In the pursuit to expand my knowledge in all things Italian, my Blue Phoenix made sure to introduce me to the music and poetry of Vasco Rossi. He's a fan, you see. And now, so am I.

To My B. of B.- I now know that "Chicken Parmigiana" does not really exist in Italy, and that Vasco Rossi is a genius poet and amazing singer.

Grazie per tutto quello che mi insegni sul tuo fantastico paese e sul suo ricco patrimonio.

Ti Amo alla follia. ♥♥.

On My Playlist

Costa Ballena-Rota- Cádiz-Andalucía- España

Costa Ballena- Rota- Cádiz- Andalusia- Spain

Se recomienda ampliar.

It is recommended to expand.

Muchas gracias por vuestros favoritos, comentarios y visitas. Saludos cordiales.

Thank you very much for your faves, comments and visits . Best regards.

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.

E © C

FLORA IN MONOTONE

Pumping station "de Vier Noorder Koggen". Built in 1869 to replace some polder mills for the draining of the polder land to the former Zuiderzee. The pumping station consists of two parts: the old pumping station from 1869 and on the left the new pumping station from 1907.

The old pumping station worked well, but that was not enough. The pumping station, and also the mills, were running at full power, but the area behind the dike remained too wet. There were also votes to build another pumping station, but the high costs were feared. The farmers complained of stone and bone. After a lot of talking, while meanwhile wet years caused a lot of damage, it was finally decided to expand the old pumping station with a new section in which a gas engine would be placed. The new building was completed in 1907. The mills were no longer needed. The millers were fired and had to leave their home and workplace. The windmills were sold for five hundred guilders each. Of the twenty mills, which were managed by the Vier Noorder Koggen, only the West-Uit 7 mill at Aartswoud was spared. The appearance of the Brakepolder changed considerably when fourteen windmills disappeared from the landscape there in just a short time.

During World War I, opponents of steam were proved right when the pumping station ran into problems because the coal supply stopped. It was decided to keep a large stock of coal available at all times.

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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Shoreline remains of wooden moulds used to cast concrete blocks. These were used to build the Churchill Barriers on Orkney. The wood has weathered from exposure to sea water over the decade and the steel hooks and rings used to move them by crane are slowly rusting away.

Worth expanding this photo to see the texture and the spiders web!

This expanded view was taken during a testsession with my new Sigma ultra wide angle lense. On the edeges I loose a little bit of sharpness but all in all I am quite happy.

I was litteraly eaten alive by mosquitos so I hope you like this picture :)

When I admire the wonders of a sunset or the beauty of the moon, my soul expands in the worship of the creator.

-Mahatma Gandhi

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.

Earth provides enough to satisfy every man's needs, but not every man's greed.

Mahatma Gandhi

The world says: "You have needs -- satisfy them. You have as much right as the rich and the mighty. Don't hesitate to satisfy your needs; indeed, expand your needs and demand more." This is the worldly doctrine of today. And they believe that this is freedom. The result for the rich is isolation and suicide, for the poor, envy and murder.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov

He who is not contented with what he has, would not be contented with what he would like to have.

Socrates

When morality comes up against profit, it is seldom that profit loses.

Shirley Chisholm

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

Schloss Charlottenburg (Charlottenburg Palace) is a Baroque palace in Berlin, located in Charlottenburg, a district of the Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf borough.

The palace was built at the end of the 17th century and was greatly expanded during the 18th century. It includes much lavish internal decoration in Baroque and Rococo styles. A large formal garden surrounded by woodland was added behind the palace, including a belvedere, a mausoleum, a theatre and a pavilion. During the Second World War, the palace was badly damaged but has since been reconstructed. The palace with its gardens is a major tourist attraction.

her galaxies dance with grace in the infinite world

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thank you, Paula!

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.

VIEWERSHIP: 25% of 1,403 views on 8/6/2022.

FAVORABILITY: 55% of 55 faves on 8/6/2022.

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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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The space inside

the human body

In cubistic style

by Antony Gormley

Barred Owl

The Barred Owl (Strix varia), also known as the Northern Barred Owl, Striped Owl or, more informally, Hoot Owl, is a North American large species of owl. A member of the true owl family, Strigidae, they belong to the genus Strix, which is also the origin of the family's name under Linnaean taxonomy. Barred owls are largely native to eastern North America but have expanded their range to the west coast of North America where they are considered invasive. Mature forests are their preferred habitat, but they can also acclimate to various gradients of open woodlands. Their diet consists mainly of small mammals, but this species is an opportunistic predator and is known to prey upon other small vertebrates such as birds, reptiles, and amphibians, as well as a variety of invertebrates.

For more info: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barred_owl

The Cornell Lab: www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/Barred_Owl/id

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.

This common year-round resident of the deciduous and mixed forests of eastern North America is also found in older urban and suburban areas with mature trees and vegetation. The Tufted Titmouse's gray-crested head, rust-colored flanks, black forehead and large eyes make it easily identifiable, even for casual birders. It is a frequent visitor to bird feeders during fall and winter where individuals prefer sunflower seeds and suet, and often cache many of those seeds throughout their territories. This is an active bird, moving along branches, and often searching under them, for arthropods. It is also a vocal species, frequently uttering contact calls and chick-a-dee calls and, in spring and summer, singing its ‘peter-peter-peter' songs.

Tufted Titmice and chickadees are ‘nuclear' species, often joined in winter flocks by a variety of ‘satellite' species. As a ‘nuclear' species, titmice influence the paths that flocks follow, are aggressive mobbers of potential predators, and often take the lead during mobbing events. The calls that titmice utter when mobbing provide information about the presence of predators for heterospecifics as well as conspecifics

During the past 70 years, the range of this species has expanded northward into New England and southern Canada, with climatic warming likely the most important factor, but bird feeders also a factor. The northern distribution of titmice is likely limited by average minimum temperature rather than food availability.

I found this one in Lake Wales, Polk County, Florida.

In 1146 King Conrad III, granted estates in Grindelwald to Interlaken Abbey. In the late 12th century, the barons of the alpine valleys in what became the Berner Oberland went to war against the expansionist Duke Berthold V of Zähringen. The Duke defeated a coalition of nobles in the Grindlewald valley in 1191. His victory allowed him to expand Zähringen power into the Oberland, to expand the city of Thun and found the city of Bern.

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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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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

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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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More of my lovely new crocus flowers.

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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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Alhambra (Arabic: "red tower") - a fortified palace complex in Granada. Built in the years 1232-1273 and expanded to the fourteenth century. It is the fortress of the Moorish caliphs. Yusuf I and Muhammad V.

Alhambra, a monument of Arab construction in Europe, it consists of a palace with several courtyards and decorated rooms and Alkazaba. Next to the palace is Generalife - a summer residence with gardens. The Alhambra was the last point of Arab support in Spain until 1492.

The Alhambra Fortress was included in the UNESCO World Heritage List in 1984.

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Alhambra (arab. "czerwona wieża") – warowny zespół pałacowy w Grenadzie. Zbudowany w latach 1232–1273 i rozbudowywany do XIV wieku. Jej rozbudowa trwała za panowania emirów z dynastii Nasrydów – Jusufa I i Muhammada V. Alhambra była twierdzą mauretańskich kalifów.

Twierdza Alhambra została w 1984 roku wpisana na listę światowego dziedzictwa kultury UNESCO.

Zabytek arabskiego budownictwa w Europie. Składa się z pałacu z kilkoma dziedzińcami i dekorowanymi salami oraz Alkazaby. Obok pałacu znajduje się Generalife – letnia rezydencja z ogrodami. Alhambra była do roku 1492 ostatnim punktem oparcia Arabów w Hiszpanii.

For MacroMondays, a push fit socket for i2c io port expander chip

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

What a great googie-ish sign. Neat shapes & lettering, a star, expanded metal decorative panels. Johnnies has it going on!

This photograph taken inside the Wisconsin Central’s diesel shop at North Fond du Lac shows two recent arrivals getting a mechanical check-over before being added to their then rapidly expanding fleet of SD45s.

The WC had already purchased 21 of these big EMDs from the Santa Fe in 1993, but due to increasing traffic levels they found it necessary to add more power in late 1994 into early 1995.

The ATSF 5327 would become the WC 6599 and the ATSF 5400 the WC 6629. – The additional road units that came to the WC from the ATSF this time around included 33 SD45s, 6 F45s and the one FP45. - September 6th, 1994 ~~ A Jeff Hampton Photograph ©

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Treasure Hunt #43 ~ Mint

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melting hearts

The cold periode we have these days, start of 2024, gives amazing scenery of colors, mist, water that gives a lot of opportunities for being creative. Here have I been using HDR to expand the range of colors and pixels. I also tried with long exposure but then the fog become more grey. There come more days to play with light, colors and time from this spot, at Varodden, Kristiansand, Norway