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Trees in winter
With the arrival of winter, and often at the end of autumn, a new problem arises with trees. This specific "winter" problem is associated with the accumulation of wet snow and the formation of frost on the branches and trunks of trees. "Freezing rains" - phenomena occur under certain combinations of weather conditions: sleet, wind, fog, sudden changes in temperature with a "transition through 0 degrees". Such a significant load on the branches and trunks of trees can lead to emergency situations:
1. Breaking off and collapse of large branches. Typical for poplar, aspen, willow, linden, oak. To a lesser extent for pines and elms.
2. Breaking the forks of co-dominant trunks. Most often found in the above tree species with V-shaped forks. Less typical for U-shaped forks of birch and spruce.
3. Bending under the weight of snow and ice, with possible breaking of the trunks of inclined trees.
I found the trees without obvious problems :)
I always appreciate this specific summer color combination of dark purple iron weed and the rich orange of the monarch...... but I must admit that it seems to take on a more vibrant quality as the days of mid-winter monotone drag on . And a photo that I glibly passed over amid the gluttony of summer's riotous color, assumes a more profound aspect against the backdrop of January's frozen gray .
Scientific name: Onychoprion anaethetus
Trinomial name: Onychoprion anaethetus melanopterus
Ssp name: O. a. melanopterus
Common name: Bridled tern
Nombre: Charrán monja, Charrán embriado
Lugar de la captura: República Dominicana
As per Wikipedia:
The bridled tern (Onychoprion anaethetus) is a seabird of the family Laridae. It is a bird of the tropical oceans. The scientific name is from Ancient Greek. The genus comes from onux meaning "claw" or "nail", and prion, meaning "saw". The specific anaethetus means "senseless, stupid".
This species breeds in colonies on rocky islands. It nests in a ground scrape or hole and lays one egg. It feeds by plunge-diving for fish in marine environments, but will also pick from the surface like the black tern and the gull-billed tern. It usually dives directly, and not from the "stepped-hover" favoured by the Arctic tern.
Die Wasseramsel ist wegen ihrer guten Tarnung nicht leicht zu finden, aber sie ist ortsgebunden und deshalb immer wieder an den selben Stellen zu sehen.
The dipper is not easy to find because of its good camouflage, but it is tied to a specific location and can therefore be seen over and over again in the same places.
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An interesting species of sunbird specific to a small part of the Western range of mountains / hills and forests in India. This bird is endemic to that region. The area hosts many types of sunbirds and this is one of the colorful ones.
Slightly bigger than the regular Purple / Purple Rumped sunbirds around 15 cms long, these males are quite colorful with their crimson plumage. (Not to be confused with the Crimson sunbird which looks very similar, but the range doesn't overlap).
They are quite easy to sight in the region due to their color and are often found around flowering plants and trees / plants with insects and spiders. This is a lifer that we wanted very much, but despite many sightings, barely got this shot.
Thank you so much for your views and feedback. Much appreciated.
The specific name "pendulum" comes from the Latin adjective pendŭlus, a, um (= pendant, dangling) in relation to the pendulous branches and stems that characterize this species.
It loves acidic and humus-rich soils, from 600 to 2400 meters.
The photo was taken during Sergey's performance at the D'Addario Guitar Festival - NAMM Musikmesse Russia, in Moscow.
Sergey Tabachnikov (born April 17, 1987, Samara, USSR) - guitarist, musician, leader of the Nobody.one group. Without any musical education, he became one of the most popular guitarists in the country.
Tabachnikov plays compositions that are completely different in style. But critics and viewers alike agree that his work is nevertheless closer to instrumental and blues rock. He began playing the guitar at the age of 11. Sergei is self-taught, he does not advise others to use the services of teachers, believing that if you wish, you can learn to play on your own.
Sergey Tabachnikov, in addition to his musical career, maintains his blog on YouTube, in which he uploads reviews of guitars and accessories to them. The videos are very popular among both novice musicians and professionals due to their interesting presentation style and specific humor.
Sergey takes the performances of his group more than seriously. The funny guy from the video about guitars disappears somewhere and a professional musician appears on the stage who completely surrenders to playing the guitar.
The Nobody.one group is actively touring Russia and the CIS countries, participating in many festivals, including the invasion. However, speaking of popularity, unfortunately, the group is known only to a narrow circle of viewers, but we hope this situation will change soon, and the general public will learn about the talented guys and their leader!
Sempervivum tectorum, the common houseleek, is a species of flowering plant in the family Crassulaceae, native to the mountains of southern Europe, cultivated in the whole of Europe for its appearance and a Roman tradition claiming that it protects buildings against lightning strikes.
The name Sempervivum has its origin in the Latin semper ('always') and vivus ('living'), because this perennial plant keeps its leaves in winter and is very resistant to difficult conditions of growth.
The specific epithet tectorum means 'of house roofs', referring to a traditional location for these plants.
The hairs that fringe the leaves can be seen on close inspection.
My husband built this birdhouse back in Alaska to specific sizes for swallows. Chickadees used it two years in a row. It stood high on a metal pole away from interlopers.
Then we moved here, birdhouse included, and finally, tree swallows! Sounds like quite a few hungry ones inside.
Photo today by my husband, Howard Marsh, using his D4 and my 500mm f/4 on the Manfrotto monopod.
The hôtel was built to serve as a residence for the archbishops of Sens. Before 1622, Paris was not a specific archdiocese, and depended on the diocesan authority of Sens. The archbishop was a prominent figure of power, his residence reflecting his influence within the urban landscape.
A first hôtel, at this location, was built for the archbishops of Sens in 1345, which was latter used by Charles V, King of France, as a part of his royal residence, the hôtel Saint-Pol. When the Kings settled in the newly built Louvre palace, the building was destroyed, only to be replaced by the current hôtel, built between 1475 and 1519 by Tristian de Salazar and reinstalled as the residence of the archbishops of Sens.[1] As such, it served as the house of many renowned prelate, such as Antoine Duprat, Louis de Bourbon de Vendôme, Louis de Lorraine, Nicolas de Pellevé (who died in the hôtel) or Jacques Davy Duperron. Margaret of Valois also lived there in 1605 and 1606, and her decision to cut a fig tree (figuier) in front of the building is said to have inspired the name of the street, rue du Figuier.[2]
The 1830 cannonball lodged in the main facade.
In 1622, Paris became an archdiocese. The archbishops of Sens lost the major part of their power in the city, and their sojourns in Paris became progressively less frequent. The hôtel, alienated during the 17th century to the archdiocese of Paris, entered a lasting period of progressive decay. A bien national during the French Revolution, it was sold in 1797 and privately owned throughout the 19th century, housing, like many hôtels particulier in the Marais at the time, shops, workshops or factories. During the Trois Glorieuses street fights of 1830, a cannonball hit the facade and lodged deep within the wall ; it is visible nowadays above the main entrance, the date engraved beneath.
Protected as a heritage site in 1862, the building was acquired by the city of Paris, and thoroughly restored in 1930. The Forney art library was installed in it in 1961.
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Moduza procris - the Commander
Doi Suthep-Pui NP, Chiang Mai, Thailand
Order : Lepidoptera
Family : Nymphalidae
Sub-Family : Limenitidinae
Genus : Moduza
Species : Moduza procris procris
I have recently uploaded a new set of Thailand pics on my website. Mostly butterflies but a couple of other things as well. Please have a look - bugs-alive.blogspot.com
There is also a specific factsheet for the above butterfly -
All my insect pics are one shot, hand-held macros of live insects in the wild.
Those wonderful purple-mauve flowerheads of Artichoke attract lots of insects. Bees of many kinds, but also flies among which really tiny ones. I think this is a Drosophilid clutching a flower petal but I'm afraid I can't be more specific. Anyone out there in Flickrland? Thanks...
While I am curious about the formation of the lines on the slope, a Flickr friend from Malaysia was specific about the bitter coldness there or thereabout in winter. Nowadays, I suppose more people are concerned about the isolation here and I'm not too sure if folks there have access to the internet, or even to Amazon ?
Dohnanyi plays Beethoven
Tempest
www.youtube.com/watch?v=lwNJhcVY8tI&list=PLAC65F6C5C6...
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www.youtube.com/watch?v=2GPBRr2c_n0&list=PLAC65F6C5C6...
Andante Sonatas 30&31- 1959
www.youtube.com/watch?v=SLz5PhzYeYU
Like most audience, I was first attracted to Dieskau and then I switched to Hans Hotter and thereafter to French tenor Gerard Souzay and I'm still exploring :
Gerard Souzay. Schumann & Schubert
www.youtube.com/watch?v=5sh8HFVwc-I
www.youtube.com/watch?v=rrKkdIp85DY
Faure
www.youtube.com/watch?v=qRrdWhKuwQ4
Elisabeth Schumann, Schubert - 48 Lieder : Ave Maria, Die Forelle...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=M5E_BicQmR4
www.classical-music.com/article/best-recordings-schuberts...
Peter Schreier : Serenade, Schubert
www.youtube.com/watch?v=oaq-6U7ZJt8
Elley Ameling
www.youtube.com/watch?v=JygxOQK0rYg
Chen Sa plays Beethoven 'The Tempest' , 2011
A lone horse pretty much ignores an eastbound Union Pacific stack train as it speeds through Pixley, Wyoming, on the railroad’s Pocatello Subdivision on the morning of September 28, 2020. General freight no longer travels in 40-foot boxcars like the one now being used for ranch storage, but a lot of it does get shipped in containers like those passing by on the intermodal in the background.
On June 3, 1841, Auguste Pervillé (?-1868), plant collector for the Museum of Natural History in Paris, from the 'Île de Bourbon' (today Réunion) writes a rather plaintive report to the grand administrator of the Museum. He's too low on funds and is just scraping by. Moreover of the eight months he's just spent collecting in Madagascar he was taken ill and could work only three. But he appears to be steady on the job. And indeed he did a lot of 'economic', agrarian work while he was at it. In Ambongo, southern Madagascar - where he also collected our plant - he found a particularly large coffee plant. If you search around a bit on 'the net' you'll be able to read that letter for yourself. Fascinating! For the rest, little is known of what must have been an exciting life of intrepid travel. In his first scientifc description of this Flaming Beauty, Henri Ernest Baillon (1827-1895) refers (1878) to Pervillé's find and adds that in the local language it's called 'Kirondron'; hence the specific name. It's become naturalised in the Tropics and graces KLCC Park.
When you just "drop into" a specific year's archive, you never know what your claws will surface with. (Like a penny arcade, remember?) Well, I didn't remember that my Dragonfly years went back to 2009-2010, but yes, and they coincided with my first wildflower foray.
What did surprise me was that ... I was good! The cameras were the SX10 and the SX20. I do remember that the lenses were excellent for closeup work. (It would be another year or two before I had a camera - the SX40 - with sufficient focal length for birding.) Composition was a real problem when I started with dragonflies and damselflies. Backgrounds could be just water but with the sun bouncing off. At other times, the backgrounds could be duck weed and all manner of acquatic fauna that made for messy shots and poor depth of field.
It was the SX40 that got me away from insects and flowers. After all, anyone with a digital camera could capture decent images of birds, but birds are far ranging (they fly) and, therefore, more time consuming than dragonflies or snapdragons.
Anyway, this was one of my first "pond-based" dragonflies, a Blue Darner near Heather Farm's larger pond. (After seven plus years of birding, I would return to odonates in 2017-2019.) My first dragonfly was, by the way, a female Variegated Meadowhawk found in tall grasses on the south side of Mt. Diablo, fairly distant from any water. But I got hooked. With the SX40, if it moved, I'd shoot so my photography was "all over the map," literally and figuratively.
Another of my many many shots of the recent sunrise at West WIttering. The clouds were all over the place with this one!
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Da una foto analogica di molti anni fa.
Un laghetto del Trentino, non specificato
Invito al Viaggio, di Franco Battiato
A calm beauty
Oh, HOW I love this specific spot, in my Chateau de La Hulpe- land blessed wanderings! In ALL Seasons! If you notice, there is only a few meters distance between the spot I took each photo. What you see here is not actually a river, but a lake, which becomes narrow-formed at a certain point, and then stops at the borders…I normally follow my path on both sides of it, turning around at a point nearby, where a little bridge exists, which it is not included in my photos….
That morning, it was a misty, velvety November week-day! With all that very special silence surrounding me ….With all those magical Earth-colours and odours…Just very few people around, but with a soft smile on their face , and bright eyes…. And a heart-warming “Bonjour!!”, every time passing close to me…
*** Wishing you all, a DELIGHTFUL Weekend!!
All attention focuses on the specific instant, almost too good to be true, which can only vanish in the following one :-)
Willie Ronis
HMM! HPPT! Character Matters!
echinacea, coneflowers, sarah p duke gardens, duke university, durham, north carolina
CATALÀ
Flox (Phlox) és un gènere de plantes amb flors El nom del gènere deriva del grec: φλόξ "flama". Conté unes 67 espècies sovint de plantes ornamentals perennes i anuals. La majoria es troben a Nord-amèrica (una a Sibèria) en diversos hàbitats des del prat alpí a arbredes i praderies. Algunes espècies floreixen a l'hivern i d'altres a l'estiu o tardor. Les flors poden ser blau pàl·lid, viola, rosa, vermell brillant o blanc.
Algunes espècies com P. paniculata (Flox de jardí) creixen erectes, altres com P. subulata creixen com una mata curta.
ENGLISH
Phlox paniculata is a species of flowering plant in the phlox family (Polemoniaceae). It is native to parts of the eastern and central United States. It is extensively cultivated in temperate regions as an ornamental plant and has become established in the wild in scattered locales in other regions.Common names include fall phlox garden phlox, perennial phlox, summer phlox, and panicled phlox.
Phlox paniculata is an erect herbaceous perennial growing to 120 cm (47 in) tall by 100 cm (39 in) wide, with opposite, simple leaves on slender green stems. The flowers are 1.5–2.5 cm (0.6–1.0 in) in diameter, often strongly fragrant and borne in summer through fall (autumn). The flowers are grouped in panicles (with many branching stems), hence the specific epithet paniculata. Typical flower colors in wild populations are pink or purple (rarely white).
CASTELLANO
Phlox paniculata es una especie de angiosperma de la familia Polemoniaceae. Es originaria de partes del este y centro de los Estados Unidos. Está extensamente cultivada en regiones templadas como planta ornamental y se ha establecido en la naturaleza en lugares dispersos en otras regiones. Los nombres comunes incluyen phlox de otoño, phlox de jardín, phlox perenne, phlox de verano, y phlox en pánico.
Phlox paniculata es una planta herbácea perenne que crece hasta 120 cm de alto por 100 cm ancho, con hojas opuestas y simples en tallos verdes esbeltos. Las flores tienen un diámetro de 1.5 a 2.5 cm, a menudo son muy fragantes y nacen desde el verano hasta otoño. Las flores están agrupadas en panículas (con muchos tallos ramificados), por eso el nombre paniculata. Los colores típicos de las flores en las poblaciones silvestres son el rosa o el violeta (raramente el blanco).
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...In this specific build as we're unleashing a temporary build starting today for Club Zero's 12th Anniversary celebration till our new club is completed. I'm spinning @ 9pm SLT so drop by to hear the most spiritual Dark Electro & Hellektro heard on the grid & beyond!
As it was so windy, the beach was a lot less busy than usual at this time of the year so I had plenty of time and space to get some interesting beach reflections.
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We had heard that the coast path to Kimmeridge Bay had reopened so we decided so give it a go. There seems to have been a lot of landslides over the last 9 months or so and the path is quite distorted in some places. Portland is off to the left in the distance.
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I just find it amazing how standing at a specific angle to the street light can completely bring to life the form of an automobile. I suppose a bit of rain helps...
A photo taken just before sunset of a historical mansion built in 1879 in Nevada, Iowa. The estate was established and built by Otis Briggs, who founded Farmers Bank and invested heavily in real estate after moving from Des Moines in 1857. This specific property is also referred to as "Evergreen Lane".
Developed with Darktable 3.6.0.
Der Seidenbaum (Albizia julibrissin) (auch Seidenakazie oder Schlafbaum, weil er nachts oder bei Trockenheit seine Blätter zusammenklappt, also „schläft“) ist eine Pflanzenart aus der Gattung Albizia, die zur Unterfamilie der Mimosengewächse (Mimosoideae) innerhalb der Familie der Hülsenfrüchtler (Fabaceae) gehört.
Albizia julibrissin (Persian silk tree, pink silk tree) is a species of tree in the family Fabaceae, native to southwestern and eastern Asia.[1]
The genus is named after the Italian nobleman Filippo degli Albizzi, who introduced it to Europe in the mid-18th century, and it is sometimes incorrectly spelled Albizzia. The specific epithet julibrissin is a corruption of the Persian word gul-i abrisham (گل ابریشم) which means "silk flower" (from gul گل "flower" + abrisham ابریشم "silk").Its leaves slowly close during the night and during periods of rain, the leaflets bowing downward.
(Wikipedia)
Turf church from the village of Hof in the Eastern Region of Iceland.
This photo is offered under a standard Creative Commons License - Attribution 3.0 Unported. It gives you a lot of freedom to use my work commercially as long as you credit and link back to this image on my Flickr page.
Flickr resolution: 1800 x 1414 px
Also available for download at 5000 x 3928 px on my Patreon page, an ever-growing collection of high res images for one low monthly subscription fee. You can find this specific photo at the following post:
Bamboo
Tanabe Chikuunsai IV, who is of the fourth generation of one of Japan’s most renowned bamboo artist families, is known for his large-scale site-specific installations. With his academic sculpture education and the handcraft he learned from his family, he adapts traditional bamboo work to a contemporary approach and form, forcing the limits of his material to the utmost with respect to aesthetics and resilience.
In his work depicting the motions and forms of nature, Chikunsaai IV questions the contemporary human being’s relation with nature. The organic material he uses reminds the spectators of the sophisticated stories of Asian mythology, inviting them to become part of a tale. In his sculptures, we see the elegance of centuries old Japanese culture in its simplest form. For the site-specific installation he built for Odunpazarı Modern Museum (OMM), the artist used the five main constituents of nature as a theme: Water, fire, air, earth and humanity.
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Odunpazarı Modern Museum is a cross-cultural platform where modern and contemporary art from Turkey and abroad is exhibited with a universal perspective.
Located in the historical, Ottoman-era neighborhood of Odunpazarı in Eskişehir, the OMM building was designed by Kengo Kuma and Associates (KKAA), the world-renowned architectural office.
OMM was founded by Eskişehir-born architect and art collector Erol Tabanca.
For more: omm.art/en/information/about
Varanasi (Inde) - Après ses ablutions ritualisées dans les eaux du Gange, le croyant termine son long cérémonial par une prière à l’un des dieux de l’hindouisme. Il a le choix car cette religion, considérée comme l’une des plus anciennes au monde, ne compte pas moins de 33 millions de divinités. Chacune est sollicitée pour une raison particulière. Pas de guichet unique. Mais les plus importantes sont connues sous les noms de « dieux de la trinité hindoue » : Brahma, le dieu créateur du monde et des êtres vivants ; Vishnu, est chargé de veiller et protéger l’univers ; Shivâ, dieu destructeur (il détruit l’univers pour le recréer) ; Ganesh, le dieu à tête d’éléphant, représente la sagesse, il est aussi protecteur du foyer, de l’éducation et de la chance. Enfin, Krishna, dieu de la compassion, de la bienveillance et de l’amour.
Morning prayer
Varanasi (India) - After his ritualized ablutions in the waters of the Ganges, the believer ends his long ceremony with a prayer to one of the gods of Hinduism. The devotee has the choice because this religion, considered one of the oldest in the world, has no less than 33 million deities. Each is called upon for a specific reason. No one stop shop. But the most important are known under the names of “gods of the Hindu trinity”: Brahma, the creator god of the world and of the living beings; Vishnu, is in charge of watching over and protecting the universe; Shiva, destructive god (he destroys the universe to recreate it); Ganesh, the elephant-headed god, represents wisdom, he is also protector of home, education and luck. Finally, Krishna is the god of compassion, benevolence and love.
In 1847 William Herbert (1778-1847) writes that his friend Muzio Giuseppe Spirito de Tommasini (1794-1879), one-time mayor (1839-1860) of Trieste but also a botanist, found this crocus on the mountain range of Biokovo (now in Croatia). It's an early bloomer and is notable for its quite narrow leaves as compared to other Crocuses. Incidentally, Hebert or his printer missed out an 'm' in the specific name.
The specific alpestris is Latin and means "of the high mountains", from Alpes, the Alps.
The horned lark was originally classified in the genus Alauda.
The horned lark Is suggested to have diverged from Temnick's lark around the Early-Middle Pleistocene, according to genomic divergence estimates.[3][4] The Horned lark is known from around a dozen localities of Late Pleistocene age, including those in Italy,[5] Russia, The United Kingdom and the United States. The earliest known fossil is from the Calabrian of Spain, around 1–0.8 million years old. In 2020 a 46,000 year old frozen specimen was described from the Russian Far East.
Recent genetic analysis has suggested that the species consists of six clades that in the future may warrant recognition as separate species. A 2020 study also suggested splitting of the species, but into 4 species instead, the Himalayan Horned Lark E. longirostris, Mountain Horned Lark E. penicillata, Common Horned Lark E. alpestris (sensu stricto), alongside Temnick's Lark..
🎵The Verve - Bitter Sweet Symphony
You may have noticed a growing trend in SL for a specific spooky boy look - if you're updating your av to reflect this then go take a peek at Stray Dog's new skin, Nicco, which matches well with Lelutka Camden (or Eon) to nail this style. The paler skins also look great for the Vampy types amongst you. I've teamed it up with Maxa's Dave Gothic Jacket for a nonchalant, IDGAF look.
⦿ Stray Dog - Nicco Skin EvoX - IVORY (Worn on Lelutka Camden)
At the Mancave event.
Creator's Flickr.
⦿ MAZA - Dave Gothic Jacket - FATPACK
At the Manhood event.
Creator's Primfeed.
⦿ [ VelvetVue ] - Witty Eyes :: Fatpack
At the Manhood event.
Creator's Flickr.
⦿ROZOREGALIA - UZYUM*CHOKER (Ozero)
⦿.: CORAZON:. Tattoo MEMENTO :.
⦿DURA - U131-ALL COLORS
⦿[Apika] Born Sinner - Septum
⦿CODEX - Egan necklace
⦿MINIMAL - London Rooftop Scene
Face tattoos my own
Head: Lelutka Camden
Pose is partly included with the jacket. Trying a demo is a must.
A shot of one of the boats at Hastings surrounded by all the associated fishing clutter.
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Seneca Rocks - West Virginia from the grounds of the old homestead.
I have wanted to do a night time image of Seneca Rocks for a long time but
never could meet mother nature's weather schedule when I planned ahead of
time.
Although I always have my equipment with me, this day for no specific
reason I take the long way home.
This image and many more can be found and purchased as prints on
my photography website in the Fine Art Images Gallery at
Crocoite
4x3 inch
Adelaide Mine, Dundas, Dundas District, Tasmania
Australia
Crocoite is a mineral consisting of lead chromate, PbCrO4, and crystallizing in the monoclinic crystal system. It is identical in composition with the artificial product chrome yellow used as a paint pigment.
Crocoite is commonly found as large, well-developed prismatic adamantine crystals, although in many cases are poorly terminated. Crystals are of a bright hyacinth-red color, translucent, and have an adamantine to vitreous luster. On exposure to UV light some of the translucency and brilliancy is lost. The streak is orange-yellow; Mohs hardness is 2.5–3; and the specific gravity is 6.0.
~Then consider some spider webs... strong and with a specific pattern.~
STRENGTH... is the topic for Sunday ~ January 20th, 2019, Group Our Daily Challenge
Flickr Galerie: www.flickr.com/photos/flickr/galleries/72157721337301871/
1977 Opel Typ City (1975-1979) Modell 3-türige Schrägheck-Limousine
Unfortunately, I will have less time to spend on FLICKR in the coming period due to my study 'Drone Pilot Advanced EASA Specific-Category STS-01/PDRA-S01' 🚁
I keep trying to post 2 automotives a day on my stream and not in groups except by request
Sunday 01-03-2020 we went for a walk down the Worcester & Birmingham canal .Starting at Tardebigge Wharf....there are 30 locks in total over about 2 1/2 miles .We were not doing them all .....there was a specific shot i was after (about 10 locks down)....this is not the one i will post that later .But what a beautiful location it is ....some lovely compositions and some very nice walks
Malayan tiger, from a specific population of the Panthera tigris tigris subspecies, that is native to Peninsular Malaysia. Classified as critically endangered on the IUCN Red List since 2015.
.........Podophyllum peltatum
Mayapple or American Mandrake is a member of the barberry family. European Mandrake (Mandragora officinarum) is an entirely different plant belonging to the nightshade family.
While both plants have specific medicinal uses and both are rich in historical background and folklore they are distinctly different plants.
There is a web page listed below for anyone interested in a comparison of the two plants.
www.fs.usda.gov/wildflowers/ethnobotany/Mind_and_Spirit/m...
I had a specific hope from this sunrise shoot of the Buttercross in Brigg, North Lincolnshire, and that was to capture the sun rising at the end of the street on the left (Wrawby Street). But unfortunately there was an annoying slither of cloud on the horizon and by the time it cleared, the sun had moved too far to the right. Maybe I’ll be luckier another time.
Shot as a 5 shot panorama (each bracketed) with my Tilt Shift, and stitched in Lightroom. The highlights on the front of the building are due to spotlights above the upper windows.
The Buttercross, historically was the Brigg Town Hall, but is now used as a tourist information centre and as an events venue.
*** Featured in Explore 27th September 2022, many thanks to all 🙏 ***
A trullo (plural, trulli) is a traditional Apulian dry stone hut with a conical roof. Their style of construction is specific to the Itria Valley, in the Murge area of the Italian region of Apulia. Trulli were generally constructed as temporary field shelters and storehouses or as permanent dwellings by small proprietors or agricultural labourers. In the town of Alberobello, in the province of Bari, whole districts contain dense concentrations of trulli. The golden age of trulli was the nineteenth century, especially its final decades, which were marked by the development of wine growing. … —- Wikipedia
Oudemansiella mucida, the Porcelain Fungus, is specific to beech wood. It appears in autumn on dead trunks and on fallen branches, and occasionally it also grows on dead branches high up in living trees. Common and widespread in Britain and Ireland, Oudemansiella mucida occurs throughout northern Europe, but in southern Europe where Beech is not found the Porcelain Fungus is also absent.
Provided that the skin is thoroughly washed (or peeled from the caps) to remove the mucus, these mushrooms are edible, although their slimy covering is probably enough to put most people off. Only larger caps are worth collecting, because the flesh is thin and insubstantial.