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A lovely wader (I think its a Redshank but if I am wrong please correct me).Dun laoghaire,Co.Dublin,Ireland.
I think these clean the underside of this large beetle. approx. 30mm long
thanks to Don Stenhouse for the ID. DS could not be 100% sure based on the photos but this was the most likely species.
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Think outside the box - cigarette butts can be pretty too ...
Me thinks not enough people in this world do what they really want to do or are too afraid to go do something.
So, most people know that I took off Friday and Monday for a four day weekend so I could play the new wow game and look at me like I'm an idiot, even though, later thursday afternoon people were talking about how they used to do that for old games and stay up all night.
So far me thinks that people just don't like to say what they like to do outside of work.
And now today, it was a quiet day at work and I finished everything that needed to be done anyway so I ended up having a half day at work because while I was out walking at the traralgon railway reserve, i seen baby swans that I had never seen before at the reserve (have seen some more grown up ones at the morwell wetlands, but they were way larger than the ones I got photo's of today)
So the bad part then was, I didn't have my camera gear with me, hesitated taking it when I was getting ready for work today, said i'd go for a walk/run then got annoyed when I had seen them and didn't have the gear to take my photos.
So went back to work, finished one last car off, told people that I didn't wanna miss the chance of getting photo's of these baby swans so drove all the way back home to get my camera gear, then went all the way back to the reserve and took as many photo's as I could untill they decided to swim off on me and hide in the reeds.
My advice now, more people shouldn't be afraid to just go and do something, don't give a fuck that they're gonna dock another half a day worth of annual leave from me, in the end I got to go out and get what I wanted and now I can keep these photo's forever
Who's next to go and do something in the spur of the moment and do what they really wanna do ?
On another note, a lot of people at work looked at me like I was a fuckhead, least I have passions and hobbiess unlike everyone else I know, go and and bloody do something for a change.
Un astéroïde géant doit s'écraser sur la Terre en 2036!
Je propose plusieurs méthodes pour éviter le pire.
+ d'infos ici:
www.thomasthink.com/actu/asteroide-apophis-menace-la-terr...
Designed by architect R. C. Watkins, this excellent red brick Romanesque Revival courthouse was built in 1902-03. It is one of the state's best courthouse, but unfortunately it has been put out of use. Today it sits vacant and is available as a vacation rental unit. I don't know if it is for only day use or for both day and night use, but I think that the idea of renting an old courthouse is really neat.
The edifice was placed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1971.
Junction is a very small county seat located in the Sevier River Valley of South Central Utah.
Just completed a 3 day hike down the South Kaibab trail of the Grand Canyon, 2 nights/1 day at a cabin in Phantom Ranch on the bottom, and hike out on the Bright Angel Trail. The overlook shots are mostly on the S. Kaibab, with glimpses of the Colorado River visible in some. A few shots, with people begin to show the incredible scale of the place. Snow & ice at the top for the first 2-3 miles, very cold, but then nice but still cold at Phantom. I couldn't hike with my "real" camera, so all I had with me was an old point-n-shoot. Still, given the shock & sadness of the mass shootings in my Tucson town which I learned of just as I was about to descend, the beauty of the Grand Canyon was the perfect antidote. It really helped.
The Haywain - John Constable(1821) - Toywea 1000 piece.
This was my 1st Toywea puzzle, a Chinese brand(I think). The quality is very good, thick pieces that fit very well, my only puzzlement(excuse the pun) was the pieces had letters on the reverse side so if you wanted you could sort them & make the puzzle too easy. I for one didn't like it & think they shouldn't be on them. The painting is close to my heart as I live quite close to where this was painted & I visit there quite often, so overall a solid 8.5 out of 10 for this puzzle...on to the next.
The Hay Wain – originally titled Landscape: Noon – is a painting by John Constable, completed in 1821, which depicts a rural scene on the River Stour between the English counties of Suffolk and Essex. It hangs in the National Gallery in London and is regarded as "Constable's most famous image" and one of the greatest and most popular English paintings.
Painted in oils on canvas, the work depicts as its central feature three horses pulling what appears to be a wood wain or large farm waggon across the river. Willy Lott's Cottage, also the subject of an eponymous painting by Constable, is visible on the far-left. The scene takes place near Flatford Mill in Suffolk, though since the Stour forms the border of two counties, the left bank is in Suffolk and the landscape on the right bank is in Essex.
The Hay Wain is one of a series of paintings by Constable called the "six-footers", large-scale canvasses which he painted for the annual summer exhibitions at the Royal Academy. As with all of the paintings in this series, Constable produced a full-scale oil sketch for the work; this is now in the Victoria and Albert Museum in London. Another small oil-sketch, the first in his experimentation with extending of the composition of the painting to the right, is now in the collection of the Yale Centre for British Art. Constable originally exhibited the finished work with the title Landscape: Noon, suggesting that he envisaged it as belonging to the classical landscape tradition of representing the cycles of nature.
Flatford Mill was owned by Constable's father. The house on the left side of the painting belonged to a neighbour, Willy Lott, a tenant farmer, who was said to have been born in the house and never to have left it for more than four days in his lifetime. Willy Lott's Cottage still survives practically unaltered, but none of the trees in the painting exist today.
Although The Hay Wain is revered today as one of the greatest British paintings, when it was originally exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1821 (under the title Landscape: Noon), it failed to find a buyer.
It was considerably better received in France where it was praised by Théodore Géricault. The painting caused a sensation when it was exhibited, along with View on the Stour near Dedham and Yarmouth Jetty, at the 1824 Paris Salon (it has been suggested that the inclusion of Constable's paintings in the exhibition was a tribute to Géricault, who died early that year). In that exhibition, The Hay Wain was singled out for a gold medal awarded by Charles X of France, a cast of which is incorporated into the picture's frame. The works by Constable in the exhibition inspired a new generation of French painters, including Eugène Delacroix. The French writer Stendhal, who visited the exhibition, wrote: "We have never seen anything like these pictures before. It is their truthfulness that is so striking." According to Christine Riding, Director of Collections and Research at the National Gallery, though, "In some ways, he's offering up a fiction: a highly curated landscape containing elements that have been added later to improve the composition and broaden its appeal (…) There's nothing natural about that landscape (…) It's all man-made (…) The fields are agriculture, a managed landscape".
Sold at the exhibition with three other Constables to the dealer John Arrowsmith, The Hay Wain was brought back to England by another dealer, D. T. White; he sold it to a Mr. Young who resided in Ryde on the Isle of Wight. It was there that the painting came to the attention of the collector Henry Vaughan and the painter Charles Robert Leslie. On the death of his friend Mr. Young, Vaughan bought the painting from the former's estate; in 1886, he presented it to the National Gallery in London, where it still hangs today. In his will, Vaughan bequeathed the full-scale oil sketch for The Hay Wain, made with a palette knife, to the South Kensington Museum (now the Victoria and Albert Museum).
The Hay Wain was voted the second most popular painting in any British gallery, second only to Turner's Fighting Temeraire.
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Zendeko is Zenshuji Soto Mission's very own taiko group and a very accomplished one at that. Zendeko has had the honor of performing for the Emperor and Empress of Japan, President George Bush, Sr., His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama, and Pope John Paul II, just to name a few dignitaries. They've also performed alongside the band Korn and were featured in several Hollywood movies.