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Have a close look at this one; and you'll see me in the bird's eye reflection!!!
Yet another Rainbow Lorikeet close-up from home!
Hope you like it!!
Thanks again for any comments, views or favorites - always appreciated!!
Have a tremendous day and week everyone!!
celebrating our postal network around the world...
Created for the Down Under Challenge 1215
Thanks to Cindy Mc for the
plus my collection from Australia.
I have been shooting loads and loads recently and I don't think I've been enjoying my photography this much. Not sure whats up with this sudden burst but I'm loving it! I have been loving getting away all my final year work and having a break from it for a couple of hours. I have been pretty busy and keep forgetting to post anything so thought I should get one up somewhen. Being able to experience scenes like this one certainly help me come home happy and get on with some more work :)
PS: Still not sure about the sun in this image, this image is blended from 3 different exposures but I can't work out if the sun looks right. Any comments are much appreciated :)
The fireman takes a rest from shovelling coal while the driver controls the JS locomotive. Sandaoling, Xinjiang Province, China.
~ Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Secret #3: I've kept a journal since I was thirteen years old. Every year I buy a new journal and I like having a place to put down my thoughts. Writing things down has always helped me relieve stress. I kind of like it the old-fashioned way where I can write things down on paper and open up the journals years later. Some of them are still at my parents' home and I hope they don't go reading them!
I hate to post and run but I must today. Deadline calls...catch up with you later... =)
Having departed Stansted, Qatari Emiri Air Force Boeing Globemaster III A7-MAO heads South across Sussex in the climb through FL280 as 'LHOB242'
Credit too to Northern Control for the nod
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“The best reason for having dreams is that in dreams no reasons are necessary.”
Ashleigh Brilliant
Thank you to my friend & work colleague Morgan, for the image of the castle
With thanks to…..
Textures ~ Skeletal Mess & me ( 1 ) & ( 2 )
Clouds ~ Tanakawho
Model ~ Faestock
~ Explore ~ #28 ~ Aug 20, 2009 ~
Great Egret - - - - - - ( Ardea alba, aka Casmerodius albus )
I had tossed some bread into deep water, and she successfully hovered over it and caught a fish.
She'll always return to shore to eat them.
Edge of Lake Emerald, in Oakland Park, Florida -US- near Fort Lauderdale.
Shot from my balcony over the lake, late Monday afternoon, October 8, 2007.
"BIGGER is better." view.
See WHERE. ( When map appears, click "Hybrid" and "+" sign for best map view.)
Have a seat in the lemon0rated sunshine at the corner of Bank & Nepean. You know you want to. Just don't sit on the curled up and sleeping dino.
If you are going to Rosslyn Chapel I hope that you have a great visit and if you have a chance do walk in the Roslin Glen. The Castle and the Chapel retain the older name of Rosslyn and the contemporary village has the newer name of Roslin.
If you are on the Western Bank of The North Esk river you can visit The Wallace Cave. There are several Wallace Caves in Scotland. There is only one Wallace Cave in Roslin Glen. There are also caves under Hawthronden Castle.
There is a legend of a Black Hen, don’t say Pullet, that is noted as confusing treasure seekers and grail hunters by digging holes to false terrain the site and to fill in half dug holes for when seekers return to complete their excavations and further still through special skill to carefully indicate the better and best grounds to explore through careful talon and beak soil manipulation. There are further tails of either this Black Hen, or of another such similar still don’t say Pullet, Black Hen, maybe there is just the one, or possibly there are a pair of magical soil shrouders at work? The other hen story relates to a treasure hidden under a stair. The exact stair can be correctly deduced in a manner not fully revealed within the story. Any stair testing and excavating can and will lead to the Black Hen II, this time the truth will not out*, moving the treasure when the excavators are in the right area and also the hen will bamboozle the grail hunters with special Holy Hen Acts that will confuse, strain, enrage and bring chaos to order and the ‘BH II’ wonder guard will clear up after the said chaos and restore all to proper order til the right, maybe even righteous, approach of the mythic legendary treasure grail hunter seekers who are destined to step on the right step at the right time in the right manner possibly with the left foot.
Please only read good humour and faithful following in my words above. I have followed signs to Rosslyn Chapel and parked when there were just a few spaces next to the old barn and byre. I have wandered in the beauty of the landscape and listened to the stories and here share some quickly to say that this is a place of beauty and of mystery, both of folly and of faith with a river bend bringing out rock inscribed from thousands of years ago to natural and extended caves, with castles and chapels, formerly and currently hosting services and battles til a part of the past seems to have been deeply woven here such that we choose to look at it again and again making pilgrimage and enacting rampage all engaged through marvellous mysteries and eldritch histories far beyond our fascination and into our fine fashioned fulgent fabricated fantasies.**
*Black Hen I also assured that the truth would not out, Black Hen II is not a fully fledged sequel as of course it could be one Hen, not a Pullet, successfully stealth working both grounds and stairs.
**Please do not test the Hen, or Hens, not Pullets, as you could be destroying a beautiful and historial protected place that is best left none Hen tested and none destroyed. Age, atmosphere and our antecedents have done more than enough destruction and also they had with them those that fought to give enough preservation and conservation too.
© PHH Sykes 2024
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Welcome to Rosslyn Chapel
Hawthornden Castle
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hawthornden_Castle
Alexander Nasmyth - Hawthornden Castle, near Edinburgh - Google Art Project
artsandculture.google.com/asset/hawthornden-castle-near-e...
Hawthornden Foundation Hawthornden Castle
www.hawthornden.org/hawthornden-castle
Hawthornden Foundation
Wallace's Cave, cave and rock carvings SM6825
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ROSLIN GLEN AND HAWTHORNDEN CASTLE GDL00327
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Roslin Glen
Rosslyn Chapel Trust is responsible for the conservation and care of part of the picturesque landscape known as Roslin Glen, which is adjacent to Rosslyn Castle and Rosslyn Chapel.
www.rosslynchapel.com/about/roslin-glen/
Roslin Glen Country Park
www.midlothian.gov.uk/directory_record/171/roslin_glen_co...
Roslin Glen Country Park
www.rosslynchapel.com/about/roslin-glen/
Wallace's Cave, cave and rock carvings
canmore.org.uk/site/51808/wallaces-cave
Archaeology Notes
Roslin Glen And Hawthornden Castle
Date of Inclusion: 31/03/2001
1:20,000Map Scale:
Council: Midlothian
Designation Reference: GDL00327
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ROSLIN GLEN AND HAWTHORNDEN CASTLE
GDL00327
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Gorton House Rock Carving(S) (Post Medieval)(Possible)
Have a wonderful Saturday! Sorry, I haven't been as responsive as usual but have been working a lot.
I have many other pics of Botz, too many to share here as I like to keep this stream varied somewhat. But I am so enamored with these guys that I set up a Facebook page dedicated to them. I invite you to visit and enjoy. Thank you for your support!
It's the end of the world, I have decided to join the clone army: this is my 1st post with a mesh head! I tried to resist as much as I could as 1) I worked on my face (my beau-ti-ful face <3 ) for almost 10 years and 2) even if we can change the mesh heads a tiny bit, let's face it, we all look like we come from the same village where everybody is related but we all deny it and don't want to talk about it.
Hashtag FirstWorldProblems
Pose: HelaMiyo :: Poses :: Drama (perfect name for my situation and part of the anniversary group gifts)
Head: [AK] Lulu
Skin: E. Vary - Lina Skin (group gift)
Hair: [^.^Ayashi^.^] Manami
Arm warmers: glYph Warmers black
Body: Luas Susanne Body Black
Head piece: [sYs] KALT crown (previous gift)
Collar: Simplecandy - Mesh Massacre Collar
Heidi this one is for you ;)
A northbound Cumbrian Mountain Express romps along the Garsdale Valley with King Arthur 777 "Sir Lamiel" ( minus smoke deflectors ) in charge.
A heavy snowfall overnight had produce wonderful conditions on the S&C although mist and fog surrounded much of the line. After a long hard climb from the road in the valley and having to trudge through 3 foot snow drifts we finally got to this spot , the mist was swirling around us but cleared just enough for the passing of Sir Lamiel producing some weak but welcome light on the scene.
2nd February 1991.
Mamiya 645, 150mm. Fuji RDP 100.
Cameron, Mason and Roman having a bit of a laugh. I found these caps in a cupboard that I was clearing out. Its amazing that sometimes you forget what you actually have.
Having an animal in a candid scene often ups the impact for me, so I was delighted when this Snowy Egret wandered by as I was photographing folks enjoying the Seaside Tide Pools. I loved how the egret and young woman shared a similar pose in this juxtaposition as both searched for sea creatures in the pools.