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Paris monuments in a sunset. Eiffel Tower, ferris wheel, light poles and obelisk in the place de la Concorde
European Robin / Rotkehlchen (Erithacus rubecula)
with four chicks in the nest
under the roof of our garden shed - Frankfurt-Nordend
Have a less stressful Monday !
Happy New Year to all my fickr friends.
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Pas de multiples invitations dans des groupes privés ou on ne voit rien , merci d'avance .
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INDIEN, Khajuraho (Tempel)
Most Khajuraho temples were built between 950 and 1050 by the Chandela dynasty. Historical records note that the Khajuraho temple site had 85 temples by 12th century, spread over 20 square kilometers. Of these, only about 20 temples have survived, spread over 6 square kilometers. Of the various surviving temples, the Kandariya Mahadeva Temple is decorated with a profusion of sculptures with intricate details, symbolism and expressiveness of ancient Indian art
The Khajuraho temples feature a variety of art work, of which 10% is sexual or erotic art outside and inside the temples. Some of the temples that have two layers of walls have small erotic carvings on the outside of the inner wall. Some scholars suggest these to be tantric sexual practices.] Other scholars state that the erotic arts are part of Hindu tradition of treating kama as an essential and proper part of human life, and its symbolic or explicit display is common in Hindu temples. James McConnachie, in his history of the Kamasutra, describes the sexual-themed Khajuraho sculptures as "the apogee of erotic art":
This is a salt mill at St. Monans on the Fife coast in the east of Scotland. The mill was used to provide power for salt production from the River Forth. I've geo-tagged the location. Look at it on google maps and you can still see all the salt pits on the shore.
See more at www.undiscoveredscotland.co.uk/stmonans/windmill/
... for rather cold days !
HBW !
Grass seeds / Grassamen in afternoon sunshine
Bethmann-Park, Frankfurt am Main
This kid was a demonstrator for bubble guns being sold from a booth at a county fair in Michigan earlier this month.
Processed for Monochrome Bokeh Thursday
HMBT!
"Silver and gold
And it's growing cold
Autumn leaves lay
As thick as thieves
Shivers down your spine
Chill you to the bone
'Cos the mandolin wind
Is the melody that turns
Your heart to stone..."
The Mission Uk - Butterfly On A Wheel youtu.be/Px3KSQVzdiQ
Another From my early morning Flying visit to Winarts Pass August 2016.. Peak District Derbyshire UK...
What about this view of Vancouver
as a puzzle with at least 15.000 pieces ?
(if you want to keep the recipient busy over the next few months :-))
View from "Vancouver Lookout", an observation Deck (168.80m / 553.16 feet) on top of "Harbour Center" offfice building,
on the dense structures of Downtown Vancouver, BC, Canada
Female Kingfisher (Alcedo attis). At last, after several tries, I managed to see and get some decent shots of a Kingfisher so please forgive me if I do share quite a few as I just love these stunning birds.
The sun broke through for a few minutes on an otherwise dreary winter day, beautifully illuminating this male red-bellied woodpecker (Melanerpes carolinus) just after he had found a treat in a dead tree stump at Michigan's Kensington Metropark.
HCS!
Flickr friends, I am back after a break, and will be catching up with your latest images soon. I intend to begin posting more regularly again, though maybe not every day as in the past, at least for a while.
Wish you all a nice Friday and a very good weekend
Gulls, often referred to as seagulls, are seabirds of the family Laridae in the suborder Lari. They are most closely related to the terns (family Sternidae) and only distantly related to auks, skimmers, and more distantly to the waders. Until the 21st century, most gulls were placed in the genus Larus, but this arrangement is now known to be polyphyletic, leading to the resurrection of several genera. An older name for gulls is mew, cognate with German Möwe, Danish måge, Dutch meeuw, and French mouette; this term can still be found in certain regional dialects
Source: Wikipedia
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I asked this gentleman if I could take a picture of him. Sure, he said, it's just that I'm a bit stressed. I've stolen a pair of sunglasses from a guy and I think he's looking for me right now. I thanked him and went the other way.
... especially when it's over and the sun comes out again :-))
Wet buds of Jasmine Nightshade / Jasminblütiger Nachtschatten (Solanum jasminoides, Solanum laxum)
in a flowerpot on our terrace - Frankfurt-Nordend
of a Wasp / Wespe in the first sunlight of a new day !
HBW !
Seen in front of our hotel after a cool night
in Port Alberni, Vancouver Island, BC, Canada
"There's never one sunrise the same or one sunset the same."
Carlos Santana
Taken in October in Den Helder, Netherlands.
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there are magic hours after sunset. we all know that. it was just me, the sand, the sound of the tide. darkness came slowly and embrace me. i stayed to capture the last tiny bit of light. when there was nothing left, i turned to the moon on the other side and walked away feeling the sand under me while the cold air rushed back to the sea.
#portugal #caparica #praiadorei
Both the white and the bright-blue forms of Clitoria ternatea are quite something to behold. One of their first describers was Georg Eberhard Rumphius (1627-1702) on the Maluku island of Ternate (www.flickr.com/photos/87453322@N00/4297609644/in/photolis...). They're now all over the tropics and are often regarded - for example in Australia - as an environmental weed. It crowds out native plants and by its tenacious vines 'strangles' just about anything in its path.
Here in the the pretty Titiwangsa Park of Kuala Lumpur it's set to take over the colorful hedges of innocent Red Powder Puff, Calliandra haematocephala.
Pano from on top of the hill in Rotenberg looking west toward Stuttgart. Used ten separate images stitched together. Feel free to zoom in to see the detail. Hope everyone had a great weekend. :-)