Na de overstroming (2010) in Pakistan zagen de
meeste bomen er zo uit.
De spinnen zijn de bomen in gevlucht en hebben
daar massaal webben in gebouwd.
Trees shrouded in ghostly cocoons line the
edges of a submerged farm field in the
Pakistani village of Sindh,
where 2010's massive floods drove millions
of spiders and possibly other insects into
the trees to spin their webs.
Read more here
http://news.nationalgeographic.com
But there is something about Time
The sun rises and sets.
The stars swings slowly across the sky and fade.
Clouds fill with rain and snow,
empty themselves
and fill again.
The moon is born and dies, and is reborn.
Around millions of clocks swing hour hands,
and minute hands and second hands.
Around goed the continual circle
of the notes of the scale.
Around goes the circle of night and day
the cicle of weeks forever revolving,
and of months and of years.
..Writer Unknown to me..
“Magic exists.
Who can doubt it, when there are
rainbows and wildflowers,
the music of the wind and the silence
of the stars? Anyone who has loved has
been touched by magic.
It is such a simple and such an extraordinary
part of the lives we live.”
~Nora Roberts
photo: A wave at Cape Kiwanda
by Gary Weathers
Have a lovely weekend
and a warm welcome to all
my new followers
Born September 24, 1886 – November 27, 1936
Bach was a British physician, homeopath and
spiritual writer, best known for developing a range
of remedies called the Bach flower remedies,
a form of alternative medicine inspired
by classical homeopathic traditions.
He studied medicine at the University College Hospital,
in London.
Read more info about
Bach Flower Remedies HERE
and HERE!
Dr. Edward Bach (1886-1936) is de grondlegger
van de bloesemtherapie.
Hij werd geboren op 24 september 1886 in Moseley,
nabij Birmingham, Engeland. De laatste jaren van zijn leven woonde Dr. Bach in een klein huisje, Mount Vernon
genaamd, waar hij in 1936 overleed.
Mount Vernon is gelegen in Sotwell bij Wallinford,
waar nu nog steeds het Bach centrum is gevestigd.
Hij was, vanaf 1915, werkzaam in Londen als arts,
bacterioloog, immunoloog en patholoog.
Eerst schakelde hij van de reguliere geneeswijze
over op de homeopathie.
Hij ontwikkelde vaccins die volgens het homeopathische
principe werden klaargemaakt en de geschiedenis
ingingen als "de zeven Bach-nosoden".
Deze nosoden worden tegenwoordig nog
steeds in de homeopathie gebruikt.
Dr. Bach geloofde in het antroposofische mensbeeld,
waarin de mens uit vier delen bestaat:
ziel-geest-stoffelijke lichaam-etherische lichaam.
Dr. Bach had groot vertrouwen in de krachten van
de natuur en na jarenlange studie ontwikkelde hij,
rond 1928, de bloesemtherapie.
Deze therapie stelde hij verder op punt in de beginjaren '30.
Zo ontdekte hij de 38 remedies om alle mogelijke gemoedsgesteldheden positief te beïnvloeden.
Bach's grondregel was:
"de mens kan slechts zichzelf genezen".
Zijn gedachte was dan ook:
"behandel de persoon, niet de ziekte;
de oorzaak, niet het effect".
Deze dokter legde grote nadruk op de zelfhulp van de mensen.
Hij hechte veel belang aan de eenvoud van zijn
bloesemtherapie en wou dat iedereen deze kon toepassen. Volgens Dr. Bach moeten de remedies een deel van
ons dagelijks leven worden en het preventief gebruik
ervan gaat ons helpen om in evenwicht te blijven
zodat ziekte veel minder snel kan toeslaan.
"Healing with the clean, pure,
beautiful agents of nature is surely the
one method of all which appeals to most of us"
- Dr Edward Bach, 1936
A mushroom is the fleshy, spore-bearing
fruiting body of a fungus, typically produced
above ground on soil or on its food source.
The standard for the name "mushroom" is
the cultivated white button mushroom,
Agaricus bisporus; hence the word "mushroom"
is most often applied to those fungi
(Basidiomycota, Agaricomycetes) that have a
stem (stipe), a cap (pileus), and gills (lamellae, sing. lamella)
or pores on the underside of the cap.
READ MORE HERE!
~A few beautiful and vintage Mushroom illustrations~
I adore this photo by Ivan Shishkin
found HERE.
Trees cocooned in spiders webs,
an unexpected side effect of the flooding
in Sindh, Pakistan.
An unexpected side-effect of the flooding in parts
of Pakistan has been that millions of spiders
climbed up into the trees to escape
the rising flood waters.
Because of the scale of the flooding and the
fact that the water has taken so long to recede,
many trees have become cocooned in spiders webs.
People in this part of Sindh have never seen
this phenomenon before - but they also report
that there are now less mosquitoes than they would
expect, given the amount of stagnant,
standing water that is around.
It is thought that the mosquitoes are getting
caught in the spiders web thus reducing the
risk of malaria, which would be one blessing for
the people of Sindh, facing so many other
hardships after the floods.
This up to 1000 years old snow has metamorphosed
into highly pressurized glacier ice that contains
almost no air bubbles.
Thus it absorbs the visible light despite the
scattered shortest blue fraction, giving it its distinct
deep blue waved appearance.
This cavity in the glacier ice formed as
a result of a glacial mill, or moulin.
Rain and meltwater on the glacier surface is
channelled into streams that enter the glacier
at crevices. The waterfall melts a hole into the
glacier while the ponded water drains towards lower
elevations by forming long ice caves with an
outlet at the terminus of the glacier.
The fine grained sediments in the water along
with wind blown sediments cause the frozen
meltwater stream to appear in a muddy colour
while the top of the cave exhibits the deep blue colour.
Due to the fast movement of the glacier of about 1 m
per day over uneven terrain this ice cave cracked up
at its end into a deep vertical crevice, called cerrac.
This causes the indirect daylight to enter the ice cave
from both ends resulting in homogeneous
lighting of the ice tunnel.
Source
Art by Arthur Rackham
The rainbow inspires metaphor and simile.
Virginia Woolf in To the Lighthouse highlights the
transience of life and Man's mortality through
Mrs Ramsey's thought,
Wordsworth's 1802 poem "My Heart Leaps Up" begins:
The Newtonian deconstruction of the rainbow
is said to have provoked John Keats to lament
in his 1820 poem "Lamia":
READ MORE ABOUT RAINBOWS HERE!!!
yOU ALL
have a
whimsical
sunday!!!
Featuring the talents of Claire Johnston,
Jeff Maluleke and John Leyden.
The CD is called "Starehe" (An African Day)
Produced for Amarula cream. 6 tracks with vocals
and 6 instrumental versions of the same songs.
In the depths of northeastern India,
one of the wettest places on earth, bridges
aren’t built – they’re grown.
The living bridges of Cherrapunji, India are made
from the roots of the Ficus elastica tree.
This tree produces a series of secondary roots from
higher up its trunk and can comfortably perch atop
huge boulders along the riverbanks, or even in
the middle of the rivers themselves.
In order to make a rubber tree’s roots grow in
the right direction – say, over a river – the Khasis use
betel nut trunks, sliced down the middle and
hollowed out, to create root-guidance systems.
The thin, tender roots of the rubber tree,
prevented from fanning out by the betel nut trunks,
grow straight out. When they reach the other side
of the river, they’re allowed to take root in the soil.
Given enough time, a sturdy, living bridge is produced.
Wat zijn stapelmuurtjes?
Stapelmuren zijn drooggestapelde muren van
natuursteen zonder gebruik van cement of mortel.
Het kan zijn als steunmuur (zie foto hierboven)
of als vrijstaande muur (zie foto hieronder).
Het doel is bescherming tegen wind, sneeuw, lawines;
afbakening eigendom; tegenhouden dieren; vormen
van terrassen. Tevens vormt het een biotoop
voor zo'n 160 soorten dieren en planten.
Door de opkomst van prikkeldraad en door
ruilverkaveling is het ambacht van stapelmuurbouw
bijna uit Europa en ook uit Nederland verdwenen.
NED. TEKST HIER GEVONDEN
What is a Dry Stone Wall?
Dry stone is a building method by which structures
are constructed from stones without any mortar
to bind them together. Dry stone structures
are stable because of their unique construction method,
which is characterized by the presence of a
load-bearing facade of carefully-selected
interlocking stones. Dry-stone technology is best known
as retaining wall construction, but dry stone fences,
buildings, bridges, and other structures also exist.
A dry-stone wall, also known as a dry-stone dyke,
drystane dyke, dry-stone hedge, or rock fence is
a wall that is constructed from stones without
any mortar to bind them together.
As with other dry stone structures,
the wall is held up by the interlocking of the stones.
Such walls are used in building construction,
as field boundaries, and on steep slopes as
retaining walls for terracing.
Read More HERE and HERE
Stapelmuurtjes passen ook in elke tuin.
Ze zijn decoratief en raken al snel begroeid met
allerlei plantjes. je kunt je muurtje stapelen
van bijvoorbeeld kalksteen, graniet,leisteen en
zelfs van zandsteen. Kies voor je stapelmuurtje
kleinblijvende planten.
Bijzonder geschikt zijn rotsplanten
zoals gentiaan, wildemanskruid en het rozenkransje
(Antennaria dioica)
(ZIe de 2 foto’s hieronder)
Antennaria dioica (Mountain Everlasting, Catsfoot,
Cudweed or Stoloniferous Pussytoes) is
a flowering plant in the family Asteraceae.
It is found in cool temperate regions of Europe and Asia,
and also in North America in Alaska only.
Op de foto hierboven zie je
de prachtige Wildemanskruid!
Het wildemanskruid staat op de
Nederlandse Rode lijst van planten
en in het wild niet meer aanwezig.
On the picture above you see
the wonderful Pasque Flower,
Pulsatilla vulgaris (Pasque Flower,
Common Pasque flower, Dane's Blood)
belongs to the Buttercup family (Ranunculaceae),
native to western, central and southern Europe.
Click on Photo for source
It feels a bit like Autumn outside,
Look at this Art by Raymond Boot (1929-)
Don’t you think he is amazing?
LINK HERE
In autumn when the trees are brown
The little leaves come tumbling down
They do not make the slightest sound
But lie so quietly on the ground
Until the wind comes puffing by
And blows them off towards the sky.
source
A Stunning Photo of Cadillac Mountain
FOUND HERE!
Cadillac Mountain is a mountain located on
Mount Desert Island, within Acadia National Park.
With an elevation of 1,528 feet (470 m),
its summit is the highest point in Hancock County,
and the highest within 25 miles (40 km) of the
coastline of the Eastern United States.
Info found at Wikipedia
Een paddenstoel is het vruchtlichaam van een
zwam of schimmel. Paddenstoelen vormen maar
een klein deel van de schimmel, waarvan het
grootste deel zich onder de grond bevindt
in de vorm van schimmeldraden.
Het vakgebied van de biologie dat zich bezig
houdt met paddenstoelen, schimmels
en zwammen heet mycologie.
De schimmels die vruchtlichamen maken noemt
men de "hogere schimmels".
Schimmels zijn organismen die grotendeels uit
schimmeldraden (ook wel hyfen genoemd) bestaan,
die samen zwamvlokken of mycelia genoemd worden.
Bij de meeste soorten schimmels bevindt de zwamvlok
zich onder de grond. Bij parasitaire plantenschimmels
zoals grauwe schimmel of meeldauw zit de zwamvlok
in de plant, tussen de cellen van de plant.
Net als bij planten en dieren zijn er vrouwelijke
en mannelijke schimmels. Voordat een paddenstoel
gevormd wordt, moeten een mannelijke en vrouwelijke
zwamvlok elkaar ontmoeten
(net als bij de voortplanting en bevruchting
zoals bij planten en dieren). De aparte zwamvlokken
worden "primair" genoemd, wanneer ze elkaar
ontmoeten ontstaat een "secundaire" zwamvlok.
Elke cel van dit secundair mycelium bevat twee kernen
(kopieën van de kernen uit de oorspronkelijke
primaire zwamvlokken): een dikaryon.
Paddenstoelen als zwavelkopjes, inktzwammen,
oesterzwammen en elfenbankjes voeden zich met
afstervend hout en tasten geen gezond hout aan.
Een uitzondering is de meniezwam, die vooral op dode
takken voorkomt, maar ook levend hout kan aantasten.
Deze zwam is te herkennen aan de vele oranjerode
stippen op afgestorven takken.
A mushroom is the fleshy, spore-bearing
fruiting body of a fungus, typically produced above ground
on soil or on its food source. The standard for the name
"mushroom" is the cultivated white button mushroom,
Agaricus bisporus, hence the word mushroom is
most often applied to those fungi
(Basidiomycota, Agaricomycetes) that have a stem
(stipe), a cap (pileus), and gills (lamellae, sing. lamella)
on the underside of the cap, just as do
store-bought white mushrooms.
"Mushroom" describes a variety of gilled fungi,
with or without stems, and the term is used even
more generally, to describe both the fleshy fruiting
bodies of some Ascomycota and the woody or leathery
fruiting bodies of some Basidiomycota,
depending upon the context of the word.
Forms deviating from the standard morphology
usually have more specific names, such as
"puffball", "stinkhorn", and "morel", and gilled mushrooms
themselves are often called "agarics" in reference
to their similarity to Agaricus or their place Agaricales.
By extension, the term "mushroom" can also designate
the entire fungus when in culture or the thallus
(called a mycelium) of species forming the fruiting bodies
called mushrooms, or the species itself.
All photo’s above are mine,
info found on Wikipedia
Alle foto’s hierboven zijn door mij gemaakt,
de info heb ik gevonden op Wikipedia
