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Better than Loose Cannons.
Happy Birthday to Dad, forced out of high school to become a reluctant enlisted sailor in WWII. Glad he didn’t live to see this 99th birthday. How many American boys will our Mad King kill, after auditioning for SNL in a letter to European diplomats?
“Turning and turning in the widening gyre
The falcon cannot hear the falconer;
Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere
The ceremony of innocence is drowned;
The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity.“
William Butler Yeats, The Second Coming
Statue in Airlie Gardens, Wilmington North Carolina.
Happy Mono Monday!
5 July; 08:10 CDT; Velvia converted in post
The term nous (rhymes with “juice”) is important in Orthodox spirituality and the Fathers. Nous originally referred simply to the intellect, the means by which one could apprehend truth. In the New Testament, St. Paul often used nous in its ordinary Greek cultural sense of “mind.” The Fathers of the Church also used the word nous and other terms from Greek culture and philosophy; however, through their use in the Church, these terms acquired a specific Christian meaning. Among the Fathers, nous became a theological “term of art”—in other words, it has a specific and specialized meaning.
Nous has been defined and described in various ways. In Orthodox theology, nous refers not to the rational operation of the mind but to that part of the soul that allows the human person to know God, “the purest part of the soul, the eye of the soul.”2 “Man has two centers of knowing: the nous, which is the appropriate organ for receiving the revelation of God that is later put into words through the reason, and the reason which knows the sensible world around us.”
The Fathers frequently referred to the nous, and it has a very specific role in theology according to their experience and understanding. The Fathers rejected the idea that one could acquire knowledge of God by discursive reasoning (dianoia). True knowledge of God is gained through purification of the intellect (nous), and this comes about only with prayer. A famous statement known to all Orthodox theologians is, “The true theologian is one who prays.” A purified intellect grows in its knowledge of God through spiritual experience, not through dialectical reasoning, application of philosophical techniques, or the acquisition of mental skills. “The knowledge of reason is consequently of lower order than spiritual knowledge, apprehension or perception [of divine truth], which is the function of the intellect [nous] and is beyond the scope of reason.”
-Thinking Orthodox: Understanding and Acquiring the Orthodox Christian Mind Copyright ©2020 Eugenia Scarvelis Constantinou
The victims of the current atrocities are and were human beings in the first place. The assumption underlying the atrocities is that they are not. This assumption, and the atrocious act itself, places the perpetrator firmly in the camp of barbarism. Barbaric deeds undermine the words used for the defense of one's postulated just cause. The result is traumatic for generations to come, victims and perpetrators. Fuji X-Pro3.
Manarola may be the oldest of the towns in the Cinque Terre, with the cornerstone of the church, San Lorenzo, dating from 1338. The local dialect is Manarolese, which is marginally different from the dialects in the nearby area. The name "Manarola" is probably a dialectical evolution of the Latin, "magna rota". In the Manarolese dialect this was changed to "magna roea" which means "large wheel", in reference to the mill wheel in the town.
the UN sustainable development goals are not even the good intentions which the road to hell is paved with.
it's all pretty lies.
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David Tudor, Excerpt from 'Dialectics' (1984)
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First post with my Christmas present, a Laowa CF 65mm F2.8 CA-Dreamer Macro 2X prime lens. Perfectly sharp from close focus 2:1 super-macro to infinity. Macros to follow, one expects. Maybe portraits as well. The catch is that it's fully manual--no electronic communication with the camera at all. Fortunately, I have gotten pretty comfortable with manual exposure and focus after almost 10 months of practice with the X-S10, which makes it easy.
29 Dec 2021; Noon PST; Astia +
166; 23; 4; Explored 30 Dec 2021 (day after takeover) #382
A dialectic of structures. Silk is 5 times stronger than steel at the same diameter, and is manufactured at ambient temperature. SOOC, Acros film simulation, no crop.
8 Feb 2021; 07:30 CST
Explore B&W Takeover 27Nov2024 no.376
Manarola is another lovely town along the northern coast Italy. Just wonderful views everywhere.
Manarola (Manaea in the local dialect) is a small town, a frazione of the comune (municipality) of Riomaggiore, in the province of La Spezia, Liguria, northern Italy. It is the second smallest of the famous Cinque Terre towns frequented by tourists.
Manarola may be the oldest of the towns in the Cinque Terre, with the cornerstone of the church, San Lorenzo, dating from 1338. The local dialect is Manarolese, which is marginally different from the dialects in the nearby area. The name "Manarola" is probably dialectical evolution of the Latin, "magna rota". In the Manarolese dialect this was changed to "magna roea" which means "large wheel", in reference to the mill wheel in the town.
Manarola's primary industries have traditionally been fishing and wine-making. The local wine, called Sciacchetrà, is especially renowned; references from Roman writings mention the high quality of the wine produced in the region. In recent years, Manarola and its neighboring towns have become popular tourist destinations, particularly in the summer months.
Tourist attractions in the region include a famous walking trail between Manarola and Riomaggiore (called Via dell'Amore, "Love's Trail") and hiking trails in the hills and vineyards above the town. Manarola is one of the five villages. Mostly all of the houses are bright and colourful. Manarola was celebrated in paintings by Antonio Discovolo (1874-1956).
Info taken from Wikipedia.
Water hyacinth can, in a sense, be called a paradox. On one hand it is unwanted, on the other it is part of nature. Yet the water hyacinth (Eichhornia crassipes) is not native to this soil. Its journey begins in the Amazon basin of South America. It is said that during the colonial era, someone brought it to this subcontinent for its ornamental beauty. And it never left. Today it spreads across the wetlands, canals, beels, rivers, and haors of Bangladesh like an occupier — sometimes blocking waterways, sometimes cutting off light, sometimes etching worry lines on the foreheads of fishermen and farmers. Environmentalists call it one of the most harmful aquatic weeds in the world. In Bangladesh its name is kochuripana — a name spoken with far more irritation than affection.
And yet.
In the soft light of the monsoon, the water hyacinth blooms. And that blooming — extraordinary. Clusters of flowers ranging from pale violet to lavender. Each petal holds a golden eye, standing like small torches above the dark, glossy green leaves. Seen from a little distance, the individual plant disappears. What remains is only a sea swaying in waves of purple and green.
This photograph is of that moment. In the shallow focus, the edges melt into an impressionist haze, while at the very centre, sharp in focus, stand a few flowers — dignified and luminous. Completely indifferent to their own reputation.
Water hyacinth is a dialectical presence in our wetlands. It covers the water, yet it also purifies. It absorbs heavy metals from polluted water. It blocks waterways, yet shelters small fish and aquatic insects. In recent years, artisans and entrepreneurs have been crafting baskets, bags, and furniture from its dried stalks — transforming an environmental problem into a livelihood.
What we call foreign, invasive, or unwanted — its own beauty perhaps does not catch the eye easily. Yet sometimes the most neglected thing holds within it the most beautiful scene.
“Poetry of Water and Wilderness”, Pubail, Gazipur
First of a B&W urban series on homelessness in Seattle. Prominently visible from the breakfast room at my hotel, but I went down to the street for a better angle.
One could pursue this theme in any American city. I don’t claim that the series is in any way definitive or systematic. I just shot some of what I saw walking through generally prosperous commercial and residential neighborhoods on the north side of downtown. Homelessness in America used to be a mental health problem. That hasn’t been fixed—some of it will show up in this series—but now there is also “economic homelessness”. Due to limited availability, in many places those with a median income can not afford median housing costs. The problem predates Covid.
For the Brits: “median” is American for “central reservation”, the green belt separating traffic on multi-lane roads.
Happy Mono Monday, anyway!
6 Sep 2021; 09:30 CDT; Acros & post
Manarola may be the oldest of the towns in the Cinque Terre, with the cornerstone of the church, San Lorenzo, dating from 1338. The local dialect is Manarolese, which is marginally different from the dialects in the nearby area. The name "Manarola" is probably a dialectical evolution of the Latin, "magna rota". In the Manarolese dialect this was changed to "magna roea" which means "large wheel", in reference to the mill wheel in the town.
Improving transparency.
Near Schwedenplatz, Vienna
Original title “Working Girl” was inappropriate. Looked back at all my photos that year and asked myself what I liked best, and why. This is the type photo for a core theme—images resolving contradictions. In this case, order and chaos, as the woman cleans the window of a clock shop with a perfectly horizontal squeegee stroke in a sea of bubbles. Love her contemplative expression, and the clutter of urban reflections superimposed on the orderly interior of a Viennese clock seller.
Explore “Street and Documentary” Takeover no.89, 24 July 2024
NASA Infrared Telescope Facility, and the island of Maui, from a secondary peak on Mauna Kea, the highest point in the Pacific.
Maui, of course, is very cool. The IRTF is chilled below 4ºK with liquid Helium to capture infrared images uncontaminated by thermal noise. The telescope is not quite the coldest place in the Universe, which includes vast regions of intergalactic space at 3ºK due to the Cosmic Microwave Background, and a lab at MIT that uses sophisticated techniques to get down to a small fraction of 1ºK, Still, very cool. And, sitting on top of the the geologic hotspot that forms the Big Island of Hawaii at an altitude of 14,000ft is also just about the coolest place one can be on Earth, even without the snow and the bone-chilling air.
The 13 observatories on Mauna Kea, each funded by multi-national consortia, offer research time to astronomers from all over the world. The absolute peak of the mountain is reserved as a sacred space for indigenous people.
Explore! No.116 June 13, 2025
Tiger and Turtle nimmt über die in ihm angelegte Dialektik von Geschwindigkeit und Stillstand Bezug auf die Umbruchsituation in der Region und deren Wandel durch Rückbau und Umstrukturierung. Indem die Skulptur die dem Bild der Achterbahn anhaftenden Erwartungen ad absurdum führt, reflektiert sie ihre eigene Rolle als potentielles überregionales Wahrzeichen, welches zwangsläufig als Bild vereinnahmt wird. Sie stellt der Logik des ewigen Wachstums eine absurd‐widersprüchliche Struktur entgegen, die sich einer eindeutigen Interpretation widersetzt.“
– Heike Mutter und Ulrich Genth: PM der Künstler vom 19. November 2011 auf phaenomedia.org
Tiger and Turtle, through the dialectic of speed and stillness, is referring to the upheaval situation in the region and its change through dismantling and restructuring. By sculpturing the absurdity of the image of the roller coaster, the sculpture reflects its own role as a potential supraregional landmark, which is inevitably taken as an image. It counteracts the logic of eternal growth with an absurdly contradictory structure that opposes a clear interpretation. "
- Heike Mutter and Ulrich Genth: PM of the artists of 19 November 2011 on phaenomedia.org
From left to right: One57, the Nippon Club Tower, and the Calvary Baptist Church at 157, 145, and 123, West 57th Street NY, respectively. The first Super Tall on Billionaires Row, completed 2014 at 75 stories; a 21-story built in 1991 by a private Japanese men’s club organized in 1905 to foster cultural exchange; and The Calvary Baptist Church, dedicated 1931 at 16 stories, now empty pending renovation.
A fable of 3 cultures:
Mammon, Buddha, and Jesus walk into Greybeard’s Bar & Grill.
Mammon offers keen interest in return for exclusive service, orders a Manhattan, and gulps it down in a New York minute. He gets up to go, calling over his shoulder, “Have another meeting. Been real.”
The proprietor watches wealth slip away, and wonders silently what Buddha will desire.
Buddha—having no preference—has by now occupied every seat at the bar. He smiles, “If it’s all the same to you, practice detachment from a veggie burger. Please make me one with everything.”
Having set those wheels in motion, Greybeard finds Jesus—seated in a booth, ordering through the screen: one Godfather, on a rock; one shot of Everclear, straight up; a carafe of tap water, and a wine glass.
The old gent lifts an eyebrow. “You want ice in that carafe, Son?”
Jesus replies, “No, thanks—it just dilutes the Chianti.”
From the jukebox, The Carpenters sing We’ve Only Just Begun, Close to You, and Reason to Believe, simultaneously.
Happy Sliders Sunday!
9 Mar 2022; 09:30 CST; Velvia +
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Tiger and Turtle nimmt über die in ihm angelegte Dialektik von Geschwindigkeit und Stillstand Bezug auf die Umbruchsituation in der Region und deren Wandel durch Rückbau und Umstrukturierung. Indem die Skulptur die dem Bild der Achterbahn anhaftenden Erwartungen ad absurdum führt, reflektiert sie ihre eigene Rolle als potentielles überregionales Wahrzeichen, welches zwangsläufig als Bild vereinnahmt wird. Sie stellt der Logik des ewigen Wachstums eine absurd‐widersprüchliche Struktur entgegen, die sich einer eindeutigen Interpretation widersetzt.“
– Heike Mutter und Ulrich Genth: PM der Künstler vom 19. November 2011 auf phaenomedia.org
Tiger and Turtle, through the dialectic of speed and stillness, is referring to the upheaval situation in the region and its change through dismantling and restructuring. By sculpturing the absurdity of the image of the roller coaster, the sculpture reflects its own role as a potential supraregional landmark, which is inevitably taken as an image. It counteracts the logic of eternal growth with an absurdly contradictory structure that opposes a clear interpretation. "
- Heike Mutter and Ulrich Genth: PM of the artists of 19 November 2011 on phaenomedia.org
I am going to sound like a bossy teacher but this image is well worth looking at for a second. It is extremely unusual, a thirteenth century stained glass window that is not religious but celebrates the achievements of the arts and science . The rose window is the North transept of Laon Cathedral in Northern France . Laon is a fascinating town with a marvellous cathedral we always used to stay in the town on our way south but I think most people just drive by it on their way to Reims
The glass in the nine openings of the rose window is early 13th century and the earliest remaining in the cathedral. The window contains scenes representing the sciences as understood and practiced in the thirteenth century - the trivium and the quadrivium - the sciences and the liberal arts.
Philosophy in the centre with her head in the clouds , then going clockwise from twelve o’clock 1 Rhetoric writing on a tablet on her knees; 2 Grammar, with the rods with which she threatens the little children seated at her feet; 3 Dialectic; 4 Astronomy holding a bushel; 5 Mathematics ; 6 Medicine; 7 Geometry and finally Music.
Anyway sorry for the lesson but in my opinion its remarkable window as far as I know unique
The shot was hand held at a fairly high ISO it would have been clearer with a tripod
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Turbulent Snyder Creek tumbles into Lake McDonald over a load of multi-colored boulders it dropped in earlier floods, just before dawn reaches the distant Belton Hills and Apgar Mountains to the Southwest.
Nature always offers a new dawn, no matter how turbulent the day before. So May It Be. 🙏
Explore! ⭐️90 April 2, 2025
Happy Water Wednesday!
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Inaugurated in 2009, the gallery is home to De Lama Lâmina (2009), the latest development in Matthew Barney's project in partnership with musician Arto Lindsay, which took place at the Salvador carnival in 2004. Made especially for the Inhotim Institute, the installation reaffirms the artist's interest in mythological narratives, finding in Afro-Brazilian syncretism a fertile field for exploring the dialectical nature of things.
Inside the steel and glass geodesic dome, located in the woods away from the centre of the park, is the tractor that supports a tree, used in the performance in Bahia. The piece highlights Barney's environmental concern and the possibility of reading the work in the field of ecology.
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Tiger and Turtle nimmt über die in ihm angelegte Dialektik von Geschwindigkeit und Stillstand Bezug auf die Umbruchsituation in der Region und deren Wandel durch Rückbau und Umstrukturierung. Indem die Skulptur die dem Bild der Achterbahn anhaftenden Erwartungen ad absurdum führt, reflektiert sie ihre eigene Rolle als potentielles überregionales Wahrzeichen, welches zwangsläufig als Bild vereinnahmt wird. Sie stellt der Logik des ewigen Wachstums eine absurd‐widersprüchliche Struktur entgegen, die sich einer eindeutigen Interpretation widersetzt.“
– Heike Mutter und Ulrich Genth: PM der Künstler vom 19. November 2011 auf phaenomedia.org
Tiger and Turtle, through the dialectic of speed and stillness, is referring to the upheaval situation in the region and its change through dismantling and restructuring. By sculpturing the absurdity of the image of the roller coaster, the sculpture reflects its own role as a potential supraregional landmark, which is inevitably taken as an image. It counteracts the logic of eternal growth with an absurdly contradictory structure that opposes a clear interpretation. "
- Heike Mutter and Ulrich Genth: PM of the artists of 19 November 2011 on phaenomedia.org
Scale, noun, relative size. From Latin scala, ladder. Sometimes hard to judge in viewing and/or photographing landscapes. For example, this is a portion of the East wall of Glen Canyon, immediately downstream from the dam. The ladder at right apparently offers safe passage for a broad-shouldered man from the path with handrails at top right down to what appears to be a narrow ledge leading left to a cement block with a railing on top. Obviously functional, but completely mysterious to me. An example of Nature and Culture in close contact, neither making any concession to the other.
9-10-2022; 00:20 UTC; Velvia
The Mays Clinic at M. D. Anderson in the Houston Medical Center is large, not crowded. Everyone is calm.
flickr has been the most important part of my life... it gave me AN ESCAPE from the suffocation of BPD... lately the situation has worsened and i need to go for treatment (Dialectical behavior therapy DBT) so shall take a break...
i request all, please be kind to people who are different, be patient with them, your hatred, anger and shunning will destroy them... May God bless you
I've seen similar photos of Manarola here on Flickr, and was so taken by the locale that I planned a vacation around it. Don't think I'm adding anything new over other great photos here, but I knew I had to capture this.
From Wiklpedia: "Manarola may be the oldest of the towns in the Cinque Terre, with the cornerstone of the church, San Lorenzo, dating from 1338. The local dialect is Manarolese, which is marginally different from the dialects in the nearby area. The name "Manarola" is probably dialectical evolution of the Latin, "magna rota". In the Manarolese dialect this was changed to "magna roea" which means "large wheel", in reference to the mill wheel in the town.
Manarola's primary industries have traditionally been fishing and wine-making. The local wine, called Sciacchetrà, is especially renowned; references from Roman writings mention the high quality of the wine produced in the region. In recent years, Manarola and its neighboring towns have become popular tourist destinations, particularly in the summer months. Tourist attractions in the region include a famous walking trail between Manarola and Riomaggiore (called Via dell'Amore, "Love's Trail") and hiking trails in the hills and vineyards above the town. Manarola is one of the five villages. Mostly all of the houses are bright and colourful. Manarola was celebrated in paintings by Antonio Discovolo (1874-1956).
Matthew 24:6 “You will hear of wars and rumors of wars, but see to it that you are not alarmed. Such things must happen, but the end is still to come.”
Revelation countdown to nuclear meltdown:
“U.S. clears way for release of $6 billion in frozen Iranian funds as part of prisoner swap deal.”
Iran is spending their money on their Hamas proxy war.
The New World Order dialectic always needs two opposing sides.
The shadow of the Columbia Icefield Skywalk
sweeps across a sheer cliff.
"There is no Sun without Shadow ....
—Albert Camus
"Impermanence is a mark of existence.
The suffering it causes can be overcome with mindfulness."
—Buddhist teaching
Happy Shadow Saturday!
Nature and Culture, Fractals and Rectangles, Cyclicity and Permanence, Light and Shadow, Memory and Experience.
“Matter rather than Forms should be the object of our attention . . . for Forms are figments of the human mind.”
-Francis Bacon, Advancement of Learning.
“Thus, it was not only Greek words of which [Plato] was to alter the meanings, nor only Greek and Latin words. Love and good, for instance, are neither Greek nor Latin, and beauty is only Latin remotely, yet the spirit of Plato really works more amply in them, and in a hundred others bearing on the presence or absence of these qualities, than it does in such specifically Platonic terms as idea and dialectic. Let us try and trace the origin of some of the meanings which are commonly attached to the word love. As in the Mysteries, so at the heart of early Greek philosophy lay two fundamental assumptions. One was that an inner meaning lay hid behind external phenomena. Out of this Plato’s lucid mind brought to the surface of Europe’s consciousness the stupendous conception that all matter is but an imperfect copy of spiritual ‘types’ or ‘ideas’—eternal principles which, so far from being abstractions, are the only real Beings, which were in their place before matter came into existence, and which will remain after it has passed away. The other assumption concerned the attainment by man of immortality. The two were complementary. Just as it was only the immortal part of man which could get into touch with the eternal secret behind the changing forms of Nature, so also it was only by striving to contemplate that eternal that man could develop the eternal part of himself and put on incorruption. There remained the question of how to rise from the contemplation of the transient to the contemplation of the eternal, and, for answer, Plato and Socrates evolved that other great conception—perhaps even more far-reaching in its historical effects—that love for a sensual and temporal object is capable of gradual metamorphosis into love for the invisible and eternal. It is not only in the New Testament and the Prayer Book, in the Divine Comedy, Shakespeare’s Sonnets, and all great Romantic poetry that the results of this thinking are to be seen.”
-Owen Barfield, History in English Words, 106–7.
/******
I desired deep,
one led the way…
by invisible hand…
I grasp…
and she gently…
guided me….
beyond my senses…
beyond space and time…
before thought…
before articulating…
before feeling.
-rc
Another in the Amsterdam Storefront series dedicated to particular friends. The Rhine Cruise and the A-Z anchor cities will not be in chronological order.
Ruff - Calidris pugnax
The ruff (Calidris pugnax) is a medium-sized wading bird that breeds in marshes and wet meadows across northern Eurasia. This highly gregarious sandpiper is migratory and sometimes forms huge flocks in its winter grounds, which include southern and western Europe, Africa, southern Asia and Australia.
Three differently plumaged types of male, including a rare form that mimics the female, use a variety of strategies to obtain mating opportunities at a lek, and the colourful head and neck feathers are erected as part of the elaborate main courting display.
The original English name for this bird, dating back to at least 1465, is the ree, perhaps derived from a dialectical term meaning "frenzied"; a later name reeve, which is still used for the female, is of unknown origin, but may be derived from the shire-reeve, a feudal officer, likening the male's flamboyant plumage to the official's robes. The current name was first recorded in 1634, and is derived from the ruff, an exaggerated collar fashionable from the mid-sixteenth century to the mid-seventeenth century, since the male bird's neck ornamental feathers resemble the neck-wear.
Typical adult male ruffs start to moult into the main display plumage before their return to the breeding areas, and the proportion of birds with head and neck decorations gradually increases through the spring. Second-year birds lag behind full adults in developing breeding plumage. They have a lower body mass and a slower weight increase than full adults, and perhaps the demands made on their energy reserves during the migration flight are the main reason of the delayed moult.
Ruffs of both sexes have an additional moult stage between the winter and final summer plumages, a phenomenon also seen in the bar-tailed godwit. Before developing the full display finery with coloured ruff and tufts, the males replace part of their winter plumage with striped feathers. Females also develop a mix of winter and striped feathers before reaching their summer appearance. The final male breeding plumage results from the replacement of both winter and striped feathers, but the female retains the striped feathers and replaces only the winter feathers to reach her summer plumage.
The ruff is a migratory species, breeding in wetlands in colder regions of northern Eurasia, and spends the northern winter in the tropics, mainly in Africa. Some Siberian breeders undertake an annual round trip of up to 30,000 km (19,000 mi) to the West African wintering grounds.
Ruffs were formerly trapped for food in England in large numbers; on one occasion, 2,400 were served at Archbishop Neville's enthronement banquet in 1465. The birds were netted while lekking, sometimes being fattened with bread, milk and seed in holding pens before preparation for the table.
The heavy toll on breeding birds, together with loss of habitat through drainage and collection by nineteenth-century trophy hunters and egg collectors, meant that the species became almost extinct in England by the 1880s, although recolonisation in small numbers has occurred since 1963.
The draining of wetlands from the 1800s onwards in southern Sweden has resulted in the ruff's disappearance from many areas there, although it remains common in the north of the country.
The use of insecticides and draining of wetlands has led to a decrease in the number of ruff in Denmark since the early 1900s.
There are still areas where the ruff and other wetland birds are hunted legally or otherwise for food. A large-scale example is the capture of more than one million waterbirds (including ruffs) in a single year from Lake Chilwa in Malawi.
Population:
UK breeding:
0-11 females
UK wintering:
820 birds
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Manarola (Manaea in the local dialect) is a small town, a frazione of the comune (municipality) of Riomaggiore, in the province of La Spezia, Liguria, northern Italy. It is the second smallest of the famous Cinque Terre towns frequented by tourists.
Manarola may be the oldest of the towns in the Cinque Terre, with the cornerstone of the church, San Lorenzo, dating from 1338. The local dialect is Manarolese, which is marginally different from the dialects in the nearby area. The name "Manarola" is probably dialectical evolution of the Latin, "magna rota". In the Manarolese dialect this was changed to "magna roea" which means "large wheel", in reference to the mill wheel in the town [1].
Manarola's primary industries have traditionally been fishing and wine-making. The local wine, called Sciacchetrà, is especially renowned; references from Roman writings mention the high quality of the wine produced in the region. In recent years, Manarola and its neighboring towns have become popular tourist destinations, particularly in the summer months. Tourist attractions in the region include a famous walking trail between Manarola and Riomaggiore (called Via dell'Amore, "Love's Trail") and hiking trails in the hills and vineyards above the town. Manarola is one of the five villages. Mostly all of the houses are bright and colourful.
A leaf which has seen Better Days, on a walkway in Hermann Park, The shadow is a selfie, which normally I would avoid, but I really needed to catch this in a few seconds, on the run at the end of a beautiful day. In fact on one of my Better Days!
Yet another instance of a Barnett Newman Zip coupled with botanical jetsam &/or a topological equivalent of a disc—probably not the first reading that popped into your mind.
For #BetterDays #FlickrFriday and also “Signs of the Season” for the Flickr Lounge. Unaccountably refused to upload—even after export to jpg—so I’m posting a screen dump instead with time and location corrected to the original. The geotag shifted by a few meters in the process.
Happy Flickr Friday!