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I'm thinking once I learn to grow right where I'm planted,
Maybe that's when life starts getting good...
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A flowering baseball plant (Euphorbia obesa) at the Tucson Botanical Gardens in Tucson, Arizona. The plant is endemic to Cape Province, South Africa.
Our local war memorial, a day after the hail storm. Somebody had taken a planter, filled it with soil and stuck a couple of British Legion wooden poppy crosses in. Now covered in water. When you plant something, then I would think with the expectation of growth. I wonder what the expectation was - the death of millions as the seeds of peace? No more war?
Fuji X-E2 plus Mitakon Speedmaster at F0.95.
Autres photos Arbres, Plantes et Fleurs ici / other photos Trees, Plants and Flowers here : www.flickr.com/photos/140051458@N06/albums/72157668841180741
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Plantes vivant dans des milieux très pauvres en eau
Jardin alpin, Jardin des Plantes, Paris
Août 2021
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Except it's not. Just another shot of the old power plant that's been turned into a little village inside the city of Austin. As you can tell, I'm really taken by it. If I still lived in Austin, I would want to live here.
The Seaholm Power Plant was commissioned in 1948 to meet Austin's growing demand for electric power. The engineering firm Burns & McDonnell designed the complex, which was constructed in two phases in 1951 and 1955. The facility originally included a Turbine Generator Building, a Water Intake Structure and an Oil Heating Building. A guard booth and a storage building were added to the site later. Originally called "Power Plant No. 2," on 2 June 1960 the plant was renamed posthumously for Walter E. Seaholm, a prominent figure in the administration of Austin’s municipal utilities.[2]
Seaholm served as Austin’s sole source of electric power from 1950 to 1959, until demand outpaced the 120 megawatts the plant could generate with all five boilers running. As other stations were built the city's reliance on Seaholm waned, and in 1989 the plant stopped providing power to the city, though it was used as a training facility until 1996, when it closed entirely.[3]
Redevelopment[edit]
The site lay dormant until 2004, when the Austin city council requested proposals for redevelopment partners. Several firms and consultancies formed an organization called "Seaholm Power, LLC" which was designated in April 2005 to lead redevelopment of the defunct power plant and the surrounding site.[4] A master development agreement was reached with the city in April 2008 specifying the renovations and new construction that would be undertaken.[5]
Work began on the plant's redevelopment in mid-2013.[6] The interior of the turbine generator building was converted to a mixture of office, retail and restaurant space, with tenants occupying the facility beginning in 2015.[7] A residential tower called Seaholm Residences was constructed at the west end of the site, also opening in 2015. As of 2018, the city has not selected a final plan for the redevelopment of the water intake facility.[8]
~With the stems broken, ready to fall to the ground, germinate and start a new life.~
Fascinating is the plant that can visually hook gardeners, not with fancy foliage nor flashy flowers, but rather dried seed pods—those faded leftovers of a glorious growing season. Well, welcome to the strangely fascinating world of lunaria (Lunaria annua) also known as silver dollar plant or money plant because of the round, parchment-like seed casings it produces in late summer that have the shimmer of freshly minted silver coins.
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