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Beehive Ginger Lily - Zingiber spectabile
An unusual and eyecatching ginger flower - Mainly bracts which form the unusual cylinder effect with the flowers opening 2 or 3 at a time from within the bracts. A very curious arrangement by nature !!
A single magpie feather left on our grass. Lovely to see that streak of metallic blue along one edge - plus the dramatic black/white shift on the other.
If it is one for sorrow, two for joy, what does just a fleeting memory of a magpie visit signify?
Colorful flowers found in my neighborhood on the Big Island of Hawaii.
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Eyecatching wheeled contraption - heading a peloton made up of Extinction Rebellion protesters. They assembled in the Mall and headed past me off towards Buckingham Palace.
This rather crowded notice-board hangs on the wall of a Stalinist apartment block in Harbin's Daoli district - a place with a DPRK vibe but without the minders.... ;-)
Dubrovnik (Croatia).
Better seen in Fluidr.
Se ve mejor en Fluidr.
ENGLISH
Franciscan Monastery is built in the transitional Romanesque-Gothic style. The construction started in 1337. In 1667 it was completely destroyed in the Great Earthquake. The door with Pieta at Stradun is the only thing left from the original church after it has been rebuilt. The Cluster of the Franciscan Monastery is considered to be a masterpiece of architecture in Dubrovnik. It was built in Romanesque-Gothic style by the famous Mihoje Brajkov from Bara. The capitals are a true example of Romanesque style, with bestiary motives bringing the spirit of Gothic as well.
Pieta at the church of Male braèe - gothic sculpture done by Leonard and Petar Petroviæ (1498). The lofty interior of the monastery (reputed once to have had ceiling paintings by Titian) was reconstructed after the Great Earthquake of 1667.
The Old Pharmacy, located inside the Franciscan monastery, was opened in 1317. It is the third oldest pharmacy in Europe, but the only one still working. The inventories, ceramics, bowls, laboratory equipment and old medical books of the old Pharmacy are kept in the Franciscan Monastery Museum, among other highly valued and priceless objects of Dubrovnik's historic and cultural past.
The Franciscan monastery's library possesses 30,000 volumes, 22 incunabula, 1,500 valuable handwritten documents. The well-labeled exhibits include a 15th century silver-gilt cross and silver thurible, an 18th century crucifix from Jerusalem in mother-of-pearl on olive wood, an martyrology (1541) by Bemardin Gucetiæ (Gozze) and illuminated Psalters.
Among the pictures is one of Ruðer Boškoviæ painted in London in 1760, and a painting showing the town before the earthquake. This painting is one of the very few ones that show the Old Town before the earthquake and is used to reconstruct and understand how Dubrovnik was build before the catastrophe in 1667.
More info: www.dubrovnik-online.com/english/monuments.php
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Entre las características antiguas que aún se conservan del Monasterio Franciscano de Dubrovnik está la puerta sur, diseñada en 1499 en estilo gótico veneciano y con una Piedad bellamente tallada en la luneta.
El monasterio también incluye la iglesia de una sola nave de San Francisco, un púlpito de mármol del siglo XV y un campanario. Los finos claustros del siglo XV se salvaron totalmente del terremoto, y hoy son la parte más interesante del monasterio.
El claustro es románico tardío, con algunos elementos góticos, y exhibe columnas dobles cubiertas con esculturas de humanos, animales y plantas, y un tranquilo jardín abierto con una fuente del siglo XV en el centro.
Con entrada a través de uno de los lados de los claustros se encuentra la farmacia (Stara Ljekarna), que ha estado en funcionamiento desde 1317 y pretende ser la más antigua de Europa.
El Museo Franciscano (Muzej Franjevackog Samostana) se encuentra en otra habitación del monasterio, y exhibe una colección de arte religioso y objetos pertenecientes a la orden franciscana.
Más info: croacia.viajandopor.com/dubrovnik/museo-monasterio-franci...
This is near the front entrance of Pungmul flea market's huge main building, which houses the vendors who were displaced from the old stadium. This rather targe doll might be a bit of a headache to ship overseas. ;-) .
Seoul has no shortage of arresting window displays to keep the line of creepiness going, and this one - from a Jongno-5 ga medical shop - does its part too. The Skull & Bones Club rules!
Quite an eyecatching machine to go Sunday Shopping on.
It looked quite a handful to operate. The young woman (presumably the Daughter) looked a little embarrassed to be on such a machine.
I think the Peugeot lion badges on the rear are probably red herrings... the DVLA states it is a "Modified Reliant".
Note the towbar and electrics.
This eye-catching bit of roadside kitsch near Mt. Chilbo shows our planet skewered by a Juche torch, and a unified Korea at the center of it all. The caption, partially cut off, reads "Unified Fatherland" and the map shows a huge capital vaguely in the center of the peninsula - is it Seoul....or P'yongyang? ;-)
Closeup view of alley with blue painted steps in front of small chapel. Leros Island, Dodecanese, Greece
Dubrovnik (Croatia).
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ENGLISH
Dubrovnik, is a Croatian city on the Adriatic Sea coast in the extreme south of Dalmatia, positioned at the terminal end of the Isthmus of Dubrovnik. It is one of the most prominent tourist destinations on the Adriatic, a seaport and the center of Dubrovnik-Neretva county. Its population was 43,770 in 2001, down from 49,728 in 1991. In 1979, the city of Dubrovnik joined the UNESCO list of World Heritage Sites.
The prosperity of the city of Dubrovnik has always been based on maritime trade. In the Middle Ages, as the Republic of Ragusa, also known as the fifth Maritime Republic (together with Amalfi, Pisa, Genoa and Venice), it became the only eastern Adriatic city-state to rival Venice. Supported by its wealth and skilled diplomacy, the city achieved a remarkable level of development, particularly during the 15th and 16th centuries. Although demilitarised in the 1970s with the intent of forever protecting it from war devastation, in 1991, after the breakup of Yugoslavia, it was besieged by Serb-Montenegrin forces for 7 months and heavily damaged by shelling.
More info: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dubrovnik
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Dubrovnik o Ragusa es una ciudad costera de la Dalmacia, hoy día, bajo la soberanía de la moderna Croacia. Tiene una población (2001) de 43.770 habitantes. Es uno de los centros turísticos más importantes del mar Adriático. Se la conoce como "la perla del Adriático", "la Atenas eslava", ya que sus antiguos habitantes la distinguían como única, en una región llena de tanta barbarie, donde proliferaron grandes exponentes de la humanidad de las artes y ciencias. Capital del condado de Dubrovnik-Neretva. Dubrovnik es una ciudad rodeada de murallas y fortificaciones, al pie de la montaña de San Sergio, que cae a pico sobre las aguas del Mediterráneo.
En 1979, la ciudad antigua de Dubrovnik (el recinto amurallado) fue declarada Patrimonio de la Humanidad por la Unesco; la declaración fue ampliada en 1994.
Más info: es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dubrovnik
These shoppers braved the snow and ice to check out some goodies on sale. There are plenty of dolls, fit for, em, urm, well, a Princess ;-)
Photo taken at the Punalu'u Bake Shop Botanical Garden in Naalehu on the Big Island of Hawaii.
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Been out on my first photoshoot with Andy, we had a great time together. So nice that he could join in on the fun as he was using my old camera whilst I played with my new works camera.
The starting point for this eyecatching necklace was a portion of a damaged vintage necklace that I came across in my search for vintage jewelry. I loved the colors and shapes, and felt that it would be a nice challenge to breathe some new life into the beautiful enameled links. The metal Y shaped portion of the necklace is vintage with the exception of the teal picasso beads which I added on using brass head pins. I then strung a rope of alternating gold, orange and teal beads in different shapes and sizes to complement the colors in the repurposed vintage portion. The beaded portion has multiple passes of very sturdy nymo, a thread widely used by beadweavers, and is finished off with a gold plated safety clasp accented with a glittering swarovski crystal. The colors remind me of the desert with its golden brown sand and cloudless blue skies.
Dimensions:
Overall length is 20 inches (50.8 cm) excluding the dangling portion which hangs about 2 inches (50.8 mm) down from the bottom of the necklace
This was taken just outside the shop at the Wellpark Garden Centre in Orkney's Kirkwall. The flowers in the foreground are mixed Polyanthus.
My first time inside this eyecatching grocery store I've passed many times. It was commemorating its anniversary--open since 1964! Nice smaller grocery store; I bought some snacks to sit in Kennedy Park nearby. Across the street from the former Chesterfield bank, now undergoing renovations (see previous photos).