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Just up the road (and down a steep canyon) from Berry Creek is MILSAP BAR Campground, east of O-ville is this spectacular granite canyon full of trees and water. Feather River, Feather Falls. Autumn colors were just starting at this elevation near 2000' in late October. Secluded tent camping, way down on a dirt road, far from the city. What a great spot.
Jane Gray's house is located at the edge of Athens, Missouri. The house is referred to as the Widow Gray's house in the recounting of the Civil War battle of Athens. Time has taken a toll on this small Greek revival house that witnessed history.
I captured this leafy scene while visiting the annual Red Barns Spectacular car show at the Gilmore Car Museum on August 3, 2019.
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Common Hawk-Cuckoo
The common hawk-cuckoo (Hierococcyx varius), popularly known as the brainfever bird, is a medium-sized cuckoo resident in the Indian subcontinent. It bears a close resemblance to the Shikra, even in its style of flying and landing on a perch. The resemblance to hawks gives this group the generic name of hawk-cuckoo and like many other cuckoos these are brood parasites, laying their eggs in nests of babblers. During their breeding season in summer males produce loud, repetitive three note calls that are well-rendered as brain-fever, the second note being longer and higher pitched. These notes rise to a crescendo before ending abruptly and repeat after a few minutes; the calling may go on through the day, well after dusk and before dawn.
The common hawk-cuckoo is a medium- to large-sized cuckoo, about the size of a pigeon (ca. 34 cm). The plumage is ashy grey above; whitish below, cross-barred with brown. The tail is broadly barred. The sexes are alike. They have a distinctive yellow eye ring. Subadults have the breast streaked, similar to the immature shikra, and there are large brown chevron marks on the belly. At first glance they can be mistaken for a hawk. When flying they use a flap and glide style that resembles that of sparrowhawks (especially the shikra) and flying upwards and landing on a perch they shake their tails from side to side. Many small birds and squirrels raise the alarm just as they would in the presence of a hawk. The sexes are alike but males tend to be larger.
They can be confused with the large hawk-cuckoo, which, however, has dark streaks on the throat and breast. Young birds have a pale chin but young large hawk-cuckoos have a black chin.
During summer months, before the monsoons, the males are easily detected by their repeated calls but can be difficult to spot. The call is a loud screaming three-note call, repeated 5 or 6 times, rising in crescendo and ending abruptly. It is heard throughout the day and frequently during moonlit nights. The calls of females are a series of grating notes. Common hawk-cuckoos feed mainly on insects and are specialised feeders that can handle hairy caterpillars. Caterpillar guts often contain toxins and like many cuckoos they remove the guts by pressing the caterpillar and rubbing it on a branch before swallowing it. The hairs are swallowed with the caterpillar and are separated in the stomach and regurgitated as a pellet.
The common hawk-cuckoo occurs in most of the Indian subcontinent, from Pakistan in the west, across the Himalayas foothills, east to Nepal, Bhutan and Bangladesh and south into Sri Lanka. Some birds of the Indian population winter in Sri Lanka. In the hills of central Sri Lanka, ciceliae is a resident. It is generally resident but where occurring at high altitudes and in arid areas is locally migratory. It is found in the lower elevations (mostly below 1000m) of the Himalayas but in the higher areas, the large hawk-cuckoo tends to be more common.
The species is arboreal and rarely descends to the ground. Its habitat includes garden land, groves of tree, deciduous and semi-evergreen forests.
The call of this bird has been popularly transcribed as brain-fever in English (in some old books, this name is also incorrectly used for the Asian koel). Frank Finn noted that [H]is note, however, fully entitles him to his ordinary designation, whether from its "damnable iteration" or from its remarkable resemblance to the word "brain-fever" repeated in a piercing voice running up the scale. Other interpretations of the bird call include peea kahan in Hindi ("where's my love") or chokh gelo (in Bengali, "my eyes are gone") and paos ala (Marathi, "the rains are coming").
The call "Pee kahan" or "Papeeha" is more accurately represented by the shrill screaming "pi-peeah" of the large hawk-cuckoo Hierococcyx sparverioides, which replaces the brainfever bird along the Himalayas and its foothills.
The brainfever bird's call may be heard all through the day, starting early before dawn and frequently during moonlit nights. A novel by the Indian author Allan Sealy is named after this bird.
Double exposure taken with a Diana Baby 110 camera. Lomography Tiger film.
These were taken for to accompany an interview I gave to Lomography Magazine about using 110 film in 2021.
www.lomography.com/magazine/346937-analogue-advocate-tony...
One of the largest of London's private squares, designed and laid out by John Nash, dominated by plane trees said to have been planted in 1817 to commemorate the allied victory at Waterloo two years earlier. Other trees of note include a tulip tree (Liriodendron tulipifera) and weeping silver lime (Tilia tomentosa 'Petiolaris')
An original and unique feature of the garden is the Nursemaids' Tunnel, an early pedestrian underpass connecting the Square to Park Crescent. The tunnel passes under the busy Marylebone Road, allowing families to promenade safely through both gardens without worrying about the noisy public throng passing overhead.
The combination of Park Square and Crescent was designed to form a transitional entrance feature to Regent’s Park, leading the visitor from the formal Nash streetscape of Portland Place in the south, to the green and picturesque landscape in the north. It was described as a 'sort of vestibule' to the new royal park. New gates and railings have been installed to original designs.
The gardens retain most of their original Nash layout and have been managed continuously from their inception by an organisation specifically set up in 1824 to carry out this task, the Crown Estate Paving Commission.
[Open Garden Squares website]
Human called it 'The Forbidden Tree' when in fact thy Lord named it 'The Tree of Life'
x Have a Blessed Tuesday!
A Praça da República é um logradouro situado no centro da cidade do Rio de Janeiro, no estado do Rio de Janeiro, no Brasil.
Nos tempos coloniais era um grande pântano, quando começaram os primeiros aterramentos. O "Campo da Cidade", ou "Campo de São Domingos", como também era conhecido, tornou-se no marco divisório entre a cidade e a sua zona rural. Até hoje separa o centro ("cidade velha") do bairro Cidade Nova.
Em 1753, era chamado Campo de Santana, nome originado da igreja nele construída, local de grande afluência de devotos, que foi demolida em 1854 para dar lugar à primeira estação ferroviária urbana do Brasil, a Gare D. Pedro II. Em 1941 no lugar da antiga estação foi inaugurada a Central do Brasil, edifício no estilo Art déco, encimado por um enorme relógio - o maior do mundo na sua categoria.
Em seu entorno foram erguidos outros edifícios: o do Comando do Exército (1811), a sede da Prefeitura, a sede do Corpo dos Bombeiros, a Escola Municipal Rivadávia Correia, a Casa da Moeda do Brasil (1863), a Igreja de São Gonçalo Garcia e São Jorge e a Câmara Municipal.
Como lugar favorito para comemorações de eventos e realização de formaturas militares, foi palco de momentos históricos. a Aclamação do Imperador D. Pedro I e Proclamação da República, pois a casa do Marechal Deodoro ficava em frente; além de manifestações públicas, como os protestos da Revolta da Vacina.
Em 1942, com a construção da Avenida Presidentes Vargas, que derrubou algumas das construções do entorno, a praça foi dividida em duas:
Do lado do Palácio Duque de Caxias, reconstrução do Comando do Exército datada de 1937 e sede do Comando Militar do Leste do Exército brasileiro, foi construído o Panteão a Caxias. Em todos os desfiles das comemorações da Independência do Brasil, ali é montado o palanque das autoridades.
No lado oposto ficam os jardins do Campo de Santana, grande passeio público arborizado e urbanizado no início do século XIX. A sua reforma iniciou-se em 1873 e foi completada em 1880, seguindo projeto do paisagista francês Auguste François Marie Glaziou.
Lions sitting on trees is a common site in Tarangire, not so in the Serengeti or in Kenya. Although the novelty wears off after the first few sightings, it is always exciting nevertheless to see one or more lions on trees.
I couldn't decide whether to keep this in color or convert to b&w, so I did both.
Tarangire, Tanzania
Our second night in the country (as Mongolian people call all it's outside Ulaan Baator). We camped in this "nowhere" close to this tree.
Natural land art in the forest of Fontainebleau.
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Photography workshops in the forest.
Wandering around in the Opal Creek Wilderness area, you see a lot of scenes like this where everything is covered in moss.
As beardedelf1 said in one of his Opal Creek Wilderness photos, it can only get ya if you don't move. For a really long time.