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A somewhat different take on Windows Wednesday :-) A tractor ready for an early shift near Delft.
Happy Windows Wednesday!
Green Grass Dart (Ocybadistes walkeri)
I am still only seeing the one Skipper in the back garden. Today it was feasting on a Buttercup.
Happy Beautiful Bug Butt Thursday!
"I’ve spent my life looking into people’s eyes, it is the only part of the body where a soul might exist and if those eyes are lost …"
― Jose Saramago, Blindness
"Pasé mi vida mirando al interior de los ojos de la gente, es el único lugar del cuerpo donde tal vez exista un alma y si esos ojos están perdidos …"
― José Saramago, Ensayo sobre la ceguera
♫ Digging Deeper - Alison Goldfrapp & Claptone
♫ Reflections of My Life - Marmalade (Mick)
♫ In Your Eyes - Peter Gabriel (Rubén)
♫ I Dig You - The Cure (Terry)
It was interesting watching the female dig a bed out of the snow each time they found a place rest. Here it almost looks like she is teaching the cubs how to make a cozy bed!
...or hidden treasure
18:52 Hidden Treasure
Dear all! I'm painfully behind right now due to other commitments. Hopefully I'll be catching up with you all very shortly 💕
Long-billed Corella (Cacatua tenuirostris)
One of a pair that were digging for graas seeds while I waited for the steam train this morning. You can see by the mud on its beak that the ground is very wet still.
Schubert died a bit over 3 years ago in 2017 at almost 15 years old. while weeding and planting today I dug up this polaroid of him from many years ago. dunno when.
it is a sweet memory of a sweet special dog.
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green woodpecker ~ picus viridis
The green woodpecker is on the RSPB Green status list.
2012 A Decade Later:
Digging through the archives takes us back to a decade ago today - March 20, 2012. NS 8098 leads its first revenue train after being released from the Juniata Paint Shop across the farm fields of Western Pennsylvania.
A bumble bee digging deep to get the rest of the pollen from a thistle already going to seed.
San Jose, California.
PETER: (makes strange noises)
aahh...uuhh...pffff...
OLEG: (talks to himself)
What's that noise?
I hope Peter isn't in trouble again.
(Sees Peter standing in a deep hole)
Good heavens, Peter... what are you doing?
PETER:
Ugh... pfff... a... pfff... digging a hole... that ugh... pfff... as you see, Oleg.
OLEG:
But... why? I don't think Mummy Marian will like this.
PETER:
Ugh... pfff... well... Mummy Marian should be happy... pffff... about what I'm doing... pfff. There's... pffff.... a dead fly on the pffff... windowsill in the kitchen for a long time now. That's .... dis..dis..ou..... err.... pff.. not nice of her. I'm going to bury it now... pfff... in the... pfff... garden.
OLEG:
You're doing well, Peter, but you can't say that Mummy Marian isn't nice. She's busy as a grandmother with baby Rune.
PETER: (crying)
Sniff... I mean... sniff... it's not that I don't like Mummy Marian, Oleg... sniff...
I just feel so sorry for the fly... sniff...and...and...sniff...it deserves to be...sniff buried...sniff.
OLEG:
Don't cry, Peter...I know you mean well.
Come on, I'll help you bury the fly.
PETER:
Oleg... Would you like to make a wooden cross for the grave?
OLEG:
Well... um... I'll see what I can do.
PETER:
Thank you, Oleg (gives Oleg a snuffly kiss).
After watching this cygnet sleeping in the water I set off for a walk, and glanced back to see that it had tried to climb out of the water and got stuck under the concrete edge of the pond. I watched it for a while to see if it could free itself. It was rather disturbing to watch, after a while the decision was made that it needed help. I put the camera away put my dog under my arm and began digging out the cygnet at the same time fending off daddy swan, as you can imagine daddy swan was not at all happy, mummy swan wasn't too fussed. Team work was required, I saw a man and shouted for help, between us we were able to free the little one. With just a slight cut on his foot, and a considerable time cleaning and preening, I watched with glee as neither adult swan rejected it, after a while the cygnet got back in the water onto mums back and swam to a safer island in the middle. Hoping this beautiful cygnet grows up to live a happy and healthy life.
One from my archives today. I am about to go out and will catch up later. This is straight out of the camera only cropped.
#241 on Explore on 2nd May, 2008.
This Brunfelsia bloom is proving very popular with Orange Palm Dart Butterflies : this morning, after a heavy shower, this Skipper danced on the flower for quite some time, giving me lots of opportunities to capture him under many different angles. I found this pose aesthetic as well as amusing.
Digging through the archives takes us back to a decade ago today, August 7, 2012. The timing allowed for a northbound chase during sweet evening light.