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At Rest
Where the bluebell carpet lies
Under green and silver trees,
Yellow primrose clusters guard
The place that no one sees.
Echoes of a gentler age
Now remote from days and hours,
This is where I visit you
Resting fragranced by the flowers.
Where the woodland hides your grave
Sunlit, stirring in the breeze,
Silver ash watch over you
As you rest among the trees.
Elisabeth Sheaffer
A cheetah (Acinonyx jubatus) rests in the shade of the large cheetah habitat at the Fossil Rim Wildlife Center near Glen Rose Texas.
Fossil Rim has played an important role in the conservation of cheetahs since 1986 when the first litter of babies was born. As of 2018, more than 195 cubs have been born in their Cheetah Breeding Program. Breeding success has been historically difficult in the captive population.
Fossil Rim has diligently worked to provide a comfortable, stimulating living environment, multiple mate choices (especially important for cheetah females), a varied diet, large enclosures and the least amount of stress possible. Fossil Rim has two cheetah areas that combined can house about 25 cats. This photo was taken on the edge of one of those enclosures.
Reference: fossilrim.org/animals/cheetah/
The queen resting on her throne...
Dushara Cathal Caithlin (Somali cat), 17.06.2025
Olympus OMD EM5 Digital Camera
Happy Easter !
Finding a suitable option for today proved to be a difficult task. So resting is what I’ve come up with. Where will you find rest this Easter Sunday?
After the battles are over,
And the war drums cease to beat,
And no more is heard on the hillside
The sound of hurrying feet;
Full many a noble action,
That was done in the days of strife,
By the soldier is half forgotten,
In the peaceful walks of life.
Just as the tangled grasses,
In Summer's warmth and light,
Grow over the graves of the fallen
And hide them away from sight,
So many an act of valour,
And many a deed sublime,
Fade from the mind of the soldier,
O'ergrown by the grass of time.
Not so should they be rewarded,
Those noble deeds of old;
They should live for ever and ever,
When the heroes' hearts are cold.
Then rally, ye brave old comrades,
Old veterans, reunite!
Uproot Time's tangled grasses---
Live over the march, and the fight.
- Ella Wheeler Wilcox
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:::: Resting Cormorants on fisherman nets!, Rivière Ouelle, Québec, Canada
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Male leopard (Panthera pardus) known locally as the Flat Rock Male, resting in the grass after consuming a very large helping of impala.
MalaMala Game Reserve, South Africa
Conservation status: Vulnerable
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I saw someone else's post of a Hummingbird and I just had to go back a little while when it was warm. Here a female Ruby-throated Hummingbird is taking a little rest on a Salvia in my backyard.
Atlantic County, New Jersey
American Avocets are rare to uncommon migrants here in New Jersey, usually appearing in August or September. However, this small flock appeared at the Forsythe NWR in July. I tired several times to get a group shot, but they were usually way out in the water feeding or blocked from view by marsh grass. This was the one chance I had to photograph them but they were resting, eyes closed and bills tucked into their chests. There were also Short-billed Dowitchers feeding all around them. And so I waited and waited, sweating in the summer heat and being attacked by biting flies and mosquitos. All to get this one shot!
A Red-shank (Tringa totanus) was found resting on its one leg with a typical posture of the shank species in its natural habitat. I love the green Bokeh transformation in the backdrop and the blurring gradient of the depth of field which gives a glimpse of everything surrounding. The bird really stands out against such ambience. It was taking a short rest in between its foraging. Pics was taken from Purbasthali, Burdwan, West Bengal, India.
European Wasp (Vespula germanica)
It had been flying around me when it decided to take a rest on an Ivy leaf.
This is the first swallow I met this spring. Swallows are back and they are now building their nests with mud and hay. This one is taking a rest, from its work. Notice the beak (its tool for the constructions) covered with mud.
Created for Kreative People Treat This 319: July 1-8, 2023
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I created the machinery and background in DDG Text 2 Dream using Michel's image and the prompt: Phantoms. At the Tractor parts factory. Giraffe: pngwing.com. Processing done in Photoshop Beta 2023, Topaz Gigapixel Ai, Topaz Sharpen Ai and Topaz Studio.
Much hand painting.
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A big thank you to Bill Correll for giving me the coordinates to this place that rests deep within the Beezley Hills of Grant County, Washington. This place is impossible to see from any roads. I thought it was a very neat old house, settled in a very precarious place. What surprised me even more was that it had a nice foundation which would have been a real buggar to get concrete down there to mix. Most places this old are just built right on the dirt. I'm glad I made it out there, even in the snow. It was quite the walk, 2 miles in and 2 miles back out!