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A "practice" bridal shoot, where no Bridezillas are possible, with 2/3 professional models. After mostly bad weather, we were gifted with a double rainbow & an amazing sunset.
Mama great horned owl on construction scaffolding, under a steady barrage from a pair of mocking birds. Johnson Space Center, Houston, Texas.
Trinity College Mock Trial Association members, L-R: Jhon Pacheco '17, Meredith Munro '14, James Geisler '14, Karla Mardueno '15, Julia Mardeusz '16, Andrew Miller '17, Katherine Feehan '16, Sebastien Broustra '17, Tanya Kewalramani '14, Sonjay Singh '15, Ethan Cantor'16, Rich Pizzano '17, Youlan Xiu '15, Bobby Boyle'16, and Ali Caless '14.
Here is the completed MOCked and Loaded trophy in the Battle theme at BrickCon 2015, for the build that best epitomized the overall convention theme of MOCking History. The trophy features a spaceman who is loaded (both because he's quite inebriated and because he's carrying futuristic weaponry) being mocked by a couple of colonials dressed as native Americans during the Tea Party at Boston Harbor.
For stunning citrus fragrance in the garden, you can't go wrong with the mock orange shrub (Philadelphus virginalis). This late spring-blooming deciduous bush looks great when placed in the border, used in groups as screening or simply as a stand-alone specimen plant. They even make excellent cut flowers indoors
Once again I was fooled into thinking a bird I heard was a Mockingbird. It happened to me out west when a Curved Bill Thrasher was singing a wide variety of songs, and now just the other day, this Gray Catbird had quite a large song list it was going through repeatedly. I've read that Thrashers, Mockingbirds, and Catbirds are all related and they all share the same great vocal abilities. Pretty amazing how their little lungs can belt out so much sound!
Hummel Park
Plainfield, Indiana
Beautiful and fragrant Oregon native.
Please prefer to plant natives in your yards. They are not only beautiful but also have a vital ecological function. They feed the native wildlife that they evolved together with. Biological diversity is declining with a rapid pace, and we must do whatever we can to slow it down. Best way to start might be by planting natives in our yards.
Doug Tallamy's talk on the importance of native plants:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=WY4aV5hqkxY
Eileen Stark's wonderful book on Pacific Northwest natives:
DSC_7870: Hood ornament as seen yesterday downtown in Moncton at the Atlantic Grand Nationals car show on Main St during lunch hour.
Part of my series of "interesting car part" assigned to me by Sue.
Soldiers from the Fort Leavenworth-based 705th Military Police hogtie an inmate during a scenario at the 2007 Mock Riot on May 9, 2007.
Édouard Manet, French, 1832–1883.
‘Jesus Mocked by the Soldiers,’ 1865.
Oil on canvas; Art Institute of Chicago.
“Although the art of Eduoard Manet was often rooted in references to the history of art, his subjects—parks, cafés, racetracks—were usually quite modern. Jesus Mocked by the Soldiers represents a foray into religious imagery that was rare for Manet (and for his peers in the French avant-garde). Its theme, heroic scale, and dark colors related it to Old Master paintings. Its treatment, however, reflects Manet's usual daring, his flouting of convention. Here, the viewer is confronted with a very human, vulnerable Jesus whose fate is no longer his to determine. Manet depicted the moment when Jesus' captors have mocked the "king of the Jews" by crowning him with thorns and covering him with a purple robe. Although this taunting is followed by beatings, according to Gospel narrative, Manet's three earthy and contemporary-looking soldiers appear ambivalent as they surround the pale, stark figure of Jesus. One gazes at him, one kneels in apparent homage, and one holds the purple cloak in such a way as to suggest that he wishes to cover Christ's nakedness, rather than strip him. Manet's use of stark contrasts, flat forms, and a dark palette of thickly applied pigment enhances this raw and powerful impression” (museum permanent collection label).
Canon EF 50mm f/1.4 USM
©2014 Patrick J Bayens
Debriefing session led by a group of guest players; Anton Barakhovsky (violin), Aiko Mizushima (violin), Yutaka Hayashi (cello), Heinrich Braun (double bass), Christoph Hartmann (oboe) and Tsutomu Isohata (horn) . We thank all and each of guest players serving as juries and our core members making this mock audition successful learning opportunity!
This mocker swallowtail butterfly (Papilio dardanus), native to sub-Saharan Africa, was seen yesterday in the 2014 Butterflies Live! exhibit at Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden. Males have a generally uniform appearance, but there are at least 14 varieties, or morphs, of the polymorphic females, with differences in wing shapes, colors, and markings; botanical garden staff identified this as a male, so I now know the mocker swallowtail in the preceding photo is one of the female variants.
Press "L" for larger image, on black.
Record number: MSS 09706
Creator: Heriot, George, 1759-1839
Title: [Drawings from nature: album of watercolours of flora and fauna encountered in the West Indies].
Date: [1779-1780].
Description: Original watercolour drawn directly onto leaf [27]; caption in ink: "Mocking bird".
Extent: 160 x 350 mm.
Rights info: No known restrictions on access
Repository: Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario Canada, M5S 1A5, library.utoronto.ca/fisher
Taken with my old non-CPU 28mm lens from my F2 film camera purchased in 1975. I think the equivalent focal length on my D300s might have been about 42mm. Subject distance from camera is about 32" to 36".
PS - I like this bird if he'd just keep his distance. Being a Northern Mockingbird, it can imitate the sounds of any bird in the neighborhood and late in the evening it sits in a nearby tree and serenades us with some very pretty bird calls. But during the day it's a bully. It chases all the other birds away from the feeder dish and has become Public Enemy #1 in my backyard.
Press L and then F11 for a large view