WDM3B - Fighting for the EXISTENCE of its RACE !
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Female Impala with Red-billed Oxpecker in the Kruger Nationalpark, South Africa
The world is like a book and those, who do not travel, only read the first page.
All rights reserved. © Thomas Retterath 2022
“The daily hummingbird assaults existence
with improbability.”
― Ursula K. Le Guin
happy sliderssunday
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La Nature pourtant reste à jamais entière,
C’est que tout corps grossit de ce qu’un autre perd ;
C’est d’automnes flétris que le printemps est vert.
Ainsi, rien ne s’arrête et tout se renouvelle ;
L’existence est un prêt ; la vie est mutuelle
De Rerum Natura, Livre II (Titus Lucretius Carus, 99BC.–55BC.) Traduction : André Lefèvre
Tucked high in the Andes, in the far southwestern reaches of Bolivia, is the country's most visited national park, with at least 25,000 tourists visiting annually.
The mountains of Eduardo Avaroa are the highest Andes Mountains on Bolivia's border with Chile and Argentina. They are dotted with erupting volcanoes, hot springs, steaming geysers and fumaroles.
Photo is taken close to Chilean border, at altitude 4500m.
The Tayka desert hotel may be one of the most remote hotels in existence. There is literally nothing anywhere within many miles of this place. Solar panel energy.
Bolivia, Siloli Desert
Please don't use my images without my permission. All images © Aivar Mikko
Bastian watches a visiting magpie.
Eurasian magpie or common magpie (Pica pica) Danish: Husskade. Bastian (mixed breed), 16.06.2023. Shot through glass.
Olympus OMD EM5 Digital Camera
Schokland the former island reclaimed from much of the former "Zuiderzee" lies like a fish on dry land in the middle of the Northeast Polder, and is seen worldwide as the symbol of the Dutch struggle against the water and is included in the World Heritage List of the Unesco.
The island is fringed with a planted row of trees that emphasize the former contours of the island.
The island consists of peat soil and now the island is no longer enclosed by the seawater, this peat soil is increasingly sinking in and becomes part of the sea clay of the Northeast Polder.
The island has a tragic history as the ferocious former Zuiderzee swept away pieces of coastline further and further, bit by bit.
The seawall consisted of a single basalt piece of dike here and there, while the vast majority was formed by a wooden stockade.
The very poor population lives mainly from fishing, but there were also a small numbers of farms.
The situation got very bad when the pile worm made its appearance in the Zuiderzee, when it was taken by the East Indies sailing ships of the United East India Company.This worm practically ate away the wooden pilings around the island.
The situation became untenable, and when the island was inundated by a violent storm and storm surge in 1825, there were calls to evacuate the island.
However, it was not untill 1859 that King William III declared the order to evacuate the island by now being able to ensure safety was impossible and the povery of the population was dire.
Until the closure and reclamation, Schokland remained untill 1942 in existence with a few more employees and their families of the Department of Public Works including a harbor master and a lighthouse keeper.
We are standing here at the former harbor that was reconstructed until recently and look across the old path toward the harborlight, where there is the old lightkeeper's house and the small building where on the roof the foghorn was mounted.
This harbor was an important point of orientation for the busy shipping traffic to the route to the mouth of the river "IJssel" and the very important town of "Kampen".
During stormy weather the harbor was a port of refuge for the ships that sometimes remained at the quays for days........
Trees are happy for no reason; they are not going to become prime ministers or presidents and they are not going to become rich and they will never have any bank balance. Look at the flowers — for no reason. It is simply unbelievable how happy flowers are :-)
Osho
hibiscus, plant delights nursery, wake county, north carolina
"Find a calm lake and wait for the twilight in silence! There, existence will visit you with all its magnificence! The existence of the Existence can best be felt in the presence of dimness and in the absence of crowds and noises!"
- Mehmet Murat Ildan
The sunshine of the day gives way to the "Sunshine of the Night" on the shores of Esther Lake in Grand Portage State Forest near Hovland, Minnesota.
Credit @ :Fanatik Architecture
Building : :Fanatik Architecture: PANTHEON
Debris : :FANATIK: DEBRIS Stone 1
Rock : :FANATIK: ROCK BOULDERS F
Rock : :FANATIK: ROCK BOULDERS D
Rock : :FANATIK: ROCK BOULDERS L
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Grass by Heart Garden
Harmony Moon Lily - Short - White Blue - circle - AM - C/M
Harmony Wild Iris - SHORT - Purple - circle - AM - C/M
Harmony Wild Poppies - SHORT - Red - circle - AM - C/M
Harmony Wild Poppies - SHORT - Blue - circle - AM - C/M
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when I am another, my acts
are more mine when they are the acts
of others, in order to be I must be another,
leave myself, search for myself
in the others, the others that don't exist
if I don't exist, the others that give me
total existence, I am not,
there is no I, we are always us,
life is other, always there,
further off, beyond you and
beyond me, always on the horizon,
life which unlives us and makes us strangers,
that invents our face and wears it away...
from sunstone
octavio paz
Existence is short but if you need me
You can find me trapped between
The open mouth of the sky monster
Glaring eyes above and below
Teeth that pierce the clouds
A forest face and a dense destructive blue
Please note that my call back hours are short
The internet connection is quite drained
It is better to visit in person or
Write your tender message
On a folded fortune cookie strip
and blow it upwards.
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Amsterdam - Nieuwe Uilenburgerstraat
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Pose - La Plume - Lilou - 07, available here maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Highland%20Park/174/64/2001
Nails - Tulssy Nail's Art - Spectral, available at Sense Event until Sept 8 maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/DreamsLand/176/128/1501
Hair - Stealthic - Lilium Hair
Dress - *CK* - Candy Cotton Dress
Socks - *CK* - Candy Cotton Socks
Taken at ..::Sol Existence::.. maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Sol%20Existence/215/130/43
A solitary pansy ekes out an existence in a narrow crack between the paving stones where ants have disturbed the soil below allowing it to find enough nutrients to survive.
“Thank you...for gracing my life with your lovely presence, for adding the sweet measure of your soul to my existence.”
― Richard Matheson, What Dreams May Come
If you surrendered to the air, you could ride it.
~ Toni Morrisson ("Song of Solomon")
ex·is·tence (ig-zistins) | The fact or state of existing; being.
Sunset jump!
The Emerald Coast
Destin, Florida
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Japanese gardens are traditional gardens whose designs are accompanied by Japanese aesthetics and philosophical ideas, avoid artificial ornamentation, and highlight the natural landscape. Plants and worn, aged materials are generally used by Japanese garden designers to suggest an ancient and faraway natural landscape, and to express the fragility of existence as well as time's unstoppable advance. Ancient Japanese art inspired past garden designers. By the Edo period, the Japanese garden had its own distinct appearance. 30765
For this week's Macro Monday theme "Hot or Cold". Making metal catch on fire.
First of some fun playing with various shutter speeds.
Yes, there's a less famous Medellin than the one in Colombia, I must admit I wasn't aware of its existence until a few days before I decided to spend the night there either, view from the banks of the Guadiana river. Night version to be uploaded next. Happy Monday to all.
‘…encompassing both the unchanging absolute and all that is always changing…’
frottage/collage 590mm x 280mm
For all the time of its existence, fortress has changed 3 names. The original name is Agarani (historians have identified it as Kojris tsikhe). It is located on Mount Azeula (Trialeti Ridge). The exact date of construction of the fortress is unknown. According to archaeologists, it was built in the late eighth-early ninth century. It controlled the caravan route from Gardabani to Shida Kartli and from Tbilisi to Trialeti.
Since 1080, the fortress passes to the Seljuk Turks. Under their rule, the name Ker Oglu appears. This name is common to this day. Then the fortress passes to Emir Fadlun.
1118. The fortress was recaptured by David IV Agmashenebeli (the Builder) from the Ganja Emir Fadlun. After some time, the fortress again passes to the emir, then, after three months of fighting, the fortress again passed to David. In 1123, David IV gave the fortress to Prince Ioane Orbeli.
1177. The fortress appears in the history of the uprising against Tsar George III (the father of Queen Tamar). The princes of Orbeli (or Orbeliani) did not share something with the king, they made a noise. The rebels took refuge in the fortress, and in the same year the fortress was taken by storm. As a result, the Knizia were defeated, losing all their lands.
And what about without Queen Tamar (1184-1212). The chronicles mention that Tamara, who was seriously ill, spent about six months here.
Since the XV century, Agarani belongs to the Solagashvili family and appears in the sources as Kojris-tsikhe. The ruins of the Kabensky Monastery are relatively close by. One of the churches was a tomb of this kind.
In 1488, Iranian troops besieged the Kojor fortress. After that, the fortress does not particularly appear in the chronicles. Only the appearance of the palace in the XVII century is mentioned. There were no other key events in the history of the fortress.
A tunnel of the metro, the infinite in front of me, the nothing that surrounds existence, the lines that give way to get out of nowhere.
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The music box ballerina and the old jack-in-the-box, both trapped within the confines of their respective existence. He obsessed with her ethereal beauty, going round and round in a frozen pirouette and she obsessed with the desire to escape his all consuming, penetrating and captive gaze.
“You know when things get inside you and you can't stop going round and round the same piece of misery.”
― Iris Murdoch, The Black Prince
“I've thought about nothing else but you.”
― Iris Murdoch, The Black Prince
“Do you know that one day I'll kill you? I won't do it because I'm no longer in love with you, or because I'm jealous, but—I'll just kill you for no better reason that I sometimes long to devour you.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Gambler
Obsession.
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