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Tawny Emperor butterfly sipping dissolved minerals from roadside gravel.
Commonly found near Hackberry trees and can be confused with the similar Hackberry Emperor butterfly.
The Zebras are back.
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From US Forest Service
The zebra longwing butterfly or zebra heliconian, Heliconius charithonia, is unmistakable with its long narrow wings, which are striped black and pale yellow. This species is common in Mexico and Central America and it is also found in most of Florida and in some areas of Texas, where it can be seen year round.
They fly slowly and gracefully and are not easily startled. They gather in roosts to spend the night returning to the same place daily; all this making it easy to observe them. After mating the female lays eggs on one of several species of passion flower plants Passiflora. The caterpillars feed on these plants and acquire some of their toxins; this makes them distasteful to predators. The striking colors and pattern of the adults advertise their toxicity (my addition - keeping predators away).
An unusual feature of the longwing, or heliconian, butterflies is that the adults are relatively long lived. Most other butterflies live only a few weeks, but heliconians continue to live and to lay eggs for several months. Their tropical or semitropical habitat makes this possible; furthermore the feeding habits of the adults are important in prolonging their lives. The adults feed on nectar of flowers, like most other butterflies, but a special characteristic of heliconian butterflies is that they can also feed on pollen.
Most butterflies can only sip fluids with their specialized mouth parts, but the heliconian butterflies take some pollen as well as nectar. Their saliva enables them to dissolve the pollen and to take their nutrients. Pollen is very nutritious, rich in proteins, unlike nectar which contains almost no proteins, just sugars. This diet allows the butterflies to prolong their lives and also enables them to continue producing eggs for several months. As a consequence they are more dependent on flowers than other types of butterflies and this makes them good pollinators.
Again, my addition - Here the Zebra is feeding on a Firebush.
Don't go far off, not even for a day, because --
because -- I don't know how to say it: a day is long
and I will be waiting for you, as in an empty station
when the trains are parked off somewhere else, asleep.
Don't leave me, even for an hour, because
then the little drops of anguish will all run together,
the smoke that roams looking for a home will drift
into me, choking my lost heart.
Oh, may your silhouette never dissolve on the beach;
may your eyelids never flutter into the empty distance.
Don't leave me for a second, my dearest,
because in that moment you'll have gone so far
I'll wander mazily over all the earth, asking,
Will you come back? Will you leave me here, dying?
Pablo Neruda
Just as my toe sunk into the hot water
(of my readied and waiting bathtub)
it began to snow.
The first snow of the season is always the best.
The Autumn is already nostalgic.
The winter feeling is here.
The inside thoughts are becoming outside thoughts.
Sipping on sake, imagining the sounds of mountains.
Imagination is a drifting light that melts on your fingertips.
Until weeks of the stuff, then it sticks forever.
You carry it with you from home to home like a virus.
It is always with you.
There are only 49 days left of this year.
What will you make of it?
What will you make of yourself?
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Clouded Sulphur butterfly perched on a dirt clod sipping dissolved mineral salts.
Common and abundant.
Berlin – 2018, January 10
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Freshly fallen snow on a cold and overcast day in the ancient Laurentian mountains, Quebec.
The yellow- brown (tea) colour of the river water is caused by sand (sediments) and dissolved/suspended organic matter washed downstream and deposited on top of melting ice immediately below a fast flowing rapid (the clearer water of this rapid can just be seen in the photo at centre right).
It should also be noted that the river water at this location always exhibits a light tea colouration due to the presence of dissolved tannins, substances that naturally leach out of organic matter such as peat, leaves, bark, roots etc. [for more information see:
earthobservatory.nasa.gov/IOTD/view.php?id=88843
and
water.usgs.gov/edu/sediment.html].
Photo is a snap shot taken on a beautiful back-country ski trip.
Upper River/ rivière Jacques-Cartier, Quebec, Canada (01 March 2018).
Camera: Olympus EM5 Mk II
Lens: Olympus 12 mm f2.0
Okay, please bear with me. I'm still playing with ICMs and find myself experimenting with the macro lens and flowers.
I'm really intrigued by the different effects one can get with varying shutter speeds and movements. I find it fascinating that a simple photograph can look so much like a painting - perhaps a watercolour rather than the usual impressionist image that ICM often produces. Or maybe it just looks like a mess!
Either way, I quite like it and I hope you do too.
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Dissolving the lines between jazz, rock and electronic music, St. Barbe create a rich and expansive sound world fuelled by high-octane improvisation, ethereal textures and complex beats. Their debut EP 'Shapeless' was released in January 2021 and garnered support from Spotify's editorial jazz playlist, accumulating over 3,000,000 streams.
Visit this location at [Wonderland] in Second Life
Когда мы встретимся, давай сойдём с ума!
Тюрьма свободой станет, роскошью - сума.
Мы проведем губами по губам
И проповеди превратятся в хлам.
И выдохнув огонь в лицо друг другу,
Мы пеплом полетим с тобой по кругу,
И парой фениксов сплетёмся в диком танце.
Нас русый мальчик спрячет в старом ранце
Приняв за двух бумажных голубей.
Убей меня! Потом себя убей,
Чтобы родиться змеями с утра,
Не бойся, это нежная игра.
Узлом в клубок, но прежде сбросим кожу.
Я жалом твоё жало растревожу.
И наконец достигнув отравленья,
Мы не заметим, как накроет тенью
Волны солёной, той, что слижет нас с тобой,
Прилив - отлив, и берег вновь пустой.
- Не знаешь, где мы?
- А не всё ль равно...
Морскими звездами
На дно... на дно... на дно..
Раствориться в объятиях
Обвившиеся руки женщины, вокруг шеи мужчины- это спасательный круг!
Woman's arms wrapped around a man's neck are a lifebuoy!!!
A farewell to Glastonbury Abbey.
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This beauty graced us with its presence for a few brief minutes, before dissolving back into the reeds.
1. 5282 HIGH ~REET (North Side) Minster-on-Sea, Sheerness The Abbey Church of St Mary and St Sexburga TQ 97 SE 13/168 27.6.63. A GV
A large building in flint and rubble. A nunnery was founded here. It was burned by the Danes in 855 and rebuilt by Archbishop Corbeuil between 1123 and 1136. It was dissolved in 1539. There remain the conventual and parochial churches standing side by side, the north chancel and nave having been the conventual church and the south chancel and nave the parish church, in the Early English style, with a tower at the west end of the north nave and a south porch. The north half is the oldest portion of the building, with considerable Saxon remains, but the bulk of the building dates from the C13. The tower was added in the C15 but not completed and has a modern wood belfry. The east end of the north chancel dates from 1581, when St Katherine's Chapel beyond it was demolished. The south porch dates from 1879-81, when the whole church was restored from ruins by Christian. Late C14 screen. C12 column sculpture of the Virgin and Child. Monuments of the C14 and C15.
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HIGH STREET 1. 5282 (North Side) lfinster-on-Sea, Sheerness The Abbey Church of St Mary and St Sexburga TQ 97 SE 13/168 27.6.63. GV 2. A large building in flint and rubble. A nunnery was founded here. It was burned by the Danes in 855 and rebuilt by Archbishop Corbeuil between 1123 and 1136. It was dissolved in 1539. There remain the conventual and parochial churches standing side by side, the north chancel and nave having been the conventual church and the south chancel and nave the parish church, in the Early English style, with a tower at the west end of the north nave and a south porch. The north half is the oldest portion of the building, with considerable Saxon remains, but the bulk of the building dates from the C13. The tower was added in the C15 but not completed and has a modern wood belfry. The east end of the north chancel dates from 1581, when St Katherine's Chapel beyond it was demolished. The south porch dates from 1879-81, when the whole church was restored from ruins by Christian. Late C14 screen. C12 column sculpture of the Virgin and Child. Monuments of the C14 and C15.
Im Nebel
„Seltsam, im Nebel zu wandern!
Einsam ist jeder Busch und Stein,
Kein Baum sieht den andern,
Jeder ist allein.“ .....
-von Hermann Hesse-
Eastern Comma 'dryas' (summer dark form) catching some warm sun as it sips dissolved minerals at the edge of a dry puddle.
Common.
The fells around the reservoirs of Scar House and Angram are still very dormant with little signs of spring
At this point, the track flanked with the iconic dry stone walls is leaving the remains of the hamlet of Lodge overlooking Scar House Reservoir
Lodge was a small farming hamlet complete with Methodist Chapel originally founded as a monastic grange farm. Abandoned in the 1920s its historic legacy is faint but enduring.
In 1900 Lodge was a thriving community of small upland farms. It probably started life in the 13th century when a grange farm was built here. The farm and land belonged to the Cistercian Monastery of Byland Abbey. When the Abbey was dissolved in 1538 the land was sold to wealthy local landowners who over the next 350 years improved the farms and land.
Bradford Corporation, responsible for building Scar House Reservoir owned Lodge from 1904. The last residents left in 1929
At one time the droveway through Lodge was the main road connecting Scotland to Eastern England
Detail from the information board at Lodge
For the walking fraternity, this is an easy 7.5 miles walk around both adjoining reservoir, Scar House can be walked on its own
The upper terraces at Canary Springs which is part of Mammoth Hot Springs are composed of calcium carbonate. The terraces are colored by orange, yellows and cream colored thermophilic organisms. The water for the hot springs comes from precipitation in the surrounding mountains that runs down into the subsurface. The water is heated at depth. As the water rises it dissolves limestone in the subsurface beneath Mammoth and the surrounding mountains. The hot carbonate rich water comes to the surface and forms the travertine terraces. Geologists estimate that at any given time about 10% of the water in Mammoth Hot Springs is on the surface. The other 90% remains underground.
Silex Spring is a hot springs located along the Fountain Paint Pot trail in the Lower Geyser Basin in Yellowstone National Park. It is named for the large amounts of silica that lines the bottom of the springs and surrounding features. The silica comes from volcanic rocks dissolved by the water on the way to the surface. And in cold weather, water vapors coat the trees around the springs, adding another layer of white.
Happy Thanksgiving to everyone in the US. Stay warm!