Hopefully your not getting fed up with all the Bluebell images, only a couple more to come but i`ll space them out with other shots.

It`s been a while since I shot this one, I think it was a focus stack of some that I brought home to shoot.

They are such a lovely flower in the field but close up they look more purple than blue.

So I want to start this off by saying I am consistently over-ambitious. Take today, for example. Today, I thought to myself, in my second attempt at using my new tablet, why don't I go ahead and try to draw a hood and a magic bubble and a shirt, on top of the usual hair, lighting, and color effects that I normally do.

Mind you, I don't draw/can't draw. Part of the purpose of this tablet is to try new things. Well ... I eventually gave up and realised my hood was actually a cloud. So I made it a magical effing cloud. And by the end I was just brain tired and gave up on the shirt altogether.

Anyways, a pile-up of Kira Balestra.

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A White-crowned Sparrow (Zonotrichia leucophrys) puffed up against the cold on a frosty morning.

Catch up tomorrow friends Gale

UP Train LPB14, the Kearney Local, rolls eastbound through Wood River, NE. This local operates between Kearney and Grand island, NE

Tulip Staircase at the Queen's House, Greenwich.

So glad it's Friday - this image reflects my week, a little crooked, a lot tangled.

HFF!

Dunkirk OH

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Cars kite caught in tree.

Teilhard's theology was, in a sense, Franciscan Christology now seen through the lens of modern science and evolution. When Teilhard discovered Duns Scotus's notion of the primacy of Christ through the Sicilian Franciscan Father Allegra, he exclaimed: “There is the theology of the future!”16 With Teilhard I began to appreciate the critical role evolution plays in shifting the understanding of God from static to dynamic, from eternal presence to God of the future. Understanding Jesus as the Christ could only make sense in light of evolution, if indeed Incarnation and creation are one and the same act of God's self-giving love.

-Birth of a Dancing Star From Cradle Catholic to Cyborg Christian, Ilia Delio, OSF

I’m on the lookout daily because I really feel with today’s fast pace”Spring Sneaks Up” on us while we’re doing other things.

BPRR 2177 leads an extra stone train south towards Johnsonburg.

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www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mx_OexsUI2M

My only shot showing the head of this species, Argiope aurantia, the Black & Yellow Garden Spider. The dragonfly prey appears to be hanging precariously. Perhaps one or more of the three tiny Argyrodes kleptoparasites in view had been cutting away at its support? Subsequently the Garden Spider added reinforcement and hauled it up to safety. Maybe some shots of that, eventually.

Happy Arachtober!

A Laughing Gull starts to take off from a watery resting place.

UP train LMN34 wanders south along the Peoria Gateway near Newburg, Iowa, on a autumn afternoon

I've been going through photos and touching up the ones I was never really happy with; they had the potential to be good (or at least better) and I didn't know how, at the time, to really bring forth the beauty and atmosphere that I had intended to capture. So, I'll be posting some "Touch-Ups" every now and then of photos I've already posted.

This is Reynisdrangar in Vik, Iceland. My original photo (www.flickr.com/photos/gwennyma/16531614489/in/album-72157...) is a bland, gray landscape, but I wanted to show the fierce weather, the dramatic black sand, and the craggy rocks as they were meant to be. I hope you like this version more and that it gives that sense of the cold, harsh, and unique raw beauty that I experienced.

I make really lousy fried eggs. I can scramble and hard-boil with aplomb, and once I even poached, but apparently I do not possess the skillz required to fry.

Go ahead and take your best shot,

Let 'er rip, give it all you've got,

I'm laid out on the floor, but I've been here before,

I may stumble, yeah I might fall,

Only human aren't we all?

I might lose my way, but hear me when I say,

I will stand back up,

You'll know just the moment when I've have enough,

Sometimes I'm afraid, and I don't feel that tough,

But I'll stand back up,

I've been beaten up and bruised,

I've been kicked right off my shoes,

Been down on my knees more times than you'd believe,

When the darkness tries to get me,

There's a light that just won't let me,

It might take my pride, and my tears may fill my eyes,

But I'll stand back up,

I've weathered all these storms,

But I just turn them into wind, so I can fly,

What don't kill you makes you stronger,

When I take my last breath,

That's when I'll just give up,

So, go ahead to take your best shot,

Let 'er rip, give it all you've got,

You might win this round but you can't keep me down,

'Cause I'll stand back up,

And you'll know just the moment when I've had enough,

Sometimes I'm afraid and I don't feel that tough,

But I'll stand back up,

You'll know just the moment when I've had enough,

Sometimes I'm afraid and I don't feel that tough,

But I'll stand back up.

Traffic on the Great Wall...

Tráfego na Grande Muralha

Du trafic sur la Grande Muraille

The hill gets steeper from here.

triptych in three parts

Juvenile Western Red-tailed Hawk.

Las Cienagas National Conservation Area, Arizona

Dikkopje (Hesperiidae)

Ochlodes venata

I'm not sure what train this is but I saw the same power doing the same thing two days in a row so I suspect it's a local transfer job of some sort. At any rate, this pair of UP Deuces is heading north out of Fort Worth and soon to go over the Trinity River. 5/18/18

The Naked Camera - Herbie Hancock

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Wild South Africa

Kruger National Park

Critically endangered White-backed Vultures waiting for the sun to create warm-air pockets that would enable them to soar over distances of up to 150 km. They are Africa's most common large vulture, an accomplished scavenger that feeds on the carcasses of Africa's large animals.

Taken with c.1995 manual Nikkor 50 mm f/1.8 AIs lens with +2 dioptre close up filter . Monopod.

See for earlier photos when seed head more complete.

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and others adjacent thereto.

near Ashford, Petersfield, Hampshire

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A line of Northern Pintails with their heads down and bums up. Except the one on watch.

Saginaw Tx

Idle boats at the Feltzen South wharf on Nova Scotia's South Shore.

Chena Lakes Recreation Area, Fairbanks, Alaska.

This is a close-up photo of patterns in a piece of kelp that I held up to be backlit by the evening sunlight.

Extreme ride at Moomba Festival 2019 in Melbourne

Entwistle Reservoir walkabouts

Stadtbibliothek, Stuttgart.