so bietet sie der Sonne weniger Angriffsfläche und überhitzt nicht.

In the headstand, the sun has less attack surface and the dragonfly does not overheat.

Take a photograph, do a headstand or just look.

One pedestrian is walking through the staircase. Do you see him?

Spiral staircase somewhere inside Munich.

Munich Staircases # 12

Chalkhill Blue - Silbergrüner Bläuling

Thank you for visits, comments and favs!

Vielen Dank für Eure Besuche, Kommentare und Sternchen!

... as some of you thought that I had rotated my last picture of the pond in Botanical Garden, Frankfurt by 180° (this previous picture in first comment)

If you turn the monitor or just do a headstand now,

some things in the picture will make more sense :-))

(especially regarding the lily pads in the sky)

ladybird

Taken at Boyton canyon trail

My mentors where Ivan Jones & Ester Myers

Toronto Yoga Centre

The benefits of Iyengar yoga

Toned muscles. In addition to stretching your muscles, the physical demand of holding each pose will help you build strength in both body and mind - holding a pose for 5 mins with out trebling

At the time I weighted 138 lbs and a waist of 28 inches

5'10""

Retired 1980

Age 50

I was addicted to Yoga Asanas & Meditation & Breathing Exercises (Pranayama) for many years

Konny's pictures

Headstand! Ladybug aerobic.

Smile On Saturday

Elmo told me he could do a head stand, I guess he was right! Go Elmo!

bei manchen Sonnenuntergängen fühlt sich alles ein wenig unwirklich an...

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with some sunsets, everything feels a little unreal ...

This winter break I was also in Los Angeles, visiting family. Here you can see my talented sister showing off her yoga skills with a beautiful backdrop of the beach at sunset, on Christmas Day. While it wasn't exactly warm for a beach day, it's still special to me to go to the beach in December for a pleasant walk in a light jacket, compared to what it's like in the east at this time of year.

This whale must be doing a headstand. Cove Park - Kihei, Maui, Hawaii.

Golden Silk spider,

Trichonephila clavipes, in its normal head-down position.

Tour Altwarmbüchener See / 11.03.2018 / Niedersachsen / lower saxony

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Nach unserer Pause ging es in den Gärten von Lismore Castle wieder weiter.

BÄRBEL “Luis, was machst du denn da ?”

LUIS: “Sieht man das nicht ?”

BÄRBEL: “Wird das etwa ein Kopfstand ?”

LUIS: “Nein, ich mache einen Purzelbaum ! Möchtest du auch probieren ?”

Fortsetzung folgt …

Vielen Dank Rudi für Dein Foto !!

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After our break, we continued on to the gardens of Lismore Castle.

BÄRBEL: ‘Luis, what are you doing ?’

LUIS: ‘Can't you see ?’

BÄRBEL: ‘Are you doing a headstand ?’

LUIS: ‘No, I'm doing a somersault ! Would you like to try it too ?’

To be continued ...

Many thanks Rudi for your photo !!

A few weeks ago I was saying that, even if a Flame Skimmer and a Cardinal Meadowhawk were not on the same branch so that you could compare size or color, a surefire ID could be made by a Cardinal Meadowhawk's perching behavior. The Cardinal invariably will initially perch with it's tail pointed skyward and almost always choose a spot at the very top of a piece of grass or a break in a twig.

It's true that most odonates will perch in the early morning hours where they can get the most sun, but the Cardinal Meadowhawk carries it to extremes. I'd love to say that I looked for hours to find one in the dragonfly's rendition of a hand or headstand, but I know that their favorite perch locally is the horsetail grass and I'll see these acrobatics at least once a week. The Flame Skimmer is too heavy to pose this way. If you see this, and it's red beyond belief, and about 3/4 of an inch long, it's a Cardinal Meadowhawk. The trick is to get him backlit and on a horsetail grass slightly bent against a black background.

This was during the Perfume Genius set at Pitchfork Music Festival (photo from Thursday). It's fun to find old crowd photos.

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The sun setting behind rocks, a headstand and a bird flying by... life in balance

Gottesanbeterin am Sonntag Morgen bei der Morgengymnastik - praying mantis doing her morning exercises

Woody is just standing on his head waiting to begin the game.

Normally I try not to photograph people who haven't explicitly consented beforehand, but this was a too perfect moment and I had to ...

Tag 056/365 (2019) im Mönchkamp / Riesebusch unterwegs

in und auf einem Baumstumpf

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Attribution: Smithsonian’s National Zoo

Forster's Tern balancing on its beak tip near the mouth of Horsepen Bayou.

I show off my mad skillz in Ashley's room.

little cub's headstand

Until, I saw this frame in a sequence of shots that I took of this calf laying down, I never realized that their hind legs come completely off the ground when they lay down.

Looks like it was trying to do a "headstand"!

I have several frames of the mom doing it the same way.

I guess it always happened so quick, that I never paid any attention to it.

Kind of a neat balancing act.

I have been lucky enough to photograph 6 different cow moose with calves this spring.

Two cows had a single calf.

Three cows had twins and the other cow had triplets.

I photographed a cow with one calf this morning.

Camera Settings: f/6.3 - 1/400 - 223mm - ISO 1250

Great Egret caught a "flying snack" - a decent size brown grasshopper and is trying to re-position it "head first" for a gulp down ... @ Bolsa Chica Ecological Reserve

Bonnie practicing her headstand...Smile on Saturday!

Worst. Headstand. Ever.

I have discovered it is extremely difficult to hold a steady headstand whilst holding and attempting to trigger a wireless remote.

Explored

I will do a headstand there at the edge, she said, and she did. Then she bowed gracefully to “Well done.” No cliché in her attitude. Just living fully in the moment.