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In Valletta, an art installation titled "Bandiera Bajda" (White Flag) is using white laundry as a symbol to explore fatherhood. The installation, by artist Etienne Farrell, features nine washing lines with white clothes and bedsheets, each representing a different father's experience.
**Thank you Ashton for posing with me....always fun!**
You'll be in my heart
No matter what they say
You'll be here in my heart
Always
Always I'll be with you
I'll be there for you always
Always and always
Just look over your shoulder
Just look over your shoulder
Just look over your shoulder
I'll be there
Always
The Minnesota Commercials Hennepin Job is viewed setting out some tank cars at Hawkins Inc. with a rare Alco RS27, MNNR 316. 316 was built in 1962 as CNW 903 and spent It’s final years on the Minnesota Commercial doing switching duties.
Captured in: Smithtown, NY
Pictured here is a simple oil and water macro / abstract that employed a bit of color and light added from below.
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"Oil and Water 2" is a non-HDR image that was processed using a combination of ACR, Photoshop, and Topaz Labs plugins (Adjust, Clean, Denoise, Glow, and Impression).
The other week, I was on a stroll on a rather summery March day, when a rose bush covered in blooms in multiple colours caught my eye so much that I had to cross a busy road to take a closer look at it. The single bush was displaying roses in shades of pale yellow with pink edges, vibrant pink, carmine and orange. Luckily I had my camera with me, as I usually do in case I see something I like, and I photographed some of the blooms. Whilst I was doing so, the owner returned home from shopping. We chatted and I asked her what variety it was. She said that she didn’t know, but that it had been part of the garden when she bought the house some two decades ago. After doing a bit of research, I think it might be a Desert Peace rose.
The theme for “Smile on Saturday” is “Flowers in March”, where any flower is welcome, so long as the photo was taken in March. Luckily in Melbourne, there are often Indian Summer days that stretch into March, and there are always flowers in gardens. I could have chosen any flowers, but I chose this one in particular for its beauty, and because I saw it on the 16th of March, which was the day I saw the theme in the discussion thread. This week’s theme is also in honour of “Smile on Saturday” member, Marcy Schrum, who passed away in December last year. She liked beautiful flowers, so I hope she would have liked it and that it makes a fitting tribute. I hope that you like it too, that it brightens your Saturday and makes you smile.
The “Desert Peace” rose is a hybrid tea rose with yellow blend blooms, with pink edges. It was produced by Meilland International in France in 1991.
I am at a hotel outside of Seattle, for a mini-vacation. I can't imagine with the hotel staff with think when they look up and see this bright green, cantaloupe sized thingy in my window on a towel cushion (so it can't roll off the sill.)
I found it in one of my favorite garden nurseries, in a dark corner where everything was glowing under black lights. Supposedly, if left in the sun, it will glow in the dark after I hang it on my porch. My hummingbirds will probably freak out! I am going to leave it sitting in the hotel window all day tomorrow, while I run around, and see the sights. Maybe it will light up the hotel room tomorrow night :)))) One can only hope for such cheap thrills!
Windows of Opportunity" have been on my mind a lot. We are tentatively scheduled to take a May tour of Bryce & Zion canyons with Road Scholar in May of 2022. The COVID numbers are rising. If I were in my 40's , I would wait and say that there would be other opportunities "when life becomes more normal (safe)". I am in my mid-70's and healthy. There is still the thought in the back of my mind as to how many windows of opportunity will be in my future. We will decide as the time draws nearer.
I am reflecting, not complaining. We have weathered the pandemic well and our living situation is comfortable. I have also had many opportunities in the past to experience other places. The Irish rover in my genes still longs for a look beyond my present horizon, however, and it's a nagging feeling.
There will be one other post in this "windows of opportunity" series.
Elgåfossen waterfall in Norway shot from a multicopter, 100 meters above the ground. The border between Norway and Sweden is in the middle of the waterfall.
From a drive in the countryside. I pulled over and actually shot this from the car. Getting a bit lazy, huh...
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Getting Swallows in flight is a challenge for me. I shoot in their general direction taking aim as best I can, hoping for the best. Sometimes my hopes are realized!!!
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Three musk oxen run across the snow covered tundra of Prudhoe Bay Alaska. The musk ox live comfortably in one of the harshest climates on earth, braving temperatures to -50f with wind chills exceeding -100f.
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In background you can see the famous arctic cathedral, one of the landmarks of the city and the Tromsø bridge
In addition to the Yellow-rumped Warblers, we saw a lot of Cedar Waxwings eating the Cedar berries. In fact that is where part of their name comes from. From allaboutbirds.org: "The birds’ name derives from their appetite for cedar berries in winter." The bird pictured here is an immature bird as evident by the prominent streaking on the breast and faint looking black mask as compared to an adult. Anoka County, MN 10/04/20
An impressive panoramic view after a somewhat short hike. I wasn't expecting that at all, such a nice surprise!
The spectacular globe in the center of the Hall of Geographical Maps, with its approximately 220 cm in diameter, is the oldest large globe to survive today. The first documentary information on the globe dates back to the beginning of 1564, when from a letter sent by Giorgio Vasari to Giovanni Caccini on 29 January we learn that the latter had sent him the "appamondo" from Pisa by river. The globe was created by monk Egnazio Danti who had already worked on 30 geographical tables and, once finished, it is very likely that it was not placed in the Wardrobe Room, as it was not mentioned in the palace inventories of 1570 and 1574. Immediately placed in Palazzo Pitti where it appears present in an inventory of 1587, it passed together with the other scientific artefacts of the Uffizi Gallery, in 1775 it passed into the Museum of Ancient Instruments annexed to the Specola of Florence and only in 1958, after other vicissitudes, did it reach its original location in the Hall of Geographical Maps of Palazzo Vecchio.
Anaklia (Georgian: ანაკლია) is a town and seaside resort in western Georgia. It is located in the Samegrelo-Zemo Svaneti region, at the place where the Enguri River flows into the Black Sea.
The earliest settlement on Anaklia's territory dates back to the mid-Bronze Age and is typical to the Colchian culture. It is the Classical Heraclea of Colchis, Anaclia of later authors, and Anarghia of Archangelo Lamberti and Jean Chardin (both the 17th-century travelers). After the fragmentation of the Kingdom of Georgia in the 15th century, it was an important fortified town, sea port and fishing station within the Principality of Mingrelia. In 1723, the town was captured by the Ottoman Empire and converted into its maritime outpost and slave-trading locale. Western Georgian kingdom of Imereti regained control over Anaklia in 1770, seizing the opportunity of Ottoman Empire being at war with Russia (Russo-Turkish War (1768–1774)). Solomon I, the king of Imereti, was supposed to be supported in this endeavor by a small Russian contingent under General Totleben, but the Russian troops retreated before a clash against the Turks.
In 1802, Kelesh-Bey Sharvashidze, the pro-Turkish ruler of the neighboring Principality of Abkhazia, capitalized on the internecine feuds in Mingrelia, and forced Prince Grigol Dadiani of Mingrelia into surrendering Anaklia, taking Grigol’s son and heir, Levan, as a hostage. When Mingrelia accepted the Russian protectorate in 1803, the Russian commander in Georgia, Prince Tsitsianov, demanded that Kelesh-Bey release Levan. On his refusal, Tsitsianov sent Major General Ion Rykgof into Abkhazia. In March 1805, the Russians took hold of Anaklia and threatened to march against Sukhum-Kaleh, forcing the Abkhazian prince to release Dadiani. The capture of Anaklia drew an Ottoman protest, however, and Tsitsianov hastened to disavow his subordinate and even apologize for his action, removing a Russian garrison from Anaklia. However, the incident added to an increasing tension between the two empires. When the next Russo-Turkish War broke out in 1806, the Russian forces restored Redoubt Kali and Anaklia to the Mingrelian prince Levan who would later relinquish the control of these forts to the Russian administration. (See Russian conquest of the Caucasus#Black Sea Coast.) In the 1850s, Anaklia was a small but strongly fortified seaport, which had a custom-house and carried on a considerable trade with Turkey.
Subsequently, the importance of the Anaklia port significantly reduced, but it remained a minor Black Sea Fleet base in the Soviet times.
After the War in Abkhazia (1992–93), a Russian peacekeeping post was opened at Anaklia in 1994. In 2006, the Ministry of Defense of Georgia reported numerous damages inflicted by the Russian soldiers upon the 17th-century fortress of Anaklia and accused the peacekeepers of installing latrines and baths within the walls of the fort. Following a series of protests by the Georgians, the Russian military post was withdrawn in July 2007.
A monument has been erected in Anaklia on May 21, 2012, commemorating Russia's expulsion of the Circassian people from the region following the conclusion of the Caucasian War in the 1860s. The May 21 date was chosen to coincide with the day on which the Circassian people themselves commemorate the expulsion, which the Georgian government has recognized as an act of genocide. The monument was designed by Khusen Kochesokov, a sculptor from the North Caucasus region of Kabardino-Balkaria.
Saccharum spontaneum flower swaying against the concrete jungle of autumn in the wind. It grows on fallow land commonly known as wild sugarcane and Kans grass
Camellia is a genus of flowering plants in the family Theaceae. Camellias are evergreen shrubs or small trees up to 20 m tall. They are found in eastern and southern Asia, from the Himalayas east to Japan and Indonesia. There are about 300 species and around 3,000 hybrids. Their flowers are usually large and conspicuous, one to 12 cm in diameter, with five to nine petals in naturally occurring species of camellias. The colors of the flowers vary from white through pink colors to red. Of economic importance in East Asia, Southeast Asia, and the Indian subcontinent, leaves of C. sinensis are processed to create the popular beverage tea. The ornamental C. japonica, C. sasanqua and their hybrids are the source of hundreds of garden cultivars. C. oleifera produces tea seed oil, used in cooking and cosmetics. The various species of camellia plants are generally well-adapted to acid soils rich in humus, and most species do not grow well on chalky soil or other calcium-rich soils. Most species of camellias also require a large amount of water, either from natural rainfall or from irrigation, and the plants will not tolerate droughts. However, some of the more unusual camellias – typically species from karst soils in Vietnam – can grow without too much water. 62799
© i see the moon photography
can't decide if i should sihoulette her more, or try to illuminate her more???? is it just way too dark?
taken in the gorgeous meadow owned by the talented eden photography on a sultry summer night. :) so many more to come.
eden photography
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