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Teresa Lloro-Bidart (Cal Poly Pomona) and I are studying how people and coyotes manage to get along in US cities. The environmental political theory blog "Inhabiting the Anthropocene" recently published a piece based on our research. Go check it out!
inhabitingtheanthropocene.com/2018/08/22/there-goes-the-n...
Coyotes have incorporated themselves into nearly every major city in North America. Coyotes’ ability to thrive in cities testifies not only to the Anthropocene’s blurring of human-wildlife boundaries; it also undermines the idea that cities and suburbs are places where people don’t have to contend with wild predators. In cities where coyotes have become established recently, their arrival has coincided with a reevaluation of urban ecologies and of the role of wild animals in urban settings. Conservation scientists are deemphasizing conflict management in favor of peaceful coexistence. And human-animal studies scholars are generating multispecies accounts of city life that seek to take seriously wild animals as social actors, both in how they interact with humans and in their own right. Our study of how residents of two cities – Philadelphia, PA and Chino/Chino Hills, CA – attempt to make sense of urban coyotes asks how such calls for more inclusive human-wildlife relations resonate in popular imaginaries of urban life.
See Young's bio at www.churchofjesuschrist.org/study/ensign/1985/10/mahonri-.... See additional images from this visit at flic.kr/s/aHBqjAh6xg
I took these 3 images less than an hour apart during a sunset in Iceland. I put them together to show how the scene changes dramatically with the light.
First image has the warm golden sunset light coming from behind me. During the second image, sun is just below the horizon but still hitting the top of the clouds giving them a lovely pink colour. This is what is known as civil twilight. By the 3rd image, sun is well below the horizon and the landscape feels much colder under blue hues. This is roughly the end of civil twilight and beginning of nautical twilight.
Here's something a bit different. I don't usually do flower studies (apart from occasional wild flowers). However my wife had been given a bouquet and I was at a loose end, so here is a closeup of one of the flowers. I have no idea what it is but the colours are attractive.
The grimy valve gear of Standard 2MT 78019 glimmers as the engine is disposed of at Loughborough Shed at the Great Central Railway
Ankhneferen Bust Sculpture - The Last Prince Of Mars by Daniel Arrhakis (2025)
With the music : Immortal Seal of Time - Mystic Ambience for Studying & Relaxation by Temple Of Serenity
There is another History that the Great Pyramid of Khafre hid in ancient enigmatic records carved into its stones, the Dynastic Period Of The Great Pyramid of Onyx.
An advanced civilization, that predated the Early Egyptian Dynastic Period. Aknut was the first pharaoh born on Earth, but coming from the ancient lineages of the last dynasty on Mars ...
Menkherthot the Last Pharaoh of Mars or Her Desher as the dynasties of Mars called their planet made the difficult decision to leave the dying planet with much of his entourage and part of the population.
In the last ages, uninterrupted sandstorms while the atmosphere has become increasingly rarefied and poisonous, eventually made life impossible and the great caves of Her Desher were no longer an option.
Ankhneferen, her first son, refused to leave Mars and the last ones that stayed behind on the desert planet.
The Pharaoh, despite being against it, understood the courageous decision that his firstborn and main heir had made and to compensate for his absence he brought with him a sculpted bust of his son's face.
The Bust is now part of the collection found and is on display at the Grand Nile Museum , a recent building opened in 2143 on an island in the center of the Nile River and subsequent to The Grand Egyptian Museum of 2023.
Despite the Autonomous Communities of Mars requesting their return, this was always refused by higher authorities on Earth, such as the Federal Court of the Outer Colonies.
Experimenting with putting floral dye in water to turn the flowers different colors. It's interesting to see the veins on the flowers and where the dye goes. This is a snapdragon dyed blue. Looks like a brain...
Old eroded blue iceberg against a cloudy blue sky provides some visually interesting textures. The iceberg became grounded in Cuckold Cove near Trinity, Newfoundland on its journey down Iceberg Alley from Baffin Bay on the west coast of Greenland.
09/02/2017 www.allenfotowild.com
Portrait of an old Toda Tribal Woman - snapped at isolated Nilgiri plateau of Tamil Nadu, India.
Revisited.
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The Toda people are a small pastoral community who live on the isolated Nilgiri plateau of Southern India. Before the 18th century, the Toda coexisted locally with other communities, including the Kota, and Kuruba, in a loose caste-like community organisation in which the Toda were the top ranking. The Toda population has hovered in the range 700 to 900 during the last century. Although an insignificant fraction of the large population of India, the Toda have attracted (since the late 18th century), "a most disproportionate amount of attention because of their ethnological aberrancy" and "their unlikeness to their neighbours in appearance, manners, and customs." The study of their culture by anthropologists and linguists would prove important in the creation of the fields of social anthropology and ethnomusicology.
The Toda traditionally live in settlements consisting of three to seven small thatched houses, constructed in the shape of half-barrels and spread across the slopes of the pasture. They traditionally trade dairy products with their Nilgiri neighbour people. Toda religion centres on the buffalo; consequently, rituals are performed for all dairy activities as well as for the ordination of dairymen-priests. The religious and funerary rites provide the social context in which complex poetic songs about the cult of the buffalo are composed and chanted. Fraternal polyandry in traditional Toda society was fairly common; however, this has now largely been abandoned. During the last quarter of the 20th century, some Toda pasture land was lost due to agriculture by outsiders or afforestation by the State Government of Tamil Nadu. This has threatened to undermine Toda culture by greatly diminishing the buffalo herds; however during the last decade both Toda society and culture have also become the focus of an international effort at culturally sensitive environmental restoration. The Toda lands are now a part of The Nilgiri Biosphere Reserve, a UNESCO-designated International Biosphere Reserve and is under consideration by the UNESCO World Heritage Committee for selection as a World Heritage Site.
Source : en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toda_people
For further reading the above site is suggested.