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Me doing the floor cleaning dressed in my new maids dress. Nobody told me that my black slip was showing to the passersby...
Hier mache ich die Bodenreinigung in meinem neuen Dienstmädchenkleid. Niemand sagte mir, dass mein schwarzer Slip für Vorbeikommende sichtbar war...
Me in my new housekeeping dress from Simon Jersey doing the cleaning.
Hier mache ich in meinem neuen Zimmermädchenkleid sauber.
An aggressive swan flies across the field to challenge another swan in the same pond.
The aggression is a sure sign the hormones are starting to work and they'll soon be setting up housekeeping on a pond they can keep to themselves.
I wonder how many people would be in the world if human parents had to cleanup after the babies like this :-) Taken in my backyard. I built this old birdhouse probably twenty years ago. Notice the metal shield around the opening to keep the squirrels out. Just a little clarification........the white thing in the birds mouth is poop from the chicks. Every time the parent would come in with more food, they poke their head in the nest and come out with a mouthful of chick poop. ( explore # 43 ) my thanks to everyone
Me in my new housekeeping dress from Simon Jersey doing the cleaning.
Hier mache ich in meinem neuen Zimmermädchenkleid sauber.
I wasn't sure whether these representations of me would be popular but they have been -thank you. By way of background, the top, cardigan and skirt were bought at the same time. That was 2004. I was still searching for an image that defined me and it took me until 2011 to find it. The reason I bought the clothes in the photo is that I was drawing on influences from schoolteachers that I had when I was 5 to 10 years old. I met one of those teachers about 10 years ago and as we chatted I told her she had been a big influence on me. She was delighted. I didn't spoil the delight by telling her exactly how she had inspired me.
Went back to the flicker tree today!!! I discovered that they are very tidy nesters, they would come and feed the chicks and everytime they left they had (doo-doo) in their beaks. They didn't drop it outside the nest.
A male Downy Woodpecker clears chips from a cavity in a Broadleaf Maple tree overhanging the Dungeness River. The female was nearby, busy feeding a fledgling following her through mid-height branches. I suspect she will lay a second clutch in this tidy hole, to be incubated and raised by the male, a common behavior.
Railroad Bridge Park
Sequim, Washington
Jenni sweeps out the Kofa Cabin before we move in for the night.
The Kofa Cabin was build in the late 1930s by the CCC. It has two rooms (and doors), but only the smaller room is open to the public on a first-come, first-served basis.
if they only knew the real state of my home...
sigh.
lol
sol, you were so cute!!! look at that baby scowl...ha!
Bruny Island. A bit of housekeeping. Trying to sort through thousands of files and get a system going. I keep coming across birds that aren't represented in my photostream even though they are only record shots of ferals. Species # 538 photographed.
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"Let everyone sweep in front of his own door and the whole world would be clean."
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
1749-1832
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Recycling Centre
This image is part of the series, (Re)cycle.
In the UK in 2013, we read 16 million newspapers daily (courtesy of a classic educational video produced by a young-looking Vernon Kay). No matter how you spin it, that is a lot of raw materials, a lot of labour, a lot of energy in production and ultimately, a lot of paper. On top of that, the UK also maintains a desire for a good old magazine (who doesn’t like a copy of Outdoor Photography or B+W?!). In addition, it seems we love a bit of cardboard to wrap around our precious cornflakes.
Of all of this paper though, it is a sore fact that 60% finds its way into a landfill site. That’s 9.6 million newspapers daily, to the dump.
Society has tried to do something about it. On a global scale, countries have signed up to agreements with regard to carbon emissions and national governments have given instruction to local authorities to meet recycling standards nationwide, before a certain 2020 deadline. But is it working?
Being an architectural and industrial photographer primarily, I was very keen to be able to make some stills of a recycling plant and read (excuse the awful pun) into the industry a little further.
At the back of industrial estates you will find recycling centres. They are dotted all over the urban landscape: hovering up what they can in used paper + cardboard, shredding it and sending it off to a paper factory that will turn it in to pulp, de-ink it and reconstitute the same old paper into a new, readable form. Obviously this also takes a whole lot of energy, but far less than the growing of new trees and transporting them for our daily read. In that sense, these centres are positive places.
Although recycling is obviously trying to make a difference to this landfill and subsequent pollution problem, the sad fact about it remains - a lot of the paper you are about to see in this project was not read. The papers and their supplements failed to sell and therefore did not make circulation. It is certainly not the recyclers that are at fault here. It’s questionable if anyone should even be to ‘blame’ for such a lot of wasted paper. It just seems ridiculous that with the amount of technology and ways to read our news, that we still have this much waste, especially with products which were not even used in the first place.
Next time I read a paper, I will have a better think about which bin to place it in.
Out doing bird surveys and this field was full of webs so I took some time out to try to capture some. At the time, I was into webs more than spiders so I spent no time at all looking the one sitting in the centre HA9
These quick and cute little guys are mixing in with the local population of birds and squirrels. It is foraging for food to carry in its cheek pouches and store in its burrow for the winter.
Although they usually scurry along the ground, chipmunks can climb trees (or deck rails) just as well as squirrels can.
Eastern Chipmunk (Tamias striatus)