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Daiunin Temple, Kyoto, Japan
Hello my friends. I know! I know! it has been a long time but I have not forgotten you. In fact, I missed you! So as the year comes to an end, I thought I would drop by and say hello to you all and see what you have been up to.
As for me, I have recently come back from a trip to Japan. So here is one of the pictures I took there.
I took the day off yesterday because I was feeling sick. Back today, but I have to go out to take more photos. Maybe I will stalk the cats or go down the hill to take photos of a humongous eucalyptus.
Common Spotted Ladybird (Harmonia conformis) pupa
The Ladybird is very close to emerging. It is 'rearing up' like this every so often. I am popping out regularly to see if I can catch the moment it appears.
Externsteine / Horn-Bad Meinberg / Teutoburg Forest / North Rhine-Westpahlia / Germany
Album of Germany: www.flickr.com/photos/tabliniumcarlson/albums/72157626068...
Beautiful tree on a dry, plowed field.
On the island of Rügen (Germany)
In Explore September 4, 2025
Every afternoon when the Kookaburra family come visiting, there's standing room only at my garden table.
"And we're still alive
on stage like a rock band.
You're looking at me, I'm looking at you
and then silence.
Something will be cut
in the heart in the mind.
You're looking at me, I'm looking at you
and gloomy.
The weather is long
you love me, I love you.
And we're still alive
on stage like a rock band.
And if the rope can hold us,
it will be seen in the applause.
You hold me, I hold you
and then a cliff
and after the goal
and no one...
You hold me, I hold you
and shadows everywhere
and mirrors everywhere
for gods and lovers."
Taken @ Grauland
"LOST", Nitroglobus Gallery, February 2024
A Savannah Sparrow starts to settle down after being disturbed by the landing of a Great Blue Heron nearby.
….. A lost cause though I fear with -2°C on this shot & -4°C last night, their season is now over! Winter has well & truly arrived!!! Never mind soon be spring! Alan:-)….
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Ready to land after a failed attempt to dive bomb the snow for its prey. The Great Grey Owl loves fence posts for the simple fact it is closer to the mouse. This one was at a weird angle crisscrossing the fence I was standing next to, didn't feel like straddling 4 strands of barbed wire: been there, done that and all I managed to get is a hole in the crotch of my jeans with no shot to show for it. The bone chilling (50km) wind made me shiver as I was standing in the snow bank with a handheld camera waiting for some kind of movement. Meanwhile, the sun was going down stealing the last light of the day. You definitely have to be patient when shooting owls. Although, not the best shot, I do like the way the tail is fanned out and the look on her face as the lucky mouse got away.