Abundance
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This year my Oregon Grape cultivar 'Charity' gave me a wonderful surprise. It produced grapes, after several years with none. I had assumed that I would enjoy it for its awesome yellow candelabra flowers alone, which cheered me up each year in the depths of winter. Surprise! This year it produced beautiful but sour grapes in abundance. :)
"My extravagance is my garden - it's the first thing that I look at every morning when I wake up. It gives me so much pleasure."
~ Ina Garten
“Plant seeds of happiness, hope, success, and love; it will all come back to you in abundance.” ~Steve Maraboli~
for a happy Sunday!
Japanese Anemones / Herbstanemonen (Anemone japonica) in our garden - Frankfurt-Nordend
More anemones in my personal "from-spring-to-autumn" Anemone Collection.
Le Martin-pêcheur d'Europe (Alcedo atthis) (Kingfisher) est une espèce d'oiseau, espèce type de la famille des Alcedinidae.
Cet oiseau est un bon indicateur naturel de la qualité d'un milieu aquatique.
C'est un oiseau qui se nourrit de petits poissons et de petits animaux aquatiques. C'est pourquoi il vit à proximité des étendues d'eau, où il peut se nourrir en abondance. Sa proie repérée, généralement depuis un perchoir, il plonge en percutant violemment la surface de l'eau, l'attrape, puis l'avale tête la première dans le sens des écailles.
L'oiseau, très vivace, parcourt un circuit sur son territoire en se posant sur des perchoirs qu'il connaît, bien disposés pour guetter ses proies.
Si sa position est assez haute, il plonge en flèche directement.
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The kingfisher (Alcedo atthis) is a species of bird, a type species of the family Alcedinidae.
This bird is a good natural indicator of the quality of an aquatic environment.
It is a bird that feeds on small fish and small aquatic animals. This is why he lives near bodies of water, where he can eat in abundance. His prey spotted, usually from a perch, he dives violently striking the surface of the water, catches it, then swallows head first in the direction of the scales.
The bird, very vivacious, runs a circuit on its territory by landing on perches he knows, well prepared to watch his prey.
If his position is high enough, he dive directly.
Looks like spring has reached my home area East-Westphalia, Saturday pleased with beautiful weather and sunshine all day long. We took advantage of the situation and used the day for an extended hiking trip around river Weser with the finishing move in Porta Westfalica featuring a perfect sunset.
Porta Westfalica, Ostwestfalen, Germany
You would think that with that long sharp bill, capable of splitting mussels with ease, that they would use their bills as weapons. However, they fight with their feet and not with that otherwise lethal beak. Limpkin skirmishes are almost always very brief and are more for show that actual combat. I have seen contact but, like in most cases, this one was all for show. I’d say it was over in one or two seconds. It’s difficult to say what they were fighting over, as there were many limpkins are food was in abundance. Possibly just guys getting on each other’s nerves. (Aramus guarauna) (Sony a1, 400mm f/2.8 at f/4, 1/3200 second, ISO 640)
Spring is exceptionally beautiful this year in the Netherlands. Because of all the rain, it almost looks like the tropics so lush it is everywhere.
It forced me to take my other camera out of the bag, and go out trying to catch it in the landscape. Especially where water meets forest and meadows, the landscape is spectacular.
How different it was last year when it was already very dry in many places. This photo was taken near the start of the hike around the lake of Ankeveen (see fi www.flickr.com/photos/115540984@N02/35404695624/in/album-...).
Wishing you all the best for the new year including an abundance of inspiration to continue taking great photos!
I'm back home after a week and a half in Victoria. It will take me a little while but I'll do my best to catch up. I've missed you all!
This is handheld, taken inside without flash, so not as clear as I would have liked, but...
Here is an image of all those beautiful wild flowers coming up in this burn area, Grand Lake, CO!!
View in LG!!
Yes while we are not in a drought situation, it is dry and how the flora and fauna would love the usual availability of water as is in abundance on this lovely Lady’s Mantle just a few weeks back.
Whatever we are waiting for - peace of mind, contentment, grace, the inner awareness of simple abundance - it will surely come to us, but only when we are ready to receive it with an open and grateful heart.
Sarah Ban Breathnach
Darling Tonia had been hauling in 30lbs of apples a day, we have more apple sauce in jars now than I've eaten in my life. :-)
I wasn't going to post this since my 'bucket of blood' didn't take the world by storm, but I just gave Charlotte some advice that I thought that I should heed. It's my photostream and I like it. :-)
An abundance of rivers, streams, lakes, and bogs attracts wildlife of all varieties in Glacier National Park. A mother moose and her calf were briefly separated but joined back together in a deep swamp to eat their daily fill of greens. They seemed to feel safe in their surroundings as we hiked by them on a trail behind Two Medicine Lake.
after a long pandemic winter, i'm amazed by the abundance in my garden. it's never been so full and vibrant. as if responding to all the losses; offering hope, beauty, and light.
This is a rose called Cream Abundance that I have in my patio garden. It's a pic from some time ago that had a white background, and more recently I decided to do a bit of enhancement by adding a more colourful effect to it.
I went looking for Lazuli buntings at Jackson Bottom, and was amply rewarded, seeing three separate males, and a couple of females. But, they were all pretty far off. Then I went to Tualatin River national Wildlife Refuge, and found at least as many, and this one landed in a tree next to me. What more could I ask!?!?
Cardinal Stops by to grab some bird seed and look around, there has been an abundance of them this year which brightens anyone's day, found in north Carolina.
Macro Mondays. Theme: Copper
(60 image focus stack with Helicon Focus)
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KP Treat This ~ 1 November→7 Nov. 2022 thanks to skagitrenee for the source images shown in the first comment box flic.kr/p/2nVPi6n and flic.kr/p/2nVMUws
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One thing I love about the American Southwest. There is such an abundance of beautiful vistas to see. Taken at Arches National Park.
Native insects enjoying living without the stress of drought. Droughts are believed to cause anxiety to insects living in organized societies.
Perhaps insects are more sentient than we had imagined in their own way.
One of those special moments in life.
SK 40mm f1.9 at f1.9 P4190893
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"Luminosa" and the region have beautiful landscapes of the "Serra da Mantiqueira" and the Atlantic Forest, in addition to the beautiful springs that form beautiful waterfalls due to their relief and abundance of rocks.
The district has a mild and pleasant climate, with beautiful mountains and an enviable sky. In this place, tourists can also find one of the Brazilian astronomy observatories. Luminosa has a wonderful gastronomy, with many exuberant natural attractions such as waterfalls, peaks and their stones providing a favorable environment for the practice of outdoor sports, such as hiking, biking, jeep and horseback riding.
Small, quiet, with riders and ox carts - and their drivers - circulating on nearby roads and through the streets.
""Luminosa" District", Brazópolis, Minas Gerais, Brazil.
my garden teaches me—again and again!—about presence, courage, and grace. i’m trying to live from abundance not scarcity; from love not fear. these happy purple chives remind me to dance and sing.
So, I've finally made it into the wild with the camera after not doing any photography for a while, mostly as the weather did not spark any creativity. But a dull misty morning was enough to drag me out of my stupor and go for a wander in Hillock Wood.
The first signs of the seasonal change are starting to make an appearance, a long way to go yet before we are deluged with autumnal images (especially from me!) as green is still in the abundance.
Hope you are all well and I shall be gracing your comment sections again shortly!
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“Fruits are always of the same nature with the seeds and roots from which they come,
and trees are known by the fruits they bear: as a man begets a man, and a beast a beast,
that society of men which constitutes a government upon the foundation of justice.”
By: Algernon Sidney
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Have a BLESSED day my FRIENDS!!!
As I was wondering among the Myrtles one sunny day, a lone man came my way.
He stood underneath these overflowing trees, that brought forth life and he had good news, a message just for me.
My heart rejoiced and the flowers bloomed ever so brightly.
A sweet summer bouquet; an illustration of what is to come and what had happened under the Crepe Myrtle trees that day.
There is some debate over the spelling of a Crepe Myrtle tree. In the South, we prefer Crepe rather than Crape because of it's resemblance to crepe paper.
No matter how you spell it, I wish you all abundance of joy on this Sunday. Thank you for the kind favs and comments. I'm looking forward to catching up to with you all.