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"Peace, love, flower power, let's all get along!"
Ohhhh hippies, love them or firehose them, there's always a few hanging around ready to braid your hair and offer you a "complimentary hug".
But flowers are not the innocent beauties people make them out to be. They deceive, they beguile and they manipulate. Nowhere is this more prevalent, than amongst the orchids, the largest family of flowering plants.
Any potential pollinator can fall prey to this duplicitousness. From the tachinid flies lured with a false promise of sex to the Telipogon peruvianus blooms (talk about blue bells!) to the more oft cited example of bumblebees attracted to Ophrys spp. orchid blooms, again with the pseudo-copulation. Hmmm...sounds like they've got a bit of a mother nature-complex, or is it Pollen-envy, I always get them mixed up...
Yes, I understand flowers are used in this context as a metaphor for something that I'm frankly too lazy to google right now. After all, I'm not a hippy who has never opened a science textbook, I'm a scientist who is too busy to open a book of literature, Yeesh!
I guess some of them are just pretty too...like this Erycina pusilla.
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Thanks to Robert Velten for the ID.
As a child, textbooks drafted a landscape in my mind;
A meadow where crystal-like clear water streams through lush green grass; where there are mountains, and sheep, and shepherd, but no tourists; where wind is quiet and peaceful; where sky is clear; where there are reflections; and where nothing drastic like steep mountains or big lakes exist.
Travelling along 10 miles long Noori-Naar, I was sure that the author tried to portray this place, in his text. It's a place, where I would love to wander all day long.
Noori-Naar connects the valleys of Kaghan and Neelum, in Northern Pakistan. Noori-Pass (White Snowed Mountain above) is the junction.
Grenouille des Pyrénées, stades de croissance
Series on white background
Jane was a strange child........
Illustrated by Marguerite Davis. “Summer Fun” copyright 1932, by J. Mace Andress and Annie Turner Andress. Ginn and Company. Actually a health primer.
The architecture of Chartres cathedral is often given as an example of the typical gothic style. Here is a ribbed vault and a tripartite elevation – arcade, triforium and clerestory.
The lowest level is made of a series of pointed arches. This supports narrow gallery with a row of elegant columns. Above the triforium the clerestory is lit by a series of double lanced windows. It is crowned with a quadripartite ribbed vault.
Where the ribs and transverse arches meet the sides of the building flying buttresses outside hold their trust.
This system, which is what the gothic architecture is about, made it possible to build higher and to open the walls and fill them with stained glass.
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