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The blues of the world's oceans may vary in intensity. One thing they do have in common is their beauty, which may be magnified by the reflection of the sun and the movement of waves.
When we were in the small village of Carthage, Missouri last week, we could not help but notice the lively conversation between these city fathers in front of the coffee shop, on the courthouse square. . .
Built in 1977. Raymond Saunders' first steam clock was built in 1977 to solve the issue of a steam vent in a popular sidewalk for the renovated Gastown district of Vancouver. Owned by the City of Vancouver, BC Canada
The steam clock's plaque reads:
THE GASTOWN STEAM CLOCK
Designed and built by
Raymond L. Saunders
Horologist
The world's first steam powered clock has been created for the enjoyment of everyone. The live steam winds the weights and blows the whistles. Every 4.5 minutes one steel weight will travel by steam power to the top of the clock. The gravity driven "falling ball" drive was 'engineered' by Douglas L. Smith. Each quarter hour the clock will sound the Westminster Chimes. The large whistle will sound once on the hour. The steam is supplied by the underground system of Central Heat Distributor's Limited. The component parts cost $42,000 and the clock weighs over two tons.
For photographers, a visit to New Zealand would not be complete without a "pilgrimage" to see That Wanaka Tree on Lake Wanaka. Taken during the mid-day sun, this wasn't really a great and sharp pic of it but I was happy to have finally seen the tree. I had planned to return to the spot for sunset that day. However, the sky didn't look too promising, so I drove to Glendhu Bay instead to see more of Lake Wanaka before returning to Queenstown that evening.
The world's tallest and smelliest flower Titan Arum (Amorphophallus titanum) aka corpse flower. It can stand over 2 m (6.5 feet) high. Photographed in the village of Tebat Monok, Kepahiang - Indonesia.
Read more about this amazing plant at my blog virtualadrian.blogspot.com/2013/03/kibut-worlds-tallest-f...
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All The World's Alive Again
The rabbit hops its gentle step
The lark sings lyric songs
All the world's alive again
Spring rights the winter wrongs.
Mother hen protects her chicks
White blossoms are in bloom
All the world's alive again
No snowy clouds to loom.
A kitten chirps her tiny mew
The child blinks his eyes
All the world's alive again
A new world crystalized.
~Jennifer Gunner
Hi dear friends,
Springtime once again, after a long hard challenging winter, and I’m sure I’m not the only one glad to welcome it. The weather however here in the midlands UK is very slow to catch up, and is freezing!! So I will wait patiently :)
Thank you for your visits.. you can be certain they are appreciated, and no matter how long it takes me, I intend to reciprocate!
Anne xo
Captured at the Eastern States Exposition, also known as
"The Big E", which is America's Premier Exposition and world's only multi-state fair, representing all six New England States.
The first Eastern States Exposition occurred over 100 years ago in October 1916, and is now held every autumn in West Springfield, Massachusetts. Each year, the fair opens on the second Friday after Labor Day and runs for seventeen days . . Stop in, you won't be disappointed! : )
West Springfield Population: 28,527
. . . www.thebige.com/
Singapore Botanic Gardens are an oasis of natural beauty and tranquility in a highly urbanized city. The Gardens were established in 1859, and retain the same layout and historical buildings until today.
The Gardens are a UNESCO World Heritage Site, and are a global center for plant research, development, and conservation. This was a key institution involved with the introduction of rubber trees in South East Asia, which became a major cash crop for the region.
The greening of Singapore is a direct result of the Gardens' efforts, which devoted their expertise and resources to transform Singapore into the Garden City that it has now become.
The National Orchid Garden has the world's largest display of orchids, and is part of Singapore Botanical Gardens' orchid breeding program, with a repository of one thousand species and two thousand hybrids.
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It’s estimated that 20 per cent of the oxygen we breathe comes from rainforests in the Amazon basin.
After a marginal decline in the rate of destruction of the forest between 2004 and 2012, Brazil witnessed a 92 percent rise in deforestation since Jair Bolsonaro became the President of Brazil in January 2019, the Time Magazine reported.
Thank you for your kind visit. Have a wonderful and beautiful day! ❤️❤️❤️
The Very Long Baseline Array is a network of ten observing stations located across the United States. Each station consists of a 25-meter radio antenna dish and a control building. Radio signals captured by each antenna are amplified, digitized and recorded. The recorded data are then sent to Socorro, NM to be processed by a powerful computer known as a correlator. By combining their data, the stations form one of the world’s most powerful radio cameras.
This Radio Telescope part of the Very Long Baseline Array (VLBA) public.nrao.edu/
Qatar Airways Company operating as Qatar Airways, is the state-owned flag carrier of Qatar. Headquartered in the Qatar Airways Tower in Doha, the airline operates a hub-and-spoke network, linking over 150 international destinations across Africa, Asia, Europe, the Americas, and Oceania from its base at Hamad International Airport, using a fleet of more than 200 aircraft. Qatar Airways Group employs more than 43,000 people. The carrier has been a member of the Oneworld alliance since October 2013, the first Gulf carrier to sign with one of the three airline alliances.
The 777-300ER (ER for Extended Range) is the B-market version of the -300. Its higher MTOW and increased fuel capacity permits a maximum range of 7,370 nautical miles (13,650 km) with 396 passengers in a two-class seating arrangement. The 777-300ER features raked and extended wingtips, a strengthened fuselage and wings and a modified main landing gear. Its wings have an aspect ratio of 9.0. It is powered by the GE90-115B turbofan, the world's most powerful jet engine with a maximum thrust of 115,300 lbf (513 kN). 54491
It is hard to fail at getting great images at one of the world's natural wonders, Crater Lake in Oregon. More can be learned here: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crater_Lake
One of my attempts at the "Smile on Saturday" theme "La vie en rose".
Also a little testshot for the Macro Mondays theme "My Closest" where the goal is to get as close as possible... This isn't that of course (the little pearl has a length of around 10 mm, so this is probably a 3.5:1 magnification) but way over the limit for this lens. It might not look very impressive, but I find it quite remarkable what it is able to do because I'd consider this way out of its optimum range. I have to admit I don‘t know these things too well… so if I‘m wrong on that, please correct me!
Shot with a Schneider Kreuznach "M-Claron 60 mm F 5.6" lens on a Canon EOS R5.
Buy this photo on Getty Images : soon!
The Atomium is a building in Brussels originally constructed for Expo 58, the 1958 Brussels World's Fair. It stands 102 m (335 ft) tall. Its nine 18 m (59 ft) diameter stainless steel clad spheres are connected so that the whole forms the shape of a unit cell of an iron crystal magnified 165 billion times.
Submitted: 03/11/2024
World's first steam powered clock
The insides of this clock is where the magic begins....
Raymond Saunders' first steam clock was built in 1977 to solve the issue of a steam vent in a popular sidewalk for the renovated Gastown district of Vancouver. Owned by the City of Vancouver, BC Canada
In memory of Raymond Saunders who sadly passed away - November 24, 2024
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/gastown-steam-clo...
The steam clock's plaque reads:
THE GASTOWN STEAM CLOCK
Designed and built by
Raymond L. Saunders
Horologist
The world's first steam powered clock has been created for the enjoyment of everyone. The live steam winds the weights and blows the whistles. Every 4.5 minutes one steel weight will travel by steam power to the top of the clock. The gravity driven "falling ball" drive was 'engineered' by Douglas L. Smith. Each quarter hour the clock will sound the Westminster Chimes. The large whistle will sound once on the hour. The steam is supplied by the underground system of Central Heat Distributor's Limited. The component parts cost $42,000 and the clock weighs over two tons.
A few years ago the clock was refit and is not entirely steam powered. It also has three small electric motors to help operate two internal fans, one of which blows the steam out the top, and another that controls the valves that play the tunes on the five steam whistles mounted atop the clock case.
The large central whistle, which was taken off the CPR steam tug Naramata, counts off the full hours while the four auxiliary whistles chime the Westminster Quarters every quarter hour. The number of chimes matches the number of quarter hours that have passed.
Gastown is the original settlement that became the core of the creation of Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. Currently, it is a national historic site and a neighbourhood in the northwest end of Downtown Eastside, adjacent to Downtown Vancouver.
Wikipedia and various other online sites.
*Please note : Information has not been verified accurate
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Thanks so much for comments and visits
~Christie
Okavango Delta
Moremi Game Reserve
Botswana, Southern Africa
Baboons are some of the world’s largest monkeys. The baboon, like other Old World monkeys, does not have a prehensile (gripping) tail, but it is still able to climb when necessary.
All baboons have dog–like noses, powerful jaws, sharp canine teeth, and thick fur. The male baboon also has a ruff—a longer mane around its neck.
The Chacma Baboon (Papio ursinus), also known as the Cape baboon, is, like all other baboons, from the Old World monkey family.
The Chacma Baboon is perhaps the longest species of monkey, with a male body length of 20–45 in (50–115 cm) and tail length of 18–33 in (45–84 cm). It also one of the heaviest; the male weighs from 46–99 lb (21–45 kg) with an average of 70 lb (31.8 kg). The smaller female Chacma weighs from 26–55 lb (12–25 kg), with an average of 34 lb (15.4 kg).
The chacma baboon is omnivorous with a preference for fruits, while also eating insects, seeds, grass, smaller vertebrate animals, and fungi (the desert truffle Kalaharituber pfeilii). Located primarily in southern Africa, the chacma baboon has a wide variety of social behaviors, including a dominance hierarchy, collective foraging, adoption of young by females, and friendship pairings.
Collision Six band at the 2019 Birmingham Cruise (25th Anniversary), August 17, 2019, part of the 2019 Woodward Dream Cruise (25th Anniversary), which is the world’s largest one day car event drawing about 1.5 million people and over 40,000 classic cars.
Here’s my story about Casey, Illinois:
Whilst zooming along Interstate 70 @ about 80 MPH, pushing hard to get to Terre Haute where my room awaited me, I passed the turnoff for the town of Casey. That in and of itself would not be of note, however out of the corner of my eye, I spy (go ahead, say it three times fast) a billboard that had a number of squares on it, each saying something about the world’s largest something or other. The only one I actually absorbed among the claims, was “world’s largest wind chime.” I started to dwell on the wonder of such a thing, but being interstate one can’t just flip a U turn. Knowing that this was most likely going to be some cheesy attempt to draw people in off the Interstate, I still felt the need to see this wind chime of alleged humongous proportions. So, some four or five miles later I was able to make an exit, and then reverse course. Much to my surprise, the town was extraordinarily neat, clean and full of wonder. Besides showing a whimsical imagination, they exercised their fun concepts with extreme craftsmanship and real pride. The streets were neat and clean, with great landscaping. I did not photograph the entire collection, but did many of them, as well as a beautiful old house and a rusty crusty sign, and the previously posted Casey Bank wall sign.
This juvenile was enjoying the remains of a dead fish on Bronte Beach in Oakville, Ontario. This species is the world's largest gull. Here, on Lake Ontario, they are primarily a winter bird; they migrate up the St. Lawrence River from the east coast.
Ruby Falls-Chattanooga, Tennessee. My favorite underground waterfall is the world's tallest and deepest fall, located inside Lookout Mountain. It's a perfect place to capture the natural beauty of the fall. You reach it by taking an elevator 260 feet down into Lookout Mountain and spending an hour walking along the cave path, with all the magnificent formations and natural splendor to see. Near the end of the cave is the roaring water of the great Ruby Falls, which is 145 feet high, and about 1120 feet underground.
Author of the world’s longest tag that wound its way all over Manhattan unbeknownst to New Yorkers, MOMO grapher creates new urban maps based on infinitesimal interventions or monumental frescoes. Here in Mons, he has created a fresco in zebra-coloured flat hues.
Location: Rue Cantimpret, Mons, Belgium