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The grey heron (Ardea cinerea) is a long-legged predatory wading bird of the heron family, Ardeidae, native throughout temperate Europe and Asia and also parts of Africa. It is resident in much of its range, but some populations from the more northern parts migrate southwards in autumn. A bird of wetland areas, it can be seen around lakes, rivers, ponds, marshes and on the sea coast. It feeds mostly on aquatic creatures which it catches after standing stationary beside or in the water or stalking its prey through the shallows.
Standing up to 1 m tall, adults weigh from 1 to 2 kg (2.2 to 4.4 lb). They have a white head and neck with a broad black stripe that extends from the eye to the black crest. The body and wings are grey above and the underparts are greyish-white, with some black on the flanks. The long, sharply pointed beak is pinkish-yellow and the legs are brown.
The birds breed colonially in spring in "heronries", usually building their nests high in trees. A clutch of usually three to five bluish-green eggs is laid. Both birds incubate the eggs for around 25 days, and then both feed the chicks, which fledge when 7-8 weeks old. Many juveniles do not survive their first winter, but if they do, they can expect to live for about 5 years.
In Ancient Egypt, the deity Bennu was depicted as a heron in New Kingdom artwork. In Ancient Rome, the heron was a bird of divination. Roast heron was once a specially prized dish; when George Neville became Archbishop of York in 1465, 400 herons were served to the guests.
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Der Jokhang ist das bedeutendste Heiligtum innerhalb des Lhasa Tsuglagkhang und liegt inmitten der Altstadt von Lhasa, der Hauptstadt des Autonomen Gebiets Tibet der Volksrepublik China. Für die Tibeter bildet er eine Art Zentralheiligtum, zu dem man nach Möglichkeit mindestens einmal im Leben gepilgert sein sollte.
Der Legende nach wurde der Jokhang im Jahre 639 von König Songtsen Gampos nepalesischer Gemahlin, der Prinzessin Bhrikuti (tib.: khri btsun) errichtet, nachdem der ehemals an dieser Stelle gelegene Milchsee (tib. ’o thang gi mtsho) mit Hilfe der Divination von Songtsen Gampos chinesischer Gemahlin Wen Cheng trockengelegt worden war. Der zwischen 642 und 653 fertiggestellte Bau wurde von den in Begleitung Bhrikutis in das Schneeland gekommenen nepalesischen Künstlern vollendet. Ursprünglich dürfte es sich um ein relativ kleines Gebäude gehandelt haben. Indem die Anlage des Jokhang später - vermutlich insbesondere zur Zeit Tsongkhapas (1357–1419)- um zahlreiche Nebengebäude und weitere Stockwerke erweitert wurde, erhielt sie den Namen Lhasa Tsuglagkhang. Die Gesamtanlage besaß damit eine Fläche von etwa 21.500 m². und bildete von dieser Zeit an die Stätte zur Abhaltung des „Großen Gebetes“ des sogenannten Mönlam Chenmo (tib.: smon lam chen mo).
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Camera - Nikon D7200
Lens - Sigma Super telephoto 150mm - 600mm contemporary lens
Stabilizer - Monopod
My son and i went down to the reservior to see what was happening. Whilst on the way round to were i was wanting to sit, this heron was at the edge of the reeds. While we were waiting, this heron managed to capture a fish, which i believe is a 3/4 of a pound Roach. This shot was taken after i captured the previous shot "Fish on a Sunday (www.flickr.com/photos/johnny45908/49258196151/)
The grey heron (Ardea cinerea) is a long-legged predatory wading bird of the heron family, Ardeidae, native throughout temperate Europe and Asia and also parts of Africa. It is resident in much of its range, but some populations from the more northern parts migrate southwards in autumn. A bird of wetland areas, it can be seen around lakes, rivers, ponds, marshes and on the sea coast. It feeds mostly on aquatic creatures which it catches after standing stationary beside or in the water or stalking its prey through the shallows.
Standing up to 1 m tall, adults weigh from 1 to 2 kg (2.2 to 4.4 lb). They have a white head and neck with a broad black stripe that extends from the eye to the black crest. The body and wings are grey above and the underparts are greyish-white, with some black on the flanks. The long, sharply pointed beak is pinkish-yellow and the legs are brown.
The birds breed colonially in spring in "heronries", usually building their nests high in trees. A clutch of usually three to five bluish-green eggs is laid. Both birds incubate the eggs for around 25 days, and then both feed the chicks, which fledge when 7-8 weeks old. Many juveniles do not survive their first winter, but if they do, they can expect to live for about 5 years.
In Ancient Egypt, the deity Bennu was depicted as a heron in New Kingdom artwork. In Ancient Rome, the heron was a bird of divination. Roast heron was once a specially prized dish; when George Neville became Archbishop of York in 1465, 400 herons were served to the guests.
½ spooky ½ sweet 100% into calling the shots myself. 🔮😘
idk what came over me but I actually felt like doing a "proper photo" edits and all, which I never do, so I can't say that it's perfect, but I'm damn proud of myself anyway...if only because I finally changed my outfit in over a month, aha.
loving this Magika hairstyle and this Toksik dress, v much my inspo combo for this spoopy lil halloweenie look. *MUAHS* <3
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//BODY
hair// Magika - Fiend
head// Genus
skin// Glam Affair
freckles// Dutch Touch - Xtra Freckles
dewy base// DeeTaleZ - Glowing
contour// Birdy
bronzer// Dead Apples
brows// Simple Bloom - JuliaEarth/LowTail
eyeshadow// Buzzeri - Starlit Shadows A/Brown + Suicidal Unborn - Smokey Eye/7
eyes// ???
blush// Insol - Candy Frost Blush/Warm
lipstick// Suicidal Unborn - Outlaw
nails// Toksik - Lux Set
//OUTFIT
dress// Toksik - Lacrimosa
heels// Betrayal - Ford
//ACCESSORIES
bindi// 7 - Lolly
piercings// Rossi
necklaces// LaGyo <333 Fortune Teller Collection + Jasmin Choker
tarot cards// LaGyo - Fortune Teller Collection
rings// Yummy - Sorceress Set
//EDIT
pose// Marukin - Juniper Set/Paramour Pose
in-world edit// AviMote, LeLutka Axis, in-world lighting
windlight// Alchemy Immortalis - Dark Misty Night (free - google it)
programs// PS and LR
I did a similar shot to this exactly a year ago so thought I'd give it a revisit.
Unfortunately I can't find my 9v battery charger and my dome tool was stuck on orangey red due to low power. I did quite like the colour on the back of the camera but wasn't as struck by it on the laptop.
Beauty dish from above, snooted flash from below for the hands. Lens cap on and swapped to tripod number 2 for the 8 way dome rotation.
Into Lr for a mono conversion, a crop and some clarity.
This is number 308 of my 366.
Local names of Cowplop, cowslop and cowslup would suggest it grows well on manured land. Also a traditional love divination whereby balls of Cowslip blossom were tied together.
In Herefordshire make a ball of Cowslip blossom, and toss it in the air, using the words - tisty tosty, tell me true, who shall I be marred to ? While the ball is in the air, possible lovers are recited until the ball falls.
Made tiny props for my dollies when they are in mood for some divination :)
DIY: everything, even the dress!
Fortune-telling is the practice of predicting the future, usually of an individual, through mystical or supernatural means and often for commercial gain. It often conflates with the religious practice known as divination. WikipediA
taken during photowalk with flickristasindios group last Jan. 18, 2009
This picture I can claim as mine, but only because I was holding the phone camera when it took this. I may have moved part way through an exposure, or accidentally taken this picture altogether. The camera and movement provided this image. Is there anything significant in the image I ask myself? I do see lots of detail that inspire me to think that there could be something visible. I have drawn red shapes around two significant elements in the image. The box is around a letter and several letters do follow on from the C. I have drawn a circle around the head of a bird. There are a few faces elsewhere and some other strange renditions. For those into divination then this here with a camera and fate creating the image might be divincamation, or part of the field of photovoyance. Most images with unintentional results are discarded, but maybe allowing random, or rather opening opportunities allows for photovoyance to take place? Sometimes the procedure can be without any intent and at other times you could ask for intervention either on a situation, or from a chosen source.
From Voir for to see all the way to Voyance for something showy needing to be seen and over blown we have Photovoyance, showy abstract pictures demanding to be seen even when you have netter photographs to see. Within the images of Photovoyance are abstract clues and signs, that can be happily looked upon and gladly forgotten either as a tricks, or magic of the light along and pixel receptors and screen displays. Then years later certain aspects of a lost blurry image can then become testament of fate shown in photographs and fortune in digital images.
© PHH Sykes 2022
phhsykes@gmail.com
C'est un défit tacite que je me suis lancée en passant à l'argentique: ne pas multiplier les prises comme je le faisais à l'époque de mon défi 365, où il m'est souvent arrivé de prendre 50, 100 photos pour n'en poster qu'une. Ce n’était pas satisfaisant pour moi. Alors aujourd'hui, j'en fais moins, souvent une seule, en mettant une énergie un peu folle dans la divination de ce que l'image donnera. Le travail de la lumière étant ma plus grande difficulté. Et je me retrouve, sur deux bobines développées, à n'avoir que cette image me semblant digne d'être présentée. En numérique, j'aurais probablement pris une bille transparente dès la deuxième prise... entre autres modifications.
"The one and only"
It's a tacit challenge I've started playing with my camera since I decided to stick to film. Let me explain: Back in my old digital days, while I was doing a 365 challenge, I could make 100 takes for one single photo to be posted. It felt so vain, so far away from the type of photographic work I wanted to do. So now, using film, I just do one take, I try my best to think it through, the work around the lighting being -paradoxically- the most obscure. I'm sometimes left, in two rolls of film to be scanned, with one single photo worth posting, like this one. Had I worked in digital, I would have picked a transparent marble right after the first take... among other changes.
Dating from the late Neolithic or Early Bronze Age, it is thought the two upright stones of Men-an-tol were part of a stone circle consisting of 19 stones. The original location and function of the holed stone is unknown but was in a different position to the present day when it was investigated by William Borlase in 1749.
Many legends have grown up around the site over the centuries usually involving healing cures, spells and divination.
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In speaking about ancient or traditional peoples it is important not to confuse healthy and integral civilizations with the great paganisms—for the term is justified here—of the Mediterranean and the Near East, of which Pharaoh and Nebuchadnezzar have become the classic incarnations and conventional images. What strikes one first in these “petrified” traditions of the Biblical world is a cult of the massive and gigantic, as well as a cosmolatry often accompanied by bloody or orgiastic rites, not forgetting an excessive development of magic and the arts of divination; in civilizations of this kind the supernatural is replaced by the magical, and the here-below is divinized while nothing is offered for the hereafter—at least in the exoterism, which in fact overwhelms everything else; a sort of marmoreal divinization of the human is combined with a passionate
humanization of the divine; potentates are demigods, and the gods preside over all the passions.
A question that might arise here is the following: why did these old religions deviate into paganism and then become extinct, whereas a similar destiny seems to be excluded in the case of the great traditions that are alive today in both the West and the East?
The answer is that traditions having a prehistoric origin are, symbolically speaking, made for “space” and not for “time”; that is, they saw the light in a primordial epoch when time was still but a rhythm in a spatial and static beatitude and when space or simultaneity still predominated over the experience of duration and change; historical traditions on the contrary must take the experience of “time” into account and must foresee instability and decadence, since they were born at periods when time had become like a fast-flowing and ever more devouring river and when the spiritual outlook had to be centered on the end of the world.
The position of Hinduism is intermediate in the sense that it has a capacity, exceptional in a tradition of the primordial type, for rejuvenation and adaptation; it is thus at once prehistoric and historic and realizes in its own way the miracle of a synthesis between the gods of Egypt and the God of Israel.
But to return to the Babylonians: the stonelike character of this type of civilization cannot be explained solely by a tendency to excess; it is also explained by a sense of the immutable, as if one had seen primordial beatitude beginning to vanish and had therefore wished to build a fortress to stand against time, or as if one had sought to transform the whole tradition into a fortress, with the result that the spirit was stifled instead of being protected; seen from this angle the marmoreal and inhuman side of these paganisms looks like a titanic reaction of space against time. In this perspective the implacability of the stars is paradoxically combined with the passion of bodies; the stellar vault is always present, divine and crushing, whereas an overflowing life serves as a terrestrial divinity.
From another point of view, many of the characteristics of the civilizations of antiquity are explained by the fact that in the beginning the celestial Law was of an adamantine hardness while at the same time life still retained something of the celestial; Babylon lived falsely on this sort of recollection, and yet at the very heart of the cruelest paganisms there were mitigations that can be accounted for by changes in the cyclical atmosphere. The celestial Law becomes less demanding as we approach the end of our cycle; Clemency increases as man becomes weaker. Christ’s acquittal of the adulterous woman has this significance—apart from other equally possible meanings—as does the intervention of the angel in the sacrifice of Abraham.
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Frithjof Schuon: Light on The Ancient Worlds
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Yes I am available to provide readings over voice in secondlife or on discord. I have been reading Tarot 20+ years.
Photo taken on the FMD New Ground Build Landmark here: maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Winterfell/54/31/1502
My mother has successfully read tea-leaves since she was a young girl. When I learned the name "tasseography" I thought it was a fascinating coincidence that the woman who taught my mother to read was called Grandma Tassel (her surname). Tasse is French for cup (and German, too I just learned). My mother also happens to be an excellent baker which meant I had lots of friends in highschool! LOL She reads the symbols formed by the leaves. This is a sample cup I drank without my mother's expert interpretation. I see a duck (increase in wealth), halfway down the cup. There are a few initial letters as well.
The cup is traditionally read from the top (present) to the future (bottom). Images that are seen are interpreted symbolically. Some readers read the negative space between the leaves and even the shadows. Apparently, tasseography symbolism differs from that of, say, dream symbols.
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Scrying: divination of distant or future events based on visions seen in a ball of rock crystal.
The word originated in Latin, evolving to French "descrier" meaning "to cry out".
The Bodleian Library in Ofxord has this ancient library build on top of the divination building. Originally build in 1200, emptied in 1400 when the protestants thought catholic texts were superstitious and rebuild again. It's almost collapsed a few times and .. well it's complete history is as textured and interesting as the stories in the books it holds.
Like many of the best places to visit they have a strict no-photos policy, but over time you learn how to circumvent that. I kept my self at the rear of the group as we were being shown around, made sure some large fellows were between me and the tour guide, and made the most of the fact that the Leica has a really, really quiet shutter. Maybe not quite the freedom of composing shots that I'd like to have, but with a place this grand that's kind of ok since it all looks amazing.
☀️ Join us to celebrate the Autumn Equinox
• Divination Sessions @ Blessed on Mane St.
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Sat Sept 21st, 9.00AM - 11:00AM SLT
Sun Sept 22nd, 9.00AM - 11:00AM SLT
• Bonfire @ the island on Spruce Ridge (maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Spruce%20Ridge/74/191/33)
Sun Sept 22nd, 5.00PM SLT
🌘 Celebrate the changing seasons with warmth, music, and good company as we gather around the fire. Bring your friends, your stories, and a blanket to enjoy the crisp autumn air. We'll have seasonal treats and drinks to toast to the balance of day and night.
Samhain, the Celtic festival celebrating the end of Summer, in its simplest definition, involves eating, drinking, lighting bonfires and as the legend goes, making and using cakes for divination and to appease the spirits of the Harvest. From this evolved the three day celebration comprising; All Hallows' Eve (or Halloween), All Hallows' (or All Saints' Day) and finally All Souls'. Recipe: simplyorganicrecipes.blogspot.com/2018/10/soul-cakes-for-... In going out 'Souling', the children and adults of a village would visit the houses of the wealthiest families begging for soul cakes and in return offer to pray for the souls of departed relatives. They carried baskets in which to collect their booty and often wore masks and disguises. As no doubt you will have guessed, this tradition, which dates back at least to the Middle Ages, has been cited by various sources as the root of 'Trick or Treat'.
Do you believe?
Flickr Fridays: Believe
Fun facts:
1) Tarot cards were invented in the 1400s as playing cards. They only started to be used in divination in the late 1700s.
2) These days, people think crossing the fortune teller's palm with silver means paying the fortune teller. Originally, though, it might have meant making the sign of the cross with a silver object as a way of warding off evil or assuring good fortune. (In some countries, it's a tradition to touch babies' palms with silver to bring them good luck -- called hanselling.)
3) There hasn't been any silver in Canadian dimes for about 50 years, so the coins in the photo are only good for crossing someone's palm with nickel-plated steel. :)
Credits:
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Bento Animated Pose, AO Compatible, 6 colors, Resizable.
WitchCraft Hilda Dress For The Saturday Sale Oct 2nd
Legacy, Maitreya, Freya, Hourglass, Kupra O HUD Driven
WitchCraft Triple Goddess Head Jewel
WitchCraft Melora Bento Stiletto Nails
Tableau Vivant - Fruit of the Bloom
Moon Elixir - Potions Master
adorsy - Emily Armband
Maitreya Body
Lelutka Avalon Head
DeeTaleZ Celtic Skin
Pics taken in Hedeby
Camera - Nikon D7200
Lens - Sigma Super telephoto 150mm - 600mm contemporary lens
Stabilizer - Monopod
On the last day of the year, i went down to the reservoir to see if anything was happening. Due to a heavy frost and the temperature not rising much, not a lot was moving. I put down my chair and within minutes i saw "Tam" the heron, hiding in the reeds. And if wasn't for him opening his beck, i would never have spotted him.
The grey heron (Ardea cinerea) is a long-legged predatory wading bird of the heron family, Ardeidae, native throughout temperate Europe and Asia and also parts of Africa. It is resident in much of its range, but some populations from the more northern parts migrate southwards in autumn. A bird of wetland areas, it can be seen around lakes, rivers, ponds, marshes and on the sea coast. It feeds mostly on aquatic creatures which it catches after standing stationary beside or in the water or stalking its prey through the shallows.
Standing up to 1 m tall, adults weigh from 1 to 2 kg (2.2 to 4.4 lb). They have a white head and neck with a broad black stripe that extends from the eye to the black crest. The body and wings are grey above and the underparts are greyish-white, with some black on the flanks. The long, sharply pointed beak is pinkish-yellow and the legs are brown.
The birds breed colonially in spring in "heronries", usually building their nests high in trees. A clutch of usually three to five bluish-green eggs is laid. Both birds incubate the eggs for around 25 days, and then both feed the chicks, which fledge when 7-8 weeks old. Many juveniles do not survive their first winter, but if they do, they can expect to live for about 5 years.
In Ancient Egypt, the deity Bennu was depicted as a heron in New Kingdom artwork. In Ancient Rome, the heron was a bird of divination. Roast heron was once a specially prized dish; when George Neville became Archbishop of York in 1465, 400 herons were served to the guests.
There is a Dingy Skipper colony near to where I live that I think might be the highest elevation colony in Britain. It is in South Yorkshire just outside the Peak District and is 330m asl (1082 feet). Although its distribution reaches the north of Scotland, I think those colonies are near sea level. Research on this butterfly in Wales has suggested that they need lots of smaller meta-colonies but as far as I am aware the nearest colony is 8 miles away at a much lower elevation (c100m asl). Stop press, two days later I discovered another colony just 1 mile away but about 50m lower (280m 918ft).
It is undoubtedly Britain's dullest, most mothlike butterfly, but it does have a certain charm. Its larval foodplant is Bird's Foot Trefoil (Lotus corniculatus) which was growing in abundance here. This one is a female with a "normal" leading edge to the forewing. Males have a folded hem along the forewing that holds scent scales for producing pheromones. The scientific name is Erynnis tages. It was named after the Erynnes, also known as the Furies, who harried wrongdoers in ancient mythology. The name was apparently after the restless movements of the butterflies, as if perpetually chased from place to place by the avenging goddesses. Tages was named after a mythical boy with the wisdom of an old man, who rose suddenly from the ground and instructed the Etruscans in the art of divination.
Greetings Everyone
We're in 'We Love Roleplay' event this month with a magical variation of the magic 8 ball.
The Magic 8 Crystal answers your Yes or No questions.
There are 3 metal packs, Silver, Gold and Gothic Black.
Each pack comes with 3 different glass textures, and with rez or wearable options.
We Love Roleplay opens today!
LM can be found under my profile pics in-world, search Casey Tripsa.
Hope you all have a magical Christmas!
Hugs
Casey
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True love is found in pure hearts. Pure hearts are found in righteouse people. All you need is truth.
With the exception of the lake view from my deck, probably the most photographed single feature of my surroundings, my rowan trees here once again show their annual winter colors, pleasingly accented by frost. I cannot imagine a better landscape companion, providing attractions of every kind in every season.
The Rowan has a long history of magic and mysticism and was a particularly valuable resource for the Druids who considered it to offer the ultimate in protective properties. The wood of the rowan is traditionally used for divination tools and objects such as runes, wands, and staffs. I once made a walking stick from a Rowan branch...and suddenly found myself clad in a nondescript hooded robe, walking in circles around the tree chanting odd incantations, carrying a torch, and stacking circular arrangements of stones in my backyard. The stick has since been retired to a basement closet...
This picture I can claim as mine, but only because I was holding the phone camera when it took this. I may have moved part way through an exposure, or accidentally taken this picture altogether. The camera and movement provided this image. Is there anything significant in the image I ask myself? I do see lots of detail that inspire me to think that there could be something visible. I have drawn red shapes around two significant elements in the image. The box is around a letter and several letters do follow on from the C. I have drawn a circle around the head of a bird. There are a few faces elsewhere and some other strange renditions. For those into divination then this here with a camera and fate creating the image might be divincamation, or part of the field of photovoyance. Most images with unintentional results are discarded, but maybe allowing random, or rather opening opportunities allows for photovoyance to take place? Sometimes the procedure can be without any intent and at other times you could ask for intervention either on a situation, or from a chosen source.
From Voir for to see all the way to Voyance for something showy needing to be seen and over blown we have Photovoyance, showy abstract pictures demanding to be seen even when you have netter photographs to see. Within the images of Photovoyance are abstract clues and signs, that can be happily looked upon and gladly forgotten either as a tricks, or magic of the light along and pixel receptors and screen displays. Then years later certain aspects of a lost blurry image can then become testament of fate shown in photographs and fortune in digital images.
© PHH Sykes 2022
phhsykes@gmail.com
My future holds something quite marvelous-- tomorrow I leave for Paris! :))
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L'avenir me réserve quelque chose de merveilleux-- demain je parts pour Paris.
Camera - Nikon D7200
Lens - Sigma Super telephoto 150mm - 600mm contemporary lens
Stabilizer - Monopod
My son and i went down to the reservoir to see what was happening. Whilst on the way round to were i was wanting to sit, this heron was at the edge of the reeds. While we were waiting, this heron managed to capture a fish, which i believe is a 3/4 of a pound Roach. This shot was taken after i captured the previous shot "Fish on a Sunday (www.flickr.com/photos/johnny45908/49258196151/)
The grey heron (Ardea cinerea) is a long-legged predatory wading bird of the heron family, Ardeidae, native throughout temperate Europe and Asia and also parts of Africa. It is resident in much of its range, but some populations from the more northern parts migrate southwards in autumn. A bird of wetland areas, it can be seen around lakes, rivers, ponds, marshes and on the sea coast. It feeds mostly on aquatic creatures which it catches after standing stationary beside or in the water or stalking its prey through the shallows.
Standing up to 1 m tall, adults weigh from 1 to 2 kg (2.2 to 4.4 lb). They have a white head and neck with a broad black stripe that extends from the eye to the black crest. The body and wings are grey above and the underparts are greyish-white, with some black on the flanks. The long, sharply pointed beak is pinkish-yellow and the legs are brown.
The birds breed colonially in spring in "heronries", usually building their nests high in trees. A clutch of usually three to five bluish-green eggs is laid. Both birds incubate the eggs for around 25 days, and then both feed the chicks, which fledge when 7-8 weeks old. Many juveniles do not survive their first winter, but if they do, they can expect to live for about 5 years.
In Ancient Egypt, the deity Bennu was depicted as a heron in New Kingdom artwork. In Ancient Rome, the heron was a bird of divination. Roast heron was once a specially prized dish; when George Neville became Archbishop of York in 1465, 400 herons were served to the guests.
Starting from left to right and from top to the base;
The North Tower: Divination Classroom, passageway and stairs of the one-eyed witch, Potions Classroom.
North Corridor: Transfiguration Classroom, Chamber of Secrets.
The Clock Tower: Defense Against Dark Arts Classroom, Dumbledore Office, Representation of the Viaduct Entrace that it's located on the front of the Castle. In the back of the Main Stair we have the Dungeons Corridor and the Slytherin Common Room.
South Corridor: Gryffindor Common Room, the Magical Chess challenge and in the back the Flying keys challenge.
The Gryffindor Tower: Gryffindor Boys Bedroom, Stairs to the Dorms, Last challenge room or Mirror of Erised room
The verbena in our garden really flourished this summer!
Verbena (/vərˈbiːnə/, vervain) is a genus in the family Verbenaceae. It contains about 250 species of annual and perennial herbaceous or semi-woody flowering plants. The majority of the species are native to the Americas and Asia.
The leaves are usually opposite, simple, and in many species hairy, often densely so. The flowers are small, with five petals, and borne in dense spikes. Typically some shade of blue, they may also be white, pink, or purple, especially in cultivars.
The genus can be divided into a diploid North American and a polyploid South American lineage, both with a base chromosome number of seven. The European species is derived from the North American lineage. It seems that verbena as well as the related mock vervains (Glandularia) evolved from the assemblage provisionally treated under the genus name Junellia; both other genera were usually included in the Verbenaceae until the 1990s. Intergeneric chloroplast gene transfer by an undetermined mechanism – though probably not hybridization – has occurred at least twice from vervains to Glandularia, between the ancestors of the present-day South American lineages and once more recently, between V. orcuttiana or V. hastata and G. bipinnatifida. In addition, several species of verbena are of natural hybrid origin; the well-known garden vervain has an entirely muddy history. The relationships of this close-knit group are therefore hard to resolve with standard methods of computational phylogenetics.
Some species, hybrids and cultivars of verbena are used as ornamental plants. They are drought-resistant, tolerating full to partial sun, and enjoy well-drained, average soils. Plants are usually grown from seed. Some species and hybrids are not hardy and are treated as half-hardy annuals in bedding schemes.
They are valued in butterfly gardening in suitable climates, attracting Lepidoptera such as the Hummingbird hawk-moth, Chocolate albatross, or the Pipevine swallowtail, and also hummingbirds, especially V. officinalis, which is also grown as a honey plant.
The hybrid cultivars "Silver Anne" and "Sissinghurst" have gained the Royal Horticultural Society's Award of Garden Merit.
For some verbena pathogens, see List of verbena diseases. Cultivated verbenas are sometimes parasitized by Sweet potato whitefly (Bemisia tabaci) and spread this pest to other crops.
Verbena has longstanding use in herbalism and folk medicine, usually as an herbal tea. Nicholas Culpeper's 1652 The English Physitian discusses folk uses. Among other effects, it may act as a galactagogue (promotes lactation) and possibly sex steroid analogue. The plants are also sometimes used as abortifacient. Verbena has been listed as one of the 38 plants used to prepare Bach flower remedies, a kind of alternative medicine promoted for its effect on health. However, according to Cancer Research UK, "there is no scientific evidence to prove that flower remedies can control, cure or prevent any type of disease, including cancer".
The essential oil of various species, mainly common vervain, is traded as "Spanish verbena oil". Considered inferior to oil of lemon verbena in perfumery, it is of some commercial importance for herbalism and it seems to be a promising source of medical compounds. Verveine, the famous green liqueur from the region of Le Puy-en-Velay (France) is flavored with these vervains.[citation needed]
Verbena has long been associated with divine and other supernatural forces. It was called "tears of Isis" in ancient Egypt, and later called "Hera's tears". In ancient Greece it was dedicated to Eos Erigineia. In the early Christian era, folk legend stated that V. officinalis was used to staunch Jesus' wounds after his removal from the cross. It was consequently called "holy herb" or (e.g. in Wales) "Devil's bane".[citation needed]
Vervain flowers are engraved on cimaruta, Italian anti-stregheria charms.[citation needed] In the 1870 The History and Practice of Magic by "Paul Christian" (Jean Baptiste Pitois) it is employed in the preparation of a mandragora charm. The book also describes its antiseptic capabilities (p. 336), and use as a protection against spells (pp. 339, 414).
While common vervain is not native to North America, it has been introduced there and for example the Pawnee have adopted it as an entheogen enhancer and in oneiromancy (dream divination), much as Calea zacatechichi is used in Mexico.
The generic name is the Latin term for a plant sacred to the ancient Romans. Pliny the Elder describes verbena presented on Jupiter altars; it is not entirely clear if this referred to a verbena rather than the general term for prime sacrificial herbs.[verification needed]
The common names of verbena in many Central and Eastern European languages often associate it with iron. These include for example the Dutch IJzerhard ("iron-hard"), Danish Læge-Jernurt ("medical ironwort"), German Echtes Eisenkraut ("true ironherb"), Slovak Železník lekársky ("medical ironherb"), and Hungarian vasfű ("iron grass"). An indeterminate vervain[verification needed] is among the plants on the eighth panel of the New World Tapestry (Expedition to Cape Cod).[citation needed]
In the Victorian language of flowers, verbena held the dual meaning of enchantment and sensibility.
For further information please visit en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Verbena and www.rhs.org.uk/plants/details?plantid=1993
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