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The male has a snow-white dense feathering around the legs known as "leg puffs" (which are not always visible). These leg puffs have been described as resembling "woolly panties" or "little cotton balls" above the legs.
The Pinnacle Rock is a massive quartzite rock that erupts from the earth’s surface and reaches some 30 metres in height. It is a freestanding rock that towers over the dense indigenous forest of Driekop Gorge in a dramatic display of nature’s quirks and the unique splendour of South Africa. It is littered with stunning, brightly-coloured aloes that not only add to the appeal amongst the local birds and insect species, but also make for extra beautiful photographs of the rock and its surrounds.
Graskop
Mpumalanga Province
South Africa
Last day of leave. . . of course it dawns grey and drizzly - so to drown my sorrows a slow paddle with friends was in order!
The Berowra creek seems as untouched as it was 'way back when'. . dense undergrowth lines the banks and the noise of the Cicadas came in waves often so deafening my ears hurt!!
australianmuseum.net.au/Cicadas-Superfamily-Cicadoidea
I think Andrew Strong & the Commitments are the perfect vocal strength & sound to to blast away my last day holiday blues. . ;))
A dense collection of butterflies probably after the moisture in the mud. Most of them seem to be Morning Cloak with one Monarch at the top right and a an Eastern Comma tilted to the right with wings closed. (It has a ragged profile in another shot.)
On the far right, flying, I think are Harvester butterflies.
Another photo I took while on the quest in the bluebell forest. This is in Borough Woods near Ilfracombe in North Devon. We started our walk from the wee coastal hamlet Lee and made it into the woods. Left and right of the muddy path there was an absolute wild jungle, a fabulous walk which we will do again some day. We found some nice bluebell patches on the slopes and were also told that higher up are lots of wild orchids!
Get up early, have a light breakfast, warm up the cars and set off towards beauty.
This morning was the coldest of the trip north. The temperature dropped to –30 ° С.
Having stopped on the way to Molochnaya Lipa, they realized that there was nothing to catch here. So dense fog from the water that sunlight barely made it through. Visibility is no more than 50-100 meters. It is fabulously beautiful, but we will leave this location for later.
We are going to Pirenga in the hope that the river is not frozen by ice. We unload, put on snowshoes and go ahead.
We met such a fiery dawn on this frosty morning.
Pour le concert annonçant la nouvelle année à Pyonyang, sur la place Kim Il-sung, le 31 décembre 2018
The Heart Of Darkness-3
As dense as the night encloses you
in its firm grasp
life evolves with sunrise
and a new day.
Light enters the darkest moment
fulfilling the need for resurrection
setting free the entombed cavity
where resides
pain and nonacceptance
Fly you must from this sticky ruin
where you are unable to struggle free
trapped in a void of loneliness
the answers completely devoid of reason
The Heart of Darkness
beats in a strange flutter
until you seek the Calming Light
succumb to the mystical forces
at your command.
Author Notes
From self-knowledge comes acceptance of how vulnerable every person is. This is the Darkness. This can be dispelled with knowing yourself and setting yourself free by using the Mystical forces that you were born with. Its just a matter of recognizing what forces you have at your command. These could be an understanding of supernatural things, like numbers, colours, insight,
prophecies and clairvoyance, instinct, sympathy, compassion and silence or solitude. In using these forces, either singularly or in in conjunction with each other you can build a gigantic wall that will prevent darkness from settling into yourself permanently.
This is mysticism at its best.
by.
Marshall Gass
Wednesday, October 15, 2014
This Least Bittern was taken in Florida as it flew along the reeds. Quite a heavy crop, although the image does show the habitat which I like.
"One of the smallest herons in the world, adapted for life in dense marshes. Rather than wading in the shallows like most herons, the Least Bittern climbs about in the reeds, clinging to the stems with its long toes...Because of its habitat choice, it often goes unseen except when it flies" Audubon.org
Excerpt from the plaque:
At Noon everybody takes off even if only for a short while. They hang in space, almost motionless, not bumping into and not noticing each other. Quietly, only people close to one another exchange two-three words…
For the Sake of a Joke: Some wander through the trees or hide in the dense thickets of bushes.
Having Gathered a Few Birds into a team, some quickly rush about in the pure cool wind, turning their faces toward the hot sun.
Early in the Morning the first “fliers” can be seen above the city. But they are not “going about their usual business,” – the air is fresh and clear and quiet all around…
🇬🇧 A stolen glance, a slow lean, and the weight of a day pressed into the rhythm of a Rio sidewalk.
Their silence speaks louder than the noise of the street.
Unscripted, unposed – just a Sunday moment, heavy with life and light.
🔗 This photograph is part of the ongoing album Still Streets, Silent Loads – Brazil’s Urban Weights, exploring the invisible weights embedded in urban life across Brazil. → www.flickr.com/photos/201798544@N06/albums/72177720327200016
Cette image fait partie de l’album en cours Still Streets, Silent Loads – Brazil’s Urban Weights, une série sur les poids invisibles qui hantent l’espace urbain brésilien.
🇫🇷 Un regard en coin, une épaule appuyée, et le poids d’un jour coulé dans le tempo d’un trottoir de Rio.
Le silence des corps dit plus que le vacarme de la rue.
Sans mise en scène – juste un instant de dimanche, dense de vie et de lumière.
Cladonia fimbriata, known in German as Trompetenflechte, is a lichen in the genus Cladonia. Lichens are not single plants but a partnership between a fungus and an alga. The alga provides nutrients through photosynthesis and the fungus offers protection and structure.
Cladonia fimbriata forms hollow slender stalks that can reach about two centimeters in height and are pale gray to slightly greenish. These stalks end abruptly in a cup shaped structure that looks like a tiny trumpet. The entire surface appears finely powdery because it is densely covered with soredia, which are small powder like units used for reproduction. This powdery coating also continues on the inside of the cups. The cups can reach up to about four millimeters in diameter and are often surprisingly evenly formed. At the base of the stalks there are small gray green leaf like scales, but they are usually sparse and easy to miss. Apothecia and pycnidia, which are the fruiting bodies of the fungal partner, are rarely seen and when they do appear they sit at the rim of the cups and are brownish in color.
This species is very common. In Europe it grows mainly on sandy to sandy loamy soils, as well as on rotting wood or at the base of tree trunks in bright open places. It is often found together with mosses in recently disturbed habitats, on decaying wood, in gardens and on old walls, and sometimes also in heathlands and dune areas.
Landscape of Tibet
Tibet is the highest country on earth with an average elevation of over 4000m. The lowest regions of Tibet are still over 2000m above sea level with Jomo Langma (Everest,Sagarmatha) ཇོ་མོ་གླང་མ being the highest point at 8848m. Tibet is covered in grasslands, mountains and valleys.
Many of Asia’s largest rivers have their headwaters in Tibet such as the Ma chu རྨ་ཆུ་ ( Yellow River), Dri chu འབྲི་ཆུ་ (Yangtze), Nag chu ནག་ཆུ་ - རྒྱ་མོ་རྔུལ་ཆུ (Salween), Yarlung Tsangpo ཡར་ཀླུངས་གཙང་པོ་ (Brahmaputra) and Dza chu རྫ་ཆུ་ (Mekong). Western Tibet (Ngari) is a high, arid region with few people, while southeast Tibet (Kham) is forested and suitable for farming. Northern Tibet (Amdo) is covered in vast grasslands filled with yaks and sheep and central Tibet (U-Tsang) is the most densely populated area of Tibet lying along the fertile Yarlung Valley.
This week: Vienna‘s densely built-up residential areas in the inner districts are characterized by Gründerzeit rows of houses,, sometimes with contrasting modern facades sliding in the otherwise homogeneous dense urban appearance.
The album can be found here: 2022 | 52 projects.
(Wien/Schönborngasse)
Hall Of Mosses area in Olympic National Park, Washington. The temperate rain forest defied trying to describe the vegetation and Green-ness of the spot. It stopped raining just long enough to shoot this without waterspouts on the lens.
Joy and I had the opportunity to spend 20 days exploring Olympic and Rainier National Parks and the Oregon coast. The road trip covered 4000 miles. Coming from the brown of southern California, the intensity of the GREEN in the temperate rain forests wad almost overwhelming. The weather was tough (it is a RAIN forest!) and the light challenging, but it was a magnificent trip. I hope you enjoy some of the shots.
This is the famous red light zone area of The Phukhet which start from here called Bangla Road which is one of the busiest streets in Phuket full of bars, night clubs and sex club.
weed is legal in Thailand
Adjacent to Patong Beach, this buzzing and vibrant strip is a great place to start your Phuket pub crawl. Enter past the iconic Patong Beach sign and prepare your senses for the neon lights, throngs of tourists and touts, street vendors selling snacks, and dance anthems pumping from the plethora of go-go bars and clubs. Those planning to partake in the evening festivities can purchase skip-the-line tickets in advance for entry to various nightclubs. Bangla Road sees dense crowds, especially during the peak holiday season in December.
We took a break from cabin chores - jumped into our truck, and Doc and I headed out. Driving through an area that is dotted with ponds - I spotted a pair of trumpeter swans sitting on their nest. I hopped out of the passenger side intending to cross the road and grab a few shots. As I shut my door and looked down, I found a large pile of bear scat on the edge of the road. I stepped over it and then looked up - to my surprise this beautiful cow moose stood in a tiny pond that was not visible to the highway due to the dense vegetation. I instantly forgot the swans, why would I capture them when a moose was just a few yards from me. She was in an ideal moose setting, and she let me get as many shots as I wanted. I guess I didn't look too threatening standing there with only a camera.
100 focus in-camera stack.
Cosmos bipinnatus, commonly called the garden cosmos, Mexican asteror cosmea, is a medium-sized flowering herbaceous plant in the daisy family Asteraceae, native to the Americas. The species and its varieties and cultivars are popular as ornamental plants in temperate climate gardens. Cosmos bipinnatus is an annual that is often considered half-hardy, although plants may reappear via self-sowing for several years. The plant height varies from 0.61–1.83–2.74 m. The cultivated varieties appear in shades of pink and purple as well as white. The branched stem is usually densely to occasionally occupied by fine, split up, rough trichomes, but some specimens are completely hairless. The petiole itself is inconspicuous, winged, 10 (rarely to 15) mm long, and sometimes the leaves are almost sessile. The very conspicuous cup-shaped inflorescences have a diameter of usually 5–7 cm and contain tongue and tubular flowers, which are surrounded by bracts. There are usually 8 outer bracts, and they are ovate to lanceolate-tail-shaped, 7-15 mm long, 3-5 mm wide. The inner bracts are ovate-lanceolate and 8-12 mm long. They are translucent with many black stripes and a clear edge up to 1 mm wide, sometimes with yellowish or pink pigments, the tip is ciliate. The sprout leaves have gold-yellow, thread-like tips and protrude between the tubular flowers. The broadened base of these spreader leaves is translucent, with a yellow line. The mostly eight ray florets are pink to violet or white colored, at the base may show noticeable stains caused by anthocyanin. The tongues are reversely ovate shaped, have a length of usually 20-35 mm and a width of usually 12-20 mm. The tips are almost dull and have three broad, wavy teeth. Below that, they are greatly rejuvenated. In the center of the flower baskets is a large number of tubular flowers (also called disc florets), whose overgrown petals are yellow, turn white in the lower part and reach a length of 5-6 mm. The anthers are brownish-black and about 3 mm long, at the tips are short-triangular, translucent attachments with a length of 0.5-0.8 mm. The branches of the stylus are short and rather dull, with a length of 0.5 mm.
Dense vegetation climbs the steep slopes of the Cascadian Mountains. Where birds twitter and monkeys screech, where plants flourish and mighty waterfalls roar - this jaguar leaves no doubt that this is indeed the realm of mighty cats.
A freebuild for Eurobrick's Brethren of the Brick Seas.