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There 's nothing like cool temperatures and fresh air to raise the spirits. during my forays to the Alabama Hills the temperature can get up into the 100's and when they do, this is where I seek refuge. At around 9000 ft in elevation the difference in temperature is about 15 degrees and there nothing better the a fine mist that floats away from the falls right onto your weary soul.
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I hope you find the following information useful about these lovely sheep. From: www.herdwick-sheep.com
"Herdwick Sheep
Herdwick sheep are the native breed of the central and western Lake District and live on the highest of England’s mountains. They are extremely hardy and are managed in the traditional way on the Lake District fells that have been their home for generations.
The word “Herdwyck”, meaning sheep pasture, is recorded in documents going back to the 12th century. Herdwick sheep are the most hardy of all Britain’s breeds of hill sheep, grazing the central and western dales of the Lake District with fells running to over 3000 feet.
Herdwick farms have typically less than 100 acres of lower, more productive land and rely on the common grazings of the high Lake District fells. The lambs graze with their mothers on the “heaf” belonging to that farm instilling a life long knowledge of where on the fell they should be grazing. This is crucial as the central Lake District fells are inaccessible and a sheep which strays from Borrowdale to Eskdale will involve a 100 mile round trip by road for the farmer to collect it.
The Herdwick’s hardiness and ability to graze over a wide area of fell is key to the maintenance of the Lake District landscape as we know it."
Je me plains toujours des gens qui laissent leur bouteille vide sur les ponts mais pour une fois j'ai trouvé çà utile..
I ' m always complaining about people who let their empty botles on the bridges but for once I found it useful..
to be a useful, happy woman, and I don't think that is a bad ambition. Even if I only do what my dear mother did, earn my living honestly and happily, and leave a beautiful example behind me, to help one other woman as hers helps me, I shall be satisfied :)
Louisa May Alcott, "Christie," Work: A Story of Experience, 1873
Character Matters!
prunus, autumn Higan cherry, 'Autumnalis', sarah p duke gardens, duke university, durham, north carolina
I took this photo for the theme "A look in the mirror" of the Smile on Saturday group. The sewing items are usually stored in a box and haven't seen the light of day in a long time as sewing isn't exactly one of my talents. In fact I hardly manage to sew on a button. At least they have been useful for a photo now. HSoS !
The [useful] friend that i can remove or rezz everywhere, to change skin...or mood . To scream at or delete , to tell my fake story before i logoff...
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All I have or should
want to be but never could
It's coming at, it's coming at, it's coming at my heart
To spoil my soul with fire
All my eyes can see is
born out of your imagery
It's coming at, it's coming at, it's coming at my heart
To scorch the earth with fire
Tell me who you really love
Tell me who you really love
The sun was playing hide and seek with this thick fog that day.... And trees, our beloved trees are always playing as useful landmark, aren't they?
Music from Erik Satie, Gnossienne I
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This is the canal which links the Cagliari salt evaporation ponds (now dismissed) with the harbour. The salt collected in the ponds was loaded into barges and then a tug carried the train of barges to the harbour where the salt was unloaded to be shipped.
In ancient times the barges were pulled by horses.
The theme for MM is hand tool. My tiny scissors are just right for daisy cutting!
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Nemophila, a popular flower that blooms in spring.
Every spring, I go to take photos in a large national park, famous for this flower, but it has been closed this year.
That's why this year I shot a Nemophila on a small flowerbed in a nearby park.
After the discussion in the group Saturday Self-Challenge I decided to photograph mine for the theme Old but still useful.
It's so old that all the paint has come off the handle. I must have bought this some time in the second half of the 1960s.
Taken at the Great Central Railway in Loughborough, found this old, though still useful shed - I liked the way the light fell on the doors.
Sticky and useful, inkcaps were used as a source of ink for important documents to guard against forgeries.
They cause serious problems when consumed with alcohol hence the common name Tipplers Bane.
Some bubbles are pretty, but others are created to be useful!
Close-up of a spirit level.
Looking close... on Friday! ~ Bubbles (2022/01/21)
Sunrise on the coastline of El Médano in Tenerife. Another abstract using intentional camera movement (ICM) while I was waiting for the sun to rise.
Sunrise Photography in Tenerife
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I bought these macaroons for a photo in October 2014. I took my photo and we ate some of them, they were quite disappointing so I thought I'd save the rest for more photos. They are quite hard but haven't gone mouldy, probably due to the high sugar content. I really should throw them away now but they could be useful for another photo sometime when I'm feeling desperate again! ;)
It's useful having Flickr friends with similar pastimes, this walk I saw on A tramp in the hills 's page, thank you kindly. So off we trotted heading for Mount Famine - be interesting to know how it got the name. Maybe once people went up there to pray and fast, or maybe there really was a famine here.
116 in 2016 # 115 Gate
Morning dew - a very useful natural phenomenon. It accumulates the energy of the stars, moon, sun, earth, water, plants, air, and is a natural concentrate of many biologically active substances.
Our ancestors believed dew nectar of immortality, and made good use of its medicinal properties in their lives. In particular, they ran naked in the dewy grass, washed with dew, collected it in a wooden bowl and was used as a cure for many diseases. Healing "Amrita" filled people strength, health, prolong youth and beauty.
The man who appreciates the beauty of nature and the world is much richer and happier than those who do not notice this.
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Created for the "PANO-Vision" Group's first annual contest "Kick Out the Winter Blues".
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Pano-Sabotage shots collaged with some straight "SOOC" imagery, then mirrored and layered in panels and edge treatments.
The iPhone 6 doesn't do night shots very well but in this case the lights on the trees and the reflections on the marble and in the windows provided just enough for this image to be useful.
Image created Jan 4, 2018
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Bella thinks that a cardboard scratching pad is a useful pillow on a sunny day. I'm glad it has a use - she's careful to scratch on the carpet so the cardboard doesn't get damaged!
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Double Arch is a natural sandstone formation in one of the best (in my opinion) parks in all of America, Arches National Park. This particular set of arches were formed differently from most of the arches in the park. It is what is known as a pothole arch, formed by water erosion from above rather the standard erosion for arches, which is normally from the side. The larger opening has a span of 148 feet (45 m) and a height of 104 feet (32 m). These dimensions give the arch the tallest opening and second-longest span in the park. For scale, the lower right of this shot contains a group of people sitting in shadow.
The arches are open for exploration, but you have to be pretty nimble to get up to the top of the “window”. This open permission to climb can make photographers have to wait quite a while to get a clear shot like this one as the area can be crawling with tourists. Normally I avoid crowds by going very early for sunrise or late for sunset, but this tactic doesn’t work with Double Arch as it lies in shadow and mostly along an East-West axis, so the light for sunrise and sunset is not optimum to catch that natural amphitheater effect you see here.
Arches National Park contains the highest density of arches in the world, more than 2000 natural sandstone arches. It also features a variety of unique geological formations such as Balanced Rock, The Three Gossips and The Tower of Babel. It borders the Colorado River on the Colorado Plateau and is 4 miles north of Moab, Utah. It’s truly high desert, receiving an average of less than 10 inches (250 mm) of rain annually. In spite of it’s relatively remote location the park received more than 1.6 million visitors in 2018 and the lines to get in can be long…so get there early!
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Sunrise on the coastline of El Médano in Tenerife. A black and white coastal abstract.
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Acacia pycnantha, most commonly known as the golden wattle, is a tree of the family Fabaceae. It grows to a height of 8 metres and has phyllodes instead of true leaves. The profuse fragrant, golden flowers appear in late winter and spring, followed by long seed pods. Wikipedia
The golden wattle is the floral emblem of Australia with its masses of sunshine yellow balls of flowers brightening the bush and gardens in late winter to early spring. It grows from 2 to 10 metres tall and is fast growing, but sadly can be short lived. Adapts to most soils as long as they are free draining, and can take some frost and dry periods. Performs best in temperate climate zones. A useful plant- the flowers are fragrant and can be used for making perfume, the seed is edible and the bark is rich in tannins. Green seed can be cooked like peas. Ripe seed can be baked then ground with a mortar and pestle into a low glycaemic flour.
Note– this plant originates from South Australia, but has become a problem plant in some areas where it is becoming weedy and competing with the natural species. Southern Western Australia is one area where this happening. (Gardening with Angus)
One of the little red lights that tells you a ring is hot/still hot on a ceramic hob. Always appears to be very round until you look closely.
HMM
120 in 2020
113. Useful
An useful way of up cycling an old tyre!
Spotted in the woods on my walk last week, this home made swing was designed and made by two 11 year old girls. And no, I didn't take up their offer of trying it out!
For 120 pictures in 2020 #113 "Useful", this is a set of 4 mini-whisks I use mainly for beating scrambled eggs (I am the only one in the house who eats them, so only two at a time). But they are also great for mixing in any small bowl or container.
Plastic is so useful, functional - an everyday substance that we are urged not to use!
I've always thought of it as "use once and throw away" not something to be treasured and kept.
But these are my favourite Christmas baubles - I love them and use them in my photography whenever I can. And they are made of plastic!
Here nestling on a net curtain
For the Crazy Tuesday challenge: “made of plastic”
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This is a Euplocamus ophisa, a species of fungus moth belonging to the family Tineidae. This is what I understand from Google AI and I can hardly add anything else useful as information, except that I was pleasantly surprised by my encounter with this small flying creature.
In a heavy snow, even structures lose their sharp edges. We usually think of winter as "harsh," but here, the snow acts more like a blanket. Even though the gazebo has no purpose in the winter – it seems perfectly okay with that. Sometimes, we, like this gazebo, are just waiting to be forgotten for a while. We spend our lives trying to be useful, but there is a quiet relief in finally becoming unreachable.
Useful in finding small magnetic objects that could be difficult to see or reach. Powerful too! Extends from 7" to to 30.5" as well as 17.78cm to 77.47cm.
photo size: 3"w by 2.67" h and 7.62cm w by 6.79cm h
Theme: "magnets"
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It is no coincidence that this incredibly beautiful, fragrant and useful plant is called a wild rose. A close relative of the most beautiful flower on earth, the rose hip also has thorns, but is also rich in vitamin C and other useful microelements.
The name “rose hips” is used for wild or unmodified rose species. In Russia today there are up to 100 species of rose hips, and not all of them are equally useful, so some of them are used for decorative purposes. Under natural conditions, wild roses grow on mountain slopes, in river valleys, and in fields there are several dozen varieties of the plant. Unpretentious and cold-resistant ornamental rose hips can often be seen as hedges in country houses. Certain types of wild rose are used to make jam, jam and candied fruits.
The healing properties of rose hips have been known since ancient times. Almost all parts of rose hips are used for medicinal and preventive purposes, but the fruits are considered the most useful. This is explained by the high content of vitamin C in them; its concentration here is higher than in black currants and lemon. Wild rose fruits also boast a variety of biologically active substances.
The most popular among medicinal types of rose hips is traditionally considered to be May rose hips. The fruits of needle, Dahur, Kokand, small-flowered rose hips and some other plant species are also used for medicinal purposes.