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DAZZLINGLY ATTRACTIVE bird, not often seen in our corner of Kent UK, and was not expecting to see it in the Grove Ferry Feast Hide, but what a joy when it landed, he caught a couple of tiddlers and was off, leaving me with the biggest grin ever.
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I went to Lake Artemesia in College Park, Maryland and wasn't expecting anything, but was richly rewarded to see several Wood Duck females and their broods. Here is a close up of one of the ducklings as they foraged among the Lilly pads on the lake. Such a cute little thing!
Taken 6 June 2016.
closer than expected for such a shy species and it was in this spot just long enough for one shot.
dendrocopos major
grote bonte specht
pic épeiche
Buntspecht
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Expecting cold rainy weather for the coming weekend, maybe even some snow. So here's some sunshine to go. :-)
I LOVE April!
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I thought it was so funny to see this place in Santorini with the table on the outside of the building so high up....a cool optical illusion! Last Caturday was dinner for one and this Caturday is dinner for two!
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Passing into Spring,
life emerging from the womb
-- nature's sign of hope.
The tulips are rising and so are my spirits. Wishing everyone a great day ahead!
You might not expect to come upon a castle while visiting Spokane, but that is exactly what you will do if you visit the Spokane County courthouse. Most of us associate such architecture with romantic old castles in Europe, or perhaps something out of the world of Walt Disney or fairy tales. To find such a building in the center of a modern, growing regional hub city such as Spokane is a bit startling.
The courthouse is said to closely resemble two famous 16th century chateaux in the Loire Valley of France, the Chateau de Chambord, built in 1519 and the Chateau d'Azay Le Rideau built in 1516. Many architects through the years have commented on the masterly replica of a 16th century French Renaissance design, its fine lines of style and proportion with regard to the towers and turrets, the sculpture, iron and brickwork which excel in pattern and craftsmanship. Detailed exterior trim such as shell patterns with wreaths and festoons and decorative arches are a few of the outstanding features of its design. The beautiful center tower, now lighted at night, is a masterpiece of detail in itself.
This was in shaded- dark place with cluttered background. I did not expect catch light in eye, but got it!
We shoveled the deck at 10:00 a.m. There was two inches of accumulation. Fifteen inches expected by tomorrow morning. East Calais, Vermont.
... with a touch of blues :-)
Happy Monday!
Lilac-breasted Roller / Gabelracke (Coracias caudata)
Serengeti N.P., Tanzania, Africa
Everyone's Waiting_Missy Higgins
I know all the lines to say
The part I’m expected to play
But in the reflection I am worlds away
As I put my costume on
Eyelashes one by one
Been doing this so long I can tie the knot
Behind my back
And everyone’s waiting
But it’s getting harder to hear what my heart is saying
'Cause everyone’s waiting
Picture taken in the studio
Wasn't expecting to find a discarded 'Freedom Trail' chair at West Kirby this morning.
I might've moved it, okay I did move it and probably not to the best place composition wise.
Anyway, I'm now the proud owner of a Go Outdoors own brand collapsible chair:)
Finders Keepers and all that.
2 November : In remembrance of all my beloved ones.
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Many people like to believe in the idea of a soul, and we often look to the empirical world to bolster our religious or spiritual beliefs, searching for corroborating physical evidence. Just such scientific proof seemed to come in 1907,when a Massachusetts doctor named Duncan MacDougall devised experiments that he expected would actually measure the soul. Using six terminally ill patients on a specially-constructed scale bed, he measured their weight before, during, and after death. His results were mixed, but he concluded that there was indeed a very slight loss of weight, 21 grams on average.
Looks like great expectations ahead for this pair...
“Wade in the Water”~ Ramsey Lewis Trio
Ramsey Lewis Band Live version~
TinType, colorized and edited with PICSPLAY. Hand
painted with a digital stylus by Moi, Tom. Photo by
Tom. Textures by Accident ©️.
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"Though I do not believe that a plant will spring up
where no seed has been. I have great faith in a seed.
Convince me that you have a see there.
and I am prepared to expect wonders.'
~Henry David Thoreau
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Pose Fair | Le Poppycock | Reign | Kibitz | Stealthic
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The Gerbera Daisies have been showing off since they were planted. I kept expecting them to wane because that has been my past experience with them. However, they really seem to love living by the pond. When one flower withers another takes it's place.
They have been very good to put out seeds as well. Perhaps some volunteer Gerberas will appear in the near future.
The box stores have begun to sell them once more. Naturally, since the ones here are doing so well, I somehow ended up with more. This image was taken a few days ago. The new ones are yellow. I am sure they will show off for a photo soon.
I believe it shall be another glorious day here in the sunshine state. There are still several migratory birds visiting and the number of butterflies seems to increase daily.
Peter Pan (male bluebird), is still acting like a baby so it looks like there will not be any bluebird nesting in the yard this season.
The cardinals are building a nest in a small cedar tree that is growing in the bog. I can't decide if that's a good location or not. That are is certainly popular with the other birds and we do get racoons, snakes, and opossums here in the yard. The cedar is very scratchy. Perhaps the texture will keep the predators away. I hope so anyway.
Enjoy your wonderful Wednesday and happy snapping.
Winter has not passed until the April moon glitters.
Proverb
The contrast between the two statements is evident.
Yet the latest news say that winter is really over.
Record temperatures over most of Europe and Central / Northern Italy, at the beginning of March will also arrive in Southern Italy
Obviously not hold in consideration of the sudden changes of the weather nowadays ....
Probably this is the news expected by everyone and the speech ends here .... and they lived happily ever after ...
This is Perugia, my regional capital, I must say that I found the city in great shape compared to the last time I visited and I had also spoken here ... clean, well lit, many nice places to eat "young" cheap, .... I hope it is not just an impression of my enthusiasm ....
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A harvestman with a parasitic mite attached.
This is one of those moments in which I saw the harvestman and a red dot, but I had no idea what I was seeing until I took the shot(s). Gotta love macro lenses!
The Krall Barn is believed to be the oldest existing log barn in Lebanon County. The effort to save it first kicked off in 2007, when the structure, then located east of Schaefferstown, was saved from destruction by a cooperating owner, Howard Scharff, who worked with Schaefferstown’s Bill Ross by offering to donate the barn if it was dismantled. The way it stands now, most of the exterior of the Krall Barn is nearly complete. But there are many smaller, inside projects yet to be tackled. The education center is expected to make it easier for visitors to enjoy their time at the 110 acre historic site that features three locks of the Union Canal, an engineering feat visited by none less than President George Washington himself during its construction.
-Jeff Falk -www.lebtown.com
Some sun beams find the way through the overcast sky at Koh Samui, Thailand! Maybe a tropical storm will be coming soon. The Thai fishermen have moored their boats at the shallow low tide shore.
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I expect there may be many images of snail shells for this theme, so decided to give my snails a rest this week and photograph my cycad house plant that has just put up a few new leaves - all the tiny 'leaflets' have coiled ends when they first appear that will straighten as the leaf grows. On this particular leaf, one of the little leaflets has grown a bit ahead of the others and shown off the lovely details of its coiled end.
For Macro Mondays theme 'Spiral'.
The image was done as a 5-shot focus stack at f3.5, focusing on the tight coil which was 1cm across.
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Street photography from Glasgow, Scotland.
Previously unpublished shot from October 2018.
The MetOffice have released their three month advance forecast for the UK and it is expected that, in the midst of the cost of living crisis, we are likely to face a colder than average winter. These advance forecasts are getting harder to predict with rapid arctic warming destabilising the high altitude jet streams. People in the UK are already having to choose between heating and eating as they struggle with obscene energy prices while the energy companies rake in excessive profits. It will be a tough winter ahead.
Stay safe my Flickr friends.
Happy Fence Friday - a thin wire fence but not a strong fence is needed to contain that old tractor.
The tractor sits lonely having worked hard the past harvest season - now it soaks up the final warm sun of the season.
Snow expected tomorrow!.
Here is the robin mother who is tending to the eggs shown a few days ago. Still actively tending to them, so I expect little robins soon!
Mommy comforts when son is sad, While on vacation in Sedona, he ordered a special dish for dinner and when it arrived it was nothing like he expected. So, he ended up eating my hamburger and fries!
Hemis (Inde) - Lorsque j'ai proposé aux jeunes moines de les photographier en groupe, j'étais loin de m'attendre à les voir prendre cette attitude qui tranche singulièrement avec leur fonction religieuse. #bouddha !
Hemis (India) - When I suggested that the young monks take pictures of them in groups, I was far from expecting to see them take this attitude which contrasts singularly with their religious function. #buddha!
Gestern habe ich einen Ausflug auf den Ohlsdorfer Friedhof in Hamburg gemacht. Engelskulpturen habe ich erwartet, aber dieses süße flauschige Wesen(Uhu)tauchte völlig überraschend auf.
Yesterday I went on a trip to the Ohlsdorf cemetery in Hamburg. I expected angel sculptures, but this cute fluffy creature (eagle owl) appeared completely surprisingly
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Der Friedhof Ohlsdorf im Hamburger Stadtteil Ohlsdorf wurde am 1. Juli 1877 eingeweiht und ist mit 389 Hektar einer der größten Parkfriedhöfe der Welt.
Ohlsdorf Cemetery in the quarter Ohlsdorf of the city of Hamburg, Germany, is the biggest rural cemetery in the world[1] and the fourth-largest cemetery in the world
I think that the best experiences you get come especially when you don't expect anything.
This is Karmøy, facing towards United Kingdom and the North Sea.
This evening I brought my old mom on sunset adventures and we had a blast 😂
Precious memories 🙏
Photo taken in India.
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When she was just a girl she expected the world
But it flew away from her reach
So she ran away in her sleep
Dreamed of paradise
Every time she closed her eyes
When she was just a girl she expected the world
But it flew away from her reach
And the bullets catch in her teeth
Life goes on, it gets so heavy
The wheel breaks the butterfly
Every tear a waterfall
In the night the stormy night she'll close her eyes
In the night the stormy night away she'd fly
Dream of paradise
[Listen]
I expected the Bee eater to be pretty hard to capture. Usually, the more beautiful a bird is, the harder to capture is. That's what I believed until the Bee eaters proved me wrong.
“A taste of what to expect” when the Scottish autumn is in full splendour in the Trossachs area of Scotland. The trees, like oaks, birches, and rowans will be ablaze with a fiery palette of deep reds, rustic oranges, and brilliant golds. Their branches will be adorned with these colourful leaves which will then reach toward the glassy surface of the loch below, and where the still dark waters of Loch Ard will act as a perfect mirror. A season not to be missed……….