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52 Weeks of 2018
Week No: 8
Theme: Slow Synch Flash
Category: Technique
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[Wonderland 2.0] a truly amazing and beautiful sim. www.flickr.com/photos/194540391@N03/51958858024/in/pool-1...
One thing that is ironic is there is no place where Trump is liked least than his home town. As a native New Yorker people in my city have been dealing with his ego for many years before he got involved in politics. We dealt his history of racial discrimination on his properties, on how when his Atlantic City casinos went bankrupt where dozens on construction contractors went bankrupt when he stiffed them out of money he owed them. Then there was the infamous case of the Central Park Five where five teenage boys were accused of a brutal rape and beating and how he put out full page ads in the New York Times calling for their executions and then DNA evidence and the confession of the actual rapist exonerated them after serving several years in prison costing the city forty one million in damage payouts.
I thought I'd have a go at the Macro Mondays theme this week, although I can't help I'm being incredably unimaginative! Oh well.
All my kitchen project photos are in this album:-
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The Rooks have been misbehaving today.
Trying to convince me that they are as worthy as the Woodpeckers, of the UPB mix.
I will admit to a softspot for the Rooks out of all of the Corvids.
This looks to be one of the older birds with the gap in the beak they seem to get, and it has a tick on its eye.
I do put down seed, away from the feeders used by the small birds.
A swallow pair kept returning to this lookout perch, despite the presence of two photographers. In the background are the out of focus clay cliffs in which they were nesting.
Standing in tall grass for this shot, I came away with half a dozen wood ticks on my clothing, and that has been enough to deter me from subsequent visits. It has been a relatively wet spring, and there seem to be extra ticks hanging out looking for a free meal. I really hate being that meal. And I hate the creepy feeling, mostly imaginary, that persists after finding one or two in places they shouldn't be. Oh, well. They will be a non-factor in a couple more weeks. For some reason, they are only a nuisance in the spring.
Meanwhile, the bird photography continues to be rewarding. More to come.
Photographed in Grasslands National Park, Saskatchewan (Canada). Don't use this image on websites, blogs, or other media without explicit permission ©2025 James R. Page - all rights reserved.
I caught this tick before she latched on to my dog.
An adult female sheep/deer tick ( Ixodes ricinus ).
Ixodes ricinus
Also known as the Sheep tick/ Castor bean tick/ Forest tick/ Deer tick
Hosts
Sheep, cattle, dog, human
Distribution
All temperate areas of Europe
Ixodes ricinus is found mainly in area of rough grazing, moorland, woodland and areas where wild deer and rabbit are in abundance.
Pathogenesis
Cattle: Babesia divergens, Babesia bovis, Anaplasma marginale
Sheep: Louping-ill virus, Rickettsia, pyaemia in lambs
Human: Lyme borreliosis
Other pathogens and diseases associated with I. ricinus include:
Tick paralysis
Tick borne encephalitis (TBE)
Russian spring-summer encephalitis
Coxiella burnetii
Bukhovinian haemorrhagic fever
( www.bristoluniversitytickid.uk/page/Ixodes+ricinus/26/#.X... )
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Time was against us. So was technology. The absence of any access to internet prevented me from uploading this yesterday. And today's will probably be uploaded tomorrow.
This is from a beautiful stone clock I had custom made several years ago... Suddenly appeared to me that I need to add a photo of the entire clock soon... haha :P
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This is what I spied in my son’s new cats ear. I told him to run and get me some tweezers, and I pulled the darn thing out. I wrapped it in a Kleenex and burned it in the fire pit. In all my years I've seen two ticks till going on vacation in TN and NC this past spring. The ticks were everywhere and now I notice them more here than I have not ever before.
For thirty years my guy was a salaried worker; this clock was my gift to him many birthdays ago. He's now an hourly employee, but old habits die hard...and this clock still has relevance for him.
Fortunately he married a gal with a different perspective on work/life balance (or lack thereof).
Have a good weekend!
Project 365-125
The caption credit goes to an irreverent Brit I "met" many decades ago. Stuart Wilde is no longer with us...or maybe he's driving a taxi somewhere...? If you want to challenge or even simply question the status quo, he's your man.
"The two most powerful warriors are patience and time."
- Leo Tolstoy
Location in SL (Mystic Forest): maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Ariel/80/184/24
Here you have my contribution to this week's theme rule of Thirds for the Swedish flickr group Photo Sunday.
So this is a photo that is more for biological interest than art as you can see that the Puffin's face is covered in ticks. It would have been an easy job to Photoshop them out but I thought they were interesting. This is likely to be the Seabird Tick (Ixodes uriae), Uria being the generic name for Guillemots. This tick mainly feeds on seabirds at high latitudes in both the northern and southern hemispheres. In penguin colonies that are inhabited year-round, the ticks have a three year life cycle, but only feed on the penguins for three or four months, hiding in aggregations under stones for the rest of the year. So it is likely that they will only feed on the Puffins during their short nesting period, and will hide in Puffin burrows for the rest of the year when the Puffins are out at sea. The ticks form aggregations and are attracted to these by pheromones and the ticks' excretory product, which helps explain why this was the only tick-infested Puffin that I saw on the Isle of Lunga.
Continuing on with my "time" subject, I used my Grandma's old watch and a Kim Klassen texture.
Another day, almost gone. Tick tock, tick tock. :-)
Tick with mite - serves it right? (Clearing some archive images and noticed the uppermost tick had a mite. Not a great sharp shot and had I noticed the mite originally, I'd have focussed more on it.)
"Ooh, I can't hold it
Ow! Bang, B-B-bang, bang
Bang.
You, yeah.
You're such a big tease, you get me all excited,
All excited then you go home.
You're like ice cream,
Knew I got to get ya, got to get ya, before you're all gone.
You're such a bombshell,
And if I ever get ya, ever get ya, ever get ya,
There's no telling how long I'd last
Before I tick, tick bang all over you
Tick, tick-a-tick, bang, bang all over you
Tick, tick-a-tick, bang, bang, bang, tick, bang, bang
You Ain't no cheap thrill,
Every time you tick I'd rather you bang,
But you leave me in a fire sweat (leave me in a fire sweat)
You're like a good pill
All I need is to, and I'm so into you, you're the best stuff that I could get.
You're such a bombshell
If I ever get ya, ever get ya, ever get ya,
There's no telling how long I'd last.
Before I tick, tick, bang, all over you
All over you, tick, all over you, tick, bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, bang
Ooh, I can't hold it.
Oh, it's getting all over me.
Ooh, I can't hold it.
Oh, it's getting all over me.
You're such a queen bee
Let me taste your honey, taste your honey, taste your honey, for it go bad
You're so slippery
Like this chain around my hip, I want a 24k relationship.
So baby don't spit me out, tick, tick, bang, all over you.
Tick, tick-a-tick, bang
Oh, I can't hold it. Oh, it's getting all over me.
You're such a bombshell
If I ever get ya, ever get ya, ever get ya,
There's no telling how long I'd last.
Before I tick, tick-a-tick, bang, bang, bang, bang, all over you
All over you, bang, all over you, tick, tick, bang, all over you
Tick, tick, bang, all over you. tick, tick, bang, all over you
All over, bang, all over, bang, all over, tick, bang"
by Prince