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Meet Mom's Helper. The mom of the twins has picked up a helper; this most likely young female, has been helping out with the twins lately. When the four of them are around, the mom and twins don't stick around but this gal let's you get close. Not only that, she goes about her business of eating and doesn't pay too much attention. I think she may have been born on our property and is one of Mom's offspring but I'm not really sure.
A set of MRL helpers shove grain loads out of Livingston, MT where some searchlights remain. March 2022.
Any advice from you, my dear friends, would be welcome. I'm a bit sad because the portable WD hard drive I've been using to store my latest photos (that date back to the beginning of 2020) seems to have stopped working, meaning I have no access to all those photos now!
I don't think they photos are actually lost but the hard drive in question won't show up on my Mac (or Tim's laptop) so I can't get to them. My older hard drives show up in a list, but not the one from 2020.
It's very lucky I have already put my latest holiday photos and pictures from the Waverley into a folder on the desktop labelled 'Flickr uploads", so I can carry on uploading them, but I can't ever go back and look at the other photos. I've tried different connectors and a new 7-port USB. I should have backed everything up, but I ignored the signs!
I can feel and hear the hard drive whirring quietly when I have it in my hand, but I think there must be something wrong with it rather than any of the connecting cables. Do you think I'll ever be able to access those photos again? I've ordered a new hard drive (Seagate this time) for future photos, but I'm very glad I've uploaded so many photos to Flickr, cos at least I can visit my life there!!
These are some lovely flowers my friend gave me for my birthday, btw! I do love Peruvian lilies.
Hey Flickr Amigos!
I need your Help!!
I need to choose 5 photos to possibly be printed in a local FoCo Magazine!
What is your Favorite?
Lars helps a confused customer locate books on books ("I thought I could find them myself, but what are the search terms? I went with "books", but I got 2 million hits!").
Johan taps away on his keyboard and tries to look busy.
Behind them, Beth is throwing away some out-dated, boring or just plain stupid books from the sports section, making space for her growing osteology collection.
Little Per enjoys the temporary Historical Headwear exhibition.
A set of helper units pushes a loaded unit coal train as it begins its journey back down the Manor Branch. The first couple of miles out of Bailey are uphill, so loaded trains get a push from the rear.
After SCT007 failed on 5MP9 between Parkeston and Kalgoorlie with SCT015, Q4005 has just arrived to assist the train to West Kalgoorlie on 13-7-13
43 years old and still got to stand in the corner, naughty sissy boy!!! Maybe the following spanking will help him.
HELP is needed to find the two amazing men who stopped (in brutal, -30C weather) to help save the life of one of our birder/photographer friends, who was in a very serious vehicle accident east of the city. Mike (Mike Kelly on Flickr), who is in hospital with a broken jaw, broken wrist, and two broken legs, really, really wants to meet his two rescuers so that he can thank them in person for saving his life. Everyone is using the social media on Facebook in an attempt to find these two good Samaritans, and I thought I would add it here, too, in the hope that someone out there might just know the hoped-for information. It would mean so much to Mike! His many friends would be so happy, too. I will add the link to today's Global TV News article. Of course, it is possible that the two rescuers might see the News today and hopefully come forward. Mike thinks that one of them might live in British Columbia, the province to the west of us.
globalnews.ca/news/3949198/calgarian-who-barely-survived-...
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Yet again, there is something very wrong with Stats, yesterday and today! Overnight, there was basically no activity.
"The Silver-beaked Tanager is a common resident of bushy forest margins and secondary forest across the Amazon basin from Venezuela south to Northern Paraguay. Male Silver-beaked Tanagers are stunningly colored birds with velvety blackish-crimson heads and underparts, darker blackish-crimson upperparts and a bill that is black above and shining silvery white below. Females are a dull dark reddish brown with a brighter red rump. In poor light, these tanagers appear all dark with a white bill. Silver-beaked Tanagers travel in noisy bands of 4 to 10 individuals in the undergrowth along forest borders. As Silver-beaked Tanagers forage for fruit and insects, they hop rapidly and heavily through foliage often nervously flicking their tales and wings." From Cornell's Neotropical Birds.
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This adventure was only the second holiday of any kind, anywhere, that I have had in something like 30 or 35 years! The other holiday was a wonderful, one-week trip with my dear friends from England, Linda and Tony, when we went down south to Yellowstone National Park and the Grand Tetons in September 2012. I have had maybe half a dozen weekends away, including to Waterton National Park, which have helped keep me going.
Six birding/photographer friends and I decided that we would take this exciting trip together (from 12-21 March 2017), spending the first two or three days on the island of Tobago and then the rest of the time at the Asa Wright Nature Centre on the nearby, much larger island of Trinidad. We decided to take a complete package, so everything was included - accommodation at both places, all our food, and the various walks and day trips that we could choose from. Two of my friends, Anne B. and Brenda, saw to all the planning of flights and accommodations, which was so very much appreciated by the rest of us. I could never have done all this myself! We were so lucky with our flights, as we were just in time to get Black Friday prices, which were 50% off!
What a time we had, seeing so many beautiful and interesting things - and, of course, everything was a lifer for me. Some of these friends had visited Costa Rica before, so were familiar with some of the birds. There was a lot more to see on Trinidad, so we were glad that we chose Tobago to visit first and then spend a longer time at Asa Wright. It was wonderful to be right by the sea, though, at the Blue Waters Inn on the island of Tobago. Just gorgeous.
The Asa Wright Nature Centre, on Trinidad, is such an amazing place! We stayed in cabins up or down hill from the main building. Really, one doesn't need to travel away from the Centre for birding, as so many different species visit the Hummingbird feeders that are right by the huge, open veranda, and the trees of the rain forest high up the mountainous road. The drive up and down this narrow, twisting, pot-holed road was an adventure in itself! Never would I ever do this drive myself - we had a guide who drove us everywhere in a minibus. I had read many accounts of this road, lol! There was enough room for two vehicles to pass each other, and the honking of horns was almost continuous - either to warn any vehicle that might be coming fast around the next bend or as a sign that drivers knew each other. The drive along this road, from the coast to Asa Wright, took just over an hour each way.
I still miss the great food that was provided every single day at Asa Wright and even the Rum Punch that appeared each evening. I never drink at all, so I wasn't sure if I would even try the Punch - glad I did, though, as it was delicious and refreshing. Breakfast, lunch and dinner were all served buffet-style, with a great variety of dishes from which to choose. To me, pure luxury. So very, very grateful to have been invited to be part of this amazing adventure.
This is a video that I came across on YouTube, taken by Rigdon Currie and Trish Johnson, at many of the same places we visited on Trinidad and Tobago. Not my video, but it made me feel like I was right there still. Posting the link here again, so that I won't lose it.
I also came across the following 27-minute YouTube video of the flora and fauna of Trinidad, filmed by John Patrick Smith in February 2015.
One more time. Not to ignore what's going on in Libya right now either.
In this shot, I love the effects of the ocean breeze on the Japanese Flag. It is surrounded by two American Flags, although one is hiding behind the palm tree.
Thank you again to everyone who left heartfelt comments on the last two pics. It means a lot.
Have a fantastic Sunday!
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Something amazing has just happened – my new book Phoenix just got a great review in the Guardian! Please please please, if you have a moment, could you click the link and then share the review? There are buttons there for facebook, twitter, pinterest, blogs, etc... It would really help to spread the word about the book, and would mean a huge amount to me!
A collaboration with awakethetrees
Hoping to see them back.in numbers this summer
Monarch numbers have been declining disastrously. More and more people are planting milkweed to help these magnificent butterflies. Hopefully this will be enough to reverse their recent decline
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After my night shift yesterday, I took a bit of a stroll through the West End and came upon this Street art by Loretto. It depicts British Prime Minister Theresa May.
Near Regent Street. September 2017.
I have previously photographed a couple of other pieces by
Loretto in the same area. The links are below.
i have a stack of film from the family archives dating back to 1937. most reels in this pile are from the 40s. wondering if anyone can recommend a decent film transfer company....hopefully beyond "legacy" though they may be fine. i want to keep the existing quality in the translation, good or bad, and get some imagery that's clearly from old film. i don't want a lot of bandaid work. this is one company i'm considering:
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Need around 3 more participants for this planned collab. Must be attending BFVA 2017 and be of proper skill set. This thing is going to be pretty detailed and of decent size. I don't want a Kursk repeat *shivers*.
Looks like Lia will be helping deliver all those presents tonight! Hope you all get your heart's desire!
Though it is said that one should not feed wild animals, many of us still do. The result is hindrance in our own free movement without taking extra care of one’s bags in temples and other public places. This is a common scene in temples in Tamil Nadu, Karnataka & Andhra.. The availability of food had helped their population multiply, making it difficult to control them.
Shot in Vedagiri Lakshmi Narasimha Temple, Nellore, Andhra Pradesh, India.