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Zecharia Sitchin - The 12th planet.
This book suggests that we are not alone in our solar system. Yet it may enhance rather than diminish the faith in a universal Almighty. For, if the Nefilim created Man on Earth, they may have only been fulfilling a vaster master plan.
Light gives of itself freely, filling all available space. It does not seek anything in return; it asks not whether you are friend or foe. It gives of itself and is not thereby diminished. ~Michael Strassfeld
This used to be a very nasty district of my home town Augsburg. You always risked to get into a fight, if you went out there in the evening and provoked local brutes with your peacefulness. I lived there in the second half of the 1980s and I know, what I'm talking about.
But things have become much better in the last decades. More and more families of foreign origin have moved to Oberhausen and diminished the share of German brutes and criminals, and seeing this development more and more peaceful Germans moved there too.
However I still prefer not to go there after dark.
How to starts my autumn travel season, I have now to say goodbye to you my friends, see you soon.
Greetings!
Series "Human element"
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Masai Mara National Reserve
Kenya
East Africa
While perhaps not as widely distributed as Grant's, Thomson's are still the most common gazelles in East Africa. Though their numbers have diminished in some areas, in others they have persisted on ranches and farmlands long after other species have disappeared.
The graceful "tommie" is noticeably smaller than the Grant's gazelle, which it resembles in shape and color. It is also distinguished from a Grant's by the dark side stripe that runs from the shoulder to the flank and the white patch on the rump.
The males are larger than the females and have strongly ridged, almost parallel horns that curve backwards, with the tips curving forward. Female tommies have short, smooth, pencil-slim horns, or none at all. The face is accented by a black stripe running down from the eye, a dark marking on the nose and a light patch on the forehead.
Although more reliant on water than Grant's gazelle, the tommy has adapted to the open plains and grasslands of southern Kenya and northern Tanzania. – Wikipedia
Photo by Lynn. . .fewer butterflies this summer, hotter, drier, more farmers spraying weed killers that also diminish wildflowers and natural bee and butterfly habitats. . .
An eastbound unit train passes through Wheaton just after sunset at Mile Post 25.50 on the Union Pacific Railroad Geneva Subdivision.
Nikon D5100, Tamron 18-270, ISO 800, f/6.0, 110mm, 1/40s
Barnes County, North Dakota
This farmhouse sits on a long abandoned farmstead out on the plains up here. It was impressive in its time and although weathered and humble now, is in my opinion still so very intriguing. These sites and their histories will never cease to fascinate me.
Out exploring, Summer 2017
With a northbound freight train in tow, an Indiana & Ohio Railway SD40-2 "cuts" across Dolton Junction in Chicago's south suburbs.
Nikon D7500, Sigma 18-300, ISO 200, f/11.0, 116mm, 1/400s
A stem of Queen Anne's Lace shares its profile with a network of fence links in Chesterton, Indiana.
Nikon D7500, Sigma 18-300, ISO 640, f/6.3, 240mm, 1/640s
I bought another flash and really want to use them all, a little much for this shot however, just side lighting from a window with diminishing light, hence the 30sec exposure
It was a boom spring for dragonflies, one of the best I can recall, the result being that the flying pests which can be overwhelming in the northwoods were happily kept to a minimum. Much to the delight of these annoyances I'm sure, the dragonfly population is much diminished at this point and while certain species appear in the summer and even the fall, they are not as numerous as those of spring. I miss them and their somewhat ominous presence.
Looking Close .... on Friday
Theme: Red
This is a small die cast iron car. A filter called Sunscreen was added to diminish the fact I can't shoot red. It just looks terrible all the time.
Vịnh Hạ Long, Vietnam
Halong Bay
The title is a quote from the famous John Donne poem
"No man is an island,
Entire of itself.
Each is a piece of the continent,
A part of the main.
If a clod be washed away by the sea,
Europe is the less.
As well as if a promontory were.
As well as if a manner of thine own
Or of thine friend's were.
Each man's death diminishes me,
For I am involved in mankind.
Therefore, send not to know
For whom the bell tolls,
It tolls for thee."
A Metra Union Pacific West Line train, powered by (former Amtrak) locomotive 83, passes through Churchill Woods in Glen Ellyn.
Union Pacific Railroad ~ Geneva Subdivision ~ Mile Post 21.40
Nikon D7500, Sigma 18-300, ISO 360, f/8.0, 38mm, 1/2000s
My first skipper shot ever!
Not sure about specific ID but I’m going with what I found for Minnesota. It’s usually found in a prairie location but I found this in a wild garden on a golf course. Its habitat is being diminished and perhaps that’s why I found it where I did.
Wishing you well flickr friends, thanks for stopping by….Pat….xo
Still recovering from broken ankle and will continue to do so. I’m able to walk with a crutch and my boot/shoe somewhat.
No pain no gain😬.
A long line of covered grain hoppers trails a trio of Canadian National GE locomotives westward through Griffith, Indiana.
Nikon D7500, Sigma 18-300, ISO 200, f/9.0, 105mm, 1/640s
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Flores de Santa Gemita - 020422 - Enhanced-13
New York City - May 5, 2023: The rising full moon peeks out from the clouds between buildings in Lower Manhattan.
A banana is an elongated, edible fruit – botanically a berry – produced by several kinds of large herbaceous flowering plants in the genus Musa. In some countries, bananas used for cooking may be called plantains, distinguishing them from dessert bananas. The fruit is variable in size, color, and firmness, but is usually elongated and curved, with soft flesh rich in starch covered with a rind, which may be green, yellow, red, purple, or brown when ripe. The fruits grow in clusters hanging from the top of the plant. Almost all modern edible seedless (parthenocarp) bananas come from two wild species – Musa acuminata and Musa balbisiana. The banana plant is the largest herbaceous flowering plant. All the above-ground parts of a banana plant grow from a structure usually called a corm. Plants are normally tall and fairly sturdy, and are often mistaken for trees, but what appears to be a trunk is actually a false stem or pseudostem. Bananas grow in a wide variety of soils, as long as the soil is at least 60 cm deep, has good drainage and is not compacted. The leaves of banana plants are composed of a stalk (petiole) and a blade (lamina). The banana fruits develop from the banana heart, in a large hanging cluster, made up of tiers (called hands), with up to 20 fruit to a tier. The hanging cluster is known as a bunch, comprising 3–20 tiers, or commercially as a banana stem, and can weigh 30–50 kilograms. Individual banana fruits (commonly known as a banana or finger) average 125 grams, of which approximately 75% is water and 25% dry matter. The fruit has been described as a leathery berry. There is a protective outer layer (a peel or skin) with numerous long, thin strings (the phloem bundles), which run lengthwise between the skin and the edible inner portion. The inner part of the common yellow dessert variety can be split lengthwise into three sections that correspond to the inner portions of the three carpels by manually deforming the unopened fruit. In cultivated varieties, the seeds are diminished nearly to non-existence; their remnants are tiny black specks in the interior of the fruit. 20525
Wir erleben Dunkelheit und wir brauchen Licht – „das Licht der Welt „🔥 💫💖
Tausende von Kerzen kann man am Licht einer Kerze anzünden, ohne dass ihr Licht schwächer wird - Freude nimmt nicht ab, wenn sie geteilt (Buddha)
Wishing you all a merry and blessed Christmas 💖🎄
We are experiencing darkness and we need light – “the light of the world” 🔥💫
Thousands of candles can be lit from a single candle without diminishing its light – joy does not decrease when shared (Buddha)
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Briefly, the Large Copper was once found in the UK in the Fens of East Anglia, but numbers diminished with the draining of the Fens for farmland until the last of the species died out in circa 1851. The British sub species was unique and cannot be recovered.
There are two further subspecies in Europe, including one in the Netherlands that has been used to attempt official releases to reintroduce Large Coppers to the UK. All such releases have failed to date, largely it seems because of the limited habitat available. The other European subspecies is L.d. rutilus in central and eastern Europe.
This find at Bumble Hole in the West Midlands is presumably a private release by a butterfly breeder of a sample of the central and eastern European subspecies, to a site that has a limited habitat and the butterflies are highly unlikely to establish a lasting colony. The release seems to have been of larvae, as there have been empty chrysalis cases found on site, including one predated by a wasp. Further breeding by the adult butterflies has taken place, since eggs have been found on the food plant, water dock, and more recently new larvae.
I decided to go and visit on 11 August, to see these beautiful butterflies while they are around.
Thank you for your faves and comments - they are much appreciated
As soon as the winds diminished, slowing the movement of the water, the inevitable arrival this morning of ice formation along the shoreline, moving inexorably toward its goal of complete coverage, that to be accomplished in a remarkably rapid manner once the process has begun.
A squirrel pauses as an eastbound freight train approaches at Mile Post 70 of the Union Pacific Railroad Geneva Subdivision in Creston, Illinois. No worries, the squirrel got out of the way in plenty of time. In fact, after crossing the tracks, he even found a train nut :)
Nikon D5100, Tamron 18-270, ISO 320, f/6.3, 270mm, 1/640s
A long loaded coal train waits for signal clearance at Mile Post 25.50 of the Union Pacific Railroad Geneva Subdivision in Wheaton.
Nikon D5i00, Tamron 18-270, ISO 320, f/6.0, 140mm, 1/500s
Mallard Ducks are very common, but that does not diminish their beauty! I am quite certain this is a young Mallard which caught my attention in a pond.
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Les Canards colverts sont très communs, mais cela n'enlève rien à leur beauté ! Je suis tout à fait certain que c'est un jeune colvert qui a attiré mon attention dans un étang.
It's Autumn. But the Blue of Cichory still dots the fields of the Océ-weerd though diminishing. Here and there some Buttercups but this Marmalade Hoverfly, Episyrphus balteatus, apparently favors the nutrients of Chicory pollen...
Judging by its clear colorings and the sharp delineation of its wings it's in its prime!
The Aiggin Stone on Blackstone Edge near Rochdale. This is thought to be a medieval waymarker, sited on an old packhorse route, overlaying a Roman road crossing the Pennines. A rude latin cross is incised on the stone, with the letters I.T. The stone once stood several feet tall but has been diminished by falling and being pushed over.
Late day sunbeams stream through saltwater splashes at Pier 60 in Clearwater Beach, Florida.
Nikon D7500, Sigma 18-300, ISO 200, f/9.0, 120mm, 1/800s
A side profile of the Shanghai World Financial Centre (opened 2008) the 2nd tallest building in Shanghai, China and the 12th tallest in the world. Tops out at 492 metres or 1,614 feet (101 floors).