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The Laugavegur is a famous trekking route in South-West Iceland from the hot springs area of Landmannalaugar to the glacial valley of Þórsmörk . It is noted for the wide variety of landscapes on its 55 km (34 mi) path. The route is typically completed over 2–4 days with potential stops at the mountain huts at Hrafntinnusker, Álftavatn, Hvanngil and Emstrur. An ultramarathon is held on the route each July. It is possible to combine the trek with the Fimmvörðuháls route which goes over the pass from Þórsmörk to Skógar for an additional one or two days or an additional 25 km (16 mi). Landmannalaugar, Þórsmörk, and Skógar are all reachable by bus during the summer. A bus from Hella connects with Álftavatn once a day during the summer.
“She knocked and waited, because when the door was opened from within, it had the potential to lead someplace quite different.”
Quote ― Laini Taylor, Daughter of Smoke & Bone
#sliderssunday
After showing you a view of Sanssouci Park's Orangery Palace from the lawn in front of the stairs leading up to the Palace, I thought you might be interested in a view of the main level of the Orangery Palace building ensemble. There won't be any newer images from the Orangery Palace than the ones from my 2018 visit, because when I checked Sanssouci Park's website for some extra information about the Orangery, I learned that the entire place – the palace, the plant halls, and the adjacent areas – are closed for renovation. Work started in 2019 and will last until 2029 (!), so my 2018 visit was a lucky one. Unfortunately, I hadn't visited the Palace's interior back then, so that's definitely a missed opportunity because the interior will be redesigned as an event location. Everything according to heritage protection, I assume, because you don't mess with UNESCO World Heritage status, but it still will be different. The heritage protection is probably also the reason why the renovation takes so long.
For Sliders Sunday, I've chosen a postcard-style edit with a vintage look for this sunny scene. In a way, these photos are already vintage, especially in the light of the ongoing renovation. This also turns this image's five-year hard drive slumber into a short nap. This image had still been totally untouched (and quite a few more photos from that visit still are) because back then I couldn't see their potential. So I'm glad I'd finally decided to upload the "Green Arrow" (my previous image) because that made me take another look at the "Sanssouci 2018" folder. Btw, one thing I've only noticed now when looking at the photo, not when I took the photo, is the fellow photographer (I don't know him) ;) I also decided to leave the two persons on the bench in the image, because they are half hidden by the fountain, and I think they also add to the relaxed and happy atmosphere.
Happy Sliders Sunday, Everyone!
We've recently photographed bickering Starling's and Grebe's so why not Buzzards too?
Of course these powerful raptors could potentially do each other some serious damage but happily this little altercation didn't come to much
Great Blue Heron
This vantage point situated the heron at the head of a lake giving it a clear view of any potential meals.
Yet another Circle B resident.
For me, this photo is a fine example of a shot that one might pass by at first glance. I did. It wasn’t until the third or forth viewing that I recognized it might have potential. So I played around with it. I rotated it by 90 degrees clock wise. When I did this it gave me an ancient Greek statue vibe, so I stuck with it. Now it’s in my top 3 favorite personal shots.
The rose is a rose from the time it is a seed to the time it dies. Within it, at all times, it contains its whole potential. It seems to be constantly in the process of change: Yet at each state, at each moment, it is perfectly all right as it is. – Paulo Coelho
Another image from the trip to the poppy field with Jan
Potential poppy progeny
Pollinated and processed
Packed and parcelled
And perfectly protected
Pods are perforated
Proffered to be propagated
sources.
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and Jan:
This picture, taken at Six Mile Cypress Slough Preserve, Florida, shows a restored Bald Cypress forest. The spacing of the trees might have been a good hint that the trees were planted to give maximum potential for each tree. This year (2023) the dry season was really dry, so dry that the ground was hard and dry, as shown in the picture. The Bald Cypress trees were bare of leaves (needles), but that is their normal state in winter and early spring. The green hue shows the trees that are beginning to sprout new leaves/needles in early spring.
Bald Cypress trees are one of the iconic features of many areas in Florida. Like other gymnosperms, pine and hemlock trees for examples, they bear cones, and have needle-like leaves. But, unlike most gymnosperms, Bald Cypress drop their leaves in the winter months.
BAe/McDonnell Douglas AV-8B and TAV-8B Harrier IIs, VMAT-203, over Southern California near MCAS Yuma.
I started this 4 minute exposure with the sun just setting, and just before the colors exploded ... you can get a hint of those colors just starting here in this shot with the tones and hues in the clouds, as the clouds went from blue to purple with small amounts of pinks during this long exposure.
This time of sunset is always exciting as you just do not know what nature will be showing in the next few minutes ... and how rapidly it changes. A truly magical time of day and anticipation.
Happy Bench Monday :)
Of all the gifts we can give to people, the gift of our touch is one of the most priceless. Through our hands we convey a kind of radiance. A warmth seeps out from our inner fire, a wrap for someone's chill, a light for another's dark.
Jan Phillips in Divining the Body
Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around.
Leo Buscaglia
One touch of nature makes the whole world kin.
William Shakespeare
With heartfelt and genuine thanks for your kind visit. Have a wonderful and beautiful day, be well, keep your eyes open, appreciate the beauty surrounding you, enjoy creating, stay safe and laugh often! ❤️❤️❤️
FMA Pucara, Farnborough 1978, scanned from traded Kodachrome transparency. Hats off to the photographer, Chris Pocock, for doing such a nice panning job!
A potential ancient croft with concentric circles of walls taking the space of a natural 'hill fort' within a cliff drop tongue of around 200x50 metres. Certainly an expected site for an iron age settlement. The site is two hands of meanders before the Cirque du Navacelles, which is under the megalith rich Causse de Blandas, with its large 120m diameter 'Cromlech de Lacam de Peyrarines'. The altitude of the Causse above the gorges is around 600 to 650m with the river in the region of 250m, so a maximum of 400m for the various cliffs and slopes understanding that the valley continues to rise behind the tripod.
AJ
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The cheetah, swift and wild,
A streak of lightning, unstyled.
Its legs, like pistons, drive it on,
A blur against the setting sun.
The tree, reaching for the sky,
Its roots delve deep, its branches fly.
It grows and grows, year after year,
A testament to nature's cheer.
But humans, though endowed with might,
Can choose to dim their inner light.
They limit growth, both mind and soul,
Trapped in cages of their own control.
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Written using AI with my details
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I once again apologise for not being able to retribute the kind visits of my flikr friends as often as I would like o, but latelly I've had to reduce my flickr time to a minimum.
“To look life in the face, always, to look life in the face, and to know it for what it is...at last, to love it for what it is..."
Virginia Wolf
Seemingly freshly minted Hoover, 50008 'Thunderer', lives up to its name as she makes a spirited start from Totnes station up the infamous Rattery Bank - one of the three significant inclines on the route between Exeter and Plymouth collectively known as the South Devon Banks.
While it's not particularly visible in this view Rattery Bank starts almost at the end of the platform and lasts for just over 4 miles varying between 1 in 45 and 1 in 80, before easing to 1 in 90 and then increasing to 1 in 65.
The route was such a challenge in steam days that an extra loco was required for the heavy expresses, and later even the diesels wouldn't treat this route lightly with any weakness potentially a source of delay, or worse, an embarrassing failure. It wouldn't be the first time I've ridden up where, even under clear signals, the train was barely doing 10 mph over the top.
Given the apparently relaxed ambience of the driver looking out of the side window, I'm presuming on this occasion 50008 was as good 'under the bonnet' as she looked externally. Or maybe he was just waiting for the right-hand curve a few hundred yards up the track to look back and check he still had eleven on!
Despite being withdrawn from BR service in 1992, 50008 has lived on under private ownership and has even hauled a few freight trains around the network over the last 12 months.
I'm guessing I took this from Malt Hill over-bridge before the A381 'Western Bypass' was built impeding the view looking the other way.
Agfa CT18
31st July 1979
Santa Fe, New Mexico, shot with a "mighty" 4 Megapixel Canon PowerShot S400 back in 2004. Taken from the window of a Mexican Food restaurant.
It looks like Canada jays, aka "Camp Robbers," are exploring a new criminal enterprise. I'm not sure if this bird is planning on simply robbing this vehicle, or stealing it entirely.
Beware at trailheads!
Spray Park parking lot, Mt. Rainier NP
With the rumours of the potential demise of Flickr I have been giving some thought to where I might find another place like it ... and I don't have a good answer.
Flickr has been (and hopefully will remain) a place to share and to be inspired unlike any other place I have encountered in 'cyber-space.' Although I have been critical of many of the changes that have been made to the site over the years (and complementary to other changes) I have remained a steadfast participant on an almost daily basis for close to 10 years now. Why? It's simple really ... because of the people I have 'met' here. Many good and some great photographers yes .... but much more importantly many good and some truly great people who ... although we will likely never meet face-to-face ... have been an almost daily part of my life in a small but important way. Flickr managed somehow to successfully mimic a true community and achieved just about the right mix of intensity and casualness of interaction that allows a truly international and marvelously varied group of individuals with a common interest to connect in a very human and supportive way!
To all my Flickr friends (you know who you are) ... without Flickr as a connector we are in real danger of 'losing touch.' I promise I am not a sentimental (old) fool ... I might be rightly accused of being old but I doubt I have ever been tagged as 'sentimental.' I have thoroughly enjoyed our sometimes daily, sometimes weekly, and sometimes less often 'meetings' over the years and don't want to see it gone. The solution escapes me for the moment ... suggestions?
Please feel free to share this 'question' that I pose ... no doubt in the vast number of connections that we have collectively made there is someone with a bright idea. I hope the discussion goes viral and in-so-doing Flickr gets recognized as a worthy 'meeting place' that can be sustained and maybe even made profitable?
- Keefer Lake, Ontario, Canada -
P.S. I don't think Facebook is the answer. :)
www.dpreview.com/news/5785088732/flickr-may-be-up-for-sal...
Six more miles until Manitoba for this westbound stack train running on the CN Sprague Subdivision. The Warroad River is mighty frozen and also being harnessed for its recreational potential. On the right side is a woman using the winding skating track on the edge of the river.
McDonnell Douglas YF-4J Phantom II.
Last served at NAF EL Centro California, and NAS Lakehurst New Jersey.
Hard to think of another jet fighter with more character than the Phantom II.
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