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The bison-like muskox (Ovibos moschatus), also spelled musk ox and musk-ox), is closely related to goats and sheeps.
The muskox lives in mixed sex and age herds of 10 to 25 animals in the treeless arctic tundra of northern Canada and Greenland, and have been successfully returned to Alaska and Russia. A small introduced population also exists in Norway and Sweden.
The current world population of muskoxen is accurate estimated at between 90,000 and 140,000, of which about 75% in Canada.
Both male and female have long, curved horns. Muskoxen stand 1.1 to 1.5 m high at the shoulder, with females measuring 135 to 200 cm in length, and the larger males 200 to 250 cm. The tail, often concealed under a layer of fur, measures only 10 cm long. Adults, on average, weigh 285 kg and range from 180 to 410 kg. The thick coat and large head suggests a larger animal than the muskox truly is; the bison, to which the muskox is often compared, can weigh up to twice as much. Their coat, a mix of black, gray, and brown, includes long guard hairs that almost reach the ground.
Muskoxen are primarily grazers; it eats grasses, herbs, forbs, sedges, twigs, and bark.
This picture was taken in GaiaZOO, in Kerkrade, the Netherlands.
De muskusos (Ovibos moschatus) is het noordelijkste voorkomende hoefdier. De muskusos lijkt wat op de bizon, maar is meer verwant aan geiten, schapen en gemzen (de Caprinae) dan aan runderen.
Hij dankt zijn naam aan de muskusachtige geur van zijn urine, die de muskus over zijn achterste vacht verspreidt.
De muskusos leeft in gemengde kuddes van 10 tot 25 dieren, soms tot 100 dieren, die bestaan uit mannetjes, vrouwtjes en jonge dieren. Hun leefgebied is de boomloze arctische toendra van Noord-Canada en Groenland, en ze zijn met succes geïntroduceerd in Alaska en noord Syberië. Een kleine populatie is in Noorwegen ingevoerd en een klein aantal heeft vanuit Noorwegen zelf de weg naar Zweden gevonden. Het totale aantal muskusossen wordt geschat op 90.000 tot 140.000, waarvan circa 75% in Canada.
Zowel de mannetjes als de vrouwtjes hebben lange, gebogen hoorns. De vrouwtjes zijn 135 à 200 cm lang en de grotere mannetjes 200 à 250 cm. Bij de schouder zijn ze 110 à 150 cm hoog. De staart, vaak verborgen onder de lange haren, meet slechts 10 à 12 cm. De muskusos weegt 180 tot 410 kg. De dikke vacht en grote kop suggereert een groter dier dan muskusos werkelijk is. De bizons, waarmee de muskusos vaak wordt vergeleken, kan tweemaal zo veel wegen. Hun lange vacht, een mix van zwart, grijs en bruin, bereikt bijna de grond.
Het voedsel bestaat uit korstmossen, twijgen van bosbessen, grassen en zegge in de winter en wilg, dwergberk en verscheidene kruiden in de zomer.
De belangrijkste natuurlijke vijand is de wolf. Bij gevaar vormen de volwassen muskusossen een ondoordringbare kring om de kalveren heen, met de hoorns naar de buitenzijde.
Deze foto is gemaakt in GaiaZOO in Kerkrade.
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DU POP-CORN POUR LEGAULT - Rassemblement Diomède
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Il n'est plus question de la pandémie, il n'est plus seulement question des arts vivants : c'est une manière de vivre et d'exister qui est remise en cause.
En visant d'abord la fermeture des théâtres, des salles de spectacle, des bibliothèques, des universités, des centres communautaires, des librairies, des centres sportifs, des bars et des cafés, des musées, tous ces lieux de création, de rassemblement, ces lieux de discussions éminemment politiques, le gouvernement a fait un choix partisan et s'est attaché a fermer ces lieux du commun.
Nous, artistes des arts vivants, touchés complètement et durablement par les mesures sanitaires du gouvernement, lançons un appel à tous ceux et celles qui se sentent concernées par cette destruction des lieux de société et par cette négation de toute politique.
La pandémie nous a éloignés les un.e.s des autres et les autorités nous ont fait croire qu'une vie pouvait se limiter à des besoins strictement « nécessaires » de travail et de consommation.
Nous disons ici que nous sommes des êtres qui avons un besoin métaphysique d'éprouver le monde, et que cette nécessité ne peut nous être discutée par le pouvoir en place.
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« Mais nous pouvons aussi tenter de nous unir, avec quelques autres, pour constituer des réseaux de résistance capables de réinventer la mobilisation, la grève et le sabotage, en même temps que le forum, l’amphithéâtre et l’agora. En s’y mettant à plusieurs, ici et maintenant, en ouvrant en grand nos institutions à tous les citoyens qui, comme nous, sont convaincus que le savoir ne se capitalise pas, mais qu’il s’élabore ensemble et dans la confrontation conflictuelle des points de vue, nous pourrions peut-être contribuer à faire de cette « pandémie », mais aussi de la santé et de l’avenir de la vie, non pas ce qui suspend, mais ce qui appelle la démocratie. »
(Barbara Stiegler, De la démocratie en Pandémie. Santé, recherche, éducation, coll. Tracts, n° 23, Paris, Gallimard, 2021)
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Feels like harvest time on my tomato plantation..lol...actually this tomato plant just exist on its own alone at my flower pot.
Finally getting clear of the sharp curves of the mountains, the Provo-Denver exists the east end of Barbara's Gulch. The train will not be able to speed up much, however, as the signal is displaying an Advanced Approach (flashing yellow) aspect. The reason being that the train is taking the siding at Leyden to tie down. The crew will be picked up by a van and a relief crew will take the train in to town later in the day.
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Aquello que existe antes que el resto de los dioses y fuerzas elementales, el estado primigenio del cosmos.
Espacio que se abre, hendidura.
14 tomas unidas con Hugin.
Epecuén.
I posted another photo of this sign before, this is not the same photo. My friend is standing next to the sign, where the other one shows him more clearly away from the sign and in better view.
I wanted to post this, because this Big Boy, located in Burbank on Alameda, near Toluca Lake, used to be David Lynch's favorite hangout. No photos or plaques exist that show Lynch was a regular there. We saw photos from Michael Mann's "Heat," with DeNiro and Kilmer, but nothing with Lynch. I hope the management will have a change of heart and have something in the restaurant to honor Lynch's memory and his frequent, if not regular, patronage.
. ... (Suite du texte de la photo précédente).
. ... Il s'agissait d'une tentative de reconstitution des aurochs préhistoriques, par sélection d'élevage, à partir de nos bovidés actuels. La visée de chaque étape de sélection était de retrouver des animaux dont l'allure serait la plus proche possible des aurochs, d'après les quelques documents que nous en avons, principalement, les aurochs de Lascaux et ceux de la Grotte Chauvet. Ces peintures préhistoriques sont de magnifiques témoignages de ce que devait être la nature sauvage de ces animaux, car elles furent peintes il y a 18000 ans, alors que la domestication de l'aurochs ne commença que depuis 8000 ans, en transformant peu à peu l'espèce, volontairement ou non, jusqu'aux bovidés actuels,..
. ... L'expérience commencée en 1930, a été faite en même temps dans plusieurs pays européens, pour éviter la consanguinité de la reproduction (en Allemagne et en France).
. ... En attendant de pouvoir reconstituer des aurochs à partir d'un ADN récupéré dans de vieux os, et revenir ainsi à l'ancien génotype génétiquement exact, la conformité des aurochs obtenus par cette expérience de sélection rétrograde, n'est que visuelle... alors que leur ADN n'est peut-être pas le même. Toutefois, on peut soutenir en théorie, l'idée que si des aurochs visuellement conformes ont été retrouvés par sélection rétrograde, il y a quelques chances pour que leur identité génétique ait été reconstituée aussi, d'une façon très proche.
. ... Personnellement, je pense que ces animaux obtenus par sélection peuvent être considérés comme de vrais aurochs, même s'il s'avérait que les molécules d'ADN soient un peu différentes de celles d'origine, car on a maintenant de nombreuses preuves que l'ADN n'est pas entièrement le dieu déterminant de l'identité des espèces, comme nous le pensions. Il existe en effet des espèces phénotypiquement différentes, qui ont un patrimoine génétique identique, et inversement, des espèces phénotypiquement identiques qui ont des patrimoines génétiques différents...
. ... De nos jours, nous ne savons pas expliquer cela ... De même, nous n'expliquons pas les transformations de l'embryogenèse... je veux dire que l'embryon et l'être mature qui le suit, bien que très différents en phénotype, sont cependant des organismes génétiquement identiques !...
It still exists! My 1st photo there: www.flickr.com/photos/39613053@N03/5419135532/in/set-7215...
Unique Steampunk and Art Nouveau designs in buildings, clothing and accessories here in our main shop. Our scripted, high detailed artworks presents the top of SL possibilities. Neko, suburban and wasteland stuff around too. Oldtimer vehicles.
Bueno..existen diferentes pero en si lo importante es floriar bien la falda, ocea que se vean las ondas al moverla.
Cuando estas haciendo el zapatiado sencillo se utilizan 2, uno es que las dos manos estén moviendo igual (hacia adentro y afuera) y el otro es uno y uno ( pie derecho, mano izquierda y pie izquierdo mano derecha).
Esos son los mas sencillos y los que mas se utilizan, aunque de región a región cambian.
Existe en lo inconsciente... una cosa llamada.... sistema inmunológico de la conciencia...
...si hay algo que no quiero ver... lo identifico y lo elimino de mi camino...
...sin ni si quiera mirar.
¿Será que a veces nos dejamos el corazón en la puerta de casa?
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La Dama de Elche es la escultura más representativa del arte ibérico, una de las más significativas de todo el Mediterráneo. Datada hacia el siglo IV antes de nuestra era, representa una mujer cuyos atributos han dado lugar a toda una serie de conjeturas aún no concluidas
No existe escrito alguno, detallando ese tipo de vestimenta , que es extraordinaria y fuera del uso común la decoración sobre la cabeza de esa escultura
Según una hipótesis, La Dama fue una figura de cuerpo entero sentada y con una policromía bien definida de rojos y azules. En los últimos análisis se descubrió un pequeño fragmento de pan de oro en uno de los pliegues de la espalda. Esto induce a suponer que las joyas de la escultura estaban recubiertas de pan de oro.
Podría haberse tratado inicialmente de una imagen de culto en posición sedente. Posteriormente, se rompió en dos partes para reutilizar la zona del tronco y transformar la parte dorsal en una urna funeraria.
"Museo Arqueológico Nacional"
Cavendish Mews is a smart set of flats in Mayfair where flapper and modern woman, the Honourable Lettice Chetwynd has set up home after coming of age and gaining her allowance. To supplement her already generous allowance, and to break away from dependence upon her family, Lettice has established herself as a society interior designer, so her flat is decorated with a mixture of elegant antique Georgian pieces and modern Art Deco furnishings, using it as a showroom for what she can offer to her well heeled clients.
Today however, we are just a short distance from Cavendish Mews, at Mr. Willison’s grocers’ shop. Willison’s Grocers in Mayfair is where Lettice has an account, and it is from here that Edith, Lettice's maid, orders her groceries for the Cavendish Mews flat, except on special occasions like the soirée that Lettice threw for Dickie and Margot Channon’s engagement, when professional London caterers are used. Mr. Willison prides himself in having a genteel, upper-class clientele including the households of many titled aristocrats who have houses and flats in the neighbourhood, and he makes sure that his shop is always tidy, his shelves well stocked with anything the cook of a duke or duchess may want, and staff who are polite and mannerly to all his important customers. The latter is not too difficult, for aside from himself, Mrs. Willison does his books, his daughter Henrietta helps on Saturdays and sometimes after she has finished school, which means Mr. Willison technically only employs one member of staff: Frank Leadbetter his delivery boy who carries orders about Mayfair on the bicycle provided for him by Mr. Willison. He also collects payments for accounts which are not settled in his Binney Street shop whilst on his rounds.
Lettice’s maid, Edith, is stepping out with Frank, and to date since he rather awkwardly suggested the idea to her in the kitchen of the Cavendish Mews flat, the pair has spent every Sunday afternoon together, going to see the latest moving pictures at the Premier in East Ham*, dancing at the Hammersmith Palais or walking in one of London’s many parks. They even spent Easter Monday at the fair held on Hampstead Heath***. Whilst Lettice is away in Cornwall selecting furniture from Dickie and Margot’s Penzance country house, ‘Chi an Treth’, to be re-purposed, Edith is taking advantage of a little more free time and has come to Willison’s Grocers under the pre-text of running an errand in the hope of seeing Frank. The bell rings cheerily as she opens the plate glass door with Mr. Willison’s name painted in neat gilt lettering upon it. Stepping across the threshold she immediately smells the mixture of comforting smells of fresh fruits, vegetables and flour, permeated by the delicious scent of the brightly coloured boiled sweets coming from the large cork stoppered jars on the shop counter. The sounds of the busy street outside die away, muffled by shelves lined with any number of tinned goods and signs advertising everything from Lyon’s Tea**** to Bovril*****.
“Miss Watsford!” exclaims Mr. Willison’s wife as she peers up from her spot behind the end of the return counter near the door where she sits doing her husband’s accounts. “We don’t often have the pleasure.”
Edith looks up, unnerved, at the proprietor’s wife and bookkeeper, her upswept hairstyle as old fashioned as her high necked starched shirtwaister****** blouse down the front of which runs a long string of faceted bluish black beads. “Yes,” Edith smiles awkwardly. “I… I have, err… that is to say I forgot to give Fr… err, Mr. Leadbeater my grocery list when he visited the other day.”
“Oh?” Mrs. Willison queries. “I could have sworn that we had it.” She starts fussing through a pile of papers distractedly. “That isn’t like you Miss Watsford. You’re usually so well organised.”
“Well,” Edith thinks quickly. “It… it isn’t really the list. It’s just that I left a few things off. Miss Chetwynd… well, you see she fancies…”
“Oh, well give me the additions, Miss Watsford,” Mrs. Willison thrusts out her hand efficiently, the frothy white lace of her sleeve dancing around her wrist. “And I’ll see to it that they are added to your next delivery. We don’t want the Honourable Miss Chetwynd to go without, now do we?”
With a shaky hand Edith reluctantly hands over her list of a few extra provisions that aren’t really required, especially with her mistress being away for a few days. As she does, she glances around the cluttered and dim shop hopefully.
“Will there be anything else, Miss Watsford?” Mrs. Willison asks curtly.
“Err… yes.” Edith stammers, but falls silent as she continues to look in desperation around the shop.
Mrs. Willison suspiciously eyes the slender and pretty domestic through her pince-nez*******. She scrutinises Edith’s fashionable plum coloured frock with the pretty lace collar. The hem of the skirt is following the current style and sits higher than any of Mrs. Willison’s own dresses and it reveals Edith’s shapely stockinged calves. She wears her black straw cloche decorated with purple silk roses and black feathers over her neatly pinned chignon. “Is that a few frock, Miss Watsford?” the grocer’s wife continues.
“Ahh, yes it is, Mrs. Willison. I made it myself from scratch with a dress pattern from Fashion for All********,” Edith replies proudly, giving a little twirl that sends her calf length skirt flaring out prettily, and Mrs. Willison’s eyebrows arching with disapproval as the young girl reveals even more of her legs as she does. “Do you like it?”
“You seem a little dressed up to run an errand here, Miss Watsford.” Mrs. Willison says with bristling disapprobation.
“Well, I… I err… I do have some letters to post too, Mrs. Willison,” Edith withdraws two letters from her wicker basket and holds them up in her lilac glove clad hand.
“Well, we mustn’t keep you from your errand, now must we, Miss Watsford? Now what else did you require before you leave?” the older woman emphasises the last word in her sentence to make clear her opinion about young girls cluttering up her husband’s shop.
“An apple.” Edith says, suddenly struck with inspiration. “I’d like an apple for the journey, Mrs. Willison.”
“Very good, Miss Watsford.” the older woman starts to move off her stool. “I’ll fetch…”
“No need, Mrs. Willison!” Frank’s cheerful voice pipes up as he appears from behind a display of tinned goods. “I’ll take care of Miss Watsford. That’s what I’m here for. You just stay right there Mrs. Willison. Right this way, Miss Watsford.” He ushers her with a sweeping gesture towards the boxes of fresh fruit displayed near the cash register.
“Oh Fran…” Edith catches herself uttering Frank’s given name, quickly correcting herself. “Err… thank you, Mr. Leadbetter.”
Mrs. Willison lowers herself back into her seat, all the while eyeing the pair of young people critically as they move across the shop floor together, their heads boughed conspiratorially close, a sense of overfamiliarity about their body language. She frowns, the folds and furrows of her brow eventuated. Then she sighs and returns to the numbers in her ledger.
“What are you doing here, Edith?” Frank whispers to his sweetheart quietly, yet with evident delight in his voice.
“Miss Lettice is away down in Cornwall on business, so I thought I’d stop in on my way through in the hope of seeing you, Frank.” She glances momentarily over her shoulder. “Then Mrs. Willison greeted me. I thought I was going to get stuck with the disapproving old trout and not see you.”
“The weather looks good for Sunday, Edith. It’s supposed to be sunny. Shall we go to Regent’s Park and feed the ducks if it is?”
“Oh, yes!” Edith clasps her hands in delight, her gloves muffling the sound. “Maybe there will be a band playing in the rotunda.”
“If there is, I’ll hire us a couple of deck chairs and we can listen to them play all afternoon in the sunshine.”
“That sounds wonderful, Frank.”
“Well,” pronounces Frank loudly as the stand over the wooden tray of red and golden yellow apples. “This looks like a nice juicy one, Miss Watsford.”
“Yes,” Edith replies in equally clear tones. “I think I’ll have that one, Mr. Leadbeater.”
“Very good, Miss Watsford. I’ll pop it into a paper bag for you.”
“Oh, don’t bother Fr… Mr. Leadbeater. I’ll put it in my basket.”
Frank takes the apple and walks back around the counter to the gleaming brass cash register surrounded by jars of boiled sweets. “That will be tuppence please, Miss Watsford.” He enters the tally into the noisy register, causing the cash draw to spring open with a clunk and the rattle of coins rubbing against one another with the movement.
Edith hooks her umbrella over the edge of the counter, pulls off her gloves and fishes around in her green handbag before withdrawing her small leather coin purse from which she takes out tuppence which she hands over to Frank.
“Here,” Frank says after he deposits her money and pushes the drawer of the register closed. He slides a small purple and gold box discreetly across the counter.
Edith gasps as she looks at the beautifully decorated box featuring a lady with cascading auburn hair highlighted with gold ribbons, a creamy face and décollétage sporting a frothy white gown and gold necklace. She traces the embossed gold lettering on the box’s lid. “Gainsborough Dubarry Milk Chocolates!”
“Can’t have my girl come all this way to see me and not come away with a gift.” Frank whispers with a beaming smile dancing across his face.
“Seeing you is gift enough, Frank.” Edith blushes.
“Ahem!” Mrs. Willison clears her throat from the other end of the shop. “Will they be going on the Honourable Miss Chetwynd’s account, Frank?” she asks with a severe look directly at her husband’s employee.
“Um… no Mrs. Willison. Don’t worry. I’ll be paying for them.” Frank announces loudly. Bending his head closer to Edith, he whispers, “I can see why Mr. Willison has her in here when he isn’t. You can’t get away with anything without her knowing: ghastly old trout.”
Edith giggles as she puts the small box of chocolates and the apple into her basket. “I’ll save them for Sunday.” she says with a smile. “We can share them whilst we listen to the band from our deckchairs.”
Frank smile broadens even more. “Righty-ho, Edith.”
“Righty-ho, Frank.”
“Well, as I was saying, Miss Watsford,” Mrs. Willison pronounces from her stool. “We mustn’t keep you from your errands. I’m sure you have a lot to do, and it is almost midday already.”
“Yes indeed, Mrs. Willison.” Edith agrees, unable to keep the reluctance out of her voice. “I really should be getting along. Well, goodbye Mr. Leadbeater. Thank you for your assistance.” She then lowers her voice as she says, “See you Sunday.”
Both Frank and Mrs. Willison watch as the young lady leaves the shop the way she came, by the front door, a spring in her step and a satisfied smile on her face, her basket, umbrella and handbag slung over her arm.
“Frank!”
Frank cringes as Mrs. Willison calls his name. Turning around he sees her striding with purpose behind the counter towards him, wending her way through the obstacle course of stacks of tins and jars of produce, hessian sacks of fresh vegetables and fruits and boxes of bottles.
“Yes, Mrs Willison?”
“Frank,” she says disappointingly. “I can’t stop you from stepping out with a girl in your own time,” She comes to a halt before him, domineering over him with her topknot, her arms akimbo. “And I’d say the Honourable Miss Chetwynd is foolishly modern enough to let you take her maid out on Sundays.” She looks at him with disapproving eyes. “However, I’d be much obliged if you kept your dalliances to your own time, and kindly keep them out of my husband’s establishment during business hours!”
“Yes Mrs. Willison!” Frank replies, sighing gratefully, now knowing that he isn’t going to be given notice for chatting with Edith during work hours.
“And I’ll make an adjustment to your wages this week for the chocolates.” she adds crisply.
“Yes Mrs. Willison.” Frank nods before hurrying away back to the stock room.
*The Premier Super Cinema in East Ham was opened on the 12th of March, 1921, replacing the 800 seat capacity 1912 Premier Electric Theatre. The new cinema could seat 2,408 patrons. The Premier Super Cinema was taken over by Provincial Cinematograph Theatres who were taken over by Gaumont British in February 1929. It was renamed the Gaumont from 21st April 1952. The Gaumont was closed by the Rank Organisation on 6th April 1963. After that it became a bingo hall and remained so until 2005. Despite attempts to have it listed as a historic building due to its relatively intact 1921 interior, the Gaumont was demolished in 2009.
**The Hammersmith Palais de Danse, in its last years simply named Hammersmith Palais, was a dance hall and entertainment venue in Hammersmith, London, England that operated from 1919 until 2007. It was the first palais de danse to be built in Britain.
***Hampstead Heath (locally known simply as the Heath) is a large, ancient London heath, covering 320 hectares (790 acres). This grassy public space sits astride a sandy ridge, one of the highest points in London, running from Hampstead to Highgate, which rests on a band of London Clay. The heath is rambling and hilly, embracing ponds, recent and ancient woodlands, a lido, playgrounds, and a training track, and it adjoins the former stately home of Kenwood House and its estate. The south-east part of the heath is Parliament Hill, from which the view over London is protected by law.
****Lyons Tea was first produced by J. Lyons and Co., a catering empire created and built by the Salmons and Glucksteins, a German-Jewish immigrant family based in London. Starting in 1904, J. Lyons began selling packaged tea through its network of teashops. Soon after, they began selling their own brand Lyons Tea through retailers in Britain, Ireland and around the world. In 1918, Lyons purchased Hornimans and in 1921 they moved their tea factory to J. Lyons and Co., Greenford at that time, the largest tea factory in Europe. In 1962, J. Lyons and Company (Ireland) became Lyons Irish Holdings. After a merger with Allied Breweries in 1978, Lyons Irish Holdings became part of Allied Lyons (later Allied Domecq) who then sold the company to Unilever in 1996. Today, Lyons Tea is produced in England.
*****Bovril is owned and distributed by Unilever UK. Its appearance is similar to Marmite and Vegemite. Bovril can be made into a drink ("beef tea") by diluting with hot water or, less commonly, with milk. It can be used as a flavouring for soups, broth, stews or porridge, or as a spread, especially on toast in a similar fashion to Marmite and Vegemite.
******A shirtwaister is a woman's dress with a seam at the waist, its bodice incorporating a collar and button fastening in the style of a shirt which gained popularity with women entering the workforce to do clerical work in the late Nineteenth and early Twentieth Centuries.
*******Pince-nez is a style of glasses, popular in the late Nineteenth and early Twentieth Centuries, that are supported without earpieces, by pinching the bridge of the nose. The name comes from French pincer, "to pinch", and nez, "nose".
********”Fashion for All” was one of the many women’s magazines that were published in the exuberant inter-war years which were aimed at young girls who were looking to better their chances of finding a husband through beauty and fashion. As most working-class girls could only imagine buying fashionable frocks from high street shops, there was a great appetite for dressmaking patterns so they could dress fashionably at a fraction of the cost, by making their own dresses using skills they learned at home.
This cluttered, yet cheerful Edwardian shop is not all it seems to be at first glance, for it is made up of part of my 1:12 size dollhouse miniatures collection. Some pieces come from my own childhood. Other items I acquired as an adult through specialist online dealers and artists who specialise in 1:12 miniatures.
Fun things to look for in this tableau include:
Central to the conclusion of our story is the dainty box of Gainsborough Dubarry Milk Chocolates. This beautifully printed confectionary box comes from Shepherd’s Miniatures in the United Kingdom. Starting in the Edwardian era, confectioners began to design attractive looking boxes for their chocolate selections so that they could sell confectionary at a premium, as the boxes were often beautifully designed and well made so that they might be kept as a keepsake. A war erupted in Britain between the major confectioners to try and dominate what was already a competitive market. You might recognise the shade of purple of the box as being Cadbury purple, and if you did, you would be correct, although this range was not marketed as Cadbury’s, but rather Gainsborough’s, paying tribute to the market town of Gainsborough in Lincolnshire, where Rose Bothers manufactured and supplied machines that wrapped chocolates. The Rose Brothers are the people for whom Cadbury’s Roses chocolates are named.
Also on the shop counter is an apple which is very realistic looking. Made of polymer clay it is made by a 1:12 miniature specialist in Germany. The brightly shining cash register, probably polished by Frank, was supplied by Beautifully Handmade Miniatures in Kettering in the United Kingdom. The cylindrical jars, made of real spun glass with proper removable cork stoppers which contain “sweets” I acquired as a teenager from an auction as part of a larger lot of miniature items. Edith’s lilac coloured gloves are made of real kid leather and along with the envelopes are artisan pieces that I acquired from Doreen Jeffries’ Small Wonders Miniatures in the United Kingdom. Edith’s green leather handbag I acquired as part of a larger collection of 1:12 artistan miniature hats, bags and accessories I bought from an American miniature collector Marilyn Bickel. The umbrella comes from Melody Jane’s Doll House Suppliers in the United Kingdom. Edith’s basket I acquired as part of a larger lot of 1:12 miniatures from an E-Bay seller in America.
The packed shelves you can see in the background is in fact a Welsh dresser that I have had since I was a child, which I have repurposed for this shot. You can see the dresser more clearly in other images used in this series when Edith visits her parent’s home in Harlesden. The shelves themselves are full of 1:12 artisan miniatures with amazing attention to detail as regards the labels of different foods. Some are still household names today. So many of these packets and tins of various foods would have been household staples in the 1920s when canning and preservation revolutinised domestic cookery. They come from various different suppliers including Shepherds Miniatures in the United Kingdom, Kathleen Knight’s Doll House in the United Kingdom, Beautifully Handmade Miniatures in Kettering and Little Things Dollhouse Miniatures in Lancashire. Items on the shelves include: Tate and Lyall Golden Syrup, Lyall’s Golden Treacle, Peter Leech and Sons Golden Syrup, P.C. Flett and Company jams, Golden Shred and Silver Shred Marmalades, Chiver’s Jelly Crystals, Rowtree’s Table Jelly, Bird’s Custard Powder, Bird’s Blancmange Powder, Coleman’s Mustard, Queen’s Gravy Salts, Bisto Gravy Powder, Huntly and Palmers biscuits, Lyon’s Tea and Typhoo Tea.
In 1859 Henry Tate went into partnership with John Wright, a sugar refiner based at Manesty Lane, Liverpool. Their partnership ended in 1869 and John’s two sons, Alfred and Edwin joined the business forming Henry Tate and Sons. A new refinery in Love Lane, Liverpool was opened in 1872. In 1921 Henry Tate and Sons and Abram Lyle and Sons merged, between them refining around fifty percent of the UK’s sugar. A tactical merger, this new company would then become a coherent force on the sugar market in anticipation of competition from foreign sugar returning to its pre-war strength. Tate and Lyle are perhaps best known for producing Lyle’s Golden Syrup and Lyle’s Golden Treacle.
Peter Leech and Sons was a grocers that operated out of Lowther Street in Whitehaven from the 1880s. They had a large range of tinned goods that they sold including coffee, tea, tinned salmon and golden syrup. They were admired for their particularly attractive labelling. I do not know exactly when they ceased production, but I believe it may have happened just before the Second World War.
P.C. Flett and Company was established in Kirkwall in the Orkney Islands by Peter Copeland Flett. He had inherited a small family owned ironmongers in Albert Street Kirkwall, which he inherited from his maternal family. He had a shed in the back of the shop where he made ginger ale, lemonade, jams and preserves from local produce. By the 1920s they had an office in Liverpool, and travelling representatives selling jams and preserves around Great Britain. I am not sure when the business ceased trading.
Golden Shred orange marmalade and Silver Shred lime marmalade still exist today and are common household brands both in Britain and Australia. They are produced by Robertson’s. Robertson’s Golden Shred recipe perfected since 1874 is a clear and tangy orange marmalade, which according to their modern day jars is “perfect for Paddington’s marmalade sandwiches”. Robertson’s Silver Shred is a clear, tangy, lemon flavoured shredded marmalade. Robertson’s marmalade dates back to 1874 when Mrs. Robertson started making marmalade in the family grocery shop in Paisley, Scotland.
Chivers is an Irish brand of jams and preserves. For a large part of the Twentieth Century Chivers and Sons was Britain's leading preserves manufacturer. Originally market gardeners in Cambridgeshire in 1873 after an exceptional harvest, Stephen Chivers entrepreneurial sons convinced their father to let them make their first batch of jam in a barn off Milton Road, Impington. By 1875 the Victoria Works had been opened next to Histon railway station to improve the manufacture of jam and they produced stone jars containing two, four or six pounds of jam, with glass jars first used in 1885. In around 1885 they had 150 employees. Over the next decade they added marmalade to their offering which allowed them to employ year-round staff, rather than seasonal workers at harvest time. This was followed by their clear dessert jelly (1889), and then lemonade, mincemeat, custard powder, and Christmas puddings. By 1896 the family owned 500 acres of orchards. They began selling their products in cans in 1895, and the rapid growth in demand was overseen by Charles Lack, their chief engineer, who developed the most efficient canning machinery in Europe and by the end of the century Chivers had become one of the largest manufacturers of preserves in the world. He later added a variety of machines for sorting, can making, vacuum-caps and sterilisation that helped retain Chivers' advantage over its rivals well into the Twentieth Century. By the turn of the century the factory was entirely self-sufficient, growing all its own fruit, and supplying its own water and electricity. The factory made its own cans, but also contained a sawmill, blacksmiths, coopers, carpenters, paint shop, builders and basket makers. On the 14th of March 1901 the company was registered as S. Chivers and Sons. By 1939 there were over 3,000 full-time employees, with offices in East Anglia as well as additional factories in Montrose, Newry and Huntingdon, and the company owned almost 8,000 acres of farms. The company's farms were each run independently, and grew cereal and raised pedigree livestock as well as the fruit for which they were known.
Founded by Henry Isaac Rowntree in Castlegate in York in 1862, Rowntree's developed strong associations with Quaker philanthropy. Throughout much of the Nineteenth and Twentieth centuries, it was one of the big three confectionery manufacturers in the United Kingdom, alongside Cadbury and Fry, both also founded by Quakers. In 1981, Rowntree's received the Queen's Award for Enterprise for outstanding contribution to international trade. In 1988, when the company was acquired by Nestlé, it was the fourth-largest confectionery manufacturer in the world. The Rowntree brand continues to be used to market Nestlé's jelly sweet brands, such as Fruit Pastilles and Fruit Gums, and is still based in York.
Bird’s were best known for making custard and Bird’s Custard is still a common household name, although they produced other desserts beyond custard, including the blancmange. They also made Bird’s Golden Raising Powder – their brand of baking powder. Bird’s Custard was first formulated and first cooked by Alfred Bird in 1837 at his chemist shop in Birmingham. He developed the recipe because his wife was allergic to eggs, the key ingredient used to thicken traditional custard. The Birds continued to serve real custard to dinner guests, until one evening when the egg-free custard was served instead, either by accident or design. The dessert was so well received by the other diners that Alfred Bird put the recipe into wider production. John Monkhouse (1862–1938) was a prosperous Methodist businessman who co-founded Monk and Glass, which made custard powder and jelly. Monk and Glass custard was made in Clerkenwell and sold in the home market, and exported to the Empire and to America. They acquired by its rival Bird’s Custard in the early Twentieth Century.
Queen’s Gravy Salt is a British brand and this box is an Edwardian design. Gravy Salt is a simple product it is solid gravy browning and is used to add colour and flavour to soups stews and gravy - and has been used by generations of cooks and caterers.
The first Bisto product, in 1908, was a meat-flavoured gravy powder, which rapidly became a bestseller in Britain. It was added to gravies to give a richer taste and aroma. Invented by Messrs Roberts and Patterson, it was named "Bisto" because it "Browns, Seasons and Thickens in One". Bisto Gravy is still a household name in Britain and Ireland today, and the brand is currently owned by Premier Foods.
Huntley and Palmers is a British firm of biscuit makers originally based in Reading, Berkshire. The company created one of the world’s first global brands and ran what was once the world’s largest biscuit factory. Over the years, the company was also known as J. Huntley and Son and Huntley and Palmer. Huntley and Palmer were renown for their ‘superior reading biscuits’ which they promoted in different varieties for different occasions, including at breakfast time.
In 1863, William Sumner published A Popular Treatise on Tea as a by-product of the first trade missions to China from London. In 1870, William and his son John Sumner founded a pharmacy/grocery business in Birmingham. William's grandson, John Sumner Jr. (born in 1856), took over the running of the business in the 1900s. Following comments from his sister on the calming effects of tea fannings, in 1903, John Jr. decided to create a new tea that he could sell in his shop. He set his own criteria for the new brand. The name had to be distinctive and unlike others, it had to be a name that would trip off the tongue and it had to be one that would be protected by registration. The name Typhoo comes from the Mandarin Chinese word for “doctor”. Typhoo began making tea bags in 1967. In 1978, production was moved from Birmingham to Moreton on the Wirral Peninsula, in Merseyside. The Moreton site is also the location of Burton's Foods and Manor Bakeries factories. Typhoo has been owned since July 2021 by British private-equity firm Zetland Capital. It was previously owned by Apeejay Surrendra Group of India.
¿Existe el Eden en la tierra? No lo sé, pero si hay algo que se le parezca seguro que es Plitvice en Croacia, un lugar altamente fotogénico y que siempre aparecen en las listas tipo "50 maravillas naturales del mundo"
existen distintos tipos de arte, entre ellos el de hablar y boconear sobre algo de lo ke no tienes conocimiento y el de callar y dejar q tu mente y el spray actuen por si solos...Pa los reales Bless
“things only exist if they are told/narrated”
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This "photographic story" ideally follows the previous one, for two reasons, first because in this case too, as in the previous story we talk about "angels", they are the "Golden Angels" of San Pier Niceto (in the province of Messina), and second, because this singular and beautiful religious festival, with its procession, also takes place during the Easter period, specifically during "Holy Tuesday". The photographs that I post (not a few, I wish in this way to pay homage to the inhabitants of San Pier Niceto, who can find themselves in these photos, especially for those fathers, mothers, grandfathers, grandmothers, aunts and uncles, in seeing their beloved and very sweet "angels - angiolette"); if you look closely at some of the photographed subjects, you will notice a "temporal disconnect", in fact in some cases, the same girls are present, with two different ages, they will be dressed differently, this is because the photos were taken during Holy Tuesday of 2024 and that of 2025. The temporal sequence of the photographs does not take into account either the year in which they were taken, nor the moments attributable to the phases of the ceremony and subsequent procession.
In San Pier Niceto, on the Peloritani Mountains in Sicily, during the Holy Tuesday takes place the SS. Crucifix procession, whose roots are ancient. The Church of St. James houses and cares for the precious Crucifix, Which is brought to the procession by the streets of the country preceded by very young children, of both sexes, who imitate little Angels, Angels and Grieving young Nuns, dressed in elaborate dresses covered with many gold jewelery, sewn by handy hands that with pins, necklaces , Bracelets and many other gold jewelry applied to their little clothes, they make real works of art whose designs are reminiscent of Easter symbols. Gold for dressing is collected home from home by people who have to melt a "vote", gold that will be returned at the end of the procession. Everything begins during Lent when parents decide to dress their baby by little Angels, Angels or Grieving Nuns .The Little Angels are usually 3 or 4 year olds, the Angels are a little bigger, the Nuns are little young girls. Thus the preparations for the elaboration of the elaborate clothes begin: Parents during Lent are knocking at every door of the country, among friends and relatives, to borrow bracelets, brooches, necklaces and all the gold necessary for the composition of embroidery . The Little Angel's dress is white, short down to the knee, made up of a gold-plated bodice and a skirt with some golden embroidery; Arms are adorned by bracelets, the head is adorned by a collier, small wings (white dove feathers) sprout from behind. The Angels have a white tunic, on which sacred icons are embroidered in gold, the head is covered by a collier, wings lie on their shoulders. The Nun's dress is black, on which are stitched the crowns of the S.S. Rosary, on the head is placed a white veil, held by a rose crown. At 16:30 on Holy Tuesday, a tapping of bells together with the band's fanfare in the village, set off at the "Crucifixion Procession" of San Pier Niceto: at the foot of the Crucifix there are red roses, behind it are located branches of cypress (at the end of the event the faithful will carry with them a piece of cypress as a relic), finally the red ribbons are tied to the arms of the Crucifix, they will mark the procession of the procession until the arrival at the Mother Church, a century church to St. Peter the Apostle, where the celebration of the Holy Mass will take place (the reverse path will bring the SS Crucifix to the Church of St. James): in perfect order the faithful in religious silence, with votive candles in their hands, walk the streets of the country never crossing the red ribbons as they delimit the path of the Golden Little Angels, Angels and the Grieving young Nuns .
Questo "racconto fotografico" segue idealmente il precedente, per due motivi, innanzitutto perchè anche in questo caso, come nel racconto precedente si parla di "angeli", sono "gli Angioletti d'oro" di San Pier Niceto (in provincia di Messina), e secondo, perchè questa singolare e bella festa religiosa, con la sua processione, si svolge anch'essa durante il periodo pasquale, nello specifico durante il "Martedì Santo". Le fotografie che posto (non poche, desidero in tal modo omaggiare gli abitanti di San Pier Niceto, che possano ritrovarsi in queste foto, soprattutto per quei papà, mamme, nonni, nonne, zie e zii, nel rivedere i loro adorati e dolcissimi "angioletti - angiolette"); a ben guardare in alcuni dei soggetti fotografati, si noterà uno "scollamento temportale", infatti in qualche caso, sono presenti le stessi bimbe, con due età diverse, saranno vestite diversamente, questo perchè le foto sono state realizzate durante il Martedì Santo del 2024 e quello del 2025. La sequenza temporale delle fotografie non tiene conto nè dell'anno nel quale sono state realizzate, nè dei momenti ascrivibili alle fasi della cerimonia e successiva processione.
A San Pier Niceto, sui monti Peloritani in Sicilia, durante il Martedì Santo prende vita la processione per le vie del paese del SS. Crocifisso, le cui radici sono antichissime. La Chiesa di San Giacomo ospita e custodisce il pregevole Crocifisso, che viene portato in processione per le vie del paese preceduto da bambini anche molto piccoli, di entrambi i sessi, che impersonano Angioletti ed Addoloratine vestiti con elaboratissimi abiti ricoperti con tantissimi monili d’oro, cuciti dalle mani abili di sarte che con spille, collane, bracciali e tanti altri monili in oro applicati sui loro piccoli vestiti, realizzano vere opere d’arte i cui disegni ricordano simboli pasquali. L’oro per la realizzazione dei vestitini viene raccolto di casa in casa da persone che hanno da sciogliere un “voto”, oro che verrà restituito alla fine della processione. Tutto ha inizio durante la Quaresima, quando dei genitori decidono per “voto” di vestire il proprio bambino da Angioletto, Angiolone o Monachella.
Gli Angioletti sono solitamente bimbi di 3 o 4 anni, gli Angioloni sono un po’ più grandi, le Monachelle sono delle bambine. Così iniziano i preparativi per la realizzazione degli elaboratissimi vestiti: i genitori durante la Quaresima bussano ad ogni porta del paese, tra la cerchia di amici e parenti, per prendere in prestito bracciali, spille, collane e tutto l’oro necessario alla composizione dei ricami. Il vestito degli Angioletti è bianco, corto fino al ginocchio, composto da un corpetto ricoperto d’oro ed una gonna segnata da alcuni ricami d’oro; le braccia sono adornate da bracciali, la testa è adornata da un collier, da dietro le spalle spuntano delle piccole ali (piume di colomba bianca). Gli Angioloni hanno una tunica bianca sulla quale vengono ricamate delle icone sacre in oro, la testa è cinta da un collier, sulle spalle trovano posto delle ali. Il vestito delle Monachelle invece è nero, sul quale vengono cucite delle coroncine del S.S. Rosario, sul capo viene posto un velo bianco, trattenuto da una corona di rose. Alle 16:30 del Martedì Santo un rintocco di campane insieme alla fanfare della banda del paese, danno il via alla “Processione del Crocifisso” di San Pier Niceto: ai piedi della Croce vi sono delle rose rosse, dietro di essa trovano posto dei rami di cipresso (alla fine dell’evento i fedeli porteranno con se un pezzetto di rametto come reliquia), infine dei nastri rossi vengono legati alle braccia del Crocifisso, essi segneranno il percorso della processione, fino all’arrivo al Duomo, una chiesa cinquecentesca dedicata a San Pietro apostolo, ove si terrà la celebrazione della Santa Messa ( il percorso inverso riporterà il S.S. Crocifisso nella Chiesa di San Giacomo): in perfetto ordine i fedeli in religioso silenzio, con ceri votivi in mano, percorrono le vie del paese, non oltrepassando i nastri rossi poiché essi delimitano il percorso degli Angioletti d’oro e delle Addoloratine.
On the 5th April 2020 Class 66/5 no. 66532 'P&O Nedlloyd Atlas' passes Bishopsteignton with a Liskeard to Fairwater Yard empty rail train returning from overnight engineering work.
Thanks to the driver for the cheery hoot to the girls. They were nearly as pleased about about that as finding a football washed up by the tide. 'P&O Nedlloyd' is certainly a name from the past as it hasn't existed since 2005!
Église Saint-Pierre de Coutances
Il existait à cet emplacement une très ancienne église dédiée à Saint Pierre, dont l’existence est attestée en 1056 mais dont la construction était certainement antérieure. Tombée en ruine à la suite des ravages provoqués par les combats de la guerre de Cent Ans vers 1450, elle fut reconstruite à la fin du 15ème siècle par des maîtres-maçons, sur les deniers de l’évêque Geoffroy Herbert. L’édifice mêle le style gothique flamboyant et le style renaissance. En raison de l’exigüité du terrain, la nef est relativement courte par rapport à sa largeur. L’église se compose d’une nef et de bas-côtés, d’un transept imposant et d’un chœur entouré d’un déambulatoire. La nef, le transept et le chœur sont surmontés d’un triforium. La croisée du transept est coiffée d’une imposante tour-lanterne Renaissance construite après l’achèvement de l’édifice, entre 1550 et 1580, et imitant la tour-lanterne de la cathédrale. Le clocher qui surmonte la façade ouest a été construit avant 1500 et est comparable au clocher de l’hôtel-Dieu qui lui est contemporain. L’église a bénéficié de plusieurs campagnes de restauration, notamment la façade ouest en 2009, mais il reste d’importants travaux à réaliser, en particulier la réfection de la toiture.
L’orgue situé en tribune au fond de la nef a été construit en 1656 par le facteur Robert INGOULT originaire de Cherbourg (Manche). La magnifique tribune et le buffet actuels remontent à cette époque.
En 1789, le facteur Henry PARIZOT d’Etain (Meuse) et actif en Normandie dans la seconde moitié du 18ème siècle, a restauré l’instrument et ajouté le Positif de dos.Pendant la révolution, l’orgue a été abandonné et détérioré. Une grande partie sinon la totalité de la tuyauterie a alors disparu…
En 1845, l’instrument a été reconstruit dans un style encore très classique par le facteur Pierre MENARD, facteur d’orgues à Coutances. Ce facteur, qui a travaillé à Paris chez Louis CALLINET et Aristide CAVAILLE-COLL, a été très actif en Normandie. Il a fabriqué avec son cousin Eugène ORANGE et un associé Henri LAFORGE d’excellents instruments en Basse-Normandie et a également construit des petits orgues en sous-traitance pour CAVAILLE-COLL.
Dans les années 1930, le facteur François DIDIER de Nancy a réalisé un relevage.
En 1962, la maison BEUCHET-DEBIERRE de Nantes (Loire-Atlantique) est intervenue sur l’instrument et a réalisé un relevé de sa disposition.
En 1970, la tribune et le buffet ont été classés aux Monuments Historiques.
En 1973, la partie instrumentale de l’orgue a également été classée aux Monuments Historiques.
Entre 1962 et 1976, la même maison BEUCHET est intervenue pour des travaux et a légèrement modifié la disposition : Fourniture G.O, Larigot au Récit et Tierce au Positif. Le pédalier de 18 marches à la française a été remplacé par un pédalier neuf à l’allemande. Jusqu’alors la partie instrumentale était attribuée à PARIZOT (Cf la notice de classement).En 1985, une étude complète de l’orgue a été réalisée par le facteur Louis BENOIST du Mans (Sarthe), sous la supervision du technicien-conseil Jean-Pierre Decavèle. C’est cette étude qui confirme qu’il s’agit bien ici d’un orgue MENARD de 1845 et non pas de l’orgue PARIZOT de 1789 dont la mécanique et la tuyauterie ont disparu lors de la révolution. C’est la plus grande réalisation de Pierre MENARD.
Il reste à restaurer l’instrument dans sa disposition originale : retour du dessus de Flûte Allemande du Positif à la place de la Tierce de BEUCHET, reconstruction de la Fourniture de Grand-orgue et remplacement du Larigot du Récit par un Cor anglais 8’.
Cet orgue d’une excellente sonorité est le témoin de la facture coutançaise du 19ème siècle et présente un grand intérêt.
Existen 20 tipos diferentes de Canguros.
Yo tampoco lo sabía. 😂
No todos están en Australia, algunos también se distribuyen por Papua Nueva Guínea e Indonesia. Tampoco lo sabía. 😆
Este es un canguro nativo de Australia, con una amplia distribución hacia el sur de la región. Se distingue por su hocico cubierto de un pelaje fino, y la coloración es de marrón claro a marrón rojizo.
"No matter where I sleep, you are haunting me"
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I cannot tell you how many times I had to return to this same spot of river to reshoot this image. Some days it would be warm and there'd be hoards of families picnicing and splashing in the water, other times I'd be stood up to my neck in freezing river and at the end of it, the images just weren't working. I had no one to model for me and I felt always like I was running out of time, what with summer coming to an end. But I kept coming back because I knew what I wanted to make was worth it. So here's to resilience (and hot baths)!
Did you know this scene existed in the city of Los Angeles?
No, not Malibu, not El Matador, not Palos Verdes, but... Los Angeles!
(If you don't understand the title, read the image notes!)
I thought I'd shot this beach to death, but with the negative tide and explosive sunset a few nights ago, a whole new array of compositions became possible with sea life I didn't know existed. I don't know if I've ever seen a clump of starfish this huge and red before!
As you might be able to tell, I got soaked and splashed up to chest level while I was desperately trying to get this shot. I was initially shooting with my reverse 3-stop GND, but that got hit by a wave crashing over the rock. 5 minutes later, the same thing happened to my 3-stop soft GND, and I had to shoot filterless for the rest of the night, being extra careful to protect my bare lens from the frequent crasher waves as the tide forcefully pushed its way back in. I captured this moment while in the soft GND phase, so it required a manual blend of three exposures for dynamic range and a focus stack for the sea stars.
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“The great art of life is the sensation, to feel that we exist, even in pain.” - Lord Byron
Note:
Claudiney is one among 15.000 lost children still roaming the streets of São Paulo.
It is in deepest regret and sadness that I inform you of Roney's cold-blooded murder on the early morning hours of January 15th. May he find peace wherever his journey has taken him.......
IMPORTANT NOTE:
On June 27th. we also lost our beloved Claudiney.
This is a hot spring in the Upper Geyser Basin of Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming.
Doublet Pool is actually two clear pools (foreground and background) connected in the middle, allowing water to flow between. Deep vents exist in the centre of the pools with shallow shelves at the pools' edges. Raised, sawtooth-textured sinter outlines the edge of the pools and lines areas of the outwash channel. Some water spills out of the sawtooth textures around the pools, resulting in starburst-like trails of orange thermophiles (bottom of image), as well as the saw colours lining the outwash channel. Only rarely has Doublet Pool actually erupted, once after the 1959 earthquake, but most of its activity is bubbling and steaming.
Doublet Pool is 2.4m deep and its temperature is approximately 90.2 °C. The eruptions that do occur in Doublet Pool last up to eight minutes. The pool in the foreground pulses over the vents about every two hours. Occasionally there will be vibrations, surface wave motion, and thumping; these effects are caused by collapsing gas and steam bubbles deep underground.
Of note, the entire National Park is effectively covering the caldera of a single super-volcano, which last erupted some 70,000 years ago. Some of its eruptions have ejected 1,000 cubic km of material - in comparison, the Mt St Helens eruption in 1980 saw less than 4.5 cubic km of material ejected...
There exist on Earth, places, where the rains fall almost incessantly. Sohra is what the locals call the area while Cherrapunjee is what the rest of the world refers it to. The average rainfall in the area approximates to 11700mm = 462 inches.
We are in the Indian state of Meghalaya, a unique biosphere if there be one abounding in water and plants.
Mawsmai is a small indistinct place in Sohra but has an interesting caveful of stalactites and stalagmites.
Fairly pleasing and natural enough with no guides to rattle your patience. It is well lit inside and you can manage on your own. At places it can be acrobatically and awfully narrow. You have to hum a constant refrain "Mind the Head" "Mind the Head" followed by a chorus of Duck Duck, Duck"
Taking photographs is a challenging task what with the moisture and low light conditions and huge differences in exposure in the lit up areas vs the dark ones. Managed to get a few shots just right without too much of noise and motion blur.
The scenario is more like being trapped in a Roswellian cave setting with the aliens in our heart and mind looking out to the world beyond.
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Su nombre científico Coragyps atratus significa: Buitre similar a un cuervo, vestido de negro. El género se compone de los treminos en griego > korax: Cuervo + gyps: buitre. El epíteto es basado en el el latín atratus: Vestido de negro o enlutado.
Orden: CORACIIFORMES
Familia: Cathartidae
Genero: Coragyps
Nombres comunes: Gallinazo Negro, Zopilote Negro
Nombre en ingles: Black Vulture
Nombre científico: Coragyps atratus
Lugar de captura: Finca San Remo
Región: La Bonilla, Embalse El Peñol-Guatapé, Antioquia, Colombia
Por: Carlos Iván Restrepo Jaramillo