This most clever Halloween display was seen in my daughter's San Diego neighborhood and uploaded for Smile on Saturday! :-). theme: free theme. Hope this makes you smile as much as it did me when I saw it! HSoS everyone!

Start small - these are the 'Small Isles' after all - and work up. Small perhaps and a bit 'out the way' (the Outer Hebrides) but very beautiful. They are a group of islands to the south of Skye in Scotland and provide a richness of delights to satisfy the largest of appetites!

I used a long exposure here to help bring out the cloud textures and movement in the water

Another shot from my trip up to Start Point Lighthouse at the weekend.

Many thanks to Brenda Starr for the use of her great texture

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Nagareyama, Chiba, Japan

Taken from Vashon Highway, at Quartermaster harbor looking at Maury Island to the south.

Vashon, Wa.

starting in the West coast and driving to Washington, DC

Waiting in the light of colors...

Today I'm starting a winter wildlife photo set, all mammals. The species that can survive our northern prairie winters are relatively few, and not many of them are birds. Some of the mammals - prairie dogs, ground squirrels - go underground to sleep away the winter. Others, including badgers, become torpid in their dens to save energy. As I'm not going to try crawling into a badger's den, we'll just be looking at a few species that remain active throughout the winter.

What may surprise some who follow my "stream" is that most of the dozen images, including this, were obtained on foot, not from the rolling red Toyota blind. I lay flat on the snow to photograph this Nuttall's Cottontail, and it went about its grooming without seeming disturbed. That is the key. To learn how to spend time with animals while not appearing threatening in any way.

Even though I have hundreds or even thousands of shots of these critters, every encounter was a thrill for me - a moment when whatever I tried... worked. There's no better feeling.

Photographed in Grasslands National Park, Saskatchewan (Canada). Don't use this image on websites, blogs, or other media without explicit permission ©2023 James R. Page - all rights reserved.

This plant is almost 30 years old.... it started out as a very small ficus when I was learning how to create my own bonsai plant...

it's in a small rectangular and shallow bowl and the roots have grown out of the pot.... and still as healthy as ever with lots of twists and turns!!

Macro shooting after the Rain stopped.

Cricket finally starts. This was East Harlsey's second eleven's first game of the season, away to Danby CC.

East Harlsey were bowled out for 63 by an excellent Danby team, who them knocked the total off without losing a wicket. But the result didn't matter.

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Album Μάνα γή μάνα Καραγκούνα Mother Earth Mother Karagkouna

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Συλλογή φωτογραφιών από μιά προσπάθεια αναπαράστασης των παραδοσιακών μεθόδων θερισμού και αλωνίσματος στον Θεσσαλικό κάμπο υπό τον γενικό τίτλο "Μάνα γή μάνα Καραγκούνα"

It's a collection of photos frrom an representation attempt of traditional harvesting and threshing methods in the Thessalic plain under the title "Mother Earth Mother Karagkouna"

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Yesterday afternoon myself and my friend Carl drove up to Start Point Lighthouse near Kingsbridge in Devon. We were hoping for a decent sunset and it was looking pretty good when we got there. The lighthouse points east so normally people come here for sunrise shots. We had a lovely bit of side light from the afternoon sun which gave of a nice contrast with the shadows on the lower part of the coastline. This shot was taken at about 15:30 just after we arrived. I took quite a few photos here so I'll try not to spam you with too many of them!

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Like three years ago, starting the new season with a wonderful and enchanting Hubble's Variable Nebula (NGC 2261)

Previous approach: www.flickr.com/photos/olegbr/8552071862/in/dateposted/

I wanted to personally check whether it still variable ...

It was found that this is so :)

Here animation L-channel 200%: olegbr.astroclub.kiev.ua/files/astrofoto/NGC2261/NGC2261_...

Of course, 3 years - a very large interval for observing the changes in the nebula. Everything is much faster: www.umanitoba.ca/science/astronomy/cbrown/imaging/hvn/ana...

In 2013-2016 animation, I drew attention to the star just above the nebula, which is for 3 years significantly shifted to the right.

To heighten the effect, combined with the current picture image DSS., For about 60 years, the offset is already pretty decent. olegbr.astroclub.kiev.ua/files/astrofoto/NGC2261/NGC2261_...

Here www.astrosurf.com/mcianci/ngc2261.html Italian colleague calculated that the proper motion (proper motion) of the star 0.2" per year. The name is NLTT 16798 and is listed as High Proper Motion Star: simbad.u-strasbg.fr/simbad/sim-id?Ident=NLTT+16798

Explanation: What causes Hubble's Variable Nebula to vary? The unusual nebula pictured above changes its appearance noticeably in just a few weeks. Discovered over 200 years ago and subsequently cataloged as NGC 2661, the remarkable nebula is named for Edwin Hubble, who studied it earlier this century. Hubble's Variable Nebula is a reflection nebula made of gas and fine dust fanning out from the star R Monocerotis. The faint nebula is about one light-year across and lies about 2500 light-years away towards the constellation of Monocerotis. A leading variability explanation for Hubble's Variable Nebula holds that dense knots of opaque dust pass close to R Mon and cast moving shadows onto the reflecting dust seen in the rest of the nebula. (text:http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap991020.html)

This picture was photographed during 4 and 6 February 2016 in Khlepcha observatory, Ukraine.

Equipment: home assembled reflector 10 in., f/3.8

Mount WhiteSwan-180 with a control system «Eqdrive Standart», camera QSI-583wsg, Televue Paracorr-2. Off-axis guidecamera QHY5L-II.

LRGB filter set Baader Planetarium.

L = 29 * 600 seconds , bin.1, RGB = 11 * 300-450 seconds, bin.2 each filter. About 8 hours.

FWHM source in L filter 2.10"-2.97", sum in L channel - 2.55"

The height above the horizon from 40° to 48°, the scale of 1"/ pixel.

Processed Pixinsight 1.8 and Photoshop CS6

Lower section of the steepest standard gage line-haul railroad grade in the United States. Located at the west side of historical Madison, Indiana.

Black-shouldered Kite (Elanus axillaris)

The gift of the stick for the nest impressed the lady.

“I don't reproach the spring

for starting up again.

I can't blame it

for doing what it must

year after year.

I know that my grief

will not stop the green.”

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The morning starts with sun and rain/snow clouds. A lucky start of the year with the rainbow over the lake.

Train 939 pauses at Oamaru for the driver to start the trailing DX for the climb out of town.

As the exhaust fluff dissipates above the station, he climbs down from the front of the third loco.

16 Jan 2022, Train 939, DXB 5051 - DC 4012 - DXC 5206, Oamaru, SIMT-NZ

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No idea as to why the raised arm. Perhaps looking for divine intervention for the engine to start.

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Bico-de-lacre/Waxbill

Estrilda astrild

Mourisca - Setúbal

Spring sunset on Tywyn beach.

Happy Bokeh Wednesday

Lefkada, Greece

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