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November 2019

2019/11/07 by terranovabay

Above: Scenes from Blade Runner directed by Ridley Scott, 1982 It’s now November 2019, the time frame in which Ridley Scott’s classic science fiction/noir film Blade Runner takes place. Released in the pre-futuristic days of 1982, the film follows Harrison Ford as a policeman whose job of hunting down and killing trespassing replicants – short-lived genetically engineered artificial humans built for off-world use only – makes for some grisly fun. And the immersive visual art direction done with practical effects […]

Categories: Dog's Tail • Tags: Blade Runner, Colin Marshall, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, Harrison Ford, Los Angeles, Philip K. Dick, Replicant, Ridley Scott

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The Queen’s Realm

2019/11/06 by terranovabay

A Queen butterfly foraging through the flowers at the South Oslo Riverfront Conservation Area.

Categories: Nature • Tags: Danaus gilippus, Oslo Riverfront Conservation Area, Queen Butterfly, South ORCA

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South ORCA Dragonfly

2019/11/05 by terranovabay

A Dragonfly seen on a hike along one of the South Oslo Riverfront Conservation Area trails.

Categories: Nature • Tags: Dragonfly, hike, Oslo Riverfront Conservation Area, South ORCA, trail

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Retired but not forgotten

2019/11/04 by terranovabay

A view from inside Kennedy Space Center’s Vehicle Assembly Building looking out the open doors of High Bay #4. Discovery sits in silhouette while beyond, under Discovery’s wing at right, can be seen Atlantis waiting to enter the Orbiter Processing Facility in March 2012. Click to relive the retirement of the Space Shuttle Program.

Categories: Space Age Bulletins • Tags: Atlantis, Discovery, Endeavour, Kennedy Space Center, NASA, Space Shuttle

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PINWR Sunday: Regal Osprey

2019/11/03 by terranovabay

A rather distinguished looking Osprey with a freshly caught fish at Pelican Island National Wildlife Refuge. From the OspreyWatch project.

Categories: Nature • Tags: fish, Osprey, OspreyWatch, Pandion haliaetus, Pelican Island National Wildlife Refuge, PINWR

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Ranch Saturday: Sandhill Crane Sunset

2019/11/02 by terranovabay

Sandhill Cranes fly against an orange sky at sunset at Treasure Hammock Ranch. The second bird is a bit obscured flying in front of the palm tree. From the Florida Cattle Ranch project.

Categories: Nature • Tags: cattle ranching, Grus canadensis, Sandhill Crane, Treasure Hammock Ranch

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Jumping Off Point

2019/11/01 by terranovabay

Multiple exposures of a Red-shouldered Hawk launching into the air from the old dead tree along Oslo Road in the Oslo Riverfront Conservation Area.

Categories: Nature • Tags: Buteo lineatus, ORCA, Oslo Riverfront Conservation Area, Red-shouldered Hawk

All Hallow’s Eve

2019/10/31 by terranovabay

Happy Halloween!

Categories: Eccentricities • Tags: All Hallow's Eve, cat, Guava, Halloween, Mara, Ybor City

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Halloween Eve

2019/10/30 by terranovabay

A Black Vulture waits patiently for Halloween at the Oslo Riverfront Conservation Area.

Categories: Eccentricities • Tags: Black Vulture, Coragyps atratus, Halloween, ORCA, Oslo Riverfront Conservation Area

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The Dark Cypress Forest of Lilliput

2019/10/29 by terranovabay

700 sad and lonely potted Bald Cypress trees looking for good homes make for an unusually dark forest at the Lilliputian level. Abandon all hope ye who enter here!

Categories: Scenery • Tags: Bald Cypress, Gulliver’s Travels, Jonathan Swift, Lilliput, Tree

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