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Treze Tílias (German: Dreizehnlinden, literally "Thirteen Lindens") is a municipality located in the state of Santa Catarina, South Region, Brazil.
Founded by Austrian immigrants, the large majority from Tyrol and Vorarlberg, Treze Tílias exhibits in its buildings an Alpine-influenced timber framing style of architecture, with both the Portuguese language and the southern Austro-Bavarian dialect of Austrian German spoken by most of its inhabitants. The economy of Treze Tílias is based on agriculture, tourism, and woodworking.
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") 😄
This handsome young man walked up as I was on the jungle gym with my son. He stared intently into the lens of my medium format Bronica ETRSi and waited for me to take his photo. After I did, he walked away, happy. Not a word was exchanged!
His father later told me that he was an immigrant from, if I recall correctly, Senegal, and that he had just arrived the day before and does not speak any English.
Bronica ETRSi, Zenzanon 75mm f/2.8 EII, F/2.8. Fujifilm Pro 160c. Scanned with Epson Perfection v800.
The Blackbird, an immigrant, knows that spring blooms not by calendar, but by feeling and in Australia, it’s September...
(Turdus merula)
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.
In the immigrant neighbourhood of Madrid's Lavapies, the walls bear witness to journeys across vast continents
Nikkor 105mm Macro lens with Raynox DCR-150 snap-on macro lens
Upper Peninsula of Michigan
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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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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.
Like many of the diverse immigrants who lend a collectively unique quality to Hawaii, this Zulu Giant (Stapelia gigantea)—a succulent plant native to southeastern Africa—is thriving alongside Hunakai Street in Honolulu's Kahala neighborhood. It is sometimes called a carrion plant because its large flower emits a faint carrion odor, which attracts the insects that pollinate it. January 21, 2018
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.
Palacio de los Pepitos, a food tent that serves a growing Venezuelan immigrant community in this heavily Latino neighborhood. The specialty here is a grilled steak sandwich known as a pepito. Roosevelt Avenue, Jackson Heights, Queens, New York
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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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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.
On the advice of a couple of people, I've recently started reading Willa Cather and Hamlin Garland. Cather's writing is magical and so perfect in many ways. Garland is fine. A bit on the nose though.
Both write about American settlers in the late 1800s, early 1900s. This would have been after the Oregon Trail days.
So much is rightfully made of immigrants on the various trails. There are hundreds of books, movies, and (of course) the video game. I have a ten (or so) volume series containing women's diaries from the trail.
But after the trail ends, after they find a home, the diaries often ended. Both Cather and Garland pick up the story—though both from a Midwestern point of view.
For both, their characters are often drawn off the farm to the towns and cities. The farms aren't depicted as idyllic, and the populated areas are given a very forward-looking glow (in some of Cather's work, New York comes off like something from the 1930s).
And though the city's mystique has worn off for me, it's nice to be reminded that rural living is (and especially was) a very hard life.
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'Resigned to the Way'
Camera: Mamiya RB67
Lens: Mamiya-Sekor 3.8/90mm
Film: Ilford HP5+ at 1600
Process: 510-Pyro; 1+100; 28mins
Montana
July 2022
Cheng Hoon Teng temple was founded in the 1600s by Chinese immigrants in Melaka, Malaysia. During the Portuguese and Dutch eras, Kapitans were appointed chiefs or headmen of the various ethnic communities. In 1824 the British abolished the Kapitan system and the leader of the Temple, became known as "Teng Choo.” The temple remains the finest in Malaysia – a fact underscored by a UNESCO award for outstanding architectural restoration.
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
So the Greylag's are back in force at Watermead (along with the Canada Geese and some hybrids...) it's good to have them back :)
Immigration to America is the hope of America ... and the hope of the world. Those who hate immigrants hate America and what America stands for.
Sculptor Luis Sanguino (b. 1934) celebrates the diversity of New York City and the struggle of immigrants in this heroic-sized bronze figural group. The sculpture depicts figures of various ethnic groups and eras, including an Eastern European Jew, a freed African slave, a priest, and a worker. The figures’ expressive poses emphasize the struggle and toil inherent in the experience of the immigrant or dislocated person.
The sculpture is located at the south end of the Eisenhower Mall in Battery Park near Castle Clinton, which served as a processing facility for newly arrived immigrants from 1855 to 1890, when construction began on a larger, more remote facility at nearby Ellis Island. The piece was donated by Samuel Rudin (1896–1975), who commissioned the sculpture in the early 1970s, intending it to be installed near Castle Clinton as a memorial to his parents, who, as it is noted on the plinth, emigrated to the United States in the late-19th century. Although Rudin died in 1975, Rudin’s family took up the campaign to install the sculpture at the park, and it eventually was dedicated on May 4, 1983.