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Since we can only stay in the immediate vicinity of our place of residence at the moment, I'm looking for motifs here and have been able to experience this sunset very close to me this evening. The beauty is sometimes closer than you think - you just have to see it ...
Frühlingsabend
Da wir uns im Moment nur in der unmittelbaren Umgebung unseres Wohnortes aufhalten dürfen, suche ich hier nach Motiven und habe heute abend diesen Sonnenuntergang ganz in meiner Nähe erleben können. Das Schöne ist manchmal näher als man denkt - man muss es nur sehen.
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Used since the 12th century, it was used by fishermen and small-medium sized commercial vessels. It was enlarged and strengthened by Jacopo III Appiani in 1470, the year in which the breakwater was built. Jacopo III's 15th century works were mainly aimed at anchoring his own galley, as well as other small court vessels, given the proximity of his residence to the Citadel. This inevitably led to a reduction in the anchorages of many vessels used for fishing and commercial traffic.
It's been a while since we've been to this beautiful place. But I've only just looked at the pictures, sorted and edited them. Here is the selection that I personally like best.
Es ist schon eine Weile her, dass wir an diesem schönen Ort waren. Aber ich habe gerade erst die Bilder angesehen, sortiert und bearbeitet. Hier ist die Auswahl, die mir persönlich am besten gefällt.
Note: Been having a lot of problems with Flickr lately and it appears I still am even with using Chrome instead of Mozilla! My comments here with my photos are fine, but in the group pools the comments section is not showing.... (thank goodness it didn't start happening until I had awarded several others in The New Masterclass group!)
I am not sure if this is something with Flickr or it is my computer!
At any rate, I am taking my computer in and having a full recovery done today so that hopefully everything will be fine and STAY running smoothly.
I will be back! And I hope everyone has a wonderful week!
Snowdrops have been known since the earliest times under various names but were named Galanthus in 1753.
Most species flower in winter, before the vernal equinox (20 or 21 March in the Northern Hemisphere), but some flower in early spring and late autumn.
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It’s been quite a while since I’ve shot a bear, or cleaned the coop for that matter.
spring cleaning...better late than never :))
HTBT :)
Been awhile since I posted an image of this massive mountain.
A compressed shot looking NW as the morning light hit this highest peak on the continent.
This impressive mountain was known to the Athabaskan and many other native tribes as Denali (“The High/Tall One”) and to the Russians as Bolshaya Gora (“Great Mountain”). An easy one to name...
"Denali is the highest mountain peak in North America, with a summit elevation of 20,310 feet (6,190 m) above sea level. With a topographic prominence of 20,156 feet (6,144 m) and a topographic isolation of 4,629 miles (7,450 km), Denali is the third most prominent and third most isolated peak on Earth, after Mount Everest and Aconcagua." Wiki
Happy Friday!
Since I have planned two tours in the Elbe Sandstone Mountains for the next two weeks (Lilienstein and Kleiner Winterberg) and will hopefully bring back a lot of pictures, today I'm reaching into the pile of unpublished photos from the past.
This one comes from a beautiful sunrise that I was able to experience on mount Rauenstein, which was four months ago now.
The landscape is depicted relatively abstractly in this picture because my focus here is on the rocks and their fascinating surface structure. And on the other hand, I wanted to capture the wafts of fog that are currently drifting over the mountain ridge and that are made to glow by the morning sun.
Da ich für die nächsten zwei Wochen zwei Touren im Elbsandsteingebirge geplant habe (Lilienstein und kleiner Winterberg) und hoffentlich viel Nachschub an Bilder mit zurück bringen werde, greife ich heute mal in den Stapel der noch unveröffentlichten Fotos aus der Vergangenheit.
Dieses hier stammt von einem wunderschönen Sonnenaufgang, den ich auf dem Rauenstein erleben durfte, was jetzt auch schon wieder vier Monate her ist.
Die Landschaft ist auf diesem Bild relativ abstrakt dargestellt, denn mein Fokus liegt hier zum einen auf den Felsen und deren faszinierende Oberflächenstruktur. Und zum anderen wollte ich die Nebelschwaden einfangen, die hier gerade über den Bergkamm ziehen und die von der Morgensonne zum glühen gebracht werden.
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I haven’t bothered you since the beginning of the lockdown in France (March 17) with my little " Diablotin de Provence" (Empusa larva). But it was present (at least since October 13) almost always on the same place, in a blanket flower plant of my garden. For a week, I couldn’t spot him, but it wasn’t the first time it happened.
May 9, 5:40 pm:
This afternoon, I discovered on this place this beautiful empusa imago with a straight abdomen covered with wings.
This rainy afternoon does not give favorable lighting conditions, especially since this small insect, once become imago, is more fierce than before and sinks deeply into the heart of the plant, making the automatic focusing system inoperative...
I hope the sun will be back before it flight away far from its flower blanket!!!
Since it hasn't any ‘feather’ type antennae, it's a female imago.
Ever since mankind has known the concept of “property”, there has been a need for the possibility of storing objects in safe places. Where this was initially mainly done in holes in the ground, a first type of key soon came onto the market. These then wooden keys were large by our standards and were carried on the back. It was not until Roman times that locks were first made of metal, although it is rumoured that forms of metal locks by Greek locksmiths already existed in Ancient Greece. www.deslotenwacht.nl/geschiedenis-van-de-sloten-en-sloten...
At this site in 1834, thousands marched to support the Tolpuddle Martyrs. The clock tower was built in 1855 by the Metropolitan Cattle Market as a centrepiece. The cattle market has since been replaced by Smithfield's Meat Market and is now a recreational park.
Since "Winter Watch" is showing in Dorset this week I thought I would post this young Sika Deer, one of three I came across feeding in a peaceful patch of mixed woodland on Godlingston Heath, Dorset last Autumn.
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Since 757 AD, three different churches have occupied the site of today’s Abbey: first, there was an Anglo-Saxon Abbey Church, pulled down by the Norman conquerors of England soon after 1066. Then, a massive Norman cathedral was begun about 1090 but was larger than the monastery could afford to maintain and by the end of the 15th century was in ruins. Finally, the present Abbey church was founded in 1499, the last of the great medieval churches of England
Not unless the world was ending, lol. Some of these kids have a great sense of humor.
Have a great Friday and weekend.
Since the great blue heron can't do duck lips....
I watched this heron sleeping, standing on one leg, amazed at its balance. I am not sure if it was telling me to go away or get its best side.
Lake Texoma - Oklahoma side
The Old Town of Corfu and its two fortresses,old on the left and new on the right,are listed among UNESCO’s World Heritage Monuments since 2007
The Old Town of Corfu and its old fortress liisted among UNESCO’s World Heritage Monuments since 2007
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Η παλιά πόλη της Κέρκυρας και τα δυο φρούρια παλαιό στα αριστερά και νέο ανήκουν πλέον στα Μνημεία Παγκόσμιας Κληρονομιάς της UNESCO από το 2007. The Old Town of Corfu and its two forts,old on the left and new are listed among UNESCO’s World Heritage Monuments since 2007
I recently took a vacation to Vegas, Arizona and once again, New York as a late 21st present to myself!
Since I haven't been getting out I've created pictures for some of my groups.. This one was created in T2D In Deep Dream Generator... Some of the ducks weren't good so I added a couple of my own... LOL!! Happy Bench Monday, Everybody!!!
Since everyone is getting in the fall mood, here is a shot from New Zealand's most famous tree. I did a long exposure here and it took multiple attempts until I got a shot where the tree leaves didn't blow in the wind!
It’s been a while since I edited photos, but I love doing it in SL. Back with new shots.
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Since I processed this image some time ago, I can't remember the many things that I did to the original.
What is this ? It's a close up of the E - A - D strings on my guitar.
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Since me and Cecily are OBSESSED with the movie "Practical Magic" it was only fitting to take a pic inspired by it!
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It's been almost two weeks since I last posted a picture of my favorite tree. I think I can come up with another one now.
For everyone who sees it for the first time (which can't be many) the tree stands on the small mount Winter in the Elbe Sandstone Mountains.
When this photo was made, sunrise was still at least 30-45 minutes away. So I experimented a little to find a slightly different variant of the well-known composition.
The result was a shot from a little further away, so that the structure of the rocky ground and this small heather island also get some attention.
A small positive side effect is that by using a larger focal length (53 instead of the usual 35mm), the mountains in the background are moved a little closer and therefore have more effect.
So I can get used to this variant quite well.
Inzwischen ist es so ziemlich zwei Wochen her, dass ich das letzte Bild von meinem Lieblingsbaum gepostet habe. Ich denke, da kann ich jetzt schon mal wieder eins bringen.
Für alle, die ihn das erste mal sehen (was nicht viele sein können) der Baum steht auf dem kleinen Winterberg im Elbsandsteingebirge.
Als dieses Foto entstand, war der Sonnenaufgang noch mindestens 30-45 Minten entfernt. Also hab ich ein wenig herumexperimentiert um einmal eine etwas andere Variante der allseits bekannten Komposition zu finden.
Das Ergebnis war eine Aufnahme mit etwas weiter Abstand, so dass die Struktur des felsigen Untergrundes und diese kleine Heide-Insel auch etwas Aufmerksamkeit bekommen.
Kleiner positiver Nebeneffekt ist, dass durch die Verwendung einer größeren Brennweite (53 anstatt sonst 35mm) auch die Berge im Hintergrund etwas näher gerückt sind und somit mehr Wirkung zeigen.
Also ich kann mich mit dieser Varianbte ganz gut anfreunden.
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IMPORTANT: for non-pro users who read the info on a computer, just enlarge your screen to 120% (or more), then the full text will appear below the photo with a white background - which makes reading so much easier.
The color version of the photo above is here: www.lacerta-bilineata.com/ticino-best-photos-of-southern-...
THE STORY BEHIND THE PHOTO:
So far there's only been one photo in my gallery that hasn't been taken in my garden ('The Flame Rider', captured in the Maggia Valley: www.flickr.com/photos/191055893@N07/53563448847/in/datepo... ) - which makes the image above the second time I've "strayed from the path" (although not very far, since the photo was taken only approximately 500 meters from my house).
Overall, I'll stick to my "only-garden rule", but every once in a while I'll show you a little bit of the landscape around my village, because I think it will give you a better sense of just how fascinating this region is, and also of its history.
The title I chose for the photo may seem cheesy, and it's certainly not very original, but I couldn't think of another one, because it's an honest reflection of what I felt when I took it: a profound sense of peace - although if you make it to the end of this text you'll realize my relationship with that word is a bit more complicated.
I got up early that day; it was a beautiful spring morning, and there was still a bit of mist in the valley below my village which I hoped would make for a few nice mood shots, so I quickly grabbed my camera and went down there before the rising sun could dissolve the magical layer on the scenery.
Most human activity hadn't started yet, and I was engulfed in the sounds of the forest as I was walking the narrow trail along the horse pasture; it seemed every little creature around me wanted to make its presence known to potential mates (or rivals) in a myriad of sounds and voices and noises (in case you're interested, here's a taste of what I usually wake up to in spring, but you best use headphones: www.youtube.com/watch?v=AfoCTqdAVCE )
Strolling through such an idyllic landscape next to grazing horses and surrounded by birdsong and beautiful trees, I guess it's kind of obvious one would feel the way I described above and choose the title I did, but as I looked at the old stone buildings - the cattle shelter you can see in the foreground and the stable further up ahead on the right - I also realized how fortunate I was.
It's hard to imagine now, because Switzerland is one of the wealthiest countries in the world today, but the men and women who had carried these stones and constructed the walls of these buildings were among the poorest in Europe. The hardships the people in some of the remote and little developed valleys in Ticino endured only a few generations ago are unimaginable to most folks living in my country today.
It wasn't uncommon that people had to sell their own kids as child slaves - the girls had to work in factories or in rice fields, the boys as "living chimney brushes" in northern Italy - just because there wasn't enough food to support the whole family through the harsh Ticino winters.
If you wonder why contemporary Swiss historians speak of "slaves" as opposed to child laborers, it's because that's what many of them actually were: auctioned off for a negotiable prize at the local market, once sold, these kids were not payed and in many cases not even fed by their masters (they had to beg for food in the streets or steal it).
Translated from German Wikipedia: ...The Piazza grande in Locarno, where the Locarno Film Festival is held today, was one of the places where orphans, foundlings and children from poor families were auctioned off. The boys were sold as chimney sweeps, the girls ended up in the textile industry, in tobacco processing in Brissago or in the rice fields of Novara, which was also extremely hard work: the girls had to stand bent over in the water for twelve to fourteen hours in all weathers. The last verse of the Italian folk song 'Amore mio non piangere' reads: “Mamma, papà, non piangere, se sono consumata, è stata la risaia che mi ha rovinata” (Mom, dad, don't cry when I'm used up, it was the rice field that destroyed me.)... de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaminfegerkinder
The conditions for the chimney sweeps - usually boys between the age of 8 and 12 (or younger, because they had to be small enough to be able to crawl into the chimneys) - were so catastrophic that many of them didn't survive; they died of starvation, cold or soot in their lungs - as well as of work-related accidents like breaking their necks when they fell, or suffocatig if they got stuck in inside a chimney. This practice of "child slavery" went on as late as the 1950s (there's a very short article in English on the topic here: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spazzacamini and a more in depth account for German speakers in this brief clip: www.youtube.com/watch?v=gda8vZp_zsc ).
Now I don't know if the people who built the old stone houses along my path had to sell any of their kids, but looking at the remnants of their (not so distant) era I felt an immense sense of gratitude that I was born at a time of prosperity - and peace - in my region, my country and my home. Because none of it was my doing: it was simple luck that decided when and where I came into this world.
It also made me think of my own family. Both of my grandparents on my father's side grew up in Ticino (they were both born in 1900), but while they eventually left Switzerland's poorest region to live in its richest, the Kanton of Zurich, my grandfather's parents relocated to northern Italy in the 1920s and unfortunately were still there when WWII broke out.
They lost everything during the war, and it was their youngest daughter - whom I only knew as "Zia" which means "aunt" in Italian - who earned a little money to support herself and my great-grandparents by giving piano lessons to high-ranking Nazi officers and their kids (this was towards the end of the war when German forces had occupied Italy).
I never knew that about her; Zia only very rarely spoke of the war, but one time when I visited her when she was already over a 100 years old (she died at close to 104), I asked her how they had managed to survive, and she told me that she went to the local prefecture nearly every day to teach piano. "And on the way there would be the dangling ones" she said, with a shudder.
I didn't get what she meant, so she explained. Visiting the city center where the high ranking military resided meant she had to walk underneath the executed men and women who were hanging from the lantern posts along the road (these executions - often of civilians - were the Germans' retaliations for attacks by the Italian partisans).
I never forgot her words - nor could I shake the look on her face as she re-lived this memory. And I still can't grasp it; my house in Ticino is only 60 meters from the Italian border, and the idea that there was a brutal war going on three houses down the road from where I live now in Zia's lifetime strikes me as completely surreal.
So, back to my title for the photo above. "Peace". It's such a simple, short word, isn't it? And we use it - or its cousin "peaceful" - quite often when we mean nice and quiet or stress-free. But if I'm honest I don't think I know what it means. My grandaunt Zia did, but I can't know. And I honestly hope I never will.
I'm sorry I led you down such a dark road; I usually intend to make people smile with the anecdotes that go with my photos, but this one demanded a different approach (I guess with this latest image I've strayed from the path in more than one sense, and I hope you'll forgive me).
Ticino today is the region with the second highest average life expectancy in Europe (85.2 years), and "The Human Development Index" of 0.961 in 2021 was one of the highest found anywhere in the world, and northern Italy isn't far behind. But my neighbors, many of whom are now in their 90s, remember well it wasn't always so.
That a region so poor it must have felt like purgatory to many of its inhabitants could turn into something as close to paradise on Earth as I can imagine in a person's lifetime should make us all very hopeful. But, and this is the sad part, it also works the other way 'round. And I believe we'd do well to remember that, too.
To all of you - with my usual tardiness but from the bottom of my heart - a happy, healthy, hopeful 2025 and beyond.
Since December 2020, Henri Coandă International Airport, the main airport of the Romanian capital, can be reached by train. Trains from the state railway company Căile Ferate Române and the private carrier Transferoviar Călători, which mainly uses DH2 trainsets from the Netherlands, run 24 hours a day. On February 20, 2022, CFR Desiro 96-2014 will depart at 4.32am as train R-E 7912 to București Gara de Nord.
This is my first decor pic since forever, but I really loved these colors for Christmas and actually felt a bit inspired. So, here's a mix of some of my favorite holiday items, new & old. I hope you all enjoy the holiday season if you celebrate!
【Elm - Available at Santa Inc.】
✦ Elm. Avery Light Tree w/ Light Cluster ~ FATPACK LI:9
✦ Elm. Avery Wreath Decor LI:2 (Event Mystery Gift)
【Elm - Available at Collabor88】
✦ Elm. Clara Decor ~ "Better Not Pout" Decor LI:3
✦ Elm. Clara Decor ~ Lantern #1 LI:4
✦ Elm. Clara Decor ~ Lantern #2 LI:2
✦ Elm. Clara Decor ~ Mini Tree Decor LI:1
✦ Elm. Clara Decor ~ Starlight Decor LI:1
✦ Elm. Clara Fireplace w/ Pompoms [White] LI:5
✦ Elm. Clara Stove Hearth LI:4
【Elm - Available at ACCESS】
✦ Elm. Beth Blanket Ladder ~ FATPACK LI:6
✦ Elm. Beth Decor ~ Rug [White] LI:2
【Elm - Available at EQUAL10】
✦ Elm. Joy Paper Garland ~ Combined #1 [Pack #2] LI:3
✦ Elm. Joy Paper Garland ~ Combined #3 [Pack #2] LI:3
【Elm - Available at the Mainstore】
✦ Elm. Whimsy Fuzzy Tree #1 [White] LI:1
✦ Elm. Whimsy Fuzzy Tree #4 [White] LI:1
✦ Elm. Whimsy Fuzzy Tree #8 [White] LI:1
✦ Elm. Whimsy Letter Board [Jingle] LI:2
【{moss&mink} - Available at Santa Inc.】
✦{moss&mink} Blitzen Board Game - Gold (Adult) LI:6
【{moss&mink} - Available at the Mainstore】
✦ {moss&mink} Golden Winter Felt Tree
【BUENO - Available at Kustom9】
✦ BUENO-Winter Cabin-Montana LI:20
【Zerkalo - Available at ACCESS】
[ zerkalo ] Grassington Armchair w/Cloth - PG LI:9
【Fancy Decor - Available at the Mainstore】
✦ 01 Fancy Decor: Gilt & Pearl Tree Topper RARE LI:3
✦ 03 Fancy Decor: Gold Stripe Bauble LI:1
✦ 06 Fancy Decor: Checker Bauble (gold) LI:1
✦ 09 Fancy Decor: Gilt Studded Ornament LI:1
✦ 10 Fancy Decor: Noir Dot Stripe Ornament LI:1
✦ 15 Fancy Decor: Noir Droplet Ornament LI:1
✦ 15 Fancy Decor: Ridged Bauble (gold) LI:1
✦ 16 Fancy Decor: Noir Ridged Ornament LI:1
✦ 18 Fancy Decor: Noir Plain Ornament B LI:1
✦ 20 Fancy Decor: Noir Tree Ribbon LI:1
【Other Decor Used】
✧ Apple Fall Heritage Christmas Tree - Golden White LI:16
✧ Apple Fall Ornament: Metallic Confetti - Gold LI:1
✧ Apple Fall Ornament: Metallic Pinecone - Copper LI:1
✧ Apple Fall Ornament: Metallic Pinecone - Gold LI:1
✧ Apple Fall Ornament: Metallic Ridged - Copper LI:1
✧ Apple Fall Ornament: Metallic Ridged - Gold LI:1
✧ Apple Fall Ornament: Ribbed Cone - Mercury Glass LI:1
✧ CHEZ MOI Sliding Penguins LI:2
✧ Granola. Noelle Gift Box4. Gold. M/C LI:2
✧ Nutmeg. White Holiday Tree LI:4
✧ PILOT & Can't Even - Christmas Tree Strings [White] LI:2
✧ Soy. Raindrops curtain (Long) LI:2
✧ Trompe Loeil - Yasmine Noel Branch Ornamented Long LI:3
✧ Ten Thousand & Co. - XMAS TREE Billboard Black/White LI:1
✧ [North Oak] Gift Wrapping - Tan &White
I miss you...still
It`s been 6 months since you left away...and still....nothing is like before...and never will be again...i wished i would have been able...able to fix you...but in the end we didn`t succeed. If i just could press rewind for one day...one single day...i surely would try again...try again to fix you!
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Tierpark Nordhorn
Since 2004, free-flying, wild storks (Ciconia ciconia) have been breeding successfully at the Vechtehof and on the barn at the African savannah. Storks that are unable to fly live in the meadow in the zoo. These are usually victims of an accident that can only survive thanks to human care.
Recently, more wild storks have been coming to the zoo every year, trying to build their large nests in trees or in aviaries. The Nordhorn zoo, together with the NABU Graafschap Bentheim, is trying to lure the animals from the zoo to nature reserves by placing nests in the side arms of the Vecht outside the zoo.
A banded snail kite hauls off a recently caught crawfish to a nearby tree, Really. Do we need a name change to "mudbug" kite? Just sayin'......................
Taken in Florida.
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