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Cargo ship off loading raw cane sugar at Domino sugar refinery, Locust Point, Baltimore Harbor, Maryland.
I wasn't sure what kind of plant this was, but I liked it. Found at a local Lowe's garden center. Two of my Contacts have identified it as a nerve plant, Fittonia albivenis. I thank them.
Thanks for looking! Isn't God a great artist?
Brandgans an der Ostseeküste.
Das Wetter war trüb und die Brandgans weit draußen. Da ich sie aber so selten vor die Linse bekomme zeige ich das stark gecropte Bild trotzdem.
Shelduck on the Baltic coast.
The weather was cloudy and the shelduck far out. Since I get them but so rarely in front of the lens I show the heavily cropped image anyway.
Named for its rigorous patrol of hedges and woodland rides, the gatekeeper butterfly is a prime pollinator. Look for them sipping nectar on sunny days in the summer.
This butterfly rests with its wings open, so the underside is less frequently visible. The male, shown here, has broad sex brands, comprising scent-producing scales known as androconia, on its forewings; the female has no such strips and is evidently much more of an orange butterfly. Unlike many 'browns', the Gatekeeper often rests with its wings open, which is very helpful when you are trying to determine the gender of a Gatekeeper. There is a wingspan difference between the sexes - but who can estimate size with any degree of accuracy when a butterfly is in flight? Males, with their wingspan typically 4cm, are slightly smaller than females, which usually have a wingspan of about 4.5cm
.Also known as the Hedge Brown butterfly, the Gatekeeper is fond of brambly hedgerows and ragwort-infested scrubland where nectar-bearing flowers are plentiful.
This short-lived butterfly of high summer emerges from the beginning of July onwards but by the end of August there are very few if any left to see.
Gatekeepers are seen throughout England, but they are more abundant in southern counties. In Wales the Gatekeeper is fairly common in the south and west but is less frequently seen the further north you go. In Scotland the Gatekeeper is seen very rarely, and the same is true of most of Ireland, although along the coastal strip of southern Ireland there are reasonable numbers of this lovely golden butterfly.
Lifecycle
The larval foodplants of the Gatekeeper are various grasses, in particular the various bents (Agrostis spp), meadow-grasses (Poa spp) and fescues (Festuca spp). The egg-laying habitat is rough grassland at hedged field margins, in woodland rides, fire breaks and larger clearings, and in scrubby grassland and wasteland where bushes have sprung up among grasses.
Female Gatekeepers drop their straw-yellow eggs from the air onto or near to suitable grass tussocks, generally in the shade of a small bush or a hedge. The eggs darken and become mottled brown-grey as, over a period of two to three weeks, the larvae develop inside the egg case. Once they have eaten their way out of the egg case, the tiny caterpillars consume their foodplant during daylight. After the first moult, the caterpillars crawl deep down into the base of their grass tussock and there they hibernate until the following spring. On waking, the green (sometimes brown) caterpillars become nocturnal feeders. They pupate in June or early July after their fourth moult, and the adult butterflies emerge from their chrysalises about three weeks later.
There are small white spots in the grey-brown mottling on the hindwing of the Gatekeeper. The Southern Gatekeeper, Pyronia cecila, is similar, but it has a more silvery mottled underside to its rear hindwings without the white spots.
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This is a combination of two or three of my photos. I can't even remember which ones, anymore. But I liked how they looked when I put them together.
Can you see them
The ones to the right
Sigh
There is Love everywhere
You just need to be a bit observant
Crawl a bit on the ground
Ignore the wet grass
And not to mention the mud
It's always wet and sticky
Not to be embarrased if someone sees you
Just lay still and pretend this is the most normal thing to do
Happy shooting
Getting a thrill
Holding hands is a way to spread love
You will feel supported
Safe
Loved
And you will spread this love to those who sees you
You will soften their heart
Letting them get another focus in a few seconds
Giving them a memory they will cherish without them even knowing they do that
Mother Nature is sprading love in many ways
I've seen her holding hands often
That's why I love hiking in my forest
Breathing in Mother Natures love
That is actually what I'm doing when I'm out hiking
So, the secret is out
lol
Happy Smile On Saturday, you guys
P.Soichi
I hope that you like it ^.^
*If you need any data about this photo, ask me please. Too, you can find the other products in older posts. <3
Thanks so much for see me!
XoXO
Strobist: AB1600 with gridded 60X30 softbox camera right. Reflector camera left.Triggered by Cybersync.
Bosque del Apache is currently full of pintail ducks. I was lucky enough to get fairly close to them.
Explored October 5, 2020
#sliderssunday
Do you remember the Mendelian laws of inheritance? We've learned them in school on the basis of how the eye colours of fruit flies (the notorious Drosophila Melanogaster) are inherited to further generations according to dominant or recessive characteristics, although Gregor Mendel himself conducted his groundbreaking genetic experiments with pea plants. Unfortunately, the significance of Mendel's laws was never truly understood or acknowledged in his lifetime (1822 – 1884). His studies, however, were rediscovered three decades later, at the turn of the 20th century, and, following their rediscovery, American biologist Thomas Hunt Morgan (1866 – 1945) began to experiment with Drosophila in his "Fly Room" at Columbia University. It was Morgan who discovered that genes are carried on chromosomes; he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Medicine in 1933. Further Fly experiments (with a less successful outcome) were conducted by a certain Dr. Seth Brundle in 1986 (aka "The Fly"). So where exactly does my image come in here, you may have already asked yourself (if you haven't stopped reading my lengthy introduction long before – which I could totally understand). Well, during one of those numerous teaching experiments with fruit flies, which numerous generations of students have conducted ever since modern genetics became part of school curriculums, something must have gone very wrong. And who knows, maybe Dr. Seth "Brundlefly" Brundle himself had led one of those biology experiments? Experiments in which some dinosaur genes were mixed with those of an innocent fruit fly... Which resulted in the creation the biggest Drosophila the world has ever seen – the Olympic Brachosophila Megalogaster? Nonsense, of course, and you know it ;-) But doesn't this kaleidoscoped image of the Olympic stadium's interior (the roof, mostly, taken at a dutch angle) look just like an ultra close-up of a (fruit) fly's face? Not one that you'd like to see buzzing around your fruit bowl, that's for sure, but let's say that the other "third party genes" that were used in this crazy experiment came from a puppy. So this would be the friendliest, cuddliest giant dinosaur puppy fruit fly you'll ever come across :) OK, I'd rather stop before you start to believe that I was a part of those experiments as well ;-)
Happy Sliders Sunday, Everyone, stay safe and take care, dear Flickr friends!
Drosophila Megalogaster – Schau mir in die Augen, Kleines :)
Ihr erinnert Euch doch bestimmt noch alle an die Mendelsche Vererbungslehre und die berühmte Drosophila Melanogaster mit ihren dominanten bzw. rezessiven Genen, die über die Vererbung der jeweiligen Augenfarbe entscheiden. Was wäre, wenn jemand bei einem der unzähligen Biologie-Experimente, die Generationen von Schülern mit Fruchtfliegen durchgeführt haben, nicht nur Fruchtfliegen(-Gene) gekreuzt, sondern evtl. noch ein paar Dinosaurier-Gene dazwischen gestreut hätte? Das Ergebnis könnte die größte Fruchtfliege sein, die die Welt je gesehen hat, die unglaubliche "Olympische Brachosophila Megalogaster" mit Augen so groß wie zwei Stadiondächer ;-) Nun ja, Ihr habt es schon erraten, dies ist eine kleine Spielerei mit einem Foto vom Olympiastadion für den Sliders Sunday. Ich hatte hier einfach aus Spaß mal eine Aufnahme mit schräger Perspektive gemacht und dabei überwiegend das offene Dach mit ins Bild genommen. Nachdem ich in Photoshop das Bild kopiert, gespiegelt und neu zusammengesetzt hatte, schaute mich plötzlich eine riesige (Frucht-)Fliege an ;-) Keine, die man gerne daheim um den Früchteteller herumschwirren sehen möchte, aber ich kann Euch beruhigen: Bei dem manipulierten Experiment kamen als "Drittanbieter-Gene" nicht nur die eines Dinosauriers hinzu, sondern auch die eines kuscheligen Welpen. Diese Fliege ist also gaaaanz lieb und verschmust und will bloß spielen ;-)
Ich wünsche Euch einen guten Start in die neue Woche, bleibt gesund und passt auf Euch auf!
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Hair: Doux - Ara
Headband: NaaNaa's - Yasmina (Hair Fair)
Hair Clips: NaaNaa's - Elegant Pearl (Hair Fair)
Hairbase: .NX - Mami (Bom)
Head: Genus Project - Babyface W001
Skin: DS'Elles - Angie (Bom)
Brows: SB - JuliaWater Small Straight (Bom)
Eyes: Avi-Glam - Lovers (Bom)
Lipstick: Velour - Lolita
Earrings: Vibing - Elena
Choker: NaaNaa's - Mariana
Dress: CandyDoll - Corazon
Nails: SU - Almond
Rings: NaaNaa's - Savatage
Pose: DenDen Poses
Steps so sweet that time slips away. What we have now is different from yesterday. What grows to fester and boil within, only to drip slowly down into sin.
Aye my love, forever and ever, but to what cost... Selfish fool...
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CBL 51 heads back to the shop after working the NS interchange briefly. I attempted to shoot them this day but interchange was the only activity they did, and they went home an hour after going on duty.
Theme - Junk
From my Jewellery Junk Draw, my favourite earings that broke and I'll never throw them out :)
The last of my Pink Roses. I was arranging them with a little help. They have such a great scent to them, George couldn't resist smelling them.
The lady calls the tune.....a mallard duck takes the leading role in this mating game with two mallard drakes. Bushy Park, spring, 2016
A collaboration with Mark Pilkington.
Congratulations to everyone at The Impossible Project, who this week unveiled their first new instant film - if you are at all interested in the future of analogue photography, you need to get over there and support them!
Groupe PPP -S23 - Thème "du matin au soir"
Promenade sur le quai des Antilles, le jour pour admirer la vue sur Nantes, la nuit pour profiter de l'ambiance et des Anneaux de Buren