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Jasper was explaining to me how he uses Fourier Transforms to figure out the trajectory of his ball and understand the periodicity of the ball bouncing and blah, blah blah. He even wrote it all out on the whiteboard for me, but I'm still a little hazy on the whole thing. Its humbling to have such a smarty pants for a dog.
Natural ice in the Netherlands is a rare occurrence. In fact, some winters there's no natural ice at all. Maybe that explains why the Dutch love to skate outdoors. They hardly ever get the chance! But when a cold wave hits, and the interconnected maze of canals, rivers and lakes freeze over, it's a spontaneous celebration, a national holiday. Businesses close their doors and everyone goes skating.
The Alblasserwaard tour starts in the town of Kinderdijk, a tourist mecca famous for its windmills. (Molentocht means windmill tour.) The Krimpenerwaard is one of the oldest polders in Holland, dotted with ancient villages, and you can skate through nine of them in a day. (Negendorpentocht means Nine Villages Tour.) You can read about the area's history in this Krimpenerwaard site.
Aside from the scenery, the joys of Dutch skating are the companionship of other skaters, and the delicious food served up along the canals. With so many skaters on the ice, you're guaranteed to find someone who skates at your speed, and gets hungry or thirsty with the same regularity.
The rocks of the Racetrack Playa are composed of dolomite and syenite, the same materials that make up the surrounding mountains. They tumble down due to the forces of erosion, coming to rest on the parched ground below. Once they reach the level surface of the playa, the rocks somehow move horizontally, leaving perfect tracks behind them to record their path.
Many of the largest rocks have left behind trails as long as 1,500 feet, suggesting that they've moved a long way from their original location. Rocks with a rough-bottomed surface leave straight tracks, while smooth-bottomed rocks tend to wander. The sailing stones have been observed and studied since the early 1900s.
In 2014, scientists were able to capture the movement of the stones for the first time using time-lapse photography. The results strongly suggest that the sailing stones are the result of a perfect balance of ice, water, and wind. In the winter of 2014, rain formed a small pond that froze overnight and thawed the next day, creating a vast sheet of ice that was reduced by midday to only a few millimeters thick. Driven by a light wind, this sheet broke up and accumulated behind the stones, slowly pushing them forward.
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This picture represents and interesting event in this chick’s life history. Up to this point, at least during the time I was lucky enough to be watching, the most Junior would do was peck at his food. He relied upon Mom to tear up the prey and feed it to him. They demonstrated a very close bond, lots of Mom preening her pride and joy and sometimes Junior preening Mom. This shot was taken close to sunset. Mom took the foot shown in her beak, a body part Junior in the past seemed to relish, and flew to a nearby branch. From there she made a call I hadn’t heard before. It was explained to me by Karen, a woman also watching, that Mom was attempting to entice Junior to make the short flight from the nest branch to where she was perched with the tasty tidbit. I hadn’t seen the chick attempt to fly but his feathers had grown in a lot and it would not have surprised me to see a short flight. Unfortunately, I can’t get back to the nest until after Junior will have fled the coup but hope he or she has a bright future and will not move too far from the neighborhood. (Bubo virginianus). (Sony a1ii, 400mm lens, f/3.2, 1/2000 second, ISO 3200).
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Jardin Charles-Trenet on Rue Brillat-Savarin, Maison Blanche (13e)
Paris, France 31.05.2022
Der Welterklärer
Morgen ist ein anderer dran.
Jardin Charles-Trenet an der Rue Brillat-Savarin, Maison Blanche (13e)
Paris, Frankreich 31.05.2022
Southbound through Sax passing the small parking lot and DNR bird info board explaining the Sax/Zim bog.
art can suggest
what art suggests silently
poetry speaks aloud
but what poetry fails to explain in words
can be expressed with music
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Ybor City, FL......I was heading back to my car and at the last minute I decided to bop my head in the Blind Tiger. I saw him sitting at a table against the wall.......I approached him, introduced myself and explained my project......When I asked for his name, he said, 'Noel"......with permission, he allowed me to photograph him....thank you, Noel ❤️❤️❤️🙏🙏🙏🙏
This December winter's day began with a spectacular display of clouds. We get these saucer-shaped clouds regularly, and I didn't know what to call them until a weather forecaster for BBC Scotland explained them. So this particular day I was clicking as we drove along (me in the passenger seat!) as the sky performed a dazzling lenticular dance! An hour later and it had all vanished!
"Lenticular clouds are stationary clouds that form mostly in the troposphere, typically in parallel alignment to the wind direction. They are often comparable in appearance to a lens or saucer." Wiki
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What are you thankful for? Tomorrow is Thanksgiving Day here in the United States, and despite the turmoil here and throughout the world over the last few months, there’s still much to be thankful for. Allow me to explain it through this image: I spent two weeks in the mountains of North Carolina this October specifically to try to define autumn in astonishing ways with the camera… as that area has been in a drought since June, that effort was a difficult one. Clouds are the canvas that sunrises and sunsets project their palettes of color to, but they often refused to cooperate this year.
I was disappointed with weather predictions that entire trip and this morning was no different… hoping for clouds the evening before and on the drive up to Rough Ridge, I got exactly what I was looking for… clouds! The only problem was that they weren’t where I expected them to be. It was still dark when I set up here, and you could see stars down on the horizon… not a good sign. As the sun rose, it was blue skies for sure… yet, with this inversion layer of clouds giving their best impression of a turbulent ocean crashing on an island shore, and the brilliant sun breaking through this colorful autumnal screen, I am no less than thankful for what it gave me.
Did you ever stop to think that it’s quite impossible to be discontented and thankful at the same time? Thankful people see blessings amidst burdens. As does the sun, indifferent of clouds, blessings shine on and eventually break through.
I am thankful to call you all friends this Thanksgiving. “Give thanks in all circumstances; for this is God’s will for you in Christ Jesus” (1 Thessalonians 5:18).
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my sweet little sunshine, my little sister Peanut. We may not have the same parents, but you are the closest person I have to a sister, and you know how much I've always wanted siblings!, and I'm so happy your in my life. Peanut has the biggest kindest heart and is one of a kind, beautiful inside and out! ***she RP's as blind to explain the pose and eyes**
Luxemburgo - Museo Dräi Eechelen
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ENGLISH
Musée Dräi Eechelen (literal translation: Three Acorns Museum) is a museum in the Kirchberg district of Luxembourg City in the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg. Opened in July 2012 in the fully restored 18th-century Fort Thüngen, its permanent exhibition traces Luxembourg's history from 1443 to 1903.
The museum is housed in the fully restored Fort Thüngen, built by the Austrians in 1732 to reinforce the Fortress of Luxembourg. In 1836 and in 1859–60, it was extended by the Prussians forming part of the outer defences known as the Grünewald Front (Front de Grünewald). As a consequence of the 1867 Treaty of London, most of the building was demolished apart from its three rounded turrets, colloquially known as Dräi Eechelen (Luxembourgish) or Les Trois Glands (French), meaning "The Three Acorns".
In 1996, the Luxembourg authorities approved the development of a so-called Musée de la Forteresse (Fortress Museum) in Fort Thüngen with a view to "illustrating and explaining the nature of the fortress of Luxembourg in regard to the history of the city, the territorial development of the country and the cultural identity of the nation". The museum forms part of Luxembourg's National Museum of History and Art.
Some 600 artefacts in the permanent exhibition illustrate the history of the city and country of Luxembourg from the Burgundian conquest in 1443 to the construction of the Adolphe Bridge in 1903. They are exhibited in a series of casemates (or underground galleries), six of which cover specific periods from the medieval fortress (1443-1643) to the height of the city's development (1883-1903). Two further casemates house a multimedia room and a series of photographs illustrating the city and the fortress in the 19th century. With its striking underground galleries and passageways, the building itself forms an important part of the permanent exhibition. It has been restored to reflect the last phase of its original expansion in 1837.
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ESPAÑOL
El Museo Dräi Eechelen funciona en el restaurado Fuerte Thüngen, un excepcional edificio histórico construido entre 1732 y 1733.
La exposición del museo comienza con la Edad Media mostrando la captura de la ciudad por los borgoñones en 1443 y finaliza con la construcción del Puente Adolfo en 1903.
La visita consta de unos 600 objetos y documentos originales, muchos de ellos inéditos, que dan testimonio de la riqueza de la colección del museo. Una habitación especialmente diseñada contiene fotografías históricas que ilustran la fortaleza antes y durante su desmantelamiento.
El principal objeto de exposición es el complejo histórico. Su espectacular sistema de galerías y minas subterráneas se conserva en gran parte en el estado de su última fase de construcción entre 1836 y 1837.
El auditorio presenta la película Luxemburgo 4D que muestra las fluctuaciones políticas, económicas, culturales y sociales de Luxemburgo en el siglo XX.
This is a very strange picture so I'll explain it to you. The Snowy Egret on the rock is a print on canvas, (my photo) that stands on our glass shelved etagere. There are three small white rocks on the shelf and one sand dollar shell.
Here's the story: Benni and I were with Don at San Onofre Beach collecting little rocks for this shelf while Don body boarded and after Benni was done running in the surf.
I looked and looked for a few little white rocks among all the very colorful, gold, gray, brown, red, big rocks and had only found two. Benni walked over a few feet from where I was standing and nosed the rock right in the middle of the picture. She then stood back and looked at me as if to say, "Here's a nice one." I agreed, picked it up and put it in my pocket.
Only someone who lives with a dog will probably believe this.
Mark’s cousin is very talented as an Artist/Maker and created this as a gift for Mark following time spent together in Japan.
Normally, Jongmyo Shrine is only open for guided tours on most days. However, I was able to get in without a guided tour because it was on a Saturday which was the only day not needing a guided tour. Still, I got a glimpse on how much importance South Koreans put on cultural education to their kids.
Right over here in this photo was a guide in hanbok explaining to the kids what was Jongmyo Shrine used in the past. A really interesting thing to note is that despite fast changes and foreign influence over the decades, Korea has still managed to keep many of its traditions.
Okay, so let me get this right. You bought the jewelry for Jorja but you say it can't be seen? So where is this jewelry worn?
The group from UK Cocoloco came to my town to do a live performance called Pilgrimage.
I was showed the artworld most famous wonder.They make me laugh so much...showing Newtons apple,Marguerite ,Salvador Dali ,the last super and here as you can admire Mona Lisa.
If by any chance you get to luck to experience them...don´t miss them if you like to laugh...
Red Foxes provide such a pleasurable splash of color amid the otherwise relatively monochromatic landscape of winter. I've been watching the fox population up here for decades and it's interesting the way that every five years or so, the fox community undergoes a shift in color .... For a few years, they will all be Red, as now. In some years, you begin to see numerous foxes with coats of many colors, a sort of calico of black, red and white .... Then for a number of years you see only black foxes.
This, at first look, seems like maybe it would be simple genetic drift within the population, but it appears to be cyclical and therefore one might suspect some variable influence within the environment.
This year, fox and lynx populations are low, an effect of an extremely low ebb in the amount of snowshoe hares available for dinner.
Interestingly, and this is an established fact, albeit one which has never been adequately explained ..... The abundance of rabbits in the northland follows a regular rise and fall, more of a boom and crash, which is closely correlated with the 11 year cycle of sunspot activity. This year, along with a nearly total lack of magnetic storms on the 90 million mile distant sun, we have almost no snowshoe hares ... they are rare.
At other times, during solar maximum, they are virtually everywhere .... At those times, in the course of a drive along the Alaska Highway, you will see literally hundreds of rabbits. Now, virtually none.
The Old Jewish Cemetery, Prague, Czech Republic. “Old Jewish Cemetery is the largest Jewish cemetery in Europe and one of the most important Jewish historical monuments in Prague. It served its purpose from the first half of 15th century till 1786.” I had wanted to visit this remarkable cemetery for many years because of its incredible history. “During the more than three centuries in which it was in active use, the cemetery continually struggled with the lack of space. Piety and respect for the deceased ancestors does not allow the Jews to abolish old graves. Only occasionally the Jewish Community was allowed to purchase grounds to expand the cemetery and so many times it had to gain space in other ways; if necessary, a new layer of soil was heaped up on the available area. For this reason, there are places where as many as twelve layers now exist. Thanks to this solution the older graves themselves remained intact. However, as new levels were added it was necessary either to lay over the gravestones associated with the older (and lower) graves to protect them, or else to elevate the stones to the new, higher surface. This explains the dense forest of gravestones that one sees today; many of them commemorate an individual who is buried several layers further down.”
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I've been meaning to shoot (and post) pics for two groups to which I belong, though have yet to participate in. Turns out today is the Trifecta for FGR... giving me the perfect opportunity to get off my bum and join the fray.
If you will notice, one of the groups included in the trifecta is SOOC Fridays, which just so happens to be a group I've been wanting to contribute to since it began (a short few weeks ago).
This prompted me to take, and more importantly post, this shot for all you lovelies to see. Despite the fact that this, coupled with the shot for 183/ is making my stream awfully risqué all of a sudden. Not really my intention, just the way it's shaped up.
The image itself is rather weak...
Sure my bits are strategically covered, though not as creatively as could be.
And yeah, I'm caught in the act of missing him... which, while definitely criminal, is not very humorous.
Obviously this is SOOC, as it needs all sorts of help!
And it is Friday.
(futab anyone?)
So there's my explanation. If you made it this far, thanks for indulging me.
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