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Here's the same Buckeye - fresh with beautiful colors, at the wetlands, 2 days ago. North Georgia
WEATHER: first time Atlanta hit 90o in October since 1954! More 90o ahead ...
Continuing with my explorations in virtual geometric sculptural forms - This is my creation for Epicene's Round III
Distorted reflections of overhanging tree branches in a slow-flowing stream.
720nm IR-converted Olympus EM1 + Carl Zeiss Jena DDR 135mm, M42.
Tulips (Tulipa) form a genus of spring-blooming perennial herbaceous bulbiferous geophytes (having bulbs as storage organs). The flowers are usually large, showy and brightly colored, generally red, pink, yellow, or white (usually in warm colors). They often have a different colored blotch at the base of the tepals (petals and sepals, collectively), internally. Tulips originally were found in a band stretching from Southern Europe to Central Asia, but since the seventeenth century have become widely naturalised and cultivated. Flowering in the spring, they become dormant in the summer once the flowers and leaves die back, emerging above ground as a shoot from the underground bulb in early spring. The tulip's flowers are usually large and are actinomorphic (radially symmetric) and hermaphrodite (contain both male (androecium) and female (gynoecium) characteristics), generally erect, or more rarely pendulous, and are arranged more usually as a single terminal flower, or when pluriflor as two to three (e.g. Tulipa turkestanica), but up to four, flowers on the end of a floriferous stem (scape), which is single arising from amongst the basal leaf rosette. 11717
En forme de carafe à décanter, de verre à dégustation ou...d'escargot, bref on y voit ce qu'on veut et on y boit du vin du monde entier dans ce temple-musée !
Dans la forêt de Haute-Sève un rocher à la forme étrange et attirante se détache de la végétation qui l'entoure. Le visage d'un être ancien semble émerger du sol.
Projeto Artístico fotográfico "Lisboa, com Outra Alma"
Ver e observar Lisboa com outro olhar...com outra Alma.
Palácio Nacional da Ajuda/ Lisboa
O Palácio Nacional da Ajuda, antigo palácio real e monumento nacional, é hoje um magnífico museu e o único palácio visitável em Lisboa que ainda conserva, de um modo fidedigno, a disposição e decoração das salas ao gosto do séc. XIX, nomeadamente os aposentos dos monarcas e a sala de trono. Situado no alto da colina da Ajuda, com vista deslumbrante sobre o rio Tejo, o Palácio integra importantes coleções de artes decorativas dos séculos XVIII e XIX: ourivesaria, tapeçaria, mobiliário, vidro e cerâmica, bem como coleções de pintura, gravura, escultura e fotografia.
Female Ruby-throated Hummingbird showing perfect form on the approach to the firecracker plant. My backyard. Central Bucks, PA.
The Church are an Australian alternative rock band formed in Sydney in 1980. Initially associated with new wave, neo-psychedelia, and indie rock, their music later came to feature slower tempos and surreal soundscapes reminiscent of dream pop and post-rock. "this unique Sydney-originated entity has purveyed a distinctive, ethereal, psychedelic-tinged sound which has alternatively found favour and disfavour in Australia." The Los Angeles Times has described the band's music as "dense, shimmering, exquisite guitar pop" (from Wikipedia).
Sometime in history, there was here, in what we know as Mérida, Yucatán, México, a worship place for the Mayan god Itzamná, however, Spanish conquerors, built over it a little chapel in 1572 and many years later a temple dedicated to Saint Michel Archangel. At this time, it remains the baptismal font in the restored Church of Itzimná.
En algún momento de la historia existió, en lo que hoy se conoce como barrio de Itzimná, un adoratorio dedicado al Dios maya Itzamná, sin embargo los conquistadores decidieron construir en 1572 una pequeña capilla y años más tarde el templo donde por muchos años se veneró al Cristo de las Esquipulas y dedicado también a San Miguel Arcángel. De la primera capilla se conserva aún la pila bautismal en lo que ahora es la ya renovada Parroquia de la Señora del Perpetuo Socorro en veneración a dicha Virgen.
en-yucatan.com.mx/merida-yucatan/iglesias/itzimna/
The Unguarded Moment: youtu.be/qQvr2eF5zMM
Masai Mara Game Reserve
Kenya
East Africa
The plains zebra (Equus quagga), also known as the common zebra, or locally as the "quagga" is the most common and geographically widespread species of zebra. It ranges from the south of Ethiopia through East Africa to as far south as Botswana and eastern South Africa.
The plains zebra remains common in game reserves, but is threatened by human activities such as hunting for its meat and hide, as well as competition with livestock and encroachment by farming on much of its habitat.
The plains zebra is a highly social species, forming harems with a single stallion, several mares and their recent offspring; there are also bachelor groups. Groups may come together to form herds. The animals keep watch for predators rather than attempting to hide; they bark or snort when they see a predator, and the harem stallion attacks predators to defend his harem.\
The species population is stable and not endangered, though some populations such as in Tanzania have declined sharply. – Wikipedia
Wikipedia: Pancake ice forms in conditions of high wave activity, in contrast to other types of sea ice formed under calm conditions. Pancake ice can form in two processes: (1) on water covered to some degree in slush, shuga or grease ice, or (2) from breaking of ice rind, nilas or even gray ice in agitated conditions.[3] If the waves are strong enough, pancakes can raft over each other, creating an uneven top and bottom surface on the ice. At this point, the pancake ice will fuse together and amalgamate into an ice sheet. This ice sheet will continue to grow over the winter. This process increases pancake ice's resilience, resulting in characteristic length scales less than ocean wavelengths and causing waves passing through pancake ice not to scatter.[3]
Glasgow Central ..
397012 5C51 15.08 Glasgow Central-Carstairs empty stock move, on the point of departing,
385039 having recently arrived.
Por la carretera hacia Hecho, pasado Embún, nos encontramos con el rio Oria que forma el valle donde se asientan Jasa y Aragües del Puerto. Esa estrecha y pintoresca carretera, con abundantes bosques de variada vegetación, acaba en un amplio aparcamiento junto al refugio de Lizara y la mole calcárea del macizo de Bisaurín que lo preside. Un encuadre fotográfico de gran belleza. Allí, en el colmado aparcamiento nos dejó el autobús a los 26 senderistas bien dispuestos a disfrutar y ponernos otra vez en forma.
Por detrás del refugio una pista sube al collado del Foratón, a nuestra izquierda, que nos llevaría al valle de Hecho. Superando el collado del Bozo, el de nuestra derecha, entraríamos en el valle de Aisa, pero nosotros debemos tomar una senda que nos indica al Valle de los Sarrios y que se introduce por el Barranco del Puerto pasando bajo los paredones del Bisaurín y las Fetas.
La agreste canal se va superando por alguna zona herbosa que alterna con otras pedregosas, fáciles de caminar pues el terreno es bastante estable y las piedras pequeñas. Al alcanzar el abrupto y llamativo peñasco que parecía cerrarnos el paso, la subida se suaviza y volvemos a caminar entre soleados pastizales. En uno de ellos almorzamos.
De nuevo la senda gana altura entre lazadas y nos lleva a un curioso refugio por su forma y estructura. Todo se aclara cuando alguien dice que en su tiempo fue un cuartel de carabineros que controlaba el paso por la zona pues cerca de aquí esta el ibón de Estanés que limita con Francia.
Muy poco después un amplio circo glacial se presenta ante nosotros: Plana Mistresa. A la izquierda el collado de Secús, de frente la muralla pétrea de Bernera y a la derecha una senda sube con suavidad en dirección a la escarpada sierra de Olibón que conforma la cabecera del llamativo Valle de los Sarrios. Pero este recorrido lo dejamos para otra ocasión.
Paysage proche de Turfan ( Turpan, Tourfan ) dans le Xinjiang.
Localisation approximative !
D'après diapositive.