Here an official from the Rheden Borough Council would conduct the civil wedding ceremony. The gardens around the castle form a wonderful location for your wedding photographs.
Just down the road there is a hardware store owned by a man who likes to collect eclectic things---many, many things. Besides the hardware store, there are four big barns filled with building supplies and other odd things.
The fields around these buildings are populated with old cars and trucks, farm machinery, giant models of horses, giraffes, and even Elvis. This image provides just a sample of what's on the grounds.
collection
treasures piling up through time
make an offer
Image and haiku by John Henry Gremmer
besides singing birds no noise at all for a while in a woodland area of Lake Manyara NP in Tanzania and suddenly a tusker appears right before us.
Elephants can move remarkably silently despite their size
African Savanna Elephant or African Bush Elephant
In 2021 the IUCN Red List Status was changed to ENDANGERED
loxodonta africana
Afrikaanse olifant
Eléphant d'Afrique
Afrikanischer Elefant
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Besides the puffins there were lots of Black-legged kittiwakes nesting on the side of the Látrabjarg cliffs. I see the adult here has a band on it.
Some species info: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black-legged_kittiwake
If you didn't know where this chickadee was photographed, you'd probably pass it off as a black-capped chickadee. However, I was in the Chiricahua Mountains here, one of only two localized places in the United States where you can see a Mexican chickadee. Even in the Chiricahua Mountains, Mexican chickadees are found only at high elevations and this bird was catching bugs to eat at about 8500 feet above sea level. Notice how the black bib beneath its bill extends much further onto its breast in comparison to a black-capped chickadee. The other obvious difference, besides its call, are the gray feathers along its flanks, as black-capped chickadees sport buff-colored flank feathers.
Finally had some uninterrupted time to spend on Flickr. Besides being busy, who isn't, often I'll have 30 minutes or an hour of free time, but feel overwhelmed at the prospect of jumping in, knowing I won't get many visits in. I know, many of you have said don't worry, pickup with latest posts. I hate missing what you've shared. So here's what I'm going to do; hop on the live feed whenever I have just a little time. I think that will help me from falling too far behind.
Also, need to probably unfollow a few folks that have apparently given up on Flickr, haven't posted for more than 6 months and are no longer visiting. Then add some of the folks that have been following my work pretty regularly. If I had time I'd follow a couple of hundred, but I don't. Keeping until retirement to 100 or less is hard enough as is.
Note to people I don't follow, those that visit and just fav, I'll do my best to visit and return the favor, it's only fair. If I'm not currently following you and you'd like me to, please fav and comment on pictures you like, I'll notice that more than favs alone. If you've read this far, you're probably somebody that should be added.
About this picture; took it just over two years ago near the top of Donner Pass. Decided with so many pictures ready to post I'm going to alternate between newer pictures and older pictures. Some of my personal favorites are languishing in digital purgatory waiting to be seen. Gotta help em out.
Finally, thank you to my best Flickr friends. You've encouraged and taught me much. Know I try to return that friendship with every visit.
(besides black is sooo much more flattering to my figure!)
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Model: Skye McLeod Fairywren
Bento Mesh Head: Catwa Tala
Bento Mesh Body: Maitreya Lara
Face/Body Applier: Glam Affair Bad Girl Polar
Body Tatt: Winter is Here by Ab.Fab
Hair: Venezia by eXxEss
Ensemble: Miss Santa (Onyx) by *LuLu* (incl. top, boots, skirt, socks, & hat, and is also available in red)
StudyFrench Stilleto nails: SlackGirl
Nightmare Rings: (Yummy)
Pose taken from Bonnie & Clyde pose series by {NANTRA}
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The modern Santa Claus by BOUDOIR
Baby Krampus: *HEXtraordinary*
I’ve lost a bit of mojo getting out to the beach for photography these last couple of months. I’ve been giving too much priority to working out and partying. In my defence it was Christmas and New Year I guess. Time to change that! I think I’ve found my motivation in a 100X group on Flickr , where you commit to taking 100 photos of subject “X”. Not to be confused with 100 X-rated photos 😉 So I’ve committed to taking 100 new “Waterscapes” this coming year. I’ve been to all but a couple of the coast’s 49 beaches , but why not go back and enjoy them all over again . They are always fun to visit and there is always something new & different to see. And I haven’t paid anywhere near enough attention to our 4 large lakes and numerous rivers, creeks and bays. Besides, I don’t think I have enough seascapes in my gallery 😂
So this is waterscape photo 1 of 100 for 2025.
Hope everyone is having a great week! Thanks for all the kind comments , they are always greatly appreciated.
Besides the quiet, my first thought of Sifnos was how many churches there were. I read that there were 365 of them on that tiny island. Most had blue domes, but some had white ones. There also were quite a few blue domed windmills too. It was so special there. This island did not disappoint!
Heathland in Infrared @720nm.
A cold bright day in mid February this year.
View at 100% and look above the trees, there are at least 50 bright dots in the sky away in the distance.
I took almost the same shot in visible light very shortly after this one, those bright objects do not show in that.
I'm sure insects would not be visible at that distance in such a manner, besides, it was cold and windy, not the time or conditions for insects to be airborne like that.
I have no idea what they were.
Besides the obvious, there are certain benefits to being what some of my former colleagues would refer to as "careful" with money. The more kindly former colleagues that is, I should add. Others wasted no time in coming up with rather more abusive terms for my steadfast refusal to throw away my hard earned on fast cars, champagne lunches and visits to Monte Carlo, but I would just smile and remind them that they'd still be working long after I'd retired. That tended to either stop them in their tracks with dumbstruck expressions, or had the opposite effect of exacerbating the tirade. Still, I'd just smile as I opened my home made cheese salad while whichever friend it was lavished another fiver on a disappointing looking sandwich and an overpriced coffee.
I often earned similar brickbats for refusing to join in the incessant charge along the highways and byways, driving at a benign pace rather than hammering along the outside lane at eighty-five miles an hour. I prefer to watch the fuel consumption reading rather than the speedometer you see. When I was younger, and very probably heading for a midlife crisis, I owned a white Vauxhall Astra GTE. It was very fast and it made me drive like a fool. It also used a lot of petrol. Now I have a modest Skoda that can get halfway across the country and back to Luton Airport without me having to refill the tank.
So there are aspects of Iceland that suit me, despite the fact that things are generally quite expensive in comparison to where I live. The jaw dropping landscape is something of course that very much ticks my boxes, but while many visitors seem to struggle with the fifty-five miles per hour speed limit, I don't. I simply pop the rental car into cruise control, set the speed and steer contentedly through the beauty around us - trying to concentrate on the road of course - the scenery can be distracting.
Other aspects of Iceland can be a trifle worrisome though. Last time we were here, we parked freely and quite legitimately on a patchy pull in, before walking the short distance to the triple waterfall of Kirkjufellsfoss. It was close to midnight under the twenty-four hour daylight glow, and only a small number of togs were around to compete for position with. On the other side of the pull in was another bit of scrubby ground beside the beach where we could also have parked for free. But three years on, things have changed. A brand new car park with number plate recognition cameras awaits the visitor, and swiftly relieves them of a thousand krona, regardless of how long they're planning to stay for. Needless to say, the waterfall was surrounded by a large number of visitors, many of them armed with tripods and cameras, all after that classic shot of Kirkjufell that looks so familiar. Admittedly there was still a pull in nearby, but there was also a sign that suggested our car might get towed away if we parked there, so we didn't stop for long.
But on the plus side, this aversion to parting with money for no good reason eventually added some unexpected shots to the catalogue, including my previous post, "Night Traffic." Our irritation at the prospect of coughing up the cash had taken us to a generous lay-by overlooking the sea. From there it was a leisurely fifteen minute amble along a footpath back towards the waterfall, and directly past the lake, where Kirkjufell gives away mirrorlike reflections on still days without charging a bean. And when the sky is doing interesting things at the end of a wet and grungy day, that seems like a reward worth grabbing with both hands.
We took a number of shots here, starting well before sunset and pushing on into the blue hour. I'd had a plan to revisit a patch of marshy ground I'd found the previous evening, but the presence of a growing number of togs along the bank of the lake appealed to my better nature as I wondered how easily they'd be able to clone me out of their sunsets. So here I stayed, enjoying the fact that I hadn't paid a thousand crowns for the privilege. It wasn't a bad spot from which to watch the day ebb away.
"Besides this May
We know
There is Another—
How fair
Our Speculations of the Foreigner!
Some know Him whom We knew—
Sweet Wonder—
A Nature be
Where Saints, and our plain going Neighbor
Keep May!"
- Emily Dickinson
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Clevedon Pier is a seaside pier in the town of Clevedon, Somerset, England on the east shore of the Severn Estuary. And was designated a Grade I listed building in 2001.
The pier was built during the 1860s to attract tourists and provide a ferry port for rail passengers to South Wales.
The pier opened in 1869 and served as an embarkation point for paddle steamer excursions for almost 100 years. Two of the spans collapsed during stress testing in 1970 and demolition was proposed, but local fund raising and heritage grants allowed the pier to be dismantled for restoration and reassembled. It reopened in 1989, and ten years later was awarded the Pier of the Year from the National Piers Society, and a Civic Trust Award. The pier now offers a landing stage for steamers and is a popular attraction for tourists and anglers.
Besides the sensational tundra swan show, the Upper Mississippi River is one of the best spots in the lower 48 States to see bald eagles now in the winter. I counted at least 60 bald eagles sitting in those trees on an island in the Mississippi River, and if my lens was wider that number could have easily doubled. Similar sights can be seen for many miles up and down the river, including at Pool Slough by New Albin IA. You can see the town of Stoddard, Wisconsin on the far shore two miles away.
Besides losing 3 of my Butterfly bushes I have 2 blocking my paths around the garden I need to do some pruning.
Besides a few suburban trains out of Bishkek there is only one "interregional" train within Kyrgyzstan that links the capital with the big lake Isik Kul. This train runs only during the short summer season and needs about 5hrs of riding time. In contrast to the starving railroad the parallel highway has been target of mayor investment and is home to many minibusses that need a much shorter time for the same route. Anyways, this strange situation made it possible to chase the train even by using public busses. This was the Kyrgyzstan railway experience of 2016....
Besides being beautiful and living in the loveliest landscapes on earth, trout are awesome acrobats and routinely go airborne when hooked - giving the lucky angler a heart-stopping thrill.
Besides tending to Karel's needs, I will be minding Timon and his adoptive brother Broes.
They are adorable and we have purrs and playtime and food and I have two awesome cat subjects to photograph. I am not complaining.
This image of the black-faced impala was taken just as he decided to leave the water hole. They are extremely agile creatures and can jump very high. Such elegant creatures to watch and very beautiful besides.
Have a great weekend everyone !!!!!!!
Besides Leo, I think that Ozzie is probably most affected by my absence. He craves a LOT of attention, and I think he really missed having someone around during the day to pay attention to him.
He's pretty much kept me in sight since I've been back.
Besides being absolutely adorable, deer fawns have such a carefree zeal for life. I was happily clicking away on the one enjoying a leafy breakfast when the one on the right decided to photobomb and try to sneak a quick taste. So cute!
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Besides, we use lenses of various focal lengths to purposely exaggerate actual seeing, and we often “overcorrect” color for the same reason. In printing we carry on our willful distortion of fact by using contrasty papers which give results quite different from the sense or object as it was in nature :-)
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Besides all the flower beds we have many plants in pots on the patio, these little sunflowers were actually grew in our compost pile, I just picked a bunch and put them on our patio table, after many weeks of watering this is my reward.
Happy Friday!
Besides the beauty and the originality of the creations of Meilo, I should mention her generosity: all the avatars shown at Delicatessen are offered free of charge at entrance point.
Here's the LM to Delicatessen tell me a story: maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Porto/11/130/21
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Something besides a lumpy lizard or a heron just to keep things from getting boring. The Brown Pelicans will make their way to the bayou during the winter months while the alligators are not as active, and they are always a treat. They are also much more approachable than the American White Pelicans and will allow a person to get fairly close at times. Photo was taken on Armand Bayou.
Besides the 1000's of shots I have from my hikes, I still have a lot of drone shots, that I haven't shared. So as a variation on the Lofoten theme this shot from the Hamnoy peninsula with it bridges connecting the little islands.
Another great day back then!
Too early to catch a train or drink a JAX beer, but not to catch a sunrise. Besides, I prefer Coors banquet. New Orleans, Louisiana, USA, August 2022
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No editing besides aspect ratio crop. Could have stayed in Ticino forever. Taken on a tripod during a two-day hike on a mountaintop only accessible on foot.
“We have the world to live in on the condition that we will take good care of it. And to take good care of it we have to know it. And to know it and to be willing to take care of it, we have to love it.” Wendell Berry at billmoyers.com/segment/wendell-berry-on-his-hopes-for-hum...