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Harar is the center of Ethiopian Islam and sometimes considered by the muslims to be the fourth-holiest city in the world after Mecca, Medina and Jerusalem. The first European to visit this place was the explorer Richard Burton in 1855. But the most famous resident was the french poet Arthur Rimbaud. He lived in Harar between 1880 and 1891 and was the first to travel in the nearby province of Ogaden. The atmosphere of Harar with its narrow streets and 99 mosques is really unique.
Harar, capitale de l'islam éthiopien est souvent considéré par les musulmans comme leur quatrième cité sainte après la Mecque, Médine et Jérusalem. Le premier européen a y pénétrer fut l'explorateur Richard Burton. Mais son plus célèbre résident fut le poète Arthur Rimbaud qui habita la ville entre 1880 et 1891. Il fut le premier Blanc a visiter la province voisine de l'Ogaden. L'ambiance de la ville avec ses ruelles étroites et ses 99 mosquées est vraiment extraordinaire.
The hairy balls were especially pretty with the afternoon sun backlighting them.
(Hmm, I don't think I have ever uttered that sentence before, nor am I ever likely to again)
The trunk of an old fig tree in a friend's garden.
Fig Tree.
In winter, silvered branches lean
against the limewashed wall
of the timbered manor house.
The Tudor hall, box-hedged,
with cobbled path and herbal lawn,
rebuilt in city’s residential streets for preservation,
the latticed windows, and black-stained beams,
incongruous in present company,
the nearby modern factory producing ersatz sweets
for the modern taste.
The twigs are furred, soft, downy, like an infant’s head,
newborn, with large buds waiting for the year’s re-birth,
when this medieval garden puts forth
the simple flowers of the past: lovage, prima rosa,
fennel’s fragrant fronds, medicinal-seeded peony, heartsease.
The leaves break through like spreading hands,
with startling haste, light filtering between the fingers,
picking out the robust veins beneath.
Suddenly, the image of our shameful parentage makes sense:
they hid their nudity with foliate hands,
shielded their fig-fruit parts with coverings of green,
a sheath which did not fool their Lord.
Sex was not their offence, but pride,
independence and discernment, origins of first disease,
which let them see their nakedness and difference,
gave cause to hide within their Eden.
And yet they knew the Gardener would seek them out,
would recognise their self-inflicted state,
and know their dubious motivation,
their self-deluding insurrection.
Already sealed their fate: outcast, outlawed,
the garden guarded with a blazing sword.
Never-ending thirst for knowledge still a future burden,
they took only the constant hunger for perfection,
a tendency towards rebellious doubt,
and the fig.
Cultivos sobre picón negro en la zona de Tinajo con un antiguo cono volcánico al fondo - Lanzarote, Islas Canarias.
Crops on black volcanic ash near Tinajo with an old volcano in the background - Lanzarote, Canary Islands.
Mi i fighi me li papolo duta l'istade: i scufloti ('l quatro luio), i sucarini ('l diese agosto), i muiesani (i madurissi i ultimi de setenbre), i margheritini, i mistari, le pinsete, i verdoni e chi ne ga piĂą ne meta....
Double-eyed Fig Parrot. Cyclopsitta diophthalma Macleayana.
I can not begin to describe how excited this encounter was for me. There where nine birds in total in the one fig tree Pairs and young.
Sixty five photos later.
The Double-eyed Fig Parrot is Australia's smallest parrot.
Their eggs are laid in holes in dead, sometimes perilously shaky, trees.
Seen ideally three or four times each year around the weeping native fig trees which set fruit and attract these parrots.
Both sexes have a red forehead, but the males also have a red cheek patch, as opposed to the females' which is usually yellow.
This Christmas present was ready in time for Mom's birthday in January. Used a jolly roll of Fig Tree fabric.
Title: View from Figtree Bridge at Hunters Hill (NSW)
Dated: c.31/12/1908
Digital ID: 18526_a024_000104
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More LORD HOWE ISLAND Galleries
Family : Moraceae
The arial roots of this massive buttressed Lord Howe Island endemic tree drop down to the ground and eventually become support trunks in their own right .
Reportedly the most cold tolerant of the figs,it is a massive speading tree but unlike Ficus Virens (The Northern Banyan) it has no discernable central origin.
It will grow up to 20 metres in height and from those I saw,a single tree can cover an area of something like 2 hectares with massive post like roots hanging down to the ground supporting the weighty spreading branches.
Usually it can be found associated with Howea forsteriana (Kentia Palm) in the lowland forests but can grow up to 500m on the sides of Mt Lidgbird and Mt Gower.
There are some good examples on the golf course.
The local birds such as the Lord Howe Currawong relish the ripe purple fruits.
This fig is far too big for planting anywhere where it cannot be given room to eventually spread.
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A day of protest, police, chainsaws and woodchips sees nine Morteon Bay figtrees removed from Anzac Parade at the point where the cut and cover tunnel will intersect the busy arterial road.
Although discussion apparently got heated at times, the constable I chatted to indicated no problems during the day.
Lastours (Occitan: Las Tors) is a commune in the Aude department in southern France. Population in 2008, 165.
Lastours is located 12 km (7.5 mi) outside Carcassonne, in the valley of the Orbiel. There are four small castles each built on a large 300 m high rocky ridge. The castles were built to control the access to Montagne Noire and the Cabardes region. These are some of the few original Cathar castles left.