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FOTOS BAJO CONDICIONES CONTROLADAS DE ESPECIE EN MANOS Y LUEGO SOLTADA.
Reino:Animalia
Filo:Chordata
Clase:Mammalia
Orden:Soricomorpha
Familia:Solenodontidae
Género:Solenodon
Nombre común. Solenodonte de la Hispaniola, Almiquí de la Hispaniola,Almiquí paradójico.
STATUS. ENDEMICO, ALTAMENTE AMENAZADO Y HUBO EPOCA EN QUE SE CONSIDERO EXTINTO.
Especie:S. paradoxus
Nombre Ingles:Solenodon
Nombre binomial
Solenodon paradoxus
Brandt, 1833
Lugar de captura: Las Mercedes,Aceitillar,Pedernales, Sierra de Bahoruco ( foto nocturna)
Por: Cimarron mayor Panta
MI AMIGA NENÉ LA DE LOS ANIMALES INTENSOS Y JOJESARI EL MALCRIADO RAJA PUPILAS, SE MERECEN ESTE ANTIGUO TESORO. MUCHO CUIDADO!! NO ES UNA RATA NI UN ROEDOR,ES UN MAMIFERO PLACENTARIO ( UN MAMMALIDO) ENDEMICO DE NUESTRA ISLA Y AMENAZADO.
UNA DE LAS CRIATURAS MAS EXTRAÑAS DE LA TIERRA!!
Dejo este link ( VIDEO) de un gran trabajo de Marvin sobre el ultimo solenodonte!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=AD9e0lrojUQ
Esta criatura cumplió un luto cimarrónico de 5 años desde que logré mis primeras fotos nocturnas en Rabo de Gato, Puerto Escondido, Sierra encantada de Bahoruco.
Como no iba a guardarle luto a una de las criaturas más viejas del planeta?
No voy hablar mucho sobre este mammálido el cual no deben confundir con una rata o roedor( no me ofendan a nuestro mayor tesoro endémico de nuestra Isla).
Voy a contar algo que no está escrito en la literatura y que para mi es súper simpático y tiene que ver con mi amiga Nené Reguera amante de la buena locura y de Jojesari que nos aloca con sus hermosos paisajes.
Sobre esta criatura se han escrito volúmenes de páginas, pues en la vida lo que no conocemos es justamente de lo que más se escribe. Quiero ratificar aquí que solo de esta manera y ayudado por el único guía, la leyenda de la Sierra Nicolas Corona es posible lograr estas fotografías. Que nadie me venga con el cuento de que se fué de noche a perseguir Solenodontes con una cámara y un foco,los encontró, los vió, los alumbró y trajo magnificas fotos,pues eso no es verdad y vaya con esa mamíla a la boca de otro niño!
Pero quiero ratificar que mis fotos no representaron stress ni agresión a la especie, pues no fueron capturados con perros como llegó a ocurrir en el pasado,quitado de la boca del perro heridos, fotos y luego liberarlos para ver si podían caminar o sobrevivir!! Solo lo tuvimos 5 minutos con nosotros en su ambiente, su hábitat y bajo la oscuridad de la noche ( no soportan los rayos solares)
Soy altamente crítico de ese tipo de fotografías del pasado y cuando analicé esto que estoy contando, me dije a mi mismo….. Cimarrón mayor, tu morirás sin una fotografía de este tesoro endémico, pues bajo ese concepto no lo voy a fotografiar.
Al parecer para esa época no existía un Nicolas Corona o a lo mejor, el mismo Nicolás no se atrevía agarrar a una criatura venenosa y la cual tiene conductos o canales en sus colmillos por donde sale su veneno.
Pero esta criatura no necesita veneno para sus víctimas. Su vida es nocturna y come caracolillos inofensivos, lombrices y arácnidos los cuales busca ercarbando bajo la tierra con su poderoso hocico.
Así que no es nada fácil fotografiar una criatura que corre muchísimo como un duende del bosque seco de noche, chocando con los palos etc etc. Así que le pongan ese cascabel a otro gato.
Bueno, podrán leer muchísimo sobre esta especie, pero de todas las historias esta que ocurrió la noche de esta captura es para mi la mejor.
Cuenta la leyenda cimarrónica, que este sobreviviente a la guerra de los meteoritos hace ya más de 60 millones de años se volvió loco la noche que cayó el meteorito en Rusia( ese mismo día fueron estas fotos).
Nicolás Corona afirma y jura, que al caer ese meteorito en Rusia ellos lo percibieron y como son sobrevivientes milenarios, entonces se alocaron poniendose en alerta y salieron de sus madrigueras para que nosotros lográramos estas fotos como Dios manda.
Yo al ver aquella criatura de ojos pequeños frente a mi, la emoción que se siente no se puede describir. Esa noche recordé a mi amigo Tono Iñigo cuando dijo en aquella histórica ruta cimarronica……. Rafy, ven para que veas un animal prehistórico a Nicolas Corona esto no se le olvida.
Nicolas no solo agarró a uno corriendo a lo oscuro en el monte, agarró dos y nos dijo… vengan y toquenlo, ponganle las manos porque esto es historia, esto no solo es "el último solenodonte", esto es "la noche en que se alocaron" por el meteorito de Rusia.
Yo no iba a perder la oportunidad de tener 120 millones de años en mis manos y por eso muestro sin temor mi foto sosteniendo a dos solenodontes en mis manos ( pero estaba medio culebroso) no me fueran a morder los cascabeles, pues se me hubiera jodido la marrana como dice el gato.
Un gran abrazo para mi amiga Nené Reguera y Jojesari, merecedores de estas criaturas intensas, de estos locos bajitos como diría Serrat y estos duendes que aún sobreviven en nuestra tierra.
Hoy quiero dedicarle a Nené y Suso el malcriado dos grandes locos. El poeta Cubano Roberto Fernandez Retamar y Silvio ( Felices los Normales y Ala de Colibrí)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ETERYWjyomc
Feliz resto de fin de semana sin plumas amigos.
Cimarron mayor Panta.
If you thought the first pond was loaded with detritus in the recent shot, consider the pond in the heat of summer and warnings to avoid the blue-green algae on the media. Kind of like warnings of herd immunity when they really mean herd stupidity - just in time, Colorado State University finally finished their analysis of the IQ of cattle... This capture was lurking in my unedited directory for a while. No wading here for any reason - and they talk about regreening the world Sheesh! Regreening enough? A warning of the Don Corona infestation that was to come in 2020?
The streams in the Rockies are perfect for wading (and fly fishing) now that the heat has started boring into the valley. I was ready to jump in a stream a couple days ago but it's snowing in the Rockies today. Historic Longmonters bailed for mountain cabins for much of the early day summers. So much for my sitting inside uninsulted brick walls trying to make Windows - 10 work - to little avail. In my last 6 months, I have packed 2 1/2 years of work into trying to make Win 10 useful. Bupkis! I can learn Linux faster. Linux or walk away. I have a working backup of Windows 7 that MickySoft left unfinished like all of their OSes. It worked fairly well for years if you practiced annoyance and danger avoidance.
Is contacting this algae the same as getting Don Corona Trumpandemic? I stayed somewhat clean at least today except for an early masked trip to and escape from, the local Wally World infection center and an enormous disinfectant binge on return. The next two weeks should see the WH Trumpandemic really flower while Darwin hides in waiting especially for Floridians and Texicans. Careful, herd stupidity is even much more infectious than our current WH Swamp infections.
After a walk at Golden Ponds on that day, I am finally glad for today's neo-greening in the valley and an escape from worshipping the herd immunity dead and dying with this shot and a shooter of bleach. Ahhh, a day in the park... and lighting that really jumps from the frame. It beats any stay-at-home-day in the valley. And to think that Ethiopia in regreening the desert themselves without help from Agent Orange and set the one day tree-planting record at 350 million trees planted in 12 hours. Apparently there are countries with people taking back all their own rights and lives. Is it still possible in this country? Even with corporate Dems in the way of progress?
The best greening vid of future hope on the net:
'Kamen Rider'
I always consider myself lucky whenever i spot a longhorned beetle. So today is my lucky day :D This guy was drinking water while i shot him. That explains the water on its fangs. Can you spot the mites?
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Georgia Southern Botanical Garden now called the Garden of the Coastal Plain occupies the old farmstead of Daniel and Katherine Bland. I think this building was the smokehouse.
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When I was young, there was a bunch of trees behind my house. The area where I grew up didn't become more populated until I was about 14 or 15, and I spent the better part of my years between 9-12 running on this path I'm sitting on. I'm pretty sure to some degree, this path and the trees surrounding it is where a bit of my imagination developed. The neighbor kids and I would spend hours out back building forts with fallen branches. Some of my favorite memories as a kid were spent in the trees surrounding my street. Being young with no gauge for distance, the trees seemed to go on for miles. There was no limit to how far I could wander through them.
Until today I don't believe I have really spent time with myself in those woods like I did when I was 10. I was driving past them the other day and decided that today was a good day to take a walk through my old stomping grounds. Once I got a few yards down the path I immediately recognized some of the same trees that I used to hide behind or make teepees against. But it was bittersweet. The woods that seemed to go on for miles have shrunk and are now surrounded by new homes. I can now see the beginning and the end of both sides of the path, rather than having to basically swim through trees to find the end.
I'm disappointed for the future kids of my street. They will never know the happiness and awe of spending hours behind their houses and getting lost in nature. Of course they still can to some degree, but it isn't quite the same. But I am so grateful that I had those invaluable years and that this path is still here. It was so magical to me for so many years. I think I'll need to venture back in the spring.
I consider myself very fortunate to have had the opportunity to shoot the last great Alco show in the west. Back in May of 2012 I went on an epic week long tour of the west with three friends centered around chasing the 3751's journey to and from the Grand Canyon. But, of course, we railfanned much of the BNSF transcon and the Phoenix Sub as well. While in Holbrook we were extremely lucky to run into the once weekly "Blue Looper" coal train heading to the Cataylst Mill. The last of these trains would run four months later and the mill would be demolished and the coal hoppers scrapped. The railroad would be cast into bankruptcy and almost me the torch as well...but tenacity and a bit of a miracle has kept it alive albeit leaner serving one big farm that gets inbound feed and making money storing cars and operating a contract shop. Trains big enough to require six running Alcos, though are a thing of the past
But on this day all was right with the world as a brace of six 4-motor MLWs lug the heavy coal train around a sharp curve and out of the BNSF interchange yard.
Holbrook, Arizona
Thursday May 17, 2012
steampunk shibari - that should be a thing, right?
taken at New Victoria Township
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Tumba de Tu Duc
Tu Duc tuvo el reinado más largo de la Dinastía Nguyen, entre 1847 y 1883.
Se le considera el último Emperador de facto de Vietnam, en el sentido de que fue el último emperador que gobernó con independencia. Siguiendo con la tradición de sus antecesores, cerró Vietnam al resto del mundo impidiendo cualquier intento de modernización y forzando la expulsión de los extranjeros residentes en Vietnam, especialmente de la comunidad cristiana, que perseguía por considerarla una doctrina perversa. Esto le llevó a sufrir las iras de las principales potencias europeas y finalmente Francia intervino provocando la caída de Saigón en manos francesas. El avance de las tropas francesas hacia el Norte junto con las rebeliones internas a las que se veía sometido hicieron que Tu Duc capitulara y terminara firmando la concesión del Sur de Vietnam, Cochinchina, como colonia francesa y aceptara el estado de protectorado francés sobre Vietnam. Para muchos vietnamitas, Tu Duc traicionó a su pueblo vendiendo su país a Francia.
A pesar de los conflictos políticos, vivió siempre rodeado de lujo, encerrado la mayor parte del tiempo en su palacio de retiro personal, donde tuvo bajo su cuidado a 103 concubinas, aunque no consiguiera descendencia.
En 1864 inició la construcción de su majestuosa tumba, que rodeó con un muro octogonal de 1.5 km. Todos los edificios del recinto contenían la palabra Khiem, que significa "modestia".
Tras acceder por la Puerta de Vu Khiem se llega al lago Luu Khiem, que rodea la isla de Tinh Khiem, donde el emperador solía practicar la caza menor.
La tumba Imperial del Emperador Tu Duc (Tự Đức) es un complejo arquitectónico que abarca 12 hectáreas de superficie y en su interior podemos encontrar 50 construcciones entre palacios y pabellones. La tumba Imperial tardó en construirse 3 años (desde el año 1864 hasta 1867) y es la tumba imperial de Hue que mejor se fusiona con la naturaleza que la rodea.
El mismísimo emperador Tu Duc diseño la tumba Imperial, que una vez terminada, utilizó en vida durante años como palacio de verano y lugar de retiro. Eran frecuentes sus paseos por el bosque de pinos, verlo navegar por el rio o practicar alguna clase de juegos en la pequeña isla del lago.
Todo el complejo de la Tumba Imperial Tu Duc está rodeado por un muro de piedra. El acceso se realiza por el sureste, a través de la puerta Vu Khiem.
Una vez en el interior de la tumba imperial, podemos dividir el monumento en dos grandes zonas:
Esta es la parte más bella de la tumba Imperial Tu Duc, tenemos a la derecha el lago Luu Khiem, precioso lago cubierto de flores de loto con una pequeña isla en el centro.
A la izquierda tenemos diversas construcciones que abarcan desde palacios hasta mansiones, pasando por un harén. En la mansión On Khiem podemos ver utensilios imperiales de la época. De todos los palacios el palacio más destacado es el palacio Luong Khiem, donde el emperador pasaba gran parte de su tiempo, escribiendo poesía y meditando.
Tras estos palacios y pabellones, tenemos el pabellón de la estela, escrita por el emperador Tu Duc, que trata sobre su reinado y su frustración de no poder tener descendencia.
Junto al pabellón de la estela, tenemos la tumba del emperador Tu Duc, sin embargo su cuerpo no está ahí. Para evitar saqueos, el emperador Tu Duc fue enterrado en un lugar secreto por 200 trabajadores. Estas personas fueron decapitadas tras completar la tarea para que no pudieran revelaran el secreto. Como curiosidad diremos que a día de hoy, todavía no se han encontrado los restos de Tu Duc, aunque se cree que están enterrados en la pequeña isla del lago.
La parte destinada a la necrópolis dentro de la tumba Imperial Tu Duc se encuentra tras el lago, en ella podemos contemplar la tumba de la emperatriz Le Thien Anh y la tumba del sobrino e hijo adoptivo de Tu Duc, el Emperador Kien Phuc (Kien Phuc no tiene su propia tumba imperial ya que fue asesinado tras 8 meses de reinado).
El Emperador Tu Duc fue el emperador de la dinastía Nguyen que más tiempo reinó en Vietnam, desde el año 1848 hasta el año 1883.
A pesar de que entre mujeres y concubinas disfrutó de la compañía de más de 100, no tuvo descendencia (se cree que quedó estéril tras contraer la viruela). Tu Duc decidió adoptar como hijo propio a su sobrino Kien Phuc.
La estela que puede contemplarse en el pabellón del mismo nombre de la tumba Imperial Tu Duc, es la más grande de todo Vietnam, con 20 toneladas de peso. Para transportarla hasta la tumba imperial fueron necesarios 4 años.
Para construir la tumba Imperial fue necesario tal cantidad de trabajo y se subieron tanto los impuestos, que se produjo una revuelta popular en Hue contra el emperador Tu Duc.
(Información oficial editada en Vietnam)
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Se considerar algum tipo de forma no plural em vários fragmentos e essas formas se tornam um conjunto em preenchimento formando partículas tornando uma ou várias.
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Many people consider urban foxes to be a nuisance, knocking over garbage bins and making a mess. This is a misconception however. It rarely happens, and studies show that when it does, it is often a cat or dog causing the mess. Foxes are also blamed for missing pets. While it is uncommon for a fox to go after a dog or cat, in the spring time when they have to feed their pups, a pet rabbit may just be the perfect meal. It is wise to keep pets inside. Urban foxes can cause a mess to your yard by leaving their feces as a scent mark. They can also dig many holes - practice for digging burrows - and they can eat and trample over flowers and vegetables.
Akira was born into the right family and his father has never let him forget that, installed gratitude for his heritage into him right from the beginning. He goes through the fast track of the military university, a general already at an age where his peers only start to consider if they should apply to higher positions or enjoy their laissez-faire a while longer. When his father is killed in action, High King Arundel promotes him to the head of Moskaw’s army where he starts to gain the trust and loyalty of his subordinates by being a fair commander that shows now favoritism and stands up for his own.
He is reasonably sure that his life would have taken a different path had he not fallen in lust with Jeromé, whom he was supposed to arrest but instead fucks in a shady alley behind one of the seedier pubs and denies ever meeting him. Their affair is quick as a bushfire and with the same inability to control the occurring damage, property related or otherwise. He draws the line at Jeromé actively sneaking into the palace to kill the High King. Lust (and maybe love, foolish as that is) is one thing, treason a whole other caliber and he has sworn his oath of fealty and he sticks to it.
The guard’s uniform had never felt heavier afterwards and his demeanor gets more serious, more focused. He drills it into every soldier’s head that the king’s life is more important than theirs, that the oath they swore is their sole reason to live.
It would have ended there probably, with Akira as the solemn head of the guards but the queen gives birth to a son and the son, albeit highly praised at first, soon turns out to be an uttermost disappointment to his father. So he gets left to nannies and guards and rarely sees the outside world till the then five-year-old boy escapes his rooms and his watchers’ eyes and ends up holed in Akira’s room in the barracks.
They strike up a friendship that day – Akira the royal guard and Khaled the useless heir.
(They gravitate towards each other whenever possible. Khaled following Akira like an eager puppy and Akira doing his best to make the boy’s childhood a happy one, regardless of the king’s and queen’s tries to the contrary.)
Akira is the one to see him off when Khaled leaves the city after his marriage to Varekai and it is him Khaled misses when he thinks of ‘home’.
"I want you to be the child's godfather", Khaled announces one afternoon, sitting cross-legged on Akira's cot, watching him mull over the guards rotation schedule. "Won't your father be offended if you pick me over him? ", he inquires, the quill dragging steadily over the parchment. "The High King has no interest in this child. The Queen is pregnant again and with luck my child will be born and you will be his godfather before we know if hers is the blessed better son Arundel has been praying for." He agrees then because if he does not accept, who will make sure that this child is safe from Arundel as well?
(When the Queen's child is born and turns out to be a girl, Khaled's son has already been entrusted in his care.)
Akira had had a vision when High King Arundel announced the annulment of Khaled’s and Varekai’s marriage and the subsequent new marriage to Rajko. Nothing to write home about certainly, especially nothing to alert the seer guild, but he has seen Rajko in battle and outside and there is no difference in the man’s demeanor. He has seen it go down in flames before it inevitable truly does.
(And when it does, a whole contingent of soldiers is dead and Khaled is on the flight and Arundel rages on and on and yells at his soldiers, at the Council of Gods, at everything and everyone and Akira stands at his shoulder and thinks “your fault, yours alone” and “please let him be safe”.)
There are enough versions of his final showdown with the High King floating around to fill a book. His favorite is still the one where he shifts into a dragon and flies off into the sunset. As usual, the truth is far bleaker. He just tears off his insignia and throws them to High King Arundel’s feet before he strides out.
(Fast, because he is no fool and he knows that as soon as Arundel recalls his wits he himself will be a persona non grata and if he isn’t out of the city when this happens all his defiance will be for naught because he will spend the last of his years rotting in a cell.)
He lets his hair grow out till it reaches his hips and then he pulls it up in a high ponytail that whips around him as he moves through his katas.
(He who has always chastised his recruits for running around with their hair long and full of vanity has now stooped to their level. “Rōnin” people whisper when he passes them on the road and he howls out in laughter.)
It turns out that this search has a reason why countless of high paid bloodhunters failed at the task – Khaled seems to have vanished from Silmä altogether, not a trace of him to be found anywhere but old wives’ tales and rumors.
(He supposes it is at least nice to get to know all of Silmä while he travels through the continents like a leave in the wind.)
The first true lead he gets on his wards whereabouts is when he hears of a new power rising, a woman and a man under the flag of a raven, holding a lily in its claws. But they are the reports of a red haired man always a step behind them that make him pause. He’s never been a tracker but his travels have afforded him a certain skill in having connections to the major networks of information so it is only a matter of time till he hears a name uttered that he takes as a cue to leave – Land’s End.
(Land’s End is – quite frankly – a bog. Not even a particularly nice one but one of the smelly variant that tries its damnest to eat him up and he ends up getting stuck. Because of course he does. The hand that reaches out to him all of a sudden to pull him out is a welcome surprise. The man attached to the hand less so.)
"Oh this bitch!", Jeromé grouses and sounds suspiciously fond: " First I'll kill her. And then him cause I am sure they are in it together." He pierces Akira with a questioning look in his steel grey eyes: "Why are you here?" As Jeromé was clearly sent as a welcoming party he sees no reason to lie: "To find Khaled."
"Wait, Arundel's wayward son? The one Arundel is paying a whole platoon of bloodhunters for to find him since years? The one whose head the Council and the High King both want on a platter albeit for different reasons? Why the fuck are you looking for him?" - "To see if he is safe."
Jeromé starts laughing then and does not stop for quite a while before he visibly pulls himself together. "Only you", he says fondly: "Only you would turn rogue just to check on your wayward duckling." But he beckons him to follow through the trees: "I looked for you, you know, once I got out of Kur di Bin. But you seemed to have been swallowed by the earth itself, though I heard many varied stories of your last disagreement with Arundel."
Akira snorts: "My favorite is the one where I turned into a dragon and flew off into the sunset, leaving only piles of ashes behind", then he sobers: "Why were you looking for me in the first place?"
The other smiles awkward and rubs his neck: "You left an impression" - "We knew each other for two weeks!" - "A lasting impression!"
(It is gratifying to see Khaled again and have him throw himself into his arms without hesitation as if he were still a child that came to the barracks to seek out the only true father he had ever known.)
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So this is the new dude - Akira. The guy who turned Silmä upside down just to find his employer’s son for the sole sake of checking if he was alive and well. That’s dedication! Or some really hardcore stalker shit but no one looks at that too closely since Pazuzu was one capable general short anyway and gladly takes the guy in.
(Jeromé is btw the guy I am trying to shell into a Volks YoMidi Williams - so if you want to see those two dorks together and have a Williams… I have a Williams WTB xP)
The ‘what is what’
Iplehouse JID Asa GUY (real skin) with face-up by maiya/Dipole Moment, eyes and wig from Taobao, horns are Soom Turb/Roxen, glaive is from the Fairyland Seorin fullset and samurai armor is a vintage Gogatsu armor.
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Além de serem consideradas benéficas para os agricultores,por serem predadoras de bichinhos que fazem mal ás plantações,elas são muito lindas e aparecem quando menos se espera...Pequenas e coloridas, muito admiradas por sua beleza e, em muitas culturas, símbolos de boa sorte...^.^ Essa estava se fingindo de morta e eu a encontrei nas garras da minha gata...tive que salvá-la...já são tão raras de se ver...e claro tive que registrar isso...rs
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Giant crinum lilies (Crinum asiaticum) are in full bloom now, so heavily laden with flowers that they often droop to the ground.
from Jubilate Agno
BY CHRISTOPHER SMART
For I will consider my Cat Jeoffry.
For he is the servant of the Living God duly and daily serving him.
For at the first glance of the glory of God in the East he worships in his way.
For this is done by wreathing his body seven times round with elegant quickness.
For then he leaps up to catch the musk, which is the blessing of God upon his prayer.
For he rolls upon prank to work it in.
For having done duty and received blessing he begins to consider himself.
For this he performs in ten degrees.
For first he looks upon his forepaws to see if they are clean.
For secondly he kicks up behind to clear away there.
For thirdly he works it upon stretch with the forepaws extended.
For fourthly he sharpens his paws by wood.
For fifthly he washes himself.
For sixthly he rolls upon wash.
For seventhly he fleas himself, that he may not be interrupted upon the beat.
For eighthly he rubs himself against a post.
For ninthly he looks up for his instructions.
For tenthly he goes in quest of food.
For having consider'd God and himself he will consider his neighbour.
For if he meets another cat he will kiss her in kindness.
For when he takes his prey he plays with it to give it a chance.
For one mouse in seven escapes by his dallying.
For when his day's work is done his business more properly begins.
For he keeps the Lord's watch in the night against the adversary.
For he counteracts the powers of darkness by his electrical skin and glaring eyes.
For he counteracts the Devil, who is death, by brisking about the life.
For in his morning orisons he loves the sun and the sun loves him.
For he is of the tribe of Tiger.
For the Cherub Cat is a term of the Angel Tiger.
For he has the subtlety and hissing of a serpent, which in goodness he suppresses.
For he will not do destruction, if he is well-fed, neither will he spit without provocation.
For he purrs in thankfulness, when God tells him he's a good Cat.
For he is an instrument for the children to learn benevolence upon.
For every house is incomplete without him and a blessing is lacking in the spirit.
For the Lord commanded Moses concerning the cats at the departure of the Children of Israel from Egypt.
For every family had one cat at least in the bag.
For the English Cats are the best in Europe.
For he is the cleanest in the use of his forepaws of any quadruped.
For the dexterity of his defence is an instance of the love of God to him exceedingly.
For he is the quickest to his mark of any creature.
For he is tenacious of his point.
For he is a mixture of gravity and waggery.
For he knows that God is his Saviour.
For there is nothing sweeter than his peace when at rest.
For there is nothing brisker than his life when in motion.
For he is of the Lord's poor and so indeed is he called by benevolence perpetually—Poor Jeoffry! poor Jeoffry! the rat has bit thy throat.
For I bless the name of the Lord Jesus that Jeoffry is better.
For the divine spirit comes about his body to sustain it in complete cat.
For his tongue is exceeding pure so that it has in purity what it wants in music.
For he is docile and can learn certain things.
For he can set up with gravity which is patience upon approbation.
For he can fetch and carry, which is patience in employment.
For he can jump over a stick which is patience upon proof positive.
For he can spraggle upon waggle at the word of command.
For he can jump from an eminence into his master's bosom.
For he can catch the cork and toss it again.
For he is hated by the hypocrite and miser.
For the former is afraid of detection.
For the latter refuses the charge.
For he camels his back to bear the first notion of business.
For he is good to think on, if a man would express himself neatly.
For he made a great figure in Egypt for his signal services.
For he killed the Ichneumon-rat very pernicious by land.
For his ears are so acute that they sting again.
For from this proceeds the passing quickness of his attention.
For by stroking of him I have found out electricity.
For I perceived God's light about him both wax and fire.
For the Electrical fire is the spiritual substance, which God sends from heaven to sustain the bodies both of man and beast.
For God has blessed him in the variety of his movements.
For, tho he cannot fly, he is an excellent clamberer.
For his motions upon the face of the earth are more than any other quadruped.
For he can tread to all the measures upon the music.
For he can swim for life.
For he can creep.
If there's one event you must always consider going to then it has to be the Glasgow Vintage Vehicle Trust's Annual Open Weekend in October. It's an extremely well run and family friendly event with around 180 vehicles to see and enjoy. There are two frequent bus routes to sample the buses plus six themed tours involving up to five vehicles on each. The event is very popular with enthusiasts from far and wide attracting many, like myself, from the south of England!
Anyway, here's a selection of my photos from the weekend, including a few I snapped on the Friday before the event. Well done team GVVT, your sterling efforts are appreciated by many!
"People usually consider walking on water or in thin air a miracle. But I think the real miracle is not to walk either on water or in thin air, but to walk on earth. Every day we are engaged in a miracle which we don't even recognize: a blue sky, white clouds, green leaves, the black, curious eyes of a child -- our own two eyes. All is a miracle."
— Thich Nhat Hanh
Back to the puffy white clouds and rolling green hills of South Wales... even greener now after all the recent rain! ツ ツ ツ
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A few words we should all try to consider in life.
Ugh, this looked so much better when I was editing it on CS4, but oh well.
Inspired by THIS
I just got back from the MICHAEL BUBLE concert! It was amazing! He is really funny. And his voice is just...so, SO good <3 Me gusta.
Tagged by several people to post 31 things I like:
01. getting dressed up
02. cheese
03. having a full tank of gas
04. forever 21
05. apple products
06. snorkeling
07. swarovski jewelry
08. crowns
09. watching wedding TV shows like say yes to the dress and four weddings
10. TOMS
11. ANYTHING floral...except the scent of flowers
12. ANYTHING orange, except the fruit
13. swingsets
14. guys dressed up in suits, such a turn on!
15. seeing my boyfriend for the first time in a really long time
16. driving my car
17. big cities
18. elephants
19. sandra bullock
20. screamo music
21. hawaiian shave ice
22. finding out someone has the same music taste as me
23. pineapple
24. china glaze nail polish
25. seeing my friends from high school for the first time in a LONG time
26. ryan reynolds
27. indian and mexican food
28. russia
29. eating at fancy restaurants
30. sea turtles
31. when out of nowhere, my boyfriend tells me he loves me
TAG, you're it!
El monasterio de San Jerónimo de Granada es un conjunto arquitectónico del Renacimiento formada por iglesia y monasterio situada en la ciudad española de Granada, comunidad autónoma de Andalucía.
Actualmente, está considerado como BIC (Bien de Interés Cultural) (la «iglesia basílica de San Gerónimo» (sic.) fue declarada monumento histórico artístisco digno de ser conservado por la Nación por R.O. de 24 de mayo de 1874 y posteriormente el monasterio fue declarado monumento histórico-artístico perteneciente al Tesoro Artístico Nacional mediante decreto de 3 de junio de 1931
Su fundación, anterior a la toma de la ciudad, se debe a los Reyes Católicos. En seguida se desplazó desde Santa Fe a Granada, y fue en 1504 cuando se empezó a construir el conjunto actual. La obra se debe en su mayoría a Diego de Siloé, aunque participaron en su construcción otros arquitectos y artistas, como Jacobo Florentino, Juan de Aragón, Juan Bautista Vázquez el Mozo, Pedro de Orea y Pablo de Rojas, los tres últimos de la escuela granadina.
La iglesia, de planta de cruz latina, responde a los condicionantes de las iglesias de la orden jerónima, con coro elevado en los pies y altar tras una amplia escalinata. Es destacable el retablo manierista de la capilla mayor, que supone el punto de partida de la escultura andaluza con entidad propia, y en donde es capital la intervención del maestro Pablo de Rojas. La rica decoración renacentista que presenta, con casetones, veneras y grupos escultóricos, es un canto de cisne del humanismo en España. El programa iconográfico fue pensado con el fin de resaltar las grandezas militares y la heroicidad del Gran Capitán, que se halla enterrado en el crucero junto a su esposa, María de Manrique.
El monasterio cuenta con dos claustros ajardinados, siendo el primero de ellos el que concentra la más genuina decoración del Renacimiento. Siete arcosolios a modo de capillas, de trazas clásicas, decoradas con todo el repertorio formal de este estilo, configuran un espacio fúnebre para cuando los restos de don Gonzalo llegaron al monasterio. En el segundo claustro, hoy clausura de la comunidad de monjas jerónimas que lo habitan, residió la emperatriz Isabel de Portugal en su viaje de bodas, tras la celebración de su matrimonio con el emperador Carlos I.
En la iglesia se trabajaba ya en 1513 bajo las órdenes de Jacobo Florentino. Muerto éste, las siguió Diego de Siloé. Cuando en 1522 se acabó la capilla mayor fueron trasladados los cuerpos del Gran Capitán y su esposa desde la Casa Grande del Convento de San Francisco.
Tras pasar por diversas vicisitudes adversas, como la invasión francesa y la exclaustración por expulsión de la Orden Jerónima, que casi llevaron a la ruina, el Estado decidió su restauración, que se llevó a cabo entre 1916 y 1920 por el arquitecto Fernando Wilhelmi.
En los años anteriores a 1989 fue vuelta a erigir la esbelta torre de la iglesia tras haber sido derruida por los franceses durante la invasión napoleónica para construir con sus piedras el Puente Verde que une el Paseo de la Bomba con la Avenida de Cervantes, sobre el río Genil.
La portada que separa el compás del Monasterio de la Calle Rector López Argueta, aunque originariamente pertenecía al monasterio, se repuso en la década de 1960, después de que en el siglo XIX desapareciera y se encontrara posteriormente abandonada en un cortijo de la Vega.
En la actualidad preside dicha portada una bella imagen de la Virgen de las Angustias que no es la que originariamente estaba en dicha portada.
A principios del año 2004 comenzaron unas obras de restauración del retablo mayor por el Ministerio de Cultura, que duraron hasta el año siguiente.
El templo fue el primero en todo el mundo en consagrarse a la Inmaculada Concepción de María.
As for man, his days are like grass; he flourishes like a flower of the field; for the wind passes over it, and it is gone...
too much is happening
Arco de Jamete de la Catedral de Cuenca. Situado sobre el brazo izquierdo del crucero de la Catedral este arquitectónico Arco de Jamete constituye un magnífico frontispicio construido como portada a la entrada principal de acceso al Claustro, y está considerada como una de las obras maestras del Renacimiento en España en el interior de un edificio.
Esta obra fue realizada por Francisco de Luna y Esteban Jamete entre 1546 y 1550, y el gran rosetón que se encuentra sobre el arco posee unas vidrieras de rica policromía elaboradas por Giraldo de Holanda en el año 1549, representando las mismas al árbol de Jesé.
El abocinado Rosetón se encuentra recogido dentro de una moldura a modo de gablete que en las enjutas formadas por dicho gablete aparecen tres bajorrelieves: sobre el propio rosetón la figura del Padre Eterno bendiciendo, y en los lados inferiores los bustos de un hombre a un lado y una mujer al opuesto.
Se compone la portada de este arco de dos grandes columnas estriadas a los lados que hacia la mitad de su altura portan una decoración con un tondo dentro del cual se encierra el escudo de armas del Obispo Sebastián Ramírez, en cuyo tiempo se hizo la obra, y tanto debajo como por encima de ese blasón se desarrollan unas cintas con mascarones.
Los capiteles de las columnas están adornadas con hojas, arpías y cabecillas de león.
En las enjutas que forman el arco hay dos relieves con la representación de dos personajes femeninos del Antiguo Testamento: a la izquierda Judit enarbolando la espada con la que cortó la cabeza de Holofernes, enemigo del pueblo de Israel, y a la izquierda Jael atravesando con el clavo las sienes de Sísara.
Bajo la basa de cada columna un zócalo que discurre por todo el basamento de las pilastras inmediatas se decora con una serie de frutos enracimados, en forma de ondas, sobre las que hay niños cabalgando alternando con otras figuras fantásticas.
Se apoyan estas columnas sobre unas ménsulas con gruesas volutas adornadas con ornamentación vegetal y variadas figuras y mascarones.
En la curva del arco se encuentran esculpidas en relieve las cabezas de los doce Apóstoles con el Salvador en el centro, alternando con una serie de ángeles que se intercalan entre ellos.
Sobre el arco, en el friso de su cornisamento aparecen unos jarrones con tritones a sus lados, y en el centro una cartela sostenida por dos ángeles que en sus extremos figuran dos cabezas de ángeles que enmarcan la inscripción: AÑO DÑI 1546.
En el intradós, o parte inferior del arco, hay numerosas figuras de ángeles, en variada posición, que son portadores de diversos instrumentos de la Pasión.
Tras la portada creada por este Arco de Jamete se configura una especie de capilla, con bóveda elíptica, dos nichos laterales, uno a cada lado, y al fondo la portada del claustro.
En esta imagen del lateral izquierdo de este espacio tenemos, de izquierda a derecha, la columna que apoya sobre una ménsula que junto a sus volutas y en bajorrelieve se representan las cuatro virtudes cardinales.
Detrás de la columna y la ménsula hay una gruesa pilastra con una hornacina entre balaustradas, con la escultura en piedra representando en este caso a San Pedro, rematándose por un frontón con un tondo.
A continuación un gran nicho muy ornamentado y al final la portada de entrada al claustro.
El otro lado, similar a su opuesto, tiene en la pilastra la hornacina con la escultura de San Pablo.
En la pared del fondo se encuentra la Portada de entrada al Claustro, formada por un primer cuerpo con dos puertas separadas por un parteluz, con un amplio entablamento, y por encima un segundo cuerpo.
El cuerpo inferior de esta portada cuenta con un alto zócalo y pedestal sobre el que se levantan cuatro columnas estriadas, dos a cada lado, adornadas hacia la mitad de ellas de manera semejante a las del Arco de Jamete.
Entre cada dos columnas hay una hornacina vacía, y otra en el parteluz a nivel algo más bajo que las laterales igualmente sin estatua alguna.
El ancho entablamento que discurre por encima de las puertas está decorado con escudos, grutescos y guirnaldas.
En el segundo o superior cuerpo de esta portada aparecen tres hornacinas en las que hay esculturas mostrando la Adoración de los Reyes Magos: en la central la figura de la Virgen, sentada, con el Niño en brazos y un Rey que le está adorando, mientras que en las otras dos laterales los otros dos Reyes con el don que van a ofrecer y como dirigiéndose al Niño.
Sobre el pedestal en el que se apoya la Virgen está la inscripción: ANNO DNI. 1550
Remata la decoración unos niños a los lados de los Reyes, unos medallones con bustos sobre ellos, con flameros, y un frontón triangular en el centro con algunas figuras sobre él.
Cuenca 27/5/2023
Paddy, pausing whilst he works out what to do next after 3 sheeps appeared out of the mist infront of him and had stayed put in the same direction he was travelling ..
El monasterio de San Pedro de Cardeña es una abadía trapense situada en el término municipal de Castrillo del Val, a 10 km del centro de Burgos (España). Actualmente, está considerado como BIC (Bien de Interés Cultural). Fue declarado Monumento histórico-artístico perteneciente al Tesoro Artístico Nacional mediante decreto de 3 de junio de 1931. En 2015, en la aprobación por la Unesco de la ampliación del Camino de Santiago en España a «Caminos de Santiago de Compostela: Camino francés y Caminos del Norte de España», España envió como documentación un «Inventario Retrospectivo - Elementos Asociados» (Retrospective Inventory - Associated Components) en el que en el n.º 979 figura el monasterio de San Pedro de Cardeña.
El monasterio se habrá fundado antes de 902 cuando el conde de Lantarón y de Cerezo, Gonzalo Téllez y su esposa Flámula realizaron la primera donación documentada al cenobio el 24 de septiembre de ese año de una serna en Pedernales y unas eras de sal.
En los siglos IX o X sus monjes fueron martirizados por los musulmanes, canonizados en 1603 y conocidos como los «Mártires de Cardeña». El monasterio gozaba de gran popularidad con gran afluencia de devotos, entre los que se encontraban el rey Felipe III de España y su esposa la reina Doña Margarita de Austria. Una de sus preciadas reliquias, la cabeza de su abad San Esteban, fue trasladada al Monasterio de Celanova; también se encuentran dos urnas en el Monasterio de la Huelgas y otra en la Catedral de Burgos.
Cada año, el 6 de agosto, aniversario del martirio, la tierra del claustro donde fueron sepultados los mártires, se teñía de un color rojizo que parecía sangre. El milagroso prodigio, ampliamente testificado, se repite hasta finales del siglo XIV. El año 1674 ya una vez levantado el nuevo claustro de estilo herreriano se reprodujo el hecho, personándose el arzobispo Enrique de Peralta, que vivamente impresionado encargó un estudio, interviniendo médicos y teólogos. Recogió el líquido, coaguló al ser puesto en agua hirviendo.
El 1 de febrero de 1967 un violento incendio destruyó las tres cuartas partes del monasterio, habitado desde 1942 por la abadía trapense de Nuestra Señora de los Mártires.
La prosperidad del monasterio en la época altomedieval se refleja en la calidad de su scriptorium, en el que el monje Endura realizó obras extraordinarias.
El Beato de San Pedro de Cardeña fue realizado entre los años 1175 y 1180, cuenta con 290 páginas y 51 miniaturas. 127 folios se encuentran en el Museo Arqueológico Nacional de Madrid, dos en la Biblioteca Francisco de Zabálburu, también en Madrid (donde también se halla el Cartulario de San Pedro de Cardeña), uno en el Museo Diocesano de Gerona y otros quince en el Museo Metropolitano de Arte de Nueva York.
Desde la sala capitular, que data del siglo XIII, se divisa a través de grandes cristaleras el claustro románico, que data del siglo XII. Compuesto por arquería de medio punto sobre columnas únicas que descansan sobre fustes robustos y coronadas de capiteles que imitan el estilo corintio. Los arcos recuerdan en su decoración a los de la mezquita de Córdoba por su policromía, alternando los colores blanco y rojo. En la pared izquierda se encuentran unas antiquísimas piedras cuya inscripción recuerda el trágico suceso.
Para construir esta iglesia de tres naves se destruyó la románica, aunque afortunadamente se salvó la torre, legítimo recuerdo cidiano. Reedificada en el siglo XVI, consta de tres naves, con una capilla aneja, denominada capilla de El Cid, ya que allí fue enterrado, y permaneció antes de su traslado a la catedral de Burgos. La fachada de la iglesia es de estilo barroco.
En el lateral derecho de la iglesia gótica, se abre una capilla barroca que data de 1753 a la que fueron trasladados los restos del Cid Campeador y su esposa Jimena. En las paredes de esta estancia llamada «Capilla de los Héroes», hay 29 nichos con inscripciones de nombres de reyes y familiares del Cid.
Según el Cantar de mio Cid y las tradiciones posteriores, antes de marchar al destierro, Rodrigo Díaz de Vivar dejó en San Pedro de Cardeña, al amparo del abad Sancho (que la crítica ha identificado con Sisebuto de Cardeña atribuyendo una confusión al autor del Cantar), a su esposa Doña Jimena y a sus hijas, aunque este hecho no está atestiguado por pruebas históricas. En el primer destierro de 1081, las propiedades de Rodrigo Díaz no le fueron enajenadas, y la familia del Cid pudo seguir residiendo en sus casas. En el segundo, de 1089, la familia fue presa por mandato de Alfonso VI en un castillo, quizá Gormaz, para reunirse con el Campeador poco después.
El enterramiento del Cid en San Pedro de Cardeña no fue debido a la voluntad personal de Rodrigo Díaz. A su muerte en 1099 fue inhumado en la catedral de Valencia, por lo que solo en 1102, tras tener que abandonar Jimena Díaz la plaza levantina, fueron trasladados sus restos al cenobio cardeniense. Allí permaneció durante algunos años su cuerpo embalsamado y sentado en un escaño del presbiterio. Desde ese momento se generaron allí una serie de narraciones de carácter hagiográfico que hacia 1280 constituyeron un corpus conocido como Leyenda de Cardeña cuyo propósito fue vincular al Cid con el monasterio de Cardeña, con el que en vida había tenido escasa relación. Estos materiales legendarios se incorporaron a la Versión sanchina de la Estoria de España o Crónica de veinte reyes, que puede datarse entre 1282 y 1284. En el siglo XIV el monasterio caradignense estimuló el culto a las reliquias cidianas, en cuyo contexto se redactó el Epitafio épico del Cid y, posiblemente, se encargara o elaborara, a partir de un ejemplar tomado en préstamo, el códice con la copia de 1325–1330 en el que se conserva el Cantar de mio Cid. En el claustro nuevo una lápida recuerda el lugar que ocupaba su sepulcro.
En la explanada situada frente a la fachada principal, en la que aparece una imagen ecuestre del Cid Campeador, hay una estatua del Sagrado Corazón, y a la izquierda un monolito con leyenda alusiva al caballo Babieca. Coincide con el lugar donde una creencia tradicional considera que fue sepultado el animal.
En el monasterio se conserva la bodega románica más antigua de España en uso comercial, donde se elabora el tinto Valdevegón con uva de La Rioja. Y también un licor llamado Tizona del Cid, hecho con unas 30 hierbas que maceran en barricas de roble. En 2016 se convierte en el primer monasterio español en producir cerveza trapense, la cerveza Cardeña.
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The monastery of San Pedro de Cardeña is a Trappist abbey located in the municipality of Castrillo del Val, 10 km from the center of Burgos (Spain). Currently, it is considered as BIC (Asset of Cultural Interest). It was declared a Historic-Artistic Monument belonging to the National Artistic Treasure by decree of June 3, 1931. In 2015, in the approval by Unesco of the extension of the Camino de Santiago in Spain to «Roads of Santiago de Compostela: French Way and Roads Northern Spain ", Spain sent as documentation a" Retrospective Inventory - Associated Components "in which the monastery of San Pedro de Cardeña is listed in No. 979.
The monastery will have been founded before 902 when the count of Lantarón and Cerezo, Gonzalo Téllez and his wife, Flámula, made the first documented donation to the monastery on September 24 of that year of a serna in Pedernales and some salt eras.
In the 9th or 10th centuries its monks were martyred by the Muslims, canonized in 1603 and known as the "Martyrs of Cardeña." The monastery enjoyed great popularity with a large influx of devotees, among whom were King Felipe III of Spain and his wife, Queen Doña Margarita of Austria. One of his precious relics, the head of his abbot San Esteban, was transferred to the Monastery of Celanova; There are also two urns in the Monastery of La Huelgas and another in the Cathedral of Burgos.
Every year, on August 6, the anniversary of the martyrdom, the ground of the cloister where the martyrs were buried was stained a reddish color that looked like blood. The miraculous prodigy, widely witnessed, is repeated until the end of the fourteenth century. In 1674, once the new Herrerian-style cloister was erected, the event was reproduced, with the appearance of Archbishop Enrique de Peralta, who, greatly impressed, commissioned a study, involving doctors and theologians. He collected the liquid, it coagulated when put in boiling water.
On February 1, 1967, a violent fire destroyed three-quarters of the monastery, inhabited since 1942 by the Trappist Abbey of Our Lady of the Martyrs.
The prosperity of the monastery in the high medieval era is reflected in the quality of its scriptorium, in which the monk Endura carried out extraordinary works.
The Beatus of San Pedro de Cardeña was made between the years 1175 and 1180, it has 290 pages and 51 miniatures. 127 pages are in the National Archaeological Museum of Madrid, two in the Francisco de Zabálburu Library, also in Madrid (where the Cartulary of San Pedro de Cardeña is also found), one in the Diocesan Museum of Gerona and another fifteen in the Museum Metropolitan of Art of New York.
From the chapter house, which dates from the 13th century, you can see through large windows the Romanesque cloister, which dates from the 12th century. Composed of semicircular arches on unique columns that rest on robust shafts and crowned with capitals that imitate the Corinthian style. The arches in their decoration are reminiscent of those of the Cordoba mosque due to their polychrome, alternating white and red colors. On the left wall are some ancient stones whose inscription recalls the tragic event.
To build this church with three naves, the Romanesque was destroyed, although fortunately the tower, a legitimate Cidian memory, was saved. Rebuilt in the 16th century, it consists of three naves, with an attached chapel, called the El Cid Chapel, since he was buried there, and remained before his transfer to the Burgos Cathedral. The facade of the church is in the Baroque style.
On the right side of the Gothic church, there is a baroque chapel dating from 1753 to which the remains of the Cid Campeador and his wife Jimena were transferred. On the walls of this room called "Capilla de los Héroes", there are 29 niches with inscriptions of the names of kings and relatives of the Cid.
According to the Cantar de mio Cid and later traditions, before going into exile, Rodrigo Díaz de Vivar left in San Pedro de Cardeña, under the protection of Abbot Sancho (who the critic has identified with Sisebuto de Cardeña attributing a confusion to the author of the Cantar ), his wife Doña Jimena and their daughters, although this fact is not attested by historical evidence. In the first exile in 1081, Rodrigo Díaz's properties were not alienated from him, and the Cid family was able to continue residing in his houses. In the second, in 1089, the family was imprisoned by order of Alfonso VI in a castle, perhaps Gormaz, to meet with the Campeador shortly after.
The burial of the Cid in San Pedro de Cardeña was not due to the personal will of Rodrigo Díaz. Upon his death in 1099 he was buried in the cathedral of Valencia, so that only in 1102, after Jimena Díaz had to leave the Levantine square, were his remains transferred to the Cardenian monastery. His body remained there for some years, embalmed and seated on a bench in the presbytery. From that moment on, a series of hagiographic narratives were generated there, which around 1280 constituted a corpus known as the Leyenda de Cardeña whose purpose was to link the Cid with the Cardeña monastery, with which in life he had had little relationship. These legendary materials were incorporated into the Sanchina Version of the Estoria de España or Chronicle of Twenty Kings, which can be dated between 1282 and 1284. In the 14th century, the Caradignense monastery stimulated the cult of Cidian relics, in which context the Epitaph was written. epic of the Cid and, possibly, the codex with the copy of 1325–1330 in which the Cantar de mio Cid is preserved, was commissioned or elaborated from a borrowed copy. In the new cloister a tombstone recalls the place occupied by his tomb.
On the esplanade in front of the main façade, in which an equestrian image of the Cid Campeador appears, there is a statue of the Sacred Heart, and on the left a monolith with a legend alluding to the Babieca horse. It coincides with the place where a traditional belief considers that the animal was buried.
The monastery houses the oldest Romanesque winery in Spain in commercial use, where the red Valdevegón is made with grapes from La Rioja. And also a liqueur called Tizona del Cid, made with about 30 herbs that are macerated in oak barrels. In 2016 it became the first Spanish monastery to produce Trappist beer, Cardeña beer.
I've always asked myself why we are so much attracted by beautiful eyes and even more why we consider some eyes as beautiful.
There are certain aspects of our perception and behaviors that are considered a side effect of others. For instance it's not always possible to say if we, as animals or human beings, could have a certain property in our brain without the other side of the medal. One of the examples is sensitivity and intelligence. There are many others in the literature of cognitive sciences.
When I'm in front of one of these questions I usually get to the question "what might be the evolutionary reason or history of this character?".
We are attracted by the eyes because it's a huge mean of communication since our early natural path. Dogs, cats, horses use them. Many animals have shapes and color on their hair and body to fake eyes. Some animals hypnotize prays through them.
So the question is not why we are interesed in eyes. But why we consider some of them as beautiful.
What if our brain was stimulated just the same way as when we see a beautiful flower? Is it a matter of mixture of colors?
But then: would then this mixture be considered true for the whole humanity? Do swedish people prefer light blue eyes that are so common in their country? Or do they prefer dark eyes that are more rare?
Probably there's no reason for all of this, as "reason" is something only human, so untill we know more about it, we can go on ejoying beauty without too many questions. Maybe.
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Are you like me and dream of one day owning a Victorian style home? Is there something keeping that dream from becoming a reality?
Well, then this Victorian Dream Home is for you. I created this project to fulfill that dream in some small way while also hoping to fulfill another dream of mine; to design a real LEGO set.
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La Catedral de Chihuahua es el templo sede de la Arquidiócesis de Chihuahua y es considerada como el más importante monumento religioso de estilo barroco en el norte de México. Dedicada a la La Santa Cruz desde su elevación a catedral en 1891; fue construida a partir de 1725 como templo parroquial dedicado a San Francisco de Asís y Nuestra Señora de la Regla.
La primera piedra de la catedral se colocó en el año de 1725, por Benito Crespo y Monroy, Obispo de Durango; éste al ver que las obras de la catedral avanzaban lentamente, decidió informar a las autoridades de comercio y minería para que, en consecuencia, se aplicara una contribución voluntaria a comerciantes y mercaderes.
Las obras fueron dirigidas originalmente y hasta el año de 1734 por el alarife José de la Cruz, quién fue también el encargado del diseño de los planos. Al fallecimiento de éste las obras fueron continuadas por varios más, y debido a varios contratiempos, no fue terminada hasta el año de 1826, 54 años después, por Ignacio Morín y Juan Pagaza y Nicolás. Las torres fueron levantadas por Bernardo del Carpio y sus campanas izadas y colocadas en su lugar por Melchor Guaspe.
La portada principal de la catedral, tallada en la misma cantera ocre de todo el edificio fue realizada por el escultor Antonio de Nava, quien para ello modificó el proyecto original. Dicho proyecto proponía una amplia portada de siete calles —calle es el espacio existente entre columna y columna—, reduciéndolo a cinco, logrando con ello la esbeltez que caracteriza a toda la catedral. Aun con la reducción en el número de calles, la amplitud de la portada no tenía parangón en la Nueva España al momento de ser construida.
La portada consta de tres cuerpos superpuestos y claramente diferenciados por cornisas y sobre todo por el diseño de sus columnas, todas ellas estípites que se engrosan en el centro en relación a su basa y capitel. Los primeros dos cuerpos cuentan con seis columnas, tres a cada lado de la calle central; mientras que el tercer cuerpo solo tiene una a cada lado ya que la portada reduce su ancho a manera de remate. Entre cada columna en las dos calles laterales se encuentran nichos que albergan las estatuas de los doce apóstoles, pero excluyendo a San Matías e incluyendo a San Pablo.
Las columnas del primer cuerpo se levantan sobre recios pedestales decorados con motivos vegetales, su basa y su capitel son de orden corintio, sin embargo su fuste presenta en sus extremos superior a inferior brazaletes de follaje, mientras que al resto lo decoran canales y contra canales y un anillo hundido en su centro. Las columnas del segundo cuerpo, también sobre pedestales con follaje, presentan en el centro de su fuste guirnaldas onduladas acompañadas en los extremos superior e inferior por estrías zigzagueantes, que en conjunto y desde la posición de los observadores a nivel del suelo dan una impresión salomónica. Finalmente las columnas del tercer cuerpo presentan un pedestal estriado y el fuste salomónico, como en todas el capitel es corintio, y rematan ambas columnas medallones donde se indica la fecha de conclusión de la portada —AÑO Đ 1741— y pilastras toscanas con remates piramidales.
La calle central contiene en su primer cuerpo a la puerta principal, formada por un arco semioctagonal incrito en otro de medio punto y en cuya clave se encuentran sostenidos por dos querubines que flotan entre el follaje, la tiara papal y las llaves de San Pedro; las enjutas del arco están decoradas por los motivos vegetales que encontramos en toda la catedral y entre los cuales vuelan dos ángeles. El segundo cuerpo contiene la ventana del coro, de forma octagonal y rodeada por molduras de cantera con motivos vegetales y en la parte superior la imagen de San José con el niño Jesús en sus brazos, todo ello nuevamente rodeado por la decoración vegetal.
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Feria de Monterroso-Lugo
Considerada popularmente como la feria de las ferias, no en vano su origen se remonta al medievo, el municipio de Monterroso, en Lugo, celebra de manera festiva el Día de Difuntos, con un mercado de animales y una suerte de bazar en el que es posible desde probar pulpo hasta adquirir variada bisutería.
Su nacimiento data del 1450, fue declarada feria de interés turístico gallego en el 2011 y, por su lugar de celebración, puede asociarse a la canción popular: "Se ti viras o que eu vin, alá arriba en Monterroso; vintecinco xastres xuntos, a cabalo dun raposo"
(¡Si tu vieras lo que yo vi allí arriba en Monterroso, veinticinco sastres juntos, a caballo de un zorro,- solo allí podía verse lo imposible-!)
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When we consider U.K. places in outstanding locations we might include St. Ives in Cornwall, Clovelly in Devon, Rye in East Sussex, Tenby in Pembrokeshire, Portmeirion on the Llyn Peninsula and Lyme Regis in Dorset.
Without doubt, Plockton, must be added to the list.
Situated as it is on an enclosing and protective headland,
at the mouth of Loch Carron, unusually for West Coast settlements, it faces east.
The hills above it to the south exceed 340 metres and the Applecross Hills, to the north, and in shot, range from 700-900 metres.
The bay is something of a yacht-mooring mecca.
In summer there are sometimes over 200 leisure craft anchored.
The western bays of the Am Ploc Peninsula are white shell-sand and coral.
The main street is festooned with Pampas Grass and Cabbage Palms.
These features are testament to the incoming Gulf Stream that creates a mild micro-climate.
With access by road, rail, private plane, boat and footpath
it has become a popular tourist node between April and October.
It still has a very active fishing industry, particularly for shell-fish, Lobster and Langoustine.
The fresh produce has less than 100 metres to travel to hotels
near the shore, and the quality is exceptional.
The scenery is superb.
At dawn sunrises are simply glorious.
At dusk, from the hills around, or the western side of Am Ploc,
the sunsets over the Cuillins of Skye are quite sensational,
some of the best I have ever seen!
“I think we consider too much the good luck of the early bird and not enough the bad luck of the early worm.” Franklin D. Roosevelt
It's those Tits again. This is 3 shots stacked on top of each other in PS using Russell Browns' "Stack-A-Matic" script. I recommend anyone with CS3 to pay his site a visit; great tutorials and super free scripts to download.
Btw, is it me or has flickr more "hiccups" than normal and it's slower since they had the down time!!!!!