Expecting cold rainy weather for the coming weekend, maybe even some snow. So here's some sunshine to go. :-)

I LOVE April!

Stairwell Groningen

- Se fue la observación de aves

- Vorbei mit der Vogelbeobachtung

- Disparu l'observation des oiseaux

We leave on Saturday for nearly six weeks of birding in Australia. Starting in Alice Springs, then north to Darwin and Cairns, along the east coast, and finally Tasmania.

I'll check in with Flickr occasionally, but I'm not expecting a lot of free time on this tour.

Stay safe and keep on photographing :-)

September 22, 2022.

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some sad news I have been expecting arrived yesterday ...

my dear Aunt Mal passed after battling cancer for many years ..

she had a good life and lived her entire life in Wales .. . she loved horses and farms .

when she discovered she had cancer she immediately arranged to hike the Pennine Way .. . this National Trail chases along the mountain tops along the rugged backbone of England and offers 268 miles of the finest upland walking in England. A once in a lifetime experience.

her energy and laughter and encouragement will be with me forever .. some special light never dies .. I miss her already ..

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got up early Saturday to catch sunrise, the overcast clouds had other ideas and created a different mood than was expected

Our presence woke her up from a nap.

Expecting a treat, great egret lands on a fish-cleaning table at the town marina by the St. Johns River in Mayport, Fla. c.2021 John M. Hudson | jmhudson1.com

Expect anything and everything over the next few weeks.... maybe over months.

canon powershot - lightroom (hdr) - silver efex pro

...done by our think machine ;-)

Lord Howe Island is a paradise in more ways than you might expect. There are very few roads and very little traffic. The speed limit for road traffic is 25 Kph (about 15 mph), Most people get around on bicycles, or walk, as I did. With slow transportation, the whole pace of life slows, and it's surprising how soon our bodies slow to keep pace with the rhythm of island life.

I took this shot as I walked along Lagoon Road, the one main road on the island. The views along the way were a bonus.

There you stood on the edge of your feather.....

Canada Geese over the Exe Estuary at dawn, from Starcross, Devon, England. I wasn't expecting them, so was not quick enough to adjust the shutter speed to sharpen the beating wings!

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

"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.'

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'Always Expect the Unexpected' as the 'Colloquial Saying' goes.

This is the second of two recent stunningly beautiful rainbows.

Despite our squally showers this afternoon and this evening - this was the scene at 9.15pm tonight from the rear of my home looking East just before sunset at 21.45pm.

At the time, there was another heavy rain shower as the sun sat low above the horizon in the West to the front of my home.

Quite remarkable!

Wishing you all a Safe and Happy Weekend!

i wish all my flickr-friends and their loved people the best of all and a happy new year.

thank you all for comments, faves, invitations and visiting my stream.

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.

Rubjerg Knude Lighthouse is on the westcoast of the North Sea in Rubjer, in the Jutland municipality of Hjørring in northern Denmark. It was first lit on 27 December 1900. But due to erosion and large annual movements of the sand masses, it was decided to move the tower further inland, just because it was expected that the tower would fall into the sea by 2023... But it still towers high above the Danish dunes on the west coast.

Me like :-)

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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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Don't expect miracles to arrive with fireworks and fanfares. They appear quietly, modestly, on Angels' wings.

We are forced by our surroundings to learn how to swim again and again. You think, you are done, but the waters seem to change, flow in an opposite direction than you expect or even creates maelstroms. The changes to our lives are constant. If you ask me, it is not better for any individual. You think you mastered floating around, but NO, life forces you to change from comfortable breaststroke to a powerful crawl. Do not expect anybody to throw you a life saver. You are on your own, buddy.

This corner of Spadina is waiting for renovation few years now. The Hungarian deli, I used to go to, is gone for decades.

992. Toronto 2022-March 29, P1220472. Upload 2022-April 03. Lmx -ZS100.

...live frugally on surprise ~Alice Walker

I expect this would be called a weed. But the plant produced lots of wind-ready fruit, and it looked elegant, for a weed.

Thank you for looking. Isn't God a great artist?

I saw this magnificent sunset,

"Through the Oaks" while walking through the neighborhood one evening.

This image came out a lot better than I expected.

Hope Y'all like it. Lol: Gasssman.

Didn't expect to see a western grebe chick this early. Normally we start to see them in May.

Calero County Park, San Jose, CA

The bears moving over to the ninth hole to watch our finish and to get a better view of my drive. Taking the kids to their first golf tournament is exciting for these youngsters. I expect i will be asked to sign their golf hats when i finish.

Safest place on this course for bears is on the green. The sand traps on the other hand have a lot of activity.

See my journey in Gazipasa Turkey youtu.be/5MqJ_88XpZ8

At an altitude of 11,000 meters in the region of Eastern Europe. Golden hour!

Never having been on this road and not knowing what to expect, every corner brought new promise of everchanging landscapes.

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 🙏

This is a sight I had never seen before last year, Gannets flying in tight formation the crucial thing is the date March 1st . Its not a great shot but I wanted to keep a record

We had gone to Bempton just to walk the cliff tops not really expecting much bird activity . However a RSPB warden told us that the Gannets were just beginning to the return to the cliffs and they arrive back in large groups . When they have mated they tend to hunt individually

Northern Gannets mate for life. Young birds reach maturity between the ages of four and five. They begin breeding between March and April. Northern Gannets mainly breed in colonies and breeding sites, also called “gannetries”, on cliffs and offshore islands. They tend to stay loyal to their breeding sites and return to the colony they were born in. Experienced adults usually arrive at the breeding grounds earlier than juveniles, to re-bond with their mate and to defend their territory against rival seabirds.

Their migration routes differ depending on their age. The timing and duration of their migration could also substantially change the geographical location of “gannetries” can also influence the migration patterns of this seabird.

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I expect to do some traveling, and I've got a good-sized book to review, so I plan to be off for a few weeks.

God bless you all, at Christmas and all days.

I guess I didn’t expect my next heritage unit to be another black and white ACe with different lettering but it’s nice getting this shot crossed off the list

H-GFDBRC at Aurora, IL

Great Egret (Ardea alba), what one expects to see in the Riverstone Wetlands. Sugar Land, Texas.

expecting you