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I love trees, and this one especially.
When I was at the kitchen sink this morning, I noticed little white specks floating left to right in my view. I was puzzled, but then I thought, it must be the fruitless apple tree by my front door. I opened my front door and saw
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By summer it will be full and green, providing welcome shade. By fall it will be full of yellow leaves that drop all over. By winter it's bare branches like above before the flowers bloomed. I love this tree.
Bryce Canyon National Park in Utah is one of the most unusual landscapes on Earth, shaped over millions of years by freezing temperatures, rain, and erosion.
Even though it is called a canyon, it is actually a series of giant natural amphitheaters carved into the edge of the Paunsaugunt Plateau. Over time, water seeped into cracks in the rock, froze, expanded, and slowly broke the stone apart, creating thousands of tall, thin rock pillars known as hoodoos.
This slow process took around 60 million years to create the dramatic formations we see today. Each hoodoo has a unique shape, almost like a natural sculpture carved by time itself.
Standing at the rim, the view feels endless. A vast sea of orange, red, and white rock stretching into the distance, changing color with every shift of sunlight. It is a place where geology feels alive, constantly reshaping itself over time.
'Murmuration'
These images shows a starling flock, a spectacular natural phenomenon in which thousands of starlings fly through the air in sync.
This behavior occurs primarily in autumn and winter, just before sunset, when the birds gather to go to sleep.
The complex shapes and rapid changes of direction are a survival mechanism to confuse predators, such as the peregrine falcon.
The enormous flock moves as a single unit thanks to the lightning-fast reactions of individual birds to their immediate neighbors.
The name 'murmuration' comes from the soft, persistent sound that thousands of wings make together.
Just because ...
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| Pacific golden plover |
Sunday's Smiles ...
Hoping you see all the good things in your day.
3 comments:
What a lovely tree! Here apple and pear trees also are in full bloom. That's so beautiful, especially when the sun is shining. And I think the trees get even more beautiful the older they get. Maybe it's the same with people, what do you think?
The Bryce Canyoun National Park is amazing. I never had heard of it before.
A University at Rome, Italy was trying to describe the behavior of the starlings with mathematics. Very interesting, but very difficult!
Thanks for so much interesting information, Jacki!
Have a good week ahead.
Thank you dear Elenor, I have always loved the murmurations, doesn't matter to me why, I just love that they can work togather to do it. A miracle I think. I have been to Bryce Canyon Park many years ago, but we didn't go there, so it was new to me to find out as well. I will be using your beautiful photos very soon. You always send at a perfect time when I am wondering what I will post. The readers will enjoy the photos as I do. I am blessed with your help.
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