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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!
The Ribeira Sacra is one of the most symbolic examples of what is known as heroic viticulture. This term refers to the conditions of the terrain, which make growing and tending vines especially difficult and which force wine-growers and producers to overcome vertigo on the hillsides.
Distribution of vineyards down terraces or hillsides to preserve the slope of the terrain - which can reach gradients of 100%- creates a space where mechanisation is impossible.
With the exception of the odd track in some vineyards to transport crates, winegrowers’ and wine producers’ hands, arms and backs do all the work here, and moving through vines requires true acrobatic skill. Heroic viticulture is most symbolically represented in the grape-harvesting period.
Since 2011, the CERVIM (Centre for Research, Environmental Sustainability and Advancement of Mountain Viticulture) has offered a specific seal to define this type of viticulture, which only a few Spanish Designations of Origin can use. One of these is Ribeira Sacra.
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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The largest Spanish building in the Americas.
Batería de la Redención.
The fortification consists of a series of walls, wide at the base and narrow toward the parapet, forming a formidable pattern of bunkers. The batteries and parapets protect one another, so making it practically impossible to take a battery without taking the whole defence system. The castle is striking for its grand entrance and its complex maze of tunnels. It is the most formidable defensive complex of Spanish military architecture. It is 41 meters (135 ft.) above sea level.
Key features include the triangular Castello de San Felipe de Barajas, surrounded by the batteries de Santa Barbara, de San Carlos y Los Apostles, Del Hornabeque, de la Cruz, de la Redencion, and de San Lazaro. The combined 68 guns faced away from the city. Joining the Media Luna causeway was a caponniere. The San Lazaro battery's terreplein included aljibes, while channels and breakwaters dealt with rainwater. The main underground gallery runs along the perimeter of the complex at sea level. Chambers within it could be exploded preventing the advance of overhead attackers.
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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Símbolo de la heroica defensa de la ciudad de Zaragoza durante los Sitios a que la sometieron las tropas napoleónicas entre 1808 y 1809.
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Obere Belpau, Belp, Schweiz / Switzerland
Obelisk to the heroic city of Leningrad
Avenida Nevsky, San Petersburgo, Rusia
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A LORNA, LORNA, A QUIEN NUNCA SE LE ACABA SU SED DE CONOCIMIENTO.
Así es la viticultura heroica de la Ribeira Sacra, una vendimia de alto riesgo. Vendimiadores de Ribeira Sacra, en las escarpadas orillas del Sil. Como en un deporte de montaña, los vendimiadores de Ribeira Sacra se descuelgan por las escarpadas laderas del Sil a veces con arneses y la cosecha a la espalda. Lo llaman viticultura heroica y produce vinos únicos.
En el globalizado mundo del vino, donde los estándares de calidad se han democratizado, permitiendo a los nuevos países productores conquistar los mercados con marcas de precio imbatible e identidad indescifrable, la última baza que les queda a las regiones vinícolas tradicionales para sobrevivir no es otra que reivindicar su propio carácter.
To Lorna Lorna, whose thirst for knowledge is never quenched
Heroic grape harvesters of the Sacra Ribeira
This is the heroic viticulture of the Ribeira Sacra, a high-risk vintage. Grape harvesters from Ribeira Sacra, on the steep banks of the Sil. As in a mountain sport, the Ribeira Sacra grape harvesters hang down the steep slopes of the Sil, sometimes with harnesses and the harvest on their backs. They call it heroic viticulture and it produces unique wines.
In the globalized world of wine, where quality standards have been democratized, allowing new producing countries to conquer markets with brands with unbeatable prices and indecipherable identity, the last trick left for traditional wine regions to survive is none other than to vindicate his own character.
Wundervoller Sänger: ein Zaunkönig (Troglodytes troglodytes)
Wonderful singer: a Eurasian wren (Troglodytes troglodytes)
* Norddeutschland | Niedersachsen | Northern Germany | Lower Saxony
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
"The monument features a 28-foot (8.53 m) heroic-sized bronze sculpture, Angel of the Resurrection, that portrays Michael the Archangel lifting up a dead soldier out of the "flames of war". This is set upon an 11-foot (3.35 m) black-granite base, with two inscribed dedications and four bronze plaques listing the 1,307 names in alphabetical order. The work was designed and created by Walker Hancock (1901–1998), Instructor of Sculpture at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, and a U.S. Army veteran of World War II. Hancock had been one of the "Monuments Men" who recovered art looted by the Nazis."
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.
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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Monty looking heroic at the top of Drygarn Fawr in Mid Wales. Drygarn Fawr has got to be one of the bleakest places I know in Wales, especially on a day when there is a biting wind, the temperature is around zero and the cloud threatens to engulf the hilltop. It is hard work under snow and ice. This hill has two of the biggest cairns I know of, both of which were built by the workers who built the dams in the Elan Valley far below.
Heroic size steel statue of Kokopelli playing his flute created by the Carbonville, Utah sculptor Gary Prazen (1936-2016) part of a small sculpture display outside Utah State University Eastern Prehistoric Museum in Price, UT
Nebbiolo Vineyards, in Canavese, Piedmont, Italy.
These vineyards are called
" Heroic viticulture "
because of the very difficult steep slope mountain territory were they are grown.
Vini Cascina Figliei
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Been very upset and angry over the past couple of days. Didn't go out anywhere all day today. I was sat next to my picture window, working, when it rained cats and dogs for a few minutes and then the skies turned War-of-the-Worlds rusty-red. And then sun shone and this rainbow lined my street. I came out with my camera and took a few shots. This is a panorama from 5 vertical images, which failed to get me in a better mood.
Nonetheless, I am always amazed by the fact how a bright rainbow can overcome dark, gloomy skies. It's so fuckin' heroic!
And my favorite landscape picture from the Yellow Mountains.
It's possible I screamed my lungs out, out of amazement.
Hundreds of little boats on a heroic scramble home after greeting the Queen Mary 2. Hard to keep your dignity out here, not to mention your dingy. View On Black
Ouviram do Ipiranga as margens plácidas
De um povo heróico o brado retumbante,
E o sol da Liberdade, em raios fúlgidos,
Brilhou no céu da Pátria nesse instante.
Se o penhor dessa igualdade
Conseguimos conquistar com braço forte,
Em teu seio, ó Liberdade,
Desafia o nosso peito a própria morte!
Ó Pátria amada,
Idolatrada,
Salve! Salve!
Brasil, um sonho intenso, um raio vívido
De amor e de esperança à terra desce,
Se em teu formoso céu, risonho e límpido,
A imagem do Cruzeiro resplandece.
Gigante pela própria natureza,
És belo, és forte, impávido colosso,
E o teu futuro espelha essa grandeza
Terra adorada,
Entre outras mil,
És tu, Brasil,
Ó Pátria amada!
Dos filhos deste solo és mãe gentil,
Pátria amada,
Brasil!
Deitado eternamente em berço esplêndido,
Ao som do mar e à luz do céu profundo,
Fulguras, ó Brasil, florão da América,
Iluminado ao sol do Novo Mundo!
Do que a terra mais garrida
Teus risonhos, lindos campos têm mais flores;
"Nossos bosques têm mais vida",
"Nossa vida" no teu seio "mais amores".
Ó Pátria amada,
Idolatrada,
Salve! Salve!
Brasil, de amor eterno seja símbolo
O lábaro que ostentas estrelado,
E diga o verde-louro desta flâmula
- Paz no futuro e glória no passado.
Mas, se ergues da justiça a clava forte,
Verás que um filho teu não foge à luta,
Nem teme, quem te adora, a própria morte.
Terra adorada
Entre outras mil,
És tu, Brasil,
Ó Pátria amada!
Dos filhos deste solo és mãe gentil,
Pátria amada,
Brasil!
A heroically arduous Sunday wander falls on Network Rail's VIU nr1 (railcar 153311) 2Z01 Derby RTC-Eastleigh East Yd transfer as a 120min delay mid-journey is incurred.
By 19.15 the Portsmouth Direct heading past Guildford is no doubt welcomed seen passing Shalford Junction (+96).
Maintaining a presumed custom the destination panel reads 'Llanelli'.
10th August 2025