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A very cute little plant, this forms a low clump or tuft of tiny, filigreed green leaves. Starry little pink flowers appear from late spring through to the fall. Survives best in mild winter regions, but in cold climates it is easily wintered in a pot indoors, then brought back outside for the summer. A wonderful selection for the rock garden or alpine trough, this is one of the few rock garden plants that flowers the entire season long
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Shenandoah National Park, Virginia. Lee Twilight filter to accentuate the glow.
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Cataluña, Spain
(Gyps fulvus)
The griffon vulture is a large bird of prey with a wingspan of 2.60 m and a weight of around 9 kg. The pair, formed for life, nests on cliffs. In the morning, as soon as updrafts allow them to fly with less effort, they set off in groups in search of food, covering distances of up to several hundred kilometers. They feed on the soft flesh on the carcasses of dead animals, mainly domestic ones, as wild ones are becoming increasingly rare.
Reintroduction programs halted their disappearance from almost all of Europe at the beginning of the 20th century. They come in large numbers to feeding areas in France and Spain.
Le vautour fauve est un grand rapace de 2m60 d'envergure pesant environ 9 Kg. Le couple, formé à vie, niche dans des falaises. Le matin, dès que des courants ascendants leurs permettent de voler avec un moindre effort, ils partent en groupe à la recherche de nourriture, parcourant jusqu'à plusieurs centaines de kilomètres. Ils se nourrissent de chairs molles sur les carcasses d'animaux morts, principalement domestiques car les sauvages sont de moins en moins nombreux.
Des programmes de réintroduction ont permis d'enrayer leur disparition de presque toute l'Europe au début du XXème siècle. Sur les aires de nourrissage organisées en France et en Espagne, ils viennent en grand nombre.
A Myth Of Persephone (that I pretty much made up)
I must say this really does look better if you View On Black
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Long, Long ago, far in the eastern frontier there was a desert land called strife, which knew not rivers nor rain. The people who lived in this land struggled bitterly and could not prosper. One day there was great heaving of the earth and what little the people had in the way of shelter fell in ruin. It was known by the wise that the Gods were at war and Zeus and a great host had descended into the underworld to seek retribution against his brother Hades, for crimes against his house.
It was Zeus’s wish that Hades would give back some of his hoard of water, which he stole form the rivers in great quantity every year. In the course of this battle a great rent was opened deep in the earth so that springs appeared across the land. In particular, the dry and barren places received this cool bounty. No one benefited from this boon more than the people of Strife. However Thanatos, God of Mortality, bitter at the defeat of his dark nation, secretly slipped a poison into the water. It was subtle substance that gave all who consumed it developed an ache of greed and disquiet which manifested itself in violence and hate. But the people who lived in strife had no choice but to consume the water or they would surely die.
And so into this dilemma stepped Persephone, who being of both worlds, took pity upon the people of Strife. Every morning at dawn she would sneak up from the depths and poor the milk of her kindness into the icy stream issuing from the underworld spring. By this blessing many who lived in Strife were calmed and knew friendship and love for the first time.
I see this gift from Persephone as a metaphor for the gift of art and what it can give to our world if people would only open there hearts to its graces.
This is Persephone giving her milk of kindness in her abstract form. Sometimes she appears as a tree and sometimes as a beautiful maiden. Stay tuned.
Today's image is a view of the recently restored 'Black Swan Terrace' in the Upper Spon Street area of Coventry. The houses within view form a selection of what we're originally Medieval houses. The houses were originally built in the Mid 15th century as one structure by the Coventry Priory. After the dissolution during the reign of King Henry VIII the houses were taken away from the Priory and eventually sold on to the Mercer's Guild. Over the next few hundred years the houses passed though several owners who made various changes, such as rendering the buildings in cement and facing the fronts with brick. These group of houses are Grade II* listed buildings.
The photo was taken using the App ExposerGL on my iPhone 6.
First I used the app Snapseed to edit the image. I cropped and straightened the picture then added a little sharpening. Next I boosted the vibrance, contrast, warmth and brightness. After this I used the app Painteresque to give the picture a painterly effect. Finally I used PhotoToaster to apply the Warm preset along with a medium vignette and the Canvas texture. I then also added the Leather frame to the end picture.
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A Golden Clockwork of Impermanent Silhouette
What do you see in a sunset?
Metamodernist art by JJFBbennett
The neat, symmetrical rows of the cabin provided a brief sanctuary—a manufactured illusion of control. Beyond the glass, the landscape blurred into a predictable hum of gravity and linear geography, the very architecture we build to mark where the self ends and the raw universe begins.
Then, the acceleration shifted from the tracks to the mind.
The rigid symmetry fractured. Looking out, or perhaps looking inward, I saw the horizon collapse into the golden light. The human form ceased to be a solid permanence and revealed itself as a luminous, intricate lattice—a cosmic mechanism of ticking gears and radiant energy suspended against a bruised and burning sky.
What we call the self is merely a temporary alignment, a fleeting, symmetrical arrangement of molecules and conditioned thought. Like a sunset caught in the teeth of golden cogs, we are fluid, transient, and perpetually dissolving. In this collision of light and shadow, the comforting architecture of the past shattered, leaving no boundary between the observer and the infinite expanse. The illusion of control washed away, replaced by the beautiful, terrifying truth of our own impermanence.
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Heliconia, is a genus of flowering plants in the monotypic family Heliconiaceae. Most of the 194 known species are native to the tropical Americas, but a few are indigenous to certain islands of the western Pacific and Maluku. Many species of Heliconia are found in the tropical forests of these regions. Most species are listed as either “vulnerable” or “data deficient” by the IUCN Red List of threatened species. Several species are widely cultivated as ornamentals, and a few are naturalized in Florida, Gambia and Thailand. Common names for the genus include lobster-claws, toucan beak, wild plantains or false bird-of-paradise. The last term refers to their close similarity to the bird-of-paradise flowers (Strelitzia). Collectively, these plants are also simply referred to as heliconias. These herbaceous plants range from 0.5 to nearly 4.5 meters tall depending on the species. The simple leaves of these plants are 15–300 cm. They are characteristically long, oblong, alternate, or growing opposite one another on non-woody petioles often longer than the leaf, often forming large clumps with age. Their flowers are produced on long, erect or drooping panicles, and consist of brightly colored waxy bracts, with small true flowers peeping out from the bracts. The growth habit of heliconias is similar to Canna, Strelitzia, and bananas, to which they are related.The flowers can be hues of reds, oranges, yellows, and greens, and are subtended by brightly colored bracts. Floral shape often limits pollination to a subset of the hummingbirds in the region. 23495
Soaring just above Sagittarius in our southern skies, the Eagle nebula (M16; NGC 6611) is part of a large emission cloud of hydrogen atoms and is the home of a young open cluster of stars, 7,000 light years from Earth. At the center of the nebula are the pillars of star-forming dark clouds. Made famous by images from the Hubble Space Telescope (www.nasa.gov/image-feature/the-pillars-of-creation), these "Pillars of Creation" are understood to be a stellar "nursery" and stretch roughly 4 to 5 light years in length. Nearby, off to the northeast (towards the lower left in this image) is another "Black Pillar" spire, about 9.5 light years long. [in Explore, 8 August 2019]
Hydrogen alpha (red color) combined with OIII, which in this image is manifest in areas where reddish hue is whitened.
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Image captured:
2-3 August 2019
South Shore, Lake San Antonio, CA.
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9 x 15 min of Ha
8 x 15 min of OIII
(4.25 hrs of total integration)
Unbinned (1x1)
QSI-690
AT6RC with Field Flattener
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Erosion forms deep ravines in the packed earth of the badlands in Anza Borrego, as seen from Fonts Point overlook. Kevin and I started in Death Valley National Park and then drove south through Antelope Valley (previous post) and Joshua Tree, through the Coachella valley and on to Anza Borrego following the trail of the 2019 superbloom. I was struggling somewhat with compositions here so I finally decided to just embrace the raggedy erosion lines of sedimentary conglomerate (my geology-studying daughter has me finally learning the terms) leading down from the overlook. They were just catching the first rays of the rising sun and even though in harsher daylight they are pretty ugly, I found a certain rough beauty in the warmer dawn light. Of course I blew out the sun so I cut the top of the image off to let the aperture blade rays do the talking.
If you are ever in the area, Fonts Point is a soaring overlook with Ocotillo plants clinging crazily to the edges of these eroding cliffs, and is well worth the 30 minute drive from Borrego Springs. A river bed meanders through the badlands towards the Salton Sea. As an interesting aside for the curious or paranoid, the recent discovery of another fault line near the existing San Andreas fault that runs along the edge of the Salton Sea has raised speculation that this could be a likely location for the next "big one".
Des toiles aux formes courbes contrastent avec l'architecture prismatique du centre commercial. J'ai trouvé cette composition agréable à l'œil et originale. J'ai souhaité mettre en avant les volumes et formes avec le N&B et finalement mis un peu de couleur avec un virage sepia assez soutenu.
800101 on 1E13 Inverness - Kings Cross passes 385005 on 5P22, empty coaches to form 2P22, 1031 Dunblane to Edinburgh, through a snowy Dunblane. 19.12.22
The area that was to become West Palm Beach was settled in the late 1870s and 1880s by a few hundred settlers who called the vicinity "Lake Worth Country." These settlers were a diverse community from different parts of the United States and the world. They included founding families such at the Potters and the Lainharts, who would go on to become leading members of the business community in the fledgling city. The first white settlers in Palm Beach County lived around Lake Worth, then an enclosed freshwater lake, named for Colonel William Jenkins Worth, who had fought in the Second Seminole War in Florida in 1842. Most settlers engaged in the growing of tropical fruits and vegetables for shipment the north via Lake Worth and the Indian River. By 1890, the U.S. Census counted over 200 people settled along Lake Worth in the vicinity of what would become West Palm Beach. The area at this time also boasted a hotel, the "Cocoanut House", a church, and a post office. The city was platted by Henry Flagler as a community to house the servants working in the two grand hotels on the neighboring island of Palm Beach, across Lake Worth in 1893, coinciding with the arrival of the Florida East Coast railroad. Flagler paid two area settlers, Captain Porter and Louie Hillhouse, a combined sum of $45,000 for the original town site, stretching from Clear Lake to Lake Worth.
On November 5, 1894, 78 people met at the "Calaboose" (the first jail and police station located at Clematis St. and Poinsettia, now Dixie Hwy.) and passed the motion to incorporate the Town of West Palm Beach in what was then Dade County (now Miami-Dade County). This made West Palm Beach the first incorporated municipality in Dade County and in South Florida. The town council quickly addressed the building codes and the tents and shanties were replaced by brick, brick veneer, and stone buildings. The city grew steadily during the 1890s and the first two decades of the 20th century, most residents were engaged in the tourist industry and related services or winter vegetable market and tropical fruit trade. In 1909, Palm Beach County was formed by the Florida State Legislature and West Palm Beach became the county seat. In 1916, a new neo-classical courthouse was opened, which has been painstakingly restored back to its original condition, and is now used as the local history museum.
The city grew rapidly in the 1920s as part of the Florida land boom. The population of West Palm Beach quadrupled from 1920 to 1927, and all kinds of businesses and public services grew along with it. Many of the city's landmark structures and preserved neighborhoods were constructed during this period. Originally, Flagler intended for his Florida East Coast Railway to have its terminus in West Palm, but after the area experienced a deep freeze, he chose to extend the railroad to Miami instead.
The land boom was already faltering when city was devastated by the 1928 Okeechobee hurricane. The Depression years of the 1930s were a quiet time for the area, which saw slight population growth and property values lower than during the 1920s. The city only recovered with the onset of World War II, which saw the construction of Palm Beach Air Force Base, which brought thousands of military personnel to the city. The base was vital to the allied war effort, as it provided an excellent training facility and had unparalleled access to North Africa for a North American city. Also during World War II, German U-Boats sank dozens of merchant ships and oil tankers just off the coast of West Palm Beach. Nearby Palm Beach was under black out conditions to minimize night visibility to German U-boats.
The 1950s saw another boom in population, partly due to the return of many soldiers and airmen who had served in the vicinity during the war. Also, the advent of air conditioning encouraged growth, as year-round living in a tropical climate became more acceptable to northerners. West Palm Beach became the one of the nation's fastest growing metropolitan areas during the 1950s; the city's borders spread west of Military Trail and south to Lake Clarke Shores. However, many of the city's residents still lived within a narrow six-block wide strip from the south to north end. The neighborhoods were strictly segregated between White and African-American populations, a legacy that the city still struggles with today. The primary shopping district remained downtown, centered around Clematis Street.
In the 1960s, Palm Beach County's first enclosed shopping mall, the Palm Beach Mall, and an indoor arena were completed. These projects led to a brief revival for the city, but in the 1970s and 1980s crime continued to be a serious issue and suburban sprawl continued to drain resources and business away from the old downtown area. By the early 1990s there were very high vacancy rates downtown, and serious levels of urban blight.
Since the 1990s, developments such as CityPlace and the preservation and renovation of 1920s architecture in the nightlife hub of Clematis Street have seen a downtown resurgence in the entertainment and shopping district. The city has also placed emphasis on neighborhood development and revitalization, in historic districts such as Northwood, Flamingo Park, and El Cid. Some neighborhoods still struggle with blight and crime, as well as lowered property values caused by the Great Recession, which hit the region particularly hard. Since the recovery, multiple new developments have been completed. The Palm Beach Mall, located at the Interstate 95/Palm Beach Lakes Boulevard interchange became abandoned as downtown revitalized - the very mall that initiated the original abandonment of the downtown. The mall was then redeveloped into the Palm Beach Fashion Outlets in February 2014. A station for All Aboard Florida, a high-speed passenger rail service serving Miami, Fort Lauderdale, West Palm Beach, and Orlando, is under construction as of July 2015.
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He can hold the carvers too =D Had to add those minifig hands in the fingers for it though. Look proper of a scrapbot, which fits him, but also a bit evilish. Tsk.
St. Johns River, Palatka, FL
Shrimping starts off the pier the last of July through September according to those I talked to when visiting. This man was trying to catch bait for a fishing trip, but he wasn't young and threw it so much that he had to be tired! I was so excited to see this action and was hoping to catch that net in action against the sun.
Ein Rundgang über das Gelände des früheren Carlswerks an der Schanzenstraße in Köln-Mülheim. In der Vergangenheit wurden hier Drähte, Kabel und elektronische Komponenten für die verschiedensten Aufgaben hergestellt. Ein Teil dieser Werke hat in Form der "Drahtwerke Köln" bis heute überlebt. Der überwiegende Teil des Areals ist heute Heimat für Medien- und Kunstschaffende sowie bekannte Veranstaltungsorte wie "E-Werk" und "Palladium".
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A walk across the historic 'Carlswerk', a former production site for heavy duty wires and cables as well as highly developped electronic components. Up to now part of it survived in form of the "Drahtwerke Köln". Yet the largest part of the area today gives a home to artists, entertainers and media companies. Also some well known venues like the 'E-Werk' and 'Palladium' can be found here.
Like most of us in the northern hemisphere, I'm done with winter. Happens every year around this time. As we enter March, there's a growing impatience with winter cold, snow and ice. But even though the cold lingers, the increasing presence of the sun is a source of comfort. The change in the past few weeks is nothing short of dramatic. The sun rides much higher in the sky now, and the heat emitted is that much stronger. I really notice it driving in my car on a sunny day, the greenhouse effect that send the interior temperature to 80+ degrees even when the outdoor temperature is below freezing. Photographically everything has changed now in terms of light and shadow. Winter photos are still feasible, but the character is simply not the same as December and January. This is one reason I spent so much time outdoors trying to capture the sun at its nadir. The strange shadows caused by the low sun angle fascinated me. Noon-time shadows reaching out toward me that could not form until early evening on a summer day. Also the diminution of the sun to little more than a small glow spot on the horizon. A light source that could actually be photographed in the same frame as the surrounding landscape with everything properly exposed. Almost mission impossible with the blazing bright sun of a July afternoon. A sun so bright you could barely even look in its direction. I yearn for that sun, but in the depth of winter all that really matters to me is trying to capture whatever light emerges from the darkness. This scene appeared before me near the end of several hours hiking around on a freezing cold winter day. A point at which my mind was no longer functioning quite the same way as when the hike began. Not sure why I lingered so long, perhaps intuition kept me from returning to the warmth of my home. That's when the sun emerged from the thick clouds that had shielded it all afternoon. The scene before contained all of the elements of my idealized 'snow noir' vision. Long and dark shadows, contrasted by a bright but very contained sun. backlighting, killer clouds, and as if to ice the proverbial cake, snow flurries falling from the clouds still directly over me. Brightness emerging from darkness, both held in a delicate balance, and the moment frozen in time.
This kind of frost forms on young, thin ice during very calm conditions, high humidity (at the pond) and chilly temperatures. Every bit of pond plant that poked above the surface on the pond's edge had a frost flower on it.
Tulips (Tulipa) form a genus of spring-blooming perennial herbaceous bulbiferous geophytes (having bulbs as storage organs). The flowers are usually large, showy and brightly coloured, generally red, pink, yellow, or white (usually in warm colours). They often have a different coloured blotch at the base of the tepals (petals and sepals, collectively), internally. Because of a degree of variability within the populations, and a long history of cultivation, classification has been complex and controversial. The tulip is a member of the Liliaceae (lily) family, along with 14 other genera, where it is most closely related to Amana, Erythronium and Gagea in the tribe Lilieae. There are about 75 species, and these are divided among four subgenera. The name "tulip" is thought to be derived from a Persian word for turban, which it may have been thought to resemble.
Tulips originally were found in a band stretching from Southern Europe to Central Asia, but since the seventeenth century have become widely naturalised and cultivated (see map). In their natural state they are adapted to steppes and mountainous areas with temperate climates. Flowering in the spring, they become dormant in the summer once the flowers and leaves die back, emerging above ground as a shoot from the underground bulb in early spring.
Sunset over Duffins marsh , with a lot birds , a trumpeter swan and many Canada geese on the ice and in the marsh this view is from Duffins trail in Discovery bay , Ajax , Ontario , Canada , Martin’s photographs , February 11. 2020
sand bank formed with birds gathering on the sand mass
bridge across Duffins marsh in Squires beach
Lake Ontario
Duffins marsh
sand bank formed
birds gathering
A lot of birds
sand mass
mouth of Duffins marsh
February 2020
Milk weed seed pods on the snow
Path
Puddles
IPhone XR
Martin’s photographs
Favourites
Ontario
Canada
March 2020
Ajax
Pickering
Sign Boards
Waterfront trail
Waterfront
Lake Ontario
Squires Beach
Reflections of trees in puddles
Reflections
Trees
Tree stumps
Fallen trees
Information sign boards
Sign boards
Bridge
Rotary park
Discovery bay
Duffins creek
Oak tree
Large Oak tree
Rod iron railings
boat launch
canoe
canoe boat launch
Trees
Tall grasses
Sunset
December 2019
Waterfront Trail of Lake Ontario
Rod iron fence
Bridge
Twilight
Sticks
Stones
Fungi
Mushrooms
Sand
Beach
Reflections
Reflection
Dogwood
Tall grasses
Leafs
Ice
Snow
Leafs covered by ice
Canada geese
Trumpeter swan
Dogwood