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Some spring bokeh since it's Wednesday. Hope you have a great one!
Gently processed with Flypaper textures.
Edited to say that there's now a before after and recipe on the Flypaper Blog.
“Here and there are small springs, or pools, marked by the greener vegetation growing around them… It was now very hot, and I made for a spring which I knew ran out of a cliff a mile or two off.”
In his book ‘Hunting Trips of a Ranchman’, Theodore Roosevelt often talks about the scarcity of water in the wild west of the Dakotas. In many of his ‘duckshooting trips’, his team endured extreme desert conditions and had to ‘make a dry camp–that is, one without any water either for men or horses’. In such camps, the most bothersome thing ‘would be the thirst, which seemed to be most annoying just after sundown…’. At other times, they would try to ‘camp by some waterhole’, which were hard to come by. If it rained, which it rarely did, they gathered the downpour in ‘wagonsheet and oilskin overcoats’. Often, when water would be found, it would be ‘more than likely to be bad, being either from a bitter alkaline pool, or from a hole in a creek, so muddy that it can only be called liquid by courtesy’. From such pools, despite being thirsty and not ‘drunk for twelve hours, neither man nor horse could swallow more than a mouthful or two’ of that water.
Roosevelt was not a ranchman by trade; by his own description, he was ‘from the east’. After the death of his wife and mother on the same day, he came to the open lands of North Dakota to ranch, hunt, get away from things, and heal. The healing offered by the vast open spaces of the undulating land was neither immediately cathartic, and as revealed by the hardships above, nor was it easy. Instead, it was slow and sweaty, where often after a tiresome day, the only reward was ‘…just to lie still in the twilight by the side of the smouldering fire…’. In other words, despite hardship, the healing came mostly from learning to appreciate the simplest of places and things that one often ignores when conquering clouds.
While driving up the park road in Theodore Roosevelt national park South unit during our recent trip to these lands, I curiously noticed several animal trails on the nearby hill. They seemed to converge at the foothills, which I could not see from the road. So, I pulled up and trotted past the paved road into the unkempt roadside to inquire the destination of those trails. Pleasantly, I found a fascinating spring (above) at trails' end. I was utterly tempted to run down one of those trails to the tanned waterbody but realized that the steepness of those slopes was suitable for four legs, not two. I asked Rishabh to join me and we spent the next midday hour enjoying the simple spring that held the verdant land as cornerstones hold arches. Meanwhile, many motorists passed by behind us, hurrying to their Instagram destinations. They were missing out on this healing experience, which was accentuated by sighs of floating clouds, which had like us, lost their way willingly.
Primavera en México. Spring in Mexico. Más flores, more flowers, mais flores. Ciudad de México, DF/CDMX - Mexico.
Engelse springer spaniel, Flint. Always alert to flushing and retrieving game.
The English Springer Spaniel is a breed of gun dog used for flushing and retrieving game. This springer is a good and healthy example of a working line (UK) It is closely related to the English Cocker Spaniel. I've seen them used as sniffer dogs and it's interesting to see that the way they work is very similar to hunting.
Iberis sempervirens / Immergrüne Schleifenblume / Schneekissen
seen in my garden
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Taken early morning, soon after the sun had risen over the tops. A scene that will be familiar to many round-the-lake walkers, where the path rounds the most southerly end of the lake. After lots of rain, (and Borrowdale gets more than its fair share, being the wettest place in England), the lake often extends up to (and occasionally over), the path here. This was taken following a very dry early Spring, that changed a day or two after taking this, when it reached the reeds under these birch trees. The only other person around when I took this was a lone jogger, who was through and gone, before I had time to consider whether she might have added to the picture!
Table Rock, Linville Gorge, NC
I'm enjoying looking back on some spring images now that we're in the doldrums of summer. This one was from a couple of years ago. Hawksbill mountain can be seen in the distance over the Carolina Rhododendron.
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Sunny blue sky. Wildflowers in bloom. Spring is in the air. What a beautiful day!
Taken along the way to Stirling Range National Park in Western Australia.
The Aston Norwood Gardens, Upper Hutt, New Zealand. The gardens are named after the place names where the parents of the original owners lived, in Aston, Birmingham and Norwood Green, London respectively.
That's not my evaluation, that's its name (claytonia virginica). In my native wildflower garden in Webster Groves, Missouri.
The Squirrel's are back and looking in all of the flower pot's for bulb's to eat or looking for their nut's they've buried.
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This is my new Spring collection of necklaces, ready to go on Etsy and into Galleries. Influenced by blue skies, spring flowers and pastel easter eggs :)
After crawling from his Winter mud home, this painted turtle came out to smell Spring.
(double image day)
I hope that everyone is having a great Tuesday and I hope you don't mind, but I wanted to share a little of Mother Nature's colour & glory.
500mm telephoto /macro @ 2.5 meters
I use the lens for novelty shots because it's a non electronics lens and mounts to my camera with a home made adapted lens mount. (plastic body cap)
It doesn't do to bad and it's just a little something to play with and make work.
Maybe if someone fills my Summer wish list in my profile, I'll get a bunch of new lenses. (Any lotto winners yet?)
as always
BIG HELLO from Ottawa, Canada
Shot with my iPhone 8 Plus.
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