post a cool nature pic

heres one i took last year.

Link

I know this isn't technically a nature pic, but I think it's cool as hell.

A beach on Ilhabela, Province of Sao Paulo, Brazil.


Koi pond in Parque do Ibirapuera, Sao Paulo, Province of Sao Paulo, Brazil.


Bamboo forest near Angra dos Reis, Province of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.


Stream and waterfall, near Angra dos Reis, Province of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.



Image quality is pretty bad. My luggage was lost so they were taken with a disposable camera.

:loveya:

GREAT pic! :thumbsup:

Taken from the Manhattan Beach Pier....the Santa Monica Bay.

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Thanks for sharing it! :thumbsup:

Frozen pond.

RL

White Face Monkey


Beach at Sunset

I was fascinated by Pipa (or Surinam) toads when I saw them in a film about a tributary of the Amazon River called the Rio Negro, so called because it is very dark due to tannin from leaves , but its water is clear.
So I googled images of Pipa and found this photo, with a good description-
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FRIDAY, 1 JANUARY 1999
The Year of the Toad

Went to Blijdorp zoo with Loes and was completely captivated by this beautifully ugly creature... Pipa pipa (common name: Surinam Toad). The photograph doesn't do the beast justice. Face to face it is a far stranger sight. Corpse-like it hangs motionless in its tank with its flattened and bleached body, flat triangular head and miniscule peppercorn eyes. It looks every bit like a piece of roadkill that someone has kicked back into the ditch.
It gets stranger. The female's eggs (attached to her back as in the photograph) disapppear--are completely covered over by skin within hours of being fertilized. Maturation and the tadpole stage occurs subcutaneously, and after 3 or 4 months minature adults emerge. In the Natural History Museum in Bergen Norway (visited January 1996) I saw a female specimen (preserved in formaldehyde) with dozens of little heads and arms poking from her skin. It just goes to show that life on earth can be as madly exotic as the best StarTrek episode.
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When I first saw this film I thought "how odd, if humans were like Pipa toads, we would go to a dermatologist instead of an obstetrician!"

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a "prairie iris"


a butterfly enjoying crimson clover


a dragonfly

On the New River at the VA/NC border.

taken for an art project. I made a painting based on it, which had a grey/purple sky, which I called, "Shrine to scars".

zipper spider:

the green moth:

big elk buckhttp:

Grand Prismatic Springs

All I have uploaded at this time is a pic of my backyard last winter.

I love the "christmas card' look, the sunset is terrific.

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aA

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How was your trip? Do you have any pics?? :hug:

Thanks for your kind words, btw. :loveya:

It went off very well. No akward moments with my friend at all, our husbands hit it off too!

here's my latest w/ Ella. I guess that's a nature picture eh? :)



aA

;-)

You are beaming, and Ella is just such a cutie pie. :D

Is Ashley feeling better now?

How is your friend, after 30? 40? years of not seeing her?

And MOST important of all, did you enjoy your date with Harvey? I sure did, yesterday. :9

I'm so glad you had an AWESOME time! :hug:

and Swiss Chalet TWICE! gotta love that place.
Ashley is feeling much better, she's virtually pain free now, still taking an antibiotic but looking SO much better and getting some energy back. Now if they could just resolve some of their relationship issues :cry: kids, having kids, y'know? :(

It was a lot of fun seeing my friend after 40 years, we reminisced, laughed and even cried over the loss of parents and other family. It was like we have really not been apart for all that time. Time flew and they are now back home in Scotland, perhaps we'll go there in 2008 after we get all of our renovations done here.

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aA

Have you been back to Scotland (you were born there, correct?) since you left as a youngster?

That's amazing; obviously you two have a very special bond! Sounds like you want to keep in touch.

Good luck to your son (don't know his name!) and Ashley. I hope they work hard at it and are committed. My sister eloped at 17 with her fiancee, who was 22, back in 1970. In 1971, they had a daughter (yes, I was an auntie at age 4), and eventually a son came a few years later.

35 years later, they're still together. It was a rough road for them, but they were totally committed. They still love each other very much.

They're also an anomaly, I know.

Adam needs to grow up !

I was born in Scotland, returned in 1979 and haven't been back since. I'd love for my husband to see my place of birth and roam the countryside.

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i'm off to bed my friend, write me and let me know how you're doing ok?

:loveya:
aA (kesha)

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twin rainbows





and deer in the yard, wednesday of last week.


aA

:rofl: (re: my question above)

Stunning pics, auntieA!! Absolutely beautiful!:applause:

I miss the Falls so much. I grew up in Mississauga, and had a relative who lived in NF, so we used to go and visit every couple of weeks or so. I haven't been there for at least 17 years now.

Just spectacular, aren't they? :loveya:

My Dad lives there, we were able to visit him also. The lights at night on the falls are incredible, sadly those pictures didn't turn out. We got soaked when the wind picked up and sent a very wet mist our way :rofl:

it was such fun!


aA
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Adding this picture because it is such a great fusion between traditon and environment. This is a scene from the conclusion of a tea ceremony lesson where the student (in Pink) is bowing in respect to the tea master (the non-bowing figure). I just love the juxtaposition of the figures with the amazing natural growth in the background.




Incidentally, the student is now my wife.

I attended a Japanese tea ceremony at the Museum in Ann Arbor Michigan. Japanese Sensei performed the ceremony and explained everything. It was a learning experience, very fascinating indeed.

aA
:hi:

Finding the cat can be challenging sometimes.

:hi: hope you like it here, good to see 'new' folks.

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:hi:

aA

I have been with DU for a very long time--I have only recently begun posting more thanks to the discovery of the Lounge. I hardly ever get over to GD or LBN anymore.

Taken by me in Nashville after an unseasonal snowfall. I've posted this one in various forums here before.

Mz Pip
:dem:

I didn't take it but I wish I had...