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A change sighting back in April 2017 in North London. An interesting street that must have had about a dozen different garages on it.
If the rear windscreen sticker is anything to go by, it attended the Goodwood festival of speed in 2009. Impressive MOT history too.
Previously registered HAR5L up until 2012.
I got to be a taste-tester for a foodie company owned by my sister and her friends. Should I tell her the package arrived crushed and she should send more???
~HMB~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~Dig in!
We were very lucky this very early morning to come across this old fellow who had yet to make it back to his den for the day, as they are nocturnal. (sorry for another long post - so interesting)
The Cape porcupine is the largest porcupine species in the world, measuring 60 to 93 cm (23 to 37 inches) from head to tail and weighing 10 to 24 kg (22 to 53 lbs), larger in all aspects compared to our porcupines. The word porcupine means “quill pig” in Latin; however, porcupines are large rodents and have no relation to pigs. Cape porcupines are the largest and heaviest of all African rodents.
This Porcupine has long quills (which are modified hairs) that can be raised to make it appear twice as large. Quill length varies on different parts of the body, ranging from 2.5 to 50 cm (1 to 20 in). At any given time a porcupine has up to 30 000 quills covering its body. The African porcupine’s quills are very sharp and hard, allowing these rigid quills to become deeply lodged into an attacker, our porcupine’s quills have a barb on the end. Usually, the quills lie flat against the body, but if danger threatens, they raise and spread them. New quills will grow in to replace lost ones.
Porcupines don’t shoot their quills, but they do detach fairly easily. This means that the slightest unwanted touch from a predator can fix dozens of painful quills into the porcupine’s enemy. The porcupine attacks in reverse, they warn potential enemies of their defence system when alarmed. They stamp their feet, click their teeth, and growl or hiss while vibrating hollow quills that produce a characteristic rattle. If an enemy persists, then they run backward until they ram their attacker with their quills. The reverse charge is most effective because the hindquarters are the most heavily armed, and the quills are directed to the rear.
Porcupines will often chew on bones for the calcium and also to sharpen their powerful incisors.
Cape porcupines are an important part of Zambian culture and folklore. They are often featured in stories and myths, and are sometimes considered to be sacred animals. In the Zulu culture, porcupine quills are occasionally used to make incisions on the skin when applying topical medicines.
Cape porcupine considered an ecosystem engineer because of its foraging habits. Dig holes that open up soil surface, allowing water to seep into ground and new plants to grow
Hastings Diesels Ltd's preserved narrow bodied DEMU stands on the blocks at Marylebone during UK Railtours 'The Bakers Dozen', which saw the Hastings DEMU visit all 13 London termini. I was on this marathon tour, which left Liverpool Street just after 0730, and arrived at London Bridge at 2120! It was undoubtedly one of the best railtours of all time (in my opinion, anyway).
Chiltern Railways 165007 is seen alongside.
15.4.23
I've taken dozens of this sort of photos, but only a few are what I hoped for. It really is difficult when not all conditions are perfect.
Like in 2017 (see my album) I have been to the Czech Republic with friends, in their old Skodas. It was a great trip, with days filled with Skoda and more Skoda. (and some culture, food and beer, but I'll limit myself to car pictures for this account)
There are fourteen green dots. "A Dozen
Green Roses" is the tile, not a description.
Anyway, I think the word "dozen" can have a more expansive use than just "twelve."
With the Australian Cattle Dogs - this image achieved the National Geographic Daily Dozen distinction - my first ever,
In a lobstering town like Rockport, no matter how many lobster traps are in the water, there are always myriad others stacked all over the place. The power of suggestion in December makes these look almost like a pile of wrapped gifts.
(And, for word nerds, "myriad" has been in use as a noun longer (since 1555) than as an adjective (1735), according to Merriam-Webster. Who knew? But I like it as an adjective.)
Calm-looking outside,
as if the street was a quiet thing,
as if I were outside of the room.
as I were no longer its prisoner..
the view from the windows showed;
glowing like a pearl in this empty house.
Toronto, Canada
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Literally a few dozen yards from 'My Happy Place', is a run down decrepit garage, and here an artist creates wonderful works from what appears to be a mix of junk and worn wood.
I wasn't able to speak to him today, but rest assured I will, and hopefully be able to post some words from him to describe his processes.
It can be found hiden behind The Kings Arms in Seaton Sluice, northumberland
A full dozen little snowmen hiding in their little gourds, ready to step out to dance & sing "Merry Christmas!" and "Happy Holidays!" to all -- and quickly return to their places :)
17 December 2021
Indiana
We started at the Meadows Diner, seventh of our Dozen Diners, popular and busy.....the place was ALL chrome and mirrors, very retro and cute but hard to compose photos. I gobbled down my corned beef sandwich and off we went to explore Blackwood and take some pictures. It was REALLY cold and the wind was gusting and brutal. My plan was to drive around, roll down the windows and shoot from the car ^_^
But wait, what's that noise? It's your camera, Mom.....battery dead, wind too strong to hold my phone still. Plan B, drop in on son's friend and stop at the nearby Premium Outlets, a maze of shops. I got a white top at JCrew, a fleece jacket for my son, and a teeny tiny bathing suit at GAP for my soon-come grandaughter. And then we couldn't find the car....who knew Section D had 6 parts? We walked 0.7 miles, according to his fitbit, into that savage wind, no hat or gloves.....it ended badly or all's well that ends???
#52 - End, 52 in 2017 Challenge
A variety of Winchelsea doors. A much better collage of doors can be seen in the local tea rooms but it inspired me to go and collect some of my own.
These dozens of fireflies blown away by the wind and flying over the Seine below towards Rouen were a magical spectacle ...
Le Moulin d'Andé is a renowned cultural center, near Rouen, on the river La Seine.
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Spectacle magique que ces dizaines de lucioles emportées par le vent et survolant la Seine en contre-bas vers Rouen…
After going through my collection, this is a dozen of my favorite photos I've taken in 2020.
This has been a very hard year for so many of us, and in both small and for some, very big ways. We've lost loved ones, lost work, lost homes, and I'm sure for some, lost a lot of the spirit that brings a smile into our lives.
Personally, I have felt very blessed in this year. And although I usually sell a lot more photos, I have actually artistically had a good year. And my challenges have been so very minor than many I know. I have snuck out socially distant from time to time to see the wonders we have in our state. All of the photos below are from at most 75 miles from where I live, and many within just a few miles.
To see beauty sometimes in times of hardship seems frivolous and self centered. I'm sure like many of you, I feel like I should be doing more in terms of making the world a better place. But also at the same time, there is something about nature devoid of man's influence, enduring and ever present like it has for a millenium that gives me perspective, that this too shall pass.
I wish for you all a very happy New Year, and that 2021 will offer, perhaps slowly, a better tomorrow for us all.
Happy holidays.
My grandfather took this picture in the late 1970s of my great grandfather (background, left in white suit) and some of his riding friends. This was taken in Sevier County, TN. Use of this photo without permission is strictly prohibited because our local newspaper has been known to steal old photographs put on flickr without permission from the photographer.
A dozen Red-billed Oxpeckers on a Giraffe. Their habit of clinging to large mammals (except elephants who reject them) in search of parasites such as ticks (but also feed on blood from wounds) makes oxpeckers unmistakable. The use of pesticides has (in part) reduced their numbers dramatically and they are now regarded as Near-threatened. (best in large for details)
Kruger NP, South Africa.
Dozens - if not hundreds - of catfishes were forming a very compact ball by schooling closely, and they had settled in between a few shallow rocks. With the rocks all around, and the catfishes not wanting to split, it was possible to get very close to them.
Des dizaines, voire des centaines, de poissons chats formaient une "boule" très compacte qui évoluait d'un seul tenant entre des rochers. Encerclés par les rochers, et décidés à ne pas se séparer, il me permirent de les approcher de très près pour réaliser cette photo.
Within 250 metres you have dozens of Romanesque and Gothic-style buildings, and others from later times to the very early 20th century.
This was taken last weekend at the Pet Fair. These three were with about a dozen or so belonging to a Ferret rescue group hoping to find new homes. I've never handled Ferrets but they seemed very playful and cat like.
To my contacts
I'll be away from the computer until tonight.
Jasmine isn't feeling well....she's had an upset tummy two nights in a row....vomiting at 3 am....not fun. Seems fine during the day though. Probably has "garbage gut" as she is a canine vacuum when outside. sigh.