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Wild South Africa
Kruger National Park
Zebras have excellent eyesight, being able to see well during the day and at night, while wildebeest, which have poor eyesight, have a good sense of hearing and smell. Scientists believe that zebra may even be able to see in color. A combination of their good eyes, ears and noses increases their chances of sensing danger. When a zebra perceives danger it will bray loudly, warning the rest of its own herd as well as the nearby wildebeest.
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........
This magnificent male Roo lives in the wild on Raymond Island with his family.
The kangaroo is a marsupial from the family Macropodidae (macropods, meaning "large foot"). In common use the term is used to describe the largest species from this family, especially those of the genus Macropus: the red kangaroo, antilopine kangaroo, eastern grey kangaroo, and western grey kangaroo. Kangaroos are indigenous to Australia. The Australian government estimates that 34.3 million kangaroos lived within the commercial harvest areas of Australia in 2011, up from 25.1 million one year earlier.
As with the terms "wallaroo" and "wallaby", "kangaroo" refers to a paraphyletic grouping of species. All three refer to members of the same taxonomic family, Macropodidae, and are distinguished according to size. The largest species in the family are called "kangaroos" and the smallest are generally called "wallabies". The term "wallaroos" refers to species of an intermediate size. There is also the tree-kangaroo, another genus of macropod, which inhabits the tropical rainforests of New Guinea, far northeastern Queensland and some of the islands in the region. A general idea of the relative size of these informal terms could be:
wallabies: head and body length of 45–105 cm and tail length of 33–75 cm; The dwarf wallaby (the smallest member) is 46 cm long and weighs 1.6 kg;
tree-kangaroos: from Lumholtz's tree-kangaroo body and head length of 48–65 cm, tail of 60–74 cm, weight of 7.2 kg (16 lb) for males and 5.9 kg (13 lb) for females; to the grizzled tree-kangaroo length of 75–90 cm (30 to 35 in) and weight of 8–15 kg (18–33 lb);
wallaroos: the black wallaroo, the smallest by far, with a tail length of 60–70 cm and weight of 19–22 kg for males and 13 kg for females;
kangaroos: a large male can be 2 m (6 ft 7 in) tall and weighs 90 kg (200 lb).
Kangaroos have large, powerful hind legs, large feet adapted for leaping, a long muscular tail for balance, and a small head. Like most marsupials, female kangaroos have a pouch called a marsupium in which joeys complete postnatal development.
The large kangaroos have adapted much better than the smaller macropods to land clearing for pastoral agriculture and habitat changes brought to the Australian landscape by humans. Many of the smaller species are rare and endangered, while kangaroos are relatively plentiful.
The kangaroo is a symbol of Australia and appears on the Australian coat of arms and on some of its currency and is used by some of Australia's well known organisations, including Qantas and the Royal Australian Air Force. The kangaroo is important to both Australian culture and the national image, and consequently there are numerous popular culture references.
Wild kangaroos are shot for meat, leather hides, and to protect grazing land. Although controversial, kangaroo meat has perceived health benefits for human consumption compared with traditional meats due to the low level of fat on kangaroos.
For further information please visit en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kangaroo
Raymond Island (Gunai/Kurnai language: Bunjil-baul) is a small island in the Gippsland Lakes in eastern Victoria, Australia, about 300 km (190 mi) from Melbourne. The island is approximately 6 km (3.7 mi) long by 2 km (1.2 mi) wide, and is just 200 m (660 ft) off the coast, across from the town of Paynesville. The island is named after William Odell Raymond, originally a magistrate from New South Wales who established himself as a squatter in Gippsland in the 1840s.
Raymond Island is well-known locally for its large koala population, originally introduced to the island in 1953, and for the Raymond Island Ferry, a chain ferry that links the island to Paynesville on the mainland.
For further information please visit en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raymond_Island
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Street photography from Glasgow, Scotland.
Previously unpublished shot from March 2018. On a day where you are shooting some great street photography and getting nice reactions from people, it pulls your confidence to take maybe a few more shots than you ordinarily would and you end up capturing a few more sceptical expressions. It's still amazing how much a genuine smile after the fact can diffuse any perceived misgivings. Enjoy!
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.
“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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I perceive this rude and unwelcome
“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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I perceive this rude and unwelcome
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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Sunrise in our Moravia has many colors. Some colors see the eye of man. Some color see the optical lens. Some colors capture the camera's chip and record them in mathematics. But the most important is the author. He lives here and perceives those colors as his brain has recorded.
I hope some of you may be able to come to the opening of my new exhibit on May 17, 1pm at Kultivate Signature Gallery.
"stopping the world to perceive your own reality"
review: modemworld.me/2020/05/21/cybeles-spaces-between-in-second...
A further development of our old Viking boats.
Barges in Norway are boats that are usually between 7 and 15 feet long and have one or two pairs of oars, but large barges with both decks and deep keels are known, also from other countries. The Skagerrak area is perceived as the core area for the barges, and here the normal size is usually 12-15 feet, but there have been examples of 20 feet. However, they have spread to the whole country, and are also used in large parts of the world elsewhere, many places under the name 'Norwegian barge' (but this does not mean that all barge-shaped boats in the world were originally imported from Norway!)
The barge, like all other Norwegian rowing boats, is clinker-built (see clinker-built boats) by board. Typical of barges is that they lack keel; the bottom is therefore as round as the mirrors, and where the keel sits on other boats, the barge has a flat bottom table. But it is usually nailed to a small keel fin at the back of the bottom table, and the barge will be a good sailor if it gets a deeper keel put on. They are widest and deepest slightly behind the middle.
The barge is easy to row and very easy to turn, and it is therefore nice to turn forward in convoluted waters. But even though it has a certain seaworthiness, it does not do well against the sea with the "bowl" shape and the mirror across the front. When standing in it, especially in the "snout", it can be very unstable and difficult to keep the balance in.
In addition to being an all-possible boat, barges were also used in the past as a ship's boat on larger schooners and ships. Today, they are also used as a motorboat with an outboard motor mounted on the transom, which has often had an extra mounting plate fitted.
In Østfold, the word oak or oak is used for barge. This has a connection back to the log boat which could be a hollowed oak log.
The Holmsbu frame from Buskerud is the most advanced, more elongated and has a beautiful spring. It is also the most popular type also known as «Norwegian barges».
In Nordhordland, the term 'ferry' is used on a barge with a fairly large mirror in front
Around Trondheimsfjorden, the barge is called skeis.
At Hitra, the name kjoks is also used for barges.
In Sørlandet, the barge of the fisherman Markus in the novel Kilden, according to the author Gabriel Scott, is completely flat-bottomed and with vertical sides, and thus in reality a flat boat, with a capacity for two targets and a rower.
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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.]
Ecclesiastes 1:17-18
King James Version
17 And I gave my heart to know wisdom, and to know madness and folly: I perceived that this also is vexation of spirit.
18 For in much wisdom is much grief: and he that increaseth knowledge increaseth sorrow
I stopped by a roadside pond where I saw Avocets wading. As soon as I stepped outside, a male (Top L) enaged in this crouch behavior and came toward me. It then flew to the road behind my car (Top R), and started calling and distracting.
When I looked back at the pond, I saw two Avocet chicks (Bottom L). The male flew to the chick's location and ushered them farther away from me and into denser vegetation. A female flew in and made noisy circles around me until she perceived the threat was over. She then joined her mate and chicks now on the far side of the pond.
Beaver County, Alberta.
The compression of distance through my long lens gives the appearance that this first- or second-year juvenile American Alligator was unconcerned with my presence, which was not as close as it seems. It would have been quick to hit the water had it perceived a threat, especially now that mama gator is no longer around for protection since she has a new nest to guard. On a mudflat on Horsepen Bayou.
An adult male Red-naped Snake (Furina diadema) enacting a defensive display towards a perceived threat near Narrabri in NSW, Australia.
But the visions I saw I did not perceive in dreams, or sleep, or delirium, or by the eyes of the body, or by the ears of the outer self, or in hidden places, but I received them while awake and seeing with a pure mind and the eyes and ears of the inner self, in open places, as God willed it. How this might be is hard for mortal flesh to understand.
-HILDEGARD of Bingen
This photograph began life as an intended stitched together panorama. The light on the grasses and hills was extraordinary, thick and golden, an inky-blue sky above. I was driving across country to return to work for the week. Rushing, I snatched at the second shot in the group, blurring it, but left no overlap between the first and third images and didn't check on the screen.
This is a righthand square crop from the first image, the best I could salvage from a job badly done, made monochrome.
Taken from the roadside, the perceived distance is magnified by the wide angle and emphasis on the foreground, enhancing the hut's sense of isolation.
Ceredigion, March 2019. Pentax K-S1, 18-55mm kit lens, raw crop, contrast, monochrome and a fraction of vignette in Photoshop.
Multiple images captured, composed and edited on an iPhone6S plus. The apps which I 've used during this process are ;
Leonardo, iColoramaS , trigraphy , lenslight , mextures
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 upon "the supremacy of pure artistic expression" rather than on a visual or literal depiction of objects. It is entirely subjective and gives room to the artist to present what they think or perceive versus what they may see.
If you are done playing safe with your color and fashion choices here in SL, let’s discuss this Newphe Maci Mini Dress in black (aka a “little black dress”) and its symbolization.
The LBD is best known for its titillating panache. It radiates sexiness, confidence, and style. It is iconic with a complicated history.
The LBD not only increases your perceived fashionableness, but it also pronounces your sexy attractiveness to potential partners.
Fits: Reborn, Reborn Juicy, Reborn Waifu, Khara, Legacy, Legacy Perky, Legacy Pushup Legacy Smash, Maitreya Lara, and Maitreya Petite mesh bodies.
AVAILABLE FATPACK with 10 color options for the Dress and its Belt
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For Smile on Saturday! - capture the time
This Regulator clock kept time in the house when I was a little boy in the 1960s. It tick-tocked outside my bedroom and I became so accustomed that I could lie in the quiet darkness trying to hear it, but perceiving only its echo over the hardwood living room floor before my parents laid down wall-to-wall carpet. My brain cancelled out the rhythmic noise.
My father said he had picked the clock off a rubbish heap somewhere. On the back is scrawled in pencil, "Oct. 19, 1918."
My parents must have given it to me when they replaced it with a fancy new one that never kept time properly. Around that time I had finished university and college and had my own apartment in 1988. A few years later the hinge of the glass cover broke off in my hand, but the frame of glass itself remains intact. Then the clock stopped working.
I don't think it would be difficult to repair but I wasn't the kind of person who opens things and fiddles with them without knowledge. I've kept it, hoping I'd find someone to repair it. Since 2015 it has hidden in the back of a pile of boxes in the basement. I was surprised to be able to find and retrieve it so easily. Maybe I'm curious and fearless enough now to remove the face and see if I can figure out what stalled the mechanism.
It's in many ways a timepiece.
Ironically, after shooting this set of photos for Smile on Saturday and transferring it to Lightroom, I noticed the last frame was timed past midnight, making it ineligible as POD for Project 365. The time on this shot is 11:59. The correct time was only 10 pm. I must have set the camera clock back instead of forward for Daylight Savings Time. It's funny how this antique clock that doesn't even work managed to tell me through a photo that the hi-tech camera had it wrong, for "capture the time."
Project 365, 2022 Edition: Day 6/365
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Shugendo(u) (修験道) is an amalgam of Shinto(u), Buddhism, and animistic folk beliefs. There are shrines and altars here and there in the cave.
The shrine in the photo is called Juuni-yakushi (十二薬師). Yakushi (薬師如来, Bhaiṣajyaguru) is one of the Buddhas of Mahayana Buddhism, but it seems to be incorporated into Shugendou.
Coins pasted on the rock are offerings to the deity, which is probably a magical practice for good luck or wish fulfillment. I don't know why the coins stick to the rock.
There is a report that a huge amount of old coins were recovered during a scientific survey of the cave. Academics argue that coins were perceived as magic items for religious practices rather than money for economic activities.
Das ganze Leben besteht aus Erinnerungen, abgesehen von
jenem gegenwärtigen Augenblick, der so schnell vorbeigeht,
dass man ihn kaum wahrnimmt.
Tennessee Williams 1911-1983 US-amerik. Schriftsteller
The whole life consists of memories, apart from
the present moment which passes so quickly,
That one hardly perceives it.
Tennessee Williams 1911-1983 US-American writer
Flamingo, created by American artist Alexander Calder, is a 53-foot (16 m) tall stabile located in the Federal Plaza in Chicago. Calder gave the stabile its color, which has come to be called "Calder red",[5] to offset it from the black and steel surroundings of nearby office buildings, including the Ludwig Mies van der Rohe-designed Kluczynski Federal Building. Despite the massive size of the sculpture, its design is such that viewers can walk underneath and around it, thus enabling one to perceive it in human scale. The shape of Flamingo alludes to the natural and animal realm, which is a stark contrast to more literal interpretations in sculpture from previous decades.
After Wikipedia
is a response to the exterior world, to something perceived outside himself by the person who operates the camera :-)
Eliot Porter
HFF! Justice Matters! Indict Trump!
dahlia, j c raulston arboretum, ncsu, raleigh, north carolina
The parents tried to rush us along. they have two chick: one that stayed quiet next to a cluster of weeds (detected by my wife's eagle eye) and another that run in an open meadow oblivious to the perceived risk.
Hug, means thought or soul. In Nordic folklore, the hug was also thought to be able to travel independently of the body. Particularly important was the "evil hug", as it was believed that certain people could influence and harm others through their thinking. This should be able to act as a radiance, often at a long distance, and was in some cases perceived as materialized and personified. Al objekts taken with my Nikon D200
I'm a Dweller On the Threshold
And I'm waiting at the door
And I'm standing in the darkness
I don't want to wait no more
I have seen without perceiving
I have been another man
Let me pierce the realm of glamour
So I know just what I am
I'm a dweller on the threshold
And I'm waiting at the door
And I'm standing in the darkness
I don't want to wait no more
Feel the angel of the present
In the mighty crystal fire
Lift me up, consume my darkness
Let me travel even higher
I'm a dweller on the threshold
As I cross the burning ground
Let me go down to the water
Watch the great illusion drown
I'm a dweller on the threshold
And I'm waiting at the door
And I'm standing in the darkness
I don't want to wait no more
I'm gonna turn and face the music
The music of the spheres
Lift me up, consume my darkness
When the midnight disappears
I will walk out of the darkness
And I'll walk into the light
And I'll sing the song of ages
And the dawn will end the night
I'm a dweller on the threshold
And I'm waiting at the door
And I'm standing in the darkness
I don't want to wait no more
I'm a dweller on the threshold
And I cross some burning ground
And I'll go down to the water
Let the great illusion drown
I'm a dweller on the threshold
And I'm waiting at the door
And I'm standing in the darkness
I don't want to wait no more
I'm a dweller on the threshold
Dweller on the threshold
I'm a dweller on the threshold
I'm a dweller on the threshold
Dweller on the threshold
Dweller on the threshold
Dweller on the threshold
The album sleeve states that the lyrics on this song and part of "Aryan Mist" were inspired by the 1950 publication, Glamour —A World Problem by Alice Bailey and the Tibetan master, Djwal Khul, as described in Van Morrison's liner notes for the album.
According to the teachings of Bailey, there are a series of what she calls "glamours" which are mental illusions creating a fog that veils the spiritual wanderer from seeing the world as it truly is. He becomes illuminated as a "dweller on the threshold" when the "Angel of Presence" purifies the soul with light.
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stella- mia writes .: "one lonely balerina" :-)
# Plantago lanceolata - Spitzwegerich - ribwort plantain - wild plant
de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spitzwegerich
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plantago_lanceolata
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°energy field°
In this, contained in your energy field is the purity of all of your abilities beyond what you perceive you are physically capable of. Were you to actually allow yourself to genuinely recognize or realize the reality and the strength of your energy field and allow yourself to be aware of it enough and knowledgeable of it enough — which is not necessarily learned knowledge — you could actually direct your energy field to extend in any manner that you choose. As an example, you could project your energy field and create any type of manifestation of weather that you can imagine. As an example, you could produce lightning or you could produce a whirlwind. Elias - 2817
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One of the strange ironies of the Canadian Rockies lies in the naming of one of the most, if not THE most gorgeous lakes in the Canadian Rockies. "Maligne" in French can translate to "devilish", "malicious" and "diabolical", or maybe even "wicked." It can also translate to "keen" or "sharp", but that's not what the men who gave the nearby river its name were intending. It seems that the French fur traders had such a hard time navigating the nearby river that they named it "Maligne" in disgust, before seeing the glorious lake ahead.
Regardless, the name stuck. As I was sifting through my shots from our trip, this one in particular seemed to capture the spirit of the name of the lake as this "ghost busters" sky rolled in while we were waiting to board the boat to Spirit Island. It was almost as if you would expect to see the face of Voldemort coming out of those clouds at any moment.
Shortly after taking this shot, we were headed toward that last patch of blue as we motored our way across the lake toward Spirit Island. Before we left though, I took one last look at this sky and it wasn't hard to believe that there were days when this lake could easily be perceived as "wicked."
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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.
The beauty of real infrared is that is changes not only the way we perceive the light, but also the perspective as well. This makes the object in some cases look further away than it is. Just perfect for a composition that wants to take you up into the heights. Everything feels so soft you almost want to lie down in those meadows in the foreground. The effect here is more like a delicate pencil sketch.
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
I ain't happy, I'm feeling glad
I got sunshine in a bag
I'm useless but not for long
The future is coming on
I ain't happy, I'm feeling glad
I got sunshine in a bag
I'm useless but not for long
The future is coming on
It's coming on
It's coming on
It's coming on
Yeah... Ha Ha!
Finally someone let me out of my cage
Now, time for me is nothing cause I'm counting no age
Now I couldn't be there
Now you shouldn't be scared
I'm good at repairs
And I'm under each snare
Intangible
Bet you didn't think so I command you to
Panoramic view
Look I'll make it all manageable
Pick and choose
Sit and lose
All you different crews
Chicks and dudes
Who you think is really kickin' tunes?
Picture you gettin' down in a picture tube
Like you lit the fuse
You think it's fictional?
Mystical? Maybe.
Spiritual
Hero who appears in you to clear your view when you're too crazy
Lifeless
To those the definition for what life is
Priceless
To you because I put you on the high shit
You like it?
Gun smokin' righteous with one toke
You're psychic among those
Possess you with one go
I ain't happy, I'm feeling glad
I got sunshine in a bag
I'm useless but not for long
The future is coming on
I ain't happy, I'm feeling glad
I got sunshine in a bag
I'm useless but not for long
The future (that's right) is coming on
It's coming on
It's coming on
It's coming on
The essence the basics
Without did you make it
Allow me to make this
Child-like in nature
Rhythm
You have it or you don't that's a fallacy
I'm in them
Every sprouting tree
Every child of peace
Every cloud and sea
You see with your eyes
I see destruction and demise (that's right)
Corruption in disguise
From this fuckin' enterprise
Now I'm sucked into your lies
Through Russel, not his muscles but percussion he provides
For me as a guide
Y'all can see me now 'cause you don't see with your eye
You perceive with your mind
That's the inner
So I'mma stick around with Russ and be a mentor
Bust a few rhymes so motherfuckers remember where the thought is
I brought all this
So you can survive when law is lawless (right here)
Feelings, sensations that you thought was dead
No squealing, remember that it's all in your head
I ain't happy, I'm feeling glad
I got sunshine in a bag
I'm useless but not for long
The future is coming on
I ain't happy, I'm feeling glad
I got sunshine in a bag
I'm useless but not for long
My future is coming on
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 upon "the supremacy of pure artistic expression" rather than on a visual or literal depiction of objects. It is entirely subjective and gives room to the artist to present what they think or perceive versus what they may see.
“I will go wash; And when my face is fair, you shall perceive Whether I blush or no.” ~ William Shakespeare
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Enero
percibir los movimientos...
January
To perceive the movements...
Lisbon, 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)