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For Macro Mondays' #drips, drops and splashes theme
It's been a while since I've been here, but this really tapped into something I've wanted to try for ages. (And luckily it corresponded with the family all going off on scout camp and leaving me to my own devices for a few days....)
The background is a colouring-in sheet I completed years ago; even back then I appear to have been quite keen on rainbows!
The image is just over 2inches across.
I'm pretty certain there is no requirement to have motion for this theme, but I'm conscious this is a little different from others in the pool. It's definitely drops, though, and definitely under 3inches across, so hoping it fits.
Die U Bahn Station Wartenau wurde als Teil der sogenannten Wandsbeker U-Bahn errichtet, die den starken Straßenbahnverkehr auf der Wandsbeker Chaussee ersetzte. Damit wurde an der Oberfläche Platz für den sechsspurigen Ausbau der Bundesstraße 75 geschaffen. Die Eröffnung fand im Oktober 1961 statt. 2007 - 2008 renoviert.
The Wartenau U-Bahn station was built as part of the so-called Wandsbeker U-Bahn, which replaced the heavy tram traffic on Wandsbeker Chaussee. This created space on the surface for the six-lane expansion of federal highway 75. The opening took place in October 1961. Renovated from 2007 to 2008.
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1598
Muore Alfonso II, ultimo duca degli Estensi e i territori del Ducato di Ferrara passano allo Stato Pontificio. Nel frattempo il Delta del Po avanzava verso nord con rami di Tramontana, di Levante e di Scirocco.
Il Po di Tramontana, in particolare, cominciò con i suoi sedimenti ad alzare i fondali della laguna verso Chioggia.
1600-1604
Per timore che l'espansione a Nord-Est del Delta andasse ad interrare la laguna di Venezia, agli inizi del 1600 il Po fu deviato a sud verso la Sacca di Goro con un canale artificiale che è il suo letto attuale. Questo intervento detto "Taglio di Porto Viro", determinò l'inizio della formazione del Delta moderno.
Il vecchio letto divenne un canale navigabile, il Canal Bianco-Po di Levante. Se prima del 1600 il Delta si espandeva di circa 53 ettari l'anno, dal 1604 al 1840 si passò a 135 ettari l'anno.
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1598
Alfonso II, the last Duke of the Este family, dies and the territories of the Duchy of Ferrara pass to the Papal State. In the meantime, the Po Delta advanced northwards with branches of Tramontana, Levante and Scirocco.
The Po di Tramontana, in particular, began with its sediments to raise the depths of the lagoon towards Chioggia.
1600-1604
For fear that the north-eastern expansion of the Delta would bury the Venice lagoon, in the early 1600s the Po was diverted south towards the Sacca di Goro with an artificial canal which is its current bed. This intervention called "Taglio di Porto Viro", determined the beginning of the formation of the modern Delta.
The old bed became a navigable canal, the Canal Bianco-Po di Levante. If before 1600 the Delta expanded by about 53 hectares a year, from 1604 to 1840 it increased to 135 hectares a year.
Ente Parco Regionale Veneto del Delta del Po
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My work neighbour has quite a green thumb and as a result our little area in the office is inundated with plants.
I think it makes us work better with all the increased oxygen.
Con la expansión del Grand Tour en Europa, el Jardín Giusti se convirtió en una visita obligada para todos los grandes viajeros de paso por Verona -poetas, artistas, cabezas coronadas- como Cosme III, Charles de Brosses, Mozart, Goethe, Addison, Evelvyn, Ruskin... , el emperador José II, el rey Carlo Felice de Cerdeña y el zar Alejandro de Rusia con el mundo clásico, con pocas flores, pocos arbustos y árboles exóticos. Hoy todavía se puede ver la presencia de todos los elementos de moda en los jardines del siglo XVI: jarrones con cítricos, estatuas mitológicas, fuentes, cedro, cuevas, mascarones, hallazgos romanos y pabellones para detenerse a admirar la vista.
El jardín llano, dividido en nueve cuadrados, se divide en salas simétricas, dominadas por macizos de flores de boj y estatuas mitológicas de Diana, Venus, Atlas, Apolo, Adonis. El eje principal es la avenida bordeada de cipreses que conduce a la gruta y al mascarón, dejando a su derecha el laberinto y a su izquierda el parterre a la italiana, el jardín de cítricos y la llamada “vaseria”. Esta sección cuadrada y rigurosa del jardín recuerda la intervención arquitectónica del hombre, el orden y la simetría.
La sección arbolada del jardín, por otro lado, está diseñada para sorprender al visitante que camina por los senderos cuesta arriba a la sombra. El acantilado, la cueva, el juego de sombras y luces y las perspectivas se crean artificialmente para generar admiración, asombro y asombro. Una escalera secreta en una torre tallada en la roca conduce a la parte superior del jardín. Desde el mirador sobre la cabeza de la máscara se puede disfrutar de una de las vistas más famosas de la ciudad de Verona.
The Ribblehead Viaduct looks stark and strangely menacing in this light, while in the background is West Fell with Whernside - one of the Yorkshire Three Peaks - just out of shot to the right. The viaduct carries the Carlisle to Settle line. It dates from the 1870s when hundreds of railway builders ("navvies") lost their lives building the line from a combination of accidents, fights, and smallpox outbreaks. In particular, building the Ribblehead (then Batty Moss) viaduct, with its 24 massive stone arches 104 feet above the moor, caused such loss of life that the railway paid for an expansion of the local graveyard.
Location: Voorne-Putten, the Netherlands
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Detail of Nawa pavilion, an architectural sculpture by architect Oskar Zięta. Its polished stainless steel arches reflect the surroundings, changing the sculpture's appearance throughout the day.
Daliowa Island, Wrocław, Poland
The Dairy in the New Garden was built to plans by the master builder, Carl Gotthard Langhans, on the shore of the Jungfernsee lake at the northernmost tip of the New Garden in Potsdam, Germany. Construction was carried out from 1790 to 1792 by Andreas Ludwig Krüger.
In 1843/1844 Frederick William IV. had the building extended. To a design by the architect Ludwig Persius a second storey was added under the direction of Ludwig Ferdinand Hesse and the southwest corner was enhanced with a tower. Battlements run along the edges of the roof and give the building a Norman character.
A second expansion was carried out in 1857 with the engine or pump house, which was built to water the New Garden.The high, slender chimney is part of that technical modification.The upper basin for the supply of water is nowadays located within the Belvedere on the Pfingstberg.
n 1928 a restaurant was established in the building that became one of the most popular destinations for day trippers in Potsdam until the Second World War.
Its occupation by the Red Army at the end of 1945 and the destruction by fire of part of the building ended its gastronomic function. The dairy was still in this ruined condition when the Berlin Wall was built in 1961.
In 1991, after the Wende, renovation and restoration measures were carried out on the old building and, in 2003, it was able to re-open as a brewery and restaurant
Fotografía tomada el día 2 de septiembre de 2020 con cámara Nikon D3500
Picture taken on September 2, 2020 with a Nikon D3500 camera
Red Deer - Cervus elaphus
In Rut!
The red deer (Cervus elaphus) is one of the largest deer species. The red deer inhabits most of Europe, the Caucasus Mountains region, Asia Minor, Iran, parts of western Asia, and central Asia. It also inhabits the Atlas Mountains region between Morocco and Tunisia in northwestern Africa, being the only species of deer to inhabit Africa. Red deer have been introduced to other areas, including Australia, New Zealand, United States, Canada, Peru, Uruguay, Chile and Argentina. In many parts of the world, the meat (venison) from red deer is used as a food source.
The red deer is the fourth-largest deer species behind moose, elk and sambar deer. It is a ruminant, eating its food in two stages and having an even number of toes on each hoof, like camels, goats and cattle. European red deer have a relatively long tail compared to their Asian and North American relatives. Subtle differences in appearance are noted between the various subspecies of red deer, primarily in size and antlers, with the smallest being the Corsican red deer found on the islands of Corsica and Sardinia and the largest being the Caspian red deer (or maral) of Asia Minor and the Caucasus Region to the west of the Caspian Sea. The deer of central and western Europe vary greatly in size, with some of the largest deer found in the Carpathian Mountains in Central Europe.Western European red deer, historically, grew to large size given ample food supply (including people's crops), and descendants of introduced populations living in New Zealand and Argentina have grown quite large in both body and antler size. Large red deer stags, like the Caspian red deer or those of the Carpathian Mountains, may rival the wapiti in size. Female red deer are much smaller than their male counterparts.
The European red deer is found in southwestern Asia (Asia Minor and Caucasus regions), North Africa and Europe. The red deer is the largest non-domesticated land mammal still existing in Ireland. The Barbary stag (which resembles the western European red deer) is the only member of the deer family represented in Africa, with the population centred in the northwestern region of the continent in the Atlas Mountains. As of the mid-1990s, Morocco, Tunisia and Algeria were the only African countries known to have red deer.
In the Netherlands, a large herd (ca. 3000 animals counted in late 2012) lives in the Oostvaarders Plassen, a nature reserve. Ireland has its own unique subspecies. In France the population is thriving, having multiplied fivefold in the last half-century, increasing from 30,000 in 1970 to approximately 160,000 in 2014. The deer has particularly expanded its footprint into forests at higher altitudes than before. In the UK, indigenous populations occur in Scotland, the Lake District, and the South West of England (principally on Exmoor). Not all of these are of entirely pure bloodlines, as some of these populations have been supplemented with deliberate releases of deer from parks, such as Warnham or Woburn Abbey, in an attempt to increase antler sizes and body weights. The University of Edinburgh found that, in Scotland, there has been extensive hybridisation with the closely related sika deer.
Several other populations have originated either with "carted" deer kept for stag hunts being left out at the end of the hunt, escapes from deer farms, or deliberate releases. Carted deer were kept by stag hunts with no wild red deer in the locality and were normally recaptured after the hunt and used again; although the hunts are called "stag hunts", the Norwich Staghounds only hunted hinds (female red deer), and in 1950, at least eight hinds (some of which may have been pregnant) were known to be at large near Kimberley and West Harling; they formed the basis of a new population based in Thetford Forest in Norfolk. Further substantial red deer herds originated from escapes or deliberate releases in the New Forest, the Peak District, Suffolk, Lancashire, Brecon Beacons, and North Yorkshire, as well as many other smaller populations scattered throughout England and Wales, and they are all generally increasing in numbers and range. A census of deer populations in 2007 and again in 2011 coordinated by the British Deer Society records the red deer as having continued to expand their range in England and Wales since 2000, with expansion most notable in the Midlands and East Anglia.
Red Fox
The Red Fox, Vulpes vulpes, is the largest of the true foxes and the most abundant wild member of the Carnivora, being present across the entire Northern Hemisphere from the Arctic Circle to North Africa, North America and Eurasia. It is listed as least concern by the IUCN. Its range has increased alongside human expansion, having been introduced to Australia, where it is considered harmful to native mammals and bird populations. Due to its presence in Australia, it is included among the list of the "world's 100 worst invasive species".
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This is the ceiling of the Great Hall in the Library of Congress Thomas Jefferson Building. I can't get enough of The Library of Congress. My love for this incredible building in DC is immense. I think it is perhaps more interesting than most of the nearby Smithsonian Museums, thanks to the incredible architecture, artwork, and many exhibits.
Though the Library was founded 1800, the Thomas Jefferson Building was opened in 1897 after a significant period of expansion following the Civil War.
A fantastic morning a few days ago. The inversion was nice but the cloud rolled in and gave some gorgeous first light looking towards loch Lubnaig.
'Hiding from its prey'. Backlit by the mid-day autumn sunlight a Buzzard, Buteo buteo screeching and calling as it was soaring high and getting carried on the thermals of rising air to 'hide' from its prey.
Buzzards fly high up into the sky and are often seen circling as they use the thermals of rising air to slowly spiral themselves upwards.
These raptors have amazing vision and can spot moving prey from up to 1 mile away…that good is the Buzzards vision.
The Buzzard scans the landscape for traces of movement that betray the presence of rabbits, voles or mice. Its eyes are more forward facing than most birds’ and, like humans, it has binocular vision. But it can also create a telephoto optical system that detects and follows movement that would seem a blur to us.
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Buzzard Notes and Information:
Among the more unusual items recorded as being killed and eaten are puffins, frogs and dung beetles.
However, a hungry buzzard is quite capable of killing a wide variety of prey, ranging from rabbits to birds up to the size of a wood pigeon, but any larger prey tackled was probably already sick.
Numbers are greatest where the fields are smallest, as it favours abundant hedgerows and small woods.
Despite its impressive size, the buzzard is not a major predator, preferring a diet of carrion and earthworms.
It is thought that the buzzard is now our commonest bird of prey, pushing the kestrel into second place.
For the first time for 200 years they now breed in every county in England, Wales and Scotland.
While British buzzards are largely resident, many northern populations are highly migratory, many moving to Africa during the northern winter.
Once restricted largely to the west and north of mainland Britain, the last 15 years have seen a remarkable expansion of these birds to the east.
It doesn't like hot or arid areas either, so in Eastern Europe the long-legged buzzard replaces it.
Though the buzzard can tolerate areas of high rainfall, it prefers temperate climates, so is scarce or absent in the far north of Europe, where the rough-legged buzzard takes its place.
Each pair will have as many as 21 potential nest sites, usually changing to a fresh site every year.
Buzzards build their own nest, and they have a curious habit of decorating it with fresh green foliage.
Though most buzzards nest in trees, rocky crags or cliffs are also used.
This is a very adaptable species, able to survive in a wide variety of habitats from lowland farms to high mountains. Its main requirement is a tree at least 20ft high in which to nest.
Buzzards breed in every European country except Iceland, but are absent from some offshore island groups, including the Balearics.
It is because of its highly variable plumage that the French call it the buse (buzzard) variable.
Buzzards have remarkably variable plumage. Most individuals are brown and heavily marked, but some are almost white.
Buzzards have never been popular with falconers, as they tend to be far too lazy to be taught to fly at live quarry.
In the USA, the word buzzard is often used to describe the native turkey vultures. The two species are not related.
In Scotland, many tourists hoping to see an eagle mistake buzzards for their quarry. Any big bird of prey sitting on a telegraph pole is most likely a buzzard.
The buzzard's enthusiasm for eating carrion makes it especially vulnerable to poison baits, often put out to kill other predators such as foxes, living with birds notes.
The new world pushes and expands / while the old world crumbles in inpands.
(close to Veenendaal, NL)
En estos tiempos no es fácil hablar de una especie que esté en expansión, pero curiosamente es el caso de la Curruca cabecinegra ( Sylvia melanocephala). Su reino, el matorral mediterráneo, cada vez ocupa más extensión, quizá por el abandono de muchas zonas de campo. En la fotografía un macho en Sierra Morena.
In these times it is not easy to speak of a species that is expanding, but curiously it is the case of the Sardinian Warbler (Sylvia melanocephala). His kingdom, the Mediterranean scrub, occupies more and more extension, perhaps due to the abandonment of many areas of the countryside. In the photograph a male in Sierra Morena. SW Spain
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Alteirinhos, Zambujeira do Mar, Odemira (Alentejo - Portugal)
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Rondeau Provincial Park, Ontario, Canada, Aug 24, 2021.
Worked the hedge for food but didn't come down to the water.
Vermivora cyanoptera
Blue-winged Warblers have expanded northward as landscapes changed to shrubbier habitats. This northward expansion increased contact and hybridization with Golden-winged Warblers. This hybridization and competition contributes to Golden-winged population declines.
source- Cornell Lab of Ornithology.