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Damrak is one of the most picturesque and old parts of Amsterdam. This is where we were planned to take the bus for our day trip. A whole row of venerable old houses was reflected in the water, it was extraordinary.
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Reflets d'exception
Damrak est une des parties les plus pittoresques et anciennes d'Amsterdam. C'est là que nous avions rendez-vous pour prendre le bus pour notre excursion du jour. Toute une rangée de vieilles maisons vénérables se reflétait dans l'eau, c'était extraordinaire.
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Amsterdam- Netherlands / Amsterdam - Pays-Bas
June has been exceptionally wet and gloomy, but the daisies decorating the fields are a sign of hope that better days are ahead. Actually, I love clouds and I marvel each day at their ever-changing splendor. It's a good thing to appreciate clouds if you live on the Olympic Peninsula in Washington state.
Many, many thanks for the inspiration and friendship of my Flickr friends - you have made some dark days so much brighter - I appreciate all of you so very much!
"Sometimes the greatest storms bring out the greatest beauty ... Life can be a storm, but your hope is a rainbow and your friends and family are the gold."
~ Jodi Ann Bickley
"Rise above the storm and you will find the sunshine."
~ Mario Fernandez
[E̳a̳s̳T̳e̳R̳]
with beautiful nature
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It's as if there is a dividing line here
Fate, Mr. Moving, scribbles in the book
Now & then he moves the chessboard of BEiNg
Now just stand it without tension's LIViNg
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Jako by vznikla tu dělicí čára
Osud, pan Hybatel, do své knihy čmárá
Tu a tam posune, hýbe na šachovnici Bytí
Teď jenom ustát to, s úsměvem, bez brvy hnutí
...kdyby nám do života vstoupilo zbytečné pnutí
[Nehnu brvou]
Liu Fang Yuan, the Garden of Flowing Fragrance, is one of the largest Chinese gardens outside China. Designed to create, preserve, and promote the rich and complex traditions of Chinese culture, this authentic garden is a special place for visitors to feel inspired by the elegant harmony of nature and poetry. Thanks to visionary landscape architects and artisans from China and the United States, inspired historians, expert gardeners, and generous benefactors, Liu Fang Yuan reflects today an exceptional combination of learning and beauty.
The Huntington Library and Botanical Gardens. San Marino. California.
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Good morning all! I'm very glad the week is almost over because this one has been exceptionally crazy. I think it has been for most of us.
Anyhow, it is Friday and this is my fence. I'm going to show my Disney nerdiness because that branch, I think it's Olaf's little arm. I know there got to be some Frozen fans out there that see it too, right? :-)
Enjoy your day and weekend. Take Care all!
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(And because some of us could use a smile and giggle today, Crosswalk the Musical: Frozen.)
Taken from the Iron Age Ramparts, part of Ham Hill Country Park, looking down into Witcombe Valley, on a day of intermittent patches of sunlight. This year there have been an exceptionally large number of nodding thistle plants growing on the Ramparts. They have since produced seed heads and are visited by flocks of goldfinches.
An amazing display of smiling summer sunflowers at Little Wytheford Farm, Shawbury, Shropshire, hundreds of yellow smiling faces.
Girassóis
Girasoles
Girasoli
Zonnebloemen
Ukraine National Flowers
I kept shooting until almost dark. Too good to quit! Brightest sunset in awhile. Coastal trail north from the Lone Palm trailhead. One other car, but I saw nobody.
C-GXNR, a Boeing 737-2S2C, on approach to runway 23 at Toronto Pearson International Airport in Mississauga, Ontario. It was arriving as RAG200 (Glencore Canada Corporation) from Montreal, Quebec. The combi supplies the Raglan nickel mine at Kattiniq, Quebec - 1,270 miles north of Toronto.
The sun set 30 minutes later, hence the glow on the white fuselage.
A review of that flight department can be read here:
The flowers are succumbing to Autumn's cold nights but there are exceptions. :)
- Rosa's Garden of Earthly Delights, Keefer Lake, Ontario, Canada -
View from the Piz Nair cable car station towards the Bernina mountain chain. The dark mountain to the right is the Piz Julier. It was a warm late summer day ideal for hiking.
At Pen-y-Pass at the top of the Llanberis Pass, on the A4086, and half a kilometre away from the car park buzzing with activity for the 'Trailblazers' of the Snowdon Massif lies the nondescript rock-girt hump of Moel Berfedd 482M (1,322ft)
However, its summit is a revelation for it commands exceptional views down three valleys and of peaks twice its height.
Here I'm looking directly down Dyffryn Mymbyr (Mymbyr Valley) towards the distant Llynnau Mymbyr and beyond Capel Curig.
This is also a fine example of a 'U Shaped Glacial Valley' - where the glacier would have started within the Snowdon Horseshoe directly behind me before gouging out the softer rock to create this landscape.
C-FITW, a Boeing 777-333ER, on approach to runway 24R at Toronto Pearson International Airport in Mississauga, Ontario.
It was arriving as ACA7311 (Air Canada) from Frankfurt, Germany.
En ocasiones la delgada línea que separa lo visible de lo In_visible desaparece y nos permite contemplar todo lo que nos rodea. Gracias por un gran día, :D
We were travelling in the "baroque triangle" of south east Sicily. The towns below Catania was utterly destroyed (with great loss of life) in the earthquake of 1693 and was redeveloped in the baroque style in the early eighteenth century.
Its a UNESCO listed area on account of its exceptional baroque town planninig and architecture. We visited Catania, Modica, Noto and Ragua
"The eight towns in south-eastern Sicily: Caltagirone, Militello Val di Catania, Catania, Modica, Noto, Palazzolo, Ragusa and Scicli, were all rebuilt after 1693 on or beside towns existing at the time of the earthquake which took place in that year. They represent a considerable collective undertaking, successfully carried out at a high level of architectural and artistic achievement. Keeping within the late Baroque style of the day, they also depict distinctive innovations in town planning and urban building."
This exceptional church stands beside Avebury Manor, a stone's throw from the great henge and standing stones that draw thousands of visitors to the Wiltshire village of Avebury each year.
The church dates to around the year 1000 AD, and still has its tall, narrow Saxon nave, though this was later altered by the Normans, who also added aisles in the 12th century.
The most obvious survivors of the Saxon building are a pair of round-headed windows at ground level and four circular porthole windows at second-storey level. The chancel was rebuilt in the 13th century, and the chancel arch dates from this time. Separating the chancel from the nave is an original 15th-century rood loft. The rood itself was destroyed at the Reformation, and the base of the screen is Victorian, but the rest is original.
hello folks.
just a quick post before work. its an image from a flying visit around brothers water and kirkstone pass this morning. this is a shot ive taken before but not in these exceptional conditions. fantastic colours and perfectly calm waters.
hope you like it.
im off to work.
Windy morning - East Coast - Tasmania - Australia.
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The appeal of this exceptional Cistercian abbey remains as enduring as ever
An area of outstanding beauty complemented by this outstanding beauty in stone. If only the walls could talk! The chants of countless monks echo through the masonry here. Despite the shell of this grand structure being open to the skies, it remains the best-preserved medieval abbey in Wales. Although the abbey church was rebuilt under the patronage of Roger Bigod, lord of nearby Chepstow Castle, in the late 13th century, the monastery retains its original design.
Tintern was only the second Cistercian foundation in Britain, and the first in Wales. The present-day remains are a mixture of building works covering a 400-year period between 1131 and 1536. Very little remains of the first buildings but you will marvel at the vast windows and later decorative details displayed in the walls, doorways and soaring archways.
The lands of the abbey were divided into agricultural units or granges, worked on by lay brothers.
On September 3, 1536 Abbot Wyche surrendered Tintern Abbey to King Henry VIII’s officials and ended a way of life which had lasted 400 years.