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The Serengeti is as seemingly endless plains ecosystem located in north Tanzania (this photo) and extending to south-western Kenya between latitudes 1 and 3 degrees south latitude and 34 and 36 degrees east longitude. It spans approximately 30,000 km2 (12,000 sq mi). The Serengeti hosts the largest terrestrial mammal migration in the world and is one of the ten natural travel wonders of the world. The region contains the Serengeti National Park in Tanzania and several game reserves. Approximately 70 larger mammal and 500 bird species are found there. This high diversity is a function of diverse habitats, including riverine forests, swamps, kopjes, grasslands, and woodlands. Blue wildebeests (shown here), gazelles, zebras, and African buffalos are some of the commonly found large mammals in the region. There is a proposal to build a highway through the Serengeti, but to my mind the effect would be catastrophic for the wildlife. The word "Serengeti" is derived from the Maasai language (Maa); specifically, "Serengit" meaning "Endless Plains". (credit Wikipedia)
You have probably heard about Vietnam mainly through stories of its historical struggles for independence. But, there is much more to discover about this country which unique culture is more than four thou¬sand years old and abounds with wonderful legends and historical monuments. Vietnam is definitely a must-see destination to enrich your world-wide travelling.
Offering a tropical climate, Vietnam dis¬plays green vegetation all year round. Throughout its seemingly endless range of mountains, visitors can explore mysterious caves, some of which were discovered in recent years. Not only do they offer an unfor¬gettable scenery to admire, but they also pro¬vide great opportunities for geological, archaeological and historical research.
Visitors will also witness the peaceful coexistence of fifty-four ethnic groups, each with their own traditions, festivals, clothing, songs and dances. All of them have worked in harmony for thousands of years in order to build a nation and to form a strong
culture that has been able to assimilate other eastern and western cultures, while preserving its own unique identity.
Travelling over Vietnam, whether in ancient or modernized cities, in populous or peaceful villages, in remote mountain hamlets of ethnic minorities or quiet islands, is a great experience to get in touch with a fascinating nation, where tourists are always welcome.
Travel Atlas will provide useful tips, addresses, and precious information on geography, history, culture and tourism for those who wish to discover Vietnam.
A seemingly-lone spruce stands guard over many acres of un-scarred territory....beautiful yet unsettling. I really like the contrast between the busy, detailed and green middle and foreground ant that cold and barren hills beyond. ( 20 "x 30" std canvas )
The Ugly Baby Painting Project started as a reaction to [seemingly] everyone around me having babies [seemingly] all at the same time. Suddenly my facebook feed was awash with photos of wrinkly little people-puppies. And while some were legitimately cute, others were pretty terrifying. My gut reaction was often the latter. While there has been the occasional child that I have gotten to know and genuinely like, I rarely am able to imagine myself having children. Children make me very anxious.
So, incited by my own anxiety over children in general, as well as thinking about that societal agreement that nobody tells someone their baby is ugly (you know that Seinfeld episode?), I started pulling images of friends' babies off facebook. It was that phase of a project where I'm so compelled instintually by an idea but intellectually still don't know quite what's going on... which, honestly, is where I usually operate. Then I started painting, got frustrated, stopped, and ended up putting them away when I moved out of the studio and totally forgot about them.
Until the other day. I think it's been at least a year since I've touched them (the baby on the left, who is an absolutely lovely child, one of my favorites ever, is about to turn two) but all of a sudden I'm excited about them again. In that as yet inexplicable, intuitive way. They've become sort of an exercise in polychrome and expressive color, without losing the sense of form... We'll see where they go.
This seemingly simple, yet historic, structure was erected in 1872 to the north of the the downtown area in Pioche, Nevada (pronounced PEE-ohch). The structure was designed in Italianate style by architects T. Dimmock and Thomas Keefe. It was placed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1978.
It was originally contracted for a cost of $26,000, however those plans failed and the cost amounted to $75,000 in 1872. Due to financial difficulties the county was forced to pay off the coasts of the building gradually over a period of 66 years, and it ultimately cost Lincoln County $800,000. That amounts to roughly $11 Million in the 21st Century. As a result this building, which is today a museum, has been dubbed the "Million Dollar Courthouse."
Seemingly one of those photos where the background is desaturated using a mask. Haha, no, a total accident. I cropped this in Pixelmator and hit "Auto Enhance," --just to see. Usually it looks like crap. But in this case it sucked all the slate blue color out.
No fuss, no muss.
Except for the weird brushy looking stuff from the stem, in the thin layer of water.
This seemingly innocent little bottle has a somewhat interesting past.
In that it was once owned, according to the certificate of authenticity, to one Joseph Bonanno, or Joe Bananas, who was the boss of the New York City mafia family that bore his name from 1931 to 1968.
It's amazing what you can find on ebay.
Seemingly folks were buying the popcorn and feeding it to the fish, the big fat fish in the lake.
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Seemingly most abundant on the red silt-sandstones of the Chugwater Formation, the scabrous stiff leaves are distinctive and persist in desiccated condition over the winter. This species was not found in the sagebrush steppe of the Pryor Mountain area. This site lies along the escarpments just to the east of the Horseshoe Bend area along the Bighorn River northeast of Lovell Wyoming.
Seward Johnson ‘Makeshift Memorial’, honoring the History of 9/11, Seward Johnson Center for the Arts, Grounds for Sculpture, New Jersey.
The sculpture is based on the sculpture ‘Double Check’. Originally it was installed in Liberty Place Park in lower Manhattan, and represented the people who worked in NY financial district. After September 11, 2001, it came to represent the business man, sitting hunched over his briefcase, seemingly in shock and despair. After 9/11 people left cards, crosses, notes, photos of missing persons, even a helmet and a fire hose at the sculpture. Steward Johnson recreated the original ‘Double Check’ with all these objects and named it ‘Makeshift Memorial’.
Seemingly different species growing atop a Douglas Fir at sea wall north side of Stanley Park, Vancouver, BC, Canada, Dec. 2019. Probably some kind of witch's broom, but some conifers may grow like this in response to infection or herbivory. inaturalist.ca/observations/36950377
Visitors from Japan might be bemused to see the museum's selected Japan artifacts grouped this way, since they are decidedly old (in many situations in Japan new is most appealing and visually attractive) and come from seemingly unrelated places within the social life and cultural landscape. As a group of artifacts and label text, they touch on the people of Japan and the meaning of their lives in a fragmentary way; not very true to modern life.
On the other hand, museum visitors with little or no direct experience of the language, land, and people of Japan may react with feeling of fascination. From movies, school days of social studies textbooks and tests, and other sources the visitors would add these artifacts to their prior knowledge, limited though it is. In no way would they assume the glass case is a comprehensive snapshot of modern Japan, but seeing artifacts up close and with their own eyes does personalize the subject through direct sensory experience.
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Seemingly Christo and Jeanne-Claude-inspired rennovations. The wrapping disguises the big orange wall's transformation into "something else".
A seemingly typical spring day in Ohio has brought rounds of pop up rain showers, wind, and spurts of sunshine. At the tail end of a short rain shower, this westbound NS Manifest heads up the Sandusky District through the control point at Troyton led by an SD60E
Seemingly no longer operating, this hotel on Upper Maudlin Street in Bristol is a far cry from the world famous hotel in Jerusalem of the same name.
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Seemingly oblivious to the safari goers, this young male lion trots past matatus to be with his pride. My previous shot is one lion on his way out (www.flickr.com/photos/dhaug/8231572604/in/photostream/) , while this one looks like he'll have a presence to be reckoned with...
Seemingly a country lane (it was originally just that until Northenden.....along with neighbouring Wythenshawe was moved into the City of Manchester in the 1920s) but it's actually an urban suburb ;)
Page 55
When Robert Cremean walked through the seemingly
endless corridors of the Vatican Museum in Rome, he was
struck not only by the vastness of the place but by the
number of sculptures it contains, many of which are
neutered by a fig leaf. To him, the sculptures in the museum
represented an enormous collection of mixed metaphors and
only a rare few met his definition of “transparency.” On the
fourth page of his Preparatory Study for VATICAN
CORRIDOR, A Non-Specific Autobiography he wrote:
The enclosure of one metaphor by another—one culture by
another—one time segment by another. “Paganism” is preserved
through forfeit of genitalia—neutered by a fig leaf. Miles of
historical artifacts enclosed within an historical artifact. And yet
there are a few presences that are not dead—not neutered. A few
glimpses— Man existing without metaphor. A few Transparencies.
Are these not worth the endless walk?
Within the concept “One man=all men,” VATICAN
CORRIDOR, A Non-Specific Autobiography was conceived as
an actual and metaphorical record of the journey through
the life of the artist and, by extension, a projection of the
possibilities we all share and may attain. Within both of the
facing walls are ten carved life-sized figures symbolically
conjoined by arches to form a “corridor of the self. ” As Robert
Cremean wrote:
Each arch represents three years and the Corridor of Self-Analysis
begins with my seventeenth year.
It was within the time span of the First Arch he declared
himself a sculptor.
Prior to acquiring the materials necessary for the actualizing
of the sculpture in wood, he spent two months creating
the detailed preparatory study for the entire work, a process
he had followed on only two prior occasions, one for
DONOR WITH CRUCIFIXION and the other, although more
suggestive than detailed, for HOMAGE TO PAUL APOSTLE.
From the first three pages of searching to the final pages of
resolution, the artist’s graphic description of the threedimensional
work provides us with the opportunity to read
the artist’s philosophical concepts for that specific work of
art and to understand how these concepts are interpreted
symbolically through the human figure. Since this is an
actual and a metaphorical autobiography, the Preparatory
Study for VATICAN CORRIDOR, A Non-Specific Autobiography
literarily addresses both.
Because each of the ten arches in the Preparatory Study
and in the completed sculpture spans a period of three years
in the artist’s life, the Tenth Arch was a projection five years
into the future and was at last updated twenty-two years
later in the writing in 1995, and with the publication by
Manuscript Press in 1996, of THE TENTH ARCH, the sculptural
Tenth Arch realized in the form of a book.
As the name implies, the sculpture is in the form of an
actual corridor. It measures eight feet tall, forty feet in length,
and with a width of ten feet. The facing walls of the corridor
are each formed by ten carved blocks of laminated sugar pine
planks for an overall measurement each of 8' x 24½" x 16".
The first figure of the Outer Wall, the “who,”is nearly fully
revealed in the round. But by the Tenth Arch, it has been transposed
into a negative, much like a waste-mold, only the egg
shape of the final transposition still in place. Block by block
and transposition after transposition, the three-dimensional
figure is displaced by a concavity as the wall that contained it
grows thicker and thicker. The reverse is true in each of the
corresponding figures and blocks of the Inner Wall. Each part
of the human figure is symbolic of a particular sense and/or
concept and with its transference the figure of the Inner Wall,
the “what,” becomes more complete.
Shown here is the final page of the manuscript which
lists the actual parts of the Anatomy of Transposition. It is
followed by the first four pages which serve both as an
explanation of the Preparatory Study and of the concept of
the entire sculpture. Each page of the original manuscript
measures 17" x 14".
Seemingly the backbone of the Polish rail network is the numerous EN57 class of EMUs, which are rather basic and not the most pleasant of things. Here EN57-694 is seen at one of the Krakow suburban stations.
This seemingly huge lizard was spotted by a friend while looking for birds. We thought it must be a Chuckwalla on account of the size, but those do not have spiny scales. (This frame enlarged 2X to show details.) It looks to be:
Clark's Spiny Lizard - Sceloporus clarkii (to 144 mm length!)
Shows, I think, these characters of S. clarkii:
a-3 prominent ear scales
b-incomplete collar
c-dark crossbands on forelimbs (faint, but just visible!)
References
- Holycross, A Field Guide to Amphibians and Reptiles in Arizona (Arizona Game and Fish, 2022), pp. 78-9.
- Stebbins, Field Guide to Western Reptiles and Amphibians (Houghton-Mifflin, 1985), p. 129, plate 27
Clouds seemingly hang over downtown St. Petersburg, in this view looking toward the north in August, 2011..
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Ted McLaren
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After enduring seemingly endless weeks of frigid nights and blustery mornings, we’re all counting down the days to September 1 – the official end of a winter so cold we’ve had reason to wonder whether we’d unwittingly been teleported to Antarctica. Spring Day is on its way and with the worst of winter behind us now, our anticipation of buds on the trees, picnics on lush green grass and soaking up the sun as we relax around the pool has got us heady with excitement!
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Seemingly at the top of the world, with nothing above them but clear sky and the stars beyond, this clutter of plants seemed silently ready for the sunset that would soon begin to play out in front of them. The clouds were restless at this point, like waves in an ocean of treacle. In their slow chaos they occsionally exposed the rainforests beneath them; and further out, the vast expanse of the Atlantic.
The sunset ended up being the best I had ever seen. This status was short lived though. Two days later, atop Pico do Arieiro I witnessed the most magical sunset I have yet seen.
Canon EOS 350D with Canon EF-S 10-22mm f/3.5-4.5
This seemingly ordinary pub is a Grade II listed building. It was designed by the architect, T Cecil Howitt, who designed a number of civic buildings in Nottingham in the 1920s and 30s, including many of the 'garden-city' style council houses. Apparently, inside, it is very original to its 1930s design.
Seemingly uncertain about where it's going, G&J Holmes Optare Solo YJ55YGY pauses in Smedley Street West on 10 April 2006, working the 0925 from Hackney to Hurst Farm Estate via Matlock town centre. It's possible the untidy display is because Hurst Farm wasn't on the blind as a destination, following recent route changes that had separated out the Hurst Farm and Cavendish Park services.
Seemingly unique to St Thomas USVI. Heavy duty pick ups with local bodywork. Waiting to pick up cruise ship excursion passengers at the Charlotte Amelie terminal.
il regalo più personale e romantico e sensato che abbia ricevuto. Mi ha fatto sentire amata e compresa. e anche nuda. e felice di esserlo. quando vieni scoperta, dalla persona giusta, sei felice, perché sai che quella persona sa esattamente come ri-coprirti. e difenderti.
Noi siamo cactus. siamo brutti e siamo vittime; cerchiamo terapie, e per diventare più forti e non soffrire la siccità ci copriamo di spine. ci difendiamo.
due cactus possono abbracciarsi senza paura di farsi male.
This seemingly insignificant piece of glass is the first piece of glass made by the Sutton Brothers for Lincoln Cathedral. A note in a Nottingham newspaper for late 1857 refers to their offer to make a window for the Cathedral, having been involved in making glass for some years, only to be met with reluctance on the part of the Chapter. Eventually they were permitted to make a small panel for this window and it so please the Chapter that they permitted the brothers to fill the window immediately to the left of this one with glass (You can see that window here: www.flickr.com/photos/22274117@N08/5373415795/).
They went on to fill many windows in the Cathedral with their glass. I owe this reference to the kindness of Dr Jim Cheshire, who is researching the Victorian glass for a forthcoming book on the glass of the Cathedral).
The seemingly superfluous overlapping patterns of the thorns emerge from having to maintain protection from grazing while the ribs expand and contract as the water concentration in the cactus changes.
Seemingly floating on a sea of grass, A491 uses main one for headroom at Shops North as it begins its work. A pair of BNSF motors sandwich a CP AC4400 up front, with two CN's trailing.
Seemingly annual trip to the GP to try and snap the F1 cars, got glorious sun again! Shot on my Fuji hs20 exr, edited I between sessions on the iPad and uploaded straight away! You gotta love tech!
& seemingly just having fun, paddling upstream a couple dozen yards then floating downstream, spinning around like a carnival ride, then upstream again... there when I arrived, still there when I departed, 30 minutes later (suspect more likely guarding a nest or waiting for mate)
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Seemingly in freefall, the elegantly tapered base of the Rainier Tower in downtown Seattle rises its defiance of gravity.
Bryrup Vrads, Denmark on a Triangle Railcar, 18 Aug 1984
In August and September 1984, the California Air National Guard gave me a paid working vacation to Karup, Denmark, with time in Wiesbaden, Germany before and after our time in Denmark.
Karup is about dead center of Jutland, the peninsula that sticks up like a thumb from northern Germany.
Jutland has an extensive railway network by US standards and in years past had an even more extensive net. An old atlas that I have shows lines going seemingly everywhere, including a route that ran through Karup. By 1984, that was abandoned and replaced with an hourly bus service and the rail grade was a bike/hike trail.
Another abandoned line was the Horsens-Bryrup-Silkeborg Railway, a bit east of Karup. 5 km of that line through a scenic stretch of lakes, hills and forests is preserved as the Veteranbaner Bryrup-Vrads. Bryrup is a town of about 1500 people which the operational base of the railway. Vrads has all of 200 inhabitants, but if you just ride the railway to end of track and back, you might not see them, as the station is situated a bit out of town.
I took the bus from Karup to Herning, and an MR DMU to Vjele, which is situated on a fjord on Jutland's east coast. If you think a a spectacular mountain valley when you hear fjord, well, in Danish it means "inlet" or "bay" and a Danish fjord does not look like a Norwegian fjord.
I had a bit of time to kill in Vjele before the bus to Bryrup, and did a quick look around the town including some trackside time, where I got MZs on freight and passenger trains.
The bus to Bryrup dropped me off near the veteran railway. I got there before operations started and saw another couple looking around at the Triangle rail car set and Class F 0-6-0T.
"Kein Dampf", said the man. "Ja, kein Dampf, aber ein sehr interestant benzinmekanische Triebwagen." Having established that we spoke German and I spoke it with an American accent, I think we switched to English. (If you don't speak German, he said, "No steam" and I replied, "Yes, no steam, but a very interesting gasoline-mechanical rail car.")
In a short time, railway volunteers arrived, fired up the railcar, a 1929 Triangle (See veteranbanen.dk/index.html for information about the line and its equipment. The site is in Danish, but Google translate will help if you are using Chrome.), sold us tickets, and away went our time machine through the woods and past lakes to Vrads station. Perhaps Vrads was supposed to grow, as its station is far more impressive than you would expect for a town of 200 people.
I stopped in Vrads for a while and photographed a couple of Scandia railcars from the 1950s as well as other equipmetn the line had stored there. The website shows that the Scandias are in far better shape today than when I saw them 34 years ago.
The Triangles came back and I photographed their arrival, then rode them back to Bryrup. The crew allowed people to ride in the cab and the German couple and I did so.
I noticed a rustic halt along Kvindso, one of the lakes and walked to that to catch the Triangles after photographing their departure from Bryrup.
Google Maps today shows more houses along the ROW in Bryrup, along with what might be a new building for the railway. The website mentions another Class F 0-6-0T as well as a 2-6-0T that I did not see in 1984.
From my photos, it looks like I left Bryrup toward sundown on the bus back to Vejle. I arrived back at Herning after dark in time to see an MZ on IC 171 from Copenhagen.
A good day out.
Seemingly unrelated, the sextant, earthquakes, and port gave rise to what we now know as Portugal. In short, the invention of the sextant jump started the “age of discovery” and Portugal’s conquest of Brasil, Spain, Madagascar, Macau and others. Barrels of wine enticed sailors to endure the stench of life abroad. To keep the wine from fermenting into vinegar, brandy and cherries were added and thereby unwittingly creating port. England’s thirst literally fortified Portugal’s economy in the 18th century.
From the 2000 flamingos that winter in the Rio Formosa to the Moorish, Romans and Celtic, Portugal has a history of migrations.
This history is what shapes Portugal’s architecture, language and cuisine abound. For example, centuries of Roman influence account for the number of words that begin with “Al”, the word Arabic sounds like “a rabbit”.
In the Algarve Moorish mosques became Catholic monasteries and are now train depots, police stations, and other public facilities. Castles of various dictators are tourists attractions.
Seemingly on loan from the Bluebell, "Captain Baxter" provided the motive power for rides on the main demonstration line.
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seemingly endless condo construction in mission bay - san francisco, california.
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After seemingly endless months of testing, the IDOT-funded Chargers are finally leading trains. Here IDTX 4620 is preparing to leave Chicago Union Station with Train 333 for Milwaukee. The bright orange LEDs on the nose display 'AMTRAK 333'
My seemingly sweet, small, harmless cat Poppy chased this little thing up onto our roof!
It made SUCH a racket!! And it wouldnt come down!
Mum thought it was 'stuck' so she went and tried to 'help it down' with a plank of wood, which in theory it would leap on to and crawl down....
Instead it leapt over her head, sumersaulted, hit the cherry tree with a thud, and sprinted across the garden...
Mums face was hilarious!! XD
Seemingly caged in, attempting to get out of Middlesex College, October 19, 2006
Photo: Douglas Keddy
Brett seemingly having a little too much fun meeting new furries. This one looked like he parachuted into the convention.
Note: We were purely there to observe the furries and eat at the Original Fish Market in the Westin...seriously...but the furries were very cool and open to photos with us! Thanks!