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I was able to get a picture of two of the kits standing next to each other! So much fun...I hope they will come back again sometime soon and stay a little while longer then a few weeks,,,one can hope!
Thanks for the views, comments and Faves! I greatly appreciate them! Have a wonderful day-stay safe and healthy!💕😊
Before our snowfall of 14 “ and able to get around better.
Wishing you all a happy and healthy 2023!
What are you wishing for this year…
Thanks for stopping by flickr friends…Pat..xo
Enjoy the week!
The last time I’ll be giving updates on the ankle:
It’s coming along, still have pain but better. I’ve heard it will take 1 to 1-1/2 years to fully recover to whatever ‘new normal’ it will be. Of course I’m praying for a full recovery!
Hi flickr friends - we have been on the road and finally were able to see our daughter and her fam. (it's been a year & a half) and this is their latest addition - Samson... lots to smile about : )
I look forward to catching up with you ♡
HSoS 🐈
Hello my amazing Flickr friends !!
Today is a red day at Color my World Daily and we celebrate paper at Macro Mondays ! How cool is that !!
And since I have computer problems , I just hope I will be able to publish my picture today. If you are reading this: we are ok lol Luckily for me, my husband is an awesome computer buff so he should be able to fix this in no time. But right now, I feel like this tiny yellow paper boat navigating on the ocean of unknown words and concepts … But I agree with everything my super intelligent (and very charming !!) Husband is saying…. He is like the Captain of the yellow paper ship, navigating on the red ocean of computer emergencies, while I’m drinking my gin and tonic and eating Nutella like a Canadian bear before hibernation….
My tiny boat is not even 1cm long and my book has a red tainted pages (which I love very much !!) and that is the reason I got it in the first place (I dont even know the title lol ).
So, I hope you will like this picture, because a lot of effort was put just to publish it lol
See you later my friends ! And have a great day !!
Today I fancied an Oriental theme & with the use of The Nippon Dream Oriental Skybox I was able to achieve just that.
A great little skybox with far more to offer than can be seen in just this one shot, see below for full details:
SkyBox: Nippon Dream 32X32 Land Impact 349
This Oriental Style SkyBox includes:
- bed with 69 poses
- bench with 26 poses
- small lake and temple, a statue, a fountain and a park
- the box that contains the sky is separate and can be removed completely or the owner may change the sky to any one of the many included in the built in texture menu.
SEE DEMO AND MANY OTHER SKYBOX, BACKDROPS AND LANDSCAPES @ DiMi's Mainstore
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A fairly warm October is ending, and we can feel the chill of November approaching. These little asters or Michaelmas daisies in Erba Park have been able to hold on until now, but their color has lost its summer brightness, and they are fading fast. The annual cycle moves on . . . Similar shots with a 35mm prime didn't turn out quite as well, so here's one with the kit zoom (on my backup camera). [DSC06261_lr_2000]
Thank you all for the clicks, comments & faves.
Was able to watch this Horned Lark for some time. With every movement I made it would go to the highest snow, search around and then back to foraging in the Parking Lot. (Bronte Creek Provincial Park)
Will be able to respond to all of you on Wednesday, RL is a bit busy but thank you all already for the faves ,comment & Awards ♥
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Vision - Geena Dress with Chain @ Access Event
Heels
[Gos] Boutique - Naomi @ FaMESed
Earring
LaGyo - Anaise @ COLLABOR88
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Lyrium - Bento Sits Set 1 @ Marketplace
Hair - /TRUTH/ Elixir /
✈ Location - Corruption
As I am stuck at home not able to take photos for a few weeks (recovering from tennis elbow surgery) I am finally able to catch up on some old photos.
This one was taken exactly this time last year on a lake NW of Calgary, Canada.
One interesting fact I found on these birds is The Red-necked grebe consumes many of its own feathers. The stomach of this bird retains two balls or masses of feathers, however, the reason for this is unknown. Some believe that these feathers protect the lower digestive tract from hard, indigestible materials like bones, and these feathers are also fed to the young ones.
-Podiceps grisegena
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April Bunny is rigged for Legacy . Perky and Maitreya.
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The red eyed frog is a wonderful bonus when visiting Costa Rica . Not only are they beautiful but very interesting to watch and we are always thrilled when we are able to find one.
A good night to all !!!!!!
I never thought I'd be able to walk through this legendary city by myself...
For the first time in a long time, it is a place where I can feel big surprise unique to SL, which is exactly like SL.
The ancient city of Alexandria has been beautifully recreated.
Moreover, Alexandria, currently spread over two sims, is still under construction and will be expanded to three sims in the near future.
The city of Alexandria is not only designed to look like a city, but it is also based on many historical facts.
It is also home to the Library of Alexandria, a center of ancient knowledge, and the Pharos Lighthouse, one of the Seven Wonders of the World.
Visitors can also learn about Alexandria, ancient Rome, and ancient Greece.
We usually tend to spend our virtual lives for pleasure, but here we may need to straighten up a bit.
And I am puzzled how I can capture this wonderful place in a photograph.
ALEXANDRIA
Until this moment I never was able to have a good look on roes, let alone to see their off-spring. I was informed there was a field with buckwheat where they gathered regularly.
So I went to that place and stayed there for a few hours, but nothing there.
Then I walked back to my car, and suddenly I saw a doe with two fawn in the distance, and I sneaked towards them. I was extremely lucky, they were standing on a little hill, not in the least worried by my presence. After a while the two fawns started even playing, running around and chasing each other.
This is the shot I like best from a large series of shots.
“Only a select few are able to see the true beauty that lies behind what just might seem like a rainy day or a grey sky.”
– Jessica M. Laar
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[Mow] Arya Outfit
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Wicca's Originals @ The Warehouse Sale // July 23 - August 18 ☻ Item: Jadeon Nose Piercing
Made from a collage of mine of bedroom doors open and I also went to Duygu Bruce website and found a picture of Hypnos, the God of Sleep and his Powers and copied it and abstracted it. I did not find any copyright information, if I am incorrect about being able to use it, I am more than willing to take this work down:
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Thank you for your kind visit. Have a wonderful and beautiful day! ❤️❤️❤️
Due to personal misalignments I wasn't and will still not be able to be here much in the next weeks/months.I have no intention to completely give up on Flickr but I expect my presence here to be very intermittent so I will totally understand if you will choose to be less active on my account. Still hope you will keep me in your contacts as I will eventually be back in a more sustainable manner.
For now all I can do is say thank you so much for your friendship and support that mean a lot to me and wish you a wonderful Summer!
Lu
Attempted this night capture at 5 seconds and ISO 4000 to keep from blowing out the lighthouse in the light from the parking lot. Was still able to get some of that Milky Way beyond that was out over the Atlantic Ocean beyond the lighthouse.
This year I was able to attend the excellent "Electric Glen" event held in Rouken Glen Park in Glasgow. This was my second time there and it just seems to get better every time I go :)
I have long had this creature on my Bucket List of shots I wanted to capture. My husband took a trip to YNP with a friend and was able to spot a badger burrow. I was so envious when he came home with a few shots. On one outing, I saw a badger moving through the weeds with the tail showing, but never did I get the full view. Finally in 2021 I found my first Badger family.
The location was in YNP near Lamar Valley. I spent many hours watching for some action. Mom, (the sow) often peeked out of the burrow (setts) to check out the photographers. The American Badger is a nocturnal hunter. They are fossorial carnivores, as they catch a large portion of food when they tunnel after rodents with great speed. This badger was a solitary, with only one home. Mom had three cubs (kits), but on the day of filming, a coyote had capture one baby. The next day, another cub disappeared. Mom was very attentive, and would pull the badger out for daily grooming. I think she actually felt safer with the photographer watching her home. When Mom did leave the burrow, I was shocked to see her long body (which can be 23-30 inches long and can weigh 14-19 lbs. for females and the bore can weigh more). I never saw the male.
They have powerful front claws and can run 16-19 mph for a short distance. They eat coyotes and other small mammals, with added protein from worms and bugs. The grizzled black-brown and white pelts are used for shaving brushes and paint brushes. The America Indian along with other groups often ate the meat from the badger.
Pleased I was able to finally get to this iconic Mt. Rainier waterfall. It's famous for lining up with Rainier nicely. Last time I was here the trails were closed for maintenance.
I'd heard Myrtle can be a tough shoot, so was here in the dark. Wasn't sure why. Short hike to get to it. It is an easy shoot actually, for just one shooter. No room for another to set up. Can't see the falls for the trees, except for this one small window.
The smoky skies enhanced the rosy glow that Rainier gets for a short time each sunrise. Who needs sleep when you can get up and begin a day with sights like this? A nap later helps tho.
Friday is here! Have a wonderful day and weekend!
I was very blessed to be able to spend time with several cheetahs this past summer in the Masai Mara region of Kenya. This is one of the cubs from a family that I got to spend time with on multiple occasions.
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Cannon Beach, Oregon
Since I was not able to hike this weekend and the weather is stormy today, I thought I would post a sunset from a couple months ago.
[**Note: I did not enhance or change the colors in these photos at all - everything really was pink!]
As someone who has been obsessed with sunsets since I was a child, I have watched some untold number of them over the years, and photographed many. But once in awhile there still comes a sunset that is like nothing I have seen before. This remarkable evening in Cannon Beach this summer was one of those.
As mentioned in the previously posted “Golden Gift”, the last day there was foggy and I wasn’t sure if there would be a sunset to see, but late in the afternoon some rays of sunshine broke through the clouds and turned everything to gold.
The clouds returned after that golden moment, but as it approached the time for sunset, something extraordinary happened. The sun turned pink! And then the sky and waves did too. I was completely transfixed by the jaw-dropping sight of it all. It was so striking that I’m posting multiple images because it feels like the only way to really convey the entirety of the moment.
And like the physical light of a sublime sunset that suddenly bursts through the clouds, sometimes a similar metaphorical light appears in one’s life. Perchance in the form of an unexpected friendship that one didn’t know was needed, but has now become a cherished gift. A friendship that illuminates the shadows to which one had grown so accustomed that their presence was no longer noticed. As one’s eyes adjust to the dark when light fades and dusk falls, so it happens with life as well. Until a friend, perhaps unknowingly on their part, extends the steady glow of warmth and light that sparks a heartfelt song of luminescent joy.
So this post is dedicated, with much gratitude, to that special glow of incandescent friends :-)
In order to be able to take this picture I had to fight my way across a huge crowd of tourists before and on the Marienbrücke and climb up the shortcut to this point of view on the other side.
I took this picture during the journey to my Bavarian and Swabian home I went on with my Chinese wife and my stepdaughter two years ago.
You'll find more pictures of this journey, also the picture I took like most tourists on the Marienbrücke, in the album.
Managed to get another one of those colds. So not much time to take pictures right now. But I'm heading down to the south coast at the weekend, so hopefully I will be able to get some different shots.
I was able to spent a whole week on Alpe di Siusi / Seiser Alm. It was a fantastic week. I strolled over the alp fields 2 to 3 times per day. This picture shows the awakening of a new day. Compatsch, 2020.
Again, I would like to thank everyone for your support, views, faves and comments!
"When you are able to see the rest of living things as part of yourself, regardless of your race or species, only then will you be able to live in peace with yourself".
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"Cuando eres capaz de ver el resto de seres vivos como parte de ti mismo, sin importar su raza o especie, sólo entonces serás capaz de vivir en paz contigo mismo".
P. Fumiko
I hope that you like it ^.^
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Tennessee. 4/29/2019.
The missing ingredient was a bit better light but we were delighted to be able to shoot this beautiful warbler on this perch.
Thanks for your visit, comments, and favs!
Able to get out in some sunshine yesterday afternoon. Scotland's weather today has restored to default settings :-(
Was finally able to escape work and get out for what will probably be the only clear night along the east coast as we head towards new moon in June. So I headed about 3.5 hours away into West Virginia to get a darker sky than we would normally have around Baltimore.
The was my last capture made around 2am this morning in the Dolly Sods area of West Virginia. No light painting on this final capture ... but I took an adjustable LED light that I have not to practice with before heading out west this summer to those even darker skies.
Was able to get a whole seriew of images on this guy folks, but liked this one the best,
I think, will have to look again.
Thanks to all for everything.
Thanks again D.M. as always.
Why spider webs glisten with dew
Two driving forces acting on wet spider silk help it to capture water.
Janet Fang
spiderweb
The spider's web captures a string of dewy pearls.Janet Fang
Researchers have puzzled out how spider silk is able to catch the morning dew. Their findings may lead to the development of new materials that are able to capture water from the air.
The study, published today in Nature1, examines the silk of the hackled orbweaver spider Uloborus walckenaerius. "Bright, pearl-like water drops hang on thin spider silk in the morning after fogging," says study author Lei Jiang from the Beijing National Laboratory for Molecular Sciences. "It is unexpected and interesting. Human hair can't do that."
Dry spider silk forms a necklace-like structure. Two main fibres support a series of separate rounded 'puffs', each made up of tiny, randomly intertwined nanofibrils. When water vapour condenses onto these puffs, they shrink into densely packed knots, shaped like spindles (or two cones with their bases stuck together). Thinner connecting stretches of nanofibrils, separating the knots, become more apparent; these areas are called 'joints'.
The researchers studied the webs under both electron and light microscopes. They noticed that as water condenses on the web, droplets move towards the nearest spindle-knot, where they coalesce to form larger drops.
The spindle-knots have a rough surface, because the fibrils within them are randomly interweaved. But the joints between the knots have a smooth texture, because their constituent fibrils run parallel to each other. It is this difference in roughness that helps water drops to slide towards the spindle-knots, sticking when they arrive.
The cone shape of the spindle-knots also drives droplets towards their centre. Once they hit the edge of a cone, drops are propelled towards its base, the least curved region, because of the pressure difference caused by surface tension.
Mimicking nature
Guided by their findings, the team made their own artificial spider silk using nylon fibres dipped in a polymer solution that, when dried, formed spindle-knots similar to those in natural spider silk. They anticipate that their studies of these fibres could lead to new materials for collecting water from the air.
"It is impressive that they were able to produce an analogue of wetted [spider] thread that duplicated the properties that they observed," says spider silk expert Brent Opell of Virginia Tech in Blacksburg.
But it doesn't seem likely that natural selection has directed the evolution of this particular spider's silk for water collection, he adds. The spider's thread seems to have evolved to work best when it is dr
La rosada s'observa de matinada, amb nits serenes i encalmades, tot i que no és estrany veure-la tot just després del crepuscle. És més freqüent en llocs baixos i plans que en els cims de les muntanyes. La major part dels dies, quan surt el sol, el terra s'escalfa i les gotes d'aigua desapareixen ràpidament en evaporar-se. Quan l'observador disposa d'instrumental de mesura homologat i en bon estat de funcionament, pot constatar com un augment de la humitat absoluta i/o un descens de la temperatura en la capa d'aire més propera a terra són condicions necessàries per a la formació de la rosada. Cal insistir que la rosada no és un tipus de precipitació des d'un núvol. La rosada va associada a humitats relatives altes, habitualment superiors al 80%.[1]
Degut a la seva dependència del balanç de radiació, les quantitat de radiació poden arribar a un màxim teòric de 0,8 mm per nit, tanmateix, rarament excedeixen de 0,5 mm. i de 40 a 50 mm per any.[2] A la majoria dels climes del món la quantitat de rosada és massa petita per competir amb la pluja. En regions amb estació seca considerable plantes adaptades com els líquens o les plànules de pins es beneficien de la rosada. A gran escala regar sense pluja a llocs com el desert d'Atacama o el Namib es fan capturant la boira no pas la rosada.
Un aparell clàssic de mesurar la rosada és el drosòmetre encara que només proporciona el potencial de formació de rosades. Per a mesurar la quantitat real de rosada es fan servir petits lisímetres o altres mètodes.
I was able to see an amazing sunset over the Colorado River in SE Utah from Dewey Bridge in September. Its really hard to draw the line of where my imagination of how colorful the scene was compared to the photo I captured but I remember it being this vivid. I am going to post two photos one in landscape and one in portrait. let me know which you prefer.
God is able to bless you abundantly so that in all things at all times, having all that you need, you will abound in every good work.
2 Corinthians 9:8
Iceland has so many waterfalls. At this one I was able to go quite close to the top. A hand held slow exposure.
We are fortunate to be able to hike the nearby cliffs of the Niagara Escarpment on Georgian Bay one day. Then on another day, head for a half an hour drive to the sandy shoreline of Lake Huron for a walk on the beach. I am also very grateful for the many days of blue skies we have had lately. On this walk along the beach last week, there were swirls of snow and sand spread out on the beach like butterscotch ice cream. The next day, temperatures were so mild the snow was pretty much gone!
I was able to spend a few hours in morning light with the local Long-billed Curlew. We sure are blessed in Metro Vancouver to have this normally rare resident. Long-billed Curlews are threatened in Canada. There are 2 Subspecies of Long-billed Curlew and the subspecies that occurs in the USA (Numenius americanus americanus) is bigger than the ones we get and have longer bills than the Canadian (Numenius americanus) ones. There are only 500 Long-billed Curlews left in BC and with continued development and agricultural land use their breeding habitat gets further reduce we must do all we can to conserve and protect our remaining grasslands in Canada but especially in BC.
Until Tuesday, I will not be able to upload the photos to my stream, but I will try my best to watch your posts from my phone.
Thank you so much for your visit and fave !
The beautiful Bridal Veil Falls, a short hike from home. I always marvel at being able to enjoy this little wonder in my backyard.
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We had one last blast of winter this morning......I am hoping it is the last blast. So I went to the bird feeders at Millennium Park to see what I could capture. It really started to snow while I was there and I was able to get a clear shot if this Northern Cardinal.
I haven't been able to post any pics on flick'r for a couple of weeks or more ... my pc's hard drive died a death and literally had no life in it, I just couldn't access anything. I'm sure I must have overloaded it!
I could have lost everything, but my genius son in law came to the rescue. He eventually managed to get into it and had to uninstall everything.
I'm very fortunate that his job is in IT and he took my computer home with him and fitted another hard drive for me.
It was a long haul, but now everything's working, except I'm having to go on different routes to access what I want sometimes because everything is updating - which is probably a good thing!
I've missed it so much ....
Meanwhile, I accumulated a lot of photos in my Olympus camera and this one is from a set I took of colourful flowers from my little garden.
I like to bring them indoors to photograph because it means I can take my time and try out different things.
The flowers are really strong colours and I thought they went well together with the rose as the star. I added a dark vignette. I used one of my craft cards for the base/background.
Have a great day everyone!
After taking far longer and no longer able to be shot without the aid of lights. With a crowd already at Green Oak and I had already shot in the dark the night before, I raced west. While I wanted the train splitting the mini searchlights that protect Ann Pere Diamond, that was thwarted by cars on the interchange. Seeing another shot nearby that was a feasible set up lead to a hasty set up that yielded good results on the much anticipated D705 with its much wanted pair of SD40-2s.