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The Numbers Game #14 – 135
The numbers game- Judy Dystra-Brown
To play along, go to your photos file and type that number into the search bar. Then post a selection of the photos you find under that number and include a link to your blog in Judy’s Numbers Game blog of the day. If instead of numbers, you have changed the identifiers of all your photos into words, pick a word or words to use instead, and show us a variety of photos that contain that word in the title.
This prompt will repeat each Monday with a new number.
Silent Sunday : Misty day in Cape Town
CMMC: March Pick a Topic from my Photo
Possible topics: reservoir, lake, landscape, brown, blue, teal, green, water, green, layers, etc. See what all you can come up with.
Monochrome madness #4 Travel
Photos of travelling to places in South Africa
Lens-Artists Photo Challenge #291 – Cityscapes
Patti is this week’s host for the Lens-Artist challenge
This week we’re showcasing cities, large and small, near and far. What are the features of your chosen city? Show us buildings, skylines, the streets, the people, and life in public spaces. Or, if you want, focus on two cities, and compare their features. Show us images that are part of your overall impression of the city. (From Patti)
Hastings is an inland city of New Zealand and is one of the two major urban areas in Hawke’s Bay, on the east coast of the North Island. The population of Hastings is 51,500, with a further 15,200 people in Havelock North and 2,090 in Clive. Hastings is about 18 kilometres inland of the coastal city of Napier. Wikipedia
Cornwall Park, Hastings, New Zealand
Cornwall Park, Hastings, New Zealand
Water fountain
Fountains and children’s playground
Lion statue
Cyclamen
We visited my son and his family there in 2016. We loved this city.
CFFC: Things that are Hot
Sunday Stills: Sunrise, Sunset
I am also linking this post to Weekend Sky and Cell Pic Sunday
St Helena Bay is also one of only three natural bays on the mainland coastlines of the world where one can see views of both a sunrise and a sunset over the sea!
How lucky am I to see both sunrise and sunset from here!
Bird of the week #56: Vleitinktinkie
Levaillant’s cisticola (Cisticola tinniens), also known as the tinkling cisticola, or Vleitinktinkie in Afrikaans, is a small passerine bird which is native to marshlands in the uplands of Africa, southwards of the equator.
Levaillant’s cisticola is a small, 12–15 cm long, dull-coloured bird with a longish tail and a reddish cap. The upperparts of the breeding adult are grey, heavily streaked with black, and with a rufous panel in the folded wing. The supercilium, face and underparts are buffy white and the tail is russet brown. The short straight bill is blackish-brown with a pinkish base, and the feet and legs are pinkish-brown. The eye is light brown. Non-breeding adults are browner-backed, and juvenile birds have yellower underparts. The calls include a musical chrip-trrrup-trreee, a wailing tee tee tee and harsh alarm notes.
The cisticola is a resident breeder in eastern Africa from Kenya to eastern South Africa. It is common in reedbeds, sedges, rank grass, and similar wet habitats usually near rivers or dams. Wikipedia
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