BIG Honk'n Fire Trucks (and other HUGE Public Safety Apparatus)
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Taken yesterday morning just before a huge bank of cloud came over to get in the way of the sunrise.
Hello my amazing friends !
Due to the weather, we are all officially on vacation ! The huge amount of snow, strong winds and icy rain are enough for schools to close for Christmas vacation one day earlier. No need to say that my sons are beyond ecstatic. And frankly so am I, at least the whole family is on vacation. I wish you all a very peaceful time my friends. Lots of health and happiness for you and your loved ones. I will take a Christmas break from posting I will not publish everyday but I will not be far away) but I will be back with lots of new daily pictures in 2023 ! Stay well and safe my friends !!
Mucho, mucho amor for you all !!
Thank you so much for all your lovely comments / favs/ general support / happy thoughts!!
Tree ferns (Cyathea lepifera or Sphaeropteris lepifera) proliferate at Kinsakubaru Primeval Forest, a portion of World Heritage Site in Amami Island, Japan. Our guide told us that they are 15 m in height.
金作原原生林でのヒカゲヘゴ群落です。
Huge shorebird with incredibly long, decurved bill. Buffy overall with brighter cinnamon wings, especially obvious in flight. Occurs in open fields, marshes, and beaches in western North America; can be seen singly or in flocks. Exceptional bill length and shape usually rules out other large shorebirds like Marbled Godwit or Whimbrel, although note that juveniles (especially males) have shorter bills than adults. Also note lack of dark head stripes and blue-gray legs. Listen for “cur-lee!” call. (eBird)
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Canadian Lifer! I was not expecting to see a curlew in a sea of grass in the middle of BC. And yet, there it is, quietly stalking through the grass in search of insects. Birds can often surprise me!
Cawston, British Columbia, Canada. June 2022.
Eagle-Eye Tours - Ultimate British Columbia.
Otranto
is a town and comune in the province of Lecce (Apulia, Italy),
It is located on the east coast of the Salento peninsula.
The Strait of Otranto, to which the city gives its name, connects the Adriatic Sea with the Ionian Sea and separates Italy from Albania.
The harbour is small and has little trade.
@Wikipedia
The Red Sensation Hydrangea is the only reblooming variety that delivers rich, vibrant red flowers. And not only do you get unbelievable, unique red color from your Red Sensation...but you also get giant blooms that explode with bright red color for weeks at a time. Google
North Vancouver, BC, Canada
Years ago, there was a tree next to the other. Climate change greetings - unfortunately! Ergo, something must be done against it.
Huge shout out for www.flickr.com/photos/lenabem-anna/ for the use of her free textures .... so very generous, thank you.
Huge and magnificent, St. Peters Cathedral erected 1885 London Ontario. Here is a direct link for the Cathedral history if you like !
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St._Peter%27s_Cathedral_Basilica_(London,_Ontario)
Pushing on that trigger is like pulling magic into my very soul...Darrell.
Have a safe and fabulous day dear Flickr friends !
THANKS FOR YOUR VISIT AND FAVES
ON THE REACTIONS I WILL TRY TO RESPOND BACK
Passo Pordoi is een belangrijke pas in de regio Dolomieten, Italië, die de verbinding maakt tussen het Valle di Fassa en het dal van de Cordevole.
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Passo Pordoi is an important pass in the Dolomites region, Italy, connecting the Valle di Fassa and the Cordevole valley.
Fougères
is a commune and a sub-prefecture of the Ille-et-Vilaine department in the region of Brittany, northwestern France.
@Wikipedia
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I finally got some time today to shoot for a little while, it was a really huge surprise that the sun was out! :)
I saw Red House Finch, Chickadees, Titmice, Cardinals, 3 kinds of Woodpeckers, and a Carolina Wren, so I had a good time.
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Red House Finch
Scientific name: Haemorhous mexicanus
One of a kind. Huge!
D-AALJ, a Boeing 777F6N, taxiing to runway 06R at Toronto Pearson International Airport in Mississauga, Ontario.
It had arrived 90 minutes earlier from Frankfurt, Germany and was continuing as BOX462 (AeroLogic GmbH) to Houston, Texas.
Deep in the heart of West Virginia coal country, NS ES44AC 8070 is eastbound with intermodal train 234 as it heads out of Huger Tunnel in Superior, WV on a nice Fall afternoon.
This is a conservative or low Amish topless buggy clipping along in-2F temperatures. In this area there are two Amish settlements competing for souls and money. Conservative Amish don't allow tops on buggies which limits travel and marks a line of difference with the liberal Amish with their fancy warm buggies.... The conservative group is of southern Germany heritage and language. They have allowed fewer capitalist innovations involving technology and ways of making a living. The other group, after a schism, has embraced global capital flows of value and technology by relying on one of the big three Agricultural corporation to develop a vast system of feeder cattle factory farms. Large semi-open structures have been built to confine a large number of head in a small area (called a CAFO). (there are images of these structures in the Amish folder/album. These "liberal Amish" contract with the outside English people to house their cattle and to work for the Amish. Us "English" provide transportation and ability to use certain technologies that make these huge operations possible. Their wealth has swelled and they have put the money toward the building of large fancy homes that look like suburban houses. The low Amish require people to work on less capital intensive farms. They are not allowed to work in factories. They get by with labor intensive small scale agricultural practices and more humble or low in their consumption. Their homes are rag tag cobbled together structures that are "messy". The high Amish tear down old early 20th and late 19th Century homes to build fancy "McMansions". This leads to another plane of competition to "be in this world but not of this world" Being not of this world means being humble or plain. The liberal Amish think that the less technologically up to date Amish are being prideful and vain or showing off in trying to be "more Amish". The liberal or high churches wear brighter colorful clothes of pink or purple while the conservative churches wear black, dark blue or black. This visual boundary maintains a marriage and social barrier requiring endogamy. Flows of women and capital remain within each group ensuring wealth and social bonds remain within each group. There is a hot cold war between the two groups. The farm in the background is a large English family/corporate farm
Rural America has many stories to tell. Our rural midwest has many decaying stores, feed mills and schools.
St. Nicholas Cathedral, the main temple of the Pokrovsky Convent, was built in 1896-1911 according to the project of Kyiv architect Volodymyr Mykolayev in the neo-Russian style. Initially, the temple was crowned with 15 domes with gilded crowns and crosses. The interior of the cathedral was decorated with a monumental painting (1897-1898), an iconostasis of the 19th century, and icons.
In the 1920s, the monastery was closed, many monastery buildings were destroyed, and the domes on the Intercession Church were dismantled (1923). In 1935, all the domes were removed from the Mykolaiv Church, which had an exceptional compositional value for the building itself and the ensemble of the monastery as a whole. The destruction of monastic buildings continued until the 1960s. Today, this cathedral - the highest church in Ukraine - reaches 67 meters.
Свято-Миколаївський собор, головний храм Покровського жіночого монастиря, було зведено у 1896-1911 роках за проектом київського архітектора Володимира Миколаєва в неоросійському стилі. Спочатку храм вінчали 15 куполів з позолоченими маківками й хрестами. Інтер'єр собору прикрашав монументальний розпис (1897-1898 рр.), іконостас XIX століття, ікони.
У 1920-х рр. монастир було закрито, зруйновано багато монастирських будівель, демонтовано куполи на Покровській церкві (1923 р.). 1935 року з Миколаївського храму було знято всі куполи, які мали виняткове композиційне значення для самої будівлі й ансамблю монастиря в цілому. Руйнування монастирських споруд тривало до 1960-х рр. На сьогоднішній день цей собор - найвищий храм України - сягає 67 метрів.
A huge THANK YOU to everyone who came (and kept the secret! 😭)
This surprise party was magical thanks to YOU.
THANK YOU to each and every one of you who follows me, likes, comments, and supports my work from the very beginning.
You are truly incredible. Without you, none of this would have been possible.
Thank you to all the people whose names I will list in alphabetical order; you were there, and it will stay with me forever.
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And Thank you Beyoncé ...
Day 2
Polaroid SX70 & SX70 colour film
Taken on a photo walk in Coventry to celebrate the life of the wonderful John Whitmore. A lovely man and a huge loss to his family, friends and the film community.
High winds and huge waves generated these big crashing waves breaking over the Peggy's Cove Lighthouse promontory. Taken from across the Bay.
Pokrovskiy Convent was founded by Princess Alexandra Petrovna, the wife of tsar's Alexandr II brother - grand duke Nikolay Nikolaevich. She created the convent for poor woman who needed the asylum and wanted to devote oneself to God. The consecration of the future convent took place on the 11 of January 1889: on this day the foundation of church and princess house took place.This date is considered to be the day of the convent foundation. Alexandra Petrovna settled in the convent already at the time of construction and took here the veil with the name of Anastasia. Main temple - St. Nikolas cathedral was founded in 1896 in the presence of Tsar Nikolay II and his wife Alexandra Fedorovna. The Tsar himself endowed 80 thousand rubles for the construction.
Свято-Миколаївський собор, головний храм Покровського жіночого монастиря, було зведено у 1896-1911 роках за проектом київського архітектора Володимира Миколаєва в неоросійському стилі. Спочатку храм вінчали 15 куполів з позолоченими маківками й хрестами. Інтер'єр собору прикрашав монументальний розпис (1897-1898 рр.), іконостас XIX століття, ікони.
У 1920-х рр. монастир було закрито, зруйновано багато монастирських будівель, демонтовано куполи на Покровській церкві (1923 р.). 1935 року з Миколаївського храму було знято всі куполи, які мали виняткове композиційне значення для самої будівлі й ансамблю монастиря в цілому. Руйнування монастирських споруд тривало до 1960-х рр. На сьогоднішній день цей собор - найвищий храм України - сягає 67 метрів.
Geilston Garden is a property of the National Trust for Scotland, north-west of Cardross, Argyll and Bute. Geilston Garden was developed more than two hundred years ago with a date given for its development being 1797.
This is the biggest mushroom I've ever seen. Not far off the beaten track these red mushrooms were thriving. This batch I found had the biggest one. It stood about a foot tall and the same wide. There was lots of other fungi about but this one literally stood out.