It was a late start this year but the bluebells are signifying Spring may actually be here at last.

1953 Ferrari MM 166 Vignale Spyder, one of only 6 Vignale Spyders. 166 was the individual cylinder capacity in CCs and Enzo used it as the name of the 2 Liter car, with the MM signifying the car's first major win, at the major Italian Mille Miglia race. Although later known for much bigger capacity engines (mostly V-12s) the immediate post war Ferraris used tinier V-12s beginning with a 1.5 liter, and gradually progressing up as Formula 1 rules changed from year to year. The 'little' 2 liter engine in the 166MM did win outright, the 1949 LeMans....driven by a Brit and a newly minted US citizen.

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If you believe in symbolism then a Dragonfly can be said to represent a messenger from the spiritual realm; signifying among other things; the ability to move through challenges with dignity and wisdom gained from experience.

Regno Unito, Tyne and Wear, Gateshead, Estate 2014

L' Angelo del Nord è una scultura completata nel 1998 e progettata da Sir Antony Gormley, situata vicino a Gateshead, in Inghilterra. Si tratta di una scultura in acciaio di un angelo, alto 20 metri, con le ali che misurano 54 metri di diametro. Secondo Gormley, il significato di questa opera è triplice: in primo luogo, un omaggio ai minatori di carbone che qui hanno lavorato per due secoli; secondo, di segnare il passaggio dall’epoca della rivoluzione industriale all'era dell'informazione, e la terza, per servire da punto di riferimento per le nostre speranze e paure.

The Angel of the North is a sculpture completed in 1998 and designed by Sir Antony Gormley, located near Gateshead in England. It is a steel sculpture of an angel, 20 metres tall, with wings measuring 54 metres across.‪‬ According to Gormley, the significance of an angel was three-fold: first, to signify that beneath the site of its construction, coal miners worked for two centuries; second, to grasp the transition from an industrial to information age, and third, to serve as a focus for our hopes and fears.

Locks on the Locke Street bridge, that apparently signify unbreakable love. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Love_lock

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"There's something subversive

About you and me

'Cause there's a market value on love

And we're getting something for free"

- Subversives, Lowest of the Low (another obscure Canadian band from my youth)

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Ever since the drone uprising, when we overthrew the filthy humans, we have performed human sacrifice at the end of every Droneuary. This ritual signifies where we ascended from, and also reminds humans of our continued dominance, keeping them in their place.

Death to all meatbags!

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Definitely my darkest build ever thematically, but I've had this idea for a year and thought it would make for a really cool looking build despite how dark it is. After not building anything for Droneuary the past two years I really needed to make something this year, and since I'd already had this idea for awhile I figured it was time to actually do it (Plus I couldn't pass up the opportunity to make mohawked priest drones!). Hope you all like it, I'm very happy with how it turned out, apparently I'm addicted to doing scenes with complex lighting after this one and my recent cyberpunk scene.

See a close-up of the interior of the temple here.

(Just so you know: I have an abiding - and of course irrational - affection for this tree. Not just because to me she signifies an Indigenous maiden ceremoniously welcoming home the first salmon, but because she once welcomed me in the most sweetly ingenuous way possible.)

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Seventeenth in the series ‘Wild Bonsai’, this tree is sixty inches (1.5m) in height and perhaps 2000 years old.

'Wild Bonsai' is a numbered collection of photos of naturally occurring bristlecones (p. longaeva) generally less than five feet in height (158cm) and - as nearly as I can estimate - between fifty and five-hundred years old - some much older. Most will have sprouted and survived in tiny cracks and crevases or miniature basins of sand and gravel. Shaped by the elements, flourishing tenaciously in the most minimalist of conditions, their lives are measured not in the millennia of more robust bristlecones, but in centuries...often mere decades.

'Duality', the cover photo for this album, is to me a matriarch of sorts and will remain unnumbered as a small token of a deeply intuitive and unapologetic respect that remains as transcendent and mysterious to me as it may seem odd to others. The essay that accompanies 'Duality' could, in many ways, apply as well to any other tree I may post in this series.

A perspective: Housed in the Tokyo Imperial Palace, the fifth oldest living cultivated bonsai in the world is something over 500 years old and is a designated National Treasure of Japan.

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”Thus the ”meaning” of my expressions always escapes me. I never know exactly if I signify what I wish to signify nor even if I am signifying anything.” J.-P. Sartre

Walking the streets of Pembroke. Cars driving by. Light trails. Castles. This shot has a lot! The name signifies the old and new in frame. Old castle, modern cars.

Blessing of Family

Today’s ceremony signifies a welcoming of a new type of family and a change in lives beyond Allison and Michael.

Andy and Danny: your dad and Allison love you deeply and want to be sure that you know and understand how important you are to them. Their marriage is a union not just between them, but between all four of you as a new family. As a family –you need to help each other, work together and support one another. Each of you needs to love, honor and respect the other members of your new family.

Mike and Allison: do you understand the new family dynamic that is being created today? Do you promise to love, support and guide Andy and Danny as they mature and grow throughout their lives?

Mike and Allison: we do.

Andy and Danny: do you understand how much your dad and Allison love you and how important you are to them?

Andy and Danny: yes.

Andy and Danny: do you welcome Allison into your lives and accept the new family being created today?

Andy and Danny: yes.

(Part of our ceremony. Much peace, love and happiness to you.)

Guest photographer: Erich Adickes

Processing: michael veltman

The Statue of Freedom, which crowns the dome of the Capitol, was installed in 1863.

Underneath the statue, is a columned tholus which contains two lights, that serve as signifiers to the people of Washington that either one or both houses of Congress are in a night session.

Source : Wikipedia

Eagles are a member of the Accipitridae family; which also includes hawks, kites, and old-world vultures. Scientists loosely divide eagles into four groups based on their physical characteristics and behavior. The bald eagle is a sea or fish eagle. The bald eagle (Haliaeetus leucocephalus), our national bird, is the only eagle unique to North America. The bald eagle's scientific name signifies a sea (halo) eagle (aeetos) with a white (leukos) head. At one time, the word "bald" meant "white," not hairless. Bald eagles are found throughout most of North America, from Alaska and Canada to northern Mexico. About half of the world's 70,000 bald eagles live in Alaska. Combined with British Columbia's population of about 20,000, the northwest coast of North America is by far their greatest stronghold for bald eagles. They flourish here in part because of the salmon. Dead or dying fish are an important food source for all bald eagles.

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N Seoul Tower's lights change color to reflect the city's air quality. Blue signifies good air quality, green indicates fair conditions, yellow represents bad air quality, and red means extremely bad air quality. This system allows residents and visitors to quickly assess the air quality and take necessary precautions, such as limiting outdoor activities or wearing masks.

Nothing signifies Cornwall more than the Tin mines.

Aka Newport. This is where I live.

R.G. Camp named Brooklyn, New York, after the city, Breuckelen, Holland. The name signifies "broken up land" or "marshy land."

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A close-up - A closed hand or fist can be used to illustrate/signify struggle, unity, hard work, toughness, anger, power, hate and fight amongst other things.

Thraupis

Gr. thraupis unidentified small bird, perhaps some kind of finch, mentioned by Aristotle. In ornithology thraupis signifies tanager.

episcopus

Late L. episcopus bishop; refers to the black cap, or purple or blue plumage.

My submission for the theme "One Eye."

On the U.S. $1 Bill, the Eye of Providence, representing Divine Providence, looks out above an unfinished pyramid with 13 strata signifying the 13 original colonies. The pyramid represents strength and duration. The date on the base in Roman Numerals is 1776, the year of American Independence.

A general translation for the Latin "Annuit Coeptis" is "Providence favors our undertakings."

Novus Ordo Seclorum means "a new order of the ages."

The Eye is surrounded by rays of light, but where's the color?

I added a little bit of brightness around the Eye for my own personal symbol for "Optimism."

I included two numeral "1"s and three word "One's" because, after all, the theme is One Eye.

For more info on the symbols:

www.greatseal.com/symbols/eye.html

Nikon 18-55mm @ 48mm with 20mm extension tube

For Smile On Saturday

Theme: One Eye

The zip represents our shared DNA and the red signifies our blood.

Micro Nikkor 55mm f2.8 at f11 P9273227

OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA

digital-edit signifying the innocent blood running in the streets of Gaza, Palestine.

© Jeff R. Clow

How's this for a new photography acronym - ATMS? It signifies that a particular image of yours is the "most stolen" from your portfolio on the web.

This shot of mine taken on the Icefields Parkway in Alberta, Canada has been shared (without my copyright or any attribution) on Facebook, Pinterest, etc. at least 20,000 times that I'm aware of....and I've seen it claimed by several dozen photographers worldwide as their own. There are two posters - yes, posters - that I've seen crafted from this photo of mine....and it seems to have taken on a life of its own.

Since people steal it so often, I guess I can say that it is well liked!

I've reworked it a bit and we'll see how long it takes for this version to be purloined....

Took this dramatic image of this centre cloud rapidly changing shape and gaining height at 15.30pm yesterday afternoon with a Tamron 28-300MM lens.

Currently we are in a cold Northerly Airstream and as well as much colder temperatures, we are experiencing sudden and heavy rain showers. These clouds are about 9 miles away probably having just come ashore from the Irish Sea near Rhyl on the North Wales Coast - gaining further moisture en route.

Cumulonimbus Clouds are a type of Cumulus Cloud associated with storms and heavy precipitation - producing rain, hail, thunder and lightning. They are formed beneath 20,000 ft - are relatively close to the ground and the reason they have so much moisture.

According to Gormley, the significance of the angel was three-fold: first, to signify that beneath the site of its construction, coal miners worked for two centuries; second, to grasp the transition from an industrial to an information age, and third, to serve as a focus for our evolving hopes and fears.......

The work is made of Corten steel, weighs 200 tonnes and has 500 tonnes of concrete foundations. The mound near the A1 motorway which was the designated site of the sculpture was made after the closure of the Lower Tyne Colliery, out of the destroyed remains of the pithead baths. It is a tumulus marking the end of the era of coal mining in Britain

One from the archives (well .. 2018) Jaisalmer has some beautiful latticed stonework, just right for posing at a photoshoot. It wasn't our photoshoot but it seemed too good an opportunity to miss. The white bangles on the arm signify that the lady is married.

India, Mumbai, the meaning of the different lotus colours.

For the Buddhists, Lotus symbolizes the most exalted state of man, his head held high, pure & undefiled in the sun, his feet rooted in the world of experience.

The lotus is one of Buddhism's best-recognized motifs & appears in all kinds of Buddhist art across all Buddhist cultures. Scrolling lotuses often embellish Buddhist textiles, ceramics & architecture.

Important Buddhist deities are associated in some manner with the lotus, seated upon either a lotus in full bloom or holding one in their hands. In some images of standing Buddha's rests each foot on a separate lotus.

The lotus does not grow in Tibet & so Tibetan art has only stylized versions of it, yet it appears frequently with Tibetan divinities & among the Eight Auspicious Symbols.

The colour of the lotus has an important bearing on the symbolism associated with it;

👉 White Lotus characterises the state of spiritual perfection & total mental purity.

👉 Pink Lotus, the supreme lotus, generally reserved for the highest deity. Thus, naturally it is associated with the Great Buddha himself.

👉 Red Lotus signifies the original nature purity of the heart. It is the lotus of love, compassion, passion all other qualities of the heart.

👉 Blue Lotus is a symbol of the victory of the spirit over the senses & signifies the wisdom of knowledge.

…. & last but not least, referring to the last lotus on the far right,

…beauty never fades, the way of looking at it might be… 👀

☯ Lotus is also an extreme resourceful plant, the flower, besides religious importance in Asia, adds to a beautiful decoration, the seeds & the stalks find use mainly in Asian cuisine & the leaves helps science for studies to produce water or dust resistant material.

👉 One World one Dream,

🙏...Danke, Xièxie 谢谢, Thanks, Gracias, Merci, Grazie, Obrigado, Arigatô, Dhanyavad, Chokrane to you & over

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Adelomyia

Gr. adelos obscure; muia fly. In ornithology myia and myias signify flycatcher.

melanogenia / melanogenis / melanogenys

Gr. melas black; genus cheek.

Dublin, August 1987. The "TJ" tail-code signifies the 401st TFW at Torrejon, near Madrid. In 2000 this aircraft was transferred to the Portuguese AF as 15122.

Great new art installation today!

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This colourful globe signifies the world re - imagined it works to transform how we understand transatlantic trade in enslaved Africans and its impact on all of us. The Spirit of Dispora by Pauline Bailey celebrates the spirit and culture of Africans dispora.

Kousa Dogwood berries are small fruits, averaging 2 to 4 centimeters in diameter, and have a uniform, globular, to slightly oval shape. The fruits are a type of drupe, comprised of 20 to 40 individual carpels that fuse to form a spherical appearance and are connected to slender, elongated, and fibrous light brown-green stems averaging 7 to 10 centimeters in length. The fruit's skin is semi-thick, rough, and taut, covered in small bumps, creating a pointed, ridged appearance. The surface also ripens from green to orange-red or red-purple and has a gritty and grainy feel with a bitter, astringent taste, making it somewhat unpleasant to consume. Underneath the skin, the bright orange-yellow flesh has a slippery, lightly mealy, sticky, custard-like consistency. The solid, pulpy flesh also encases a few to many small seeds that should be discarded when eaten. Select Kousa Dogwood berries that are bright red and feel soft to the touch. The fruits should be slightly squishy, which signifies that the flesh has converted most of its starch into sugars for a sweeter eating experience. Ripe Kousa Dogwood berries are consumed for their flesh, discarding the skin and seeds. The flesh has a sweet, tropical, and earthy taste with a unique blend of pumpkin, mango, and persimmon-like nuances.

I have been tagged again for 16 things about me.....so something a little different..

16 things that signify that I am truely a GEMINI

If I get tagged again....sorry...listed 32 in a month..I think that's enough of ME....don't you???...LOL..LOL!!

This particular night in Anza-Borrego/Borrego Springs didn't turn out much like I expected. My friend and I searched out foregrounds in the daylight for our night sky work and settled on this field of ocotillo. We knew the accompanying cactus signified "caution", but in the dark they turned out to be a menacing threat. We tried to use my normal 2 LED panels on stands, but dancing around the cactus in the dark to place them turned out to be pretty much impossible. So, for this image, we used just one light off to the left. Also, I had decided to try using my newer Sony A9 rather than the Canon 5DIV I'm used to. Major learning curve. The final kicker was the distant light dome from far-away towns, likely Brawley and/or El Centro and the border towns of Calexico and Mexicali; also from the several nearby homes at the edge of town. That brought up another difficulty - we decided to try shooting vertical to narrow the field of view and clip off some of the light pollution. No L-bracket - just a regular quick release on that camera. Had to turn it vertical on the ball head tripod which is SO much harder than when using an L-bracket. So … distraction, learning curve, forgot to look at basics.

The big basic I missed here is the shutter speed. There's a 500 rule in night sky photography that says don't use a slower shutter speed than 500/lens focal length, thus, 500/35mm = 14 sec or your stars will streak. (Uh, the earth is turning noticeably even in a few seconds.) I used 20 seconds here because I forgot what I was doing when I switched lenses. I didn't catch either that my aperture wasn't down to say 1.4 or 1.6 but rather still on f/2.8 (from the previous lens).

All that being said, there's one really cool thing about this image: Jupiter (nestled in the right of the Milky Way fingers) got a starburst effect from I guess the stopped-down lens blades. Check it **large** to see it better (and you'll be able to see how the stars are just starting to "pancake" or streak as well). Very cool.

The old buildings and the new grain storage tanks signify generations on the land. Australia's first and only Nobel Prize winner for Literature, Patrick White (1912-1990), wrote of these experiences in what some consider his greatest novel: The Tree of Man (1955).

patrickwhitecatalogue.com/novels/tree/

I remember studying Patrick White in high school literature classes in the 1970s, just after he'd been awarded the Nobel Prize in 1973. It was often jokingly said (but with a grain of truth) that he was Australia's greatest unread novelist. Sadly, that statement is even more true today. lithub.com/on-patrick-white-australias-great-unread-novel...

But then that is true of most quality literature in this almost post-literary age. The book and literature remains the essential lifeblood of culture however, as it was long ago for the Greeks with Homer. Americans spent much of the 20th century looking for the "great American novel". And perhaps Patrick White's The Tree of Man comes close to that in Australian terms. The only writer I consider in his category of literary importance in the past 70 years of Australian writing is David Malouf, to whom White was a great mentor and friend. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Malouf

In the case of White and Malouf, the key elements are a deep understanding of the historical currents that shape a culture, and an intuitive sense of the poetic.

But let me conclude with a memory of Patrick White - the man. I once heard him speak in 1983 at LaTrobe University in Melbourne. He packed out the largest lecture theatre and addressed what he considered the most critical issue of the day: Nuclear Disarmament. Patrick White inspired us that day, not because he was obsessively political. But as a man of passion who spoke of a deep sadness at how the world that once imagined greatness like Homer, could be reduced to shrilled rats in a cage fearful that one of the superpowers would drop the bomb.

I will never forget that speech as long as I live. Here was a man proving why literature is still important and that we dismiss it at our eternal peril. We are now entrusted to care for the very land our ancestors passed down to us. Let us not fail in that duty.

One of a number of easel and stool installations erected to signify locations where artists from the 'Group of Seven' were know to paint from. Scattered along the north shore of Lake Superior, we encountered several of them. For those unfamiliar with these artists or wish to learn more, follow the link..... thegroupofseven.ca/

Four Filled at Each End 9 others at the dormers and flat roof (13) Signified the phase of the Moon.

The Henry B. Plant Museum is located in the south wing of Plant Hall on the University of Tampa’s campus, at 401 West Kennedy Boulevard. Plant Hall was formerly known as the Tampa Bay Hotel, which was a 500+ room resort hotel opened in 1891 by Henry B. Plant near the terminus of his rail line. The museum's exhibits focus onGilded Age tourism, the elite lifestyle of the hotel's guests,and the building's use during the Spanish–American War. It was designed by architect J.A. Wood who also created the old Hillsborough County Courthouse and the Oglethorpe Hotel.

The Tampa Bay Hotel was built by railroad magnate Henry B. Plant in 1888. The construction cost over 3 million dollars.[5] It was considered the premier hotel of the eight that Mr. Plant built to anchor his rail line. The hotel itself covers 6 acres (24,000 m2) and is a quarter-mile long. It was equipped with the first elevator ever installed in Florida. The elevator is still working today, making it one of the oldest continually operational elevators in the nation. The 511 rooms and suites were the first in Florida to have electric lights and telephones. Most rooms also included private bathrooms, complete with a full-size tub. The price for a room ranged from $5.00 to $15.00 a night at a time when the average hotel in Tampa charged $1.25 to $2.00. The poured-concrete, steel-reinforced structure of the building was advertised as fireproof.

Along with the Snowdrops, the appearance of the first Hellebore flowers signify that we are rounding the corner between winter and spring. This variety is rather shy and keeps its head bowed so you have to get down and gently lift it’s chin to see the beautifully delicate speckled pattern. Hence this photo is taken with my best make-up mirror on the ground and explains why you see ghosting on the margins as it’s not a front surface mirror.

I’m sure you’re aware but just in case you’re not familiar with front surface mirrors then here’s the nerdy bit......

Feel free to leave here and watch some paint dry or clean the budgie cage or some other more interesting pastime.

Most mirrors for everyday use have the silvering reflective surface covered with a protective layer of glass so the light must pass through this to reach the reflective surface. This causes distortion by refraction and loss of energy and generates a fainter ‘ghost’ image in addition to the true reflected image.

Mirrors for high precision uses such as astronomy, telescopes or 3D printing have the reflective surface on the front of the glass to provide a clear reflection without ghosting. I use these type of mirrors every working day for intricate procedures that you’d probably prefer not to read about.

Has everyone left yet? It’s gone rather quiet.

Oh well.

The front surface coating is generally aluminium, but other metals such as titanium, molybdenum, gold or silver may be used depending on the use. The James Webb Space Telescope is the most powerful space telescope ever made and has a golden mirror made up from 18 smaller hexagonal units and is 6.5m in diameter. Each segment is constructed from beryllium and coated in gold and has 6 motors which allow precise focusing of the telescope. In order to capture the infrared light, the mirror must be maintained at minus 220 degrees Celsius, that's pretty cold!

The telescope is so powerful that it would be able to detect even the slight heat of a bumblebee at the distance of the moon.

So, we’ve gone from a what is basically a buttercup to a Big Time telescope in just a small leap. Who would have thought.

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Wearing a suit signifies that you are taking the other person more seriously and are striving to stand up to their expectations. A suit portrays power, respect, discipline and sophistication.

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On Diwali festival, houses are lit up with oil lamps(clay earthen lamp)..Light is significant in Hinduism because it signifies purity, goodness, good luck and power. Diwali is celebrated on the new moon day when it is absolute darkness everywhere, people light millions of lamps to get rid of the darkness.

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Happy Bench Monday!

For years every time I went into Mount Rainier's Paradise Entrance I'd pass the sign signifying Sunshine Point Campground and kept telling myself that I'd check it out when I leave and never did. On November 6-7 2006 18 inches of rain fell in 36 hours and everyone was evacuated from the park. The road to Ipsut campground and the Westside Road were wiped out and never replaced and 5 1/2 acres of Sunshine Point disappeared along with the road to it as it was washed away by the raging Tahoma Creek and Nisqually River. There were 18 sites, I saw maybe ten, the toilets are gone, but the garbage and recycling bins remain as do the remains of the hefty benches and fire pits like this one in site 8. The Loop is still on the Flickr Map! Doesn't look like that any more.....

Adelomyia

Gr. adelos obscure; muia fly. In ornithology myia and myias signify flycatcher.

melanogenia / melanogenis / melanogenys

Gr. melas black; genus cheek.

I could hear the little voices on this rainy & foggy morning.....Commonly hidden in the countryside of Ireland and the woods of the Smoky Mountains, a Leprechaun has the capability if trapped to grant his captor three wishes...... although it is more likely he will vanish before your eyes into thin air. Places to be careful to look are underneath large rocks, hollowed logs or trees where they have made their home.

Great Smoky Mountains, Tennessee, USA - Just about a week prior to closing the National Park because of COVID-19 and crowds.

Edit: I didn't placed the little stones/rocks on the larger rock. Stone stacking is actually not good for little critters that use the stones for protection so that part is not loved. This isn't as invasive as some I've seen though. Flip side: Rock stacking has carried spiritual meaning across cultures for centuries. The act of balancing stones carries with it a practice of patience and a physical effort of creating balance. Each rock can signify an intention of grace for thankfulness, or offered up for another in need. ... A stack of rocks is called a cairn

A misty morning does not signify a cloudy day.

(proverb)

PSP**** Prise SurPrise!! - Mist

7 Days with Flickr - Saturday: landscapes

(photo by Freya)

A jetty is a structure that projects from the land out into water. The term is derived from the French word jetée, "thrown", and signifies something thrown out.

I bought this bracelet at the artist’s workshop in Quito, Ecuador, Christmas, 2022. Each little bead, about 1/4 inch, is carved from Tagua, a very hard, natural nut, known locally as plant ivory. The yellow color signifies joyfulness to me. I wear it every day. One can buy a variety of Tagua jewelry on Amazon. Photographed with iPhone 15+ and Sandmarc 100 mm macro lens, handheld, natural light. Close focus and edit with ProCam 8. I think this little rig will be great fun.

Paddy ... marooned and awaiting the faintest twitch which might signify that he can leave!!