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The Pollard Oak, Towneley Park, Burnley, Lancashire
The Pollard Oak is the oldest tree in Burnley and probably Lancashire. With a girth of 32 feet it makes it over 400 years old.
It would have been a young tree in the reign of the first Queen Elizabeth I (1558) and the time of the gun powder plot of 1605.
Its life may have been prolonged by the cutting of the top branches (pollarding) in the past. This is how it derived it’s name.
Although it is on the outskirts of a woodland access to it is very difficult, especially at this time of the year with heavy overhanging foliage to contend with. I have spent many hours painstakingly removing the overhanging foliage. It is definitely a return to location, probably mid winter.
Towneley Park, Burnley, Lancashire
I first photographed this last summer when it was in full leaf and was determined to return during the winter months.
The Pollard Oak is the oldest tree in Burnley and probably Lancashire. With a girth of 32 feet (9.75 metres) it makes it over 400 years old.
It would have been a young tree in the reign of the first Queen Elizabeth I (1558) and the time of the gun powder plot of 1605.
Its life may have been prolonged by the cutting of the top branches (pollarding) in the past. This is how it derived its name.
Although it is on the outskirts of a woodland access to it is very difficult, with overhanging trees to contend with.
Wish you all a very nice Friday and weekend
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A lovely sunny morning today for once. So off we went to the beech woods. These woods are ancient, some of the beeches have enormous girths. It was rather muddy, but so very lovely. It was like a different, magic place, the spell only slightly broken when someone I know, with his dog, strode into view and waved hello !
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Massive tree roots of a Moreton Bay fig tree in Palm Canyon at Balboa Park, San Diego, California.
Moreton Bay Fig ~ This remarkable large tree was planted in preparation for the 1915 exposition from a five-gallon container. Since it was a few years old at the time, its age is computed from about 1910.
This tree is listed in the California Registry of Big Trees as one of the champion trees of the state. The tree measured in 1996 about 78 feet (24 meters) high, with a crown width of 123 feet (37 m) and a trunk girth of 486 inches (12.3 m). It shares the title for this species with the famous Moreton Bay Fig tree of Santa Barbara, California, which has a broader canopy but is not as high.
Many people who grew up in San Diego remember climbing around the roots of this tree as children, while their families enjoyed picnics in the cool shade. Unfortunately, heavy foot traffic caused soil compaction and damage to the delicate surface-feeding roots of the tree, preventing it from obtaining nutrients and water, and the tree began to decline. It was trimmed and fenced off in 1989, mulch was allowed to accumulate, and the tree has recovered and once again shows thick, glossy foliage. As it has recovered it has begun to show the aerial roots that are characteristic of fig trees. In the wild, these roots would have been growing since the early youth of the tree, and would have reached the ground and developed into stout, woody props to help support the heavy branches.
The small dry fruits of the Moreton Bay Fig, are actually composed of hundreds of tiny flowers completely enclosed within the inverted fleshy tissue of the receptacle upon which they rest. A tiny hole (called an ostiole) in the tip of the fruit allows minute symbiotic wasps, which pollinate and lay their eggs within the flowers, to enter and leave the structure.
Ficus macrophylla is a native of east Australia. When it is grown in an open area where it can spread, the Moreton Bay Fig may become as much as 150 feet wide; but crowded in its natural forest habitat, or near buildings in an urban setting, it tends to grow tall and narrow. Several other specimens of this species, as well as 32 other kinds of fig trees, are planted in Balboa Park.
In 1988 or 1989 I was on the last fishing trip to the Sudbury region in Ontario, Canada. On the way home we all stopped at a Trading Post themed store and I bought this. Another First Nation themed macro. There are even bison nickels riveted to the tooled leather belt. Because of an excess of girth that I'm afflicted with I can't wear this belt any longer. This buckle is around 42mm x 53mm. HMM! Thanks ahead of time for all views, faves and comments.
We took our time going through the swamp mainly to try and spot an owl. We have seen an owl almost all the times we have been there, but we thought maybe it wouldn't happen this time. We stopped at one of the last benches to take a water break and I looked up high in the trees and there he was. He was very high in the cypress trees. Cypress trees, relatives of the redwoods tower up to 130 feet into the sky and often exceed 20ft in girth. They are estimated to be at least 700years old. Corkscrew is host to the earths largest remaining forest of old growth Cypress trees. Needless to say this is very cropped and there was not much of a sky, so I added a sunset sky for the background and lots of sliding for detail.
Corkscrew Swamp Sanctuary in Naples, FL.
Happy Slider Sunday!
This pied-billed grebe caught a fish that appears too big for it. I watched it for 15 minutes as it struggled to get the fish down. As it was doing so, it was swimming further and further away from me, so I never did see the outcome. This was one of the better shots that illustrates the girth of the fish relative to the grebe's mouth.
The Linn Lime Tree is one of the biggest and oldest trees in Switzerland.
It was planted by those who survived the Black Death of 1349.
The lime tree is now 25 meter high with a girth of 11 meter.
Canton Aargau
Switzerland
PB_M4737.3 - 15mm
Road at Tunworth Hampshire. Sadly they have recently felled some of the old trees. I suppose there must have been a danger but one in particular had a girth of almost 2m. I shall miss it like an old friend.
Small-sized native Galician breed.
His coat is light brown, darker in the neck region; mucous membranes, hooves and dorsal part of the girth black; with bangs on the forehead; pinna and tail well covered with hair.
Adult males weigh on average 585 kg and females 380 kg with a height at the withers of 122 cm and 117 cm, respectively. The weight of calves at birth is around 23 kg for males and 20 kg for females
Film at eleven! This fence is already starting to split with the girth of this tree resting on it. The trees were here first, so the positioning of the fence was I’ll advised. I guess the owners will have to zig-zag around the tree.
Twenty pairs of giant redwoods planted in 1863. More than 50 metres tall with girths between 5m and 7m, at the entrance of Benmore Botanic Garden, Argyll, Scotland. They are among the oldest redwoods in Europe.
What a treat! But really hard to do them justice for an amateur photographer like me!
Helen's tower, here I stand,
Dominant over sea and land.
Son's love built me, and I hold
Mother's love in letter'd gold.
Love is in and out of time,
I am mortal stone and lime.
Would my granite girth were strong
As either love, to last as long
I should wear my crown entire
To and thro' the Doomsday fire,
And be found of angel eyes
In earth's recurring Paradise.
~ Alfred Lord Tennyson
Old stone tower found at Wision
www.youtube.com/watch?v=N2-QxyhAsT8
And there were three sexes then
One that looked like two men
Glued up back to back
Called the children of the sun
And similiar in shape and girth
Was the children of the earth
They looked like two girls rolled up in one
And the children of the moon
Were like a fork stuck on a spoon
They were part sun, part earth, part daughter, part son
The origin of love...
Photo taken at Saturation
Whilst we may choose to capture trees more often in the full glare of the sun, it's often worth walking around them, if possible, to get a view from its shadow side. The trunk and branches of this old tree just seemed to stand out so strong to me. If the girth is how a tree is measured, I'm guessing this one has close on a hundred years going for it.
The goosander is a medium-sized duck and a member of a group called the 'sawbills' because of their long, narrow bills with saw-like 'teeth' which are good for gripping fish. A long, streamlined bird, it is perfectly shaped for swimming after fish.
Almost any fish species less than 20cm in girth may be consumed, anything from a stickleback to a salmon. They catch what is most abundant; in extreme cases they can swallow a fish 36cm long.
Male goosanders are white, with dark green heads, black backs and long, red, hooked bills. The white sides and breast sometimes have a pink glow. Females are grey, with a gingery or reddish-brown head and a white throat.
The triangular tower is over 40 m (130 ft) high with a girth of 51 m (167 ft). Each of the three corners of the triangular structure has a round projection.
Alfred's Tower is a folly in Somerset,[1][2] England, on the edge of the border with Wiltshire, on the Stourhead estate. The tower stands on Kingsettle Hill and belongs to the National Trust. It is designated as a Grade I listed building.
Henry Hoare II planned the tower in the 1760s to commemorate the end of the Seven Years' War against France and the accession of King George III, and it was erected near the site of Egbert's Stone, where it is believed that Alfred the Great, King of Wessex, rallied the Anglo-Saxons in 878 before the Battle of Edington. The tower was damaged by an aeroplane in 1944 and restored in the 1980s.
I found the textures on this Cedar tree to be intriguing. There is one knot and one not hole on the trunk. This tree must be quite old given its girth. There are a lot of places for squirrels to hide. I didn’t see any squirrels so it conceals them well. HTT
"Only large-diameter trees have enough girth to contain the nest and roost cavities of this species, so there is concern for populations of this woodpecker where late-successional forests are being converted to younger stands. Availability of suitable habitat is apparently the factor limiting most populations." Birds of the World
The giant Norfolk Island Pine with the enormous girth seen from a large but smaller treein the foreground.
‘As variants wander the earth,
Wild weather engulfing it’s girth,
We hope you may reason
In spirited season
To counter with new year-like mirth.’
Happy 2022 flickr friends!
Wishing you well as always…Pat..xo
This week is "fat bear week" in Alaska. I don't think this coastal brown bear has the needed girth to win.
Stout elder oak,
gnarled with advancing years,
firmly grasps the earthen
circumstances of its surrounding.
Roots burrow deep
into the black soil,
marking the ground
with its bark laden history.
Blue heavens swirl
around the oak's girth,
a bring cool breeze to
tired leaves.
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Amersfoort, Westsingel
despite the rain of the past few days, there is still too little water in the canal to sail
Singel: a singel is a constructed waterway around a city centre. These used to serve to defend the city, but could also regulate the water level and flushing direction of the canals in the city. Girths were not intended for transport. In the Keistad we have a canal around the city center. The street around it is called Weverssingel, Zuidsingel, Westsingel and Havik.
Towneley Park, Burnley, Lancashire
The Pollard Oak is the oldest tree in Burnley and probably Lancashire. With a girth of 32 feet (9.75 metres) it makes it over 400 years old.
It would have been a young tree in the reign of the first Queen Elizabeth I (1558) and the time of the gun powder plot of 1605.
Its life may have been prolonged by the cutting of the top branches (pollarding) in the past. This is how it derived its name.
Although it is on the outskirts of a woodland access to it is very difficult, with overhanging trees to contend with.
I love these scenes of leaves, seed pods and other detritus left by cottonwood trees. Everywhere I go in Southern Utah these days, the cottonwoods are dying in droves. Big granddaddies with 30 foot girths are splitting and dropping large branches. Who knows what will become of them eventually. It saddens me to see trees that I see on a regular basis and consider "friends" fallen or losing large branches.
Built in 1910 before automobiles were a prevalent form of transportation, the Newcastle Arch under the Union Pacific Railroad Tracks was constructed to allow wagons and such passage under the railroad without impacting rail travel which at the time was the major mode of transportation across the USA. Newcastle is a small community in Placer County California basically developed around the Union Pacific Railroad in the foothills of the Sierra Nevada range at about 936 feet above sea level. The stone faced 82 foot length concrete tunnel only has the girth to allow one vehicle to pass through so it has stop signs at both ends and you have to stop and survey before proceeding. I’ve seen several of these single vehicle underpasses in Northern California which is logical because the railways need to adjust to the increasing altitude in the terrain and it affords the opportunity for such passageways beneath railways. The road which passes through the arch is old California Highway 40 and as such is referred to Old State Highway. - [ ] #developportdev @gothamtomato @developphotonewsletter @omsystem.cameras #excellent_america #omsystem @bheventspace @bhphoto @adorama @tamracphoto @tiffencompany #usaprimeshot #microfourthirds #omd #m43photography @visitcalifornia @placercounty @uprr
The Forty Martyrs of Sebaste are Christian soldiers who were martyred for their faith in Christ in Sebastia (Lesser Armenia, modern Turkey) in 320 under Emperor Licinius.
In the hands of each of them is the Cross and the Crown.
The forty martyrs of Sebastopol are seen as the support of the Church on whose bones and blood it was built. According to ancient legend, the power of their collective prayer has the ability to give strength to both the structure of the temple and the body of the Church as a single spiritual organism.
The mosaic images of the Sebastopol martyrs belong to several masters and are of different artistic quality, but they all captivate with their sincerity and attempt to convey individual traits. The faces of the Sebastopol martyrs show different types of spiritual beauty, they can be considered as ideal portraits of soldiers. When we look closely at the images of these warriors, the question involuntarily arises: from whom were these images created? Who was the prototype or prototype? After all, only their names have survived in the history of the church. How could the masters know that each of the 40 martyrs looked exactly like that? The answer is simple: why is it so difficult, why know? Neither accuracy nor truthfulness is necessary for art and faith. We look and believe that they looked exactly like that.
The mosaics of the Martyrs of Sebaste are located on the northern and southern girth arches of the cathedral, made by Byzantine masters at the beginning of the 11th century.
Medallions depicting martyrs have an average diameter of 95 centimeters.
Not all of their mosaic images have been preserved.
Сорок Севастійських мучеників - воїни-християни, які прийняли мученицьку смерть за віру в Христа в Севастії (Мала Вірменія, сучасна Туреччина) у 320 році за імператора Ліцинія.
У руках кожного з них Хрест і Вінець.
Сорок мучеників Севастійських розглядаються як опора Церкви на чиїх кістках і крові вона зводилась. За давньою легендою, сила їх колективної молитви має здатність надавати міцність як конструкції храму, так і тілу Церкви як єдиному духовному організму.
Мозаїчні зображення Севастійських мучеників належать кільком майстрам і неоднакові за художньою якістю, але всі вони підкупають своєю щиросердістю і спробою передати індивідуальні риси. Обличчя Севастійських мучеників виказують різні типи духовної краси, їх можна розглядати як ідеальні портрети воїнів.
Коли ми пильно вдивляємось в образи цих воїнів, мимоволі виникає питання: а з кого же створювали ці образи? Хто був прообразом або прототипом? Адже в історії церкви збереглися лише їх імена. Звідки майстри могли знати що кожен з 40 мучеників виглядав саме так? Відповідь проста: а навіщо так складно, навіщо знати? Для мистецтва та віри не обов`язкові ні точність, ні правдивість. Ми дивимось і віримо, що вони виглядали саме так.
Мозаїки Севастійських мучеників розташовуються на північній та південній підпружних арках собору, виконані візантійськими майстрами на початку XI ст.
Медальони з зображенням мучеників в середньому мають діаметр 95 сантиметрів.
Збереглися не всі їхні мозаїчні образи.
Lysimachus is a Greek name meaning "fighter who stops the battle." Martyr Lysimachus of Sebaste - March 22 is the day of the angel.
The Forty Martyrs of Sebaste are Christian soldiers who were martyred for their faith in Christ in Sebastia (Lesser Armenia, modern Turkey) in 320 under Emperor Licinius.
In the hands of each of them is the Cross and the Crown.
The forty martyrs of Sebastopol are seen as the support of the Church on whose bones and blood it was built. According to ancient legend, the power of their collective prayer has the ability to give strength to both the structure of the temple and the body of the Church as a single spiritual organism.
The mosaics of the Martyrs of Sebaste are located on the northern and southern girth arches of the cathedral, made by Byzantine masters at the beginning of the 11th century.
Medallions depicting martyrs have an average diameter of 95 centimeters.
Not all of their mosaic images have been preserved.
Лісімах - грецьке ім'я, що означає - "боєць, що зупиняє битви". Мученик Лісімах Севастійський - 22 березня день ангела.
Сорок Севастійських мучеників - воїни-християни, які прийняли мученицьку смерть за віру в Христа в Севастії (Мала Вірменія, сучасна Туреччина) у 320 році за імператора Ліцинія.
У руках кожного з них Хрест і Вінець.
Сорок мучеників Севастійських розглядаються як опора Церкви на чиїх кістках і крові вона зводилась. За давньою легендою, сила їх колективної молитви має здатність надавати міцність як конструкції храму, так і тілу Церкви як єдиному духовному організму.
Мозаїки Севастійських мучеників розташовуються на північній та південній підпружних арках собору, виконані візантійськими майстрами на початку XI ст.
Медальони з зображенням мучеників в середньому мають діаметр 95 сантиметрів.
Збереглися не всі їхні мозаїчні образи.
The Ankerwycke Yew is an ancient yew tree close to the ruins of St Mary's Priory, the site of a Benedictine nunnery built in the 12th century, near Wraysbury in Berkshire, England. It is a male tree with a girth of 8 metres (26 ft) at 0.3 metres.[1] The tree is at least 1,400 years old,[2] and could be as old as 2,500 years.[3]
On the opposite bank of the River Thames are the meadows of Runnymede and this tree is said to have been witness to the signing of Magna Carta. The tree is also said to be the location where Henry VIII courted Anne Boleyn in the 1530s.[3]
Here the confederate Barons met King John, and having forced him to yield to the demands of his subjects they, under the pretext of securing the person of the King from the fury of the multitude, conveyed him to a small island belonging to the nuns of Ankerwyke [the island], where he signed the Magna Carta.
— J. J. Sheahen, 1822.[4]
There is some justification for the theory that the Ankerwycke Yew could be "the last surviving witness to the sealing of the Magna Carta 800 years ago".[5] "In the 13th century, the landscape would have been different as the area was probably rather marshy as it was within the flood plain of the Thames. The Ankerwycke Yew is on a slightly raised area of land (therefore dry) and with the proximity of the Priory perhaps both lend some credibility to this claim."[6]
The Ankerwycke Yew is situated on lands managed by the National Trust. In 2002 it was designated one of fifty Great British Trees[7] by The Tree Council.
Last in the brief series of northern prairie reptiles is the Greater Short-horned Lizard. The only species of lizard found in Saskatchewan and Alberta, it is limited to about ten scattered locations and considered endangered in Canada, mostly due to human intrusion and industrial development (oil and gas). Thankfully, the population in Grasslands Park is fully protected.
I had not seen one for years, so it was very exciting to notice a sudden furtive movement at my feet while walking the rim of a coulee. And there it was!
They're small; this one was about 4 inches in length. Due to its girth, I think it's a female; males are more narrowly built, and tend to be shorter. Once again, I found myself on my belly with the macro lens, trying not to stick myself with nearby cactus thorns, trying to convince a reptile that I was a benign monster and not a predator. Haha, good luck with that! But it did pose nicely for about 100 shots before I left it in peace. Total time spent with this critter (according to EXIF data): 15 minutes.
This is an appropriate day to offer a shot of a lizard, not because it is the 147th anniversary of Custer's well-deserved defeat at the Little Bighorn, but because this morning I am going on a lizard walk with some friends and a local biologist. That's one advantage of living next to a national park: research and conservation projects are ongoing, and I get to meet experts in various scientific disciplines. I might even retain some of the information they so generously share.
Photographed in Grasslands National Park, Saskatchewan (Canada). Don't use this image on websites, blogs, or other media without explicit permission ©2023 James R. Page - all rights reserved.
Bulls*** Asymmetry Principle
The amount of energy needed to refute bulls*** is an order of magnitude bigger than that needed to produce it.
Also known as Brandolini’s Law, the Bulls*** Asymmetry Principle captures a circumstance we’ve all experienced. Those with an indifference to the truth are at an advantage. An argument is easily made. But dissecting a claim and verifying propositions and evidence is tiresome. And what if it’s part of the bulls****er’s plan to keep us busy refuting his nonsense?
I share the above principle, created in 2013 as a segway into this photograph. It is from my archives and was taken on 07 October, 2018 in Silver Glen on the docks of The Juniper Club.
As a tradition, I pass on photographing blue herons as they have become like robins…they are everywhere and way too easily photographed! In this case, a large pickerel looking to be near death swam slowly just below the docks. The heron stabbed it, snatched it up, walked it over to the grass behind the dock and proceeded to try and swallow it. As I sat in my chair fishing, I lifted my camera that unfortunately had my 600mm on it, deciding to capture its attempt to swallow the fish whole. This shot is not cropped vertically, it was all I could get without getting up and walking away.
Watching as it lifted it, I did some “Fancy Cyphering” (Jethro Bodine reference) and realized that the length of the fish was greater than the length of the heron body (minus tail feathers) and if swallowed, some of the fish’s tail would surely be in the heron’s neck. Not to mention the girth of the fish. I sat my camera back down to watch the action. The heron rocked the pickerel back and forth a few times building momentum, then with what seemed to be all the strength it had, while maintaining this grip, swung the fish high in the air and swallowed it with ease!
I watched in amazement as the large lump in its throat quickly slid out of sight and into its stomach! My mind quickly spun back into fancy cyphering mode as I tried to guess the weight of the bird* vs the weight of the fish…and if it would be able to fly now with that heavy a load of cargo?
*I just googled the average weight of a blue heron. It can range from roughly 4-8lbs. Let's call this one 6lbs…the fish was certainly in the 4-5lb range…that is a huge get for this hunter!
It continued to stand around for a few minutes until I decided to change locations. Once I got up, it swatted down for takeoff, pushed off the dock into the air. Remarkably, the weight of its meal didn’t seem to slow it down a bit.
Had I not seen “the swallow” for myself, I might have thrown the BS card on someone else telling this tale!
The lovely Mrs picsfolio is posing at the foot of the tree for scale, and as you can see is totally dwarfed by this huge and beautiful tree.
Llangattock, Crickhowell, Powys, mid-Wales
European Giant Redwood – the Giant Sequoia (Sequoiadendron giganteum)
Information gleaned from the Interweb states that this tree has a girth (measured in 2009) of 10.7M, 35 ft and (measured in 2008) a height of 38.8M, a little over 127 ft.
A big thanks to all those who Fave my photos, who leave comments and of course to those who follow me.
Die Ringelnatter, die ich im Juni in meinem Gartenteich fotografieren konnte, war eine Eintagsfliege. Ich habe sie danach nie mehr gesehen.
Inzwischen hat sich eine weitere Ringelnatter in meinem Teich eingefunden. Sie ist ebenso lang wie die vorherige, aber deutlich schlanker vom Körperumfang. Ich vermute, es handelt sich um eine juvenile weibliche Schlange, da die männlichen selten länger als einen Meter werden.
Über ca. zwei Wochen konnte ich sie beinahe täglich mehrmals beobachten. Seit einer Woche habe ich sie nicht mehr gesehen. Ich vermute, das Wasser ist ihr zu kalt geworden.
Weitere Bilder folgen ...
The grass snake that I was able to photograph in my garden pond in June was a mayfly. I never saw her after that.
In the meantime, another grass snake has arrived in my pond. It is just as long as the previous one, but much slimmer in girth. I'm guessing it's a juvenile female snake, as the males seldom exceed a meter in length.
For about two weeks I was able to observe them several times almost every day. I haven't seen her in a week. I suspect the water has gotten too cold for her.
Thank you very much for all your visits, faves and
kind comments! Much appreciated!
More pictures will follow ...
Le tilleul (Tilia Cordata) de Clémency, que l'on aperçoit à l'arrière plan sur la droite de la chapelle, est estimé être âgé de plus de 500 ans. Il ne mesure plus que cinq mètres de haut mais atteignait vingt-cinq mètres avant qu'un violent orage ne l'endommage sévèrement en 2006. Sa circonférence est de 700cm. Il est appelé "Wëll Lann".
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The lime-tree of Clémency you can see in the background next to the chapel is more than 500 years old. Its trunk, highly damaged by a storm in 2006, is now just 5 meters high, but it has still a 700 centimeters girth.
Autre vue: www.flickr.com/photos/regisa/8330319254/in/photolist-qqV5...
"Very artistic, and what a tree !" / "Très artistique. Et quel arbre !" (Eliot MARGOLIES / www.flickr.com/photos/elliotmar/ )
When you enter the estate and work your way down the drive a Eucalyptus fastigata dominates the view and it's not hard to understand why with a trunk that has a 15-metre girth. This 45 metre high beauty has a span of 33 metres.
Woodlands boasts a variety of trees that are among the oldest and largest of their kind in New Zealand. There is a large variety of birds enjoying life in the Woodlands trees, including, Thrush, Fantail, Tui and more recently Kaka.
Woodlands is a unique and very beautiful historic New Zealand villa homestead and wedding venue. Built in 1872, it sits proudly in the centre of acres of stunning gardens and fertile farm land.
Thanks to all who take the time to visit and comment on my photo stream....it's greatly appreciated. Also for all of the invitations to join or post my photos into groups
Popularly known for its trotting gait, imposing and refined walk. The Mangalarga Paulista also performs well in other gaits, such as galloping. In addition, it stands out for its docility, resistance and agility, qualities that make it ideal for work in the field of cattle driving and for sports.
The Mangalarga horse originated from the horse of the Iberian Peninsula. The horses brought by the colonizers of Brazil were native to the Iberian and Berber Peninsulas.
When the Portuguese Royal Family came to Brazil, the best Lusitano specimens from the Coudelaria Real de Álter were also brought, a fact that played a decisive role in the formation of the breed, since the breeding animals brought on this trip, as well as their descendants, were widely used by breeders of the time to improve their herds.
The first animals came from the Junqueira family's breeding farms in southern Minas Gerais, who brought specimens and settled in the region of Orlândia and Colina (SP), where they defined the basis for their selection.
The Mangalarga Paulista was formed by Lieutenant-Major Francisco Antônio Diniz Junqueira and his descendants, who settled with farms in 1812, in what is now the Municipality of Orlândia, where they took horses.
The qualities that benefit the rider stand out, such as the long, sloping shoulder, which helps the rider position himself and the passage of the girth. The croup is wide and strong, typical elements of saddle horses.
The natural gaits of this type of horse are the gallop, trot and walk. The Mangalarga performs satisfactorily in all of them, but its trademark is the trotted gait, a gait defined as being diagonal and bipedal in two beats.
As for the coat, the predominant color is reddish-brown, or chestnut, which obviously characterizes the chestnut.
Dourado, São Paul, Brazil.
A gleam in the eye, a flicking tongue and 14 rattles of Charm made this Prairie Rattlesnake the largest I've seen. So large in girth that I suspect that it might very well be ready to drop a couple dozen little ones onto the prairie.
This series has an interesting story! Last year Jan. in the afternoon Dad was outside, doing some work, it was too hot, so I asked him to come inside n take rest. He refused and contd. so thought of preparing some juice for him, I heard some unusual chaos of birds, about 25-30 birds of diff. sps were flying frantically. When saw, I thought this chick was entangled in vines, so thought of helping it with a stick. It was about 12-15 ft up, so climbed a ladder, but then I realized it was caught by vine snake :( This snake is very slender, its girth is as that of my finger, it caught this poor Bulbul, but swallowing was not easy. This bird tried to escape, but died soon, the snake struggled long time to gulp it down and when realized it could be fatal, spat at me and vanished :(
This year back in February 2020 when my sweet west coast damsel took me to the city by the bay San Francisco after we had left Marshall Beach and started the journey to her west coast abode she took us over the Golden Gate Bridge which allowed me to capture this image while on the bridge. Looking at the vehicles ahead of us, the magnitude and scale of the bridge, notice the girth of the two main cables which are formed by 27,572 steel wires that have the thickness of a pen. A fact that people don’t realize is that two main supporting cables are really the only thing that has not been changed since the bridge opened in 1937. This design of using a large cable actually made up of thousands of smaller cable is very logical. Making a large solid cable of the length and thickness that would be required is impossible even with todays manufacturing methods, so the John A Roebling steel suspension design that was first used on the Brooklyn Bridge here in my backyard in the late 1800’s was the choice for the span across the Golden Gate Strait. The height of the towers that hold up those cables again whose scale can be witnessed in this image is a whopping 746 feet.
Marks Hall, Garden & Arboretum.
The last remaining of the many huge oaks that grew in the deer park, the great veteran Honeywood Oak has a 27foot girth and is thought to be over 800 years old.
#ABFav_Autumnal
... of all trees.
A beautiful park, filled with old and majestic trees, it looks like this one tops all the other in girth and canopy.
On a balmy Saturday afternoon, halfway October, taking the camera a walk in the park, LOL
May your light be good today and all days.
Thank you, M, (*_*)
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At the Saturday, Cedar Falls Farmers Market, farmer Bridget Brown gifted me this carrot. She knows I have a keen interest in bizarre vegetables. It weighs 1 pound 6 ounces. At its widest girth it's 10 inches. August 28, 2021
John Muir may have said it best about the western juniper...
"A thickset, sturdy, picturesque highlander, seemingly content to live for more than a score of centuries on sunshine and snow... The burly Juniper, whose girth sometimes more than equals its height, is about as rigid as the rocks on which it grows."
This old juniper anchored itself in the crevice of a large granite rock. And this rock embedded itself along an almost vertical slope of a canyon draining the eastern Sierra Nevadas. Talk about a risky and austere place to sink roots! But junipers are finely tuned to grow where other trees cannot.
I've camped in this canyon for over a decade, and would walk past this very juniper tree to scout landscape shots of the surrounding mountains. Then it struck me! The September night sky would offer the opportunity to photograph this gnarled, burly juniper with a portion of the milky way. So, here's one of the resulting compositions.
Boab Prison Tree, Derby
The Baobab Prison Tree, Derby is a 1,500-year-old, large hollow Adansonia gregorii (Baobab) tree 6 kilometres south of Derby, Western Australia with a girth of 14.7 metres.[1] It had been reputed to have been used in the 1890s as a lockup for indigenous Australian prisoners on their way to Derby for sentencing, but there is no evidence that it was ever used to house prisoners.[2][3]
Almost 7 meters in girth, this fellow took mortar fire during the war and survived the firebombing. Though it's not visible in this picture, the tree has an enormous narrow crack at the midpoint of its trunk, through which you can see daylight from the other side. Not sure if that's from the mortar hits, or what.