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Opossum_L'Arte di Sorprendere
"Se ci fosse un Oscar per gli animali, il ruolo di miglior attore protagonista verrebbe assegnato senza dubbio all'Opossum. la sua caratteristica più importante e decisamente esclusiva è la capacità di fingersi morto quando viene attaccato e non desidera combattere, o sente di non avere altre scelte. ... La loro medicina è l'arte di sorprendere. L'Opossum ci esorta infatti a non rinunciare a risorse inutilizzate, e a risparmiare le forze evitando combattimenti inutili, focalizzandole invece con intelligenza in ciò che è davvero importante."
Opossum_The Art of Surprise
"If there were an Oscar for animals, the role of best leading actor would undoubtedly be awarded to the Opossum. Its most important and decidedly exclusive characteristic is the ability to pretend to be dead when attacked and does not want to fight, or feels it cannot have other choices. ... Their medicine is the art of surprising. The Opossum in fact urges us not to give up unused resources, and to save our strength by avoiding useless fights, instead focusing them intelligently on what is really important."
I testi citati sono di Federica Zizzari, tratti da "Animali Guida" ed. Vivida. The texts cited are by Federica Zizzari, taken from "Animali Guida" ed. Vivida.
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Social security should look after handicapped people to avoid this untoward situation whereby they are forced to busk for people controlling them.
Yuen Long, Hong Kong (Saturday, 5 Nov 2016)
90019 'Multimodal' leads 3 class 325 EMUs past Lower Hatton while working 1s96, the 1605 Willesden (London) to Shieldmuir (Glasgow).
During the summer of 2019 mail trains were diverted from the west coast route to avoid engineering work at Acton Grange Junction. Although the diversionary route via Manchester's Castlefield corridor and the Chat Moss line was electrified, paperwork issues prevented the mail units from operating under their own power, requiring them to be dragged by class 90 locomotives.
Mail trains operated on the west coast route from its opening. As has been well documented, dedicated mail trains in the UK ceased in September 2024.
Photograph taken using a camera mounted pole.
Beim Haus Martfeld am östlichen Stadtrand von Schwelm handelt es sich um ein ehemaliges Rittergut, das aus einer Wasserburg hervorgegangen ist. Der Charakter einer Wasserburg lässt sich heute noch an dem Wassergraben erkennen, der die Schloss ähnliche Burg an drei Seiten umschliest. Auf der Wiese sind noch gefrorene Schneereste zu erkennen, die dem Betrachter deutlich machen, dass das Foto an einem kalten Wintertag aufgenommen wurde. Das diffuse kühle Sonnenlicht spiegelt sich in den etwas blassen Farben des Fotos wieder. Auf eine Farbintensivierung habe ich bei der Entwicklung des Fotos in LrC bewusst verzichtet.
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The Martfeld house on the eastern outskirts of Schwelm is a former manor that emerged from a moated castle. The character of a moated castle can still be recognized today by the moat that surrounds the castle-like castle on three sides. Remains of frozen snow can still be seen on the meadow, making it clear to the viewer that the photo was taken on a cold winter day. The diffuse, cool sunlight is reflected in the somewhat pale colors of the photo. I consciously avoided color intensification when developing the photo in LrC.
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A bit of spider web on this leaf - pretty common this time of year when spiders are holing up and leaving webs to overwinter lower down.
When browsing galleries of rail enthusiasts from other countries who visit Poland for the purpose of taking pictures, I often am amazed by the sometimes obsucre choices of places they visit. i often wonder where they found out about them, as some are very rarely frequented by even Poles.
There is one exception though. The harbour areas of Poland seem very attractive and can certainly stand up to the standard of the industrial railways of Silesia, yet, despite this, I think I have yet to have seen any foreign railfans take pictures here, despite them being in direct proximity of other places frequently visited. The Ostbahn brings in Dutch fans of the Wadlopers, the line to Hel attracts Czechs, but Gdańsk and Gdynia? Not a single soul.
One of the areas with the largest amounts of traffic is the transloading facilty in the Gdańsk harbour. It owns a fleet of 4 equally painted SM42s. Their resemblance to the paint scheme of Tabor Dębica is not a coincidence - all of them were repaired there. On this picture all of them are visible. SM42-2240 returns to the depot after finishing its shift, while SM42-2256 prepares to start work instead of it. To the far left of the frame is SM42-2279 and in the shadowy depot sleeps SM42-2304. It also seems like since our last visit, the track layout has been revised and the very unique Bäseler-type switches have been removed.
Photo by Piotrek/Toprus
Trentemoult est un ancien village de pêcheurs en face de Nantes qui a été investi par une nouvelle population qui lui a redonné des couleurs.
Trentemoult n'est plus une commune, elle fait partie de Rezé et le meilleur moyen d'y aller (si l'on veut éviter de passer dans une banlieue un peu triste) c'est de prendre la navette en gare maritime de Nantes et on s'y retrouve en 5 mn.
Trentemoult is a former fishing village opposite Nantes which has been taken over by a new population which has given it back its colors.
Trentemoult is no longer a town, it is part of Rezé and the best way to get there (if you want to avoid going through a somewhat sad suburb) is to take the shuttle bus to the Nantes ferry terminal and we find ourselves there in 5 minutes.
SO,if you pay attention,you can learn all kinds of trivia.After 25 years in kitchens,I have heard vast numbers of food related tidbits.*To avoid the noxious fumes while chopping onions,burn a candle on your work space*.Just a bad idea in my book,not to mention the fact that it DOESN"T work.Ski goggles have served me well,whilst defending my orbs.Seriously.However,here's one that is not only true,but kinda cool,as well.Did you know that for every kernel of corn on any given cob,there is an equal number of silk strands?Like a wick for water.Cool right?
Those areas of Pakistan which do have problems with internal militancy are fairly simple to avoid. Imagine that Pakistan is almost 4 times bigger than UK and there are more than many tourist destinations in the country which are breathtakingly beautiful and the people are hospitable as well.
I've been meaning to take a shot of this building for years and finally got round to it. It's a shame about the telephone wire intruding in the shot, but there was no way to avoid it, and editing it out was too tricky due to the texture and colouring of the sky.
La estación de ferrocarril de Delicias. / The Delicias railway station.
♫ Keaton Henson - 10 AM, Gare Du Nord (Subtitulado en castellano)♫
Cuando alguien desaparece de tu vida, puedes olvidarla para evitar el dolor, pero sí lo haces también perderás los buenos recuerdos.
La estación de ferrocarril de Delicias está ubicada en el barrio de Delicias, del distrito de Arganzuela, Madrid. Inaugurada en 1880, fue la primera estación monumental construida en la ciudad.
When someone disappears from your life, you can forget it to avoid pain, but if you do, you will also lose good memories.
The Delicias railway station is located in the neighborhood of Delicias, in the district of Arganzuela, Madrid. Inaugurated in 1880, it was the first monumental station built in the city.
The hilltop on Bear Paw Battlefield in northern Montana where Chief Looking Glass was killed at the conclusion of the Nez Perce War of 1877.
The tribe's grueling 1,200-mile running fight through Idaho, Wyoming and Montana ended on these hills, only 40 miles from their goal: political sanctuary across the Canadian border and safety from the U.S. Armies that had been battling them for four months.
The tribe was led by a shifting coalition of five chiefs. Chief Joseph is the best-known leader, but he was largely a politician, while Looking Glass was the senior warrior chief.
Looking Glass had done everything he could to avoid becoming embroiled in the war. “I fight when I cannot avoid it, but not otherwise”. At the war’s start, Looking Glass had been appalled by the massacre of about 20 settlers by a handful of young warriors, who were outraged by the broken treaties and the unpunished murder of their father by a settler.
But General O.O. Howard, influenced by false rumors that Looking Glass was about to join the conflict, ordered the chief and his band arrested. An undisciplined volunteer civilian fired a shot, and the soldiers attacked and destroyed Looking Glass' village, which had been flying a white flag. The chief felt he had no choice but to join the fighting bands.
Looking Glass convinced the other bands to flee from Idaho to join his friends the Crows in Montana, believing that the Nez Perce would be leaving their troubles behind them in Idaho.
Travelling through western Montana, Looking Glass ordered warriors to not harm or steal from Whites. When a few rogue warriors ransacked a ranch, an enraged Looking Glass forced the warriors to give their horses to the rancher as compensation.
Looking Glass temporarily lost his influence after the bands were surprised and attacked at the Big Hole Battle in western Montana by a second U.S. army that had been, unknown to the Nez Perce, pursuing the caravan. During the battle, Looking Glass yelled at the young warriors who had massacred settlers at the beginning of the war, “This is battle! These men are not asleep as were those you murdered in Idaho! Now is the time to show your courage and fight!”
At Big Hole, many of the best Nez Perce warriors were killed and many women, children and elders were slaughtered by soldiers. Almost every Nez Perce family lost a relative in the battle and the caravan’s escape route was lined with graves.
At the Battle of Canyon Creek in central Montana, the Nez Perce defeated yet another pursuing army, but the Nez Perce were shocked to see Crow warriors fighting alongside the U.S. soldiers, so the caravan trudged north to seek sanctuary in Canada with Sitting Bull and The Sioux.
As the Nez Perce made haste through northern Montana and neared Canada, so close finally to freedom, Looking Glass balked at the grueling routine of the marches endured by the remaining women, children and elders. He took back command and set a more leisurely pace, unaware that yet another army, this one under the talented and ambitious Colonel Nelson Miles, was force marching 300 miles to intercept them.
Miles surprised the Nez Perce in these hills with a fierce cavalry charge, which the tribes repulsed. The 520 Soldiers succeeded in surrounding the 200 warriors who fought from rifle pits on these hilltops while 500 women, children and elders suffered in the wintery October weather in a ravine about 100 yards to the right of this photo, where they also endured artillery shelling.
At the beginning of the following five day siege, Looking Glass had sent a messenger through the siege lines to Sitting Bull across the Canadian border asking him for help breaking the siege and to lead the Nez Perce to Sitting Bull's camp in Canada. While Looking Glass fought prone in a rifle pit on this hill, a warrior shouted that a rider approached from the North. Looking Glass, thinking the rider was a messenger from Sitting Bull, stood up to look and was instantly killed by a sniper bullet to the head.
No help arrived and after five days the Nez Perce surrendered to Miles.
This composite is made with the only known photo of Chief Looking Glass.
Sources: Wikipedia; Nez Perce Summer, Jerome Greene; Children of Grace, Bruce Hampton; Yellow Wolf: His Own Story, M.C. McWhorter; Following the Nez Perce Trail, Cheryl Wilfong.
There is no correct view, either portrait or landscape is fine. The temple is circular...
Light conditions were horrible at that moment. Late and scarce afternoon light from atop, huge crowds to avoid, no tripod . . . and the exposure(s) had to be bracketed so as to get some light in the dark areas through the HDR process.... This lot produced somehow poor colors, but still the magnitude and size of the Temple can be realized (I hope!)
A repositioning train swings a left turn at Barstow to access the Mojave Sub from the Cajon Subdivision. Although no regularly scheduled intermodals run this way, repo moves between the LA Basin and the Bay Area (and vice versa) are pretty common.
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I'm very fond of the Dunnocks in our garden. They seem to avoid our seed feeders but instead skulk around in the hedges and bushes.
Last year, we made a small wood pile from logs and branches to encourage insects - since then the Dunnocks and occasionally a Wren, can be seen showing quite an interest.
From RSPB:
www.rspb.org.uk/birds-and-wildlife/wildlife-guides/bird-a...
The dunnock is a small brown and grey bird. Quiet and unobtrusive, it is often seen on its own, creeping along the edge of a flower bed or near to a bush, moving with a rather nervous, shuffling gait, often flicking its wings as it goes. When two rival males come together they become animated with lots of wing-flicking and loud calling.
60 or so photographers converged on Mona Vale for the Focus group annual Christmas Shoot and Brekkie...... fantastic morning as always....
Freightliner Class 66/6 No. 66601 The Hope Valley runs along the Westbury avoiding line towards Fairwood Junction with 6C31, the 10:08 Theale – Whatley Quarry empty aggregate working on 24th September 2021.
In general I try to avoid this upwards angle shots but I like how the cable divides the image and the background worked nicely. Cheers everyone.
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Barn Swallow (Hirundo Rustica)
Andorinha das Chaminés (Hirundo Rustica)
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Going early to this enormous Wegman's store is advisable, otherwise it is super crowded.
#DoodlewashOctober2025 prompt: Broom.
#Inktober prompt: Sweep.
The modern witch is well-attired to avoid the chill as they sweep through the air on their brooms!
Did you know the first known person to confess to riding a broom, when convicted of witchcraft was a French priest named Guillaume Edelin? He confessed to both under torture and was imprisoned for life.
Hand drawn with Sharpie pens and painted with Da Vinci Sketching Stuff Watercolor on Arches Cold Press.
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Thousands of these little blue jelly fish were stranded along the shore near the Battery Point lighthouse in Crescent city, CA. They are a striking bright blue and have quite an interesting structure.
They live on the surface of he ocean and move via wind against the little sail. I have seen them stranded a few times in California. But I never saw them in all my many years wandering the Atlantic coast beaches.
Here is the text from Wikipedia:
Velella is a cosmopolitan genus of free-floating hydrozoans that live on the surface of the open ocean. There is only one known species, Velella velella, in the genus.[1] Velella velella is commonly known by the names sea raft, by-the-wind sailor, purple sail, little sail, or simply Velella.[2]
These small cnidarians are part of a specialised ocean surface community that includes the better-known cnidarian siphonophore, the Portuguese man o' war. Specialized predatory gastropod mollusks prey on these cnidarians. Such predators include nudibranchs (sea slugs) in the genus Glaucus[3] and purple snails in the genus Janthina.[4]
Each apparent individual Velella velella is in fact a hydroid colony, and most are less than about 7 cm long. They are usually deep blue in colour, but their most obvious feature is a small stiff sail that catches the wind and propels them over the surface of the sea. Under certain wind conditions, they may be stranded by the thousand on beaches.
Like other Cnidaria, Velella velella are carnivorous. They catch their prey, generally plankton, by means of tentacles that hang down in the water and bear cnidocysts (also called nematocysts). Though the toxins in their nematocysts are effective against their prey, V. velella is essentially harmless to humans. While cnidarians all possess nematocysts, in some species the nematocysts and toxins therein are more powerful than other species. V. velella has nematocysts that are relatively benign to humans, although each person may respond differently to contact with the nematocyst toxin. It is wise to avoid touching one's face or eyes after handling V. velella, and itching may develop on parts of the skin that have been exposed to V. velella nematocysts.
On 24th Febraury 1981, deposed from main line passenger work, 45022 (formely D60) heads an empty MGR past Elsecar Junction, taking a route that avoids the yard. It is probably from the exchange sidings at Cudworth to be re-filled at one of the local mines.
Part of the fishpl8 Collection, photographer John Vaughan.
The small tortoiseshell (Aglais urticae) hibernate through winter as an adult butterfly and this shot shows two of the adaptations evolution has bestowed upon them.
First, the colour scheme on the ventral side is quite discreet and unlike the orange uppper side it is designed to blend in with tree bark and such to avoid detection when they hibernate.
Secondly, that wavy edge of the wings look like that because it leads away condensation better than a straight edge would.
Sarasota is a city in Sarasota County on the southwestern coast of the U.S. state of Florida. The area is renowned for its cultural and environmental amenities, beaches, resorts, and the Sarasota School of Architecture. The city is at the southern end of the Tampa Bay Area, north of Fort Myers and Punta Gorda. Its official limits include Sarasota Bay and several barrier islands between the bay and the Gulf of Mexico. According to the U.S. Census Bureau, in 2019 Sarasota had a population of 58,285. In 1986 it became designated as a certified local government. Sarasota is the principal city of the Sarasota metropolitan area and is the seat of Sarasota County. Long the winter headquarters of the Ringling Brothers Circus, many landmarks in Sarasota are named for the Ringlings.
The Sarasota city limits contain several keys, including Lido Key, St. Armands Key, Otter Key, Casey Key, Coon Key, Bird Key, and portions of Siesta Key. Longboat Key is the largest key separating the bay from the gulf, but it was evenly divided by the new county line of 1921. The portion of the key that parallels the Sarasota city boundary that extends to that new county line along the bayfront of the mainland was removed from the city boundaries at the request of John Ringling in the mid-1920s, who sought to avoid city taxation of his planned developments at the southern tip of the key. Although they never were completed in the quickly faltering economy, those development concessions granted by the city never were reversed and the county has retained regulation of those lands.
The city limits had expanded significantly with the real estate rush of the early twentieth century, reaching almost 70 square miles (180 km2). The wild speculation boom began to crash in 1926 and following that, the city limits began to contract, shrinking to less than a quarter of that area.
The area is known today as Sarasota first appeared on a sheepskin Spanish map from 1763 with the word Zarazote over present-day Sarasota and Bradenton. From 1883 to 1885, The Florida Mortgage And Investment Company Of Edinburgh bought 60,000 acres for development in what is now the City of Sarasota. Many Scottish people began to arrive in Sarasota in December 1885. The municipal government of Sarasota was established when it was incorporated as a town in 1902. John Gillespie was the first Mayor.
Italian architecture and culture are quite strong in the area because of the Ringling Museum. An unusually large number of homes and buildings are designed in the Italian style, especially Venetian as influenced by Ringling's Cà d'Zan. Italian-inspired statues are also common and Michelangelo's David is used as the symbol of Sarasota.
Credit for the data above is given to the following website:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarasota,_Florida
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