Taken in our garden this Spring.

The tulip is a perennial, bulbous plant with showy flowers in the genus Tulipa, of which around 75 wild species are currently accepted and which belongs to the family Liliaceae.

The genus's native range extends west to the Iberian Peninsula, through North Africa to Greece, the Balkans, Turkey, throughout the Levant (Syria, Israel, Palestine, Lebanon, Jordan) and Iran, North to Ukraine, southern Siberia and Mongolia, and east to the Northwest of China. The tulip's centre of diversity is in the Pamir, Hindu Kush, and Tien Shan mountains. It is a typical element of steppe and winter-rain Mediterranean vegetation. A number of species and many hybrid cultivars are grown in gardens, as potted plants, or as cut flowers.

Tulips are spring-blooming perennials that grow from bulbs. Depending on the species, tulip plants can be between 4 inches (10 cm) and 28 inches (71 cm) high. The tulip's large flowers usually bloom on scapes with leaves in a rosette at ground level and a single flowering stalk arising from amongst the leaves.Tulip stems have few leaves. Larger species tend to have multiple leaves. Plants typically have two to six leaves, some species up to 12. The tulip's leaf is strap-shaped, with a waxy coating, and the leaves are alternately arranged on the stem; these fleshy blades are often bluish green in color. Most tulips produce only one flower per stem, but a few species bear multiple flowers on their scapes (e.g. Tulipa turkestanica). The generally cup or star-shaped tulip flower has three petals and three sepals, which are often termed tepals because they are nearly identical. These six tepals are often marked on the interior surface near the bases with darker colorings. Tulip flowers come in a wide variety of colors, except pure blue (several tulips with "blue" in the name have a faint violet hue).

The flowers have six distinct, basifixed stamens with filaments shorter than the tepals. Each stigma has three distinct lobes, and the ovaries are superior, with three chambers. The tulip's seed is a capsule with a leathery covering and an ellipsoid to globe shape. Each capsule contains numerous flat, disc-shaped seeds in two rows per chamber. These light to dark brown seeds have very thin seed coats and endosperm that does not normally fill the entire seed.

Etymology

The word tulip, first mentioned in western Europe in or around 1554 and seemingly derived from the "Turkish Letters" of diplomat Ogier Ghiselin de Busbecq, first appeared in English as tulipa or tulipant, entering the language by way of French: tulipe and its obsolete form tulipan or by way of Modern Latin tulīpa, from Ottoman Turkish tülbend ("muslin" or "gauze"), and may be ultimately derived from the Persian: دلبند‎ delband ("Turban"), this name being applied because of a perceived resemblance of the shape of a tulip flower to that of a turban. This may have been due to a translation error in early times, when it was fashionable in the Ottoman Empire to wear tulips on turbans. The translator possibly confused the flower for the turban.

Tulips are called laleh (from Persian لاله, lâleh) in Persian, Turkish, Arabic, and Bulgarian. In Arabic letters, "laleh" is written with the same letters as Allah, which is why the flower became a holy symbol. It was also associated with the House of Osman, resulting in tulips being widely used in decorative motifs on tiles, mosques, fabrics, crockery, etc. in the Ottoman Empire

Cultivation

Tulip cultivars have usually several species in their direct background, but most have been derived from Tulipa suaveolens, often erroneously listed as Tulipa schrenkii. Tulipa gesneriana is in itself an early hybrid of complex origin and is probably not the same taxon as was described by Conrad Gesner in the 16th century.

Tulips are indigenous to mountainous areas with temperate climates and need a period of cool dormancy, known as vernalization. They thrive in climates with long, cool springs and dry summers. Tulip bulbs imported to warm-winter areas of are often planted in autumn to be treated as annuals.

Tulip bulbs are typically planted around late summer and fall, in well-drained soils, normally from 4 to 8 inches (10 to 20 cm) deep, depending on the type. Species tulips are normally planted deeper.

Propagation

Tulips can be propagated through bulb offsets, seeds or micropropagation. Offsets and tissue culture methods are means of asexual propagation for producing genetic clones of the parent plant, which maintains cultivar genetic integrity. Seeds are most often used to propagate species and subspecies or to create new hybrids. Many tulip species can cross-pollinate with each other, and when wild tulip populations overlap geographically with other tulip species or subspecies, they often hybridize and create mixed populations. Most commercial tulip cultivars are complex hybrids, and often sterile.

Offsets require a year or more of growth before plants are large enough to flower. Tulips grown from seeds often need five to eight years before plants are of flowering size. Commercial growers usually harvest the tulip bulbs in late summer and grade them into sizes; bulbs large enough to flower are sorted and sold, while smaller bulbs are sorted into sizes and replanted for sale in the future. The Netherlands are the world's main producer of commercial tulip plants, producing as many as 3 billion bulbs annually, the majority for export.

For further information please visit en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tulip

Taken in our garden last Spring.

The tulip is a perennial, bulbous plant with showy flowers in the genus Tulipa, of which around 75 wild species are currently accepted and which belongs to the family Liliaceae.

The genus's native range extends west to the Iberian Peninsula, through North Africa to Greece, the Balkans, Turkey, throughout the Levant (Syria, Israel, Palestine, Lebanon, Jordan) and Iran, North to Ukraine, southern Siberia and Mongolia, and east to the Northwest of China. The tulip's centre of diversity is in the Pamir, Hindu Kush, and Tien Shan mountains. It is a typical element of steppe and winter-rain Mediterranean vegetation. A number of species and many hybrid cultivars are grown in gardens, as potted plants, or as cut flowers.

Tulips are spring-blooming perennials that grow from bulbs. Depending on the species, tulip plants can be between 4 inches (10 cm) and 28 inches (71 cm) high. The tulip's large flowers usually bloom on scapes with leaves in a rosette at ground level and a single flowering stalk arising from amongst the leaves.Tulip stems have few leaves. Larger species tend to have multiple leaves. Plants typically have two to six leaves, some species up to 12. The tulip's leaf is strap-shaped, with a waxy coating, and the leaves are alternately arranged on the stem; these fleshy blades are often bluish green in color. Most tulips produce only one flower per stem, but a few species bear multiple flowers on their scapes (e.g. Tulipa turkestanica). The generally cup or star-shaped tulip flower has three petals and three sepals, which are often termed tepals because they are nearly identical. These six tepals are often marked on the interior surface near the bases with darker colorings. Tulip flowers come in a wide variety of colors, except pure blue (several tulips with "blue" in the name have a faint violet hue).

The flowers have six distinct, basifixed stamens with filaments shorter than the tepals. Each stigma has three distinct lobes, and the ovaries are superior, with three chambers. The tulip's seed is a capsule with a leathery covering and an ellipsoid to globe shape. Each capsule contains numerous flat, disc-shaped seeds in two rows per chamber. These light to dark brown seeds have very thin seed coats and endosperm that does not normally fill the entire seed.

Etymology

The word tulip, first mentioned in western Europe in or around 1554 and seemingly derived from the "Turkish Letters" of diplomat Ogier Ghiselin de Busbecq, first appeared in English as tulipa or tulipant, entering the language by way of French: tulipe and its obsolete form tulipan or by way of Modern Latin tulīpa, from Ottoman Turkish tülbend ("muslin" or "gauze"), and may be ultimately derived from the Persian: دلبند‎ delband ("Turban"), this name being applied because of a perceived resemblance of the shape of a tulip flower to that of a turban. This may have been due to a translation error in early times, when it was fashionable in the Ottoman Empire to wear tulips on turbans. The translator possibly confused the flower for the turban.

Tulips are called laleh (from Persian لاله, lâleh) in Persian, Turkish, Arabic, and Bulgarian. In Arabic letters, "laleh" is written with the same letters as Allah, which is why the flower became a holy symbol. It was also associated with the House of Osman, resulting in tulips being widely used in decorative motifs on tiles, mosques, fabrics, crockery, etc. in the Ottoman Empire

Cultivation

Tulip cultivars have usually several species in their direct background, but most have been derived from Tulipa suaveolens, often erroneously listed as Tulipa schrenkii. Tulipa gesneriana is in itself an early hybrid of complex origin and is probably not the same taxon as was described by Conrad Gesner in the 16th century.

Tulips are indigenous to mountainous areas with temperate climates and need a period of cool dormancy, known as vernalization. They thrive in climates with long, cool springs and dry summers. Tulip bulbs imported to warm-winter areas of are often planted in autumn to be treated as annuals.

Tulip bulbs are typically planted around late summer and fall, in well-drained soils, normally from 4 to 8 inches (10 to 20 cm) deep, depending on the type. Species tulips are normally planted deeper.

Propagation

Tulips can be propagated through bulb offsets, seeds or micropropagation. Offsets and tissue culture methods are means of asexual propagation for producing genetic clones of the parent plant, which maintains cultivar genetic integrity. Seeds are most often used to propagate species and subspecies or to create new hybrids. Many tulip species can cross-pollinate with each other, and when wild tulip populations overlap geographically with other tulip species or subspecies, they often hybridize and create mixed populations. Most commercial tulip cultivars are complex hybrids, and often sterile.

Offsets require a year or more of growth before plants are large enough to flower. Tulips grown from seeds often need five to eight years before plants are of flowering size. Commercial growers usually harvest the tulip bulbs in late summer and grade them into sizes; bulbs large enough to flower are sorted and sold, while smaller bulbs are sorted into sizes and replanted for sale in the future. The Netherlands are the world's main producer of commercial tulip plants, producing as many as 3 billion bulbs annually, the majority for export.

For further information please visit en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tulip

Saint Mary’s Cathedral is located in the historic center of Photi. In particular : В in today’s Central Park. This location of the building was chosen because of the rays perceived from the street.

Photi is a city, which was built according to a plan. 12 squares were joining the central street (twelve Apostles sign) and the ray sign was created. The most important event in the history of Photi was the building of Guria–Samegrelo eparchy’s cathedral in 1906-1907 years, In which’s construction, great contribution belongs to Niko Nikoladze.

The project was created by A.Zelenko. The project is the reduced analog of Constantinople’s Hagia Sofia. Later, after that, R. Marpeld made some corrections in project, the project was approved. The church was entertained to hold 2000 prayers. The construction of the church was tasked to “Black Sea Building Society”. The construction began in 6 July, 1906 and finished in September, 1907. It lasted for 1 year and 3 months. It was opened on 14 September “Jvartamagleba” holiday. The church’s foundation was blessed, by Guria-Samegrelo bishop, Giorgi.

On 22 May, 1907 the cross was erected on the dome of the church. Soviet government, turned the cathedral into theatre. In 2005, by the prayer-blessing of Catholicos-Patriarch of Georgia, the cathedral returned to the Photi patriarchate ownage.

Vom Strand aus sah ich den Regenbrachvogel auf dem Stein landen. Das Hochwasser ging schon zurück, so konnte ich mich ihm im Wasser mit der Kamera in der Hand gut nähern. Trotzdem hat es mich erstaunt, dass er keinerlei Scheu zeigte. Wahrscheinlich hat er mich so überhaupt nicht als Mensch wahrgenommen.

From the beach I saw the Whimbrel land on the stone. The high tide was already receding, so I could easily approach him in the water with the camera in my hand. Nevertheless, I was surprised that he didn't show any shyness. It probably didn't perceive me as a human being at all.

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Coquetterie de jeune martine pour se faire plus grande ou plutôt un danger pressenti du ciel , peu importe la position qu'elle prend elle est toujours aussi belle ! Photo prise en tente affût au fond de mon jardin.

Coquetry of the young Miss kingfisher to make herself taller or rather a perceived danger from heaven, no matter the position she takes she is always just as beautiful! Photo taken in a blind tent at the bottom of my garden.

Phyllopertha horticola is approximately 8.5–11 millimetres (0.33–0.43 in) in size. Unlike Mimela of the family same family, these beetles have a non-ovoid body. They have chestnut-brown wing casings which are covered with a long upright pubescence. On each elytron run six longitudinal bands of small dots. Head and thorax are finely granulated. Head, thorax and legs are shiny dark green or bluish. The underside of the body is also green. The antennas are very short and end in a fan-like group of three lamellae, with which the beetle perceives fragrances. This species is quite similar to Popillia japonica .

Happy sunny week dear ALL:)

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The Gothic cathedral represented the universe in microcosm and each architectural concept, including the loftiness and huge dimensions of the structure, were intended to convey a theological message: the great glory of God.

The building becomes a microcosm in two ways. Firstly, the mathematical and geometrical nature of the construction is an image of the orderly universe, in which an underlying rationality and logic can be perceived.

Yellow is the perceived color of sunshine, joy, happiness, intellect and energy !!

I make the two-hour round trip to Muscatatuck NWR as often as time and my desire to be a good husband allow. I always try to be there before daybreak so I can hear the creatures of the night calls wane and the refuge come alive with its daily activity. More often than not the colors of sunrise disappoint. Not on this day.

A thin sheet of ice covered much of the lake, pushing the Grebe close to my position. They took turns diving for breakfast as one kept an eye on the perceived threat at all times. I captured many shots, enjoying the contrast of black with the morning’s light. It was when they came in close to each other causing the snakelike pattern between them and their reflection that I decided to share this one.

I hope your day is blessed and your focus sharp!

John

Madrid, España, 2023

[PT] Entre ruas, sombras e ficções

Contemplo ruas, pessoas e pedras, entre ficções e esquecimentos, inspirado no poeta, talvez, percebo as sombras dos gestos de outros, a poesia do crepúsculo, um desassossego.

“...todos somos igualmente derivados de não sei quê, sombras de gestos feitos por outrem, efeitos encarnados, consequências que sentem.” (Fernando Pessoa, Livro do Desassossego, v.164)

[ES] Entre calles, sombras y ficciones

Contemplo calles, personas y piedras, entre ficciones y olvidos, inspirado en el poeta, quizás, percibo las sombras de los gestos de otros, la poesía del crepúsculo, una inquietud.

“...todos somos igualmente derivados de no sé qué, sombras de gestos hechos por otra persona, efectos encarnados, consecuencias que sienten.” (Fernando Pessoa, Libro del desasosiego, v.164)

[ENG] Between streets, shadows and fictions

I contemplate streets, people and stones, between fictions and oblivion, inspired by the poet, perhaps, I perceive the shadows of the gestures of others, the poetry of twilight, a restlessness.

“...we are all equally derived from I don't know what, shadows of gestures made by someone else, embodied effects, consequences they feel.” (Fernando Pessoa, Book of Disquiet, v.164)

Pelicans are a genus of large water birds that make up the family Pelecanidae. They are characterised by a long beak and a large throat pouch used for catching prey and draining water from the scooped-up contents before swallowing. They have predominantly pale plumage, the exceptions being the brown and Peruvian pelicans. The bills, pouches, and bare facial skin of all species become brightly coloured before the breeding season. The eight living pelican species have a patchy global distribution, ranging latitudinally from the tropics to the temperate zone, though they are absent from interior South America and from polar regions and the open ocean. Pelicans frequent inland and coastal waters, where they feed principally on fish, catching them at or near the water surface. They are gregarious birds, travelling in flocks, hunting cooperatively, and breeding colonially. Four white-plumaged species tend to nest on the ground, and four brown or grey-plumaged species nest mainly in trees. The relationship between pelicans and people has often been contentious. The birds have been persecuted because of their perceived competition with commercial and recreational fishing. Their populations have fallen through habitat destruction, disturbance, and environmental pollution, and three species are of conservation concern. They also have a long history of cultural significance in mythology, and in Christian and heraldic iconography. 61272

It is difficult to see it from here,

I know,

but trust me when I say

this blessing is inscribed

on the horizon.

Is written on

that far point

you can hardly see.

Is etched into

a landscape

whose contours you cannot know

from here.

All you know

is that it calls you,

draws you,

pulls you toward

what you have perceived

only in pieces,

in fragments that came to you

in dreaming

or in prayer.

I cannot account for how,

as you draw near,

the blessing embedded in the horizon

begins to blossom

upon the soles of your feet,

shimmers in your two hands.

It is one of the mysteries

of the road,

how the blessing

you have traveled toward,

waited for,

ached for

suddenly appears,

as if it had been with you

all this time,

as if it simply

needed to know

how far you were willing

to walk

to find the lines

that were traced upon you

before the day

you were born.

—Jan Richardson

from Circle of Grace

«What happens in Ukraine matters to us all.

That is why I am in Kyiv today.

That is why the UK will continue to stand with our Ukrainian friends.

I believe Ukraine can and will win this war.»

/British Prime Minister Boris Johnson arrived in Kyiv as the country celebrates Independence Day./

Life in Ukraine has never been easy. Many challenges have always awaited every Ukrainian every day - from the usual family and existential ones to unpredictable ones related to the political life of society. The war of 2014 fell on Ukrainians by surprise, like some kind of disease. That war was perceived as a disease that could be cured, because no one could and did not want to believe that it was a harbinger of something terrible, that trouble was brewing. How was it possible with common sense to believe that your neighbor would declare: "I will destroy you all and take all yours for myself." But February 24, 2022 came, and Russia began killing Ukrainians, destroying cities and villages, and looting our historical symbols. Life in Ukraine has changed. A different meaning of life has appeared, the dreams of Ukrainians have changed. We want to expel the enemy from every piece of the land of Ukraine and return to our usual and such difficult Ukrainian life. This is now the dream of everyone who lives in Ukraine and loves it, because there is nowhere better than it on the planet.

Життя в Україні ніколи не було простим. Щодня на кожного українця завжди чекало багато викликів - від звичних сімейних і екзистенційних, до непередбачуваних, пов’язаних з політичним життям суспільства. Війна 2014 року впала на українців зненацька, наче якась хвороба. Ту війну і сприймали як хворобу, яку потрібно вилікувати, адже повірити, що це передвісник чогось страшного, що готується біда, ніхто не міг і не хотів. Як можна було при здоровому глузді повірити, що твій сусід заявить: «Я вас всіх знищу і заберу все ваше собі». Але настало 24 лютого 2022 року і Росія почала вбивати українців, руйнувати міста і села, плюндрувати наші історичні символи. Життя в Україні змінилося. З’явився інший сенс життя, змінилися мрії українців. Ми хочемо вигнати ворога з кожного клаптика землі України і повернутись до свого звичного і такого непростого українського життя. Отака зараз мрія кожного, хто живе в Україні і любить її, бо кращої за неї для нас немає ніде у світі.

One-leaf macro, with backlight. It's a sample of those little things, that are in our dressing room and we don't perceive.

Macro de una hoja, con luz de fondo. Es una muestra de esas pequeñas cosas, que están a nuestro alderredor y no percibimos.

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Une composition du photographe franco-suisse Gérard Benoît à la Guillaume, collectionneur de bidons à lait depuis près de 10 ans exposée lors de la manifestation annuelle du Comptoir Suisse à Lausanne - Switzerland.

L’homme créé ce genre d’installations à travers différents paysages depuis 2007, dans le cadre d’un projet participatif qu’il a nommé «Bidons Sans Frontières». www.bidonssansfrontieres.com/Accueil.html

Son objectif? Valoriser les patrimoines régionaux tout en donnant vie à ses bidons, qu’il considère comme des personnages. «Au départ, les gens sont intrigués, mais, quand ils voient la bonhomie des boilles, qu’elles sont perçues comme des personnages et qu’ils comprennent qu’on ne se prend pas au sérieux, ça finit par fonctionner», explique-t-il ...

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A composition of the Swiss-French photographer Gérard Benoît Guillaume, milk cans collector for almost 10 years exhibited at the annual event of the Comptoir Suisse in Lausanne - Switzerland.

The man created such facilities through various landscapes since 2007, as part of a participatory project he called "Cans without Borders".

www.bidonssansfrontieres.com/Accueil.html

His goal ? Valuing regional heritage while giving life to his drums, he considers the characters. "Initially, people are intrigued, but when they see the good nature of boilles, perceived as characters and understand that does not take itself seriously, it ends up working," Explain to he...

was my first thought when I saw this piano!

For "smile on saturday" and

"music in b&w"!!!

(The working title was 'Unrealized Dream'

Unfortunately, when God gave the faculty of perceiving music sounds to people, I was in a deep hole and he certainly did not see me. Maybe in the next life....:-)))

Have a great weekend and thank you for visiting!

HSoS!

Spitfire LA198” is a Mark 21 Spitfire built during 1944 with a Rolls Royce Griffon 61 engine and a five-blade propeller. It flew with the 602 City of Glasgow Squadron between 1947-1949. ... Playing a vital role in the Battle of Britain, from July to October 1940, the Spitfire was perceived to be the main RAF fighter.

I must say, I was shocked when I saw how nighttime changes an owl's face. While they become fearsome predators at night, they also become much more adorable to us humans, who have evolved to perceive large eyes as captivating and innocent.

In an effort to find area barred owls, I set out to a local park before sunrise and came upon this Eastern Screech Owl (Megascops asio) in the dark. This darkness was so inky and thick, in fact, that I could not see if he was in his hole or not, so trained my tripoded camera on the hole, manually focused, and finally saw him in the preview window! Shocked for sure by those massive pupils staring down at me, a frog (which he swallowed greedily prior to this photo and while I watched) in his talons!

Interestingly, owl eyeballs are not balls at all, but so well evolved for night vision that they have elongated into eye cones. For this reason, they cannot move their eyes in their sockets, and have evolved wildly-flexible necks. With their highly acute retinas replete with rods (the light and movement sensing eye bits), there wasn't much room for cones, and so most owls see limited or no color!

Phyllopertha horticola is approximately 8.5–11 millimetres (0.33–0.43 in) in size. Unlike Mimela of the family same family, these beetles have a non-ovoid body. They have chestnut-brown wing casings which are covered with a long upright pubescence. On each elytron run six longitudinal bands of small dots. Head and thorax are finely granulated. Head, thorax and legs are shiny dark green or bluish. The underside of the body is also green. The antennas are very short and end in a fan-like group of three lamellae, with which the beetle perceives fragrances. This species is quite similar to Popillia japonica .

“Soon part of me will explore the deep and dark

Floor of the harbour . . I am everywhere,

I suffer and move, my mind and my heart move

With all that move me, under the water”

― John Berryman, The Dream Songs

One of you asked whether this is perhaps a nightmare and I have two answers to that. In a general sense, it is whatever the viewer perceives it to be and open to interpretation. Once we release art to public view, I tend to believe we then also release it's meaning for all who care to imagine what that meaning might be. But for myself, personally, this represents a view of the future looming before us that is much darker and uncertain than I once believed it might be. Yet one that still contains elements of beauty and, oddly, peace. Most everything feels paradoxical to me these days, colored with a deep and dark ambiguity.

Thanks to everyone for your kind comments, awards and faves! I always tell myself that I will go through and thank each individual on each image but I never seem to have enough time. So please know that all of you are very much appreciated!!!

zwei Mohnblumen nah beieinander ...

two poppies close together ...

Umgeben

von lauter anderen Lebewesen

sind wir uns so nah

du strahlst durch mich hindurch

ich durch dich

wir nehmen unser Licht auf

und leuchten zu zweit

bereit

zusammen sind wir größer

mag sein

dass sie uns als zu symbiotisch empfinden

jedoch möchte ich einen anderen Reim ?

;-) ...

Surrounded

of other living beings

we are so close

you radiate through me

I through you

we take up our light

and shine as two

ready for each challenge

together we are greater

may be

that they perceive us as too symbiotic

however would I like another rhyme ?

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Suprematism is an early twentieth-century art movement focused on the fundamentals of geometry (circles, squares, rectangles, triangles). The term refers to a form of abstract art based on the supremacy of pure artistic expression rather than on a visual or literal depiction of objects. It is entirely subjective and gives room for the artist to present what they think or perceive versus what they may see.

Pain has an element of blank;

It cannot recollect

When it began, or if there were

A day when it was not.

It has no future but itself,

Its infinite realms contain

Its past, enlightened to perceive

New periods of pain.

Emily Dickinson (1830 - 1886)

No Photoshopping or photographic jiggery-pokery going on here., this is a genuine shot

When it comes to conflict over territorial 'rights (especially this time of year when food is in shorter supply) things can quite literally become 'deadly serious'

Godwit's are not the first bird that comes to mind when thinking of life or death combat., but armed with that spear like beak., this picture reveals a very different side to their usually perceived placid nature

Taken in our garden earlier this spring...

The tulip is a perennial, bulbous plant with showy flowers in the genus Tulipa, of which around 75 wild species are currently accepted and which belongs to the family Liliaceae.

The genus's native range extends west to the Iberian Peninsula, through North Africa to Greece, the Balkans, Turkey, throughout the Levant (Syria, Israel, Palestine, Lebanon, Jordan) and Iran, North to Ukraine, southern Siberia and Mongolia, and east to the Northwest of China. The tulip's centre of diversity is in the Pamir, Hindu Kush, and Tien Shan mountains. It is a typical element of steppe and winter-rain Mediterranean vegetation. A number of species and many hybrid cultivars are grown in gardens, as potted plants, or as cut flowers.

Tulips are spring-blooming perennials that grow from bulbs. Depending on the species, tulip plants can be between 4 inches (10 cm) and 28 inches (71 cm) high. The tulip's large flowers usually bloom on scapes with leaves in a rosette at ground level and a single flowering stalk arising from amongst the leaves.Tulip stems have few leaves. Larger species tend to have multiple leaves. Plants typically have two to six leaves, some species up to 12. The tulip's leaf is strap-shaped, with a waxy coating, and the leaves are alternately arranged on the stem; these fleshy blades are often bluish green in color. Most tulips produce only one flower per stem, but a few species bear multiple flowers on their scapes (e.g. Tulipa turkestanica). The generally cup or star-shaped tulip flower has three petals and three sepals, which are often termed tepals because they are nearly identical. These six tepals are often marked on the interior surface near the bases with darker colorings. Tulip flowers come in a wide variety of colors, except pure blue (several tulips with "blue" in the name have a faint violet hue).

The flowers have six distinct, basifixed stamens with filaments shorter than the tepals. Each stigma has three distinct lobes, and the ovaries are superior, with three chambers. The tulip's seed is a capsule with a leathery covering and an ellipsoid to globe shape. Each capsule contains numerous flat, disc-shaped seeds in two rows per chamber. These light to dark brown seeds have very thin seed coats and endosperm that does not normally fill the entire seed.

Etymology

The word tulip, first mentioned in western Europe in or around 1554 and seemingly derived from the "Turkish Letters" of diplomat Ogier Ghiselin de Busbecq, first appeared in English as tulipa or tulipant, entering the language by way of French: tulipe and its obsolete form tulipan or by way of Modern Latin tulīpa, from Ottoman Turkish tülbend ("muslin" or "gauze"), and may be ultimately derived from the Persian: دلبند‎ delband ("Turban"), this name being applied because of a perceived resemblance of the shape of a tulip flower to that of a turban. This may have been due to a translation error in early times, when it was fashionable in the Ottoman Empire to wear tulips on turbans. The translator possibly confused the flower for the turban.

Tulips are called laleh (from Persian لاله, lâleh) in Persian, Turkish, Arabic, and Bulgarian. In Arabic letters, "laleh" is written with the same letters as Allah, which is why the flower became a holy symbol. It was also associated with the House of Osman, resulting in tulips being widely used in decorative motifs on tiles, mosques, fabrics, crockery, etc. in the Ottoman Empire

Cultivation

Tulip cultivars have usually several species in their direct background, but most have been derived from Tulipa suaveolens, often erroneously listed as Tulipa schrenkii. Tulipa gesneriana is in itself an early hybrid of complex origin and is probably not the same taxon as was described by Conrad Gesner in the 16th century.

Tulips are indigenous to mountainous areas with temperate climates and need a period of cool dormancy, known as vernalization. They thrive in climates with long, cool springs and dry summers. Tulip bulbs imported to warm-winter areas of are often planted in autumn to be treated as annuals.

Tulip bulbs are typically planted around late summer and fall, in well-drained soils, normally from 4 to 8 inches (10 to 20 cm) deep, depending on the type. Species tulips are normally planted deeper.

Propagation

Tulips can be propagated through bulb offsets, seeds or micropropagation. Offsets and tissue culture methods are means of asexual propagation for producing genetic clones of the parent plant, which maintains cultivar genetic integrity. Seeds are most often used to propagate species and subspecies or to create new hybrids. Many tulip species can cross-pollinate with each other, and when wild tulip populations overlap geographically with other tulip species or subspecies, they often hybridize and create mixed populations. Most commercial tulip cultivars are complex hybrids, and often sterile.

Offsets require a year or more of growth before plants are large enough to flower. Tulips grown from seeds often need five to eight years before plants are of flowering size. Commercial growers usually harvest the tulip bulbs in late summer and grade them into sizes; bulbs large enough to flower are sorted and sold, while smaller bulbs are sorted into sizes and replanted for sale in the future. The Netherlands are the world's main producer of commercial tulip plants, producing as many as 3 billion bulbs annually, the majority for export.

For further information please visit en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tulip

Color does not exist, but is created in our brains. In order to see color we need light, an object and our eyes. Color arises in the presence of light. Whenever light falls on an object, some of the rays are reflected by the object and the remainder is absorbed. The part that is reflected, determines the color.

Our eyes cannot perceive the light that is absorbed by an object. An apple, for example, absorbs all colors, except green. Because the green is reflected and is captured by our eyes, we see the green color of the apple.

The most ideal light for seeing color is diffuse daylight, when the sun is more or less behind the clouds and it is slightly rainy. This produces the most truthful colors.

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The building represents one of the best modernist evidence of Romeo Despoli. The building, perceived as unity, is in reality composed by three different buildings. The central part is slightly sunken compared as for the laterals. The continuous alternate of elements sunken or projecting, columns and terraces, decorative pilasters and structural pilasters creates a game of chiaroscuros that animate the façade. The superabundant plastic richness of the ornamental patterns characterizes an example of vibrating liberty. The ground floor and mezzanine, highlighting the clear derivation from Fabiani. Ground floor two angular balconies handle further the facades. The windows at the third floor, with round arch, are completed by a balcony with a railing wrought iron flower patterns. The building culminates with a perimetral hanging loggia and with a projecting ledge.

Artwork made for the "Dance and Music" Exhibition at RAINBOW PAINTERS ART GALLERY

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DISSONANCES

Solitudes impossible to reach

they run much more than yours

Solitudes perched on dizzying heights

like ancient castles

Solitudes that slip past you

they live in other dimensions

Solitudes of old warehouses

cluttered with broken paper

Solitudes so affable

you can't perceive them

Solitudes too serious

you can't talk to them

Solitudes so sad

that make you cry

Solitudes of the living

in the presence of the dead

Solitudes you meet daily

piled up to billions

Solitudes of skylights

under an August sun

Solitudes of solitaries

walking for country lanes

Solitudes you would like to love

but you can't 'cause they want to be alone

© Eli Medier

Taken at "Digital Art -Cammino e Vivo Capovolto"

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My great-grandmother's beaded purse of red beads and metal beads. A well-loved antique beaded purse. I discovered this week that loving what I try to photograph seems important to the effort and outcome. At least as I perceive the outcome. Sadly, I never met the woman, but I adore her style.

While many people are cursing the colder temperatures and the little bit of snow we are having this week, we welcomed it! That meant we could walk in designated spaces by the city and meet no one on the path! People were keeping warm inside especially on this windy day. On our walk, we happened to have our cameras ready when this swan decided to chase a goose in the stream beside us. Putting the camera on burst mode I was hoping to catch them in flight. We think the swans are trying to have a nest in the grasses nearby and the only perceived threat they have right now are the other birds! Wildlife must be happy that the humans have "disappeared".

Time, just a bodily experience;

With the change of times...

Events unwarranted , undesirable

Mere glimpses as it appears,

Of ever-changing substance...

The viewer and the view

Change like a flicker

Every perception an illusion

Every perceiver the same

Certain is the state

Before birth and after death

Uncertain is the state

In between birth and death

Look at those changes

Like an entertainment

Scenes changing in a play

Queer, and a source of enjoyment

Open the inner eyes

Awaken the Soul

You are neither body nor a living being

Your power knows no bounds.

- Anuj Nair

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Too thoughtful to perceive the ginkgo's gorgeous autumn dress

In the Kurpark Oberlaa in Favoriten, the 10th district of Vienna

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Walter Benjamin: "A Klee painting named Angelus Novus shows an angel looking as though he is about to move away from something he is fixatedly contemplating. His eyes are staring, his mouth is open, his wings are spread. This is how one pictures the angel of history. His face is turned toward the past. Where we perceive a chain of events, he sees one single catastrophe which keeps piling wreckage upon wreckage and hurls it in front of his feet. The angel would like to stay, awaken the dead, and make whole what has been smashed. But a storm is blowing from Paradise; it has got caught in his wings with such violence that the angel can no longer close them. The storm irresistibly propels him into the future to which his back is turned, while the pile of debris before him grows skyward. This storm is what we call progress."

Hogdal - Bohuslän - Sweden

This little hous belongs to

Hogdal Gästgivargård/Hostelry built 1856

When you look at a tree and

perceive its stillness,

you become still yourself.

You connect with it at a very deep level.

― Eckhart Tolle

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~ POWER ~

I can make the earth stop in

its tracks. I made the

blue cars go away.

I can make myself invisible or small.

I can become gigantic & reach the

farthest things. I can change

the course of nature.

I can place myself anywhere in

space or time.

I can summon the dead.

I can perceive events on other worlds,

in my deepest inner mind,

& in the minds of others.

I can..

I am...

(Jim Morrisson's poetry)

"..these are the seasons of emotion and like the wind they rise and fall

This is the wonder of devotion - I see the torch we all must hold.

This is the mystery of the quotient, quotient - Upon us all, upon us all a little rain must fall.

It's just a little rain oh yeah...."

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this is not a metaphor

both require you to fix and hold your attention on the world in front of you

both are ways of perceiving the world(s)

Beauty is in your own yard. There’s beauty in a rainstorm, the sunshine or a snowstorm. Beauty defines how we see life and our lives and how we’re affected by what we see. Beauty defines how we perceive our days and nights and the people we meet along the way. What we do with our time and how we decide to share what we experience is a great deal of what I mean by “Beauty Is Never Far Away’ When we share, we touch others with our words, deeds and even our photographs. Share your beauty no matter the means or method. Our World today needs more beauty, so be a supplier. Gratitude and Kindness are more valuable when shared.

The Geomethras - Spiritas Geometrium by Daniel Arrhakis (2022)

The Geomethras - Spiritas Geometrium

To perceive nature is to be silent in the pine forest.

Umana... perchè il genere umano percepisce il pericolo solo quando tocca ciò che è vicino alla propria sfera personale?

Perchè non riesce a capire che, per il bene della salute di TUTTI, deve rimanere a casa?

Human ... why does humankind perceive danger only when it touches what is close to its own personal sphere?

Why can't he understand that, for the sake of ALL health, he must stay at home?

This golden-crowned sparrow was one of several that would venture out of the grass onto the edge of the path for a bite, then go back in if perceived danger was detected. Spotted at Jackson Bottom wetlands.

It's one thing to question your mind. It's another to question your eyes and ears. But then again, isn't it all the same? Our senses just mediocre inputs for our brain? Sure, we rely on them, trust they accurately portray the real world around us. But what if the haunting truth is they can't? That what we perceive isn't the real world at all, but just our mind's best guess? That all we really have is a garbled reality, a fuzzy picture we will never truly make out?

Saint Mary’s Cathedral is located in the historic center of Photi. In particular : В in today’s Central Park. This location of the building was chosen because of the rays perceived from the street.

Photi is a city, which was built according to a plan. 12 squares were joining the central street (twelve Apostles sign) and the ray sign was created. The most important event in the history of Photi was the building of Guria– Samegrelo eparchy’s cathedral in 1906-1907 years, In which’s construction, great contribution belongs to Niko Nikoladze.

The project was created by A.Zelenko. The project is the reduced analog of Constantinople’s Hagia Sofia. Later, after that, R. Marpeld made some corrections in project, the project was approved. The church was entertained to hold 2000 prayers. The construction of the church was tasked to “Black Sea Building Society”. The construction began in 6 July, 1906 and finished in September, 1907. It lasted for 1 year and 3 months. It was opened on 14 September “Jvartamagleba” holiday. The church’s foundation was blessed, by Guria-Samegrelo bishop, Giorgi.

On 22 May, 1907 the cross was erected on the dome of the church. Soviet government, turned the cathedral into theatre. In 2005, by the prayer-blessing of Catholicos-Patriarch of Georgia, the cathedral returned to the Photi patriarchate ownage.

Perceiving each day

with righteous clarity.

Living each moment

in purposed reality.

Believing each day

is the start of eternity.”

S. Tarr.

Healing trough art.

A 30 second exposure that I did on my balcony.

Sand Villa Hotel, Oahu

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"There are three phases to awareness: to look, to see, and to perceive. A camera looks. A mind sees. A heart perceives." - Anonymous

There were several pair of birds investigating boxes along "Bluebird Lane". Once this pair laid claim to a box, the male in particular became quite aggressive. He perched on its top. And if another bird attempted even so much as a flyby, he went into a display of vigorous wing flapping and foot-stomping, accompanied by a steady stream of chattering vocalizations; which I surmise contained very specific instructions for the perceived intruder.

Kernville, Ca.

There are some things and words which have lost all meaning through use and abuse. Words. such as "hero" and objects such as the American flag have lost all the specialness they used to engender. Now the flag has become as much a political statement for the right wingnuts as it has of an honored history (or "perceived honorable"). In a way, America has become a sad parody of itself.

The sun was obscured by the cloud cover which gave the field a soft light effect. I used a tripod with the camera level but low to the ground and captured three exposures at -2, 0, and +2 while using aperture priority (f/11). Then I merged them together in Adobe Lightroom to retain a dynamic range comparable to what my eyes perceived. I then used range and color masks to bring out the colors and luminosity in both sky and field.

somewhere i have never travelled, gladly beyond

any experience, your eyes have their silence:

in your most frail gesture are things which enclose me,

or which i cannot touch because they are too near

your slightest look will easily unclose me

though i have closed myself as fingers,

you open always petal by petal myself as Spring opens

(touching skilfully, mysteriously) her first rose

or if your wish be to close me, i and

my life will shut very beautifully ,suddenly,

as when the heart of this flower imagines

the snow carefully everywhere descending;

nothing which we are to perceive in this world equals

the power of your intense fragility: whose texture

compels me with the color of its countries,

rendering death and forever with each breathing

(i do not know what it is about you that closes and opens;

only something in me understands

the voice of your eyes is deeper than all roses)

nobody, not even the rain, has such small hands

ee cummings

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