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"The lyric sound of laughter Fills all the April hills.... The joy-song of the crocus, The mirth of daffodils." by ☽Moon~Goddess~Earth☾

shore by ☽Moon~Goddess~Earth☾

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___Clinton Scollard

Happy April 1st & Happy Bokeh Wednesday my fine flickr friends!

♫ laughter & joy ♫

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Rain dance by Jaya

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may water quench the thirst

A time for reflections (Peachland, British Columbia) by DESPITE STRAIGHT LINES (Paul Williams)

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Photograph taken at an altitude of Three hundred and forty six metres, at 13:41pm on Friday 10th September 2019 off the Okanagan Highway 97 and Beach Avenue where it crosses 13 Street, on the shoreline of Peachland in British Columbia, Canada.

Here we see a Male Brewer's Blackbird (Euphagus cyanocephalus), named after ornithologist Thomas Mayo Brewer, and distinguished by it's iridescent purple head (unlike the Rusty Blackbird to which it is closely related). Males are up to 10.3 inches in length with black legs and bright yellow eyes and a green and blue colour to the body feathers. It is classd as an American bird, and a New World Blackbird.

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Nikon D850. Focal length 120mm Shutter speed 1/200s Aperture f/16.0 iso640 RAW (14 bit uncompressed) Image size L (8256 x 5504 FX). Focus mode AF-C focus 51 point with 3D- tracking. AF-Area mode single point & 73 point switchable. Exposure mode - Aperture priority exposure. Nikon Back button focusing enabled. Matrix metering. ISO Sensitivity: Auto. White balance: Natural light auto. Colour space Adobe RGB. Nikon Distortion control on. Picture control: Auto. High ISO NR on. Vignette control: normal. Active D-lighting Auto.

Nikkor AF-S 24-120mm f/4G ED VR. Cokin GND4 resin filter . Nikon EN-EL15a battery.Mcoplus professional MB-D850 multi function battery grip 6960. Matin quick release neckstrap. My Memory 128GB Class 10 SDXC 80MB/s card. Lowepro Flipside 400 AW camera bag. Nikon GP-1 GPS module. Hoodman HEYENRG round eyepiece oversized eyecup.

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LATITUDE: N 49d 46m 54.07s

LONGITUDE: W 119d 43m 24.42s

ALTITUDE: 346.0m

RAW (TIFF) FILE: 130.00MB NEF: 95.3MB

PROCESSED (JPeg) FILE: 35.80MB

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the house beside the violet meadow by ☽Moon~Goddess~Earth☾

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come a little closer.

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blue waters by ☽Moon~Goddess~Earth☾

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I took this photo after meeting up with

Tania in Peachland yesterday.

When I met up with Tania at the Bliss Bakery, I was a little distraught as I dropped my Nikon on the ground getting out of the 4Runner. It was in the camera case and I thought I had the strap around my arm, but it was my purse strap instead. Oh my, I thought, please don't let anything happen to my camera =(

Well, when I sat down and opened my case, the lens cap moved ever so slightly and went into the groove of the lens filter.

I couldn''t get it off for the life of me and then Tania showed up and she tried to get it off.

Not luck!

So, I thought I was doomed!

Tania and I were meeting up for a nice hot drink of some sort and to take photos on the beach. It was a beautiful and sunny afternoon.

Anyways, I couldn't take any photos because my lens caps was stuck on my camera. Well, guess what? Tania comes equipped like I said before, and let me use one of her lens. I actually fell in love with it!

Tania was taking a photo of me when I was taking a photo of this.

Thank you so much Tania for the use of your lens. All my photos turned out beautifully...

So, I thought this photo was perfect for my day.

Cuz, I would have been up the lake without a paddle, without my lens...LOL...

When I got home, I unpacked my bags and stuff and then told Jim.

He looked at it and was able to get the cap off with a little prying.

There were no scratches or damage involved....

Thank you hun xo

Happy Blue Monday everyone!

It's great to be back....

fresh smoked salmon pizza by ☽Moon~Goddess~Earth☾

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with spanish onions, fresh tomatoes, cream cheese & capers.

This is what i had for lunch; paired with 2 glasses of nice wine.

french onion soup by ☽Moon~Goddess~Earth☾

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yesterday, Tania and i met up for lunch at the Gasthaus, talked flickr,

enjoyed great wine and had some yummy food. Tania had this soup.

A moment I missed by ☽Moon~Goddess~Earth☾

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at Antlers Beach on Friday afternoon...

I posted a photo yesterday and wrote some words to go with it.

I was referring to this shot right here.

On Friday afternoon, I was heading to my grandparents for the weekend and it became extremely windy, as this part of the Okanagan usually does. Anyways, just as I was driving past, I noticed this wharf as I normally do, but this time....the waves were incredible, splashing with extreme forces and hanging off the wharf was a cluster of huge icicles on both sides...

Absolutley amazing!

For that split moment, I wanted to stop and take some photos, however there were too many vechiles behind me to stop. At this corner it can be very dangerous and you have to give a lot of notice before turning off to the beach.

I could have turned around, although I was running a bit late and had to go quite a ways to turn around.

So, I missed that special moment and can never get it back.

What I missed was just a simple photograph in my mind..... was beautiful art to me.

Remember if you see something special, always stop and capture it then.

So, when I came back from Penticton on Sunday, I decided to stop and try to capture some photos, although I think they are nice, but not the same.

I had to post a series of them.

Dedicated to As seen through Tania's eyes'

If you look close, you can see the icicles have melted away to a smaller cluster.

1/2 litre of Gewürztraminer by ☽Moon~Goddess~Earth☾

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shared between Tania & i this afternoon.

We had a wonderful lunch and catch up....of course we talked all about flickr....really.....honestly....

I can't believe we don't do this more often....