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original photo from SXC photo #873598 by Greyman
Even with a 8-0 lead, Germany's Thomas Engert feels the pressure at the World 10 Ball Championship in Manil, Philippines, last December.
Taken with the Sigma 70-200mm f/2.8 EX DG HSM II
Published for the first time in a single volume, Tanith Lee's duet of novels set in a hedonistic Utopia are as riviting & revolutionary as they when they first appeared two decades ago.
It's a perfect existence, a world in which no pleasure is off-limits, no risk is too dangerous, & no responsibilities can cramp your style. Not if your Jang: a caste of libertine teenagers in the city of Four BEE. But when you're expected to make trouble--when you can kill yourself on a whim & return in another body, when you're encouraged to change genders at will & experience whatever you desire--you've got no reason to rebel....until making love & raising hell, daring death & running wild just leave you cold & empty.
Ravenous for true adventures of the mind & body, desperate to find some meanong, one restless spirit finaly bucks the system--& by shattering the rules, strikes at the very heart of a souless society.........
14th century roof boss in the choir vaulting.
Lichfield is our best known three-spired cathedral, and one I have visited many times over the years (both for business and pleasure).
The cathedral suffered more than most during the Civil War when the Close was besieged (twice) and the central spire shot down (the aftermath of which is memorably conjured in one of Kempe's windows). As a result of this (and the soft red sandstone) the cathedral has been heavily restored and nearly all the furnishings are Victorian, but there are some notable tombs and monuments, and every time I come here I seem to notice more medieval survivals of some kind in various corners.
Last minute entry...
Bitter at not owning a proper macro lens, and sick of the previous 450~ entries of flowers and insects -- I went the opposite direction entirely :)
(nb: my fingers don't normally look like that. I mayyy have beaten it up for the photo..... dedication, or mental?)
Dan discusses the problems associated with 'biting insects' and other bugs (arachnids mostly), with Phil Pelletteri, UW-Extension entomologist, on this week's Dan Small Outdoors Radio Show, S825 as Pelletteri offers advice on dealing with this year’s bumper crop of mosquitoes, black flies and ticks.
[On the left is a FEMALE Deer Tick (Ixodes scapularis); on the right is a MALE Dog Tick (Dermacentor variabilis); below the ticks is the outer rim of a US currency dime for size comparison.]
photo courtesy UW-Madison, Entomology Dept. ©2013
A Fuzzy Bill for Fly Day Friday! HFDF!
Non-biting midge flies or chironomids commonly occur in inland and coastal natural and man-made bodies of water. These midges are commonly known as “blind mosquitoes” because they are mosquito-like but do not bite. Midges are also called “fuzzy bills” because of the male’s bushy antennae. These aquatic insects are tolerant of a wide range of environmental conditions. Chironomid midges are found in swift moving streams, deep slow moving rivers, stagnant ditches, and in lakes and ponds that are rich in decomposing organic matter. The presence of certain chironomid midges is often used as an indicator of water quality. This one, and 1000's of others (!!!!) were spotted at Farmoor Reservoir near Oxford!