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Imagine all the people living in peace... You may say that I'm a dreamer, but i"m not the only one. I hope someday you'll join us, and the world will live as one. ~ From the lyrics of "Imagine" by John Lennon, English rock musician, singer, songwriter, artist and peace activist (1940-1980).
Dedicated to all of the victims and heroes of 9/11/2001.
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It poured for 15 minutes on Tuesday during which time we received 1.50 inches (3.8 cm.) of rain. The flowers looked so peaceful and refreshed when the rain stopped.
pokeweed, Phytolacca americana, grows in my garden......
Freshly cut young leaves and shoots may be cooked and eaten like spinach. They should be boiled twice, and the first water being discarded. In 1969, when astronaut Neil Armstrong walked on the moon, a popular song on the radio was "Poke Salad Annie." The song depicted a poor southern girl who picked a wild plant called pokeweed for a vegetable. The greens are also called poke salet, and they are sometimes canned and sold in markets.
The plant is beautiful to look at. Nope I haven't had a desire to cook any of the leaves. Even a song was written about this plant..click below
www.youtube.com/watch?v=fRF24LY5pvw
Explore 9/3/12 #155
these tiny little shrooms were on a old fallen tree, that has laid on the hillside for more than 25 yrs... covered in mosses and tiny fungus.
My friend Matthew has a beautiful moss / lichen shot this week too!
please do have a look :)
"SPLORE'd
red poppy. On the Saone River, Macon France. It was right on the edge of the walkway. Yes, I love this photo too :).
Not yet with flower, but beautiful in its own right because of its bright-red anthocyanin pigmentation persumably useful for attracting insects. This was one in a little cluster of sundews shadowed by bright yellow featherbushes on the edge of the Limoenkop Path of the Fernkloof Nature Reserve at Hermanus, South Africa. It's only 1,5 -2,5 cm in diameter, and defined by Fernkloof as Drosera aliciae.
Names are intriguing, of course. Drosera is easy enough: a Greek word having to do with dew; but I wondered who that Aliciae (= Alice) might be. In fact, the plant is called 'Alice sundew' in English.
My search was more complicated than I might have wished, but to make a longer story short enough for flickr: In 1905 the precocious 15-year old Raymond Hamet (1890-1972) published the first description of this sundew in the "Journal de Botanique", giving it its Latin name. In a footnote - appropriately in those days in Latin - he writes that he's named it in honor of Dr Alice Rasse, who had encouraged him to study this 'section' of the sundew family; presumably when he was but fourteen! Apparently the young man had something with Alices, because five years later he named a Kalanchoe (of Madagascar) aliciae after another Alice, namely someone he collaborated with in botanical work later: Alice Leblanc.
Hamet is something of a mysterious botanist. Today - after 1935, when he subtly changed his name - he is known not as R. Hamet but as Raymond-Hamet, botanically written as Raym.-Hamet. He remained fiercely independent his entire life, refusing university tutelage and funding his labs privately. But his memorialist Léo Marion writes (1973): 'Cependant, s'il aimait travailler seul, il était loin d'être un misanthrope. Au contraire, il aimait recevoir', and he and his wife were charming hosts whom visitors were loathe to quit.
...God is a Concept by which
we measure our pain
I'll say it again
God is a Concept by which
we measure our pain
I don't believe in magic
I don't believe in I-ching
I don't believe in Bible
I don't believe in Tarot
I don't believe in Hitler
I don't believe in Jesus
I don't believe in Kennedy
I don't believe in Buddha
I don't believe in Mantra
I don't believe in Gita
I don't believe in Yoga
I don't believe in Kings
I don't believe in Elvis
I don't believe in Zimmerman
I don't believe in Beatles
I just believe in me...and that reality
The dream is over
What can I say?
the Dream is Over
Yesterday
I was the Dreamweaver
But now I'm reborn
I was the Walrus
But now I'm John
and so dear friends
you'll just have to carry on
The Dream is over...
fleurs de cactus de Noél derniere photo de l année 2008 et porteuse de tous mes voeux de bonheur et de santé pour l année 2009 message que j adresse a toutes et a tous , a 2009
La iglesia de San Manuel y San Benito, de Madrid está situada en la calle de Alcalá, 83, en frente del Parque del Retiro y fue construida entre 1902 y 1910. La obra del arquitecto Fernando Arbós y Tremanti se destinó como residencia e iglesia para los Padres Agustinos. Los mecenas de esta iniciativa fueron el empresario catalán Manuel Caviggioli y su esposa Benita Maurici, que donaron generosamente el terreno para este fin.
Este edificio es sin duda el mejor ejemplo de la arquitectura neobizantina madrileña, junto con el Panteón de Hombres Ilustres, que también fue realizado por el propio Arbós.
La iglesia de San Manuel y San Benito tiene una planta centralizada de cruz griega, con una gran cúpula sobre pechinas donde se representan simbólicamente los cuatro evangelistas. En su interior destaca una capilla lateral “de la Epístola”, con un altar de mármol blanco en el centro y los dos sepulcros del matrimonio catalán en los lados. De su fachada, destaca la torre, erigida al modo de los campaniles italianos. La restauración de la Iglesia de San Manuel y San Benito corrió a cargo del arquitecto José Antonio Arenillas. Madrid 16/3/2009
A very large delicate blooming tree was outside my room at a hotel during my stay in Monterey. ID:It's a tree mallow, Lavatera maritima
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Can't get enough...I love capturing these little guys...They are comical, ready to pose for you and above all adorable...despite their hairy looks...Have a great week ahead everyone...
Nikon D90 Nikon AF-S VR Micro-NIKKOR 105mm f/2.8G IF-ED Lens + Ringflash + Handheld
To raise new questions, new possibilities, to regard old problems from a new angle, requires creative imagination and marks real advance in science. ~Albert Einstein
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Jujuy - Argentina
El contraste de rojos, grises, verdes y azules en las laderas, producidos por la composición de arcilla, magnesio y manganeso, combinado con el silencio inquebrantable, su clima caluroso y escasa vegetación, hacen del lugar un paraíso de relajación.
Winchester Cathedral at Winchester in Hampshire is one of the largest cathedrals in England, with the longest nave and overall length of any Gothic cathedral in Europe. It is dedicated to the Holy Trinity, Saint Peter, Saint Paul and Saint Swithun and is the seat of the Bishop of Winchester and centre of the Diocese of Winchester. Since March 2006 an admission charge has been required for visitors to enter the cathedral.