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La scultura, alta 18 metri, fu realizzata in acciaio e vetroresina dall'artista svedese Claes Oldenburg insieme con la moglie Coosje van Bruggen, e inaugurata nel 2000, ma non ha mai raccolto il pieno consenso dei cittadini. L’opera, voluta dall'arch. Gae Aulenti - progettista della risistemazione di piazzale Cadorna - nasce come simbolo della Milano che lavora e della Milano capitale della moda.
Desidero far notare che la scultura trovasi nello stesso quartiere dove si trovano notevoli monumenti artistici di epoca rinascimentale come S. Maria delle Grazie e il Castello Sforzesco: questa è solo una delle bizzarre contraddizioni di questa città!
Nel frattempo, vi ringrazio in anticipo per i vostri commenti e apprezzamenti, e buona serata a tutti!
The area around Contact Nevada is distinctive in having many outcrops of granite boulders and consequently with sandy soils derived from the decomposed granite. With respect to cheatgrass invasibility, the sagebrush steppe in this area is like that around Wells where clayey soils predominate. That is, cheatgrass is most common along roads but occasionally found within sagebrush steppe.
...or anise and clove cookies.
Cookie idea based off Neil Gaiman's Other Mother in Coraline.
The blackest licorice paired with spicy clove, baked into a dense, chewy button. It's a flavour you love or you hate, or maybe a little of both.
Week Forty:
Day Six:
Is it usual for this sort of thing to happen? It just seems to keep falling off. I keep picking it up and stitching it on and...well it's mostly the same colour it always was. Perhaps slightly more pale than before but not so much that you're really notice. Oh and there may be a touch of green but that'll only happened after sticking number four. I've no doubt that'll clear up. Nothing a bit of exercise wont fix.
Oh dear that's not good. Did I? I mean it really happened didn't it? I did say it? Exercise. Bah it's enough to send a shiver up your spine. No no no there must be something uniquely wrong here. Some sort of brain malady brought on by that green goo that's squirting out all over the place. It looks like cream and it feels like cream but my green creamy centre is not as delicious as it appears.
No I can't have this happening. It's only the left arm I can put up with never knowing the time again, one handed juggling, and the right hand has all the important jobs. Just a little tug here and it'll fall of. Just fall away. The goo infected appendage shall be no more and we can replace it with something a bit more practical. Yeah I always thought I'd look rather swish with a hook.
Month-old feet tattoos done by the awesome Gordon Combs at Seventh Son Tattoo in San Francisco.
My apologies for my gnarly feet. Genetics.
The last rays of the sun backlight a stand of needle-and-thread on Seedskadee NWR. Photo: Tom Koerner/USFWS
Never to late to learn how to thread a needle.
Sewing the square sails onto the yards on my Juan Sebastian Elcano.
15 January 2013. The Eye of the Needle. I haven't been very well today so I took a macro photograph at home of some very commonplace objects. I used natural light with a reflector to fill in the shadows a little. What's been wrong with me? Refer to the title!
A Year in Pictures image 15 of 365.
A needle and thread macro shot,using high contrast as to hide the grain of the backing paper and to fade both the point of the needle and the end of the thread,I used a single overhead lamp,just managing to avoid shadows.
This snapshot from the Kosanke Waterfowl Production Area in the Kulm Wetland Management District, North Dakota, showcases the diversity of plants in native areas. Blanket flower, fringed sage, purple prairie clover, blue grama, purple coneflower, dotted blazingstar, and needleandthread can be seen amongst the many species.
Photo Credit: Krista Lundgren/USFWS
A patch of needle and thread stands out in the mid afternoon light among squirreltail, winterfat, green rabbitbrush, Wyoming big sagebrush, and flaxleaf plainsmustard.
The grasslands in Medicine Rocks State Park are dominated by, left to right, Koeleria macrantha (prairie junegrass), Poa pratensis (Kentucky bluegrass), Stipa comata (needle and thread grass), and to some degree Bromus japonicus (Japanese brome). Andropogon scoparius (little bluestem) is occasional and Bromus tectorum (cheatgrass) is absent except for at cliff bases. Poa secunda (Sandberg's bluegrass) is common but scattered among these these other grasses.
Much of what passes as Montana steppe (prairie) actually comprises mostly few grass species that withstand long histories of overstocking, such as Agropyron cristatum (crested wheatgrass), Agropyron dasystachyum (thickspike wheatgrass), and Stipa comata (needle and thread grass). Aside from these dominant grasses, fringed sage (Artemisia frigida) is one of the common herbs/subshrubs.
The Beotia series consists of very deep, well drained or moderately well drained soils formed in silty glaciolacustrine deposits on lake plains. Saturated hydraulic conductivity is moderately high in the solum and moderately high to moderately low in the underlying material. Slopes range from 0 to 6 percent. Mean annual air temperature is 43 degrees F, and mean annual precipitation is about 19 inches.
TAXONOMIC CLASS: Fine-silty, mixed, superactive, frigid Pachic Hapludolls
The mollic epipedon ranges from 16 to 30 inches in thickness and extends into the Bw horizon. The control section typically is silt loam with between 18 and 27 percent clay. The depth to free calcium carbonate ranges from 16 to about 30 inches.
USE AND VEGETATION: Largely cultivated; corn, soybeans, small grain and alfalfa are the principal crops. Native vegetation is big bluestem, little bluestem, western wheatgrass, green needlegrass, needleandthread, sideoats grama, blue grama, sedges, and forbs.
DISTRIBUTION AND EXTENT: Northeastern South Dakota, southwestern Minnesota and southeastern North Dakota. The series is of moderate extent.
For a detailed description, visit:
soilseries.sc.egov.usda.gov/OSD_Docs/B/BEOTIA.html
For acreage and geographic distribution, visit:
Needle-and-thread grass (Hesperostipa comata) is Saskatchewan's provincial grass. I photographed this in my backyard
With an awn about 20 cm long and florets approaching 2 cm long, this common robust form of Stipa comata in northern Arizona approaches Stipa spartea, which supposed occurs to the north and east of Arizona. The lemma hairs are uniformly whitish, however, in these robust specimens of Stipa comata.
This illustrative design is adorned with a playful yet elegant needle and thread design, perfect for a tailor, seamstress, quilter, or fabric shop.
Much of what passes as Montana steppe (prairie) actually comprises mostly few grass species that withstand long histories of overstocking, such as Agropyron cristatum (crested wheatgrass), Agropyron dasystachyum (thickspike wheatgrass), and Stipa comata (needle and thread grass).
Stipa comata var. intermedia is common on south facing slopes along the Grand Loop Road about 10 miles east of Mammoth Hot Springs, Yellowstone National Park, Park County, Wyoming. Note the straight awns and the inflorescences fully exserted from the leaf sheaths, diagnostic traits of var. intermedia.
Stipa comata var. comata, needle and thread grass, is abundant around and on top of the Chalk Buttes southwest of Ekalaka, Montana. It co-dominates open arid grasslands along with thickspike wheatgrass, bluebunch wheatgrass, little bluestem, prairie sand reed, and prairie Junegrass. The grass communities in the open understory of the Chalk Buttes are in good condition in terms of high native plant diversity and low exotic plant diversity.
Much of what passes as Montana steppe (prairie) actually comprises mostly few grass species that withstand long histories of overstocking, such as Agropyron cristatum (crested wheatgrass), Agropyron dasystachyum (thickspike wheatgrass), and Stipa comata (needle and thread grass). Sphinx Mountain sits in the background and this site lies in the Madison River Valley, Madison County, Montana.
This slope is dominated by Stipa comata with Calamovilfa longifolia, which exemplify the common cool season or widespread warm season grasses (respectively) in southeastern Montana including Carter County. Buchloe dactyloides forms the low foreground cover.
Much of what passes as Montana steppe (prairie) actually comprises mostly few grass species that withstand long histories of overstocking, such as Agropyron cristatum (crested wheatgrass), Agropyron dasystachyum (thickspike wheatgrass), and Stipa comata (needle and thread grass).
I piccoli lavori di pazienza, servono ad allentare la tensione e a far tornare il sereno nell'animo.
Little works of perseverance are useful for relaxing and cheer up.
Stipa viridula grows in open dry vegetation below montane forests and forms a robust bunch much larger than Stipa nelsonii, a more slender montane species with which it could be confused. This site lies along the trail and in the sagebrush steppe at the north end of Burke Park, Bozeman, Montana.
Much of what passes as Montana steppe (prairie) actually comprises mostly few grass species that withstand long histories of overstocking, such as Agropyron cristatum (crested wheatgrass), Agropyron dasystachyum (thickspike wheatgrass), and Stipa comata (needle and thread grass).
Nearly pure stands of Stipa comata comata occur along the ridge just to the north of Fort Peck Lake in the vicinity of Fourchette bay (this scene is looking northeast into the drainage of Kill Woman Creek). Sphaeralcea coccinea lies in the foreground.
Stipa comata is a more diminutive bunchgrass compared to its close relative, Stipa neomexicana, which grows nearby but down in the canyon.
Stipa comata (larger glumes to the right) and Calamovilfa longifolia (shorter glumes to the left) exemplify the dominant grasses, mostly cool season or widespread warm season grasses (respectively) in southeastern Montana including Carter County.