The Land

Rambling(s) about the Earth, natural systems, our part of it and the inter-relationships found therein.

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Social Climbers

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Summer Solstice

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Idyllic Landscape

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Sometimes I stumble across #somethingsosurprising that a photo simply does not capture the #wonderofthething. That is when I experiment with an image to bring in visual elements that better communicate that initial sensory and cognitive impact of discovery.

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At summer's zenith my mind takes me back under the canopy of the giant fig tree growing on our old family farm. The great spreading leaves make a cool zone below their clustered mass; yet each in turn so gracefully flutter with the slightest passing breeze. It's branches offer sweet and moist morsels to every visitor. What host offers a better haven from the stark summer sun?

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In the early 1800s a man named Little Jon lived in this so called earth cabin (swe. ‘backstuga’) located in southern Småland, Sweden. An earthen cabin is built partially buried in the ground, in this case there’s three walls of stone and one wall made of wood. In Sweden earthen cabins was common in the forests from the 1600s until the late 1800s Link

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Spring in the Sierra Nevada foothills. Lush green growth will soon mature to tawny gold foliage in the heat of summer.

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Our imagination is the portal to changing reality.

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Gold Armband with Herakles Knot

Ancient Greece,  3rd–2nd century B.C. (Hellenistic)

The Herakles knot on this sumptuous armband is enriched with floral decoration and inlaid with garnets, emeralds, and enamel. According to the Roman writer Pliny, the decorative device of the Herakles knot could cure wounds, and its popularity in Hellenistic jewelry suggests that it was thought to have the power to avert evil.

Source: Met Museum

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This ancient piece of perfection bespeaks so beautifully of the richness of life and earth that reposting it here felt right.

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Misty morning

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Some landscape shots bring the sound, scent and sense of place so strongly to mind that you feel that you are there.

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The ‘throne room’ of Knossos, Crete, ca. 1500 BC, Minoan.

Although quite reconstructed, the room and its remnants remain in situ, and does give a fairly accurate image of how this room would have once appeared, based of archaeological research.

Photo taken by bebopeloula.

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Our contemporary image of a throne room normally is one based upon a Cecil B. DeMille movie set: big screen scale, polished stone floors and columns. While perhaps not grand to our eyes it would have been so to anyone living prior to the Renaissance

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Infinitesimal or universal? Must we choose between the terms - these little boxes of language we paste onto snippets of the universe (the depths of which we do not yet grasp)? Studies of the galaxies within ice. (Columbia County, New York - February 2013)

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Summer sun's boastful glare Wanes weak and slight Winter moon's mantle Descends velvet in night. El Dorado, Ca. - December 21, 2017

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Knowing your life’s final destination puts those difficult decision quandaries in proper perspective and a bit easier to make. (Jayhawk Cemetary - Rescue, Ca.; January 2018

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First light through new snow.

(Placerville, Ca. - February, 2018

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Recent rains and snowfall renew California streams and vegetation in the Sierra Nevada foothills.

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[animatedamerican]

you know, it is not very often that I see a gif and experience this strong a desire to put my hand into it.

[buckwoodchuck]

...but not today; it was 27'F this morning.