DAZZLINGLY ATTRACTIVE bird, not often seen in our corner of Kent UK, and was not expecting to see it in the Grove Ferry Feast Hide, but what a joy when it landed, he caught a couple of tiddlers and was off, leaving me with the biggest grin ever.

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THANK YOU for your visit and friendship, please leave a comment, it is always appreciated, and find it very encouraging

.The weekend is coming on strong, stay safe, may God bless you.............................Tomx

TRIP TO GAMBIA CANCELLED

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Have been going every year since 2013 about now, with my brother Bob, so am going to post a few images from that year as I had very few followers then, hope you enjoy my then rubbish photography.

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THANK YOU FOR YOUR FRIENDSHIP, please leave a comment, it will always be appreciated and I find encouraging.

Please stay safe and well.... ......God bless............Tomx.

La grisaille actuelle encourage à prolonger la sieste pour Maya, la météo annonce de la neige dès dimanche, les journées seront plus claires.

Des doux ronrons de ma puce pour tous ses fans.

Bon week-end à vous tous.

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The current gloom encourages extending the nap for Maya, the weather forecast announces snow from Sunday, the days will be clearer.

Sweet purrs from my kitty for all her fans.

Good weekend to you all.

Love the trees until their leafs fall off- then encourage them to try again next year.

Chad Sugg

Thankfully, this year I was given permission to photograph in the snowdrop meadow near me.

Strundetal, Bergisch Gladbach, Germany

Thank you for your views, encouraging comments and awards.

A Common Sandpiper in a stream in the Sierra Morena mountains of Spain.

Thanks for your visit… Any comment you make on my photograph is greatly appreciated and encouraging! But please do not use this image without permission.

Brown Hare - Lepus europaeus

Norfolk

The brown hare is known for its long, black-tipped ears and fast running - it can reach speeds of 45mph when evading predators. It prefers a mosaic of farmland and woodland habitats and can often be spotted in fields.

Thought to have been introduced into the UK in Roman Times (or even earlier), the brown hare is now considered naturalised. It is most common in grassland habitats and at woodland edges, favouring a mosaic of arable fields, grasses and hedgerows. It grazes on vegetation and the bark of young trees and bushes. Brown hares do not dig burrows, but shelter in 'forms', which are shallow depressions in the ground or grass; when disturbed, they can be seen bounding across the fields, using their powerful hind legs to propel them forwards, often in a zigzag pattern. Brown hares are at their most visible in early spring when the breeding season encourages fighting or 'boxing'. Females can produce three to four litters of two to four young (known as leverets) a year.

Widespread, but absent from northern Scotland and the Scottish islands, except Islay, I'm reliably informed.

Do you know what hope is? It's that weird little superpower that keeps you from giving up. You have that.

♫ TUNE ♫

"Try Again Tomorrow"

(feat. Darling West)

If all you did today was, open your eyes

If all you did today was, turn off your phone

If all you had the energy to do today was, cry

Then you should know, that you're not alone

And it's okay to hide

If all you said today was, leave me alone

Push your friends away, and say 'go mind your own'

If all you did today was try to not feel anything, for anyone

Then you should know, you're not alone

'Cause it's okay, it's okay to feel lost, and feel tired

It's alright, you can turn off the light uninspired

And try again tomorrow, try again tomorrow

Alright

Just try again tomorrow, try again tomorrow

Alright

If all you did today was, try to survive

Force a smile and say that, everything's fine

If all you did was try to keep up appearances, a front for everyone

Then you should know, that you're not alone

Then it's okay, it's okay to feel lost, and feel tired

It's alright, you can turn off the light uninspired

And try again tomorrow, try again tomorrow

Alright

Just try again tomorrow, try again tomorrow

Alright

All I did today was, go back to bed

Pray for better days as I, laid down my head

💖 In advance I want to thank you all for your always kindness, support, beautiful awards, favs, and messages. Please Know that I see all of your comments and awards and I appreciate them so much as well as each on of you for taking the time.

Lori 💖

Life is challenging for all of us right now, but I will try to keep sharing some of the beauty from my small part of this vast world. Here in Canada, we are being told by our leaders to stay at home, but they also are encouraging us to get outdoors. Of course that means staying out of crowds, and keeping a safe distance from each other. So keeping this in mind, I will endeavour to continue taking pictures where possible.

This beautiful sunset was at the marsh boardwalk of Canada’s most southern national park, Point Pelee.

Thank you so much for all your favs and comments. Stay safe my friends!

Wild South Africa

Kruger National Park

A female elephant encouraging her two offspring to cross the waterway.

Photographed late one afternoon at Sable Dam, Kruger National Park.

Lincoln Square

Thank you all for your very encouraging comments, views and faves. Your continuous support means a lot!

The unmistakable endemic Sri Lanka Blue Magpie, also called Ceylon Blue Magpie, in Sinharaja National Park.

Thanks for your visit… Any comment you make on my photograph is greatly appreciated and encouraging! But please do not use this image without permission.

On the far left outside you see the Schreckhorn, exactly in the middle the Eiger with the famous Eiger north face. To the right of it the Mönch and to the right the Jungfrau. There the famous mountain railroad leads up and it is called "Top of Europe".

This picture was taken on a cold January morning from my bedroom window! Yes we have a great view and every day I enjoy this view of the Alps, weather and visibility permitting. Beautiful. The Alps are about 80 kilometers away as the crow flies. But with a clear view, every detail is visible with a telephoto lens.

Thanks to the Flickr team for including this in Explore and thanks to everyone for the likes and comments. This encourages me to keep taking good photos! Have a nice day.

The marching boy guides his feathery friends to the park...

Let's keep building a community founded on kindness and compassion, where we look out for all creatures, where we lift one another up, where we encourage all to shine!

Keep shining bright, my friends!

Never realized before that this "Chi-ca-go", "Chi-ca-go" is the onomatopoeia for the rallying cry of the California Quails… (Don't ask me to say this prase outloud, I am French after all ) Why not "Sa-cra-men-to" or "Vic-to-ria "… I don’t know. We moved into a more rural part of the Greater Victoria last December and I am so happy to see that we have a healthy population of California Quails around here. We initially had quite a few of them in our previous neighborhood in Saanich (we lioved there for 15 years) , but they all seem to disappear over the years. Apparently, they are heavily predated by the feral cats. The number I see here right now is very encouraging and I hope to be able to photograph them in the Winter, this would be especially nice on one of those rare snowy day. This one was caught on a trail in the woods around Metchosin not around our home. Unfortunately very high ISO.

I just recently purchased a new camera. My husband has been encouraging me to buy this camera for years! A few weeks ago, I found a price I could not resist. I must say there are a LOT of buttons. After days of reading and watching videos, I decided it was time to test my knowledge. This shot has only been cropped with a small touch of saturation. The water was calm and reflected the tan building on the opposite side. As the ducks took to the water, I was focused on the lighting. I was so surprised at the colors and textures of the rippled water as the pair swam to the other side. I felt this would be a “Keeper shot”, which was confirmed when it popped up on my computer.

This is the strangest looking caterpillar I have ever reared… The Atlas moth is one of the largest of all moth species in the world. I have four captive bred larvae feeding well on Privet (Ligustrum ovalifolium). Each caterpillar is now 60mm, but will grow bigger! The larvae like humid jungle conditions of 25-30 degrees C, and spin cocoons in about 8 weeks from hatching.

The Atlas moth is a large saturniid found in the tropical and subtropical forests of Southeast Asia, and is common across the Malay archipelago.

Thanks for your visit… Any comment you make on my photographs is greatly appreciated and encouraging! But please do not use this image without permission.

~ November Nuance ~ The Award Tree ~

Thanks indeed everyone for your personal comments and also your support from selected groups.

Awards are encouraging and especially from those that add my work to their 'faves'.

Cheerz G

ChouChou ✈

Thank You Very Much all for your encouraging ♡♡♡

Watch and wait...

Walking the dogs yesterday on our permitted exercise.

Thank you so much dear Flickr friends for all your encouraging comments and faves. I enjoy reading them all and get inspiration from all your wonderful photography too....Sue

GAMBIA FEB 2019

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LIVELY MALE SUNBIRD, with a broad violet brest-band. Habits coastal scrub, attracted to small flowering bushes, probing for nectar always on the move, flies with rapid wing beats and a dipping flight, am very happy to have nailed this one, because its no easy job. Zoom in to see its amazing plumage !

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THANK YOU FOR YOUR VISIT AND KIND COMMENTS, it is very appreciated, and find encouraging. Stay safe, God bless..........

.............................................Tomx

✰SL True Artists ✰ (Opted Out)

Thank You Very Much all for your encouraging ♡♡♡

Hi everyone,

It is with a great sense of satisfaction and pride that I announce that I'm stepping down as Owner and Publisher of Attention SL Magazine and all of it's various arms and wings. I started Attention SL with Jon Demen in 2016 as a niche magazine focused on the porn world and watched it grow into a beloved SL institution.

I'm passing the baton onto Tory King. He will take up the challenge of guiding it into it's future. Had I just shuttered the title, I would have been really sad. I'm thrilled he has accepted my charge to keep it alive and successful.

I'm also proud to announce that Gavin Huntsman will be continuing in his capacity as leader of the Attention on Cancer charity wing.

I have a lot of people to thank. I'm probably going to miss someone important, so please forgive me.

First of all, this project never would have gotten started without Jon Demen, Eleni Criss and Yana Grau. They all encouraged me after my experience with SL Connoisseur that I could do it better on my own. They were right and I owe them my genuine love and appreciation.

Some other early people of note: Rachel Avro, Brunella Voelisa, Isle Biedermann, Partee Mytili, Brea Brianna, Barracuz, Samantha Ansar, Stephan Buscaylet, Graham Collinson, BeeQueen Smythe, Whimsical Aristocrat ... I'm really reaching back to the heady days of early Attention when we were still figuring things out.

I want to thank Moon, Gavin and Azimuth Somme for all of their work behind the scenes.

I want to thank Ted Dosei for his friendship and for teaching me InDesign.

I want to thank the New York branch of my family, Kieth Porterfield.

I would also like to thank every photographer who has ever provided a picture or their time to this magazine. There are way too many staff and guests for me to ever, ever remember, but you all know who you are. Even if you drove me insane, I still appreciated you.

Additionally, I would like to thank all of our sponsors and advertisers who gave me some Lindens every month because they believed in what we were doing.

I'll remain on the Attention SL staff, so this is not a total goodbye.

Til next time ... I love you.

Athena

Watch them follow and watch them run but truly...to my followers and all those who have been there to support and encourage me during this whole Photoshop adventure..I give you my thanks for believing in what I do and what I create. It is because of you all that I've kept learning , that I've kept creating and that I still try to climb that photoshop mountain to explore and learn every time again.

I still remember the very first picture that I added on Flickr , the first picture that got the 100 likes , the first banner and so on..

I know I might not always add my pictures so fast then I once did but I'm still here and still working on my little creepy sinister world , , sometimes brighter and more colorful then other times.

As always , and never forget , my special thanks to my sweet dear chum Lost..always there , always encouraging , because of him I've started with making pics. Adore you my dear Mellon.

Okay!! So after that little lecture .. 😉

DRD Spear is found @ DRD mainstore

Dirt Applier is from TWC ( The White Crow) @ TWC mainstore

Collar : CX Collar @ CX Mainstore

Scarf : XC Wanderer Scarf @ CX mainstore

Earrings : CX tainted Noctirine @ CX mainstore (gifts L'homme)

Pants : CX Roamer Pants @ CX mainstore

Bracers : CX Heathen Armguard @ CX Mainstore

CX SLurl : maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Cerberus%20Crossing/133/12...

Fog/mist and light frost encouraged me out the other day to a location I've never ventured to before, even though it's reasonably local to me, Risby Warren, in North Lincolnshire.

Being slightly elevated, yes parts of Lincolnshire does have hills, the mist was thinner, and was burning back quick as the sun shone through.

Unfortunately the fencing restricted where I could actually get to. I had seen some great trees (behind me from this viewpoint) but I just couldn't get the composition I wanted. Nevertheless this shot attracted me due to the various leading lines of the power cables, fences, hills and clouds.

Do You Believe In Magic - Loving Spoonful

BiG THANKS to EVERYONE for your personal comments and also your support from selected groups.

Awards are always encouraging and especially appreciated from those add my work to their collection of 'faves'.

Cheerz G

.. Thanks for looking in! - Have a great day!

I find the iPad very difficult to take pictures with.. I've done a few but this will be the first one posted. The iPad does take very fine images if you are prepared to go crazy getting there.. I'm certainly not there yet but encouraged to keep trying. My thanks to Brenda for her patience in helping me through it all.

Tropical type climate encourages rainforest type plants. 22435

So, I depart tomorrow morning to get my bride....wish me luck!

I leave you, my dear Flickr friends, with a pic of my hometown, Ajmer.

I normally don't say this, but I'd encourage you to View On Black

Thank You Very Much all for your encouraging ♡♡♡

We had quite a few monarchs this year and I have bought milkweed seeds to plant to encourage more to come.

Lowell township, Michigan

Entry for the TMI Art & Nature Group

NEW CHALLENGE: In the Style of ... Les Nabis

BiG THANKS to EVERYONE for your personal comments and also your support from selected groups.

Awards are always encouraging and especially appreciated from those add my work to their collection of 'faves'.

Cheerz G

We are encouraged to go out for a walk and keep a distance of

6 feet I did not have to think about it not a soul around.

Second Life Animal photographers OPTED OUT

Thank You Very Much all for your encouraging ♡♡♡

American Pie

Entry for the Community Challenges Group Abstract Worlds

BiG THANKS to EVERYONE for your comments, your support from selected GROUPS and inclusion of my work in your personal GALLERIES.

Awards are always encouraging and especially appreciated from those add my work to their collection 'faves'.

Cheerz G

Not one I encourage normally, but when they stare at you with such intelligence & confidence and display plumage of such perfect beauty, it's impossible not to offer something. Our house already bears too many cockatoo scars so I need to resist their charming ways.

A freshly emerged second generation male Adonis Blue butterfly.

Thanks for your visit… Any comment you make on my photographs is greatly appreciated and encouraging! But please do not use this image without permission.

My wife was trying to encourage my younger daughter to finish this long slope.

Main Summit of Joy Mountain. 3,416-metre-high (11,207 ft)

Encouraging emerging individualism, Photography through Flickr is no longer restricted to the self assured elite.

"Flickr is home to EVERY kind of photography, and that covers a vast range of subjects, styles, and categories."

Sunset at Turtle Bay, North Shore of O'ahu, Hawai'i

In celebration of friends who understand us, who believe in us, and who inspire and encourage us to let the light in - and out.

Grateful for the gift...

Sara Bareilles, Brave

www.youtube.com/watch?v=QUQsqBqxoR4

"But don't run, stop holding your tongue

Maybe there's a way out of the cage where you live

Maybe one of these days you can let the light in"

Martin Down.

Hampshire/Wiltshire border.

As ever, many thanks to all my Flickr friends that take time to view, comment and fave my images. It is very encouraging!!

Encouraged by the sun and blue sky, we braved the 3°C for a ride through the countryside. Passed this little cabin that looks like an ideal spot to spend some time - on a warmer day.

thx 4 faves comments invites so encouraging...press L

This was headed for the trash can about ten times but every time I look at it I turn into Muttley ( mind you I don't why I wheeze so much) This photo absolutely cracks me up laughing every single time I come across it browsing my hard drive. Just look at Merry completely off the floor after pestering that dog on the lead. She was only ten months old if that and getting better at obedience. She just lives up to her name though I think Scamp would be more appropriate and I use more choice words on occasion to be honest...

Err,if you never watched wacky races or dastardly and Muttley you won't understand the reference..

Just to make you smile :)

Thank you so much dear Flickr friends for all your encouraging comments and faves. I enjoy reading them all and get inspiration from all your wonderful photography too....Sue

Well we all know its not but I've been singing along to Roy Orbison as I so often do when a photo 'strikes a chord' as it were... when I am processing a raw file.

Padstow Harbour actually but looking so sunny last October between lockdowns.

Looking like a typical post card and I’m well aware of that but it just epitomises Cornwall for me re the light and colours so I make no apologies for putting this on. Neither a sunrise sunset or slow shutter...the four S’s that a landscape photographer strives for lol. Just that Cornish light that I happen to love ❤️

Thank you so much everyone for all your encouraging comments which I appreciate so much.

I am unable to reply or comment at the moment as I’m not feeling too well at present but I wish you all well....❤️

Jamiroquai - Where Do We Go from Here?

BiG THANKS to EVERYONE for your personal comments and also your support from selected groups.

Awards are always encouraging and especially appreciated from those add my work to their collection of 'faves'.

Cheerz G

BiG THANKS to EVERYONE for your personal comments and also your support from selected groups.

Awards are always encouraging and especially appreciated from those add my work to their collection of 'faves'.

Cheerz G

Maderia Springs

Road Trip 🚐

Thank You Very Much all for your encouraging ♡♡♡

A noble purpose inspires sacrifice, stimulates innovation and encourages perseverance. Gary Hamel