Space-Invaders
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Yes it's bluebell season and as I've still not managed to get to the woods, this one was captured in our garden a short while ago
I wasn't quite sure what the difference between the two species was, so I did a little research. It appears we have the invaders.
The native ones have a much longer, thin tube-like shape and as you can see, this is the invader. Still pretty in shape and colour but strangely proved to be rather difficult to get an image I was fairly happy with
A fairly soft focus again, gave me that dreamy feel I like with flower images
Porto is the second-largest city in Portugal after Lisbon and one of the major urban areas of the Iberian Peninsula. It's a coastal city in northwest Portugal known for its stately bridges and port wine production. In the medieval Ribeira (riverside) district, narrow cobbled streets wind past merchants’ houses and cafes.
Purple loosestrife is a wetland plant native to Europe and Asia that was brought to North America in the early 19th century. It was likely introduced when its seeds were included in soil used as ballast in European sailing ships and discarded in North America. [...]. Purple loosestrife has now naturalized and spread across Canada and the northern United States. It can be found in wet meadows, river floodplains and damp roadsides. Wikipedia
Since it was brought to North America, purple loosestrife has become a serious invader of wetlands, roadsides and disturbed areas. The plant forms dense stands with thick mats of roots that can extend over vast areas. The stands reduce nutrients and space for native plants and degrade habitat for wildlife. Each plant can grow as many as 30 flowering stems that can produce up to 2.7 million seeds each year. The tiny seeds are easily spread by water, wind, wildlife and humans.
Lost Lagoon, Stanley Park, Vancouver, BC, Canada
The married redstart on the left was the usual bird to visit this log. He was chased off by the bird on the right on this occasion. He returned a few seconds later this time with the misses, who then did the chasing.
The tree saw itself and felt empowered
It heard about the genocide
Of friends and family in the forest
Just to build something for humans
Sturdy and trustworthy
These same beings
Didn’t care about the desolation and loss
The depression they inflicted
Forgotten in every day moments of
Work work work and a little bit of video
Meanwhile, the forest was stripped bare
Until the haunting and day of revenge
I’ll show you what it is like when the outside
Breaks in
Branches will shatter dishes
Scratch up your floors
Shred your clothes
Invade your cupboards
Leaves make linoleum treacherous
And then you will see
Who is truly endangered
And who is still filled with might
This tree will outlive you
And your children and children’s children
You cannot kill a tree
With a mere axe or saw
(That handle may even an accomplice and forest friend)
You cannot murder the collective consciousness of nature
It will instead invade your home and imagination.
***All poems and photos are copyrighted**
Style Credits:
Hair: On1111 Hair by WINGS (at Mancave)
Earrings: Alien Earrings by FAKEICON
Bag: Invader Giant Bag by REIGN
Shirt: Rick Jacket Floral by Clef De Peau
Pants: Glansig Pants by Boys to the Bone
Historic Flight Foundation's Spitfire invades Boeing territory during the annual Paine Field General Aviation Day.
Jeremy Dwyer-Lindgren / Historic Flight Foundation
We met an invader on our walk this morning. Autumn Olive, Elaeagnus umbellata, is a hardy, aggressive invasive species.
Nikon D600 w/Nikkor AF 28-105mm
My yard Gray Squirrel bird feeder invader and I just caught him with goods lol !
Thank you very much for your kind comments, favorites and looking !
Desert Broom / Baccaharis sarothroides is a
nuisance, shrub-like weed with broom-like stems that
can reach 12-foot tall heights. Prolific grower.
I use it for erosion control.
Full frame. No crop. No post processing. Dedicated Vintage macro film lens.
OXythyrea Funesta, phytophagous beetle, the family of Cetoniidae.
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Understanding and preserving the right for privacy will bring peace to the world. It is part of peace & for sure love with respect to Human Rights.
Stay Safe & healthy.
Love & peace.
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This is the coolest mug. A good friend got me this as a gift (thanks Dawn! *hugs!* Love ya!) Basically, it's a plain black space-themed mug with no invaders...when it's at room temperature. When you add hot liquid, invaders appear! As above. I had just poured a bunch of hot water in and the invaders appeared, how cool is that?! I'm such a geek. ^_^
We have a huge, empty field behind our backyard fence and these invaders want in. I wish the field was full of bluebonnets or some other colorful wildflowers that I could photograph, but then that would be too easy, right?
Happy Fence Friday, everyone. One of my goals is to catch up on some editing I've been meaning to do. So, you may see some extra uploads from me. ;-)
Space invader is back.
The pitch of the movie is the same as in round n°1 :
So I'm driving in the icelandic east fjords. Basically, I can't see a thing.
The cloud surrounding me is so thick the sunlight has become an abstract notion.
Until the next turn. From it and it seems magic, the sky is so clear that you should be able to see Pluto's tail.
Going along one of the fjords, I can now see the other side.
Except that I can't.
Another fluffly monstruosity is filling up the lower layers of the sky and most layers of emerged land.
That tells me that I should take my time going there, enjoy the sun for a bit, that if I couldn't see anything before, it must have come from quite some picturesque cloud if taken from the outside.
The latest in Invader technology. This particular ship contains a small rover for the pilot.
I actually built this before I saw pictures of the new Blacktron Cruiser GWP, so any resemblance is coincidence. Heck, when It wasn't even intended to be like the original Invader either.
The saucers are loaded and the forces are locked on and registered!
Who's going this year? I need to know who to bug and invade and avoid the silly "OMG you were there!?!? " game ....
Something I've wanted to do my entire life finally came to fruition in March. Chicago is pretty universally known as the railroad capital of the country, and going there has always been a dream of mine. After working hard and saving up the money to take a trip there (springowski could never), I coordinated with some of my best friends from across the country to spend an entire week and change roaming the midwest and finding some of the coolest trains out there. One of my first goals was to get some of the famous Illinois Central SD70s running around the city. Thankfully, this is basically shooting fish in a barrel with how prevalent they are in the area. It sure doesn't make them any less awesome, though. Here's a shot of CN L536 heading east under the 35th Street bridge with a pair of ICs on the point. The skyline combined with the deathstar leader makes this a truly timeless scene.
I have a stupid amount of photos from this trip that I'm still backlogged with downloading from my camera, so expect a ton of great midwest content over the next few weeks.
Built in 1905, here heading into le Port de Nice, where she will be viewed by those among us looking to invest over €4.5 million in a classic sailing yacht.