Here's a closer look at one of the adult bald eagles congregated in the area. Pity the poor American coots that the bald eagles consume like popcorn.

Good night friends.

Kingfishers or Alcedinidae are a family of small to medium-sized, brightly colored birds in the order Coraciiformes. They have a cosmopolitan distribution, with most species found outside the Americas. The family contains 114 species and is divided into three subfamilies: river kingfishers (Alcedininae), tree kingfishers (Halcyoninae), and water kingfishers (Cerylinae). All kingfishers have large heads, long, sharp, pointed bills, short legs, and stubby tails. Most species have bright plumage with only small differences between the sexes. Most species are tropical in distribution, and a slight majority are found only in forests. They consume a wide range of prey usually caught by swooping down from a perch. While kingfishers are usually thought to live near rivers and eat fish, many species live away from water and eat small invertebrates. Like other members of their order, they nest in cavities, usually tunnels dug into the natural or artificial banks in the ground. Some kingfishers nest in arboreal termite nests. A few species, principally insular forms, are threatened with extinction. In Britain, the word "kingfisher" normally refers to the common kingfisher.

source: WIkipedia

Some Left over shots from an Elvina project.

Jewel is actually a doll of a model, but for a split second she gave me a pose (above) I couldn't resist turning into a scene from a horror movie.

Strobe info: Just one studio light w/ a softbox above the camera pointing towards the model.

Special thanks to ground*floor for the texture.

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Little known and a rare but minor fruit from India, is consumed here mostly by birds.

Used extensively in Folk medicine in its native land, the Vitamin C enriched Phalsa has now become the subject of renewed medical research in Pakistan and in USA.

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This is part of the 1st of two annual crops.

Grewia asiatica

Family Tiliaceae

The Ghosh Grove, Rockledge, Florida, USA.

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Below is an excellent paper on Phalsa research in the US from Fort Valley State University,

Fort Valley, Georgia, USA.

PHALSA: A POTENTIAL NEW SMALL FRUIT FOR GEORGIA

www.hort.purdue.edu/newcrop/proceedings1999/v4-348.html

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These sawfly larva are consuming longleaf pine needles. They can strip a sapling bare of needles but often the tree will spring back the next year. The shock to the tree always slows growth.

sorry i have been gone so long!! more pics comin soon :]

Long exposure taken as the tide slowly rises, covering everything in its path.

hitting the streets this week as my archives are exhausted. come on road trip.

LOVE this building.

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☞ BELAMOUR // kayla top

get it @ the label event!

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⭑ body: reborn ⭑

⭑ head: lelutka // ora ⭑

⭑ hair

☞ TRUTH // element

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⭑ makeup

☞ CYBERPRINCESS // stella matte lip tint

☞ CYBERPRINCESS // okami liner

☞ CYBERPRINCESS // aiko blush

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☞ LADYBIRD // smudgies liner

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⭑ accessories

☞ AZARAN // nox nose chain

☞ LADYBIRD // adrian septum

☞ OATMILK // simple dermal

☞ ROTTEN // dainty nose junk ii

☞ E.MARIE // haley earrings

☞ KIBITZ // nightmare ring set

☞ VIBING // lexi ring set

☞ .STOIC. // the moon tarot card necklace

☞ DOTS // gamer to go

✈️ where on the grid:

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⭑ please send me a message if you’re curious about anything not listed! ⭑

In memory of Ian Parmenter, a chef, writer, presenter on ABC TV as a cooking show host. Back in the days when I watched these sort of things.

Now I get ideas from Cook Books, friends and You Tube videos!!! RIP

www.abc.net.au/news/2024-04-15/consuming-passions-host-ia...

It’s so much darker when a light goes out than it would have been if it had never shone

Umbria, Italy

Once I thought to be human was the highest aim a man could have, but I see now that it was meant to destroy me. Today I am proud to say that I am inhuman, that I belong not to men and governments, that I have nothing to do with creeds and principles. I have nothing to do with the creaking machinery of humanity – I belong to the earth. I say that lying on my pillow and I can feel the horns spouting from my temples.

from Tropic of Cancer by Henry Miller

Château aux Grotesques, XVIème siècle, France.

Barcelona metro

all images used are mine.

Thought For Food: My Favorite Unhealthy Way To Consume Healthy Fruits - IMRAN™ (3D)

Massive bowl of spicy Pakistani Fruit Chaat. Enough said. OK, a bit more. Basically Salt, Red Chili, Paprika, Coriander, Cinnamon, Ginger, Aniseed, Long Pepper, Cumin, Green Cardamom, Black Pepper, Dried Mango Powder, Clove, Carom, Citric Acid, Sugar, Canola Oil, and traces of Sesame, Mustard, and Tree Nuts. Added to large bowl of diced or sliced or single pieces of grapes, mangoes, oranges, peaches, pears, cherries, pineapples, and a whatever you like fruit medley in a syrup with lemon juice.

© 2021 IMRAN™

#IMRAN #fruits #Pakistani #foods #foodie #spicy #FruitChaat #mangoes #grapes #pineapples

New York wandering

Made some delicious Pav buns, we consume this along with chickpea curry or even a potato curry called Bhaji.

Forgotten Ones

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“The reason why he failed was because he reached for the secrets too soon.”

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Wrapped within the tender slants of her smile,

beneath the glistening whites of her corneas,

there had always lain an enduring sadness.

I had sensed this the first time my eyes caught hers.

The downward, deflecting glance she shot towards the floor.

Head rising with a slow exhale into the chilled autumn night,

revealing the dark hazel globes of her iris.

How they enfolded me like a warm molasses blanket,

or like the wet earth caressing the tangled trunk of a tree.

And as I stood there consumed in the clasp of her gaze,

An aching quiver shot down my spine.

Piercing through what I had known as my temporal life,

tiptoeing the fence of my incidental permanence,

and touching every other quantity in between.

The contentment in her expression was light,

but her solitude had its own looming weight.

Like feeling dark shadows at night.

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This is my representation of the Phoenix, the mythical bird that is consumed and renewed by the flames.

There was some added planning involved in this one. I first chose my pose then I did an abstract painting which would follow the curves of the pose and represent the blaze. Then merged the photo of the painting and my silo.

A termite mound slowly envelopes this fence. NT Australia

Leica MP | Summicron-M 28mm ASPH. | Kodak Ultramax 400

Bit of a swell on at the 'Gong this arvo ... time for a bit of a walk around...

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This weeks Macro Mondays theme is Staying Healthy.

In my attempt to stay healthy, I Consume the Galaxy daily.

Some of you who have seen my earlier submissions know that I take a ‘mature’ multivitamin everyday in hopes of delaying my demise. This is that multivitamin.

I know what you are thinking. You’re thinking ‘Edd, this isn’t a vitamin pill, you’ve lost your marbles. Those supplements you take didn’t work. Time to put you in a home.’

You would be mistaken. This is a pic of my mature multivitamin dissolved under hot water and lit with ultraviolet light. The colors that you see are caused by the various minerals fluorescing under the ultraviolet light. The purple outline around the pill is the ultraviolet light being reflected off of the white china plate that is containing the water. If you look closely at the pile of ingredients in the center, you can see a few air bubbles rising from the bottom. I thought the whole thing had a very cosmic, or ’galaxy like’ look to it. Hence the title. Huh. Maybe it is time to put me in a home.

HMM

The width of this image is about 4 centimeters.

Best viewed large.

That beautiful old church I photographed in 2019 in Chester, Pennsylvania, was gutted by fire early May 28, 2020, most likely arson. Only the stone facade was left.

Image captured by NBC10 Philadelphia.

Pantanal, Brazil.

The giant anteater is found in parts of central and south America where it inhabits grasslands, forests, jungles and even the lower mountain regions. The giant anteater is known to be able to consume more than 30,000 insects (mainly termites) every day!

The giant anteater is the largest of four anteater species and can be five to seven feet long from nose to tail.

The Colibee is a small insect, that collect the scent of the flovers. With that in they lure other bugs into their captar. At there they sting the victim, with a paralising venom. With the venom in the victim can't move, the Colibee's then attach the body to the wall of the captar, where it will be consumed by the larvas of their.

Sultan, Wash. iPhone 3Gs

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Commas are fruit-eating butterflies.

Piranga rubra male, a bird found on Sept. 24, two days earlier,

Lila Keiser Community Park,

Morro Bay, California

This species breeds nearly entirely east of California and occurs only sporadically at various times of the year along the central coast. But when seen, that bright red of the male is unmistakeable. And, in my limited experience with this species I have seen them eating insects, especially bees. Re: eating fruit, I found this on Cornell's Birds of the World: "Consumes fruit mostly at tropical latitudes, but may take some during breeding and migration in North America, . . ."

Its killing me that summer is not here yet! So I painted my dreams on my shred sled.

I love the mix of modern and older architecture in London, but sometimes you feel the more historic buildings are being consumed. The more I look at the Lloyds building the more I’m reminded of the Borg…

A woman lights a prayer candle inside the cathedral Notre Dame de Paris.

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I suppose this would have been more timely yesterday, being Bastille Day and all.

As they say, when it rains it pours, and appropriately on Friday the 13th, about everything that could go wrong did. Going out on Friday night only seemed to facilitate consuming way too much beer (and perhaps tequila as well...), which only resulted in a massive hangover on Saturday, whoops.

Anyway, I've got a lot to think about, and some directions to choose, and this image seemed appropriately reflective.

Happy belated Bastille Day.