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“A door is what a dog is perpetually on the wrong side of.”
Ogden Nash
an all too brief weekend with the love of my life and it's back to blackpool with jump!
Most farmers in Melrakkaslétta, NE-Iceland, put up flags to let the eider know where it is safe to lay nests, some put up scarecrows to fend off birds so the eider can lay it's eggs in peace.
This farmer had put up a chair, a few feet away was a "dead" scarecrow, staring with no eyes up at the sky.
At least that lonely, and now late, scarecrow got front row seats to the north Atlantic ocean.
-and if it had squinted (if it had eyes...) then it might see the coast of the arctic.
Perhaps skua and other predatory birds hate the color of lime green?
I used this shot for a "coming soon" announcement on my web page:
I am working on the page, always changing my mind though.....which makes it bloody difficult to finalise.
The cloud this morning was nearly a straight line as far as you, it looked fascinating against the blue sky and the added sunrise.
Looking west along Front Street, CN TOwer, Union Station, Royal York Hotel, Royal Bank building, and more. Toronto.
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Date: August 31, 2021
Location: My House - Ellicott City, Maryland (Howard County)
NOTE: As I opened my front door, this cutie was standing just a few feet in front of me. Nice way to start the day!
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I have Koda to thank for this shot. If he hadn't been meowing at the front door, I would have missed the sky this morning.
LLandudno, North Wales sea front taken nearly four years ago.
Made for sliders Sunday, I've converted to BW and enhanced the reflection. HSS!
CN 327 has 30 intermodal platforms up front as it approaches Dorval with CN 2224 & IC 2724 for power.
The ramp at the front yard of Z Ward, just inside the gate.
Z Ward was a separate building at the Glenside Mental Hospital that catered for the criminally insane. The criteria for being an inmate was having committed a crime and posing a danger to others and/or themselves due to insanity. Built in 1885, it is now empty and preserved by the National Trust.
According to Eddie Garcia, Meteorologist with KOB4 in Albuquerque, NM: "Hold onto your hats! A backdoor cold front will move in Thursday and could bring canyon winds and showers to New Mexico.
You may want to bring a rain jacket if you go to the New Mexico State Fair. Temperatures will cool down some with this."
They did. We awoke Friday morning to 59 degrees.
A backdoor cold front occurs when the clockwise motion around a high-pressure system pulls in colder air toward the south and west of it, in this case resulting in a line of clouds just above the 10k' elevation in which the mountain pushes warm air up into cooler regions.
This is an HDR image cobbled together from six frames of three exposures each for a total of 18 frames. Photoshop Merge to Panorama was used to stitch the images. A double-click on the image will take you closer to the mountain and reveal more details.
On a foggy day in Bonavista, NL, my wife and I went off in different directions for a few hours. She was attracted to some of the quaint bookstores and local trinquit outlets. I on the other hand, was going to make the best of the respite of rain. We were left with a white sky and a little fog, so the challenge was on to find my own treasures.
It is tough to say which item attracted me more to this final result, but suffice it to point out that there are three elements. The lovely and pristine yellow house, an enormous washed up wreck of a boat in the front yard and a bent fence. In this case it was the fence that spoke loudest for attention, while the rest is glue that holds it all together.
To me, the sunset is always a spectacle worth watching in the front row, with popcorn...like the people who live in that building probably get to do everyday.
There are three attractive beaches that are close to the village of Monreith. The largest is Monreith Bay. It is best visited at low tide when the wide expanse of sand is exposed. To reach it, park beside the A747 and take the long flight of 152 steps down to the beach below where there are public toilets. Just to the south of Monreith are the two beaches of Front and Back Bay. They are reached off the road to the St Medan's Golf Club, with a public car park beside Back Bay. Just off the road you'll see a bronze sculpture of an otter, a memorial to Gavin Maxwell, author of Ring of Bright Water. He spent his childhood at Monreith.
The periwinkle is probably to be considered in full bloom in the front yard, always delightful at this time of year.
Tug crew has a front row seat as they bring the Plover Arrow up the Yarra River to Appleton Dock Melbourne.
You can see why, in the past, the Double -barred Finch was sometimes referred to as the "Owl Finch". The white face, outlined with black, slightly resembled a little Barn Owl. They were also called Bicheno's Finch.
Manif "contre la loi sécurité globale à Paris et lutte contre la précarité" qui était organisée de la Porte des Lilas à la Place de la République.
J'ai rejoint la manif à pied (un peu avant 14 h, heure de départ officielle du cortège), en remontant la rue St Fargeau puis en prenant le bd Gambetta. J'ai été sidérée par le nombre de policiers tout le long de mon trajet, une véritable armée. Entre 13h30 et 14h, rue Saint Fargeau, des centaines de gendarmes, et plus d'une centaines de cars de gendarmes qui étaient garés (moteur ronflant) cul à cul tout le long de la rue St Fargeau. A partir du bd Gambetta, des centaines de CRS formaient une double file de chaque côté du boulevard. Ils laissaient passer les passants qui visiblement rejoignaient la manif (et qui allaient repartir dans l'autre sens avec le cortège). C'était impressionnant, toute cette armée policière en tenue robocop, et important à bien avoir en tête pour comprendre la suite...
Quand j'ai appris en effet par la suite qu'il y avait eu des "casseurs" bd Gambetta, la manipulation était évidente : c'était IMPOSSIBLE, avec cette armée de policiers en place une demi-heure avant le départ, de casser, sans leur "accord", une vitrine ou une voiture, alors même que les forces de police étaient assez nombreuses (des centaines) pour former une double haie d'honneur tout le long du bd Gambetta !
On devine évidemment l'objectif de cette manipulation (parce que cela en est une) pour la police, la préfecture et l'Etat : on communique à fond sur des "casseurs" en ne parlant que de "violences" de manifestants (les manifestants n'étaient pas violents) au lieu évidemment de parler des violences policières, de la loi de "sécurité globale", des bavures policières, des yeux crevés de manifestants... ce pourquoi on était venu manifester. Une diversion grossière.
Et je ne parle même pas de la suite : on enfume les manifestants avec des gaz lacrymo, on les "nasse", on les oblige à quitter le cortège par les petites rues adjacentes (impossible de revenir ensuite). Et on communique en donnant des chiffres sous-évalués du nombre réel de manifestants pour dire que la mobilisation s'affaiblit. Tout cela largement relayé par certains gros médias très complaisants qui s'égosillent sur les "casseurs".
"The common open-country woodpecker of eastern Mexico and northern Central America. It crosses the border mainly in southern Texas, where it is very common, noisy, and conspicuous. Similar in appearance and behavior to its relative, the Red-bellied Woodpecker. Where their ranges meet in Texas and Oklahoma, the two species aggressively defend territories against each other, and they sometimes interbreed."
www.audubon.org/field-guide/bird/golden-fronted-woodpecker
I took this and the other photos in this south Texas bird series as a participant in Brian Loflin's South Texas Bird Photography workshop.