And now about the spiders

Jun. 13th, 2025 01:19 pm[personal profile] pilottttt posting in [community profile] common_nature
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This big and scarysmall and not scary at all spider was discovered on our ceiling. It was my macro lens that made it big and scary ;)

See the big and scary spider )

Chicks of the laughing dove

Jun. 12th, 2025 12:36 pm[personal profile] pilottttt posting in [community profile] common_nature
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It was their first day out of the nest, which they spent on a branch just opposite our window.

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For more information (in Russian), see here.

Crown Point Vista House

Jun. 8th, 2025 01:38 pm[personal profile] yourlibrarian posting in [community profile] common_nature
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Just returned from a road trip through Oregon and part of Northern California. On leaving Portland we followed the route of a tourist trolley and started out at Crown Point Vista House. The views of the Colombia River were indeed impressive and well worth the twisty drive up to its height. The structure itself with its stone and stained glass was also interesting to see. The bathrooms on the basement level were all marbled -- not the usual for tourist stops!

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Taken on 21 June 2024 at 20:33 US Eastern Daylight Savings Time, as I hurried up the street through the break in the rain.





My limited equipment does the scene nothing even remotely resembling justice: neither the gauzy rainbow-sherbet luminosity nor the grand theatricality of the skyscape, with the air of a vintage book illustration or a meticulously painted film backdrop. A detail I particularly like is the small dark cumulus cloud at bottom center that suggests a person astride a charging (pig? bear? huge dog?)

Photos: House Yard

Jun. 2nd, 2025 12:17 am[personal profile] ysabetwordsmith posting in [community profile] common_nature
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These pictures are from Sunday, but it's after midnight, so the post says Monday.

Walk with me ... )
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