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I could get a squirrel proof one but they have to eat as well even though they don't belong in this country
The little rascal looks for his next opportunity…
Skippy envisioned his universe with the help of the following exceptional creations:
8f8’s Fence, Street Lamps, Trash Bin, Market Stand, Spice, Tomato Crate, Delivery Truck, and Apple Crates, which are all part of the Green Grocers Collection!
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Let's keep working together to create a world
where everyone has the opportunity to shine!
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Kinderdijk has been on my bucket list for some time and happily this trip allowed me to check this location off my lifetime shot list, I timed our arrival with the shut down for the day of the tour offices at 5:30pm so we could hang out until dark exploring this wonderful showcase of Dutch ingenuity and perseverance.
Most Dutch will know the story “The Cat and the Cradle” of Kinderdijk but for those that have not heard it the story goes that a man coming home in a massive storm in the village saw a cat leaping furiously from side to side on a floating cradle, upon investigation the cradle contained a crying baby girl that the cat Had kept in motion side to side to keep the water from sinking the cradle.
Masters of water management the Dutch have been harnessing the wind to control the water for over 1000 years, with over 26% of the Netherlands literally below sea level there is no more iconic Dutch symbol that the windmill, Kinderdijk contains 19 windmills dating from 1740 that keep the surroundings pumped dry and the land reclaimed from the water
I took this on Sept 17th, 2017 with my D750 and Nikon 28-300mm f/3.5-5.6 Lens at 50mm 1/20 sec f/16 ISO100 processed in LR, PS +Lumenzia, Topaz , Luminar and DXO
Disclaimer: My style is a study of romantic realism as well as a work in progress
Our local community gardens have been around for many years so the plots there have evolved their own sense of place and style - which often transcend whomever the stewarding gardener might be. Some of the most wonderful leftover artifacts are the "fences" which are, without a doubt, some of the most unique, artistic and ingenious fences I've ever seen.
Happy Fence Friday, my friends! Have an ingeniously inspiring weekend. :)
The iconic Rubjerg Knude Fyr (Rubjerg Knude Lighthouse) standing tall against the relentless shifting sands of North Jutland, Denmark.
First lit in 1900, the lighthouse fought a losing battle against coastal erosion and massive sand dunes for decades, leading to its abandonment in 1968.
In a historic feat of engineering in 2019, the entire 72-foot tower was placed on rails and moved 70 meters inland to save it from crashing into the North Sea below.
Today, it remains a breathtaking symbol of human ingenuity against the raw, untamed power of nature.
The clematis vine has become a symbol of mental strength and ingenuity because of its ability to climb up and around obstacles, twisting and spreading to reach lofty heights.
The nests these tiny hummingbirds build are amazing. They are roughly the size of a golf ball. You couldn't duplicate it with your hands and they do it all with their beak. True works of art.
Part of the Perseverance mission to Mars, Ingenuity is the helicopter that flies in the Martian atmosphere and sends photos and videos back to Perseverance and from there to NASA on Earth. Ingenuity is more than two years into an intended 30 day mission, far exceeding expectations.
A female Eastern Bluebird. Bluebird nest boxes in Carden Alvar are all against the fences; most often the birds land on a rusty fence wire before entering the nest. Some enterprising photographers decided to put up a broken piece of branch around the nest box to give the birds a more natural looking perch - only to forget about the cable ties. Carden Alvar, Kirkfield, Ontario
Triad color art piece - Colors that are evenly spaced around the color wheel. Triadic color harmonies tend to be vibrant. “The human foot is a masterpiece of engineering and a work of art.” - Leonardo da Vinci
It is a nationally designated Important Preservation District for Groups of Traditional Buildings.
The village is formed on a steep slope, and the difference between the highest and lowest points is approximately 390 meters, making it the steepest among the designated areas.
Houses built from the mid-Edo period to the early Showa period (late 17th century to early 20th century), stone walls made by piling up stones one by one, and remain fields, providing not only nostalgic scenery but also historical high value in terms of the ingenuity used to form the village on the slope.
The entire village can be seen from the “Ochiai Settlement Viewing Point” on the opposite side.Buckwheat flowers blooming all over the fields are also a highlight.
Yuanyang Rice Terraces, located on the southern slopes of Ailao Mountain in Yuanyang County (part of Honghe Hani Autonomous Prefecture) and located in the south of Yunnan Province has been a masterpiece of the ingenuity of the Hani people for generations. Southern Ailao Mountain, with this typical tiered landscape, is famed for its unique frontier scenery.
The Hani people's ancestors came to this steep mountain area 2,500 years ago. In their struggle against the difficult terrain they successfully established the terraces, where they grew rice in order to make a living. The technology of developing fertile land on rugged mountain slopes didn't spread all over China and Southeast Asia until 14th century. The creativity of the Hani people turned this mountain area into one of artistic beauty. In recognition, the Ming Dynasty emperor granted the title of 'Skillful Sculptor' to Hani people and their good reputation was passed down from generation to generation. At present, known as 'land sculpture' the terraced fields have been being officially acknowledged by UNESCO as a World Cultural and Natural Heritage site.
"Ingenuity quotient" è una definizione che trovai su Popular Science nel primo dopoguerra, mi colpì la corrispondenza con il comportamento di noi napoletani che secolarmente troviamo stratagemmi di sopravvivenza.
Qualche anno dopo mi capitò per mano un libretto di un filosofo tedesco del novecento dal titolo "La filosofia del rotto "dove ritrovai esilaranti aneddoti sul comportamento dei napoletani.
Un vecchio portoncino a Procida.
My old 2005 Ranger is on a pair of Rock Island flatcars that were laid side-by-side over a creek so a farmer could have access to his fields near Fenton, IL. Unfortunately the lettering has faded to the point where its illegible today.
October 17, 2013
Amish cooks would clean out their Mason jars, then turn them upside down and put them on fence posts around their gardens. The intense summer sun would generate enough heat inside the jars that the fence posts would actually char — perfectly sanitizing the jars. (Explained by guide at My Amish Home in Holmes County, Ohio)
Mata Ki Te Rangi in Rapanui language means Eyes that look into the sky in English.
Ahu Akivi, the seven explorers.
The Ahu Akivi is an archaeological site with singular characteristics, due to its unique location, its studied astronomical orientation and the restoration work carried out in it, which was a milestone in the recent history of Easter Island.
The most important inner platform:
Ahu Akivi is located on the southwest flank of the Maunga Terevaka volcano, the highest point on the island, 2.6 km inland from the central west coast, where Ana Kakenga, the cave of the two windows, is located. This location is already significant, since most of the ceremonial platforms are on the coastal edge of the island.
Of the few ahu built in the interior of the island (about thirty), Ahu Akivi is the most important and elaborate platform of all of them. According to excavations and studies carried out, it is thought that the first phase of construction of the ahu began towards the end of the 15th century. First, a rectangular platform was erected on a level surface, from which a 25-meter ramp to the central plaza started. On the back a crematorium used in the cremation ceremonies was located.
During the second phase that took place at the end of the 16th century, improvements and modifications were made, a second crematorium was incorporated and seven moai statues were erected on the central platform.
Ahu Akivi is located in a territory associated with the powerful Miru clan, one of the highest-ranking tribes. It is thought that the moai were placed about 150 years before the first contact with European visitors, suggesting that at that time, considered a late date, there still reigned the political stability and economic abundance necessary to carry out a construction of this caliber.
The statues that look at the sea:
The seven statues were transported from the quarry of the Rano Raraku volcano located 15 km away, through an irregular terrain and using an unknown method. These imposing figures represent the archetypal form of a moai and have almost the average height and weight (4.5 meters and 5 tons) of the statues found on the platforms.
The statues present a careful uniformity between them, something that does not occur in Tahai or Tongariki, which gives the monument a sense of harmony and balance.
It is said that the moai of Ahu Akivi are the only statues that look at the sea of the whole island, since the rest turns their back on the ocean. And although, if they are looked with perspective, this is true, the truth is that they are oriented like the rest of the platforms, that is, their faces look towards the esplanade that extends before them, where formerly there was a nearby village. Therefore, the images of Akivi were placed, like the others, to watch over and protect the inhabitants of the village through the influence of their mana or mystical power.
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).
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.
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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.
On the river beside Cong Abbey, the Monks’ Fishing House stands in quiet devotion — a stone refuge shaped for patience, craft, and the steady rhythm of flowing water.
Here, Augustinian monks once worked the river with skill, lowering nets through the floor and tending their catch beneath the shelter of these weathered walls.
A meeting of ingenuity and landscape, where Mayo’s monastic past still rests along the current.
People in the far north are quite clever when it comes to solving daily problems that might arise.
When your source of water is located high on the mountain side, and your home or business is well below - you simply make your own water pipeline. Of course this only solves the problem in the summer, as your jerry-rigged pipeline will freeze solid in the winter. In winter you will be digging a hole in the ice of the nearest body of water, filling containers, and hauling them home. I never said that life in the far north was easy. 😄
Sharp ravine look...!!"
*created with Photoshop
On EXPLORE June 17, 2025 www.flickr.com/explore/2025/06/17/
Acquedotto di Segovia.
Amazing sight how this marvel of design and construction is fully intact winding through the streets. Aqueduct still ported water till the 1800s.
NASA’s Ingenuity Mars Helicopter captured this shot as it hovered over the Martian surface on April 19, 2021, during the first instance of powered, controlled flight on another planet. It used its navigation camera, which autonomously tracks the ground during flight.
Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech
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C-GROV, an Airbus BD-500-1A11 A220-300, heading west on taxiway "Delta" towards runway 06L at Toronto Pearson International Airport in Mississauga, Ontario.
"Calin Rovinescu" was departing, just before sunset, as ACA720 (Air Canada) to New York (LaGuardia), New York.
Serial number 55067 was the first A220-300 to join Air Canada's fleet. On November 21, 2025, it received the 40th of the 65 units that it had ordered.
Although the BD-500 family was designed and developed by Bombardier, it has become a valuable addition to the Airbus commercial product line.
2024.01.29
Cuxhaven
AIS Name ONE INGENUITY
Typ Container ship
Flagge Liberia
IMO 9933016
MMSI 636023290
Rufzeichen 5LMZ3
Baujahr - 2023
Länge 399 m
Breite 61 m
Tiefgang 12.1 m / 0.2 m / 16.5 m
Geschwindigkeit 21.3 kn Max
TEU: 24136
The couple probably wanted a long-exposure shot of The Parkway but had no tripod. So he set it on the steps to steady the camera.