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One of my favorite buildings to visit at Callaway Gardens is the John A Sibley Horticultural Center.
I just love seeing all the exotic looking flowers and plants growing there, in all shapes, sizes and colors. I didn't see the name plate for this one but I bet someone out there will know the name for these colorful orchids.
Nov 2013
The 03 shunter was something we didn't see much of in the north-west, apart from 03 073 at Birkenhead maybe, so two together was a rare treat, albeit withdrawn ones. 03 084 and 03 158 were both in a vandalised state on the scrapline having arrived from Norwich Crown Point. 03 084 was delivered new as D2084 on 19th March 1959 and withdrawn on 5th July 1987. 03 158 was delivered new as D2158 on 22nd August 1960 and withdrawn also on 5th July 1987. Happily both locos were subsequently preserved. 03 084 is curently at WCRC, Carnforth being used as the depot shunter. 03 158 moved on from being an operational loco at the GCR sidings at Rothley, current whereabouts unknown, to me at least.
One of my fave monogram is wearing SouoL by LouoS. I'm still bonding with my christmas dolly presents so don't have anything new. Bonding is private dolly therapy time for me. But I found some old pics that deserves its share of the spotlight. Hope you like !!!;-D!!!
is not an easy thing to shoot. Sure, it seems inviting. Exotic. Magical. But the truth is, the moon on its own is not much to look at. Unless you're up close enough to see the gritty details, it's just a pale circle in the sky. So I'm always looking for moon-friendly places to go when it's full.
Lucky for me there are small bodies of water everywhere around me. These days, they're partly thawed but still partly frozen and still bearing all kinds of paw and hoof prints. Which makes for some good texturey reflections. Not to mention a fun night out.
Coming from Bristol, where the bus fleet was mostly Bristol chassis with Eastern Coach Works bodies, and green, a visit to Cardiff always seemed to produce, to me, the exotic. Waiting in Cardiff's now demolished bus station on September 12th 1966 was this red Western Welsh Park Royal bodied A,E.C. "Bridgmaster", a type I loved for its heavy looking front end and seemingly slightly set back front axle.
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Taken with my Apple iPhone 4S
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Clerodendrum (Clerodendron) Quadriloculare
Starburst, Shooting Star
Striking, to say the least, Clerodendrum (Clerodendron) Quadriloculare is a fairly easy to grow evergreen shrub. Of the family Verbenaceae it is more commonly known as Starburst, Shooting Star or Glorybower. It requires no special care except for training and restraining. Starburst is a sub-tropical plant the family of which is native to Africa and Asia (Pacific Islands).
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Hope your weekend is a pleasant one. Thanks for the visit.
I'm not sure what species of deer this is. I thought possibly red deer but can't confirm that. It was resting beneath the cyrpess trees next to the Sabine River behind a high fence. He stood up and starting walking when he realized I had spotted it. Bigger than our native white tail deer, very dark red color with nice antlers, but not huge as I would expect for a mature red stag. Also the black face and light colored tuft of hair on top of the head don't seem to match any of the species that I researched.
Anyway, this was on a private ranch that advertised exotic game hunts on the gate nearby.
Between Utopia and Vanderpool, Texas near the Sabine River.
One of the joys and adventures of taking long road trips is sampling the exotic cuisine of exciting foreign lands... or not.
ODC2 Exotic - Saffron - sorry to admit this is the Greek cheapo version - best my spice rack could offer.
Exercise Cobra Warrior After my afternoon visit on Tuesday 14th March, where I just missed photographing the visiting fighters arriving back at base, I made up for it on the following Friday 17th - managing to record the departure home of all six of the Belgian Air Component F-16s, four of the Finnish Air Force F-18s and a pair of the 'exotic' Indian Air Force Mirage 2000s 😎 :)
A video still of FA-77 - the second of the four Belgian Air Component F-16s that departed Waddington around 09.30 - arriving at the holding position.
Take a close look at FA-77 - I had no idea that the F-16s were fitted with in-flight toilets 😂😀 ;) Apparently, the powerful air intake was able to suck up standing water from the ground!
Exercise Cobra Warrior is a biannual exercise run by the Royal Air Force and is designed to exercise participants in high intensity large force tactical training. This year's exercise is taking place from the 6th to the 24th of March, controlled by directing staff at RAF Waddington. More info on Exercise Cobra Warrior here: www.raf.mod.uk/news/articles/international-participants-f...
Cobra Warrior Participants
Based at Waddington
🇧🇪Belgian Air Force (Force Aérienne Belge)🇧🇪
General Dynamics F-16AM Fighting Falcon (Viper) x6
FA-77
FA-102
FA-116 (349 sqd special tail)
FA-127
FA-134
FA-136 (display special)
🇫🇮 Finnish Air Force (Ilmavoimat) 🇫🇮
McDonnell Douglas F-18C Hornet x6
HN-406
HN-411 (small bull on nose)
HN-422
HN-424 (black lynx on nose)
HN-438
HN-448
🇮🇳 Indian Air Force 🇮🇳
Dassault Mirage 2000 x5
KF112 - 2000I
KF118 - 2000I
KT208 - 2000TI
KT211 - 2000TI
KT213 - 2000TI
Based at Coningsby
🈂 Royal Saudi Air Force 🈂
EF2000 Eurofighter Typhoon x6
1020 - T3
316 - FGR4
8019 - FGR4
1019 - FGR4
1022 - FGR4 (Green Canard)
8018 - FGR4
More info here: www.fightercontrol.co.uk/forum/viewtopic.php?f=455&t=...
Low-res shot taken with an iPhone 6s iPhone photography - apologies for the poor quality of some of these phone photos - sometimes they're nice and sharp - sometimes they're all pixelated and not up to my usual standard. The videos are better :)
You can see a random selection of my aviation memories here: www.flickriver.com/photos/heathrowjunkie/random/
Mango, papaya, dragon fruit, passion fruit, strawberries. Recipe in romanian here: retete-vegane.blogspot.com/
"Been experimenting with AI for image creation while taking an online AI class!
I know there are mixed feelings about AI-generated art among photographers, but I wanted to explore tools like DALL-E, MidJourney, and Firefly to see what they could do.
Ended up creating about 40-50 images and I will share many of them here.
Curious to hear your thoughts—both positive and negative. Feel free to throw your comments at me!