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*Calle típica renacentista. Barrio Alto de Trujillo. Provincia de Cáceres. Extremadura. España.
* Barrio Alto donde se encuentra situada la casa de Francisco Pizarro. El siglo XVI será definitivo para la historia de Trujillo. Su desarrollo demográfico y el enriquecimiento de sus habitantes, como consecuencia de la empresa americana, son las circunstancias que impulsan el desarrollo de la ciudad.
Trujillo mantendrá una estructura de construcción moderna y renacentista: torres, aspilleras, alfices, arcos apuntados y demás elementos arquitectónicos propios de la época. El aspecto defensivo de alcázares y casas fuertes ofrece un estético y bellísimo estilo renacentista español.
Para acompañar esta evocación fotográfica continuaremos con los versos del gran poeta nicaragüense Rubén Darío en su Salutación del Optimista
...Únanse, brillen, secúndense, tantos vigores dispersos;
formen todos un solo haz de energía ecuménica.
Sangre de Hispania fecunda, sólidas, ínclitas razas,
muestren los dones pretéritos que fueron antaño su triunfo.
Vuelva el antiguo entusiasmo, vuelva el espíritu ardiente
que regará lenguas de fuego en esa epifanía.
Juntas las testas ancianas ceñidas de líricos lauros
y las cabezas jóvenes que la alta Minerva decora,
así los manes heroicos de los primitivos abuelos,
de los egregios padres que abrieron el surco prístino,
sientan los soplos agrarios de primaverales retornos
y el rumor de espigas que inició la labor triptolémica...
(RUBÉN DARÍO. Cantos de Vida y Esperanza)
Amsterdam - Dina Appeldoornstraat
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This Townsend's warbler was posed in the bushes the other day; with the one leg up, it reminds me of a statue of some heroic figures!
A heroic President on horseback, but instead of George Washington in uniform it's Ronald Reagan in a t-shirt. A tribute to Reagan's visit to Dixon in 1950, when he rode in the town's "Injun Summer Days" parade. - See more at: www.roadsideamerica.com/tip/31830#sthash.YosrjNTA.dpuf
dedication
this picture is dedicated to the valiant, tireless and overworked women and men around the world who, at great risk to themselves and to their families and friends, fight, sacrifice and increasingly die heroically trying to treat, save, comfort and console the infected and keep safe their communities.
in this time of great human suffering, uncertainty and angst, my heart weeps for these amazing people with tears of profound awe, sorrow and, most of all, thanks.
please, if you are able, raise your voice and your wallet to support and fight hard from the outside so that those on the front lines inside can do their best safely with the personal protective equipment they terribly need and so-richly deserve.
life is short. please do not forget to share the love you have while you can.
finally, many thanks to each of you for your consistent, heartwarming friendship and kind words of support. you put smiles on my face each and every day and i am deeply appreciative.
keep the faith and be safe.
- j. k.
dayton, ohio
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"and i would give up everything
and if you were to come up clean
and see you shine so bright in a world of woe"
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// . posted . tuesday, march 31, 2020 11:38:35 am est
I wonder
does Artificial Intelligence have courage
will it stand in the gap to protect freedom and love
will it take that bullet with true heroics
or will just give us over to a faceless coward
the father of this life
created a thing not known to stand above
but to creep and crawl like a snake in the mud
they tell us it's purpose is for the greater good
but how can that be
without a tongue to taste
a heart to feel
or a hand to hold
all that is truly good noble and bold.
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Lat.: Panorpa communis
En.: Common scorpionfly
De.: Gemeine Skorpionsfliege
Obere Belpau, Belp, Schweiz / Switzerland
Obelisk to the heroic city of Leningrad
Avenida Nevsky, San Petersburgo, Rusia
Nevsky ave. Saint Petersburg, Russia
Brave best of Neptune's crew lost stealing wind and greedy sea
Heroic in sacrifice
Moored fast in memory
New saviours ride their foamed wake
steel strong arms pass duty on
Guardians of the dark wedged deep
Fear to face, honour won.
Nick Jenkins 2009
Wundervoller Sänger: ein Zaunkönig (Troglodytes troglodytes)
Wonderful singer: a Eurasian wren (Troglodytes troglodytes)
* Norddeutschland | Niedersachsen | Northern Germany | Lower Saxony
a skiff barely laying on the frozen ground, sprinkled like frost buttons on the leaves, there only for a bit in the early morning, to vanish under the relentless winter sun
HSS!
“No animal, according to the rules of animal-etiquette, is ever expected to do anything strenuous, or heroic, or even moderately active during the off-season of winter.”
― Kenneth Grahame, The Wind in the Willows
The seed may have landed on the road, but that didn't stop this heroic poppy from sprouting, growing, and now trying to bloom.
For the #FlickrFriday theme #hero
As seems to happen over and over, I quite literally stumbled upon this scene the other evening. I was working a local car show that was nearing its conclusion. The setting sun was providing magnificent shadows and backlighting. As the sun was on the verge of disappearing behind the roof of the background building, I happened upon this gentleman standing in the bed of a monster pickup truck as he was furling his flags. I asked him to hold the flag aloft and wave it around. Shooting directly into the sun I really couldn't see much, I just locked in the focus and exposure and let the shutter go on continuous mode for several frames. I thanked him and moved on, unaware of what I had captured until the following day. This was the takeaway image. The gesture and flag position, the rays overhead and the sun glowing like an orb. Doubt I could have posed this any better had I planned for it.
When Uranus Fell into the Sea the Water started Foaming ...
“I will sing of stately Aphrodite, gold-crowned
and beautiful, whose dominion is the
walled cities of all sea-set Cyprus.
The moist breath of the western wind wafted her
over the waves of the loud-moaning sea in soft foam.” ~Homer
Hesiod's Theogony
Hesiod’s description says that at first the waves gently
carried Her toward Cythera but Zephyrus, the western wind, ultimately guided the waves to the shores of Paphos,Cyprus.
This beautiful location came to be designated as
the birthplace of Aphrodite and Cyprus is called the Island of Aphrodite, Goddess of Love, Beauty ...
Cyprus April 2016 ~ Best large,you might see Aphrodite emerging ...
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*Πάσχα το Ελληνικόν - Greek Orthodox Easter
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The Birth of Aphrodite
In the beginning, Chaos wrapped the worlds
where Time and Space rolled without limit,
until the Earth indulged her sons, the Titans,
and gave them suck at her abundant breasts.
They pitched; the Styx covered the waves.
And never, after, in the dark lightning air,
did Spring let out the splendor of the sun,
nor generous Summer ripen the pale corn.
Sullen, and ignorant of all lark or laughter,
the Immortals assemble on snowy Olympus.
But out of heaven come the seminal drops,
and the Ocean slips open, and naked, radiant,
now, and rising out of the foam’s embrace
and the Sky’s blood, she blossoms: Aphrodite.
The Birth of Aphrodite
Heroic Sonnets by the Cuban poet and man of letters José-Maria de Heredia in Paris. He was associated with a group of poets called the Parnassians,named after the poetry journal Le Parnasse contemporain.
"Are you doing a late one?" Katie stood at my office door in her coat, signalling that it was time to go. It's the first time she's worn a coat in months, which tells a story in itself. Ever since Lockdown started in the UK, or at least so it seems, the weather has been unusually good. Even in March, when we were first instructed to work from home it was nice enough to sit outside without a coat on. March is usually a bitter and blustery month in the UK. April is often only marginally better for that matter. But apart from a below average June, the summer has seemed longer this year. Until today it has at any rate.
"No, I'm coming with you," I replied. It was already nearly 6pm. I wasn't in the middle of anything and our boss had already left, so there was nobody to look heroically pious in front of. I switched off my computer and followed her out of the building. We look after each other like that as left unchecked we're both likely to carry on working until the caretakers throw us out during the crazy autumn term. Sometimes I think someone should bash our heads together and knock some sense into us - all this unpaid overtime doesn't impress anyone, although it does just about keep our heads above water.
Today had started wet, then been bright, and rained again before the evening sun filtered through the clouds - a recipe for the soft grainy warm yellow light that I saw on the slopes of Carn Brea as I drove home. Although it was just about an hour until sunset, I knew there was time to change quickly, hoping that everything was in the bag and head to Wheal Coates, the nearest coastal focal point on the map. I arrived to a blast of a distinctly chilly onshore breeze coming in from the north and immediately put my raincoat on over the one I was already wearing and tried to reconcile the conditions to the sweltering heat that had found me switching on the office fan just two days earlier. Still, when you can stand and gaze all the way along the coast down to St Ives and beyond just an hour after leaving work, a bit of fresh weather seems a small price to pay.
In my last post I talked about my routine of planning and preparing a shot, often waiting happily for an hour or more before even reaching for the camera. Today there was no time to reach for the unwritten textbook in my head as I hastily assembled the camera on the tripod to catch the yellow path over the sea reach the sunbeams bursting from low cloud on the horizon. Things weren't helped when it dawned on me that I'd left my glasses in the car, bringing instead my Ray Bans. Right now I was up there with Stevie Wonder in the looking cool stakes, but I only had a very small advantage over him in discerning what was happening on the three inch screen in front of me. It's not the first time I've done this when I've been in a bit of a hurry to get to a location.
Normally I stay well after sunset, most of the way through the blue hour watching the light fall and the colours fade into the darkness, but this evening it was too cold to hang around and gaze at nature's beauty. I headed home, to soon be passed by an escaped horse running in the direction of St Agnes, followed at a judicious distance by a conscientious driver with her hazard lights on. When I got home I phoned the police for the first time in my life to report the antics of our equine friend. They already knew and were on the way. Hope they got there in time to lead it to safety.
Bienvenidos a Alcañiz, capital del Bajo Aragón. Situada en el meandro que traza el río Guadalope para “abrazar” al cerro de Pui-Pinos. Su topónimo, de origen árabe, alude al cañizo o la caña, presente en su escudo. A su nombre acompañan los títulos de “ciudad”, “leal”, “muy leal” y “heroica” por la valentía de Alcañiz en diferentes contiendas.
HBW 04.08.09
Gorgeous, sinewy bronze by Richard MacDonald. Displayed at Carmel Plaza in Carmel-by-the-Sea, CA.
I wish I could reshoot this one. I would have liked the end of the trumpet to be in focus as the body, but I didn't position myself so that it would be in the same plane of focus. I also don't like that the fingers of the left hand are in the empty space; still, there's enough definition in the fingers to be distinguishable.
“Our debt to the heroic men and valiant women in the service of our country can never be repaid. They have earned our undying gratitude. America will never forget their sacrifices.”
– Harry S. Truman (33rd president of the United States, serving from 1945 to 1953)
“Let their remembrance be as lasting as the land they honored.”
– Daniel Webster (American lawyer and statesman who represented New Hampshire and Massachusetts in the U.S. Congress and served as the 14th and 19th U.S. Secretary of State)
Three bracketed photos were taken with a handheld Nikon D7200 and combined with Photomatix Pro to create this HDR image. Additional adjustments were made in Photoshop CS6.
"For I know the plans I have for you", declares the LORD, "plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future." ~Jeremiah 29:11
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This image is dedicated to the President of the United States of America, Mr. Barak Hussein Obama. OK, he might never get to see this image and he might never get to know about this dedication either. What a pity, he doesn’t know what he is missing. LOL!
So you might be wondering why I am doing this. The sitting president has on his desk a proposal to create a new national monument called Bear Ears. This national monument would give protection to 1.9 million acres and contains more than 100,000 cultural and archeological sites. At the moment this area is the most significant unprotected archeological area in the United States.
There is a fierce political battle going on. On one side republican Utah representatives Rob Bishop and Jason Chaffetz who are telling constituents for three years that they have been drafting legislation to protect the area, but they failed to introduce legislation containing specific boundaries and provisions. It became increasingly clear that the so-called negotiations that they aimed to run out the clock on the Obama administration’s ability to use the Antiquities Act to create a national monument.
On the other side of the rope is an unprecedented Inter-Tribal Coalition of 26 tribes and other environmentally interested organizations trying to get the President of the Untied States of America to sign the bill before he leaves the office beginning of next year.
Obama has previously showed vision and courage in using this authority, and creating a Bears Ears National Monument would be very much in that tradition and fully justified by the facts.
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