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Am off-line during the stormy weather in the Pacific Northwest.
Thanks for stopping by, will catch up when the power failures etc are over. Fortunately, the weather hasn't been anywhere near as bad for us as predicted :-)
PS - The storm has passed :-)
I can only hope that the next time the same conditions arise, it will bring sunshine and joy !!!
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I've never managed to photograph a dragonfly here, or anywhere for that matter ! I have seen plenty but never managed it. This is a lake in Plantsbrook Local Nature Reserve, where the lilies grow and the herons concentrate and the gulls scream and then gather on a pontoon. Moorhens, coots, ducks, geese - no albatrosses unfortunately 😄. Such a blessing to live so close to this beautiful place. It can get very muddy, so it's usually devoid of people - ideal for wildlife. There are many areas of open water, wetland, woodland and meadow. Lots of dragonflies too, if you can catch them on camera !
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"Sometimes I close my eyes
And dream I'm somewhere else
Anywhere away from here
Anywhere away from here
Anywhere away from here
We sold our souls and
We lost control with
More doubt than hope
Glass half empty
And discontented
From growing old
Through all the failed attempts at trying to belong
I overthink the obvious when I'm alone
But when the lights go up
I don't think I told you
I don't think I told you
That I feel out of place
So pull me underground
Don't know if you notice
Sometimes I close my eyes
And dream of somewhere else
Anywhere away from here
Anywhere away from here
Anywhere away from here
Oh, when I close my eyes
Oh, when I close my eyes
I wish I could disappear
When the lights go up
I don't think I told you
I don't think I told you
That I feel out of place
Pull me underground
Don't know if you notice
Sometimes I close my eyes
And dream of somewhere else
Anywhere away from here
Anywhere away from here
Anywhere away from here"
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Napping on top of the stairs. Phone shot by Lene.
Bastian (mixed breed), 29.09.2022
Samsung SM-G930F Phone Camera
I know we've got to get away
Someplace where no one knows our name
We'll find the start to something new ♫♪
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Wild and running
Fearlessness is
Burning bright
We knew nothing
'Cause out of sight is
Out of mind
Before we ever learnt the fear of being bold
Before we ever were afraid of the unknown
When the lights go up
I don't think I told you
I don't think I told you
That I feel out of place
Pull me underground
Don't know if you notice
Sometimes I close my eyes
And dream I'm somewhere else
Anywhere away from here
Anywhere away from here
Anywhere away from here
We sold our souls and
We lost control with
More doubt than hope
Glass half empty
And discontented
From growing old
Through all the failed attempts at trying to belong
I overthink the obvious when I'm alone
This is now one of my favorite birds - I love yellows and the birds look fabulous and beautiful. They are small social birds found in large flocks of 10-15 whenever we sight them. They are widely distributed in the Himalayan region and easily found in bushy areas.
The birds are quite vary of the larger Magpies, Thrushes and of course the treepies. So they immediately scoot whenever those larger birds appear anywhere near them. The Magpies - very large birds and extremely aggressive - are very beautiful - but they are total spoilsports!
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Ah the goldrims, when raising these beauties you never know how long you might have them in protective custody. My past experience with them has been that they take their time eating, they are very messy and they will emerge on their own time.
I have had them eclose (hatch) anywhere between fourteen days to ten months after pupation. When they stick around they take up a lot of space. Therefore, I chose not to raise any last season. Instead, I ended up releasing the hold over's from the season before.
Reluctantly, this season I have decided to give them a boost. So, I brought in several clusters of eggs when I saw them on the vine. The eggs have hatched and the caterpillars are munching away in protective custody. Now, if they will only eclose within a couple of weeks instead of several months, I shall be a happy gardener.
Have a terrific Thursday and happy snapping.
Found attached to the slate wall of Owego, NY's Riverwalk, this object is of uncertain utility. But at some point, someone must have thought it appropriate to lock it down!
Bedgebury National Pinetum at Bedgebury, Kent, in the United Kingdom, is a recreational and conservational arboretum and, with the National Arboretum at Westonbirt, comprises the UK National Arboreta. It was established as the National Conifer Collection in 1925 and is now recognised as the most complete collection of conifers on one site anywhere in the world. The collection has over 10,000 trees growing across 320 acres (1.3 km2), including rare, endangered and historically important specimens. Bedgebury National Pinetum conducts conservation work and is home to some 56 vulnerable or critically endangered species and houses five NCCPG National Plant Collections.
Bedgebury is first mentioned in an Anglo-Saxon charter in AD 841, the name deriving from the Old English bycgan, meaning "buy", and the Kentish vecge, meaning "to bend or turn", possibly in reference to a stream.
John de Bedgebury is listed as the earliest resident of Bedgebury, in the time of Edward II. In the 15th century Agnes de Bedgebury, sister and heir of John (died 1424) married John Colepeper, whose Colepeper heirs, financed by mining clay-ironstone on the estate, were resident until at the time of the restoration of Charles II, and who created an ornamental park on the Bedgebury estate. Elizabeth I visited in August 1573.
The current house was built in 1688 for Sir James Hayes, a little apart from the old house. The estate later passed to the Stephenson family, who retained it until it was left to a Miss Peach, who sold it in 1789 to John Cartier, Governor of Bengal and High Sheriff of Kent, who improved the plantings and the house.
In the 1840s Viscount William Beresford developed the estate by creating the village of Kilndown and three lodges, one of which – Keepers Lodge, now known as Park House – became the centre of the Pinetum. Beresford initiated the pinetum in the 1850s and his successor, his stepson Alexander Beresford Hope, developed Lady Mildred's Drive to enable visitors in carriages to view the trees. The estate was sold in 1899 to Isaac Lewis, who allowed the collection to fall into neglect, and it was purchased by the Crown Estate in 1918 for its marshy land and drier ridges, as well as its streams, lakes and valleys. In 1919, the house was bought by the Church Education Corporation to operate as a school. The school closed in 2006.
The Royal Botanic Gardens at Kew and the Forestry Commission established the site as The National Pinetum in a joint venture in 1924, as the National Conifer Collection, because air pollution was rendering London unsuitable for growing conifers. A site at the southern end of Bedgebury Park was chosen, centred on Marshall's Lake and a stream-filled valley.
The first plants for the pinetum were raised at Kew Gardens in 1921 and transferred to Bedgebury in 1925 and 1926, alongside Viscount Beresford's existing plantings. Development of the collection was managed by the Kew botanist William Dallimore, a world-renowned expert on conifers.
In 1969 management of the pinetum reverted solely to the Forestry Commission, who extended it in 1977 and created two new lakes. In the Great Storm of 1987 almost a quarter of the trees were brought down. The aim of Bedgebury National Pinetum is "to grow as many species of conifers as the climatic conditions will allow, planted in generic groupings, using geographically associated plantings where possible." (W. Dallimore, 1923)
The pinetum holds 10,000 specimens of conifers and other species that grow in temperate zones, including 7,000 trees, as living gene banks and as a genetic resource for future restoration programmes. It holds 2,300 different species of conifer, specimens of which include the tallest tree in Kent (Abies grandis) and the three tallest Leyland Cypresses in the UK. The plan is for the pinetum to provide a mix of 70% conifers to 30% broadleaves, and to leave 40% of the site open to provide vistas and allow the trees to be appreciated.
Bedgebury National Pinetum is home to six NCCPG National Plant Collections: Yew, Juniper, Thuja, Lawson's Cypress, Leyland Cypress and Cryptomeria japonica. The collection contains 56 species that have been officially declared vulnerable or critically endangered. The scale and quality of Bedgebury National Pinetum's conifer collection have made it an ideal site to take part in the International Conifer Conservation Programme (ICCP), run by the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh. The ICCP aims to promote the conservation of conifers through conservation work, research and education, and work carried out at Bedgebury makes up part of the effort to conserve the genetic diversity of conifers, particularly those from temperate forests.
The Bedgebury Conifer Conservation Project, initiated in 2007, is designed to use redundant forest plots to grow large numbers – up to 500 – of endangered conifers to provide an ex-situ genetic resource. The first plots were planted with Chilean plum yew by Boy Scouts celebrating their centenary in 2007, and future plantings will include samples from Europe, Asia, North America and Australasia.
Bedgebury nursery was the first to germinate Vietnamese golden cypress (Xanthocyparis vietnamensis) and chichibu birch (Betula chichibuensis) seeds in cultivation.
For further information please visit en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bedgebury_National_Pinetum and www.forestryengland.uk/bedgebury
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мy мυѕιc "Rag’n’Bone Man & Pink – Anywhere Away From Here"
"We sold our souls and
We lost control with
More doubt than hope
Glass half empty
And discontented
From growing old
Through all the failed attempts at trying to belong
I overthink the obvious when I'm alone
But when the lights go up
I don't think I told you
I don't think I told you
That I feel out of place
So pull me underground
Don't know if you notice
Sometimes I close my eyes
And dream of somewhere else"
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I wanted to try something with movement and a complicated pose to challenge myself 😜 Well let met tell you it was indeed challenging and complicated but in a very good way ✨
"I don't really know the plan
I'm just going with it, man
Is that okay to say?
And if this feels alright then
Take my hand, let's go again
Hold me
'Cause I wouldn't want to be anywhere else
No, I wouldn't want to be anywhere else "
Taken @ Route 21
Your ✈️ taxi is waiting for you !
🐥 And thanks to my special editor Adam for his help
Without him this pic would have stayed in the drafts for so long !
It seems that we're not getting anywhere soon and certainly not by Christmas time, so be content to listen to some of the songs from the internet :
www.youtube.com/watch?v=h_GYVKnt4mk
Japan in 8K
www.youtube.com/watch?v=zCLOJ9j1k2Y
First snow in Arashiyama, Kyoto ( 京都嵐山 初雪 )
www.youtube.com/watch?v=JVKdRv8n-jw
Ouchi-juku ( 大内宿 )
www.youtube.com/watch?v=pmK05hMN418
384 Traditional Colors from the Forbidden City ( In Chinese )
www.youtube.com/watch?v=amfPtsSxmsY
Eleonora Buratto - "Sì, mi chiamano Mimì" - La Bohème
www.youtube.com/watch?v=g31HlgfqrSk
Eva Urbanová - Song to the moon. Rusalka/Dvořák
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yytsw4eoQQs
ELINA GARANCA - Live 55th Vienna Opera Ball 2011
www.youtube.com/watch?v=q09qwdkfbew
Carmen
www.youtube.com/watch?v=K2snTkaD64U
Vienna Opera Ball 2016 ( Domingo & ? Garanca)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=JkZxqgbO-rc
RAINA KABAIVANSKA • VILJA (Roma, 1991)
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VISSI D'ARTE (Roma, 1990)
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Traviata
www.youtube.com/watch?v=vEmP6f0zyk8
Alexandrina Milcheva ( Bulgarian Mezzo )
www.youtube.com/watch?v=lNLywuNYCaE
Lauri Volpi A te o cara dai Puritani, 1933
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Stanislav Bunin 1995
www.youtube.com/watch?v=noWeGC9eh1U
1984
www.youtube.com/watch?v=dtRVZaqYP78&t=696s
Thierry de Brunhoff, Chopin's Nocturnes
The rail corridor is the space left behind by the railway line, about 24km, formerly ran by KTM, from the north (Woodlands) of Singapore to the south (Tanjong Pagar), after all the railway tracks and equipment were removed and returned to Malaysia. It is now transformed into a green corridor, a community space for all people to run, cycle or walk for fun. It is also a time to get closer to nature, breath some fresh air and relax the mind from the hustle and bustle of a modern lifestyle.
The joys of taking stubborn animals for walks on the beach. "Brown one", as she is affectionately known, digs her heels in and requires a gentle pull across the sand before relenting.
Just anywhere away with you
I know we've got to get away
Someplace where no one knows our name
We'll find the start of something new
Just take me anywhere, take me anywhere
Anywhere away with you
The Indian pangolin, thick-tailed pangolin, or scaly anteater (Manis crassicaudata) is a pangolin found on the Indian subcontinent. It is not common anywhere in its range. Like other pangolins, it has large, overlapping scales on its body which act as armour. It can also curl itself into a ball as self-defence against predators such as the tiger. The colour of its scales varies depending on the colour of the earth in its surroundings.
It is an insectivore, feeding on ants and termites, digging them out of mounds and logs using its long claws, which are as long as its fore limbs. It is nocturnal and rests in deep burrows during the day.
The Indian pangolin is threatened by hunting for its meat and for various body parts used in traditional medicine.
The Indian pangolin is a solitary, shy, slow-moving, nocturnal mammal. It is about 84–122 centimetres (33–48 in) long from head to tail, the tail usually being 33–47 cm long, and weighs 10–16 kg. Females are generally smaller than the males and have one pair of mammae. The pangolin possesses a cone-shaped head with small, dark eyes, and a long muzzle with a nose pad similar in color, or darker than, its pinkish-brown skin. It has powerful limbs, tipped with sharp, clawed digits. It is an almost exclusive insectivore and principally subsists on ants and termites, which it catches with a specially adapted long, sticky tongue.The pangolin has no teeth, but has strong stomach muscles to aid in digestion. The most noticeable characteristic of the pangolin is its massive, scaled armour, which covers its upper face and its whole body with the exception of the belly and the inside of the legs. These protective scales are rigid and made of keratin. It has 160–200 scales in total, about 40–46% of which are located on the tail. Scales can be 6.5–7 cm long, 8.5 cm wide, and weigh 7–10 grams. The skin and scales make up about one-fourth to one-third of the total body mass of this species.
The Indian pangolin has been recorded from various forest types, including Sri Lankan rainforest and plains to middle hill levels. The animal can be found in grasslands and secondary forests, and is well adapted to desert regions as it is believed to have a tolerance to dry areas, but prefers more barren, hilly regions. This pangolin species may also sometimes reach high elevations, and has been sighted in Sri Lanka at 1100 meters and in the Nilgiri mountains in India at 2300 meters. It prefers soft and semi-sandy soil conditions suitable for digging burrows.
Pangolin burrows fall into one of two categories: feeding and living burrows. Feeding burrows are smaller than living burrows (though their sizes vary depending on the abundance of prey) and are created more frequently during the spring, when there is a greater availability of prey. Living burrows are wider, deeper, and more circular, and are occupied for a longer time than feeding burrows, as they are mainly used to sleep and rest during the day. After a few months, the pangolin abandons the burrow and digs a new one close to a food source. However, it is not uncommon for the pangolin to shift back to an old burrow.
Unlike its African counterpart, the Indian pangolin does not climb trees, but it does value the presence of trees, herbs, and shrubs in its habitat because it is easier to dig burrows around them. Features that promote an abundance of ants and termites (grasses, bare grounds, bases of trees, shrubs, roots, leaf litter, fallen logs and elephant feces) are often present in pangolin habitats.
Few details are known about the breeding behaviour of the Indian pangolin. During the animal's mating period, females and males may share the same burrow and show some diurnal activities. Males have testes in a fold of the skin located in their groin areas. The female's embryo develops in one of the uterine horns. The gestation period lasts 65–70 days; the placenta is diffuse and not deciduate. Usually, a single young is born, but twins have been reported in this species. The young weigh 235–400 g at birth and measure roughly 30 cm. The newborn animals have open eyes, and soft scales with protruding hairs between them. The mother pangolin carries her young on her tail. When the mother and young are disturbed, the young pangolin is held against its mother's belly and protected by the mother's tail.