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Cute, feisty and furry, pekingese puppies are small in stature but big in personality! Meet our lively companions, they are very playful and love to be the center of attention!
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"The Enrichment Center reminds you that the Weighted Companion Cube will never threaten to stab you and, in fact, cannot speak."
By the way, I have no idea what that means, Gabe just told me to put it :P
Also, I've never actually played this game but I found a connection that seemed to work for this cube, so this is the result.
Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument
Camera: Fujifilm GFX 100s (Medium format digital)
Lens: Fujinon GF 32-64mm 1:4 R LM WR
A companion shot to my 'Apartment Reflections' image, this was captured less than a minute walk from that modern 21st century architecture. Those few footsteps back up the canal take us to some classic 19th century British design. Still looks great today.
The building you can see to the left is the Canalside pub and restaurant. The canal actually runs in to the building complete with original bridges. Very cool indeed.
A low end long exposure shot and monochrome conversion.
Hey, Mom, do you like my new house? - Tailer
[My laundry bag - just returned from the Launderette!]
To see me bigger:-
No visitors on the viewing platform at Bempton Cliffs this morning, but I did have some company in the shape of this Snow Bunting. It has been making its presence known for a few days now and is quite confiding. I managed to photograph it eating grass seed near the footpath, then it came onto the platform handrail to save me having to crouch in the frosty grass. Very considerate bird.
The glory of friendship is not the outstretched hand, nor the kindly smile, nor the joy of companionship; it's the spiritual inspiration that comes to one when he discovers that someone else believes in him and is willing to trust him with his friend.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
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note: I had to brighten the face of the jay on the right a bit...it was too dark. Otherwise, this is just cropped and tweaked a snitch.
Initially we thought the Southwold Turnstones weren't around, but then we got out our packed lunch, and a small flock flew in! They stayed with us until we'd eaten our lunch and then disappeared again!
Mom, I've seen a huge, huge worm, what do you think it is? - Tailer
Slow worm
Anguis fragilis
Slow worms look superficially like snakes, but are actually legless lizards. One way to identify them is that unlike snakes, lizards (and therefore slow worms) have eyelids.
Statistics
Length: 30-50cm.
Physical description
Slow worms have smooth and shiny snake-like bodies with an indistinct head, and can be distinguished from snakes by the presence of eyelids. Males vary in colour from grey, to light brown or bronze with a pale belly. Females are typically browner than the males, and have darker brown flanks, a dark belly and a black stripe running along the back. Both sexes, but more commonly males, will sometimes have blue spots on the body. This blue colouration is more common in coastal or island populations, and may vary over the year. It does not usually occur until an animal is at least three years old.
Distribution
Slow worms are thought to be the most commonly distributed of all European reptiles, although they are absent from the far north, Ireland and southern Spain. They are also found in north west Asia. In Britain, they are commonest in Wales and the south west of England.
Habitat
Slow worms prefer humid habitats, including grassy meadows, gardens, farmland, woodland margins and open fields. They can also be found in rural gardens and commonly fall prey to domestic cats.
Diet
They emerge from hiding places to hunt at dusk or after rainfall. Slow worms are not particularly speedy reptiles and feed on slow-moving prey such as slugs, snails, spiders, insects and earthworms.
Behaviour
They are not often seen basking in the sun and prefer to hide under rocks and logs. If caught by a predator, they have the ability to lose their tails, but the tail never fully grows back. They hibernate from October to February/March under piles of leaves, within tree roots and in crevices of banks. They hibernate both communally and solitarily, and sometimes share hibernating sites with other reptiles. They sometimes burrow in soft substrates so that just their heads are visible.
Reproduction
Slow worms start to mate around April and May, but cannot actually conceive until June when the femalesā eggs pass into their oviducts. Males will fight with each other for possession of females. Females may pair with several males throughout the breeding season. An average of 6-12 young (although as many as 26 is possible) are born after a gestation period of 3-5 months. They are encased in a transparent membrane at birth, which they immediately break free of.
Conservation status
Slow worms are protected under the Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981 from being killed, injured or sold and are less common than they used to be.
Sitting side-by-side one another is former Amtrak F40PHR #237 and Grand Canyon Railway #4960, an ex-CB&Q Railroad O-1a Mikado, as they both await the boarding of their passengers and the return trip to Williams after the mild layover in Grand Canyon Village, AZ, on the afternoon of June 5, 2021.
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This adorable cat was always with us during our holidays. She was pregnant and we hoped to be there long enough to see the kittens.
Model is Rose.
"Death is our eternal companion, it is always to our left... The issue of our death is never pressed far enough. Death is the only wise adviser that we have. The thing to do when you're impatient is to turn to your left and ask advice from your death. An immense amount of pettiness is dropped if your death makes a gesture to you, or if you catch a glimpse of it, or if you just have the feeling that your companion is there watching you. Ask and your death will tell you that you're wrong; that nothing really matters outside its touch. Your death will tell you, 'I haven't touched you yet.' "
~ Carlos Castaneda, The Teachings of Don Juan
While hiking a trail in an Anchorage park, we came across this big fella. Sharing the trail with him was a thrill, but getting a decent shot was a challenge. He was on the move and, even at a leisurely pace for him, we had to run at times to stay ahead. So I would run, turn around and take a couple of shots and then run some more. Under those circumstances, I never got the shot I wanted, but did manage to get one that gives a pretty good sense that he was a nice specimen. Just to be clear, he was not chasing us, nor was he the least bit concerned with our presence. He just had somewhere he wanted to be and was purposefully headed there. Oh, and this was the largest critter we saw on the trip. The pika would fit in this guy's ear...
You may note the scarring on the moose's hind leg. Here is some information from an article in "The Home Bug Garden" that explains how this scarring occurred.
"Youād think that Winter Tick would be all the parasite nastiness that any animal should have to endure, but Mother Nature has a summer surprise for moose too - Haematobosca alcis (Snow, 1891), the Moose Fly. Just as the moose is beginning to recover its condition in early summer, these housefly-sized pests start to appear. The flies hang out on the back legs of moose, pierce the skin with their long proboscis, and cause large, open sores from which they feed. If you notice a cloud of flies around the rear of a moose in summer, especially if there are sores on the hind legs, you are likely seeing Moose Flies. The flies lay their eggs in moose dropping, the larval food, so moose give these pests pretty much everything they need. The sores don't heal until frost kills off the adult flies but tend not to fester either. So, it seems likely that the flies introduce a substance that protects the sores from bacteria."
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Rain or shine, life or death, always be with you...
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Hey guys!
Cute, feisty and furry, terrier puppies are small in stature but big in personality! Meet our lively companions, they are very playful and love to be the center of attention!
Available now @ SEmotion
"Wine and cheese are ageless companions, like aspirin and aches, or June and moon, or good people and noble ventures."
- M. F. K. Fisher
"Cheese, wine, and a friend must be old to be good."
- Cuban Proverb
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EXPLORED - January, 24, 2014
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Mallard ducks are quick when they take off and if you are not ready, relax because you are not going to get a photograph. When I am driving around wetlands and the wind is not gale force, I can persuade my wife to have our windows down in our vehicle so in a split second I can have my camera up and shooting. These mallards were too quick for me to get them coming off the water but I was pleasantly happy with the shot I did get that shows the contortions their bodies go through when they are intent on getting away.
DarlinĀ“Companion
Come on and give me understandinĀ“
And let me be your champion
The hand to hold your pretty handinĀ“
DarlinĀ“Companion
Now you know youĀ“ll never be abandoned
Love will always light our landinĀ“
I can depend on you
- John Sebastian
A good companion can light up a dark alley.
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A back alley, Zhongzheng Road, Tainan, Taiwan
Heās been released from post-surgical confinement. So now heās free to roam about the house, and keep me company while I knit. Heās still healing very well!