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"Morana, goddess of death and frost, would descend upon the world with her icy grip, whispering of eternity as she cloaked the land in snowbound silence. No matter how the people pleaded, she would not yield — her heart forged from frozen rivers and ancient sorrow. But Zimsterla, goddess of spring’s eternal dance, was never far behind. Daughter of Svantevit and beloved of Dogoda, bringer of gentle breezes, she emerged radiant and glorious, her presence a living promise of rebirth..."

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For Those Who Died in Covid-19 ... by bessonlee

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An American physician Rishi Desai, Md MPH Chief Medical Officer, an Infectious Disease Specialist and former Outbreak Investigator at the CDC, has this to say in a Fox News interview (1 minute or so ) : " We knew this on 31st December 2019..."

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* In min. 33, it actually says top experts ( apparently from US ) are adamant on the use of FACE MASK, which would reduce community infection by 70% ...

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Howlett Designs Angel IX Tattoo by Becky Kenaan

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For me, this Howlett Designs Angel IX Chest Tattoo represents a powerful and beautiful symbol of love and protection.

For many, it can serve as a spiritual connection to the divine, At its core, an angel chest tattoo expresses the idea that there is something greater out there looking over us all.

Beautifully crafted, this BOM tattoo comes in gradients of 60%, 70%, 80%, 90%, and 100%.

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LUXE Paris BEATNIK Dress with Shawl & Boots by Becky Kenaan

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This Luxe Paris Beatnik Dress with Shawl and Boots is a fresh and comfortable look. Aptly named, this delightful outfit reflects the influences of the artistic Beatnik style.

This style has been tremendously influential to the fashion world over the years. In fact, Yves Saint Laurent set its importance in his 1960 show for Christian Dior.

This outfit is now exclusively available at Swank Events for May ’22.

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Look 982 - In Another World ! by Kitty Von Cat

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#Eurasian Jay by Lacerta Bilineata

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Eurasian Jay (Garrulus glandarius)

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My latest ANIMAL VIDEO (it's very brief but pretty unusual: a tiny wall lizard attacks two young great tits): www.youtube.com/watch?v=FQqkSsyrm7E

THE STORY BEHIND THE PHOTO: MY LONG AND ARDUOUS JOURNEY TO BIRD PHOTOGRAPHY

If you've set yourself the challenge of exclusively shooting the wildlife in your own back yard, you might find - as I did - that bird photography is really, really hard.

It's not that reptiles are easy to photograph either, mind - but at least the ones in my garden stay (for the most part) on the ground, and one can learn how to carefully approach them with a camera. They're also clearly egoists, which from a photographer's point of view is is a great character trait: if a lizard detects a human in its vicinity, it's only interested in saving its own skin, and it won't alarm its buddies.

But birds... oh man. Over the years, my feathered friends and I have developed a lovely routine that now defines our peaceful co-existence. As soon as I as much as open a window (let alone the door), I'm instantly greeted by an eruption of panicky fluttering and hysterical shouts from my garden: "SAVE YOUR WOMEN AND CHILDREN AND FLY FOR YOUR LIVES: THE HAIRLESS, PINK MONSTER IS COMING!!! (Yes, I speak bird, and I know that this is exactly what they are shouting 😉).

Needless to say, with the exception of the redstart I already showed here, all my efforts to get the kind of detailed shots I usually strive for with my nature photography ended in complete failure and utter disillusionment. I was ready to give up on stalking the winged misanthropes in my garden altogether, but then winter came - and changed everything.

One day this past January I observed my neighbor Signora P - a kind, elderly Italian lady - putting something on the low garden wall in front of my house. At first I thought she was just putting some treat there for her cat Romeo; the young tom patrols that wall constantly (it's his favorite spot in the garden, and during the warmer months he usually lurks in the thick foliage next to it to prey on lizards).

But once I detected a lot of movement on that wall through my window, I understood she had put a little pile of bread crumbs there; she was feeding the birds who soon arrived in flocks. This was certainly well-intended on my neighbor's part, but her noble action came with a catch, and I'm afraid quite literally.

When I took a stroll through my garden the next day I discovered a suspicious amount of feathers on the ground next to the wall. Romeo had apparently switched from his low-calorie summer diet (lizard) to more energy-rich meals consisting of "fowl" (it was winter after all, so from a nutritionist's point of view this made sense).

I would find fresh traces of Romeo's victims (mostly feathers, but also the odd wing) in my garden over the following days; so my first intuition that my neighbor was feeding her cat hadn't been that far off after all, as Romeo was now clearly being "served" fresh birds on a daily basis. And although the hungry visitors seemed to be aware of the danger and became slightly more prudent, they just couldn't resist the tasty snacks Signora P put on that wall - and neither could Romeo.

It was obvious that I had to act, but talking to my neighbor - who is as stubborn as she is kind - would have been futile, I knew that much. I pondered the matter long and hard - until a light bulb went off in my head. The idea was genius. If successful, what I had in mind would not only increase the birds' chances of surviving Romeo's appetite, but also greatly benefit my own photographic endeavors.

I started to enact my master plan the very next day by buying a giant bag of bird feed (consisting mainly of sunflower seeds) from the store. Then I dragged a huge piece of a tree trunk (approx. 120 cm in height) that we normally chop firewood on from the shed out into the garden and emptied almost half of the bag's content on top of it. Signora P's buffet for birds (and cats) was about to get some serious competition 😊.

My reasoning was as follows: not only would the birds be lured away from the fatally low garden wall to a place where they were safe from the cat - there was nothing around that tree trunk that provided cover for a predator, and the birds had a nice 360° view around it at all times - but I was also able to photograph them while hiding in the shed.

However, in order for my plan to work there was one little extra measure I had to take, and it was one that risked lowering my own life expectancy considerably once the owner of the property - my mom - discovered it. You see, our shed is completely windowless, so if I wanted to use it as a blind, I had no choice but to cut a hole into one of its wooden walls... which I promptly did (I figured all's fair in love - and photography 😉).

Granted, I have absolutely zero carpentering skills, and it showed. That hole was an ugly mess: the shed's wall seemed to have had an encounter with Jack Nicholson's ax-wielding lunatic character from the film 'The Shining'. Needless to say, I was incredibly proud of my work (I mean, come on: there now was a hole where before there wasn't a hole, and it was big enough for the lens of my camera to peek through, so it was mission accomplished as far as I was concerned).

Now all I had to do was wait for the birds to discover the tree trunk. In the meantime I started to mentally prepare myself for the inevitable confrontation with my mom and go through possible explanations for that splintering hole in the wall (it was either gonna be a rabid woodpecker attack or an emergency rescue mission with a feeding tube for a little kid that had accidentally locked himself inside the shed - both seemed valid options, though I slightly preferred the locked-in kid due to the involved drama and heroism 😉).

A whole day went by, and not a single bird visited the sunflower seeds. I had expected that it might take a few hours until the first of the ever curious great tits or blue tits would show up, but given how tiny my garden is, an entire day seemed excessive. Then another day came and went: the birds kept flocking to the bread crumbs on the wall, and my tree trunk kept collecting dust. To add injury to insult, a few fresh feathers on the ground were proof that Romeo was still feasting.

It was incredibly frustrating: I provided my winged guests with a much better view - plus a higher chance of surviving the cuisine - than Signora P's place; I risked (almost) certain death at the hands of my own mother (OK, the act of vandalism on the shed I had committed for my own benefit, but still), yet the birds kept ignoring me.

Then, after three days, just before sunset, I spotted a single blue tit on the tree trunk picking away at the sunflower seeds.

When I got up the next morning I immediately realized that the loud noise that accompanies each and every tit activity had shifted from the wall to the shed. At last the dam had broken: there was a flurry of movement around the tree trunk, and I counted at least 5 different species of birds feasting on the sunflower seeds.

From day 4 onward my plan worked beautifully: the birds now indeed mostly ignored Romeo's "snack wall" and kept to the tree trunk. And yes, I was able to play peeping tom from behind the shed's wall and photograph them!! 😊

Thus, dear readers, I finally managed to produce some acceptable bird photos, and I had even saved my feathered friends from a deadly foe in the process. All through winter and spring I took advantage of my new bird hide, and in late May I started mixing some cherries with the sunflower seeds. The idea was to attract a Eurasian jay (Garrulus glandarius), and as you can see, it worked!

It took me almost three weeks and more than a few tricks to capture that clever fella, but given how long I've been rambling here already, that's a story for another day. As for my mom, she still doesn't know about the hole in the wall, so please don't snitch! 😉.

I hope you like the photo and wish you all a wonderful weekend! Many greetings from Switzerland, and as always: let me know what you think in the comments 🙏 😊 ❤!

P.S. if anyone has their own funny tale about the obstacles we photographers are prepared to overcome for a desired photo, please write it in the comments: I love such stories 😊

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Cerridwen by Florence.V

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" Ceridwen " - Peter Gundry ( Celtic Music )

Lors de la fête de Samonios ( Samain en gaulois) , la Déesse Ceridwen, la Vieille femme bossue, la grande Déesse Mère des temps anciens, qui règne sur la période sombre de l’année, se présentera avec son chaudron.

Le chaudron qui emporte ce qui doit être emporté, car comme les feuilles mortes se transforment durant l'hiver en humus pour nourrir les nouveaux arbres, le chaudron de la Déesse transformera en humus ce que nous devons laisser aller afin de nous apporter l'Inspiration et la Connaissance. Il emportera aussi nos douleurs et nos misères.

C'est la fin de l'été, Samain signifie "l'extrémité de l'été", mais aussi l'espoir du prochain et le début de l'année druidique. C'est la fête religieuse qui célèbre le début de la saison « sombre » de l’année celtique (pour les Celtes, l’année était composée de deux saisons : une saison sombre et une saison claire).

Pour les Celtes, cette période est entre parenthèses dans l’année : elle n’appartient ni à celle qui s’achève ni à celle qui va commencer ; c’est une durée autonome, hors du temps, « un intervalle de non-temps ». C’est le passage de la saison claire à la saison sombre, qui marque une rupture dans la vie quotidienne : la fin des conquêtes et des rafles pour les guerriers et la fin des travaux agraires pour les agriculteurs-éleveurs.

C’est donc une fête très importante de transition — le passage d’une année à l'autre — et d’ouverture vers l’Autre Monde, celui des dieux.

Les moines irlandais qui ont mis par écrit les coutumes celtiques, à partir du VIIIe siècle, ont fixé le jour de Samain au 1er novembre (selon notre calendrier moderne). La fête elle-même dure en fait une semaine pleine, trois jours avant, et trois jours après.

Bref c'est le nouvel an celte, et également le jour du souvenir des anciens disparus qu'on honore à cette occasion.

Alors bonne Samain à tous :-))

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Crush with Eyeliner by Aurora Skye

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