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Sognare quiete non è peccato, è ciò che delimita il terreno a difesa delle speranze.
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Sunset on the Volga River in the city of Uglich July 13, 2019. Russia.
Gorod stoit na reke Volge (Uglichskoye vodokhranilishche) v 101 km k zapadu ot Yaroslavlya i v 240 km k severo-vostoku ot Moskvy. Reka Volga yavlyayetsya glavnoy rekoy Uglicha. Sushchestvuyet gipoteza, chto reka eta dala nazvaniye gorodu Uglichu. Ona zdes' delayet rezkiy povorot – ugol. Vpolne vozmozhno, chto imenno ugol reki Volgi i dal nazvaniye Uglichu. Po povodu nazvaniya yest' i drugiye gipotezy.
Drugaya reka Uglicha – Shelkovka – v nastoyashcheye vremya ne imeyet rusla na poverkhnosti. Seychas eto podzemnaya reka, rastekayushchayasya protokami v gruntakh tsentral'noy chasti goroda.
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The city stands on the Volga River (Uglich Reservoir) 101 km west of Yaroslavl and 240 km northeast of Moscow. The Volga River is the main river of Uglich. There is a hypothesis that this river gave the name to the city of Uglich. She makes a sharp turn - the angle. It is quite possible that the corner of the Volga River gave the name Uglich. There are other hypotheses about the name.
Another river Uglich - Shelkovka - currently has no channel on the surface. Now it is an underground river spreading by channels in the soils of the central part of the city.
In Australia's Northern Territory, inside the protected Litchfield National Park, termites build peculiar mounds that are mysteriously aligned to the earth’s magnetic field. A wide swathe of empty ground is filled with hundreds of termite mounds that look like tombstones from a distance, but much larger. The magnetic termite mounds rise to as much as three meters in height, look relatively flat and they all face the same direction with their thinner edges facing the north and south like the needle of a compass. A single mound may contain tens of thousands of termites.
The currently accepted hypothesis is that the precise alignment allows the termites to keep their homes comfortable. Northern Australia gets extremely hot during the day and cool at night, and researchers believe termites have somehow harnessed the power of the earth’s magnetism to strategically climate-control their homes. (Amusing Planet)
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A side trip on the way back to Darwin took us to see these amazing termite hills. At first glance, they look like rows of tombstones, or perhaps even the henges of ancient peoples. But no, really industrious insects built all these and more!
Litchfield National Park, Northern Territory, Australia. October 2022.
Eagle-Eye Tours - Tropical Australia.
The secretary bird, regal and eagle-like in appearance, strides with authority across the Serengeti Plain in the Moru Kopjes region, looking for a snake to stomp. They do indeed stomp and eat snakes. This is the bird that was used to entice me to go to Africa the first time. Its name is popularly thought to derive from the crest of long quill-like feathers, lending the bird the appearance of a secretary with quill pens tucked behind their ears. A more recent hypothesis is that "secretary" is borrowed from a French corruption of the Arabic saqr-et-tair or "hunter-bird."
The following is from Wikipedia: The secretary bird -- Sagittarius serpentarius -- is a large, mostly terrestrial bird of prey. Endemic to Africa, it is usually found in the open grasslands and savanna of the sub-Saharan region. John Frederick Miller described the species in 1779. Although a member of the order Accipitriformes, which also includes many other diurnal birds of prey such as kites, hawks, vultures, and harriers, it is placed in its own family, Sagittariidae. ©2019 John M. Hudson | jmhudson1.com
Azpegi, Orbaizeta, Navarra, España.
A pocos kilómetros de Orbaizeta, los pastos de Azpegi albergan una gran cantidad de dólmenes y crómlechs, monumentos megalíticos funerarios. El más significativo es Azpegi I, que posee una cámara de recinto rectangular rodeada por un túmulo de 15 metros al que cerca un crómlech de 12 piedras. Los otros tres dólmenes cuentan con dos o tres losas. Se cree que estos conjuntos pudieron convertirse en recintos sagrados y, en algunos casos, en una especie de templos, pero se trata de una hipótesis.
A few kilometers from Orbaizeta, the pastures of Azpegi are home to a large number of dolmens and chromlechs, megalithic funerary monuments. The most significant is Azpegi I, which has a rectangular chamber surrounded by a 15-meter tumulus surrounded by a 12-stone chromlech. The other three dolmens have two or three slabs. It is believed that these assemblages could have become sacred precincts and, in some cases, a kind of temples, but this is a hypothesis.
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Dans le torrent du Temps
(Note : Ce texte est une allégorie inspirée d’une théorie scientifique très actuelle, résumée dans le lien ci-dessous)
La Vie semblait monter à l’assaut du Grand Néant
Cette montagne morte qui trônait au centre de Terra Nova, un haut-plateau de Poësia…
Des milliers d’arbres et de plantes cherchant à coloniser le moindre replis de cet espace de non-vie, comme autant de combattants sur un champ de bataille.
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Cette vision conquérante de la vie telle que nous la connaissons est typiquement humaine. Elle se nourrit à la fois de la culture populaire (science-fiction) et de la Science, elle-même, légitimement curieuse de trouver des signes de vie au-delà de la Terre (ETI). Nous voulons y croire! Mais, pour l’instant…
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Là-bas, le Grand Néant résistait à l’expansion de la végétation, son environnement hostile étant impropre à la vie telle que nous la connaissons… sauf, peut-être, dans ses expressions les plus simples, de l’ordre de la molécule…
Debout sur le promontoire qui me permettait d’observer les forces en présence, les questions se bousculaient dans ma tête: Le Néant serait-il l’état dominant de l’Univers? La vie organique - qui plus est, ses formes intelligentes - serait-elle une situation exceptionnelle, un événement hautement improbable sur la lente trajectoire de l’évolution? Et la question essentielle dont je redoutais la réponse: Serions-nous seul dans l’Univers?
Si cette hypothèse devait faire son chemin dans le torrent du temps , une réalité pressante, existentielle s’imposerait alors à tous les enfants de Darwin: la vie sur Terre, sous toutes ses formes, est un héritage extrêmement précieux et nous avons, en tant qu’espèce intelligente, l’immense responsabilité de la préserver.
Patrice photographiste, Chroniques de Poësia
Voir : www.americanscientist.org/article/alone-in-the-universe
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Through the Ages
(Note: This text is an allegory inspired by a very current scientific theory, summarized in the link below)
Life seemed to rise to the assault of the Great Nothing,
This dead mountain which reigned in the center of Terra Nova, a high plateau of Poësia ...
Thousands of trees and plants seeking to colonize every fold of this non-living space like so many fighters on a battlefield.
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This conquering view of life as we know it is uniquely human. It feeds on both popular culture (science fiction) and Science itself, legitimately curious about finding signs of life beyond Earth (ETI). We want to believe it! But for now…
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There, the Great Nothing resisted the expansion of vegetation, its hostile environment being unfit for life as we know it ... except, perhaps, in its simplest expressions, of the order of the molecule …
Standing on the promontory that allowed me to observe the present forces, the questions rush in my head: Would Nothingness be the dominant state of the Universe? Could organic life - moreover, its intelligent forms - be an exceptional situation, a highly improbable event on the slow trajectory of evolution? And the essential question I dreaded the answer to: Are we alone in the Universe?
If this hypothesis were to find its way through time, a pressing, existential reality would then impose itself on all of Darwin's children: life on Earth, in all its forms, is an extremely precious heritage we have, and us, the intelligent species, have the immense responsibility to preserve it.
Patrice photographiste, Chronicles of Poësia
see : www.americanscientist.org/article/alone-in-the-universe
Meteor Crater in Arizona is an interesting National Natural Landmark.
Privately owned by the Barringer Crater Company, this 1.2 km diameter, 170m deep hole confounded geologists and speculators alike for nearly 70 years. In the 1890s, mineralogists and geologists investigated meteorites in the area and the crater itself (known then as Canyon Diablo) to determine whether it could have been formed by a meteoric impact - a radical theory at that time. The Chief Geologist for the U.S. Geological Survey, Grove Karl Gilbert, hypothesized that for the crater to have been caused by a meteor would require a meteor the size of the crater, and that the meteorite itself would be buried below the crater, creating a magnetic anomaly. Since he could find no evidence to support his hypothesis, Gilbert, the most respected and prestigious geologist of his time, declared the crater a result of a volcanic steam explosion.
Daniel Moreau Barringer, a mining engineer who had made a fortune in Silver, learned about the crater and meteorites around it and became convinced that it was an impact crater. Believing, like Gilbert, that a sizable iron meteor (on the order of ten million tons) must have caused the crater, he began the Standard Iron Company to begin mining the area in hopes of making a billion-dollar fortune. Barringer, and his partner Benjamin Chew Tilghman set about trying to prove the validity of their impact theory, presenting arguments to the Academy of Natural Sciences in Philadelphia and the National Academy of Science in Princeton during the first decade of the 20th century.
In the following two decades, Barringer continued mining for the meteor, changing the focus from directly beneath the crater to under the south rim, only to find water. With investors getting nervous about the potential for losing their money, Barringer consulted F.R. Moulton, an astronomer, for his analysis on the size of the meteor. Unfortunately for Barringer, Moulton determined the meteor to be approximately 300,000 tons (3% of Barringer’s speculation), and that the bulk of it would have been vaporized on impact.
On November 30, 1929, heartbroken and having lost the bulk of his fortune in addition to the hundreds of thousands of investors' dollars, Barringer died a week after receiving Moulton's most thorough analysis. It took until 1960 when, Eugene Merle Shoemaker identified the existence of coesite - a silica that is only formed by intense over pressurization of quartzite rock - in the meteor crater, finally confirming Barringer's hypothesis of the impact event.
In the century since Gilbert's and Barringer's hypotheses, science has advanced considerably in geology and astronomy, to the point where impact craters hundreds of miles wide have been identified across the globe. But, without the pioneering work by Barringer, and his willingness to take on the contemporary scientific establishment (backing Gilbert), little of this would have been realized.
is a novel suggestion that no one wants to believe. It is guilty, until found effective :-)
Edward Teller
HBW!!
giant coneflower, sarah p duke gardens, duke university, durham, north carolina
Very interesting behaviour - this LEO was hunting at 10AM (and was very successful at it!) Not typical behaviour for a dusk hunter. My hypothesis is that it was taking advantage of the people / dog activity in the local park, what I mean is that because of it’s proximity to a busy trail, dogs in particular spook mice and other rodents. If I was a betting person I’d say this is an example of a hunter adapting to it’s circumstances!
GENOVA Boccadasse (Boca d'azë o Bocadâze in genovese) è un antico borgo marinaro della città di Genova...
Il borgo di Boccadasse, con le sue case dalle tinte pastello, addossate le une alle altre e strette attorno ad una piccola baia, anche se ormai circondato dal contesto cittadino, si è conservato pressoché immutato nel tempo, come lo si sarebbe potuto vedere uno o due secoli fa, circostanza che ne ha fatto una delle più note attrattive turistiche genovesi. La grande suggestione di questo luogo è dovuta anche al fatto che non si tratta di una semplice conservazione del passato ad uso turistico, ma di un borgo vivo e vitale, dove ancora alcuni pescatori continuano la loro antica attività.
Boccadasse (Bocadâze in Genoese) is an old mariners' neighbourhood of the Italian city of Genoa...
The origin of the name is uncertain, one of the more reliable hypothesis is that the name comes from the form of the bay on which Boccadasse lies, thus the name should be the shortening of the Genoese for donkey's mouth bócca d'âze.
is a novel suggestion that no one wants to believe. It is guilty, until found effective :-)
Edward Teller
HGGT!! Protest Injustice! Resist! Vote!!
cornus, dogwood, sarah p duke gardens, duke university, durham, north carolina
Look back and look for that evidence with which an object attracts its own word and to each other they reveal themselves;
in mutual contact experience and word come alive, they do not exist by themselves, but one in another;presentiment, the poem that is not yet returns to stick firm in a precise point weather; and the one we were then offers in the hands of that time, raised, that just word.
Not like this: words gravitate, and his resounding hypothesis assembles its architecture; beyond is the desert where the word hallucinates until it creates its double.
We believe we have lived because the poem exists; what appears to be an origin is a nothingness, an echo.
Guillermo Carnero
The Grand Canyon is a steep-sided canyon carved by the Colorado River in Arizona, United States. The Grand Canyon is 446 km long, up to 29 km wide and attains a depth of over 1,857 meters.
The canyon and adjacent rim are contained within Grand Canyon National Park, the Kaibab National Forest, Grand Canyon–Parashant National Monument, the Hualapai Indian Reservation, the Havasupai Indian Reservation and the Navajo Nation. President Theodore Roosevelt was a major proponent of the preservation of the Grand Canyon area and visited it on numerous occasions to hunt and enjoy the scenery.
Nearly two billion years of Earth's geological history have been exposed as the Colorado River and its tributaries cut their channels through layer after layer of rock while the Colorado Plateau was uplifted. Several recent studies support the hypothesis that the Colorado River established its course through the area about 5 to 6 million years ago. Since that time, the Colorado River has driven the down-cutting of the tributaries and retreat of the cliffs, simultaneously deepening and widening the canyon. (Wikipedia)
Grand Canyon, Arizona, USA. June 2014.
Awww, the caturday theme is paws and I can add this to the group pool!! Miracle was sitting on the radiator while a spot of sun moved over her paws and I shot this quickly.
serendipity
Pukao, the headdresses of the moai.
The pukao were large cylinders made of volcanic red slag that adorned the heads of the Easter Island statues.
The pukao is an ornament, made with red scum from the Puna Pau crater, which was placed on the head of the statues of the most important ceremonial platforms on Easter Island.
Several archaeological studies indicate that the manufacture of the pukao occurred in times after the elaboration of the great statues, some even suggest that the extraction works in Puna Pau began when the quarries of Rano Raraku had already been abandoned.
In comparison with the almost 1,000 statues recorded, only about 100 pukao have been located, 70 of them demolished in the vicinity of the ahu and another 30 that still lie in the Puna Pau quarry. It is possible that there are more pieces buried in the paths or incorporated as recycled construction material into the ceremonial platforms themselves, making it difficult to define the total number of pukao that were carved.
This mismatch between the number of pukao and statues is explained because the pukao were added only to the moai that stood on certain selected ceremonial altars. In fact, these places already stood out from the rest for a very elaborate architecture, such as can still be seen in the Ahu Nau Nau on Anakena beach, the Ahu Hanga Te'e in Vaihu, the Ahu Akahanga or the impressive Ahu Tongariki .
With their incorporation into these ceremonial centers, the pukao further enhanced the images of the ancestors, as they gained height and were more imposing. This increase in monumentality is consistent with the hypothesis that the development of the pukao would be associated with the growing competition between tribal groups, who manifested their rivalry, making bigger and bigger moai on more elaborate altars.
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El Albaicín
El Albaicín o Albayzín es un barrio del este de la ciudad española de Granada, en la comunidad autónoma de Andalucía. Está situado a una altitud de 700 a 800 m sobre el nivel del mar.
Se comenzó a poblar en época íbera, y existió poblamiento disperso romano. No hay datos de asentamiento islámico anterior a la llegada de los bereberes ziríes, por lo que se supone que la ciudad se abandonó desde el final del imperio romano hasta la fundación del reino zirí (1013) que fue cuando se rodeó de murallas (Alcazaba Cadima). Según algunos lingüistas debe su nombre actual a los pobladores de la ciudad de Baeza que, desterrados de ella tras la batalla de las Navas de Tolosa, se asentaron en esta zona de Granada fuera de las murallas existentes. Otros lingüistas aseguran que el topónimo viene del árabe al-bayyāzīn (en su pronunciación granadina con imala, al-bayyīzīn), que significa el arrabal de los halconeros. Sin embargo, el hecho de que en Andalucía existan muchos otros barrios con ese nombre, en Sanlúcar de Barrameda (Cádiz), Alhama de Granada, Salobreña y Huéneja (Granada), Antequera y Villanueva de Algaidas (Málaga), Baena (Córdoba), Porcuna y Sabiote (Jaén), y Constantina (Sevilla), pone muy en duda esa tesis.[cita requerida]. También existen barrios con esta denominación en otras partes de España, como en Campo de Criptana (Ciudad Real), fruto de la expulsión de los moriscos tras la Rebelión de las Alpujarras o en Pastrana (Guadalajara), barrio este creado por Doña Ana de Éboli, para acoger a los moriscos del Reino de Granada.
Lo cierto es que albaicín indica siempre un barrio en altura y con un poblamiento peculiar desvinculado del resto de la ciudad.
El hecho de que en el siglo XXI este barrio no sea propiamente un arrabal no significa que en la Edad Media no fuera considerado como tal.
Constituye uno de los núcleos antiguos de la Granada musulmana, junto con la Alhambra, el Realejo y el Arrabal de Bib-Arrambla, en la parte llana de la ciudad.
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The Albaicín (Spanish pronunciation: [alβajˈθin]) or Albayzín (Arabic: ٱلْبَيّازِينْ) as it was known under Muslim rule,[disputed – discuss] is a district of Granada, in the autonomous community of Andalusia, Spain. It retains the narrow winding streets of its Medieval Moorish past dating back to the Zirid dynasty.[citation needed] It was declared a World Heritage Site in 1984, along with the Alhambra.
The area that later became the Albayzín was first populated by the Iberians, the original inhabitants of the Iberian peninsula, with dispersed Roman settlements later appearing nearby. Nothing is known of its history before the arrival of the Muslim Berbers, so it is assumed that the city was abandoned after the fall of the Roman Empire until the founding of the Zirid kingdom in 1013, when its defensive walls were built. According to some linguists it owes its present name to the inhabitants of the city of Baeza, called "Beatia" by the Romans, who were banished after the Battle of Las Navas de Tolosa and settled here outside the walls. Other linguists assert that the name derives from the Arabic al-bayyāzīn (pronounced al-bayyīzīn with the imāla vowel-shift), meaning "suburb of falconers". However, the fact that in Andalusia there are many other neighborhoods with that name, including those in Sanlúcar de Barrameda, Alhama de Granada, Salobreña, and Antequera, among others, casts doubt on this thesis. A more likely hypothesis is that the name of Albaicín derives from Arabic البائسين (al-bāʾisīn, 'the miserable' [plural]).[1]
The Albaicín, one of the oldest centers of Muslim culture in Granada, contains the Alhambra, the Realejo (which was the Jewish quarter), and the Arrabal de Bib-Arrambla, in the flat part of the city. Before the Muslim conquest of the Iberian Peninsula there were three small settlements in what is now the city of Granada and its surroundings:
-Angela Carter
This quote is especially enlightening to me because sometimes I catch myself saying, "I will do it tomorrow....." What if tomorrow never comes? We need to live each day like it is our last.
This large circular structure is located next to the fortress of Sacsayhuamán. The function of this construction is not fully elucidated, but among the plausible theories is the hypothesis that it was a water reservoir.
Entre ficar a guardar o figo ou abrigar-se da chuva, ele escolheu a primeira hipótese. Ele lá sabe...
Between keeping the fig or taking shelter from the rain, he chose the first hypothesis. He knows ...
Italia, Liguria, Boccadasse (GE), Inverno 2012
Boccadasse è un borgo marinaresco di Genova. L'origine del nome è incerta, un’ipotesi è che il nome derivi dalla forma della baia, che ricorderebbe la bocca di un asino (In genovese Bocca d'Aze). Il borgo di Boccadasse attrae molti turisti. E’ racchiuso in una stretta baia, con il promontorio di Santa Chiara ed un castello (un nuovo edificio nello stile di un castello medievale) sul lato orientale, scogli su quello occidentale e in mezzo una spiaggia di ciottoli dove riposano le piccole imbarcazioni dei marinai.
Boccadasse is an old mariners' neighbourhood of the Italian city of Genoa. The origin of the name is uncertain, one hypothesis is that the name comes from the form of the bay on which Boccadasse lies, thus the name should be the shortening of the Genoese for donkey's mouth (bócca d'âze). The village of Boccadasse attracts many tourists. It is enclosed in a narrow bay, at the eastern side the cape of Santa Chiara with a castle (a new building in the style of a medieval castle), on the western side the rocks, and in the middle the tiny cobblestones beach where the seamen's small boats rest.
Cea mai cumplită dintre ipoteze,
Te-aș pune, desigur, între paranteze,
Dar mă tem că și aceste subterfugii, rotunde sau drepte,
Vor fi doar niște semne, la fel de (im)perfecte...
La pire des hypothèses,
Je te mettrais, bien sûr, entre parenthèses,
Mais je crains que ces subterfuges aussi, rondes ou droites,
Seront juste quelques signes, tout aussi (im)parfaits...
The worst of the hypotheses,
I would put you, of course, between parentheses,
But I fear that these subterfuges too, round or straight,
Will be just some signs, just as (im)perfect...
to demand the credentials of all statements that claim to be facts. An honorable man will not be bullied by a hypothesis. For in the last analysis, all tyranny rests on fraud, on getting someone to accept false assumptions, and any man who for one moment abandons or suspends the questioning spirit has for that moment betrayed humanity :-)
Bergen Evans, The Natural History of Nonsense, 1946
HMM!! Make the powerful uncomfortable! Vote!
camellia, 'Jacks', our yard, cary, north carolina
This is not an ironic Thanksgiving Turkey, as we celebrate the holiday in Canada today. Rather it is an expression of genuine thanks, for the amazing experiences and surprises that come from getting up early and going out in the woods, or along the River, or to the Lake.
This bird was photographed in a conservation area that is more or less surrounded by human habitation. Not tightly surrounded, and not with high density housing, but it classifies I think as an urban conservation area.
Somehow a Wild Turkey (pictured) took up residence there. It is unclear how, and it doesn’t matter. For over a year it frightened, entertained, and occasionally hustled food from, visitors to the area. It roosted in the trees, and kept moving, and it could go weeks without being seen (it is a largish area). Surviving last winter was not a given, but it managed.
So the bird was already one of those surprises that comes from getting up and going out - I have been going there for years and never imagined I would get this close to a Wild a Turkey.
And then somehow this spring it had twelve young. No one knows how, no one saw a male, and yet there it was, escorting the young birds through the bush and hiding in the remote parts of the conservation area.
There are only seven of the offspring still roaming around. Watching them run down the trails is a pretty compelling argument for the birds-from-dinosaurs hypothesis: one feels like one is in a scene from Jurassic Park.
But this is just a way to give thanks to the amazing richness of the natural world, and to the possibility of something new and different that helps to motivate us getting up in the dark, and the cold, and going out for the sunrise.
Happy Thanksgiving!
As flat as the earth before they noticed it was round. As ambiguous as the truth before they noticed it was true. As real as reality before they noticed it didn't exist. As beautiful as a woman before they noticed she wasn't one.
And is the earth really round? It is when seen from another world. Just as the real is real only from our phenomenal point of view. Or, rather, from the viewpoint of the unverifiable hypothesis of its non- existence.”
― Jean Baudrillard
I had fun doing this one. Taking a self portrait in that position was pretty tricky though :)
HSS!
…what? Another wacko term in Bill’s photo caption! Have you ever noticed how water beads up on some leaves but not on others? Good examples of the former include lupines, cottonwood, and aspen leaves. The scientific term for this, hydrophobicity, literally means fear of water.
Hydrophobicity on the surface of the leaf shows off beautifully when the aspen are in full color and have dropped off their parent plant, such as in this photo. The water beads on aspen are particularly robust, earning the “super” in the title. The water repellency is associated with tiny hairs and wax plates on the surface of the leaf, which help to repel water, resulting in the formation of multiple little spheres rather than spreading across the leaf surface.
Why would a plant want to repel a key resource like water? The current hypothesis is that superhydrophobicity keeps the surface of the leaf dry and clean, helping to promote photosynthesis through greater light absorption.
These leaves were on the Beckwith Pass trail in the West Elk Mountains, Colorado.
that's something you can google. sadly, in our town, it applies to great ideas for renovating failed sites which, in the end, fail themselves. we're still waiting for this one to live up to promise. the red paint is a start and we do like the grazing goats. but where are the creemies?
Barn Swallow sitting paused for a moment (which rarely happens) in the rain. I truly worry about these guys with the amount of pesticides and neonicotinoids in use the hypothesis is that these birds are starving, if not on their breeding grounds then during migration.
* The Grand Canyon is a steep-sided canyon carved by the Colorado River in Arizona, United States. The Grand Canyon is 277 miles (446 km) long, up to 18 miles (29 km) wide and attains a depth of over a mile (6,093 feet or 1,857 meters).[5]
The canyon and adjacent rim are contained within Grand Canyon National Park, the Kaibab National Forest, Grand Canyon–Parashant National Monument, the Hualapai Indian Reservation, the Havasupai Indian Reservation and the Navajo Nation. President Theodore Roosevelt was a major proponent of the preservation of the Grand Canyon area and visited it on numerous occasions to hunt and enjoy the scenery.
Nearly two billion years of Earth's geological history have been exposed as the Colorado River and its tributaries cut their channels through layer after layer of rock while the Colorado Plateau was uplifted. While some aspects about the history of incision of the canyon are debated by geologists, several recent studies support the hypothesis that the Colorado River established its course through the area about 5 to 6 million years ago. Since that time, the Colorado River has driven the down-cutting of the tributaries and retreat of the cliffs, simultaneously deepening and widening the canyon.
For thousands of years, the area has been continuously inhabited by Native Americans, who built settlements within the canyon and its many caves. The Pueblo people considered the Grand Canyon a holy site, and made pilgrimages to it. The first European known to have viewed the Grand Canyon was García López de Cárdenas from Spain, who arrived in 1540.
Colorado columbine, Aquilegia coerulea, is the Colorado state flower, and its white petals, blue sepals and blue spurs make it easy to identify.
Columbines come in different color patterns and forms, with two major genes involved. One gene determines whether the petals will be white or blue, and a second gene determines whether spurs will form. Near Rocky Mountain National Park three forms can be found in one locality: the classic form, an all blue flower with spurs, and an all blue flower lacking spurs.
Crested Butte is officially recognized as Colorado's Wildflower Capital, and each summer they host a Wildflower Festival. I always head that way in summer, for it is grand.
I recommend looking at higher resolution.
I had the impression that this was one plant, but I did not do any destructive sampling to test that hypothesis. When I counted the flower buds not yet open and the open blooms, the total was 37,
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Het madeliefje of meizoentje (Bellis perennis)
De naam Bellis perennis betekent 'alle jaren mooi'.
Er zijn twee hypothesen over de herkomst van de Nederlandse naam 'madeliefje'. De eerste is een samentrekking van het woord 'made', wat weide of hooiveld betekent , en het woord 'lief', omdat men de bloem waarschijnlijk graag zag in het veld.
De tweede hypothese geeft aan dat het woord mogelijk afkomstig is van maagde-lief, omdat het bloempje vroeger in verband werd gebracht met de heilige maagd Maria.
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The daisy or Mayflower (Bellis perennis) The name Bellis perennis means 'beautiful all the years'. There are two hypotheses about the origin of the Dutch name 'daisy'. The first is a contraction of the word 'made', which means meadow or hay field, and the word 'sweet', because the flower was probably liked in the field. The second hypothesis indicates that the word may have come from virgin love, because the flower was formerly associated with the Blessed Virgin Mary.
El Acueducto es una obra única y espléndida, es una de las obras más soberbias de los romanos en la península.
La hipótesis de la construcción del acueducto apunta a la época de los Flavios, o a la época de Nerva o Trajano. La mayoría de estudiosos lo datan en el siglo I. Posiblemente sea una de las mejores obras de ingeniería civil en España. Sus 166 arcos de piedra granítica del Guadarrama están constituidos por sillares unidos sin ningún tipo de argamasa, 20.400 bloques de piedra.
The aqueduct is a unique and splendid work, is one of the most magnificent works of the Romans in the peninsula.
The hypothesis of the construction of the aqueduct points to the Flavian period , or the time of Nerva and Trajan. Most scholars date to the first century Possibly one of the best civil engineering in Spain . Its 166 arches Guadarrama granite stone blocks are composed together without any mortar , 20,400 stone blocks.
What is special about the Ahu Tahira is its platform’s back wall. It consists of large stones held together without mortar and finely carved, similar to those found in the Inca ruins. This striking similarity has convinced the scientific community that there were contacts between Polynesia and South America. It’s possible that the Polynesians’ exploring voyages didn’t stop at Easter Island, but instead went further east until they finally made contact with the mainland.
The Carolina Wren's have taken a fancy to using a couple of the micro sparklers as a perch. My hypothesis for the desired perch is that the sprinklers are a good size for the wrens feet and the height and location are ideal for spotting a delicious snack.
The vine in this image is the Dutchman's Pipevine, the host plant for the Polydamas (goldrim) butterfly. The butterfly larva (caterpillars) or cats as butterfly people call them, are one of the wrens favorite snacks.
The Polydamas butterfly lays a clutch of eggs together, usually about 12 give or take. When the cats hatch, they like to travel as a group to the very end of the vine and munch on the new growth. I call those traveling clusters catsicle's. And boy oh boy the wrens do love a juicy catcicle. There are no catcicles in this image as I already collected them :)
It certainly wasn't in the plan but I have started intermittently collecting a few caterpillars to raise even though it's still winter and a bit chilly. I see a variety of butterflies flitting about daily going about their business, including laying eggs. Therefore, I figure they know what they are doing so if they are laying eggs, I might as well give some of the babies a chance of survival without becoming a meal.
Have a whacky and wonderful Wednesday and happy snapping.
Visual interpretation of Newton's 3rd Law of Motion.
From a series I'm working on - visual representation of the laws, theories and hypothesis that govern the universe.
Pukao, the headdresses of the moai.
The pukao were large cylinders made of volcanic red slag that adorned the heads of the Easter Island statues.
The pukao is an ornament, made with red scum from the Puna Pau crater, which was placed on the head of the statues of the most important ceremonial platforms on Easter Island.
Several archaeological studies indicate that the manufacture of the pukao occurred in times after the elaboration of the great statues, some even suggest that the extraction works in Puna Pau began when the quarries of Rano Raraku had already been abandoned.
In comparison with the almost 1,000 statues recorded, only about 100 pukao have been located, 70 of them demolished in the vicinity of the ahu and another 30 that still lie in the Puna Pau quarry. It is possible that there are more pieces buried in the paths or incorporated as recycled construction material into the ceremonial platforms themselves, making it difficult to define the total number of pukao that were carved.
This mismatch between the number of pukao and statues is explained because the pukao were added only to the moai that stood on certain selected ceremonial altars. In fact, these places already stood out from the rest for a very elaborate architecture, such as can still be seen in
* the Ahu Nau Nau on Anakena beach, flic.kr/p/t7Ueut
* the Ahu Hanga Te'e in Vaihu, flic.kr/p/tsFLyb
* the Ahu Akahanga flic.kr/p/2jDdHM6 or
* the impressive Ahu Tongariki. flic.kr/p/2jxPtKY
With their incorporation into these ceremonial centers, the pukao further enhanced the images of the ancestors, as they gained height and were more imposing. This increase in monumentality is consistent with the hypothesis that the development of the pukao would be associated with the growing competition between tribal groups, who manifested their rivalry, making bigger and bigger moai on more elaborate altars.
Red-necked Grebe (Podiceps grisegena) feeding a feather to a chick. A cool fact from Cornell "Like other grebes, the Red-necked Grebe ingests large quantities of its own feathers. The stomach retains two distinct masses (balls) of feathers, and their function is unknown. One hypothesis suggests that the feathers help protect the lower digestive tract from bones and other hard, indigestible material. The Red-necked Grebe also feeds its feathers to its young."
Quite the stabilimentum here...
"A stabilimentum (plural: stabilimenta), also known as a web decoration, is a conspicuous silk structure included in the webs of some species of orb-web spider. Its function is a subject of debate...There is much controversy surrounding the function of these structures, and it is likely that different species use them for different purposes....It has been suggested that stabilimenta could provide protection to the spider by either camouflaging it (by breaking up its outline), or making it appear larger (by extending its outline)...make the web visible and therefore animals such as birds are less likely to damage the spider's web...The other dominating hypothesis is that web decorations attract prey by reflecting ultraviolet light...."
August holds a special place in my heart. That is when some of my favorite small critters make a regular appearance in my garden. When studying a spider releasing the silk through its spinneret, I find myself enchanted with the careful work of building a web. Perhaps spiders are life's way of saying..."relax, breathe, take time to slow down and enjoy things."
Once again, I will encourage you to take a moment to learn something about the evolution of a spider's ability to use its silk. I've shared the link from Wikipedia below:
" From Wikipedia....Observations suggesting that there might be silk-producing organs on the feet of the zebra tarantula (Aphonopelma seemanni) led to questions about the origins of spinnerets. It was hypothesised that spinnerets in spiders were originally used as climbing aids on the feet and evolved and were used for webmaking at a later time."
Last year, some of my works looked more than 10,000 times. I hope in the New 2020 we have this figure will be 100,000! I wish everyone to increase everything by 10 times! You never know where the path will lead you!
I like the potential that was 20 years ago in the first CCD cameras! Despite the simplicity, these tools outlived their later brethren! And not only in time ...
Ω, ω (name: omega, Greek ωμέγα) is the 24th letter of the Greek alphabet. In the system of the Greek alphabetical record of numbers, it has a numerical value of 800. From the letter “omega” originated the Cyrillic letter Ѡ, known as “from” and “omega”. In ancient Greek, omega meant a long sound [oː], while an omicron (ο) meant a brief [o]. The ancient Greek name "ὦ μέγα" means "" about "big" (o-mega) - as opposed to "small" about ", that is, the letter omicron. In modern Greek omega and omicron are read the same.
In a figurative sense, omega, as the last letter of the alphabet, often means the extreme limit, the end of something.
What am I doing this for?
I like this game and glide along the wave while waiting for the moment ...
What are the motives?
1Real: I live when I watch the process!
2 That sounds good:
Investing in yourself.
What skills should I develop?
Hone work style
Mastery of composition
How to do it
Own experience
Information (Books
Video)
Communication with like-minded people
How much time to spend
Communication is the key!
Goals and values.
Contempt for public values
Reliance on personal values (straight across Nietzsche)
How to identify them?
What makes me get up in the morning?
What is most important to me both in life and in business?
Liberty. New Horizons. Amazing world. New people.
What am I really aiming for?
All this as a filter of perception for ease of achieving the goal !!!!
It is important to do what I consider important and to do so until the goal is achieved!
Believe in yourself!
Never question your honesty. Say what I think!
Take your features and use them!
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Hypothesis
In order for any science to budge, so that its expansion becomes more perfect, hypotheses are necessary in the same way as testimony of experience and observation. What the observer collected with accuracy and thoroughness, and the comparison in his mind somehow arranged, the philosopher unites all this with one point of view, connects it into one, and creates in this way the opportunity to examine and use everything. Let such a theory, such a hypothesis be only fiction, but it nevertheless brings enough benefit. She teaches us to see individual things in communication, distant things in the neighborhood. Only in this way do knowledge gaps become apparent. Known relationships are found that are not explained by them. This is what attracts attention, makes you trace those points that are the most interesting just because they reveal completely new sides. But most importantly, the hypothesis elevates the soul
and returns her elasticity, as if stolen from her by separate disparate data of experience. The hypothesis in the doctrine of nature is the same as in morality, belief in God, in all - the immortality of the soul. These sublime feelings combine everything that is generally good in a person, elevate him above himself and lead him beyond the point to which he would have come without these feelings. 1790 Goethe
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1. Taking pictures a tool (camera), not a photographer.
2. The choice of tool limits the possibilities.
3. Experience allows him (instrument) less and less to limit their capabilities.
4. The ability to see is given only when the observer allows ...
5. The moment of observation is the real find ...
6. Training and mastering it defies. Training leads to poor imitations of the original.
7. Often the result should ripen, like wine. Although time is the understanding of the mind, therefore it is very speculative.
8. The meaning of all this is the process!
9. Let it be!
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An accurate astronomical observatory.
Like other platforms on the island, including the lone moai of the Ahu Huri a Urenga, the Ahu Akivi was built following a precise astronomical orientation. In this way they controlled the change of seasons and the most appropriate times for agricultural tasks.
In Akivi the axis of the platform was oriented from north to south, getting the faces of the moai look exactly at the point where the sun sets during the equinox of the austral spring (September 21st) and their backs face the sun of the dawn during the autumn equinox (March 21st).
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The best time to visit and take pictures is at sunset, which is when the setting sun illuminates the seven statues and highlights their features.
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The legend of the seven explorers:
In the recent literature on Akivi, the seven statues of the platform are related with the seven young people who were sent to explore the island before its first colonization by King Hotu Matu’a.
A legend says that Hau Maka, the priest of Hotu Matu’a had a dream in which his soul flew across the ocean when he sighted the island. Next, he sent seven explorers sailing through the sea to locate the island, study its conditions and the best area to disembark.
Although the idea that the legend was remembered in stone is attractive, it seems that it can not be true. The moai statues belong to a quite late sculptural period, after the year 1440 AD and historians consider the hypothesis that the first settlers arrived on the island towards the fifth century, so they rule out a possible relationship between both facts.
The restoration that boosted Rapa Nui:
Ahu Akivi was the first ahu to be restored after a small group of islanders, at the request of Thor Heyerdahl, erected the statue of the Ahu Ature Huki on the beach of Anakena in 1956. As a member of that Norwegian expedition was the American anthropologist William Mulloy, who from then on would devote a large part of his life to studying the mysteries of Easter Island.
The reconstruction work in Ahu Akivi began in March 1960 and continued until October of that year. William Mulloy and his Chilean colleague Gonzalo Figueroa worked with an archeologic team of 25 Rapanui people in various phases of excavation and reconstruction. This was the first serious archaeological excavation and the first complete restoration of a ceremonial site in Rapa Nui.
The works were done with hardly any material means, they only used wooden poles, stones and a pair of oxen. But with perseverance, ingenuity and effort they achieved their goal. To raise and place the first moai, they used a stone ramp and two large wooden levers. This operation took a month. However, after perfecting the technique and with the experience gained, it took less than a week to raise the seventh statue.
When the work was finished, Father Sebastian Englert himself gave the blessing at a very emotional opening ceremony. After 150 years the islanders could observe again several moai standing on an ahu.
The restoration of Ahu Akivi is considered a turning point in Rapa Nui. From that moment, other works of restoration of more platforms began. The Ahu Akivi was followed by the ahu of Hanga Kio’e, Tahai, Anakena and Tongariki. The ancient platforms regained their former glory and the small and remote Easter Island attracted the attention of other researchers and travelers. And what is more important, it unleashed a true cultural renaissance, an economic development and a renewed sense of pride in being Rapanui.
To be completely honest, this photo is more about me being happy that my cats are acting like normal happy cats than it is about them actually being happy. Tomorrow it will be four weeks since Jimmy was put to sleep. In the past month, Ella has spent her time sleeping under a dresser in a spare bedroom. George's hypothesis is that she no longer has to compete with Jimmy for my lap so she doesn't bother trying. Mack has spent the past month in a dark nook under our townhouse. It's just dirt, rocks, dust and, I assume, full of spiders. I let him out at about 3:30 in the morning and George brings him back in about 10 each evening. He comes in for about 5 minutes a day to poop in his litter box and eat some kibbles. That's it. Yesterday, for one brief moment, both cats were outside, in the sun acting like happy cats.
Happy Caturday: Happy cats
Well, these building may not be the first to catch the eye along Billionaire Row just south of Central Park but I couldn't resist the composition. I thought it interesting to find window A/C units and an old school water tank in real estate that runs way into the millions if not billions. A lot was being prepared for another skyscraper.
Technical Note: The perspective of this image drove me crazy, I couldn't figure out why the bottom of the center-right plane of the building looked a bit off (pulled in) even though the vertical lines are pretty straight. I thought it might have something to do with straightening the perspective or perhaps some lens distortion going on. What I concluded after plenty of study is it's a bit of an optical illusion with the four rows of lower windows having a different horizontal spacing than the top four rows! The result is that they tend to "pull" the image to the right a bit, IMO. Anyway, it was fun trying to figure this out and I was relieved that I didn't have to blame my 24-70. I shot this at 55mm which is a focal length I don't use too often for buildings. That being said, I'll have to run a few field tests next time I'm around tall buildings to confirm my hypothesis.
New York City: 57th St.looking north between 6th and 7th Ave.
Marguerite Humeau : ECHO, "A Matriarch Engineered to Die", un étrange éléphant devenu dans l’hypothèse scientifique de l’artiste, une des créatures les plus évoluées. Cette éléphante matriarcale blanche, est équipée d’une perfusion sculpturale et poétique, la rendant capable, au moment de sa mort, de se nourrir de ses émotions.
A strange elephant that has become the scientific hypothesis of the artist, one of the most evolved creatures. This white matriarchal elephant is equipped with a sculptural and poetic perfusion, making it capable, at the moment of its death, of feeding its emotions.
I would like to test the following hypothesis:
If all goyim in the world sarin gassed all multimilionairs in the world, then the tribes would have prosperity, abundance and peace.
Happy WW-III.
Metallic color palette work for my May Contest. This work is inspired by my personal belief system. in this particular case, the creation of Earth. I believe that meta technology used by extra terrestrial entities created Earth, as opposed to the hypothesis seen in the Abrahamic paradigm.
For:
"VIVID METALLIX" May 2021 Contest
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The Torre del Oro is a dodecagonal military watchtower in Seville, southern Spain. It was erected by the Almohad Caliphate in order to control access to Seville via the Guadalquivir river.
Constructed in the first third of the 13th century, the tower served as a prison during the Middle Ages. Its name comes from the golden shine it projected on the river, due to its building materials (a mixture of mortar, lime and pressed hay).
The tower is divided into three levels, the first level, dodecagonal, was built in 1220 by order of the Almohad governor of Seville, Abù l-Ulà; As for the second level, of only 8 meters, also dodecagonal, was built by Peter of Castile in the fourteenth century, a hypothesis that has been confirmed by archaeological studies; The third and uppermost being circular in shape was added after the previous third level, Almohad, was damaged by the 1755 Lisbon earthquake. Rebuilding of the third level was made by Brusselian military engineer Sebastian Van der Borcht in 1760.
The Torre de la Plata, an octagonal tower, is located nearby, and is believed to have been constructed during the same era.
It is one of two anchor points for a large chain that would have been able to block the river. The other anchor-point has since been demolished or disappeared, possibly collapsing during the 1755 Lisbon earthquake. The chain was used in the city's defense against the Castilian fleet under Ramón de Bonifaz in the 1248 Reconquista. Bonifaz broke the river defenses and isolated Seville from Triana.
The Tower of Gold was built 1220–1221, by order of the Almohad governor of Seville, Abu l-Ulà, with a twelve-sided base. It barred the way to the Arenal district with a section of wall joining it to the Torre de la Plata, a part of the city walls that defended the Alcazar.
The tower was badly damaged by the Lisbon earthquake of 1755, and the Marquis of Monte Real proposed demolishing it to widen the way for horse-drawn coaches and straighten access to the bridge of Triana; however, the people of Seville objected and appealed to the king, who intervened. In 1760, the damage was repaired, with repairs to the bottom floor of the tower, reinforcement with rubble and mortar, and the creation of a new main access via the passageway to the path around the wall. That same year, the upper cylindrical body was built, a work of the military engineer Sebastian Van der Borcht, also architect of the Royal Tobacco Factory of Seville. These works changed the appearance of the tower as compared to what is seen in engravings from the sixteenth or seventeenth centuries. On August 13, 1992, the Torre del Oro was made a brother to the Tower of Belem of Lisbon to celebrate the Universal Exposition in Seville. As of 2008 the museum displayed a variety of old navigational instruments and models, as well as historical documents, engravings, and nautical charts, relating Seville to the Guadalquivir River and the sea. The tower was again restored in 2005.