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... from the stressful heights of another workweek - TGIF!
Red Squirrel / Europäische Eichhörnchen (Sciurus vulgaris)
many years ago in our garden - Frankfurt-Nordend
I met these two walkers who seemed to have had enough of the cold wet and windy conditions up top. Photo taken on Comb Crags, as a brief sunny spell brushes Middle Tongue on the flanks of Helvellyn.
Head: LeLutka - Zora
Skin: Deetalez - Addison
Brows: Skoll - Melanin Magic
Makeup: Suicidal Unborn - Spectrum Set @MIDNIGHT ORDER
Ears: Mandala - Stretched Ears v2
Body: Legacy - Meshbody
Tattoo: Garden of Ku - JoroGumo
Outfit: ERSCH - Lovesick Gacha @EPIPHANY
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Panties RARE
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A bald eagle descends on a fish in the James River south of Richmond, Va. ©2020 John M. Hudson | jmhudson1.com
St. Pauli-Elbtunnel
Hamburg
"Am 30. November 1909 war ein erster Bauabschnitt, der Schacht in St. Pauli, im Rohbau fertig, am 29. März 1910 wurde schon die Oströhre durchgeschlagen, am 1. Juni folgte die Weströhre.
Auch oberirdisch sollte Hamburgs neuer Stolz Maßstäbe setzen. Verantwortlich dafür zeichnete Otto Wöhlecke vom Altonaer Architektenbüro Raabe & Wöhlecke, von dem auch das Landungsbrücken-Ensemble stammt. Der Elbtunnel galt als »Kathedrale der Technik«, Sinnbild unaufhaltsamen Fortschritts, und wurde entsprechend gestaltet. Die Eingangsgebäude waren – wenn schon, denn schon – mit Rotunde, Säulen und tempelartigen Giebeln dem Pantheon in Rom nachempfunden. Das stieß nicht überall auf ungeteilte Begeisterung: »Einem Mausoleum nicht unähnlich«, mäkelte die Zeitschrift Deutsche Bauhütte.
Die beiden Gebäude hatten identische Silhouetten, bestanden aber aus verschiedenen Materialien: rotem Backstein auf Steinwerder, passend zu den umliegenden Zoll- und Werftbauten, Tuffstein, Basalt und Granit in St. Pauli, um die Landungsbrücken optisch zu ergänzen."
Driving around that bend on the left of the picture, one was faced with a sudden descent that made your hair stand on end !
MEXICO, Mayastätte Tulum ( Caribbean coast)
The site might have been called Zama, meaning City of Dawn, because it faces the sunrise. Tulum stands on a bluff facing east toward the Caribbean Sea. Tulúm is also the Yucatán Mayan word for fence, wall or trench. The walls surrounding the site allowed the Tulum fort to be defended against invasions. Tulum had access to both land and sea trade routes, making it an important trade hub, especially for obsidian. From numerous depictions in murals and other works around the site, Tulum appears to have been an important site for the worship of the Diving or Descending god.
Tulum was first mentioned by Juan Díaz, a member of Juan de Grijalva's Spanish expedition of 1518, the first Europeans to spot Tulum.The first detailed description of the ruins was published by John Lloyd Stephens and Frederick Catherwood in 1843 in the book Incidents of Travel in Yucatan. As they arrived from the sea, Stephens and Catherwood first saw a tall building that impressed them greatly, most likely the great Castillo of the site. ...
A westbound Rio Grande freight drops down the steep 3% western grade of Tennessee Pass at Mitchell, Colorado, on July 20, 1990. Leading the train is EMD SD40T-2 “Tunnel Motor” No. 5349, which is m.u.’ed with a SD50, a former Conrail GP40 and a Cotton Belt SD45T-2.
A small waterfall descending into the River Lyon at the eastern end of beautiful Glen Lyon close to Fortingall.
Simplicity itself, slow water and golden leaves against the dark rock.
explore # 419 on 5/08/08
Nothing is so beautiful as Spring —
When weeds in wheels, shoot long and lovely and lush;
Thrush's eggs look little low heavens, and thrush
Through the echoing timber does so rinse and wring
The ear, it strikes like lightnings to hear him sing;
The glassy peartree leaves and blooms, they brush
The descending blue; that blue is all in a rush
With richness; the racing lambs too have fair their fling.
Gerard Manley Hopkins
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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Out of the bosom of the Air
Out of the cloud-folds of her garments shaken,
Over the woodlands brown and bare,
Over the harvest-fields forsaken,
Silent, and soft, and slow
Descends the snow.
Wairēinga Scenic Reserve does a nice job at maintaining and allowing views of the falls as you descend.
Normally there are steps down from Craigshannoch, but descending the steeper slopes is tricky in the deep snow, as you can't quite see where you're stepping, and with crampons rocks can be treacherous.
the lower section of the steps down to Jenny Dixon Beach, at Noraville, NSW, Australia.
Olympus E-M5 / Olympus 12-40mm f2.8
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This bird and the pose just makes me think of an angel coming down from above.
In this shot, the bird was heading towards the feeder but he wasn't quite within the sweet spot for the best focus. He hit that just as he was landing and also as he left the feeder.
So the sharpness is definitely lacking a bit but I thought the overall aesthetics were pleasing anyway so I decided I share it. Can't always get that perfection but sometimes we get what we get.
And it's so rare to see these birds do anything other than scale up and down a tree trunk. So I'll take it, even if it's not perfect.
A mist starting to descend over the city.
London, looking from Westminster, towards Nine Elms.
Pentax K-3 mk lll
SMC Pentax- M 28mm f2.8
Here is another opportunity capture that presented itself when down in the underground fort in Maine. The standing water made a neat reflection there in the tunnel section. Was able to catch this young lad coming back down the stairs.
Fort McClary, Maine
Last rays of the day highlight increasing water and declining ice. Even with continuous snow today the ice shows a small decline. Spring time in Alaska.
A small group of Bighorn Mountain Sheep rams making their way downwards along the outer edge of steep mountain cliffs. It's cool to note how they blend into their environment so well!
Few animals are so well adapted to extremes of elevation and temperature as the magnificent wild sheep of western North America’s mountain rangelands. The females, accompanied by lambs and immature rams, and males spend the summer separately in meadows on alpine ranges.
In November and December, increasing snow forces the sheep to descend from their summer range. When mating activity lessens, in late December and January, the rams again form bachelor groups. The winter is spent on relatively small ranges of south-facing, exposed grassland.
Battersea Power Station. The concourse of one wing. Only got this far before a fire alarm had us evacuated so will save the central area for a later date.
Autumn leaves glisten in the morning sun as a trio of EMD F40PHRs make their descent into Agawa Canyon with a sold-out, 17-car train. Pictured here at the scenic Mile 112 trestle, passengers aboard the Tour Train will catch their first glimpses of the world-famous Canyon as the train follows the Agawa River to Canyon Park, just two miles ahead.
The reed warbler is a bird of reed beds and other riparian vegetation and usually builds its nest in reed beds. Its ideal habitat consists of a combination of young and old reeds and a dense, partly high-growing herb layer. It eats insects that it collects low in the dense vegetation. The reed warbler is a migratory bird and winters south of the Sahel. Reed warblers show themselves well when singing. The males climb to the top of a reed stem and often perform a short song flight, after which they descend again like a parachute.