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Varese - giardino di Villa Mirabello
aspettando le rose
il loro colore
il loro profumo
aprirò la mano e lieve e dolce sarà sentire la consistenza dei petali.
il cuore avrà un moto di sorpresa e di meraviglia. Ancora.
“...dall’orizzonte una macchia abbagliante si spinge fino alla costa, fatta di tanti luccichii che ondeggiano; tra luccichio e luccichio, l’azzurro opaco del mare incupisce la sua rete. Le barche bianche controluce si fanno nere, perdono consistenza ed estensione, come consumate da quella picchiettatura risplendente...”
(Italo Calvino, Palomar)
Chili powder (also spelled chile, chilli, or, alternatively, powdered chili) is the dried, pulverized fruit of one or more varieties of chili pepper, sometimes with the addition of other spices (where it is also sometimes known as chili powder blend or chili seasoning mix).[1] It is used as a spice (or spice blend) to add pungency (piquancy) and flavor to culinary dishes. In American English, the spelling is usually "chili"; in British English, "chilli" (with two "l"s) is used consistently.
Chili powder is used in many different cuisines, including American (particularly Tex-Mex), Chinese, Indian, Bangladeshi, Korean, Mexican, Portuguese, and Thai. A chili powder blend is the primary flavor in American chili con carne.[1]
Vespers, evening prayer of thanksgiving and praise in Roman Catholic and certain other Christian liturgies. Vespers and lauds (morning prayer) are the oldest and most important of the traditional liturgy of the hours. Many scholars believe vespers is based on Judaic forms of prayer and point to a daily evening celebration observed among Jews in the 1st century BCE.By the 3rd century CE the writings of Tertullian show clear evidence of an evening prayer. During the 4th, 5th, and 6th centuries, cathedral choirs and monastic orders developed the vespers service, as it was known for centuries thereafter. Following the Second Vatican Council (1962–65), the Roman Catholic service was translated into the vernacular and simplified, but it continues to revolve around the Magnificat canticle, various psalms and antiphons, and readings that vary according to liturgical season.
The Lutheran and Anglican churches both include an evening prayer service in their liturgies. In the Anglican church, evening prayer traditionally is called evensong and can be found in the 1549 Book of Common Prayer. Both Protestant churches revised their rite for evening prayer during the 1970s, and both rites are patterned closely after the traditional Roman Catholic evening prayer. In the Anglican church the revised prayers offer alternative choices for greater individual choice among congregations.
Les vespres són una part de l'ofici diví -previ a les completes-, que constitueixen la pregària del vespre, i que s'acostuma a celebrar cap al capvespre. En la litúrgia romana, tenen una estructura semblant a la de les laudes i té les parts següents:
el versicle inicial Deus in adjutorium meum intende, i l'himne.
la salmòdia, actualment consistent en dos salms i un càntic del Nou Testament.
la lectura i el responsori amb el cant del Magníficat.
la pregària que acaba amb el rés del Parenostre.
l'oració i els versicle o el diàleg finals.
Tant la salmòdia gregoriana com el magníficat s'interpreten de forma antifonal.
Tal com va passar amb altres parts de la litúrgia, les vespres de les grans solemnitats, ja fos de les festes assenyalades de l'any litúrgic, ja fossin les festes principals d'una determinada localitat o territori, a partir del segle xvi els textos de les vespres van rebre musicalitzacions polifòniques per part d'un bon nombre de compositors, especialment d'aquells que servien a l'església i rebien aquesta mena d'encàrrecs per dotar la litúrgia de l'esplendor adient.
Posteriorment, i d'acord amb els estils més de moda en cada època, a partir de primer Barroc molts compositors van optar per un estil concertant. Tal és el cas de les Vespres (Vespro della beate Vergine) de Claudio Monteverdi, i les diverses que va compondre Mozart (vesperae de Dominica i Vesperae solemnes de confessore). Entre les més destacades del segle xx hi ha les de Serguei Rakhmàninov (que responen als cànons de la litúrgia de l'església ortodoxa russa, i les que el compositor txec Petr Eben va escriure sobre un text en català i que s'estrenaren a Montserrat l'any 1968.
Entre els compositors catalans que han escrit vespres o, en tot cas, salms de vespres, hi ha Francesc Valls i Joan Cererols; i entre els valencians, Joan Genís Peres.
One of the consistent things about the British weather is changeability. One minute I’m shooting into the clear skies with wispy clouds and the next its overcast and the rain is heading in. In the intervening moment I see those lovely beams of light shining down upon the waters of the North Sea and I try my best to grab a shot. I didn’t quite get the right exposure for the lighthouse but I think the beams came out pretty well. Got to take a chance when you see it!
Producto de un intercambio con un coleccionista, esta hoya llegó a casa procedente de Suecia en el 2009 y prosperó rápidamente en su follaje pero nunca lograba completar el ciclo, ya que los pedúnculos hacían su pequeño ramillete y no podían alcanzar su apertura…Un aborto frustrante, en las tres ocasiones que logró formar pedúnculo …
Es nativa de Tailandia, y mi hijo en sus ensayos de” lugar adecuado” , descubrió que es una planta amante de la sombra …Perseverando año tras año con esquejes nuevos, en diferentes lugares, que se desarrollaban correctamente pero sin lograr florecer ...El año pasado llevó de casa un esqueje enraizado , colocó la planta debajo de la sombra de un cedrón y el milagro se produjo!!
La apertura fue lentísima y la ansiedad nos carcomía. Aún cerrada había tomado las texturas del interior y su consistencia nacarada nos atraía como el cascarón de una ostra cerrada.
Por suerte vimos sus nueve maravillosas flores “de nácar”rosado, con este centro en forma de perfectísima florcita de”puro rubí”!!
Hay variantes de color de la flor y puede ser de flor naranja, rosa y crema.
Verdaderamente una gran alegría para los ojos!! Mi hijo me envió su fantástica fotografía…aunque la he visto personalmente claro! No me la perdería por nada del mundo. ¡Jajaja!
Feliz fin de semana para todos!
Sunsets in Maui are consistently spectacular because of the unobstructed ocean views to the west. The sunlight always has a way of sneaking up under the clouds to splash bright crimson and gold colors across the sky.
than the consistent omissions of a government frozen in the ice of its own indifference :-)
Franklin D. Roosevelt
RESIST!!
prunus mume, pink Japanese flowering apricot, 'Bonita', j c raulston arboretum, ncsu, Raleigh, north carolina
My best photos are here: www.lacerta-bilineata.com/ticino-best-photos-of-southern-...
Western Green Lizard (Lacerta Bilineata) | Adult Male | 05-2021 | Ticino | Switzerland
More TICINO/TESSIN Wildlife Photos (all taken in my garden in Monteggio/Ti, Switzerland): it.lacerta-bilineata.com/ramarro-occidentale-lacerta-bili... (the website exists in ESPAÑOL, FRANÇAIS, ITALIANO, ENGLISH, DEUTSCH)
My latest ANIMAL VIDEO (warning, it's a bit shocking): www.youtube.com/watch?v=4T2-Xszz7FI
ABOUT THE PHOTO:
The original title for this photo was 'The Dark Knight". In case you wonder why I chose that title, I assure you it has nothing to do with the lizard in the photo possibly having an alter ego who secretly fights crime and supervillains in the reptilian underworld (although I wouldn't rule that out completely: the reptilian underworld is full of surprises, even if our tiny village is a far cry from Gotham City 😜). No, as you might have guessed, the title refers to the rather particular colors of the individual in the photo.
The dark, shiny scale pattern of this adult male is very unusual, and I've personally never seen anything quite like it during my many years of herping in the Ticino. I photographed the fella at the end of last May, which is in the midst of mating season for the species and a period when adult males in our region generally are of a striking emerald green with a turquoise head and look nothing like the one in this photo.
And let me tell you: this fella knew he was something special, and he REALLY didn't want to be photographed (which could of course just have been him trying to protect his secret "super-lizard" identity, but the reptile community so far remains mum on that matter). What I can say for sure though is that this was by far the shiest, most prudent adult male western green lizard I've ever come across.
During my nearly three week stay at my vacation home in the Ticino last year I only ever caught glimpses of him, usually from afar, and he always saw me first. The fly honeysuckle shrub across the street from my garden is where he spent most of his time, and from the pergola in my garden I had a good view of that shrub. So whenever I detected movement between the leaves I would grab my camera, leave my garden through the back and - applying the "sneaky stealth approach" I've perfected over the years and am very proud of - try to get a photo of whatever caused those fly honeysuckle leaves to move.
As I already told you (namely here: www.flickr.com/photos/191055893@N07/51405389883/in/datepo... ), I initially had a very hard time last year to get my green reptilian friends to pose for me, but I eventually did succeed. This guy though had me nearly lose my mind. My pergola is approximately seven meters away from the fly honeysuckle shrub in question, and although that was too much of a distance for a usable photo, many times I was able to see very clear glimpses of the fella through the lense of my camera when I used the full range of the zoom.
And the really funny thing was: he always looked directly at me. Even though I was miles away (well, from a lizard's perspective) and completely harmless to him from that distance, he never let me out of his sight. I often used the zoom of the camera to check for lizard activity from afar, and none of the other individuals ever showed this behavior. As long as I stayed in the garden, they completely ignored my presence.
But this guy clearly had my number; he seemed to actually recognize me and know that I was the irritating human who kept showing up next tho the honeysuckle bush. The reason I'm convinced he was able to distinguish between me and other persons was that there would be other people in the garden next to mine who were sometimes even closer to the shrub than I was, but his eyes always remained fixated only on me. And by the time I got to the lizard residence, he would inevitably be gone.
Which, of course, made me want to photograph him even more. The elusive lizard man became a bit of an obsession of mine (well, actually more than just a bit to be perfectly honest 😉 ); in my mind I started referring to him as "the phantom", because he kept evading my camera. The most maddening thing was that I saw him nearly every day - but he stubbornly and consistently refused to have his picture taken.
It was sheer luck and literally on the last day of my vacation that I spontaneously approached the shrub without even trying to sneak up and more in the hope of finding some interesting insects, that I caught the object of my desire completely by surprise. He seemed so shocked at my sudden appearance that he remained absolutely still (my guess is that he hoped I hadn't seen him), and so I was finally able to capture this secretive and mysterious (super?) lizard and put my obsession to rest. 😊
So I hope you enjoy this (hard earned!) photo; as always: many greetings from Switzerland and have a lovely weekend everyone - and don't hesitate to let me know what you think!
La palabra flysch proviene del alemán y su significado es deslizar.
Son estratos rocosos perfectamente delimitados que se formaron en el fondo del océano por decantación de sedimentos y conchas de organismos marinos, en un proceso que dura millones de años, en este caso parece que hasta 60.
Estos estratos intercalan capas duras con otras más blandas. La erosión hace que estas capas menos consistentes se desgasten con mayor facilidad. Así, poco a poco, van quedando las capas duras más expuestas, soportando más la erosión a la vez que protegen a las blandas.
The word flysch comes from German and it means to slide.
They are perfectly delimited rocky strata that were formed at the bottom of the ocean by decantation of sediments and shells of marine organisms, in a process that lasts millions of years, in this case it seems that up to 60.
These strata intersperse hard layers with other softer ones. Erosion causes these less consistent layers to wear away more easily. Thus, little by little, the hard layers become more exposed, withstanding more erosion while protecting the soft ones.
Female showing the classic signs of Polymorphism. While males are always consistent in their colour and pattern the females can produce several other different forms that mimic various unpalatable species. Found from India to China, Malaysia, the Philippine and Indonesia.
Red-tailed Hawk-3107
Looks like a fantastic action shot with small rodents involved. Nope. Actually, this is the result of me making a U turn, stopping the car on the side of the road, and getting out of the car in the most stealthy manner I can muster. No luck....... ever. The hawk was perched on a large real estate sign, and as consistently happens, departed the scene immediately.
“Located on Arrowsic Island in Maine, Squirrel Point Light is one of four navigational aids dating back to 1895 along the Kennebec River's 11 mile stretch between the Atlantic Ocean and Bath, Maine. The U.S. Coast Guard, which owns the property, has granted the Citizens for Squirrel Point an "indefinite license to provide access to the site for the benefit of the public and maritime industry (and) all purposes consistent with the repair, maintenance and historic restoration of the facility." This was another of the lighthouses that we saw on a cruise on the Kennebec River.
13-05-2023: turbulent sky in the evening.
After years of suffering, finally the ghost/temporary lake of Cerknica (it is a karstic lake as better specified in many photos of the past) returns to cover, over the long term, a vast surface of its large basin, which measures 40km2 and can be covered with water almost totally, something that hasn't happened since March 2018, roughly.
In these cases it becomes, by far, the largest lake in Slovenija (up to almost 4x Lake Bohinj), although with a low average depth, mainly between 0.5 and 2m, facilitating rich vegetation and aquatic fauna composed of still water fish (the biggest are Carp, Chub, Tench and Pike) and a large variety of amphibians.
The lake is also rich in poultry fauna, in particular storks and gray herons, and many migrant species.
Unfortunately in 2022, for the first time in its history (those who follow my photostream probably remember it, with "my area" shots inserted in strictly chronological order), the drying up of all the not embanked large part (the embanked part represents just 0.1% of the entire lake basin and was in any case reduced by 90%), caused an incalculable death of fish, while a significant part of amphibians survived by digging deep burrows in the mud.
This is just to say that you can't have "the wine bottle full and be drunk", as people would like expecting to be in the shade of lush vegetation wanting sun for 365 days a year.
It is ONLY thanks to my beloved "bad weather" that a healthy and flourishing nature can be appreciated.
Forbidden City by Indo Chine
Consistently rated among the preeminent establishments at Singapore’s mega-popular Clarke Quay nightlife precinct, The Forbidden City has for years been attracting crowds of discerning diners and party goers with its multi-faceted offerings. Occupying the majestic Singapore waterfront building- The River House- which has been listed as World Heritage Site by UNESCO- the building was originally a 19th Century river front godown, later converted into the palatial residence of a wealthy trader. Operated by Singapore’s renowned IndoChine Group, the building has, while maintaining its historic structure and facade, been extensively re-modelled internally into a collection of stylish restaurants, bars and nightclubs.
Read more:- www.asia-bars.com/2014/01/forbidden-city-by-indochine-res...
~~As with many creatures both mythical and real, the kappa doesn't always look exactly the same. But if you encounter a vaguely reptilian creature walking upright or hanging around in a body of water, you may be dealing with a kappa. They're the size of a small child or large monkey, with humanoid arms and legs. Otherwise they have mostly reptile or amphibian-like qualities. They have webbed digits for swimming and may be scaly or slimy. They're reminiscent of a giant frog or turtle. Usually they have something like a turtle shell on their back and a beaky sort of snout. Japanese Kappa are said to smell fishy, and they're often a bluish or greenish color.
What will always be distinctive despite these variations is the top of their head. All Kappa have a small bowl-like dent on top of their heads that holds a small pool of water called the ‘sara.’ This water is though to be the source of the Kappa’s magical powers. A Kappa must keep their sara full whenever they venture onto land or forfeit all their strength and magical powers.
The other most consistent feature of the kappa is its favorite food. They have a fondness for eggplant and for several plants of the cucurbit family: melons, squash, and most especially cucumber. So that cucumber sushi roll isn't named for its ingredients, but for its most famous devotee.~~
Info - internet
Model: origami Kappa
Design: Akira Yoshizawa
Diagrams in the book 'Origami Fun (Tanoshii Origami)' by Akira Yoshizawa.
Folded from one piece of patterned green paper, 18,2x18,2cm. One cut is required to form the head.
Final height 6,5cm.
""Akira Yoshizawa was a Japanese origamist, considered to be the grandmaster of origami. He is widely recognized for his work in raising origami from a craft to a living art form. Yoshizawa devised many new folding techniques during his lifetime. According to his own estimation made in 1989, he created more than 50,000 models, of which only a few hundred designs were presented as diagrams in his 18 books. Yoshizawa acted as an international cultural ambassador for Japan throughout his career. In 1983, Japanese emperor Hirohito named him to the Order of the Rising Sun, one of the highest honors that can be given to a Japanese citizen.""
info - internet
Some people come and go, but ~Wanna~ has been in my life consistently now for a few years. Truly I have been blessed having her as a friend.
🎼: Merry Christmas, Happy Holidays - Pentatonix|
Outfit by {ViSion} // Polla Sweater and Polla High Boots.
Head: LEL Fleur (still my fav)
Skin By Deetalez
Makeup By Izzies (love the candycane eyeliner and soft winter lipstick)
Hair by Stealthic * Always*
If there's one place that consistently takes my breath away, it'd be Cley, of course. This was a difficult shot because I was shooting into the sun. The bench looks very grand. It has a fabulous view over the marshes.
One of several photos that I took while visiting this quaint and very picturesque old lobster fishing village of Stonington Maine. The town, filled with beautiful and boundless photographic opportunities of old buildings, lobster and fishing boats, viewed in a beautiful harbor setting often lined with wild rosa rugosa rose bushes.
Stonington is a town in Hancock County, Maine, United States. It's located on the southern portion of the island of Deer Isle. The population was 1,056 at the 2020 census. It includes the villages of Burnt Cove, Oceanville, Green Head, and Clam City. A picturesque working waterfront and tranquil tourist destination in eastern Penobscot Bay, Stonington has consistently ranked among the top lobster ports in the county and is the largest lobster port in Maine. In 2011, 14,854,989 pounds of lobster were landed by Stonington fishermen with a value of $46.3 million.
Sailors on the island became renowned for their maritime skills. Full crews for two America's Cup teams were recruited from Deer Isle for the victorious America's Cup Races of 1895 on The Defender and again in 1899 on Columbia. The Stonington harbor has long been filled with Friendship Sloops among other boat designs, powered by sail only. Lobstermen once used them to haul traps. Most of their trips were to the outer islands (like York Island) near Isle au Haut, fishing during the week and returning to the harbor on weekends. This changed with the advent of gasoline or diesel engines, along with new hull designs, which enabled fishermen to make day trips to fishing grounds in Penobscot Bay.
Metáfora...
Estar en la cuerda floja. Significa encontrarse en una situación complicada. Esta expresión tiene sus orígenes en el entorno judicial, aunque algunos la asociemos con actividades circenses. Antaño, todas las hojas de un sumario judicial estaban atadas con una cuerda. Cada vez que se añadía un documento al sumario había que desatar la cuerda. Así, se decía que el sumario estaba en la cuerda floja, para destacar que todavía estaba abierto. Si una persona estaba en la cuerda floja, significaba que estaba en un procedimiento judicial.
Tomado con pinzas, cogido/pillado con pinzas se aplica a las cosas muy poco consistentes, a las que hay que tratar con mucho cuidado porque se pueden desarmar
Serie YoMeQuedoEnCasa.
Antelope Island, Great Salt Lake, Utah, USA
The Fielding Garr Ranch is a ranch located on the southeastern portion of Antelope Island State Park in the Great Salt Lake, Utah, United States and is part of the Utah State Parks system. A 6.2 acres (2.5 ha) portion of the original ranch is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
The Fielding Garr Ranch is located at Garr Springs which is one of the strongest and most consistent springs of the 40 known springs on Antelope Island, though even this spring has shown some signs of drying up in recent years. The ranch is one of the oldest working ranching operations in the Western United States. The ranch was initially established in 1848, the year after the first Mormon pioneers came into the Salt Lake Valley. Fielding Garr, a widower with nine children, was sent by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church) to live on Antelope Island and establish a ranch to manage the church's Tithing Herds of cattle and sheep. The first building was an adobe house built in 1848 by pioneers of European descent and it is still in existence as the oldest building in Utah that still remains on its original foundation. The adobe ranch house was continuously inhabited thereafter until 1981 when the State of Utah prepared to set up Antelope Island as a Utah State Park. At various times other people tried to live on the island, but the harsh conditions, isolation and a lack of fresh water made it very difficult.
but doing it consistently is the problem :-)
Dorothy Bohm
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rose, little theater rose garden, raleigh, north carolina
Les Fonts de l’Algar és un paratge natural consistent en un conjunt de brolladors situats en diferents punts del barranc de Sacs,[al terme municipal de Callosa d'en Sarrià (la Marina Baixa). El paratge és protegit com a Zona Humida des del 2002.
El lloc té un grau elevat de conservació de riquesa ecològica, amb d’aigües pures i cristal·lines.Només la font del Moro al parcurs és d'accés fàcil per als senderistes. A l'entorn s'ha creat d'un parc per a interpretar la importància de l’aigua com a recurs ecològic, econòmic i cultura.Es pot visitar seguint un circuit d’1,5 km de longitud pel llit del riu Algar, durant el qual es pot apreciar el paisatge kàrstic de la roca calcària, amb cascades, fonts que ixen de la roca; tolls on es pot prendre el bany, una antiga presa, el canal i les séquies centenàries encara hui estan en ús.
El lloc fa part del sender GR de la Muntanya d'Alacant
Font: Viquipèdia
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18-march-2021: Trieste Gulf, FVG, Italia.
The snow Virga, descending, on the whole shot, from the cloud above, in random order, tormented, curled, weakened, up to about 500m of altitude, sublimates for the whole path and totally at that altitude.
The central one, on the contrary, more dense and lower, manages to sublimate only partly, while the other part liquefies in rain (which has a completely different density, clearly highlighting the passage in which the water lets the sunlight pass almost completely), however weakened by the continuation of factors (attenuated by Sea humidity!) that led to sublimation in the form, now, of evaporation, but the space between the entrainment of the large virga (which appears as an elongation of the cloud, but is not) and the sea surface is too short, thanks also to the absence of winds and, in fact, to a greater humidity in the air.
PUBLISHED:
bdaily.co.uk/articles/2021/04/27/post-pandemic-in-store-e...
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Canterbury is a historic English cathedral city and UNESCO World Heritage Site, situated in the heart of the City of Canterbury, a local government district of Kent, England. It lies on the River Stour.
Canterbury is a popular tourist destination: consistently one of the most-visited cities in the United Kingdom, the city's economy is heavily reliant upon tourism. The city has been occupied since Paleolithic times and served as the capital of the Celtic Cantiaci and Jute Kingdom of Kent. Many historical structures fill the area, including a city wall founded in Roman times and rebuilt in the 14th century, the ruins of St Augustine's Abbey and a Norman castle, and the oldest extant school in the world, the King's School. Modern additions include the Marlowe Theatre and the St Lawrence Ground, home of the Kent County Cricket Club. There is also a substantial student population, brought about by the presence of the University of Kent, Canterbury Christ Church University, the University for the Creative Arts, and the Girne American University Canterbury campus. Canterbury remains, however, a small city in terms of geographical size and population, when compared with other British cities.
A church building like this is clearly in the Gothic Revival style consistent with when it was built: 1871. It was designed by colonial architect Henry Hunter (1832-1892). The first Church of England was established at Waterloo Point in 1845, but by 1868 it was in real need of replacement having been built with second-rate materials.
This site at the top of Noyes Street (the highest point in town) was chosen. It is directly opposite Meredith House (1853). The Rev. Joseph Mayson (1808-1881) had established the parish way back in 1839, and he was there to move the community into this new church, finally retiring with ill-health in 1877. monumentaustralia.org.au/themes/people/religion/display/1...
As you can see, Henry Hunter's original slate roof has now been replaced by a much cheaper and longer lasting material: Colorbond. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Hunter_(architect)
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Mientras asciendes la montaña puedes ver los árboles y el bosque, las nubes y el cielo...
La montaña es firme y estable, porque mientras vas superando los obstáculos para alcanzarla, te ofrece un sueño real y consistente, nunca un espejismo fugaz.
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Early last December, I was consistently seeing a pair of Eurasian collared doves in Lake Meyer Park. After a very severe Christmas cold snap, one collared dove disappeared and probably perished due to the cold. Today I was delighted to see two collared doves here in the park again, so our lonely winter resident now has a new roommate!
Perhaps the most consistently attractive habitat in North America to wintering snowy owls in modern times may be airports, which not only tend to have the flat, grassy characteristics of their preferred habitats but also by winter host a particular diversity of prey, both pests which rely on humans as well as wildlife attracted to the extensively grassy and marshy strips that dot the large airport vicinities.
Never been consistent with BIF with my Oly system. Boils down to the lack in skills compared to my Flickr contacts who are using the same Oly system. Lucky the A9 closes the skill gap allowing me to enjoy taking bird inflight.
This shot from the Oly system is one of the lucky shots.
Thank you my friends for popping by.
I really appreciate your visits, comments & favourites.
Wishing all my Flickr friends a beautiful weekend.
Thank you
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Simply stunning! Spectacular flowers are more consistently double than Razzmatazz and are held on shorter, stronger stems that are better able to support the heavy flower heads,
Still is not full but its getting there, Red tomato soup is in bloom as well my new yellow Cheyenne Spirit, also my older Whites and pinks all over the garden.
...Afternoon falls on the mallos of Riglos
...L'après-midi tombe sur les mallos de Riglos
...Nachmittag fällt auf die Mallos von Riglos
...Il pomeriggio cade sui mallos di Riglos
Los mallos de Riglos son unas formaciones geológicas consistentes en unas peñas de paredes verticales, llamadas mallos, situadas en la localidad española de Riglos, en la provincia de Huesca, unos 45 km al noroeste de Huesca capital, en las sierras del Prepirineo oscense. Wikipedia
The mallos de Riglos are geological formations consisting of crags with vertical walls, called mallos, located in the Spanish town of Riglos, in the province of Huesca, about 45 km northwest of the capital Huesca, in the mountains of the Huesca Pre-Pyrenees. Wikipedia
I mallos de Riglos sono formazioni geologiche costituite da balze con pareti verticali, chiamate mallos, situate nella località spagnola di Riglos, nella provincia di Huesca, a circa 45 km a nord-ovest della capitale Huesca, nelle montagne dei Pre-Pirenei di Huesca. Wikipedia
Die Mallos de Riglos sind geologische Formationen, die aus Klippen mit senkrechten Wänden, Mallos genannt, bestehen und sich in der spanischen Stadt Riglos in der Provinz Huesca, etwa 45 km nordwestlich der Hauptstadt Huesca, in den Bergen der Vorpyrenäen von Huesca befinden. Wikipedia
Les mallos de Riglos sont des formations géologiques constituées de rochers à parois verticales, appelés mallos, situés dans la ville espagnole de Riglos, dans la province de Huesca, à environ 45 km au nord-ouest de la capitale Huesca, dans les montagnes des Pré-Pyrénées de Huesca. Wikipédia
I had such a great year 2018 watching greenies in this particular cove of a local park. I could almost guarantee I would see one every time I went, and pretty consistently catching a breakfast of frogs or fish. Not so this year - hardly ever see one here. So - here's another from 2018. Interesting fish, by the way - looks like it may have two sets of eyes.
Landscape photographers I admire have a definitely style and are usually consistent to that presentation. I can usually spot a Littlejohn, Baxter or Talibart a mile off. Because I admire these photographers, much of my post processing strives for a certain look which I feel is not uniquely mine. A soft ethereal woodland, a dream like mountainscape or drama at sea, a look I’ve seen before but I’m sure wasn’t in my minds eye when I took the photo. A good example of this is to compare my photos from yesterday to today. Yesterdays has the lighter touch more akin to watercolour, than todays bolder vision which feels more like an oil painting, I leave you to guess which photographer influenced which. In the end of the day I enjoy trying to emulate even if I never get there, and it’s my love of these places in the first place which got me standing there pressing the shutter button.
It's been a rough dry winter in SoCal. My drought-tolerant bark-covered front yard (actually, the back yard too) usually fills in with wild California poppies, with the first consistent openings maybe a couple of weeks ago. Not so this year. No rain since December, and several heat waves and dry wind advisories have just thrashed the new fresh baby green plants. This bloom is the first, it'll blow its top tomorrow and unfurl in wonderful poppy orange. You can see, however, the fried edges of plants in the background. Most of them won't make it, but there are some beauties. It's gonna be a very short wildflower season. No superbloom this year!!
...that's how some residents of Mackinaw City expressed disdain about this restaurant at the end of the "Strip", just off of the expressway.
Now, I like a hot dog from time to time (with mustard and onions, and maybe some chili), but I tend to agree with the disapproving residents. Mackinaw City boasts a historic importance of the area's forts, battles, Native American culture, logging, and shipping. Log cabins, lighthouses, historic buildings, cottages, and family-owned businesses passed down through the generations are the types of places that are consistent with the area.
More will be said about the owner of this business in a later post.
Amazing how nature consistently battles anything man puts up. This fence is intertwined with vines from the soil, as man drives the t-post into the soil it just starts to deteriorate.
IMG_6200©Maria Paola Viola
Giugno 2014
Foto d'archivio scattata alla Torbiera di Agrate Conturbia (NO), Italy
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Daino (Dama dama, Linnaeus, 1758),
è un mammifero artiodattilo della famiglia dei Cervidi.
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Il daino è una specie estremamente adattabile che sopravvive bene in molti ambienti anche se i suoi preferiti sono le aree boschive a prevalenza di latifoglie vicino a radure o spiazzi aperti mentre evita le zone montane con copertura nevosa persistente ed abbondante.
Rispetto al cervo rosso, il daino è molto meno "selvatico", nel senso che non è così diffidente ed in particolare le femmine (che vivono in gruppi anche piuttosto consistenti, assieme ai cuccioli) si possono facilmente osservare anche durante il giorno, risultando scarsamente timorose dell'uomo. I vecchi maschi, che conducono vita perlopiù solitaria ed abitano zone più impervie, sono invece assai prudenti e difficilmente avvicinabili dall'uomo e da altri animali.
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fonte: Wikipedia