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Its been raining all day and we're supposed to get rain 7 days straight-we definitely need it. Snow in the mountains.
This is an orchard I took before Spring-it's always fun to add textures-you never know what magic you can achieve.
I made 3 new galleries tonight- one with hydrangeas & bird nests
another one about calm and peaceful moments & the other one about Spring-I haventadded quotes or poetry to them yet-it's late I need to get some sleep-but I will add them later
Check them out-you may have some images in there- I love them-it's so much fun to do...... have a good rest of the week!
It is a sole settlement outside of Isreal where mountain Jews live together . There were 13 synagogues at the time. Now there are 2 of them.
This shot was taken in the wonderful parc du Bic (www.sepaq.com/pq/bic/index.dot?language_id=1).
I arrived late at night and although I was doubting to visit it, I finally did, and I was happy to do it, despite the disastrous weather predictions for the next day.
A wonderful parc with great views! (more to come). This little plover was strolling happily around, and looking at its round shapes, it could have escaped from a Botero painting.
My whole Canada 2017 trip: From Brighton Ontario I went straight to Tadoussac that's in the heart of the marine park, and the day after I went to the camp site Les Bergeronnes, where I spent 5 days whale watching on the shore (and one boat trip), every 5 minutes or so seeing whales popping up.
On the fifth day, around sunset I took the boat from Les Escoumins to Trois Pistoles. The south and the north shore of the bay are very different. The north shore has lots of rocks, while the south part is a little more sandy, and it is a fantastic drive all along! I finally headed to PN Gaspésie, where I spent 3 very cold nights in my tent (with all my clothes in my sleeping bag), but the park is wonderful!
Back in the direction of Brighton I spent a few hours in old Quebec, and drove the 1000 islands road, along the saint Lawrence river.
I certainly can recommend everybody who loves nature doing this trip. It should take around 2 weeks!
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All losses are caused by different reasons, but a select few of them happen because something was straight out taken from us, or we were taken ourselves. Imagine being not only stripped of your clothes, your dignity, and your pride, but also being forced to go along for the ride. A ride that involves no acceptance, no going with the flow, no ability to fight, just being absolutely forced to comply with everything and everyone being taken from you.
This can all be metaphorical to describe a situation in your life, but it can also be exactly what it describes. Sex trafficking is still a very real thing and is one of the worst kind of losses you can go through as a human being. Did you know that over 27 million people a year are forced into jobs, not just sexual ones, but hard labor jobs as well? You hear about the numbers sometimes of women and girls forced to be sex slaves, but you don't hear about the number of slaves working on farms, ranches, in mines, and this doesn't even include the number of inmates locked up on bogus crimes and forced to do the jobs society has deemed undesirable. Silenced, subdued, shackled, and sometimes raped repeatedly, there are depths a person can fall into that are unimaginable while the rest of the world declares "We should do something." While sipping their starbucks, and going to get a massage on the weekend at the spa from one of the trafficked women in town.
Next time you feel like you've lost everything, just remember there's a lot further you could fall, and your situation can most likely be fixed a lot easier than some other people's darkest days.
It was an amazing Aurora Borealis. Last year I saw mostly green colours. Last night there were many colours! The camera captured them much better than a naked eye, of course.
They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old:
Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn.
At the going down of the sun and in the morning
We will remember them.
......................Laurence Binyon (1869-1943)
I think even more shocked to see me than I was to see them? WHOOOO ARE YOU? What are you doing here, their thinking?
While I'm being eaten alive by mosquitoes that's what. But their worth it, I keep telling myself?
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SALVATION THROUGH FAITH IN JESUS CHRIST - ALONE!
12 Salvation is found in no one else, for there is no other name under heaven given to men by which we must be saved."
❤️❤️ IT'S ALL JESUS AND NONE OF OURSELVES! ❤️❤️
16 I am not ashamed of the gospel, because it is the power of God for the SALVATION of everyone WHO BELIEVES: first for the Jew, then for the Gentile. 17 For in the gospel a RIGHTEOUSNESS FROM GOD IS REVEALED, a righteousness that is by FAITH FROM FIRST TO LAST, just as it is written: "THE RIGHTEOUS WILL LIVE BY FAITH." (Romans 1:16-17)
16 KNOW that a man is NOT justified by observing the law, but by FAITH IN JESUS CHRIST. So we, too, have put our faith in Christ Jesus that we may be JUSTIFIED BY FAITH in CHRIST and NOT by observing the law, BECAUSE BY OBSERVING THE LAW NO ONE WILL BE JUSTIFIED. (Galatians 2:16)
1. Now, brothers, I want to remind you of the gospel I preached to you, which you received and on which you have taken your stand. 2. BY THIS GOSPEL YOU ARE SAVED, if you hold firmly to the word I preached to you. Otherwise, you have believed in vain.
3. For what I received I passed on to you as of first importance: that Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures, 4. that he was buried, that he was raised on the third day according to the Scriptures, 5. and that he appeared to Peter, and then to the Twelve. 6. After that, he appeared to more than five hundred of the brothers at the same time, most of whom are still living, though some have fallen asleep. 7. Then he appeared to James, then to all the apostles, 8. and last of all he appeared to me also, as to one abnormally born.
9. For I am the least of the apostles and do not even deserve to be called an apostle, because I persecuted the church of God. 10. But by the grace of God I am what I am, and his grace to me was not without effect. No, I worked harder than all of them--yet not I, but the grace of God that was with me. 11. Whether, then, it was I or they, this is what we preach, and this is what you believed. (1 Corinthians 15:1-11)
7. Therefore Jesus said again, "I tell you the truth, I am the gate for the sheep. 8. All who ever came before me were thieves and robbers, but the sheep did not listen to them. 9. I am the gate; whoever enters through me WILL BE SAVED. He will come in and go out, and find pasture. 10. The thief comes only to STEAL and KILL and DESTROY; I have come that they may have LIFE, and have it to the FULL. (John 10:7-10)
1 Brothers, my heart's desire and prayer to God for the Israelites is that they may be saved. 2 For I can testify about them that they are zealous for God, but their zeal is not based on knowledge. 3 Since they did not know the righteousness that comes from God and sought to establish their own, they did not submit to God's righteousness. 4 Christ is the end of the law so that there may be righteousness for everyone who believes.
5 Moses describes in this way the righteousness that is by the law: "The man who does these things will live by them." 6 But the righteousness that is by faith says: "Do not say in your heart, 'Who will ascend into heaven?'" (that is, to bring Christ down) 7 "or 'Who will descend into the deep?'" (that is, to bring Christ up from the dead). 8 But what does it say? "The word is near you; it is in your mouth and in your heart," that is, the word of faith we are proclaiming: 9 That if you confess with your mouth, "Jesus is Lord," and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved. 10 For it is with your heart that you believe and are justified, and it is with your mouth that you confess and are saved. 11 As the Scripture says, "Anyone who trusts in him will never be put to shame." 12 For there is no difference between Jew and Gentile--the same Lord is Lord of all and richly blesses all who call on him, 13 for, "Everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved." (Romans 10:1-13)
Jesus came to bring spiritual LIFE to the spiritually dead and set the captives FREE! FREE from RELIGION, ERROR and outright LIES, so WE might serve THE LIVING GOD! In SPIRIT and in TRUTH!
So you'll KNOW, and not think you're to bad for God to love. The Christian LIFE isn't about how good WE are, because NONE of us are! It's about how GOOD JESUS IS! Because JESUS LOVES US, so much he died in our place and took the punishment for all of our sins on himself. The wages of sin is DEATH, and Jesus took the death WE so richly deserved for us and died in our place. The good news is, there's no more punishment for sin left. WE, you and I were all born forgive as a result of the crucifixion of God himself on the cross that took away the sins of the whole world. All we have to do is believe it, and put your Faith in the finished work of Jesus Christ. That my friends is REAL UNCONDITIONAL LOVE! YOU ARE LOVED. ❤️ ✝️ ❤️
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I was happy to see that the wild pheasants at the park have chicks again. It's not easy to take photos of them because the mother rushes them somewhere into the undergrowth as soon as someone approaches them. I hope to see them again but the park is huge and you never really know where they are.
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Happy Easter!
EXPLORE-d! Many thanks!
It's nice that this pretty flowering tree has Easter associations!
"Thomas Jefferson is one of the main reasons that the dogwood tree became popular as an ornamental tree in America. He loved them and promoted them for landscaping, including many of them in his estate plan at Monticello."--a webpage.
www.monticello.org/house-gardens/in-bloom-at-monticello/f...
This one is probably Cornus nutalii, a variety native to the American west.
Shot made at Svetitskhoveli Cathedral.
The current cathedral was built in the 11th century by Georgian architect, though the site itself is even older dating back to the early 4th century and is surrounded by a number of legends associated primarily with the early Christian traditions.
The cathedral is known as the burial site of Christ's mantle and has long been the principal Georgian church....more about here en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Svetitskhoveli
Greetings to everyside of the beautiful world!
Have a peacful day, my dear friends! :-)
I had only recently purchased some narrow-band filters and was keen to give them a test run; for this, I chose NGC281. The aim was initially to capture data in LRGB along with Ha, OIII, and SII; the telescope and weather had other plans. I hadn’t looked at the data since the initial night, and using a process in Pixinsight inspired by Cuiv’s recent mastering Pixinsight YouTube video, I was able to bring together this HOO image of the nebula; it is a target that I plan to revisit this winter to capture more Ha and OIII, along with LRGB and SII data.
NGC 281, IC 11 or Sh2-184 is a bright emission nebula and part of an HII region in the northern constellation of Cassiopeia and is part of the Milky Way’s Perseus arm. This 20×30 -sized nebulosity is also associated with open cluster IC 1590, several Bok globules and the multiple star B 1. It collectively forms Sh2-184,[3]spanning over a larger area of 40 arcmin.[4] A recent distance from radio parallaxes of water masers at 22Ghz in 2014 is estimated to be 2.82±0.20 kpc. (9200 ly.) from us.[5] Colloquially, NGC 281 is also known as the Pacman Nebula for its resemblance to the video game character. Source: Wikipedia
Imaging session: December 1st, 2023
Sky quality: Bortle 5 (approx.)
Mount: iOptron CEM40G
OTA Imaging: Skywatcher 120ED with x0.85 flattener, f6.35, 768mm
Camera: ZWO ASI533MM Pro, Cooled to -10 deg C
Filter Wheel: ZWO EFW
Focuser: Primaluce Lab ESATTO
Rotator: Primaluce Lab ARCO
Guiding: iOptron iGuide, 120mm: 2.9um
Computer: Primaluce Lab Eagle Pro 2 + ECCO2 (Environment)
Light Exposures:
Luminescence .. 10 x 90s
Ha........... 9 x 300s
OIII......... 9 x 300s
Calibration files:
BIAS .......... 25
Dark .......... 25
Flat .......... 25
Dark flat ..... 25
Total integration time: 1.75 hours
Processing
Pixinsight -> Topaz Denoise -> Photoshop
Center (RA, Dec): (12.999, 56.667)
Center (RA, hms): +56° 40' 01.687"
Center (Dec, dms): 00h 51m 59.764s
Size: 47.8 x 47.7 arcmin
Radius: 0.563 deg
Pixel scale: 2.02 arcsec/pixel
Plate solved at nova.astrometry.net
Kudos to the birders who figure out who these drifters are and then take the trouble to help other birders find them.
This guy was way off his patch.
"While today’s vagrant might be tomorrow’s model citizen, destined to become a colonizer and perhaps an established resident, as Grinnell (1922) asserted, most vagrants might be viewed as “failed colonization attempts”. Newton (2008: 267–299) summarized quite well the various explanations of the causes of vagrancy put forward over the past century or so. They include: normal dispersal over long distances, population growth or expansion, drift by winds, migration overshoots, deviant directional tendencies (right time but wrong direction), mirror-image migration, and reversed direction migration. While all explanations probably play a role and explain the occurrence of some vagrant individuals, we address the latter three explanations as they likely involve the vast majority of landbirds. The mirror-image misorientation theory, originally developed by DeSante (1973), and described by Diamond (1982), proposed that vagrants are misoriented by confusion of right and left in relating an inherited migration direction to a compass reference direction. Mirror-image misorientation theory accounts for observations made by DeSante (1983a) that in certain situations large-angle misorientations seem more frequent than small or intermediate deviations from the normal migration course (Alerstam, 1990). Misorientation by the wind has long been suggested as a cause of accidentals (Austin, 1971), but Thorup et al. (2012) found differently, as the authors used radio telemetry to track individual migratory flights of several species of songbirds from the Faroe Islands, approximately halfway between Norway and Iceland, far west of their normal migration route. Birds with expected easterly and south-easterly migration direction departed westward out over the Atlantic Ocean, indicating that these birds are actively flying in the “wrong” direction and that their occurrence is not caused by wind drift. However, on Attu Island, in the Aleutian Islands off Alaska, Hameed et al. (2009) found statistical evidence that the occurrence of spring Asian vagrants on this North Pacific island were correlated with storm winds from the west."
It's nice to see them back in central Alberta. I encountered four together. Three were drying their wings perched on fenceposts while one was dining on something rather foul at the roadside.
Lamont County, near Andrew, Alberta.
Oops! One of them needs to be sharpened. HMM
Btw, all of these pencils really were are on my desk when I went looking for a Macro Monday subject. Most of them are quite short.
#95 for 123 in 2023: Something on your desk
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I'm really not happy that my camera froze when all the fireworks were in the air together so I don't have multiple fireworks in one shot. I guess this is close I will get for now. And ince I thought that all of them were kind of similar and didn't make sense to upload them separately, just decided to do a collage and show all in one shot together. Maybe I could make 1 more collage. But I believe these are the best shots of them all.
POP Quiz, All of them are SOC except one.Make a guess which one it is.Hint, I used Nik color efex for processing.
You Definitely gotta see it Large though
Also if you view the Original size you can see the details of the original pics!!!
A favourite group of trees for me, I love photographing them from the top of near by hill. It’s usually best in autumn and one year I capture in late autumn with in a heavy frost, that photo hangs on my wall. So when presented with a very misty morning inevitably I headed for these trees, but from my preferred view point the mist was too thick and I could see the trees. I made my way down the hill and the trees started to emerge from the mist. I needed to keep some elevation to keep the shape so before I lost that I took the photo and moved on from what I thought was a bad job. Fourteen months later a bad job becomes I fond memory of the morning which I’m now going to post as I have nothing new to post.
These thistles are bi annual, so they only flower once and the plant dies , leaving a nice deep root that opens the soil and acts as a wick to move moisture up or down, to help keep pants healthy.
And butterflies are all over them, best place to find butterflies, unless you have a butterfly bush, but they don't grow here...
“When photographing women, we have three paths: photograph them with the "male gaze” ; photograph them as "photographer eyes” and photograph them as "poet feeling”. I always try to be the three ...” by Old Roger
So I was let go by one of my sponsors, and no I wont name them lol. But they stated that they were reducing their blogging staff, which is fine, it's their choice and maybe someday I will blog for them again.
But with every closed door a new one opens and that has already happened. My new sponsor is Tooty Fruity and I already love what they have to offer.
Owned by Sami Enchanted and she really does outstanding work. She also owns .Nine for the Men out there. So I'm really excite for the new adventure. And if you like what you see join her groups. The Tooty Fruity group cost 99L (which is nothing really) and it gives you access to free gifts as well as 10% off at the In World Store. She also has a group for .Nine that offers the same.
So that being said here is my first, of what will be many, postings for Tooty Furity.
Alviso is a small Silicon Valley town, located at the San Francisco Bay in California. I went there for sunset and to take photos of the seven planets that lined up for a rare "planetary parade" on Friday. It was too cloudy to see the planets, but we got nice backlit clouds after sunset.
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Penelope wants some tasty grass pellets, but they're for the senior goats. I'll distract her with fresh hay, and sneak the pellets through behind her. She and the six other Nigerian dwarf goats live inside the goat pavilion
This area is Dinkie friendly. Didn't see any Dinkies while I visited a few days ago. Maybe when it's closer to Halloween, I'll see a few of them approach me. :)
Open Sim LM: dyvall.de:8002
St Michael’s Church
Situated in St. Michael’s Alley, Cornhill, London, EC3V 9DS
St Michael’s is a medieval church with pre-Norman Conquest foundation. It is believed that the church was in existence in the early 1130’s. However the medieval part was lost in the Great Fire of London (apart from the tower) and replaced with what is now the present building.
Some early history shows that the church was in possession of the Abbot and convent of Evesham until 1503 when it was settled on to the Drapers Company. A new tower was built in 1421. There were lodging for the choristers which were maintained by Sir John Rudstone, unfortunately these fell into decay after his death in 1530.
Some early folklore tells a story of an apparition ‘an ugly misshapen sight’ which appeared when the bell ringers were ringing in a storm. This caused them to faint, they later discovered scratch marks in the masonry. These became the ‘Devil’s Clawmarks’.
According to the Monuments of London (City), Sir Christopher Wren had the church completely rebuilt after the Great Fire at the cost of £4,686.10s,with the exception of the tower which was restored. In 1721 Wren also replaced the tower. Sir Nicolas Hawksmoor completed the upper stages of the tower.
More repairs in 1790. The church then went through further restoration work under Sir George Gilbert Scott in 1860. More work took place in 1868.
There many things to see inside St Michael’s, the reredos (altar screen) representing Aaron and Moses was painted by Robert Streater. Decoration over the main porch was by John Birnie Philip ‘St Michael disputing with Satan. Many of the columns are adorned with angels.
Stained glass by Clayton and Bell was installed. The Representation of Christ in the large circular East window to be admired. The organ originally built by Renatus Harris in 1684 but much altered and enlarged, last restoration 2011.
There is a First World War memorial outside the church, a statue of St Michael by Richard Reginald Goulden.
Fortunately the church escaped damage in WWII, it was designated Grade 1 listing in 1950. In 1960 the Victorian paintwork was replaced by a more subdued scheme of Gold, Blue and White. In 2011 a new set of 12 bells were installed in the tower cast by Taylors of Loughborough.
They have gorged themselves on windfall plums and have now found the greenhouse, cautious picking required, but there is a buzz about the place !
Hasta que no subas todos los ladrillos no vas a cenar.
First Prize Theme: Construction.
Until you get all the bricks you're not going to dinner.
First Prize Theme: Construction.
Al realizar la fotografía, quería transmitir, la descordinación... un trabajo antinatural... la humillación de un ser humano, del porqué al pobre chico la hacían manosear cada uno de los ladrillos que debían subir a la obra?... la ineptitud de los encargados, suficiente para mandarlos a estudiar de verdad, pero con orejones.
Esta es la denuncia de mi foto, de ahí el título en segundas.
La solución... transportar los ladrillos en palets con camión y desde ahí subirlos con grua que la había, a lo alto de la obra.
Por que los transportaban sueltos? elevación de volquete y todos fuera, con una cuarta parte de ladrillos partidos o rotos, despues de uno en uno ponerlos en el palet del suelo para que la grua los suba... este es el país de los mas listos fijo señores, el dolor de lumbares no los tiene el encargado no, los tiene el pobre chaval.
Uno debe saber leer las fotos, muchas llevan mensajes ocultos... tu sabes verlos?. Antoni Gallart.
Yellow-rumped warbler, May 6, 2020, Rondeau Provincial Park
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Setophaga coronata.
Yellow-rumped Warblers are perhaps the most versatile foragers of all warblers. They're the warbler you're most likely to see fluttering out from a tree to catch a flying insect, and they're also quick to switch over to eating berries in fall. Other places Yellow-rumped Warblers have been spotted foraging include picking at insects on washed-up seaweed at the beach, skimming insects from the surface of rivers and the ocean, picking them out of spiderwebs, and grabbing them off piles of manure.
source -allaboutbirds-org.
Though I provide them mainly for the Eastern Bluebirds, just about every species of birds devour the mealworms - including this male Northern Cardinal. Photo captured in my yard in NE Oklahoma.
For something that looks so beautiful and graceful in flight (at a distance), these are some ugly, almost scary looking birds when you see them up close.
Moss Landing, just north of Moss Landing, California.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson.
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I am always fascinated by trees that stand alone in a natural environment, away from other trees. I call them "lonely trees," and I have a whole album of images that fit this genre. One of my favorite trees to photograph is the elm tree of Cook's Meadow. It's a tree made famous by Ansel Adams, with many photographs showcasing it in different seasons. I have posted a few images of this gorgeous tree myself.
I eagerly looked forward to capturing the tree in its autumnal splendor during our recent visit. However, I seemed to arrive a few days too late for this specific tree. I wonder if the tree's isolation from other trees affects its timing since most of the trees in the valley appeared to have just peaked. We observed very few trees that were past their peak. Nevertheless, hiking up to the tree was delightful, as it felt like meeting an old friend.
The Barnacle goose (Branta leucopsis) belongs to the genus Branta of black geese, which contains species with largely black plumage, distinguishing them from the grey Anser species. Despite its superficial similarity to the Brent Goose, genetic analysis has shown it is an eastern derivative of the Cackling Goose lineage.The Barnacle goose was first classified taxonomically by Johann Matthäus Bechstein in 1803. Its specific epithet is from the Ancient Greek leuko- "white", and opsis "faced".
In English, the term "barnacle" originally referred only to this species of goose and only later to the crustacean barnacles. It is sometimes claimed that the word comes from a Celtic word for "limpet", but the sense-history seems to go in the opposite direction.[2]The Barnacle Goose is a medium-sized goose, 60–70 cm long,[3] with a white face and black head, neck, and upper breast. Its belly is white. The wings and its back are silver-gray with black-and-white bars that look like they are shining when the light reflects on it. During flight a V-shaped white rump patch and the silver-gray underwing linings are visible.
Barnacle Geese breed mainly on the Arctic islands of the North Atlantic. There are three main populations, with separate breeding and wintering ranges; from west to east:
Breeding in eastern Greenland, wintering on the Hebrides of western Scotland and in western Ireland. Population about 40,000.
Breeding on Svalbard, wintering on the Solway Firth on the England/Scotland border. Population about 24,000.
Breeding on Novaya Zemlya, wintering in the Netherlands. Population about 130,000.
A new fourth population, derived from the Novaya Zemlya population, has become established since 1975 breeding on the Baltic Sea islands (Estonia, Finland, Denmark, and Sweden), and wintering in the Netherlands. Population about 8,000.
Small numbers of feral birds, derived from escapes from zoo collections, also breed in other north European countries. Occasionally, a wild bird will appear in the Northeastern United States or Canada, but care must be taken to separate out wild birds from escaped individuals, as Barnacle Geese are popular waterfowl with collectors.