As part of the so-called Bourbon Reforms, devised to limit the powers of the Church and of unscrupulous nobility and to further the economic reconstruction of the Spanish Empire, Charles III (1716-1788), king of Spain, also set great store by the revitalisation of the sciences. One of his projects was the Expedición Botánica al Virreinato de Nueva España sent to Mexico 1787-1803. It was led jointly by a Spaniard, physician Martín Sessé y Lacastra (1751-1808), and a native Spanish-Mexican José Marino Mociño (1757-1820). Besides exploring and collecting it was their task to found a Botanical Garden at Mexico City. Obviously they garnered many plants, which were also relayed to Europe.

One of these - arriving in England by the early 1820s - was the pictured Fuchsia arborescens or arborea. Our botanists had found it near the city of Uruapán in the state of Michoacán. In England it was scientifically described in 1823 by John Sims (1749-1831), the first editor of Curtis's Botanical Magazine, on the basis of plants grown from the seed brought back to England by that curious English jack-of-all trades - jeweller, antiquarian, naturalist, miner, business man, traveller and even utopian - William Bullock (1773-1849), who'd gone to Mexico for an unsuccessful silver mining enterprise.

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In September 2023 I will showcase a build in Billund, Lego house. This one will be a part of it. I am going to expand it to the right and it will be much larger, too.

You can see there's nothing totally new here; for Billund I don't experiment but try to put together some of my trademarks and stuff from my most like models. I try to merge "Medieval texture madness" and "Lavender Dream". Well, time will tell.

Thanks a lot to Robert (Hellboy) for the printed wod parts that I used for the bridge.

The editing/picture is pretty bad in certain spots as I had a white background but replaced it with a dark one. Spots that are blurry because of the aperture are impossible to be edited cleanly as it's impossible to tell where the tree ends and the background begins as both blend into each other. So just do me a favour and don't zoom in :-)

While Grandmother and Pippi were enjoying their sleigh ride, the cousins started their annual Monopoly tournament. These girls are very competitive, so once it starts, the game will not stop until someone has been declared the champion!

These Blythe dolls are Juno Estella, Patty Patch, and Sailing Dominique for “We would not stop” on Flickr and “Red Hair” on Facebook. The game is called “World’s Smallest Monopoly” and it is complete in every tiny detail.

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Up where they walk, up where they run

Up where they stay all day in the sun

Wanderin’ free – wish I could be

Part of that world

Credits: No Match - Goose - LUXE

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Na escola chamavam-lhe Space Boy. E riam-se. Helmot até gostava do nome mas os esgares de escárnio entristeciam-no. Regressava então à sua nave, contemplando o planeta mau com um encolher de ombros. Mais não podia fazer.

#partes #29

texto: Ricardo Romano

foto: Rui Gato

engenharia aeroespacial: André Swale Das Pêras

Part 2, Antwerp, Belgium

Part 30: Pippi’s prank (setting the clock back an hour) was soon noticed, and after laughing and calling her a “cute mischief maker”, everyone gathered their belongings and headed out the door. Grandmother hugged and kissed each one as she said goodbye, and they all agreed that this had been the best Thanksgiving ever!

This picture is for “Kiss them all” on Flickr and “Red hair” on Facebook.

And so concludes our story! It was so much fun for me to use the daily prompts as the basis for a single narrative, thanks to Nancy’s great idea to take the prompts from the poem “Over the River and Through the Woods.” Thanks for the fun time, Nancy!

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“If the path before you is clear, you're probably on someone else's.”

― Joseph Campbell

Since I need some winter images for a proper photo calendar i looked for something worth capturing during those days when we had at least a little bit of snow.

Actually the amount of snow we had wasn’t even enough to cover the grass on this hill, so I cloned out hundreds of grass blades, which was great fun.

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El Partal (derived from portico) on the site of the Alhambra in Granada, Andalusia, is the last remaining remnant of the palace of Yusuf III.

From my point of view it is undoubtedly a fortunate circumstance that this building was preserved and that the large pool in front of it was created.

Part 2 of this series

Part of: Discoveries in Daily Life. DMC-G1 - P1040930

Às vezes, acontece que o tempo pára.

Depende, volta para trás, recomeça, passa lento, passa rápido, nunca é igual, envelhece, rejuvenesce, tem grupos, muita gente, tem espaços, muito lugares. Uma confusão, segundos, minutos, horas (meias, ¼ de hora), dias, semanas, meses, anos, décadas, séculos e milénios.

É fabulosa a História, passa de geração em geração; há tranquilidades e euforias, pessoas várias e diferentes; ficam livros ou não, são trocados, destruídos.

Ele não é infinito, isso é uma treta que nos contam desde que nos meteram no mundo.

Há muitas coisas mal explicadas nisto do existir.

A idade; a pertença (porque és dono disto e daquilo!?); o corpo funciona individualmente mas é pensado como igual; as mudanças das identidades e liberdades; porque nunca se pensa num mundo ideal para todos (sem línguas, territórios, formas de funcionar), o céu e o mar.

#partes #45

texto: Zé Maria Belo

foto: Rui Gato

Partie consacrée à la 1ère guerre mondiale

Part of the harbour wall.

Lyme Regis

Dorset

UK

Questo è parte della skyline della mia città : il monviso visto DALLA MIA PARTE!

Part of main st looking toward Barn Bluff.

Part 2

This foto i also take when i wash with my brother on a night fototour .A few weeks a go

Here you see a part of a bigh chemical complex that lees on the maasvlakte .

Part of the inside of the UP RR depot. Now a RR museum and worth visiting. Cheyenne, WY.

Part of a burned and weathered river red gum found in a dry watercourse on the edge of Mount Remarkable National Park near the town of Melrose in South Australia.

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This photo is showing the lower part of the stairs for fitness training located in Soukka village, Espoo

While driving towards Bishop, CA, I noticed the clouds suddenly part and a burst of sunlight spilled onto this hillside. I was able to quickly pull over and grab this shot before it vanished as quickly as it arrived.

Part of the Priory at Colchester Zoo Essex

Part of my Floral Art Series

part of "Decoupage" collection, december 2018

Bicycle Number 46 in the "100 Bicycles Project 2"

Just bicycle details, no complete bicycles

Part 5

The next morning arrived and I slept in a little. Then after waking at sun touch I packed up and headed down the trail to the lake I saw from above the day before, 4th Recess Lake. It was a short hike, only about 2 miles and mostly downhill with no major uphill.

The shores of this lake were surrounded by pine forest on the northern end where the log jammed outflow creek drained into Mono Canyon, it was beneath these shade giving trees that I made my camp. The 650ft waterfall at the far southern end 0.6 mile away, filled the air with its peaceful drone. After a short break and nap, I explored the western shore where the forest broke into steep sloping meadows and swiftly rising mountainside until I could go no further. By now clouds gathered above the towering cliffs on the eastern shore and wind whipped across the surface creating small whitecaps that sloshed against the rocky western shore beneath my feet.

As the hours went by, and the sun continued it's long trek across the sky, the roaring wind calmed its temper and all became still. As the sun neared its resting place beyond the high peaks 100s of fish began jumping in the lake's now still surface beneath the vibrant alpine glow on the towering cliffs above the eastern shore. Then came the calm night spent listening to the faint distant roar of the waterfall.

While exploring this lake I struggled with photographing the large landscape photos I love the most, so I focused more on the small details of the rocks, light/shadow play, water and trees. There was one spot in particular on the eastern shore beneath the towering cliffs that caught my attention; a large, sweeping steep slope of large talus boulders that looked as though it was created in a massive rock slide that may have been the cause of the log jam at the outflow of this lake.

Blik over de Schelde!

Part 6

There is a little pond of glacial melt water that I have been looking at on google earth for several years now. It lies at the foot of Banner Glacier, in amongst the glacial moraine. To reach it I would have to climb 1250 ft in 0.8 of a mile. My goal was to do what I had done for yesterday's sunrise photo and wake up stupid early to climb up there for alpine glow, but since I have not been there before like I had for the other shot I needed to do an exploratory climb first just to see if it was possible to reach. Before leaving I had spent long hours studying satellite imagery, topo-maps and mountaineering routes, trying to determine the best possible way up to it. Now that I was finally here and able to see it with my own eyes I studied the landscape and terrain that I could see from a distance to try and confirm my planed route. I thought I had found a route that I liked that avoided as much talus and moraine as it could.

Today my plan was simple, make sure the route was climbable and that it could be done by headlamp also maybe find a site to spend the night somewhere closer, higher up the slope if I can near a spring, that would be a huge bonus.

After a successful 0.8 of a mile, 1250ft climb over 4 hours to the tarn I determined it would have been to dangerous to make the climb buy headlamp and I also did not want to do it again with a pack on. Now all I had to do was retrace my steps back down...

Watch the video of the climb here: flic.kr/p/2mGCvQj

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The Herikhuizerveld is a hilly moorland that is part of the Veluwezoom National Park in the municipality of Rheden in the Dutch province of Gelderland. It is owned by Natuurmonumenten.

From the tops of some hills in Herikhuizerveld, one can look out over the valley of the river IJssel far into Germany. There are several dry valleys in the area with a steep wall on one side and a more sloping wall on the other.

Blockhead has a part in a singing group he is just one of the five part harmony in voices.

L'Ecotron fait partie du Centre de recherche de terrain , situé dans le parc national de la Haute Campine. L' Ecotron de l'Université d'Hasselt est une infrastructure de recherche à grande échelle qui permet de réaliser des expériences climatiques contrôlées de pointe pour étudier les effets du climat et du changement climatique sur le fonctionnement des écosystèmes. Il fournit un aperçu de l'impact du climat sur un écosystème donné qui ne peut être obtenu par des expériences de terrain (trop complexes) ni par des expériences contrôlées en laboratoire (trop réductrices).

L'écotron de l'Université d'Hasselt se compose de 12 unités fermées éclairées par le soleil, où les conditions environnementales peuvent être contrôlées séparément. Chaque unité abrite un lysimètre avec une colonne de sol-canopée de 3,14 m 2 et de 1,5 m de profondeur, où les processus écosystémiques peuvent être surveillés en temps réel.

Les variables suivantes peuvent être contrôlées : la température de l’air, l’humidité relative de l’air, la concentration en CO2 de l’air , les précipitations, la tension de l’eau du sol et la température du sol.

Les variables suivantes sont surveillées toutes les 1 à 30 min : concentrations de CH 4 et de N 2 O dans l'air, pression atmosphérique, rayonnement net, rayonnement photosynthétiquement actif, conductivité électrique du sol, teneur en eau du sol, poids du sol et poids du lixiviat du sol.

Tous les paramètres du sol sont mesurés à 15 positions : 5 profondeurs (10, 20, 35, 60, 140 cm) et à 3 positions spatiales par profondeur.

De plus, des ventouses échantillonnent l’eau du sol aux mêmes 15 positions par unité.

À partir de ces variables, les échanges nets de l’écosystème, l’évapotranspiration ainsi que les émissions de CH4 ou de N2O peuvent être calculés avec une résolution et une fréquence élevées.

The Ecotron is part of the Field Research Centre , located in the Hoge Kempen National Park. The Ecotron of Hasselt University is a large-scale research infrastructure that enables state-of-the-art controlled climate experiments to study the effects of climate and climate change on ecosystem functioning. It provides insight into the impact of climate on a given ecosystem that cannot be obtained through field experiments (too complex) or controlled laboratory experiments (too reductive).

The Ecotron of Hasselt University consists of 12 closed, sunlit units, where environmental conditions can be controlled separately. Each unit houses a lysimeter with a 3.14 m2 and 1.5 m deep soil-canopy column, where ecosystem processes can be monitored in real time.

The following variables can be monitored: air temperature, air relative humidity, air CO2 concentration, precipitation, soil water tension and soil temperature.

The following variables are monitored every 1 to 30 min: CH4 and N2O concentrations in air, atmospheric pressure, net radiation, photosynthetically active radiation, soil electrical conductivity, soil water content, soil weight and soil leachate weight.

All soil parameters are measured at 15 positions: 5 depths (10, 20, 35, 60, 140 cm) and at 3 spatial positions per depth.

In addition, suction cups sample soil water at the same 15 positions per unit.

From these variables, net ecosystem exchanges, evapotranspiration, and CH4 or N2O emissions can be calculated with high resolution and frequency.

IL CORAGGIO DI VIVERE

Foto 9: Ritratto di bambina beduina.

Foto del 2009

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La nave è ferma tra i portelloni dell'invaso,

aspetta il via per poter proseguire una volta riequilibrate le acque.

Noi villeggianti,

tutti affacciati ai parapetti incuriositi dall'afflusso degli abitanti di Esna.

Prima scena:

Dalla riva scendono in acqua i più piccoli,

a nuoto raggiungono la motonave.

Lo fanno con grande forza ed abnegazione.

Subito inteneriscono i turisti.

Qualche bimbo ha meno di 10 anni.

Ho in mano la fotocamera con inserito l'obiettivo 300 mm.

Così facendo, riesco a vedere meglio quel che accade.

Li seguo ,

mentre le persone si sbracciano dal ponte della nave per salutarli.

Con gli occhi già umidi, vedo una scena molto coinvolgente.

Le signore... ma anche insospettabili omaccioni,

cominciano a mettere mano al portafoglio.

Altri lanciano magliette ed ogni sorta d'abbigliamento.

Tutti s'affannano a favorire il più meritevole,

parteggiando per l'uno o per l'altro a seconda delle circostanze.

I bimbi, perché di questo si tratta,

smanacciano per accaparrarsi, ciascuno, più "doni" possibili.

E' una guerra all'ultimo respiro.

C'è chi soccombe, sparendo sott'acqua per qualche secondo.

Urla salgono alte, paura e sconforto s'impossessano degli "spettatori".

I turisti s'impietosiscono sempre più,

in particolare con i più piccoli.

Tifano per loro facendo salire il phatos alle stelle.

I portafogli si aprono di nuovo.

E le banconote piovono dal ponte della nave.

Nemmeno toccano l'acqua che vengono afferrate dai ragazzi che usano i contenitori in plastica dei rotolini fotografici come piccole scatole impermeabili.

Finiti i contenitori, qualcuno si mette i soldi perfino in bocca, riempiendola quasi a soffocare.

Seconda scena:

E' il momento di tornare a riva,

dove ragazzi più grandi li aspettano a mani tese.

No miei cari amici, non vogliono aiutare i bimbi,

ormai allo stremo delle forze.

Bensì prendersi tutta la mercanzia con grande avidità.

Fingono litigi e piccole truffe.

Sembra che da un momento all'altro tutto degeneri in modo irrimediabile.

Ed ecco che entrano in scena gli adulti e qualche vecchio.

In mano, fruste occasionali fatte con corde e rami.

La gente urla dalla nave parole accorate e pure qualche insulto.

I turisti impietriti dal dispiacere, assistono inermi alla punizione corporale.

Per ultimo d'improvviso

Compaiono due guardie con dei vecchi fucili in mano.

Mimano l'alt a tutti i contendenti.

Armi spianate, mettono di nuovo la calma.

sequestrando tutta la merce ed i soldi.

Giustizia è fatta...????

La nave sta per ripartire, ho ancora il 300 mm. ad aiutarmi.

Ed assisto allibito a quest'ultima scena.

Nascosti dietro un grande cespuglio,

bimbi, ragazzi, adulti e vecchi, assieme alla 2 guardie,

si spartiscono il ricavato della "recita" in parti convenute.

Ovviamente i bambini rimangono solo con qualche caramella in mano.

Che ingiustizia, il merito è tutto loro.

Via su ripuliamoci.

Un'altra motonave si sta avvicinando.

Arrivano gli spettatori "paganti".

Si ricomincia.

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