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Okay, now it is time for a few random shots. This one is a Box Elder Beetle on the south side of my home. There are lots of maple trees in the area, and especially in my lot where I have planted a few because of their ability to grow so fast. They really are like giant weeds, but I still like them.
Anyways the Box Elder Beetles like them too, and at this time of year they are looking for a warm place to sneak into. I am happy to keep them on the outside. I guess they are harmless and do not bite or anything and really are not even considered pests if they do happen to get inside, but you are not to squish them as the reddish liquid produced can stain walls or other materials and supposedly it also really stinks. If I do find one inside it will be time for catch and release, just like the three Wasps that have come in with me uninvited.
Taken hand held and I am not the sturdiest so it is only kind of sharp, I am looking forward to a frost to take care of these guys, but here it is more than a week into October and still no frost. Just crazy.
Portrait of an elder (India).
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Just a one off shot. I have seen a couple of these guys lately. It seems that they like Maple trees and and I have a number of them on my lot.
This was shot with my 100-400mm which can focus fairly closely and can give a magnification level of about 1:3. I actually went inside after this shot and changed to a true 100mm macro lens, and although I did not have to crop to get to about this size, the DOF just was not there. When deciding to post it was a toss up between this and one taken with the macro and this one although not as sharp as the macro shot, it did have more of the bug in focus.
Not something I would want to see lots of, but it was nice to have a chance to get a shot of one, as they are kind of cool looking in my opinion.
EDIT: Many thanks to Tom Blandford for bring to my attention my mistake as to which lens I actually used. Looks like I ended up going with a macro shot and not a shot from the 100-400mm. I am a bit red-faced for getting it wrong.
ELDER
An ancient Elder stands alone
With dark-leafed ivy overgrown:
Thick perfume, and the milky white
Flowers in the growing night,
Here in the bark your eye may trace
The outline of a wizened face,
But few are those who’ve lived to see
Who lives within the Elder tree.
A Danish king with men four score
Came to England to make war;
They fought their way up to the wolds,
Pillaging and stealing gold,
Until at last one summer’s night
He came to camp in old Rollright.
He came there shouting, Stick, stock, stone!
As England’s King shall I be known!
Three of his men were less than sure
That he was right to thus wage war;
A wee way off they stopped to stoop,
And huddle, in a little group.
But up the hillside forged the king,
His other men stood in a ring;
They stood there chanting, Stick, stock, stone!
As England’s King shall he be known!
But as the King climbed up the hill,
All down his back he felt a chill;
He turned around: nought could he see
But a gnarled old elder tree.
He shrugged his shoulders and he grinned,
“Why, it was nothing but the wind!”
He climbed on, laughing, Stick, stock, stone!
As England’s King shall I be known!
And yet it seemed the air grew colder;
He felt a hard hand grasp his shoulder.
He whirled about, and who was there
But the Elder Witch! She gave a glare,
And as she spoke, the King did shake:
Seven long strides shalt thou take,
And if Long Compton thou canst see,
King of England thou shalt be!
The King looked up the gentle slope,
He laughed, “Why, Witch! You have no hope
Of stopping me! In seven strides
I’ll see around me on all sides:
In six I’ll be atop this hill,
And you’ll be forced to grant my will!”
He strode on, snickering, Stick, stock, stone!
As England’s King shall I be known!
But as the King began to stride
Before him rose a barrow wide;
It hid Long Compton from his view.
His sword upon the ground he threw,
“You Witch! You hag! That isn’t fair!
Curse you and your tangled hair!
He grabbed her wrist, cried, Stick, stock, stone!
As England’s King shall I be known!
The Elder Witch laughed hard and long,
And at last she sung her song:
Long Compton town thou canst not see,
So England’s King thou shalt not be.
Rise up stick, and stand still stone,
For England’s King thou shalt be none.
Thou and thy men hoar stones shall be,
And I shall be an eldern tree!
An ancient Elder, now a hedge
Blooms along the pathway’s edge:
And beyond, a ring of stones,
With moss and lichens overgrown.
And higher up the gentle slope
Stands the King, bereft of hope,
And another, huddled group of three:
Rollright stones, and Elder Tree.
Source material: Local Cotswold legend about the Rollright Stones. Sections in italics are traditional.
FDR Powwow: NATIVE AMERICAN HERITAGE FESTIVAL - September 27th & 28th, 2008.
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FDR State Park
Yorktown Heights, Westchester, NY
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Tiokasin Ghosthorseis host and producer of First Voices Indigenous Radio. He spoke, as a teenager, at the United Nations Conference on Human Rights International Covenant on Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights in Geneva, Switzerland. He participated in several occupations including Wounded Knee, SD in 1973, Lyle Point, WA, Western Shoshone, NV, and Big Mountain, AZ, and has been actively educating people who live on Turtle Island (N. America) and overseas since that time. Tiokasin is also a survivor of the "Reign of Terror" from 1972-1976 on the Pine Ridge Lakota Reservation, the U.S. Bureau of Indian Affairs Boarding and Church Missionary School systems designed to "kill the Indian and save the man".
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photograph: A. Golden c. 2008.
Listening to a Griot's tale -
I recently came into these cool African figures - the figure in the foreground is just a large head and is about 2/3 the size of the sitting man when placed side by side.