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This is looking across my back lot towards the lake. This lot adjoins where the house is and is directly on the lake
The spring is almost gone now, the new fresh green and moist atmosphere is unevitably replaced by humid warm, sick drying green and tons of insects. Yep, the summer is coming. Not a good season for the forest photography. But it is neccesary for life as every other season. And the walkies are still superb!
I had been noticing some Least Bittern activity in a stand of California bulrushes about 50 feet from my put-in point on recent trips but was surprised last week to find three fully fledged youngsters in the mix. That would have them hatching in mid-May, which seems quite early for these parts. This bird is one of the adults, perhaps Mama, peeking out just before sunrise on Armand Bayou.
Great Blue Heron begins his quest to hunt for an early breakfast.
Oh, the peace and tranquility of swamp early in the morning.....there's just nothing like it !
Hope everyone is faring this weekend's weather ok.....
Gloomy, cold, and steady raining down here in South Louisiana today.
But, cooking up some cajun shrimp and corn chowder sure makes staying indoors a bit more enjoyable.
Thanks for stoppin' by.....and have a good one my friends !
Not rushing the seasons but it's been a long hot summer and looking forward to fall and winter. Heading out to hang with the grandkids. Hope you all have a lovely weekend.
New snow lies around a pond west of Long Lake on the Beartooth Plateau in Wyoming. The pond, at an elevation of 9650 feet, is one of the hundreds of glacial lakes on the plateau which were the result of Pleistocene glaciation.
DSC_1567. Early morning encounter with a beautiful leopard and awesome cub (Lorian?) at Masai Mara, Kenya, ! From the archives.
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Undulating Eifel landscape!
I’m slowly coming to terms with landscape photography... but like everything else it needs practice.
My grandson is a horn player.
Written on one side of one of his T shirts is the following...
‘How do you get to Carnegie Hall?’
On the other side ...
‘Practice, practice,practice’!
And I am! And need to!
On one of my early morning walks at the Marina I spotted this raptor perched in a tree. waiting for his breakfast to show up. I wasn't carrying my camera, so I continued on my walk. When I passed by again he was still there. I was able to get my camera a take just a few photos before he decided it was time to move on. It looks like a young bird to me. I don't know if it is a Cooper's Hawk or a Sharp-shinned Hawk? Any ID help would be appreciated.
The northern cardinal, known colloquially as the redbird, common cardinal, red cardinal, or just cardinal, is a bird in the genus Cardinalis. Wikipedia
Scientific name: Cardinalis cardinalis
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Jet lagged, I woke up early, and started an early hike up the mountain from my hometown Schuders, located in the Swiss Alps near the Austrian border. I reached the top of the mountain ridge shortly after sunrise. Behind the rocky mountain range in the back is Austria.
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The dew drops on the grass created a dreamy effect with some dandelions and creeping buttercup providing splodges of yellow and white. Couldn't quite catch it but thought the animal path helped?
I had to make an early morning journey yesterday across the 'Hog's Back'. "Compared with the main part of the Downs to the east of it, it is a narrow elongated ridge, hence its name.
Jane Austen, in a letter to her sister Cassandra dated Thursday 20 May 1813 from her brother's house in Sloane Street, wrote of her journey to London in a curricle via "the Hog's-back"
"Upon the whole it was an excellent journey & very thoroughly enjoyed by me; the weather was delightful the greatest part of the day. ... I never saw the country from the Hogsback so advantageously." [1]
This shows that it was known as the Hog's Back by Jane Austen's time. However, the medieval name for the ridge was Guildown (recorded first in 1035 where it was the site of the abduction of Prince Alfred of Wessex by Earl Godwin and then in the Pipe Rolls for 1190 and onwards) but this name is no longer in use. However, the name Guildown is evoked by Guildown Road, a residential road which climbs the southern side of the ridge on the southwestern fringes of Guildford."
The Guild- element of Guildown is the same as that found in Guildford, meaning "gold". Various explanations have been suggested for the relationship between the names of Guildown and Guildford. Guildown may be an abbreviation of Guildford Down ("the Down by Guildford"). Guildford is the point where the River Wey cuts through the Hog's Back. Alternatively, both Guildown and Guildford may derive independently from a gold-coloured feature; either the yellow flowers of the marsh marigold or the gold-coloured (sandy) soil of the hillside.[1][2](Wikipedia)
Or maybe I have just discovered another reason why it was described as the Down which was gold!
we arrived at London at 7 o'clock in the morning and wandered through a very quite city. There are so many new huge buildings that we hardly recognized anything since the last time we've visited here.
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