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"In the midst of winter, I finally learned that there was in me an invincible summer."
Albert Camus
"Nel bel mezzo dell'inverno, ho infine imparato che vi era in me un'invincibile estate."
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A white-red dahlia blossom close-up.
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LE CULTE DE LA ROSE**
Célébrant une fleur,c'est un hymne à la femme
Que Bécaud a chanté avec toute son âme.
Suscitant le désir, elle engendre la vie,
Quand, semblable à la rose, elle s'épanouit.
Déesse de l'amour, fascinante et féconde,
Elle est indispensable à la survie du monde.
Èros, dieu puissant qui incarnait l'amour
Agit, différemment, sans doute, de nos jours.
Cette splendide fleur que l'on appelle rose,
Doit être protégée, en bouton ou éclose.
Des hommes la célèbrent et vantent ses attraits,
Pour vénérer la femme en des rites secrets.
La rose est l'important,nous affirma Bécaud.
Il loua cette fleur symbolique, tout haut.
Elle nous apparaît,reine par sa beauté
Et déesse accomplie de la fécondité.
Suzanne Walther-Siksou**
After a short period of frost and snow, the temperature rises and all ice-forms start to melt. Winter is gone……. or…..?
Happy weekend!
Snowy Egret
From Cornell:
Highly social all year long, Snowy Egrets forage with gulls, terns, ibises, and other herons, and they nest in colonies alongside many other species, including Great Egrets, night-herons, Glossy Ibises, Little Blue Herons, Tricolored Herons, Cattle Egrets, and Roseate Spoonbills.
I funghi sono organismi prodigiosi e, al tempo stesso, misteriosi. La Scienza li ha collocati in un regno diverso dalle piante e dagli animali, di cui presentano singolari e segrete caratteristiche. La loro funzione di demolizione dei rifiuti organici e in particolare del legno, risulta fondamentale per il buon funzionamento dell'ecosistema forestale e le loro forme sono pura bellezza cromatica e formale ..... ..
“Form is emptiness, emptiness is form." ~The Heart Sutra
Smile On Saturday: White On White
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Formado por 2.711 bloques de hormigón de diferentes alturas, el Monumento al Holocausto de Berlín es una joya arquitectónica construida en memoria de los judíos asesinados en Europa que recuerda uno de los episodios más oscuros de la humanidad.
Edificado en las cercanías de la Puerta de Brandenburgo entre los años 2003 y 2005, el monumento en memoria de los judíos asesinados en Europa pretende enfrentarse a la noción de monumento en sí misma. La traducción literal del nombre alemán es "Monumento memorial a los judíos asesinados en Europa".
Se trata de una cuadrícula formada por 2.711 bloques de hormigón de diferentes alturas, que permite que los visitantes elijan su camino de entrada y salida como si se tratara de un laberinto.
Berlín, Alemania
"Había una tristeza humilde dentro de ti, que nadie parecía notar, como un charco que refleja un hermoso cielo todo el día, pero nadie mira".
•Dulce María Loynaz.
#39 forms in nature
In direction to Praia do Castelejo you come to these rocks, they remind me of ancient reptiles crawling on the beach.
Wenn man Richtung Praia do Castelejo läuft kommt man an diesen Felsformationen vorbei, sie erinnern mich an uralte Reptilien, die am Strand entlangkriechen.
Forme bleue ( sombre ) Blue morph ( dark morph ).
Cette oie sombre appartient à la même famille que l'Oie des neiges.
Cependant, on la distingue à son plumage foncé et sa tête blanche. Elle est aussi plus petite que l'Oie des neiges.
On compte environ un individu de forme bleue pour 1000 individus de forme blanche ( Oie des neiges ).
Pyramid Lake is a reservoir formed by Pyramid Dam on Piru Creek in the eastern San Emigdio Mountains, near Castaic, Southern California. It is a part of the West Branch California Aqueduct, which is a part of the California State Water Project. Its water is fed by the system after being pumped up from the San Joaquin Valley and through the Tehachapi Mountains.
In 1843, gold was discovered near what is now Pyramid Lake, in the Santa Feliciana Canyon, just south of what is now Pyramid Dam. The small find failed to trigger a rush to the mountainous countryside. Only Francisco Lopes, owner of Rancho Temescal, a Mexican land grant, and a handful of ranchers attempted to settle the region.
This lake was created in 1972, and completed in 1973, as a holding reservoir for the California State Water Project. The lake was named after a pyramid-shaped rock carved out by engineers building U.S. Route 99. Travelers between Los Angeles and Bakersfield christened the landmark “Pyramid Rock,” which still stands just adjacent to the dam.
Pyramid Lake is the deepest lake in the California Water Project system, built up along the steep canyon walls surrounding Piru Creek.
The 180,000 acre⋅ft (220,000,000 m3) reservoir lies on the border between the Angeles National Forest and the Los Padres National Forest, in the northwestern portion of Los Angeles County. It is to the west of Interstate 5 (I-5) south of Tejon Pass. The former alignment of US 99 is below the waters here, replaced by I-5.
Pyramid Lake seen from the air with the Pacific Ocean in the distance. Just below the dam, Piru Creek returns to its natural state as it winds down through the Topatopa Mountains to feed into the Lake Piru reservoir and later the Santa Clara River. Pumps carry water from Pyramid Lake to Castaic Lake, which is the terminus of the west branch of the aqueduct. Pyramid and Castaic act as the upper and lower reservoirs for a 1,495-megawatt pumped storage hydroelectric plant.
Los estromatolitos poco a poco van enlazando las piedras del río formando figuras como estas.
Estos estromatolitos son estructuras minerales originadas por la actividad metabólica de las cianobacterias presentes en sus aguas.
¿Por qué este río es tan especial para la ciencia?
Durante mucho tiempo las aguas del Tinto se creyeron carentes de vida, hasta el punto de que se plantearon procesos para la limpieza de "su contaminación", que afortunadamente no llegaron a desarrollarse. Y en cierto modo sí que parece un río estéril porque no hay organismos eucariotas superiores en sus aguas; sin embargo, su biodiversidad es enorme: se han descrito más de 1.100 especies distintas de hongos y un centenar de algas, además de protistas y bacterias.
La aparente contaminación del río no es tal, sino que se trata del resultado de un complejo proceso de interacción entre las comunidades bacterianas que lo habitan y el sustrato. Algunas bacterias presentes en el río no obtienen su energía al quemar con oxígeno la glucosa y otros nutrientes como hacemos gran parte de los seres vivos, sino que la obtienen a expensas de los minerales que afloran de la franja pirítica de Huelva.
Por tanto, las condiciones de extrema acidez y de elevadas concentraciones de iones férrico y sulfato en las aguas del Tinto son debidas a la actividad quimiolitotrófica de los microorganismos que lo habitan y que son capaces de oxidar los sulfuros metálicos, en alta concentración en la zona de afloramiento del Tinto.
Lo que hace del Tinto un lugar especial para el estudio de las posibilidades de existencia de vida en Marte es que los seres vivos que lo habitan no han llegado de otros lugares y se han adaptado a este medio tan extremo, sino que han ido evolucionando en el propio río y han ido modulando el medio en el que viven.
El conocimiento de todo esto nos debe llevar a la necesidad de defender la protección de ese ecosistema tan excepcional, por eso es muy lamentable que los vertidos que muy a menudo transforman en los últimos tiempos la coloración de sus aguas (probablemente procedentes del vertedero de residuos tóxicos de Nerva), o la reapertura de la mina estén deteriorándolo muy rápidamente.
Con información procedente de www.espacial.org/planetarias/exobiologia/riotinto1.htm
Alberto González Fairén
Centro de Biología Molecular, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid.
Seminario de Ciencias Planetarias, Universidad Complutense de Madrid.
The Canoochee at this spot near Groveland forms the boundary between Evans County and Bryan County. It flows through Fort Stewart and joins the Ogeechee River southwest of Savannah.
The female Eastern Tiger Swallowtail butterfly can take two completely different forms. The more common (at least to me) yellow morph with the black tiger stripes, and this beautiful dark morph. This is the first dark one I have seen this summer.
En forme olympienne, sous les applaudissements de ses plus grandes admiratrices et couvert du regard bienveillant de Kiki, le Petit AV participe au relais de la flamme Olympique !
À No-Man's-Land cet événement (qui n'a lieu malheureusement que tous les quatre ans) a pu être célébré comme il se doit en rendant breuvages hommage au drapeau des jeux sous une forme plus traditionnelle en total accord avec les traditions.
Triassic sandstone forms at Lagoon Beach, Tasman Peninsular
Nikkon D700, Nikkor 17-35mm @ !7mm
1.0s @ f 11, ISO 100
Singh Ray 3 stop reverse GND, 5 stop soft GND
"Fill in the shapes with the right tones and the form takes care of itself.”
― Andrew Loomis
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"Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere."
Albert Einstein
"Looking and seeing are two different things."
John Paul Caponigro
Pareidolia is defined as a situation in which someone sees a pattern or image of something that did not exist.
This small sculpture I found on a recent trip intrigued me enough to have an impromptu photo session. I'm so glad I did. The image has seized my imagination, lending itself to stories galore.
Lathe Turned Wood beautiful piece by a local craftsman, solid wood, hand formed on a lathe, beautiful grain, found in North Carolina.
La estatua de Pomona, la goodesa de la abundancia de frutas sosteniendo fruta de huerto en forma de manzanas en cada mano, que fue esculpida por Aristide Maillol alrededor de 1910.
Exposition Rodin-Maillol
Musée Hyacinthe-Rigaud, Perpignan, 2019
Dark-eyed juncos come in several different color forms, depending on where in the United States they live. Here in the Driftless Region, the standard color form for dark-eyed juncos is the slate-colored junco. These birds are basically all dark gray above and white below. Oregon juncos inhabit the far west, from California to Washington and east to Montana. They have a black head and bib with a brown back and pink sides. This beautiful Oregon junco has wandered a long way from home to show up at Lake Meyer Park this winter!
A dalt del pi
la tórtora
enamorada
amb el seu cap
marró i rosat
hi construeix
la llar d’infants
per complaure
el seu estimat.
“Aquí els teniu
-diu la tórtora-
sou ben semblants”.
Poesia: Maite Muns Cabot
Llibre: La pesolera : contes petits per a infants +3 anys. 2022
Tiny bud and forming flower with drop, macro.
Gerbera jamiesonii
Gerbera is also important commercially. It is the fifth most used cut flower in the world (after rose, carnation, chrysanthemum, and tulip).
Originally from South Africa.
Have a great week
* Fires in the Port Macquarie area are estimated to have killed 350 KOALAS in that area alone.
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Outfit - W.G Store - Halloween Set
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Distorted reflections of overhanging tree branches in a slow-flowing stream.
720nm IR-converted Olympus EM1 + Carl Zeiss Jena DDR 135mm, M42.
A beautiful perfect rose from my garden, thought I would do something different with it so put the frame round.
A little bit of texture from Jai Johnson.
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 colored, generally red, pink, yellow, or white (usually in warm colors). They often have a different colored blotch at the base of the tepals (petals and sepals, collectively), internally. 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. 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. The tulip's flowers are usually large and are actinomorphic (radially symmetric) and hermaphrodite (contain both male (androecium) and female (gynoecium) characteristics), generally erect, or more rarely pendulous, and are arranged more usually as a single terminal flower, or when pluriflor as two to three (e.g. Tulipa turkestanica), but up to four, flowers on the end of a floriferous stem (scape), which is single arising from amongst the basal leaf rosette. 11717