Date: August 31, 2021

Location: My House - Ellicott City, Maryland (Howard County)

NOTE: As I opened my front door, this cutie was standing just a few feet in front of me. Nice way to start the day!

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Lincoln Park

Chicago, IL

July 2020

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This caterpillar is tiny, much smaller than it looks in this photo. I found it in the garden today. To be honest, my feline bug alarm Linus found it first and informed me. When Linus discovered it, the caterpillar was dangling from a tree on a silk thread and when it climbed further down into the greenery I took a quick photo. Apparently our visitor didn't bring his family and friends, at least I didn't find any other caterpillars but as I don't know what it is and how much damage it can cause I decided to rehome it. I took it to a wild meadow in the neighbourhood where I take every little creature I don't want to have in my garden. Lots of slugs have found a new home there too over the years.

Cleo, grazing in the farm yard, has spotted a visitor to the farm, one that may pat or brush her.

At the Hassan Tower in Rabat.

Hassan Tower is the minaret of an incomplete mosque in Rabat, Morocco. It was commissioned by Abu Yusuf Yaqub al-Mansur, the third caliph of the Almohad Caliphate, near the end of the 12th century. The tower was intended to be the largest minaret in the world, and the mosque, if completed, would have been the largest in the western Muslim world. When al-Mansur died in 1199, construction on the mosque stopped. The minaret was left standing at a height of 44 meters. The rest of the mosque was also left incomplete, with only the beginnings of several walls and 348 columns being constructed.

Summer brings Seaborne visitors, many from the States.

S/he came for a visit on our front pathway and eventually slithered off into my garden. Actually, maybe even jumped.

a visitor

birthday party over the fence resulted in some visitors popping over

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Who knows what kind of goodies you'll find when you did deep into the Goodie Bowl?

Visitors from afar, ok Portknockie but in these Covid lockdown times it seems far away.

Assuming these two will getting lifted out of the water for their winter maintenance shortly.

Common Tern / sterna hirundo. Straws Bridge, Derbyshire. 16/05/20.

I was delighted to find the Common Terns (first seen yesterday), were still on site early this morning. They were favouring a different place along the edge of the lake and regularly used wooden posts to rest on. I photographed them from my car today because they were raised up from the ground … very obliging of them as, using a zoom lens this time, I was able to make some very different images. Can‘t believe how lucky I‘ve been with this pair of globetrotters! :-))

This Great Blue Heron dropped in for a bite to eat and assumed the classic fishing pose. They always visit when you are least expecting them. This one was a pleasant surprise.

Macroglossum stellatarum

A summer visitor to the UK from Southern Europe....seen in my garden feeding on the Red Valerian which grows in copious amounts in our village as well as some in my garden. This flew in ( or hummed as it flew past I should say ) in the last heat wave mid June 2022 in Yorkshire !

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We woke to find some visitors in our back yard. Just passing through, tasting what was left of the flowers. White Tail Deer

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Visitor is dwarfed by the immense walls of Caerphilly Castle,Wales,UK.

A UFO spacecraft hovers over Devil's Tower, Wyoming at night as people look in awe

Prompt: an ultra-realistic image of a UFO with mysterious lights hovering above Devil's Tower, Wyoming, at night, highly detailed, high resolution

A friend rocked up to show me his two seater roadster. For anyone familiar with the Morgan, they are quite unusual in the way they are constructed.

Looks like a fun thing to take out for a Sunday drive! Envy!!

This past year we had many visitors in the garden,

after big 4 year drought.

CTA Heritage Fleet cars 6712-6711 are at the O’Hare Terminal during a final outing of the year.

Squirrel getting ready for a cold Maine winter.

Last from SanMartino.

Turisti nel chiostro grande, in primo poano uno dei teschi in marmo lungo il recinto del cimitero dei monaci

After working in on an 0Z66 Tuebrook to Crewe overnight, 66779 stands with 66747 in Crewe loco siding. I have no clue why they decided to stable them here or even why they came to Crewe but it was a pleasant surprise nevertheless.

Mike followed the Visitors up to the mothership with his camera - everyone was there, John, Diana and a strangely ominous pile of what looked like red dust on the hangar floor...

Edit - Thanks Brothers Brick for featuring my MOC!

(New AFOL after many years of darkness. Please let me know what you think!)

Death Valley National Park visitor center, California.

(112 degrees)

Another view of three cabins built by the Civilian Conservation Corps in 1935 to shelter campers and visitors to Valley of Fire. They are made of native sandstone and are no longer in use. Valley of Fire, Clark County, Nevada.

Grabbed a shot of this guy out the window of my office. Lots of branches to contend with so this is the only one where you could see him. Don't know what kind it is

A new visitor in my backyard. Isle Lake Alberta.

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A nice visitor of last Paris Air Show was this Pilatus PC-21 wearing house colors. I could try some prop blur and it went great.

I used an antique filter on this in PhotoScape, because I wasn't altogether happy with the way the original turned out. This is in Cuyahoga Valley National Park, just south of Cleveland, Ohio.