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A trait well suited to these times.

An old image taken for the tranquility of the scene and reprocessed this morning as a reminder.of more peaceful days.

one from the archives - dead ivy on the side of the garden shed

This is one of the most photographed trees in Coronation Park in Oakville, Ontario Canada. Despite the battering of the waves, this tree hangs in there.

Having access to lakeside parks like this for lunchtime walks makes Oakville one of the most livable communities in Canada.

This is the scene of slow but age-old struggle: the tenacious tree is probing and poking the rock for cracks and fissures to exploit, while the rock - which probably predates the dinosaurs - holds steadfast and has seen it all before. The tree outgrows its support system and tumbles, to be taken by the sea at the end of this narrow pathway. However, the hardy tree's root-system lives on to sprout a new shoot heading for the light, and the struggle continues.

Some of you have seen this already I think, I vaguely remember posting to FB a month or two ago. Anyhow I've spent many hours with this tree, its one of the places I like to go for quiet time. We go back a long way, this tree and I. She grows impossibly between the clints and grikes, on limestone pavement, reaching eastwards, blown by the wind from the west. I'd tell you where she is, but I don't want to spoil the peace and tranquillity. :-)

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Hanging on through autumn, frost and second big snowfall of winter. Very impressive! (7DWF Wednesday Theme: macro or closeup. 5D Mark III f11 1/25 sec 100mm ISO 100)

American beech leaves still cling to branches after winter snowstorms.

Sharon Woods.

iNaturalist link www.inaturalist.org/observations/262853944

Jenny Pansing photos

In spite of the omnipresent power of the elements that engulf the little tree, it clings tenaciously to life on the cliffside in its coat of frost.

When I saw this on one of my recent fishing trips, I was reminded once again of the lesson on survival so often provided to us by Nature. Amidst an evergreen forest of fir and spruce, a birch seed, against all odds, found a tiny bit of soil in the crack of this rock in the lake, germinated and grew into a tree. It may only last for a short time but for now it's certainly flourishing and making the most of what its been given.

This view is looking to the west. However, in the other direction is the full expanse of the lake from which this little tree has to endure the full fury of winter's easterly winds and driving sleet and snow.

I thought many Flickr viewers would appreciate these two so I decided to upload them before I leave for a two week absence.

Large is certainly better.

Plant in a crack of a rock (probably armeria maritima also sea thrift or sea ping, without the pink flowers), close to the sea coast near Gothenburg, Sweden. Taken on Ilfort FP4Plus.

I am humbled by Alexei Navalny's fortitude.

he fought the good fight

time to rest now

listening to Sting - "Russians"

www.youtube.com/watch?v=6w3037nq23o

"It’s time I should be thankful

For all that I have got,

Instead of bitching and complaining

Of all that I have not.

I just forgot

That there are people with the blues

Who are living on the sidewalk

And they’re sleeping in their shoes.

They are the clues

That you must always be my girl,

So we can dance together

In the midnight of the world."

- - John Stewart's lyrics: "Midnight of The World"

determined to find some photos on a couple of cold, dark November days. (It was wet too...) :-)

A bright 25/1/2025 Sunday morning at Wick Harbour and creel fishing vessels TENACITY (WK39) and SOUTHERN BELLE (WK25) are reflected nicely in the calm waters.

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ring a day

day 100/365

Thank You RAD Project

but I must leave you now.

i have enjoyed almost every minute we shared.

I bid you farewell.

i will continue to support all you RAD guys and gals until the end,

you all have my utmost appreciation and respect of your tenacity to keep going,

woo-hoo! keep on rockin'! the RAD!

oh and thanks to...

Dee's bird skulls.

Laurie and her friends.

Shannon for letting me borrow her crimper.

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These three trees cling to life. Growing out of a crack in solid rock.

I had my eyes opened to the talent and tenacity of wasps when taken to see this abandoned nest.

Here we can see the internal egg chambers, some covered with silk by the larvae when they are preparing to pupate. And the paper layers of the exterior.

All wasp nests are rebuilt from scratch every season. When a queen wasp has found a suitable location to build her nest, she will begin to harvest wood which she mixes with her saliva to create paper.

She will build a small nest that resembles a golf ball, and around 10-20 egg chambers will be made inside.

The queen wasp will then lay eggs in these chambers and tend to them. Once these baby wasps hatch, the queen will no longer leave the nest. It will be these new worker wasp's job to provide food and material to build the wasp nest even larger, and from this point the queen wasp will become an egg production machine.

If memory serves, this was a good 30 to 40 cm in diameter. Seen in south-west Pennsylvania, USA.

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Most men are only great until they have to be. That's where we differ.

Wick fishing vessel TENACITY (WK55) pictured moored up at Wick Harbour on Friday 27/2/2026. SOUTHERN BELLE behind.

clifftop foredune vegetation near boozy gully

canunda national park, limestone coast, in the south east of south australia

When I saw this on one of my recent fishing trips, I was reminded once again of the lesson on survival so often provided to us by Nature. Amidst an evergreen forest of fir and spruce, a birch seed, against all odds, found a tiny bit of soil in the crack of this rock in the lake, germinated and grew into a tree. It may only last for a short time but for now it's certainly flourishing and making the most of what its been given.

This view is looking to the southeast. Just around the bend to the left is the full expanse of the lake from which this little tree has to endure the full fury of winter's easterly winds and driving sleet and snow.

I thought many Flickr viewers would appreciate these two so I decided to upload them before I leave for a two week absence.

Larger is certainly better.

Sony A7R : 70-150mm Vivitar (Kino) Macro Focusing Zoom f/3.8

The tenacity of these tree roots gripping the rock of the escarpment face... quite amazing

"Hyundai Tenacity" passing Cuxhaven on her way to Hamburg.

The hardest thing is the decision to act, the rest is just tenacity.

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I'm really enjoying increasing the abstractness and minimalism of nature. In this case, of a fast flowing mountain river.

yes my favourite building...

large is even more imposing!

Hokkaido, 2019

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These pretty little Diascia flowers are still clinging on!

Thanks for all the lovely comments and faves on my images and I hope you all have a great weekend.

Tenacity

In Zion National Park.

I love the tenacity of this old lodgepole pine tree growing on the granite slope of Lembert Dome in Yosemite National Park

te·nac·i·ty təˈnasədē/ noun

the quality or fact of being able to grip something firmly; grip.

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