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CRATAEGUS ROSEA, DARK and PINK Hawthorn, so very MAY!
On our way to the Coast, the roads East were lined with blossoming hedges of Hawthorn, mostly white the branches were heavily cascading, it was like driving through a garden, very beautiful and peaceful, we mostly leave later, behind all the traffic, because we are after the 'later' light anyway... when most are going home...
We passed a few pink hawthorns and I could not resist bringing home this branch.
It suffered a bit, but once home I submerged it in water for a while, cut widely open the woody branch, put it in water and photographed it the next morning.
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The elephant herd is led by the oldest and largest female cow known as the matriarch. She is usually the one who was the most closely related to the previous matriarch. The rest of the herd is made up of the matriarch's other daughters and their calves. These ones gravitate naturally around the matriarch, making her quite simple to identify. She influences the herd more than any other group or individual. As the first and oldest mother, the matriarch is instrumental in teaching her daughters how to care for their own young. Once they start to bear babies, their sisters will assist in childcare. This provides training for them, preparing them for their own first calves.
Info source URL: www.elephantsforever.co.za/matriarch-elephant.html
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Photo capture date & Location: 2017-11 Kruger National Park
Tentative ID by comparison with profile images on the web showing a remarkably thin connection between the flat sides of cephalothorax and abdomen. Probably immature. Shaken out of low mixed vegetation.
Tentative ID, I haven't had time to look into this one yet. But it is a new one for me and I'm excited to find out :)
Le comparse a compris et essaie à plusieurs reprises de retirer le morceau de roseau, malheureusement sans succès.
The companion understood and tried several times to remove the piece of reed, unfortunately without success.
The first tentative steps into the brave new world of full frame photography.
The subject and location is familiar, but I couldn't find a more appropriate way to christen the new camera, I eventually went with instinct and opted for a Canon 6D mk2.
The glass used is old, creaky and probably not up to the job, but I'll be surprised if some replacements aren't on the way in the next 24 hours. Brave new world and all that...
56096 on 3S71 at Rhyl Marine Lake on 25 November 2021.
Tentatively identified this as a Lark Sparrow. Let me know if you think it's something else. Seen near Florence, AZ this afternoon.
One of three Barn Owlets I've been watching over the past few weeks in the Lavenham fields. Around ten weeks old now they're already starting to hunt. A few more weeks & I would imagine they'll disperse to territory further afield.
Day Four of the Migraine from Hell. I'm still having a hard time staying up for too long (there's just something about sitting in the upright position that upsets the "monster". It's just not trying to hear all that. It's trying to keep me down y'all! But it's not the boss of me!), but dammit, I'm up! If I look a little out of it here, it's because I am. It's the drugs man... Groooovvvyyyy! Haha! I'm determined to kick the Migraine Monster's ass!! Beat it into submission!!! It's a fight that all migraine sufferers face. So, whose with me!!??
Can also be seen On Black
As you can see, the lighting is really flat. Turn up your sound if you want to hear the Chick a dee dee dees... 😊
*The one in front is the young one and the other is it's mother.
Tentative ID - amanita jacksonii or caesarea. It's a bit pale for those, but not unheard of. the lack of scaly patches makes me lean this way.
The structure known today as the "Upper Basilical Hall" has been identified, tentatively, as the Dar al-Jund ("House of the Army" in Arabic), a name mentioned in literary sources. It was probably built in the 950s during a new program of construction and state reform.
The exact function of this large structure is uncertain, but scholars and archeologists have traditionally assumed that it had an administrative or official (semi-public) function, such as a reception chamber for ceremonies and for ambassadors on their way to see the caliph. The Dar al-Jund is mentioned in historical sources as an assembly hall for the officers of the caliph's army. Felix Arnold, an archeologist and scholar on the topic of Islamic palace architecture in the region, suggests that the building's size means that it must have been the main audience hall of Madinat al-Zahra, which might identify it instead with either the Majlis ash-Sharqi ("Eastern Hall") or Majlis al-Gharbi ("Western Hall") mentioned in historical sources.
The building is located near the northeastern corner of the excavated area today, on a terrace west of the Bab al-Sudda entrance. It consists of a large basilica-type structure to the north adjoined to a large open courtyard to the south. Visitors to the city reached this area by walking up a ramped street that started on the central axis of the Bab al-Sudda gate and climbed its way to the terrace above, bending 180 degrees several times along the way. The ramp was wide enough and its slope gentle enough to allow visitors to remain on horseback, and was even lined with benches where they could sit and wait their turn to enter. It ended at a small porticoed court, where the visitors were possibly assigned to new guides, and from which they then entered into the courtyard of the Dar al-Jund along its middle axis. Felix Arnold suggests that this overall layout had a precedent in the older Alcázar of Cordoba, where visitors coming from the main public entrance to the west arrived into a courtyard or garden in front of the Majlis al-Kamil ("Perfect Hall"), the main audience chamber of the palace.
The courtyard of the Dar al-Jund measures 54.5 meters wide and 51 meters deep. Its northern side is occupied by the broad entrance façade of the main hall, its western and eastern sides were occupied by narrow porticos, and its southern side was closed by a simple wall. The main hall stood 1.2 meters above the level of the courtyard. Stairs and ramps leading to its platform were located at the northern corners of the courtyard – the stairs were for those on foot, the ramps for horses. The remains of the courtyard were converted into a garden in the 1960s.
The main hall itself is the largest interior space ever documented in the historic palace architecture of the western Islamic world, being large enough to accommodate up to 3000 people. The hall is composed of five parallel rectangular chambers, placed side-by-side and open to each other through various archways. Each chamber is about 20 meters long (from north to south) and 6.8 meters wide, with the exception of the central chamber which is about 7.5 meters wide. Each hall opens onto a sixth chamber to the south, perpendicular to the others, which is about 30 meters long (from east to west) and 6.9 meters wide, with a smaller square chamber located at either end. This south hall opens onto the courtyard to the south through five broad archways. Other auxiliary rooms are present nearby. The decoration of the building was plain in comparison with other royal edifices in the city. The walls were made of stone and plastered, with little ornamentation other than a red dado near the base, while the floors were paved in brick instead of stone. Only the capitals of the columns were ornately carved. However, the walls may have originally been covered with ornamental furnishings such as tapestries and curtains may have been draped across the arches.
The precise intentions of the hall's design are ambiguous, as the chambers are all connected to each other but in slightly different ways. The central chamber is wider than the others and its entrance from the south is marked by a triple archway instead of a double archway like the other four parallel chambers, which actually made the openings between the columns narrower for the central chamber than for the others. The three middle chambers are also each connected to each other though a wide central door flanked by triple archways with columns, while the two outermost chambers at the sides are connected to the inner chambers through three simple doors. During official receptions, the caliph likely sat in the middle of the back wall of the central chamber. Antonio Vallejo Triano argues that the overall design of the building suggests that the two outermost chambers, along with the southern chamber at the front, formed a "U"-shaped space around the three central chambers and that the latter formed a privileged space for the caliph's audience. He also adds that there is archeological evidence that the spaces of the two outermost chambers were actually divided into two stories. Felix Arnold, in a slightly different interpretation, suggests that visitors entered the building from the sides and then entered the central chamber by moving from the outermost chambers to the central one, with each wall of doors and archways acting as a "screen" through which they passed closer to the caliph.