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Here's wishing that you are finding happiness and satisfaction in the work that you do. Happy Labor Day Weekend, everyone!
“It is only through labor and painful effort, by grim energy and resolute courage, that we move on to better things.” Theodore Roosevelt
Hua Lamphong Station ~ Pathum Wan District ~ Bangkok, Thailand
Nikon D7500, Nikkor 18-300, ISO 400, f/10.0, 62mm, 1/200s
Of all my wildlife blessings over the years, this encounter has to be in the top three. While walking the beaches of Ft. Pickens Florida back in early April of 2021, I had a pod of 12+ Bottlenose dolphins frolicking some 50 yards off the beach.
Through my travels and my many years in the Navy, I have seen and photographed dolphins too many times to count. This morning, and these two dolphins in particular, were acting very differently than any other I have seen.
They were hovering just below the surface, making wakes that indicated that at least one of them was moving about while submerged. Then they would both rise, take a breath and resume the same action. Being a kid from Indiana, I had no idea what was going on. I thought she might be giving birth, but having only been around dogs, cows, horses, buffalo, alpacas and my bride (twice) while giving birth…I had no idea what dolphin labor, especially with 99% of it taking place under water and out of view, looked like.
This photograph captures the last time they broke the surface together. This is the breath taken to make that last push that grants birth.
The next photograph taken and already shared, was of the baby breaking the surface and taking its first breath.
Looking back now, the odd wake while submerged was her staying somewhat stationary while he swam circles around her…no doubt keeping one eye on his bride, and the other looking out for possible predators while she was at her most vulnerable.
Witnessing special times can be such a gift from God!
Trabajé durante 25 años en la enseñanza; ahora, me dedico a las labores domésticas, labores que, sin duda, suponen un trabajo, aunque algun@s no lo consideren así; de hecho, es bastante molesto que te digan : "Ah, ¿entonces...tú no trabajas? "
Quitar el polvo, cocinar, ordenar, recoger, fregar, planchar... son trabajos que, desgraciadamente, ni se valoran, ni son remunerados, ni tienen horario, ni, tampoco, descanso...
Hoy es domingo... ¿A que habéis realizado, al menos, una de las labores citadas?
(Llevaré la fotografía al grupo en el transcurso de la próxima semana, tal y como corresponde, pero quería, entre otras cosas, dejar patente la realidad del ama de casa... también, en domingo... )
Outfit from the September round of Designer Showcase is cool enough for the dog days of summer.
Info & links on my Blog ~ aznanasfandangles.blogspot.com/2022/09/ds09052201.html
Two of Amtrak's big SDP40F's wheel the westbound San Francisco Zephyr through Earlville IL. on the BN. Labor Day 1976,
For the working class of America this day means a three day weekend and an opportunity to have a BBQ and a family gathering, but it's been a generation since inception and I'd like to make a reminder here. We scoff at what China is doing right now, but they are going through the exact same things America did in the not so distant past. Slavery, indentured servitude, child labor, and then union strife. Like reading a book you can see them turning the page on greed as these things for them like us will be overcome and the people will be respected and compensated fairly hopefully sooner than latter. I believe that America can help by removing them from most favored nation status and force them to this centuries standards on how we treat people and pollution. That said, I thank goodness for those MILLIONS who fought, who died, who persevered to free our slaves, who outlawed child labor, who organized our workers so that they may be compensated according to their labor and hold accountable those in power to protect those who are not. Power to the people, and God bless America.
Well after a week of getting the kids back to school and county fairs, I'm back. I'm sorry for not checking in the past few days, I'll be slowly catching up throughout the day.
Hope all my Flickr friends are having a great Labor Day weekend :-)
An Amtrak California F59 leads the northbound Coast Starlight through the Butte Valley on Labor Day 1995. The unit was headed to Tacoma for warranty work.
We had a laboration in chemistry class where we seperated molecules of different sizes in milk. Some of the basic equipment in our school is quite old, like this stand which the measuring cylinder stands on, and it has got some interesting patterns created by exposure to different chemical substances. There's alot soul in much of the basic equipment in chemistry class, and one can feel that there's alot history of doing the stuff you're at the moment doing.
2008 Valley, Gales, Reino Unido.
Creados, usados y abandonados, como todo lo que fue creado por y para el hombre, ejerce su función en nuestras vidas y se destruye o se deja para que forme parte del olvido y de los fotógrafos aventureros.
(Holyhead, Gales, Uk 2008)
My husband and I collect rocks. Anytime we walk the shoreline we look for rocks that are unique. They can be fossils, something significant for the area such as Petoskey stones, or just have a cool shape to them. We've also found sea glass and some pretty cool shells. Anyway this is a small part of our collection that we so love...
Photo taken for the group: 52 weeks of pix 2020
Theme: Love