Beautiful Animals

This should say Clown fish.

Thought so. Clown fish love hiding in the coral.

Ring-necked pheasant:

Izzie, These pictures are gorgeous. Some take my breath away. Thanks for sharing.

How the black mamba got its name:

oh... bless ya goil - I got so many pics but probs with my software - gonna try and post some when I can access them.

meanwhile...

just love a pingu or two

More backyard birds. From the Cape.

Chickadee


Mourning Dove


Nuthatch


And some happy mammals

Izzie, You can't go wrong with a penguin.

littlek, Thanks for the birds (you know I love dem) and the mammals. I'm a fan of theirs too.

Rainbow boa:

Chickadee:

Caption from Day in Pictures, SFGate -
Grassy ass: To those Brits who have already adopted donkeys like 4-month-old Francesca from the Donkey Sanctuary in Devon, England, we say thank you. The charity has been swamped with record numbers of unwanted and neglected donkeys, a predicament it blames on the recession, and needs to find foster homes more than ever.

always love izzies bird pics

littlek - great shots, pup looks very happy on the dunes

This one was taken in Costa Rica in 2006.

found this pic on a blog, love the comment the blogger left



I've always wondered at the waste of beautiful window space at this Henry Street home (ground floor). At least the cat is getting something out of it.

Hope not to have doubled up these... know a bunch of them are the same " but taken at different times

Tits and a couple others... all singing up a big toon... <bit blurry " verra shaky hands and still haven't figured out shutter speeds or apertures - ack >

















Look out look out










Catkins Robin





Verra shaky hands yet.....kinda different

Very pretty!

Izzie, You've caught some birds in flight! I don't know nuttin' 'bout apertures. But these a glorious pictures. I love dat robin.

I like blurry photos a lot of the time. Blurry mind, ya know. One of my favorites of my own was shot out the car window in a rainstorm in the california desert. A tree was a blowin' in the wind and the sky was foreboding, so the blurred image was a menace or a dance of nature. Turned it into a painting, now like both the photo, which I blew up, and the ptng. Sometimes a bit of blur can foster the sense of life that can be missing in regular photos.

Have just been reading dh lawrence, whom I was primed to not particularly like via a movie or two, and find myself engaged with his effluorescent ruminations. Right now, he's talking about why he likes the etruscan tomb paintings better than any michelangelo, and the etruscan pottery over the fine greek pottery - all having to do with the capturing of life "uncooked".

I sooooo enjoy all the bird photos.

i love this picture, the first thing that popped into my head was "the sound of her wings", the title of a comic book in the first story arc (Preludes & Nocturnes) of the Sandman graphic novel series

from wiki:

The collection ends with "The Sound of Her Wings", an epilogue to the first story-arc. This issue introduces a character who has become one of the series' most popular and prominent personalities: Dream's older sister Death. She is depicted as an attractive, down-to-earth young goth girl, very unlike the traditional personification of death, and spends the issue talking Dream out of his brief depression.

i do love those boids too, so pleased y'all like... and.... actually I like some blurry too tho I usually have software to remove digital noise... which I can't use right now - the software that is...

so..... another bunch...





























Bottoms Up











dj... the flying fella "sound of her wings".... it's amazing how an image taps into a place in the mind... sometimes, it feels as tho i can almost feel the boids - they are a distance away - but it feels as tho i can almost touch them

(got lotsa fleurs to go on the ship - decaying ones...weird - just love 'em)

I love that one too. The bird and the motion, the tree and the berries. Looks sort of like a kodalith but not, abstract but not, beefy and delicate.