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Local legend suggests that this bridge was started by Bishop Henry Cheyne in the late 13th or early 14th century and completed by Robert the Bruce. Whilst this may or may not be true, historical documents show that the bridge we see today was the result of rebuilding work in three phases in the early 17th century.
This was the main crossing on the Don leading to the north from Aberdeen and vice versa prior to the construction of the adjacent Bridge of Don in 1831. Today the Brig o’ Balgownie is a Scheduled Ancient Monument.
el paso del tiempo, casa abandonada en Uglich, Rusia.
Úglich es una ciudad del óblast de Yaroslavl, en Rusia, siendo el centro administrativo del rayón de Úglich. Se encuentra sobre el Volga, poco antes de que deje el embalse de Ríbinsk, a 92 km al noroeste de Yaroslavl.
Yellow Wagtail (M) - Motacilla Flava
The yellow wagtail can be spotted running about, chasing insects on lowland damp marshes and meadows during summer. As its name suggests, it does wag its tail!
Classified in the UK as Red under the Birds of Conservation Concern 4: the Red List for Birds (2015).
The Yellow Wagtail likes damp marshes, meadows and farmland, and spends much of its time running about on the ground, chasing insects disturbed by the feet of livestock. Yellow wagtails nest on the ground or in long grass, using plants, grasses and stems to build a cup-shape which they line with fur. They can have up to two broods, each with five or six eggs. A summer visitor, they arrive from their African wintering grounds from March onwards.
The yellow wagtail is olivey-green above and yellow below, with a yellow face and a black-and-white tail. Males are brighter than females. The similar grey wagtail also has a yellow belly, but has a grey back and black wings. Yellow wagtails have much shorter tails than the other two species of breeding wagtail in the UK.
Distribution
Widespread, mostly in the lowlands of Central and Eastern England, Wales and southern Scotland.
Habitats
GrasslandFreshwaterFarmlandWetlands
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Eight different subspecies of yellow wagtail can be found in Europe, differing in the colour of the males' heads. For example, in France and Germany, you will find the blue-headed wagtail; in Italy, the grey-headed wagtail; and in Finland, the ashy-headed wagtail.
Timanfaya, heart of the vulcanic eruption. Lanzarote, Canary Islands.
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I drove across Beverley Westwood yesterday an ancient area of pasture land on the edge of Beverley, were cattle still graze unfenced. In all my years of crossing the Westwood I have never seen it so carpeted in buttercups. I had time to stop and take a quick grab shot as you can see the sky was heavy with clouds a few minutes after taking the shot it was pouring with rain
Apart from a crop it is SOOC with no filters
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Una scena spettacolare, resa ancor più suggestiva dalla nebbia. I gabbiani in volo erano in realtà sul molo, belli comodi. È stata una mia idea "lanciarli" in volo così da animare la scena. Il ruolo magico e surreale che ha avuto la nebbia è stato fondamentale!!
La Ceja, Colombia; 2.300 meters above sea level.
Thraupis palmarum (Palm Tanager / Tángara palmera)
The Palm Tanager is one of the most widespread and familiar birds of the neotropics, from Nicaragua south to southern Brazil. They are common at forest borders, but also occur in the canopy of the interior of forest. As the name suggests, Palm Tanagers often are associated with palm trees, but by no means are they restricted to living in palms.
Source: Cornell Lab of Ornithology; neotropical.birds.cornell.edu/portal/species/overview?p_p...
Donostia 2015. I saw the vessel with the red spinnaker coming from afar (you got it Cordula ) and waited for about 10' til it reached a visually attractive point in my framing without sacrificing the nothern cliffs of Santa Clara island. I was iffy about whether or not entirely letting out at the top of frame the narrow Urgull's shoreline, but I also wanted to include the surf, which helps to suggest an eye path across the picture.
La Ceja, Colombia; 2.300 meters above sea level.
Thraupis palmarum (Palm Tanager / Tángara palmera)
The Palm Tanager is one of the most widespread and familiar birds of the neotropics, from Nicaragua south to southern Brazil. They are common at forest borders, but also occur in the canopy of the interior of forest. As the name suggests, Palm Tanagers often are associated with palm trees, but by no means are they restricted to living in palms.
Source: Cornell Lab of Ornithology; neotropical.birds.cornell.edu/portal/species/overview?p_p...
These petunias seem to be subject to some sort of somatic mutation, where the color gene(s) are not expressed in an early cell, and the white spot that cell develops into enlarges as the flower grows. I think. At any rate, these petunias are both beautiful.
Thank you for looking. Isn't God a great artist?
RHS Hyde Hall, Rettendon, Nr. Chelmsford, Essex
Over the past 5 or 6 years I have posted many images from RHS Hyde Hall and now I’m going to post another series, this time called ‘A day in the Life’. As the title suggests I’m posting what I think are the best of that particular day. These are just some taken on 6th April 2017. They go back a couple of years, but there are many in the pipeline, as far back as 2014. This is the first of four postings and as you will see I got hooked up on Tulips this time.
The first town, built by Celts in the first century BC, occupied about 30 hectares along the slopes of Gellért Hill. Archaeological finds suggest that it may have been a densely populated settlement with a separate district of craftsmen (potteries and bronze foundries). It may have been a trading centre as well, as coins coming from different regions would indicate. The town was occupied by the Romans at the beginning of the Christian era. Its inhabitants moved to the Danube plains to a city retaining the Celtic name (Aquincum) in the first century AD. In AD 106, the city became the capital of the Roman province of Pannonia Inferior. The headquarters of the governor and significant military force were stationed here, and its population numbered about 20,000. It was frequently involved in wars on the border of the Roman Empire (formed by the Danube River).
The city of Budapest was officially created on 17 November 1873 from a merger of the three neighboring cities of Pest, Buda and Óbuda. Smaller towns on the outskirts of the original city were amalgamated into Greater Budapest in 1950. ( wikipedia )
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Saint John the Theologian, Kaneo (Macedonian: Свети Јован Канео) or simply Saint John at Kaneo is a Macedonian Orthodox church situated on the cliff over Kaneo Beach overlooking Lake Ohrid in the city of Ohrid, Republic of Macedonia. The church is dedicated to John of Patmos, the writer of bible book of Revelation. The construction date of the church remains unknown but documents detailing the church property suggest that it was built before the year 1447. Archaeologists believe that the church was constructed some time before the rise of the Ottoman Empire very likely in the 13th century.
Submitted: 02/12/2017
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The Fairy Pools are a natural waterfall phenomenon in Glen Brittle on the Isle of Skye. The vivid blues and greens of the pools suggest an unnatural origin. They are a popular place for wild swimmers.
The habitat of the Fairy Pools hosts a variety of animals, such as red deer, rabbits, and sheep. The area is also host to a large number of birds. Large flocks of crows, ravens, and gulls are present in the area, as well as such smaller birds as meadow pipits, turnstones, common ringed plovers, grey herons, dunlins, and curlews. The physical landscape is predominately rocky, with some boggy areas here and there. The water in the area is typically cold.
The Fairy Pools are a popular location for walkers. It is about a 20 minute walk to the Fairy Pools from the Glen Brittle car park.
Una river, one of the most beautiful rivers, as its name suggests (UNA = unique). Recorded in the city of Bosanski Novi/Novi Grad. The Una is a river that originates in Croatia, with a total length of about 212 km, then partly forms the border between Croatia and Bosnia and Herzegovina, then flows through Bosnia and Herzegovina, and the last 100 km is again the border between Croatia and Bosnia and Herzegovina. The river is wild at times, but before its confluence with the Sava near Jasenovac, it becomes a real plains river. There are also several natural phenomena (waterfalls in Martinbrod and Štrbački buk). Many people love rafting and fishing on the Una.
Percorrendo la suggestiva strada provinciale 17 si può ammirare la bellissima costa sud-orientale dell’isola. Superata la frazione sinnaese turistica di Solanas (provenendo da Cagliari), la strada inizia a salire considerevolmente attraverso alcuni tornanti. Giunti alla sommità di un piccolo rilievo, sulla destra, si trova un’ampia piazzola di sosta sterrata che si erge sul mare. Percorrendo una stradina sterrata che si dirige a sud è possibile visitare la torre di Capo Boi, edificata nel 1591. Se si prosegue sulla suddetta stradina si può tornare al punto di partenza (con un percorso ad anello) transitando nel versante occidentale del rilievo noto come monte Turri, da cui si può ammirare la sottostante spiaggia di Solanas.
This is my leather ‘belt for life’. Pretty sure I bought it from either Rhodes or Crete around 30 years ago and I’ve barely worn another since. At macro level it looks like it’s ready for the bin but as the title suggests it’s got a few more years in it yet!
HMM
Looking to get into the Christmas / Winter spirit then i would suggest checking out Snowdrops :-
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A beautiful build and the little details capture that cosy feeling we all love about Winter. ♥
Oh no, tonight I find it hard to swallow
The bed is made and I feel hollow
My friends suggest that I should take it slow
I took it slow
I sweat it out, I'm not okay, I'm shaking on the floor
I lay awake and I count the days and I wait beside the door
For love, I only want you next to me
Sweet love, how long before you hurt for me?
Hurt for me, do you hurt for me?
Blackout the night before inside of my mouth
Too much it's what I like to do now
My mind explodes and I can't make it out
I'm falling down
I see your face in blurry shades and I reach out for your hand
All your ways I can't explain but I want to understand
My love, I only want you next to me
Sweet love, how long before you hurt for me?
Hurt for me, do you hurt for me?
I sedate my mind with hope of your return
Just enough to weigh me down
I can fake my heart and I love to watch it burn
But it knows you ain't around
My love, I only want you next to me
Sweet love, how long before you hurt for me?
Hurt for me, will you hurt for me?
***
SYML - Hurt For Me
RHS Hyde Hall, Rettendon, Essex
Over the past years I have posted many images from Hyde Hall and this is a continuation of the series called ‘A Day in the Life’. As the title suggests I’m posting what I think are the best of that particular day. These are just some of the images taken on 05/07/2022 and are the latest batch of photograph’s to be posted.
walking by a roadside garden last summer ....l paused for a moment to admire this red zinnia ....and the pretty flower attracted another admirer as well :-)
Uno degli ambienti per me più suggestivi del PN Veglia-Devero, circondato dalle guglie rocciose dell'Helsenorn e del pizzo di Boccareccio
The Fairy Pools are a natural waterfall phenomenon in Glen Brittle on the Isle of Skye. The vivid blues and greens of the pools suggest an unnatural origin. They are a popular place for wild swimmers.
The habitat of the Fairy Pools hosts a variety of animals, such as red deer, rabbits, and sheep. The area is also host to a large number of birds. Large flocks of crows, ravens, and gulls are present in the area, as well as such smaller birds as meadow pipits, turnstones, common ringed plovers, grey herons, dunlins, and curlews. The physical landscape is predominately rocky, with some boggy areas here and there. The water in the area is typically cold.
The Fairy Pools are a popular location for walkers. It is about a 20 minute walk to the Fairy Pools from the Glen Brittle car park.
Percorrendo la suggestiva strada provinciale 17 si può ammirare la bellissima costa sud-orientale dell’isola. Superata la frazione sinnaese turistica di Solanas (provenendo da Cagliari), la strada inizia a salire considerevolmente attraverso alcuni tornanti. Giunti alla sommità di un piccolo rilievo, sulla destra, si trova un’ampia piazzola di sosta sterrata che si erge sul mare. Percorrendo una stradina sterrata che si dirige a sud è possibile visitare la torre di Capo Boi, edificata nel 1591. Se si prosegue sulla suddetta stradina si può tornare al punto di partenza (con un percorso ad anello) transitando nel versante occidentale del rilievo noto come monte Turri, da cui si può ammirare la sottostante spiaggia di Solanas.
Created for and inspired by jOe Vance aka oliver.odd in appreciation for his assistance admining "The Hypothetical Awards and associated groups"
jOe besides defying gravity, has been in the really secret service, a galactic explorer extraordinaire, a swashbuckling cape wearing chick magnet and has been known to be a danger to low flying aircraft from time to time.
In his spare time jOe profusely creates some of the most amazing eclectic art imaginable.
Mirror images abound combined with pointillism, melded geometrized abstractions, animals birds,and other species that Darwin could not have envisaged plus the odd trip to places totally of the map.
But wait there's more,but I suggest you take a look at jOe's amazing stream yourself ... word of warning though "you will never see things the same again"
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it seems very likely that St Anthony's Chapel was closely associated with Holyrood Abbey, which stood just a few hundred yards away to the north-west. The two were linked by a well-made stone track (now heavily worn) with prominent kerbstones that can in places still be seen, and about three quarters of the way along this track up to the chapel is the spring and carved stone bowl known as St Anthony's Well.
It's tempting to think of St Anthony's Chapel as an outlying chapel for Holyrood Abbey, perhaps constructed as a means of getting pilgrims out from under the feet of the monks in the abbey. It has also been suggested that the chapel served as a sort of religious beacon, designed to be clearly visible to sea-borne pilgrims coming to Holyrood Abbey as they sailed up the River Forth.
As for dating, there are references to a grant paid for repairs to St Anthony's Chapel by the Pope in 1426, suggesting the building could date back into the 1300s or beyond. Details of its demise are equally unclear, but presumably, like Holyrood Abbey itself, St Anthony's Chapel fell into disuse and disrepair after the Reformation in 1560.
Today, all that remains of the chapel are parts of the north wall plus remnants of another building a little to the south-west, which has sometimes been called a hermitage but was probably just a store room. The remaining chapel wall shows signs of vaulting, and it is thought that when complete the building would have comprised a small three-bay chapel, with a three-storey tower at its west end. This odd shape, almost as tall as it was long, supports the idea that the chapel was designed as much to ensure distant visibility as to accommodate worshippers.
ساري واصوت لك ابيك
والرعشه في قلبي ياقلبي تبيك
شعوري ذا الليله غريب
كيف الحبيب يشكي الحبيب
انا ملكتك وانا فقدتك
ليتني لمن عرفتك ماتركتك
لما عيوني عانقوك
في غمضه وحده ضيعوك
اسال زماني والمكان
واجمع سواليف الحنان
قلب وليلي به سرى
والي جرالي ماجرى
امشي وادور في الوجوه
تايه عيونك توهوه
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IMG_5762: Since Saturday we've got about 12" of snow where I live. I ran out to take this photo of the yard lights illuminating the fresh stuff last night. Nothing puts me in the holiday spirit more than a bit of fresh snow :)
Not suggesting for a moment that this is postcard quality but I've been away from Flickr for a while and wanted to let you know that my shutter finger is still operational.
This shot was taken from a recent overnight trip to Oban on the west coast of Scotland. The island of Kerrera can just be seen on the left, the small Maiden Island is on the right, and the cloud covered mountains of Mull are in the far distance behind the Caledonian MacBrayne ferry.
It's good to be back folks....and it used to be traditional to send a card when you've been away.
As its name suggests, redshanks' most distinctive features are their bright orange-red legs. They have a medium-length bill with an orange base to match, brown speckled back and wings and paler belly.
"Light Phase"
This is one Raptor that likes to play hide and seek...they win most of the time !!
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Thraupis palmarum (Palm Tanager / Tángara palmera)
La Ceja, Colombia; 2.300 meters above sea level.
The Palm Tanager is one of the most widespread and familiar birds of the neotropics, from Nicaragua south to southern Brazil. They are common at forest borders, but also occur in the canopy of the interior of forest. As the name suggests, Palm Tanagers often are associated with palm trees, but by no means are they restricted to living in palms.
Source: Cornell Lab of Ornithology; neotropical.birds.cornell.edu/portal/species/overview?p_p...
La Ceja, Colombia; Central Andes; 2.300 meters above sea level.
Ortalis columbiana (Colombian Chacalaca / Guacharaca)
Endemic to Colombia, as its name would suggest, and the only chachalaca within its now relatively limited range in the central (Cauca and Magdalena) valleys of the country. It is found in both humid and deciduous forests, but the species’ range and population are both almost certainly declining, and it survives only in pockets.
Source: Neotropical Birds Online: neotropical.birds.cornell.edu/portal/species/overview?p_p...
Shaniara Skulls latex body suit and gloves by AtaMe, available at the Gacha Garden. It suggested an SF setting to me ...
Chiharu Shiota’s installation Accumulation: Searching for the Destination is made from approx. 430 oscillating suitcases, the work inspired by the discovery of old newspapers in a suitcase she found in Berlin. All things have their own, innate memories, and in this case, the suitcases suggest the memories, movement and migration of strangers; the very journeys of people’s lives. View the work in ‘Chiharu Shiota: The Soul Trembles’ at the Gallery of Modern Art (GOMA), Brisbane until 3 October 2022.
Original image to the left has been flipped horizontally to create a Mirror effect.
This shot or manipulation of the shot, I have to admit isnt my idea, I have to thank New Yorkled http://www.flickr.com/photos/new-yorkled/ for suggesting I try this and I must say I quite like how it turned out
La suggestiva scogliera si trova nella parte nord-occidentale dell’isola di Sant’Antioco a pochi km a sud-ovest dell’abitato di Calasetta. Per accedere è possibile avvalersi di una panoramica strada asfaltata costiera e poi fare un centinaio di metri a piedi in una stradina lastricata che si diparte da uno spazioso parcheggio sterrato che d’estate è a pagamento. La costa risulta particolarmente esposta ai moti ondosi alimentati dal libeccio e, in misura inferiore, dal maestrale, come è testimoniato da questa foto.
Un suggestivo dedalo di viuzze.
Gangi, situata sul Monte Marone, a 1.011 metri sul livello del mare, fu forse originata dai Cretesi intorno al 1200 a.C. mentre è palese nell'urbanistica il passaggio degli Arabi.
Fa parte del circuito de I borghi più belli d'Italia
e il 20 aprile 2014 Gangi viene votato come il "Borgo dei Borghi 2014":
palermo.repubblica.it/cronaca/2014/04/21/foto/alle_falde_...
La Ceja, Colombia; Central Andes; 2.300 meters above sea level.
Ortalis columbiana (Colombian Chacalaca / Guacharaca)
Endemic to Colombia, as its name would suggest, and the only chachalaca within its now relatively limited range in the central (Cauca and Magdalena) valleys of the country. It is found in both humid and deciduous forests, but the species’ range and population are both almost certainly declining, and it survives only in pockets.
Source: Neotropical Birds Online: neotropical.birds.cornell.edu/portal/species/overview?p_p...
Dalla strada provinciale 14, che collega l’abitato di Dolianova alla SS387, provenendo da Dolianova, subito dopo essere scollinati nella località di San Giorgio, si imbocca sulla destra una strada sterrata che con ripidi tornanti porta sulla sommità del rilievo di S’Ome ‘e S’Orcu (793 m.s.l.m.) dove è stata predisposta una vedetta antincendi. Lungo il tragitto si può godere di un bel panorama e si può visitare il suggestivo nuraghe Sa Domu de S'Orcu o S'Om'e s'Orcu.