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as a bright welcome to Autumn 2021
and a happy beginning of Spring to all my Flickr friends in the southern half of our globe!
Pear leaves / Birnenblätter
last year in our garden - Frankfurt-Nordend
Freies Schweben
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Campus Windesheim University, Zwolle, The Netherlands, Architects: BROEKBAKEMA: Aldo Vos, Cees Schott, Meindert Booij, Pim Pompen
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PATTERN.
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Für“Crazy Tuesday“ am10.05.2022.
Thema:“PATTERN“ (Muster)
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The beauty here arises from the interplay of perfectly normal physical and biological processes:
Sunlight is scattered by the moist morning air. Tiny water droplets in the mist primarily deflect the short-wavelength components of the light, while warm, yellow-gold light remains dominant. This creates the soft rays and the warm color palette. At the same time, leaves, grass, and water absorb and reflect light differently, creating contrasts and depth.
Our brains perceive this as "beautiful" because they have an evolutionarily positive response to patterns such as smooth transitions, natural symmetries, and color harmonies—for millions of years, these signaled safe, life-friendly environments.
In short: Physics shapes the light, biology shapes the landscape, and our brains create beauty from it.
Unser Gehirn schafft Schönheit
Die Schönheit entsteht hier aus dem Zusammenspiel ganz normaler physikalischer und biologischer Prozesse:
Das Sonnenlicht wird durch die feuchte Morgenluft gestreut. Winzige Wassertröpfchen im Nebel lenken vor allem die kurzwelligen Anteile des Lichts um, während warmes, gelb-goldenes Licht dominanter bleibt. Dadurch entstehen die weichen Strahlen und die warme Farbpalette. Gleichzeitig absorbieren und reflektieren Blätter, Gras und Wasser Licht unterschiedlich, was Kontraste und Tiefe erzeugt.
Unser Gehirn empfindet das als „schön“, weil es auf Muster wie sanfte Übergänge, natürliche Symmetrien und Farbharmonien evolutionär positiv reagiert – sie signalisierten über Millionen Jahre hinweg sichere, lebensfreundliche Umgebungen.
Kurz gesagt: Physik formt das Licht, Biologie formt die Landschaft, und unser Gehirn macht daraus Schönheit.
Using as much common sense as we can muster, we head out into the COVID-ladin world. Oregon had just started what they called Phase 1. In doing that they opened a few State Parks. This one had been on our radar for a long time. I had been bird dogging the web site to see when it would open. As it turns out, I caught it just as they updated. They were going to open tomorrow. So the next day, as early as I can get the family out of the house, we set out for White River Falls State Park. This is in eastern Oregon, on the desert side of Mount Hood. They say you are not supposed to travel far under Phase 1, this was about 2 hours away. That was probably further than the State would like to see. However, we were sure to get gas locally and take food. Shy of the nice folks we met at the park, we interacted with no one.
The Ranger at the Park said we were the first people to get there on the first day they were re-open. He seemed glad to see us and the nice camp host talked our ears off. Clearly glad to see humans.
The Falls were in perfect form. See, you need to hit this waterfall at the right time. To early and its all white or brown form the glacial silt that runs through it (hence the name). Too late in the season, and I mean a week too late, and it looks like someone turned off the water. This day the flow was strong and the water quite clear.
We drove out through the Gorge and looped back over Mount Hood. All around a very pleasant drive. Sadly, it was a ton of driving for only about an hour at the falls, but still a great time had by all. Even the dog.
This was mid May in 2020, a time we will look back on as a very strange time. I hope I read this in 5 or 10 years and laugh about it. I hope.
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I was visiting my nephew in Chester County, Pennsylvania. His mother, my sister, had died recently and the funeral was just days away. I usually walk about 3-6 miles per day, but on this cold day I could only muster about 1 mile. Not only was it very cold and windy, but my heart wasn’t really in it.