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L'abbaye de Coat Malouen a été fondée par des Cisterciens en 1142 dans un lieu très boisé.
Ces moines venaient de la maison mère des religieux de Bégard, appelés par Alain Le Noir, comte de Penthièvre et de Richemond. Koad Malouen ( ou Couat Mallouen ) est leur cinquième et dernière abbaye fille. Seules subsistent l'église et la façade ouest du bâtiment claustral. L'espace du cloître a été décapé, les fondations des bâtiments manquants réunies en évidence ainsi que le jardin du cloître.
Depuis 1993, Les Amis de l'abbaye de Koad Malouen ont entrepris la restauration du site et son animation : visites guidées, expositions, théâtre, concerts, présentés dans les anciennes écuries (1710). Seules persistent en élévation l'église et la façade ouest du bâtiment des hôtes.
L'abbaye de Coat Malouen est aujourd'hui un lieu de création artistique. Elle accueille une galerie d'art contemporain et expose en plein air des sculptures d'artistes de renom.
the cape daisies on the terrace are busy and persistent bloomers 😃 This photo is a month old but they are still active 😉 Wish you a happy Friday ☀️ TGIF!!!
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Persistent crab apples (Malus species, Roseaceae) in winter covered in frozen fog
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On my way through strong winds, the clouds were rumbling but the rain hadn't started yet. I thought for certain that I need to tie myself to the bench lest I'd be blown away like Mary Poppins, except she always knows what she is doing and where she is going. I took the last shot of Castle Gamburg and it took me countless times to get it in frame. Every time I had it right, the wind tucked at my arms and pushed my camera off to the side. It was as if he didn't want me to take this picture. Well, he never counted on my persistent nature. BIG GRIN.
I made it in time to the car before the rain started pouring down with a vengeance.
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Persistent roots of a cedar (I believe) tree growing beside the Gooseberry River in Gooseberry Falls State Park.
The park is located in Castle Danger, north of Two Harbors, Minnesota.
Listen: like a feather - Nikka Costa
I'm coming out of my wishing well where only echoes lonely hear my prayers
I'm coming around to bend cause my resistance been to persistent
I've come to far to force it so I'll watch it slide and land
I could come on strong and willful but
I'd rather watch it fall to the palm of my hand
and when I set it free like a feather it will be
and when I rise to see it done like whatever it will be, it will be, it will be, yeah
I'm taking a breather baby from sitting on pins waiting for my sky to fall
I'm taking up giving in so here's the wheel, I'm putting my feet up
take another look at me baby today I'm taking on catastrophe
I'd rather take it easy then try to force what's on its way to me
and when I set it free like a feather it will be
and when I rise to see it done like whatever it will be, it will be, it will be, yeah yeah
we're only afraid if we pull back the blinds too far
the lights behind that we free will blind other stars
but the truth doesn't blind it helps to see far
so get ready to be
who you are
Thanks Tomis :-)
Keel strand seen from Minaun Hill, Achill Island - Co Mayo, Ireland.
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Pt Sierra Nevada in far background. Lovely cloudy-bright day, perfect for flower photography. Almost no wind! The rectangular sea-cave (left center) is new this year.
This cliff-face represents a perfect geological history of this part of the coast. The youngest gravels (on top) are from the recent Ice Ages. The older, layered gravels rest on the dark bedrock of the Franciscan Complex, all ultimately altered basalt. A quick refresher: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franciscan_Complex
The geomorphology of this retreating bluff-face is pretty cool too. Life is persistent, even when those poor plants are headed for a salt-water death in the next wet winter!
“People like us, who believe in physics, know that the distinction between past, present and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.” – Albert Einstein.
Consistency, persistency, and hope will help you navigate those dark clouds of doubt and tribulation. They will help keep you in flight through your storms.
This image is on the cover of the second installment of the "Blue Daunia" series now available on Kindle on Amazon. The paperback version will follow in a few days. Enjoy!
Our persistent marine layer has deposited dew drops on this lovely decorative dahlia, making it even more beautiful. It is growing in a pot just outside the dining room window.
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This hungry squirrel in my garden, didn't get the memo that the cone was there to prevent it from getting to the bird seed, not to use it as a comfy seat while having a feast, making a mess lol!
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Happy new week my friends =)
"Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one."
[ Albert Einstein ]
Happy Sliders Sunday!!!
18-march-2022: the perpetual alternation between low and high tide, more marked precisely in this area where the tidal masses are channeled along the entire narrow Adriatic Sea, has greater variation in conjunction with the days around the full moon and the new moon.
It is therefore an astronomical phenomenon, but that Weather Patterns can alter, even massively.
In "my area", for most of the winter and with a peak in March, there were numerous extreme low tides and minimal high tides, this due to the over 1040hpas of adiabatic pressure and the continuous currents prevailing from the East or North-East.
So, every +1hpas over the terrestrial average pressure (gravity) value of 1013hpas corresponds to 1cm less in the level of that sea placed under the adiabatic pressure of the anticyclone and obviously vice versa in case of decreasing pressure.
The north-eastern currents tend to move the water masses towards the West and then towards the South following the anti-clockwise current that goes up the Adriatic along the Dalmatian coast and descends it from the Italian side.
All these factors "empty" the Gulf of Trieste which is also the Northernmost Spot of the entire Mediterranean Sea!
The exact opposite occurs with Low Pressure and the activation of persistent "long currents" from the South or South/East, in which cases not only Venice ends up under the surface of the Northern Adriatic Sea.
Persistent male Yellow-bellied Sapsucker returns to check his work.
Uncommon migrant. Note the faint yellow coloration on his breast.
Some trees seem attractive year after year to these critters. This particular tree located in my rear yard has hosted spring revisits for many years. Also, evidence exists to suggest the running sap also provides a food source to early spring butterflies (Mourning Cloak, Eastern Comma, etc) that do not sip nectar and early arrival hummingbirds.
Stromboli (Strònguli in siciliano) è un'isola dell'Italia appartenente all'arcipelago delle isole Eolie, in Sicilia. Si tratta di un vulcano attivo facente parte dell'Arco Eoliano. Posta nel bacino Tirreno del mare Mediterraneo occidentale, l'isola è la più settentrionale delle Eolie e si estende su una superficie di 12,2 km².
L'edificio vulcanico è alto 926 m s.l.m. e raggiunge una profondità compresa tra 1300 m e 2400 m al di sotto del livello del mare. Stromboli ha una persistente attività esplosiva ed è uno dei vulcani più attivi del mondo.
Il nesonimo Stromboli va ricondotto al greco Στρογγύλη (Strabone), latino Strongylē (Plinio), con accostamento secondario a στρόμβος strómbos. L'etimo è il greco στρογγυλός strongylós ‘rotondo'...
Golden Plover persistent and somewhat special whistling tones are very characteristic, and can be heard over long distances. Everyone who has walked in the mountains during the summer in Norway has probably become acquainted with the Golden Plover. At least they have heard the monotonous sound, if they have not seen the bird itself.
In Norway, Golden Plover is found almost all over the country in higher-lying areas. It is quite shy and it usually do not get closer than 20-30 meters.
Even though the Golden Plover is a wading bird, it is not often you see it out in the water in search of food. It is more associated with dry mountains moors, where it also nests. When it gets to cold in Norway, the Golden Plover migrate to Southern and Western Europe.
Photographed with: Canon 600D
Die Tauben-Skabiose ist am Naturstandort auf sommerwarmen, mäßig trockenen, meist kalkreichen, lockeren Lehmböden anzutreffen. Die reichverzweigte Staude wird je nach Standort 50 bis 70 cm hoch und ist nur auf mageren Böden ausdauernd.
The pigeon scabiosis can be found at the natural site on warm, moderately dry, mostly lime-rich, loose loam soils. The richly branched perennial is 50 to 70 cm high depending on the location and is only persistent on poor soils.
Persistent cirrus clouds have given southern Arizona beautiful fire skies at sunset and sunrise lately.
persistent internet issues keep plaguing my home. The Tech said it may continue until they can check out the whole neighborhood.
I might be on and off Flickr during this time.
Persistent offshore winds the last couple of days have flattened this part of the Tasman Sea adjoining the NSW Far South Coast at Cuttagee. Ominous rain cloud moving in from the southwest suggest quite different conditions tomorrow. A horizontal stitch of two frames taken by Petrov, a Phantom 3 Advanced quadcopter.
A couple more images from Sakrisoy, Norway, in a brief moment of sunlight in a gap in the persistent cloud cover. Lofoten archipelago, Norway.
“Eros e pathos, margini dell'amore e della sofferenza” il titolo di un bellissimo libro di Aldo Carotenuto che racconta e illumina il vasto mondo dei sentimenti.
Roma trabocca di eros e di pathos.
L'eros che la pervade è composto da un misto di stili che narrano la trasformazione della città dall'anno di fondazione a oggi, dalle opere degli artisti che si sono avvicendati nel corso dei secoli, dalle fontane che scrosciano, dagli umori mutevoli delle sue strade invase dalle automobili, dalle scritte sui muri e sui monumenti sepolcrali.
Roma è città di memorie, la dea Mnemosine, madre delle Muse, si nasconde in ogni angolo e sussurra al visitatore distratto di fermarsi un attimo a leggere ciò che è scritto sulle sue pietre. Come in uno struggente Spoon River dell'antichità, le toccanti iscrizioni funerarie raccontano il dolore e la perdita: genitori che della figlia “dulcissima” scrivono “visse la metà di un anno e otto giorni, come una rosa fiorì e immediatamente appassì” o quelli che piangono la morte di un ragazzo che “visse dodici anni, nove mesi, tredici giorni, otto ore”, dove il conteggio perfino delle ore indica la forza dell'attaccamento al figlio che “sapeva fabbricare gioielli con abile mano” e che “la sua morte ha abbandonato i genitori a un dolore senza fine”.
Gli antichi abitanti e fondatori di Roma seppero cogliere dagli altri popoli, i Greci in particolare, sublimi insegnamenti, le credenze religiose furono rielaborate e aggiornate man mano che ne venivano a conoscenza, così come furono in grado di fare copie meravigliose di statue che avevano visto e ammirato in Grecia, in Egitto, nel Vicino Oriente. I giovani di famiglie benestanti andavano a studiare in Grecia. Lungimiranza e intelligenza permise ai Romani di creare opere architettoniche che resistono all'assalto del tempo; geniali ingegneri, sommi pensatori, grandi poeti che hanno lasciato eredità immortali, basta leggere i versi di Virgilio, di Ovidio, di Lucrezio, le opere degli imperatori e dei filosofi per restare sbigottiti da tanta sapienza dell'arte di vivere; il diritto romano è ancora il fondamento delle nostre leggi. Roma fu anche crudele, certo, e non abbiamo parole per giustificarla, dovremmo proiettarci indietro nel tempo per cercare di capire la loro indole, l'eredità che però ci hanno lasciato è potente. Entrare nel Museo Nazionale e trovarsi al cospetto del pugile di bronzo insanguinato e affranto dalla fatica, scendere poi nei piani inferiori e trovare le bambole snodabili di osso destinate alle bambine e sepolte con la loro piccola proprietaria è un'esperienza indicibile.
Il pathos si insinua tra bellezze archeologiche, rifiuti, sirene con il loro fischio lacerante, giovani barboni che dormono nei sottopassaggi dei treni abbandonati al sonno e alla non conoscenza di sé; un misto di bellezza e disordine: strutture di opere in corso, rovine antiche, palazzi color pastello, marmi consumati, bancarelle piene di stracci che fanno pensare alla famosa “Venere degli stracci” opera del 1967 di Michelangelo Pistoletto, triste anticipatrice della condizione attuale delle strade romane invase da mercatini di logori abiti usati, oggetti fatti in serie di pessima qualità mentre buste di plastica volano in alto trasportate da un vento che non ha più il nome di Zefiro, il vento che trasporta Psiche nel palazzo incantato di Amore nello stupendo racconto di Apuleio.
Eros, oggi è costretto, suo malgrado, a convivere con “quisquiliam”, l'immondizia. Ma basta avvicinarsi all'arco di Costantino, magari a bordo di un autobus pieno di passeggeri sudati e accaldati, per sentire la potenza e la presenza di una memoria artistica e profondamente umana. Poco più in là il Colosseo col suo pesante ricordo di violenza e di dolore, di magnificenza, di forza, di genio costruttivo, dove file e file di persone da tutto il mondo attendono di entrare nella macchina del tempo che questo monumento rappresenta. Accanto al Colosseo, su un rialzo del terreno, ai margini dell'ingresso dei Fori Imperiali, si erge il magnifico tempio di Venere e Roma, memoria pietrificata della religione romana che in ogni più piccola manifestazione della natura intuiva la presenza invisibile di una divinità.
Mentre aspettavo l'autobus ai piedi del Campidoglio, dopo essere stata nei Musei Capitolini per fotografare l'Eros che incorda l'arco, ai margini del marciapiede ecco apparire una fioritura di acanto nel pieno rigoglio. Dalle sue foglie gli scultori antichi ricavarono il disegno per decorare i capitelli corinzi; un fiore che continua a morire e a rinascere ogni anno con incredibile persistenza, grazie alla forza indomabile di Eros che permea tutta l'esistenza.
I spotted this rainbow as I headed home from Baton Rouge last month. I kept watching it for the whole half hour driving time and couldn't find a good spot to pull over until I was a couple of miles from my house. Even after stopping and snapping a few, I could still see it through the trees at my house.
But that's not the important thing. The important thing is that this shot has a fence in it for Happy Fence Friday... :)
An expression of gratitude to Robert Herold for all his encouragement and inspiration.
Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one. ~ Albert Einstein
Unlike most pics that I regularly see on Hong Kong's popular Symphony of Lights laser show, this one is different as the heavy storm clouds persistently blanketed the skies. We could hardly see the laser beams because of the torrential rain and the overcast conditions. Still, there is no want of colors in the harbor which enveigle just about everyone.
the Victoria Harbor, Hong Kong, as seen from the Tsim Sha Tsui waterfront
more stories and pics in Hong Kong’s Symphony of Lights in colloidfarl.blogspot.com/