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Fazenda Grotão - DF, Brazil.
Described by Charles Darwin, Myiobius is a genus of birds found in the Neotropical region.
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Passeriformes
Suborder: Tyranni
Family: Onychorhynchidae
Genus: Myiobius Darwin, 1839
Species: M. atricaudus Lawrence, 1863
Binomial name: Myiobius atricaudus
Describe the feelings that you may find when you stand face to face with an insect. Imagine an interview with her. What would you say to her and how would she reply?
A good composition topic. Any volunteers?
Hard to describe Marley in one word as he is a cat of many words...."happy" is the first thing I think of. He is always posing for me turning upside down with paws curled up in the air looking at me being ever so cute whenever I talk to him.
He walks around the house with tail up most times, purrs whenever he is fed...a sign of a confident and happy cat. He is also the most gentle of cats...I can't recall ever being scratched by him.
Happy Caturday!
These mining bees have been only recently described (Schmidt & Westrich 1993) as a distinct species. Until then, they were confused with another species of Colletes the morphologically very similar, but ecologically distinctive, Colletes halophilus.
The females of Colletes hederae are on average 13 millimetres (0.51 in) long, while the males are about 10 mm (0.39 in) long, significantly larger than the common colletes. The thorax of the adults is covered by dense orange-brown hair, while each abdominal segment has an apical orangey hair-band.
This species is very similar to the closely related heather colletes (Colletes succinctus) and even more to the sea aster mining bee (Colletes halophilus).
The adults emerge late in the year (the males from late August and the females a little later in early September) and remain on the wing until early November. The principal pollen forage plant is ivy (Hedera helix), (hence the specific epithet hederae), but both sexes will also nectar at ivy flowers too. When ivy is scarce, other species of plants are also visited. The females supply the larval brood cells almost exclusively with nectar and pollen of ivy flowers. When ivy flowering is delayed, females may also collect pollen at various members of the Daisy family (Asteraceae).
These are solitary bees and do not live in colonies and do not overwinter as adults. They nest in clay-sandy soils, especially in loess hills and soft-rock cliffs. Like many other solitary bees, they can often be found nesting in dense aggregations, sometimes numbering many tens of thousands of nests. In parts of the west European range of the species, Colletes hederae are frequently parasitized by the larvae of the meloid beetle Stenoria analis, which feed on the supply of nectar and pollen prepared by females bees in their nests.
It's almost my daily commute. So that's it with the description;). LOL. Hey, luckily you don't have to go to the office that often. ;) For us, the home office was well known even before Covid. But let's get to the photo. Oh, you probably already know that. The strange Alexanderplatz, meanwhile, there is also a lot of building going on here. If politics doesn't get involved again, things could look different here in two to three years. I have to stop myself laughing, hey, the Berliners now have an advantage. Because they know what I mean. It's way too late here again. Enough written. Just discover for yourself and have fun.
james blake — assume form ♫
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It would be unjust to describe my performance when confronted by my favourite woodland sugarcoated in hoar frost and light snow as running around like a headless chicken, I used my intimate knowledge of the wood to target area’s that were more enhanced by the conditions. However on looking back on my time using all the daylight hours afforded me in a Northumberland December, I don’t think I made best use of it. I feel I spread myself too thin, with the result I didn’t get the quality of photographs that these special conditions deserved and the odd keeper is supplemented with many examples of chaotic dross. Still I’ve been out too many times getting nothing to start complaining about a day where I captured 3 or 4 treasured memories. One of my favourites is this giant oak, stood in a frozen valley which doesn’t get any direct sunshine for a good 4 months of the year putting on a winter fashion show. I got a lot of snow down my wellies trying to carefully get in position to snap this beast strutting its stuff.
"By the shores of Gitche Gumee,
By the shining Big-Sea Water..."
(Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, "The Song of Hiawatha", 1855)
Longfellow is one of America's most famous poets. Many phrases today are used in common conversation, without knowing that they originated in his poetry. Two famous examples: "... ships that pass in the night...", and "like footprints in the sands of time...".
Gitche Gumee is Lake Superior, the largest fresh-water lake in the world. Like many location names in Michigan, Gitche Gumee is believed to be derived from the Ojibwe (Native American tribe) word that some translate to mean "Great Water". An alternative name is "Kitchi Gami".
The location of this picture is on the Southern shore of Lake Superior, an 8-hour drive from my home in Southeast Michigan. It's the general area that Longfellow described in his famous poem.
I stood on the empty, natural sand beach/shore and looked into the massive, empty sea, feeling alone and very at peace. Bliss.
Some facts:
Length: 350 miles (560 km)
Width: 160 miles (260 km)
Surface area: 31.700 sq.mi (82,100 sq.km)
Max. depth: 1333 ft (406m)
Shoreline (not including islands): 1729 mi. (2783 km)
I can't describe to you how beautiful this Azure was up close - shimmering a champagne white in the July sun, as it moved its hind wings up & down. A lens just can't quite capture it all. I never knew Azure's could be so showy! It did play on my watch but never made it to my diamond - as the Eastern-tailed blue's once did.
>> Summer azure (Celastrina neglecta) - possibly a fresh one - at a pond in the Georgia mountains, last week (SuperMacro shot)
Happy Butterfly Monday!
When I asked her to describe herself, she said " ... gregarious, sensitive, hopeful ..."
Available light was from the kitchen windows. Attempting to get deeper richer tones, I shrank the aperture too much, with ISO 6400 a by-product, and, of course, a lots of noise! I have not tried to clean that up in these images. Instead, I resorted to sepia in two of the shots, resulting in the noise being slightly less obvious.
I find it quite challenging to attend to all the technical necessities while chatting with the subject. But, being housebound now, portrait and bird photography are two horizons for growth I can take on. Am sharing with you my maiden efforts, with all their imperfections. Elizabeth is beautiful and I hope to invite her to sit for me again after I have a little more experience with portrait photography.
Hot and dry describes southern Wisconsin to the letter this year, so it seems almost fitting that Canadian Pacific's locomotive commemorating Canadian and United States military equipment and troops in arid regions, leads the hot stack train 199 out of Reeseville and under Maiden Lane.
CP TRain 199
CP 7021, DPU-CP 8029
Reeseville, WI.
September 8, 2021
The custom of hanging up tin cans when a baby girl is born is hard to explain as it involves a play on words and Bavarian dialect. But I'll give it a try:
“Büchse” is the German word for tin can. The custom of putting up a sign after the birth of a girl designating the father as Büchsenmacher (can maker / gunsmith) and hanging it with old cans has survived into the 21st century and still exists in Lower Bavaria and Upper Austria. Its origins can be found in the Bavarian dialect, which describes a girl as Bix (Büchse), or Bixel. Bix/Can is used here as the unflattering word for the female reproductive organs. The father is being made fun of for not producing anything better than a girl.
I guess it's time for that custom to die out.
Hard to describe the music of 'Petunia & the Vipers’. It's country, it's western swing, jazzy, ballads; simply good time music that leaves smile on your face. The concert just flew by so very quickly. I did not know the band, but one of Toronto most talented musicians got involved and it became a show, which you should not miss. Trombone Charlotte was the Toronto addition. Petunia lured her on their next stop to New Orleans, LA, where her star got even more shine.
'Petunia and the Vipers' was at 'Horseshoe', a Toronto institution since 1947. The leader of the band is amazing guitarist, vocalist and jodelist Petunia (Ron), who ended up playing with 5 strings (or was it just 4?) on last few songs. With Trombone Charlotte on stage playing, singing and off stage dancing, Joseph Abbott on clarinet, sax and guitar, Paul Townsend on drums, Liam McIvor on Fender steel guitar plus the man with a hat, Aaron Harmonsen on bass.
389. Horseshoe P1210279; Taken 2024-Sept 25. Upload 2024-Dec 02.
The Heritage Council describes the Mount Gould Police Station thus:
The Mount Gould Police Station opened in the 1880s as a centre for police protection for Murchison pastoralists. In the late 1890s early 1900s, the police were concerned with checking cattle and sheep killing by the local Aboriginals. The buildings consist of the main station, which originally had a separate kitchen, lock-up, stone-lined well and a grave. Iron bars, to which prisoners were chained, are still set in the walls of the lock-up. On 3 June 1987, the restored Mt Gould police station was dedicated to all the pioneers who settled the district.
No mention of the treatment of the First Nations people who were often made to walk in chains to Carnarvon, some 450 kilometres away. Imagine doing this in the summer heat where the temperatures can exceed 40 °C.
Nor any mention of the Wajarri people, who had their own complaints regarding the disruption of water supplies and native wildlife by the pastoralists.
We camped here overnight. It still lingers in my mind, giving me an ill feeling. There is a feeling, a spirit about this place. I was happy to move on early the next morning.
Gascoyne Murchison Outback Pathway Exploration July-August 2020 - #GMOPE 54.
Described by auto experts as “the Mona Lisa of American historic automobiles,” it became the first U.S.-built car to win an international auto race when it captured the 1908 Vanderbilt Cup. The Locomobile was aptly named as it was built as strong as any locomotive. It was built for nearly 30 years in Bridgeport, Connecticut. It had a reputation as one of the finest and most carefully built cars ever manufactured in the United States. It was also one of the most luxurious and most prestigious — and the most expensive. Everything about the Locomobile bespoke elegance. Its massive body gleamed with innumerable layers of paint, each hand-rubbed to a gleaming finish.
More here on the car for those interested:
The National Churches Trust describes St Mary's in Potterne as a “an Early English church of exceptional purity and austerity.”
A priest, and land held by the Bishop of Salisbury, was recorded at Potterne in Domesday Book of 1086, and in Victorian times, a 10th Century font was found on the site of the present day Church of England parish church of St Mary. It was built in the 13th century and has survived with little change, beyond work to the tower in the 15th century and restoration by Ewan Christian. Pevsner describes it as, “An Early English parish church of exceptional purity and indeed classicity” and linked this to the Bishops’ ownership of the manor.
The church is cruciform, with a substantial tower over the crossing, and original lancet windows. It is built of rubble stone, with ashlar to the upper tower. The south porch was added in the 14th century, and in the 15th the tower was made higher and given an elaborate battlement. Restoration in 1870–2 included re-roofing and the removal of galleries, and the stained glass is from various dates in that century.
Since the 11th century, the church has been linked to All Saints at West Lavington as tithes from both churches endowed a prebendary at Salisbury Cathedral. From 1967 the benefice was held in plurality with Worton and since 2017 the parish has been part of the Wellsprings benefice, which extends to Seend, Bulkington and Poulshot.
This description incorporates text from the English Wikipedia.
Record crowds lined the streets of Manchester to celebrate Chinese New Year and watch the city's famous Dragon Parade in what has been described as the busiest year yet. A huge 175ft long dragon, dancing lions and traditional Geisha artists were among the hundreds of participants in the parade through the city centre.
They were watched by thousands of people who crammed along Oxford Street, Portland Street and through China Town which were all closed to traffic for the celebration on Sunday. Naturally it was the dragon dancers - formed of two parts - that drew the biggest gasps from the hundreds of youngsters lining the streets with their families.
The dragons swept over and around the crowds chasing the "Pearl of Wisdom" - a large globe on a pole which is symbolic of the dragon chasing wisdom and knowledge. Manchester's civic dignitaries earlier bestowed the dragon with red ribbons to usher in good fortune.
2024 is the Lunar Year of the Dragon - which is a symbol of good luck, health and strength in Chinese culture. The reason why dragon dances are performed at the start of the Lunar New Year is because they are believed to chase away evil spirits and welcome in prosperous times.
City centre spokesman Pat Karney hailed it a "record year" for Chinese New Year celebrations saying: "The best ever Chinese New Year Celebrations. Record crowds have been treated to a feast of dance and musical performances and the Dragon had kids in absolute awe."
Described as "perhaps the most notable wooden Orthodox church in Finland", St Nicholas' Church in Joensuu, the second largest Orthodox parish in Finland after Helsinki, was built in 1887.
It is located at one end of Kirkkokatu (Church Street) - the Lutheran parish church is at the other end.
This species is described as vulnerable:
Red-necked Amazon
(Amazona arausiaca)
Photo taken on the island of Dominica, Lesser Antilles Islands:
A chunky and gregarious resident of wet upland forests; often found in flocks of up to 15 birds. Its green body, bluish head, and orange-red spot on upper chest readily separates this species from the Imperial Parrot, the only other parrot sharing its range, as well as parrot species commonly kept in captivity. The largely blue underwing, often seen in flight, is also distinctive. Calls include a shrill “chur-lu-weeek” with the final note louder and higher pitched, plus a shrill, almost trilled, “cureeek.”
Although Prunus tenella, Dwarf Russian Almond, was first scientifically described and renamed from Amygdalus nana in 1801 by August Johann Georg Karl Batsch (1761-1802), it was already well-known in Europe. I don't know from when, but James Sutherland in 1683 was growing it in England; and fine gardener Abraham Munting (1626-1683) of Groningen gave an interesting description in his great work on plants.
Our Almond is notorious for being very bitter. Munting says that bitterness may be mitigated if its roots are watered with kamerloog or cold menschen-water, which is to say: urine.
Regarding the English name Dwarf Russian Almond - you know me - I had to look for some references to Russia. So I found the travel journals of the German zoologist and botanist Peter Simon Pallas (1741-1811). He came into the service in St Petersburg of Catherine II from 1767 onwards. Soon he was on his way to Eastern parts as far as Lake Baikal. Several times in his journal he mentions our Nana, the first time in the region of Bobovnik (Slovenia). Here this Plum is called Calmytskié-orékhi (Kalmuk nut). He writes engagingly that oil pressed from the bitter fruits is good in salads and that a liquor can also be distilled from them. If the gardeners of the Hortus allow me, I might taste a 'prune' when it comes into season.
In any case, here a Comma Hoverfly, Eupeodes sp., has found its way to the pollen of the Prunus flowers. I wonder whether it's bitter.
I can't really begin to describe what the weather has been like here today other than to say we've had Hollywood-style rain and it feels like midnight! Of course, I had planned a high key image for today. I probably should have had a rethink, but I just went for it. Madness!
Anyway, sadly the lack of light has all but robbed my little butterfly brooch of its delicate blue and brown hues. The wings and lower part of the body are saphiret, the thorax is a clear paste and I'm not sure about the eyes. They're either garnet or, probably more likely, red paste. I've become a bit obsessed with saphiret for some reason, but I don't often find anything I can afford. It's a rare type of glass that was produced in the town of Gablonz, Czechoslovakia for a very short time in the early part of the 20th century. The saphirets in this butterfly are particularly pale and delicate, but the colours are definitely there ... when there's some light!
I don't know much about the little pink pot, but I found it a while ago in the Lewes Antiques Flea Market. It's likely also from the early part of the 20th century. My trusty dried Hydrangea flowers are making a welcome return because everything outside is SOGGY. :)
You might describe this LF Faith Dress & Fur Stole as making a provocative statement and intended to make someone feel sexual desire. I don’t know about you, but for me this dress raises the temperature in the room significantly.
Yesterday, being sexy was about particular grooming, tight-fitting clothes and makeup. Today, we understand that being sexy has more to do with a certain je ne sais quoi, an elusive pleasing quality.
Although science has tried to measure what makes a person more appealing, most of us know that attractiveness can’t be boiled down to algorithms. Real sexiness is in the eye of the beholder. Wearing this dress however certainly adds to warming one's eyes, of course.
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Christmas is described as a time of peace and joy, but for many, it brings feelings of sadness and abandonment. It is for those that I share this image of a unique tree. For me, it is a symbol of perseverance and hope.
This is an ‘Ohiʻa Lehua tree. It is the most common native endemic tree found in the state of Hawaiʻi, meaning it is found there and nowhere else in the world. Amazingly, it has adapted to grow directly in lava rock. Those who have experienced lava know that its shards are hard and sharp. Nice to look at, lava is inhospitable terrain. But the seeds of the ‘Ohi’a Lehua blow in the wind and settle in cracks in the lava, and find a way to survive, creating beauty along the way..
Hawaiians utilize the hardy tree for building houses, canoes, spears, while the flowers are used in lei and sung about in chant and hula. Flowers are considered sacred to the goddess of lava and volcanic eruptions, Pele.
These trees are home to many native insects and even rare native tree snails! The ʻōhiʻa lehua flowers are an important food source for birds, they sip the nectar from the red blossoms and glean insects in bark and leaves.
There are many versions of a legend about the ʻOhiʻa Lehua tree. One is of a couple who were madly in love- a man named ʻŌhiʻa, and a woman named Lehua. One day the volcano goddess Pele, taking the form of a beautiful woman, saw ʻŌhiʻa and was attracted to him. However ʻŌhiʻa refused Pele because he was in love with Lehua. Pele in her fit and fury, then turned ‘Ōhiʻa into a tree. Lehua, hearing of her lover being gone, asked the gods to turn her into a flower so she could be with him, which they did. To this day, if you pick the lehua blossom from the tree, it is said that it will rain because the two lovers have been separated.
Sparky described this one as the shot of the day which is a bold statement to make for a Shed photo, but it was great to capture recent German arrival and Beacon Rail Leasing liveried 66797 (operated by GB Railfreight).
The Euro shed is seen passing through the idyllic scenery of Barrow-upon-Trent with the 6X44 11.10 Bescot-Toton departmental, the "X-Ray" denoting the inclusion of out of gauge points carriers in the consist.
I can’t describe to you what a welcoming sight this was the night I decided to go exploring at dusk by myself with my camera, after docking near shore whilst on a Murray River houseboat with 10 friends. I’ve never had the best sense of direction, and a few quiet beers during the day didn’t help fine tune that sense at all. No phone reception, only had thongs on my feet (flip flops for our American friends), being devoured by mosquitos and who knows what other little critters in the dark. After a couple of hours lost, the lights of the houseboat were a most welcome sight , a beacon of safety, warmth, beer and friends. Would I do it again? Without a moments hesitation 😉
The 10 of us on the boat were all good friends but started to drift apart. Too much pier pressure I guess. Someone started playing Maroon 5 , which we didn’t think appropriate. Still, whatever floats your boat. Thankfully a near disaster brought us all back together. We went too close to a Bluetooth obstruction, started to sync. Brought back the words the hire guy had told me when I asked do houseboats sink very often? He said usually just once. Had to find a boating equipment sale to fix things up, was quite an oar deal. And one of the guys hurt his tooth, but luckily we found a tooth ferry! But happy to report that friend-ship prevailed and I’m now a recovering aquaholic 😀
Hope everyone is having a good run into Christmas, cheers
Onryō are described as the souls of the deceased who died a particularly slow and agonizing death, often caused by murder or disease. The feeling of injustice and the resulting urge for revenge is so strong at the moment of death that the spirit is caught in this spiral of anger and restlessness and cannot pass to the afterlife
Newly described and separated from what is now known as the Eastern Spiny Knob-tailed Gecko (Nephrurus asper). N. eromanga is found west of the Central Queensland "downs" country from south of Mt Isa through Winton and down to about Windorah in the Eromanga basin for which it is named.
This specimen is from Dajarra, Queensland, Australia
Someone once described trees as "poems written upon the sky." Exactly!
This tree is another example of a Norfolk Island Pine, and I photographed it while visiting New Zealand. I composed this image while visiting New Zealand. It is a picture of a Norfolk Island Pine, framed by a cloudy sky. Someone once described trees as "poems written upon the sky," and I found this tree to be an example of this. I also consider this tree - its symmetry almost perfect - to be a fine example of 'architecture in nature'.
The Norfolk Island Pine, is not a pine, but rather a member of a related genus. It is found throughout the South Pacific. The first European known to have sighted Norfolk Island was Captain James Cook. In 1774, on his second voyage to the South Pacific in HMS Resolution, Cook noted the presence of large forests of tall, straight trees that appeared to be suitable for use as masts and yards for sailing ships. However, when the island was occupied in 1788 by convicts transported from Britain, it was found that Norfolk Island pine trees were not resilient enough for such use and the idea was abandoned.
In the late 1950s, a trial shipment of Norfolk pine logs was sent to plywood manufacturers in Sydney, New South Wales, with the hope of developing a timber export industry on Norfolk Island. Although the plywood companies reported excellent results, the industry was deemed not sustainable by the Norfolk Island Advisory Council, which decided to reserve timber production for local use. The timber is good for woodturning and, together with the similar Cook pine, is extensively used by Hawaiian artisans.
Described as the longest-lived butterfly in North America living as long as eleven to eighteen months. Unlike most other butterfly species the Mourning Cloak spends most of its life as an adult butterfly (not larva or egg).
It is most often seen in early Spring because it survives the harsh winter months as an adult. Spring is the most likely time to see it basking in the sun and defending its territory against intruders (such as a photographer). It is not attracted to flowers, but loves to land on your head or your outstretched arm and stays there for a while.
During the hot summer months the Mourning Cloak disappears, estivating to preserve energy, hiding in tree cavities and in other sheltered places. They have only one brood. It is always a very lucky day to see a freshly minted individual during the early summer months.
Kamares Aqueduct, also known as the Bekir Pasha Aqueduct, is an aqueduct near Larnaca, Cyprus. Located outside the city, near the old road to Limassol, it was built starting in 1747. Tassos Mikropoulos has described it as the most prominent water supply built in Cyprus.
I find it hard to describe this capture. In fact it is my dog's squeaky toy standing on the wood burner next to the kettle within the fireplace. However I love the light on the bare bricks, the reflection on the kettle and the oddity of the toy pig on a wood burner. Photography is about so much more than the objects in front of you.
Crib Goch is described as a "knife-edged" arête in the Snowdonia National Park in Gwynedd, Wales. The name means "red ridge" in the Welsh language.
The highest point on the arête is 923 metres (3,028 ft) above sea level. All routes which tackle Crib Goch are considered mountaineering routes in winter or scrambles in summer—meaning that they must cross "graded territory" as defined in Steve Ashton's Scrambles in Snowdonia. The easiest of these lines (the ‘bad step’ part of the route) is given a scrambling grade of Grade 1 (the most difficult being Grade 3—routes more difficult than Grade 3 are considered rock climbs).
Tenant describing the old apartment block he has been living in since the days of the German Democratic Republic.
Could not describe nightswimming...
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When describing the interior of the Siena Cathedral, in Tuscany, Italy, the word "ornate" is a bit of an understatement. No flash photography allowed, so it was a bit of a challenge.
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Described by Sir David Attenborough as ‘one of the 12 wildlife wonders of the world’, the Bass Rock is a sanctuary for gannets, hosting over 150,000 of them during peak breeding season. Not only is it the closest bird sanctuary to the mainland, but it also saw the first ornithologists, who gave the gannet the scientific term Sula Bassana or Morus Bassanus.
My daughter described this photo as a chef's kiss. I had to look it up.
NOUN
" a gesture in which a person kisses the tips of their pinched-together fingers and thumb and then waves the hand with the fingers splayed, in order to indicate that something is excellent"
Taken in Humber Bay Park West, Toronto, while I was on a walk with 3 of my friends. Thanks for visiting, much appreciated.
Described by Winston Churchill as one of the most beautiful places he knew, Castle Tioram, pronounced 'Cheerum' is located on a rocky tidal island, Eilean Tioram in Loch Moidart in the Western Highlands on the west coast of Scotland. Tioram is the Gaelic word for dry and the island is only accessible at low tide across a sandy spit. It stands where the waters of Loch Moidart and the river Shiel meet.
Tioram Castle was the seat of power of the medieval Lord of the Isles and is the ancestral home and former seat of the Macdonalds of Clanranald. It was strategically located guarding the movement between the southern Hebrides and Skye or the outer isles. It also monitored the inland route past Loch Shiel. The castle was the main fortification protecting Moidart, Rum, Eigg, Canna, the Uists and Barra.
Tioram Castle was burnt on the orders of the last chief of the direct line when he set off to join the ill-fated Jacobite uprising of 1715. The idea was to keep it out of the hands of the Hanoverian forces. The castle was never restored and has been unoccupied since then. It is regarded as the most significant symbol of the rise and fall of the Lordship of the Isles, still visible today. Undoubtedly it is the most beautiful.
The curtain wall of the castle is believed to be from the 13th century. The tower and other interior buildings are from the 14th to 16th century. A five-sided structure whose high walls have rounded corners, its shape is in keeping with the natural outline of the island. There is no access to the buildings because of the risk of falling masonry.
Mark Twain described the Heidelberg Castle in his 1880 travel book A Tramp Abroad…
“A ruin must be rightly situated, to be effective. This one could not have been better placed. It stands upon a commanding elevation, it is buried in green woods, there is no level ground about it, but, on the contrary, there are wooded terraces upon terraces, and one looks down through shining leaves into profound chasms and abysses where twilight reigns and the sun cannot intrude. Nature knows how to garnish a ruin to get the best effect."
Heidelberg Castle is a ruin in Germany and landmark of Heidelberg. The castle ruins are among the most important Renaissance structures north of the Alps.
The castle has only been partially rebuilt since its demolition in the 17th and 18th centuries. It is located 80 metres (260 ft) up the northern part of the Königstuhl hillside, and thereby dominates the view of the old downtown.
The earliest castle structure was built before 1214 and later expanded into two castles circa 1294; however, in 1537, a lightning bolt destroyed the upper castle. The present structures had been expanded by 1650, before damage by later wars and fires. In 1764, another lightning bolt caused a fire which destroyed some rebuilt sections.
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Mark Twain beschrieb 1878 in seinem Buch Bummel durch Europa das Heidelberger Schloss folgendermaßen:
„Um gut zu wirken, muss eine Ruine den richtigen Standort haben. Diese hier hätte nicht günstiger gelegen sein können. Sie steht auf einer die Umgebung beherrschenden Höhe, sie ist in grünen Wäldern verborgen, um sie herum gibt es keinen ebenen Grund, sondern im Gegenteil bewaldete Terrassen, man blickt durch glänzende Blätter in tiefe Klüfte und Abgründe hinab, wo Dämmer herrscht und die Sonne nicht eindringen kann. Die Natur versteht es, eine Ruine zu schmücken, um die beste Wirkung zu erzielen.“
Das Heidelberger Schloss ist eine der berühmtesten Ruinen Deutschlands und das Wahrzeichen der Stadt Heidelberg. Bis zu seiner Zerstörung im Pfälzischen Erbfolgekrieg war es die Residenz der Kurfürsten von der Pfalz. Seit den Zerstörungen durch die Soldaten Ludwigs XIV. 1689 und der Sprengung durch französische Pioniere am 6. September 1693 wurde das Heidelberger Schloss nur teilweise restauriert. Nachdem am 24. Juni 1764 Blitze die teilweise renovierte Anlage in Brand gesetzt hatten, wurde die Wiederherstellung aufgegeben. Die Schlossruine aus rotem Neckartäler Sandstein erhebt sich 80 Meter über dem Talgrund am Nordhang des Königstuhls und dominiert von dort das Bild der Altstadt. Der Ottheinrichsbau, einer der Palastbauten des Schlosses, zählt zu den bedeutendsten deutschen Bauwerken der Renaissance.
Nagarkot, located 32 kilometers east of Kathmandu, is one of the most scenic spots in Bhaktapur district and is renowned for its spectacular sunrise view of the Himalaya when the weather is clear. Visitors often travel to Nagarkot from Kathmandu to spend the night so that they can be there for the breathtaking sunrise.
Nagarkot has become famous as one of the best spots to view Mount Everest as well as other snow-topped peaks of the Himalayan range of eastern Nepal. It also offers an excellent view of the Indrawati river valley to the east. With an elevation of 2,195 meters, Nagarkot also offers a panoramic view of the Valley and is described by visitors as a place whose beauty endures year round.
Christ is described at Chora as "Land of the Living"
[Χώρα των ζώντων]
music:
Medieval Byzantine Nativity chant (Kathismata of Christmas).
Title: "Μυστήριο ξένον" (Wondrous Mystery)
Service: Matins of Nativity
Performers: Greek Byzantine Choir
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photo:
inner narthex dome with Genealogy of Christ
from the Cycle of Christ's Infancy and Ministry
Church of the Holy Saviour in Chora, Istanbul
www.columbia.edu/cu/wallach/exhibitions/Byzantium/html/bu...
Chora Museum, Chora Monastery (Contantinople)
Μονή της Χώρας, Μουσείο Χώρας, Κωνσταντινούπολη
Kariye Müzesi, Kariye Camii, Kariye Kilisesi, Istanbul
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chora_Church
www.columbia.edu/cu/wallach/exhibitions/Byzantium/
www.byzantium1200.com/chora.html
www.sacred-destinations.com/turkey/istanbul-st-savior-in-...
www.doaks.org/library-archives/icfa/moving-image-collecti...
Described by the Cornell Lab of Ornithology website as a “pint-sized predator of birds, small mammals, and insects,” northern shrikes are unique among the song birds for their dietary preferences. Their hooked bills, resembling those of raptors, enhance their ability to kill and shred the flesh of their vertebrate prey. They are capable of capturing more prey than they can eat at a given time, and will impale animals on thorns or short branches for later consumption. They will also kill relatively large prey using this same technique, lowering the time and energy it takes to dispatch them.
I cannot quite describe which is more special, seeing the sun first rise and light up the orange canyon walls or having an entire National Monument to yourself. Either way, it made for one very beautiful and special morning. Colorado National Monument is one of the lesser known beautiful places in Colorado as it is farther away from all of the big mountains and ski resorts that Colorado is known for. However, it is still definitely worth stopping to see if you are out in the Western part of the state. I am very thankful I got to make this side detour over here and witness such an incredibly beautiful and special morning that the Lord had made!
acrylic on canvas, 70 x 100 cm
This work describes the current situation on social media where Western countries impose cultural ànd political censorship by proxy on their citizens.
It must be compared with the witch hunt of the Nazi regime
It is based on personal experience (my tweets are hidden under the message "offensive tweet", Flickr removed my painting "Dein Kampf" as a group photo (I replaced it with "Das radikal Böse"), on Facebook I regularly cannot request personal profiles, the operation of my PC is sabotaged, etc.
The censorship against the silenced majority is supposed to make you believe that you have lost.(Naomi Seibt, Jan 12, 2021)
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Jan Theuninck is a Belgian painter
www.boekgrrls.nl/BgDiversen/Onderwerpen/gedichten_over_sc...
www.forumeerstewereldoorlog.be/wiki/index.php/Yperite-Jan...
www.graphiste-webdesigner.fr/blog/2013/04/la-peinture-bel...
charterforcompassion.org/belgium
Cornell describes the Virginia rail as a small waterbird, of the family Rallidae. They remain fairly common despite continuing loss of habitat, but are secretive by nature and more often heard than seen. This one was heard, then barely seen at Huntington Beach State Park, South Carolina.
Sculpture (limestone) by Barbara Hepworth, 1948, seen in St. Albans Museum and Gallery. I find it remarkable that Hepworth used the visual language of the Madonna and Child to represent the "new morning" in the biological history of our planet. The Eocene covers roughly the first thirty million years after the extinction of the dinosaurs - and the rise of new plant life, of the mammals and, ultimately, us. The image may tell us that this process has a sacred dimension or, at least, that religious language is a way to visually describe it. Edited in Fuji's raw converter and refined in Luminar.