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This has nothing to do with the photo, I just like the proverb !!
“Fear less, hope more; Eat less, chew more; Whine less, breathe more; Talk less, say more; Love more, and all good things will be yours"
Swedish Proverb
Flashback: Ah, Jesma, so full of hope and questionable ideals about how life is outside her homeland and social status. She looks so optimistic about the future, just freshly arrived to Revenland.
This mother turkey seems to be getting started way too late in the season. I took these this morning. Her nest is along a fence between Hwy 94 and a rail corridor in St. Paul. When she stands the piece of styrofoam rises. When she sits it covers her and her 12 eggs. The cars on 94 were roaring by at 65 MPH 20 feet behind me as I shot. Those are railroad tracks behind the fence in the background. I took a few shots and left when she stood up. I didn't want to stress her. I'm afraid she has enough to worry about.
The We're Here! gang is looking for optimistic cloudgoats today. This one thinks he's going to get fried eggs for breakfast...but they are only "fried-egg poppies", not the real thing.
A few days ago we had snow on deck for the Sunday forecast at lower elevations. Plenty of precipitation and the temperatures were supposed to dip below freezing, but just barely. As is often the case, the snowflake has turned into a more familiar rain cloud....bummer.
I really hope we get snow in Portland this winter. I know I can head east and get all the snow I can handle, but the city just looks so pretty under a fresh coat.
Image with my Hasselblad 500cm
Photo captured via Minolta Maxxum AF Zoom 70-210mm F/4 "Beer Can" Lens. Washington's Central Cascades Range. Wenatchee/Chelan Highlands section within the North Cascades Region. Okanogan-Wenatchee National Forest. Chelan County, Washington. Late October 2021.
Exposure Time: 1/30 sec. * ISO Speed: ISO-100 * Aperture: F/11 * Bracketing: None * Color Temperature: 4148 K * Plug-In: Vibrant Fall - Lou & Marks * Elevation: 2,211 feet above sea-level
Tufted Duck / aythya fuligula. Attenborough, Nottinghamshire. 26/03/25.
A visit to Attenborough GPs, hoping to photograph a 1st winter male Greater Scaup. The long stayer had been present for several months, associating with Tufted Ducks. Impressive close-up images of the GS, prompted me to make the effort
I prepared myself for a long wait as it wasn't showing on arrival. Plenty of Tufted Ducks on view, (some swimming near to the hide), helped me remain optimistic!
After a couple of hours I eventually spotted the Greater Scaup in a convoy of 'new' TDs that drifted in from a secluded corner. I watched it diving for food whilst willing it to swim closer but unfortunately, that day it preferred deeper water. Hopes of making detailed shots were dashed. Meanwhile, Tufted Ducks provided the only camera action.
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Flies are buzzing round my head
Vultures circling my bed
Picking up every last crumb
The big fish eat the little ones
Big fish eat the little ones
Not my problem, give me some
You can try the best you can
You can try the best you can
The best you can is good enough
You can try the best you can
You can try the best you can
The best you can is good enough
This one’s optimistic
This one went to market
This one just came out of the swamp
This one drops a payload
Of fodder for the animals
Living on an animal farm
You can try the best you can
You can try the best you can
The best you can is good enough
You can try the best you can
You can try the best you can
The best you can is good enough
I’d really like to help you man
I’d really like to help you man
Nervous messed up marionettes
Float around on a prison ship
You can try the best you can
You can try the best you can
The best you can is good enough
You can try the best you can
You can try the best you can
Dinosaurs roaming the earth
Dinosaurs roaming the earth
Dinosaurs roaming the earth
Radiohead
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We're Here! : Optimistic Cloudgoat
Strobist: AB1600 with gridded 60X30 softbox camera right. Triggered by Cybersync.
"Flies are buzzing round my head
Vultures circling the dead
Picking up every last crumb
The big fish eat the little ones
The big fish eat the little ones
Not my problem, give me some "
Radiohead_Optimistic
Group of Four Optimistic Cactus Flowers In My Front Garden
These glorious cactus flowers in my front garden open at night and last for a single day. They are so optimistic that they will be fertilized quickly.
I'm not sure what this nursery web spider (Pisura mirabilis) was up to on the garden sage bush. It looks like it is eyeing up the Bombus lapidarius queen as a snack. Normally it goes for much smaller prey which it subdues physically rather than poisons so the bee represented quite a challenge!. I shall never know as the bee flew off before the spider could make its intentions clear.
This is the third species of queen bumblebee seen in the garden this year - the other two being B. terrestris and B. hypnorum. There have also been honeybees and a single male mining bee.
The spider is interesting because although I've seen them in the local countryside it's the first time I have seen the species in the garden.
With a new beginning and fresh start,
Full of inspiration and positive thoughts,
Let's begin this year with an optimistic thought.
..."Choose to be optimistic, it feels better." --Dalai Lama XIV
For ODC: Dalai Lama quotes
And Color My World Daily (yellow day on Wednesday)
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Rappelez-vous que les jours se lèvent toujours.
Savez-vous qu'être optimiste,
partager plus et vouloir moins,
vivre de manière plus simple et moins compliquée
est pour nous aussi protecteur que la lumière du jour,
chaque jour nous invitant à danser
avec la danse du temps d'aujourd'hui.
Oui c'est vrai mes amis(es),
: )
Ivan
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Remember the days always rises.
Know you that being optimistic,
share more and want less,
try to live in a simple and less complicated way
for every day inviting us to dance
with the dance of today's time,
is for us as protective as the days'light.
Yes my friends, all will be fine.
: )
Ivan
After optimistically mistaking a pair of turkey vultures for our resident hawks, I spotted Mom perched in a tree at the Oval. Before I could get my exposure set, she took off to the ballfield and into this pine tree. It was a very nice surprise to find her sitting next to T4. Yes, that is ice on Mom's right eye.
I wasn't terribly optimistic when I went looking for the BNSF's local on the Hanley Falls branch to Madison, MN. Good news! I saw a headlight when I crossed the tracks at this rural crossing west of Boyd. Bad news: it soon became obvious they were running east as light power. Consolation: the east facing locomotive was an ex-Frisco GP38-2 still wearing H1 paint. I gave a little chase back to Clarkfield, but I think I'll need to come back to try again. This telephoto view shows how little grading was done when the Minneapolis & St Louis Railway laid the first tracks down back in the late 19th century.
My (optimistic) Order...
Please deliver a massive Starling murmuration very close to home during the lock-down
Status...
Delivered
20-30,000 birds
Payment Details...
1 tube of meal-worms and crushed peanuts in the garden feeder every morning
(Only 20-30 Starlings will attend)
Done
Transaction completed
Thank you
20,000 Starlings
Fynn and his human and furry family wish all our Flickr friends a Happy New Year. May the sun shine on you and your loved ones in 2017 and may the year be all you hope it will be.
I have chosen Fynn for my New Year's greetings because it's often not easy to stay optimistic when you have to deal with his health issues. He ends the year with more problems than he started it and I'm not sure what the next months will bring but I know that Fynn is a fighter otherwise his life would have been over years ago. If anyone has taught me not to give up easily it's him.
Feeling good after spending some time chatting with the steering wheel harvesters, Pinky is optimistic about the latest world to which the jump drive has transported him.
Pinky steps from his rover, and gazes around at the striking purple terrain and the interesting vegetation. Soon he notices an interesting vehicle and two green-skinned creatures nearby.
Hello. What a beautiful planet you have. I'm Pinky, the wandering Space Alpaca. I'm just passing through on my way home...I hope.
The green stranger with the big purple hairdo smiles benignly.
Welcome, traveler. We are glad you have joined us. Please, stay for a while. I am Sirene, the Governess of this place. We were just about to play some music...Would you care to listen?
Some music would be very pleasant to pass the time while my Quantum Drive recharges, thank you.
Pinky makes himself comfortable on the soft pink terrain while Sirene and her associate begin creating the most unusual melodic sounds that he has ever heard. Sirene plays a strange guitar while the other creature sings, the sounds amplified and accompanied by various tone coming from the nearby vehicle.
Soon, Pinky finds himself in a trancelike state...carried away by the phantasmagorical and mellifluous music, unable to move or even think clearly. In is not unpleasant but quite uncanny.
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After a time, Pinky regains his senses and find himself quite alone. There is no sign of Sirene, the others, or the vehicle, not even tracks in the soft purple soil.
Wondering if they were ever there at all, Pinky returns to his rover, climbs aboard and presses the Quantum Drive ignition.
ZZZZZZaaaap
Crackle
Flash
As the smoke wisps away, one can almost hear faint, unusual music in the distance...
"Love is better than anger. Hope is better than fear. Optimism is better than despair. So let us be loving, hopeful and optimistic. And we'll change the world.” - Jack Layton (1950-2011)
St. Margaret's Anglican Church which I have photographed over the years. It looks so different without the huge tree that was removed by the City of Toronto, because it might become a hazard if it fell.
Thanks for visiting, take care, stay healthy and hopeful. #BeKind