SMALL and compact bird with a relatively short. dark tail. This male was seen at Sandwich Bay Kent and was the only bird of note seen today, and a bit distant, hope you enjoy it!

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Trust you are staying safe and well, thanks for your visit, please leave a comment, it is always appreciated, and find it encouraging . God bless.........................Tomx

Also known as the Eastern Gray Squirrel, native to eastern North America where it is an essential natural forester. Less arboreal than then the Red Squirrel as the grey tends to feed extensively on the ground. Its not their fault that there over here in the UK that one lie's with the worlds most destructive and most dangerous animal on the planet called the human. This is one of the first wild mammals that children can get to see regally and so sometimes help encourage them to get into nature.

THE SUPPORT, in your faves, and much more than that, your wonderful encouraging comments mean so much . Your photography has shown so much dedication, and quality in the final image is so impressive. Our united bond with a camera and Gods beautiful nature, pushing the boundaries of achievement every year, being transported around the world with Flickr is amazing. In you and the others I follow, have made many good friends, many I have met, some I will maybe never meet, but we are one in Nature.

Do hope and pray, you will have a joyous time, but please remember the reason for this celebration.

For unto us a child was born,

The Messiah who saves the world. We are blessed to have Christ from this day onward.

HAVE A MERRY CHRISTMAS.

......................Tomx

Brown Hare - Lepus europaeus

Norfolk

The brown hare is known for its long, black-tipped ears and fast running - it can reach speeds of 45mph when evading predators. It prefers a mosaic of farmland and woodland habitats and can often be spotted in fields.

Thought to have been introduced into the UK in Roman Times (or even earlier), the brown hare is now considered naturalised. It is most common in grassland habitats and at woodland edges, favouring a mosaic of arable fields, grasses and hedgerows. It grazes on vegetation and the bark of young trees and bushes. Brown hares do not dig burrows, but shelter in 'forms', which are shallow depressions in the ground or grass; when disturbed, they can be seen bounding across the fields, using their powerful hind legs to propel them forwards, often in a zigzag pattern. Brown hares are at their most visible in early spring when the breeding season encourages fighting or 'boxing'. Females can produce three to four litters of two to four young (known as leverets) a year.

Widespread, but absent from northern Scotland and the Scottish islands, except Islay, I'm reliably informed.

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TRIP TO GAMBIA CANCELLED

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Have been going every year since 2013 about now, with my brother Bob, so am going to post a few images from that year as I had very few followers then, hope you enjoy my then rubbish photography.

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THANK YOU FOR YOUR FRIENDSHIP, please leave a comment, it will always be appreciated and I find encouraging.

Please stay safe and well.... ......God bless............Tomx.

Close view of a Woodchat Shrike in Spain's Sierra Morena mountains.

Thanks for your visit… Any comment you make on my photograph is greatly appreciated and encouraging! But please do not use this image without permission.

A rose to my all of you who sent me such encouraging words.

Thank you for your sympathy and your patience. I now needed a lot of time for myself.

Another variant of Pasque is Pulsatilla pratensis. It is beautifully shaped like a bell, a little darker than the common Pasque, growing wild on a few sites in southern Sweden. I found it on the island of Öland. Texture Flypaper.

Compare with Common Pasque, Pulstailla vulgaris, in the first comment box.

Thank you very much for kind visit, comment and fav. It´s always encouraging and appreciated! :)

things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart.

-- Helen Keller

Thanks a lot, dear friends for encouraging me by posting comments & adding to your faves :-)

Ann Magnolias [?]

With beautiful four-inch-wide blossoms in striking shades of medium pink or reddish-purple, this is an elegant flower that blooms very early and gets up to ten feet in height.

Magnolia flowers belong to the Magnoliaceae family and have around 210 species. They’re considered as the most ancient flowering plants, appearing before bees did. Fossilised specimen of one type of magnolia dated 20 million years while another dates back 95 million years. [...]. It is believed that they have evolved to encourage pollination by beetles. The flowers don’t yield true nectar but protein-rich pollen. www.homestratosphere.com/types-of-magnolias/

The Emperor Gum Moth belongs to the Saturniidae family and is native to Australia. This species was formerly placed in the genus Antheraea.

This captive bred male emerged from its cocoon on 16.07.2016.

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Brown Hare - Lepus europaeus

Norfolk

The brown hare is known for its long, black-tipped ears and fast running - it can reach speeds of 45mph when evading predators. It prefers a mosaic of farmland and woodland habitats and can often be spotted in fields.

Thought to have been introduced into the UK in Roman Times (or even earlier), the brown hare is now considered naturalised. It is most common in grassland habitats and at woodland edges, favouring a mosaic of arable fields, grasses and hedgerows. It grazes on vegetation and the bark of young trees and bushes. Brown hares do not dig burrows, but shelter in 'forms', which are shallow depressions in the ground or grass; when disturbed, they can be seen bounding across the fields, using their powerful hind legs to propel them forwards, often in a zigzag pattern. Brown hares are at their most visible in early spring when the breeding season encourages fighting or 'boxing'. Females can produce three to four litters of two to four young (known as leverets) a year.

Widespread, but absent from northern Scotland and the Scottish islands, except Islay, I'm reliably informed.

Taken @ NordShore

The sim will be open to the public on Friday night.

♫ TUNE ♫

“We are told to let our light shine, and if it does, we won’t need to tell anybody it does. Lighthouses don’t fire cannons to call attention to their shining- they just shine.”

– Dwight L. Moody

“Nothing can dim the light that shines from within.”

— Maya Angelou —

The way we experience the world around us is a direct reflection of the world within us.

— Gabrielle Bernstein —

💖In advance I want to thank you all for your always kindness, support, beautiful awards, favs, and messages. Please Know that I see all of your comments and awards and I appreciate them so much as well as each on of you for taking the time.

The Imperial Moth is a member of the Saturniidae family and is found from Mexico to Canada and from the Rocky Mountains to the Atlantic Coast. This captive bred female has a wingspan of 11cm and emerged on 05.07.2016.

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This is the strangest looking caterpillar I have ever reared… The Atlas moth is one of the largest of all moth species in the world. I have four captive bred larvae feeding well on Privet (Ligustrum ovalifolium). Each caterpillar is now 60mm, but will grow bigger! The larvae like humid jungle conditions of 25-30 degrees C, and spin cocoons in about 8 weeks from hatching.

The Atlas moth is a large saturniid found in the tropical and subtropical forests of Southeast Asia, and is common across the Malay archipelago.

Thanks for your visit… Any comment you make on my photographs is greatly appreciated and encouraging! But please do not use this image without permission.

Thanx for being there for me, standing behind me, supporting and encouraging me in everything :-)

Apologies for my lack of activity on Flickr - we were away for a few days and on returning, I found my grandson had unwittingly shared his daycare cooties, to which I am defenseless. In any case, a snowy Sunday afternoon and morale boosting hot toddy found me playing with pictures again. This one is from last September just outside Fundy National Park. I like the composition and have come back to it a few times but it's not a great image - there was no sky, it was getting late so the light was poor, and there was a breeze stirring the grasses. Sliders Sunday seemed a good excuse to push the limits and see what would happen - though I was probably encouraged a bit by the toddy. Thanks for your patience.

Hi everyone,

It is with a great sense of satisfaction and pride that I announce that I'm stepping down as Owner and Publisher of Attention SL Magazine and all of it's various arms and wings. I started Attention SL with Jon Demen in 2016 as a niche magazine focused on the porn world and watched it grow into a beloved SL institution.

I'm passing the baton onto Tory King. He will take up the challenge of guiding it into it's future. Had I just shuttered the title, I would have been really sad. I'm thrilled he has accepted my charge to keep it alive and successful.

I'm also proud to announce that Gavin Huntsman will be continuing in his capacity as leader of the Attention on Cancer charity wing.

I have a lot of people to thank. I'm probably going to miss someone important, so please forgive me.

First of all, this project never would have gotten started without Jon Demen, Eleni Criss and Yana Grau. They all encouraged me after my experience with SL Connoisseur that I could do it better on my own. They were right and I owe them my genuine love and appreciation.

Some other early people of note: Rachel Avro, Brunella Voelisa, Isle Biedermann, Partee Mytili, Brea Brianna, Barracuz, Samantha Ansar, Stephan Buscaylet, Graham Collinson, BeeQueen Smythe, Whimsical Aristocrat ... I'm really reaching back to the heady days of early Attention when we were still figuring things out.

I want to thank Moon, Gavin and Azimuth Somme for all of their work behind the scenes.

I want to thank Ted Dosei for his friendship and for teaching me InDesign.

I want to thank the New York branch of my family, Kieth Porterfield.

I would also like to thank every photographer who has ever provided a picture or their time to this magazine. There are way too many staff and guests for me to ever, ever remember, but you all know who you are. Even if you drove me insane, I still appreciated you.

Additionally, I would like to thank all of our sponsors and advertisers who gave me some Lindens every month because they believed in what we were doing.

I'll remain on the Attention SL staff, so this is not a total goodbye.

Til next time ... I love you.

Athena

Yesterday, Yashka never let the groomer cut his muzzle properly. The paws were also only half cut. He bit her and the groomer failed to finish the job. Nevertheless, we paid her the full cost, and now we are trimming Yashka at home - little by little, each time encouraging him with all sorts of treats.

Thank you all for visits, favs and comments, it's greatly appreciated!

NO FAVE WITHOUT COMMENT PLEASE! // DISTINCTIVE FINCH, and a familiar garden resident in many parts of the U.K. The greenfinch has a relatively large, pinkish and conical bill. In all plumages, the yellowish patch on the wings- seen as a yellow bar on the closed wing. Greenfinches are associated with parks, gardens and hedgerows, resident all year round, A beautiful bird that is in charge, when it gets to the feeder, excluding smaller species.

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THANK YOU for your visit and comment, it is always appreciated and find encouraging, Am praying we get some sunshine soon, its so dull and wet. please keep well and warm friends, God bless........ ......Tomx.

I would like to thank everyone who take the time to view and comment on my photographs it is greatly appreciated and encouraging

Thanks indeed everyone for your personal comments and also your support from selected groups.

Awards are encouraging and especially from those who add my work to their 'faves'.

Cheerz G

Taken in a little woodland yesterday using a Nikon D500 with The Nikon Nikkor micro Ai-s 55mm 2.8

Comments still set to off 100% definitely and ‘saved’ as default till I am in a WiFi are as so slow. It is of course rewarding to see people be so encouraging but it shouldn’t be physically possible. Just in case anyone is actually wondering how the renovations are progressing in our home - they appear to be well behind and unable to finish the job now for we know not how long. The builder had this one week in his diary before Christmas but cannot finish our job in the time he had allotted…………..

So, I depart tomorrow morning to get my bride....wish me luck!

I leave you, my dear Flickr friends, with a pic of my hometown, Ajmer.

I normally don't say this, but I'd encourage you to View On Black

For the TMI: your ART & NATURE Group Challenge

WE ARE FAMILY

BiG THANKS to EVERYONE for your personal comments and also your support from selected groups.

Awards are always encouraging and especially appreciated from those add my work to their collection of 'faves'.

thx 4 faves comments invites so encouraging

Not one I encourage normally, but when they stare at you with such intelligence & confidence and display plumage of such perfect beauty, it's impossible not to offer something. Our house already bears too many cockatoo scars so I need to resist their charming ways.

I was much encouraged by a friend's appreciation to attempt more shots at relatively slow shutter speeds for panning with an 800mm focal length, hand-held lens. I am glad I did as I got several pictures that I wouldn't otherwise have attempted - this is one such taken at 1/60th seconds.

The Gladiator was the last biplane fighter to enter RAF service, in 1937 - the same year as the far more capable Spitfire. Despite looking rather old fashioned, it has a very sprightly performance, compared to other biplanes of the era, but even so, was already pretty much obsolescent when it entered service. It had some relatively novel features such as landing flaps (seen in the lowered position in the picture) and an enclosed cockpit. This latter was not very popular with pilots of the day as 'real flying' involved being in the open air. Later aircraft that flew higher and faster in much colder air soon put paid that attitude! The cockpit hood was kept in the open position for this display.

Walking in Your Footsteps - The Police

BiG THANKS to EVERYONE for your personal comments and also your support from selected groups.

Awards are always encouraging and especially appreciated from those add my work to their collection of 'faves'.

Cheerz G

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Thank You Very Much all for your encouraging ♡♡♡

Watching the sun set on the other side of Ploumanac'h Lighthouse on the Pink Granite Coast

Cotes d'Armor, Brittany

Thank you for your views, encouraging comments and faves!

A freshly emerged second generation male Adonis Blue butterfly.

Thanks for your visit… Any comment you make on my photographs is greatly appreciated and encouraging! But please do not use this image without permission.

BiG THANKS to EVERYONE for your personal comments and also your support from selected groups.

Awards are always encouraging and especially appreciated from those add my work to their collection of 'faves'.

Cheerz G

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Thank You Very Much all for your encouraging ♡♡♡

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Shot on location at This is Halloween.

"This is Halloween" boasts a family-friendly take on the holiday, with a small trick-or-treating village, a mini golf course, hay ride, 'spooky pirate story' boat ride, corn maze, and more. Perfect for those who aren't up for anything super scary but still want to experience some Halloween feels.

They encourage photography on-sim and rezzing is allowed for this purpose, though some areas have scripts turned off - this may limit your ability to pose yourself via HUDs and so on.

Encouraged by the sun and blue sky, we braved the 3°C for a ride through the countryside. Passed this little cabin that looks like an ideal spot to spend some time - on a warmer day.

Happy New Year, everyone!

As you slip into the New Year, splash some color and creativity and joy into places that need it!

Areas in your own HEART that need some beauty.

FAMILY relationships that could use some tender love and kindness and color.

FRIENDS that could use a call or visit and an encouraging word.

Your NEIGHBORHOOD or CITY that is longing for your spark and art.

The WORLD on a global level that needs your ideas, your participation, your joy, your prayers!

So do it...

C-O-L-O-R......Y-O-U-R......W-O-R-L-D

Encouraging emerging individualism, Photography through Flickr is no longer restricted to the self assured elite.

"Flickr is home to EVERY kind of photography, and that covers a vast range of subjects, styles, and categories."

Be someone who encourages... the world has plenty of critics :)

"La terrasseta del Caramany", Girona, España.

“Girona, Temps de Flors” arranca hoy la 70 edición con 146 proyectos repartidos en 114 espacios que se pueden visitar hasta el 18 de mayo. El Ayuntamiento de Girona ha dado el pistoletazo de salida a la muestra floral esta mañana con un recorrido por algunos de los espacios de la muestra, así como la visita a la exposición "Maestros del arte catalán del siglo XX. Colección Bassat" del Museo de Arte de Girona.

Uno de los espacios que se ha visitado es el patio del Ayuntamiento, donde existe un proyecto conmemorativo de los 40 años de hermanamiento con la ciudad de Albi.

" Esta edición de Tiempo de Flores quiere ser más inclusiva y accesible, pensada especialmente para los gerundenses y las gerundenses. Se han hecho mejoras para personas con movilidad reducida y se ha creado un Espacio Calma para personas neurodivergentes. También se han ampliado los horarios para favorecer una visita más tranquila y adaptada a los ritmos. invitar a todo el mundo a disfrutar de la muestra ”, ha destacado el alcalde Lluc Salellas i Vilar.

“Girona, Temps de Flors” kicks off its 70th edition today with 146 projects spread across 114 spaces that can be visited until May 18. Girona City Council kicked off the floral exhibition this morning with a tour of some of the spaces in the exhibition, as well as a visit to the exhibition “Masters of 20th-century Catalan art. Bassat Collection” at the Girona Art Museum.

One of the spaces visited is the City Council courtyard, where there is a commemorative project for the 40 years of twinning with the city of Albi.

“ This edition of Temps de Flors aims to be more inclusive and accessible, especially designed for Girona residents. Improvements have been made for people with reduced mobility and a Calma Space has been created for neurodivergent people. Opening hours have also been extended to encourage a more peaceful visit adapted to local rhythms. Finally, I would like to thank the public for their involvement and invite everyone to enjoy the exhibition ”, highlighted Mayor Lluc Salellas i Vilar.

Pen and Ink- Bilbao, España. When I was 12 years old. My Uncle Valentin, an artist, encouraged me to express myself.

Credits here.

Encouraged by the images of others like Ay Naku and Artsee Fartsy I am going to try to be a little more brave and take street shots.

This is of a chess player deep into the game.

HBW

View On Black

Well we all know its not but I've been singing along to Roy Orbison as I so often do when a photo 'strikes a chord' as it were... when I am processing a raw file.

Padstow Harbour actually but looking so sunny last October between lockdowns.

Looking like a typical post card and I’m well aware of that but it just epitomises Cornwall for me re the light and colours so I make no apologies for putting this on. Neither a sunrise sunset or slow shutter...the four S’s that a landscape photographer strives for lol. Just that Cornish light that I happen to love ❤️

Thank you so much everyone for all your encouraging comments which I appreciate so much.

I am unable to reply or comment at the moment as I’m not feeling too well at present but I wish you all well....❤️

This vertical panorama image consists of three horizontal format images panned vertically, processed in "Capture One" and stitched together in Photoshop. This is a high megapixel image so I encourage you to ZOOM IN!

This was taken while biking on Allegan county roads.

After school, the triplets stop by the arcade for snacks and fun...

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Skippy envisioned his universe with the help of the following stellar creations:

Soy's Game Cafe Table, Game Cafe Chairs, and Coins, which are all part of the Game Cafe Table Set, available at The Mens Dept. (TMD)!

Contraption's Hard Shell Backpack, available at TMD!

The little men wear the following cool new styles (left to right):

Complex's CMPLX Jacket (@TMD)

Semller's Brit Boots (@TMD)

Mirror's Jamie Glasses (@TMD)

ExalteD's Drake Vest (@TMD)

not so bad Charly Jeans (@TMD)

Vale Koer's Primefiber Trainers

Cold Ash's Ryan Bomber Jacket (@TMD)

Aitui's My Sweats Pants (@TMD)

Vale Koer's Refined Dunks

Taxi to TMD!

Skippy also created his universe with the following amazing designs:

Soy's Green Green House, and Wooden Wings Ceiling Fans!

ChicaChica's Milk Shakes, which are all part of the Milk Shake Collection!

Seven Emporium's Token Machine, and Cold Drinks Neon Sign!

NOMAD's Shanty Apartments!

Black Bantam's Crinkle Fries Paper Boat, Single Fry, and Secret Sauce Dipper!

Toro's Skeeball Machines, Roll The Ball Sign, and Tickets Neon Sign!

Let's keep encouraging one another,

offering a hand or kind word, lifting each other up.

Together we can change the world!

Keep shining so bright, my friends!

BiG THANKS to EVERYONE for your personal comments and also your support from selected groups.

Awards are always encouraging and especially appreciated from those add my work to their collection of 'faves'.

Cheerz G

2017

a colourful installation in front of the main train station, Hannover, Germany. Artist: D.C.Nikolic. People are encouraged to walk through to experience a different path, other than their daily walks.