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A very 🎶 Happy Birthday 🎶 to you, Dave
... and many Happy and CrAzY returns ✨ !!
... and when you still haven't had enough cakes, sweets and biscuits on your birthday 🎂 you can find these colourful french macarons (and some fine Gin, lol) in this award-winning pastry shop: www.patisserie-ludwig.net/
... and here is 🎶 another one 🎶 😂
Even when i lose, i win.
Gather wisdom and experience to make better choices and develop skills in the future.
A rare Saturday working of 6S45 presented a rare winter opportunity to see this working in daylight hours, and fortunately this coincided with an agreeably sunny day. A little after 9am 66744 is seen approaching Winning Signal box only a mile or so into it's journey.
The substantial puddle is an indication of the quantity of rain that has fallen over the past few weeks.
19th December 2020.
The continuing battle between trees and dry stone walls ( I think the trees are winning)
Gardom's Edge
An American White Pelican flying by during the morning hours at the pond.
This image won 3rd place in the Wildlife Category at the Mill Valley Click Off 2023 Photo Competition.
I'm lucky enough to be in the Green heron's annual range. It is a resident of "the swamp," but I found this one on the abutment to the pedestrian bridge over the Alhambra Slough in Martinez, CA.
For a long time I have complained about the Greenie resembling the Bittern and, every time I thought I had finally found a bittern, it was "just" another Green heron stretching its neck which is usually held very close to that stocky body,
The green heron (The green heron (Butorides virescens) is a small heron of North and Central America. Butorides is from Middle English butor "bittern" and Ancient Greek -oides, "resembling", and virescens is Latin for "greenish".[2]
It was long considered conspecific with its sister species the striated heron (Butorides striata), and together they were called "green-backed heron". ) is a small heron of North and Central America. Butorides is from Middle English butor "BITTERN" and Ancient Greek -oides, "resembling", and virescens is Latin for "greenish".
It was long considered conspecific with its sister species the striated heron (Butorides striata), and together they were called "green-backed heron".
On 3/20/1974, the operator at North Judson has given this Erie Lackawanna eastbound the light, while the railroad that issues him a paycheck holds back on the approach.
Photo by John Eagan
If you think that this was taken with my phone ... wrong. First of all, this was taken at least ten years ago on Mt. Diablo. Second, I found it after coming back from a two-hour session with cactus at RB Gardens from which I came away with ... experience. What I did learn in going back to the archives is that many of the cactus flowers are ill-defined, i.e., no matter what you do, they will not be crisp and clear because many are waxy and have no petals to speak of.
One more trip to the gardens to make sure I'm not doing anything wrong. I might lean more on aperture settings rather than speed. Well, I'm getting my exercise in!
Now, this Prickly-pear Cactus is and was over 18 feet tall! How did I get this shot? Well, there's a hiking trail that passes right by the upper spines (cacti don't really have leaves) and I could shoot directly at the plant from 15 feet.
When all is said and done, yesterday may have been a wonderful fluke. I'll take them anytime.
One of the strangest and most memorable things I've lived through is being in Paris when France won the World Cup. The streets were absolutely transformed and I have many photos of people rejoicing (some that I have posted previously).
But, I also tend to be drawn to that opposite feeling and the bipolar sense that happens in reality. Because, it's such a strong current of collective consciousness when that many people are rooting for something that you actually forget it's about sports at all and it feels more about the collective spirit of France or even of humanity.
I could tell that this girl wanted to be a part of that with the way she had decorated her face and with the French flag she was holding but I think she didn't quite know how and that's an interesting thing to capture...maybe even more intriguing for me than all the wild dancing and singing. We are all young and awkward once and some of us know very intrinsically (even when we're older) precisely how this girl felt.
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Shuttleworth Collection’s de Havilland DH.88 Comet at Race Day 2023.
The de Havilland DH.88 Comet is a British two-seat, twin-engined aircraft built by the de Havilland Aircraft Company. It was developed specifically to participate in the 1934 England-Australia MacRobertson Air Race from the United Kingdom to Australia. Wikipedia
Engine type: de Havilland Gipsy Six
Top speed: 382 km/h
Range: 4,710 km
Length: 8.8 m
Cruise speed: 354 km/h
Polemonium occidentale is a species of flowering plant in the phlox family known by the common names western polemonium and western Jacob's-ladder. There are two subspecies.The common ssp. occidentale is native to western North America from British Columbia to Colorado to California, where it can be found in moist areas of many habitat types, including meadows and woodlands. That's us!
I took a side trip last week to one of the Ygnacio foothills, and was just plain lucky to spot this flower that had managed to pop out of the grasslands. It was five inches tall, and the flower was less than an inch across. When I tried to ID it was that I had stumbled across the first flower I'd ever seen with blue anthers (the tip end of the stamen).
I was not tempted to pick it, well, not after I was sure I had captured it with the camera. It isn't rare, but the blue anther sure is. Still, it is not in my nature to rename it "Ethan's Ladder." That would be so self-aggrandizing. "Winning's Ladder?" No. Not when you know that Jacob's Ladder is a ladder leading to heaven that was featured in a dream of biblical Patriarch Jacob.
It will have to be named something else because my doctor had forbade me even from using a step stool after falling off a two step ladder already in 2021. (More succulents later.)
an Oxeye daisy fights its way through the reddened iron ore water at an old iron ore mine. She's winning!
I'm quite sure many award winning togs do this sort of thing, a wee tweek and a bit of added pazzazz. It makes a prettier picture and that's what we try to do isn't it? No matter what Loch Shiel looks pretty special a lot of the time. Best loch in Scotland! It's not always grey here.
Easter weekend gets off to a good start, with fine weather forecast all weekend and even a little mainline steam for breakfast.
60009 Union of South Africa leans into the curves north of Morpeth station with the 1Z10 York to Edinburgh. "Edinburgh Flyer" on the 20th April 2019.
On 17 August 1988, 37320 passes Winning Junction on the Lynemouth - North Blyth alumina empties. Taken by invitation from the signalbox.
For the game to be over, each participant must agree to play in the first place. Certain games are not worth playing. Some are ten cents shy of the quarter needed to even activate the machine...a machine which has been calibrated to allow you to believe that you are winning...getting the high score when in reality, the game already had you beat.
Arranged for the Macro Monday theme "Four" this might be a winning hand ... or not.
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No, not this photo, but if I had managed to get there for the sunrise, who knows, it could have been award winning. If you follow Lynne Berry (and if you don't, why not?) then you will know that I agreed to met her and her donkey at this location for sunrise. The coloured light that morning was spectacular. I know because I viewed it for the whole journey from Craster to Lindisfarne. I just got there too late.But still, always fun capturing these upturned boat sheds and that castle.
Buying the home of your dreams or jetting off with the family on a luxury holiday, everyone has dreamt of what they would do after winning millions of pounds on the lottery.
We all know the odds of picking a winning ticket are pretty slim.....in the UK its – around one in 45million.
Now compare that with horse racing - On the flat turf odds on favourites win about 59% of the time. But the results can vary depending on the type of race. And to win millions you have to risk millions.
Best just to consider gambling as entertainment and for that, you have to pay --- in the long run "the house always wins".