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Gomez the Gomezian up early looking for more yummies,.. but I know he JUST ate,.. because I JUST fed the little pig glutton !!..LOL!!
C'mon my little man, I'll scramble you up some eggs,.. you want bacon with that?.. how 'bout a nice cuppa coffee?..
but I GET THE BATHROOM FIRST you hear??..otherwise I'm gonna poop in YOUR litter box...
Ouch, lol. Well I asked for it! (Excuse my hairy hand!) Annual open day at Barry Buddon MOD camp, with its assorted habitats. All the local natural history groups enjoy their day of exploring on this special site. Clegs are always numerous there and since I accepted that being bitten was inevitable, specially when standing still trying to capture various insect shots, I decided I would follow some of my flickr contacts examples and take a shot of it feeding. I'd previously experienced being "stabbed" and I guess I thought that would be pretty much it, but NO, it was so much more! A sensation of a stab, followed by a mini slash, ok a bit painful. I thought once the mouthparts were inserted, I wouldn't feel anything, but actually I was beginning to think she had struck a major artery! Ok, quick half dozen shots with DSLR, but not easy one handed, since it was my left hand she had chosen. Glutton for punishment, just to ensure I had a record of the event, I also fished my trust Optio W10 from my pocket and dashed off a few shots with it too. Ooooh, still feeling the discomfort (got to be honest, it was sore, but I've felt worse). However trying to dislodge her was a different matter altogether! Would she let go? I didn't want to kill her, so after gently trying to brush her off unsuccessfully, I finally managed to slide a pond rush under her body and virtually had to lever her out. What a grip. How we laughed!!!
"Battling beauties!"
Here is my first series of "Hummer wars". Hummingbirds of all varieties are amazingly territorial and will chase each other to no end when they feel threatened or guarding "Their" feeder or flowers. Like many other small birds and mammals, I find the challenge of capturing these speed demons in pairs very rewarding. It certainly rates as one of the most difficult behaviors to photograph, as many of my photographer friends can attest to, but l am a glutton for punishment!
A southern Loudoun County, Virginia grainfield at sunset this past summer. We may be eating something made from the grain from this field tomorrow! I'm going to remember this day for a long time! :)
I wish all of my American friends a Happy Thanksgiving. Don't make a glutton of yourself! LOL
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Wanting to change things up a bit for their weekly get together, Stormtrooper Bruce decides to have a Hotdog Eating contest. Winner gets crowned King Glutton for the Day. Looser has to clean up the mess.
TK-432: Dude! You know, I think this is the best idea you've had in ages!
TK-1110: There's no such thing as a bad idea when it involves food.
Fett: That's not what you said when Chewie and I had our Bake Off.
TK-1110: I hardly think booby traps disguised as donuts and cookies qualify as food.
Chewie: Chrrkgs pfftchng draacht?
TK-432: No, no one died, but I'm pretty sure I got food poisoning.
Fett: I heard it was a 24 hr stomach virus, so that doesn't count.
STB: Hellooo, let's stop bickering and finish this contest. You've been eating for hours and the food is almost gone. Someone has got to win this crown I made!
Fett: Sure wish I'd brought my Moron Meter with me.
STB: Probably best you didn't. It would have just exploded the instant it hit the doorway.
Fett: Not having second thoughts about this food fest are you?
STB: Possibly. I must be a Glutton for Punishment for doing this.
Fett: If the crown fits... Just saying.
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I am not a glutton - I am an explorer of food.
~Erma Bombeck
(a small nod to my mom, who I miss every Thanksgiving)
Gannets are seabirds comprising the genus Morus, in the family Sulidae, closely related to boobies.
The gannets are large black and white birds with yellow heads; long, pointed wings; and long bills. Northern gannets are the largest seabirds in the North Atlantic, with a wingspan of up to 2 metres. The other two species occur in the temperate seas around southern Africa, southern Australia and New Zealand.
Gannets hunt fish by diving from a height into the sea and pursuing their prey underwater. Gannets have a number of adaptations which enable them to do this:
- they have no external nostrils, they are located inside the mouth instead;
- they have air sacs in their face and chest under their skin which act like bubble wrapping, cushioning the impact with the water;
- their eyes are positioned far enough forward on their face to give them binocular vision, allowing them to judge distances accurately.
Gannets can dive from a height of 30 metres, achieving speeds of 100 km/h as they strike the water, enabling them to catch fish much deeper than most airborne birds.
The gannet's supposed capacity for eating large quantities of fish has led to "gannet" becoming a disapproving description of somebody who eats excessively, similar to "glutton".
Gannets are colonial breeders on islands and coasts, normally laying one chalky, blue egg. It takes five years for gannets to reach maturity. First-year birds are completely black, and subsequent sub-adult plumages show increasing amounts of white.
The most important nesting ground for Northern gannets is the United Kingdom with about two thirds of the world's population. These live mainly in Scotland, including the Shetland Isles. The rest of the world's population is divided between Canada, Ireland, Faroe Islands and Iceland, with small numbers in France (they are often seen in the Bay of Biscay), the Channel Islands, Norway and a single colony in Germany on Heligoland. The biggest Northern gannet colony is in the Scottish islands of St Kilda; this colony alone comprises 20% of the entire world's population.
Captured at Bempton Cliffs at the East Coast, UK.
Hi guys it's Alex here with a gourmet shot😋
Here, are the more gluttons characters ever made in LEGO : Shaggy, Bombur the Dwarf, Homer Simpson, Axl and Scooby-Doo😏
Food is a pleasure, try not to get fat lol...
Original picture by me
So I decided to get on the ride and try for some fun motion blurs. I had forgotten how hard it is on your equilibrium to look through a super-wide lens while spinning in a big circle...and it only got worse after I took my eye away from the viewfinder. I am a glutton for punishment though...I went a second time and was sweating bullets by the end.
Shot at 1/5 of a second.
Don't get excited they're not back! It just describes how I feel at the end of a trying week of being very busy at work and trying to deal with it all when taking painkillers which make me act as if I am on satellite delay the whole time.
Just think the kittens are nearly 5 months old now and not really kittens anymore. Those of you on FB will have seen a couple of updated photos - my favourite being Loki giving his new owners' dog face rubs. They have also taken on a new puppy (obviously gluttons for punishment).
Pixie gave us a big fright last weekend by bringing in a rat! Yikes! Luckily it was dead and we just told her how clever she was before getting rid of it immediately. The blooming thing was nearly as big as she is. You have to say the little girl has no fear.
I am going to try and rest up as much as possible this weekend.
Happy Furry Friday!
Wishing you all a relaxing and happy weekend
Once upon a time - way back in December - I took a bunch of funny face pictures for folks and kept promising to post them. Then I got my new camera and got distracted by the pretty pictures it took, as opposed to these heinous little treats. But I'm finally coming through.
My apologies in advance for the nightmares...
Large if you're a glutton for punishment.
My second visit this week as I wasn't able to get here the last two weekends.
I was at the summit of Chrome Hill for sunrise shooting the pinnacle, and I decided to come down to the well photographed tree just after, I could see the mist rolling in from the right. The mist just in front of the tree was there briefly for all of 2 minutes (07:24 - 07:26)
In the process of coming down from the summit I managed to scare Matt Oliver's dog dragging his camera bag and I felt awful when his lens went rolling down the side of the hill... Sorry Matt!
The lens is actually in this shot if you can see it, ive not removed it...
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.....and the other way round from previous shot.
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“Oh, pity the poor glutton
Whose troubles all begin
In struggling on and on to turn
What's out into what's in.”
~ Walter de la Mare
"Battling beauties!"
Here is my first series of "Hummer wars". Hummingbirds of all varieties are amazingly territorial and will chase each other to no end when they feel threatened or guarding "Their" feeder or flowers. Like many other small birds and mammals, I find the challenge of capturing these speed demons in pairs very rewarding. It certainly rates as one of the most difficult behaviors to photograph, as many of my photographer friends can attest to, but l am a glutton for punishment!
Gluttony: An inordinate desire to consume more than that which one requires
Macro Mondays - "The 7 Deadly Sins"
Jude, the chipmunk, making a pig out of herself. She has consumed thousands of peanuts over the past few months using "hibernation" as an excuse.
With Thanksgiving just a few days away, the Holidays next month, and a very long winter ahead, I'm going to try using that one myself. HMM!
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Ah.. Summer in the mountains.. BC Rockies, summer 2012.
P.S. It's like summer in here ;D For the last couple of days our daytime highs were hovering close to 10oC. Snow is melting and there is lots of water everywhere. And, though, I realize it isn't over yet for us, it is such a wonderful thing to be out and about without a heavy winter jacket. Yay!!
This week Frank challenged me to explore my sinful nature. I considered many interesting ideas but want to keep my stream family friendly ; )
If you're a chocloate lover like I am, you may have had thoughts of being covered in chocolate or swimming in a pool of luxurious silky chocolate. Willie Wonka's factory was always in my fantasies. I'm here to tell you that sometimes fantasies are better left as ideas and dreams - in your head.
It was like a crime scene. The melted chocolate in my hair was the worst. I took the longest shower of my life. And my hair! oh my poor hair. Rinse and repeat 5 times. I stripped the color right off. What a fiasco.
My toddler may have said it best; he woke up from his nap just as I was finishing up and said "caca".
I am a true chocolate glutton and admit that I will unleash my wrath on anyone who touches my chocolate treats that I have hidden around my house. I buy specialty and imported chocolates. These exotic chocolates can't be appreciated by my kids and my husband only likes milk chocolate - extra sweet. So why do they insist on invading my stash! My husband says I'm greedy. A glutton. Yes - when it comes to chocolate perhaps I am.
HCS - submitted to eyes, ears, nose and throat scavenger hunt.
Check out Frank's amazing interpretation here
running out the door again. Back later to catch up!
A sculpture by Chen Wenling's called "The God of Materialism" on display at an art gallery in Beijing fashionable 798 art district.
Situated appropriately on the corner of Cock Lane in the City of London he marks the northern boundary of the Fire of London in 1666. The Puritan Christians attributed the fire to Papists or Gluttons so this figure was depicted as a fat boy (well, fat for the 17th century I suppose).
The statue used to be mounted of the wall of the Fortune of War pub which stood on this site and was demolished in 1910. This establishment was more notorious for being where resurrectionists (better known as grave robbers and body snatchers) displayed their ill gotten gains in a back room to be selected by surgeons from nearby St Bartholomew Hospital for medical experimentation. I don't think I'd have risked the pork scratchings.
Tout leur plait à ces gros goinfres. Et on dirait que ma mangeoire leur sert aussi de WC (il va falloir que je la nettoie)
These big gluttons like everything. And it looks like my feeder also serves as a toilet for them (I'll have to clean it)
Wolverine...The wolverine Gulo gulo (Gulo is Latin for "glutton"), also referred to as the glutton, carcajou, skunk bear, or quickhatch, is the largest land-dwelling species of the family Mustelidae (weasels). It is a stocky and muscular carnivore, more closely resembling a small bear than other mustelids. The wolverine, a solitary animal, has a reputation for ferocity and strength out of proportion to its size, with the documented ability to kill prey many times larger than itself.
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I have become a hummer glutton. These are the last 3 pic I will post to the Hummer Set. They are however, in my opinion, among the best so I hope they have not worn out their welcome, quite yet.
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Well it is still bloomin' windy and there is still no chance for leaves so what to do instead? Head to the beach and build a delicate rock balance and dare it to defy the wind?
The forecast was set to deteriorate by lunchtime so I headed to the coast. The wind was very strong there and my optimism dwindled. I had in mind something like the stack I built at Robin Hood's Bay. That one withstood the wind perhaps this one will?
The tide was due in by lunch so I set to work collecting flat stones and pebbles. I set the camera up first in the vain hope that I might get a picture and started on the construction.
The first effort had a horrendous wobble three-quarter built, the lower few layers were rolling on their pebbles and it soon fell. I tried again and dismantled the next two tries in order to concentrate on stopping it wobbling so much although it was impossible to eliminate entirely.
Always expecting it to topple I added each new layer one at a time until I finally got it done. I thought it might need another layer (I still do looking back at the pictures) but sometimes you can't push it any further. The proverbial last straw.
Now, a bit panicky, as it swayed quite a lot to and fro, I waited for the sun to come out. It needed to be front lit or else the contrast was too strong. As it seems to be with recent luck it there was blue sky either side of where the sun was with a strip of grey cloud right through the middle. It didn't look like there would be any decent light anytime soon.
But despite the nerve jangling wobbling it stayed upright and within half an hour I got all the pictures I wanted. Quite perplexed how it was still standing I thought I would try and capture a time lapse of the incoming tide. I set everything up and sat back and waited.
I looked at my watch - it was 11.30 and the tide would be fully in in 3/4 of an hour. The wind was really cold but I thought I could handle the shivering until the tide arrived. I am not so sure about the sculpture.
What seemed like an age had passed and the tide was still not in. I looked at my watch again and it said 11.30! What? I must have read it as 11.30 when it was 10.30!
Glutton for punishment that I am I couldn't stop the time lapse capture as the sculpture still stood. Sat in my 9 coats and 4 hats I practiced my powers of telekinesis. "Fall over! Fall over! Fall over! That way I can go and get warm!"
It wasn't working.
Still the tide marched in and still the stones wobbled and rocked. Didn't seem like anything could topple it.
As the hypothermia took hold I whispered to myself "just hold on, don't fall asleep, someone will rescue me soon." I took my emergency chocolate bar from my pocket and split it into quarters. "I will have to ration it" I thought "it might be a long time before anyone finds me."
"I am so very cold mummy."
And then it happened. A series of quite violent wobbles lead to its final demise. It sacrificed itself so that I might live.
PS. the lit up look of this photo was done with a reflector not in photoshop.