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City of Arts & Sciences, Valencia.
Architects: Santiago Calatrava, & Félix Candela
Photo taken during my first visit to Valencia, Spain. The orange fence is not a permanent feature.
The City of Arts and Sciences is situated at the southeast end of the former riverbed of the river Turia, which was drained and rerouted after a flood in 1957, the year of my birth. The old riverbed was turned into a picturesque sunken park.
“Simple things relieve eyes; simple things ease mind, simple things create meditation, simple things are simply miraculous!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan
Poinsettias.
Poinsettias are part of the Euphorbiaceae or Spurge family. Botanically, the plant is known as Euphorbia pulcherrima.
Many plants in the Euphorbiaceae family ooze a milky sap. Some people with latex allergies have had a skin reaction (most likely to the sap) after touching the leaves. For pets, the poinsettia sap may cause mild irritation or nausea. Probably best to keep pets away from the plant, especially puppies and kittens.
Poinsettias are not poisonous. A study at Ohio State University showed that a 50-pound child would have to eat more than 500 leaves to have any harmful effect. Plus poinsettia leaves have an awful taste. You might want to keep your pets from snacking on poinsettia leaves. Eating the leaves can cause vomiting and diarrhea.
The showy colored parts of poinsettias that most people think of as the flowers are actually colored bracts (modified leaves).
Poinsettias have also been called the lobster flower and the flame-leaf flower, due to the red color.
December 12th is Poinsettia Day, which marks the death of Joel Roberts Poinsett in 1851.
In Mexico, the Poinsettia is displayed in celebration of the "Dia de la Virgen", which is also coincidentally, December 12th.
The Aztecs used the Poinsettia bracts to make a reddish purple dye for fabrics, and used the sap medicinally to control fevers.
Focusing on the detail. A brutalist concrete ceiling and roof lights in an indoor market building in Huddersfield, West Yorkshire.
Queensgate Market. Built 1968-1970. Architect: Gwyn Roberts of J Seymour Harris Partnership.
The discoloured film on some of these windows has taken on an abstract form.
Photo taken September 2022.
Also see 'Simple Abstract 78', another shot of the same ceiling, taken in October 2021. flic.kr/p/2myM5gM
Another perspective of Prospect Place, Battersea, London. Architect: Frank Gehry/Gehry Partners. This is his first residential building in the United Kingdom. Completed 2022.
Rain and cold = Comfy and coffee!
Enjoy ♥
Details - squibsthesmallfry.blogspot.com/2020/10/lotd-11-simple.html
My first Flickr upload of 2023. Happy New Year everyone!
Looking-up in Toronto.
Photo taken in October 2017.
A well known block of flats in Central London. I'd forgotten that I'd taken this photo until recently.
Built in 1936 by Guy Morgan and Partners who worked until 1927 for Edwin Lutyens.
It's the sound of the rain coming down when you fall asleep
It's a call from a friend that you love, but never get to see
All the time you can waste tryna chase what you'll never need
Hope you back around to simple things.
Simple Things | Teddy Swims
Another photo looking up at the curvaceous balconies of the 'Riverwalk' apartments, overlooking the River Thames at Westminster, in London.
Architects: Stanton Williams.
A square version of 'New Normal'.
The ever changing London skyline, with the new US Embassy, architect Kieran Timberlake, and one of its neighbours, Vauxhall Tower, also known as St George’s Wharf Tower, architect: Broadway Maylan. Photo taken in June 2017.
One of my attempts at the "Macro Mondays" theme "Festive Season".
Shot with a Screen Cezanne Scanner lens on a Canon EOS R5.
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and no matter how much the heart beats for the other, they were doomed to be star-crossed lovers...
ON HER
Hair: Nina by Magika
Outfit: Noelia by Belle Epoque at Collabor88
**will be updating post for male credits**
Backdrop: Beach Burger Shack by KRAFTWORK
Pose: Couples 244 by [ Focus Poses ]
Ikon Glass Eyes
Lipstick is Fey by Alaskametro and eyeshadow is rose gold by Alaskametro
Mina Leslie hair
Ghee Simple Drop Pearl earrings