Faliro

This nest was right against the wall of my bedroom and there was a constant stream of visitors which didn't appear to bother them in the slightest.

Qué bien le cuidaban

al barco las hojas,

que daban color

y una leve sombra

que falta le hacía.

¡El barco sonreía!

¡No ves cómo abre la boca,

enseña los dientes,

se pinta los labios

y ríe al agua

mientras corre y camina

rompiendo el espejo

que el agua compone

para que el barco se ría!

Pyotr Ilich Tchaikovsky - Variations on a Rococo theme .

6 mei 2023

Hello Everyone,

Yesterday morning was rather exciting because there were several Wood Ducks in the pond. I don't know what got them going, but they were all on the move and speeding around in different directions. It made for quite the challenge, especially because I'm just starting to get outside with the camera again.

Thanks a million for taking a look and leaving me a comment. I do love hearing from you!

Have a fantastic day!

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Bar tailed Godwit - Liomosa Laponica

Norfolk

The bar-tailed godwit is a long-billed, long-legged wading bird which visits UK shores for the winter. Most usually seen in its grey-brown winter plumage, birds in spring may show their full rich chestnut breeding plumage. In flight it shows a white patch stretching from the rump up the back, narrowing to a point. It breeds in the Arctic of Scandinavia and Siberia and hundreds of thousands of them pass through the UK, on their way further south, or stop off here for the winter.

The bar-tailed godwit breeds on Arctic coasts and tundra mainly in the Old World, and winters on coasts in temperate and tropical regions of the Old World and of Australia and New Zealand. Its migration includes the longest known non-stop flight of any bird and also the longest journey without pausing to feed by any animal.

The bar-tailed godwit migrates in flocks to coastal East Asia, Alaska, Australia, Africa, northwestern Europe and New Zealand.

It was shown in 2007 to undertake the longest non-stop flight of any bird. Birds in New Zealand were tagged and tracked by satellite to the Yellow Sea in China. According to Dr. Clive Minton (Australasian Wader Studies Group): The distance between these two locations is 9,575 km (5,950 mi), but the actual track flown by the bird was 11,026 km (6,851 mi). This was the longest known non-stop flight of any bird. The flight took approximately nine days. At least three other bar-tailed godwits also appear to have reached the Yellow Sea after non-stop flights from New Zealand.

One specific female of the flock, nicknamed E7 flew onward from China to Alaska and stayed there for the breeding season. Then on 29 August 2007 she departed on a non-stop flight from the Avinof Peninsula in western Alaska to the Piako River near Thames, New Zealand, setting a new known flight record of 11,680 km (7,258 mi).

I think this week I will post mainly orchids - for a change Stay tuned

Photos are from 2022, no second life! ( I have too many of them)

Thank you for taking the time to visit, comment, fave or invite. I really appreciate them all.

All photos used are my own.

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Switzerland, May 2021

My best photos are here: www.lacerta-bilineata.com/ticino-best-photos-of-southern-...

My latest ANIMAL VIDEO (warning, it's a bit shocking): www.youtube.com/watch?v=4T2-Xszz7FI

You find a selection of my 80 BEST PHOTOS (mostly not yet on Flickr) here: www.lacerta-bilineata.com/western-green-lizard-lacerta-bi... (the website exists in ESPAÑOL, FRANÇAIS, ITALIANO, ENGLISH, DEUTSCH)

ABOUT THE PHOTO:

So this photo is a bit of a novelty for me - at least here on Flickr, but it's also a journey back in time in a sense. I've always loved b/w and sepia photography; already as a very young teenager I would go out into the woods with an old Pentax Spotmatic (which I had nicked from my father) whenever it was a foggy day to shoot b/w compositions of sunbeams cutting through the ghostlike trees.

I used films with a sensitivity of at least 1600 (for those of you who remember what that means 😉 ), and the resulting photos had an incredibly fine grain which I loved; I blew them up to the size of posters and hung them on the walls of my teenage man-cave next to Hendrix, Jim Morrison and Slash.

But then I abandoned photography altogether for 20 years, and when I finally picked up a camera again, it was one of the digital kind. Now neither film nor grain played any role in my photographic endeavours - let alone b/w compositions: because the reason I fell in love with shooting pictures once more was the rare and incredibly colorful lizard species that had chosen my garden as its habitat.

It's this species - the Lacerta bilineata aka the western green lizard - that my photo website www.lacerta-bilineata.com/ and also my Flickr gallery are dedicated to, but I've since expanded that theme a bit so that it now comprises the whole Lacerta bilineata habitat, which is to say my garden and its immediate surroundings and all the flora and fauna I find in it.

I like that my gallery and the website have this clear theme, because in order to rise to the challenge of portraying all aspects of a very specific little eco system (which also happens to be my home of sorts), it forces me to constantly explore it from fresh angles, and I keep discovering fascinating new motives as my photographic journey continues.

Which brings me to the horse pasture you see in this photo. This playground for happy horsies lies just outside my garden, and it normally only interests me insofar as my green reptile friends claim parts of it as their territory, and I very much prefer it to be horseless (which it thankfully often is).

Not that the horses bother the reptiles - the lizards don't mind them one bit, and I've even seen them jump from the safety of the fly honeysuckle shrub which the pasture borders on right between the deadly looking hooves of the horses to forage for snails, without any sign of fear or even respect.

No, the reason I have a very conflicted relationship with those horses is that they are mighty cute and that there's usually also foals. The sight of those beautiful, happy animals jumping around and frolicking (it's a huge pasture and you can tell the horses really love it) is irresistible: and that inevitably attracts what in the entire universe is known as the most destructive anti-matter and ultimate undoing of any nature photographer: other humans.

Unlike with the horses, the lizards ARE indeed very much bothered by specimens of loud, unpredictable Homo sapiens sapiens - which makes those (and by extension also the horses) the cryptonite of this here reptile photographer. It's not the horses' fault, I know that, but that doesn't change a thing. I'm just telling you how it is (and some of you might have read about the traumatic events I had to endure to get a particular photo - if not, read at your own risk here: www.flickr.com/photos/191055893@N07/51405389883/in/datepo... - which clearly demonstrated that even when it's entirely horseless, that pasture is still a threat for artistic endeavours).

But back to the photo. So one morning during my vacation back in May I got up quite early. It had rained all night, and now the fog was creeping up from the valley below to our village just as the sky cleared up and the morning sun started to shine through the trees.

And just as I did when I was a teenager I grabbed my camera and ran out to photograph this beautiful mood of ghostlike trees and sunbeams cutting through the mist. There had already been such a day a week earlier (which is when I took this photo: www.flickr.com/photos/191055893@N07/51543603732/in/datepo... ), but this time, the horses were also there.

Because of our slightly strained relationship I only took this one photo of them (I now wish I had taken more: talk about missed opportunities), and otherwise concentrated on the landscape. It was only later when I went through all the photos on my computer that I realized that I actually really liked those horses, even despite the whole composition being such a cliché. And I realized another thing: when I drained the photo of all the color, I liked it even better - because there was almost a bit of grain in it, like in the photos from my youth.

Since then I have experimented quite a bit with b/w and sepia compositions (some of which I will upload here eventually I guess), but this photo here is the first one that helped me rediscover my old passion. I hope you like it even though it builds quite a stark contrast with the rest of my tiny - and very colorful - gallery. But in the spirit of showing you the whole Lacerta bilineata habitat (and also in the spirit of expanding my gallery a bit beyond lizards and insects), I think it's not such a bad fit.

As always, many greetings to all of you, have a wonderful day and don't hesitate to let me know what you think 😊

SMALL dumpy wader that is associated with coastal habitats. Feeds by running along sand, gravel or estuarine mud as if powered by clockwork and then standing still for a second, to pick up food from the ground. Seen from the sea wall Reculvers, where their was a flock of about 20.

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COUNT your blessings, name them one by one, and you will be surprised what the good LORDs done.!

creatures and essences

This is a Monk Parakeet we saw in Barcelona. We saw a few in Athens as well.

Coming from the north we had not seen them before and we loved them.

But they seem to be a menace in the countries they settle in. It is considered an invasive species 🤔

NZ66632

... from our Botanical Garden,

but now we've visited them 'at home' ;-))

Madeira cranesbill / Madeira-Storchschnabel (Geranium maderense)

in the beautiful garden of our holiday cottage in São Vicente, Madeira Island, Portugal

for a colourful Sunday!

🎶🎶🎶

Will you hold the line?

When every one of them is giving up or giving in,

Tell me in this house of mine?

Nothing ever comes without a consequence or cost,

Tell me will the stars align?

Will heaven step in? Will it save us from our sin? Will it?

'Cause this house of mine stands strong

That's the price you pay

Leave behind your heartache, cast away

Just another product of today

Rather be the hunter than the prey

And you're standing on the edge, face up 'cause you're a

Natural

A beating heart of stone

You gotta be so cold

To make it in this world

Yeah, you're a natural

Living your life cutthroat

You gotta be so cold

Yeah, you're a natural

Deep inside me, I'm fading to black, I'm fading

Took an oath by the blood of my hand, won't break it

I can taste it, the end is upon us, I swear

Gonna make it

I'm gonna make it

Lyrics from "Natural" by Imagine Dragons

I have the honour to invite you to the exhibition called "Feelings" curated by my dear friend Dido Haas at the amazing Nitroglobus Roof Gallery. This exhibit will stay for this month.

I tried to show on my works that an avatar is very natural and can show feelings as in Real Life.

Hope you enjoy it ❤ hugsss

TAXI: Nitroglobus Roof Gallery

Amsterdam - Frans Halsstraat

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To me the sea is a continual miracle; The fishes that swim, the rocks, the motion of the waves, the ships with men in them. What stranger miracles are there? (Walt Whitman)

Shot near Central Park.These are the actual colors on the structure.I just enhanced them a little.I don't exactly know which street I took this shot,but between 59th and 79th streets there are many old mansions that once were owned by some of NYC elite from the 19th century.Some of them have been converted into embassies and museums.Most of the museums are strewn along 5th Avenue between 82nd and 104th streets in what is known as Museum Mile.

Bergamo, Italy

The Brain—is wider than the Sky—

For—put them side by side—

The one the other will contain

With ease—and You—beside—

The Brain is deeper than the sea—

For—hold them—Blue to Blue—

The one the other will absorb—

As Sponges—Buckets—do—

The Brain is just the weight of God—

For—Heft them—Pound for Pound—

And they will differ—if they do—

As Syllable from Sound—

Emily Dickinson, ‘The Brain is wider than the Sky’.

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- Scandalize - Outfit Casandra

- Creative Stylez - Vintage 3

What is the collective noun for a number of corks? A 'party of corks''? A 'pop of corks' or a 'joy of corks' or perhaps an 'inebriation' of them? A 'gathering of corks', a 'celebration'', a 'happiness of corks' .......?

I wish love and joy to nest in the hearts of people and to warm them, adding a note of happiness to the difficult daily life of this time.Stay Strong.. Stay Safe.. Soon all we will be better! Faith, Love, Courage.. Merry Christmas to all!!!Big hug! With Love Ela ♥♥♥

Believe..

Children sleeping

Snow is softly falling

Dreams are calling

Likes bells in the distance

We were dreamers

Not so long ago

But one by one

We all had to grow up

When it seems the magic slipped away

We find it all again on Christmas Day

Believe in what your heart is saying

Hear the melody that's playing

There's no time to waste

There's so much to celebrate

Believe in what you feel inside

And give your dreams the wings to fly

You have everything you need

If you just believe

Trains move quickly

To their journey's end

Destinations

Are where we begin again

Ships go sailing

Far across the sea

Trusting starlight

To get where they need to be

When it seems that we have lost our way

We find ourselves again on Christmas Day

Believe in what your heart is saying

Hear the melody that's playing

There's no time to waste

There's so much to celebrate

Believe in what you feel inside

And give your dreams the wings to fly

You have everything you need

If you just believe

If you just believe

If you just believe

If you just believe

Just believe

Just believe

Song: www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Avycrez66o&ab_channel=JoshGr...

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This is my new post for Mens! i hope you like it! (◍'◡`◍) ✿❥

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Have you ever visited Sandbanks Provincial Park, nestled on the west coast of Prince Edward County? To be completely honest, and I don't want to exaggerate, but every person I have ever talked to in my life about provincial parks love this place.

There is our opportunity for an exceptional exploration and full enjoyment of the beauty of this park at this time of a year, especially, when all the summer crowds were gone. This image is taken on the stunning Woodlands Trail that leads across old farm pastures to hardwood lots. A walk over the leaf carpeted trail is breathtaking, and you can enjoy hearing the rustle of the leaves while walking. Awesome!

The fall colors amaze everyone, so enjoy them until you can, because the remanence of Hurricane Patricia will bring all the foliage down today!

© all rights reserved by Mala Gosia. Please do not use this image on websites, blogs or any other media without my explicit written permission.

I love the unique and majestic sight of an iceberg sculptured by the elements. May future generations get to enjoy them.

Its time for them to bloom, this year it has many arms with cluster of flowers, this is one plant that does okay without help or water,

the simple morning dew it keeps it alive.

Sometimes bygone springs, full of warmth and scents, blossom yet again inside us. And we carry them through the winter, protecting them with our chests. Then, one day, those bygone springs begin protecting our chests from the frost when we find ourselves on the other side of the window, where winter is not just a picture. It is now the ninth winter that I have had such a spring inside me, and it is still keeping me warm. Imagine, in this winter, two such springs touching like the scents of two meadows. That is what we need instead of overcoats. . .

Milorad Pavić

🎼 Que Je T'aime - Johnny Halliday

youtu.be/_lmrVrCT7tQ

Model: Maximus Morningstar

Reclaiming an amazing Pink Floyd tune.

The Song

Not to spoil the magic of how I do my photos, but this is my avi shot three different times. It took me all day, but mostly because Second life was acting up and my inventory disappeared for a couple hours...

PEEP THEM YUMMY DEETS:

tinyurl.com/r7o3uyq

Xo,

Sorchiee

Early in the 20th century, it was very popular to dress up animals and stage scenes like this. People used to love sending them to each other!

I really like shooting kitchen things .It is always great to get that different perspective.

Happy Macro Mondays

PEEP THEM SWEET DEETS <3

tinyurl.com/vt7u939

Xo,

Sorchiee

Ah the goldrims, when raising these beauties you never know how long you might have them in protective custody. My past experience with them has been that they take their time eating, they are very messy and they will emerge on their own time.

I have had them eclose (hatch) anywhere between fourteen days to ten months after pupation. When they stick around they take up a lot of space. Therefore, I chose not to raise any last season. Instead, I ended up releasing the hold over's from the season before.

Reluctantly, this season I have decided to give them a boost. So, I brought in several clusters of eggs when I saw them on the vine. The eggs have hatched and the caterpillars are munching away in protective custody. Now, if they will only eclose within a couple of weeks instead of several months, I shall be a happy gardener.

Have a terrific Thursday and happy snapping.

Llévalos todos

PEEP THEM KILLER DEETS <3

tinyurl.com/yyk2hsyx

Xo,

Sorchiee

I rescued a few before the frost last week got all of them.

Have a great weekend!

I was going back through my bug photos from last year, looking for a good one to add tonight since there's not much new happening out in nature right now here in the local area, when I came across this photo of a white-tailed deer fawn that I found out in the forest last spring while photographing insects. I'd forgotten that I even took the photo since I download all my bug photos into special files and wait until winter to look at them and then try to figure out what I found. I'm positive that I photographed this fawn that stood up at my feet with a macro lens

Call them flyover states, the sticks, rural, back of beyond, whatever you wish, but places like this are the heartbeat of America. In Wisconsin.