She is just an ordinary blue hibiscus.

Okay, it's not actually within our backyard, but it's just beyond it. The yard behind our house borders a large park that is just being developed. The park was recently seeded, and the straw was put down as mulch. I took this shot while standing on our backyard deck. I think these Sandhill Cranes must have been eating the grass seed.

I know that there's not a lot going on in this image. But I rather like the repetitive poses of the birds, and I thought it was kind of cool that I could get this shot without leaving home, so I decided to go with it. The abundance of Sandhill Cranes in the area near our new home in Michigan has been one of the pleasant surprises of living here.

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A nice painting portraying life in the country, how it should be.

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barcelona commercial port

Not as sharp as I would like, but still nice to catch.

Westlock County, Alberta.

I had my Nikon resting on the picnic table and snake just slithered on by it and down the other side of the table.

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Sorry - but the evening light was so changing - just processed this one and really like the colours and textures. Cable Beach, Broome. Western Australia.

A mulberry on our tree. We have already picked quite a few but a few remain still to ripen.

For the Macro Mondays theme: fruit. Width 2.5 in.

HMM and happy new week!

The White Ibis can only hope for some shrimp scraps from this juvenile Reddish Egrets catch.

Juvenile Little Blue Heron

Tune ♥

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Credits ♥

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Looking a little bit tacky here but this Robin is over two years old now which is a good age for a Robin. Always hanging around in the same area in one of my nature reserves I often go to visit. Ever since I first spotted this as a juvenile there has always been a dark patch below the right eye that is still there to this day. My little friend here has become very tame and always so very photogenic and hopefully will be around a bit longer yet. In the 1400's when the Robin was named the colour orange had not been classified and this is why we say that the Robin has a red breast and not orange. America has an eagle so it's about time the UK had the Robin as its national bird !!!!!!

Just sparkling water for Macro Mondays - Bubbles

Niet eetbaar is de bes van de lelie van dalen

Honesty

.....the ONLY policy!!

Honesty (Lunaria) - in my garden and in my heart. With the latter, unlike the former, it doesn't just appear in spring, there are no stages, no tweaking, no compromises and no exceptions, it is a guiding Light, Take it or leave it.

In the times of inversion and great deceit in which we live, a world where lies are the accepted norm, from the very top down and throughout all media, then speaking the truth is considered a subversive act ..... or at least it soon will be.

It is an interesting contemplation that honesty and truth are not necessarily synonymous. Truth by definition is honest, but without honesty that which is true can be difficult to discern.

This flower also has lovely papery white seed pods that the sun shines through and illuminates in autumn.

Not me :)

Goes to the model :*

"Not shy!" ;-)))

/seen @ Esbjerg N, Esberg, Region Syddanmark - Denmark

Hmmmm.... you know who you are :-D

Tune

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This was taken in the city of York I liked the little bridge and the reflections.

Oddly enough I have no idea what the bridge is called nor do I recall exactly where I was in the city when I took the shot . Some of you will know York well I think this was taken somewhere near the Merchants Adventurers Hall . Its definitely not Venice

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Not for us humans, but at least for the squirrels in the Bürgerpark Bremen.

Das Restaurant ist geöffnet

Nicht für uns Menschen, aber wenigstens für die Eichhörnchen im Bürgerpark Bremen

Played around with the levels and introduced a little radial blurring to create this. One of the dodgy shots my 28-75 was producing all morning!

HSS!

Elderly speed-walker on Peninsula Road, Old Mission Peninsula.(Don't walk too fast--you'll miss the beautiful scenery haha).

All civilised people stand with Ukraine. 💙💛

“Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent.” (Isaac Asimov)

Amias :

🎵🎵 Skillet - "Not Gonna Die" 🎵🎵

A long exposure, landscape image of a mossy covered rock in the sand on the beach at Hopeman in Morayshire, Scotland.

Not your typical high school portrait.

Another take on goatsbeard from last week.

" You are not alone

I’ve been here the whole time singing you a song

I will carry you, I will carry you

I know you can’t remember how to shine

Your heart’s a bird without the wings to fly

Is anybody out there?

Can you take this weight of mine?

Is anybody out there?

Can you lead me to the light?

You are not alone

I’ve been here the whole time singing you a song

I will carry you, I will carry you... "

- Ruelle -

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Mike is breaking up a beaver barracade using a rope and metal hooks. The beaver built this barracade but Mike broke it up because it was blocking the passage way for the kayakers.

Exile :

Temptress @🚕 Epiphany 🚕

looking up in the night time sky, 7500ft above sea level, not much light pollution to drown out the stars.

Not the first to be seen this year but the first one I have photographed.

Arches National Park in Moab, Utah is full of unique and photogenic geologic formations. Beyond the park's namesake formations, there are several reefs, buttes, balanced rocks, and otherworldly sights.

This rock. precariously balanced on a spire atop one of the reefs along the main park road is not, to my knowledge, a named formation, but it is approximately a half-mile from the three closely grouped spires known as the gossips. To my eye, this formation has the appearance of a proper, though somewhat stiff, woman looking off into the distance as if annoyed by the gossipy sisters down the road.

The second park I visited (though my day in Canyonlands National Park was photographically tangential at best) among Utah's vaunted Mighty 5 National Parks, Arches is the spot that spurred my interest in travel and landscape photography. If you get the opportunity to visit Moab, I absolutely recommend several days here.

Since 2 years now I moved away from Adobe Ransonware, I am wondering if I should go back. Sometime I feel On1 is not rendering image like LR/PS was doing. For now I save 16$ a month for 2 years. May be I should do a trial an see where LR/PS are now, I still can use ON1 as a addon.

Not sure if LR has now the luminosity mask like ON1.

Not welcome.

A red tailed hawk greeted rudely by a peregrine falcon, on a cloudy morning (the Pacific Ocean is in the bg).

The red tail landed in the peregrine territory and was quickly attacked by both resident falcons. The hawk left, got away unharmed this time but I've seen the peregrines take down the much larger hawk.

This tiny praying mantis was hanging out on the table outside at our friend’s house. To ensure his longevity I decided to move him to a safer place in the trees. When I put my hand out he happily walked on and of course photos had to be taken (which weren't entirely easy with only one hand available!).

I was blown away with his amazing movements which were also rather entertaining. He started on a walk up my arm, stopping for a quick prayer then some crazy head twisting. I’m pretty sure it turned 180° for cleaning (I think) or maybe he just enjoy contorting his body! In one photo he is barely recognisable as a praying mantis.

When I went to put him on a tree he wasn't terribly happy to go. After I had encouraged him to get on the plant he stretched out towards me almost like he didn’t want me to go. So I put my hand out again and what do you know he leapt back onto me. I had a new friend! And I found out that praying mantis can jump.

Eventually I had to socialise with humans so found another tree and encouraged him to alight again then wished him a fond farewell. Feeling uplifted by the experience.

Not the best time of year to visit the Fairy Pools. This reflection was the best light I could get on any of my shots. The majority of the shots including the usual vista were rather flat as everything was in shadows all day.

What speaks most against visiting these pools during that time of year was the way there. I was more lucky than anything else that I didn't end up off the road as others I passed. The passing places were so deep in snow that you just had to push through at speed and hope for the best. Esprecially you had to hope that you encountered other cars only at a passing place when heading up.

One single pink rose among the yellow/orange variety elsewhere. Sometimes I think Mother Nature adds her own touch here and there.