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One more from my Woodpecker day out.
It rained a bit recently (a rarity in Southern California) so I headed out to a local park to see if the rain had caused some wildlife action. I spotted this Acorn Woodpecker Chasing Bugs. Didn’t take him long to make a catch. Life is Good !!
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Acorn Woodpecker
Reminiscent of a troupe of wide-eyed clowns, Acorn Woodpeckers live in large groups in western oak woodlands. Their social lives are endlessly fascinating: they store thousands of acorns each year by jamming them into specially made holes in trees.
A group member is always on alert to guard the hoard from thieves, while others race through the trees giving parrot-like waka-waka calls. Their breeding behavior is equally complicated, with multiple males and females combining efforts to raise young in a single nest.
Acorn Woodpeckers are medium-sized woodpeckers with straight, spike-like bills and stiff, wedge-shaped tails used for support as the birds cling to tree trunks.
These striking birds are mostly black above with a red cap, creamy white face, and black patch around the bill. In flight, they show three patches of white: one in each wing and one on the rump. Females have less red on the crown than males.
Acorn Woodpeckers are very unusual woodpeckers that live in large groups, hoard acorns, and breed cooperatively.
Group members gather acorns by the hundreds and wedge them into holes they’ve made in a tree trunk or telephone pole. Acorn Woodpeckers also spend considerable time catching insects on the wing.
These woodpeckers live in oak and mixed oak-conifer forests on slopes and mountains in the Southwest and West Coast. They’re tolerant of humans, and you can find them in towns where there are acorns and suitable places to store them.
(Nikon, 500/4 + TC 1.4, 1/500 @ f/5.6, ISO 100)
(Edited to Taste)
Found a beautiful place to collect my thoughts, and find some peace. When life gets complicated, look to nature, and just breathe it in. Appreciate the beauty all around you.
Your Taxi: Missing Melody,
The bird on the left almost missed the landing, while the unrelated goldfinch (Spinus tristis), right, seemed to observe.
The young bird with uncertain footing most probably is a young cowbird.
Thanks for your comments.
By thingumibob,
When i was 40, it was complicated,
Life just gets more complex.
66513 4L36 07.39 Wentloog-Felixstowe approaching Reading RT @ 11.07.
Limburg Cathedral (Limburger Dom, also known as Georgsdom ("George's Cathedral") after its dedication to Saint George, is located above the old town of Limburg in Hesse, Germany. It is the cathedral of the Catholic Diocese of Limburg. Its high location on a rock above the river Lahn provides its visibility from far away. It is the result of an Early Gothic modernization of an originally Early Romanesque building and therefore shows a Romanesque-Gothic transitional style.
The medieval patron saints of the church were Saint George and Saint Nicholas.
The cathedral is a three-aisled basilica, which combines late Romanesque and early Gothic elements. It has a narthex at the western end and a semi-circular choir with an ambulatory. The outside measures 54.5 m long, with a width of 35.4 m. The building has a complicated structure; seven spires rise from it. The number seven is a symbolic reference to the number of the sacraments. The tallest of these towers are on the western side and rise to a height of 37 m. They form the distinctive "twin-tower façade [de]" of the west front. Such twin-tower façades are common in the Rheinland, for example at Xanten, Andernach [de] and Koblenz. The pointed crossing spire stands above all the other spires with a height of 66 m at the centre of the building. This height is the result of a lightning strike in 1774, before which the tower was 6.5 metres higher. The corner towers on the southern transept were erected in 1863.
The west front is divided into five levels. The most eye-catching stylistic element is a huge round window, surrounded by eight small rosettes, which forms a clear centre of the west front. The rosette symbolises the four Evangelists. Despite the symmetry of the twin towers, there is rich variation in forms and building elements, e.g. round and pointed arches, pilaster strips, small pillars, archivolts, windows and blind arches. The upper level of the north tower includes Gothic elements (e.g. window tracery).
During restorations between 1872 and 1873, the polychrome exterior painting of the cathedral was removed (the colours were, previously, white, red, yellow-brown, black and a little green) and the stone was left bare. Between 1968 and 1972, the polychrome exterior was restored, using remains of the colour from the period before 1872 in order to reconstruct the old patterns.
The Limburg cathedral was shown on the back of the 1000-DM-Banknote of the third series. The notes with the Limburg motif were issued from the end of July 1964 and replaced from 1992 by the 1000-DM-Banknote of the fourth (and last) series.
De kruisspin is een middelgrote spin die behoort tot de familie wielwebspinnen. De kruisspin is in tegenstelling tot veel andere spinnen geen schuwe soort, maar eentje die vaak midden in het web zit en moeilijk over het hoofd is te zien. De vrouwelijke kruisspin wordt ook relatief groot, tot zo'n 17 millimeter.
... testing the ISO capabilities in low light ...
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Everything's so blurry
And everyone's so fake
And everybody's empty
And everything is so messed up
Preoccupied without you
I cannot live at all
My whole world surrounds you
I stumble, then I crawl
You could be my someone
You could be my scene
You know that I'll protect you
From all of the obscene
I wonder what you're doin'
Imagine where you are
There's oceans in between us
But that's not very far
Puddle Of Mudd - Blurry
Bare roots with intricate shapes, with some green moss as a comfort. The relationship of the human species with nature is also complicated, but one thing to keep in mind is that economic growth with decent work, rising living standards and human well-being will critically hinge on preserving, managing and restoring the natural assets on which all life and economic activity depend. There is NO Planet B.
Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.
-- Confucius
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Simplicity is making the journey of this life with just baggage enough.
-- Charles Warner
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You have succeeded in life when all you really want is only what you really need.
--Vernon Howard
Things get be a little complicated in city life.
The new Unreality.
Doing a bit of sliding in these times.
Vacation or travel is still a bit difficult for us, though slowly it seems that we can go on a small holiday in the Netherlands soon. The sliding is an idea the style of mr. Escher gave me. And yes, I ave copied a bit of his style here in photography. I don't think it's a sin. The original picture was taken in Rotterdam , from above the entrance to the trainstation Blaak . It was a rather sunny day . Without the sliding that station already looks complicated, but when one slides here, we get a real wow effect in my opinion.
There is a lady going up on the escalator, and there is one person standing in front of the kiosk. They are reflected three times, while the stairs and the red handrails are giving this processed photo it's magical mathematical style. Going up and down at the same time.
It's easy to be complicated but very difficult to be simple.
~Debasish Mridha
I will be out most of the day Saturday, but will catch up with you all later!
The simplest things can wake a creative mind. The most complicated things can destroy it. Open your mind to golden opportunities and remember so share with others the good you can.
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"We must be willing to let go of the life we have planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us." E.M. Forster
"We are here to add what we can to life, not to get what we can from life" William Osler
Don't go around saying the world owes you a living, the world owed you nothing. It was here first" Mark Twain
Luna has a mind that goes from 0 to 120 in mere seconds. She needs space for her brain, body and spirit. She's not the kind of dog most would want around. She's complicated. I love her.
No creo que ninguna edición pueda superar la nitidez, la transparencia, la verdad...Aunque a veces en la vida sea difícil y complicado encontrar "lo real", siempre es necesario buscarlo.
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I do not believe that any edition can overcome the sharpness, transparency, truth ... Although sometimes in life it is difficult and complicated to find "the real thing", it is always necessary to look for it.
Today I decided to take Sir Elton with me to visit my friend's house.
It was very exciting and super fun. Everyone who saw him walking down the street thought he was cute and charming. Needless to say, I felt like a peacock.
Suddenly our walk becomes tense because he saw the ice cream parlor.
And didn't want to take another step. Sir Elton is a bit of a spoiled brat. When he wants something, he's bossy and usually gets it. But this time, he didn't make it.
He started rubbing his paw against me and drooling all over my new shoes.
Can you imagine how the rest of the trip to my friend's house went?
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replacing an earlier photo of Dandelion :-) got them in droves all over the garden. Close look reveals a very complicated flower, and a very beautiful one.
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you say it's complicated
but that's just how you made it
now you're the reason I get faded
and im not ashamed to say it
you say it's complicated
oh how typical that face is
guess you faked it till you made it
but you to afraid to say it...
-Just messing around and getting that energy out. I did add the birds, figured would be a nice touch. Worked with clouds as well, though I'm not to happy. But still learning to combine inworld settings plus photoshop without being an overkill.
Ooohhhh and excuse me since I keep jumping from here to there. I just go day by day, the vibes.....
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The variety is so numerous that is difficult to do correct identification.
Even between of these two photos there are subtle differences.
This is a photo of my mother taken around 1946 so she would have been about 18 yrs old but I am guessing on the year and age. The story of my mother is so dangerously complicated however it is the least complicated way to describe her.
I didn't take this photo as I was several years away from being born. I did do the editing. Thanks to www.flickr.com/photos/lenabem-anna/ for the texture.