I didn’t think the view of my favorite barn could get any better…and then along came an old red truck!

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mood: Sami Yusuf - Fragile world

Life’s just a game

An illusion that will fade

Cheat and lie have it your way

But you can’t cheat death, no way

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"Gimmie that nugget!!!"

It's no joke when you steal one of your sisters chicken nuggets!

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Misty weather, but enough sun to create a great glow.

Wisbech

Tomorrow might be Thursday but it feels like Monday...

see, I got totally confused. Tuesday, it's Tuesday!

Thank you, Ralf :o)

Before the land was reclaimed in order to build a port, Southampton had a long beach and shoreline. This little patch (bottom left hand corner) is all that remains of the beach, and few notice that even this is there. There are plans to remove the dilapidated pier and renovate the area, and when that happens this little patch of beach will sadly disappear.

Happy Monday and week to you.

Play Projects

House Sparrow,watching the other Birds.

Re-post for the new series.

西門町 Ximending

Madagascar magpie-robin( male) (Copsychus albospecularis)

Madagascar Magpie-Robin or Oriental Magpie-Robin.

Males are bluish-black and white. Females are brown and buff. Both sexes show a white slash in the wing. There is regional variation: western birds have white in the tail and more white in the wing; northeastern males have a black belly. Common Madagascar endemic that is found in the understory of all forest types, as well as in scrub, plantations, and gardens. Pretty song is a conversational phrase of whistles, whines, and rattles. Much larger than African Stonechat, and usually doesn’t sit in the open. Females separated from female rock-thrushes by their white wing patch.

Sabina, Lazio

You're beautiful, that's for sure

You'll never ever fade

You're lovely, but it's not for sure

That I won't ever change

And though my love is rare

Though my love is true

[Chorus]

I'm like a bird, I'll only fly away

I don't know where my soul is (soul is)

I don't know where my home is

And baby, all I need for you to know is

I'm like a bird, I'll only fly away

I don't know where my soul is (soul is)

I don't know where my home is

All I need for you to know is

Your faith in me brings me to tears (oh)

Even after all these years

And it pains me so much to tell

That you don't know me that well

And though my love is rare

Though my love is true

I'm like a bird, I'll only fly away

I don't know where my soul is (soul is)

I don't know where my home is

And baby, all I need for you to know is

I'm like a bird, I'll only fly away

I don't know where my soul is (soul is)

I don't know where my home is

And baby, all I need for you to know is

It's not that I wanna say goodbye

It's just that every time you try

To tell me that you love me (oh, oh)

Each and every single day

I know I'm gonna have to eventually

Give you away

And though my love is rare

And though my love is true, yeah

Hey, I'm just scared

That we may fall through

Yeah, yeah-yeah, yeah, yeah

I'm like a bird (I'm like a bird)

I don't know where my soul is (soul is)

I don't know where my home is

And baby, all I need for you to know is

I'm like a bird, I'll only fly away

I don't know where my soul is (soul is)

I don't know where my home is

And baby, all I need for you to know is

I'm like a bird, I'll only fly away

(I don't know where my soul is)

I don't know where my soul is (soul is)

(I don't know where my home is, oh)

I don't know where my home is

And baby, all I need for you to know is

I'm like a bird, I'll only fly away

(I don't know where my soul is)

(I don't know where my home is)

I don't know where my soul is (soul is)

I don't know where my home is

And baby, all I need for you to know is

I'm like a bird, I'll only fly away

I don't know where my soul is (soul is)

I don't know where my home is

And baby, all I need for you to know is

I'm like a bird, I'll only fly away

I don't know where my soul is (soul is)

I don't know where my home is

~Nelly Furtado

Song: I'm Like a Bird

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abstract water drop splashing on sidewalk

You've just got to scratch that itch sometimes!

Wild but very friendly Shetland ponies on the shores of Loch Druidibeg, Isle of South Uist, Scotland. The peaks of Hecla, Ben Corrodale and Beinn Mhor are in the background.

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Jakarta

We’re Here! -- FIRE FIRE FIRE

The trees stand like sentinels, silent, skeletal, and unmoved. Beyond them, the mountains rise in shadow, cloaked in mist and memory. The sky is thick with cloud, but it’s not the weather that weighs heavy, it’s the presence. Light barely filters through, casting no warmth, only warning. This is not a trail. It’s a threshold. The kind of place where names are forgotten and footsteps echo longer than they should. The forest doesn’t speak. It listens. And the ridge, distant and dark, watches without blinking.

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The Lone Tree at Llyn Padarn, Wales, UK

"That Glare"

Ps.. This is my second upload of a portrait as i deleted my first after looking at it more closely on my monitor i wasn't happy with how soft it was 🙈

Sometimes over critical of myself but hey ho...

Such a privilege to have had the opportunity to capture this awesome Sparrowhawk feeding all be it a very brief encounter it was well and truly worth the wait!

Captured in the Dumfries & Galloway area.

Taken on my Nikon D5500 DSLR

with Sigma 150-600C Contemporary lens including 1.4x Converter.

I had to wait a few minutes for this seagull to finally get in my path!

Adult Male Mallard.

What's that she's playin'?

(Annie get your gun)

What's that she's takin'?

(The song has to be sung)

She's gone electric

(Annie wipe them out)

That's unexpected

(Strum that thing and shout)

Don't pull that trigger

(Annie get your gun)

Don't shoot that singer

(You're shooting number one)

Number one, number one

Annie Get Your Guns debut on Broadway back in May of 1946 ~and had a revival in 1999

Shot at Sunnys using The Desert

No snow left near the old tree, just some ice on the path. Snapped this photo earlier this afternoon. Ninety minutes earlier in Stockholm at the big cemetery, there was snow everywhere. Which was a weird feeling. Winter at one place and Spring like conditions 30 km away. Oh, and this is my 650th photo of the Swedish Whitebeam.

Accipiter cooperii - fight or flight is an easy choice when you possess wings

After further review, I've determined that this is not a Cooper's, but a Broad-winged Hawk!

Nikon F3, Micro Nikkor 55mm lens

Spotted Dowhee,giving me a hard look.

playing with new ideas

Early morning in Covent Garden Market, London

that Noah... didn't miss the boat ;-)

Mark Twain

Ukraine Matters! Resist the Despicable Orange Clown Putin Puppet!

prunus, Fuji Cherry, j c raulston arboretum, ncsu, raleigh, north carolina

The Garden had a remarkable spring. Flowers everywhere! Some trees and bushes blooming way ahead of shedule. But now, the drought and several "heat waves" (there have been much worse than 90°) have seemingly taken their toll. The "dry garden" is living up to its name. But while it was in bloom, it was a photographer's paradise. Five eucalyptus trees were in bloom at the same time, and became prime real estate for hummingbirds whose nests mimicked the cups (flic.kr/p/2nb9NTC) from which the flowers became seeds which became fruit or something like that.

From February through June, I was photographing the gums, early blooming cactus and succulents, and for the first time in 12 years, took more than 20 photos of Anna's Hummingbirds.

The gum trees were resplendent in purple, yellow, white, and even green flowers. That shouldn't be a surprise with over 700 species of eucalyptus (I'm using "gum" as the generic term, because I have to pause when typing eucalyptus). However, the gum's flower that I'm showing you today was the most difficult to capture. Tucked - along with the hummer's nests - a foot inside the foliage with dappled light, I found the flowers and did my best to present these remarkable blossoms.

Up to 20 feet tall, Eucalyptus albopurpurea, commonly known as the purple-flowered mallee box or Port Lincoln mallee, is a mallee or sometimes a tree that is endemic to South Australia. It has loose, fibrous grey-brown bark on the lower park of the trunk and smooth grey bark that is shed in strips on its upper parts. The leaves are lance-shaped to egg-shaped, the flower buds are spindle-shaped to club-shaped and the flowers are white, pink, mauve or purple. Flowering can occur in most months and the fruit are cup-shaped or barrel-shaped capsules.

Originally from sandy, ocean climate of Kangaroo Island and the southern tip of the Eyre Peninsula, it's doing extremely well here although this is the first year I've seen flowers.