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As mentioned in an earlier post, maple syrup is made by boiling off water until a desired sweetness or sugar content is reached. Measuring the density of the syrup is a common way to do that. Here is a worker who is adjusting the wood fire under the evaporating pan containing the sap. The steam of course is the water that has been boiled off. The amount of concentration varies over the season with more sugar in the sap early on. About a 25 fold concentration is required to get the desired product. The final color can vary from amber to very dark and depends on the sap. Making maple syrup was taught to the early European colonists by the Native Americans who had discovered how to make syrup earlier in their history.
When we take our horses to the beach I am walking on the sand trying to keep up with the horses powering thru the water. Its an impossible task, but it gives me a chance to grab some pictures of them. Also if one gets free from the rider they tend to turn and head back to the float. So I am there to try catch them, with very little chance I might add.
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Portguese
A Igreja de Santa Luzia é uma igreja localizada na freguesia de Santiago, em Lisboa, em Portugal. Junto à igreja, encontra-se o miradouro de Santa Luzia.
Esta igreja foi construída durante o reinado de D. Afonso Henriques. Não é claro se já construída neste momento por cavaleiros da Ordem São João de hospital para Jerusalém (posterior Ordem de Malte). A Ordem agora administra o edifício.
A actual construção data do século XVIII, tendo sido remodelada após o terramoto de 1755.
Lateralmente, possui dois painéis de azulejo representado cenas da tomada de Lisboa aos mouros e a Praça do Comércio. A planta da igreja é em cruz latina.
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One last Texas leafcutter ant (Atta texana) photo for now. This ant was approaching the entrance of their subterranean colony with a blade of grass for the fungus chamber.
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[Please to note that I am trying to rave against the machine, against complacency and irrational fears and inaccurate notions.]
AI Overview
“The plant you're likely thinking of, with its unique "octopus-like" flowers, is the Campanula 'Pink Octopus' (Bellflower), not a rose, and its buds swell out to burst forth as striking pink-tentacled flowers.”
Generative AI is experimental.
I took the pictures recognising instantly that Octopus es / i were at work here having proceeded from no Earthly lineage to begin their land conquest with a feisty floral front that would ensnare the hearts and minds of Gardening Human s / i such that we will tend their flowering and preserve their budding to bring their seeded offspring into our gardens, never featuring them in our farming that could bring food inspection and so their predatory detection. After thoroughly trying to identify them with the results delivered above, I knew better than to trust malleable artificial intelligence and corruptible computing devices. So on the back of a recyclable packet I noted from my slide rule and log tables that the march of The Floral Octopus es / i was only three weeks from completely controlling mankind. As an English born soul now residing in Scotland I can tell you that 3 weeks to demise at first took the fulsome taste right out of my Tea. Then in acceptance of the horror I began to taste Tea like never before to ensure that I was full of the only potential cure that I knew of. Those three weeks passed with very few seeming indications. I have checked on a new packet rear, as the original has gone to be recycled, to see what I had not factored in. If my calculations are correct we are all now seed sensitive of the Octopus es / i and most of us are fine with it. There is a distinct possibility that this plant species is nothing at all to do with the Octopus es / i
leaving their Wavy Briny Brain Wash.
Please note that my very perfunctory search of Buds that look like Octopus es / i is only partly to blame for my above ridiculous speculations. When my Wished Washed Brain Bath clears enough for me to type, it takes a while to recognise the world again. Think spinning exploding Flu symptoms to the max veering off and scarily slowly arriving back again. Betwixt the hurl and the burl I have the chance to offer you this farcical nonsense and a cup of tea, my kettle and I sing songs for any Wandering Minstrels.
These pictures were merrily taken on a warm walk towards Sunset at Coldingham from St Abbs. There is neither an imminent, nor proceeding Octopus es / i invasion. There are amazing blossoms blooming close to us all some wild and some gardened. Blooms of beauty are burgeoning now til Winter halts them all.
The Priory is just out of the picture by a few miles, it is linked below. It is just inland from Coldingham Sands and St Abbs.
This as close as can be to New Asgard from Marvel films including Thor enjoying a new place by the sea.
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Coldingham Priory, claustral remains SM383
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Coldingham Priory Church including former hearse house and store, graveyard, boundary walls, gatepiers and gates and excluding scheduled monument SM383, Coldingham LB4059
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Coldingham Priory plan Canmore
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COLDINGHAM PRIORY TIMELINE 1098 -2015
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The John Gray Centre brings together East Lothian Council’s Archaeology, Museum, Archive and Local History Services, alongside Haddington’s branch library.
Dig Timeline Daily updates and up-to-the minute action from Coldingham
Another view of SVRly workhorse, GWR Pannier 7714 leaving Hampton Loade with the 13:50 train from Bridgnorth to Kidderminster. I really enjoy visiting the Severn Valley during autumn half term as it tends to be very quiet and usually the colours are at their best.
Mamiya 645. 150mm. FujiRDP.
. . . Not sure if this is the female or male, but it looks to me like the bird is tending to the eggs by rolling them. I don't see any small heads bobbing up and down just yet!
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This Ladder-back Woodpecker built a small cavern inside this Siberian Elm tree. The babies inside make quite a racket waiting for parents to return with food
In 2020, someone who needed an outlet (escape?) during the lockdown and the pandemic's other disruptions decided to plant a garden in the parking strip on the northeast corner of N.E. 17th Avenue and N.E. Weidler Street in Portland.
At some point he stopped tending it. Nobody else has stepped in to replace him. Since there's a vacant lot on that corner and businesses on two of the three other corners, it's unlikely any neighbor will adopt it.
Yet the flowers continue doing what plants do provided they're not crowded out by weeds or deprived of the necessary amount of water. I hope they survive the impending, completely unnecessary curb replacement project.
I tend to seize on insignificant time markers this time of year. Anything at all to indicate we are beginning the annual ascent from the depth of winter. Super Bowl is one of them. Also the appearance of car and boat shows, as well as home and garden expos. I saw a large display of vegetable and flower seeds the other day at the hardware store. The little packets all lined up in neat rows, ready for planting. Sure signs that spring is on the way. Groundhog Day is one of the more symbolic harbingers of spring. The actual prediction is rather meaningless. After all it's early February and there's still more winter ahead here in Ohio. Still there's some degree of comfort in knowing Groundhog Day has passed. The realization that the darkest part of another winter has been survived is comforting. Of course it's tempered a bit with the apprehension that with winter, another year of precious life has passed. But dark thoughts like that are much easier to shrug off in the face of gaining daylight. Groundhog Day this year coincided with a warm spell. More importantly it brought a break in the incessant cloud cover that was locked in over us for going on two consecutive weeks. It had become oppressive even to me. Sunday morning saw the sun revealed in a few occasional flickers of brilliance as the clouds began to thin out. Then suddenly it was revealed full on, the dreary winter landscape bathed in warming sunlight. Residual snow began melting and fast. I was delighted that this sunny interlude coincided with down time so that I could fully appreciate it. Evening saw the clouds beginning to roll back in, but not before a color saturated sunset. I spent the dusk hour outdoors watching night descend around me. There was still the sense of suddenness as daylight faded, but not nearly as extreme as it was back in November and December. The sensation was positively uplifting after weeks spent largely indoors. I captured this image of the deepening sly reflecting off of the inky blackness of a small woodland pond.
Woman Tending Fireplace
I recently bought Artista Impresso Pro. I decided to try it out with this photo that I took in an old Norwegian cottage that is one of the outdoor buildings of the Norsk Folkemuseum, a museum devoted to Norwegian rural culture, in Bygdøy, Oslo. The workers in the museum dress in Norwegian costumes and one of them was demonstrating how to tend a fireplace in a small old cottage that was heated only by one fireplace After using the oil filter and other work in Photoshop I used a texturing filter and an edge in Artista Impresso Pro.
Tending to his boat while being watched by the swans, at Cromford and Erewash canal Langley Mill , Derbyshire.
The results of a day trip exploring covered bridges in Macaza, scenic sections of Le-Petit-Train-Du-Nord, some lovely sunset grasses I spotted in Arundel, & the stunning views at the peak of Mont Tremblant. Would love if you explored the album as a whole!
This was my first trip since my mom passed away in May. Getting out of the house with my husband & driving around for hours exploring new & familiar areas was lovely & soothing. We tend to visit Tremblant later in the year, so it was a treat to see all the colors!
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Two German Aufklarung soldiers tend to their Sd. Kfz. 231 8-rad, Poland, 1939.
The Sonderkraftfahrzeug 231 8-rad, or Sd. Kfz. 231 8-rad, was the eight-wheeled version of the early-war German reconnaissance vehicle the Sd. Kfz. 231. It featured 8 wheels, each with independent suspension and every wheel had its own steering. It featured duplex drive and had a driver in both the front and back so that it could drive away from dangerous situations as fast as it had gotten into them.
The fastest land vehicle in the German army, it was used in almost every theatre the Germans were present in. It was later modified into the Sd. Kfz. 234 and its subsequent variants (the most famous of which is the puma). It featured 10mm+ armour all around, and was armed with a 20mm KwK M30/38; the same gun as on the Panzer II and Flak 30/38 guns, and a coaxial MG 34.
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On a final note, can this count as an entry into Vanrollefson/Desktop Builds' 500 sub contest? I've spent way too long making this damn thing. Plus it's a heavy armoured car, so maybe that counts?
-Inspired by the works of 442bricks and DeWeasel
Still trying to get the hang of manual focus vs auto focus on this new G9. I'm sure kids and pets are a usual source of "under fire" training on a new camera. But I might add a darting girlfriend to that list. On a related note, she might have once again made a run for destroying my camera. But she tends to curb her violence toward inanimate objects when she is in public.
I tend to prefer Fenland vista shots with winter light and skies, however with the build up of puffy white cloud during the afternoon I gave this a go.
66767 crosses Twenty Foot River with 4Z26, Felixstowe - Rotherham Masborough.
This should recess in Peterborough for around 45 minutes, and I'd intended to catch it again at Werrington, today however it just carried on, running early up to Spalding and beyond!
The view from Laozhai Hill of the town of Xingping far below. We hiked up to catch the sunrise. It's a fun hike with some steep sections and even a ladder to climb. Since we had such good clouds, I elected to use my fisheye lens to capture a good chunk of the sky, even though this tended to flatten out some of the distant peaks.
In pursuit of my lifelong goals of getting closer to natural surroundings and improving my general human condition, I bought an overpriced house with property on the Olympic Peninsula. I moved, and I'm selling my house in the city. Not sure what I am actually improving in the short term, certainly not the overvalued real estate market. Hoping that's temporary. It's been an incredibly stressful few months, I haven't been able to do much else, and I can see no end in the foreseeable future.
One of the better situations in this scenario, though, is having all this new blank wall space with high ceilings to hang big prints!
In the process of moving I found a lot of material I have not chosen to do really anything with before, including a small test print of this detail of Mineral Creek in the Hoh Rainforest that I took back in 2010. Never thought much of it before, but it now strikes me as perfect to blow up real big with thin borders to showcase on a certain big wall in my new house. Fits perfect with the forested locale. Surprising sometimes how old stuff I ignored in the past can fit just right with an unforseen new application. For interior design, the stunning, grand sunset landscapes that look so great on websites and in publications don't always work like I think they will when I get them up on the wall. Simple, minimalist compositions, extracting and isolating patterns and details in nature, then emphasizing with the huge print treatment tends to work really well, especially when the subject matter is harmonious with the local area, helping bring a little of the outside indoors. I can almost smell and taste the misty, wet hanging from the lush moss edging this cascading creek.
I tend to get into ruts in my railfanning habits. For a few years, I spent quite a bit of time taking pictures of the Twin Cities & Western between Glencoe and Renville. Recently I've focused more on the BNSF and RCPE, while relying on my sporadic chances to shoot the MPL to scratch the TC&W itch. So when I decided to head to Renville on a whim and happened to find the TC&W working there, I realized it had been about 4 years since I last took a picture along this line. The long hood forward orientation of the power wouldn't be my first choice, but their clean maroon and gold paint always looks good in the snow. I'll take it as a reminder that I should make more of an effort to get back up here sometime soon.