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T. Michael Redmond

@tmr65.bsky.social

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Born in Ireland 🇮🇪. Vocation: vision scientist; avocation: traveling natural history and landscapes, and art and architecture photographer. The vast majority of images I post are mine, others not are properly attributed. Dogfather. All opinions personal.

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T. Michael Redmond @tmr65.bsky.social · 19h

For #BirdOfTheDay theme #Heron we have a beautiful Great Egret sitting pretty on a muskrat mound at Blackwater NWR in Maryland.

A white bird with yellow eyes and bill and white crest sits on a mound of sticks in the middle of a pond.

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T. Michael Redmond @tmr65.bsky.social · 1d

You have to get up early to see Charles Bridge #Prague as empty as this.

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T. Michael Redmond @tmr65.bsky.social · 6d

For today’s #BirdOfTheDay decided by Rob @robcrank68.bsky.social, the theme is #Raptor. Here’s a handsome Snail Kite in Entre Rios, Argentina.

A bird with slate-grey body, white under-tail, black wing and tail edges, with a long, sharply hooked bill, yellow face, and orange feet stands on a lichen-crusted fence post against a blue sky. A fence wire runs from left to right intersecting the post just below the bird.

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T. Michael Redmond @tmr65.bsky.social · 7d

For the #BirdOfTheDay #green theme is this Green Heron on a log in a swamp.

A dagger-billed bird with dark greenish blue crest, lighter greenish blue back and rusty underside sits on a log with its orange feet. To its left is another log with moss on it and below it is a pale green duckweed covered pond. A vertical thin brown stick is immediately behind the bird’s bill.

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T. Michael Redmond @tmr65.bsky.social · 8d

A Common Raven vocalizing in a tree in our neighbor’s yard in suburban Maryland. This is the second time we’ve had a Raven in our neighborhood in the past year. (Video courtesy of JBR.)

T. Michael Redmond @tmr65.bsky.social · 9d

Artist’s impression of current state of peer review in US health research studies.

A man with an angry expression and wearing a white coat stands at the end of a pier tossing papers into the water.

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T. Michael Redmond @tmr65.bsky.social · 11d

Not before time!

T. Michael Redmond @tmr65.bsky.social · 12d

Maybe not so strange! They do breed off N. America in Iceland. I have seen many there. When I was younger in Ireland we would see them in winter– presumably from Iceland. Called the Great Northern Diver in Ireland and Britain.

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T. Michael Redmond @tmr65.bsky.social · 15d

Looks terrific! Our go-to okra recipe is a dry-sautéed prep (just a teaspoon of oil). None of that gooey stuff, just okra flavor!

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T. Michael Redmond @tmr65.bsky.social · 15d

This is at a farm stand. It is our go-to place for okra (and other vegetables). Was surprised that they had any at all this late! It looks like they stripped their plants at the end of season. Through the summer their median size of okra was much smaller!

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T. Michael Redmond @tmr65.bsky.social · 15d

The last of the summer okra? Gigantic pods– only good for long cooking in gumbo. I had to work hard to find the smallest ones.

A man’s right hand is placed for scale atop a pile of rather large green okra pods.

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T. Michael Redmond @tmr65.bsky.social · 19d

Mac is the only way!

T. Michael Redmond @tmr65.bsky.social · 19d

That bites on many levels😖!

T. Michael Redmond @tmr65.bsky.social · 20d

Always look up, Rome edition (but not Sistine Chapel, questo è proibito!). This is the baroque ceiling fresco of Chiesa di Sant'Ignazio di Loyola representing the life of Ignatius of Loyola, a founder of the Catholic order of the Society of Jesus. The late Francis was the first pope of this order.

A highly ornate ceiling depicting holy works of a saint executed in a trompe l'œil fashion. Large numbers of angels feature. Three windows are at the top and three windows are at the bottom of the image.

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T. Michael Redmond @tmr65.bsky.social · 20d

I was not aware that Paddy had died! How sad! Especially for you and the whole Chironomid community. I am sorry that I missed that. Paddy was a true scholar and gentleman!

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T. Michael Redmond @tmr65.bsky.social · 20d

Exciting discovery! Chironomids are a fact of life in Ireland. I was even more excited to read how extensively you cited Ashe, O’Connor and Murray! Declan Murray was a professor of mine, lo these many years ago, and Paddy Ashe was a fellow graduate student, in Dublin.

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T. Michael Redmond @tmr65.bsky.social · 22d

Always look up: Basilica Santa Maria Maggiore edition. We joined a line of hundreds queuing to visit the tomb of the late Pope Francis.

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T. Michael Redmond @tmr65.bsky.social · 22d

Our ride from Bologna to Rome. I love me a Frecciarossa!

T. Michael Redmond @tmr65.bsky.social · 23d

Paris’ most famous cephalophore!

T. Michael Redmond @tmr65.bsky.social · 24d

A mural in the picturesque San Giuliano neighborhood of Rimini celebrating the films of famous director Federico Fellini. Rimini was the boyhood home of Fellini.

A mural on a white wall depicting the figure of a perplexed looking man, surrounded by heads of about a dozen people. There is a depiction of a man on a motorcycle in the bottom right, one of Blind man playing an accordion at the top right, and a nun climbing a ladder in the top left. There are green plants on the left of the picture and a window in the middle of the left side.

T. Michael Redmond @tmr65.bsky.social · 24d

Reflection of Palazzo Ducale, Modena.

Baroque building reflected in a shallow rectangular pool of water, the reflection receding to a vanishing point at the top side of the image. Blue sky and clouds above the building are also reflected. Paved surfaces are to the left and right sides of the image.

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T. Michael Redmond @tmr65.bsky.social · 24d

“Christians” in America also constantly remind me of Matthew 23: 27.

T. Michael Redmond @tmr65.bsky.social · 25d

In a library of the old University of Bologna, oldest university in Europe. Many seminal books on Zoology and natural history, including such as Linneaus and Cuvier.

A bookshelf of old books many in brown bindings. A wire lattice in front protects them.

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T. Michael Redmond @tmr65.bsky.social · 25d

Ravenna, 10/3: Protesting the interception of the #gazaflotilla. Beside the railway station.

T. Michael Redmond @tmr65.bsky.social · 25d

Ravenna, 10/3: A protest against the interception of the #gazaflotilla. Part of the one-day national strike in Italy that is disrupting trains, planes, ferries, and buses all over the country.

A crowd of people, some carrying red flags, on a street intersection under trees. A signpost in the centre of the image.

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