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There's a pain in my chest that I can't describe
It takes me down
And leaves me there
When I talk to the night, I can feel it stare
It creeps inside
And meets me there
At least I'm alive
At least I'm alive
Believe me, believe me
Believe me, believe me
I'm coming back again
I wanna make it right
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
Pseudosphinx is a monotypic moth genus in the family Sphingidae first described by Hermann Burmeister in 1856. Its only species, Pseudosphinx tetrio, was first described by Carl Linnaeus in 1771. Its common names include tetrio sphinx, giant gray sphinx, frangipani hornworm, and plumeria caterpillar. It is native to the tropical and subtropical Americas from the southern and southwestern United States to Brazil.
The larva is a caterpillar which may exceed 15 centimeters in length. It is black with aposematic yellow bands and a red-orange head. Toward the posterior end is an orange bump with a black horn roughly 2 centimeters long. The legs are orange with black spots.
The species has been known to damage and defoliate Plumeria. Each caterpillar can consume three large leaves per day, and it will continue eating into the branches if it finishes the available foliage. Even in the case of defoliation, the species does not generally kill plants. The caterpillars are large and conspicuous and can be controlled by plucking them from the tree. (Wikipedia)
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The caterpillars had just started on this frangipani tree. With at least six of them eating, they would have defoliated the tree within a week. Since we only saw them the one time, somebody must have removed them before the damage was done.
Oistins, Barbardos. January 2023.
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.
"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.
"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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Hey guys,
This is my 2nd entry for The Shambles photo contest. It is difficult to describe this place in a few words, as it contains a lot: a country beach nestled against a small charming town with a part to spend time as well as a fisherman's part. The town itself unfolds at the foot of a rocky rugged coastline. The transition from its distinctive zones is unnoticeable. Everything is in the atmosphere of late humid summer, favoring the growth of nature, which dominates the human influence here. The impact of the atmosphere of the southern coasts of Europe and the coasts of the British Isles can be seen here. Lots of astonishing photospots. You should visit it.
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Into the night
I cry out
I cry out your name.
Into the night
I search out
I swearch out your love.
Night so dark
Where are you?
Come back in my heart
So dark
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.
Hope you are enjoying a lovely weekend! Thank you all for your visits, comments, awards and faves -- I appreciate them all.
© Melissa Post 2016
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.
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 !
This image describes how my daughter see me when she is with me. She sees me as a very BIG and STRONG man - the strongest and biggest man, though I am not. Maybe, all the children in her age would think that way.
Birmingham UK
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!
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 (Haiti and the Dominican Republic) about 1696–1697 by the French Minim monk and botanist, Charles Plumier, during his third expedition to the Greater Antilles. He named the new genus after German botanist Leonhart Fuchs (1501–1566).
""In Japan 'Grampus' is a common alternative way of describing a killer whale. The kanji character for grampus can be interpreted in two ways; one reading is “shachi,” which is the Japanese for grampus.
The other interpretation is 'Shachihoko', which represents a monster with the head of a tiger and the tail of a carp. A gold-plated pair of these beasts adorns the top of Nagoya Castle in Japan.""
info- www.cryptopia.us/site/2010/10/grampus-england/
Fumiaki Kawate created both interpretations: "Grampus", as shown above and also "Shachihoko", also shown in the first comment box.
I used a sheet of satogami-paper 35x35 to fold this origami "Grampus".
Final seize about 12cm tall and 12 cm width.
Name: Shachihoko (Grampus) without Explicit Scale Foldinq
Design: Fumiaki Kawahata
Diagrams in Tanteidan magazine #160
Dating, fishing or just relaxing and enjoying a beautiful day and magnificent views over the river. All of these activities, apparently incompatible, can be found here, at Jardim do Ginjal, a small but charming park already extensively described on my two previous shots in this series.
Enjoy summertime, dear friends!
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Jardim do Ginjal, Almada, Portugal
© All rights reserved Rui Baptista. Please do not use this image on websites, blogs or any other media without my explicit written permission.
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!
"Kuly describes the contemporary miko, "A far distant relative of her premodern shamanic sister, she is most probably a university student collecting a modest wage in this part-time position."
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?
The black-tailed godwit (Limosa limosa) is a large, long-legged, long-billed shorebird first described by Carl Linnaeus in 1758. It is a member of the godwit genus, Limosa. There are four subspecies, all with orange head, neck and chest in breeding plumage and dull grey-brown winter coloration, and distinctive black and white wingbar at all times.
Its breeding range stretches from Iceland through Europe and areas of central Asia. Black-tailed godwits spend (the northern hemisphere) winter in areas as diverse as the Indian subcontinent, Australia, New Zealand, western Europe and west Africa. The species breeds in fens, lake edges, damp meadows, moorlands and bogs and uses estuaries, swamps and floods in (the northern hemisphere) winter; it is more likely to be found inland and on freshwater than the similar bar-tailed godwit. The world population is estimated to be 634,000 to 805,000 birds and is classified as Near Threatened. The black-tailed godwit is the national bird of the Netherlands.
Ukiyo (浮世) describes the urban lifestyle of the Edo-period Japan (1600–1867). In its modern usage, the term ukiyo "The Floating World" refers more to a state of being: living in the moment, being detached from the bothers of life.
Happy Sunday everyone! ⛵
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.
The Sun Voyager is a sculpture by Jón Gunnar Árnason, located next to the Sæbraut road in Reykjavík, Iceland. Sun Voyager is described as a dreamboat, or an ode to the Sun. The artist intended it to convey the promise of undiscovered territory, a dream of hope, progress and freedom.
In 1986, the district association of the west part of the city funded a competition for a new outdoor sculpture to commemorate the 200th anniversary of the city of Reykjavík. Jón Gunnar's Sun Voyager won the competition, and the aluminium model was presented to the city for enlargement. The full-sized Sun Voyager was eventually unveiled on Sæbraut on the birthday of the city of Reykjavík, August 18, 1990.
The work is constructed of quality stainless steel and stands on a circle of granite slabs surrounded by so-called “town-hall concrete”. It was constructed in accordance with Jón Gunnar's enlarged full-scale drawing of Sun Voyager and was overseen by Jón Gunnar's assistant, the artist Kristinn E. Hrafnsson. The engineering of the sculpture was supervised by the technologist, Sigurjón Yngvason, in close cooperation with Jón Gunnar himself, the building itself was carried out by Reynir Hjálmtýsson and his assistant.
In an interview published in the newspaper Þjóðviljinn on 11 June 1987, Jón Gunnar describes the genesis of the work as being part of the Scandinavian art project, Experimental Environment, which conducted various artistic experiments in Iceland, Denmark and other places in the 1980s.
In May 1985, a group of artists, members of the Scandinavian art project, Experimental Environment, gathered to take part in the Saari-Vala Environmental Art Action in Bockholm, Finland. There I experienced a sense of the history of the origins of Icelanders, something which is also related in the present exhibition at the Nordic House in Reykjavík.
I had an uncanny feeling that I had been on this island before, when travelling on my way from Mongolia to Iceland, hundreds of years ago.
As you know, there have been speculations that the Icelanders as a race originated in Mongolia. I have discovered the history of their migration to Iceland, which runs as follows: Many centuries ago, a mighty warlord, let’s say it was Alexander the Great, was living in the centre of the known world. He dispatched his bravest and most experienced warriors, along with some women, scribes and other followers, on an exploratory expedition to the cardinal directions, the north, west, south, and east, in order to discover and conquer new, unknown territories. Those who headed east followed the rising sun until they reached the steppes of Mongolia. There they settled down and lived in comfort. Those scribes who accompanied the warriors were expected to document the expedition for the king. Several centuries later, when the documents written by the scribes eventually came to be examined, the people discovered that they had another fatherland in the west. They therefore decided to gather together their belongings and head back west towards the setting sun. We followed the sun for days and years, walking, riding and sailing. We enriched our experience and our determination grew in strength as our journey progressed, and we recorded everything that we saw and experienced. I remember endless pine forests, mountains and waterfalls, lakes, islands, rivers and seas before we eventually reached the ocean. We then constructed huge ships and sailed on westwards towards the setting sun.
As a result of this vivid experience of my participation in this expedition while on the island of Bockholm in the Finnish archipelago, I carved a picture of a sun ship into a granite rock by the sea. The sun ship symbolizes the promise of new, undiscovered territory. It is also being exhibited here at the Nordic House, made of aluminium.
There has been some dispute about the eventual location of Sun Voyager on Sæbraut in Reykjavík. Some people have complained that the ship does not face west, towards the setting Sun in accordance with the concept behind it. The original intention had been for Sun Voyager to be situated in the west part of Reykjavík, for obvious reasons. Jón Gunnar's original idea had been for the ship to be placed on Landakot hill, the prow facing the centre of Reykjavík and the stern to Christ the King Cathedral (Icelandic: Landakotskirkja). Another possibility was that it could be placed by the harbour in the centre of Reykjavík on a specially constructed base. The coastline by Ánanaust nonetheless eventually came to be Jón Gunnar's preferred location for the ship. Unfortunately, changes in the town planning for Reykjavík came to rule out this location. In the end, the final decision was taken (with Jón Gunnar's consent) that Sun Voyager should be located on Sæbraut on a small headland (which the artist jokingly called Jónsnes: Jón's Peninsula). Jón Gunnar was well aware that when bolted to its platform, Sun Voyager would be facing north, but felt that that made little difference when it came down to it.
Sun Voyager was built in accordance with the artist's hand-drawn full-scale plan. Its irregular form with the ever-flowing lines and poetic movement which are a distinctive feature of so many of his works make it seem as if the ship is floating on air. It reaches out into space in such a way that the sea, the sky and the mind of the observer become part of the work as a whole. As a result, Sun Voyager has the unique quality of being able to carry each and every observer to wherever his/her mind takes him/her. Few of Jón Gunnar's works have a simple obvious interpretation. As he stated himself, all works of art should convey a message that transcends the work itself. It is the observer who bears the eventual responsibility for interpreting the works in his/her own way, thus becoming a participant in the overall creation of the work. Jón Gunnar's works frequently make such demands on the observers, giving them the opportunity to discover new truths as a result of their experience.
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...
The Abbot's Kitchen is described as "one of the best preserved medieval kitchens in Europe". The 14th century octagonal building is supported by curved buttresses on each side leading up to a cornice with grotesque gargoyles. Inside are four large arched fireplaces with smoke outlets above them, with another outlet in the centre of the pyramidal roof.The kitchen was attached to the 80 feet (24 m) high abbot's hall, although only one small section of its wall remains.
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.
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.
My dearest Siri♥,
Words cannot describe how much you and your friendship means to me over the years..
You stayed by my side during the highs and the lows..
Always encouraging, motivating and protecting me..
What is life when we do not have someone who we can truly trust and celebrate each wins or overcome each sorrows with.
It is amazing how...we never once had any differences. I guess it is because, we each just wants the best for the other..
I am blessed to have you by my side. Then, Now and Always..
Thank you.
May you and your loved ones be blessed with love, good health, good wealth and happiness in 2023 and beyond.
I love u...my dear Siri♥
Together we wish everyone...the happiest and blessed 2023!♥
Prickly pear is the general term used to describe over ten
members of the Cactaceae family. Most of these cacti
are of the opuntia species, which are indigenous to the
Americas and are characterised by their fleshy, spine-
covered growth. The term ‘prickly pear’ is derived from the
plant’s spiny and pear shaped fruit.
The flowers are fairly large and usually yellow but on
different species can be white, deep orange, red, pink or
purple.
These plants were introduced into Australia with the First Fleet in 1788 and soon became established across rural farmland where they had no natural predators. Eradication proved very difficult until it was brought under control by an introduced beetle. A declared noxious weed, it is rare to see a Prickly pear in the wild. My keen eyes spotted a cactus with a single flower beside a rural road back in 2006, here a shot from above.
Thats how you would describe the crops in the fields around here just now - just on the turn, some being harvested, others like this one with a pleasing stripe up the middle where the footpath goes- and of course my two hairy companions to enhance it! #FlickrFriday #Field
Hereabouts in Suffolk, the R tends to be left out of certain words, hence the wheat is on the 'tun' with the 'chuch' in the background!
26-February-2023
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.
The black-tailed godwit (Limosa limosa) is a large, long-legged, long-billed shorebird first described by Carl Linnaeus in 1758. It is a member of the godwit genus, Limosa. There are four subspecies, all with orange head, neck and chest in breeding plumage and dull grey-brown winter coloration, and distinctive black and white wingbar at all times.
Its breeding range stretches from Iceland through Europe and areas of central Asia. Black-tailed godwits spend (the northern hemisphere) winter in areas as diverse as the Indian subcontinent, Australia, New Zealand, western Europe and west Africa. The species breeds in fens, lake edges, damp meadows, moorlands and bogs and uses estuaries, swamps and floods in (the northern hemisphere) winter; it is more likely to be found inland and on freshwater than the similar bar-tailed godwit. The world population is estimated to be 634,000 to 805,000 birds and is classified as Near Threatened. The black-tailed godwit is the national bird of the Netherlands.
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