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When mom and her cubs wander from the beach to the woods, they sometimes pass directly through the lodge grounds, giving visitors added viewing pleasure. These cubs waste no time consuming some of the delicious clover that grows on the grounds. It may come as a surprise that seventy percent of a brown bear’s diet is vegetation.
When the little boys go to bed, and the big boys are asked to clean up the mess it's
1 flash rear camera left
1 flash front camera left, lower power
1 flash rear camera right in order to create some separation with the backgroupnd. However I don't think it even hit anything. Bad aim after all the wine I guess...
Astrid has published a shot of the shooting of the second Brio stunt image.
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When I first moved here to the Pacific Northwest, I met this old man that would always look up with his hands outstretched. He would say, "Isn't it wonderful". Back then, I didn't really get the message. As I have lived here longer, I have come to appreciate the beauty in the sky, especially the morning and the evenings! :)
In a few days I will be traveling down to Southern Utah and Arizona. I am looking forward to photographing the great Southwest. It will be a very big change from the Pacific Northwest. Can't wait for the challenge! :)
I will be away from flickr for awhile, but I will catch up with your photo streams when I get back. :)
The skies looked pretty innocent when I headed out to the local road end. When I got there the wind was howling and the skies were spitting rain. I had to touch up the photo a bit to remove some rain drops. The best photos seem to come when you least expect it.
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When you live in Venice, you get to see the city before the hustle and bustle begins if you get up early enough.
When in Arches, it is always worth a stop at Park Avenue!
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I was supposed to go to the dentist for a cleaning eight months ago. I didn't.
Then I broke a tooth.
The dentist knows me very well. He knows I only call when there is an emergency. I think he must have my name penciled in, just in case, because he always fits me in.
What is most awesome is that I endured the visit sans Novocaine. What up, bitches?
Camera: iPhone 4s
Enhanced with Instagram, Dynamic Light, and Snapseed
When Brüni takes a walk with me, she gets silly with happiness and turns into a clown.
Wenn Brüni mit mir Spazieren geht, wird sie vor Freude albern und wird zum Clown.
"When a lazuli bunting babe sets out to make bunting babies, she doesn't mess with Mr. In-Between. Instead, she goes for the extremes--choosing either one of the snazziest-looking potential mates or one of the drabbest. That's because the best territories go to the blandest or the brightest male birds, according to a new study. The unusual situation--the two extremes being favored over the middle--is a rare case of sexually selected male-male cooperation, the researchers report in the 26 October issue of Nature.
In the bird world, it's often the guys who are the head-turners. Darwin argued, and many researchers believe, that sexual selection--competition for mates--is the driving force for the evolution of such foppish ornamentation as a male peacock's tail and the stunning turquoise, white, and chestnut coloration of an adult male lazuli bunting. But Bruce Lyon of the University of California, Santa Cruz, and Erick Greene of the University of Montana in Missoula wondered why, then, yearling male lazuli buntings were so variable in color, with some birds almost as dull as the all-brown females and others as splendid as the full-grown males. Using bird-bands, photographs, and DNA fingerprinting, the researchers closely tracked the goings-on in a population of buntings living in a shrubby prairie habitat outside Missoula, Montana.
They found that the gaudy males, whether adults or juveniles, managed to win the competition for scarce good territories. Juvenile males with intermediate coloration apparently weren't aggressive or strong enough to win; but the studly guys tolerated the dullest males, letting them settle next door and sometimes even hanging out with them. The genetic fingerprinting revealed that both parties benefit. The more dull-looking neighbors a hunky bunting has, the less chance he stands to be cuckolded, for reasons that aren't entirely clear yet. The dull guys, on the other hand, get to sire significantly more young than do the intermediate-colored males--even though their partners do sometimes cheat on them."
Running to the Extremes
mari n. jensen
sciencemag.org Oct. 25, 2000
When we came down to breakfast this morning, our lounge was nice and warm, as the remnants of yesterday's fire were still glowing red in the wood-burner. I got some more wood from our log store (which started life as an outside toilet) and also a bucket of smokeless fuel, and within a few minutes the fire was blazing away and our Yorkie had taken up position in front of it. Our old farm cottage in rural Northamptonshire dates from 1668, and has thick stone walls and relatively small windows. It's the ideal place for the cold winter months. In March, we'll be returning to our holiday home up near the Cumbria border. Hopefully, by then the snow will have disappeared.
When driving home late from playing a gig, one can always find peace while waiting for a freight train to pass by. Even if it is 100 plus cars. All this while being less than four minutes from home.
When we were in Washington state in 2013, if you had asked me to name the state flower of Washington, I would have said that it had to be Fireweed. We saw it all over, especially on the sides of roads where they were just "allowed" to take root and grow. The days we stopped to get shots of the flowers, it had just rained. That helped ... and hindered. The Fireweed is another plant with flowers that are ill-defined except for the stamen (the curled white things).
No way I was going to get this with a dark background, but I'm fairly good with exposures (in the field) which will blur the background. And, that's what you see here.
Chamaenerion angustifolium is a perennial herbaceous flowering plant in the willowherb family Onagraceae. It is known in North America as fireweed, in some parts of Canada as great willowherb,[in Britain and Ireland as rosebay willowherb. In the United Kingdom it is also known as bombweed, as a result of its rapid appearance on city bomb sites during the Blitz of World War II. It is native throughout the temperate Northern Hemisphere, including large parts of the boreal forests.
When you begin to see the burst before it happens ....during a storm the colors and burst are all around ...it is hard to decide on which one to capture .....maybe one day I will get it right til then here is another aurora view ......
When I looked at this photo I took of some ice formations, I saw an Ice Bride, escaping up the embankment. You can just see a bit of her neck between the back of her dress and her veil as her long dress flows behind her.
There is also an icy dragonfly further up.
and when the paparazzi finds out that you're awake, alert, and orientated and wants to interview you (without food in your mouth).
(according to the world of Cupcake)
When shadows rise and night comes it is good to remember that new light and a fresh start come in the morning!
Grand Teton as seen from Teton Valley, Idaho in evening light.
... and, I haven't done any of it for ages... although, more recent than this photo. However, I was scrolling through old photos and deleting and trying to organize over 17,000 and saw this one... so decided to show what the table looks like when needle felting even the tiniest of bears.
This one became a sweet little girl that travelled to the U.K. to a blog buddy .. her photo will be the one beside this one...tomorrow, for Teddy Tuesday.
She has only "test eyes" .. to decide on which size beads will work....test eyes are little beads on pins to stick in and out easily .. then, the desired size of beads are stitched on.
When I see trains like this, entwined in the beauty of the landscape.................
.................I wish I was the engineer.
Another shot from Palisades State Park @ The Mississippi River.
Have a great weekend everyone :-)
Shocked and saddened by the sad news of the earthquake centered in Chengdu, our thoughts and prayers go out to the family of our Chinese daughter, from Chengdu. Nine years ago, we dodged disaster when the top 50 feet of a rotten Doug Fir gave way and fell on our family during a hike, Liu Yang, (aka "Janet") then 16, suffered only a small gash in her head. Here she is comforted by my wife, Kathleen, as they sit amidst the tree debris in the Salmon River, awaiting the arrival of rescue workers. Fate is arbitrary and capricous. That tree could have crushed us all, or it could have stayed put up in the forest canopy. Only Janet, Jack and Sadie the dog were along the river bank when the tree fell--other dawdlers had stopped on the trail for a rest break. Jack and Sadie jumped away and the big limbs and branches fell all around Janet, missing her mostly, and leaving only a small wound that required just a few stitches. Conclusions? Hard to come by. Except that for any of us, at any time, death can come in an instant. But if it isn't time for your number to come up, you're good to go, through almost anything.
A serious nod here to Zetti Art. The quote is from Ralph Elliston.
Credits to Pixabay for figure, masks, and moths.
When you reach this stretch, you're still climbing, but it's not as brutally steep. The trail still seems to go on forever.
Views of Guadalupe Peak at right.
When she was around a year old and her hair started to come in i was a little sad that her hair was going to be so curly and sorta red due to the fact that my other 2 children,myself and the husband all have dark and stright hair and i knew she would look nothing like the rest of us......but now not a day goes by that i don't fall more in love with her hair.........even when i get stoped in the stores all the time by strangers asking where she gets the red curly hair from.....(my husband always tells them from the mailman) !