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The wood duck (German: Brautente) is not a native European bird, its natural range is North America. A few specimens have found their way into German wildlife, howsoever.
Actually, as with many animals, this colorful specimen is not the bride ("Braut") but the groom ("Bräutigam") 😄
originally found in Oregon by the Lewis and Clark Expidition, these little flowers are in gardens worldwide.
Finn Slough Heritage Area.
Immigrants from Finland in the 1920s created this unplanned and unregulated part of Richmond, British Columbia. There's a road to the area, but most of the dwellings are only accessible by boardwalks or boat. This colourful little channel, a favourite for photographers, is between Whitworth Island and Lulu Island on the Fraser River. Finn Slough is one of the last tidal communities and fishing village on the west coast and has remained unchanged over the years
"Have you always been a refugee
Going back to where you came
And even though you are much older now
In your heart you feel the same
Tell me how it used to be
Swimming in the coldest sea
And if you hide your memory
Could you open up your Heart
To a world that tore you apart ?"
from - "The Coldest Sea" by Joseph Arthur
Miles Davis- "Circle" from "Miles Smiles"
the song by Joseph Arthur "The Coldest Sea 🌊 "
One photo. Image, textures and digital painting by me, Tom.
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"Be happy for this moment. This moment is your life." Omar Khayyam
We come from the land of the ice and snow. From the midnight sun, where the hot springs flow. The hammer of the gods. We'll drive our ships to new lands to fight the horde and sing and cry: Valhalla, I am coming!🎶.
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Rhododendron sp.
“Rhododendron is a very large genus of about 1,024 species of woody plants in the heath family. They can be either evergreen or deciduous. Most species are native to eastern Asia and the Himalayan region, but smaller numbers occur elsewhere in Asia, and in North America, Europe and Australia.”
—Wikipedia
“About” the tenth power of two? Just passing along the text, not judging. Canada seems to have achieved peace and respect among its immigrant populations, now working hard on extending that to indigenous people.
Plants don’t care. This one seems happy to be here.
Ellis Island began receiving arriving immigrants on January 1, 1892. Over the next 62 years, more than 12 million immigrants would arrive in the U.S. via Ellis Island (there were other ports of entry in cities such Boston, Philadelphia, Baltimore, San Francisco and New Orleans). 1907 marked the busiest year at Ellis Island with approximately 1.25 million immigrants processed. After 1924, the only passengers brought to Ellis Island were those who had problems with their paperwork. In November 1954, the last remaining detainee was released and Ellis Island was officially closed by the U.S. government.
Taken from the Staten Island Ferry,
The white buildings sticking up in the background are parts of the Liberty Science Center in New Jersey.
There is a pedestrian bridge in the back of the island that runs to Liberty State Park also in New Jersey.
A rare immigrant not identified in the UK until 2003. Only 54 previous Sussex records prior to 2025. Taken at home
Nikkor 105mm Macro lens with Raynox DCR-150 snap-on macro lens
Upper Peninsula of Michigan
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In the immigrant neighbourhood of Madrid's Lavapies, the walls bear witness to journeys across vast continents
While out and about this spring, I came across this big Ring-Necked Pheasant, standing tall and proud atop a log pile. He posed for me a few times, then hopped off and disappeared into the tall grass.
Ring-Necked Pheasant
Phasianus colchicus
Portland, WI.
Spring 2020
I am fortunate enough to live near a herd (or "fold" as they say back in Scotland) of Highland cattle, a "Scottish breed of rustic cattle."
"It originated in the Scottish Highlands and the Western Islands of Scotland and has long horns and a long shaggy coat. It is a hardy breed, able to withstand the intemperate conditions in the region."
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Highland_cattle
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I read a little less this year than usual. I found when my dad passed this summer, I became quickly wrapped up in the funeral and all of the things you have to take care of and then it took awhile to build up my concentration again. I only read 140 books this year, which is far lower than my usual amount of over 200. One year, I read 365 books! So, I slacked off this year. I found myself lingering along different pages and chapters more so than ever. Here are some of my favorite books that I read. They didn’t all come out this year but time is an illusion anyway.
I'd love to hear about all of your favorite reads from this year or other years!
Photo above is a multiple exposure from Iceland..a reading/study room with a landscape photo in honor of my favorite read of the year.
1. Rooms for Vanishing by Stuart Nadler
A real wonder of a book about different possibilities, split timelines, divergent futures confronting the personal horrors of WWII in one of the most creative and thought provoking ways I’ve ever seen. I read several chapters again and again and felt like this was one of the most philosophical and creative books Ive ever read!
2. The Membranes by Chi Ta-wei
Extremely ahead of its time and published originally 30 years ago and translated into English fairly recently. This is a glimpse of a future world which many facets have proved to be fairly accurate predictions but it is also about queer identity and is written sort of like a gay Taiwanese young William Gibson might write it. Wholly original!
3. Is a River Alive? by Robert McFarlane
Yes, a river is very much alive! This is a wondrous work of nonfiction that really explores some diverse and hard to reach areas of nature and its effect on both the nearby inhabitants and the visitors like this author. I loved its sense of environmental advocacy and questioning why we would allot personhood to corporations but not bodies of water, for instance. You really feel like you go on a psychological journey with the author and learn so much between the rivers he explores and the people he meets.
Thanks to my friend Bob for this recommendation!
4. Future Home of the Living God by Louise Erdrich
There was a period of my life where I just didn’t quite get Erdrich for some reason…it just didn’t click…but now, I am reading at least a couple of books a year by her. This is really a striking book about desperate women who have lost all body autonomy. Her books are always well written and engaging but this one felt more fast paced and thrilling than the others in style and topic.
5. House of Day, House of Night: by Olga Tokarczuk
I really love how Tokarczuk writes about dreams and mushrooms in this one especially. There is quite a bit about religion as well as physical gender identity within that religious space and a really interesting sense of the people who live in Poland in a border town with Germany and remnants of WWII even. She just has a really poetic way of writing.
6. The Measure by Nikki Erlick
I read this on recommendation from my sister in law in one sitting on the plane to Los Angeles. It is one of the most engaging book I have ever read and a speculative fiction masterpiece exploring the psychology behind lifespan and how society might change if everyone over 21 was sent a single string of a certain length that told them how much longer they would live….but not how they would die. Fascinating storyline and very well executed…I kept wondering how I would handle this situation myself. Another book that made me cry this year…I guess I am a bit of a mess! Apparently, this was an “instant” NYT Bestseller back in 2022 but I hadn’t heard of it until my sister in law mentioned it…I guess I just don’t pay attention to popular culture.
7. Archipelago of the Sun by Yoko Tawada
This is the third book of the trilogy of friends where Tawada explores language and identity within the context of our current world and its insistence on borders and a national identity that not all have and definitely not all share the same level of privilege. These friends are so diverse and interesting and also one of the characters and their transitioning identity is also explored so it is rather complex but also very thought provoking and meditative the way she writes…you just want to linger on certain sentences again and again.
8. Tell Me Everything by Erika Krouse
I read three books by Erika Krouse and loved all three-this one is nonfiction and is about all of the horrific ways a football team takes advantage of, persecutes, and threatens women and how deep the cover up goes. Krouse is helping the investigator while also going through the horrors of her past and personal identity. I was honestly not expecting to find this book as engaging as I did but Krouse is an exceptional author whose short stories Save Me, Stranger have stuck with me for many months and who also writes vivid characters in fiction books (see Contenders). Highly recommended!!
9. The True True Story of Raja the Gullible (and his Mother) by Rabih Alameddine
If you ever have the chance to see Rabih Alameddine speak, DO IT! I saw him a few years back after Trump was office the first time around and he spoke about how art including writing is in and of itself an act of resistance. This book is both tragic and funny. There’s an image of our protagonist hero escaping a bunker during a civil war in Lebanon that actually had me laughing so hard I’m surprised I could stop. But, this is also a portrait study of a city and how it changed when the fighting began and equally an exploration of a mother and her gay son as they navigate through their relationship across decades. This is technically fiction but reads at times like an autobiography and, after all, it is a true true story.
10. The Dream Hotel by Laila Lalami
This book scared the crap out of me and if it had been published when she first had started working on it, it would have been even more terrifying. The premise reads like a Black Mirror story where there are corporations who own and monitor your dreams and might even insert products into them. You can also be suspect based on your dreams but people give up their dreams in desperate situations just to fall asleep….very riveting and terrifying!
11. Poets Square Cats by Courtney Gustafson
I’ve been following this author’s cat rescue in Tucson, Arizona for a few years now but only had part of the story before I read this book. This is the autobiographical back story of the author and cat rescuer herself and the ways in which becoming a full time cat rescuer changed her and perhaps made her more human or at least helped her focus her values and what being alive truly means to her. She is doing very good work and it is important to support this work. This book also gives the back story behind so many important characters, many of whom don’t seem quite so feral when you see their true feline selves in her way. A book to be treasured!
12. Sunbirth by An Yu
I loved her speculative novel Ghost Music and this new one is even more bizarre and has an apocalyptic angle about the sun slowly disappearing and people in this town being enveloped by and exploding with light. None of the characters know what it is like in other cities and towns and some try to escape but, after all, the sun is something we all share so you wonder how it could be different when it is the same major problem occurring. I loved these astounding characters and the sense of imagination here.
13. ACLU The Fight of the Century: Edited by Michael Chabon and Ayelet Waldman
Never has there been a more important time to stand up for human rights and also understand the history of human rights. I loved some of the authors responding to historical cases that are organized chronologically. Yea Gyasi Viet Thanh Nguyen, Elizabeth Strout, Salman Rushdie, Aleksander Hemon, Brit Bennett, Li Yiyun, Rabih Alameddine, Louise Erdrich, and Anthony Doerr amongst main more give us glimpses into their own personal history and how these cases may have impacted them. Some of these chapters are also critical of the ACLU’s stance too in some aspects in a healthy way as in the case of campaign funding, for example. Regardless, it’s an organization under great threat in America whose continued existence is vital.
14. Bad Bad Girl by Gish Jen
This is partly a memoir of the author but also an exploration of her mother’s past and her ancestry from back in Shanghai. It explores the horrors of the history they lived through while her mother escaped to America but it’s also an engaging imaginary conversation Gish Jen has with her mother who suffered sexism in her own life and treats her daughter as if she should also be quiet and easy and not have so many opinions. But Gish Jen is a phenomenal author of so many great fictional stories exploring culture and identity and she will always be a Good Bad Girl that we should be grateful for. Thank goodness for the women who don’t succumb to societal and family pressures put on us.
15. My Beloved Monster: Masha, the Half-Wild Rescue Cat Who Rescued Me by Caleb Carr
An extraordinary nonfiction work that really had me on the edge of my seat several times and crying at others. This is a story of a human who Is battling a personal history with physical abuse and has gone through several surgeries that have been only minimally successful. He is an acclaimed author (I haven’t read any of his other books) and lives alone when he decides to adopt a cat later on in life. I just love how he explores his relationship with his cat and the cat’s personality and sense of adventure. This is actually a story about two wandering souls who find each other and meet in the middle and I do believe that they have found each other again in the ether of the afterlife.
16. Generosity by Richard Powers
I read four different books by Powers this year. If you haven’t read his work, it’s quite masterful! He is one of those authors that has great ideas and can truly craft a complex storyline and bring it all back home in an impressive way. This one is interesting because it focuses on an immigrant who by all accounts should be miserable…she has very little and her parents have been murdered and her brother imprisoned. At one point, she is even sexually molested. Still, throughout all of this, our protagonist, Thassadit Amzwar. remains happy and joyful in a way that others just can’t quite seem to manage or understand. As one might imagine, people try to diagnose her as if something is wrong with her and study her DNA…things go so haywire because other humans literally just can’t imagine how this human could be this happy when the rest of us are so depressed.
17. Bewilderment by Richard Powers
This book really got to me in so many ways…it’s so much about the relationship between a father and a son who is neurodivergent and tests him in so many ways but it is also about biofeedback, flexible thinking, and consciousness after death. It is filled with wonder and sorrow both and really explores the complexity of human consciousness.
18. Beyond Anxiety by Martha Beck
I read quite a few nonfiction books this year related to flexible thinkers, nature, human consciousness existing after death, and octopuses but this one really resonated with me in the sense that it helped me immediately to manage my anxiety and is highly recommended to any artists. There are people in this world who consume art and those who create art and those who do both. I am probably in the latter category because I create art but also really love being part of an international community like Flickr and don’t really enjoy participating in other social media type of sites that seem to focus more on making oneself look cool or rich or just a made up version of a human.
This nonfiction is about how creativity can cancel out the heightened anxiety that threatens to overwhelm us every day. If you start to feel the heightened sensation taking over like you can’t even breathe except to scream, maybe this book is for you. Also, just sitting down and doing art for hours is indeed a luxury and makes it hard to go back to the “real world” of capitalism, etc. but sometimes this is exactly what self care is needed
19. A Love Story From the End of the World by Juhea Kim
I loved the wild weirdness and environmental focus of these short stories set all across the world in this time of climate chaos and political upheaval. Kim is an author and activist with a truly creative spirit!
20. After by Bruce Greyson M.D.
After what happened this summer with my dad passing, I read a ton of nonfiction regarding human consciousness continuing and this one really goes through quite a variety of Near Death Experiences and how it also ends up changing people. It’s a really fascinating look into human consciousness and how it continues from a medical expert. I am fascinated by these human stories and really enjoy the perspective of someone from a background in Science. I do believe that, when the body dies, the consciousness and soul of the spirit does continue and that most of us have already lived multiple lives at this point.
Honorable Mentions:
The Emperor of Gladness by Ocean Vuong
Annihilation by Michel Houellebecq
The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny by Kiran Desai
Mailman: My Wild Ride Delivering the Mail in Appalachia and Finally Finding Home by Stephen Starring Grant
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I love this building. It gives you a warmth that makes you comfortable and welcomed.
From 1892 to 1954, over 12,000,000 immigrants entered the United States through the portal of Ellis Island, a small island in New York Harbor.
It has been claimed that over 100 million Americans can trace their ancestry to the immigrants who first arrived in America at Ellis Island from the records available here.
Bauhinia × blakeana, Hong Kong orchid tree. Originated in Hong Kong in 1880, now widely cultivated. From Queen’s Market in Waikoloa on the Big Island of Hawaii, where almost nothing is natural except bare volcanic rock.
Ireland Park honours the Irish immigrants who fled during the Famine of 1847 and the 38,000 who arrived in Toronto that summer when the City's population was a mere 20,000. Ireland Park is a bridge that will link two nations and two cities. It is the story of a destitute people overcoming unimaginable hardship and suffering, and speaks to the kindness and generosity of Canadians, which is as consistent today as it was in 1847.
It is a reminder of the trauma of famine, which still exists in many parts of the world today. The failure of a harvest is an act of nature. Starvation is the result of our failure to respond with generosity to those who are hungry in our world today
The rock sculpture is in several sections. Between each section are the names of the deceased, and at night they are up-lit.
Tradescantia pallida is native to the lowland forests of southeastern Mexico, but has been spread far and wide by horticulturists. It has a close relative native to Colorado, Tradescantia occidentalis, which goes by the common names spiderwort, cow slobber and snotweed, These common names follow the excess production of saliva by cows and humans who eat the leaves, which are mucilaginous.
Each of the water droplets acts as a magnifying glass, showing the fine texture of the petals (most clearly seen in the largest size). Photographed in one of CU's greenhouses, managed by my favorite horticulturist/botanist, Tom Lemieux.
Halsbandsittich (Psittacula krameri manillensis) in Cologne
As a new citizen (neozoon) who was able to build up holdings of captive refugees, he is increasingly to be found in urban areas of the northern Mediterranean countries as a cultural successor. Alexander the Great brought him from Asia to Greece more than 2300 years ago, hence the name "Alexander Parakeet"
ENGLISH
The Eurasian Collared Dove, Streptopelia decaocto, also called the Eurasian Collared-Dove or simply the Collared Dove, is one of the great colonisers of the avian world. Its original range was warmer temperate regions from southeastern Europe to Japan. However, in the twentieth century it expanded across the rest of Europe, reaching as far west as Great Britain by 1953, and Ireland soon after. It also now breeds north of the Arctic Circle in Scandinavia. It is not migratory.
It was introduced into the Bahamas in the 1970s and spread to Florida by 1982. Its stronghold in North America is still the Gulf Coast, but it is now found as far south as Veracruz, as far west as California, and as far north as British Columbia and the Great Lakes. Its impact on native species is as yet unknown; it appears to occupy an ecological niche between that of the Mourning Dove and Rock Pigeon; some have suggested that its spread represents exploitation of a niche made available by the extinction of the Passenger Pigeon.
This is a gregarious species, and sizeable winter flocks will form where there are food supplies such as grain. The song is a coocoo, coo repeated many times. It is phonetically similar to the Greek decaocto ('eighteen'), to which the bird owes its name. Occasionally it also makes a harsh loud mechanical-sounding call lasting about 2 seconds, particularly when landing in the summer.
More info: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eurasian_Collared_Dove
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CASTELLANO
La tórtola turca (Streptopelia decaocto) es una ave natural de Asia, pero ha ido avanzando por toda Europa, llegando a la península Ibérica en el año 1960.
Mide entre 28 y 33 cm, tiene un plumaje sin manchas, los adultos son de un gris claro y se camuflan fácilmente en los edificios de la gran ciudad. Tienen un característico collar negro ribeteado de blanco en el cuello. Cabeza gris y algo rosada, pecho gris rosado claro, cola grisácea por encima, con punta y bordes blancos por debajo, ancha banda terminal blanca. Pico negro y patas rojizas. Hay dos variedades de color, la marrón con una ligera tonalidad gris y la blanca. Ambos sexos son iguales en colorido. El macho se distingue de la hembra en que arrulla.
"I grew up in an immigrant neighborhood. We just knew the rule was you're going to have to work twice as hard."
Lin-Manuel Miranda
La Boca is a working-class area with a cluster of attractions near the Riachuelo River. Steakhouses and street artists surround Caminito, a narrow alley flanked by brightly painted zinc shacks that evoke the district’s early immigrant days. A cauldron of noise on match days, La Bombonera is the home ground of Boca Juniors soccer team. Modern art museum Fundación Proa has temporary exhibits and views of the old docks. ― Google
Early on Sunday morning hundreds of members of the Greek police force raided an unofficial refugee camp in the Greek port of Patras as part of a nationwide 'clean sweep" operation. The camp which has been in existence for nearly a decade was home to hundreds of immigrants, mainly from Afghanistan hoping to sneak aboard trucks headed for Italy.
See here for BBC footage. www.youtube.com/watch?v=A0OFotZdKC4
Using bulldozers the local authorities razed to the ground the shacks and huts that until recently housed an estimated 150 people. Several fires were reported as a result of the raid and according to official police sources 44 minors were detained along with 30 adults who will be held in a reception centre until they are deported. The raid has been criticised as "inhuman" and called a "pogrom" by the left wing SYRIZA party and the Greek Communist party.
The ruling New Democracy party has also announced that it will set up internment camps throughout the country to house those who do not have a legal right to stay in the country. It should be noted that at present Greece grants asylum to 0.1% of those who apply for it and has been repeatedly criticised by Amnesty International, other European governments and the UNHCR for its treatment of refugees and immigrants.
On the other hand the latest poll carried out by Public Issue found that 93% of those questioned thought that Greece could not take in any more immigrants and that 62% said that immigration is probably harming Greece.
Stung by his party's poor showing in the recent European elections prime minister Kostas Karamanlis has decided to get tough on the issue of immigration in order to avoid losing more support to the far right LAOS party. With the possibility of general elections in either September or March 2010 at the latest Karamanlis is hoping that a tough stance on crime and immigrants will help bring back voters who have deserted the party in droves after two years of corruption and influence peddling scandals involving several government ministers
my.nowpublic.com/world/greek-police-raze-refugee-camp-ground
www.nzhistory.net.nz/keyword/pigeon-bat
A walk in Hay Scenic Reserve.. it was lovely and cool.
Catching up on some back shots from the beginning of the year.
In Akaora with my Flickr and blip friend. February 20, 2016 New Zealand.
It was warm and wonderful so we packed up a lunch and headed for the hills and bays around the banks peninsula. It reached will over 30c today.. a bit too hot at times and there was no wind at all. We had our lunch here at Pigeon Bay. This the place were my mother and father lived when they first got married. My father grew up here.
Meaning of place name
So named by whalers because the forest at the bay was alive with keruru or wood pigeons.
Pigeon Bay was settled by members of Ngāi Tūāhuriri living in three settlements there. This bay would become a popular place to settle for Europeans who came there in the 1800s. First to settle were whalers, then French settlers who would eventually settle in Akaroa. In 1842, Scottish immigrants the Sinclair and Hay families arrived.
For more info: my.christchurchcitylibraries.com/ti-kouka-whenua/wakaroa/
As descendants of the French Huguenots prospered in South Carolina, protestant churches increasingly popped up to serve their families. The old brick church at Wambaw, part of a local parish of the Church of England, was built on the King's Highway in 1768. It was surrounded by rice plantations that the Huguenot immigrants and their descendants created.
Besides the church’s rich history, the symmetry of this scene is what struck me.