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With the view looking into Mexico, I thought about the Christopher Cross song with those words. Just an open highway, beautiful desert scenery all around me, and Mexico off in the distance...because one has to ride, ride like the wind...
Kuşadası (Turkish: [ˈkuʃadasɯ]) is a municipality and district of Aydın Province, Turkey.[2] Its area is 265 km2,[3] and its population is 130,835 (2022).[1] It is a large resort town on the Aegean coast. Kuşadası is 95 km (59 mi) south of İzmir, and about 60 km (37 mi) west of Aydın. The municipality's primary industry is tourism. The mayor of the district is Ömer Günel.[4]
Etymology
Sign on Kuşadası
Güvercinada ("Pigeon Island") derives its name in a similar fashion to Kuşadası ("Bird Island").
The name Kuşadası comes from the Turkish words kuş (bird) and ada (island), as the island has the shape of a bird's head (when seen from the sea).[5] It was known as Ephesus Neopolis (Greek: Ἔφεσος Νεόπολις) during the Byzantine era, and later as Scala Nova or Scala Nuova under the Genoese and Venetians.[6] Kuş Adası was adopted in its place during the Ottoman period at the beginning of the 20th century. Today, the citizens of Kuşadası often shorten the town's name to Ada.
History
Antiquity
The area has been a centre of art and culture since some of the earliest recorded history, and has been settled by many civilizations since being founded by the Leleges people in 3000 BC. Later settlers include the Aeolians in the 11th century BC and Ionians in the 9th. Originally, seamen and traders built a number of settlements along the coastline, including Neopolis.
An outpost of Ephesus in ancient Ionia, known as Pygela (Πύγελα) was located in the area between the Büyük Menderes (Maeander) and Gediz (Hermos) rivers. The original Neopolis, is thought to have been founded on the nearby point of Yılancı Burnu. Later settlements were probably built on the hillside of Pilavtepe, in the district called Andızkulesi today. Kuşadası was a minor port frequented by vessels trading along the Aegean coast. In antiquity it was overshadowed by Ephesus, until Ephesus' harbor silted up. From the 7th century BC onwards the coast was ruled by Lydians from their capital at Sardis, then from 546 BC the Persians, and from 334 BC, along with all of Anatolia, the coast was conquered by Alexander the Great. From that point on the coastal cities in Anatolia became a centre of Hellenistic culture....Wikipedia
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A solitary birch tree resplendant in autumn colour, lit up in very strong sunshine against a dark sky background. Taken from the Pennine Way long distance footpath a short distance upstream from Low Force.
Looking towards LA from Inspiration Point in the Angeles Mountains. Lots of haze, kind of reminded me of the Appalachians.
“It's the hope of hopes, it's the love of loves.
This is the song of every man.” ~ From A Distance ~ Bette Midler
Seen in Buchanan Bus Station in Glasgow on Stagecoach "Express" service X24 to St Andrews is brand new Stagecoach East Scotland Volvo 9700DD bodied Volvo B13RLE(T) 50533 - SF74YNU.
This NASA Hubble Space Telescope image of Comet (C/2012 S1) ISON was photographed on April 10, 2013, when the comet was slightly closer than Jupiter's orbit at a distance of 394 million miles from Earth.
Even at that great distance the comet is already active as sunlight warms the surface and causes frozen volatiles to boil off. Astronomers used such early images to try to measure the size of the nucleus, in order to predict whether the comet would stay intact when it slingshots around the sun -- at 700,000 miles above the sun's surface -- on Nov. 28, 2013.
The comet's dusty coma, or head of the comet, is approximately 3,100 miles across, or 1.2 times the width of Australia. A dust tail extends more than 57,000 miles, far beyond Hubble's field of view.
This image was taken in visible light. The blue false color was added to bring out details in the comet structure.
Credit: NASA/ ESA/STScI/AURA
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More details on Comet ISON:
Comet ISON began its trip from the Oort cloud region of our solar system and is now travelling toward the sun. The comet will reach its closest approach to the sun on Thanksgiving Day -- 28 Nov 2013 -- skimming just 730,000 miles above the sun's surface. If it comes around the sun without breaking up, the comet will be visible in the Northern Hemisphere with the naked eye, and from what we see now, ISON is predicted to be a particularly bright and beautiful comet.
Catalogued as C/2012 S1, Comet ISON was first spotted 585 million miles away in September 2012. This is ISON's very first trip around the sun, which means it is still made of pristine matter from the earliest days of the solar system’s formation, its top layers never having been lost by a trip near the sun. Comet ISON is, like all comets, a dirty snowball made up of dust and frozen gases like water, ammonia, methane and carbon dioxide -- some of the fundamental building blocks that scientists believe led to the formation of the planets 4.5 billion years ago.
NASA has been using a vast fleet of spacecraft, instruments, and space- and Earth-based telescope, in order to learn more about this time capsule from when the solar system first formed.
The journey along the way for such a sun-grazing comet can be dangerous. A giant ejection of solar material from the sun could rip its tail off. Before it reaches Mars -- at some 230 million miles away from the sun -- the radiation of the sun begins to boil its water, the first step toward breaking apart. And, if it survives all this, the intense radiation and pressure as it flies near the surface of the sun could destroy it altogether.
This collection of images show ISON throughout that journey, as scientists watched to see whether the comet would break up or remain intact.
The comet reaches its closest approach to the sun on Thanksgiving Day -- Nov. 28, 2013 -- skimming just 730,000 miles above the sun’s surface. If it comes around the sun without breaking up, the comet will be visible in the Northern Hemisphere with the naked eye, and from what we see now, ISON is predicted to be a particularly bright and beautiful comet.
ISON stands for International Scientific Optical Network, a group of observatories in ten countries who have organized to detect, monitor, and track objects in space. ISON is managed by the Keldysh Institute of Applied Mathematics, part of the Russian Academy of Sciences.
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A 25-foot Response Boat Small from the Maritime Safety and Security Team in Boston ferries members out to Boston Light for an advancement ceremony Sept. 1, 2015. The team advanced two of its members. (U.S. Coast Guard photo by Petty Officer 3rd Class Ross Ruddell)
Two shots from our Self Distancing walk this afternoon on Swansea Beach. On a personal and somewhat selfish level the good thing about the current situation is that I'm getting the exercise that I wasn't getting to a certain extent in recent years , and getting the chance to eat healthier by eating at home rather than hotel foods which in turn is helping me to lose the extra weight I've put on in the past few years.
in this era of "social distancing" maintaining friendships can be a challenge; one can become starved to see someone come over for a visit. The plumber experienced this when he came by to help repair a kitchen faucet....
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James-Simon-Galerie. Before Corona, people from all over the world stood here in queues, close together. Now a single jogger is training here. I think you can now see your surroundings with completely different eyes. An unusual experience.
Interesting lichen. From distance really looks like paint - distinctive shade of pale green (which doesn't show well in my photos.)
45cm across
“Seldom collected and probably much more common than the few collections would suggest, this species is so far known only from the Coast Range and the west slope of the Cascade Range of Oregon and Washington.” - McCune, Curtis and Di Meglio 2017 New taxa and a case of ephemeral spore production in Lecideaceae from western North America. The Bryologist 120(2): 115-124
Relatively common. Had encountered on many outcrops granodiorite in shade of relatively old 2nd growth forest (western hemlock, douglas fir, etc.), along “trail” to Stegosaurus Butte, 500-600m elevation, above Middle Fork Snoqualmie, near Nooksack Falls and other trails in the vicinity of Mt Baker, East Side Trail at Mt Rainier, and even on a rock in Bellevue Botanical Garden near Seattle. Middle Fork Snoqualmie again, this is one of many on granodiorite along the Trail upstream from Dingford Cr. (mature coniferous forest), vicinity Deception Pass (near salt water)
my lichen photos by genus - www.flickr.com/photos/29750062@N06/collections/7215762439...
my photos arranged by subject, e.g. mountains - www.flickr.com/photos/29750062@N06/collections
Social Distancing, Day 6, 3/21/2020, Sunnyside, NY
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