mostlythemarsh:

Summer Lawn

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art-and-things-of-beauty:

Carl Frederik Aagaard (1833 – 1895) – Emerging summer thunderstorm on Saltholm in the Øresund. Oil on canvas. 47 x 69 cm.

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mostlythemarsh
replied to your photo “Sometimes when I’m birdwatching”

liken’ your lichen lies… and the barbed wire too.

It’s funny how I didn’t even really think about the barbed wire when I took the picture. But after I got home and looked at it I decided it was one of my favorite parts.

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Sometimes when I’m birdwatching

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anonsally
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Also, I would like to say that I like to think Point Sal is named after me. Is it short for something?

I don’t know the name’s origin. A lot of the place names in California are from the era of early Spanish exploration; hence all the saints (San Francisco, Santa Catalina, Santa Clara…) because it happened to be that particular saint’s feast day when they came across that island or river or whatever. 

There are a number of Salsipuedes Points or Point Salsipuedeses, which I don’t have to translate for your impressively polyglot self. Those often refer to places that were prone to becoming a dangerous lee shore, which was a big deal when you were exploring in an 18th-century sailing ship that didn’t go to windward very well. So they sometimes gave those places scary names as a safety tip to future mariners. I wondered at one point if “Point Sal” was just a shortened version of one of those. Though thinking about it some more that seems unlikely.

Point Sal might be a reference to salt? There are some high dunes just north of it; maybe they looked salty from the sea? Or maybe there were salt deposits in the area?

I’m going to headcanon it as named after you, though, if that’s okay. Because that’s cool. And because you “moo”ed at the cows. 🐂👍😀

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I still haven’t watched that video (with the on-board footage of Dongfeng crossing the line) due to the aforementioned DSL outage. Can’t wait!

And that TTToP managed to climb out of last place, but only by relying on two (2) different tie-breakers (taking 6th ahead of Scallywag in the In-Port series despite being tied with them on points because they beat them in the last In-Port Race, and then taking 6th overall despite being tied again on points because of having beaten them in the In-Port series) is just the perfect button on all the hair’s-breadth wackiness at the end of this edition of the race.

Thanks for your many contributions to the small but doughty VOR Tumblr fandom! 😜

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In an odd thematic twist, my DSL provider has seen fit to leave me without internet for most of the last week. That means I’ve been using my cell plan for access, and have been intentionally avoiding watching any video because it would use up my monthly data allotment too quickly and rack up a bunch of extra charges. So I haven’t seen the final In-Port Race, or other recent festivities. But with luck I’ll be back on unlimited data by tomorrow, and will properly check it all out. (cont.)

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wingedjewels:

IMG_7282 Magnolia Warbler by ashahmtl on Flickr.

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Sometimes when I’m birdwatching

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Sometimes when I’m birdwatching

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Sometimes when I’m birdwatching

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Sometimes when I’m birdwatching

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stephenearp:

A long walk home and running out of light

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debunkshy:

Virginia Rail

Pleasant Valley, WI, 4-21-17

#275

I didn’t see it; just heard it grunting before sunrise in a spot (Barka Slough) where they’ve been heard recently. Not the most satisfying identification, but good enough to count.

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krissysphotos:

“But I’ll tell you what hermits realize. If you go off into a far, far forest and get very quiet, you’ll come to understand that you’re connected with everything”.

~ 

Alan Watts

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krissysphotos:

“But I’ll tell you what hermits realize. If you go off into a far, far forest and get very quiet, you’ll come to understand that you’re connected with everything”.

~ 

Alan Watts

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krissysphotos:

“But I’ll tell you what hermits realize. If you go off into a far, far forest and get very quiet, you’ll come to understand that you’re connected with everything”.

~ 

Alan Watts

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krissysphotos:

“But I’ll tell you what hermits realize. If you go off into a far, far forest and get very quiet, you’ll come to understand that you’re connected with everything”.

~ 

Alan Watts

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Sometimes when I’m birdwatching

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klemannlee:

Black and White Warbler 

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