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So it's my 30th year of dressing, one way or another this year, from when as a curious and hormonal 13 year old I slid my feet into my mom's old discarded strappy heels from her cupboard, home alone and horny lol :-)
When I decided about 2 years ago to explore my femme side more, as an antidote and release from daily life, one of things I dreamt of was a trip to the seaside! In my dream I would paddle in a warm sea with my pedicured toes, gentle waves lapping and a lovely warm breeze on a sunny day. Then came covid. I tried to go to the seaside last September at Weston super mare, and it was a comical disaster, blowing a gale, mud not sand, hair nearly went to Cardiff and flashed two pensioners when my dress blew up!
Fast forward to Wednesday, I decided 190 miles to go to Sophie's in Plymouth was doable and had a makeover with the lovely Juliette then went to one of my favourite beaches at Exmouth, the weather was stunning, and just like my dream the warm sea lapped around my pedicured toes lol. The locals were less sure about me lol!
So that leads me to what I do want to do next! I've never been big on clubbing, I want to meet some of my new friends for a relaxing pint and chat, I still have an all time dream to go and listen to some Rachmaninov as Della.
What's on your wish list folks? ♥️♥️♥️ P. S thanks for reading
Steller's Jays are a familiar sight and sound in the mountainous west of North America. In the forests they usually stay high up, and the usual view is in flight. But they also gather round picnic areas and will steal unattended food. I photographed this one at a camp ground, which is how I managed to get such a clear shot. This was at the north of Vancouver Island at Cluxewe.
The People's Palace is a heritage-listed building and a former temperance hotel in the Brisbane CBD, City of Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. It is located at 308 Edward Street on the southern corner with Ann Street, diagonally opposite to Brisbane's Central Railway Station. Wikipedia
ID is an intermediate Swainson's Hark since the dark colored feathers do not go past its belly band.
Regardless a glorious sight.
Cochise County AZ
My last bird shot of 2014!
Townsend's warbler (Setophaga townsendi) is a small songbird of the New World warbler family.
These birds have a yellow face with a black stripe across their cheeks extending into an ear patch, a thin pointed bill, two white wing bars, olive upperparts with black streaks on their backs and flanks, and a white belly. Adult males have a black cap, black throat and yellow lower breast; females have a dark cap and a yellow throat. Immature birds are similar to females with a dark green cap and cheeks.
Their breeding habitats are coniferous forests with large trees on the northwestern coast of North America. Their nests are shallow cups built with grass and lined with moss. These nests are usually placed atop a branch in a conifer. The female lays 4 to 5 brown-speckled white eggs.
This bird is closely related to the hermit warbler, and the two species interbreed where their ranges overlap.
Birds from the Queen Charlotte Islands migrate short distances further south on the Pacific coast. Other birds winter in Mexico, Central America, and the south-western United States.
They forage actively in the higher branches, sometimes hovering or catching insects in flight. They mainly eat insects and spiders and seeds. Outside of the nesting season, these birds forage in mixed flocks. In winter, they also eat berries and plant nectar.
The song of the male bird is a buzzed zee-zee-zee-bzz-zee, somewhat similar to that of its eastern relative, the black-throated green warbler. The call is a sharp tup.
This bird was named after the American ornithologist, John Kirk Townsend. Although Townsend is also credited with first describing this bird, he used a name chosen by Thomas Nuttall, who was travelling with him, and so sidestepped the convention against naming a species after oneself.
California.
So here it is, then – Koh Ta Pu, also known as James Bond Island. It’s in the magical setting of Phang Nga Bay, one of the undisputed jewels in Thailand’s marine crown. The bay, covering some 400 sq kms, is an area of outstanding limestone cliffs and stacks, mangroves, sea grass beds, coral reefs and intertidal wetlands.
And here, left of frame, is Koh Ta Pu, the stack which featured in the James Bond film The Man with the Golden Gun starring Roger Moore as 007 and Christopher Lee as the villain Scaramanga. The stack rises to some 21 metres and has a diameter of around 4 metres at sea level and 8 metres at the top. Although it’s a major tourist site and sight, no boats are allowed anywhere near it because of its vulnerability to erosion and eventual collapse. You view it from a distance. And what a view!
Devil's Kitchen is a slot in the rocky shoreline along the Marginal Way. It can be a fearsome place to photograph when the waves surge unpredictably up through the slot. On this day the tide was halfway out into calm seas and waves would still explode near the large center rock and push me back. The close walls on either side help to amplify the sound of the water just to increase the fear factor. High tide is shot from the walkway above the cliffs.
Ogunquit, ME
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Toyota XZB50R / Caetano Optimo CS700 C22F. The Caetano Optimo has recently evolved into what could be described as a 'mini Levante'. The latest generation of Caetano's minicoach is known as the Optimo CS700, and Hodge's 2916PH is the first of only a handful of UK examples. New in September 2013, 2916PH is seen at the depot in April 2014.
Oplopanax horridus
Devil’s Club, Alaska Ginsing or Hiker’s Bane. Oplapanax horridus means prickly ginseng. Watch out! There are thorns on the leaves and stem. A member of the ginseng family, the root of this plant cures a variety of ills and ailments.
Nobody's Child (song)
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
"Nobody's Child"
"Nobody's Child" is a song written by Cy Coben and Mel Foree. It was first recorded by Hank Snow in 1949 and it became one of his standards, although it did not chart for him. The song has been covered a number of times in the UK; it was on Lonnie Donegan's first album in 1956 (which went to #2 as an album in the UK), it was covered by Tony Sheridan and the Beat Brothers (The Beatles) in 1961 in Hamburg, and in 1969 Karen Young took the song to #6 on the UK charts and used it as the title track on her album. In 1969 Hank Williams Jr. did a version of it that made it to #46 on the US Country charts. The Traveling Wilburys' 1990 version made it to #44 on the UK charts.
I'm nobody's child, I'm nobody's child, I'm like a flower, just growing wild,
No Mummy's kisses, and no Daddy's smiles. Nobody wants me,
I'm nobody's child.
No Mommy's arms to hold me, and soothe me when I cry,
Sometimes I feel so lonesome, I wish that I would die.
I'd walk the streets of Heaven, where all the eyes could see,
And just like all the other kids, there'd be a home for me,
Tree Swallow
Tachycineta bicolor
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Mount Lemmon. Arizona. 4/28/2016.
Just got back from a week in SE Arizona where I went to focus on western warblers. My good friend David Cree went along with me. He's been there multiple times, and his experience with western species was helpful. Between his experience, and my ear we were able to locate almost all of our target species for photography.
There's something about the S-curve...
(here it's Lake Creek S-curving into Wigeon Bay)
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Summer 2018 3rd leg: We'd planned a few weeks in southern Colorado, then wised up and went to Utah instead.
June 20: Moving camp: after a record six days on Boulder Mountain (a record stay for us anywhere), we moved up to Fish Lake.
The classic Roy's sign in Amboy on the California swing of Route 66. I tried to shoot this in the mid-90s and the owner ran me off with a shotgun. There was no one out there this time, probably because it was well after midnight.
Night, full moon, 30 second exposure, flashlight.
Reprocessed and replaced, November 2023.
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Seeing this Fernandina’s Flicker was a huge thrill during our visit to Cuba. It was explained to us that this bird is critically endangered. Upon further investigation when I returned home the decline of this species is due to habitat loss. What a terrible loss it would be to no longer have these magnificent birds around.
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Colaptes fernandinae
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Druid's Stone, a gritstone tor on the south-eastern corner of Kinder Scout.
And yes that is snow and yes it was bitterly cold with a strong northerly wind blowing.
The Lesser Celandine is one of our earliest spring flowers and, despite its Welsh name of Llygad Ebrill (‘April’s Eye’), it can appear as early as the latter part of February when the earth is still in the grip of winter. Our Celtic cousins also noted the flower’s starry golden face for its Gaelic name is Grianne (‘Sun’) ...... it is related to buttercup, marsh marigold, and spearwort.
Contrary to popular belief it was the Lesser Celandine rather than the Daffodil which is said to have been William Wordsworth’s favourite flower and he was so fond of the flowers that he had them carved on his tomb.
“There is a Flower, the Lesser Celandine,
That shrinks, like many more, from cold and rain;
And, at the first moment that the sun may shine,
Bright as the sun itself, ‘tis out again!”
Anna's Hummingbird
Calypte anna
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Yayay! We had a movie night tonight and a bunch of friends came over and I wanted to take a photo with one of them but these guys followed me out to the road so I said "Let's do a jump!" So we did. :) This makes me so happy.
Also this photo is for the day I missed.
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This group of runners in a charity race call themselves the M & M's like the candies they hold up!
Ottawa.
Italien / Südtirol - Ultental
Ultimo Farm Trail
Ultner Höfeweg
The Ulten Valley (German: Ultental or Ulten, Italian: Val d'Ultimo) is a 40 km long mountain valley in the western part of the province of South Tyrol in northern Italy.
It is the valley of the stream Falschauer, a right tributary of the Adige. Its orientation is southwest to northeast, parallel to the lower Vinschgau, and it is located south of Meran. The valley ends in the commune of Lana. A small road leading south connects the valley with Proveis and the Val di Non in Trentino.
The municipality Ulten covers most of the Ulten valley. The lower part of the valley is in the municipality of St. Pankraz. The population of the Ulten valley is predominantly German-speaking (more than 98% according to 2001 census). The westernmost, highest part of the valley is part of the Stelvio National Park.
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The Ultimo Farm Trail - "Via dei Masi" in Italian, "Ultner Höfeweg" in German - is one of the best ways to get to know the valley and its beautiful old mountain farms. Starting in Pracupola (Kuppelwies), we follow the trail on the sunny side of the valley until Santa Geltrude (St. Gertraud) and hike back on its shady side. The trail is 18 km long and can be done in one or two days. Today, we decide to do the longer of the two parts of the Ultimo Farm Trail. Starting at the Ultimo Valley Museum (Ultner Talmuseum) in San Nicolò (St. Nikolaus), we pass the church and hike upwards, following the signpost "Ultner Höfeweg". First, the trail leads up the valley into the forest.
We see and smell the first signs of spring. Up and down the valley, across some small bridges and passing several beautiful mountain farms with typical shingle roofs, we follow the trail through forest and meadows. The trail is very well marked and maintained. After about 3 km, we reach the highest point of this hiking tour at 1,468 m a.s.l. Getting closer to the top of the valley, the trail leads gently downwards until we reach Santa Geltrude.
After a short rest we start our way back on the other side of the Valsura river. After about 20 minutes from Santa Geltrude, we pass the huge ancient larch trees before we finally reach San Nicolò, the starting point of the Ultimo Farm Trail, which unites culture, way of life, history and nature in a very beautiful and unique way. This tour is particularly recommendable from late spring (when also the shady side of the valley is empty of snow) until autumn.
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Das Ultental, auch einfach Ulten genannt (italienisch Val d'Ultimo), ist das 40 km lange Tal der Falschauer in den Ortler-Alpen in Südtirol. Es verläuft parallel zum nördlich gelegenen Vinschgau und mündet bei Lana ins Etschtal. Der größte Teil des Ultentals gehört zu den Gemeinden Ulten und St. Pankraz, der Taleingangsbereich zur Gemeinde Lana. Die obersten Talabschnitte befinden sich im Nationalpark Stilfser Joch.
Die Ortschaften im Ultental, in talauswärts gerichteter Reihenfolge, sind
St. Gertraud (1501 m, ca. 300 Einwohner)
St. Nikolaus (1256 m, ca. 300 Einwohner)
Kuppelwies (1153 m, ca. 150 Einwohner)
St. Walburg (1190 m, ca. 2200 Einwohner)
St. Pankraz (735 m, ca. 1568 Einwohner)
Zwischen St. Walburg und St. Pankraz zweigt nach Süden die Straße über das Hofmahdjoch ins Nonstal ab.
In der Nähe von St. Gertraud befinden sich die drei Ultner Urlärchen, die auf ein Alter von 850 Jahren taxiert werden.
Der Ort St. Walburg weist mit dem latènezeitlichen Brandopferplatz am Kirchhügel eine im Alpenraum herausragende archäologische Fundstelle auf.
In der Mitte des Ultentals befindet sich das Skigebiet Schwemmalm. Des Weiteren gibt es eine Langlaufloipe von St. Nikolaus nach St. Gertraud.
Das Ultental bietet auch viele Tourenmöglichkeiten für Bergwanderer. Angefangen von gekennzeichneten Wanderwegen bis hin zu hochalpinen Tourstrecken. Der höchste der Ultner Berge ist die Hintere Eggenspitze mit 3443 m.
Im 19. und Anfang des 20. Jahrhunderts hielten sich besonders im Badeort Mitterbad bei St. Pankraz viele berühmte Persönlichkeiten auf, so etwa Kaiserin Elisabeth v. Österreich, Bismarck, Franz Defregger, Hermann Sudermann, Franz Kafka, Hermione v. Preuschen, Domherr Graf zur Lippe, Thomas Mann und Heinrich Mann. Viele kamen wegen des bekannten Arztes und Philosophen Dr. Christoph Hartung von Hartungen, der in Riva am Gardasee das Sanatorium von Hartungen betrieb und im hinteren Ultental, bei St. Nikolaus, seine Sommervilla Hartungshausen besaß.
Die Wasserkraftwerke im Ultental sind eine Reihe von Speicherkraftwerken, welche die Wasserkraft der Falschauer und ihrer Nebenflüsse und -bäche mit Hilfe von sechs Stauseen zur Gewinnung von Energie nützen.
(Wikipedia)
Der Ultner Höfeweg eignet sich besonders gut, um einen Eindruck vom Ultental zu bekommen und die urigen Höfe, die das Tal so besonders machen, aus nächster Nähe zu erkunden. Der Höfeweg startet in Kuppelwies und führt auf der Sonnenseite taleinwärts bis nach St. Gertraud, talauswärts verläuft er auf der Schattenseite - insgesamt ist er etwa 18 km lang und kann in einer Tageswanderung als auch in zwei Teil-Etappen zurückgelegt werden. Wir entscheiden uns heute für den längeren der zwei Teilabschnitte. Wir starten am Ultner Talmuseum in St. Nikolaus und wandern an der Kirche vorbei aufwärts, der Markierung "Höfeweg" folgend.
Der Weg führt taleinwärts und in einer Steigung in den Wald hinein. Der Frühling liegt in der Luft und die ersten Boten sind auch hier schon zu sehen. In ständigem Auf und Ab, über Brücklein und vorbei an hübschen Paarhöfen - natürlich mit typischen Schindeldächern - im Wald und über Wiesen. Der Weg ist stets gut ausgeschildert, die Orientierung ist einfach. Den höchsten Punkt der Wanderung (1.468 m ü.d.M.) erreichen wir nach etwas mehr als 3 km. Nähert man sich dem Talschluss, geht es allmählich bergab, bis man im Dorf St. Gertraud ankommt. Nach einer kleinen Rast machen wir uns auf den Rückweg, der entlang der anderen Seite der Falschauer verläuft.
Dieser Abschnitt ist schattiger und erst im späten Frühling schneefrei. Nach etwa 20 Minuten ab St. Gertraud gelangen wir zu den Ultner Urlärchen. Deren Umfang ist wahrlich erstaunlich! Blickt man auf die gegenüberliegende Talseite, staunt man über die Lage mancher Höfe. Allmählich nähern wir uns wieder St. Nikolaus, wo unsere Wanderung am Ultner Höfeweg endet. Kultur, Lebensweise, Geschichte und Natur sind entlang dieses Weges in einzigartiger Weise vereint. Empfehlenswert vom späten Frühling (Schattenseite oft erst spät schneefrei) bis Herbst.
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