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“The art of being happy lies in the power of extracting happiness from common things.”
Henry Ward Beecher
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Santa Paula is a city in Ventura County, California, United States. Situated amidst the orchards of the fertile Santa Clara River Valley, the city advertises itself to tourists as the "Citrus Capital of the World." Santa Paula was one of the early centers of California's petroleum industry. The Union Oil Company Building, the founding headquarters of the Union Oil Company of California in 1890, now houses the California Oil Museum. The population was 29,321 at the 2010 census, up from 28,598 at the 2000 census.
The area of what today is Santa Paula was originally inhabited by the Chumash, a Native American people. In 1769, the Spanish Portola expedition, first Europeans to see inland areas of California, came down the Santa Clara River Valley from the previous night's encampment near Fillmore and camped in the vicinity of Santa Paula on August 12, near one of the creeks coming into the valley from the north (probably Santa Paula Creek). Fray Juan Crespi, a Franciscan missionary travelling with the expedition, had previously named the valley Cañada de Santa Clara. He noted that the party traveled about 9 to 10 miles (14 to 16 km) that day and camped near a large native village, which he named San Pedro Amoliano. The site of the expedition's arrival has been designated California Historical Landmark No. 727.
Franciscan missionaries, led by Father Junipero Serra, became active in the area after the founding of the San Buenaventura Mission and established an Asistencia; the town takes its name from the Catholic Saint Paula. Santa Paula is located on the 1843 Rancho Santa Paula y Saticoy Mexican land grant.
In 1872 Nathan Weston Blanchard purchased 2,700 acres (10.9 km2) and laid out the townsite. Considered the founder of the community, he planted seedling orange trees in 1874. Several small oil companies owned by Wallace Hardison, Lyman Stewart and Thomas R. Bard were combined and became the Union Oil Company in 1890.
In April 1911, Gaston Méliès moved his Star Film Company from San Antonio, Texas to a site just north of Santa Paula.
The large South Mountain Oil Field southeast of town, just across the Santa Clara River, was discovered by the Oak Ridge Oil Company in 1916, and developed methodically through the 1920s, bringing further economic diversification and growth to the area. While the field peaked in production in the 1950s, Occidental Petroleum continues to extract oil through its Vintage Production subsidiary and remains a significant local employer.
A 500-acre (200 ha) master-planned community of 1,500 homes is expected to expand the town significantly when it begins construction in 2016.
Meet Sheldon, one of our bathroom’s most distinguished residents. He has spent years perched atop a pristine shelf, basking in the admiration of guests, and the occasional spray of air freshener. Life in our bathroom was orderly and predictable. I was feeling a bit sorry for him realising I spend a lot more time at the beach with his wild relatives than he does, so decided it was time for an excursion.
So one morning, the bathroom door opened not for its usual routine but for adventure. I plucked Sheldon gently from his shelf, wrapped him in a cloth, and whisked him away in my camera bag. Destination: the beach!
I think Sheldon was a bit stunned at first. The gentle hum of the extractor fan and the faint scent of lavender soap were replaced with the roar of the ocean and grains of sand blown about in the sea breeze. I placed him reverently on the damp shoreline and, Sheldon finally met his ancestral home. Waves lapped at his edges, and tiny crabs peeked out curiously (maybe I made that bit up). Sheldon, once a bathroom fixture, now basked in salty splendor, reconnecting with his beach origins. Some of the local roguish shells happened to wander by; Salty Sid, Clamorous Carl, Benny the Barnacle, Tidepool Terry, Saucy Shellie & Crabby Casanova. Their stories had him blushing!
I think the wild proved exhausting though. After a few hours of pondering and a brief but harrowing brush with a seagull (I may have made that bit up too), Sheldon was ready for home. Back on his shelf, he now carries a bit of sand in his crevices — a reminder of his brave journey and a reminder of his wildness origins.
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Ancien site d’extraction de la tourbe, les étangs du Romelaëre forment un paysage d’étangs et de rivières reliés entre eux par des chenaux d’accès, autrefois empruntés par les maraîchers.
La réserve naturelle protège une centaine d’hectares de terre et d’eau.
Une ambiance aquatique où étangs, watergang, roselières, prairies humides et bois tourbeux colorent le paysage. La diversité et la richesse de la faune sont connues depuis les années 1980 avec les nombreuses espèces d’oiseaux dont le héron cendré, le blongios nain, le butor étoilé ou le busard des roseaux.
Les poissons sont très remarquables mais difficiles à inventorier : able de heckel, bouvière ou brochet sont quelques unes des dix-sept espèces connues à ce jour.
La flore n’est pas en reste avec des herbiers à nénuphars de plusieurs milliers de mètres carrés ou encore des milliers de fleurs d’utriculaire ou le faux aloés, plante emblématique de la réserve naturelle.
I should have been photographing my grandchildren climbing on the fallen trees but was taken with this small patch of bark detail on one of the trees. The resulting image was dry, dull & flat but returning a couple of days later after rain the colours and detail were really brought to life.
About less than an hour's drive east of Phoenix Arizona lies the Superstition Mountains which is the alleged location of the lost Dutchman mine. The story starts with a man named Jacob Waltz who come out these mountains with gold he said he got from a mine he found but died not long afterwards taking the secret of it's location to his grave. One must remember that less than ten miles away the town of Goldfield had an operating goldmine that extracted enough gold to be worth hundreds of millions in todays dollars. So that there was another nearby motherload of gold was nearby was quite believable. Some men over years have come out with some gold claiming they found the lost mine but these turned out not to be true. With gold now worth $1300 an ounce today the allure of lost treasure will still excite people today. The legend of the mine faded from public view until 1931 when the amateur explorer and treasure hunter Adolph Ruth disappeared until months later a skull was found with two bullet holes in it and dental records provided a positive match. You would think someone getting murdered would deter people instead it had the opposite effect with area being flooded with wannabe treasure hunters and less than savory types heavily armed going into the mountains reported. The state designated the area a state park with anyone caught trying prospecting subject to swift arrest. Considering Arizona's penal system known for it's alleged inhumane prison system where many inmates live in unairconditioned cells or tents in the brutal summer heat which is a long discussion in itself is enough to discourage 99% would be treasure hunters.
Ruins of old Salt House at Port Eynon, Gower, South Wales. These date back to the mid 16th century, although most of the stonework is from the 18th century. Sea water was pumped up from a tank and heated to extract the salt.
Started to watch 'Tales from the Loop' recently and inspired to build some retro-futuristic MOCs.
Source: Extractor - Brandon Hahn
Definition: a small elite securing and extracting ("raking in") an excessive slice of the economic cake without investing in the common good. In the UK, this has created a high-inequality, high-poverty cycle. This cycle is the responsibility of the British Tory Party and, consequentially, the rake ought to be its visual signature - not the tree. Fuji X-Pro1, 7Artisans lens at F16 plus a 16mm macro extension tube.
COmposition Series
Extract from the context volumes, colors and shapes by subjectively creating a new self-sufficient harmony.
This Australian parrot is a Rainbow Lorikeet (Trichoglossus moluccanus) and it is using its bristle brush tongue to extract sweet sticky nectar and pollen from within the flowers of a 'Corymbia' Summer Red (formerly Eucalyptus).
Photographed in Wattle Grove, Sydney, Australia.
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Bee ~ Catford ~ London ~ England ~ Thursday June 16th 2016.
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Somewhere in Ipiccy you can ectract details and i like the results of that , thanks have a nice day.
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She carefully extracted her MacBook from the bag.
At the same time I tried to extract her beautiful face from lowlight environment.
I can never resist FebRovery, and wasn’t going to let my tiny rover from the Astro Warden be my only contribution! This mining vehicle brought back lots of memories of playing with Power Miners and was a ton of fun to build. I managed to utilize some interesting yellow elements I’ve had around for a while along with the unusual sand blue technic column.
The saw arm can rotate 360° and extend or retract for mining or transit mode. The windscreen also opens, and the whole roof can be removed for easier access to the cabin.
Full credit for the wheel design goes to Frost.
See more angles on Brickbuilt.
One of my attempts at the "Crazy Tuesday" theme "Abstract".
Shot with a "Tomioka-Copal 75 mm F 2.8" (enlarging) lens on a Canon EOS R5.
What a treat to watch this expert extract the winged seed, and then get just the seed.
Taken at Cape Henlopen SP, Delaware.
Back from a couple of days in the lakes. More walking than photography, but timed a quick visit to Wastwater to capture this.
Dambulla / Sri Lanka
Album of Sri Lanka: www.flickr.com/photos/tabliniumcarlson/sets/7215765666438...
Bodie, California is a ghost town in the Bodie Hills mountain range north of Mono Lake. It was founded in 1859 and abandoned in 1880 after extracting 34 million dollars worth of gold. At one time it had a population of 10,000. This raw and rugged town had 65 saloons lining its main street. Definitely no place for the timid!
In the middle of a storm, a strange calm suddenly appeared.
View on clouds right above Grammont, summit of the swiss pre-alps, from the swiss side of lake Léman.
Contax-zeiss 300mm + Mutar 2x
All argan sold today is produced by a women's cooperative that shares the profits among the local women of the Berber tribe. The cooperative has established an ecosystem reforestation project so that the supply of argan oil will not run out and the income that is currently supporting the women will not disappear. The money is providing healthcare and education to the local women, and supporting the entire community as a whole.
Argan oil is an oil produced from the kernels of the endemic argan tree, that is valued for its nutritive, cosmetic and numerous medicinal properties. The tree, a relict species from the Tertiary age, is extremely well adapted to drought and other environmentally difficult conditions of southwestern Morocco. The species Argania once covered North Africa and is now endangered and under protection of UNESCO.[1] The Argan tree grows wild in semi-desert soil, its deep root system helping to protect against soil erosion and the northern advance of the Sahara.[2] This biosphere reserve, the Arganeraie Biosphere Reserve, covers a vast intramontane plain of more than 2,560,000 hectares, bordered by the High Atlas and Anti-Atlas Mountains and open to the Atlantic in the west. Argan oil remains one of the rarest oils in the world due the small and very specific growing area.
Argan trees were first reported by the explorer Leo Africanus in 1510. An early specimen was taken to Amsterdam where it was cultivated by Lady Beaufort at Badminton c1711
"Sandpiper 9 this is Camp 6, come in"
"Sandpiper 9 on station. What's up base?"
"Pack it up, Camp 4 reports Aquashark scouts in their vicinity"
"Negative Camp 6, I just laid into a fresh trench"
"Bruce, fold it up and get back here"
"Chuck, listen man. Is this a real report?"
"What are you sayin?"
"Look, I know he's your kid but-"
"But what."
"I'm just saying.. last week it was a giant squid, the week before that reported Stingrays activity. We got quota to meet and every time we shut down we lose an entire day to reset and refuel"
"Quota doesn't matter when you're dead. Pack it up."
"Missing quota might as well be dead."
"What was that, 9?"
"Nothin. Buckets up, back in 30."
This was built for the WackLUG 2022 BrickCon collab, which was absolutely killer. I've had this conveyor belt in my collection for 15 years, laughing at me because I could never find a good use for it. The collab was the perfect moment to finally get it into something.
I've just founded a new group www.flickr.com/groups/think-extract where I will discuss daily all the hidden, sublime messages, we are able to discover in photographies - if we think - and make the effort, to use language and describe elaborated; I would be glad, if you would have the interest to join, discussing, reading ...