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"He who gives you many dreams is a great master, and the foggy weather is such a master!"
- Mehmet Murat ildan
I have lived with several Zen masters -- all of them cats.
~ Eckhart Tolle
I am very busy this week but will do my best to keep up with all of you.
This cat belongs to my friend Chris: www.flickr.com/photos/97556096@N06
Kario Flex Body available from the Inithium Mainstore:
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Also available at the Inithium Event:
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Wearing FAIDA
Max t-shirt is rigged for Legacy and Kario Fit, Flex and Flat and comes with a HUD and choice of designs. It is also compatible with Faida Derek pants.
Pick your t-shirt up from the Dubai Event: maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Horizon%20Beach/124/120/23
Kea showing respect for her Master.
Kea posted an alternate shot which you can view here.
Monarchs Kingdom - Corpse 3, Hell Gate Keeper
Quills & Curiosities - Inimicus Horns
Great Potoo - Wild - At Pantanal - MT.
With its characteristic drawn-out moaning growl, the vocalizations of the Great Potoo are among the most exciting and perhaps most unsettling nocturnal sounds in the Neotropics. Apart from its vocalizations, the Great Potoo is an intriguing species. Great Potoos are nocturnal and feed on large flying insects, and occasionally bats, which they capture in sallies from a high perch. During the day, they remain motionless in mimic of broken tree branches. The Great Potoo is distributed throughout humid and semihumid forested habitats in Central and South America. Across this vast region, there is little geographic variation in size or in plumage; two subspecies sometimes are recognized, but these do not differ greatly from each other. Despite the lack of conspicuous geographic variation, populations on either side of the Andes have been found to be very distinct genetically. This level of divergence is similar to the genetic divergence found between other species of potoo, pointing the possibility for ‘cryptic’ species within the Great Potoo lineage. neotropical.birds.cornell.edu/Species-Account/nb/species/...
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Using the "Skull" and its shadow this time to create this Master of Dreams with its open mind;-))
Happy Sliders Sunday!!
“More than ninety-five percent of your brain activity, as you consciously read this sentence, is being used by your subconscious mind.”
Quote ― Kevin Michel, Moving Through Parallel Worlds To Achieve Your Dreams
BOB DYLAN : MASTERS OF WAR (with lyrics)
Bob Dylan - Masters of War (The Avener Rework)
Bob Dylan - Masters of War (Official Audio)
Peace to the Ukraine 💙💛
Les objectifs à très grandes ouvertures, souvent appelés les “bokeh masters”, font rêver. Ultra lumineux, ils permettent de travailler en basse lumière, créer une profondeur de champ très réduite et magnifier un sujet en développant un flou en avant/arrière très prononcé.
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Very wide aperture lenses, often called “bokeh masters”, are the stuff of dreams. Ultra-bright, they allow you to work in low light, create a very shallow depth of field and magnify a subject by developing a very pronounced front-to-back blur.
“Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, but today is a gift. That is why it is called the present” - Master Oogway
Galápagos giant tortoise, chelonoidis niger is given a black and white conversion to enhance the swirls and patterns on its textured head. #edit
… that, and the focus was just a little on the soft side + camera shake.
Photographed Australia Zoo, 2023
This came flying at me - about 2" long. It was eating the tiny wildflowers in my yard. Casa Grande, AZ. April 2020
A spotted scorpionfish, Scorpaena plumieri, sits motionless on a knob of coral, watching divers go past.
This fish develops many intricate and elaborate excrescences and color patterns that break up the normal lines of a fish. Take a look at higher resolution.
I am indebted to my fellow divers who find this and other camouflaged residents of the reef--I can't find them myself, but my friends (Mike, Ed, Tina, Markus) wait for me to catch up and point out the treasures.
The Grayling is the UK’s largest brown butterfly and a master of camouflage! The mottled brown under wings enable the Grayling to blend in with the background. They always rest with their wings closed, and can regulate their body temperature by orienting its body in relation to the sun. This tactic can also help in increasing camouflage by angling their wings to cast less of a shadow.
Graylings can be found flying along dry, sandy heathland tracks from July to mid-September. They can also be found at coastal sites.
Graylings have eye spots on their wings which enables them to surprise would-be predators.
Adult graylings will take nectar from a range of sources, including bell heather and brambles. Caterpillar Foodplants
include Sheep's-fescue (Festuca ovina), Red Fescue (F. rubra), Bristle Bent (Agrostis curtisii), and Early Hair-grass (Aira praecox). Coarser grasses such as Tufted Hair-grass (Deschampsia cespitosa) and Marram (Ammophila arenaria) are occasionally used.
The Grayling is widespread on the coast and southern heaths but is declining in many areas, particularly inland. Many colonies occur on coastal habitats such as; dunes, saltmarsh, undercliffs and clifftops. There are inland colonies on habitats including; dry heathland, chalk grassland, old quarries, earthworks, derelict industrial sites - such as old spoil heaps and very occasionally in open woodland on stony ground.
Petrovskaya embankmentis located in the oldest part of St. Petersburg. It appeared in what was then the city centre in the 1700s as the first embankment of St. Petersburg. Peter the Great"s house (today, the Cabin of Peter the Great Museum) was built in 1703. Houses of his associates such as Y. V. Bruce and M. P. Gagarin were situated nearby. P. P. Shafirov"s house (not preserved) accommodated the Petersburg Academy of Arts in 1724-27. The embankment was built up with storehouses from the 1730s.
The Neva is a river in northwestern Russia flowing from Lake Ladoga through the western part of Leningrad Oblast (historical region of Ingria) to the Neva Bay of the Gulf of Finland. Despite its modest length of 74 kilometres (46 mi), it is the fourth largest river in Europe in terms of average discharge (after the Volga, the Danube and the Rhine).