I usually do not post two images but I could not get the image of the burrowing Owl returning home to post so I tried the hummingbirds to see if there was a problem

I captured the BO on his retune trip back to the nest. They are so fast that sometimes it is a real problem to keep up with the. I was happy to have captured this when he returned.

Wishing you a great and blessed evening.

CPKC L31 local eastbound retuning to Wylie yard with 4 new CPKC locomotives (CP7477, CP7516, CP7515, CP7518) at 10th street.

Took the long way home from work this morning when I caught word of PR-3 running north up the mainline to Woonsocket to switch out Ralco Industries. PR-3 is seen here retuning south to Valley Falls at the Ashton Mill Complex with the usual pair of GP38s bracketing 4 covered hoppers.

CPKC L31 local eastbound retuning to Wylie yard with 4 new CPKC locomotives (CP7477, CP7516, CP7515, CP7518) at White Rock junction, Alliance sub.

The wood storks are an interesting bird both in looks and their behavior. For the second year now they have nested on the front island and pushed out some of the other nesting birds to make room for their nests. This image was captured just as one of the wood storks was retuning to the nest. It is hard to believe that they were close to being endangered as we have so m any now.

Wishing you a beautiful and blessed day !!!!!!!!!!

1944 Douglas C-47A Skytrain C-FDTD 12253

This aircraft was built at Oklahoma USA and started it Military career srving with the USAAF as 42-92451 it was then transferred to RAF 271 squadron as FZ668, On D-Day loaded with paratroopers it headed to france with approx. 108 planes to drop parpatroops near to the river Dive in France there target was to destroy the bridge , the aircraft safely retuned to Blake hill Farm in the Uk

Photo taken at EAA Airventure Wittman Regional Airport Oshkosh Wisconsin USA July 2019

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The title is called 'HK's 1997'. I did this oil painting in 1983 in Hong Kong. Before the arrival of year 1997, the year that the British Government retuned the Governance to Mainland China. I put my personal idea of how I felt at that moment on the canvas as you can see.

I know I can't change the world being out of the world, I know I live in the channel I want to change, I know I must be the change I want to see..

Today two of my sisters and l took advantage of a gorgeous Spring day and drove to the Texas City Dike in Texas City Texas on Galveston Bay!!! Clear blue skies and in the cool 70's.. a perfect day!!! We watched the Brown Pelicans play and float along and beg for throw aways​ from the Shrimpers retuning from their daily run!!! Here my lens pursued a parting pelican!!! Rare in focus capture for me!!! A delight for this hobby "tog"!!!! Enjoy!!! Hugs!!!

Clear water retuning after a warm week.

The male just perched himself on a branch nearby & let the BRAT YELP all it wanted to.. He brought it NO FOOD!!!

A lesson well LEARNED!!! Some human juveniles/adults could learn from this as well..

Every Sufi Dargah is incomplete without Qawwals and their quintessential Qawwali..be it Makhdoom Shah Baba at Mahim,or Khwajah Garib Nawaz at Ajmer or Nizamuddin Aulia in Delhi.

Qawwali is the staple diet of the devotees who come to pay their salutations to the Dargahs during the annual Urus..

No Urus is complete without Qawwali rendition in music and vocal praising the Holy Saint and his Holy Shrine.

And the qawwals get handsomely paid by the crowds , but more than money the Qawwals to seek the blessiings of the Holy Saint to achieve success in Bollywood or shows all over the world.

Indians and Pakistanis love Qawwalis..

Qawwali sourced from wikipedia.

Qawwali (Urdu/Persian: قوٌالی; Punjabi/Multani: ਖ਼ਵ੍ਵਾਲੀ, قوٌالی; Brajbhasha/Hindi: क़व्वाली) is a form of Sufi devotional music popular on the Indian subcontinent. It's a vibrant musical tradition that stretches back more than 700 years. Originally performed mainly at Sunni Sufi shrines throughout the subcontinent, it has also gained mainstream popularity. Qawwali music received international exposure through the work of the late Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan, largely due to several releases on the Real World label, followed by live appearances at WOMAD festivals. Often listeners, and even artists themselves, are transported to a state of wajad, a trance-like state where they feel at one with God, generally considered to be the height of spiritual ecstasy in Sufism. Although famous throughout the world, its economic and spiritual hub remains the Punjab province of Pakistan from where it gained entry into the mainstream commercial music industry and international fame.

[edit] Song content

The songs which constitute the qawwali repertoire are mostly in Urdu and Punjabi (almost equally divided between the two), although there are several songs in Persian, Brajbhasha and Siraiki.[1][2] There is also qawwali in some regional languages (e.g., Chhote Babu Qawwal sings in Bengali), but the regional language tradition is relatively obscure. Also, the sound of the regional language qawwali can be totally different from that of mainstream qawwali. This is certainly true of Chhote Babu Qawwal, whose sound is much closer to Baul music than to the qawwali of Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan, for example.

The poetry is implicitly understood to be spiritual in its meaning, even though the lyrics can sometimes sound wildly secular, or outright hedonistic. The central themes of qawwali are love, devotion and longing (of man for the Divine).

Qawwalis are classified by their content into several categories:

A hamd is a song in praise of Allah. Traditionally, a qawwali performance starts with a hamd.

A naat is a song in praise of the Prophet Muhammad. The opening hamd is traditionally followed by a naat.

A manqabat is a song in praise of either Imam Ali or one of the Sufi saints. Interestingly, manqabats in praise of Ali are sung at both Sunni and Shi'a gatherings. If one is sung, it will follow right after the naat. There is usually at least one manqabat in a traditional programme.

A marsiya is a lamentation over the death of much of Imam Husayn's family in the Battle of Karbala. Once again, this would typically be sung only at a Shi'a concert.

A ghazal is a song that sounds secular on the face of it. There are two extended metaphors that run through ghazals -- the joys of drinking and the agony of separation from the beloved. These songs feature exquisite poetry, and can certainly be taken at face value, and enjoyed at that level. In fact, in India and Pakistan, ghazal is also a separate, distinct musical genre in which many of the same songs are performed in a different musical style, and in a secular context. In the context of that genre, the songs are usually taken at face value, and no deeper meaning is necessarily implied. But in the context of qawwali, these songs of intoxication and yearning use secular metaphors to poignantly express the soul's longing for union with the Divine, and its joy in loving the Divine. In the songs of intoxication, "Wine" represents "knowledge of the Divine", the "Cupbearer" (saaqi) is God or a spiritual guide, the "Tavern" is the metaphorical place where the soul may (or may not) be fortunate enough to attain spiritual enlightenment. (The "Tavern" is emphatically not a conventional house of worship. Rather, it is taken to be the spiritual context within which the soul exists) Intoxication is attaining spiritual knowledge, or being filled with the joy of loving the Divine. In the songs of yearning, the soul, having been abandoned in this world by that cruel and cavalier lover, God, sings of the agony of separation, and the depth of its yearning for reunion.

A kafi is a song in Punjabi, which is in the unique style of poets such as Shah Hussain and Baba Bulleh Shah. Two of the more popular Kafis include Ni Main Jana Jogi De Naal and Mera Piya Ghar Aaya.

A munadjaat is a song where the singer displays his thanks to Allah through a variety of linguistic techniques. It is often sung in Persian, with Mawlana Jalāl-ad-Dīn Rumi credited as its inventor.

[edit] Composition of a qawwali party

A group of qawwali musicians, called a party, typically consists of eight or nine men — women are, for all intents and purposes, excluded from traditional Muslim music as respectable women are traditionally prohibited from singing in the presence of men, though these traditions are changing — including a lead singer, one or two side singers, one or two harmoniums (which may be played by lead singer, side singer or someone else), and percussion. If there is only one percussionist, he plays the tabla and dholak, usually the tabla with the left hand and the dholak with the right. Often there will be two percussionists, in which case one might play the tabla and the other the dholak. There is also a chorus of four or five men who repeat key verses, and who aid and abet percussion by hand-clapping.

The performers sit in two rows — the lead singer, side singers and harmonium players in the front row, and the chorus and percussionists in the back row.

Before the fairly recent introduction of the harmonium, qawwalis were usually accompanied by the sarangi. The sarangi had to be retuned between songs; the harmonium didn't, and was soon preferred.

[edit] Musical structure

Songs are usually between 15 to 30 minutes long. However, the longest commercially released qawwali runs slightly over 115 minutes (Hashr Ke Roz Yeh Poochhunga by Aziz Mian Qawwal). The qawwali maestro Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan has at least two songs that are more than 60 minutes long.

Qawwalis tend to begin gently and build steadily to a very high energy level in order to induce hypnotic states both among the musicians and within the audience. Songs are usually arranged as follows:

They start with an instrumental prelude where the main melody is played on the harmonium, accompanied by the tabla, and which may include improvised variations of the melody.

Then comes the alap, a long tonal improvised melody during which the singers intone different long notes, in the raag of the song to be played.

The lead singer begins to sing some preamble verses which are typically not part of the main song, although thematically related to it. These are sung unrhythmically, improvised following the raag, and accompanied only by the harmonium. After the lead singer sings a verse, one of the side singers will repeat the verse, perhaps with his own improvisation. A few or many verses will be sung in this way, leading into the main song.

As the main song begins, the tabla, dholak and clapping begin. All members join in the singing of the verses that constitute the refrain. Normally neither the lyrics of the main verses nor the melodies that go with them are improvised; in fact, these are often traditional songs sung by many groups, especially within the same lineage. As the song proceeds, the lead singer or one of the side singers may break out into an alap. Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan also popularized the interjection of sargam singing at this point. The song usually builds in tempo and passion, with each singer trying to outdo the other in terms of vocal acrobatics. Some singers may do long periods of sargam improvisation, especially alternating improvisations with a student singer. The songs usually end suddenly.

The singing style of qawwali is different from Western singing styles in many ways. For example, in words beginning with an "m", Western singers are apt to stress the vowel following the "m" rather than the "m" itself, whereas in qawwali, the "m" will usually be held, producing a muted tone. Also in qawwali, there is no distinction between what is known as the chest voice and the neck voice (the different areas that sound will resonate in depending on the frequency sung). Rather, qawwals sing very loudly and forcefully, which allows them to extend their chest voice to much higher frequencies than those used in Western singing, even though this usually causes a more noisy or strained sound than would be acceptable in the West.

[edit] Singing Order in Chistiya

Instrumental: This is supposed to be the announcement of the arrival of Khawaja Moinuddin Chishti's, as Sufi believes their saints are free of time-space. Also that Nabi, Siddique, Shaheed, and Saleh category of faithfuls are never dead, just gone into some other state from where they visit whenever they are mentioned, especially if there is a function in their honor.

Hamd

Naat

Manqabat Ali

Manqabat Ghous: Praise of Shaikh Abdul Qadir Jelani

Manqabat Khwaja: Praise of Khwaja Moinuddin Chishti

Manqabat Shaikh: Praise of the Shaikh/Pir if it is his anniversary

Rang or Badhawa: If it is the death anniversary of the Pir, then it is usually Rang, a poem by Amir Khusro. If it is the Shaikh's birthday, it is usually the Badhawa.

[edit] Legendary Qawwals of the Past

Aziz Ahmed Warsi

Aziz Mian Qawwal

Badar Ali Khan (aka Badar Miandad)

Bahauddin Qutbuddin

Fateh Ali Khan Mubarik Ali Khan

Jafar Husain Khan Badauni

Muhammed Saeed Chishti

Munshi Raziuddin

Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan

Sabri Brothers

[edit] Well-known Qawwals of Today

Abida Parveen

Amjad Sabri

Aziz Nazan

Bakshi Javed Salamat

Chhote Aziz Nazan

Faiz Ali Faiz

Fareed Ayaz

Ghulam Sabir Nizami and Ghulam Waris Nizami

Mehr Ali Sher Ali

Najmuddin Saifuddin

Rahat Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan

Sher Miandad Khan

Waheed and Naveed Chishti

Since I'm not going to be able to get out to do new photos because of some serious injuries in a car crash, I have retuned to my other drive to redo older photos.

I realize that I have grown a lot in my skills in post!

This was in colour but has a brand new edit in BW.

Any constrictive criticism would be welcome on this as I'm considering it for a monochrome competition.

37607 is working top & tail with 37612 as they pass Bentinck with the 1Q68 1101 Worksop - Lenton Junction leg of a PLPR3 test train which had originated from York Holgate at 0310, running via Stainforth - Doncaster and Scunthorpe before retuning to Derby RTC on 8th April 23

I trudged silently through the thick foliage, thinking about what was to come. Albornian forces had been spotted to the north, planning an attack on our ports. Without access to the water are situation would be at considerable risk - if the invasion was to be a success, an evacuation would be much harder to organize on land. The lack of access to the sea would also make it harder to contact the other kingdoms - not like there was any need. Neither Melikroth nor Kader had shown any sign if willingness to aid Isloriel.

With these unpleasant thoughts I wandered the Elkmire, searching for signs of the enemy. My captain had ordered me to retrace our steps and try to determine how far away were the Albornians. My observations would determine if our platoon would stay behind and defend the Elkmire or instead march to the sea and defend Zorthan.

After reaching a point about 20 kilometers away from our camp, I retuned and recounted to my captain that there were no Albornian soldiers in sight...

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A free build For the Fractured Kingdoms RPG. If you think there's too much greenery, I believe you may be right.

This is a shot I have wanted for a long time. I have taken this shot with horses in it before. Of course I wanted snow on Snowdrift.

This spring the owner of the ranch told us something spooked his horses. Causing them to run through barb wire fence. Four of the horses retuned to the ranch. He was out looking for the other four.

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A few eagles have retuned so far for their annual feast.

When I think of heaven

Deliver me in a black winged bird

I think of flying down into a sea of pens and feathers

And all other instruments of faith and God in the belly of a

black winged bird.

~ The Rain King - Counting Crows

This, I think, is perhaps one of the best songs ever written. I believe Adam Duritz is describing the transition from this world to the next. As my dad experiences this passage, I try to understand and have faith. Thank you again for your continued outpouring of well wishes and prayers for me and my family. I look forward to retuning soon and catching up with all of you.

Listen here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=AzbxDeDUdrc

My Sons Guitar. Thurrock. Essex.

BR 4MT 2-6-4T 80094 on banking duty at Poole on 1st January 1966.

This was the last day of the regular timetable over the S&D. I travelled down from Bath on the 8.15 with 76013 to Evercreech Junction on the footplate with Bill Gunning and Bill Appleby. From Everchreech I took the 9.55 ex Bath with 73001 to Poole and retuned on the 1./10 from Bournemouth with 76005

This is my best effort at cleaning a very poor negative

57-1440 KC-135R 351st ARS / 100th ARW [RAF Mildenhall] USAFE. [Still with markings on the nose and boom of the 22nd ARW] retuning to Mildenhall as Quid 435.

Soo Line MP15 1512 has just entered Kingbury St. as it was retuning from Wallace Presswith an empty. The elevated portion of Ogden Ave. can be seen in the background at Division and Halsted. My 1983 Reliant is parked next to the engine. One of the Veteran former Milwaukee Road employees is riding the headend. July 1990.

Yellow Bird's Nest / hypopitys monotropa. Stanton Sidings, Derbyshire. 12/08/17.

Yellow Bird's Nest is a rare, native perennial that is localised in S.E England but becomes increasingly scarce further north and west.

Imagine then the thrill I had when I found it growing on an old industrial brownfield site just five minutes drive from home! Since then I've retuned several times to photograph the plants and at last, this evening, I started to achieve the sort of shots I was after.

BEST VIEWED LARGE.

Retuning home.

The Continental GT3-R is a limited (300 units, including 99 in US, 4 in Canada) version of the Continental GT V8 S coupe inspired by the Continental GT3 race car. It features 100 kg (220 lb) weight reduction, increased engine power to 580 PS (427 kW; 572 hp) at 6,000 rpm and 700 N⋅m (516 lb⋅ft) of torque at 1,700 rpm. Other changes include torque vectoring for each of the rear wheels, shorter gearing, recalibrated control software, all-new titanium exhaust with 7 kg weight saving and retuned acoustics, forged 21-inch alloy wheels in gloss black, Pirelli tyres, sport-focused Electronic Stability Control programme, Carbon Silicon Carbide (CSiC) braking system (420 mm front and 356 mm rear brake discs, 8-piston front calipers in green), two-seat cabin with carbon fibre, Alcantara and leather interior upholstery; bespoke sport seats with additional side support through deeper bolsters upholstered in Beluga black leather and diamond-quilted Alcantara, upholstered steering wheel and gear shifter, centre console and fascia panels in carbon fibre, carbon fibre door casings with diamond-quilted Alcantara inner panels, rear cabin with a carbon fibre surround and upholstered in leather and Alcantara, green hide colour on the seats, instrument panel, door panels, contrast stitching throughout the seats and diamond-quilted areas; GT3-R badging on the centre console, passenger-side fascia panel, sill treadplates; GT3-R stitching at seat headrests in with contrast-green stitching, carbon fibre fixed rear wing and boot lid, bonnet with two vents, Glacier White body colour with gloss carbon fibre contrasts, two-tone green graphics tracing two power lines to the side profile of the car (one leading backwards from the front wheel, the other tracing the shape of the Continental GT's rear haunch), headlamp bezels, matrix grille, window surrounds and bumper strips in gloss black. US models also included sequentially numbered GT3-R sill treadplates.

hE Shall Retune Deck Design .V1.!

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Boeing 777-233LR

Flight AC2338 about to land on runway 23 at Toronto Pearson Airport (YYZ) from Victorville (VCV) retuning to service after being stored due to Pandemic

CPKC L31 local eastbound retuning to Wylie yard with 4 new CPKC locomotives (CP7477, CP7516, CP7515, CP7518) at 10th street.

… post that many sunrise or sunset pictures on Flickr, but there was something deeply transitory about the distant flight of geese in the centre that made me share this. I didn't see them at the moment of releasing the shutter, but when I looked at the image on the computer, there they were.

They spoke to me.

I don't remember seeing this many sunrises in previous years. Are they a sinister yet beautiful symptom of climate change? Maybe it's just my own visual filter retuning, as it often does.

LMS Coronation class Pacific no. 6233 'Duchess of Sutherland' heads a Steam Dreams charter 'The Coronation', retuning to Kings Cross, past Hambleton on the final leg of a 3 day tour. The loco had replaced class A4 no. 60019 at York, which had worked the charter from Edinburgh

Cruise above the Alps retuning from Milan to Manchester on this FlyBe E-195.

1/52 And the vagrant retuned to embark on a 52 Project.... hope you enjoy this as much as I hope to through the weeks. Camera I have missed you

Davis-Monthan AFB.

Tucson, AZ.

12-9-25.

Photo by: Ned Harris.

Note: The 127th and, under current plans, last F-16 to be converted into an optionally-piloted QF-16 full scale aerial target was delivered to the U.S. Air Force recently . The aircraft I caught today (QF-073) retuned from Tyndall AFB, Florida to DM to fix an issue and rework.

The wheel turns and ever so slowly the light and warmth begin to return. Snowdrops herald the first hints of the coming springtime as, little by little, the retuning light chases away the long dark days of winter.

Presidio, Texas, was at the far west end of Santa Fe's longest branch line (384.9 miles from San Angelo Junction to Presidio over three districts: San Angelo, Fort Stockton and Alpine). On October 18, 1968, the Alpine District local sits in front of the Presidio station while the conductor obtains train orders to head back to Fort Stockton. The crew had finished local switching and had just retuned from shoving a cut of cars across the Rio Grande to the Chihuahua Pacific Railroad at Ojinaga, Chihuahua. Photo by Joe McMillan.

Some of the branch today is operated by Texas Pacifico Transportation, but trains no longer run to Presidio. The Presidio station was later destroyed by fire.

Hispano HA-1112 M4L Buchon White 9 G-AWHH

Hispano Buchon essentially a Rolls-Royce Merlin-engine Messerschmitt Bf109 The Luftwaffe manned Condor Legion left around 40 Bf109's for the Spanish Air Force to use upon its return to Germany in 1939

Seen here retuning from a Airshow

Photo taken 23rd August at Imperial War Museum Duxford Cambridgeshire UK

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Retuning to the Oak Ridges trails

Uxbridge Ontario

The 4 (foreground) 3 (background right) and 2 (background left) at St Mark, Swindon, Wilts. The 4 is a maiden bell - that is, it has never been tuned. Bells 3-8 are 1904 Llewellins & James of Bristol, 1-2 are 1927 Mears & Stainback of London. Tenor 11½cwt in F#, these are a lovely ring rehung, but NOT retuned in 1993.

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Coca cola Truck 2012 outside Cardiff winter wonderland, retuning to Asda Coryton Cardiff on 3rd Dec 2015

XM607 Avro Vulcan B.2, preserved awaiting a re-spray before being retuned to its display spot next to the A15.

Ghasha Dreding vessel built at IHC Holland

Little Tern, (Sternula albifrons) retuning to the nest with a sand eel to feed the young.

Out of the fog

On my way to several appointments dealing with research for my first book in Berlin and points both north and east I included a visit of the now called "Döllnitzbahn" from Oschatz to Mügeln. It was still all steam. Since the integration of the Deutsche Bundesbahn and the Deutsche Reichsbahn roster in 1992 the century-old steamers shared the same roster as the 250 kph ICE trains.

I opted for a night train from Karlsruhe by way of Frankfurt to Leipzig. With a local train I reached Oschatz the next day and took public transport to Mügeln as by the schedule the lone active locomotive should be there.

On September 13, 1993 I found not one but two Meyers under steam in the dense fog at Mügeln. The 099 713, as the former Deutsche Reichsbahn 99 1608 was now numbered, was the scheduled steamer while a sister loco was out for a retuning of the safety valves.

The friendly staff let me have a look inside the shed where three more Meyers were sitting cold. Time was running up, by end of the year the ownership went to the private entity of the Döllnitzbahn GmbH. Regular steam ended 1994, freight ended in 2001.

I hiked along the line to Schweta, a distance of three kilometers to wait for the freight to Oschatz. A couple of coal empties was all the business to do. The train was mostly on a sight downgrade here, the fire was doing good so the fireman enjoyed a few minutes at the cab opening of the engine built in 1921. There are no windows to close, anyways.

Remember, this was a daily affair in Germany in 1993.

145 Coal hoppers retuning to the States

1944 Douglas C-47A Skytrain C-FDTD 12253

This aircraft was built at Oklahoma USA and started it Military career serving with the USAAF as 42-92451 it was then transferred to RAF 271 squadron as FZ668, On D-Day loaded with paratroopers it headed to France with approx. 108 planes to drop paratroopers near to the river Dive in France there target was to destroy the bridge , the aircraft safely retuned to Blake hill Farm in the UK

Photo taken at EAA Airventure Wittman Regional Airport Oshkosh Wisconsin USA July 2019

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5 tbsp French butter

5 tbsp flour

2 shallots - fine dice

1 celery rib - fine dice

2 scallions - fine dice (white part only)

1 tsp sea salt

1 tsp ground white pepper

1/2 tsp ground thyme

pinch ground cloves

1 tsp smoked paprika

1 qt seafood stock

1 cup heavy cream

1 bay leaf

16 oz domestic wild-caught jumbo lump crabmeat

dash Worcestershire sauce

1/4 cup sherry

1/2 tsp ground nutmeg

1 tsp cayenne pepper

1 tbsp minced parsley

Melt the butter in a medium Dutch oven. Add the flour, whisking constantly to make a white roux. Add the diced aromatics and stir in; cook over medium heat until the vegetables are softened and translucent, about 5 minutes. Add the salt, white pepper, thyme, cloves, and paprika; stir in.

Add stock to the pot about a cup at a time; each time retuning the pot to a gentle boil. Simmer for about 20-30 minutes partially covered so that the stock reduces gradually and the mixture thickens to a thin gravy consistency.

Use an immersion blender inside the pot to smooth the soup, about three minutes.

Add cream, bay leaf, and crabmeat. Gently stir in the crabmeat so as not to break up the backfin lumps.

Cook on low heat for 15 minutes but do not let it come to a full boil.

Gently stir in Worcestershire, sherry, nutmeg, cayenne, and parsley. Heat through and serve.

You can sprinkle on a little more heat like me if you wish!

Them

And so, the story goes. I took a stroll through the garden of good and evil and I saw her sitting on a leaf. I retuned a few minutes later to find this this character just hanging around on another leaf. A more searching and I happened upon the Monarch Instar and captured that we gem. When I returned to the previous area, I discovered a Him and a Her hanging around as well. Anyway, you get the picture. I think that these are just your old basic Bird Grasshoppers but hope that someone will correct me if I’m wrong. Sorry that these are in reverse order, but that’s just the way Flickr works. I'll call this post Him, Her and Them

Thanks Brody for the proper ID.

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As the pan-ice forms on the Matanuska River - the winter sky colors the water, turning the landscape into a magical scene. I captured this yesterday as we were retuning home from Palmer Alaska.