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Bodnant Gardens, Conwy Valley, North Wales.
This important garden occupies an area of 32 hectares (80 acres) surrounding Bodnant House, most of which was first laid out by Henry Davis Pochin, a successful industrial chemist, from 1874 onwards until his death in 1895. Bodnant House had been built in 1792 but was remodelled by Pochin and on his death it was inherited by his daughter (whose husband became the first Baron Aberconway in 1911). The garden, but not the House or other parts of the estate, was presented to the National Trust, with an endowment, in 1949. The House was the home of the late Lord Aberconway, and members of his family continue to be actively involved in the management of the garden, its tea pavilion and car parks on behalf of the National Trust.
The gardens are varied and include formal gardens bounded by clipped box hedges, ornamental ponds and pools and formal herbaceous borders, an enclosed laburnum arch and many rose gardens. However, Bodnant is most famous for its breeding programme, especially of varieties of Rhododendrons and azaleas examples of which are now grown throughout the world. Also noted are the collections of Magnolia, Camellia, Clematis and Hydrangea.
Begun in 1875, it is the creation of four generations of Aberconways and is divided into two parts: the upper level (around the house) features huge Italianate terraces, specimen trees and formal lawns, with paths descending to at lower level "The Dell" with a wooded valley, stream and wild garden below. Included within the Dell are the Old Mill, the mill pond with the mill race and an attractive spillway waterfall into the River Hiraethlyn, to give the delightful babbling brook through the Dell its proper name.
Of the many specimen trees within the Dell and the Woodland, notable are several Californian Redwoods. One giant redwood (sequoiadendron giganteum) measured 47.2 metres (155 ft) in height. Another tree from the western United States, the Oregon Douglas Fir Pseudotsuga menziesii was 48 metres (157 ft). From China about 1949 came the Dawn Redwood, previously known only from fossils and believed to have been extinct.
Above the Dell is "The Poem", the family mausoleum from which a network of paths leads through shrubberies and the Rosemary garden to the front lawn (separated from the old park by a ha-ha) and across the lawn to the Round garden.
Just a quicky for the upcoming Halloween, my favorite day of the year! It started as a sketch for an abandoned idea for a commissioned piece that I liked enough to paint-over during the thanksgiving week-end. I tried to keep the immediacy of the sketch but just give it a bit more mood while keeping it loose and dirty. As usual, Procreate on the Ipad.
A copy of an original I took some time back on 18th Sep 2021 .. a shot thats come in for a slight cropping . The purists out there would say why didn't he get the original image and crop that rather than copy it from the screen .. it does exist but I wanted it to be a copy .. so there you have it .
The original I called a Girls day out .
Rosalie
Brisbane
Good to reconnect with old friends! Hugsss ♥ ♥ ♥
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"You don't know what's going on
You've been away for far too long
You can't come back and think you are still mine
"You're out of touch, my baby
My poor discarded baby
I said, baby, baby, baby, you're out of time........
Well, baby, baby, baby, you're out of time
I said, baby, baby, baby, you're out of time
You are all left out
Out of there without a doubt
'Cause baby, baby, baby, you're out of time ........"
"Out of Time".....From the album "Aftermath"..... written by Mick Jagger and Keith Richards.....1966.
When you are getting too much involved, don’t make yourself a problem waiting to be solved.
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The word "goose" is a direct descendent of Proto-Indo-European root, *ghans-. In Germanic languages, the root gave Old English gōs with the plural gēs and gandres (becoming Modern English goose, geese, gander, and gosling, respectively), Frisian goes, gies and guoske, New High German Gans, Gänse, and Ganter, and Old Norse gās.
This term also gave Lithuanian žąsìs, Irish gé (goose, from Old Irish géiss), Latin anser, Greek χήν/khēn, Dutch gans, Albanian gatë (heron), Sanskrit hamsa and hamsi, Finnish hanhi, Avestan zāō, Polish gęś, Ukrainian гуска and гусак, Russian гусыня and гусь, Czech husa, and Persian ghāz.
The term goose applies to the female in particular, while gander applies to the male in particular. Young birds before fledging are called goslings. The collective noun for a group of geese on the ground is a gaggle; when in flight, they are called a skein, a team, or a wedge; when flying close together, they are called a plump.
Chinese geese, the domesticated form of the swan goose
The three living genera of true geese are: Anser, grey geese, including the greylag goose, and domestic geese; Chen, white geese (often included in Anser); and Branta, black geese, such as the Canada goose.
Two genera of "geese" are only tentatively placed in the Anserinae; they may belong to the shelducks or form a subfamily on their own: Cereopsis, the Cape Barren goose, and Cnemiornis, the prehistoric New Zealand goose. Either these or, more probably, the goose-like Coscoroba swan is the closest living relative of the true geese.
Fossils of true geese are hard to assign to genus; all that can be said is that their fossil record, particularly in North America, is dense and comprehensively documents many different species of true geese that have been around since about 10 million years ago in the Miocene. The aptly named Anser atavus (meaning "progenitor goose") from some 12 million years ago had even more plesiomorphies in common with swans. In addition, some goose-like birds are known from subfossil remains found on the Hawaiian Islands.
Geese are monogamous, living in permanent pairs throughout the year; however, unlike most other permanently monogamous animals, they are territorial only during the short nesting season. Paired geese are more dominant and feed more, two factors that result in more young.
Other birds called "geese"
Cape Barren goose
Some mainly Southern Hemisphere birds are called "geese", most of which belong to the shelduck subfamily Tadorninae. These are:
Orinoco goose, Neochen jubata
Egyptian goose, Alopochen aegyptiacus
The South American sheldgeese, genus Chloephaga
The prehistoric Malagasy sheldgoose, Centrornis majori
The spur-winged goose, Plectropterus gambensis, is most closely related to the shelducks, but distinct enough to warrant its own subfamily, the Plectropterinae.
The blue-winged goose, Cyanochen cyanopterus, and the Cape Barren goose, Cereopsis novaehollandiae, have disputed affinities. They belong to separate ancient lineages that may ally either to the Tadorninae, Anserinae, or closer to the dabbling ducks (Anatinae).
The three species of small waterfowl in the genus Nettapus are named "pygmy geese". They seem to represent another ancient lineage, with possible affinities to the Cape Barren goose or the spur-winged goose.
A genus of prehistorically extinct seaducks, Chendytes, is sometimes called "diving-geese" due to their large size.[5]
The unusual magpie goose is in a family of its own, the Anseranatidae.
The northern gannet, a seabird, is also known as the "Solan goose", although it is a bird unrelated to the true geese, or any other Anseriformes for that matter.
Well-known sayings about geese include:
To "have a gander" is to examine something in detail.
"What's sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander" means that what is appropriate treatment for one person is equally appropriate for someone else.
Saying that someone's "goose is cooked" means that they have suffered, or are about to suffer, a terrible setback or misfortune.
"Killing the goose that lays the golden eggs," derived from an old fable, is a saying referring to any greed-motivated, unprofitable action that destroys or otherwise renders a favorable situation useless.
"A wild goose chase" is a useless, futile waste of time and effort.
There is a legendary old woman called Mother Goose who wrote nursery rhymes for children.
I love Out sass Vanessa's hair color, so I decided to have my extra To the Fair Poppy rerooted by Vanelg in this color... I love her!
Jewels are available in my etsy shop
Having not photographed anything since December 1st, I just had to get out and shoot. Saturday the weather was good, so I headed out. Glen Helen was packed full of hikers, so I opted for a less busy location. George Rogers was close by, and not busy.
While not the most scenic waterfall by any means, it still offers some good scenery and is close to home. I've already photographed this falls many times, so this day I looked for different compositions that I have not already done. In this scene my goal was to catch the swirls in the shallow, splash pool below the falls. The green moss on the rocks helps add some color, to a rather dull winter scene. I'm ready for Spring!
George Rogers Clark Park
Clark County, Ohio.
This is my daughters QH Leo looking out at the pasture and wondering when he will be able to go out and play again after his surgery.
The hardest part about shooting with Anastasia is trying to decide my favorite photos to post. She is absolutely gorgeous with a great personality. 2021 pretty much sucked in general; the best thing about it was I had a chance to shoot with Anastasia about 5 times. We did this shoot at the Scentsy campus in October 2021. Excellent shoot with one of my favorite models!!
"Out of business" is the phrase carved into the grey board immediately above the barn's yellow door. You probably won't be able to discern it without magnifying the image.
According to the local paper, the Chinook Observer, the Seaview Riding Academy ceased operations in 1993, 63 years after it was established.
The weathered state of the sign is somewhat confounding. After all, 1993 seems like yesterday even if it was 27 years ago. Could a plank have aged that much in what seems like such a short time? Might the wood already have been exposed to the elements when the words were carved into it? Who knows? As someone famously said, it is what it is.
One look at the photo will bring another question to mind. If you didn't know there were words on that plank, would you know it was a sign? I didn't until I was right below it.
In 1993 the large color printers that have put most sign painters out of business had not been invented. I assume that somewhere on the Long Beach Peninsula or in Astoria across the Columbia in Oregon there would have been a sign company. Why wasn't it hired to paint a conspicuous sign that would have saved the public the trouble of having to walk right up to the delicate lettering?
My guess is the former owner found it hard to say goodbye to the business that had been in the family for two generations. The sign is the epitaph of the Seaview Riding Academy, the final words in a story about a father and his son.
One of my contacts (princess bren2006) has this same bird in her stream, as we took it at about the same time at our recent flickr meet :)
Couldn't resist uploading it as well ..so this little bird is sure getting around on here hehe
One day, i will get You, out of my mind, for good
I will walk on, into nowhere, out of sight...
One day, I will get You, out of my mind, for good
I will walk on, into nowhere, like a child
One day, I will get You, out of my mind, for good
I will walk on, into nowhere, out of light...
(Waltari)
...taken on a ferry going from Kadikoy to Karakoy...
Istanbul, Turkey...
Zachary has his best tux on - I wonder where he's going?
Our Daily Challenge - June 30, 2015 - "Handbags and Gladrags"
Daily Dog Challenge 1337. "Your Favorite Color"
I love a deep, rich red and I think it goes well with the boys' golden coats.
That said, this is not a backdrop I use very often as it has pronounced creases every 10" or so along the fold lines and takes a bit of cloning during post-processing to smooth things out.
I compromised today, given the triple digit heat, and took just a handful of shots per dog and then processed just one for each.
Today's Post (Night Out) : www.bzdogs.com/2015/06/night-out.html
Stop on by Zachary and Henry's blog: bzdogs.com - The Secret Life of the Suburban Dog
......... helping out at a family wedding this afternoon at the gorgeous Cruin on Loch Lomond , 389/798 seen here having completed a busy couple of journies ferrying guests around between the service at Luss and the reception venue.
April 2020 Photo-A-Day Challenge: Around The House Edition
April 8: Out My Window
#photoaday #stayathome
Haven't had any time to get out with the camera so far this month, so as I had to work today, the plan was to grab some architecture/long exposure shots afterwards.
Unfortunately, a flat grey sky put paid to that plan, so had a quick look around Spitalfields instead while getting my lovely wife some chilli chocolate from Montezuma's.
Wasn't much happening there today and this was about the best I got. A bit different from my usual, but was nice to click the shutter again..