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To me it just isn't spring until I've heard two or three of my favorite bird songs. The first being the Meadowlark and the second being the Canyon wren and the third being the Rock Wren. The wrens and the meadowlark occupy very different habitats that I like to wander in pursuit of wildlife and both have hauntingly beautiful songs that when combined with the sights and smells of spring, entice me to stay in the wild and return to the city no more. If only...
This past weekend I heard both rock wrens and canyon wrens in the canyons I visited. So I just need to get out and hear some meadowlarks now.
Here is a link to the songs of the wrens:
No description this time around, but you can read the story behind this image and many other taken the same day here.
Enjoy!
Delaware Ave, Toronto ON 17 Sep 2022
Rock, Paper, Funk plays the Delaware Street Festival, after a 2-year pandemic hiatus
EXPLORED: A magnificent rock balancing...Rock on rock...
I will build my towers with balance....
Setting f/32, 20secs
Just happened to see a man building this rock towers near Majayjay Falls
Church Rock, Navajo Nation, Arizona. 21-11-2011.
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THE BASS ROCK is situated in the Firth of Forth,two miles east of North Berwick and one mile off the mainland. (Position on a Nautical Chart - 56` 4.6' N. 2` 38.3' W.) A huge trachyte plug rising 313 feet, with three sides of sheer cliff, and a tunnel piercing the rock to a depth of 105 metres. The gentler slope to the south forms a lower promontory where the ruins of a castle stand dating back to at least 1405. Where James the second son of Robert III, later to become James I was sent by his father until a vessel was found to transport him to France as the king's brother the Duke of Albany had designs on the throne. Albany tipped off the English who intercepted James's ship and imprisoned the prince in the Round Tower at Windsor for nineteen years.
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Rock pools are a very distinctive feature of the Sydney coastline; most of the headlands separating Sydney's beaches have one. This one is at South Curl Curl.
This little gem on the North Shore coastline can be found just south of Grand Portage at the Hollow Rock Resort. We stopped by as the sun was setting, only to be disappointed that the heavy cloud cover was preventing any direct light from hitting the rocky outcrop. I took a few shots, and then was rewarded as the clouds momentarily parted and the ice assumed a brilliant glow just before the sun dipped below the tree-lined horizon. The image was desaturated a bit to help convey the moodiness of the cloudy sky while accenting the ice covering the rock.
My daughter Gaia loves playing this game ... probably because she always wins. I thought I was being strategic and clever by choosing 'rock' every time but she worked that out in an instant and kept 'papering' me. So now I won't play. So grown up.
My son plays lead guitar in the school rock band.He is the one doing the scissor kick to pump up his band mates and the audience. I have to admit, I was on an emotional high seeing him rocking out. After the show, it continued as people went out of their way to congratulate him on his performance. Then he went off to the USA directly from the show to see Bruce Springsteen with one his teachers.
ODC - adventure (of youth)
Lower Punch Bowl Falls in the columbia River Gorge.
A little something for Waterfall Wednesday . Stay dry, have a nice day.
A very common and usually ignored bird, it's actually quite pretty and more folks would pay attention to it, I think, if it were less frequently seen.
Kyaiktiyo Pagoda, also known as Golden Rock) is a well-known Buddhist pilgrimage site in Mon State, Burma. It is a small pagoda (7.3 metres (24 ft) built on the top of a granite boulder covered with gold leaves pasted on by devotees. According to legend, the Golden Rock itself is precariously perched on a strand of the Buddha's hair. The balancing rock seems to defy gravity, as it perpetually appears to be on the verge of rolling down the hill. The rock and the pagoda are at the top of Mt. Kyaiktiyo. It is the third most important Buddhist pilgrimage site in Burma after the Shwedagon Pagoda and the Mahamuni Pagoda. A glimpse of the "gravity defying" Golden Rock is believed to be enough of an inspiration for any person to turn to Buddhism.
The legend associated with the pagoda is that the Buddha, on one of his many visits, gave a strand of his hair to Taik Tha, a hermit. The hermit, who had tucked it in the tuft of his hair safely, in turn gave the strand to the king, with the wish that the hair be enshrined in a boulder shaped like the hermit's head. The king had inherited supernatural powers from his father Zawgyi, a proficient alchemist), and his mother, a naga serpent dragon princess. They found the rock at the bottom of the sea. With the help of the Thagyamin, the king of Tawadeintha Heaven in Buddhist cosmology, found the perfect place at Kyaiktiyo for locating the golden rock and built a pagoda, where the strand was enshrined. It is this strand of hair that, according to the legend, prevents the rock from tumbling down the hill. The boat, which was used to transport the rock, turned into a stone. This is also worshiped by pilgrims at a location about 300 metres (980 ft) from the golden rock. It is known as the Kyaukthanban Pagoda or stupa (literal meaning: stone boat stupa).
Legends also mention that pilgrims undertaking the pilgrimage by trekking from the Kinpun base camp three times consecutively in a year will be blessed with wealth and recognition.
The country of Monaco’s main focal point is the mighty walls of the Rock of Monaco that surround the old village of Monaco-Ville, the historical quarter. These walls can be seen from almost every location within the tiny country from the mountain side to the harbors and the land in between. You can see this wonderful view from the Jardin Exotique de Monaco.
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Moon playing hide and seek behind the clouds at Courthouse Rock, Sedona at sunset
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Newspaper Rock are Petroglyphs or images that have been cared into the surface of desert rock. Desert varnish, the dark color of sandstone provided a high contrast canvas for the native American to etch their stories and experiences.
Petroglyph Panel
Bears Ears National Monument
National Conservation Lands
Deep Rock brand gasoline has been around since 1913. The brand was purchased by Kerr-McGee in 1955. At the time of the merger Deep Rock brand appeared on over 1000 stations in 16 Mid-Continental states.
This former gas station has been used off & on as retail space but is currently abandoned...
The Flint Hills are an area of rolling plains in the eastern part of Kansas. They are only hilly compared to the rest of the state, but it's a beautiful area. This is Teter Rock, which sits on Teter Hill, one of the highest points in the area. The rock was erected as a landmark for pioneer families on their way west. It's visible for miles around.
This is the view from the Fallen Rock overlook which is the fourth scenic overlook along Rim Rock Drive at Colorado National Monument. I'm confident that you can easily spot the "Fallen Rock which is a striking example of how giant slabs of sandstone break loose from the cliff wall and slide down to rest on the debris slope below-all without falling over. Look closely and you can see the Kayenta Formation caprock on top of Fallen Rock. That tells us that it used to be connected to the mesa top and has slid down more than 100 feet (30 meters). It is likely that Fallen Rock slid thousands of years ago." This is more useful information I found in the Rim Rock Drive Geology pamphlet. I love this view as it shows the large size of the Grand Mesa in the far distance. The Grand Mesa is the largest flat-topped mountain in the entire world.
Located high on the Colorado Plateau near Grand Junction, the Colorado National Monument was established in 1911 and is managed by the National Park Service.
It's the start of a Rock and Drill concert! You know it'll be great because the background has what looks like a hurricane icon. Look to the right of the guitar to find it.
Just returned from a wonderful trip to South Africa where I had the absolute pleasure of guiding the photographical game-drives for a group of very special people at Marataba Game Reserve in South Africa.
Those of you that know me a bit longer here on Flickr, know that I simply can't resist a Lilac Breasted Roller. Especially not when it flies against the backdrop of the beautiful Waterberg Mountains..
So there's rock, and a Roller..
Canon 1D Mark IV, Canon 500mm f4
ISO 640, 1/3200s, f4,0
Our ranger guide told us this sandstone outcrop was called "Sacrifice Rock". We thought someone had been sacrificed there in the past. It turned out that was just the park rangers' imagination when they got bored in the field.