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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.
Woke up to rain this morning, so I headed out for a quick peek at my neighbor’s rose garden. There it was, my rose, dappled in raindrops; a beautiful work of mother nature and my neighbors green thumb.
A bit of Rock and Roll history:
The Rose is a 1979 American drama film which tells the story of a self-destructive 1960s rock star who struggles to cope with the constant pressures of her career and the demands of her ruthless business manager. The film stars Bette Midler.
The story is loosely based on the life of singer Janis Joplin. Originally titled Pearl, after Joplin's nickname which was also the title of her last album, the film was fictionalized after her family declined to allow the producers the rights to her story.
I was fortunate enough to see Janis Joplin perform in a very small venue, and can say Janis was amazing to view up close… when the smoke from the plentiful reefers parted momentarily : )
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.
As in storm. Never as destructive as a Nor'easter but quite a blow. Thanks for the look and have a great evening.
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.
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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... the destructive power of dementia
Another treasure of mine. A rich, elaborate, handmade amber necklace. It belonged to somebody very dear to me, who suffered from this terrible illness.
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
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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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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 :-)
Huge raindrops. The second major storm in two weeks, this has the potential of being more destructive then the first one. Tried to persuade my wife to be in this photo, I told her it would be a more impactful capture if she was in it, she wasn't buying it!
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.
“If you dance with the devil, then you haven’t got a clue,
for you think you’ll change the devil, but the devil changes you.”
J.M. Smith
"Trust me, she knew who she was dancing with the entire time. She just chose to see the good in everybody."
Unknown Author
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.
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. ;-))
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).