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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.
Little Egret - Egretta garzetta
The little egret (Egretta garzetta) is a species of small heron in the family Ardeidae. The genus name comes from the Provençal French Aigrette, egret a diminutive of Aigron, heron. The species epithet garzetta is from the Italian name for this bird, garzetta or sgarzetta.
It is a white bird with a slender black beak, long black legs and, in the western race, yellow feet. As an aquatic bird, it feeds in shallow water and on land, consuming a variety of small creatures. It breeds colonially, often with other species of water birds, making a platform nest of sticks in a tree, bush or reed bed. A clutch of bluish-green eggs is laid and incubated by both parents. The young fledge at about six weeks of age.
Its breeding distribution is in wetlands in warm temperate to tropical parts of Europe, Africa, Asia, and Australia. A successful colonist, its range has gradually expanded north, with stable and self-sustaining populations now present in the United Kingdom.
It first appeared in the UK in significant numbers in 1989 and first bred in Dorset in 1996
In warmer locations, most birds are permanent residents; northern populations, including many European birds, migrate to Africa and southern Asia to over-winter there. The birds may also wander north in late summer after the breeding season, and their tendency to disperse may have assisted in the recent expansion of the bird's range. At one time common in Western Europe, it was hunted extensively in the 19th century to provide plumes for the decoration of hats and became locally extinct in northwestern Europe and scarce in the south. Around 1950, conservation laws were introduced in southern Europe to protect the species and their numbers began to increase. By the beginning of the 21st century the bird was breeding again in France, the Netherlands, Ireland and Britain. It has also begun to colonise the New World; it was first seen in Barbados in 1954 and first bred there in 1994. The International Union for Conservation of Nature has assessed the bird's global conservation status as being of least concern..
Superfast 11 passenger ship departure....
Location:Patras city coast/Peloponnese /Greece.
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The new atop the old. Expansion/extension to the Princess Margaret Cancer Centre. No. 3 of the Hospital Walk Series.
2006 October: The completion and opening date of a major expansion, the Frederic C. Hamilton building, designed as a joint venture by Studio Daniel Libeskind and Denver firm Davis Partnership Architects(architect of record). The new building opened on October 7, 2006, and is clad in titanium and glass. The project was recognised by the American Institute of Architects as a successful Building Information Modeling project
Civic Center Historic District
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A micro demonstration of why the universe is expanding :)
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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.
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
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Tomada en la Escala. Girona. Catalunya.
The Columbia County Courthouse, built in 1905, is an historic courthouse building located at 173 NE Hernando Avenue in Lake City, Florida. It was designed by architect Frank Pierce Milburn in the Classical Revival style of architecture. It was built with a dome and cupola, which were removed before 1989, but were restored in 2003 during a major renovation and expansion of the courthouse. In 1989, the Columbia County Courthouse was listed in A Guide to Florida's Historic Architecture, published by the University of Florida Press.
The Columbia County Courthouse is a contributing property in the Lake City Historic Commercial District.
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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.
"A little roughhousing amongst siblings."
The Urban Fox
Wild foxes have learned to adapt to the urban environment in order to survive. By nature, foxes are nocturnal and hunt at night, whereas the urban fox has adapted its behavior to survive and can be seen during daylight hours.
Locally, a fox vixen has located her den in the foundational remains of a razed building complex along the boardwalk at the Jersey Shore. She has six Kits, which can be seen frolicking in the debris and along the dunes during the day. The fox family has become local celebrities and unfortunately people have begun feeding them. Never feed wild animals. Although you may feel as if you’re helping them survive, you are actually harming them. Feeding foxes can alter their natural behavior and they may lose its fear of humans.
“Wildlife that is fed by people become less experienced at forging for their natural food and may become dependent on handouts that are not a part of their natural diets. This is especially true in juvenile animals that have not yet developed their own foraging skills and have little ability to fend for themselves once handouts cease.” ~ Julie King, Senior Wildlife Biologist
Please Do Not Feed the Wildlife!
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".
For more info: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_fox
Ten years ago panamanians approved the Panama Canal expansion in a referendum; now, after —110-million man hours, 292,000 tons of structural steel, 1.6 million tons of cement and 5 million cubic meters of concrete later —the project is finished.
The Panama Canal expansion project, also called the Third Set of Locks Project has doubled the capacity of the Panama Canal allowing the passage of post-Panamax-sized shipping vessels.
I took this picture last sunday when the Panama Canal Authority (ACP) was testing its newly finished second set of locks with transits by the Neopanamax dry bulk carrier MN Baroque owned by Switzerland’s shipping company SwissMarine.
Between 6 a.m. and 7 a.m. on June 26, China COSCO Shipping’s recently renamed 984-foot-long Panama will approach the new Agua Clara locks on the Atlantic side of the 50-mile long canal to begin the first official voyage through the expanded canal.
The new world pushes and expands / while the old world crumbles in inpands.
(close to Veenendaal, NL)
Grazzano Visconti è un borgo in provincia di Piacenza sorto nei primi anni del Novecento per volontà dell’imprenditore Giuseppe Visconti.
In quel periodo Visconti iniziò infatti il restauro e l’ampliamento del castello di Grazzano (costruito nel 1395) e presto intorno al castello inizia a svilupparsi un borgo in stile duecentesco fatto di case, botteghe artigiane e laboratori. Oggi il borgo conta poco meno di 400 abitanti ed è una meta turistica molto apprezzata.
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Grazzano Visconti is a village in the province of Piacenza town (Italy), founded in the early 1900s by entrepreneur Giuseppe Visconti.
During that period, Visconti began the restoration and expansion of Grazzano Castle (built in 1395), and a 13th-century-style village of houses, artisan workshops, and laboratories soon began to develop around the castle.
Today, the village has just under 400 inhabitants and is a popular tourist destination.
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Alteirinhos, Zambujeira do Mar, Odemira (Alentejo - Portugal)
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