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this Rainbow Lorikeet was absolutely soaked when it rained this afternoon, but was having a lovely time in the Callistemon in my garden.
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A new version of a previous shot, without time to take new photographs i make experiments in post-production:)
Vecchia foto, nuova versione..senza tempo per fare nuove foto mi diverto a sperimentare con la post-produzione.
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Zo af en toe kom je nog een volhouder tegen (20-1-22)
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Every now and then you come across a persistent (20-1-22)
Perseverance doesn't always mean winning and losing. Perseverance means showing up and rising to the occasion and performing. (Michael Chiesa)
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“Spring passes and one remembers one's innocence.
Summer passes and one remembers one's exuberance.
Autumn passes and one remembers one's reverence.
Winter passes and one remembers one's perseverance.
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― Yoko Ono
Inspiration from Le Monde Perdu
Big old tree of Japanese Clethra looks gnarled & fantastic.
Botanical name: Clethra Anatolia; English name: Japanese Clethra. This tree grows slowly at this barren land.
リョウブは成長すると樹皮が剝げ落ちて, 木肌がツルツルになります。地上根は逞しい反面, 地下根は浅く短く, 幹は傾きがちです。特に土壌層が薄くて直ぐ溶岩層となる天城では, こんな格好に成ります。リョウブは成長速度が遅いので, この古木の樹齢は全く見当が付きません。
“Spring passes and one remembers one's innocence.
Summer passes and one remembers one's exuberance.
Autumn passes and one remembers one's reverence.
Winter passes and one remembers one's perseverance.”
Yoko Ono
Back to reality!!! My brain is still foggy and resisting the idea of going back to work. I hope everyone enjoyed the holidays.
Found baby sea turtles last Christmas. I like the message of hope and strength they represent. Last year was certainly challenging but pushing through this year with a mindset of perseverance against adversity 😊
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“By perseverance the snail reached the ark.”
We were out in the garden filling up Randie's little watering can
to water the flowers. We must have filled it up 3 times before I noticed
this little guy trying to escape sudden death trapped in the can filled with
water. A moment later another little fella followed :)
Good thing my mother in law was not around.. she would have stomped
on them!! Happy Sunday Everyone!!
“Spring passes and one remembers one's innocence.
Summer passes and one remembers one's exuberance.
Autumn passes and one remembers one's reverence.
Winter passes and one remembers one's perseverance.”
~ Yoko Ono ~
Sunshine in the past week; it felt like Spring and sometimes even like Summer!
Rain and nothing but rain last weekend...it felt like Autumn...
And lots of snow and again since yesterday: Winter, so we have it all within one week! :-)
If you think you have a hard life... Think again!
(photo taken on Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada)
"Perseverance, dear my lord,
Keeps honour bright: to have done, is to hang
Quite out of fashion, like a rusty mail
In monumental mockery."
William Shakespeare
An accurate astronomical observatory.
Like other platforms on the island, including the lone moai of the Ahu Huri a Urenga, the Ahu Akivi was built following a precise astronomical orientation. In this way they controlled the change of seasons and the most appropriate times for agricultural tasks.
In Akivi the axis of the platform was oriented from north to south, getting the faces of the moai look exactly at the point where the sun sets during the equinox of the austral spring (September 21st) and their backs face the sun of the dawn during the autumn equinox (March 21st).
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The best time to visit and take pictures is at sunset, which is when the setting sun illuminates the seven statues and highlights their features.
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The legend of the seven explorers:
In the recent literature on Akivi, the seven statues of the platform are related with the seven young people who were sent to explore the island before its first colonization by King Hotu Matu’a.
A legend says that Hau Maka, the priest of Hotu Matu’a had a dream in which his soul flew across the ocean when he sighted the island. Next, he sent seven explorers sailing through the sea to locate the island, study its conditions and the best area to disembark.
Although the idea that the legend was remembered in stone is attractive, it seems that it can not be true. The moai statues belong to a quite late sculptural period, after the year 1440 AD and historians consider the hypothesis that the first settlers arrived on the island towards the fifth century, so they rule out a possible relationship between both facts.
The restoration that boosted Rapa Nui:
Ahu Akivi was the first ahu to be restored after a small group of islanders, at the request of Thor Heyerdahl, erected the statue of the Ahu Ature Huki on the beach of Anakena in 1956. As a member of that Norwegian expedition was the American anthropologist William Mulloy, who from then on would devote a large part of his life to studying the mysteries of Easter Island.
The reconstruction work in Ahu Akivi began in March 1960 and continued until October of that year. William Mulloy and his Chilean colleague Gonzalo Figueroa worked with an archeologic team of 25 Rapanui people in various phases of excavation and reconstruction. This was the first serious archaeological excavation and the first complete restoration of a ceremonial site in Rapa Nui.
The works were done with hardly any material means, they only used wooden poles, stones and a pair of oxen. But with perseverance, ingenuity and effort they achieved their goal. To raise and place the first moai, they used a stone ramp and two large wooden levers. This operation took a month. However, after perfecting the technique and with the experience gained, it took less than a week to raise the seventh statue.
When the work was finished, Father Sebastian Englert himself gave the blessing at a very emotional opening ceremony. After 150 years the islanders could observe again several moai standing on an ahu.
The restoration of Ahu Akivi is considered a turning point in Rapa Nui. From that moment, other works of restoration of more platforms began. The Ahu Akivi was followed by the ahu of Hanga Kio’e, Tahai, Anakena and Tongariki. The ancient platforms regained their former glory and the small and remote Easter Island attracted the attention of other researchers and travelers. And what is more important, it unleashed a true cultural renaissance, an economic development and a renewed sense of pride in being Rapanui.
"Perseverance" - As the resilient leaves of the caladium endure the persistent rain, so shall I in capturing its triumph.
Despite all the fallen leaves and browns, yellows and rusty colors, this maidenhair fern and its little companion cousin are steadfastly hanging on to their spring-time colors. Photographed on a rainy day in the Hass Tract of the Mississippi Valley Conservancy, La Crosse, Wisconsin.
Inspiration: I'm Still Standing - Elton John
Did you think this fool could never win?
Well, look at me.
I'm coming back again.
I'm still standing better than I ever did.
Pose: .:Tribal Tuesday:. Peaky Blinders
Photo Platform: Sunny's Photo Studio
Windlight: [TARNIX] End-of-world
Platform: Black Dragon Viewer
Glasses:Avisavi Distinguished Glasses
Necklace: **RE** DarkStone Necklace RLV - *Elegance Collection* *OpenCollar*
Polo: Mossu - Alan Polo Shirt - Black - torn and tattered effect custom
Wounds: Ghurab - Black Vulo Design - Severly Wounded Upper Body, HYSTERIA - A! Apocalyptic Wounds BOM/Evo X
Curiosity rover
A NASA rover launched in 2011, landed on Mars in 2012.
Purpose: to study whether Mars ever had conditions suitable for life (water, habitable environment).
Famous motto: “Dare Mighty Things.”
Perseverance rover
A NASA rover launched in 2020, landed in 2021.
Purpose: to search for signs of ancient microbial life and collect soil samples for future missions.
Its name means “perseverance” — the idea of moving forward despite challenges.