Frans Hals (1581/85-1666)
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Ces filtres d'orient qui parfument le désert
Un mélange de fibres où l’or se mêle au vert
Comme dans un moule ou le miel blond et la semoule
Enferme des éclats d’amandes et de pistaches
Comme on voit le nombril des danseuses orientales
Qui dansent au son d’une musique instrumentale
Se mettre en mouvement pour vous faire chavirer
Cette tapisserie de brins tissés aux riches couleurs
De l’orient s’anime et fait chanter les vers
Comme un rideau de perles fines au bras du vent
Built in 1869, the General Dodge house in Council Bluffs, Iowa, was the home of Grenville M. Dodge (1831-1916), a Union general during the American Civil War, and an engineer who was instrumental in the development of the railroads across the American West.
The interior of the three-story brick home features elaborate black walnut woodwork, and original fixtures. The house, a National Historic Landmark, is decorated with items from the Dodge family, and is open daily as a museum.
The home was a very interesting place to visit, although the docents (dressed in period garb and shown here), seemed rather stiff and were not very communicative. ;-)
'Coast Guard 175' aka Leonardo (Agusta) AW.189 G-MCGO seen running various approaches at Shoreham today
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With immeasurable sense of loss, sadness and regret, I have to record the passing of my dear Mother.
She was in hospital in Budapest since just after Christmas, where one crisis followed another. Eventually, she gave up the fight and died in her sleep earlier today.
The picture above was taken in happier times (on my birthday), just over four and a half years ago. She was then 85 year old and we just returned from a very pleasant holiday.
Alas, at the end of that year she lost her sight and since then her life was a continuum of untold misery.
In truth, most of her life was punctuated by a series of tragedies and difficulties. Whilst she was instrumental in my ending up in London, and in spite of my many frequent visits, it was our living far apart that she regretted most.
Equally, the few highlights of the past two decades were the holidays and travels we undertook together.
I will miss her a lot.
Named for its loud ‘bob white’ call, this quail is a small chunky bird with short rounded wings. Males have a black cap, white throat and chin, and a white stripe through and above the eye to the back of the head. Females have a tan colored throat and no black neck collar.
Bobwhite quail live in brushy areas interspersed with fields. They prefer edges, fencerows and areas with vegetative cover.
Bobwhites are active during the day; they feed on seeds, fruit, insects and green plants. Pairs are monogamous with pair bonds sometimes persisting between breeding seasons. Males advertise during the May to August breeding season with a distinctive bob-bob-white call.
Females lay large clutches of up to 14 eggs, which hatch after 23 days. The precocial young are about the size of a quarter coin, and feed largely on insects. The chicks double their weight every 10 days can fly within 2-3 weeks.
Bobwhites are commonly seen in groups known as coveys. Coveys usually consist of about 10-30 birds, depending on the time of year. Every night, for safety, the covey forms a circle with their heads facing outwards, away from each other and their tails together. If a predator startles them, the covey flushes in all directions.
Bobwhite quail are a popular game bird in the United States. In 1970 an estimated 35 million of them were shot. In the southeastern US these tiny birds were instrumental in the preservation of some of the best examples of old growth high pine.
I found this male along Joe Overstreet Road in Osceola County, Florida.
Piano Through Glass!
This is SOOC with no cropping or software modification whatsoever. I considered cropping the right side of the image where the power outlet is but decided that maintaining the reflection continuity of the trees, lights and buildings off of the painting on the wall was more definitive.
This piano is on display for sale in a store in Winter Park, Fl. The shot was taken from the outside through the glass window showing the reflection of the building behind me and across the street. It's also showing trees and shrubs on the other side of the street as well as sunlight reflections shining directly off of the piano..
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La última década ha sido la más cálida desde que existen medidas instrumentales de la temperatura. Este calentamiento está provocando cambios importantes en las zonas montañosas de Europa, que se traducen en una reducción de la extensión de las áreas donde se dan condiciones alpinas. Los resultados del proyecto GLORIA ponen de relieve importantes cambios en la vegetación de alta montaña, que implican principalmente: desapariciones y apariciones de especies, migraciones altitudinales y cambios en la cobertura vegetal. En las localidades estudiadas en Sierra Nevada se ha constatado la desaparición de 13 especies en 11 años, a la vez que se han detectado 5 táxones que no habían sido citados previamente. Especialmente acusada es la reducción en el área de distribución de Lepidium stylatum, Viola crassiuscula y Saxifraga nevadensis. Otras especies muestran un claro comportamiento ascendente (p.e.: Plantago radicata subsp. granatensis, Pilosella castellana y Eryngium glaciale). Estos cambios concuerdan con lo observado en otros puntos de Europa, donde también se rarifican especies de los géneros Saxifraga (en el norte de Europa a lo largo de los últimos 80 años) o Pilosella (subida en altitud en el sur de los Alpes).
En la fotografía realizada a más de 3.000 metros de altitud, esta joyita nevadense protegida entre las rocas de micoesquistos de losvientos,frios y calores.
En los últimos 12 años he podido comprobar como va subiendo de altura. Ya hay alguna como la Amapola de Sierra Nevada y la Arenaria nevadensis, que no tienen practicamente altura para subir ,si sigue subiendo la temperatura.
3100 m.
Parque nacional de Sierra Nevada.
Endemismo nevadense
Show da banda instrumental brasileira no Teatro de Cultura Popular, em Natal (Brasil). Arte elaborada no segundo semestre de 2008.