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of a Coneflower Sombrero Salsa Red / Roter Sonnenhut (Echinacea x hybrida 'Balsomsed')
in our garden - Frankfurt-Nordend
for a colourful Sunday!
Common and widespread throughout most of North America, breeding as far north as Alaska and wintering to Panama. A medium-sized swallow, with gleaming white underparts. Adult males are bright iridescent blue-green above; females and immatures are duller brownish with limited or no iridescence. Always note compact shape, fairly broad wings, and slightly notched tail. Occurs in a variety of open habitats including grassy fields, lakes, and marshes. Often in flocks, sometimes mixed with other species of swallows. Breeds in cavities, including human-made nest boxes. Listen for cheery gurgling calls. Compare especially with Violet-green Swallow; note Tree Swallow does not show extensive white wrapping around the cheek or the sides of the rump. (eBird)
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Taking a break and watching the parade of people and kids passing by.
John E. Poole Wetlands, St. Albert, Alberta, Canada. June 2022.
Kynne is back from vacation... yay! *crowd roars* We did this sweet little picture in front of these amazing conservatories by The Looking Glass. Definitely......
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The weather has been perfect for all the Waterlilies,
Yesterday did nothing in the garden, only fed the Koi and take photos.
Took a spin to the nearby farmland the other evening, hoping to find a nice location with an interesting foreground to capture the sunset.
Before taking off I consulted with the trusty Google Map and found this farm that contained a cluster of silos. It turned out the location had a few more farm equipment, scattered all over the place, making it a bit more of a challenge to get a good composition given the sun's setting position and the little time I had.
Nevertheless, I am happy to come back with a few usable images. The Farmland @ Blue Hour was taken 16 minutes after this one.
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PS: I just noticed that I had captured both the sunrise and sunset on this spring day, March 21st!
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Please, don't fave and run, you will get yourself blocked.
There was a time when meadow, grove, and stream,
The earth, and every common sight,
To me did seem
Apparelled in celestial light,
The glory and the freshness of a dream.
It is not now as it hath been of yore;
Turn wheresoe'er I may,
By night or day,
The things which I have seen I now can see no more.
But there’s a tree, of many, one,
A single field which I have look’d upon,
Both of them speak of something that is gone:
The pansy at my feet
Doth the same tale repeat
Whither is fled the visionary gleam?
Where is it now, the glory and the dream
This was taken from penny dreadful.author William Wordsworth . thank you to my friend Paula for letting me know... here is her amazing stream
Pučišća (Italian: Pucischie) is a coastal town on the northern side of the Island of Brač, Croatia. It is often listed as one of the prettiest villages in Europe and is known for its white lime stone and a beautiful bay.
Many of the buildings are built with local stone, and so are the numerous monuments which adorn the town, giving the village its distinctive gleaming white look. It was a privilege of the aristocrats and the stone masons to live at the waterfront of Pučišća. This, and the easy access to the white lime stone from the local quarries, gave Pučišća its look. The houses at the waterfront were spacious and wealthy and the higher you climb up the hill, the smaller the historic houses become. The photo shows one of such historic quarters in Pučišća, built uphill around the small church of St. Lucia (to the left). The houses have been lived in to this day.
Pure white limestone that was used to build the White House in Washington D.C. also came from the quarries near Pučišća on Brač. Long before that, the same white stone was harvested by the slaves of fourth-century Roman Emperor Diocletian and transported to Split to build his palace. The high quality Brač stone was also used to build the houses of parliament in both Budapest and Vienna as well as many other important buildings throughout Europe. In Croatia, the most significant buildings made of Brač stone are the Palace of Diocletian, the Cathedral of St James in Sibenik and the Cathedral of St Lawrence in Trogir, which have all been under World Heritage (UNESCO) protection.
The whole dynasties of famous Croatian stone masons were educated at the quarry near Pučišća during the Renaissance and Baroque period. The only school of stone masonry in Croatia is situated in Pučišće and the school has been successfully active for more than a century.
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August is the time of mists in my region. The first gleam of sunrise just starts to break the night. My favorite old wooden church appeared to me completely different this time. A true Orthodox Russian spirit lives over here...
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Feeling down, I went out to Plum Island to get away from it all and maybe bring back a couple of shots worth working on. I spent almost three hours wandering the beach, but I might as well have been blind – nothing caught my eye. I did not feel inspired. So I packed up my gear and started back, demoralized, dejected, depressed. I passed a wide swath where the remnants of the last high tide slowly drained back toward the Atlantic, leaving a thin gleaming sheen stretched over the smooth face of the beach. I turned around one last time, as though to check if I left something behind.
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San Francisco gleams in the late afternoon sun beyond the fog covered Golden Gate Bridge. Taken from the Marin Headlands.
Gleaming the cube in my Viv.a! Kids gear... just figuring out everything under this street light.
Wearing: Wonnie Set from Viv.a! Kids at Youth Fair Event
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My love, at the shutting of this door of night
I ask of you, love, a journey through a dark pound:
shut out your dreams: enter with your sky my eyes:
stretch out in my blood as if in a wide river.
Goodbye, goodbye, cruel clarity that was dropped
into the bag of every day of the past:
goodbye to every gleam of clocks or oranges:
welcome oh shadow, periodic friend!
In this boat, or water, or death, or new life,
one more time we unite, slumbering, resurrected:
we are the marriage of the night in the blood.
I don’t know who lives or dies, sleeps or wakes,
but it is your heart that delivers,
to my chest, the gifts of the dawn.
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