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red peppers from the greenhouse dried in a low oven and given a quick blitz in a coffee grinder
for MacroMondays - Condiment theme
Since the Golden gate bridge opened in 1937, somone has jumped from it every two weeks on average. Out of nearly 2,000 attempts only 28 have failed. In a year, 1.7 million men and 0.4 million women kill themselves. Did we as a society push them? Was their life a gloomy Sunday? Or is this the natural order of life?
MacroMondays theme this week is "Ready for the Day"
I have a feeling that toothbrushes will be the bulk of the submissions. They are surprisingly photogenic and seem to invite interpretation.
I hope I remember/have time in the morning to add to the group. Maybe my toothbrush will remind me.
Otherwise will add tomorow evening when I get home.
A monday morning tune:
this was such a great lightning storm to watch. i could smell the sage and the desert and that wonderful smell that comes before a storm. it smells like the earth is screaming up at the sky begging for rain.
This image of a female Anna's Hummingbird hit the sweet spot of my lens with the tree of green leaves and gaps of sky for cool background color and effect.
No awards... Merci :)
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This is a shot from my descent down from the Matterhorn. From this high up, it truly is a birds eye view of the valley below. Again, it's another shot from a week or two ago. I'm back in California now.
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This observation from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope showcases Arp 86, a peculiar pair of interacting galaxies which lies roughly 220 million light-years from Earth in the constellation Pegasus. Arp 86 is composed of the two galaxies NGC 7752 and NGC 7753 — NGC 7753 is the large spiral galaxy dominating this image, and NGC 7752 is its smaller companion. The diminutive companion galaxy almost appears to be attached to NGC 7753, and it is this peculiarity that has earned the designation “Arp 86” — signifying that the galaxy pair appears in the Atlas of Peculiar Galaxies compiled by the astronomer Halton Arp in 1966. The gravitational squabble between the two galaxies is doomed to end catastrophically for NGC 7752. It will eventually either be flung out into intergalactic space or be entirely engulfed by its far larger neighbour.
Hubble observed Arp 86 as part of a larger effort to understand the connections between young stars and the clouds of cold gas in which they form. Hubble gazed into star clusters and clouds of gas and dust in a variety of environments dotted throughout nearby galaxies. Combined with measurements from ALMA, a gigantic radio telescope perched high in the Chilean Andes, these Hubble observations provide a treasure trove of data for astronomers working to understand how stars are born.
These observations also helped sow the seeds of future research with an upcoming space telescope, the NASA/ESA James Webb Space Telescope (JWST). This telescope, due to launch later this year, will study star formation in dusty regions such as the galaxies of Arp 86.
Credits: ESA/Hubble and NASA, Dark Energy Survey, J. Dalcanton; CC BY 4.0
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Place : Jardin des Tuileries, Paris, France
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The jellyfish galaxy JO175 appears to hang suspended in this image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope. This galaxy lies over 650 million light-years from Earth in the appropriately-named constellation Telescopium, and was captured in crystal-clear detail by Hubble’s Wide Field Camera 3. A handful of more distant galaxies are lurking throughout the scene, and a bright four-pointed star lies to the lower right side.
Jellyfish galaxies get their unusual name from the tendrils of star-forming gas and dust that trail behind them, just like the tentacles of a jellyfish. These bright tendrils contain clumps of star formation and give jellyfish galaxies a particularly striking appearance. Unlike their ocean-dwelling namesakes, jellyfish galaxies make their homes in galaxy clusters, and the pressure of the tenuous superheated plasma that permeates these galaxy clusters is what draws out the jellyfish galaxies’ distinctive tendrils.
Hubble recently completed a deep dive into jellyfish clusters, specifically the star-forming clumps of gas and dust that stud their tendrils. By studying the origins and fate of the stars in these clumps, astronomers hoped to better understand the processes underpinning star formation elsewhere in the Universe. Interestingly, their research suggests that star formation in the discs of galaxies is similar to star formation in the extreme conditions found in the tendrils of jellyfish galaxies.
[Image Description: A spiral galaxy. Its spiral arms are studded with many pink spots, especially around the top of the galaxy. One arm is sticking out below the galaxy. From it and around the bottom of the galaxy, faint gas streams away, while little gas is visible above the galaxy. The galaxy is quite small in the centre of a dark background, where a few smaller galaxies of various shapes and sizes hang.]
Credits: ESA/Hubble & NASA, M. Gullieuszik and the GASP team; CC BY 4.0
This is a Blue Dasher, I think I read somewhere, the most common dragonfly in North America. They love slow moving water and so, no surprise they were in abundance on the bayous of Louisiana.
One for Macro Monday.
Another shot of the Lake Berryessa Glory Hole. My timing sucked, with the hole-side of the valley in shadow.
Other pic here, which gives a better sense of scale. Link. The drop is over 200 feet, over 60 meters straight down, the diameter is 72 feet or about 22 meters. Somebody has of course fallen in, and needless to say, perished.
Lake Berryessa is artificial, a flooded valley. Somewhere deep under there was once the town of Monticello. As well as forcibly moving the residents, they also moved a cemetery, which was relocated to the banks for the lake.
Today is day 276 of Project 365
This image shows the remains of an ancient delta in Jezero Crater, which NASA's Perseverance Mars rover will explore for signs of fossilized microbial life. The image was taken by the High Resolution Stereo Camera on ESA's Mars Express orbiter.
Credits: ESA/DLR/FU Berlin; CC BY-SA 3.0 IGO.
Lines have been drawn in the fungal community, with some choosing to join the dark side.
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The branches are a lot barer after our wind and rain. This is one of our deciduous oak trees, with evergreen oaks behind to both the left and right.
Today is day 145 of Project 365 (Tuesday).
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Rugged mountain scenery near Ouray, Colorado, USA.
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A Western Bluebird dropped by yesterday afternoon. Although they're around, I think this is the first time, I've ever had one at my house.
I am a bit short of current fly pictures these days ...must try to correct that this weekend.
Happy FlyDay Friday!
Not original. This is a extreme closeup of a painting in the lobby of a building somewhere in the Chicago loop.
The species is from the southern hemisphere and was first discovered in Britain in 1914. The devil’s fingers fungus hatches from a slimy, gelatinous ‘egg’. As it grows, the tentacle-like arms start to protrude. The bright red colour of this fungus makes it easy to spot. Related to the stinkhorns it has a strong and unpleasant smell.
Leaving Tokyo again today. This was from the Hamarikyu Gardens, near my hotel. Like most parks in Tokyo, it's repurposed from a Shogun stronghold.
The silvereye – also known as the wax-eye, or sometimes white eye – is a small and friendly olive green forest bird with white rings around its eyes.