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This Great Blue Heron was seen with a broken beak at Lake Balboa, Van Nuys, CA. Although broken it still successfully caught a fish soon after this photo was taken.
This bird seemed to have a somewhat different coloring than I am used to seeing - more orange in the body and neck.
Having originally set out to find some Autumn colour around Dartmoors rivers, I ended up finding this tree on my way home which I thought might benefit with an extreme contrast look.
Named for the nearby Pripyat River, Pripyat was founded on 4 February 1970, the ninth nuclear city in the Soviet Union, for the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant. It was officially proclaimed a city in 1979, and had grown to a population of 49,360 before being evacuated a few days after the 26 April 1986 Chernobyl disaster.
Though Pripyat is located within the administrative district of Ivankiv Raion, the abandoned city now has a special status within the larger Kiev Oblast (province), being administered directly from Kiev. Pripyat is also supervised by Ukraine's Ministry of Emergencies, which manages activities for the entire Chernobyl Exclusion Zone.
Access to Pripyat, unlike cities of military importance, was not restricted before the disaster as nuclear power stations were seen by the Soviet Union as safer than other types of power plants. Nuclear power stations were presented as being an achievement of Soviet engineering, where nuclear power was harnessed for peaceful projects. The slogan "peaceful atom" (Russian: ?????? ????, mirnyj atom) was popular during those times. The original plan had been to build the plant only 25 km (16 mi) from Kiev, but the Ukrainian Academy of Sciences, among other bodies, expressed concern about it being too close to the city. As a result, the power station and Pripyat were built at their current locations, about 100 km (62 mi) from Kiev. After the disaster the city of Pripyat was evacuated in two days.
A 35 man (plus guides) trip to the Ukraine exploring Chernobyl, the village, Duga 3, Pripyat and Kiev including Maidan (Independence Square) and observing the peaceful protests underway.
Some new faces, some old, made new friends and generally we were in our elements.
Rhetorical question but did we have a blast? You bet!
Amazing group, top guys. Till the next time!
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Shattered glass of children's store after May Day riots in Capital Hill. Featured in: www.kristyburmeister.com/domestic-violence-isnt-the-victi...
Do not seek to change me, you would not like what I become
Do not seek to own me, for in chains I come undone
If you wish to be my friend, my heart is open and true
But if it's more you're looking for, a long road lies before you
I have loved as deep as the ocean, and cried a million tears
And if you wish to tame me, can you silence all my fears?
I hold myself in keeping, and lavish love on all my friends
But try to touch me deeper, and it will surely be our end.
Aianna ©9/15/2011
The mind can be a cruel thing; it can tear us apart, leaving broken pieces that we must scramble to put back together. "You aren't pretty, you aren't smart, you aren't good enough", it taunts. "Let me be!" But it won't; it is me. I cannot escape myself.
For Monochrome Bokeh Thursday! Spotted this along the nature trail at Prairie Park here in Lawrence.
I probably took way too many pictures of Broken Top
Three Sisters Wilderness, Deschutes National Forest, Oregon USA
While out on Sunday enjoying the beautiful weather, I made time to stop at some of my favorite places around here. At the East Lawrence Grain Elevator in Lawrence, KS.
Broken windows in an old B-17 hanger at the abandoned WWII Army Air Corps base in Wendover, Utah. Happy Window Wednesday!
I first visited this old Army Air Corps base in Wendover, Utah back in June of 2007 and have returned a few times for more exploration. In the years between visits much has happened by way of preserving and even restoring this fascinating piece of history. To see images from both this visit and the 2007 visit check out the album here: www.flickr.com/photos/19779889@N00/albums/72157601973705978