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“Study nature, love nature, stay close to nature. It will never fail you.”
-Frank Lloyd Wright
What a difference a month can make, especially in Alaska! I was blessed to visit the region surrounding the city of Nome in both July of 2024 and August of 2025.
Six major differences were noted between these two trips.
This year:
The salmon run was all but over. Remnants from this year’s run were noticeable by both sight and smell. The cycle of the Alaskan salmon’s life was starting anew.
The muskox was in full rut. The females were a bit more concerned with my being there while the males couldn’t care any less. They had been anxiously waiting, fighting off other males for months for the right to reproduce. An old fat Italian guy with a clicking camera certainly wasn’t going to ruin his mood!
The weather was very different as I experienced frozen morning windshields and only one day above 50 degrees. When most all of your weather comes across Siberia and the Bering Sea, unpredictability is the norm.
Flocks had assembled and were much more noticeable. For most species, some ducks and loons excluded, where I found 2-3 last year, once found this year there may have been between 20-100. In 2024 I did not see a single owl in an area with easily multiple miles of visibility. This year they were seen on three different days in three different areas as they began to flock (Parliament) together to travel south for the winter.
The locals, mostly the native Inuit people were out in family units collecting berries. I was told that these berries would become a vital part of their subsistence living over the winter. Not just berries, but hunting season for the Inuit people had started. Last year I was blessed with both brown bear with cubs and moose. This year, the bear, moose and caribou had already moved out further into the valleys as far away from humans as possible. Sadly…airplanes and quad runners now make impossible for them to move far enough out to be hunted.
Lastly, the white winter plumage of the ptarmigan was in full display (as photographed here) as it creeps up from bottom to top. Hundreds of ptarmigans were seen on both trips. No white feathers were noted in 2024 just a month earlier. All seen this year openly displayed that (a personal favorite cowboy saying) “Winter is a coming” appearance.
Respect is earned,
Honesty is appreciated,
Trust is gained,
Loyalty is returned.
Auliq Ice
Honesty is the first chapter of the book wisdom.
Thomas Jefferson
Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth.
John F. Kennedy
We become not a melting pot but a beautiful mosaic. Different people, different beliefs, different yearnings, different hopes, different dreams.
Jimmy Carter
We all do better when we work together. Our differences do matter, but our common humanity matters more,
Bill Clinton
Change will not come if we wait for some other person, or if we wait for some other time. We are the ones we’ve been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.
Barack Obama
Optimism is the one quality more associated with success and happiness than any other.
Brian Tracey
To deny people their human rights is to challenge their very humanity.
Nelson Mandela
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Benoît est un adulte que j'accompagne en tant qu'éducateur depuis plus dix ans..c'est un homme lumineux..Merci a lui et à sa mère de me permettre de poster ce portrait dont je suis particulièrement fiert...
Benoît is the man... I host him since more than ten years in the adult handicap center I worked..A bright man...
*Working Towards a Better World
We all should know that diversity makes for a rich tapestry, and we must understand that all the threads of the tapestry are equal in value no matter what the color. - Maya Angelou
We have become not a melting pot but a beautiful mosaic. Different people, different beliefs, different yearnings, different hopes, different dreams. - Jimmy Carter
I feel my heart break to see a nation ripped apart by it’s own greatest strength - it’s diversity. - Melissa Etheridge
Civilizations should be measured by the degree of diversity attained and the degree of unity retained. - W.H. Auden
If man is to survive, he will have learned to take a delight in the essential differences between men and between cultures. He will learn that differences in ideas and attitudes are a delight, part of life's exciting variety, not something to fear. -
Gene Roddenberry
When we lose the right to be different, we lose the privilege to be free. - Charles Evans Hughes
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You might want to see the difference between "old and modern" navigation. Then check out this image:
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What's better..?? I leave this open for present and future seaman to answer. (Believe i know the answer......)
Dall-E3 - PS Beta
Yes ! we can sit at a terrace again !
The difference of a lonely person before and after the lockdown
There's a difference between beauty and charm. A beautiful woman is one I notice. A charming woman is one who notices me. . .
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If you're a London bloke like me you get to find beauty in buildings.
New York is probably my favourite city visually for the extreme drama of the skyscrapers - One of my favourite views is looking back at Manhattan across the River from Brooklyn.
This is one of my favourite London views - kind of the English version but with a difference - Here at the Blackwall Basin you can get a killer reflection if you time the conditions right - the East River like the Thames is not so smooth.
This took a bit of planning but everything went the way it was supposed to - even the birds cooperated this time!
Thanks to Everyone who took the trouble to view, comment or fave.
Group Gift PosEd Poses @ the mainstore. See my credits
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there seems to be an unwritten (or possibly it is?) rule among residents that none shall paint his bathing hut in the same colour as his neighbour.
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Another species of the pipit and one that is widespread in the Central and Western Parts of India. They are a tad larger than the 3-4 species we get here in my state.
This is a bird of open habitat and generally prefers rocky hillsides, desert regions / areas with some scrub or woodland. While the longer beak is a pointer to the id, getting pipits id right is a big challenge since the differences are quite subtle. I took several shots of the bird and could id only in the computer after downloading.
In the desert, these were very common and we found these and Tawny pipit in good numbers. Surprisingly, this bird had several sightings in my home state down South last year far away from its range.
Many thanks in advance for your views and feedback. Much appreciated.
What a difference two weeks make! This is the same place I took photos of Cranes two weeks ago and it was all green. My wife and I had to pick up a package in town today and we drove by Creamers Field. The entire field was yellow with flowers! After we picked up our package, we decided to pull in and see what kind of flowers they were. Thought they were dandelions but was wrong, it is some kind of wildflower. In the midst of the flowers, there were Sandhill Cranes mulling around. Took a few photos and really liked this one the most.
If anyone visits Fairbanks during the summer months, Creamers field is a definate place to stop.
What happens when two youngsters want to be in the same place at the same time.
Immature White-crowned Sparrows (Zonotrichia leucophrys)
Jackson County, Oregon
There is little difference between the spring and fall plumages of the adults of this species. It can be difficult to age and sex this species and it can be safely done in fall only at the extremes of plumage. The dullest plumage is the first fall female and the individual at the bottom is a good representative of that. Notice the olive and yellow and how low contrasty the bird is. There is some slight contrast between the extreme forehead near the beak along with the area just above the eye compared to the more olive crown and back. There is no bright yellow anywhere. The eye line is not as black and the wing bars are much thinner. The beak of all fall birds of this species is lighter in the fall but the first fall female beak is a pinkish brown.
The bird on top is probably a fall adult male. There is lots of contrast between the olive and yellow areas including the forecrown area. The wing bars are thicker and the eye line is unquestionably black. First fall males and adult females are intermediate in plumage between these two and some of those may at their extremes closely resemble the bird on top.
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.
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This picture is all about cultural difference however it is not a comment about the different dress codes but just the interesting contrast. As I was leaving Tottenham Court Road, I notice the young lady with the umbrella and as luck had it the other couple in their more European dress wandered into view. This was my picture day.
One of the most striking differences between a cat and a lie is that a cat has only nine lives.
Mark Twain
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.
"A little Consideration, a little Thought for Others, makes all the difference." - A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
Hope these cherry blossoms will brighten your day
Taken at HKIA Cherry Blossom Garden, Tung Chung, Hong Kong
Explore #95 (2023-02-19) - Thank you for stopping by and for your words of encouragement and favorites!