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... another dark, grey day under high fog
with some cotoneaster leaves / Zwergmispel
at Main Cemetery / Hauptfriedhof, Frankfurt-Nordend, Germany
Day 9. It is MandaKemp 's birthday today, and as generous as ever I bought her some colouring pencils as a birthday gift. I'm not that mean though, I did get a colouring book to go with it too.
The azure damselfly (Coenagrion puella) is a species of damselfly found in most of Europe. It is notable for its distinctive black and blue colouring. They are commonly found around ponds and lakesides during the summer.
Adult male azure damselflies have a head and thorax patterned with blue and black. They have an azure blue abdomen patterned with black markings. The marking on the second segment of the abdomen is U-shaped, separated from the segment's narrow terminal black band. (This distinguishes it from the variable damselfly where the U-shape is joined to the terminal band with a black line.)
Segments three to five are blue with broader black terminal bands, lacking the forward-pointing projection the upper surface which adult male common blue damselfly has. Segment six has a similar pattern but with more restricted blue and a broader area of black, and segment seven is mostly black, with just a narrow blue area at the base. Segment eight and much of segment nine are sky-blue, forming a noticeable contrasting patch, but there are small dark markings on the rear upper side of segment nine, which adult male common blue damselfly does not possess.
Adult female azure damselflies have a head and thorax pattern similar to that of the male, but with glittering, glossy green replacing the blue coloring. The abdominal segments are largely black in coloring, with narrow pale markings at the junction between each segment.
The nymphs are usually green with browner wing buds and lamellae. They develop in one year (two in the north), feeding among submerged vegetation and on small invertebrates.
I hope your sunday is as colourful too :-))
Rainbow, seen in Burke Channel
on our 9-hour ferry trip from Bella Coola to Bella Bella, BC, Canada
HMAM 😊😊😍
With heartfelt and genuine thanks for your kind visit. Have a wonderful and beautiful day, be well, keep your eyes open, appreciate the beauty surrounding you, enjoy creating, stay safe and laugh often! ❤️❤️❤️
just an exercise for Sliders Sunday -- Post Processed To The MAX! using an existing b&w shot
I guess I prefer the original flic.kr/p/2kzo9Tf which hangs, framed, in our hallway!
colour = Picasa heat map
border = FastStone border effects
Jacket: SEUL - Patched Bomber - Princess - Maitreya
Top: _CandyDoll_ Aiko White Tank Maitreya
Shorts: ..S..: Denim Thong - Black Maitreya
Sneakers: [VALE KOER] HIGH CARDINALS
Hair: DOUX - Seuta Hairstyle [M / CATWA]
Necklace: Izzie's - Paw Heart Necklace black
I bought myself a colouring book and some crayons for wet days in Cornwall. Those wet days didn't happen. so for the long winter nights I have a colouring book and crayons.
Despite their relatively plain colouring (compared to the parrots, rosellas and robins anyway), the Grey Shrike-thrush is one of my favourite birds, their beautiful song is one of my favourite sounds.
For a Feral Pigeon. The brownish/reddish gene is not common in this species, you do see them, often combined with white, but this is the first all-brown one I had seen - from the archives
Red-rumped Parrot.
Psephotus haematonotus.
A medium sized but slender parrot the male Red-rumped parrot is bright green with a blue-green head, a red rump with yellow shoulders and belly.
Like many species of birds the female has duller olive green colourings with a green rump and dull yellow or light green on the belly.
At their fledging stage of life the young parrots the colouring of the young birds is always a dull colour.
Mating for life it is the female who chooses and prepared the nesting site which is generally in a hollow and aging eucalypt tree.
Once the eggs are laid which generally occurs on a rotting wooden bed in the nest the female will incubate the eggs during which time the male ensures that the female is fed.
Tamworth, New South Wales, Australia.
galapagosconservation.org.uk/species/sally-lightfoot-crab/
“Sally Lightfoot crabs are brightly-coloured coastal scavengers, found in the Galapagos Islands and across the western coast of South and Central America. They have an extremely generalist diet, feeding on anything from sea lion placenta to other crabs. This makes them an important part of the ecosystem, as they provide services such as keeping the shore clean of any organic debris and eating ticks off marine iguanas. They are rumoured to have been named after a Caribbean dancer, due to their agility in jumping from rock to rock, their ability to run in four directions and their capacity to climb up vertical slopes. This extreme agility makes them very difficult to catch. Adult crabs show characteristic intense blue and red colouring on their shells, with a white or pale blue underbelly. Younger crabs have darker colouration with red spots, providing a higher degree of camouflage. Every time the crabs moult their shell, the spots become gradually larger, until they obtain the adult colouring.
Female Sally Lightfoot crabs carry their eggs around with them on their stomachs until they hatch into the water. The larvae then swim out to deeper waters, where they consume phytoplankton and undergo a rapid series of moults. Eventually they undergo metamorphosis to become juvenile crabs and swim to shore, where they start to scavenge, becoming bigger and more colourful with each moult. These juveniles tend to travel in large groups until they reach maturity, after which they become largely solitary when not mating. When they are not mating or feeding, the crabs spend their time hiding in cracks in rocks. If they are disturbed, they may spray water or shed one of their legs as a defence mechanism.”
Harry Clarke
Since I became ill in May 2024 I don’t get to go out very much. So it’s important to occupy your mind, like editing photographs; reading and painting. I was fortunate enough to receive a difficult colouring book from Frank and Helen my lovely in-laws on a Stained Glass designer called Harry Clarke. One of my favourite designers, whose work I have seen in Holy Trinity Church, Dublin; St Patrick’s Church, Newport, Co. Mayo; The Stained Glass Museum, Ely and the V & A Museum, London.
I didn’t realise how many hours I had put in to just complete one but I have now finished five which I am now posting. Trust you will enjoy them. I am also posting one from a window in St Patricks’, Newport but now realise that my colour palette is a bit too bright. Hey ho.
I did not really have time to ponder and then create for the macro group theme. I am very tired after driving to Guelph for rehearsal today and playing a gig yesterday afternoon in Brantford that went extremely well.
The lovely Bar owner Lyn paid us $100.00 extra so that we all made 100.00 each. It was that crowded. Very cool indeed.
So all that said and done, I just picked an old photo and dressed it very little and voila.
Happy Macro Monday.