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Opus sectile floor at the Getty Villa. See it in context at www.flickr.com/photos/anitagould/53981690084/in/dateposted/. This is a copy of the floor from the belvedere in the Villa of the Papyri, Herculaneum, which is now in the Naples National Archaeological Museum.
Here is another Chinle outcrop I found on Oct 1 near Arizona County Road 7230. It required some bumpy driving and about 1/2 mile walking to reach. It turned out to be beautiful with mixed earth tones including pink, salmon, purple and deep red, with some white highlights. My video captured some cloud shadows passing over the site.
The rim of the formation makes it look like it is a viscous blob moving outward, but I think the border is just a stream channel along the edge below small cliffs.
Notice the difference from the previous photo, which was taken 48 miles to the north. Each Chinle outcrop has its own character, with its own palette of colors and textures. The same site can even change dramatically depending on the light. Look at some of the variety by clicking on the chinleformation tag.
The kingfisher needs to eat the equivalent of its own weight daily, It great just to watch it fishing especially when the sun shines.
Perhaps I should design album covers.
For those who are interested (and may have commented below!) - this is a picture of a real, live butterfly. However, for the sake of art (you may call it something else) I have made a montage and substituted the background. Believe me, the original background was really, really unappealing.
I created it for the Two Word Wednesday group.
The IAIS RISW evening run heads out for some local work with the Centennial Bridge and the Father of Rivers making a nice background.
“The Cosmos is all that is or was or ever will be. Our feeblest contemplations of the Cosmos stir us -- there is a tingling in the spine, a catch in the voice, a faint sensation, as if a distant memory, of falling from a height. We know we are approaching the greatest of mysteries.” ~Carl Sagan
Carl is like my John Muir for space and science.
I developed a fascination with Astronomy around the age of 10, when I watched the movie "Contact" for the first time. Soon after, I got my first telescope for Christmas, an 8 inch Dobsonian. I spent so many cold winter nights outside with it by myself in the forest I grew up in, learning constellations, Messier objects, and how to star hop to find elusive galaxies and nebulae. Sometimes I heard coyotes howling, or deer hooves in the bushes. Just me and nature and my telescope. I also learned that whenever you take a moment to stare at the night sky, you will see something amazing--maybe a satellite, space station, or a shooting star. Or maybe something unexplainable to you...but always something beautiful and thought provoking.
Funny thing is, I ended up in my career because of my childhood love for astronomy. It led me to an interest in studying things I couldn't see on the other end of the spectrum, microscopically. It's how I ended up studying chemical reactions and living cells, little universes in themselves. All that time staring outward, led me inward. As Carl says, we are the way for the universe to know itself.
Taken somewhere in the Olympic Wilderness, near the Washington coast.
A large cargo ship transits the shipping lanes in Charleston Harbor and past Sullivan's Island on its way to its distant destination.
@Chris Adams House, Cambridge
This is the Chris Adams House just outside (and part of) Pembroke College Cambridge. The entire building is strangely crooked with a gradient, so there's always a sinking feeling when you're in it :)
There were gale warnings locally on Saturday, so I was surprised to see a small motor boat heading out of the harbor. Shortly after reaching the lighthouse at the mouth of the Sheboygan River the boat made a rapid turnaround. The lighthouse photo shows that event and the reason why the boat changed its course.