man among the heavy columns of reinforced concrete under the bridge. .The modern bridge over the Mokva River (Krasnogorsk).

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Tromsøbrua - Tromsø-Brücke - Tromsö-Brücke - Tromsø Bridge - Tromsoe-Bridge

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Wir waren eine Woche zu Gast auf Tromsö / Tromsø - im tiefsten Winter. Es waren unvergessliche Eindrücke, so viel Schnee sah ich noch nie zuvor.

We were guests on Tromsoe / Tromsø for a week - in the middle of winter. They were unforgettable impressions, I've never seen so much snow.

My "explored" album is here:

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My Tromsö / Tromsø album is here:

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It is assumed that Gorinchem was founded circa 1000 CE by fishermen and farmers on the raised land near the mouth of the river Linge at the Merwede. (Home of Gorik) is first mentioned in a document from 1224 in which Floris IV granted people from Gorinchem exemption of toll payments throughout Holland.

Somewhere between 1247 and 1267, Gorinchem became property of the Lords of Arkel. At the end of the 13th century earthen mounts reinforced with palisades were built around the settlement to protect it from domination by the neighboring counties of Holland and Gelre. Half a century later real city walls were built complete with 7 gates and 23 watchtowers. Otto van Arkel granted it city rights on 11 November 1322.

Jan van Arkel had a dispute with Albert I, brother of Willem V of Holland, leading to war and subsequently to the annexation of Gorinchem to Holland in 1417. This resulted in increased trade and Gorinchem grew to be the eighth city of Holland.

On 9 July 1572, the Watergeuzen (Dutch rebels against Spanish rule) conquered the city and captured 19 Catholic priests and monks. Because they refused to renounce their faith, these priests and monks were brought to Brielle where they were hanged and were from then on known among Catholics as the Martyrs of Gorkum.

By the 16th century, the city walls were so deteriorated that they were replaced with new fortifications and eleven bastions that still are almost completely intact. The new walls were completed in 1609 and were located further from the town centre, making the city twice as large. In 1673, Gorinchem became part of the old Dutch Water Line.

The city walls had four city gates: the Arkel Gate in the north, the Dalem Gate in the east, the Water Gate in the south (where the ferry to Woudrichem was), and the Kansel Gate in the west. Of these four gates, only the Dalem Gate remains. The others were removed in the 19th century to make way for vehicular traffic. A portion of the Water Gate was preserved in the gardens of the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam.

Map of Gorinchem of 1869.

In the 18th century, the economy went into decline. After the French domination, the retreating French troops took station in the bastion fortress of Gorinchem. After a three-month siege they capitulated but the city was heavily damaged.

During the Industrial Revolution, Gorinchem recovered. Increased shipping led to new canals being dug and a railway connection to the city. Its population quickly increased, filling the innercity, and new neighbourhoods had to be built outside the city walls.

At the beginning of the 20th century, expansion took place in the Lingewijk and West neighbourhoods. After World War II, expansion started in the north-western portion of the municipality which was completed in the 1970s. This was followed by developments of the neighbourhoods Wijdschild and Laag Dalem east of the city center. In 1986, the town Dalem was added to the municipality.

In August 2021 ANWB named Gorinchem the most beautiful star fort in the Netherlands.

...... he made a stop-over in the barnyard early yesterday morning. He was not particularly shy and sent our resident Mamma Kitty into a tirade when he showed a keen interest in her kittens. I was not sure exactly what he had in mind but I was fairly certain it would not turn out well for the kittens. So, after a few photo-frames I reinforced Mamma Kitty's suggestion that he move along.

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The Petronas Towers are twin skyscrapers in Kuala Lumpur. They were the tallest buildings in the world from 1998 to 2004. The towers are constructed largely of reinforced concrete with a steel and glass facade designed to resemble motifs found in Islamic art.

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The Francis Scott Key Bridge, more commonly known as the Key Bridge, is a six-lane reinforced concrete arch bridge conveying U.S. Route 29 (US 29) traffic across the Potomac River between the Rosslyn neighborhood of Arlington County, Virginia, and the Georgetown neighborhood of Washington, D.C. Completed in 1923, it is Washington's oldest surviving road bridge across the Potomac River.

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Two years ago I went back to my hometown Schuders, a small village in the Swiss Alps. A windy one-lane mountain road leads up to the village. On the way you pass the Salginatobel Bridge, a reinforced concrete arch bridge designed by Swiss civil engineer Robert Maillart. It was constructed across an alpine valley between 1929 and 1930. In 1991, it was declared an International Historic Civil Engineering Landmark, the thirteenth such structure and the first concrete bridge so designated. Get the details on Wikipedia at bit.ly/2fn2au3

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n the early Middle Ages, the reinforced castle of Poeke (Flanders - Belgium) served as a real bastion where knights from Flanders county assembled. The castle, which was the residence of the "Heren Van Poucke" ("Gentlemen of Poeke - mention the old-Dutch spelling of the word "Poeke") was at that time governed from Bruges. However, combative Ghent rebels repeatedly attacked the castle. Consequently, after the year 1453 Poeke castle felt into ruin for many years. One and a half century late, in 1597, the family Preud'homme d'Hailly from Rijsel (North of France) bought the castle from a family called "Delrye" and governed Poeke for more than 2 centuries. They made the castle the centre of their increasingly growing properties.

It was in the same year 1597 that heirs of this nobility introduced the title "Burggraven of Nieuwpoort" ("Viscounts of Nieuwpoort"). Although their cultural wealth was initially suppressed because of the 16th and 17th century wars, successive generations of viscounts led the Baronny of Poucques to a short, but uncontested peak in 1765. From 1762 up to 1774, Karel Florent Idesbald de Preudhomme was not onlyViscount of Nieuwpoort and Oombergen, Baron of Poeke, Sir of Axpoele, Neuville, Sint-Lievens-Esse, Velaines, etc., but also chamberlain of the Austrian king.

At that time, the kingdom of the Netherlands was governed by Austria and looked as a rigid and hierarchic society, where the aristocracy was able to maintain their privileges up to the French Revolution (1789). Even after the French-Napoleonic empire collapsed (1815) and after Belgium came into being (1830), the aristocracy could maintain its position as the high social class on the Flemish countryside.

The isolated location of Poeke, the steady decrease of the number of its inhabitants and the stable agricultural character of Poeke, which mainly consisted of farmsteads, all these reasons caused the aristocratic power system to continue to function until after the Second World War (1945).

In the second half of the 19th century, the family Preudhomme D'Hailly was once and for all past its peak and financial problems weakened its position inside as well as outside the village. As a consequence, they had to abandon the castle in 1872.

The family Pycke de Peteghem - which was raised to the peerage in 1730 - bought the castle and gradually dominated the small East-Flemish agricultural village. Its political representation mainly focused on the mayoralty, a position that was rarely assigned to someone who was not a member of the aristocratic family.

The castle largely survived both World Wars, but the aristocratic influence during the 20th century died out when the last Baroness of Poeke, Inès Pycke de Peteghem deceased (1955). The property structure of the castle changed for the last time in 1977, when Poeke fused with Aalter. From then on, the castle was owned by the community and became a public domain. Up to now, it is part of an extraordinary recreation facility.

But the more powerful point of the contrapasso that attaches appropriate schemes of punishment to different species of sin is that your condition in Hell conforms exactly to the shape and form of your own desires,14 of those desires of yours acting upon which got you there in the first place. In that sense you make your own Hell for yourself.

--Dante the Theologian, Denys Turner

Brutalist steel reinforced car park structure.

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They are four reinforced-concrete structures located above the dam, two on each side of the canyon. The diameter of these towers is 82 feet at the base, 63 feet 3 inches at the top, and 29 feet 8 inches inside. Each tower is 395 feet high and each controls one-fourth the supply of water for the powerplant turbines.

The Kuwait Towers are three towers of reinforced concrete in Kuwait City. The main tower is 187 metres high and serves as a restaurant and water tower. It also has a Viewing Sphere which rises to 123 meters above sea level and completes a full turn every 30 minutes. The second tower is 145.8 metres high and serves as a water tower. The third tower houses equipment to control the flow of electricity and illuminates the two larger towers. The towers hold 4,500 cubic meters of water. The towers were designed by Sune Lindström and Malene Björn and were built by Energoprojekt, a company from Belgrade, Yugoslavia. They opened to the public in March of 1979

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Linguella Tower, Portoferraio, Elba Island

The fortified structure of the tower was built in the early 16th century on the spot where stood the remains of an ancient Roman Villa. It owes its creation to Medici, who would in the Tower, one more defensive structure to protect the port of Portoferraio. The coastal Tower has an octagonal plan, with a crease articulated in the lower part bordering the below base, which on six of the eight sides rests directly on the rocky strand of the sea.

The top of the Linguella Tower has a greater overhang than the bottom, where on the summit ends with some mighty brackets that surround the terrace originally used for sighting. The walls of the tower is entirely covered with red bricks with some finishing touches of white marble and with traces of stone curtain walls that are at the north-western corner of the tower, going to delimit externally a bastion structure with shoe base, which previously gave it an additional element of security to the entire complex.

The Navy installed a lighthouse on the western corner of walls of the tower for the night lighting of the port area of Portoferraio.

This supreme example of military architecture to defend the port of Portoferraio was designed by Giovanni Camerini in 1548. In the past the Linguella Tower, was linked to the Gallo Tower from a big chain, which prevented for defensive purposes the entrance into the dock of Portoferraio.

In the 17th century, Grand Duke Ferdinando II, did reinforce the ramparts overlooking the sea. The bastion of St. Francis and the sentry box on which stands the cross of Lorena was rebuilt after the war devastation.

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Happy Caturday!! Viking Iceland cruise excursion from Reykjavik

Garðskagaviti can be found on the topmost point of the Reykjanes Peninsula, directly above Keflavík International Airport (KEF). Originally, a lighthouse at the site was constructed with timber in 1897 by the Danish Lighthouse Commission. In 1933, the lighthouse was renovated, reinforced with concrete, before being decommissioned in 1944 due to fear of landslides.

Garðskagaviti, standing at 26 metres high, was built as a replacement. It is today considered one of Iceland’s most picturesque lighthouses with its vibrant red and white paint job and gorgeous surrounding scenery.

The lighthouse keeper kept a permanent residence here until 1979.

Winter sunset at one of the most unmistakable landmarks along the Santa Cruz coastline, the S. S. Palo Alto, more traditionally known as the old “cement ship”. Lodged at the end of the Seacliff State Beach fishing pier in Aptos, California, the ship was built from reinforced concrete to serve as an oil tanker at the end of World War I.

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Hvítserkur is a 15 m high basalt stack along the eastern shore of the Vatnsnes peninsula, in northwest Iceland.

The rock has two holes at the base, which give it the appearance of a dragon who is drinking. The base of the stack has been reinforced with concrete to protect its foundations from the sea.

Several species of birds, such as gulls and fulmars, live on at Hvítserkur and its name ("white shirt" in Icelandic) comes from the color of the guano deposited on its rocks.

Das nicht mehr bewohnte Kloster Kyra Panagia Tsambika, das eigentlich nur aus einer Klosterkirche besteht, liegt auf der Spitze des Felsenberges Tsambika.

Von der Küstenstraße bei Kolymbia führt eine ausgeschilderte Stichstraße mit einer mehr schlechtem Asphalt in Serpentinen zum unteren Gipfel von dem aus man dann die über 300 Stufen zum Kloster zu Fuß gehen muss.

Die kleine Kirche ist der Muttergottes (Panagia) geweiht und ist heute noch ein Wallfahrtsort von Jungen Frauen mit Kinderwunsch, die dann zusätzlich zur Festigung ihres Wunsches einen der bereitliegenden Säcke mit Sand für den letzten Abschnitt des Aufstiegs mit sich tragen.

Oben angekommen wird man für die mühe mit einem beeindruckenden Ausblick über die Insellandschaft belohnt

The monastery of Kyra Panagia Tsambika, which is no longer inhabited and actually only consists of a monastery church, is located on the top of the rocky mountain of Tsambika.

From the coastal road near Kolymbia, a signposted road with a rather poor asphalt surface leads in serpentines to the lower summit, from where you have to walk the 300 steps to the monastery.

The small church is dedicated to the Virgin Mary (Panagia) and is still a place of pilgrimage for young women wishing to have children, who carry one of the sacks of sand provided with them for the last section of the ascent to reinforce their wish.

Once at the top, the effort is rewarded with an impressive view over the island landscape

Europe, The Netherlands, Nood Brabant, Eindhoven, Evoluon, Roof (uncut)

Inside the Evoluon museum, shot towards the structuralist reinforced concrete skeleton of the roof. The building, which looks like a UFO or flying saucer, was built as a showcase for technological progress, particularly those in which the originally Eindhoven-based company Philips was involved. It was designed by Louis Kalff and Leo de Bever and transferred to the municipality of Eindhoven in 1966 on Philips' 75th anniversary.

The building was an educational technology museum from 1966 to 1989 and attracted many visitors until the 1970s. This was partly because they were allowed to experiment and operate the showcased models themselves. This was new then and particularly attractive to schoolchildren and other young people. Many schools traditionally organised an 'Evoluon trip' once a year.

In 2022, the Evoluon reopened as a museum under the leadership of the Next Nature Foundation. This organisation focuses on researching the impact of technology on our lives and the planet. Next Nature makes future scenarios tangible for a wide audience in the Evoluon through exhibitions and educational programmes for schools and companies.

This is number 16 of the Eindhoven abum.

… on a windy day

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A male Great Blue Heron (Ardea herodias) glides toward the nest occupied by his mate, eagerly anticipating his arrival home. While the gusty wind made his landing a bit less graceful than usual, it did ruffle his mates plumage in a way that made him recall Marilyn’s stance over the steam vent, stirring his ardor a bit and warming the homecoming.

This angle on the male reinforces my amazement that these birds only weigh around 5 to 6 pounds (2.5 kg) despite their relatively large size. Evolution’s masterful engineering yields this wonderful feat mostly as a result of their hollow bones.

WW2 Bunker resting on the shoreline. Isle Of Sheppey, UK

Dragon's teeth (German: Drachenzähne) are square-pyramidal fortifications of reinforced concrete first used during the Second World War to impede the movement of tanks and mechanised infantry. The idea was to slow down and channel tanks into killing zones where they could easily be disposed of by anti-tank weapons.

Only after the invention of fire arms, Katz Castle had to be substantially reinforced. It was also upgraded as bastion against Maus Castle in the Electorate of Trier. At the same time the donjon of Katz Castle was raised to approx. 197 feet to ensure eye contact with Reichenstein Castle which is approx 1.9 miles away.

In 1479 the family line of the Counts of Katzenelnbogen died out. In succession of long-lasting disputes on heritage, Katz Castle and Rheinfels Castle were besieged, demolished, rebuilt and extended several times. Even though repairs had been made in 1800, Napoleon blew up Katz Castle in 1806.

In 1896 District Administrator Berg acquired Katz Castle, to reconstruct it as close as possible to the original design. From 1946 till 1951 Katz Castle served as local High School "Institut Hofmann" including board

Since 1989 Katz Castle is private property of a Japanese and accommodates the hotel Katz Castle.

Das nicht mehr bewohnte Kloster Kyra Panagia Tsambika, das eigentlich nur aus einer Klosterkirche besteht, liegt auf der Spitze des Felsenberges Tsambika.

Von der Küstenstraße bei Kolymbia führt eine ausgeschilderte Stichstraße mit einer mehr schlechtem Asphalt in Serpentinen zum unteren Gipfel von dem aus man dann die über 300 Stufen zum Kloster zu Fuß gehen muss.

Die kleine Kirche ist der Muttergottes (Panagia) geweiht und ist heute noch ein Wallfahrtsort von Jungen Frauen mit Kinderwunsch, die dann zusätzlich zur Festigung ihres Wunsches einen der bereitliegenden Säcke mit Sand für den letzten Abschnitt des Aufstiegs mit sich tragen.

Oben angekommen wird man für die mühe mit einem beeindruckenden Ausblick über die Insellandschaft belohnt.

The monastery of Kyra Panagia Tsambika, which is no longer inhabited and actually only consists of a monastery church, is located on the top of the rocky mountain of Tsambika.

From the coastal road near Kolymbia, a signposted road with a rather poor asphalt surface leads in serpentines to the lower summit, from where you have to walk the 300 steps to the monastery.

The small church is dedicated to the Virgin Mary (Panagia) and is still a place of pilgrimage for young women wishing to have children, who carry one of the sacks of sand provided with them for the last section of the ascent to reinforce their wish.

Once at the top, the effort is rewarded with an impressive view over the island landscape

For Macro Mondays' theme of the week : “Oldest Object You Can Find"

This clock was given to me a long time ago by my mother. She said it came from her great-grandaunt who worked as a housekeeper in a wealthy bourgeois family. When she retired they offered her this clock as a reward for her devotion.

There used to be a glass globe to protect it but I broke it when trying to clean it, unfortunately. Which provoqued a very angry reaction on the part of my mother who said that generations of women had cleaned it without breaking it.

My mother has always been very good at reinforcing my self-confidence. :-)

Cette horloge me vient de l'arrière grande-tante de ma mère. Elle travaillait comme gouvernante dans une riche famille bourgeoise qui lui offrit cette horloge pour son départ en retraite. il y avait un globe de verre autour pour la protéger mais je l'ai cassé en voulant le nettoyer, ce qui a provoqué la colère de ma mère qui m'avait donné l'horloge. Elle m'a fait remarqué que des générations de femmes avaient nettoyé ce globe avant moi sans le casser. Elle a toujours su trouver les mots pour renforcer ma confiance en moi. :-)

This is a double exposure of two shots I took in the Thar desert in India. In the vicinity of our desert camp, where we were staying in a full, albeit luxurious, tent, I found a concrete block with reinforcing irons peeking out of it. Since the sun was just setting behind it, I took a picture of it. One day later we had the pleasure of riding camels through sand dunes, which always gives spectacular shots anyway. I created this image from both shots.

Reinforced Plomin chimney

Reinforced door ?

Equipped with: 4 hoof drive, reinforced front bumper, runs on biofuel.

Bighorn Sheep seen at Theodore Roosevelt N.P. north unit.

Christ the Redeemer (Portuguese: Cristo Redentor, standard Brazilian Portuguese: is an Art Deco statue of Jesus Christ in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, created by French sculptor Paul Landowski and built by the Brazilian engineer Heitor da Silva Costa, in collaboration with the French engineer Albert Caquot. Romanian sculptor Gheorghe Leonida fashioned the face. The statue is 30 metres (98 ft) tall, excluding its 8-metre (26 ft) pedestal, and its arms stretch 28 metres (92 ft) wide.[1][2]

The statue weighs 635 metric tons (625 long, 700 short tons), and is located at the peak of the 700-metre (2,300 ft) Corcovado mountain in the Tijuca Forest National Park overlooking the city of Rio. A symbol of Christianity across the world, the statue has also become a cultural icon of both Rio de Janeiro and Brazil, and is listed as one of the New Seven Wonders of the World.[3] It is made of reinforced concrete and soapstone, and was constructed between 1922 and 1931.

WW2/Cold War defensive anti-submarine barrier.

Steel reinforced concrete pilings.

This surviving 2km section on the Essex side of the Thames estuary marks the border of the MoD Shoeburyness firing range.

LR4163 © Joe O'Malley 2021

Das Expeditionsschiff MEANDER

Die MEANDER wurde 1946 auf einer deutschen Werft in Hamburg gebaut. Diese Werft in Finkenwerder war damals bekannt für den Bau von starken Schiffen und baute die MEANDER mit einem eisverstärkten Rumpf. Das bedeutet, dass die MEANDER problemlos in der Arktis operieren kann. Bis in die 1990er Jahre wurde MEANDER als Fischereifahrzeug betrieben. 1995 wurde sie für die Beförderung von Passagieren zu einem Luxus-Segelschiff umgebaut. Das Schiff hat Stürme bis Windstärke 11 in der berüchtigten Drake-Passage rund Kap Hoorn problemlos überstanden und kann daher als bewährtes Seeschiff bezeichnet werden.

Die traditionelle Takelage und der robuste Schiffsrumpf machen diesen Zweimast-Stagsegelschoner zu einem besonders seetüchtigen Segelschiff.

The Expedition Ship MEANDER

The MEANDER was built in 1946 at a German shipyard in Hamburg. This shipyard in Finkenwerder was known at the time for building strong ships and built the MEANDER with an ice-reinforced hull. This means the MEANDER can easily operate in the Arctic. Until the 1990s, the MEANDER was used as a fishing vessel. In 1995, she was converted into a luxury sailing ship for passenger transport. The ship has easily weathered storms up to force 11 in the infamous Drake Passage around Cape Horn and can therefore be considered a proven seagoing vessel.

The traditional rigging and robust hull make this two-masted staysail schooner a particularly seaworthy sailing ship.

The other lighthouse that guides ships into and out of Washington's Puget Sound.

"The Point Wilson Light is an active aid to navigation located in Fort Worden State Park near Port Townsend, Jefferson County, Washington. It is one of the most important navigational aids in the state, overlooking the entrance to Admiralty Inlet, the waterway connecting the Strait of Juan de Fuca and Puget Sound.

Point Wilson's first lighthouse was built in 1879 by the United States Lighthouse Service as a companion to the Admiralty Head Light built some 18 years earlier on the eastern side of Admiralty Inlet.

In 1904, landfill was added to the site in an effort to protect the station, but time and tide having worked their destructive effects, a new lighthouse was commissioned. Completed in 1914, it was built of reinforced concrete with a 46-foot (14 m) octagonal tower designed to withstand the wind. It received the station's original fourth-order Fresnel lens that it continues to display. The beacon's height of 51 feet (16 m) made it the tallest light on Puget Sound. The tower on the original lighthouse was removed and the building continued in use as residence for the keepers. The station was automated in 1976." Wikipedia

Fort Worden is where "An Officer and a Gentleman" was filmed. A rather good movie..

One more light tomorrow....

Ganter Bridge is a reinforced concrete road bridge which is the longest spanning bridge in Switzerland, located along the Simplon Pass road in the canton of Valais about 10 km (6 mi) south of Brig.

The overall length is 678 m (2,224 ft) with a main span of 174 m (571 ft), and a maximum tower height of 150 m (492 ft).

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ganter_Bridge

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The Simplon Pass (French: Col du Simplon; German: Simplonpass; Italian: Passo del Sempione) (2,005 m or 6,578 ft) is a high mountain pass between the Pennine Alps and the Lepontine Alps in Switzerland. It connects Brig in the canton of Valais with Domodossola in Piedmont (Italy).

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C-FFAL, a Boeing 737-2R8C, on approach to runway 23 at Toronto Pearson International Airport in Mississauga, Ontario. It was arriving as RAG100 (Glencore Canada Corporation) from Montreal, Quebec. This aircraft supports the Raglan nickel mine near Kattiniq, Quebec - 1,270 statute miles north northeast of her base at Mississauga.

She began her career as 5H-MRK with Air Tanzania way back in May 1979. The 40-year-old still looked great.

C-FFAL has been worn on this airframe since it arrived in Canada back in January 2005, when it was registered to Falconbridge Limited in Toronto. That mining company was later acquired by Glencore.

Three workers install the steel reinforcing rebars for one of several concrete columns for the second and third floors of an old one-story chapel building under renovation.

Started three years ago, the construction project on about 200-sqm lot was stopped for a few times in the recent past due mainly to coronavirus pandemic.

Captured in Subic, Zambales, Philippines.

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All found at the mainstore in the Sci-fi Branch!!

We saw more than 50 White-faced Ibis families nesting in bulrushes above the water. Nests are built by both sexes and have a depression in the center. This was a communal affair, kind of an Ibis kibbutz, with a series of large nests holding numerous families side by side. There was even a Pied-billed Grebe with the hen sitting on seven or eight eggs. American Coots were also in the area with juveniles. Adult Ibises were constantly flying back and forth with nest material. Given that they "borrow" from vacant nests, their constant repair efforts are understandable.

today began working on reinforcing the garden arches as recommended in the feedback www.wilko.com/en-uk/wilko-24m-garden-arch/p/0298561 both arches unfinished as i've run out of canes so will buy some more from wilko tomorrow pack of 10 (1m 80cm) for £2.50

i planted pyracantha with yellow berries at the very back of the garden to cover the back fence and foxglove in front of the pyracantha

my geum are covered in white fly. i sprayed them with an organic fungus repellant (bee and ladybird friendly) 'growing success fungus stop' but now realise i should have used 'growing success bug stop'. i'll buy it tomorrow when i get the canes

rocks, stones, broken crockery and canes surrounding the plants to help prevent pet damage - works to a certain extent :)

for many years my garden was a shrubbery flic.kr/p/Lhv9ag which i loved. a picket fence covered in an ivy hedge coming down in a storm meant that over time changes had to happen flic.kr/p/2mn2x8a i'll be glad when the trellis is covered in honeysuckle and jasmine. that's the plan ...

i'm not making recommendations. it's just chat ...

www.flickr.com/groups/gardening_is_my_hobby/ helpful for ideas. thank you for sharing

A Pelican's reinforcing glare to us that sea level are indeed rising. Taken on our Eyre Peninsula road trip.

Climate change poses a major threat to the whole planet, but there are certain geographical areas which are more exposed to the dangers of global warming.

These countries are part of the so-called SIDS (Small Island Developing States), which by its nature will be the first to suffer the consequences of climate change and are in danger of disappearing.

These territories, 52 according to the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs mostly share the fragility of a subsistence economy based on tourism, the difficulty in communications and infrastructure development, lack of protection against natural disasters and dependence on international trade.

Here are nine of these islands at risk of disappearing due to global warming.

Republic of Kiribati

Republic of Maldives

Republic of Vanuatu

Tuvalu

Solomon Islands

Samoa

Nauru

Fiji Islands

Marshall Islands

FYI, in Majuro, capital of the Marshall Islands, it has already begun..tracts of land usually in sight have been swallowed by the sea.

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Telecom Tower - London UK

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Firecrest Ultra 16 Stop ND Filter

It's better not to look at the joints of reinforced concrete structures, could cause stomach pain.

Cementownia G. - Abandoned cement works (1857-1979) - Poland