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Decided in the morning to go out to Carrizo Plain (about a 3h drive from where we live). Read that wildflowers aren't quite there yet, so decided to stay home. Eventually, got a rather late start (9:30AM) going to Montana de Oro State Park near Morro Bay instead. Not much of a display there (had actually more within 15min of where we live), so we moved on to Shell Creek Road near Santa Margarita. Quite a nice display of wildflowers there. Since we both favor "round trips" we decided, at around 3PM, to press on to the Carrizo Plain National Monument nonetheless.We've only been there once before (last year), so I am not the one to judge the status of the wildflower display there, but to me it was stunning. It's been said that it hasn't reached peak yet, so we will try to get back there in two weeks' time. Made it through the park and reached Ojai about 1/2 hour after sunset. Had a nice dinner at Osteria Monte Grappa and got back home around 9:30PM after a round trip of some 300 miles.
A walk on Horton Plains, situated on Sri Lanka's highest plateau - 2300m. Traditionally named Mahaeliya.
The Plain Prinia, or the Plain, or White-browed, Wren-Warbler (Prinia inornata) is a small warbler in the cisticola family. It is a resident breeder from Pakistan and India to south China and southeast Asia.
from Wikipedia
Nikon D90 + Nikon 70-200/2.8 VR II Kenko Teleplus PRO 300 DGX 2x AF Teleconverter + Handheld
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Broadway Tower was inspired by the famous Capability Brown and completed in 1799 from designs by the renowned architect James Wyatt. It was built for the Earl of Coventry as a folly to his Springhill Estate and dedicated to his wife Peggy.
Legend has it Broadway Tower was used as a signalling tower between Springhill Estate and Croome Court near Worcester, which can be seen from the roof platform.
Many famous people have had association with Broadway Tower, including Sir Thomas Phillips and the pre-Raphaelite artists William Morris, Edward Burne-Jones and Rosetti.
Broadway Tower is open to the public allowing you to travel into the past of this important building and visit the viewing platform constituting the highest point in the Cotswolds at 1089 feet or 331.6 metres altitude.
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Broadway Tower is a folly located on Broadway Hill, near the village of Broadway, in the English county of Worcestershire, at the second highest point of the Cotswolds after Cleeve Hill. Broadway Tower's base is 1,024 feet (312 metres) above sea level. The tower itself stands 55 feet (17 metres) high.
The "Saxon" tower was designed by James Wyatt in 1794 to resemble a mock castle, and built for Lady Coventry in 1799. The tower was built on a "beacon" hill, where beacons were lit on special occasions. Lady Coventry wondered if a beacon on this hill could be seen from her house in Worcester - approximately 22 miles (35 km) away - and sponsored the construction of the folly to find out. The beacon could be seen clearly.
Over the years, the tower was home to the printing press of Sir Thomas Phillips, and served as a country retreat for artists including William Morris and Edward Burne-Jones who rented it together in the 1880s.
Today, the tower is a tourist attraction and the centre of a country park with various exhibitions open to the public at a fee as well as a gift shop. The place is on the Cotswold Way and can be reached by following the Cotswold Way from the A44 road at Fish Hill, or by a steep climb out of Broadway village. Near the tower is a memorial to the crew of an A.W.38 Whitley bomber that crashed there during a training mission in June 1943.
"Plain Sunbird" found in Brunei, Indonesia, Malaysia, Myanmar, Singapore, and Thailand. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests and subtropical or tropical mangrove forests.
Location: Borneo, Malaysia
Plain Tiger - male, Fung Yuen Butterfly Reserve, Tai Po, Kowloon, Hong Kong.
Nikon D70+Nikkor 300mm F/2.8G VR - handheld.
Plain tiger or African monarch is a medium-sized butterfly widespread in Asia and Africa. This butterfly is perhaps the commonest of Indian butterflies and is a familiar sight on the subcontinent. It flies from dawn to dusk, frequenting gardens, sipping from flowers and late in the day fluttering low over bushes to find a resting place for the night. The plain tiger is believed to be one of the first butterflies to be used in art. Source - Wikipedia
Our only Plains Wanderer, a male. This time rustled up without the aid of a posse of circling vehicles.
A clearing storm and evening light, from the Lees Valley Rd. Canterbury, New Zealand. Happy New Year to all my Flickr contacts. Thanks for the comments and encouragement this year
On Our Way Back Jo's Home after having a great journey in the East of the island, a thick fog appears over the countryside called 'Plaine des Palmistes' (Palmtree plain). This verdant plain was a volcano centuries ago. This plain has a big interest for both geologists and botanists. This place is very varied and one can find many species and kinds. A permanent draught makes this region one of the most cold of all in the island.
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Au Retour De Notre Journée passée dans l'Est de l'île, un brouillard dense recouvre les environs de la Plaine des Palmistes. La verdoyante Plaine des Palmistes était il y a de cela quelques siècles, un volcan. La plaine des Palmistes offre au géologue un grand intérêt mais aussi au botaniste. Il y a peu de localités où la végétation ne soit plus variée où se rencontrent à la fois autant de genres et d'espèces. Traversée comme la Plaine des Cafres par un perpétuel courant d'air c'est une des régions les plus froides de l'île, le sol s'élevant par des étages successifs atteint à l'extrémité de la Plaine proprement dite un peu plus de 1 000 m, un dernier étage appelé rampe Paille en Queue est surmontée d'un beau et fertile plateau qu'on appelle La Petite Plaine.
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Canon 7D & EF 17-40mm f/4.0 L USM ▪ 1/400s à f/13 ▪ Iso 800 ▪ 17mm ▪ Handheld | aperture priority | RAW |
Jincumbilly Station, near Dalgety, NSW, in the Snowy Mountains high plains. The railway hasn't run for a long time, probably long before the donkeys present were born. Shot on a long-ignored by me but Taylor Swift approved OMD-E-M10 camera.
The Plain of Jars is a megalithic archaeological landscape in Laos. It consists of thousands of stone jars scattered around the upland valleys and the lower foothills of the central plain of the Xiangkhoang Plateau. The jars are mostly arranged in clusters ranging in number from one to several hundred.
French researcher Madeleine Colani concluded in 1930 that the jars were associated with prehistoric burial practices. Excavation by Lao and Japanese archaeologists in the intervening years has supported this interpretation with the discovery of human remains, burial goods and ceramics around the jars. The Plain of Jars is dated to the Iron Age (500 BC to AD 500) and is one of the most important prehistoric sites in Southeast Asia.
More than 90 jar sites have been identified within Xiangkhouang Province. Each site has from one to 400 stone jars. The jars vary in height and diameter between 1m and 3m and are all hewn from rock.
5/3 Woke up way late again and just barely had enough time to make the rice, while rushing to get dressed, then shove the okonomiyaki/salad/oranges into the box and rush out the door. First attempt at okonomiyaki and, despite too little filling, it was great!