Early Bird Special ~ Posting Early Tonight; Busy Family Weekend
Not all Robins Head South in the Winter
© A. Mac/A.G.
Will be doing family stuff this weekend. I'll look in when I can.
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SpaceX rocket headed for the space station tonight.
cool picture.
Brilliant catch, Kavika - including the reflection of the rocket along with the others on the lake surface.
nice capture!
Great photo.
Not bad having that in your backyard..
Beautiful photo Kavika! What an amazing catch!
My bedroom window in the house in which I grew up looked over the rear garden and I would wake up each morning (perhaps not in the winter) to the chirping of the robins. I have never seen one here. But within a few months of my arriving here I saw a bird I never before saw in my life - a magpie.
Morning..these are our Maggie's (magpies)...they roll up every morning and warble at my door..
They love mince and I have had six roll up, now down to three. The others have moved on..
They have a brilliant carolling call and swoop people in spring to protect their nest...but the ones here are 2nd and 3rd generation and have never swooped me...they remember you and know who is friend and who is foe...
These are our Maggie's in action..they will chase you down the road and have a particular dislike of posties delivering the mail and cyclists in general...
Not my picture..
That is one puffed-out Robin, AMac!
A November harbor sunrise.
Beautiful.
You're a long distance mind reader. You took the word right out of my mind when I looked at that photo.
I am.
Morning...wow that is magnificent evil...
Stunning
A tiny red/purple flower on the poke-a-dot plant.
"But soft, what light through yonder window breaks?" (Romeo and Juliet - William Shakespeare)
Interesting sentence structure! There must be a name for that sort of inversion. Normally I would think most people would say:
"But soft, what light is breaking through yonder window?"
I wonder what grammatical "purists" would say about that construction? (My own opinion: its stronger, and might tend to get more peoples attention!
Winston Churchill used that form at least once:
That is something up with which I shall not put!
Arvo evil..for a split second I thought the large blue one was a coral shrimp in an aquarium...what a spectacular plant...
It's an Tillandsia Air Plant. I wanted to make sure I could keep one alive before I added another. I'm thinking of adding a yellow one this next spring.
Zhaotai Gate, Yonghe (Lama) Temple, Beijing - © G. Gam
Untitled, Floral - © G. Gam
Untitled (Kyoto) - © G. Gam
nice!
Thanks, dev.
A treasure for our eyes. I recall seeing the giant Buddha in the Lama Temple, Beijing, back in 2006.
Wow. Thanks.
Arvo...
Sydney Opera house at dawn this morning lit up with Flanders poppies to commemorate Remembrance Day Nov 11th..
My grandfather fought in WW1 in the Somme, France...
The 11th hour on the 11th day...
Lest we forget..🇦🇺🦘
Oppps not my photo..🐨
My photo - poppies growing wild in the Pudong district of Shanghai where my wife and I stayed many years ago. In a couple of hours it will be November 11th in Canada, Remembrance Day, to remember the allied forces lost in the wars in Europe.
"In Flanders Fields the poppies grow...."
And still the human race does not learn after two World Wars..🥀🥀
You are quite right. Human nature will not change, not today, not tomorrow...never. We only CALL ourselves civilized.
Breathtaking, shona.
Morning Kavika...yes they light up the sails on the Opera House on many occasions and celebrations as well..
I am quite stunned with how they do it as they use everything that is imaginable...
A few more of the Sydney Opera House..
Support for Ukraine..
The death of Her Majesty..
Australia Day....
The Korean War...
Not my photos..
Just stunning, thanks for posting them, shona.
Although many people try to make the word unique mean more than it does by putting the word "most" in front of it, which is silly since "unique" means there is no other, the brilliant Sydney opera house architecture may never be matched let alone exceeded.
While the Sydney Opera House is an amazing work, there are two works by Frank Gehry that are, in my opinion, in the same category of architectural excellence. One is the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao, Spain, completed in 1997. The other is the Walt Disney Concert Hall in downtown Los Angeles, which opened in 2003. I have been to the Disney Concert Hall, but I have not been to Bilbao.
This is the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao.
These are photos of the Disney Hall.
The photos of the Museum in Bilbao and the Disney Hall were not taken by me.
I have been to Sydney, so I have seen the beautiful Opera House. This is a photo I took one afternoon while on the ferry crossing Sydney Harbor.
© G. Gam
The Disney Hall is simply beautiful.
The others are amazing but I still prefer the Sydney Opera House.
There were ructions galore here when it was announced this was the design and it was going to be built...
But now we wouldn't be without it...
Love those photos, G. Well done!
Nice!
Some other countries do similar thing. IIRC the French light up the Eiffel Tower in different colors for different events. In the U.S. sometimes The White House is lit up in specific colors. And in NYC so is the Empire State building.
So therefore it would be incorrect to say that something is "more unique" than something else-- or even "less unique"?
IIRC in a High School English class those forms are incorrect-- they are called "redundancies"?
Although personally I feel its sometimes cool to call them "repeating redundancies" (But then again, I feel its interesting to occasionally split infinitives!)
We are in the North Georgia Appalachian Mountains, in Big Canoe, GA.
Just a few miles NW of us is the end of the Blue Ridge Mountains.
It is definitely Autumn in the mountains of Georgia.
What a lovely spot..I could sit there for hours with a capucinno and just watch the world go by....
I think that if I were there I'd turn that chair around to look at the beauty of nature.
There is another veranda on the other side that has 3 chairs facing out looking at the mountain.
Okay then.
Puts me in the fall mood!
To all veterans who have put their lives on the line for your country. This is one of the most photos of the Vietnam War it's entitled ''Help from Above''.
2nd Battalion 327th Infantry Regiment, 101st Airborne caught in an ambush suffering heavy casualties signaling for the ''Angles from above'' the medicav helicopters and the Medic who risked their lives every day to pull us out and rescue our wounded.
The photo represents the savagery of the battles, the pain, and the bravery of all, especially the Medivac teams.
Each Paratrooper in this photo made it out alive thanks to the ''Angels from Above''.
Morning...great to hear they all survived..
I think I read somewhere where one particular medi vac crew not sure if it was yours or ours they never lost a life on their flights...
A truly remarkable feat...
How sad that that war was considered necessary considering the losses that occurred because of it.
I've seen heroes,
I've seen cowards,
I've seen men die,
I've seen men go crazy,
There are no moral wars,
There are no winners or losers,
There are only survivors,
Those who left part of themselves,
Either their body or mind in a bloody ditch,
In a land, they did not know,
The dead will haunt your dreams
As you grow old,
There is no escape,
There is only survival.
Did you write that? If not, who did?
Yes, I wrote that in 1965 in the Central Highlands of Vietnam. Note on the bottom was ''we lost four today''...
It is a remarkable poem, Kavika. Outstanding.
Thanks, G.
Good for you!!! Not only are you an accomplished storyteller, but a poet as well (besides being a really good fisherman).
Thanks, Buzz.
Well said.
Another old warrior said:
"It is only those who have neither fired a shot nor heard the shrieks and groans of the wounded who cry aloud for blood, more vengeance, more desolation. War is hell."
- Major General William T. Sherman, U.S. Army
This photo of the great blue heron in one of our lakes in Stone Creek was taken by Bill Dunn a resident of Stone Creek his photos are just spectacular.
Looking out my backdoor in Big Canoe, GA.
Morning...very nice...looks like you are well and truly into Autumn now..
Pure beauty!
Just returning from Ohio after a weekend with my family. The artice looks excellent … attributable to a talented, dedicated group of people!
Mac, I am so glad you posted a birdy photos. You know how much I love them.
Glad you reminded me.
Carolina Wren in Winter
© A. Mac/A.G.
My title for that photo is "Wren will it be Spring?"
This is a photo of the Marina on Lake Petit at Big Canoe. The color of the trees and the lake are just beautiful.
Mac will be happy to know that this 1100 acre lake is loaded with rainbow trout and trophy largemouth.
Photo by Red.
That is a beautiful photo!
Red thanks you, G.
The placing of the bigger trees on each side and the fence on the bottom forming a natural frame is a sign that the photographer has an excellent sense of artistic composition.
I would never challenge Red's sense of artistic composition, Buzz, lol
And she thanks you.
In two-dimensional works of art, such as painting, printmaking, photography or bas-relief, repoussoir is an object along the right or left foreground that directs the viewer's eye into the composition by bracketing the edge.
"repoussoir" is a French word that translates simply as "pusher", but I assume that as used by you it means "directs the eye towards a goal".
I believe it literally means "pushing out".
Time to say "so long until this Thursday night."
Thanks to all for another excellent article.