Category: photo challenges
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Monday Portrait+Bird of the Week XXXIII
This is a dark eyed Junko (male) puffed up to stay warm on a cold day. I always leave the flower heads of the echiinacea and rudebeckia (black eyed Susan) to die back to seed heads. Here you can see a junko is pecking at the seed head of a rudebeckia. This is also my…
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CWWC which way with green
This is my reponse to Cee’sWhich Way Challenge with green.
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Monday Portrait: It’s a Standoff!
An American Goldfinch in winter plummage and a dark eyed Junko are at a standoff at the feeder.
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Birds of the Week XXXIX
Below you will find an introduction to I.J.Khanewala’s Birds of the Week . The Blue Jay is a handsome fellow. He may not have some of the more exotic colors of the birds featured in I.J.Khanewala’s Birds of the week but he has a very good color nonetheless! To see the birds I.J has featured…
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LAPC #275 Looking up.Looking Down
This week James of the jazzibee blog has given us the challenge of Looking up and Looking down. Here are my responses. Do click on the link to his blog as his photos are marvellous. Above and below Bodica who led a revolt against the Roman occupiers in 60 AD. This statue was unvieled in…
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A thought for Thursday
“Life is uncertain. Eat dessert first.” Ernestine Ulmer
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FOTD: A Survivor
There are no flowers in our garden at this time of year but here is my survivor . It is a tall variegated grass that produces tassels at its top in the autumn. I enjoy this plant as it survives the harshest winters and in the spring is somewhat battered but unbowed!
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FOTD: A Work of Art
I know this is not a flower it’s a cedar hedge. But this hedge started out as six scrubby little cedar trees that a neighbour took out of his woods. That was in 2006 and look at it now. I have group of arborists who come each fall to prune and trim. They are a…
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Festival of Leaves Last week for me.
As you can see in this photo the leaves are no longer on the tree. We have had some very strong wind storms and the leaves are now on the ground, It was nice while it lasted and the colors were wonderful but it is all over now. I heard a program on the radio…
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Don’t mourn the losses . Celebrate the wins.
Yesterday I joined a webinar hosted by Parkinson’s Canada. The webinar focused on caregivers of people living with Parkinson’s There was was one couple married for 39 years. The husband has Parkinson’s and his wife is his caregiver. The other speaker was a Social Worker who has worked with people living with Parkinson’s for 15…
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CMMC: Any word with “P” anywhere.
My Word with P is Piaffe. The piaffe is a movement from the Grand Prix and the and Grand Prix Special. These are the most advanced dressage tests and the ones that riders compete in at the Olympics. The piaffe is an extremely collected trot . The horse does not move foward and trots on…
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Lens Artists Photo Challenge:Signs and Billboards.
All of these NO signs were found in London, and all on the wall of one public garden, These signs are my response to ‘johnbo’s Lens Artists Photo Challenge #272. Signs and Billboards. do click on the link to see Johnbo’s very entertaining responses to his challengel