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Strolling the flower gardens at the Grand Hotel on Mackinac Island, Michigan, we came across this plant growing in the center of one of the beds. As meticulous as their gardens are, we felt it had to be a flower of some sort. It has since been identified by Plantaholic Sheila (below) as "Eryngium sp".
As the new year starts its pace we have some hopes, dreams and wishes. It's always a new beginning. Human's wish of happiness lives forever.
Here's the photo of the first minutes of the new day. One of the best days of recent summer that we spent on the shores of Baikal lake in Siberia.
I wish you all the best in 2022, good trips, beautiful photos and peace inside.
Thank you for all the comments and faves, my friends.
New head!! A little surreal as I've only ever had the one since I started on this crazy journey a couple years ago but am loving the upgrade to the new LeLutka EvoX noggin'.
Thanks Viv my beautiful friend, it only took me 4 months to finally settle on what I wanted ;) 💛💛
During my sunrise photoshoot at the open air park Zaanse Schans all at a sudden the fog came in high speed. There was no time to think, just shoot. It was fascinating to experience that everything was 'gone' in the mist. By the way, do you see the 2 ducks in the foreground at the right side? Zaan area, 2020.
Again, I would like to thank everyone for your support, views, faves and comments!
A new branch beginning to form on a Crepe Myrtle tree in my back yard.
Takumar 200mm f/3.5 with a 20mm extension tube. A manual focus vintage lens
The new year means a new beginning, like this group of young beech trees in the middle of a spruce forest.
There was a time when my homeland was covered with huge old beech forests. Forests that had grown over thousands of years. Not only were they the defining habitat, also for my ancestors, they were also an important part of our culture. My ancestors, the Germanic tribes, lived in these forests. The Romans can sing a song about how well adapted we were to this habitat.
The massive trunks of trees were the pillars of our cathedrals and our high priests read the signs from small sticks of beech wood (the beech stick formed later the the german word for letter).
But then came the industrial revolution and with it the insatiable hunger for fuel and fast-growing building materials and with it the invention of the spruce monoculture.
The forest fires and the bark beetle have been showing us how successful this grandiose idea was for several years. Human history is full of such overwhelming ideas and as you can currently see we are not through with them yet.
I'm all the happier when I see something like this. Young beeches, which establish their own biotope in the middle of the spruces and are getting ready to restore the old stable condition of the forest.
Unfortunately, this process will take another two or three hundred years and it will be difficult for me to photograph the final end result.
Das neue Jahr steht für einen Neuanfang, so wie diese Gruppe aus jungen Buchen mitten in einem Fichtenwald.
Es gab eine Zeit, da war meine Heimat bedeckt von riesigen alten Buchenwäldern. Wälder, die über tausende Jahre gewachsen waren. Sie waren nicht nur der bestimmenden Lebensraum, auch für meine Vorfahren, sie waren auch ein wichtiger Bestandteil unserer Kultur. In diesen Wäldern lebten meine Vorfahren, die germanischen Stämme. Die Römer können ein Lied davon singen, wie gut wir an diesen Lebensraum angepasst waren.
Die massiven Baumstämme waren die Säulen unserer Kathedralen und unsere hohen Priester lasen die Zeichen aus kleinen Stäben aus Buchenholz (daher schreiben wir mit Buchstaben - Buchen Stäbe).
Doch dann kam die industrielle Revolution und mit ihr der unstillbare Hunger nach Brennstoff und schnell wachsendem Baumaterial und mit ihm die Erfindung der Fichtenmonokultur.
Wie erfolgreich diese grandiose Idee war beweissen uns seit einigen Jahren die Waldbrände und der Borkenkäfer. Die menschliche Geschichte in voll von solchen überwältigenden Ideen und wie man gerade sieht, sind wir damit auch bis heute noch nicht durch.
Um so mehr freue ich mich, wenn ich so etwas sehe. Junge Buchen, die in Mitten der Fichten ein eigene Biotop begründen und sich bereit machen, den alten stabilen Zustand des Waldes wieder herzustellen.
Bedauerlicherweise wird dieser Prozess noch zwei-, dreihundert Jahre dauern und es wird schwer für mich das finale Endergebnis zu fotografieren.
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I find when writing music that i dive into imagination. I create stories and lives based on bits of others lives. What does this have to do with this fence?
Does a crooked person build a crooked fence?
Happy Fence Friday
今週末はとっても天気がいいのであちこちの公園に行ってみました。
こんな世の中でも「府中の森公園」に春は来ていました。
みんな嬉しくなって梅にスマホをかざしています。
The weather was very nice this weekend so I went to various parks.
Even in such a world, spring has come to "Fuchu Forest Park".
Everyone was happy and was shooting plums on their smartphones.
Little Egret - Egretta garzetta
The little egret (Egretta garzetta) is a species of small heron in the family Ardeidae. The genus name comes from the Provençal French Aigrette, egret a diminutive of Aigron, heron. The species epithet garzetta is from the Italian name for this bird, garzetta or sgarzetta.
It is a white bird with a slender black beak, long black legs and, in the western race, yellow feet. As an aquatic bird, it feeds in shallow water and on land, consuming a variety of small creatures. It breeds colonially, often with other species of water birds, making a platform nest of sticks in a tree, bush or reed bed. A clutch of bluish-green eggs is laid and incubated by both parents. The young fledge at about six weeks of age.
Its breeding distribution is in wetlands in warm temperate to tropical parts of Europe, Africa, Asia, and Australia. A successful colonist, its range has gradually expanded north, with stable and self-sustaining populations now present in the United Kingdom.
It first appeared in the UK in significant numbers in 1989 and first bred in Dorset in 1996
In warmer locations, most birds are permanent residents; northern populations, including many European birds, migrate to Africa and southern Asia to over-winter there. The birds may also wander north in late summer after the breeding season, and their tendency to disperse may have assisted in the recent expansion of the bird's range. At one time common in Western Europe, it was hunted extensively in the 19th century to provide plumes for the decoration of hats and became locally extinct in northwestern Europe and scarce in the south. Around 1950, conservation laws were introduced in southern Europe to protect the species and their numbers began to increase. By the beginning of the 21st century the bird was breeding again in France, the Netherlands, Ireland and Britain. It has also begun to colonise the New World; it was first seen in Barbados in 1954 and first bred there in 1994. The International Union for Conservation of Nature has assessed the bird's global conservation status as being of least concern..
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“Sometimes life takes unexpected turns. Sometimes we hide the very core of our existence because we fear the judgment of others. Sometimes the universe shifts and we are provided with a brief moment to begin anew. These moments allow us to become fearless and let our perfectly created souls shine.” ~New Beginnings
The Memorial Continental Hall is in Washington DC. It is the headquarters ( One of three buildings fashioned in Georgian Style ) of the Daughters of the American Revolution. It was completed in 1910. It opened in 1921.
A bud is just the beginning! So much ahead...but so bright the colors already! Beautiful! This is from my archives (as so many are!). It's taken at my favorite rose garden, Point Defiance Park, located in Tacoma, Washington. Such a wonderful find, I can't tell you how many times I went there through the years! Hope y'all enjoy!
Rose Garden
Point Defiance Park
Tacoma, Washington
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It is finely the beginning of waterfall season here in Minnesota which is always a very exciting time to me. I am reminded of how Christ makes everything new and breathes life into our dead lungs. For all things are made for Him and through Him which is stated in Colossians chapter 1. I am thankful for springtime and for warmer temperatures that are on the way. Have a blessed week everybody!
A new beginning. There is something very special about stepping into a new era. I think, we all occasionally need to experience new beginnings small or larger ones. I certainly do. A fresh start. A change that offers new opportunities. New dreams. New ideas. New hopes. New energy. New chances. A new beginning is like a gift filled with new expectations.
A new beginning can be a choice you make or a choice you are forced to make. The circumstances about a new beginnings decides how it feels. New beginnings isn't always easy. They often leads to losses. Something old may perhaps pass away before something new can take it's place. Perhaps we've to let go of something or someone even though it hurts or we don't want or haven't chosen the change, that forced us to the new beginning.
Maybe we can consider a new beginning like a blank piece of paper. We get a chance to write anything we like. Pick the words of your choice. We needs several pages to filled a chapter. New chapters that then eventually turn into a wonderful book -our life... for better or worse. So fortunately we have the opportunity for many new beginnings and new chances/hopes, if you like, before we've our book ready. We can rewrite our life as often as we want to.
In new beginnings, there is always hope. It's just a matter of believing -in life and in yourself. This book called LIFE is all about you. You have the opportunity to write a lot of your own pages (choices) in that book :o)
Wish you all a wonderful blessed New Year with good health, happiness, lots of love…. AND a lot of amazing new shots :o)
Small group weekly challenge - New beginning
Patient Trust
Above all, trust in the slow work of God.
We are quite naturally impatient in everything to reach the end without delay.
We should like to skip the intermediate stages.
We are impatient of being on the way to something unknown, something new.
And yet it is the law of all progress
that it is made by passing through some stages of instability—
and that it may take a very long time.
And so I think it is with you;
your ideas mature gradually—let them grow,
let them shape themselves, without undue haste.
Don’t try to force them on,
as though you could be today what time
(that is to say, grace and circumstances acting on your own good will)
will make of you tomorrow.
Only God could say what this new spirit
gradually forming within you will be.
Give Our Lord the benefit of believing
that his hand is leading you,
and accept the anxiety of feeling yourself
in suspense and incomplete.
-Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, Hearts on Fire
It's the beginning of the bluebell season at last. I totally missed it last year because of lockdown, but hope to catch some pictures this time around. I've noticed that bluebells vary on the kind of show they make depending on the spring weather. This year they are a little later coming up in Cornwall than usual, which means that other leaves and vegetation has had a chance to grow up around them, almost hiding the bluebells. I'll keep on looking though. This shot was taken in the woods at St Loy's Cove.
interesting webcam pictures Bright-spots
Breathtaking Landscapes and Color
Sunrise begins , only for early risers ? No , you can also scroll back !
Sonnenaufgang beginnt. nur für Frühaufsteher ? Nein , es kann auch zurück geblättert werden !
Schatzsuche in foto-webcam.eu morgens oder abends ein Erlebnis, sofort beginnen !
NICHT VERGESSEN NUR MIT WEBCAM M Ö G L I C H !!!!
NOT FORGET WITH WEBCAM ONLY!
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teilen zeigen teilhaben-lassen foto-webcam.eu bratispixl !
share show-share foto-webcam.eu bratispixl
Sonnenaufgang im Hochgebirge : Alpen !
Sunrise in the high mountains: Alps Europe!
Mein Motto : sehen bemerken festhalten teilen zeigen = bratispixl
私のモットー：共有ショーの保留通知を参照= bratispixl
My motto: see notice hold on share show = bratispixl
شعاري: انظر تعليق الإشعار على سهم المشاركة = bratispixl
Мой девиз: см. Уведомление, удерживайте на шоу show = bratispixl
Ma devise: voir l'avis de mise en attente de l'émission = bratispixl
I needed something with the theme 'new beginnings' to have for the weekly theme challenge group and so I found myself scouring this years' folders and this one popped up. If the ripped and shattered bole of a tree torn asunder by a volcanic eruption and hence providing nutrition for new life doesn't fit the bill, what does? :)
I thought the well wishes this year would be more hearty and that this covid thing would be behind us now, but... with the infection rate skyrocketing maybe we will all build up an immunity and by mid year we can start travelling again, idk. In the meantime, stay safe, be healthy, love one another and maybe we can fist bump on the trail some time. Peace, Rich