Turnstone - Arinaria Interpres

Ruddy turnstones can survive in a wide range of habitats and climatic conditions from Arctic to tropical. The typical breeding habitat is open tundra with water nearby. Outside the breeding season, it is found along coasts, particularly on rocky or stony shores. It is often found on man-made structures such as breakwaters and jetties. It may venture onto open grassy areas near the coast. Small numbers sometimes turn up on inland wetlands, especially during the spring and autumn migrations.

In terms of wintering sites, ruddy turnstones are particularly faithful to specific locations. A study published in 2009 examined turnstones wintering along a stretch of coastline in the Firth of Clyde. It found that 95% of birds resident to the area at the end of winter returned the following autumn. The same study also confirmed ruddy turnstones as one of the longest lived wader species, with annual adult mortality rates of under 15%. Their average lifespan is 9 years with 19 years and 2 months being the longest recorded.

Population:

UK wintering:

48,000 birds

All is well day after the snow, the sun melted all the snow from the feeder and my little friends were able to get some much needed food.

D E T A I L S (more pics/full outfit feat. Lelutka Briannon EvoX mesh head)

I've been taking some mobile artistry courses and this is the result of work done on the ipad. I'm really amazed at how much these apps can do! Also, the original photo was taken with a wonderful black and white camera app called Lenka--I highly recommend it. Be sure to check out the apps Glitché and Matter. This was an abandoned church for sale in a very small Texas town.

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Another in my intermittent postings of trees surviving in harsh conditions. This stunted juniper is growing out of a rock ledge at the Canyonlands Overlook, Utah.

Hope everyone has a good Monday. Thanks, as always, for stopping by and for all of your kind comments -- I appreciate them all.

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did you think i'd lay down and die..

No not me ..i will survive .. as long as i know how to breath

Hi all !!

This time, I step out of my comfort. I'm not at all used to using so many colors. I really hope you like it !!

Story : "All you gotta do is die a little, die a little

Die a little to survive..."

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This plant survives the climate and ever-changing weather:-)

I placed rocks around it and am happy to see it return yearly.

A mat-forming species of Dianthus well-suited for use as a small-scale groundcover. Blooms over a long period, the cheery flowers are resting atop a bed of deep green, needle-like foliage. Good soil drainage, year-round, is essential.

Uses

Perfectly sized for rock gardens and border fronts. Cut flowers are long-lasting in fresh bouquets. Perfect for all kinds of containers.

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The Litomyšl Castle is an outstanding example of an arcaded Renaissance country residence, a type of structure first invented in Italy and then developed in the Czech Lands to create a mature form with special architectural value. Situated at an important communications junction on the main route between Bohemia and Moravia, in the Pardubice region, Litomyšl was a fortified centre on the hill where the castle now stands.

The work on the Renaissance building began in 1568 under the supervision of Jan Baptista Avostalis (Giovanni Battista Avostalli), who was soon joined by his brother Oldřich (Ulrico). Most of the work had been completed by 1580. The castle interior underwent alterations between 1792 and 1796, based on the designs of Jan Kryštof Habich, but he was careful to preserve the fine building’s Renaissance appearance with impressive gables.

The castle is a four-winged, three-storeyed structure with an asymmetrical disposition. The western wing is the largest, whereas the southern wing is a two-storeyed arcaded gallery, closing the second square courtyard (a feature that is unique to Litomyšl). The groin-vaulted arcading continues around the western and eastern sides of the courtyard. The south-eastern corner of the eastern wing contains the castle chapel. One of the most striking features in the interior of the castle consists in the fine neoclassical theatre from 1796-97 in the western wing. The original painted decoration of the auditorium, stage decorations and stage machinery have survived intact. The house has richly decorated interiors, basically Renaissance in form and with lavish late Baroque or neoclassical ornamentation in the form of elaborate plasterwork and wall and ceiling paintings.

The buildings associated with the castle were all built or rebuilt during the course of the modifications that the castle itself underwent over time, and this is reflected in their architectural styles. Among the ancillary buildings, the most interesting is the Brewery, the birthplace of Bedřich Smetana, one of the greatest Czech composers of all time. It lies to the south of the first courtyard. Originally constructed to complement the castle, with Renaissance sgraffito decoration, it was remodelled by the well-know

n architect František Maximilián Kaňka after the 1728 fire and received what is its present appearance. The ensemble also includes the former French formal garden with its saletta (pavilion) in the Baroque style and an 18th-century English-style park. (whc.unesco.org/en/list/901/)

Red Rose covered with snow after an early morning light snow,

At a time in my life, I would experience depression in the fall. The dying leaves and changes in color, and temperatures, were a forewarning of the cold winter weather to come.

Today I see splendor in the natural cycle that must take place for the trees to survive. The veins that supply water to the leaves shrink, to preserve the tree. Thus the leaves change color and die. And come spring, the veins reopen, as the tree gives life and blossoms once again. This cycle is amazing.

After the recent fire I had to see what was left of this iconic wreck in Inverness, California.

Actual shot. Had a walk down the water and saw this spider struggles to hold onto its thread in a high wind…hope he succeeded. Bird feathers were floating in the air in every direction.

SENIOR VENDOR HOT AND SMOKED "ROASTED PEANUTS" IN A TRADITIONAL PAPER CONE.

EXQUISITE IN WINTER.

IMPRESSIONISM

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After such a hot week I hope these little darlings survive the rest of the winter

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Each eyeshadow is bom and tintable, for this photo I'm using the shadow #10

This set give you lots of freedom to make unique outfits.

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"And it's falling apart

Around us now

The room in a spin

I hear the howl of the wind

And the pounding of the rain

And I'd give everything to dream again

There must be more than

Surviving, surviving

Surviving, surviving

Surviving, surviving

And nothing else"

Using "Sassy Sweet Poses"

Majestic old oak, trying to survive oak wilt disease. Between Oak wilt, and Asian beetle, oak trees have been decimated along the NE. Great efforts by environmental groups and forestry services to re-plant.

A delicate flower trying to survive at the edge of the

Dettifoss , the most powerful waterfall in Europe.

I already said goodbye.

Two weeks ago my Father passed away from dementia, today was his funeral, I chose to not attend, as we have been estranged for 32 years. Myself and my siblings had a very traumatic childhood because of this man, he was abusive to us all, including my Mum, and we were shown very little love from both parents due to the way he had conditioned her. We spent a large part of our childhood visiting my Mum in a mental hospital, and my older brother pretty much brought us up. I walked away from my Father when my Mum finally divorced him when I was 18. Trying to be a part of his life was too painful, he didn’t seem to care about us. To others he was a wonderful man and would do anything for anyone, but never his own family, a wife and 5 children. I grew up being told I was thick, which did nothing for my self esteem and affected my adult life hugely.

I have been in two minds as to whether to post about this on here for the last two weeks, I am not grieving him, I am grieving for my lost childhood. I have set this to disable the comments, as I am just putting this here so I have a record of it on my blog, and need to move on from this after today, and I don’t want anyone to feel sorry as I am ok, just a very surreal time, and the end of an era, after losing my Mum to cancer in November 2020.

Today we went to Butterfly world as a distraction, and also because it was too cold and wet to shoot outdoors. We had a lovely day.

The crocuses were taken in our garden a few days ago during the cold snap. They survived the storm, and they continue to bloom. ❤️

Much love to you all, dear Flickr friends.

Final boss mode XDD

I will keep survive for you to find me again.

I'm hope I was able to create a nice vision for this new hairstyle by DURA! I had a lot of fun and it was exciting to create. It has become my new favorite hair Please go try it out coming to ALPHA!

Thank you to my hb for his patience!

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Taken inside Joshua Tree National Park on one of the hikes we did. I rarely use this type of post processing but I really enjoyed the way it came across for this subject matter. What do you think? Yay or Nay?

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Sometimes, in a barren moorland, you come across a single tree.

Usually, they're stunted little fellas, but they have to be tough to survive in the windblown conditions.

Especially here, by the sea.

So that makes them special.

Right?

Music?

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During the holidays, Peter and Oleg visited some castles in Luxembourg. Peter (Prince Peter) is still looking for a castle for his sweet princess Rosie. www.flickr.com/photos/40262251@N03/ In the castle of Beaufort they also visited the torture chamber.

PETER:

Oleg?? That thing I'm sitting on won't turn around anymore

I can't go up and I can't go down.

What should I do now?

OLEG:

Sit still...give me your left paw and I'll pull you up

And so it happened

Peter and Oleg survived the torture chamber

Shot through some dead tree limbs to get a shot of this beautiful cardinal. One of the more beautiful things I found in bastrop tx.

Abbey "Ten Duinen"

Onze-Lieve-Vrouw Ten Duinen, short Duinenabdij, was an abbey on the Belgian coast in Koksijde. The abbey joined the Order of Cîteaux in 1138 and was abolished in 1796, meanwhile in Bruges. The motto of the abbey was Fac necessitate virtutem; Make a virtue of necessity.

From my 2005 Xinjiang Archives

The Bezeklik Thousand Buddha Caves [...] (Uyghur: بزقلیق مىڭ ئۆيى ) is a complex of Buddhist cave grottos dating from the 5th to 14th century between the cities of Turpan and Shanshan (Loulan) at the north-east of the Taklamakan Desert near the ancient ruins of Gaochang in the Mutou Valley, a gorge in the Flaming Mountains, in the Xinjiang region of western China. They are high on the cliffs of the west Mutou Valley under the Flaming Mountains,[1] and most of the surviving caves date from the West Uyghur kingdom around the 10th to 13th centuries. Wikipedia

Crocuses are in the Iris family and have long been popular as garden plants in the UK for their early spring flowering and bright, cheerful colours. None of the true crocuses are native here, with most originating from SE Europe and Asia Minor. This page also includes the meadow saffrons, which are at first glance very similar to crocuses. Meadow saffrons are in the family Colchicaceae and, like crocuses, are plants that survive as underground bulbs.

.... climate change. The famous cedar trees in the mountainous region of Lebanon are showing signs of extreme stress due to the warming of climate. The article below explains what is happening to the trees of biblical legends.

www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2018/12/24/climate-change-destro...

~ A portrait i Dedicate to my Uncle Bob, he went into the Hospital tonight and is not doing well, he is a surviver of Lung cancer and lost a Lung to Cancer, but these past days he can not breath well and had to go back to the Hospital, please have him in your thoughts and prayers . thank you

~For you ♫ youtu.be/2LuGzwNy2ws

location: Factory, Innsmouth (SecondLife)

Contre-jour, reflector. This Magnolia blossom survived yesterday's snow (and the night frost). It is now sitting on the window sill of my study and looking out.

I had to buy new Christmas ornaments as Linus had destroyed about 50% of my old ones last year. The new ones were cheap (I'm learning) but they are supposed to be unbreakable. I gave one to Linus today for a first test. Surprisingly the ornament has survived the test so far although it has lost some of its colour and Linus is still trying to prove that he will always win in the end.

There are 12 surviving chalk-cut white horses in England. Eight of them are in Wiltshire, and the Alton Barnes White Horse is one of them. It is not particularly old, having been cut in 1812 on Milk Hill, which is now part of Pewsey Down NNR. The Alton Barnes White Horse is considered one of the most striking and remote of the white horses, with beautiful downland views from the top of the hill. Milk Hill, Pewsey Downs NNR, Wiltshire, England, UK

Thank you all for your visits, favours and comments, much appreciated.

have survived the winter so far, have a few of them in the garden, very cold weather in the forecast