Fishing boat in the bay off Assos. Kefalonia, Greece.

wildflower

The siding signal at the north end of Clarks Grove protects the mainline while an empty northbound coke train patiently waits for two trains heading south.

Clarks Grove, Minnesota

UP Albert Lea Subdivision

Taken in a Cheshire garden on a sunny Feb day

One of the most esteemed Hereios, Apionid, asked for cephalopods today. Well, if Apionid wants cephalopods, it shall be so. San Francisco is only 1-1/2 hours away by passenger ferry, and until today I had never been on a passenger ferry! Then, just ½ an hour across town to Golden Gate park by way of the Muni streetcar/subway system, and then a ½ mile walk to The California Academy of Sciences, home to the Steinhart Aquarium, and voilà! A cephalopod!!

The host group today: Daily Tentacle.

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(Helogale parvula) or afrikaans Dwergmuishond

a small late afternoon visitor (shoulder hight about 7cm) in our camp ...

The bars are to keep the bloody 7 dwarfs out.

An ornate leprechaun standing by the door of a house in Idstein, Germany.

Cromwell Road, London.

One of many cryptic toad species that inhabit the Bornean rainforest. This small one was calling on a leaf at head height in Sarawak.

Tábor

Acalypha reptans

Another dari for Sonic

It is hard to get a sense of how big these boulders are until someone walks past them

Here are the Dwarf girls. I'm collectiong two this Saturday!! This was taken by the owner :)

And I have a question, are they Winter Whites or Campbells? :)

Zinnia x hybrida

Zinnia x hybrida cultivars are a cross between Zinnia elegans and Zinnia angustifolia. They have the short, compact size and profuse flowering of the former and the disease resistance of the latter. Flowers average between 2 and 3 inches in diameter.

Zinnia x hybrida is considered a dwarf group -- they have been bred to be much shorter and bushier than the species plants.

homeguides.sfgate.com/characteristics-zinnia-hybrida-9781...

This single flower and bud presage what I hope will be a Dwarf witch alder bush full of blooms soon.

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Lake Manyara

I have lots of leaves but only a few dwarf crested iris flowers so far. They are pretty little flowers, aren’t they? Bumblebees and hummingbirds like them. Deer don't.

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Here is my thirteenth build for my Iron Builder round against Letranger Absurde.

The special part is that killing "pithfork".

by the waterhole. Madikwe, South Africa.

Finaly I almost finished my dwarf army, I had started to do in far 2013. I tried to make it similar to Warhammer FB tabletop game.

Reedcutter pub, Cantley, Norfolk, dwarfed by the sugar beet factory.

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Dwarf 1954 Chevy Bel-air

1/2 scale replica

All Steel, Toyota Running Gear

Hand made by Gene Tweedy

Entered in 2016 Art of The Car Concourse

Kansas City, Mo

Picalena Lake,Cundinamarca,Colombia

Marin Dwarf Flax, Hesperolinon congestum. A rare rank 1B.1 serpentine endemic that's listed as a State and Federally Threatened species.

This artist's concept shows an auroral display on a brown dwarf. If you could see an aurora on a brown dwarf, it would be a million times brighter than an aurora on Earth.

Credits: Chuck Carter and Gregg Hallinan/Caltech

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Mysterious objects called brown dwarfs are sometimes called "failed stars." They are too small to fuse hydrogen in their cores, the way most stars do, but also too large to be classified as planets. But a new study in the journal Nature suggests they succeed in creating powerful auroral displays, similar to the kind seen around the magnetic poles on Earth.

"This is a whole new manifestation of magnetic activity for that kind of object," said Leon Harding, a technologist at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, California, and co-author on the study.

On Earth, auroras are created when charged particles from the solar wind enter our planet's magnetosphere, a region where Earth's magnetic field accelerates and sends them toward the poles. There, they collide with atoms of gas in the atmosphere, resulting in a brilliant display of colors in the sky. Read more: www.nasa.gov/jpl/powerful-auroras-found-at-brown-dwarf

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I have a collection of these in my small garden patch.

ZEISS MAKRO-PLANAR 100mm F/2 ZF

Taken in the lake District last year. The title suggested itself as all things are dwarfed by the mountains. This little tree seemed to be the only one in church praying to the Gods on high.

(Explore 2019 Sep 25, # 213)

Sieht aus wie aus einem Disney-Film. Kein Wunder, dass bei diesem Anblick eine solche Assoziation in mir aufkam. Tatsächlich aber soll das ein erweitertes Zutrittsloch zu einem Wolfsbau sein. Ich bleibe lieber bei meiner Vorstellung vom Zwergenhaus. ;-)

Looks like a setting from a Disney movie. No wonder at this sight that such a association came up in me. But in fact this shall be a extended access hole to a wolf den. I prefer to stay with my imagination of a dwarfs lodge. ;-)

At Axe Valley Wildlife Park

Just messing with combos to make some characters.

Left to right

Peter Crow-Feather, the bard

Grizwick, the dwarf

G'taan Tetrasun, the thunder warlocks

Hayshaw, the night elf of the dawnwood

Tulza, the Barbarian

might try this again, so let me know if you'd want that

While I have no possibilities to build with real bricks, I tried to create the atmosphere of battle with virtual bricks. May be you are tired from my Dwarfs and Warhammer themes, but I am not yet.

I like my old MOC Organ Gun very much and I think and this picture not the last one where I use this tiny artillery.

A male calling to females

The Dwarf Mongoose - this adorable little guy was standing guard on top of a termite mound.

A native Australian dwarf shrub related to the bottlebrush or calistemon.

Taken for Macro Mondays "Seeds" theme. The inside of a seed head from a dwarf tulip in the garden

Strangely they don't squeak when play-fighting

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Some of the structures around Taj Mahal are stunning examples of Mughal Architecture and would've made fantastic tourist destinations by themselves. But, they are dwarfed both literally and in terms of their stature, standing next to the majestic Taj Mahal.

This building is one such example. It is part of the boundary wall surrounding Taj Mahal.

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Ceres is a dwarf planet in the main asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter. After launching in 2021, the James Webb Space Telescope will help researchers discover more about the formation of the solar system by observing objects like Ceres in the main asteroid belt with its powerful infrared capability.

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope will study Ceres and other ‘building blocks’ of our solar system — asteroids.

Millions of asteroids roam our solar system. Many are clustered between Mars and Jupiter in the main asteroid belt while another group, known as Trojans, both lead and follow Jupiter. Webb will add many new observations to the growing body of research about asteroids, and will help us learn more about the origins and makeup of asteroids, providing clues to the history of how planets moved around in the early solar system.

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SAUERKIRSCHE, DWARF CHERRY, (Prunus cerasus).

Andere Bezeichnungen: ECHTE SAUERKIRSCHE, SAUERKIRSCHBAUM, WEICHSELBAUM, WEICHSELKIRSCHE, WEICHSEL.

Giftige Pflanzenteile : Blätter und Samen.

Verwendungen: Obwohl vor allem wegen seiner Früchte geschätzt, ist das Holz von Sauerkirsche aufgrund seiner reichen Farbe und widerstandsfähigen Natur für die Möbelherstellung wertvoll. Zudem sind Sauerkirsche Holzchips ein bevorzugtes Material zum Räuchern von Fleisch, da sie einen charakteristischen Geschmack verleihen, was eine weniger bekannte Nutzung über die schmackhafte Früchte hinaus unterstreicht.

Anpassungsstrategien: Sauerkirsche zeigt eine bemerkenswerte Winterhärte, die es ihr ermöglicht, in kalten Klimazonen zu überleben und zu gedeihen. Sie ist selbstfruchtbar, das heißt, ein einzelner Baum kann Früchte ohne Fremdbestäubung produzieren. Einige Varianten profitieren dennoch von Bestäubern, was eine flexible Reproduktionsstrategie darstellt, die für sowohl solitäres als auch symbiotisches Überleben günstig ist.

Geschichte & Legende: Der Sauerkirsche ist in alten Legenden verwurzelt, insbesondere in der griechischen Mythologie, wo er mit der Göttin der Obstbäume, POMONA, verbunden ist. Er war eine geschätzte Zutat bei römischen Festen und wurde in Schriften seit 300 v Chr. erwähnt, was auf eine langjährige kulturelle Bedeutung hinweist, die älter ist als die moderne Nomenklatur und Kategorisierung von Pflanzen.

Namensursprung: Der wissenschaftliche Name " Prunus cerasus " hat seine Wurzeln in der antiken Stadt Cerasus in der Türkei, wo die Römer die Frucht gefunden und sie nach ihr benannt haben sollen. Sein gebräuchlicher Name, " Sauerkirsche " spiegelt direkt den säuerlichen Geschmack der Frucht wider und unterscheidet sie von ihren süßeren Verwandten.

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A revisit of an old idea to make a minifig playing on the words "dwarf star". I might incorporate him into an loh story, he looks like he might fit there. (As a villain, of course. I have waaaay too many heroes already. :P )