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Saturday Symmetry

...are you ready???


PARTY!

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Year's end is neither an end nor a beginning but a going on, with all the wisdom that experience can instill in us.

(Hal Borland)

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Last Thursday. No. Make that FINAL THURSDAY. For 2016 anyway...

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Wings on Wednesday - 

YAM's take on the good, the bad, the ugly and the downright hilarious in photographing birds.

Psssst... pass it on...

The year is nearly gone!

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Shipping by...

A festive ship for the festive season. Model found in the Halifax Art Gallery.

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Monday's Critters

Psssttt .. didya hear?

It's nearly the end of year!

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MOONdays

By the liiiiggghhht

of the Chrsitmassy moooooooooooooooon

I wish you LLOOOOOVEE

And an extra sppoooonnnn

(for all that pudding...)

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Saturday Symmetry

Hope your Christmas Eve is bright with Love!

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"Let parents bequeath to their children not riches, but the spirit of reverence."
(Plato)

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It's Thursday. What is more, it is the Thursday before Christmas. Are you organised?

Among the shore-borne kelp, an orange ping-pong ball. Or fishing float that got away...

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Wings on Wednesday - 

YAM's take on the good, the bad, the ugly and the downright hilarious in photographing birds.

"Did you hear - Christmas is on the way!"

Jackdaws pair for life and show preening affection.

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Shipping by...

HMCS Preserver, Canadian oil replenishiment ship. Protecteur Class. Docked at the Canadian Navy Atlantic Fleet base on Halifax harbour.

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Monday's Critters

A place in the sun...

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SUNdays

Early autumn and the baling's done... view of Arthur's Seat from outside Edinburgh.

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Saturday Symmetry

Apppealing colours... Halifax Harbour Boardwalk. Unfortunately the wind was of ice, so not sitting around!

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"March on and fear not the thorns, or the sharp stones on life's path."
(Khalil Gibran)

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Thursday's can be fun; yes they can.

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Wings on Wednesday - 

YAM's take on the good, the bad, the ugly and the downright hilarious in photographing birds.

As you can tell, had to stretch the lens for this one and even then managed to miss the facial detail. It's a chaffinch, spotted in Northumbria last spring.

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Shipping by...

The Svitzer Montreal;
Montreal 2004; tug: 31m; 145t.

Halifax Harbour.

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Monday's Critters

A modern sea-shore sculpture - donchya jus' love the doggy in the goose boat? Another little doggy bottom left.. not to mention all the other fun critters!

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SUNdays

The sun glinted off the aluminium 'tiling' of the Kingston University arts building...Ontario.

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Saturday Symmetry

This was a drive-by shooting whilst being shown round Perth Ontario - I trimmed off all the traffic and peeps. After all, it's the church siding symmetry we're interested in, is it not?!

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"If you are living completely on your own, break out of solitary confinement! 
Seek to understand others - and help them understand you."
(Martha Beck)

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Yes it is. Thursday.

Bamburgh Castle. It was as cold as it looks.

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Wings on Wednesday - 

YAM's take on the good, the bad, the ugly and the downright hilarious in photographing birds.

"SSQQWWWAACCKK!!! 

What's that you said? 

Christmas is coming????!!!!"

...and that's the last I saw of him...

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Shipping by...

Father and son outing, Halifax.

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Monday's Critters

High on the hillside, through  my window - it's a pony. Just in case you were in doubt...

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SUNdays

A small art glass (sun)light catcher, souvenir of Ohio, now hangs on my window.

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Saturday Symmetry

A architecture in Halifax Nova Scotia.

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"The true work of art is but a shadow of the Divine Perfection."
(Michaelangelo)

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It's Thursday - and December...

A friend's heart. Her's is far from made of stone...

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Wings on Wednesday - 

YAM's take on the good, the bad, the ugly and the downright hilarious in photographing birds.

"Oh yeah? Well how about you try from this angle then?"

(part of a mini-tail tale from a feisty rooster at Auchendrain Farm Museum.)

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Shipping by...

Halifax harbour reminded me much of Sydney harbour, only colder. It was a very busy waterway - and size of craft was no obstacle!

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Monday's Critters

High summer in the Trossachs National Park... 

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MOONdays

Not the sharpest, but got some good detail all the same.

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Saturday Symmetry

A second go at the J C Van Horne bridge (see last week's try). Being on a moving train adds a certain challenge!

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"From too much love of living, 

From hope and fear set free, 

We thank with brief thanksgiving 

Whatever gods may be

That no life lives for ever; 

That dead men rise up never; 

That even the weariest river 

Winds somewhere safe to sea"

(A C Swinburne)

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...can you believe it is Last Thursday already???

The Montreal Biosphere.

Taken from moving train, with lens at full stretch and B&W mode - then 'artified'!

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Wings on Wednesday -

YAM's take on the good, the bad, the ugly and the downright hilarious in photographing birds.

"What do you mean, you missed???"

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Shipping by...

HMCS St Johns; Canadian Navy "Halifax" class frigate. Only fitting it should be spotted in Halifax harbour then! (There is a large naval base here, more on that later.)

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Monday's Critters

Way up in the Highlands, Culkein Stoer to be precise, this giant fellow was blocking the road.

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SUNdays

Having departed Nova Scotia with a rainbow, it was a joy to have a rainbow greet me the very day I land back in the Bonny Land! From my window on July 1st.

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Saturday Symmetry

Yes, a bridge. Surprise... The J C Van Horne Bridge, Cambellton, New Brunswick.

Railway siding rolling stock echo the symmetry. 

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"So near is falsehood to truth that a wise man would do well not to trust himself on the narrow edge."
(Cicero)









Sharing via Dory's flower Friday.

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The Thursdays of the year are growing less.

Cincinnati city centre, from up high...