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Sometimes the sky makes its own artwork — golden leaves, migrating birds, and the moon quietly watching over it all.
Nature composes better than any artist.
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A flutter frenzy! Seriously, the picture isn't here because I think it's particularly good, it's here because it represents what I saw. There were hundreds of them and it was like being in a butterfly garden, except the butterflies weren't captive.
So I go to St Louis to spend a couple nights, see the sites, and take some photos.......and what do I spend the most time shooting? An abandoned building on the riverfront. This is the Cotton Belt Freight Depot built in 1911. The mural is “Migrate”: The Cotton Belt Mural Project. I was fascinated with this place!
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There were two large groups of Sandhill Cranes using Kensington as a stopover today!
Kensington Metro Park, MI
Tracing Ryan Family Ancestry to Tipperary Ireland
Theresa Irene Wolowski (wife of John Thomas Ryan) and Ryan Janek Wolowski (son of John Thomas Ryan) visited the town of Tipperary Ireland, to explore where, the Ryan family had originated from in the 1800's before migrating to the Scotland Stirling Castle / Edinburgh area where John Thomas Ryan's grandfateher, Thomas Joseph Ryan retired from the British Army as a Quartermaster Sergeant in 1898.
Thomas Joseph Ryan's son also named Thomas Joseph Ryan traveled to Glasgow before sailing to The United States of America to set up a new life in the USA with his Scottish wife Elizabeth MacDougall from Glasgow, Scotland. where they their son John Thomas Ryan was born, who later also in the USA married Polish woman named Theresa Irene Wolowski, John and Theresa had six children including their son Ryan Janek Wolowski that returned to Ireland to research the family history.
Ryan meaning: Little King
Coat of arms motto: "I would rather die than be disgraced"
Ryan also spelled Ryane or Riane
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Tipperary, Munster, Ireland, Europe
10/27/2012
Two males have been coming for a week but until now they were very shy and flew away when you go near the window. I really envy people who can get these feeding yard pictures and not show the feeders. But at least I got a nice triangular frame here!
I will be away until late Friday at Magee Marsh east of Toledo, OH for some birding.
Spanish Ibexes are found along the Spanish Iberian Peninsula and have even migrated and settled into the coast of Portugal. These animals live in rocky habitats and prefer areas with cliffs scattered with scrub, coniferous trees or deciduous trees.
Iberian Ibexes are social creatures and most of the year males and females live in separate groups. Kids usually travel in the center of adult females groups for better protection. Mixed groups are common during the rutting season and the rest of the winter. Spanish ibexes are diurnal and often live near human settlements. They have a unique way of signaling others about a predator. First, the ibex will have an erect posture with its ears and head pointing in the direction of the potential predator. The caller will then signal the other ibexes in the group with one or more alarm calls. Once the group has heard the alarm calls, they will flee to another area like a rocky slope where the predator cannot reach. Ibexes usually flee in a very coordinated fashion that is led by an experienced adult female in female-juvenile groups and an experienced male in male-only groups.
This bird migrates from tibetan plateau and leh ladakh to PONG WETLAND IN KANGRA VALLEY during winters . The 50% worlds population winters here in pong .
Christ Church, built almost on the corner of Glenlyon Road and Brunswick Street in Brunswick, is a picturesque slice of Italy in inner city Melbourne. With its elegant proportions, warm yellow stuccoed facade and stylish Romanesque campanile, the church would not look out of place sitting atop a rise in Tuscany, or being the centre of an old walled town. This idea is further enhanced when the single bell rings from the campanile, calling worshipers to prayer.
Christ Church has been constructed in a cruciform plan with a detached campanile. Although not originally intended as such, at its completion, the church became an excellent example of "Villa Rustica" architecture in Australia. Like other churches around the inner city during the boom and bust eras of the mid Nineteenth Century as Melbourne became an established city, the building was built in stages between 1857 and 1875 as money became available to extend and better what was already in existence. Christ Church was dedicated in 1857 when the nave, designed by architects Purchas and Swyer, was completed. The transepts, chancel and vestry were completed between 1863 and 1864 to the designs created by the architects' firm Smith and Watts. The Romanesque style campanile was also designed by Smith and Watts and it completed between 1870 and 1871. A third architect, Frederick Wyatt, was employed to design the apse which was completed in 1875.
Built in Italianate style with overture characteristics of classical Italian country house designs, Christ Church is one of the few examples of what has been coined "Villa Rustica" architecture in Victoria.
Slipping through the front door at the bottom of the campanile, the rich smell of incense from mass envelops visitors. As soon as the double doors which lead into the church proper close behind you, the church provides a quiet refuge from the busy intersection of Glenlyon Road and Brunswick Street outside, and it is quite easy to forget that cars and trams pass by just a few metres away. Walking up the aisle of the nave of Christ Church, light pours over the original wooden pews with their hand embroidered cushions through sets of luminescent stained glass windows by Melbourne manufacturers, Ferguson and Urie, Mathieson and Gibson and Brooks Robinson and Company. A set of fourteen windows from the mid-to-late Nineteenth Century by Ferguson and Urie depicting different saints are especially beautiful, filled with painted glass panes which are as vivid now as when they were created more than one hundred years ago. The floors are still the original dark, richly polished boards that generations of worshipers have walked over since they were first laid. The east transept houses the Lady Chapel, whilst the west transept is consumed by the magnificent 1972 Roger H. Pogson organ built of cedar with tin piping. This replaced the original 1889 Alfred Fuller organ. Beautifully executed carved rood figures watch over the chancel from high, perhaps admiring the marble altar.
Albert Purchas, born in 1825 in Chepstow, Monmouthshire, Wales, was a prominent Nineteenth Century architect who achieved great success for himself in Melbourne. Born to parents Robert Whittlesey Purchas and Marianne Guyon, he migrated to Australia in 1851 to establish himself in the then quickly expanding city of Melbourne, where he set up a small architect's firm in Little Collins Street. He also offered surveying services. His first major building was constructing the mansion "Berkeley Hall" in St Kilda on Princes Street in 1854. The house still exists today. Two years after migrating, Albert designed the layout of the Melbourne General Cemetery in Carlton. It was the first "garden cemetery" in Victoria, and his curvilinear design is still in existence, unaltered, today. In 1854, Albert married Eliza Anne Sawyer (1825 - 1869) in St Kilda. The couple had ten children over their marriage, including a son, Robert, who followed in his father's footsteps as an architect. Albert's brother-in-law, Charles Sawyer joined him in the partnership of Purchas and Sawyer, which existed from 1856 until 1862 in Queens Street. The firm produced more than 140 houses, churches, offices and cemetery buildings including: the nave and transepts of Christ Church St Kilda between 1854 and 1857, "Glenara Homestead"in Bulla in 1857, the Melbourne Savings Bank on the corner of Flinders Lane and Market Street (now demolished) between 1857 and 1858, the Geelong branch of the Bank of Australasia in Malop Street between 1859 and 1860, and Beck's Imperial Hotel in Castlemaine in 1861. When the firm broke up, Albert returned to Little Collins Street, and the best known building he designed during this period was St. George's Presbyterian Church in East St Kilda between 1877 and 1880. The church's tall polychomatic brick bell tower is still a local landmark, even in the times of high rise architecture and development, and St, George's itself is said to be one of his most striking church designs. Socially, Albert was vice president of the Royal Victorian Institute of Architects for many years, before becoming president in 1887. He was also an inventor and philanthropist. Albert died in 1909 at his home in Kew, a wealthy widower and much loved father.