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Pelargonium tortandrum is a small geophyte with pale yellow flowers and simple, seldom trifoliolate prostrate leaves.
She doesn't roam far from the burrow. . . .prairie rattlers have been photographed nearby! Mama is standing in what I "think" is a field of non-native bindweed, though I've not seen it in purple before. From the Colorado.gov website: "Field bindweed is a non-native deep-rooted perennial that reproduces from seed and creeping, horizontal roots (rhizomes). Field bindweed stems are prostrate (grows low to the ground) and twining, and grow up to 6 feet long. Leaves are distinguishable by their arrowhead shape. The flowers are bell or trumpet-shaped, white to pink in color, and are about 1 inch long. Field Bindweed seeds can remain viable in the soil for up to 40 years." Burrowing owls use the burrows of prairie dogs, usually in active colonies. The dogs will clear a landscape of vegetation, and often bindweed will come in.
Hope you can feel it, The story of the prophet Mohammad with his grandson..
وعن عبدالله بن شداد عن أبيه قال: خرج علينا رسول الله صلى الله عليه وسلم في إحدى صلاتي العشاء، وهو حامل حسناً أو حسيناً، فتقدم رسول الله صلى الله عليه وسلم فوضعه ثم كبر للصلاة، فسجد بين ظهراني صلاته سجدة أطالها، فرفع شداد رأسه، فإذا الصبي على ظهر رسول الله صلى الله عليه وسلم، فلما قضى رسول الله صلى الله عليه وسلم الصلاة قال الناس: يا رسول الله! إنك سجدت بين ظهراني صلاتك سجدة أطلتها، حتى ظننا أنه قد حدث أمر، أو أنه يُوحى إليك. قال: "كل ذلك لم يكن، ولكن ابني ارتحلني، فكرهت أن أعجله حتى يقضي حاجته"
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Abdullah ibn Shaddad heard this report from his father: that the Messenger of Allah (Peace and blessings of Allah upon him) once came out to lead us in the `ishaa' prayer carrying [either] Hasan or Husayn(may Allah be pleased with them). He stepped up, put him down and said, "Allahu akbar" to begin the prayer. During the prayer, he prostrated for a long time and I lifted my head and saw the small boy on his back. After he finished the prayer, the people were saying, "O Messenger of Allah (Peace and blessings of Allah upon him), you prostrated during the prayer for such a long time that we thought something had happened, or that revelation had come to you."
He (Peace and blessings of Allah upon him) replied, "It was none of that, but my grandson climbed onto my back and I did not want to stop him from fulfilling his need."
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Abdullah ibn Shaddad entendit son père rapporter: que le Messager d’Allah (paix et bénédiction d’Allah soit sur lui = Sal Allahu Allaihi wa salam) une fois les rejoignit pour diriger la prière d’Ishaa alors qu’il portait dans ses bras (soit) Hasan ou Husayn (radhia Allahou anha).
Il se leva puis le posa par terre, et prononça “Allahu Akbar” pour commencer la prière. Pendant la prière, il se prosterna pendant un long moment et je relevai la tête et vis le petit garçon sur son dos.
Après avoir terminé de prier, les gens lui disaient “Ô Messager d’Allah (paix et bénédiction d’Allah soit sur lui), tu te prosternas pendant si longtemps que nous pensions que quelque chose t’étais arrivée ou que tu avais reçue une révélation.
Il (paix et bénédiction d’Allah soit sur lui) ré;pondit “ Ce n’était rien de cela si ce n’est que mon petit fils avait grimpé sur mon dos et je ne voulais pas l’empêcher d’assouvir ses envies.”
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=> Canon 400D + Canon 24-105mm
=>Thanks to My Older Sister and Gala; my lovely niece, mashallah :)
=>Thanks for Zeinab for her effort to translate the hadith to French :)
Everyone is doing music shots today and this is what I felt like
"Closer To Fine" (1989)
The Indigo Girls
I'm trying to tell you something about my life
Maybe give me insight between black and white
The best thing you've ever done for me
Is to help me take my life less seriously, it's only life after all
Well darkness has a hunger that's insatiable
And lightness has a call that's hard to hear
I wrap my fear around me like a blanket
I sailed my ship of safety till I sank it, I'm crawling on your shore.
I went to the doctor, I went to the mountains
I looked to the children, I drank from the fountain
There's more than one answer to these questions
pointing me in crooked line
The less I seek my source for some definitive
The closer I am to fine.
I went to see the doctor of philosophy
With a poster of Rasputin and a beard down to his knee
He never did marry or see a B-grade movie
He graded my performance, he said he could see through me
I spent four years prostrate to the higher mind, got my paper
And I was free.
I went to the doctor, I went to the mountains
I looked to the children, I drank from the fountain
There's more than one answer to these questions
pointing me in crooked line
The less I seek my source for some definitive
The closer I am to fine.
I stopped by the bar at 3 a.m.
To seek solace in a bottle or possibly a friend
I woke up with a headache like my head against a board
Twice as cloudy as I'd been the night before
I went in seeking clarity.
I went to the doctor, I went to the mountains
I looked to the children, I drank from the fountain
There's more than one answer to these questions
pointing me in crooked line
The less I seek my source for some definitive
The closer I am to fine.
I went to the doctor, I went to the mountains
I looked to the children, I drank from the fountain
There's more than one answer to these questions
pointing me in crooked line
The less I seek my source for some definitive
The closer I am to fine.
We go to the bible, we go through the workout
We read up on revival and we stand up for the lookout
There's more than one answer to these questions
pointing me in a crooked line
The less I seek my source for some definitive
The closer I am to fine
The closer I am to fine
The closer I am to fine
Listen to it here
Banksia stenoprion is a prostrate shrub endemic to the south-west of Western Australia. It has short, underground stems, pinnatisect leaves with triangular lobes. The flowers are golden, mauve or purple flowers in heads of up to ninety.
Most of these type of Banksia flowers are neat and tidy keeping their stamens within the flower. This time we noticed that the stamens were falling out between the upright styles.
Photo: Jean
iconographer: Wayne Hajos
Since, then, there was needed a lifting up from death for the whole of our nature, He stretches forth a hand as it were to prostrate humanity, and stooping down to our dead corpse He came so far within the grasp of death as to touch a state of deadness, and then in His own body to bestow on our nature the principle of the resurrection, raising as He did by His power along with Himself the whole human being. For since from no other source than from the concrete lump of our nature had come that flesh, which was the receptacle of the Godhead and in the resurrection was raised up together with that Godhead, therefore just in the same way as, in the instance of this body of ours, the operation of one of the organs of sense is felt at once by the whole system, as one with that member, so also the resurrection principle of this Member, as though the whole of humankind was a single living being, passes through the entire race, being imparted from the Member to the whole by virtue of the continuity and oneness of the nature. What, then, is there beyond the bounds of probability in what this Revelation teaches us; viz. that He Who stands upright stoops to one who has fallen, in order to lift him up from his prostrate condition?
Gregory of Nyssa,
The Great Catechism, 32
I believe this to be native and endemic wedge guinea flower - any advice welcome.
Natural environment and range is within forests and woodland from south-east Queensland down through New South Wales and in to eastern Victoria.
Hibbertia is a genus of around 150 species, most of which occur naturally in Australia. They are generally small to medium shrubs with yellow, buttercup-like flowers.
Hibbertia diffusa is a small, low growing shrub. The yellow flowers occur in spring and in to summer.
Prostrate, growing to around 30 to 50 cm in height.
Flowers are around 25 mm in diameter.
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Swamp Pea
Prostrate to ascending, many-stemmed, slender shrub, 0.1-1.2 m high. Fl. yellow-orange-red, Jun to Dec. White, grey or peaty sand. Swampy places. florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au/browse/profile/3872
Photos: Fred
Explore: 6 Sept 2019 #368
🇫🇷 L’œuvre explore le parallèle entre les deux anciens sanctuaires européens : la cathédrale majestueuse et la foret mystique. La cathédrale, avec ses hautes nefs et ses colonnes imposantes, est un monument à la grandeur humaine et à la quête du divin.
De même, la foret, avec son feuillage luxuriant et sa végétation dense, est un temple naturel qui évoque un sentiment de révérence et de crainte face à la création.
. .Nous avons transposé le plan de la cathédrale de Rouen dans la foret, encadrant un espace délimité par une géométrie concrète, ou chaque arbre devient un pilier, avec ses branches étendues vers le ciel. Filtrant la lumière à travers ses feuilles comme s’il s’agissait d’un vitrail, qui renvoie des éclats de couleur à la foret,
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🇬🇧 The work explores the parallels between two ancient European sanctuaries: the majestic cathedral and the mystical forest. The cathedral, with its high naves and imponent columns, is a monument to human greatness and the search for the divine.
In the same way, the forest, with its lush foliage and abundant vegetation, is a natural setting that evokes a sense of riveriness and serenity in the face of creation.
We have taken the pianta of Rouen cathedral into the forest, creating a space defined by a concrete geometry, where every tree becomes a pilaster, with its roots prostrate towards the sky. Filtreo la luce attraverso le sue foglie come si fosse una vetrata, riflette schizzi di colore nella foresta,
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🇩🇪 Das Werk erforscht die Parallele zwischen zwei alten europäischen Heiligtümern: der majestätischen Kathedrale und dem mystischen Wald. Die Kathedrale mit ihren hohen Schiffen und mächtigen Säulen ist ein Denkmal für die menschliche Größe und das Streben nach dem Göttlichen.
Auch der Wald mit seinen üppigen Blättern und der dichten Vegetation ist ein natürlicher Tempel, der Ehrfurcht und Ehrfurcht vor der Schöpfung hervorruft.
Wir haben den Grundriss der Kathedrale von Rouen in den Wald übertragen und einen Raum mit konkreter Geometrie umrahmt, in dem jeder Baum mit seinen in den Himmel ragenden Ästen zu einer Säule wird. Das Licht wird durch seine Blätter gefiltert, als ob es sich um ein Buntglasfenster handelte, das Farbsplitter in den Wald zurückwirft,
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🇮🇹 L'opera esplora il parallelo tra due antichi santuari europei: la maestosa cattedrale e la mistica foresta. La cattedrale, con le sue alte navate e le imponenti colonne, è un monumento alla grandezza umana e alla ricerca del divino.
Allo stesso modo, la foresta, con il suo fogliame lussureggiante e la sua fitta vegetazione, è un tempio naturale che evoca un senso di riverenza e soggezione di fronte al creato.
Abbiamo trasposto la pianta della cattedrale di Rouen nella foresta, incorniciando uno spazio definito da una geometria concreta, dove ogni albero diventa un pilastro, con i suoi rami protesi verso il cielo. Filtrando la luce attraverso le sue foglie come se fosse una vetrata, riflette schizzi di colore nella foresta,
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🇪🇸 La obra explora el paralelismo entre dos antiguos santuarios europeos: la majestuosa catedral y el místico bosque. La catedral, con sus altas naves e imponentes columnas, es un monumento a la grandeza humana y a la búsqueda de lo divino.
Del mismo modo, el bosque, con su exuberante follaje y su densa vegetación, es un templo natural que evoca un sentimiento de reverencia y asombro ante la creación.
Hemos trasladado al bosque el trazado de la catedral de Rouen, enmarcando un espacio definido por una geometría concreta, donde cada árbol se convierte en un pilar, cuyas ramas se extienden hacia el cielo. Filtrando la luz a través de sus hojas como si de una vidriera se tratara, refleja salpicaduras de color hacia el bosque,
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Thanks everyone for your support and for reaching out to me. I know, from what I've read that prostrate cancer can be beat and it's probably one of the easiest ones to cure. However, and this is what's killing me, I'm single and not ready to become a Eunuch. Non of the options I was given sounded like a great cure. So, I'm going to just take the wait and option. And, that may change. Right now I'm going between being angry and sad. But you guys are the best. Thanks
Cichorium intybus Chicory Achicoria Flowers from June to September and is a woody herbaceous perennial, native to Europe. It grows from 20cms to 1m. Cichorium intybus, Wild Chicory is a herbaceous perennial, native to Europe and Asia and since the ‘Bronze Age’ has followed civilizations all over Europe, probably including the UK as this has always been an important crop. Grows to 1.5 m (5ft), its flowering stems growing mainly upwards. As a perennial, it produces only leaves in its first season, resembling a dandelion, and similarly it has a relatively large, brown, fleshy, branched taproot with milky sap. As a weed, chicory adapts to almost all well-drained soil types in full sun. Frequently mowed plants often end up with prostrate flowering stems unaffected by the mower. Young chicory roots are used in soups and sauces or as a roast vegetable. A (caffeine-free) coffee substitute is made commercially from the roots. Some evidence shows using this coffee substitute helps to diminish Candida albicans fungal growth, where sugar is eliminated from the diet.
Martin is very polite and a lovely southerner who has, in his own way, named his Norton Commando "George" !
Trev hired a Triumph Bonneville for the charity event, of which Martin lay his hands on and closed his eyes, and told Trev that the Bonneville was called Alan!
Growing on the limestone substrate at Burnt Cape NL, dwarfed and prostrated by the harsh arctic like conditions there.
A trip to see the Chalkhill Blues at Barnack Hills and Holes NNR this week proved to be fruitful with plenty on the wing by 8.30am. Here are two males, not the best specimens i photographed but probably the better of the compositions i did, even though i was battling with the breeze and the occasional dogs who were interested in why i was lying prostrate on the grass paths!
Our best holiday wildlife encounter this year was in fact at the cottage we were staying in. We came back one evening to find this male sparrowhawk plucking a pigeon in the back yard of our cottage. Scrambled to get the camera, managed to open the door and I laid prostrate on the floor clicking away. Light was awful so only snaps really but I just had to post these.
Many thanks to all who comment, fave or just enjoy looking, it really is very much appreciated!
Scott of the Antarctic is still fondly remembered by the citizens of Christchurch in New Zealand. Scott's final journey to Antarctica started from Christchurch and flights to the Antarctic Scott Base go from there.
Trichodiadema pygmaeum is a lovely dwarf succulent shrub with pretty pink flowers and hairy leaves. It is suitable for growing in a rockery and since it is a tiny clump-forming succulent it is perfect to grow in a pot as well.
Description
Trichodiadema pygmaeum is a semi-prostrate, mat-forming, compact dwarf succulent shrub up to 30 mm high. The leaves are oblong and semicircular and covered with distinct hair-like bristles. The flowers are pink, solitary, with short pedicels, up to ± 20 mm in diameter, without bracts. Flowers have no filamentous staminodes. Seeds of the genus are pear-shaped, minutely warty and grooved, brown or yellowish. It flowers from winter to early summer. A distinguishing characteristic of the genus is the crown (diadem) of hairs on the leaf tips. However, T. pygmaeum has no proper diadems.
Conservation Status
It is recorded as VULNERABLE on the South African Red Data list.
Distribution and habitat
The species occurs in South Africa, in the Western Cape near Swellendam in Renosterveld vegetation. The genus has a wider distribution range in Namibia, western Free State, Western, Northern and Eastern Cape. It therefore occurs in both winter and summer rainfall regions.
Derivation of name and historical aspects
The genus name is derived from the Greek words trix meaning hair and diadema meaning crown. It refers to the tuft of hair-like bristles borne on the leaf tips.
The species epithet pygmaeum refers to the dwarf size of the plant.
There are 32 species in the genus. They are widespread in the more arid areas of South Africa and in southern Namibia.
Thanks to Plantzafrica.com for the above
(Manual stack of 30 out in the garden)
Waun Mawn (Welsh for "peat moor") is the site of a dismantled Neolithic stone circle in the Preseli Hills of Pembrokeshire. The diameter of the circle is estimated to be 110m (360ft), the third largest diameter for a British stone circle.
The site is located just to the north of the broad east-west ridge of the Preseli range. There are four remaining stones, one standing and three prostrate. They are of the same Pembrokeshire bluestone to be found at Stonehenge in the parts believed to have formed the original circle there.
During 2017 and 2018, excavations by the UCL team of archaeologist Mike Parker Pearson, revealed that Waun Mawn had originally housed a 110m diameter stone circle of the same size as the ditch at Stonehenge. The circle also contained a hole from one stone which had a distinctive pentagonal shape, very closely matching the one pentagonal stone at Stonehenge (stonehole 91 at Waun Mawn/stone 62 at Stonehenge). Both circles appear to be oriented towards the midsummer solstice.
Following soil dating of the sediments within the revealed stone holes, it has been argued by Parker Pearson, that the circle of stones was built c.3400–3200 BC and then between four and five thousand years ago was mostly disassembled, dragged across land and reassembled at Stonehenge in Wiltshire, some 230 km (140 miles) distant. Why and how this was managed remains a mystery.
Information taken mostly from Wikipedia
More playing with the Canon. Didn't think this lens would work for this, but it did.
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Canon EOS 5Ds, Canon EF16-35mm f/2.8L II USM
Capture One, Color Efex Pro 5, Silver Efex Pro 3
Prostrate Cancer 66769 "League Managers Association", passes Mortimer on 05/Sept/25 working 4M32 05.34 Southampton West Docks to Hams Hall intermodal.
A photo-stack of the emerging flowers of a small hybrid Serruria or spiderhead sold as 'Miss Muffet'. Serruria is a South African genus in the protea family that occur in fynbos vegetation. This one is a prostrate plant growing its sprawling branches across the ground, with flower produced in spring on the branch tips. The opening flowers shown here are around 15 mm across. A stack of 70 images combined using Zerene Stacker.
Ceylon Leadwort :-(Plumbago zelanica) (එල නෙටුල්) is a herbaceous plant with glabrous stems that are climbing, prostrate, or erect. This is an introduced plant to the island and native to Peru. Now grows throughout the tropical and sub-tropical climates of the world
Our Daily Challenge 10-16 April :Dutch Angle.
The first Holly Blue, Celastrina argiolus, of this year on my lovely Abies procera glauca prostrate.
At the city gate and by your fireside I have seen you prostrate yourself and worship your own freedom,
Even as slaves humble themselves before a tyrant and praise him though he slays them.
Ay, in the grove of the temple and in the shadow of the citadel I have seen the freest among you wear their freedom as a yoke and a handcuff.
And my heart bled within me; for you can only be free when even the desire of seeking freedom becomes a harness to you, and when you cease to speak of freedom as a goal and a fulfillment.
(From "Freedom XIV" by Khalil Gibran)
Aretha Franklin - Think (feat. The Blues Brothers)
♫ www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vet6AHmq3_s
Ravenwold
How shit can life be ..... From smiles all day helping to raise money for people that need help ... to being made redundant the following day .... it wiped the smile of this "Proud Distinguished Gentleman's" face!
Commonly known as bank catclaw, prostrate acacia, or desert carpet, it is a shrub introduced to Southern California from SW Australia. It is considered an invasive species in parts of California.
LA: Dorycnium pentaphyllum ssp. germanicum
EN: Prostrate Canary Clover
DE: Siediger Backenklee
HU: Selymes / Zöld dárdahere
Endemic to Europe, mainly in France, Italy, Austria, Switzerland and Southeast Europe.
Endangered in Germany.
Zamilapark, Munich, Germany
Found all of the manger animals lying prostrate this AM; I can only presume the worst...
Contrast boost, unsharp mask, monochrome and cross-process, using the xpro script, in the GIMP.
Olympus c-765
f/3.2 1/6
ISO 400
Darwinia plants have been an interest of ours so it was nice to see another new one for us.
The red flowering plant is prostrate and sprawling. The flowers sit flat on the ground in rocky laterite areas. You can see white sand grains in between the flowers.
Photo: Jean
Małe czerwone owocki irgi poziomej przykryte śnieżną kołderką :)
Some snow on fruits of Rockspray cotoneaster. Taken yesterday in my hometown park :)
Rockspray cotoneaster (Cotoneaster horizontalis) is a coarse, prostrate, slow-growing, horizontally-spreading, deciduous shrub, which typically matures to 12-18” tall and spreads to 5-8’ wide with tiers of flattened, horizontal branches arranged in a fishbone pattern. It features five-petaled, small pink flowers in early summer, bright scarlet berries in late summer to fall and tiny, rounded, lustrous, dark green leaves (to 3/8” long) that turn reddish-purple in fall.
Rockspray cotoneaster is a valuable landscape plant which offers good foliage, flowers and fruit, and provides shelter for small birds. Mass as a woody ground cover for sunny areas in the landscape including banks or slopes where it can also provide good erosion control. Sprawl over rocks in rock gardens or along stone walls.
Polish name: irga pozioma
Waits to depart Blea Moor Loop on the Settle and Carlisle Railway with stone from Arcow Quarry to Pendleton stone, wearing its Newish "Prostrate Cancer UK" livery.
How can we fail to mention here the liturgy of Good Friday, when the celebrant comes into the sanctuary? He prostrates himself, stretching out on the floor in front of the altar, and remains in that position for a long interval in great silence. This silent gesture is eloquent. Man acknowledges his nothingness, and he literally has nothing to say in view of the sacred mystery of the Cross. Humbly, he can only prostrate himself and adore. But this adoration is not crushing; on the contrary, it opens us up to an attitude of abandonment and trust.
-THE POWER OF SILENCE, Robert Cardinal Sarah with Nicolas Diat
Malva sylvestris is a species of the mallow genus Malva in the family of Malvaceae and is considered to be the type species for the genus.
(Wiki)
High Mallow is a spreading perennial herb, about 3 ft tall. In wild it can grow taller. Stems are straight or prostrate, branched and covered with fine soft hairs or none at all. The leaves are alternately arranged, deep green, soft, and downy. They are roundish, and have 3-7 shallow lobes, each 2-5 cm across. Leaf stalk is either 2-6 cm or 2-13 cm long. The flowers are large, numerous, and of purple color. They appear in clusters of 2-4 in leaf axils. Sepals are five, petals five, pollen large, whitish. Petals are wrinkly to veined on the backs, more than 1.5-2.3 cm long and 1 cm wide, eggshaped, margin notched with a fringe of hairlike projections. Seeds or 'cheeses' are brown to brownish green when ripe, about 2.5 mm wide, 5-7 mm in diameter and are shaped like a cheese wheel which inspired on of its common names. High Mallow is widespread in Africa, Europe and Asia. Within India it is found in the Himalayas, from Kashmir to Kumaon up to an altitude of 2400 m.
Medicinal uses: [Warning: Unverified information] High Mallow possesses the properties common to mucilaginous herbs, and an infusion thereof forms an excellent demulcent in coughs, irritations of the air-passages, flux, affections of the kidney and bladder, etc. In inflammatory conditions of the external parts, the bruised herb forms an excellent application, making, as it does, a natural emollient cataplasm.
Common name: #HighMallow #Commonmallow
Hindi: #Gurchanti #Socholi
Kannada: #Sannabindigegida #Seemebende
Marathi: #Kubaajee
Urdu #Khubbazi #Tukhm-e-khubbazi #Gul-e-khubazi #गुलेख़ैर
#Gul-e-khair
Botanical name: Malva sylvestris
Family: Malvaceae (Mallow family)
#sylvestris #Malvaceae #Malvales #Malvasylvestris
I can only get down on my knees and beg your forgiveness for the crapness and laziness of this shot. But I'm really really tired... Tell you what: I shall cast myself to the ground, prostrate, and promise to pull my finger out tomorrow to make up for the shiteness on display here.
Now, can anyone point me in the direction of the nearest open wine bottle...?
lighting: 580EXII (1/8th and still too strong) behind the camera. Vivitar to the left of shot. Blah blah blah...
This rhinoceros was in no mood to show off for the tourists! With a heat index of over 100 degrees, even these rugged animals were prostrated! I cut my stay short, too, unable to stay cool, even drinking an enormous soda. Florida summers can be brutal. There was a storm coming in, which made it all the more uncomfortable because of the high humidity. I felt like this guy looked!
As the name implies, this is a creeping plant, rarely reaching a height of more than 1 inch. Generally assumed to be native to southern Michigan, it loves the cracks in our driveway, as seen here. Referred to as Spotted Spurge in the Michigan Flora.
P. asarifolium is a geophyte with small tubers and entire, cordate, prostrate leaves. A noteworthy feature of this species is the small wine-red flowers with only two reflexed petals. The sepals are shorter than the five fertile stamens and recurved so that the stamens protrude from the flower. The staminal column is long, wine-red.
We spent a spectacular day hiking among these buttes and rolling sand hills. The exposed, dead roots in the foreground are Creeping Juniper, a prostrate evergreen shrub that is common in our area. You can see the living plants growing in clusters throughout this photo, along with rabbitbrush and native grass that - unfortunately - I didn't take time to identify. It may be Northern Wheat Grass (a wild guess).
The shattered rock appears to be ironstone, perhaps the remnants of a concretion - I'm full of wild guesses today, but I have seen ironstone concretions in this national park. When dinosaurs roamed, this entire area was a vast, shallow seabed, so conditions were favourable for the development of concretions.
Botanical and geological specifics aside, the dispersal pattern of these rock fragments led me to this composition. Patterns out of chaos, especially in a primal landscape, always pull me in.
Photographed in Grasslands National Park, Saskatchewan (Canada). Don't use this image on websites, blogs, or other media without explicit permission ©2021 James R. Page - all rights reserved.
Poem.
We might go to the Seychelles.
We might go to Cape Town.
We might go to Italy’s Amalfi Coast.
We might go to Barbados beaches.
We might go to Copacabana in Rio.
We might go to Halong Bay in Vietnam.
All of these are surely superb, magnificent and marvellous.
But little old Plockton at sunrise takes some beating.
The eastern sunrise reflected off of this sheltered bay.
Tree-lined islands with prostrate Grey Seals.
Stepped mountains rising above a castle.
Thin yacht masts like threaded needles.
Receding layers of slate-grey mountain slopes,
silhouetted against the eastern orb.
A main street festooned with Cabbage Palms and Pampas Grass, interspersed by two or three beer gardens by the shore.
The etched black, grey and gold lines of a gently rippling loch,
part of a natural harbour covering over thirty square miles.
The deafening silence of dawn at 06:30, on an August morning.
How can a little fishing village steal the prize from many locations that are much more popular, but no more perfect?
How did David beat Goliath…….?
But he did!
From Wikipedia:
Grevillea is a diverse genus of about 360 species of evergreen flowering plants in the protea family Proteaceae, native to Australia, New Guinea, New Caledonia, and Sulawesi. It was named in honour of Charles Francis Greville. The species range from prostrate shrubs less than 0.5 m tall to trees 35 m tall. Common names include Grevillea, Spider Flower, Silky-oak and Toothbrush.
Gypsophila repens (Caryophyllaceae,) 224 19
Gypsophila repens (known as alpine gypsophila or creeping baby's breath) is a species of flowering plant of the family Caryophyllaceae, native to the mountains of central and southern Europe, where it grows on dry, chalky slopes.
It is a prostrate, mat-forming herbaceous perennial, growing around 20 cm tall by 30–50 cm wide.
For much of the summer, it bears masses of star-shaped flowers which may be white, lilac or light purple, in loose panicles.
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Fresco Christ's Raising of Lazarus - a biblical episode, the revival of the deceased Lazarus from Bethany by Jesus Christ; New Testament history (John 11:1-45); the plot of numerous works of art.
The raising of Lazarus is a story of the miracle of Jesus recounted only in the Gospel of John (John 11:1–44) in the New Testament, as well as in the Secret Gospel of Mark (a fragment of an extended version of the Gospel of Mark) in which Jesus raises Lazarus of Bethany from the dead four days after his entombment. The event took place at Bethany. In John, this is the last of the miracles that Jesus performs before the passion, crucifixion and his own resurrection.
Svedomsky’s painting “The Raising of Lazarus” is located on the western wall of the northern nava. It is written on the text:
“Christ cried with a loud voice: Lazarus, come out! And the dead man came out, entwined on his hands and feet with burial cloths, and his face was tied with a scarf.”
The picture shows the inside of a grotto, into which stone steps lead. Christ stands in the grotto with his right hand raised. His face is calm. In front of him is a gaping hole at the bottom of the grotto, from which a dead man rises, all wrapped in linen. One of Lazarus’ sisters, kneeling next to Christ, with her arms naked, raised and slightly thrown back, fixed her joyful and perplexed gaze on her brother emerging from the grave. The other fell prostrate at the feet of Christ. Behind the Savior are two male figures. Very characteristic is the figure of an old man with a face on which shines unshakable faith in the Divine power of the Wonderworker. Consciousness of this power, reverence and involuntary fear leave their imprints on this face. Above, on the steps of the grotto, stand a man and a woman, pressed against the entrance wall in horror. The lamp standing at the bottom of the cave, behind Lazarus, illuminates the figure of a Jew, also in horror, pressed against the corner of the cave and convulsively clutching his chest with his hands. The reflections of the same lamp give beautiful reflections on the clothes of Christ and on the figures of Lazarus’s sisters.
Pavel Svedomsky in collaboration with Wilhelm Kotarbinsky.
From the cycle of the Passion of the Lord - in the paintings in the Kyiv Volodymyr Cathedral: “The Resurrection of Lazarus”, “The Entry of the Lord into Jerusalem”, “The Last Supper”, “Prayer for the Cup”, “The Judgment of Pilate”.
“Это интервью в газете «Петербургский листок» появилось вскоре после торжественного освящения киевского Владимирского собора. А примерно через две недели, 5 сентября 1896 года, его в сокращённом виде и с ремарками польского редактора перепечатал «Kurier Warszawski» (R. 76, nr 276).
— Какие работы вы выполнили (в соборе. — А. П.) собственноручно?
— Выполнил две работы: «Голгофа» и «Лазарь».”
/Александра Пелиховская, студентка магистратуры Института истории искусств Варшавского университета.
Матеріал із журналу "Антиквар" №115, 17.07.2020/
Воскресіння Лазаря — це історія чуда Ісуса, описана лише в Євангелії від Іоанна (Іоанна 11:1–44) у Новому Завіті, а також у Таємному Євангелії від Марка (фрагмент розширеної версії Євангеліє від Марка), в якому Ісус воскрешає Лазаря з Віфанії через чотири дні після його поховання. Подія відбулася у Віфанії. В Іоанна це останнє з чудес, які Ісус здійснює перед страстями, розп’яттям і власним воскресінням.
Картина Сведомського (+ Котарбінський) «Воскресіння Лазаря» знаходиться на західній стіні північноі нави. Вона написана на текст:
«Христос закликав гучним голосом: Лазарю, йди геть! І вийшов померлий, обвитий по руках і ногах похоронними пеленами, і обличчя його було обв'язане хусткою».
На картині стіни грота, в який ведуть кам'яні сходи. Христос стоїть у гроті з піднесеною правицею. Обличчя його спокійне. Перед ним зяючий отвір на дні грота, з якого піднімається мертвий, весь закутаний у полотно. Одна з сестер Лазаря, стоячи навколішки поруч із Христом, з оголеними, піднятими й дещо відкинутими назад руками, зупинила радісний і здивований погляд свій на братові, що виходив з могили. Інша впала ниць до ніг Христа. Позаду Спасителя дві чоловічі фігури. Дуже характерна постать старого з обличчям, на якому світиться непохитна віра в Божественну силу Чудотворця. Свідомість цієї сили, благоговіння та мимовільний страх дають свої відбитки на цій особі. Вище, на східцях грота стоять чоловік і жінка, що з жахом притиснулися до стіни входу. Світильник, що стоїть на дні печери, позаду Лазаря, висвітлює постать іудея, який також у жаху притиснувся до кута печери і конвульсивно схоплює себе за груди руками. Відблиски того ж світильника дають гарні рефлекси на одязі Христа та на фігурах сестер Лазаря.
«Есть страшная легенда о Лазаре.
Воздвигнутый всемогущим словом Иисуса из своей трехдневной гробницы, он прожил еще несколько лет. Но ни разу в продолжение этой второй жизни Лазарь не улыбнулся и никому не сказал ни слова. И взгляда его опустелых глаз, видавших тайну смерти, не мог выдержать ни один из живущих.
Мне кажется, что молчание Лазаря было еще ужаснее, чем непереносимая тяжесть его взгляда. Ибо Лазарь знал, что на человеческом языке нет звуков, слов и образов, достаточно сильных для выражения того, что он видел.»
/Голос оттуда. 1919 - 1935, А.И. Куприн, изд. согласие/
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