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View of printed product labeling on reverse-side of an asbestos ceiling panel section, formerly a 2-ft. x 4-ft. panel. Although labeling is not often seen on many ceiling tile or panels, the labeling on this example indicates "FIRE-RATED - PROTECTONE F - Acoustical Panel - Replace Only With Equal".
Even at a distance of only a few inches away from the backside of the panel, one can begin to depict tiny "line fragments" on the grainy, porous surface. Inset shows closer study of the panel's surface with more discernible fibrous features, amosite asbestos fiber bundles embedded within the panel's artificial fiber matrix. Additionally, tiny beads of melted artificial fiber material are also visible in the inset, created during manufacture of the panel.
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Setenil’s most distinctive feature however, is the town’s large number of cave homes. The whitewashed buildings literally seem to grow out of the mountain or to be physically embedded in the rockface. Many dwellings have a single external wall. The rest of the living quarters will expand underneath the protruding overhang. Dug out of the porous sandstone by enlarging the natural caves that the river created millions of years ago. This innovative design makes Setenil one of the most original villages not only in Spain, but in all Europe.
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HTO Beach is part of HTO Park, an urban park on Toronto's waterfront that features a sandy beach, grassy dunes, and a waterfront promenade, offering a modern design for people to relax by Lake Ontario. The name "HTO" is a playful reference to the chemical formula for water (H2O) and the abbreviation for Toronto (TO). The park provides views of the CN Tower and serves as a relaxing urban escape for residents and tourists alike, with unique yellow umbrellas and comfortable seating.
Key Features and Attractions
Urban Beach:
A sandy beach area designed for relaxation, equipped with stationary yellow umbrellas and lounge chairs.
Grassy Dunes:
Softly sloping green berms that offer shady spots for repose, planted with trees like silver maples and weeping willows.
Waterfront Views:
Strategically designed to provide picturesque views of Lake Ontario and the Toronto skyline, including the CN Tower.
Accessibility:
The park is a unique urban beach that is easily accessible from the downtown core.
Sustainability:
HTO Park incorporates sustainable systems, such as porous pathways to manage stormwater and the creation of fish habitats to restore the lake's ecosystem.
Inspiration and Design
The park's design was inspired by Seurat's painting "A Sunday on La Grande Jatte," creating a serene, peaceful atmosphere with vibrant colors and strategic light and shadow.
It was designed by Janet Rosenberg & Studio, a well-known landscape architecture firm.
Simplicity gives way for texture in the Hoyos collection, featuring clean shapes that focus on porous concrete and refined wood finishes. Accented with glossy metals and glass and rough nautical elements to finish this chic vignette.
This photograph was taken in 2008 at the Royal Australian Navy's Heritage Centre at Garden Island, Sydney.
It had no curatorial plaque, but the nameplate indicates that it was made by Arnold & Sons, a British surgical instrument maker.
The handles appear to be cross hatched ebony. The long bladed knives at the front are Liston knives; their use is for cutting through muscle during amputation. They were developed by a Crimean War (1854 - 1856) surgeon, Dr. Liston. This dates the kit as being from during or after that period. The work of Joseph Lister (different spelling) in 1867 led to revelations that porous material should not be used for the manufacture of handles on surgical instruments due to their propensity to harbour germs. Hence this kit can be safely dated between 1854 and 1870.
The whole kit is contained in a chest made from mahogany with brass reinforcements.
Garden Island contains the RAN's Fleet Base East and the Garden Island Dockyard and as such there is restricted public access only to a segregated area on the North-eastern tip of the Island. Access is achieved by taking the Watson's Bay ferry from Circular Quay, which stops at Garden Island after a 6-minute trip around the Sydney Opera House.
Entry to the museum style gallery is free for kids, and costs $5 for Adults.
The Gallery has a large display which is drawn from some 300,000 artifacts which the RAN holds in its extensive archives which are otherwise unavailable for public viewing - so whatever goes on display must of necessity be a carefully chosen sample.
We Escapees treat food the way we treat Life. We want them with kicks in it. We want something that bites the lip, like a French Kiss. Like this bowl of fiery Curry Laksa with its rich spicy taste tempered but enhanced by succulent coconut milk. Like the tender slices of marinated chicken. Like the porous center of fried tofu that soaked up the soup flavor. Like the wonderful blend of hard boiled egg, crunchy bean sprouts and the yin yang mixture of wheat and rice noodles. And should the heat bring sweat to our forehead and our nose watered, we cried in-between sobs – “We Escapees Like It Hot!”
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KIAPO ( Eng name: water lettuce, water cabbage) An aquatic plant, floating on lakes, streams, stagnant water and in lime-rich water. Leaves are fanlike, with small, soft hairs with a thick porous base. Inflorescence is fleshy, attached to the backside of the bract.
Photographed during the Pinoy Macro BS/EB at the UPLB, Mt. Makiling, Laguna.
The Parliament building, a magnificent example of Neo-Gothic architecture (although displaying Renaissance and Baroque characters too), is just over 100 years old. In the 1880's an open tender was held for the design of the Parliament building. Construction based on the winning plan began in 1885 and the building was inaugurated on the 1000th anniversary of Hungary in 1896, and fully completed in 1902. Both runner-up designs were also built facing the Parliament building. One is the Museum of Ethnography and the other is the Ministry of Agriculture. The Budapest Parliament building is the third largest Parliament building in the world. It has 691 rooms, 20 kilometers (12,5 miles) of stairs and at 96 meters (315 feet) it is the same height as the St. Stephen's Basilica. During the Communist era a large red star was added to the central tower above the dome of the building, but after its downfall, the star was removed. Unfortunately, modern air pollution constantly attacks the porous limestone walls, requiring frequent restoration. This also means that there is a good chance that you will see some scaffolding around the building.
The square where the Hungarian Parliament stands was named after Lajos Kossuth, a Hungarian lawyer, journalist, politician and Governor-President of Hungary in 1849. He was widely honored during his lifetime, including in the United States, as a freedom fighter and a bellwether of democracy in Europe. His memorial, as well as a memorial for the 1956 Hungarian Revolution can be seen in front of the Parliament building.
During World War II all of Budapest's bridges were destroyed and as a temporary solution a bridge was built between Kossuth Square and Batthyány Square. The bridge, named after Lajos Kossuth, was in use until 1960. A memorial next to the Parliament building marks the site on the Pest side.
This is our second visit to Budapest and it remains one of our favourite cities in Europe. Its compact, has lovely architecture, museums, theatres and restaurants.
This is a shot of the Parliament building from Buda on the east side of the Danube River.
The Parliament building sits on the bank of the Danube River and is a fine example of Neo-Gothic architecture (displaying Renaissance and Baroque characters too). Construction began in 1885 and the building opened on the 1000th anniversary of Hungary in 1896. Construction completed in 1902.
The Budapest Parliament building is the third largest Parliament building in the world. It has 691 rooms, 20 kilometers (12,5 miles) of stairs and at 96 meters (315 feet) it is the same height as Budapest's St. Stephen's Basilica.
Unfortunately air pollution constantly attacks the porous limestone but the building just completed a total cleaning so the scaffolding is gone and it looks gorgeous.
During the Russian reign, the building dome sported a red star which was removed when freedom came after the 1956 revolution.
Do Ho Suh's polyester and stainless steel installation replicates a stairway in the artist's apartment in New York. This installation is one of a number of works Suh has made based on his personal memories of architectural spaces.... Suh uses a distinctive red polyester fabric, whose flexibility, translucence and porousness contrasts with the solidity of the original architectural structure. (from www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks?rid=6819&ws=date&wv=...)
Male Painted Bunting (Passerina ciris ciris) - The Space Coast of Florida
OK! OK!? I admit it!!!
The reason I decided to set up a bird feeder out back was for this!
Yeah, yeah it's trite and trivial, but I just couldn't help myself.
So there it is, a male Painted bunting on a bird feeder!
Sue me! :{(
Note (04/09/18):
In the comment section, I noticed there were some folk who thought this guy was an escapee (i.e. no way he was a native North American bird). Funny how we tend to think that beauty is unnatural! Yeah, not funny ha ha, but that it was too good to be true. Well. . . in my opinion, beauty is everywhere, and all you have to do to see it, is ease-up on your definition of beauty!
Ooops, she deleted her comment.
I guess I must have embarrassed her. Sorry . . .
Appended (04/09/18):
I also posted this image on FaceBook where I got a lot of questions about the feeder perch extensions.
The “extensions” are pieces of ¼” irrigation tubing.
The tubing allows the birds to get far enough away from the feeding port so they can get their heads into the port without having to contort their bodies to do it. The tubing is available in 50 foot lengths at most garden centers. I like the porous drip irrigation tubing for this since it has a porous grippy surface that grips tightly to the short aluminum perch as well as giving birds a better grip on the perch.
Shame on you “Droll Yankee” for simply shrinking down a “good” design without giving any thought to how the smaller perches affected the utility of the design. Feel free to sell “Large bird adapter kits” to your unhappy customers. You can send the check for this idea to me by messaging me through Flickr mail for an address. LOL
Outra vista da (do?) cenote. Um pouco mágico :) Ou ando sugestionada pelas minhas leituras :x
Another view of the cenote. A bit magical, and then again maybe I've been reading to much fantasy books :D
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The natural wonders of the state of Yucatan are innumerable and some of the most important and unusual are the cenotes (say-NOH-tays) or sink holes. In the Yucatan there are over 3000 cenotes, with only 1400 actually studied and registered.
The Maya called them dzonot (ZO-note), which the conquering Spaniards translated as cenote (say– NO–tay.) Giraldo Diaz Alpuche, was a military commander in the 16th Century who was greatly impressed with these underground caverns and pools, and he tried to explain the meaning of the word cenote in the Spanish language as meaning "deep thing". The Motul dictionary, a dictionary of Mayan hieroglyphics, defines dzonot as "abysmal and deep".
Cenotes are magical, enigmatic and unique in the world and were once the only resource for fresh, sweet water in the local Yucatecan jungle. They were the sacred places of the Maya for that reason, but also because they represented the entrance to the underworld.
The Yucatan Peninsula is a porous limestone shelf with no visible rivers; all the fresh water rivers are underground. Being porous, caverns and caves formed where the fresh water collects – hence the cenotes or water sink holes. The water that gathers in these subterranean cenotes is a crystal clear turquoise color with a very pleasant temperature of 78°.
The stalactites and stalagmites that form inside the cenotes are true natural works of art. In many, holes in the ceiling allow the sunlight to filter into the cenotes, giving the scene a magical feeling. The cenotes of Yucatan are a natural treasure that should be seen by all, keeping in mind that they should be protected so that man does not destroy in a few days what nature took millions of years to create.
There are four different types of cenotes - those that are completely underground, those that are semi-underground, those that are at land level like a lake or pond, like the one at Dzibilchaltun and those that are open wells, like the one in Chichen Itza. Some of them are accessible for swimming and cave diving, but this is a sport that should ONLY be practiced with a professional guide.
England has three-quarters of the world's chalk streams. Rain falling on the porous chalk emerges as springs, filtered and crystal clear. Here the River Alre is about 1 metre deep in the centre but the water is so clear it is difficult to see and fish can look to be swimming in air! There is a brown trout on the left and I'll make a note on the image.
A view from the Eel Trap about half mile downstream of the Fulling Mill, New Alresford, Hampshire
Northern part of the Quiraing, Isle of Skye, Scotland. Over the ages, the hill and many even larger blocks have slid downhill from the rampart behind the viewer. This one has impounded Loch Hasco. The lake doesn't have an obvious outlet; my guess is that the rocks at the left end are porous enough to let it drain toward the valley beyond. Sheep trails and terraces evident on the slopes; the ubiquitous sheep keep everything accessible trimmed down, and largely prevent shrubs and trees from growing.
Luxor - Colossi of Memnon 17,90m
The Colossi of Memnon (known to locals as el-Colossat, or es-Salamat) are two massive stone statues of Pharaoh Amenhotep III. For the past 3400 years they have stood in the Theban necropolis, across the River Nile from the modern city of Luxor.
The twin statues depict Amenhotep III (fl. 14th century BC) in a seated position, his hands resting on his knees and his gaze turned eastward toward the river and the rising sun. Two shorter figures are carved into the front throne alongside his legs: these are his wife Tiy and mother Mutemwiya. The side panels depict the Nile god Hapy.
The statues are made from blocks of quartzite sandstone which was stone quarried at el-Gabal el-Ahmar (near modern-day Cairo) and transported 420 miles over land without using the Nile to Thebes. They are too heavy to transport upstream on the Nile. The blocks used by the engineers of Septimius Severus to reconstruct the north colossus may have come from Edfu (north of Aswan). Including the stone platforms on which they stand, they reach a towering 18 metres (approx. 60 ft) in height. They weigh an estimated 700 tons each. [1] [2] [3]
The original function of the Colossi was to stand guard at the entrance to Amenhotep's memorial temple (or mortuary temple): a massive cult centre built during the pharaoh's lifetime, where he was worshipped as a god-on-earth both before and after his departure from this world. In its day, this temple complex was the largest and most opulent in Egypt. Covering a total of 35 ha, even later rivals such as Ramesses II's Ramesseum or Ramesses III's Medinet Habu were unable to match it in area; even the Temple of Karnak, as it stood in Amenhotep's time, was smaller.
Side panel detail
With the exception of the Colossi, however, very little remains today of Amenhotep's temple. Standing on the edge of the Nile floodplain, successive annual inundations gnawed away at the foundations – a famous 1840s lithograph by David Roberts shows the Colossi surrounded by water – and it was not unknown for later rulers to dismantle, purloin, and reuse portions of their predecessors' monuments.
The Greek historian and geographer Strabo, writing in the early years of the 1st century, tells of an earthquake (in 27 BC) that shattered the northern colossus, collapsing it from the waist up.
Following its rupture, this statue was then reputed to "sing" every morning at dawn: a light moaning or whistling, probably caused by rising temperatures and the evaporation of dew inside the porous rock. The legend of the "Vocal Memnon", the luck that hearing it was reputed to bring, and the reputation of the statue's oracular powers, travelled the length of the known world, and a constant stream of visitors, including several Roman Emperors, came to marvel at the statues. The mysterious vocalisations of the broken colossus ceased in 199, however, when Emperor Septimius Severus, in an attempt to curry favour with the oracle, reassembled the two shattered halves.
Memnon was a hero of the Trojan War, a King of Ethiopia who led his armies from Africa into Asia Minor to help defend the beleaguered city but was ultimately slain by Achilles. Whether associating the Colossi with his name was whimsy or wishful thinking on the part of the Greeks — they generally referred to the entire Theban Necropolis as the Memnonium — the name has remained in common use for the past 2000 years. The name Memnon means "Ruler of the Dawn."
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Hraunfossar (Borgarfjörður, western Iceland) is a series of waterfalls formed by rivulets streaming over a distance of about 900 metres out of the Hallmundarhraun, a lava field which flowed from an eruption of one of the volcanoes lying under the glacier Langjökull. The waterfalls pour into the Hvítá river from ledges of less porous rock in the lava. The name hraun comes from the Icelandic word for lava. The Hraunfossar are situated near Húsafell and Reykholt .
The lake/tarn Spákonuvatn in the Reykjanes peninsula in SW-Iceland. Big parts of the peninsula are an almost untouched volcanic and somewhat forbidding landscape, with craters, mossy lava fields and hyaloclastite ridges and cones. Lakes are few and most have no outlet; the water simply seeps into the porous lava bedrock.
A wonderful site to visit and all the more impressive viewed from the sea.
This is the most impressive archaeological site on the island of Rhodes.
The first ruins you will encounter after the long climb are the mediaeval walls, built by the Crusaders (early 14th century) on the remains of earlier defenses, both Byzantine and ancient. Along the mediaeval walls are a very small number of towers, which follow the natural contours of the high ground. On the area of level ground where the mediaeval steps begin you will see to your left an ancient triimolia (a kind of ship) carved in the rock circa 180-170 B.C.
The great mediaeval steps lead up to the Governors Palace of the Crusader castle, which consisted of three buildings, of which two have survived. It was first restored in the early 20th century by the Danish Archaeological Mission and then, during the period between the world wars, by the Italian authorities. As you come out of the Governor’s Palace you will see a series of vaulted constructions supporting the “andiro”, a man-made terrace which opens out in front of the Hellenistic stoa. A number of the columns are still standing.
It was built in the shape of the Greek letter fl, in the late 3rd century BC, with protruding wings to the side, each with a frontage of four columns. It was 88 m. long, 9 m. wide and had 42 columns. The terrace was laid out later and two underground cisterns were also constructed to collect rainwater from the roof of the stoa and from the steps of the Propylaea. The scattered plinths with their inscriptions remind us of the time when the whole area was full of statues dedicated to the goddess. Next to the Governor’s Palace stands the church of Agios loannis, built on the inscribed cruciform plan. It is not clear precisely when it was built; some assign it to the late 11th – early 12th century, others to the 13th – 14th century. It was constructed on the remains of an earlier church, judging from the architectural fragments found on the Acropolis and dating from the 6th century AD.
A monumental flight of steps, behind the eight central columns of the Hellenistic stoa, leads up to the Propylaea of the temple of Undia Athena, another stoa structure in the same shape. Only the foundations have survived. At the two ends of the Propylaea there were areas where the votive offerings made to the goddess were stored. The stoa was built of porous stone at the end of the 4th century B.C. At the highest point of the Acropolis, on the edge of the cliff, stands the temple of Lindia Athena. This is an unexpectedly small Doric temple, with a stoa of four columns at each end. There still remain in the interior the votive altar and the plinth of the worshipped statue of the goddess. This building too was of porous stone, with mortar facing, and dates from the end of the 4th century B.C.
(Source: www.rhodos.gr)
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Captured while out on a Covid lockdown exercise walk in February 2021. Of course, at that moment, with vaccination pending and not long to go, the outlook seemed bright. Sadly, with borders completely porous to disease variants and opening up with rapid exponential growth of cases and high likelihood of long Covid (for me at least) the light at the end of the tunnel has been snuffed out. I don't need to tell you all how hopeless this situation feels. I am shielding once again.
I want to thank each and every one of you for supporting my photography during these difficult times. It genuinely means a huge amount to me. I want to ride on a wave of optimism expressed in the title of this shot but my boat, right now, has too many holes in it. Stay safe my Flickr Friends.
Large cuttlebone at 35 cm
Coonarr Beach Bundaberg
Australia
Cuttlefish or cuttles are marine molluscs of the order Sepiida. They belong to the class Cephalopoda, which also includes squid, octopuses, and nautiluses. Cuttlefish have a unique internal shell, the cuttlebone, which is used for control of buoyancy.
Cuttlefish possess an internal structure called the cuttlebone, which is porous and is made of aragonite. The pores provide it with buoyancy, which the cuttlefish regulates by changing the gas-to-liquid ratio in the chambered cuttlebone via the ventral siphuncle. Each species' cuttlebone has a distinct shape, size, and pattern of ridges or texture. The cuttlebone is unique to cuttlefish, and is one of the features that distinguish them from their squid relatives.
"The world is incomprehensibly beautiful -- an endless prospect of magic and wonder." --Ansel Adams
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Mono Lake is one of the Eastern Sierra's most spectacular (and perhaps most bizarre) of California's natural wonders. It's surrounded by the grand beauty of the rugged, granite-peaked Sierra Nevada Mountains, but it's not the spectacular beauty that make Mono Lake unique. Mono lake is one of the oldest lakes in North America and has been dubbed "California's Dead Sea" because it's 2 and 1/2 times as salty as the ocean. Its lack of an outlet contributes to Mono Lake's saltiness as well as its extreme alkalinity. Freshwater streams that feed Mono Lake have washed salts and minerals into the lake for years and years. As fresh water naturally evaporates into the atmosphere, the minerals are left behind, becoming increasingly concentrated over time. One of the most unique features of Mono Lakes is its tufa towers. The towers are spires of porous "rock" that looks like moon rock. They are formed when natural fresh water springs interact with the highly alkaline lake water and give Mono Lake its unique "landscape." (visitmammoth.com)
Somewhere in the Sahara, trying to go somewhere else...
Note the bags hanging in front of the cars. They are goat skins, called Guerba, filled with water. The water seeps through the porous skin and evaporates, thus cooling the water inside. This gives fairly fresh water to drink, with a very peculiar taste.
1990, scanned from slides.
Nashville, take note.
Since the 1960s when they discovered the problem, a foundational problem, the Army Corp of Engineers has tried to reinforce this remote Kentucky dam that was built over porous and erodible limestone rock. It turns out this was the wrong place to build a dam. The karst geology of extremely porous and cracked limestone that surrounds this area has resulted in a constant dissolution of the dam's rock foundation when water is above it. Over the years, the dam has had near failures. So far, no matter how much engineers have tried to fix it by adding safety structures to the dam, uncontrolled water seepage erodes the dam's geological foundation. In its defense, the dam has lasted some 70 years without collapse. The ultimate solution is either to have no dam, which would result in a loss of flood control and hydroelectric power; or, build another dam somewhere else on better ground. But that would be very expensive. Tax payer dollars.
Way down the Cumberland River lies the bustling downtown of Nashville, Tennessee. Music City.
This is a lovely lake though. Scenic. Kentucky boaters love it.
This lightning storm happened just after I had finished teaching a Night Photography class. It was between 3-4 a.m.
>>>TUFA: a porous rock composed of calcium carbonate and formed by precipitation from water, e.g., around mineral springs.
Mono Lake is a majestic body of water covering about 65 square miles. It is an ancient lake, over 1 million years old -- one of the oldest lakes in North America. It has no outlet.
Throughout its long existence, salts and minerals have washed into the lake from Eastern Sierra streams. Freshwater evaporating from the lake each year has left the salts and minerals behind so that the lake is now about 2 1/2 times as salty and 80 times as alkaline as the ocean.
Hraunfossar (western Iceland) is a series of waterfalls formed by rivulets streaming over a distance of about 900 metres out of the Hallmundarhraun, a lava field which flowed from an eruption of one of the volcanoes lying under the glacier Langjökull. The waterfalls pour into the Hvítá river from ledges of less porous rock in the lava. The name hraun comes from the Icelandic word for lava. The Hraunfossar are situated near Húsafell and Reykholt
Due to the porous limestone, the islets and rock formations are full of small and large caves. Halong Bay, Vietnam is a magical place with iridescent green water and hundreds of rock formations rising steeply from the water. The bay is also a UNESCO World Heritage Site and protected biodiversity zone.
This panorama was stitched together from 17 vertical frames shot with my Canon 6D and Sigma 15mm EX DG at 25 sec f/2.8 ISO 3200.
The Trona Pinnacles are an unusual geological feature in the California Desert National Conservation Area. The unusual landscape consists of more than 500 tufa spires (porous rock formed as a deposit when springs interact with other bodies of water), some as high as 140 feet (43 m), rising from the bed of the Searles Lake (dry) basin. The pinnacles vary in size and shape from short and squat to tall and thin, and are composed primarily of calcium carbonate (tufa). They now sit isolated and slowly crumbling away near the south end of the valley, surrounded by many square miles of flat, dried mud and with stark mountain ranges at either side.
The Pinnacles are recognizable in more than a dozen hit movies. Over thirty film projects a year are shot among the tufa pinnacles, including backdrops for car commercials and sci-fi movies and television series such as Battlestar Galactica, Star Trek V: The Final Frontier, Disney's Dinosaur, The Gate II, Lost in Space, and Planet of the Apes.
Hraunfossar (western Iceland) is a series of waterfalls formed by rivulets streaming over a distance of about 900 metres out of the Hallmundarhraun, a lava field which flowed from an eruption of one of the volcanoes lying under the glacier Langjökull. The waterfalls pour into the Hvítá river from ledges of less porous rock in the lava. The name hraun comes from the Icelandic word for lava. The Hraunfossar are situated near Húsafell and Reykholt
From the Tell Brak site in northern Syria on display behind glass in the Fitzwilliam museum in Cambridge. Most eye-idols are made from fine Gypsum (Alabaster) which is porous so it changes colour easily. Rare examples in animal bone also exist. Unlike spectacle idols, eye idols do not seem to have been made in clay. Paint to emphasise the eyes is an additional detail. Syria
About 5200 – 5100 ybp
Perhaps we see aspects of the sky rising above a hill - a sky God - with the sun and the moon like eyes and a God with parallels to, for example, Horus.
There is only one moor on the Swabian Alps' porous surface. It's just a small place about five kilometers from where I live. But it's amazing how different this small space is from all the rest of the landscape around.
It seems that small perching birds attempt to stay out of the direct view of intruders. They seem to accomplish this "safety" by sitting behind twigs and leaves or by flying to higher perches in the tree when approached by the ever-hopeful photographer. Even this brightly colored Northern Cardinal stayed in place after retreating to the porous protection of the spike-like leaves. Maybe this observation explains why I end up with so many pictures of birds obscured by branches ; -)
This picture was taken at Corkscrew Swamp, Florida (but Cardinals are relatively common throughout the Eastern half of the United States, including my home State, Michigan.).
At Sedona's elevation and amount of rainfall the conifer trees dominate - Arizona Cypress, Pinon Pine and the Juniper. These trees keep their leaves year round and are more oil based and aromatic.
Many of the larger trees and bushes secrete acids from their roots which can eat through soft rock and allow the tree to search for water in the porous rock. This is one reason that you may notice an abundance of bushes growing from the sides of some of the red rocks. In fact, the mesquite tree can have a taproot which extends almost 75 feet down into the ground.
Many trees need high temperatures from fires to open up their seed cones but the Arizona Cypress uses lightening. You find these red barked trees in low lying areas around washes as they need extra water. The red in the bark is due to iron content, which attracts lightening. As these trees get struck, the top will start on fire and the sap gets vaporized into steam which runs down to the root system. The roots are so deep and the ground so hard that the steam is forced back up the tree which puts the fire out and heats up the tree to open its seed cones.
Yu Garden or Yuyuan Garden (豫园 literaly Garden of Happiness) is an extensive Chinese garden located beside the City God Temple in the northeast of the Old City of Shanghai at Huangpu District, Shanghai. It abuts the Yuyuan Tourist Mart, the Huxinting Teahouse and the Yu Garden Bazaar.
This garden is accessible from the Shanghai Metro's Line 10 and Line 14 Yuyuan Garden station.
A centerpiece is the Exquisite Jade Rock (玉玲珑) a porous 3.3-m, 5-ton boulder. Rumours about its origin include the story that it was meant for the Huizong Emperor (Northern Song Dynasty from 1100 to 1126 AD) the imperial garden in Bianjing, but was salvaged from the Huangpu River after the boat carrying it had sunk.
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El Jardín Yu o Jardín Yuyuan (豫园 literalmente Jardín de la Felicidad) es un extenso jardín chino ubicado junto al Templo del Dios de la Ciudad en el noreste de la Ciudad Vieja de Shanghai en el distrito de Huangpu, Shanghai. Colinda con el Yuyuan Tourist Mart, la casa de té Huxinting y el Yu Garden Bazaar.
Se puede acceder a este jardín desde la estación Yuyuan Garden de las líneas 10 y 14 del metro de Shanghai.
Una pieza central es la Exquisita Roca de Jade (玉玲珑), una roca porosa de 3,3 m y 5 toneladas. Los rumores sobre su origen incluyen la historia de que estaba destinado al emperador Huizong (dinastía Song del Norte de 1100 a 1126 d. C.) el jardín imperial en Bianjing, pero que fue rescatado del río Huangpu después de que el barco que lo transportaba se hundiera.
Yu Garden or Yuyuan Garden (Garden of Happiness) is an extensive Chinese garden located beside the City God Temple in the northeast of the Old City of Shanghai at Huangpu Qu, Shanghai Shi. It abuts the Yuyuan Tourist Mart, the Huxinting Teahouse and the Yu Garden Bazaar. This garden is accessible from the Shanghai Metro's Line 10 Yuyuan Garden Station. A centerpiece is the Exquisite Jade Rock porous 3.3-m, 5-ton boulder. Rumours about its origin include the story that it was meant for the Huizong Emperor (Northern Song Dynasty from 1100-1126 AD) at the imperial palace in Beijing, but was salvaged from the Huangpu River after the boat carrying it had sunk. Yu Garden was first built in 1559 during the Ming Dynasty by Pan Yunduan as a comfort for his father, the minister Pan En, in his old age. Pan Yunduan began the project after failing one of the imperial exams, but his appointment as governor of Sichuan postponed construction for nearly twenty years until 1577. The garden was the largest and most prestigious of its era in Shanghai, but eventually its expense helped ruin the Pans. Today, Yu Garden occupies an area of 2 hectares, and is divided into six general areas laid out in the Suzhou style.
Chinese gardens are constructed to recreate and miniaturize larger natural landscapes. Traditionally, Chinese gardens blend unique, ornate buildings with natural elements. Just about every Chinese garden contains architecture, like a building or pavilion; decorative rocks and a rock garden; plants, trees and flowers; and water elements, like ponds. Most Chinese gardens are enclosed by a wall and some have winding paths. Chinese gardens aren’t just thrown together. Instead, they’re deliberately designed and visitors should walk through them in the particular order that the garden was laid out. A95_194
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Earlier today, I posted an old IR pic and said I wished I knew how to set the correct white balance. Szmytke left me a comment with instructions and... whaddya know... it's a whole freakin' infranew world!
This one is suffering from too much processing. (Reminds me of those girls in high school with their hair so coarse and porous and brittle from repeated bleachings and permings. ) Anyway... yes, overprocessed... but one of many interesting results I got today. Not great pics, but learning experiences. And... just when I needed it... a new avenue of shooting to explore.
There's not a lot of standing water in the Mono Basin due to the deep, porous pumice deposits, but there are some small reflecting ponds you can find near springs that flow after a wet winter.
In 1908 Wheeler National Monument was established in the name of explorer George Wheeler who first surveyed the area, it was the first national monument in Colorado. The monument was later downgraded to a geologic area when visitors greatly decreased after World War II.
The Wheeler Geologic Area sits in the La Garita Caldera, a huge crater that was formed about 28 million years ago during one of the largest known volcanic eruptions on Earth. The volcano spewed an estimated 1,200 cubic miles of ash over much of what is now Colorado, and collapsed, forming the roughly 22-mile-by-47-mile crater. Over time, natural forces compressed the ash into a rock called tuff, which is porous and highly erodible. Wheeler’s strange hoodoos and spires are the results of millions of years of erosion of this soft tuff.
A series of waterfalls formed by rivulets streaming over a distance of about 900 metres out of the Hallmundarhraun, a lava field which flowed from an eruption of one of the volcanoes lying under the glacier Langjökull. The waterfalls pour into the Hvítá river from ledges of less porous rock in the lava. The name hraun comes from the Icelandic word for lava. "Wikipedia"
Hraunfossar (Borgarfjörður, western Iceland) is a series of waterfalls formed by rivulets streaming over a distance of about 900 metres out of the Hallmundarhraun, a lava field which flowed from an eruption of one of the volcanoes lying under the glacier Langjökull. The waterfalls pour into the Hvítá river from ledges of less porous rock in the lava. The name hraun comes from the Icelandic word for lava. The Hraunfossar are situated near Húsafell and Reykholt
The whole 10 Yuan – Todo por 10 Yuan
Yu Garden or Yuyuan Garden (豫园 literaly Garden of Happiness) is an extensive Chinese garden located beside the City God Temple in the northeast of the Old City of Shanghai at Huangpu District, Shanghai. It abuts the Yuyuan Tourist Mart, the Huxinting Teahouse and the Yu Garden Bazaar.
This garden is accessible from the Shanghai Metro's Line 10 and Line 14 Yuyuan Garden station.
A centerpiece is the Exquisite Jade Rock (玉玲珑) a porous 3.3-m, 5-ton boulder. Rumours about its origin include the story that it was meant for the Huizong Emperor (Northern Song Dynasty from 1100 to 1126 AD) the imperial garden in Bianjing, but was salvaged from the Huangpu River after the boat carrying it had sunk.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yu_Garden
El Jardín Yu o Jardín Yuyuan (豫园 literalmente Jardín de la Felicidad) es un extenso jardín chino ubicado junto al Templo del Dios de la Ciudad en el noreste de la Ciudad Vieja de Shanghai en el distrito de Huangpu, Shanghai. Colinda con el Yuyuan Tourist Mart, la casa de té Huxinting y el Yu Garden Bazaar.
Se puede acceder a este jardín desde la estación Yuyuan Garden de las líneas 10 y 14 del metro de Shanghai.
Una pieza central es la Exquisita Roca de Jade (玉玲珑), una roca porosa de 3,3 m y 5 toneladas. Los rumores sobre su origen incluyen la historia de que estaba destinado al emperador Huizong (dinastía Song del Norte de 1100 a 1126 d. C.) el jardín imperial en Bianjing, pero que fue rescatado del río Huangpu después de que el barco que lo transportaba se hundiera.
One of the most beautiful hikes in Bryce canyon is to Mossy cave waterfall. The water you see here and that pours over the waterfall are the result of a manmade ditch which pulls water from the side of Bryce canyon which normally drains into the Great Basin via the Sevier river and augments the drainage into the paria river a part of the Colordao River drainage on the eastern side of Bryce Canyon. This greatly helped the pioneers to this desert area to grow crops and persist in the basin below where even with this augmented water supply, most of the water flows under ground due to the very porous nature of the river bed.
After our morning session at Draycott Sleights we drove the short distance across to Priddy Mineries, where we found that the top pool, known as Waldegrave Pool, was completely dry :-((. This has happened before - I remember dragonfly people trying to rescue Downy Emerald larvae when I first started going there about 15 years ago. I think the problem is that the barrage is very porous, so the pond relies on being constantly re-filled from above, and when that's not happening due to lack of rain it dries out unusually quickly.
Fortunately the bottom pond was absolutely fine (which tends to support the theory above) and there were lots of dragons and damsels as well as swallows skimming the water to drink (or catch flies on the surface? - I'm never really sure). Graham spotted this damsel, which turned out to be our only Emerald Damselfly of the day. They are normally quite numerous at the top pool, so let's hope they can recover.
Yu Garden or Yuyuan Garden (豫园 literaly Garden of Happiness) is an extensive Chinese garden located beside the City God Temple in the northeast of the Old City of Shanghai at Huangpu District, Shanghai. It abuts the Yuyuan Tourist Mart, the Huxinting Teahouse and the Yu Garden Bazaar.
This garden is accessible from the Shanghai Metro's Line 10 and Line 14 Yuyuan Garden station.
A centerpiece is the Exquisite Jade Rock (玉玲珑) a porous 3.3-m, 5-ton boulder. Rumours about its origin include the story that it was meant for the Huizong Emperor (Northern Song Dynasty from 1100 to 1126 AD) the imperial garden in Bianjing, but was salvaged from the Huangpu River after the boat carrying it had sunk.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yu_Garden
El Jardín Yu o Jardín Yuyuan (豫园 literalmente Jardín de la Felicidad) es un extenso jardín chino ubicado junto al Templo del Dios de la Ciudad en el noreste de la Ciudad Vieja de Shanghai en el distrito de Huangpu, Shanghai. Colinda con el Yuyuan Tourist Mart, la casa de té Huxinting y el Yu Garden Bazaar.
Se puede acceder a este jardín desde la estación Yuyuan Garden de las líneas 10 y 14 del metro de Shanghai.
Una pieza central es la Exquisita Roca de Jade (玉玲珑), una roca porosa de 3,3 m y 5 toneladas. Los rumores sobre su origen incluyen la historia de que estaba destinado al emperador Huizong (dinastía Song del Norte de 1100 a 1126 d. C.) el jardín imperial en Bianjing, pero que fue rescatado del río Huangpu después de que el barco que lo transportaba se hundiera.