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Another peek at the Pawnee Buttes - this time with a look at wind development that has moved into the area - while you may know from my previous posts that I am a big fan of renewable energy and spend a lot of my time trying to advance these sectors. But I am torn about where it should be sited and think that ultimately conflicts over land use could slow these sectors. You can read more about this in an article I wrote for TNC magazine: www.nature.org/en-us/magazine/magazine-articles/energy-sp...
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Voici une des dernières photographies - à ce jour – que j'ai réalisé dans ce paysage. J'aime particulièrement cet endroit et si je reviens volontiers en ces lieux, ne pensez pas que c'est par une quelconque nostalgie, pas du tout. Je me suis posé cette question quand j'ai recherché dans mes archives les images de cette série, la photographie c'est aussi au-delà des apparences, une forme de questionnement. Je me suis interrogé en regardant ces images très proches les unes des autres, un peu comme si à chaque visite mon regard suivait toujours le même chemin. Vilém Flusser dans une conférence (La production photographique) a déclaré: “L'image photographique n'est plus l'image d'un objet mais celle du travail de production de celle-ci”. En fait, j'aime tout bonnement ce petit coin de paysage comme on aime un livre que l'on relit, un film que l'on revoit, une musique qu'on se reprend à écouter encore une fois. Tout ceci n'est finalement qu'une simple histoire de plaisir.
Here is one of the last photographs - to date - that I have taken in this landscape. I particularly like this place and if I gladly come back to these places, don't think it's out of any nostalgia, not at all. I asked myself this question when I searched my archives for images from this series, photography is also beyond appearances, a form of questioning. I wondered while looking at these images very close to each other, a little as if at each visit my gaze always followed the same path. Vilém Flusser in a lecture (Photographic production) said: “The photographic image is no longer the image of an object but that of the work of producing it”. In fact, I quite simply love this little corner of the landscape as one loves a book that one rereads, a film that one sees again, a music that one resumes listening to once again. All this is ultimately just a simple story of pleasure.
This ultimately leads to the wetlands here on the farm but it's a long walk and not one you'd want to make after dark. Thanks for the look and have a great week.
For hundreds of years Paris has served as a genuine “research lab” where pioneering architects have come to experiment with their ideas. This has ultimately fashioned the French capital into a city which has bit of everything. If you looked around, you would grasp the presence of different epochs coexisting harmoniously in the city’s Roman, Medieval, Renaissance, Baroque, Classical, Neo-Classical, Art Nouveau and Contemporary Architecture styles.
This Magnolia in memory of the Armistice of May 8, 1945, Peace on Earth! Welcome to King Charles III
N'oublions pas le rôle de nos alliés, sans qui rien n'auraient été possible , tous ces soldats morts pour la liberté. Prenons une minutes pour se souvenir de tant de souffrances, de veuves et d'orphelins.
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Let's not forget the role of our allies, without whom nothing would have been possible, all those soldiers who died for freedom. Let's take a minute to remember so much suffering, widows and orphans.
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Signification spirituelle du magnolia :
Pour les gens qui croient en une dimension spirituelle, le magnolia est associée à une variété de significations spirituelles. Les fleurs sont considérées comme étant un signe d’harmonie et d’union entre le corps et l’esprit. Elles peuvent également symboliser l’amour inconditionnel pour Dieu ou pour nos proches.
L’importance du magnolia dans notre vie :
L magnolia est un arbre dont on peut tirer beaucoup de significations. Sa beauté et sa profonde symbolique font d’elle un arbre très important dans nos vies. La magnolia représente l’amour, le courage, la persévérance et la sagesse, ce qui en fait un arbre très précieux pour nous rappeler que nous pouvons surmonter toutes les difficultés que nous rencontrons dans notre vie.
En plus de nous donner des leçons sur le courage et la persévérance, le magnolia nous rappelle aussi que nous devons prendre le temps de nous arrêter pour admirer la beauté de ce monde. Si nous faisons cela, nous verrons qu’il y a toujours une partie positive même dans les moments difficiles.
En fin de compte, la signification et la symbolique liées au magnolia sont très profondes. Elles peuvent nous inspirer à être plus courageux, plus persévérants et plus sages dans nos vies quotidiennes.
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Spiritual meaning of magnolia:
For people who believe in a spiritual dimension, the magnolia is associated with a variety of spiritual meanings. Flowers are considered to be a sign of harmony and union between body and mind. They can also symbolize unconditional love for God or for our loved ones.
The importance of magnolia in our life:
The magnolia is a tree from which many meanings can be derived. Its beauty and deep symbolism make it a very important tree in our lives. The magnolia represents love, courage, perseverance and wisdom, which makes it a very precious tree to remind us that we can overcome any difficulties we encounter in our lives.
In addition to teaching us lessons about courage and perseverance, the magnolia also reminds us that we must take the time to stop and admire the beauty of this world. If we do this, we will see that there is always a positive part even in difficult times.
Ultimately, the meaning and symbolism related to magnolia is very deep. They can inspire us to be braver, more persistent, and wiser in our daily lives.
Those who have chosen the path of least resistance in life, who cannot bear to bring themselves to make a stern value-judgment in criticism of their own most intimate feelings, achieve what they deserve: not self-understanding but radical self-superficialization, not a discovered but a self-ascribed identity that explains nothing, reveals nothing, means nothing, and ultimately accomplishes nothing culturally or intellectually.
-- Kenny Smith
Sid was Sundance’s brother (so we were told when we adopted them). We actually went to see the little gray kitten in the pet adoption ad photo knowing full well he was coming home with us that day. Upon arrival we found the gray kitten in the “kitten room” playing tag with a yellow puff ball. Obviously, the little gray kitten (Sid) and the little yellow puff ball (Sundance) came home with us.
Sid and Sundance were close friends, enjoyed each other’s company (most of the time) and kept us entertained with their antics for about four years. However, due to an ultimately untreatable illness Sid crossed the Rainbow Bridge in December 2018. We still greatly miss him.
Happy (though somber) Caturday
For the Happy Caturday Group 5/27/2023 theme "Rainbow Bridge"
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A very impressive stone sarcophagus - named after its find-spot, and dating to the last decade of the 2nd century A.D. It depicts the fight between Roman forces and barbarians, where the Romans are ultimately victorious.
Now on display at Museo Nazionale, Rome.
Wikipedia: Ophelia is a character in William Shakespeare's drama Hamlet (1599–1601). She is a young noblewoman of Denmark, the daughter of Polonius, sister of Laertes and potential wife of Prince Hamlet, who, due to Hamlet's actions, ends up in a state of madness that ultimately leads to her drowning.
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about a month ago I noticed a doe and her newly born fawn at the edge of the farmer's hay field. Since then, I had been looking out to see them as the fawn grew hoping to get a shot of this young spotted treasure without any danger of scaring and separating them.
This was that day. I saw them from not far off as they made their way from the haying field back to the wood's edge. I was mid hill but far enough away to not be seen, yet in position for them to pass by at some point. I wondered how long it would be until they noticed me because I knew that the mom ultimately would if they continued on this course. Not too far down the path, I watched her nuzzled the young one to turn towards the shadows of the woods and in seconds they were out of sight.
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Midday view of Svalbard's Ekmanfjord and surrounding mountains. There is still a bit of sea ice in the fjord, which will ultimately disappear later in the summer.
Camera: Canon PowerShot G12.
Edited with GIMP.
Difficult times
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Of course this beautiful owl is totally oblivious to the current human drama
And it would've been sat up there in the tree whether I was there or not
Survival is a drama played out daily in its world
Daily survival was almost taken for granted in ours
Ultimately all species are at the mercy of nature
Perhaps in our arrogance that's a fact us humans have been foolishly overlooking recently
"So don't go and make a big deal out of nothing
Well it's just a storm on a dime
And I've always found there's nothing
That money can't buy
I've already gone to the place I'm going
There's no place left to fall
And there's something to be said
For saying nothing at all"
-It's Over Tom Waits
Half an hour before this was taken, the skies were flat grey and the rain was pelting down. The sunset tour for the group of Asian tourists was cancelled.
We sat in our car and waited.
Just in case
Something unexpected happened
When the rain stopped, another storm rolled in. This time with "lead grey skies", lightening and ultimately a few rainbows.
It bought with it that light that only a pending storm brings.
I was / still am, fascinated by the theory of young and old souls, as so far as asking the question of where souls begin?
Then after much consideration I started to speculate on the consensus of time itself, that is ultimately an accepted human theory / construct, but if the soul is spiritual having a human experience, and be it that spirituality is not governed by time, that events are ultimately linear and perception of thus is ubiquitous, then time itself cannot be the governing factor as to the birth of souls, that the soul in actuality doesn't begin, but simply always was, it is therefore my theory that the young and old soul paradigm is consented upon, by the amount of times one has been human before and thereafter (reincarnation), it is the human experience as transitory as it is, that governs the aging of the soul, but NOT aging in the accepted translation, but merely experience, that when psychical we recall it, via our sense of wisdom and parameters of thinking.
Therefore I can conclude in theory at best (as is the way of most things), that the soul was always there, always has been and always will be, as the everlasting energetic wave form information of purest energetic consciousness that can never end, as a particulate or fractal of an awareness experiencing the universe unto itself within, the unlimited abundance of infinite possibilities.
I trust everyone is well and so as always, thank you!
An oldie but goldie, I took this image back in February of this year in Alexandria, VA along the banks of the Potomac. The morning was bitterly cold and the overhead clouds provided spurts of periodic snow while completely ruining the sunrise. Now, the DC metro area isn’t quite known of it’s stunning landscape or nature (monuments and architecture is where it’s at) so it’s always a bit of challenge to find some natural beauty.
I paced the shoreline for about 30 minutes trying to capture any glimpse of morning light hitting the Woodrow Wilson Bridge but ultimately didn’t get the shot I was looking for. While packing up and feeling frustrated about my lack of luck, I look up and see this. A large root snaking it’s way through the water and fast moving storm clouds over head. The horizon starts to clear, letting in some diffused light from the sunrise. I framed up, got my shot, and this image was the result! A perfect example to ALWAYS look for beauty and the unexpected and never give up until you find something. Sometimes all you need is a little patience, an open mind, and a keen eye!
Der Basstölpel (Morus bassanus) ist ein gänsegroßer Meeresvogel aus der Familie der Tölpel. Innerhalb dieser Familie ist er die am weitesten im Norden brütende Art und die einzige, die auch in Europa brütet. Seit 1991 ist der Basstölpel auch Brutvogel auf Helgoland. Typisch für den Basstölpel sind große Kolonien, in der mehrere tausend Brutpaare ihr jeweiliges Junges heranziehen. Basstölpel präferieren für die Anlage ihrer Nester steile Felsinseln, die vor der Küste liegen.
The northern gannet (Morus bassanus) is a seabird and the largest member of the gannet family, Sulidae. "Gannet" is derived from Old English ganot "strong or masculine", ultimately from the same Old Germanic root as "gander" Morus is derived from Ancient Greek moros, "foolish" due to the lack of fear shown by breeding gannets and boobies allowing them to be easily killed. The specific bassanus is from the Bass Rock in the Firth of Forth, which holds the world's largest colony of northern gannets.
Hall of Mosses, Hoh Rainforest, Olympic National Park, Washington
This is the second of my posts for National Parks Week here in the U.S., featuring an image from each of the three national parks in my home state of Washington.
It was difficult to decide what to feature for Olympic National Park, as it is an extremely diverse park, with the Olympic Mountains, beautiful lakes, the Pacific beaches of the Wilderness Coast, and the unique temperate Hoh rainforest.
Ultimately I decided to go with an image from the rainforest, since it is perhaps the most well known highlight of the park, which is both a UNESCO World Heritage site and an International Biosphere Reserve. It is one of largest remaining temperate rainforests and some of the old growth trees here are over 1000 years old. The forest typically gets over 12 feet/3.6 meters of rain every year, which supports the lush plant growth and the moss that drapes so many of the trees. Hiking in this forest is almost like entering an entirely different hidden world, sometimes it feels as though one is being enveloped by the trees and vegetation.
Ultimately I was able to work around to where I had a clear shot of this guy, with a nice view of those cool wing feathers. Forest Park in St Louis, Missouri
One of the projects I am working on these days is renovating our bedroom. We are painting it a new color but we also spent the day looking for new bedroom furniture. In our many store visits, I watched for trends in colors and designs. Most of the stores sold wall art as well. I noticed that most of the art leaned toward monochromatic images, subtle color tones or abstract art. So for Sliders Sunday I tried one of these trends with an image of tulips I took. Although I prefer the gorgeous colors that the real tulips have in our living room, I may consider a more monochromatic look for a wall hanging on our bedroom wall. When we have so many images of our own to choose from, it will be interesting to see what we ultimately decide to print and hang in our room. Happy Sliders Sunday!
Pt Sierra Nevada in far background. Lovely cloudy-bright day, perfect for flower photography. Almost no wind! The rectangular sea-cave (left center) is new this year.
This cliff-face represents a perfect geological history of this part of the coast. The youngest gravels (on top) are from the recent Ice Ages. The older, layered gravels rest on the dark bedrock of the Franciscan Complex, all ultimately altered basalt. A quick refresher: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franciscan_Complex
The geomorphology of this retreating bluff-face is pretty cool too. Life is persistent, even when those poor plants are headed for a salt-water death in the next wet winter!
There are many mystical places. Even those that have been created by people. But ultimately created the mystical and over again in our minds. And we do not always see it. This is a pedestrian bridge over the Rhine-Herne Canal at Oberhausen. Architectural interest, tens of thousands of times photographed. Even me. The mystique of the place I have not seen. Until one early morning, just after sunrise, again stood on the bridge and the magic realized. The bridge is real, the picture my imagination. There are two versions of this subject. Today I set the first variant, tomorrow comes the second.
Looking across this lovely lake at the geologic wonder that is Beartooth Butte.
"Beartooth Butte is a formation that has a completely different geologic origin than the surrounding area. During the Devonian period (420 - 360 million years ago) this entire region was covered by a vast sea. For several million years sediments deposited on that sea bottom compacted tighter and tighter to ultimately become sedimentary rocks. The resulting layer of rock, named the Beartooth Butte Formation, was at least 150 ft thick. Here on the Beartooth Plateau, the layer has been eroded away everywhere except here at Beartooth Butte.
The sedimentary rocks that make up Beartooth Butte are loaded with fossils from the various organisms that died and were buried in the ancient ocean."
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The sound of screaming followed by laughter could be heard through the amusement park. Some riding the roller coaster were screaming, some riding the merry-go-round were laughing-screaming (You know when you are screaming but it is more like a happy scream? I know you get it!)
Then, there is another type of screaming; The silent type. The one that is hidden deep within the dusted corners of your heart, numbed up by the mind that refuses to acknowledge it. Anger that turns into rage which ultimately explodes. Most do not understand how long it was bottled up that when it was time to address it, there was no chance to minimize the debris.
Being misunderstood is the saddest silent scream ever. When perceptions are made final with no room to understand that perhaps it is not just because she didn't like something, what if it was something she was constantly being given that she reached a boiling point and was fed up of accepting it, finally?!
Yet, they will say the same thing over and over again, "You hurt, you rage." Never looking deeper into the reason of "Why?"
For me, this picture illustrates the American Dream in action. Following one's passion, working hard, sticking to it during the tough times, and ultimately coming out on top. That's the America I grew up in.
Hudson, OH USA
Packard series
Packard Motor Car Company was an American luxury automobile company. It was founded in Warren Ohio as the Ohio Automobile Company by James Ward Packard, his brother William, and their partner, George Lewis Weiss. The first car rolled out of the factory on November 6, 1899.
Packard’s cars were considered the preeminent luxury car before World War II, and owning a Packard was prestigious. Henry Bourne Joy, a member of one of Detroit's oldest and wealthiest families, bought a Packard. Impressed by its reliability, he brought together a group of investors to refinance the company, soon after which Packard moved its operations to Detroit.
In 1953 (or 1954, depending on your source), Packard bought rival Studebaker and formed the Studebaker-Packard Corporation of South Bend, Indiana. Some historians believe that this was the beginning of the end of the company. It was certainly followed by a series of circumstances and events that ultimately led to the end of the company in 1962.
This series of photographs was taken at America’s Packard Museum in Dayton, Ohio. The Museum is a restored Packard dealership transformed into a museum that displays twentieth-century classic Packards and historic Packard artifacts and memorabilia.
The dealership originally sold Packards in Dayton, Ohio beginning in 1908. It moved into the building that is now home to the museum in 1917. Robert Signom II, the museum's Founder and Curator for 27 years, acquired the building in 1991 and painstakingly rehabilitated it to its original Art Deco grandeur, opening the museum in 1992.
Car Collector magazine named the museum one of the top ten automotive museums in the United States. The cars on display range from 1900s Brass Era cars, the streamlined Classic cars of the 1930s and 1940s, to the modern Packards of the 1950s. The museum also has a collection of war machines, parts, accessories, and original sales and service literature.
The UK’s smallest thrush, the redwing, is around 21cm in length with a wingspan of up to 35cm. It has a creamy-white chest covered in dark brown streaks, a distinctive red-orange underwing and a creamy-white stripe above its eye.
Redwings were the first bird species which were proved to detect fruit using ultraviolet vision. This is because the waxy coatings of berries reflect UV light, making them more appealing to birds.
The Redwing is a small winter visiting thrush from Scandinavia and Iceland, usually arriving in late September and staying until March-April. The Scandinavian birds usually winter in southern Britain and the Icelandic birds in Scotland and Ireland - the Icelandic birds are slightly larger and darker than the Scandinavian birds.
Due to the tiny numbers that breed in the UK (usually less than 20) the redwing is classed as a Red List species of conservation concern. It is believed that climate change could ultimately cause the loss of this already small breeding population.
(Woodland trust)
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and discovering and trying to understand why and what am I photographing:-)
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prunus mume, weeping japanese flowering apricot, 'Bridal Veil', j c rauslton arboretum, ncsu, raleigh, north carolina
Christopher Columbus, Pioneer Park
(1957-2020, below Coit Tower, Telegraph Hill, SF)
The statue made by Vittorio di Colbertaldo (1902-1979) was placed in the park in 1957, donated by the city's Italian-American community.
In October 2019, the statue was doused in red paint, symbolizing spilt blood, as an act of protest. The restoration cost about $70,000.
On June 18, 2020, the San Francisco Arts Commission (SFAC) removed the statue following the removal of other controversial statues.
In light of threats on social media to throw the statue off Pier 31 and into the San Francisco Bay, the SFAC has said that the statue was removed as it "doesn’t align with San Francisco’s values or our commitment to racial justice”.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Statue_of_Christopher_Columbus_(San_Francisco)
“Where they burn books, they will ultimately burn people also” (Heinrich Heine, 1821)
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In the distance, Alcatraz island
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No matter how educated, talented, rich or cool you believe you are, how you treat people ultimately tells all. Integrity is everything.
— Unknown Author
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"Fame is a four-letter word; and like tape or zoom or face or pain or life or love, what ultimately matters is what we do with it."
Fred Rogers
Some flowers are so glorious, they deserve their own moment on stage. Here's to encouraging one of my favorite flowers to have its own five minutes of fame.
Captured this Pheobe on Saturday, July 12, 2025 at a local park. Being in the park on a Saturday always brings to mind Chicago's delightful song, "Saturday in the Park."
"Saturday in the Park," written by Robert Lamm, was featured on Chicago's 1972 album, Chicago V. Upon its release, it quickly became a hit, climbing to No. 3 on the Billboard Hot 100.
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The Black Phoebe:
The Black Phoebe is a distinctive flycatcher found throughout the western U.S. Easily recognized by its sooty black body and crisp white belly, this dapper bird often perches openly on low branches, scanning for insects while emitting a series of shrill chirps.
They construct cup-shaped mud nests on various structures like walls, overhangs, and bridges. Look for them near any water source, from small streams to suburban areas and even along the Pacific coast.
While primarily insectivorous, Black Phoebes will occasionally snatch minnows from pond surfaces, sometimes even feeding them to their young.
The male initiates nest site selection by showcasing potential locations, but the female ultimately chooses and builds the nest. The oldest recorded Black Phoebe lived to be at least 8 years old.
(Nikon Z8, Nikkor 600/6.3, 1/2500 @ f/6.3, ISO 10000, edited to taste)
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cosmos, little theater garden, raleigh, north carolina
These lovely tulips in our garden basked in the early summer sunshine.
The tulip is a perennial, bulbous plant with showy flowers in the genus Tulipa, of which around 75 wild species are currently accepted and which belongs to the family Liliaceae.
The genus's native range extends west to the Iberian Peninsula, through North Africa to Greece, the Balkans, Turkey, throughout the Levant (Syria, Israel, Palestine, Lebanon, Jordan) and Iran, North to Ukraine, southern Siberia and Mongolia, and east to the Northwest of China. The tulip's centre of diversity is in the Pamir, Hindu Kush, and Tien Shan mountains. It is a typical element of steppe and winter-rain Mediterranean vegetation. A number of species and many hybrid cultivars are grown in gardens, as potted plants, or as cut flowers.
Tulips are spring-blooming perennials that grow from bulbs. Depending on the species, tulip plants can be between 4 inches (10 cm) and 28 inches (71 cm) high. The tulip's large flowers usually bloom on scapes with leaves in a rosette at ground level and a single flowering stalk arising from amongst the leaves.Tulip stems have few leaves. Larger species tend to have multiple leaves. Plants typically have two to six leaves, some species up to 12. The tulip's leaf is strap-shaped, with a waxy coating, and the leaves are alternately arranged on the stem; these fleshy blades are often bluish green in color. Most tulips produce only one flower per stem, but a few species bear multiple flowers on their scapes (e.g. Tulipa turkestanica). The generally cup or star-shaped tulip flower has three petals and three sepals, which are often termed tepals because they are nearly identical. These six tepals are often marked on the interior surface near the bases with darker colorings. Tulip flowers come in a wide variety of colors, except pure blue (several tulips with "blue" in the name have a faint violet hue).
The flowers have six distinct, basifixed stamens with filaments shorter than the tepals. Each stigma has three distinct lobes, and the ovaries are superior, with three chambers. The tulip's seed is a capsule with a leathery covering and an ellipsoid to globe shape. Each capsule contains numerous flat, disc-shaped seeds in two rows per chamber. These light to dark brown seeds have very thin seed coats and endosperm that does not normally fill the entire seed.
Etymology
The word tulip, first mentioned in western Europe in or around 1554 and seemingly derived from the "Turkish Letters" of diplomat Ogier Ghiselin de Busbecq, first appeared in English as tulipa or tulipant, entering the language by way of French: tulipe and its obsolete form tulipan or by way of Modern Latin tulīpa, from Ottoman Turkish tülbend ("muslin" or "gauze"), and may be ultimately derived from the Persian: دلبند delband ("Turban"), this name being applied because of a perceived resemblance of the shape of a tulip flower to that of a turban. This may have been due to a translation error in early times, when it was fashionable in the Ottoman Empire to wear tulips on turbans. The translator possibly confused the flower for the turban.
Tulips are called laleh (from Persian لاله, lâleh) in Persian, Turkish, Arabic, and Bulgarian. In Arabic letters, "laleh" is written with the same letters as Allah, which is why the flower became a holy symbol. It was also associated with the House of Osman, resulting in tulips being widely used in decorative motifs on tiles, mosques, fabrics, crockery, etc. in the Ottoman Empire
Cultivation
Tulip cultivars have usually several species in their direct background, but most have been derived from Tulipa suaveolens, often erroneously listed as Tulipa schrenkii. Tulipa gesneriana is in itself an early hybrid of complex origin and is probably not the same taxon as was described by Conrad Gesner in the 16th century.
Tulips are indigenous to mountainous areas with temperate climates and need a period of cool dormancy, known as vernalization. They thrive in climates with long, cool springs and dry summers. Tulip bulbs imported to warm-winter areas of are often planted in autumn to be treated as annuals.
Tulip bulbs are typically planted around late summer and fall, in well-drained soils, normally from 4 to 8 inches (10 to 20 cm) deep, depending on the type. Species tulips are normally planted deeper.
Propagation
Tulips can be propagated through bulb offsets, seeds or micropropagation. Offsets and tissue culture methods are means of asexual propagation for producing genetic clones of the parent plant, which maintains cultivar genetic integrity. Seeds are most often used to propagate species and subspecies or to create new hybrids. Many tulip species can cross-pollinate with each other, and when wild tulip populations overlap geographically with other tulip species or subspecies, they often hybridize and create mixed populations. Most commercial tulip cultivars are complex hybrids, and often sterile.
Offsets require a year or more of growth before plants are large enough to flower. Tulips grown from seeds often need five to eight years before plants are of flowering size. Commercial growers usually harvest the tulip bulbs in late summer and grade them into sizes; bulbs large enough to flower are sorted and sold, while smaller bulbs are sorted into sizes and replanted for sale in the future. The Netherlands are the world's main producer of commercial tulip plants, producing as many as 3 billion bulbs annually, the majority for export.
For further information please visit en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tulip
The Robert E. Lee Monument was a large monument in Richmond, Virginia, the former capital of the Confederate States of America during the US Civil War. It was installed in 1890 and was ultimately removed on September 8, 2021. The statue, which stood over 60 feet (18.29 meters) tall including its base, honored Confederate US Civil War General Robert E. Lee. The monument was constructed in France and shipped to Virginia and was the largest installation on Monument Avenue in Richmond for more than a century.
After the murder of African American George Floyd by Minnesota Policeman Derek Chauvin, the controversial monument became a local hub of nationwide protests against racism. It was covered in graffiti and many activists called for its removal. Ralph Northam, the Governor of Virginia, ordered the removal of the statue on June 4, 2020, but was blocked by a state court pending the outcome of a lawsuit. The Supreme Court of Virginia ultimately ruled on September 2, 2021, that the monument could be removed. It was removed six days later.
This photo was taken in May 2021, just a few months before its historic removal. I am glad I got the photo, but I celebrate that its subject is no longer there.
With a famine of trips recently due to family commitments it's back to the archives and here, on a bitterly cold late afternoon at Great Rocks Junction, a pair of Sheds, led by 66238, approach from the Tunstead quarry complex, while unit 66015 disappears towards Buxton and ultimately Dowlow.
Thankfully the snow provided a bit more brightness than is normally found at this time of day, but also ensured most sensible folk were hunkered up inside trying to stay warm. Despite the cold happy to report no problem with the reflexes - a couple of seconds on 'burst mode' and managed to bag a nigh perfect alignment of the two locos! A shot that enlarges quite well.
22nd January 2015
Apricot is a light yellowish-orangish color that is similar to the color of apricots. However, it is paler than actual apricots.
The etymology of the color apricot (and the fruit): the word comes from the Arabic Al-birquq (itself from Greek berikokon, ultimately from Latin praecoquum). Apricot has been in use as a color name since 1851. /en.wiki/
Isn't the word, "Power!" so ultimately subjective?! This shot is from literally one of dozens of photos I took of the main Vattenfall Power Station in Berlin, which was an almost two hour walk from my cave, so please show this some love as today, I ache everywhere, I even popped the map down under. I walked around this place for hours on both sides of the river, and I cannot begin to tell you how massive this place is, photos just don't do it justice.
It really was quite something, when I luckily found a park bench right opposite one of the bigger buildings, I sat and marvelled at the example of human industrial engineering and science that this place beholds; l could only surmise as to the technology that buzzes and hums away in these buildings; my partner has commented to me in the past as to how stupid human beings can be and yet look what we are capable of when we put our minds to it.
I will posting a good few more of this power castle over time.
I hope everyone is well and so as always, thank you! :)
Captured in: North Topsail Beach, NC.
Pictured here is a view of a large (and rather threatening) cumulonimbus cloud as it loomed over North Topsail Beach, NC.
It ultimately became part of a severe thunderstorm cell, complete with heavy wind & rain, and a fair amount of cloud to ground lightning.
I managed to capture this shot before the weather turned too nasty. My intent was to snap a few shots prior to the storm, as I had no interest in being struck by lightning on the beach! :{
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"There's a Storm a Brewin'" is an HDR image constructed from 3 bracketed shots - 2 stop differential between each image.
The image was processed w/ ACR, Photomatix, and finished in Photoshop (includes the use of Topaz Labs plugins -- Denoise, Clean, Adjust, Clarity, and Detail).
Gannets are seabirds comprising the genus Morus, in the family Sulidae, closely related to boobies. "Gannet" is derived from Old English ganot "strong or masculine", ultimately from the same Old Germanic root as "gander".[1] Morus is derived from Ancient Greek moros, "foolish", due to the lack of fear shown by breeding gannets and boobies, allowing them to be easily killed.
The Alhambra is a palace and fortress complex located in Granada, Andalusia, Spain. It is now one of Spain's major tourist attractions, exhibiting the country's most significant and well-known Islamic architecture, together with 16th-century and later Christian building and garden interventions. The Alhambra is a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
It was originally constructed as a small fortress in AD 889 on the remains of Roman fortifications, and then largely ignored until its ruins were renovated and rebuilt in the mid-13th century by the Nasrid emir Mohammed ben Al-Ahmar of the Emirate of Granada, who built its current palace and walls. It was converted into a royal palace in 1333 by Yusuf I, Sultan of Granada.[1] After the conclusion of the Christian Reconquista in 1492, the site became the Royal Court of Ferdinand and Isabella (where Christopher Columbus received royal endorsement for his expedition), and the palaces were partially altered in the Renaissance style. In 1526 Charles I & V commissioned a new Renaissance palace better befitting the Holy Roman Emperor in the revolutionary Mannerist style influenced by humanist philosophy in direct juxtaposition with the Nasrid Andalusian architecture, but it was ultimately never completed due to Morisco rebellions in Granada.
This photo is taken from Plaza de San Nicolas, in front of the San Nicolas Church. While visiting Alhambra, one must visit this place to get the panoramic view of Alhambra. In our case it was rather by chance as we had free time and we asked a taxi driver to take us to some sites in Granada.
The Sierra Nevada mountain range is in the background.
THE STORY OF MATTHEW
Hurricane Matthew 2016 was a very powerful, long-lived and deadly tropical cyclone which became the first Category 5 Atlantic hurricane, since Hurricane Felix in 2007.
Originating from a tropical wave that emerged off Africa on September 22, Matthew developed into a tropical storm 35 miles (56 km) southeast of St. Lucia on September 28, after which it experienced explosive intensification as it tracked across the Caribbean Sea.
Matthew became a hurricane 190 miles (310 km) northeast of Curaçao on September 29, ultimately achieving Category 5 intensity the following day
Haiti was the worst affect area being responsible for up to 1600 deaths & causing US$1.89 billion in damage In Cuba one million people where evacuated into shelters The storm then tracked up along the East coast of Florida & the Carolina,s
Preparations began in earnest across the southeastern United States as Matthew approached, with several states declaring a state of emergency for either entire states or coastal counties; widespread evacuations were ordered for extensive areas of the coast because of predicted high wind speeds and flooding, especially in the Jacksonville Metropolitan Area. The eye of the storm when passing bye Jacksonville was only fifty miles off shore
We ourselves evacuated from Atlantic Beach (Jacksonville) in land some fifty miles because of possible flooding & damage The hotel we relocated to had it own generator only to find that when the storm passed over head the power went out When taking this up at reception we found out that they meant to state that the reception had a generator not the guests
In Florida, in total over 1 million lost power as the storm passed to the east, with 478,000 losing power in Georgia and South Carolina.
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I can't even tell you how many pictures I took for this theme. I could not think of anything that seemed abstract enough. I finally narrowed it down to this image and another and ultimately, this one won.
I don't know if it is just me or not but is anyone else having a very difficult time thinking of images to do for the themes lately??
The DMC DeLorean is a rear-engine two-passenger sports car manufactured and marketed by John DeLorean's DeLorean Motor Company (DMC) for the American market from 1981 until 1983. It was ultimately the only car brought to market by the company.
The car was designed by Giorgetto Giugiaro and is noted for its gull-wing doors and brushed stainless-steel outer body panels.
The first production car was completed on January 21, 1981. Production ended in late December 1982, shortly after DMC filed for bankruptcy and after total production reached about 9,000 units.
Despite a reputation for poor build quality and an unsatisfactory driving experience, the DeLorean continues to have a strong following driven in part by the popularity of Back to the Future. 6,500 DeLoreans were estimated to still be on the road as of 2015.
I saw this particular model at America's Packard Museum in Dayton, Ohio. It is apparently included in the collection because John DeLorean was once Packard’s head of research and development.
I shot the original photo (see below) on a recent visit to the Getty Museum. After I got it masked (which would have been easy if not for all those vines!), I played with all kinds of filters and ultimately discarded them all and stuck with the original (plus a little sharpening).
The sky came from CG Textures and the cityscape from Donaldytong via Wikimedia Commons.
You can almost warm your hands on them! Taken in our garden last spring...
The tulip is a perennial, bulbous plant with showy flowers in the genus Tulipa, of which around 75 wild species are currently accepted and which belongs to the family Liliaceae.
The genus's native range extends west to the Iberian Peninsula, through North Africa to Greece, the Balkans, Turkey, throughout the Levant (Syria, Israel, Palestine, Lebanon, Jordan) and Iran, North to Ukraine, southern Siberia and Mongolia, and east to the Northwest of China. The tulip's centre of diversity is in the Pamir, Hindu Kush, and Tien Shan mountains. It is a typical element of steppe and winter-rain Mediterranean vegetation. A number of species and many hybrid cultivars are grown in gardens, as potted plants, or as cut flowers.
Tulips are spring-blooming perennials that grow from bulbs. Depending on the species, tulip plants can be between 4 inches (10 cm) and 28 inches (71 cm) high. The tulip's large flowers usually bloom on scapes with leaves in a rosette at ground level and a single flowering stalk arising from amongst the leaves.Tulip stems have few leaves. Larger species tend to have multiple leaves. Plants typically have two to six leaves, some species up to 12. The tulip's leaf is strap-shaped, with a waxy coating, and the leaves are alternately arranged on the stem; these fleshy blades are often bluish green in color. Most tulips produce only one flower per stem, but a few species bear multiple flowers on their scapes (e.g. Tulipa turkestanica). The generally cup or star-shaped tulip flower has three petals and three sepals, which are often termed tepals because they are nearly identical. These six tepals are often marked on the interior surface near the bases with darker colorings. Tulip flowers come in a wide variety of colors, except pure blue (several tulips with "blue" in the name have a faint violet hue).
The flowers have six distinct, basifixed stamens with filaments shorter than the tepals. Each stigma has three distinct lobes, and the ovaries are superior, with three chambers. The tulip's seed is a capsule with a leathery covering and an ellipsoid to globe shape. Each capsule contains numerous flat, disc-shaped seeds in two rows per chamber. These light to dark brown seeds have very thin seed coats and endosperm that does not normally fill the entire seed.
Etymology
The word tulip, first mentioned in western Europe in or around 1554 and seemingly derived from the "Turkish Letters" of diplomat Ogier Ghiselin de Busbecq, first appeared in English as tulipa or tulipant, entering the language by way of French: tulipe and its obsolete form tulipan or by way of Modern Latin tulīpa, from Ottoman Turkish tülbend ("muslin" or "gauze"), and may be ultimately derived from the Persian: دلبند delband ("Turban"), this name being applied because of a perceived resemblance of the shape of a tulip flower to that of a turban. This may have been due to a translation error in early times, when it was fashionable in the Ottoman Empire to wear tulips on turbans. The translator possibly confused the flower for the turban.
Tulips are called laleh (from Persian لاله, lâleh) in Persian, Turkish, Arabic, and Bulgarian. In Arabic letters, "laleh" is written with the same letters as Allah, which is why the flower became a holy symbol. It was also associated with the House of Osman, resulting in tulips being widely used in decorative motifs on tiles, mosques, fabrics, crockery, etc. in the Ottoman Empire
Cultivation
Tulip cultivars have usually several species in their direct background, but most have been derived from Tulipa suaveolens, often erroneously listed as Tulipa schrenkii. Tulipa gesneriana is in itself an early hybrid of complex origin and is probably not the same taxon as was described by Conrad Gesner in the 16th century.
Tulips are indigenous to mountainous areas with temperate climates and need a period of cool dormancy, known as vernalization. They thrive in climates with long, cool springs and dry summers. Tulip bulbs imported to warm-winter areas of are often planted in autumn to be treated as annuals.
Tulip bulbs are typically planted around late summer and fall, in well-drained soils, normally from 4 to 8 inches (10 to 20 cm) deep, depending on the type. Species tulips are normally planted deeper.
Propagation
Tulips can be propagated through bulb offsets, seeds or micropropagation. Offsets and tissue culture methods are means of asexual propagation for producing genetic clones of the parent plant, which maintains cultivar genetic integrity. Seeds are most often used to propagate species and subspecies or to create new hybrids. Many tulip species can cross-pollinate with each other, and when wild tulip populations overlap geographically with other tulip species or subspecies, they often hybridize and create mixed populations. Most commercial tulip cultivars are complex hybrids, and often sterile.
Offsets require a year or more of growth before plants are large enough to flower. Tulips grown from seeds often need five to eight years before plants are of flowering size. Commercial growers usually harvest the tulip bulbs in late summer and grade them into sizes; bulbs large enough to flower are sorted and sold, while smaller bulbs are sorted into sizes and replanted for sale in the future. The Netherlands are the world's main producer of commercial tulip plants, producing as many as 3 billion bulbs annually, the majority for export.
For further information please visit en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tulip