Even the little ones catch my attention. Mother nature is an amazing artist.

breeding herd in Lake Manyara National Park, Tanzania

African Bush Elephant or African Savanna Elephant

loxodonta africana

Afrikaanse olifant

Eléphant d'Afrique

Afrikanischer Elefant

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Enjoy Cherishville

TAXI

TUNE

Macro Mondays theme : String

... for a happy, hot Sunday!

Crimson clover / Inkarnat-Klee (Trifolium incarnatum)

in our garden - Frankfurt-Nordend

Enoplognatha ovata ?

Type of potato flowers. This one is very tiny.

Probably Solanum Nigrum (wiki)

I was amazed to learn potatoes, eggplants, tomatos are all included in this Solanum family and flowers are all very similar.

* I like birds but this is not a bird

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Lesser celandine (Ficaria verna),

diameter approximately 15 milimetres

In german: Scharbockskraut, Durchmesser ca. 15 Milimeter

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about 1 inch diameter

Rad Lab

Ruby throated Hummingbird immature male.

On Explore

this belongs to a large bush in the garden. The flowers are tiny and so beautiful.

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I am resilient

I trust the movement

I negate the chaos

uplift the negative

I'll show up at the table

again and again and again

I'll close my mouth and learn to listen

woah woah ooh ooh

these times are poignant

the winds have shifted

it's all we can do

to stay uplifted

pipelines through backyards

wolves howlin out front

yeah, I got my crew but truth is what I want

realigned and on point

power to the peaceful

prayers to the waters

women at the center

all vessels open

to give and receive

let's see the system

brought down to its knees

woah woah ooh ooh

I'm made of thunder

I'm made of lightning

I'm made of dirt yeah

made of the fine things

my father taught me that I'm a speck of dust

and this world was made for me

so let's go and try our luck

I got my roots down, down deep

So what are we doing here?

what has been done?

what are you gonna do about it

when the world comes undone?

my voice feels tiny

and I'm sure so does yours

but put us all together

make a mighty roar

roar

My wife bought a small pot of this tiny plant in flower about a week ago. This flower was about the same size as my little finger nail. I had to bring it indoors to photograph, not something I like to do but it was breezy and playing havoc with this leggy little lady. I took it with a 90mm macro in apsc mode, effectively giving almost 1.5x magnification.

Mossy Saxifrage.

Alpino Early Limer

For 'Looking Close on Friday'. 'Christmas decoration in B&W'

from the garden.

Have a peaceful weekend!

A tiny snail trying to ascend the wooden wall of our flower rack.

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or camel cricket? not sure. but cute and tiny on this rose pedal

Shot taken at Kalyrra Estate Rental @ Province (private location)

Music : Elton John - Tiny Dancer

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Texture by Pareeerica, Thank you. Wishing everyone a wonderful week.

Hello my amazing Flickr friends !

Today is a yellow day at Color my World Daily and this means we are in the middle of the week already !!! Isn’t that crazy ? The time flies so fast ! So here we are with another yellow picture. This one is all about watching what I eat. I need seriously to get back on track! And since we are Wednesday already that means that I have technically only one day left lol. We all know that starting a diet on Friday or during the weekend is virtually impossible for me… So you see, if i start something it has to be on Thursday … And since Thursday is a day off in Quebec this week, chances are that healthy eating will have to wait until next week or next year lol. Honestly my motivation is non existant right now. So that is why, we have Mr. Wooden Hand giving me a hand with my picture and showing a good exemple by holding a tiny apple (from a Lego set). This picture sums it all: I need a healthier diet and smaller portions ;-). And voilà !

But right now: another video meeting and coffee !! Mucho, mucho amor for you all !! Have a beautiful day my friends !! See you later!!

Thank you so much for all your lovely comments / favs/ general support / happy thoughts!! Stay safe and well!! And see you soon on Flickr !!

A friend of mine.

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This tiny lichen - Cladonia cristatella or British Soldier were growing along my sister's fence.

Thanks Rodger_Evans and [https://www.flickr.com/photos/pogspix] for the ID!

HFF and TGIF!

Mucho, mucho amor for you all !! See you later !!

Thank you so much for all your lovely comments / favs/ general support / happy thoughts!!

HBW!

Hello my amazing Flickr friends !

Today is a green day at Color my World Daily and of course we have a green picture.

Apparently tiny houses are the « thing » right now ! Lot of people dream about living in their own, super modern and minimalistic, tiny house. You can even produce your own electricity and live from your tiny vegetable garden… I always wondered how you must feel living in a tiny house… since you have less possessions you must appreciate everything more … On the other hand, I don’t think I will ever be able to reduce my belongings in order to fit in a tiny house… In our case, the amount of stuff we have, I should consider to buy a village of tiny houses !! And as we all know by now, my green thumb is non existent so I assume we would starve to death after one year of living in our tiny house and eating our own vegetables from our tiny garden …

Today is my laundry day and just by looking at the amount of clothes in my laundry basket, the tiny house is out of question.

Mucho, mucho amor for you all !! And see you soon !!

Thank you so much for all your lovely comments / favs/ general support / happy thoughts!! Stay safe and well!!

My son gave me a pack of wildflower seeds from the Smoky Mountains. I planted them in a flower pot on my front porch. This is one of the plants that made it.Others made it too, but this is the only white one. Happy SoS!

This tiny critter called “Woolly Aphid” is the smallest insect I’ve ever photographed. About 1 mm long.

On a not so tiny bear :-)

So far, this is one of my favorite photos from my trip. I just really like how his eyes show up so nicely. We were close enough and this is cropped so little that the quality of the photo was not compromised.

I like how the fur on his face is so smooth from having been underwater and it really emphasizes the shape of his face. I also love how the hair that was not submerged stands up so nicely, kind of like a lion's mane. Then, the bubbles. I just liked how the bubbles looked rolling off his back.

He'd been snorkeling for fish. That's a method often used by the older and more experienced bears. When snorkeling, they move slowly through the water with just their faces submerged as they look and smell for salmon.

With this method, they expend very little energy which helps them accumulate more fat on their bodies rather than running and splashing all over the place, burning fat, when they need to store it.

Anyway, you guys might not like it as much as I do, I can never tell what others will like best. But this one does it for me.

Created in On1 with effect from Pastello Pro.

Veronica

Red Flower (this is a very tiny rose with a diameter of about 3 ore 4 cm)

#MacroMondays - #Macro Mondays - #PickTwo - #Pick Two

Sony ILCE-7M2 | Tamron 35mm

I've been sick on my back for a number of days with a sinus infection. This is to announce my return to health! (I hope I haven't spoken to soon.)

Common Blue - I believe female

Festive Coquette - female - at Trilha dos Tucanos - Tapiraí - São Paulo - SP. Festive Coquettes are small hummingbirds that measures between 7.5 to 8.5 centimetres and weighs only 3 grams!

Happy Thursday! I'll be away for a while.

Thanks a lot for your visits, comments, faves, invites, etc. Very much appreciated!

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Smile on Saturday#White flowers on white background

A tiny flowers of blackthorn.

HSoS!

Taken at Mogareeka Inlet near Tathra on the Far South Coast of NSW. A bit hard to find the track down to this area as overgrown after our continuing wet times of the last year or two. This is where the Bega River enters the Tasman Sea. The sandbank is the northern end of Tathra Beach.