Great Lakes Central 397 leads the Owosso North Turn out of its home terminal, threading between houses and fall color.

Whenever Dave and I compete, there's never a loser.

Photo shot at Sky Haven Villa - Seacloud Luxe Resort Spa🌴

Tonemapped in Photomatix,finished in Photoshop

When you come across a friendly dog, the owners are usually friendly too! In this case, both were enjoying a crisp winter's day. In our case, we took a break on the way home after having to drive an hour out of town to buy a roof rake to clear off some of the snow! The stores in our city were completely sold out.

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Chess between friends.

She allows me to get closer and closer each time.

Here's a posed portrait of a beautiful young lady...the lighting is rather harsh and the background pretty terrible, too, but I like her so much that I thought it'd be a shame if the shot were to die on my hard drive and never saw the light of day so to speak...

Taken in Lions Park, Cheyenne Wyoming.

Picture of the Day

A dragonfly cocks its head in almost a friendly manner.

Flickr Friday: Snack

Pointe de la Torche - Finistère

This lovley Hawker let me get in realy close, I even had time to switch to a macro lens, see following images!

Really friendly Robin was actually eating seeds out of my hand !!! and he even posed for a couple of pictures :-))

A threefer! … Little Blue heron juvenile, Roseate spoonbill, and White ibis

This big mouse (or rat) popped out to see what was going on. Alameda Gibraltar Botanic Garden.

- Gibraltar, a British Overseas Territory at the southern tip of the Iberian Peninsula.

A Friendly Fight

Two bull elephants enjoy a friendly tussle in the fresh green vegetation in the rain.

My last game drive at Kwando Lagoon, Botswana.

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A pair of Dagger flies, possibly Empis stercorea

SL18B Exhibitor Showcase BioBreeds Breedables

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As the sun started to peak behind the clouds one of the many southbounds meet L508

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This is from my serie: Dragon center market. It is located at a former factory area, the tenants are mainly Asian retailers

Taken at Arundel WWT.

Met these two beauties on a visit to a Farm Shop at Byley. Very friendly even though I didn't have any carrots and quite happy just to nuzzle my fingers, so gentle.

Taken at Pitsford Water Northamptonshire

The iron guardian looking out to sea, sunset over the Gwent wetlands.

A motor cyclist gives a wave to the crew on Chicago & North Western F7 417 as it leads 425 and four more sisters on the freight from Belvidere. This is south of Elgin IL. at what I believe is Route 25, now a four lane road. April 1980.

They were near Kingoodie in Perthshire .

This was another encounter at the dump. While Bob was dumping bags of leaves, this little squirrel popped up and looked at me, in the van, while perched on some old homemade shelves.

Les Sables-d'Olonne, France - 2012

Greeting committee at Nashville Zoo. Image: JET_4346_edited-square

He was actually yawning as he approached me. Nice healthy lookin teeth and gums

This lovely female speckled bush cricket was quite happy to come onto my hand (though she refused to face the camera!).

Haughmond Hill - Shropshire

Sunrise Region of Mount Rainier Natl. Park

Saturday morning 12 November 2011, - fire up the barbie and sit back and watch the action. Genesee and Wyoming Australia locos GM42/2207 would have been added at Tailem Bend to assist the SCT Logistics locos SCT012/002, with their Melbourne to Perth service, through the Adelaide Hills.

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