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Christmas is less than a fortnight away and nature here in Ostwestfalen is like early Spring. We used Sunday afternoon for an extended hiking tour around home waters of the river Werre in the Löhne area.
I went on trip to Gleason Falls in New Hampshire. The falls are on the other side of the bridge, so more about them later. Foliage was really close to peak yesterday. In the past, it's kind of ironic that I almost always get there either too early (not much color) or too late (faded). I swear that peak foliage lasts just one day :)
One thing that seemed clear was that foliage was even less synchronized than usual. There were areas with no leaves on trees at all, and nearby there were a few trees still mostly green.
""" 'You really think, this will be a safe place for us, so we can hide until Easter?'
'Yes my dear, relax…no one will find us here…;-)' """
Two very cute and exotic looking origami hens are hiding on a secret place ;-))
Their folding sequence is more or less the same, just with a few changes at the end, so the left Hen gets a 'square bottom' and the other one a triangle shape.
Both folded from one piece of double colored paper red/pattern, 15x15cm. Final size: about 6cm height
Model: origami Geometric Hens / origami Gallins Geometricas
Design: Román Diáz
Diagrams in book "Origami Essence" by Román Diáz.
"I like not to say much,
I don't say much.
I like to look up,
I look up at endless songs.
With my shadow to fly, to fly,
to catch stars on the bottom,
at the bottom, bottom of your music.
And when the frost falls, the frost,
to circle like full, full
moon in your scene.
Let the lights be dim, dim,
if stars were bright, bright
in your hands to leave.
My eyes, try to find me, find me,
search the streets of silence,
alone I will I erase my form."
🎧Music inspiration🎧
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Another very early morning shot at high ISO, taken before we could readily see the birds with the naked eye. Here a chicken displays next to a cow patty.
Passing an abandoned pier, a fishing trawler heads to work on a misty morning in Casco Bay off the coast of Portland, Maine. Thanks for viewing! I appreciate your support moor than you know :)
Nikon D7500, Sigma 18-300, ISO 200, f/8.0, 155mm, 1/1000s
BIG THANK YOU TO MY FRIEND Carl's Captures FOR THE TITLE!!
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“Bees do have a smell, you know, and if they don't they should, for their feet are dusted with spices from a million flowers.”
― Ray Bradbury, Dandelion Wine
Soundtrack : www.youtube.com/watch?v=ngCi6PGDiWw
SOLITAIRE – ANDY WILLIAMS
Little Tawny Mining Bee
on my Henry Moore
drying out; hoping for the sun
lots of pollen for your store
Solitary little Bee
he loves playing Solitaire
flying here and there and then
hovering in the air
back to Earth and nourish it
doing the very best you can
avoiding all the chemicals
laid down and sprayed by mortal man
in my garden you'll be safe
nowhere will you ever find
any unnatural substances
here there's only peace of mind
a haven; a little Heaven here on Earth
Garden of Eden that's for sure
stay here with me and you'll be safe
in my world; resting on my Henry Moore.
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PERSONAL CHALLENGE : 4. MINIMALISM
While most people think of toads as land creatures hopping about in the woods, there are also aquatic toads sharing a similar relationship to fresh water habitats as frogs.
This aquatic toad is sunbathing on a hyacinth plant, joined by a young frog on a leaf less than an inch away. It’s interesting that the small frog chose to keep company with the much larger toad, considering unoccupied vegetation was available. Perhaps their similar color made the frog believe they were part of the same species.
The dark lumps on the toad are actually glands growing outside the body.
Beneath the toad is a leaf containing several frog eggs. The minute plants clinging to this leaf and floating above the toad are duckweed.
Petit Chevalier | Lesser yellowlegs | Tringa flavipes
Un Petit Chevalier au bain!
Je vous l'ai déjà dit, le beau Bécasseau à échasses que je vous ai présenté récemment était collé à deux Petits Chevaliers. Il y en avait quelques autres non loin, et comme c'est souvent le cas lorsqu’un oiseau décide de prendre un bain et de faire la toilette de son plumage, si on sait y faire pour une approche en douceur, il sera alors possible d'être à une distance optimale avec ce dernier. Ce fut le cas ici. Serge Forcier et moi avons eu là une bien belle session aux poses des plus originales et variées. La lumière n'était pas à son meilleure mais l'expérience fut des plus heureuses avec cette excellente proximité. Voici une première image que j'affectionne particulièrement. Une série à suivre...
The Road Not Taken
Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,
And sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveler, long I stood
And looked down one as far as I could
To where it bent in the undergrowth;
Then took the other, as just as fair,
And having perhaps the better claim,
Because it was grassy and wanted wear;
Though as for that the passing there
Had worn them really about the same,
And both that morning equally lay
In leaves no step had trodden black.
Oh, I kept the first for another day!
Yet knowing how way leads on to way,
I doubted if I should ever come back.
I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.
Robert Frost
Cagle's Chasm
Marion Co. Tennessee
Main pit depth 186'
Natural lighting
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.
Macro Mondays -- "Less Than An Inch"
This screw is about 1 cm long (about 3/8 of an inch). I've posted another shot of the screw inside a finger ring to show the size.