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South Dakota farmstead. My photo with Textures Clouds, Texture 217 and Texture 273 by Lenabem, Anna J.
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The color version of the photo above is here: www.lacerta-bilineata.com/ticino-best-photos-of-southern-...
THE STORY BEHIND THE PHOTO:
So far there's only been one photo in my gallery that hasn't been taken in my garden ('The Flame Rider', captured in the Maggia Valley: www.flickr.com/photos/191055893@N07/53563448847/in/datepo... ) - which makes the image above the second time I've "strayed from the path" (although not very far, since the photo was taken only approximately 500 meters from my house).
Overall, I'll stick to my "only-garden rule", but every once in a while I'll show you a little bit of the landscape around my village, because I think it will give you a better sense of just how fascinating this region is, and also of its history.
The title I chose for the photo may seem cheesy, and it's certainly not very original, but I couldn't think of another one, because it's an honest reflection of what I felt when I took it: a profound sense of peace - although if you make it to the end of this text you'll realize my relationship with that word is a bit more complicated.
I got up early that day; it was a beautiful spring morning, and there was still a bit of mist in the valley below my village which I hoped would make for a few nice mood shots, so I quickly grabbed my camera and went down there before the rising sun could dissolve the magical layer on the scenery.
Most human activity hadn't started yet, and I was engulfed in the sounds of the forest as I was walking the narrow trail along the horse pasture; it seemed every little creature around me wanted to make its presence known to potential mates (or rivals) in a myriad of sounds and voices and noises (in case you're interested, here's a taste of what I usually wake up to in spring, but you best use headphones: www.youtube.com/watch?v=AfoCTqdAVCE )
Strolling through such an idyllic landscape next to grazing horses and surrounded by birdsong and beautiful trees, I guess it's kind of obvious one would feel the way I described above and choose the title I did, but as I looked at the old stone buildings - the cattle shelter you can see in the foreground and the stable further up ahead on the right - I also realized how fortunate I was.
It's hard to imagine now, because Switzerland is one of the wealthiest countries in the world today, but the men and women who had carried these stones and constructed the walls of these buildings were among the poorest in Europe. The hardships the people in some of the remote and little developed valleys in Ticino endured only a few generations ago are unimaginable to most folks living in my country today.
It wasn't uncommon that people had to sell their own kids as child slaves - the girls had to work in factories or in rice fields, the boys as "living chimney brushes" in northern Italy - just because there wasn't enough food to support the whole family through the harsh Ticino winters.
If you wonder why contemporary Swiss historians speak of "slaves" as opposed to child laborers, it's because that's what many of them actually were: auctioned off for a negotiable prize at the local market, once sold, these kids were not payed and in many cases not even fed by their masters (they had to beg for food in the streets or steal it).
Translated from German Wikipedia: ...The Piazza grande in Locarno, where the Locarno Film Festival is held today, was one of the places where orphans, foundlings and children from poor families were auctioned off. The boys were sold as chimney sweeps, the girls ended up in the textile industry, in tobacco processing in Brissago or in the rice fields of Novara, which was also extremely hard work: the girls had to stand bent over in the water for twelve to fourteen hours in all weathers. The last verse of the Italian folk song 'Amore mio non piangere' reads: “Mamma, papà, non piangere, se sono consumata, è stata la risaia che mi ha rovinata” (Mom, dad, don't cry when I'm used up, it was the rice field that destroyed me.)... de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaminfegerkinder
The conditions for the chimney sweeps - usually boys between the age of 8 and 12 (or younger, because they had to be small enough to be able to crawl into the chimneys) - were so catastrophic that many of them didn't survive; they died of starvation, cold or soot in their lungs - as well as of work-related accidents like breaking their necks when they fell, or suffocatig if they got stuck in inside a chimney. This practice of "child slavery" went on as late as the 1950s (there's a very short article in English on the topic here: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spazzacamini and a more in depth account for German speakers in this brief clip: www.youtube.com/watch?v=gda8vZp_zsc ).
Now I don't know if the people who built the old stone houses along my path had to sell any of their kids, but looking at the remnants of their (not so distant) era I felt an immense sense of gratitude that I was born at a time of prosperity - and peace - in my region, my country and my home. Because none of it was my doing: it was simple luck that decided when and where I came into this world.
It also made me think of my own family. Both of my grandparents on my father's side grew up in Ticino (they were both born in 1900), but while they eventually left Switzerland's poorest region to live in its richest, the Kanton of Zurich, my grandfather's parents relocated to northern Italy in the 1920s and unfortunately were still there when WWII broke out.
They lost everything during the war, and it was their youngest daughter - whom I only knew as "Zia" which means "aunt" in Italian - who earned a little money to support herself and my great-grandparents by giving piano lessons to high-ranking Nazi officers and their kids (this was towards the end of the war when German forces had occupied Italy).
I never knew that about her; Zia only very rarely spoke of the war, but one time when I visited her when she was already over a 100 years old (she died at close to 104), I asked her how they had managed to survive, and she told me that she went to the local prefecture nearly every day to teach piano. "And on the way there would be the dangling ones" she said, with a shudder.
I didn't get what she meant, so she explained. Visiting the city center where the high ranking military resided meant she had to walk underneath the executed men and women who were hanging from the lantern posts along the road (these executions - often of civilians - were the Germans' retaliations for attacks by the Italian partisans).
I never forgot her words - nor could I shake the look on her face as she re-lived this memory. And I still can't grasp it; my house in Ticino is only 60 meters from the Italian border, and the idea that there was a brutal war going on three houses down the road from where I live now in Zia's lifetime strikes me as completely surreal.
So, back to my title for the photo above. "Peace". It's such a simple, short word, isn't it? And we use it - or its cousin "peaceful" - quite often when we mean nice and quiet or stress-free. But if I'm honest I don't think I know what it means. My grandaunt Zia did, but I can't know. And I honestly hope I never will.
I'm sorry I led you down such a dark road; I usually intend to make people smile with the anecdotes that go with my photos, but this one demanded a different approach (I guess with this latest image I've strayed from the path in more than one sense, and I hope you'll forgive me).
Ticino today is the region with the second highest average life expectancy in Europe (85.2 years), and "The Human Development Index" of 0.961 in 2021 was one of the highest found anywhere in the world, and northern Italy isn't far behind. But my neighbors, many of whom are now in their 90s, remember well it wasn't always so.
That a region so poor it must have felt like purgatory to many of its inhabitants could turn into something as close to paradise on Earth as I can imagine in a person's lifetime should make us all very hopeful. But, and this is the sad part, it also works the other way 'round. And I believe we'd do well to remember that, too.
To all of you - with my usual tardiness but from the bottom of my heart - a happy, healthy, hopeful 2025 and beyond.
I seem to have posted a few candid shots of late which is odd as I don’t actually take many. This preoccupied young boy was shot in an outside restaurant in Hau Hin in Thailand
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8000 people showed up......For HYPE HYPE HYPE........
if you didnt know....sam adams the mayor of portland setup an eviction for the occupy portland camp last night at 12:01am
I had to see for myself if the cops were going to gas the protestors or do anything.....and NOPE...the crowd just thinned and people of portland let the police come in and clean up the filth that has become occupy portland......
walking through the occupy camp....all you could smell was human feces and garbage.......
is this what a revolution looks like?
hours later police raided the camp with no resistance what so ever.......and started throwing away all the garbage left behind by the occupy portlanders.......
You can watch whats left of the Hype live right now follow the link below
www.livestream.com/occupyptown
you can also read about the events unfolding as well in this article
www.oregonlive.com/portland/index.ssf/2011/11/police_end_...
No. 161 (Special Duties) Squadron was a highly secretive unit of the Royal Air Force. It was tasked with missions of the Special Operations Executive (SOE) and the Secret Intelligence Service (SIS) during the Second World War. Their primary role was to drop and collect secret agents and equipment into and from Nazi-occupied Europe.
Westland Lysander V9673 in No. 161 Squadron markings, coded MA-J, at the Imperial War Museum, Duxford. This is a former Royal Canadian Air Force aircraft.
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This was built for DCbricks contest. (Got full conned and never got my prize hmmm)
I've wanted to do this build for a while now, and having the chance to possibly win a prize was what motivated me to finally build this. I've tried to be as accurate to the show as possible and I think I have done a pretty good job of doing that. There are only a few things that I'm not too happy with and that is that it feels somewhat bare in the front and the floors not black like it is in the show, which is due to the fact that I just don't have enough black pieces to cover that amount of space.
. I'll release some closeup detail photos tomorrow as Its somewhat hard to appreciate some of the smaller details in this moc.
Edit was done by Dayton, link to his stream- www.flickr.com/photos/113172675@N06/
Sorry for the inactiveness over the past month, I've been busy working on another Moc (Hint, its Apoc) which has occupied most of my time.
Comments are greatly appreciated :)
-Thanks Tristan
In the early morning of September 12, 2005 then brand new BNSF 5778, an ES44AC GEVO, was the DPU of an westbound coal empty at West Cordero Jct heading into Powder River Basin for reloading. SD70MACs BNSF 9880 & BN 9518 were the power on the head end of this train but are out of sight. Above BNSF 5778 the three engines of an other coal train can be spotted waiting in the line at the mine loader which is occupied by the train seen at the far right.
Das Poder River Basin im US-Bundesstaat Wyoming ist bekannt für seine Kohle mit geringem Schwefelgehalt, die in großen Tagebauten abgebaut und in bis zu 15.000 Tonnen schweren Ganzzügen abtransportiert wird. Am Morgen des 12. September 2005 war die damals nagelneue BNSF 5778, eine ES44AC von General Electric, als ferngesteuerte Schiebelok mit einem leeren Kohlenzug an der West Cordero Junction zu sehen. An der Zugspitze - jedoch auf der Aufnahme nicht zu sehen - waren BNSF 9880 und BN 9518, beide SD70MAC von EMD, tätig. Über der Schiebelok sind in der Entfernung drei Loks mit einem weiteren leeren Kohlenzug zu erkennen, dessen Ende hinter dem "Hauptdarsteller" zu erkennen ist. Dieser wartet auf die Beladung in der rechts außerhalb des Bildes gelegenen Mine, doch das in Form einer großen Schleifen angelegte Ladegleis ist durch einen weiteren Zug besetzt, der am rechten Bildrand zu sehen ist. (051246)
this guy was nuts-ing out to the music. i have my doubts as to the sincerity of many of the people camping out at the "protest" Occupy LA movement. many seemed to be the same people; bums, transients, homeless, mentally ill, that live on the streets. here they had free food and free sleeping bags.
2018 Weekly Alphabet Challenge, Week 15, O for Occupied
First ladybird/ladybug of the year occupying the first emerging blue bell bud in our garden.
Wow, how did that happen, suddenly there are over 10.000 views and over 130 faves ! Thank you so much, this entered Explore at #58 on 15/04/18
The Maroon Bells is a mountain in the Elk Mountains that consists of two peaks, South Maroon Peak and North Maroon Peak, separated by about a third of a mile. The mountain is on the border between Pitkin County and Gunnison County, Colorado, United States, about 12 miles southwest of Aspen. Both peaks are counted as fourteeners. Maroon Peak, at 14,156 feet, is the 27th highest peak in Colorado; North Maroon Peak, at 14,014 feet, is the 50th highest. The view of the Maroon Bells from the Maroon Creek valley to the northeast is one of the most famous scenes in Colorado, and is reputed to be the "most-photographed spot in Colorado" and one of Colorado's premier scenic overlooks.
A National Park Service sign on the access trail refers to these mountains as "The Deadly Bells" and warns would-be climbers of "downsloping, loose, rotten and unstable" rock that "kills without warning". Unlike other mountains in the Rockies that are composed of granite and limestone, the Bells are composed of metamorphic sedimentary mudstone that has hardened into rock over millions of years. Mudstone is weak and fractures readily, giving rise to dangerously loose rock along almost any route. The mudstone is responsible for the Bells' distinctive maroon color. The Bells got their "deadly" name in 1965 when eight people died in five separate accidents.
Maroon Lake (9,580') provides one of the most memorable scenes in the Rockies. The lake occupies a basin that was sculpted by Ice-Age glaciers and later dammed by landslide and rockfall debris from the steep slopes above the valley floor. (Wikipedia)
Dachshunds, Oliver & Rudy have been acting very strange lately, meeting secretly in the far corner of the backyard - now the reason is clear– They have joined the Occupy Movement & they want the turkey.
HAPPY THANKSGIVING WEEKEND !
He does his part picking up whatever he can to help the environment during his daily before-sunrise stroll around his beachside-home. He stopped by to say hello to me. Lovely man.
This is the seventh year in a row that I have seen him do this.
SUNRISE ~ Vilano Beach ~ Atlantic Ocean ~ First Light
Choppy Sea ~ Sunrise drama at the Inlet ~ Summer 2020
4th of July Holiday ~ Northern Florida ~ Treasure Coast
*[it was raining, stormy, dark and moody - public beach]
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Ponce de Leon claimed Florida for Spain in 1513. (Christopher Columbus discovered North America in 1492 but actually landed in the Bahamas). Other Spanish explorers later found gold and silver in Mexico and Peru. The treasure was sent back to Spain in ships sailing in the Gulf Stream. Spanish settlements needed to be built in Florida to protect the Spanish Treasure fleets. King Phillip II of Spain sent Pedro Menendez to settle in Florida and drive out French garrisons recently established there. In September 1565, Pedro Menendez with 700 soldiers and colonists landed 'here' and founded St. Augustine making it the oldest continually occupied European settlement in North America ~ Saint Augustine Inlet
Europe's weather split. Clouds from France try to occupy Andorra. Vall d'Incles, Incles, Canillo parroquia, Vall d'Orient, Andorra
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It's has been a while. Pretty occupied with work at the office. Some of 'the family' are collecting dust. It's time clean up and keep those fungus away.
Agfa Vista 200.
"exhausted but unyielding"
An occupied flyover, Harcourt Road, Central, Hong Kong
Adopting a genuine universal suffrage in the 2017 Chief Executive, without its candidates being pre-screened, is one core issue of the current revolt.
Barcelona, Spain, summer 2017. Elite chrome 100 (expired), c-41 process. Olympus 35SP (zuiko 42mm 1.7 lens)
Prompt: A digital fine art, ultra-realistic, Depicting an outhouse in the middle of a forest in winter during a snowstorm. There is a sign on the outhouse door "Occupied", no noise, no grain, 4k resolution, high-details
This digital fine art was created using OpenAI Sora AI and Photoshop
As we approached the cabin we planned on staying in for the night, we passed this concrete block. It's there to tell people driving up canyon if the cabin is occupied or not. It wasn't, so we turned it around from VACANT to OCCUPIED.
The cabin sits at the end of a canyon and is still a couple of miles distant. There's not a lot of parking, due to the nature of the canyon, and this will hopefully save some people some trouble and the residents some unwanted visitors.
Every cabin I've stayed at, in and around Death Valley, has a US flag that you fly to alert people that it's occupied. This one did, too, but you can't see it until it's too late.
Argus Range
Mojave Desert
The Rhodopes is a mountain in southern Bulgaria and northern Greece, part of the Rilo-Rhodope massif. It is the largest mountain in Bulgaria and occupies about one seventh of the Bulgarian territory. Its length is about 220-240 km, and its width up to 100 km.
Photographed near Charleston Slough, Mountain View, California - Standing, no cover
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I'd not seen a Snowy Egret on a post usually occupied by a tern, gull or cormorant. But it seemed quite comfortable on its chosen perch.
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From Wikipedia: The snowy egret (Egretta thula) is a small white heron. The genus name comes from Provençal French for the little egret, aigrette, which is a diminutive of aigron, 'heron'. The species name thula is the Araucano term for the black-necked swan, applied to this species in error by Chilean naturalist Juan Ignacio Molina in 1782.
The snowy egret is the American counterpart to the very similar Old World little egret, which has become established in the Bahamas. At one time, the plumes of the snowy egret were in great demand as decorations for women's hats. They were hunted for these plumes and this reduced the population of the species to dangerously low levels. Now protected in the United States by law, under the Migratory Bird Treaty Act, this bird's population has rebounded.
Distribution and habitat:
The snowy egret is native to North, Central and South America. It is present all year round in South America, ranging as far south as Chile and Argentina. It also occurs throughout the year in the West Indies, Florida and coastal regions of North and Central America. Elsewhere, in the southern part of the United States, it is migratory, breeding in California, Nevada, Utah, Colorado, Arizona, New Mexico, Texas, Louisiana and Mississippi. It is found in wetlands of many types; marshes, riverbanks, lakesides, pools, salt marshes and estuaries. It is not found at high altitudes nor generally on the coast. The snowy egret has occurred as a vagrant in Europe, in Iceland, Scotland and the Azores. It has also been recorded in South Africa.
Diet:
The birds eat fish, crustaceans, insects, small reptiles, snails, frogs, worms and crayfish. They stalk prey in shallow water, often running or shuffling their feet, flushing prey into view by swaying their heads, flicking their wings or vibrating their bills. They may also hover, or "dip-fish" by flying with their feet just above the water surface. Snowy egrets may also stand still and wait to ambush prey, or hunt for insects stirred up by domestic animals in open fields. They sometimes forage in mixed species groups.
Breeding:
Snowy egrets breed in mixed colonies, which may include great egrets, night herons, tricolored herons, little blue herons, cattle egrets, glossy ibises and roseate spoonbills. The male establishes a territory and starts building the nest in a tree, vines or thick undergrowth. He then attracts a mate with an elaborate courtship display which includes dipping up and down, bill raising, aerial displays, diving, tumbling and calling. The immediate vicinity of the nest is defended from other birds and the female finishes the construction of the nest with materials brought by the male. It is constructed from twigs, rushes, sedges, grasses, Spanish moss and similar materials and may be 15 in (38 cm) across. Up to six pale bluish-green eggs are laid which hatch after about 24 days. The young are altricial and covered with white down when first hatched. They leave the nest after about 22 days.
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The Smallest House in Great Britain is just 72 inches wide by 122 inches high. It was occupied right up until May 1900, and ever since it has been visited and marvelled at by thousands of people from around the world. The last person to live in the house was a local fisherman called Robert Jones (who also happened to be 6 foot 3) - before Mr Jones an elderly couple lived there. The house may be small but it's extremely practical - there's just enough room for a single bed, a fireplace and a coal bunker.