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Halfway through September ... !?
Summer has gone so fast ...
that always makes me a little sad ...
Love this quote on the latest Flow chalkboard cover ...
created by Valerie McKeehan
Was taking pictures around this location and then for a moment the lighting changed as the sun was setting on the left, clouds were low blocking light to the right. Quite a remarkable sight.
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The new buildings right across from where I live, had some scratches in the windows (occurred during construction), so this was changing "almost new" to "brand new". The crane operator, Emil, was kind to let me follow his work for an hour...
The change of seasons comes. The warmth fights the ice and snow.
A sunset scene from a pine tree forest reminds me of Shishkin's paintings....
This pic on 500px.com
500px.com/photo/104489031/changing-seasons-by-sergey-pono...
Thank you for all your comments and favs, my friends.
The Milky Way core season will soon be over. That's however no reason to despair or to start sleeping at night. There are many other highlights in the night sky.
Autumn is the time when Orion, one of the most beautiful constellations, becomes visible again. The blue supergiant Riegel and the red supergiant Betelgeuse are hard to miss and M42, the Orion Nebula, can be seen by naked eye as well. If your skies are really dark, you can capture the elusive Barnards Loop, the red Meissa Region, the Flame Nebula or the Horshead. In the adjacent constellations there are more red gems, like the Rosette Nebula, the Christmas Tree Cluster or the Monkey Head Nebula.
Reason enough to stop on the way home from our Trona Pinnacles session at some interesting rocks. Not only the night sky can change. It was amazing to see how much the landscape differs a few miles away. Instead of tufa spires, the rocks here reminded me of Joshua Tree NP.
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EXIF
Canon EOS 6D astro modified
Samyang 24mm f/1.4
iOptron SkyTracker Pro
Low Level Lighting
Sky:
5 x 45s @ISO3200 f/2, tracked
Foreground:
5 x 60s @ISO3200 f/2
Old shed and live oak tree covered in Spanish moss.
Spanish moss was given its name by French explorers. Native Americans told them the plant was called Itla-okla, which meant “tree hair.” The French were reminded of the Spanish conquistadors’ long beards, so they called it Barbe Espagnol, or “Spanish Beard.” The Spaniards got back at them by calling the plant Cabello Francés, or “French Hair.” The French name won out, and as time went by Spanish Beard changed to Spanish moss.
I watched a change in you
It's like you never had wings
Now you feel so alive
I've watched you change...
Outfit is newness from Kustom9
Sombrero 6-12, convexo, algo mamelonado, margen incurvado, carnoso. Cutícula aterciopelada, seca, opaca, violeta oscuro. Láminas escotadas, espaciadas, gruesas, con lamélulas, violeta oscuro virando a ocre ferruginoso. Pie alto, engrosado en la base, fibrilloso-escamoso, con fibrillas longitudinales oscuras, de esponjoso a hueco y de violeta oscuro a negruzco. Cortina violeta, se tiñe de herrumbre tras esporar. Carne gruesa, violeta con tendencia a palidecer, de tensa y firme a floja. Olor a madera de cedro, sabor suave. Esporada color ocre-ferroso. Hat 6-12, convex, some kind of mamelonado, uncurled, beefy margin. Velvet, dry, opaque, dark violet cuticle. With plunging neckline, spread, thick sheets, with lamélulas, dark violet changing direction to containing iron ocher. High foot increased in the base, fibrilloso-scaly, with fibrillas longitudinal dark, of spongy to hollow and of dark violet to blackish. Violet curtain, it dyes of rust after esporar. Thick, violet meat with trend to turn pale, of tense and firm to sluggish. Smell of wood of cedar, soft flavor. Esporada color ferrous ocher.
The changing skyline of East London with the old unused Millennium Mill in the foreground and the fast developing modern London in the background. Just a matter of time before the old surreal and tranquil world is engulfed by the bustling bright lights of the new world.
7DWF Saturday: Landscape
HCS
Yes I'm Changing (Tame Impala)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=wI60jMIDQ0U
There is another future waiting there for you
I saw it different, I must admit
I caught a glimpse, I'm going after it
...
Yes I'm changing, can't stop it now
And even if I wanted I wouldn't know how
Another version of myself I think I found, at last
And I can't always hide away
...
Quoted from SongFacts:
Personal transition is a major theme flowing through frontman Kevin Parker's songwriting on the Currents album. He explained to Uncut magazine: "That was precipitated by what I found myself singing about. I usually just follow my instincts when I start writing and then I will notice a theme emerging. I tried to amplify that so I can make a cohesive album, one that has a message and story."
"And yeah, this theme of this personal transition and moving on really went together with the music. I wanted to explore this idea of feeling like you're turning into the kind of person you thought you'd never become or starting to appreciate things you've never done it before," he continued. "You set these rules and standards, then one day you feel like you want to embrace other things, and the only way to do that is to abandon your previous self."
Parker added that this was the song where he felt it all started to cohere, stating "'Yes, I'm Changing' was the first time I managed to string together the right words to bring home what I'm trying to say."
CP 253 holds at CPF485 on the then CP Freight Main for Amtrak 296, 3 years later the line is now owned by NS and the old Schenectady station is in the process of being demolished.
Yes, I realise this topic has already been talked over many times on our humble photo gallery. This time however, we have another big developement in front of us.
The famous Polish ban on photography had not really been in power, no matter what any person said. You were fully permitted to photograph anything you want, as long as you were on public grounds, which is a reasonable idea. All is to change now though.
My first post in this "no photo" topic has been published on 6.02.2024, when the Polish Ministry of National Defence published a draft of the ordinance containing the description of a "Photography forbidden" sign, along with many other things. This ordinance is what is required for the photo ban to be implemented in practice, as per a law published all the way back in 2022. The draft remained all that, just a draft, up until... this very day, 3.04.2025. It is now a full-blown ordinance of the allmighty Minister himself.
The published version can be seen on the official government service Dziennik Ustaw - dziennikustaw.gov.pl/DU
The ordinance itself, numbered 432 can be seen here - dziennikustaw.gov.pl/DU/2025/432 - contains a PDF file with the ordinance and a graphical display of the sign.
From now on, any person responsible for the security of an object of critical infrastructure (whatever that means...) will be able to hang out these legal signs and there is nothing the poor citizen can do about this, even when standing on public grounds.
*The ordinance comes into effect 14 days after its publishing, you have time until the 17th of April. For real now.*
Previous post: flic.kr/p/2pwGNoS
Photo was taken in Knurów (Krywałd), the old sign is on a wall of a tiny explosives production facility.
Photo by Piotrek/Toprus
A minha pequena cresceu :-)
Deve estar beirando os seus 7 meses agora. E a cada dia fica mais sem vergonha.
Companheira e divertida, Isamonstra está sempre me arrancando boas risadas!
Changing Fields.
Thanks for the support.
Posting in the name of Safe Privacy.
Copyrights (c) Nira Dabush.
Looks like lots of evergreen trees along the riverside but, of course, there are many that show the seasonal change more than others!
Our Daily Challenge ~ Leaf/Leaves ...
Stay Safe and Healthy Everyone!
Thanks to everyone who views this photo, adds a note, leaves a comment and of course BIG thanks to anyone who chooses to favourite my photo .... Thanks to you all!
I have photographed these particular leaves every day for the past two weeks just to see the colour changes.
#73/120 Moment in time: 120 Pictures in 2020
There's nothing constant in the world,
all ebb and flow, and every shape that's born
bears in its womb the seeds of change.
Ovid (Publius Ovidius Naso). In the Metamorphoses
A very recent and significant collapse of the rock ledge at Pulpit Rock, Portland Bill in Dorset is a reminder of how the Jurassic Coast is constantly changing, be it through natural processes or man-made intervention. Amazing to think that all those shots ever taken here can never now be replicated.
Changed some tiny bits.
Added a number plate, changed the colour of the grille from dark grey to white, added upper holders to the rear view mirrors, and replaced a black plate with a sand green one, but that's not visible from this perspective.
Oh, and I wanted to have 'something' dangling from the rear view mirror inside, went for a pair of cherries, but had no idea how to fix it elegantly. Found the rubberducky instead and put her on the dashboard.
Toy Project Day 3234
www.rspb.org.uk/birds-and-wildlife/wildlife-guides/bird-a...
Key information
Noisy and gregarious, these cheerful exploiters of man's rubbish and wastefulness have managed to colonise most of the world. The ultimate avian opportunist perhaps. Monitoring suggests a severe decline in the UK house sparrow population, recently estimated as dropping by 71 per cent between 1977 and 2008 with substantial declines in both rural and urban populations. While the decline in England continues, Breeding Bird Survey data indicate recent population increases in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.
What they eat:
Seeds and scraps.
Measurements:
Length:14-15cm
Wingspan:21-25.5cm
Weight:24-38g
Population:
UK breeding:5,300,000 pairs
Where and when to see them
House sparrows can be found from the centre of cities to the farmland of the countryside, they feed and breed near to people. It is a species vanishing from the centre of many cities, but is not uncommon in most towns and villages. It is absent from parts of the Scottish Highlands and is thinly distributed in most upland areas.
Breeding
House sparrows usually nest in loose colonies and since they don't defend a proper territory, nests can be as little as 20-30 cm apart.
How house sparrows nest
Nests are often placed in holes and crevices within buildings and they will readily use nestboxes. Free-standing nests are also frequently built, in creepers against walls and in thick hedges or conifers.
Pairs often remain faithful to their nest site and to each other for life, although a lost mate of either sex is normally replaced within days. A hole is filled with dry grass or straw with a nesting chamber lined with feathers, hairs, string and paper. Feathers may be plucked from a live pigeon!
The main nesting season is from April to August, although nesting has been recorded in all months. Most birds lay two or three clutches, but in a good year fourth attempts are not uncommon.
About house sparrow chicks
The female lays two to five eggs at daily intervals and often starts to incubate part way through egg-laying. Both sexes incubate, and the chicks hatch after 11-14 days. The parents share nesting duties equally. Chicks are brooded for 6-8 days, but can control their own body temperature only when 10 or 11 days old.
The youngsters are fed on a variety of invertebrates, including aphids, caterpillars, beetles and grasshoppers. Seeds and vegetable matter are also given, particularly during periods when invertebrates are scarce (e.g. cold weather) and become more important after the chicks leave the nest.
The young fledge 14-16 days after hatching. They are unable to feed themselves for about a week after leaving the nest and are cared for by their parents for around a fortnight. Post-fledging care is frequently left to the male as the hen prepares for the next brood. She can begin laying her next clutch of eggs within days of the previous brood leaving the nest.
Newly independent young often gather in large flocks, anywhere there is an abundance of seed, invertebrates and other suitable foods. These may be areas of wasteland or around garden feeding sites. Later, rural flocks may move on to grainfields to feed on the ripening grain, often joined by adult birds, once they have finished nesting. Flocks tend to break up through the autumn and birds return to their nesting colony sites.
Population trends
The house sparrow is common through most of its world range, and can tolerate a wide variety of climates.
The recent decline of house sparrows
UK house sparrow populations have fluctuated greatly over the centuries, with a gradual decline during the last 100 years.
Causes for the rapid recent declines, particularly in urban and suburban environments, remain largely undetermined, although research is underway that aims to establish the cause(s), and develop conservation solutions.
Declines in rural house sparrow populations are thought to be linked to changes in agricultural practices, particularly the loss of winter stubbles and improved hygiene measures around grain stores.
House sparrow numbers were not monitored adequately before the mid-1970s. Since then, numbers in rural England have nearly halved while numbers in towns and cities have declined by 60 per cent. Because of these large population declines, the house sparrow is now red-listed as a species of high conservation concern.
Relations with humans and other animals
People have a love-hate relationship with the house sparrow. However, control attempts have failed to limit the sparrows numbers and range.
Their relationship with humans
People have a love-hate relationship with the house sparrow. For many they are the most familiar of wild animals, bringing life to city centres and other man-made places, bereft of wildlife.
The house sparrows partiality to grain crops and the damage and destruction this caused resulted in attempts to control their numbers. From the mid-18th century most parishes had sparrow clubs with the sole objective to destroy as many sparrows as possible. Bounties were paid for sparrows until the late 19th century, when it was accepted that the control measures did not work. Similar failures were recorded in a number of other European countries.
Ironically, as people in Europe were paid to kill sparrows as pests, others deliberately introduced them to places as far apart as Australia and New York. Initially they were welcomed, although later appreciation turned to serious concern for the impact on crops. By then sparrows had become well established and control attempts have failed to limit the sparrows numbers and range.
How sparrows behave with other animals
Sparrows are aggressive tend to dominate feeders in gardens and prevent other birds from getting to the food. They harass other birds and steal their food and take over their nests, particularly house martins. The eviction and interference often results in a reduction in breeding success and can cause desertion of even large martin colonies.
Sparrows frequently tear to pieces the nests of martins and swallows and eject any eggs or chicks therein. The owners are unable to stop them.
Sparrows are very resilient and for their size have remarkably few serious predators. Main predators are domestic cats, owls (especially tawny) and sparrowhawks, but none are capable of affecting the size of the sparrow population, with the possible exception of localised effects by cats.