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The oportunitis ... not finished and abandoned.We visit it from time to time. very seldom but the uninvited very often!
Sanderlings catching some rays and Zs on Opal Beach, Gulf Islands National Seashore near Pensacola, Florida.
There are three that are missing... August, who we bought last August and hid for a year, finally came out and is now eating and swimming with the big guys... and we just bought Fred & Barney.... now they are hiding, which is strange, but hope to see them soon...
Come on all my Flickr friends, let's stop the hate and start the friendship and come together and embrace our differences!!
Thank you for your kind visit. Have a wonderful and beautiful day! ❤️❤️❤️
Meet our new family member, Dr. Zhivago, Ziggy for short,
We adopted him on Monday I wish we could have taken his brother as well,
He looks so much like our beloved Phil,
Please see Phil when he was the same age.
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Yesterday I was too busy to place this photos for the Happy Caturday group. But I hope these pictures of Vaska will make many cat lovers to smile.
Thank you all for visits, favs and comments, it's greatly appreciated!
I won't forget the way you held me up when I was down
And I won't forget the way you said
"Darling I love you", you gave me faith to go on
Now we're there and we've only just begun
Took a long time to come ..♫
the indefatigable
two things about Charlie
1 - He is always enthusiastic and upbeat - hence his aka - "Mr Happy Tail"
2 - He cares very much for his big brother Marcel
Happy Caturday :-)
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Comme un enfant!
Une de mes plus belles rencontres photo de ma vie! Je me suis sentie excitée comme un enfant. Cette maman ours noir se promenait sur la voie ferroviaire en ma direction lorsque je l'ai aperçue. Je me suis donc accroupie pour la laisser continuer en ma direction. Quelle surprise j'ai eu lorsqu'elle s'est mise à marcher directement sur la rail en y posant chaque pieds (vous savez, comme on a tous fait étant enfant, les bras en croix, et en se donnant le défi de garder l'équilibre et de ne pas poser le pied à côté du rail?!) Et bien, elle aussi se sentait comme un enfant faut croire. J'ai tellement rit en voyant cette scène! Malgré sa grosseur, elle a réussie sans difficulté à faire plusieurs pas de cette façon! Je suis restée quelques minutes en sa présence, jusqu`à ce qu'elle soit si près que je me suis dit: "Ouin, faudrait peut-être que je recule un peu..." Mais quelques instants avant que je m'exécute, elle a elle-même choisi de m'éviter et est entrée dans le boisé! Cette photo est non recadrée, prise à un focale de 500mm. Je vous présenterai la photo de son jeu d'enfant prochainement!
Belted kingfisher (male). He seems to think there is something comical about me, as he flies by laughing that laugh. At
Wildwood Lake, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania.
Thank you for the visit!
1/1000 sec. f/6.3 600mm ISO320
On our evening walk, we finished up near the Cliffords Tower. A very historic tower which we had high on our list of places to visit the following day. We had already purchased a one day historic pass. If we visited 3 things we would break even. We plan for a very busy day to make it worth our while.
The goldfish (Carassius auratus) is a freshwater fish in the family Cyprinidae of order Cypriniformes. It is one of the most commonly kept aquarium fish. A relatively small member of the carp family (which also includes the Prussian carp and the crucian carp), the goldfish is native to East Asia. It was first selectively bred in ancient China more than 1,000 years ago, and several distinct breeds have since been developed. Goldfish breeds vary greatly in size, body shape, fin configuration and coloration (various combinations of white, yellow, orange, red, brown, and black are known). Goldfish have strong associative learning abilities, as well as social learning skills. Goldfish are gregarious, displaying schooling behavior, as well as displaying the same types of feeding behaviors. 27345
One of our two busy garden parents approaching the nest.
Each year we are lucky to have a nest in the garden and this time its the turn of the robins.
Robin (Erithacus Rubecula)
Our garden
As always I extend my sincere appreciation to all those who take the time to stop by and comment on my photos.
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I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where. I love you straightforwardly, without complexities or pride; so I love you because I know no other way.
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