From rq: It’s the best I could do before the security guard shut everyone down. Behind me in the second photo is the other end wall, which is a fantastical portrayal of the day of judgment and I’m very sorry I didn’t catch that one in time. Click for full size!
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We found a few new faces in the neighbourhood today.
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Dandelion. Dente-de-Leão, Portuguese for dandelion, literally meaning “lion’s tooth”.
Wikipedia tells me the English dandelion comes from the French dent-de-lion, also meaning lion’s tooth, and I know it is diente de león is Spanish as well, so that makes it at least 4 languages with the common name having the same meaning. I’m curious about how other languages refer to this common wildflower.
A stunning shot, click for full size!
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From Nightjar, click for full size!
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Blue Jay, click for full size.
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First trillium of the year
It’s only 4° today and and almost feels as if it could snow. Despite this shock to the system, the forest is starting to wake up. Our favorite park is actually a protected wildflower sanctuary and normally there are hundreds of trilliums by now. Today we found only one, but the ground cover is greening up and I’m sure more trilliums will show up soon. The forecast is for two more days of cold and then temperatures in the twenties. Now that will get the flowers growing.
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More ratlets. Rubin got knocked up around the same time as Esme, her crew was born 2 weeks after Esme’s. In these photos, they were 21 days old.
Cockatiel. Caturra, Portuguese for cockatiel.
This sweetie is my pet cockatiel, simultaneously a complete accident and the best thing to happen to me recently. An accident because I never planned to have a pet cockatiel. But when I realized that 1) her parents had stopped feeding her way to early and she was starving on the aviary’s floor and 2) no one but me seemed to care, I decided to do something about it and hand-fed her. She’s part of the family now.
Click for full size! What a beauty. She looks on the mischievous side.
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From Nightjar, a breathtaking shot, click for full size!
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Jazzlet’s beautiful companions, click for full size.
Thorn.
Jake.
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From Giliell, so cute – click for full size!
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