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I get artsy-fartsy with NS 239, seen here running out of the morning sun as it approaches Mount Vernon.
standing alive old and grey never too late to say
sorrow and worry, your chains won't make me hurry
to an end
deserved
oh how absurd
to a life begun just now
dirt, mud
mixed with springtime's blood
brings a slow and glorious color
so hurry instead to a life begun
and leave death behind
you deserve hope and the promise this brings.
The lilac in the garden is in full thrust… and the sight and scent are equally divine. (The variety, for anyone interested, is Lilac Andenken an Ludwig Späth, named after the German botanist and nurseryman.)
One of the test shots using my new Sony 24-105 f4.0 lens.
Looks quite O.K., or ....
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Taken yesterday in Glyncollen Woods when it was warm and sunny . Such is the fickle nature of the UK weather, that today day we've been blasted unmercifully by hailstones falling from anvil shaped clouds.
It reminded me of this ( 1min in approx) The Anvil Chorus. Only due to Word Association 😉
Bombus terrestris, the buff-tailed bumblebee or large earth bumblebee, is one of the most numerous bumblebee species in Europe.
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pinhole camera RealitySoSubtle 6x6, film Kodak Ektar 100, selfdeveloped in Digibase C-41, Epson Scan.
The bottlebrush shrubs and trees are giving generously once again this spring.
Callistemon is a genus of plants within family Myrtaceae, endemic to this country.
Loved by humans, insects and birds alike.
These 'Kings Park Special' Callistemon viminalis bottlebrush are relatively compact, very hardy.
Can grow to 4 m in height. Each flower spike 10 cm in length.
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Carlton Ware Chocolate Mugs
Design is called "Flower Basket" or "Springtime.
Produced in Australia. Introduced circa 1939, in production at least into the 1950's – green and yellow colour-way.
One sunset, 4 focal lengths. The extremes are, apparently most interesting as entirely different pictures: while wideangle is often a landscape 'default', the closer look explains why telephoto is just as essential for landscape photography.
With all the springtime flooding, this beaver doesn't seem to be affected by the ice floating by. He's actually in the middle of a flooded farmer's field.