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Traffic and traffic jams are ubiquitous in India so when given lemons I try and make lemonade - stuck in traffic look for cool portraits - hopefully I succeeded?
Not only will you succeed in sales, you will succeed in life :-)
― Mary Kay Ash
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hybrid camellia, 'Shibori Egao', j c raulston arboretum, ncsu, Raleigh, north carolina
Pied Flycatcher (M) - Ficedula hypoleuca
The European pied flycatcher (Ficedula hypoleuca) is a small passerine bird in the Old World flycatcher family. One of the four species of Western Palearctic black-and-white flycatchers, it hybridizes to a limited extent with the collared flycatcher. It breeds in most of Europe and western Asia.
It is migratory, wintering mainly in tropical Africa.
It usually builds its nests in holes on oak trees. This species practices polygyny, usually bigamy, with the male travelling large distances to acquire a second mate. The male will mate with the secondary female and then return to the primary female in order to help with aspects of child rearing, such as feeding.
The European pied flycatcher is mainly insectivorous, although its diet also includes other arthropods. This species commonly feeds on spiders, ants, bees and similar prey.
The European pied flycatcher predominately practices a mixed mating system of monogamy and polygyny. Their mating system has also been described as successive polygyny. Within the latter system, the males leave their home territory once their primary mates lays their first eggs. Males then create a second territory, presumably in order to attract a secondary female to breed. Even when they succeed at acquiring a second mate, the males typically return to the first female to exclusively provide for her and her offspring.
Males will sometimes care for both mates if the nests of the primary and secondary female are close together. The male may also care for both mates once the offspring of the primary female have fledged. The male bird usually does not exceed two mates, practicing bigamy. Only two cases of trigyny had been observed.
Population:
UK breeding:
17,000-20,000 pairs
Pied Flycatcher (m) - Ficedula hypoleuca
The European pied flycatcher (Ficedula hypoleuca) is a small passerine bird in the Old World flycatcher family. One of the four species of Western Palearctic black-and-white flycatchers, it hybridizes to a limited extent with the collared flycatcher. It breeds in most of Europe and western Asia.
It is migratory, wintering mainly in tropical Africa.
It usually builds its nests in holes on oak trees. This species practices polygyny, usually bigamy, with the male travelling large distances to acquire a second mate. The male will mate with the secondary female and then return to the primary female in order to help with aspects of child rearing, such as feeding.
The European pied flycatcher is mainly insectivorous, although its diet also includes other arthropods. This species commonly feeds on spiders, ants, bees and similar prey.
The European pied flycatcher predominately practices a mixed mating system of monogamy and polygyny. Their mating system has also been described as successive polygyny. Within the latter system, the males leave their home territory once their primary mates lays their first eggs. Males then create a second territory, presumably in order to attract a secondary female to breed. Even when they succeed at acquiring a second mate, the males typically return to the first female to exclusively provide for her and her offspring.
Males will sometimes care for both mates if the nests of the primary and secondary female are close together. The male may also care for both mates once the offspring of the primary female have fledged. The male bird usually does not exceed two mates, practicing bigamy. Only two cases of trigyny had been observed.
Population:
UK breeding:
17,000-20,000 pairs
This bee-eater succeeded in getting a nice afternoon snack.
Este abejaruco tuvo éxito al obtener una buena merienda.
The old adage of if you don't succeed try, try again is well known to those shooting landscapes and cityscapes. We've all encountered the time when the weather, the sun, the clouds, the city lights, or maybe all of the above just don't want to cooperate when you're trying to get that perfect shot. If we're lucky we get to go back to try again and hope the next opportunity turns out better.
That's the story of this beautiful area along False Creek in Vancouver overlooking Science World and BC Place stadium. I was hoping to get a decent blue hour shot here and luckily was in Vancouver for 4 days which allowed for multiple attempts. On the first attempt the rain came pouring down right around when sunset was supposed to be through blue hour. The second attempt I was very hopeful. It was Victoria Day, a major holiday in Canada, and the weather was going to be wonderful! My hopes were up dreaming of fireworks and the Science World dome with amazing lights... only to find no fireworks and most of the dome lights off with only a small section in red... Luck was on my side on the 3rd try with the dome fully lit with a cool purple! Eureka! Third time turned out to be a charm :)
When you try your best, but you don't succeed
When you get what you want, but not what you need
When you feel so tired, but you can't sleep
Stuck in reverse
And the tears come streaming down your face
When you lose something you can't replace
When you love someone, but it goes to waste
Could it be worse?
Lights will guide you home
And ignite your bones
And I will try to fix you
And high up above or down below
When you're too in love to let it go
But if you never try you'll never know
Just what you're worth
Lights will guide you home
And ignite your bones
And I will try to fix you
Tears stream down your face
When you lose something you cannot replace
Tears stream down your face and I
Tears stream down your face
I promise you I will learn from my mistakes
Tears stream down your face and I
Lights will guide you home
And ignite your bones
And I will try to fix you
Another chick very proud : he succeeded to climb up too !
Now they are 2 up with mom.
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The little trader hails a taxi…
Skippy envisioned his universe
with the help of the following cool styles:
Sorgo's IGOR Shades!
Hotdog's Feathered Coat! (@TMD)
Native Urban's Alpha Jacket, Alpha Shirt & Tie, and Alpha Trousers! (@TMD)
Vale Koer's Motus Chronometer Watch!
Deadwool's Shawn Working Bag!
Stay focused.
Stay strong.
And keep shining bright, my friends!
In this anthological light at sunset, I was very happy to succeed in this huge panorama of Mâcon from nine original photos assembled 3 by 3 in HDR mode, then with the 3 resulting HDR photos juxtaposed in one.
I tried on this photo to give the widest possible view of Mâcon. It gives a good idea of the scale and beauty of the panorama. It is particularly highlighted by extraordinary reflections in the Saône river, and by the sunset which illuminates the 2 towers of Saint-Pierre church and tints the sky with magnificent colours.
You can also admire here almost the entire Saint-Laurent bridge, dating from the 11th century. Only the last arch on the Saint-Laurent side is missing. Its extraordinary length for a medieval bridge (215 m - 706 ft) is obvious.
On the other side of the bridge, the whole Saône river's front of Mâcon unfolds, with in particular the 2 towers (14th century) of old Saint-Vincent, and the departmental archives tower which dates from the 1960s.
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Immense panorama au coucher du soleil
Dans cette lumière d'anthologie au coucher du soleil, j'ai été très heureux de réussir ce panorama immense de Mâcon à partir de neuf photos d'origine assemblées 3 par 3 en mode HDR, puis avec les 3 photos HDR résultat juxtaposées en une seule.
J'ai cherché sur cette photo à donner la vue la plus large possible sur Mâcon. Elle donne une bonne idée de l'ampleur et de la beauté du panorama. Il est particulièrement mis en valeur par des reflets extraordinaires dans la Saône, et le coucher de soleil qui illumine les 2 tours de l'église Saint-Pierre et teinte le ciel de couleurs magnifiques.
On admire ici aussi pratiquement tout le pont de Saint-Laurent, datant du 11ème siècle. Il ne manque que la dernière arche coté Saint-Laurent. Sa longueur extraordinaire pour un pont médiéval (215 m) nous saute aux yeux.
De l'autre côté du pont, tout le front de Saône de Mâcon se déploie, avec notamment les 2 tours (14ème siècle) du vieux Saint-Vincent, et la tour des archives départementales qui date des années 1960.
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Mâcon - Bourgogne du Sud / Mâcon - South-Burgundy - France
Some of my dearest friends often have me "lobbing my shoes, boots etc at them... " FOUND them!! Well one of them.
So the saying only the strong will survive is what came to mind.
🎼: Only the Strong Survive ~ Rod Stewart ~
✈️ : Missing Melody
I see you sittin' there all alone
Crying your eyes out
While everything's going wrong
You know there's gonna be
A whole lot of trouble in your life
Listen to me, get up off your knees
'Cause only the strong survive
Only the strong survive
Only the strong survive
Hey, you gotta be strong
You gotta hold on
I said don't give up, no don't
I said don't go around
With your head looking down
Don't you let'em make you feel like a clown
There's a lot of opportunity
Out there just waiting for you
But you'll never succeed if you've given up
And say your life is through
Listen this minute what I'm tellin' you
Only the strong survive
Only the strong survive
Hey, you gotta be strong
Gotta hold on
You gotta be a man, take a stand
ten succeed by daring to change course — and vice-versa :-)
Robert Brault
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prunus mume, japanese flowering apricot, 'Dawn', j c raulston arboretum, ncsu, raleigh, north carolina
texture by Kerstinfrankart
Life in a Love
a poem by Robert Browning
Escape me?
Never
Beloved!
While I am I, and you are you,
So long as the world contains us both,
Me the loving and you the loth,
While the one eludes, must the other pursue.
My life is a fault at last, I fear:
It seems too much like a fate, indeed!
Though I do my best I shall scarce succeed.
But what if I fail of my purpose here?
It is but to keep the nerves at strain,
To dry one's eyes and laugh at a fall,
And baffled, get up to begin again,
So the chase takes up one's life, that's all.
While, look but once from your farthest bound,
At me so deep in the dust and dark,
No sooner the old hope drops to ground
Than a new one, straight to the selfsame mark,
I shape me
Ever
Removed!
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Spreeuwen gebruiken na de broedtijd gezamenlijke slaapplaatsen. Dit zijn soms rietvelden in natuurgebieden, maar soms ook grote bomen of gemakkelijk toegankelijke grote bouwsels in steden zoals treinstations of winkelcentra. In de loop van de herfst en de winter vormen zij daar vaak enorme groepen (zwermen) die gezamenlijk spectaculaire vliegshows ten beste kunnen geven in de buurt van deze gezamenlijk gebruikte slaapplaatsen.
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Starlings use shared roosts after the breeding season. These are sometimes reed beds in nature reserves, but sometimes also large trees or easily accessible large structures in cities such as train stations or shopping centers. In the course of autumn and winter they often form huge groups (swarms) that together can give spectacular air shows in the vicinity of these jointly used sleeping places.
To succeed means that you may have to step out of line and march to the sound of your own drummer. Keith Degreen
"When you try your best but you don't succeed.
When you feel so tired but you can't sleep.
When the tears come streaming down your face
What could it be worse?
Lights will guide you home and ignite your bones
...and I will try to fix you."
Stores like this, with original signage from the 1950's or earlier, are disappearing from the streets of Prague. To me, these give character and identity to the city. After 1989 many people tried their luck with opening new business. Some succeeded, some failed, but invariably new store sign, replaced the old one. There are still many old signs, especially at drinking establishments. These are treasured the most. Notice the wooden store front (by Vladimír Čenský -1878). I took a photo here in 2018 and it looks like there is a different business operating on the premises. Klobouky (hats) where still in the shop windows, but Prádlo (generic term- but in this case probably undergarments) side is now selling souvenirs and tchotchkes. The building itself is from 1842.
858 (898). Prague 2014- no.27. Taken 2014-Jun 06; P1250888; Upload 2021-Dec 07. Lmx -ZS5
IN ENGLISH BELOW THE LINE
La segona (i darrera) nit en busca d'aurores fou més positiva que la primera, tot i que varem anar força lluny de Tromso, també. Per a mi, en total, fou la cinquena nit d'aurores, entre 2019 i 2025.
Varem marxar de nou amb furgoneta des de Tromso cap al sud, vers el Balsfjorden i Hatteng, on de nou ens varem equipar amb extra roba d'hivern i botes de neu. Però després anarem força aprop, a la vall de Signaldalen, que forma un dels punts més estrets de Noruega amb la frontera sueca. Justament per això fou el lloc escollit per els alemanys per a construir una linea de defensa el 1944-45 davant els avenços sovietics al front de Murmansk-Kirkenes.
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Però nosaltres erem allà per a veure aurores en un entorn muntanyós privilegiat, i varem tenir exit. La aurora fou força més intensa que la anterior vegada, amb grans arcs que ens passaven just sobre el cap i també cap al nord, entorn els pics de Mannfjellet i Otertinden.
Aquí en concret, el Mannfjellet sembra entrar en una erupció de llum tot al seu entorn.
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The second (and last) night in search of the auroras was more positive than the first, although we went quite far from Tromso, too. For me, in total, it was the fifth night of auroras, between 2019 and 2025.
We set off again by van from Tromso south, towards the Balsfjorden and Hatteng, where we again equipped ourselves with extra winter clothes and snow boots. But then we will go quite close, to the Signaldalen valley, which forms one of the narrowest points in Norway with the Swedish border. Precisely for this reason it was the place chosen by the Germans to build a defense line in 1944-45 against the Soviet advances on the Murmansk-Kirkenes front.
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But we were there to see the aurora in a privileged mountainous setting, and we succeeded. The aurora was much more intense than last time, with large arcs passing right overhead and also to the north, around the peaks of Mannfjellet and Otertinden.
Here the Mannfjellet looks like exploding in Northern Lights.
She circled overhead for a minute or two as if she wanted land under her should she drop her catch.
Once the fish was secure, she left the area.
#MacroMonday
#Puzzle
...there's a secure vaccine against Covid-19? I wish it would happen so soon. What definitely is guaranteed, though, is that from today it's 45 days until Christmas Eve :) And whether you celebrate or not, I'm sure that on everybody's wishlist is also a vaccine.
I had little – or rather no – other choice for "Puzzle" but this Ravensburger Christmas bauble jigsaw puzzle ball, because I don't own any other puzzles. I love to play Adventure games, and puzzles are a part of the gaming routine, but real life puzzles? Nil. So back to the bauble: It depicts a cosy forest Christmas scene with lots of snow, a starry blue hour sky, a Christmas tree (of course) and the forest animals – such as deer, squirrels, rabbits, birds – gathering around various feeders; in short it depicts almost everything that makes you go "Aaawwwww!" when you think of Christmas (please see the fourth comment to see the whole bauble) :) At first I really didn't know how to photograph this pretty puzzle ball in an interesting way. But then I thought "I puzzled it together, so I can also take it apart again, let's take a look inside." What looked like a fragile construction consisting of 60 parts (diameter of the ball: 7 cm / 2,7 inches, the small round parts which you can see here each have a diameter of 4 mm / 0,15 inches) proved to be very sturdy and definitely "take-apart-resistant", but in the end I succeeded to pull out one piece from the starry blue hour sky.
On the inside, the pieces are white, of course, but they are also numbered, and at first I thought I'd pick piece No 1, but then I remembered that I'd already shot numbers on a toy piece for "one Color", so I looked for a nice puzzle piece pattern instead and found this star. I secured the backlit puzzle ball between two large pieces of modeling clay to prevent it from rolling away (it had happened a few times in the beginning), and photographed directly through the hole where piece No. 60 had been; the shape of the vignette is the negatice space of missing piece No. 60.
The photo is a single 40 MP High-Res mode shot, and I had to do a lot of dusting and fuzz removal. Those dark spots, however, are part of the plastic pieces, so I didn't remove them all. Processed in Topaz DeNoise AI ("Low Light" mode at N: 7, S: 67, R: 3, CN 14), Luminar 4 (Detail enhancement – small at 79, medium at 41, large at 3), Viveza and Analog Efex.
Happy Macro Monday, Everyone, stay safe and take care!
Noch 45 Tage bis... zu einem sicheren Covid-19-Impfstoff für alle? Schön wär's. Was wir aber alle ganz sicher in 45 Tagen feiern werden: richtig, Heiligabend :) Und ein sicherer Impfstoff dürfte auch auf jedermanns und jederfraus Wunschzettel stehen. Warum aber dieser Schlenker zu Weihnachten, wenn das Thema doch "Puzzle" ist? Weil das einzige "richtige" Puzzle, das ich im Haus habe, ein Ravensburger "Christmas Puzzle Ball" ist. Bestehend aus 60 erstaunlich fest zusammenhaltenden Puzzleteilen.
Zuerst wusste ich nicht recht, wie ich ihn ansprechend fotografieren sollte; von außen ist er nett anzuschauen, zeigt eine Weihnachtswaldszene mit viel Schnee, einem Sternenhimmel, natürlich einer geschmückten Tanne und vielen Tieren, darunter Rotwild, Eichhörnchen, Hasen und vielen Vögeln, die sich an diversen Futterkrippen zum Weihnachtsschmaus eingefunden haben. So weit, so hübsch. Aber ob das ein spannendes Foto ergeben würde? Also dachte ich mir, ich entferne mal eines der Puzzleteile und schaue hinein. Die Rückseite der Puzzleteile ist weiß und jedes trägt eine Nummer. Zunächst habe ich auch auf die Nummern fokussiert, genauer auf Teil Nr. 1, aber dann fiel mir wieder ein, dass ich bereits für "one Colour" vor zwei Wochen die winzigen Nummern auf einem Spielzeugteil fotografiert hatte. Deshalb habe ich dann nach einem interessanten Puzzlemuster Ausschau gehalten – und fand diesen Stern.
Von hinten beleuchtet (und die Kugel mit zwei Stücken Bastelknete fixiert, weil sie anfangs immer wegrollte) und direkt durch das Loch, das Puzzleteil Nr. 60 hinterlassen hat, hindurchfotografiert. Die Ränder der Vignette sind also der negative Raum des fehlenden Puzzleteilchens. Ich musste ganz schön viele Fussel in PS entfernen; die dunklen Pünktchen sind aber in den Plastikteilchen drin, also habe ich nicht alle von ihnen weggestempelt. Entwickelt in Topaz DeNoise AI ("Low Light" Modus, N: 7, S: 67, R: 3, CN 14), Luminar 4 (Detailverbesserung, klein: 79, mittel: 41, groß 3), Viveza und Analog Efex.
Ich wünsche Euch eine schöne Woche, liebe Flickr-Freunde, bleibt gesund!
Don't let fear of "failure" stop you from trying! You will, at the very least, learn something from the experience....
Durante la primavera se producen un número importante de emergencias de Orthetrum cancellatum y tengo la suerte de poder disfrutarlas.
Es una mezcla de magia y drama, pues en ese momento el individuo emergente es indefenso y está expuesto a ataques de sus depredadores.
En la foto una hembra terminando de estirar las alas, cuando lo consiga las desplegará y una vez secas iniciará el primer vuelo.
Fotograma completo adaptado a formato panorámico.
En el Coto. Villena (Alicante) España
A significant number of Orthetrum cancellatum emergencies occur during the spring and I am fortunate to be able to enjoy them.
It is a mixture of magic and drama, since at that moment the emerging individual is defenseless and is exposed to attacks from their predators.
In the photo a female finishing stretching her wings, when she succeeds she will unfold them and once they are dry she will start the first flight.
Full frame adapted to panoramic format.
In the Coto. Villena (Alicante) Spain
A female Anna's Hummingbird and male Flame Skimmer competing for insects! The Dragonfly landed at the top of a spent Yucca Bloom, this is a prime spot for our Hummingbirds. The Anna's Hummingbird succeeded in chasing the Dragonfly out of her territory. It was a fun interaction between the two species, both were very curious and leery of each other. Photo taken in our backyard in Camas, Washington.
From azstateparks.com:
Slide Rock State Park, originally the Pendley Homestead, is a 43-acre historic apple farm located in Oak Creek Canyon. Frank L. Pendley, having arrived in the canyon in 1907, formally acquired the land under the Homestead Act in 1910. Due to his pioneering innovation, he succeeded where others failed by establishing a unique irrigation system still in use by the park today. This allowed Pendley to plant his first apple orchard in 1912, beginning the pattern of agricultural development that has dominated the site since that time. Pendley also grew garden produce and kept some livestock.
As one of the few homesteads left intact in the canyon today, Slide Rock State Park is a fine example of early agricultural development in Central Arizona. The site was also instrumental to the development of the tourism industry in Oak Creek Canyon. The completion of the canyon road in 1914 and the paving of the roadway in 1938 were strong influences in encouraging recreational use of the canyon. Hence, Pendley followed suit and in 1933, built rustic cabins to cater to vacationers and sightseers.
Todays visitors can still enjoy the fruits of Pendley's labor. Historic cabins are available for viewing, and the creek offers the park's namesake slide for adventures seekers and those looking for a place to cool off.
... is to succeed in getting Leslie to understand that her job is to Stop All This Rain, so we can go outside, and so the insult of flash photography is not made again. (Happy Caturday theme 8 January 2022, Resolutions.)
try, try again. Snowy Egret on the hunt 6 and final. And that's all folks! Thanks for your visits and hopefully your comments and faves!
No idea can succeed except at the expense of sacrifice; no one ever escapes without enduring strain from the struggle of life.
Ernest Renan.
Joseph Ernest Renan (28 February 1823 – 2 October 1892) was a French expert of Semitic languages and civilizations (philology), philosopher, historian, and writer, devoted to his native province of Brittany. He is best known for his influential historical works on Early Christianity, and his political theories, especially concerning nationalism and national identity. Renan is credited as being among the first scholars to advance the Khazar theory, which held that Ashkenazi Jews were descendants of the Khazars, Turkic peoples who had adopted Jewish religion and migrated to Western Europe following the collapse of their khanate. Source Wikipedia.
To the Fringed Gentian
- William Cullen Bryant 1794-1878)-
Thou Blossom bright with autumn dew,
And coloured with the heavens own blue,
That openest when the quiet light
Succeeds the keen and frosty night.
Thou comest not when violets lean
Ore wandering brooks and springs unseen,
Or columbines in purple dressed,
Nod oer the ground-birds nest,
Thou waitest late and comest alone,
When woods are bare and birds are flown,
And frosts and shortening days portend
The aged year is near his end.
Then doth thy sweet and quiet eye
Look through its fringes to the sky,
Blue....blue... as if the sky let fall
A flower from its cerulean wall.
I would that thus, when I shall see
The hour of death draw near to me,
Hope, blossoming within my heart,
May look to heaven as I depart.
If at first you don't succeed try try again, and again I did for hundreds of images, now I can start deleting.
This was the exact moment the Tadpole was caught, and this one was very well developed as you cn see the legs already formed.
Have a great day and thank you for visiting.
Nothing succeeds like excess ;-)
Oscar Wilde
HBW! Public Education Matters! Resist!!
j c raulston arboretum, ncsu, raleigh, north carolina
If at first you don't succeed, try, try, again! And that's exactly what the Northern Hawk Owl did when trying to place the vole between the bark and the tree trunk.
another lesson i am devoted to teaching my children.. never follow. be original. For imagination and creativity is just as necessary to success as the things they learn from school and in books.
Art is the unceasing effort to compete with the beauty of flowers - and never succeeding.
Gian Carlo Menotti
This gull was so happy to have captured this big fish.
But she never succeeded to eat it.
Why ?
I let to find the reason.
Explanation : the fish is fake, it is a fish in plastic that fisher use to fish.
Fortunately she couldnt eat it, else I think she would died.
Cette mouette était si heureuse d'avoir capturé ce gros poisson.
Mais elle n'a jamais réussi à le manger.
Pourquoi ?
Je laisse chercher la raison.
Explication : le poisson est faux, c'est un poisson en plastique que les pêcheurs utilisent pour pêcher.
Heureusement elle n'a pas pu le manger, sinon je pense qu'elle serait morte.
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is the unceasing effort to compete with the beauty of flowers - and never succeeding !!
~ Gian Carlo Menotti.
Η περιοχή του Καλπακίου βρίσκεται 35 χλμ. περίπου ΒΔ της πόλης των Ιωαννίνων στα δυτικά του Όρους Μιτσικέλι και σε υψόμετρο 430μ. Σε πολύ κοντινή απόσταση από το Μουσείο Πολέμου 1940-41 βρίσκεται η σπηλιά στην οποία το 1940 ήταν το τακτικό στρατηγείο του Διοικητή της 8ης Μεραρχίας Χαράλαμπου Κατσιμήτρου.
Παραμονές του 1940 ο υποστράτηγος Κατσιμήτρος επικεφαλής της η 8ης Μεραρχίας Ηπείρου οργάνωσε την άμυνα στα γύρω υψώματα της Γκραμπάλας, της Ασόνισσας, της Βελλάς και των Γρεμισιών παρά τις αντίθετες απόψεις του Γενικού Επιτελείου που προέβλεπε άμυνα στα Τζουμέρκα, και διέταξε να κρατηθεί η γραμμή άμυνας στο Καλπάκι μέχρις εσχάτων.
Στο ύψωμα Βελλάς διασώζονται μέχρι σήμερα τα ίχνη των χαρακωμάτων.
Πέτυχε,ν’αυτό τον τρόπο,να αναχαιτίσει την Ιταλική εισβολή και στις 10 Νοεμβρίου 1940 η 8η Μεραρχία πέρασε από την άμυνα στην επίθεση. Ιδιαίτερα στα υψώματα της Γκραμπάλας, ανατολικά του Καλπακίου, έγιναν οι πιο αιματηρές συγκρούσεις.
Πάνω από τον οικισμό του Καλπακίου και στον λόφο Σειλητούρια δεσπόζει το εικονιζόμενο γιγάντιο μπρούτζινο άγαλμα του πολεμιστή στρατιώτη του ’40, το μνημείο του «Έλληνος Μαχητή του 1940-41» που στέκει επιβλητικό κι αγέρωχο κοιτώντας προς το μέτωπο των εχθροπραξιών.
Φιλοτεχνήθηκε από τον καθηγητή Λάμερα Λάζαρο το 1966 με δαπάνες Αξιωματικών και Οπλιτών των Ελληνικών Ενόπλων Δυνάμεων.(απόν φυσικά το κράτος)
Η βάση του αγάλματος έχει σχήμα φέρετρου συμβολίζοντας τους χιλιάδες οι οποίοι έπεσαν “αμυνόμενοι του πατρίου εδάφους”
The area of Kalpaki lies 35 km northwest of the city of Ioannina to the west of Mount Mitsikeli and at an altitude of 430m. Very close to the 1940-41 War Museum is the cave in which in 1940 was the regular command of the 8th Division Commander, Charalambos Katsimetros.
On the eve of 1940, Major General Katsimitros, head of the 8th Epirus Division, organized the defense of the surrounding hills of Grambala, Assonissa, Vellas and Grimissias despite the opposing views of the General Staff, which provided for defense in Tzoumerka, and ordered the defense line to be kept in Alpine to the last.
On the Vellas hill, the traces of trenches are still preserved.
He succeeded in stopping the Italian invasion and on 10 November 1940 the 8th Division crossed the defense in the attack. Particularly at the hills of Grambala, east of Kalpaki, the most bloody conflicts were made.
Above the settlement of Kalpaki and on the hill of Selioutria dominates the giant bronze statue of the warrior soldier of the 1940s, the monument of the "Greek Fighter of 1940-41", standing imposing and reverend looking towards the front of hostilities.
It was created by Professor Lamer Lazaros in 1966 with the expenses of the Hellenic Armed Forces Officers and Army (except of course the State)
The base of the statue is coffin-shaped, symbolizing the thousands who fell "defending the ground of homeland"
The Aberglaslyn Pass (Welsh: Bwlch Aberglaslyn) is a narrow gorge of considerable beauty in Snowdonia, Gwynedd, north Wales. The A498 road/A4085 road follows a relatively level route along the Afon Glaslyn through the pass from Beddgelert to Prenteg and then continues at the edge of the Traeth Mawr via Tremadog to Porthmadog.
As recently as the early 19th century, the river Glaslyn was navigable for small boats at high tide as far as Pont Aberglaslyn, which is just one mile south of Beddgelert, where a sixth-century monastery was succeeded in the twelfth by an Augustinian priory. In the Middle Ages Beddgelert was seen as a safe resting place before travelling further. The route from the coast via Beddgelert and overland to Caernarfon or Bangor via Llyn Cwellyn was often considered preferable to the long voyage round the Llŷn Peninsula.
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aberglaslyn_Pass
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