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I was very surprised when I saw them in the forest yesterday :)
Wood violet, sweet violet, common violet or garden violet (Viola odorata) is a species of flowering plant in the viola family, native to Europe and Asia. It has been introduced into North America and Australia. It blooms from March to April. The species can be found near the edges of forests or in clearings; it is also a common "uninvited guest" in shaded lawns or elsewhere in gardens. In herbal medicine violets has been used for a variety of respiratory ailments, insomnia and skin disorders. Flowers are also edible and used as food additives for instance in salad, made into jelly, and candied for decoration. The sweet scent of this flower has popular, particularly in the late Victorian period, so this plant has been used in the production of many cosmetic fragrances and perfumes.
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Pierwsze fiołki znalezione wczoraj w lesie. Zaskoczyłam się, że już są :)
Fiołek wonny, fiołek pachnący (Viola odorata) – gatunek rośliny należący do rodziny fiołkowatych. Występuje w stanie dzikim w Europie, w zachodniej Azji i północnej Afryce. W Polsce pospolity na niżu i w niższych położeniach górskich. Uprawiany i często dziczejący. Kwitnie od marca do kwietnia. Zasiedla widne lasy liściaste i ich skraje, zarośla, trawiaste polany, trawniki. Rośnie na stanowiskach półcienistych lub cienistych, na glebie próchniczej, lekko wilgotnej. Jest rośliną leczniczą. Działa wykrztuśnie, napotnie, moczopędnie, odkażająco, żółciopędnie i rozkurczowo. Upłynnia zalegający śluz w drogach oddechowych. Kwiaty fiołka dawniej kandyzowano, produkowano z nich syrop na kaszel oraz używano ich do aromatyzowania octu. Uprawiany jako roślina ozdobna ze względu na swój bardzo przyjemny zapach oraz piękne kwiaty.
First light of a day…
(The above shot is dedicated to special one who is my inspiration of photography)
67 024 has arrived at Victoria with 1Y44 from Folkestone West in its new VSOE livery. 67 021 is on the rear.
ancora primizie primaverili
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PS: Mi scuso con gli amici e i visitatori, ma sono costretta a venirvi a trovare solo un po' per volta, oggi un pacchetto di voi, domani un altro eccetera...
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Sorry, to me is very difficult to visit people that always only leave a fav without commenting...
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First Manchester (Rusholme depot) SN14TTX 33848 seen on Palatine Road, Northenden on service 41 to Sale Metrolink stop (Broad Road)
Everything on this planet is given life from it.
Earth is alive, and is Mother and Home to ALL living things found here.
WE are the Earth. We ARE The Earth.
Earth lives and breathes and regenerates through us and all living beings.
It is living a human experience through us.. it thinks and dreams and does as we do though her ways may be unseen by many human eyes and minds.
It is the plants, and fungi,and archaea, and bacteria and viruses which ALL pass through us every day, creating you and I, creating beauty and destruction, love and destruction, equity and destruction.
We need change. We need to change. We need to be the change to see the change. No more war. No more killing. No more hunger. No more thirst. No more destitution, dereliction, destruction.
We cannot force change, but we may invite it, by sharing what resonates as truth, and love, and equity. To overcome fear and hopelessness. Stand for peace, act in community; share your talents and enjoy receiving the gifts of others.
I AM you ARE we ARE ONE, together. Liberation beckons for our greater good.
Taken at around 2 in the afternoon, although looks a lot later due to the lighting, First Aberdeens 1/2 branded Enviro 500 SN09CBF 38204 is seen swinging onto Union Street with a service 23 for Sheddocksley, 16th October
First GWR Class 166 Turbo No. 166208 is seen at Taunton on the evening of Wednesday 29th November 2017 - the unit is about to be cleaned internally before waiting overnight to operate the 06:02 to Bristol Temple Meads the next morning, a frequent occurrence since Turbos were introduced to workings south of Bristol.
First Manchester 'Free Bus: Around the City' (Queens Road depot) YJ60KDN 49108 seen on Piccadilly Station Approach out of service
To the victor goes the spoils.
This was one of the young ladies that all the fuss was about. Unfortunately she stayed in the gloom, but do I see a bit of a Mona Lisa smile on her face?
View On Black and large
First Potteries: 60196 (X253 USH) a Wright Axcess-Floline bodied Scania L94UB, painted in corporate livery and captured here departing from Hanley Bus Station operating on Service 25 to Keele.
© Christopher Lowe.
Date: 11th May 2008.
Ref No. 0016826.
This is the first time I have managed a shot of a Nuthatch its not spectacularly sharp but I think passable. Would have preferred a shot without the bird feeder but I could not manage one in the trees. It was a pretty gloomy day in Hebden one day I might manage to visit my friends when the sun shines
The nuthatch is a plump bird about the size of a great tit that resembles a small woodpecker. It is blue-grey above and whitish below, with chestnut on its sides and under its tail. It has a black stripe on its head, a long black pointed bill, and short legs. It breeds in central and southern England and in Wales, and is resident, with birds seldom travelling far from the woods where they hatch.
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First South Yorkshire 33717 turns onto the High Street at Castle Square as it heads for Fulwood working a 120 service 13/04/2021.
First London EA11066, a Mercedes Citaro G, is seen powering up Harrow Road, Wembley on route 18 to Sudbury.
A daughter sends a message
from a hospital bed.
Then silence.
The mind waits
for news.
The heart waits
for relief.
Outside,
young birds rehearse
their first songs.
A red kite watches
from a tree.
The old crow says nothing.
You breathe.
One breath for the daughter.
One breath for the father.
One breath for the things
that cannot yet be known.
And somewhere inside uncertainty,
the hara remains steady.