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An impromptu Happy Snappy of Riley getting a special frozen treat at the end of a long hot week.
Hubby had a cup in each hand.
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Frozen treats on hot days.
Camera Olympus E-PM1
Exposure 0.001 sec (1/1000)
Aperture f/8.0
Focal Length 29 mm
ISO Speed 200
Exposure Bias -0.7 EV
El estornino soberbio es un pájaro africano de la familia Sturnidae presente en el África oriental desde Etiopía hasta Tanzania.
The Superb Starling (Lamprotornis superbus) is a member of the starling family of birds. It can commonly be found in North East Africa, including Ethiopia, Somalia, Uganda, Kenya and Tanzania.
This species is 18 to 19 cm (7 to 7.5 inches) long. Adults have black heads and iridescent blue-to-green back, upper breast, wings, and tail. The belly is red-orange, separated from the blue breast by a white bar. The undertail coverts and the wing linings are white. Juveniles have duller plumage with no more than a suggestion of the white breast band. Their irises are brown, later grayish white, eventually the adult's cream-color.
Day 156 - June 5, 2010
Exhausted? A lightly flavored, natural iced tea, and plenty of ice always does the trick for me! Sunlight artificially created for this photo.
Being able to look at this landscape every day was amazing! I never knew Mexico was so beautiful... Well this part haha
An impromptu Happy Snappy of Toby getting a special frozen treat at the end of a long hot week.
Hubby had a cup in each hand.
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Frozen treats on hot days.
Refreshing Glorious Praises.
מחשבות אמיתית של שירי שפע יספיקו,
sine metu trans fabularum fabulis illustrat Angelos,
sages coeurs précieuses minutes le matin donne,
chiarezza di fede ombre diligenti pregano,
vows grá tairiseach breathe réimsí angelic,
blodau tarddu ymddangos dyfu ffurfafen ddiddiwedd,
понимание молитва парящие фрукты искусство,
Senhor perfeito escuta preparar luzes vigília festival,
almas eternas glorias preguntas contestadas de orientación,
ikuinen virsiä siunaa valtakunnan kunnia edelleen,
vznešené oči světlé zrání vůle věřit,
ασυννέφιαστο δικαιοσύνης εμφανίζεται υψηλότερη δημιουργία πέρα,
ירושלים פתחה את פסקי דין אדיקות מאושרת עובדת כתר,
resurrectionis animarum amore libertatis restituendae igni,
rettferdige betraktninger visjoner undrer deg jeg,
jótékonysági tanítványai szolgák szolgálják bölcsesség tanácsait dicsőség,
سلطة الجموع مطيعا الازدهار تكليف تفضل منح,
גאולת כל ישראל שוררת קשיי אויבים רשעים יאבדו!
Steve.D.Hammond.
Pink grapefruit, snapped by the Sonnar design Takumar 58/2. The lens was produced in a short run from 1957, and sold with a Pentax AP camera.
The 58/2 has a reputation for beautiful bokeh. It's quite a rare lens and there are not so many images from the lens on the web, something I hope to change!
This photo was taken on the Milford Track, a 4-day / 3-night walk in northern Fiordland, on New Zealand's South Island.
Wet? Well, yes.
To get things into perspective, you have to know that the nearby town of Milford received a mean of 6.75 metres of rain per year between 1971 and 2000. We were frequently told that the Milford track area gets around 7m a year, while some of the western slopes of the mountains in Fiordland get up to 9m. The day before this photo was taken, we spent much of the walk being refreshed by most of the day's near-negligible 214mm, of which 40mm fell in one 30-minute period.
Measuring rainfall in metres may seem quaint; and yet Fiordland is positively parched by comparison with some of the soggier parts of the world.
Lloro in Columbia is thought to get 13m a year, though this is a modelled figure that has never been measured.
Mount Wai‘ale‘ale, on the Hawai'an island of Kauai, gets 11.5 to 13m a year.
Mawsynram, in north-eastern India, receives 11.9m annually.
Mount Tutenendo in Columbia gets 12m a year.
Cherrapunji, near Mawsynram, gets 11m a year – almost all of it between June and August. It holds the record for the wettest 6 months ever recorded, with 22.5m between April and September 1861. In July that year 9.3m fell, making it the wettest month ever recorded anywhere.
Debundscha in Cameroon gets 10m a year.
Quibdo in Columbia gets 9m.
Bellenden Ker, in Queensland, Australia, gets 8.6m a year.
And last among these sodden spots, Andagoya in Colombia gets 7m. All of the above are towns and villages; Fiordland is a wonderful wilderness.
The most rain ever recorded in a 3-day period – 3.9m – is held by La Réunion. Now that's wet.
It rained and rained and rained and rained,
The average fall was well maintained,
And when the tracks were simply bogs
It started raining cats and dogs.
After a drought of half an hour
we had a most refreshing shower,
then the most curious thing of all:
a gentle rain began to fall.
Next day was also fairly dry
save for the deluge from the sky
which wet the party to the skin:
and after that, the rain set in.
This poem is found in many websites in a variety of slightly different versions. On those sites, it is variously linked with the west coast of Scotland and with the west coast of New Zealand's South Island. Setting aside those few individuals who pass it off as their own invention, is invariably attributed to "Anon", with associated dates often in the 1980s. I first saw it framed on the wall of a mountain hut on the Millford Track, where it is attributed to an anonymous tramper who left it there in 1989.
I have found one source that may be the root of it all. A certain Ho-Fang, from what must then have been the villagethe city (sorry, Nelson - see Andrew's comment under this shot) of Nelson (located in the north of South Island), published it on 15 September 1931, under the title West Coast Weather in the Otautau Standard and Wallace County Chronicle, Volume XXVII, Issue 1336, where it was printed on page 3.
"Fang" is quite a common family name in China and Taiwan, so the author might be Chinese, though in normal Chinese usage the given name, "Ho", would follow the family name. Somehow it sounds like a nom de plume. I can't find any obvious name for which this would be an anagram, though.
There is something about Ho-Fang's printed introduction to the poem that does not quite ring true, and I wonder whether Ho-Fang cribbed it from some earlier source - perhaps (who knows?) even from some saturated scribbler in Scotland.
Scotland? Saturated? Kinlochewe, the wettest met station in Scotland, gets a paltry 2.2m a year. Almost sahelian, if you ask me.
Lubitel 2 with T-22 f4.5/75mm, Agfa Optima II 400 @ 320 expired 06/2002
Enjoying well deserved beers at the Sticklebarn Tavern after coming down from the Scafell Pike (the highest mountain in England)
I bought 10 rolls of this old film and I'm happy to see that they are still in a good shape.