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Handmade mixed-media abstract art created mostly with colored pencils, watercolor colored pencils, and clear blenders.
I also used permanent markers and ball-point pens.
Completed Nov 3, 2019
Matted to 11X14 inches
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In Explore, Jan 12, 2021
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Polygons are of great interest because they often indicate the presence of shallow ice or of desiccation such as in a mud flat. However, Nature sometimes seems too clever for us.
Polygons form by the intersecting ridges of sand dunes. If this deposit were to become indurated and eroded, we might not be able to tell that they originated as wind-blown dunes, and interpret the polygons as evidence for a dried-up lake, for example. Dunes often accumulate in the bottoms on craters, also a good setting for a (temporary) lake.
The illumination is coming from the upper left, so the bluish ridges are high-standing.
Enhanced color image is less than 1 km (under a mile) across and is 252 km (157 mil) above the surface. For full images including scale bars, visit the source link..
www.uahirise.org/ESP_031138_1380
NASA/JPL/UArizona
The Comma is a fascinating butterfly. The scalloped edges and cryptic colouring of the wings conceal hibernating adults amongst dead leaves, while the larvae, flecked with brown and white markings, bear close resemblance to bird droppings.
The species has a flexible life cycle, which allows it to capitalize on favourable weather conditions. However, the most remarkable feature of the Comma has been its severe decline in the twentieth century and subsequent comeback. It is now widespread in southern Britain and its range is expanding northwards. butterfly-conservation .org
Das Saarpolygon in Ensdorf (Saar) ist ein Denkmal zur Erinnerung an den im Juni 2012 endgültig beendeten Steinkohlebergbau im Saarrevier.
Das Saarpolygon steht auf der Bergehalde Duhamel in Ensdorf, der Bergehalde des Bergwerks Saar. Diese Halde mit einer Grundfläche von rund 50 Hektar erhebt sich rund 150 Meter über das umliegende Saartal. Auf Grund der exponierten Lage ist das Polygon weithin aus allen Himmelsrichtungen sichtbar.
Das begehbare Denkmal ist rund 30 Meter hoch. Zu dem rund 35 Meter überspannenden Querstück führen von beiden Seiten genau 132 Stufen in 25 Meter Höhe. Die Aussichtsplattform wiegt rund 60 Tonnen. (Wikipedia)
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Back out on the trails on this second week of March. We have mild temps (low 70s) and sunny skies!
Sharps Ridge Veterans Memorial Park
North Knoxville, Tennessee
Wednesday, March 10th, 2021
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What the opposing angles fail to realize is nothing would be possible without the holding foundation.
This twelve sided barn was built in Mystic Quebec, Canada, by Alexander Wallbridge in 1892. Suspended from the top of the barn's conical ceiling, the original mechanism for rotating a large turntable in the centre of the barn is still in place. The turntable, much like the railroad turntables of days gone by, enabled fully laden wagons to enter the barn and to be rotated to the appropriate storage bay, where they would then be unloaded. The building is now a museum.
Like many Commas, the Gray Comma is best identified with the ventral view which in its case is a cryptic charcoal gray pattern and accounts for the common name. They are very difficult to find when perched on a tree trunk or like this one, gathering nutrients from wet, muddy places. There is a striking difference when they open their wings to present the dorsal view which I also posted this evening and looks like the dorsal view of many of the Comma species.
Elk Island National Park. Edmonton, Alberta.
As it dries, clay shrinks. Tearing along the edges makes cracks that join neighboring cracks, creating polygons. Other cracks stop before joining, like punctuation marks.
These mud cracks on the Mojave Desert playa have a white surface. The cracks reveal underlying brown tones. The photo was taken from standing height.
The resulting pattern might be a good model for floor tiles.
Excerpt from lighthousefriends.com:
In late 1899, the Canada’s Department of Marine announced the following:
Flower Island Lighthouse - A new lighthouse marking the south side of the western entrance to the Strait of Belleisle was erected during the past summer, and put in operation on November 7. It stands on the point of Flower Island nearest to the channel on a site about 6 feet above high water mark. The light building is a rectangular wooden building, with a square lighthouse tower rising from the north-east corner of the dwelling house. It is 50 feet high, from the base to the vane on the lantern, and is painted white; the polygonal iron lantern is painted red; the roof of the dwelling is left unpainted.
The light is a revolving bright or white light, the flashes attaining their greatest brilliancy every 30 seconds. It is elevated 51 feet above high water mark, and should be visible, in clear weather, 12 miles from all points of approach by water. The illuminating apparatus is catoptric.
The work was done by the department, under the superintendence of Mr. Kimball Coffin, at a total cost of $8,801.
The Canadian government obtained a lease for the entire island from the Newfoundland Minister of Agriculture & Mines.
A decade after the light had been put in operation, its signature was changed from a white flash every thirty seconds to a white flash every twelve seconds. In 1915, a “triple flash long focus reflector” was installed, changing the signature to a white flash every ten seconds.
In 1912, a fog signal was established on Flower Island in the form of cotton powder bombs that were exploded every fifteen minutes and every five minutes after a vessel’s fog signal was heard. However, the following caveat was noted in the annual Light List: “This fog signal cannot be depended upon.”
The style of Flower Island Lighthouse is the only one of its kind in Newfoundland. A number of outbuildings were erected over the years on the island, including a henhouse, storage shed, boathouse, and an outhouse. In 1942 a marine radio beacon station and dwelling were erected at the southwest end of the island.
Besides serving as a coastal light, Flower Island Lighthouse also marked the ledges that guarded the entrance to the contiguous harbours of Nameless Cove, Mistaken Cove, and Flowers Cove.
Badwater in Death Valley with awesome last bits of sunlight kissing the tops of the salt polygons. One of the hottest (in the summer) and lowest (-200 feet below sea level) places on earth. I can just imagine cooking eggs out here in August.... no salt needed :D
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The ice floating just off shore at Bear Lake reminds me of the salt formations at Badwater in Death Valley.
The fortified Evangelical Church of Prejmer was built in the 13th century on the basis of an old Romanesque basilica dating from the 12th century.
It was around 1211 that King Andrew II of Hungary granted the Teutonic Knights rights to this territory. They are the ones who began to build the church of Tartlau (Saxon name of the locality) whose construction will continue in the Burgundian Gothic style introduced by the Cistercians at the monastery of Cârța.
The church was built as a Greek cross, modified by the interventions of the 16th century. Initially, the building consisted of four equal arms arranged around a square centered by an octagonal tower. Each arm was made up of two bays, one square and one polygonal, the choir of the church being flanked on both side by two pairs of rectangular chapels. The kinship with the spirit and forms used on the site of the Cistercian monastery church in Cârța, and with those present at the Church of St. Bartholomew in Brașov, both built after the mid-13th century, allows the dating of the church of Prejmer in the second third of the thirteenth century and its inclusion in the same stylistic atmosphere.
After Prejmer was the first locality to suffer the blows of Turkish troops (passed through the Buzău pass) King Sigismund of Luxembourg ordered the construction of defense systems in Ţara Bârsei. The church was fortified by a high and strong enclosure surrounded by a wide water ditch. The fortress, built in a circle, had walls 3-4 meters thick and 12 meters high, bastions, iron gates and drawbridges. A guard route was used to supply the fighters of the ramparts. In addition to the mouths of fire attached to the walls, there was an unusual fighting device: the famous "Organ of Death". Made up of several weapons placed together, which fired at the same time, it caused the enemy great panic and heavy losses.
Nb: In the church is the oldest triptych in Transylvania, dated between 1450 and 1460.
Construit dans le dernier tiers du VIème siècle av. J.C. afin de soutenir la terrasse du temple dit "des Alcméonides".
Il s'étend sur près de 84 mètres d'Est en Ouest auxquels s'ajoutent 25 mètres sur le côté Est et 12 mètres au côté Ouest.
Built 2016
Architects: Katja Pfeiffer and Oliver Sachse
(Photo: © Zippo Zimmermann, www.designladen.com – unauthorized use prohibited)