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A large falcon that is endemic to South Asia including parts of India, Pakistan and Bangladesh. This is as large as a Peregine Falcon and taller than Saker Falcon, but more leaner unlike the bulky build of Saker Falcon or Peregrine Falcon. We sighted them on two days in action - they were hunting in the area and one of them was fighting with the Saker Falcon. They seem to be quite common in the desert regions and as a fan of falcons was delighted to be sighting them and seeing them in action.
This was sighted in Pokhran, again a desert region. The bird was hunting in the area possibly targeting the many small birds like Pipits, Larks, Crested Larks, Wheatears etc.. There was no dearth of prey. Unfortunately, we didn't see it with any catch though and we were in a rush to see the Indian Bustards, so had to move along.
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De mandarijn eend is een ‘vreemde vogel’ in Nederland en andere delen van Europa. Van oorsprong komt hij hier namelijk niet voor. Hij kwam hier door toedoen van de mens…
Het verenkleed van mannelijke mandarijneenden is erg opvallend en kleurrijk. Eén keer per jaar, tijdens de rui, verliezen ze hun kleurenpracht echter. Dan zijn ze net zo bruingekleurd als de vrouwtjes.
We noemen dit het ‘eclipskleed’. Alleen de rode snavel verraadt wie het mannetje is.
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there is always someone watching you. never forget this. no matter if it is day, night, a foggy morning, the deepest of darknesses, there is always someone, something. always.
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This photo is from Marado [Mara Island]. Marado represents the southernmost point in South Korean territory. The island is about 30km from the southern port of Jeju and the trip by ferry took about 15-20 minutes. The island is comparatively small (approximately 0.3 square kilometers) and you can walk around its entirety at a leisurely pace in about 90 minutes. Marado is home to about 90 residents and "…has long been known for its population being composed of strong women and docile men." (Wiki). While there, we saw traditional "haenyeo" women divers actively working at their trade of free diving to gather seafood.
This is a shrine set in shallow water just south of Isola del Tinetto. South of Porto Venere, Cinque Terre. I couldn’t find out much about this statue but I imagine it is some sort of sea faring shrine.
By Catherine Boeckmann
February 9, 2024
The daylily is an amazingly low-maintenance perennial. It’s virtually disease-free, pest-free, and drought-resistant; it’s also not picky about soil quality. Plus, the flower has a long bloom period! Here’s how to plant and care for daylilies in your garden, as well as how to easily propagate them for more plants!
About Daylilies
The daylily’s botanical name, Hemerocallis, comes from the Greek hemera (“day”) and kallos (“beauty”). The name is appropriate since each flower lasts only one day! However, each scape has 12 to 15 buds on it, and a mature plant can have 4 to 6 scapes, which is why the flower seems to bloom continuously.
Originally from Asia, these plants have adapted so well that many of us think of them as natives. Imagine the excitement of a 16th-century explorer cruising the Orient and finding these gorgeous plants! European gardeners welcomed daylilies into their gardens, and when early colonists sailed for the New World, daylilies made the crossing with them.
Despite their name, daylilies are not “true lilies” and grow from fleshy roots. True lilies grow from onion-like bulbs and are of the genus Lilium, as are Asiatic and Oriental lilies. In the case of daylilies, leaves grow from a crown, and the flowers form on leafless stems—called “scapes”—which rise above the foliage.
There are thousands of beautiful daylilies to choose from. Combine early, midseason, late blooming varieties, and repeat bloomers to have daylilies in flower from late spring through the first frost of fall. If you see a height listed alongside a daylily variety, this refers to the length of the scape. Some can reach 6 feet tall!
For more information please visit
www.almanac.com/plant/daylilies
These Daylilies were photographed at Pashley Manor Gardens. At Pashley you will discover 11 acres of beautiful borders and vistas – the culmination of a lifetime of passion for gardening, an appetite for beauty and an admiration of the tradition of the English Country garden. These graceful gardens, on the border of Sussex and Kent, are family owned and maintained – visitors often express delight at the attention to detail displayed throughout and the intimate, peaceful atmosphere.
All the ingredients of the English Country Garden are present – sweeping herbaceous borders, ha-ha, well maintained lawns, box hedges, espaliered rose walk, historic walled garden, inspiring kitchen garden, venerable trees and the Grade I listed house as a backdrop. The gardens are a haven for wildlife – bees, butterflies and small birds as well as moor hens, ducks and a black swan. Then, of course, the plants! Borders overflowing with perennials and annuals – the look changing through the seasons, but always abundantly filled, and each garden ‘room’ planted in a different colour theme.
Pashley is also renowned for fantastic displays of tulips, roses and dahlias. Our annual Tulip Festival features more than 48,000 tulips this year! During Special Rose Week over a hundred varieties of rose swathe the walls, climb obelisks and bloom in flower beds. Then in late summer our Dahlia Days event transforms the gardens once more with bountiful, brightly coloured dahlias in every border and pot.
Add to all this a Café and Terrace with excellent garden views, serving delicious homemade lunches, scones and cakes; Sculpture and Art Exhibitions; a Gift Shop with Plant Sales; and a friendly, knowledgeable team waiting to welcome you, and the recipe for a wonderful day out is complete.
For more information please visit www.pashleymanorgardens.com/
This is in th e"Not Terribly good club" I heard when I got to Royal Park today there was a female Pink Robin hanging around the park. I finally found it, but could not get a clear shot of it. There's always tomorrow.
At Stowe Landscape Garden.
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The mausoleum is to honour of the hero Pahlavon Mahmud, writer, philosopher and fighter who has become a patron saint of Chiwa. After the legend he helped the Indian ruler, and to recompense him, he asked what he wants as a present. He asked to release his fellow citizens in the prison so many as possible who could contain a cowhide. This was accepted, but he cut it in thin pieces to receive a very long belt which saved a big number of them.
The mausoleum comes from 1362, however, was rebuilt in 19. and in 1913 to be converted into the mausoleum of the Khan family. The room is in the Persian style with a turquoise-coloured dome in which the grave of the Khan Mohammed Rakhim is accommodated. In another space there is the tomb of Pahlavon Mahmud, decorates with tiles.
The Bentall Centre is a large shopping centre in Kingston upon Thames, Greater London, England, which opened in 1992. It has been built in the retail space of Bentalls department store, first established on the site in 1867. Bentalls, now part of the Fenwick group, retains a large premium department store in the development. The centre is located adjacent to John Lewis Kingston, as well as the historic market town centre. There are 75 stores within the centre
Happy Every Day Is Stairs Day!
The building in the background is Saffron Square tower is.
Well, it's hard to miss it even if you tried.
The 43-storey tower stands a whopping 134 metres tall and is the borough's second tallest building, behind only 101 George Street, the tallest modular tower in the world.
Saffron Square tower is visible from several miles away and is undoubtedly a distinctive part of Croydon's skyline, mainly due to its purple, shiny appearance.
Northumberland is England’s northernmost county, and it sits right on the border with Scotland. It’s historical hot property, a land long fought over by kingdoms and invaders – evident in its many castles, citadels and the 2,000-year-old Hadrian’s Wall.
blue skies and spring blossoms. The approaching spring fills me with such happiness!!!
This is for the group Parallel Vision~Word of the Week~Happy(~.~)
Now that flickr is working again, I will be doing some catching up! Thanks to all of my wonderful contacts, for all of your encouragement and support. You are all so sweet and inspire me to no end!
Edit~I used this texture from les brumes as well as one from Skeletal Mess.:-)
"Nature is painting for us, day after day, pictures of infinite beauty if only we have the eyes to see them." (John Ruskin)
Have a fine day - I'll try to visit your photostreams tonight...
The Tamrack is one of my favorite trees - when in Springtime it buds out so soft and almost fuzzy feeling ...it then takes on the appearance of the typical pine tree with needles and as fall approaches the greens begin to lighten and eventually become golden - it's pine cones tiny and so perfect.
The train is a green Pullman carriage that was armored and weighed 83 tons. Stalin used the train for travel starting in 1941, including trips to the Yalta and Tehran Conferences. Stalin had a phobia about flying so instead he travelled from place to place in the Soviet Union using this train carriage. The train was recovered from the railway yards in Rostov-on-Don in 1985 and is now on display at the Stalin Museum in Gori, Georgia.
This is a shot from City Beach. City Beach is one of our suburban beaches which has a beautiful grassed area plus many cafes and restaurants. In addition, there is quite a lot of striking and thoughtful architecture. Perhaps not as nice as Scarborough Beach (3-5 km north) but a very place to visit.
As a general rule, all the suburban beaches in Perth, Western Australia are stunning. Here the blue water and sky contrast with the pure white sand. No colour enhancement needed.
This is a merged image of 3 sets of HDR. Since the low fog changed rapidly and HDR can present its 3D effect. Lake Kawaguchi Bridge is showing in the fog.
拍攝富士山雲海時，發現HDR比較能呈現雲海立體的感覺，所以拍攝了三組各七張的相片，組合成這張全景，下面若隱若現的是河口湖大橋。
~天下茶屋前, 河口湖, 山梨県, 日本
Lake Kawaguji, Japan
- ISO 100, F16, 1/80~1/2 sec(3 sets of 7 shots HDR), 70 mm
- Canon 5D MarkIII with EF 16-35mm f/2.8 L lens
- Sunrise @ 6.16am (112º) / Shot @ 6.45am
- Visibility 0.21km @ 7.00am/ Humidity 100% @6.50am
- Temperature 11.1ºC @ 6.50am
“There is enough in the world for everyone’s need, but not enough for everyone’s greed.”
Frank Buchman
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SIGMA 10-20mm f 3.5 dc hsm
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It is happening again.
Checking your phone won’t stop it.
Full circle, a rugged wheel has turned and stopped
As if retired from its last monster truck rally
Its shadow as heavy as its material density
You sat there all day distracting yourself as usual
But that wheel remained like a portal
If you went up to it, it could be dangerous
First, an arm and then a foot might pass through.
You can see yourself and your life in a different timeline
One in which you didn’t waste your days.
An adventurer for the ages.
You traveled to all the wonders
Had no regrets
Enjoyed each moment of your existence
And one day that other self heard a faint
Ringing in your other ears
A sharp pain behind your alternative eyes
And you just knew, didn’t you?
We tire of the same realities day after day.
I glimpsed a girl passing through
A young human can still eclipse the whole world.
Speeding like a scene in a fast forwarded film
Upset because she had lost a part of herself
A single eyelash carrying the weight of reality
Landing on her cheek softly like a secret
Stolen by a single breeze
A wish she would never get back again.
**All poems and photos are copyrighted**
This is the old ranch road that goes down to the beach & laguna at Arroyo de la Cruz. This view across the soft chaparral to the ridge across the highway (on the Hearst Ranch, private property) caught my eye on a visit on a cold, foggy morning. Boy, was I glad to get away from the freezing blasts at the blufftop trail into a bit of shelter from these scrubby Monterey pines! This is a reliably interesting walk -- but more pleasant on calm days. Non-existent in spring or early summer, in my experience,
Talsi is characterised by its location by nine hills and two lakes. Vilkmuiža Lake is the one farther from the centre of town, surrounded by an attractive walking and cycling path and, at the right time of year, lots of wild flowers.
Talsi is a little market town (population 11,000) in inland western Latvia, nicknamed the "green pearl of Courland".
This description incorporates text from the English Wikipedia.
This is love: to fly toward a secret sky, to cause a hundred veils to fall each moment. First to let go of life. Finally, to take a step without feet.
Rumi
This is the oldest British flyable aircraft.
Built in 1912 by Robert Blackburn, it is the only one of this model constructed.
If you look very carefully, you can just see the engine cylinders, below the propeller shaft, which rotate around the crankshaft in the opposite direction to the propeller, as this is a rotary engine (not to be confused with a radial engine.)
Turns are aided by warping or twisting the wings via cables. Wing warping was invented and patented by the Wright Brothers, who vigorously defended their patents - it is likely that Wilbur, in particular, spent more time in court than he ever spent in the air.
Despite its fragile appearance, the Blackburn type D was capable of 60mph and a flight duration of more than 2 hours.
The aircraft was damaged in a landing accident in 1914 and later purchased by Richard Shuttleworth. It was restored to flight in 1947 and can be seen on calm days flying at The Shuttleworth Collection's base of Old Warden.
Every year is happening the Sommernachtstraum in the Olympic Park Munich and it ends always with an impressive fireworks display. This picture was taken in front of the BMW World
Your first love is always alive and lives all time in your heart. How much you try to forget.It never goes away from your heart!
It happens only for once and second time is always a compromise made to forgot the first love.
The first love was,is and will be serene...
This is what happens when I try to take a shortcut home to make it in time for dinner and end up choosing the least safe route. Sammy and I almost became dinner ourselves!
I'm wearing:
MadPea Shark Bite Hat
MONTANA Tee by Cold-Ash
CHINO Shorts by Cold-Ash
[P.0.E] - Messenger Bag (Demo) Crate
REBELLION = "ELLISON" SANDALS
Props:
Synnergy Flooded Room Backdrop (dismantled and altered for my scene)
Dock piling (2 Prim) by Kagehi Kohn
My lovely pet ♥
JIAN Pets Splashy Spaniels / Brit. Gold
The bitey sharks:
JIAN Sharks
Background was taken at Fruit Islands Surf beach (Frozen Banana)
It is no secret how durable and long lasting EMD locomotive are, in particular the GP38-2 and SD40-2 series. I kidnapped my dad yesterday, took him out to lunch, and of course stropped by the train yard afterward to see what was going on.
Sitting on the service track in Provo was an SD40N. It had just arrived from service on the weekday only LUL41 local that plies the rails of the Provo Sub main, the Tintic, and Provo Industrial Lead.
When I arrived at home I pulled up the archive to see if I had shot UP 1696. Surprisingly, nothing to show. After a quick internet search, I discovered the "snoot" was built UP 3432 by EMD in April 1978.
One more search revealed I had not photographed 3432 either, but Doug Harrop had. It was assigned to lead a Rio Grande detour train, specifically hot intermodal train 100 east out of Ogden. Mr. Harrop got a great photo as UP 3432 passed through the CTC crossovers at Strawberry, a few miles east of Ogden on June 22, 1983.
Rudesheim is situated in the the Rheingau and Rüdesheim Rhine River Gorge winery area.
There are dozens of wine tasting and buying venues in Rudesheim. This is one restaurant, tasting room and wine store in Rudesheim.
The room is the cellar of the hotel Felsenkeller.
There are a total of 380 winemakers in the region marketing their own products. Most are family run companies tending vineyards of between four and eight hectares. There are also three local cooperatives and around two dozen large wine estates (between approx. 10 and 50 hectares). These export a considerable proportion of their production and thus contribute to the fame and reputation of Rheingau Riesling.