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"Tesserò i tuoi capelli come trame di un canto.
Conosco le leggi del mondo, e te ne farò dono.
Supererò le correnti gravitazionali,
lo spazio e la luce per non farti invecchiare.
TI salverò da ogni malinconia,
perché sei un essere speciale ed io avrò cura di te...
io sì, che avrò cura di te"
(Battiato)
Day 15 of 20 of albums that influenced my musical tastes.
Protection - Massive Attack
"...I stand in front of you
I'll take the force of the blow
Protection"
Massive Attack: youtu.be/oqmeb6HrDdc
Bonne fête de mère!
It's Mother's Day here in France, so we will continue with the celebration
Hoy es el Día de la Madre aquí en Francia, así es que continuaremos con la celebración. ¡Muchas felicidades a todas las madres flickerianas, en especial a mi cielo!
Original Caption: Rio Rancho Estates Subdivision, 06/1972
U.S. National Archives’ Local Identifier: 412-DA-2854
Photographer: Lyon, Danny, 1942-
Subjects:
Albuquerque (Bernalillo county, New Mexico, United States) inhabited place
Environmental Protection Agency
Project DOCUMERICA
Persistent URL: catalog.archives.gov/id/545347
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The sand dune systems protect the land from the sea, stabilizing the environment and allowing the tussocks and hardy bushes to grow in this harsh environment. But beyond the dune system and small cliffs is the beautiful, clean restless southern ocean. Cape Woolamai, Phillip Island. www.basscoast.vic.gov.au/assets/general-downloads/Sustain...
Cliffs along the Atlantic Ocean in the civil parish of Dunquin (in Irish, Dún Chaoin), north of the westernmost tip of the Dingle Peninsula (in County Kerry, Munster Province, southwest Ireland), on a partly overcast afternoon in mid-May 2024.
The Dingle Peninsula is the northernmost of the five peninsulas of southwestern Ireland that stick out like fingers into the Atlantic Ocean. Its name in Irish is Corca Dhuibhne, sometimes Anglicised as Corkaguiny. The western Dingle is part of the Gaeltacht, one of the areas of the Republic of Ireland where Irish is officially designated as the primary spoken language.
This stretch of cliffs is across from the now-uninhabited Blasket Islands. This scene was taken from the viewing platform connected with the Blasket Centre (Irish name: Ionad an Bhlascaoid), which is run by the Blasket Foundation and the Irish Office of Public Works through its Heritage Ireland unit. The Blaskets – in Irish, Na Blascaodaí – fostered a traditional culture described through a well-known group of 20th-century Irish-language works by their inhabitants.The Centre provides extensive information about the geography, history, culture, and literature of the Blaskets.
In April 2024, the Irish government established the Kerry Seas National Park / Páirc Náisiúnta na Mara, Ciarraí, a marine national park that includes the Blaskets and surrounding waters. The Blaskets are also an EU-designated Natura 2000 Special Area of Conservation (SAC) and Special Protection Area (SPA).
(Information from the Blasket Centre and Wikipedia, websites last consulted 12 June 2024. Place names in English and Irish from logainm.ie, the Placenames Database of Ireland (reference numbers 1394329, 91, and 1411370), last consulted 4 June 2024.)
[Blasket Centre 23 cliffs vertical 2024-05-18 s; 20240518_085038]
The American Eagle Foundation works to protect our Eagle population. Dollywood houses Bald Eagles that have been injured or for some reason would not survive if returned to the wild. There is a "bird show" right next to the eagle enclosure. You can learn about all kinds of birds, many of them native to East Tennessee. It's located in Craftsmans Valley. Just follow the creek.
Note: I mistakenly posted two of this shot, so I deleted the other one. It came right back. So if you see two of this picture, . . . . . well, I tried.
This shows the centre of the market town of Aups, a drive of about 20 minutes north east of Cotignac. The platane trees (plane trees) provide superb protection against the sun of the south of France. We had just been for a walk around the backstreets and enjoying a coffee under the trees while waiting for Bob who was having her grooming session nearby.
* It's always worth hearing again this Massive Attack track featuring the wonderful Tracey Thorn
The Dao Thanh Phán women’s dress features vibrant embroidered garments with symbolic motifs, red box hats adorned with tassels and silver ornaments, and indigo-dyed fabrics. The intricate designs and bright colors, especially red, are believed to ward off wild animals and evil spirits, providing protection in their mountainous environment. Their attire reflects their cultural identity, spiritual beliefs, and connection to nature, blending practicality with tradition.
I will never forget the mment i first saw these brightly dressed women working in the rice fields of Binh Lieu. These elaborate costumes are their daily wear.
I love the sun but I try not to forget to protect myself, when necessarily, with glasses, a hat or sun cream.
Have a great, sunny week, dear Flickr friends. HMM
www.tourduvalat.org/en/newsletter/la_reserve_naturelle_re...
A remarkable site for temporary ponds
The Tour du Valat Foundation is the owner of a 2560 ha estate made up of natural and agricultural lands, grazed by some 450 Camargue cattle and 80 Camargue horses. The natural zones form a mosaic of the emblematic and now rare habitats of the fluviolacustrine Camargue, the area at the interface between riverine and maritime influences.
These relatively non-saline habitats were largely destroyed in the past for the development of agriculture. The result is a natural heritage of exceptional value, adapted to the particular conditions of the area. Since July 2008, 1845 ha of the Estate (i.e., 72% of its total surface area) have been granted the protection status Réserve naturelle régionale or Regional Natural Reserve (RNR).
Of the many natural habitats that make up the site, the temporary ponds are among the most remarkable. Some of them (the least saline) are examples of a habitat of priority community interest under the European Habitats Directive, which are in sharp decline around the Mediterranean basin, Mediterranean Temporary Ponds (MTP)1. Such ponds cover a total surface area of 18.3 ha on the Tour du Valat Estate, i.e. 65% of all the MTPs in the Camargue.
In all, there are 65 ponds of various kinds on the Estate covering a total surface area of about 60 ha (their size is highly variable in function of water level). They vary considerably in size, shape, depth, level of isolation, and salinity, with consequent influences on the plant and animal communities that live in and around them.
In particular, there is a wide diversity of plant species, certain of which are highly threatened. Among the eleven protected species (four at national level, and seven at regional level) found in the Tour du Valat RNR, two are of major importance for conservation:
The Starfruit or Water star (Damasonium polyspermum) is an attractive little white-flowered annual plant, a member of the Alismataceae family. This Western Mediterranean endemic is typical of Mediterranean temporary ponds. Its world conservation status is listed as Vulnerable by the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN), and it is protected by ministerial decree in France, where it is present at some ten sites, including the Tour du Valat. In the RNR, it is found, sometimes in populations of several thousands, in six oligosaline (very slightly salty) ponds with a sunny exposition and scattered emergent vegetation; it emerges only when flooding conditions are favourable, i.e. when there is enough water in early spring.
Riella helicophylla is a small aquatic liverwort just a few centimetres in height. Endemic to the Mediterranean basin, it is listed in Annex II of the Habitats Directive, and is currently being added to the list of French protected species. It is fond of distinctly saline, shallow, clear, temporary flood water, with limited plant cover. It was only recently discovered at the Tour du Valat (March 2012) in saline borrow pits and some low depressions in the flooded sansouïres bordering the Baisse Salée and the Saline ponds, covering at least 1.2 ha. Until then, it had only been found at one (former) site in the Hérault Department, and at Salin du Caban, east of
In terms of animals, the temporary ponds are also of primordial interest, for branchiopod crustaceans, odonates (dragonflies and damselflies), and amphibians. In wet springs, they literally teem with animals of kinds: from Triops cancriformis, a real living fossil, to the impressive tadpoles of the Common parsley frog or the Mediterranean/stripeless tree frog, and larvae of Zygoptera (damselflies, close relatives of the dragonflies). In this category, one of the commonest species in the Tour du Valat ponds, although highly threatened in France, is the Dark emerald damselfly or Dark spreadwing (Lestes macrostigma). This attractive damselfly, listed as Vulnerable in Europe by the IUCN, is only found in a few sites in France, along the Atlantic coast, in Corsica, and in the Camargue.
To conserve this natural heritage, it is necessary to maintain the natural hydrological regime of these ponds, characterised by their isolation and long completely parched periods in the summer. Their appearance thus varies immensely in function of precipitation level, ranging from bare cracked soil in late summer to vast flooded areas in wet springs, verdant and teeming with life.
*Habitat type 3170 in the Habitats Directive n° 3170.
Find out more:
Bigot L. 1999 Sur la réponse de Damasonium polyspermum Cosson (Alismataceae) aux variations des conditions édaphoclimatiques, d'après un suivi de 43 ans (1954-1996) dans une mare temporaire de la Tour-du- Valat (Camargue, Bouches-du-Rhône, France). Bull Soc Linn Provence 50 : 83-88 (in French)
Music inspiration.
• Hair: Salma, by Sintiklia
• Tattoo: Legend Tattoos, by Nar Mattaru
• Top: Corina (BDSM), by Numb *NEW*
• Shorts: Liza, by Evani
• Socks: Garter socks nylon black, by Suicidal Unborn
• Shoes: Black Aqua boots, by Grailed
• Piercings: Munro Piercings, by Blaxium
Bites!
Turkey Vulture
The Turkey Vulture (Cathartes aura), also known in some North American regions as the Turkey Buzzard (or just Buzzard), and in some areas of the Caribbean as the John Crow or Carrion Crow, is a Vulture that is the most widespread of the New World Vultures. One of three species in the genus Cathartes of the family Cathartidae, the Turkey Vulture ranges from southern Canada to the southernmost tip of South America. It inhabits a variety of open and semi-open areas, including subtropical forests, scrublands, pastures, and deserts.
The Turkey Vulture is a scavenger and feeds almost exclusively on carrion. It finds its food using its keen eyes and sense of smell, flying low enough to detect the gases produced by the beginnings of the process of decay in dead animals. In flight, it uses thermals to move through the air, flapping its wings infrequently. It roosts in large community groups. Lacking a syrinx—the vocal organ of birds—its only vocalizations are grunts or low hisses. It nests in caves, hollow trees, or thickets. Each year it generally raises two chicks, which it feeds by regurgitation. It has very few natural predators. In the United States, the vulture receives legal protection under the Migratory Bird Treaty Act of 1918.
Unlike all other raptors, vultures are not birds of prey. They feed solely on carrion, preferring animals that have been dead for two to four days. This certainly explains why they, unlike all other raptors, lack strong, grasping feet and talons. Feeding on carrion has led to a number of other vulture adaptations.
This sticker was seen in Munich one week ago. And it exactly mirrors what me makes so sad at the moment. Everywhere you see people wearing those hipster-in the wild survival jackets with fur collars in every pervert color you can imagine. And the most of them believe it´s not an authentic one. The seller said it´s made of artificial fur. Wake up! Authentic fur is cheaper than artificial one! In 99,9% you wearing real dogs & cats which where skinned alive!
Please don´t buy this kind of clothes. You won´t need it to survive...but they will do.
Given the time and location this was most likely taken with a Pentax *istDS with Pentax 18-55 lens.
March 25, 2013
Seoul, South Korea
More figs! Ever since my figs started living near my computer creativity has gone way up. All of these use recently acquired fig parts.
L to R: The Bat-Beast, Toxic Protection Suit, Bat-Guardian, Captain Batmerica upgrade, Heavy Metal Batman
Trumpeter Swans Protecting their cygnet. I had to stumble down a pretty steep rocky embankment. This put the parents on high alert. I realized after getting into position that they were actually paddling towards me. At that same time I realized that there was no easy or quick way to get away if they decided to attack. So I sat very still hoping they would determine that I wasn't a threat. This image was taken as they decided that I wasn't going to be a problem, so they swam away. Whew!
Yashica635 + Portra160VC
TANATOS - APOCRYPHA Photo Exhibition
Art Gallery Fujihara, Osaka, Japan | 17.10.08 - 20.10.08
Opens this Friday!!
Toshihiro "Tommy" Oshima - 大島利浩
Velco Dojcinovski - ヴェルコ・ドスチェノフスキ
Akihisa "BlueOnion" Nakamura - 中村晃久
Mizuho "Paranoia" Hayashi - 林 瑞穂
Tetsuya "Blues" Kusuyama - 楠山哲也
Shade from the sun, shelter from the wind, and exclusion of sharks all help to make Middle Brighton ocean baths a popular recreational destination in Melbourne, Victoria. The baths were opened in 1882.
HD PENTAX-DA 55-300mm f4.5-6.3 PLM
the spines of a Golden barrel cactus (Echinocactus grusonii)
Olympus E-M5 / A Schacht Ulm Travegar R 100mm f3.3
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Victor and Viljar - who I was glad to cuddle once again, when I visited the local center of The Norwegian Society for Protection of Animals yesterday.
Both these and a dozen other charming cats that were very ready for cuddling did well for my soul, who misses the world's best dog fur that's not in my home anymore 💔
These are two of the 8 siblings in the record litter I have previously shown some pictures of, which have now become 12.5 weeks. 5 out of 8 are now adopted. Victor, Viljar and their brother Varg (black and white) hope it's their time soon.
My album of cats and rabbits here.
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