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A huge thank you in advance for all your support and kindness it really means a lot to me . Also can you please keep our dear Amber in your thoughts and prayers she is still in hospital very ill i know she misses you all ,hugs ♥

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the cape sugarbird (promerops cafer) is a tipical resident of the "fynbos" a special kind of enviroment in the western and eastern cape of south africa.the bird is strongly depended for food from the nectar of the"national south african flower",the protea.they eat also a lot of insects but it's not the favorite food.we shouldnt mistake this bird with sunbirds/hummingbirds/colibri, typical nectar eaters...this sugarbird in a medium size bird .

"sugarbird"

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The same applies to photography. The value of composition cannot be overestimated: upon it depends the harmony and the sentiment :-)

Gertrude Käsebier

Season's Greetings! Best wishes to one all, take care :-)

Ackerman hybrid camellia, 'Winter's Charm', j c raulston arboretum, ncsu, raleigh, north carolina

My favorite Coffee and a Butterfly... Simple Pleasures :)

The monarch butterfly or is a milkweed butterfly. Other common names depending on region include milkweed, common tiger, wanderer, and black veined brown. It may be the most familiar North American butterfly.

Its wings feature an easily recognizable black, orange, and white pattern, with a wingspan of 8.9–10.2 cm (3 1⁄2–4 in).

The eastern North American monarch population is notable for its annual southward late-summer/autumn migration from the northern and central United States and southern Canada to Florida and Mexico. During the fall migration, monarchs cover thousands of miles, with a corresponding multi-generational return north.

The western North American population of monarchs west of the Rocky Mountains often migrates to sites in southern California but has been found in overwintering Mexican sites as well.

(Nikon - 500mm, 1/1600 sec @ f5.6, ISO 1000)

I like fun :-)

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HFF!!

chrysanthemum, 'Apple Valley', sarah p duke gardens, duke university, durham, north carolina

"Reality is what we take to be true. What we take to be true is what we believe. What we believe is based upon our perceptions. What we perceive depends upon what we look for. What we look for depends upon what we think. What we think depends upon what we perceive. What we perceive determines what we believe. What we believe determines what we take to be true. What we take to be true is our reality."

Quote - Gary Zukav

Sometime it is really hard to see what is real and what isn't……….

The fence and tree branches are tangled up with their own reflections. ;-))

Happy Fence Friday!!

The Monarch is a milkweed butterfly. Other common names depending on region include milkweed, common tiger, wanderer, and black veined brown. It may be the most familiar North American butterfly. Its wings feature an easily recognizable black, orange, and white pattern, with a wingspan of 8.9–10.2 cm (3 1⁄2–4 in).

The eastern North American monarch population is notable for its annual southward late-summer/autumn migration from the northern and central United States and southern Canada to Florida and Mexico. During the fall migration, monarchs cover thousands of miles, with a corresponding multi-generational return north.

The western North American population of monarchs west of the Rocky Mountains often migrates to sites in southern California but has been found in overwintering Mexican sites as well.

(Nikon, 500mm, 1/1000 sec @ f/5.0, ISO 280)

"Depende de Você "

Amsterdam Noord - Motorwal

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Los significados de las flores de las magnolias dependen del color de la flor y de la cultura inmediata de la persona que regala y recibe las flores. Normalmente, las magnolias se regalan de hombres a mujeres, como si los hombres dijeran: «Eres digna de una hermosa magnolia». Se asume lo siguiente: La magnolia suele simbolizar el Yin, o el lado femenino de la vida. Las magnolias blancas simbolizan la pureza y la dignidad.

P1620960 - Little Egret - Size - 55-65 cm

# 361 - 20 Jul '2019 - 21:12 (15:42 GMT)

WONDERFUL FACTS - How many bird species are endangered ...

According to the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) at least 12% of the world's bird species are threatened with extinction and an additional 8% are near threatened ...

Number of bird species is between 9,800 and 10,400 depending on the taxonomic classification methods 🌼

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Happy birding 💧

Depend on the Lord trust Him and He will take care of you. Psalm 37:5

(Depending on ones perspective )

Lots of small reproductive flowers (I think) and some fine showy sterile ones. Hydrangeas come in pink and blue, and in a combination of the two, depending on the circumstances of their growth.

Thanks for looking! Isn't God a great artist?

Outbuildings of sea villas .... Donville les bains - Manche - Normandy

Après plusieurs années d'exil pour le travail, je reviens enfin avec plaisir dans ma région d'origine ... Une page se tourne Je dis au revoir à la Normandie et bientôt de retour en Auvergne !!

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After several years of exile for work, I am finally returning with pleasure to my region of origin ... A page turns I say goodbye to Normandy and soon to be back in Auvergne !!

Voy a estar unos días ¿Cómo se dice? Ah, sí, ON/OFF. Dependiendo de redes WiFi gratuitas. Esta foto os puede servir de reposo.

El templo actual es el heredero de un cenobio nacido en el siglo IX (año 850) y que siglos más tarde pasó a depender del Monasterio de Oña, convirtiéndose en priorato.

La actual iglesia románica se erigió en algún momento indeterminado de la primera mitad del siglo XII.

El edificio sorprende por su esbeltez y airosidad, no sólo por la torre que se yergue vertical sobre el primer tramo de la nave, sino también por la altura del propio cuerpo de la iglesia en relación a su anchura. San Pedro de Tejada es la prueba de que el románico no es una arquitectura achaparrada en absoluto.

The current temple is the heir to a monastery born in the 9th century (year 850) and that centuries later became dependent on the Monastery of Oña, becoming a priory.

The current Romanesque church was erected at some indeterminate time in the first half of the 12th century.

The building is surprising for its slenderness and airiness, not only because of the tower that rises vertically over the first section of the nave, but also because of the height of the body of the church itself in relation to its width. San Pedro de Tejada is the proof that Romanesque architecture is not squat at all.

A different way of seeing objects and/or things. Simple things that are around us, can be imagined in different ways or ways, it just depends on our imagination.

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Um jeito diferente de ver objetos e/ou coisas. Coisas simples que estão ao nosso redor, podem ser imaginadas de formas ou jeitos diferentes, depende apenas da nossa imaginação.

No match :  NO GUITAR @ TMD. Marketplace

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Je me trouve à Alcoutim , ( Portugal ) petite ville nichée sur une colline , dans une courbe du fleuve frontalier avec L ' Espagne , Le Guadiana .

Ce village d ' une blancheur éclatante sous le soleil est espagnol , juste en face d' Alcoutim !

Charme d' Alcoutim avec ses ruelles étroites et escarpées ... et les ruines de son château médiéval !

Au bord du fleuve , on peut voir des statues de marbre qui rappellent que cette ville a été , jusqu'à la 1ère moitié du XXè siècle un haut lieu de la contrebande transfrontalière dont dépendait la survie de centaines et centaines d' habitants !

It depends of kind of organism you are...trees could be a whole universe, a toothpick or a toilet paper.

L’interprétation de chacun de ces visages dépend avant tout du regard du spectateur.

Gouttes de pluie (Raindrops). 2016.

Samuel Salcedo, 1975, Barcelone, Espagne.

La Ceja, Colombia; 2.300 meters above sea level. The red colour comes from the berrie clusters on the Cotoneaster tree.

Tangara labradorides labradorides

(Metallic-green tanager / Tangara verdinegra)

Metallic-green Tanagers inhabit humid montane forests in the Andes in Colombia, Ecuador, and Peru. They are mostly blue-green in color, although strongly they appear to be blue or green can change, depending upon light conditions.

Their diet consists almost entirely of arthropods and fruits. Metallic-green Tanagers are usually found in pairs or small groups and often join flocks consisting of multiple tanager species.

There are two recognized subspecies of the Metallic-green Tanager (Storer 1970):

-labradorides Boissinneau 1840; type locality Santa-Fé de Bogota [Colombia]

Occurs in western and central Colombia and in western Ecuador (Storer 1970, Hilty and Brown 1986, Ridgely and Greenfield 2001).

-chaupensis Chapman 1925; type locality Chaupe, Cajamarca, Peru

Occurs in southeastern Ecuador and in northern Peru (Storer 1970, Ridgely and Greenfield 2001, Schulenberg et al. 2007).

neotropical.birds.cornell.edu/Species-Account/nb/species/...

52:52 We once saw a mural in Maidstone that said “What you see depends on where you stand”. Use this as your inspiration.

I shot this some time ago for this week's theme.

We had a really warm fall but it seemed to change over night!

On this morning there was frost on my car but the sun was still very warm. So standing in my driveway where we get little sun I was able to shoot a cold frosty shot. Just around the corner where there was lots sun there was grass growing.

I thought it was very cool.

This years's challenge was both fun and a learning experience and I look forward to the upcoming challenges in 2017!

Typical boat from the Spanish East, it receives different names depending on the place, in this case, in the Valencian Albufera "albuferenc"

Barca típica del levante español (este), recibe diversos nombre según el lugar, en este caso, en la Albufera valenciana "albuferenc"

“The future depends on what you do today.”

― Mahatma Gandhi

Eric Prydz - Opus

www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ib-9szQU9jM

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Head: LeL EvoX

Body: Maitreya Lara

Hair: Doux - Pink

Ears: L'Etre - Ringed Mesh Ears

Skin: Skinnery

Outfit: r2 A/D/E hiten[Red]Maitreya

Boots: r2 A/D/E hiten[Red]Maitreya

Rings: ^^Swallow^^ Shiny Bento

Necklace: [AlternatiVe] Alyssa

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An interesting dove named after its bright emerald green wings. This is common bird in the forests of India found much across the country from the South to the North. I had seen them several times whizzing past suddenly when we least expect it.

They are often seen in small pairs of 2-3 foraging on the ground searching for fallen fruit or other seeds. But then these birds are quite shy and prefer a quiet place rather than some place that is easily accessible. The temple area on the edge of a forest that we visit has a couple of these birds that can sighted throughout the year (depending on the luck though).

Thanks in advance for your views and feedback. Much appreciated.

When you're someplace beautiful and peaceful, a place that calms you and rejuvenates you at the same time, you tend to want to stay there, as long as possible.

That must have been how this lone boater on Diamond Lake was feeling at the time I took this photo.

I know I didn't want to leave.

It amazes me how the colors on Mt. Thielsen change depending on the lighting. Of course, that's Thielson on the left

The White-crowned Sparrow is a large sparrow with a small bill and a long tail. The head can look distinctly peaked or smooth and flat, depending on the bird’s attitude.

For photographic 😊 fun 😊 challenge group,

Smile on Saturday, topic:- Uniflorna

A recent garden visitor and much welcomed guest...

The Gatekeeper, also known as the Hedge Brown, is a golden butterfly that provides a welcome sight in the middle of summer, when the fresh adults start to emerge. They favour warmer climes and after the prolonged record-breaking heatwave hereabouts, there is no shortage of them. Colonies vary in size depending on the available habitat, and can range from a few dozen to several thousand butterflies. Worth enlarging on its eye for better details. Have a lovely weekend, my friends.

Depending on what part of the U.S. one is in, this heron has caught a crawfish, crayfish or crawdad. . .same freshwater crustacean similar to a small lobster.

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(L)a prensa internacional está manipulada. Y las razones de dicha manipulación son diversas. Hay, por ejemplo, razones ideológicas: entre las actividades humanas, los medios de comunicación son los más manipulados porque son instrumentos para determinar la opinión pública, algo que puede ocurrir de maneras diversas, dependiendo de quién los gestione. Hay diversas técnicas de manipulación. En los periódicos, se puede llevar a cabo una manipulación según lo que se escoja colocar en la primera página, según el título y el espacio que dedicamos a un acontecimiento. En la prensa hay cientos de maneras de manipular las noticias. Y otros cientos existen en la radio y en la televisión. Y sin decir mentiras. El problema de la radio y de la televisión es que no es necesario mentir: podemos limitarnos a no decir la verdad. El sistema es muy sencillo: omitir el tema. La mayor parte de los espectadores de la televisión reciben de forma muy pasiva lo que ésta les ofrece. Los patronos de los grandes grupos televisivos deciden por ellos qué deben pensar. Determinan la lista de las cosas en que pensar y qué pensar sobre ellas. No podemos pre-tender que el telespectador medio pueda llevar a cabo estudios independientes sobre la situación del mundo, sería imposible incluso para los especialistas. El ciudadano medio, que trabaja, vuelve a casa cansado y quiere tan sólo estar un rato con su familia, recibe únicamente lo que le llega en esos cinco minutos de telediario. Los temas principales que dan vida a las «noticias del día» deciden qué pensamos del mundo y cómo lo pensamos.

(…) El problema de las televisiones y, en general, de todos los medios de comunicación, es que son tan grandes, influyentes e importantes que han empezado a construir un mundo propio. Un mundo que tiene poco que ver con la realidad. Pero, por otro lado, estos medios no están interesados en reflejar la realidad del mundo, sino en competir entre ellos. Una cadena televisiva, o un periódico, no puede permitirse carecer de la noticia que posee su rival directo. Así, todos ellos acaban observando no la vida real, sino a la competencia.

(…) Naturalmente, hay revistas, boletines y sobre todo libros que ofrecen una imagen más equilibrada y completa, pero son para minorías, para grupos pequeños de especialistas. Para el gran público, la información es sólo el resultado de la competencia, de la lucha entre los grandes medios de comunicación. Y eso es otra historia.

El otro tipo de manipulación es la consciente.

(Los cínicos no sirven para este oficio, págs. 59, 60, 61 y 62) Ryszard Kapuscinski

DSC04946. Castillo Templario de Ponferrada. Declarado Monumento Nacional de Interés Histórico y Artístico in 1924, el castillo es el resultado de una larga serie de ampliaciones, reformas y adiciones que van desde el primero llevado a cabo cerca de la planta cuadrada a principios del siglo 12, hasta las últimas zonas construidas a finales de los siglos 15 y principios de los 16. Tan pronto como Ponferrada pasó a depender de la Orden del Temple en 1178, por el regalo de los Reyes de León, los caballeros templarios encontraron una pequeña fortaleza que en un principio actuó como un asentamiento celta. Los caballeros reforzaron y reconstruyeron el recinto amurallado con el fin de proteger y guardar el camino de los peregrinos de Santiago y defender la entrada a la zona noroeste de la península. El castillo alberga ahora la exposición permanente "Templum Libri" en libros y facsímiles. Esta es una de las mejores colecciones del mundo de su tipo.

Declared a National Monument of Historic and Artistic Interest in1924, the Castle is the result of a long series of enlargements, refurbishments and additions ranging from the first one carried out near the square ground plan in the early 12th century, up to the last areas built in the late 15th and early 16th centuries. As soon as Ponferrada became dependent on the Order of the Temple in 1178, by gift of the Kings of León, the Templar knights found a small fortress that originally acted as a Celtic settlement. The knights reinforced and rebuilt the walled enclosure in order to protect and guard the Way of St. Jame’s pilgrims ad defend the entrance to the Northwest area of the peninsula. The rehabilitates palace suites host now the permanent exhibition “Templum Libri” on books and facsimiles, graphic cart and authors collections. This is one of the world’s best collections of its kind.

Barn Owl - Tyto Alba

Like most owls, the barn owl is nocturnal, relying on its acute sense of hearing when hunting in complete darkness. It often becomes active shortly before dusk and can sometimes be seen during the day when relocating from one roosting site to another. In Britain, on various Pacific Islands and perhaps elsewhere, it sometimes hunts by day. This practice may depend on whether the owl is mobbed by other birds if it emerges in daylight. However, in Britain, some birds continue to hunt by day even when mobbed by such birds as magpies, rooks and black-headed gulls, such diurnal activity possibly occurring when the previous night has been wet making hunting difficult. By contrast, in southern Europe and the tropics, the birds seem to be almost exclusively nocturnal, with the few birds that hunt by day being severely mobbed.

Barn owls are not particularly territorial but have a home range inside which they forage. For males in Scotland this has a radius of about 1 km (0.6 mi) from the nest site and an average size of about 300 hectares. Female home ranges largely coincide with that of their mates. Outside the breeding season, males and females usually roost separately, each one having about three favoured sites in which to conceal themselves by day, and which are also visited for short periods during the night. Roosting sites include holes in trees, fissures in cliffs, disused buildings, chimneys and haysheds and are often small in comparison to nesting sites. As the breeding season approaches, the birds move back to the vicinity of the chosen nest to roost.

Once a pair-bond has been formed, the male will make short flights at dusk around the nesting and roosting sites and then longer circuits to establish a home range. When he is later joined by the female, there is much chasing, turning and twisting in flight, and frequent screeches, the male's being high-pitched and tremulous and the female's lower and harsher. At later stages of courtship, the male emerges at dusk, climbs high into the sky and then swoops back to the vicinity of the female at speed. He then sets off to forage. The female meanwhile sits in an eminent position and preens, returning to the nest a minute or two before the male arrives with food for her. Such feeding behaviour of the female by the male is common, helps build the pair-bond and increases the female's fitness before egg-laying commences.

Barn owls are cavity nesters. They choose holes in trees, fissures in cliff faces, the large nests of other birds such as the hamerkop (Scopus umbretta) and, particularly in Europe and North America, old buildings such as farm sheds and church towers. Buildings are preferred to trees in wetter climates in the British Isles and provide better protection for fledglings from inclement weather. Trees tend to be in open habitats rather than in the middle of woodland and nest holes tend to be higher in North America than in Europe because of possible predation.

This bird has suffered declines through the 20th century and is thought to have been adversely affected by organochlorine pesticides such as DDT in the 1950s and '60s.

Nocturnal birds like the barn owl are poorly monitored by the Breeding Bird Survey and, subject to this caveat, numbers may have increased between 1995-2008.

Barn owls are a Schedule 1 and 9 species.

Population:

UK breeding:

4,000 pairs

Europe:

110-220,000 pairs

Is this Bottle really Blue ?

Depends on the Light that’s shining through

But mind you, it is made of Glass

Which could easily break, alas !

So come what may

It must survive this very Day

Please remember - it was only made

For this CrAzY Tues-Day

(Caren)

[Dedicated to CRA (ILYWAMHASAM)]

😄 Happy CrAzY TuEsDaY 😄

Taken 10.07.2020 and uploaded for

Crazy Tuesday #GlassBottles

Panasonic Lumix DMC-FZ200

ƒ/2.8

4.5 mm

1/15 Sec

ISO 400 .

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please respect my ©copyright : Do not use any image or text without my previous written authorization, NOT even in social networks. If you want to use a photograph, please contact me!

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Meine Fotos und Texte sind ©copyright geschützt (alle Rechte vorbehalten) und dürfen ohne meine vorherige und schriftliche Zustimmung NICHT von Dritten verwendet werden, auch nicht in sozialen Netzwerken. Falls Interesse an einem Foto besteht, bitte ich um Kontaktaufnahme!]

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Head - AZOURY | Nicodeme Robotic Head | @ Cosmopolitan Aug 13 - 25th.

Body - Maitreya | Mesh body, Lara.

Hand - CURELESS [+] | Sliced Torso / BLACK.

Pose - BellePoses | Amy 3.

When the light reaches the throat of the Brazilian Ruby Hummingbird (male), the green feathers change to golden or to ruby depending on the angle you are looking and the angle the of the light itself.

In these two photos you can see part of the transformation: golden in the first photo and light ruby (something more similar to orange) in the second photo. But I assure to you that the throat really changes to vibrant ruby tone depending of the light and movement of the bird too.

7 fun facts about hummingbirds

1- The indigenous gave very suggestive names to the hummingbirds, which perfectly described these charming birds:

For the "Caraíbas indians", they were the “colibris”, which means “resplendent area”.

The "Tupis" called them “guainumbis”, that is, “sparkling birds”.

For the "Guarani indians", on the other hand, hummingbirds were the “mainumbis”, that is, “those who enchant, next to the flower, with its light and splendor”.

2- Its huge heart, which represents 19 to 22% of the total body weight, facilitates the rapid circulation of blood.

3- In a single day, they are able to ingest nutritious substances up to 8 times their body weight.

4- Some hummingbirds develop average speeds ranging from 30 to 70 km per hour and the vibration of the wings can reach 50 to 70 beats per second.

5- They are the only birds that can literally stand still in the air, take off and land vertically, and even reverse in mid-flight.

6- The spectacular color of hummingbirds originates from the phenomenon of refraction of light, through the microstructure of the feathers. The color changes, observed in the same bird, vary according to the angle of incidence of sunlight or the movement of the body.

7- They say that Igor Sirkorski, who invented the helicopter, based his ideas on the continuous observation of the flight of hummingbirds. However, the helicopter cannot fly upside down. Hummingbirds can.

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But as autumn approaches, certain influences both inside and outside the plant cause the chlorophylls to be replaced at a slower rate than they are being used up. During this period, with the total supply of chlorophylls gradually dwindling, the "masking" effect slowly fades away. Then other pigments that have been present (along with the chlorophylls) in the cells all during the leaf's life begin to show through. These are carotenoids they give us colorations of yellow, brown, orange, and the many hues in between.

The reds, the purples, and their blended combinations that decorate autumn foliage come from another group of pigments in the cells called anthocyanins. These pigments are not present in the leaf throughout the growing season as are the carotenoids. They develop in late summer in the sap of the cells of the leaf, and this development is the result of complex interactions of many influences - both inside-and outside the plant. Their formation depends on the breakdown of sugars in the presence of bright light as the level of a certain chemical (phosphate) in the leaf is reduced.

But in the fall, phosphate, along with the other chemicals and nutrients, moves out of the leaf into the stem of the plant. When this happens, the sugar-breakdown process changes, leading to the production of anthocyanin pigments. The brighter the light during this period, the greater the production of anthocyanins and the more brilliant the resulting color display that we see. When the days of autumn are bright and cool, and the nights are chilly but not freezing, the brightest colorations usually develop.

In the United States of America, we've created a situation already where too many people have had to work for a corporation in order to have health care. Even something simple as a broken bone can cost someone thousands of dollars out of pocket in this country. I've personally known colleagues who have literally worked until they dropped dead because, otherwise, they wouldn't be able to afford chemotherapy.

So, when corporations recently stepped up and said they would help pay for their employees to travel out of state for an abortion, the first impulse was to be "grateful that corporations were taking a stand," But, as in the corporations sponsoring the Pride parade, many of these corporations have supported anti-choice legislators. All this leads me to a few points....

1. Corporations won't save us. In most places in the world, profit is valued over people and even in countries outside the US where they have health care for all people, corporations have a very strong pull with the government and policy.

2. We should follow the money in terms of what corporations actually truly support and hold them accountable.

3. When you have to depend on a corporation for body autonomy, this is a very bad situation.

4. There will always be individuals in our country who are artists and do not work for a corporation. These are humans who should be celebrated not punished. If we want creative ideas and individual thought, we need to realize that body autonomy and health care should be provided to all citizens.

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the photographer's ability to understand his fellow man :-)

Edward Weston

HGGT! justice Matters! Indict Trump!

cosmos, little theater garden, raleigh, north carolina

I clean the feeding place every one or two days, depending on how much the birds have eaten.

Depending on season and weather, it's always a completely different view. The sun was hidden here behind a cover of clouds for a long time until it was visible just before sunset.

Sonnenuntergang an den Schrammsteinen - je nach Jahreszeit und Wetter immer ein völlig anderes Bild. Hier war die Sonne lange hinter einer geschlossenen Wolkendecke versteckt bis sie sich kurz vor dem Untergang doch noch sehen ließ.

Depending on the weather almonds blossom between March and April in the Palatinate, Germany.

In der Pfalz blühen je nach Witterung zwischen März bis April die Mandeln.