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Devils Tower (Lakota: Matȟó Thípila ("Bear Lodge") or Ptehé Ǧí ("Brown Buffalo Horn") (Arapaho: Wox Niiinon [4]) is an igneous intrusion or laccolith in the Black Hills near Hulett and Sundance in Crook County, northeastern Wyoming, above the Belle Fourche River. It rises dramatically 1,267 feet (386 m) above the surrounding terrain and the summit is 5,114 feet (1,559 m) above sea level.
Devils Tower was the first declared United States National Monument, established on September 24, 1906, by President Theodore Roosevelt. The Monument's boundary encloses an area of 1,347 acres (545 ha).
In recent years, about 1% of the Monument's 400,000 annual visitors climb Devils Tower, mostly using traditional climbing techniques.[5]
In an effort to emulate the amazing photography of Igor Siwanowicz photo.net/photos/siwanowicz I posed my Devil Flower Mantis.
"She's a devil in disguise
You can see it in her eyes
She's telling dirty lies
She's a devil in disguise
In disguise"
The kea is a highly intelligent alpine parrot who lives on the South island of New Zealand.
Besides intelligent, the bird is extremely curious. A somewhat nasty habit is it is biting all rubber from cars or trying to get whatever other interesting (like my lens hood :-)
I enjoyed photographing this beautiful bird though, in its habitat and free as a bird!
Taken hand held near Milford Sound.
Title and lyrics are from 'Christine's song' by The Flying Burrito Brothers.
I love winter in the Sierra Nevada Mountains. It means plenty of opportunity to practice my long exposure time skills. This is Devil's Creek Falls and is accessible only by a dirt road with 1000 foot drops into the American River Canyon and a 107-year old suspension bridge with a 3/100 safety rating. The things we do for photographs.
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Placer County, CA
This elaborately carved wooden devil mask is in the collection of the MAP museum in Mexico City. It was made by the Horta family from Tocuaro, Michoacan
Prepared controlled fire burn today at Devils Tower.
Taken with drone outside of National Monument.
Photographed 17Oct2017
Devil's Club, Oplopanax horridus, grows in moist areas all over the Pacific Northwest. On occasion I have had to pull thorns of this plant from my hands. Often after returning home. Thorns break off easy and are sometimes below the skin level. Photo taken along, the around the lake trail at Lost Lake Oregon near Mount Hood.
Yesterday Kaycee and I played tourist again in the off season;-) Very rarely does Kaycee have a weekend off so, it was nice to get away and do something fun.
Very cheeky mr. Devil but I make my own decisions here! Taken on my holiday. Holzmarkt, Berlin.
TTartisan (AF) 27mm f2.8
1- Scientific name = Datura metel
2- English name = devil's trumpet , Hairy thorn-apple
3- Family = Solanaceae
4- Arabic name = داتورا ماثلة
The moral theology of the devil starts out with the principle: “Pleasure is sin.” The he goes on to work it the other way: “All sin is pleasure.”
After that he points out that pleasure is practically unavoidable and that we have a natural tendency to do things that please us, from which he reasons that all our natural tendencies are evil and that our nature is evil in itself. And he leads us to the conclusion that no one can possibly avoid sin, since pleasure is inescapable.
After that, to make sure that no one will try to escape or avoid sin, he adds that what is unavoidable connot be a sin. Then the whole concept of sin is thrown out the window as irrelevant, and people decide that there is nothing left except to live for pleasure, and in that way pleasures that are naturally good become evil by de-ordination and lives are thrown away in unhappiness and sin.
Thomas Merton, The Moral Theology of the Devil
In 1906, President Teddy Roosevelt named Devils Tower the nation's first national monument.. It is the 867' high core of an igneous intrusion (magma which cooled underground) exposed from millions of years of erosion by the Belle Fourche river and the weather. The tower and base rise 1267' above the surrounding plain in the Black Hills, with the summit at 5114' above sea level. The dramatic ending of the 1978 movie "Close Encounters of the Third Kind" was filmed at Devils Tower. About 5000 climbers from all over the world attempt to get to the top of the tower. It is a sacred place for the Lakota and other plains Indian tribes and there is a voluntary climbing ban in June, which most follow, out of respect for American Indian beliefs.
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The name ‘Devil’s Hole’ is a dramatic one but was only invented in the 19th century.
Formerly it was called ‘Le Creux de Vis’ or Spiral Cave on the island of Jersey.
One possible derivation for its modern name is connected with the shipwreck of a French boat in 1851.
Its figurehead was thrust by the tide straight into the hole and a local sculptor transformed the torso into a wooden devil, complete with horns.
Today this devil’s metal replica stands in a pool on the way down to the crater, lending a peculiarly supernatural atmosphere to the winding path down to the Devil’s Hole itself.