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The natural history of Carolina, Florida and the Bahama Islands :.
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About 30 years old and 30 feet tall, it usually had hundreds of figs and fed every creature in the neighborhood. One of my tall hardwoods fell and hit it dead center sending it in all directions. It did the splits. :-)
I took this same photo on Sep 12. Amazingly the cloud cover of Irma was so thick I had to use high iso and fill flash. At midday, it looked like late evening. I took this photo yesterday with the cloud cover gone.
What endures is nonetheless changed. This concrete raft has been present for many years, but seems to have fallen on hard times. It used to be moored further away from the camera and there was a hut-like wooden structure on its deck, which I think belonged to the Sea Cadets. What is it used for now, if anything? A newish-looking fence has been erected, but serves only to contain weeds. Is that a solar panel at the near edge? Powering what? The two famous fig trees continue to flourish. You can see them in wartime photographs of the bombed buildings in Bridge Street; three or four survived the war and were still standing when I was a boy. Castle Park has always seemed to me a charmless empty space: there was no replacing the web of ancient streets that had stood there, but having shifted Bristol's main shopping centre a couple of hundred yards to the north, it seems that "they" couldn't make up their minds what to do with the vacated area and after procrastinating for thirty years simply laid down some grass, planted a few trees and called it a park. A void where the city's heart should be. Has there ever been a harbour regeneration scheme that didn't incorporate a couple of new footbridges? The swirly one in the distance must have enriched some architectural practice or other and glorified the reputation of its designer, but otherwise caters only to the sparse pedestrian traffic between two areas that have no obvious need of unification.
We followed a trail off the main road. It led us to olive and fig groves, once, long ago, tended, but now wild.
St Pauls Passionist Monastery church and gardens Urrbrae Adelaide.
This acreage was originally owned by Arthur Hardy of nearby Claremont House. In 1847 part of his property was sold to Joseph Montefiore and he planted the giant Moreton Bay Fig around the time be built a grand two storey residence called the Glen. In 1855 the residence and property passed to the Boothby family of judges and writers. Members of the Boothby family remained there until it was sold to the Passionist Brothers in 1896 for use as a monastery. At the same time a new residence or bishop’s palace for the Adelaide Bishop was built across the road from the monastery in 1897. This was handed over to the Carmelite nuns in 1935. Meantime across Cross Road Glen House was demolished in 1927 and the new St Paul the Cross Catholic Church was built that year on its site. It opened in 1928. The architect was Herbert Jory who had many commissions for the Catholic Church in South Australia at that time. A new monastery was attached to the church in 1929 and it was also designed by Herbert Jory in the same Romanesque style with Mediterranean influences such as terracotta tiles, arches, long verandas etc.
The Australian Passionist Brothers commissioned 14 Carrera marble statues depicting the station of the cross to be built in 1953 for their Goulburn Monastery in New South Wales. They were created in the Ferndinado Palla Studio in Tuscany. All the figures in the statues are half-life size and weigh at least half a ton. It took six to eight months to complete each finely detailed statue and they were shipped to Australia over several years and then trucked to Goulburn. All had arrived by 1955. Each statue cost around £500, a considerable sum in those days when you could buy a suburban house for around £1,000. The Passionist Brothers sold their Goulburn property in 1974 and the statues were kept in storage. In the year 2000 the marble statues were moved to the Passionist Monastery at Glen Osmond. They are complemented there by beautiful gardens with an air of serenity and peace.
I liked to colour combinations in the newly ploughed hillside contrasting with the lighter fig trees. The grape vines are the dark stumps on the ground....
Photo taken this morning on my way to the house by the sea. If you look harder you could even see the moon ... :)
This is a male he has a red belly a female does not have the red colour. Photo taken at Figtree Pocket, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia.
Elegant wrought iron window features distinguishes the eye-catching architecture of Sidi Bou Said as seen from under the shade of a fig tree.
It's been unimaginably hot so I haven't been out looking for birds much this summer. I took yesterday off for my birthday and spotted this pair in my neighbor's backyard enjoying these figs.
The Fig fruit is used to make the very popular cookie-type thing called the Fig Newton.
Fig Newtons are interesting in that even though you may have the appetite and desire to eat 5 of them, you can actually only eat 3.
The problem with having a fig tree is getting some figs for yourself before the squirrels, raccoons, and birds eat theirs.
Protaras is a predominantly tourist resort which comes under the administrative jurisdiction of Paralimni Municipality in Cyprus.
Protaras is the tourist area of Paralimni , one of the most beautiful areas on the island of Cyprus. Protaras is an iconic bay with clear waters and golden beaches.
Cyprus is an island country in the Eastern Mediterranean Sea, off the coasts of Syria and Turkey.Cyprus is the third largest and third most populous island in the Mediterranean, and a member state of the European Union. It is located south of Turkey, west of Syria and Lebanon, northwest of Israel, north of Egypt and east of Greece.
Life is better in flip flops.
Don’t worry. Beach happy.
Don’t Count The Days. Make The Days Count.
Time for some Vitamin Sea.
My favorite place to vacation is anyplace by the ocean.
I watched the male bring twigs and build the nest yesterday. Now little Mamma is nesting in my Fig tree. Mourning Doves try to nest in there every year, but it is vulnerable to predators.I hope this time they will stay and we can see the baby doves hatch this year:)
Ho guardato il maschio portare rami e costruire il nido di ieri. ormai poco mamma è di nidificazione nel mio fico. Doves provare a nidificare in là, ogni anno, ma è vulnerabile ai predatori. Spero che questa volta si fermeranno e possiamo vedere le colombe bambino boccaporto di quest'anno :)
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Southern Crested Caracara female inverted head display, moments before copulation. This is a unique display in the
world of bird behaviour, so far as I know.
To give a sense of scale, a pomegranate is at the bottom right. To the right of that are canna lilies. 20 feet may be pretty close to the size of the fig.
Above-ground roots of a Moreton Bay fig tree, at Allerton Garden, Lawai, Kauai. (One of the trees seen in the film Jurassic Park - can anyone spot a dinosaur egg?)
Figtree growing new leaves- this happened within the last few days after a bit of rain.
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Ganz junge Blätter an einem Feigenbaum; es dauerte nur ein paar Tage nach ein wenig Regen.
Sydney, NSW, Australia, August 2015. A fig provides shade at "Mrs Macquarie's Chair", a promontory of the Sydney Royal Botanical Gardens.
The fruits (syconia) of the Knobbly Fig (Ficus sansibarica), form in pairs on woody knobs directly on the tree trunk & mature branches ! When ripe, they go reddish/brownish & have a sweetish taste - a favourite with wild animals like primates.
An Atkinson spotted at a truck show at Figtree (Wollongong) back in the 1970's whilst Iwas living in Wollongong.
Al contrari que tots els rapinyaires de les fotos del Cim d'Aligues, aquest xot (otus scops) va per lliure. Això és el maxim que m'hi vaig poder acostar. Poc despres va marxar, cansat de que no el deixes dormir, el pobre.
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I spoted this scops owl (otus scops) from a window. It was sleeping in a fig tree! You can see that he has elevated his "feather ears" to break his silhouette and resemble a piece of wood.