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What a difference a day makes. Yesterday we didn't get above zero for a high temperature whereas today my car registered +27F when I grabbed this image. The Grand Rapids Local scoots west with a pair of green SD40-2s in tow that will be set-out at Brookston for the Kelly Lake Local. Deputy Rengo and Todd R were in hot pursuit on this fine afternoon.
Had not intended to make a comparison, but I happened to look out after a short while and saw how much the sun had sunk. Then I tried to get both photos alike but the second was not quite like the first.
"What do you see in the dark?
Do you even know where you are?
Are you awake or this is a dream?
Not everything is as it seems
Can you sense it, don't care if you don't
Sometimes you don't know the difference
Black of the night, is just the disguise
Imagination running wild
Maybe I'm a monster"
-Hidden Citizens
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What a difference a change in height can make. From the previous shot we walked down to the water's edge. Lower down a lot of the infrastructure disappered. The implied hustle and bustle of roads and trains replaced with a tranquility- the quiet passing of the water nearby the only noise on a silent night.
A Good Friend "knows all your Best Stories.
A Best Friend "Has lived them with you" ♥
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Of 8 Billions People on the Earth
You're my favor ♥
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Made a few small changes to my shape and played around with some new editing techniques. So used to photoshop and changing to Affinity has been... Something.
One of the most striking differences between a cat and a lie is that a cat has only nine lives.
Mark Twain
After the stormy weather, the sream in the Park is wending its way to the ocean at a more measured pace. Compare with stormy 28 sec video in the first comment box below.
In Explore, July 27, 2023
The Map Butterfly (Araschnia levana) owes its English name to the map-like figures on the undersides of the wings.
This delightful little 30-38 mm butterfly is common in the Palaearctic ecozone (Europe and Asia) and the Australasia & Indomalaya ecozone (Australia). The distribution extend from western Europe to whole Asia and from Japan to Indoneisa. In the UK this species is a very rare vagrant. It flies across open places in woodland and along woodland margins until 1200 m sea level.
The strongly marked seasonal differences between the first and the latter broods are quite remarkable (seasonal dimorphism). The uppersides of the wings of the first brood (May/June) are brownish orange with black markings, while the uppersides of the second brood (July/September) are dark brown or black with white markings, looking like a miniature version of the White Admiral. There are also intermediate forms.
In the pictures here is the Map in summer brood / second generation / summer generation.
Het landkaartje (Araschnia levana) is een dagvlinder uit de familie Nymphalidae (de vossen, parelmoervlinders en weerschijnvlinders). Deze kleine vlinder van slechts 30 à 38 mm heeft aan de onderkant van de vleugels een netwerk van lijnen en daar dankt dit vlindertje zijn naam landkaartje aan.
Het landkaartje komt in grote delen van Europa en Azië algemeen voor, maar niet in het noorden, zuiden en Groot Brittannië, en leeft in bossen, tuinen, en bosranden. De vlinder vliegt van zeeniveau tot 1200 meter. De vliegtijd is van mei tot en met september. De waardplant van de rupsen is de brandnetel.
Bijzonder aan deze vlinder is dat er twee vormen zijn. De eerste generatie in het voorjaar is aan de bovenkant oranjerood met zwarte vlekken, terwijl de zomergeneratie aan de bovenkant zwart is met een witte band. Het seizoendimorfisme wordt veroorzaakt door de diapauze die de overwinterende poppen van de voorjaarsvorm ondergaan.
Op de foto's hier is de zomergeneratie (tweede vorm) van het landkaartje afgebeeld.
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Blue Tits are beautiful little birds that are familiar visitors to gardens. Sexes are similar so it is impossible to tell the difference between male and female on appearance alone. This species regularly uses nestboxes in gardens and sometimes raises large broods of chicks, which can sometimes produce over 10 fledglings
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Street photography from Glasgow, Scotland.
Previously unpublished archive shot and a great example of the simple fact that some people are more relaxed and easily flattered than others. Enjoy!
Timing in photography can make a huge difference in the appeal or action captured.
I was fortunate to capture this ducks behavior at the right time as it seemed to be responding in a less than friendly manner to the other duck nearby! - I love the other duck's indifference to the verbal attack too!!! :-)
I'm sure we could relate to this kind of behavior and probably substitute the ducks for people!! :-)
Hope you like it!
Thanks for any comments, views or favorites - greatly appreciated!!
Have a tremendous day and week folks!
I just wanted to let you all know that my computer time is limited these days as life is just taking over ;) For awhile, I will only be able to visit those of you that visit me rather than going through my entire contact list as I usually do. Those of you who visit here everyday anyway will probably not notice any difference anyway. Once I have visited everyone who has visited me I will do my best to still get to my contact list :)
Have a wonderful Friday everyone!!
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Blackcap - Sylvia Atrcapilla (M)
The Eurasian blackcap (Sylvia atricapilla) usually known simply as the blackcap, is a common and widespread typical warbler. It has mainly olive-grey upperparts and pale grey underparts, and differences between the five subspecies are small. Both sexes have a neat coloured cap to the head, black in the male and reddish-brown in the female. The male's typical song is a rich musical warbling, often ending in a loud high-pitched crescendo, but a simpler song is given in some isolated areas, such as valleys in the Alps. The blackcap's closest relative is the garden warbler, which looks quite different but has a similar song.
The blackcap feeds mainly on insects during the breeding season, then switches to fruit in late summer, the change being triggered by an internal biological rhythm. When migrants arrive on their territories they initially take berries, pollen and nectar if there are insufficient insects available, then soon switch to their preferred diet. They mainly pick prey off foliage and twigs, but may occasionally hover, flycatch or feed on the ground. Blackcaps eat a wide range of invertebrate prey, although aphids are particularly important early in the season, and flies, beetles and caterpillars are also taken in large numbers. Small snails are swallowed whole, since the shell is a source of calcium for the bird's eggs. Chicks are mainly fed soft-bodied insects, fruit only being provided if invertebrates are scarce.
In July, the diet switches increasingly to fruit. The protein needed for egg-laying and for the chicks to grow is replaced by fruit sugar which helps the birds to fatten for migration. Aphids are still taken while they are available, since they often contain sugars from the plant sap on which they feed. Blackcaps eat a wide range of small fruit, and squeeze out any seeds on a branch before consuming the pulp. This technique makes them an important propagator of mistletoe. The mistle thrush, which also favours that plant, is less beneficial since it tends to crush the seeds. Although any suitable fruit may be eaten, some have seasonal or local importance; elder makes up a large proportion of the diet of northern birds preparing for migration, and energy-rich olives and lentisc are favoured by blackcaps wintering in the Mediterranean.
The German birds wintering in British gardens rely on provided food, and the major items are bread and fat, each making up around 20% of the diet; one bird survived the whole winter eating only Christmas cake. Fruit is also eaten, notably cotoneaster (41% of the fruit consumed), ivy and honeysuckle, and apple if available. Some birds have learned to take peanuts from feeders. Blackcaps defend good winter food sources in the wild, and at garden feeding stations they repel competitors as large as starlings and blackbirds. Birds occasionally become tame enough to feed from the hand.
Aristotle, in his History of Animals, considered that the garden warbler eventually metamorphosed into a blackcap. The blackcap's song has led to it being described as the "mock nightingale" or "country nightingale", and John Clare, in "The March Nightingale" describes the listener as believing that the rarer species has arrived prematurely. "He stops his own and thinks the nightingale/Hath of her monthly reckoning counted wrong". The song is also the topic of Italian poet Giovanni Pascoli's "La Capinera" [The Blackcap].
Giovanni Verga's 1871 novel Storia di una capinera, according to its author, was inspired by a story of a blackcap trapped and caged by children. The bird, silent and pining for its lost freedom, eventually dies. In the book, a nun evacuated from her convent by cholera falls in love with a family friend, only to have to return to her confinement when the disease wanes. The novel was adapted as films of the same name in 1917, 1943 and 1993. The last version was directed by Franco Zeffirelli, and its English-language version was retitled as Sparrow. In Saint François d'Assise, an opera by Messiaen, the orchestration is based on bird song. St Francis himself is represented by the blackcap.
Folk names for the blackcap often refer to its most obvious plumage feature (black-headed peggy, King Harry black cap and coal hoodie) or to its song, as in the "nightingale" names above. Other old names are based on its choice of nesting material (Jack Straw, hay bird, hay chat and hay Jack). There is a tradition of the Royal Navy's Fleet Air Arm bases being named for birds. A former base near Stretton in Cheshire was called HMS Blackcap.
Population:
UK breeding:
1,200,000 territories
UK wintering:
3,000 bird
Taken in Norfolk, England.
Thatched holiday cottages with a difference, compete with a sea view behind.
Happy Window Wednesday.
I love all the retro beer signs at Grumpy's. And the red velvet wallpaper!
© Web-Betty: digital heart, analog soul
I do enjoy my music. But listing to it with different sound reproductions has become a hobby of mine. The difference between what they squeeze out the internet (youtube, mp3 etc) and a flac file is really amazing..... Anyway, here's a blast from the past. Headphones one and turn it up --- www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Nz7gtCArOw&ab_channel=keef1212
Grinding upgrade, a westbound train of oil empties rolls towards the summit within the Moffat Tunnel. A snowstorm later this evening would coat the scene in a blanket of white, visible in the following image.
Some houses at Spalding, I found the nearest semi-detached houses quite interesting. They share a roof but one neighbour has tiles, the other slates, etc. There's a good bricked-up gateway as well at the start of the row.
Exakta Varex IIa (1960) SLR camera
Zeiss Pancolar 50 mm f/2 lens
Fuji Superia Xtra 400 film
Lab develop & scan
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“The human touch is that little snippet of physical affection that brings a bit of comfort, support, and kindness. It doesn’t take much from the one who gives it, but can make a huge difference in the one who receives it.”
― Mya Robarts
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There is quite a difference in winter versus the warm months in observing the eating habits of pheasants. In the summer time unless you are out very early in the mornings or happen to catch them searching for bits of gravel to serve as grit to help their digestion, pheasants often are more hidden as they seek things to eat. They normally have a menu with more entries on it than they do during the winter.
The phrase “scratching out a living” goes all the way back to the 14th-15th centuries when in the older farming communities the farmers “scratched” the land using more primitive tools.
By the 18th-19th centuries, the use of the phrase gained uses beyond that of farming to include anyone who was barely making ends meet in their day to day struggle.
Jump ahead until today and the phrase applies to a broad spectrum of normally physically hard, low paying jobs or an unstable work life.
I grew up in an era when there were only a few government help agencies and can well remember my folks talking about people around them during the Depression and beyond who spent many years on community “poor farms”.
Poor farms were quite prevalent at one time in the US and folks who were unable to work due to age, disability or other factors were housed and fed in exchange for helping to produce food and maintain a farm. Local governments ran the farms as they were considered a cost-effective way to care for the needy rather than simply doling out monies to individuals.
It carried negative connotations for participants, particularly because they were labeled “inmates.”
Poor farms gradually petered out by the middle of last century with many in Minnesota closing in the 1930s due to government programs starting up such as Social Security in 1935 and the growing prevalence of nursing homes.
(Photographed near Cambridge, MN)
Half the battle with photography is being able to let go of a composition and move on to what's working for you.
The sun was setting over a nearby hill and just barely hitting these gorgeous lupins. I can't wait to show you this vlog.
About 10 seconds after I took this shot the sun went down and the lupins lost their magical glow.
I'll show you the difference that 10 seconds makes as the composition vanished before my eyes.
On another note, I hope you're managing to deal with the spamming scammer that's bombarding my comments section to try and fool you into some scam or other.
I decided to make a video explaining how to spot these scammers and also how you might have a chance at winning one my beloved cameras.
Thanks for reading.
Gavin #fototripper