Didn't realise until I looked down on these weeds through the viewfinder that the leaves were a nice delicate heart shape - happy weekend yet again everyone!!

The Orange Red Sourgrass celebrates the Sunrise on the farm.

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Duck Weed has been a talking point this year with the hot weather allowing it to grow rapidly on local river systems. This Cormorant was coping and catching small items but didnt stay long before it moved to more open water.

Southern Railroad Company of New Jersey M420 800 pulls a weed sprayer up the Pleasantville Industrial Track on June 25, 2020 in Pleasantville, NJ to combat the high grasses that have grown along the right of way. The SRNJ is home to a small fleet of three M420s, a GP9, and a GP10. Of the three M420s, the 800 is painted in an NYO&W scheme.

They are a nuisance in the yard but I think they are pretty. :)

I hesitate to call it a "weed".

It has thrived in adversity in a harsh environment.

Autumn shots of the very invasive but rather beautiful weed

Milk Weed Blooming.

The river in Chiang Mai regularly gets choked with weed and this crew needs to carry out regular maintenance

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Great-Crested Grebes

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Macro shot of a sheet of dried sea weed. My daughter loves to eat these thin crisp sheets as snacks, I am not a fan but I love them for photos. Another sort of abstract shot but I am determined to get something done today so photo time is short.

Milk Weed along the Canal in Ottawa. Sunday November 27 2022.

This is a weed I could well do without. For gardeners it is known as a menace in lawns; In pastures it reduces available feed for livestock and displaces the indigenous plants. It arrived in our garden a few years ago from the lawn across the road. That lawn has now been replaced by builders but we still have the legacy of the weed whose seed floated across the road to us. I try hard to eradicate it but some still turns up each year..

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On Long Island we call this a weed. In Utah we call this a wildflower.

Couldn't quite believe it when this pair of Great Crested Grebes performed their weed dance right in front of me - and I had the whole thing to myself.

The ritual started wtih the grebes calling to each other - then swimming close and performing a series of choreographed head bobs and shakes whilst continuing to call and show off their crest feathers.

Then both birds dived down into the water and resurfaced carrying weed in their beaks, rearing up out of the water, paddling frantically to stay afloat whist performing their display. The weed dance only lasts a few seconds.

I have never seen this before in over 15 years of bird photography.

This shot is from the peak of the dance, with the grebes as high out of the water as they can get.

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These thorny monstrosities of a weed...flower...thing, grow everywhere around here. The first time I seen them I just stopped and literally said whoooowa. They are huge and have tons of thorns. I don't know their technical names (feel free to tell me, I would love to have the name in my pocket ”so to speak”. )But I thought I would share this with you for those up north that have never seen them. (I think they only grow down here…I have no clue. :-)

Man, ain't nothing wrong with smoking weed. Weed is from the earth. God put this here for me and you. Take advantage, man. Take advantage. ~Smokey

a weed defined to be unattractive quite not the case if you look a little closer it is quite beautiful

Well, I have probably shown enough Utah Railway photos so I thought I would switch directions to another shortline. This one is Central Oregon & Pacific before they were G&W. The Weed Hauler is seen southbound at Mink with a corporate leader and two ex-BN units on crisp Fall afternoon. 9.30.99

It has been a refreshing traveling season for me and so I rarely have the time to stay as active as I used to be. However, I am sure my wallet wouldn't support this lifestyle for long and so I should get back to being here more often...

I haven't really been able to sit and develop my images rather thought I would upload something that I had developed ages ago but never got around uploading it...

The Scottish Highlands offers some of the most breathtaking light there ever can be with the hues of orange, pink among the clouds which often move across the frame shrouding the sun giving some stunning landscape ops.

The lush green of the grass in summer all over the frame peppered alongside the bridge to the castle and the blue of the sky contrasting it was some sight!

Eilean Donan (Scottish Gaelic: Eilean Donnain) is a small tidal island where three lochs meet, Loch Duich, Loch Long and Loch Alsh, in the western Highlands of Scotland. A picturesque castle that frequently appears in photographs, film and television dominates the island, which lies about 1 kilometre (0.62 mi) from the village of Dornie. Since the castle's restoration in the early 20th century, a footbridge has connected the island to the mainland.

The castle was founded in the thirteenth century, and became a stronghold of the Clan Mackenzie and their allies the Clan Macrae. In the early eighteenth century, the Mackenzies' involvement in the Jacobite rebellions led in 1719 to the castle's destruction by government ships. Lieutenant-Colonel John Macrae-Gilstrap's twentieth-century reconstruction of the ruins produced the present buildings. - Courtesy Wiki

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Thanks for viewing and have a lovely weekend everyone!

I posted this photo because it reminded me of a children's TV programme about mischievious puppets called Bill and Ben the Flowerpot Men who had a friend called Little Weed. Little Weed, who they called Ickle Weed, lived beside a flower pot behind the potting shed. Ben's favourite saying was 'Flobabdob'. Ickle Weed would warn Bill and Ben when the gardener was coming so that they could hide back in the flowerpots. The memory made me smile and wondered if I lifted the flower pot then maybe, just maybe.....

If you don't know about Bill and Ben there is more information here: www.screenonline.org.uk/tv/id/443702/index.html

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The Butterweed are blooming now. Lovin' the vivid yellow!

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My favourite birds, great crested grebes.

Sometimes we are surrounded by so much beauty but we don't see it because we are blinded or searching for more

Started out as a Weed,but now it is a Beautiful Wild Flower.

In our neigbourhood.

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A sprig of weed peeping up over the crash barrier struts on the edge of a carpark.

Light on the path.

Most people have seen western grebes rushing(dancing). Rushing is more like dating or playing the field. The weed ceremony, I've only seen 3 or 4 times and its is more like getting engaged. Its the equivalent of the ring or commitment and it usually happens in a secluded cove.

I was too far away and didn't realize what I had captured until home. What caught my eye was how tall and proud these two were lifting up their bodies together.

In days gone by this weed was used for things such as poison ivy. It grows wild all along the creek here and I have enough to treat a whole population of people with poison ivy! ha ha. The creek is creating the bokeh in the background.