Red-Winged Blackbird:
Nice place to rest forever among plastic Jesuses and Marys, many identical, but in different sizes:
The sky in winter in central Spain can really look blue like that.
The flowers were plastic too, BTW.
More flowers and leaves:
I prefer to think of it as a black bodied redbird.
The harbor of Marseille, France, after a great deal of Photoshop manipulation:
I like it. It looks like a pen-and-ink drawing with watercolor.
Hopefully I haven’t posted this one before. I actually take this picture all the time. I can’t help it; the dog poses for it all the time!
Looks like a good dog!
They all are, in their own way. 
That nose needs a boop.
Cute! Is he or she heterochromic (different color eyes) or is that just a trick of the lighting?
He does have different colored eyes. Makes him seem demented, and of course the hanging tongue does as well. 
2012 was Alberta’s 100th anniversary, so I went out with a friend and took some pictures of Edmonton.
Here’s the legislature:
The LRT bridge going over the North Saskatchewan River. University of Alberta in the background.
And finally downtown Edmonton in HDR:
shadows
Remember, remember…*
This just goes to show that phones are much better at capturing fireworks these days.
Now, the second one I suggest you click on, because the fireworks were behind, but close to, a line of poplar trees, and I really like the way the poplars were illuminated.
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* - Remember, remember the fifth of November, gunpowder treason and plot…
You want fireworks? I got fireworks:
