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The Big Wheel, Scott Monument and the Sky flyer, with the German Markets and Winter wonderland.
Princess Street Gardens Edinburgh.
A LeConte's Thrasher!!!! My first! I have wanted to see one for years. Been out in the Mojave many many times and now I have one on my list! He should be called the ghost thrasher!
Skeleton of desert plant. Studio still life. Photo based mixed medium image. Extreme image softness, textures, and grain.
Here's Quigley, looking out the window making sure all his territory is secure. No invading cats or mailmen shall pass without hearing his bark!
I have heard this bell called a cow head bell and a cow horn bell, don't care what the correct name is, I just like to heat it ring!
The bell was covered with rust and crust when I found it at a yard sale last Fall. I probably paid too much , but something about piqued my interest, even though there was no clapper.
When it was new from the foundry, it was clean and rang loud and clear, but sometime over the years the clapper was lost and the bell fell into disuse. For over six months the old rusty bell sat in my basement, then last week, I found a clapper that fit. After a few hours invested taking the bell apart, brushing, cleaning and painting, it again rings loud and clear.
I woke up at 3:00 AM on 2 May thinking about the parallels I have with the old bell. Jesus saved me in 1960 at age 10, for a few years I rang loud and clear, then for a while, not so loud. The Master paid too much for me to not ring out loud and clear, and I think that was what drew me to the old bell. Take time every day, Jesus will remove the rust and crust from your life!!
Balancing elements + transmitted light: the engraved names are placed according to the rule of thirds on the bottom, taking 1/2 of the space in the frame. The memorial is also placed according to the rule of thirds on the top taking 1/2 of the space in the frame.
A leaf sampler from our property:) Mimosa, Chinese Pistache, Honey Locust, Shantung Maple, Mulberry, Golden Rain, Rhus trilobata, Smoke tree and Desert Willow.
The surface of this wetlands is covered in an amazing collage of aquatic plants and scums which provide food for the many water birds, ducks and fish that live here. The patterns of this growth keep changing as new elements are added... an occasional fallen leaf or bit of reed. Walking the boardwalk here provides a delightful and ever-changing study in green.
Algae (Latin for "seaweed") are a large and diverse group of simple, typically autotrophic organisms, ranging from unicellular to multicellular forms, such as the giant kelps that grow to 65 meters in length. Algae are found in the fossil record dating back to approximately 3 billion years in the Precambrian. They exhibit a wide range of reproductive strategies, from simple, asexual cell division to complex forms of sexual reproduction.
Algae lack the various structures that characterize land plants, such as phyllids (leaves) and rhizoids in nonvascular plants, or leaves, roots, and other organs that are found in tracheophytes (vascular plants). Many are photoautotrophic, although some groups contain members that are mixotrophic, deriving energy both from photosynthesis and uptake of organic carbon either by osmotrophy, myzotrophy, or phagotrophy. Some unicellular species rely entirely on external energy sources and have limited or no photosynthetic apparatus.
See my set, Wetlands and their inhabitants.
Wakodahatchee Wetlands, Delray Beach, FL
....a bonfire symbolically burns all the dead wood from the old Chalet, leaving just the new office standing in all it's glory....all it's PINK glory.
The Needles
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Needles is a row of three stacks of chalk that rise about 30m out of the sea off the western extremity of the Isle of Wight, United Kingdom, close to Alum Bay, and part of Totland, the westernmost civil parish of the Isle of Wight. The Needles Lighthouse stands at the outer, western end of the formation. Built in 1859, it has been automated since 1994.[5] The waters and adjoining seabed form part of the Needles Marine Conservation Zone and the Needles along with the shore and heath above are part of the Headon Warren and West High Down Site of Special Scientific Interest.[6][7]
The formation takes its name from a fourth needle-shaped pillar called Lot's Wife, which collapsed in a storm in 1764.[8] The remaining rocks are not at all needle-like, but the name has stuck.
The Needles were featured on the BBC Two TV programme Seven Natural Wonders (2005) as one of the wonders of Southern England.
The Needles lie just to the southwest of Alum Bay, and are a tourist draw. Scenic boat trips operate from Alum Bay that offer close-up views of the Needles. The rocks and lighthouse have become icons of the Isle of Wight, often photographed by visitors, and are featured on many of the souvenirs sold throughout the island.[citation needed]
The main tourist attractions of the headland itself are the two gun batteries, the experimental rocket testing station, and the four Coastguard cottages owned by the National Trust.[citation needed]
A branch of the National Coastwatch Institution is also based at the Needles, sited near the New Battery and Rocket Testing Site on High Down.
The Needles – Landmark Attraction (previously known as The Needles Pleasure Park) situated at the top of the cliff at Alum Bay is a small amusement park. A Chairlift operates between the park and the beach.
Military use.
The Needles were a site of a long-standing artillery battery, from the 1860s to 1954, which was eventually decommissioned.[citation needed]
A nearby site on High Down was employed in the testing of rockets for the British ICBM programme.[9] The headland at High Down was used for Black Knight[10] and Black Arrow[11] rocket engine tests from 1956–71. During the peak of activity in the early 1960s some 240 people worked at the complex, while the rockets were built in nearby East Cowes. These rockets were later used to launch the Prospero X-3 satellite. The site is now owned by the National Trust, and is open to the public. Concrete installations remain, but the buildings that were less durable have either been demolished or were torn down by the elements.
In 1982, Prince Charles officially opened the restored Needles Old Battery facility. Underground rocket testing rooms are currently being restored for exhibition. The first phase of restoration was completed in 2004.[12]