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~ Please Mr Postman deliver the letter I am waiting for today - it's been a long four weeks wait - hurry up! ~
The Heliconius Melpomene is also known as the postman butterfly. It's one of the heliconiine butterflies found from Mexico to northern South America. Several species in the genus have very similar markings and are difficult to distinguish.
Florida Keys USA
From the postman's oath: "Neither Rain, Nor Sleet, Nor Dark Of Night Shall Stay These Couriers From The Swift Completion Of Their Appointed Rounds"
I visited the Butterfly Place in Westford, Massachusetts, for these. They have so many species there!
So we spent the last week hiking in Devon and on the way home we stopped here, the Tarr Steps on Exmoor. The name 'Tarr' is thought to be derived from the Celtic word 'tochar', meaning 'causeway'.
An ancient clapper bridge crossing the River Barle about 6.5 miles upstream from Dulverton, it has been designated by English Heritage as a Grade I listed building and Scheduled Ancient Monument.
I was shooting 1/2s exposures when he walked onto the bridge, I was a bit miffed, everyone else around was "very" kindly keeping off the bridge while I was shooting, then I realised he "was" the Postman 😄
The camera imp obviously knew what was needed because just for this shot it chose 1/13s, very underexposed but thanks to the Sony imp 'mostly' recoverable in post!
Possibly dating back to 1000BC and the postman still uses it to deliver mail, you just have to love this country - well I do!
I'm sure the original builders would be suitably proud, although the odd two ton stone has been replaced after the occasional flood!
me: how are you most comfortable?
him: laying down.
me: on your back?
him: on my side.
[ his back didnt touch the back of the chair ]
me: what have you been thinking about most, recently?
him: whether my wife will make it out of hospital.
Sumiteru Taniguchi, atomic bomb survivor and anti-nuclear activist.
[ confluence,... i dont know where this series will lead,... but it feels right ]
Oceanium / Stralsund / Mecklenburg-Vorpommern / Germany
Album of Germany (the north): www.flickr.com/photos/tabliniumcarlson/albums/72157712098...
The pic doesn't have anything to do with the lyrics, but I thought it fitting since the song reminds me of Postman Pat.
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Gold teeth and a curse for this town were all in my mouth.
Only, i don't know how they got out, dear.
Turn me back into the pet that i was when we met.
I was happier then with no mind-set.
And if you'd 'a took to me like
A gull takes to the wind.
Well, i'd 'a jumped from my tree
And i'd a danced like the king of the eyesores
And the rest of our lives would 'a fared well.
New slang when you notice the stripes, the dirt in your fries.
Hope it's right when you die, old and bony.
Dawn breaks like a bull through the hall,
Never should have called
But my head's to the wall and i'm lonely.
And if you'd 'a took to me like
A gull takes to the wind.
Well, i'd 'a jumped from my tree
And i'd a danced like the kind of the eyesores
And the rest of our lives would 'a fared well.
God speed all the bakers at dawn may they all cut their thumbs,
And bleed into their buns 'till they melt away.
I'm looking in on the good life i might be doomed never to find.
Without a trust or flaming fields am i too dumb to refine?
And if you'd 'a took to me like
Well i'd a danced like the queen of the eyesores
And the rest of our lives would 'a fared well.
New Slang - The Shins
This shot is part of a series of my final tribute to these amazing winged creatures taken on the closing of the Wings of Fancy Butterfly Exhibit at Brookside Gardens last September 21st. The Exhibit will open back on May 5, 2009.
Above butterfly is a Postman - Heliconius melpomene . Postman butterflies are insects found in South America.
The postman butterfly begins as a caterpillar, which hatches from an egg. The caterpillar looks like bird droppings, which can fool its predators. If an animal does approach, the caterpillar has a second line of defense. It lets off a highly unpleasant smell. {Maybe this the reason why it is called Postman because of the scent it sets off}
The caterpillar eats passionflower leaves, which make the adult butterfly poisonous to predators. The butterfly’s bright colors tell birds and other predators of its danger. As an adult, the postman butterfly eats mostly flower nectar.
A view from the fabulous "Postman's Path" which runs along the coast between Achiltibuie and Strathcanaird in north west Scotland. The peak in the distance must be An Teallach.
The 6 mile route was so named because it was used (first in 1860) by postmen, twice a week, before the village of Achiltibuie was connected to the road network. Locals referred to its use as "taking the rock".