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Captured at Woodlawn Park in San Antonio, Texas, USA on August 19, 2021. — by Kevin Lowery, @kevloweryphoto
Just as the lion is the King of Beats, the oak is the King of Trees. Oak leaves can symbolize many things, including strength, endurance, eternity, honour, liberty, hospitality, faith and virtue. All of these elements combines make the oak a symbol of the power of the Christian faith even in times of adversity. The Oak along with the aspen and the holly, is one of the trees that lays claim to being the tree that that was made into Christ’s cross.
But, long before the Christians adopted the oak, Celtic Druids used the oak in many of their rituals. Indeed the Druid name may have been derived from the Welsh word for “oak” derw. The oak was also sacred tree to the Romans, Greeks, Norse, and Teutonic peoples.
It's a challenge to capture the moment, but the energy and unique perspectives make it all worthwhile. Here, the photographer is beeing captured as hundreds celebrate high above the city, surrounded by mind-bending views and dazzling lights. ✨
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(public domain, screen capture video from the V3 web camera)
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Mt. Kilauea is the world’s most active volcano. It sits atop the Hawaii Hotspot in the central Pacific Ocean and had a decades-long eruption from 1983 to 2018. Eruptive activity started up again in December 2020 and continued into 2026. Kilauea lavas are basaltic in composition, but the physical appearance of Kilauea’s output varies. Many of Kilauea’s eruptions occurred along its East Rift Zone, a fracture system extending ~eastward from the summit vent area. Seen here is lava erupting at the summit of Kilauea Volcano from 5:04 to 5:05 PM, local time, on 12 August 2026. This is the high fountaining phase of "episode 53", which started in the afternoon of 12 August and ended in the early morning of 13 August. "Episode 1" of the current eruption series started on 23 December 2024.
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Information from the United States Geological Survey (USGS)
Lava fountain episode 53 in Halemaumau at the summit of Kilauea began around 3:45 PM Hawaii Standard Time August 12, 2026, and ended at 1:23 AM Hawaii Standard Time on August 13, 2026, after 9.6 hours of continuous fountaining from the north vent. The last four minutes were marked by gas jetting and flames from the north vent. The south vent never fountained during this episode but did overflow along with the new west vent (formerly the collapse pit) near the beginning of the episode. The new west vent (formerly the collapse pit) periodically emitted flames that were most visible after 7:00 PM Hawaii Standard Time. The instantaneous effusion rate peaked at about 300 cubic yards (230 cubic meters) per second at approximately 5:15 PM Hawaii Standard Time, with an average effusion rate of 180 cubic yards (135 cubic meters) per second for the entire fountaining episode. An estimated 6 million cubic yards (4.6 million cubic meters) of lava erupted and covered about 40-50% of the Halemaumau crater floor. Seismicity followed the normal change in tremor patterns seen after most fountain episodes. The Uekahuna tiltmeter recorded about 14.0 microradians of deflationary tilt during episode 53.
Fountain activity transitioned gradually from precursory lava flows from the north vent. Small glimpses of spatter were seen after 10:00 AM Hawaii Standard Time but spatter was not consistently visible until 11:04 AM Hawaii Standard Time. This was followed by a series of short-lived lava overflows that began at 11:20 AM, 11:35 AM, 11:45 AM, and 12:23 PM Hawaii Standard Time, each lasting 1-4 minutes. A fifth sluggish flow began around 1:00 PM Hawaii Standard Time and became sustained, gradually growing for about 45 minutes. At 1:45 p.m. Hawaii Standard Time, there was a dramatic increase in output correlated with a switch to deflationary tilt. A double dome fountain formed and began feeding a broad overflow that rapidly extended more than 2,000 feet (600 meters) from the vent. Large overflows from the south vent began at 3:26 PM and 3:38 PM Hawaii Standard Time and lasted approximately 5-6 minutes each. A small flow was also visible from the west vent (previously referred to as the new collapse feature) beginning at 3:31 PM Hawaii Standard Time. This small flow lasted for 28 minutes and ended 14 minutes after the start of episode 53. Two more flows sourced from the south vent and the west vent began at 4:02 PM and 4:03 PM respectively. The flow from the south vent only lasted 3 minutes. In contrast, the flow from the new west vent lasted 14 minutes and increased in intensity until it finally overflowed and drained into the south vent. There may have been other short periods of activity from the new west vent at 4:30 and 4:42 PM Hawaii Standard Time, but the view was obscured by the north vent fountains at that time.
The transition from precursory activity to the onset of episode 53 fountaining was marked by increasing height of the north vent dome fountain, greater eruptive volume, increased deflation and rapidly increasing tremor. The north vent lava fountain reached a peak height of approximately 500 feet (150 meters) around 5:00 PM Hawaii Standard Time and produced significant heat and ash, feeding a gas plume that reached a maximum height of about 18,000 feet (5,500 meters) above sea level based on webcam images and data reported by the National Weather Service.
Winds were out of the northeast below the inversion layer (about 10,000 feet or 3,000 meters above sea level) during fountaining, causing the plume to carry gas and fine ash / Peleʻs hair toward the southwest at lower levels. Higher level winds were more easterly and transported gas and fine tephra westward toward the summit of Mauna Loa. The plume track largely remained either within Hawaii Volcanoes National Park or over unpopulated areas. Tephra larger than ash size (about 1/16 of an inch or 1 millimeter) was falling out of the plume within 0.5 to 1.2 miles (1 to 2 kilometers) of the vents within the closed area of the national park.
By 6:40 PM Hawaii Standard Time on August 12, fountain heights decreased to about 350-400 feet (110-120 meters) above ground level, and plume heights decreased to 15,000 feet (4,500 meters) above sea level. Fountain heights remained mostly constant until about 9:00 PM Hawaii Standard Time when they began to slowly drop, reaching 330 feet (100 meters) just before 10:00 PM Hawaii Standard Time. The plume cloud heights also dropped to about 10,000 feet (3,000 meters) at the same time. By midnight, the fountain had dropped slightly to 300 feet (90 meters) high with little change in the altitude of the plume cloud. The final fountains varied from about 100-200 feet (30-60 meters) high during the last half hour of the eruption, which ended abruptly at 1:23 AM Hawaii Standard Time on August 13.
The abrupt switch from summit deflation to inflation at the end of episode 53 indicates that another lava fountaining episode is likely.
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Locality: Halemaumau Crater, southwestern corner of Kilauea Crater (Kilauea Caldera), southeastern Hawaii, central Pacific Basin
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The Musselburgh Pause the Flood Scheme group aims to:
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We’ve worked with geoscience experts who have told us that there’s still time to explore other options.
This is an opportunity for Musselburgh to become a leading example of a town using nature-based solutions to protect its residents from future flooding.
Oakland Community College - Orchard Ridge Campus 2003
Shot with Pentax ZX-L film camera.
That's my ex, taking a shot.
Eleanor and Lynda trying to find the buildings in North End which feature in copies of old photographs. On location with old photographs to capture Croydon' by looking into the past.