This is an image I took from a glass blowing presentation at Wimberley Glassworks in Wimberley Texas. They were showing how they make pieces of their new collection called dragon scale vases.

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Created for TMI"S mid month challenge: "Scales"

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Phaethornis eurynome - Only large hermit hummingbird in its range with black feathers on the throat giving it a scaled appearance. The bill is slightly curved. The back is olive-green and it has a strong mask. The tail is long and white-tipped. Similar to Dusky-throated Hermit, but Scale-throated Hermit is bigger with a longer tail. Found in the understory of humid and montane forests.

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Phaethornis eurynome - Only large hermit hummingbird in its range with black feathers on the throat giving it a scaled appearance. The bill is slightly curved. The back is olive-green and it has a strong mask. The tail is long and white-tipped. Similar to Dusky-throated Hermit, but Scale-throated Hermit is bigger with a longer tail. Found in the understory of humid and montane forests.

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Icerya sp ?

Snakes, like other reptiles, have skin covered in scales. Snakes are completely covered with keratinous scales or shields, of various shapes and sizes. The scales protect their body and, aid in locomotion, allow to maintain humidity within it, alter surface characteristics such as roughness to aid in camouflage, and in some cases they are even useful in capturing their prey.

Beautiful cliffs at Goulburn River National Park, New South Wales, Australia.

(Phaetornis eurynome) B28I9861 Recanto do Saua - Sao Francisco Xavier - Mata Atlantica - Brazil

Mata Atlantica Endemic Tour - Guide : Marcos Eugênio

Northward Journey in Spring

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Scaleâ ,

Temperature,

Fallen,

Brass,

Macro,

United States,

Pennsylvania,

Fall.

South Texas

And some flowers bokeh for a Peaceful Monochrome Thursday!

This comparatively large hummingbird, which is endemic to the Atlantic Forest biome, is easily identified within its range by virtue of it being the only larger, predominantly green and gray-plumaged hermit, with a rather long, decurved, bill. The Scale-throated Hermit inhabits the understory of both lowland and highland forests, as well as old second growth, from southeast Brazil (as far north as southern Bahia) to eastern Paraguay and northeast Argentina, and is recorded at 2250 m at least. It feeds, like most hermit hummingbirds, by trap-lining, although some arthropods are also taken, and the species will periodically also visit feeders to take ‘artificial’ nectar. This hermit is tolerably common in most parts of its range.

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This comparatively large hummingbird, which is endemic to the Atlantic Forest biome, is easily identified within its range by virtue of it being the only larger, predominantly green and gray-plumaged hermit, with a rather long, decurved, bill.

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Scale

L'échelle sur mon vieux plan de New-York (1985 ?)

The scale on my old map of New York

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There's two paths leading up towards Blencathra's summit, the one on the left goes up via Sharp Edge, the one on the right is an easier safer way.. the choice is yours, whatever you prefer :-)

Altitutude three feet

Roma, Campidoglio.

My Best on black - My Recent on black

My book "Paris, Mon Amour" (preview)

My book "Just Windows" (preview)

My book Castelli della Loira (preview)

My book Colours of Havana (preview)

My book Immagini e Parole

This Painted Lady Butterfly (Vanessa cardui) wings are backlit by the sun. The male and female both called Painted Lady?! This one's on the garden's New England asters (Aster novae-angliae) at head high with more asters in the background as bokeh. Beyond the bokeh, I love the tightly curled proboscis. I've edited this as I believe it's a "Painted lady" not an "American lady" butterfly. There's my ID lack of knowledge.

November Theme - Quintessential Americana

"Grasslands Prancer" - Scaled Quail

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I chose the wrong time to visit this waterfall, a great lack of water.. there is the remains of an old mill on the site, not much remains and it is mostly covered by the undergrowth.

Full-Scale Freedom

Berlin

2023 February 24th

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Vilnius Concerts and Sports Palace (Vilniaus koncertų ir sporto rūmai), Vilnius, Lithuania.

Design (1971): J. Kriukelis and Z. Liandzbergis.

USS John F. Kennedy (CV-67) in Philadelphia Naval Shipyard

Scale Haw Falls, Hebden, North Yorkshire.

slightly diffused fish on scales

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The Royal Iris of the Mersey sails past the Cruise ship Carnival Pride in Liverpool.

Depicting the the scale s of both ships beautifully ..

two figures at the edge of a wall.

too small for the space.

too large to ignore.

this image doesn’t measure meters — it measures meaning.

it’s not the wall that remembers.

it’s the ones who walk through it.

What a treat to observe and photograph a "life-bird". While in Texas at the border, we took cover in a hide and first saw this lovely bird. Later, there were two quails and we watched as they both share dirt and dust to bathe in the setting sun. A ground-dwelling bird of the southwestern desert grasslands, the Scaled Quail usually runs to escape enemies rather than flying.