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Should I be more subtle?

Was that the sound of us?

Lets call it our language. The moon language.

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Vasti Jackson, is a very dynamic guitarist and vocalist. He performed a great set at the festival! I took a ton of photos of him and his band that I’ll post over time. Even though his face isn’t seen in this photo, I love the energy of the moment.I purposely left Derrick (the guy taking a picture with his iPhone) in the frame just because I feel it add to the atmosphere of the photo.

The Litchfield Public Library is situated in the center of Library Park in the heart of downtown Litchfield. The block on which the library sits forms the center of the downtown square.

The Classical Revival-style library was designed by Bloomington architect Paul Moratz and was constructed in 1904-05 at a cost of just under $16,000. Funds in the amount of $15,000 were obtained from the Andrew Carnegie Library Trust. In return, the City of Litchfield promised to maintain a free public library at the cost of not less than one-thousand dollars a year. Litchfield's contribution exceeded this amount.

Known as the "Patron Saint" of libraries, Andrew Carnegie spent the first 66 years of his life building a great fortune and the last 18 years giving it away. Between 1886 and 1919 his library benefactions world-wide surpassed $56M dollars. The Litchfield Public Library is just one of 105 Carnegie grants in various amounts made to Illinois communities between 1900-1916.

A new, larger Litchfield Public Library building opened in 2017. The building shown in this photo is now owned by the City of Litchfield where it is open to the public and home to the Litchfield Tourism Office.

Litchfield, a city in Montgomery County, is located in South Central Illinois and is part of the Metro East of St. Louis. Forty-six miles to the north of Litchfield is the Illinois State Capitol in Springfield. Two separate alignments of historic U.S. Route 66 (1930-1940 and 1940-1977), aka the Mother Road, run through the city. Litchfield had a population of 6,605 at the 2020 Census.

The Litchfield Carnegie Public Library was listed in the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) in 1999.

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This is a little Christmas picture I took last Christmas of Asha holding a elf hat. I couldn't get the hat to stay on her head as it was too big so got her to hold it instead. I thought I'd add a wee border to make it more festive...Happy Christmas...

This is an unpublished image of a serval that I spotted on my 2019 trip to the Masai Mara region of Kenya.

They are hard to find as they aren't super common. I've been fortunate enough to have seen a couple on two trips to the region(although none last time).

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This is another shot from Grasmere Lake on a very still September evening. I wanted to capture the concentric circles around the Swan. I used HDR again from a single RAW image.

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Albufeira is a coastal city in the southern Algarve region of Portugal. It’s a former fishing village that has become a major holiday destination, with sandy beaches, [a waterfront promenade] and a busy nightlife strip. Local fishermen now use the modern marina, also a base for diving, dolphin-watching and boat trips.― Google

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this is called kondri in tamil blooms only in summer.

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Rederij P&O is in 1837 in Groot-Brittanië opgericht en is daarmee een van de oudste rederijen in de wereld. P&O, voluit geschreven Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company, is o.a. bekend van een aantal veerdiensten dat ze exploiteren op de Noordzee en het Kanaal. In de Rotterdamse haven is P&O actief op de Europoort, waar het een eigen terminal voor zowel vracht als personen heeft.

Vrijwel dagelijks arriveren er treinen met trailers in de Europoort: zowel uit Polen (Swarzędz), Tsjechië (Lovosice) als uit Italië (Novara). DB Cargo neemt de trein uit Tsjechië voor haar rekeneing, terwijl LTE Nederland beide andere treinen voor haar rekening heeft. De tractie voor de trein van/naar Italië is uitbesteed aan SBB Cargo. De trein van/naar Polen is in 2013 opgestart door ERS Railways. Nadat zij in Nederland met railvervoer stopten, nam LTE dit vervoer over.

LTE heeft in 2018 vijf locomotieven serie 186 bij Bombardier besteld en zijn inmiddels allen uitgeleverd en in dienst gesteld. De locomotieven zijn in 2020 van AtTRACKtive Forces-bestickering voorzien. De 186 942 reed op zaterdag 17 juli de enige bij daglicht rijdende trein richting de Europoort, maar kwam niet verder dan de CUP. Op zondagmiddag vertrok de trein verder richting Rotterdamse haven en deed dat gelukkig niet via de betonbak maar via Brabant, waardoor dit plaatje bij Berkel Enschot gemaakt kon worden.

Cuckoo - Cuculus Canorus

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The common cuckoo (Cuculus canorus) is a member of the cuckoo order of birds, Cuculiformes, which includes the roadrunners, the anis and the coucals.

This species is a widespread summer migrant to Europe and Asia, and winters in Africa. It is a brood parasite, which means it lays eggs in the nests of other bird species, particularly of dunnocks, meadow pipits, and reed warblers. Although its eggs are larger than those of its hosts, the eggs in each type of host nest resemble the host's eggs. The adult too is a mimic, e that species is a predator, the mimicry gives the female time to lay her eggs without being seen to do so.

The English word "cuckoo" comes from the Old French cucu and it first appears about 1240 in the poem Sumer Is Icumen In - "Summer has come in / Loudly sing, Cuckoo!" in modern English.

The scientific name is from Latin. Cuculus is "cuckoo" and canorus, "melodious ".

A study using stuffed bird models found that small birds are less likely to approach common cuckoos that have barred underparts similar to the Eurasian sparrowhawk, a predatory bird. Eurasian reed warblers were found more aggressive to cuckoos that looked less hawk-like, meaning that the resemblance to the hawk helps the cuckoo to access the nests of potential hosts. Other small birds, great tits and blue tits, showed alarm and avoided attending feeders on seeing either (mounted) sparrowhawks or cuckoos; this implies that the cuckoo's hawklike appearance functions as protective mimicry, whether to reduce attacks by hawks or to make brood parasitism easier.

The common cuckoo is an obligate brood parasite; it lays its eggs in the nests of other birds. At the appropriate moment, the hen cuckoo flies down to the host's nest, pushes one egg out of the nest, lays an egg and flies off. The whole process takes about 10 seconds. A female may visit up to 50 nests during a breeding season. Common cuckoos first breed at the age of two years.

More than 100 host species have been recorded: meadow pipit, dunnock and Eurasian reed warbler are the most common hosts in northern Europe; garden warbler, meadow pipit, pied wagtail and European robin in central Europe; brambling and common redstart in Finland; and great reed warbler in Hungary.

Studies were made of 90 great reed warbler nests in central Hungary. There was an "unusually high" frequency of common cuckoo parasitism, with 64% of the nests parasitised. Of the nests targeted by cuckoos, 64% contained one cuckoo egg, 23% had two, 10% had three and 3% had four common cuckoo eggs. In total, 58% of the common cuckoo eggs were laid in nests that were multiply parasitised. When laying eggs in nests already parasitised, the female cuckoos removed one egg at random, showing no discrimination between the great reed warbler eggs and those of other cuckoos.

It was found that nests close to cuckoo perches were most vulnerable: multiple parasitised nests were closest to the vantage points, and unparasitised nests were farthest away. Nearly all the nests "in close vicinity" to the vantage points were parasitised. More visible nests were more likely to be selected by the common cuckoos. Female cuckoos use their vantage points to watch for potential hosts and find it easier to locate the more visible nests while they are egg-laying.

Pushkar is one of the oldest existing cities of India. It lies on the shore of the Pushkar Sarovar (Lake). The date of its actual origin is not known, but legend associates Brahma with its creation. The city has many temples and ghats and has people from all over the world coming here. It has flourishing market with loads of tourists and pilgrims. This old Sadhu I spotted in one such market. Thick gray eyebrows and mustache, stubble and wearing head scarf, he looked stern and gave a very angry look to me showing displeasure at being shot!

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It was cool to watch her

Marie was hungry

Checked if the fish was breathing

Mouth to mouth resuscitation could be an option

I at least thought she was thinking that and I do have skills in being mental or call it good in telepathy if you want

You can just ask Mark, lol

She chose mouth to body and was eager to see if she managed to resusciate the fish

Summer is knocking doors so...what about get a little place to enjoy a paceful time close the sea?

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Workers in our neighbor's yard are tearing down an old garage. It is close to the property line, as is the workshop where Gracie Jo's "apartment" is, so the loud klonk sounds of debris tossed into a metal dumpster were just a few yards away. Sally saw her retreat across the street, to where she used to live, right after breakfast. The work came to a halt late morning, though, and the big trucks left. Gracie Jo appeared soon thereafter.

(This shot is "straight out of camera" except for a slight straightening. The reason I mention this is that it's so impossibly green! )

December is here and Christmas is just around the corner – why don’t I look more cheerful! Maybe these delightful Christmassy bits and pieces from YS&YS, available from the December Arcade event, will help put a smile on my face

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This is a stunning series of waterfalls and it is hard to get the magnitude in a single shot, so I used a big lens to concentrate on some of the detail instead. I used a slowish shutter speed as I wanted to keep some structure in the water.

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WSOR (probably L595 crew) is rolling through Brandon, WI. with grain and freight from Oshkosh, and 25 grain cars from Ripon. They will drop the freight at Horicon, pick up 2 more SD40-2's, and continue on to Granville, where the next crew will bring it to Chicago.

oh spirit take hold

be so bold as to break the ropes

that hold

me

to this mask

and undo the task

that they have placed on my face my hands and my heart

spirit take flight

that i might

that i could

that i should

put my hands on the sick

feed the hungry

and comfort the dying

with a full body contact

and let Your Spirit

protect me like a sauve

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It is interesting how deep shade changes the color of the water. In other locations with more sunlight, the golden trees reflected gold in the water. Here in the shade the colors are entirely different.

… is what I’m looking for… a sunny, bright, quiet appartment in the centre of Düsseldorf… „Guess I’ll always be a dreamer…“…

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Here is my son staining the boards, he said the color was to light so he put some glaze brown bakers color,

He also did this carve pieces I did for the Nativity 2009,

Please view the gingerbread house bellow,

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Old fishing hut at Devoke Water...

This is called Yarn Bombing... and at the Stony Brook Museum, there are many trees that are covered in this colorful and very time consuming art form...

If you have never heard of this before, I thought I'd share... if you Google Yarn Bombing, you will see this is done all over the world!!

the sable ( hippotragus niger niger ) is maybe the most beautiful african antelope.

perhaps a little frightened by my presence or in a gesture of challenge he started to pee.

a big bull like this can reach +230kgs and the horns arrive till +160cm long!!!

they are proud animals used to confront their natural enemies with the horns ...unfortunatly their beauty expose them as an hunting trophy.

hunting and habitat destruction reduced drastically the population.

all the 4 african subspecies are critically endangered or vulnerable.

the niger niger is the most "common" subspecie but just to give an idea in zimbabwe the wild population drop in 20 years from 25000es to...450!!!

in south africa and botswana situation is much better but you can see them just in a few parks.

mokala national park has been opened to give home to some rare antelopes including sables.

we hope for a better future.

"so beauty"

mokala national park,SA

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Platycodon grandiflorus is a perennial plant which is commonly grown in mountains and fields. It is 40 to 100 centimeters high and has thick roots, and white juice comes out when the stem is cut. Leaves are 5 to 12 centimeters long, with narrow ends and teeth on the edges.

Flowers bloom purple or white in July and August, with one or several running upward at the end of the circle. The flower crown is divided into five branches in the shape of an open bell.

“Tranquility is a state of the mind, desired by the soul, to calm the spirit, and make the body free from stress.”

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Under the water

It's cold and it's grey

My torrid autumn

Another season decays

Open up the hollow

And my walls come down

I'll tell you it's a problem

Just when no one's around

But then

I know what's wrong

God you complicated everything

I know you're gone, gone, gone

This is where I will draw my line

I will draw my line

Burning my cathedrals

'Cause I don't pray anymore

Look at all these people

These tragic little people

They're smiling and they don't know what for

But then

I know what's wrong

God you complicated everything

I know you're gone, gone, gone

This is where I will blur my line

I will blow my line

Our houses are haunted

Torn and deserted

They're made of my secrets and shame

Baby I want it

But I know I'm not worth it

I can't even sell you my name

But then

I know you're wrong

God, you took it all away from me

I know you're gone, gone, gone

This is where I will cross my line

I am crossing my line

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.... between "I like you" and "I love you? "

Beautifully answered by Buddha :

When you like a flower, you just pluck it.

But when you love a flower, you water it daily.

One who understand this, understands life.

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Here is another pretty reblooming iris from my garden.

I have been super busy with work this Spring and have tried to spend my free time outside when I can. I have fallen really behind in posting anything and more especially in keeping up with my friends here on flickr. I hope to catch up with you all soon. May is the month I spend the most time outside looking for wildlife to photograph and document and I haven't been too motivated in photography this year. I usually don't try to post more than a few photos at a time but I am going to post a bunch today.

Thanks to everyone who likes and or comments on my photos! I really appreciate your support. I hope everyone is staying safe and healthy!