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Ocelot (Leopardus pardalis) in Mato Grosso, Brazil.

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Vodno Telecommunication Tower under construction in Skopje, North Macedonia. Today is the Day of the Macedonian Revolutionary Struggle, a national holiday in North Macedonia celebrated on the occasion of the formation of the Internal Macedonian Revolutionary Organization.

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William Golding (1911-1993) Sir William Gerald Golding was a British novelist, playwright, and poet.He was born on September 19, 1911 in St Columb Minor, Cornwall, England, UK. He was the author of Lord of the Flies (1990), Lord of the Flies (1963) and Alkitrang Dugo (1975). Biography

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And now the sun in tinted splendor sank,
  The west was all aglow with crimson light;
The bay seemed like a sheet of burnished gold,
  Its waters glistened with such radiance bright.

At anchor lay the yachts with snow-white sails,
  Outlined against the glowing, rose-hued sky.
No ripple stirred the waters’ calm repose
  Save when a tiny craft sped lightly by.

Our boat was drifting slowly, gently round,
  To rest secure till evening shadows fell;
No sound disturbed the stillness of the air,
  Save the soft chiming of the vesper bell.

Yes, drifting, drifting; and I thought that life,
  When nearing death, is like the sunset sky:
And death is but the slow, sure drifting in
  To rest far more securely, by and by.

Then let me drift along the Bay of Time,
  Till my last sun shall set in glowing light;
Let me cast anchor where no shadows fall,
  Forever moored within Heaven’s harbor bright.

This poem is in the public domain.

Olivia Ward Bush-Banks - née Olivia Ward; (1869 – 1944) was an American author, poet and journalist of African-American and Montaukett Native American heritage. Ward celebrated both of her heritages in her poetry and writing. She was a regular contributor to the Colored American magazine and wrote a column for the New Rochelle, New York publication, the Westchester Record-Courier. More at Wikipedia

Jim Buckley’s Red Dragon sculpture from 1985 during River Lee flooding, October 2023.

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Photo taken near Franschhoek, South Africa.
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A small hoverfly in the sun (female Episyrphus balteatus).

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Cap with curled gills of a Laccaria laccata (deceiver, lackluster laccaria) Focus stack of 13 photos.

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"There are three of these macaws at Kuranda Birdworld, and one of them decided to land on my head and walk around with me for five minutes. Fortunately I was wearing a hat or it would have been a scratchy and painful experience. Perhaps it thought it was helping me"  David Clode on Unsplash