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Riverfront Park floodplain. Meridian Township, MI
Another invasive species that is lovely to observe, but destructive.
Mount Vesuvius overlooks the city of Naples. The destructive potential of its fiery clouds is proven: the remains of Pompeii and Herculaneum still remind us today … But the city of Naples continues to expand on the flanks all around this active volcano. Why do town planners allow Neapolitans to expand in the face of such potentially destructive forces?
More than 3 million people live within a twenty mile radius of the volcano.
Naples under Vesuvius Italy_w_0713
Alien art
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Destructive emotion is one of the many emotions we have. Human being is biological machine which has a computer and produces a lot of different emotions and feelings. We may not consciously feel each our emotion, they may hide in our subcontious. Feelings and emotions run us, dominating our life. We are humans because of a lot of different emotions and feelings. Thinking and memory processes function within feeling and emotion processes. How severely they effect us is depend on a lot of factors.
Our emotions and feelings create for us very happy and very bad moments. Some of us may not able to control our bad feelings when our emotions become conscious. Some of the negative feelings may be very strong, which can be very harmful ( very destructive) for other human beings and / or ourselves.
We have to be aware of who we are and use some remedies before it's too late. At the end, we are responsible from each our action.
Not every ones cup of tea here in the UK but is the one wild mammal that children can get to see regularly. 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.
Not every ones cup of tea here in the UK but is the one wild mammal that children can get to see regularly. 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.
Trees on a trail at a small creek in Darlington Provincial park , Martin’s photographs , Courtice , Ontario , Canada , July 14. 2022
American Larch trees with beautiful small cones
Tamarack trees with beautiful small cones
Cones
Blooming Dogwood
flowering white dead nettles
Looking down at the front end of my bicycle
Bicycle
Four days after the destructive storm of 21 May 2022
old apple trees with beautiful blossoms
old orchard on the waterfront trail of Lake Ontario
blue sky in Squires beach
July 2022
Blossoms
Flowering trees
apple trees with blossoms
old orchard on the waterfront trail
Old orchard
Trees with blossoms
tall grasses
the large stone block walls
system to keep the Carp from entering Duffins marsh and creek system
viewed from the bridge across the marsh in Squires beach
Having a nice walk with granny in the woods
Family
Sunset
Shrubs
Oak tree
Trees with blossoms
Trees
Stones
Reflections
Reflection
Dogwood
Duffins trail
blue sky
cloud cover
yellow Tamarack tree
Tamarack tree
Tamarac
American Larch tree
Beautiful Nettles and it’s flowers
Nettles
Waterfront trail on Lake Ontario
Waterfront trail of Lake Ontario
Autumn
Shadows
Reflections
Large mushroom
Bird houses
Autumn
Duffins creek
Discovery bay
closeup photograph
Martin’s photographs
Ajax
Ontario
Canada
Duffins creek
Favourites
IPhone XR
Mushroom
Large Mushroom
wildflowers
Trout lilies
Lake Ontario
Mouth of Duffins creek marsh
white Deadnetles
River
Dogwood
Woods
Granny
Favourites
White Trilliums
Duffins marsh
Duffins trail
Ferns
Trilliums
Large tree
I know, even I am surprised I managed to turn this one around this fast.
The hazy skies are a product of the Larch Creek Fire. The fire started July 9 amid a west coast heat wave and it continues to burn in the grasslands south of The Dalles. Because of the typical westerly winds the Gorge hosts, the smoke has mostly stayed to the east, creating a line in the sky just to the east of The Dalles in the afternoon as the winds ramp up. While it cannot be seen here, I have a few photos taken earlier in the week that display this effect. So while the skies above us were pretty hazy, the falling sun was just behind the smoke curtain in the clear, leaving us with great conditions for afternoon shooting.
We will see how long this lasts. The entire Pacific Northwest tends to catch on fire in August, and quite frankly, August tends to be one of the most miserable months here, worse than January even (my opinion). Most don’t see it this way, but I think that is for obvious reasons. They aren’t taking pictures of trains. My only memories of August growing up are of scorching hot days and smoke. That’s it. August is also the time the whole world decides to go on vacation. Crowds show up everywhere, the skies are very hazy, and everything looks lifeless. I can’t plan vacations during this time because in years past they have been ruined by the smoke, so I leave those for July or September. I would like to hope this year would be different, but it won’t be. It’s been over 90 in the Gorge for about two straight weeks, with most of those highs eclipsing 95 in The Dalles. Like usual, there has not been a cloud in the sky for the entire month (which changed today for a few hours), which I am not complaining about. However, every sunny day that is 95 in the Cascades in July means more fire in August.
Ever since PG&E killed 85 people in the Camp Fire, the amount of large, destructive fires have dropped off a cliff. If you’re curious as to why that is, I will briefly explain. It has to do with the fact that fires started by transmission lines can usually only be started by a force of nature, and in this case, it is almost always wind. This means that fires started by transmission lines start during times of high wind, and those times tend to coincide with hot, dry weather. Compare this to fires started by lightning. They often start in desolate areas and can be extinguished before they really even start by the rain that thunderstorms tend to bring. There are, of course, cases where dry lightning acts like a transmission line and sets fire to the world. I think of the August Complex of 2020, which burned 1% of California’s entire land area. The Camp Fire happened in 2018. The massive fires in 2020 started from a horrible case of dry lightning. What’s in store for 2024? Well, this year is a bit of a wildcard. I don’t think anything crazy happens, but it doesn’t take much for the skies to get hazy here. I mean, it is already. However, I am worried about next year. A dry summer leading into La Niña is recipe for drought in California and smoke no matter where you go. Fire next year? I would count on it.
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Despite the destructive and ugly forces of "Burgweid", the winter storm had also its beautiful side. For example the flooded marsh along a river that created nice reflections in the morning fog.
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Visual pollution of the landscape on a huge scale.
Cyprus for many years now embraced the power of the Sun and harnessed it with very inexpensive solutions for getting domestic hot water. Instead of continuing these pioneering works, the government succumbed to external pressures and ruined the landscape with inefficient (German) wind turbines everywhere.
Brexit is beginning to sound quite liberating.
Piece on display at Corning Museum of Glass by Ginny Ruffner depicts lightening as a "creative, rather than a, destructive force."
The rabbits have been terribly destructive to my perennial garden through the years, but we haven't had as many in our backyard as previously. This little bunny has spent the summer here, though, and I have to admit he's pretty cute!
These little fellows are very destructive to you home and other wooden structures... They don't eat the wood but they cut it out and make their nest there and it weakens the boards, etc... I have to have my house treated 4 times a year to keep them out now that I have gotten rid of them...
In case you are interested, this is info about The Carpenter Ant !!
Last little fellow being removed from East Beach for the winter. With no shelter the Easterlies are quite destructive winds.
You are working so hard, in so many ways, to keep fighting for life. On this day seven years ago, you chose death…and somehow you lived through your own destructive actions. Contrary to what many people may think, and perhaps even fewer may say aloud, maybe this didn’t indicate you were selfish or a failure. Maybe this was the only way you knew to escape the indescribable pain you felt completely trapped within. Maybe you were not the failure—it’s amazing that somehow you managed to succeed at staying alive this long—maybe you were so deeply failed by individuals who should have cared about you, protected you, seen the signs and your pain and taken action to help you when you didn’t have the resources, understanding or knowledge to help yourself. Maybe you believed the message that had been deeply drilled into you: that you would be doing others and the whole world a favor if you were not here. Now you are trying your best to do the incredibly difficult work—which seems unexplainable with words—to keep fighting for life, every moment of each day and each night and in ways that are often “invisible” to others. Now you are fighting—even though you feel you don’t have any strength left for this—to let the light of hope shine upon all your scars. The scars of the places where you have hurt yourself because you believed the messages that you were worthless and in desperation you tried to do something to help numb the pain of the intense, never-ending, life-altering, life-threatening wounds that were mercilessly inflicted on you by others, which left other types of, even deeper, figurative scars within you. There are no words that seem adequate to describe or explain your experience. And while engaging in the healing process, it can feel as though the life-long pain is even deeper and wider than ever before as you do the necessary work—at a pace that is appropriate for you—of uncovering the truth of your experiences, which had to be pushed as far from your memory as possible for the sake of your survival, though these memories are never fully forgotten…the mind, spirit and body do remember. Though you often feel like a complete failure, it truly is amazing how far you have come from where you once used to be. You did the best you could for your whole life, with what resources you had available to you and within you. And in many ways it is so incredible to see the changes within you that have come through the God-given resources, support, work and wisdom of your mind and body. Though it feels impossible and like too much to handle, please do your best to keep fighting for life.
This Groundhog or Woodchuck if you prefer has not put himself to bed for the winter yet! The days are still pretty warm, in the low 70's F but the nights are getting pretty chilly in the 40's and 50's. I am pretty sure he lives up under my evergreen bushes as I see where he comes in and out.
The rabbits have been terribly destructive to my perennial garden through the years, but we haven't had as many in our backyard as previously. This little bunny has spent the summer here, though, and I have to admit he's pretty cute!
Aftermath of the terrible destructive force of the tornados on April 27, 2011 ~ Tanner AL- we were away in Orlando FL but our storage unit was hit. All we could think was "Thank GOD our family and friends are okay!" All the rest- just stuff!
And how in the WORLD our family and friends got anything salvageable out for us- beyond me! Forever in their debt.
Our thoughts go out to all those with loss of property, and wost of all- loss of family/friends.
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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.
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"At times so self destructive
With no intent on moulding
But behind this emotion
My sensible heart
My sensible heart"
Sensible Heart by Colour and City www.youtube.com/watch?v=VuzLiPxrBhs
As horrible and destructive as fire is, it sometimes leaves in its wake something interesting or striking. I found this charred tree trunk to fit that description. Paramount Ranch, after the Woolsey Fire.
The human capacity for destructiveness is a dangerous zone to wander. Finding oneself in awe of watching the world crumble beneath ones feet as the path on which one walks comes to a closing halt. At the end of the road, pure darkness lies ahead and it could overtake one's assumptions. Although one is to face forward, staring into the future, a continual pattern that is read too deeply to which a falsified scenario can conjure feelings of frustration and emptiness of the past. A feeling that can dwell, swelling the mind with discomfort, like good intentions overtaken by a rainy day. An entity that feeds on our dispositions, growing in time only to explode into a raging mess of emotional pain and anguish; yet accompanied by the warmth and compassionate nature of innocent attentiveness.
"Hope is a disposition of the soul to persuade itself that what it desires will come to pass, which is caused by a particular movement of the spirits; namely, by that of mingled joy and desire. Fear is another disposition of the soul, which persuades it that the thing will not come to pass. And it is to be noted that, although these two passions are contrary, one may nonetheless have them both together, that is, when one considers different reasons at the same time, some of which cause one to judge that the fulfillment of one’s desires is a straightforward matter, while others make it seem difficult.
And neither of these passions ever accompanies desire without leaving some room for the other."
Or Woodchuck depending on what part of the country you're from I think. They are very destructive and I remember well the year I spent the whole summer trying to figure different ways to keep one out of the garden! This one, though obviously young was very busy trying to enlarge the opening in my plastic drain spout which is buried in the ground. I actually stepped outside onto the patio to enlighten him how I felt about those proceedings which put me within five feet of the little beastie. He froze for several seconds, long enough for me to click several times and then turned and with a bound of his fat little self he hightailed it back up into the woods. :) In answer to the question "how much wood could a woodchuck chuck"? I don't know because he was chucking plastic!
Anita and I are off adventuring for the first time in weeks and I can't wait to see what there is to see! Have a fabulous rest of the weekend everyone! :)
Apparatus for Non-Destructive Transmission of Biological Visualisation (ANTBV)
art work on the Esplanade in Redcliffe by artist Russell Anderson.
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located in the beautiful capital of Santorini, Fira. It was built in 1827 and reconstructed to its current form after the destructive earthquake of 1956
Typhoon koppu was the most destructive ever. It has caused 58 lives, not much, but the damage to agricultural land and harvest and landslides were too much for everybody.. Vast towns were flooded and up to now, there are a few towns under water. Today, the sun came up the very first time. I made the shot with my macro lens at Sidcor. Market. My wife could not walk because of her sore right knee.. Thanks to those who view, comment and fave my photo.
As you get closer to a fire like this, something inside of you screams to turn around.
This is a forest fire in Colorado in 2012. It was over 50 miles away as I took this picture through a dark window while driving.
The Waldo Canyon Fire was briefly the most destructive in Colorado's history, until the Black Forest burned over 1000 homes in a week the following year. In this picture, the Waldo Canyon had been burning for about a week.
abandoned Mill, Bradford, Yorkshire.
Never, ever underestimate the destructive power of teenage boys
Weather can be devastating and destructive...but also stunningly beautiful. Yesterday's chase started southeast of Globe, took us down to exploding storms near Safford and finally to this spot at the Marsh Station overpass where a huge outflow boundary created a big line of cells and one of the most spectacular sunsets I've ever seen. The bolts were in many directions and it was hard to focus on one area. You can go to my FB page Mike Olbinski Photography to see the live video I did from last night to see how it truly looked.
I went to the middle of this overpass where I've been many times...the time-lapse looking straight down Interstate 10 with the sunset explosion and lightning everywhere is gonna be one of my favs from the summer.
Great having my kiddos along, plus teaming up with my buddy John Sirlin....we've had a two solid chase days together this week and seen two gorgeous sunsets along with fantastic lightning
Alien art
My picture above is showing that an alien bird is picking up a leaf.
Development of some aliens from an animal stage to a developed stage ( at tree of life) might take very long time or the expected development might not happen at all if some components don't come together.
The environment, the world they are in, might not be very rich for the development of the aliens, and/or biological development might head in a very different direction. Their "tree of life" might not have proper branches for a progressive development. The tree would be weak, like a tree in a desert.
For a chemical reaction, we have to have specific atoms. We need substances to create other substances. For reactions to happen, we have to have some conditions present at the place where the reaction should happen.
Already developed aliens would be the lucky ones, passing all hurdles. When we consider the existence of billions of stars, planets and a lot of different places within planets in our universe, the probability would be very hight to be lucky for some aliens.
Another issue is that we might not see any alien at all because of the distance between stars and galaxies. Non of us ( we and aliens ) might reach the very high development to create very high technology to fly that far ( the distance between galaxies getting more in each day, expanding universe ) before our universe collapse, before the black holes pull the galaxies, before the stars of the planets explode, before the artificial intelligence takes over ( AI doesn’t need to be conscious and alive, and doesn’t need to have feelings and emotions. it can survive on its own if it is programmed properly ), etc.
Al might be the biggest threat to humans and aliens, it could wipe out them very easily. The creation of very destructive Al is possible when we consider how much hatred there are in our world between nations, races and between the people with different religions.