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A walk along the oceans shore. The late afternoon world is full of colors, mostly shades of red and gold. The ocean is loud,intense and the power is unmistakable. The wildlife hunts and gains power from the sounds and sights. It is entertainment only nature can provide.`125
This double crested cormorant did a few circles of the lake to gain altitude before it finally left the area. Gave me a few passes at it. Didn't nail the focus, but I liked the dynamic pose enough to post it.
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Flay you alive
One more word and you won't survive
And I'm not scared
Of your stolen power
I see right through you any hour
I won't soothe your pain
I won't ease your strain
You'll be waiting in vain
I got nothing for you to gain
I'm taking it slow
Feeding my flame
Shuffling the cards of your game
And just in time
In the right place
Suddenly I will play my ace
seen from the Babelsberg Palace Park, near Potsdam across the river Havel. (re-.edited and reposted)
October 3rd is a German holiday - Anniversary of Re-Unification. Therefor I though this photo would be suitable to remember the past during the cold war, when Berlin has been the borderline between Russian and the western allies (American, British and French). I posted ist long ago but now re-edited and now re-posted it.
The Glienicke Bridge over the River Havel connects Berlin with Potsdam. The road bridge owes its name to the nearby former “Klein Glienicke“ estate, on the site of which is now "Glienicke Castle“. The truss bridge was opened at the end of 1907 as the fourth structure at this point under the name "Kaiser Wilhelm Bridge“, which, however, did not catch on.
The state border between Brandenburg and Berlin and the city border with Potsdam runs across the middle of the bridge. During the period of German division, the Glienicke Bridge gained worldwide fame through the third and last agent exchange, which was spectacularly staged on February 11, 1986.
Die Glienicker Brück, die "Agenten - Brücke" über die Havel verbunden Berlin mit Potsdam Ihren Namen verdankt die Straßenbrücke dem in der Nähe gelegenen ehemaligen Gut Klein Glienicke, an dessen Stelle heute das Schloss Glienicke liegt. Die Fachwerkbrücke wurde Ende 1907 als viertes Bauwerk an dieser Stelle unter dem Namen Kaiser-Wilhelm-Brücke eröffnet, der sich jedoch nicht durchsetzte.
Quer über die Brückenmitte verläuft die Landesgrenze zwischen Brandenburg und Berlin bzw. die Stadtgrenze zu Potsdam. Während der Zeit der Deutschen Teilung erlangte die Glienicker Brücke weltweite Bekanntheit durch den am 11. Februar 1986 spektakulär inszenierten dritten und letzten Austausch von Agenten am 11 Februar 1986.
A northern pintail takes off from the Big Salt Marsh at Quivira National Wildlife Refuge in Stafford County, KS.
It must be so satisfying to 'drive' a traction engine.
Thank you all for visiting - it is really appreciated. Have a good week.
Object: The Sights in Auriga– (HST or SHO palette) – 2022
A widefield view of part of the constellation of Auriga (The Charioteer)
The field contains:
Left side of frame -IC405 (The Flaming Star Nebula -aka SH2-229 or Caldwell 31) an emission/reflection nebula in the northern part of Auriga. It surrounds the irregular, blue star AE Auriga and is about 1500 light years from Earth.
Center upper right - IC410 (The Tadpoles Nebula) a dusty emission nebula/stellar nursery at about 12.000 light years from Earth that illuminated by the star cluster NGC1893 which is about 4 million years old so still relatively young. The nebula is noted for the ”tadpole” structures that have been created by the radiation pressure from the stars in NGC189.
Right side of frame - IC417 (The Spider Nebula) – An emission nebula lit up by massive hot stars that is currently producing new stars. It is located about 10,000 light years from Earth.
Details:
- Acquisition Date: 10/28/2022 to 10/30/2022
- Location: Western Massachusetts, USA
- Imaging Camera: QHY600PH-M -10°C - Mode 1(High Gain) Offset:15 Gain:56
- Telescope: Takahashi FSQ106 EDXIII @ f/5 (530mm focal length - 106mm aperture)
- Mount: Astro-Physics AP1100 w/GTO4
- Guide scope: Celestron Off Axis Guider
- Guide Camera: ASI174m mini
- Software: Adobe Photoshop CS5, Sequence Generator Pro, PixInsight 1.8 Ripley, Aries Astro Pixel Processor
Filters:
- Chroma Ha 3nm 50mm
- Chroma OIII 3nm 50mm
- Astrodon SII 3nm 50mm
Exposure Times:
- Hydrogen Alpha (Ha): 22 x 10min. (220min) bin 1x1
- Oxygen III (OIII):22 x 10min. (220min) bin 1x1
- Sulfur II (SII):24 x 10min. (240min) bin 1x1
Total Exposure:680min. (11.33hrs)
Sky Quality:
-Magnitude: 19.71
-Bortle Class 5
-1.41 mcd/m^2 Brightness
-1234.6 ucd/m^2 Artificial Brightness
Words can't express my feelings of gratitude to you all,
when I started my page back in the Fall I never
dreamed that I would get to 100 followers let alone
1000! To celebrate this I have put together my first
picture that gained just 7 likes!!! with my most recent.
It has been a wild journey and I have seen some
great work from really talented people creating sims
which was my first love within Second Life
MANY years ago, indeed I started this page because I realized I didn't have a single picture of ANY of the work I had done back then. I have made some friends
some here and some there.... and I have learnt that one of my mesh suits has a hole in the pants!!!! Anyway the very best wishes to you all and here is to the next 1000! Tuomo Vella
A Rio Grande SD40T-2 and SD45 combo pull D&RGW train No. 152 along the Mapleton Bench in Springville, Utah on May 25, 1989. 5371 went on to gain notoriety as Union Pacific’s last Rio Grande lettered and numbered locomotive. It would be retired as DRGW 5371 in 2008 and donated to the Utah State Railroad Museum in 2009.
Some climbers ascending the rock at Hay Tor, situated in Devon's Dartmoor.
Idetordoune (1566), Ittor Doune (1687), Idetor (1737), Eator Down (1762) and Itterdown (1789) are a few recorded examples of earlier names by which Haytor was known. The name Haytor is of comparatively recent origin, and is probably a corruption of its old name and that of the Haytor Hundred, which covered the coastal area between the River Teign and River Dart, itself now considered to have been named after a lost village located somewhere between Totnes and Newton Abbot.
In the 19th century steps were made to allow pedestrians up to the top of the tor and a metal handrail fixed to allow tourists easier access to the summit. This was not entirely welcomed and in 1851, a Dr Croker complained about the rock steps that had been cut "to enable the enervated and pinguedinous scions of humanity of this wonderful nineteenth century to gain the summit". The handrail was removed in the 1960s due to it rusting: the stumps of the uprights are still embedded in the rock
‘Beware the Blackthorn Winter’ is a country saying about a spell of cold weather in early April which often coincides with the blossoming of the blackthorn (Prunus Spinosa). The pure white of the blackthorn blossom matches the snow or hoar frost covering the fields nearby and almost invariably bitter north easterly winds. The longer days and sun gaining strength at this time of year often give a spell of warmer weather - but then the Blackthorn Winter comes along and reminds us it’s not quite summer yet. Statistically, we are more likely to have snow at Easter than at Christmas.
A Blackthorn Winter can be described as the opposite of an Indian summer.
Blackthorn white blossoms appear before the leaves, creating a contrast against the dark smooth thorny branches. The blackthorn flowers eventually become purple sloes, ripening in autumn and harvested traditionally in October or November, after the first frosts, and used to make a Sloe gin liqueur.
The name Malapascua, was coined to mean bad christmas . But still some confusion what actually this means . It was dubbed by the Spaniards whose ship stranded on the island on Christmas Day 1520. There were discussions about what the name actually stands for. Mal means ’bad’ in Cebuano but while ’pasco’ means Christmas in Cebuano, ’pascua’ means easter in Spanish.
"Malapascua is a small island located in the Visayan Sea on the northern tip of Cebu Island. The island is approximately 2.5 kilometers long and 1 kilometer wide. You can walk around it in two to three hours. Even if it is situated in one of the most developed provinces it appears a world apart from the mainland. Around 4000 people inhabit the small island which do not have any paved roads or cars.
A local fisherman put Malapascua on the map when he discovered thresher sharks jumping out of the water when fishing near the dive site we refer to as Monad Shoal more than 20 years ago. Since then the island has gained more and more popularity and is by many regarded as the top destination in the world to watch thresher sharks. However, diving around Malapascua is not only thresher sharks. Divers are spoilt with a wide range of macro-, muck- and wreck diving...."
Source: ocean-vida.com/de/diving/article-about-malapascua/
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Life is full of little pleasures awaiting our discovery each day. Seek them and you will gain happiness in the process. Neglect them and you will accumulate regrets along the way.
This farm building has lost a large part of itself, maybe to a storm or some other trauma. If you live long enough, the words "torn asunder" gain personal meaning as the loss of family, relatives and friends means a large part of your life is no longer.
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The only little brown bird (White throated Sparrow) to gain a name of the 20 or thirty that come to my thoughtfully provided buffet dining area. He has been missing his tail but I think I now see where it's coming back so after awhile I will probably be saying stuff like I used to have a little brown bird that I named Shorty but I don't' know what happened to him, when the reality will be that he is still right there and I can't tell him apart from all of his comrades! LOL Happy Sabbath everyone! The sun has decided to pay us a short visit today for which I am extremely grateful! :) I'm guessing Anita will escape the confines of "sick hill" today and be out and about doing what Anita does while I will be ... well, napping most likely! LOL
It gains the more it gives, and then it rises with the fall. So let go, just let go, cause there's beauty in the breakdown.
Sure hope we all soon can comfortably see aerial views like this again! :)
Have a terrific day, everyone...
Au XIIIe siècle, le château de Selles est une véritable forteresse de grès de 15 mètres de haut, de forme polygonale et flanquée de 6 tours dont une géminée. Il a alors une double fonction : assurer la surveillance de la porte de Selles et de l’Escaut et asseoir l’autorité du comte-évêque sur les Cambrésiens. Il est en partie remblayé au XVIe siècle. A l’intérieur des tours subsistent deux niveaux de salles voûtées d’ogives. Elles sont reliées entre elles par un système original de gaines, couloirs aménagés dans l’épaisseur des murailles et utilisés comme prisons dès le XIVe siècle. D’émouvants graffiti gravés dans les murs reflètent les engagements politiques et religieux des détenus.
L'ancien hôpital militaire du XVIIIe siècle qui le surmonte, abrite aujourd'hui le tribunal.
“The leaves fall, the wind blows, and the farm country slowly changes from the summer cottons into its winter wools.”
― Henry Beston
That time of the year when shooting after work becomes impossible without adding your own light. I hate that!
Rolling thru Gaines, Michigan having just left the home terminal in Durand a couple miles back is GTW train #450 a turn to east yard in Detroit with former boiler GP9 4930 leading 2 sisters on February 26, 1983.
Rolling into the nice super elevated curve just south of Gaines, Michigan is Grand Trunk Western train #410 running from Durand to Lang Yd. in Toledo, Ohio. Normally a pair of SD40's this day you found no complaints from me with GP9 4544 leading SD40 5929 - December 18, 1976.
Pacific white-fronted geese after taking off from the Colusa National Wildlife Refuge on their spring migration to the northern reaches of Alaska and Canada. Currently two populations of white-fronted geese are recognized: the Pacific Population and the Mid-Continent Population. Numbers of Pacific Population white-fronted geese have increased steadily over the last decade.
Thanks, as always, for stopping by and for all of your kind comments -- I appreciate them all.
© Melissa Post 2018
This summer has seen a big uptick in tourism here in Alaska. I thought that we would see a slight increase over the past two years - but I have been amazed at the number of bikers and recreational vehicles seen jamming our roadways.
When I say "recreational vehicles" - I'm not talking about small campers - I'm talking about huge motorhomes towing cars, and most of them are a part of so called "caravans", (which in itself is costly).
On the other side of the coin - I have never seen so many motorcycles. While it is a much cheaper way to see our great state - it is not the most comfortable way to travel, especially when mother nature decides to dish out cloudy and rainy weather every other day, like she has this year.
In this photo you see two bikers who passed us at a high rate of speed - only to be stopped by road construction, thereby negating any time they may have gained in racing over the rugged road surface.
Snuck in an early afternoon workout at The ReNew Fitness Center at The Vistas and about to have my shake, (it's seriously delicious and my fav thing to have after a high intensity workout.)
You guys are going to LOVE this place.
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Well, 2024 is ending. Is it with a sense of relief, like Thank Fv%£ for that? Didn't so many of us just struggle to exist through the year. I know we worked very hard through the summer months but gained so much in warmth, happiness in smiles with people from all around the world. And we finished on a high with a large family gathering at Christmas. But the year was mainly a washout in terms of weather. We were grateful for a splash of glorious springlike weather early on and a late hoorah of sunshine in September. But a shadow covered the world thoughout the year, and hangs over us still. The future seems bleak in many ways and yet we are supposed to go into 2025 with hope and optimism: politically, geo-politically, economically, racially and culturally. For me, 2024 will end on a high if our 10 week old granddaughter is able to return her West Highland home from a dash visit to see a paediatrician specialist in hospital, a three hour journey away over what are likely to be snowy mountain roads within the coming hours. I just hope and pray 2025 makes us all, friends and family, happier with a healthy and prosperous New Year
Roaming around Christmas in the Park a few years ago. I think I gained a couple of pounds just getting the shot. Downtown San José, California.
Small Gains Creek, Canvey Island. At the eastern end of the Island lies the “Point”, the Island fades from buildup land to salt marsh and a of little creeks. This is where the boating community come together. A haven for waders of migrating birds.
A marker cairn near the foot of the final rise to the summit of Cairn Gorm sits by the side of the path we're following through the rocks and boulder fields as very little can grow and survive at this altitude.
Cairn Gorm, the mountain from which the Cairngorm mountain range gets its name, stands at 1245 meters (4085 feet) and is my 4th Munro of the season, my 27th in total. The hike (no bike this time) sees me covering a circuit of just over 7 miles and making an elevation gain of around 762 meters (2500 feet).
On a cold fall day, a bighorn sheep chose to rest on a natural rock bench that had been heated by the sun. It was so content it was chewing its cud while soaking up the sunshine.
You may want to enlarge to see more detail of the sheep but I purposely shot for distance to get a better idea of the setting.
Photographed in the Colorado National Monument, Grand Junction, Colorado.
Parliament gained a permanent home after Queen Victoria chose Ottawa as the capital in 1857. The Library building, designed in the High Victorian Gothic Revival style by Thomas Fuller and Chilion Jones, opened in 1876. Its circular shape and the use of galleries and alcoves were the inspiration of the first Parliamentary Librarian, Alpheus Todd. He recommended that the building be “spacious and lofty” and wisely advised that it be separated from the Centre Block by a corridor to protect it from fire 113
À la fin du XIIe siècle le catharisme atteint Carcassonne et y fera beaucoup d'adeptes, les cathares étant protégés par le vicomte Raimond-Roger Trencavel. Après l'assassinat du légat apostolique Pierre de Castelnau en janvier 1208, la ville et toute sa région sont déclarées terres d’hérésies par le pape Innocent III, et en conséquence subissent la Croisade des albigeois, dirigée par Arnaud Amaury.
L'armée croisée met le siège devant Carcassonne : deux bourgs situés près des remparts tombent rapidement et sont brûlés. L'enceinte de la cité résiste à l'assaillant, mais c'est la sécheresse et la soif qui font capituler la ville au bout de deux semaines, le 15 août 1209 : La ville capitule alors : Trancavel est jeté dans un cachot du palais comtal où il meurt rapidement de dysenterie ; ses terres sont attribuées à Simon IV de Montfort -
At the end of the 12th century, Catharism reached Carcassonne and gained many followers, the Cathars being protected by Viscount Raymond-Roger Trencavel. After the assassination of the apostolic legate Pierre de Castelnau in January 1208, the city and its entire region were declared a land of heresy by Pope Innocent III, and as a result, suffered the Albigensian Crusade, led by Arnaud Amaury.
The Crusader army laid siege to Carcassonne: two towns located near the ramparts quickly fell and were burned. The city walls resisted the attack, but drought and thirst forced the city to surrender after two weeks, on August 15, 1209. The city then capitulated: Trancavel was thrown into a dungeon in the county palace where he quickly died of dysentery. his lands are attributed to Simon IV de Montfort -
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Alla fine del XII secolo, il catarismo giunse a Carcassonne e vi trovò numerosi adepti, protetti dal visconte Raimond-Roger Trencavel. Dopo l'assassinio del legato apostolico Pierre de Castelnau nel gennaio 1208, la città e l'intera regione furono dichiarate terre di eresia da papa Innocenzo III e, di conseguenza, subirono la crociata albigese, guidata da Arnaud Amaury.
L'esercito crociato assediò Carcassonne: due città situate nei pressi delle mura caddero rapidamente e furono incendiate. Le mura della città resistettero all'attaccante, ma furono la siccità e la sete a costringere la città ad arrendersi dopo due settimane, il 15 agosto 1209: la città capitolò: Trancavel fu gettato in una prigione nel palazzo della contea dove morì rapidamente di dissenteria; le sue terre sono attribuite a Simone IV di Montfort -
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