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Wutchamacallit

nobody@flickr.com (Boyd Miller) — Sun, 19 May 2013 09:56:26 -0700

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Dont know the name of this spreading border plant....but I love it.

Riomaggiore / Cinque Terre / Italy

nobody@flickr.com (zilverbat.) — Sun, 19 May 2013 08:36:52 -0700

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From the Archives......but who cares ?

SUN DRINKERS

nobody@flickr.com (revanchiastic) — Sun, 19 May 2013 08:07:02 -0700

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In the pink cloud

nobody@flickr.com (Fehlfokus) — Fri, 26 Apr 2013 06:56:54 -0700

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Valley of Light and Shadows....Monument Valley

nobody@flickr.com (Wayne Nelson) — Sun, 19 May 2013 06:42:19 -0700

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Those land forms you see in this image are out in the middle of Monument Valley Arizona/Utah. They are iconic and are usually featured in pictures. As we got close to sunset I decided to use the light on the interesting but less known rock forms near me to create a window into the valley and allow us to see most of those more famous formations in one distant shot. I made a lot of traditional shots that day, but this location has been photographed many times and it paid off for me to look at the valley with “new eyes”

Meadow

nobody@flickr.com (lubu19) — Sat, 18 May 2013 08:56:44 -0700

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Iceland - Geysir -

nobody@flickr.com (shoot it!) — Sun, 19 May 2013 01:37:47 -0700

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Geysir (Icelandic pronunciation: [ˈceːisɪr̥]), sometimes known as The Great Geysir, is a geyser in southwestern Iceland. It was the first geyser described in a printed source and the first known to modern Europeans. The English word geyser (a spouting hot spring) derives from Geysir. The name Geysir itself is derived from the Icelandic verb geysa, "to gush", the verb from Old Norse. Geysir lies in the Haukadalur valley on the slopes of Laugarfjall hill, which is also the home to Strokkur geyser about 50 metres south.
Eruptions at Geysir can hurl boiling water up to 70 metres in the air. However, eruptions may be infrequent, and have in the past stopped altogether for years at a time.

History

The research of sinter shows that Geysir has been active for approximately 10,000 years.[1] The oldest accounts of hot springs at Haukadalur date back to 1294, when earthquakes in the area caused significant changes in local neighbouring landscape creating several new hot springs. Changes in the activity of the Geysir and the surrounding geysers are strongly related to earthquake activity. In records dated 1630 the geysers erupted so violently that the valley around them trembled. The placename "Geysir" has been first mentioned in written sources in 18th century and, as unusual natural phenomena were of high interest to the society during the Age of Enlightenment, the term became popular and has been used for similar hydrothermal features worldwide since then.
In 1845, it reaches a height of 170 metres.[citation needed] In 1846 the research of Geysir by Robert Bunsen results with the explanation of the mechanism of geyser activity. Measurements of professor Bunsen in this year show that Geysir was erupting 43 – 54 m high.
History of recent centuries shows that earthquakes have tended to revive the activity of Geysir which then subsides again in the following years. Before 1896, Geysir was almost dormant before an earthquake that year caused eruptions to begin again, occurring several times a day, lasting up to an hour and causing spouts of up to 60 metres in height. In 1910, it was active every 30 minutes; five years later the time between the eruptions was as much as six hours, and in 1916, the eruptions all but ceased. In 1935 a manmade channel was dug through the silica rim around the edge of the geyser vent. This ditch caused a lowering of the water table and a revival in activity. Gradually this channel became too clogged with silica and eruptions again became rare. In 1981 the ditch was cleared again and eruptions could be stimulated, on special occasions, by the addition of soap. Following environmental concerns the practice of adding soap was seldom employed during the 1990s. During that time Geysir seldom erupted. When it did erupt, it was spectacular, sending boiling water sometimes up to 70 metres into the air. On the Icelandic National Day authorized government geologists would force an eruption. A further earthquake in 2000 revived the geyser again and it reaches 122 meters for two days[citation, thus becoming one of the highest known geysers in history (Waimangu Geyser in New Zealand has been erupting up to 460 m high). Initially eruptions were taking place on average eight times a day. By July 2003 this activity had again decreased to around three times per day.

Little Geysir
The nearby geyser Strokkur erupts much more frequently than Geysir, erupting to heights of up to 30 metres every few minutes. Strokkur's activity has also been affected by earthquakes, although to a lesser extent than the Great Geysir. Due to its eruption frequency, online photos and videos of Strokkur are regularly mislabelled as depicting Geysir. There are around thirty much smaller geysers and hot pools in the area, including one called Litli Geysir ('Little Geysir').

Litli Geysir, Haukadalur, Iceland
Descriptions of the Great Geysir and Strokkur have been given in many travel guides to Iceland published from the 18th century onwards. Together with Þingvellir and the Gullfoss waterfall, they are part of the Golden Circle that make up the most famous tourist route in the country.

Ownership of the Geysir area.
Until 1894 the Geysir area was owned by a local farmer. In that year the area was sold to James Craig (later Lord Craigavon), a whiskey distiller from Ulster and a future Prime Minister of Northern Ireland. Initially he erected large fences around the site and an entrance fee was charged for visitors wishing to view the geysers. The following year, however, Craig appeared to tire of his project and gave the area as a present to a friend, E. Craig, who dropped the entrance fees. Later Craig's nephew Hugh Rogers inherited the site. In 1935 he sold the site to film director Sigurður Jónasson who subsequently donated it to the Icelandic people in perpetuity.

Barley

nobody@flickr.com (nehad1) — Sat, 18 May 2013 14:20:34 -0700

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Afternoon light on Humbug Mountain's East trail.

nobody@flickr.com (Gary Sharp) — Sat, 18 May 2013 18:07:17 -0700

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Emerald Lake

nobody@flickr.com (rosinberg) — Mon, 16 Jul 2012 14:37:05 -0700

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Yoho National Park, British Columbia

photogenic weed

nobody@flickr.com (vbajda) — Sat, 18 May 2013 14:53:34 -0700

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nobody@flickr.com (PhilippRein) — Sat, 18 May 2013 13:27:58 -0700

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The garden of love.

nobody@flickr.com (André Barker) — Sat, 18 May 2013 12:42:17 -0700

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I went to the Garden of Love,
And saw what I never had seen:
A Chapel was built in the midst,
Where I used to play on the green.

And the gates of this Chapel were shut,
And "Thou shalt not" writ over the door;
So I turned to the Garden of Love,
That so many sweet flowers bore;

And I saw it was filled with graves,
And tombstones where flowers should be;
And Priests in black gowns were walking their rounds,
And binding with briers my joys and desires.

William Blake.

UNPATTERN

nobody@flickr.com (revanchiastic) — Sat, 18 May 2013 10:13:44 -0700

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At Home

nobody@flickr.com (Boyd Miller) — Sat, 18 May 2013 09:44:56 -0700

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I found these yellow iris growing along the highway years ago...and transplanted some to my garden..they are right at home here and make good companions to the blue and violet flowers nearby.

Opening up

nobody@flickr.com (Wilamoyo) — Sat, 18 May 2013 06:56:05 -0700

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Lilac

nobody@flickr.com (nehad1) — Sat, 18 May 2013 03:35:36 -0700

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Bluebells

nobody@flickr.com (hammermad) — Sat, 18 May 2013 04:21:10 -0700

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Squid Coming Right At Me

nobody@flickr.com (PacificKlaus) — Sat, 18 May 2013 04:06:37 -0700

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The strip of beach just outside the national park in Kurnell is a true cephalopod watchers heaven: squid, dumpling squid, pajama cuttlefish, cuttlefish, blue ring octopi and octopi - most dives we see at least 5 out of these 6 species.

Take underwater pictures with me at the Evolution Photoganza in the Philippines in September 2013, and enjoy more of my photography & tales of the underwater world in "Sex, Drugs and Scuba Diving".

Shy

nobody@flickr.com (Fehlfokus) — Thu, 02 May 2013 06:35:14 -0700

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