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Marking another trip around the sun, while watching the sunrise, at the House of the Sun! What a gift it was for me to be able to witness the most spectacular sunrise that morning. I think of words to describe what I felt in those moments. Grateful? Reverence? A reverential gratitude? I come up short every time. At this point, I decided to just turn off the camera and take it all in, as I set my intentions for the coming new year. On that note, may your 2017 be filled with inner peace and a feeling of abundance that knows no depletion.
Scent marking by lions plays an important role in territorial advertising. Male lions will back up against some convenient vegetation and eject squirts and spray of pungent smelling urine against the foliage. Taken at Masai Mara ,Kenya
Marking trees! Black bears of all ages and both sexes rub their scent on marking trees, including wooden sign posts and utility poles, but the majority of this marking is by mature males during the mating season (May and June in Minnesota). They rub their shoulders, neck and crown and may also claw and bite the tree. Claw marks are usually superficial, but incisor bites are deep enough that pieces of bark and wood are sometimes pulled out. Bites leave nearly horizontal marks that look like a dot and a dash where the upper and lower canine teeth came together.
Marking trees are generally along trails. Favorite trees have little ground vegetation to prevent a bear from approaching them, and they often lean slightly toward the trail.
I have no idea which fungus this is, but I thought it quite striking with its strong chestnut colouring and black markings!
The stump is that patch of greyish brown in the middle!
WEEK 3Artistic: LandYour inspiration this week is land. This could be a landscape, or an image inspired by the land in some way.
Wolves mark their territory using scent and sound. They urinate and defecate at various points throughout the territory, with increased frequency along the borders. They also scratch with all four paws next to these markings - this is not to make their paw-prints look bigger as someone suggested, but to add scent from glands between the toes and to draw attention to the scent with the scrape-marks.
Just something of a conceptual piece. I took the image of these trees coming out of the fog more 4 years ago. I was inspired by one of my amazing friends drkwyst , and his gorgeous "folded paper" technique. He as several with this idea going on and it is worth the look through his stream to check those and other pieces.
I also had this marvelous texture image I came across sometime back of the side of a train...Polish I think it was....which had these makings, and I've never been able to figure out a way to use it until now. Well I had some time to kill before the feasting began (Thanksgiving for the non- American crowd)....so put this together. And no....I don't know what the markings stand for. I did try and find out but.....to no avail.
Have a good one.
What RAF Squadrons used to look like and still should!. Tornado on approach for runway 23 at RAF Lossiemouth.July 1990. Scanned from a Kodachrome 64 slide.
Markings: as Second World War Luftwaffe Junkers Ju-52/3m, RJ+NP
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Three BMW 132A-3 nine-cylinder 27.7-litre supercharged radials, 725-hp each - licensed version of Pratt & Whitney R-1690 Hornet
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Sinsheim Auto & Technik Museum
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Olympus PEN Lite E-PL5 + Olympus M.14-42mm F3.5-5.6 II R
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I often complain about the amount of marking I do e.g. 94 essays over the holidays, another 32 to mark this week along side 20 jotters or so. But then that's 3 classes. It's nice to look back on photos like this and think at least I don't have 70 in my class!
It seems that children like to be graded the world over.
While I seldom take photos of sparrows, this one caught my attention with its dramatic markings. The gray crown, the deep rust colored feathering and the dark mottled breast were of particular note.
Small tortoiseshell
The small tortoiseshell (Aglais urticae) is a colourful Eurasian butterfly in the family Nymphalidae. Adults feed on nectar and may hibernate over winter; in warmer climates they may have two broods in a season. While the dorsal surface of the wings is vividly marked, the ventral surface is drab, providing camouflage. Eggs are laid on the common nettle, on which the larvae feed.
Description
It is a medium-sized butterfly that is mainly reddish orange, with black and yellow markings on the forewings as well as a ring of blue spots around the edge of the wings. It has a wingspan ranging from 4.5 to 6.2 cm.[1]
Technical description
A bright foxy red ground-colour; the forewing with 3 black costal spots, whose interspaces are yellow, there being a larger black spot in the middle of the hindmarginal area and two smaller ones in the disc between the 3 radial and 2 median; hindwing with the basal half black; both wings with black submarginal band bearing blue spots. Underside of the forewing ochreous, with the costal spots as above, the apex and distal margin blackish; hindwing brown, basal half black with dentate edge, the whole surface with darker pencilling; at the distal margin of both wings contiguous dull blue lunules.[2]
The small tortoiseshell is the national butterfly of Denmark.[3]
Range
It is found throughout temperate Europe, Asia Minor, Central Asia, Siberia, China, Nepal, Sikkim Himalayas in India, Mongolia, Korea and Japan, wherever common nettle, which their larvae feed on, is found. There are a few records from New York City which, however, are believed to be of introduced insects.
Sturminster Newton Market: 1219 - 1997.
Close to where the S&DJR station once stood.
"History isn't what you thought, but can remember".
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www.dorsetlife.co.uk/2012/08/sturminster-newton-anything-...
A close up of her facial markings. I decided not to change her eyes or make up because it fits her look so well.
An appropriately named beetle, it does a similar job as a sexton of a church, it's responsible for burying dead rodents and birds, to feed their young. T hey lay a brood next to the corpse. They also act as a taxi service for several species of phoretic mites, who cling on to the beetle, and depart when they arrive at a new carcass! This beetle and it's passengers were attracted to the kitchen lights, and were a pleasant surprise recently! Potentially Nicrophorus vespilloides?
On a visit to Willowbank wild life park with a Flickr friend September 2019 Christchurch, New Zealand.
Although there are claims that the Damara breed of sheep originated in Egypt as long ago as 3000 BC, its recognition as a named breed is more realistically dated to the early twentieth century. In 1904, this long-legged sheep breed was seen by German explorers in the northern region of Namibia, which was then called Gross Damaland – hence it became known as the Damara Sheep. At one time, local farmers who used copper in their traditional attire, exchanged Damara Sheep for copper wire and for horses.
For More Info: www.rarebreeds.co.nz/damara.html
Founded by the Willis family more than four decades ago, Willowbank is still owned and operated by members of the founding family. With more than 120 000 annual visitors, and growing, Willowbank is popular with local, national and international visitors.
New Zealand’s most comprehensive NZ themed wildlife park, the Willowbank experience tells the story of our country’s natural heritage. Using pioneering and innovative display techniques, with an emphasis on creating a natural environment and an up-close and personal interactive experience, Willowbank showcases one of New Zealand’s best displays of native species. Willowbank was the first to open a glass-free nocturnal house for kiwi in a natural environment, guaranteeing viewings every time.
Willowbank is a New Zealand leader in conservation, with success in many national, Australasian and in-house breeding programmes focusing on New Zealand native and endangered species, as well as many rare and heritage breeds of farm stock. Scientific research projects, and local partners including the Department of Conservation, the Styx River Living Laboratory, the Rare Breeds Society, the NZ Conservation Trust and the South Island Wildlife Hospital, are supported by and work alongside Willowbank.
For More Info: www.willowbank.co.nz/about-us/history/
We all love cedar waxwings. I think it's due to the pleasing brown color, the facial mask and the yellow and red accents in the feathers. Here, during take off, we see those accents in a slightly different perspective.
This is at Cherry Creek State Park, Colorado, on the main road, at a pull out below the administrative office. Don't go crazy looking, since I've seen three waxwings there in ten-years.
We marked the pitch: four jackets for four goalposts,
That was all. The corners and the squares
Were there like longitude and latitude
Under the bumpy ground, to be
Agreed about or disagreed about
When the time came. And then we picked the teams
And crossed the line our called names drew between us.
Youngsters shouting their heads off in a field
As the light died and they kept on playing
Because by then they were playing in their heads
And the actual kicked ball came to them
Like a dream heaviness, and their own hard
Breathing in the dark and skids on grass
Sounded like effort in another world…
It was quick and constant, a game that never need
Be played out. Some limit had been passed,
There was fleetness, furtherance, untiredness
In time that was extra, unforeseen and free.
A Trig point at the North edge of Rowley Wood/Bunny Hill, Seabridge, Newcastle under Lyme, Staffordshire
Tepu' showing us some of her prized tattoos decorating both her arms and legs. The nature of tattooing among indigenous tribes in Sarawak is a long and varied one outside of this scope, but among Kelabit women, tattoos used to be a measure of class and a symbol of beauty. Nowadays the practice is almost non-existent among younger generations.
Part of a visit with Beken Ayu.
Rumah Labang, Kelabit Highlands, Sarawak, Malaysia, 2009
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