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This tiny insect (1/4 - 1/2" long) is a Feather-Legged Fly, a Tachinid Fly in the family Tachinidae. This was my first time seeing this type of insect.
In addition to the fringe of hairs on their hind legs, feather-legged flies can be identified by the yellow coloration of their halteres (pair of small, knobby structures that are the modified second pair of wings) that are used for balance. The males have all-orange abdomens, while females have either dark abdomens or dark-tipped abdomens. Best viewed large.
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Meet Knobby (Obi-Wan-Knobby) He's my Winter resident Grey Squirrel. Still not quite confident enough to feed from my hand yet but he was getting there. Perhaps if he returns this coming winter he might be persuaded.
I just loved having sheep and cows all around me at the cottage I stayed in. How can you not smile when you are greeted with a face like this one each morning?!! :)
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A chucklehead giving me what appears to be a raspberry.
Taken at Wildwood Lake, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania.
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Thanks to a dear friend in France, I have a huge garden of cosmos. So you may see more of these in my stream ;D
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A wild Muscovy is mostly iridescent black with white wing patches. The domestic variety can be a variety of colors from black through to an all-white appearance. Another name for the Muscovy is the greater wood duck. In the wild, the Muscovy will live and perch in trees for safety. Their black webbed feet have strong sharp claws that are built for gripping branches. Their head has a long sloping bill which has a red or black knob at the base. The bill itself can be pink, black, yellow or a combination of some or all colors.
Each Muscovy Duck will have a face mask. This face mask is actually called caruncles. It looks like knobby and wart-like growths. These caruncles start growing when they are adolescents and will slowly grow throughout their life. The caruncles are bigger and redder on the males. They contain oil glands which secrete the oil used to preen feathers and keep them waterproof.
Green heron spotting movement.
Wildwood Lake, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania.
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1/800 sec. f/7.1 600mm ISO400
Trying out my new lens. It's fairly heavy, but what a treat to get close up shots. I liked the textured background of the water in this shot. Happy Texture Tuesday!!! :-)
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The underside of the claw is covered with a rough, knobby surface that helps grip prey or a perch.
Mud Lake, Ottawa.
The view looking north near the crest of the Continental Divide shows the divide to be series of rugged ridges rather than a clean dividing line. These mountains were thrust up between 80 to 40 million years ago (Laramide orogeny) as a high plateau, then subject to erosion from wind and water. Glaciation occurred in several episodes, mostly ending 16,000 years ago with a small blip of an ice age from 1300-1850 (Little Ice Age). The glaciers of the southern Rockies were primarily located in the valleys, and these high peaks and ridges, most over 13,000’/ 4000 m, were not smoothed by ice. The billion year-old granites are relatively resistant to erosion, forming the jagged and serrated ridges.
The nearest valleys below this vantage point on Caribou Ridge are part of the City of Boulder watershed. The three knobby peaks towards the center are (l to r) Apache Peak (in the light), Navajo Peak (with horizontally layered rock in the center), and Arikaree Peak (shaded by the clouds). The peaks in the distance on the left are in the southern part of Rocky Mountain National Park. Coyote Park, seen in my recent posts, is about 3 miles west (left) and 3000’ lower.
Photograph taken at Craigie Bushland Reserve. The bushland reserve is fenced off and feral-free. I was taken by these "flowers" on the Knobby rush. They emerged as white flowers and in some instances they produced these webs of white before dying off leaving blackened seed pods. If you zoom in you will see a fly feeding off the flowers. The droplets are from rain that fell just before I photographed this seed head
Two evenings ago I was getting ready to run out for the moonrise, when I remembered... I don't have a tripod! I broke a leg on my 12-year old tripod recently, trying to leverage myself out of deep snow; a new one has shipped but it hasn't arrived yet.
I could boost the ISO and apply noise reduction - and live with the loss in quality. Or... I could get out the trusty old beanbag! I opted for the latter, laying it flat on the roof of the rolling red Toyota blind - engine off - and for this shoot I also resurrected the 200-500mm lens. It may not be quite as sharp as my 500 prime, but I love the versatility of that zoom range, and really the optics are fine. And the combination was fine, too, as I managed to salvage the evening.
Here the moon has risen above 70 Mile Butte, highest point in Grasslands Park. Those tiny knobby things you may see all along the ridge top are Mule Deer.
Photographed from Butte Road, looking into Grasslands National Park, Saskatchewan (Canada). Don't use this image on websites, blogs, or other media without explicit permission ©2023 James R. Page - all rights reserved.
I was so glad to have good sunlight on my return visit to the Promethea cats this morning, giving me a chance for better shots than I posted the other day... and I noticed that their previous instar 'crown-like' appendages had been replaced by the red and yellow 'knobs' they will retain into maturity! I love these alien looking guys!
In the spirit of halloween I enhanced this old photo of twisty knobby branches extending out over the lake.
It tough work for a tree to grow in a swamp. The vast majority of trees simply can't do it; they'd drown! But bald cypress and tupelo gum trees have mastered the feat of surviving in sodden soils. This is in large part due to their "knees." While there are several theories as to the function of these knobby outgrowths, the prevailing thought is that they allow these water-logged trees to breathe!
Beautiful old knobby trees and an incredible rainbow in the meadows of Kahl am Main (Kahlwiesen), a small community in the Aschaffenburg district of Lower Franconia (Unterfranken) in Bavaria, Germany.
#448 - 3.4.2021
A poppy and its pod.
Trailhead Community Park of the...
Decatur (Winnona Park), Georgia, USA.
11 May 2023.
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▶ "Stylophorum diphyllum —commonly called the celandine poppy or wood poppy— is an herbaceous plant in the poppy family (Papaveraceae). It is native to North America, where it is found in the eastern United States and Ontario. Its typical natural habitat is moist forests.
In spring, the deep yellow flowers of the celandine poppy appear as a brilliant display on the forest floor. The flowers have 4 yellow petals, two soon-falling sepals, many yellow-orange stamens, and a single knobby stigma. They appear singly or in umbels of two to four flowers from early spring to early summer. After fertilization, a bristly blue-green pod hangs below the leaves [as seen above]."
— Wikipedia.
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Quick tablescrap built while sorting
Inspired by Knobby Plastic
Oh also, I hate Facebook's new layout sooooo much. TT___TT
The American Kestrel is the smallest falcon in North America. They used to be called Sparrow Hawks. This adult male is sitting on top of a Cane Cholla cactus. The yellow knobby things are the fruit. He was quite far away. Got three quick shots (from the car window) and off he went.
Mono Lake, CA-- As the level of the lake drops, more of the tufa structures become exposed on land in these strange, knobby towers.
Almost entirely hollowed out. Apparently the target was the seeds more than the wall flesh. Every portion of the pumpkin - including seeds, seed hulls, and stringy membranes - is completely edible to both squirrels and humans.
This knobby pumpkin is just for decoration, but it is just as edible as any other.
www.gardeningknowhow.com/edible/vegetables/pumpkin/bumpy-...
This is the next morning after yesterday's snow photo. In Colorado, the next day after a snow is usually clear and sunny, because our weather systems rarely linger.
The "knobby-ness" of these tree branches brings up the subject of "pollarded" trees. Severe cutting/trimming of the branches to prevent normal expansion of size, year to year. The resultant tree shapes have been popular in Europe in formal landscaping since at least the 17th century. The practice has a deep history, with more practical origins.
I used to hate the look, but after reading up on the history, I am more tolerant and even interested. Typically, such trees are trimmed back severely--to the branch knobs--every year or two.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pollarding
One of the reasons to employ pollarding, according to Wikipedia, is: "to maintain trees at a determined height". That would seem to be the reason it is used here.
HTmT!
Native tussock grass at Minda Dunes that is specifically indigenous to South Australia. I must be hungry, because they look like meatballs on the end of satay sticks.
A small but brave tree living at the edge of Meander Canyon. In the background you can see the Colorado River.
Seen at Dead Horse Point State Park near Moab, Utah.
Arches National Park near Moab, Utah features many arched sandstone formations. Most of the sandstone is a rusty red due to highly oxidized iron (rust). We saw this and thought "some giant was playing with Play Dough”.
I was walking in a neighborhood alley this morning and I peeked over the fence and saw this!
The sugar-apple or sweet-sop is the edible fruit of Annona squamosa, the most widely grown species of Annona and a native of tropical climate in the Americas and West Indies. Spanish traders aboard the Manila galleons docking in the Philippines brought it to Asia. The fruit is spherical-conical, 2–4 inches in diameter and 2+1⁄4–4 in long, and weighing 3.5–8.5 ounces with a thick rind composed of knobby segments. The color is typically pale green to blue-green, with a deep pink blush in certain varieties, and typically has a bloom. It is unique among Annona fruits in being segmented; the segments tend to separate when ripe, exposing the interior.
Sugar Apple, Sweet Sop, Annona squamosa
Biscayne Park FL
At the Saturday, Cedar Falls Farmers Market, farmer Bridget Brown gifted me this carrot. She knows I have a keen interest in bizarre vegetables. It weighs 1 pound 6 ounces. At its widest girth it's 10 inches. August 28, 2021
Vernal arboreal yellow.
Clyde Shepherd Nature Preserve
DeKalb County (Medlock Park), Georgia, USA.
30 March 2022.
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▶ "Stylophorum diphyllum —commonly called the celandine poppy or wood poppy— is an herbaceous plant in the poppy family (Papaveraceae). It is native to North America, where it is found in the eastern United States and Ontario. Its typical natural habitat is moist forests.
From early spring to early summer, the deep yellow flowers of the celandine poppy appear as a brilliant display on the forest floor. The flowers have 4 yellow petals, two soon-falling sepals, many yellow-orange stamens, and a single knobby stigma. After fertilization, a bristly blue-green pod hangs below the leaves."
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A window in a wall with a plethora of protrusions along the rim trail at Bryce National Park. Sunset brightened some of the storm clouds.
Looking north from Horseshoe Bend Road in Bighorn Canyon National Recreation Area, Wyoming, a knobby hoodoo of vivid red Chugwater Formation stands above the green valley of Crooked Creek. The working farm below is a private inholding within the park’s boundaries, while the rugged Pryor Mountains rise in the distance.
Geologic note: The Chugwater Formation is a Triassic-age sequence of red siltstone, sandstone and shale deposited about 240 million years ago in shallow marine, broad tidal flats and coastal-plain environments. Small amounts of iron oxides in the sediments give the striking crimson hue that makes the cliffs and hills in this part of the Recreation Area so distinctive.
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Coming soon to a theatre near you: Perry Clotter and the Listener of Earskaban!
But the true star isn't Perry, it's Knobby, the free sound elf. Will Knobby, with a little help from his friends, finally defeat the evil Lord Tinnitus and the mean army of Deafentors and save Rockwarts? Spoiler alert: Lord Tinnitus has already won, but the Deafentors are beaten.
A slight panic set in when I read what today's theme would be. Since I had already shot my knob-related bolt for our B&W theme and I couldn't find the miniature sample perfume bottle with the beautiful knob-like cap that resembles a mushroom, I had to find some other knob. Fast. But Knobby heard the call and came to the rescue. When I switched on my Bluetooth headphones to browse YouTube and later stream a movie the other day, my gaze fell on the joystick knob on the headphone's right ear cup. This tiny thingy (diameter: 5mm/0,19 inches) is used for controlling volume (up/down) and for play/pause/previous/next (left/right). The cross with its grooved surface provides a good grip despite its tininess, and it's very convenient to use.
The headphones are of a nice blue colour, and to make the knob more interesting, I once again used my makeshift colour filters to add two more hues: red (scratched transparent chocolate box lid from the left) and green (small green glass bottle from the right). It's a single shot (high-res mode so I could crop in nicely), processed in LR and Color Efex.
HMM, Everyone!
The dawn light and shadows emphasized the knobby nature of this formation wich we could see from our B&B. Sedona has many dramatic rock formations and this one seems different from most. It looks like a giant was creating with playdough.
I was walking in a neighborhood alley this morning and I peeked over the fence and saw this!
The sugar-apple or sweet-sop is the edible fruit of Annona squamosa, the most widely grown species of Annona and a native of tropical climate in the Americas and West Indies. Spanish traders aboard the Manila galleons docking in the Philippines brought it to Asia. The fruit is spherical-conical, 2–4 inches in diameter and 2+1⁄4–4 in long, and weighing 3.5–8.5 ounces with a thick rind composed of knobby segments. The color is typically pale green through blue-green, with a deep pink blush in certain varieties, and typically has a bloom. It is unique among Annona fruits in being segmented; the segments tend to separate when ripe, exposing the interior.
Sugar Apple, Sweet Sop, Annona squamosa
Biscayne Park FL
zebra turkeyfish (zebra-zwergrotfeuerfisch - pendrochirus zebra)
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knobby seastar (noppenseestern - protoreaster sp.)
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hdm - haus des meeres wien
(aquarium and terrarium in former aviator defense tower)
The Bald Cypress has knobby knees, a fluted trunk, and drooping limbs. It is a distinctive and beautiful tree. This one is in a swampy area adjacent to the Ogeechee River. On the left are Sabal minor, the Dwarf Palmetto.
Explore # 30..thanks :D
I want to say thank you from the bottom of my heart to my dear Flickr friend Sylvia for surprising me with a wonderful testimonial. Thank you so much. Her work is brilliant...as I'm sure you already know :-) This is one from September...I thought she would appreciate some pink hydrangea ;-)
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I called this part two because I think I already have a pic with that title..see she inspires me :)