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Crashing waves along the coastline near Moelfre. You can just make out the snow covered mountains of Snowdonia in the background.
Daffodils are blooming everywhere even in random spots on hikes and by lakes.
Fort Steilacoom Park (some trail between the barns and the lake), Steilacoom/Tacoma, Washington State, USA
Eighth in the series ‘Wild Bonsai’, this tree is thirty-six inches (91cm) in height and perhaps 300 years old.
'Wild Bonsai' is a numbered collection of photos of naturally occurring bristlecones (p. longaeva) generally less than five feet in height (158cm) and - as nearly as I can estimate - between fifty and five-hundred years old - some much older. Most will have sprouted and survived in tiny cracks and crevases or miniature basins of sand and gravel. Shaped by the elements, flourishing tenaciously in the most minimalist of conditions, their lives are measured not in the millennia of more robust bristlecones, but in centuries...often mere decades.
'Duality', the cover photo for this album, is to me a matriarch of sorts and will remain unnumbered as a small token of a deeply intuitive and unapologetic respect that remains as transcendent and mysterious to me as it may seem odd to others. The essay that accompanies 'Duality' could, in many ways, apply as well to any other tree I may post in this series.
A perspective: Housed in the Tokyo Imperial Palace, the fifth oldest living cultivated bonsai in the world is something over 500 years old and is a designated National Treasure of Japan.
I have to drive home on the back roads lately because the main road is under construction. You see some cool stuff driving on those dirt roads - this fellow flew right over my windshield and landed by the side of the road, and just started walking.
Looking up Loch Cuaich/Quoich at Gleouraich (with summit clouds, centre-distance) and Spidean Mialach (right-distance) from the slopes below Ben Aden in Knoydart. A fabulous and remote part of Scotland, and especially lovely when the evening sun comes out as it did here!
Through the branches of vivid green
A wild path, now is seen
Stretching as far as the eye can see
Kissed by the beauty of every tree
Off into the distance, where you will find
Nature of every single different kind
At the end of the path, that now is seen
Through the branches of wild green
BNSF gave the Los Angeles area a much needed reprieve from the usual GEVO parade with this wild consist on the H-BARLAC. Behind the lead unit is an assortment of engines including a Genset, three SD60Ms (including the only one ever to receive Heritage 1 paint), a former Frisco GP38-2, and a few widecabs including a warbonnet Dash 9. The bizarre consist is seen here crossing over the Los Angeles River as it swings off the BNSF main and onto the Los Angeles Junction Railway.
Wildes Violett
Hier geht's nur um die Farben...
Ich wünsche euch ein wildes Wochenende! :))
It's just about the colours...
I wish you all a wild weekend! :))
Tools: Aperture, Color Efex Pro 4, Dfine 2
Took a trip over to the Atlantic Ocean side of Cape May to see how the gale force winds were affecting the ocean. Some pretty wild waves!
More of these wild flowers blowing in the wind as they don't last for long and & are rather cliche.
HCS
Thyme growing on Carboniferous fossiliferous Limestone at the site of Neolithic bowl barrows.
Thorswood Staffordshire UK 25th July 2017 SWT
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y6kQ2uxkws8
Bert Jansch singing Wild Mountain Thyme.
The Byrds did a pretty good version too.
The Barrows at Thorswood are a powerful place to sit and reflect. Although some barrows have been completely destroyed by later quarrying a few are still intact. Sitting amongst the spring or summer flowers, you can feel yourself being dragged back through time. Can you imagine no motor traffic noise, no jet trails in the sky, no lights to blank out the stars. It must have been so quiet and dark.
Little did I know when I first set eyes on this wildflower that it would take over a decade to identify it. When I took the photo, I thought, "This will be easy. There are fewer flowers, especially blue or violet with four petals." Wrong! There are fewer, but it turns out there are 400,000 flowering species and "only" 230,000 have been described. I found this flower at the based of a trail on Mt. Diablo leading to Castle Rock Park.
Today, in one final gasp, I spent more than two hours going through my four books on wildflowers of the west (and Sierras and Central California), and came up with ... oh, what's that scientific term... ah, ZILCH! Nada, Nil. My life may be frustrating, but it's rarely dull.
I bit the bullet. I don't like to impose on a good acquaintance (less than a friend, but through an interest in nature, we have corresponded often), John Muir Laws by name. Jack holds the Nature Stewardship through Science, Education, and Art at the SF Academy of Sciences. More important, he's a naturalist, has written several books on wildlife of the Sierras etc., and teaches the art of painting wildlife. And so, as I do about once a year, I emailed him. Having explained that the closest I could come for this flower, was the Clarkia Elegance (see below) which is endemic to my mountain. His response: "I totally understand the confusion. It looks a lot like a Clarkia. Check out the purple version of Wild radish (Raphanus raphanistrum)."
And so Flickrites, this is the Wild Radish of the Mustard family!
Close up of a wild boar in winterly settings, haven't seen them for a long time now as there was a lot of hunting but i hope for the spring and lots of offspring...
Forstenrieder Park, Munich, Germany
My first photo here was just recently taken in the region of Costa Brava (wild coast) in the north of Catalonia/Spain.
Making noise up in a coconut tree.
Hermosa Beach, California
The wild parrots flying free in Southern California today are descendants of wild-caught parrots that were imported into the United States before importation was banned and somehow either escaped or were released intentionally. These birds were already well versed in their survival skills and able to establish themselves in areas where exotic plant life is plentiful.
Rumor has it that of firefighters responding to a call in a pet shop and rather than see the birds perish, the firefighters set them free. Though Urband Legends have circulated for more than 30 years, there are some that believe the wild parrots may have come here on their own through normal exploration. Others believe they are all escaped pets.
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Just outside of the city of Tulsa is an area that has been set up for wild horses. Thousands of abandoned horses have been sent throughout the state of Oklahoma as a refuge for horses that don't have a home. The state has eight different locations of BLM land that has been set aside for these creatures to safely live out the rest of their lives. I think this is a pretty good program and I loved getting a chance to capture these majestic animals.