As seen in the Community Gardens in the Tia Juana River Valley Reserve.

With a wet spring and now summer too, water levels in the Great Lakes are higher then they have been in years. Great for sailors with deep keels but not so much for people with homes or cottages close to the water. Everything seems to have it's winners and losers.

This image is actually from last year, when water levels were already a bit higher. It's not often we see a sunset here with such a lavender hue.

Stuttgart, Germany

Leica MP, Voigtlander Nokton 35mm f1.5, Ilford XP2 400

Lokomotion 193 774 with Wuppertal - Verona Quadrante Europa Winner Spedition shuttle in Mezzocorona.

Great Egret

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Gold medal winner! A postbox in the coastal town of Lymington, Hampshire painted gold in honour of Ben Ainslie, gold medal winner in the London 2012 Olympic Games - Sailing Finn - Men's Heavyweight Dinghy. The plaque also displays the dedication in brail.

As most of us are probably watching and enjoying the games from Rio 2016, I thought this was quite apt for the group 116 pictures in 2016 - mailbox or postbox

65. Mailbox / Postbox

FYI on this '2nd' gold postbox dedicated to Ben Ainslie

I read all about the campaign to get the Royal Mail to paint this one in Lymington, on the basis that Ainslie was a long time resident of the town. One resident took it upon himself to paint it gold and ended up in court but all charges dropped because of the campaign and Royal Mail did a u-turn and re-painted this one gold too. R.M had originally only painted a postbox in Cornwall, where Ainslie grew up. The lucky chap has two gold postboxes dedicated to him :))

Photo from James Roberts as I was in the car!

La E193-462 di SBB Cargo International transita a Legnano con il monocliente Winner Spedition diretto a Piacenza, da diversi mesi in passaggio dal valico di Luino.

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Great Blue Heron

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The spider appears satiated after catching and dining on the unfortunate bee.

I got my revenge on Jess! She hate's losing!

299/366 #SecondLife

Top To Bottom:

Tiara: Mossu - Queen

Hair: Wings - TO1220

Head: Genus Project - Classic

Skin: Boataom - Rose (Bom)

Brows: Simple Bloom - JuliaAir LowTail

Gown: Poison Rouge - Alba (NEW COSMOPOLITAN)

miller's lake

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Go-cart track on the old airfield

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cazan lake

lost lake

Toronto

sister lake

fisherman's retreat

As seen on a hiking trail in Chimacum, Washington, USA

Zeiss 100/2 Makro Planar

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jefferson island

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First pelican in a group to "cross the line" formed by the reflection of a navigation marker on the Nambucca River on the NSW mid-North Coast. Australian Pelican (Pelecanus conspicillatus ).

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fisherman's retreat

A shot from this spring

La E193-258 ELL di SBB Cargo International transita sulla bretellina di Sesto Calende imboccando la linea diretta a Luino via Ispra, chiusa da anni al servizio viaggiatori, con un servizio merci dello spedizioniere Winner Spedition da Piacenza verso il Nord Europa.

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