Day 3468: Party Girl.

 

 

 "Party Girl": ink drawing, collage & digital

 

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Some of the Wildlife Photographs of the Year

 

Andrés Luis Dominguez Blanco captured this image of a European stonechat near his home in Andalucia, Spain.

French photographer Frank Deschandol managed to capture a red-banded sand wasp (left) and a cuckoo wasp about to enter adjacent nest holes.

Spanish photographer Jaime Culebras photographed this Manduriacu glass frog eating a spider in the foothills of the Andes, northwestern Ecuador.

Young Wildlife Photographer of the Year winner Liina Heikkinen captured the moment a young fox made off to eat a barnacle goose without sharing with its siblings.

 

Danish photographer Mogens Trolle photographed this young male proboscis monkey striking a pose at a sanctuary in Sabah, Borneo.

Italian-American photographer Sam Sloss captured this picture of a clown fish while on a diving holiday in North Sulawesi, Indonesia.

 

Shanyuan Li managed to capture a rare picture of a family of Pallas's cats -- or manuls -- on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau in northwest China after six years' work at high altitude.

Jose Luis Ruiz Jiménez photographed this family of great crested grebes in a lagoon near Brozas, in his native Spain.

 

Overall winner Sergey Gorshkov got this rare tigress in her Siberian forest environment using a hidden camera in the Russian Far East.

 

 

A Feel Good ...

A bear of the world 

 
Every child knows the pain of forgetting a cherished toy and thinking it lost forever. When Grayson Mulligan left his bear on a Southwest flight over Thanksgiving holiday, his parents were desperate to find it. Sadly, the bear never turned up. A team of Southwest employees was so moved by the Mulligan's search they decided to offer up the next best thing: An adorable new bear, who seems to have quite a bit of experience in the air travel industry. That's perfect for Grayson because his mother says he's been interested in planes for years, and even wants to be a pilot someday. Southwest sent the bear to Grayson, along with photos of his new friends working on the tarmac, preparing the cabin of a flight and even inspecting the cockpit. Grayson named the bear Jack because, the boy said, "He looked like a Jack to me."

 

 

 

 

A 2-minute video, happiness/nature, here.

 

Just because ...

 

Belted Kingfisher

 

 

Smiles for Wednesday ...

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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