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Small forest of hardwoods keeps watch over Seminary Fen Scientific & Natural Area in Chanhassen/Chaska, Minnesota.
This was originally the site of the Mudcura Sanitarium, a world-famous spa that was opened in 1909 and operated until 1951.
Per MNOpedia, in 1951, the sanitarium was sold to the Black Franciscans, Order of Friars Minor Conventual, from Louisville, Kentucky. They named it Assumption Seminary and the site became linked with both the Colleges of St. Catherine and St. Thomas in St. Paul.
The Seminary remained in operation until 1970 and then sat vacant for many years, becoming a popular hangout for teens and other thrill seekers. The main building burned and was demolished in 1997.
The land is now home to the Minnesota DNR Seminary Fen Scientific & Natural Area that protects the rare calcareous fen that is now the star of the show here.
Explored on Flickr, October 24, 2020
An egret stands atop a tall desiccated palm tree at Hart Park.
Bakersfield, CA - USA
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Into the future
Time keeps on slipping, slipping, slipping
Into the future
I want to fly like an eagle, to the sea
Fly like an eagle
Let my spirit carry me
I want to fly (oh, yeah)
Fly right into the future
Canon EOS 6D - f/13 - 1.3sec - 100mm - ISO 200
- for challenge Flickr group: Macro Mondays, theme: Timepieces
- gilded silver pocket watch, remontoir cylindre, ca. 1900
- diameter 2.7 cm
- Enya - Only Time
www.youtube.com/watch?v=7wfYIMyS_dI
Who can say where the road goes
Where the day flows, only time
And who can say if your love grows
As your heart chose, only time
Who can say why your heart sighs
As your love flies, only time
And who can say why your heart cries
When your love lies, only time
Who can say when the roads meet
That love might be in your heart
And who can say when the day sleeps
If the night keeps all your heart
Night keeps all your heart
Who can say if your love grows
As your heart chose
- Only time
And who can say where the road goes
Where the day flows, only time
Who knows? Only time
Willow tree on the shore of Lake Ontario where the sand keeps washing away this tree is located beside the bridge across Duffins marsh in Squires beach , Martin’s photographs , Ajax , Ontario , Canada , March 10. 2022
Quail eggs
Green and white Trilliums
Round hole in ice
Mullein
woods
Sunset
Duffins Creek Trail
Discovery Bay
Duffins Creek
Trilliums in the woods
Duffins Trail
Overcast
Discovery Bay near Duffins Creek
Martin’s photographs
Ajax
Bluefin tuna
Ontario
Canada
March 2022
February 2022
Favourites
IPhone XR
iPhone 6s
forest
Trees
Wildflowers
Trout Lilies
Fallen tree
Duffins Mash
Duffins trail
Trail near Duffins Marsh
Autumn
Red trilliums
Red trilliums in the woods
Beautiful blue sky
great clouds
Beautiful blue sky with great clouds
Squires beach
Blossoms
Beautiful springt tree blossoms
the clouds and blue sky
Rotary Park
Beautiful springt tree blossoms against the clouds and blue sky
Snow
Ice
Winter
Large tree
Trees, bushes and flowers here on the property are beautiful to look at but they the work involved “Keeps Me Busy” and then some. The pay off is enjoying them with family and friends. Thanks for viewing my work. Stay safe. Keep smiling and be kind to everyone.
Sorry everyone for not putting any posts up. Things have not been going well. First with Covid, (Non of my family caught it). Then my PC crashed and buried, then i got Cancer and still fighting it.. I have 12 more radiation treatments left. Plus another year of shots every 3 months and pill's. But as of this past Friday my Dr. said that everything is looking Good and everything is going with the, the best news is the Cancer never spread. Yeaaaaaa I will try and get out soon and start taking some pictures soon
Backdrop: illuZion - East Side Parking Lot Backdrop
Poses (females): CuCa Designs - Car Wash Bento Pose Set
Poses (male): CuCa Designs - Quint Bento Pose Set
Rose Royce
Ooooh...
You might not ever get rich
But let me tell you it's better than digging a ditch
There ain't no telling who you might meet
A moviestar or maybe even an Indian chief
Working at the car wash
Working at the car wash, yeah
Come on and sing it with me, car wash
Sing it with the feeling now, car wash yeah
Come some of the work get's kind of hard
This ain't no place to be if you planned on being a star
Let me tell you it's always cool
And the boss don't mind sometimes if you act a fool
At the car wash, woooh
Talking about the car wash, yeah
Come on y'all and sing it for me
Car wash, woh, car wash yeah
(Work and work) Well those cars never seem to stop coming
(Work and work) Keep those waxin' machines humming
(Work and work) My fingers to the bone
(Work and work) Keep up, I can't wait till it's time to go home
Hey, get your car washed today
Fill up and you don't have to pay
Come on and give us a play
(Working at, working at the)
Car wash
Talking about the car wash yeah
Car wash yeah
Come on y'all and sing it with me
Car wash
Sing it with feeling
Car wash yeah
Wowowoh
Those cars never seem to stop coming
Keeps those rags and machines coming
Let me tell you it's always cool,
And the boss don't mind sometimes if you, act the fool
When Darkness falls on Earth
New Stars have been given Birth
Their Stardust keeps falling on my head
Or is it just Sawdust from the Shed ???
No, cause my Petals glitter in the Moonlight
Don’t you know, I am the Beauty of the Night ???
(Caren)
[Dedicated to CRA (ILYWAMHASAM)]
😄 Happy Monochrome Thursday 😄
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ƒ/2.8
105.6 mm
1/500 Sec
ISO 200
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The ferris wheel at the "Herbst Kirmes" in Cologne (Köln-Deutz).
Used Tools:
Sony A7II
Sony SEL1635
Bench + Wallet as Tripod :)
Our state keeps these old armory bunkers clean, but there are still people who think they are Kilroy. I have only tried to capture this sense of history, where we stored the ammunition for those 16" cannons that were a hundred feet above you on the cliff.
The sea keeps its sway
variable, and invariable.
I look at the sparkling waters
and then transparent,
they go up and down on the beach,
they crash on the rocks.
In appearance they are uniform
in its movement,
but diversity reigns
in all his gestures.
Francisco Galvez
Summer Trace www.flickr.com/groups/3793188@N21/, The Trace Too (61, 145, 30) - Moderado
Usually, Doc keeps a small portion of our trail cleared, so that he can reach our outbuildings. This year mother nature decided to deliver us an abundance of snow, and it has been impossible to keep up with it. Now I feel like our cabin is a little self-sufficient spaceship - floating in a sea of white.
Our large 5th wheel can be seen to the far right of this photo, and it is buried until spring. Doc did manage to make a path to our first Shelter Logic outbuilding that housed our snowblower, but the second Shelter Logic structure will not see us until the snow melts. (It is off in the distance to the right.) Luckily, we have a large workshop/storage building quite near our cabin for things we use more frequently.
This winter has been a challenge, but Doc and I would never think of living anywhere else.
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Spiked Collar and heavy necklace with padlock.
Male and Female size included. Texture HUD for choice of metal colours.
Inside you can find a AO map for the LOGO Layer on Padlock, for costumize.
You can rez the object and edit the layer above the padlock with your creation.(Alpha images)
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Formosan sika deer is the subspecies of Sika deer endemic to Taiwan. They were already extinct in the wild but remain as captive population. White spots of Sika deer vanish in winter in Japan. But on the other hand, this subspecies keeps their white spots through the seasons.
Formosan sika deer (Cervus nippon taiouanus) [captive]
@ Hirakawa Zoological Park, Kagoshima, Japan
WBD Z-WSPALT6-18A keeps us from relocating any further. Once you get a spot, its tough to move when they run in fleets on the Fe! Ransom, IL.
Kestrel keeps an eye on everyone lined up to photograph the sandhill cranes at sunset.
Woodbridge Ecological Reserve, Lodi, CA
“You can keep as quiet as you like, but one of these days somebody is going to find you.”
― Haruki Murakami,
If I cover my eyes, you can't see me!
Haha, silly Beethoven; I did!
Enjoy your weekend my dear friends
and thank you so much for your friendship always!
Hugs by me ♥ and Beethoven
Addie Loo is showing off her big snowball she made yesterday. It's a good thing we went out for photoshoots then because today is a nasty mixture of sleet & rain. It's mega mooshy!!!
Over an extended weekend we did a 2000 miles roadtrip from California to Utah and back, destination badlands near Hanksville. Highway 24 runs close to the Fremont River. Life needs water, in the badlands trees can grow only nearby the river. Mountains are eroded over thousands of years, showing their bare beauty.
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Slipping down the Sea Dike that keeps the water of the Gouwzee out of the polders of Waterland, North Holland, I found myself smartingly in a patch of Urtica dioica, Stinging Nettle. No, it hadn't been a good idea trying to get a better look at the golden Yellow Flags, Iris pseudacorus, at water's edge. Moreover, they were quite faded close by.
But looking down at my sandals in the shade of those Nettles I saw these pretty Forget-me-nots, Myosotis ramossisima. Many-branched indeed, as the first namegiver Anton Rochel (1770-1847) specifically noted. Another distinctive feature is their hairiness, as was determined by Diederich Franz Leonhard von Schlechtendal (1794-1866) by his 'hispida' for Myosotis. The names are synonymous though Rochel's is preferred.
So pretty they are that I was gladly stung...
I only left the house because the van needed a run. Our mechanic keeps telling us there’s nothing these old high milers love more than a long drive to keep them ready and raring to go. But at half past two on a grey December afternoon, deep in the heart of Twixmas, a quick blast down the A30 would have to do. Loggan’s Roundabout and back. I had plenty of stuff to be getting on with at home, and I do like a good black and white film during the festive period. More out of habit than anything else, I threw the camera and a couple of lenses in the bag and put them in the cab. Just in case I decided to stay out for a bit.
It was inevitable really. Even though the ceiling outside the van was drearily grey and lifeless, I really needed to shake off the Christmas lethargy. The fact that two consecutive Wednesdays had fallen on bank holidays meant there was no football to burn off the twin cheese and chocolate overdoses, so an energetic hike across the dunes seemed like an idea. When I arrived at the car park, it quickly became clear that I wasn’t the only one who felt the need to kick away the cobwebs and get some fresh air. There were far more cars than you usually see here on a Monday afternoon. But even so, you can easily find space up on the dunes, and so I set off towards the west, grabbing the bag and the tripod. Even if the contents stayed unused, the extra weight wouldn’t hurt. By now I’d eaten an awful lot of cheese and we had started on the second giant Toblerone. Friday football remained unaffected by the seasonal calendar this time around, but one game a week really wasn’t enough to tackle the torrent of cholesterol that was swirling around my insides by the day before New Year’s Eve.
It’s no secret that the middle of winter is my favourite time here. Isn’t it great that a hobby such as this makes the darkest months something to be enjoyed rather than feared? The short daylight hours come with their challenges, but when I do go out with the camera I know I’m going to be home at a sensible hour, even if I’ve been down to the furthest reaches of Land’s End or Cape Cornwall and Botallack. The Towans of Gwithian are comfortably under half an hour away and the big council car park (at least for now) remains free to users from November to March. It’s the perfect place to watch the evening set in over the Penwith hills to the west. Even when the light isn’t doing much. And the sky had been pretty well featureless as I marched across the rolling greens and yellows, following the smaller footpaths where I could be more or less alone with my thoughts as I went. But now, as so often happens, an envelope of light opened up through the greys and started to gently glow, just in the right place. I took a few shots from one of the higher dunes and continued my walk. Maybe I’d end up down on the beach, I wasn’t sure. Further along my route, I came to the point where the sands suddenly open up in front of the viewer, and found a place near the cliff edge in which I’ve planted the tripod more than once in the past. I was surprised by just how many people were down there on the beach, one or two of them braving the ocean, while a kite surfer charged across the waves. For now I wouldn’t head down to the sand. I was enjoying watching the world from here. I set up the tripod.
Just in time as it turned out. Within moments, the sun dropped into the glowing envelope to set the sea on fire, clouds of spray growing into a hazy golden mist that hovered over the water and lit up the centre of my frame while everything around it disappeared into secretive shadows. Dozens of silhouettes continued to stroll purposefully along the sand, many of them picked out by the soft rays that reached down and touched them through the gap in the doom laden clouds. A host of Christmas hangovers, walking off the cheese and Toblerones. The magic lasted for no more than two or three minutes, and then the window in the sky closed for the evening. To think that all I was going to do was to whizz down to the big roundabout and back. Blink and you so easily miss these moments.
I did make it down to the beach afterwards, but only so I could be next to the sea for a while before clambering back up onto the dunes. Chased by a dusk lit shower I made a point of climbing all of the tallest dunes on the way back to the van, even running over a couple of them, just for the sake of compensating for the football games I was missing this Christmas. Hopefully by the time we get back to business as usual, I won’t pass out in a pile of cheese within five minutes of kick off.
Willow tree on the shore of Lake Ontario where the sand keeps washing away this tree is located beside the bridge across Duffins marsh in Squires beach , Martin’s photographs , Ajax , Ontario , Canada , March 10. 2022
Quail eggs
Green and white Trilliums
Round hole in ice
Mullein
woods
Sunset
Duffins Creek Trail
Discovery Bay
Duffins Creek
Trilliums in the woods
Duffins Trail
Overcast
Discovery Bay near Duffins Creek
Martin’s photographs
Ajax
Bluefin tuna
Ontario
Canada
March 2022
February 2022
Favourites
IPhone XR
iPhone 6s
forest
Trees
Wildflowers
Trout Lilies
Fallen tree
Duffins Mash
Duffins trail
Trail near Duffins Marsh
Autumn
Red trilliums
Red trilliums in the woods
Beautiful blue sky
great clouds
Beautiful blue sky with great clouds
Squires beach
Blossoms
Beautiful springt tree blossoms
the clouds and blue sky
Rotary Park
Beautiful springt tree blossoms against the clouds and blue sky
Snow
Ice
Winter
Large tree