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A visit today to the Women's Art Collective housed at Murray Edwards College. Thanks to www.flickr.com/photos/lucykjohnstone/ for the head's up.
I enjoy watching the wildlife antics here on Whippoorwill Hill, but today took the cake. A little brown wasp was guarding the feeder and every time a hummer would swing by, it would charge the little bird. You can just make out the wing if the wasp to the right of the hummer. This little lady managed to get a drink.
Die Skyline und der Hafen von Palma vom Flugzeug aus....
The skyline and harbour of Palma from the plane....
Palma / Mallorca / Islas Baleares
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Die faszinierende Tropfsteinhöhle Coves del Drac (Drachenhöhle) bei Porto Christo beherbergt den größten unterirdischen See Europas...insgesamt sind hier 7 unterirdische Höhlenseen miteinander verbunden....man kommt sich vor wie in den Minen von Moria aus Herr der Ringe....
The fascinating stalactite cave Coves del Drac (Dragon Cave) near Porto Christo is home to the largest underground lake in Europe...a total of 7 underground cave lakes are connected here.... you feel like you're in the mines of Moria from Lord of the Rings....
Mallorca / Islas Baleares
Kurzer Afterwork Spaziergang auf den Greilinger Hügel hinter meinem Haus....die Lichter von Greiling und ein schöner Himmel als Kulisse....
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📷 Google Pixel 8 Pro - Telephoto Sensor (50MP) - Cable Car, Agadir Oufella, Agadir, Morocco
The Agadir Cable Car (Téléphérique) reaches a peak elevation of 236 meters (774 feet) above sea level. The line runs from the base station near the city's marina up to the summit of the historic Agadir Kasbah (Oufella)
Armenia became the first Christian state in the year 301. It's hard to separate fact from fiction in early Christian writing, which aimed not to record history dispassionately but to promote conversion through the recounting of miracles. The traditional story begins with Gregory, a certain Parthian nobleman of a rebel family who converted to Christianity and came into the service of King Tiridates III. In due time Tiridates discovered both Gregory's Christianity and his lineage. It's not clear which was the more offensive, but the king had Gregory tortured and thrown into a pit to starve. A dozen or more years later--or so the story goes--the Christian God decided to punish Tiridates for his penchant for martyring guys and gals like Gregory by inflicting upon him a nasty illness. When the king's sister had a vision that only Gregory could provide the cure, she found him--somehow still living--and his prayers brought about the desired cure, which was quickly followed by the conversion of the king and the adoption of Christianity as the state religion.
As occurred elsewhere when Christianity became state doctrine, persecutions of pagans (and for that matter heretics, Christians whose theology differed from that endorsed by the state) soon followed. Pagan idols were smashed, literature destroyed, sacred places desecrated, architecture toppled, holy trees felled, and pagan priests harassed and sometimes killed. Gregory (now remembered as Saint Gregory the Illuminator) found himself reconciled with the king, on the other side of the law and at the front of the persecution. This was hardly unique. Despite all the legend to sort through in the hagiographies of Gregory and other saints, they generally agree that many of the most famous and admired saints of this era behaved quite violently towards the pagans. Most everywhere, before Christianity became state religion it grew slowly by example and moral suasion. After, it grew rapidly through force and coercion.
Above, the Upper Zhamatun of Geghardt Monastery, much of which (including the room seen in the photo) is carved from solid rock. Current structures date largely to the 13th century, but the monastery is said to have been founded in the fourth century by Gregory himself, and--as many early Christian churches were--on top of a pagan holy site. Geghard Monastery, Azat Valley, Armenia.
Mrs. Orca and I stopped at snake heaven on our bike ride today and found even more snakes out, many of them mating. Puget Sound garter snake, Olympia, Washington