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Lovo feast at Denarau Island, Fiji

 

An earth oven or cooking pit is one of the most simple and long-used cooking structures, not to be confused with the masonry oven. At its simplest, an earth oven is simply a pit in the ground used to trap heat and bake, smoke, or steam food.

To bake food, the fire is built, then allowed to burn down to a smoulder, and the food is placed in the oven and covered. Steaming is similar; fire-heated rocks are put into a pit and are covered with green vegetation to add moisture, large quantities of food, more green vegetation (and sometimes water) if more moisture is needed to create the steam that is needed to cook the food, and then a final covering of earth is added over everything. The food in the pit can take up to several hours to almost a full day to cook, whether by dry or wet methods. Today, many communities still use cooking pits, at least for ceremonial or celebratory occasions: the Indigenous Fijian lovo, the Hawaiian luau, Māori hāngi and the New England clam bake. (Wikipedia)

Zbor

  

Dacă zbor prin aer moale

Cu tot cerul scurs în sânge

Vine-o pasăre și plânge

Stând pe note muzicale.

  

Luminată fiind cât ține

Drumul necrezut de lung

Niciodată nu ajung

Să mă-nțep în mărăcine.

  

Scursă printr-un geam închis

Îmi las chipul pe-o icoană,

Sau pe muzica din strană,

La un pas de Paradis.

  

Poate-n fumul de tămâie

Tot mai sunt precum am fost,

Îndulcită-n miez și rost

De la creștet la călcâie.

 

Florina Ladislau

 

Footmark, Anna bay, Australia

Or maybe rather Standing Out - in the afternoon sun and shadows.

Polyporus squamosus - Păstrăvul de nuc

Each type of plant seems to have a particular insect of its own.

...at the Longwood Gardens display.

(Entry #14 - Pinoy Kodakero: Outstanding Pinoy Kodakero Award, October 2008)

 

Ponte De Sai Van stretches in between Taipa Island and Macau Peninsula

A visit to the very end of Wales, South Stack on Holy Island, Anglesea.

This beautiful Ex LDE 125 105 working as main shunter unit at Boromir Base, where cereals and grain trains come, operated mainly by Cargo Trans Vagon

I tried this method to make one flower stand out. I think I like it.

 

Have a wonderful TGIF.

An outstanding lashup but less than ideal sun angle as CN 149 heads west with CN 2435, CN 5242 & CN 2030 for power.

A sea of poppies and one stands out. They are only around for a short time, but they are spectacular to see in full bloom!

87th Annual Slush Cup at Sunshine Village, Banff, Alberta, Canada, May 18, 2015.

 

Held annually on the May Long-Weekend (the final day of the ski season), contestants attempt to ski or board across 120 feet of ice cold water (notice that the snow floating on the surface has not melted).

 

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Marshy Ground (the south of Lake Putnik). The animals refuge (board information content: ‘Ostoja dla zwierzat’) was established in the Lake Putnik region to provide a safe home to displaced wild animals. Current mission is the welfare of its animal inhabitants destroyed for lack of a place to go. Unfortunately, this wildlife refuge near the Sremska Stream nestled in the beautiful environment (marshland, hillocks, coppices, deciduous trees, and shoreline) is excluded in taking part in the tourist exploration. Access to it is from both blue and black walking trails (Sierakow – Chalin forest track).

This Heron was spotted amongst the rush green shrubs in this park in Taiwan

Standing on the top of Ballard Down on the Isle of Purbeck, Dorset in the heat and haze of the day looking towards Poole Harbour with Studland and Godlingston Heath National Nature Reserve with Studland and Sandbanks beaches swinging its way round to Bournemouth to the right. National Trust's Brownsea Island, in the centre, with RSPB Arne and Hartland Moor National Nature Reserves further round to the extreme left, all within Dorset Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty.

a single flower, alone in the chill of autumn, bathing in the last sunshine of the day.

122 in 2022

#50 - In the Spotlight

 

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One more shot from the recent Yosemite trip. I did not get any outstanding shots, but I need to feel like the hours in the freezing cold was worth it.

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