Day 3317: A nut-harvesting machine.

 

  

"Balcony": photo & digital.

 

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I just came across 40 spectacular photos taken during the past week, here. Here are my top six.

A sculpture by Danger Dave, "Damien Hirst Looking for Sharks," is seen on Australia's Currumbin Beach on Monday, September 13. It is part of the annual Swell Sculpture Festival. Hirst is a famous British artist, and one of his famous artworks features a large tiger shark suspended in formaldehyde.

Matt Roberts/Getty Images

 

A SpaceX rocket launches a four-person, all-tourist crew into Earth's orbit from Cape Canaveral, Florida, on Wednesday, September 15. The Inspiration4 mission is being billed as the beginning of a new era of space travel for average people. Steve Nesius/Reuters

A squirrel raids a nut-harvesting machine on a farm near Elkton, Oregon, on Saturday, September 11. Robin Loznak/Zuma Press Wire

Steven LoBue competes in a Cliff Diving World Series event held at Ireland's Downpatrick Head on Sunday, September 12. Clodagh Kilcoyne/Reuters

A dog takes part in the annual Surf Dog Surf-A-Thon in Del Mar, California, on Sunday, September 12.  Daniel Knighton/Getty Images

  

Workers wrap the Arc de Triomphe monument in Paris on Sunday, September 12. The project, by artists Christo and Jeanne-Claude, will include 25,000 square meters of silvery blue fabric. It will be on view from September 18 until October 3.  Rafael Yaghobzadeh/AP

 

 

 

 

A fun 6-minute video, funny cats, here.

 

 

Just because ...

 

 

Red pileated finch

 

  

                     

Smiles for Monday ...

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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