DAWN WILL COME...

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Not knowing when the Dawn will come,
I open every Door,
Or has it Feathers, like a Bird,
Or Billows, like a Shore—

Poem by Emily Dickinson (1830-1886)




Photos taken by my husband near our house Click on photos to enlarge

TREES.... NATIVE FROM CERRADO LANDSCAPES

Tree in my yard

Tree in my yard

Tree in my yard

Tree in my neighborhood

Tree in my yard

Tree in my neighborhood

Tree in my yard

Those trees are Barbatimão (Stryphnodendron barbatiman Mart.) a luxuriant tree native to Brazil's cerrado vegetation. The Brazilian cerrado (savanna) bioma covers 2 million km² representing 23% of the area of the country (the same size as Western Europe). It is an ancient biome with rich biodiversity, estimated at 160.000 species of plants, fungi and animals. There are about 800 species of trees and large shrubs in the savanna vegetation. Cerrado is the second largest ecological dominion of Brazil, where a continuous herbaceous stratum is joined to an arboreal stratum, with variable density of woody species. Around 220 species from cerrado are reported as used in the traditional medicine. In terms of area it is exceeded by only one vegetation formation in Brazil, the Amazonian forest covering approx. 3.5 million km².

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Brazilian Biodiversity: approximately two thirds of the biological diversity of the world is found in tropical zones, mainly in developing countries. Brazil is the country with the most biological diversity in the world. It is estimated that we have between 15% to 20% of all the planet's biodiversity. There are 55,000 different native species of plants in Brazil (22% of the world's total), distributed over six major biomes : Amazon (30,000); Cerrado (10,000); Caatinga (4,000); Atlantic rainforest (10,000), Pantanal (10,000) and the subtropical forest (3,000).

Photos taken by myself

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TREES... IN SUNLIGHT & SUNSET

I took these photos last year, in sunlight and in sunset, on the edge of the country road, while driving home.

TREES... I LOVE TREES!

If you like trees, I hope you enjoy these pictures as much as I enjoyed taking them.

April Picnic

Took place on Sunday the 27th April perhaps a little late in the year for such an event, but it was cancelled the week before for those people who wished to attend the street racing in Hamilton. Those that went to the racing all said it was great.

Those who turned up in front of the Observatory in One Tree Hill Park, were Brian and Bev in their club car. All the others were in moderns - Ant and Karen, Karen’s daughter Sarah with Hayden who is talking and walking well, Paul and Delia, and Bud and Thelma (apologies were received from John and Janice who had paid for a run with The VVCC which included dinner) and I passed Harvey and Val's Y going south on Saturday.

As it looked like it was going to be a deluge in the next little while the group all adjourned to Ollie’s Ice Cream parlor, for the rest of the time. The parlor is right on the roundabout at Royal Oak it is two lanes and 5 streets merging a very busy intersection.

Quite a few sundaes, bowls of chips, hamburgers and coffee later, and playing on game machines the group dispersed, to make their individual way home.

MY GRANDMOTHER

My grandmother Rita would have been 120 years old next May, 25. Photos of her wedding and teacher graduation.

My grandmother's wedding in October 1, 1913

A DISMANTLED COWSHED

I like to imagine a story behind a photograph of a decadent stable falling into desuetude in a small farm...