Continuing a theme

Denver Botanic Gardens

it was difficult to watch scenes like this...continually thinking would it make it in the end!

Continuing on my clean up of the most recent images, still shooting and still staying safe.

Thank you for visiting and for all the very kind words, very much appreciated.

The continued existence of wildlife and wilderness is important to the quality of life of humans.

~Jim Fowler~

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continuing to experiment with selective color...having fun with it.

COVID numbers are continuing to rise around the world. So many people are in lockdown and not able to get out, many have been sick and have had loved ones die, and so many, including me, who haven't been able to hug their families since the beginning of this pandemic. And we have no idea when the end is in sight, or if things will ever get back to "normal."

When I saw this little vine wrapped around a post in a nearby garden, I thought of how much all of us need a hug right about now. So I'm sending out a virtual hug to all of you.

Here's a song from one of my favourite bands, Walk of the Earth, that I think might give you a smile:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=zCb4yRPYpiI

Hi all !!

We continue the Comment Challenge ahah!!

Sometimes comments inspire me. This was the case under a work of The G.O.A.T Pan Iconic.

The goal is therefore to create a photo from comments on flickr!

The picture of The G.O.A.T Pan Iconic (read the comments) is here.

Story : "Often we see harley directly as a badass girl, in love with the joker or poison ivy who tricks and lives her life as best she can. This time, I just wanted to represent her as she was before and what she will become after meeting her J."

I hope you'll like it !!

Thanks for watching and your support!! ♡

The music : 🎵.

To be continued... (maybe :P)

♬♪ Rain ASMR

Part 1 HERE // Part 2 HERE

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On her:

Pose: Amitie At the Street Gacha

Hair: Stealthic - Lethal (Upgrade)

Dress: ISON - kennedi twist dress (Lara)

Bag: DIFFERENCE - PRADA bag V.2 Black

Fur: {le fil casse} Alondra Glitter Fur Black

Neckalace & Earrings: [POM] Lilo Set

Shoes: ISON - millonia platform heels -maitreya-

Nails: alme. Mesh Stiletto Nails – Maitreya

Make up: Sugarose

Continuing my long lost pictures of Cuba, again taken on a Kodak compact camera.

Happy weekend

Continuing with my Positive Flags of the Nations project.

Thank you for your kind visit. Have a wonderful and beautiful day! ❤️ ❤️ ❤️

Continuing my Toy-ronto Life series...

Happy Miniature Sunday!

Some golden coloured Toronto cityscapes through the TS vision :-)

I continue to be in awe of the beauty I saw at Ox Bow Bend in Grand Teton National Park. Here is another look at this spectacular place. This image has a wider angle and less zoom than the one I posted several weeks ago. Any way you dice it, this is one of the most beautiful places on earth. Talk about a stress reliever.

Grand Teton National Park, Wyoming

Continuing with my Positive Flags of the Nations project.

Thank you for your kind visit. Have a wonderful and beautiful day! ❤️ ❤️ ❤️

Autumn Continues, although when I finally got out yesterday, I saw that the trees weren't nearly as full as they were last week

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Continuing from this post . The ladybugs left without finishing the job. The plant then got a really bad infestation about two weeks after they left.

I then bought a pack of Cryptolaemus montrouzieri‎. They are called “mealybug destroyer” for a reason. They immediately started to feast on the pest bugs, wiping the population very quickly.

Here you can see a Cryptolaemus bug chasing a mealybug (the white little one on the leaf border). Plenty to choose from, though.

To be continued, again.

Cromford Mills.

OrWO Universal Negative 54 - iso 100

Voigtländer 35 CL

Ilfotec LC29 1:19 ~ 10 minutes (on one leg)

Epson 4490

White-throated sparrows continue to filter into the area as they work their way north to nest in Canada's boreal forest. They usually fuel up here in Iowa until the end of April.

Russia continues to attack independent Ukraine. He drops banned phosphorus bombs on cities. Women and children are leaving their homeland en masse. The world stands in solidarity with Ukraine. And Russia, rushing in its madness, lies to its citizens, sends its soldiers to a real war and is ready to start World War III.

Россия продолжает нападать на независимую Украину. Он сбрасывает на города запрещенные фосфорные бомбы. Женщины и дети массово покидают родину. Мир солидарен с Украиной. А Россия, мечущаяся в своем безумии, лжет своим гражданам, отправляет своих солдат на настоящую войну и готова начать Третью мировую войну.

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Continuing along Merry Dale Clough and the Colne Valley Circular (W. Yorkshire UK)

I went back to visit the wasps nest five days later to see how the larvae were progressing. They became very protective this time. I made two photos and left them alone. The larvae have progressed tremendously.

Continuing my December theme:The colour Blue

Blue glass with freesias .... having fun with some flower shots from last month .... as it's too icy to venture out much this week ;o)

A Happy Bokeh Wednesday ;o)

The colour Blue: Here

Still Life Compositions: Here

The Glass set is here: Here

My freesia set: Here

....the deconstructed birthday bouquet.

lumen print, ADOX MCP 310 paper

all white daisies.

lumen color was adjusted using the scanning software.

Continuing with Raptors NOT On Fence Posts, this male Northern Harrier - aka Grey Ghost - wasn't too pleased with me when I hiked the Riverwalk Trail in Grasslands Park recently. Yes indeed, I was on foot for this! It is cropped, but not upscaled, as we were quite close. So unusual to get anywhere near this species - it must have a nest nearby.

Harriers are ground nesters. They like tall grasses near wetlands, and this place qualifies on both counts. I would bet that its mate was nest sitting while he patrolled the area. Male harriers like to spread their DNA far and wide: they will mate with several females if opportunity presents and have several families going simultaneously.

You'll never guess what happened next. Tune in tomorrow to find out!

Hmm... is anyone else having trouble finding their contacts now that Flickr has removed our People page? Currently when I click the appropriate box, I see the last dozen uploads from ONE of my Flickr friends... and nothing else. I'm sure the decision to "streamline" our interface was a money saving move and nothing more. Currently it has diminished my experience on this site and slowed down the commenting process by forcing me to scroll through group activity, when it works at all. And now this glitch. I'm not impressed.

Photographed in Grasslands National Park, Saskatchewan (Canada). Don't use this image on websites, blogs, or other media without explicit permission ©2023 James R. Page - all rights reserved.

Continuing on the theme of one sparrow a day this week, here is a beautiful Chipping Sparrow spotted near Nutter's Battery, Central Park, New York. They are now coming in increasing numbers...

Grimaud

continues...

While many other places in the northern hemisphere are showing signs of warming weather, we continue to demonstrate why it is not the weather that drew us here. No, ironically we came for the jobs.

Framed in my last picture, this shows the trail continuing, hugging the lakeshore. If you look closely you can see a man and his dog.

We had some visitors last night - mom and dad western tanager and a couple of their youngsters. I had the feeling last year that one of the many western tanagers we saw during the spring had nested nearby. This year I am convinced that is the case. I was unable to get a shot of one of the adults feeding the "teenagers" (one shown here) so that will be my goal over the next week or so.

Thanks so much to everyone who takes the time to view, like or comment on my photos!

© 2020 Craig Goettsch - All rights reserved. Any unauthorized use without permission is prohibited.

A clear view of what happens once your sister goes under the knife. We are at Richford, Vermont and the Newport road train is sporting an 8700 RS-18 while the Richford local has the new version, RS-18u. Cars will be swapped and the road train will continue. Those were the days to be in the "North Kingdom"!

Meanwhile, winter winds slammed Florida, driving wind surfers to don half wet suits.

sometimes the conditions determine our way...but not change!..

Continuing with Birds in the Rain, here's three female House Sparrows (Passer domesticus) sheltering under the leaves of a plant in a pot! Clever birds!

Continuing with the C-O-L-D theme...

This image was captured within minutes of yesterday violet-hued picture featuring the 'icebergs'. You can see the same-colored sky here.

At -10 below zero, the water near the shore has frozen and that is the blue and white ice here in the foreground. The darker blue on the horizon are the large waves rolling in the open water.

Fortunately the temperatures have moderated in the last few days and we feel warm at 25 f. :)

Enjoy the cold with me here!

c'est la vie...

Continuing with my Positive Flags of the Nations project.

Thank you for your kind visit. Have a wonderful and beautiful day! ❤️ ❤️ ❤️

The Junkers Ju 52 (nicknamed Tante Ju ("Aunt Ju") and Iron Annie) is a German trimotor transport aircraft manufactured from 1931 to 1952. It saw both civilian and military service during the 1930s and 1940s. In a civilian role, it flew with over twelve air carriers including Swissair and Deutsche Luft Hansa as an airliner and freight hauler. In a military role, it flew with the Luftwaffe as a troop and cargo transport and briefly as a medium bomber. The Ju 52 continued in postwar service with military and civilian air fleets well into the 1980s.

My sparrow journey continues with one of North America's most common sparrows, very friendly, never flying too far, being a slow, methodic mover. I always thought its most prominent feature was a large chest spot....but unless I have the ID wrong, it's not always there! They form groups on migration with other sparrows and I never saw one in south Florida, although infrequently they are reported in the upper part of the state.

Member of Nature’s Spirit

Good Stewards of Nature

Continuing my "Critters In Winter" series, here's a beetle sauntering along the ice in February. Not exactly attractive, this one, but it attracted my attention. Who knew? And where was it going? And to do what? And why?

There's nothing to eat out there in February; there's no one to mate with. But there it was, activated by unseen forces, marching across a frozen wasteland like Sir John Franklin's crew after their ships went down in the Arctic in 1848.

As I recall, this was a cold day. I walked along the frozen Frenchman River, unconcerned about the ice cracking. It was a solid mass. I didn't last very long out there, and - I'm sure - neither did the beetle.

Photographed on the Frenchman River northwest of Val Marie, Saskatchewan (Canada). Don't use this image on websites, blogs, or other media without explicit permission ©2014 James R. Page - all rights reserved.

It will be an expensive property when it's done

(Explored April 7, 2016)

Edwin B. Forsythe National Wildlife Refuge, Oceanville, NJ, USA

DSC_31421G11 - Processed in GIMP 2.8.6

Riding on some fast-moving water sports crafts is an exciting and thrilling experience. So, from early morning up and until late afternoon on Christmas Day, a number of guests at a popular beach resort, singly or in group, take a ride on jet skis and banana boats for an hour around a large area in Subic Bay designated by the resort's management as safe for such activities.

Captured in Subic, Zambales, Philippines.

After a brief stop for lunch, we meet up with the SB CWR again at Spence where they duck under a wooden bridge. This is one of the last wooden bridges within a couple hundred kilometers of Toronto. CP 6080 & 6045 continue their trek down the Mactier sub.