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…… Another garden shot for my #149 photo of the day, amazing how much things grow in just 10 days in Spring & early Summer! Roses are out in force but these Cala Lilies took my fancy today. Alan:-)
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If you look very closely to close ups of Hummingbirds, you will see how their back feathers are used to help them hover. It is especially evident in this shot.
Allen's Hummingbird
Selasphorus sasin
Member of Nature’s Spirit
Good Stewards of Nature
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Red-backed shrike (Lanius collurio) male perched on a staff gauge.
Samiec gąsiorka (Lanius collurio) siedzący na wodowskazie.
It was a pleasant surprise to see #7764, a GE C40-8 loco, which was in storage all these days at Waycross, GA, back in action. It was on Y123, a local from Charleston to Cosgrove Yard, and here it is seen on its way back at N. Charleston.
Saw three this morning for the first time ...Eating all of my lemons and now even starting on my green half grown prunes .
Narrowest back road I've seen in quite some time.
Western Wisconsin.
A bit of painterly to hide some defects.
This is one of Melbourne's many back alleyways, it runs behind George's Bar at 120, Johnston Street, Fitzroy.
It was 6:30 am on a Saturday morning, when these three 'patrons' of the Bar came outside 'to join me' and enjoy a smoko.
A male Red-backed Shrike (Lanius collurio) seen at Sutton Park, West Midlands, England on the 14,9,20
Green-backed Tit is a species of the Himalayas and mountains and foothills to the east, with a disjunct population in Taiwan (which is where this bird was seen). What a beautiful combination of colours. This individual was active along the Dasyueshan Road in the mountains east of Taichung City.
Strip it all back
Noble Creations: Ancient Shirt available at Man Cave
Cheerno: Long Skirt
Doux: Toni Hairstyle
Volkstone: Kurt Skin, Bryson Hairbase,
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Signature: Davis Body
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Red-backed shrike (Lanius collurio) male perched on a branch.
Samiec gąsiorka (Lanius collurio) siedzący na gałązce.
Speaking of friends, the best
ones always have your back.
(Selena Gomez)
Looking close... on Friday! - Food in Backlight
(photo by Freya, edit by me)
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Anaklia (Georgian: ანაკლია) is a town and seaside resort in western Georgia. It is located in the Samegrelo-Zemo Svaneti region, at the place where the Enguri River flows into the Black Sea.
The earliest settlement on Anaklia's territory dates back to the mid-Bronze Age and is typical to the Colchian culture. It is the Classical Heraclea of Colchis, Anaclia of later authors, and Anarghia of Archangelo Lamberti and Jean Chardin (both the 17th-century travelers). After the fragmentation of the Kingdom of Georgia in the 15th century, it was an important fortified town, sea port and fishing station within the Principality of Mingrelia. In 1723, the town was captured by the Ottoman Empire and converted into its maritime outpost and slave-trading locale. Western Georgian kingdom of Imereti regained control over Anaklia in 1770, seizing the opportunity of Ottoman Empire being at war with Russia (Russo-Turkish War (1768–1774)). Solomon I, the king of Imereti, was supposed to be supported in this endeavor by a small Russian contingent under General Totleben, but the Russian troops retreated before a clash against the Turks.
In 1802, Kelesh-Bey Sharvashidze, the pro-Turkish ruler of the neighboring Principality of Abkhazia, capitalized on the internecine feuds in Mingrelia, and forced Prince Grigol Dadiani of Mingrelia into surrendering Anaklia, taking Grigol’s son and heir, Levan, as a hostage. When Mingrelia accepted the Russian protectorate in 1803, the Russian commander in Georgia, Prince Tsitsianov, demanded that Kelesh-Bey release Levan. On his refusal, Tsitsianov sent Major General Ion Rykgof into Abkhazia. In March 1805, the Russians took hold of Anaklia and threatened to march against Sukhum-Kaleh, forcing the Abkhazian prince to release Dadiani. The capture of Anaklia drew an Ottoman protest, however, and Tsitsianov hastened to disavow his subordinate and even apologize for his action, removing a Russian garrison from Anaklia. However, the incident added to an increasing tension between the two empires. When the next Russo-Turkish War broke out in 1806, the Russian forces restored Redoubt Kali and Anaklia to the Mingrelian prince Levan who would later relinquish the control of these forts to the Russian administration. (See Russian conquest of the Caucasus#Black Sea Coast.) In the 1850s, Anaklia was a small but strongly fortified seaport, which had a custom-house and carried on a considerable trade with Turkey.
Subsequently, the importance of the Anaklia port significantly reduced, but it remained a minor Black Sea Fleet base in the Soviet times.
After the War in Abkhazia (1992–93), a Russian peacekeeping post was opened at Anaklia in 1994. In 2006, the Ministry of Defense of Georgia reported numerous damages inflicted by the Russian soldiers upon the 17th-century fortress of Anaklia and accused the peacekeepers of installing latrines and baths within the walls of the fort. Following a series of protests by the Georgians, the Russian military post was withdrawn in July 2007.
A monument has been erected in Anaklia on May 21, 2012, commemorating Russia's expulsion of the Circassian people from the region following the conclusion of the Caucasian War in the 1860s. The May 21 date was chosen to coincide with the day on which the Circassian people themselves commemorate the expulsion, which the Georgian government has recognized as an act of genocide. The monument was designed by Khusen Kochesokov, a sculptor from the North Caucasus region of Kabardino-Balkaria.
So many times
I made this crossing
What would I give
To go back to you
When I revisited this footbridge after many, many years, it was so overwhelming as I felt I was looking back at my past life, which in a way I was. I used to go across this bridge with my family as a child, walking our dogs. It is the way of life that we grow up and our parents pass over, but there are times when the loss of them becomes very acute, catching us unawares. This was one of those occasions, and I could barely press the shutter.
Footbridge across the River Cuckmere, East Sussex, UK.
Other poems and images can be seen at my website:
Arizona woodpeckers seen in our 2019 trip. The leader back was lifer #453, seen in cave creek ranch.
We only said goodbye with words
I died a hundred times
You go back to her
And I go back to...
Black, black, black, black, black, black, black
I go back to...
I go back to... Amy Winehouse
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After long break with photography , I'm back to how it all began . . .
Hello 2020 //;-)
I was amazed when this red-tailed hawk landed on our back porch railing, only three feet away from the back door. I think he might've been looking for chipmunks, or perhaps he decided to come in close to welcome us to our new home. In any case,our resident hawks are giving me some wonderful photo ops, but this was just a tad too close for comfort. Uncropped photo.