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Picture taken on an island near Madang (“Jewel of the South Pacific”), Papua New Guinea
Madang (old German name: Friedrich-Wilhelmshafen) at the north coast of Papua New Guinea was first settled by the Germans in the 19th century. Following World War I, the area was turned over to Australia as part of the League of Nations mandated Territory of New Guinea. The Imperial Japanese Army captured Madang without a fight during World War II in 1942. In September 1943, Australian forces launched a sustained campaign to retake the Finisterre Range and Madang. The town was captured on April 24, 1944, but during the fighting and occupation it was virtually destroyed and had to be rebuilt afterwards (Wikipedia).
CASTLE STALKER,where many scenes from Monty Python's "Monty Python and the Holy Grail " were filmed
King Arthur: I am your king.
Peasant Woman: Well, I didn't vote for you.
King Arthur: You don't vote for kings.
Peasant Woman: Well, how'd you become king, then?
[Angelic music plays... ]
King Arthur: The Lady of the Lake, her arm clad in the purest shimmering samite, held aloft Excalibur from the bosom of the water, signifying by divine providence that I, Arthur, was to carry Excalibur. That is why I am your king.
Dennis the Peasant: Listen. Strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government. Supreme executive power derives from a mandate from the masses, not from some farcical aquatic ceremony.
Arthur: Be quiet!
Dennis the Peasant: You can't expect to wield supreme power just 'cause some watery tart threw a sword at you!
Arthur: Shut up
Dennis the Peasant: I mean, if I went around saying I was an emperor just because some moistened bint had lobbed a scimitar at me, they'd put me away!
Arthur: [grabs Dennis] Shut up! Will you shut up?!
Dennis: Ah, now we see the violence inherent in the system!
Arthur: [shakes Dennis] Shut up!
Dennis: Oh! Come and see the violence inherent in the system! Help, help, I'm being repressed!
Arthur: Bloody Peasant!
Dennis: Ooh, what a giveaway!
This sign, outside a neighbor's fence, has been like this for a while...
But now, it seems more apropro. New Jersey is on lockdown now, while the news isn't good in New York, 90 miles away and where my youngest son, daughter-in-law and little granddaughter live. Everyone in Marlton seems well, at least in my family, and we continue to comply with all recommendations and mandates.
Yesterday, for the first time in how long? we played Connect Four. Made muffins. Pulled weeds. Learned to sing Happy Birthday in Spanish.
Stay strong, everyone, stay connected! Hugs to all!
14/52, April Fool, 52 weeks in 2020
We interrupt the cavalcade of birds to recognize the advent of spring in Sugar Land, Texas. My neighborhood mandates 4 live oaks in every front lawn, which gives me cognitive dissonance every year. Live oaks, Quercus virginiana are--utterly wonderful--deciduous evergreens. In the spring, they drop last year's leaves just as the new buds appear. At about the same time, they produce enormous quantities of pollen, dusting every surface, and then drop the spent anthers along with the leaves.
Very weird for this Iowa boy to come outdoors in the warm spring and see the whole earth covered with fallen leaves and anthers. Fall comes in the Autumn, with crisp football weather, doesn't it? No, not here.
Any resemblance to the Minotaur of Greek myth is purely coincidental.
We returned last night from attending a wake for my husband's best friend who he had known since 4th grade to find that additional forest closures had been mandated related to the Pack Creek Fire to some of the areas where my husband and I recreate on a regular basis, in particular, Medicine Lake.
My husband is a Vietnam Veteran. Physical activity is his therapy. The back side of the La Sals provide a restorative environment where he can run, ski, bike, and hike. He clears deadfall and debris from running and bicycle trails in the spring and has bagged every peak in the range.
We live on the saddle of South Mountain and cut down dead aspen in the fall for firewood. We were married in the La Sals. The La Sal mountains are our life. The mountains are our medicine.
“Mexico Mandates Biometric Digital ID by 2026”
“Mexico mandates biometric CURP IDs with fingerprints, iris scans, and photos under Claudia Sheinbaum’s national ID overhaul.”
“Additionally, a separate program aimed at systematically collecting biometric data from minors is slated to commence within 120 days.”
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Ezekiel 7:10 “See, the day; see, it is coming: the crowning time has gone out; the twisted way is flowering, pride has put out buds.”
I had occasion to pop into Chichester the other day and chanced upon an anti-vax mandate demonstration taking place in the city centre.
....not even on Canada Day!
all it takes is to protest against vaccine mandates - for the freedom to get and get others gravely ill during the pandemic
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
This artwork is a long and slender sculpture in the form of a gigantic and elegant water droplet. The Drop is located at the Bon Voyage Plaza facing the east building, and is a feature of the City of Vancouver's Mandated Public Art Program.
Placed on the site so it seems as if the Plaza had just been hit by a huge raindrop, the piece balances delicately on the round base, while its end points into the open sky. This sculpture comments on the diagonal shape of the architecture and the columns and stands almost like a figurehead on a sailing ship.
Excerpt from en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lee_Tung_Street:
Lee Tung Street (利東街), known as the Wedding Card Street (喜帖街; 囍帖街) by locals, is a street in Wan Chai, Hong Kong. The street was famed in Hong Kong and abroad as a centre for publishing and for the manufacturing of wedding cards and other similar items.
As part of an Urban Renewal Authority (URA) project, all interests of Lee Tung Street were resumed by and reverted to the Government of Hong Kong since 1 November 2005, and subsequently demolished in December 2007. The demolition was seen by many as causing irreparable harm to the cultural heritage of Hong Kong.
The site was redeveloped as a luxury shopping and housing development. As with all other URA projects, no original tenants have been resettled on site.
After the development, only small part of next to QRE Plaza is official there. The rest of street, rebuilt and rebranded as Lee Tung Avenue, is a pedestrian street open for public in the high-rise housing estate The Avenue.
The street was known for its printing industry, and Wan Chai was a longtime host of the headquarters of the Hong Kong Times, Ta Kung Pao and Wen Wei Po. In the 1950s, print shops began to gather in Lee Tung Street between Johnston Road and Queen's Road East. Rumours had it that the government of Hong Kong mandated this in order to easily monitor illegal publication.
The poet and translator Dai Wangshu also established a short-lived bookstore in Lee Tung Street in the early 1950s.
In the 1970s, the print shops also began producing wedding invitations, lai see, fai chun, and other items, for which they became famous in the 1980s. Hundreds of thousands of Hong Kong people visited the shops there to order their wedding cards, name cards, and traditional Chinese calendars.
The weather was clearing up and soon after we arrived it stopped raining, and a beautiful light appeared both in the sky and the sea.
Thank you Flickr for giving me tips about these iconic lighthouses.
Bellevue Beach is a is a 700-metre-long sandy beach at Klampenborg on the northern outskirts of Copenhagen, Denmark.
The iconic lighthouse or lighthouses, cause there is two of them, have quite a history. In the 1930s, when the right to vacation became legally mandated, Denmark's coastline became the country's most popular holiday destination. Gentofte Municipality made plans to develop a piece of coastline north of Copenhagen into a seaside resort complex combining an existing park designed by the landscape architect C.Th. Sørensen with beach facilities catering to some 15,000 paying visitors a day. Three architects were invited to submit plans for a Bellevue beach complex. The winner was the young architect Arne Jacobsen, who had just opened his office. Characteristic of his approach to architecture and design—he was preoccupied with the concept of Gesamtkunst—Jacobsen designed everything from bathing cabins, lifeguard towers and kiosks to tickets and uniforms for the staff. The complex also included the Bellavista apartment buildings (1934), a restaurant and the Bellevue Theatre (1936), all of which still stand today in the immediate vicinity of the beach.
The beach with the lighthouses opened in 1932.
Not meant to be a political statement by me, this photo was taken 5' from my home on the March Rd highway 417 overpass during the Truckers Convoy making it's way to Ottawa.
Agree or disagree with the convoy and protest, (Canadian which are usually are not known as big protesters) this shows the breath of frustration Canadians have had with some of the strictest restrictions in the world.
In any case, just doing some photojournalism and I had to make it my photo of the day, as it's in line my photo diary approach. By the way it was -18º at the time of this shot.
Everyone should have a demon girl assigned to them, mine has the patience of a saint to put up with me
As always, love taking pictures with Thea <3
One Leg Traditional Boatmen at Inle Lake - Myanmar
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Last but not least, a photography journey of life time for a trip to explore South Island of New Zealand and Africa.
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My intended schedule may estimate about 1 month round trip self drive traveling down scenic Southern Island of New Zealand for completing the most captivating landscape photography and wander into the big five, the wilderness of untamed Africa nature for my project 2016 before my physical body stamina eventually drain off.
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Great Ocean Drive- the 12 Apostle's
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“When I ask my elders about the ways our people lived in order to keep the world whole and healthy, I hear the mandate to take only what you need. The dictum… leaves a lot of room for interpretation when our needs get so tangled with our wants. This gray area yields then to a rule more primal than need… Deeply rooted in cultures of gratitude, this ancient rule is not just to take only what you need, but to take only that which is given.”
–Robin Wall Kimmerer
(Braiding Sweetgrass – Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants)
Few springs ago, Rishabh and I planted potatoes in our backyard vegetable patch for the first time. While watering the patch after school, Rishabh –then only five or six– would express impatience with potato plants. They were lush green, but unlike nearby tomatoes, chilies, beans, or zucchini, these plants bore no fruits for him to feel visually rewarded. He wondered if our potato plants were of any use at all, and I would ask him to be patient. Finally, as summer faded into fall, our potato crop turned brown and withered… a sign they were ready for harvest. We dug up the soil and collected swells of tubers. Rishabh was very happy with the yield from all his watering over summer and I was equally happy to silently teach my son a valuable lesson I had learned from my dad… to take something from mother nature only when she offers it.
This valuable lesson is also a key highlight of the engaging and passionately written ‘Braiding Sweetgrass’ by Robin Wall Kimmerer –a decorated professor of Environmental and Forest Biology and an active member of the Citizen Potawatomi Nation. In this book, the author mingles modern scientific knowledge with indigenous wisdom to paint true depths and shallows of human relationship with our environment. Reading it felt like a saunter in the woods and was fragrantly therapeutic long after I turned the last page. To restore our frail relationship with mother earth, Dr. Wall Kimmerer urges us to follow the ancient law: take only what you need, but only when given. Think about it… unless one wants to intentionally steal, we follow this rule in our human interactions all the time. Do we grab a cookie unless we are asked to take one? Then why do we grab entire rainforests? Why do we dam all Salmon run rivers? Why do we drill and excavate, in certain cases, beyond the point of no return and leave the land scarred and wasted for good?
This then brings us to the big question: “How can we distinguish between that which is given by the earth and that which is not? When does taking become outright theft?” During our recent visit to California’s first state park – the Calaveras Big Trees State Park (where the above photo was created) – I learned the answer to this question first hand. In the park, we came across the corpse (a gigantic fire-blackened snag) of an ancient giant redwood tree, which when alive was fondly called ‘Mother of the forest’. To display ‘riches of California’, the bark from the trunk of this 2,520 years old ‘Mother’ was sawed off in 1850s, only to be reassembled at exhibitions far east. Unprotected by its fire-resistant bark, the ancient giant succumbed to the next fire that rolled through the grove. If our taking leads to complete obliteration of what we may have perceived as Earth’s offering (Malaysian rainforests for example), we have indeed purloined something that was not ours. Thus, it is important to pause before taking anything from mother earth and ask ourselves, will enough remain for those who will come after us? Or even better, what can I do to make sure enough remains for those who will come next? Robin Wall Kimmerer calls it 'Honorable Harvest', the ancient tradition of 'giving in return something of value that sustain the ones that sustain us.'
Excerpt from en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prince_of_Wales_Northern_Heritage_C...:
The Prince of Wales Northern Heritage Centre (PWNHC) (Centre du patrimoine septentrional Prince-de-Galles in French) is the Government of the Northwest Territories' museum and archives. Located in Yellowknife, Northwest Territories, Canada, the PWNHC acquires and manages objects and archival materials that represent the cultures and history of the Northwest Territories (NWT), plays a primary role in documenting and providing information about the cultures and history of the NWT, and provides a professional museum, archives and cultural resource management services to partner organizations.
A group of history-minded Yellowknifers first envisioned a museum for the Northwest Territories in the early 1950s and after several years of planning, and three years of construction, the 'Museum of the North' opened in July 1963 in downtown Yellowknife. It was operated by volunteers with the Yellowknife Museum Society until 1970 when care of its artifacts was transferred to the Government of the Northwest Territories.
Planning for a larger institution began due to concern over the loss of northern artifacts and collections, and the need to provide museum services and support throughout the Northwest Territories under a government mandate. In 1972, a program calling for the development of museum services in the NWT received official approval from the Government of the Northwest Territories. Construction started in 1975. On April 3, 1979, His Royal Highness, Prince Charles, Prince of Wales, officiated at the opening of the facility that bears his name.
The PWNHC holds in trust for the public a large collection of objects that represent the peoples and cultures of the NWT, and produces exhibitions that tell stories about the land, people and history of the NWT. However, the PWNHC is "more than a museum". In addition to its exhibits, collections and conservation programs, the PWNHC houses the NWT Archives, provides technical, logistic and financial support to individuals and organizations involved in cultural activities and the arts, and authorizes archaeological studies in the NWT.
The siting of Oodi opposite the Finnish parliament buildings was chosen to be symbolic of the relationship between the government and the populace, and act as a reminder of the Finnish Library Act’s mandate for libraries to promote lifelong learning, active citizenship, democracy and freedom of expression. It also places the new library in the heart of Helsinki’s cultural district, close to many of the capital’s great institutions. Oodi is a striking building with its glass and steel structures and wooden facade, its design a combination of traditional and contemporary flavours. The energy-efficient library is an impressive calling card for Finnish architecture.
Inle Lake Panoramic Sunrise
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Last but not least, a photography journey of life time for a trip to explore South Island of New Zealand and Africa.
.
My intended schedule may estimate about 1 month round trip self drive traveling down scenic Southern Island of New Zealand for completing the most captivating landscape photography and wander into the big five, the wilderness of untamed Africa nature for my project 2016 before my physical body stamina eventually drain off.
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enshrined at the side marble chapel (camarin) of the Basilica Minore del Santo Niño de Cebu.
The Augustinians are required to display the original image as mandated by Pope Paul VI when he elevated the San Agustin Church to Basilica Minore del Sto. Niño.
Le Domaine de Maizerets est un parc de 27 hectares situé au coeur de Limoilou. L'accès au parc est gratuit en tout temps et propose diverses activités à l'année longue.
La Société du domaine Maizerets est un organisme à but non lucratif mandaté par la Ville de Québec pour assurer la gestion de l'entretien et de l'animation du site.
Elle a pour mission de contribuer à mettre en valeur et à faire connaître les richesses naturelles, l'héritage patrimonial et historique du Domaine de Maizerets, en partenariat avec les intervenants du milieu, afin de le rendre accessible à la famille et à tous les groupes d'âges.
The Maizerets Estate is a 27-hectare park in the heart of Limoilou. Access to the park is free at all times and offers various activities throughout the year.
The Company Maizerets domain is a non-profit organization mandated by the City of Quebec to manage maintenance and animation of the site.
Its mission is to help develop and disseminate the natural, historical heritage and the heritage of the Domain Maizerets, in partnership with stakeholders, to make it accessible to the family and to all groups age.
I've been focused on bucks recently. Nature has no DEI mandates, but I need to shoot some does and fawns every once in awhile. This is a doe and last spring's fawn feeding on acorns in early morning light. Our beautiful world, pass it on.
The constitutional mandates of the Riksdag are enumerated in the Instrument of Government (Regeringsformen), and its internal workings are specified in greater detail in the Riksdag Act (Riksdagsordningen). The seat of the Riksdag is at Parliament House (Riksdagshuset), on the island of Helgeandsholmen in central Stockholm, in Gamla stan, the old town of Stockholm. The Riksdag has its institutional roots in the feudal Riksdag of the Estates, traditionally thought to have first assembled in Arboga in 1435. In 1866, following reforms of the 1809 Instrument of Government, that body was transformed into a bicameral legislature with an upper chamber (första kammaren) and a lower chamber (andra kammaren).
These old models of Mercedes were particularly popular with taxi drivers when I visited Beirut in 2004.
The model is either the W114 or W115 which was manufactured from the late 1960s to mid 1970s.
The architecture looks like it may date from the French Mandate period when Lebanon was ruled by France.
In early September the annual 'grain rush' was in full swing. CN G834-53-06, the third eastbound empty grain of the day running under the 834 symbol, is working on getting up to track speed on the Yale Sub after departing CN's Thornton Yard complex a few miles back. The sun's last rays of the evening are glinting off of the empty hoppers, and lighting up the clouds and haze over the city with a warm glow. Note that almost half of the visible hoppers are of the older 'government' cylindrical style, which are rapidly approaching their 50 year mandated lifespan.
Rather than post nothing but the wet and gloomy images I've been taking of late, I'm trying to intermingle some shots that didn't make the 'first cut' for posting in previous years.
The Zarzma Monastery of Transfiguration (Georgian: ზარზმის მონასტერი) is a medieval Orthodox Christian monastery located at the village of Zarzma in Samtskhe-Javakheti region, southwest Georgia.
The Zarzma monastery is nested in the forested river valley of Kvabliani in the Adigeni municipality, 30 km west of the city of Akhaltsikhe. It is the complex of a series of buildings dominated by a domed church and a belfry, one of the largest in Georgia.
The earliest church on the site was probably built in the 8th century, by the monk Serapion whose life is related in the hagiographic novel by Basil of Zarzma. According to his source, the great nobleman Giorgi Chorchaneli made significant donation – including villages and estates – to the monastery. The extant edifice dates from the early years of the 14th century, however. Its construction was sponsored by Beka I, Prince of Samtskhe and Lord High Mandator of Georgia of the Jaqeli family. What has survived from the earlier monastery is the late 10th-century Georgian inscription inserted in the chapel's entrance arch. The inscription reports the military aid rendered by Georgian nobles to the Byzantine emperor Basil II against the rebellious general Bardas Sclerus in 979. In 1544, the new patrons of the monastery – the Khursidze family – refurnished the monastery.
The façades of the church are richly decorated and the interior is frescoed. Apart from the religious cycles of the murals there are a series of portraits of the 14th-century Jaqeli family as well as of the historical figures of the 16th century. After the Ottoman conquest of the area later in the 16th century, the monastery was abandoned and lay in disrepair until the early 20th century, when it was reconstructed, but some of the unique characteristics of the design were lost in the process.
Currently, the monastery is functional and houses a community of Georgian monks. It is also the site of pilgrimage and tourism.
A smaller replica of the Zarzma church, known as Akhali Zarzma ("New Zarzma") is located in the same municipality, near Abastumani. It was commissioned by Grand Duke George Alexandrovich, a member of the Russian imperial family, from the Tbilisi-based architect Otto Jacob Simons who built it between 1899 and 1902, marrying a medieval Georgian design with the contemporaneous architectural forms. Its interior was frescoed by the Russian painter Mikhail Nesterov.
The 2010s saw lots of changes come to the US railroad scene. Two of the biggest were Genesee & Wyoming swallowing Rail America (and several other independent shortlines), and the government-mandated switch to Positive Train Control. The latter unfortunately prompted the Class 1s to begin a wholesale signal replacement, and many classic signal installations that harkened back to railroading's golden age were removed.
So here is a juxtaposition of two subjects that coexisted very briefly: G&W Orange and the C&O cantilever at Godfrey. Marquette Rail's original trio of SD40-2s (now #3389, #3390, and #3391) were making one of their first runs into Grand Rapids all together in their fresh G&W paint. The Godfrey signals were on borrowed time, only having a few months yet to live. Grand Rapids Eastern #3839 was also in the consist, looking tired by this point. It would get the orange dip the following Spring.
A viewing platform overlooks the foundations of the ruins of the village of Skálholt in southern Iceland, This archaeological site contains ruins from the 17th and 18th century. The unearthed structures include a dormitory, school, whey store, refectory, food store, meat store, children's room, kitchen, court, library and the Bishop's room. Other archeological excavation at Skálholt have discovered artifacts from the Middle Ages in Iceland.
For over 700 years Skálholt was a center of religion, culture and education in Iceland which makes it one of country´s most important historic sites. Norse settlers came to the area in the late 800a and early 900s (AD). In 1000 AD, New law mandated Christianity as the official religion of Iceland. The country’s first bishop, Ísleifur Gissurarson, ordained in 1056, made Skálholt the episcopal see of all Iceland (until another Episcopal see was created in Hólar in 1106 AD). Over the next 700 years several significant religious and cultural events would occur at Skálholt.
1- One of the most revered of the bishops residing at Skálholt duuring the middle ages was c (bishop 1178-1198), who became Iceland’s only saint.
2-For centuries after Bishop Þórhallsson’s death, people came on pilgrimage from all corners of Iceland to visit his relics in Skálholt.
3-During those medieval times, huge wooden cathedrals were built at Skálholt. These cathedrals drew many from across Iceland. Before the Reformation 32 Catholic Bishops sat at Skálholt.
4-During the mid 16th century, Icelanders, now under Danish rule, converted to Lutheranism.The Reformation came during turbulent times in Iceland. On November 7, 1550, Bishop Jón Arason along with his two sons, Björn and Ar, were beheaded at Skálholt. Arason who was the Bishop of Hólar had been the last remaining Catholic bishop in Iceland.
5-The translation of the Bible into Icelandic started in secrecy in a cow stall of Skálholt.
6-After the Reformation, one of the best known and most influential bishops of Skálholt was Brynjólfur Sveinsson (bishop 1639-1674), Highly respected for his learning, he collected old Icelandic manuscripts that help preserve history and the language. Under his direction, church members built a new wooden church at Skálholt, approximately the same size as the present Cathedral.
7-In all ten churches have stood at in Skálholt. Some measured larger and some smaller but all were built on the same basic foundations.
For centuries Skálholt was the actual capital of a rural society and the cultural and spiritual center of the country (together with Hólar in the North), figuring eminently in the cultural and church history. But after waning status of the bishop’s office, volcanic eruptions, a major earthquake and other disasters in the late 18th century the episcopal see and school were transferred to Reykjavík. Skálholt fell into disrepute.
In the mid-20th century Skálholt rose from ashes, due to its historical significance. The modern cathedral, consecrated in 1963, displays works of modern art, as well as for artifacts from previous churches on the site.
References:
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back in day of yore when boat traffic was heavy enough to mandate such a measure it was realistic. Today very little traffic goes up river that is large enough to cause the bridge to be raised. ( mostly large pleasure craft from up river marines) Since the advent of the micro-processor the bridge is no longer manned but controlled by the bridge operator on the rail bridge that crosses the Maumee river in Toledo 35 miles away. A phone call now is made to get bridge raised and lowered. Progress ? I wonder ! Job losses.....definitely. If people are not aware of this fact ; like those who want a 15 dollar an hour min wage will find themselves being replaced. The railroads proved it could be done. As a matter of fact They have it down to 1 person on the engine and he is only there for safety reasons. They now have about 200 people doing the work of agents and clerks that were needed system wide to cover the work now being done in a centralized location. ( they replaced thousands of people with the computer, I know because I was one of them ) fortunately I was right at retirement !
When the gov't mandate came out to shut NY down because of COVID-19, my employer allowed those of us that work on computers to take all of our hardware home and to continue working. There was no more OT, and I was allowed to work four 10 hour days to get my week in. This was great, as it allowed me to have Fridays off and a chance to chase one of the local short lines. I chased the GW-1 on two different Fridays and the LA&L on one. After that it was back to working OT and five 10 hour days, still from home. This was my first GW1 chase, with the 3032 and 879 and 12 cars passing through Pavilion, NY on March 27, 2020.
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What crazy times these are. These images were taken not quite two weeks ago before Europe (and more specifically Belgium) went into lockdown. We dithered at the time as to whether we should go but of course there was no mandate to shut Borders whilst we were there. That announcement came the day after our return. Our visit was much quieter and quite eerie with no crowds and no problem with maintaining social distancing.
I seem to have lost confidence and enthusiasm for photography (it's taken me 2 weeks to decide to post these) but it will provide some sort of focus for the coming months. At least we are going into longer and warmer days, and with the lack of air traffic over London and the Home Counties it's lovely to hear the birdsong again and reconnect with nature which in it's self is calming and reassuring.
Stay safe and healthy guys.
these are wildly protected in Florida..
the burrowing owl always lays its nest by burrowing it in the ground..
here this fella sits next to the driveway where the nest is.. . The owner cannot disturb it by mandate. pretty cool, huh?? .. i found this while working today :)
i been working non stop.. and am really tired.. I will have a little less work on Friday ,and the weekend.. hope to catch up with all of you my flickr family soon :)