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Take care, stay healthy everyone.

Chalk hill blue (m)

Portland, Dorset.

Polyommatus Icarus

Abbey Fields - Kenilworth

Taken at Hazelbury common, Wiltshire.

Portland, Dorset.

Portland, Dorset.

"I leaned my back against an oak

Thinking it was a trusty tree

But first it bowed and then it broke

And so my love proved false to me."

Water Is Wide - Odetta

and this is probably the one I remember the best, thanks to Sandy (Colormaniac too) !

The Water Is Wide - Joan Baez

This is Longmoor Pool in Sutton Park. These two trees have always been a favourite for me, they're so reliable and always look marvelous. This song often plays in my head, too, even after I first heard it so so many years ago.

~ Edited in Topaz Studio with a texture of my own applied ~

I hope you like this. Thanks as always for every fave, comment and just for looking !

Eastville Park, Bristol.

Polyommatus Icarus. Stoke Park, Bristol.

Nature takes its course.

The Precursors of Spring have returned.

Storks usually migrate back from their winter quarters in Spain, the Mediterranean and North Africa in March.

There are more and more white storks in Baden-Württemberg - also because many stop taking the dangerous trip to Africa in winter.

Here in Germany’s southwest -as well as in the nearby Alsace (France)-

storks have always been celebrated as good-luck symbols, heraldic coat of arms motifs, all-around fabulous creatures, certainly much more than just quaint and interesting flying beasts.

Due to COVID-19, the borders between Germany and France are closed...

I live very close to the Alsace region I like so very much.

The Southern Alsace is heavily hit by the Pandemic too,

Sending my best wishes to our neighbours.

Prenez soin de vous, tous mes amis français ♥

Fact is, for centuries, people have felt fortunate to have storks nesting on their roofs. At that time people believed that they protect the house from fire, lightning and other natural and even man-made disasters. Storks tend to return to the same nesting place often with the same partner, year after year!

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Take care, stay healthy everyone.

Taken at Hazelbury common.

This is for all of you, my Flickr friends. Taken in my garden very recently in bright sunshine. The light was just at the right angle, fortunately.

~ Edited in Topaz Studio ~

I hope you like the music I've chosen to go with my image - please click on the link and open in a new tab. Thanks ! The first few words inspired the title for my image.

Lowell George - China White

Thanks as always for your kind comments, faves and just for looking.

during golden hour

Polyommatus Icarus.

Stapleton Church, view from Purdown, Bristol.

"It is not one of those flowers that grabs your attention, but rather one needs to bend close to it to perceive its delicate beauty"

Thank you so very much, Explore & Explorers.

in my garden

Duchess pon, Stoke Park, Bristol.

My first shot since my knee replacement 3 months ago and also first shot for this year. Sitting in such a low position on the cold grass on a slope was quite a challenge. Getting up again even more so. But I couldn't let this chance go.

I really hope you are all still oke my friends! Luckily I am still oke. Missing my daughters (both nursing Corona patients) and my granddaughters a lot though. At least I still have my darling cat Koentje for company.

Georgia. 4/10/2020.

Taken in a Georgia swamp. The bird is nicknamed the golden swamp warbler. It is our ony eastern warbler that regularly nests in cavities. Out west the Lucy's does as well. The perch I think is some sort of crabapple.

Stoke Park, Bristol.

Wild flowers around Whitburn windmill

Thank you all for the comments 🙏💚 I really appreciate 👍

A brown hare looking for tasty leaf buds to nibble

Polyommatus Coridon sat on a wild carrot flower. Rodborough Common, Stroud.

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A red rhododrendron in flower during Spring, 2020, at the Campbell Rhododendron Gardens, Bacchante Street, at Blackheath, in the Blue Mountains.

Photographed in the late afternoon of Sunday, 4th October, 2020, on the occasion of my road trip to Blackheath, in the Blue Mountains. About two hour's drive from Sydney.

The Campbell Rhododendron Gardens are amazing to visit. See their flower gallery at:

rhodogarden.org.au/gallery/

My Canon EOS 5D Mk IV, with the Canon 24-105mm lens.

(Why I did not stop to change the lens to the Macro I do not know - but sometimes changing lenses can be a burden!!)

Processed in:

Adobe Lightroom and PhotoPad Pro by NCH software

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Thank you all for the comments 🙏💚 I really appreciate 👍

"Hang in there. It is astonishing how short a time it can take for very wonderful things to happen."

~ Frances Hodgson Burnett

... I needed some kind of cheering up myself today after a very exhausting working week - and I remembered this photo, taken on a beautifully lazy Sunday at Black Forest (had fun, too, editing it yesterday evening)

I hope I will have more time for taking pictures and Flick this weekend / next week

Take care and please stay safe !

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"Halte durch. Es ist erstaunlich, in welch kurzer Zeit wunderbare Dinge geschehen können."

~ Frances Hodgson Burnett (freie Übersetzung)

... ich hatte für mich selbst heute ein wenig Aufmunterung benötigt nach einer sehr anstrengenden Arbeitswoche ... da fiel mir dieses Foto ein - sehr schöne Erinnerungen an einen gemütlichen, warmen Frühlings-Sonntag im Schwarzwald :))

Ich hoffe, ich habe dieses Wochenende / kommende Woche wieder mehr Zeit zum Fotografieren und für Flickr

Passt auf euch auf !

Female and male Northern Flickers on a blooming Saguaro Cactus. My back porch. No crop.

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Thank you all for the comments 🙏💚 I really appreciate 👍

Hatch Hill, Somerset.

Hatch Hill, Somerset.