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This robust little bristlecone - all two-feet of it - is something of a revolutionary. It may well have germinated early in the Industrial Revolution, and has thrived - high in its remote, rocky aerie - through the early decades of the Green Revolution. Normally, it would be reasonable to expect it could easily live another two or three thousand years - perhaps much more. Revolutions, however, are fraught. Powerful, strengthening, reverberations are poised to intersect its life-span at any time.
But, for the moment, it can be imagined to exemplify a certain type of universal youthful innocence and exuberance - pom-pom branchlets raised high as the sun drops neatly between two distant peaks, it seems to signal, “Score!”
If you happened to be sitting with this tree at such a moment, you might experience the tiniest twinge of... well...Hope. But, as only you would know, the game is far from over...
The Desert Channels Region is a largely unmodified environment with robust pastoral, mining, and tourism industries. Home to 14, 500 people the region covers 510 000 square kilometres, (about one-third of the state of Queensland) and incorporates the Queensland section of the Lake Eyre Basin. This region is valued for its unique and healthy inland river systems, landscapes, cultural heritage, sustainable communities and production.
The Thomson River forms part of the Lake Eyre Basin. The river was named by the explorer, Edmund Kennedy, in the 1840s. The northernmost headwaters of the river begin at Torrens Creek, inland from Charters Towers. The watercourse becomes the Thomson just north of the town of Muttaburra, where the channels of Landsborough Creek, Towerhill Creek, and Cornish Creek meet. The river continues in the southwesterly direction, passing the towns of Longreach, Stonehenge, and Jundah, before joining with the Barcoo River north of Windorah to form Cooper Creek. This is the only place in the world where the confluence of two rivers forms a creek. As with all the rivers in the Lake Eyre Basin, the waters from the Thomson never reach the sea, and instead either evaporate or, in exceptional flooding, empty into Lake Eyre. Floods are not uncommon along the river, and, due to the flat nature of the country traversed, the river can then become many kilometres wide. The area which the river flows is semi-arid blacksoil plains.
Declared pest plants and animals have an enormous impact on the Longreach Region. Competition between these invasive pest plants and native Flora has seen the destruction of habitat. The loss of feed and breeding areas has seen rapid declines in some animal species. Longreach Regional Council is committed to the eradication of pest plants and animal species and has formulated a comprehensive Pest Management Plan.
Desert Channels Queensland (DCQ) is a community-based non-for-profit group and a government-endorsed regional body. Their board membership represents landholders, Indigenous groups, the Great Artesian Basin, conservation and local governments. DCQ works with all the sectors of the community to sustainably manage the natural resources in the region. Together with the land management community, they develop projects to address the issues identified in the community-endorsed natural resource management plan, Protecting Our Assets. Assets include land, water, biodiversity, and community. Major issues DCQ considers are weeds and feral animals, vegetation management, grazing pressure, water management, land degradation, and viability and economics. The DCQ's mission is a community group dedicated to improving the quality of the life of current and future generations through leadership, innovation, knowledge, and partnerships, in the responsible management of their unique natural recourses.
Source: Desert Channels Queensland (DCQ)
A compact, robust, and big-headed warbler. Males are striking with a black hood contrasting with whitish throat, grey back, and red eye-ring. Females duller with a gray hood, white throat, and buff body. Common in many typical Mediterranean habitats including tall bushes, open woodlands, gardens, coastal scrub, and plantations; also in oases, acacia woodlands, and scrubby desert in non-breeding range. Usually first detected by its song, a fast, angry-sounding rattling "ctret-tret-tret-tret-tret" or "tetwtweer-tik-tik-tik" with whispering in between. The call is a dry "tseck."
Las yucas son plantas suculentas del género Yucca, compuesto por una cincuentena de especies de la subfamilia Agavoideae nativas de Norte y Centroamérica, características por sus rosetas de hojas con forma de espadas y por sus racimos de flores blancas.
No debe confundirse con la yuca o mandioca comestible (Manihot esculenta).
Descripción
Son plantas policárpicas, arrosetadas, arborescentes, arbustivas o herbáceas, terrestres o epífitas.
Hojas agrupadas en las puntas de las ramas, linear-lanceoladas, rígidas, planas o convexas; ápice por lo general espinoso; márgenes enteros, fibrosos o denticulados. Inflorescencia una panícula erecta o péndula.
Flores bisexuales, blancas o blanquecinas, campanuladas o globosas; tépalos libres o ligeramente unidos cerca de la base; estambres hipóginos, erectos, más cortos que el perianto, los filamentos robustos, las anteras pequeñas, basifijas, sésiles; ovario súpero, sésil, 3-locular, a veces por aborción de uno imperfectamente 2-loculados, los óvulos numerosos; estilo columnar corto, dividido hacia el final en 3 lobos estigmáticos.
Fruto indehiscente, carnoso, pulposo o esponjoso, o una cápsula seca dehiscente; semillas fuertemente comprimidas, negras. 49 spp. S. Canadá y Estados Unidos a Guatemala; cultivadas comúnmente en otros países.
De Wikipedia.
En España se han adaptado perfectamente tanto en zonas áridas como en zonas del Norte.
Bellisimas cuando florecen con sus grandes panículas de flores blancas.
Esta la enccontré en una zona costera de Asturias,
Hecha. "Manio alzada" sin trípode ni nada
;o))
The robust Lada Niva series was introduced in 1977. The series is continued till the present day. The boxy design was kept almost equal for over 35 years.
Chief designers were Pyotr Prusov and Vladimir Solovyev. Prototypes appeared in 1976.
The AWD Lada was also known as LADA-VAZ 2121 or Lada Niva 2121.
Vertical rear light units and a bigger rear door appeared in 1994.
Long chassis 3-door Niva's were introduced in 1993. The 5-door version was presented in 1995 and was initially called VAZ-2131 or Niva 2131. Many were in use as ambulance.
Model name 'Niva' was dropped in 2006.
1690 cc L4 petrol engine.
Performance: 80 bhp.
1349 kg.
General production Lada Niva series: April 1977-present.
Production Lada 2131 long platform: 1995-2001/2001-present
Production Lada 4x4 this version: 2006-present.
Original first reg. number: March 6, 2009.
New Dutch reg. number: April 15, 2016 (private import).
With current owner since April 20, 2017.
Amsterdam-Noord, Sperwerlaan, May 18, 2017.
© 2017 Sander Toonen Amsterdam/Halfweg | All Rights Reserved.
There are only two fish, the other one is a stick.
These fish float near motionlessly, with their mouths facing downwards, around a background that makes them nearly impossible to see. They feed on tiny crustaceans, sucked inside through their long snouts. They live in open waters except during breeding, when they find a coral reef or muddy bottom, changing color and shape to minimize visibility. Unlike true pipefish, female ghost pipefishes use their enlarged pelvic fins to brood their eggs until they hatch. (Wikipedia) Anilao, South Luzon, Philippines
The white-beaked dolphin is a robust species of dolphin with a short beak. Adults can reach 2.3 to 3.1 m (7 ft 7 in to 10 ft 2 in) long and weigh 180 to 354 kg (397 to 780 lb). Calves are 1.1 to 1.2 m (3 ft 7 in to 3 ft 11 in) long at birth and probably weigh about 40 kg (88 lb).
The upper body and flanks are dark grey with light grey patches, including a 'saddle' behind the dorsal fin, while the underside is light grey to almost white in color. The flippers, fluke, and the tall, falcate, dorsal fin are all a darker grey than the body. As the common name implies, the beak is usually white in color, but it may be a dark, ashy grey, in some older individuals.
White-beaked dolphins have 25 to 28 teeth in each jaw, although the three teeth closest to the front of the mouth are often not visible, failing to erupt from the gums. They have up to 92 vertebrae, more than any other species of oceanic dolphin. Although the young are born with two to four whiskers on each side of the upper lip, these disappear as they grow, and, as in other odontocetes, the adults are entirely hairless.
The humerus of the right flipper has been recorded as being longer and more robust than that on the left, indicating a degree of lateralized behavior.
The white-beaked dolphin is endemic to the cold temperate and subarctic waters of the North Atlantic Ocean, most commonly in seas less than 1,000 m (3,300 ft) deep. They are found in a band stretching across the ocean from Cape Cod, the mouth of the St. Lawrence River and southern Greenland in the west, around Iceland in the centre, and across in the west from northern France to Svalbard; however, they are not well adapted to truly Arctic conditions.
Due to the fact they are not fully adapted to Arctic conditions, they are more vulnerable to predators, most notably polar bears.
This image was taken on a Whale Watching trip with Laki Tours from Olafsvik in Iceland
With a general robust appearance, the dwarf crocodile is heavily armoured, with bony, thick eyelids and thick armour on the neck and back. Adults are uniformly black with brown irises. The young have golden flanks. This is a very small species, less than 2-m long.
De aspecto general robusto, el cocodrilo enano africano es una especie muy acorazada, con los párpados osificados y gruesos y con armaduras nucales y dorsales. Los adultos son uniformemente negros con el iris pardo. Los jóvenes tienen los flancos dorados. Es una especie muy pequeña que no llega a los 2 metros de longitud.
"Grevílea-robusta (Grevillea robusta) é a maior planta do gênero Grevillea. É nativa da costa leste da Austrália. É uma árvore de crescimento rápido, de folha perene, que atinge 18–35 m de altura e tem folhas verdes delicadamente denteadas e bipinuladas, semelhantes à folhagem dos fetos. As folhas têm geralmente 15–30 cm de comprimento com o lado inferior branco acinzentado ou cor de ferrugem. Suas flores são cor laranja-ouro com floração tipo Callistemon, com 8–15 cm de comprimento na primavera, num caule de 2–3 cm. As sementes, maduras no final do inverno ou começo da primavera, frutificam em folículos marrom escuro, com cerca de 2 cm de comprimento, com uma ou duas sementes chatas, com asas."
A robust Great Lakes Central train utilizing CN trackage rights from Detroit rolls past the iconic Grand Trunk station in Durand, MI. Stupid PTC pole ruins everything.
The crew will have work here before heading for Owosso with a much-reduced train. Another crew will bring the return trip back south later in the afternoon.
Interplanetary Cruiser
A “big” Lego space cruiser I have built this week. You might notice that the shape is quite unusual:
==> The main structure is obtained with bent 32x16 blue base plates as you can see in the picture if you zoom in on the front or the rear part of the spaceship.
In addition to an original shape this technique provides a very robust design. Something you really appreciate during the building and when you have to manipulate/move the model.
Tintoretto (Jacopo Robusti - Venice 1518 - 1594) - the Last Supper (1578-81) - oil on canvas (487 × 538 cm) - Scuola Grande di San Rocco - Campo San Rocco - San Polo district Venice
Qui a San rocco, a differenza delle composizioni con la stessa tematica e la stessa tipologia iconografica che si trovano nella chiesa di San Trovaso (“L’ultima cena”, 221 x 413 cm.) e nella chiesa di San Paolo (“L’ultima cena”, 228 x 535), la visione avviene in un interno molto vasto la cui dilatazione spaziale, enfatizzata da un impianto disposto in diagonale, si accresce con sapienti contrasti di luce-ombra e con linee prospettiche in un rapido ritmo decrescente.
Here in San rocco, unlike the compositions with the same theme and the same iconographic typology found in the church of San Trovaso ("The Last Supper", 221 x 413 cm.) And in the church of San Paolo ("L ' last supper ", 228 x 535), the vision takes place in a very vast interior whose spatial expansion, emphasized by a diagonally arranged system, grows with wise contrasts of light-shadow and with perspective lines in a rapid decreasing rhythm.
Tintoretto (Jacopo Robusti 1518-1594) Portrait of Attorney Jacopo Soranzo (1550-1) - Pinacotheca of Castello Sforzesco Milan
The Desert Channels Region is a largely unmodified environment with robust pastoral, mining, and tourism industries. Home to 14, 500 people the region covers 510 000 square kilometres, (about one-third of the state of Queensland) and incorporates the Queensland section of the Lake Eyre Basin. This region is valued for its unique and healthy inland river systems, landscapes, cultural heritage, sustainable communities and production.
The Thomson River forms part of the Lake Eyre Basin. The river was named by the explorer, Edmund Kennedy, in the 1840s. The northernmost headwaters of the river begin at Torrens Creek, inland from Charters Towers. The watercourse becomes the Thomson just north of the town of Muttaburra, where the channels of Landsborough Creek, Towerhill Creek, and Cornish Creek meet. The river continues in the southwesterly direction, passing the towns of Longreach, Stonehenge, and Jundah, before joining with the Barcoo River north of Windorah to form Cooper Creek. This is the only place in the world where the confluence of two rivers forms a creek. As with all the rivers in the Lake Eyre Basin, the waters from the Thomson never reach the sea, and instead either evaporate or, in exceptional flooding, empty into Lake Eyre. Floods are not uncommon along the river, and, due to the flat nature of the country traversed, the river can then become many kilometres wide. The area which the river flows is semi-arid blacksoil plains.
Declared pest plants and animals have an enormous impact on the Longreach Region. Competition between these invasive pest plants and native Flora has seen the destruction of habitat. The loss of feed and breeding areas has seen rapid declines in some animal species. Longreach Regional Council is committed to the eradication of pest plants and animal species and has formulated a comprehensive Pest Management Plan.
Desert Channels Queensland (DCQ) is a community-based non-for-profit group and a government-endorsed regional body. Their board membership represents landholders, Indigenous groups, the Great Artesian Basin, conservation and local governments. DCQ works with all the sectors of the community to sustainably manage the natural resources in the region. Together with the land management community, they develop projects to address the issues identified in the community-endorsed natural resource management plan, Protecting Our Assets. Assets include land, water, biodiversity, and community. Major issues DCQ considers are weeds and feral animals, vegetation management, grazing pressure, water management, land degradation, and viability and economics. The DCQ's mission is a community group dedicated to improving the quality of the life of current and future generations through leadership, innovation, knowledge, and partnerships, in the responsible management of their unique natural recourses.
Source: Desert Channels Queensland (DCQ)
Cette grande et robuste abeille solitaire, vol rapide, fort bourdonnement, si elle peut impressionner lorsque vous l'interrompez dans son savoureux repas et qu'elle vous frôle la chevelure en s'inspirant de l'avion de chasse, est en fait assez pacifique ; rapidement la voici accrochée à une nouvelle tête de chardon pour la suite de son festin.
Plus tard, elle ira pondre dans une de ces vieilles souches qui abondent dans les forêts alentour : des pentes abruptes coupées de falaises, aucune route à l'horizon, et des arbres en nombre : un lieu que l'on nomme à juste titre Le Désert.
Robust warbler found near the ground in thick vegetation. Yellow below with blue-gray head and olive back. Adult males show black chest patch. Females are paler gray on the head; immatures are more olive-toned with a yellowish throat. Breeds in brushy, weedy clearings within mixed or coniferous forest. Often favors raspberry thickets. Tends to stay hidden in low vegetation, so can be difficult to see. Listen for its rolling song, “churry churry churry chew.” Most similar to MacGillivray’s Warbler, but little range overlap, and Mourning has somewhat shorter tail and lacks bold white eye-arcs. Also frequently confused with Common Yellowthroat, especially in fall, but Mourning is larger, with heftier pinkish bill, and brighter yellow underparts.
Compact, robust, and big-headed warbler. Males are striking with a black hood contrasting with whitish throat, gray back, and red eyering. Females duller with a gray hood, white throat, and buff body. Common in many typical Mediterranean habitats including tall bushes, open woodlands, gardens, coastal scrub, and plantations; also in oases, acacia woodlands, and scrubby desert in non-breeding range. Usually first detected by its song, a fast, angry-sounding rattling "ctret-tret-tret-tret-tret" or "tetwtweer-tik-tik-tik" with whispering in between. The call is a dry "tseck."
C'est au Spitfire que la mémoire collective britannique attribue l'issue victorieuse de la bataille d'Angleterre en 1940. Toutefois, cette victoire n'est pas due au seul Spitfire, bien qu'il bénéficiât de vitesses en palier et ascensionnelle supérieures à celles du Hurricane. C'est l'utilisation conjointe de ces deux chasseurs, tous deux armés de huit mitrailleuses Vickers de 7,7 mm, qui permit à la RAF de prendre l'avantage sur la Luftwaffe. Les Spitfire, rapides et agiles, avaient pour rôle de s'attaquer aux chasseurs d'escorte tandis que les Hurricane, plus lents mais à la structure robuste et donc plus à même d'encaisser leurs coups défensifs, se chargeaient des bombardiers.
Je trouve qu'il émane de cette créature une certaine puissance de par sa physionomie et son attitude.
J'ai eu un sentiment d'admiration mêlé de compassion en voyant cette bête brouter, imperturbable, malgré les conditions climatiques de ce matin là. Il faisait 0°C...
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I find that a certain power emanates from this creature through its physiognomy and attitude.
I had a feeling of admiration mixed with compassion when I saw this beast grazing, unflappable , despite the climatic conditions that morning. It was 0°C...
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The robust and spacious transporter is very useful for the Swiss military.
Embellished 1/87 scale Schuco model.
More swiss:
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El transportador robusto y espacioso es muy útil para el ejército suizo.
Modelo Schuco a escala 1:87 embellecido.
Más suizos:
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Der robuste und geräumige Transporter ist für das Schweizer Militär sehr nützlich.
Verschönertes Schuco-Modell im Maßstab 1:87.
Weitere Schweizer;
www.flickr.com/photos/193542172@N07/albums/72177720308351112
É uma das aves mais difíceis de observar, existindo pouco mais que um punhado de observações em Portugal. A difícil deteção deriva, quer pelos seus hábitos, quer pelo mimetismo
apresentado por esta pequena ave aquática. De entre as
frangas-d’água que ocorrem na Europa, esta é a maior e mais
malhada. Possui bico robusto e avermelhado, mas mais curto
que o frango-d’água, dorso com pintas escuras e peito e
abdómen com pintas esbranquiçadas. A cauda, quando levantada, mostra as penas infra-caudais pálidas. As patas são esverdeadas.Trata-se de uma espécie rara e de distribuição muito localizada, associada a arrozais, várzeas de vegetação desenvolvida e lagoas com vegetação palustre. Provavelmente é mais frequente nas passagens migratórias que durante o Inverno, sobretudo na época outonal entre setembro e novembro. Também existem observações feitas na passagem primaveril, nomeadamente entre fevereiro e abril.
Estatuto de conservação em Portugal: Informação insuficiente
Fonte: www.avesdeportugal.info/porzan.html
Esmoriz / Ovar / Aveiro / Portugal
..ging es vergangenen Sonntag für den Pingelheini in Richtung Stuhr.
Die Stadt Bremen will eine Straßenbahnlinie bis nach Leeste bauen, welche auf der Trasse der Bremer-Thedinghausener Eisenbahn verläuft.
Der Abschnitt Leeste-Thedinghausen wird allerdings so als Nebenbahn bleiben.
Bei der Abfahrt nach Stuhr konnte ich 992 001, welche eine Werkslok der Marke Schöma ist und 1957 ausgeliefert wurde, mit ihrem Zug in Leeste ablichten.
Hinter der Lok lief ein Güterwagen, welcher zum Fahrrad- & Generatorwagen umfunktioniert wurde.
Heaton Custom Runabout
Ted Davis, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
The 734 Speedster was designed to be a high-performance,
robust iteration of the Packard-a driver's car. Built on
the shortened Deluxe Eight wheelbase, the Speedster was
rigid and dependable. Only 113 cars were built across
all body styles and this lovely example is rendered even
more rare by its unusual genesis. The Heaton Packard
was a 1930 Model 734 a with a custom body, finished in
1932 by J. L. Heaton, owner of the Packard dealership in
Terre Haute, Indiana. Heaton's friend Ed Macauley, son
of James Alvan Macauley, the president of Packard, was
building a Speedster appropriately named the "Macauley,"
and Heaton emulated his friend's design. Facilitated by the
Packard Experimental Department, Heaton incorporated
various nonproduction items into his Speedster, such
as chrome-plated 18" wheels, also used on the Twin-Six
Prototype seven-passenger sedan. The finished product
a was, according to a period photograph and caption, capable
of 117 mph, and as is evidenced here, is a unique and
resplendent example of the Packard Speedster.
Bengaluru Citizen waiting in a queue for their turn to vote during Karnataka State Assembly Election, 20 23.
Lathyrus latifolius, the perennial peavine, perennial pea, broad-leaved everlasting-pea, or just everlasting pea, is a robust, sprawling perennial in the Pea Family Fabaceae. It is native to Europe but is present on other continents, such as North America and Australia, where it is most often seen along roadside. Although this is part of the bean family it is not edible. Toxic plant if eaten in sizeable amounts.
The Sea Tower in Gdynia, which has been in operation since 2009, is with its 38 floors one of the tallest residential buildings in Poland.
I have re-visited the ID of this dragonfly. It is the highly (Maryland) state-rare Robust Baskettail (Epitheca spinosa).
This individual appears to be the Robust Basketball. Since I am not a dragonfly expert, I appreciate help with determining dragonfly ID. Thanks!
Una casona robusta y silenciosa emerge en medio del valle, construida en piedra y madera, como si hubiese nacido del propio terreno que la sostiene. A su espalda, la ladera del monte se extiende en un mosaico de árboles desnudos, cuyos tonos ocres y pardos anuncian el reposo invernal. Sobre la cima, una franja de luz y niebla desciende y se dispersa, generando un contraste dramático con el cielo profundo. La escena captura la esencia de la arquitectura rural que resiste el paso del tiempo, envuelta en un paisaje sereno que invita a la contemplación pausada.
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Robust, agile, and adaptable, the Vespula drone is ideal for all your security, protection and combat requirements.
This tall, robust, leafless aquatic plant can grow 4 to 5 m (13 to 16 ft) high. It forms a grass-like clump of triangular green stems that rise up from thick, woody rhizomes. Each stem is topped by a dense cluster of thin, bright green, thread-like stems around 10 to 30 cm (4 to 10 in) in length, resembling a feather duster when the plant is young. Greenish-brown flower clusters eventually appear at the ends of the rays, giving way to brown, nut-like fruits.
The younger parts of the rhizome are covered by red-brown, papery, triangular scales, which also cover the base of the culms. Botanically, these represent reduced leaves, so strictly it is not quite correct to call this plant fully "leafless".
Egyptians used the plant (which they called aaru) for many purposes, most famously for making papyrus. Its name in Greek and in English is widely believed to have come from Egyptian. Cyperus papyrus is now used mainly for decoration, as it is nearly extinct in its native habitat in the Nile Delta, where in ancient times it was widely cultivated.
Theophrastus's History of Plants (Book iv. 10) states that it grew in Syria, and according to Pliny's Natural History, it was also a native plant of the Niger River and the Euphrates.
Aside from papyrus, several other members of the genus Cyperus may also have been involved in the multiple uses Egyptians found for the plant. Its flowering heads were linked to make garlands for the gods in gratitude. The pith of young shoots was eaten both cooked and raw. Its woody root made bowls and other utensils and was burned for fuel. From the stems were made reed boats (seen in bas-reliefs of the Fourth Dynasty showing men cutting papyrus to build a boat; similar boats are still made in southern Sudan), sails, mats, cloth, cordage, and sandals. Theophrastus states that King Antigonus made the rigging of his fleet of papyrus, an old practice illustrated by the ship's cable, wherewith the doors were fastened when Odysseus slew the suitors in his hall (Odyssey xxi. 390)
The "rush" or "reed" basket in which the Biblical figure Moses was placed may have been made from papyrus.
Farichild Tropical Botanic Garden, Miami FL