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I was walking by a park today and stopped as i sensed an amazing perfume in the air.
I looked and seen this lilac and the perfume was coming from here.
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Thank you Ivania~ for adding your magic and creativity to my SP. You have amazing talent girlfriend! LUV YA! The green makes my eyes pop!
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1. The African elephant has two finger-like tips at the end of it's trunk that it uses to clasp smaller objects. The trunk is so delicate it is at times used to wipe or clean their eyes. On the other hand, the trunk is an extremely powerful tool that can pull out trees and lift up to 350 kg (770 lb).
2. Elephants are the only animals that can snorkel without aid. By holding the tips of their trunks above the water's surface, elephants can traverse rivers totally submerged. They simply walk across the riverbed.
3. Elephant Trunks actually have "fingers." African elephants have two. That's why they are able to grasp objects by pinching the opposing tips of the trunk.
4. The elephant's trunk contains over 40,000 muscles, divided into as many as 150,000 individual units! Compare that to the human body, which contains a paltry 639 muscles, and you start to get an idea how intricate the appendage is.
5. Thanks to its trunk, an elephant sports a sense of smell up to four times as sensitive as a bloodhound's. It's been reported that an elephant can smell water several miles away! Key to this ability are millions of receptor cells housed in the animal's upper nasal cavity.
6. Humans have a body part similar to a trunk, and that's the tongue. (The nose, of course, is also analogous.) Both the tongue and the trunk are muscular hydrostats -- body parts composed almost exclusively of muscle tissue that utilize water pressure to move. These body parts have muscles oriented in many varied directions, which grant acrobatic manoeuvrability.
7. Elephant trunks are stunted at birth, then rapidly elongate over the course of a few days. Calves (elephant babies) aren't at all adept at using these complex appendages at first, so they often tread on their own trunks. Luckily for human children, they don't have to worry about tripping over their noses, only their feet.
This sub-adult Elephant was having some trouble with feeding itself and got its trunk in a twist. Photographed on a game drive Samburu Game Reserve, Kenya.
Yesterday it was nearly 80 degrees F here...in March! The Hellebores never seem to mind the weather which is a good thing.
Chaitya halls at Ajanta Caves with an amazing carving the make the roof look like a wooden structure !!
Feb-2018.
An awesome place for dog sledding and hunting for the Northern Lights.
After dogsled driving we gathered in the lavvo with coffee and hot chocolate. In the background one can see the Big Dipper.
We would like to thank Tromsø Villmarkssenter for an outstanding and unforgettable experience with stunning Norwegian scenery and great service.
I don't usually care for graffiti but this is amazing. Someone spent a lot of time on this and it turned out really well. Caught it rolling through Walker Yard on CN 846. They ended up dumping their cars into the Alberta Terminals so it might still be around for a few days.
Silver Falls.......
Located in Columbia Plateau, North American Temperate Rainforest....
White rushing water pounding on black Basalt rock (formed 10 to 15 million years ago)....
Oregon, USA
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The main building of the Academy of Athens is simply captivating. Perhaps since it is relatively modern, it is not a very busy attraction. Then again, there is not much to do if you are not a fan of architecture
This is the petrified bark of a tree trunk. Looks extremely natural though it is more than 200 million years old. Seen in Petrified Forest National Park, Arizona.
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I spotted this amazing looking flower called Fiddleneck beside a field of White Mustard when the stand out shape and colours caught my eye, I wanted to shoot it there and then but it was just too windy , so I picked it and brought it home where it stands in water waiting for Jane to try to cultivate it. Since I took this image it has totally changed, got bigger and sprouted another two heads so expect an update on it soon.
May the fourth be with you.
Last week, Ken & I headed to Meridianville, AL, to drop of two of our rugs to have them cleaned. The place is near Huntsville Executive Airport, and when we drove up, we heard something BIG cranking up! People at a nearby business had all come out to watch. Finally we could see that there were not ONE, but THREE Bell Boeing V-22 Ospreys there at the airport on the runway! These monster aircrafts are designed to combine the functionality of a conventional helicopter with the long-range, high-speed cruise performance of a turboprop aircraft. This helicopter can take off and land vertically. The U.S. Air Force fielded their version of the tiltrotor , CV-22B, in 2009. They each have 2 Rolls Royce engines. As of 2020, there have been only 400 of these helicopters build.
It was pretty awesome to see out there on the airport!
Here’s another crazy place in Singapore that I totally didn’t expect. The outside was amazing enough, but then I decided to go inside. Amazing! And you can probably see all those little paths up there… you can just wander around and see this incredible indoor rainforest.
- Trey Ratcliff
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