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Hornisse beim Klettern - Climbing hornet - Frelon grimpeur.

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Urban Lights at LACMA, Los Angeles.

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“A palace cannot make you rich but a cottage in the woods can! We become rich only through simpleness and modestness!”

― Mehmet Murat ildan

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When you can't fly, and you keep falling out of trees, climbing skills are in order.

A California Scrub-jay is climbing a redwood tree ✔️

As seen on a tiny patch of land, that nature had taken over by the edge of an inner city car park.

Climb the mountain and get their good tiding, nature peace will flow into you as sunrise flows into trees, the wind will blow their own freshness and storm their energy while cares will drop away from you like the leaves of spring

Yellow-shouldered Ladybird (Apolinus lividigaster)

It had been dining on Daisy Pollen.

Waterdrop experiments contd.... Explore #12 on Friday, November 16, 2007

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Predatory Shield Bug/Brown Soldier Bug (Cermatulus nasalis

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One that I have not seen in the garden before.

Happy Beautiful Bug Butt Thursday!

Small springtime white flowers in the warm sunshine, with an even tinier insect making the most of this early food source.

... or crawling :)

Hill climb.

Another shot from yesterday.

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The next five day's I will be over to the other side of the country for my real life job.

So no second life, no taking pictures.and not posting.

This will be the case for four weeks on weekday's.

With a Second Life inventory exploding with stuff to show I have to let real life get my full priority.

In the meantime have fun while you shop until you drop.

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Nearing Gympie station, C17 967 makes easy work of the load up the grade.

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Baxter State Park, Maine

In the rose garden at the Ringling Museum. It was not the best day to photograph the roses because they had just been cut back and fertilized for the growing season, but I managed to find a few to capture.

Sarasota, FL

Experimenting with higher ISO and smaller lens opening for insect shots.

Backyard photography

... we leave the monument behind and head past Pecket Well to Haworth Road

From the Archives

An eastbound Union Pacific intermodal train passes milepost 550 west of Hermosa, Wyoming. The train is climbing the grades of Sherman Hill on the afternoon of September 24, 2003.

Little tomcat Maxi in the apple tree

Marignac, Haute-Garonne, France

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Some ideas are better in my head than in the actual execution. I guess that is why I keep working at it every day. How is it that some days I feel like I've never picked up a camera before or edited an image? Hoping your rainbows are easing to conquer than mine were today.

This bee was climbing all over, and only flying once in awhile. Not sure if he was saving energy or what, but he did eventually take off and disappear. All of his climbing did let me get in a few nice shots though.

After getting stopped by the defect detector at Singer due to a handbrake 105 cars deep, NS 19M claws up Christiansburg mountain passing through Shawsville, Virginia with a pair of SD70ACes up front.

"Climb the mountains and get their good tidings. Nature's peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees. The winds will blow their own freshness into you and the storms their energy, while cares will drop off like autumn leaves."

~ John Muir

C17 974 begins the climb up Red Hill to Gympie station

There aren't a lot of places in southwest Minnesota where trains have to fight steep grades, but a notable exception is the climb southbound BNSF trains make along the Redwood River from Marshall to Florence. This train was struggling about as hard as any I've seen along here. It took 25 minutes to make the 8 miles between Russell and the US 14 overpass at Florence. It will soon be rolling downhill again through the hills of the Buffalo Ridge toward Pipestone.