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“We may think we are nurturing our garden, but of course it's our garden that is really nurturing us.”
~Jenny Uglow~
"No machine can replace the human spark of spirit, compassion, love, and understanding."
Louis. V. Gerstner Jr
An image of my daughter's hands. She is holding some compost. Within the compost is an aquilegia shoot that I dug up from our garden. My daughter is always happy to pose for me, even if the idea seems a little strange.
I need to honor my mother yet again.
Day after day she is taking care of my fathers every needs, forgetting her own pain and her own medical issues. Ive seen her keep that stiff upper lip and yet I know the fear that she is going through - we are all going through that right now not knowing what to expect with my fathers illness.
Mom got a phone call late last night that her best friend of 65 years ( a woman I call AUNT) was hit by a car. My Aunt is already in not so hot condition, and as she was crossing the street an elderly man hit her..2x..Its a miracle she is alive.
So today, I drove my mother to give even more of herself and comfort her best friend..
I guess the world works in mysterious ways. My mother continues to amaze me how she can put her own needs aside, but i know her, I know how she feels.
Being alone in Good Company is not Loneliness for Solitude nurtures Strength .... On Growing Self....
Quotes by Patricia Bechthold
Post Sunset shot of Hingol National Park
Fact Sheet:
Geographical Location:
25*30'N-65*30'E
Physical Location:
Makran coast, Baluchistan province. Approximately 190 km west of Karachi
Total Area:
610, 043 hectares
Date Established:
1988 and 1997 (includes Dhrun Wildlife Sanctuary)
Best Time to Visit:
Mid October to November and December to mid March
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Description
Hingol National Park (HNP) – the largest National Park in Pakistan covers about 610,043 It and lies on the Makran coast approximately 190 kilometers (km) from Karachi. The area was declared reserved in 1988 for the first time. The park area includes parts of the three districts of Balochistan; Lasbela, Gawader and Owaran, and contains a variety of topographical features and vegetation. Large tracts of the HNP are covered with drift sand and can be classified as coastal semi desert. HNP includes the estuary of the Hingol river which supports a significant diversity of bird and fish species.
Wildlife:
In addition to a variety of bird species, Hingol is also known to support threatened invertebrates. The park is reported to be an excellent habitat to wild animals including over 3,000 ibexes, and 1500 Urials and more than 1,200 Chinkara, besides number of resident and migratory birds. The Houbara Bustard (Chlamydotis undulata), Dalmatian and Spot-billed Pelican (Pelecanus philippensis) are regular visitors to the area.
The River Hingol has been nurturing crocodiles for centuries. The Marsh Crocodile (Crocodylus palustris), Olive Ridley (Lepidochelys olivacea) and Green Marine Turtles (Cheloniamydas), endemic and threatened species of fish, such as the Mahasheer occur and schools of Plumbeous Dolphins (Sousa plumbea) are known from close in-shore areas.
Mammals:
The park has a relative high diversity of species for this type of desert environment. However, the population of a number of species is critically low including for Wolf, Leopard, Hyena, and possibly of Caracal and Honey Badger. Populations of Chinkara are common in the Harian Valley and the Northern Plains but vulnerable. The most recent sightings of wolf are from a few years back and no recent sightings have been obtained to confirm the survival of the Desert Wolf in the park. The population is either critically low or the last individuals have been recently killed.
The status of the following species needs to be studied in more detail to assess their survival changes, their current distribution within the park and the population densities: Urial, Chinkara, Desert Wolf, Leopard, Caracal, Hyena, Wild Boar, Honey Badger.
The park has large populations of Ibex, although population like those of many other species were decimated during the long period of extreme drought (1998-2004). Porcupine is abundant in many locations both in the lowland valley and the Mountain plateaux. It is reportedly increasing in numbers in several areas. The main reason is likely the local loss of predators such as Leopard, Hyena and Desert Wolf. Cape Hare is numerous in many valleys and flood plain areas, and so are their main predators the Foxes and Jackal. Certain rodent species in particular Mouse like Hamster and Indian Gerbil may be quite common.
Birds:
The total number of species thus far listed for Hingol National Park is 185 (Nov 2006). The Species Diversity of the Park is relatively high for a desert area due to the large variety of habitats including sea, sea coast, estuaries and mudflats, riverine habitat and mountains up to 1580 m. The highest number of species is found at the seacoast, the estuary and along the Hingol River and main tributaries the Nal, Parken, Arra and Babro-Mari River. Some 45% or almost nearly half of all species are related to water including the seacoast, the estuary, and the Hingol River areas. The major groups among these are the seagull and terns, the pelicans, flamingos, herons and egrets, the plovers and lapwings and the stints, sandpipers, godwits, shanks, coots, curlews, king fishers, Osprey, etc..
Only a small number or about 10 % are typically related to the desert areas. Bird diversity is typically low in the tree-poor and degraded broad valleys and the desert areas with very limited water sources. The typical desert related bird groups include the Wheat-ears, Common Babblers, Larks, Sand Grouses, Partridges, the Houbara Bustard, some Shrikes and Buntings.
Many other species use the desert area also including many birds of prey, insect eating birds such as Bee-eaters, Hoopoes, and seed eaters such as Pigeons and Doves, and birds with a more varied diet such as White-eared Bulbuls, Sparrows and the Brown-headed Raven and Shrikes.
The remainder of the birds some 45% consists of birds of prey (Eagles, Vultures, Hawks, Buzzards, Falcons), pigeons, owls, nightyars, woodpeckers, rollers, swallows, martins, wagtails, chats, robins, warblers, white-throats, flycatchers, sunbird, drongo, mynas, sparrows, buntings.
Bird biomass is low, except at the estuary and mudflats and tidal river where large groups of Pelicans, Flamingos, Waders (Plovers, Stints, Sandpipers, Shanks), Seagulls, Terns, and Ducks like to congregate.
Some bird species profit from the influence of cultivation, in particular culture following species such as House Sparrows, Silverbells, White-eared Bulbuls, Buntings, Common Babblers, White throats and Brown-headed Raven. The water harvesting systems result in agricultural areas with high trees of Kand Prosopis glandiflora, Kikar Acacia nilotica, and Ber Zizyphus mauritiana. In particular Ziziphus mauritiana attracts fruit-seed eating birds such as White-eared Bulbul, Lesser White-throats, House Sparrows and others. They also provide nesting sites for many bird species. Blossoms and fruits of trees such as Salvadora spp. and Capparis decidua, usually attract several bird species, including the Purple Sunbirds Nectarinia asiatica. These trees are however scarce and may have much decreased in numbers through cutting for construction wood and fuel wood.
The fields with ripening grains such as millet attract many seed eating birds including rock pigeons, doves, buntings, sparrows and others.
Several species find either their eastern limit or their western limit in the Hingol and surroundings. A typical example is the Brown-headed Raven.
The Brown-headed Raven Corvus rufficollis is a restricted range species. It is limited to the southern areas of Balochistan, Iran up to Oman and Egypt. The eastern limits of its total range are at the east boundary of the park, while a few individuals wandering up to Liari and the estuary of the Porali River. They occur all over the park beyond its northern boundaries.
Groups of some 4 –20 or more birds are found along each river and in each major valley. The Aghore group is the largest with more than 20 individuals. The total number of groups resident in the Park is estimated at 10-20 only.
A rare bird noted as limited range species with breeding in Balochistan coastal zone is the Sooty Falcon. It is regularly seen in Hingol and a group of 17 were sighted at Machi / Sangal mountain ridge and may be breeding in Hingol
At least half of the species listed for the park are migratory birds. The Park is part of the “Asian Flyway” used by birds from Siberia and Central Asia to migrate to the flood plains, lakes and sea coastal areas of Pakistan, India up to Bangladesh. Some birds migrate to East Africa crossing the Arabian Sea. A small number of birds show altitudinal migration over shorter distances. They come down from the higher altitudes within Pakistan to migrate to non-snow covered and warmer areas (e.g., Orphean Whitethroat). The number of species and number of individuals is therefore much higher in the winter period. Most species can be noted when migratory species pass through during the arrival-passage time in autumn (Aug-Nov) and their return in spring (Feb-May). A small number of species stay the whole winter in the park area, notably some Egrets and Herons. A very small number migrates from south east to northwest in summer times.
The largest concentrations of migratory birds can be found at the Hingol estuary and lower Hingol River plains. Several birds of Prey pass through the coastal area during the wintertime. A two day survey in Jan. 2006, listed 150 Great White Pelicans, 40 Spot-billed and 50 Dalmatian Pelicans, 18 Great Cormorants, 400 Little Cormorants, 75 Western Reef Egrets, 200 Little Egrets, a few Intermediate, Great Egrets and Purple Heron, and 32 Grey Heron, 16 Black Ibis, and 200 Spoonbils. Ducks were limited to Eurasian Wigeon (800), Gadwall (150), Common Teal (600), and Northern Shoveler (200), the total number of shorebirds-waders amounted to 16 out of 40 species including amongst others Great Stone Plover (2), Whimbrel (60) and Eurasian Curlew (35). The Gull-Terns were represented with 12 out of 20 species with high numbers of Herring Gull (2000), and Black-headed Gull (1400).
Reptiles:
The Marsh Crocodile, Olive Ridley and Green Marine Turtles, Desert Monitor lizard, Yellow Monitor lizard, and different species of lizard and chameleon.
Source:
Shot taken in HNP during a Widlife Survey of the Park:
"By my intimacy with nature I find myself withdrawn from man. My interest in the sun and the moon, in the morning and the evening, compels me to solitude." -Henry David Thoreau
My social battery is always at 0%. I never feel a pull to be with others (Mike as the sole exception) and I crave solitude like I do certain foods. To be surrounded by nature with no human sounds other than my own breathing is my kind of heaven.
Notebook from Cognitive Surplus, bandana from REI.
Nurturing.
They can be seen at any waterway and they are easily identifiable by their distinct colouring which is predominately black and purple-blue coloured plumage that features across its breast belly and neck. It also has a white undertail.
Its common name is the Purple Swamphen (Porphyrio porphyrio) and it is a native Australian bird that inhabits freshwater streams, marshes and wetlands.
Breeding season for the Swamphen is between July to December and they often breed in solitary pairs nesting in trampled reeds which are lined with softer vegetation.
Their chicks are a fluffy black ball and they appear awkward with their long legs and a crown of reddish brown colouration.
This female was nurturing her young in the reeds on the shoreline of Springs Lake.
Spring Farm, New South Wales, Australia.
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Redmond, WA
Image made by my Minolta Maxxum 7000 with 50mm f/1.7 lens and with Kodak Gold 200 film. Scanned on Plustek 8200i #filmisalive
A Hmong woman breastfeeding her baby at an outdoor market near the Vietnam-China border. What I find really amazing about this shot is the fact that when we asked to take her portrait, she continued breastfeeding her baby without missing a beat. There was no self consciousness, no sense of embarrassment, no attempt to hide or be ashamed about the act of breastfeeding. She was watching over her vegetable stall while openly breastfeeding in front of hundreds of people who were milling about at this outdoor market.
As a physician I think this is exactly how it should be. Breastfeeding should be as natural as breathing, eating, walking, and talking. It is a fact of life, and that is how we should deal with it as a society. No one needs to be offended, and no one needs to hide the fact that they are doing what has been done since our human ancestors first walked the earth. I love the amazing color contrast between her golden yellow outfit and that blue parasol by the way. I couldn't have arranged this scene any better even if I wanted to. Sometimes reality is better than fiction.
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Mother Giraffe nurturing her calf. This is a commission piece I built late last year. Hope you like it.
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In the aftermath of the devastating bushfires that engulfed much of Australia in 2019-20 it became evident that our symbolic fauna favourite the Koala was almost decimated.
Large colonies were wiped out and it is estimated that they may never fully recover and face extinction.
Fortunately this mother and child were bred in captivity as part of a breeding program initiated at the Billabong Zoo.
The program even allows for the public to sponsor a Koala and in doing so will ensure their longevity.
Billabong Zoo, Port Macquarie, New South Wales, Australia.
Oh I do so love agapanthus at this time of year. My bridal bouquet was made of white aggies. Many years ago. I love this part of the flower when it just seems to burst out of its little protective coat.
Hope you have had a good Tuesday. We have had a sweltering day with rumblings at the end of the day and a sprinkling of rain. We need a good shower.
In the gentle embrace of her form, the essence of a nurturing soul unfolds, radiating both power and softness. The expectant mother stands enveloped by a symphony of notes, her silhouette graced by the blessing of life. Each musical echo in the room becomes a testament to the harmonious dance between strength and tenderness, as she lovingly anticipates the miraculous gift within, feeling truly blessed.
Collection of Lincoln Library, Springfield (Best of Show Award)
Medium - inks and gouache
This is one of my best memories of Uganda.
For an entire day, I excused myself from the group and went alone...just a translator and me. I got observe village life outside the context of ministry...got the opportunity to sit with people, talk with them about their lives, and ask questions about their trade and craft.
This young mother was captivating. To me, she represents the heavy load born by the tireless Ugandan women. They build the houses, gather the supplies, hand launder everything, carry the water, tend the gardens, cook the food and raise the children.
This is my tribute to them. They truly are the nurturers of Uganda's future.
“Happiness will bloom
With fragrance and beauty
If you plant the seeds of love
With a deep driving desire
in the garden of hope
And nurture with tenderness,
Compassion, and care;
If you are always eager to share.”
― Debasish Mridha
Today - March 20, is International Day of Happiness. Be happy and be well, everyone...!
Read more here:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Day_of_Happiness
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Last week I was able to witness this special moment....one of my favorite bears nursing her cubs. Even though I've spent each summer for the last 8 years with these bears, I've never seen this before.
Nurture is by Gary Boulton at Beaulieu Estate Sculpture Exhibition. The sculpture is made from stainless steel and weighs 80kg.
From Gary's page:
Nurture depicts the bond between parent and child. The sculpture stands at 163cm high and is made from stainless steel. The bodies are formed from individual hammered stainless steel plates welded together and polished, whilst the heads are created using stainless steel washers and welded into human form.
My young grandson 'Noah' can't start them too young introducing them to the wonderful world of nature around them. I guess the butterfly thought him as sweet as I do! Happy Wing Wednesday to you all. ;0)
I don't know how easy it is to exist in a small apartment but at least something akin to a wood is not far away.
She nurtures quietly on days and loudly on others. He nourishes their bodies and souls. Together they watch restlessly as the winds tear down but strengthen their charges. With blistered palms and aching hearts, only the best know both sacrifice and reward.
I was delighted to capture this precious moment between mom and baby orangutan at the Toronto Zoo.
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I was drawn by the deep bond between this mum and her joey as they nuzzled and shared hugs for tens of minutes on the beach . I eventually left them to it, but have never seen such an intimate pair of kangaroo. She was so calm and nurturing , and seemed to be a very experienced mother.
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