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Nothing is more blissful than a stroll along the beach with the subdued sunlight gleaming at your face. ( Taken in Tofino, Vancouver Island May 15th, 2006 ).
Being charitable, it's unlikely that a service from Trowbridge to Bath would require double deckers. Even less likely is the need for dual door but ADL e400mmc of First's Bath depot 33936 YX66WDZ was on the D1x in 2024.
Suppose you are walking in a scorching heat and it starts raining on your head.. You might not like rain or the heat but together they might end up creating a rainbow for you!
Louisiana is reported to be losing 25 to 35 square miles of coastal wetlands each year – one football field of land per hour. The causes of the land loss are from natural causes and human interference, and include reduced sediment flow from the Mississippi River and its tributaries, land subsidence, and sea-level rise. To combat the diminishing and degrading coastal habitats, Jefferson Parish instituted a program that found a role for discarded Christmas trees to lessen wave energy and to combat erosion. Wooden cribs are constructed parallel to the shoreline to hold the trees. Volunteers, the Louisiana Air National Guard, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, and others have coordinated the collection and placement of trees in these pens to lessen the impact of waves and storms. The calm water between the cribs and coast traps sediment and allows for plants and aquatic life to establish. Jefferson Parish has been tracking the impact of this Christmas tree recycling project. Between 1998 and 2015, an unprotected area of shoreline lost over 23 acres of habitat, while a section protected by trees only lost 3 acres. The Christmas tree recycling program not only assists coastal habitats but generates awareness among Louisiana residents and provides an opportunity for participation in making a difference for the coast.
The quilt is to be viewed from the top to the bottom, representing a relative sequence over time as viewed at one location. No quantitative data is implied in terms of spatial or temporal patterns sewn. Each horizontal gray strip of fabric represents breaks in time. At the top of the quilt, one sees a wide strip of “plant” fabric representing a marsh coastline, and a smaller piece of “water” fabric representing the coastal water. As one moves down to the next row of plant/water fabric, there is less of the land fabric and more of the water fabric. This is to represent erosion occurring along the Louisiana coast, where marsh habitat is being lost from wave energy, subsidence, seal-level rise, etc. As one moves down the next several rows, there is a continued loss of the coast with an increasing encroachment of water. In the middle of the quilt, a Christmas tree crib appears. The successive rows show a reduction in loss of the marsh over time, reflecting the results shared by Jefferson Parish (still marsh loss but less volume when the Christmas trees were put in place).
This is my story of coastal optimism – a story of habitat loss and degradation that is slowed by the placement of discarded Christmas trees.
"If you can see your feet, obviously you're not looking up, and you know where that'll get you in life? Walked headlong into a pole."
I will get this tattooed somewhere on my foot when I'm older. Perhaps not like this, but it will be there, even if it's tiny.
104/365
(Title trad.: "Bersani has to make impossible as possible")
What's happening in Italy after this election? Simple: the voice of the people is inside the Parliament. It's the "Direct Democracy". For the first time in the world a party with no money, using the web and the social network, has about the 25% of the vote. They fight for a new kind to think. For a new way to do. Enjoy, it's the beginning.
If I have my Bob Marley history correct, he was probably stoned out of his mind if and when he said this. So one can excuse him his optimism. It says:
"Don't worry about a thing, cause every little thing is going to be allright Bob Marley"
Very funny musical number about e-mail spam. The woman on the left wanted a bigger vagina.
Go see the show. I promise it makes sense.
"Hemerocallis 'Optimism', 2017, Red Violet [Daylily], hem-ur -oh-KAL-iss, 23"" E-M D Re Fr #Perennial #Monocot (Wild-G., 1998), USDA Hardiness Zone 3, 5.4"" red violet self , Bloom Month 7a, In Garden Bed V2.z07 for 3.9 YEARS.
Daylily Optimism - 23"" EM. Re. D. F. 5 3/8"" bloom. Lightly creped and ruffled medium red violet with light burgundy veining. Cream rib runs to green heart. Large star shaped flower. Fades.
#Hemerocallis #Daylily
by Jane Hirshfield
More and more I have come to admire resilience.
Not the simple resistance of a pillow, whose foam
returns over and over to the same shape, but the sinuous
tenacity of a tree: finding the light newly blocked on one side,
it turns in another. A blind intelligence, true.
But out of such persistence arose turtles, rivers,
mitochondria, figs--all this resinous, unretractable earth.
1952 Sunbeam S8 speedometer.
The Brooklands Sunbeam 100 celebrating the centenary of the Sunbeam Motorcycle Club. Pre-1940 motorcycles and three-wheelers 17th March 2024
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