Idyllic Photos from CR4ers

It is evening. Atmospheric high pressure moving in. Solstice.

It's baby deer season here at Johnson Space Center. The deer are so comfortable with the company of engineers that they drop off their babies all over the place - under cars, in bike racks - while the mamas go off foraging. This pic is from a couple of weeks ago.

That's a young'un!

milo

Sun setting over back harbor, Drake's Island Maine.

All villige or town is covered with a gaze in the morning.

Leon at her most active!

On top of my little hill!

50 48 49.24N 2 28 27.70W

I've been meaning to ask..........self portrait?

In my dreams maybe! It's over 8m long

When was this carved?

He's called 'The Cerne Giant' or 'The Rude Giant of Cerne Abbas'

Here's the link to Wiki

I remember when I was a kid running around his tracks! It was supposed to make you extra fertile! Lucky I only ran round a few times or I would be a gibbering wreck by now!

Extremadura, no?

"can you release some?"... If you ever see me (over-my-shoulder) booting-up in an airport, etc, you'll know me by my "Desktop" pic, herewith:

Viewing out the TimeShare window ~ Waikiki Beach (Hilton Hawaiian Village). {Sorry, that's as close to idyllic as I have right with me ... unless you're strangely bent, and really-really appreciate hurricane damage pics}.

Coolcats!This is mine. La Cloche Mts.,Killarney, Ontario. 600 square miles of pure white quartzite. Source of the finest optical silica.

Good optical raw material. wonderful place.

But your computer must be lack of red colour.

why dont you correct your colour system?

Computer just fine thankyou. What you see is what is ......given sun intensity and position.

Hi Duckinthepond,

do you have the impurity data of this quartzite?

If so please send to me.

RHABE

Not offhand. I do know it is relatively free of impurities and has been used in the manufacture of astronomical telescopes and mirrors. Leica uses it in their microscope mfg. facility in Midland, Ontario. Kern, of Switzerland used it also.

Having sailed by it and done some exploring of the area I have seen trace amounts of iron oxidation. These are quite rare.

There is a mine close to Killarney (it used to be called National Silicates).

I'll see if I can find the data for you.

Sleep well at night, enjoy your time (80 years are nothing compared to the age of our sun), enjoy the beauties of nature, and try to create some beauty in your profession.

Good words Herr Professor. I thought you'd like to see some more of this wonderfull place.

is this the true actual color that saw by your own eyes?

teh rock reflects the light of the sea?

very nice nature. incredeble.

This rock is almost pure white (violet spectrum) and highly reflective. In some places it has been very finely polished by the glaciers. It can be very hard on the eyes.

In springtime the snow meltwaters scour the lake bottoms clean and the reflection of light against white stone through clear water produces an amazing glow of blue light.

From the above questin. I remember a story about the procession of discovering liqid mine.

once upon a time. a painter has been heard that there was a place when sun rising the space is filled with very woderful color. but none could went closed to it because something will harm who ws near it.

he decided to take a risk to get ther to have a look. he paited the wonderful scene and got ill when back home. one of his friends, a geographist, came to see him and found the charming picture. he suddenly got into rapiture. and asked where the place was. when he got the information, he started at once with his explorer and gas mask and at last, he found a mass of the liqid metal mine for his country.

Can you guess what the mine is?

Liquid mercury?...but it does not exist in nature except as the mineral cinnabar.

No.......I cannot guess.

mercury, of cause. only has it liquid state in the class of metal at normal temperature.

The book was translated from russian. it described the mercury lake in russia somewhere. I thnk the story maight be true. although its rare in the nature.

duckinthepond said is right.

He was the first empirer in china history.(feudality)

we call him as Qin shi huang.

however most of us suspected if this is true. but his terracotta army (Qin terracotta army) is very famous and was known by the world now it display in city of Xi'an.

there are lots of people from the world come to visit it every year.

yes our chinese invent the gunpowder and was very useful for the world.

the man who wanted to fly into sky you metioned was the first brave flighter in the world.

He lived in the Min dynasty and he saw the powder can pull firework into sky, so he thought this must be able to send him to space. he use much such material under his armchair and fire. of cause you could image what happened.

now a mouintain on the moon is named by his name. Hu wan.

he might be the first man who invented react force and ahead of Newton.

The geophysical forces required to make a liquid mercury lake would have to be very complex....possible, possible....

Many Russian stories are analogies and I think this one you are referring to might be their way of telling people to stay away from gold mining areas...or at least not to eat the contaminated fish or breathe the air. It describes Minamata disease.

Fortunately our industries here have stopped dumping mercury into the lakes and rivers but in many areas the damage is done.

There is however, evidence that the infestation of Zebra mussels has depleted mercury levels in areas. These creatures absorb and lock it into their calcium shells.

I dont know if there is a real mecury lake in the nature. this story related to this fact that if you would have paid attation to everything, you would be an amply awarded. the book told our children a way of study and how to study (I was a child at the time).

speaking to envirument protect, I think your cananda and europe do it well than our country at many sides.

now our people is beginning to pay attation to collect the waste cell etc together and learn to bring them to special places and processing. to prevent the mecury from the nature

prevent the mecury from polluting the nature.

If China does nothing to prevent contamination it will eventually cost her more than what her economy will have gained.

Canada needs to learn that lesson also. The Tar Sands oil recovery project is a catastrophe waiting to happen.

99.7%-99.9% silica. Trace iron oxides on surface (meteoric origin). Zircon. Rutile on border . No streaking or lensing in metamorphology.

Thank you, thats great, may be useful.

RHABE

http://books.google.ca/books?id=zNicdkuulE4C&pg=PA842&lpg=PA842&dq=Badgeley+Island+mine&source=web&ots=NhoevVG3sd&sig=kupjhYg5GuCHky_uhPXSBUHM16M&hl=en&sa=X&oi=book_result&resnum=1&ct=result#PPA842,M1

Page 842...look under Badgeley Island

beautiful Hawaii

Iwould you like same than me.Unknown place here from the River Plate (Argentina).

put on steam. use our own view angle to see the world.

you cannt get them from any search engines.

I have here some pictures from around the world. Next two are from Bali-Indonesia.

Religious procession on Kuta beach:

Pura Ulun Danu:

Voltera (Tuscany, Italy):

Somewhere on the Swiss Halps:

Extraordinaraly photo work. Absolutly "I'll buy it" waaaoouuhh it is deligthful imaging just visiting those themes at least with imagination that's the photo technology magic I'll bet! We may transport ourself out without expending much of planes tickects definetly. But yeah will be even greater to be able to have the time to physically enjoy it there, but, I do feel satisfy with being able to enjoy it this way through these magnificiences photos here at CR-4 'excibition' awesome... Well rigth now I'm in the middle of 'oil changing' my car engine which was overdue for a while now and the other day was the tires rotation, waaaoouuh kind of to hot in here now but someone have to do it. And you know how they want to charge just to look at ? Forgot it! Unbeliavebla...! Anyhow I do enjoying all these nice pictures in the meantime then later on I have to get back to my grind job by nigth time. AAAHHhhh.. Allset good day all and art work now.

Galery Time,

MC

The flowers inthe pura ulun danu are cana 's.

I had hundreds of them planted on my property down in georgia, where they would come back every year. Her ein Ohio, I have to bring them in each fall.

I always wondered where they were nativeThanks and nice pix.

milo

our garden path

now these pics are from Yunnan.

If God had a garden it would be Yunnan.

The white stones I photographed are called the La Cloche Mts.....in English it means "Mountains made of Bells". When this rock is struck it resonates with a sound that resembles our church bells.

At night when the temperature falls some of the rocks become dislodged and fall. It creates a sound of bells ringing. It brings a smile to my face to think that God is the bell ringer here.........

beautiful.

My favorite tea comes from yunnan.

The scenery is as beautiful as the flavor of the tea.

thanks for sharing, CNpower.

milo

The tea is called " Pu er", one very famous kinds of black tea. this kind of tea is producing in Pu er district in yunan province.

Britain like chinese tea very much and has imported since last 18 century. I dont know why they all favourite of black tea. we have lots of green tea.

once you get used to it. you will like it very much.

we like its smell very much. some people place it even into pillow.

but you'd better to drink the frash green tea, especially pock up ater rain, the best. whereas, for the black tea, you drink old one, after fermentation. even decimals years.

My country is very young and has a beauty of its own............yours is very old and is incredible.............!

this is not from amazon

Their festival

Taken from the northern most point of Denmark, looking back along the east coast.

There's a few more pictures of Hastings where I work on Flikr plus some pictures of my other interests.

Brave bird...

And now for something completely different...!!

Baby ferrets, kids and dog.

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It's a couple of years old, but brings back memories of serenity etc. Just a simple day out with me and a couple of my siblings - we all posed on the same spot. My photographic skill doesn't do justice to all the greenery surrounding my 'son in the sun' ( It works equally if worded the opposite way round). To my mind, a good picture captures the beauty of the scenery and the inner beauty of what you know about the detail.

Till my vacation I will have to be satisfied by what I can see by my office window! Anyway my eyes liked a lot the pics you guys posted here. Thanks everybody and CNpower for the good idea!!!

There is only one thing left to do in this world. Italy and France must invade England and teach them how to cook.

OI....!!! I'm English and I'm a damn fine cook

Just at this minute making a loaf of bread... wholemeal with molasses and sunflower seeds - YUMMY!!!

For dinner tonight I'm going to butterfly a chicken thigh and roast it (or grill it maybe) with a rasher of bacon, served with stuffing and boiled potatoes, carrots and swede...

John

Here's one I made earlier

Ooops! wrong one....