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The eastern diamondback rattlesnake is the largest venomous snake in North America and may reach 8 feet in lenght. Recognizable by its distinctive diamond-shaped🔸 patterns and heavy body, it uses its rattle as a warning to potential threats.
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04-May-2022: about turism: my perplexities towards a future with more and more bans and more and more over-taxes.
Lake Bohinj and the much more famous Lake Bled are close (less than 20 km) but the second has a mass tourism now rooted, while the first is expanding its tourist reception in recent years, coming out (unfortunately) from the shadow of Bled, that was a lightning rod for peaceful and symbiotic nature lovers.
I am totally against mass tourism because it transforms a relaxing resort into an area where it is difficult even to access it.
Around Lake Bled, even at a certain distance, there are only paid parking lots, which come to cost 6 euros per hour (about the most decentralized and in May...) that, certainly, leave perplexed about the "tourist selection" that "they" would like to implement (high-end tourism) and, in general, certainly drive away the tourist in search of nature and not restaurants, bars, concrete lake-front and crowd baths.
The naturalist tourist should not feel like a tourist in Nature, which is a single great asset of humanity and that only administratively is divided between various Countries, while in Bled, as in Rimini or Cortina d'Ampezzo, they make you feel not only tourist, but also guest, sometimes unwanted if you spend little.
As tourism increases, so do the bans, because unfortunately mass tourism includes many people who don't know anything about Nature and generally only go to very touristy places to make themselves of...people, sowing dirt and ignorance wherever they move.
The imposition of prohibitions/bans to limit the "damage from mass tourism" affects everyone indiscriminately, including locals and naturalists who have always had a symbiotic relationship with these places, thus making them become inhospitable, at least to those seeking pure contact with nature itself.
Of course this happens all over the world, but it should be condemned.
We already pay State taxes for the maintenance of the slice of Nature that falls within our administration, tourist surcharges, exploiting market laws that should be verified and contained, are for the most part unconstitutional, as well as several prohibitions that deprive access and use of public property.
With the money that the tourist municipalities pocket they could very well implement a targeted prevention (controls by foresters, cameras, ad hoc fences for areas subject to micro-pollution...) rather than closing everything and then de-empowering themself on the maintenance of roads and areas (more and more numerous), thus going to save further, starting from the basic taxes that we pay to also have access to given areas.
I can understand that you tax parking at high altitude to maintain the roads, but the amount of the payment should be directly proportional to the expenses that must be incurred to ensure accessibility, not by putting prices at random and with increases of 200% from one year to the next.
I have always appreciated the fact that Slovenia, thanks also that it is not densely inhabited and has a modest tourism (except precisely Bled, Postojna Caves and the Coast), guarantees a wide accessibility and use of its territories and I hope it can continue, limiting the prohibitions and parking lots everywhere.
"That's what winter is: an exercise in remembering how to still yourself then how to come pliantly back to life again."
― Ali Smith
That day started with the mist only. The trees were almost not visible in the sea of fog. The previously uploaded pics show us how light can change the state of peace and melancholy into something glorious and majestic.
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Nomad seems to have lost the helicopter when he made his way into the sewer system that was below a nearby overpass. It’s time to go. A lead has led him to another city anyway. It’s been a little over a year since he’s seen her, since they took her, since they got away with it. “I’ve got to follow the clues, expose them,” he mumbles.
He tilts his head downward and to the left, looking behind him without turning his head. He counts six on the left, 3 on the right. They’re closing in. Not to cause a scene he starts to ditch in and out of the alleyways. Making his escape slowly and quietly. He notices after some slick maneuvering that he only sees about 3 people in viewing range, though others could be around still. I’m sure they have an communications system in their ear, they all do.
Nomad walks in through the front of a burger-joint and walks out the back door. Two men in the back of the restaurant approach him, one with a gun. He quickly with two quick hand movements removes the weapon from the man on the right and pistol whips the man on the left with it knocking him out. Still holding the hand of the man on the right he pulls him into him as he kicks the man’s shin breaking a bone and sending him to the ground. Another swift kick to the head and both men are unconscious. Nomad walks off briskly looking from side to side. He places the gun in the back of pants expecting the elastic to keep it from falling.
He walks down a backstreet on the side of a pizzeria. Out from behind the building come an agent. Taller than Nomad, more muscular than him as well. He takes a swing at Nomad, Nomad is too quick for him as he bobs and weaves away from his opponent. One swing, one flush connect from Nomad’s left uppercut and the big man goes down, hitting his head on the concrete steps behind him. Blood starts to ooze out the back of the man’s head. “Ha I’m one punch man,” Nomad jokes as he takes off slipping into the night. He doesn’t get captured; he escapes easily.
Nomad starts his journey to the next city. “That was close. Need to end this!”
The morns are meeker than they were,
The nuts are getting brown;
The berry's cheek is plumper,
The rose is out of town.
The maple wears a gayer scarf,
The field a scarlet gown.
Lest I should be old-fashioned,
I'll put a trinket on.
Emily Dickinson
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Brussels, 2020
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The little fisherman catches lunch...
It's that amazing time of year again when one of my favorite events returns to our universe. Yes, I'm talking about 6º REPUBLIC!
Filled with incredible decor and inspiring delights, take a journey to other parts and discover something exciting and new!
Skippy envisioned his universe with the help of the following astounding creations, all available at 6º REPUBLIC:
NOMAD's Yellow Port Warehouse, Blue Port Warehouse, and Old Crane, which are all part of the Alaskan Port Collection!
Kei's Sparkplug Lighthouse!
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N4RS' Plantation Chapel and Chapel Bell!
Your Fishing Boat to 6º REPUBLIC!
Skippy wears:
Blank Line's Hoodie, available at TMD!
Remarkable Oblivion's Rain Boots!
In addition, the little man created his coastal world with the following:
Apple Fall's Ocean Pier!
Soy's Float Rings and Minnow Bucket!
Zerkalo's Old Bucket!
NOMAD's Sandwich!
Let's keep playing, having fun, and laughing, my friends!
Keep shining so bright!
You remember that tree? Yes, it had that shape. I loved going there.
16/9 aspect recommendation by @Valter D.
As I clean out my photo files and go through cards that I never downloaded, I am finding a few old photos that I forgot about. This is the incredible Ghost.
This Red-tailed Hawk was sticking out like a sore thumb on that tree. Now that all the leaves are gone it is so nice to see them. The weather was nice today so I hope he did catch some dinner.
Thank you for all the views, faves, and comments.
Go baby go! Actually when I ride it's more like when I was a kid, looking around, exploring, talking to people and well now days stopping to take pictures.Everyone passes me, old ladies, little children...that's okay.
"But is that true? Because a tree in spring buds and comes greenly into leaf, are those leaves therefore the tree? If the newborn twigs and their leaves were all that existed, they would form a vague halo of green suspended in mid-air, but surely that is not the tree. The leaves, by themselves, are no more than trivial fluttering decoration. It is the trunk and limbs that give the tree its grandeur and the leaves themselves their meaning. There is not a discovery in science, however revolutionary, however sparkling with insight, that does not arise out of what went before. 'If I have seen further than other men,' said Isaac Newton, 'it is because I have stood on the shoulders of giants." — Adding a Dimension: Seventeen Essays on the History of Science, by Isaac Asimov.
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New set from 8f8 out at The Anthem Event..."The Way of The Oaks"...pictured:
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Best weeds in the world:
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that it becomes more real than reality :-)
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Ukraine Matters!
prunus mume, white japanese flowering apricot, 'Big Joe', j c raulston arboretum, ncsu, raleigh, north carolina
I was shooting in the mountains north of Tucson, Az this week and it was fabulous! Caught this fearless lady climbing up the mountain. I have a very short video clip of it on YouTube #iphonepromax
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A neighbours dog , stuck in the back yard . Sometimes his chewed tennis ball rolls out and who ever is passing tends to kick it back in. Not much unlock for this guy :(
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