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It is hard to describe the raw power of Mother Nature as a storm hits the coast of Nova Scotia, especially when it is Peggy’s Cove. I’ve made many images from my visits to this iconic lighthouse and village - no two are the same. This day was breathtaking. I hope you can “feel” what I felt that day: your face feels the bite of the bitter cold of the salt-laden spray from these waves. It is all you can do to stand up straight while being battered by the wind - it was exhilarating! I just prayed that one of these images would be in focus.
The lovely texture is thanks to Tito.
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Pied Flycatcher (M) - Ficedula hypoleuca
The European pied flycatcher (Ficedula hypoleuca) is a small passerine bird in the Old World flycatcher family. One of the four species of Western Palearctic black-and-white flycatchers, it hybridizes to a limited extent with the collared flycatcher. It breeds in most of Europe and western Asia.
It is migratory, wintering mainly in tropical Africa.
It usually builds its nests in holes on oak trees. This species practices polygyny, usually bigamy, with the male travelling large distances to acquire a second mate. The male will mate with the secondary female and then return to the primary female in order to help with aspects of child rearing, such as feeding.
The European pied flycatcher is mainly insectivorous, although its diet also includes other arthropods. This species commonly feeds on spiders, ants, bees and similar prey.
The European pied flycatcher predominately practices a mixed mating system of monogamy and polygyny. Their mating system has also been described as successive polygyny. Within the latter system, the males leave their home territory once their primary mates lays their first eggs. Males then create a second territory, presumably in order to attract a secondary female to breed. Even when they succeed at acquiring a second mate, the males typically return to the first female to exclusively provide for her and her offspring.
Males will sometimes care for both mates if the nests of the primary and secondary female are close together. The male may also care for both mates once the offspring of the primary female have fledged. The male bird usually does not exceed two mates, practicing bigamy. Only two cases of trigyny had been observed.
Population:
UK breeding:
17,000-20,000 pairs
For some that phrase would describe their eyes after a late night of partying and ringing in the New Year. For me on this first morning of the 20s, it meant first-light reaching Towers of the Virgin in Zion National Park.
Being a native East-Coaster, who has transplanted to life on the West Coast, I still feel that the New Year occurs when the crystal ball drops in New York, and that's the end. So, with the aide of staid Springdale, Utah, it was easy to get an early bedtime on New Years Eve so we could begin the trek to the Canyon Overlook Trail at 6:00 AM to catch first-light and sunrise from this vantage.
The trail is a relatively flat mile hike with a few tricky spots where the ice and slickrock conspire to give even the most sure-footed concern in the dark. Once we reached the overlook, I was a little concerned that our cold trek may have been for naught, due to the heavy cloud cover. Though they were thick overhead, there still was some clearing to the East, along the sun on the horizon to light a narrow band, reflecting off the cloud bottoms and warming the sheer rocks faces of the Temple of the Virgin ahead. This image was captured about 10-15 minutes before the local sunrise time, and is considerably brighter than what we saw with our eyes, due to the 20-second exposure.
Once the actual sun rays reached the Temple directly, the light only lit the areas seen here in red for less than 5 minutes before disappearing above the clouds for the remainder of the day.
Recognition:
Merit, Nature/Landscape category - JAN 24 PPSDC Image Competition, San Diego
Selected for Display, Color Scenic Landscape: Winter - JUN-JUL 2023, International Exhibition of Photography, San Diego County Fair, Del Mar Racetrack and Fairgrounds, CA
The events of Pentecost are described in the second chapter of the Acts of the Apostles. After Jesus' ascension, the disciples gathered together with Mary, the mother of Jesus, in Jerusalem. Suddenly they heard a noise and flames appeared to them and descended on each one of them. This filled them with the Holy Spirit.
Maybe it even looked like that, maybe not...
Created with Midjourney Niji
Here is the prompt:
IMAGE: Circular object in a desert with a fire in front of mountains with a torch | GENRE: Biblical Drama | MOOD: Majestic, Mystical | COLOR: Warm and earthy tones with a hint of ethereal light | BACKGROUND: Vast desert with towering mountains in the distance | SCENE: A circular object placed in the desert, with a fire burning in front of the mountains and a torch illuminating the scene | DETAILS: Monumental figures surrounding the circular object, showcasing voluminous mass | RENDER: Grand and awe-inspiring | LIGHTING: Ethereal light casting a mystical glow | COMPOSITION: Harmonious and balanced | SHOT: Wide-angle shot capturing the magnitude of the scene | CAMERA: Aykut Aydogdu camera | LENS: Jeppe Hein lens | TAGS: Biblical drama, divine encounter, desert, fire, mountains, torch, monumental figures --ar 21:9 --niji 5 --s 750
Tinnenburg (also described as "Tynnenborch") is a fortified wall house built in the first city wall. Construction started around 1300, on the site of the first city wall. From this house, access to the city by water was monitored. On the other side of the water, also on the site of the first city wall, has stood a similar house, named "Rommelenburg". The two houses were connected by a kind of water gate. The start of the arch of that gate can still be seen on the side of Tinnenburg ("restored").
The Quran describes the oppressor or tyrant as "deaf, dumb and blind", which is essentially the spiritual reality of the tyrant. He cannot hear the cries of his victims; he cannot communicate with those he oppresses because he imperiously views them as representatives of a lower order of being than himself, and thus as mere commodities to be exploited or, even worse, as plagues to be cleansed; and he cannot see the harm he does. Aristotle (d. 322 BC) reminds us that all tyrants invariably surround themselves with sycophants because they cannot bear the truth. But the tyrant also needs these sycophants because he demands tacit approval of his beliefs and actions, and most of all he fears an honest and critical view of himself. The more the tyrant's power grows, the less he tolerates dissent. What is true of the tyrant is also true of the tyrannical nation. He demands that everyone agree with him and affirm his position because he cannot see, hear or speak to anyone but himself. He believes that his vision is clear, his understanding is unsurpassed, and his words, and only his words, are worthy of utterance or consideration. As human beings, only through others can we truly see ourselves, hear ourselves and talk to ourselves; but in his fixation on himself the tyrant is totally incapable of such reflection.
(Hamza Yusuf. Introduction to the "The prayer of the oppressed")
Hochtemperatur-Gebiet mit Dampf und Schlammquellen aus 1000m Tiefe und einer Temperatur von über 200 Grad Celsius!!!
Den Schwefel-Gestank kann man hier nicht bescheiben...!!!
**High-temperature area with steam and mud pools from 1000m depth and a temperature of about 200 degrees Celsius! The sulfur smell can not describe here...!!!**
Charles Darwin described the Galapagos land iguana as "ugly animals, of a yellowish orange beneath, and of a brownish-red colour above: from their low facial angle they have a singularly stupid appearance." The Galapagos land iguana grows to a length of 0.9 to 1.5 m (3–5 ft) with a body weight of up to 11 kg (25 lb), depending upon which island they are from. Being cold-blooded, they absorb heat from the sun by basking on volcanic rock, and at night sleep in burrows to conserve their body heat. These iguanas also enjoy a symbiotic relationship with birds; the birds remove parasites and ticks, providing relief to the iguanas and food for the birds.
The Steller sea lion (Eumetopias jubatus), also known as the Steller's sea lion and northern sea lion, is a near-threatened species of sea lion in the northern Pacific. It is the sole member of the genus Eumetopias and the largest of the eared seals (Otariidae). Among pinnipeds, it is inferior in size only to the walrus and the two species of elephant seals. The species is named for the naturalist Georg Wilhelm Steller, who first described them in 1741. The Steller sea lion has attracted considerable attention in recent decades, owing to significant and largely unexplained declines in their numbers over an extensive portion of their northern range in Alaska. (Wikipedia)
We saw several groups of these sea lions during our trip, but these two little islands were the most densely packed. The animals at the junction of the rocks would periodically be washed over by crashing waves.
Pacific Rim National Park, British Columbia, Canada. May 2022.
Eagle-Eye Tours - Ultimate British Columbia.
"Can words describe the fragrance of the very breath of spring?"
~ Neltje Blanchan
It is raining now, but I took this crocus shot and other photos this morning. Then turned the wee blossom black and white and inverted the photo.
Spring might arrive despite my doubts.
Described in 1880 as 'a palace of the modern magician', Cragside House, Gardens and Woodland is a truly unique visitor attraction in the heart of Northumberland. Situated near Rothbury, it was the family home of Lord Armstrong, Victorian inventor and industrialist. Cragside was the first building in the world to be lit by hydroelectricity and a walk around the National Trust property reveals a wealth of ingenious gadgetry including fire alarm buttons, telephones, a passenger lift and a Turkish bath suite.
"No Pen can describe it, no Tongue can express it, no Thought conceive it, unless [by] some of those who were in the Extremity of it."
Daniel Defoe's description of the great storm of 1703 in his book The Storm published the following year.
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Sir Walter Scott once described Glen Lyon as the longest, loneliest and loveliest glen in Scotland, how true he was, as near to the hamlet of Camusvrachan within the glen, lies a cluster of old stone cottages at Balmenoch where you can venture up Gleinn Da-Eigg and eventually encounter one of the glens most striking rock formations, “Fionn’s Rock” or “The Praying hands of Mary” This was my autumnal excursion to see and photograph them for the first time, and I was amazed at the beauty of not only the stones themselves but the view they commanded looking right down Glen Lyon itself. Spectacular to say the least.
Taken from The Empire State Building
Manhattan is the most densely populated and geographically smallest of the five boroughs of New York City. The borough is also coextensive with New York County, one of the original counties of the U.S. state of New York. Located near the southern tip of the State of New York, Manhattan is based in the Eastern Time Zone and constitutes both the geographical and demographic center of the Northeast megalopolis and the urban core of the New York metropolitan area, the largest metropolitan area in the world by urban landmass. Over 58 million people live within 250 miles of Manhattan, which serves as New York City's economic and administrative center, cultural identifier, and the city's historical birthplace. Residents of the outer boroughs of New York City often refer to Manhattan as "the City". Manhattan has been described as the cultural, financial, media, and entertainment capital of the world, and hosts the United Nations headquarters. Manhattan also serves as the headquarters of the global art market, with numerous art galleries and auction houses collectively hosting half of the world's art auctions.
Words can’t describe the impression one receives while contemplating this ahu and its 15 gigantic sculptures, framed by a turquoise sea background with the sound of the waves crashing on the cliffs. Ahu Tongariki represents the maximum splendor of the island’s sculptures. With a ceremonial 220-meter long platform, it’s the largest structure of this nature in all of Polynesia.
Originally described to me as Yosemite's smallest waterfall, Fern Spring is a favorite place to stop on the way into Yosemite Valley.
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916 years as church ,481 years as mosque and 80 years as museum : There are no words to describe its beauty
916 anni come chiesa ,481 anni come moschea e 80 anni come museo : non ci sono parole per descrivere la sua bellezza !
Colloquially described as The Egg, is an opera house in Beijing, People's Republic of China. The Centre, an ellipsoid dome of titanium and glass is surrounded by an artificial lake.
As I said, this is THE EGG, browse my previous upload to see The Nest.
Calyptratae is a subsection of Schizophora in the insect order Diptera, commonly referred to as the calyptrate muscoids (or simply calyptrates). It consists of those flies which possess a calypter that covers the halteres, among which are some of the most familiar of all flies, such as the house fly.
About 18,000 described species are in this group, or about 12% of all the flies yet described.
The summer pasture system can be described as a form of small-scale farming, which means that the animals are taken on summer work to a summer pasture hut in the outback. The shack is only used during the summer period when there is plenty of grass and water. The shack culture has developed based on the conditions of nature and the landscape. This applies to knowledge about animals and nature, about forest grazing, buildings, food, stories, customs and usages, tools and music.
Each individual summer residence (often several gathered in one summer residence) consists of different smaller buildings, each of which has its own function. In addition to a residential house, there is also a cattle house for the animals, a house for the preparation of various dairy products, a house for storage of milk, cheese and butter, a woodshed and sometimes also stables, barns and shelters for storing feed and crops.
In the summer pasture, different products are prepared (butter and cheese as well as whey mesost and mess butter). The whey is boiled over an open fire and prepared for mass butter. After many hours of boiling, the milk sugar finally becomes saturated, which slowly cools down.
That's how Bill Bryson described this area in his book, "The Road to Little Dribbling" - a great read !
These fells may not be immense compared to many highland areas in our precious world, but they rise straight up - and if you've ever climbed a Lake District fell, you know it. Let me take you there now... this is from the banks of Derwentwater, my favourite view of the lake and fells surrounding it. The boats lie dormant, waiting for the chance to take another trip out. No fast boats here... it's so peaceful. Miss it a lot. Only a few hours' drive from home... it would be lovely to just GO there !
~ Edited in Topaz Studio ~
I hope you like my image. Thanks very much for every fave and comment... and just for looking and listening. I just love this music and this is my favourite version from Mark Knopfler.
Mark Knopfler - Going Home - live performance
All those of you who long to be somewhere else right now... this is for YOU. We are entitled to dream !
Fuchsia is a genus of flowering plants that consists mostly of shrubs or small trees. The first to be scientifically described, Fuchsia triphylla, was discovered on the Caribbean island of Hispaniola …
A banana is an elongated, edible fruit – botanically a berry – produced by several kinds of large herbaceous flowering plants in the genus Musa. In some countries, bananas used for cooking may be called plantains, distinguishing them from dessert bananas. The fruit is variable in size, color, and firmness, but is usually elongated and curved, with soft flesh rich in starch covered with a rind, which may be green, yellow, red, purple, or brown when ripe. The fruits grow in clusters hanging from the top of the plant. Almost all modern edible seedless (parthenocarp) bananas come from two wild species – Musa acuminata and Musa balbisiana. The banana plant is the largest herbaceous flowering plant. All the above-ground parts of a banana plant grow from a structure usually called a corm. Plants are normally tall and fairly sturdy, and are often mistaken for trees, but what appears to be a trunk is actually a "false stem" or pseudostem. Bananas grow in a wide variety of soils, as long as the soil is at least 60 cm deep, has good drainage and is not compacted. The leaves of banana plants are composed of a stalk (petiole) and a blade (lamina). The banana fruits develop from the banana heart, in a large hanging cluster, made up of tiers (called hands), with up to 20 fruit to a tier. The hanging cluster is known as a bunch, comprising 3–20 tiers, or commercially as a banana stem, and can weigh 30–50 kilograms. Individual banana fruits (commonly known as a banana or finger) average 125 grams, of which approximately 75% is water and 25% dry matter. The fruit has been described as a leathery berry. There is a protective outer layer (a peel or skin) with numerous long, thin strings (the phloem bundles), which run lengthwise between the skin and the edible inner portion. The inner part of the common yellow dessert variety can be split lengthwise into three sections that correspond to the inner portions of the three carpels by manually deforming the unopened fruit. In cultivated varieties, the seeds are diminished nearly to non-existence; their remnants are tiny black specks in the interior of the fruit. 32533
Nonlocality describes the apparent ability of objects to instantaneously know about each other's state, even when separated by large distances (potentially even billions of light years)
almost as if the universe at large instantaneously arranges its particles in anticipation of future events.
How to describe morning mist in forest? It is one of the best thing you can get for the forest photo. The colors drive themselves all over the place and every frame is perfect. What you can't see on the photo is the spirit of the place. The strange quiet and stillness. The weird smell. The different sound of your steps. Truly spooky!
Hotel Elephant
Historic luxury hotel with a history dating back to 1696. The current hotel was built in 1938.
This hotel, on the southern side of the market square, is the oldest accommodation mentioned in the history of Weimar. Opened in 1696, it served as an inn for merchants. Celebrities of the classical and post-classical period such as Grillparzer, Mendelssohn-Bartholdy, Liszt, Wagner and Rubinstein stayed in this traditional house. Thomas Mann described life in the hotel during the classical period in his novel "Lotte in Weimar" which was adapted for the screen in 1975 using original site. It was completely rebuilt in 1938 and became the favourite place to stay for Hitler. Re-opened after World War II, it now belongs to the best hotels in town.
Source: Wikimapia.org
Someone described Iceland as the land of the waterfalls, and nothing more can be true than that. There are so many amazingly beautiful falls every day to be seen that it is difficult to say which one is the most beautiful. This one, the fall of the Gods is stunning, but in fact comparing them for that reason is crap!
You probably have seen Godafoss numerous times, and i an not having the ambition to present something real new, but I tried to catch its beauty, and I am on the edge of my handheld skills here. Enjoy!
How to describe captured moment? Me personally escape to places like this to not have to think in words. Atomic bases of my brain speaks in some other medium when being surrounded by these...what?
Described as the greatest railway journey in the world, this 84 mile round trip takes you past a list of impressive extremes. Starting near the highest mountain in Britain, Ben Nevis, it visits Britain's most westerly mainland railway station, Arisaig; passes close by the deepest freshwater loch in Britain, Loch Morar and the shortest river in Britain, River Morar, finally arriving next to the deepest seawater loch in Europe, Loch Nevis!
The train stops en route to Mallaig at the village of Glenfinnan (see below and subject to time permitting). Beyond Glenfinnan are the beautiful villages of Lochailort, Arisaig, Morar and Mallaig. You may alight at Arisaig by request to the guard. From here, on a clear summer's day, you can see the "Small Isles" of Rum, Eigg, Muck, Canna and the southern tip of Skye. The train continues on from here passing Morar and the silvery beaches used in the films "Highlander" and "Local Hero".
Once again I found myself up at Cowee Mountain Overlook along the Blue Ridge Parkway. I had intended to find a nice little spot somewhere in the mountains earlier, but as time drew short, the cloud levels continued to drop, I fell back into one of my favorite scenes. The clouds were rushing in and out of the valley, the humidity was making everyone uncomfortable... That's photography though, chasing light like a star struck groupie, fumbling the relationship more often than not... but sometimes, the stars align and you find some headway. [That may be the nicest way I have ever described chasing light.....] So, there I stood, having carefully, slowly setting up my equipment, prepping my exposure, watching the nearby photographers with their own array of gadgets and gizmos, and no doubt strong opinions on the same scene. Lots of laughter, lots of waiting... while I stood near my tripod, trigger in hand snapping shots every so often, tracking and waiting for these corpuscular rays to cut through the clouds in just the right way. Finally I had a few moments to grab the shot I was waiting on, just as a huge cloud came and filled the entire valley. That was it according to four of the photographers, no more light, the day was done 45 minutes till actual sunset, five before golden hour... But the rest of us stayed, perhaps not wishing to admit defeat, maybe convinced the light would return...
ISO: 320
Aperture: f8
SS: 1/125th
Focal: 50mm
I can deal with hot, I can deal with cold... Humidity, and high winds though.... that's pure misery.
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No words can describe how empty I feel inside.
Used for the sake of others future.
Mistreated for the way I am.
Enough it is!
Dont pull yourself back for others cause they arent gonna do anything for you.
Stand up for yourself and let the others fail without you.
Cause at the end... Thats what they deserve.
Last year I photographed the fine Rustic Gothic manor house "The Grange", and gave it a romantic feel (link below). In the previous shot today, I described how this unique house came to be built in the colony in 1847, with a link to more information about its fascinating owner, Dr William Valentine, the surgeon and naturalist.
In this photograph I will again steer us into an artistic interpretation through the use of black and white. The light was perfect for it and that white picket fence is incorporated to create a sense of "distance" between us and this gothic building.
First described scientifically in his Flora Indica (1768) as Mesembryanthemum bellidiforme by the director of the Hortus, Nicolaas Laurens Burman (1734-1793), our pretty South-African flower went by a whole variety of other names as well. Although not everyone today agrees, its scientific name since 1979 has been Cleretum bellidiforme. 'Cleretum' means something like 'Pebble Lover' and that's certainly more descriptive that Livingstone Daisy. But perhaps you don't want your flower names to be descriptive...
Often described as 'the finest gypsy jazz in the Cotswolds', Swing From Paris are a UK quartet of violin, guitars and double bass. Influenced by Django Reinhardt and Stephane Grappelli, they present their own versions of music from across Europe and beyond. Expect stylist jazz and vintage swing.
The fungus was first described in 1772 by Italian naturalist Giovanni Antonio Scopoli, who named it Agaricus procerus. Rolf Singer transferred it to the genus Macrolepiota in 1948.
The height and cap diameter of a mature specimen may both reach 30 - 40 (50) cm. The stipe is relatively thin and reaches full height before the cap has expanded. The stipe is very fibrous in texture which renders it inedible (unless dried and ground). The surface is characteristically wrapped in a snakeskin-like pattern of scaly growths (therefore, known in some parts of Europe as the "snake's hat" or "snake's sponge"). The immature cap is compact and egg-shaped, with the cap margin around the stipe, sealing a chamber inside the cap. As it matures, the margin breaks off, leaving a fleshy, movable ring around the stipe. At full maturity, the cap is more or less flat, with a chocolate-brown umbo in the centre that is leathery to touch. Dark and cap-coloured flakes remain on the upper surface of the cap and can be removed easily. The gills are crowded, free, and white with a pale pink tinge sometimes present. The spore print is white. It has a pleasant nutty smell. When sliced, the white flesh may turn a pale pink.
“You were the poem I never knew how to write because no words could describe the wind you cannot see, but feel.”
― Shannon L. Alder
To have my photo "Meet The Puffins" displayed in a gallery...words can't describe how it feels...from the bottom of my heart I thank you...
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Describing the Bora, an orographic wind, therefore local, katabatic, therefore falling from areas at higher altitudes, ALWAYS coming from E/NE towards W/SW, would require a degree thesis and in any case would never be complete.
I've been traveling around all these areas for the past 40 years, but I always discover something new, so I won't go into the specifics of the area, which has so many variables and unknowns (within a very few kilometres, there are areas where it doesn't blow, despite being similar and contiguous to those around, where instead it even prevents standing), but a brief general description.
The Bora (international term in Italian), called Bura in Croatian and Burja in Slovenian, is considered the strongest and most frequent local/orographic wind in the Mediterranean (once there were dozens of episodes like this every winter and as many in the other seasons combined), but in some episodes, close to 200km/h, is probably one of the strongest orographic winds in the world at SEA LEVEL. It can be compared, at least isobarically, to the winds that are generated along the Atlantic coast of Greenland, which "fall" from the frozen plateau to the ocean, when the strong Greenlandic thermal anticyclone is present, in the heart of the island.
The Bora generally activates when a mass of cold and stable air, coming from the EAST or NORTH/EAST, tends to press on the Dinaric Alps and the eastern Julian Alps, seeking an outlet towards the sea where, in the meantime, a depression is generated.
Within a few hours between the Dinaric watershed and the coast (generally around 6-15km in northern Croatia and 20-25km for Trieste) a strong isobaric gradient is created between the high pressure in the 'danubian hinterland and low on the Adriatic, to the point of having a difference of 15hpas in a few kilometers of thickness.
This generates the wind, but then it is the orography that makes it gusty, violent, irregular; this happens because the colder air is denser than that which rises from the sea and tends to be channeled into the Dinaric gates (the first is actually in the Julian Pre-Alps, Cividale area) which are (at least) 9 from north to south, but the main ones are certainly the "Triestina" one (from Postojna-Ravbarkomanda), the one Podkraj-Col-Vipava (Vipavska dolina) the one from Gornje Jelenje towards Grobnik (Rijeka racetrack), the one from the Lić-Fužine plain towards Bakarac-Kraljevica and Most Krk and the Senj one, from above Vratnik pass.
Channeling itself and physically rolling down the mountains/reliefs, the wind strengthens by friction, turbulence and depressurization, thus becoming the Bora.
Various interpretation of the bonnet livery--one war and one blue--have the Santa Fe adequately represented against the calm morning waters of the Meramec River at Times Beach, the second of 4 encounters H STLTUL4 18A will have with the Meramec on its trip "upriver" across the Cuba Subdivision in southern Missouri. The Frisco selected a three deck truss span design to bridge the river at this location, the current configuration of which rests on the concrete half of the inconsistently constructed piers left from when the route was double tracked on its easternmost 34 miles between St. Louis and nearby Pacific. Times Beach is more well known as the infamous site of one of America's more memorable residential contaminations, described in detail in a prior posting for those intrigued: www.flickr.com/photos/54360625@N08/31929037954/in/photoli...
Described by eBird as "Heard more often than seen" ...
The last time I photographed one was in 2019: flic.kr/p/2hqHvCs
Aymanam, Kottayam, Kerala, India
On previous photo I have described Domino as No.3 national sport. That is of course debatable. There are many snacks available (at least were pre-pandemic). I do not think any of the street snacks are doctor recommended. The snacks have local names, which are not in any dictionary. If you want them you just point. I tried few. Did not like any. It does not mean anything. If you like sweet, oily, fried, you may find them irresistible. The little worms the lady is eating were pretty bad, but I asked two kids if they want those and they happily took them. The murals in Habana Vieja are very good. This one is by Picasso from 1962. Just kidding. Beto and Vatica Betares from Argentina; January 2014.
En la foto anterior he descrito Domino como deporte nacional No.3. Eso es, por supuesto, discutible. Hay muchos bocadillos disponibles (al menos antes de la pandemia). No creo que ninguno de los bocadillos de la calle sea recomendado por un médico. Los antojitos tienen nombres locales, que no están en ningún diccionario. Si los quieres solo apuntas. Probé pocos. No me gustó ninguno. No significa nada. Si te gustan los dulces, los grasos, los fritos, puede que te resulten irresistibles. Los gusanitos que se está comiendo la señora estaban bastante malos, pero les pregunté a dos niños si los querían y se los llevaron felices. Los murales en la Habana Vieja son bastante buenos. Este es de Picasso de 1962. Es broma. Beto y Vatica Betares de Argentina; Enero 2014.
971. 2019-Nov 30; P1320004, Havana; Upload 2022-March 10. Lmx -ZS100
Bibury in Gloucestershire was described by William Morris (1834-96), the textile designer, artist, poet and craftsman, as "the most beautiful village in England". And, all these years on, it surely must still lay claim to that accolade.
Set in the Cotswolds region, this is Arlington Row in Bibury, a picture-perfect terrace of cottages built in 1380 as a monastic wool store. It was converted into a row of weavers' cottages in the 17th century, and today they are owned by the National Trust, who lease all but one to private tenants. Number 9 is available as a holiday rental.
Opposite the cottages (and in the foreground here) is a boggy water meadow known as Rack Isle, also owned and administered by the National Trust. And heading away from Arlington Row is Awkward Hill – nobody quite knows why it was so named, apart from the fact that it’s a steep climb!
All in all, Bibury is a picturesque and rewarding village to visit. But I can’t help thinking that to live here, among the hordes of tourists, must be a nightmare.