Colorado National Monument is a spectacular park located on a high desert plateau of western Colorado near the Utah border. There are magnificent views of deep canyons, towering rock formations and abundant wildlife.

These interesting sandstone formations carved by wind and erosion are named the “Coke Ovens” because of their resemblance to the beehive ovens used historically in Europe and the Americas for burning coal to create coke, which was a fuel used to make iron ore.

ALTHOUGH it is rather nondescript the corn bunting does have a distinctive song. It dangles it legs when flying short distances, and just look at its nails, they are very approachable with extreme care, I love seeing them at the Ancient Highway Sandwich Kent.

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Redshank - Tringa Totanus

The common redshank is a widespread breeding bird across temperate Eurasia. It is a migratory species, wintering on coasts around the Mediterranean, on the Atlantic coast of Europe from Ireland and Great Britain southwards, and in South Asia. They are uncommon vagrants outside these areas.

They are wary and noisy birds which will alert everything else with their loud piping call. Like most waders, they feed on small invertebrates. Redshanks will nest in any wetland, from damp meadows to saltmarsh, often at high densities. They lay 3–5 eggs.

The common redshank is one of the species to which the Agreement on the Conservation of African-Eurasian Migratory Waterbirds (AEWA) applies.

It is widely distributed and quite plentiful in some regions, and thus not considered a threatened species by the IUCN.

Weymouth is a seaside town in Dorset, southern England. Its sandy beach is dotted with colorful beach huts and backed by Georgian houses. Victorian Nothe Fort offer harbour views. Weymouth Sealife Park is home to sharks, turtles and stingrays.

just a nature shot, enjoy.

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My daddy is in hospital now, I just want to say because maybe I won't be really around these days. Hope you all understand. Thanks.

Found this in a plant pot while I was gardening.

Found one last year as well.

Have a lovely day.

ID Irene Mary

Tersa Sphinx Moth caterpillar.

Thank you, Brian, for the title. I couldn't think of a way to describe it.

Achterkant Honeywell Round kamerthermostaat

Waldo Lake is a natural alpine lake in the Cascade Mountains of the U.S. state of Oregon. It is the second largest natural non-alkali lake in Oregon with just under 10 square miles (26 km2) of water surface and a maximum depth of 420 feet (130 m).

I have already posted the very rosy sunrise on this lake, within 20 minutes the sunrise went from rosy to this golden sunrise. It was fantastic to watch and photograph. This is taken from the boat launch area. Those horizontal lines in the water are the concrete pad of the launch area.

I was trying to move from place to place, in low light, along the shoreline, with my camera on my tripod. Let's just say it was a comedy in itself!

For the Macro Mondays theme: “What is that?”

Have a guess ;-))

And a lovely start of this week!!

Update: it is a macroshot of a zipper ;-))

Hello my amazing Flickr friends !

Today is a blue day at Color my World Daily but I’m skipping it this time since we have a very unique and interesting theme at Looking close on Friday this week. The theme is : "My Name is…" and it must be a black and white picture. Dont worry the blue color will be back next Friday… unless there is another awesome theme incompatible with the blue color…)

So here we go, my name is : Magdalena aka Magda627.

Now you know almost everything there is to know about me :-).

I hope you will like my picture my friends !! See you later and have an amazing day !!

One is never really alone when hiking Tre Cime di Lavaredo circuit.... and this was the off-season! After turning this corner, we had almost completed the route.

Now that I'm at home from my trip to the Dolomites, you can find me on Twitter

Whitesnake: www.youtube.com/watch?v=GOJk0HW_hJw

I think this is a Sorbus? Rowan? Mountain Ash? Or are they all the same? I am rubbish at identifying trees!!

SMALL dumpy wader that is associated with coastal habitats. Feeds by running along sand, gravel or estuarine mud as if powered by clockwork and then standing still for a second, to pick up food from the ground. Seen from the sea wall Reculvers, where their was a flock of about 20.

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COUNT your blessings, name them one by one, and you will be surprised what the good LORDs done.!

“To a toad, what is beauty? A female with two pop-eyes, a wide mouth, yellow belly and spotted back”

Voltaire

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Amsterdam - Kattenburgerplein

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Midyat is a town in Mardin province of southeastern Turkey. The history of Midyat can be traced back to the Hurrians during the 3rd millennium BC. The town is a melting point of religions and languages.

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Everything is the same

Everything is broken

Everything still works

Everything stands still

Everything goes through everything

There's nothing I know for sure anymore

Blue was the sky under wich I slept

Green was the grass I walked on

There could be clouds full of worries

In the end they floated by

I'm looking for the common thread

Something that makes it all logical

I want to see, the way I saw, when I still had you

Because now, everything is gray

'Cause I can see the sun

But I don't feel the heat

The world is still spinning for me

But she's lost her colors

Alles is grijs ♥♪

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Entwined Florence hair

Sorumin WarmVintage Jacket&sweater set

HIVE Coffee on the go

Taken @ Bella's Nocturne

The Brain—is wider than the Sky—

For—put them side by side—

The one the other will contain

With ease—and You—beside—

The Brain is deeper than the sea—

For—hold them—Blue to Blue—

The one the other will absorb—

As Sponges—Buckets—do—

The Brain is just the weight of God—

For—Heft them—Pound for Pound—

And they will differ—if they do—

As Syllable from Sound—

Emily Dickinson, ‘The Brain is wider than the Sky’.

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The Pradillo Dam Waterfall is quite close to the Purgatorio waterfall, so you can pass through both with a circular route. But if we want to go direct and not walk too much, we will leave the recreational area La Isla. Because of its proximity, this is a good option to go with children. Following the path along the Lozoya River, you will soon reach the old reservoir, whose wide waterfall used to serve the old light factory. At the top of the noisy waterfall, the landscape is reflected in a quiet reservoir surrounded by pine trees, showing an idyllic picture of nature.

La Cascada de la Presa del Pradillo está bastante cerca de la cascada del Purgatorio, por lo que se puede pasar por ambas con una ruta circular. Pero si queremos ir directos y no caminar demasiado, partiremos del área recreativa La Isla. Por su proximidad, esta es una buena opción para ir con niños. Siguiendo el camino junto al río Lozoya, enseguida se llega al antiguo embalse, cuyo ancho salto de agua sirvió para la antigua fábrica de luz. En la parte superior de la ruidosa cascada, el paisaje se refleja en un tranquilo embalse rodeado de pinos, mostrando una idílica estampa de la naturaleza. (Fuente "Guía del Ocio")

Kuznetsky Most is one of the most beautiful pedestrian streets in the historical center of Moscow.

The street got its modern - and at the same time historical - name thanks to the Kuznetsky Bridge across the Neglinnaya River. Today, Kuznetsky Most Street attracts citizens with its high-quality landscaping, an abundance of architectural monuments and an unusual relief: due to the significant difference in heights between Petrovka and Rozhdestvenka, the city landscape looks especially picturesque.

Kuznetskaya Sloboda on the high bank of the Neglinnaya River - Neglinnaya Upper - appeared in the 12th century, but its heyday came only at the end of the 15th, when the Cannon Yard was built in the vicinity, and the Moscow prince Ivan III ordered to settle in it blacksmiths and grooms who served new production. At the turn of the 15th-16th centuries, Novgorod and Pskov were annexed to the Moscow principality, and craftsmen of various professions from these cities were moved to the Neglinny Upper.

In 1737, the street burned out during the Trinity fire, but rather quickly new buildings were built on it, in which foreign shops began to be located. Gradually, the street turned into the abode of foreign trade: the French showed particular zeal, opening fashion and haberdashery shops here, thanks to which Kuznetsky Most became the main shopping street in Moscow. During World War II and the fire of 1812, it practically did not suffer from the fire, since the French guard took over the protection of the business of compatriots. After the war, trade flourished again, and many fashionable shops were opened on it (almost all of them were foreign, most of them were French). The abundance of foreign shops made Kuznetsky Most the most fashionable and aristocratic street in Moscow, which it remained until the 1917 Revolution.

During the Soviet era, the street lost part of the historical buildings, many buildings were rebuilt, and the street gradually took on a modern look.

After the reconstruction carried out in 2012, the Kuznetsky Most section from Bolshaya Dmitrovka to Rozhdestvenka became pedestrian.

Today Kuznetsky Most Street is a well-maintained pedestrian zone, where city holidays and festivals are often held.

Despite the losses of the Soviet years, a large number of architectural monuments have been preserved on it: tenement houses, partially preserved city estates and passages. Among them are famous Moscow sights: the building of the Moscow International Trade Bank, Khomyakov's trading house and others.

This is a secret box with a hidden compartment. It had been in my shed for many years until we moved house and now resides in my garage hence the dust and grime which I like..... Along with the old rug and fir cone. It still stores some old hidden coins

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But the weather is just like August...

This is the entire village!!!

Slovenia Series No 24

Small upright duck. Male is gray with a brown head, while the female is more heavily marked with pale marks on face. Nests in tree-hollows and can be quite noisy when perched up in the branches. Often abundant in urban parklands and grassy areas. (eBird)

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Mom with seven almost adult youngsters. This section of the park was filled with little piles of fluffy young ducks trying to stay dry as the rain came and went. Mom, in the middle, came by to make sure they were all right.

Royal National Park, New South Wales, Australia. October 2022.

Eagle-Eye Tours - Eastern Australia.

Canon EOS 1100D EF-S 55-250mm f/4-5.6 IS II

Manarola is a small town, a frazione of the comune of Riomaggiore, in the province of La Spezia, Liguria, northern Italy. It is the second-smallest of the famous Cinque Terre towns frequented by tourists, with a population of 353. We spent there beautiful day in September 2018.

Konoha - Crocus kean @ Cosmopolitan

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Pose and wine glass is from ANA POSES : Bordeaux 1.

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The old ladies dog in the charette is from REZZROOM : Poodle toy.

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A fig. Not a new picture, but newly over processed !

"Nature" is what we see—

The Hill—the Afternoon—

Squirrel—Eclipse—the Bumble bee—

Nay—Nature is Heaven—

Nature is what we hear—

The Bobolink—the Sea—

Thunder—the Cricket—

Nay—Nature is Harmony—

Nature is what we know—

Yet have no art to say—

So impotent Our Wisdom is

To her Simplicity.

Emily Dickinson

Nature is pleased with simplicity. And nature is no dummy.

~ Isaac Newton

Taken with Oreston 50mm and 12mm extension tube.

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This is midnight, an abandon cat my son and his girl friend adopted several years ago. She's a good cat.

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Germany

This is a big, colourful duck, bigger than a mallard but smaller than a goose. Both sexes have a dark green head and neck, a chestnut belly stripe and a red bill. (RSPB)