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Das Land der Bären und der Adler
Das Land, das uns Geburt und Segen gegeben hat
Das Land, das uns immer nach Hause gerufen hat
Wir werden über die Berge heimkommen
Wir werden heimkommen, wir werden heimkommen
Wir werden über die Berge heimkommen
Wir werden heimkommen, wir werden heimkommen
Wir werden über die Berge heimkommen
Das Land der Freiheit und der Helden
Das Land, das uns Hoffnung und Andenken gegeben hat
Hör uns singen, hör unsere Sehnsucht
Wir werden über die Berge heimkommen
Wir werden heimkommen, wir werden heimkommen
Wir werden über die Berge heimkommen
Wir werden heimkommen, wir werden heimkommen
Wir werden über die Berge heimkommen
Das Land der Sonne und des Mondlichts
Das Land, das uns Freude und Trauer gegeben hat
Das Land, das uns Liebe und Lachen gegeben hat
Wir werden über die Berge heimkommen
Wir werden heimkommen, wir werden heimkommen
Wir werden über die Berge heimkommen
Wir werden heimkommen, wir werden heimkommen
Wir werden über die Berge heimkommen
Und wenn dieses Land hier vor uns liegt
Dann sind wir über die Berge heimgekommen.
Wir werden heimkommen, wir werden heimkommen
Wir werden über die Berge heimkommen
Wir werden heimkommen, wir werden heimkommen
Wir werden über die Berge heimkommen
Verdi: Messa di Requiem, Elena Obraztsova, Shirley Verrett - (Budapest 1981)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jzs4F6OzEXo
Elegie Op. 3 No. 1 , played by Rachmaninoff
www.youtube.com/watch?v=sTUxrPJfpqk
The Editor in Chief of Lancet has this to say ( it takes only 1 minute or so )
www.youtube.com/watch?v=_d5wxtAwn9Y
An American physician Rishi Desai, Md MPH Chief Medical Officer, an Infectious Disease Specialist and former Outbreak Investigator at the CDC, has this to say in a Fox News interview (1 minute or so ) : " We knew this on 31st December 2019..."
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zb_WzB1Wm2w
Despite explicit racial hostility, a Czech expert has this to say :
www.dimsumdaily.hk/czech-molecular-biologist-dr-sona-peko...
COVID-19 | Ask Me Anything with Rishi Desai, Md MPH
www.youtube.com/watch?v=aThkVKn_-Gg
Know More about Covid 19 through "The Virus Hunter" Professor Ian Lipkin from University of Columbia
www.youtube.com/watch?v=SyIsLx4RJs8
* In min. 33, it actually says top experts ( apparently from US ) are adamant on the use of FACE MASK, which would reduce community infection by 70% ...
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Eurasian Jay (Garrulus glandarius)
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My latest ANIMAL VIDEO (it's very brief but pretty unusual: a tiny wall lizard attacks two young great tits): www.youtube.com/watch?v=FQqkSsyrm7E
THE STORY BEHIND THE PHOTO: MY LONG AND ARDUOUS JOURNEY TO BIRD PHOTOGRAPHY
If you've set yourself the challenge of exclusively shooting the wildlife in your own back yard, you might find - as I did - that bird photography is really, really hard.
It's not that reptiles are easy to photograph either, mind - but at least the ones in my garden stay (for the most part) on the ground, and one can learn how to carefully approach them with a camera. They're also clearly egoists, which from a photographer's point of view is is a great character trait: if a lizard detects a human in its vicinity, it's only interested in saving its own skin, and it won't alarm its buddies.
But birds... oh man. Over the years, my feathered friends and I have developed a lovely routine that now defines our peaceful co-existence. As soon as I as much as open a window (let alone the door), I'm instantly greeted by an eruption of panicky fluttering and hysterical shouts from my garden: "SAVE YOUR WOMEN AND CHILDREN AND FLY FOR YOUR LIVES: THE HAIRLESS, PINK MONSTER IS COMING!!! (Yes, I speak bird, and I know that this is exactly what they are shouting 😉).
Needless to say, with the exception of the redstart I already showed here, all my efforts to get the kind of detailed shots I usually strive for with my nature photography ended in complete failure and utter disillusionment. I was ready to give up on stalking the winged misanthropes in my garden altogether, but then winter came - and changed everything.
One day this past January I observed my neighbor Signora P - a kind, elderly Italian lady - putting something on the low garden wall in front of my house. At first I thought she was just putting some treat there for her cat Romeo; the young tom patrols that wall constantly (it's his favorite spot in the garden, and during the warmer months he usually lurks in the thick foliage next to it to prey on lizards).
But once I detected a lot of movement on that wall through my window, I understood she had put a little pile of bread crumbs there; she was feeding the birds who soon arrived in flocks. This was certainly well-intended on my neighbor's part, but her noble action came with a catch, and I'm afraid quite literally.
When I took a stroll through my garden the next day I discovered a suspicious amount of feathers on the ground next to the wall. Romeo had apparently switched from his low-calorie summer diet (lizard) to more energy-rich meals consisting of "fowl" (it was winter after all, so from a nutritionist's point of view this made sense).
I would find fresh traces of Romeo's victims (mostly feathers, but also the odd wing) in my garden over the following days; so my first intuition that my neighbor was feeding her cat hadn't been that far off after all, as Romeo was now clearly being "served" fresh birds on a daily basis. And although the hungry visitors seemed to be aware of the danger and became slightly more prudent, they just couldn't resist the tasty snacks Signora P put on that wall - and neither could Romeo.
It was obvious that I had to act, but talking to my neighbor - who is as stubborn as she is kind - would have been futile, I knew that much. I pondered the matter long and hard - until a light bulb went off in my head. The idea was genius. If successful, what I had in mind would not only increase the birds' chances of surviving Romeo's appetite, but also greatly benefit my own photographic endeavors.
I started to enact my master plan the very next day by buying a giant bag of bird feed (consisting mainly of sunflower seeds) from the store. Then I dragged a huge piece of a tree trunk (approx. 120 cm in height) that we normally chop firewood on from the shed out into the garden and emptied almost half of the bag's content on top of it. Signora P's buffet for birds (and cats) was about to get some serious competition 😊.
My reasoning was as follows: not only would the birds be lured away from the fatally low garden wall to a place where they were safe from the cat - there was nothing around that tree trunk that provided cover for a predator, and the birds had a nice 360° view around it at all times - but I was also able to photograph them while hiding in the shed.
However, in order for my plan to work there was one little extra measure I had to take, and it was one that risked lowering my own life expectancy considerably once the owner of the property - my mom - discovered it. You see, our shed is completely windowless, so if I wanted to use it as a blind, I had no choice but to cut a hole into one of its wooden walls... which I promptly did (I figured all's fair in love - and photography 😉).
Granted, I have absolutely zero carpentering skills, and it showed. That hole was an ugly mess: the shed's wall seemed to have had an encounter with Jack Nicholson's ax-wielding lunatic character from the film 'The Shining'. Needless to say, I was incredibly proud of my work (I mean, come on: there now was a hole where before there wasn't a hole, and it was big enough for the lens of my camera to peek through, so it was mission accomplished as far as I was concerned).
Now all I had to do was wait for the birds to discover the tree trunk. In the meantime I started to mentally prepare myself for the inevitable confrontation with my mom and go through possible explanations for that splintering hole in the wall (it was either gonna be a rabid woodpecker attack or an emergency rescue mission with a feeding tube for a little kid that had accidentally locked himself inside the shed - both seemed valid options, though I slightly preferred the locked-in kid due to the involved drama and heroism 😉).
A whole day went by, and not a single bird visited the sunflower seeds. I had expected that it might take a few hours until the first of the ever curious great tits or blue tits would show up, but given how tiny my garden is, an entire day seemed excessive. Then another day came and went: the birds kept flocking to the bread crumbs on the wall, and my tree trunk kept collecting dust. To add injury to insult, a few fresh feathers on the ground were proof that Romeo was still feasting.
It was incredibly frustrating: I provided my winged guests with a much better view - plus a higher chance of surviving the cuisine - than Signora P's place; I risked (almost) certain death at the hands of my own mother (OK, the act of vandalism on the shed I had committed for my own benefit, but still), yet the birds kept ignoring me.
Then, after three days, just before sunset, I spotted a single blue tit on the tree trunk picking away at the sunflower seeds.
When I got up the next morning I immediately realized that the loud noise that accompanies each and every tit activity had shifted from the wall to the shed. At last the dam had broken: there was a flurry of movement around the tree trunk, and I counted at least 5 different species of birds feasting on the sunflower seeds.
From day 4 onward my plan worked beautifully: the birds now indeed mostly ignored Romeo's "snack wall" and kept to the tree trunk. And yes, I was able to play peeping tom from behind the shed's wall and photograph them!! 😊
Thus, dear readers, I finally managed to produce some acceptable bird photos, and I had even saved my feathered friends from a deadly foe in the process. All through winter and spring I took advantage of my new bird hide, and in late May I started mixing some cherries with the sunflower seeds. The idea was to attract a Eurasian jay (Garrulus glandarius), and as you can see, it worked!
It took me almost three weeks and more than a few tricks to capture that clever fella, but given how long I've been rambling here already, that's a story for another day. As for my mom, she still doesn't know about the hole in the wall, so please don't snitch! 😉.
I hope you like the photo and wish you all a wonderful weekend! Many greetings from Switzerland, and as always: let me know what you think in the comments 🙏 😊 ❤!
P.S. if anyone has their own funny tale about the obstacles we photographers are prepared to overcome for a desired photo, please write it in the comments: I love such stories 😊
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So many silent sorrows
You never hear from again
And now that you've lost tomorrow
Is yesterday still a friend?
All the bridges we built were burned
Not a single lesson was learned
Everything that mattered is just
A city of dust
Covering both of us
Did you hide yourself away?
I can't see you anymore
Did you eclipse another day?
I used to wake up to the color of your soul
Did you hide yourself away?
Are you living through the ghost?
Did you finally find a place
Above the shadows so the world will never know?
The world will never know you like I do
Shinedown - Through The Ghost
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Il ciclamino (nome scientifico Cyclamen L. 1753) è un genere di piante spermatofite dicotiledoni appartenenti alla famiglia delle Primulaceae, dall'aspetto di piccole erbacee tuberose e dai delicati fiori rosati.
Il nome del genere (Cyclamen) deriva dalla parola greca kyklos (= cerchio), forse in riferimento alle radici tuberose rotonde. Questo genere di piante era conosciuto fin dall'antichità. Plinio nei suoi scritti lo indica con diversi nomi volgari: “Rapo”, “Tubero” e “Umbilico della terra”.
I fiori sono zigomorfi, pentameri (calice e corolla con 5 elementi) e tetraciclici (formati da quattro elementi: calice – corolla – androceo - gineceo). Del fiore la parte persistente è il calice a sostegno del frutto.
Formula fiorale:
K (5), C (5), A 5, G (5)
Calice: il calice è gamosepalo ed è formato da 5 lacinie triangolari.
Corolla: la corolla è simpetala (o gamopetala); i 5 lobi della corolla sono lunghi quanto il fiore e sono ripiegati all'indietro o comunque ritornano in direzione del peduncolo e in alcune specie possono essere auricolati. I colori della corolla possono essere lilla chiaro, violetto purpureo, bianco rosato o semplicemente bianco. Nelle specie coltivate spesso si possono avere dei fiori doppi (a doppi petali) con margini increspati, dentellati o crenulati di notevole effetto estetico.
Androceo: gli stami sono 5 a disposizione opposta ai petali della corolla.
Gineceo: l'ovario è supero formato da 5 carpelli saldati tra di loro; lo stilo è unico con uno stimma semplice e sporge dalla corolla.
Tratto da Wikipedia Cyclamen
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