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For some reason this sika deer stag perceived me as a threat to his harem. He kept watching me closely, always walking away and then coming back again, posing as though he was ready to charge at me.
“It is an absolute human certainty that no one can know his own beauty or perceive a sense of his own worth until it has been reflected back to him in the mirror of another loving, caring human being.”
― John Joseph Powell, The Secret of Staying in Love
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My silence
is not always silent.
My silence
is music ...
is life …
laugh …
dive into all this,
which gives wings to my soul.
Because the sounds of life
and the melody of love,
change to perceived colors
and draw an inner peace,
in the midst of the loud sounds
here my inner silence is born
in the midst of the light tones
and the colorful shades
of my life.
© Erika Flickinger
Sevilla, ES, 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)
3/6
Not so the forest rebel.
He has a tough decision to make: to reserve the right—at any cost—to judge for himself what he is called upon to support or contribute to. There will be considerable sacrifices, but they will be accompanied by an immediate gain in sovereignty. Naturally, as things stand, only a tiny minority will perceive the gain as such. Dominion, however, can only come from those who have preserved in themselves a knowledge of native human measures and who will not be forced by any superior power to forsake acting humanely.
[E. J.]
map: Jilin Estates - DYNASTY, Peony
flickr group: www.flickr.com/groups/4607169@N20/pool/
tune: youtu.be/GkcZV4vu91U
English translation:
Feeling
One is happy,
the other is sad,
he whispers: pray, kneel, make one last wish.
One is happy, the other is sad,
he whispers: smile.
One is happy,
the other is sad,
he whispers: pray, kneel, make one last wish.
One is happy, the other is sad,
he whispers: smile like me.
It kind of feels like
being stabbed with a knife,
It kind of feels like—I can’t hear you well, what?
You look almost afraid, whoa man, that makes me want to cry.
It kind of feels like that, it kind of feels like that.
It kind of feels like being stabbed with a knife.
It kind of feels like— I can’t hear you well, what?
You look almost afraid, whoa man, that makes me want to cry.
One is happy and the other is sad.
It kind of feels like
being stabbed with a knife,
It kind of feels like— I can’t hear you well, what?
You look almost afraid, whoa man,
that makes me want to cry,
I can’t stand watching.
And the other one is sad.
It’s like how a homo feels
When he doesn’t like the men,
Like a stoner looking for his fix,
it’s not his fault he can’t stop feeling tormented.
He perceives your body like it were sound,
then suddenly, in-between the two,
he reconsiders everything and counts on the fingers of his one hand
all the loves they threw,
and there will still be fingers remaining,
but that’s a thing everyone knows!
And one is happy and the other is sad,
he whispers: pray, kneel, make one last wish.
One is happy, the other is sad,
he whispers: smile like me.
And one is happy
(It kind of feels like)
and the other is sad,
(being stabbed with a knife,)
he whispers: pray,
(it kind of feels like—)
kneel, make one last wish.
(I can’t hear you well, what? You look almost afraid,)
One is happy, the other is sad, he whispers: smile like me.
(whoa man, that makes me want to cry.)
It’s that kind of feeling.
translator: frog
Depth perception is the ability to see the world in three dimensions and to perceive distance. Although this ability may seem simple, depth perception is remarkable when you consider that the images projected on each retina are two-dimensional.
Metro de 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)
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
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. 28041
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Bullfrogs are voracious, opportunistic, ambush predators that prey on any small animal they can overpower and stuff down their throats. Bullfrog stomachs have been found to contain rodents, small reptiles, amphibians, crayfish, birds, and bats, as well as the many invertebrates, such as insects, which are the usual food of ranid frogs. These studies revealed the bullfrog's diet to be unique among North American ranids in the inclusion of a large percentage of aquatic animals, such as fish, tadpoles, ram's horn snails, and dytiscid beetles. Bullfrogs can capture large, strong prey because of the powerful grip of their jaws after the initial tongue strike. The bullfrog is able to make allowance for light refraction at the water-air interface by striking at a position posterior to the target's perceived location.
Prey motion elicits feeding behavior. First, if necessary, the frog performs a single, orienting bodily rotation ending with the frog aimed towards the prey, followed by approaching leaps, if necessary. Once within striking distance, the bullfrog begins its feeding strike, which consists of a ballistic lunge (eyes closed as during all leaps) that ends with the mouth opening. At this stage, the fleshy, mucous-coated tongue is extended towards the prey, often engulfing it, while the jaws continue their forward travel to close (bite) just as the tongue is retracted. Large prey that do not fit entirely into the mouth are stuffed in with the hands.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_bullfrog
Taken at Wildwood lake, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania.
1/250 sec. f/11 187mm ISO1600
Although it is the very same winter, I am 4985 miles away and my ears do not perceive the explosions. My ears are not my mind.
Milwaukee Lakefront
Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Greatness is not achieved by ridicule, malice, injustice or relishing in the perceived misconceptions of a being. It is achieved in the ability to inspire another to be, to become even greater than they are.
Damien Godard
“Highly sensitive people are too often perceived as weaklings or damaged goods. To feel intensely is not a symptom of weakness, it is the trademark of the truly alive and compassionate. It is not the empath who is broken, it is society that has become dysfunctional and emotionally disabled. There is no shame in expressing your authentic feelings. Those who are at times described as being a 'hot mess' or having 'too many issues' are the very fabric of what keeps the dream alive for a more caring, humane world. Never be ashamed to let your tears shine a light in this world.”
― Anthon St. Maarten
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It is looking and listening for voles over or under the snow in the field below. This one appears to be gliding here probably about 20-25 feet above ground. If it perceives some evidence of prey below, it would normally swivel is wings in a braking position to reduce altitude and partially or fully lower its legs.
If it became more convinced, it would probably hover a bit; crash into the snow in a "snow dive", or land and pursue the vole from the ground.
The sunsets of Northern Sea in Belgium, are truly stunning!! I have personally experienced those of the beautiful Flemish city of Oostende, during the Summer and Early Autumn days ! I have stayed by the sea a few times with my family, or alone. It has been a mystical experience, really!!
Here you can perceive within 4 phases a truly magnificent sunset , while the sun is setting , creating through the skies and everywhere around , a sensational, serene, multicolored , velvety experience !
We walked past this shop, and after glancing at it's contents i just had to run back to it. Feeling the awkwardness of both my own desire to photograph the amazing sight of all these jars while not wanting to be perceived as a tourist, I asked the purveyor if it was alright to photograph his store. I explained that I live in Morocco and am not actually a tourist, and he surprised me with his response. He said 'it makes no difference, all are welcome'.
Lies waiting a spark, to invigorate a flame
A spark pervasive, in darkness always
Every atom advancing, perpetual in ethereal waves
Every Sun an atom and every atom a sun
Though candles are different, with same fire they burn
Like atoms of life of vain personalities
Every living being, deriving motivating force
From the living ocean of power, the unlimited source
All bodies are mine, one and same consciousness pervading
'Beyond' is just what the senses can't perceive
- Anuj Nair
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big big hugs to all of you..........
this one goes out to my dear friend Philippe Sainte-Laudy.
miss my alsace......
look HeRe for his wonderful website, where I picked the texture I used for this picture.
merci, mon cher ami......
my friends, as you have noticed life is buzy here, my first course is soon over and I am a very good student.
thank you all for your friendship.
take all good care
see you soon
I like this tree, I think its the colour of the bark and the seemingly random growth of its branches. I tried to get a longer shot but it didn't feel right, so up close and personal was the way to go. I will revisit this character as I want to see how I perceive it when things start to turn green. Taken at Whiteleaf, Buckinghamshire
At sunrise on a cliff overlooking Lake Ontario, a newly-landed Nashville Warbler examines the rolled up leaves for insects.
This was one of about twenty species of Warbler that had arrived that morning, dozens of birds all pushing each other out of perceived ‘hot spots’ for bugs. The beneficiary of that push was anyone with a camera: in the early light, the birds dropped down out of the canopy in their search for food.
That meant that some of the more difficult birds to photograph, because of their fondness for the upper branches of trees, were accessible. This Nashville showed off its field marks that give it its French name: the grey cheeks were fully on display.
Oddly, at what was the peak of the spring migration in Prince Edward County, there were very few birders and few among them had cameras. The entire Prince Edward County National Wildlife Area, a large swath of shoreline and mixed habitats, was mostly without people.
As I have mentioned earlier, I had a few lifers on this visit, as well as a lot of fun, especially with my friend Paul. The enthusiasm of the spring migration was infectious, and everyone we did meet was friendly and sharing news of sightings.
Deutschland ist dicht besiedelt. Viel zu dicht, wie ich meine. Trotzdem immer wieder schön, den Blick mal in die Ferne schweifen lassen zu können.
Germany can't offer the endless expanses of parts of America. Nevertheless, there is always a look that we perceive as wide.
Thanks for all your support! ( this is a repost from before the SNOW)
Happy week and lovexox
The sense of light is more than a brightness one might experience on a sunny afternoon.
The light is perceived as being a living radiance that permeates everything, everywhere, always. The light is immediately understood to be the true source of all things, the foundation on which the physicality of the material world is built.
I am the Lord, your God.
Behold, I will do a new thing,
Now it will spring forth.
Do you not perceive it?
I will make a way in the wilderness,
and rivers in the desert.
Isaiah 43:15 and 19~The Bible
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Spirituality gives a sense of peace, wholeness and balance among the physical, emotional, social and spiritual aspects of our lives. It explains the actual purpose of life for the person.
“My religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superior spirit who reveals himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble mind.” ~ Albert Einstein
4/6
Not so the forest rebel.
He has a tough decision to make: to reserve the right—at any cost—to judge for himself what he is called upon to support or contribute to. There will be considerable sacrifices, but they will be accompanied by an immediate gain in sovereignty. Naturally, as things stand, only a tiny minority will perceive the gain as such. Dominion, however, can only come from those who have preserved in themselves a knowledge of native human measures and who will not be forced by any superior power to forsake acting humanely.
[E. J.]
Well… here’s one more Vertorama from my most productive shoot of my trip… our sunrise photoshoot at the Waterfowl lakes.
This one came out looking nice and cool… and blue… and symmetrical… and tranquil… exactly how I perceived it at the time!
Have a great weekend everyone!
Nikon D300, Sigma 10-20mm at 18mm, aperture of f16, with a 0.77 second exposure.
Click here to check out my Vertorama tutorial.
The modern church was built in 1692 on the site of its predecessor. According to the plan is a typical Ukrainian tripartite temple with faceted Babintsev, nave and altar. Due to the lack of arches interior space is perceived as a whole. The temple is decorated with observance of the canons of the academic school. On the walls there are about 40 scenes in which dominates the biography of the Prophet Elijah. On the walls of the chapel, a plurality of ancient icons.
Сучасну церкву збудували у 1692 році на місці попередниці. За планом це типовий український тридільний храм з гранчастою бабинцем і вівтарем. Через відсутність арок внутрішній простір сприймається як єдине ціле. Храм оформлено з дотриманням канонів академічної школи. На стінах близько 40 сцен, в яких домінує життєпис пророка Іллі. На стінах безліч старовинних ікон.
У першій половині XVIII століття було збудовано двоярусну дзвіницю та встановлено церковну браму в стилі українського бароко, виготовлену київським архітектором Григоровичем-Барським. У 1755 році полковий осавул Павло Іванович Гудима провів реконструкцію храму, в процесі якої було добудовано Іоанно-Предтеченський боковий вівтар. А його брат Федір прийняв священний сан і служив в Іллінському храмі в 1740-х роках.
Splashes of Color.
The sound of water, rambling.
Flow of all moves on.
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Confinement is an illusion.
Allow your thoughts and actions to flow above and beyond the perceived banks of imprisonment.
In short, free your mind, the rest will follow.
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.
Наші прадіди вірили, що відьми не мають сили над горобиною. Українці вірять, що в протистоянні з Росією, яка наче відьма намагається занепастити Україну, Украіна переможе І повернеться до мирного життя.
Наші прадіди вважали горобину, нарівні з дубом. липою, вербою священним деревом. Вони вірили, що в кроні горобини ховаються Перунові блискавки (такі ж червоні, як її ягоди). Гілка горобини з ягодами сприймалася як символ палиці Перуна, здатної захистити людину від усіх бід. З давніх-давен існувала заборона pyбати, ламати, обpивати квіти і ягоди горобини. Дозволялося зрізати її великі гілки тільки для палиць священнослужителів та подорожніх, які вирушали в далеку дорогу.
Our great-grandfathers believed that witches had no power over rowan. Ukrainians believe that in the confrontation with Russia, which is like a witch trying to destroy Ukraine, Ukraine will win and return to a peaceful life.
Our great-grandfathers considered the mountain ash to be equal to the oak. linden, willow sacred tree. They believed that Perun's lightning (as red as its berries) hides in the rowan tree's crown. A rowan branch with berries was perceived as a symbol of Perun's staff, able to protect a person from all troubles. From time immemorial there has been a ban on picking, breaking, and washing rowan flowers and berries. It was allowed to cut its large branches only for the sticks of clergymen and travelers who set off on a long journey.
I am sure everyone who has seen Red-winged Blackbirds in the spring has witnessed these birds chasing away much bigger birds of prey away from their breeding areas.
In this case this Great Blue Heron was flying back towards his own nest and along the way this Red-winged Blackbird took offence.
This aggressive defensive behavior is innate and helps protect their nests, young, and food sources from perceived threats.
This early morning photo was taken near Calgary, Alberta, Canada.
- Agelaius phoeniceus and Ardea herodias
"To succeed in life you need three things:
a wishbone, a backbone and a funny bone."
Quote – Dr Kavanagh
~~~~The Three Bones of Life~~~
The wishbone is about the importance of having a goal or a dream. Something to aspire to and focus on. After all ‘if you don’t have a dream, how you gonna have a dream come true’? Anyone singing?! We all need motivation, and a goal or dream is a great way to keep moving forward. Your dream might be short or long term but it will be something that you can aim towards. Dreams help you go beyond your perceived limits and aim high. It’s so important that we don’t allow indecision or fear of failure or change to destroy our dreams and stop us achieving them.
The backbone is about strength and courage, keeping our feet on the ground and our head above water. If we want to achieve our dream, we need to be resilient, to stretch ourselves and see things through. It’s also about believing in yourself and having clear boundaries. Sometimes we have to say no to other people and put ourselves first in order to give ourselves strength and energy. It’s easy to be ordinary, so much harder to stand out from the crowd and stand up for what you believe in.
The funny bone reminds us that humour is so important in our daily lives. We need to be able to laugh at ourselves, be vulnerable and accept that making mistakes is all part of the journey. If we can be less serious and see the funny side of things, we will not only enjoy life more but we will be less self-absorbed and far more optimistic. It’s also about looking for the silver lining in the inevitable clouds.~~~~
Info from the internet
Model: origami Fish Bones
Design: Sebastien Limet (Sebl)
Diagrams in the book 'Origami Fish And Other Sea Creatures by Nick Robinson'
Paper one piece of silver paper 17x17cm
Finasize: length 9cm, height 2,3cm
"But friendship is precious,
not only in the shade,
but in the sunshine of life,
and thanks to a benevolent arrangement
the greater part of life is sunshine."
~ Thomas Jefferson ~
The quote reminds me of one of my favorite words
. . . GESTALT . . .
(When one can experience the beauty of a simple arrangement as a whole unit and not as individual segments.)
Slipping and sliding this evening with a snapshot of a beautiful floral arrangement, wherein one of its parts was composed from the entire arrangement!
Sevilla, ES, 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)
"Faith is the bird that feels the light and sings when the dawn is still dark."
~Rabindranath Tagore~
“Through our eyes, the universe is perceiving itself. Through our ears, the universe is listening to its harmonies. We are the witnesses through which the universe becomes conscious of its glory, of its magnificence.”
~Alan W. Watts~
Una mattina........
As seen...
Beauty is no quality in things themselves: It exists merely in the mind which contemplates them; and each mind perceives a different beauty.
Sunset over the Volga river. Russia. city of Konakovo.
The Volga is the most famous river in Russia. She is known all over the world. Poems, paintings, films, songs are dedicated to the Great Russian River. On its banks there are many outstanding sights. You can travel both by water and along the coast.
In the Tver region there is a small village Volgoverkhovye. This is where the Volga begins. The river ends in Astrakhan, where it merges with the Caspian. The length of the Volga reaches 3530 km! In the world, according to this indicator, it ranks 15th, behind the Yenisei, the Nile and the Amazon. But in Europe, the Volga has no equal in length and area of \u200b\u200bthe basin.
It is believed that the name of the river comes from the Old Slavonic word, which meant "moisture". The Volga bed began to form more than five million years ago. In the prehistoric era, the river flowed into the Caspian Sea not where Astrakhan is now, but in the area of present-day Baku. Since the climate in the lower reaches was subtropical, thickets of palm trees and magnolias flaunted on the banks. In the upper reaches, on the contrary, the glacier dominated, so the river was covered with an ice shell.
In written sources, the Volga was first mentioned in the collection of ancient Iranian sacred texts "Avesta", which dates back to the end of the second millennium BC. Then it was called Ranha - a river flowing at the end of the world. This is how the ancient Iranians perceived the territory of the current central strip of Russia. Later, the Volga was mentioned by Herodotus, Ptolemy and Aristotle. Their river was named Ra. The ancient Greek historian Herodotus described the Volga delta, where people lived who ate raw fish and wore clothes made of seal skins. Seals are still found off the coast of the Caspian Sea.
At present, the Volga is navigable from Rzhev to the Caspian Sea. A total of 57 bridges span the river.
Taken in our raspberry patch earlier this spring. Although our raspberry crop has been poor, our tulips put on a grand display!
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
“Through our eyes, the universe is perceiving itself. "
..but who is watching the watcher?
Model: Christiana Lutrova
“The patterns we perceive are determined by the stories we want to believe.” - John Vernon
The last few days have been cold enough to produce a show of frosty fringes along the river where we sometimes walk. This particular pattern really caught my eye. I haven't discovered the "story" it tells but I do love the pattern. Maybe sometimes it is just an appreciation of something rather than an interpretation.
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“Things are not always what they seem; the first appearance deceives many; the intelligence of a few perceives what has been carefully hidden.”
-Phaedrus
The war changes the meaning and perception of many ideas, things, and words. Until February 24, 2022, this bas-relief was perceived as it should be - "Venus and Hephaestus". But now I look and see other images - "A Ukrainian woman with a baby in her arms is escorting her husband to war with the enemy."
Війна змінює зміст і сприйняття багатьох ідей, речей, слів. До 24 лютого 2022 року цей барельєф сприймався мною як і повинно бути - «Венера и Гефест». Але тепер я дивлюся і бачу інші образи - «Украінка з малюком на руках проводжає чоловіка на війну з ворогом».
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Happy Macro Monday ... what we perceive as smooth concrete becomes a jagged surface to traverse.
This was the second capture I was able to successfully take of these small wonders that never to seem stop moving.
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