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Some unhappy clouds crying on the mountains in Arizona. This was taken from the west side of my house of the hills that are around 15 miles away.
Storm Sondors is a keen surfer, who cites Kelly Slater as a personal hero of his. Storm Sondors is the CEO of SONDORS EV and SONDORS Electric Bike companies.
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This storm is approaching Edenton, NC. From almost every angle it seemed to be approaching. This was taken a wee bit after 7 pm.
Central Alberta was treated to this supercell near Olds on July 7, 2011. She put down three tornadoes. Photo by team member, Matt Johnson (@MesocyclonicWX)
Lemon Festival Menton French Riviera
citrus mask in the Biovès garden in 2006.
The Lemon Festival is a traditional festive event organized by the Tourist Office which is held each year in late winter in the city of Menton . This festival is also called Carnival Menton .
This carnival celebrated every year especially lemon Menton declared with incomparable taste qualities hence its name: the feast of lemon . All floats and sculptures presented at the carnival are created from lemon and orange.
The place to party during the month of February .
Since half of the xv th century, the town of Menton is a major citrus producer in Europe.
History
Lemon Festival in Menton (France) March 4, 2013. An employee replaces the missing fruit.
An ordinary carnival
In 2013, for the 80 years of the festival's theme is Around the World in 80 Days .
In 1895 , hoteliers offer the municipality to create a carnival parade to enliven the city in winter. From 1896 , the carnival of Menton attracted locals as the rich winter. At the time, it is fashionable to spend the winter months in the mild climate of the Riviera . Kings, princes and artists frequent the palaces of Menton or are building splendid villas. The Carnival 1882 is remembered: Queen Victoria attends, and it ends with a spectacular fireworks display over the bay of Garavan .
Chin carnival then resembles its cousin in Nice: big heads parade, confetti throwing, flower battles ... Shrove Tuesday in which one burns his Majesty Carnival ... It is in the pure tradition of Carnival, jubilation , feasts and misbehavior of any kind prior to Lent .
The lemon festival
In 1928, Menton was still the largest lemon producer in the continent. A hotel has the idea to organize a private exhibition of flowers and citrus fruits in the gardens of the Hotel Riviera. It was so successful that the following year the Municipality takes up the idea on his own. Chin carnival mixes at: shrub planted carts of oranges and lemons evolve with charming Mentonnaises. Supplanted by the Nice carnival that of Menton seeks to replace it with a tourist event at the same time. The term "Lemon Festival" was born in 1934. It is a carnival party themed citrus.
From 1936, the gardens were redesigned Biovès through citrus reasons .
They can reach up to several meters high, and at night they become real gardens lumière.Cent twenty tons of citrus , coming from Spain , an elastic and fifteen million days of work for a hundred people are needed at the party.
The citrus are fixed on structured boxwood wreaths on cage wire. At the end of the event fruit, 90% are in good condition, are sold cheaply .
The celebration did not take place during the war years between 1940 and 1946 and in 1991 because of the war Desert Storm in Iraq.
After a storm with hurricane gusts, swept through the area we visited a forest where lots of old trees had been toppled over.
The table and chairs are a result of after storm tree carvings finished yesterday 7/11/11 following 60 to 70 mph winds which took many area trees, limbs and power lines.
A storm Building up over Barcelona's "Port Olimpic". This image is a manualy stiched panorama of various fotos. Taken in september 2005 with a sony 717. I got wet!