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It's pouring rain, stifling and blowing the dog off the chain — time to bring the photographic subject indoors. The hibiscus season is almost over and the flowers are withered, wet and shredded. But wait, there in the dense shrub there's one. Quickly cut, remove insects, stick stem into some water in a wine bottle. Open the curtains wide, set the flower, camera and tripod up, and forget there's another night and day of boisterous La Nina weather. And here it is, the last flame hibiscus of the summer.

and of course we had rain and wind and now many are on the ground...

from my garden...

 

Thank you for your visit and I hope you like this image... because of this busy time of year, I am forced to disabled the comments....

Stay well and keep clicking, my friends!!!

New year, new self portrait. Happy New Year everyone!

碧巖錄, The Blue Cliff Record, is a compilation of Chan Buddhist koans and commentary by Yuanwu Keqin (in Japanese, Engo), c. 1135, combining a few earlier collections. Koans are brief, puzzling anecdotes, often humorous and/or ironic, which generations of Zen students have used to free their minds.

On the switchback road to Sunrise Washington, in Mt. Rainier National Park.

9 Dec 2021; Noon CST; Velvia +

The Aviary was originally a Buckminister Fuller inspired geodesic dome which served as the Winston Churchill Pavilion during the 1964 World’s Fair. It was subsequently transformed into the colorful habitat that we know today.

 

I took too many pictures to put in a collage... so this first batch is just the inside beauty of this aviary... next batch will be the birds I captured!!

 

I hope you enjoy the walk!!

Curly was bought 7/2018... along with Larry and Moe... sadly, Moe who was wonderful died last year from some disease that infected the pond...

And the little yellow Butterfly is Butter... we bought her 6/2020 along with Peanut and Jelly.... Jelly also died from the same disease that killed Moe...

Morgennebel auf dem auf dem Wasser.

Flowers are the sweetest things God ever made, and forgot to put a soul into. ~Henry Beecher

Large group of elephants having an absolute BLAST in a local mud hole. It was pretty dry at Hluhluwe- Lmfolozi safari park. It badly needed much more rain, but these beautiful creatures were living in the moment and it was wonderful to see.

 

It was supremely hot! Elephants bathe in mud to cool down their bodies due to very few sweat glands. They struggle to regulate their temperature so the mud acts as a natural sunscreen, protecting their skin from the harsh sunlight while also providing a barrier against insects and parasites.

 

Photographed in Hluhluwe-Lmfolozi National Park, Kwazulu Natal, South Africa

at Frank Melville Park...

The Jay Pritzker Pavilion

Millennium Park

Chicago, IL.

I've been posting nothing but predatory birds and redlit flowers for some time, so as a fresh alternative here's a portrait of my friend Maryam from a shoot we did some time ago. For anyone interested, the light is daylight, location was a hut in some gardens

As I like this short by Adam Goldberg (actor, cinéaste,and artist)

and although the title doesn't have any direct reference with my latest granddaughter, I find this short very beautifully shot!

wepresent.wetransfer.com/story/adam-goldberg/

taken at Bayard Cutting Arboretum...

czj pancolar 50mm f/1.8

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