The Splendour.

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Monkey Orchid (Orchis simia) ?

 

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[DonQuixote]

The Orchid family has some really intriguing members.

 

[ElmosToe]

^agreed, love those pics

 

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Train Tree Tunnel, Ukraine

 

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Red crab migration


The red crab is by far the most obvious of the 14 species of land crabs on Christmas Island. Every year over 150 million red crabs move from inland shelters to the shore for their annual breeding season. This occurs at the beginning of the wet season (usually October/November).

The main migration can last up to 18 days. Masses of crabs gather into broad columns as they move toward the coast, climbing down high inland cliff faces, and over or around all obstacles in their way, following routes used year after year for both downward and return migrations.

Movement peaks in the early morning and late afternoons when it is cooler and there is more shade. Because if caught in open areas, in unshaded heat, the crabs soon lose body water and die.

Christmas Island is a small Australian-owned territory located in the Indian Ocean, approximately 300 miles south of Jakarta, Indonesia. A small population of 1600 residents live on the area of 50 square miles.

 

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Armorial Goblet

Germany, 1592

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

 

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Christmastime on the Avenue-des-Champs-Elysees, Paris, France.

 

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Daybed from the Apartment of George Gershwin

1928

 

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Henry Wallis - The Death of Chatterton (1856-58)

 

[mikey3000]

"Liquid Mountains, Lake Erie

 

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Suicide Statues by Anthony Gormley

 

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Great post Mikey.

Somewhere

 

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Library at Biltmore House, Asheville, North Carolina

 

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India Room with Chinese wallpaper, Penrhyn Castle, North Wales, UK (ca. 1830s)

 

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