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Sand pine scrub environment, with saw palmettos covering the ground, a unique habitat in South Florida.
MATSUSHIMA, MIYAGI, THE NIHON SANKEI, ( ONE OF THE 3 MOST SCENIC SPOTS IN JAPAN ) , 日本三景、陸奥、松島、松島佐勘、松庵
Model: Viktoria
Photo: Thomas Ohlsson Photography
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The museum, dedicated to Canadian Art, has the largest collection of Group of Seven paintings and a great collection of indigenous art. The museum has extensive trails alongs its pine forest and the Humber Valley watershed. Great for hiking.
In the highest parts of Troodos, over 1,100 metres above sea level, the black pine (Pinus nigra subsp. pallasiana) forms natural evergreen forests and which are priority habitats, i.e. in danger of disappearing on an EU level.
We had the first snowfall of the season on lower ground yesterday, around an inch or two in places. Headed over to the Crested Tit hide and was rewarded with the combination of snowfall and backlight from the late afternoon sun.
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One of my friends told about the exhilarating experience he had while driving on Beartooth highway, so we decided to take the highway on the 2nd day of our trip to Yellowstone. It was truly one of the most beautiful drives I've ever taken..
Heralded as one of the most scenic drives in the United States, Beartooth highway features breathtaking views of the Absaroka and Beartooth Mountains, and open high alpine plateaus dotted with countless glacial lakes, forested valleys, waterfalls and wildlife. The Beartooth highway provides easy access to Yellowstone National Park at its northeast entrance.
The Beartooth All-American Road passes through The Beartooth Corridor. It is one of the highest and most rugged areas in the lower 48 states, with 20 peaks reaching over 12,000 feet in elevation. In the surrounding mountains, glaciers are found on the north flank of nearly every mountain peak over 11,500 feet high.
source: www.beartoothhighway.com/
September 6, 2010, Wyoming-Montana, exact location.
Three miles south of Norris Geyser Basin, the equally large but less active Gibbon Geyser Basin contains several dispersed collections of thermal features of which the most popular is Artists Paint Pots, a group of over 50 springs, geysers, vents and especially mud pots. These exhibit varying shades of blue, grey and brown, and have a range of different textures, with the behavior changing during the year depending on the amount of subterranean water.
There are a number of gently simmering milky-blue pools, edged by reddish sulfur deposits. Next are various smaller vents and perhaps the most unusual pool in the area - a big creamy-brown mud pot with several churning vents behaving slightly differently owing to the varying consistency of the mud.
There are two forceful pools - Blood Geyser and Flash Spring, both constantly bubbling, creating much steam, and occasionally staging a proper eruption. Blood Geyser gets its name from the bright red-orange sulfur deposits surrounding the vent.
source: www.americansouthwest.net
September 5, 2010, Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming, artist's paint pots here.
The Pines of Roche are a short cycle from Camping Rosaleda and Conil and are a really beautiful place to visit. The Pines are beautiful trees and provide great shade in such a dry sandy climate and it is an important area of conversation that needs to be protected.
Pinar de Roche is located on the Andalusian Atlantic coast, next to the village of the same name, in the city of Conil de la Frontera, Cadiz province. It occupies an area of approximately 689.18 hectares.
Natural and forest areas preside. The stone pine forest, for example, occupies more than 30% of the territory, and scrubland made up of mastic trees and conifers extends for practically the same amount. The remaining area is made up of wooded, coniferous pastures scattered with recent logging and forest plantations and some crops on the banks of the streams that cross the land.
Birdlife is possibly the most abundant species within the scope of the SAC, boasting sedentary, numerous summer species, and also wintering avifauna. In fact, the area is situated in the Playa de la Barrosa-Cabo Roche migratory corridor, part of the eastern Atlantic flight path, where the remarkable passage of almost 10,000 spoonbills takes place every year.
In the cliff areas, the laridae stand out due to their numbers and uniqueness, with the peregrine falcon and lesser kestrel also nesting on the cliff, competing for the hollows. Among the seagulls that can be seen around the cliff area is the rare Audouin´s gull. The reptile group also stands out for the presence of the common chameleon and the Mediterranean turtle. It is for this reason that this Special Area of Conservation is considered a place of interest for this group of vertebrates.
Forest and mountains in British Columbia, Canada.
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My friends' sweet little dog, Marisol, escaped into this vast wilderness area (just outside of Boston) two weeks ago, after her playgroup was attacked by another dog. She's been missing ever since. The full story appears here:
If you're a Boston-area resident -- especially if you live in the vicinity of the Fells -- please read the blog to see how you can help, and how you can spread the word. For now, this is Marisol's Forest, but we're all hoping she can find her way home soon to her loving family that misses her tremendously.
Beautiful Spring scenery in the Aru Valley of Kashmir.
Aru is a grassland surrounded by a gorge on one side. It is 12 km from Pahalgam. Aru is a beautiful shaded valley of the Lidder river. Encircling and protecting Aru, are the conifer- spread mountains with occasional flash of high, snow-covered peaks rising against the blue sky. Aru is one of the most beautiful hill resorts of Kashmir and is still, serene and idyllic. There are small hamlets of wood-and-stone houses, some of them in the typical Gujjar-shepherd style with flat roofs, squat and backed against the hillside. Towering at a height of approximately 2408 meters, it follows the shepherds' trail to the high Kashmiri meadows.
These cute quick little mammals were awesome to watch, but at the same time tricky to capture, i didn't want to put the ISO up too high, but you need a quick enough shutter to grab a image, in the testing light of a pine forest, i tried my best.
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This was taken in the Horseshoe Meadow Area (elevation 9,900 ft asl) of the Inyo National Forest.
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Model: Viktoria
Photo: Thomas Ohlsson Photography
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