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EXPLORE Worthy - The Number Games 8,S4 (2018 Art)
And
Entered in TMIâs Leaf Study challenge.
Eight Mile River flows through Devil's Hopyard State Park in Connecticut. This rocky riverbed flows under a beautiful stone bridge at the entrance of the park by Chapman waterfalls.
They leave them in the oddest places. But the grill still sparkles. Northern Wyoming.
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Fazenda GrotÃĢo - DF, Brazil.
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Nymphalidae
Subfamily: Biblidinae
Tribe: Callicorini
Genus: Diaethria Billberg, 1820
Species: D. clymena (Cramer, 1775)
Subspecies: D. c. janeira (C. Felder, 1862)
Scientific name: Diaethria clymena janeira
Eight little Mute Swan cygnets aged 7 days. For once they were all pointing in roughly the same direction!
Who else used to sing the 'bottles' song as a child?
"Ten green bottles, standing on a wall..."
Only in this case there are eight, and maybe they're not really green?!
Happy Saturday, everyone!
The golden hour at the beach in Barnegat Light on this day in June, according to the Golden Hour Calculator. It was cool and windy as we climbed over the dunes to get our feet wet in the ocean for the first time this summer. Shockingly and deliciously cold salt water on our legs!
#51 - Wet, 52 in 2017 Challenge
Here You Are,
Flying On Geryon's Back To Circle Eight
Nothing Will Be, As It Used To Be.
Die To One Life & Enter Another.
Love Is A Healer But Who Heals Love?
Orb-weaving Spider
Generally, orb-weaving spiders are three-clawed builders of flat webs with sticky spiral capture silk.
The building of a web is an engineering feat, begun when the spider floats a line on the wind to another surface. The spider secures the line and then drops another line from the center, making a "Y". The rest of the scaffolding follows with many radii of nonsticky silk being constructed before a final spiral of sticky capture silk.
The third claw is used to walk on the nonsticky part of the web.
Characteristically, the prey insect that blunders into the sticky lines is stunned by a quick bite, and then wrapped in silk. If the prey is a venomous insect, such as a wasp, wrapping may precede biting and/or stinging.
Many orb-weavers build a new web each day. Most orb-weavers tend to be active during the evening hours; they hide for most of the day. Generally, towards evening, the spider will consume the old web, rest for approximately an hour, then spin a new web in the same general location. Thus, the webs of orb-weavers are generally free of the accumulation of debris common to other species, such as black widow spiders.
Nikon, Sigma 180 2.8, 1/250 @ f8 ISO 800
Eight full years today and I couldn't be any more happy or proud!!! Only one little piece missing... sadly.
Happy Birthday, my darling baby!
I love you unconditionally, unlimited, always!!!
"Such a hand is said to have been held by Old West folk hero, lawman, and gunfighter Wild Bill Hickok when he was murdered. No contemporaneous source records this hand's exact cards, but Frank Wilstach's 1926 book Wild Bill Hickok: The Prince of Pistoleers led to the popular modern conception of the "dead man's hand" as containing pairs of black aces and black eights. In Hickok's case these would have been combined with an unknown hole card."
A pair of surprisingly fresh Union Pacific C40-8s lead a 59-car MRODV 02 through American Fork, Utah the morning of May 2, 1998. The snow-capped Oquirrh Mountains provide a stunning background.
Pelicans are a genus of large water birds that make up the family Pelecanidae. They are characterised by a long beak and a large throat pouch used for catching prey and draining water from the scooped-up contents before swallowing. They have predominantly pale plumage, the exceptions being the brown and Peruvian pelicans. The bills, pouches, and bare facial skin of all species become brightly coloured before the breeding season. The eight living pelican species have a patchy global distribution, ranging latitudinally from the tropics to the temperate zone, though they are absent from interior South America and from polar regions and the open ocean. Pelicans frequent inland and coastal waters, where they feed principally on fish, catching them at or near the water surface. They are gregarious birds, travelling in flocks, hunting cooperatively, and breeding colonially. Four white-plumaged species tend to nest on the ground, and four brown or grey-plumaged species nest mainly in trees. The relationship between pelicans and people has often been contentious. The birds have been persecuted because of their perceived competition with commercial and recreational fishing. Their populations have fallen through habitat destruction, disturbance, and environmental pollution, and three species are of conservation concern. They also have a long history of cultural significance in mythology, and in Christian and heraldic iconography. 54324
I call this the octopus pole. It has eight arms carrying all the different lines. However, that is not what caused me to stop In the road on this wet cloudy day.
What I find unusual is that the lines cross the road to this pole, just so they can immediately cross back to where they started on the other side of the road again.
Does that make any sense?
Happy Telegraph Tuesday!
Created for The Award Tree's July 2022 challenge: Wet Work:
www.flickr.com/groups/awardtree/discuss/72157721916905578/
Octopus, Swirls: pngwing.com.
Other photo used is my own image.
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