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I followed this old boy for about 20 minutes, and every 50 feet, or so, he would stop and spend several minutes in this pose, sniffing the air so powerfully I could hear it clearly. There were at least half a dozen of more doe's nearby, and he was out to find where those girls were hiding. There was going to be a party at Fort Worden tonight.
radiant .l. dylan john sparkes
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Time slips through our fingers,
like water in a cracked glass.
We wait for the minutes to settle,
but they never do.
Yesterday is a shadow
in the corner of today,
a ghost that lingers
in the dimming light,
its whispers etched
on the diaries of memory.
And tomorrow is a tide,
pulling the present toward its shore,
never stopping, never still,
yet always just beyond reach—
a promise, a mirage,
woven from the threads of longing.
The clock hands march,
relentless as fate,
while we chase the echoes
of moments already lost,
and dream of those
not yet born.
by bes~• January 2025
"This Ole House Is gettin' shaky
This Ole House it's gettin' old
This Ole House lets in the rain
This Ole House lets in the cold" ...
Stuart Hamblin
This photo captures the historic Mowry Irvine Mansion standing elegantly under a cloudy spring sky. The black and white edit highlights the intricate architectural details of its Second Empire style, including the prominent mansard roof, decorative brackets, and a sweeping covered porch. Built in 1876, it was constructed for Fred Grumme, a German immigrant who settled in Marshalltown, Iowa.
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This is from last December. But still here is snow everywhere and this morning it was -13C
There are few signs though: you can hear the water on the streams flowing and I've seen a bunch of snowdrops
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SMC Pentax-M 35-70mm F2.8-3.5
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This is one more from the Turbin hall. On the left this is the box inside which is dark space i posted yesterday. Wish you good day.
This primeval scene is beside the Natchez Trace Parkway at mile 122, east of Canton, Mississippi. The National Park Service has provided a nice boardwalk to help the visitor experience this silent and gloomy place. In the lower right a few cypress knees can be seen protruding upward out of the water.
A cypress knee is a distinctive structure forming above the roots of a cypress tree of any of various species of the subfamily Taxodioideae. Their function is unknown, but they are generally seen on trees growing in swamps. Some current hypotheses state that they might help to aerate the tree's roots, create a barrier to catch sediment and reduce erosion, assist in anchoring the tree in the soft and muddy soil, or any combination thereof. (Source: Wikipedia)
Many years ago, the Pearl River flowed here but then changed course. A shallow area was created by the deposition of sediments as the river retreated. During periodic low water, seedlings of water-tolerant cypress and tupelo trees gained a foothold. The trees you see today are a result. Water tupelo and bald cypress trees can live in deep water for long periods. After taking root in the summer when the swamp is nearly dry, the seedlings can stay alive in water deep enough to kill other plants. (Source: www.nps.gov/places/cypress-swamp.htm)
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This colourful male damselfly was photographed ten years ago as it paused on an old epiphyte-encrusted leaf in Panama's Soberania National Park.
... a big text of the city and regency of Pringsewu which is emblazoned on Pringsewu Monument [Tugu Pringsewu] that located next to Taman Indah Gading Mas [Gading Mas Beautiful Garden] in Pringsewu regency, province of Lampung, Indonesia.
"Thank you very much for all your faves and stay healthy" 😃
This cub wanted to come check out my little den but I told him he needed to go downriver and catch up with his mom.
His mom was down in the water way over to the right and out of the frame. I'd been standing on the porch of my cabin waiting for the two of them to head on downriver so I could go get some coffee.
But this little guy was so curious and walked up close to my porch where I was standing. Don't worry, I was right by my door and could have stepped in very quickly.
He was just curious and wanted to check me out for a second and then went on down the way to catch up with mom.
There's no crop on this
Saw this in Highgate Cemetery. I don't know who this lady was, only that her name was Martha as spelled out in pebbles in front of the grave, but she either really liked lamps or was afraid of the dark, but either way, what a beautiful way to decorate your grave.
This was taken at 11:30pm when the park rangers are gone. They will not allow tripods. This is a 2 min. exposure at f4, ISO 1600. Canon 5DMarkII. I am walking through the image with two Canon strobe flashes to illuminate the names on the wall.
This car was sitting at the entrance of my hotel in Brasov. It served its purpose as I always stopped to admire its gaudy glamour.
This is a view of my city from a bridge, overlooking the Petitcodiac River, that locals affectionately call the Chocolate River.
This gila woodpecker was extracting a seed from the saguaro fruit. I bet this is one of the woodpeckers I saw last month!
This imposing mass of rock that looms above the Laconian coastline is linked to the mainland by a narrow causeway and a 130 metre long bridge, to which the town owes its name (“moni emvasi”which means “only access”).
The rock is 1500 metres long, 600 metres wide at its widest point, and is almost 200 metres high. The top of the rock is flat, forming a sloping plateau surrounded by steep cliffs falling to the sea. There are two fortified settlements, invisible from the mainland – the Lower Town (7,500 square metres) and the Upper Town (120,000 square metres) situated on the plateau at the top of the rock.
I saw this VERY leaf hanging from its rustic lichen covered fence a few weeks ago, but passed it by without taking a pic. Another opportunity missed...or so I thought. I had completely forgotten about it. Until yesterday, that is. As luck would have it, there it was, this Giant Maple Leaf, its stem lodged in the fence, still hanging SO perfectly, and just BEGGING me not to pass it by again without snapping a pic.
Thankful for a second chance to photograph this beauty! 😊
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Highest position: 327 on Saturday, December 3, 2016
This is part of a large addition that I am making to my Bay View album. Bay View is a community of summer cottages near Petoskey, Michigan. Most of these additional photographs are highlighting the great number of porch styles in the community. Taken on an drizzling, overcast day.
And as Gina said under my “Seven Up” porch, the houses in this community are “all-American”, not a cookie-cutter in the place. Available at 17-robert-carter.pixels.com in the “Bay View” collection.
Tonight I learnt the difference between a recently rained upon mole hill and a fresh recently rained upon cow pat by feel !
The welcoming touch of the mountains is long gone. Now it is a desolate place, where only the memory lives
(White Capped variant!)
This small bird is a winter migrant to India from parts of the Central Asia and middle East. It prefers dry areas and desert regions for its habitat and we found it all over the desert - infact it was the most common bird in that area - more than the myna's or bulbuls and sighted in the dry bushes and often coming to the ground.
Wikipedia refers to three distinct morphs of the bird and we sighted all 3 of them, though 2 seemed fairly common - the 3rd one - the white cap - was a bit uncommon but did sight a few times. The one we get down in the Southern India has white on the belly all the way till the neck. We never found it in our home state despite searching several seasons, but am so am glad that we sighted all the 3 variants.
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This was taken at Victoria, Canada. The ships, the mountains and the rocks form a peaceful and harmony scene.
This is Shabita, the housekeeper of a small resort we visited Jan'21. Always a smile in her face, she keeps the place supper clean. She definitely has a good soul!
I dug this out from the hard drive. I havent shot anything new in a year or more. I still have a few tucked away here and there, I may dig those out between now and when I get my new table built.
Thanks for looking, I hope everyone enjoys.
This is a picture from the Lake District, between Coniston and Hawkshead. It was the only rainy day we had on our UK trip. When passing here, I had to stop because of the mystic foggy athmosphere.
Mandevilla is a genus of tropical and subtropical flowering vines, a frost-sensitive perennial. I had never heard of it, but loved its large pink flowers when I saw it at the nursery. It cost more than the plants I usually buy, so I will have to take good care of it and bring it in before it gets cold. We'll see if I can bring it thru a NY State winter!
It's growing well, is always putting out new blooms, and has formed several vines that need support on stakes.
The flowers are almost 2" across and last several days. They do become more pale as they get older.
This summer we had two young visitors from NZ, and one day I took them to Thonon-les-Bains for the day; to thank me they gave me this pretty ceramic heart they found in an antique shop.
Width of photo including chain = 7cm.
Taken for this weeks Smile on Saturday 'Let it glow!" theme.
I hope you all have lots of smiles this week, and plenty of laughs too :-D
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This is one of my favorite Cypress Tree shots. I love how so many flowers are growing around this tree’s trunk ,distant from the shore or any close neighbors. It’s interesting how four of us shot this lake for the same amount of time, saw the same trees and flowers and all had a significantly distinct vision and interpretation on how to communicate the beauty of the place in our work. I think everyone would see the beauty but making a good image out of the chaos of color and form is a challenge. Keep in mind, I’m only showing you ones I like, not the hundreds more that hit the trash heap. Unlike film, like one of my friends shoots (big expensive film up to 8 x 10), digital allows us to take as many as we like, which costs only time and not money. In my retired case, “Time is not money”. (Bald Cypress - Taxodium distichum) (Sony a1ii, 24-105 lens @ 68mm, f/6.3, 1/80 second, ISO 1600)