Trash Macro Mondays.

My darkest Halloween pic so far this year.

Castle Hills Thonock Gainsborough.

A little fantasy fun after making squash soup

The plastic earth screws were no match for Bruno. We’ve had lots of visits from this bear and/or it’s friends.

Good for compost, I understand.

Nature having its way with these Leaves.

In your garden, pull up any dead plants and lay them on the ground around healthy plants. You can also chop them up and mix them into the soil.

While leaves changing color in the fall are dying, they are not dead. A cold snap will kill the leaves the same as it will on the leaves of most your other plants.

Time to get that Composting Bin started.

Eskilstuna, Sweden 2011

We were surprised to look out to see these sweet ladies in our yard. One of them was very interested in our compost!

I feel terrible for wildlife lately because the air quality is horrendous due to the Canadian wildfires. For several days it’s been in the “unhealthy” and “very unhealthy” range, with a constant haze in the air. While we have the option of closing windows & filtering our air, they do not.

This was a family friends' garden centre after the final days of trade. It's now demolished.

Superb Fairy-wrens were particularly observant and appeared already while I was busy with the compost and they seemed to be working alongside me.

(Malurus cyaneus)

The green waste collected from households and commercial gardeners is wetted down and put into these massive rooms on one side of the building. It quickly starts to decompose and the temperature rises to around 60C.

All this heat causes steam to escape from the hanger doors.

Dunghill with rising sun

Compost Pile.

Kraftvolle Düfte, trostlose Farbtöne, hartes Grün, Meditation, gefährliche Rottöne, heftige Purpurtöne, gleichzeitig seltsame Winde, traurige Vögel,

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Steve.D.Hammond.

Explore #129.

View Large on Black.

This is what our compost looks like at the moment. It proves that the compost soil is excellent, and that the garden care is somewhat neglected :)

Soundtrack: youtube.com/watch?v=doYNBHE8Yes

Nikon D300, 18-200@200mm, 1/30s, f/6.5, ISO 320. Treatment: shady white balance, increased saturation, added vignette. (DSC_1761)

Natures way of Recycling its self.

On its way to the compost bin...

Most of the strawberries were lovely - this one seems to be growing rather a lot of mould !!!!!

'Destination: Compost' On Black

Composting a pomegranate.

This week's FlickrFriday theme is: #PaintItBlack

Le thème de ce FlickrFriday est: #Peint le en noir

O tema desta FlickrFriday é: #Pinte de preto

本次 FlickrFriday 主題: #把它涂黑

FlickrFriday-Thema der Woche: #Mal es schwarz

El tema de FlickrFriday es: #Pintarlo negro

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Syritta pipiens. HFDF! On Erigeron.

Explored #62

A very quick peek!!

I thought the snow on the lid of this compost bin looks like the radioactivity symbol.

The Flickr Lounge-Made Of Wood

These are wood pallets we got from a local business to use for our compost bins. The Rhubarb is growing on the left side and a volunteer Delicata Squash is growing in front of the bin.

Four months ago I took this picture because I felt so captivated by the ordinary details I found in these pieces of peppers I had sliced that were to be discarded. Even though this would become compost material I really appreciated the colors, shapes, and light I saw here. I find “real” food/fresh produce so beautiful and interesting in appearance and love how I feel so thankful and excited when thinking about the nutrients and benefits fresh produce provides for our bodies. I’m thankful I took the time to capture what I saw.

The largest of the abandoned barges I photographed on this day. The wood timbers are so substantial that they partially turn to compost long before they totally disintegrate. Some of the barges have a thicket of shrubbery growing on top; this one had smaller plants on the side.

These might as well be wallpaper

Nature Recycling, what it made.

The Trevor Carpenter 2018 Photo Challenge

WEEK 15: APRIL 2008/2010 FLASHBACK – ENTROPY

We keep this little metal pail in our kitchen to throw out vegetable matter for compost.

I opened it today and thought, since the stuff hadn't decayed all that much, the variety of colors and textures were pretty cool. I thought it would make for an interesting photo for Entropy.

I've sunk to new lows in trying to get some pictures taken during the lock down. This is the contents of my backyard composter.

Not the tidiest of gardens, it takes a lot of work keeping it this scruffy LOL.

We get a lot of wildlife though and the compost gets used up every year. Squizzy loves this bit as it is close to the trees and he/she can make his/her getaway. The snow has now gone from the back garden, not so with the front.

In my garden Stafford UK 23rd January 2023

Ptecticus trivittatus - Oct 13, 2021 - BWI Bike Trail

Sparkles age 12 tabby

This area of the Maine coast is as wet as a rain forest, with rain, fog, mist and snow around most of the time. The trees don't get very big in the thin rocky soil, but they form a pretty dense canopy shutting out a lot of light. This old tree was a lot bigger than its neighbors, possibly because it stood at the edge of a trail.

The nice thing is there's no poison ivy.

I peeked inside and saw a well 'cooked', well sifted, taller than me pile of compost. Brown gold! I said, darn, I didn't bring my bolt cutters!!!

Funeral monument to Paolo Savelli by Jacopo della Quercia (15th century) - Basilica of Santa Maria Gloriosa dei Frari - Venice

Il monumento venne commissionato ed eretto dalla Repubblica di Venezia per onorare il principe romano Paolo Savelli, comandante delle truppe veneziane e morto nei pressi di Padova il 3 ottobre 1405.

È composto da un'urna in marmo nella quale è sepolto e sorretta da mensole dalla testa leonina, sulle quali spicca lo stemma della famiglia Savelli. Questa è sovrastata dalla statua equestre del condottiero in legno dorato e policromo, attribuita a Jacopo della Quercia

Fu il primo monumento eretto ad un condottiero dalla Serenissima

The monument was commissioned and erected by the Republic of Venice to honor the Roman prince Paolo Savelli, commander of the Venetian troops and died near Padua on 3 October 1405.

It consists of a marble urn in which it is buried and supported by shelves with a lion's head, on which the Savelli family coat of arms stands out. This is dominated by the equestrian statue of the leader in gilded and polychrome wood, attributed to Jacopo della Quercia

It was the first monument erected to a commander of the Serenissima Republic