Taken as the light was trying to penetrate the cloud ultimately failed at least first thing.

Prince of Wales Hotel on Waterton Lake, Waterton Lakes National Park, in Alberta, Canada. Photo taken two years after the lightening-sparked Kenow Wildfire (2017) burned 30% of the park. Many burned trees can still be seen in the area. At one point, the fire was 50 yards away from the hotel. Embers the size of baseballs were reportedly landing on the hotel roof. Ultimately, however, the firefighters saved the hotel with surprisingly little damage to the hotel's main structure.

The Other Ligeia

"The Other Ligeia" is a photo project, inspired by Edgar Allan Poe's short story "Ligeia", first published in 1838.

The story is told by an unnamed narrator who describes the qualities of Ligeia: a beautiful, passionate and intellectual woman, raven-haired and dark-eyed.

Ligeia becomes ill, struggles internally with human mortality, ultimately dies, and allegedly resurrects.

The shot was taken at Villa De Vecchi (Italian Governor of Rhodes between 1936-1940) which was built for Mussolini.

Saratoga National Historic Park, in upstate New York, preserves the site of a pivotal battle of the American Revolutionary War. Here, American forces met, defeated and forced the surrender of a major British Army in October, 1777, which ultimately led France to enter the war as a decisive military ally of the struggling Americans.

The building you see here is a restoration of the home of John Neilson, a local farmer who cast his lot with the Patriot cause, and whose farm was enclosed within the defenses of the Americans at the time of the battle. The home is one of the stops on a 9.5-mile driving tour that takes visitors past the Park’s historical sites.

in relation to yourself. And seeking truth becomes a habit :-)

Leonard Freed

HFF! Truth Matters!

prunus mume, white japanese flowering apricot, 'Big Joe', j c raulston arboretum, ncsu, raleigh, north carolina

Pied-billed Grebes. The one on the right caught the fish, and ultimately won this contest. In this image, the Grebes aren't cute as in the prior posted image. They loom more like their ancient velociraptor relatives. Farmington Bay WMA, Utah

As ice formed around the edges of the Lake, this lingering migrant saw its access to vegetation shrinking and its options for remaining in Ottawa narrowing.

This was an early morning image. The last of the fall colours, a yellowy-orange, reflected off the surface of the water just as the sun started to rise. It was cold. And the bird needed to get out of town and head south. I photographed this bird a few days later walking in the reeds on the ice. It ultimately left the area.

Late birds are a fact of life in the messy migration business, as are dangerously early birds. They fall behind (or get ahead) of the sudden changes in weather and then food becomes inaccessible; from there, energy to migrate is compromised, and a downward spiral begins. It is one of the difficult parts of being engaged in the patterns of wildlife.

Limonium is a genus of 120 flowering plant species. Members are also known as sea-lavender, statice, caspia or marsh-rosemary. Despite their common names, species are not related to the lavenders or to rosemary. They are instead in Plumbaginaceae, the plumbago or leadwort family. The generic name is from the Latin līmōnion, used by Pliny for a wild plant and is ultimately derived from the Ancient Greek leimon (λειμών, ‘meadow’). The genus has a subcosmopolitan distribution in Europe, Asia, Africa, Australia and North America. By far the greatest diversity (over 100 species) is in the area stretching from the Canary Islands east through the Mediterranean region to central Asia; for comparison, North America only has three native Limonium species. 30578

In Celtic times the island was called Eria's Island. Eria was a woman's name and this became confused with Erin, derived from Éireann, the Irish name for Ireland. The Vikings substituted the word Island with ey, their Norse equivalent, and so it became known as Erin's Ey and ultimately Ireland's Eye.

Snug Harbor State Park is located on Muskegon Lake. There are trails that spread out in several directions to the dunes and ultimately to Lake Michigan.

"It has been said that something as small as a flutter of a butterfly's wing can ultimately cause a typhoon halfway around the world"

Chaos Theory

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Taken at Rhossili Beach, Gower one of many shipwrecks around the coast. Trying to do more mono shots! Some history of the Vennerne below:

The Vennerne was a 275 tonne barque on the way from Aberdovey to Swansea when rough seas forced her to take shelter in the protection afforded by Worms Head. Unfortunately that protection did not prove enough as she dragged her anchor and found herself driven onto the beach beneath the cliffs. The Rhossili L.S.A. were quickly on the scene and tried to fire safety lines across from the land to the ship. All were unsuccessful. With the chance of the Vennerne suffering further damage increasing with every minute that past the Captain, along with his family and crew, made the decision to abandon ship and made it ashore on a small boat.

The next day an attempt was made to refloat the Vennerne but this ultimately proved fruitless. She wrecked later that day. The Iron Hull was sold at auction for the princely sum of £54. The remains that can be seen today is all that is left from that salvage operation. Taken from Gowershipwrecks.co.uk

Last upload of this session features a CAF EMU 331102 departing Leeds with Northern's 3.21pm service to Doncaster (2B21), taken last year.

Good use is made of the scissor-crossover hidden behind me to boost station capacity - the train had actually departed from the platform l'm stood upon. I took a shot of a pair of trains stood at each of the platforms in view using a similar composition, but ultimately thought this one of the departing train snaking over the curves made for the better image. It's all subjective of course.

Leeds might lack the character of a Victorian station, but there's plenty to have a go at here with the camera, and it's compact busy-ness does have a certain appeal.

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The sacred Lakota Mountain, Bear Butte, is an atmospheric place, given to sudden changes such as rain, fog, hail, and ultimately this.

A tree well encased in Ivy where ultimately the weight of the Ivy will break some branches as has happened in the past.

There is a distance view of Spaunton village to the right on the horizon in the North Yorkshire Moors National Park from Bottomsfield Lane. Part of a walk from Appleton le Moors to Hutton le Hole.

This Barn Owl has been delighting birders and photographers in the Atlanta area as it forages over grassy fields around sunrise and sunset. I hope all the attention doesn't ultimately drive it away from its current feeding grounds.

In this view you can see the heart-shaped face. I went back yesterday and was hoping for better face on views at closer range but despite the excellent show the owl gave it didn't make a close enough face on pass in good enough light to greatly improve what I got the first visit. So this is another image from my first visit. There are generally quite a few photographers and/or birders there-up to 3 dozen or more some mornings-so it is likely best for the owl if everyone is observing from the same area and for the most part most folks have been considerate enough.

The necessary vantage point is into the rising sun so the window of acceptable light is rather narrow unless you get a bright overcast morning light and such a morning must coincide with your own availablity to get there for it and of course there is the unknown each time of how long the owl forages any morning or if it shows up at all!!! In the evenings the owl generally appears when the light is already marginal at best.

Amazing how one little fish can cause such a frenzy! The gull with the fish was able to hold onto the fish while the other two kept the chase up, but ultimately gave up.

Thanks so much to everyone who takes the time to view, like or comment on my photos!

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A woman ahead of her time...

I have watched the documentary 'Nothing compares to you' about Sinead O'Connor.

An exploration of Sinead O'Connor's rise and fall and her enduring cultural impact. By the age of 20, O'Connor was one of Ireland's brightest rising stars but her decision to use her fame as a platform to speak out on a number of controversial issues shifted her narrative from global stardom to worldwide condemnation. In a new interview, O'Connor reveals the abusive upbringing that left her feeling betrayed by both church and community and ultimately led her to find the therapeutic power of music.

In my country it is on National TV, but can be found here.

www.sho.com/titles/3516714/nothing-compares

We as women...humans, should watch and learn.

And please do not tell me she was mentally ill, women have been called that as well as witches as long as Adam and Eve, when they stood out or spoke up, showing curage and integrity ♥

Prince of Wales Hotel on Waterton Lake, Waterton Lakes National Park, in Alberta, Canada. Photo taken two years after the lightening-sparked Kenow Wildfire (2017) burned 30% of the park. Many burned trees can still be seen in the area. At one point, the fire was 50 yards away from the hotel. Embers the size of baseballs were reportedly landing on the hotel roof. Ultimately, however, the firefighters saved the hotel with surprisingly little damage to the hotel's main structure.

Europe, The Netherlands, Zuid Holland, Rotterdam, Cool, Coolhaven, Little C, Balconies (slightly cut from all sides)

Much has already been said and written about Little C. See the previous post for a little sample.

The style of the building complex can partly be traced back to the inherent cynicism of the project developers that created a project that uses the morphology of ultimately very problematic urban districts/housing complexes like The Projects (New York) -and the long ago demolished Kowloon (Hong Kong) quarter.

This is for now the last of the Little C mini-series.

This is number 1343 of Minimalism / explicit Graphism.

Great Crested Grebe - An intruder got too close to the nest of a mated pair and their 2 chicks. The male of the mated pair confronted the intruder and ultimately chased it away.

There was a progression through several phases of sunset color which ultimately left a red glow over the landscape.

In 1987 I took this shot while working on a hazardous waste landfill in the Western United States. The landfill, ultimately cleaned up in the 1990's, was a USEPA "Superfund" site. This is what lax environmental regulations can look like. The environment is one of a number of important issues where your voice can be heard by voting in November. Please exercise your right to VOTE!

Shot was originally taken as a slide with an Olympus point and shoot to document sampling locations (I was wearing the same gear as the crew in the photos). The original slide was digitized in 2013.

Taken in our garden earlier this 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

A bald eagle was flying across the lake and coming directly at us and ultimately flew over us. This was one of the most exciting interactions I've had with the eagles. However, the sky was very overcast. I replaced the sky using Luminar 4. There is a sky replacement module where you can choose their skies or you can use your own. I don't do composites very much but, in a case like this, I really think a nice sky really enhances the image.

Photographed at John Chesnut Senior Park, Palm Harbor, FL.

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The Falls of Falloch (Eas Falloch in Scottish Gaelic; meaning the Hidden Falls) is a waterfall and picnic area, north of Loch Lomond.

Located just of the A82, 3 miles south of Crianlarich.

When you park in the car park, it's only a short 5 minute walk to the falls. You can view the falls from the riverbank, or a specially designed cage.

The Falls are part of the River Falloch which ultimately run into Loch Lomond.

It hadn't rained for a few days when we visited, but apparently the falls can be very dramatic after a heavy rainfall.

Awareness of what is happening to our West, and ultimately to our earth!

There is so much beautiful light in the world.

Ultimately the winter is also a color artist.

Here's a view of the largest hilltop castle of northwestern Germany across a pond just in front of it. I'd gone to visit it because of the connection to one of my seventeenth century favorites, Henric Piccardt, syndic of the Groningen Ommelanden and before that something of a rogue at the court of Louis XIV of France. His greatgrandfather, one Johann Kemener (1522-1613), became the court preacher of this castle's count, Arnold II van Bentheim-Tecklenburg (1554-1606). On the second Sunday of advent in 1575 he and his congregation turned to Calvinism. And that fit in quite properly with their sympathy for the struggles which led to the young Dutch Republic, nearby across from today's borders. Piccardt's father became a minister ultimately at Groningen and his uncle Johan, also a protestant minister, was the first historian of Drenthe.

The castle and its town are a delight to visit, and so is the park deep below. That's where I saw that shrubbery Rose, quite fittng for castle gardens.

CP 260 continues down the Marquette Sub behind an SD70ACU/AC4400 pair after crossing the state line into Iowa at New Albin. An overnight trip along the river will put the train in the Quad Cities by early morning and ultimately Kansas City by the end of the next day.

The fading of Autumns blush under a haze of gray. Echoes of a crow calling out travels through the crisp October morning. I am surrounded by a desert of sediment, bits and pieces, remnants of the past now brought to the surface from a receding flow. An immovable boulder is my companion this morning. For the moment we are both frozen in time, me frozen in thought, contemplating, evaluating and ultimately capitulating to the moment.

Great Crested Grebe - An intruder got too close to the nest of a mated pair and their 2 chicks. The male of the mated pair confronted the intruder and ultimately chased it away.

The Geomethras - Spiritas Geometrium by Daniel Arrhakis (2022)

The Geomethras - Spiritas Geometrium

The Taró fog is known by sailors and fishermen from El Palo to Estepona, a name of Phoenician origin that, like many other words, customs and ultimately culture, we have inherited from the so-called carriers of ancient times.

The male, sitting below, is holding a fish that he ultimately deposited into the nest for his mate to enjoy at her leisure.

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If only for a moment God forgot that I am a rag puppet and gave me a piece of life, I probably wouldn't say everything I think, but ultimately I would think everything I say. I would value things, not for what they are worth, but for what they mean. I would sleep little, I would dream more, I understand that for every minute we close our eyes, we lose sixty seconds of light. I would go when the others stop, I would wake up while the others sleep. I would listen while others talk, and how I enjoy a good chocolate ice cream! If God gave me a piece of life, I would simply dress, I would throw myself lying in the sun, leaving not only my body but also my soul uncovered.

(Gabriel Garcia Marquez)

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Se solo per un istante Dio si dimenticasse che sono una marionetta di pezza e mi regalasse un pezzo di vita, probabilmente non direi tutto ciò che penso, ma in definitiva penserei tutto ciò che dico. Darei valore alle cose, non per ciò che valgono, ma per ciò che significano. Dormirei poco, sognerei di più, capisco che per ogni minuto che chiudiamo gli occhi, perdiamo sessanta secondi di luce. Andrei quando gli altri si fermano, mi sveglierei mentre gli altri dormono. Ascolterei mentre gli altri parlano, e come mi godrei un buon gelato al cioccolato! Se Dio mi facesse dono di un pezzo di vita, vestirei semplicemente, mi butterei disteso al sole, lasciando scoperto non solo il mio corpo, ma anche la mia anima.

(Gabriel Garcia Marquez)

What Does Stock Flower Mean?

The botanical name of the stock flower is Matthiola, a nod to Pierandrea Matthiola, who was an Italian doctor and botanist who first cultivated these flowers for their medicinal benefits. He once thought that the flowers could promote feelings of love and lust with their strong, cloying scent.

Although that ultimately was not the case, it’s hard to deny the fact that stock flowers help to promote long-lasting beauty, contentment, and happiness.

Probably the most photographed castle in Scotland, spectacularly sited on an island at the head of Loch Duich. Eilean Donan was involved in many raids and sieges, reduced to rubble and authentically reconstructed to its medieval state in the mid 1900's. Several of the rooms are open to the public, including the billeting room, with 14-foot thick walls and a barrel vaulted ceiling, and the banqueting hall, with fine Sheraton and Chippendale furniture.

Eilean Donan also played a role in the Jacobite risings of the 17th and 18th centuries, which ultimately culminated in the castle’s destruction…

In 1719 the castle was garrisoned by 46 Spanish soldiers who were supporting the Jacobites. They had established a magazine of gunpowder, and were awaiting the delivery of weapons and cannon from Spain. The English Government caught wind of the intended uprising and sent three heavily armed frigates The Flamborough, The Worcester, and The Enterprise to quell matters. The bombardment of the castle lasted three days, though met with limited success due to the enormity of the castle walls, which in some places are up to 14 feet thick. Finally, Captain Herdman of The Enterprise sent his men ashore and over-whelmed the Spanish defenders. Following the surrender, the government troops discovered the magazine of 343 barrels of gunpowder which was then used to blow up what had remained from the bombardment.

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Even the Joshua trees at Joshua Tree National Park, California, ultimately succumb to the relentless heat and have their bones bleached in the sun with the bones of the buffalo.

Central Maine & Quebec Job 1 steps out across the East Outlet of Moosehead Lake as the sun sets on an unseasonably mild Maine afternoon. This is the headwaters of the Kennebec River, but the former Canadian Pacific route won't be following the Kennebec south towards the Atlantic Ocean, but rather continuing westward through the wilderness and ultimately into Quebec at Boundary.

The Royal Commission on the Defence of the United Kingdom, which Lord Palmerston had established in 1859 in response to a perceived threat of invasion by Emperor Napoleon III of France, recommended the fort's construction. When considering the defence of the Royal Dockyard at Pembroke Dock and the anchorage at Milford Haven, the Commissioners believed that there was a danger that an enemy force might conduct an amphibious landing on a beach on the southern Pembrokeshire coast followed by an overland attack on the naval facilities. The Commissioners envisioned a chain of coastal artillery forts extending along the coast from Tenby to Freshwater West covering all the potential landing sites; ultimately, only this fort at Tenby was constructed. Wikipedia

I’m sure the snapping turtles enjoyed a feast.

The Battle Of Britain Memorial Flight’s Supermarine Spitfire MK356 was built at Castle Bromwich and delivered to Digby in March 1944. MK356 is now painted to represent Spitfire Mk IXC EN152 ‘QJ-3’ of No 92 Squadron in Tunisia in 1943. In its desert camouflage scheme, MK356 commemorates the hard-fought and ultimately successful war in the North African desert, and honours the heroic pilots and stoic ground crews of the Desert Air Force.

MK356 is seen departing Gloucestershire airport at Staverton on 4th September 2021.

Efes

Ephesus (/ˈɛfəsəs/; Ancient Greek: Ἔφεσος Ephesos; Turkish: Efes; may ultimately derive from Hittite Apasa) was an ancient Greek city on the coast of Ionia, three kilometres southwest of present-day Selçuk in İzmir Province, Turkey. It was built in the 10th century BC on the site of the former Arzawan capital by Attic and Ionian Greek colonists. During the Classical Greek era it was one of the twelve cities of the Ionian League. The city flourished after it came under the control of the Roman Republic in 129 BC.

The city was famed for the nearby Temple of Artemis (completed around 550 BC), one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World. Among many other monumental buildings are the Library of Celsus, and a theatre capable of holding 25,000 spectators.

Ephesos was one of the seven churches of Asia that are cited in the Book of Revelation. The Gospel of John may have been written here. The city was the site of several 5th-century Christian Councils (see Council of Ephesus).

The city was destroyed by the Goths in 263, and although rebuilt, the city's importance as a commercial centre declined as the harbour was slowly silted up by the Küçükmenderes River. It was partially destroyed by an earthquake in AD 614.

The ruins of Ephesus are a favourite international and local tourist attraction, partly owing to their easy access from Adnan Menderes Airport or from the cruise ship port of Kuşadası, some 30 km to the South.

Ref: www.wikizero.com/en/Ephesus

Celsus Library is one of the most beautiful structures in Ephesus. Celcius Library was built in 117 A.D. Celsus Library was a monumental tomb for Gaius Julius Celsus Polemaeanus, the governor of the province of Asia; from his son Galius Julius Aquila. The grave of Celsus was beneath the ground floor, across the entrance and there was a statue of Athena over it. Because Athena was the goddess of the wisdom.

The scrolls of the manuscripts were kept in cupboards in niches on the walls. There were double walls behind the bookcases to prevent the them from the extremes of temperature and humidity. The capacity of the library was more than 12,000 scrolls. It was the third richest library in ancient times after the Alexandra and Pergamum.

The facade of the library has two-stories, with Corinthian style columns on the ground floor and three entrances to the building. There is three windows openings in the upper story. They used an optical trick that the columns at the sides of the facade are shorter than those at the center, giving the illusion of the building being greater in size.

The statues in the niches of the columns today are the copies of the originals. The statues symbolize wisdom (Sophia), knowledge (Episteme), intelligence (Ennoia) and valor (Arete). These are the virtues of Celsus. The library was restored with the aid of the Austrian Archaeological Institute and the originals of the statues were taken to Ephesus Museum in Vienna in 1910.

Ref: www.ephesus.us/ephesus/celsuslibrary.htm

Gannets are seabirds comprising the genus Morus, in the family Sulidae, closely related to boobies. "Gannet" is derived from Old English ganot, 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

Halmstein, Malching am Inn.

The people have always sought an explanation about the origin and its formation. This massive boulder, Halmstein, is ultimately attributed to heavenly or hellish powers in two legends.

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 Adobe Photoshop.

Anemone are the graceful ballet dancers of the flower world. In spite of the wind tossing their petals to and fro, they ultimately reach for the sky.

Another image from the river on Saturday. I originally created this in camera, but ultimately I've refined it a little using the original RAW files.