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A peek into my day visiting Okan Arts in Ballard where vintage kimono cottons and wools are available....so many colors and patterns. So wonderful to see. #cy365 173/365 'take a peek'
Last day in the old apartment. He always peeked at me like that from the balcony, had to take the picture for postarity.
"There are places I’ll remember
All my life though some have changed
Some forever not for better
Some have gone and some remain
All these places have their moments
With lovers and friends I still can recall
Some are dead and some are living
In my life I’ve loved them all"
-The beatles
"Artist, co-worker and friend Emilia works her optical illusion mural magic." ~Tomitheos
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This will more then likely be my last sunrise image posted for a bit, I got a tun of them, but I really do not want them flooding my photo stream, I look forward to getting to the beach soon! So that I can post those! Any way, over the past few sun rises, I have noticed something, that when the sun does finally peek over the mountains, it gets bright, QUICK! And those first few images are unusable because it makes the foreground blacked out! Except yesterday morning, the fog was dense enough to mute the power of the sun. So, I was able to get a more perfect image on the sun its self. Any way, perfect is such a relative and subjective word. So, perhaps perfect would not be the right word, but hey, I happened to like this any way. This image is a great display on what I meant by areas of dense fog where it became at times unuseable. But I managed to make this one work, all the images around it were not work able. Perhaps the high ISO had a help in this and the "snake" in my back yard the day before because useful after all? Who knows, All I know is that I need many more sunrises to prefect the talent that so many of my flickr friends already have! And that is why I bother with the 365, by years end, I want to be able to know my camera in and out so that guessing is no longer the name of the game! :)
Please, do enjoy!
For this image, I believe the only filter I used was the Cokin soft grad, for the sake of the sun.
A curious fox pup peeking out from behind a rock to check me out while i took a few photos.
His borthers and sisters had already ran off but they didn't go to far before curiosity got the best and they came back to see what I was up to.
One of the joys of spring is watching a fluttering Brimstone alight on a flower on a sunny day - one of the first signs that the seasons are changing. A fairly large, pale yellow butterfly, Brimstone adults hibernate through cold weather, so may be seen flying on warm days throughout the year, although they are most common in the spring. Usually seen in ones or twos, they are never very common but are widespread. They can be found in damp woodlands, along sunny, woodland rides, mature hedgerows and in large gardens. The foodplants of the larvae are Buckthorn and Alder Buckthorn, two shrubs that both occur on wet woodland, while buckthorn also occurs also on dry chalk and limestone soils.
Quite easy to see this Crab Spider hiding behind the petals of one of our Hydrangea plants this morning.
Some weeks ago, we planted eight Sunflowers, and before very long, the plants were nudging 2.1 metres (or 7 feet) tall.
And then disaster struck: a severe wind storm swept up the valley one night, and two of the towering plants were snapped in half - but more about them later!
And for the other six? One was very slow to start growing and has remained "The Runt", but the remaining five flourished, and before long, the large buds that had formed at the top of the plants began to ever-so-slowly open...
It was a quite exciting moment when the yellow flowers actually began peeking out at the world around them...!
EARTHQUAKE!
A 4.7 quake, with its epicentre just 8 kilometres north of us, struck with a loud bang at precisely 5:18am this morning. It was, to say the least, a rather unpleasant awakening, but thankfully no damage occurred...!
Thanks so much for the very kind and encouraging comments beneath this photo...! Your support is very greatly appreciated.
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Frustrated, I went outside to cool off with my rarely-used zoom lens. Grandma's kitten kept on following me (too close for the lens!) but eventually learned to stay back a bit (no harming of any kittens was used during the taking of these pictures). I felt better... but still not sure if it was worth the 14 mosquito bites I got in return.