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Photoshoot of sisters modeling bikinis and swimsuits.
Cowgirl models with cowboy hats, revolvers, and cowboy boots.
It was a wet Monday and I spent some time in the market. People shooting was the order of the day and I spotted these two ladies at the fruit and vegetable stall. This was the first shot in the sequence as both girls saw me making pictures. The brunette saw me in this shot and then the blonde. I did approach the two ladies afterwards. They liked the picture and I offered them a copy.
In a clear glass globe on a glass dish - It is made of cobalt blue and crystal clear glass. Someone didn't want it so they took it to Kent Recycle Center in Carmel, New York and it can be yours free!
Ulsterbus tours Scania Irizar i6 is seen here in Great Victoria Street depot parked up between tour duties. It is fleet number 134 and carries reg no FFZ 9314.It is also seen with an advert for visit Northern Ireland called two giants awakening showing the Titanic and the giants causeway.
house two up the hill from us and unfortunately, she also has one at ortley beach, but don't know how that faired - watchung, nj
we were lucky and had no damage, but wound up staying with friends in new hope, pa for 8 days due to lack of power - the bright spot was our refrigerators were completely cleaned for the first time in years
Two Volvo heavy haulage lorries, one belonging to "Parsons" of Exeter captured at the Port of Teignmouth on 02 November 2012.
Camera: Olympus FE-120 6.0 Digital.
insert photo Suzanne Joneson with permission - fungal hyphae wrapt around algal cells
two definitions from Hawksworth et al. 1995:
1. "A lichen is a stable self-supporting association of a fungus (mycobiont) and an alga or cyanobacterium (photobiont)"
2. "A lichen is an ecologically obligate, stable mutualism between an exhabitant fungal partner and an inhabitant population of extracellularly located unicellular or filamentous algal or cyanobacterial cells." This definition excludes such things as marine algae with inhabitant fungal partners.
Hawksworth and Grube 2020 - www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7497170/ :
We can therefore re‐define the lichen symbiosis as: ‘A lichen is a self‐sustaining ecosystem formed by the interaction of an exhabitant fungus and an extracellular arrangement of one or more photosynthetic partners and an indeterminate number of other microscopic organisms’.
from Simon Schewendener's book on lichen published in German in Basel, Switzerland, 1869:
“As the result of my researches, the lichens are not simple plants, not individuals in the ordinary sense of the word; they are, rather, colonies, which consist of hundreds of thousands of individuals, of which, however, one alone plays the master, while the rest, forever imprisoned, prepare the nutriment for themselves and their master. This master is a fungus of the class Ascomycetes, a parasite which is accustomed to live upon others’ work. Its slaves are green algae, which it has sought out, or indeed caught hold of, and compelled into its service. It surrounds them, as a spider its prey, with a fibrous net of narrow meshes, which is gradually converted into an impenetrable covering, but while the spider sucks its prey and leaves it dead, the fungus incites the algae found in its net to more rapid activity, even to more vigorous increase....”
The word symbiosis was coined by Heinrich Anton de Bary, botanist, mycologist and lichenologist, in the monograph "Die Erscheinung der Symbiose" (Strasbourg, 1879) as "the living together of unlike organisms".
from wikipedia:
Although lichens had been recognized as organisms for quite some time, it was not until 1867, when Swiss botanist Simon Schwendener proposed his dual theory of lichens, that lichens are a combination of fungi with algae or cyanobacteria, whereby the true nature of the lichen association began to emerge.[120] Schwendener's hypothesis, which at the time lacked experimental evidence, arose from his extensive analysis of the anatomy and development in lichens, algae, and fungi using a light microscope. Many of the leading lichenologists at the time, such as James Crombie and Nylander, rejected Schwendener's hypothesis because the common consensus was that all living organisms were autonomous.[120]
Other prominent biologists, such as Heinrich Anton de Bary, Albert Bernhard Frank, Melchior Treub and Hermann Hellriegel were not so quick to reject Schwendener's ideas and the concept soon spread into other areas of study, such as microbial, plant, animal and human pathogens.[120][121] When the complex relationships between pathogenic microorganisms and their hosts were finally identified, Schwendener's hypothesis began to gain popularity. Further experimental proof of the dual nature of lichens was obtained when Eugen Thomas published his results in 1939 on the first successful re-synthesis experiment.[120]
cited - Rosmarie Honegger (2000) Simon Schwendener (1829–1919) and the Dual Hypothesis of Lichens, The Bryologist 103(2):307-313.
lichen photos arranged by genus - www.flickr.com/photos/29750062@N06/collections/7215762439...
Two women take refuge from the heat during ramadan in Marrakech.
Olympus OM2n - 50mm f/1.4 - film unknown (Marrakech, Morocco) - no editing
By chance I found these two wonderful one sixth scale glass teapots, which have matching cups, on eBay. They were made by a master glassblower. I bought these two teapots and the two matching cups for each.
He did a gorgeous creating them. What luck!
For my Flickr groups…
Two elks enjoying and soaking in the summer rain. Captured this moment from a moving vehicle as these two were waiting to cross the road. While the one on the left was happy to pose for me, standing tall and looking majestic; the other guy got busy in looking for something in the prairie grassland. We stood there for a while in our vehicle for these guys to cross the road, but they wouldn’t budge. Not that I am complaining though- gave me the time to capture these beautiful red deer against the lush green background in the Wildlife Prairie State Park, Illinois.
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This croc is known to have eaten two people and a dog. Living at Imire game park and wildlife orphanage.
Taken a couple of weeks ago...when my mom was visiting! What a fun time with my girlfriend and my mom--I miss her.
Lucky it was a clear day
A friend alerted me to the reported sighting of this bird on Two Rocks beach. Headed there post haste this morning. A single bird of this species mixed in with other shorebirds but its aggressive harassing of any plover that came into its zone alerted me to its presence. A delight as this is a lifer for me.