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This is a photograph of a meadow full of Fireweed. Fireweed is one of the most plentiful wildflowers in the Rocky Mountains, where I live.
Fireweed gets its common name because it’s notoriously associated with fire landscapes. It quickly colonizes disturbed areas, including fire scars, logged land, and oil spills. It was one of the first plants to appear after the catastrophic eruption of Mount St. Helens in Washington, and it even took over urban burned ground after London was bombed during World War II (in England, one of its common names is “bombweed”).
The flower stalks are usually around 2–4 feet high, but can grow up to a monstrous nine feet. On the tundra, fireweed can be tiny.
It disperses by thousands of seeds that fly on little silky tufts each fall, but it also spreads underground through a system of stems called rhizomes. When a fire moves through, the rhizomes usually survive the burn and can quickly grow again the following summer. This underground network can help stabilize burned or logged soil from eroding, and the plants help recycle nutrients back into the earth.
Each fireweed stalk can have 80,000 seeds, helping the plant quickly spread. Flowers are replaced by long cylindrical capsules full of silky fluff that open up at the end of summer, parachuting their attached seeds into the wind
Where there’s fireweed, there’s wildlife. Bears chow on the tender young shoots in June and deer browse the flowery stalks. Moose, caribou, muskrat, and hares also forage on fireweed.
There are many traditional human uses for all parts of the plant, which is high in Vitamins C and A. Young stems can be boiled and eaten like asparagus, the dried leaves can be made into tea, and the flower nectar can be used in honey, syrup, and jelly. Even the silk seed tufts have been used, as padding or incorporated into weaving. Medicinally, fireweed has been used to treat cuts and boils, and the extract has anti-inflammatory effects. To make your own fireweed jelly, you’ll need about 8 cups of the flowers to boil into juice.
Length 55-65 cm
Wingspan 88-106 cm
Weight 400-600g
The little egret is a small white heron with attractive white plumes on crest, back and chest, black legs and bill and yellow feet. It first appeared in the UK in significant numbers in 1989 and first bred in Dorset in 1996. Its colonization followed naturally from a range expansion into western and northern France in previous decades. It is now at home on numerous south coast sites, both as a breeding species and as a winter visitor.
Our neighbours garden has been colonized by Bluebells, Hyacinths and Forget Me Nots and is starting to resemble a wild meadow...great to see the increase in insects.
Eastern elk once ranged statewide, but colonization and exploitation by European settlers eventually led to the species demise. Prior to the arrival of European immigrants, elk were found from northern New York to central Georgia. Pennsylvanias largest elk concentrations are believed to have been in the Allegheny Mountains. Elk, or wapitis as they were called by native Americans, were doggedly pursued wherever they could be found in colonial Penns Woods. They were chased with dogs, jack-lighted, tracked whenever snow provided a trail, and shot on sight. County is a county located in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania. As of the 2010 census, the population was 31,946. Its county seat is Ridgway. The county was created on April 18, 1843, from parts of Jefferson, Clearfield and McKean Counties, and is named for the Eastern elk that historically inhabited the region. Wikipedia
Banff National Park, Alberta, Canada
Fireweed (Chamerion angustifolium) is a tall wildflower that grows from sea level to the subalpine zone. The name fireweed stems from its ability to colonize areas burned by fire rapidly.
Examples:
> Known as rosebay willowherb in Great Britain, fireweed quickly colonized burned ground after the bombing of London in World War II, bringing welcomed color & the nickname “bombweed.”
> It was one of the first plants to appear after the eruption of Mt. St. Helens in 1980.
Bears and elk are known to favor the plant as food.
www.fs.fed.us/wildflowers/plant-of-the-week/chamerion_ang...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chamaenerion_angustifolium
Bow Lake is approximately 30 minutes north of Lake Louise, off the Icefields Parkway in the Canadian Rockies and a half mile north of the Crowfoot Glacier. Sitting at an elevation of 1,920 m (6,300 ft), it is one of the largest lakes in Banff National Park.
www.travelalberta.com/us/listings/bow-lake-1997/
Fujifilm X-T20. Fujinon XF 10-24 mm. 10 mm, f/8, 1/1600 sec, ISO 400.
The Viking Age (793–1066 AD) was the period during the Middle Ages when Norsemen known as Vikings undertook large-scale raiding, colonizing, conquest and trading throughout Europe, and reached North America.
It followed the Migration Period and the Germanic Iron Age.
The Viking Age applies not only to their homeland of Scandinavia, but to any place significantly settled by Scandinavians during the period.
The Scandinavians of the Viking Age are often referred to as Vikings as well as Norsemen, although few of them were Vikings in the technical sense.
Voyaging by sea from their homelands in Denmark, Norway and Sweden, the Norse people settled in the British Isles, Ireland, the Faroe Islands, Iceland, Greenland, Normandy, the Baltic coast, and along the Dnieper and Volga trade routes in eastern Europe (where they were also known as Varangians). They also briefly settled in Newfoundland, becoming the first Europeans to reach North America. The Norse-Gaels, Normans, Rus' people, Faroese and Icelanders emerged from these Norse colonies.
The Vikings founded several kingdoms and earldoms in Europe: the kingdom of the Isles (Suðreyjar), Orkney (Norðreyjar), York (Jórvík) and the Danelaw (Danalǫg), Dublin (Dyflin), Normandy, and Kievan Rus' (Garðaríki). The Norse homelands were also unified into larger kingdoms during the Viking Age, and the short-lived North Sea Empire included large swathes of Scandinavia and Britain.
Several things drove this expansion.
The Vikings were drawn by the growth of wealthy towns and monasteries overseas, and weak kingdoms. They may also have been pushed to leave their homeland by overpopulation, lack of good farmland, and political strife arising from the unification of Norway. The aggressive expansion of the Carolingian Empire and forced conversion of the neighboring Saxons to Christianity may also have been a factor.
Sailing innovations had allowed the Vikings to sail further and longer to begin with.
Information about the Viking Age is drawn largely from primary sources written by those the Vikings encountered, as well as archaeology, supplemented with secondary sources such as the Icelandic Sagas.wikipedia
I read that this is the original stage stop, it is fascinating to think of the people who passed through this place that is very near the California coast - before and after colonization.
Puerto Varas es la capital turistica del sur de Chile. Ubicada en la Provincia de Llanquihue en la Región de Los Lagos, a orillas del Lago Llanquihue a 1016 kms al sur de Santiago y a 20 kms al norte de Puerto Montt.
La ciudad fue fundada en 1853 a partir de la colonizacion principalmente de emigrantes provenientes de Alemania y Suiza hoy cuenta con 32.000 habitantes. Destaca por su belleza escenica, orden y limpieza asi tambien denominada la "Cuidad de las Rosas"
Es el punto de inicio para una serie de actividades principalmente del tipo "Turismo Aventura" entre los que destacan caminatas y ski en las laderas del Volcan Osorno, visitas al Lago Todos los Santos y Parque Nacional Vicente Perez Rosales con los Saltos del Río Petrohue, el Cruce Andino de los las Lagos Patagonicos, Pesca Deportiva (Flyfishing), kayaking, velerismo, y una infinidad de otras activividades derivadas de su entorno agricola y natural siempre verde.
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Puerto Varas is the tourist capital of southern Chile. Located in the Province of Llanquihue in the Lakes Region on the shores of Lake Llanquihue to 1016 kms south of Santiago and 20 km north of Puerto Montt.
The city was founded in 1853 after the colonization mainly immigrants from Germany and Switzerland today has 32,000 inhabitants. Noted for its scenic beauty, order and cleanliness so also called the "City of Roses"
It is the starting point for a series of activities mainly of type "Adventure Tourism" among them hiking and ski on the slopes of Volcan Osorno, visits to Lake Todos los Santos and Vicente Perez Rosales National Park with the falls of Petrohue, the crossing of the Patagonian lakes, fishing (Flyfishing), kayaking, sailing, and a host of other activividades derived from the surrounding agricultural and natural evergreen
Unlike the larger black and white/yellow bumblebees, the Orange-belted Bumblebee is a colonizing and social insect. They are fairly common in North America. They nest in abandoned rodent nests and other low cavities. They have a stinger (that they don't lose, unlike honeybees), but they are not aggressive. They are very pretty bees.
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Paraty city in Rio de Janeiro state is a colonial city founded by portugueses colonizers in sixteen century
Shop window in Faro
Faro (Portuguese pronunciation: [ˈfaɾu]) is a municipality, southernmost city and seat of the district of the same name, in theAlgarve region of southern Portugal. With a population of 64,560 inhabitants in 2011 (with 50,000 inhabitants in the city proper), the municipality covers an area of approximately 202.57 square kilometres (78.21 sq mi).
The Ria Formosa lagoon attracted human occupants from the Palaeolithicage until the end of pre-history. The first settlements date from the 4th century BC, during the period of Phoneician colonization of the western Mediterranean. At the time, the area was known as Ossonoba, and was the most important urban centre of southern Portugal and commercial entrepot for agricultural products, fish and minerals. Between the 2nd and 8th century, the city was under the domain of the Roman and later Visigoths, before being conquered by the Moors in 713. From the 3rd century onwards and during the Visigothic period, it was the site of an Episcopal seeof the Christian church.
With the advent of Moorish rule in the 8th century, Ossonoba retained its status as the most important town in the southwest corner of the Iberian Peninsula. In the 9th century it became the capital of a short-lived princedom and was fortified with a ring of defensive walls. At this time, in the 10th century,the name Santa Maria (Shantamariyyat al-Gharb in Arabic) began to be used instead of Ossonoba. By the 11th century the town was known as Santa Maria Ibn Harun.
During the 500 years of Moorish rule, some Jewish residents of Faro made written copies of the Old Testament. One of Faro's historical names in Arabicis أخشونبة (ʼUḫšūnubaḧ). The Moors were defeated in 1249 by the forces of the Portuguese King Afonso III. With the decline of the importance of the city ofSilves, Faro took over the role of administration of the Algarve area.
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Seen on Christine Lake Hike in the Miette River valley, Jasper National Park, Alberta, Canada
The hillsides and valleys of Jasper are a sickly shade of copper red and orange, covered with stands of trees killed by the mountain pine beetle. Mountain pine beetle has always existed in Western Canada, but its appearance in the national park has been sudden to a casual observer like me.
In recent years, with populations of the bark-devouring insect fuelled by hot, dry summers, and unseasonably mild winters, the insect infestation has escalated and brought down more than 16 million hectares of forest!
Essentially pine beetle outbreaks are one of nature’s built-in mechanisms for climate change adaptation in natural forests. I believe this picture one day will serve as a historic record of the changing landscape.
Stethophyma grossum belongs to the Acrididae family and can reach a length of up to 40 mm. Its color may vary considerably. It can only exist in wet meadows and marshland and has become rare, because many of its former habitats have fallen dry. Fortunately it has wings and can fly, so that it is able to colonize new areas.
The Viking Age (793–1066 AD) was the period during the Middle Ages when Norsemen known as Vikings undertook large-scale raiding, colonizing, conquest, and trading throughout Europe, and reached North America.
It followed the Migration Period and the Germanic Iron Age.[7] The Viking Age applies not only to their homeland of Scandinavia, but to any place significantly settled by Scandinavians during the period.[3] The Scandinavians of the Viking Age are often referred to as Vikings as well as Norsemen, although few of them were Vikings in the technical sense.
Voyaging by sea from their homelands in Denmark, Norway and Sweden, the Norse people settled in the British Isles, Ireland, the Faroe Islands, Iceland, Greenland, Normandy, the Baltic coast, and along the Dnieper and Volga trade routes in eastern Europe, where they were also known as Varangians. They also briefly settled in Newfoundland, becoming the first Europeans to reach North America. The Norse-Gaels, Normans, Rus' people, Faroese and Icelanders emerged from these Norse colonies.
The Vikings founded several kingdoms and earldoms in Europe: the kingdom of the Isles (Suðreyjar), Orkney (Norðreyjar), York (Jórvík) and the Danelaw (Danalǫg), Dublin (Dyflin), Normandy, and Kievan Rus' (Garðaríki). The Norse homelands were also unified into larger kingdoms during the Viking Age, and the short-lived North Sea Empire included large swathes of Scandinavia and Britain.
Several things drove this expansion. The Vikings were drawn by the growth of wealthy towns and monasteries overseas, and weak kingdoms. They may also have been pushed to leave their homeland by overpopulation, lack of good farmland, and political strife arising from the unification of Norway. The aggressive expansion of the Carolingian Empire and forced conversion of the neighboring Saxons to Christianity may also have been a factor.
Sailing innovations had allowed the Vikings to sail further and longer to begin with.
Information about the Viking Age is drawn largely from primary sources written by those the Vikings encountered, as well as archaeology, supplemented with secondary sources such as the Icelandic Sagas.
Sir Gaerfyrddin/ Carmarthenshire
▪️'The Nakba didn’t end in 1948. It never stopped. The Palestinian people have been systematically displaced, silenced, and erased for over seven decades while the world still pretends this conflict is “complicated.” It’s colonization, plain and simple.' - Guy Christensen
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'Ni ddaeth y Nabka i ben yn 1948. Ni pheidiodd byth. Mae'r Palesteiniaid wedi cael eu symud, eu tawelu a'u dileu mewn modd trefnedig am dros saith degawd tra bo'r byd yn cymryd arno bod y gwrthdaro hwn "yn gymhleth." Gwladychu ydyw. Mae'n syml syml.' - Guy Christensen
The village of Paraty was founded in 1597. It was established formally as a town by Portuguese colonizers in 1667, in a region populated by the Guaianás Indians.
The Guaianás people who lived where the city now stands called the entire area “Paraty”. In the Tupi language “Paraty” means “river of fish”. Even today the Brazilian Mullet (Mugil brasiliensis) still come back to spawn in the rivers that spill into the Bay of Paraty. When the region was colonized by the Portuguese, they adopted the Guaianás name for their new town.
Paraty - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
AKA Nutmeg Mannikin. Endemic to Asia these birds have colonized California and are an official species for birders to list.
The common kestrel (Falco tinnunculus) is a bird of prey species belonging to the kestrel group of the falcon family Falconidae. It is also known as the European kestrel, Eurasian kestrel, or Old World kestrel. In Britain, where no other kestrel species occurs, it is generally just called "the kestrel".
This species occurs over a large range. It is widespread in Europe, Asia, and Africa, as well as occasionally reaching the east coast of North America. It has also colonized a few oceanic islands, Common kestrels measure 32–39 cm (13–15 in) from head to tail, with a wingspan of 65–82 cm (26–32 in). Females are noticeably larger, with the adult male weighing 136–252 g (4.8–8.9 oz), around 155 g (5.5 oz) on average; the adult female weighs 154–314 g (5.4–11.1 oz), around 184 g (6.5 oz) on average. They are thus small compared with other birds of prey, but larger than most songbirds. Like the other Falco species, they have long wings as well as a distinctive long tail.
The Viking Age (793–1066 AD) was the period during the Middle Ages when Norsemen known as Vikings undertook large-scale raiding, colonizing, conquest, and trading throughout Europe, and reached North America.
It followed the Migration Period and the Germanic Iron Age. The Viking Age applies not only to their homeland of Scandinavia, but to any place significantly settled by Scandinavians during the period.
The Scandinavians of the Viking Age are often referred to as Vikings as well as Norsemen, although few of them were Vikings in the technical sense.
Voyaging by sea from their homelands in Denmark, Norway and Sweden, the Norse people settled in the British Isles, Ireland, the Faroe Islands, Iceland, Greenland, Normandy, the Baltic coast, and along the Dnieper and Volga trade routes in eastern Europe, where they were also known as Varangians. They also briefly settled in Newfoundland, becoming the first Europeans to reach North America. The Norse-Gaels, Normans, Rus' people, Faroese and Icelanders emerged from these Norse colonies. The Vikings founded several kingdoms and earldoms in Europe: the kingdom of the Isles (Suðreyjar), Orkney (Norðreyjar), York (Jórvík) and the Danelaw (Danalǫg), Dublin (Dyflin), Normandy, and Kievan Rus' (Garðaríki). The Norse homelands were also unified into larger kingdoms during the Viking Age, and the short-lived North Sea Empire included large swathes of Scandinavia and Britain. In 1021, the Vikings achieved the feat of reaching North America- the date of which was not specified until exactly a millennium later.
Several things drove this expansion. The Vikings were drawn by the growth of wealthy towns and monasteries overseas, and weak kingdoms. They may also have been pushed to leave their homeland by overpopulation, lack of good farmland, and political strife arising from the unification of Norway. The aggressive expansion of the Carolingian Empire and forced conversion of the neighboring Saxons to Christianity may also have been a factor.
Sailing innovations had allowed the Vikings to sail further and longer to begin with.
Information about the Viking Age is drawn largely from primary sources written by those the Vikings encountered, as well as archaeology, supplemented with secondary sources such as the Icelandic Sagas.
Le Trithémis pourpré ou Trithémis annelé, ou Libellule purpurine, est une espèce de libellule africaine, qui tend depuis la fin du XXe siècle à coloniser le versant nord de la Méditerranée.
fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trithemis_annulata
the Purple Trithemis or Ringed Trithemis, or Purple Dragonfly, is a species of African dragonfly, which tends since the end of the 20th century to colonize the northern slope of the Mediterranean.
326) Large Billed Crow
Jungle Crow, LargeBilled Crow, Corvus macrorhynchos, Gagak Paruh Besar
This is a widespread Asian species of crow. Like other crows, it is very adaptable and is able to survive on a wide range of food sources, making it capable of colonizing new areas, due to which it is often considered a nuisance, especially on islands. It has a large bill which is the source of its scientific name macrorhynchos. Extremely versatile in its feeding, it will take food from the ground or in trees. They feed on a wide range of items and will attempt to feed on anything appearing edible, alive or dead, plant or animal.
The settlement of La Atalayita is an archaeological site, whose occupation dates back to the aboriginal period of Fuerteventura, the mahos (people of Berber origin from North Africa who lived on the island before the conquest in the fifteenth century) and has been reused, continuously, by the shepherds after the conquest and colonization of the island.
The site occupies an approximate area of 45,045 m2 and is made up of 115 structures of different typologies and complexity, which can be divided into: vaulted constructions, mixed constructions made up of vaulted enclosures with other larger ones, traditional construction, volcanic tube conditioning and other circular constructions whose functionality is still unknown.
The first studies carried out in the settlement began in the decade of the 50's and 60's with the Excavations Commissioner Sebastián Jiménez Sánchez, who called it El Saladillo. It is from 1974 when it will be known by the name of La Atalayita, starting in January of that same year the three campaigns of archaeological excavations developed between 1974 and 1977 in charge of Professor Demetrio Castro Alfín. During those years a large amount of archaeological material was collected on the surface, composed mainly of fragments of handmade ceramics with decorations, belonging, according to the researchers, to the aboriginal stage of the island; fragments of plain, popular and lathe-made ceramics, as well as malacological, lithic and bone material. In the cuts made, the same typology of material was extracted, except for some objects such as a metal fragment and a pin of the same material and also some pieces made of shells, polished and with holes, in the shape of a pendant.
The singularity of the constructions of the settlement, as well as its location between two protected areas of great natural and cultural value such as Malpaís Grande and Cuchillos de Vigán, make it one of the most relevant sites of the island's archaeological heritage.
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El Poblado de La Atalayita es un yacimiento arqueológico, cuya ocupación se remonta a la época aborigen de Fuerteventura, los mahos (pueblo de origen bereber procedente del norte de África que vivía en la Isla antes de la conquista en el siglo XV) y ha sido reutilizado, de forma continuada, por los pastores después de la conquista y colonización de la Isla.
El yacimiento ocupa una superficie aproximada de 45.045 m2 y está formada por 115 estructuras de diversa tipologías y complejidad, las cuales podemos dividir en: construcciones abovedadas, construcciones mixtas formadas por el adosamiento de recintos abovedados con otros de mayores dimensiones, construcción tradicional, tubo volcánico acondicionado y otras construcciones circulares cuya funcionalidad todavía se desconoce.
Los primeros estudios realizados en el poblado se iniciaron en la década de los años 50-60 con el Comisario de Excavaciones Sebastián Jiménez Sánchez, quien los denomina con el nombre de El Saladillo. Es a partir de 1974 cuando será conocido con el nombre de La Atalayita, iniciándose en enero de ese mismo año las tres campañas de excavaciones arqueológicas desarrolladas entre 1974 y 1977 a cargo del profesor Demetrio Castro Alfín. Durante esos años se recogió gran cantidad de material arqueológico en superficie, compuesto mayormente por fragmentos de cerámicas realizadas a mano y con decoraciones, pertenecientes, según los investigadores, a la etapa aborigen de la Isla; fragmentos de cerámica lisa, popular y a torno, así como material malacológico, lítico y óseos. En los cortes realizados se extrajo la misma tipología de material, exceptuando algunos objetos como un fragmento de metal y un alfiler del mismo material y también algunas piezas realizadas en conchas, pulidas y con orificios, con forma de colgante.
La singularidad de las construcciones del poblado así como su situación entre dos espacios protegidos de gran valor natural y cultural como es el Malpaís Grande y Cuchillos de Vigán, lo convierte en uno de los yacimientos más relevantes del patrimonio arqueológico insular.
Valle de Pozo Negro, Antigua, Fuerteventura, Islas Canarias
...at HInton Ampner.
Some trees, like the one on the left of my photo, have been colonized by mistletoe.
Wikipedia: The large-billed crow (Corvus macrorhynchos), formerly referred to widely as the jungle crow, is a widespread Asian species of crow. It is very adaptable and is able to survive on a wide range of food sources, making it capable of colonizing new areas, due to which it is often considered a nuisance, especially on islands. It has a large bill, which is the source of its scientific name macrorhynchos (Ancient Greek for "large beak") and it is sometimes known by the common name thick-billed crow. It can also be mistaken for a common raven.
Christopher Columbus was born in the territory of the Republic of Genoa in 1451 (perhaps in the same city of Genoa) and died in Spain in 1506. Great navigator paved the way for the colonization of America. Genoa has dedicated this impressive monument to visitors
Mission San Gregorio de Abó began construction in 1621 and was finished by 1629 as part of the vast colonization of New Mexico by the Spaniards. The original pueblo ruins date to about 1300.
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The Vegetarian Finch is one of the largest of Darwin's Finches. This species was an early evolutionary split from the original Tiaris Grassquits that colonized the islands and is placed in its own genus (Platyspiza).
The name of this species is a bit misleading. The bird is primarily a vegetarian (feeding primarily on buds, leaves, flowers and fruit) but occasionally eats caterpillars.
An interesting feeding habit of the Vegetarian Finch is the stripping of bark of twigs to get to the cambium and phloem underneath (essentially plant tissue that lies under the bark).
Vegetarian Finch (Platyspiza crassirostris)
Female/Immature
Family: Tanagers (Thraupidae)
Santa Cruz--highlands/tortoise reserve
Galapagos, EC
2017/08/27
Several delicate polypores (bracket fungus, shelf fungus) colonize a fallen tree in the dark understory of a moist lowland forest on the Osa Peninsula, Costa Rica. A ray of sunshine had penetrated the canopy and rim lit the fungus.
06/01/2022 www.allenfotowild.com
Bridge Town, Barbados.
The first English ship, which had arrived on 14 May 1625, was captained by John Powell. The first settlement began on 17 February 1627, near what is now Holetown. Barbados was colonized by the British and independence came in 1961 and forms part of the Commonwealth.
2024-09-12, Day 6
The view from Atlas Pass down to Atlas Creek and the Duke River watershed is a moonscape of rocks and clays that even the hardiest of alpine plants have failed to colonize, Kluane National Park, Yukon.
My friend and I gained the pass from the other side and we were immediately treated to a whipping, cold wind that urged the donning of additional layers. While we fiddled with the packs to find warmer clothing, a young Dall sheep ambled past not more than 10 meters distant. There were no other sheep in sight, but we had seen plenty on the other side of the pass in the direction this young one was headed. Perhaps it was a teenager rebelling against the diktats of the herd before coming back to its senses.
From the point where I made this photo, a traveler must find a route from the Pass to Atlas Creek, as hopping stones along the creek bed is the easiest way to ultimately reach the Duke River where we hoped to camp along its banks. According to the Parks Canada route description, the safest option involves traversing down the ridge-line that travels from the lower-left of the frame toward the center. On the other side of that ridge line and out of sight in this photo, one looks for a small, relatively level patch of plants and soil about the size of a putting green, and then one begins a steep descent through the loose and shifting scree to the right of this anomalous vegetation.
We found the putting green with ease, as the obvious patch of plants and soil was utterly at odds with the blasted jumble of surrounding stones. It was a lone outpost of life support, and upon close inspection, the soil was riddled with rodent burrows. Picking our way down through the steeply sloping rocks, we arrived at the trickle of Atlas Creek without incident. Taking stock of our surroundings, we noticed a number of Dall sheep rams high up on the surrounding ridges looking down and watching us.
En nuestro querido " Tractor Abandonado ".
In our dear " Abandoned tractor ".
Recordando el album " Abandonos en Las Matas ".
Remembering the album " Abandonments in Las Matas ".
Los Líquenes son seres vivos ( simbiosis entre algas y hongos ) que nacen, crecen, se reproducen y mueren.
Su presencia constituye el primer paso en la colonización de materia inerte ( Hierro, en este caso ) por parte de la Naturaleza.
LICHENS ON RUST. I. Macrophotography.
Remembering the album " Abandonments in Las Matas ".
The Lichens are living being ( Simbioses between algae and fugus ) that born, grow, reproduce and die.
Its presence is the first step in the colonization of inert matherials ( In this case, Iron ) by the Nature., i.e. life appearance on not living.
Las Matas. Comunidad de Madrid. España. Spain.
A bit of History:
Diego de Almagro founded Santiago de Quito on August 15, 1534, later to be renamed San Francisco de Quito on August 28, 1534.
The city was later moved to its present location and was refounded on 6 December 1534 by 204 settlers led by Sebastián de Benalcázar, who captured Rumiñahui and effectively ended any organized resistance.[6] Rumiñahui was then executed on January 10, 1535. On March 14, 1541, Quito was declared a city and on February 14, 1556, was given the title Muy Noble y Muy Leal Ciudad de San Francisco de Quito ("Very Noble and Loyal City of San Francisco of Quito"), starting at this point its urban evolution.
In 1563, Quito became the seat of a Real Audiencia (administrative district) of Spain and became part of the Viceroyalty of Peru, until 1717 after the Audiencia was part of a newly created Viceroyalty of Nueva Granada. Its administration on both Viceroyalties remained to Quito. (see Real Audiencia de Quito)
As with other places colonized by the Spanish, the colonizers promptly established Roman Catholicism in Quito. The first church (El Belén) was in fact built even before the city had been officially founded. In January 1535, the San Francisco Convent was constructed, the first of about 20 churches and convents built during the colonial period. The Spanish converted the indigenous population to Christianity.
with its intense red lava and Euphorbia balsamifera colonizing the surface. The huge volcanic cone, called "la bomba", is thought to have been deposited by the lava flow in the 1730s eruptions.
Elmarit 24mm, 1/8sec, f22, -4/3EV, 100 ISO
le Trithémis pourpré ou Trithémis annelé, ou Libellule purpurine, est une espèce de libellule africaine, qui tend depuis la fin du XXe siècle à coloniser le versant nord de la Méditerranée.
fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trithemis_annulata
the Purple Trithemis or Ringed Trithemis, or Purple Dragonfly, is a species of African dragonfly, which tends since the end of the 20th century to colonize the northern slope of the Mediterranean.
2550 AD. Mars is finally a colonized planet, scientists have managed to create an atmosphere where we humans can breathe normally and so explore new horizons as we can see it in this picture taken by an AI automated surveillance device, where a couple of young explorers enjoy a pleasurable ballad along the coastline.
TD : 1/400 f/8 ISO 100 @28 mm
Picture it! - It's the year 2000 and we've colonized the Moon! By 2023 we'll have colonized Mars! Oh what wonders the future holds!
Somnium is releasing this homage to vintage scifi with our Retro Space suit.
This full body suit was designed around Legacy Male Bodies, fits Belleza Jake, and may fit other male-presenting bodies.
The body suit includes a color HUD for tons of customization, and space helm.
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SOMNIUM - Retro Space Blaster is sold separately and includes a 10 color HUD to match the suit.
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Enjoy a exclusive, Vintage Silver Version of the bodysuit for 25% off for the duration of the event. The Retro Space Suit - Vintage includes a Retro Space Blaster - Vintage exclusive color.
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Please be sure to demo!
The Warehouse Sale Opens at 10pm SLT 05/23/2023
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See you in space!
Puerto Varas es la capital turistica del sur de Chile. Ubicada en la Provincia de Llanquihue en la Región de Los Lagos, a orillas del Lago Llanquihue a 1016 kms al sur de Santiago y a 20 kms al norte de Puerto Montt.
La ciudad fue fundada en 1853 a partir de la colonizacion principalmente de emigrantes provenientes de Alemania y Suiza hoy cuenta con 32.000 habitantes. Destaca por su belleza escenica, orden y limpieza asi tambien denominada la "Cuidad de las Rosas"
Es el punto de inicio para una serie de actividades principalmente del tipo "Turismo Aventura" entre los que destacan caminatas y ski en las laderas del Volcan Osorno, visitas al Lago Todos los Santos y Parque Nacional Vicente Perez Rosales con los Saltos del Río Petrohue, el Cruce Andino de los las Lagos Patagonicos, Pesca Deportiva (Flyfishing), kayaking, velerismo, y una infinidad de otras activividades derivadas de su entorno agricola y natural siempre verde.
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Puerto Varas is the tourist capital of southern Chile. Located in the Province of Llanquihue in the Lakes Region on the shores of Lake Llanquihue to 1016 kms south of Santiago and 20 km north of Puerto Montt.
The city was founded in 1853 after the colonization mainly immigrants from Germany and Switzerland today has 32,000 inhabitants. Noted for its scenic beauty, order and cleanliness so also called the "City of Roses"
It is the starting point for a series of activities mainly of type "Adventure Tourism" among them hiking and ski on the slopes of Volcan Osorno, visits to Lake Todos los Santos and Vicente Perez Rosales National Park with the falls of Petrohue, the crossing of the Patagonian lakes, fishing (Flyfishing), kayaking, sailing, and a host of other activividades derived from the surrounding agricultural and natural evergreen
Photo taken in Cairns. It was in this part of the world that Cook's party recorded the word "ganguru" as a name for this animal. It was that word that Philip's team knew when they colonized Sydney and they were surprised that the people living in Sydney did not understand the word. The two places are about 2500km apart
As beautiful as these grasses can be in the right light, I have learned from Dean that "these invasive Phragmites (European Common Reed) are ... troublesome in our native marsh and wetlands."
Wikipedia:
"In North America, the status of Phragmites australis was a source of confusion and debate. It was commonly considered an exotic species and often invasive species, introduced from Europe. However, there is evidence of the existence of Phragmites as a native plant in North America long before European colonization of the continent. It is now known that the North American native forms of P. a. subsp. americanus are markedly less vigorous than European forms. The recent marked expansion of Phragmites in North America may be due to the more vigorous, but similar-looking European subsp. australis.
"Phragmites outcompetes the native vegetation and lowers the local plant biodiversity. Phragmites forms dense thickets of vegetation that is unsuitable habitat for native fauna. Phragmites displaces native plants species such as wild rice, cattails, and native wetland orchids. Phragmites's high above ground biomass blocks light to other plants allowing areas to turn into Phragmites monoculture very quickly. Decomposing Phragmites increases the rate of marsh accretion more rapidly than would occur with native marsh vegetation.
"Phragmites australis subsp. australis is causing serious problems for many other North American hydrophyte wetland plants, including the native Phragmites australis subsp. americanus. Gallic acid released by Phragmites is degraded by ultraviolet light to produce mesoxalic acid, effectively hitting susceptible plants and seedlings with two harmful toxins. Phragmites are so difficult to control that one of the most effective methods of eradicating the plant is to burn it over 2-3 seasons. The roots grow so deep and strong that one burn is not enough. Ongoing research suggests that goats could be effectively used to control the species."