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Marble is teaching Phillip the finer things in life....how to blow a bubble. FIrst you must choose the correct size piece. Next, you must chew it till it is nice and rubbery and sticky spit covers your face. Third take it out of your mouth and stretch it flat with your two hands. Fourth, put it back in your mouth, but swallow all of your spit first. Fifth, push it against your teeth with your tongue and then move your tongue then blow super hard. Don't forget to make a circle with your lips so the bubble can escape a little bit.
Stay tuned to see how this goes!
“Life has taught me that respect, caring and love must be shared, for it's only through sharing that friendships are born.”
Donna A. Favors
Apparently.. one should not mock another regarding what 'switches' are capable of.. Thanks Paul for the awesome rp looking forward to continuing!
Surprisingly the Cuckmere River opens out a little here (it is tidal to this point) and it is perfectly reasonable to kayak down to the sea (indeed I have done it many moons ago)
In the movie Under The Tuscan Sun, Katherine tells the story of a girl desperately searching for ladybugs who only finds them when she finally relaxes, takes a nap and awakes covered by the beautiful little insects. A great life lesson, I always thought.
Today, an unseasonably warm day brought hundreds of ladybugs crawling on my house and flying in the woods. Such a lovely seen....just a lovely reminder of a wonderful lesson.
Formerly called "Blue-crowned Motmot", which is now regarded as a complex involving five species and numerous subspecies.
32. Monday 27th June 2011
This project is semi-annoying as it means that I have to actually go and seek out people to take pictures of. Which means passenger areas, and annoying uniform changes.
Luckily, I had other options. This is taken from the funnel/ roof of deck 16, looking down on the sports deck.
Giant chess sets have a special place in my heart, after many hours spent playing in Gran Canaria. This wasn't a proper game I don't think, but it looked a little like a father-son lesson in tactics.
Today, I traced the air start system. It was actually surprisingly fun. Probably because it didn't involve crawling. We were in Ketchikan today but I was so tired that I didn't even bother attempting to go ashore.
for Macro Mondays theme: Imagination
today i have difficulties using Mac Mouse hehehe
but... my tasks for today has accomplished...
now i will go to bed earlier... :)
I've been in India for 2 weeks so far, hence the lack of new photos. Here is one I took the other day in a park in Mumbai. The boy was a street kid till the charity i'm working with picked him up and found him a home and a family!
Momotus lessoni
Pájaro bobo
Historia Natural
Reproducción
Su nido consiste en una madriguera larga y a menudo tortuosa de 1.5 a 4 m. de longitud y aproximadamente 10 cm. de diámetro, con una cámara terminal desnuda, excavada en el barranco de una carretera o quebrada, o en la pared de alguna cueva o hueco en el suelo, bien escondido. Ponen de 3 a 4 huevos y se reproducen de marzo a mayo.
Alimentación
Se alimentan en el suelo de arañas grandes, lombrices de tierra, insectos, lagartijas y culebras pequeñas (ver imagen). También atrapan insectos y frutos del follaje.
Visita comederos en busca de banano y pan.
Comportamiento
Son solitarios o forman parejas.
Habitat y Distribución
Habitat
Son muy adaptables y viven en los bordes de los bosques húmedos, secos o de galería, en barrancos con árboles, bosques secundarios viejos, plantaciones de café, banano, áreas semiabiertas, setos o jardines.
Distribución
Es una especie residente a lo largo de las bajuras y elevaciones intermedias de la vertiente del Pacífico; asciende hasta los 1500 m. en la parte norte y hasta los 2150 m. en el sur. Es común excepto por la parte seca del noroeste donde es local, y se restringe al bosque de galería. Es común en el lado del Caribe, desde el área de Cartago hasta los alrededores de Turrialba, y de poco común a rara en elevaciones medias y bajas en la ladera norte de la Cordillera Volcánica Central. Se encuentra ausente en la mayor parte de la bajura del Caribe, aunque es relativamente común en las áreas más secas al sur del Lago de Nicaragua.
Distribución fuera de Costa Rica
Se encuentra desde el noreste de México hasta el noroeste de Perú y el norte de Argentina.
Distribución de Area de conservación
ArenalGuanacasteOsaPacifico CentralTempisqueAmistad PacificoHuetar NorteCordillera Volcanica CentralTortuguero
Descripción
Descripción científica
Mide 39 cm. y pesa 120 grs. Es grande, con la coronilla y la máscara bordeadas de azul. El pico es fuerte y aserrado, ligeramente curvado hacia abajo.
En los adultos el centro de la coronilla y la máscara ancha que termina en punta en los auriculares son de color negro. La coronilla presenta un borde azul ancho, más claro y verdoso en la frente y más violáceo detrás del ojo. La máscara y la mancha pequeña negra en el pecho presentan un borde angosto y azul. La garganta es verde azulado y la remeras y las timoneras son azul verdosas. El pecho y la parte superior del abdomen varían entre verde con un leve tinte oliváceo y oliva ocráceo. La parte baja del abdómen y las coberteras infracaudales son más verde azulado. El iris es rojo y el pico negro, y las patas negruzcas
Los especímenes juveniles son parecidos a los adultos, pero con toda la coronilla teñida de azul verdoso y con los límites no muy bien definidos. La máscara negra es más pequeña y fusca. No presentan mancha en el pecho ni raquetas en la cola. El iris es café oscuro.
Información taxonómica
Reino: Animalia
Filo: Chordata
Clase: Aves
Orden: Coraciiformes
Familia: Momotidae
Género: Momotus
When in wildlife territory always have your tele lens on the camera, landscapes give you time to change lenses, bears don't. This is OK, but if I was ready I could get a dream shot of this bear.
I took this a couple weeks ago but thought I would share while I am looking for more victims to shoot!!
We will walk the streets of Red Hook on Saturday afternoon. We will be conscious of our surroundings. We will stop at the corner and cross only when it's safe. We will smile at the people we see even if they don't see us. We will concentrate on our breathing. We will acknowledge all thoughts compassionately and briefly and then we will let them pass. We will always return to the breath, totally relaxed, bathed in nirvana.
Tree Climbing Lesson. Yosemite National Park, California. June 7, 2009. © Copyright 2011 G Dan Mitchell - all rights reserved.
Two black bear cub and their mother climb trees in Yosemite National Park, California.
I was very fortunate to be able to watch this bear family a couple of years ago - and to have a long enough lens to do so without intruding on them. The mother bear seemed to be alternately letting the "kids" play around and do whatever they felt like, and then offering them "climbing lessons" on some of the trees. The cub with black fur seemed the most comfortable at this, quickly scrambling straight up the trunks to surprising heights, moving with agility that reminded me of monkeys. The brown-fur sibling seemed a bit more cautious and "mama" seemed to have to offer a bit of encouragement and support, much as a human parent might do. Her actions at this point reminded me of my own experience with my kids the first time they climbed something (that seemed to them to be) dangerous - I followed close behind with my "front paws" around them, ready to catch if necessary.
While the brown cub initially hesitated quite a bit, before long it also took off and quickly ascended way up in the tree, and before long the whole family was 20 or more feet off the ground.
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This was a shoot from my first air show put on by the Navy Blue Angels. A fantastic show. These planes (for the show) are flying at speeds ranging from 150-450 mph, so high shutter speed is important to get sharp images and is not really difficult to achieve on sunny days like this one. The Blue Angels have a predetermined spot at which they perform some of their maneuvers like this one in which they pass by one another at a very close distance (remarkable) so here, shutter speed, aperture, steady camera and knowing that sweet spot where they pass is important to get sharp images. Here, I didn't know where that center point was so I panned with the number six plane and shot at 5 frames a second hoping to get the image I got, but because of my panning the number five plane became blurred (traveling the opposite direction of the pan). The show was wonderful and I learned a lot.
This image was shot with a 70-200VR lens at 5.6 and a shutter speed of 1/2500 sec.
Was given a lesson today about camera care.
Rushing to get a few shots in before the tide finally receded too far to be of any use, I placed my tripod down, loaded the camera and was just grabbing my filters when the wind made the most of me not taking greater care in placing the tripod. I had to watch on helplessly as it launched forward, my lens heading first into the sand. Several curse words later I inspected the damage and it didn't occur to me immediately that the large scratch the fall had created was actually on the UV filter not the lens itself. A few people told me early on to fit a UV filter to protect the lens - I'm thankful for that advice.
As it happens by the time I'd recovered my composure what tide there was had left the subjects I hoped to photograph. So as not to feel a total waste I moved back to the car and took this, partly as a reminder that I need to go back and visit. I really like this as a subject and unusually I've decided to retain the colour. I've also had a go at merging two exposures to recover some of the details on the post.
Definitely a place I'll revisit - with a bit more care.
The second lesson was to adjust the levels on an image (I didn't know how to do this!!) and to add text, changing the opacity and type of layer. Kim Klassen also asked us to work on a light image and a dark image. Here's my lighter one, complete with a rainbow from the other night! (And also with textures from Distressed Jewell/Cheryl Tarrant and Kim Klassen.)
Its teaching days behind it a Volvo B10 / Plaxton Interurban awaits disposal in the lanes at Lillyhall. It was new to Stagecoach Bluebird in July 1996.
I'm not loving either these, but I think it is because I need to pick up a few colors of large markers ...copics or prisma? Most of the things I do I use fine to medium point microns etc...so lots of black pens means I need to go shopping for pretty markers ;)
+Start to draw at the inside of previous leaf
- Following leaves should be painted from the inside of previous one
- So that you keep the leaves shape tight
+First drawing remains
- Object drawn first stays the front.
- The water makes line in between, which is beautiful
- So, the previous leaves must darker than latter one.