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Carrie Underwood is singing right now at ION Orchard, Singapore and I'm sulking at home. I ended work late and there's no chance in hell i can squee through pack. This is her first international concert.
I reminisced the days as a proud webmaster of a Carrie Underwood website. Now, thats just memory. If only people would acknowledge that and gimme some meet-and-greet pass. Right now, all those "self proclaimed" Carrie fans shall meet her.
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One month ago, the southern Africa section of the botanical garden was just beginning to come into bloom. It is still beautiful!
Restoration of 106 year old Leeds & Liverpool Canal wide boat George at Baltic Wharf Boatyard on the River Dart in Totnes.
Once restored she will return to the Leeds & Liverpool to travel between Liverpool and Leigh on events and school visits between May and October, and overwinter at the National Waterways Museum in Ellesmere Port.
Perhaps the building is less important than this tree at Ciudadela Park .....
Playing with photoshop channels + texture by Mat
It was nice to start the new year with quality time on the Sonoma coast, taking in this waterfall emptying into the ocean. There were just a few days of rain by then, and since then, there have been so many more storms and Atmospheric Rivers that have hit the California Coast.
On New Year's, the sun shone all day long, and the skies were a clear blue. The clouds and color during sunset were a pleasant surprise—many thanks to Bob Bowman Photography for inspiring me to take this picture.
ODC "Our Daily Challenge": Detail
new 365 project in 2021: 198
121 pictures in 2021: 5. At a loose end
Yesterday was the 10th birthday of the Nhill Aviation Heritage Centre, and one of the features of the day was restarting the Wirraway (made by one dedicated gentleman, from scraps of other Wirraways lying all over the countryside)
The alarm today went off at 5am, over two hours before sunrise. The reason for the early alarm was the drive to Canyonlands National Park and the ensuing walk to Mesa Arch would take nearly an hour and I wanted to be able to plant my tripod before everyone else arrived. Driving out of Moab the streets were void of traffic and after turning onto the road leading to Canyonlands there weren’t any headlights in the rearview mirror or were there taillights visible ahead. I was confident that I had departed at an appropriately early enough time.
After entering the National Park I noticed a few taillights ahead of me in the distance. “OK, I guess there may be a few early risers there,” I thought. How wrong I was, for as I crested the rise in the dark with my headlamp guiding my way along the path to Mesa Arch I could hear many voices coming from ahead. I wasn’t alone and it wasn’t just a couple of early risers either. There were already 15 to 20 tripods with accompanying cameras and photographers set up waiting for sunrise! Fortunately, the location I had scouted out the day prior was still available, so I joined the masses and added my tripod and camera to the mix. Note to self: rethink the starting time for my next visit!
The beauty of the sunrise here is something one truly needs to witness in person. As the sun broke the horizon the first sunburst occurred, but the best was yet to come. Initially there is the lack of reflected light on the underside of Mesa Arch. But as the sun continued to rise and began to cross the underside of the arch a 2nd sunburst occurred while the reflected light illuminated the underbelly of the arch turning the sandstone a glowing red. While some photographers had already started packing up, the patience of ‘waiting for the light’ was rewarded with this image.
Highlighted by the rising sun is the Washer Woman (derived from its resemblance of a tall and slender woman reaching her hands into a tub) and to its right is the taller Monster Tower. Washer Woman and Monster Tower are each over 600 feet tall. Behind the Washer Woman is the Sandcastle.
This is the second image I’ve posted from that wonderful morning, but this one was taken moments earlier than the previous one. The sunburst is larger in this image as the sun has yet to rise high enough to be partially hidden by the arch.
From the earlier image, Kathleen had commented . . . “I can see an Indian lying in repose, hand in his lap and his legs crossed........lying in the opening, do you see him?” Yes, I could! Can you?
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Valley oak (Quercus lobata) at the San Louis National Wildlife Refuge. If things go well, this new branch could be around 600 years in the future.
Ring-billed gulls are migrating south from their breeding grounds in northern Minnesota and Canada now as the lakes up there start to freeze over. The Mississippi River is a major bird migration corridor and the ring-billed gulls were joined by ducks, geese and swans numbering in the tens of thousands today.