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Presidents Among the Pines
Mount Rushmore National Memorial
South Dakota
August 2025
The presidents of Mount Rushmore emerge through a natural frame of Ponderosa pines in the Black Hills of South Dakota.
a little fisherman boat sailed among the big ships that were anchored near the port of Merak, province of Banten, Indonesia.
"Thank you very much for all your faves and stay healthy" 😃
to say thankyou for all you all do for me....I hope in this small gesture you realise how much you all mean to me....xx
English Name: Blue Tailed Damselfly
Scientific Name: Ischnura elegans (Odonata Zygoptera)
Family: Coenagrionidae (Demoiselles)
Sex: Male & Female
Age: Adult
Location: Prat de Cabanes, Torrenostra (Torreblanca)
Province: Castelló de La Plana
Country: Spain
Continent: Europe
Date: May 2020
Monarch Butterfly seen in the Herb Garden at the Huntington Library & Botanical Gardens ! July 2016.
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I spent the weekend in the ancient bristlecone pine forest in the eastern Sierra. The altitude (11,500 feet up) was dizzying, literally, but the spellbinding trees and the inhospitable moonscape they live on were awe-inspiring. The oldest of these is almost 5,000 years old.
The stained glass windows of Notre-Dame, particularly the three rose windows, are among the most famous features of the cathedral. The west rose window, over the portals, was the first and smallest of the roses in Notre-Dame. It is 9.6 metres in diameter, and was made in about 1225, with the pieces of glass set in a thick circular stone frame. None of the original glass remains in this window; it was recreated in the 19th century.
The two transept windows are larger and contain a greater proportion of glass than the rose on the west façade, because the new system of buttresses made the nave walls thinner and stronger. The north rose was created in about 1250, and the south rose in about 1260. The south rose in the transept is 12.9 metres in diameter; with the claire-voie surrounding it, a total of 19 metres. It was given to the cathedral by King Louis IX of France, known as Saint Louis.
The south rose has 94 medallions, arranged in four circles, depicting scenes from the life of Christ and those who witnessed his time on earth. The inner circle has twelve medallions showing the twelve apostles. During later restorations, some of these original medallions were moved to circles farther out. The next two circles depict celebrated martyrs and virgins. The fourth circle shows twenty angels, and saints important to Paris, such as Saint Denis, Margaret the Virgin with a dragon, and Saint Eustace. The third and fourth circles also have some depictions of Old Testament subjects. The third circle has some medallions with scenes from the New Testament Gospel of Matthew which date from the last quarter of the 12th century. These are the oldest glass in the window.
Additional scenes in the corners around the rose window include Jesus's Descent into Hell, Adam and Eve, the Resurrection of Christ. Saint Peter and Saint Paul are at the bottom of the window, and Mary Magdalene and John the Apostle at the top.
Above the rose was a window depicting Christ triumphant seated in the sky, surrounded by his Apostles. Below are sixteen windows with painted images of Prophets. These were painted during the restoration in the 19th century by Alfred Gérenthe, under the direction of Eugène Viollet-le-Duc, based upon a similar window at Chartres Cathedral.
The south rose had a difficult history. In 1543 it was damaged by the settling of the masonry walls, and not restored until 1725–1727. It was seriously damaged in the French Revolution of 1830. Rioters burned the residence of the archbishop, next to the cathedral, and many of the panes were destroyed. The window was rebuilt by Viollet-le-Duc in 1861 who rotated it by fifteen degrees to give it a clear vertical and horizontal axis, and replaced the destroyed pieces of glass with new glass in the same style. The window now contains both medieval and 19th-century glass.
In the 1960s, after three decades of debate, it was decided to replace many of the 19th-century grisaille windows in the nave designed by Viollet-le-Duc with new windows. The new windows, made by Jacques Le Chevallier, are without human figures and use abstract designs and colour to try to recreate the luminosity of the cathedral's interior in the 13th century.
The fire left the three great medieval rose windows mostly intact, but with some damage. The rector of the cathedral noted that one rose window would have to be dismantled, as it was unstable and at risk. Most of the other damaged windows were of much less historical value.
In early 2024 Macron proposed removing six of the seven undamaged 19th-century stained glass windows created by Eugene Viollet-le-Duc in the chapels along the south aisle of the nave, and replacing them with new windows with more contemporary designs. He invited contemporary artists to submit designs for the new windows. This proposal inspired a backlash in the press, and 140,000 people signed a petition to keep the old windows. The plan for contemporary windows was rejected by the French Commission on Architectural Monuments and Patrimony in July 2024.
among the flowers, there are always snakes..details @ thefallenpath.wordpress.com/2018/08/23/with-this-ring/
Among this avatars favorite flowers, now available in-world or on the markeplace
a fly among rain drops on a nasturtium leaf.
I think he may be a long legged fly - Dolichopodidae but conscious that I am so often wrong about these things.
The Jesus And Mary Chain - About You
I stopped by Wright-Locke Farm today to take photos in the sunny flower fields, and was happy to find this eastern tiger swallowtail fluttering about.
I took this a few years ago in New Orleans. The bird was actually behind the angel's head so I moved it closer to her hand.The texture is one that I made myself. Thanks for taking a look. I appreciate all comments. For what it's worth the texture was made in 2012, the photo was taken in 2015. I don't why, but it bugs me when the computer makes mistakes!!
Photographed along Dodd Road, Walla Walla County, Washington. This is one of at least 5 eagles adjacent to the stock yard. Several flew up the ground from time to time so there were probably more siting among the cattle. IMG_2254
This Song Sparrow came down from its favorite song perch and posed nicely for me. Seen at the Los Angeles County Arboretum.
Frozen landscape under the full moon, arctic Norway.
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I redo of an image of Mono Lake. Taken a few years ago from an Eastern Sierra Trip with Mimi. Explored!
Wideroe 8326 from Trondheim, i read on a Norwegian Facebook page that Wideroe flies charters for Kværner (which is a Norwegian oil company) to Stord, Gdansk, Krakow, Stockholm, Dublin, Newcastle and Aberdeen, among others.
This shy little butterfly among wildflowers on the forest floor. Fortunately, it stayed on this flower just long enough for me to get a shot with the camera nearly on the ground. The photo was taken in the Malheur National Forest in Oregon.
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