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lady bug offered. Devil's Club is a native healing plant and is highly respected and honoured in the healing community. The spines on it's stem are formidable and should be avoided. It produces bright red berries in late summer.
Fuji X-E3. The tree was cut down and it fell just where it had been standing for well over a hundred years. Even as a torso, its formidable life force, silent as it is now, is still talking.
Warkworth Castle
Warkworth Castle is a formidable medieval fortress located in the village of Warkworth, Northumberland. Overlooking a loop of the River Coquet, it was the favoured residence of the powerful Percy family for centuries and is now managed by English Heritage.
Originally a motte-and-bailey castle established after the Norman Conquest, Warkworth was given to Roger fitz Eustace in 1157. The Percy family, later the Earls of Northumberland, gained control of the castle in 1332 and made it their main residence.
The castle began to fall into disrepair in the 17th century and was partly demolished during the English Civil War in 1648 to prevent its use by enemies.
Please enjoy a view of the Oregon Coast from the cliffs of Ecola State Park in Cannon Beach.
It’s a place where the striking beauty, sheer majesty, undeniable power, and formidable forces of nature converge, and -- depending how long you pay attention -- leave you purely awestruck, if only for a brief but indelible moment.
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The African Fish Eagle (Haliaeetus vocifer), is a large species of eagle found throughout sub-Saharan Africa wherever large bodies of open water with an abundant food supply occur.
The African fish eagle feeds mainly on fish, which it swoops down upon from a perch in a tree, snatching the prey from the water with its large, clawed talons. The eagle then flies back to its perch to eat its catch.
The formidable African Fish Eagle was photographed on an early morning boat ride on Lake Baringo, Kenya.
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Dato che il sensore è un po vecchiotto, ho dovuto scurire un po l'immagine a causa del troppo rumore, comunque la Torre Eiffel di notte rimane un posto che almeno una volta merita di essere visto e catturato.
RAF Lossiemouth 09/10/2017, 88-413 'AV' F-16CM Block 40H 31st FW/ 510th FS 'Buzzards' with AQM-37C under the port wing, on approach for runway 23.
Fleet Air Arm Chance-Vought Corsair fighters, with Fairey Barracuda torpedo bombers behind, on the deck of HMS FORMIDABLE, off Norway July 1944
On a wet night in November 1975, 50038 waits at Plymouth to head into the night with an up freight.
The first wagon in the consist is a conflat-A, a vacuum braked 4 wheel wagon for conveyance of containers. Containers have been used on the UK’s railways since the 1830s. The variant seen here is a type B, with a (by modern standards) tiny capacity of 5 imperial tons. The use of these containers rather than the now ubiquitous shipping containers died out in the late 1970s.
Photograph by Rob Barnes, now part of my collection.
Fortress Marienberg (German: Festung Marienberg) is a prominent landmark on the Main river in Würzburg, Germany. It has been a fort since ancient times. After Gustavus Adolphus of Sweden conquered the area in 1631, the castle was reconstructed in the Baroque style. Today, it is a park and museum. In 704 A.D., the Marienkirche was built atop a former Celtic shelter and in the 13th century was surrounded by the first fortification. In 1482, the main castle was encircled by a medieval ring wall with the Scherenberg gate. Some of the parts of the fortress accessible to the public are the Scherenberg-Tor (Gate) the Burgfried (keep), a chapel, a well house, Bibra Stairs / Lorenz von Bibra apartments, and the Julius Echter Apartments.
In May 1525, during the Peasants' War (Bauernkrieg), a peasant army of 15,000 men surrounded the fortification (seat of the bishop of Würzburg) but could not penetrate the concentric walls built on a steep incline. When their leader, Florian Geyer, went to Rothenburg ob der Tauber in early June to procure the heavy guns needed to at least attempt to breach the walls, the leaderless peasant army camped out around the castle, allowed themselves to be outflanked by a professional army in the service of the bishop. More than 8,000 peasants were either slaughtered or blinded on the bishop's orders. The Nazis would lionize Florian Geyer 410 years later, as part of the National Socialists' desire to connect with the common man and turn them away from the Catholic Church.
In about 1600, Julius Echter rebuilt the fortress into a Renaissance palace. After the conquest by Gustav II Adolf of Sweden in 1631 (Thirty Years War), the fortress was reconstructed as an even more formidable baroque fortification, and a princely park was laid out.
Still, during the Napoleonic Wars, the fortress was captured and, of course, the fortress wasn't defended in 1945 when the US Army quickly captured the side of the Main river on which Marienberg is located, across from the city center of Würzburg.
The Baroque Armory, built 1702-1712, houses the Mainfränkisches Museum, an excellent collection of Franconian works of art, including world-famous sculptures by Tilman Riemenschneider. The Fürstenbau Museum in the princes’ wing of the fortress offers a stroll through 1200 years of Würzburg’s history. The mighty Fortress Marienberg is the symbol of Würzburg and served as a home of the prince-bishops for nearly five centuries.
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Feel the storm rushing in and View Large on Black
Upon seeing the rotating underbelly of this beasty storm above us and after investigating this poor excuse for a two track road (pure clay fun when wet) we decided this would make a fine turnaround point. ;-)))
PS, this was taken right around sunset. Moments after this shot a gorgeous rainbow formed, stay tuned to this channel and you too can experience this moment of sensory bliss. This is also the same supercell that created the lightning shots after nightfall that I photographed for my shot two posts ago.