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"Nel Canaletto non c'è scenografia: egli si profonda tutto nel paese, e lì tra acque, pietre e cieli, ritrova la sua pittura, fresca come le cose nate allora.
Ma troppo intorno a lui tutta Venezia gridava colore: ed egli, sopra a quella prospettiva scritta e lineata, non plasticata come negli scenografi, versa e tramezza l'atmosfera lagunare. Del colore questa fu la rivincita. Trovò in essa un ammorbidimento alle secchezze di spigoli e un addolcimento di fusioni al troppo rigido delle parallele di linee, e vi trovò il veicolo della luce, che a volte ristagna nell'aria, fatta prigioniera dei vapori umidi, come un velario tra noi e la veduta delle cose."
— Luigi Dami - da La pittura italiana del Seicento e Settecento, 1924
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"In Canaletto there is no scenography: he goes all the way into the village, and there, among the waters, stones and skies, he finds his painting, fresh like the things born then.
But too much around him all of Venice shouted color: and he, above that written and lined perspective, not plasticized as in the scenographers, pours and divides the lagoon atmosphere. This was the revenge of color. He found in it a softening of the dry edges and a softening of fusions to the too rigid of the parallels of lines, and he found in it the vehicle of light, which sometimes stagnates in the air, captured by the humid vapors, like a curtain between us and the view of things. "
- Luigi Dami - from Italian painting of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, 1924
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Da vedere in Alta Risoluzione - To see in High Resolution
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Grazie ad alcune dritte di un cacciatore ero riuscito a trovare un'ex cava ormai abbandonata in cui l'acqua piovana e del fiume, che gli passava vicino, ristagnavano formando un habitat perfetto per tante specie di uccelli. Questa Pantana l'ho fotografata sdraiato a terra, coperto da un telo mimetico. Purtroppo l'anno seguente l'ex cava è diventata un laghetto di pesca sportiva......addio avifauna. Abruzzo
Thanks to some tips of a hunter I had managed to find a former abandoned quarry where rainwater and the river that passed close to it stagnated forming a perfect habitat for many species of birds. This Greenshank I photographed completely lying on the ground covered with a camouflage cloth. Unfortunately, the following year the former quarry has become a fishing pond ...... goodbye birdlife. Abruzzo
I just loved the majestic peaks of these mountains in Glacier Bay National Park. There is a glacier in the centre here, but as you can see, sadly, there's not much left of it. Of the more than 100,000 glaciers in Alaska, 95 percent are currently thinning, stagnating, or retreating.
Of a small settlement to the Ee in the 10th century it developed into an important city, where trade, industry and fishery thrived. By growing prosperity and look to the commonalty of Zierikzee on March 11th 1248 municipal right was granted king. After the medieval flowering period calamity emergency with fires, shipping disasters, epidemics and floods followed.
The 17th century characterised himself by second flowering of the trade and fishery. Then the number of inhabitants stepped very drastic in the course of the 18th century stagnation and decreased. The large industrial developments went to Zierikzee past for the greater part. In contrast to other cities old buildings remained saved. The wealth to monuments is mainly considered as a precious possession and in 1970s has been discovered by the tourists.
Nowadays Zierikzee is, with wide 10,000 inhabitants, the administrative seat of the new and has in this a centre function. In the historical town centre with a lot of shops and sociable pavements it is for both the tourist and inhabitant well stays.
21-April-2023
The view is towards the south-west with the crossroads between the Raccolana, Resia and Canal del Ferro valleys, towards Tagliamento river vast basin.
There, at low altitudes, the humidity stagnates more with its mists which are more and more frequent in spring as a few hours of sunshine are enough to lift the humidity itself from the ground with dust and pollen.
At higher altitudes, north-western currents tend to clean up the atmosphere by decreasing humidity, while with the sunset and the sky tending to clear, the mountain breezes will activate, emphasized by the still vast snow-covered surface, to push the mists down.
Of a small settlement to the Ee in the 10th century it developed into an important city, where trade, industry and fishery thrived. By growing prosperity and look to the commonalty of Zierikzee on March 11th 1248 municipal right was granted king. After the medieval flowering period calamity emergency with fires, shipping disasters, epidemics and floods followed.
The 17th century characterised himself by second flowering of the trade and fishery. Then the number of inhabitants stepped very drastic in the course of the 18th century stagnation and decreased. The large industrial developments went to Zierikzee past for the greater part. In contrast to other cities old buildings remained saved. The wealth to monuments is mainly considered as a precious possession and in 1970s has been discovered by the tourists.
Nowadays Zierikzee is, with wide 10,000 inhabitants, the administrative seat of the new and has in this a centre function. In the historical town centre with a lot of shops and sociable pavements it is for both the tourist and inhabitant well stays.
Of a small settlement to the Ee in the 10th century it developed into an important city, where trade, industry and fishery thrived. By growing prosperity and look to the commonalty of Zierikzee on March 11th 1248 municipal right was granted king. After the medieval flowering period calamity emergency with fires, shipping disasters, epidemics and floods followed.
The 17th century characterised himself by second flowering of the trade and fishery. Then the number of inhabitants stepped very drastic in the course of the 18th century stagnation and decreased. The large industrial developments went to Zierikzee past for the greater part. In contrast to other cities old buildings remained saved. The wealth to monuments is mainly considered as a precious possession and in 1970s has been discovered by the tourists.
Nowadays Zierikzee is, with wide 10,000 inhabitants, the administrative seat of the new and has in this a centre function. In the historical town centre with a lot of shops and sociable pavements it is for both the tourist and inhabitant well stays.
Da vedere in Alta Risoluzione - To see in High Resolution
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Grazie ad alcune dritte di un cacciatore ero riuscito a trovare un'ex cava ormai abbandonata in cui l'acqua piovana e del fiume, che gli passava vicino, ristagnavano formando un habitat perfetto per tante specie di uccelli. Questa Pantana l'ho fotografata sdraiato a terra, coperto da un telo mimetico. Purtroppo l'anno seguente l'ex cava è diventata un laghetto di pesca sportiva......addio avifauna. Abruzzo
Thanks to some tips of a hunter I had managed to find a former abandoned quarry where rainwater and the river that passed close to it stagnated forming a perfect habitat for many species of birds. This Greenshank I photographed completely lying on the ground covered with a camouflage cloth. Unfortunately, the following year the former quarry has become a fishing pond ...... goodbye birdlife. Abruzzo
02-June-2023
The rain saturates the air with moisture and cools the soil, which was still warm after a sunny day.
This favors the condensation of water vapor into low fog especially in the lower areas of the Bloke plateau, where humidity stagnates more and there is a hint of thermal inversion despite the sky being partly cloudy.
Also...despite the cloud cover, the full moon managed to give the landscape an unexpected luminosity in the 75 seconds open lens to accumulate maximum light (with the moon sometimes outside and sometimes inside the clouds in this period of time) without raising the ISO sensitivity (125) that my prosumer would turn into noise already from 800.
You can also clearly see the reliefs at a greater distance and in particular, on the far right, in the background, the highest mountain in the Karst Region, as well as the highest of all the northern Dinarides, i.e. Mount Snežnik, 1796m a.s.l.
Of a small settlement to the Ee in the 10th century it developed into an important city, where trade, industry and fishery thrived. By growing prosperity and look to the commonalty of Zierikzee on March 11th 1248 municipal right was granted king. After the medieval flowering period calamity emergency with fires, shipping disasters, epidemics and floods followed.
The 17th century characterised himself by second flowering of the trade and fishery. Then the number of inhabitants stepped very drastic in the course of the 18th century stagnation and decreased. The large industrial developments went to Zierikzee past for the greater part. In contrast to other cities old buildings remained saved. The wealth to monuments is mainly considered as a precious possession and in 1970s has been discovered by the tourists.
Nowadays Zierikzee is, with wide 10,000 inhabitants, the administrative seat of the new and has in this a centre function. In the historical town centre with a lot of shops and sociable pavements it is for both the tourist and inhabitant well stays.
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An old ghat along the Hooghly river. The banks of the Hooghly River in Kolkata tell the tale of an old, forgotten empire. Kolkata, once the seat of British power in India, and the capital under the British Raj until 1911, Kolkata saw stagnation after India's independence, and everywhere shows the scars of former struggle and imperial rule. It was this river that made it possible for the British to build their economic hub here and that made Kolkata into one of the largest urban areas in the world.
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Iron rusts from disuse; water loses its purity from stagnation... “Nature is the source of all true knowledge. She has her own logic, her own laws, she has no effect without cause nor invention without necessity.” - by Leonardo da Vinci
What a contrast we have here, which the daisy as pure life of glowing out in the radiant beauty in the sunshine of delicacy and on the other hand the Iron, just glimmers out the charm of decay of rustic age, that is peeling away and shows us the textures of the sweet life to us!
Many times I have walked by, this spot on the Castle Fields Boat Docks of the Black Country Museum. And this time I spotted these side-by-side together that was bedded in concrete, of an Iron bar standing so proudly with this charming daisy and overlooking the Narrowboats, that lies in the graveyard of the canal boats around here.
The beauty we have photography that can be created by the simplest things, that lies around us and yet we tend to overlook what possibility that arise!
Of a small settlement to the Ee in the 10th century it developed into an important city, where trade, industry and fishery thrived. By growing prosperity and look to the commonalty of Zierikzee on March 11th 1248 municipal right was granted king. After the medieval flowering period calamity emergency with fires, shipping disasters, epidemics and floods followed.
The 17th century characterised himself by second flowering of the trade and fishery. Then the number of inhabitants stepped very drastic in the course of the 18th century stagnation and decreased. The large industrial developments went to Zierikzee past for the greater part. In contrast to other cities old buildings remained saved. The wealth to monuments is mainly considered as a precious possession and in 1970s has been discovered by the tourists.
Nowadays Zierikzee is, with wide 10,000 inhabitants, the administrative seat of the new and has in this a centre function. In the historical town centre with a lot of shops and sociable pavements it is for both the tourist and inhabitant well stays.
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Flores de Santa Gemita - 020422 - Enhanced-4 (2)
27-March-2023
The Ćićarija (Čičarija for the part in Slovenija, Cicceria for the tiny portion attributable to Italia, or Monte Carso/Mali Kras border ridge, Dolina, Trieste) is a historical mountainous region of northern Istria, formerly inhabited by Istro-Romanian population, which falls within the traditional Karst, the coastal one (Trieste and Gorizia Karst in Italy, Primorska in Slovenia) of the Karst Region extensively understood, the only area of this region belonging to Croatia.
The Ćićarija/Čičarija is geologically the mountainous scar that joins the Istrian peninsula to the European continent, while its morphology is the classic one of the limestone areas at this latitude and altitude (here at just under 700m above sea level) therefore very similar to other areas not considered part of the Karst region, such as the contiguous coastal Gorski Kotar (Rijeka, HR) seen in the previous photos.
Over the geological eras, the rains have softened the appearance of these mountains, but the poor soil roughens the surfaces covered largely by karst moorland (Gmajna) of gnarled grass which for most of the year (between winter frost and summer sun) is golden in color and from which angular rock conformations frequently emerge.
The steppe aspect of these areas, despite the high average rainfall (1600-2200mm/y), is to be found in the porous soil, often dry and poor, beaten by strong winds and the difficulty in developing forests, which would guarantee the biomass (woody residue) for the formation of humus, but here the microclimate of these basins comes into play which, despite their proximity to the Mediterranean but closed in all directions, generate strong night-time temperature inversions (clear skies and calm winds) with minimum values below the freezing point possible for 9 months of the year.
This is always due to the porous calcareous soil which limits stagnation of humidity and exacerbates thermal dynamics with strong daily excursions which make the survival of many species of deciduous tall trees difficult, and, at the same time, the summer heat and drought are not suitable for many trees of the alpine environment, which instead form extensive virgin forests a few kilometers inland, where the extremes of wind, temperature and humidity are softened and where humus can develop.
A ground which freezes deeply in winter and which overheats in summer, sometimes even in the course of the same day, especially in spring, and which does not favor the maintenance of humidity, is clearly an obstacle to the development of vegetation, even if they try, as evident in the photo, with the robust black Pine (Pinus Nigra var austriaca) the only ones to bear such extreme microclimates and large producers of wood residue.
In any case, the karst moorland is a biodiversity that must be maintained, not fought.
14-july-2021: between a Covid and a Green Pass, I found a few days to be able to return to my beloved and soft area of the Internal Karst, all administered by "green" Slovenia.
There are no alpine peaks and steep valleys, but it is a very interesting sub-alpine dinaric area, both from a landscape-environmental point of view and, above all, from a meteorological and micro-climatic point of view, with a rare, marked, variety considering the small size of the territory .
The CLEARNESS of this slow and quiet watercourse, surrounded by dense vegetation, strikes us, as with that type of environment we would have expected water with characteristics of greater "stagnation"; but the fact that it (re-)emerges into the light just 1km beyond the photographed point, making its way through underground limestone filtering rocks, explains why the water has a purity (and a starting temperature) from an alpine creek in a flat area to 550m of altitude.
23-February-2021: the African anticyclone, with very mild and dry air at medium/high altitude and adiabatic pressure towards the ground, causes the stagnation of humid air on the relatively cold Gulf of Trieste (in winter-early spring, due to shallow water and many fresh water sources).
It is dense air, saturated with water vapor that condenses on the surface of the sea and then moves towards the surrounding coasts in the form of maritime advection fog with lower temperatures on the sea than in the interior.
31-december-2021: during this shot, with the city lights switched on, the darkness was almost complete, but once again the residual brightness of the late twilight manages to illuminate the image sufficiently.
You can see, under the fog, some patches of light that come from the City.
In the stillness the air stratifies and the denser, colder and humid one goes downwards to stagnate and to condense on the Gulf of Venice, that of Trieste, the coasts and the surrounding plains.
07-May-2022: the basin below represents perhaps the best explicit example of thermal and vegetational inversion of the entire area that I follow.
Smrekova Draga is...
...an area of difficult access (and photography...), with dense forest all around and towards the trees-free bottom (which only a little part can be seen just in the lower part of the shot).
It is closed on all sides and protected to the Mediterranean-Southern currents by the highest peaks in this Karstic plateau area, or mounts Golaki: Mali Golak, 1495m a.s.l., by altitude is the second highest in the Karst-Dinaric Region, after the tops of the Snežnik area, on the opposite side of the Region.
This allows the accumulation and stagnation of icy masses that are difficult to be undermined (sometimes/rarely in case of strong winds and/or with sun heating, but from early may to late august only), favoring gelicide (freezing rain into black ice), when the external temperatures are too high to snow, which can be had for long periods of the year, due to persistent 24h negative values on the bottom, especially from mid october to late april.
The whole area is subject to the phenomenon of vegetational inversion, due to the semi-permanent thermal inversion, with the temporarily red Beech trees (Fagus sylvatica: partially thermophilic deciduous trees) and Silver firs (Abies alba, common fir on Dinarides and Apennines) giving way to the Spruces (Picea abies, Smreka in Slovenian, that gives the name to the valley and it is the fir that makes up the Siberian taiga) towards the basin floor, with the bottom of which devoid of tall vegetation, limiting high mountain vegetation such as dwarf Willows and a couple of Birches (Betula pendula), montana Pine (Pinus mugo) and lichens.
Thanks to the high humidity of the area, the vegetation is very flourishing, but there are many trees battered, especially by the weight of the ice or ice-snow mix, from the edge, descending towards this large, deep (200 meters lower than where I was photographing, at about 1300m a.s.l.), icy basin.
It should also be noted that the broad-leaved trees are still bare, even further behind in the foliage than in the Alpine valleys, and among these the widespread Beech (Fagus sylvatica var dinarica) emerges with its branches temporarily of a decisive burgundy red color.
They exhibit this color for short periods both immediately after losing their leaves, in autumn, and just before foliar, in May.
Of a small settlement to the Ee in the 10th century it developed into an important city, where trade, industry and fishery thrived. By growing prosperity and look to the commonalty of Zierikzee on March 11th 1248 municipal right was granted king. After the medieval flowering period calamity emergency with fires, shipping disasters, epidemics and floods followed.
The 17th century characterised himself by second flowering of the trade and fishery. Then the number of inhabitants stepped very drastic in the course of the 18th century stagnation and decreased. The large industrial developments went to Zierikzee past for the greater part. In contrast to other cities old buildings remained saved. The wealth to monuments is mainly considered as a precious possession and in 1970s has been discovered by the tourists.
Nowadays Zierikzee is, with wide 10,000 inhabitants, the administrative seat of the new and has in this a centre function. In the historical town centre with a lot of shops and sociable pavements it is for both the tourist and inhabitant well stays.
Waves and light in architecture is something to dream. Not only lines and stagnation, here is motion. A wonderful 'living' building.
Waves by Mr. Probz
Song:
Castlevania SOTN: Finale Toccata
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This area of wetlands is quite large and currently stagnate with little rain, light winds, and warm temperatures.
Flowers... flowers, what's in that word?
- Love, fragrance of delight,
Sadness of separation, breath of spring,
The longing of the heart, the pain of loss,
The flight of dreams, the birth of life,
First date, peace,
Forgiveness, memory, parting,
Rainbow light overhead.
Flowers are given to us by someone from above –
Eternity breathes with their petals…Flowers don't leave us all our lives.,
Beautiful inheritors of nature,
They come to us at dawn,
At sunset, they carefully enter.
They prolong the joy of our meetings.,
They postpone the time of separation.
We must protect our hearts and souls.
From predatory hands, from evil and stagnation.
Any thought of a lofty dream
Then it will only spill over into jubilation.,
When the flowers bow before her,
Intermediaries of living understanding.(Roses from my garden)
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Grazie ad alcune dritte di un cacciatore ero riuscito a trovare un'ex cava ormai abbandonata in cui l'acqua piovana e del fiume, che gli passava vicino, ristagnavano formando un habitat perfetto per tante specie di uccelli. Questa Pantana l'ho fotografata sdraiato a terra, coperto da un telo mimetico. Purtroppo l'anno seguente l'ex cava è diventata un laghetto di pesca sportiva......addio avifauna. Abruzzo
Thanks to some tips of a hunter I had managed to find a former abandoned quarry where rainwater and the river that passed close to it stagnated forming a perfect habitat for many species of birds. This Greenshank I photographed completely lying on the ground covered with a camouflage cloth. Unfortunately, the following year the former quarry has become a fishing pond ...... goodbye birdlife. Abruzzo
“Iron rusts from disuse; water loses its purity from stagnation... even so does inaction sap the vigor of the mind.”
Leonardo da Vinci
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All that remains of the town. Between 1870- 1880 the population was 100 with 2 stores, a hotel/tavern, a tailor, wagonmaker, 2 carpenters, a cabinetmaker, shoemaker, 2 blacksmiths, a school, 2 churches, 2 sawmills, a quarry, a lime kiln and a brick maker. By 1890 the population stagnated and did not grow.
The post office lasted until 1914 when rural route delivery came to the village. The Methodist church was demolished in 2005, the school is now a home, and Christ Church, built lovingly by the residents in 1874, still has services in the summer. Most of the pioneers are buried here.
Most of the area has reverted back to farmland.
One of my attempts at the "Macro Mondays" theme "New".
While I got the feeling that I learned a few things over the last couple of years as far as photography is concerned, I‘m afraid to have reached a point of stagnation when it comes to making music. That‘s why I absolutely want to work on new ideas for compositions and try to do some real musical experimentation in the upcoming year.
Shot with a Friedrich "S-Coronar 25 mm F 1.4" lens on a Canon EOS R5.
Song:
Hated Because of Great Qualities
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Of a small settlement to the Ee in the 10th century it developed into an important city, where trade, industry and fishery thrived. By growing prosperity and look to the commonalty of Zierikzee on March 11th 1248 municipal right was granted king. After the medieval flowering period calamity emergency with fires, shipping disasters, epidemics and floods followed.
The 17th century characterised himself by second flowering of the trade and fishery. Then the number of inhabitants stepped very drastic in the course of the 18th century stagnation and decreased. The large industrial developments went to Zierikzee past for the greater part. In contrast to other cities old buildings remained saved. The wealth to monuments is mainly considered as a precious possession and in 1970s has been discovered by the tourists.
Nowadays Zierikzee is, with wide 10,000 inhabitants, the administrative seat of the new and has in this a centre function. In the historical town centre with a lot of shops and sociable pavements it is for both the tourist and inhabitant well stays.
What a perfect combination. The cure for any stagnation. This is what I call vacation! We are cruising on the Atlantic Ocean here good people!
Hey, look, sometimes you just gotta pop a squat wherever you can catch a break.
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Further Credits coming in a bit!
I know many of you take photos of nature, especially in fair weather, and I don't really do this myself, even though I appreciate plants. My personal favorite thing about them is how they can look like monsters or aliens or just in general abstract works of art.
But, I am going through some real biochemical issues here and have become convinced over the years that I probably should have been taking antidepressants for awhile. Sure, there are lot of bad things in the world that are happening that make me break mouth guards with my teeth and feel like seeing one plastic bottle of litter left behind in a Botanical Gardens is going to ruin my entire day but my cycles of insomnia and bouts of extreme sadness have been going on for decades now despite having a supportive group of family, friends, and a job I love despite all its politics.
I'm starting to ramble again. If you don't care, you'll just skip the words anyway, though. What I wanted to say is that photography for me is not just a hobby but a way of my understanding the world and a creative outlet that I need to function and stagnation is the sort of thing that emphasizes my feelings of depression even more. The series of Macro nature shots I want to post all helped me focus in on the small details, much like our current world. There are horrific racist systems but there are also kind people that want to help. There is a dictator in my country trying to steal another election but there are also more people determined to vote than ever. When you see the glaring, you don't look for the details and sometimes the details are the most beautiful in what seems to be the devastating of all the plants.
This series is also dedicated to my photographer friend Bob who often takes photos of nature himself and sends me consoling words as well. Bob is a deep thinker so make sure you always look at his titles, too. Check out his stream here:
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This album's name is dedicated to my favourite game of all time Elder Scrolls Online and race of all time, The Argonians (reptile humanoids). There's a story for you to read below about some of them towards the bottom.
What does Ku Vastei mean? Read below
By Lights-the-Way, Mystic of the Mages Guild
It is hard to describe the culture of my people. Often my tongue stumbles as I try to explain, but it is my hope that ink and quill will give me time enough to gather my thoughts. And perhaps, though such writing, I will finally connect the parts of me that now feel so divided; my homeland of Murkmire and my new life within the Mages Guild.
These journals are to become my ku-vastei. And, as I write that, I can think of no better topic to begin with.
Ku-vastei roughly translates to "the catalyst of needed change," though such a direct translation in no way does justice to the original meaning. Another translation could be "that which creates the needed pathway for change to occur" or even "the spark which ignites the flame which must come into being."
Perhaps a more direct analysis should be first presented. Ku-vastei is a noun, a thing or person. Vastei directly translates to change, an important part of my culture. Ku is harder to speak of. It is that which leads to change, though not that which creates change. An important role, as stagnation is a fate worse than death.
Take a boulder which sits atop a cliff, teetering in place. It must fall eventually. The ku-vastei does not push the boulder off the cliff; rather, it picks the pebble which holds the rock in place. And so it falls, not by a push, but by a pathway cleared.
Ku-vastei is revered, just as change itself is revered, for to look back at what was means to stumble as you move forward. Sometimes, a little push in the right direction is all someone needs to remember such wisdom. Other times, they may need to be shoved.
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The Gee-Rusleel Tribe
by Emmanubeth Hurrent, the Wayfarers' Society of Wayrest
I've had the privilege to speak to two different Miredancer elders now, and I've learned a great deal from both of these conversations. The "Gee-Rusleel," as they call themselves, are among the most introspective Argonians I've met in my travels. They also tend to be the most pleasant. For all their reclusiveness and wariness, I've never met a people more willing to share a meal or a game of Shells and Stones. They are skilled crafters, with a particular knack for working with Hist amber and egg shells. They are also peerless navigators, guiding their flat-bottom boats effortlessly through the swamp, master weavers, and skilled cartographers.
The most defining characteristic of the Miredancer tribe, however, is piety. This deep reverence for the Hist has earned them the right to name a "Sap-Speaker" for countless generations.
According to the elders I spoke with, the Sap-Speaker is the Hist's direct intermediary. (This is, of course, subject to debate. Many tribes boast unique methods of communion with the Hist. But as far as I have seen, the Miredancers make the most compelling case for the methods they use.) Sap-Speakers often go into seclusion for days or even weeks on end, venturing either down into the roots or high into the canopy of leaves in the uppermost branches. Here, they commune with the Hist. Indeed, the word that one of the elders used was "journey."
These journeys into the Hist tax the Sap-Speakers, but are thoroughly private affairs. After days by themselves, the Sap-Speakers emerge to hide away with old books, scrolls, and tablets. I asked after the purpose of these periods of seclusion, and this is what the elders told me. "The Sap-Speaker enters the embrace of the Hist to learn from the great tree," one elder said. "While in close contact with the roots and branches, the Sap-Speaker receives visions and other forms of communication that neither you nor I would understand."
The other elder continued. "Even the Sap-Speaker finds some of what is shown to be mystifying and confusing. I have heard that a Sap-Speaker is treated to ancient metaphors, arcane secrets, and visions that make little sense to creatures so far removed from sap and pulp." Apparently, the second period of seclusion allows the Sap-Speaker time to reflect on what he or she was shown, as well as time to consult with the ancient writings of Sap-Speakers who came before. After a suitable period of study and reflection, the Sap-Speaker emerges to reveal the Hist's will to the tribe.
I attempted to get more information about what happens while the Sap-Speaker meditates among the roots or branches, but I'm not sure the elders knew much more. They did tell me that the only nourishment the Sap-Speaker receives during these periods of seclusion is provided by the Hist itself in the form of sap, leaves, and the otherwise forbidden fruit of the tree.
There is a price to pay for the gift of Hist communion, however. Ingesting large quantities of Hist sap is a dangerous affair, even for Argonians. Sap-Speakers routinely suffer the effects of sap-poisoning, including "gold tongue" (permanent change of mouth pigmentation to a golden hue), unbidden hallucinations, "bark-scale" (thickening and darkening of surface scales), and other maladies they were reticent to talk about. The current Sap-Speaker, Thumarz, was in seclusion during my visit to the tribal village. I hope to meet him someday. If he's half as wise as the elders I interacted with, I'd no doubt learn a great deal from him.
Despite their deeply religious nature, the Miredancers also seem to have an obsession with games of all types. They are particularly fond of the games Nine-Shells and Shells and Stones, as well as sports such as the popular "teeba-hatsei" (also known as "hip and tail ball.") In addition to lovingly explaining their own games, they wanted to know everything I could tell them about the games we play back in Wayrest. I must admit, their enthusiasm was quite infectious! And I found it highly amusing to watch them try to re-create Deceiver's Bones from the vague description I provided.
The Miredancers are also inveterate gamblers, but they often forget to collect their winnings. Unlike the games of men and mer, Miredancer competitions appear to be completely devoid of malice or injured pride. Victory and defeat seem more like afterthoughts than objectives, due in no small part to their phlegmatic disposition. As in most things, their focus is strictly on the moment—the now. It pains me to leave their village, but I still have many more tribes to study. I doubt any of them will be as fascinating or as friendly as the Miredancers.
["the tribe is not currently in the game but in the world of the game"]
Of a small settlement to the Ee in the 10th century it developed into an important city, where trade, industry and fishery thrived. By growing prosperity and look to the commonalty of Zierikzee on March 11th 1248 municipal right was granted king. After the medieval flowering period calamity emergency with fires, shipping disasters, epidemics and floods followed.
The 17th century characterised himself by second flowering of the trade and fishery. Then the number of inhabitants stepped very drastic in the course of the 18th century stagnation and decreased. The large industrial developments went to Zierikzee past for the greater part. In contrast to other cities old buildings remained saved. The wealth to monuments is mainly considered as a precious possession and in 1970s has been discovered by the tourists.
Nowadays Zierikzee is, with wide 10,000 inhabitants, the administrative seat of the new and has in this a centre function. In the historical town centre with a lot of shops and sociable pavements it is for both the tourist and inhabitant well stays.
Only 59% of Austria's population is fully vaccinated against the coronavirus. Low-threshold vaccination offers like this one, where you can get vaccinated at any time without an appointment, are hardly accepted by the previously unvaccinated part of the population. Vaccination progress is dangerously stagnating, incidence figures are rising, and unvaccinated coronavirus patients populate more and more hospital wards and intensive care units.
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A small colorful bird that looks 90% similar to the common Tickell's blue flycatcher, but is very uncommon and reported rare in our region. The only differentiation is the throat color which is dark blue for this bird, orange for the Tickell's. The calls too are almost similar between the birds.
I had this view that bird is a migrant from Northern India, Pakistan / Himalayan ranges and migrates to South India during winters. But I suspect there is a resident population in the state in the forests in the northern parts where we can see during summer. I don't remember anyone sighting a nest yet, if that is sighted, it would confirm that it a resident.
This flycatcher is found in thick wooded regions and forests and tends stick to thick canopy areas and dense undergrowth near wet areas. We sighted this in a forest on the side of a hill overlooking a temple. There was a broken water pipe that had small drops rolling down the slope into the undergrowth. And that place had like 5-6 flycatchers and around 15+ birds in total - all close to the ground. The water pooled and stagnated resulting in a lot of flies / insects and thats what attracted the flycatchers I suppose.
Many thanks in advance for your views and feedback. Much appreciated.
18-february-2018: Babno is a village located in the innermost part of the Karst Region, North-East of Mount Snežnik (1796m a.s.l., Karst top summit) and 1km from the border with Croatia's northernmost "Mountain-Kvarner Region" (Prežid, HR).
it is located on the edge of a wide meadow basin (completely open air: "Sky View Factor"), at 748m above sea level, characterized by karstic-calcareous soil. The porous soil avoids the stagnation of humidity, making the temperature excursions very rapid and sharp with clear skies and no winds.
These factors make it the inhabited place with the coldest nights in the whole of Slovenia and among the coldest in all of Europe.
In fact, there are minimum temperatures of -30°C in all winter months, including March, and an absolute peak of -34.5°C (official ARSO station according to WMO).
Being also positioned halfway between the Kvarner Gulf and Trieste one (about 60 linear km) and near the "Snowy mount", it has a good rainfall and therefore a rather marked and prolonged snowiness.
The below zero minimum temperatures are possibly in all months of the year (!), very rarely only in July and August.
Karst-slovenian people call this polje the "Slovenska Siberija".
This album's name is dedicated to my favourite game of all time Elder Scrolls Online and race of all time, The Argonians (reptile humanoids). There's a story for you to read below about some of them towards the bottom.
What does Ku Vastei mean? Read below
By Lights-the-Way, Mystic of the Mages Guild
It is hard to describe the culture of my people. Often my tongue stumbles as I try to explain, but it is my hope that ink and quill will give me time enough to gather my thoughts. And perhaps, though such writing, I will finally connect the parts of me that now feel so divided; my homeland of Murkmire and my new life within the Mages Guild.
These journals are to become my ku-vastei. And, as I write that, I can think of no better topic to begin with.
Ku-vastei roughly translates to "the catalyst of needed change," though such a direct translation in no way does justice to the original meaning. Another translation could be "that which creates the needed pathway for change to occur" or even "the spark which ignites the flame which must come into being."
Perhaps a more direct analysis should be first presented. Ku-vastei is a noun, a thing or person. Vastei directly translates to change, an important part of my culture. Ku is harder to speak of. It is that which leads to change, though not that which creates change. An important role, as stagnation is a fate worse than death.
Take a boulder which sits atop a cliff, teetering in place. It must fall eventually. The ku-vastei does not push the boulder off the cliff; rather, it picks the pebble which holds the rock in place. And so it falls, not by a push, but by a pathway cleared.
Ku-vastei is revered, just as change itself is revered, for to look back at what was means to stumble as you move forward. Sometimes, a little push in the right direction is all someone needs to remember such wisdom. Other times, they may need to be shoved.
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Naka Desh Tribe
by Emmanubeth Hurrent, the Wayfarers' Society of Wayrest
My guide, Names-the-Orchids, took me deep into the swamp to meet a little-known tribe called the Naka-Desh, or Riverbacks. Few Imperials venture far enough into Black Marsh to meet the People of the River, and the Naka-Desh see little benefit in traveling beyond the boundaries of their Hist's roots. For that reason, most perceive them as a secretive and mysterious tribe. This misconception is made all the more amusing by the Riverbacks' boundless hospitality.
We approached the Riverbacks' territory via ferry boats. Our expedition encountered tribal sentries almost immediately. They floated to the surface of the water like turtles or crocodiles. I was struck by the wideness of their faces, the largeness of their eyes, and the broad webs adorning their forearms and throats. The Hist clearly provided the "right skin" for the locale. Riverback territory is more water than land—a drowned marsh navigable by small rafts, canoes, and little else.
Names-the-Orchids greeted them with a series of low croaks. They cheerfully repeated the sound before lifting themselves onto our boat. Neither of the sentries seemed familiar with Cyrodilic, so our guide had to interpret. She told us that the Riverbacks demanded tribute in the form of a riddle before they would grant passage. I detected no threat behind the demand. It seemed like more of an invitation than an order. I've no talent for wordplay, but I shared a children's riddle about doorknobs that practically every Imperial knows. As soon as Names-the-Orchids translated it, the two sentries clapped their hands. One of them pressed his forehead to mine, croaked twice, then both vanished into the water as suddenly as they appeared.
We spent four days among the Riverbacks—all but one of them on rafts fishing. Riverback fishing resembles traditional fishing in name only. Rather than hook and line, the Naka-Desh use large river fish called osheeja gars. Each osheeja is secured by a strange harness and bridle. When the Argonians find an abundant fishing spot, they release the predatory gars and let them snatch up the fish. As soon as an osheeja bites a fish, the Argonians pull their pets to the side of the boat and claim the fish for themselves. I asked Names-the-Orchids how it works. Apparently, the bridle prevents the gar from swallowing. She assured me that the osheejas are well-cared for, though. Until they grow too old, of course, whereupon they too are eaten.
Our time with the Riverbacks was not without frustration. Of all the Argonians I have met, the Naka-Desh were by far the least curious. Other than riddles, they had no appetite for anything we brought. They refused our food, took no particular interest in our tales, and did not even ask for our names. This disinterest combined with their boundless hospitality made most of the expedition uncomfortable. Names-the-Orchids chided us for thinking kindness demands reciprocity. As always, even these small disappointments teach us valuable lessons.
["the tribe is not currently in the game but in the world of the game"]
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