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You can almost warm your hands on them! 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
viele Märchen- oder Sagengestalten mussten erst zum Ende des Regenbogens reisen, um den Schatz am Fuß des Regenbogens zu finden. Auch wenn wir den Fuß des Regenbogens niemals erreichen, so hat der Lichtbogen seine Faszination nicht verloren.
Aber wie entsteht ein Regenbogen.
Das Sonnenlicht wird von Regentropfen gebrochen und reflektiert. Er keinen festen Ort aber eine feste Ausrichtung. Er ist immer an der der Sonne genau entgegengesetzten Seite des Himmels in einem Winkelabstand von 42° um den Sonnengegenpunkt zu sehen. Da dieser Sonnengegenpunkt bei hochstehender Sonne hinter dem Horizont liegt, ist es unmöglich, mittags einen Regenbogen zu beobachten. Je höher die Sonne am Himmel steht, desto flacher ist der Regenbogen, bei tiefstehender Abendsonne wölbt er sich entsprechend hoch.
Warum aber beträgt dieser Winkel immer 42°? Ein Lichtstrahl, der in einen Wassertropfen eintritt, wird von der Grenzschicht zwischen Wasser und Luft reflektiert und verläßt den Tropfen wieder in einem bestimmten Winkel zu seiner ursprünglichen Einfallsrichtung. Natürlich fällt in Wirklichkeit immer ein ganzes Bündel Lichtstrahlen in einen Tropfen ein, und da jeder einzelne Strahl in einem anderen Winkel auf die Tropfenoberfläche trifft, sind die Austrittswinkel ebenfalls ganz unterschiedlich.
Dass dennoch nur die 42° Strahlen von uns als Regenbogen wahrgenommen werden, hängt damit zusammen, daß eine größere Ablenkung aus physikalischen Gründen nicht möglich ist. Alle Lichtstrahlen, die eigentlich noch weiter als diese 42° gebrochen werden müßten, konzentrieren sich an diesem Grenzwert und bilden dadurch den für uns sichtbaren Regenbogen. Die Lichtstrahlen mit kleineren Auslenkwinkeln verursachen lediglich eine leichte Aufhellung des Himmels innerhalb des Bogens.
Da das Sonnenlicht aus Strahlen verschiedener Wellenlänge aufgebaut ist, und sich die Brechung für jede Wellenlänge etwas unterscheidet, wird das Licht nicht nur abgelenkt sondern auch in seine Farbanteile zerlegt. Blaues Licht wird stärker gebrochen als rotes und liegt dadurch beim Austritt aus dem Tropfen näher am ursprünglichen Strahl. Im Regenbogen sehen wir daher den blauvioletten Streifen am weitesten innen, gefolgt von grün, gelb und ganz außen rot.
many fairy tale or legend characters first had to travel to the end of the rainbow to find the treasure at the foot of the rainbow. Even if we never reach the foot of the rainbow, the arc has not lost its fascination.
But how does a rainbow come about?
The sunlight is refracted and reflected by raindrops. It is not a fixed location but a fixed orientation. It can always be seen on the exactly opposite side of the sky to the sun at an angular distance of 42 ° around the sun's counterpoint. Since this opposite point of the sun lies behind the horizon when the sun is high, it is impossible to observe a rainbow at noon. The higher the sun is in the sky, the flatter the rainbow, and when the evening sun is low it arches accordingly.
But why is this angle always 42 °? A ray of light that enters a drop of water is reflected by the boundary layer between water and air and leaves the drop at a certain angle to its original direction of incidence. Of course, in reality a whole bundle of light rays always falls into a drop, and since each individual ray hits the drop surface at a different angle, the exit angles are also very different.
The fact that we only perceive the 42 ° rays as rainbows is due to the fact that a greater deflection is not possible for physical reasons. All rays of light, which should actually be refracted further than this 42 °, concentrate at this limit value and thereby form the rainbow that is visible to us. The light rays with smaller deflection angles only cause a slight brightening of the sky within the arc.
Since sunlight is made up of rays of different wavelengths and the refraction differs slightly for each wavelength, the light is not only deflected but also broken down into its color components. Blue light is refracted more strongly than red light and is therefore closer to the original ray when it emerges from the drop. In the rainbow we therefore see the blue-violet stripe furthest inside, followed by green, yellow and red on the outside.
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. 40697
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. 14487 c
Males also assess their partner's reproductive value and adjust their own investment in the brood according to their partner's condition. Females that lay larger and brighter eggs are in better condition and have greater reproductive value. Therefore, males tend to display higher attentiveness and parental care to larger eggs, since those eggs were produced by a female with apparent good genetic quality. Smaller, duller eggs garnered less paternal care. Female foot color is also observed as an indication of perceived female condition. In one experiment, the color of eggs was muted by researchers, it was found that males were willing to exercise similar care for both large eggs and small eggs if his mate had brightly colored feet, whereas males paired with dull-footed females only incubated larger eggs. Researchers also found that males did not increase their care when females exhibited both bright feet and high-quality offspring.
Looking in the deepness of the eyes of this ageless Sadhu, I can perceive everuthing which has bewitched me of India, wisdom, sadness, life, death, richness, poverty, story, courage, tradition and the people. India is an ancient and strange place, difficult to understand and to know, but easy to love.
Apricale.Liguria
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Une église très faiblement éclairée dont je n'ai perçu la beauté qu'au traitement.
L'intérieur est composé de trois nefs divisées en deux rangées de quatre piliers. Les voutes ont été décorées de fresques avec des motifs floraux et figures de saints par Leonida Martini en 1904.
Le sol en mosaïque de Tamagno, présente de précieuses fresques également réalisées par l'artiste.
Photo prise à 6400 ISO f4 1/4s
--------------------------------------------------------- Apricale Liguria. (See previous photo)
A church plunged into almost complete darkness the beauty of which I only perceived during the treatment. 6400 ISO f4 1/4s
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The interior consists of three naves divided into two rows of four pillars. The vaults were decorated with frescoes featuring floral motifs and figures of saints by Leonida Martini in 1904.
The Tamagno mosaic floor features precious frescoes also created by the artist.
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. 40749
... wurde sicher diese Honigbiene, die den zur Zeit blühenden weiß-rosa Winter-Schneeball besucht. Wahrscheinlich ist es der Duftschneeball Viburnum x bodnantense, der diesen schon auf größere Entfernung wahrnehmbaren Duft aussendet.
de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bodnant-Schneeball
... was this honey bee visiting the currently blooming white-pink winter viburnum with a stunning smell. It's probably the Scented Snowball Viburnum x bodnantense that emits this scent that can be perceived from a great distance.
There's nothing quite as heartwarming as witnessing the tender bond between a mother Long-tailed macaque and her infant. Their interactions are often filled with grooming, gentle touches, and protective gazes, truly a sweet sight to behold.
The long-tailed macaque, also called the crab-eating macaque, is a fascinating primate native to Southeast Asia with a history deeply intertwined with human communities.
Throughout their range, these macaques have been perceived in conflicting ways – sometimes as agricultural pests, other times as sacred creatures.
In Bali, a thriving population of about 1260 Balinese long-tailed macaques finds refuge in Mandala Suci Wenara Wana, better known as the Ubud Monkey Forest.
Visitors to Uluwatu Temple often witness their renowned cleverness firsthand, as these macaques have learned to "rob" tourists of items like hats and sunglasses, subsequently "bartering" their loot for food.
(Nikon Z6II, Nikon 24-200 f/4-6.3, 1/400 @ f/8, ISO 5000, edited to taste)
Sevenfold Insignificance
Fallen bicycles in China
In German "The phrase "A sack of rice (or bicycle) fell over in China (or Beijing)" is a colloquial metaphor for an unimportant event. With this derogatory, joking phrase, the speaker expresses his disinterest or signals the perceived insignificance of a topic." de.wikipedia.org/wiki/In_China_ist_ein_Sack_Reis_umgefallen
On the campus of Hefei University in Hefei, the capital of the province Anhui
A bird that always seems to be observing its surroundings, a great fisher with very graceful ballerina movements. By no means it will be a great idea to try to approach it really close, since it can be really dangerous, not reason to try to anyway since they fly right away as soon as they perceive danger.
Did you know that the blue heron is the largest of north America herons? Here are some facts of this amazing and tall bird:
www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/Great_Blue_Heron/id
The music that this bird deserves:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=JHjb-oN-IA8
Have a great day everyone! :)
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Photography is my passion, and nature photography is my favorite.
I have been in Explore for more that a hundred times, and it is an awesome experience to have your photos showcased in such a special way.
I'm in many groups, and I only add my photos to them if they are not private.
I thank your for coming today, for leaving a comment, and make a favorite of yours this photo, (if that is the case) thanks again!
The best part of this forum is the contacts and friends that I have made over the years, that have the same passion for this art that is called photography!
Martha.
Sacred Stones.
Nothing in this life is real. We discover that after our human life. And sometimes, if you're lucky, long before that. It's called Awakening. When you realise everything here, in this life (human experience) is simply perceived. Many names for it, many levels of it too. Even highly Awakened people can very rarely (the Buddah comes to mind) become aware of even the Observer. That's Pure Unbound Awareness. Shapeless, no size, no colour, not born and can never die (not exist). When you rise from innerstanding to overstanding.
Well, er... what is reality? I see a simulated hologram and it is my consciousness that is observing it. All I 'know' is that 'I' am still the Observer. Not the 'person' observing, because I can observe my person. Nothing can 'see' the 'I'. Pure, unbound 'Consciousness' is what can NEVER be seen. If you can observe it, it isn't trully you. I could go on, but is there any point?
Usually, when you're thinking about cropping a photo a little to improve the composition, you follow your intuition.
But I'm sure - we all perceive the picture in the paper differently.
Undoubtedly, each of us sees the world differently.
It's difficult to see the world through someone else's eyes. But sometimes you want to understand how your viewer sees your picture, and who he is?
Reading from left to right
or read from right to left -
we automatically see the composition in the opposite development.
And often with different meaning interpretations !
And this is just such a case.
we all have a great creative weekend
Mongolian gobi.
filmed on 135 Fujicolor S400 film
the lab NORITSU KOKI scan
Sh2-68 is a planetary nebula in the Serpens constellation, estimated to be around 980 light years from earth (planetary nebulae are extremely difficult to perform distance measurements on, let alone accurate ones). It's sometimes refered to as "The flaming skull" nebula. Usually, I think these names are quite far-fetched; with this one I can sort of see it though.
At first sight, this is your typical planetary nebula. Meaning a low to intermediate mass star came to the end of its life and the colourful gas we see is what used to make up the outer shell of said star. However, the "tail" of gas moving away (towards the right of the frame) is somewhat unusual. So what's going on there?
The central star within the nebula is moving through space at a fairly high speed. Additionally, the area of space it's in contains a fair bit of gas/dust of its own. As a result, the material being expelled by the star is meeting some resistance as it collides with the already present gas (and is being slowed down if you will), while the star itself continues on its merry way. Over a long period of time, the distance between the star and the expelled gas becomes great enough to be perceived as a "tail".
Image acquisition details:
50x1800" HA
23x1800" OIII
15x1200" Luminance
12x900" Red
12x900" Green
12x900" Blue
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
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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.]
Taken in our garden earlier 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
“Is there a difference between happiness and inner peace? Yes. Happiness depends on conditions being perceived as positive; inner peace does not.” - Echart Tolle.
This is another Christmas of changing plans and staying home. I am struggling with finding joy and happiness during the season as we navigate the COVID restrictions, trying to get a booster shot, dealing with colds, not hearing the giggles and chatter of grandchildren and not having much snow for the holidays. But I am realizing that peace is just as treasured as the joy in these times. I am wishing all our Flickr friends much peace over this holiday season. Thank you for all your support over the years. Your images are a highlight to our quiet days.
Good morning dear Flickr friends,
every day we have a new chance to become a better person. Take me, for example. Yesterday Yarin 127367.9 and today the jump to 127368.0, because I managed to get up at 5:15 a.m. to take pictures of this damn sunrise. And lo and behold, it was only zero degrees Celsius, a whole 4 degrees warmer than yesterday. No, but seriously: I am one of those people who are actually convinced that today you can do everything better than yesterday, if you only want to.
Especially in the times of the Corona crisis, there are also many very nice things. For example, people perceive themselves at all and respect the necessary personal safety distance. Except for a couple of idiots who still don't understand.
OK. It reminds me of a wonderful story in my career as a social worker. I once helped a violent and drink-resistant Russian youth and lo and behold, I became a kind of substitute father for him and he no longer built shit, did an apprenticeship as a craftsman and later he attended the master school. He got the driver's license and drove a great car, met his wife and had a son and I think they live a good life. When the care was over, I was invited to dinner and said goodbye to the whole family. Now comes the funny thing. The boy's two brothers were so thankful and happy that I saved the little brother from the shit that I was given a very special farewell gift. If I ever had problems of any kind and completely irrelevant why and at all, the problems would be eliminated for me. Short and painless. No big deal, bang. Dude, I still haven't redeemed this problem-solving voucher, but seriously. It would be a shame for one of these corona pushers in the supermarket, right? It should be something big, something really annoying ...;)
Have a great day, good Russian friends and a happy weekend ahead and do not let it bite you...:))
Yarin
Drone/ Camera Set:
DJI Mavic 2 Pro with Hasselblad L1D-20c; 20 MP
DJI Smart Controller
ND 16 Filter
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.
Alcedo atthis
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.
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"
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".