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“It is so hard to leave—until you leave. And then it is the easiest goddamned thing in the world.”
Quote ― John Green, Paper Towns
Junco headed off to parts unknown.
It has been the most beautiful day today. Sunny and gorgeous. I sat out front in the sun with all the dogs, the duck, the goose and just took bird photos all day.
Thought I'd share this one. I really liked it. Hope you do too
A perfect day
this is SOOC except for crop and signature
Entrance to the Cittadella in Victoria, Gozo. Also known as Il-Kastell, the Castle, in Gozo, this is the old fortified capital of Gozo. The hill has been inhabited since the Bronze Age, and it is believed to have been the acropolis of the Punic-Roman city of Gaulos or Glauconis Civitas. The site was converted into a castle during the middle ages. It's defences however were obsolete by the 16th century, and in 1551 an Turkish Ottoman force invaded Gozo and sacked the Cittadella taking the majority of the Gozitan population prisoners. A major reconstruction of the southern walls of the Cittadella was undertaken between 1599 and 1622, transforming it into a gunpowder fortress. The new fortifications were criticized in later decades, and plans to demolish the entire citadel were made multiple times in the 17th and 18th centuries, but were never carried out. The castle saw action during the French invasion and subsequent uprising in 1798; in both cases the fortress surrendered without much of a fight. It remained a military installation until it was decommissioned on 1 April 1868 by the British. SOURCE Wikipedia.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cittadella_(Gozo)
This beautiful barred owl was preparing to leave when this image was taken.
Wishing you a great start to the new week and a very blessed one !!
I am afraid that the Prime Minister is not going to let you take a vacation. It would be much safer if you just stayed here with me.
Happy Teddy Bear Tuesday
In this photo you can see the grasses of the previous one in their natural habitat.
We were leaving the Lutersee, starting our descent to the Oberalpsee. We seem to be heading to the northeast, but in fact you need to go to the south to descend into the valley.
Offshore vessel leaving Aberdeen harbour - viewpoint from Aberdeen beach, with the 19th Century Torry Battery in the background.
Leica M-P & Elmarit-M 28mm
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Locarno-Alpe Cardada-Mergoscia-Monti di Lego-Contra-Tenero
“Leave something for someone but dont leave someone for something.”
― Enid Blyton, Five on a Hike Together
Autumn also brings a lot of changes to the birds, and very noticeable is the one on the finches that completely lose their bright yellow plumage to a mix of very dull green-yellowish that makes us to take a second look.
Right now here in PA the rain has started and many trees have lost their leaves, but they still have a unique charm specially at the end of a sunny day. The wind has move from place to place tons of leaves that are forming colorful skirts which now makes it difficult to know from which tree were originally from.
This image had only a white background so I decided to merge a second one with autumn leaves.
Perfect for the autumn mood...
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I hope your day was a great one!
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Photography is one of my passions, and nature photography is my favorite.
I have been in Explore for more that a hundred times, and it is an awesome experience to have your photos showcased in such a special way.
I thank your for coming today, for leaving a comment, and make a favorite of yours this photo, (if that is the case) thanks again!
The best part of this forum is the contacts and friends that I have made over the years, that have the same passion for this art that is called photography!
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When a picture appears---you need to act! So, I shot this through my windshield while leaving the little town of Liberty Pole in southwest Wisconsin.
The contrast between the two types of transportation, the yellow line, the trio of riders, and their tools in the back of the carriage said push the button!
Notice the horse's ears on either side of the drivers hat!
truck versus carriage
one out muscling the other
contrasting cultures
Image and haiku by John Henry Gremmer
(Flickr Friday: #327 HitTheRoad)
This photo was taken during a meeting of vintage vehicles in the town of Santa Perpètua de Mogoda, which coincided with a rally of classic buses. This is why, all of a sudden, the city centre was replete of old automobiles. It was the nearest thing to a trip to the past.
Esta foto fue tomada durante un encuentro de coches antiguos en la población de Santa Perpètua de Mogoda, que coincidió en fecha y hora con un rally de autobuses clásicos. Es, por ello, que el centro quedó de pronto repleto de automóviles de época. Fue casi como un viaje al pasado.
🎧 ♫♪ Helloween ▶▶ Forever And One ♪♫ 🎧
Now that I must try to leave it all behind
Did you see what you have done to me?
So hard to justify
Slowly it's passing by
So hard I was trying
Tomorrow I'll sill be crying
How could you hide
your lies,
your lies
Here I am
Seeing you once again
My mind is so far away
My heart is so closed to stay
Too proud to fight
I'm walking back into night
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The last to leave the nest. I suspect this was the one small chick in the nest and a little reluctant to make the jump. Later in the day it had made it to the yard and was very protected by mom and dad. Then the oddest thing happened, I was sitting by my computer and heard some noise coming from the deck. Wouldn't you know it but the chick was right by the door hopping around! It flew about 20 feet to the lawn and rested for a while. The mom would land and coax it to follow in the direction of the woods. Every so often she would take flight into the woods, only to return when the chick stayed put. This went on for several times until at last, the chick took off and disappeared into the woods! And this is the end of my report on the robin chick family. :)
I think it was Bernard Sumner that said "I hate writing the same song twice....actually on reflection make that four times!"
Bit like me with photos on the same day......I'm thinking I can probably milk 4 from my lockdown walk of the 23rd of April! Sorry in advance.
View of Chalki village, taken from a ferry boat, more photos to come from this remote island, I've been super busy, please excuse the tardiness in uploading the new photos, it's almost winter and I haven't posted a photo with autumn colors from 2019 yet. they will be coming one day.
04-May-2022: about turism: my perplexities towards a future with more and more bans and more and more over-taxes.
Lake Bohinj and the much more famous Lake Bled are close (less than 20 km) but the second has a mass tourism now rooted, while the first is expanding its tourist reception in recent years, coming out (unfortunately) from the shadow of Bled, that was a lightning rod for peaceful and symbiotic nature lovers.
I am totally against mass tourism because it transforms a relaxing resort into an area where it is difficult even to access it.
Around Lake Bled, even at a certain distance, there are only paid parking lots, which come to cost 6 euros per hour (about the most decentralized and in May...) that, certainly, leave perplexed about the "tourist selection" that "they" would like to implement (high-end tourism) and, in general, certainly drive away the tourist in search of nature and not restaurants, bars, concrete lake-front and crowd baths.
The naturalist tourist should not feel like a tourist in Nature, which is a single great asset of humanity and that only administratively is divided between various Countries, while in Bled, as in Rimini or Cortina d'Ampezzo, they make you feel not only tourist, but also guest, sometimes unwanted if you spend little.
As tourism increases, so do the bans, because unfortunately mass tourism includes many people who don't know anything about Nature and generally only go to very touristy places to make themselves of...people, sowing dirt and ignorance wherever they move.
The imposition of prohibitions/bans to limit the "damage from mass tourism" affects everyone indiscriminately, including locals and naturalists who have always had a symbiotic relationship with these places, thus making them become inhospitable, at least to those seeking pure contact with nature itself.
Of course this happens all over the world, but it should be condemned.
We already pay State taxes for the maintenance of the slice of Nature that falls within our administration, tourist surcharges, exploiting market laws that should be verified and contained, are for the most part unconstitutional, as well as several prohibitions that deprive access and use of public property.
With the money that the tourist municipalities pocket they could very well implement a targeted prevention (controls by foresters, cameras, ad hoc fences for areas subject to micro-pollution...) rather than closing everything and then de-empowering themself on the maintenance of roads and areas (more and more numerous), thus going to save further, starting from the basic taxes that we pay to also have access to given areas.
I can understand that you tax parking at high altitude to maintain the roads, but the amount of the payment should be directly proportional to the expenses that must be incurred to ensure accessibility, not by putting prices at random and with increases of 200% from one year to the next.
I have always appreciated the fact that Slovenia, thanks also that it is not densely inhabited and has a modest tourism (except precisely Bled, Postojna Caves and the Coast), guarantees a wide accessibility and use of its territories and I hope it can continue, limiting the prohibitions and parking lots everywhere.
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