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Saturday afternoon I spent over two hours composing a commentary to post with this photo. Now I have decided against using it, mainly because I am not altogether convinced that Flickr is the appropriate forum for discussing what I do and don't believe in and why. And, when it comes to religion, there is also that I have always been more of a "show me who you are" than "tell me who your are" sort of person. So, to make a long story short, I will say this...
This photo is dedicated, as a memento of what Easter is about, to all the Christian Flickr-ites. Days like Christmas and Easter are not considered as "Holy" days for me, personally. For most of my remaining family, and for a lot of my friends, they are. And I respect their (and everyone else's) rights to their beliefs every bit as much as I expect them to respect my right to my beliefs.
To everyone of you who have wished me a Happy Easter, I sincerely thank you. And it will be a wonderful Easter Sunday, because just like every other Sunday, I'll be spending it with loved ones. I hope your day is filled with peace and love.
Blessings of Great Spirit,
Katharine
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Now, anybody up for some Kristopherson? I have always loved this song...
Spent a couple of hours today at The National White Water Centre - Canolfan Dŵr Gwyn Genedlaethol, didn't venture too far from the cafe as the tea and cake was too nice As you might expect, I took a few snaps whilst I was there, don't know why I don't visit more often, I always enjoy it here
Spent some time today with the wild Bank Voles. The farmers Corn on the Cob fields have been cut and many have been left and the animals are having a field day.
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Spent a day a the coast to relax from the heat, as this Seagull did it's flyby to see if we had any scraps for it to eat, I gave it some bread and it was very happy to receive. Lol.
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Lol, Gaston ~~~~~~Please view in large size if you like.
I spent 3 days in Cardiff and area late last week. I witnessed some epic sunrises and sunsets but probably my favourite photo is from this sandy beach on Gower peninsula. It was quite an unusual sight seeing a cyclist on the beach with sand blowing towards me
I spent a few days hiking in the Sedona, Arizona area in mid-December. The hike up to Devil's Bridge was a challenge, but the view was great (getting back down was worse than the climb up). The 4.5-mile out-and-back is rated as "moderate" .... maybe it was trying to protect the camera that made it seem harder for me ;)
Spent the day driving around the South Coast yesterday. Last stop was the lighthouse at Beachy Head. It was bitterly cold with the arctic winds eventually driving me back to seek shelter in the car.
Spent Power!
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Spent the day at the Pirate Festival in North Las Vegas to photograph all the cool and interesting people.
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Spent some time in my garden hide recently hoping for Jays and Great Spotted Woodpeckers to show, all I got this time was 14 Jackdaws!!
Worth zooming in on this one and at ISO 4000!!!
I spent a week in Zeeland, main reason was to visit Brugge. And indeed a fantastic city, I knew it would be wonderful, but I was overwhelmed by its beauty.
Unfortunately most of my pictures are crap, because of the wagon loads of tourists roaming the streets, and because of the very hard light of a bright shining sun.
The shot shown here can hardly be a surprise because it is seen on so many flickr accounts. I know it is a cliché, but a beautiful one.
Spent the night on Holy Island Northumberland, trying to capture the Quadrantid meteors. spot of light painting followed to keep us entertained. LP created by Gopostal and ElliesLion. Thanks chaps.
I spent a good part of the day checking out the migrants at the Quintana Neotropical Bird Sanctuary and wow there were lots of them around. However, when the light was getting low at the back drip, I decided to run over to Brazoria NWR to take advantage of the beautiful light. With the water as high as it is there weren’t a whole lot of great opportunities but this young Yellow-crowned Night Heron was just begging to be photographed. I decided to see how much of the frame I could fill with the bird’s head. This shot is uncropped and even at f/11 the DOF is REALLY thin. Makes me appreciate all those macro photographers a little more.
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Spent a nice evening watching the sun go down over the Dragon's Back. The hawthorn is looking great at the moment.
spent 3 days walking around the Nevada Northern Railway Museum. Photographed the trains, roundhouse, and all of the people working to keep all of the trains running.
Old #40 locomotive chugging down the track.
monochrome black and white
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I spent the afternoon playing with an idea to turn a photo into artwork inspired by mixed media artists and yet done entirely digitally. This is my first foray into creating and using my own brushes in Photoshop. I have lots to learn but it was a fun experiment.
I got back from Alaska two days ago and had a great time with my daughter as always.
But our motorhome trip was a bust. In fact we cut it short by one day and went home to April's early. The weather was crap. Two weeks earlier might have been a better time, not sure.
Win some, lose some.
Anyway, this is a 2 shot pano I put together in Photoshop. I was wading through tall grasses and spent Fireweed but I wanted the shot anchored with the two trees in fall color along with the foreground of spent Fireweed.
I wanted the shot to feel like you were standing there in the tall grasses with me. Hope that's what you feel looking at this.
Anyway, I will catch up with you later. I've got catching up to do around here and yesterday I was too tired to do much of anything.
Travel always wears me out.
Spent time photographing the Female Harrier Hawk yesterday. Didn't get many close passes but made the best of it.
Spent a great morning chasing the Cat Painted EMD #1201.It ran on train NS O55 which is a weekly high/wide special from Decatur to Savanah GA.This view is the 6th spot We caught the train between WR Tower and Centralia ILL.Seen here in the pass at New Baden ILL after a meet with #224
Sennen Cove Harbour
Sennen Cove,
Penzance, England, U.K.
03-23-25
Walking around Sennen Cove early in the morning, where I spent my first evening after leaving London and driving six hours across the country to the southwesternmost corner to stay in an inn next to a pub, I felt as if I were completely alone. There wasn't anyone in sight for at least the first hour as I wandered about the little seaside town.
The round building is the Roundhouse, now an art gallery and shop, but originally built in 1876 to house the capstan wheel that was used to winch boats up the harbour slipway.
Spent the day at Floyd Lamb Park on the North-West side of Las Vegas. This is a great place to photograph wildlife on the several small ponds in the park. Male Great-tailed Grackle
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spent on the couch, with tea or coffee, and whatever fruit is in season are the best. or maybe a morning spent in the forest is the best, or waking up in a tent next to a river. really, I'm not picky.
Spent some time with this guy also folks and again lucky to be in the right place at the right time.
Taking a moment everyone to wish all my Jewish Friends a very Happy and very Healthy New Year, and is actually the very first one I've been alone in so so many many years, so a little somber today for sure.
I spent a (very cold) long time trying to use the many elements of the landscape at this location...it turned out to be hard due to there actually being too many bits and pieces, so the results are a bit messy. There's snow, a big boulder, a character tree, ice, grasses, a loch and Liathach to rest the eye on. Ah well, it's been an awful day's weather (again) so it kept me amused.
Spent 5 days in bitter cold Hokkaido and I love this part of Japan where I can get these dream shots, very close. xlolx
Spent a wonderful sunrise at this tranquil little straight. The dynamic light provided several different opportunities to shoot these mountains.
Spent a few days in Big Bend National Park, current events, never ending drama.....watching the Milky Way...over the famous Casa Grande in the Chisos Mountains pondering whats out there in the Universe makes it all go away....Bortle 1 skies....some of the darkest anywhere in the USA
I spent most of May 25 in the Whiskey Dick Unit of L. T. Murray Wildlife Area. I drove and walked Pumphouse Road and Whiskey Dick Road in search for wildflowers and in particular the barrel cactus. Many wildflower are at peak bloom but the cactus are just starting to bloom. I have in the past photographed the cactus in mid April. I will post a number of photos taken in L T Murray WLA, Kittitas County, Washington of the wildflowers and a few bird photo the next few days.
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Spent a Saturday in Hoi An. A great location to experience the historic architecture with plenty of chances to view and capture the local Vietnamese in their element.
I spent all day last Saturday sat on the beach trying to get this shot, through wind and rain - and eventually sun!
I wanted to get the Snow Buntings flying low over the beach, perpendicular to my plane of focus and of course with their chests towards me - showing off all that white plumage (so ideally mostly males) - preferably lit up by either early morning or late afternoon golden sun. So not really asking for much.
It is surprisingly difficult to focus on the flock when they are swirling around.
Thankfully though I eventually managed to track them properly, low over the beach, just the once.
All of the birds in this shot are males.
I spent an hour at the local fair..... wall to wall people!!
I am trying to get back to normal and will try to catch up soon!!
Wishing you all a good week
Spent a few days in North Berwick with some of the family, so not much time for photography. Managed to get to the beach for one sunset.
Spent the weekend in the beautiful Kanab Utah during the Kanab Utah hot air balloon festival. Their was a lot of cool balloons, a street street fair, with bands and food, and even a paper lantern lighting. Was great, I want to make it an annual happening for me.
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Spent the afternoon walking around Boston looking for fall color, and didn't find much. Apparently this is the warmest fall on record here (eek) and as a result the trees haven't changed color much and now the leaves are drying up and falling off without changing color much first. Seems like only a couple species are getting any real color, and I guess they're more rare than I thought in the city (maples, maybe? not sure). Anyway, while I didn't find much fall foliage, I did walk by this cute Beacon Hill courtyard. Shot with iPhone 6s.
I always feel like building some colorful trees when Fall rolls around. Which I guess says something about how long ago I started this...
Built for Seasonal Bliss (Wandering Skies) and Dwarf Tales (Brickscalibur). Closeups on Insta. Feels good to be building again after Iron Builder!
These lights were super fun to work with, they look pretty sweet in person if a touch overpowered. But it's crazy how long the rockwork for this island took me--I went with a smaller footprint than last year intentionally but with it being almost all landscaping and interior + exterior rockwork, I spent entire hours on every segment.
(Second place Wandering Skies 2024, Honorable Mention Dwarf Tales Brickscalibur 2024)
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Spent some time making a hat for a friend. Hopefully it fits and he likes it, it's my first attempt at a crochet hat!
For those interested the pattern I (sort of) followed for this hat can be found here: Ribbed Wonder - Easy Crochet Hat
Hope everyone is doing well and staying safe.
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6K02, Freightliner’s 1150 Rutherglen Central Jn - Carlisle Yard spent ballast train – with 66514 at its head - snakes round the reverse curve at Enterkinfoot on 13 May 2023.
(Some digital gardening necessary at this location now)
Spent Christmas Day in Floyd Lamb park. Photographed this beautiful hawk
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I spent another day yesterday wondering if I was going to have a stroke. Instead, our beloved Miss Chloe Smith #8 had one. She's alive and sleeping but very disoriented. I'll call the Vet when I get back from the cancer center this morning. Bless her heart. Sweetest most gentlest cat I've ever owned. Right now her middle name is the same as mine, "I'm not dead yet!" Some of the research says that some can survive and even improve, unlike humans. I'm praying for her and that God's will be done.Nancy Smith (5M+ views -- to Him be the glory!)
3:00 PM EST today Feb 1, 2024: Took Miss Chloe to the Vet to be put to sleep this morning. He talked me out of it which was a first. He wanted us to give her one more chance to recover from the strokes and gave her a new Osteoarthritis shot just for cats. Apparently some have extraordinary outcomes. This would hopefully help her crippling and weakness that she had before the strokes and she could get up and eat and use the little boxes, etc. SO as our middle names say: "We're not dead yet!"