The stunning town of Mojacar built on a hill and still expanding. Mojacar, Espania, Europe

Mojácar is a town in southeast Spain. It’s known for its whitewashed Moorish old town and Mediterranean beaches like Palmeral and Cueva del Lobo. The hilltop Plaza Nueva has views of the Valley of the Pyramids

Macro Mondays - Tape

Happy Macro Monday everyone.

Dolly was a bit miffed she'd put on a few pounds over Christmas. And that tape measure she'd got out of the Christmas cracker, was proof she wasn't going to fit into her Summer dresses.

PS ... for us mere mortals, the tape measure is tiny and totally useless for us.

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FLORA IN MONOTONE

An expanded fractal for December

Song For December - Omnium Gatherum

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L'aigrette garzette mesure entre 55 et 65 cm avec une envergure de 85 à 95 cm. Elle pèse 500 g en moyenne. Il n'y a pas de dimorphisme sexuel. Elle est entièrement blanche avec un bec noir légèrement gris bleuté à la base et ses pattes sont noires avec des doigts jaunes. En période nuptiale, elle porte sur la nuque deux longues plumes fines de 20 cm environ appelées les aigrettes

Elle est présente en Europe du Sud, sur tout le pourtour méditerranéen jusqu'en Afrique subsaharienne.

L'Aigrette garzette se rencontre dans toutes les zones humides aux eaux peu profondes, lagunes, claires à huîtres, avec une prédilection pour les eaux saumâtres. Elle est aussi fréquente le long des cours d'eau que dans les marais dans certaines régions. Souvent observée en compagnie d'autres ardéidés.

The little egret (Egretta garzetta) is a species of small heron in the family Ardeidae. It is a white bird with a slender black beak, long black legs and, in the western race, yellow feet. As an aquatic bird, it feeds in shallow water and on land, consuming a variety of small creatures. It breeds colonially, often with other species of water birds, making a platform nest of sticks in a tree, bush or reed bed. A clutch of three to five bluish-green eggs is laid and incubated by both parents for about three weeks. The young fledge at about six weeks of age.

Its breeding distribution is in wetlands in warm temperate to tropical parts of Europe, Africa, Asia, and Australia. A successful colonist, its range has gradually expanded north, with stable and self-sustaining populations now present in the United Kingdom.[2]

In warmer locations, most birds are permanent residents; northern populations, including many European birds, migrate to Africa and southern Asia to over-winter there. The birds may also wander north in late summer after the breeding season, and their tendency to disperse may have assisted in the recent expansion of the bird's range. At one time common in Western Europe, it was hunted extensively in the 19th century to provide plumes for the decoration of hats and became locally extinct in northwestern Europe and scarce in the south. Around 1950, conservation laws were introduced in southern Europe to protect the species and their numbers began to increase. By the beginning of the 21st century the bird was breeding again in France, the Netherlands, Ireland and Britain. Its range is continuing to expand westward, and the species has begun to colonise the New World; it was first seen in Barbados in 1954 and first bred there in 1994. The International Union for Conservation of Nature has assessed the bird's global conservation status as being of "least concern". source Wikipédia

Macro Mondays ~ Damage

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Treasure Hunt #75 ~ Yarn

Using my husband's scarf and a little spiralizing as inspiration for today's treasure hunt item.

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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.

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Interior from Garmo stave church at Maihaugen in Lillehammer, Norway. The baptismal font is made from soapstone and dates to the 12th century.

This stave church originally dates to the middle of the 12th century - later expanded in the 18th century. In the 19th century the church was replaced with a newly built on in Garmo and this one was dismantled and sold at auction(!) in 1880. It was bought by Trond Eklestuen, who spent much time buying traditional Norwegian objects (and buildings) and giving them away to museums for preservation. The church ended up at Maihaugen (the largest open-air museum in northern Europe, founded in 1904), a place dedicated to the preservation of Norwegian history and architecture. The church was rebuilt there in 1921.

Expanding Upwards...

Monday morning I woke up and looked out the window and noticed a heavy cloud cover and the sun was just starting to break the horizon. i could see the hint of a golden yellow sunrise and hoped i wouldn't miss it.

I made my way down to the park and as I crossed the tracks I looked at the rising sun; the colours were enhanced by the dark cloud filled sky above. I had to snap off a few quick shots to capture what I was seeing. I think this shot does it justice.

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Exciting times in the garden, the Spring bulbs are starting to flower.

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Another summer day passes in central Alberta.

This beautiful flower Antigonon leptopus was taken with a Canon EOS Coolpix 700D. Enjoy with Love and Light!

her galaxies dance with grace in the infinite world

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Appearings appear

Developing aspect

Normal processes

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A fading rose is still beautiful.

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Treasure Hunt #73 ~ Wires

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Posted expressly for the "Smile on Saturday!" theme of 8/6/2022: BRIGHT ON BLACK.

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We've just upgraded our shop, and check it out!

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Celtfest expanded to Friday night this year, and the first group up was Ten Strings and a Goat Skin from PEI. They were a very talented group, much better than what one would expect from the opening act. I think they appeared so early because they had to move on quickly to other venues.

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I just like this old barn. The more beat up and rustic it gets the more of it's character I enjoy.

It has not escaped my attention that half of this year’s pictures have been buildings . I guess admitting I have a problem is the first step.

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The space inside

the human body

In cubistic style

by Antony Gormley

A dark , colourless day today with sleet instead of snow leaving everything look dirty outside so a bit of colour to redress that from a Wax Melt Burner that a friend bought me for my birthday .

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Our Daily Challenge ~ Yellow Submerged

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Floods expand the River Adur at Partridge green near Ashurst in Sussex.

The huge cloud bank started to peel back to shed some much needed light across a cold wet landscape and lift the spirits, may the light always be with you .

Este monasterio se conoce su existencia desde 1137. Los modestos edificios iniciales fueron ampliándose gracias a las donaciones y las adquisiciones de la comunidad monástica. La sala Capitular, posteriormente utilizada como sacristía es conocida popularmente como "sala de las palmeras", data de finales del siglo xv y está sustentada por cuatro columnas centrales de fustes torsos rematando en una original bóveda

This monastery has been known to exist since 1137. The initial modest buildings were expanded thanks to donations and acquisitions by the monastic community. The Chapter House, later used as a sacristy, is popularly known as the "palm room", dating from the late fifteenth century and is supported by four central columns of torso shafts ending in an original vault.

Ce monastère est connu depuis 1137. Les modestes constructions initiales ont été agrandies grâce aux dons et acquisitions de la communauté monastique. La salle capitulaire, utilisée plus tard comme sacristie, est populairement connue sous le nom de "salle des palmiers", datant de la fin du XVe siècle et est soutenue par quatre colonnes centrales de fûts de torse se terminant par une voûte d'origine.

Fascinating concertina extension service cables for one side of a moveable pair of buildings (on tracks) that services airplane wings. The top one for compressed air is broken, while the bottom one for electricity is intact.

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The Flickr Lounge ~ Fruit

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Short on time and inspiration today so the single daffodil on the windowsill it is.

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Gehakkelde aurelia

In Nederland was de soort aan het begin van de twintigste eeuw een vrij algemene vlinder. Daarna nam het voorkomen af, zodat het dier in 1925 zeldzaam was en in het noorden in het geheel niet meer werd waargenomen. In de dertig jaar daarna namen de aantallen toe, om vervolgens in de jaren zestig weer af te nemen totdat de soort alleen nog in Limburg en Noord-Brabant werd waargenomen. De eerste helft van de jaren zeventig bracht weer een korte opleving. Sinds de jaren tachtig van de twintigste eeuw breidt het verspreidingsgebied van de gehakkelde aurelia zich snel noordwaarts uit. Inmiddels is Nederland vrijwel geheel gekoloniseerd en is de gehakkelde aurelia een algemene standvlinder.

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Chopped aurelia.

In the Netherlands, the species was a fairly common butterfly at the beginning of the twentieth century. Thereafter, the occurrence decreased, so that in 1925 the animal was rare and was not seen at all in the north. In the following thirty years the numbers increased, and then decreased again in the 1960s until the species was only observed in Limburg and North Brabant. The first half of the 1970s brought another brief revival. Since the eighties of the twentieth century, the distribution area of the chopped aurelia has been expanding rapidly northwards. The Netherlands has now been almost completely colonized and the hackled aurelia is a common butterfly.

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Finally, the first of my daffodils has flowered!

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“We clear the harbor and the wind catches her sails

and my beautiful ship leans over ever so gracefully,

and her elegant bow cuts cleanly

into the increasing chop of the waves.

I take a deep breath and my chest expands

and my heart starts thumping so strongly

I fear the others might see it beat through the cloth of my jacket.

I face the wind and my lips peel back from my teeth

in a grin of pure joy.”

― L.A. Meyer, Author

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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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The clouds spread out above the horizon with the mountains in the backdrop.

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Treasure Hunt #34 ~ Hexagonal

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Treasure Hunt #43 ~ Mint

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