Happy Bench Monday as well :)

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Middle River was nearly a mirror on this interesting evening with the clouds.

Late day over Middle River. The low fog there added some really great mood there along the horizon line.

Extra long exposure capturing the moments there as the day was ending in Middle River.

Late hour after sunset just as some nice magenta hues were treated to my daughter and I as we were photographing on Middle River. She is there on my Dad's pier setting up and taking a capture. I was on another pier capturing her capturing :))

Middle spotted woodpecker (Leiopicus medius) perched on a branch.

Dzięcioł średni (Leiopicus medius) siedzący na gałęzi.

Captured with the 6 Stop ND Filter

Low fog in the late evening along the river.

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High Tide Happy Bench Monday

Macro Mondays ~half way point

Smoothing out the water and reflection just a little here with the 6 Stop ND

Middle Fork of the Tule River

Taken in our garden at Bexhill-on-Sea, East Sussex this Spring.

Crocus (plural: crocuses or croci) is a genus of flowering plants in the iris family comprising 90 species of perennials growing from corms. Many are cultivated for their flowers appearing in autumn, winter, or spring. Crocuses are native to woodland, scrub, and meadows from sea level to alpine tundra in central and southern Europe, North Africa and the Middle East, on the islands of the Aegean, and across Central Asia to western China.

The name of the genus is derived from the Greek κρόκος (krokos). This, in turn, is probably a loan word from a Semitic language, related to Hebrew כרכום karkōm, Aramaic ܟܟܘܪܟܟܡܡܐ kurkama, and Arabic كركم kurkum, which mean "saffron" ( Crocus sativus), "saffron yellow" or turmeric (see Curcuma). The English name is a learned 16th-century adoption from the Latin, but Old English already had croh "saffron". The Classical Sanskrit कुङ्कुमं kunkumam "saffron" (Sushruta Samhita) is presumably also from the Semitic word.

Cultivation and harvesting of Crocus sativus for saffron was first documented in the Mediterranean, notably on the island of Crete. Frescos showing them are found at the Knossos site on Crete, as well as from the comparably aged Akrotiri site on Santorini.

The first crocus seen in the Netherlands, where crocus species are not native, were from corms brought back in the 1560s from Constantinople by the Holy Roman Emperor's ambassador to the Sublime Porte, Ogier Ghiselin de Busbecq. A few corms were forwarded to Carolus Clusius at the botanical garden in Leiden. By 1620, the approximate date of Ambrosius Bosschaert's painting (illustration, below), new garden varieties had been developed, such as the cream-colored crocus feathered with bronze at the base of the bouquet, similar to varieties still on the market. Bosschaert, working from a preparatory drawing to paint his composed piece spanning the whole of spring, exaggerated the crocus so that it passes for a tulip, but its narrow, grass-like leaves give it away.

For further information please visit en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crocus

foraging on one of our old apple trees. It's rather difficult to identify the gender of middle spotted woodpeckers, at least in my opinion.

Mittelspecht - Leiopicus medius

Darmstadt - Steinbrücker Teich

Long exposure there as the day ended and the light was fading. No ND filters were needed at this time.

I love reading so this was a perfect project for In the Middle @ Crazy Tuesday

The mix of tones from blue hour sky, city lights on the clouds and the low fog, made for an amazing evening on the river.

A one-second exposure of the Middle Falls on the Genesee River in Letchworth State Park, New York.

Heard the boat speeding up the river and composed on a spot in the river with the pretty light and then waited for it to speed into the frame to take the capture. The shutter speed at 1/60 second helps show how fast that boat was moving up the river.

A BNSF Railway office car special rolls along the Middle Fork of the Flathead River west of Stanton Creek, Mont., on March 24, 2023.

Capture made while flying low over Middle River.

Happy Bench Magenta Monday.

Last one at least for a while from Middle Mashel, I think it's worth a second comp. They have gone out of their way to make this amazing place accessible yet there are signs all along the trail reminding you that two people died here last year climbing around it. Let's be careful out there.

It seems my internet bug has returned, I can see my peeps page, but when I try to look at pics I get a blank screen. Can't see the pick above this either. please stand by...... grrrrrr...

Here is another capture I took of the neat rainbow there that formed recently at sunset as it was sprinkling there on the river. Captured with the 6 Stop ND.