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username · May 10, 2011

Just lately its been ‘my sort of weather’….ie….marvelous cloudscapes…thunderstorms…and sunshine…

I have experienced frequent showers recently…[and not all in my bathroom]…

Whilst watching a female hobby the other day the winds blew may blossom that swirled around my head like snowflakes. A massive clap of thunder shook overhead and there followed an almighty downpour which I and the hobby endured…..[see fourth pic]...!

Rain mixed with blossoms and reduced the scenery to a blur…[all very jolly actually]..

Here’s just a few more recent images….

Small Copper umbellifer pattern...

Strange bird....

Hummingbird shadow...?

The downpour....

Before the storm...

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Lykos · May 10, 2011

thank you that you show me to see nature of another way

greetings Gaby

username · May 11, 2011

Lykos said:
thank you that you show me to see nature of another way

greetings Gaby

You are welcome Gaby......

I just like to play with natures incredible evolving 'forms'....

Here's an image you may or not like...i suppose you could call it a blossom bird....

ps...of course..you may not see the 'head' of this plumed creature...[its facing left]....:cat:

pps...the blossom is that of the Horse Chesnut tree....

Cristian Mihai · May 11, 2011

Not for the bird, but for the background.

username · May 11, 2011

Cristian Mihai said:
Not for the bird, but for the background.

'The background' is often the first thing that appeals to me with a photograph....

ps....great backdrop to that Redstart Cristian...sets it off a treat...:t:

halftwo · May 11, 2011

Glad your Hobbies are back & performing, U.

I like the Small copper: one of my fave 'flies. Mrs.H likes the horse chestnut flower.

username · May 11, 2011

halftwo said:
Glad your Hobbies are back & performing, U.

I like the Small copper: one of my fave 'flies. Mrs.H likes the horse chestnut flower.

I don't know about my hobbies performing now H2.......today and yesterday i drew a complete blank...:smoke: As is per usual this falcon has disappeared as quickly as it appeared...it's like they were never there....! However...i will keep going out into the field until 'they' find me...:cat:

All the very very best to you and Mrs.H...:t:

ps...and please, anyone viewing, no comments about me 'drawing a complete blank'....[chuckle]...

Actually...how does one draw a complete blank...?

halftwo · May 12, 2011

username said:
Actually...how does one draw a complete blank...?

It's a bit like that 'music' record of silence, I guess.

My Hobbies were conspicuous by their absence this morning too. Elusive blighters!

Cristian Mihai · May 17, 2011

May 14th - A Clouded Apollo close-up.

Strandman · May 17, 2011

username said:
ps...and please, anyone viewing, no comments about me 'drawing a complete blank'....[chuckle]... Actually...how does one draw a complete blank...?

oh go on then...since you ask us not to

it used to be a fox hunting expression, dating back to the far-off days when foxes could be hard to find

meaning to send the hounds in to "draw" a covert and have them come out the other end "blank" without finding anything

you don't gallop over those rolling Leicestershire fields with a trumpet in the non-Hobby season do you?

I hasten to add I don't ride with the hounds personally..

username · May 17, 2011

ed keeble said:
oh go on then...since you ask us not to

it used to be a fox hunting expression, dating back to the far-off days when foxes could be hard to find

meaning to send the hounds in to "draw" a covert and have them come out the other end "blank" without finding anything

you don't gallop over those rolling Leicestershire fields with a trumpet in the non-Hobby season do you?

I hasten to add I don't ride with the hounds personally..

How very interesting...[and i am being serious]...!

I love learning the origin of phrases and how some have persisted through the ages...[it is all quite fascinating]...often i find myself using a phrase then question where the heck that phrase came from...ie...'living high on the hog'...etc...[i constantly barrage my mate who is knowledgeable on such things...being a bit of a history buff as he is]...!

ps....oh..and no...i don't gallop the rolling Leicestershire countryside blowing a trumpet...[even i ain't that daft]...

Anyway....i've not taken too many pix of late...[been a tad busy...watching black stork in Northants...amongst other things]. I have as usual been searching for my hobbies which have now decided on complete invisibility...still....watching the skies has been entrancing...[i still marvel at cirrus]....and umbellifers now reaching skyward like white rockets in natures natural firework display

Lykos · May 18, 2011

:clap::clap:

greetings Gaby

username · May 19, 2011

Yesterday i ventured out into the field to look for...[yes...you guessed it...flippin hobbies]...

The weather took a turn for the worse, for me anyway, as a lumpy mattress of cumulus let loose persistent rain....ho hum...:smoke:

I took cover in a large cattle shed and listened to the aforementioned liquid hit the metal roof as a pair of pied wagtails displayed their annoyance at my presence....[they obviously had a nest with young nearby]. I did my best to avoid disturbing them and as i did so i snapped a few images amid the dung and rusted metal....make of them what you will...

metal fish...
rusty pheasant...
part of a dove from above...
wet wagtail...

ps...i attach an image of a plug socket i photographed in the barn just for 'Woody' Mike....

Show me the Monet...etc....[chuckle]....! Perhaps you could view it as a 'smiley U'....

pps...after the rains had relented a hobby did find me....and then...[as they do]...it disappeared to who knows where...:cat:

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Woody · May 19, 2011

I'm afraid that, due to the inclusion of cobwebs and the implied presence of spiders i.e. wildlife, I won't be taking this through to my exhibition. Mere decoration....

Mike

username · May 19, 2011

Woody said:
I'm afraid that, due to the inclusion of cobwebs and the implied presence of spiders i.e. wildlife, I won't be taking this through to my exhibition. Mere decoration....

Mike

:-O........'socket-to-me' why don't you...!?

username · May 24, 2011

Icelandic Ash clouds permitting....i should be off to Scandinavia on Thursday...so if this thread goes really quiet...you'll know why...!

As i've been a tad busy of late i have nothing really suitable to show in the way of images...except for one thing that caught my eye whilst out the other day....it just appealed to me...:smoke:

ps....extra photo of the hawk owl is my mates and shows a bird we saw a ways back in Finland...and hopefully we will see more next week...fingers crossed..!

pps...I am looking forward to taking lots of shots in Scando...[and hopefully not just of interiors of airport waiting rooms]...

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phil baber · May 25, 2011

Superb! Hope to catch up when you return.

Happy hunting friend!

Lykos · May 25, 2011

fingers crossed....yes...I do :t:

great hawk owl

greetings Gaby

Woody · May 25, 2011

username said:
...it just appealed to me...

Easy to see why.

Hawk owl is on my to see before I die list too....In the wild that is.

Mike

username · May 26, 2011

Woody said:
Easy to see why.

Hawk owl is on my to see before I die list too....In the wild that is.

Mike

Re that last pic...[grasses amongst the sleepers].....it really sang out with the ripples in the timber..etc...

Re Hawk Owl.....apparently it is a very good 'vole season' at the moment in Scando....and with any luck i should be off in less than two hours...!

ps...i hope you get to see hawk owl Mike..:t:

Adios for now...all the best to all...!

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