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This tree was really interesting. And tall. And the sky is so blue and the greens are so green, the sunlight so pure in Bermuda — never seen anything like it. This is unedited, straight out of the camera.
Fort Hamilton overlooking the city of Hamilton.
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American Tree Sparrow seen at Campbell Creek Estuary Park in Anchorage, AK on September 3, 2015. One of a pair that gave me some pretty good looks.
A trio of crocheted Christmas Trees - Classic, Whimsical and Blue - to please the little ones and the adults during this festive season.
Great as a last minute Christmas gift, decorating your home or even as a table centerpiece for your Christmas feast!
Crochet pattern available here:
The silk floss tree (Ceiba speciosa, formerly Chorisia speciosa), is a species of deciduous tree native to the tropical and subtropical forests of South America. It has a host of local common names, such as palo borracho (in Spanish literally "drunken tree"). It belongs to the same family as the baobab and the kapok. Another tree of the Ceiba genus, C. chodatii, often receives the same common names.The natural habitat of the floss silk tree is the north-east of Argentina, Paraguay, and southern Brazil. It is resistant to drought and moderate cold. It grows fast in spurts when water is abundant, and sometimes reaches more than 25 m in height. Its trunk is bottle-shaped, generally bulging in its lower third, measuring up to 2 m in girth. It is studded with thick conical prickles which serve to store water for dry times. In younger trees, the trunk is green due to its high chlorophyll content, which makes it capable of performing photosynthesis when leaves are absent; with age it turns to gray.The branches tend to be horizontal and are also covered with prickles. The leaves are composed of five to seven long leaflets.The flowers are creamy-whitish in the center and pink towards the tips of their five petals. They measure 10-15 cm in diameter and their shape is superficially similar to hibiscus flowers. Their nectar is known to attract insects such as monarch butterflies, which perform pollination. C. speciosa flowers are in bloom between February and May. The flowers of the related C. chodatii are similar in form and size, but their color goes from creamy white centers to yellow tips.
The fruits are lignous ovoid pods, 20 cm long, which contain bean-sized black seeds surrounded by a mass of fibrous, fluffy matter reminiscent of cotton or silk.
Ceiba speciosa (in passato nota come Chorisia speciosa, è un albero della famiglia delle Bombacaceae).La fibra bianca e lanosa contenuta nei frutti, nota come "falso kapok", viene utilizzata per realizzare imbottiture. La caratteristica principale della C. speciosa è nel tronco, rigonfio nella parte inferiore e munito di grosse spine coniche. In natura può raggiungere i 20 m di altezza. I tessuti alla base del fusto accumulano acqua per i periodi di siccità.Ha foglie composte, formate da 5-7 foglioline glabre.I fiori, ermafroditi, sono grandi e appariscenti, con petali rosei o rossi nella parte superiore, screziati di bruno-giallognolo nella parte inferiore. Fiorisce da ottobre a novembre.Il frutto è una grossa capsula ovoidale di colore verde-bruno, con un esocarpo molto spesso, contenente numerosi semi avvolti da una fitta lanugine bianca.L'areale naturale di C. speciosa comprende la fascia del continente sudamericano compresa tra 12°S e 30°S di latitudine.La specie è presente in Brasile, Paraguay, ma è soprattutto l'Argentina, ove è nota come palo borracho (“albero ubriaco”), ad essere ricca di questi curiosi alberi.È coltivata nelle regioni tropicali e subtropicali dell'emisfero nord, sino alle Antille e al sud degli Stati Uniti.Sul finire del XIX secolo è stata introdotta in Italia all'orto botanico di Palermo; da li si è diffusa come pianta ornamentale.
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This tree which was just starting to leaf-out, was photographed just to the east of State Park Road in the Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore.
I photographed this tree using a large aperture to minimize depth of field. I used a Mamiya RB67 medium format camera along with both a polarizer and a red Wratten 25 filter to achieve the effect in the sky with the whispy clouds. The photograph is on Efke 25 film and it was developed in Kodak HC-110.
Two fine contemporary windows by Tom Denny were installed in the north east corner of Great Malvern Priory in 2004 to celebrate the Millennium. The two windows take inspiration from Psalm 36, verses which describe aspects of the nature of God.
The windows' broken lines and silvery tones subtly echo the ancient glass that survives elsewhere in the church, intentionally so since some even remains in the traceries and canopied heads of the main lights of both windows themselves and has been carefully incorporated into the design.
The imagery is subtle and layered, revealing itself gradually to the onlooker the closer one contemplates the work. The windows are fine examples of Denny's densely packed, detailed imagery and painterly style, overlain upon a rich use of acid-etching and plating layers of glass to create patches of richly varied colour.