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I knew there would be lots of flowers for this challenge. My options were limited this week so a quick capture of these pretties it was :)
I think that you can all tell that I am in a philosophical mood these days. There are so many complications in life that we, the people, have to solve and surely at the forefront is our inability to let go of the negative forces and embrace the positive ones. It is time for us to collectively come up with good reasons to work together for the better for ALL. In the long run, selfishness does not gain us anything, in fact we lose! Let's find ways to help one another, make the world a smaller place in which all are welcome. It is possible, we can and must do it!!!
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An example of the wall art that is appearing all over Croydon. Very nice and it also helps to prevent that awful graffiti which seems to be ubiquitous.
Please let me know what you think
NOTE: that glue mark isn't that visible, the lighting is just making it look like that. :/
This is a quick wall we did together with Reb and Sterling a cloudy morning somewhere in Brixton..I really enjoyed adding some colour on this one after a long time doing monochrome pieces!
Whole wall here: www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10206840402422075&set...
Anne Frank (1929-1945) was a German-born, Dutch-Jewish diarist. One of the most discussed Jewish victims of the Holocaust, she gained fame posthumously with the publication of “The Diary of A Young Girl” in which she documents her life in hiding during the German occupation of the Netherlands in World War II. [Source: Wikipedia]
Dahlia, the theme flower of the Hong Kong Flower Show 2018, symbolizes elegance, inner strength, creativity, change, and dignity
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Die Kuppel des Solebades in der TOSKANA Therme Bad Sulza. Man schwebt auf dem Wasser und genießt die Lichtspiele in der Kuppel.
The dome of the brine bath in the TOSKANA Therme Bad Sulza.
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It's time to rest your mind, it's time to everyone think about what happened this year and what you will do to the next year.
Templo Zu Lai
Think So is by The Meditations, and I think the High Brown Fritillary season I almost over. It's been a fairly good year and we've seen them flying throughout the area in decent numbers. There are still a few females egg laying so I may still see one or two on my walks.
I think the heatwaves have compressed and shortened the flight period , I know the feeling.
My next obsession will be looking for Hornet Robberflies , and returning adders.
First time I think seeing one of these, thanks to Donald and Charlene for pointing it out.
Bee-flies are fascinating insects that have mastered the art of mimicry. These agile, fluffy, flying creatures look similar to bees, but they are in fact flies. They have only one pair of wings, whereas bees have two, and their most unmistakable feature is a long, straight, straw-like tongue, known as a proboscis.
One of the first bee-fly species seen in spring is the dark-edged bee-fly (Bombylius major), common across Britain and a frequent garden visitor. It has yellowy-brown hair, a long tongue, and darkened wing edges that extend halfway across each wing.
Bee-fly behaviours
One peculiar behaviour displayed by the bee-fly is its slow-moving hover where it lightly touches the ground. It keeps its legs slightly grounded, while slowly and gently brushing the surface with its abdomen – if you look closely, you can see the abdomen creates movements in the sandy surface. This is because the bee-fly is scooping up sand and mud to coat its eggs for camouflage.
This camouflage is important, as bee-flies will lay their eggs in unsuspecting solitary bee burrows, hovering over the burrow entrances before catapulting their eggs inside. As the eggs hatch, the bee-fly larvae spend their time maturing in the nest, eating up the pollen stores that the solitary bees have left for their own young. Although this sounds like bad news for the bees, a healthy population of bee-flies means that you have a good population of bees.
I was looking through my archives when I found this image. I think it may be my only rainbow photo. Taken somewhere in southern Colorado.
I think this is one of my favorite images from my Yosemite trip (believe me, narrowing down my photos was a difficult job). I know this view of Yosemite is one of the most over-photographed places on earth, but the difference in this image is that I saw it with my own eyes, took the time to get there at 5am and was able to watch this glorious morning unfold.
To my fellow photographers: get up early, go outside and take it all in. Leave your camera at home if you like, just concentrate on the majesty of this earth for an hour or two!
Think I’ll go for a ride
Take the bike out of the shed
Make a fresh start
Get out of my head
When the head spins
There is no joy
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(The Ride / Luka Bloom)
I think it is interesting how power gets put together on a big old railroad. Somehow, a pair of leasor units have been paired together for the Cedar River Local for the past 2 weeks out of Waterloo. It's pretty neat to see a couple of old ex-Soo Line SD60's paired back together again. Here, the girls sit at the roundhouse at Waterloo over the weekend. The Cedar River doesn't work over the weekend much, so the power will sit for a day or so unless needed on M338 for a kicker unit.
These Soo SD60's were in the 1st 21 units order (6000-6020), which were delivered between between August and October 1987. This bunch was returned leased, and some spent time on the INRD. Now, power short CN has them.
I'm a 'blue sky thinker' and dream big.
Hilary Knight
See the 1:11 second time lapse video: youtu.be/QpoUUoAZSYU