The Lightning News

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The work of Damir Sencar

Tracie Griffith Tso ~ 'Waterflower Rush'

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Fourth in a series: cats don't care @ http://thehostages.wordpress.com/

Great Egrets/Huntley Meadows Park, Virginia by Richard Hogg

Redish Egret, Fort DeSoto, Florida by Richard Hogg

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Funny Monkey Life @ Amolife

Egret By Katherine Clifton

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Monkey Mothers with Their Babies

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George Steinmetz @ Amolife

even God's worms are a work of art

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Kitties Rescued by US Marine Soldiers in Afghanistan
http://www.uniquescoop.com/2010/06/kitties-rescued-by-us-marine-soldiers.html "In Afghanistan, in the midst of war, many animals are lost and separated from their family. Many are found later by troops from the US, UK and Canada. Soldiers rescue these animals and get help from rescue groups that help them send these animals out of the country and to a forever loving home that they deserve."
via Ace of Spades

CATBLOGGING @ the Coffee Shop Blog
http://thecoffeeshopblog.blogspot.com/2010/07/its-friday-catblogging.html

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you have to be a Serious Cat lover for this one...freakin'hilarious!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Gknp-8ltmE&feature=player_embedded
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Bat-eared fox by anatoliba

Bat-eared fox

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THAT WE WOULD NEVER BE LONELY:
http://sippicancottage.blogspot.com/2010/06/we-gotcha-monday-morning-orphaned-moose.html
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the 'Wings-of-the-Air' - the poetry that is God's Creation

michael rosenbaum

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Red Dragon by Omsel

'Gold Wing' by Omsel

'Taken in early April at Ding Darling NWR on Sanibel Island on the Gulf Coast of Florida.'
THINK ABOUT IT!
by michaelrosenbaum

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Wing Test by rbs10025

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Albrecht Dürer
http://www.abcgallery.com/D/durer/durer.html

Squirrels

Young Hare

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THE SECOND COMING

Turning and turning in the widening gyre
The falcon cannot hear the falconer;
Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere
The ceremony of innocence is drowned;
The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity.

Surely some revelation is at hand;
Surely the Second Coming is at hand.
The Second Coming! Hardly are those words out
When a vast image out of Spiritus Mundi
Troubles my sight: a waste of desert sand;
A shape with lion body and the head of a man,
A gaze blank and pitiless as the sun,
Is moving its slow thighs, while all about it
Wind shadows of the indignant desert birds.
The darkness drops again but now I know
That twenty centuries of stony sleep
Were vexed to nightmare by a rocking cradle,
And what rough beast, its hour come round at last,
Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born?
William Butler Yeats

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Lowry Park Zoo Welcomes Birth of Two New White Tiger Cubs
http://www.zooborns.com/zooborns/2008/11/lowery-park-zoo-welcomes-birth-of-two-new-white-tiger-cubs.html

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Keel-billed toucan by Tambako the Jaguar

Parrots love popcorn by Tambako the Jaguar

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"she flew by,
her lonely sojourn
over the field marked by slow progress
into the wind,
and then swift departure
as she exposed her wings to it,

to be carried off
somewhere else
by its indifferent gust and her apparent whim.
she cast not even
a sly glance my way,
indifferent to my presence,

not coveting me as a meal in the slightest.
apparently
not even
curious."

Jonny Jay @ Summer Patriot/Winter Soldier

Northern Goshawk By Tom Elton

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"A red kite, one of approximately 1 million birds that die in Spain
every year because of collisions with wind turbines."

a 'green' catalog came in the mail today
hawking all this great & groovey 'green' sht n'stuff
on thick, high-gloss paper
everybody @ the farm got one
addressed to 'resident'
all to the same address
hawking 'enviro-green products'
that could be jerry-rigged for half the price
on heavy, high-gloss, full-color paper...
do you get it...?...!
do you get how full of sht these greenweenies are??
& the left scorns the right
& the right mocks the left
Go ask Al or Sarah what environmental stewardship means
& meanwhile
What are we doing to God's Good, Precious Earth...
we are destroying our dwelling place
full stop

how precious is this gorgeous Orb

Only when the last Tree is gone

& the last River is poisoned

& the last Fish is caught

Will we realize that we cannot eat money.
Cree Indian saying

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Purple martin with dragonfly by Michael Rosenbaum
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Gannets by Ronan Mclaughlin
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Damian Aspinall's Extraordinary Gorilla Encounter
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FZ-bJFVJ2P0

Christian The Lion - the full story
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pNv2A4Kfx4k&feature=related
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Red-crowned cranes in China
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saint-nicholas-of-tolentino - Patron Saint of sick animals