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Zermatt, it's a pleasant town, but seriously they need to sort out all the traffic!!! This was base camp to getting up closer to the Matterhorn. I warned you all that I would be posting more gratuitous Matterhorn images!!! This is from a couple of weeks ago in Switzerland.
The whole traffic thing is a joke of course. Zermatt is actually combustion engine free, only electric and "grass-powered" vehicles up here. Which means you can't actually drive here, you need to take the spectacular cogwheel train to get to the village. Steep sections of the railway have cogs to stop the train from slipping backward or going down too quickly.
The horseman's outfit matches the Valais flag, which is the canton that Zermatt is in.
A Western Bluebird dropped by yesterday afternoon. Although they're around, I think this is the first time, I've ever had one at my house.
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Another ridiculously early morning shot in the rain and wet grass, but as we say in Ireland, "A damp day, thank God!"
I took this a week ago, just getting to put it up now. My only shot of last Sunday. I thought it looked a bit shamrocky, even though they're clover leaves, so looks like a place a Leprechaun might leave his umbrella!
Today is day 192 of Project 365 (Sunday).
This is the vibrant liquid light from the stained glass windows of the Sagrada Familia. The color comes from 100% filtered sunlight. Astonishing genius from Gaudi, the light changed continuously while I was there.
I am a bit short of current fly pictures these days ...must try to correct that this weekend.
Happy FlyDay Friday!
Not original. This is a extreme closeup of a painting in the lobby of a building somewhere in the Chicago loop.
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As seen in 2022, Uranus’s north pole shows a thickened photochemical haze that looks similar to the smog over cities. Several little storms can be seen near the edge of the polar haze boundary. Hubble has been tracking the size and brightness of the north polar cap and it continues to get brighter year after year. Astronomers are disentangling multiple effects — from atmospheric circulation, particle properties, and chemical processes — that control how the atmospheric polar cap changes with the seasons. At the Uranian equinox in 2007, neither pole was particularly bright. As the northern summer solstice approaches in 2028 the cap may grow brighter still, and will be aimed directly toward Earth, allowing good views of the rings and the north pole; the ring system will then appear face-on. This image was taken on 10 November 2022.
[Image description: Uranus appears tipped on its side. Set against a black background, the planet is mainly coloured cyan. It looks like a flat circle outlined with a pinkish gray limb. A faint, pink ring encircles the planet nearly vertically. The faint ring appears to be almost face on. A large area of white coves much of the right side of the planet.]
Credits: NASA, ESA, STScI, A. Simon (NASA-GSFC), M. H. Wong (UC Berkeley), J. DePasquale (STScI); CC BY 4.0
A big harvest this year, this group of woodpeckers have been harvesting for over 6 weeks, and have created two new granaries to store their acorns, this one on the roofs of several houses, and another on a palm tree. Normally they just use an old oak tree. It's so crazy now that they have to hop from tile to tile trying to find room for just one more acorn.
Loved this redhead's shadow too, with its big acorn revealed, and how clearly you can see how they use their tails to steady themselves.
Fascinating, innovative, super social creatures.
325mm, f/8.0, 1/500, iso250
It turns out that 2016 had one last treasure to offer up, my son James and I spotted a whale just off the coast yesterday. It was a little far away, but a fluke's a fluke! I think it was a humpback, but I'm no expert.
This is a closer image I got earlier in 2016 - Link.
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The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has provided astronomers with the sharpest view yet of the breakup of Comet C/2019 Y4 (ATLAS). The telescope resolved roughly 30 fragments of the comet on 20 April and 25 pieces on 23 April.
The comet was first discovered in December 2019 by the ATLAS (Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System) and its fragmentation was confirmed in April 2020.
Learn more here.
Credits: NASA, ESA, D. Jewitt (UCLA), Q. Ye (University of Maryland); CC BY 4.0
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My enterprising buddies, the acorn woodpeckers are also using palm trees for their granary this year. So they've got acorns stashed deep in the trunk of this palm tree, which is easily 100 foot up off the ground.
Weirdly beautiful and fascinating place - at times it feels like a moonscape
The Burren refers to an area of Carboniferous limestone uplands in North County Clare famous for its incredible plant biodiversity
Shonen Knife - Moon World
Accidentally caught this guy with completely wrong dof setting, but interesting effect.
Today is day 187 of Project 365 (Tuesday).
I am definitely a sourdough bore these days!
This one today was particularly good though.
So posting one more sour dough picture ...last for a while I promise
This one was:
50% white 50 % coarse wholemeal
lots of nuts: pecan and walnut - pulverised
and sunflower hearts and black sesame seeds
...& a good glug of olive oil too
The Clash - One More Time
Brought Shy to work, he was immediately attracted to one of the egg chairs. Who knows what plot he's HATCHING, maybe he wants to try out for Men in Black?
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Today is day 283 of Project 365
We don't get cardinals like these in California. This shot is from Louisiana. It's a female. Sadly, I didn't catch one of the colorful males.
Somewhere on the shores of Lake Superior within the bounds of Split Rock Lighthouse State Park. (www.dnr.state.mn.us/state_parks/split_rock_lighthouse/ind...)
... well it certainly blends with it's surroundings.
Found near La Honda, California, this afternoon.
I figured out how to remove the sensor smear using photoshop, and so have reposted an earlier picture. I just feel better fixing it.
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The moon looked incredible last night with the cloud rolling in. I just switched it to monochrome and cropped a little, no other edits. I did notice afterward a smear on the lens, which now it appears is on the sensor.