caribou, Wonderful photos. Talk about your fish out of water. It's one thing to end up on the beach, quite another to be soaring high.
Vole (prize-winning photo):
Flock of starlings circling away from a hunting peregrine falcon. (Prize winning photo):
Abyssinian roller (West Africa):
Meerkat:
Lynx:
White-breasted kingfisher:
rosborne, Gorgeous. Smile-worthy. Those two must be related. Their fur has exactly the same coloring.
We received a holiday card with this image in the mail yesterday.
jes, bubbele, Can't thank you enough. Wonderful pic. Glad you decided to share. Love dem canines.
From 24 Hours in Pictures, today's Guardian -
Farnborough, UK: A Blue Tit hangs from a branch awaiting its turn on a bird feeder
Photograph: Adrian Dennis/AFP
osso querida, This photo is amazing. Love it. Thanks, kid.
Sea slug (nudibranch):
Gibbon:
OK, THAT one makes me laugh...
I'll probly get in trouble fer this, but...
That monkey stole Don King's hair......
not to mention the sweetie has a pansy face...
reg, Don't tell me you're going to have an avatar with a skeleton, an internal one at that. And a brain, and very good one at that. An amazing athlete. My hero.
Rockhead, That monkey is a gibbon (an ape), and he had the hair before Don King. Let's give credit where credit is due. King cribbed the hair.
I like the gibbon hair, I don't remember Don King's being quite so, so, so... designed.
but the facial expression through the, uh, visage similar to the viola's, the eyes, plus the mouth expression,
listen, I could just be that gibbon, at any given time.
Hey Osso,
Guess what I am gong to do this Saturday. Nevermind I have to tell you right now. We are heading out to Frederick Maryland to see a litter of Vizsla puppies. The breeder still has a male and a female unspoken for and Rodney and I are giddy. The puppies won't be old enough to leave the Mom until mid January, and I'll be pinching myself purple until I can gets my hands on one of those little cuties. Just to gild the lily, the breeder who I got Chloe from over 15 years ago called to tell me she is expecting two litters in the Spring. We may go from dogless to a two dog family by next summer.
I just realized that very few folks will know what I am talking about. Our 14 year old Vizsla died in Feb 2007 and we lost our 15 year old Springer Chloe this last July. We took some time to adjust to the loss, we are just big sloppy dog lovers but are ready to welcome new friends into the family. It will be interesting to see how the personalities emerge and both breeds are sporting dogs and that makes life interesting.
So it will soon to be time to schedule puppy checkups with the Vet, who will think I have lost my mind. The last time I saw him (I had to take my grand dog Charger in to be checked out) I asked if he knew any reputable Vizsla breeders and he said why don't you get a small dog????? I love small dogs, I love big dogs, but my heart has been stolen and shared by Vizslas and English Springers. This community only allows 2 dogs per family. I'd be one of those crazy dog ladies if they didn't have that restriction. Have a great holiday, your ol pal, glitterbag
(sitting in front of the computer with purple welts waiting for Saturday)
