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"I think I could turn and live with the animals
they are so placid and self contained.
I stand and look at them long and long.
They do not sweat and whine about their condition,
They do not wake in the dark and weep for their sins,
They do not make me sick discussing their duty to God,
Not one is dissatisfied,not one is demented with the mania of owning things,
Not one kneels to another, nor to his kind that lived thousands of years ago,
Not one is respectable or unhappy over the whole earth'-Walt Whitman
I love Walt Whitman, but I do wonder if animals are actually happy? I think their lives are actually quit difficult, and often made more so by us.
Tulips have often been associated with the Netherlands, a major producer of the bulb like flower. The flower represents passion, belief, and love. Things that everyone could sure use right now in the current pandemic crisis. This shot from my backlog archives was taken at the Gardens by the Bay.
Taken at the Melbourne International Flowers and Garden Show.
Some interesting facts on Tulip.
The Dutch obsession with tulips began with Flemish botanist Carolus Clusius. When he was made director of Leiden University's new Hortus Botanicus (botanical garden) in 1593 he planted some of his own tulip bulbs. As a result, 1594 is considered the official date of tulips first blooming in Holland.
Carolus Clusius was also the first person to identify "broken tulips" which is a viral infection that caused beautiful streaks in the petals. Clusius would go on to create many new color variations of tulips.
Tulips started to become highly prized in Holland in the 1600s as some of Clusius unique tulip variations at Leiden became much sought after.
This led to a period from 1634 to 1637 known as "Tulip mania" when enthusiasm for the new flower started an economic frenzy and one of the world's first 'speculative bubbles'. The value of tulips shot up nearly overnight, they became the most expensive flower in the world, so expensive that they were treated as a form of currency.
At the peak of tulip mania certain bulbs were selling for 10 times more than the annual income of a skilled worker and a valuable tulip bulb could change hands up to ten times in a day. Tulip mania was short-lived though and the whole economy eventually crashed.
Today, the Netherlands is still the world's main producer of commercially sold tulips, producing as many as 3 billion bulbs annually, mostly for export.
Tulip petals are actually able to be eaten, during the Dutch famine of 1944 in WWII people often had to resort to eating sugar beets and tulips.
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Hold me...My broken body and heart demand it from you.
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Halloween comes yet once a year spreading out all the Haunted Houses and decorated lawns for your nightmare pleasures. Purple is mania when it comes to splashing from home to home to your own hair! Gotta have it!
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Don't let your dracula teeth fall out!
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A very moody shot due to lockdown mania. I have been fiddling with photos all morning but not very happy with any of them so this is my dark moody shot as a result!!!
I bought this daisy in the flower shop and as I was paying for it, a man walked in and said, "Did ya see all those ladybugs outside today?" And I said, "WHERE! ... I want to shoot them?!!?" After I clarified what I meant and he realized I didn't mean with a gun, he showed me where they were. At least a hundred flying around this one spot in the back of the shop. I just put her on the daisy and she crawled to the perfect spot. ;-)
EXPLORE #211
Some scientists believe that milk protein can be addictive. When digested, milk protein creates casomorphins, which are opioid-like compounds that can trigger addictive responses in the brain.
I don't know about the casomorphins but the three shots of rum help.
Stag Beetle ~ Catford ~ London ~ England ~ June 12th 2014.
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Beetle Mania is alive n well..lol...:)
Well, I had a half day at work one summer afternoon, a few years ago, so was able to get home by 1pm...which was lucky, because otherwise I'd have missed seeing these guys in my garden and had I not made it back when I did, they may have come to a sticky end...as the male and female Beetles had got themselves trapped in one of my upturned Closhes, which had some water inside it, the female was half submerged in the water and the male was desperately trying to claw his way out...the Hot June sun was beating down, so had I not got back when I did, I think they would have either drowned or been roasted to death.. and as they are a protected species and endangered, I'd like to think I've done my bit to help the species...especially as the female immediately went and buried herself after I released her...so hopefully in 6 ish years, If I'm still about, there's gonna be more of these lil critters ..emerging.......................................................................................................................................................................
Bury a bucket at home to save British stag beetles
Menacing but harmless insect is dying out as patios wipe out its habitat :Email: Robin McKie, science editor
The Observer, Sunday 22 June 2008
Wildlife experts have appealed for help in saving one of the country's most endangered and exotic creatures: the stag beetle. They want householders to bury buckets of woodchips in their gardens to provide them with emergency shelter and food even though the evening flights of these giant insects through English gardens and barbecues can often trigger mayhem and hysteria.The stag beetle is harmless, however, say naturalists, who also warn that it is now threatened by habitat loss, having become extinct in several parts of Europe.
The larva of the stag beetle (Lucanus cervus) thrives on a diet of rotting wood and decaying roots which it consumes for several years before turning into a fully fledged beetle which can grow up to four inches in length.
'A buried bucket provides an ideal breeding site,' said Jill Nelson of the People's Trust for Endangered Species which is backing the plan. 'Females can lay their eggs there and the resulting larvae can develop into adult beetles.'
The stag beetle is one of the most distinctive insects in the British Isles and gets its name from the male's spectacularly oversized mandibles which are used in courtship displays and to battle with rival males.
However, the stag beetle - although once common in southern England - has recently suffered from the spread of intensified farming and of housing estates. This has had a devastating effect on its habitat and its population is now seriously threatened, say wildlife experts.
'Just the fact that people tend to keep their gardens tidier than they used to, with bigger patios and well groomed beds, is having an effect,' added Nelson. 'There is not enough old wood or roots for them to eat.'
Stag beetles spend nearly all their lives underground as larvae. For six or seven years, they eat rotting wood until they grow to the size of a small plum. The Romans used to eat these fattened larvae as a delicacy.
Once a larva reaches an optimum size, the stag beetle then emerges from its underground lair, around May and June, and begins to look for partners, a process that lasts for five or six weeks. 'In that time, they mate and the female lays her eggs,' said Nelson. 'Then the adults die and the cycle of life repeats itself.'
Males are most often seen in flight on warm summer evenings in their search for mates while females are often seen at ground level, looking for suitable places to lay eggs. And it is this last part of the insect's lifecycle that experts are asking householders to aid. By burying buckets of woodchip and soil, gardeners could provide homes for stag beetles for the next six years.
Coleccionar es una actividad gratificante y beneficiosa desde el punto de vista psicológico.
Acumular sin más, sin criterio, sin sentido, puede ser un síntoma de trastorno obsesivo.
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Siempre al llegar a una playa, lo primero, recoger una piedra. Con el paso de los años, cada vez mas pequeña ( por el tema del espacio ).
¿ Por qué guardamos tantas cosas inútiles ?
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Emily Mei - MANIA (Where Them Girls At)
Eyes on me
What you see?
Never fakin, no no
Wanna fix
What they fear
Know I can't be controlled
Thank you, but no thank you I can do it do it better
Tell me all your fantasies I'll show you something hotter, yeah yeah
When I go out it's all on me
I buy my rocks I buy my rings
And the all black whip I got the keys
It go like woo
Some say I'm intimidating
They're intimidated, that's not on me
Show you my tricks but not for free
Baby don't you wanna play the game
All the warning signs but you still know you wanna
Cuz it's dark inside, but a beautiful crime
You can't run and hide
Better watch your back
Cuz i go off like a maniac
We like,
Where them girls, where them girls, where them girls at?
Where them girls, where them girls, where them girls at?
Oooo you don't know how to act
Cause I break rules yeah I'm always cracked
It be like
Where them girls, where them girls, where them girls at?
Where them girls, where them girls, where them girls at?
Look up
I look like a boss
I walk and talk like a boss
If you ever doubted I'm about it
I'm an ace it's your loss, yeah
Always hit my mark
We up, no cooldown, no no
And the ones who tried to cross me
KD, OP to zero
Baby don't you wanna play the game
All the warning signs but still you know you wanna
Cuz it's dark inside, but a beautiful crime
You can't run and hide
Woah woah
You better watch your back
Cuz i go off like a maniac
We like,
Where them girls, where them girls, where them girls at?
Where them girls, where them girls, where them girls at?
Oooo you don't know how to act
Cause I break rules yeah I'm always cracked
It be like
Where them girls, where them girls, where them girls at?
Where them girls, where them girls, where them girls at?
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- curb weight 416 kg
- top speed 45 km/h
^)(^ SORRY: I have to "slow down" (probably fewer photos, fewer input in groups, fewer comments and slower responses, etc.) for the next coming weeks, because we renovate our house ♫♪
I am very sorry about possible inconveniences ...
Created for the Kreative People Treat This 202 Challenge
Credits:
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People suffering from certain forms of mental ill health can experience periods of euphoric high spirits - "mania" - as well as deep depression ...
Cuando trabajo una especie me gusta tratar de tener prioritariamente una imagen, digamos "formal", de la especie. Es decir, una imagen medianamente buena y nítida en la que se aprecien sus características identificatorias en primer lugar y el entorno en el que se desenvuelve en segundo lugar. Después ya veremos vuelos, desenfoques, contraluces, poses, o lo que se tercie...............pero primero hay que verla bien, tener un buen perfil de la especie.
Supongo que este es un sesgo propio del que ha sido, y es, pajarero antes que fotógrafo, que es mi caso.
Esta sería, en mi "modus operandi", una de las imágenes "estándar" de la especie, la canastera ( Glareola pratincola), Especie a la que he dedicado muchas horas, muchos kilómetros, mucha calor, algunas garrapatas, algo de hambre ( se me olvida comer), alguna amenaza ( de los "borricos" de siempre) y un par de pinchazos. Todo eso, de momento, compensa por ver a estas pequeñas maravillas.
When I work on a species I like to try to have an image, let's say "formal", of the species as a priority. I mean, a moderately good and clear image in which its identifying characteristics are appreciated in the first place and the environment in which it operates in second place. Later we'll see flights, blurs, backlights, poses, or whatever............... but first you have to see it well, have a good profile of the species.
I suppose that this is a bias typical of the one who has been, and is, a birder before a photographer, which is my case.
This would be, in my "modus operandi", one of the "standard" images of the species, the Collared pratincole (Glareola pratincola), a species to which I have dedicated many hours, many kilometers, a lot of heat, some ticks, some hunger ( I forget to eat), some threat (from the usual "donkeys") and a couple of punctures. All this, for now, makes up for seeing these little wonders.
In shades of green, before I monochromed it up!
Seen at Towneley park, Burnley, Lancashire
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Tulip Mania
Tulip mania or tulipomania (Dutch names include tulpenmanie, tulpomanie, tulpenwoede, tulpengekte, and bollengekte) was a period in the Dutch Golden Age during which contract prices for bulbs of the newly-introduced tulip reached extraordinarily high levels and then suddenly collapsed. At the peak of tulip mania in February 1637 tulip contracts sold for more than 20 times the annual income of a skilled craftsman. It is generally considered the first recorded speculative bubble.[1] The term "tulip mania" is often used metaphorically to refer to any large economic bubble.[2]
The event was popularized in 1841 by the book Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds, written by British journalist Charles Mackay. According to Mackay, at one point 12 acres (5 ha) of land were offered for a Semper Augustus bulb.[3] Mackay claims that many such investors were ruined by the fall in prices, and Dutch commerce suffered a severe shock. Although Mackay's book is a classic that is widely reprinted today, his account is controversial. Modern scholars believe that the mania was not as extraordinary as Mackay described; some suggesting that no economically meaningful bubble occurred.[4]
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Featured on Explore 10/04/2008
“A LUCCA é grande só na sombra e na coragem, porque enfrenta qualquer cão não importa raça ou tamanho.”
Created for Digital Mania Group Friday, August 31, 2018 challenge using Juliette Belmonte's art as the inspiration.
Portrait from Adobe Stock.
Texture using Deep Dream Generator.
Texture using Topaz Texture Effects.
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