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A tranquil woodland scene is centered around a small, clear water body reflecting the surrounding trees. Sunlight filters through the emerging spring foliage, highlighting new plants and last year's fallen leaves submerged in the water.
Haflinger enjoying a perfect spring day.
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"The Haflinger descends from a race of mountain ponies that have grazed the Alps for centuries. These ponies, tough and strong, were used as all-around helpers of the Austrian farmer. Subsisting on sparse rations in the winter, the Haflinger's ancestors were selectively bred for temperament, hardiness and longevity. Mountain farmers used them for plowing and transportation, packing up steep trails, pulling logs from the forests. Only those horses who could be handled by all members of the family were kept and bred--thus the docile and friendly nature of the modern Haflingers. With the introduction of a small amount of Arabian blood in 1874, a foundation Haflinger sire "FOLIE" was born, and is found in the pedigrees of all purebred Haflingers."
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There may not be a food shortage in our contry however, in my opinion, there is a shortage of chemical free, non GMO, (genetically modified) nutritious food.
MPD motorman guiding a motor escort run of fallen officers' families and colleagues down E Street, NW to the memorial.
Washington, DC / May 13, 2014
This was entered in the Bento&Co/JustBento/French Bento Spring Bento Contest.
All entries here: www.flickr.com/photos/tbky/sets/72157623603015334/
This entry here: www.flickr.com/photos/tbky/4471522191/
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I'm very honored and happy that this bento made the top fifteen finalists and the top ten contest winners. Thank you to everyone who participated in the voting and the contest itself.
There were several challenges I had to deal with while making it:
It was one of the first big cooking projects I'd taken on since breaking my right wrist a few months ago. I still couldn't quite lift and drain pots of water on my own. There were a few tasks in the kitchen where I simply had to wait and ask for help from my sister or boyfriend.
On top of it, we'd had car trouble all week long. My radiator had split in two earlier in the week; then the repair shop didn't replace it even thought they'd told me it was replaced, and they let me drive out of the shop with a still-broken radiator, which meant I had to have it towed back to the shop and had to have it spend another two days in the shop. And the night before I made this bento, my boyfriend's truck broke down. As a result, most of the grocery shopping for this bento happened the morning it was being made, and this caused me to fall behind schedule in the kitchen. By the time I was finished, everyone was very hungry and ready to eat. Because of that, I just didn't have time to work on small details that I would have wanted to work on.
But despite all of that, I'm happy with the bento that I made -- and I was really happy that my family liked it so much, and that my sister enjoyed her birthday lunch.
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In my area, summers are dry and golden-brown; our winters are wet and gray. This last winter was more dramatic than usual -- every time we thought there would be a turn in the weather, the clouds descended from the mountains, bringing more rain to slog through and more cold air to chill us. When the first days of spring weather came back, the difference was noticeable -- the sun spilled out from the sky onto the trees and tender, young grass.
Shortly after that first day of spring weather, it was my little sister's birthday. To celebrate her birthday and to remind us that we have a brief few weeks of green grasses and blossoming trees, I offered to make a picnic bento for my family. My goal was to provide a vibrant and colorful spread, which was both healthy and flavorful. Additionally, I tried to include as many organic, fair trade, and local ingredients as I could, since my family (and my sister especially) places a lot of importance on being conscious of our planet and our health.
This picnic bento served four people and included the following:
-Ginger-lemon-soy chicken
-Steamed broccolini, sprinkled with red pepper flakes
-Watercress salad, valencia oranges, oven-roasted golden beets, avocado, and a home-made orange-shallot balsamic vinegar dressing
-Plum-blossom shaped onigiri, made from a mixture of purple jasmine rice and short-grain glutinous white rice. Each onigiri had a plum-blossom shaped golden beet pressed into its center, was sprinkled with black sesame, and was wrapped in a shiso leaf.
-Fruit cups with fresh raspberries and blackberries
Spring was born in Spring at the backpackers from a stray cat called Oogies (eyes). He was weaned wild but we caught him soon enough. He was different from the rest of the litter, very agile, quick and performed some jaw dropping acrobatics, jumping up to 2 meters from table to table at the backpacker, solidifying his name (which ranged from Spring, Foodis, Udis and then back to Spring). Nursing him through some bad stomach problems when he was a kitten, he grew into the most spectacularly slender, handsome cat. Although I never gave him scraps, tourists arriving en masse via the Overlander Tour Busses recollected stories of how he jumped from lap to lap, cleaning up to 20 plates at a time, transforming him into the crotch monster that made him legend. He caught more birds, mice, snakes and insects than any cat I have heard of, and swiped more food (often by sitting in the lap of guests and swiping a piece of meat or potato OFF THE FORK), and yet kept his figure. At times I would sleep in random garden cabins and no matter where I was he would always find the right door or window to find me. And every morning, like clockwork, cruise out again, sometimes prowling as far as the nature reserve for game. When I left for Cape Town he was adopted by a farmer in the area, and I heard that he was killed by baboons (probably provoked them, too) a couple of months ago. These images are the only really nice ones that capture his character perfectly.
~ Scan of print taken with an old Canon SLR
Though not living in Kyoto anymore, I was lucky enough to visit this beautiful place while it was covered with blossoms!
Location: Marutamachibashi Bridge, Kyoto
"In the morning the bright sun rose and quickly ate up the thin ice covering the water, and the warm air was all atremble, filled with the vapours of the reviving earth... The real spring had come." - Tolstoy
Or at least I thought spring had arrived when I shot this yesterday. It snowed again in the night. Just a thin layer though, that should disappear later in the day ... I hope!
Spring, a love and hate season. Lovely season to see new plant leafs, flowers, new life. But allergies also come with it.
Spring Watch in Barking Park
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My Daffodils Collection:
A hot spring near San Ysidro, New Mexico. Ranchers have put wooden ties over the top to keep cattle from stepping in (a guess on my part). Over the years, minerals have nearly covered the grain of the wood.
Spring Mill Pond is a popular swimming hole at Island Lake State Recreation Area near Brighton Michigan. I suspect it is an old gravel pit which makes the water very clear.
Dogwood Leaves, Spring. Yosemite National Park, California. June 7, 2009. © Copyright 2009 G Dan Mitchell - all rights reserved.
There is a grove of dogwood trees along highway 120 into Yosemite, between the park entrance and the valley, where I stop several times each seasons. Most recently I stopped there on a quiet autumn evening this past October when the dogwood leaves were turning fall colors. Much earlier in the season I stop to see and photograph the dogwood flowers. I made this photograph several years ago on my first visit to the grove that season, on a rainy morning when the leaves had emerged and the flowers were in bloom.
While the flowers were the main reason I visited the grove on this morning, it turned out that the flower photographs were less interesting, in some ways, than the photographs I made of the leaves of the dogwood trees and of other newly sprouted plants. Not only where the plants young and fresh and green, but the soft light and the drops of water from the light rain intensified the colors and made the light less harsh.
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This is the cover photo of my set Spring Celebration 2011 [বসন্ত উথসব ২০১১(Bashanto Uthsob) ]
This Photo was taken on 13th Feb 2011 / 01 Falgun 1417 Bangoli Calender Yr at 4:30 pm , from Rabindro Sorobor [ A open air Cultural Venue ] Dhaka BANGLADESH . All the photos are Candid and with less treatment, The Spring Celebration here in BANGLADESH is Commonly known as Bashanto Uthsob,[ Bashanto is :
A name of Color
A name of most soothing weather
A name of flowery days
and Most Interesting season here in Bangladesh ]
This is the 1st Day of Falgun[ Falgun is a Bangoli Calendar Month ] Every Bangoli Calendar Year on 13th February comes as Our celebration day, Same As Valentine day on 14th Feb , We Follow both the day as our Valentine day, 13th Feb as for Bangoli and 14th Feb as FOR western culture,
The First day of Falgun is memorable for its colorful celebration. People from all age and categories celebrate this day with joy amd Festivities to welcome the spring season . They celebrate this day with folk dances , music, recitations and rallies throughout the country to commemorate the Bashanta Uthsob. Girls ware Yellow sarees and Boys wear Yellow Panjabees to celebrate the day, Most of the youth and children’s Painted their faces to make the day more colorful . At the same time , people hope that the coming days will be full of light and Joy,
The Spring [BASHANTO ] Comes to Bangladesh is the end state of Winter and the beginning of Summer, with new leafs in the branches of trees ,
Beds are full with Flowers in the garden and The Bird [KOKIL] Twitted are all the Happening in Spring [Bashanto ]
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Beautiful yellow carpet and daffodils.
Spring 2105 in Sussex, England.
The trees were ready, even the flowers were ready. And the bee. Just the weather was still undecided...
Here’s Carmen, my Spring Into Style Fashionista with limbs spliced in from a playline Wonder Woman and MTM doll hands. I swapped out the legs by using hot water and it was a relatively easy mod.
I added in the forearms by cutting off the original forearms and drilling into the upper arm to accept the WW arm pegs. I then did the same with the wrists to give her wrist joints.
While I would love Mattel to make curvy bodies that are jointed I’m tired of waiting.