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Taken somewhere over Europe, when we were flying back from our vacation on the island of Rhodes :)
Chmury widziane z samolotu, gdzieś nad Europą. Pstryknięte w drodze powrotnej z naszych wakacji na Rodos :)
bit boring, but it’s currently my desktop background.
it makes me feel happy :-) .
taken from signal hill, looking over seapoint.
The American White Pelican, frequently spoken of as "THE CLOUD DANCER” representing their graceful, soaring flight in groups, often moving together in the sky. The White Pelican is a masterpiece of natural avionic architecture, a creature of stark, snowy elegance and of prehistoric size. On the water, it sits high and buoyant like a regal white galleon. In the air, it transforms into a master of the thermals with its massive 9-foot wingspan tipped with ink-black flight feathers that only reveal themselves in motion.
Unlike its rugged, salt-sprayed cousin the Brown Pelican, the White Pelican possesses a luminous, pristine plumage that seems to glow even on overcast days. It's most striking feature is the massive tangerine-orange bill, which during the breeding season, develops a strange keratinous horn on the upper ridge...a temporary crown that gives the bird a mythical, archaic appearance.
On the water they dip their pouched bills to scoop up fish, or tip-up like an oversized dabbling duck. Sometimes, groups of pelicans work together to herd fish into the shallows for easy feeding. Look for them on inland lakes in summer and near coastlines in winter.
When they move, they do so with a quiet, synchronized grace. Watching a flock circling and soaring in a tight rising column high above the California landscape is a hypnotic experience, as the CLOUD DANCERS alternate between brilliant white to sudden black with every tilt of their black tipped wings against the deep blue sky.
30 minutes after sunset
Nacreous clouds, also called polar stratospheric clouds
Lake Iidesjärvi, Tampere, Finland
Helmiäispilviä
7 of 10 days here in Alabama are blue skies. Great for the soul, but bad for my art. But I patiently waited and I think I got a perfect sky for this perspective. HSS!
Santa Cruz Mountains, California
A cloud rests in the bottom of a forested valley. Perhaps it just didn’t feel like moving along with the other clouds that morning.
Weather is a great bluffer. I guess the same is true of our human society -- things can look dark, then a break shows in the clouds, and all is changed.
E.B. White
Author & Humorist
An egg... Taken with my friend's camera. :¬)
Photo nº 228.
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the clouds turned a beautiful shade of purple as the sunset over west side in Gaukendi Island ,Addu Atoll ,Maldives.
Cloud Gate, sculpture by Anish Kapoor.
One of the modern icons of downtown Chicago.
Millenium Park, Chicago, Illinois
La Muralla de Ávila rodea el casco antiguo de la ciudad de Ávila y junto con el casco antiguo y las iglesias situadas extramuros han sido declaradas Patrimonio de la Humanidad. Las murallas son el símbolo universal y monumento más destacado que acoge la ciudad de Ávila. Su importancia se deriva por ser el recinto amurallado medieval mejor conservado de España y probablemente de toda Europa.
La muralla tiene un perímetro de 2516 m, 2500 almenas, 87 cubos o torreones y 9 puertas. Ocupa una superficie de 33 hectáreas y conforma un rectángulo orientado de este a oeste. Sus muros tienen 3 m de grosor y 12 de altura.(Wikipedia)