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Have a great Sunday-I am going to try to make pumpkin cheesecake!! Hope it comes out as good as it sounds.
The Green Eyed Monster that is The Lockheed-Martin F-22A 'RAPTOR', seen here turning back from whence she came. If Raptor drank beer it would be Carlsberg.
It did glow. Very nicely, it glowed. Until I upped and saw it in firefox. Ho hum. 'Tis too late to adjust now so here it is. Imagine more of a goldeny glow, especially in that background there? Yes? Okay, now you're there. Thankee muchlee.
They came from two directions, long lines in single file. They mingled at this spot, nothing there to attract them. As more arrived others left, no idea if they returned to from whence they came.
I guess they knew what was occuring.
Yet another one from our missions to the southern parts of our great nation, well it wasn't actually the southern parts of Australia, but it's certainly more southern than what we currently do. This place in particular is from Sandy Beach, just North of Coffs Harbour. This picture is particularly significant, as I also did a video while taking this. this video will eventually make an appearance on our Blog, as linked below...
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- Taken on a Canon 40D with Sigma 10-20mm, tripod
- 3 Shot HDR, Combined in PhotomatixPro 3.2 from RAW
Processing
- HDR processing in Photomatix Pro 3.2
- Auto-tone and punch preset in Lightroom
- Vignette
- Sharpening and Noise Reduciton
- Gradient Filter to the Sky
- Gradient Filter to the Ground
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“I really don't know why it is that all of us are so committed to the sea, except I think it's because in addition to the fact that the sea changes, and the light changes, and ships change, it's because we all came from the sea. And it is an interesting biological fact that all of us have in our veins the exact same percentage of salt in our blood that exists in the ocean, and, therefore, we have salt in our blood, in our sweat, in our tears. We are tied to the ocean. And when we go back to the sea - whether it is to sail or to watch it - we are going back from whence we came. ― John F. Kennedy
The family Saxifragaceae consists of about 30 genera and 580 species worldwide. Most members of the Saxifrage family are herbs, and usually have a flower cluster held well above the basal whorl of leaves. Many of its members grow in rocky places, whence the scientific name, which means 'stone-breaker'. Economically speaking, the family is important only for such ornamentals as Saxifraga, Heuchera, and Bergenia.
The Saxifragaceae is primarily north temperate, although it does have representatives in the southern hemisphere. The leaves, which, as mentioned above, are primarily basal, are simple but palmately lobed or cleft.
The flowers are radially symmetric, and have a distinct calyx and corolla of 5 (less
frequently 4) separate petals and petals. There are generally twice as many stamens as petals, but there may be more. Pistils are usually divided into 2 (rarely 4). The ovaries may be fused only at the base, making it look as if there are two simple pistils, or they may be fused almost to the stigmas. The ovary can be either superior or inferior.
The fruit is a capsule with a lot of seeds.
Looking back down from whence we came. Death Valley National Park is on the left side of the road, and the Sylvania Mountains Wilderness Area is on the right. Not sure who owns the road.
I believe those are the Piper Mountains there way in the back.
The Hortus Botanicus has a small terrarium for wee poisonous Frogs, and I like to go to listen to them singing. Walter den Hollander, one of the horticulturalists, also has a love for tiny plants, orchids, gesneriads, what-all.
Here's pretty Primulina tamiana, Vietnamese Violet. It's been known to 'the West' only for a relatively short time. First collected in northern Vietnam, in the Tam Đảo Forest Reserve by the Soviet-Vietnamese Expedition of 1986, it soon flourished in the Botanical Garden at St Petersburg in 1991. A bit later it was growing at the Royal Botanic Garden of Edinburgh, and now it can be found in finer nurseries; from one of those it found its ways into the hands of the horticulturalists of Amsterdam.
PS I'd like to know whence the name 'tamiana'; I think it must be in honor of someone. But who? Anyone know? I think Coastal Tours (see comment below) could very well be right that 'tamiana' is a latinised form of Tam (Tam Đảo). Thanks very much!
Rajasthan, India
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Nature's observatory—whence the dell,
In flowery slopes, its river's crystal swell,
May seem a span; let me thy vigils keep
'Mongst boughs pavilioned, where the deer's swift leap
Startles the wild bee from the foxglove bell.
"O Solitude" by John Keats
(Sometimes I take regular, RL pictures. This is at the pasture, where I keep my horse.)
“We are tied to the ocean. And when we go back to the sea, whether it is to sail or to watch – we are going back from whence we came.” - John F. Kennedy
This is an 8 panel, 50 megapixel panorama of the Milky Way core looking south at Holden Beach, North Carolina.
Sky: 7 frames at 90 second shutter, ISO 800, f/2.5, tracked, Hoya Starscape filter, Tiffen Double Fog 3 filter
Foreground: 1 frame at 1/15 second shutter, ISO 1250, f/2.8, taken during civil twilight
Post Processing: Capture One for RAW development and editing, PTGui for panorama stitching, ON1 Photo RAW for composition
Yikes ... back on the Mono Pass trail we headed up the switchbacks from hell! I guess since this is used by packhorses, they felt the need to make them long and gradual. Here in the PNW we're used to short, rapidly rising switchbacks that get you there faster. This was shot looking back from whence we came after topping out and starting the final traverse up to the pass ... from left to right is Pyramid, Bear Creek Spire, Mt Mills, Mt Dade and Abbott.
The Spring Day felt like Late Winter as I made my way to the famous Amsterdam Zoo, Artis.
Glum and no Sun there, but some Little Lights from Flamingoes and Prunus Blossom.
As the poet wrote:
"Our gaze is submarine, our eyes look upward
And see the light that fractures through unquiet water.
We see the light but see not whence it comes."
The beautiful Klosters is an ideal spot from whence to set off on numerous walks. On the path fog is everywhere and beautiful scenes lead directly into more alpine scenes.
We are tied to the ocean. And when we go back to the sea, whether it is to sail or to watch - we are going back from whence we came............................. John F. Kennedy
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Stockholm, Sweden.
The peach (Prunus persica) is a deciduous tree, native to Northwest China, where it was first domesticated and cultivated.] It bears an edible juicy fruit also called a peach.
The specific epithet persica refers to its widespread cultivation in Persia, whence it was transplanted to Europe.
Wikipedia
As I stumbled about on the wilder, pathless parts of the Meuse Corridor I sprained my foot but was glad to fall head-long into a patch of Earthnut Pea, Lathyrus tuberosus. So recovering I sat down and looked more closely at the pretty flowers of this Sweet Pea.
Lathyrus tuberous also goes by the curious name 'Mice-with-tails' in various European languages (in The Netherlands 'Muizen-met-staarten' devolves in particular to the Betuwe region where there was once some minor cultivation of this plant).
Whence that name if the flowers don't remotely look like mice? Well, the tubers apparently remind of mice because of their small, blackish oblong shape with a 'string' (=mouse's tail) attached. These tubers, though small, are said to be good to eat after roasting or cooking, tasting a bit like Tame Chestnuts.
Mostly though this Sweet Pea is a thing of beauty.
But I found a number of references to the use of the flowers of Earthnut Pea for the production of an aromatic oil in the seventeenth century. A bit hard to trace the origin of that assertion. In the end I did find the work of a Swiss-German chemist, one Christoph Heinrich Hirzel (1828-1908): his Die Toiletten-Chemie, The Chemistry of Toiletries (1892, 4th ed.). He gives a fascinating account and also a kind of recipe book for the manufacture of various toiletry sweeteners and aromatics. One is for 'Platterbsenessenz' or 'Dufterbsenöl' (Erbse=Pea). Hirzel recommends a mixture of: 1/4 litre of 'Tuberosenextract', 1/4 of Orange flower extract, 1/4 of Rose pomade, and 30 grams of Vanilla extract. His description concludes: "Diese Platterbsenessenz riecht sehr angenehm und erinnert an Orangeblüten"; a bit disingenuous I would think given that a quarter of the mixture is indeed that of Orange flower extract.
Regardless my sprained foot, my lack of having been able to savor the cooked tubers, and Hirzel's disingenuity, this is a Very Pretty Sweet Pea in full flower!
A miserable drizzly day here in Amsterdam but there's always something to be seen in the Hortus Botanicus so off I went.
Here in the small patch devoted to Carnivorous Plants - though there was no Sun at all - I saw this very wet Fork-Leaved Sundew. The inset shows you whence the name given it by that intrepid naturalist Jacques Julien Houtou de Labillardière (1755-1834). He was one of the scientists attached to Bruni d'Entrecasteaux's expedition sent to Oceania by France in 1791 to explore and to find the lost and ill-fated La Pérouse Expedition (1785-not yet returned in 2016...). They didn't. But he and his men were avid collectors of naturalia. In northern Tasmania, then still called Van Diemen's Land, Labillardière found this Sundew in early 1793, and he described it in his flora published after his return to France.
The photo shows the nectar glands which secrete those little drops of sweet mucilage. It attracts insects and then traps them in stickiness. Trying to escape, the insect's struggles activate other filaments of those glands, which secrete digestive liquids that dissolve its soft body tissues. The mixture is then sucked in for our plants' nutrition.
Not only was the morning raindrop-wet for me myself but also for, I think, a Hoverfly, but it's come to a Happy End at least for our Sundew! Me? I tore myself away from the garden for a vegetarian lunch...
At Susquehanna State Park, Sarah and I ventured out to a little island-of-sorts by jumping across some rocks, passing this barren location along the way. However after sitting down and resting there for a bit, we discovered that the water level had risen and we had to get a little wet in order to return from whence we came. Whoops!
Poznan, Poland
Beautiful afternoon for a visit to Brama Poznania to celebrate their first year anniversary and had a chance to see some familiar faces and meet some new ones. See you again soon!
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"It is our responsibility to live in our time — not to look back to the receding shore, but to sail ahead in hope, remembering whence we came, cherishing the values we carry with us, searching out the newer and better world which is the next destination and discovery of the American journey,"
~ Senator Edward "Ted" Kennedy
Entropy, a measure of disorder, where all things trend toward disorder.
Left to their own devices all things tend towards chaos and buildings such as this church on the Isle of Skye along with the souls within it's grounds will once more return to the earth from whence they first came.
This sculptural Galidor based mechanical man is inspired by Mitch Henry's "Mike" LEGO creation; Kow Yokoyama's artsy designer toy, "Gans Boy"; and the Motorball combatants from the manga/anime/movie, "Alita: Battle Angel".
I call this "Oskar", a reference to the Maschinen Kreiger sci-fi plastic model kit from whence the head design comes.
"Blue thou art, intensely blue; Flower, whence came thy dazzling hue?" -James Montgomery- Now there's a poem that seems perfectly suited to this bloom (or visa-versa)!
I couldn't pass up this intensely blue small spring flower I spotted while walking through the Atlanta Botanical Gardens. The wonderful blue, offset by the orange stamens and the surrounding greenery stopped me in my tracks. A bit windy, a faster shutter speed was needed to make sure I captured it clearly.
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Domplein (Cathedral Square): Count Jan van Nassau’s bronze statue in front of the University’s Academy Building in Utrecht, the Netherlands.
In 1579 Count Jan van Nassau was the initiator of the Union of Utrecht (signed there), the basis of the Republic of the seven United Netherlands and, therefore, of the current Dutch state.
The Academy Building (Academiegebouw) is Utrecht University’s ceremonial heart and its public face. The Aula is the oldest part of the building and dates back to 1462. Utrecht University was founded in 1636.
Caught up with this super little bird as part of a busy itinerary along the north Norfolk coast yesterday. Unfortunately, by the time I got there, the sun had moved around behind an adjacent block of flats and the site was cast into shadow which left rather poor lighting for the subject. Pleased to get a few shots though.
Virtually the whole time I was there, about an hour, he sat huddled in this bush on the edge of the waste ground behind the Esplanade road, never moving apart from to stretch a little, and briefly flit out onto the area in front, just twice, to grab a mealworm, or several, look around and flit back from whence he had come.
Never seen this species before.
Poor little fellow has apparently been predated since I photographed him, sadly.
"Blue thou art, intensely blue;
Flower, whence came thy dazzling hue?"
James Montgomery
Morning Glory photographed before the storm, but there will be more! The plants clung to the railings and are recovering nicely after the winds of the hurricane. I am happy for that and thankful we were spared from so much that others are suffering right now.
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“Cities have always been the fireplaces of civilization, whence light and heat radiated out into the dark”
- Theodore Parker.
Textures Only ~ Competition #202
Railway Wagon with thanks to Mara ~earth light~ free potential
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Texture by :SkeletalMess
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The sentinel of power lines and prominent posts on trees, whence it sallies out to catch its insect food in mid-air, the tropical kingbird breeds from the southern border of the USA to Argentina. The population is mostly concentrated in South America. The species is a member of the tyrant flycatcher family.
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In what used to be the norm, a discarded Metra Ticket sits on the seatback whence it once resided.... In an age where the apps such at Ventra (the Chicagoland's do-it-all smartphone app) replace old ticket stock like this, it's neat to see in 2025 someone still bought a cash fare.
The ticket even survived back to Albuquerque.
Summer Fishfly, Rondeau Provincial Park, Ontario, Canada, Aug,23, 2019.
Set up a light to attract moths last night.
This is one of the larger visitors.
It has a body length of 40mm (1 1/2 inches) and a wing span of 85mm( 3.2 inches)
Chauliodes pectinicornis
A well-known species in North America. Fishflies lay their eggs upon vegetation overhanging streams, whence the larvae, as soon as hatched, drop into the water, and go about preying upon aquatic animals.
"Blue thou art, intensely blue; Flower, whence came thy dazzling hue?"
— James Montgomery
Admiring the fractal magic of self-similarity in nature and the universe.
"... in front of the Vosges blue line
whence rises to my faithful heart
the touching lament of those defeated." [Jules Ferry, 1893]
Lightlings only live about half an hour on Earth. We know not from whence they came nor whence they will go. I do know they haven't any money with which to buy songbooks. Even if someone liked their songs and tossed money at them, they have no pockets for money.
I really like the name they chose for their Trio, and now that is something they can take with them. You don't need pockets nor suitcases for the songs in your heart.
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For ABCs and 123s (group) number 3, the Lightlings sing as the Primary Color Trio
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...there lies a land I once lived in and she's waiting there for me.
Moody Blues: www.youtube.com/watch?v=IBsdHoTdOmc
At the easternmost point of the continent there stands a lighthouse atop a high cliff.
Just below the lighthouse there stands a man looking back from whence he came.