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There are several little ponds in the valley referred to as "perch ponds". This one connects to another one with a culvert under a road blocked by these sunken livestock fences. Happy Fence Friday.
At Gunstock Ski Resort, Gilford, NH. This is the water supply for the snow making operations at the Ski Resort here.
View on The Little Pond ("Mały Staw" in Polish) from the trail on Śnieżka :)
Mały Staw ("The Little Pond"), located at an altitude of 1183 m above sea level, is a natural lake of glacial origin in the Karkonosze mountains in western Poland. It is situated in the Polish Karkonosze National Park at the bottom of the cirque, on the southern slope of the Smogornia mountain. With its area of 2.8 hectares, it is the second biggest glacial lake in the whole range. Its depth reaches 7 m. A mountain hut Samotnia is situated on the north shore.
Karkonosze or Giant Mountains are a mountain range located in the north of the Czech Republic and the south-west of Poland, part of the Sudetes mountain system. The Czech-Polish border, which divides the historic regions of Bohemia and Silesia, runs along the main ridge. The highest peak, Śnieżka, is the Czech Republic's highest point with an elevation of 1,603 metres. On both sides of the border, large areas of the mountains are designated national parks (the Krkonoše National Park in the Czech Republic and the Karkonosze National Park in Poland), and these together constitute a cross-border biosphere reserve under the UNESCO Man and the Biosphere Programme. In Karkonosze you can find many impressive rock formations. These weathered blocks of granite form high towers which often resemble humans or animals, and reach heights up to 30 metres. The range has a number of major ski resorts, and is a popular destination for tourists engaging in downhill and cross-country skiing, hiking, cycling and other activities.
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Widok na Mały Staw ze szlaku na Śnieżkę :)
Mały Staw to górskie jezioro przepływowe, wypełniające dno kotła polodowcowego, położone na wysokości 1183 m n.p.m., u podnóża Równi pod Śnieżką i Smogorni. Ma głębokość do 7,3 m, długość linii brzegowej 756 m i zajmuje powierzchnię 2,881 ha. Jeziorko charakteryzuje się czystą i przejrzystą wodą. Przez znaczną część roku pokryte jest lodem. Nad stawem znajduje się schronisko „Samotnia”. W miejscu obecnego schroniska w przeszłości stał budynek pasterski z XVII wieku.
Karkonosze - najwyższe pasmo górskie Sudetów i zarazem Czech rozciągające się na przestrzeni ok. 40 km (od Przełęczy Szklarskiej na zachodzie do Przełęczy Lubawskiej na wschodzie). Szerokość pasma waha się od 8 do 20 km. Karkonosze zajmują powierzchnię ok. 650 km2, z czego do Polski należy 185 km2 czyli 28,46%. Głównym grzbietem oraz Grzbietem Lasockim przebiega granica polsko-czeska. Najwyższym szczytem jest Śnieżka (1603 m n.p.m.) – najwyższy szczyt Czech, Sudetów i Śląska. Karkonosze należą do Światowej Sieci Rezerwatów Biosfery UNESCO i są chronione poprzez utworzenie na ich terenie Karkonoskiego Parku Narodowego oraz Krkonošského národní parku. Charakterystycznym elementem karkonoskiego krajobrazu są malownicze formy skalne, zwane tu skałkami. Łącznie można wyróżnić co najmniej 150 grup skalnych i pojedynczych skałek, różnej wielkości, kształtu i wysokości sięgającej do 25 m.
Autumn oak leaves in the ice on a small pond in my yard, with the reflection of trees in meltwater on the surface.
At Great Pond by Mary Oliver
At Great Pond
the sun, rising,
scrapes his orange breast
on the thick pines,
and down tumble
a few orange feathers into
the dark water.
On the far shore
a white bird is standing
like a white candle ---
or a man, in the distance,
in the clasp of some meditation ---
while all around me the lilies
are breaking open again
from the black cave
of the night.
Later, I will consider
what I have seen ---
what it could signify ---
what words of adoration I might
make of it, and to do this
I will go indoors to my desk ---
I will sit in my chair ---
I will look back
into the lost morning
in which I am moving, now,
like a swimmer,
so smoothly,
so peacefully,
I am almost the lily ---
almost the bird vanishing over the water
on its sleeves of night.
I discovered this little chap with many of his kind in an old lily pond in the Málaga Botanical Gardens. (La Concepción - Jardín Botánico-Histórico de Málaga,)
Explored 2013-06-16 #393.
I shot this after first visiting the temperature controlled conservatories. It was warm and humid outside, as it tends to be in Singapore, and I did my best to keep condensation from my camera lens...
Horseshoe Pond Hyde Lea Staffordshire UK
A bit of space.
Both Swallows and House Martens came to the pond while we ate our sandwiches.
The field burned since we took this photo.
...nicht zu tief heut ins Glas schauen - man könnte schnell vom Wege abkommen und versumpfen......... - "Himmelfahrt" ist heute auch......
Trotzdem allen männlichen Wesen einen schönen Tag .....
This pond is beautiful any time of the day, any day from late spring (shown here) through mid-autumn. However, I think it is especially beautiful in mid-afternoon light (shown here). The sunlight is coming from the upper left in this photo. It makes the field of rather dry, long grass (also upper left) just glow.
I don't know the significance or former use (mooring posts?) of the two pillars on the edge of the pond. In any case, I think they add to the beauty. Maybe they were always just decorative. We had a picnic just behind them last weekend.
Location: Wenkenpark, a public park in Riehen BS Switzerland.
In my album: Roaming Riehen.
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It rained last week and swelled the ponds with fresh water near our house. It was teeming with these migratory geese and I was able to get a snaphot right before sunset. I tweaked the exposure during pp enough to isolate the sun and also to enhance the sillohouettes. Temperatures are in the 70's today. A perfect Indian summer. Hope your weekends are going great.
Another cloudy day. Not much sun lately and very cool. This flood holding pond is quiet today. No ducks or frogs as yet.
A retake of an old photo spot at one of the ponds out on Bookham Common . At the right time this pond is often alive with dragonflies and damselflies , I have often seem a heron sat up on the gnarly old tree waiting for lunch .There was a heronry on the Common , but not sue if it is sill there , not seen so many herons since the main pond was drained for a couple of summers recently - way back I once saw at least a couple of dozen herons in the air at once . All I saw yesterday on the pond was a family of ducks though .