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Beautiful posture of young women in hotel lobby in Norway. Shot while we waited to check into hotel at beginning of boat trip up the Western Coast of Norway. I was very impressed by her perfect posture, one I have rarely seen in all most travels to all seven continents and numerous countries and cities. Spontaneously shot and not pre-planned or pre-posed.
Mobilität steht für:
Beweglichkeit, das Vermögen eines Lebewesens, sich fortzubewegen und unterschiedliche Haltungen einzunehmen.
Mobility stands for:
Agility, the ability of a living being to move around and to adopt different postures.
A robin posturing in the presence of other robins at Broadwater canal and towpath, County Armagh, NI.
I popped back to see how the Wagtails were getting on at the weekend. I was hoping that the young may have fledged and the adults would be feeding them. There was was no sign of the youngsters and the female was busy building a new nest. The male was busy posturing and keeping watch over his territory.
These guys (Great Egret) are awesome and this posture was great. They kept trying to grab something but with little success.
... salud, buenas luces y muchas gracias!!! .... xo♥ox ...
... health, good lights and thanks a lot!!! ........ xo♥ox ...
... Music: "Let It Ride" by BTO .......................... enjoy it!!!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=QmSXIOlN6mY
... mejor si pulsas "L" / ... better is you press "L"
under the harsh concrete ceiling of a parking garage in palma’s parque del mar, the glass-block wall gleamed like an odd modern artifact, throwing soft reflections onto the damp ground. the man stood there, casually leaning, hands in pockets, as if time was an easy thing to carry. maybe he was waiting for someone—his wife, lost in conversation somewhere, or a friend running late. there’s no tension in his posture, just a quiet patience. the stark black-and-white tones strip away distractions, leaving only the subtle interplay of human gesture and architecture, of waiting and stillness.
Sprinkler Shot 1 of 3
These are juvenile Cooper's Hawks looking daffy while enjoying an industrial strength sprinkler in the Leo Mol Garden of Assiniboine Park. Over a period of about 2 weeks, photographers and park workers had many chances to watch four Coop siblings playing, sometimes hilariously, in the sprinklers, which they loved. I thought that this was one of their more humorous postures, which reminded me of bad guys in cowboy movies carrying sawed off shotguns under their trench coats. Two other siblings joined this pair soon afterwards.
The two pictures to the right show a young female warbler who also absolutely delighted in being in one of the same powerful Park sprinklers.
Catching up with grizzly (brown bear) "Sadie" @ The Minnesota Zoo.. Dakota County, MN. While she partakes of some pleasant spring weather.
Visitors: Invited to peruse my photostream & albums for various seasonal pix of wildlife/scenics/florals.
Les pélicans consomment presque exclusivement du poisson. Le pélican d’Amérique consomme à l’occasion des salamandres et des écrevisses, alors que le pélican à lunettes prend quelques crustacés. Les tout jeunes poussins sont alimentés avec un liquide régurgité, une sorte de “soupe de poissons”. Dès l’âge de deux semaines, ils sont nourris de poissons régurgités. Peu avant leur envol, les jeunes deviennent souvent plus trapus et plus lourds que leurs parents.
Les pélicans ont l’habitude de pêcher en groupe, un cas très rare de prédation coordonnée parmi les oiseaux. Ils se rassemblent pour former un demi-cercle à la surface de l’eau, et repoussent devant eux les poissons vers les eaux peu profondes du bord. Tout en avançant, ils écartent les ailes et plongent simultanément le bec dans l’eau pour capturer les poissons. Parfois, ils nagent avec les becs immergés tout le temps. Comme leurs becs ont une sensibilité tactile, ils peuvent détecter leurs proies sans les voir. Une autre variante, généralement employée sur les cours d’eau, consiste à former deux rangées parallèles qui nagent l’une vers l’autre. Le poisson n’est presque jamais transporté dans la poche, mais avalé dès sa capture.
En Europe occidentale, le pélican était au Moyen Âge un symbole de piété pour l'Église chrétienne : on croyait qu'il perçait sa propre chair et nourrissait ses petits de son sang. Une autre version évoque un pélican qui aurait tué ses petits, puis, au bout de trois jours, se serait percé la poitrine de son bec, et les aurait ainsi ramenés à la vie. Ces erreurs proviennent probablement d'observations superficielles. Il n'en reste pas moins que, dans l'iconographie et la symbolique chrétienne occidentale, le pélican symbolise le sacrifice du Christ, qui verse son sang pour le salut du genre humain, et la charité.
The pelican (Henet in Egyptian) was associated in Ancient Egypt with death and the afterlife. It was depicted in art on the walls of tombs, and figured in funerary texts, as a protective symbol against snakes. Henet was also referred to in the Pyramid Texts as the "mother of the king" and thus seen as a goddess. References in non-royal funerary papyri show that the pelican was believed to possess the ability to prophesy safe passage in the underworld for someone who had died.[99]
An origin myth from the Murri people of Queensland, cited by Andrew Lang, describes how the Australian pelican acquired its black and white plumage. The pelican, formerly a black bird, made a canoe during a flood in order to save drowning people. He fell in love with a woman he thus saved, but she and her friends tricked him and escaped. The pelican consequently prepared to go to war against them by daubing himself with white clay as war paint. However, before he had finished, another pelican, on seeing such a strange piebald creature, killed him with its beak, and all such pelicans have been black and white ever since. source wikipédia
The grackles, along with the starlings, have taken over the bird feeders in my garden ! Aside from being boisterous, they have been monopolizing the feeders and gobbling the seed. I am changing seed now from a combination of sunflower and peanut chips which they---and most of the other birds that visit love !----to safflower seed which is less appealing. I hope to discourage them and expect that they will leave and fly away to greener pastures for the balance of the season..... Once they do, I will go back to the original seed mixture....
L'aigrette profite de l'ombre de ses ailes pour attirer ou mieux débusquer les poissons et crevettes qui fuient ses pattes.
Green Heron (adult) - Florida Wetlands - 9/5/20
In The Wild - Palm Beach County, Florida USA
*[left-double-click for a closer-look - going out on-a-limb]
*[The Green Heron is relatively small; adult body length is about 17 inches. The neck is often pulled in tight against the body. Adults have a glossy, greenish-black cap, a greenish back and wings that are grey-black grading into green or blue, a chestnut neck with a white line down the front, grey underparts and short yellow legs. The bill is dark with a long, sharp point. - Thanks for looking]
[FYI: They are called "green" herons because of
the green color on their wings (see image below)]
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Sentada en posición de meditación tranquila
(postura llamada en yoga de gato
Pétalo-Hueco-del-Lotus-Negro-Que recoge-el-Rocío-del-Tiempo)
Una gatita considera
El espacio vacío y blanco de una pared
En él algo ve
Que yo no veo.
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Assise en position de réflexion calma
(la posture que le yoga des chats nomme
Pétale-Creux-du-Lotus-Noir-Reccueillant-la-Rosée-du-Temps)
La chatte au pied de mon lit considère
L’espace vide et blanc du mur elle voit
Quelque chose que je ne vois pas.
Claude Roy (Fr, 1915-1994).
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Photo : « Elle voit quelque chose que je ne vois pas. », à Lachapelle (Tarn et Garonne)
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Foto sin palabras en Lachapelle (un pueblecito tranquilo en el Suroeste de Francia)
Un ptérosaure qui risque fort de finir dans l'estomac du Dakosaure
Dakosaurus maximus : son nom signifie " le plus grand lézard mordeur", un redoutable prédateur des mers du Jurassique : 4-5 mètres de long pour un poids entre 500 kg et une tonne.
Festival "Jurassique en voie d'Illumination"
Jardin des Plantes Paris (MNHN)
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Been away a bit.
Baffled how it happened but the Monday after Christmas began coughing. Started as a tickle. Then turned croup like. Was able to get to urgent care that Thursday and a rapid test was positive for covid.
Because of my recent cancers I qualified for the myoclonal antibody treatment. Felt remarkably better for a bit.
But this sure has been a roller coaster.
I feel so bad for the unvaccinated. If I've been this awful after three Pfizers, I can't imagine surviving without having been vaxxed.
I had been given Prednisone for the croup/bronchial inflammation which I didn't start taking until I lost the sense of smell. Surprisingly the sense came back after two days.
A week after I showed symptoms, Kim showed, but hers were very different. She had severe nausea and headache. She hasn't had the respiratory involvement, but her test this past week was also positive. She's on the recovery roller coaster too.
Sometimes we feel some better, then it all hits again.
Been using our large gym ball to lie over. Way back at the beginning of the pandemic a bunch of us who had been Physical Therapists had talked about the importance of lying prone and the importance of postural drainage, which we used to do for patients in the hospital before Respiratory Therapy took it over.
Lying on one's chest on the ball supports the diaphragm and makes coughing more comfortable. Pushing forward to get the head low and butt high will help get secretions moving and excreted. Plus rolling on the ball is very good for the back.
I suppose my involvement here at Flickr will be a bit spotty for awhile yet. Hope everyone stays well.
This has been baffling. We've been masked whenever we've left the house. Kim goes to work but since she showed symptoms after me, I'm the likely one to have given it to her. In the week before showing symptoms I'd been once to the grocery store. And I've always double masked. I've always brought along my alcohol spray bottle to spray down the shopping carts.
One thing we haven't kept up is the wiping down of the grocery items before bringing them into the house. And we haven't been wiping down the Amazon packages that get delivered. But that method of transference has always been very low on the list. Being unmasked in a closed space has always been the chief method of transmission.
Go figure.