A Red-shouldered Hawk beats his wings hard, trying to climb and gain speed as he takes off from a low perch.

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“A palace cannot make you rich but a cottage in the woods can! We become rich only through simpleness and modestness!”

― Mehmet Murat ildan

Edited with Topaz Studio 2 (Impression)

I wish you all a wonderful weekend! I will be off for a couple of days. Will try and catch up when I get back!

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Nebraska’s Crawford Hill is famous for the huge horseshoe curve just below Belmont, but there is another photogenic curve below there east of Crawford. On July 7, 1996, an all-Cascade green consist of two EMD SD60Ms and two GE C30-7s works through the curve on the climb to Belmont pulling a train on a brand new BNSF that hasn’t infiltrated the image yet.

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Made by my spouse decades ago when then-Storage Technology gave away tiny chips. (If you're into geeky 'where are they now queries', Storage Tech was acquired by Sun Microsystems, which was later acquired by Oracle Corporation.)

But back to our wee 2cm chip. He is climbing a tiny piece of driftwood. That's a winter leaf or two behind him (he has very long horns or antennae, hence his gender). Bokeh balls come from a crumpled piece of foil some distance away. Tried this outdoors, but a strong wind toppled the fearless mountain goat.

I think perhaps Howard made EPROM earrings for me around the same time (see first comment).

In January 2022 I asked for help and a Flickr support hero removed both of my accounts from the Explore algorithm. I feel more relaxed and my jaw no longer hurts. I’m grateful to SmugMug for saving Flickr, and I have nothing against Explore; it just is not for me—especially during this pandemic.

The one on the bottom looks like she's climbing an invisible ladder

Hope you can see this on a large screen. The one on top is a crossbill

A California Scrub-jay is climbing a redwood tree ✔️

A westbound Burlington Northern Santa Fe freight train climbs Raton Pass at Gallinas, Colorado, on February 26, 1999, led by Santa Fe GE C40-8W No. 911 still looking pretty good in the railroad’s famous warbonnet livery.

MRL's Laurel-Bozeman takes the siding at Muir as it climbs the grade towards Bozeman.

Signage outside a climbing centre in Flagstaff, Arizona

Schaf mit Schäfchenwolken

The Fairy / Polyantha Rosen.

"Guirlande d' Amour

Common Spotted Ladybird (Harmonia conformis)

I spotted this Ladybird caught in a spider web yesterday afternoon. I took a shot of it caught in the web and then set it free. It flew off my finger to the ground and beetled off to find a new home. I was interested to see that it chose to climb over anything in its way rather than go around.

This hen makes use of a ladder designed to provide access into a chic hen house.

A long country road to go, a steep and winding climb before reaching its destination.

Fuchsia climbing through our fence.

... or crawling :)

C17 974 works up the grade from the Mary River on the return to Gympie

Sedona, Arizona.

The next five day's I will be over to the other side of the country for my real life job.

So no second life, no taking pictures.and not posting.

This will be the case for four weeks on weekday's.

With a Second Life inventory exploding with stuff to show I have to let real life get my full priority.

In the meantime have fun while you shop until you drop.

Credits @ pixelstyles.blogspot.com/2020/01/2164-climbing-stairs.html

Climbing a tree trunk in Hunt Valley, Maryland. The Brood X was everywhere ... all over the ground, on the trees, and singing away. Very Loud!

This truck must have a magnetic personality the way it is attracting all this metal junk!

Happy Truck Thursday!

Nearing Gympie station, C17 967 makes easy work of the load up the grade.

Cardinal

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After not really going anywhere for nearly 3 months, I took an opportunity in the weather to climb a local hill called Bennachie. Although we have no snow at all at the house, this is only a 10 minute drive from where I live, and the slightly higher altitude means it is covered in snow. We are only low down at the moment so let's climb!

North Garfield Court, an alleyway in Chicago’s Loop

Nikon D7500, Sigma 18-300, ISO 200, f/7.1, 70mm, 1/1250s

Two Rocky Mountain bighorn sheep ( Ovis canadensis canadensis) climb up the walls of North Fork Canyon west of Cody, Wyoming. The sheep winter along the lower elevations of the Absaroka Mountains.

To get to The Dunnottar Castle first you have to climb down and then up again

Ladybug climbing a pine needle