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Listening to Carole King today… another old Rocker that’s made beautiful music for a number of years.
Carole King is an American singer, songwriter, and musician who has been active since 1958. King has made 25 solo albums, the most successful being Tapestry, which held the record for most weeks at No. 1 by a female artist for more than 20 years.
Her record sales were estimated at more than 75 million copies worldwide. She has won four Grammy Awards and was inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame. She has been inducted twice into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, as a performer and songwriter.
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The Hooded Merganser:
Spotted this Female Hooded Merganser Strutting Her Stuff after finishing a breakfast of Frog Legs alfresco. The legs were still attached to the frog, so it took her awhile to dine, but she seems to have had a Happy Ending : )
Hooded Mergansers are fairly common on small ponds and rivers, where they dive for fish, crayfish, and other food, seizing it in their thin, serrated bills. They find their prey underwater by sight. They can actually change the refractive properties of their eyes to improve their underwater vision. In addition, they have an extra eyelid, called a “nictitating membrane,” which is transparent and helps protect the eye during swimming, like a pair of goggles.
Hooded Merganser ducklings leave their nest cavity within 24 hours of hatching. First, their mother checks the area around the nest and calls to the nestlings from ground level. From inside the nest, the little fluffballs scramble up to the entrance hole and then flutter to the ground, which may be 50 feet or more below them. In some cases, they have to walk half a mile or more with their mother to the nearest body of water.
The oldest recorded Hooded Merganser was a male and at least 14 years, 6 months old when he was shot in Mississippi in 2009. He had been banded in Minnesota in 1995.
(Sony, 200-600 @ 600 mm, 1/400 @ f/6.3, ISO 5000, edited to taste)
Yesterday is a history, tomorrow is a mystery but today is a gift. Thats why we call it the present.
then I realized I was thinking about YOU" 😍
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I just hoped that no traveller through Iceland's North depended on this petrol station ... :)
Those are the days in Dystopia!
Today my Ice series has made it to Yahoo Uk's front page -check it out ! - super stoked about this. uk.news.yahoo.com/photos/frozen-in-time-photographer-s-st...
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To sevens together
Like time indefinite
Try to catch the glass
Before it falls
Without a frown
Can you turn up the stereo?
I want to play you this old song
It's about love
Can I do that?
Did we remember to water the plants today?
I forgot to look up at the moon because
I was too busy
I was too busy looking at you, baby
Songwriters: Prince Rogers Nelson
Picture Taken @ The Mill
Lovely and sunny at home, not so along the coast at the hides, but some nice waders about. This Snipe got very close to the hise
No exaggeration on the color saturation...
Unfortunately this was all what I could see from the west facing window, and try not to look at those power lines! 😉
As with the lake (eastern view), the color was not as intense as yesterday.
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FRONT PAGE - 20/05/2009-Thanks to all my flickr friends.
HBW
Wish you all a wonderful and happy wednesday my friends:))**
Very busy just went out to my garden to take few photos to upload. Catching when i can.
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Just crop no work on it
Today at the "Kuhflucht" waterfalls near Garmisch-Partenkirchen/Bavaria/Germany.
Panorama of 5 vertical shots a '24 mm, assembled and edited in Lightroom.
Heute an den Kuhflucht-Wasserfällen in der Nähe von Garmisch-Partenkirchen.
Panorama aus 5 vertikalen Bildern a' 24 mm, zusammengesetzt und bearbeitet in Lightroom.
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Sun setting behind Groat Knowe, a rounded hillock to the north west of my house.
It had been raining for most of the day, then, about 9pm, there was a suggestion of yellow in the sky. The sun slowly dropped down beneath the higher clouds as the lower cloud (here, outlined in a peachy-white colour) filled the Girvan Valley, below.
I sat for about an hour, in alternating light drizzle and very strong dying sunlight.
There is a 'burning bush' right in the middle of the sun; I think this is a goat willow sapling, nothing more 😄
(I think this picture was taken about 9:45pm)
Taken from my garden.
South Carrick Hills,
SW Scotland
Today the mountain view is almost gone with trees growing many feet each year. Garden bed is no longer being tended, but a few plants survive being wild. I am in the low Cascade hills and nature still does surround me.
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