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First test of my Olympus OM-1n after getting it back from a CLA at Advance Camera.
Lens: Olympus OM Zuiko 50mm f/1.8
Film: Kodak Portra 160
Our local council thinks doing this to trees is somehow a good idea.
The effects were done with Serif's PhotoPlus, but the shapes you see are faithful to the trees as seen in "real" life.
My id: pde052 v3
Secretary Rita Landgraf congratulated Bayhealth Medical Center for its holistic and patient-centered approach to treating those in need of care at Kent General Hospital in Dover. As part of Patient Centered Care Awareness Month, Secretary Landgraf presented a proclamation from Gov. Jack Markell and Lt. Gov. Matt Denn to Bayhealth. “What makes Kent General’s and Bayhealth’s approach so effective is that you help to empower patients and their families by ensuring that they are central to all decisions made about a patient’s care,” she said. The international Spirit of Planetree Awards honor care that focuses holistically on mental, emotional, spiritual and physical healing. Honored were Dr. Christie Miller (Physicians Champion); Maria Stir, RN-4A (Caregiver Champion); and pet therapy dog Jack with owner Kayleigh Karnbach (2013 Pet Therapy Animal of the Year for Planetree).
Our compost bins are filled to the brim... mostly with all the fallen leaves from our garden and from my brother's humungous Planetree
Andrés de Santa Cruz y Calahumana (Spanish pronunciation: [anˈdɾes ðe ˈsanta kɾuθ) December 5, 1792 in Huarina, Bolivia – September 25, 1865 in Beauvoir, France) served as the seventh President of Peru during 1827, the Interim President of Peru from 1836 to 1838 and President of Bolivia (1829–39). He also served as Supreme Protector of the short-lived Peru-Bolivian Confederation (1836–39), a political entity created mainly by his personal endeavors.
Barjols used to be an industrial centre (leather, tanneries etc). It has lots of streams and springs and somewhere around 30 fountains and 12 lavoirs.
The Diarizos Valley lies west to south west of the Troodos mountain range and takes its name from the river Diarizos which runs through it. This valley has a wide variety of fauna and flora, with a number of protected species.
The Troodos National Forest Park covers an area of 9,147 hectares around Mount Olympus. It is an area of great natural beauty, suitable for activities such as hiking, biking and camping .
Cyprus has the warmest climate and warmest winters in the Mediterranean part of the European Union.
Detail of junction of narrow gauge curtain wall on broad gauge foundation with broad gauge wall at Planetrees. Looking E
Handbook pp.188–9.
Urban (ɜːʳbən) adjective [usually ADJECTIVE noun]
Urban means belonging to, or relating to, a town or city.
Arborist (ˈɑːrbərɪst)
noun
A specialist in the cultivation and care of trees and shrubs, including tree surgery, the diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of tree diseases, and the control of pests
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How do you manage trees that were planted in the 1960s as part of post-war housing development in the third decade of the 21st Millennium? With great care, dinosaur smoke and mankind’s great pursuit in conquest over nature.
The process being undertaken in these photos is what's called pollarding, where a trees limbs are removed entirely to encourage later dense growth within 1 to 2 years. Only certain species of trees can handle this brutal operation, like these London Plane trees here. Once a tree is pollarded, it has to be regularly maintained in 5-10 year operations.
Historically, wood harvested from this method would be used to feed livestock or for light timber, but these days, thanks to the infernal combustion engine, two operatives can pollard five trees in as many hours, with the tree limbs being quite violently mechanically separated and carted off to be used either as mulch or biofuel.
I find arboriculture rather fascinating; living amongst the trees in an urban environment, arborists have been a regular sight over the years, performing everything from whole tree clearings to dead wood pruning, I’ve seen them do a lot.
It’s a highly skilled profession with some of the most dangerous and violent tools possible in the workplace – Darwin Award nominees are quickly weeded out.
There is a strange beauty to the brutality of efficiency, especially towards articles of nature.
Secretary Rita Landgraf congratulated Bayhealth Medical Center for its holistic and patient-centered approach to treating those in need of care at Kent General Hospital in Dover. As part of Patient Centered Care Awareness Month, Secretary Landgraf presented a proclamation from Gov. Jack Markell and Lt. Gov. Matt Denn to Bayhealth. “What makes Kent General’s and Bayhealth’s approach so effective is that you help to empower patients and their families by ensuring that they are central to all decisions made about a patient’s care,” she said. The international Spirit of Planetree Awards honor care that focuses holistically on mental, emotional, spiritual and physical healing. Honored were Dr. Christie Miller (Physicians Champion); Maria Stir, RN-4A (Caregiver Champion); and pet therapy dog Jack with owner Kayleigh Karnbach (2013 Pet Therapy Animal of the Year for Planetree).
Oh my lovely, half-dead trees,
could some equal sweetness still
stroke your leaves, open your calyx?
Ah, no more fruit! But one last time
bloom in fruitless blossoming
without planning, without reckoning,
as useless as the powers of millenia.
Rilke
*From the archives.
Part of the Rokeby Road shopping/entertainment district.
Subiaco, Western Australia.