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Well, bike path less traveled, alongside the highway. A couple of inches of new snow two days ago, and I am the first human to tread here.
The goosander is a medium-sized duck and a member of a group called the 'sawbills' because of their long, narrow bills with saw-like 'teeth' which are good for gripping fish. A long, streamlined bird, it is perfectly shaped for swimming after fish.
Almost any fish species less than 20cm in girth may be consumed, anything from a stickleback to a salmon. They catch what is most abundant; in extreme cases they can swallow a fish 36cm long.
Male goosanders are white, with dark green heads, black backs and long, red, hooked bills. The white sides and breast sometimes have a pink glow. Females are grey, with a gingery or reddish-brown head and a white throat.
Clouds Rest and Half Dome at Olmsted Point. The less frequently viewed side of Half Dome that helps us understand how it got its name.
Happy Mountain Monday! Take care, stay safe and try to be optimistic even when it's hard. Thanks for stopping by and for all of your support -- I deeply appreciate it.
© Melissa Post 2020
Georgia Mountains. 9/17/2019.
There is little change in plumage from spring to fall in this beautiful species but the sharp pointed beak is noticeably lighter in color in fall as it is in many warbler species. This bird has more olive tones in the cap than an adult male (less contrast between the olive nape of the neck and the cap) and is likely either an adult female or first fall male. The black eye-line is also lighter than it would be in an adult male.
This red-crested korhaan was similar in size and profile to the northern black korhaan I posted a few days ago. Both species are found in similar habitats in The Kalahari, in Botswana. Other similarities include the fact that the female is less colourful than the male. The female red-crested korhaan, pictured above, has similar plumage to a female northern black korhaan and does not have the prominent red crest of the male. More at "Colin Pacitti Wildlife Photography & Fishing Travels" - www.colin-pacitti.com.
For Smile on Saturday. I hope this fits the theme. I love these wild carrot flowers. The light seems to rest on them so beautifully. This one is just about to burst into bloom.
Less than 10 minutes up the path from the more well known Russell Falls in Tasmania is Horseshoe Falls, which is a much smaller waterfall with two drops and the ability to get very close to the action.
I visited on a near freezing morning in late October and was amazed by the colour and composition of both the waterfall and the rainforest itself.
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About less than an hour's drive east of Phoenix Arizona lies the Superstition Mountains which is the alleged location of the lost Dutchman mine. The story starts with a man named Jacob Waltz who come out these mountains with gold he said he got from a mine he found but died not long afterwards taking the secret of it's location to his grave. One must remember that less than ten miles away the town of Goldfield had an operating goldmine that extracted enough gold to be worth hundreds of millions in todays dollars. So that there was another nearby motherload of gold was nearby was quite believable. Some men over years have come out with some gold claiming they found the lost mine but these turned out not to be true. With gold now worth $1300 an ounce today the allure of lost treasure will still excite people today. The legend of the mine faded from public view until 1931 when the amateur explorer and treasure hunter Adolph Ruth disappeared until months later a skull was found with two bullet holes in it and dental records provided a positive match. You would think someone getting murdered would deter people instead it had the opposite effect with area being flooded with wannabe treasure hunters and less than savory types heavily armed going into the mountains reported. The state designated the area a state park with anyone caught trying prospecting subject to swift arrest. Considering Arizona's penal system known for it's alleged inhumane prison system where many inmates live in unairconditioned cells or tents in the brutal summer heat which is a long discussion in itself is enough to discourage 99% would be treasure hunters.
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In the gloom of this night of bright sweet dark light
You hear the voice of my memory just walking slowly
You hear the memory of those who would like to die trying
Oh how I wish, oh how I wish I loved you less.....
~ Concha Buika, Oro Santo (English Translation)
Goldenrod and the end of Summer at Edwin B. Forsythe National Wildlife Refuge, Oceanville, NJ, USA
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If you have lost a loved one, know that because of the Conservation of Energy, their energy has not died. Remember the First Law of Thermodynamics; that no energy gets created in the universe, and none is destroyed. All their energy, every vibration, every BTU of heat, every wave of every particle that was your loved one remains with you in this world. Know that amid energies of the cosmos, they gave as good as they got.
All the photons that have ever bounced off their face, all the particles whose paths were interrupted by their happiness, by the touch of their hair, hundreds of trillions of particles, have raced off like children, their ways forever changed by the one you love. And as you grieve, know that the photons that bounced from them were gathered in the particle detectors that are your eyes, that those photons created within their constellations of electromagnetically charged neurons whose energy will go on forever.
According to the Law of the Conservation of Energy, not a bit of them is gone; they're just less orderly.
-Adaptation of "Eulogy from a Physicist" by Aaron Freeman
It's funny how such creatures, simplistic in so many ways, can inhabit personalities more complex and deep by comparison to the shallow, murky waters of the WalMart kiddie pools that some human beings are made of. He was my shadow, my sentinel, my buddy, my pal. Little did I know that this Valentine's Day gift from an ex would lead to a lasting companionship who's absence is felt, even to this day.
Some people would scoff and say "Oh, it's just a cat." As heartless as those people are, he was so much more than the sum of himself. He probably would've followed me through the Gates of Hell and back, if I'd let him... and give them a piece of his mind in the process, since he was a chatterbox.
Where people would often fail, he would succeed.
Rest in peace, buddy.
It's when you are down on the ground you see it all
What kind of perspective do we have on our lives
We want this and that and never gets satisfied
Less is more is something we may learn as the years go by
Yes, I suddenly felt at least like 60 now
For Macro Mondays theme, "Bokeh"--a tiny star measuring .25", horizontal dimension of photo less than 2".
This photograph of the Pantheon in Stourhead was taken during our visit two days ago. It was an overcast and breezy spring day, in between drizzles. Stourhead is one of the famous gardens in the English landscape garden style and woodland. We enjoyed the walk and the various landscape views in the garden.
This photograph was recorded during a relatively calm interval, with the water surface of the lake less disturbed. The Pantheon style building and surrounds were reflected in the lake. The willow-like branches of a large tree in the foreground were selected to frame the building.
Window reflection of a photography image of Erich Lessing. Photography was set at the show-window of the LessingImages.com Gallery, Weihburggasse 22
From the Cornell Lab:
"The Lesser Prairie-Chicken is a pale grouse of the southern Great Plains, found only in prairie and agricultural land with shinnery oak and sand sagebrush. Once widespread and abundant, its numbers have crashed following heavy hunting in the 19th and early 20th centuries, and then conversion of its natural habitat to cropland and rangeland. Like its close relative, the larger, darker Greater Prairie-Chicken, male Lesser Prairie-Chickens gather in spring on “leks,” sites where males compete for females by performing spectacular displays."
This shot was taken at Smoky Valley Ranch, a Nature Conservancy property in western Kansas. More than half of all lesser prairie chickens in the world are in western Kansas. The Nature Conservancy is playing a key role in preserving the species.
Third and final installment in my grouse series.
Less than three weeks ago this wetland overflow from the adjoining lake was topped with thinning ice and the edges of the pond had varying depths of snow on them. But when the ice and snow made a lingering departure, water rose nearly 10 feet in this pond and encroached on the paved road separating the pond from the normal swampy area on the other side.
However, yesterday’s sunrise seems to have forgiven everything negative it heard about our Minnesota winters and instead flooded an observer’s senses with the sweet foretaste of the warm days that will court us for a few months before once again disappointing our friendship with the return of the cold months.
But for now we don’t focus on what will eventually come again but instead on more immediate pleasures and in the ears of our heart if we are still, we can hear the hum of boats and the sound of fishing line whining through the air as the smell of hamburgers cooking on a grill near the lake mixes with children shrieks as they delight at the coldness of the splashing water.
(Photographed near Cambridge, MN)
For the art lovers amongst us...
This is a sculpture called "Butterfly" created by Henry Moore.
Seen and admired in October 2006 at the Henry Moore exhibition in Museum "De KunstHal" in Rotterdam. You can find more information HERE
“The secret of life is to have a task, something you devote your entire life to, something you bring everything to, every minute of the day for the rest of your life. And the most important thing is, it must be something you cannot possibly do.”
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