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Here's the first rufous hummingbird I've seen this year. I saw it for about 10 seconds, then after that heard it buzzing around but didn't get another view.
That darn little twig in the way!!
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Here's "Brick" putting on a grumpy expression after I interrupted his nap for the second time. I was cleaning up sawdust after working in my front room and went to take a break on the porch. Usually I look out a window to see if any deer are resting there before going out. I really don't want to startle any that are present and might be napping. If somebody's there I'll go out the back door and come around to the front and quietly sit on the edge of the porch. On this occasion I absentmindedly opened the door and was halfway out when I noticed Brick napping right beside it. The deer know enough not to sleep directly in front. He heard the door open and put his head up, looking a bit disgruntled that I had disturbed him. I quickly went back inside to grab my phone to get a quick photo. I quietly (but not quietly enough), opened the door again and went to take a pic only to have an incoming text message tone have him put his head up again and give me another cranky look. I snapped one shot and left him to continue his nap.
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Giant Kingfisher Megaceryle maxima
The Giant Kingfisher is the largest kingfisher in Africa, where it is a resident breeding bird over most of the continent south of the Sahara Desert, other than the arid southwest.
This image was captured at the Walter Sisulu Botanical Gardens, Johannesburg, South Africa
©2022 Duncan Blackburn
This is a photo I took last week when I spend an hour in a local park early in the morning. The flowers looked lovely despite the heat but they water them every morning and evening. You'd expect lots of insects among all these flowers but I only saw a few bees and sadly not a single butterfly.
These days Auntie Elk leaves such endeavours to the younger Paddy ... you can see where he gets it from!
As the fog cleared on the day I shot the ribbon of fog coming up the river, the sun says good morning to Pittsburgh.
Here is the famous place for the sunflowers in summer.
And in spring the field is covered with the field mustard.
They enjoy the yellow world in this season.
I introduce some photos.
ここは、夏になるとひまわりで知られた場所です。
それで、春は菜の花に覆われるのです。
この時期、多くの人々は黄色い世界を楽しみます。
何枚かの写真を紹介します。
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ODESSA: " Yeaaah!.....Spring is here!!!!!"
OTIS: "Do Paddy and Scout have spring too?"
ODESSA: "Oh no! How could that be if spring is HERE in our garden, but they are in Australia! They have autumn now, I think!"
Happy spring or happy autumn to all our friends! :-)
....and stay healthy!
Here is a vertorama of the Flint River as it bisects Richfield County Park, November 13, 2022. Richfield is Genesee County's first park, founded in 1935 and received WPA development efforts shortly thereafter. I took this from what was called the "highway bridge" built back then. It is a two-lane bridge with nice step-up sidewalks....for photos like this! Thank-you, WPA!
The beauty here arises from the interplay of perfectly normal physical and biological processes:
Sunlight is scattered by the moist morning air. Tiny water droplets in the mist primarily deflect the short-wavelength components of the light, while warm, yellow-gold light remains dominant. This creates the soft rays and the warm color palette. At the same time, leaves, grass, and water absorb and reflect light differently, creating contrasts and depth.
Our brains perceive this as "beautiful" because they have an evolutionarily positive response to patterns such as smooth transitions, natural symmetries, and color harmonies—for millions of years, these signaled safe, life-friendly environments.
In short: Physics shapes the light, biology shapes the landscape, and our brains create beauty from it.
Unser Gehirn schafft Schönheit
Die Schönheit entsteht hier aus dem Zusammenspiel ganz normaler physikalischer und biologischer Prozesse:
Das Sonnenlicht wird durch die feuchte Morgenluft gestreut. Winzige Wassertröpfchen im Nebel lenken vor allem die kurzwelligen Anteile des Lichts um, während warmes, gelb-goldenes Licht dominanter bleibt. Dadurch entstehen die weichen Strahlen und die warme Farbpalette. Gleichzeitig absorbieren und reflektieren Blätter, Gras und Wasser Licht unterschiedlich, was Kontraste und Tiefe erzeugt.
Unser Gehirn empfindet das als „schön“, weil es auf Muster wie sanfte Übergänge, natürliche Symmetrien und Farbharmonien evolutionär positiv reagiert – sie signalisierten über Millionen Jahre hinweg sichere, lebensfreundliche Umgebungen.
Kurz gesagt: Physik formt das Licht, Biologie formt die Landschaft, und unser Gehirn macht daraus Schönheit.
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Here's another one from my recent visit to Broadmoor wildlife sanctuary in Natick. There were not so many colors left, but November can still produce some striking landscapes (technically it was taken on the last day of October 😏).
Here she comes
Silent in her sound
Here she comes
Fresh upon the ground
- TALK TALK -
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Sonnenaufgang am Sommerfels. Links die Reichsburg Trifels, in der früher mal der englische König Richard Löwenherz gefangen gehalten wurde. Rechts daneben der Turm von Burg Scharfenberg.
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Here I was waiting for my perscription from Dr. Haddax Paynesworth when these rude ghost hunter people barged in.
Here’s our camper van looking out from a campsite near Oban, Scotland, earlier this year.
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“I am alive, and drunk on sunlight.” “Do you see that out there? The strange, unfamiliar light? It's called the sun. Let's go get us a little.”
― Nora Roberts, The Hollow
Here Comes The Sun
The Beatles
This young Barn Swallow (Hirundo rustica) was requesting food on a sailboat in Bronte Harbour, Oakville, Ontairo.
This image is from Allan Treman State Park in Upstate New York. I did a trip out there to shoot Watkins Glen and my wife loved the images so much that we went back just a few weeks later. It was that trip where we had some extra time so we went over the neighboring finger lake near Ithaca. I had originally left this image on the chopping block but upon a quick review of some files I saw it and could not figure out why I left it behind. So I pulled it out and brushed off the image to post here. I loved the perspective and the feeling like you are heading to the waterfall just ahead.
Let me know what you think.