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This is a good example of eutrophication. It looks kind of cool, but it's very unhealthy for the ecosystem depending on the body of water. The next day, I went back to this site and the park staff had started to cut all these plants out of the stream so it could flow as water again.
Eutrophication is an increase of nutrients in the water, which SOUNDS like a good thing, but it encourages the growth of algae and plants, which eventually cover the surface of the water, and block the oxygen from getting in. The fish and other organisms die from lack of oxygen, fertilizing the plant growth. Over a long period of time, a pond or lake could turn into a swamp and then a meadow. This is a natural process that happens regardless of human interference. But people cause this process to happen more rapidly and more frequently because of the laundry detergents we use (phosphorus) and the fertilizers we use (nitrogen). These elements wash into our water systems and hasten eutrophication. Hope I have that little science lesson right. LOL
Taken at Van Saun Park, Paramus, NJ.
A stream in PEI leading to the beach. A heron hides on the far shore. The red sand comes from a high soil concentration of iron oxide.
The Cult of Rupert Pumpkin
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This semi-historic and possibly-WPA-built bridge will soon bite the dust as they "lower" the creek that runs through it. Golly, who would have known that filling in the creek further up the stream would make it flood down here. What an amazing surprise!
I took these a few months ago, but this bridge has not long left for this world, I think.
EDIT: The Bridge is gone as of Jan 23, 2008.
just finished a little experiment/project. thanks to the php-wizardry of christian it was a matter of minutes to set up the functionality. the site uses simplepie to parse some rss-feeds of mine. included are items of my del.icio.us feed, pictures from my flickr photostream and some short messages coming in via twitter.
the colors stand for:
orange - entertainment
blue - design/art/...
green - webdevelopment and other techstuff
pink - my flickr photostream
grayed out - twitter
some people created similar things to this and called it "lifestream" for example, documenting all online activity of a person. my attempt is different though, because i carefuly select what goes to the site and what not (i'm using special tags for this). so as a matter of fact, it's like a blog without a blog.
i'm sure it's still buggy and all that but hey it's brand new! :)
see it in action: svenellingen.com/stream
This group of uploaded images are from West Sikkim where we were based in the small town of Pelling. Early dawn skies over the Kangchendzonga mountain range of the Himalayas couldn't resist my camera lens with their ever changing cloud formations.
Yesterday evening, the stream was making more noise than I have before heard from it. I went down with the compact camera and got a few shots of it, higher and faster than I have ever seen it. The snow was melting off the hills very quickly. The temperature had been in the 40's and 50's all day, with a breeze blowing to increase the melting. There is flooding downstream today, we are hearing on the news.
O Castelo de Marvão, no Alentejo, localiza-se na vila e freguesia de Santa Maria de Marvão, concelho de Marvão, distrito de Portalegre, em Portugal.
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The Castle of Marvão in the Alentejo region is located in the village and parish of Santa Maria de Marvão, district of Portalegre in Portugal.