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In 1964 the young Paul Simon wrote The Sound of Silence, a song that more than half a century later is still sadly valid. He couldn’t imagine that in 2020s we would still talk about his dialogue with the most intimate part of himself, opened by one of the most beautiful opening words ever written.
There have been multiple theories about the meaning of this song. For example, some believe it is related to the death of JFK or the Vietnam War. But many think it is something simpler. And the author himself has verified that it has to do with something as simple as lack of communication.
This is a message that resonates, even more, today than it did 59 years ago, which is perhaps what led Disturbed to create a hauntingly beautiful cover of the song. It was most famously played live on "Conan" on March 28, 2016, and the video of it on YouTube has garnered a mere 75 million views since.
Explored July 4, 2023
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Plume grass is an extremely rare type of grass that can only be found in the deep sea in light-flooded caves (illuminated by the just as rare but permanently glowing deep sea rainbow) or above the clouds. I couldn't verify the origin of this specific bunch of plume grass, because it had materialized itself on my photo (aka living room) table out of nowhere. OK, joking aside, "nowhere" is a small paper bag that I keep in my original MM box (numerous boxes have followed since) in which I've carefully stored this feather ever since I found it on the ground in front of an outdoor owl cage/compound at the Tierpark Berlin back in 2017. The owl inhabiting said cage had eyed me suspiciously all the time plus its plumage colour and pattern were very similar to that of this feather, so it was pretty sure that owl's feather.
The feather, or rather the part of it I'd found (it looks as if it had broken off because the quill is missing), is very fluffy and delicate, and it has a white/light brown zigzag-like pattern. The entire length of the feather is 6,5 cm/2,5 inches, and the (upper) part of the feather that you can see in my image has a length of 2 cm/0,78 inches and a width of 4 cm/1,5 inches..
Since a feather is all about airiness, freedom, and a creature soaring the sky up above I thought I'd use a bright blue backdrop for a change. I still didn't know how to add a little more vivacity to the feather itself, since while beautiful it isn't exactly colourful with its muted tones that suit a predator well as camouflage. My makeshift colour filters didn't work too well for the scene I had in mind because they coloured the backdrop as well. But the sunshine came to my rescue. I keep all sorts of stuff on the window sill, like a sundial, and also rocks and crystals, and among these "dust collectors" also is a huge, diamond-shaped glass crystal. Its facets conjure lovely rainbow-coloured light reflections onto the wall and the window sill when hit by the sunlight at the right angle. And when I noticed the sparkle, I thought "That's it, hooray!" :) Not that it is easy to direct the rainbow sparkles to a specific subject, it was a lot of hit-and-miss, but in the end, I once again had a few images to choose from. I also took a few images of a plain white feather that actually reflects the rainbow light much better, but since I had to make a choice, this image made it mainly because of the white bokeh balls in the upper right corner (probably light reflections from the glass crystal as well) because they reminded me of sunlight shining through a very clear water surface (or of a small fleecy cloud), illuminating a beautiful "underwater scape".
HMM, Everyone, and have a nice week ahead!
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The scenic, Steveston Heritage Fishing Village is a charming & ever so romantic fishing village that is situated in Richmond BC on the Mighty Fraser River
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Featured:
KU'ULAKAI Tugboat c. 1944
This Grand Ole Lady's current home is moored in Steveston Harbour, where she is slowly being lovingly restored.
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(Ku'ulakai meaning: Hawaiian Fishing God of Fisherman)
Her history: as per online sources: (Unverified)
Built:1944
Length: 111.9
Gross Tonnage: 301
Used as a Tugboat all along the West Coast of BC
Ku'ulakai is said to be the only intact Miki tug in Canadian waters.
Builder: Northeast Shipbuilding, Quincy Massachusetts, USA
According to onlines sources, this tug was built as a wooden Miki US Army Tug - LT465, and used by the U.S. navy during the Second World War to tow damaged ships from the Pacific back for repair.
Online information also reports that later on in life, she was used by drug runners in the South Pacific and that in 1988 was seized by the Canadian Coast Guard for smuggling drugs out of China.
She was originally named: Lloyd B. Gore, decommissioned & sold 1946.
Please note* All information has been taken from online sources and has not been verified to be accurate.
Definitely one of British Columbia's best kept secrets.
I 💖 Steveston
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04-May-2022: about turism: my perplexities towards a future with more and more bans and more and more over-taxes.
Lake Bohinj and the much more famous Lake Bled are close (less than 20 km) but the second has a mass tourism now rooted, while the first is expanding its tourist reception in recent years, coming out (unfortunately) from the shadow of Bled, that was a lightning rod for peaceful and symbiotic nature lovers.
I am totally against mass tourism because it transforms a relaxing resort into an area where it is difficult even to access it.
Around Lake Bled, even at a certain distance, there are only paid parking lots, which come to cost 6 euros per hour (about the most decentralized and in May...) that, certainly, leave perplexed about the "tourist selection" that "they" would like to implement (high-end tourism) and, in general, certainly drive away the tourist in search of nature and not restaurants, bars, concrete lake-front and crowd baths.
The naturalist tourist should not feel like a tourist in Nature, which is a single great asset of humanity and that only administratively is divided between various Countries, while in Bled, as in Rimini or Cortina d'Ampezzo, they make you feel not only tourist, but also guest, sometimes unwanted if you spend little.
As tourism increases, so do the bans, because unfortunately mass tourism includes many people who don't know anything about Nature and generally only go to very touristy places to make themselves of...people, sowing dirt and ignorance wherever they move.
The imposition of prohibitions/bans to limit the "damage from mass tourism" affects everyone indiscriminately, including locals and naturalists who have always had a symbiotic relationship with these places, thus making them become inhospitable, at least to those seeking pure contact with nature itself.
Of course this happens all over the world, but it should be condemned.
We already pay State taxes for the maintenance of the slice of Nature that falls within our administration, tourist surcharges, exploiting market laws that should be verified and contained, are for the most part unconstitutional, as well as several prohibitions that deprive access and use of public property.
With the money that the tourist municipalities pocket they could very well implement a targeted prevention (controls by foresters, cameras, ad hoc fences for areas subject to micro-pollution...) rather than closing everything and then de-empowering themself on the maintenance of roads and areas (more and more numerous), thus going to save further, starting from the basic taxes that we pay to also have access to given areas.
I can understand that you tax parking at high altitude to maintain the roads, but the amount of the payment should be directly proportional to the expenses that must be incurred to ensure accessibility, not by putting prices at random and with increases of 200% from one year to the next.
I have always appreciated the fact that Slovenia, thanks also that it is not densely inhabited and has a modest tourism (except precisely Bled, Postojna Caves and the Coast), guarantees a wide accessibility and use of its territories and I hope it can continue, limiting the prohibitions and parking lots everywhere.
The Doolough Tragedy is an event that took place during the Great Irish Famine close to Doo Lough in southwest County Mayo.
On Friday 30 March 1849, two officials of the Westport Poor Law Union arrived in Louisburgh to inspect those people in receipt of outdoor relief to verify that they should continue to receive it. The inspection, for some reason, did not take place and the two officials went on to Delphi Lodge – a hunting lodge – 19 kilometres (12 miles) south of Louisburgh where they intended to spend the night. Several hundred people who had gathered for the inspection, or later did so, were consequently instructed to appear at Delphi Lodge at 7am the following morning if they wished to continue receiving relief.
For much of the night and day that followed seemingly hundreds of destitute and starving people had to undertake what for them, given their existing state of debilitation, was an extremely fatiguing journey, in very bad weather.
A letter-writer to The Mayo Constitution newspaper reported shortly afterwards that the bodies of seven people, including women and children, were subsequently discovered on the roadside between Delphi and Louisburgh overlooking the shores of Doolough lake and that nine more never reached their homes. While some sources put the total number of deaths at approximately 20 people, local sources suggest that the number who perished was far higher.
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Computer scientist Margaret Hamilton helped get the Apollo 11 astronauts to the Moon. She led the Software Engineering Division of the MIT Instrumentation Laboratory, the team responsible for developing the guidance and navigation system for the Apollo spacecraft and writing the code that brought astronauts into space and safely back home again.
Hamilton’s leadership and work formed the bedrock of software engineering as a whole. In this now-iconic photo, Hamilton stands next to listings of the Apollo Guidance Computer source code.
'BIBBEST' for my knitted hats, 'BIBBETJE' I sew on children's hats and baby stuff.
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'BIBBEST' voor op mijn gebreide mutsen, "BIBBETJE' naai ik op kindermutjes en babyspulletjes.
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Picture for SIZE VERIFICATION in the first commentbox.
Orchids are plants that belong to the family Orchidaceae, a diverse and widespread group of flowering plants with blooms that are often colourful and fragrant. Along with the Asteraceae, they are one of the two largest families of flowering plants. The Orchidaceae have about 28,000 currently accepted species, distributed in about 763 genera. The determination of which family is larger is still under debate, because verified data on the members of such enormous families are continually in flux. Regardless, the number of orchid species is nearly equal to the number of bony fishes, more than twice the number of bird species, and about four times the number of mammal species.
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HMM- the theme for the Macro Mondays group for today, 12/7, is 🎉celebration🎉. This ornament celebrates Christmas 🎄 and the coming of the end of a year of covid-19. Using hand sanitizer, hoarding TP, and wearing masks- all symbols of 2020 that we’ll be glad to leave behind.
May the coming year bring us a successful vaccine that we’re wishing for and the ability to be with our families and friends without angst or worry.
.....By the way I cropped the right side a tad so it would definitely be under 3 inches. There is a size verification shot in the photostream, which I’ll also put in the first comment box when I can get back to my laptop.
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Back side of old store, Omaha Arkansas,
I believe that this is the original general store
and Post Office building, built about 1873.
This would make it one of the oldest structures
on the area. Upon verification, would be eligible
for the National Register of Historic Places.
Lying that is, being partisan or, to put it mildly, being economical with the truth. This is why we can't trust an image unless it has been "verified" as our news bulletins often call it. Sometimes, one and the same image can be used for two mutually exclusive "narratives". We are observing this in relation to the imagery of the war in Ukraine. Corpses of civilians in Mariupol, we are being told, are the result of Russian war crimes, or, alternatively, of the action of the snipers of the (Ukrainian) Azov Battalion with its neo-Nazi background. These things need to be "verified". Seeing and believing are two different things.
day 43/365 for a doll a day
Cassis sporting an eclectic collection of elements... I warned
her she might be a candidate for "what not to wear"... but she
believes in her personal style. She wanted to present her pull-ring,
proof that she and her personal assistant, Gnome, are verified
members of the valentine alert squad.
Working all afternoon today and early tomorrow; and feeling a little
under the weather... so keeping up with adad the best I can!
Cierta vez, un hombre pidió un DESEO: Una flor... y una mariposa.
Pero el deseo que le concedieron fue un cactus...y una oruga.
El hombre quedó triste, pues no entendió por qué su pedido llegó equivocado. No comprendía el error, y se quedó muy apenado.
Pasado algún tiempo, el hombre fue a verificar el pedido que dejó olvidado.
Para su sorpresa, del espinoso y feo cactus había nacido la más bella de las flores y la horrible oruga se transformó en una bellísima mariposa.
No siempre lo que deseas... es lo que necesitas.
Cuando te llegue algo, y no es lo que esperabas, sigue adelante sin dudar ni murmurar.
La ESPINA de hoy... Será la FLOR de mañana.
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Once, a man made a WISH: A flower... and a butterfly.
But the wish that was granted was a cactus...and a caterpillar.
The man was sad, because he did not understand why his order arrived wrong. He did not understand the error, and was very sorry.
After some time, the man went to verify the order that he had forgotten.
To his surprise, the most beautiful of flowers had grown from the thorny and ugly cactus and the horrible caterpillar transformed into a beautiful butterfly.
Not always what you want... is what you need.
When something comes your way, and it's not what you expected, move on without hesitation or murmuring.
Today's thorn... Will be tomorrow's flower.
I was taking pictures of a mallard on the lake.I had to look down at my screen to check my shots when I saw this guy down by my feet staring at me.
Je prenais des photos d'un canard colvert sur le lac. J'ai dû regarder mon écran pour vérifier mes photos quand j'ai vu ce type à mes pieds en train de me regarder.
Apologies if you have seen and commented on the earlier version…..
I keep cropping this because I really want to use this for my posting to the Macro Monday group pool for 12/4 for the theme of tableware. And after all you do expect a blue one- right?
Will do a size verification in a bit bc my original one measures from the base of the mug.
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Recently returned from a wonderful, impactful trip to Israel. As we approach Good Friday and Resurrection Sunday (Easter), thought the timing would be good to share this shot. In the foreground is the Church of All Nations on the Mount of Olives by the Garden of Gethsemane. It was built in 1920 on top of two previous churches (Byzantine and Crusader). It is said to enshrine a section of bedrock where Jesus prayed before his arrest. (Mark 14:32–42). In 2020 they discovered Greek inscriptions written on the floor of the 1,500 year old Byzantine church, "for the memory and repose of those who love Christ… accept the offering of your servants and give them remission of sins”. This is the oldest archaeological evidence to verify this site as the Garden of Gethsemane. The Church of Mary Magdalene (up the hill on the right), with seven gilded turrets, is an East Orthodox Church and was built in 1888 by the Czar of Russia.
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A former small shop with a much faded store sign at the front and, at the side, a fading sign for Cottee's Passiona, a popular passion fruit flavoured soft drink now marketed by Schweppes (another Australian local brand fallen into the hands of a multinational!). I took this on. a very early morning walk. PS I read somewhere that Passiona had actually been discontinued but can't seem to verify this.
MM junk drawer
We actually have two junk drawers - one for tools and nails sorts of stuff and another for kitchen/office sorts of things like cards, candles and corks. This item could reside in either drawer! But more likely it’s hanging out on the counter or headed into the wastepaper basket because they are a pet peeve - yes, even if it’s blue!!
Size verification will be in the first comment box in a bit. The blue plastic item is about 2.6cms
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Cool!! 😎 Your junque drawer contains useful and semi-interesting things! Thanks for sharing! ….. 💙 HMM 💙
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Me:"Conductor, do I have time to run up for a photo?" Conductor: "You have 2 1/2 mins. Be sure to get right back on". Monon No.5 Thoroughbred with RPO at last light at, I think Hammond IN. stop. Someone can verify. Last few days of this train. 9/67.
GMC 910 Truck 1969 Owner Verification (Vintage manual focus lens) - Chatted for a while to the owner of this 1969 GMC 910 Truck (he verified the year) who was unloading it outside the skate hire shop at Olympic Plaza today. He’d owned the truck for a number of years and was thinking about having it repainted in the spring. Didn’t look in bad shape given it’s age!
Exceptions verify the rule, but every moment is forever. And the moment it's over, it's been over half an hour ago. After an hour it's a day ago, after a day, a week, and so on. And when it's over it took only an hour or two, when it reality it was a whole day at work. Selling a ticket to the last car on the ferry, taking a look around if I forgot anyone, and I spot the red convertible all the way at the front. Oh right, that one, now that I see it. That's still there. Completely forgot I ever met that at all. Might as well have been ten crossings ago that I sold him his ticket.
Today I went to one of my ship spotting places. Yesterday... did I even go anywhere yesterday? Ah right, Hattingen. Or was that the day before yesterday? Did yesterday even happen? If so, where was I? Spending another day not worth remembering, I guess.
The southern lapwing (Vanellus chilensis), commonly called quero-quero in Brazil, is a wader in the order Charadriiformes. It is a common and widespread resident throughout South America, except in densely forested regions (e.g. most of the Amazon), the higher parts of the Andes, and the arid coast of a large part of western South America. This bird is particularly common in the basin of the Río de la Plata. It has also been spreading through Central America in recent years. It reached Trinidad in 1961, Tobago in 1974, and has rapidly increased on both islands, sporadically making its way North to Barbados where one pair mated, nested, and produced chicks in 2007. There have been sightings reported in North America with a verified sighting of a bird in Texas posted on Birda on the 17th April 2024. [from Wiki]
‘Trust, but verify)’ is a Russian proverb, which is rhyming in Russian. The phrase became internationally known in English after a scholar of Russian history taught it to Ronald Reagan, then president of the US. Reagan used it on several occasions in the context of nuclear disarmament discussions with the Soviet Union.