Be prepared to be impressed - Churches in the Faroe Islands.
This page drew my attention to these islands, and then I searched out the page with the churches. The Faroes are closer to Scotland and Norway, but they belong to Denmark.
I've mentioned that I love owls. Here's one at the St Vallier Station, in Quebec, Canada.
For good measure, here's another pic by the same photographer.
Twelve photographs of sea coral, from the National Geographic site --
Coelenterate Orange cup coral Anthias and soft coral Branching coral
Fluorescent coral Anchor coral, with wrasse Cayman Islands Great Barrier Reef
Papua New Guinea Soft Coral Black coral Flower coral
I found this paragraph over at the American Scholar site --
I could scarcely sleep for excitement the night after seeing the periodic table—it seemed to me an incredible achievement to have brought the whole, vast, and seemingly chaotic universe of chemistry to an all-embracing order. . . . To have perceived an overall organization, a superarching principle uniting and relating all the elements, had a quality of the miraculous, of genius. And this gave me, for the first time, a sense of the transcendent power of the human mind, and the fact that it might be equipped to discover or decipher the deepest secrets of nature, to read the mind of God.
(From “Mendeleev's Garden,” by Oliver Sacks, Autumn 2001)
It reminds me of something I once read about machines --
All machines, no matter how complex, are based on six simple elements: the inclined plane, the lever, the pulley, the screw, the wedge, and the wheel and axle.
Today we have the work of nature photographer Joseph Holmes.
Holmes' online Gallery thus far contains 118 fine photos. Here are some that I particularly liked --
Redbud, Arizona;
Meadow, California; Yosemite, California;
Alpenglow, Utah; Cactus, Utah; Cottonwood, Utah; Wildflowers, Utah;
All of the above-listed pictures are of the western United States. I think that my favorite, however, just might be this one from the East -
Blueberries and granite, Maine.
It often seems to me that the world once contained many more seashells than it does now, a fact which makes me sad. Here, then, are three sets of lovely shells as a reminder of riches goneby --
Cracherode's shells
Sloane's shells, group 1
Sloane's shells, group 2
As always, you need to see the larger photo in order to appreciate the originals.
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