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Being rather random..looking for something on hard drive and found this so decided to edit it. Used the "make me pretty" button to enhance the wonderful colors which were faded with the haze of smoke from northern forest fires in Washington when we were there. We stayed for a couple of hours and watched the light and colors change as the sun went down. It was fascinating.
This is a Common Milkweed pod that has ruptured, with its seeds ready to be transported by the wind to hopefully fertile ground. Monarch Butterflies may be happy to find mature milkweed next summer.
The more fertile part of Pahranagat Valley is a narrow ribbon of green) like an oasis in the vast Nevada desert. The southern half of the valley including two lakes, Upper Pahranagat Lake and Lower Pahranagat Lake, is home to the Pahranagat Valley National Wildlife Refuge. In the late 1850s, the area was a haven for outlaws who pastured hundreds of head of stolen cattle and horses on its meadows.
By Bellisima.Benelli
Mother Gaia
The breath in Her lungs is the wind in the Air
That blows and combs whispering fingers through my hair.
She is the Life in the summer that makes the grass dance,
And the Death in the fall that strips the trees bare.
Her blood is the Water that courses through streams
Both cleansing my body and enchanting my dreams.
She is the rain that descends and dots webs with dew,
That under pale moonlight sway and gleam.
Her body is the Earth that reverberates with power
And whose fertile soil gives way to the flowers.
She is at once the mountains, the meadows, the deserts and springs
Whose bewitching beauty grows more so by the hour.
Her spirit is the Fire at the heart of the Earth
That kindles my soul with warmth and with mirth .
She burns with a fierceness both silent and loud
And exhales a white smoke of love and self-worth.
With Earth and Water, Air and Fire
We are One with the Planet and One with the Mother.
Children of the elements in a circle we stand,
Under the loving gaze of the Goddess, our souls hand in hand.
Written by
Silvana Franco Calgary
The Sacred Valley of the Incas or the Urubamba Valley, is a valley in the Andes of Peru, north of the Inca capital of Cusco. It is located in the present-day Peruvian region of Cusco. Stretching from Pisac to Ollantaytambo, this fertile valley is irrigated by the Urubamba River. The Chanapata civilization first utilized this area starting at around 800 BCE because of the rich soil used for agriculture. The Qotacalla civilization lived in the Sacred Valley from 500 to 900 CE The Killke civilization then lived in the Sacred Valley from 900 CE until the Incan Empire took over the region in 1420. The Incan Empire ruled this area until the arrival of the Spanish.
Peru, Sacred Valley, El Mirador
Please don't use my images without my permission. All images © Aivar Mikko.
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Michel de Montaigne (Fr., 1533-1592), Journal de voyage, 1580-1581 (édition de Fausta Garavini - 1983)
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Michel de Montaigne (Fr., 1533-1592), Diario de viaje, 1580-1581 (edición de Fausta Garavini - 1983)
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Photo : La route de Montaigne (Première étape du Tirol du Sud - aujourd’hui, Italie, haute vallée de l’Adige) traverse cette vallée très fertile et, comme dit dans le Journal de Voyage, particulièrement pittoresque et ses villages – nombreux – spécialement attrayants. Dans la photo un de ces villages près de Brixen (Bressanone, en italien)
Foto: La ruta de Montaigne (primera etapa en el Titol del Sur - “Südtirol” – hoy perteneciente a Italia – alto valle del Adige) atraviesa este amplio valle rodeado de altas montañas que, como dice el Diario, por tener inclinaciones moderadas, están cubiertas de pueblos e iglesias que le imprimen un aspecto muy pintoresco y atractivo. En la foto, uno de estos pueblos cerca de Brixen (Bressanone, en italiano)
In the Colca Valley the local people of the Collagua and the Cabana cultures maintain their ancestral traditions and continue to cultivate the pre-Inca stepped terraces, called andenes.
The right amount of water all year long has caused a rich nature in our countryside, throughout my hiking tour below the Wiehengebirge I admired the rich green. Porta Westfalica, Ostwestfalen, Germany
Nigella damascena is a lovely old cottage garden flower, a favourite for scattering wherever there’s a gap in the flower border.
Nigella damascena ‘Miss Jekyll’ bears masses of sky-blue flowers on upright stems, in contrast with ferny foliage, for up to eight weeks. Both the flowers and foliage are useful in flower arranging, and its seedheads work well in dried flower arrangements.
For best results grow Nigella damascena ‘Miss Jekyll’ in fertile, well-drained soil in full sun. Plants will self-seed readily. In windy gardens, support the stems with twiggy sticks.
I began my road trip through Tunisia in Tunis and travelled west along the Mediterranean coast. Then my driver started South. I thought I was going to start seeing desert scenes. Silly me. I had not realized what fertile land there was in the northern part of Tunisia. Luckily it was spring tine where around every bend there was an Impressionist's landscape. Now, as I remember the trip, I am pleased that the trip was filled with little gifts of surprises.
This place is where early Mormons settled. It's no wonder why they chose these spots; they are splendid!
They are the descendants of tribes which lost in the fight for the fertile plains over a thousand years ago and quite a few of them might well be relatives of the Japanese of Chinese origin who went there with Xu Fu. When China first opened upin the seventies, many of the young fellows flocked from here to the coastal provinces for low paid jobs. Now most of them are back making the place a tourist attraction instead. Things are getting better for them, mainly through centuries of their own long -termed efforts !
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Talented Musicians, some more famous than the others, most are forgotten, one way or the other:
Vasa Prihoda : Paganini: Nel cor piu 1949
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ll6yUmlQ7RY
Gaspar Cassadó, Liebestraum, Franz Lizst nº 3
www.youtube.com/watch?v=o4hCns5ueV0
Maurice Gendron : The Swan
www.youtube.com/watch?v=a6Nl7iLPh14
János Starker A Tribute to Popper, Complete
www.youtube.com/watch?v=DUbNhFujSPA
( Starker's playing is friendly and unpretentious..)
But also full of surprises e.g. his Dvorak
www.youtube.com/watch?v=LV4mKqbjO8A
Milstein : Lizst Consolation No. 3
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ss72Do2wGl0&list=RDIUNmb_bXNS...
( Even though Milstein said Eugene Ysaye didn't pay any attention to him as a pupil, and that he learned almost nothing from him. Yet, other than Auer, Eugene Ysaye's influence was clear ... Many people even prefer his Bach to Heifetz )
Eugene Ysaye
http Bach - Prelude
s://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZEyHfPR3b8k
2 Mazurkas, Op. 19
www.youtube.com/watch?v=yvGbcFoGbSU&list=RDg08EWIwIO8...
Kogan : Saint Saens Havanaise
www.youtube.com/watch?v=VbJWDwyZRQQ
Spivakovsky plays Paganini Caprice No.24
www.youtube.com/watch?v=mG3VGIBkJj4
www.youtube.com/watch?v=G-om7CnqVU4
Gerhard Taschner : Carmen
www.youtube.com/watch?v=-2_cVh460TI
Kreutzer Sonata : Szigeti and Bartok
www.youtube.com/watch?v=AZG2iKESTLk
Kreutzer Sonata : Kogan, father and D'ter (Sound quality is much better than the one with Gilels...)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=gK37sothEdU
Kreutzer Sonata : Huberman & Freidman
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ADjJfIk2C9o
Joseph Joachim - Brahms' Hungarian Dance No.2 (1903)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=lV_YXtUs_Ow
Pablo De Sarasate - Zigeunerweizen (1904)
The Quechua-speaking Cabanas, probably descended from the Wari culture, and the Aymara-speaking Collaguas, who moved to the area from the Lake Titicaca region, inhabited the valley in the pre-Inca era. The Inca probably arrived in the Colca Valley around 1320 AD, and established their dominion through marriage, rather than through warfare.
All bees are hairy, a crucial trait for pollen collection. Flowers and flourishing vegetation often attract bees, and there is no insect as important as the bee when it comes to pollination. Many female bee species have rows of bristles on their hind legs which form a hollow basket. When the bee lands on a flower, pollen grains are combed into the hollow basket and bristles. Cross-pollination occurs when the displaced grains of pollen are distributed to the fertile pistils of other flowers as the bee alights upon them. Although only females are able to transfer pollen, all bees are able to sip the nectar from flowers using a tonguelike organ. This nectar is their primary source of energy. Pollen is sustenance for both adult and larval bees, as it contains protein and other nutrients necessary to their survival. Bees possess an organ that converts nectar into honey, which is collected, depending on the species, inside the hive or bee colony.
Colmer`s Hill, Symondsbury, Dorset, rises 417ft above the rich fertile pastures of "The green and pleasant land" of England.
It looks like some giant hand has just planted it there as its perfectly symmetrical and it appears suddenly before you like some prehistoric iron age hill fort that has just sprung straight out of the earth.
However, the shape was created naturally over millions of years purely by erosion. The underlying strata consists of soft red sandstone which weathers easily especially in the open wind swept and wet countryside which is typical of the climate of south cost of England during the Winter months.
You can see the path winding its way to the top and the russet brown bracken fronds which are dying back for the winter and they give a nice tinge to the greenery on the slopes..
There are 7 Scots Pine { Pinus Sylvestris } growing on the top and they were planted by Maj W P Colfox during the first world war. For what reason, we dont know but Im certain he wouldnt have to have had a reason!!! They are called " The Magnificent Seven " and Im not going there! Dream on!!! Lol!
So there it stands and I think it looks wonderfully majestic in the soft fading light of a late September " Dorset " evening.
Ive had this pic since last year and Im only getting around to it now. I do hope you like it as much as I do and Im sure Ill find out soon enough!
I hope your week ahead is wonderful!
Hugs, P@t.
Alluvial plain along the Sekigawa river is fertile albeit heavy snowfall in winter, and had been the seat of a political power. Uesugi clan was originally a governor dispatched by a Shogun in Kyoto but became increasingly nominal and autonomous. Local hero of Jou'etsu city is Uesugi Kenshin (上杉謙信), a warlord in 16th century who was a formidable rival of Tokugawa Ieyasu who later became the ruler of Japan. His headquarters was located in Kasugayama (春日山), which is not far from Takada Castle.
Tokugawa Ieyasu (徳川家康) subjugated the Uesugi clan finally in early 17th century, and sent his son to rule the area that used to be Uesugi's. Takada Castle had been the headquarters for ruling the area that had a tradition to be autonomous from the central government.
Takada Castle did not have a Tenshukaku (天守閣 castle keep or donjon) unlike many castles in Japan. The structure in the photo is a recent reconstruction of Sanjuu Yagura (三重櫓), a three-story watch tower. Takada Castle had been completely dismantled after the Meiji Restoration in 19th century, and no original architecture remains today except for the large scale moats and mounds.
The fertile flowers of Hydrangeas can have pink or blue petals. These are both colors, as you can see.
Thanks for looking! Isn't God a great artist?
These are the descendants of tribes which lost in the fight for the fertile plains a thousand years ago and quite a few of them might well be relatives of the Japanese of Chinese origin who went there with Xu Fu. When China first opened up, many of the young fellows there flocked to the coastal provinces for jobs. Now most of them are back making the place a tourist attraction instead. As the road is narrow, they turned to motorbikes. Things are getting better for them, mainly through their long term own efforts !
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Some Talented Musicians/Artists:
Vasa Prihoda : Paganini: Nel cor piu 1949
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ll6yUmlQ7RY
Maurice Gendron : The Swan
www.youtube.com/watch?v=a6Nl7iLPh14
Milstein : Lizst Consolation No. 3
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ss72Do2wGl0&list=RDIUNmb_bXNS...
( Even though Milstein said Eugene Ysaye didn't pay any attention to him as a pupil, yet, other than Auer, Eugene Ysaye's influence was clear ... Some even prefer his Bach to Heifetz )
Eugene Ysaye 2 Mazurkas, Op. 19
www.youtube.com/watch?v=yvGbcFoGbSU&list=RDg08EWIwIO8...
Kogan : Saint Saens Havanaise
www.youtube.com/watch?v=VbJWDwyZRQQ
Spivakovsky plays Paganini Caprice No.24
www.youtube.com/watch?v=mG3VGIBkJj4
Antonio Bazzini - La ronde des Lutins Op.25
www.youtube.com/watch?v=G-om7CnqVU4
Gerhard Taschner : Carmen
www.youtube.com/watch?v=-2_cVh460TI
Kreutzer Sonata : Szigeti and Bartok
www.youtube.com/watch?v=AZG2iKESTLk
Annie Fischer plays Schubert Sonata in B flat D 960
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.
Fertile - Iowa
The farmers are now busy cutting and bailing hayfields. I also enjoy the patterns created by the fieldwork. Some bail, some roll it, but they always get the job done!
Depending upon weather and moisture conditions, there will be one to two more cuts before autumn!
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The land is ready now for soy and corn.......
GOD BLESS AMERICA'S FARMERS
WYE ISLAND - NRMA, Queenstown, Md.
Fertile red soil (Red Kandosol)
This type of soil is found in all states of Australia except Victoria and Tasmania. Most crops (on this type of soil) can be seen in the Wheatbelt of southern New South Wales.
The Gelderse rose produces fertile flowers that, if they are in full sun to half shade, turn a beautiful red/orange colour. The Viburnum opulus produces white flower clusters, which unfortunately attract few butterflies. The fruits are not really tasty to eat. The birds only take them later in the autumn and early winter. As soon as the berries have been frosted, they shrivel and are then eaten by the birds. www.tuinplantenwinkel.nl/heesters/viburnum/gelderse-roos/
Bezige bijtjes: letterlijk dan! Met een macro objectief worden de kleinste onderwerpen een groot spektakel.
Fertile - Iowa
The view from the park is towards the dam on the Winnebago River. Finally a peaceful sunny afternoon on the island park founded in 1868 by one of the first settlers.
A popular park during the summer months with games, picnics and planned events.
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Near Fertile - Iowa
Checking out the river area near Fertile, and decided to wander up the gravel road to the hill top from the bridge. I find this rural manicured front lawn and lane with maples "singing" in the sunshine!
It pays to explore in unknown rural areas. . . and this is why! :)
Probably the best display of autumn colors I have found to date!
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Looking for more fertile grounds I had to venture outside the mesa this time -- this lush scenery is provided by Lost Unicorn
Ezekiel 17:8
New International Version
8 It had been planted in good soil by abundant water so that it would produce branches, bear fruit and become a splendid vine.
A couple of zinnia flowering heads. (Most of those orange things are individual flowers, according to the botanists. There are fertile disc flowers in the center.) My wife got these, in a single pot, for porch flowers. Zinnia is the common name, and also the genus name.
Thanks for looking! Isn't God a great artist?
The village is ancient having been settled by some accounts around 280BC and still has less than 1000 residents spread across 100 Square kilometers, its name comes from Latin “Praedium Allianum” meaning farm of Allius who must have been the first prosperous settler. Because it is near the Agri and Sinni rivers it has been a center of trade starting with the Greeks followed by Etruscans consolidated by the Romans into the Empire and I am sure given its strange landscape was the source of many tales.
Aliano is built on a hill of clay perched 498m above the Val d'Agri as if looking for fertile land in a sea of clay you can see these oasis of fertility where arable crops and olive groves rise like green polka dots on a grey dress. As this picture illustrates the land is rugged and with the village also built on clay seismic events have a very big impact here they are still recovering from damage done during an earthquake in the 1980’s that destroyed much today.
The source of Aliano’s income comes from tourism with many nature lovers flocking to the area to hike, bike and tour the badlands with its unique landscape not seen outside of Cappadocia in Turkey but beware during summer it is the not for the faint of heart, during the heat of summer or when the rare rain makes everything slippery beyond belief. I heard this after our visit and I am not sure if this is the correct location but a cliff called “Fossa del Carabiniere” in English “policeman’s grave” exists by the village because once some bandits tossed a Carabiniere from it.
I took this on Oct 2nd, 2018 with my D750 and Nikon 28-300mm f3.5-5.6 Lens at 40mm 1s f`11 ISO 100 processed in LR, PS +Lumenzia, Topaz , and DXO
Disclaimer: My style is a study of romantic realism as well as a work in progress
Picardy (French: Picardie) is a historic region in northern France that is now within the departments of Aisne, Oise, Pas-de-Calais, and Somme. Amiens was the region's capital.
On Picardy's fertile soils they grow wheat, sugar beets and fodder crops. Dairy and beef cattle are raised, and intensive vegetable cultivation takes place on the heavily fertilized, drained peat in the valley of the Somme River.
Between the 1990 and 1999 French censuses, the population of Oise increased at the brisk pace of 0.61% per year (almost twice as fast at that of France as a whole), while the Aisne department lost inhabitants, and the Somme barely grew, at a laggard 0.16% per year. Today, 41.3% of the population of Picardie live inside the Oise département, which historically was not part of Picardy.
From an area 30kms North of Paris, close to Roissy Charles de Gaulle airport, the Southern boundaries of Picardie stretch eastwards towards Champagne and the Belgian border. Westwards, the region extends to the English Channel.
This ancient region will not disappoint visitors. With its 4,000 hectares of lakeland, 1,200kms of rivers, 70kms of sand dunes, mighty cliffs and brilliant beaches to coastal marshes, forests and bays at the river mouths of the Somme and the Authie, there is always something for everyone to be amazed at.
Fertile - Iowa
A pleasant spring view inside the park area, as you can see we need some rain. Most of our small creeks and ponds are quite low . . .
The park was founded in 1868 by Mr. Rhodes, an early settler, and continues to be a very popular area for seasonal activities!
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I wanted to get the rich green moss along the right side of the falls. As I was setting up, I kept getting freaked out by the tree behind me with a huge deep hole beneath it. I don’t know if I was more freaked out about the tree falling or if something was in the hole. At any rate I soon forgot about the hole and took my shots. After that I start to make my way back out.
The fertile valley of the Nyang chu River, which is the principal tributary of the Yarlung Tsangpo ཡར་ཀླུངས་གཙང་པོ་ or Brahmaputra in Tsang, The valley is divided into upper and lower reaches; Upper Nyang, corresponding to present-day Gyantse county, and Lower Nyang to Panam county. Upper Nyang therefore extends from the watershed of the Khari La pass as far as the town of Gyantse, and includes the peripheral valleys formed by the tributaries Nyeru Tsangpo, Lu chu, and Narong Dung chu.
The county capital is at Gyantse, a strategic intersection of great historic importance.
Area: 3.595 sq km.
Mount Pangaion, also spelled Pangeon, Pangaeum, Pangaeos, or Pangaios, Modern Greek Pangaíon Óros, mountain, at the mouth of the Struma (Modern Greek: Strymónas) River, northeastern Kaválla nomós (department), Macedonia (Makedonía), Greece. Its highest point is 6,417 feet (1,956 m). The upper slopes are formed by fracturing of marble rock; gold and silver mineral deposits are found at lower elevations. It is rich in forest and streams and is surrounded by the fertile alluvial plain of the Struma, on which crops such as tobacco, cotton, rice, and olives are cultivated intensively. In ancient times, the peak was the home of a cult of Dionysus. The ancient Thracians exploited its gold and silver, trading their metals for goods supplied by the Amphipolitans and Neapolitans. Its famed wealth led to constant strife in the region, however, until Philip II of Macedonia gained control in the 4th century BCE. Situated on the east side of the mountain are the monastery of Eikosiphoiníssis, containing some ancient manuscripts, and the church of Zoodochos Pighi, founded in the 6th century CE. The usual base for the ascent of Mount Pangaion is either of the towns of Elevtheroupolis or Pravion.
Gyantsé རྒྱལ་རྩེ། county
The fertile valley of the Nyang chu River, which is the principal tributary of the Yarlung Tsangpo ཡར་ཀླུངས་གཙང་པོ་ or Brahmaputra in Tsang, The valley is divided into upper and lower reaches; Upper Nyang, corresponding to present-day Gyantse county, and Lower Nyang to Panam county. Upper Nyang therefore extends from the watershed of the Khari La pass as far as the town of Gyantse, and includes the peripheral valleys formed by the tributaries Nyeru Tsangpo, Lu chu, and Narong Dung chu. The county capital is at Gyantse, a strategic intersection of great historic importance. Area: 3.595 sq km. www.footprinttravelguides.com/c/2848/tibet/&Action=pr...