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Bon Air Park in Arlington, VA is my favorite place for roses in Northern Virginia. The park features a beautiful memorial rose garden with more than 120 different varieties of roses.
Back in the day, I exclusively used 6L6's in the output stage of my amplifiers. Although the 6L6 was interchangeable with the 5881, there was just something magical about the 6L6, whether imaginary or not, they just seemed warmer and smoother to my ear.
A song for your enjoyment...It Takes Two
I hope you like this photo and I hope you all have a super day!
Hugs,
Kim
Flinders Street Station built in 1856
St Pauls Cathedral built on 1888.
Standing proudly in Melbourne, Victoria.
At the risk of overdoing it, I'm posting a second image of this lovely storm - this one without the dramatic lightning, but with some great structure lit from lightning within it.
In May/June 2024 I went storm chasing for the third time. If you'd like, you can read about my trip in the blog post on my website.
You can see all my storm chasing images from my 2017, 2018 and 2024 chases in this album.
Mountain Cornflower / Berg-Flockenblume (Centaurea montana) - Large On Black
in our garden - Frankfurt-Nordend
I've never taken the portrait of these two rocks before, so something a little dithering from the Elgol shore for me.
Original horse design by Navajo artisan, Beverly Blackhorse, on a mug in a catalog.
Taken at The Regency, Laguna Woods, California. © 2014 All Rights Reserved.
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Please!! NO Glittery Awards or Large Graphics...Buddy Icons are OK. Thank You!
I have just made some oak gall ink this is the first sketch using it. I also used candle wax resist for the forground tree.
I took this image in Cochem, one wonders what tall tales were spoken on the phone, and now it is used as a mini library with story books.
This photo of two tiny European Skipper butterflies was taken on 23 July 2015, at Darryl Teskey's property. These unusual butterflies have such large eyes : )
"The eyes of Skippers are different from those of other butterflies. They have a space between the cones and rods which allows light from each ommatidium to spill into neighbouring rods, effectively increasing their resolution and sensitivity. As a result Skippers can fly very accurately from one spot to another. This different type of eye structure is one of the reasons why taxonomists place them in a different super-family to all other butterflies - the Hesperioidea."
Source: www.learnaboutbutterflies.com/Anatomy.htm
On this day, five of us spent the day botanizing the land belonging to Darryl Teskey, SW of Calgary and W of Millarville (maybe a 40-minute drive from Calgary). This was the first time I had been there and I'm so glad I was invited to go - I would have missed all sorts of things, including a family of Ruffed Grouse and several fungi. These Grouse were the rare rufous-morph, and we startled them when we were walking through the forest in their direction. Usually, you don't see Grouse because they are so well-hidden. When you get fairly close (sometimes very close) to them, they suddenly "explode" from the tangle of shrubs and plants of the forest floor, making ones heart beat fast! We were taken by surprise when we came across a nearby statue of Saint Francis of Assisi, who is known as the patron saint of animals and the environment. A nice idea, I thought.
Our walk took us over grassland and through forest, many places treacherous with so many fallen logs which were often barely visible. I have never, ever seen so many tiny Skipper butterflies - there must have been hundreds or even thousands of these bright orange beauties that were flying or perched on flowers of every colour.
Fortunately, the rain stayed away until we started driving back to Calgary. Quite a lot of black clouds, reminding me of the tornado that passed through Calgary just the day before (22 July 2015).
Our purpose, as always, was to find and list everything that we saw - wildflowers, trees, grasses, birds, insects, fungi, etc.. Our leader then compiles an extensive list of our finds and this is later sent to the landowner, along with any photos that we might take. Always a win/win situation, as the landowner then has a much better idea of just what is on his property, and we have a most enjoyable day.
I got my hubby to take us out in the corvette on the weekend , and of course the little man had to go as well , it was nice getting out , after the car wash we put the top back and drove ..
It’s doubtful that both vehicles broke down in the same spot or the Bedford is about to tow both in one go but my extensive notes of the incident don’t help, they neither recall what bus was involved, the location or the date because I never made any notes. I have a feeling this was Wilmslow Road not far from Didsbury or Christies, either way it depicts a stricken GMT Standard behind GMT’s own tow vehicle back when operators recovered their own.