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This road may date to the earliest human inhabitants of southern England. Over the millenia, the plant life, which may have been a hedgerow border, has grown up around this road giving the impression of a tunnel. Roads like this used to comprise the border between properties, sometimes dating back to pre-Roman times. They are an endangered part of the British landscape as development encroaches on them.
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"The Complexity of Today's Global Threat Environment" Clark Ervin, Jacqueline Rice, James Comey, Wolf Blitzer
Greenwald Pavilion
When space doesn’t take space.
When simplicity overcomes complexity.
When austerity converts into protagonist.
"When less is more."
NEXT has been created representing this philosophy. Simplicity does not fight with design and also functionality with minimalism.
The expressiveness of Next is showed on its soft finishes, subtle volume, simple lines and flat colors. All these combined to achieve the perfect design and functionality combination.
The space in Next is split in two large drawers. The smooth design is transferred also to its use. The opening and closing is done with a subtle slide.
The cabinet simplicity gets to the point of requiring no handle. The space between the drawers is the only term allowed in its minimalism design.
NEXT matches SX4 ceramic basin, creating an attractive, compact and special where functionality is a priority.
NEXT comes in two dimensions, 65 cm (25”) thinking in small spaces and 85 cm (33”) for bigger spaces.
Sonia Universe main goal is to approach customer expectations in the most efficient way in order to answer clientele quality and design requirements.
Next is specifically designed to increase the functionality of bathroom furniture in a simple and easy way.
I look for the complexities of your bones, your hair, and the way the world falls upon your shoulders.
Taken for The "I Have to Shoot What?!" 52-Week Challenge - Week 22: "Get Out and Shoot"
www.wildmanstevebrill.com/Plants.Folder/Dandelion.html
The flower head can change into the familiar, white, globular seed head overnight. Each seed has a tiny parachute, to spread far and wide in the wind.
www.umm.edu/altmed/articles/dandelion-000236.htm
While many people think of the common dandelion (Taraxacum officinale) as a pesky weed, herbalists consider it a valuable herb with many culinary and medicinal uses. Dandelion is a rich source of vitamins A, B complex, C, and D, as well as minerals such as iron, potassium, and zinc. Its leaves are often used to add flavor to salads, sandwiches, and teas. The roots can be found in some coffee substitutes, and the flowers are used to make certain wines.
In traditional medicine, dandelion roots and leaves were used to treat liver problems. Native Americans also used dandelion decoctions (liquid made by boiling down the herb in water) to treat kidney disease, swelling, skin problems, heartburn, and stomach upset. Chinese medicinal practitioners traditionally used dandelion to treat digestive disorders, appendicitis, and breast problems (such as inflammation or lack of milk flow). In Europe, herbalists incorporated it into remedies for fever, boils, eye problems, diabetes, and diarrhea.
Today, dandelion roots are mainly used as an appetite stimulant, digestive aid, and for liver and gallbladder function. Dandelion leaves are used as a diuretic to stimulate the excretion of urine.
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The photographs in my set, "Weed Flower Micros," may appear to be close-ups of regular-sized flowers – they are not!
These are micro (macro) photos of tiny little flowers which bloom on ordinary weeds found in my lawn.
How tiny? The largest weed flower in the set is only, when measured across its widest part from petal tip to petal tip, 3/4" in diameter (19mm)!
Some of these miniscule flowers are so small that the entire blossom you are looking at is 1/4" in diameter (6mm)…or smaller! Again, that’s measuring from petal tip to petal tip across the widest part of the bloom!
The smallest part of a weed flower that I have managed to successfully shoot and achieve good detail in is a photo I made of a bud that measured LESS than 1/32" in diameter (0.7mm) across its widest part!
For size references I have included a photo of certain flowers and buds next to the head of an ordinary paper match, which dwarfs the blooms and buds.
It’s delightful to discover the beauty, complexity, and variety in something so small that it’s easily ignored, taken for granted, dismissed as a pest, or just downright difficult to see with the naked eye.
And it’s an even greater delight to realize that this incredible beauty has been growing wild in my lawn, year after year, right under my un-seeing eyes as I’ve repeatedly mown them down with my lawn mower, never realizing the unseen beauty that I was trampling under my feet.
I hope you enjoy viewing these as much as I do. I have a lot of fun making them for us to look at!
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See more of these incredible, tiny jewels in my set, "Weed Flower Micros:"
"Minha terra tem palmeiras,
Onde canta o Sabiá;
As aves, que aqui gorjeiam,
Não gorjeiam como lá.
Nosso céu tem mais estrelas,
Nossas várzeas têm mais flores,
Nossos bosques têm mais vida,
Nossa vida mais amores.
Em cismar, sozinho, à noite,
Mais prazer encontro eu lá;
Minha terra tem palmeiras,
Onde canta o Sabiá.
Minha terra tem primores,
Que tais não encontro eu cá;
Em cismar — sozinho, à noite —
Mais prazer encontro eu lá;
Minha terra tem palmeiras,
Onde canta o Sabiá.
Não permita Deus que eu morra,
Sem que eu volte para lá;
Sem que desfrute os primores
Que não encontro por cá;
Sem qu’inda aviste as palmeiras,
Onde canta o Sabiá."
Gonçalves Dias, IN: "Canção do Exílio"
Ok, here's number one in the series Birth, Life, Death. The renderings in this album depict the cardio-chaos of a human being pre birth. The data was recorded during a medical routine control. For the math geeks: The line follows a beautiful complex trajectory through a nonlinear attractor.
This was a collage I made in 2004 (September 8th) in my first journal. I named it "Complexity of Life." I don't know how I come up with my titles, but when I see the finished product, I name it the first thing that comes to mind.
Complexity Group Grapes On a Train 2013
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© 2013 Tina Wong; The Wandering Eater. All Rights Reserved. Images may not be reproduced, copied, or used in any way without written permission.
"Complexity that works is built up out of modules that work perfectly, layered one over the other." ....a quotation from Kevin Kelly
I visited the dock at Hartlepool this weekend, as the town hosted a reception for the end of the final leg of the second stage of the 2010 tall ships race. These incredible vessels all lay at their moorings and were still against the dock. Whilst they clearly inspired awe, I couldn't help but feel that they really expressed their full majesty under sail. I was a little sad that I weren't able to see them arrive to try to capture that feeling of natural power and beauty. So I found myself somewhat disappointed in the photos I was able to take at dockside.
However, looking through what often appeared as a jumble of masts, I became more fascinated by the "rig" of the boats. That what at first appears a complex tangle of ropes, pulleys and guys, was not so, but rather a collection of defined systems which worked so coordinately together as to allow sail power to out-strip engine power in propelling these vessels across oceans. Quite a metaphor really!
Actually if I'm really honest I quite liked the pelican figurehead! :-)
Playing around with BW, loving all the complexities of this variety of hibiscus. Hard to deal with focusing with the flower.
Taken 11/24/12, uploaded 12/4/12, 2012 11 24 aR72 LR Twk LE KL-06824.ARW-06824
Complexity, confusion and vulnerabilty are the human mind's biggest defaults.
Take it easy, after all you know what's wrong and right, all you have to do is to put away your ego a lil bit
Scan of design on cotton. Fabrics, wallpaper, wall decals, gift wrap spoonflower.com/profiles/winterblossom
Totally incomprehensible (to me) information in an economics textbook from my husband's MBA program.
Flickr Bingo 4: O73 Complexity
Conductor Quartetto Arnold;
Complexity?
Complexity in music?
An inquiry into its nature, motivation and performability;
Zaal De Unie, Rotterdam,
March 10th, 1990;
all rights reserved: co broerse
Vitacura, Santiago de Chile, Chile.
Camera: Canon EOS 5D Mark II
Lens: Zeiss Distagon T* 2/28 ZE
Focal Length: 28 mm
Exposure: ¹⁄₆₄₀ sec at f/2.2
ISO: 50
Complexity Issues and Randomization Strategies in Frank-Wolfe Algorithms for Machine Learning. Frandi, Nanculef, Suykens arxiv.org/abs/1410.4062 #stat