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Some pictures taken by the late Michael Cleary. I will be uploading any I think may be of interest. None were catalogued. Where I know the approximate date I will state it. Similarly I will give the location.
Despite the Grey Green fleetname I believe this bus was on hire from Nottingham.
South Mimms. 1989
Banana plantation seen from close :) Taken on Tenerife in Puerto de santiago. Here you can see young plants, 'cos they didn't have any fruits yet :)
The banana is an edible fruit – botanically a berry – produced by several kinds of large herbaceous flowering plants in the genus Musa, of the family Musaceae, one of the most-important fruit crops of the world. The banana plant is a tree-like perennial herb. It is an herb because the aerial parts of the parent plant die down to the ground after the growing season. Bananas are thought to have been first domesticated in southeast Asia. The banana is grown in the tropics, and, though it is most widely consumed in those regions. The banana plant is a gigantic herb that springs from an underground stem, or rhizome, to form a false trunk 3–6 metres (10–20 feet) high. After a plant has fruited, it is cut down to the ground, because each trunk produces only one bunch of fruit. The dead trunk is replaced by others in the form of suckers, or shoots, which arise from the rhizome at roughly six-month intervals.
In many places on Tenerife, bananas are grown, and they are one of the most important fruits. The island produces the most bananas in the entire Canary archipelago - annually around 150,000 tons. 90% of them are exported to countries around the world. The plantations themselves occupy an area of 4,200 hectares in Tenerife. Some of them are open to tourists who can take a closer look at the process of growing bananas and preparing them for sale. It's interesting, that they don't go to the European Union as bananas. They are not considered to be bananas because they are smaller and don't have the right size, which is recognized by the European Union as appropriate for the banana. In the Canary Islands banana is eaten in different ways, which are also popular in other parts of the world. This fruit is add to many dishes and desserts. On the islands of the archipelago you can taste fried bananas or banana jams and delicious liqueurs.
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Plantacja bananów, jedna z wielu na Teneryfie (ta fotografowana w Puerto de Santiago). Widać tu młode rośliny, gdyż są niskie i nie mają jeszcze owoców :)
Banan zwyczajny, banan właściwy, (Musa paradisiaca) – gatunek rośliny jednoliściennej należący do rodziny bananowatych (Musaceae), powszechnie uprawiany dla owoców. Choć bananowce pokrojem przypominają drzewa, są jednak bylinami. Banan zwyczajny jest prawdopodobnie mieszańcem dwóch gatunków dzikich: Musa acuminata oraz Musa balbisiana. Ojczyzną tych gatunków i ich hybryd jest prawdopodobnie podpaństwo Indomalajskie. Nie stwierdzono występowania banana zwyczajnego w stanie dzikim. Uprawiany jest w rejonach tropikalnych i subtropikalnych. Banan zwyczajny rozmnaża się wegetatywnie poprzez kłącza. Roślina kwitnie i wytwarza owoce tylko raz, po czym zamiera; kwitnienie i owocowanie następuje po 2 latach od zasadzenia.
W wielu miejscach na Teneryfie uprawia się banany, które są jednym z głównym owoców eksportowych. Na wyspie produkuje się najwięcej bananów w całym archipelagu Wysp Kanaryjskich – rocznie około 150 000 ton. 90% z nich trafia na eksport, do krajów całego świata. Same plantacje zajmują na Teneryfie obszar 4200 hektarów. Niektóre z nich otwarte są dla turystów, którzy mogą przyjrzeć się z bliska procesowi uprawy bananów i ich przygotowania do sprzedaży. Co ciekawe, do krajów Unii Europejskiej nie trafią jako banany. Nie są uznane za te owoce, gdyż są mniejsze i nie posiadają odpowiednich rozmiarów, które uznawane są przez Unię Europejską jako właściwe dla banana. Na Wyspach Kanaryjskich banana je się na różne sposoby, które są również popularne na całym świecie. Owoc ten stanowi podstawę lub dodatek do wielu dań, a także deserów. Na wyspach archipelagu można skosztować smażone banany czy panierowane. Stanowią one też bazę dla dżemów, konfitur oraz przepysznych likierów.
A moth about half an inch long, found in South Texas. I didn't get a good shot of his top side, but here is one from before. I love his antennae and that cute face.
I thought to break the pattern of urban images I have been posting recently with a throwback to my visit to Madeira in December. This was taken on a Levada hike in the heart of the island. The inner part of the island has its own climate - wet, moist and colder than the coast. But this is why the green is so intense and saturated. I miss greenery, and look forward to spring :)
Pennypack Trust.
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There's always something about stars that fascinates me, maybe because it's not something we see often. You'd typically have to get out of the city and get away from all the light pollution to get a clear view of the starry skies. Was at the Oregon Coast over the weekend and saw countless shooting stars streaking across the sky. Then as I was looking at the sky to figure out a frame, I was like "Hey Ben, isn't the sky looking kinda green?"
This guy got a little out of sorts when a Kingfisher flew over him a little close and raised the feathers on his head.
Another from The Pax Guesthouse, Trinidad, this species is by far the hardest to photograph due to the erratic & fast feeding, basically dart in quick feed and go ..
I am in my hometown for next few days and though the internet is choppy, I am trying to upload fresh photos. You cannot imagine how much I love being able to click after being cramped in a city with open fields not in sight.
These wheat crops are in their ideal state for photography, not yet ripe yet grown fully with green crops.
In the bokeh is a small raised thatched hut used for warding off birds
Nikon D90
60 mm 2.8 D lens at 2.8, 1/500
As some of you know, I have recently posted numerous photos from a couple of past trips to the Southwest (US), including some from Canyonlands National Park (Utah). Today I was stunned when I found this aerial shot -- of Canyonlands. That's the Green River winding its way through the desert, eventually hooking up with the Colorado River some miles to the south.
Darkness is not the opposite of light. It is an absence of it. When the only light source you have is the burning oxygen, every shadow it creates burns green.
Góðafoss
Nikon D810, Irix 11mm
Leading a positioning move of passenger equipment to Elk Grove, Iowa Pacific E8 515 pounds the ex-CNW triple track diamonds of UP's Harvard Subdivision (the Metra UP-Northwest Line) at Mayfair Crossing on Chicago's northwest side.
Lac à l'Anglais et la fausse chapelle en ruines.
Le lac à l'Anglais est un lac artificiel situé sur la commune de Chamonix-Mont-Blanc (Haute-Savoie).
Il se situe à proximité du hameau des Pélerins, au sud de Chamonix. Il a été construit à la fin du XIXème siècle pour le compte de Lord Sinclair, un Écossais qui s'était porté acquéreur du terrain en 1886. Le lac a d'ailleurs parfois été appelé lac Sinclair.
Il a fait construire une fausse grotte en béton armé, une fausse chapelle en ruines, ainsi qu'une île artificielle. Ces éléments d'inspiration gothique étaient censés recréer l'atmosphère bucolique des lochs de son Ecosse natale.
Il est situé à proximité du rocher d'escalade des Gaillands et du lac des Gaillands. De fait, il est aujourd'hui intégré à une aire sportive et de détente fréquentée par les Chamoniards et les touristes.
Pappegaaiduif
(Treron calvus)
The African green pigeon (Treron calvus) is a species of bird in the family Columbidae, and one of 5 green pigeon species in the Afrotropics. The species has a wide range in Sub-Saharan Africa with around 17 accepted races.
They may occur and breed in high densities but are prone to regular local movements. Their range includes Angola, Benin, Botswana, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Republic of the Congo, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ivory Coast, Equatorial Guinea, Ethiopia, Gabon, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Kenya, Liberia, Malawi, Mali, Mauritania, Mozambique, Namibia, Niger, Nigeria, Rwanda, São Tomé and Príncipe, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Somalia, South Africa, South Sudan, Swaziland, Tanzania, Togo, Uganda, Zambia and Zimbabwe.
As with others in their genus, they frequent tree canopies where their parrot-like climbing ability enable them to reach fruit, but rarely also forage on the ground. Their call is a series of flowing whistles, rendered as ‘thweeeloo, thweeeoo’. They inhabit riparian forest, woodland and savanna, where they associate with fruiting trees, especially wild fig (Ficus) species, including Ficus sycomorus and Ficus sur, and in cities the ornamental Chinese banyan. They also take fruit of Saffrons (Cassine spp.), Jacket plum (Pappea capensis), Buffalo thorn (Ziziphus mucronata), Water berry (Syzygium cordatum) and Jackalberry (Diospyros mespiliformis). They may also feed on exotic Loquats and Mulberries, or on carrion by occasion.
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Strolling through the Meadows this afternoon, the trees are continuing to stir from their winter slumbers. Some branches sport only green shoots budding out, others are already starting to grow out their summery leaves. The spring light was shining through some of them today, and I had to take some close ups.
Happens every spring, and yet each year it still feels like a wonderful miracle Mother Nature bestows on us (and in these pandemic days, the beauty of nature has been an absolute godsend)