The last pics from Park Güell. The columns make your head somewhat dizzy, and we have a bunch of silly tourist pics where the kids try to keep them from falling over of where I aligned the camera with the columns and the kids “slide down”. No pics of the kids on the net, though.
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©Giliell, all rights reserved
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©Giliell, all rights reserved
©Giliell, all rights reserved
Apparently even the trees decided to play along…
I think we had some of it already last year, and I noticed I didn’t take too many pics this year, but it’s still lovely, every single time. If you ever visit Barcelona and need some “Gateway Gaudí”, this is where you go. It#s reasonably priced, since this years there’s a shuttle bus from the underground station and you get all the quirky loveliness that characterises Catalan “Modernisme”.
©Giliell, all rights reserved You get the best panoramic view of the city
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©Giliell, all rights reserved
Part of it is under restauration, so you can see it without all the other people visiting.
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As promised, there will be pictures. Lots, though I noticed that I took less pictures this year because after all, I went there before. Let’s start with some from the zoo. A great southern hornbill. I also add some others as to not spam my “own” blog with many different posts.
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Probably a breeding female. Or a napping one…
Now for some frogs…
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©Giliell, all rights reserved There was a lot of plants around acting as some sort of natural filter
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And finally a water lily. There be fairies.
©Giliell, all rights reserved Off focus but too pretty
©Giliell, all rights reserved No, absolutely no post production on this one.
Nightjar has sent us her monthly look at the light conditions in her world and, as always, the photos are fabulous. Enjoy.
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Milkweed ©voyager, all rights reserved
Poor Jack didn’t get out for a walk this morning. I turned off the A/C last night and opened the windows and by this morning the house was filled with humidity. I get this weird ataxia that puts me into slow motion and makes it feel like I’m moving through jello and high humidity is one of the things that can set it off. It took me a while just to get out of bed and I couldn’t make my hands work and I was feeling very frustrated. The jello wouldn’t lift even after the A/C cleared the house. I managed to get to pool therapy at noon and that really helped a lot, but by the time I got home it was too hot for Jack to go out. I promised to take him for a nice stroll around the neighbourhood after supper, but he isn’t bothered by the missing morning outing. At least that’s what he says – maybe he’s just being kind.
Lofty has sent us the happiest little flowers I’ve ever seen.
Winter is also the time for some of our eucalyptus to flower. Most do it way up in the sky and usually you only know by the carpet of spent pale yellow flowers on the ground underneath the tree. This one however (a street tree) offered its flowers at eye level for my camera to snap at. The size of the flowers is around 25mm or 1″ long.
Eucalyptus Flowers, ©Lofty, all rights reserved
From Nightjar,
Z is for Zaffre
Zaffre.
A deep blue pigment obtained from cobalt ore. I thought these Lithodora prostrata flowers were close enough.
Link to previous alphabet post
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It’s obvious that Nightjar put a lot of time and thought into this project and I thank her so much for sharing it with all of us. The series has been full of surprises and gorgeous photography and along the way I learned a few new colors and fell in love with a jet black cat, who is my final choice for favourite – B is for Black Mia with the soft green eyes.
Queen Anne’s Lace, ©voyager, all rights reserved
Well, call me sleeping beauty because that’s about all I’ve done in the past 24 hours. Yesterday after my injections I lay down. That was around 7 pm and I more or less slept until 2 o’clock this afternoon. That’s 19 hours of sleep, one right after another. I must have gotten up to pee once or twice because I didn’t pee the bed, but I don’t remember. I don’t think I’ve ever slept so long, not even as a slothful teenager.
Since I’ve woken up I’ve managed to take Jack for a walk and… nap. It seems that 19 hours was not quite enough sleep because every time I sit down I conk out. I’m pretty sure if I go to bed now I’ll sleep until morning so that’s exactly what I’m going to do. Night, night.
From Nightjar, (photo is below the fold because of the bonus spider!)
X is for Xanthic, ©Nightjar,all rights reserved
Xanthic.
Just another word for yellow or yellowish things. The flower is Oxalis pes-caprae, an invasive weed here.
From Nightjar,
W is for White, ©Nightjar, all rights reserved
White.
In the petals of a Chrysanthemums flower.
V is for Vermilion ©Nightjar, all rights reserved
Vermilion.
A brilliant red pigment originally obtained from the mercury-containing ore cinnabar. It usually has a slight orange tint to it, much like the petals of this Zinnia flower.