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Priscilla showed up in our backyard thirteen years ago. She gave birth to six kittens in our garage. She was a wonderful mom. We helped care for and found homes for all her kittens. And we got her spayed. However we had several cats and could not take her in. She continued to live in our yard. We did give her food and a small shelter. She was a tough little cat who lived through many very cold winters. In 2020 after we had lost our indoor cats we took her in. She got to at least live the last few years of her life in a warm safe house. Rest in peace my little feral angel, I will miss you <3
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This is dedicated to Betelgeuse. Rumour has it, it exploded and we'll see the evidence one day soon. Or not. In any event? This is for you, most strangely named star who might or might not be gone. Oh and also? Happy Gorgeous Green Thursday.
Rheydt / Mönchengladbach / North Rhine-Westphalia / Germany
Album of Germany (the west): www.flickr.com/photos/tabliniumcarlson/albums/72157713209...
Album of Mönchengladbach: www.flickr.com/photos/tabliniumcarlson/albums/72157714085...
Album of "Doors Of The World": www.flickr.com/photos/tabliniumcarlson/albums/72157625999...
Cattails sway about madly as extreme winds blow in behind a late autumn cold front. I love experiencing rapid weather changes brought on by storms. There's a feeling of disarray, both in the landscape and sky, as air masses collide. Vast amounts of energy are released in the process, an abundant source of creative motivation just waiting to be tapped.
Out in this open meadow, the gusty wind was whipping everything around me into a continuous blur. Very difficult to focus the eye on any one thing when everything is in motion. Photography truly becomes more of a shoot by feel process rather than one of looking through viewfinder. As is often the case, I'm responding more to how the scene makes me feel rather than how it actually looks.
The cattails delineate an impassable boundary for me. Stems from an irrational fear of snakes. Even as a child, I equated cattails with marshes and wetlands and a high probability of harboring snakes. Even with snakes in hibernation in this freezing cold air, the tangle of overgrowth and the certainty of sinking into mud in the still soft earth was more than enough to deter me. Still I lingered on the verge; the scene almost comically bleak, the sky a dark shade or murder gray.
Close up image from one of our favourite west coast beaches. A gorgeous calm night with clouds closing in the beach. Not the prettiest lighthouse but distinct and interesting shape of the rock.
Grid of windows at a local industrial building - captured with a phone.
#orange #brick #window #grid #architecture #decay #grunge #leadinglines #squares #building #urbanphotography #urbanart #square #pattern #texture #abstract #creative
I love this little string of reindeer and Santa, but only just noticed it's 9 tiny reindeer instead of 8! Maybe one is Rudolph! :)
taken back in November, 2011 at Fort Funston while my daughters enjoyed their time at the local San Francisco zoo.
She lied to me, she didn't tell me everything
She lied to me, the woman didn't tell me everything
Well you know its nine below zero cousin, she put me down
For another man
Sonny Boy Williamson II
1951
Image is 1 7/8 inches wide
I went rummaging around in the archives for something a little different. I think this qualifies.
From The National Wildlife Federation:
"The nine-banded is the only one of 20 armadillo species worldwide found in the United States. The term “armadillo” means “little armored one” in Spanish, and refers to the presence of bony, armor-like plates covering their body. Despite their name, nine-banded armadillos can have 7 to 11 bands on their armor. Nine-banded armadillos are found in the southeastern United States, but their range has been expanding continually northward for more than a hundred years. A few have even been spotted as far north as Illinois and Nebraska. These armadillos are generalist feeders and use their sense of smell to track down almost 500 different foods, most of which are invertebrates such as beetles, cockroaches, wasps, yellow jackets, fire ants, scorpions, spiders, snails, and white grubs. A lesser part of the diet is comprised of small reptiles and amphibians as well as eggs of reptiles and birds. Less than 10 percent of the diet is from fruit, seeds, fungi, and other plant matter."
We found this one in Aransas National Wildlife Refuge, Texas.
The last nine rough-hewn fenceposts of a sporadic and forgotten fenceline, trailing fencing wire, stretch across the sandy soil of a wide desert arroyo to end abruptly among the joshua trees and dry brush. Someone in the distant past, likely long before the arrival of the houses on the hilltop, invested in the hard work of transporting the posts and sinking them into the ground—not an easy task—but the purpose and importance of this truncated fenceline, ending in the emptiness of open country, is a mystery.
Camera: Vesna (весна) 2 (1964-1966, with T-43 40mm f/4 lens, static.wikia.nocookie.net/camerapedia/images/b/bc/Vesna_2...). A compact little 35mm viewfinder camera made by MMZ in Minsk, Belarus. "Vesna" translates from Russian as "Spring," and "весна" is the Russian spelling. Perhaps the most singular feature of the Vesna is its format: though it is a 35mm camera, its images are 24mm x 32mm instead of the common 24 x 36. It's one of the few cameras which use this format, sometimes called the "nippon" format because it became briefly popular after World War II among four Japanese camera makers (Minolta, Nikon, Tokyo Kogaku, and Olympus) to accomodate a nation-wide shortage of film stock.
Film: 35mm Kodak Shellburst 346 (expired 1966). Like the Kodak Linagraph Shellburst 2476 I used for my January 127 Day image this year, the Shellburst 346 was originally developed for military use in recording aerial shell explosions, and came from Adam Paul's ClassicFilmShop on Etsy. Developed in Arista Liquid Developer (1+9) for 6:10 minutes @ 71 degrees, and scanned with an Epson V600 scanner.
one domino is one and three-quarters of an inch wide.
Something I picked up on a junk stall in Morges; they come in a beautiful polished wooden box with etched inlays in an oriental design, made of the same material as the top of each piece -
it looks like ivory but on closer inspection I think it's more likely to be bakelite ;-)
The Nine Arches Bridge between Demodara and Ella stations in Sri Lanka provides the “cliché shot”
For some inexplicable reason, the viaduct has become a fixture on tourist itineraries. At the end of the bridge there is even a notice displaying the railway time-table, so visits are arranged to coincide with the passage of the trains.
They certainly had an unexpected bonus when our charter train steamed sedately over the bridge.
Sri Lanka. February 2020. © David Hill