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The branches are a lot barer after our wind and rain. This is one of our deciduous oak trees, with evergreen oaks behind to both the left and right.

 

Today is day 145 of Project 365 (Tuesday).

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L'opéra revisité sur deux roues. Mobs customisées pour une corrida mécanique, au son de guitares endiablées sous les "olés" de la foule.

Zermatt, it's a pleasant town, but seriously they need to sort out all the traffic!!! This was base camp to getting up closer to the Matterhorn. I warned you all that I would be posting more gratuitous Matterhorn images!!! This is from a couple of weeks ago in Switzerland.

 

The whole traffic thing is a joke of course. Zermatt is actually combustion engine free, only electric and "grass-powered" vehicles up here. Which means you can't actually drive here, you need to take the spectacular cogwheel train to get to the village. Steep sections of the railway have cogs to stop the train from slipping backward or going down too quickly.

 

The horseman's outfit matches the Valais flag, which is the canton that Zermatt is in.

Another ridiculously early morning shot in the rain and wet grass, but as we say in Ireland, "A damp day, thank God!"

 

I took this a week ago, just getting to put it up now. My only shot of last Sunday. I thought it looked a bit shamrocky, even though they're clover leaves, so looks like a place a Leprechaun might leave his umbrella!

 

Today is day 192 of Project 365 (Sunday).

The Hämeenlinna Lyceum, the school Finnish composer Jean Sibelius went to. The building finished construction in 1888.

 

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I am a bit short of current fly pictures these days ...must try to correct that this weekend.

 

Happy FlyDay Friday!

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A big harvest this year, this group of woodpeckers have been harvesting for over 6 weeks, and have created two new granaries to store their acorns, this one on the roofs of several houses, and another on a palm tree. Normally they just use an old oak tree. It's so crazy now that they have to hop from tile to tile trying to find room for just one more acorn.

 

Loved this redhead's shadow too, with its big acorn revealed, and how clearly you can see how they use their tails to steady themselves.

 

Fascinating, innovative, super social creatures.

 

325mm, f/8.0, 1/500, iso250

The Copernicus Sentinel-2 mission takes us over the Gulf of Kutch – also known as the Gulf of Kachchh – an inlet of the Arabian Sea, along the west coast of India.

 

The Gulf of Kutch divides the Kutch and the Kathiawar peninsula regions in the state of Gujarat. Reaching eastward for around 150 km, the gulf varies in width from approximately 15 to 65 km. The area is renowned for extreme daily tides which often cover the lower lying areas – comprising networks of creeks, wetlands and alluvial tidal flats in the interior region.

 

Gujarat is the largest salt producing state in India. Some of the white rectangles dotted around the image are salt evaporation ponds which are often found in major salt-producing areas. The arid climate in the region favours the evaporation of water from the salt ponds.

 

Just north of the area pictured here, lies the Great Rann of Kutch, a seasonal salt marsh located in the Thar desert. The Rann is considered the largest salt desert in the world.

 

The Gulf of Kutch has several ports including Okha (at the entrance of the gulf), Māndvi, Bedi, and Kandla. Kandla, visible on the northern peninsula in the left of the image, is one of the largest ports in India by volume of cargo handled.

 

The gulf is rich in marine biodiversity. Part of the southern coast of the Gulf of Kutch was declared Marine Sanctuary and Marine National Park in 1980 and 1982 respectively – the first marine conservatory established in India. The park covers an area of around 270 sq km, from Okha in the south (not visible) to Jodiya. There are hundreds of species of coral in the park, as well as algae, sponges and mangroves.

 

Copernicus Sentinel-2 is a two-satellite mission. Each satellite carries a high-resolution camera that images Earth’s surface in 13 spectral bands. The mission’s frequent revisits over the same area and high spatial resolution allow changes in water bodies to be closely monitored.

 

This image, acquired on 4 April 2020, is also featured on the Earth from Space video programme.

 

Credits: contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data (2020), processed by ESA, CC BY-SA 3.0 IGO

 

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Chatting with an egret, as you do, on Saturday morning.

A startled giraffe starts to run

A locked gate and a black cat

An aluminum pirate statue in Golden Gate Park, San Francisco. Seriously bad ass, no?

 

So, existential question. How do Pirates know they exist?

 

A: They think, therefore they Arrrrr!

Today in San Francisco. I guess it's a throwback Tuesday of sorts, well maybe not in San Francisco.

Accidentally caught this guy with completely wrong dof setting, but interesting effect.

 

Today is day 187 of Project 365 (Tuesday).

it looked miserable on a cold day

 

The Cranberries - So cold in Ireland

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Full moon last night

The light that the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope collected to create this Picture of the Week reached the telescope after a journey of 250 million years. Its source was the spiral galaxy UGC 11397, which resides in the constellation Lyra (The Lyre). At first glance, UGC 11397 appears to be an average spiral galaxy: it sports two graceful spiral arms that are illuminated by stars and defined by dark, clumpy clouds of dust.

 

What sets UGC 11397 apart from a typical spiral lies at its centre, where a supermassive black hole containing 174 million times the mass of the Sun is growing. As a black hole ensnares gas, dust, and even entire stars from its vicinity, this doomed matter heats up and puts on a fantastic cosmic light show. Material trapped by the black hole emits light from gamma rays to radio waves and can brighten and fade without warning. But in some galaxies, including UGC 11397, thick clouds of dust hide much of this energetic activity from view in optical light. Despite this, UGC 11397's actively growing black hole was revealed through its bright X-ray emission — high-energy light that can pierce the surrounding dust. This led astronomers to classify it as a Type 2 Seyfert galaxy, a category used for active galaxies whose central regions are hidden from view in visible light by a doughnut-shaped cloud of dust and gas.

 

Using Hubble, researchers will study hundreds of galaxies that, like UGC 11397, harbour a supermassive black hole that is gaining mass. The Hubble observations will help researchers weigh nearby supermassive black holes, understand how black holes grew early in the Universe’s history, and even study how stars form in the extreme environment found at the very centre of a galaxy.

 

[Image Description: A spiral galaxy, seen at an angle that gives it an oval shape. It has two spiral arms that curl out from the centre. They start narrow but broaden out as they wrap around the galaxy before merging into a faint halo. The galaxy’s disc is golden in the centre with a bright core, and pale blue outside that. A swirl of dark dust strands and speckled blue star-forming regions follow the arms through the disc.]

 

Credits: ESA/Hubble & NASA, M. J. Koss, A. J. Barth; CC BY 4.0

Santa Clara University

Somewhere on the shores of Lake Superior within the bounds of Split Rock Lighthouse State Park. (www.dnr.state.mn.us/state_parks/split_rock_lighthouse/ind...)

They often say that Swiss trains run like clockwork, which in the case of the train to Zermatt is also literally true, as it runs on a cogwheel system!

 

The train engages the cog system on steep parts to avoid slipping back down the hill, or going down too quickly in the other direction.

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