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A bit of a day for me yesterday, it was my birthday and reached the age my father died at. Granted my father died at a young 64, still it’s a wee bit of a milestone for me, funny how things stick in your head. I had to do something different from the day, when I was at work I always took the day off and headed for the hills, so I did the same yesterday. Waking at 4:00 I had a bit of breakfast and headed to the lakes. I only intended to explore a wooded area I’d not been too and bag a little Wainwright that in all my time here I’d not ticked off, a good morning explore then home. I knew the weather would be showery and that’s what I was looking for. On arriving and navigating United Utilities gotcha’s I eventually got parked and slowly headed for that top, it was too dark to taken any photos just yet. When I gained the top the weather it all kicked off, I was a bit stumped for a composition, :-)
Wandering around K and J's garden near Byron Bay
Croton plants (Codiaeum variegatum) are incredibly varied plants that are often grown as houseplants. The croton indoor plant has a reputation for being fussy, but in reality, if you know about caring for a croton houseplant properly, it can make for a resilient and hard-to-kill plant.
www.gardeningknowhow.com/houseplants/croton/care-croton-p...
Bit blur but I would share this cuties with you!
I've never seen this before in my life! All sweet little swanbabies (well, I don't think all of them because she has 9!) sitting on their swan-mothers back. How cute is that!
Gather what ye may of the world around you, but when it whithers and dies you'll have naught left but dusty remains.
After a bit of a non-year for 2020 I thought it was about time to get out there and try and rekindle my love of photography. These images where taken around the beautiful city of Chester, UK.
NOTE: In accordance with the current UK Tier 4 guidelines all these images where taken alone as part of my “exercise and recreation”.
These are bits and pieces of three clematis blossoms that my son donated to my project. He has been so generous by letting me collect flowers from his yard. This entry is 58/100. I am glad I still have a little less than half of my project left. There is still much to explore and discover, I love the whole process.
Little Bit Country Little Bit Rock-n-Roll debuted 30th May 2008 at Inn On The Green, Ladbroke Grove, London. The new club night featured live music and performance, including:
Cheer A Go Go
House of Hee Haw!
JC & The Disciples
Yes, that is all that is left of the former coastline, bits and pieces.
This photo was taken by an Asahi Pentax 6 X 7 medium format film camera and Super-Multi-Coated Macro-Takumar/6X7 1:4/135mm lens with a Asahi Pentax 6 X 7 67ø L39(UV) SMC filter using Kodak Ektar 100 film, the negative scanned by an Epson Perfection V600 and digitally rendered with Photoshop.
It seemed a bit crazy to just run the typical errands while the California wildfires are still raging and not under control.
We had to go to Palos Verdes anyway so why not take a bit of time to explore?
It was a beautiful day. But the coast was smokey north of us.
I thought I heard a Cactus Wren but knew I had a Coastal California Gnatcatcher when I heard the call.
They look so different from the Blue-gray Gnatcatchers. Maybe it's a Winter look?
ebird.org/ebird/view/checklist/S41056949
And for the science starved....
“The California gnatcatcher is a threatened species essentially restricted to coastal sage scrub habitat in southern California. Its distribution and population dynamics have been studied intensely, but little is known about its diet. We identified arthropod fragments in 33 fecal samples of the California gnatcatcher to gain insight into its foraging ecology and diet. Fecal samples were collected from adult males, adult females, fledglings, and nestlings. Leaf- and planthoppers (Homoptera) and spiders (Araneae) predominated numerically in samples. Spider prey was most diverse, with eight families represented. True bugs (Hemiptera) and wasps, bees, and ants (Hymenoptera) were only minor components of the gnatcatcher diet. Gnatcatcher adults selected prey to feed their young that was larger than expected given the distribution of arthropod size available in their environment, and chicks were provisioned with larger prey items and significantly more grasshoppers and crickets (Orthoptera) and spiders than adults consumed themselves. Both adults and young consumed more sessile than active prey. Further studies are needed to determine whether arthropods sampled in coastal sage scrub that are common in fecal samples are good indicators of California gnatcatcher habitat.”
Foraging ecology of the California gnatcatcher deduced from fecal samples
Jutta C. BurgerMichael A. PattenJohn T. RotenberryRichard A. Redak
A bit south of Westfield, IA, and less than a mile from where they cross over the Big Sioux River into South Dakota, the D&I's southbound road freight rolls through a big, sweeping curve towards the southeast that affords the photographer views of the train as it snakes around itself.
Speaking of snakes, just south of here is the Broken Kettle Grassland Preserve, which is home to Iowa's largest remaining prairie, over 200 bison, and where in 1999, the Conservancy found the prairie rattlesnake, an extremely rare species.
On the point is the DAIR 3025, a late-production SD40-2, built as the BN 8117 in 1980. Trailing it were the 3020 and 3027.
A bit of garden moss growing in our garden. Bits of garden debris are on top of the moss (green). The debris looks like wood chips, dried grass clippings, and dead flowers from trees and bushes.
The round things with points are not "pointy nosed aliens" but are a "spore capsules" full of spores, which when mature, will open and allow the millions of spores to be blown about by the wind.
..would you have a little bit of sugar to give me, please?
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Wasmannia Auropunctata
Red Ant / Electric Ant / Small Fire Ant
It's a very small social ant (about 1.5 mm long) light brown to golden in color, native to Central and South America. In homes, they usually live in plants, pots and cracks in walls and floors.
Their diet is very varied; although they have preferences for nectaries and honeydew, they also show interest in fats, so it is possible to find them in the kitchen.
"The hive invader" is considered a plague, and was included in the list of the 100 most harmful invasive species in the world.
Even with all this, their way of communicating, the intelligence,
behavior and evolution, are worthy of admiration.
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To have a clearer idea about the size of the ant; if I'll reduced the photograph to its natural scale, the frame would have dimensions
of 7.5 x 5.5mm.. Yep! I said MILLIMETERS, not centimeters: this complete photograph printed on paper on this scale, would be smaller than the nail of your index finger. Ahh.. the amazing nature!
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. #MacroMondays
. #AllNatural
HMM!
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Evie on a walk, she'd just had a drink in the river, hence the damp beard and ear tips. She was watching a bird here, taking it all in.
Having clicked the shutter slightly too early, 37612 thunder through Water Orton 122 minutes late with 0Z30 Derby RTC to Derby RTC, having traversed the Chase Valley a couple of times.
a roll review of acros ii in a rollei 35
www.aarondesigns.org/AcrosII-Roll-Review/
shot with rollei 35 w/ 40mm f/3.5 tessar type lens
* shot on fujifilm acros ii film
* developed in rodinal @ 1+50
* digitized with a fujifilm x-s10 and a tamron 90mm f2.5 adaptall sp macro lens