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The astronomical clock, located in the south transept, is one of the most famous features of the cathedral. The first astronomical clock was installed in the cathedral from 1352–54 until 1500. It was called the Dreikönigsuhr ("three-king clock"), and was located at the opposite wall from where today's clock is. At noon, a group of three mechanical kings would prostrate themselves before the infant Jesus, while the chimes of the clock sounded the hour.
Daphne cneorum (Thymelaceae) 138 24
Daphne cneorum (the garland flower or rose daphne) is a species of flowering plant in the family Thymelaeaceae, native to the mountains of central and southern Europe.
It is a prostrate spreading evergreen shrub to 20 cm , grown for its dense clusters of highly fragrant pink flowers in spring.
All parts of the plant are poisonous to humans.
The Latin specific epithet cneorum comes from the Greek and means “like a small olive bush”
Bonsai and Penjing shot at the National Arboretum in Canberra in December 2017 and released into the wild! Bonsai artist - Khanh Linh.
Limited edition fine art prints available at janelong.photomerchant.net/wild-bonsai .
Grevillea is a diverse genus of about 360 species of evergreen flowering plants in the family Proteaceae, native to rainforest and more open habitats in Australia, New Guinea, New Caledonia, Sulawesi and other Indonesian islands. The species range from prostrate shrubs less than 50 cm tall to trees 35 m tall. Common names include grevillea, spider flower, silky oak and toothbrush plant. The brightly coloured, petal-less flowers consist of a calyx tube that splits into 4 lobes with long styles. They are good bird-attracting plants, honeyeaters in particular are common visitors. Grevillea flowers were a traditional favourite among Aborigines for their sweet nectar. This could be shaken onto the hand to enjoy, or into a coolamon with a little water to make a sweet drink. They might be referred to as the original 'bush lollies'. 4062
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Freedom XIV by Khalil Gibran
And an orator said, "Speak to us of Freedom."
And he answered:
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.
You shall be free indeed when your days are not without a care nor your nights without a want and a grief,
But rather when these things girdle your life and yet you rise above them naked and unbound.
And how shall you rise beyond your days and nights unless you break the chains which you at the dawn of your understanding have fastened around your noon hour?
In truth that which you call freedom is the strongest of these chains, though its links glitter in the sun and dazzle the eyes.
And what is it but fragments of your own self you would discard that you may become free?
If it is an unjust law you would abolish, that law was written with your own hand upon your own forehead.
You cannot erase it by burning your law books nor by washing the foreheads of your judges, though you pour the sea upon them.
And if it is a despot you would dethrone, see first that his throne erected within you is destroyed.
For how can a tyrant rule the free and the proud, but for a tyranny in their own freedom and a shame in their won pride?
And if it is a care you would cast off, that care has been chosen by you rather than imposed upon you.
And if it is a fear you would dispel, the seat of that fear is in your heart and not in the hand of the feared.
Verily all things move within your being in constant half embrace, the desired and the dreaded, the repugnant and the cherished, the pursued and that which you would escape.
These things move within you as lights and shadows in pairs that cling.
And when the shadow fades and is no more, the light that lingers becomes a shadow to another light.
And thus your freedom when it loses its fetters becomes itself the fetter of a greater freedom.
Genista germanica or German Greenweed is a plant species in the genus Genista belonging to the family Fabaceae.
This species grows in Central Europe, Western Europe and Southern Europe. These shrubs can be found in thickets, poor pastures, heaths and dry meadows, preferably on acidic soils, usually between 0–800 metres, rarely up to 1,400 metres above sea level.
Genista germanica can grows to 0.6 metres These small perennial shrubs may have erect or prostrate stems, woody at the base, with robust simple or branched thorns. Only the young branches are green, slightly hairy. The deciduous leaves are oval-lanceolate, bright green and pubescent. The flowers, hermaphrodite, are gathered in short racemes, the calyx is pubescent with lanceolate teeth, the corolla is yellow. They bloom in May and June. The fruits are ovoid legumes of about 10 mm, with 2 to 4 ovoid, brownish seeds (from Wikipedia).
An easy care groundcovering Banksia, growing to just under a metre high and 2 metres wide. With large yellow flowers borne for most of the year- from summer through to winter-they are bird attracting and make good cut flowers. Suits seaside gardens, looks great when mass planted. Drought and frost tolerant once established.
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With this, little by little, I arrived at the port
to which those of Carthage gave its name.
Closed to all winds and concealed,
to which clear and singular renowned name
prostrate all ports that the sea bathes,
discovers the Sun and the man has sailed.
- Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra.
The last sighting of this loco in Blackburn for me was July 2018. It was then in standard GBRf livery and working the very same train. This was earlier today and running about 1 hour late 66769 now named 'League Managers Association' and wearing the logo for Prostrate Cancer is seen leaving Blackburn. With it's usual mixed rake of JPAs and PCAs the ensemble head South working 6V84 Clitheroe-Avonmouth loaded cement train.
Darwinia plants have been an interest of ours so it was nice to see another new one for us.
The red flowering plant is sprawling and prostrate. The flowers sit flat on the ground in rocky laterite areas. You can see white sand grains in between the flowers.
Photo: Jean
Prostrate or decumbent shrub, 0.1-0.4 m high. Fl. yellow, Aug to Dec or Jan. Lateritic gravelly soils, shallow soils over granite.
Pinguicula alpina (Lentibulariaceae) 168 19
Pinguicula alpina, also known as the alpine butterwort, is a species of carnivorous plant native to high latitudes and altitudes throughout Eurasia. It is one of the most widespread Pinguicula species, being found in mountainous regions from Iceland to the Himalayas. Native to cold climates, it is a temperate species, forming prostrate rosettes of green to red leaves and white flowers in the summer and a tight hibernaculum during a period of winter dormancy in the winter. Like all members of the genus, P. alpina uses mucilaginous glands covering the surface of its summer leaves to attract, trap, and digest arthropod prey.
From Wikipedia.
P. tortandrum is a small geophyte with pale yellow flowers and simple, seldom trifoliolate prostrate leaves.
Sometimes called 'Cherry Candles' this Banksia is a cultivar from prostrate and creeping native Australian species with similar leaves and flowers. It is a popular 'native plant' in domestic and public gardens and and parks. Flowers are about 160mm and the planted clumped to 300mm tall. Image captured in my Gold Coast hinterland home garden on a bright but cloudy day.
This was a prostrate shrub with many of the flowers sitting on the ground. It was hard to imagine what pollinates these flowers.
I had to hold the flower up to see the style and anthers inside the calyx.
Photo: Jean
This picture was taken in the Cathedral gardens of Bury St. Edmunds, Suffolk, UK.
I have no idea what these people were doing, maybe in a trance or a meditation class, but whatever it was it certainly appears to be a peaceful experience.
Bush Pomegranate
In Western Australia we have two plants that produce flowers that look very much like a Pomegranate flower. They are generally prostrate plants that flower in September.
I was trying to set up for a photo in the beautiful Mazatlan Cathedral, being as reverent as possible, when this man came forward and placed himself on the stairs to the altar in humble prayer. A touching scene. I wondered about his story.
"And unto Allah falleth prostrate whosoever is in the heavens and the earth, willingly or unwillingly, as do their shadows in the morning and the evening hours". Qur'an 13:15
the set Faith
Grevillea lanigera è un arbusto sempreverde originario dell’Australia; il fogliame, è simile a quello del rosmarino, le foglie sono piccole, lineari, aghiformi, appuntite, di colore verde scuro, lucide e cuoiose; l’arbusto ha sviluppo compatto e densamente ramificato, nel complesso ricorda una piccola conifera. Tra la fine dell’inverno e l’inizio della primavera all’apice dei rami sbocciano particolari fiori, riuniti in racemi, di colore rosso o rosa, spesso con macchie color crema; sono privi di petali, e costituiti da un singolo calice allungato.
Button Creeper Fruit
"Prostrate annual or biennial, herb or shrub, 0.15-0.6 m high, to 1.5 m wide. Fl. yellow-brown/brown-red, Jun to Dec. Sand over limestone. Sandplains, coastal limestone ridges & outcrops."
florabase.dbca.wa.gov.au/browse/profile/2791
The wiry stems can trip you if you don't watch out.
Native to Western Australia
An easy care groundcovering Banksia, growing to just under a metre high and 2 metres wide. With large yellow flowers borne for most of the year- from summer through to winter-they are bird attracting and make good cut flowers. Suits seaside gardens, looks great when mass planted. Drought and frost tolerant once established.
P. githagineum is a geophyte with a dense mass of simple prostrate, pilose leaves and very small white flowers. The flowers have only four fertile stamens with long, protruding, wine-red filaments. The specific epithet 'gilhagineum' refers to the greenish red colour of the scape, peduncles and the hypanthia.
From Echo Peaks. Northern part of Yosemite in the background. The pines are nearly prostrate on this ridge, where the wind and snow batter any exposed portions. The wind was strong on this particular day and flattened the branches a bit.
The East windows of the cathedral celebrate the fifty years of peace in the Pacific region since the end of World War Two. The Cathedral itself was built as a war memorial commemorating the decisive Battle of the Coral Sea which was fought due east of Cairns between the 4th and 8th of May in 1942. With its tilted angles, destruction, chaos and confusion this is a window of aggression. The top wreck, the Shoho, a Japanese submarine tender was hastily converted to a light aircraft carrier when the value of the aerial warfare was realised. She was repeatedly torpedoed and sank within fifteen minutes. Immediately below the Shoho is the rear portion of the USS Sims which was hit by three bombs amidships, split in two, and sank immediately. In the foreground is an SMLE .303 rifle which completes the representations of the three branches of the armed forces within this window. To the left on the sand are three helmets representing the three forces, American, Japanese and Australian. Above these protective helmets a triton shell tries to protect its body. Immediately above it a red emperor fish hides amid the wreckage. Small grey sea squirts in the depth-charge rack look like spent rounds of ammunition. The bright orange harp gorgonian and six surgeon fish are obvious puns.
From the Christian viewpoint this window represents the crucifixion with the three radio masts of the Shoho resembling the crosses on Calvary. The downward pointing barrel of the gun and rocky starkness recalls the terrain at Golgotha. The broken anchor chain of the Sims takes us past a symbolic crown of thorns starfish to the three rusting nails in the sand symbolising the crucifixion. At the end of the barrel of the .303 rifle is a spurt of blood-red coral upon which is a prostrate starfish in human form! On the end of the outward pointing barrel of the Sims is a clown fish, while on top of the turret are red, white and blue corals which warn that nationalism and militarism are close associates. The focal point of the Shoho is the ship's wheel on the bridge where life and death decisions were made. Entangled in the wreck of the collapsed flight deck is a Zero fighter. 23396
Prostrate decumbent shrub to 18 cm high, c. 10 stamens on one side of two villous carpels, staminodes on both sides of carpels. Flowers yellow.
A Khmer monk prostrates himself in front of a Buddhist shrine. His reflection on the marble floor was rather meaningful given the importance of self reflection and self examination in Buddhism and many other religions. This particular monk is also quite artistic. He painted all the murals that you see inside this particular temple near the Vietnam-Cambodia border.
Budhist temples are often very colorful for several reasons. The colors themselves carry symbolic meaning, while the murals serve as educational tools, depicting stories from Buddhist scriptures and teachings. The vibrant colors are also used to create a visually stimulating and serene atmosphere that aids in meditation and contemplation.
ok i know it is dead.
I had to poke it with my finger to confirm.
On a mint plant in a pot on the patio
IRIDESCENT… GERANIUM
More from our garden.
The Cranesbill is really the TRUE Geranium, what we too often call Geranium is the Pelargonium, with flower heads and not hardy like these here.
The name "cranesbill" derives from the appearance of the seed-heads, which have the same shape as the bill of a crane.
Also known as Hardy Geranium, Rozanne Cranesbill, Blood Red Cranesbill
Large blue blooms with darker veining are held in clusters above the foliage, giving the plant in bloom an airy appearance.
It has a thick rhizome(A horizontal, usually underground stem that often sends out roots and shoots from its nodes. Also called rootstock).
The stems are prostrate to ascending, well developed, very branched and hairy as are the buds.
.An enormous variety, often very fragrant leaves, gives you a clue that it is a medicinal plant.
Geranium plants could hold the key to a new generation of HIV treatments, research suggests.
Extracts of the geranium plant Pelargonium sidoides inactivate HIV-1 and prevent the virus invading human cells.
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Bush Pomegranate
In Western Australia we have two plants that produce flowers that look very much like a Pomegranate flower. They are generally prostrate plants that flower in September.
Brins Mesa, Sedona
The Fall late afternoon sun created shadows on this rock outcrop creating the illusion of a prostrate dog.
This amazing shrub, known as Creeping Banksia, is prostrate, with horizontal branches which spread below the surface of the soil. It is endemic to the coastal regions of south west Western Australia, from Albany to Esperance.
Banksia Species, Southern Blechnum Banksia (Banksia blechnifolia)
The Southern Blechnum Banksia is typically a dwarf prostrate spreading shrub with horizontal branches and dusky-red flower heads 15-18 cm. The flowers are usually pollinated by ants. A hardy Banksia that is well suited to coastal and embankment planting. Native to the South West of Western Australia.
Short-leaved Frankenia
A prostrate shrub to A prostrate shrub growing on the edge of a salt flats.
We have visited this population a number of times and this year there were white and pink flowers. There were more flowers than we have seen in the past.
Photo: Jean
Series of 10 photos