I guess the best advice is - don't touch :-)

I like the way she's checking me out.

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Tip of a Dragonfly Wing

Copulating Orange Tips photographed yesterday at Sewell Cutting in Bedfordshire.

Macro shot of the tip of an orchid. I like the texture and the contrast.

Nikon D810, Nikon 105mm, f/8, 1/125, ISO 1250. At a butterfly house. View Large.

Roding Valley meadows

From the Asteraceae family.. this Pericallis x hybrida looks delightful.. Taken at Shaldon.. can be seen on black

EXPLORE.. Highest position: #196 on Thursday, April 30, 2009

Focus on the tip

Burnt Tip Orchids in limestone grassland in the Derbyshire Peak District. As rare as hens teeth in the Peak District.

Part of the entourage at the Grimaldi Service at the All Saints Church Haggerston - the annual celebration of Regency-era clown Joseph Grimaldi.

Those green tips are starting to show in the garden ! Time for some macro shots !!! :-)

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This is a mating pair of buff tip moths seen in Fermyn Woods yesterday!

Many thanks to all who take the trouble to view and/or comment

I think I like this.

more ggt tomorrow. funnnnnn.

I bought new shoes.

finally.

my face is dry.

I don't want to sleep yet.

It's been a good day.

wow. I am lame as shit.

Orange-tip...male.

Anthocharis cardamines

made by the man shown below. See that image for details on this internationally famous Czech master. This piece (about 50cm or 20 inches) was fashioned from a big piece of refuse glass from a Turkish commercial bottle making factory. First he used a hammer and chisel to rough out the shape. Then various diamond grinding and sanding tools to refine the shape, Then he used the tip of an old carbide drill bit to chip the patterns you see. Finally hours and hours of polishing.

always like getting this little twig-mimic in the trap, photographed as ever by jo!

Pieridae

Ixias marianne – White Orange-tip

Candid Street Photography From Edinburgh, Scotland

A little more work on the tipper body and the cab interior are all that’s left to complete this model.

(Anthocharis cardamines)

Orange-tip - male

At last the Orange-tips (Anthocharis cardamines) have emerged at my local patch, which is near to Loddington, Northants (approx 600ft ASL)

Here is a rather handsome male from yesterday morning

Orange-tip : Anthocharis cardamines

Family:Pieridae

Subfamily:Pierinae

local water meadows

Running lopsided account the right side on new 132 lb. welded rail and the left on smaller 115 lb. stick rail Niagara Falls to Toronto set of VIA RDC's with leader 6120 still in CN red on June 2, 1979.

West Sussex garden

Just wandering around my mum's garden and came across this little beauty roosting.

The light was fading fast and i didn't have my flash with me so I put up the iso and hoped for the best, quite pleased it came out so well.

Orange-tip - Anthocharis cardamines

Colotis danae

A prize find on an early morning search for butterflies, insects and other natural spectacles.

A close profile view revealed some precipitation on its eyes. Here, as several other butterflies seen that morning, it was basking, intent on getting a right dose of vitamin E (or warmth) in readiness for a good day of flight and flowers.

Is the tip jar growing with the economy??

Indonesian government soldiers are looking for the insurgents hidden in the dense bush, Eurasian soldiers have sent a tip about where the rebels are but probably the Nato soldiers are helping to hide the tracks of the insurgents

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The KL tower in the background with the foreground of one of the Petronas Twin Towers.

An orange tip butterfly at rest. Photographed in County Durham, UK.

A female Orange Tip photographed at Sewell Cutting in Bedfordshire.

A cone appears to have tripped over the white line in a small parking lot. (5860a)

M = F . r

NO AI

Day break on the northern tip of Maui.

I stopped for a bird photo but it went & this Orange-tip male posed for me instead. In the upper wing back lit photo the underside markings are showing through. This is the "britannicus" sub species to the one common in Europe

We got a hot tip about the White-eyed Vireo. (Top row photo, next to the King of Snakes.) Drive here, park there, walk a block or two.... Ca-Ching! New bird! And for the brief time it commanded the limelight, we were all mesmerized.

A smallish clot of polite birders gathered off the path. Everyone watching. Vigilantly listening and waiting. We compare equipment and notes. Who has seen what and where they saw it. We are envious of the Orange County birders. We meet Gabriel, a Santa Monica College professor and a Herpetologist. His wife jogs by us with their new baby in a stroller. I like this Gabriel and a smidgen of hope swells in my heart. This new baby will grow up to be a gifted scientist.

homepage.smc.edu/gartner_gabriel/AboutMe.html (Guess who’s holding the snake?)

We all get a little punchy after explaining to person after person what we are looking for. People walk by with whatever the current version of a boom box is called. Loud-music-to-go because the world without continuous or constant noise is obviously unbearable.

We take turns ignoring people. We size up the curious folk before we talk. Carrying binoculars or a camera gets you in. Clownish loudly patterned yoga wear merits a dumb answer. "We are watching squirrels." Gabriel snorts but I know I could have been kinder. I make myself a promise to be less mean. Maybe Gabriel's child will develop a cure for meanness.

W9 and Jerry got the Chat as a life bird at Malibu Creek State Park. We were on the lookout for the chat after using the ebird Explore the Hot Spot tool. He put on a song and dance show for us. Thrilling, but be quick if you want a photo.

And have a gander at the red crustacean deal in the second row. How can you scream and focus a camera at the same time??? Asking for a friend.

The green landscape we experienced a few months ago is rapidly fading. Birds have disappeared. Migration and nesting. They have left or they're hiding.

Slowly my bird list is growing.

The original lists were probably carved in stone and represented longer periods of time. They contained things like "Get more clay. Make better oven." David Viscot

Die Liste der alten Leute war vermutlich in Stein gemeißelt und vertreten längere Zeiträume. Sie enthielten Dinge wie "Holen Sie sich mehr Lehm. Machen Sie besseren Ofen."

La liste des personnes anciennes était probablement sculptée en pierre et représentait des périodes plus longues. Ils contiennent des choses comme "Obtenez plus d'argile. Faites un meilleur four".

고대 사람들의 명단은 돌로 새겨 졌을 것이고 오랜 기간을 대표 할 것입니다. 그들은 "더 많은 찰흙을 얻으십시오. 더 나은 오븐을 만드십시오."

La lista de personas antiguas probablemente estaba tallada en piedra y representaba períodos de tiempo más largos. Contienen cosas como "Obtener más arcilla, hacer horno mejor".