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Vinca minor is a species of flowering plant native to central and southern Europe, from Portugal and France north to the Netherlands and the Baltic States, east to the Caucasus, and also southwestern Asia in Turkey.
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This was a pretty cool find. Morris Minor peeking out from a pillar in an empty carpark in central Cardiff. Nice little car.
Hasselblad 500CM, distagon 50mm, Kodak Tri-X 400, HC-110 Dilution B
Dr. Mindbender consults with a Techno Viper.
Mindbender:"I trust that all things are in order."
Technoviper 43: "Yes sir the process has worked quite well."
Mindbender: "Excellent the customer will be here soon to inspect the merchandise.
The start of a new story I can't promise it will be long or that there will be regular updates.
A Morris Minor, red phone boxes and 19th century buildings...
Approximately 14,000 Morris Minors still exist in the UK, and there are a number of cars locally used as year round daily drivers.
"The Basilica di Santa Croce (Basilica of the Holy Cross) is the principal Franciscan church in Florence, Italy, and a minor basilica of the Roman Catholic Church. It is situated on the Piazza di Santa Croce, about 800 meters south-east of the Duomo. The site, when first chosen, was in marshland outside the city walls. It is the burial place of some of the most illustrious Italians, such as Michelangelo, Galileo, Machiavelli, the poet Foscolo, the philosopher Gentile and the composer Rossini, thus it is known also as the Temple of the Italian Glories (Tempio dell'Itale Glorie).
The Basilica is the largest Franciscan church in the world. Its most notable features are its sixteen chapels, many of them decorated with frescoes by Giotto and his pupils,[a] and its tombs and cenotaphs. Legend says that Santa Croce was founded by St Francis himself. The construction of the current church, to replace an older building, was begun on 12 May 1294, possibly by Arnolfo di Cambio, and paid for by some of the city's wealthiest families. It was consecrated in 1442 by Pope Eugene IV. The building's design reflects the austere approach of the Franciscans. The floorplan is an Egyptian or Tau cross (a symbol of St Francis), 115 metres in length with a nave and two aisles separated by lines of octagonal columns. To the south of the church was a convent, some of whose buildings remain.
The Primo Chiostro, the main cloister, houses the Cappella dei Pazzi, built as the chapter house, completed in the 1470s. Filippo Brunelleschi (who had designed and executed the dome of the Duomo) was involved in its design which has remained rigorously simple and unadorned.
In 1560, the choir screen was removed as part of changes arising from the Counter-Reformation and the interior rebuilt by Giorgio Vasari. As a result, there was damage to the church's decoration and most of the altars previously located on the screen were lost. At the behest of Cosimo I, Vasari plastered over Giotto's frescoes and placed some new altars.
The bell tower was built in 1842, replacing an earlier one damaged by lightning. The neo-Gothic marble façade dates from 1857-1863. The Jewish architect Niccolo Matas from Ancona, designed the church's façade, working a prominent Star of David into the composition. Matas had wanted to be buried with his peers but because he was Jewish, he was buried under the threshold and honored with an inscription.
In 1866, the complex became public property, as a part of government suppression of most religious houses, following the wars that gained Italian independence and unity.
The Museo dell'Opera di Santa Croce is housed mainly in the refectory, also off the cloister. A monument to Florence Nightingale stands in the cloister, in the city in which she was born and after which she was named. Brunelleschi also built the inner cloister, completed in 1453.
In 1940, during the safe hiding of various works during World War II, Ugo Procacci noticed the Badia Polyptych being carried out of the church. He reasoned that this had been removed from the Badia Fiorentina during the Napoleonic occupation and accidentally re-installed in Santa Croce. Between 1958 and 1961, Leonetto Tintori removed layers of whitewash and overpaint from Giotto's Peruzzi Chapel scenes to reveal his original work.
In 1966, the Arno River flooded much of Florence, including Santa Croce. The water entered the church bringing mud, pollution and heating oil. The damage to buildings and art treasures was severe, taking several decades to repair.
Today the former dormitory of the Franciscan friars houses the Scuola del Cuoio (Leather School). Visitors can watch as artisans craft purses, wallets, and other leather goods which are sold in the adjacent shop.
Florence (/ˈflɔːrəns/ FLORR-ənss; Italian: Firenze [fiˈrɛntse]) is a city in central Italy and the capital city of the Tuscany region. It is the most populated city in Tuscany, with 383,084 inhabitants in 2013, and over 1,520,000 in its metropolitan area.
Florence was a centre of medieval European trade and finance and one of the wealthiest cities of that era. It is considered by many academics to have been the birthplace of the Renaissance, and has been called "the Athens of the Middle Ages". Its turbulent political history includes periods of rule by the powerful Medici family and numerous religious and republican revolutions. From 1865 to 1871 the city served as the capital of the Kingdom of Italy (established in 1861). The Florentine dialect forms the base of Standard Italian and it became the language of culture throughout Italy due to the prestige of the masterpieces by Dante Alighieri, Petrarch, Giovanni Boccaccio, Niccolò Machiavelli and Francesco Guicciardini.
The city attracts millions of tourists each year, and UNESCO declared the Historic Centre of Florence a World Heritage Site in 1982. The city is noted for its culture, Renaissance art and architecture and monuments. The city also contains numerous museums and art galleries, such as the Uffizi Gallery and the Palazzo Pitti, and still exerts an influence in the fields of art, culture and politics. Due to Florence's artistic and architectural heritage, Forbes has ranked it as one of the most beautiful cities in the world.
Florence plays an important role in Italian fashion, and is ranked in the top 15 fashion capitals of the world by Global Language Monitor; furthermore, it is a major national economic centre, as well as a tourist and industrial hub. In 2008 the city had the 17th-highest average income in Italy." - info from Wikipedia.
Summer 2019 I did a solo cycling tour across Europe through 12 countries over the course of 3 months. I began my adventure in Edinburgh, Scotland and finished in Florence, Italy cycling 8,816 km. During my trip I took 47,000 photos.
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At the entrance to the Cotswold Sculpture Park, adjacent to the cafe and ticket office, is a very tall totem pole type sculpture made from car parts with a morris minor embedded within it at the top. It looks very much like the Whomping Willow from Harry Potter with the car stuck in it.
Car: Morris Minor 1000.
Year of manufacture: 1958.
Date of first registration in the UK: 6th November 1958.
Place of registration: Somerset.
Date of last MOT: 16th October 2014.
Mileage at last MOT: 69,932.
Date of last change of keeper: 18th October 2014.
Date taken: 31st August 2021.
Album: Carspotting 2021
Car: Morris Minor.
Date of first registration: 24th August 1955.
Registration region: Coatbridge.
Latest recorded mileage: No MOT history.
Last V5 issued: 9th April 2012.
Currently on SORN.
Date taken: 24th September 2018.
Album: Carspotting
Planhigyn suddlon o rywogaeth Aloe yw Aloe vera.
Fe'i ceir mewn mathau o hufen croen ac mewn elïau at fân losgiadau.
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Aloe vera is a succulent plant of the genus Aloe.
It is found in types of skin lotion and in ointments for minor burns.
The vendors sound very convinced of the value of their Aloe vera products but it is said that there is little scientific evidence of the effectiveness or Aloe vera.
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Model: Morris Minor Hot Rod
Builder: Firas Abu-Jaber
Built for: LUGNuts 38th build challenge; By Random Assignment.
Camera: Camera phone Sony Ericsson Satio U1
Description: This is my new LEGO model after a little dark area in my life, I didn’t expect to build again, but when I saw that great building challenge in a Group called LUGNuts over Flickr I just couldn’t resist! The challenge is all about to build a car suggested to you by one of the group admins, so my assignment was to build a Morris Minor; when first Ralph Savelsberg assigned this car to me I said in my mind “no way I could build this car”, but I just thought about it then I decided to build a Hotrod version of this lovely car, the curvy shape was a pain to translate into LEGO, but here it is, ready to hit your PC screens ;-)
I would like to thank the great group LUGNuts for this amazing challenge; it was a lot of fun to build this model, and definitely build a classic car again.
Hope you like it, thanks for visiting my page.
Ps. Thanks for my friend Bricksonwheels for the great chrome rims :)
Blue 1971 Morris Minor Traveller - WWG 699K - seen at Summerlee Museum of Industrial Life, Coatbridge, Lanarkshire on the occasion of the "Scottish Drive It Day" Classic Car Show at the venue, April 2015. Any extra information on the car, its history or any work done on it will be gratefully received.
The event supported the Children's Hospice Association Scotland (CHAS). More about this charity can be found at the following link:
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Car: Morris Minor 1000.
Date of first registration: 2nd May 1961.
Registration region: Leicestershire.
Latest recorded mileage: 36,978 (MOT 30th July 2019).
Date taken: 13th February 2020.
Album: Street Spots
“What can you do if your dryer door won’t stay closed because the screw is loose, but you don’t have a screwdriver? Use a butter knife!”
Tsumori Spirit for the theme “minor repairs” in the Blythe a Day group on Flickr. I had intended to do this picture differently, using the little screwdriver that came in the package of doll-sized tools that I bought last week…but after using the tools in another picture, I put them away and now I can’t find them! So annoying! But I like what I was forced to do with this picture.
Car: Morris Minor 1000.
Year of manufacture: 1958.
Date of first registration in the UK: 6th November 1958.
Place of registration: Somerset.
Date of last MOT: 16th October 2014.
Mileage at last MOT: 69,932.
Date of last change of keeper: 18th October 2014.
Date taken: 31st August 2021.
Album: Carspotting 2021
Petite pervenche - Lesser periwinkle - Vinca menor
Vinca minor L. (fleur)
Forêt (alt. 100 m)
Bas-Oha (province de Liège, Wallonie, Belgique)
Indigène (Europe, Caucase)
The Constellation Canis Minor and Bright Star Procyon.
The constellation known as Canis Minor is one of the smallest constellations in the night sky but contains the 7th brightest star, Procyon. Procyon has a magnitude of 0.34 and is a binary star system, the companion star is a faint white dwarf called Procyon B. Procyon is fairly close to our Sun at about 11.5 light years away, this means the light you are seeing from this star is 11.5 years old. The name Procyon comes from the Greek (prokyon), meaning “before the dog”, since it precedes the “Dog Star” Sirius as it travels across the sky.
Tech Specs: Photographed on March 26, 2016 using a Canon 6D, Canon EF100mm f/2.8L Macro IS lens, iOptron ZEQ25 mount, and a 60 second exposure at ISO 1000 and f/2.8.
EXPLORED! Highest position: 147 on Thursday, July 9, 2009
Still busy, these next two weeks will probably be even worse...
Getting stronger, on Thursday they scheduled me the final job interview (already succesfully passed through two) for a really interesting opportunity.
I will be meeting the General Manager of the company. Sounds good!
The shot
Another sunrise from my April Tuscany trip. Taken some minutes before "Tuscany Sunrise @75mm". Tighter crop, less contrasty.
I'm in love with that place.
The Processing
Photoshop: (SINGLE EXPOSURE)
- Duplicated the background layer, switched to soft light mode and applied a gradient mask (sky only)
- Switched to LAB mode and applied two curves to improve contrast and tones
- Back to RGB, added a vibrance layer to boost up minor tones
- Used color balance tool to improve colors
- Duplicated the background layer, switched to linear add and applied a gradient mask (foreground only)
- Created an Overlay layer to adjust light
- Resized
- Run Noise Ninja to reduce Noise
- Sharpening (Smart Sharpen + more accurate)
- Framing and signature.
Take a look at it, LARGE on Black :
The best is yet to come, on Black
@ You all
Comments, faves and critiques are always welcomed!
I wish you all a splendid sunday and a marvellous week ahead.
I will be checking your streams out tonight.