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This flower reminded me of the Gherkin tower in London. Each tiny bloom is like one of those blue-chip companies sucking its nutrients out of the rest of the country. This is another of the flowers that I saw earlier this week at the National Botanic Garden of Wales
Soy. Metal Platform Bed - PG- New C88
Soy. Vintage Metal Headboard - TypeC New C88
Soy. Reed Mini Mat - Light
Soy. Reed Screen [Sudare] Light -Half rolled New
Soy. BKLYNITES LOFT - Coneshaped Glass Pendant Light copy New
Soy. Water-Mashroom w/Water bowl New
Soy. Water-Mashroom w/ Moss ball New
Soy. Covered books with vinyl New
Soy. Cluttered magazines - extra New
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Kalopsia - Cecilia's Shelf - Iron
i { DH } Gacha! 50s Household SpinPal Washer
[Schultz Bros.] 1897 Utility Sink
*LODE* Decor - Muskare Wall Plate 1
7 - Times Square Subway Sign New Summer Fest
DaD DESIGN "Birch Cottage" c/m
for Crazy Tuesdays theme of headless hats
(Btb, I really tried virtual dusting- honest- it’s not totally devoid but then it’s been in the corner for a bit!)
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Close-up of Echinacea purpurea 'Rubinstern', centre of the head showing many individual flowers. ( photographed in Beth Chatto Garden, Elmstead Market, Essex, England, UK ).
Echinacea purpurea (eastern purple coneflower, hedgehog coneflower, or purple coneflower) is a North American species of flowering plant in the sunflower family.
"The greatest cathedral of all is nature itself. It simultaneously humbles and pulls up giant emotions that cannot be fully expressed in mere words." ~ Rodney Cobb
Snow-shoed the upper terrace drive on our last winter trip to Yellowstone...and what a treat to see this amazing feature in winter....always makes me think of an orange creamsicle. Orange cyanobacteria which streak the large travertine mound are the origin of the name, Orange Spring Mound. The spring from this mound is cooler than other thermal features at Mammoth Terraces which allows orange-colored cyanobacteria to dominate. The brilliant color changes from season to season depending on the flow rate and the amount of available sunlight. The mound appears as a large cone-shaped hot spring, but it actually formed along a fracture line of a fissure ridge. Several cones have formed along this line of fracture, including Tangerine Spring. Based on the low flow and deposition from this spring and the size of the mound this formation may be very old. Source - www.yellowstonenationalpark.com/mammoth.htm
Hope everyone enjoyed their weekend....have a great week....thanks for all your visits & support!!!!
This succulent flower head is currently blooming in our garden and I decided to document it while it's at its best.
Lighting stuff: I used even lighting with a Yongnuo manual flash in a soft box positioned on either side of the flowers, pointed at the center, and just out of the frame. My camera settings caused the background on an overcast day to go quite dark so that I would have separation. The strobes and my tripod mounted camera were triggered with a Yongnuo RF-603N.
Other plants, flowers, fruit or thingys that I've photographed using strobes can be seen in my Strobe Lit Plant set. In the description for that set, I list resources that I've used to learn how to light with off camera flash, and the equipment that I use. www.flickr.com/photos/9422878@N08/sets/72157628079460544/
If you like pictures of cactus and succulents, you might not hate my Cactus and Succulents set. That set can be seen here www.flickr.com/photos/9422878@N08/sets/72157633383093236/...
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Basilica di Sant'Antonio - This exotic church, with its minaret-like spires and Byzantine domes, is also known as IL SANTO. It was built from 1232 to house the remains of St. Anthony of Padua, a preacher who modelled himself on St. Frances of Assissi. Although he was a simple man who rejected wordly wealth, the citizens of Padua Built one of the most lavish churches in Christendom to serve as his shrine. The influence of Byzantine architecture is clearly visible in the basilica's outline: a coneshaped central dome rises above seven encircling domes; the facade combines Gothic and Romenesque elements. Inside, the high altar features Donatello's magnificent reliefs (1444-5) on the miracles of St. Anthony, and his statues of Crucifixion, the Virgin and Paduan saints. The tomb of of St. Anthony, hung with offerings, lies in the north transept; large marble reliefs, depicting the saint's life, carved in 1505-1577 by various artists, adorn the walls arouns it. A lively fresco scene of the Crucifixion by Altichiero da Zevio (1380s) adosrns the south transept (ITALY - Dorling Kindersley Eyewitness Travel Guides).
this was diffilicult to photograph: orange cones of blown glass by Dale Chihuly at the de Young Museum, San Francisco
Amazing, other-worldly sand shapes are formed naturally by the changing ocean tides and strong winds, found only for about half a mile along the Netarts Bay, Oregon beach, about a 2 hour drive from Portland. The rare formations are about 6 x 6 inches in size, this one being the most unusual. I walk the beach fairly often, but have never seen another cone or any shapes as prominent as those found on Sept. 9th and 10th, 2013. The beach changes dramatically with every tide and never fails to impress.
Aloiampelos striatula, formerly Aloe striatula is a sturdy succulent plant that naturally occurs on the summits of mountains along the south of the Karoo region of South Africa. Tough and hardy, with bright yellow flowers, it is a popular plant in gardens around the world. The flowers appear densely on tall, un-branched, cone-shaped racemes throughout the summer. One of the hardiest of aloes, it will tolerate a wide range of conditions, and is even known commonly as the "hardy aloe". It will tolerate much colder temperatures than most aloes and relatives, including frost and even some light snow, but it prefers full sun and well-drained soil. The plant's Latin species epithet "striatula" means "little stripes", and refers to the thin dark-green stripes that can be seen on the plant's leaf sheaths.
Seen and photographed at the Arizona Cactus Garden on the campus of Stanford University in Palo Alto, California.
Saint Lucia is celebrated in Sweden on the 13th of December, at home, in schools and in public places. Girls dress in white with a crown of candles on the head. They sing about sankta Lucia and other Christmas carols.
Normally there is just one Lucia, but we celebrate together with Odense in Denmark so here one girl is from Odense and the other one from Norrköping in Sweden. The other girls are called maids. Ometimes there are boys as well and they are called starboys as they normally have a coneshaped hat with stars on it.
ANother one taken with my mobile phone so not the best of shots.
Orange cyanobacteria which streak the large travertine mound are the origin of the name. The spring from this mound is cooler than other thermal features at Mammoth Terraces which allows orange-colored cyanobacteria to dominate. The brilliant color changes from season to season depending on the flow rate and the amount of available sunlight. The mound appears as a large cone-shaped hot spring, but it actually formed along a fracture line of a fissure ridge. Several cones have formed along this line of fracture, including Tangerine Spring. Based on the low flow and deposition from this spring and the size of the mound this formation may be very old. Source - www.yellowstonenationalpark.com/mammoth.htm
Hope everyone is having a fantastic weekend....thanks as always for your visits & kind words :-)
Villarrica volcano at dusk. The smoke emerging the volcano crater reflects red light coming from the lava magma.
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Vietnamese lady with Ao Dai Vietnam traditional dress and conical hat wait at the harbor, Fishing Harbour Mui Ne Vietnam
Amazing, other-worldly sand shapes are formed naturally by the changing ocean tides and strong winds, found only for about half a mile along the Netarts Bay, Oregon beach, about a 2 hour drive from Portland. The rare formations are about 6 x 6 inches in size, this one being the most unusual. I walk the beach fairly often, but have never seen another cone or any shapes as prominent as those found on Sept. 9th and 10th, 2013. The beach changes dramatically with every tide and never fails to impress.
Melbourne Central Shopping Centre : Opened in 1991, this amazing 55-storey steel and glass building incorporates over 160 shops, a railway station and the historic brick Shot Tower.
The Shot Tower originally built in 1889-90 is housed in an ingenious cone-shaped glass dome, a central point for the entire shopping complex.
Melbourne Central is located in the CBD on the corner of LaTrobe & Swanston Streets.
With its distinctive cross-hatching patterns on a cone-shaped White Cliffs formation, Checkerboard Mesa is one of the most recognisable and photogenic landmarks in Zion National Park. It is found some 1,500m into Zion National Park when approached along Utah Route 9 from the east.
The Navajo sandstone of Checkerboard Mesa also forms the spectacular cliffs within Zion. This geographically widespread formation reaches a thickness of 670m in the park and consists almost entirely of desert sand dunes. The Mesa has two sets of lines forming the checkerboard pattern.
The horizontal lines, commonly called cross bedding, represent layers of wind-blown sand that built up into sand dunes. These dunes were then buried, and the sand grains glued together by calcite and iron oxide to form sandstone. Crossbedding can be seen in many place along the Zion Mount Carmel Highway.
The vertical lines are less common. They are actually shallow cracks that result from stress and erosion on the rock surface. These cracks are probably caused by expansion and contraction, temperature changes, wetting/drying, or a combination of these processes.
There is little in the image above to give a sense of scale, but the Mesa tops out some 180m above the road.
Scanned from a negative.
A walk to an ermita in ruins in a coneshaped mountain near Valderrobres. It is said to be a refuge of Catars during the persecution. Little is known about this magical place, we found it almost be accident one year. People are still leaving flowers, candles and pics of saints in the cave. Of the church only the arch of of the front is still there. Below the church under a rock overhang are the ruins of the hermits house.
The entrance with the arch. The church is a natural cave-rock overhang.
A walk to a rustic ermita in ruins in a coneshaped mountain near Valderrobres. It is said to have been a refuge of Catars during the persecution; they fled to Catalonia in the 12 cent..
Little is known about this magical place (google is not much help, :-), we found it almost be accident one year.
People are still leaving flowers, candles and pics of saints in the cave. There are several perfectly round holes in the floor of the cave, probably used much earlier in religious rites.
Of the church only the arch of of the front is still there.
Below the church under a rock overhang are the ruins of the hermits house.
The view from the back of the cave towards the entrance.
In Australia's north plants like this exotic beehive ginger native to SE Asia grow well in our tropical conditions as long as they have plenty of water. This one is (I think) Zingiber spectabile, growing in a garden near Katherine in the Top End of the Northern Territory.
Sincere thanks for visiting my Australian nature offerings!
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Beautiful vietnamese lady with vietnam culture traditional dress standing at a white sand Mui ne, Ho Chi Minh City Vietnam [IMG05484]
Macro Mondays ~ Utensil
My macro experiment this week included a stainless steel kitchen funnel, a blue tea light taped to the bottom of the spout and a flashlight. I wanted to give this a eerie twilight zone kind of feel, like a portal to another world. :)
Happy Macro Monday to All!
The Credit Valley Railway Station was constructed in 1879. Originally, it stood outside the northern boundary of Streetsville. In 1914, it was moved to its present location on Wellington Street, just five doors south of us.
For many years, it was the first home for numerous Streetsville families who remember it fondly.
When we first moved to Streetsville in 1986, it was owned by McBride (Mac) Hunter, who, along with his son, Hugh, operated a garage directly north of the building. Mac belonged to the Mississauga Antique Car Club, and every first Sunday in May the club members brought their vintage cars to Mac's garage for inspection. The cars were parked along both sides of our street while owners waited their turns. My father- and mother-in-law would come over and we'd sit on our porch to watch the spectacle. Mac always wore his duster and cap. He's been gone for a good while now.
The station was purchased by someone who left it pretty much empty while he figured out what to do with it. A couple of years ago, he petitioned the City of Mississauga to allow him to redevelop the property for a small condo. The Streetsville Historical Society was ready to move the building to a site by our legion hall, but plans seem stalled. Recently the owner repaired and re-shingled the roof, so I guess the station will be saved in its present location. For years it has been designated as a heritage site by the city. It's a great old building, and some of my flickr friends have seen it several times before on my stream.
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Post Processing:
PhotoShop Elements: erased overhead wires, sharpened, sandstone filter
Seen in my set entitled, "My Town...Streetsville"
Cone-shaped candy, locally known as neuzen, from the Dutch word for nose due to their resemblance to a human nose, are a popular delicacy in Ghent. Their French name is cuberdon and they are also known as Gentse neus (Ghent nose), neuzeke (little nose), or chapeau-de-curé and chapeau-de-prêtre (priest's hat), the later relating to the belief that a clergy member living in the city of Bruges created them. Another hypothesis is that the Ghent pharmacist De Vynck discovered the recipe in 1873 accidentally, while experimenting with packaging drugs in the form of a syrup to extend their shelf life.
The sweets are made with gum Arabic and are traditionally purple and raspberry-flavored, although many differently colored and flavoured variants are available. Neuzen are usually not exported outside Belgium, due to their limited preservability, of only 2-3 weeks.
Stick to Belgian chocolate :D