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In the Garden, Cobourg, Ontario. Arriving or leaving? The bee was leaving this flower and on to the next.
GSD K2 Cradling Big Stick Sitting In -7°C Hardened Long Island Snow Contemplating His First Snow (White Christmas) - IMRAN™
It’s funny to imagine I always lay extra layers of blankets atop my (once spotless) light colored carpets in the blessed NewYork home to ensure my dogs never feel cold. But both Kennedy and K2 always showed love of cold weather over hot. Kennedy loved being in cold Tampa Bay waters even in winter, which usually K2 stayed out of.
There was no snow during the 2022 NY home roadtrip that I made with both German Shepherds. However, K2 got to experience his first snow (and white Christmas) this year, 2024.
Clearly, his choosing to comfortably settle down into snow-hardened ground at -7°C (~19F) actual temperature — and -15°C windchill — suggests he doesn’t need extra blankets. 😂 Cradling a huge fallen tree branch as an oversized toy stick, he calmly watched the scene in my backyard.
It was a frigid Sunday as I took this unedited iPhone 16 Pro Max photo. I loved how the rear-sunlight lit up the edges of his forehead and profile.
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There is no time to turn over in bed and say "tomorrow" and sleep again, this early morning of a fine spring day will never return.
Susan Hill ~ The Magic Apple Tree
Yesterday, 1 April 2022, I was thrilled to bits to see this very rare visitor to Alberta - a Western Bluebird. In Alberta, the Bluebird we see is the Mountain Bluebird. You may need a magnifying glass to find the bird in my photo, but it was far across a huge field. I would never have been able to find it myself, but there were two birders there already - Michele S and Pat M, both of whom helped me see it. This was the first time I had ever seen a Western Bluebird, anywhere, so a real treat. I had been in the area a bit earlier in the afternoon with several other people, but no luck. Apparently, the bird showed up five minutes after I left - of course, lol. When I returned after driving a few nearby roads, it was back but in a slightly different spot. So glad I stopped by to look again.
It feels so good to once again be able to drive SW of the city - just a short drive to get there. It had been about six months since I had been able to do this. As my #5 photo shows, the backroads tend to be very hilly in places, making for interesting drives. Though I didn't see many things yesterday, not even a single Mountain Bluebird, unlike a previous drive when I found three individuals, the exciting Western Bluebird more than made up for the lack of other things.
Driving to a further area, I stopped to take a shot or two of this gorgeous old barn. Not a new one for me, but one that absolutely took my breath away the very first time I discovered it,
No idea what workmen are doing along my street. Is it electricity related or maybe water? They have to work outside each house, doing something down on the ground. They also use a large truck that, when working, sounds like a huge vacuum cleaner. Thankfully, they aren't working over the weekend, but they'll be back on Monday. I may have to get out somewhere, just to avoid the awful noise.
Ha, ha, hope this makes you smile! Around 4:00 am this morning, I was trying a few things on the iphone that I bought about a week ago. My very first smart phone, so I have a LOT (i.e. everything) to learn. I never like having to learn a new 'thing'. I was in my phone book, trying to remove the word 'me' that had somehow mysteriously appeared next to my daughter's name and number. No luck. Then I thought I would have a quick look at Facetime, as I know nothing about it. Of course, my face suddenly appeared and then a phone started ringing - yes, at 4:00 am! Had not realized that I should not still have had my contact page open, at my daughter's name. I rapidly turned off my phone and, so far, I have not had an annoyed email from my daughter, very unimpressed at being woken up at such an unearthly hour!
Another thing I obviously need to be careful about is when I am trying to get rid of Siri - no idea how THAT screen appeared, as I never use Siri - I must remember not to swear, lol. Just could not get rid of the Siri page, and muttered 'cr*p'. I was shocked, but amused, when Siri's voice told me off, saying "That's not nice!"
It's been two weeks since my latest encounter with a stranger.
Today I was lucky to run into another lovely stranger, Nina 26y/o, and her 11 months old dog, Mökö.
They were walking around my favourite bay in town in my opposite direction.
I approached her from a short distance by asking in Finnish what was the matter with her dog.
She detected instantly my accent, haha, and answered in English.
Nina wanted to hear a bit more about my photo project-- obviously it hasn't been too flowing lately due to that nasty Corona virus-- I briefed her and she agreed to participate.
Nina has graduated a couple of years ago and is working for the time being in an IT company.
We talked about the situation in the USA, mainly racism, and when I asked her for a message Nina said:
"Believe in the good in people!"
I sure want to believe and to hope that racism will be uprooted once and for all and that the black people in America will have justice.
"A riot is the language of the unheard", Dr Martin Luther King said in 1966. More than five decades have passed since and still America has failed to heard them.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=_K0BWXjJv5s
Nina's advice to her younger self: " Be proud of yourself!"
In her free time she likes to practice yoga and sports.
Needless to say that Mökö is her biggest hobby :-)
This is my 815th submission to The Human Family group.
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In my small hotel room there's not really a place to properly sit, so I'm just going to sit on the bed. Well, sitting? Not so much I guess, it's more like playfully fooling around. I took off my high heels so all that's left are soft silky fabrics that won't damage anything, which gives me full freedom to play around on the bed just the way I want. Let's start on the knees...
He is a Kohistani from the local area who acted as our guide. They are fierce and hardy people. Koh is the Persian word for mountain and Kohistani translates as mountain people. The Kohistanis have a differenet language and ancestry from the almost similar Pashtuns to the south. Kohistanis are found around Kalam, Bahrain and Madyan in Swat.
Kalami is a Dardic language spoken in northern Pakistan.
The language is also known as Gawri or Garwi (IPA: /ɡaːwriː/), but this name is considered pejorative by some speakers.
According to its genealogical classification (Strand, 1973:302 and 2004), Kalam Kohistani belongs to the Kohistani subgroup of the north-western zone of Indo-Aryan languages, along with several closely related languages in its geographical vicinity: Torwali (in the Swat valley south of Kalam), Indus Kohistani, Bateri, Chilisso, and Gawro (the latter four east of Kalam in Indus Kohistan). Together with a range of other north-western Indo-Aryan mountain languages, these languages are sometimes collectively referred to as ‘Dardic’ languages.[1]
Kalam Kohistani (also called Gawri) is one of about thirty languages that are spoken in the mountain areas of northern Pakistan. Kohistan is a Persian word that means ‘land of mountains’ and Kohistani can be translated as ‘mountain language’. As a matter of fact, there are several distinct languages in the area that are all popularly called Kohistani. The language under study in this paper is spoken in the upper parts of the valley of the Swat River, in the North-West Frontier Province of Pakistan. The name of the principal village of this area is Kalam, and hence the area is known as Kalam Kohistan. In the older linguistic literature, the language of Kalam Kohistan is referred to as Bashkarik (Morgenstierne, 1940), or as Garwi or Gawri (Grierson, 1919; Barth & Morgenstierne, 1958). These names are hardly, if at all, known to the speakers of the language themselves, who normally just call their language Kohistani. However, very recently a number of intellectuals belonging to a local cultural society have started to call their language Gawri, a name that has old historical roots.
The same language is also spoken across the mountains to the West of Kalam Kohistan, in the upper reaches of the Panjkora river valley of Upper Dir District. When added together, the two Kalam-Kohistani-speaking communities comprised over 200,000 people.
Last in the series of recent black and white shots, this one goes back almost as far as my photo obsession! I acquired my first 35mm camera in July 1964 By the following winter, I was trying this and that to see what might work. This included sports action. That year, my brother David (13) was captain of his bantam hockey team. I stood in the cold, under floodlights, one night while they played an outdoor game on the local rink. Between periods he skated over to the boards to chat with me for a few minutes, and I snapped this. Look at the blade of his wood stick - no curve!
Taking a night shot without flash seemed foreign and strange; I still remember the smell of burnt flash bulbs, and how I liked to peel them once they had cooled. But I had an adjustable camera for the first time, and was quickly learning that if I could see it, I could photograph it. At 16, of course, I had no idea that I would never stop being a photographer.
The camera, btw, was a Kowa H - an odd thing, a single lens reflex without interchangeable lenses, although there was a supplementary lens set - 35mm and 85mm - that could be screwed onto the fixed 50mm lens, with predictably awful results. The shutter made a loud clacking sound. Fastest shutter speed was 1/300, good enough to freeze action to some extent. I took over the family photo duties from that point until I left home a few years later; my parents paid for most of the film and processing. They always encouraged me, and for this I am forever grateful.
Photographed in Bois-des-Filion, Québec (Canada); scanned from the original Tri-X negative (ISO 400). Don't use this image on websites, blogs, or other media without explicit permission © 1965 James R. Page - all rights reserved.
Over the last few years every time that I visited there has been construction ongoing which can be a bit annoying but one good thing that has resulted from this work is that they have installed a ramp and a lift to allow wheelchair access to all sections of the park.
Queen Elizabeth II laid a wreath in the Garden of Remembrance during her state visit in May 2011.
The Garden of Remembrance is a memorial garden in Dublin dedicated to the memory of "all those who gave their lives in the cause of Irish Freedom". It is located in the northern fifth of the former Rotunda Gardens in Parnell Square, a Georgian square at the northern end of O'Connell Street. The garden, which I really like, is in the form of a sunken cruciform water-feature. The focal point is a statue of the Children of Lir by Oisín Kelly, symbolising rebirth and resurrection, added in 1971.
There is a little drop of water... must have come from inside the rose... my fave pic that I took of it... has a huge drip on the camera... LOL... that's what I get!
Failed with isolation but other than that I am quite happy with the capture. One day I will learn my photoshop to blur the BG in post.
Costa Maya, Mexico - Yucatan Peninsula - 2/16/19
Rock Legends Cruise VII ~ February 14th-18th, 2019
Independence of the Seas ~ Royal Caribbean Line
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MS_Independence_of_the_Seas
Fort Lauderdale - Costa Maya - Fort Lauderdale
Twenty-five bands ~ Five Day Party ~ three stages
Concerts all day-and-night from 10AM to 2:30AM
2019 Bands: Roger Daltrey ~ Kansas ~ Buddy Guy
38 Special ~ Night Ranger ~ Dave Davies ~ Foghat
The Magpie Salute ~ The Outlaws ~ Nazareth
Ozark Mountain Daredevils ~ Sebastian Bach
The Edgar Winter Band ~ Jack Russell ~ Eric Gales
The Artimus Pyle Band ~ Martin Barre ~ Gary Hoey
The Devon Allman Band ~ Duane Betts ~ Two Wolf
Canned Heat ~ Chappell ~ Native Howl ~ Down North
*2019 Rock Legends Cruise VII slide-show:
During a walk in the park we were alerted to this drama by the noises that were being made by the other birds in response to this owl having captured a victim. The owl was being harassed and scolded loudly by a some robins, a hairy woodpecker, a Swainson's thrush as well as a hummingbird. In spite of their dive-bombing attempts the owl did not relent and was last seen flying deeper into the undergrowth where we lost sight of it but continued to hear the ongoing battle. I think the victim in this case was a Hairy woodpecker. There is a robin in the lower left of this picture . The pic is heavily processed as the light was poor and deep in shadowy undergrowth.
In 1978 PSA, the Citroën/Peugeot Company, had taken over Talbot from Chrysler Europe.
Later on, in 1985, PSA decided to discontinue the Talbot brand but then the development of the successor of the Talbot Horizon was already far on scheme. Peugeot couldn't ignore the efforts and tried to incorporate this new car in their own model range along with the successful 205 and 305 mid-class range. Then not '306' but '309' was chosen to emphasize this new model as a being a Simca/Talbot inheritance.
In the UK these cars were quite popular, maybe also because the 309 was produced in the old Rootes Group plant in Ryton.
1294 cc original Simca-Talbot engine.
Approx. 860 kg.
Production 309 Phase I: 1985-1989 / Phase II: 1989-1993.
Production 309 Green-series: 1987-1991.
Original old French reg. number: Oct. 1989 (Vosges).
Number seen: 5.
Xertigny (Vosges), Route d'Epinal au Centre, D434, Aug. 8, 2019.
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The "sliced orange sculpture" in Miami is an outdoor public art installation called "Dropped Bowl with Scattered Slices and Peels" by artists Claes Oldenburg and Coosje van Bruggen. Located at the Stephen P. Clark Government Center in downtown Miami, the sculpture depicts a giant bowl of oranges that has been dropped and shattered, scattering its contents across the plaza. It consists of 17 separate pieces made of concrete, steel plate, and reinforced cast resin, and features a fountain that simulates the impact.
The Stephen P. Clark Government Center, known also as Government Center, Miami-Dade Center, or County Hall, is a skyscraper in the Government Center district of Downtown Miami, Florida, United States. It is the headquarters building of the Miami-Dade County government. Many county offices are located in or near the building. The local and federal courthouses are located within five blocks of the building. The tower is 510 ft (155 m) tall and has 28 stories. It has one of the highest height-to-floor ratios of any skyscraper, at 18.2 feet (5.5 m) per floor. The Government Center Metro Station is located inside the building, giving it easy access to public transit. It is located in western downtown, on North First Street between West First and West Second Avenue. The building was completed in 1985. It is named after the former Mayor of Miami-Dade County and Mayor of Miami, Stephen P. Clark (1924-1996).
Credit for the data above is given to the following websites:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_P._Clark_Government_Center
www.miamidadeclerk.gov/clerk/location-clark-center.page
www.google.com/search?q=sliced+orange+sculpture+miami&...
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