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Civilized society
Is not the one where people can drive cars
It is the one where they know when to stop.
...some colored..others very gray..
One more adventure with CResende www.flickr.com/photos/cresende/ in a frozen...very frozen morning
Wall, South Dakota, is only 45 minutes or eight miles by rail from this point west of Cottonwood. Western South Dakota is one of those places that whether you're in a car doing 60 or a train doing 10, once you leave a town it seems to disappear quickly and the distance between towns seems to last forever.
The good weather is holding. Mrs. Orca and I are at home for the foreseeable future, but the cat has never been happier, and the yardbirds are very active. Soon I'll start spending more time taking photos, but lately I've been transitioning to work-from-home.
Recently in the yard, of note:
I saw the first rufous hummingbird of the year on March 18. For some reason I don't have good records on first-arrivals for them, but here is what I do have:
2018 April 3
2017 March 14
2016 March 3
I saw a pacific wren on March 20, the first since December.
I saw a ruby-crowned kinglet in the yard today, March 21, the first since November.
I haven't been looking carefully but I haven't noticed the sapsucker in several days, and I'm worried.
Note (3/22): I saw two golden crowned kinglets in the yard today, the first since December 8, 2019.
Note (3/23): I saw a house finch today, the first since December 6, 2019.
Dunlin, Copalis Beach, Washington.
The Burj Khalifa is a skyscraper in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. With a total height of 829.8 m (2,722 ft) and a roof height (excluding antenna) of 828 m (2,717 ft), the Burj Khalifa has been the tallest structure and building in the world since its topping out in late 2008.
A photo taken in the mountains of Styria of a house that stands all alone on a mountain top. It＇s a cool, foggy morning and the clouds are still quite thick.
Manaus is a beautiful city rich in culture and biodiversity.
Amazon Theatre
©2014 Roglerson Moura
D3100 + NIKKOR 40mm f/2.8G
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Clay "Bag" with labrys (double axe) symbols | Ton-"Tasche" mit Doppelaxtsymbolen
Postpalatial period (1450 - 1200 BC) | Nachpalastzeit (1450 - 1200 v. Chr.)
Heraklion Archaeological Museum, Heraklion, Crete
The Minoan civilization is named after the mythical king Minos. It "was a Bronze Age culture which was centered on the island of Crete. Known for its monumental architecture and energetic art, it is often regarded as the first civilization in Europe. The ruins of the Minoan palaces at Knossos and Phaistos are popular tourist attractions." en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minoan_civilization
What makes the Museum of the Civilizations of Europe and the Mediterranean (MuCEM) so unique is that it recounts, analyses and sheds light on the ancient foundations of this cradle of civilization. Its exhibitions and cultural programs combine anthropology, history, archaeology, art history and contemporary art to show the public the multiple facets of the Mediterranean world.
The museum, built of "stone, water and wind", was designed by architect Rudy Ricciotti in collaboration with the architect Roland Carta. As a cube of 15,000 square metres (160,000 sq. ft), it is surrounded by a latticework shell of fibre-reinforced concrete.
As the first museum devoted to Mediterranean cultures, the MuCEM opened in Marseille in June 2013. By the following year, it had joined the ranks of the 50 most visited museums in the world.
... Now where did I park the car...?
It was fantastic trekking for multiple days in the Setesdalsheiane this summer! But... as you can see there was literally no place for my dSLR in my backpack... :-( Too big, too heavy (it was already 28 kg at the beginning of the trip... and I thought I had bought all lightweight camping equipment I could find by now :-) ). So I felt a bit 'naked' at times. But at least I had a compact camera with me, and this is just one exposure, so its RAW files are flexible enough. I missed the fine detail from my D810 in post though.
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Archaeological excavations demonstrate a continuity of life in Calnic (judet Alba), starting with the Neolithic and Bronze Age settlements, the Dacian and Roman remains, or from the period of migration to the Middle Ages.
The name of the city, mentioned for the first time in 1269 (villa Kelnuk) is of Slavic-Romanian origin. The name of the place was taken over by the Saxons (Kelling) and the Hungarians (Kelnek).
The Romanesque fortress of Calnic is an old noble residence, which by its small size cannot compete with those of the big cities, but which is considered as very representative of a local civilization, transylvaine and a particular time.
The fortress consists of two rows of walls (enclosures) with an oval path, arranged concentric and reinforced with flanking elements: two towers and a bastion. The front door is defended by a fortified corridor. The belts protect the interior courtyard, at the heart of the fortress, where the chapel, the fountain and the dungeon are located. The latter dominates by its height (27m) and its massiveness (walls of 1m) the whole complex. During the romantic era, this impressive medieval vestige was nicknamed the Siegfried Tower.
The outer enclosure or zwinger has a maximum diameter of around 70 m with a height of 3 m. The inner enclosure is the most imposing with its 7m height. On the small diameter, it is fortified by two towers: the portal tower (NW) and a defense tower (SE). 24 m high, the portal tower is one of the vertical domes of the complex. There are four bells here, which is why the building is also called the bell tower.
Due to its preservation in good condition, in the middle of a locality bearing until now the imprint of the civilization of the German colonists established in Transylvania, the edifice was inscribed in the UNESCO World Heritage List (1999).
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I thought they'd built as close to Red Rock as they could, but as you can see in the middle left of the photo I was wrong again.
"They called it paradise, I don't know why
You call some place paradise, kiss it goodbye"
Star trails cut short due to frost forming onto my lens but it's a great spot worth to revisit once night's are back.
“Moths lay their eggs where civilizations have been destroyed.”
- Marty Rubin
hmua/Model: Laryssa Fierle
Wings: Aleah Michele
Cool Jazz, warm evening,
Hot meal, Kona bay beach.
Glad to be alive.
Aperture chosen in post.
Happy Sliders Sunday!
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The Grand Gulch / Cedar Mesa area in Southeastern Utah is littered with old ruins of Ancient Pueblan dwellings and granaries. Many ancient cultures such as the Mayans and Ancient Pueblans succumbed to droughts, as we're seeing spread in Africa, China, and the Western U.S.. Some leading scientists are forecasting a crash in global human population to 500 million by the end of this century. We're seeing clear changes and acceleration now in places like Antarctica, the Arctic, and Greenland, and many of us will live to see them affect global economies and societies. The survival of our children, and their children, are the stakes.
Global scientific collaboration is starting to gain an understanding of how natural (climate) and human (deforestation. topsoil erosion, population) forces have shaped human history. This will help us more completely understand, and hopefully influence, our future.
Projects such as the Integrated History of People on Earth (IHOPE), International Human Dimensions Programme on Global Environmental Change (IHDP), and the American Quaternary Association (AMQUA, devoted to studying all aspects of the Quaternary Period, the last 2 million years of Earth history) promise to give us the knowledge and tools to make more informed decisions about our future.
After 20+ years of largely ignoring the evidence (such as presented in the watered-down government-reviewed IPCC reports), we may no longer have the luxury of being able to wait and see what happens before our fate will be decided for us.