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Great Egret carrying a large branch for the rookery on a dreary morning. Resoft County Park, Alvin, Texas.
There is a whole variety of believers. Whosoever comes to these desolate mountains couldn't be exactly ambitious, at least not over worldly matters, and one can be sure life is hard here.
Maurice Gendron and Mstislav Rostropovich (pno), Chopin Cello Sonata - Largo ( How are the two of them getting along?)
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虚谷的画，有一种透明感
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Sanyu (常 玉), a Chinese Painter living in Paris ( in Chinese )
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Tsuguharu Foujita (藤田嗣治) (1886-1968) Expressionism
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Chaime Soutine (柴姆·蘇丁)
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Moise Kisling
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Sanyu was nicknamed the Modigliani/ Matisse of the East. He came from a wealthy family having been taught Chinese poetry and ink painting by one of the Emporer's scholarly advisors in his youth. He studied arts in Japan for a couple of years before turning to Paris in his early 20's. Instead of attending any of the academies there, he chose to hang around saloons. He extended many of the aesthetic formalities of both of the East and the West, since he painted only from his heart and soul. He blended the styles from both the West and the East very uniquely, in subjects, materials or treatments. Other than expressionist exaggerations , he is also a great master of minimalism, keen to capture the very essence of the substances with a few symbolic strokes. His paintings are well received both in the East and the West. For a long time, his paintings are fetching a very high price. He is the only Chinese painter who had essentially integrated into or even pioneered Western painting albeit with things which could be traced back to his background. In his later years, having squandered all his money away, he became extremely poor...
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On Health by a Korean Physician
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Ricardo Odnoposoff plays Zigeunerwiesen
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an ambitious winter project I am attempting to complete by Christmas lol. Keep your storybooks on hand.
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Happy birthday, Peter! I drew this picture for you! Let me congratulate you on a wonderful holiday — happy birthday! Let the potential of your abilities and help grow, and let it always be in demand and appreciated. May your plans be ambitious, your goals high, your actions beautiful, your thoughts pure. Let everything you have planned come true. Great success to you!...
“Too lazy to be ambitious,
I let the world take care of itself.
Ten days' worth of rice in my bag; a bundle of twigs by the fireplace.
Why chatter about delusion and enlightenment?
Listening to the night rain on my roof,I sit comfortably, with both legs stretched out.”
-Ryōkan-
Denver's Yuki Shape for Neo Japan
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Nutmeg. City Bike Set at RLD Event
We were overly ambitious in planting a huge garden this year, especially with near perfect summer weather, so rather than weed the melon patch we planted buckwheat to keep the weeds down. . . not knowing every deer for miles around would be drawn for the seeds. . .they also cropped Lynn's fall greens and beets. . .
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We are cunning, ambitious, resourceful, determing, proud and shrewd. - We are Slytherins.
Harry Potter Theme Song
Credits (Model 2nd from the left):
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School Uniform Robe: Hotdog - Uniform robes . Serpent
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With everything she does she melts your heart.
She is sweet and secretive,
and the next moment luring and wanton,
then she is funny, playful, spontaneous
and from one breath to another she gets sad
and concerned, or exhausted and worried.
Sometimes she sighs and moans at once,
smirks, jumps, and then she squirms,
pulls and pushes your buttons.
With her you never know what happens next.
She is unpredictable, moody, ambitious and curious, adventurous, lascivious, innocuous, adorable aggressive and sullen silent from here and there.
And every day a new shade of her personality unfolds in front of your
loving eyes and with every day more you fear even an infinitude of time would be too short to see everything from her, every idea, desire, every thought and mood, and you wish the day would have many more hours, and every year many more days to be able to love her to the fullest extent possible, for every part of her deserves at least to be fully loved once all alone.
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Thank you my wolfie for putting up with me ;)
Love you tons now and forever... your Milkyway (Lori)
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ambitious: having or showing a strong desire and determination to succeed.
The second installment of my Series, which rather than focusing on CURRENT students, it is instead meant to focus on students after their time in Hogwarts. Our next subject, Alaric Vos, Slytherin. The Half-Veela son of a wealthy and affluent pureblooded wizard who ventured outside of his marriage to secure an heir. Raised in a rather abusive household, Alaric worked hard to become a great wizard to ensure his independence and ability to protect himself from twisted expectations of the Vos family. With a love for potions, Alaric focuses his time and talents in front of the cauldron working on healing potions that he hopes will bring great benefits to the wixen world.
Thanks to my friend Alaric for letting me use him!
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Pants: David Heather-Hev Slacks/BJ/Black
Accessories:
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Necklace: **RE** Spectre Necklace
Bracelet: **RE** Striker Bracelet
Hat: +Radix - Jerome Panama Hat
"I'm tough, I'm ambitious and I know exactly what I want. If that makes me a bitch, okay" ~ Madonna
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** From Fountains Abbey it is only a short walk along the river to the Studley Royal water gardens . The gardens were designed by John Aislabie in the early seventeenth century, they are a fine example of a Georgian water gardens
The Temple of Piety seen in the centre of the image is one of the many neo-classical buildings in Studley Royal.
a bit more background
In the early 18th-century John Aislabie had great plans to impress visitors to his Yorkshire estate and so turned the wild and wooded valley of the river Skell into one of England’s most spectacular Georgian water gardens.
John Aislabie inherited the Studley Royal estate in 1693. He was a socially and politically ambitious man and became Chancellor of the Exchequer in 1718. Disaster struck his career in 1720 due to his part in the South Sea Bubble financial scandal and he was expelled from Parliament. It was then that John returned to Yorkshire and devoted himself to creating this ground-breaking garden. Inspired by the work of the great French landscape gardeners, the two gifted amateurs created the Water Garden with its formal, geometric design and extraordinary vistas; including the much photographed Temple of Piety.You can also find classical statues, follies and garden buildings carefully positioned within the landscape to discover and enjoy.
Amazingly the garden you see today is little changed from the one that would have impressed Aislabie’s visitors 200 years ago.
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Ludwig Erhard Haus
Berlin
Architect: Sir Nicholas Grimshaw
"There are many places in Berlin, which are almost unknown, because the average tourist won't visit them.
Most of them are symbols of the ambitious construction programs initiated by the government of the reunified Germany in order to give to the city a new distinctive character and to launch Berlin into the third millennium.
The Ludwig Erhard Haus is a unusual and futuristic building located in the borough of Charlottenburg, just a few meters from the famous Zoolisches Garden and the Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial Church.
It was designed by the English architect Nicholas Grimshaw in 1994.
Fifteen tremendous arches create the building’s signature ribbed structure that adapts to the slight curve in the irregular property at its base.
The Ludwid Erhard Haus was designed as a service center for the Chamber of Commerce and the Berlin Stock Exchange and it hosts many public and private offices as well as fairs, conferences and forums
Today, a vertical facade on the side of the building facing the Fasanen Strasse hides the actual round form of the structure. Due to his external structure, Berliners call the building "armadillo"."
A bit ambitious for me, shooting into the sun, but I wanted a shot of the ridge that runs up to High Street.
This fir tree seems to be managing well even though it's growing from deep in the Trout Creek Canyon.
1937 Packard, Custom coachbuilt by Rollston
Rollston Company
Harry Lonschein (1886-1977), an ambitious 16-year-old Romanian immigrant, found employment at Brewster & Co, one of the country’s oldest carriage makers in 1903. At that time Brewster was making the transition from one of the country’s oldest carriage makers to one of its first automobile body builders. In addition to building their own Knight sleeve-valve-engined car starting in 1915, Brewster was the NY agent for Delaunay-Belleville and later Rolls-Royce. During his employment there, Lonschein gained a lot of experience building high class enclosed bodies on the world’s finest chassis. At about the same time that Rolls-Royce opened their Springfield, Massachusetts assembly plant in 1921, Harry, along with a couple of partners, Sam Blotkin and Julius Veghso (1874-1964) formed the Rollston Company and moved into a building located on West 47th Street. They paid homage to their favorite chassis by naming the firm after it, and set out make the highest quality bodies possible. Veghso, a graduate of Andrew F. Johnson’s carriage drafting course, and a very experienced coachbuilder had founded the Perfect Body Co., an early coachbuilder who built bodies for Singer and other luxury chassis. Lonschein served as president, Blotkin, its secretary-treasurer, and Veghso the firm’s designer, draftsman and general superintendent of the factory.
Rollston’s bodies were acknowledged as the strongest of the classic-era and like the work of their favorite chassis, were over-engineered in the finest carriage-building tradition, using only the finest materials and castings. Their fine work attracted the attention of Grover C. Parvis, the Custom Body Manager of Packard's New York dealership.
Packard would become their best customer, and over the next 20 years, the vast majority of the 700 bodies built by the firm would appear on Packard chassis.
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(sitting next to it is a 1910 Oakland, and too pretty to take out)
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Ambition - a strong desire to do or to achieve something, typically requiring determination and hard work.
Hello! As the title states i am in the search for models for an overly large and ambitious Photo project! Ill list the criteria's below:
--A MUST--
*A demonic look (Human or not its fine as long as its demonic)
*At least 2 hours of time you can be afk or able to stand in a single spot without moving. (Custom posing 10+ Avi's will take a hot minute)
*The ability to listen and co-ordinate in a group.
If you can provide the above then I would love to have you participate in this shoot! There is no date as to when yet but once we have numbers and organized a day of the week and time zone we can all work within then announcements will be made.
Please join our Discord if you are interested!
Thank you for reading!
Much Love
Stella
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The Century 21 Exposition was a world's fair held April 21, 1962, to October 21, 1962, in Seattle, Washington. The fair was originally conceived in 1955 to mark the 50th anniversary of the 1909 Alaska–Yukon–Pacific Exposition, but it soon became clear that that date was too ambitious. With the Space Race underway and Boeing having "put Seattle on the map" as "an aerospace city", a major theme of the fair was to show that "the United States was not really 'behind' the Soviet Union in the realms of science and space". As a result, the themes of space, science, and the future completely trumped the earlier conception of a "Festival of the [American] West".
From the website: :https://cadw.gov.wales/visit/places-to-visit/st-davids-bishops-palace#overview
There was only one top job for an ambitious cleric in medieval Wales: Bishop of St Davids in Pembrokeshire.
A 12th-century pope had decreed that two trips to St Davids were equal to one to Rome – turning it into a centre of pilgrimage for the entire Western world. Thousands flocked to see the shrine of St David in the newly built cathedral.
But the bishop’s home was no match for this magnificence. Enter Henry de Gower. Between 1328 and 1347 he turned a building only fit for ‘servants and animals’ into an immense palace.
The east range was his private domain. The south range was for show and ceremony. It was here in the great hall that Bishop Henry dispensed justice, held feasts and welcomed distinguished pilgrims.
The Reformation marked the beginning of the end. In fact William Barlow, first Protestant Bishop of St Davids, may well have stripped the lead from the roofs himself to spark a slow decline. But even as a ruin this palace beside its glorious cathedral remains an awe-inspiring space.
We visited September 2021 on a perfect day.
There are quite a few ways to describe yesterday; adventurous and ambitious are two but ultimately 'long' pretty much sums it up. I wanted to have a look at the Ardnamurchan Peninsulsa but decided to tag Glencoe on to the front. Perhaps fortunately, the light at Glencoe wasn't great and though I took in a couple of favourite locations I was able to leave for Ardnamurchan at a reasonable time via the Corran ferry. I had driven part of the Peninsula road before but had no recollection of just how slow progress would be along the single track. I headed straight for the lighthouse, the Uk's most westerly (mainland) point and having taken the duty photograph there set about to find a suitable location for the sunset. I decided on Portuairk, the westernmost settlement on the British Mainland. This particular image was taken just prior to sunset and barely does justice to the stunning colour palette on land, sea and sky. On the horizon is the island of Rum and other islands from the Small Isles, part of the Inner Hebrides. The journey home was particularly arduous and with the ferry no longer running, a rather lengthy 'detour' along Loch Eil meant I made it home at 0340.
Topaz Labs Filters used: Impressionist/Van Gogh 2, Brush 12; TextureFX/Earthy/Cloudy
Royal Botanical Gardens developed as a concept in the 1920s under the City of Hamilton Board of Park Management, led by Thomas McQuesten. Initially the proposed botanical garden was to be located along the south shore of Cootes Paradise Marsh surrounding the Hamilton campus of McMaster University. The proposed botanical garden would also protect extensive natural areas along the marsh.
Formal permission was obtained in 1930 from King George V to call the gardens the "Royal Botanical Gardens". At the same time as the proposal for the botanical gardens was under consideration, the City of Hamilton was undertaking an ambitious program of beautification on the nearby Burlington Heights. The North-Western Entrance to Hamilton project included an extensive set of gardens designed by the Toronto firm of Wilson, Bunnell and Borgstrom. Among these was the Rock Garden created by lining a 5.5 acre abandoned gravel pit with limestone from the Niagara Escarpment. In 1932 the Board of Park Management brought together the Burlington Heights gardens and the south shore of Cootes Paradise as Royal Botanical Gardens.
So I want to start this off by saying I am consistently over-ambitious. Take today, for example. Today, I thought to myself, in my second attempt at using my new tablet, why don't I go ahead and try to draw a hood and a magic bubble and a shirt, on top of the usual hair, lighting, and color effects that I normally do.
Mind you, I don't draw/can't draw. Part of the purpose of this tablet is to try new things. Well ... I eventually gave up and realised my hood was actually a cloud. So I made it a magical effing cloud. And by the end I was just brain tired and gave up on the shirt altogether.
Anyways, a pile-up of Kira Balestra.
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A pied-billed grebe displays its catch - a pond bluegill - while swimming away from the other grebes.
Described as "one of the most ambitious parish churches in Somerset", the present Church of St John the Baptist in Glastonbury, Somerset, England, dates from the 15th century.
Recent excavations in the chancel, together with others in the 19th Century in the nave, revealed early foundations. These indicate a large central tower that possibly dated from C.950.
At the beginning of the 15th Century the church had suffered some catastrophe such as the collapse of the central tower. A great deal of re-roofing and repair was done in 1404, and all through the century rebuilding and refurnishing went on. Sometime during this century further damage was caused by the collapse of several pinnacles, whether from the old or new tower is uncertain, and the nave roof had to be practically rebuilt. The west tower is first mentioned in 1484. By the end of the century the church had assumed the appearance which it has today.
The tower rises to a height of 134½ feet, and is the second tallest parish church tower in Somerset.
By contrast:
Glastonbury a little market town with a population of 8,000 become, what is considered to be, the Pagan centre of England? Glastonbury’s fame is twofold. Firstly, it’s known as the Pagan equivalent of Mecca, somewhat popular with not only British Pagan visitors, but also with members from esoteric communities from all over the world. The town regularly sees groups of Spanish and Mexican Witches, Druids from New Zealand and Italy, Heathens from Germany and Russia, and all manner of Pagans from the States and Canada.
Literally the catch of the day, L574 rolls into the last lights of the day on a roadbed built by the ambitious -1804 mile-long Moncton to Winnipeg- National Transcontinental Railway some 116 years ago.
The diminutive train who was enroute from Garneau Yard to Senneterre is approaching Doheny,QC a former log camp who once boosted a 77-car passing siding and were a few locals still calling the place home.
There's not much a straight line over the 50 miles of track between Hervey Jct and Fitzpatrick as NTR's engineers had to avoid numerous mountains, lakes, rock cuts and swamps in order to built their railway toward Winnipeg.
CN's brush cutting program made up a few well deserved improvement along many locations in northern Québec and adding to this the return of 573-574 on a daylight schedule, enabling catching freight action over this remote but so fascinating piece of track.
CN L57421-16
2605 5772
Milepost 90.4 La Tuque subdivision
Doheny,QC
October 16th 2024
This yacht is called Ambitious and is one of The Clipper Round the World Race fleet. It was out on the Solent this afternoon training crew members.
EN: A wild, but bold and ambitious crow is taking possession of Flora fountain, in Versailles Palace gardens
A two-sided photo with multiple oppositions: Left vs Right, Up vs Down, Black vs Colors, Animal vs Mineral... and Fauna vs Flora!
FR : Bassin de Flore et corneille ambitieuse
Jardins du château de Versailles (78)
Oppositions multiples : Gauche-Droite, Haut-Bas, Noir-Couleur, Animal-Minéral… Et Faune-Flore !
Conclusion (C’est pas moi qui le dit, c’est Flore) : "Les photos d'oiseaux sur Flickr, j'en ai par dessus la tête !"
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IL EST TROP TARD POUR SAUVER LA BANQUISE ESTIVALE EN ARCTIQUE ET LES RÉPERCUSSIONS VONT ÊTRE LITTÉRALEMENT CATASTROPHIQUES !!!
Une nouvelle étude révèle que nos émissions de gaz à effet de serre ont un impact plus important sur le réchauffement climatique que le prédisait le GIEC.
Ce n'est plus une surprise pour personne, du moins en dehors des recoins obscurs de certains réseaux sociaux : la banquise fond. Pendant des décennies, l'Arctique a servi d'exemple pour illustrer notre impact sur le climat terrestre. Et plus elle disparaît, plus la communauté scientifique exhorte les sociétés à faire plus d'efforts.
L'humanité est responsable de la quasi-totalité de la fonte des glaces
Une étude récente, dirigée par Seung-Ki Min, de l'université de Pohang, en Corée du Sud, a établi de nouvelles estimations de la fonte de la glace de mer arctique, sur la base de nouvelles données. Les résultats de son équipe ajoutent une couche supplémentaire à un alarmisme général : la banquise fond beaucoup plus vite qu'on ne le craignait.
En effet, le GIEC (Groupe d'experts intergouvernemental sur l'évolution du climat) avait prédit que la région perdrait sa glace d'été d'ici aux années 2040. Cette nouvelle étude est encore plus pessimiste, puisqu'elle affirme que cela pourrait se produire dix ans plus tôt. Il s'agit d'un repère intéressant, car c'est à la fin de cette saison que la banquise atteint son minimum annuel.
Pour parvenir à cette conclusion, l'équipe de Min a d'abord examiné l'impact de l'augmentation des gaz à effet de serre sur la fonte des glaces par rapport à d'autres facteurs naturels. Selon les chercheurs, l'humanité en est responsable à hauteur de 90 %. Le reste serait imputable aux variations de l'intensité solaire ou aux éruptions volcaniques, par exemple.
Un impact humain aussi important sur la fonte des glaces signifie que les efforts requis pour ralentir suffisamment le réchauffement climatique ont peut-être été sous-estimés jusqu'à présent. Pour Min, « nous devons réduire les émissions de CO₂ de manière plus ambitieuse et nous préparer à nous adapter à ce réchauffement plus rapide de l'Arctique ». En effet, son étude établit que, même si la hausse de la température globale est limitée à 2 °C, la glace d'été aura tout de même disparu d'ici à 2050.
Et le chercheur de rappeler les effets que cela aura sur notre climat : « une augmentation des phénomènes météorologiques extrêmes que nous connaissons actuellement, tels que les vagues de chaleur, les incendies de forêt et les inondations ». En effet, la fonte des glaces entraîne des modifications du jet stream qui traverse l'hémisphère nord, un courant d'air rapide qui participe à réguler le climat en Amérique du Nord, en Europe et en Asie.
Mark Serreze, directeur du National Snow and Ice Data Center de l'université du Colorado, résume plutôt bien la situation : « Le message clé est que nous sommes en train de perdre le contrôle de la banquise ». D'autant que, plus l’océan est exposé, plus il absorbe la chaleur, entraînant ainsi un cercle vicieux qui sera toujours plus difficile et long à inverser, voire arrêter.
Bien sûr, il ne s'agit pas de renoncer à la transition énergétique, qui évolue rapidement, car un réchauffement global au-dessus de 2 °C pourrait avoir des conséquences bien plus désastreuses.
CEPENDANT, 2030 ARRIVE DANS MOINS DE DIX ANS, ET À L'ÉCHELLE DE NOTRE SOCIÉTÉ, CELA VEUT DIRE... DEMAIN !!!
Source : The Guardian
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IT IS TOO LATE TO SAVE THE SUMMER SEA ICE IN THE ARCTIC AND THE REPERCUSSIONS WILL BE LITERALLY CATASTROPHIC !
A new study reveals that our greenhouse gas emissions have a greater impact on global warming than predicted by the IPCC.
This is no longer a surprise to anyone, at least outside the dark corners of certain social networks: the sea ice is melting. For decades, the Arctic has served as an example to illustrate our impact on the Earth's climate. And the more it disappears, the more the scientific community urges societies to do more.
Humanity is responsible for almost all of the ice melting
A recent study, led by Seung-Ki Min of Pohang University in South Korea, has come up with new estimates of Arctic sea ice melt, based on new data. His team's results add another layer to general alarmism: the sea ice is melting much faster than feared.
Indeed, the IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change) had predicted that the region would lose its summer ice by the 2040s. This new study is even more pessimistic, since it claims that this could happen ten years earlier. This is an interesting landmark, because it is at the end of this season that the pack ice reaches its annual minimum.
To reach this conclusion, Min's team first looked at the impact of increased greenhouse gases on melting ice compared to other natural factors. Humankind is responsible for 90% of this, researchers say. The rest would be attributable to variations in solar intensity or volcanic eruptions, for example.
Such a large human impact on melting ice means that the efforts required to sufficiently slow global warming may have been underestimated until now. For Min, "we need to reduce CO₂ emissions more ambitiously and prepare to adapt to this faster warming of the Arctic". Indeed, his study establishes that, even if the increase in global temperature is limited to 2°C, summer ice will still have disappeared by 2050.
And the researcher recalls the effects that this will have on our climate: "an increase in the extreme weather phenomena that we are currently experiencing, such as heat waves, forest fires and floods". Indeed, the melting of the ice leads to changes in the jet stream that crosses the northern hemisphere, a rapid air current that helps regulate the climate in North America, Europe and Asia.
Mark Serreze, director of the National Snow and Ice Data Center at the University of Colorado, sums it up pretty well: "The key message is that we are losing control of the sea ice." Especially since, the more the ocean is exposed, the more it absorbs heat, thus resulting in a vicious circle which will be always more difficult and longer to reverse, or even stop.
Of course, this is not about giving up on the rapidly evolving energy transition, as global warming above 2°C could have far more dire consequences.
HOWEVER, 2030 IS LESS THAN TEN YEARS AWAY, AND ON THE SCALE OF OUR SOCIETY, THAT MEANS... TOMORROW !!!
Source: The Guardian
As usual, when it comes to this time of year in northern (central and west, really, and that makes a difference in a state that's 405 miles from border to border) California, we can have days that go from spring to summer to winter in 14 hours. Last week I was saying that we had a day with a high of 70° but the next night, we dropped to 31° and then the winds picked up and at 2 AM it started to pour. We're still in a 23 year drought, but since last December we've had more rain in ten days than in the last five years! Last night, we got two inches of rain. The forecase is for five days of rain between today and next Wednesday, with freeze warnings, and high winds. Last year I was wearing shorts. Of course, last year I was only 28 years old.
I walked a mile to the pharmacy yesterday, and while I don't know the formula, 39° with a 35 mph wind feels like 20°.
While all this about a six week period in California? Because, we have flowers that are blooming six weeks early here while in San Diego, they are getting the poppies (well, in Jan's back yard). All of our cherry and pear trees have bloomed, and the pear trees have already lost all their petals. Not unusual, but what I'm telling you is that this may be the worst time to plant or transplant.
We're told that we have the climate of the west coast of South Africa and many parts of the coast of Australia. Well, one flower that's already going to be early is the Boronia, and now the question is whether it will survive long enough to take root and then become established by March 21, the first day of spring, just a month off, and what has been the coldest day of the year many times in my years in this state. (While I'm doing a little moaning and groaning about temperatures and the hardships that are new to me as I grow older and thinner-skinned, I realize that a winter storm warning here doesn't compare to the ones broadcast two days ago in Salt Lake City, Montana - the whole state - and Minneapolis where it was advised that you don't leave your house without food well, in SLC. The warnings were also out for Saskatchewan and parts of Alberta, btw.)
Anyway, I am now looking forward to the appearance of these flowers: Boronia heterophylla, commonly known as red boronia or Kalgan boronia, is a plant in the citrus family Rutaceae, and is endemic to the south-west of Western Australia. It is an erect, slender shrub with trifoliate leaves and deep pink to red, four-petalled flowers arranged singly in leaf axils. THIS particular flowerd stems that were 3.5 feet long and flowers in clusters of fours all the way along the branches.
In Australia, it blooms from September to November; here it blooms from March to May. Keep that in mind when you're landscaping your estates of flower pot for the less ambitious us.
Ambitious kayaker sets out on a windy day for a little sea kayaking near Victoria BC Canada. A very important rule in sea kayaking is to have the latest marine weather forecast so you can avoid problems with changes in the weather. Too many times in our local waters I have seen kayakers stranded on islands or worse yet flipped over in heavy sea's all because they were inexperienced and went out in the wrong weather conditions. It can be a life or death situation.
At Hampton Court Palace. All these mannequins are headless and dressed in paper costumes of the time. The label on the middle figure here is "Ambitious Young Courtier, John Hervey, Travelled to Hannover to befriend the German's [sic] before 1714. Became George II's Vice Chamberlain"
What do you think? Too ambitious?
Not replicating, of course, but this is my inspiration for what will be my BrickWorld 2016 main build.
This Grey heron (Ardea cinerea) kept on picking up, dropping and picking up again this very long branch. Obviously thinking it might make good nesting material. Not sure if it is a reed or a bramble.
Up date - I have been reliably informed by my botanist sister-in-law that "has a piece of stem from something like hedge parsley or hogweed in its beak. You can see the branching near the top and the characteristic ribbed nodes"
This is Havana's most ambitious and grandiose building with construction starting in 1926 that took 5,000 workers 3 years, 2 months and 20 days to complete.
The design of the building is similar to the Capital Building in Washington, D.C but was actually modeled after the Pantheon in Paris.
It was formerly the seat of the Cuban Congress and then from 1959-2013 it was home to the Cuban Academy of Sciences and the National Library of Science and Technology.
Highway distances between Havana and all sites in Cuba are calculated from the floor at the centre of the dome.
Restoration was to be completed in 2018 and then to be reopened as the home of Cuba's National Assembly.
Please view & enjoy (L)