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unburden myself stone by stone, and I will look at them in the light and perhaps they will no longer weigh so heavily.
So build yourself as beautiful as you want your world to be.
Wrap yourself in light then give yourself away with your heart,
your brush,
your march,
your art,
your poetry,
your play.
And for every day you paint the war,
take a week and paint the beauty, the color, the shape of the landscape you're marching towards.
Everyone knows what you're against;
Show them what you're for."
~ Andrea Gibson
Love them or hate them, these Rose Ringed Parakeet's are with us to stay. This bird was filling up on apples at my local reserve. I have to confess they are a stunning bird , but also one of the noisiest.
The spotted nutcracker briskly collects hazelnuts and stone pine seeds; it hides them in numerous hiding places dug into the ground and then memorizes the place well to be able to find them even under the snow. How? Well, it seems that the spotted nutcracker has a prodigious memory. Suffice it to say that, every year, it hides thousands of seeds and sowings ranging between 3000 and 5000! What is even more amazing is that individuals are able to find almost all of them thanks to identifying elements of the territory – a particular pine, a shrub, a fallen tree…
The spotted nutcracker is a widespread resident in the boreal belt and is distributed in a more fragmented manner in the mountains of central and south-eastern Europe. The European population has not undergone any decrease in the years 1970-1990 and is currently considered stable, estimated between 400 thousand and 860 thousand couples.
Spotted Nutcracker taking off_w_8388
Reynisdrangar is a series of basalt columns off the south coast of Iceland. They can best be seen from Reynisfjara beach, one of the most famous black sand beaches in the country. At their tallest, these stacks are 66 meters high. They did not sprout from the ocean independently but were once part of the main island. Through long periods of weathering, they disconnected and appear to be separate now.
There is a mythical story about how these stacks were formed; the story concerns two trolls and a three-masted ship. It is said that the trolls tried to drag the ship to shore at night. They were not quick enough, and when the sun rose at dawn it turned them to stone. A second story says that two trolls murdered a woman, and her husband took revenge. He tricked them into coming out at night and ensured they remained outside long enough to turn to stone.
I think it would be hard for me to pick my favorite season of the year, as I like them all very much. This winter however wasn't very fun. With almost no snow, there weren't a lot of things making the season beautiful - at least it was a chance to photograph some trains in places, where the sun would usually not allow it.
I therefore was eagerly anticipating the arrival of spring this year, tired of the constant grayscale of Polish winter. With the first green grass popping up and flowers of the year blooming in the still very low sunlight, pictures look way more pleasant. Just like the flowers, the railway traffic is also blooming at this time of year, with aggregate trains becoming more frequent.
Changes came in the transfer of the famous oversize loads from Wrocław to the harbour of Gdynia. For the first time in years, SKPL did not deploy its SM31 for the journey. Instead, SM42-954 of the company "BM Naprawa Pojazdów Kolejowych Antoni Bartosz Moch" (very long name :D) was attached to the train TNS 553003 Nakło nad Notecią - Kościerzyna (note: the journey was done with a couple of diferent schedules, this one was one of 4) and hauled it through the dense forest areas of Northern Poland.
Said SM42 is seen here on the line no. 215, which (as one of its stretches) connects Czersk and Bąk - both places lying on once very important lines - the Royal Prussian Eastern Railway and the interwar period Polish Coal Mainline respectively. The time here, as in many places in Northern Poland, has stopped years ago. Telegrah pylons, almost unused rails and overgrowth very much remind everyone of times gone by.
Photo by Piotrek/Toprus
With a photobomber! These have emerged just in the last few days, and a little spider has already found them...
Bears aren't copyrighted... we love them all here at Jillybug Manor.
Hoping to have *at least* one of each someday!
I have many lantana plants in my backyard, with many varieties. I like them because they draw butterflies, hummingbirds, bees, etc., and rabbits don't like the taste.
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LOL, I left them in the studio when I went I went out.
Who knows what went on three????
All these tender gestures and expressions of love!
ART NOUVEAU FLOWER MOTIV…TULIPS
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Faerie Queen Blackmore's Night
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Over on the hill
There grows a flower
Growing quicker still
More perfect by the hour
Deep within that flower
Is a tiny chair
All a-fringed with gold
The fairy queen sits there…
It is in her breath
That the wind does blow
It is in her heart
As pure as winter snow
It is in her tears
Crystal raindrops fall
And within her years
That she is in us all…
*Oh dark eyes
Help me see
Just one look
She is gone
Look on me
We are one
Fading with the setting sun…
As the willow bows
To her majesty
All the forest flowers
Love her mystery
Who would not admire
Who could not adore
Who does not desire
Who wishes to see more?
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Most of them were built between the 15th and the 16th century, but construction continued also from the late 18th century into the early 20th century. They were primarily used to mill wheat mostly by wealthy families, while many windmills also belonged to the monasteries of the island.
In the Royal Palace of Madrid, some street lamps ("farolas" in Spanish language) with symbolic decoration have been restored.
Here you can see one of them, in the Plaza de la Armería, where you can see several crowns, a fleur-de-lis and some pine cones.
The fleur-de-lis is a symbol that takes us back to ancient times with the mythical King Solomon and the no less mythical Queen of Sheba.
It is considered a symbol of royalty, found on the coats of arms of several royal dynasties, such as the Bourbon dynasty, which continues to rule in Spain and others.
The fleur-de-lis is part of the coat of arms of several cities, such as Paris, Darmstadt, Elda, Lincoln (UK) or Wiesbaden.
In some cases it is also considered a religious symbol, representing the Virgin Mary and the religious military order of Santiago. And it is part of the coats of arms of the families of several Popes.
It is also considered an alchemical and Masonic symbol.
It even appears in some mafia (mob) organizations: it was adopted by the Hachel Mafia, known as the Virgin Escribana, as an emblem in the 17th century.
In Germany, more specifically in the municipality of Hachelbich, their meetings were held.
Any person not affiliated with the Hachel Mafia who tried to stop them from achieving their goals ended up brutally murdered.
Their victims were recognized by a brand made with a hot iron with the symbol of the fleur-de-lis. (Source: Wikipedia)
UNA FAROLA REAL, 2024
En el Palacio Real de Madrid se han restaurado varias farolas con decoración simbólica.
Aquí se puede ver una de ellas, en plena Plaza de la Armería en la que se pueden ver varias coronas, una flor de lis y algunas piñas.
La flor de lis es un símbolo que nos lleva a tiempos ancestrales con el mítico rey Salomón y la no menos mítica reina de Saba.
Se considera un símbolo de realeza, que se encuentra en los escudos de varias dinastías reales, como la dinastía borbónica, que sigue gobernando en España y otras.
La flor de lis forma parte del escudo de varias ciudades, como París, Darmstadt, Elda, Lincoln (UK) or Wiesbaden.
En algunos casos también se considera un símbolo religioso, que representa a la Virgen María y a la orden religioso militar de Santiago. Y forma parte de los escudos de las familias de varios Papas.
También se considera un símbolo alquímico y masónico.
Incluso aparece en algunas organizaciones mafiosas: fue adoptado por la Mafia Hachel, conocida como la Virgen Escribana, como emblema en el siglo XVII.
En Alemania, más específicamente en el municipio de Hachelbich, se realizaban sus reuniones.
Cualquier persona ajena a la Mafia Hachel que intentase detener el cumplimiento de sus objetivos terminaba brutalmente asesinada.
Sus víctimas eran reconocidas mediante una marca hecha con hierro candente con el símbolo de la flor de lis. (Fuente: Wikipedia)
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See them out on the street at night, walkin'
Picking up on all kinds of strangers
If the price is right you can score
If you're pocket's nice
But you want a good time
You ask yourself, who they are ?
Like everybody else, they come from near and far
Red Crossbill, female
"A fascinating finch of coniferous woodlands, the Red Crossbill forages on nutritious seeds in pine, hemlock, Douglas-fir, and spruce cones. Their specialized bills allow them to break into unopened cones, giving them an advantage over other finch species. Several types of Red Crossbill exist; they each have different calls, feed on particular conifer species, and might represent distinct species.” www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/Red_Crossbill/overview
This female is a type 4, feeding specifically on Douglas Fir cones.
These are so tiny and I do struggle to get them in focus so this is the best of a bad bunch :))
In my garden West Dorset
God, hear me!
They told me you didn't exist, and I trusted them like a jerk.
But last night, in the garnet hole, I saw your heaven.
Suddenly, I realized they were lying to me.
If I tried to take a good look
on the things you created,
I'd understand right away that those
they denied that the cat is cat.
It's strange that I had to
get to this hell,
so I can have time to see your face
I like you so much...
That's what I wanted you to know.
There's going to be a terrible battle coming up.
Who knows?
Maybe I'll come to your place tonight.
We weren't good friends,
And I'm asking, my God,
will you be waiting for me at the door?
Look, this is how I cry!
I'm the one who's here going to start whining!
If only I'd known you sooner...
let's go! We have to go now!
It's ridiculous:
When I met you,
I'm not afraid to die anymore.
goodbye!
A prayer found in the backpack of a soldier who died in 1944 at the Battle of Montecassino ...
"She′s got legs, she knows how to use them
She never begs, she knows how to choose them
She's holdin′ legs, wonderin' how to feel them
Would you get behind them if you could only find them?
She's my baby, she′s my baby
Yeah, it′s alright, oh yeah!"
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Slowly pulling out of the siding, Y119 starts north with the still clean and new to them SD70M's up front.
Had a go at some creative flower photography in the garden. Next day the rain and wind had wiped them out so no chance of a reshoot!
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Answer - 21, and I need every one of them!!
Lovely day for a bike ride and at the half way point we stopped for a tasty chicken and salad sandwich. This cute Starling is about 2 feet away from me...eyeing up my lunch! :))
NSPB info.
Starling - Sturnus vulgaris.
Noisy and gregarious, starlings spend a lot of the year in flocks. Still one of the commonest of garden birds, its decline elsewhere makes it a Red List species.
Have a lovely day exploring everyone...watch out for those cheeky Starlings :))
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I have just about caught up on sleep from a weekend of nearly non stop photograpy on the Southern Downs in Southern Queensland. It was a new moon on saturday night and the stars out there are phenominal. Had to get a few shots of this tourist attraction while there and being a big Pink Floyd fan ( have my Roger Waters tickets) thought the title was apt.
"The secret of a good life is to have the right loyalties and hold them in the right scale of values."
-Norman Thomas-
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[TURN]
Anson Seabra - Trying My Best
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I know you think I got it all figured out
내가 당신의 모든 걸 이해할 수 있을 거라 생각했다는 것을 알아요
'Cause I walk around like my head's in the clouds
나는 공상에 빠진 듯 걸어가니까
But I'm just a boy with his heart pouring out of his head
하지만 저는 그저 머릿속 생각들을 풀어놓는 소년인 걸요
I wish that you could see the pain that I've seen
내가 겪은 이 고통을 알아줬으면 해요
And all of the times I spent being not me
내가 아닌 모습으로 살았던 모든 시간들을
I hope you know that it's not always happy in my head
나의 머릿속에서 난 항상 행복하지 않다는 것을 알아줬으면 해요
'Cause I don't know
모르겠으니까
The perfect road to go down
완벽한 길이 어딘지 모르겠으니까
But I know
하지만 난 알아요
I'm trying my best
난 최선을 다했다는 걸
I'm trying my best to be okay
쓰러지지 않기 위해 최선을 다했다는 걸
I'm trying my best but every day it's so hard
난 최선을 다하고 있어요, 하지만 하루하루가 너무 힘드네요
And I'm holding my breath
난 숨을 죽일 거예요
I'm holding my breath 'til I can say
내가 말할 수 있을 때까지 숨을 죽일 거예요
All of the words I wanna say from my heart
내가 진심으로 하고 싶은 모든 말들
If you really wanted I could ley you inside
당신이 진심으로 원한다면 난 당신을 받아들일 거예요
It's been so long and I've got nothing left to hide
한참이 지났고 난 이제 숨길 것이 없어요
Would you believe me if I told you that I've got flaws
내게 결점이 있다면 믿어줄래요?
Now it's time to let the curtains unfold
이제 커튼을 걷어 젖히고
And tell all the stories that I didn't want told
내가 하기 싫었던 말들을 해야 할 때가 됐군요
I let it out so I unburden my soul I won't stop
난 내 속마음을 털어놓을 거예요, 멈추지 않을 거예요
'Cause I don't know
모르겠으니까
The perfect road to go down
완벽한 길이 어딘지 모르겠으니까
But I know
하지만 난 알아요
I'm trying my best
난 최선을 다했다는 걸
I'm trying my best to be okay
쓰러지지 않기 위해 최선을 다했다는 걸
I'm trying my best but every day it's so hard
난 최선을 다하고 있어요, 하지만 하루하루가 너무 힘드네요
And I'm holding my breath
난 숨을 죽이고 있어요
I'm holding my breath 'til I can say
내가 말할 수 있을 때까지 숨을 죽일 거예요
All of the words I wanna say from my heart
내가 진심으로 하고 싶은 모든 말들
I'm trying my best
난 최선을 다하고 있어요
I'm trying my best to be okay
쓰러지지 않기 위해 최선을 다하고 있어요
I'm trying my best but every day it's so hard
난 최선을 다하고 있지만 하루하루가 너무 힘드네요
And I'm holding my breath
난 숨을 죽이고 있어요
I'm holding my breath 'til I can say
내가 말할 수 있을 때까지 숨을 죽일 거예요
All of the words I wanna say from my heart
내가 진심으로 하고 싶은 모든 말들
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Groupe PPP #3 - Thème "trop trognon"
Trognon =
Nom commun : Le coeur, le milieu d’un fruit ou d’un légume dont on a ôté tout ce qu’il y avait à manger. Par exemple trognon de pomme
Adjectif : (Familier) Trop mignon. (Pour désigner un petit enfant, un petit animal, ...)
On mélange les deux et hop , il est pas trognon ce "minion" ? ;-)
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Fruits givrés: 2017-01/52 Thème "Rouge" Projet Photo Grain d'Pixel - 52 semaines . . .
Bonne et Heureuse Année 2017 à toutes et à tous . . .
Merci pour ce "projet 52" . . .
Merci pour vos visites et vos commentaires.
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When you purchase new plants, the best thing which can happen to them is a good rain, as it helps them get established better than any artificial watering. /
Lorsque vous faites l'acquisition de nouvelles plantes, la meilleure chose qui puisse advenir est une bonne pluie car cela les aide a s'etablir mieux que n'importe quel arrosage.
Si je precise ce fait, fruit d'une vieille experience, c'est en repensant a un soi-disant "expert" en jardinage qui pretendait le contraire. Sans doute avait-il des connaissances livresques mais n'avait-il jamais observe les bienfaits de la pluie dans un jardin :)
Kudos to the birders who figure out who these drifters are and then take the trouble to help other birders find them.
This guy was way off his patch.
"While today’s vagrant might be tomorrow’s model citizen, destined to become a colonizer and perhaps an established resident, as Grinnell (1922) asserted, most vagrants might be viewed as “failed colonization attempts”. Newton (2008: 267–299) summarized quite well the various explanations of the causes of vagrancy put forward over the past century or so. They include: normal dispersal over long distances, population growth or expansion, drift by winds, migration overshoots, deviant directional tendencies (right time but wrong direction), mirror-image migration, and reversed direction migration. While all explanations probably play a role and explain the occurrence of some vagrant individuals, we address the latter three explanations as they likely involve the vast majority of landbirds. The mirror-image misorientation theory, originally developed by DeSante (1973), and described by Diamond (1982), proposed that vagrants are misoriented by confusion of right and left in relating an inherited migration direction to a compass reference direction. Mirror-image misorientation theory accounts for observations made by DeSante (1983a) that in certain situations large-angle misorientations seem more frequent than small or intermediate deviations from the normal migration course (Alerstam, 1990). Misorientation by the wind has long been suggested as a cause of accidentals (Austin, 1971), but Thorup et al. (2012) found differently, as the authors used radio telemetry to track individual migratory flights of several species of songbirds from the Faroe Islands, approximately halfway between Norway and Iceland, far west of their normal migration route. Birds with expected easterly and south-easterly migration direction departed westward out over the Atlantic Ocean, indicating that these birds are actively flying in the “wrong” direction and that their occurrence is not caused by wind drift. However, on Attu Island, in the Aleutian Islands off Alaska, Hameed et al. (2009) found statistical evidence that the occurrence of spring Asian vagrants on this North Pacific island were correlated with storm winds from the west."
We are obsessed with Herdwick sheep and look for them whenever we are traveling in the Lake District.
Explore Takeover March 26, 2025
"They can be left to roam free on the fells with very little human intervention. It’s known as being ‘heafed’ or ‘hefted’ - the process by which they actually belong to and are part of the landscape itself. Each flock carries knowledge down through generations of mothers so that each sheep instinctively knows how to not only survive, but thrive in a harsh environment.
They can survive the harshest of winters and there are many reports of them being dug out alive after days trapped in snowdrifts. There are even reports of sheep which have survived such conditions by eating their own fleece whilst waiting for rescue.
They may look cute but they are seriously tough cookies and they always get right of way on single-track roads."
~Louise Tilbrook
Please enjoy the wooly details in Large. Thank you so much for your visit!
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I always relish seeing Kingfishers on my travels as I find them much more approachable than our single Kingfisher species we have here on the east coast of the US.
I have never been remotely successful in photographing our Belted Kingfisher. It seems that if I look sideways at them from 100 yards away, off they go in the other direction.
In fact, I'm confident that if I stood at the edge of a lake and muttered softly under my breath "Belted Kingfisher", every dang one of them within 1/4 mile would immediately take off for the next closest lake.
Given that, I was excited to finely arrange with Ron Bielefeld of Whistling Wings Photography for a morning photographing these wonderful birds.
Ron has a great setup with some small portable blinds that you setup in before sunrise and wait for the action to start.
it was a great experience that I am sure I will repeat the trip more than once. Highly recommended if you find yourself on the east coast of central Florida.
I've never seen anything so amazing as this little Grebe ( 12-inches and 1-pound } tackle anything this big. I never pass them up and think there behavior is very interesting so I always photograph them. He went under water for what seemed a long time and came up with this fish, I think by the look on it's face and looking at what he caught he had a problem. His mouth was so outstretched as you can see and still had no room for consumption. He did finally let it go but after quite some time, just an amazing little guy with an "A" for effort. Thank you all so much and hope that you find this as interesting as I did.
One of them was 6 inches across
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These beauties were everywhere in Yellowstone National Park.
It's fun to watch them fly with that long fancy tail. They are quite striking in the sunlight with brilliant blue feathers.
One of three identical bays to the front of the structure, designed in 1899 and completed in 1901. Unlike the post office I recently photographed in Sligo, also finished in 1901, this building still features a clock. (Good for them.)
ꒌ Икона Богородице са дететом Христом у сребрном окову, мала (стара) црква Светог Саве на Врачарском платоу.
► █░▓ SOME ORTHODOX DEVOTEES leave money on the icons out of belief that it will bring them luck, or, perhaps, show others their devotion. Some other put it neatly in a dedicated slot/box, or somewhere else, knowing that the presence of banknotes and coins in front of the saint's face can irritate or suggest something inappropriate.
But in this case I immediately knew it was something else. It's the face of Nikola Tesla that adorns the small banknote of 100 dinar (less than € 1 and around US$ 1). Tesla is however one of the most beloved historic personalities with the contemporary Serbian folk. But that was not the case until recently. Tesla had not been given the attention he deserves in the schooling or public space until the turn of this century.
So I didn't dare touch the bill. Instead of removing this money into the slot, I just left it like it had been placed there by the anonymous author. A statement. Which I now present to you. Tesla is not a saint, but he is one of the greatest Serbian scientists ever, and probably the one who most influenced the technology and life of the mankind in general. His compatriots do have the right to express their affection for him. This has been a subtle, downright artistic way of showing it.
A possible icon controversy lies in a 'small' detail that usually goes unnoticed in this outstanding work. The child Christ in this beautiful Theotokos icon has been done in the image of the author. Of the painter himself. What had caused such a daring decision? A great affection for the Mother of God, the Theotokos? Or the painter's 'reverse engineering' — the opposite of God's creating the man in His own image?
The pure silver relief contains the mini icons of the saint Simeon the Myrrhgusher who passed away in 1199 holding this icon on his chest (left) and Saint Sava (right, passed away in 1235), his biological son and spiritual father, the first abbot of Chilandariou monastery on Mount Athos and the first Archbishop of Serbia.
Equivalent focal length is 28 mm, a true low light situation, handheld. Uncropped. Cameraphone sooc edited in Snapseed using the ‘Portrait’ preset, plus the Tools, plus Structure lowered/Sharpened +4, HDR: 4/Brightness +2/Saturation -12. Flickr's minimal edit + Legacy/Twilight filter 10%. The elevation of this spot is according to the cameraphone's reading 125 m above sea level.
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