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“She knocked and waited, because when the door was opened from within, it had the potential to lead someplace quite different.”
Quote ― Laini Taylor, Daughter of Smoke & Bone
Although I don't really care for marigolds, I thought this one looked quite attractive in her frills...
There was such potential for a large colorful sunset this evening ... but alas the clouds were just a little too much right as the sun set. If the sunset had happened about 30 minutes earlier I think the clouds and sun would have aligned better for some sky fireworks.
Alas, the colors and light was pinned to the horizon, so the 24/105 lens came in handy for compositions there along Middle River.
Tarua Beach is currently a potential tourist destination. The beauty of Tarua Island, which rises in the Bay of Bengal in Dhalchar Union under Dakshin Aicha Police Station of Bhola District, is truly eye-catching.
Nature's form is seen here in the play of light and darkness. You will also find a spectacular view of the Red Sun getting lost in the chest of the Red Sea by climbing the stairs in the evening sky. You will also be mesmerized by the incomparable sight of the whole beach being filled with redness.
A Great Blue Heron takes off with an armored catfish across Horsepen Bayou in morning fog. The invasive tropical fish, in a catatonic state from the recent freeze, was easy pickings but potentially deadly to the bird with its barbed fins. Possibly alert to the danger, the bird did not attempt to swallow the fish but rather manipulated it over and over with its beak before flying out of sight. When I encountered what I believe was the same bird some time later, it was neither dead nor still in possession of the intact fish. Eaten? Abandoned? A bayou mystery.
Word on the Water, a bookstore on a barge, is truly a book-lovers paradise. Every nook and cranny of this 100-year-old Dutch barge is stacked with neat rows of new and used classics, cult, contemporary fiction and a large range of children’s books.
A book shop and so much more ...
Customers are welcome to browse the books displayed outside or jump aboard and cosy up with a book by the stove! While books are clearly the star of the show, every inch of the barge is cleverly used to its fullest potential.
Word on the Water runs talks on art, technology, feminism and politics. Musicians and performers also make use of the barge’s roof stage and solar sound system for open mic sessions and there’s even an occasional poetry slam!
Word on the Water is permanently moored on Regent’s Canal Towpath just past The Lighterman restaurant.
I started this 4 minute exposure with the sun just setting, and just before the colors exploded ... you can get a hint of those colors just starting here in this shot with the tones and hues in the clouds, as the clouds went from blue to purple with small amounts of pinks during this long exposure.
This time of sunset is always exciting as you just do not know what nature will be showing in the next few minutes ... and how rapidly it changes. A truly magical time of day and anticipation.
Happy Bench Monday :)
Magnificent Frigatebird ~
(Fregata magnificens)
A Frigatebird swoops down close to the water for a refreshing drink. Frigatebirds cannot take off from the water, so accidentally taking a plunge could be a death sentence. So, watching them take a sip in this manner is just another reason these birds are totally awesome.
Thanks for visiting!
100th FS "Red Tails", General Dynamics (Lockheed Martin) F-16C "Viper" (87-0332), MCAS Yuma, WTI 2-21.
Potential mid-September storm off in the distance. Picture taken at Grace Community Church on Wednesday, September 12, 2018.
“The conceptual boundaries of what it means to be human or what we human beings mean by nature have never been less secure.”15 Emerging from and integrated into a chaotic world rather than a position of mastery and control removed from it, “the cyborg has the potential not only to disrupt persistent dualisms (body and soul; matter and spirit) but also to refashion our thinking about the theoretical understanding of the body as a material entity and a discursive process.”
-Anne Kull, “Cyborg Embodiment and Incarnation,” Currents in Theology and Mission 28, nos. 3–4 (2001): 282.
Artist Seema Lisa Pandya's "Seed of Potential" is composed of two sculptures "The Seed" and "The Emerging Seed" with a glimpse of another artist's work in the background. Part of the "Branching Out: Trees As Community Hosts" exhibit at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden.
Material: Richlite - hundreds of layers of recycled and FSC-certified paper dipped in phenolic resin and pressed into board
Try it and you'll be surprised! :-)
Explore. Thanks for your visit and have a good week!
I once again apologise for not being able to retribute the kind visits of my flikr friends as often as I would like o, but latelly I've had to reduce my flickr time to a minimum.
“To look life in the face, always, to look life in the face, and to know it for what it is...at last, to love it for what it is..."
Virginia Wolf
Capturing the last light on the day. Late Autumn sundown.
The Fraser River is the longest river within British Columbia, Canada, rising at Fraser Pass near Blackrock Mountain in the Rocky Mountains and flowing for 1,375 kilometres (854 mi), into the Strait of Georgia just south of the City of Vancouver. The river's annual discharge at its mouth is 112 cubic kilometres (27 cu mi) or 3,550 cubic metres per second (125,000 cu ft/s), and each year it discharges about 20 million tons of sediment into the ocean.
Naming:
The river is named after Simon Fraser, who led an expedition in 1808 on behalf of the North West Company.
History:
On June 14, 1792, the Spanish explorers Dionisio Alcalá Galiano and Cayetano Valdés entered and anchored in the North Arm of the Fraser River, becoming the first Europeans to find and enter it. The existence of the river, but not its location, had been deduced during the 1791 voyage of José María Narváez, under Francisco de Eliza.
The upper reaches of the Fraser River were first explored by Sir Alexander Mackenzie in 1793, and fully traced by Simon Fraser in 1808, who confirmed that it was not connected with the Columbia River.
The lower Fraser was revisited in 1824 when the Hudson's Bay Company sent a crew across Puget Sound from its Fort George southern post on the Columbia River. The expedition was led by James McMillan. The Fraser was reached via the Nicomekl River and the Salmon River reachable after a portage. Friendly tribes met earlier on by the Simon Fraser crew were reacquainted with. A trading post with agricultural potential was to be located.
By 1827, a crew was sent back via the mouth of the Fraser to build and operate the original Fort Langley. McMillan also led the undertaking. The trading post original location would soon become the first ever mixed ancestry and agricultural settlement in southern British Columbia on the Fraser river.
In 1828 George Simpson visited the river, mainly to examine Fort Langley and determine whether it would be suitable as the Hudson's Bay Company's main Pacific depot. Simpson had believed the Fraser River might be navigable throughout its length, even though Simon Fraser had described it as non-navigable. Simpson journeyed down the river and through the Fraser Canyon and afterwards wrote "I should consider the passage down, to be certain Death, in nine attempts out of Ten. I shall therefore no longer talk about it as a navigable stream". His trip down the river convinced him that Fort Langley could not replace Fort Vancouver as the company's main depot on the Pacific coast.
Much of British Columbia's history has been bound to the Fraser, partly because it was the essential route between the Interior and the Lower Coast after the loss of the lands south of the 49th Parallel with the Oregon Treaty of 1846.] It was the site of its first recorded settlements of Aboriginal people (see Musqueam, Sto:lo, St'at'imc, Secwepemc and Nlaka'pamŭ), the site of the first European-Indigenous mixed ancestry settlement in southern British-Columbia (see Fort Langley), the route of multitudes of prospectors during the Fraser Canyon Gold Rush and the main vehicle of the province's early commerce and industry.
In 1998, the river was designated as a Canadian Heritage River for its natural and human heritage. It remains the longest river with that designation
Information from Wikipedia
Stay healthy
Happy Clicks,
~Christie (happiest) by the River
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An 800 foot sandstone spire at the junction of Canyon de Chelly and Monument Canyon. The Navajo believed that Spider Woman, who taught the people to weave, lives there, also that another formation across the way called Face Rock would inform her about naughty children who she then carries away to to top of her rock. A big deterrent to potential naughtiness! The volcanic core of Black Rock Butte can be seen on the horizon. Canyon de Chelly, Arizona
It looks like Canada jays, aka "Camp Robbers," are exploring a new criminal enterprise. I'm not sure if this bird is planning on simply robbing this vehicle, or stealing it entirely.
Beware at trailheads!
Spray Park parking lot, Mt. Rainier NP
LTEX 1118 tugs a cut of empties over the Buckhannon River’s Left Fork. In the final hours of operation, the Beech Mountain Railroad ran the last 80 loads out of the Carter Roag mine with this unit. It’s unclear whether this is the end for the line or the coal mine, as comments from the miners indicate potential new ownership.
Some really great people, running a class act of an industry, left to uncertainty. You hate to see it.
Boeing YC-14 (72-1873), MASDC, Davis Monthan AFB, Tucson, Arizona, April 12, 1980. Scanned from Kodachrome transparency.
We saw the very worst in human beings this past Friday.
But after watching the news tonight, I thought we also saw the very best.
I was struck by the fellow in the cafe who put himself in front of a woman as a shield. He died, she lived because of him.
Or the man who pulled the pregnant woman who was hanging out the window of the second floor of the theatre. He put himself in potential danger to help a fellow human being.
There may be rough days ahead, but thankfully I think there is enough who rise above to get us through.