Hello Everyone,

I'm trying to remember to catch the light by looking up more often. In doing so, I caught some morning light behind two rather large oak leaves which pleased my eye. I hope you don't get sick of viewing fall leaves, because I have a "thing" for them!

Thank you so much for stopping by and for your comments. I do love hearing from you! Have a marvelous day!

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Avocets waking up at Bombay Hook NWR in Delaware.

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Lilies in close up, macro, bokeh.

We managed to run up the gantry at Haworth Station, just in time to catch the steam train before it moved on to Oxenhope!

2329D and 2315D climb up the grade out of Laidley

Gonna be on vacation the next two weeks. Click on full shot to count the birds. ;-)

See you in November! :-)

Matilija Poppy has been called the "Queen of California Flowers". Unique and distinct, it is one of the most recognized and beloved of California’s native plants. The large white blooms are the size of a saucer. The petals look like wrinkled crepe paper, the center is a bright yellow disk. Some have likened the flower to the appearance of a fried egg. A solitary bloom is a very fine thing, but a large stand of Matilija in full bloom is a sight to behold! Hundreds of huge white flowers borne at eye-level on long straight stems, contrasted by attractive blue-green foliage… a real show stopper in late spring/early summer!

Thanks to everyone for stopping by to view, fave, and comment!!

(Information is from the California Native Plant Society Blog)

Makro

Birds puff up their feathers to trap heat next to their body, or to dry out after a bath. They also fluff up their feathers when they are stressed or sick. Or while they are preening. And males may fluff up a bit when they are doing their courtship dancing...This one was seen Early morning on a TV Aerial ..

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Newhaven, East Sussex

Kadriorg park

A pair of Halloween Pennant (Celithemis eponina) dragonflies on the verge of Elm Lake, Brazos Bend State Park, Needville, Texas.

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Madrid, ES

musique: Up & Up

I think this flying creature is some very small Skipper, but as usual I'm not sure... Unfortunately this is the best picture I could take. And there is also a hidden spider... nature in spring )

C17 971 works up the grade at Deuchar

Little orange butterfly - probably a Lycaena ottomanus, but I am not sure.

Bulgaria, Varna. 43.239961, 27.874091

Fujifilm X-S1 + close-up lens (+2)

The “line_up“ is a paperwork series I developed since 2010. The “liners” are made out of paper (Din A3/A4),

oil paint and graphite. The theme is the hermetical laws of polarity and movement. There is no ending and no beginning in any direction, just an endless movement. You have the possibility to arrange the papers like you want and that makes it an endless playground for my photo-work and the eyes of the viewers.

Yanomano

UP

On a sunny morning a few weeks back, 920 heads north from Waikouaiti up the short but relatively steep Tumai Bank.

8 Dec 2021, Train 920, DXB 5120 and DC 4628, Tumai, SIMT-NZ

Wittnauer up Close one of the few watches I have found in buying odd boxes of things, this one is vintage, found in North Carolina.

Every mushroom dream is to be picked up :)

Steam Engine " Old Lass " Built in 1901 . Seen at the Driffield Steam & Vintage Rally earlier this Year .

Hamburg - Moments

When Union Pacific reactivated some of their Centennial fleet during the Summer of 1984, I was only fortunate enough to catch one leading on just three occasions. This was also the only time I witnessed two in the same train!

Union Pacific #6923, 3197, 3659, 6927 and 3647 head West at Barstow in September of 1984.

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Now that we are in standard time, I needed to get up an hour earlier than last week to catch the sunrrise. On this chily morning (low 50F), there was not a single cloud or a shroud of fog to make the morning photo interesting. Had to resort back to this dead tree which was photographed back in March. You can see the sun rose over the same position, but the skies are quite different.

Hope you are doing well? There was many one of a kind events in 2020! Some good and some not so much but hey I always like to look for the bright side of things. Seeing all bridges up was quite a spectacle in many ways and a unique opportunity to see downtown looking quite different. What do you think?

Lined up... flight deck, USS Hornet.

The daily northbound that runs during daylight hours approaches Oaro.

Thanks to Henry O on steering duty.

14 March 2020, Train 736, 5022-5068, Oaro, MNL-NZ

UP 6230 9-05-15 Princeton IN

One of the last ones from the Boezemmolen nr. 6 series. This time a shot from close by, with the wicks still rotating.

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weisfield center

san francisco, california

From up high, the Canadian Rockies is different, with low clouds surrounding the mountains and sunset colours, I feel proud to be living in a magic kingdom like this.

Kunstmuseum Bonn