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A red fox (captive animal), with its long bushy tail and luxurious winter coat stands in the snow, looking at the camera. Red foxes are omnivores, primarily eating small rodents. They widely distributed throughout Canada, the northern US and Europe, right up to the Arctic where they overlap, and to some extent out-compete, the smaller Arctic foxes.
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Before knowing the weather condition of the Himalayan region we should understand its geography. The Himalayan region covers an area of 2,250 km with an average width of 200 km.
The forest belt of the Himalayan region consists of Oak, Rhododendron, Birch, Pine, Deodar, and Fir. And the monsoon season in this region lasts for mid June till the end of September. The Himalayas influences the meteorological conditions in the Indian subcontinent to the south and in the Central Asian highlands to the north to a great extent. It acts a climatic divider circulating the air and water system to a great extent. Because of its altitude and location it blocks the passage of the cold winds coming from the north to the Indian sub continent thereby making India's climate much more moderate. It also influences the rainfall pattern in India. The combined effect of rainfall, latitude and altitude largely influences the forests belts in the Himalayan region. The rainfall is mostly recorded during the monsoon time of June to September but it decreases as you travel from east to west. The snow-capped ranges of the Himalayas stretch 2, 250 km from the Namcha Barwa to Nanga Parbat on the Indus. The range extends from east to west up to central-Nepal and then takes a southeast to northwest direction.
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A happy life must be to a great extent a quiet life, for it is only in an atmosphere of quiet that true joy dare live.
(British philosopher, mathematician, historian, social critic and political activist , 1872 - 1970)
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The extent of this area is quite large, so there are lots of plants to photograph.
Thanks to the staff of the Botanic Gardens for maintaining it so well.
These woodpeckers feed, to a great extent, on sap and cambium (inner bark) which they obtain by drilling holes in the trunks of trees. These peculiar holes indicate the presence of Yellow-bellied Sapsuckers in the area.
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Can you "feel" the places where you live?
Do you perceive any relation between your feelings and the geography of your daily path? Are emotions and places connected by some extent? What does your personal landscape look like? Do you ever feel alienated, a stranger in your own place ?
I think it is possible to some extent. However, the accuracy varies depending on the master's ability to read palmistry.
SN/NC: Echinacea Purpurea, Asteraceae Family
Echinacea purpurea, the eastern purple coneflower, purple coneflower, hedgehog coneflower, or echinacea, is a North American species of flowering plant in the family Asteraceae. It is native to parts of eastern North America and present to some extent in the wild in much of the eastern, southeastern and midwestern United States as well as in the Canadian Province of Ontario. It is most common in the Ozarks and in the Mississippi/Ohio Valley. Its habitats include dry open woods, prairies and barrens.
Echinacea is derived from Greek, meaning 'spiny one', in reference to the spiny sea urchins 'εχίνοι' which the ripe flower heads of species of this genus resemble. The epithet purpurea means 'reddish-purple'. Originally named Rudbeckia purpurea by Linnaeus in 1753 in Species plantarum 6, it was reclassified in 1794 by Conrad Moench, in a new genus named Echinacea purpurea (L.) Moench. In 1818, Thomas Nuttall describes a new variety that he named Rudbeckia purpurea var. serotina. Just two decades later, De Candolle raised him to the rank of species of the other genus Echinacea serotina (Nutt.) DC. (1836). In 2002, Binns et al. discovered a misapplication of the name Echinacea purpurea (L.) Moench for the taxon correctly named Echinacea serotina (Nutt.) DC. in 1836. The authors proposed to retain the names not to cause confusion among gardeners and herbalists. Other names include: Broad-leaved purple coneflower, Eastern Purple Coneflower, Hedgehog Coneflower, Echinacea.
A equinácea é uma planta medicinal, também conhecida como flor-de-cone, púrpura ou rudbéquia, rica em alcamidas, flavonóides e polissacarídeos, com propriedades anti-inflamatórias, antialérgicas e imunomoduladoras, sendo, por isso, muito utilizada como remédio caseiro no tratamento de gripes e resfriados, aliviando a coriza e a tosse.
Ela é uma espécie norte-americana de planta com flores na família Asteraceae, a mesma do girassol e das margaridas e dálias. É nativa do leste da América do Norte e presente em grande parte do leste, sudeste e centro-oeste dos Estados Unidos, bem como na província canadense de Ontário e British Columbia, para mencionar algumas. É mais comum nos Ozarks e no Vale dos Rios Mississippi e Ohio. Seus habitats incluem bosques abertos secos, pradarias e áridos. Echinacea é derivado do grego, que significa 'espinhoso', em referência aos ouriços-do-mar espinhosos 'εχίνοι', aos quais as cabeças de flores maduras de espécies deste gênero se assemelham. O epíteto purpurea significa 'roxo-avermelhado'. É uma linda flor.
L'Echinacea purpurea, l'echinacea viola orientale, l'echinacea viola, l'echinacea riccio o l'echinacea, è una specie di pianta da fiore nordamericana della famiglia delle Asteraceae. È originario di parti del Nord America orientale e in una certa misura è presente allo stato selvatico in gran parte degli Stati Uniti orientali, sudorientali e centro-occidentali, nonché nella provincia canadese dell'Ontario. È più comune negli Ozarks e nella valle del Mississippi/Ohio. I suoi habitat includono boschi aperti asciutti, praterie e aridi.
Echinacea deriva dal greco, che significa 'spinoso', in riferimento ai ricci di mare spinosi 'εχίνοι' a cui assomigliano i capolini maturi di specie di questo genere. L'epiteto purpurea significa 'porpora rossastro'
Echinacea purpurea, de oostelijke paarse zonnehoed, paarse zonnehoed, egel zonnehoed of echinacea, is een Noord-Amerikaanse soort bloeiende plant in de familie Asteraceae. Het is inheems in delen van Oost-Noord-Amerika en komt tot op zekere hoogte in het wild voor in een groot deel van het oosten, zuidoosten en middenwesten van de Verenigde Staten, evenals in de Canadese provincie Ontario. Het komt het meest voor in de Ozarks en in de Mississippi/Ohio-vallei. De habitats omvatten droge open bossen, weilanden en kale vlaktes.
Echinacea is afgeleid van het Grieks en betekent 'stekelige', verwijzend naar de stekelige zee-egels 'εχίνοι' waarop de rijpe bloemhoofdjes van soorten van dit geslacht lijken. Het epitheton purpurea betekent 'rood-paars'.
Echinacea purpurea , la equinácea púrpura oriental , la equinácea púrpura , la equinácea erizo o la equinácea , es una especie norteamericana de planta con flores de la familia Asteraceae . Es nativo de partes del este de América del Norte y está presente hasta cierto punto en la naturaleza en gran parte del este, sureste y medio oeste de los Estados Unidos, así como en la provincia canadiense de Ontario. Es más común en los Ozarks y en el valle de Mississippi/Ohio. Sus hábitats incluyen bosques abiertos secos, praderas y páramos.
Echinacea se deriva del griego, que significa 'espinoso', en referencia a los erizos de mar espinosos 'εχίνοι' a los que se asemejan las cabezas de flores maduras de las especies de este género. El epíteto purpurea significa 'púrpura rojizo'.
Echinacea purpurea, l'échinacée pourpre orientale, l'échinacée pourpre, l'échinacée hérisson ou l'échinacée, est une espèce nord-américaine de plante à fleurs de la famille des astéracées. Il est originaire de certaines parties de l'est de l'Amérique du Nord et est présent dans une certaine mesure à l'état sauvage dans une grande partie de l'est, du sud-est et du Midwest des États-Unis ainsi que dans la province canadienne de l'Ontario. Il est le plus courant dans les Ozarks et dans la vallée du Mississippi/Ohio. Ses habitats comprennent des bois ouverts secs, des prairies et des landes.
L'échinacée vient du grec et signifie « épineux », en référence aux oursins épineux « εχίνοι » auxquels ressemblent les inflorescences mûres des espèces de ce genre. L'épithète purpurea signifie « violet rougeâtre ».
Echinacea purpurea, der östliche Purpur-Sonnenhut, Purpur-Sonnenhut, Igel-Sonnenhut oder Echinacea, ist eine nordamerikanische Pflanzenart aus der Familie der Asteraceae. Sie ist in Teilen des östlichen Nordamerika beheimatet und bis zu einem gewissen Grad in freier Wildbahn in weiten Teilen des Ostens, Südostens und mittleren Westens der Vereinigten Staaten sowie in der kanadischen Provinz Ontario vorhanden. Es ist am häufigsten in den Ozarks und im Mississippi/Ohio Valley. Seine Lebensräume umfassen trockene offene Wälder, Prärien und Ödland.
Echinacea leitet sich aus dem Griechischen ab und bedeutet „stacheliger", in Anlehnung an die stacheligen Seeigel „εχίνοι", denen die reifen Blütenköpfe von Arten dieser Gattung ähneln. Der Beiname purpurea bedeutet „rötlich-lila".
إشنسا بوربوريا ، الصنوبريات الأرجوانية الشرقية ، الصنوبريات الأرجواني ، قنفذ القنفذ ، أو إشنسا ، هو نوع من النباتات المزهرة في أمريكا الشمالية في عائلة Asteraceae. هي موطنها الأصلي في أجزاء من شرق أمريكا الشمالية وتوجد إلى حد ما في البرية في الكثير من شرق وجنوب شرق وغرب الولايات المتحدة وكذلك في مقاطعة أونتاريو الكندية. هو الأكثر شيوعًا في أوزاركس وفي وادي المسيسيبي / أوهايو. تشمل موائلها الغابات المفتوحة الجافة والمروج والجبل.
إشنسا مشتق من اللغة اليونانية ، وتعني "الشوكة الواحدة" ، في إشارة إلى قنافذ البحر الشوكية "εχίνοι" التي تشبهها رؤوس الأزهار الناضجة لأنواع هذا الجنس. الصفة بوربوريا تعني "أرجواني محمر".
Echinacea purpurea、イースタン パープル コーンフラワー、パープル コーンフラワー、ハリネズミ コーンフラワー、またはエキナセアは、キク科の開花植物の北米種です。北米東部の一部に自生し、米国東部、南東部、中西部の多く、およびカナダのオンタリオ州にある程度野生で存在します。オザークとミシシッピ/オハイオ渓谷で最も一般的です.その生息地には、乾いた開けた森、大草原、不毛地帯が含まれます。
エキナセアは、この属の種の熟した花の頭が似ているとげのあるウニ「εχίνοι」に関連して、「とげのあるもの」を意味するギリシャ語に由来します。別名プルプレアは「赤紫色」を意味します。
At first glance, it's just another rocky California beach. Cool but not to exciting. One of the many I post here.
Then you notice the people in the upper left corner and begin to feel the true extent.
Santa Cruz, California.
Mangawhai is a locality in Northland, New Zealand around the Mangawhai Harbour. The township of Mangawhai is at the south west extent of the harbour, and the township of Mangawhai Heads is 5 km north east. Kaiwaka is 13 km south west, and Waipu is 20 km north west of Mangawhai Heads.
Shooting this area was one of the stranger places I've shot, and it could have been all in my head. There are a few square miles of farmed land surrounded by unfarmable mountainous areas. It's like a little secret pocket. There are maybe ten lived-in homes and a few abandoned houses.
The land is flat and if there's a car driving around anywhere in this little pocket, the dust kicked up from the roads tells you exactly where they are. I felt very seen and watched. This was definitely true, but to the extent it mattered, I'm not sure.
I can't imagine this area gets any visitors. You have to travel pretty far off the main roads to access it. So if you're there, you mean to be there.
I was driven by a few times, with the trucks stopping well off and perhaps watching me.
This happens sometimes, and it's always easy to diffuse with just a smile and a few friendly words. But that nobody actually approached me just wigged me out.
I quickly grabbed a few shots with the RB67 (I don't think I even took the time to set up the 4x5) and got the hell out.
A truck tailed me on the way out and then turned around after it was clear that I was leaving.
Again, could have been all in my head. The trucks could have stopped for other reasons. Maybe the guy tailing me turned around because he forgot something at home. Who knows?
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'Startled at Its Rising'
Camera: Mamiya RB67
Lens: Mamiya-Sekor 3.8/90mm
Film: Ilford HP5+
Process: 510-Pyro; 1+100; 8.5mins
Idaho
July 2022
Binevenagh, Magilligan peninsula , Northern Ireland
Binevenagh marks the western extent of the Antrim Plateau which formed around 60 million years ago by molten lava, inviting comparison with the more famous basalt formations at the "Giants Causeway" The steep cliffs have a vertical drop of more than 100m & the plateau extends for over 6 miles across the peninsula of Magilligan.
I always enjoy visiting here as the height gives you great views over Benone Strand, Donegal and on a clear day Scotland can be seen from up here! Nature was certainly busy to shape the land along this coast so uniquely millions of years ago
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Cabo da Roca (Cape Roca) is a cape which forms the westernmost extent of mainland Portugal and continental Europe (and by definition the Eurasian land mass). The cape is in the Portuguese municipality of Sintra, near Azóia, in the southwest of the district of Lisbon, forming the westernmost extent of the Serra de Sintra.
The lighthouse (Farol de Cabo da Roca) stands 22 metres at its base (its light commands a 165-metre beam from sea level). In addition to the main tower, the complex is composed of nine buildings, since prior to electrification, it was necessary to marshall a team to maintain the lamp, store valuable equipment and produce the Acetylene necessary to run the torch. Currently, the lighthouse supports a team of three lighthouse keepers, in order to monitor the lamp and signal/communicate between Cabo da Roca and Ericeira.
In extent the third largest stone circle in the country, situated on a slight rise in the Eden Valley between Little Salkeld and Glassonby. Like other local circles very early in date - Late Neolithic - about four and a half thousand years old.
In 1822 William Wordsworth wrote a poem entitled, "A Monument Commonly Called Long Meg and her Daughters".
He regarded the site second only to Stonehenge in importance calling it, " ... the most notable relic this or any country contains"
"I think the extent to which I have any balance at all, any mental balance, is because of being a farm kid and being raised in those isolated rural areas."
-- James Earl Jones (American actor who has been described as "one of America's most distinguished and versatile" actors for his performances on stage and screen, and "one of the greatest actors in American history"; and the voice of one of the greatest film characters of all time...Darth Vader)
Three bracketed photos were taken with a handheld Nikon D7200 and combined with Photomatix Pro to create this HDR image. Additional adjustments were made in Photoshop CS6.
"For I know the plans I have for you", declares the LORD, "plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future." ~Jeremiah 29:11
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Rock Creek sustained the most severe damage of all hatcheries. With the exception of the Rock Ed Education Center, all buildings and employee housing were either destroyed or severely damaged by the Archie Creek Fire. Staff access has been more limited than at other facilities due a number of hazards around the site including downed trees and power lines. Some hazards were eliminated to allow staff to get in Wednesday (Sept. 16), remove about 700 remaining adult spring Chinook and summer steelhead and move them to Cole Rivers Hatchery with the intent to spawn and collect enough eggs to meet Rock Creek’s production goals. Staff estimates 400,000 juvenile fish were lost and although the extent of fish loss is currently unknown, we expect to know more later.
Leopards were few and far between on this trip so when the opportunity arose we went a bit beserk to such an extent having spotted this one we watched where it went and followed. Next few days photos will be of this leopard
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Hybrid Perpetual ROSE— The dominant class of roses in Victorian England, they first emerged in 1838 and were derived to a great extent from the Bourbons.
They became the most popular garden and florist roses of northern Europe at the time, as the tender tea roses would not thrive in cold climates.
The "perpetual" in the name hints at repeat-flowering, but many varieties of this class had poor reflowering habits; the tendency was for a massive late spring bloom, followed by either scattered summer flowering, a smaller autumn burst, or sometimes nothing at all until next spring.
That year, although transplanted during our move, in WINTER!
They are opulent, however, this 'head' of 5 beauties opened yesterday... today it is mad, raining, thunder and lightning, so in between showers... yep, I rushed out, yep another 'rescue' job, lol.
I wanted to make this photo as a 'period' image.
There are no secrets... it only took me years of experimenting in the studio.
First, when you start photographing, you hit it with everything you've got, like all things in life, hihi, now it is less and less.
Just one spotlight set up in the position so that the light catches the edges and part of the flower... until I'm happy... a black bg.
Photography is LIGHT Art, also a way of life and seeing life, it is my passion, mental and emotional nourishment.
All I can say is experiment, experiment, experiment... the exposure is irrelevant because each flower, light source is different.
Make it your own!
Have a wonderful day, filled with love and thank you for your visit, M, (*_*)
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SN/NC: Echinacea Purpurea, Asteraceae Family
Echinacea purpurea, the eastern purple coneflower, purple coneflower, hedgehog coneflower, or echinacea, is a North American species of flowering plant in the family Asteraceae. It is native to parts of eastern North America and present to some extent in the wild in much of the eastern, southeastern and midwestern United States as well as in the Canadian Province of Ontario. It is most common in the Ozarks and in the Mississippi/Ohio Valley. Its habitats include dry open woods, prairies and barrens.
Echinacea is derived from Greek, meaning 'spiny one', in reference to the spiny sea urchins 'εχίνοι' which the ripe flower heads of species of this genus resemble. The epithet purpurea means 'reddish-purple'. Originally named Rudbeckia purpurea by Linnaeus in 1753 in Species plantarum 6, it was reclassified in 1794 by Conrad Moench, in a new genus named Echinacea purpurea (L.) Moench. In 1818, Thomas Nuttall describes a new variety that he named Rudbeckia purpurea var. serotina. Just two decades later, De Candolle raised him to the rank of species of the other genus Echinacea serotina (Nutt.) DC. (1836). In 2002, Binns et al. discovered a misapplication of the name Echinacea purpurea (L.) Moench for the taxon correctly named Echinacea serotina (Nutt.) DC. in 1836. The authors proposed to retain the names not to cause confusion among gardeners and herbalists. Other names include: Broad-leaved purple coneflower, Eastern Purple Coneflower, Hedgehog Coneflower, Echinacea.
A equinácea é uma planta medicinal, também conhecida como flor-de-cone, púrpura ou rudbéquia, rica em alcamidas, flavonóides e polissacarídeos, com propriedades anti-inflamatórias, antialérgicas e imunomoduladoras, sendo, por isso, muito utilizada como remédio caseiro no tratamento de gripes e resfriados, aliviando a coriza e a tosse.
Ela é uma espécie norte-americana de planta com flores na família Asteraceae, a mesma do girassol e das margaridas e dálias. É nativa do leste da América do Norte e presente em grande parte do leste, sudeste e centro-oeste dos Estados Unidos, bem como na província canadense de Ontário e British Columbia, para mencionar algumas. É mais comum nos Ozarks e no Vale dos Rios Mississippi e Ohio. Seus habitats incluem bosques abertos secos, pradarias e áridos. Echinacea é derivado do grego, que significa 'espinhoso', em referência aos ouriços-do-mar espinhosos 'εχίνοι', aos quais as cabeças de flores maduras de espécies deste gênero se assemelham. O epíteto purpurea significa 'roxo-avermelhado'. É uma linda flor.
L'Echinacea purpurea, l'echinacea viola orientale, l'echinacea viola, l'echinacea riccio o l'echinacea, è una specie di pianta da fiore nordamericana della famiglia delle Asteraceae. È originario di parti del Nord America orientale e in una certa misura è presente allo stato selvatico in gran parte degli Stati Uniti orientali, sudorientali e centro-occidentali, nonché nella provincia canadese dell'Ontario. È più comune negli Ozarks e nella valle del Mississippi/Ohio. I suoi habitat includono boschi aperti asciutti, praterie e aridi.
Echinacea deriva dal greco, che significa 'spinoso', in riferimento ai ricci di mare spinosi 'εχίνοι' a cui assomigliano i capolini maturi di specie di questo genere. L'epiteto purpurea significa 'porpora rossastro'
Echinacea purpurea, de oostelijke paarse zonnehoed, paarse zonnehoed, egel zonnehoed of echinacea, is een Noord-Amerikaanse soort bloeiende plant in de familie Asteraceae. Het is inheems in delen van Oost-Noord-Amerika en komt tot op zekere hoogte in het wild voor in een groot deel van het oosten, zuidoosten en middenwesten van de Verenigde Staten, evenals in de Canadese provincie Ontario. Het komt het meest voor in de Ozarks en in de Mississippi/Ohio-vallei. De habitats omvatten droge open bossen, weilanden en kale vlaktes.
Echinacea is afgeleid van het Grieks en betekent 'stekelige', verwijzend naar de stekelige zee-egels 'εχίνοι' waarop de rijpe bloemhoofdjes van soorten van dit geslacht lijken. Het epitheton purpurea betekent 'rood-paars'.
Echinacea purpurea , la equinácea púrpura oriental , la equinácea púrpura , la equinácea erizo o la equinácea , es una especie norteamericana de planta con flores de la familia Asteraceae . Es nativo de partes del este de América del Norte y está presente hasta cierto punto en la naturaleza en gran parte del este, sureste y medio oeste de los Estados Unidos, así como en la provincia canadiense de Ontario. Es más común en los Ozarks y en el valle de Mississippi/Ohio. Sus hábitats incluyen bosques abiertos secos, praderas y páramos.
Echinacea se deriva del griego, que significa 'espinoso', en referencia a los erizos de mar espinosos 'εχίνοι' a los que se asemejan las cabezas de flores maduras de las especies de este género. El epíteto purpurea significa 'púrpura rojizo'.
Echinacea purpurea, l'échinacée pourpre orientale, l'échinacée pourpre, l'échinacée hérisson ou l'échinacée, est une espèce nord-américaine de plante à fleurs de la famille des astéracées. Il est originaire de certaines parties de l'est de l'Amérique du Nord et est présent dans une certaine mesure à l'état sauvage dans une grande partie de l'est, du sud-est et du Midwest des États-Unis ainsi que dans la province canadienne de l'Ontario. Il est le plus courant dans les Ozarks et dans la vallée du Mississippi/Ohio. Ses habitats comprennent des bois ouverts secs, des prairies et des landes.
L'échinacée vient du grec et signifie « épineux », en référence aux oursins épineux « εχίνοι » auxquels ressemblent les inflorescences mûres des espèces de ce genre. L'épithète purpurea signifie « violet rougeâtre ».
Echinacea purpurea, der östliche Purpur-Sonnenhut, Purpur-Sonnenhut, Igel-Sonnenhut oder Echinacea, ist eine nordamerikanische Pflanzenart aus der Familie der Asteraceae. Sie ist in Teilen des östlichen Nordamerika beheimatet und bis zu einem gewissen Grad in freier Wildbahn in weiten Teilen des Ostens, Südostens und mittleren Westens der Vereinigten Staaten sowie in der kanadischen Provinz Ontario vorhanden. Es ist am häufigsten in den Ozarks und im Mississippi/Ohio Valley. Seine Lebensräume umfassen trockene offene Wälder, Prärien und Ödland.
Echinacea leitet sich aus dem Griechischen ab und bedeutet „stacheliger", in Anlehnung an die stacheligen Seeigel „εχίνοι", denen die reifen Blütenköpfe von Arten dieser Gattung ähneln. Der Beiname purpurea bedeutet „rötlich-lila".
إشنسا بوربوريا ، الصنوبريات الأرجوانية الشرقية ، الصنوبريات الأرجواني ، قنفذ القنفذ ، أو إشنسا ، هو نوع من النباتات المزهرة في أمريكا الشمالية في عائلة Asteraceae. هي موطنها الأصلي في أجزاء من شرق أمريكا الشمالية وتوجد إلى حد ما في البرية في الكثير من شرق وجنوب شرق وغرب الولايات المتحدة وكذلك في مقاطعة أونتاريو الكندية. هو الأكثر شيوعًا في أوزاركس وفي وادي المسيسيبي / أوهايو. تشمل موائلها الغابات المفتوحة الجافة والمروج والجبل.
إشنسا مشتق من اللغة اليونانية ، وتعني "الشوكة الواحدة" ، في إشارة إلى قنافذ البحر الشوكية "εχίνοι" التي تشبهها رؤوس الأزهار الناضجة لأنواع هذا الجنس. الصفة بوربوريا تعني "أرجواني محمر".
Echinacea purpurea、イースタン パープル コーンフラワー、パープル コーンフラワー、ハリネズミ コーンフラワー、またはエキナセアは、キク科の開花植物の北米種です。北米東部の一部に自生し、米国東部、南東部、中西部の多く、およびカナダのオンタリオ州にある程度野生で存在します。オザークとミシシッピ/オハイオ渓谷で最も一般的です.その生息地には、乾いた開けた森、大草原、不毛地帯が含まれます。
エキナセアは、この属の種の熟した花の頭が似ているとげのあるウニ「εχίνοι」に関連して、「とげのあるもの」を意味するギリシャ語に由来します。別名プルプレアは「赤紫色」を意味します。
Before knowing the weather condition of the Himalayan region we should understand its geography. The Himalayan region covers an area of 2,250 km with an average width of 200 km.
The forest belt of the Himalayan region consists of Oak, Rhododendron, Birch, Pine, Deodar, and Fir. And the monsoon season in this region lasts for mid June till the end of September. The Himalayas influences the meteorological conditions in the Indian subcontinent to the south and in the Central Asian highlands to the north to a great extent. It acts a climatic divider circulating the air and water system to a great extent. Because of its altitude and location it blocks the passage of the cold winds coming from the north to the Indian sub continent thereby making India's climate much more moderate. It also influences the rainfall pattern in India. The combined effect of rainfall, latitude and altitude largely influences the forests belts in the Himalayan region. The rainfall is mostly recorded during the monsoon time of June to September but it decreases as you travel from east to west. The snow-capped ranges of the Himalayas stretch 2, 250 km from the Namcha Barwa to Nanga Parbat on the Indus. The range extends from east to west up to central-Nepal and then takes a southeast to northwest direction.
www.himalaya2000.com/himalayan-facts/climate-of-himalayas...
The height of the tide in colour
Both these images are roughly the same view point (as the slippery pebbles would allow) The colour seems to be more about what first attracted me to this marker, the progressively diminishing rust marking the maximum extent of the tide
After inspecting northern pastoral lands in South Australia, devastated by a drought in 1864 - 1865, Surveyor-General George Woodroffe Goyder advised the colonial government to discourage farmers from planting crops to the north of a line delineating the extent of the 12-inch (30cm) annual rainfall.
Goyder’s findings were embodied in the first schedule of the Waste Lands Alienation Act 1872, which permitted farmers to purchase land on credit only within designated agricultural areas. From east to west, ‘Goyder’s Line of Rainfall’ ran approximately from the Hundred of Pinnaroo, swung northwest to the Hundred of Commooroo and the Melrose area, southwest through Yorke Peninsula to the Hundred of Wallaroo, then northwest across Eyre Peninsula from the Hundred of Hawker to south of Darke’s Peak, and across to the Hundred of Chilundie near Thevenard.
The law was short-lived; favourable seasons in the north encouraged the government to pass Act No. 22 of 1874 repealing the 1872 Act and allowing the sale of land under credit agreement outside ‘Goyder’s Line’. A run of bad seasons in the 1880s halted the northward progression, forcing many farmers to abandon their homesteads and, more often than not, a severely eroded landscape.
Surveyor-General George Woodroffe Goyder:
George Woodroffe Goyder (1826 - 1898), surveyor-general, was baptized on the 16th of July 1826 at Liverpool, England, son of David George Goyder, physician and Swedenborgian minister, and his wife Sarah, née Etherington. The family later moved to Glasgow where George studied surveying and was articled to a railway engineer. He migrated to Sydney in 1848. After three years with an auctioneering firm he visited Melbourne and went to Adelaide where he decided to settle. In June 1851 he entered the South Australian civil service as a draftsman and on 10 December at Christ Church, North Adelaide, married Frances Mary Smith.
Goyder joined the Department of Lands as chief clerk in January 1853. In quick stages he rose from second assistant to assistant surveyor-general in January 1857. In April he took charge of an exploration to report on country north of pastoral settlement. He was amazed to find Lake Torrens full of fresh water and its flourishing eastern surroundings very different from the desert described by Edward Eyre in 1839. His exuberant report persuaded the surveyor-general, Captain (Sir) Arthur Freeling, to examine the area in September. No more rain had fallen but hot winds had killed the vegetation and turned the lake into a bed of mud. Freeling returned to criticize Goyder for mistaking flood for permanent water, being misled by mirage and misconceiving the value of the northern country. Although Goyder had proved that Eyre's horseshoe of salt lakes was penetrable and thereby opened the way to further exploration, he was too conscientious to ignore his blunder and in 1859 at his own request led survey parties to triangulate the country between Lakes Torrens and Eyre and to sink wells. When Freeling resigned Goyder was recalled from the north to become surveyor-general on 19 January 1861 at a salary of £700.
Goyder's northern surveys had attracted many large pastoralists who soon demanded modified conditions for their leases. With extra duties as inspector of mines and valuator of runs Goyder went north to classify grazing leases, rents and rights of renewal. In less than twenty months he rode over 20,000 miles (32,186 km), visiting 83 stations and handling his departmental correspondence each night. When his valuations were published the outback lessees complained bitterly and inside pastoralists demanded re-assessment while smallholders and urban anti-squatters condemned any concession to hungry graziers. In this three-sided struggle four ministries rose and fell but Goyder stood firm. In 1865 three commissioners were sent north to reassess rents but found the country in severe drought. In November Goyder was directed to go north and from his own observations to lay down on the map 'the line of demarcation between that portion of the country where the rainfall has extended, and that where the drought prevails'. With a small mounted party he went to Swan Reach on the River Murray and thence north-west to Pekina, east to Melrose and returned through Crystal Brook to Adelaide. A map published in 1866 showed his line of travel with a wing sweeping east from the Murray to the Victorian border and another from Spencer Gulf far to the west.
Goyder's rainfall line was first used for the reassessment of leases and the relief of stricken pastoralists. After the drought broke in 1867 he cautiously admitted that his line separated 'to a certain extent' lands suitable for agriculture and those fit only for grazing. This statement strengthened the urban land reformers in the general election in April 1868. Led by Henry Strangways they introduced 'Agricultural Areas' where sections up to 320 acres (130 ha) were to be sold at auction on credit, thus enabling small farmers to compete against wealthy speculators. When the new Act was passed in January 1869 Goyder had chosen six areas, each with easy access to the coast. While the new sections were marked out he took 150 men to the Northern Territory where incompetence and delay in the surveys were causing much discontent. His prompt and firm action soon restored confidence. He recommended Palmerston (Darwin) as the capital site, completed the survey of 665,860 acres (269,467 ha) in six months, reported on traces of minerals and located a million acres (404,690 ha) of average quality suitable for the growth of tropical products. He sailed for Adelaide in November and next February visited Victoria to see the working of land regulations there. He disliked random selection before survey but his mission led to amendments of Strangways' Act. Liberal extensions of credit to new farmers and good seasons in the 1870s brought land sales of nine million acres (3,642,210 ha) for the decade. With larger sections and better opportunities to buy land in well-watered areas he discouraged attempts at farming beyond his line. He pursued this policy as chairman of the railways commission in 1874-75 but northern newspapers claimed that the southern districts were full and ridiculed the accuracy of the line. Scorning Goyder's warnings the government yielded in 1874 and made land available beyond the line. Farmers pushed north and had fair harvests but the onset of bad seasons in 1880 left them in dire distress. At great expense they had to be relocated south of the line, their sections reverting to sheep runs spoiled by wind erosion and destruction of native vegetation.
One of Goyder's many enterprises sprang from the colony's severe shortage of timber. He did his utmost to preserve trees and encourage planting. In 1873 he recommended the use of forest reserves and in 1875-83 was chairman of the Forest Board with John Ednie Brown as chief conservator. Another constant project of Goyder's was water conservation. Starting with wells and dams on northern stockroutes he persuaded the government to spend £300,000 on drainage in the south-east in 1867. In 1871 he inspected pumping machinery and irrigation works in Britain and America and returned to Adelaide with much knowledge of boring for artesian water. He advised many pastoralists on water problems and rejected such impracticable schemes as irrigating the Adelaide plain by a canal from the River Murray. His paper on the development of water conservation in 1883 indicated the immense scope of his inquiries.
Nicknamed 'Little Energy', Goyder was reputed the ablest administrator and most efficient public servant in the colony. A martinet in office hours he won the respect and affection of his subordinates. As 'king of the lands department' he served under 24 different commissioners of crown lands through 34 changes of ministry and helped to amend over 60 Lands Acts. Costs of his department rose from £15,000 in 1861 to £165,000 in 1883 when his power began to wane but in the same time he quadrupled the colony's revenue from land sales and leases. Disgruntled graziers, farmers and miners all charged him with partiality but it was never proved. In fixing rents, boundaries and valuations he was scrupulous and firm, and his rulings were tolerated because of his integrity and honour. In fieldwork his powers of observation were almost uncanny; he brought fortunes to many settlers but remained comparatively poor. He tendered his resignation in 1862, 1873 and 1878 but each time was persuaded to withdraw it by increments to his salary. He was earning £1250 a year when he retired on 30 June 1894 and was then given £4375 in lieu of a pension. In October leading citizens gave him a purse of a thousand sovereigns. He was appointed C.M.G. in 1889.
Goyder consistently overworked himself and his health suffered. For years after 1861 he had scurvy and in 1869 returned from Darwin with 'nervous and muscular debility' and was ordered complete rest. His wife was then recuperating in England where she died on 8 April 1870 at Bristol from an overdose of sleeping pills. In 1871 Goyder took nine months leave and visited Britain and America leaving his nine children with Ellen Priscilla Smith, his deceased wife's sister. On 20 November he married her: they had one son and twin daughters. Goyder died on 2 November 1898 at his home Warrakilla, near Aldgate, leaving an estate of £4000.
Source: SA History Hub & Australian Dictionary of Biography.
Hasselblad 503cx
Zeiss Planar 80/2,8 + extention tubes
Ilford FP 4+
Developed in Kodak HC-110B
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For those of you who don't know the area, Trona is at the southwest extent of Death Valley National Park.
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I caught the beacon at the moment the green side flashed. This was shot with a 450mm prime lens and very heavy aluminum tripod from out by the Trona Wildrose Road. This is a four-frame panorama showing Trona Airport at sunset. This is a small, general aviation airport on the Inyo side of the Inyo/San Bernardino line. It has a single, paved runway of 5,910 feet (1,801 meters).
I like the way the utility poles and road form one set of converging lines. The mountains and airport structures form an opposing set of lines. Ballarat is to the left in this photo. Trona is to the right.
In the background, you see the Slate Range, which is oriented as the runway: north-south.
When [test pilot Jim] Brown slammed the stick to the right, he immediately felt something wasn’t right. The plane was rolling much too slowly and its nose was pointing toward the ground. Brown was now hurtling downward at supersonic speed. The barren desert landscape filled his field of vision. He focused on a Joshua tree below, picking out its contours and branches.¶
Brown stopped the roll and yanked the stick aft with all his might and 1,500 pounds of centrifugal force jammed him into his seat. He managed to force the aircraft back into ascent, but just barely. …Once back on the ground, he worked out how long it would have been until he crashed. Two tenths of a second.
— Andreas Rottenschlager
Journalism Grade Image
Source: four RAW frames rolled into a 12,000x2,400 pixel panorama TIF file.
Please do not copy this image for any purpose.
Watching a piece of photographic art unfold, that is. It’s still a heart pounding moment. Wildlife photography is fluid, dynamic, and to a large extent, unpredictable. Many are the photographers vexed by the inability to constrain nature into producing “the shot” in their mind’s eye. I much prefer to see what nature offers up as gifts to those of us who wait patiently. My only regret is having just one short life and too many other demands. Unlike us, nature doesn’t get old. Given the opportunity, it changes, adapts, evolves, and lives on.
The photo is of a large bull elephant on the Maasai Mara. He was the last of the evening. He approached after the sun had dropped below the horizon, stepping up to the edge of the roadway. Towering over our vehicle, he lifted his foot to step forward. #Elephants
Pentax K-70 + Pentax O-GPS Astrotracer (no tracking mount use)
Pentax DA*300 f4
60x Lightframes ISO 1600, 10sec
10x Darkframes ISO 1600, 10sec
Stacked and developed in Affinity Photo
The Cassini-Huygens mission to Saturn was intended to explore the rings and moons of that great planet. Titan was a prime target. To the extent that Enceladus was considered, it was thought to be a boring ice coated planet. Which is why there were no instruments on board specifically focused on figuring out what exactly Enceladus was expelling from geysers on its surface thousands of feet into space, which we didn't know was happening until it was captured by Cassini. But NASA was able to shift trajectories and visit Enceladus many more times than originally intended, and repurpose some instruments to figure out that rather than a boring ball of solid ice, Enceladus has a subsurface ocean of water beneath 20 miles of ice. And that was the source of the geysers.
We need to send another mission to Saturn to find out more, because with all that water, Enceladus may be capable of hosting life.
Cassini ended its mission by plunging into Saturn. This was not how the spaceship was intended to end, but the decision was made to do so so that the spaceship would not accidentally hit Enceladus at some point in the future and contaminate it, thereby depriving us of the opportunity to discover if life has arisen elsewhere in our solar system.
On a personal note, I had to include something from Cassini because it's the one space mission my dad worked on. I didn't find out about that until my mom told me after he died.
Confession time: until this trip, I have been unimpressed with the Grand Canyon, to the extent of being what some would consider to be unappreciative and disrespectful to one of America's icons. In other words, it was just a big hole in the ground to me.
Weather always plays a large role in landscape photography and the last two times I went to the Grand Canyon (South and North Rim), I went on days with clear skies and wasn't able to stay for sunset either time, which probably contributed to my dismissal of this famous location. But on this family trip, I decided to give Grand Canyon one more try, especially since in the winter, Hermit's Rest can be accessed without a shuttle bus, a spot I haven't seen before. And needless to say, at Hopi Point, a location renowned for its sunset views of the canyon because the golden light starts to kiss the canyon, it was worth the third attempt. Great light, good contrast, clouds, blue sky. What more could a photographer want?
Needless to say, my vision of the Grand Canyon has been corrected to its rightful place in America's pantheon of national parks among the must sees.
In explore 2/20/2020
Overlooking the full extent of Little Haven and Broad Haven Bay at low tide, with a view of the coast path that leads through this area.
For anyone less able to walk the coast path it is now possible to take a cyber walk along the full 186 mile stretch by following the link below.
Pembrokeshire Coast path. cyber walk linked to the path in the image above.
www.google.co.uk/maps/@51.7728386,-5.1116915,3a,75y,26h,9...
this is the extent of my peonies.... out of 5 plants, I get only leaves.... they have to be transplanted in September to a sunnier area.
Thank you all for looking at my images and for your faves, I so gratefully appreciate all of you... but at this time it's hard for me to reply individually, so I will be disabling the comments.... I have my hands full raising over 300 Monarchs... from eggs!! This is a full time job, but worth the reward in helping them...
If you have a garden, PLEASE PLANT MILKWEED... THEY NEED OUR HELP TO SURVIVE!!
This morning I released 15.... 9 girls/ 6 boys....
total released to date: 74
The Rodenstock Rodagon 50mm f/4 enlarging lens is becoming my most versatile macro lens. The fact that it's so tiny and when mounted on extension tubes (that exactly match the diameter of the lens barrel !) it's quite thin and can get close without touching and disturbing the environnement !
Although there are some light leaks sometimes that can be annoying because they are difficult to control...
I took this photo with extention tubes and a helicoid M42/E adapter for more precision.
The Rodagon also have great colors and contrast and good sharpness !
Sony A7 iii / Rodenstock Rodagon 50mm f/4 enlarging lens
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The Pannonian Plain is a large plain in Central Europe that remained when the Pliocene Pannonian Sea dried out. It is a geomorphological subsystem of the Alps-Himalaya system.
The river Danube divides the plain roughly in half.
The plain is divided among Austria, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, the Czech Republic, Hungary, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia and Ukraine.
The plain is roughly bounded by the Carpathian mountains, the Alps, the Dinaric Alps and the Balkan mountains.
Although rain is not plentiful, it usually falls when necessary and the plain is a major agricultural area; it is sometimes said that these fields of rich loamy loess soil could feed the whole of Europe. For its early settlers, the plain offered few sources of metals or stone. Thus when archaeologists come upon objects of obsidian or chert, copper or gold, they have almost unparalleled opportunities to interpret ancient pathways of trade.
The precursor to the present plain was a shallow sea that reached its greatest extent during the Pliocene, when three to four kilometres of sediments were deposited.
The plain was named after the Pannonians, a northern Illyrian tribe. Various different peoples inhabited the plain during its history. In the first century BC, the eastern parts of the plain belonged to the Dacian state, and in the first century AD its western parts were subsumed into the Roman Empire. The Roman province named Pannonia was established in the area, and the city of Sirmium, today Sremska Mitrovica, Serbia, became one of the four capital cities of the Roman Empire in the 3rd century.
Visiting Hunslet 0-4-0ST 921 'Sybil Mary' is in action on the extention at Threlkeld on 26 July 2024.
While certainly named Harrisburg it is not the famed Harrisburg, PA. Nonetheless trains are still part of daily life here in Harrisburg, SD just to a much lesser extent.
This year we end the Seven Days of Thanksgiving series in Paprihaven on the day after. Why? While it is wonderful to have a day set aside specifically to acknowledge our impossible debt to God by expressing our gratitude, every day should truly be a day of thanksgiving. After the amazing celebration at the Simmons,* the girls are back at Tracy's house.
Tracy: Wow. So tired. What a great time. Thank you, God.
Buckley: I'm so stuffed! I'll sleep on this bench if I can't make it upstairs.
Tracy: Who said you're staying here??
Buckley: You gotta be responsible, Trace! You can't let me drive home in this condition.
Briar: HAHAHA!
Tracy: You're not drunk! You don't even drink!
Buckley: I'm loaded with tryptophan. I can't make it. I'm DONE FOR, offissaaAAaa!
Briar: HAHA! What's 'trippafan'?
Tracy: It's an amino acid in turkey that people say makes you sleepy. I think what happened is we all just ate too much.
Briar: I ate sooooo much! I looooved that corn casserole! Who made that?
Tracy: I think Honor did.
Buckley: Ooohhh, I'm gonna pop. Let's just all get in bed, under the covers, and tell stories til we fall asleep.
Briar: That's FUN!
Buckley: But y'all GOTTA CARRY ME UUUUUUP!
Briar: HAHAHA!
Tracy: Oh, good grief. I'm stuck with both of you tonight. Are you sure you even have homes? You're always here.
Buckley: Oh! Haha! On Paprichat, Sheila Harper posted a video of her poodle grabbing a piece of turkey from the table!
Briar: I want to see that!
Tracy: Can you not be on your phone for like two seconds? And, I want to see too. And, who's Sheila Harper?
Buckley: She's got that pretty green Jaguar? Always real shiny? **
Tracy: Oh, yes.
Briar: I wanna see the video!
Buckley: Then come over here.
Briar: Can't move. You come over here.
Buckley: Uh uh.
Briar: BuuUUUUCK!!!
Buckley: You're outta luck, kid.
*WOOF!*
Briar: Hey, Biff!
Buckley: The Biffster!
Tracy: Wow, what a great day. And now we're just chilling. Peace. Joy. Love. God is good.
Buckley: All the TIME!
Briar: All the time!
Tracy: And, all the time...
Buckley: God is GOOD!
Briar: God is good!
Tracy: Bible challenge, then we somehow struggle upstairs. God's loving kindness. Psalm 117:2, "For His lovingkindness is great toward us, and the truth of the Lord is everlasting. Praise the Lord!"
Briar: Psalm 63:3, "Because Your lovingkindness is better than life, my lips will praise You."
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Tracy: Buckley...
Buckley: Um... What's the one? "Please answer me God because you are loving and kind... and compassionate?"
Tracy: Close enough! Psalm 69:16, "Answer me, O Lord, for Your lovingkindness is good; According to the greatness of Your compassion, turn to me." Okay, upstairs! Up!
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A year of the shows and performers of the Bijou Planks Theater.
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God wants you to give thanks.
Well, Thanksgiving came and went. Did your gratitude last beyond your afternoon nap? For many, that’s the extent of their thanksgiving—a one-time, get-it-out-of-the-way holiday that reminds them to reflect on how blessed they are. Too often and too quickly, people resort back to being ingrates. But God wills us to be thankful all the time, in all things. That’s the point of 1 Thessalonians 5:18 where Paul says, “In everything give thanks; for this is God’s will for you in Christ Jesus.” So if you’re saved, Spirit-filled, sanctified, submissive, and suffering, you have one thing left to do in order to follow God’s will—be saying thanks.
Paul’s simple, direct command—in everything give thanks—allows believers no excuse for harboring ingratitude. In everything carries an unlimited requirement. It refers to everything that occurs in life. With the obvious exception of personal sin, we are to express thanks for everything. No matter what struggles or trials, God commands us to find reasons for thanking Him always (Acts 5:41; James 1:2-3; 1 Peter 1:6-9). That’s His will.
If you’re not obeying that command, you’re not following God’s will. Think of it like this: If gratitude doesn’t come easy for you, neither will finding God’s will. Or to put it another way, if you struggle with being thankful, you’ll struggle with following God’s will. Need some motivation? Here are some reasons God wills you to be thankful:
God commands it:
Gratitude should come naturally to believers in response to all God has done on their behalf, but because of our hardness of heart, God enjoins us to thanksgiving with commands (Philippians 4:6; Colossians 2:7; 1 Thessalonians 5:18). Therefore, all forms of ingratitude are sinful. Paul commanded the Colossians, “And let the peace of Christ rule in your hearts, to which indeed you were called in one body; and be thankful” (Colossians 3:15).
When Paul describes the believer’s Spirit-filled life, he writes, “speaking to one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and making melody with your heart to the Lord; always giving thanks for all things in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ to God, even the Father” (Ephesians 5:20). God doesn’t merely command those expressions of gratitude and leave believers helpless to comply. He enables us to articulate them (Philippians 2:13), and is pleased when we do.
Joni Eareckson Tada, who was involved in an accident that left her paralyzed from the neck down, writes, “Giving thanks is not a matter of feeling thankful, it's a matter of obedience.”
Thankfulness acknowledges God’s sovereignty:
The single, greatest act of worship you can render to God is to thank Him. It’s the epitome of worship because through gratitude, we affirm God as the ultimate source of both trial and blessing—and acknowledge our humble acceptance of both.
With a thankful heart, you can say in the midst of anything, “God be praised.” That kind of attitude looks beyond the circumstance to the plan of God. It sees beyond the pain to the sovereignty of God. It remembers, “God causes all things to work together for good to those who love God, to those who are called according to His purpose” (Romans 8:28). An attitude of thankfulness enables us to deal with those who wrong us, saying with Joseph, “As for you, you meant evil against me, but God meant it for good” (Genesis 50:20). Those who are thankful see the providential hand of God everywhere and say, “God, I thank You for the peaceful times as well as the hard times—a difficult marriage, a challenging job, a severe illness—because I know You will use those things for my good and Your glory.”
The grateful Christian remembers that suffering perfects, confirms, strengthens, and establishes him (1 Peter 5:10). God wills that kind of thankfulness.
God judges ingratitude:
William Shakespeare wrote, “How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is to have a thankless child. Ingratitude thou marble hearted fiend.” If Shakespeare understood the hostile attitude behind thanklessness, imagine what God must think about it.
Ingratitude is the very essence of an unregenerate heart, ranking among the most intolerable sins in Scripture. The apostle Paul identified unbelievers as ungrateful: “For even though they knew God [through conscience and general revelation], they did not honor Him as God or give thanks, but they became futile in their speculations, and their foolish heart was darkened” (Romans 1:21). Because man in his pride fails to honor and glorify God as Creator, he also refuses to thank Him for His gracious provision. Ingratitude betrays unbelief, and both sins bring about God’s judgment.
Although God is the source of every good thing that men possess—giving life, breath, rain, sunshine, and other natural blessings to the just and unjust alike (Matthew 5:45; Acts 14:15–17)—the natural man refuses to thank Him. In his fallen mind, to thank God is to acknowledge his own obligation to worship Him.
In summary, God wills our being thankful in all things because gratitude is the ultimate expression of a transformed heart. But thanklessness can infest and destroy a church, marriage, family and home. So cultivate a heart of gratitude. Be thankful for all things and in all circumstances. That’s God’s will. Are you following it?
- John MacArthur, adapted from God Wants You To Give Thanks
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* As seen yesterday!
www.flickr.com/photos/paprihaven/54950920265
** As seen in BP 2021 Day 107!
www.flickr.com/photos/paprihaven/51121244013/
Previous Days of Thanksgiving on Paprihaven:
2015:
www.flickr.com/photos/paprihaven/22949342829/
2016:
www.flickr.com/photos/paprihaven/31221411415/
2017:
www.flickr.com/photos/paprihaven/37886668344/
2018:
www.flickr.com/photos/paprihaven/31063953947/
2019:
www.flickr.com/photos/paprihaven/49137396007/
2020:
www.flickr.com/photos/paprihaven/50649209702/
2021:
www.flickr.com/photos/paprihaven/51704094592/
2022:
www.flickr.com/photos/paprihaven/52521485290/
2023:
www.flickr.com/photos/paprihaven/53349976036/
2024:
For Macro Monday - Backlit
It was windy and cold at the park but as the sun went lower in the sky the grasses held on to the last warm rays.
Hasselblad 503cx + Zeiss Planar 80/2,8 + extention tube 32mm
Kodak Ektachrome 100VS
Developed at home in Tetenal Colortec E6
The extent of the pumping operation can be seen here with the lorries still taking cement from the remaining wagons. Two engineering trains are arriving on site this afternoon as have several pieces of track plant. Sheaf Street where the cement lorries are parked is closed tomorrow morning from 06:00 so I assume the remaining wagons which cannot be moved by rail will be lifted over the wall.
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The documentary “Porkería” challenges the arguments of the meat and dairy industry and its stakeholders with concrete examples of the damage caused by the sector. Environmentalists in the Amazon forest have their say, denouncing massive deforestation to grow soy, corn and wheat. “Western countries are taking their lands away from indigenous populations and cutting down ancient forests to produce feed for the meat and dairy industries,” emphasizes Vera Weber, president of the Franz Weber Foundation.
Nearly 90% of global soy and grain production is used as livestock feed and ultimately to produce animal protein. If this cereal were used directly for human consumption, the benefits would be much greater. “The production of plant proteins is ten times more efficient than the production of animal proteins,” says Vera Weber. A reduction in the consumption of animal-based foods would mean that freed up arable land could be used directly to produce food for humans, without having to go through animals. Large-scale production of animal feed would also be drastically reduced, and the extent of global deforestation would be massively reduced.
Il documentario “Porkería” sfida le argomentazioni dell’industria della carne e dei latticini e dei suoi stakeholder con esempi concreti dei danni causati dal settore. Gli ambientalisti della foresta amazzonica dicono la loro, denunciando la massiccia deforestazione per coltivare soia, mais e grano. "I paesi occidentali stanno sottraendo le loro terre alle popolazioni indigene e abbattendo foreste secolari per produrre mangimi per l'industria della carne e dei latticini", sottolinea Vera Weber, presidente della Fondazione Franz Weber.
Quasi il 90% della produzione globale di soia e cereali viene utilizzata come mangime per il bestiame e, in ultima analisi, per produrre proteine animali. Se questo cereale venisse utilizzato direttamente per l’alimentazione umana, i benefici sarebbero molto maggiori. "La produzione di proteine vegetali è dieci volte più efficiente della produzione di proteine animali", afferma Vera Weber. Una riduzione del consumo di alimenti di origine animale significherebbe che i terreni coltivabili liberati potrebbero essere utilizzati direttamente per produrre cibo per l'uomo, senza dover passare attraverso gli animali. Anche la produzione su larga scala di mangimi per animali verrebbe drasticamente ridotta e l’entità della deforestazione globale verrebbe ridotta in modo massiccio.