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After 4 days of continuous rain and cloud and fog it's time for a break... someone, please bring me sunshine... I'll be in the north of Scotland so if you could send it up there it would be great, thank you....
Here in Holland the year so far is.. different. Climatologically spoken. No starlings when the cherries were ripe (for the first time in my life I actually got to eat them!), swallows that were weeks late compared to other years, no kingfishers, no significant rains since April resulting in dry lakes, rivers, ponds and ditches. Weird.
But when we were in the Gambia last month, it looked like Europe isn't the only continent where things are a bit out of whack. Very hot indeed and even here in this birder's paradise there were less birds than usual.
Nonetheless, it still is heaven, floating around on the water, enjoying the peace and quiet of the early mornings.
And when an African Darter flies off, for once nót showing you its shapely bum but a wonderful side-take-off, you forget all those little things instantly.
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So I have today off as it is Anzac day but I'm am being completely selfish. Other than taking the cats for a quick morning walk I am keeping them inside while I have the day to myself by sitting at the computer and editing photos and posting photos. (That is me being selfish) Hence why i have already posted 3 photos :)
They are happy to sit inside and i don't feel guilty because if i was at work they would be inside anyway.
Keeping with the selfish theme, I have to tell you I have started to become a little selfish but it's for my own benefit.
Since losing both Bonnie and Squirt I have had to reassess my dependence on my animals.
You all know me and know that my animals come first and that i would do anything for them. Now that hasn't changed but I'm trying to find a balance. My world crumbled and still is crumbling when i lost Bon and Squirt and I felt completely lost without them and I struggled/struggling to find my own identity. It was causing me all sorts of pain and I know I needed help to sort my grief out.
Anyway, long story, short.....I am becoming selfish. Which translates to....I am finding who I am without my animals. I still love them and do everything for them but i am finding a way to be dependent on myself and not wholly on them.
So my lack of photos I post of my critters is kind of on purpose. I'm not walking them as much and not doing probably as much with them because at times I don't feel I want to, so that is me being selfish. Normally I would of taken them walking to make them happy but sometimes all i want is to sit inside and edit photo's.....so now I do that. I put myself first. Which at times is really, really, really hard to do and not a natural thing for me to do.
I know a lot of you follow me for my cat photo's and of late although my stream is still full of cat photos, they are not my cats.
The zoo and me going so often is a new normal for me and a way of me finding myself without being dependent on my critters..... I am sure you all understand this as most of you are animal lovers and I guess you have or do feel they way I have been feeling.
I want to thank you all for following my photos of not only my cats but of my journey through grief....
I am also planning holidays now.....in a month I will be going away for 6 nights....I know...I have NEVER done that before and I have never left them before. They will all stay home and close friends will come and feed them so i am positive they will be ok.
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A couple of Shoveler Ducks to carry you over the weekend as I shovel off (pardon the pun) out looking for some new photos.
Love the bills on these ducks which is obvious for their name.
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As an empty string waits to back in, a loaded coal train pumps out of the loading area at Sandaoling.
Some of the drivers seemed to be putting on quite the show for us and the growing numbers of locals and foreigners coming to witness the last of steam in China. A brief piece in the China Daily online while we were there mentioned the end of steam will come to Sandoling this year.
16 Jan 2015
Mercury Retrograde comes to an end later today (June 22), and not a moment too soon. Life has simply been more challenging over the past three weeks or so as anything to do with communication has simply faltered. These retrograde periods effect people in different ways, some worse than others. For me it's been a series of misadventures with computer apps inexplicably failing, emails that simply won't send, issues with cell phones and more than my fair share of mechanical failures, back orders and delays. I'm less prone to (although not immune from) the interpersonal misadventures that occasion the retrograde. People tend to become argumentative often as a result of simple misunderstandings. You say one thing but it is interpreted in an entirely different way. And the hallmark of the retrograde is the careless mistake. I think I'm less prone to the latter problems because I take great pains to speak clearly and double check my work during the retrograde phase. These are things I feel I have some control over, unlike the computer and technical issues that seem to lurk behind every corner. Even still, things get by me. One irony of the retrograde is not discovering the mistakes until we exit the retrograde. Many a time I've breathed a premature sigh of relief that I got through it, only to discover something I did wrong days or even weeks later. Certainly things go wrong all the time, not just during retrograde. It's just that things are more prone to breakdown during these periods. And there is often a cascading effect where one minor thing results in something more severe or damaging. People sometimes ask if I seriously believe in this "stuff". Personally I don't believe it's subject to a belief system, but that's just me talking. I lien the retrograde to a curve in the metaphorical road of life. To me it calls for taking one's foot off of the gas for a few weeks to ensure that we don't run off the road. Retrogrades are a wonderful time to reflect, just a poor time to execute. Life begins to get back on the rails tomorrow.
3, 2, 1, lift off. We spotted this Juvenile Red Tailed hawk while driving through Lower Klamath Basin’s auto tour. Immature Red Tails can be readily identified at close range by their yellowish irises. As the bird attains full maturity over the course of 3–4 years, the iris slowly darkens into a reddish-brown hue, which is the adult eye-color. We captured this image just before takeoff. We were so excited to be up close and personal with this beautiful bird of prey.
This big whitetail deer found a hole in the river, and had to clear some waterlogged ears. Be sure to see the next photo in the shake it off series. Have a great weekend!
The temperature hovers at 107 degrees in the depths of the Sacramento River Canyon at Delta. It's almost too hot to handle. The air is still, making the heat feel unbearable. But the approach of a train at the last minute, coupled with some beautiful light, makes it worth staying for a minute. Thankfully, the train approaching was a shorty. UP 5274 leads a short northbound maintenance of way train up the canyon. A quick retreat to an air conditioned car was in order after the train's passing.
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We saw several Kestrels and a Buzzard on a short walk this morning but mostly too far off to photograph. This one landed on a tree top not too far away - but with it's back towards me - I finally got a couple of shots when it decided to fly off.
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pigeons had a habit of falling into my little pond then sitting on the grass to dry off , I think he has his beady eye on me , but I felt sorry for them falling in so now this year has been emptied out after they found a hedgehog at the bottom of it thought its not a good idea hope you like the photo ?