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We spent the day at a nearby park. It's about 85F today and sunny! The wind is crazy, though. But it was just lovely! :love:

Anyway, we celebrated my friend's birthday with brownies at our picnic lunch. Then she had to leave, and my other friend and I hiked through the wildflower woods and on to the ponds where the American Toads are mating. I picked up a big red-eared slider turtle for all of the kids to inspect and hold. (It was surprisingly calm. :scratch: ) Katie caught a toad that everyone got to look at. I can't believe how warm it is outside!

(And Katie has quite the sunburn. :( I thought I avoided it this time, but I am realizing that I did not. Apparently, I only wiped a streak of sunscreen on my calves, and they now have the dumbest looking burn ever. One ghost-white strip surrounded by lobster red. And they HURT!)

Anyway, here are pics:

http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=2 ... 37ef57a1b0
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Awe-inspiring Iceland volcano photos. It's worth looking at all 35.

http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2010/0 ... okull.html

(via Making Light, like so much else that is awesome)
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Those are awesome pictures!
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Dawn breaks over a sea of purple blooms


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Stunning pictures capture majestic beauty of England's famous lavender fields
It took photographer Antony Spencer more than three years to get such a perfect shot.

'You have a window of just ten days each year when the lavender is at its best before it's harvested so it's a matter of getting up early and getting down to the field before sunrise,' he said.

'The light was absolutely phenomenal and made the lavender look beautiful.
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Beautiful!
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Really beautiful.
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Wow! That's just gorgeous! :love:
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Surreally beautiful! :love:
“There, peeping among the cloud-wrack above a dark tor high up in the mountains, Sam saw a white star twinkle for a while. The beauty of it smote his heart, as he looked up out of the forsaken land, and hope returned to him. For like a shaft, clear and cold, the thought pierced him that in the end the Shadow was only a small and passing thing: there was light and high beauty for ever beyond its reach.”
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Beautiful shot.

I am glad this article points out that photographs like this don't just happen. It takes a lot of planning, scouting, studying weather forecast, and understanding the equipment to produce something that stunning.

Which is why my iPhone shots... are not. :D
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One of my goals is to some day photograph the lavender fields in France. That way you all can ooh & aah over them. ;)

Here's some butterflies I've captured of late- can't remember how to post photos so here's the link:
http://doublekphotography.blogspot.com/ ... erbys.html
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Such delicate beauty! :love:
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The way you compose those is just delightful—filled with grace. :love:
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Thanks!

Though now I have a vision of me tiptoeing through a field, Dance of the Hours playing in the background, DSLR in hand...
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I don't know. It would go really well with those photographs. :D
“There, peeping among the cloud-wrack above a dark tor high up in the mountains, Sam saw a white star twinkle for a while. The beauty of it smote his heart, as he looked up out of the forsaken land, and hope returned to him. For like a shaft, clear and cold, the thought pierced him that in the end the Shadow was only a small and passing thing: there was light and high beauty for ever beyond its reach.”
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The story that goes with this would be that the adult pair of sandhills appeared in our "backyard" only a handful of days after TTBK moved here. (The adults have red on their hoods) The next year they showed up on one of our "monthiversaries" with a baby in tow. This year she has a mate too. It's been wonderful to see "our" birds grow.
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Very cool! :)
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We spent the morning at nearby Glen Helen.

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Beautiful.

The leaves here in Maine are pretty nice, too. I'll have to see if I can get some pictures before I leave.
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I love the first one, Lali - it took me a few secs to figure out that its a reflection in water. :)
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Thanks, guys!

I love that one, too, Mahima.
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