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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
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The ancient Precambrian rocks in the foreground lead us to a view of Table Cape. This flat topped cape was also once a volcano and its fertile soils make it a wonderful place for growing crops. The largest tulip farm in Tasmania is also found on Table Cape.
If you enlarge you will see a motor boat making its way out to a designated fishing spot with one already in place.
On my trek to or from the Charles Darwin Research Station, I encountered a vibrant giant dragon. This is the archway entrance to Jardín Cerámica. Stopped in and looked around.
The Ceramic Garden is the fascinating, playful and colorful passion of longtime local artist Cristina Nelson Gallardo. Her fertile imagination and talent amused and delighted me with dazzling mosaic artwork.
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
I WILL NOT COMMENT, SAVE, OR FAVE
ON PHOTOS THAT ARE NOT EQUAL TO MINE, AND THOSE TAKEN BY A CELL PHONE, IPADS OR SIMILAR DEVICES.
The species Platycerium bifurcatum and Platycerium superbum are commonly cultivated as ornamental plants. These oddly shaped ferns grow on trees and rocks and can be found in gardens, especially tropical gardens.
Staghorns can be propagated by spores produced on the underside of the fertile fronds. Colonial Platycerium can also be vegetatively propagated by carefully dividing large healthy ones into smaller, separate plants. These new plants can then be attached to board mounts or be strapped to trees until they take to the tree themselves.
A mature staghorn can grow more than 1 metre (3.3 ft) wide.
NO MULTI-INVITES PLEASE
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.
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.
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.
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
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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This European drone fly is covered with gold dust as he plows through all the pollen produced by that pretty marsh marigold flower. Introduced to North America from Europe back in the colonizing era, this flower fly has thrived in its new home. They are fond of wet meadows where marsh marigold grows since their larvae thrive on bacteria in fertile stagnant waters or in some cases nearby cow pies.
Autumn is a fleeting season, melancholy by nature. Its ghostly beauty cultivates a fertile atmosphere for memories that wrote their history on a tablet of fallen leaves.
BRIAN EASTON, When the Autumn Moon Is Bright
(Thank you Joel C. for this wonderful verse.)
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.
« Faisant face à la Collégiale Saint-Jean, le parking Neujean n’est pas en reste architecturalement parlant. Son plan limpide est l’expression d’un fonctionnalisme appuyé, servant pleinement le confort de l’automobiliste. Séparés par une étroite ruelle, les deux édifices entretiennent un dialogue discret, que je propose d’activer au moyen d’un “objet contemporain” – la culture faisant office d’articulation plus ou moins fertile entre deux époques presque révolues. Plus près de Toi se présente depuis la rue comme une sculpture jaune coiffant la façade en béton du parking. Au 5e étage, on en découvre un fragment en interaction avec l’intervention d’Adrien Lucca. Depuis le toit, l’objet s’avèrera être une sorte de plate-forme d’observation qui s’avance dans le vide suivant une pente légère, entre le chœur et la rotonde de Saint-Jean. Aussi hasardeux qu’il en ait l’air, ce promontoire répond aux normes de sécurité en vigueur et nous laisserons à chacun le libre choix de l’emprunter pour s’y photographier, prêcher ou faire ce que bon lui semble. »
"Facing the Collegiate Church of Saint-Jean, the Neujean car park is not to be outdone architecturally. Its clear plan is the expression of strong functionalism, fully serving the comfort of the motorist. Separated by a narrow lane, the two buildings maintain a discreet dialogue, which I propose to activate by means of a “contemporary object” - the culture serving as a more or less fertile articulation between two almost bygone eras. Closer to You appears from the street as a yellow sculpture covering the concrete facade of the parking lot. On the 5th floor, we discover a fragment of it interacting with the intervention of Adrien Lucca. From the roof, the object will turn out to be a sort of observation platform that juts out into the void on a slight slope, between the choir and the rotunda of Saint John. As hazardous as it may seem, this promontory meets current safety standards and we will leave it to everyone to choose to borrow it to take pictures, preach or do what they want. "
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?
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.
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.
From “tough as Texas” live oaks and prickly pear cactus growing out of solid granite to the fertile valley below
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Lo saben nuestras almas,
más allá de las islas y más allá del sol.
El trópico, en sandalias de luz, presto las alas,
y tu sueño y mi sueño se encendieron.
Se hizo la cita al mar... tonada de mis islas,
y hubo duelo de lirios estirando colinas,
y hubo llanto de arroyos enloqueciendo brisas,
y hubo furia de estrellas desabriéndose heridas...
Tú, y mi voz de los riscos, combatían mi vida.
Se hizo al mar tu victoria, sobre palmas vencidas...
Fue paisaje en lo inmenso,
una imagen de mar casi riachuelo,
de río regresando,
de vida, de tan honda, atomizándose.
Y se dio cita eterna la emoción.
El mar, el verdadero mar,
casi ya mío... el mar, el mar extraño
en su propio recinto...
el mar
ya quiere ser el mar sobremarino...
Fragmento de Julia de Burgos
Fertile - Iowa
This beautiful park was built in 1868 by Mr. Rhodes who was also the founder of this community in 1856. It parallels the Winnebago River to the north as it flows through this quiet little town.
Early setters here coexisted with the Winnebago Indians who returned to the Dakotas in 1873 due to a lack of game and food supply.
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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...
Fertile - Iowa
Out exploring the countryside yesterday afternoon looking for areas that I have not photographed, or haven't in quite awhile. This creek has never been documented, first time I've ever checked it out!
It eventually flows into the Winnebago River just above the damn. Not much snow currently, but another storm later tonight!
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The fertile leaflets of this fern are covered with tiny round spore producing sporangis. Upon releasing the spores, the fertile leaflets will fall off, leaving an open space (interrupted) between the remaining upper and lower infertile leaflets.
Hard fern is dimorphic, which means it has two types of frond – sterile and fertile.
This view showing the fertile fronds. (long and narrow}
A photo of the Rhodes Mill on the Winnebago River in Fertile, Iowa. Built in 1868, this was originally a saw mill and then later converted to a flour mill. It ground-out about 50 barrels of flour per day in its prime with a business revenue of $10,000 per year by 1884. Today, what remains of this historical mill is now a private residence.
I took this photo from the William Rhodes Island Park, but I could not drive into the park since the access road was completely flooded-out. So instead, I parked in town by Café Mir and crossed the river on a pedestrian bridge to get over to the island and capture this cloudy, early afternoon scene.
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Welcome to central Iowa, friends, on a foggy, late summer morning. . . a highway detour re-routing us through the middle of the most fertile farmland in the world -- rich, black soil the colour of chocolate cake -- so quiet and stilled, no field thrush sang or cricket peeped, and for the moment. . . it seemed the world had stopped. . .
Another view from the Heights of Fodderty and you can see the fertile land and the distant mountains.
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...