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I know first hand how destructive squirrels can be, especially in an attic, but you have to admire their agility and resourcefulness. I watched this little guy for about ten minutes. He knew I was watching, but went about his business as if he were totally alone.
I love that no matter how much humans alter the landscape, nature will find a way to return. Humans destroy. Nature adapts and goes again.
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This guy was suspended at eye level. He is the caterpillar of the Eight-spotted Forester moth [Alypia octomaculata]
Peace Valley Park
Doylestown, PA
1470
February 23, 2019
Two full days into Spring, crocuses stand defiant against a last blast of winter.
The sun, riding a higher arc in the sky, brings heat to the soil, and dormant Spring bulbs are stimulated to grow. These flowers, the early season crocuses, are always first to make their appearance, and usually have at least one snowstorm to deal with before their beauty fades.
There have been years where, in late Winter, one day it's almost 70 degrees and the next there is a heavy snowstorm. Somehow, these delicate harbingers of Spring have a fine-tuned method of surviving through the season's hot and cold.
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Brewster, Massachusetts
Cape Cod - USA
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The young mountain goat at the top of this cliff stepped on some loose rocks and sent a small avalanche down towards his sister who had found a perch directly below him. If you zoom in you will see a dark black rock about the size of a grapefruit hurdling down which narrowly missed the lower goat. She did eventually get showered with a spray of dust at which point the mother called up and told the brother he was grounded for the rest of the day.
They all seem to be licking rocks as there was no greens anywhere in the vicinity - I should imagine it had to do with a need for a specific mineral in the diet. Don't ask me, I just take their pictures.
BTW I cannot for the life of me figure out how he got up there nor how he's going to find his way down but more to the point why he had to go up that high to begin with.
this icicle should be vertical, but it is growing at an angle ... very interesting, very cool
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It was probably propped up with something but I couldn't see it! I'd like to think the engine is some spruced up model of this car somewhere! Another find along old Route 66.
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Bright green branches shoot out of a tree in central Florida in definace of Autumn in the month of November. Painterly effects.
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The Red-Tailed Hawk is a bird of open country. They will sit on a telephone pole searching a field for prey. Not ours!!! She lives in our woods, sits on tree limbs waiting for squirrels and looks like a 747 carefully maneuvering through the trees. I guess she hasn't read the field guide.
Colorado Springs, CO - This is Dylan. He lives just a few blocks away from this skate park and has lived here his entire life. He has been skating at this spot regularly for years. Dylan has been good enough for a few sponsors from time to time.
For all his talents he seemed very humble.
A Live Oak tree on Silver Palm Drive in Vero Beach extends many of its branches horizontally almost parallel to the ground in defiance of gravity. Sometimes the smaller limbs/branches actually go underground for some distance only to appear again 30-40 feet from the main vertical trunk. On close inspection, one can see as is often the case, a wooden prop to help support the low lying limbs.
AKA Snow snakes. The conditions were just right that the snow meting off the branches became a natural garland of sorts and hung below the branch in a beautiful, gravity-defying manner.
The sounds of screaming EMD and GE products in notch 8 are reverberating off the Ouachita Mountains as loaded KCS grain train GKCAD-18 defies the forces of gravity to get this train over the famous Rich Mountain grade. The train is well into it's assault on the grade by the time it reaches the famous S Curve, but still has about 5.5 miles to go before reaching the summit.
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Something has changed within me
Something is not the same
I'm through with playing by the rules
Of someone else's game
Too late for second-guessing
Too late to go back to sleep
It's time to trust my instincts
Close my eyes and leap
I'm not a big do-er of photo manipulation stuff, but this eventually had to be done.
Buddy eliminated a number of alternate paths and trails to chose this one. I do not question his innate ability to figure out the safest passage and I cannot help but admire his skill set in following through on that final selection. He knows his limits and apparently this was within those limits. Vertical drop 200 feet straight down - no problem - here hold my beer - watch this.
I did note throughout all of these manoevers that once his back feet had found purchase and were firmly in place to hold his body only then would he move his front feet - and vice versa as in this shot front feet firmly planted before back feet move. My worry would be what's waiting below the ledge.
BTW I have never seen a goat second guess and turn around to back up.