View allAll Photos Tagged Have
© Copyright A Pendleton 2014 Hope all my dear friends are keeping well, and are having a super week,.......... Alan.
Having fun dipping in the water- its hunting ground…
Follow me to enjoy more photos like this
f/2.8, 1/1250 sec, ISO-1600, 400mm
#PhotoOfTheDay #BirdWatching #BirdsOfPrey #BestPhotos #Discoverwildlife #animal #earthfocus #earth #birdingphotography #birdpics #bird_captures #osprey #ospreyphotography #animalphotography #natgeo #nature #wildlife #Discovery #naturelovers #photography #rspb #best_birds_planet
Never thought that this could be my world - leaves and fences! So here comes my perfect combination ;-) Wish you all an incredible weekend!
I have just spent the past five days in the vast Hortobágy National Park in eastern Hungary. The park, a part of the Alföld (Great Plain), was designated as a national park in 1973 (the first in Hungary), and elected among the World Heritage sites in 1999. The Hortobágy is Hungary's largest protected area, and the largest semi-natural grassland in Europe.
However, I didn't have to travel far to see this Syrian Woodpecker which is very like Great Spotted Woodpecker. It was nesting in a tree outside the front door of my hotel!
Thanks for your visit and any comment you make on my photographs – it is greatly appreciated and encouraging!
© Roger Wasley 2015 all rights reserved. Unauthorized use or reproduction for any reason is prohibited.
Carcès (pronounced car-says') is a village in the Var, between Cotignac and the Thoronet Abbey. It's quite a large village, laid out in a rectangle, with the different parts of the village separated somewhat from each other. One part, perched on a low hill and called the old town (vieille ville), has a lot of stone walls and stone arches. The "newer" parts of Carcès, though, have narrow streets, vaulted passages and medieval portails and ancient houses and doorways. All in all, Carcès is a very interesting village to visit. One of the most striking things about Carcès are the trompe l'oeil wall murals and the colorful fish-scale wall tiles on some of the houses.
The mairie (town hall) and the library (médiatheque municipale) are located in a quiet little square completely surrounded by buildings, at the site of an old olive-oil mill, the "Huilerie St Charles". In a hidden little passage behind the library, the large iron waterwheel is still in place against the back of the building.
Commerce and Cafés
Carcès has a good variety of shops for every-day needs, including gift/souvenir shops, banks, and a post office.
The selection of terrace cafés seemed a bit limited, but we did find a couple that were nicely acceptable. One is located on the Place des Martyrs de la Résistance (Place de l'Hotel de Ville on the town map), shaded by enormous platan trees and bordered by ancient buildings and the picturesque bell tower with campanile on top and arched passage at the bottom. The fountain here, with a tall column and four carven faces is nicely grungy on one side, accentuating its age.
Saturday morning market day is a real event in Carcès. The market fills several streets in the central part of town, and there's a good variety in the types of stalls, including, clothes, baskets, cooked foods, Provencal and local specialities, olive-wood items, fruits, vegetables, and so on. The nearby Lac de Carcès, about 4 km south of town, is pretty, but doesn't have beaches, swimming, boating or water sports.
Cabro d'Or Legend (Légende de la Cabro d'Or). The legend of the mysterious golden goat is popular in Carcès, with the town's main hotel-restaurant named after it.
Trompe l'oeil Murals
There are four main trompe l'oeil wall mural locations, but smaller ones decorate buildings here and there in the town.
1 - at the Ofice de Tourisme building (corner of Rue Marechal Foch and Ave G. Clemenceau), depicts sacks and barrels being hoisted up the side of the building to be stored in the warehouse.
2 - at the top of Rue Marechal Foch, close to the Office de Tourisme, a group of Royals are standing inside an arched passage.
3 - Rue Hoche at the northern edge of town, a woman hangs clothes on an upper-floor terrace while a man presses grapes around the side of the ground floor.
4 - Rue Florentin Giraud, the long "maison de repos" building has a wonderful collection of different facades, pastel colors, shutters and balistrades, pillars, tiled roofs and drain pipes.
The wall paintings are all done by the same artist: Michel DEGUIL. His phone number is on the "maison de repos" facade.
Fountains
A guidebook from the Office de Tourisme lists 19 fountains on a "Circuits des Fontaines et Lavoirs", similar to the (Gonfaron). Touring Carcès to locate the fountains would be a fun way to see the town, but you would have to mark the locations on a map yourself.
The village of Gonfaron, about 20 km to the southeast, also has a circuit of discovery for their village's 16 ancient fountains, and they have an animal legend with their "flying donkey".
For further information please visit www.beyond.fr/villages/carces.html www.provenceweb.fr/e/var/carces/carces.htm?r=1&Largeu... and www.provenceverte.co.uk/discover/carces.php
You have to take risks, he said. We will only understand the miracle of life fully when we allow the unexpected to happen. Every day, God gives us the sun--and also one moment in which we have the ability to change everything that makes us unhappy. Every day, we try to pretend that we haven't perceived that moment, that it doesn't exist--that today is the same as yesterday and will be the same as tomorrow. But if people really pay attention to their everyday lives, they will discover that magic moment. It may arrive in the instant when we are doing something mundane, like putting our front-door key in the lock; it may lie hidden in the quiet that follows the lunch hour or in the thousand and one things that all seem the same to us. But that moment exists--a moment when all the power of the stars becomes a part of us and enables us to perform miracles.
- Paulo Coelho; By the river Piedra I sat down and wept
Ne Me Quitte Pas......
(this is the most emotional video that I have ever seen...)
I have too many collections! This is part of a small collection that I have of fossils, rocks and minerals. This beautiful ammonite was bought when I was living in Kenya many years ago!
Introduction
2019 Christian Music Video | "I Have Seen God's Love" | praise and worship music
www.holyspiritspeaks.org/videos/i-have-seen-God-s-love-mv/
Almighty God, it is You who loves me.
Out of the filthy world You have chosen me!
So I have come before You, yes, I have come before You,
living a life of the church, enjoying Your words every day.
Having such blessing is You uplifting me today!
Almighty God, I have seen Your love,
and all I wanna do is repay Your love.
All I wanna do is fulfill my duty to You.
I have seen Your love and will repay Your love!
It’s all I wanna do.
Almighty God, You walk among the churches.
You’ve expressed truths about our corrupt dispositions.
You prune and deal with us,
yes, You prune and deal with us: all of our rebellion and our resistance.
You judge all our imaginings and our notions to cleanse us.
Almighty God, I have seen Your love,
and all I wanna do is repay Your love.
All I wanna do is fulfill my duty to You.
I have seen Your love and will repay Your love!
It’s all I wanna do.
Almighty God, You have saved us.
You speak words daily to provide for and water us.
Through my hardships and suffering,
all my hardships and suffering, Your words have always been by my side.
Living within Your words, I’ve grown in my life.
Almighty God, I have seen Your love,
and all I wanna do is repay Your love.
All I wanna do is fulfill my duty to You.
I have seen Your love and will repay Your love!
It’s all I wanna do.
from Follow the Lamb and Sing New Songs
You May Also Like : Christian Dance
Have you noticed the dead leaf that seems to fly in the sky among the clouds?
And what better musical illustration than this interpretation of "Feuilles mortes" by Miles Davis:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=rsz6TE6t7-A
* * *
Avez-vous remarqué la feuille morte qui semble voler dans le ciel au milieu des nuages ?
Et quelle meilleure illustration musicale que cette interpération de "Feuilles mortes" par Miles Davis :
Having the fastest breeding cycle of all penguins means that Adelie Penguin chicks are ever hungry and demanding.
everything disappears :-)
Paul Cezanne
HPPT! Peace Now!
rose, 'Secret', little theater rose garden, raleigh, north carolina
The reindeer have arrived in my city too — a place where it never snows.
Still, for a moment, the magic found its way here.
Wishing you Happy Holidays.
A Kangaroo Island kangaroo, Macropus fuliginosus fuliginosus; a subspecies of the Western Grey kangaroo endemic to the island.
The Falklands have 2 Steamer Duck, "the Falkland Steamer Duck" and the "Flying Steamer duck". This is the Female Steamer duck and the next image is the male Steamer Duck.... both are "Falkland Steamer" and they do not fly. They are very common ducks and I have seen large flock of them floating at a distance on the ocean, especially when we visited Sea Lion Island. It is very difficult to distinguish the one who can fly from the other one when they are on the water. Robin Woods tells us that "the best distinguishing features are the shape and colour of the bill. Both male and female have slightly longer, more slender and concave bills." We have seen and photograph both species of "Steamer" ducks but I find it hard to distinguish which is which even when examining the pictures closely.... I only know that we saw both type of "Steamer" because we saw them flying. Local names for the non-flying duck is "Logger" or "Loggerhead"
Have a great week.
HDR from 3 different exposures (handheld). Tone mapping in Photomatix and little adjustment in PS 7
To see my nature set or to see my Interesting 50
Recent storms have fallen several trees along the trail. Most have been removed. A branch has been cut off this tree but the remaining is not blocking the trail and is in fact, still well rooted in the ground.
Having been born in 2000, I never thought I'd experience a Class I mega-merger, much less one impacting my own area, but here we are. From the attractive Southern Belle paint scheme offering a nice reprieve from the endless UP yellow & BNSF orange of the Houston area, to watching these unique trains running down the revived Rosenberg Sub, KCS will definitely be missed. It's surreal to see another Class I become a fallen flag, but I'm excited to witness part of this new chapter in North American railroading.
As the sun has set on KCS, in this view, the sun has just set over the the railroad's small yard in Kendleton, as 4006 awaits a new crew to take its loaded grain train down the Rosenberg Sub after dark.
Having view in a stormy afternoon gives opportunity to get photos like this from my own balcony. Kristiansand, Norway.
Having a little change from Pelicans. A Purple Swamphen or is it now an Australasian Swamphen walking straight at me sitting in the car!
Enjoy your day everyone. Thanks for visiting.
~Having a good night cuddle @ home...Bob has worked so hard all week with a new Job real, Thank you for spending time with me, I know your week has been long and i love you....The Weekend is upon us sweet, It's time to relax and have fun xox
Have a fabulous Sunday :-)
x 3 exposures blended in PS5
Thanks for taking the time to comment, I really appreciate it :-)
Please do not use this image on websites, blogs or other media without my explicit and written permission.
© All rights reserved PhotoArt Images
Well now I have learned to take two or three balls with me to open fields where children often play or tiny dogs are excercising.. That way I can always get her Roma's attention..Roma rarely brings a ball back or drops it unless I have another... now who trained who?
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!
This ended up being a tight 'shot' of the great grey owl as I cannot track flying birds very well. In the original image, the owl is close to the frame edge, as you see here, and there was nothing interesting behind it. Most of the cropping involved removing the entire right half of the image.
There were dark snow squalls happening in the distance on either side of that bright spot on the horizon, so I hoped the owl would fly high enough off its perch, and in the right direction, to get that colour in the background. The owl was kind enough to cooperate. There was no direct, bright light coming from the horizon due to cloud cover so the owl not as strongly backlit as it might otherwise have been, and I could get good detail in the plumage (no silhouetting).
After a 5 year absence we have finally acquired a double-walled hive complete with Honey bees. We went to Ferns on Saturday & bought them off a fabulous bee-keeper, lovely man we were chatting for 2 hours nearly. They are setting in nicely & bringing back plenty of pollen. I rested my phone right by them as they were coming in & out the hive, just in my tshirt & shorts. They weren't bothered at all, very docile bees it seems. I'll get some better quality photos off the camera in due course HWW!