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I had been out looking for birds, without luck, before the light totally disappeared and as I got back to the car I discovered that this Northern Cardinal had been keeping my other half amused while he sat in the car and did a Sudoku puzzle. Typical!!
Pompei
is a city and comune in the Metropolitan City of Naples in Italy, home of the ancient Roman ruins part of the UNESCO World Heritage Sites.
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The Roman Forum
surrounded by the ruins of several important ancient government buildings at the center of the city of Rome.
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Dwarsgracht a l'air d'un charmant village sorti tout droit de la peinture du grand maître Peder Mørk Mønsted. C'est tellement regrettable que je l'ai découvert au début d'un après midi, l'heure vraiment pas favorable pour prendre des photos ! Cela fait perdre totalement son côté idyllique !
Dwarsgracht looks like a charming village straight out of a painting by the great master Peder Mørk Mønsted. It's so unfortunate that I discovered it at the beginning of an afternoon, the really bad time to take pictures! It completely loses its idyllic side!
The Pantheon
is a former Roman temple, now a Catholic church (Basilica di Santa Maria ad Martyres or Basilica of St. Mary and the Martyrs), in Rome, Italy, on the site of an earlier temple commissioned by Marcus Agrippa during the reign of Augustus (27 BC – 14 AD).
It was completed by the emperor Hadrian and probably dedicated about 126 AD.
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Everything is this compact town is so perfect – the Market Square, the Cathedral, the numerous parks all look as if they were crafted by artists of note, which they were!
The city is very well preserved and clean to boot. It is almost like a stage set, nay, make that a movie set, perhaps a Disney flick?
Every window has lace curtains and flower boxes with geraniums, all the buildings are in good repair, and the architecture is infinitely interesting. Low-country designs of the Middle Ages were a matter of pride; every detail down to the outline of a window frame is beautifully proportioned.
In the heart of the downtown, motor vehicles are prohibited, except for deliveries during restricted hours, making it one of the easiest walking cities of the world, safe and well-signed. The winding cobbled streets, adjacent to the canals, are shared by pedestrians and the occasional horse-drawn carriage. Sweepers follow the horses and keep the streets litter free.
Restaurants serve authentic Belgian cooking, a strong rival to French cuisine, as well as numerous international style dishes. Fresh fish, cooked a thousand different ways, is plentiful, as are beautiful homegrown vegetables. Of course, this country is famous for its chocolate, a worthy choice for dessert. My own personal favorite Belgian meal is carpes frites plus pommes frites, which would be called ‘fish and chips’ anywhere else, but is in fact a perfect delicacy here in Bruges.
Lost Unicorn
maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Lost%20Unicorn/145/175/25
See Zee's amazing take on this scene here:
flickr.com/photos/zeenebula/53433507168/in/dateposted-pub...
Green Canyon
is a real paradise in a nature reserve, located in the Taurus Mountains.
It stretches for 14 kilometers and is part of a huge reservoir, formed as a result of the construction of the dam of the hydroelectric power station “Oimapinar” and impressive with its beauty.
I discovered these remnants on the last steps to the dock, noting two or three more on the lake bottom, and then another two on the bank. Something had discovered and devoured an entire clutch of duck eggs. I have a nesting box by the shore near the dock and have seen ducks (mainly hooded mergansers) regularly inspect it, but the only birds I ever knew to use it were a pair of house swallows and that only once. Unbeknownst to me, it was apparently in use this year as these remains surrounded the site. A mystery as to what feasted on these eggs as there are numerous suspects.
It sifts from leaden sieves
It sifts from leaden sieves,
It powders all the wood,
It fills with alabaster wool
The wrinkles of the road.
It makes an even face
Of mountain and of plain, —
Unbroken forehead from the east
Unto the east again.
It reaches to the fence,
It wraps it, rail by rail,
Till it is lost in fleeces;
It flings a crystal veil.....
An extract of a poem made by Emely Dickinson
(from the archives :-)
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“A goddess can be discovered by her gait.”
(Virgil, 70 BC-19 BC :-)
Seagull at Kaka Point, South Island (New Zealand).
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