Phishin' Philosophy on Creative Arts Three Day Weekend
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First cast of the weekend.
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And because it has been so long since I have fished, I am getting very old, and feeling it.
don't forget to vote up the article art lovers.
Trollin' for creative stuff.
There is still some joy in memory....teaching my young son how to fish. A photo taken by my then wife from our lakeside cottage balcony.
Of course I fished there a lot myself. Here the boat is anchored in the same spot as in the photo above, about 60 feet off my dock where the shallowness ends with an abrupt drop to deeper water. The side of the drop is covered with weeds that the bass liked to hang out in, and I was always able to catch enough for a pan-fried meal.
This is an average size bass that I was able to catch there. You'll notice I'm not holding it up towards the camera to make it look bigger. What I do notice is that I was a lot bigger around the waist back then than I am now - Chinese food is healthier.
Now, since I was never a "catch and release" fisherman, but a 'catch and eat' one, the fish had to be filleted, with my son's friend who was his guest that weekend watching. My canoe is there. We also had a kayak and two snowmobiles.
All that relaxing was pretty exhausting, so what else would I be doing?
I do miss that place.
Backyards of Our Dreams 2 (© G. Gam)
Branches (© G. Gam)
I really love "Branches". It's so zen!
I really like the top photo. It's the kind of picture I would not get tired of looking at. The second one could be a prize-winner at a LensCulture contest because I think it's the type of thing that would please those judges, because my photos sure don't.
The top image would make an excellent stained glass window or sun-catcher. I consider it easily publishable!
From your lips to the LensCulture judges' ears.
Good evening from Norfolk Island 1,800 kms out in the Pacific Ocean from Australia.
A very unique Island where convicts were sent from England. Many of the buildings remain today and it is fascinating to see history come alive after been taught it in school..
Norfolk Island pines cover much of the island. 2,000 people live here.
Looks like a nice quiet place for a rest - bet there's no traffic jams there. So this is where that Norfolk Pine Christmas tree you posted photos of recently comes from.
The only traffic jams here are caused by cattle and chooks wandering all over the road..
All livestock have right of way and the max speed limit here is 50ks all over the island..
No one would die of a heart attack, ulcer or stress here...and they even have Vegemite..😁
Yes many coastal towns in Australia have Norfolk pines growing and this is where they originally came from..
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tracing back the family history, are you?
Morning...sigh...if only...😔
Would love to have convict history but alas not..
Perhaps it was ''white collar'' crime that your ancestors were involved in, they never get jail time or sent to penal colonies.
Just trying to be helpful, shona.
Isn't that kind of a "Great Expectation"?
Arvo..I do know one of our rellies was a sea captain over in England...he was walking across the gang way, slipped and fell in and drowned..🤣
it's never too late to start a worthwhile project. if our relatives escaped england, it's in our DNA. start off small...
It's Duck o Rama at the big pond in Stone Creek. In talking to the ducks they said fishing was poor today.
Great species variety; will try later to list identifications.
Top to bottom:
Golden Eye
Golden Eye
Canvas Back
Bufflehead
Good job Mac, we also have Wood ducks but none close to the others today.
4 boxes of quackers...
Sounds like a quack comment to me.
Cherry shrimp and Amano shrimp from the waterfall tank this week.
Some changes to the planting at the top of the waterfall tank
I'm still trying to get the new cube tank plumbing setup. Hopefully I'll have it working this weekend.
Looking good, Evil.
Great job. If fish could only speak...
Looking forward to the first images!
Arvo... gidday from Norfolk Island..
Looks like a great place to escape to.
it looks very nice. what are the terminal risk features to humans there?
Morning from Norfolk...umm wandering cows all over the road and being attacked by feral chooks and that's it.. nothing thrilling here at all.
so, cow flop everywhere and a bunch of raging little peckers. that kind of sounds familiar ...
Geranium Fantasy
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Beautiful. Have you ever considered entering your photos in a LensCulture contest? If you want to enter just one photo per contest it is free.
Don’t know anything about LensCulture but will look into it. Thank you.
Wildlife Photographer of the Year awarded to man who captured a polar bear falling asleep
A polar bear carves out a bed from a small iceberg before drifting off to sleep in the far north, off Norway's Svalbard archipalego @Nina Sarikhani For Wildlife Photographer of the Year LINK ->
Wow, that is so cool.
Yep, so cool it's damned cold.
Evening... old man's beard lichen growing on the Norfolk pines..it's a sign of extremely clean air...
Just a little bit stormy today..
Just got through weeks of dreary overcast cold rainy weather and for the last couple of days the sun has finally found us. A couple of weeks ago I developed pneumonia but it didn't last long, just morphed into a bad cold that I can't get rid of but now that there's some sun I can get out and maybe the cold will pass.
Hope you get lots of sunshine and feel much better,Buzz.
Thank you, Thomas - very nice of you.
Here is one from a while back, April, 2010 to be exact...
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It's good to see flowers these days - signs that Spring will come.
Thanks to everyone. See you Thursday night.