Noticed this Giant Swallowtail Butterfly nectaring on my Pentas yesterday

two of my four backyard sheds

Juvenile Mourning Doves in their nest in my lemon tree, in Mesa AZ.

Happy to finally have an outdoor "room" to enjoy in summer & fall, where we can keep out the black flies and mosquitos!

winter jasmine, Blue Marguerite, Creeping Jenny, Celosia

Nifty pics of our backyard patio (taken by KT)

My backyard after an ice storm last winter

divercion en el patio

Oh, just the sunset from my backyard last night :)

Girls night

Lizard that looks like a tiny alligator.

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haven’t figured out how to set the time on it so if these say july 2024 they are actually march 6 2025. theoretically ipad adjusted the time. we’ll see

a view from my balcony into my backyard on an autumn afternoon

Made using Blender.

what do you see?

WHAT ARE ALTERNATIVES TO GOOGLE AND FACEBOOK?

Digital Backyards Japan | International Conference

January 10th-12th at PORTO | Sapporo/JAPAN

berlinergazette.de/digital-backyards/

www.smal.jp/en/news/page.php?id=65

Are there any alternatives to an increasingly centralized internet landscape as cultivated by Google and Facebook? It is hard to imagine, but there are. The resources for such alternatives lie dormant in Japan’s diversity itself: tinker garages, corporate hotbeds, grassroots hubs, institutional labs, hacker bedrooms, editorial outposts etc. In those digital backyards innovators have been silently pursuing their work. Now they come together from all over Europe & Japan to explore synergies and common interests.

The conference is partitioned into a semi-open „Networking Lounge“ and „Public Talks“ that are accessible to a broad audience.

Credit: Yasuhiro Yamaguchi, Mayer Planning Office/ City of Sapporo, SMAL

backyard bridal shower - boho bridal shower

backyard leaves scarf from scarf style - unblocked

A Backyard in Texas

backyard bridal shower - boho bridal shower

First Waking Breath band member photo. check them out at www.myspace.com/firstwakingbreath

Humming birds in the backyard

Canon 5d Mark III

Canon 28-135

F5.6

1/8000 sec exposure

ISO 25600

Searching for fulfillment over the horizon, cast your gaze down and see the beauty in the ordinary.

A bit distorted from the 20mm equivalent lens.

WHAT ARE ALTERNATIVES TO GOOGLE AND FACEBOOK?

Digital Backyards Japan | International Conference

January 10th-12th at PORTO | Sapporo/JAPAN

berlinergazette.de/digital-backyards/

www.smal.jp/en/news/page.php?id=65

Are there any alternatives to an increasingly centralized internet landscape as cultivated by Google and Facebook? It is hard to imagine, but there are. The resources for such alternatives lie dormant in Japan’s diversity itself: tinker garages, corporate hotbeds, grassroots hubs, institutional labs, hacker bedrooms, editorial outposts etc. In those digital backyards innovators have been silently pursuing their work. Now they come together from all over Europe & Japan to explore synergies and common interests.

The conference is partitioned into a semi-open „Networking Lounge“ and „Public Talks“ that are accessible to a broad audience.

Credit: Yasuhiro Yamaguchi, Mayer Planning Office/ City of Sapporo, SMAL

Backyard Squirrel feeding on sunflowers

Eden using a clear easel in the backyard of Little Mish. Such paintings are non-permanent so I thought I'd immortalize it.

This was also taken in my backyard.

I saw this raccoon while I was looking out my kitchen window. He climbed each tree in the backyard and then moved on to the neighbors. What was he looking for? Baby birds?

Jičín (German: Titschein, Gitschin or Jitschin; Latin: Gitmiacinum, Gitzinum; Polish: Jiczyn) is a town in the Hradec Králové Region of the Czech Republic. It lies approximately 85 km northeast of Prague in the scenic region of the Bohemian Paradise (Český ráj) under the Prachov Rocks (Prachovské skály).

(Wikipedia)

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Have never been in Jičín before the trip to Prachovské skály area in summer; the town is charming, quiet on Saturday evening, and there is a surprisingly good Indian restaurant quite close to the town square and entrance tower...

Our tenant put up an outside tree that his cats couldn't eat, and the renovation in the house behind ours is nearly done. Looking very pleasant out the back windows! I took this with the L16, and the last photo of the same scene (one back) was taken with an iPhone SE.

This is from my backyard. These are called longan. They are very tasty.

Bayon / Angkor Thom

We started the day snowshoeing, then snowtubing with a group of third graders, on to lunch at Tommy Knocker's, then to the Coors plant and ended the day at Golden City Brewery. By the time we got there that evening, I think half of the staff was half drunk. This place was more like a party in a friend's backyard than a business, but it was a great, casual way to end the day.

Again, I have no idea what beer this was... I should have taken better notes on what I was drinking.

Last winter, Erick built the kids a luge down the back of our deck.