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Been away a bit.
Baffled how it happened but the Monday after Christmas began coughing. Started as a tickle. Then turned croup like. Was able to get to urgent care that Thursday and a rapid test was positive for covid.
Because of my recent cancers I qualified for the myoclonal antibody treatment. Felt remarkably better for a bit.
But this sure has been a roller coaster.
I feel so bad for the unvaccinated. If I've been this awful after three Pfizers, I can't imagine surviving without having been vaxxed.
I had been given Prednisone for the croup/bronchial inflammation which I didn't start taking until I lost the sense of smell. Surprisingly the sense came back after two days.
A week after I showed symptoms, Kim showed, but hers were very different. She had severe nausea and headache. She hasn't had the respiratory involvement, but her test this past week was also positive. She's on the recovery roller coaster too.
Sometimes we feel some better, then it all hits again.
Been using our large gym ball to lie over. Way back at the beginning of the pandemic a bunch of us who had been Physical Therapists had talked about the importance of lying prone and the importance of postural drainage, which we used to do for patients in the hospital before Respiratory Therapy took it over.
Lying on one's chest on the ball supports the diaphragm and makes coughing more comfortable. Pushing forward to get the head low and butt high will help get secretions moving and excreted. Plus rolling on the ball is very good for the back.
I suppose my involvement here at Flickr will be a bit spotty for awhile yet. Hope everyone stays well.
This has been baffling. We've been masked whenever we've left the house. Kim goes to work but since she showed symptoms after me, I'm the likely one to have given it to her. In the week before showing symptoms I'd been once to the grocery store. And I've always double masked. I've always brought along my alcohol spray bottle to spray down the shopping carts.
One thing we haven't kept up is the wiping down of the grocery items before bringing them into the house. And we haven't been wiping down the Amazon packages that get delivered. But that method of transference has always been very low on the list. Being unmasked in a closed space has always been the chief method of transmission.
Go figure.
Poznan, Poland
Pasaz Apollo
Bigfoot Coffee Shop
Taking a second to enjoy the last bits of sunlight last night. Good company, conversation and coffee....perfect.
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After so much city it's now time for a bit more nature. How about a walk at the beautiful and almost unpeopled beach of Praia do Areão ?
I have a special connection to that photo, because during the last ten minutes this small dog, what is now in dialogue with it's pack leader did not leave my side. I had the impression, that he wanted to go with me absolutely. We were already a fair way off the others and I just brought him back to his pack. Now they seem to talk out that behaviour.
I just realised, that today is wild dog day. What a coincidence, that I decided for that post this morning.
Nach so viel Stadt ist es nun Zeit für etwas Natur. Wie wäre es mit einem Spaziergang am wunderschönen und fast menschenleeren Strand von Praia do Areão ?
Mit diesem Bild habe ich eine besondere Verbindung, da mir der kleine Hund, hier gerade im Gespräch mit seinem Rudelführer, die letzten 10 Minuten kaum von meiner Seite gewichen ist. Ich hatte den Eindruck, er wolle unbedingt mit mir mitkommen. Wir hatten uns schon ziemlich weit von den anderen entfernt und gerade hab ich ihn zurück zum Rudel gebracht. Jetzt wird das Verhalten wohl gerade ausdiskutiert.
Ich habe gerade realisiert, dass heute Welt Hunde Tag ist. Was für ein Zufall, dass ich mich heute früh gerade für dieses Foto entschieden habe.
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Crazy Tuesday theme: “Tools in Focus"
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The dog days of summer are finally here. If we don't get him up and moving early in the day he will sleep the day away. We discovered a new path along the lake yesterday and managed to get in a good walk before it got too hot. I could not convince him to go swimming, but he did do a bit of wading.
The "head" on this small iceberg reminds me of a figurehead on the prow of a ship, only this one is sporting a sweat band.
The blue colour comes from light being refracted through pure ice. The whiter ice has air bubbles trapped inside (ancient air I might add, probably over 1000 years old.) If you pop a small piece of the white iceberg ice into your G&T it fizzles and hisses loudly as the air escapes.
Small and Smaller is this week’s theme for Macro Mondays, therefore different size of tool bits on black slate. Do make the photos more interesting, splashing water von above, lighting the water with a mirror, beam above the black slate.
123 in 2023
#69 - No Bigger that a Credit Card
This bit of fallen pine twig is just under the length of a credit card
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Die noch sehr frisch lackierte 215 047 verlässt am 19.05.91 die Bierstadt Bitburg mit dem E 3603 (Köln-Trier).
Düstere Gegend: alle Häuser haben dort schwarze Dächer...
That bit about stirring coffee is not true, I'm sorry. This is just a rusty spade bit.
Shot with Sony 90mm f/2.8 macro lens on Sony a6500.
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In Flickr Explore on 2021/05/26
Poland, kodak profoto 400
“When you do things from your soul, you feel a river moving in you, a joy.”
― Rumi
Just outside of Page, AZ, near the Glen Canyon Dam, there is a place that is like the famous "Wave" but does not require a permit or 3-mile walk. I corrected the exposure and tonal issues with Lightroom and Photoshop (32-bit HDR) then finish in 16-bit with Perfect Effects and Viveza.
Select soft outdoor lighting by backlight
One will easily get perfect background on portrait
Just over a little bit of exposure about 0.3 F-stop
A bit of wing action helps Tri-colored Heron keep its balance as it takes another menhaden from Horsepen Bayou.
Bit of a stitched panorama of the beautiful Yorkshire Dales. I kind of like the central composition of the tree here, I did consider not stitching as many images together, but even with the panorama it works for me…
As 66704 sits while its train is loaded at Arcow Quarry, 66760 heads south on the S&C with its train from the Quarry.
66704 has worked into the Quarry on 6M31 from Hexthorpe and is having its first part of the train loaded. 66760 is working 6M38, Arcow Quarry to Bredbury, with its loaded train after running to Blea Moor to run round its train.
14th September 2017 at 1255, nice to be able to photograph to Freights at once on the S&C
Bit of a moody feel to this one, from Crummock Water yesterday, with the dark tones. The vibrant patches of colour in the sky of my last upload had pretty much disappeared, just leaving some blue and purple tones as the light was fighting with the cloud to break through.
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A bit of a story here. Sometimes I go to the pond before sunrise to look for otters and mink. The tally for the winter so far is one otter sighting, one mink sighting, and zero photos to show for it. In past years when the mammals don't show, there have almost always been ducks to enjoy once the light gets good. Not so this year when the pond has sadly been duckless most of the time. That is until this lovely Goldeneye hen showed up. I was hoping she would stick around for the good light and she did. This is actually my first ever photo of a female persuasion Common Goldeneye. Siskiyou County, California
Great Crested Grebe yesterday.. yes, I was out there photographing in the cold with the possibility of rain... a hardened photographer...
a good crop in to show off his beauty
OK, maybe a bit more orange.
With some misty seas looking towards Llyn Peninsula.
Sunrise light on Llanddwyn Island - I haven't been lucky with light here yet, it's either clear skies (shaking my fist at you, Milky Way!) or cloudy and miserable. It's one of my favourite peaceful sunset/sunrise places and I'm missing it a lot.