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Pamukkale, meaning "cotton castle" in Turkish, is a natural site in Denizli in southwestern Turkey. The area is famous for a carbonate mineral left by the flowing water. It is located in Turkey's Inner Aegean region, in the River Menderes valley, which has a temperate climate for most of the year.
Known as Pamukkale (Cotton Castle) or ancient Hierapolis (Holy City), this area has been drawing the weary to its thermal springs since the time of Classical antiquity. The Turkish name refers to the surface of the shimmering, snow-white limestone, shaped over millennia by calcium-rich springs. Dripping slowly down the vast mountainside, mineral-rich waters foam and collect in terraces, spilling over cascades of stalactites into milky pools below. Legend has it that the formations are solidified cotton (the area’s principal crop) that giants left out to dry.
Pamukkale is a tourist attraction. It is recognized as a World Heritage Site together with Hierapolis.
Turkey trip, 2018.
The Battle of Gibraltar 1607 by Cornelis Claesz van Wieringen
The Battle of Gibraltar in 1607 was part of the larger conflict between Spain and the United Provinces of the Netherlands, known as the Eighty Years' War (1568-1648). During this time, the Dutch Republic sought to challenge Spanish dominance and establish control over important trade routes.
In 1607, a Dutch fleet, commanded by Admiral Jacob van Heemskerk, launched an audacious attack on the Spanish fleet, which was anchored in the Bay of Gibraltar. The Spanish fleet, led by Admiral Juan Álvarez de Ávila, was significantly outnumbered.
During the battle, the Dutch fleet used fireships (ships deliberately set on fire and sent towards the enemy fleet) to disrupt the Spanish formation. This tactic proved to be very successful, causing panic among the Spanish sailors and leading to the destruction of several Spanish ships.
The battle marked a significant victory for the Dutch Republic and further solidified their naval power in the region. It also demonstrated the effectiveness of the fireship tactic in naval warfare.
Close up of the right wings of this dragonfly taken in my daughter's garden.
Some fun facts on dragonfly that might surprise you
Dragonflies spent most of their lives underwater.
Adult dragonflies only live up to 6 months, they end up spending more time of their lives in water than the air.
Dragonflies lay their eggs in water. Upon hatching, the larva will remain aquatic for 2 to 5 years depending on the species.
During this stage, they would breathe using their gills.
Dragonfly nymphs eat any underwater creature smaller than them.
Some bigger species of dragonfly can even hunt and eat small fish as larvae.
After the larva stage, they would crawl out of the water with the dragonfly’s exoskeleton cracking open to release its abdomen.
During this period, its four wings will start to emerge, drying and solidifying within the next several days.
The wings of the dragonfly provide superior stability with high load-bearing capacity as it flies, glides, and hovers.
Their wings are made of membranes and veins with a complex design that provides excellent versatility, agility as well as performing maneuverable fliers.
Just a single dragonfly can eat up to 100 mosquitoes per day.
Having two or more dragonflies in the garden or near the house would certainly slow down the mosquito’s population.
Adult dragonflies only eat when they are flying.
Hence if they are injured and cannot fly, they will starve to death.
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Peaceful Saturday
Overnight at -20 C. the bay had frozen over, by the following night most of the lake's surface had solidified to ice.
S. Cariboo Region of
British Columbia, Canada
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Overnight at -20 C. the bay had frozen over, by the following night most of the lake's surface had solidified to ice.
As seen in this image low lying mist/fog covered the unfrozen portion of the water.
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S. Cariboo Region of
British Columbia, Canada
Thank-you for all the overwhelming support and many friendships.
Stay Healthy
~Christie
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A group of trees and bushes can be seen right on the cliff edge of the high snow mountain in the Bohemian Switzerland. Due to the fog that has completely filled in the valley, it looks like the world has ended just beyond.
The frost has settled on the branches of the plants, creating beautiful sculptures. It's like walking through an art gallery. You want to stop at every single tree and bush and marvel at these bizarre shapes. In between, as here, a mountain ash appears again and again, whose bright red berries form a grandiose contrast to the otherwise almost monochromatic landscape. Just zoom into the picture and let yourself be enchanted.
Rarely have I seen such beauty as this morning up here on the mountain.
Eine Gruppe von Bäumen und Büschen seht direkt an der Felskante vom Hohen Schneeberg in der Böhmischen Schweiz. Auf Grund des Nebels, der das Tal vollständig aufgefüllt hat, sieht es so aus, als wäre die Welt direkt dahinter zu ende.
Der Frost hat sich auf die Äste der Pflanzen gelegt und so wunderschöne Skulpturen erschaffen. Es ist, als würde man durch eine Kunstgallerie wandern. Man möchte bei jedem einzelnen Baum und Strauch stehen bleiben und diese bizarren Formen bestaunen. Zwischendrin, so wie hier auch, taucht immer mal wieder eine Eberesche auf, deren leuchtend rote Beeren einen grandioser Kontrast zu der ansonsten fast monochromen Landschaft bilden. Zoomt einfach mal ins Bild hinein und lasst Euch verzaubern.
Ich habe nur selten so viel Schönheit gesehen, wie an diesem Morgen hier oben auf dem Berg.
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I too often forget that people across the politcal spectrum often give to common causes. If only that overlap of translucent hearts would be enough for redemption, for healing, for a solidification.
This photo is of a gemstone shaped heart back lit with a pen light on white acrylic giving the blue glaring line, the contrasting colors and the cross shape.
Growing in a hair style for fun.
It's hard to find good men's hair in SL. I have been complaining about it forever, most recently all week. Many of the styles look like what I call a NYC sized rat resting on your head. I'm sure much of that has to do with how I size it on my head but I've never had great luck with that.
I've been happy in the past with Vango and my most incredible friend reminded me that I did wear Vango a few years back. I hopped over to Vango and 15 minutes later fell into this. I also noticed another longer style that this hair could "grow" into if I wanted to. The Vango hairbase that I purchased with it really did the trick to solidify the look.
So I'll give this hairdo a week or so and see how I feel about it.
Vango : Mark (hair)
Vango: HB07 - BR Hair base
Macro Mondays: “High Key” theme
Used as an abrasive, often for removing hard or callused skin, pumice is a very light and porous volcanic rock formed when a gas-rich froth of glassy lava solidifies. I guess that’s why some folks associate pumice with music; they call it light rock. ;-)
HMM
A storm blows over the Checkerboard Mesa in Zion National Park.
During my last pass through Zion National Park I grabbed this shot of Checkerboard Mesa while killing some time before a meet up with William McIntosh. I was walking in my favorite part of Zion located at the back of the park looking for interesting beehive formations, when I started to feel raindrops. The sky was looking quite threatening so I turned to head back when I spied this gorgeous formation. This icon is awe inspiring and as I looked through the viewfinder thought what would create such an interesting pattern across this ancient monolith. The patterns stripped through the park are truly remarkable. Created from thousands of years of layered sand dunes the had solidified at different periods throughout the ages, and not created by glaciers as I had originally surmised. Nature is an awe inspiring architect.
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This basalt formation rises in Namibia, near the burnt mountain. As it solidified, the volcanic rock formed these bizarre pillars. When you see them, it's hard to believe that they weren't made by human hands.
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Film: Kodachrome 200
Scanner: Epson V850 Pro
01-september-2022: there is a need for a certain quiet although this photo still demonstrates how energy is abundantly present in the atmosphere even in inland areas and without solar ground overheating.
The cloudy veils called "Pileus", that envelop this cumulonimbus cloud in full phase of development, are (basically) orographic lenticular clouds, where the Cumulus, of which they are accessory clouds, represents a sort of mountain which with its ascent generates, around itself, condensation and solidification of water vapor into these horizontal clouds (made up of ice crystals), a bit like what happens around real mountains when humidity increases and temperatures decrease.
Here's a midday shot taken from the driveway of the rangers residence located just off of the main road leading into the park. The most unique feature of the park I noticed was the presence of various ‘chimneys’ of rock, known as sand pipes, which are thought to be solidified sediment that filled ancient springs, left standing after the softer surrounding Entrada sandstone rock weathered away. This formation is over 120'ft tall and is several million years old. :)
The original name of this park was Chimney Rock State Park, until 1962 when Kodak agree to allow the state to use it's name.
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Spread on a hot cross bun with a metal plectrum!
(Breakfast to post in one seamless movement)
Formed in 1973 in Woking, near London, the Jam gained popularity on the English club circuit. Their energetic shows and sound drew comparisons with the early Who, and that band's influence is evident in the Jam's first album, In the City (1977), which solidified the group's guitar-bass-drums lineup.
HSOS!
Smile On Saturday: "Orange" theme
The gear here is about 1.5 inch in diameter. It's an advertising piece that I picked up at a trade show years ago. It's from a company that provides systems for a process called injected metal assembly (IMA) that is designed to securely bind components of different materials together for assembly in manufacturing.
In case anyone is interested, the company says that IMA "provides permanent, reliable assemblies by injecting a small amount of molten zinc or lead alloy into and around components being joined. The molten metal cools and solidifies, accompanied by minute shrinkage that locks the injected metal onto the components."
Presumably, the process was used to join the gear to the shaft here.
HSoS
Le Grand Brûlé est une immense étendue de lave noire solidifiée qui s'est formée au cours des différentes éruptions du volcan Le Piton de la Fournaise. A certains endroits, la végétation reprend le dessus. Il se situe à l'extrémité sud-est de l'île de la Réunion dans l'Océan Indien.
Le Grand Brûlé - Reunion Island
The Grand Brûlé is a huge expanse of solidified black lava that was formed during the various eruptions of Le Piton de la Fournaise volcano. In some places, the vegetation takes over. It is located at the south-eastern tip of Reunion Island in the Indian Ocean.
Lava is a solid version of what was once molten rock, now solidified on the earth's surface. Icelandic lava rocks, with a basaltic composition, are good examples of rocks that exist in the Mid-Oceanic Ridge in the Atlantic. They come from different places in Iceland, including the Vestmann islands
A lone scrub tree clings to the rippled sand in Copper Canyon.
Tonights festivities were to begin at 11:00pm, so we set off in the dark towards a location our guide was really proud to show us. He told of hidden dunes down a long dirt road that follows a canyon. Well the road was very difficult if impossible to follow and in several places required the guide to walk in front of the jeep with a high power torchlight to lead the way. As we crossed the various types of terrain we came to a long....long section of pillow stone and bounced our way through that and finally arrived at the "dunes". We made our way onto the dunes and was surprised to find that the dunes were nearly solid, all the ripples had solidified making it much easier to move around without leaving any footprints although the top off the dunes along the ridges were still somewhat soft with a slight crust on top. The guide Quanah Parker of Majestic Monument Valley Tours was not kidding, this area was very isolated and seemed to have been unaffected by mans progress or by any beast for that matter. Nothing but the wind and isolation. Hope you like it!!!! :)
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Schwalben sind Zugvögel. Ende September Anfang Oktober fliegen sie nach Süden. Wenn es bei uns kalt wird, finden die Vögel keine Würmer und Insekten mehr, weil die sich in Schlupfwinkeln verstecken und dort erstarren ( Winterstarre ).
Swallows are migratory birds. At the end of September at the beginning of October, they fly south. When it gets cold with us, the birds no longer find worms and insects, because they hide in hatch corners and solidify there (winter rigidity ).
In the old venerable cathedral Elgin in Scotland are the old graves from 15 centuries which allow to solidify to one from reverence.
Pamukkale, meaning "cotton castle" in Turkish, is a natural site in Denizli in southwestern Turkey. The area is famous for a carbonate mineral left by the flowing water. It is located in Turkey's Inner Aegean region, in the River Menderes valley, which has a temperate climate for most of the year.
Known as Pamukkale (Cotton Castle) or ancient Hierapolis (Holy City), this area has been drawing the weary to its thermal springs since the time of Classical antiquity. The Turkish name refers to the surface of the shimmering, snow-white limestone, shaped over millennia by calcium-rich springs. Dripping slowly down the vast mountainside, mineral-rich waters foam and collect in terraces, spilling over cascades of stalactites into milky pools below. Legend has it that the formations are solidified cotton (the area’s principal crop) that giants left out to dry.
Pamukkale is a tourist attraction. It is recognized as a World Heritage Site together with Hierapolis.
* The Giant's Causeway is an area of about 40,000 interlocking basalt columns, the result of an ancient volcanic fissure eruption. It is located in County Antrim on the north coast of Northern Ireland, about three miles (5 km) northeast of the town of Bushmills.
It was declared a World Heritage Site by UNESCO in 1986 and a national nature reserve in 1987 by the Department of the Environment for Northern Ireland.
The tops of the columns form stepping stones that lead from the cliff foot and disappear under the sea. Most of the columns are hexagonal, although there are also some with four, five, seven or eight sides. The tallest are about 12 metres (39 ft) high, and the solidified lava in the cliffs is 28 metres (92 ft) thick in places.
According to legend, the columns are the remains of a causeway built by a giant. The story goes that the Irish giant Fionn mac Cumhaill (Finn MacCool), from the Fenian Cycle of Gaelic mythology, was challenged to a fight by the Scottish giant Benandonner. Fionn accepted the challenge and built the causeway across the North Channel so that the two giants could meet.
Kuala Lumpur City Centre (KLCC) is a multipurpose development area in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. The area is located around Jalan Ampang, Jalan P. Ramlee, Jalan Binjai, Jalan Kia Peng and Jalan Pinang. There are a number of shopping complexes such as Suria KLCC and Avenue K. There are also hotels within walking distance such as G Tower, Mandarin Oriental, Grand Hyatt Kuala Lumpur and InterContinental Kuala Lumpur hotel. Designed to be a city within a city, the 100-acre site hosts the tallest twin buildings in the world, a shopping mall, office buildings and several hotels. A public park and a mosque have also been built in the area and open to everyone. The whole project is cooled via district cooling located on the property. Constructed between 1993 and 1998, the Petronas Twin Towers were the tallest buildings in the world from 1 January 1998 to 31 December 2004. Currently, it still holds the record for the tallest twin buildings in the world. It is the headquarters of Petronas, a Fortune 100 state-owned oil company and also the largest company in Southeast Asia. The towers and the mall below were designed by Argentinian born architect César Pelli. Construction started in 1991 and was completed 7 years later, in the midst of Asian Financial Crisis and Reformasi movement. Due to the soil conditions of the site, the buildings were built on one of the deepest foundations in the world. The Building Services engineer contractor was Flack + Kurtz which is currently part of the WSP | Parsons Brinkerhoff Company. The 88-storey towers were built using mostly reinforced concrete, with steel-and-glass facades to resemble Islamic motifs which were intended to reflect the official and majority religion of Malaysia. The cross section of the tower resembles Rub el Hizb, which further solidifies the Islamic motif in the tower design. 19869
Basalt is an aphanitic (fine-grained) extrusive igneous rock formed from the rapid cooling of low-viscosity lava rich in magnesium and iron (mafic lava) exposed at or very near the surface of a rocky planet or moon. More than 90% of all volcanic rock on Earth is basalt. Rapid-cooling, fine-grained basalt is chemically equivalent to slow-cooling, coarse-grained gabbro. The eruption of basalt lava is observed by geologists at about 20 volcanoes per year. Basalt is also an important rock type on other planetary bodies in the Solar System. For example, the bulk of the plains of Venus, which cover ~80% of the surface, are basaltic; the lunar maria are plains of flood-basaltic lava flows; and basalt is a common rock on the surface of Mars.
Molten basalt lava has a low viscosity due to its relatively low silica content (between 45% and 52%), resulting in rapidly moving lava flows that can spread over great areas before cooling and solidifying. Flood basalts are thick sequences of many such flows that can cover hundreds of thousands of square kilometres and constitute the most voluminous of all volcanic formations.
Basaltic magmas within Earth are thought to originate from the upper mantle. The chemistry of basalts thus provides clues to processes deep in Earth's interio.
** It was a four hour round trip from Blonville Sur Mer to Mont Saint-Michel but it was certainly worth it . Sometimes these famous sites can not live up to the hype but this one surely did . We had hoped to see it at high tide but the timing was not right for us so there was just a small amount of water around the island. It was a perfect day about 30 C and as clear as a bell
Mont Saint-Michel and its surrounding bay were inscribed on the UNESCO list of World Heritage Sites in 1979 for its unique aesthetic and importance as a medieval Christian site.
Mont Saint-Michel is a tidal island with notoriously dangerous tides on average the tidal range is 46 feet .The Island consists of leucogranite which solidified from an underground intrusion of molten magma about 525 million years ago, during the Cambrian period, as one of the younger parts of the Mancellian granitic batholith
The lower part of the island is mainly shops and restaurants but it worth climbing the many steps to the summit to see the Abbey. It was constructed in the 11th century, William of Volpiano an Italian was chosen by Richard II, Duke of Normandy, to be the building contractor. He designed the Romanesque church of the abbey, daringly placing the transept crossing at the top of the mount. Many underground crypts and chapels had to be built to compensate for this weight; these formed the basis for the supportive upward structure that can be seen today. Today Mont Saint-Michel is seen as a masterpiece of Romanesque architecture.
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Pamukkale, meaning "cotton castle" in Turkish, is a natural site in Denizli in southwestern Turkey. The area is famous for a carbonate mineral left by the flowing water. It is located in Turkey's Inner Aegean region, in the River Menderes valley, which has a temperate climate for most of the year.
Known as Pamukkale (Cotton Castle) or ancient Hierapolis (Holy City), this area has been drawing the weary to its thermal springs since the time of Classical antiquity. The Turkish name refers to the surface of the shimmering, snow-white limestone, shaped over millennia by calcium-rich springs. Dripping slowly down the vast mountainside, mineral-rich waters foam and collect in terraces, spilling over cascades of stalactites into milky pools below. Legend has it that the formations are solidified cotton (the area’s principal crop) that giants left out to dry.
Pamukkale is a tourist attraction. It is recognized as a World Heritage Site together with Hierapolis.
Southerdown, Glamorgan Heritage Coast, South Wales
All the rocks exposed in the area of Southerndown are sedimentary rocks. They were laid down as deposits of mud silt, sand and lime that, over long periods of time, were compacted and solidified into limestone, shale (compacted mud) and conglomerate (a rock comprising rounded pebbles of various sizes).
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The Giant's Causeway is an area of about 40,000 interlocking basalt columns, the result of an ancient volcanic eruption. It is located in County Antrim on the northeast coast of Northern Ireland, about three miles northeast of the town of Bushmills. It was declared a World Heritage Site by UNESCO in 1986, and a national nature reserve in 1987. The tops of the columns form stepping stones that lead from the cliff foot and disappear under the sea. Most of the columns are hexagonal, although there are also some with four, five, seven or eight sides. The tallest are about 12 metres (39 ft) high, and the solidified lava in the cliffs is 28 metres (92 ft) thick in places.
You can’t hide now
I am the warrior
So decide now
How they’ll remember you
Do not hide now
Act like a warrior
Show your pride now
Solidify your place in time
Piscinas Naturales de El Caletón. Garachico, Tenerife - Islas Canarias.
Es una zona de baño formada por varias piscinas de origen natural. Junto a las piscinas se encuentra el Castillo de San Miguel.
Las piscinas se originaron por la lava procedente de la erupción del volcán Trevejo en 1706 (que sepultó para siempre el viejo puerto).
Al entrar en contacto con el agua del mar, la lava solidificó, dando lugar a caprichosas y hermosas formas como El Caletón, con sus distintos “charcos” (Las Viejas, Los Niños, Los Chorros…) que constituyen un conjunto de piscinas naturales, con aceptables condiciones para el baño y un excelente paseo marítimo.
Natural pools of El Caletón. Garachico, Tenerife - Canary Islands.
It is a zone of bath formed by several swimming pools of natural origin. Next to the swimming pools is the Castle of San Miguel
The pools originated by lava from the eruption of Trevejo volcano in 1706 (which buried forever the old port).
When it came into contact with sea water, the lava solidified, giving rise to capricious and beautiful forms like El Caletón, with its different "puddles" (Las Viejas, Los Niños, Los Chorros ...) that constitute a set of natural pools, with acceptable conditions for the bath and an excellent promenade.
The bright streetcar tracks divide the image and lead the view to the approaching streetcar and the passerby crossing tracks. To the left and right of the tracks, the image is largely dark, except for a lit store window and a row of stones that follow the curve of the tracks to the right. The predominant dark tones give the scene something heavy, almost solidified, which is broken up by the lights of the streetcar and the bright rails.
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I AM SO excited to post this tomorrow! Here's what Callie and I have been up to!
As soon as Apple Fall SL and Dust Bunny announced these sets, we knew that we had to do them justice!
So we always see bloggers collaborating together for fashion posts, so why not decor? We got together and put together this amazing jungle getaway! It was such a fun way of collabing, having that second eye for decor really solidifies the scene.
It features both of these store's new sets now available at the mainstores!
Fuji X-E3 plus pancake lens (and reflector). Der Alltag. The daily routine. Repetitive and endlessly repeated. After many years, all this has solidified into hard structures. Within these, we do lead a safe but uninteresting life. There must be more.
* The Giant's Causeway is an area of about 40,000 interlocking basalt columns, the result of an ancient volcanic fissure eruption. It is located in County Antrim on the north coast of Northern Ireland, about three miles (5 km) northeast of the town of Bushmills.
It was declared a World Heritage Site by UNESCO in 1986 and a national nature reserve in 1987 by the Department of the Environment for Northern Ireland.
The tops of the columns form stepping stones that lead from the cliff foot and disappear under the sea. Most of the columns are hexagonal, although there are also some with four, five, seven or eight sides. The tallest are about 12 metres (39 ft) high, and the solidified lava in the cliffs is 28 metres (92 ft) thick in places.
According to legend, the columns are the remains of a causeway built by a giant. The story goes that the Irish giant Fionn mac Cumhaill (Finn MacCool), from the Fenian Cycle of Gaelic mythology, was challenged to a fight by the Scottish giant Benandonner. Fionn accepted the challenge and built the causeway across the North Channel so that the two giants could meet.
More Info and Details on my blog
#decollabing
I AM SO excited to post this tomorrow! Here's what Callie and I have been up to!
As soon as Apple Fall SL and Dust Bunny announced these sets, we knew that we had to do them justice!
So we always see bloggers collaborating together for fashion posts, so why not decor? We got together and put together this amazing jungle getaway! It was such a fun way of collabing, having that second eye for decor really solidifies the scene.
It features both of these store's new sets now available at the mainstores!
This was a great shoot. Even though it is now three years on, I still remember the joy of this day, the peace of the empty beach, and that first glimpse of the rising sun.
Despite the fact I know this coastline well, I think it was this shoot which solidified in me a love of this part of the world
As such, I was back very shortly after this. But more of that later...
For Macro Mondays' #circles theme
Hama beads: these are a form of children's creative play. They are small plastic tubes that are used to create designs, using heat to melt the plastic, which allows the beads to join and solidify. The above shows the reverse of the creation where the circular tubes are still evidence.
This was a random creation by my then 6 or 7 year old son. It hangs in my window where the light causes it to glow.
The complete piece of plastic "artwork" is less than 3 inches across. This probably represents about 2 inches in diameter.]