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Raak mijn ingewanden niet aan, Happy Thanksgiving! or Don't Touch My Giblets, Happy Thanksgiving.
I took this shot back in 2015 while visiting the medieval town of Elburg in the Netherlands. After work, I would explore the town with my camera and always found cats sitting in the windows, watching the world go by. I posted this back in 2015 but wanted a composition that had a bit more negative space to show off the curtains.
I'm not sure why this "kitty" had such a face but since it is Thanksgiving I came up with the following, please feel free to come up with your own explanation.
Come to find out the Dutch have a rich history with the pilgrims that came to America especially in the town of Leiden. Since it is Thanksgiving, one might imagine that this cat was promised the heart and gizzard and had no intention of sharing them with me. A stare down ensued because I always eat the giblets.
All the best and Happy Thanksgiving.
For your Holiday reading pleasure I included a link to a bit of the real Dutch pilgrim history and Thanksgiving. All the best and enjoy!!
www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/they-celebrate-american...
A microcosm of what I experienced at Fiery Gizzard Trail last week. Of course, this shot says anything but "Fiery," but it's a great place nonetheless.
Three canoodle wearing EMD's notch up from a stop to get their hefty westbound train rolling again after meeting the eastbound blue water here at Potterville. The sun is low and the shadows long but the meet happened just in time, most of the sun was gone before the tail end even went by.
Yesterday, I took a day trip to Tennessee to see a few of the places I've been hearing about lately. This shot is from a place called the Fiery Gizzard (yes, you read that right) Trail. This is part of the South Cumberland Park Region in Southcentral Tennessee.
This is a fantastic trail that reminds me a lot of the Sipsey Wilderness area in Alabama. There was still plenty of snow on the ground, so it was especially beautiful yesterday.
With cheese cost $6.45 here at the Gizzard Shack. A&B's two active GP9's are enroute to the NS to grab an empty grain train to move to Blissfield. Soon enough these two will also be sidelined and replaced by former LSRC GP40's.
A nest near an observation platform enabled a few hours with the grebettes (yes, it is the right word). A series of five images. Here, mama grebe feeds a down feather to a grebette, then dives. Pied grebes (perhaps all grebes) ingest a lot of feathers to act as a sieve protecting fro sharp fish bones from exiting the gizzard.
Foster Falls, at the southern starting point of the Fiery Gizzard Trail, is one of Tennessee's best waterfalls. This is shot in late fall, though it appears to be a popular swim hole in warmer seasons.
Iresine herbstii (Herbst's bloodleaf) is a species of flowering plant in the amaranth family, Amaranthaceae. Some call this plant the "Chicken Gizzard" plant.
Drinker moth larva. I love that the hairs look like a ginger mohican, hence the tile! Three image handheld stack (the other seven shots were far too wayward to align ) - Strumpshaw fen rspb, May 2018
A Great Blue Heron with a Gizzard Shad for breakfast. This heron had a great place to hunt and he captured many of these shad as they swam by. He did, however, have to defend his spot from other herons on occasion.
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Street photography. This location caught my eye. I’m not sure if it was the lines, the color, the typography/font used in the signs, I don’t know. I did get gizzards. Tell me if you had fried gizzards and where to get the best fried gizzards. Looking for “heck no I won’t eat those” as well.
This photo encouraged me to do a bit of research on gizzards. Seems that gizzards are prepared in many different ways and eaten on every continent. Who knew?
A pretty little waterfall along the Grundy Forest Day Loop, launching pad for the Fiery Gizzard Trail in the north.
Gizmo is not a fan of his visits to my house, every Saturday he gets packed up with his sister, Sophie and the two of them join my parents for dinner with me and Scott.
Sophie has become braver with each visit and now explores the house, but Gizmo stays on the couch, safe from the evil dog.
Maybe someday he'll realize he's the boss and he just needs to make sure Sock knows it.
Hope everyone has had a good day.
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This is another shot from my great trip with Nicole (Escaping Reality) a couple of weekends ago. This is such a beautiful place. Foster Falls is located at one end of the Fiery Gizzard trail....my favorite name for a trail EVER!
One of the many water falls on the Fiery Gizzard trail at South Cumberland State Park, Tracey Tennessee. We hike six miles, the Fiery Gizzard trail is 12.5 miles one way.(HDR)
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This is another shot from my trip to Fiery Gizzard Trail in Tennessee. Of the shots I've uploaded of this spot, I like this composition the best.
This handsome pheasant rooster was getting some grit along the roadside to help digest the seeds he eats when they pass through his gizzard!
Friday Froggies presents ... a lizard because nothing rhymes with lizard except for gizzard and there are no days of the week that start with "G" anyway. Gee whiz Wednesdays. Nah.
Anyway, my friends, since the day that I took this portrait of my other friend, I wondered where it was just to my liking or that other people would enjoy it once they know the story. (The exposure is terrible, so bad you can barely see the noise. I'm making up for it with the image below of another lizard who spent at least five minutes with me. In fact, for a minute or two, I thought it was going to fall asleep. I am in no way perceived as a threat.)
I was sitting by a log on Valley Vista Trail (I named it since no one else took the time, and it overlooled the Diablo, Green, and Livermoore Valleys from the 2,400 foot level of Mt. Diablo. I looked down, and there was the entrance to some critter. I could tell that it wasn't just a hole, and I knew that rattlesnakes didn't excavate burrows. Way too small for a ground squirrel; too disorganized for a tarantula; and lost in thought as to what could bit me in the ... next minute or so, up pops one of my favorites, the Western Fence Lizards.
You can read all you want to about these lizards, but nowhere (but here) will you find that one of their endearing characteristics is that they're curious critters. I'd had this happen three times in my treks on and around the mountain. Just sitting, and an eye or a whole lizard would come up to see what was disturbing his reading of the Sunday paper or watching "Lizard Love" on one of the way off channels. (See below for my favorite - not tv show - encounter with a Western Fence Lizard sans fence.)
Western Fence Lizards are to lizards and Roadrunners are to birds. On the ground, they are fast! Even a three week old lizard can outrun a human, even one that's in shape. Their biggest threats are herons and 8 year old boys who want to bring home a pet for mom although the first line is, "Look what followed me home, Mom. Can WE keep him?" Even I would say no unless the kid has a terrarium and a source of flies and ticks. They don't like grasshoppers (really, they don't), but any size ant or fly will do just fine.
So, that's the story of how, 11 years ago, I made a new friend, took a picture, and for the ensuing 11 years was never sure if it was good enough to post. The experience had to be told and my final decision was based on the fact that the sun was just coming into the "burrow" and lighting its face. It had to be shown.
Btw, please note that the dates on many of my photos since going to a Powershot in 2009 are off. The times are correct in the EXIF, but the years can be as off as five years. I've even had the camera in for service, and no one has been able to figure out how a photo was taken in 2018 abd digitized in 2012. That's quite a trick. In many instances lately, the number of the image has two digits added for the year. The problem hasn't been happening as much in 2021-2022, and you'll never see it before 2007.
I'm not concerned. Don't really care because I have the real dates through notes on the day that I've done post processing. But if you have an explanation, go for it. I have art to do. (I don't work anymore.)
And, for those of you who were concerned, today's high temp will be only 98°, my wife and I have survived, and it's just another heat wave to be noted for stories to my grandkids, "Now, listen up. There was this heat wave in 2009 that beat them all. Temperatures of 290° which is just where you should set it if you're reheating pizza."