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Floridita or El Floridita is a historic fish restaurant and cocktail bar in the older part of Havana (La Habana Vieja), Cuba. It lies at the end of Calle Obispo (Bishop Street), across Monserrate Street from the The National Museum of Fine Arts of Havana (Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes de La Habana). The establishment is famous for its daiquiris and for having been one of the favourite hangouts of Ernest Hemingway in Havana.
The Nobel Prize-winning American writer Ernest Hemingway frequented the bar, which is at the end of Calle Obispo (Bishop Street), a short walk from the Hotel Ambos Mundos where Hemingway maintained a room from 1932–1939. Hemingway's children also noted that in the early 1940s Hemingway and his wife "Mary" (Martha Gellhorn) continued to drive from their house outside Havana (Finca Vigía) to the Floridita for drinks. The establishment today contains many noticeable memorabilia of the author, with photographs, a bust and, more recently (2003), a life-size bronze statue at the end of the bar near the wall, sculpted by the Cuban artist José Villa Soberón.
this is my new bunny dress that i got from crafty vamp.
It is blue and white with bunny pictures on it. It has matching bloomers.
in my arms is my new build a bear bunny, that i found in a second hand shop.
Here is a dilemma!
This is a Fur Seal. I took this shot while on the Coorong cruise - it was resting on the Goolwa barrages.
Cute? A popular attraction for tourists?
What it is is a major problem for the licensed fishermen of the Coorong whose livelihood is being torn to shreds along with their nets.
The problem is they have never frequented these waters. The indigenous population would have captured/hunted them as soon as they dared to enter these waters way back in time. In the 1800s and 1900s sealers hunted many species of seal to near extinction, but that practice has stopped and now the population of this species in particular is exploding.
I always refer to it as the pendulum - over hunting and the species is severely depleted - rectify that to the other extreme and then you have an exploding population that puts everything else in peril. Fairy penguins along the coastal regions are now under great pressure - some are not convinced the seals are to blame, but if they are not, it is a pretty amazing coincidence.
Hard decisions need to be made on population control and especially where they have never been. Weak politicians who see their position as a career rather than as a public service for the people and the state don't help!
Old John is the highest hill in Bradgate Park, Leicestershire, on the southern edge of Charnwood Forest. It gives its name to the folly that stands at its top. The hill rises to 212 metres (696 ft) high, and is a prominent landmark across Leicester and Leicestershire. The earliest recorded use of the name is on a map of 1754, which records a windmill on the site.
The tower itself began life as a ruined folly, built in 1784, during the time of George Grey, 5th Earl of Stamford. He got Thomas Sketchley of Anstey to build him the mock ruin, which had strong similarities to Mow Cop, Staffordshire. It was adapted in the mid-19th century by the seventh Earl to serve as an observation tower for the practice circuit he laid out for his horses, along with the building of a stable block lower down the hill.
The tower is well known for its "mug-shape" — there was a longer section of wall adjoining the tower after the 19th century extension but this reduced in size over the years leaving the present 'handle' shape. The mug shape has given rise to false accounts of the tower's origins supposedly relating to a beer-loving miller who was killed after being hit by a pole during a bonfire.
In the past it has also been used as a meeting place for hunters with their fox hounds, and a luncheon house for shooting parties in the park, prior to the park being donated for public use in 1928.
Vitorchiano is magnificent city. There are no tourist, no crowds. Somewhat inconvenient to get to, but certanly worth visiting. I placed a scheme of getting to in this set. We have to wait for bus from Viterbo for two hours.
Our hotel name was Il Fiorile. It appeared to be in 40 minutes walk from Vitorchiano, in countryside. We were somehow dissapointed with the distance at first, but when next morning (very early) we went outside, we saw this fairy fog and understood how perfect our accomodation appeared to be.
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16 things:
I know this is late but Christmas week was busy and my computer wigged out on me :[
1. I hate surprises. Unless I have a clue. Which technically wouldn't be a surprise anymore, is it?
2. My usual bedtime is around 1-2 in the morning.
3. I can watch 4 DVDs in just one sitting.
4. I am an only child. Which I think is not the best thing in the world. But I say there’s so much love in it nevertheless. Or scrutiny.
5. I didn't quite liked the Twilight movie.
6. My most vivid earliest childhood memory is of me talking to my 3 imaginary friends.
7. I don't like dresses. They're itchy in the weirdest places.
8. I like my eggs, sunny side up.
9. I will get a tattoo when I turn 25.
10. I plan to live NY for a month before I get married. I will do nothing but bum, take photos of subways, visit museums and art galleries, hunt some bands, read The Times at Central Park, eat pizza and survive taxi rides.
11.I believe that my high school soccer field owns one of the best sunsets.
12. I occasionally take random photos without looking through the view finder or LCD display.
13. I’ve watched My Bestfriend’s Wedding almost 20 times already. I'm not lying but, Ok, so maybe I’m exaggerating a little, lying and exaggerating are two different entities. Yeah, but I think the number is close to that.
14. My videoke song is, umm, Stay by Lisa Loeb. Because I love Reality Bites, Hah!, and I can practically recite the lyrics in my sleep plus, the You try to tell me that I’m clever, but that won’t take me anyhow, or anywhere with you shit.
15. I will walk the aisle to The Used’s I Caught Fire.
16. I have a new old red bike :]
Funeral Poem for my Mum.
You can shed tears that she is gone,
Or you can smile because she has lived.
You can close your eyes and pray that she will come back,
Or you can open your eyes and see all that she has left.
Your heart can be empty because you can't see her,
Or you can be full of the love that you shared.
You can turn your back on tomorrow and live yesterday,
Or you can be happy for tomorrow because of yesterday.
You can remember her and only that she is gone,
Or you can cherish her memory and let it live on.
You can cry and close your mind,
be empty and turn your back
Or you can do what Mum would have wanted:
smile, open your eyes, love and go on.
This shot of First Bath B9TL 36233 BD12TCU on June 29th 2021 shows the barley is turning into a golden brown on this shot between Midsomer Norton and Paulton. Bit of a change from its old haunts grinding around Leeds.
This is a scan of an original kodachrome slide. It was scanned with an Epson Pro V750, and finished up with very minor post processing work in Photoshop.
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The original comes from my own slide collection, which contains both my own photos and those acquired over the past forty or so years collecting.
Uploading of photos in this Flickr collection is for one reason only, and that is to allow them to be enjoyed by people who find them of interest. Otherwise, much of this material would continue to remain hidden away in boxes and pages. Comments on the photos are welcomed.
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Cycling is one of my passions. Seeing the way they use bikes in Germany gives me a whole new appreciation for the sport. With gas and diesel fuel at about $10 per gallon a bicycle is the cheap and smart way to travel. This was shot in Heidelburg Germany.
This is one of my go-to workout songs that really helps push me to my limits and gets a lot out. I think there’s a lot of truth in the last set of lyrics… life’s not always going to be a smooth and easy road, and I think I’ve learned so much more from when I got burned than when I had it easy…
Song: Primal Scream
By: Motley Crue
Theme: Power In Words
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The Red Church is one of the masterpieces of early Christian architecture in Europe, it is an architectural and archaeological monument of national importance. Early Christian basilica, The Red Church is located 2 km northeast of Perushtitsa. The Red Church was built in the early middle ages - V - VI century BC. The central building takes the shape of a four-leafed clover and placed on the remains of another building with a similar plan. The remains form the main part of the church and include a four corner space, including two bypass corridors which are located around the northern and southern conch. Subsequently more rooms where added: a double narthex, a chapel adjoined to it from the south side and a baptistery (baptismal) from the north side. The portico with columns from the west shapeentrance of the church. The approach to the last entrance is a stone staircase, from which only individual rocks where preserved. The overall dimensions of the church are: length - 32.45 m and width - 29 meters.
Película cristiana en español | "La honestidad no tiene precio" Dios bendice a los que son honestos
Zhen Cheng era el dueño de un taller de reparación de electrodomésticos. Era amable, honesto y llevaba su negocio siguiendo las reglas. Nunca trataba de engañar a nadie, pero apenas ganaba lo suficiente para mantener a su familia. Pasado un tiempo, un miembro de su familia y un colega le instaron a practicar las reglas no escritas del negocio, y Zhen Cheng comenzó a creer en dichos que representan una filosofía satánica, tales como:"El dinero no es omnipotente, pero sin él no se puede hacer absolutamente nada". "Los valientes mueren satisfechos; los tímidos mueren de hambre".y "El dinero es lo primero".Zhen Cheng perdió la buena conciencia que le había guiado hasta entonces y empezó a usar métodos maliciosos para ganar más dinero. Aunque ganaba más que antes y su nivel de vida había mejorado, Zhen Cheng, sin embargo, se sentía infeliz y le asolaba un sentimiento de vacío; su existencia era hueca y estaba cargada de sufrimiento.
Cuando Zhen Cheng aceptó la obra de Dios Todopoderoso de los últimos días, llegó a entender a través de la palabra de Dios que a Dios le gusta la gente honesta y desprecia a los que engañan. Zhen Cheng también llegó a entender que ser una persona honesta es la única manera de comportarse como una auténtica persona y la única manera de alcanzar la alabanza de Dios, y por eso prometió ser un hombre honesto. Sin embargo, se demostró que ser un hombre honesto en el mundo real era difícil; con los hermanos y hermanas de la iglesia podía ser tan directo como debía; pero si lo era en el mundo de los negocios, ¿podría ganar dinero? A la larga no sólo ganaría menos dinero, además podría experimentar significativas pérdidas y arriesgarse a quedarse sin su negocio... Ante tales dificultades, ¿podría Zhen Cheng llevar su negocio con honestidad? ¿Qué tipo de giros inesperados ocurrirán en el proceso? ¿Cuál será su mayor recompensa?
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Here is another panoramic. Its still not where I want the image to be, might be over-processed. For some reason, panoramas are a challenge for me. Exposure never seems to be correct, there's blending issues, processing issues, etc. Im not sure if I should be blending the images first then process or vice versa. None the less it's fun and guess that's what matters.
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This view is of the school taken from within St Philip's churchyard, the school fronted onto St Philip's Place and was separated from the Cathedral by cast iron railings. The churchyard seemed a more pleasant place to dwell back in 1934, it was more like a park it had fewer seats and well tended gardens. To the left the shop blinds of Colmore Row may be seen at the point where Livery Street drops away at the side of Snow Hill Station. Just peeping over the doomed school building are the ornamental railings around the turret of what could be Edward Grey's department store in Upper Bull Street.
The Blue Coat School opened on the 9th August 1724, the building was designed by John Rawsthorne, it was intended for orphans and children of the poor. The school provided clothing, maintenance, a good elementary education and religious instruction according to the principals of the Church of England. Extensions and improvements were carried out in 1794 at a cost of £2,800. The school moved to new buildings, designed by J.L. Ball and H.W. Simister, at Somerset Road Harborne in 1930. This view shows the school at an early stage of demolition Circa 1934.
This and the other pictures in this set were taken by Miss Phyllis Nicklin on her new Leica camera, she was active with her 35mm work up until war broke out when she stopped, she re-started photography in the 1950's using colour slide film. Her colour work was left to the University of Birmingham and it has been scanned and is available for consultation, it is a wonderful collection of Birmingham views taken from around 1953 up until 1969. The pictures were used for a 'Then and Now' project during 2017 with the title "In the Footsteps of Phyllis..." the project involved 71 photographers who took 857 pictures. An exhibition of the work is planned for later in the year, it was co-ordinated by Dave Allen.
The story of the black and white films follows a familiar path. Phyllis Nickin's book and paper collection was left to the School of Geography, it was huge and took an entire room, with it arrived a box of rolled up 35mm films, nobody wanted them and they gathered dust until...yes "dump them" indeed a lot of them are unidentified blurry holiday pictures and are of no use but among them are some gems, Phyllis seemed to use the last few frames around Birmingham before handing the film in to 'Camera House' (Cannon Street) for processing. The real problem I have is that the films have coiled for 83 years, they are like bed springs and the only way of scanning them is the rather brutal method of using low-tack tape and taping them down to the scanner.
Phyllis Nicklin (Collection Geoff Dowling: All rights reserved)
Temps de Flors 2018, Girona.
Girona, Temps de Flors es una exposición de flores que se celebra en la ciudad de Girona desde 1954. Su creador fue María Cobarsí y fue en ese año que, junto con algunas mujeres de la Sección Femenina de la Falange, crearon la primera exposición Desde 1956, cada mes de mayo, se celebra este festival de primavera que atrae a personas de todo el mundo.
Girona, Temps de Flors is an exhibition of flowers that has been held in the city of Girona since 1954. Its creator was Maria Cobarsí and it was in that year that, together with some women from the Feminine Section of the Phalange, they set up the First exposure Since 1956, every month of May, this spring festival is celebrated that attracts people from all over the world.
I need more wigs and clothes!!! TT^TT
I have a temptation to redo her lips and her eye shadows.
MSC is out of stock and I have to wait for 2 weeks.
Purple is the color of good judgment. It is the color of people seeking spiritual fulfillment. It is said if you surround yourself with purple you will have peace of mind. Purple is a good color to use in meditation.
Purple has been used to symbolize magic and mystery, as well as royalty. Being the combination of red and blue, the warmest and coolest colors, purple is believed to be the ideal color. Most children love the color purple. Purple is the color most favored by artists. Thursday's color is purple.
Jimi Hendrix-Purple Haze www.youtube.com/watch?v=W55Smyyzs58&feature=fvwrel
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This was the highlight and reason for my Southern Arizona Adventure 2024. This is stage 8 of 9.
I was lucky to secure permits for the once monthly photography tour of Kartchner Caverns. Kartchner Caverns State Park strictly forbids any cameras or cellphones in the Caverns. Except for one trip per month for 12 to 15 photographers currently $125. I planned a 4 day 3 night road trip around Southern Arizona anchored by my Kartchner Cavern permit.
I was expecting dark conditions. The State Park turned on all the lights in the Big Room. They don't like turning on all the lights since can cause an increase in algae. This is the reason they only have one photography tour a month.
I found myself adjusting my histograms to not clip the highlights. Adapt, Improvise, and Overcome. Next time I am going to bracket my shots. I almost wish I had brought a ND filter or tried a handheld GND filter.
I don't know speleothems so I won't even try to identify. If anyone can help me with the identification, I will appreciate it.
www.nps.gov/subjects/caves/speleothems.htm#:~:text=The%20...)%20when%20needed.
The features that arouse the greatest curiosity for most cave visitors are speleothems. These stone formations exhibit bizarre patterns and other-worldly forms, which give some caves a wonderland appearance. Caves vary widely in their displays of speleothems because of differences in temperature; overall wetness; and jointing, impurities, and structures in the rocks. In general, however, one thing caves do have in common is where speleothems form. Although the formation of caves typically takes place below the water table in the zone of saturation, the deposition of speleothems is not possible until caves are above the water table in the zone of aeration. As soon as the chamber is filled with air, the stage is set for the decoration phase of cave building to begin.
The term speleothem refers to the mode of occurrence of a mineral—i.e., its morphology or how it looks—in a cave, not its composition (Hill, 1997). For example, calcite, the most common cave mineral, is not a speleothem, but a calcite stalactite is a speleothem. A stalactite may be made of other minerals, such as halite or gypsum.
Classifying speleothems is tricky because no two speleothems are exactly alike. Nevertheless, speleologists have taken three basic approaches: classification by morphology, classification by origin, and classification by crystallography. All three of these approaches have their problems (Hill, 1997), so cavers often take a more practical approach that primarily uses morphology (e.g., cave pearls) but includes whatever is known about origin (e.g., geysermites) and crystallography (e.g., spar) when needed.
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The Kartchner Caverns, rated one of the world's 10 most beautiful caves, is an eerie wonderland of stalactites and stalagmites still growing beneath the Whetstone Mountains 40 miles southeast of Tucson.
The limestone cave has 13,000 feet of passages and hundreds of formations built over the past 200,000 years, including some that are unique and world-renowned. It's a "living cave," with intricate formations that continue to grow as water seeps, drips and flows from the walls and slowly deposits the mineral calcium carbonate.
The caverns were discovered by amateur spelunkers Randy Tufts and Gary Tenen in 1974 on land owned by the Kartchner family. They kept the cave a secret until 1988, when the Kartchners sold it to the state to become a state park.
The highlights of the Big Room tour are a stretch of strawberry flowstone, which has been colored red by iron oxide (rust) in the water, and a maternity ward for 1,800 female cave myotis bats, with black grime on the ceiling where the bats hang and piles of guano on the floor. Visitors who look closely will see a bat's body embedded in one of the cave's formations.
Though not all are available on the tours, the caverns' unique features include a 21-foot, 2-inch soda straw that's one the world's largest (Throne Room), the world's most extensive formation of brushite moonmilk (Big Room), the first reported occurrence of "turnip" shields (Big Room), the first cave occurrence of "birdsnest" needle quartz formations (Big Room) and the remains of a Shasta ground sloth from the Pleistocene Age (Big Room).
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Kartchner Caverns State Park is a state park of Arizona, United States, featuring a show cave with 2.4 miles (3.9 km) of passages.[1] The park is located 9 miles (14 km) south of the town of Benson and west of the north-flowing San Pedro River. Long hidden from view, the caverns were discovered in 1974 by local cavers, assisted by state biologist Erick Campbell who helped in its preservation.
The park encompasses most of a down-dropped block of Palaeozoic rocks on the east flank of the Whetstone Mountains.
The caverns are carved out of limestone and filled with spectacular speleothems which have been growing for 50,000 years or longer, and are still growing. Careful and technical cave state park development and maintenance, initially established by founder Dr. Bruce Randall "Randy" Tufts, geologist, were designed to protect and preserve the cave system throughout the park's development, and for perpetuity.[3]
The two major features of the caverns accessible to the public are the Throne Room and the Big Room. The Throne Room contains one of the world's longest (21 ft 2 in (6.45 m))[5] soda straw stalactites and a 58-foot (18 m) high column called Kubla Khan, after the poem. The Big Room contains the world's most extensive formation of brushite moonmilk. Big Room cave tours are closed during the summer for several months (April 15 to October 15) each year because it is a nursery roost for cave bats, however the Throne Room tours remain open year-round.[8]
Other features publicly accessible within the caverns include Mud Flats, Rotunda Room, Strawberry Room, and Cul-de-sac Passage. Approximately 60% of the cave system is not open to the public.[9]
Many different cave formations can be found within the caves and the surrounding park. These include cave bacon, helictites, soda straws, stalactites, stalagmites and others.[12] Cave formations like the stalactites and stalagmites grow approximately a 16th of an inch every 100 years.[13]
Haiku thoughts:
Beneath earth's cool veil,
Stalactites in silence grow,
Whispers of stone deep.
Kartchner
Southern Arizona Adventure 2024
Thisbis mack he is a an albino snow mac leopard gecko. I know the quality is rubbish but i only got him yesterday i'm letting him settle in before stunning him with the camera
Badir is a thirty-one Iraqi who had been living in Brooklyn. He and Bronco had a brief but powerful love affair. After having to go back to Iraq, Bronco so much wants to be reunited with him.
Beauty is when you can appreciate yourself. When you love yourself, that's when you're most beautiful.
Fred is Billy's second cousin, twice removed.
He is also a frog.
Fred the Frog.
He is also Kermit the Frog's lesser know brother.
Pepe's, too. They're all brothers, separated at birth.
He does not do much.
Frogs are amphibians.
Just an interesting fact for you about frogs.
What do you mean you already knew that?
A common fact?
Dang...
Well, this is awkward.
Anyway!
I encourage you to make Fred.
So does Billy.
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This picture is #83 in my 3rd round of the 100 strangers project. Find out more about the project and see pictures taken by other photographers at the 100 Strangers Flickr Group page
The last picture from my session last Friday evening. It was getting later, the light was starting to go but I wanted to get one last picture. There's a walk way at the end of Denham Street that a few others have used in the past and I was keen to use it as a background because, under exposed in low light, it looked rather otherworldly. I waited for quite a while, and just as I was beginning to think that I was going to have to pack it in I saw Ellie walking towards me. She was happy to work with me thankfully so I whipped out the reflector and we got to work. She was very apologetic about the whisps of hair floating around but there wasn't much we could do because it was windy, and I quite like the effect.
She works at a theatre near by. She'd spent a lot of time in Grahamstown in South Africa, where my mother lived as a child, and where my wife used to spend a lot of time at the annual festival which is a bit like SA's version of the Edinburgh Festival so good common ground.
So what started out as a difficult stranger shooting session with three people in a row not wishing to play ended up as an awesome session with more than a few wonderful encounters. I headed home with a spring in my step reminded once again that perseverance pays off.
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I know the title won't win any prizes for originality, but I just can't think of anything else. Neither Cassie, our dog, or I have had much energy for walks recently and so we have been mooching around a wildflower meadow in a local Woodland Trust area. I've only had my macro lens with me as I didn't want to carry any other heavy lenses around and so I have been looking for butterflies, moths, bugs and wildflowers. It's been very interesting to watch what is happening in this tiny world week by week.
After almost catching up with my contacts at the weekend, I've been unable to see most of the images on Flickr on my computer for some reason. It's improved a little now and so I'll hopefully be visiting everyone again over the next few days.
This is a video of bike ride i did yesterday up a mountain called Meall an Uillt Chreagaich which is about 2850 feet high in the Cairngorms. I started in Glen Feshie, which is a stunning place and full of heather at the moment. Then i headed up the track to the top of the mountain and now i'm knackered!
Cayucos is a quiet beach town located on California Highway 1, a short drive from Morro Bay (about 7 miles) and 20 miles from San Luis Obispo. Details are available at Cayucos by the Sea.
During our stay, the daytime temperature was a delightful 90 degrees F, and two years ago when we stayed at the same location it reached 100!
Kochi is the famous industrial and business capital of Kerala. Kochin now Kochi is a natural port situated at the bank of the Arabian ocean. From ancient times it was famous for its trade, among British, Dutch, and Portugal merchants.
Kochi is not only famous for trade but for the places to visit in Kochi. Black pepper, cardamom, coconut, rubber, coconut oil are mainly exported from this port. Kochi is constructed with 10 small islands. Kochi is considered the 2nd largest port after Mumbai in India.
is the SP4449 locomotive pulling the Holiday Express, Portland, Oregon. Click here to see the 13 frames used to create the above as a looping time-lapse. 2021 Holiday Express Schedule. Tips for Photographing the Holiday Express. OM1548-60
Stourhead is the best example of a garden inspired by the great landscape painters of the seveneeenth century. Ernst Gombrich suggests it should bear the signature of an Italianized French painter: Claude Lorrain (1600-82). The Stourhead garden was made by a wealthy English banker who had been buying works of art in Italy at the time he inherited the Stourhead estate. Henry Hoare II's 'Claudian' garden was made in an unusually well-proportioned valley behind the house. The Temple of Flora at Stourhead was made in 1745 and the grotto in 1748. But the key date was 1754, when the lake and the Pantheon were made. It is based on the Pantheon in Rome and the planned walk through the estate is based on the journey of Rome's legendry founder, Aeneas. The five-arched bridge was made in 1762 and the Temple of Apollo in 1765. Gothic features were added later in the century: Alfred's Tower, a Rustic Cottage and a Hermitage.The Stourhead woods were underplanted with Rhododendron ponticum after 1791 and with more exotic species in the twentieth century.
Lying in secluded privacy in its own valley, Stourhead in Wiltshire features one of the world’s finest landscape gardens making it perfect for a fantastic day out.
A magnificent lake is central to the design at Stourhead, with the lakes edge being adorned with classical temples, enchanting grottos and rare and exotic trees to discover.
The Hoare family history can be uncovered in Stourhead House, a majestic Palladian mansion housing a unique Regency library with fabulous collections of Chippendale furniture and paintings, all set amid delightful lawns and parkland.
Stourhead is at the heart of a 1,072-hectare (2,650 acre) estate where chalk downs, ancient woods and farmland are managed for nature conservation and perfect to explore.
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The cheetah is built for speed. It has long, slim, muscular legs, a small, rounded head set on a long neck, a flexible spine, a deep chest, nonretractable claws, special pads on its feet for traction and a long, tail for balance. Although fast, the cheetah cannot run at full speed for long distances (100 yards is about the limit) because it may overheat.
Cheetahs have distinctive black "tear stripes" that connect from the inside corner of each eye to the mouth that may serve as an antiglare device for daytime hunting.
cone is ca 10 cm long whilst the needles are up to 15 cm
www.conifers.org/pi/Pinus_halepensis.php
Pinus halepensis
Miller 1768
Common names
Aleppo pine; الصنوبر الحلبي [Arabic]; Pin d'Alep [French]; pino d'Aleppo [Italian]; Alepski bor [Croation]; Halep çamı [Turkish]; אורן ירושלים [Hebrew]; pino carrasco [Spanish]. Aleppo is in Syria, where the species was first described.
Taxonomic notes
Synonymy (Farjon 1998):
P. alepensis Poir. in Lamarck 1804
Pinus maritima Mill. 1768
Pinus sylvestris L. var. maritima Aiton 1789
Pinus maritima Aiton 1813 non Mill. 1768
Pinus penicillus Lepeyr. 1813
Pinus arabica Sieber ex Spreng. 1826
Pinus genuensis S.E. Cook 1834
Pinus halepensis Mill. var. genuensis (S.E. Cook) Antoine 1840
Pinus hispanica J. Cook 1834
Pinus halepensis Mill. var. minor Antoine 1840
Pinus carica D. Don in Fellows 1841
Pinus halepensis Mill. var. carica (D. Don) Carr. 1855
Pinus abasica Carr. 1855
Pinus halepensis Mill. var. abasica (Carr.) Carr. 1867
Pinus loiseleuriana Carr. 1855
Pinus pseudohalepensis Denhardt ex Carr. 1855
Pinus parolinii Vis. 1856
Pinus × saportae Rouy 1913
Pinus ceciliae Llorens et L. Llorens 1984
Pinus halepensis Mill. var. ceciliae (Llorens et L. Llorens) Rosello et al. 1992
Description
Trees 15–25 m tall and up to 150 cm DBH. Single round trunk, often divided to form in mature trees a rounded or flat-topped crown of slender, irregular horizontal, upturned branches; crown form often shaped by wind, especially near the sea. Bark at first smooth silvery gray, later becomings purple-brown, longitudinally grooved and fissured into scaly plates. Branchlets smooth, slightly ridged, gray-green. Winter buds conic, 8 mm long, the scales fringed and often reflexed. Needles in fascicles of 2(–3), 5–12 cm × 1 mm, twisted, edges minutely serrate, with stomata on all surfaces; rather sparsely arrayed along the branchlets. Fascicle sheath persistent but fragile. Seed cones on thick, scaly peduncles; at maturity ovoid, pendant, 6–12 × 4–7 cm, symmetrical, red- to purple-brown, solitary or in whorls of 2–3. Cones take 3 years to mature and remain on branches for long thereafter. Cone scales shiny, yellow- or red-brown, about 2.5 × 1.5 cm, apophysis rhomboid, flat or slightly raised and keeled, without a prickle. Seed 5-6 mm long with a 2.5 cm wing (Dallimore et al. 1967, Farjon 1984).
Distribution and Ecology
Mediterreanean and W Asia: Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Libya, Israel, Jordan, Syria, Lebanon, Turkey, Greece, Albania, Montenegro, Bosnia & Herzegovina, Croatia, Italy, Malta, France, and Spain. In South Africa, where it is cultivated for shelter poles and firewood, it has naturalized and invaded grassland and fynbos, particularly on dry soils, and become widespread in the Eastern Cape and the Western Cape (Palgrave 2002). It is also locally naturalized in USA: California (PLANTS database 2009.03.31). Hardy to Zone 8 (cold hardiness limit between -12.1°C and -6.7°C) (Bannister and Neuner 2001).
Big tree
I have no data on wild trees. A specimen in Arderne Gardens, Claremont, Cape Town, South Africa was measured at 172 cm dbh and 32.0 m tall (Robert Van Pelt pers. comm., 2003.11.24).
Oldest
Dendrochronology
Pioneering work was carried out by Gindel (1944). Further work can be located at the Bibliography of Dendrochronology.
Ethnobotany
In the eastern Mediterranean, Pinus halepensis forests are important for resin, fuelwood and forest honey production and also for livestock grazing. "Resin collection activities in Mediterranean countries had always played a significant role in the welfare of forest communities, some of which lived marginally at the edge of subsistence. In some low-income areas, resin collection was (and continue to be) the only reliable source of labor. In addition, many of the resin producing forests are community forests and production benefits go to resin community co-operatives. Another important aspect of these forests is that multiple purpose forestry is applied and other activities other than resin collection co-exist, such as apiculture... Income from the wood of a Pinus halepensis tree, for example, is only 2% of the income generated from resin throughout the lifetime of the tree (an average size tree can produce 3–4 kilograms of resin per year). Moreover, it has been observed that forests that have active resin production have lower incidence of forest fires. This results from the fact that adjacent communities have an active interest in preserving the integrity of the forest ecosystems" (Moussouris and Regato 1999).
Observations
Here is Allen Bill Pond, a lovely manmade fishing pond just down the road from Elbow Falls, a little ways into the Canadian Rockies.
It is truly a gorgeous and idyllic spot, and always brings back happy memories for me, as it is a place I have been visiting with my family and friends as far back as I can remember!
... is the central square of Brussels. It is surrounded by guildhalls, the city's Town Hall, and the Breadhouse (French: Maison du Roi, Dutch: Broodhuis). The square is the most important tourist destination and most memorable landmark in Brussels. It measures 68 by 110 metres (223 by 360 ft), and it is a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
With architecture from 3 different eras (Baroque, Gothic and Louis XIV) making their marks on the square giving it an eclectic flavour.
This is definitely my favourite piece from the Re-Ment Sailor Moon cafe set. It looks good enough to gobble right up! Surprisingly, this is the only Re-Ment cherry pie I have... almost everything else is strawberries!
Strandvägen is a boulevard that was created in the second half of the nineteenth century in Stockholm's Östermalm district. The boulevard, which looks out over the water, is lined with grand, almost palatial buildings that were designed by some of the top architects of the day.
‘is such a sad affair..’
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I recommend zooming in with L or just tapping the picture on the phone to see the detail. Yee Haw!!!
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Standing outside the bus depot at Beamish Museum is this Weymann-bodied Leyland Olympian LW1, UK registered 521 CTF.
The bus was new in October 1957 to John Fishwick & Sons of Leyland in Lancashire as their fleet No.7. It was the first of six similar chassis-less buses purchased by the company that year.
Fishwick's garage was situated immediately adjacent to the Leyland Motors factory, so it is hardly surprising that their fleet was heavily Leyland biased.
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