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Common mullein or great mullein (Verbascum thapsus), with a velvet leaf, thrives on disturbed soils, or even cracks in asphalt driveways.
This weed started growing from a small patch of moss on an ornamental boulder. The root then found its way down the boulder into the ground. I haven’t had the heart to pull it - yet.
And, she did. Chuck thought he had moved the blind cord out of reach. That changed when our newly adopted cat, Molly, received an early Christmas present of cat furniture. Santa Maria, CA.
The blossoms on this star magnolia tree have been bitten by frost, yet they continue to declare that spring is here!
This was a dizzying display. It was quite windy and the Striated Pardalote was being blown around at a different rate to the leaf with the lerp. So every time they came close to each other the Pardalote made a lunge for the treat. This went on for a few minutes with dozens of attempts.
(Peter)
This beautiful red-bellied woodpecker kept coming to the suet feeder again and again. "You will get fat eating like that!"
Peak District National Park in August. This was one of those moments where the reward came only after patience and quiet persistence. Reaching this viewpoint meant walking slowly as the light changed minute by minute, waiting for the sun to drop just enough to set the valley on fire. The heather in the foreground was alive with colour, the rocks anchoring the scene while the landscape unfolded endlessly below. The struggle was resisting the urge to rush the shot, trusting that the light would align, and it did. That calm golden glow was the payoff, a reminder that nature always works on its own schedule and rewards those willing to slow down and observe.
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Own Storm.
Elements, as a great cycle in nature, as life.
Elements, as composing cycles of reminds, along hours in a watch, along days on calendar...
Turbulences in our minds. They last.
How much is too much? Sometimes forever.
"Love is probably the strongest emotion that you can feel.
It's very natural -
and I wouldn't want to say easy -
but natural and comfortable to write about,
and there are so many different forms of it,
millions of layers -
you could write forever about it."
~ Shawn Mendes ~
When macular degeneration took away much of her ability to see "the whole picture" Jane gave up oil painting for paper collage . . . just another way to express the many layers of her long, phenomenal life, shared in an infinite array of mediums.
Jane loved Sedona and visited there every September to absorb the landscape and interpret it on canvas or in journals.
I'm blessed to be surrounded by her art in every corner of my home, so her spirit will live on forever.
Visited a location today with many rusty farm equipment pieces. This new growth was a lovely find. Thanks for your appreciation, Gail
bumblebee on turk's cap, Ladybird Johnson Wildflower Center, Austin, TX. Sony nex5r and micro nikkor 55/3.5.
Uniquely beautiful carving of the Tennessee rock created by the persistent flow of water makes the new Winding Stair Park in Lafayette a jewel.
From my observations I can say that bees are territorial. The smaller long-horned bees are often "patrolling" the sunflower patch for interlopers and then pouncing on their backs in an attempt to get the bigger bees to leave.
This pied shag thought that a leaf might be a nice gift. Despite all the efforts and persistence to give the offering, the other shag was not interested in the least. Uploaded three images of this series, because these two birds made me smile.
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Same shot of the other one posted but with my presence too, i'm not completely satisfied ... not the best composition i think , just a step on the right and it would be sure better
Just few correction with Photoshop CS3 and B&W conversion with Silver Efex Pro
Title inspiration: www.youtube.com/watch?v=FJTzc3zrIrw
Nikon d60+sigma 10-20 @ f 9 iso 100 109 sec + B+W ND 10 stop + Reverse GND 0.9
Better on black www.flickriver.com/photos/tommyrave/
I upload the 1024 px
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This shot was taken at the beginning of the winter in Lignano (Friuli Venezia-Giulia, Italy): as the title suggests, the symmetry and the persistence of the various elements ware what caught my attention.
That's right...it's that same chunk of curbing and the same bit of red PVC wire. I'd thought by now the wind would have blown away all evidence of that strange twining of asphalt and wire.
But no.
Rundle, under the moon, the stars and the sky above. To me, this is poetry to my soul. Modesty aside, this image is the result of persistence. Many will look a this image and think the time it was taken, was at daybreak, it was twilight after sunset. I came here for the sunset, to find and overcast and gray sunset. Thinking I had better odds, I went to Vermillion Lake, to find a dark band of cloud over the setting sun. Giving up on both of these locations, I decided to go back to the hotel to pack. I was leaving the next day. After packing, I looked out the window and saw the sky breaking up a little. I immediately came back to Rundle, to find this image you are seeing here. The sky had opened up beautifully, giving view to the moon and the stars above Rundle, reflected on the Two Jack Lake. I came back the next day, before leaving to the airport, to find it completely frozen. Luck might have had a play, but I have to give credit to the persistence of wanting to come back with another beautiful image to share. This image might not be popular or get many comments, but I can tell you, it carries my soul.
I leave you with this song, that kind of reflects the emotion and the mood, this image brings to me.
Sade - The Moon And The Sky
Have a great week ahead.
As always, thank you for stopping by and looking. I appreciate your comments and visits.
I hate to steal a title from Dalí, but I just can't seem to find the right word I'm thinking of for this, and that title is as close as I can get for the moment.
Model: Carly P.
Part 5 of 10 of a photo story shot April 2013.
Inspired by of the ideas put forth in Edgar Allen Poe's "The Philosophy of Composition" and based on a couple of photos from back in my 365.
"the death, then, of a beautiful woman is, unquestionably, the most poetical topic in the world---and equally is it beyond doubt that the lips best suited for such topic are those of a bereaved lover."
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As goofy as Mr. Personality is, he never gives up. Points for persistence & ambition. Unfortunately, I got distracted by a raptor flyover & didn't see what happened. The log was empty when I next looked.
Mississippi Map Turtle (Graptemys pseudogeographica kohni)
Yellow-bellied Slider x Red-eared Slider intergrade (Trachemys scripta scripta x Trachemys scripta elegans)
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Just a day after it experienced two separate mechanical failures and came close to being pulled from service, Metrolink F59PHR 856 charges down the rails once again as it leads an evening train to San Bernardino. Built in 1992, 856 is one of Metrolink's original locomotives, starting from Day 1 of the railroad. It was one of the seven F59PHs that were overhauled in the late-2000s and it served consistently until mid-2020 when it was initially removed from service. It has since made appearances from time to time on work trains and when extra locomotives were needed to cover for those that were in for servicing. It is always a question when 856's last run will be; if this could be the final photo I capture of it in regular service. That day will come, but for now, 856 persists.
[explore #50 on 01.10.09]
musée d'Orsay, Paris. no tripod. senò veniva meglio u.u
il tutorial di come si fa questa roba è sempre questo qui.
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For whatever reason, most of the hummingbirds I catch feeding are either females or juveniles. It could be that they just out number the males. The females could be gathering lots of energy for feeding their babies (they catch little bugs for them). Or the males spend lots of time showing off, watching over their territories.
I finally figured out where this guy fed - past tense, as these flowers are all gone. So I waited...and waited. He was a stealth feeder! Sometimes I'd hear him, see him at the flowers, and then he'd be off, chasing another hummingbird or going back to his favorite lookout.
He is catching enough light here that his head feathers are reflecting some color and aren't all black. See how cute he is when you View Large On Black
Mamiya 645E
Mamiya-Sekor 45mm f/2.8
Fujifilm Neopan Acros 100
12 minute exposure
This one took a couple tries to get the exposure right, but I'm glad I finally got it. :)
La catedral de Colonia (en alemán, Kölner Dom —oficialmente Hohe Domkirche St. Peter) es un templo católico de estilo gótico, comenzó a construirse en 1248 y no se terminó hasta 1880. Está situada en el centro de la ciudad de Colonia. Con sus 157 metros de altura fue el edificio más alto del mundo hasta la culminación del Monumento a Washington en 1884, de 170 metros. Es el monumento más visitado de Alemania. Es además la sede del arzobispo de Colonia y de la administración de la arquidiócesis de Colonia. Fue declarada Patrimonio de la Humanidad por la Unesco en 1996.
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Cologne Cathedral (German: Kölner Dom, officially Hohe Domkirche Sankt Petrus, English: Cathedral Church of Saint Peter) is a Catholic cathedral in Cologne, Northrhine-Westfalia, Germany. It is the seat of the Archbishop of Cologne and of the administration of the Archdiocese of Cologne. It is a renowned monument of German Catholicism and Gothic architecture and was declared a World Heritage Site in 1996. It is Germany's most visited landmark, attracting an average of 20,000 people a day, and currently the tallest twin-spired church at 157 m (515 ft) tall.
Construction of Cologne Cathedral commenced in 1248 and was halted in 1473, leaving it unfinished. Work restarted in the 19th century and was completed, to the original plan, in 1880. The cathedral is the largest Gothic church in Northern Europe and has the second-tallest spires. The towers for its two huge spires give the cathedral the largest façade of any church in the world. The choir has the largest height to width ratio, 3.6:1, of any medieval church.
Cologne's medieval builders had planned a grand structure to house the reliquary of the Three Kings and fit its role as a place of worship for the Holy Roman Emperor. Despite having been left incomplete during the medieval period, Cologne Cathedral eventually became unified as "a masterpiece of exceptional intrinsic value" and "a powerful testimony to the strength and persistence of Christian belief in medieval and modern Europe".
We need strength or energy, persistence and last but not least balance in order to move forward.
I watched people doing stand up paddle surfing in False Creek last weekend when I had a walk on Cambie Bridge.
Happy Monday and great week ahead!
window with a view
Gone now. Those of us that came here with our cameras will never forget it. These ruins in the woods were full of some mysterious voice that spoke in tongues of light. Artillery rounds for the U. S. Civil War were cast in this foundry.
Now the buildings and the woodland have been scraped from the earth. A clay lined basin containing waste from a paper mill has been installed where these bones stood.