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"What good is the warmth of summer, without the cold of winter to give it sweetness."
- John Steinbeck
I'm sending warm wishes to all of you this holiday season. Here's to finding light, love and peace on Earth...and good will to all.
Sunrise polder dike Purmer, called Oudelandsdijkje, nearby Purmerend, 2016.
Again, I would like to thank everyone for your support, views, faves and comments!
"We were made to enjoy music, to enjoy beautiful sunsets, to enjoy looking at the billows of the sea and to be thrilled with a rose that is bedecked with dew… Human beings are actually created for the transcendent, for the sublime, for the beautiful, for the truthful... and all of us are given the task of trying to make this world a little more hospitable to these beautiful things."
Desmond Tutu
“People once believed that when someone dies, a crow carries their soul to the land of the dead. But sometimes, something so bad happens that a terrible sadness is carried with it and the soul can't rest. Then sometimes, just sometimes, the crow can bring that soul back to put the wrong things right.”
~ James O'Barr, The Crow
These little guys are all over the boardwalk, they stay away from the humans for the most part. This one in particular was playing a little hide and seek, but I keep waiting for him to try to sell me insurance.
人生旅途有如迷宮
一路上充滿著未知、挑戰與障礙
當停止前行，就沒機會出去
若能持續向前行，從錯誤中學到教訓，
也許轉個彎，就會是要找尋的出口。
(攝於摩洛哥Morocco 卡薩布蘭卡 Casablanca)
This is an emotional image for me any time I see it but right now with all that is going on I find myself more emotional than ever. This beautiful Canada goose frantically flew over me several times going back and forth. It appears to have lost it's mate. It was squawking in a frantic manner until it flew out of my sight then I would hear it coming back over me doing the same thing time and time again. Geese possess a veritably human capacity for grief. Their feelings and emotions are far less different from us than you assume. Quite literally, humans, a dog, and a goose hang their heads, lose their appetites, and become indifferent to all stimuli emanating from the environment. For grief-striken human beings, as well as for geese, one effect is that they become outstandingly vulnerable to accidents; they tend to fly into high-tension cables or fall prey to predators because of their reduced alertness.
There have been reports of pair bonds that are so strong that if one goose is shot down by a hunter, the partner will circle back. Drawn by its need to stay with its lifelong companion, the single goose will often ignore the sound of shooting and return to die with its mate.
In The Pig Who Sang To The Moon, Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson writes about a goose who had a broken wing. During the fall migration, as other geese flew south, her gander accompanied her by air and by foot. She was going to walk south since she was unable to fly. He would not leave her, so after flying for a few hundred yards, he would stop and wait for her to catch up. He would call to her with his wildest, most piercing cry, urging her to spread her wings and fly with him to their distant home. He accompanied her until she was killed by carrion eagles and he had to continue his journey alone.
Widowed geese have been observed circling around and around, crying in heartrending sorrowful tones when their partners die or are shot by hunters. The remaining goose may mourn for a period of time and then mate again. Or they may mourn for the rest of their lives and never seek another mate. Just as with people, it varies with individual geese.....Choo Choo Rosenbloom
So I stood in the field with this knowledge and wept as she or he kept flying over me and frantically calling for their mate. It's an incredibly sad thing to witness.
Everyone please be safe. Thinking of you all.
This female belted kingfisher has had The Who song “The Seeker” stuck in her head for most of her life, though with more of a yearning for fish than for the truth. She has allowed her lust for fish to overcome any desire to frustrate bird watchers and photographers wanting to get a clear look at her. Most self-respecting kingfishers won’t let a human with binoculars or a zoom lens get within a quarter of a mile of them. She however has allowed her taste for wriggling sushi to quash this cardinal rule of the kingfisher kingdom.
Interestingly during the winter male kingfishers get kicked out of our area by female kingfishers tired of their selfish behavior, so they can have a few months of peace and quiet before the breeding season. The males tell a different story though, suggesting they are saddled with the responsibility of maintaining their breeding territories further north while the females lollygag in balmy weather, enjoying plenty of fish.
On a grim, dreary day, a touch of sunlight lit up this tree hidden among the conifers. The low light just screamed to make this monochrome. Taken deep in Hillock Wood, Princes Risborough. Hope you enjoy.
Our home made bird feeder would not accommodate larger birds like Cardinals or Blue Jays, but these two White Throated Sparrows found refuge from the winter wind and snow while wallowing in the wild bird seeds.
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It was an exceedingly windy day, so I can't help but think that the hoverfly was hanging onto the stamen of a day lily for a bit of protection.
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Leaving Anchorage and heading South down the Seward Highway you see the lovely mountains across Turnagain Arm. Here I captured the interesting clouds and mountains that still have a lot of snow across the waters. The low clouds would sometimes obscure the view so it made me think the mountains were playing hide and seek with me.
Taken 5 April 2023 off the Seward Highway.
The 41 Sqn special caught A2A afer departing from RIAT 2016. What a fantastic experience, many thanks to Rich Cooper at COAP, and Eric and his team at the Aviation Photocrew.
New year, new trails!! Well, the trail grooming in the winter makes this a new trail every morning. We were heading out much further, this loop takes you back to the Day Lodge.
Hope you have a wonderful 2023!
This week's alternative for MM, I couldn't choose between this and the Iris. Hubby liked this one and the others in the house liked the Iris, the one that got posted.
Sometimes it's difficult to find the cats these days. Tofu took refuge in the garden shed this morning when he heard thunder in the distance. It's not so much the thunder he hates but the rain which usually accompanies a thunderstorm. I on the other hand welcome every drop of rain at the moment.