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The Persian cat is a breed of long-haired cats, one of the oldest and most popular in the world..Now there are about 100 varieties of these cats in color. In the Soviet Union, the first Persian cats appeared only in the late 80s of the last century. They were brought from Europe by diplomats and were very rare..Persian cats can not live outside the house. This is one of the most difficult breeds to care for..Cute animal from the series Seliger cats, a chance meeting on the street of the city of Ostashkov.
Meadow Katydid (Conocephalus (Chloroxiphidion) upolueis) nymph
I have posted a number of Common Garden Katydid nymph images recently so here is a Meadow Katydid nymph - the other species I see in our garden.
The Sow Thistle flower she is on is about 12 mm (approx 1/2 inch) at its widest.
The Miniature Amaryllis Hermitage, has conical, large, beautiful, red-orange flowers with white stripes.
Dutch variety created in 1995 to compete with the popular Minerva. The two are very similar, but the 'Hermitage has less contrast, the "red and white" flowers are marked with a shade of reddish orange and the Minerva more red or pure bright orange.
The shape of the flower is what differentiates the most, the general impression is that the flower has a somewhat square or geometric quality.
Its foliage is also quite ornamental.
This Variety/ Convenience store is still a Variety/ Convenience store. On major Toronto arterial roads (College, Queen or Dundas Street) some of these were converted to a restaurant and left untouched on the outside. The street retains this way some of the character. Kind of reverse Potemkin effect. The mural on the side is reflecting the Portuguese community, which moved into this neighborhood in 1950's
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It is the first year we have this variety of daffodils in the garden. As you may have seen in photos I posted earlier on, they are not all identical.
At first I thought Redolence such as strange variety name for this beautiful orchid, however the definition is fragrant or sweet smelling, which this orchid has a very beautiful fragrance. Too bad we don't have fragra-vision on Flickr !
Persian Buttercup (Ranunculus asiaticus)
I bought these beauties, they looked like 'Antiques'? A special variety.
Amazing how they can light up a room... such a vibrant and beautiful blooms.
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The 900 block of N. McClean Street, on the east side of Bloomington's Franklin Square, has an interesting history in terms of Illinois politics. Of the four stately residences on this block, three were home to late 19th and early 20th century gubernatorial candidates: Joseph W. Fifer, who served one term as Illinois Governor from 1889 to 1893; Adlai Stevenson I, who served as Vice President of the United States under Grover Cleveland from 1893 to 1897, but then lost a close race for governor in 1908; and Frank H. Funk, who ran and lost as the Progressive "Bull Moose" Party candidate for Illinois Governor in 1912.
This post looks at the Queen Anne style Bates-Funk House which was built about 1891 for T. M. Dates, the superintendent of transportation for the Chicago and Alton Railroad Company. Frank H. Funk (1869-19, grandson of McLean County pioneer Isaac Funk, lived in the house from 1897 to 1924.
Frank Funk was born in Bloomington in 1869. He was a Yale graduate, managed over 2,000 acres of farmland, and also had an extensive political career. He was elected state senator to the Illinois General Assembly in 1909, and held that position until 1913. As previously noted, Funk ran for Illinois governor on the Bull Moose ticket in 1912 making him the third person living in the 900 block of N. McClean St. to be a party-nominated candidate for the Illinois governorship between 1888 and 1912. Frank Funk finished his political career as a Republican member of the U.S. House of Representative from 1921 to 1927. Funk died in Bloomington at the age of 71 in 1940.
The Bates-Funk House is a contributing property in Bloomington's Franklin Square Historic District, which is located northwest of downtown Bloomington. The Square is named in honor of Franklin Price, who was the mayor of Bloomington Mayor in 1856 when land for the Square was gifted to the city.
Franklin Square was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1976, and was designated a local historic district in 1979. The houses of Franklin Square were built in a variety of architectural styles from the mid 19th century through the early 20th century, including Georgian Revival, Italianate, Colonial, Queen Anne, and Richardsonian Romanesque.
Bloomington is the seat of McLean County. It is adjacent to Normal, and is the more populous of the two principal municipalities of the Bloomington-Normal metropolitan area. Bloomington is 135 miles (217 km) southwest of Chicago, and 162 miles (261 km) northeast of St. Louis. The estimated population of Bloomington in 2019 was 77,330, with a metro population of 191,067.
a transparent variety of calcite, or crystallized calcium carbonate, originally brought from Iceland, and used in demonstrating the polarization of light (see polarimetry)
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When I came here first there were small fractures of totally clear cristalls in the dumps in the slope beneath the mine. Now I saw no clear transparent cristall. And clearly turists have tried to hammer out parts of the calcium. carbonate vends in the cliffs.
I photographed the most transparent stone I saw, but left it where I found it.
Back in 2009, two SD60s, one each INRD and SOO along with an SD40-2XR from MRL lead a K203 from Roseport, MN, for the INRD at Fayette, IN. Fifteen more miles lay ahead as it passes the north end of Clinton siding on CSX.
An empty limestone train heads through Bear Trap Curve on its way to Proctor. An interesting mix of power leads the way.
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Conrail GP40-2 3380 was the centerpiece of a colorful variety of locomotion in Union Pacific's Proviso yard in 1997.
Next to a Chicago and North Western C44-9W, the tattered Conrail motor had a Grand Trunk SD40 and a Norfolk Southern GP59 and C40-9 behind it helping to create a riot of color no longer seen on today's rails.
This variety, Barbosa, has a darker red tone. Some people call it brown amaryllis.
It does not have an exact classification, as it has thinner petals than the common amaryllis, but not so thin to be classified as spider type.
The tone and mixes are breathtaking!
It opens with a more earthy hue, an orange red with a whitish streak (some don't have a streak, others do) and as it ages it becomes cherry red.
Its foliage is also quite ornamental.
It looks like I'm going to be able to shoot a nice variety of subjects on the new Norway Spruce trees I had planted in my backyard last month. Different birds, different seasons - can't wait for the snow to start accumulating on those branches.
Tuk Tuk's/Rickshaws are a very popular form of transport in Sri Lanka and many other parts of South East Asia. They come in a variety of different shapes and forms, depending on which country you visit.
Dark-eyed Junco (Slate coloured female or/and immature)
Juncos may be generally regarded as 'garden variety', but in our area this winter, many observers have found them less plentiful than in past years.
A variety of bird species were actively feeding on the mass of herring bubbling near the surface of the water on the Pacific Ocean northwest of Prince Rupert, British Columbia, Canada. A Herring Gull (Larus argentatus) landed in the mass and plucked a herring from the water while a Mew Gull (Larus canus) passes overhead and swoops to pick one up for itself. It was a very busy airway with all the gulls and Bald Eagles flying over head.
23 July, 2019.
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Almost no traffic on the streets of Beacon Hill and many streets with no cars at all! Myrtle Street, Beacon Hill, Boston, MA, headed toward the Charles River
The genus Pan consists of two extant species: the common chimpanzee and the bonobo. Taxonomically, these two ape species are collectively termed panins; however, both species are more commonly referred to collectively using the generalized term chimpanzees, or chimps. Together with humans, gorillas, and orangutans they are part of the family Hominidae (the great apes, or hominids). Native to sub-Saharan Africa, common chimpanzees and bonobos are currently both found in the Congo jungle, while only the common chimpanzee is also found further north in West Africa. Both species are listed as endangered. Chimpanzees and bonobos are equally humanity's closest living relatives. As such, they are among the largest-brained and most intelligent primates: they use a variety of sophisticated tools and construct elaborate sleeping nests each night from branches and foliage. Their learning abilities have been extensively studied. 60741
El Sukiennice (« Llotja de teixits ») és un dels monuments històrics més emblemàtics de la ciutat de Cracòvia. Aquesta imponent llotja comercial de dos pisos, aixecada el segle xiii i després adaptada a l'època del Renaixement, ocupa el lloc central de la gran Plaça del Mercat i forma part del Patrimoni de la Humanitat de la UNESCO.[1]
A la planta baixa, la Llotja acull avui comerços d'artesania, mentre que el primer pis acull la Galeria d'art polonès del segle xix, una filial del Museu nacional de Cracòvia amb la més important col·lecció d'obres poloneses del món. Entre elles, la famosa tela Les Torxes de Neró, oferta a l'obertura del museu pel seu pintor, Henryk Siemiradzki i el quadre gegant Homenatge prussià de Jan Matejko.
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Posicionada segons l'eix nord-sud de la plaça, amb les seves façanes oest i est simètriques respecte als eixos de les entrades, la Llotja de teixits de Cracòvia reuneix elements arquitectònics d'èpoques molt diferents, i constitueix una síntesi global de l'arquitectura de la ciutat.
El nom Sukiennice ve de la paraula polonesa sukno que vol dir teixit, roba. En efecte, els drapers disposaven les seves parades al centre de la plaça del Mercat per a la venda a l'engròs de teixits.
La primera llotja, aixecada al segle xiii, després de la concessió a la ciutat d'una carta de Drets de Magdeburg, es limitava a dues fileres de botigues de pedra que formaven un carrer al mig de la Plaça del Mercat. El comerç als Sukiennice era una font important d'ingressos per a la ciutat: segons el privilegi reial, els venedors vinguts de l'exterior només podien vendre la seva pròpia mercaderia, i només en aquest lloc.
L'any 1358, el Casimir III fa construir el primer edifici de 100 m de longitud amb dos portals ogivals situats al centre de les façanes principals. Després d'un incendi que va consumir l'edifici l'any 1555, es va cridar als italians que havien vingut amb la reina Bona Sforza (esposa italiana del rei Segimon el Vell). La Llotja de teixits renovada a l'estil Renaixement llavors es va dotar d'un àtic decorat amb una cresta amb gàrgoles, estilitzades amb caps humans, realitzades probablement segons els projectes de Santi Gucci. Giovanni Maria Mosca divideix l'edifici en dos pisos i està connectat per escales cobertes per lògies situats sobre els costats més curts.
Els últims treballs importants són duts a terme al segle xix per Tomasz Prylińeski. L'arquitecte transforma la llotja a la planta baixa, instal·lant-hi al llarg dels murs botigues de fusta. El sostre serà adornat més tard amb l'escut de les ciutats poloneses, els emblemes dels gremis i els segells. Prylińeski afegeix també arcades neogòtiques de pedra per tal de donar l'elegància a l'edifici,[1] així com dels mascarons representant caricatures dels presidents de l'època de la ciutat de Cracòvia, realitzats segons un dibuix de Jan Matejko. La llotja superior és adaptada a les necessitats del museu.
The Kraków Cloth Hall (Polish: Sukiennice, pronounced [sukʲɛˈɲːit͡sɛ]), in Lesser Poland, dates to the Renaissance and is one of the city's most recognizable icons. It is the central feature of the main market square in the Kraków Old Town (the historic center of Kraków), which since 1978 has been listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site).
t was once a major centre of international trade. Travelling merchants met there to discuss business and to barter. During its golden age in the 15th century, the hall was the source of a variety of exotic imports from the east – spices, silk, leather and wax – while Kraków itself exported textiles, lead, and salt from the Wieliczka Salt Mine.
In the immediate vicinity of the hall, the Great Weigh House and the Small Weigh House existed until the 19th century. Other, similar cloth halls have existed in other Polish as well as other European cities such as in Ypres, Belgium; Braunschweig, and in Leeds, EnglandKraków was Poland's capital city and was among the largest cities in Europe already from before the time of the Renaissance. However, its decline started with the move of the capital to Warsaw at the end of the 16th century. The city's decline was hastened by wars and politics leading to the Partitions of Poland at the end of the 18th century. By the time of the architectural restoration proposed for the cloth hall in 1870 under Austrian rule, much of the historic city center was decrepit. A change in political and economic fortunes for the Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria ushered in a revival due to newly established Legislative Assembly or Sejm of the Land. The successful renovation of the Cloth Hall, based on a design by Tomasz Pryliński and supervised by Mayor Mikołaj Zyblikiewicz, Sejm Marshal, was one of the most notable achievements of this period.[1]
The hall has hosted many distinguished guests over the centuries and is still used to entertain monarchs and dignitaries, such as King Charles III, then Prince of Wales, and Emperor Akihito of Japan, who was welcomed here in 2002. In the past, balls were held here, most notably after Prince Józef Poniatowski had briefly liberated the city from the Austrians in 1809. Aside from its history and cultural value, the hall is still used as a center of commerce.
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