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It was a beautiful sight like nature's art growing in our old tree stump.
Bracket fungi cause decay and rot in the heartwood of trees and produce bracket-shaped fruiting bodies on the trunk or main branches. These fungi usually lead to the weakening and eventual breakage or fall of affected trees. Source: www.rhs.org.uk/advice/profile?PID=98
A good-sized 3x3x2 powered steel train heads down the hill at Bealville.
I headed down to Sandcut where (in the next pic) it breaks apart.
28 August 1999, Bealville, Tehachapi Pass, CA, USA
I must be bad luck as I've witnessed three train breakages on 25 trips to the Pass...
We did not hear any vocalizations of Horned Screamer, which is in a small family whose members are known for their loud calls (like the species in the Trumpeters family such as Pale-winged Trumpeter www.flickr.com/photos/luminouscompositions/52627123599/in... ). However, we did see Horned Screamers on the ground, perched at the top of trees (as in this image), and in flight. The latter made especially apparent the large size of this species. The ‘horned’ part of the common name comes from the growth projecting from the crown: a unique structure among birds that is not plumage and which grows continuously, though subject to breakage. Another distinctive feature of this species, visible on the wings of the bird at left in this photo, are the pointed spurs at the bends in the wings. These quite long and sharp growths are wielded during altercations over territory. Horned Screamer occurs widely in lowlands of northern South America. These individuals were part of a group of least seven seen at Cocha Machuwasi, a small lake accessible by trail near the world-famous Manu Road in Peru.
Here it goes with the Icelandic goods: I decided to start off with a classic location from the latter portion of our 10-day Iceland tour with Aaron, Alan, and Rebecca.
After a rather eventful journey out to the Snæfellsnes peninsula we arrived at Kirkjufell, also known as Church Mountain. The forecast predicted a storm throughout the day but we were not quite prepared for the full force of the storm. We started driving out in near white-out conditions with howling winds for several hours before reaching Reykjavik. As we headed up towards the Snæfellsnes peninsula we stopped at Borgarnes as road closures impeded further progress. The gusts were up to 33m/s and the storm was dubbed a hurricane-like blizzard. Despite spending several hours at a really nice (and fancy) N1 gas station and getting a bent door, we braved the conditions and drove to Kirkjufell once the winds receded.
We ended up spending the night in our camper vans right at the Kirkjufell viewpoint. The howling winds continued through the night rocking our vans back and forth but luckily there were no incidences. Shortly before sunrise we checked the conditions and noticed some breakage of the clouds. Immediately we jumped out of our vans and proceeded towards the shooting viewpoints. Shortly after sunrise the clouds broke and some beautiful warm light lit up the stormy clouds all around Kirkjufell.
Sony A7r
EF 16-35mm f/2.8L II
General Sherman is a giant sequoia tree located at an elevation of 2,109 m above sea level in the Giant Forest of Sequoia National Park in Tulare County, in the U.S. state of California. By volume, it is the largest known living single-stem tree on Earth.
The General Sherman tree was named after the American Civil War general William Tecumseh Sherman. The official story, which may be apocryphal, claims the tree was named in 1879 by naturalist James Wolverton, who had served as a lieutenant in the 9th Indiana Cavalry under Sherman.
Seven years later, in 1886, the land came under the control of the Kaweah Colony, a utopian socialist community whose economy was based on logging. Noting the pivotal role that Sherman had played in the Indian Wars and his forced relocation of native American tribes, they renamed the tree in honor of Karl Marx. However, the community was disbanded in 1892, primarily as a result of the establishment of Sequoia National Park, and the tree reverted to its previous name.
In 1931, following comparisons with the nearby General Grant tree, General Sherman was identified as the largest tree in the world. One result of this process was that wood volume became widely accepted as the standard for establishing and comparing the size of different trees.
In January 2006, the largest branch on the tree (seen most commonly, in older photos, as an "L" or golf-club shape, protruding from about a quarter of the way down the trunk) broke off. There were no witnesses to the incident, and the branch—with a diameter of over 2 m (6.6 ft) and a length of over 30 m (98 ft), larger than most tree trunks—smashed part of the perimeter fence and cratered the pavement of the surrounding walkway. The breakage is not believed to be indicative of any abnormalities in the tree's health and may even be a natural defense mechanism against adverse weather conditions.
On September 16, 2021, the tree was threatened by the KNP Complex Fire in Sequoia National Park. Park and firefighting personnel wrapped the tree's base in a protective foil usually used on structures in case the wildfire approached the General Sherman Tree—which, in the end, was left unharmed.
While it is the largest tree known, the General Sherman Tree is neither the tallest known living tree on Earth (that distinction belongs to Hyperion, a Coast redwood), nor is it the widest (both the largest cypress and largest baobab have a greater diameter), nor is it the oldest known living tree on Earth (that distinction belongs to a Great Basin bristlecone pine). With a height of 83.8 meters (275 ft), a diameter of 7.7 m (25 ft), an estimated bole volume of 1,487 m3 (52,513 cu ft), and an estimated age of 2,300–2,700 years, it is nevertheless among the tallest, widest, and longest-lived of all trees on the planet.
While General Sherman is the largest currently living tree, it is not the largest historically recorded tree. The Lindsey Creek tree, with more than 90,000 cubic feet (2,500 cubic meters) almost twice the volume of General Sherman, was reported felled by a storm in 1905. Another larger tree, the Crannell Creek Giant, a coast redwood (Sequoia sempervirens) cut down in the mid-1940s near Trinidad, California, is estimated to have been 15–25% larger than the General Sherman Tree by volume. Similarly, the Mother of the Forest, another giant sequoia, may have historically been larger than General Sherman. Two other historical and exceedingly enormous giant sequoias, the Discovery Tree with a near-30 metres (98 ft) circumference, and especially the long-fallen "Father of the Forest" from Calaveras Grove, reportedly 435 feet (133 m) high and 110 feet (34 m) in circumference, are widely considered to have once been larger than General Sherman. In addition, the Burnt Monarch from Big Stump Grove had a much larger base than General Sherman and could have easily been larger as well.
An older model rechargeable battery-powered Dremel rotary tool, ready to make the cut. It can also strip, polish, engrave, sand, or rout with a suitable bit from the selection in the picture, only a small sampling of a wider selection.
I photographed this tool six years earlier with a cutoff wheel secured to the mandrel with a screw, a simple but fumble- and breakage-prone configuration. I have since upgraded to the quick-release mandrel and compatible wheels shown here; it's less fiddly with, as a bonus, longer-lasting wheels.
The hallmark look of a quality car .. the 1969 Mercedes Benz 280 SE . Don't you just love those vertical headlights .. careful breakages would be highly expensive .
Park Rd
Milton
Brisbane
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Con los Chicos del Alba de A.C Alavavision
I Check Out This Air B&B Palace For A Conference that I was planning for "The Disgruntled And Upset Photographers International Society (DAUPIS)"... On Review Of This Tidy Little Palace, I had to say "No, It is much too small and the group could not afford any breakage and behavior fees..."
Just as breakfast for the pink Galahs was winding down, we heard the distinct "Ah Ah" of a Sulphur Crested Cockatoo. In no time "Snowy", our usual single wild Cocky arrived and as we always have a plate of Sunflower seeds ready to go, he was happy to come down and have some breakfast of his own. For once, he wasn't harassed by the local Noisy Miners. He had a good feed and then as always, with a few more "Ah Ah's" of thanks, off he went. He doesn't come all that regularly these days so it was wonderful to see this most beautiful Australian native bird.
Now there is one strange thing about this shot. I raced in to get my Nikon D850 as it has the longer 28-300 lens on it. Seemingly all had gone well until I popped the lens cap on and was putting it away in my bag when I heard this ominous glassy rattle. Oh no...what could that be? So I opened it up again to find the UV filter that sits of course in front of the front element of the lens smashed to bits. Somehow, and despite this mysterious breakage (as I haven't used that camera for a while and it is packed in an excellent shock absorbing camera bag) the shot wasn't too bad but we had no idea how the breakage had occurred. In the end I gently unscrewed the filter and smashed glass and cleaned it away to find no damage to the lens. So now back to the camera store for another filter! Luckily UV's have saved me a couple of times, in fact the last one was on this very same camera and lens and also ended up smashed when the bus we were on took off before we were seated and the camera hit head on with the metal handrail of a seat. And yes, I was compensated for that one!
Baby arachnid is now the owner of his first web - allowing for breakages, there are probably going to be a few more :-)
U-indexed 2TE116 (it means the Improved) produced at 2007-2015 yy was the last mass built modification of 2TE116 family of Soviet diesel mainline locomotives that accepted many improvemnts from test versions of next generation locomotives developed in Soviet Ukraine by the Voroshilovgrad (Luhansk) Locomotive Works (VZOR, ВЗОР) and cancelled after the USSR breakage. Most prominent is a new cab, it has AC; section was lengthened from 18.15 m to 18.7 m, in bogies the friction vibration dampers was replaced with hydraulic ones. Dynamic (rheostat) braking was added. Also 2TE116U received a more powerful (2648 kW/3600 hp) diesel generator, thyristor rectifier unit M-TPP-3600DLU2 and more powerful 414 kW ЭД-133 traction motors. Thyristor rectifier provides axial traction control, which improves traction properties. Last versions had american 4200 hp. diesel GEVO V12 manufactured by GE Transportation as some 2TE25K, his Russian counterpart.
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Posed street portrait taken for my 100 Strangers project in Glasgow, Scotland.
This picture is #77 in my 100 strangers project. Find out more about the project and see pictures taken by other photographers at the 100 Strangers Flickr Group page
I saw Jim sitting on a concrete bollard and decided to approach, knowing that his interesting look would make for a great portrait. I simply told him that I was "out making street portraits today" and he told me that he couldn't afford it - you would be surprised how many people assume that you are asking for money! Once I explained that he gets a free portrait and I get some free on-location portrait practice, he was more than happy to go ahead.
I captured Jim in-situ, on the bollard, as I liked the light and background where he was and shot from both directions for some variety, including a rather intense close-up which I will post another time. All using natural light only and asking Jim to move his arms into quite a strange pose in order to narrow his shoulders down in the final image - he was happy to do this.
Jim was passing time with some people watching before meeting up with his partner later, he told me that he never imagined his face to be photogenic. Telling me that he had broken his nose at least four times but only mentioning one time where he had fallen over drunk, I can't imagine what the other breakages were caused by. Only after the brief shoot had I noticed that just before meeting Jim, a seagull had deposited a huge mess over my camera bag and down the back of my shoulder - they do say that it is lucky you know! Given the number of gulls, pigeons and starlings zipping around Glasgow I am surprised that this is the first time I ever got hit!
I thanked Jim and with him unable to find his email address on his mobile phone, I gave him my details and card and will gladly share the images if or when he gets in touch. Thank you for taking a few moments out of your day Jim, and for pulling some funny poses with your arms to sharpen up the image somewhat.
Enjoy!
the Ladozhsky vokzal (Ladoga railway station) of the October railway is the newest big railway terminal of St Petersburg designed by architect Nikita Yavein built at 2001-2003 already after USSR breakage. But in the Soviet time, at the end of the 1980s alredy were formed Initial plans for its construction intended to replace the Varshavsky station. Varshavsky vokzal is a former railway station at the initial station of the Peterburgo-Varshavskaya railroad (since 1907 - Northwestern Railway) in St. Petersburg opened in 1860 and closed to 2001. At present it is an architectural monument, reconstructed into a giant food court with some shopping and entertainment areas. Now the Ladozhsky vokzal serves routes to the north and east off the city previously served by Moskovsky railway station, as well as some lines previously served by Finland Station, Vitebsky station and Baltiysky station.
General station appearance refers to the historical The Old Ladoga fortress loacted near the Ladoga lake on the Volkhov river, the first north Russian fortress founded by legendary Rurik, the normann and first Russian knyaz, on the historical route from Baltic to the Black sea.
The Ladoga terminal occupied location of the historical Dacha Dolgorukova local station in St Petersburg worked on of the Volkhovstroevskoe direction of the Oktyabrskaya railway, so the right name of the station still is the Dacha Dolgorukova.
ED4 (Electric train Demikhovskiy 4-th modification) is a series of Russian DC electric trainsets, developed in Russia after USSR breakage (before it all design and production were run on the RVR in Soviet Latvia) and built since 1996 to 2016 yy. In production they replaced trainsets of the ED2T project that still had many import electric components. For 1997-2016 yy were produced 500 trainsets that are currently in service on Russian Railways and in many former USSR states.
Middle daughter says he reminds her of the movie the Grudge and gives her the creeps. Granddaughter always stops and says "Hi Kid" whenever she passes him.
He is roughly circa 1900. He was a wedding gift to my great grandmother and great grandfather.
He lived at my home as young girl as my dad is their oldest grandson and he acquired him.
His little fan has been repaired by my dad due to breakage over the years . At the time I always thought it was a HUGE lollipop he was holding.
Yes, I "lopped" his head off when "practicing and practicing", but it is very befitting for him. You see, when I was small, I was playing hockey with my cousin Al in the house. The stick swung back to make a slap shot and it gave him (the wise old doll) an injury. Some goalie he turned out to be...out with an injury before the season even got underway!
My dad had him repaired back to his original state by taking in the salvaged pieces in and, I assume, an old photo of him as well. The person who repaired him thought he looked unnatural without eyelashes and so they were painted on. My dad hated it and always wanted to "Paint them off".
I still love him the just the same. He's part of my heritage :-)
Right now I am nursing a terrible head and chest cold so I will have my doll check your new photos for me.
Macro Mondays theme: Pick Two
Curved Brush
"Head Jog 08 Straw Brush (Raspberry) is an environmentally-friendly brush which massages the scalp and can be used to detangle wet or dry hair. Manufactured from polymerised, renewable biomass material, such as straw, rice husk and plastic, in a process with zero carbon emission, it has an ergonomic, loop design with double curve which provides flexibility and fits perfectly to the scalp. Flexible soft pin bristles massage the scalp, are kinder to the hair, and minimise breakage."
Frankly, I purchased this product on the strength of the name. For the first time in 25 years we have two bathrooms and I needed a brush in each one. It looks really cool hanging on the wall but it is a little wimpy for detangling. It does feel nice stroking against my elderly scalp.
Someone - not saying who - managed to break one of my favourite mugs! Kintsugi is the Japanese art of repairing broken pottery by mending the areas of breakage with lacquer dusted or mixed with powdered gold, silver, or platinum. I thought I'd give it a whirl....
Dinorwic Annual report, Volume 10, page 43:
"Anderson was removed to the hospital where a week later he was reported as improving steadily . ... version of the cause of the accident is that by his own carelessness, he did not fasten the rope securely enough on the ladder ".
In 1860 the owners of the extensive Dinorwic slate mine built their own quarry hospital, higher uphill, partly out of concern for the welfare of their employees but also to reduce the time employees would miss from their work if they had to travel to the hospital in Bangor and back. In fact there were too many accidents.
Perusal of the Hospital Accident Books in the Gwynedd Archives shows the wide variety of afflictions dealt with, including injuries from falling (wet slate being very slippery), blasting accidents, rope breakages, crushing by rock falls, sprains and ruptures from lifting heavy blocks, and of course cuts from the sharp edges of slates which often led to septicaemia.
The first doctor appointed at the new hospital in 1876 was Thomas E. Hughes, though he also had a private practice and so was not in full-time attendance. He introduced the use of
ether and later chloroform as an anaesthetic during limb surgery, also pioneering Lister’s recommended Carbolic Acid spray treatment as an antiseptic from an early date.
Some of the injuries left quarrymen unable to work again. The number of fatal accidents certainly were not negligible.
In 1876 they opened another new facility, a building which can still be seen today. It comprised four wards, an operating
theatre, dispensary, kitchen, servant’s living quarters and a highly necessary mortuary.
Part of the series "Welsh slate quarries":
www.flickr.com/photos/fransvanhoogstraten/albums/72177720...
I am very grateful for the convenience and pleasures in my life.
For the alpinists among us, Dinorwic is a famous climbing spot. When you enlarge the image, immediately to the left of the ladder, you will find two mountaineers being active :) A nice illustration that shows the dimension of this quarry section.
The mansion was started by Benjamin Wyatt and completed by Philip Wyatt for the third Marquess of Londonderry, a famous coal magnate and founder of Seaham Harbour. The Marquess spent £130,000 (equivalent to £10,483,000 in 2016) to build and furnish the House. In 1841, just as the mansion was being completed, a fire broke out and gutted the house; it was later restored and remodelled by Ignatius Bonomi.
There had been a house on the site since the Middle Ages, and the 3rd Marquess incorporated parts of an earlier 18th century building into his house.
In the 19th century, George Vane-Tempest, who became Earl Vane in 1854 and the 5th Marquess of Londonderry in 1872, owned vast estates: 27,000 acres (11,000 ha) in Ireland and 23,000 acres (9,300 ha) in England and Wales; he also sat in the House of Commons as a Member of Parliament for 26 years.
Upon the death of the 5th Marquess in 1884 his eldest son, Charles, became the 6th Marquess; it was the 6th Marquess's wife, Lady Londonderry, who was the model for the famous Lady Roehampton in Vita Sackville-West's The Edwardians.
The estate remained in the Londonderry family until 1987,[1] though it was let as a training school for teachers from 1945 until 1960, during which time it lost most of its original contents through sales and breakages.
The estate was sold in 1987 to Sir John Hall, along with 5,000 acres (2,000 ha). Hall spent £4,000,000 to restore the house, hiring Rupert Lord to oversee the restoration; he later moved his company headquarters, as well as his home, into the mansion. The estate, comprising the house and 780 acres (320 ha) of parkland, was listed for sale in July 2002 for £8,000,000. It is now a four-star hotel owned by the Hall family continuing to occupy a small portion of land.
A special request from my flickr friend, dolphin613. =)
My parents just came back from Europe, including a stop in Paris, where they bought a box of these luscious Ladurée gerbets (mini macarons) for me. =) Fortunately, they survived an 11-hour flight without too much breakage. I couldn't think of a more creative way to photograph them--besides, I was dying to eat them already. =D
Nearly day by day the same problem in this hard winter when we have to pass the snowy and icy access road to our cottage: fallen trees due to snow and storm breakage which must be removed professionally. Patience is needed!
Styria . Austria . Europe
Canon EOS 6D - f/8 - 1/80 sec - 100 mm - ISO 2500
- for challenge Flickr group: Macro Mondays,
theme: Back In The Day
- A medical thermometer is used for measuring human or animal body temperature. The tip of the thermometer is inserted into the mouth under the tongue (oral or sub-lingual temperature), under the armpit (axillary temperature), or into the rectum via the anus (rectal temperature).
- Mercury-in-glass thermometers have been considered the most accurate liquid-filled types. However, mercury is a toxic heavy metal, and mercury has only been used in clinical thermometers if protected from breakage of the tube.
The tube must be very narrow to minimise the amount of mercury in it -the temperature of the tube is not controlled, so it must contain very much less mercury than the bulb to minimise the effect of the temperature of the tube- and this makes the reading rather difficult as the narrow mercury column is not very visible. Visibility is less of a problem with a coloured liquid.
In the 1990s it was decided that mercury-based thermometers were too risky to handle; the vigorous swinging needed to "reset" a mercury maximum thermometer makes it easy to accidentally break it and spill the moderately poisonous mercury. Mercury thermometers have largely been replaced by electronic digital thermometers, or, more rarely, thermometers based on liquids other than mercury (such as galinstan, coloured alcohols and heat-sensitive liquid crystals).
- The typical "fever thermometer" contains between 0.5 and 0.3 g of elemental mercury.
Swallowing this amount of mercury would, it is said, pose little danger but the inhaling of the vapour could lead to health problems.
A spectacular growth of bracket fungi seen in a pine wood on a walk along the Wilde Wasser Weg (Wild Water Way) in the Stubai Valley, Tyrol, Austria. Bracket fungi cause decay and rot in the heartwood of trees and produce bracket-shaped fruiting bodies on the trunk or main branches. These fungi usually lead to weakening and sometimes to the eventual breakage or fall of affected trees.
The Groyne Pier and Lighthouse
The Groyne Pier and Lighthouse, South Shields, Tyne & Wear.
I was desperate to get out with the camera today and was keen to get another shot at this location. Whether was extremely overcast, with little breakage in the clouds.
Please check out my other images and feel free to comment, many thanks
Oi! venue Paradiso, Amsterdam
18 june 2010
Dubstep & Grime Line-up
• BREAKAGE (UK)
• DISTANCE (UK)
• N-TYPE (UK)
• AKKACHAR (NL)
• GOMES B2B BRUTUZZ (NL)
Hosts/MC's
• D DOUBLE E (NEWHAM GENERALS - UK)
• ANDREW MAKKINGA
pics by Rosa Maria Koolhoven
Looking back from where I came from Lake City, Colorado. At this point I was within 1/4 mile of the top of Engineer Pass and I couldn't get past the slick rock with my rear tires spinning. Having the camper on the back of the truck and the previous days breakage of the left front axel, I wasn't going to use 4 -wheel drive and risk breaking the axel again. I turned around and went down. Lesson learned; drop the camper when 4-wheeling.
Or Sequoiadendron giganteum (giant sequoia, Sierra redwood, or Wellingtonia) is the sole species in the genus Sequoiadendron, and one of three species of coniferous trees known as redwoods, classified in the family Cupressaceae in the subfamily Sequoioideae, together with Sequoia sempervirens (Coast Redwood) and Metasequoia glyptostroboides (Dawn Redwood). The common use of the name "sequoia" generally refers to Sequoiadendron, which occurs naturally only in the various groves that exist on the western slopes of the Sierra Nevada of California.
THE GENERAL SHERMAN TREE
General Sherman is the name of a Giant Sequoia with a height of 275 feet. As of 2002, the volume of its trunk measured about 1487 cubic meters, making it the largest non-clonal tree by volume.[1] The tree is located in the Giant Forest of Sequoia National Park in the United States, east of Visalia, California. The tree is believed to be between 2,300 and 2,700 years old.
In 1879, it was named after American Civil War general, William Tecumseh Sherman, by naturalist James Wolverton, who had served as a lieutenant in the 9th Indiana Cavalry under Sherman. The tree was identified as the largest, in a 1931 dispute involving the nearby General Grant tree, after which wood-volume was the widely accepted determining-factor.
In January 2006 the largest branch on the tree (seen most commonly, in older photos, as an "L" or golf-club shape, protruding from about 1/4th down the trunk) broke off. There were no witnesses to the incident, but the branch—bigger around than the trunks of most trees, with a diameter of over 6 feet and a length of over 100 feet—smashed part of its enclosing fence and cratered the pavement of the walkway surrounding the sequoia. The breakage, however, is not believed to be indicative of any abnormalities with the tree's health, and may even be a natural defense-mechanism against adverse weather conditions. The branch loss did not change the General Sherman's status as the largest tree, as its size has been calculated using measurements of trunk volume, excluding branches.
Like many dogs, Vulpe is scared of fireworks so Karen was destined to be house-bound for New Year's Eve and I was happy enough to boycott, but on Karen's suggestion a small house party sounded like a good idea. So Karen and I sent out a small number of invites to our New Year's Eve house party. We didn't want more than about 20-30 people here at one time.
It turned out it was an excellent idea and I declare the party a success. Only one person was overly affected in a negative way by alcohol, and even then not really that badly; no fights; no breakages; and I believe everyone had a fantastic time and I met some cool friends of Karen and Nick's and enjoyed the company of the friends I invited.
On receiving her invitation, a workmate of Karen's declared she would only be in attendance if there were balloon animals. Although I'd only met Amy a few weeks previous at an after-work-christmas-party gathering here, I was totally up for the challenge. Admittedly I did ask Feih first about her skills with such things, but it only served to cement my resolve to "bring it on" when told that Feih's skills were rusty and she didn't have a pump.
So I went to Bernard's Magic Shop and found to my delight that they sell a "balloon modelling kit" inclusive of the right type of balloons, an instruction book and a pump, all for the bargain price of $20.
In the end I didn't have time to make any animals before the party, but (despite the obscure instructions) I did manage to get my head around the basic balloon figure (not quite a poodle, though Feih added the puffed tail later in the night) and was quite proud to show off my very first balloon animal created at the beginning of the evening.
These shots were taken by Anthony Horan on his cameraphone at around 6am on New Year's Day. I believe I was still conscious for a few hours after that.
I hope you all enjoyed your New Year's Eve and that 2009 brings you all you wish for xx
Ein Opfer des II. Weltkrieges
Die Bombennacht des 13. Februar 1945 hat im Botanischen Garten Spuren hinterlassen, von denen einige noch heute sichtbar sind. Durch 19 auf dem Gartengelände einschlagende Sprengbomben wurden viele Pflanzen vernichtet oder stark in Mitleidenschaft gezogen. Ein erhalten gebliebenes Beispiel hierfür ist die Zweifarbige Eiche (Quercus bicolor).
Der Baum wurde bei der Anlage des Botanischen Gartens etwa 1892 gepflanzt, war im Februar 1945 also etwa 50 Jahre alt. Ein Einschlag riss damals die gesamte Baumkrone weg, auf der bombenzugewandten Seite klaffte der Stamm der Länge nach auf. Hier drangen Pilzsporen des Schwefelporlings (Laetiporus sulphureus) ein. Er befällt als Schwächeparasit vorgeschädigte Bäume, zerstört allmählich deren Leitungsbahnen und lässt das Holz morsch werden.
Die Krone der Eiche regenerierte sich nach der Bombenzerstörung bald, der Baum erschien nach einiger Zeit wieder gesund. Im Inneren des Holzes setzte der Schwefel-porling jedoch sein Zerstörungswerk unaufhaltsam fort. Etwa seit 1980 machte eine Zunahme absterbender Äste das äußerlich erkennbar.
Ein Sturm im Frühjahr 1997 brach die geschwächte Krone zu zwei Dritteln ab. Der verbliebene Rest musste aus Sicherheitsgründen (Bruchgefahr) abgesägt werden. Im Frühjahr 1998 trieb die Eiche nochmals sehr stark aus. Die Neutriebe wurden jedoch im Spätsommer plötzlich welk - die Lebenskraft des Baumes ist seitdem erloschen.
Die Zweifarbige Eiche bleibt als Mahnmal liegen. Ihr zerfallendes Holz wird über den Tod hinaus vielen Tieren, Pilzen und Mikroorganismen als Lebensgrundlage dienen.
(Text auf der Schautafel im Botanischen Garten Dresden)
A victim of World War II
The night of bombing on February 13, 1945 left its mark on the botanical garden, some of which can still be seen today. Many plants were destroyed or severely damaged by 19 explosive bombs falling on the garden area. A surviving example of this is the bicolor oak (Quercus bicolor).
The tree was planted when the botanical garden was laid out around 1892, so it was around 50 years old in February 1945. At that time, an impact ripped away the entire treetop, and the trunk on the side facing the bomb gaped open lengthwise. Fungal spores of the sulfur polypore (Laetiporus sulphureus) penetrated here. As a weak parasite, it infests previously damaged trees, gradually destroys their pathways and causes the wood to rot.
The crown of the oak soon regenerated after the bombing, and after a while the tree appeared healthy again. Inside the wood, however, the sulphur-porling unstoppably continued its work of destruction. Since around 1980, an increase in dying branches has made this visible.
A storm in spring 1997 broke off two-thirds of the weakened crown. The remainder had to be sawn off for safety reasons (risk of breakage). In the spring of 1998 the oak sprouted very strongly again. However, the new shoots suddenly withered in late summer - the vitality of the tree has since expired.
The two-tone oak remains as a memorial. Their decaying wood will serve as a basis for life for many animals, fungi and microorganisms even after death.
(Text on the display board in the botanical garden in Dresden)
Bij het dorp Tolkamer gelegen op het zogenaamde Gelders Eiland loopt een pad met drie dikke wilgen, de dikste van de drie heeft de gigantische stamomtrek van 7,87m (gemeten op 1,30m hoogte). Het is daarmee de dikste wilg van Nederland en staat op nummer 8 in de top 10 van Nederlands dikste bomen.
De boom is aangeplant omstreeks het jaar 1757 en is daarmee ongeveer 260 jaar oud (red. Gijs van Schip, 26 jul 2017). Er staan hier nog twee van deze dikke wilgen, één met een omtrek van 6,66m (de op één na dikste wilg van Nederland) en één met een omtrek van 5,70m.
Echter is de boom helaas de eerste plaats kwijtgeraakt na de breuk van een deel van de stam.
De wilg op de foto is één van de twee andere.
Near the village of Tolkamer, located on the so-called Gelders Island, there is a path with three thick willows, the thickest of the three has the gigantic trunk circumference of 7.87 m (measured at a height of 1.30 m). This makes it the thickest willow in the Netherlands and is number 8 in the top 10 of the thickest trees in the Netherlands.
The tree was planted around the year 1757, making it approximately 260 years old (ed. Gijs van Schip, 26 Jul 2017). There are still two of these thick willows here, one with a circumference of 6.66m (the second thickest willow in the Netherlands) and one with a circumference of 5.70m.
However, the tree unfortunately lost the first place after the breakage of part of the trunk.
The willow in the photo is one of the other two.
Most of this bridge, above a pretty stretch of Paseo 3 de Noviembre, was washed away during a flood, but its stone arches make a nice venue for an open-air art fair (10am-5pm Sat) and cultural events every Saturday.
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I am passionate about architecture and history and in Cuenca I found magical corners with shapes that fall in love. One of them is the Broken Bridge which is a testament to the strength of the Tomebamba River, one of the four rivers that runs through the city. This bridge - located on the descent of Todos Santos and Paseo Tres de Noviembre - was built between 1840 and 1850 by Juan de la Cruz Pigara and linked the Historic Basin with the lower part of the city, until April 3, 1950 a Rising river took exactly half of the bridge. 11 years later, a kind of railing was built with the same material and it was left as a viewpoint and obligatory tourist place.
The Broken Bridge received -in 2014- a treatment in the stones that presented moss and lichen problems. The objective is to preserve this building that was part of the nomination of Cuenca as a World Heritage City in 1999. USD 150,000 was invested in this work since the bridge slab, which presented breakages and caused the water to seep, It changed. A concrete structure was placed.
The stairs built in 1970 and covering one of the arches were modified. Also, preventive lacquers were placed against paint attacks (graffiti) that were frequently painted on the bridge. The lighting of the bridge is one of the changes that stands out most in this restoration.
Thus, Cuenca shows us that even a tragedy can become a positive symbol for a city that is recognized for its entrepreneurship and strength. Soon I will tell you more stories from Cuenca.
ED4 (Electric train Demikhovskiy 4-th modification) is a series of Russian DC electric trainsets, developed in Russia after USSR breakage (before it all design and production were run on the RVR in Soviet Latvia) and built since 1996 to 2016 yy. In production they replaced trainsets of the ED2T project that still had many import electric components. For 1997-2016 yy were produced 500 trainsets that are currently in service on Russian Railways and in many former USSR states.
Incense spirals (also called incense coils) are one of the forms of incense. An incense coil is made entirely of incense, without a bamboo core in the middle as seen with incense sticks. They are called incense spirals because they are shaped into a spiral instead of a straight stick shape. A spiral shape allows for a much larger piece of incense which burns longer while taking up little space. An incense stick can be made in any length, but the longer the stick, the greater the chance of breakage. This limits incense sticks to no more than three feet in length in general practice. Incense coils have been in use for a considerable length of time in the East thanks to their much longer burn times and compact footprint. For temples and monasteries which use a lot of incense, these coils are ideal. The coils can be suspended from the ceiling which allows more floor space to be freed up for worshippers. It is not uncommon to see a temple ceiling which is covered with large hanging incense coils. These coils can burn for days at a time. Incense coils this size are not very practical for use in the home, however.
** note the silvery-colored breaks in the knuckle - the crewman is trying to free up the pin to remove it.
I’d seen this good-sized 3x3x2 powered steel train at Bealville, so waited further down the track at Sandcut where I took a shot of the leaders, and then the mid-train helpers… But then - surreally - the front of the train continued onwards, while the helpers and rear half of the train quickly came to a stop with no drama.
It took a few seconds for me to register what had happened, but I drove up to see the train crew to tell them what had happened and where. After what seemed like an eternity, a crew member came back with a replacement knuckle, reconnected the train, I offered him a lift back to the head end, and the train carried on its merry way west.
It wasn’t until the slides of the train came back that I realized I’d snapped it just after it, had itself, snapped.
28 August 1999, Sandcut, Tehachapi Pass, CA, USA
I must be bad luck as I've witnessed three train breakages on 25 trips to the Pass...
Maidan was taking place not in Kyiv only, but also in other Ukrainian cities. On February, 14th the so-called "night of anger" took place in Lviv. That night some of the administration buildings which were for Yanukovich regime were damaged by protesters.
Rolls-Royce Silver Cloud II
The Silver Cloud II was introduced in 1959. It was little changed externally, but was given a new Rolls-Royce developed 6.2 L V8 engine, which pushed the weight to 2.11 tonnes. Performance was greatly improved and top speed was raised to 183 km/h (114 mph), but the main improvements were in acceleration and torque. Power steering became standard. Electrically operated windows were now available as an option.
Although the improved performance of the new car was welcomed, commentators of the time noted that the V8-engined Silver Cloud II was neither as quiet nor as smooth as the straight-six-cylinder-engined Silver Cloud I, despite the new engine's hydraulic tappet operation. The new wet-linered V8 was also a little cramped in an engine bay intended originally for a narrower unit: in order to change the spark plugs it was necessary to remove the front wheel on the car's right side. There seems to have been a problem with crankshaft breakages in the earlier V8s: this was blamed on lack of lubrication to the bearings.
The basic architecture of the Silver Cloud II did not change between 1959 and 1963, but there were numerous minor changes implemented, notable among them a succession of improvements to the ventilation system. Interior changes in 1961 included the adoption of blue instrument lighting, the introduction of a combined indicator / headlamp flasher switch and of a handbrake warning light. A remodeled rear light assembly was introduced in May 1962 and a change to single sealed-beam headlamps was made in August 1962.
The Motor magazine tested a Series II in 1960. They recorded a top speed of 104.7 mph (168.5 km/h), acceleration from 0-60 mph (97 km/h) in 10.9 seconds and a fuel consumption of 13 miles per imperial gallon (22 L/100 km; 11 mpg‑US). The test car cost £6092 including taxes
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David Davis Mansion
The David Davis Mansion, also known as Clover Lawn, is a Victorian home in Bloomington, Illinois that was the residence of David Davis, Supreme Court justice (1862–1877) and Senator from Illinois. The mansion has been a state museum since 1960. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1972 and was designated a National Historic Landmark in 1975. In celebration of the 2018 Illinois Bicentennial, David Davis Mansion was selected as one of the Illinois 200 Great Places by the American Institute of Architects Illinois component (AIA Illinois).
Set in a residential neighborhood on Bloomington's near-south-side, the three-story yellow brick mansion comprises 36 rooms in an Italianate villa style. The mansion's lot includes an 1872 wood house, a barn and stable, privies, a foaling shed, carriage barn, and a flower and ornamental cutting garden. "Sarah's Garden", the Victorian cut flower garden, with original heirloom roses and perennials began restoration in 2001.
* Keene, John T. David Davis Mansion, National Register of Historic Places Inventory - Nomination Form, December 15, 1971, HAARGIS Database, Illinois Historic Preservation Agency, accessed August 31, 2008.
UNO DE TANTOS ARBOLES TRONCHADOS POR LA TORMENTA FILOMENA.
ONE OF MANY TREES HUNCHED BY THE PHILOMENE STORM.
Kintsugi (金継ぎ?, きんつぎ, "golden joinery"), also known as Kintsukuroi (金繕い?, きんつくろい, "golden repair"), is the Japanese art of repairing broken pottery with lacquer dusted or mixed with powdered gold, silver, or platinum, a method similar to the maki-e technique. As a philosophy, it treats breakage and repair as part of the history of an object, rather than something to disguise.
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Il kintsugi (金継ぎ), o kintsukuroi (金繕い), letteralmente "riparare con l'oro", è una pratica giapponese che consiste nell'utilizzo di oro o argento liquido o lacca con polvere d'oro per la riparazione di oggetti in ceramica (in genere vasellame), usando il prezioso metallo per saldare assieme i frammenti. La tecnica permette di ottenere degli oggetti preziosi sia dal punto di vista economico (per via della presenza di metalli preziosi) sia da quello artistico: ogni ceramica riparata presenta un diverso intreccio di linee dorate unico ed ovviamente irripetibile per via della casualità con cui la ceramica può frantumarsi. La pratica nasce dall'idea che dall'imperfezione e da una ferita possa nascere una forma ancora maggiore di perfezione estetica e interiore.
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Two years ago we went to attend a wedding in Hong Kong. At that time I went to see the Man Mo Temple (Man Mo Miu, 文武廟 in traditional Chinese) on Hollywood Road. This temple is to worship the civil or literature god Man Tai (文帝) / Man Cheong (文昌) and the martial god Mo Tai (武帝) / Kwan Tai (關帝). The two gods were popularly patronized by scholars and students seeking progress in their study or ranking in the civil examinations in the Ming and Qing dynasties.
Incense spirals (also called incense coils) are one of the forms of incense. An incense coil is made entirely of incense, without a bamboo core in the middle as seen with incense sticks. They are called incense spirals because they are shaped into a spiral instead of a straight stick shape. A spiral shape allows for a much larger piece of incense which burns longer while taking up little space. An incense stick can be made in any length, but the longer the stick, the greater the chance of breakage. This limits incense sticks to no more than three feet in length in general practice. Incense coils have been in use for a considerable length of time in the East thanks to their much longer burn times and compact footprint. For temples and monasteries which use a lot of incense, these coils are ideal. The coils can be suspended from the ceiling which allows more floor space to be freed up for worshippers. It is not uncommon to see a temple ceiling which is covered with large hanging incense coils. These coils can burn for days at a time. Incense coils this size are not very practical for use in the home, however. (Description by Lucie Debelkova)
I took this handheld shot with my favorite lens, the 50mm prime lens - it creates a nice bokeh at f1.8. I processed a balanced HDR photo from two RAW exposures.
-- © Peter Thoeny, CC BY-NC-SA 4.0, HDR, 2 RAW exposures, NEX-6, _DSC9718_9_hdr2bal1d
I must have walked by this bush a thousand times, but today I was stopped in my tracks. What in the world are those ununusual red pods? As I moved about with my lens, the view got stranger and stranger.
I thumbed through my plant tomes and didn't see anything that's anything like this. Its shape and color is stunning and most unusual! Finally I found a friend who knew. It's Jamaican Caper!
How clever of Mother Nature to seal these seeds in place like today's packers do... no slippage or breakage until the perfect moment for drop-off has arrived!
Jamaica Caper, Jamaican Caper, Capparis cynophallophora