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Die langgestreckte rund 6,5 Hektar umfassende Lohmühleninsel liegt am Ostausgang des Landwehrkanals zur Spree gegenüber dem Osthafen im Berliner Ortsteil Kreuzberg.
Neben der Oberschleuse bietet die Insel denkmalgeschützte Bauten wie das letzte erhaltene Zollhaus oder die erste Berliner Tankstelle mit Raststätte. Drei der vier Inselbrücken stehen gleichfalls unter Denkmalschutz. Interessant ist die Lohmühleninsel ferner als ehemaliges innerdeutsches Grenzgebiet. Der größere Südteil dient heute als Sport- und Freizeitpark.
A contented bear seemingly getting a caffeine kick adorns the label on this Sam Adams limited edition brew.
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Fujifilm X-E1 35mm f1.4 handheld night frame processed in Paintshop Pro x6, figures generated in SketchUp and Daz3D (clothes by wilmap), rendered in 3Delight, thanks for the interest. :-D
VIDEO, Rocking Christmas Songs - youtu.be/Q5IF6iWf5W4
The VanDusen Garden Festival of Lights is a Christmas event that many nature-lovers have been waiting for to start the holiday season.
One of the guiding principles of the VanDusen Garden has always been to connect people to plants and the natural environment. Year-round, visitors have come here to appreciate and learn about conservation, gardening, plant lives and stories, nutrition, pollination, adopt a tree, birding in the garden and many more.
The VanDusen Garden is also a popular spot for wedding couples getting hitched.
Although there are more than 100 events happening all year, don’t think that during winter the garden would be in hibernation. No, December happens to be the busiest time of the year.
To celebrate Christmas and the Yuletide season, the garden comes alive with more than a million light bulbs illuminating all vegetation and the surrounding enclave. 1.4 million lights to be exact.
Nancy Wong, VanDusen Garden’s Public Relations Director, proudly pointed out that volunteers counted each light bulb every year and made sure they were working before putting them on.
The Festival of Lights is an extremely popular event. Families come in droves.
On the first day of the festival (Dec 02), there was a long lineup of people wanting in before the garden officially opened at 4:30 PM. In fact, visitors were advised to purchase tickets in advance at Tickets Tonight or in person at the Garden Shop at VanDusen Garden as early as Nov 1st.
Once visitors entered the garden, many of them seek out the popular Dancing Lights at Livingstone Lake in which a continuous series of strobe lights was synchronized to rock versions of familiar Christmas songs that reverberated with the audience, adults and kids alike.
Music is the universal language, no loss in translation there. It signifies the joyous season and everyone is excited to be there. Dancing Lights plays every half-hour and it has become one of the main attractions of the Festival of Lights experience.
After the light show, visitors began to explore different areas of the garden and there were plenty for them to see and enjoy - Santa’s Living Room, Gingerbread Wood, Make-a-Wish Candle Shrine, Sparkling Spruce in the centre court, Candy Cane Express model train etc.
Roaming along the brightly-illuminated Candy Cane Lane, you would likely hear a singing choir that draws you nearer or encounter two Christmas Gnomes, Svend and Jens eager to entertain.
Svend joked often in a heavy Swedish accent while Jens played his quiet and abiding partner. Their routine worked out very well I must say.
It’s the Winter Light season (not Lights, in honor of director Ingmar Bergman) and with Svend and Jens close by, you are reminded of the Swedish filmmaker’s world-famous troupe of actors including Liv Ulman, Max Von Sydow, Gunnel Lindblom and others. Ja!
After an hour or two, you just might feel hungry and it is a perfect time to have dinner at the garden. Both light fare and full meals are available at the VanDusen Garden. Dinner is also served every night at the Shaughnessy Restaurant during the Festival of Lights. Reservations are recommended.
Ho-Ho-Ho, Santa’s rocking in his chair too!
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Ray Van Eng is an award-winning photographer, journalist, online publisher, screenwriter and movie & TV producer. One of his videos is currently on view at the Hava Nagila Exhibit, Museum of Jewish Heritage – A Living Memorial to the Holocaust in New York City. from Sep 2012 to May 2013.
08-01-2010 Seems like snow just called out evry single cells in my body to make it start the processus of hibernation.
picture by P_Mod
Enfin un matin ensoleillé et avec un poil de brume....
Cet hiver a été vraiment trop long et pluvieux...
Bonjour à tous.... j'ouvre les yeux....
A lazy day off on Friday and visited Duxford to see how the renovated American Museum is coming along and to browse around the various hangers. Seen some great photos of the Eurofighter on my Flickr recce but this Nimrod II was the star of the show. Despite being in vibrant yellow, I think this aircraft looked best in glossy black and white.
This wall map is made from DeLorme Gazeteers, covering all of Ohio and parts of PA and W Va.
What little winter riding I'm doing this year I'm doing on the Moulton.
Brooks saddles covered to protect from a neurotic perching cat.
Hedgehog house in unused shed in our garden. Lifted lid to check two hogs OK, a week later they awoke from hibernation. The house is dry, off the ground, quiet and undistrubed for them during the winter.
Will clean it out and put in leaves ready for next winter's residents.
These are three hibernating bears that are part of the Russia's Grizzly Coast Animals exhibit at the Minnesota Zoo. In a couple of months I'm going to be doing a homeschool unit study with the girls about Russia. Thought they'd enjoy seeing some animals that live in Russia as a preview to their unit study.
These are some facts about grizzly bears from the zoo's website:
- Brown bears and polar bears are tied as the world’s largest land-dwelling meat eaters. In America we call the large ones grizzlies. In Russia, they’re called Burii Medved.
- Grizzlies technically don’t hibernate. They do sleep through most of the winter, but can be awakened.
- Brown bears are omnivores - they eat plants and animals. They eat about 25 to 35 pounds of food each day.
- Bears, like people, walk on their entire foot, not on their toes like cats or dogs. They are pigeon toed.
- A grizzly can kill a cow with one blow, outrun a horse, and drag a dead elk uphill.
- Kamchatka’s bears put on up to 400 pounds of insulation each summer so they can survive winter with a six-inch layer of fat.
With there only being a couple of weekends left before we move to our new house it was unanimously voted by the whole Ugly gang that they would go into a short hibernation period which started today and ends in the first week of April.
Unfortunately one of the voters seems to have changed his mind at the last minute, and is now reeking havoc while flying like a mad-ugly around the house shouting "Hibernation stinkers!!!" as he bobs, weaves and swoops away from our nets and oustretched waiting hands...
I'm just glad the others all went into their hibernation slumber a few hours before or things really could have turned Ugly here this evening!!!
From the Uglydoll blog at adventuresinuglyworld.blogspot.com/
Time to assess the year and what we have accomplished. (please ignore the date, i just found this journal a month ago, and i am filling it up as fast as i can...)
Spiraea douglasii is deciduous, and it thrives in a very moist environment. It spends half of the year standing in water of the lake.
We fired up both convertibles, over the weekend, backed them outside, and let them run for awhile. The weather has been nice, but we have not had enough rain to wash the road salt off of the streets & highways, so they won't be going anywhere just yet.