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Taken at Barham Hall Gardens on a nice sunny day.
Five acres of immaculate lawns, borders, ponds, waterfalls, woodland garden trees, azaleas and many wild flowers.
A simple capture of a beautiful Heron as it walks past a great willow on the bank of one of the ponds at St James's Park, London on a Winters afternoon. Another Heron is hidden behind the tree on the bank of the pond if you look closely....
High up in the willow tree enjoying the view.
Great to see these lovely little birds back
Garden image.
I caught this lovely little sailboat scene framed by a flourishing weeping willow as I walked past a tiny lot/lakeside beach in Naramata, BC.
I found this White Squirrel along the river. As soon as he saw me, he ran up this big willow tree with a walnut in his mouth.When he felt safe,he picked up his prize to begin cracking open the walnut shell.
Exeter,Ontario
Canada
Title by Enya - 2001
The farm directly across the road from the two ponies capture south of Intercourse, Pennsylvania.
Snow was falling,
so much like stars
filling the dark trees
that one could easily imagine
its reason for being was nothing more
than prettiness.
--Mary Oliver
8257, 8229 & 8214 slowly snake their way up the 1:40 grade of Ardglen Bank in full power. Hauling 5132 from Wee Waa to Enfield, with containerised cotton and other agricultural products.
For the large coal trains that also use this section of track, near Murrurundi; banker locomotives are used to push the consist over the hill, before detaching on the fly. Surprisingly, they're not used for most general freight services. 18/11/22
SSRs RL301, 1202, 1201 & RL307 with 44204, 442s1 & L277 pushing from the rear, approach the bottom of Ardglen Bank at Kankool, with 5446 from Narrabri to Carrington.
The three banker locomotives are needed to push the heavy consist of grain over the steep 1:40 grade.
SSR have been running this service almost daily to port. 06/12/22
This valley known as Whitcombe is part of Ham Hill Country Park, in South Somerset.
It is the site of a medieval village which extended along both sides of a road running through the valley floor and culminating at the village pond, in the centre of the photograph. The stream which flowed from the pond was piped underground some time ago, and since becoming part of Ham Hill Country Park, is being re-instated.
On Explore, November 28 ~ thank you everyone :-)
Taken along the Fox River in Ottawa Illinois during sunrise (sorry Linda, I wrote this after you commented). While this image is the one I chose to upload to Flickr, I took several from every angle possible. I shot in portrait and landscape. Zoomed in, zoomed out. Adjusted the settings on the camera a multitude of times. When it was all said and done, this is the shot that best captured the moment.
There is no image I could have taken that compares to seeing this in person. The moment was unforgettable.
Have a wonderful Sunday everyone :-)
I sometimes struggle with the conceptual challenges. But I am determined to do this challenge every day in 2021. It helped to see the great ODC postings to figure out an idea. Odc: minimalism
Muchelney is a small village on slightly higher ground on the Somerset Levels. It is the site of a Benedictine Abbey, parts of which are still intact. In wet weather such as we have had this February , the village can become an island, with all four roads impassable due to flooding. When the road is flooded locked gates are used to prevent the foolhardy from attempting to travel across the levels. On the day I visited the gates were open, though there was still one area of shallow floodwater on the road to the village from Langport, and also on the road on which I left the village to return home.
The clouds were chasing across the sky causing constant changes to the light when I took these photographs, I like them both, for different reasons. Witcombe Valley is part of Ham Hill Country Park, South Somerset.
Before we head off into the distance, let's take a look at our immediate surroundings.
And this in both senses of the word.
Firstly, and this is obvious, we're looking at a moss-covered branch up close. This gives us a great view of the beautiful structures of this green micro-landscape.
And secondly, this old willow tree is located less than 30 minutes from my apartment, right next to the motorway, just after the Pulsnitz exit.
Bevor wir uns auf den Weg in die Ferne machen, noch ein Blick ins nähere Umfeld.
Und dies im doppelten Sinne des Wortes.
Zum einen, was offensichtlich ist, schauen wir uns hier einen mit Mosse bedeckten Ast aus nächster Nähe an. So können wir die wunderschönen Strukturen dieser grünen Mikrolandschaft hervorragend sehen.
Und zum anderen befindet sich diese alte Weide nicht einmal 30 Minuten von meiner Wohnung entfernt direkt neben der Autobahn kurz nach der Abfahrt Pulsnitz.
A great horned owl greets me on a late afternoon walk, providing some atmosphere for the celebrations of Hallowe’en and Dia del los Muertos.
Owls have long been viewed as both symbols of wisdom as well as guardians of the dead. The ancient Greeks viewed owls as symbols of knowledge and wisdom, while the Romans associated owls with malicious activity- the Latin word for owls is “strix” which also means “witch.” Witches were believed to be capable of transforming themselves into owls (much as vampires can transform into bats and other creatures). The ancient Egyptians viewed owls as manifestations of the dead, with some statues depicting half human, half owl creatures (which may have given rise to the Roman harpy, half human, half bird creatures).
Have a spooky Hallowe’en!
A female red-winged blackbird (Agelaius phoeniceus, Icteridae), perched in willow tree (Salix species, Salicaceae), is prepared to return to the nest with a juicy morsel for her babies.
Terrell's Island Preserve, Winnebago County, Wisconsin
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Yesterday evening I had the spontaneous idea for a little exploration tour in the area. These then led me here, to the Zschorna pond area, a nature reserve near the town of Thiendorf.
Even though I didn't have much time to explore the entire area, I saw that there seems to be some potential for nice photos. Because there are probably 32 larger and smaller ponds here in total, which I will definitely take a closer look at in the future (well, maybe not all of them).
I dared to get a little closer to one of them, always expecting to get my feet wet in the mud on the bank (which luckily didn't happen after all).
On the mud overgrown by algae (which looks very exciting in itself) I then found this small willow, which has actually grown there and has also put out leaves. A branch was probably torn off a tree on the shore, which then washed up here and formed roots. It's exciting to see which ways nature sometimes finds to develop further.
The sunset in the background, because I was actually here, very quickly becomes less interesting.
Gestern Abend hatte ich die spontane Idee für eine kleine Erkundungstour in der Umgebung. Diese führte mich dann hier her, in das Zschornaer Teichgebiet, einem Naturschutzgebiet in der Nähe der Stadt Thiendorf.
Auch wenn ich nicht viel Zeit hatte um die Gegend genauer zu erkunden habe ich doch gesehen, dass hier wohl einiges an Potential für schöne Fotos zu sein scheint. Denn insgesamt gibt es hier wohl 32 größere und kleiner Teiche, die ich mir mit Sicherheit in der Zukunft näher anschauen werde (naja, vielleicht nicht alle).
An einen von Ihnen habe ich mich etwas näher heran gewagt, immer damit rechnend mir im Uferschlamm nasse Füße zu holen (was dann glücklicherweise doch nicht passiert ist).
Auf dem von Algen überwuchterem Schlamm (der an sich schon sehr spannend aussieht) habe ich dann diese kleine Weide gefunden, die dort tatsächlich angewachsen ist und auch Blätter ausgetrieben hat. Wahrscheinlich wurde von einem Baum am Ufer ein Ast abgerissen, der dann hier angespült wurde und Wurzeln gebildet hat. Es ist schon spannend, welche Wege die Natur manchmal findet um sich weiter zu entwickeln.
Da wird der Sonnenuntergang im Hintergrund, wegen dem ich eigentlich hier war, sehr schnell zur Nebensächlichkeit.
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Munster Mill Pond
There is Münster and Munster, this is the town of Munster without the umlauts, which did somewhat confuse me when I came to set the sat nav.
The River Örtze flows through the mill pond, but before reaching the pond the river flows by the Munster Nord military training area.
The silting up of the Örtze and also the mill pond has caused problems for a long time. Since 1893 sewage from the troop camp was channeled virtually uncleaned into the Örtze, until the appropriate treatment plants were set up in later years.
This resulted in the Örtze and the Mühlenteich suffering badly from the pollution. The fish gradually died out and the sediment silted up the pond.
By 1955 the mill pond was completely blocked, overgrown with reeds and no longer visible as a pond. The Örtze was by now only a small trickle.
In the years between 1965 and 1967, the pond was cleared and the bank areas were designed to look natural.
Today the mill pond is located in a park-like area.
The following fish species are native to the pond-
Eel, brown trout, perch, gudgeon, bullhead, carp, pike, tench, white fish, catfish
The Mühlenteich Munster fishing club is allowed to hold events here four times a year.
Thank you for your visit and your comments, they are greatly appreciated.