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Final Thursday, and last day of April and I am sure we are all feeling a little bit 'tramlined'...

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Wings on Wednesday - 

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

An archive shot - scanned from print. My mother enjoying the company of Lorikeets. They adored the sugar syrup and sesame seeds!

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Shipping by...

Sharing the views of the 'watter' from my window.

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Monday's Critters

Okay. You all know the situation. Therefore, you also appreciate that opportunities for obtaining fresh and new critter shots are next to impossible. Therefore, dear viewers, over the next several weeks, I shall regale you with images of my 'angels', Jade Dog and Jasper Cat. Their stories are told HERE if you are inclined to read, as well as view.

Jasper was seven months older than his sisfur, Jade... and he was an excellent big brofur, teaching her the rules of play, eat, sleep. Here they are in an early training session. Jade was eight weeks old and had been with us for four days.

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MOONdays

One thing I am not running short of is Lunar shots! Here is the waxing supermoon...

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Saturday Symmetry

The deodar trees are tapped for resin.  Many are deeply scarred, yet still grow tall and green.

One could not get over the sense of weeping...

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"In three words I can sum up what I have learned about life...
it goes on."
(Robert Frost)

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Thursday - Then the rain came! First of the 2013 monsoon.

Not the clearest photo I have ever taken, but it gives the atmosphere! 

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Wings on Wednesday - 

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

Clearly, an archival shot, but one I think you will enjoy. A scene so very typical of my beloved OZ.

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Shipping by...
Taken from the first year of blogging...

Belgian Minehunter "Bellis", Launched 14th Feb, commissioned 13th Aug 1986. Was one of the ships involved in aid during the Herald of Free Enterprise disaster.

Had the lens stretched out a goodly length...that's Wemyss Bay in the background with the Bute Ferry docked. You could mistake that for a hop skip and jump.  It's about two miles away!!!

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Monday's Critters

the final of the 'coo' offerings - for the time being. This is another scanned-from-print image. it is a shame that the process loses some of the image integrity, but the delightful feeling, I think, still comes through. I had been camping in the back of my car. I woke early to the sound of 'whuffing'. Delightful company!

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SUNdays

The Pacific Ocean as views from the shores of NSW.

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Saturday's Symmetry

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"If you prick us, do we not bleed?" 
(W. Shakespeare)

Damage to thee is damage to me.

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Thursdays. They come. They go. The very first of this series was TAKE TWO. I think the lit lamp of prayer and hope is not a bad one to show here again...

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Wings on Wednesday - 

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

Thanks, all, for getting into the fun of the Gull and its Mussel! Now, a fresh out of camera image of a Redwing. It was there on the cherry tree at the bottom of the garden for the briefest moment, so this was the only shot. Not horrid, for you can clearly make out the brow stripe and the reddishness under the wing.

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Shipping by...


The very first 'shipping by...' image I placed here, in July 2014. That's the Bute ferry. It isn't actually going downhill. That's the photographer's ineptitude; and yes, the sky was really that colour!

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Monday's Critters

The penultimate of the 'coo' images season... and a very old print, scanned. Last century, and even before OZ, (so let's say 40 years...) I was teaching Sunday School and we had a multi-faith congress on the Isle of Iona.

Down on the beaches, the cattle fed on kelp. Very nourishing stuff! Can you make out the farmer right down the shore?

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SUNdays

(not archival per se - but an old image, nonetheless, scanned from the original print. It was taken on the old Minolta SLR.)

Lake McQuarrie sunset, NSW.

BLESSED EASTER TO YOU.

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One of the archival retrieval things...(TAKE 136a)

Saturday Symmetry

Standing on the slope of Dunoon's Castle House gardens, a wider view of the Victorian pier was easier to capture and emphasises the symmetry of the structure.

















Taken with the 'Nik' on auto.

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Which is actually a repost... (TAKE 135a)

"How many roads must a man walk down
Before you call him a man?
How many seas must a white dove sail
Before she sleeps in the sand?
Yes, how many times must the cannon balls fly
Before they're forever banned?
The answer my friend is blowin' in the wind
The answer is blowin' in the wind."

(Bob Dylan)

...This song needs sung again...

Plantago Lanceolata ('whip plantain') is a wild flower of childhood memory; the stems can be taken off at base, twisted round themselves and whipped up to catch the heads off, shooting them at an opponent.  We called it 'playing soldiers'. 

Taken with the 'Nik' on macro mode (in a high wind!).

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Thursdays are going to have to be archival for a while...

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Wings on Wednesday - 

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

Image 6/6... and finally, deliciousness!

Difficult to tell from this, but the blur inside the beak is the tossed mussel making its way to the gullet...

And off this bird flew and returned with another and started all over again.

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Shipping by...

Caught two weeks back on my flash visit back to The Hutch from my 'incarceration' in Edinburgh. This is MV "MSC Monica". She is classed as Hazard A cargo carrying. Potentially explosive...

She was making way at a fair old lick, as you may note from the wake. I only had time to get this one shot squeezed off before she pretty much disappeared behind the herbiage!!!

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Monday's Critters

(I did warn you, did I not, that there would be a herd of cows on show on this bloggy?!)

At the Royal Highland Show that 35 years post... and who can't fall in love with a Jersey cow's limpid eyes?

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SUNdays

We have had some amazing sunsets... but this sunrise over Edinburgh last week was something to behold!

Purple is one of the official colours of Scotland. I always thought it was to reflect the heather... but am starting to wonder if it's do with the fact we get so many purple skies!!!

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Saturday Symmetry

A wall of glass panels on a building in Edinburgh city centre act as a mirror to the more ancient architectural style!

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"Let us be moral. Let us contemplate existence."
(C. Darwin)

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This first Thursday in April 2020 has storm clouds hanging over the globe...

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Wings on Wednesday - 

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

 Image 5/6. Once you've salivated for some moments over the delicacy before you, it's time to go in. There's still work to do, though. That mussel has muscles... no fooling!