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We can’t see wind, only the things it moves. Likewise, we can’t hear wind unless it’s flowing past something that makes it vibrate; this causes it to adopt various sonic guises depending on what it interacts with. Trees provide some of the most common and admired ways for wind to make itself heard. This sound has been termed psithurism (sith-err-iz-um).
The naturalist author and founding member of the RSPB, W.H. Hudson, suggests in Birds and Man (1901), that psithurism is salubrious. He describes the sound of wind in the trees as “very restorative” – a mysterious voice which the forest speaks to us, and that to lie or sit thus for an hour at a time listening to the wind is an experience worth going far to seek.
The sonic qualities of psithurism seem to smudge the border between music and noise. The American poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807-1882) described the sound in “A Day of Sunshine”:
“I hear the wind among the trees
Playing celestial symphonies;
I see the branches downward bent,
Like keys of some great instrument.
The Dragon is the symbol of primordial power. He is the master of all the elements: fire, water, air and earth. As a spiritual guide, it is a powerful ally in our daily lives thanks to its amazing restorative and powerful qualities.
The dragon spirit is drawn to people of intelligence, dignity, contagious enthusiasm, and authority. The dragons guide these people to intelligence and, in fact, to enlightenment. Within this framework, your Dragon Spirit animal teaches you to roar, to find your voice, to be heard and truly understood.
We can’t see wind, only the things it moves. Likewise, we can’t hear wind unless it’s flowing past something that makes it vibrate; this causes it to adopt various sonic guises depending on what it interacts with. Trees provide some of the most common and admired ways for wind to make itself heard. This sound has been termed psithurism (sith-err-iz-um).
The naturalist author and founding member of the RSPB, W.H. Hudson, suggests in Birds and Man (1901), that psithurism is salubrious. He describes the sound of wind in the trees as “very restorative” – a mysterious voice which the forest speaks to us, and that to lie or sit thus for an hour at a time listening to the wind is an experience worth going far to seek.
The sonic qualities of psithurism seem to smudge the border between music and noise. The American poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807-1882) described the sound in “A Day of Sunshine”:
“I hear the wind among the trees
Playing celestial symphonies;
I see the branches downward bent,
Like keys of some great instrument.
A fellow hiker takes in the pristine air and nature's blessings at Glacier's Two Medicine lake. Most rejuvenating!
Rejuvenation: the action of rejuvenating or the state of being rejuvenated : restoration of youthful vigor
or
the act or process of making someone look or feel young and energetic again.
A restorative for the body, mind and soul. Nothing better, can be addicting. The best kind.
Have a terrific Tuesday!
Прикольная такая ,как два птенчика в одном гнезде..)))
Яснотка маленькое чудо.
Стоит в зеленом камуфляже.
И листья в виде сердца мудро
Тут зеленеют на пейзаже.
И белые цветочки,
полны все чашечек нектара.
И целый день на них шмелечки,
весь пьют его, словно гусары.........
Широкий спектр лечебного и профилактического применения, особенно сока травы Яснотка и её сладковатых белых цветков: улучшает аппетит, обмен веществ, обеззараживает, снимает воспалительные процессы; чистит кровь, кожу; помогает оздоровлению при малокровии, бессоннице, бронхитах, пневмонии, заболеваниях селезенки, печени, почек, внутренних кровотечениях, при неврозах, дизентерии, циститах, при артритах, отеках; в гинекологии; восстанавливает после инсультов, гармоничный общеукрепляющий тоник. Можно применять в качестве обычного чая. Или понемногу порошок листьев – в качестве добавки в пищу; свежую зелень – в комплексных зелёных салатах. Используется и наружно. Слегка понижает давление................................
Cool like two chicks in one nest ..)))
Yasnotka is a little miracle.
Standing in green camouflage.
And leaves in the form of a heart wisely
Here they turn green on the landscape.
And white flowers,
all full of cups of nectar.
And all day long bumblebees are on them,
they drink it all over, like hussars.
.....A wide range of therapeutic and preventive applications, especially the juice of the grass Yasnotka and its sweet white flowers: improves appetite, metabolism, disinfects, relieves inflammatory processes; cleanses blood, skin; helps to improve anemia, insomnia, bronchitis, pneumonia, diseases of the spleen, liver, kidneys, internal bleeding, neurosis, dysentery, cystitis, arthritis, edema; in gynecology; restores after strokes, a harmonious restorative tonic. It can be used as a regular tea. Or a little leaf powder – as an additive in food; fresh herbs – in complex green salads. It is also used externally. Slightly lowers the pressure.
Beautifully pristine beach on the Lofoten islands near Leknes. Such beauty, calm and solitude are utterly restorative for mind and body :)
Arundel Castle is a restored and remodelled medieval castle in Arundel, West Sussex, England. It was established during the reign of Edward the Confessor and completed by Roger de Montgomery. The castle was damaged in the English Civil War and then restored in the 18th and 19th centuries by Charles Howard, 11th Duke of Norfolk.
Since the 11th century, the castle has been the seat of the Earls of Arundel and the Dukes of Norfolk. It is a Grade I listed building.
The original structure was a motte-and-bailey castle. Roger de Montgomery was declared the first Earl of Arundel as the King granted him the property as part of a much larger package of hundreds of manors. Roger, who was a cousin of William the Conqueror, had stayed in Normandy to keep the peace there while William was away from England. He was rewarded for his loyalty with extensive lands in the Welsh Marches and across the country, together with one fifth of Sussex (Arundel Rape). He began work on Arundel Castle in around 1067.
The castle then passed to Adeliza of Louvain (who had previously been married to Henry I) and her husband William d'Aubigny. Empress Matilda stayed in the castle, in 1139. It then passed down the d'Aubigny line until the death of Hugh d'Aubigny, 5th Earl of Arundel in 1243. John Fitzalan then inherited jure matris the castle and honour of Arundel, by which, according to Henry VI's "admission" of 1433, he was later retrospectively held to have become de jure Earl of Arundel.
The FitzAlan male line ceased on the death of Henry Fitzalan, 12th Earl of Arundel, whose daughter and heiress Mary FitzAlan married Thomas Howard, 4th Duke of Norfolk, to whose descendants the castle and earldom passed.
In 1643, during the First English Civil War, the castle was besieged. The 800 royalists inside surrendered after 18 days. Afterwards in 1653 Parliament ordered the slighting of the castle; however "weather probably destroyed more".
Although the castle remained in the hands of the Howard family over the succeeding centuries, it was not their favourite residence, and the various Dukes of Norfolk invested their time and energy into improving other ducal estates, including Norfolk House in London. Charles Howard, 11th Duke of Norfolk, was known for his restoration work and improvements to the castle beginning in 1787. The folly that still stands on the hill above Swanbourne Lake was commissioned by and built for the Duke by Francis Hiorne at this time.
In 1846, Queen Victoria and her husband, Prince Albert, visited Arundel Castle for three days. Henry Howard, 13th Duke of Norfolk, remodelled the castle in time for her visit to a design by an architectural firm, Morant: a suite of six rooms were built on the second floor of the south-east range at this time.
The 19th-century embellishments had not been completed when this picture was published in 1880. Soon after the 1846 Royal visit the 14th Duke began re-structuring the castle again. The work, which was done to the designs of Charles Alban Buckler and undertaken by Rattee and Kett of Cambridge, was completed in the late 19th century. The 16th Duke had planned to give the castle to the National Trust but following his death in 1975 the 17th Duke cancelled the plan. He created an independent charitable trust to guarantee the castle's future, and oversaw restorative works.
The extensive gardens had received significant improvements by early 2020 through the efforts of head gardener Martin Duncan and his crew. A horticulturalist and landscape designer, Duncan has been working at the Castle since 2009; in 2018, he received the Kew Guild Medal. The gardeners and volunteers "have worked wonders with their bold and innovative plantings", according to an April 2020 report by Country Life. Their most recent efforts led to a wild water garden around the ponds.
For further information please visit en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arundel_Castle, www.arundelcastle.org/gardens/ and www.arundelcastle.org/
the dream of restorative sleep
World ME Awareness Day
made for the many of us here who live with ME
or fibromyalgia,
or long covid.
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part painting,
part icm of the hills,
part something else ;-)
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ME ( Myalgic Encephalomyelitis),
also known as Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, CFS for shot.
For anyone lucky enough to not know, ME is an illness connected to immune system deregulation, inflammation and energy production. It has a multitude of shifting symptoms, the main one being chronic fatigue: tiredness that isn't refreshed by sleep.
www.facebook.com/M.E.AwarenessNZ/
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my thanks for the company here!
whether in quiet or with words, it's very much appreciated :-)
I thought I had made up the word surreality but apparently not. It does exist.
Spent a restorative day with a small group of the Famous Flickr Five (FFF) yesterday down along the Mornington Peninsular at Blairgowrie.
We missed those that couldn't join us.
As we sipped our coffees and indulged in breakfast we pondered about how surreal everything feels at the moment and wondered how many more gatherings like this we might be able to do in the near future.
If I get hit by another rogue wave as I did here (along with the lovely Jette), I might not make too many many more anyway ;-). Thank goodness I saw if coming and stood my ground with the use of a tripod for stability- Note-Sherpa who was on lookout ran away).
Of course the sea breeze, the wild ocean and the wide open spaces of our beaches will always be a place of refuge in these strange and surreal times.
Bridgewater Bay, Blairgowrie.
The restorative powers of sunshine, and a good stretch of the neck! Out on a limb on a fallen Willow on a bright and frosty morning on Wollaton Park Lake in Nottingham (UK) (2252)
I have reached a stage in life when any shampoo is wasted on my Head with so little hair .... Aloe Vera Shampoo really is soft and gentle...... as for restorative we will see.
The restorative powers of a good stretch after a cold, windy night sitting in a lake! (Nottingham, UK) (4550)
“Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.” Martin Luther King Jr
Arundel Castle is a restored and remodelled medieval castle in Arundel, West Sussex, England. It was established during the reign of Edward the Confessor and completed by Roger de Montgomery. The castle was damaged in the English Civil War and then restored in the 18th and 19th centuries by Charles Howard, 11th Duke of Norfolk.
Since the 11th century, the castle has been the seat of the Earls of Arundel and the Dukes of Norfolk. It is a Grade I listed building.
The original structure was a motte-and-bailey castle. Roger de Montgomery was declared the first Earl of Arundel as the King granted him the property as part of a much larger package of hundreds of manors. Roger, who was a cousin of William the Conqueror, had stayed in Normandy to keep the peace there while William was away from England. He was rewarded for his loyalty with extensive lands in the Welsh Marches and across the country, together with one fifth of Sussex (Arundel Rape). He began work on Arundel Castle in around 1067.
The castle then passed to Adeliza of Louvain (who had previously been married to Henry I) and her husband William d'Aubigny. Empress Matilda stayed in the castle, in 1139. It then passed down the d'Aubigny line until the death of Hugh d'Aubigny, 5th Earl of Arundel in 1243. John Fitzalan then inherited jure matris the castle and honour of Arundel, by which, according to Henry VI's "admission" of 1433, he was later retrospectively held to have become de jure Earl of Arundel.
The FitzAlan male line ceased on the death of Henry Fitzalan, 12th Earl of Arundel, whose daughter and heiress Mary FitzAlan married Thomas Howard, 4th Duke of Norfolk, to whose descendants the castle and earldom passed.
In 1643, during the First English Civil War, the castle was besieged. The 800 royalists inside surrendered after 18 days. Afterwards in 1653 Parliament ordered the slighting of the castle; however "weather probably destroyed more".
Although the castle remained in the hands of the Howard family over the succeeding centuries, it was not their favourite residence, and the various Dukes of Norfolk invested their time and energy into improving other ducal estates, including Norfolk House in London. Charles Howard, 11th Duke of Norfolk, was known for his restoration work and improvements to the castle beginning in 1787. The folly that still stands on the hill above Swanbourne Lake was commissioned by and built for the Duke by Francis Hiorne at this time.
In 1846, Queen Victoria and her husband, Prince Albert, visited Arundel Castle for three days. Henry Howard, 13th Duke of Norfolk, remodelled the castle in time for her visit to a design by an architectural firm, Morant: a suite of six rooms were built on the second floor of the south-east range at this time.
The 19th-century embellishments had not been completed when this picture was published in 1880. Soon after the 1846 Royal visit the 14th Duke began re-structuring the castle again. The work, which was done to the designs of Charles Alban Buckler and undertaken by Rattee and Kett of Cambridge, was completed in the late 19th century. The 16th Duke had planned to give the castle to the National Trust but following his death in 1975 the 17th Duke cancelled the plan. He created an independent charitable trust to guarantee the castle's future, and oversaw restorative works.
The extensive gardens had received significant improvements by early 2020 through the efforts of head gardener Martin Duncan and his crew. A horticulturalist and landscape designer, Duncan has been working at the Castle since 2009; in 2018, he received the Kew Guild Medal. The gardeners and volunteers "have worked wonders with their bold and innovative plantings", according to an April 2020 report by Country Life. Their most recent efforts led to a wild water garden around the ponds.
For further information please visit en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arundel_Castle, www.arundelcastle.org/gardens/ and www.arundelcastle.org/
A desert is defined as a barren land bereft of water and sparse of vegetation and life. But I find the desert to be a very fulfilling place. The warmth of the sun is energizing. The soulful silence is restorative rather than lonely. The winds give breath to life. But it’s the warm, earthy color palette that bursts forth under the unrelenting sun that draws me back again to the lands of the Native American.
Where is your restorative environment? This is mine, the West Highlands of Scotland, the most beautiful place I know. If ever you just need a place to go so that you can clear the mind there really is no where better.
Cat therapy, the best kind! He listens, offers up restorative purrs, all for a treat or two ;-)
Happy Caturday!
Photographed yesterday at the National Trust's Llanerchaeron walled garden.
Thanks for comments and faves, they're very much appreciated!
With the chill that the mornings had started to bring, it gave Celadine as much joy to bake before heading to her shop as she hoped the cakes might bring to any customers. She placed a batch on the table to cool and returned to the barley stew which had just started to bubble. Carefully she raised it from the fire and left it where it could gently simmer away all the time she was gone. Each batch of stew was a concoction of whatever vegetables and herbs she had to hand, but they all shared a comforting and restorative effect on any who ate them.
Snail's Pace - The rate in which spring is unfurling in Wales 2021
Many thanks for faves & comments, they're much appreciated :-)
Au Moulin Rouge, le spectacle terminé, la salle est nettoyée ... la nuit sera réparatrice.
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The show finished, the room is cleaned ... the night will be restorative
Finally restrictions have been eased enough for us to visit one of our favourite local woodlands.
Many thanks for faves & comments, they're much appreciated :-)
as each year ends, i’m always grateful for new and old friends on flickr. thanks for inspiring me with your art, creativity, and beauty. equally, thanks for your kindness and support. i wish you happy holidays, and if not happy, then peaceful and restorative. thanks for being you!
ps: it seemed apt to send my holiday greetings through a sunlit leaf in a puddle of melted snow.
Restorative locations are so important for us humans. They help us to become more grounded and to be able to forget the hassles of daily life, work, bills and chores. There is certainly something about the west highlands of Scotland in particular that I feel calls me to visit. With views like this, can you blame me?
The western end of the wonderful Vondelpark in Amsterdam is not as busy with visitors as other parts. Just the kind of place to catch one's breath after being with someone with little breath to spare...
And the Sun came out! Lots of insects suddenly. Among them this golden Myathropa florea, Batman or Deathhead Hoverfly. The 'Batman' and 'Deathhead' refer to the markings on Hoverfly's thorax which are thought to resemble them. In the photo she's visiting a Water Mint - Mentha aquatica - flower. Most of the ponds and ditches, rivulets and small lakes of the Vondelpark are on watersedge surrounded by this fresh-smelling herb, restorative after the city's fumes.
The light station at Prospect Harbor was authorized by Congress in 1847 and went into operation in 1850. At that time Prospect Harbor was home to a significant fishing fleet. The light was deactivated in 1859, after the United States Lighthouse Board claimed it was not needed because the harbor was not used as a shelter during storms. It was reactivated in 1870. In 1891 the station was rebuilt; the present tower and keeper's house date to this period. The brick oil house was added in 1905. The light was automated in 1934, but keepers remained on site until 1951, when its Fresnel lens was removed and replaced by modern optics. The station last underwent major restorative work in the early 2000s; it remains an active aid to navigation. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places as Prospect Harbor Light Station in 1988. (Wikipedia)
The two-story building called Gull Cottage sits on the grounds of the U.S. Naval Satellite Operations Center on Lighthouse Point on Prospect Harbor's eastern shore. The building is used for any retired or current military staff that want to use it as a rental. The fire happened in June 2022.