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About Strange Elf - July 22nd 2014

Post by Strange Elf » Tue Jul 22, 2014 6:45 pm

Today I started an online Photography course, and I'm really excited about it.

I've been a birdwatcher for ever and a day (since I was 21), and now I want to try my hand at taking pictures of brids.
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Post by Ladyhawk Baggins » Wed Jul 23, 2014 6:39 am

Wow. That sounds like fun!
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Re: About Strange Elf - July 22nd 2014

Post by Strange Elf » Wed Jul 23, 2014 6:51 am

Take your camera everywhere, the lecturer says, so I took it walking this morning.

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Re: About Strange Elf - July 22nd 2014

Post by daughter_of_kings » Wed Jul 23, 2014 1:08 pm

Just glorious!
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Re: About Strange Elf - July 22nd 2014

Post by Ladyhawk Baggins » Wed Jul 23, 2014 5:47 pm

What DoK said.
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Re: About Strange Elf - July 22nd 2014

Post by bregotamer » Wed Jul 23, 2014 6:34 pm

Allah is the supreme artist! Just beautiful!
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Re: About Strange Elf - July 22nd 2014

Post by Strange Elf » Thu Jul 31, 2014 7:02 pm

For the second week running, I sat by the (ever dwindling) stream up one of our canyons, and read LOTR for a couple of hours.

It was wonderful, the dappled sunshine all around, listening to nothing but the birds and the gurgling stream, while reading my favourite book.

This little critter (Great Basin Fence Lizard) came visiting while I was up there.

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Re: About Strange Elf - July 22nd 2014

Post by DoctorGamgee » Fri Aug 01, 2014 7:25 am

What a great new brain-work-out! Creativity, timing and artistic viewing of the world. What could be better?!? Love it!
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Re: About Strange Elf - July 22nd 2014

Post by Ladyhawk Baggins » Fri Aug 01, 2014 11:25 am

Great shot! Sounds like you had a lovely time.
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Re: About Strange Elf - July 22nd 2014

Post by daughter_of_kings » Mon Aug 04, 2014 7:28 pm

So did you read to the little guy? Maybe he's a fan, too. :-)
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Re: About Strange Elf - July 22nd 2014

Post by Strange Elf » Tue Aug 05, 2014 5:30 am

No, he wasn't in my special reading spot.

I do read to the birds and the trees (everyone an Aspen). I like to think they are Ents.

I did have an encounter with a Skunk the other week. No time for pictures though.
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Re: About Strange Elf - July 22nd 2014

Post by Ladyhawk Baggins » Tue Aug 05, 2014 8:44 am

Strange Elf wrote:I did have an encounter with a Skunk the other week. No time for pictures though.
One of my friends posted about dragons, today. Reading your post, I rather thought perhaps skunks might not be related, however distantly, to dragons. :roll:
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Re: About Strange Elf - July 22nd 2014

Post by Strange Elf » Tue Aug 05, 2014 2:13 pm

Ladyhawk Baggins wrote:
Strange Elf wrote:I did have an encounter with a Skunk the other week. No time for pictures though.
One of my friends posted about dragons, today. Reading your post, I rather thought perhaps skunks might not be related, however distantly, to dragons. :roll:
Well, theres an idea. If I see him again, I shall call him Smaug the 2nd.
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Re: About Strange Elf - July 22nd 2014

Post by daughter_of_kings » Tue Aug 05, 2014 6:37 pm

Strange Elf wrote:
Ladyhawk Baggins wrote:
Strange Elf wrote:I did have an encounter with a Skunk the other week. No time for pictures though.
One of my friends posted about dragons, today. Reading your post, I rather thought perhaps skunks might not be related, however distantly, to dragons. :roll:
Well, theres an idea. If I see him again, I shall call him Smaug the 2nd.
Wouldn't a better moniker for a skunk be Ancalagon the Black (the 2nd)? :wink:
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Re: About Strange Elf - July 22nd 2014

Post by Strange Elf » Tue Aug 05, 2014 6:45 pm

daughter_of_kings wrote:
Strange Elf wrote:
Ladyhawk Baggins wrote:
Strange Elf wrote:I did have an encounter with a Skunk the other week. No time for pictures though.
One of my friends posted about dragons, today. Reading your post, I rather thought perhaps skunks might not be related, however distantly, to dragons. :roll:
Well, theres an idea. If I see him again, I shall call him Smaug the 2nd.
Wouldn't a better moniker for a skunk be Ancalagon the Black (the 2nd)? :wink:
I confess to feeling a little protective toward my Skink, and therefore would not wish to name him after the baddest Dragon to fly over Middle Earth. But if I did, I'd call him Ancalagon the Black and White. HA!
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