Dell 24″ Full HD 1080p Widescreen Flat Panel Display (S2409W) wall mounted using an Ergotron’s FX30 Wall Mount

...and Mau in the front.... :-)

As requested for the big picture mash.

An amazing flower I saw at the Missouri Botanical Garden. I never knew (or thought of) ginger having flowers, but I guess plants do produce flowers, don't they? ;)

Full tutorial: oliverands.com/blog/2014/06/customizing-the-sunny-day-sho...

Even with this photo, it's hard to see the "peaks and valleys" and fine tips in this pendant...

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Minimalistic makeup in a greek/yoke style dress.

Another view of my 810 Toyoview

Alekseevskaya church sideview, Nizhny Novgorod, Russia (Sep 2014)

Last night's Huge windowscreen visitor ID: Longhorn (Prionus) Beetle (exact species to be determined). Entranced and attracted by:

(A) a ripening avocado

(B) my Little Eden artwork on wall

(C)light from the new kitchen lamp

So far from searches I'm thinking it's either Prionus Laticollis (Broad-necked Prionus) or Prionus imbricornus (Tile-horned Prionus).

Beetle species ID help welcomed!

Nikon D90

AF-S Nikkor 50mm 1:1,4G

from the series Caresses

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Custom Z-Zero

Another view.

From left: 14mm Dollbakery, 12mm ED, 14mm ED, 14mm Mako, 14mm Vings, 12mm Dollflower

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Range:

Eastern and southwestern Oregon, California, southwestern Nevada, southern Utah and western Arizona and into Baja, Mexico.

Habitat:

Highly adaptable; woodlands, coniferous forests, grassland, cultivated fields, tropical scrub, and desert. Often found near streams.

Characteristics:

Scientific name means "shiny skin." Scales are smooth. Dorsal pattern is highly variable but frequently consists of dark and light rings.

Behavior:

Constrictor but often vibrates tail as "bluff." Hides under logs or stones. If caught, can be vicious, biting and chewing hard, but after adjusting to captivity, usually becomes quite good-tempered. Because of their snake-eating habits, they are often caged separately in captivity. Sometimes rolls into a ball with its head at the center and everts lining of cloaca as "bluff." Chiefly terrestrial but some species climb into trees after birds. Usually crepescular, but desert species often nocturnal.

Reproduction:

Mate from mid-March to early July. Oviparous, laying 6 to 12 eggs in a clutch; incubation period 66 to 83 days. The striped and banded phases often occur within offspring of same clutch of eggs.

Interesting Facts:

Controlling rodents and venomous snakes. In the presence of a king snake a rattler will neither strike nor rattle, but will lay with head low and raise center part of its body in a loop, with which it will strike heavy blows to the king snake.

(Photo by Cyndi Souza, USFWS)

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