Dogs are animals of integrity. We have much to learn from them.
Category: Photography
These pictures were sent to me by a person whose name I could not read!
Shame, I would have liked to name the individual for being so kind.
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These are superb! Hopefully there will be other pictures.
Just the one photograph for today.
I have been a follower of Ugly Hedgehog for some years.
Last Sunday ‘Alphadog’ posted this photograph taken on Route 66, the Antares Road, in Kingman, Arizona. It is reproduced here with Richard’s full permission.
Copyright (C) 2024 Richard Chirichillo.
It is a stunning photograph.
Back to dogs!
Photo by Harshit Suryawanshi on Unsplash
Photo by Peter Muniz on Unsplash
Photo by Aldo Houtkamp on Unsplash
Again, a photo by Aldo Houtkamp on Unsplash
Again, a very beautiful selection by yours truly!
My son, Alex, took the following photographs of the Aurora..
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They are fabulous. Especially so because as it happened we had mainly cloud cover here in Southern Oregon.
To close, here is an extract from yesterday’s BBC website:
On Thursday night, the stunning colours of the Northern Lights were visible once again even to the naked eye across much of the US.
Experts say the Northern Lights, or Aurora Borealis, are more visible right now due to the sun being at what astronomers call the “maximum” of its 11-year solar cycle.
What this means is that roughly every 11 years, at the peak of this cycle, the sun’s magnetic poles flip, and the sun transitions from sluggish to active and stormy. On Earth, that’d be like if the North and South Poles swapped places every decade.
“At its quietest, the sun is at solar minimum; during solar maximum, the sun blazes with bright flares and solar eruptions,” according to Nasa, the US space agency.
The current 11-year cycle, the 25th since records began in 1755, started in 2019 and is expected to peak next year.
August has produced a find video and it is presented today.
August Hunicke has completed the editing of the video he shot while taking down the very tall trees alongside our house on the 24th and 25th of last September.
It is shared with all of you today.
When a Smooth Job Meets Bad Company
The team involved in the project were shown in this previous post.
A few photographs from home.
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The three deer photos show them feeding from me putting out COB (corn, oats, barley) each morning soon after it is light.
Of course, typically the morning I took my camera out there were just four deer. Usually there between seven and fifteen and a couple of months ago a friendly stag in getting to the COB as I was pouring it out rubbed his right antler on my right leg.
Feeding my friends!
A beautiful shot from Southern California.
This photograph was forwarded to me from Dan Gomez, who took it on the morning of last Tuesday.
It was taken in the Coachella Valley and was a morning shot of the sun through the haze caused by the Lion Fire.
Fabulous!
How The Dodo spoke of a dog and a wild shark bonding.
I do not know much about this story apart from the fact that it appeared in The Dodo recently and I took to it.
So please enjoy! (And that assumes you have not already seen the article!)
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Published on Aug 16, 2024
For most dogs, their friend groups usually consist of a mix of humans and other dogs. But Lili, a 3-year-old dog who lives on a French Polynesian atoll called Fakarava, isn’t like most other dogs. She prefers friends who have gills and fins. In fact, her very best friend is a shark.
Ever since Lili’s mom, Emmanuelle Larchet, adopted Lili, she’s known that her dog has an affinity for all things aquatic. She started swimming in the lagoon near Larchet’s house when she was only a month old.
“She’s really a water dog,” Larchet told The Dodo.
There are around 100 sharks who live in this lagoon near Larchet’s house. So when Lili swims in the water there, she’s surrounded by them. While many dog parents would be terrified to see their dog swimming amongst sharks, Larchet knows that the sharks Lili swims with are nurse sharks, who are actually very docile creatures.
“We call them sea puppies because [they’re] like dogs, actually … They are very nice,” Larchet said.
Larchet likes to joke that when Lili swims around with her shark friends, it’s sea puppies meeting earth puppies.
Over the years Lili has been swimming in the lagoon, there’s one shark in particular she’s grown especially close with. His name is Sharky, and he and Lili visit each other almost every day. Larchet and Lili are able to recognize Sharky because he has a special marking on one of his fins.
Lili and Sharky like to explore their lagoon together. They enjoy splashing around in the warm, clear water.
“He comes to say hello every time she sees him,” Larchet said.
Even though Lili and Larchet are best friends themselves, Larchet is more than happy to share her Lili with Sharky. And even though Larchet watches Lili hang out with her shark friends all the time, it never gets old seeing them spend time together.
“[When] I see her swimming with Sharky, [I’m] so happy,” Larchet said.
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It is a lovely story!
Now for something different, but marvellous!
My son, Alex, is a keen photographer.
Here is his photograph of a tawny owl and her owlet, taken in an Urban city park in Bristol, England. It is shared with you with Alex’s permission.
It is an amazing picture!
I’m speaking of a radio programme on BBC Radio 4.
Yesterday, we listened to a fabulous broadcast on the subject of Awe.
The programme was called ‘MORE WOW’ and the picture of the page from BBC Sounds follows:
It is available on BBC Sounds and the link is https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0022kt2
As I said to Jeannie the broadcast really spoke to me as each morning I am in awe of the black-tailed deer that I go down to feed near the old stables just outside the house.
Then I pause on my way back and look at Mount Sexton and the rising sun; again I am in awe.
Then at night, being a crystal-clear sky on many occasions, I am in awe at the heavens above.
The programme spoke of one being in awe of both the small and the large and I want to close with two of my photographs of me sensing awe in both scales.
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That’s my story for today!
Learning from Dogs 