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There were days when I thought I had full confidence in an affirmation. When the immensity of the universe surprises me among the mists, sitting alone, as a simple guest to be a spectator, ... a thought occurs: "I only hope to have the ability to discern who will be the person who will accompany my future and luck to share my desires. Goals that will not be approached by my perseverance in the wait, in any case I distrust in she.

 

Hubo días en los que creí que tenía plena confianza en una afirmación. Cuando la inmensidad del universo me sorprende entre las brumas, sentado solitario, como un simple invitado para ser un espectador, ... se produce un pensamiento: "Solo espero tener la capacidad de discernir quién será la persona que acompañará mi futuro y la suerte de compartir mis deseos. Metas que no se acercarán por mi perseverancia en la espera, en cualquier caso desconfío en ella.

Soak up the sun

Affirm life’s magic

Be graceful in the wind

Stand tall after a storm

Feel refreshed after it rains

Grow strong without notice

Be prepared for each season

Provide shelter to strangers

Hang tough through a cold spell

Emerge renewed at the first signs of spring

Stay deeply rooted while reaching for the sky

Be still long enough to

hear your own leaves rustling.

["Think Like a Tree" by Karen Shrag]

 

a walk into a thin place for Andrew

my textures & photoshop

Ici , nous pouvons voir clairement une Martre entrain de manger de la durite de radiateur de nos précieuses automobiles et de la gaine de câble électrique !

 

En fait ces ingrédients de la civilisation humaine se trouvent dans le ventre du rat... Mais il n'empêche....

 

Quand à cette polémique d'hier , ce que j'ai surtout constaté , c'est que tout le monde a vu l'homme qui a vu l'homme qui a vu l'homme qui a peut-être vu l'ombre de l'ours (et qui n'a pas eu peur...)...et que tout le monde raconte avoir vu l'ours !

Lorsque c'était des chasseurs qui affirmaient de telle bêtises , je leur donnais des circonstances atténuantes... Ce ne sont que des chasseurs après tout et il faut bien qu'ils se donnent prétexte à massacre... Mais lorsque ce sont des amis de la nature qui colportent de telles rumeurs , les bras m'en tombent...

 

Le net , pourtant mine de renseignement , ne permet pas de trouver un seul travail sérieux et scientifique à ce sujet , tout ce que l'on trouve , ce sont des articles de journaux locaux , souvent répétitifs et identiques , dont certains traitent Martres et Fouines de rongeurs...

Les rumeurs... Ca vous met à terre le plus intègre des hommes... alors une bestiole...

 

C'est exactement du même niveau que les accusations infondées contre le Renard .

Un million de Renards sont tués par an pas les chasseurs , un Renard mangeant 6000 rongeurs par an , les chasseurs font donc cadeau à l'agriculture de six milliards de rongeurs par an... Rajoutons en autant probablement pour tous les mustélidés massacrés sans autres raison que des rumeurs...

 

Un calcul simple :

Si on arrive à tuer un millions de Renards par an , c'est qu'il y en a au bas mot quatre fois plus !

Donc les Renards tueraient 24 milliards de rongeurs par an... Mais a cause de quelques dizaine de milliers de poules négligées (un Renard ne cherche pas de poules dans un poulailler correctement clos...) , il est traité de nuisible (pour le plus grand profit de Bayer et autres fabricants d'anticoagulants...) !

I believe in karma what you give is what you get returned

I believe you cant appreciate real love until youve been burned

I believe the grass is no more greener on the other side

I believe you dont know what youve got until you say goodbye

~Savage Garden

Affirmer sa solitude revient à aborder sa peur, surtout la peur de mourir, et à mesurer sa propre puissance.

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Notre liberté ne consiste ni en une quelconque contingence, ni en une quelconque indifférence, mais en un mode d’affirmer ou de nier. De sorte que moins nous sommes indifférents à affirmer ou à nier une chose, plus nous sommes libres.

Spinoza

I drive by here just about every Saturday, thought I would snap a pic and send out some good vibes.

A troubled mind

Trenches of dirt too deep

With its vines intertwined

It planted the seed

 

Wailful words it was condemned to believe

Were the catalyst that set it free

A deluded mind speaks the truth in lies

Fabricating your fables with its self deceit

 

Scrutiny will not bury the seed

Validation from tenacious eyes is not what it seeks

A seed is what it chooses to be

But you, the product of its never ending story

 

Is this all you amount to be?

A jester within the twisted web you weave

Vengeance lies in what will become obsolete

As the truth is something you will never reach

 

A seed finds comfort behind the distorted belief

That everything is exactly as it seems

You, the blind pilot behind the windshield of dreams

The key lies in the bullet that remains with me

 

A troubled mind has learned to breathe

Through false affirmation that you buried it to sea

When signals set your ship to sail

Pray that the person awaiting you is not me

Sur la rive de l'île Chevrière, le printemps s'affirme en ce début avril.

Crimson Rosellas affirm their commitment. Stanthorpe Queensland.

So affirmed Nagasena.

From "World Of The Buddha" edited by Lucien Stryk.

Sunflower leaf still life, in a vase by a window. No processing other than sharpness, contrast, color boost and D-light adjustment.

 

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Genesis 2:17 King James Version (KJV)

17 But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it: for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die.

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AFFIRMATION

 

May an Angel’s love surround you

Each and every day

 

May an Angel’s breath keep you warm

And tempt you to stay

 

May an Angel’s wings protect you always

When your life becomes difficult and hard

 

When the light seems increasingly dark

And you need help to find your way

 

May an Angel’s love surround you

Each and every day

 

*****

 

Blessings to you all,

Shelley.

 

Thank you to each and every one of you who has supported and shared your lives and thoughts with me this year.

I cannot thank you enough, as you have kept a light burning for me as well in difficult times.

Even semi-human Angels need love to know they are needed...

I write often of spiritual love, but some days we need to feel real tangible love.

I seek ways out of the darkness, and I hope you will continue to fly with me into the New Year.

 

Forgive my lateness in replying to comments and faves from my last batch of work, I will get to you...life is demanding and even Angels have to sleep....sometimes..haha!

Angels drive cars and have to get them fixed and sort out dodgy freezers right before Xmas. Angels have family and they sometimes need your surety.

 

But Angels also have friends on Flickr who have supported them and commented, faved and viewed with astounding generosity.

 

Thank you, thank you, with all my heart.

 

*****

 

This image is a detail from a stained glass window in St. Mary's, Eastbourne, East Sussex, UK.

 

Angels like it here a lot.

 

If you would like to see more of my work have a look at my website at:

 

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affirmation:

i have no body

i have no mind

i have no spirit

i am just the breath of God

the breath of life

breath of life

breath of God

 

in spanish

afirmación:

no tengo cuerpo, no tengo mente, no tengo espíritu

soy solo el aliento de Dios, aliento de vida

aliento de Dios, aliento de vida

 

my favorite affirmation given by my yoga teacher; yogi bhajan

 

Check out all the details on my blog @ : Nothing to Wear SL

I will be your Father,and you will be my sons and daughters, say the Lord Almighty..

2 Corinthians 6:18

AN AFFIRMATION OF SELFLESS LOYALTY

 

My fearless heart

Of diamond clarity

Where expression and thought

Are proof of your bravery, justice and swiftness

That cut through ignorance and malcontent

To reveal the pristine awareness of being

Where the freedom of the mind

Is like the sweet chorus of the birds

 

*****

 

Sometimes the reinforcement of gracious qualities and love can be a good thing.

So I decided to start an Album on Flickr doing just that.

I like to take shots of the things I have collected over the years that are sharing their presence with me in my home.

 

Some of my Grail shots have this quality, but often the poem ends up being longer than an affirmation, to me they end up more like a prayer. You can see the Album that contains those works in my Flickr account as well.

 

But in a sense this is the same principle, as the things I have collected over the years often have a sacred presence or meaning, so I thought I would start to share them here.

 

On rainy days or when I am not in a writing mood, it is good to still keep working, using the camera in this way, and it is not only enjoyable, it is an opportunity to appreciate these wonderful sacred items and sculptures all over again, and listen to what they have to say.

 

This Garuda is a modern piece, but the history, energy and protective instinct is the same as from his first incarnation.

 

This shot is from where he resides, in my glass cabinet, where I keep many other precious things..

   

“Canadian teachers fired for not ‘celebrating and affirming LGBTQ+’ ideology”

 

www.youtube.com/watch?v=AKdroNgZWS0

  

“Antifa, police try to stop Christian rocker from giving church service”

 

www.youtube.com/watch?v=j5_4sadGMc8

 

Inclusivity: the road to authoritarianism. Communists preach equality, yet kill off those who disagree with them. History proves this.

 

2 Timothy 3:12 “Indeed, all who desire to live godly in Christ Jesus will be persecuted.”

  

O Jardim do Palácio dos Marqueses de Fronteira, em Benfica, Lisboa, é um dos mais notáveis exemplos da arquitetura paisagista barroca do século XVII. O jardim formal é delimitado por um imponente muro‑galeria revestido a azulejaria, organizado em dois registos iconográficos distintos. No nível inferior, os painéis de azulejos apresentam figuras equestres associadas à linhagem militar da família Mascarenhas. No nível superior, a célebre “Galeria dos Reis”, acessível por escadarias laterais e rematada por torreões de cúpula piramidal, exibe bustos de monarcas portugueses sobre fundo azul. A ausência deliberada dos reis da Dinastia Filipina constitui uma afirmação política clara da fidelidade dos Marqueses de Fronteira à Restauração da Independência de 1640. O muro‑galeria estrutura o espaço ajardinado através de um eixo central e sebes aparadas, integrando brasões e ornamentos que reforçam a representação genealógica da família. O conjunto, com a sua simetria e função representativa, afirma a identidade nobiliárquica e a legitimidade dinástica portuguesa no período pós‑Restauração.

 

The Garden of the Palace of the Marquises of Fronteira, in Benfica, Lisbon, is one of the most notable examples of 17th-century Baroque landscape architecture. The formal garden is enclosed by an imposing wall-gallery covered with tiles, organized into two distinct iconographic registers. On the lower level, the tile panels feature equestrian figures associated with the military lineage of the Mascarenhas family. On the upper level, the famous “Gallery of Kings,” accessible by side staircases and topped by pyramidal domed turrets, displays busts of Portuguese monarchs against a blue background. The deliberate absence of the kings of the Philippine Dynasty is a clear political statement of the Marquis of Fronteira's loyalty to the Restoration of Independence in 1640. The gallery wall structures the garden space through a central axis and trimmed hedges, integrating coats of arms and ornaments that reinforce the family's genealogical representation. The ensemble, with its symmetry and representative function, affirms the noble identity and dynastic legitimacy of Portugal in the post-Restoration period.

This is a photo of the shadow of my left arm and hand on the door of the fridge.

He saw that Buddhists and Christians must dialogue at a profound spiritual level since those who experienced self-transcendence were no longer in isolation but were able to accept others with openness, freedom, and love, and to dialogue with them at a mature level. Merton noted, “The more I am able to affirm others, to say ‘yes’ to them in myself, by discovering them in myself and myself in them, the more real I am. I am fully real if my own heart says yes to everyone.”

-Thomas Merton’s encounter with Buddhism and beyond: his interreligious dialogue, inter-monastic exchanges, and their legacy / Jaechan Anselmo Park, OSB.

I didn’t become who I am alone.

 

The people I’ve let close - the rare few - have shaped my architecture. Some challenged me and forced me to grow sharper; some offered quiet stability and taught me how to rest without vanishing; some widened the inner horizon I didn’t know could hold so much light.

 

And others, in their own ways, taught me refinement through fracture; not because they intended harm - though sometimes they did - but because not everyone is capable of seeing someone clearly, even when standing right in front of them. Every bond - tender, volatile, brief, or breathtaking - has become part of my design.

 

I still believe in beauty, not as decoration, but as something constructed with intention, protected with discernment, and chosen again and again in spite of everything that may try to dismantle it.

Dax. Landes.

La Fontaine chaude ou source de la Nèhe représente le patrimoine gallo-romain de cette ville et également un véritable symbole

du thermalisme. En effet la Fontaine ayant un débit quotidien de

2 400 000 litres , elle est réputée pour la vertu de son eau à 64 degrés. La Fontaine est inscrite au Monuments historiques tandis que le portique et les vestiges médiévaux sont classés le 9 septembre 1988.

Construite de 1814 à 1818 sous le règne de Louis XVIII , cette Fontaine a hérité du nom d’une déesse , celle des eaux vives , appelée Nèhe.

D’apparence ordinaire , cette eau a révélé ses vertus thérapeutiques. La « légende du légionnaire « affirme : un légionnaire en mission à Dax avait un chien perclus de rhumatismes . Partant en campagne et sachant que son chien ne pourrait pas suivre , il décida de le noyer dans le fleuve de l’Adour . Quand le légionnaire revint , il fut étonné de retrouver son chien revigoré par la boue thermale dans laquelle il avait échoué au bord du fleuve . C’est ainsi que le thermalisme serait né.

Naissant d’une faille datant de l’élévation des Pyrénées , l’eau de Dax provient des eaux de pluie qui s’infiltrent sur la bordure est du bassin aquitain et qui , en gagnant les profondeurs s’enrichissent en sels minéraux et se réchauffent au contact de la roche .

Vertus thérapeutiques en matière de rhumatologie, phlébologie et gynécologie.

I may not be the pretty skinny girl who has her picture gawked at, but I am me. I am a human being, and I am happy with myself. I have curves, and I don't wear a size 2. Call me what you want, I know I truly am.

 

I believe the sun should never set upon an argument

I believe we place our happiness in other people's hands

I believe that junk food tastes so good because it's bad for you

I believe your parents did the best job they knew how to do

I believe that beauty magazines promote low self esteem

I believe I'm loved when I'm completely by myself alone

 

I believe in Karma what you give is what you get returned

I believe you can't appreciate real love 'til you've been burned

I believe the grass is no more greener on the other side

I believe you don't know what you've got until you say goodbye

 

I believe you can't control or choose your sexuality

I believe that trust is more important than monogamy

I believe your most attractive features are your heart and soul

I believe that family is worth more than money or gold

I believe the struggle for financial freedom is unfair

I believe the only ones who disagree are millionaires

 

I believe in Karma what you give is what you get returned

I believe you can't appreciate real love 'til you've been burned

I believe the grass is no more greener on the other side

I believe you don't know what you've got until you say goodbye

 

I believe forgiveness is the key to your own happiness

I believe that wedded bliss negates the need to be undressed

I believe that God does not endorse tv evangelists

I believe in love surviving death into eternity

 

I believe in Karma what you give is what you get returned

I believe you can't appreciate real love 'til you've been burned

I believe the grass is no more greener on the other side

I believe you don't know what you've got until you say goodbye

Until you say goodbye

 

-Savage Garden "Affirmation"

Affirmation solennelle d'attester l'engagement et la sincérité d'une promesse.

A solemn affirmation attesting to the commitment and sincerity of a promise.

 

www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zviagm1Mp-E

Everything is as it was, as it should be.

Night without a DAY

Day without a NIGHT🌙

Somebody wanders maybe into my DREAMS 💭

www.youtube.com/watch?v=uH9vdvK9Xwo - Gaia MESIAH

Great painters affirm that they have never seen anything ugly in nature. An artist lends us his eyes so we can see a fragment in which the Whole is nonetheless present, as the sun is reflected in a drop of dew. Like a living person, the world turns toward us, speaks to us, sings to us, shows us its secret colors, and fills us with an overwhelming joy; our solitude is thus broken. We commune with the beauty of a countryside, with a face or with poetry in the same way we commune with a friend. We feel a strange relation with a reality that seems to be our soul’s homeland, once lost but now found. Art “dephenomenalizes” present reality, and as a result the whole world opens up to mystery.

-THE ART OF THE ICON A Theology of Beauty by Paul Evdokimov translated by Fr. Steven Bigham

EVERY DAY

 

You can leave me in the light

And not worry about finding me

You must surely know

That I will always seek you out

When you feel your sanity

Might be in doubt

When your heart feels sore

And you can’t take anymore

When you hide in dark corners

Shunning the current conversation

All so trite and full of spite

Come and find me

Where you left me

Just look for the light

Because that is me calling you

Every moment of the day

From the light

Look it’s alright

From the light

I love you

From the light

Day and night

 

*****

 

Thank you to my Friends and Followers,

an Affirmation for Every Day.

 

Dear friends and followers, and those who have viewed and faved recently on my last batch of work. I have been thinking of you all and wanting to get back to you before now.

The past few days I have been unwell however, but recovering now.

 

So this was just a little offering to keep you all going until I can cast my eyes over your lovely work and thank you all for supporting me.

 

Grail Keepers do not forget their friends. Grail Keepers are people who do not forget and have loyalty as their middle name.

 

Behind the scenes I have been working, thinking. Seems to me we need beauty and decency back in this world. We need the sort of values that anybody, regardless of who or what they are, or what faith they follow, can have.

 

A Grail Keeper in my mind is someone who will help in this way, even if its only in small ways, it all adds up to something bigger.

 

Martin Luther King was a Grail Keeper. John Lennon was a Grail Keeper. Mother Teresa was a Grail Keeper. Alexei Navalny was a Grail Keeper. There are so many, the list could go on.

These are courageous well known examples. But there are also Grail Keepers who work diligently in their own communities. There are Grail Keepers who perform small acts of kindness every day.

 

I want to start to expand on this idea, and the work I do I hope will bring some light into this dark uncertain world of ours. It doesn’t have to be this way, and Grail Keepers even if its only in a simple, small way, need to find their courage and continue to hold up a light.

 

This work is from Glynde Church, in Sussex in the UK. I take my Grails out into the area I know and have lived in all my life. With them I seek to find a connection to the spiritual world that will heal and enlighten.

 

Short of having you there with me, the least I can do is share my work in images and words.

 

And as always, if you would like to see more of my work, have a look at my website at:

 

www.shelleyturnerpoetpix.com

 

March 13th, 2024. Dear Friends...I am still catching up...if I haven't got to you yet, I will.

 

Meanwhile...The Grail is obsessing me again, when does it not you might ask. Fair point. I really think there is going to be more written as I think upon it. I mean, I have thought about it pretty much all my life, but I think it has a poignant relevance now. I can see some Blogs might get written in the future, especially on the Grail Keeper theme. Modern Grail Keepers are also our future.

Think of any? Might be somebody in your local community.

Like the Post Master in mine, who helped me sort out the right postage to get my new Driving License there and back safely. He got it in the right envelopes and everything for me.

 

My notes are expanding. But then so is love for the Grail.

All my love everybody, Shell x

  

Boeing 737-84P SE-RXA msn 35757/3192 Unicef Livery Norwegian Air Sweden Riga International Airport RIX/EVRA Latvia Riga(RIX) - Alicante(ALC)

 

Britannica. UNICEF was created in 1946 to provide relief to children in countries devastated by World War II. After 1950 the fund directed its efforts toward general programs for the improvement of children’s welfare, particularly in less-developed countries and in various emergency situations. The organization’s broader mission was reflected in the name it adopted in 1953, the United Nations Children’s Fund. UNICEF was awarded the Nobel Prize for Peace in 1965. It is headquartered in New York City.

 

Acronym of: United Nations Children’s Fund

Formerly (1946–53): United Nations International Children’s Emergency Fund

Areas Of Involvement: education health child

Related People: Audrey Hepburn Ève Curie Peter Ustinov Ferdinand Léopold Oyono Sheikh Hamidou Kane

UNICEF has concentrated much of its effort in areas in which relatively small expenditures can have a significant impact on the lives of the most disadvantaged children, such as the prevention and treatment of disease. In keeping with this strategy, UNICEF supports immunization programs for childhood diseases and programs to prevent the spread of HIV/AIDS; it also provides funding for health services, educational facilities, and other welfare services. Since 1996 UNICEF programs have been guided by the Convention on the Rights of the Child (1989), which affirms the right of all children to “the enjoyment of the highest attainable standard of health and to facilities for the treatment of illness and rehabilitation of health.” UNICEF’s activities are financed by both government and private contributions.

 

Karen Mingst

of a coldness to the touch with the fingers

of hurting and healing simultaneously

in the familiarity of a warm heart

 

Kaya Project ft.Randolph Matthews ~ Playful New World

You are amazing! Yes - You :-).

 

I just love this video by the Duirwaigh team.

uk.youtube.com/watch?v=f4CG18FPCj0

 

www.duirwaighgallery.com/

 

"When inspiration knocks - open the door."

 

Have a lovely day!

 

All images and textures are my own.

 

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Our spirits are eternally free and invincible.

Daniela Norris

Affirmations positives...

~~Le long des quais, l’identité maritime s’affirme : criée, chantiers de constructions navales, pontons accueillant des bateaux de toute nature y compris des voiliers de course le temps d’un départ de transat.

~~Ce port, peu profond, abrita toutefois jusqu'à 600 chaloupes pendant la saison de la sardine et, par la suite, les thoniers vinrent s'y ajouter. Des maisons bourgeoises sont édifiées le long des quais hors de la « Ville close ». Cette dernière devient, en cette période, un quartier populaire abritant matelots et sardinières. La Station de biologie marine de Concarneau est fondée par Victor Coste en 1859. Il s'agit de la plus ancienne station marine du monde.

~~À partir de 1851, les premières conserveries, remplaçant progressivement les fritures et les presses à sardines, apparaissent. Elles sont spécialisées dans la sardine et le thon. Elles feront la fortune de quelques négociants et permettront une élévation du niveau de vie de la population.

~~ En 1877, la ville compte 20 usines dont l'usine Béziers et en 1900 30 usines employant 2 000 ouvrières (qui portent la coiffe penn sardin) sur une population de 7 000 habitants. ~~À partir de 1902, la disparition des grands bancs de sardines plonge Concarneau dans la misère.

Sticker on a random storefront in Washington DC

La ficaire fait le printemps

 

Cette affirmation rappelle un proverbe à propos d’un autre symbole du printemps, l’hirondelle (sous-entendu l’hirondelle rustique, l’espèce qui niche au plus près des hommes dans les fermes et arrive dès les premiers jours d’avril). Effectivement, il existe un lien avec cet oiseau via le nom anglais de la ficaire : lesser celandine ; lesser de nouveau pour « petite » mais celandine dérive du vieux français célidoine, la chélidoine. On recroise aussi cette dernière dans un autre nom ancien de la ficaire : Chelidonium minus, la petite chélidoine. Or, chélidoine dérive lui-même de chelidôn, l’hirondelle, que l’on retrouve dans le surnom d’herbe à l’hirondelle (swallow-wort en anglais). Cette association remonte à Dioscoride, le célèbre botaniste grec de l’Antiquité, qui déclarait que la chélidoine fleurissait à l’arrivée des hirondelles et mourrait quand elles partaient ; là-dessus est venu se greffer une légende : les hirondelles récoltaient des feuilles de chélidoine pour frotter les yeux collés de leurs oisillons et leur rendre la vue (on retombe sur les propriétés médicinales ophtalmiques !). Par déformation, ce nom a donné au Moyen-âge « coeli donum », don du ciel d’autant que l’hirondelle représente un oiseau céleste (qui reste en l’air) et est associé au soleil et au ciel. Ainsi, ficaire et chélidoine se trouvent à jamais unies pour saluer l’arrivée du printemps !

 

Plusieurs des surnoms de la ficaire renvoient à sa couleur jaune d’or brillante dont jauneau ou pot au beurre. Ce dernier nom, outre l’allusion directe à la couleur jaune, rappelle une pratique connue des enfants d’autrefois à la campagne (j’en fais partie !!) : on place une fleur de ficaire (ou de renoncule : voir paragraphe suivant) sous le menton d’un(e) ami(e) et on lui demande « Aimes-tu le beurre ? » et la réponse s’écrit immédiatement sur le menton sous la forme d’un halo jaune doré projeté par la fleur magique ! Cette capacité de réfléchir un faisceau de lumière jaune intrigue depuis longtemps les biologistes et le mécanisme physique commence seulement à être pleinement compris (1) : il implique la structure cellulaire de l’épiderme des pétales. La lumière traverse la couche superficielle épidermique transparente chargée de pigment tandis qu’une coloration diffuse jaunâtre provient de la dispersion de la lumière par une couche sous-jacente chargée de grains d’amidon. Une mince couche d’air qui sépare ces deux couches explique la réflexion orientée du faisceau lumineux. L’ensemble donne cette apparence si brillante, intense qui doit certainement jouer un rôle dans l’attraction des insectes pollinisateurs (voir ci-dessous). Cette illumination dégage de la chaleur et fait de ces fleurs en sous-bois des sites chauffés pour les visiteurs et donc plus attractifs.

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