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The injured cape buffalo repeatedly fends off the pride, alone and with the help of other herd members. Each time it tries to recover and rest the pride closes in, never giving the bull a chance to regain any strength. He is injured. His left front leg is broken. This injury is likely the reason he is being singled out. It is much less likely that the injury was inflicted by the lions, since none of them is reckless enough to try and approach the bull from the front. Even now, injured and weakened, the bull could easily inflict mortal injury on the lions. They feel him growing weaker, however. They remain patient and persistent. I find myself wishing that the bull would simply lose consciousness. His fear and suffering are all too apparent. I am bothered by watching, yet I cannot look away. It vexes me. On a rare instance like this, nature has made me uncomfortable. I am uncomfortable with suffering, regardless of the subject. #iLoveNature #iLoveWildlife #WildlifePhotography in #Tanzania #Nature in #Africa #Ngorongoro #Canon #Bringit #DrDADBooks #Photography #Picoftheday #Photooftheday #WildlifeConservation
This picture was taken in the mid-80's in the early morning light near Park Point Beach house in Duluth, MN on Lake Superior. This has always been one of my favorites simply because I like the warm light on the sand and the tenacity of the grass that will not be uprooted by the wind. Instead, it yields and makes it tracks in the sand.
Opuntia, commonly called prickly pear, is a genus of flowering plants in the cactus family Cactaceae. When Carl Linnaeus published Species Plantarum in 1753 – the starting point for modern botanical nomenclature – he placed all the species of cactus known to him in one genus, Cactus. In 1754, the Scottish botanist Philip Miller divided them into several genera, including Opuntia. He distinguished the genus largely on the form of its flowers and fruits.
Like most true cactus species, prickly pears are native only to the Americas. Through human actions, they have since been introduced to many other areas of the world. Prickly pears are considered an invasive species in Australia, Ethiopia, South Africa, and Hawaii, among other locations.
Prickly pears (mostly Opuntia stricta) were originally imported into Europe during the 1500s and Australia in the 18th century for gardens, and were later used as a natural agricultural fencing and in an attempt to establish a cochineal dye industry.
In Australia, they quickly became a widespread invasive weed, eventually converting 260,000 km2 (101,000 sq mi) of farming land into an impenetrable green jungle of prickly pear, in places 6 m (20 ft) high. Scores of farmers were driven off their land by what they called the "green hell"; their abandoned homes were crushed under the cactus growth, which advanced at a rate of 400,000 hectares (1,000,000 acres) per year.
The moth Cactoblastis cactorum, from South America, whose larvae eat prickly pear, was introduced in 1925 and rapidly reduced the cactus population. The son of the noted entomologist Frederick Parkhurst Dodd, Alan Dodd, was a leading official in combating the prickly pear menace. A memorial hall in Chinchilla, Queensland, commemorates the moth.
Animals that eat Opuntia include the prickly pear island snail and Cyclura rock iguanas. The fruit are relished by many arid-land animals, chiefly birds, which thus help distribute the seeds. Opuntia pathogens include the sac fungus Colletotrichum coccodes and Sammons' Opuntia virus. The ant Crematogaster opuntiae and the spider Theridion opuntia are named because of their association with prickly pear cactus.
The fruit of prickly pears, commonly called cactus fruit, cactus fig, Indian fig, nopales or tuna in Spanish, is edible, although it must be peeled carefully to remove the small spines on the outer skin before consumption. If the outer layer is not properly removed, glochids can be ingested, causing discomfort of the throat, lips, and tongue, as the small spines are easily lodged in the skin. Native Americans like the Tequesta would roll the fruit around in a suitable medium (e.g. grit) to "sand" off the glochids. Alternatively, rotating the fruit in the flame of a campfire or torch has been used to remove the glochids. Today, parthenocarpic (seedless) cultivars are also available.
Prior to modern medicine, Native Americans and Mexicans primarily used Opuntia as a coagulant for open wounds, using the pulp of the stem either by splitting the stem or scraping out the pulp.
In one recent study, it was found that Opuntia aided in the prevention or slow down of diabetes, obesity, metabolic syndrome, cardiovascular disease, and some cancers. The results of the group that was taking Opuntia showed a reduction in BMI, body composition, and waist circumference when compared to the placebo group.
The coat of arms of Mexico depicts a Mexican golden eagle, perched upon an Opuntia cactus, holding a rattlesnake. According to the official history of Mexico, the coat of arms is inspired by an Aztec legend regarding the founding of Tenochtitlan.
The Aztecs, then a nomadic tribe, were wandering throughout Mexico in search of a divine sign to indicate the precise spot upon which they were to build their capital. Their god Huitzilopochtli had commanded them to find an eagle devouring a snake, perched atop a cactus that grew on a rock submerged in a lake. After 200 years of wandering, they found the promised sign on a small island in the swampy Lake Texcoco. There they founded their new capital, Tenochtitlan.
20160724_212902 A growth of wonder that happens in impossible places. From Mount Stewart to here. Self seeded... apparently in many holes in the wall.
24.07.2016: Sunday. A overnight on Killigoe Bay. Minor shock... surprise. Google news of old and dear friend's dad's colourful background. Documented but shrouded in island mythology.
Tucked away in the lanes off Little Lonsdale, a tree & small garden thrives despite the light or seemingly apparent lack of it.
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One of many ongoing approaches, where I move through the world as a harvester of images stumbling, strolling, lurching, equal parts accidental, and intentional. My concerns circumnavigate around questions that resist easy answers: time as texture, presence as performance, possibility as glitch. I trace the contours of decay and growth, hope and entropy, searching for the quiet collisions where meaning might emerge. Each image is less a document than a provocation an invitation to reconsider what we 'see', and what we ignore; and why.
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Leaves of Royal Poinciana or "Flamboyant" or "Flame Tree"
A photo converted into a "watercolor painting" with Corel Paint Shop Pro X.
This beautiful young tree was badly broken and uprooted by Hurricane Wilma on Monday, October 24, 2005, a storm that did very heavy damage in South Florida, especially in the Fort Lauderdale area.
The tree was pruned back severely and replanted, with hopes it would survive.
Finally, a couple weeks ago, it began sprouting new growth.
It is tenacious, and obviously wants to live.
Next summer (2007), it will likely be a solid canopy of red-orange blooms.
Oakland Park, Florida -US- near Fort Lauderdale.
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"Tenacity" slides off the slipway at Ryde with a flight for Southsea on 11/02/89. "Tenacity" worked this route between 1983 & 1990.
" I wish I was a dragonfly,
Blue in the shimmering sun
Settling on the tropical palms,
When my breeze guided journey was done."
- Serenity Elliot
“Where the senses fail us, reason must step in.” - Galileo Galilei
Macro Monday project – 05/11/15
"5 (five)”
Sight, Sound, Smell, Taste & Touch
My sketch did not turn out as intended - this sweet tiny daisy growing out of a crack in the parking lot along the curb. Such growth always amazes me - Nature endures!
I've had precious little time to work this summer because of the need to prepare for my husband finally coming home from the hospital. This little Pritten waited a long time to be completed and she waited most patiently too!
Tenacity Venture, in Bayonne, New Jersey, USA. July, 2021 . The smoke from the Western wildfires had caught up to New York today. Copyright Tom Turner
Two shots of the same train although the first is more a Hovercraft shot.
485043 is midway between here and Ryde Pier head as "Tenacity" waits to go back to Portsmouth. 13.02 Ryde PH - Shanklin, 18 August 1989.
Taken at Brimham Rocks, North Yorkshire.
I am tenacious if nothing else. Last week I went to Bushkill Falls here in PA and messed up every last one of my water shots. I left my little notebook in the car with all my waterfall notes in it and the hike down the 100 foot main fall was too much to go back up and then down again. So I fudged it and hated every one of them and deleted everything.
Today I got up at the buttcrack of dawn and headed back up to the Pocono mountains by myself and was one of only 6 cars there (last week it was a beautiful day and we ended up parking on grass about a quarter mile away- it was packed!)
With nobody around me I was able to set up the tripod and take my time, walk into the streams and not worry about being in anyone's way. (God bless waterproof hiking boots, btw!) It was overcast and cloudy which was much better than the bright blinding sun of last week that made a decent shot of the main falls impossible.
Anyway, here is one of the shots of the main falls that I managed today, along with a 4 mile hike over rocks and giant tree roots.
Hope your weekend is great!
然而想到大理在最後那寂清的月光中
是否也曾惦記著我
心中還是有些難過
就好像戀愛時因為小小的差池而錯失對方一樣
淅瀝瀝的雨聲更揪緊我的胸口
仿佛悔恨似地
那棟房子的靜寧
月光和海水的味道
又在我的腦海中浮現
雨水繼續沖刷著柏油路面
我也像被雨水淋濕ㄧ樣
和那些照片一起躺在地上
節錄 雛菊的人生
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Looking down towards Regan's Pool from near Kermit's Pool in Hancock Gorge in the magnificent Karijini National Park in the Pilbara region of Western Australia.
"For Indian Start-Ups, Tenacity Beats High Tech" by ANITA RAGHAVAN via NYT t.co/2f2Pz5QI3v (via Twitter twitter.com/felipemassone/status/719683931939946499)
Ancient cedar clinging tenaciously to the rocky shoreline of a little lake in Manitoba's Whiteshell Provincial Park.
Autumn leaves that refuse to fall...
I think it is a Maple tree. I've been watching it and waiting for those leaves to fall for a long time now.
© C. Statton DiFiori
Happy New Year everyone! Wishing you the tenacity and hope of this wild flower as we begin a New Year! In 2024 "I hope you are blessed with a heart like a wildflower. Strong enough to rise again after being trampled upon, tough enough to weather the worst of the summer storms, and able to grow and flourish even in the most broken places." (Nikita Gill)