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La freesia alba es una planta herbácea de la familia de las iridáceas con un olor dulce e intenso a azucena que se cría con facilidad y se expande rápidamente.
Esta planta procede de Sudáfrica y suele florecer en verano y en otoño, siendo su reproducción por división de bulbos o mediante semillas.
At one time confined to Wales as a result of persecution, a reintroduction scheme has brought red kites back to many parts of England and Scotland. Central Wales, central England - especially the Chilterns, central Scotland - at Argaty and along the Galloway Kite Trail are the best areas to find them.
In 1989, six Swedish birds were released at a site in north Scotland and four Swedish and one Welsh bird in Buckinghamshire. Altogether, 93 birds of Swedish and Spanish origin were released at each of the sites, with the last birds released in 1993 in Scotland and 1994 in England.
The first successful breeding was recorded at both sites in 1992, and two years later kites reared in the wild themselves reared young for the first time. Successful breeding populations have become established in both locations.
These early successes justified the next stages of the programme with the aim to produce five self-sustaining breeding populations of red kites in Britain by year 2000. The eventual aim is to ensure that the red kite breeding population expands to colonise all suitable habitat throughout the UK.
Taken at Bwlch Nant yr Arian Forest Mid Wales.
Costa Ballena-Rota- Cádiz-Andalucía- España
Costa Ballena- Rota- Cádiz- Andalusia- Spain
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Marismas del Guadalquivir, La Puebla del Río (Sevilla-Andalucía-España)
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Sevilla-Andalucia- España
Seville- Andalusia- Spain
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Metropol-Parasol, Sevilla-España
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"When I admire the wonder of a sunset my soul expands in the worship of the creator."
Mahatma Gandhi
La Ceja, Colombia; 2.300 meters above sea level.
The Scrub Tanager is a common open country bird of the Colombian and Ecuadorian Andes. Due to its preference for scrub and bushy areas, it is most easily found in dry intermontane ‘rainshadow’ valleys but is expanding into more humid areas in the wake of human disturbance.
The Scrub Tanager is identified by its silvery greenish plumage, rust-colored cap and black mask. In further contrast to this typically gregarious genus, the Scrub Tanager most often is encountered as solitary pairs.
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Costa Ballena- Rota- Cádiz-Andalucía- España
Costa Ballena- Rota- Cadiz- Andalusia- Spain
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Smile on Saturday ~ Mushrooms
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Costa Ballena- Rota- Cádiz-Andalucía- España
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Ampliando la mirada del cuadro / Expanding the look of the painting (Serie clásicos)
Based on Hopper, 1882-1967
Confinamiento asqueroso / Disgusting Lockdown
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Time expands, then contracts, and in tune with the stirrings of the heart.
Quote from Kafka on the Shore by Haruki Murakami.
Entered in the Mystic Challenge Group Contest Mystery Clocks
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04-May-2022: about turism: my perplexities towards a future with more and more bans and more and more over-taxes.
Lake Bohinj and the much more famous Lake Bled are close (less than 20 km) but the second has a mass tourism now rooted, while the first is expanding its tourist reception in recent years, coming out (unfortunately) from the shadow of Bled, that was a lightning rod for peaceful and symbiotic nature lovers.
I am totally against mass tourism because it transforms a relaxing resort into an area where it is difficult even to access it.
Around Lake Bled, even at a certain distance, there are only paid parking lots, which come to cost 6 euros per hour (about the most decentralized and in May...) that, certainly, leave perplexed about the "tourist selection" that "they" would like to implement (high-end tourism) and, in general, certainly drive away the tourist in search of nature and not restaurants, bars, concrete lake-front and crowd baths.
The naturalist tourist should not feel like a tourist in Nature, which is a single great asset of humanity and that only administratively is divided between various Countries, while in Bled, as in Rimini or Cortina d'Ampezzo, they make you feel not only tourist, but also guest, sometimes unwanted if you spend little.
As tourism increases, so do the bans, because unfortunately mass tourism includes many people who don't know anything about Nature and generally only go to very touristy places to make themselves of...people, sowing dirt and ignorance wherever they move.
The imposition of prohibitions/bans to limit the "damage from mass tourism" affects everyone indiscriminately, including locals and naturalists who have always had a symbiotic relationship with these places, thus making them become inhospitable, at least to those seeking pure contact with nature itself.
Of course this happens all over the world, but it should be condemned.
We already pay State taxes for the maintenance of the slice of Nature that falls within our administration, tourist surcharges, exploiting market laws that should be verified and contained, are for the most part unconstitutional, as well as several prohibitions that deprive access and use of public property.
With the money that the tourist municipalities pocket they could very well implement a targeted prevention (controls by foresters, cameras, ad hoc fences for areas subject to micro-pollution...) rather than closing everything and then de-empowering themself on the maintenance of roads and areas (more and more numerous), thus going to save further, starting from the basic taxes that we pay to also have access to given areas.
I can understand that you tax parking at high altitude to maintain the roads, but the amount of the payment should be directly proportional to the expenses that must be incurred to ensure accessibility, not by putting prices at random and with increases of 200% from one year to the next.
I have always appreciated the fact that Slovenia, thanks also that it is not densely inhabited and has a modest tourism (except precisely Bled, Postojna Caves and the Coast), guarantees a wide accessibility and use of its territories and I hope it can continue, limiting the prohibitions and parking lots everywhere.
Der aus dem Mittelalter stammende Königspalast, dessen spanischer Name Reales Alcázares de Sevilla lautet, blickt auf eine lange und sehr abwechslungsreiche Geschichte zurück. Erbaut für König Pedro I. auf den Ruinen eines maurischen Forts ist der Alcázar ein eindrucksvolles Beispiel für die christliche Bauweise, die die maurischen Elemente aus der langen Zeit der Maurenherrschaft miteinander kombiniert. Das Zeugnis der sogenannten Mudéjar-Architektur wurde ab 1364 errichtet und im Laufe der Jahrhunderte von den nachfolgenden Herrschern immer weiter ausgebaut. Schon den Herrschern der Mohaden, einem Berber-Volk, diente der Alcázar als Wohnsitz. Das ist bis heute so geblieben, der spanische König und seine Familie halten sich bei Reisen nach Andalusien stets im Königspalast in Sevilla auf.
The Royal Palace, whose Spanish name is Reales Alcázares de Sevilla, dates back to the Middle Ages and looks back on a long and very varied history. Built for King Pedro I on the ruins of a Moorish fort, the Alcázar is a striking example of Christian architecture, combining Moorish elements from the long period of Moorish rule. Evidence of the so-called Mudéjar architecture was erected from 1364 and continued to be expanded over the centuries by subsequent rulers. The Alcázar was already the residence of the rulers of the Mohaden, a Berber people. This has remained the case to this day, the Spanish king and his family always stay in the royal palace in Seville when traveling to Andalusia.
I'm not sure why these are called Inca Doves. Reportedly, they've never inhabited the Andes Mountains of Peru where the Inca Empire thrived. They do live in Mexico and southern US states, however. And apparently they're expanding northward. Look out Colorado, they're coming. These are very small doves, just a little bigger than a sparrow.
The Fir Among The Maples......
in Caledon the fall colours have begun their spectacular display of brilliantly coloured leaves and are in full colour change.
An expanding beautiful white and blue sky was the backdrop to this colourful scene.
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AMSTERDAM NOORD - The shipyard started life in the 19th century. NDSM – Nederlandsche Dok en Scheepsbouw Maatschappij or Dutch Dock and Shipbuilding Company – was Amsterdam’s largest shipbuilding facility for about a hundred years. In 1984 the facility went bankrupt and closed its doors – like many other European shipyards as the industry declined. The NDSM Wharf has blossomed now into an enormous cultural hotspot in recent years with a vibrant artist community and an ever-expanding variety of bars and restaurants.
Madwish moved to new location! T A X I !
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▹ Madwish - Nose blush (group gift) @Madwish Mainstore
▸ Madwish - Bambi Eyebrows @Madwish Marketplace
▹ Madwish - Lovely Cheeks ( round blush ) @Madwish Marketplace
▸ Bamboo - Annie top @Level Event
▹ Versuta - ai pose ( 8 )
▸ Glam Affair - Martina skin ( Baige)
▹ Hive - Cold brew
▸ Ladybird - Beatrice
▹ Rouly - Kim Track Pants
▸ Doux - Amaya hairstyle
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Not having been in a shop, to buy anything for a very long time, I was commenting how I missed having fresh flowers in the house. Today my lovely husband came home with a pretty bouquet of flowers for me.
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Treasure Hunt #73 ~ Wires
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Owning your own feelings rather than blaming them
on someone else, is the mark of a person who has
moved from contracted to expanded awareness.
Deepak Chopra
This is the small heath reserve in the woods near Beisbroek and Tudor Castle. Most natural heath areas have disappeared in Belgium, so conservationists have put lots of effort into re-establishing heath areas or giving purple heather the chance to expand by cutting trees and creating the right habitat.
Silver birches (also called European white birches) grow on this small heath.
Info from the NT website.
“New Worke“ began life as a hunting lodge in the mid 1500s. It was built by the courtier, Sir Nicholas Poyntz, using medieval stones from a nearby dissolved abbey. This was never his family home but he used it as an impressive place for lavish entertaining.
Over the next 400 years, the house was expanded and remodelled a number of times. A succession of families made their home in what is now Newark Park. The most significant building phase was undertaken in the 1790s by the Reverend Lewis Clutterbuck using the architect, James Wyatt.
The Clutterbuck family continued to own Newark Park – although for 50 years it was leased to the King Family. Three generations later, Catherine Annie Power-Clutterbuck left the estate to the National Trust in 1949.
By 1970, the estate was in need of some restoration. An American architect, Bob Parsons, leased it from the National Trust and spent almost 30 years taming the grounds and returning the house to a home. Once again, it became a place known for its hospitality.
The estate has some lovely walks through the woodlands, well worth a visit. As yet we have not been inside the house, keeping that for a rainy day!
Pink Footed Geese at Martin Mere Wetlands in Lancashire, alarmed by the presence of a Buzzard (at the top of the photo). Very Noisy! Best expanded.
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Our Daily Challenge ~ Yellow Submerged
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As we were driving down Gaglardi Way in West Vancouver, enjoying the light show of the setting sun,
I was snapping photos of the light on Port Mann Bridge, when Ross exclaimed "look at Miss Baker!" , she was HUGE
and just barely visible. She seems to have the ability to shrink and expand, to hide and to suddenly appear ...
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Short on time and inspiration today so the single daffodil on the windowsill it is.
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I had to grab a photo from yesterday for today's 365 as I am struggling to get any photos taken!!
A low viewpoint looking up at part of Edinburgh Castle!
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Finally, the first of my daffodils has flowered!
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I walked out into the garden today to find that this little beauty has flowered. Another of the tulips I planted last autumn.
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In the first half of the 20th century, the Anna's Hummingbird bred only in northern Baja California and southern California. The planting of exotic flowering trees provided nectar and nesting sites, and allowed the hummingbird to greatly expand its breeding range.
The ribbon eel (Rhinomuraena quaesita), also known as the leaf-nosed moray eel or bernis eel, is a species of moray eel, the only member of the genus Rhinomuraena. What is now known as R. quaesita also includes the former R. amboinensis. R. quaesita was used for blue ribbon eels and R. amboinensis for black ribbon eels, but these are now recognized as the same species. The ribbon eel is found in lagoons and reefs in the Indo-Pacific ocean, ranging from East Africa to southern Japan, Australia and French Polynesia. This species is widely distributed and is frequently seen by divers in Indonesian waters with their heads and anterior bodies protruding from crevices in sand and rubble habitats from very shallow to about 60 m. Although generally placed in the moray eel family Muraenidae , it has several distinctive features leading some to place it in its own family, Rhinomuraenidae.
The ribbon eel bears a resemblance to a mythical Chinese dragon with a long, thin body and high dorsal fins. The ribbon eel can easily be recognised by its expanded anterior nostrils. They are well known for their characteristic jaws that are frequently opened very widely when a diver approaches. Based on observed colour changes, it is generally considered a protandric hermaphrodite (first male, then changing sex to female), although this has yet to be confirmed. Colour change related to sex change is not known from any other moray eel species. The presumed juveniles and subadults are jet black with a yellow dorsal fin, in adult males the black is replaced by blue, and adult females are entirely yellow or yellow with some blue to the posterior. The blue adult males range from 65 to 94 cm (26 to 37 in) in length, while the larger yellow females can reach up to 130 cm (51 in). Mabini, South Luzon, Philippines