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I love yellow
The color of your solar plexus chakra
The chakra that moves you forward
Doing your stuff
A chakra is an energy wheel, you have several of them in your body
You can feel them, if you are sensitive and aware
You can feel the whirl when it goes around and around
It's quite amazing
I've never been into Architecture photography, but this was too perfect to be not shot.
Things are going so well for me, I hope it will last. I still have a long long road.
Littleleaf Sensitive-briar (a.k.a. Eastern Sensitive-briar, Sensitive Brier, Little Leaf Mimosa, Catclaw Sensitive Briar, Smooth-leaf Sensitive Briar, Pink Sensitive Briar, Shame Vine; Mimosa microphylla) - Woody Pond, Woody Pond Road Loop, Tiger Bay WMA (Wildlife Management Area), Daytona Beach, Florida (29.07768, -81.18110)
Check out the notes in the above image to learn more about this amazing little plant.
Littleleaf Sensitive-briar (a.k.a. Eastern Sensitive-briar, Sensitive-briar, Sensitive Brier, Little Leaf Mimosa, Catclaw Sensitive Briar, Smooth-leaf Sensitive Briar, Pink Sensitive Briar, Shame Vine; Mimosa microphylla) - Bear Island Road (the path to Indian Lake), Tiger Bay State Forest, Volusia County, Florida (29.16435, -81.16479)
Onoclea sensibilis, the sensitive fern. At my house growing up we had some different kinds of ferns around the yard as part of the landscaping. I always was fascinated by the look of them and the way the fronds grew up and unfurled in curls and radial patterns. One fern though was a bit different. It had this odd shape about the fronds and instead of neat radial clusters the ferns would seemingly be sprouting up every which way. The fertile fronds too at the end of the season were very different. These nearly black fronds would arise and be covered in what appeared to be dark fruits almost. These ferns, commonly called the Sensitive Fern, became a favorite of mine especially in recent years. And this summer after rebuilding a retaining wall in the back yard this solitary one sprouted out of the upheaval completely unexpectedly. It was quite late in the year for a new frond to come up and it was all on its own in the middle of a mulch patch. On a rainy day I took my camera out to capture this late bloomer. I can't wait to see how many more fronds come up next year.
collage, casein, kozo, charcoal, ballpoint, solvent, vinyl tempera, japanese paints & encaustic on board and attached rod // 20X25 cm. // see www.youtube.com/watch?v=i90EMCj98es
Sindy finally made it home after a strenuous, long day at work registering new doll arrivals in Cooperstown. (See previous pic)
Paul: (Walking in) Darling, look what I found standing all alone on our doorstep.
Blythe: Hello!
Sindy: (Turning around) Gah!! --WHACK!!--
Paul: ........ What a swing! I think you killed it.
Sindy: Not a chance I'm afraid. Those dolls have nine lives. Golly, you scared me.
Paul: You're right she's coming to. Can we keep her?
Blythe: Uuuhhh... Hello Mummy! (perky as a plum)
Sindy: I think not. Check her pockets for sharp objects...
Paul: Oh don't be silly dear. She called you mum.
Sindy: Exactly.
Paul: Pleeeaaase! (puppy eyes)
Blythe: Puh-leeze!! (puppy eyes)
Sindy: Alright then. But she's YOUR responsibility.
Paul & Blythe: YAY!!
Blythe Gimme cake! (wiggle, wiggle)
Sindy: I will so regret this.
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No Blythe were hurt during this photoshoot.
I love them too much believe it or not, haha!
Your comments and faves are greatly appreciated. Many thanks.
Australian Pelican
Scientific Name: Pelecanus conspicillatus
Description: There are seven species of pelicans in the world, all of which are similar in shape and, with one exception, are primarily white in colour. Males are larger than females. The most characteristic feature of pelicans is the elongated bill with its massive throat pouch. The Australian Pelican's bill is 40 cm - 50 cm long and is larger in males than females. Pelicans have large wings and a wingspan of 2.3 m - 2.5 m. Pelicans have an extremely light skeleton, weighing less than 10% of their total body weight.
Distribution: The Australian Pelican is found throughout Australia, Papua New Guinea and western Indonesia, with occasional reports in New Zealand and various western Pacific islands.
Habitat: Pelicans are widespread on freshwater, estuarine and marine wetlands and waterways including lakes, swamps, rivers, coastal islands and shores.
Seasonal movements: Pelicans are highly mobile, searching out suitable areas of water and an adequate supply of food. Pelicans are not capable of sustained flapping flight, but can remain in the air for 24 hours, covering hundreds of kilometres. They are excellent soarers and can use thermals to rise to considerable altitudes. Flight at 1,000m is common, and heights of 3 000 m have been recorded. By moving from one thermal to the next, pelicans can travel long distances with a minimum of effort, reaching air speeds of up to 56 km/hour.
Feeding: The bill and pouch of pelicans play an important role in feeding. The bill is sensitive and this helps locate fish in murky water. It also has a hook at the end of the upper mandible, probably for gripping slippery food items. When food is caught, the pelican manipulates it in its bill until the prey typically has its head pointing down the pelican's throat. Then with a jerk of the head the pelican swallows the prey. The bill is delicately built. The lower jaw consists of two thin and weakly articulated bones from which the pouch hangs. When fully extended, the bill can hold up to 13 litres. The pouch does not function as a place to hold food for any length of time. Instead it serves as a short-term collecting organ. Pelicans plunge their bills into the water, using their pouches as nets. Once something is caught, a pelican draws its pouch to its breast. This empties the water and allows the bird to manoeuvre the prey into a swallowing position. The pouch can also serve as a net to catch food thrown by humans, and there are sightings of pelicans drinking by opening their bill to collect rainwater.
The Australian Pelican may feed alone, but more often feeds as a cooperative group. Sometimes these groups are quite large. One group numbered over 1,900 birds. A flock of pelicans works together, driving fish into a concentrated mass using their bills and sometimes by beating their wings. The fish are herded into shallow water or surrounded in ever decreasing circles.
Breeding: Breeding depends on environmental conditions, particularly rainfall. Pelicans are colonial breeders with up to 40 000 individuals grouping on islands or secluded shores. Breeding begins with courtship. The female leads potential mates (two to eight or more) around the colony. As the males follow her in these walks, they threaten each other while swinging their open bills from side to side trying to attract the female's attention. The males may also pick up small objects, like sticks or dry fish, which they toss in the air and catch again, repeating the sequence several times. Both sexes perform "pouch-rippling" in which they clap their bills shut several times a second and the pouch ripples like a flag in a strong breeze. As the courtship parade progresses, the males drop out one by one. Finally, after pursuits on land, water or in the air, only a single male is left. The female leads him to a potential nest site. During the courtship period, the bill and pouch of the birds change colour dramatically. The forward half of the pouch becomes bright salmon pink, while the skin of the pouch in the throat region turns chrome yellow. Parts of the top and base of the bill change to cobalt blue, and a black diagonal strip appears from the base to the tip. This colour change is of short duration, the intensity usually subsiding by the time incubation starts. The nest consists of a scrape in the ground prepared by the female. She digs the scrape with her bill and feet, and lines it with any scraps of vegetation or feathers within reach of the nest. Within three days egg-laying begins and eggs are laid two to three days apart. Both parents share incubation and the eggs are incubated on their feet. The first-hatched chick is substantially larger than its siblings. It receives most of the food and may even attack and kill its nest mates. A newly hatched pelican has a large bill, bulging eyes, and skin that looks like small-grained bubble plastic. The skin around the face is mottled with varying degrees of black and the colour of the eyes varies from white to dark brown. This individual variation helps the parents to recognise their chick from hundreds of others. The chicks leave their nests to form creches of up to 100 birds. They remain in creches for about two months, by the end of which they have learnt to fly and are fairly independent. Wild birds may live between ten and possibly 25 years or more.
Minimum Size: 160cm
Maximum Size: 180cm
Average size: 170cm
Breeding season: At any time of the year
Clutch Size: 1 to 3 eggs
Incubation: 35 days
Nestling Period: 28 days
(Source: www.birdsinbackyards.net)
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Now, I love weddings, which I realize by itself makes me more sensitive than most men. But I still like to consider myself a tough guy. Moreover, I'm way too busy when shooting a wedding to get emotional. So it means something that David and Sally's Ketubah ceremony -- where the parents give personal, intimate speeches to their children and the couple then spoke about their love to one another -- made me choke back tears.
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One of many of the series, 'Facets', a project that I've been working on all summer.
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Film: Kodak Portra NC
Handmade masks done by Sundries and Plunder.
The Mer Bleue Conservation Area is referred to as a sensitive ecological zone by the city of Ottawa, yet they have approved of these behemoths pulverizing wide swaths of reeds in several local areas (see the left margin far beyond the Tigercat) without apparent rhyme or reason. These things will strike terror into the hearts of the local rabbit population, that's for sure.
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Mer Bleue (Blue Sea) Conservation Area, Ottawa, Ontario.
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402. Clancy, 7yrs 14wks
"Les plantes et les animaux tout autour de nous s'éveillaient d'un long sommeil, et notre jardin s'est lentement transformé en un tapis de vert tendre, et les cieux au-dessus de notre maison se sont à nouveau remplis de chœurs de chants d'oiseaux."
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"The plants and animals all around us were waking from a long sleep, and our yard was slowly transformed into a carpet of soft green, and the skies above our house were filled with choruses of birdsong once again.”
Cit. by Arlene Stafford-Wilson
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Perhaps I am “pushing the limit” when taking the liberty of using a famous artist’s illustration and using her artwork to create my own, personal interpretation of said artwork – albeit strictly for non-commercial purpose.
In the subject instance, I downloaded a work by Carrie Ballantyne (signed as C L Ballantyne) as shown on the left. Her superb illustration titled; “The Cowboy Way”. Using Ms. Ballantyne’s artwork, I then digitally colored the illustration and in a final step, utilized Topaz Simplify to complete my artistic interpretation as seen on the right.
On a personal note, let me say I am totally enthralled by Carrie L. Ballantyne's extraordinary artwork. She is indeed a highly talented and accomplished artist.
The source of the artist’s original artwork can be found HERE
A Short Bio of the artist, Carrie L. Ballantyne
For the past 30 years, Carrie Ballantyne has been drawing and painting the people of today’s ranching and cowboy culture with depth and texture and an emphasis on authenticity. She is best known for her powerful yet sensitive portraits that chronicle men and women of the contemporary West with a timeless quality.
“The individuals themselves inspire much of my art,” Ballantyne says. “I enjoy painting representational and intimate portraits of real people – most often family members, personal friends and neighbors.”
Profiled in numerous periodicals over the years, Ballantyne is the recipient of various awards and honors from distinguished Western art shows and museums. The Prix de West continues to be a favorite venue. “Showing my art alongside many of my heroes at the National Cowboy Museum is an exhilarating and humbling experience,” she says, “an inspiration I look forward to each year.”
I am hoping there will not be any legal (or otherwise) repercussions over what I have done here. My intensions were, of course, purely for entertainment purposes. Should there any problems what-so-ever, I will promptly remove this post from flickr photo-share.
Hope you'all enjoy .................
This is my 'main' shot ( i.e. last photo uploaded) today. If someone has their computer set to view just one photo per Contact, THIS is the photo that you should be seeing. Flickr, stop changing how people see my images!!!
On 2 May 2016, I was incredibly fortunate to be able to witness about 30 (?) of these Sharp-tailed Grouse, mainly male with just a handful of females, displaying at their "lek" or communal dancing ground. On this particular day, five of us went to see this. There had been a couple of possible chances for me to get out there, but these had fallen through. Then, out of the blue, friend Dorothy phoned me, asking if I had been able to get to the lek yet. She said that if I hadn't been, her husband Stephen would be willing to drive me there! This was such a wonderful surprise, though anyone who really knows this couple already knows what amazingly kind and generous people they are. I was so happy to get this unexpected chance and the three of us had a great morning, in good weather and in good company. Two young men also went, making their own way there. Delightful guys, highly respectful of not only the Grouse, but also of us, constantly moving form their seats to allow us to get our turn, and vice versa. They could so easily have left the 'hide/blind ahead of us when the Grouse had all left, but instead they waited till we were all packed up and then made sure that we were all able to safely get over the very awkward stile at the fence line. Having been out there last year, on 13 April 2015, I knew of this problem and had bought a three-step step ladder a few weeks ago, just in case I was able to go sometime this spring. This made so much difference, thank goodness, especially as I was really tired after staying up all night in order to leave at a very unearthly hour of the morning.
So glad we had a nice, sunny day - the day I went a year ago, the weather was overcast and not good for photos. This year, I got to see the Grouse in beautiful sunrise light, too. Of course, the 'problem' of clumps of tall grass was exactly the same this year, lol, keeping the birds somewhat hidden, but every once in a while, a bird would come out into the open. Most of the time, they were quite distant, but we were very lucky that several did give us a closer view. Such magnificent birds, with their yellow 'eyebrows', purple patch below the side of the neck on the males, and glorious feather pattern. Their dance display to attract the females is so fascinating to see and hear.
Just after we got back to our cars, another car came along the road and stopped to talk with us. It turned out that this gentleman was indirectly connected to the lek. He voiced his huge concern at how many people had been out there this spring, feeling that this was not good for the Grouse. He said that hopefully no more people would be going, so that the Grouse would be undisturbed in their mating. We agreed with him and thought that maybe people should not be allowed to visit every year, but perhaps every two or three years. I have passed on his words and great concern to our Naturalist leader who organizes these visits.
After we left the lek, we travelled a few nearby backroads, hoping to see a Western Meadowlark. We saw 10! It had been so funny, while we sat in the blind at the lek, a Meadowlark was somewhere nearby and sang for us for about four hours! When we at last emerged into the sunlight, there was no sign of it anywhere. We did manage to get a few distant shots of two or three of them.
Thank you so much, Stephen and Dorothy, for offering to take me - so very kind and thoughtful of you, as always! The stop for having our sandwiches was great and the muffins you brought along with you ended the morning very nicely.
If you have time, the following 2:30 minute YouTube video by the Alberta Conservation Association is very good for showing the action of these birds. There are several still shots first and then the video starts. Pretty amazing! The birds remind me of a child's wind-up toy : )
I came across an excellent brochure (pdf file) about Sharp-tailed Grouse on the Internet and will use some of the information from it, instead of using my own words to describe what goes on at a lek. I had seen females of this species before, on Christmas Bird Counts, but not a male and not at breeding time.
www.ab-conservation.com/downloads/educational_materials/b...
"Sharp-tailed grouse perform spring courtship displays on communal “dancing grounds” called leks. Here, males compete for breeding opportunities by displaying their "dancing” ability to females. Most activity on the lek occurs in the early morning just before sunrise and for a few hours afterwards. The males’ energetic display includes fluttering wings, rapid foot stomping and spinning in tight circles - reminiscent of wind-up toys. The most dominant males court females with low cooing sounds and by strutting around them with inflated air sacs on their neck and fanned tail feathers. It is nearly a winner-take-all form of competition, as only a few of the males are selected as mates by the females.
Leks are found in areas with dry open ground, where dancing activity keeps the vegetation well-trampled. Leks are used over several weeks beginning in late March and are often used for years, even decades. They are an important part of sharp-tailed grouse life, and the loss of suitable lek habitat can be a limiting factor for sharp-tailed grouse in Alberta.
Male sharp-tailed grouse gather on the lek in late March. In April the females arrive, sparking increased displaying by the males. Peak attendance by females on the lek occurs between mid to late April in much of Alberta. Once they have selected a male, hens breed once and then seek out a place to nest, usually in late April to early May.
Leks are an integral part of the lifecycle of prairie grouse. Active leks should never be approached, as any disturbance to the birds may disrupt breeding activities and result in the abandonment of the lek. The locations of active and historical leks are of great interest to grouse biologists.
Native North Americans called the sharp-tailed grouse “Fire Bird” because of their reliance on fires to keep their habitat open in wooded areas. Suppression of natural fire in parkland and boreal areas reduces the amount of open grassland available to sharp-tailed grouse.
Sharp-tailed grouse were an important food source for native North Americans and they continue to be a popular game bird for hunters today.
In Alberta, the sharp-tailed grouse is listed as “Sensitive.”
While exact population numbers are not known, there is a feeling that sharp-tailed grouse have decreased significantly in numbers over the past 40 years. This trend is supported by lek counts, hunter surveys, aerial counts and Breeding Bird Survey data. Declining numbers are the result of a reduction in the quality and quantity of sharp-tailed grouse habitat, particularly the loss of quality nesting and brood-rearing habitat." From www.ab-conservation.com.
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