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The difference between a path and a road is not only the obvious one. A path is little more than a habit that comes with knowledge of a place. It is a sort of ritual of familiarity. As a form, it is a form of contact with a known landscape. It is not destructive. It is the perfect adaptation, through experience and familiarity, of movement to place; it obeys the natural contours; such obstacles as it meets it goes around.
― Wendell Berry
Also known as the Eastern Gray Squirrel, native to eastern North America where it is an essential natural forester. Less arboreal than then the Red Squirrel as the grey tends to feed extensively on the ground. Its not their fault that there over here in the UK that one lie's with the worlds most destructive and most dangerous animal on the planet called the human. This is one of the first wild mammals that children can get to see regally and so sometimes help encourage them to get into nature.
New building, Christchurch , NZ
Christchurch is the largest city in the South Island of New Zealand.
The city suffered a series of earthquakes between September 2010 and January 2012, with the most destructive of them occurring on 22 February 2011, in which 185 people were killed and thousands of buildings across the city collapsed or suffered severe damage. By late 2013, 1,500 buildings in the city had been demolished, leading to ongoing recovery and rebuilding projects across the city.
Just a black vulture perched on a wood post. This one was in front of a farm. In Hershey, Pennsylvania these birds have been “destructive by nature,” and cause damage to homes and property in the neighborhood, as well as at Hersheypark’s ZooAmerica, where they were a nuisance last year.
Black vultures, which can have wingspans up to 5 feet, are protected under federal laws. It’s illegal in the U.S. to trap or kill the birds without a permit, and violators can face a fine of up to $15,000 and six months in prison.
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Ceiling in one of the newer buildings in Christchurch , NZ
Christchurch is the largest city in the South Island of New Zealand.
The city suffered a series of earthquakes between September 2010 and January 2012, with the most destructive of them occurring on 22 February 2011, in which 185 people were killed and thousands of buildings across the city collapsed or suffered severe damage. By late 2013, 1,500 buildings in the city had been demolished, leading to ongoing recovery and rebuilding projects across the city.
Christchurch is the largest city in the South Island of New Zealand.
The city suffered a series of earthquakes between September 2010 and January 2012, with the most destructive of them occurring on 22 February 2011, in which 185 people were killed and thousands of buildings across the city collapsed or suffered severe damage. By late 2013, 1,500 buildings in the city had been demolished, leading to ongoing recovery and rebuilding projects across the city.
All of the squirrels that hang out in or live in the yard are entertaining. Robbie, my little dare devil buddy is entertaining but also a bit destructive. He is so much more playful than all of the others and he makes up some crazy games. Things like get the bloom, treating the flowering maple like a teatherball game. That plant is supposed to have blooms all over it, year round and it did but now only has a few on the very top where the branches are too weak to support Robbie's weight. He has also broken several pawpaw branches that were about to bloom. Pawpaws are the host plant for the zebra swallowtail. In this image Robbie is gnawing on a palm tree bloom. Hopefully he will continue to entertain himself by making sure that bloom is cut through. I don't need anymore palm trees :) I simply leave the blooms as long as possible for the pollinators. Bees love the blooms and occasionally a butterfly will stop by one.
My favorite Robbie story is that he was gnawing on a piece of mulch and decided to bury it, in the mulch :) Silly squirrel.
Hopefully Robbie can serve as an inspiration to you and you will go make up a silly game to play and entertain yourself. Barring the destructive portion of course. If you do it would be interesting to know what you do, so please share :)
Christchurch is the largest city in the South Island of New Zealand.
The city suffered a series of earthquakes between September 2010 and January 2012, with the most destructive of them occurring on 22 February 2011, in which 185 people were killed and thousands of buildings across the city collapsed or suffered severe damage. By late 2013, 1,500 buildings in the city had been demolished, leading to ongoing recovery and rebuilding projects across the city.
Switzerland, May 2021
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ABOUT THE PHOTO:
So this photo is a bit of a novelty for me - at least here on Flickr, but it's also a journey back in time in a sense. I've always loved b/w and sepia photography; already as a very young teenager I would go out into the woods with an old Pentax Spotmatic (which I had nicked from my father) whenever it was a foggy day to shoot b/w compositions of sunbeams cutting through the ghostlike trees.
I used films with a sensitivity of at least 1600 (for those of you who remember what that means 😉 ), and the resulting photos had an incredibly fine grain which I loved; I blew them up to the size of posters and hung them on the walls of my teenage man-cave next to Hendrix, Jim Morrison and Slash.
But then I abandoned photography altogether for 20 years, and when I finally picked up a camera again, it was one of the digital kind. Now neither film nor grain played any role in my photographic endeavours - let alone b/w compositions: because the reason I fell in love with shooting pictures once more was the rare and incredibly colorful lizard species that had chosen my garden as its habitat.
It's this species - the Lacerta bilineata aka the western green lizard - that my photo website www.lacerta-bilineata.com/ and also my Flickr gallery are dedicated to, but I've since expanded that theme a bit so that it now comprises the whole Lacerta bilineata habitat, which is to say my garden and its immediate surroundings and all the flora and fauna I find in it.
I like that my gallery and the website have this clear theme, because in order to rise to the challenge of portraying all aspects of a very specific little eco system (which also happens to be my home of sorts), it forces me to constantly explore it from fresh angles, and I keep discovering fascinating new motives as my photographic journey continues.
Which brings me to the horse pasture you see in this photo. This playground for happy horsies lies just outside my garden, and it normally only interests me insofar as my green reptile friends claim parts of it as their territory, and I very much prefer it to be horseless (which it thankfully often is).
Not that the horses bother the reptiles - the lizards don't mind them one bit, and I've even seen them jump from the safety of the fly honeysuckle shrub which the pasture borders on right between the deadly looking hooves of the horses to forage for snails, without any sign of fear or even respect.
No, the reason I have a very conflicted relationship with those horses is that they are mighty cute and that there's usually also foals. The sight of those beautiful, happy animals jumping around and frolicking (it's a huge pasture and you can tell the horses really love it) is irresistible: and that inevitably attracts what in the entire universe is known as the most destructive anti-matter and ultimate undoing of any nature photographer: other humans.
Unlike with the horses, the lizards ARE indeed very much bothered by specimens of loud, unpredictable Homo sapiens sapiens - which makes those (and by extension also the horses) the cryptonite of this here reptile photographer. It's not the horses' fault, I know that, but that doesn't change a thing. I'm just telling you how it is (and some of you might have read about the traumatic events I had to endure to get a particular photo - if not, read at your own risk here: www.flickr.com/photos/191055893@N07/51405389883/in/datepo... - which clearly demonstrated that even when it's entirely horseless, that pasture is still a threat for artistic endeavours).
But back to the photo. So one morning during my vacation back in May I got up quite early. It had rained all night, and now the fog was creeping up from the valley below to our village just as the sky cleared up and the morning sun started to shine through the trees.
And just as I did when I was a teenager I grabbed my camera and ran out to photograph this beautiful mood of ghostlike trees and sunbeams cutting through the mist. There had already been such a day a week earlier (which is when I took this photo: www.flickr.com/photos/191055893@N07/51543603732/in/datepo... ), but this time, the horses were also there.
Because of our slightly strained relationship I only took this one photo of them (I now wish I had taken more: talk about missed opportunities), and otherwise concentrated on the landscape. It was only later when I went through all the photos on my computer that I realized that I actually really liked those horses, even despite the whole composition being such a cliché. And I realized another thing: when I drained the photo of all the color, I liked it even better - because there was almost a bit of grain in it, like in the photos from my youth.
Since then I have experimented quite a bit with b/w and sepia compositions (some of which I will upload here eventually I guess), but this photo here is the first one that helped me rediscover my old passion. I hope you like it even though it builds quite a stark contrast with the rest of my tiny - and very colorful - gallery. But in the spirit of showing you the whole Lacerta bilineata habitat (and also in the spirit of expanding my gallery a bit beyond lizards and insects), I think it's not such a bad fit.
As always, many greetings to all of you, have a wonderful day and don't hesitate to let me know what you think 😊
" In my room, with nothing but me and my destructive mind. Its overthinking all the little details. Its not knowing why that person suddenly stopped talking. Its that corrosive feeling of worthlessness that your mind convinced you of being. Its when war wages on inside your brittle self and you know you could not hold on any longer. Its when youre all alone with no one there to save you from yourself. Its a torture that makes death seem like a friend. Beckoning you into its embrace."
Rest hope you all enjoy amsy work as always ^^
Amsy ♡
In antiquity a town called Thermae (Greek: Θερμαί, hot springs) existed on the site. In 1847, an announcement in Italy asserting the therapeutic benefits of bathing in the natural thermal spas found in Loutraki caused an influx of settlers in the surrounding areas, thereby creating modern Loutraki. In 1928 Loutraki was completely destroyed by earthquake and rebuilt. A large park was created by reclaiming sea area using the rubble of the fallen houses. Another strong earthquake hit the area in 1981 with less destructive effects.
Why try to do normally in these dangerous times?
what is so important that you put your life at risk?
look..he doesn't even have his nose covered..
so dumb n self-destructive
cover yer nose and mouth
keep yer distance...now more important than ever
wash n sanitize yer hands
be smart n alert
BE SAFE
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Amsterdam - Halvemaansteeg
Going out with ~Ingeborg~
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This was taken upstream from the previous shot, the pink flowers are Himalayan Balsam, highly invasive and destructive to river banks.
Sad for loss of life , property even damage to the grand redwoods, Been a destructive fire season in California and the west,
re edit and non destructive crop of boatsheds in the dunes at McCrae on Port Philip Bay 2015
Nikon1 V1 10-30mm lens 19.6mm 1/320sec f4.8 ISO 100
70% crop of original image maintaining resolution. credit to Gordon Poole, qualified master photographer, for teaching me this non destructive method.
∎ The greatest natural disaster is man with his destructive power. – Thorsten Holt
∎ In nature there are neither rewards nor punishments. There are only consequences. – Robert Green Ingersoll
Source: www.greeningdeserts.com/de/aphorismen-zitate-und-lebenswe...
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∎ "'Climate crisis' or 'Earth overheating' are more precise terms. They make the cause and urgency of the problem clearer. In other policy areas we are quick to use the term 'crisis' - euro crisis or refugee crisis - but avoid it when we talk about the fundamental distortions of our planetary system. That says a lot about the political importance of the various policy areas.”
Nils Meyer-Ohlendor
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The journalist Journalist Ross Gelbspan pointed out the sufficient scientific knowledge as early as 1997 and emphasized:
∎“The climate crisis is no longer about scientific questions. The fact that the future rate of increase in warming has not yet been determined - or the effects in different regions - is politically and socially immaterial. Science has long since told us what we need to act.
Source: www.wikiwand.com/de/Klimakrise
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∎ www.arte.tv | Climate Change is happening now
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8-Sep Northern Utah experienced a destructive wind storm with gusts reaching 99 mph (159 km/h). 200,000 homes/businesses without power (I am one of those).
I prefer not to photograph destruction or bad things and instead try to find beauty in all. So naturally, I headed out to the Great Salt Lake!
Photographing out in the open was a real challenge; my tripod would not stay, so I shot handheld. The salt spray was everywhere, and I was coated in salt.
The Great Salt Lake - GPS is not the exact spot of the photo.
No need to comment – Just enjoy :-)
The Preacher reflects on the value of contentment. It is better to have less and be content (with quietness) than to have more and constantly be grasping for further success.
i. Solomon weaved some fascinating themes together.
· Hard work and success are good and not to be envied.
· Laziness is wrong and destructive.
· Yet even the one with full hands must learn contentment.
are destructive.
عن معاذ رضي الله عنه قال : سمعت رسول الله صلى الله عليه و سلم يقول
قال الله تبارك و تعالى : وجبت محبتي للمتحابين فيّ ، و المتجالسين فيّ و المتزاورين ، و المتباذلين فيّ
This is actually the first nymph form of this bug that I've seen in the area. It's an invasive and highly destructive species.
Every man must decide whether he will walk in the light of creative altruism or in the darkness of destructive selfishness.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Hermann Park. Houston, Texas.
My research suggests that this Eastern Red Cedar is decorated by an Oriental Bittersweet vine.. The vine is an invasive, and can be destructive, but here, so far, it is but an appealing decoration holding its greens on a somber November afternoon.
We have not seen this much snow since the pandemic began. It came yesterday. Not long after this photo was taken, one of big tree branches collapsed. Snow was pretty, but can also be destructive. It caused us out of power for 20 hours in a fridge temperature.
More properly known as Coypu (Myocastor coypus), a destructive invasive in Texas, previously over-running the Riverstone Wetlands in Sugar Land. Then a alligator came into the wetlands, maybe from the nearby Steep Bank Creek, and the nutria were gone. Now the alligator's gone, possibly removed from these family-friendly wetlands, and the nutria are back. Nutria eat tree roots and grass stems as seen here. BTW, the red incisors are typical of rodents.
Witnessing the erosion and destructive forces of both volcanism and wind/sea at Capelos on the Azores island of Faial, a SciFi lover will easily be reminded of Frank Herbert's planet Arrakis / Dune and its capital Arrakeen. It certainly had this effect on me and I was ready to witness sandworms in this desert ;) In the background lie the remains of the Capelinhos volcano which erupted twice between 1957 and 1958.
Every man must decide whether he will walk in the light of creative altruism or in the darkness of destructive selfishness.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
“Well, I may be terrible at some things, but creating destructive potions by mistake when trying to create something else happens to my specialty.”
― Kristy Cunning, Gypsy Blood
Little Orphan Raccoons there mother was bringing them up here to mooch some food, she started when she was expecting, foraging hard for something to eat, when she had the babies she brought them up to eat. One day they came by themselves, then the next day, they were starving, they had not learned to find food yet. I started to feed them, the dark one was very aggressive, the other two not so much. They got bigger and did survive, they learned to hunt. The dark one still comes by occasionally, I recognized him because of color, the other two probably are out there. They got a bit destructive for a bit, then calmed down.
I know I can be destructive
And I can change the atmosphere,
All I ask from you is patience
“Mother Nature is capable of the most beautiful things and the most destructive forces.”
Quote — Steven Magee
Happy weekend!
A photo from my archives. ;-))
HMAM 😊😊😍
Still rooting for this ridiculous, dangerous, destructive, senseless, insane, cruel war to STOP!
Thank you for your kind visit. Have a beautiful day and spread love and kindness! ❤️❤️❤️
Night, the beloved.
Night, when words fade and things come alive.
When the destructive analysis of day is done, and all that is truly important becomes whole and sound again.
When man reassembles his fragmentary self and grows with the calm of a tree.
-Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
Cute as a Button. Destructive like a tornado. Blind as a bat. Stinky. Sonoran Desert, Southwest Arizona, USA.
Full frame. No crop. No post processing.
15/365
The wonderfully red sunset after a destructive rainstorm over Kuala Lumpur - nature can be very angry, but she sure is beautiful
I've heard news stories for several years about the non-native invasive iguanas in Florida, but in 10 winter/spring trips I've never seen one. This year, we saw several large Green Iguanas (Iguana iguana) at Wakodahatchee Wetlands, and one large one at Laxahatchee NWR, all in southern Florida.
The one in the picture and at least four others were draped over dead branches at my eye level, sleeping in the bright sunlight. This one opened his eyes for this picture.
Invasive iguanas did not swim to Florida from Central or South America. They were carelessly released by pet owners or escaped from sellers of exotic animals. They are considered a severely destructive environmental hazard (and they can bite or scratch.)
From nose to the tip of its very long tail (tail not shown in this picture), this iguana was almost four feet long (about 1.2m).
Bo isn't a destructive dog by nature, she is a tranquil girl, she loves to chew on toys but she doesn't eat them.
Sometime, when she's alone, for boredom, she creates her work of art on the wall of corridor.
She did holes everywhere.
Last week a mason came home to fix some of them.
Off-shore winds try to push back the waves. Whilst not huge by comparison with elsewhere in the world. these waves can be very destructive despite being between the sand bars and the coast. On the horizon you can see the white horses as they cross the sand bars. That is usually an area where ships can anchor to stay safe from the storms - an area known in history as the Yarmouth Roads. Robinson Crusoe is supposed to have begun his journey here! Most often in the winter the ships can be seen lined up inside the 'roads' even today, to avoid paying harbour tax yet to escape the worst of the storm. But on this day, even though it was July, they were seeking harbour.