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Quand un affût balbuzard se transforme en rencontre intime avec deux petits castors ! Ils sont passés tous deux tout près de ma cachette, le second est venu à la rencontre du premier sur la berge pour lui faire un bisou, puis s'en est allé voir plus loin. Ne cherchez pas le 2e sur ma photo, il venait de partir sur la gauche 😅
Sur la rivière Drôme, début septembre.
Continuing my series on the house I've named Castor Cottage. See my blog for most for credits: billybeaverhausen.com/2019/03/24/castor-cottage-episode-3/
This Castor Bean plant has some interesting names. Castor Oil Plant, Maple Weed, Ridings and Palm of Christ.
Castor and ten other chickens had disappeared when we came back from our holidays a couple weeks ago. Probably some predator raided their coops.
Castor (and his twin Pollux) was an Ohiki, a Japanese breed famous for its long ilken feathers.
There were hreee beavers here in this area. This one was really enjoying a snack of these alder leaves. The tall grass on the bank of the river has been beaten down in a couple of corridors where they have been exiting the river.
To outsiders, it may seem odd that one of the most classic symbols of Canada is a bucktoothed furball that causes millions of dollars in property damage each year. But the mighty beaver played an important part in the country’s history, and its image remains proudly engraved into our currency.
Why? Because of the fur trade. But the fur trade was definitely a significant factor in the selection of the beaver as an official emblem of Canada. Without the beaver, Canada as we know it, would not exist. Everything changed the moment when early French explorers realized, “Well, they don’t have any gold, but damn! Those rodents would make good looking hats.” Beginning in the 16th century, the fur trade was the backbone of the colonial economy and a major international industry for roughly 300 years. The fur trade was instrumental in the development of the country that would become Canada. Those involved, be it explorers, voyageurs, or coureur des bois, pushed further and further into the North American interior to expand the trade—as well as France’s (and eventually Britain’s) claim over the land. At the heart of the fur trade was the beaver, whose pelts were used to make everything from wool felt hats to robes to winter coats. The use of the beaver as a symbol stems back to the main players of the fur trade, the Hudson’s Bay Company, who put the animal on their coat of arms in 1628.
The beaver was given official status as an emblem of Canada when “An Act to provide for the recognition of the Beaver (Castor canadensis) as a symbol of the sovereignty of Canada” received royal assent on March 24, 1975. However, the beaver was a part of the Canadian identity long before Parliament passed the National Symbol of Canada Act.
A beaver was depicted on a coat of arms granted in the 1620s to Sir William Alexander (who held Nova Scotia) by Charles I of England. It also appeared on the coat of arms of the newly incorporated city of Montréal in 1832 and on the first Canadian postage stamp in 1851. The G.E. Kruger Gray-designed five-cent coin, on which a beaver sits atop a log, has been in near-constant circulation since 1937.
Despite this recognition, the beaver was close to extinction by the mid-19th century. There were an estimated six million beavers in Canada before the start of the fur trade. During its peak, 100,000 pelts were being shipped to Europe each year; the Canadian beaver was in danger of being wiped out. Luckily, about that time, Europeans took a liking to silk hats and the demand for beaver pelts all but disappeared.
Today, thanks to conservation the beaver – the largest rodent in Canada – is alive and well all over the country.
One of the most interesting plants I know of. This cluster of flowers was photographed on September 22, 2016 near Brooklyn in southeast Michigan.
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Picture of the Castor appartment building in Houten (The Netherlands). This building is part of the Castellum quarter. I love the nice straight lines of the building and colors of the bricks. Also the balconies look rather massive and are well designed. This building looks massive and strong.
Enlarge the picture to see the details. With the blue sky in the background, the building looks great.
As the Sony RX100 is concerned. This camera still is one of my most favourite cameras ever. The quality (and sharpness) of the pictures of such a small camera is outstanding. This picture proves it. No editing.
Sony | rx100 | Zeissn