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there is some discussion for a possible dramatization of naked bulb's hissy fit and fall from grace.

we are not sure he can pull this off, but we figure it might be good for his morale.

he is still absolutely devastated after losing ms. bubble.

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There is scarcely any writer who has not celebrated the happiness of rural privacy, and delighted himself and his reader with the melody of birds, the whisper of groves, and the murmur of rivulets. ~Samuel Johnson

One of the old my favourite Vas'ka's pictures. He is a little impudent in this picture, but he is very handsome, and he knows it himself!

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The bottom of the region of Mani, Cape Tainaron with the half-moon bays of Marmari and Porto Kayio on either side of the middle finger of the Peloponnese. This is the south-east end of continental Europe.

The cape took its name from the mythical hero and son of Zeus, Taenarus, who was believed to have built a town named after himself at the narrow isthmus located near the tip of the peninsula.

Here is the Cave of Hades, the gate to the Underworld where Hercules descended to kidnap and bring Cerberus to Earth for his twelfth labour and Orpheus to bring back to life his beloved wife, Eurydice.

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Azizi (previously known as Flora!) washing himself amidst holding his strawberry. What you see is him creating his own dribble in order to wash his face. He does this ritual every evening, usually after his tea.

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FAGA Ellie Hairstyle

Nuevo cabello (Ellie)

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... just descending from the Hills of Snowdownia and trying to place himself in the right light ....

[Dedicated to CRA (ILYWAMHASAM)]

😄HaPpY CrAzY Tuesday😄

Photo taken March 23, 2023 and uploaded for the group

CrAzY Tuesday #HardShadows

Canon EOS 450D - EFS 18-55 mm IS

ƒ/2.0

48.0 mm

1/60 Sec

ISO 400

The famous one!

{ ..إبتـسـم ليَ لجـلّ ترجع لي سنيني

رَشْفـة الـ ح ــــبْ خـير يقآل عـلميــاً..:

بنْـبـضكـ "نبض قلًبـــي في شَرَاييني..

كنـَه موجـزْ خَبَر عـاجل و حصْريـاً .. }

just enough to get in the way of a busy person :-)

Robert Brault

HBM!!

geranium?, private garden, boulder, colorado

Bastian has placed himself strategically on the garden path...

Dushara Tatters and Rags, Dushara Cathal Caithlin (Somali cats), and Bastian (mixed breed) 15.08.2021.

Olympus OMD EM5 Digital Camera

I think this chickadee was posing - he even puffed himself up a little bit for me. Love these little birds - so much personality.

The Lord himself goes before you and will be with you. He will never leave you or forsake you. Do not be afraid, do not be discouraged.

Deuteronomy 31:8

HMM to all participants!

Here is Reg the parakeet sitting on my camera strap. For the Smile on Saturday group - theme From The Ground

He had seen himself in my lens

The Lord Himself goes before you and will be with you. He will never leave you nor forsake you.

Deuteronomy 31:8

With temperature in the mid 50's this lizard suns himself on a branch high up in a tree in my backyard

Sometimes just sitting on a branch can be dangerous. This Kookaburra flew in and landed on this branch near me, only seconds later the little Grey Fantail started buzzing and swooping him, obviously telling him he was invading his territory. It lasted a few minutes and the Kookaburra decided it would just move on. The Grey Fantail looked very pleased with himself.

For Definitely Dreaming week 44 theme of "Dangerous".

Tocho Photographed at Big Cat Sanctuary, Kent

There is a green hill far away,

Without a city wall,

Where the dear Lord was crucified,

Who died to save us all.

Oh, dearly, dearly has He loved,

And died our sins to bear;

We trust in His redeeming blood,

And life eternal share.

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We may not know, we cannot tell,

What pains He had to bear;

But we believe it was for us

He hung and suffered there.

3

He died that we might be forgiven,

He died to make us good,

That we might from our sins be freed,

Saved by His precious blood.

4

There was no other good enough

To pay the price of sin,

He only could divine life give

And dwell Himself within.

Almost a cartoonish quality about this shot

This Great White Egret was being chased by an exasperated Heron., who having had the lagoon all to himself for most of the summer., was suddenly overrun by large white versions of himself

The Heron in the end gave up., and the Egrets continued posing for photographs., whilst doing a bit of fishing of course

Antonio Vivaldi, L'estate - Summer from "The Four Season"

Trondheim Soloists : youtu.be/g65oWFMSoK0 (worth listening)

Sotto dura staggion dal sole accesa

Langue l'huom, langue 'l gregge, ed arde il pino;

Sciolglie il cucul la voce, e tosto intesa

Canta la tortorella e 'l gardelino.

Zeffiro dolce spira, ma contesa

Muove Borea improvviso al suo vicino;

E piange il pastorel, perché sospesa

Teme fiera borasca, e 'l suo destino;

Toglie alle membra lasse il suo riposo

Il timore de' lampi, e tuoni fieri

E de mosche, e mosconi il stuol furioso!

Ah che purtroppo i suoi timor son veri

Tuona e fulmina il ciel e grandinoso

Tronca il capo alle spiche e a' grani alteri.

Sonnet by Vivaldi Himself

I would tell you about the things

They put me through

The pain I've been subjected to

But the lord himself would blush

The countless feasts laid at my feet

Forbidden fruits for me to eat

But i think your pulse would start to rush

Now I'm not looking for absolution

Forgiveness for the things i do

But before you come to any conclusions

Try walking in my shoes

Try walking in my shoes

You'll stumble in my footsteps

Keep the same appointments i kept

If you try walking in my shoes

If you try walking in my shoes

Morality would frown upon

Decency look down upon

The scapegoat fate's made of me

But i promise now, my judge and jurors

My intentions couldn't have been purer

My case is easy to see

I'm not looking for a clearer conscience

Peace of mind after what I've been through

And before we talk of any repentance

Try walking in my shoes

Try walking in my shoes

You'll stumble in my footsteps

Keep the same appointments i kept

If you try walking in my shoes

If you try walking in my shoes

Try walking in my shoes

Now I'm not looking for absolution

Forgiveness for the things i do

But before you come to any conclusions

Try walking in my shoes

Try walking in my shoes

You'll stumble in my footsteps

Keep the same appointments i kept

If you try walking in my shoes

You'll stumble in my footsteps

Keep the same appointments i kept

If you try walking in my shoes

Try walking in my shoes

If you try walking in my shoes

Try walking in my shoes

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“A man must find time for himself. Time is what we spend our lives with. If we are not careful we find others spending it for us. . . . It is necessary now and then for a man to go away by himself and experience loneliness; to sit on a rock in the forest and to ask of himself, 'Who am I, and where have I been, and where am I going?' . . . If one is not careful, one allows diversions to take up one's time—the stuff of life.”

― Carl Sandburg

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Science Matters!

prunus mume, white japanese flowering apricot, 'Big Joe', j c raulston arboretum, ncsu, raleigh, north carolina

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I tried cloning out the mud, but it ended up a mess, so opted for a darker look

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Summer of 42 is a coming-of-age film based on memoirs. During summer vacation on Nantucket Island in 1942, a youth eagerly awaiting his first sexual encounter finds himself developing an innocent love for a young woman awaiting news on her soldier husband's fate in WWII. In everyone's life, there's a summer of 42.

Seen at Lume in Melbourne.

Just reached Sydney after a nearly 12 hour train journey.

Snelli pond, old town

When he revealed himself, he had the firm idea of hiding behind himself

Oilpastel , 15x20cm , 2023

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Linus isn't happy because he hurt himself yesterday when a loud noise startled him and he panicked. He has a problem with one of his hind legs and is limping terribly. Most of the time he doesn't move at all, just lies down somewhere and looks miserable. The vet thinks that he has pulled a muscle but if things don't get better further examinations will be required. Fynn has a vet appointment tomorrow anyway, maybe I'll take Linus with us as I would like the vet to have another look at him before the weekend. Surprisingly Fynn is very nice to Linus, sleeps next to him and even grooms him which is something Fynn usually never does.

When Guru went into the cat enclosure, Muse still couldn't bring himself to use the cat flap. So I opened the bedroom window to see if he would use that avenue. He watched for a long time before finally venturing out.

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A male Linnet giving himself a shuffle.

Taken earlier in the year.

** From Fountains Abbey it is only a short walk along the river to the Studley Royal water gardens . The gardens were designed by John Aislabie in the early seventeenth century, they are a fine example of a Georgian water gardens

The Temple of Piety seen in the centre of the image is one of the many neo-classical buildings in Studley Royal.

a bit more background

In the early 18th-century John Aislabie had great plans to impress visitors to his Yorkshire estate and so turned the wild and wooded valley of the river Skell into one of England’s most spectacular Georgian water gardens.

John Aislabie inherited the Studley Royal estate in 1693. He was a socially and politically ambitious man and became Chancellor of the Exchequer in 1718. Disaster struck his career in 1720 due to his part in the South Sea Bubble financial scandal and he was expelled from Parliament. It was then that John returned to Yorkshire and devoted himself to creating this ground-breaking garden. Inspired by the work of the great French landscape gardeners, the two gifted amateurs created the Water Garden with its formal, geometric design and extraordinary vistas; including the much photographed Temple of Piety.You can also find classical statues, follies and garden buildings carefully positioned within the landscape to discover and enjoy.

Amazingly the garden you see today is little changed from the one that would have impressed Aislabie’s visitors 200 years ago.

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Lesser yellowlegs looking at his own reflection. Southeastern, Connecticut Salt Marsh.

Ce serait donc Hélio Phil himself qui photographie mes garnements entrain de faire les fous ?

Bon , comme c'est lui , on va tolérer... 😛

Explored October 5, 2020

#sliderssunday

Do you remember the Mendelian laws of inheritance? We've learned them in school on the basis of how the eye colours of fruit flies (the notorious Drosophila Melanogaster) are inherited to further generations according to dominant or recessive characteristics, although Gregor Mendel himself conducted his groundbreaking genetic experiments with pea plants. Unfortunately, the significance of Mendel's laws was never truly understood or acknowledged in his lifetime (1822 – 1884). His studies, however, were rediscovered three decades later, at the turn of the 20th century, and, following their rediscovery, American biologist Thomas Hunt Morgan (1866 – 1945) began to experiment with Drosophila in his "Fly Room" at Columbia University. It was Morgan who discovered that genes are carried on chromosomes; he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Medicine in 1933. Further Fly experiments (with a less successful outcome) were conducted by a certain Dr. Seth Brundle in 1986 (aka "The Fly"). So where exactly does my image come in here, you may have already asked yourself (if you haven't stopped reading my lengthy introduction long before – which I could totally understand). Well, during one of those numerous teaching experiments with fruit flies, which numerous generations of students have conducted ever since modern genetics became part of school curriculums, something must have gone very wrong. And who knows, maybe Dr. Seth "Brundlefly" Brundle himself had led one of those biology experiments? Experiments in which some dinosaur genes were mixed with those of an innocent fruit fly... Which resulted in the creation the biggest Drosophila the world has ever seen – the Olympic Brachosophila Megalogaster? Nonsense, of course, and you know it ;-) But doesn't this kaleidoscoped image of the Olympic stadium's interior (the roof, mostly, taken at a dutch angle) look just like an ultra close-up of a (fruit) fly's face? Not one that you'd like to see buzzing around your fruit bowl, that's for sure, but let's say that the other "third party genes" that were used in this crazy experiment came from a puppy. So this would be the friendliest, cuddliest giant dinosaur puppy fruit fly you'll ever come across :) OK, I'd rather stop before you start to believe that I was a part of those experiments as well ;-)

Happy Sliders Sunday, Everyone, stay safe and take care, dear Flickr friends!

Drosophila Megalogaster – Schau mir in die Augen, Kleines :)

Ihr erinnert Euch doch bestimmt noch alle an die Mendelsche Vererbungslehre und die berühmte Drosophila Melanogaster mit ihren dominanten bzw. rezessiven Genen, die über die Vererbung der jeweiligen Augenfarbe entscheiden. Was wäre, wenn jemand bei einem der unzähligen Biologie-Experimente, die Generationen von Schülern mit Fruchtfliegen durchgeführt haben, nicht nur Fruchtfliegen(-Gene) gekreuzt, sondern evtl. noch ein paar Dinosaurier-Gene dazwischen gestreut hätte? Das Ergebnis könnte die größte Fruchtfliege sein, die die Welt je gesehen hat, die unglaubliche "Olympische Brachosophila Megalogaster" mit Augen so groß wie zwei Stadiondächer ;-) Nun ja, Ihr habt es schon erraten, dies ist eine kleine Spielerei mit einem Foto vom Olympiastadion für den Sliders Sunday. Ich hatte hier einfach aus Spaß mal eine Aufnahme mit schräger Perspektive gemacht und dabei überwiegend das offene Dach mit ins Bild genommen. Nachdem ich in Photoshop das Bild kopiert, gespiegelt und neu zusammengesetzt hatte, schaute mich plötzlich eine riesige (Frucht-)Fliege an ;-) Keine, die man gerne daheim um den Früchteteller herumschwirren sehen möchte, aber ich kann Euch beruhigen: Bei dem manipulierten Experiment kamen als "Drittanbieter-Gene" nicht nur die eines Dinosauriers hinzu, sondern auch die eines kuscheligen Welpen. Diese Fliege ist also gaaaanz lieb und verschmust und will bloß spielen ;-)

Ich wünsche Euch einen guten Start in die neue Woche, bleibt gesund und passt auf Euch auf!

Laddie knows how to look sorry for himself.