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Ponte Vecchio, Florence, Italy (pre-dawn blue hour)
The Ponte Vecchio ("Old Bridge") is a medieval stone closed-spandrel segmental arch bridge over the Arno River, in Florence, Italy, noted for still having shops built along it, as was once common. Butchers initially occupied the shops; the present tenants are jewelers, art dealers and souvenir sellers.
The bridge spans the Arno at its narrowest point where it is believed that a bridge was first built in Roman times. The Roman piers were of stone, the superstructure of wood. After being destroyed by a flood in 1117, it was reconstructed in stone but swept away again in 1333. It was rebuilt in 1345.
The bridge has always hosted shops and merchants who displayed their goods on tables before their premises, after authorization of the Bargello (a sort of a lord mayor, a magistrate and a police authority). The back shops (retrobotteghe) that may be seen from upriver, were added in the seventeenth century.
It is said that the economic concept of bankruptcy originated here: when a money-changer could not pay his debts, the table on which he sold his wares (the "banco") was physically broken ("rotto") by soldiers, and this practice was called "bancorotto" (broken table; possibly it can come from "banca rotta" which means "broken bank"). Not having a table anymore, the merchant was not able to sell anything and went bankrupt.
(from Wikipedia)
Petite virée à Yamachiche, et en fort bonne compagnie, en ce début du mois d'août dans l'espoir de rencontrer le Phalarope de Wilson qui était présent depuis quelques jours mais qui sera parti le matin même avant notre arrivée. Il y avait cependant beaucoup d'activité de limicoles sur la plage de la pointe. Plusieurs d'entre eux revêtaient encore une plumage de transition ce qui rendait difficile leur identification. Voici un Bécassin à croupion blanc capté à l'heure dorée de fin de journée.
Bécasseau à croupion blanc
White-rumped Sandpiper
Calidris fuscicollis
Lifer
Réserve naturelle de Pointe-Yamachiche, Québec
Nikon D500, Nikkor 200-500 mm, 500 mm, f/8, 1/1250, ISO 400, -1/3 EV, Multi-segment.
El cactus de Navidad está emparentado con el cactus de Pascua (Rhipsalidopsis), floreciendo intensamente durante los meses invernales y coincidiendo con la Navidad.
Es una planta muy fácil de cultivar, con tallos planos compuestos de segmentos con bordes dentados. De cada segmento aparecen nuevos tallos y, con el tiempo, la planta no puede mantenerse erguida y adquiere un porte colgante, quedando el tallo arqueado.
Their holo-menu special was always chicken wings. No one had seen a real chicken in 400 years.
Asteroid mining bars have the worst food.....
www.youtube.com/watch?v=1SHCsgqZvQM
[LANEVO] HYDRA MASK (Black)
NEW @ MAINFRAME
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Strange Merchant - Motherboard Wall -White/Silver - V:1.0
[europa] Segmented Walkway
R-Ex: Wing Bar (double reverse)
Mr Handy - URBAN DEGENRATE
[tmk] drumoil table (green)
[tmk] nugget chair (bronze)
CYRC Holochicken by Teflonhotpocket Resident
..::THOR::.. Thor Pilsener Bottle
..::THOR::.. Draft Beer Serving
Eyebot by WIllem Koba
**ToKKen Industries** Sci-Fi Computer Terminal
NOMAD // Rusty Propeller Fan // Wall
EC Catsuit
NPC Special Forces
NPC Veteran, cyborg leg
NPC Mechanic Female
Cyberpunk Operative
NPC Female Future Soldier
as always, i get the biggest kick out of reading your interpretations of my abstractions! if you do not focus too much, i think you could see a torso of a man, like a pharoah's posture, sitting down. the fragmentation is a breakdown, altho one person saw this as a build-up. i love you guys!
Betonstützen an einem Hochhaus
- Concrete struts of a tower -
Bitte keine Awards und Bildchen!
- Please no awards and banners! -
LASER DE FRANCE (Laserpitium gallicum) :
Il s'agit d'une plante vivace verte et luisante, glabre ou peu hérissée à la tige pleine, striée.
Les feuilles inférieures sont très grandes, à pétiole cylindrique, 4-5 fois pennatiséquées, à segments un peu épais, à lobes divariqués, oblongs, lancéolés ou linéaires ; les supérieures sont sessiles sur une gaine non ventrue.
Les fleurs blanches ou rosées sont constituées d'ombelles grandes, à 20-50 rayons involucre à folioles linéaires-lancéolées, ciliées, réfléchies, persistantes ; styles réfléchis.
Fruit ovoïde, est tronqué aux 2 bouts, glabre, à ailes planes ou ondulées, les marginales plus larges que les dorsales et égalant presque la largeur du méricarpe.
On rencontre cette plante sur les coteaux arides des montagnes calcaires.
Adapté de :
www.oduch.fr/Fleur/Laserpitium-gallicum
En ce qui concerne les animaux présents sur la photo, voir aussi :
GRAPHOSOMES :
www.flickr.com/photos/145414276@N08/50090890366
ESCARGOT :
S. Truncata Group 'Flor de Maio Alba'; note the very pointed teeth at the end of the segments, zygomorphic flowers held above the horizontal, and yellow pollen.
May flower: the cactus that offers beauty instead of thorns:
The May flower - common name of the species Schlumbergera truncata - is one of those plants that we tend to despise most of the year. It is, after all, a true botanical commonplace:
since the days of grandma's gardens, it has been hanging around on any balcony or housed in cachepots on some furniture in the living room. It is also a champion of popularity in floras - ready to be pushed by sellers every time the consumer searches for a plant “for beginners”.
This is all true, yes. But, as I was able to feel myself this week, the fact that it is party rice does not eliminate the extraordinary value and the pleasure of having a May flower inside the house. And pleasure is precisely in the miracle that works, out of nowhere, in your metabolism. During most of the year, the May flower is a discreet little thing, with its branches formed by fragile and evergreen buds releasing at most new buds. Suddenly, sometime between the end of autumn and the beginning of winter, behold that dull plant explodes in buttons with extremely striking shapes and colors - mine, for example, pump out between May and July.
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After flowering, it often withers, loses part of the buds and spends the rest of the year trying to recover from the excruciating effort of flowering.
The May flower is from the cactus family, but has no thorns. In its original habitat, the Atlantic Forest, it presents an epiphyte behavior. In other words: like orchids and many bromeliads, it uses tree trunks as a support. Thanks to horticultural improvement, the variety of colors available on the market today is immense. You can splurge, as you can see in this photo that illustrates this description, the flower of May WHITE.
Despite the fact that the May flower is a peaceful and favorable cultivation plant, some precautions are mandatory to avoid unpleasantness. Here is a basic guide to success:
1) SOIL - As it is a succulent, the may flower requires perfect drainage. She does, however, enjoy a lot of organic matter. So, plant it in pots with holes, filled with pebbles and sand at the bottom and the remaining two thirds completed with vegetable soil. Curiosity: if these conditions are met, the May flower can grow a lot and live for years in small pots.
2) WATERING - Do not overdo it and do not leave dishes filled with water under the pot, to avoid waterlogging and root rot. But also be sure to water frequently - two to four times a week, depending on the weather. She likes the slightly damp earth.
3) LUZ - This is, perhaps, the main catch. The May flower hates receiving direct sunlight, but enjoys well-lit environments. The right places for her, therefore, are balconies and bright interiors, but fresh. Or under the treetops.
4) FLOWERING - The May flower releases its buds when two variables combine: the nights become longer and the minimum temperatures are close to 10-15 degrees. And so it lives up to its name: in the Southeast of Brazil, these ideal conditions are usually registered between mid-May and the end of June.
5) POST-FLOWERING STRESS - May flower is a perennial species, that is, it does not die after giving flowers. Often, however, it cannot withstand the thud of its metabolic explosion: after so much effort, the stem buds become wilted and break easily. In the extreme, the plant dies from stress. To avoid this, it is necessary to redouble the care with nutrition. After flowering, increase the watering slightly and add a little earthworm humus or phosphorus-rich fertilizer (the “P” of the renowned NPK trio).
Last tip: take advantage of the loose buds to produce new seedlings. It's very easy, just fix a piece of them in moist soil.
The Ponte Vecchio (Old Bridge) is a medieval stone closed-spandrel segmental arch bridge over the Arno River, in Florence, Italy. It is noted for the shops built along it. The Ponte Vecchio's two neighboring bridges are the Ponte Santa Trinita and the Ponte alle Grazie. The bridge was first built of wood in 996. It was destroyed several times over the centuries and reconstructed.
Regenbogen (Segment) in der Landschaft nördlich von Idstein im Taunus.
Es ist schon merkwürdig, das ausgerechnet gestern an diesem Tag mehrere Regenbögen über Idstein erschienen (siehe unten).
(In Erinnerung an "Lars" ✟11.03.2018 und "Xenia" ✟12.03.2018, Hunde die wir oft beim dog-walk trafen und beide innerhalb weniger Stunden über die Regenbogenbrücke diese Welt verliessen)
Rainbow (segment) in the landscape north of Idstein (Taunus hills).
It's strange that just yesterday, that day, several rainbows appeared over Idstein (see below).
(In memory of "Lars" ✟11.03.2018 and "Xenia" ✟12.03.2018, dogs we often met at the dog-walk and both within a few hours on the rainbow bridge left this world)
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Adults of Plagiognathus arbustorum can reach a length of 3.6–4.5 millimetres (0.14–0.18 in). These small mirids show a rather variable color, ranging from almost black to pale olive-green. Usually the head and the pronotum, the 1st and 2nd antennal segments and the margins of the hind femora are wholly dark. Forewings and pronotum are covered in dark hairs. The nymphs are green, with a black drawing on the legs.
Adults of these mirids can be found from July to October. They are polyphagous, usually feeding on many different herbaceous plants, but especially on Urticaceae, Asteraceae, Lamiaceae, Fabaceae, Rosaceae and Apiaceae species.
Both adults and the nymphs prefer to suck on the buds, on flowers and immature fruits of their host plants. They feed occasionally on aphids and honeydew.
In the spring of 1998, BNSF daylighted Sunset Tunnel, also known as the 1,928-foot Tunnel 2 between Guernsey and Wendover, Wyoming. The wood-lined tunnel on this 9-mile segment of railroad was originally built by the CB&Q in 1915 and was one of three tunnels on the line. Besides the massive amount of work to remove the tunnel, BNSF also had to stabilize the soft earthen boundaries of the excavation with a concrete mixture sprayed to the sides of the cut, giving the scenery a strange new look. It also gave the railroad a lengthened Stokes siding to the east. On June 21, 2019, an eastbound BNSF coal train heads through the huge cut in a view from Skyline Drive overpass located in Guernsey State Park.
NordArt 2026
This installation is being shown as part of the special project “Landscape of Thought”:
MENG Baishen: Suspension, 2016–2017, installation: pencil on wood (tree segments), 1200 x 1700 x 1500 cm
Im Rahmen des Sonderprojekts „Landscape of Thought“ wird diese Installation gezeigt:
MENG Baishen: Suspension, 2016–2017, Installation: Bleistift auf Holz (Segmente vom Baum), 1200 x 1700 x 1500 cm
www.nordart.de/fileadmin/downloads/kuenstler/MENG_Baishen...
"looking close on fridays" fruit
ODC segments
and i am learning about how to take macro pictures with the iphone- it's a little different than the beloved canon870
The most striking feature of the acorn weevil is its elongated snout, known as a 'rostrum', which is longer in females than males. Adults have a brownish and patterned body. Wevils in this genus can be hard to tell apart. C. glandium has 3 segments in the bulbous end of its antennae whereas C. nucum has 4 segments.
Erick was established in 1901 as an agricultural community on what would become the edge of the Dust Bowl during the Great Depression of the 1930s.[6] It was located on the National Old Trails Road, one of the predecessors to the 1926 numbered US Highway system. Large segments of that road became part of U.S. Route 66.[ 1136
Program:Manual
Lens:15mm f/2.4 G
F:16.0
Speed:1/125
ISO:500
Focal Length:15 mm
AF Fine Tune Adj:0
Focus Mode:Manual
Shooting Mode:Single-Frame, Auto ISO, [9]
VR:Off
Metering Mode:Multi-segment
WB:Auto0
Picture Control:Neutral
Focus Distance:14.13 m
Dof:inf (0.45 m - inf)
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Along the Ice Age Trail Greenbush Segment in the Kettle Moraine
Kettle Moraine also called the Interlobate Moraine, the Kettle Moraine is a series of ridges, 120 miles long and only a few miles wide, in eastern Wisconsin. The combined action and deposits of the Green bay and Lake Michigan lobes of the continental ice sheet formed the Kettle Moraine. The Kettle Moraine is the birthplace of the Ice Age Trail and the subject of the first published study of interlobate glaciation in 1878.
From the Ice Age Trail Guidebook
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Macquarie’s Point, Sydney, NSW, Australia
I’ve probably got several hundred images of the Opera House taken from every possible viewpoint, including our hotel bedroom window, the Harbour Bridge and several ferries. From Bennelong Point you are constantly looking up at the roof segments which makes a full shot very difficult, but if you want to get a full side view of this magnificent building there is no better location than Macquarie’s Point in my option.
Besides, I’d carried my tripod and heavy zoom all over Australia and I was sure as hell going to get some use of them both! Just having some fun here picking out details… other images are available.