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This is a nice view of the Volcanoes Complex of Izalco-Ilamatepec in Santa Anna, El Salvador. This grass field seems to be a mixture of sorgo, grass and rice. This view is by the highway connecting to Guatemala in the Ahuachapán area
Una bella vista del Complejo de volcanes de Izalco-Illamatepec in Santa Ana, visto desde la carretera a Ahuachapán en el Occidente del país. Aquí se ve unos campos de pasto, arroz y sorgo. Diversos tonos de verde.
Diversos tons de verde as margens da Rodovia para a Guatemala na região de Ahuachapán. Capim, arroz, sorgo se confundem e no fundo o belíssimo Vulcão de Izalco e Illamatepec no município de Santa Ana, cerca de 110 Km de San Salvador, capital do país.
For my BFFs who love pink...you know who you are! : D
A mixture of Re-ment, Mattel, Hong Kong dishes and some misc.
Left to Right.....
66020 new sidings road 1
66084 new sidings road 3
66139, 66079, 66158, 66101 all outside Toton depot North End andcolas 60026 on the headshunt
in Mile-Ex area of Montréal, mixture of housing and industry, I was standing at the back of a shop, the blue building has apartments. I love walking alleys.
'Eyes down look in'. a Short Eared Owl, quartering the meadow, hunting in Swillington Ings.
Many thanks for visiting my Flickr pages ...Your visits, interest, comments and kindness to 'fave' my photos is very much appreciated, Steve.
There is something almost magical about Short-eared Owls, a sense of otherworldliness that comes from their nomadic nature. For many birdwatchers it is the winter months that provide the best opportunities to catch up with this species. Wintering ‘shorties’ make use of lowland grazing marshes, areas of early-stage plantation and rough grassland - habitats that in previous decades might once have supported breeding pairs.
Better up north
The three Breeding Bird Atlases show how the breeding range of the Short-eared Owl has contracted northwards within Britain. The species is becoming increasingly restricted to our northern uplands, the Hebrides and Orkney. Short-eared Owls are nomads, turning up to breed wherever their favoured small mammal prey are abundant. Historically, large numbers turned up to exploit the plagues of Field Voles that once occurred in parts of Scotland and northern England, their populations changing dramatically from one year to the next. The northwards retreat has virtually seen the disappearance of the population that once bred around the East Anglian coast, south to the north shore of Kent, and the loss of the species from the brecklands of the Norfolk/Suffolk borderlands. It is thought that our breeding population now stands at between 750 and 3,500 pairs but, like many things about the species, there is uncertainty around these figures because of our wider lack of knowledge about them.
Small mammal specialist
The Short-eared Owl is a specialist predator of small mammals, predominantly voles and the Field Vole forms c.90% of the prey taken. Short-eared Owls can be seen quartering an area of suitable habitat, hunting on the wing and listening and looking for signs of prey in the grass below. Quartering flight involves a mixture of flapping and gliding, the bird sometimes hovering before dropping down onto an unsuspecting small mammal or bird.
Bird prey can be important at some sites and at some times of the year, with pipits, small waders and other species taken more often during the winter months. It is not unusual to see several Short-eared Owls hunting over the same area, sometimes hunting alongside Barn Owls and even Kestrels. These hunting ‘shorties’ will often roost on the ground using taller cover, typically close to the sites where they have spent time hunting.
On the wing
While many Short-eared Owl populations are nomadic, some live a more settled existence. Information from Short-eared Owls ringed as young at the nest, reveals that our birds undertake long-distance movements, dispersing away from the area in which they were born. A wider examination of movements, looking across Europe, reveals that the average distance moved after ringing has declined since the 1970s. This may reflect the pattern of less pronounced vole cycles and the amelioration of the climate, both of which may see these birds remaining further north than they did just a few decades ago. This would also explain the contraction that we have seen in the UK breeding range. As with a number of other species, there is good evidence that northerly populations are more migratory than southern ones.
The business of breeding
Short-eared Owls are early breeders and many pairs will be back on their breeding territories by late March. Strongly territorial, the birds may be seen advertising ownership of their breeding territory or chasing away intruders. Individuals utilise a number of different display postures and rely more on these than on vocalisations, something that reflects their association with open rather than wooded habitats. These birds have a reputation for defending their nest and young, attacking predators, dogs and human observers with some ferocity.
Increasing our understanding
Researchers based at BTO Scotland have been carrying out work to improve our understanding of this charismatic species. Some of this work has been directed to improving fieldwork methods for detecting and censusing this species, while other work has looked at ranging behaviour and longer distance movements. Knowledge of where Short-eared Owls occur during the winter months comes from periodic atlas surveys and, importantly, from the records of birdwatchers collected through BirdTrack, meaning that anyone can contribute to our knowledge of this enigmatic species. BTO Notes.
Jewellery and tattoos.
In May village live Waga Dia and Machhukanah Rabari people.
The region of Gujarat has played host to many a tribal culture and nourished them from the very earliest periods of history. One such tribe here, the Rabaris, still pursue a pastoral lifestyle—much in the same way as they did ages ago.
The Rabaris are a semi-nomadic tribe—pursuing a pre-agrarian, pastoral lifestyle—found mainly in the Kutch and Saurashtra regions of Gujarat. Though living today in permanent settlements, they are believed to have originally migrated from Baluchistan more than a millennium ago.
But over these thousand and more years, the Rabaris have undergone many changes and have been widely influenced by the local cultures with which they came in contact. Not only are they divided into distinct clans, they also prefer to trace their origin to Hindu Gods and even the Rajputs.
Without delving into the garbled clues provided by folk lore about their origin, a closer look at the Rabari today leads one into his quaint, colourful and rugged lifestyle.
By no means are the Rabaris an isolated people. The men are on the move—almost 10 out of the 12 months—in search of grazing pastures for their livestock; while the women and children remain in their villages. These villages are normally small, devoid of more than superficial amenities and, almost always, set in bleak, barren suroundings.
In a typical village, their rectangular houses, called vandhas, are built in rows. The white-washed mud walls and tiled roofs may have an appearance of starkness when viewed from outside. But within each house, the Rabari’s fondness for patterns is easily visible from the many geometric patterns that adorn its interiors. The tiny mirrors embedded into these mud-plaster patterns only enhance their beauty as they catch the faint glimmer of light streaming in from a small window or a low doorway. A home usually consists of two rooms, and an extended enclosure in the verandah which forms the kitchen.
The room at the back is normally used as a storehouse—a virtual treasure house of embroidered clothes and quilts kept in carved wooden pataras (chests); and the kothis and kothlas (granaries) made of mud and cowdung. The other room is mainly a living room decorated with embroidered torans or decorated doorways, while the doors are covered with brass foil etched in a myriad patterns. Often, the only piece of furniture that one might find is a carved, wooden cradle.
The community’s main stay is milk and milk produce from their livestock in order to purchase commodities that they trade in various forms at the local village or town markets.
Much of the handiwork seen in their decorated homes is that of their women. In fact, Rabari women are famous for their embroidery work, called bharat kaam, from which they make numerous traditional garments and furnishings. The kediyun, a gathered jacket with an embroidered smock, worn by young Rabari men and children, skirts and blouses for the women and girls—are al dexterously embroidered. Interestingly, the Rabari girl, completes over the years, her entire dowry which includes clothes as well as beautiful quilts or derkee.
Kokulashtami, after the rains, is marriage time. The men are back from their wanderings for this al important occasion. All marriages take place on this one day. Since child marriage is still very much in vogue within this tribe, outsiders are distrusted. Again, the Rabari marries only within the tribe and often into families which are closely located. Marrying outside the fold leads to social castigation and is very rare. While Rabari couples are probably the most exotically dressed, the marriage is a simple ritual performed by a Brahmin priest.
Rabaris, by and large, and ardent followers and worshippers of the Mother Goddess. Each clan has its own tribal goddess as the patron deity, though their homes often have pictures of other gods and goddesses as well. Strong tendencies of deifying and invoking the dead are still prevalent—a pointer to the community’s old world origin.
Another old world custom that has persisted is the custom of tattooing and there is a marked similarity In the motifs used in their embroideries and tattoos.
As an outsider it is difficult to communicate with these people since they speak a dialect which is a mixture of Marwari and Gujarati. But once they understand the visitor’s innocent curiosity, they exude the warmth and friendship that has always been a part of their make-up.
This fort is beleived to be pre-Islam,but restored in the 3rd & 10th centuries AD . It was extended in 1649 to give a wonderful mixture of round & square towers at different levels. A very atmospheric place in a great location about 120 km from Muscat ,Oman.
[24 November 2015] This is the sunset I dreamed all my life. At the entrance of the Neumayer Channel the compact clouds have begun to let a few timid ray of Sun pas through. The wind has stopped blowing instantly at sea level, but probably started to blow strongly in altitude, starting to sweep the clouds and leaving a mixture of lenticular clouds over the mountains of the Fief range on Wiencke Island (Palmer Archipelago, Antarctic Peninsula). The sea was totally immobile, creating a mirror surface on which it seemed to float in the air, in a surreal silence.
Stagecoach East Midlands ADL Enviro 400 MX56FTN (19075) seen on Kirk Gate in Waltham with the 08:55 9 to Cleethorpes.
Together with sister service 10, the 9 provides a bus every fifteen minutes between Waltham, Grimsby, and Cleethorpes. The only real difference in the routes, which are both half hourly, occurs in central Grimsby. Upon arrival in Cleethorpes, the 9 becomes a 7 to Grange Estate and the 10 becomes an 8 to Grimsby via Humberston. This circuit tends to be operated by a mixture of B7RLEs and Enviro 400s – Grimsby is allocated seventeen of the latter type, of which eleven are former Manchester examples such as 19075.
Mixed media creation, entitled "Fading Cloth" 2005, at the St. Louis Art Museum (El Anatsui Ghanaian, born 1944)
...It could be anything really though, couldn't it? A cow grazing on a rusty pineapple...a plethora of cubist artists frogmarching around Battersea....ahem.....(that cough mixture is brilliant stuff!! ;-)
The very oft taken Imperial War Museum of the North, Salford Quays. Pointless trying to do anything original with it, other than make it look totally unrecognisable, as every other angle, perspective and idea has been done already, (probably including this).
February, 2010.
The L-shaped entrance hall of Billilla is part of the original 1878 High Victorian mansion, although was redecorated as part of the 1907 redesign of the house.
The space is flooded with light from one of the two Art Nouveau leadlight bay windows flanking the heavy front door. A lunette of Art Nouveau stained glass featuring a galleon in full sail provides additional light and ornamentation above the front door.
The entrance hall features its original wooden dado panelling running half way up the wall, and a wooden vaulted ceiling. A welcoming fireplace featuring turquoise Arts and Crafts majollica tiles with an insert of three rows of ornate Victorian floral tiles around the grate greeted guests. Above the dado panelling, the hall still features its 1907 Art Nouveau wallpaper of gilded stylised camellias, whilst panels of gilded Victorian daisy patterned wallpaper are inserted into the ceiling. Ornately stylised Art Nouveau foliate chandeliers from the 1907 redesign still hang from the ceiling.
Built in High Victorian style in 1878 for successful gold miner Robert Wright, Billilla mansion was originally a thirteen room mansion erected on seven and a half acres of land.
When economic boom turned to bust in the 1880s, the property was purchased in 1888 by wealthy New South Wales pastoralist William Weatherly who named it Billilla after his land holdings and established a home there for his wife Jeannie and their children Violet, Gladys and Lionel.
The house was substantially altered by architect Walter Richmond Butler in 1907, extending the house beyond its original thirteen rooms and adding the Art Nouveau façade seen today.
After William Weatherly's death in 1914, his wife, who was much younger, remained living there until her own death in 1933. She bequeathed the property to her daughter, Violet, who maintained the home with reduced staff until her own death in 1972.
The property was purchased in 1973 by the Bayside Council who subsequently used Billilla as a historical house with guided tours, a wedding and events venue, a school and finally in 2009 as an artist's precinct in the property's outbuildings. Billilla is a beautiful heritage property retaining many of its original features thanks to its long private ownership still incorporating a stately formal garden and the magnificent historic house.
Billilla, at 26 Halifax Street, Brighton, is one of Melbourne’s few remaining significant homesteads, built on land which had originally been owned by Nicholas Were. The house has a mixture of architectural styles, featuring a Victorian design with Art Nouveau features and has exquisite formal gardens, which retain much of their original Nineteenth Century layout.
Billilla retains many original Victorian elements and a number of outbuildings still stand to the rear of the property including the butler’s quarters, dairy, meat house, stable garden store and coach house.
Billilla was opened to the general public as part of the Melbourne Open House weekend 2022.
Billilla was used as a backdrop in the 1980 Australian Channel 10 miniseries adaptation of Sumner Locke Elliott's "Water Under the Bridge". It was used at the Sydney harbourside home of Luigi, Honor and Carrie Mazzini.
No correspondence.
A mixture of officers from Füsilier-Regiment „Kaiser Franz Josef von Österreich, König von Ungarn“ (4. Württembergisches) Nr. 122 and members of an unidentified Gebirgs-Maschinengewehr-Abteilung in Macedonia, somewhere near the Greek border in 1916.
Masjid Zahir Series #1
This is an interior shot of Masjid Zahir (Zahir Mosque) located in Alor Setar, Kedah. If you Google it or search in Flickr, you can find a lot of beautiful images of this mosque. But what I’m sharing here is something different which is rarely being photographed. This unique stained glass feature is incorporated to the Moorish design which originated from North Africa and Iberian Peninsula.
Masjid Zahir is the official state mosque of Kedah. Its architectural landmark has made it one of the most beautiful mosques in Malaysia. Built in the tradition of the Moorish architecture, it has numerous arches and columns that are an epitome of grandeur.
Its official opening ceremony was held on Friday, 15 October 1915 by the late Sultan Abdul Hamid Halim Shah. Tunku Mahmud read the Friday sermon while Sultan led the Friday prayer (excerpt from Wikipedia).
Allur is a Village in Andanallur Taluk in Tiruchirappalli District of Tamil Nadu State, India. It is located 12 KM towards west from District head quarters Tiruchirapalli. 3 KM from Andanallur. 351 KM from State capital Chennai
Mutharasanallur ( 2 KM ) , Kiliyanallur ( 2 KM ) , Melpathu ( 3 KM ) , Andanallur ( 4 KM ) , Thiruvasi ( 4 KM ) are the nearby Villages to Allur. Allur is surrounded by Manachanellur Taluk towards East , Tiruchirappalli Taluk towards East , Manikandam Taluk towards South , Thiruverambur Taluk towards East .
Along the Trichy Karur kulitalai road at about 10 kms you can see the temple on the left hand side
There is a Raja gopuram and a big courtyard.
Temple comes under the Parantaka -I called as Thiruvadakudi Parameswara temple.Temple lies to the north of the village close to the main road.The deity enshrined here called in inscriptions as Thiruvadakudi Parameswarar or Mahadevar. On the north base of the arthmandapa there is an inscription of the 6th year (A.D. 913) of Maduraikonda Koparakesari i.e Parantaka-I it registers a gift by bhudimadevadigal to this temple of land brought from the assembly of isanamangalam a gift of gold for a lamp to this temple is made by the son of Veracola elangovan in the 5th year of rajakesarivarman who may be identify with gandaraditya.
These divitala temple perhaps a foundation of the days of Prantaka-I remoduled in the period of Raja raja cola -I and in the subsequent periods.The garbagraha is 18feet square it ahs plain base mouldings.There are mixtures planked by pilasters on the three closed sides of garbagraha.The ardhamandpa measures 17feet * 13.9 feet .There are two dwarapalakas infront of it.
INGREDIENTS:
4 slices bacon, chopped
1 medium onion, chopped (1/2 cup)
2 cloves garlic, finely chopped
1 box (9 oz) Green Giant® frozen spinach, thawed, squeezed to drain
1 egg, slightly beaten
1/2 teaspoon dried thyme leaves
1 cup shredded Italian cheese blend (4 oz)
6 boneless skinless chicken breasts (4 oz each)
1/2 teaspoon pepper
2 tablespoons olive or vegetable oil
Hot cooked rice or rice pilaf, if desired
DIRECTIONS:
1. In 12-inch skillet, cook bacon over medium heat 5 to 8 minutes, stirring occasionally, until crisp. Remove bacon from skillet, reserving fat in skillet. Drain bacon on paper towels; crumble and set aside.
2. In same skillet, cook onion and garlic in bacon fat over medium-high heat 2 to 3 minutes, stirring frequently, until onion is tender. Remove skillet from heat; set aside. In medium bowl, mix spinach, egg, thyme and cheese. Stir in onion mixture and bacon.
3. In thick side of each chicken breast, cut 3-inch-long pocket to within 1/4 inch of opposite side of breast. Spoon about 1/4 cup spinach mixture into pocket in each chicken breast. Sprinkle pepper over chicken.
4. In same skillet, heat oil over medium-high heat. Add chicken; cook uncovered 8 to 10 minutes, turning once, until light brown on all sides. Reduce heat to low. Cover; cook 10 to 20 minutes longer, turning if necessary, until chicken is no longer pink in center (170°F). Serve immediately with rice.
Had some old Pyrocat HD from Dec. 2018 and after 14 months it was still good. Many people say 6 mths is the limit but how wrong they were. I guess the water in Vancouver is very good used in this mixture.
Stagecoach South Wales
Alexander Dennis Enviro 300
CN60 CVJ 27691
Friday 10th August 2018
Seen here after leaving Porth Teigr.
Stagecoach are operating 12 buses (peak) on various Park & Ride services to the Eistedfdod event in Cardiff Bay. A mixture of E300s and Darts.
Boeing Classics! I just had 500 of my Boeing slides digitally scanned - happy days ;)
Screaming past me flaps down on short finals to runway 26 at London Gatwick, this fine looking CAAC Boeing 707 makes a great sight on the newly inaugurated weekly flight from Beijing (Peking) CA937/8. Not the greatest quality slide I'm afraid - the weather was atrocious and my Zenith was trying to cope with the low light - excuses, excuses ;)
B-2416 c/n 20721 - Boeing 707-3J6C was delivered new to CAAC (Civil Aviation Administration of China) in Jan 1974. The aircraft was still flying when CAAC was 're-branded' as Air China in 1988. In 1993, the aircraft was sold to the Israeli Air force as 4X-JYH / 264 and I believe is still flying as a tanker some 40+ years later!
CAAC Boeing 707s Communist China's national flag carrier CAAC was unusual in having a mixed Western and Soviet fleet - long-haul services in the 1980s were performed by a great mixture of Boeing 707s, Ilyushin Il-62s and Boeing 747SPs. I have created a gallery of photos of the ten Boeing 707s that flew for CAAC: www.flickr.com/photos/heathrowjunkie/galleries/7215770907...
Taken with a Soviet made Zenith TTL camera and 300mm lens. From an original slide, scanned and unrestored.
You can see a random selection of my aviation photos here: flickriver.com/photos/heathrowjunkie/random/
....a peek into the woods with a lens with issues. Soft edges, oil haze, & aperture stuck open.
* Albinar ADG 75-300mm f/5.6 lens
* Fotga MD-EOSM lens adapter
A mixture of secondhand acquistions with Hornsby of Ashby seen at the company's Ashby High Street premises in 1981.
From L to R:
SOE992H, ex WMPTE 3922, a 1969 Park Royal bodied Daimler Fleetline.
CRN869D: ex Ribble Motor Services 1869, a 1966 Alexander H-type bodied Leyland Atlantean.
KBB125D: ex Tyneside PTE 125 (originally Newcastle CT 125), a 1966 Metro Cammell bodied Leyland Atlantean.
For the first saturday race meeting of 2018 in York, Transdev sent over 3 vehicles from other fleets. Sent from Harrogate is former National Express Travel West Midlands Volvo B7TL Plaxton President W119 DOP, technically a replacement for the 'FJ08' batch of Volvo B9TL's which were with Coastliner and were not purchased after their lease expired. This wears Pride of the North livery (though with a slightly different phrase over the drivers' window to that on 2721) and usually operates a mixture of school duties and the occasional use as and when required on town routes or service 7 (originally 771) but is here at York rail station running the 197 races shuttle service on behalf of York Pullman.