* The Weekly Image Thread 22 07 24 #704 *

DickyAus said:

I'm impressed with your photography and endurance Charlotte.

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Bah. My photography isn't much to brag about, but I confess I can be quite stubborn and possess some amount of perseverance once I get my ass moving. It's to get it to move in the first place I have problems with. :-D

DickyAus said:

I wish you luck learning English. One of the main problems is that 99% of Americans and Australians don't know that English is a foreign language. :-D

This is flatliness:

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Yeah, that's flat. What part of Australia do you live in? I had a penpal (email-pal) in Croydon outside Melbourne for 20 years. I so regret I didn't visit her. Now it's too late. She died the first covid year, but not from covid. We thought it was great fun to compare how everyday things worked in our repective countries. I know for instance your garbage collection is much better and more effective than ours - and how you handled covid was superior to the mess we had. She was fascinated by snow. I had to describe it, photograph it, try to record the sound when walking in it - I failed on the last point.

A friend had an app that identified the flower as Phacelia tanacetifolia. Lacy phacelia/blue tansy/purple tansy. It's native the western parts of U.S., but here it's cultivated as food for bees. Fitting, since here the name is "honey phacelia". That explain why that small patch at the grave field was used. Cool. I know they grow plants as bee food now, but I hadn't actually noticed it before.

Beautiful rocks. Isn't Maine know for it's seafood? I bet you will have crabs too.

Jim Vincent said:

Congratulations on your bike ride. It's not only great exercise, it also allows you to better appreciate the scenery than in a car or walking. You got photos of many more locations than you'd have reached on foot, and probably stopped for photographs of the countryside you'd have missed if touring by car.

We enjoy bike tours for those very reasons.

Keep it up.

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Agree. And an advantage with recumbents is that you don't have to twist your neck to look around.

I wish I could afford a car too though. It would be great to be able to take the trike to other parts of the country.

Great shots. Like #1 the most.

You must have been up really early. I don't get how the EXIF time stamp is handled here. I notice that for my own shots it shows the Swedish time, but it says GMT and Sweden is GMT +2 during summer and GMT +1 during winter. And you aren't anywhere close to GMT.

Trolls now? I have to worry about more than Bigfoot. Great pictures, Rich. Rich

Nice pictures, Charlotte. I enjoyed the trip.

I thought dead Vikings were put in a boat with firewood and pushed out into the sea alight to go up in flames. Perhaps it's just the rich ones who get the full treatment. :-D Rich

meow said:

Yet another trip to conquer unique zones. The main road to this area is very good, broad. It's from the era when larger roads where build so a plain would be able to land or take off from it.

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Reminds me of our 'meet/meat' discussion, lol! :-D

I could imagine it will be very interesting to watch when one of these Great Plains lands near Uppsala! ;-)

meow said:

A small grave field with small mounds. it's pretty close both to Old Uppsala and Valsgärde with large mounds and rich findings. The information sign was on the other side of a ditch, so I never read it. But I guess the mounds are pre Viking, bronze age, most graves here are, and probably for less prominent souls than at the more known fields.

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I used to have such a little hill about 50 meters from the front door of my cabin here in the forest. But most of it is gone since a group of archaeologists from the nearby Trier State Museum worked there over a couple of weeks (with their 'tooth brushes') back in the sixties or seventies. I still have a sign somewhere, saying "Ausgrabung, Betreten verboten. Landesmuseum Trier". If I remember correctly, it was also a Bronze Age grave, one of several here in this 'Gräberfeld' area.

meow said:

I have no idea what flowers these are, but they were very pretty. I think they may be cultivated, because they covered a little well defined field close to the graves. A purple patch in all the green.

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Nice shots, Charlotte! Some years ago I've also seen such a nice blue color field over here. I asked the owner and he told me what it is, but I forgot, so I looked it up now, it's Phacelia tanacetifolia. The German name seems to be 'Büschelschön', never heard that one before. Another German name is 'Bienenfreund'. https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rainfarn-Phazelie

From an article by the Chamber of Agriculture, North Rhine-Westphalia https://www.landwirtschaftskammer.de/presse/archiv/2004/aa-2004-30-01.htm :

"The beautiful blue-purple flowering plants, about 60 centimeters high, with fine-limbed heavily hairy leaves, are tussock beauties, botanically Phacelia, a waterleaf plant that farmers have sown in April or May to green their set-aside areas. Phacelia is a valuable food source for insects, especially bees, which is why it is also called bee friendly and bee pasture.
For the farmer, phacelia provides many agronomic benefits. Tufted Phacelia provides a very rapid intensive soil cover and prevents dangerous weeds in the fields. The plant promotes soil tilth as well as soil crumb structure, and is also excellent for preparing a mulch crop of corn and sugar beets the next year. However, sown as an intercrop after cereals in August or September, Phacelia does not come into flower. The non-hardy plants die after the first heavy frost and then provide best soil protection."

Translation with www.DeepL.com/Translator (free version)

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Jul 26, 10:54 GMT

Rich Z said:

Nice pictures, Charlotte. I enjoyed the trip.

I thought dead Vikings were put in a boat with firewood and pushed out into the sea alight to go up in flames. Perhaps it's just the rich ones who get the full treatment. :-D Rich

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That's probably a myth. I read about that recently. There are some written sources that talk about burning ships sent to sea, but no traces have ever been found. The consensus seems to be that that kind of funerals probably didn't occur and if they after all did they were rare.

Prominent vikings were buried in ships though. Inside the mounds. We call them "boat graves". But I suspect these mounds are from the bronze age.

The big field I mentioned, Valsgärde, is interesting because it was used for a very long time, 700 years. From early iron age well into christian time.

R Liewenberger said:

Reminds me of our 'meet/meat' discussion, lol! :-D

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I know. There are more of them. I was tired and I type faster than I read.

R Liewenberger said:

Nice shots, Charlotte! Some years ago I've also seen such a nice blue color field over here. I asked the owner and he told me what it is, but I forgot, so I looked it up now, it's Phacelia tanacetifolia. The German name seems to be 'Büschelschön', never heard that one before. Another German name is 'Bienenfreund'. https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rainfarn-Phazelie

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Thanks. But we already knew. Two posts up. :-D

meow said:

You are the one with his feet in the air, right? :-D

Jokes aside, hope no one was hurt. Mighty big rocks there.

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I've changed my mind. I think it's your bottom in the next last shot. No, I know it is. :-D

Ha - that is confusing.

4:40am CDT is what it should say which is GMT-6.

That's what I have my camera set to, although since we are on Daylight Savings Time our clocks would have said it was 5:40am.

But if I set my camera to GMT-5 to show DST (5:40), it wouldn't sync properly with a GPS log because the satellites don't do DST. Not that I ever do GPS tagging ...

To further confuse the issue, when I load my photos to my computer, it assigns the time they are copied to the computer as the "created" date/time - the date/time it was taken is set to the Modified Date/Time ...

meow said:

R Liewenberger said:

Reminds me of our 'meet/meat' discussion, lol! :-D

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I know. There are more of them. I was tired and I type faster than I read.

meow said:

Nice shots, Charlotte! Some years ago I've also seen such a nice blue color field over here. I asked the owner and he told me what it is, but I forgot, so I looked it up now, it's Phacelia tanacetifolia. The German name seems to be 'Büschelschön', never heard that one before. Another German name is 'Bienenfreund'. https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rainfarn-Phazelie

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Thanks. But we already knew. Two posts up. :-D

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Charlotte, I posted my message more than 11 hours ago (check MY time stamp at the end of my post); it just didn't show earlier because of missing mod approval.

Just found a little year 2014 pic of that Phacelia field I have seen over here, nothing great, just a quick shot from the car window.

But it was later in the year, Oct. 21st, as you can easily tell from the color of the leaves on the trees in the background:



Liewenberger

Jul 26, 22:10 GMT

Jim Vincent said:

Ha - that is confusing.

4:40am CDT is what it should say which is GMT-6.

That's what I have my camera set to, although since we are on Daylight Savings Time our clocks would have said it was 5:40am.

But if I set my camera to GMT-5 to show DST (5:40), it wouldn't sync properly with a GPS log because the satellites don't do DST. Not that I ever do GPS tagging ...

To further confuse the issue, when I load my photos to my computer, it assigns the time they are copied to the computer as the "created" date/time - the date/time it was taken is set to the Modified Date/Time ...

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Let's see... I have Date visible. That is set to the time the file was downloaded, I think. Date Taken is the actual time I took the shot.

I haven't thought about the EXIF time stamp here before. But it seems to be a real mess. I thought it just took the time as written in EXIF and that the addition of GMT was the mistake, but from what you say that isn't so. Hard to see any system to it.

R Liewenberger said:

meow said:

R Liewenberger said:

Reminds me of our 'meet/meat' discussion, lol! :-D

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I know. There are more of them. I was tired and I type faster than I read.

R Liewenberger said:

Nice shots, Charlotte! Some years ago I've also seen such a nice blue color field over here. I asked the owner and he told me what it is, but I forgot, so I looked it up now, it's Phacelia tanacetifolia. The German name seems to be 'Büschelschön', never heard that one before. Another German name is 'Bienenfreund'. https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rainfarn-Phazelie

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Thanks. But we already knew. Two posts up. :-D

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Charlotte, I posted my message more than 11 hours ago (check MY time stamp at the end of my post); it just didn't show earlier because of missing mod approval.

Just found a little year 2014 pic of that Phacelia field I have seen over here, nothing great, just a quick shot from the car window.

But it was later in the year, Oct. 21st, as you can easily tell from the color of the leaves on the trees in the background:

Liewenberger

Jul 26, 22:10 GMT

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You get moderated? What did you do? Pray tell! :-D

That's a nice sky, Charlotte.

I guess I shouldn't argue with you about the funerals since you're their descendant. I've seen so many Vikings sent off that way in the movies, and you know they are factual. :-O However, I just read that the Vikings believed the updraft from the fire would speed their spirits to Valhalla. I'd be in a hurry to cozy up to Freya, too, if I could do so whilst Odin was out to plunder, pillage, and you know what else. :-D Rich

Those are all very fine shots Rich. I like them all. The mixture of rock is something else!

Andrew

Those are all very nice shots Jim. You are fortunate to be able to get out and walk daily with those kinds of views!

Andrew

Those are lovely flowers Harri! We have many different varieties here but it gets much hotter and they are all planted in full sun.

Andrew

Great pictures, Rich. That is a very picturesque place. Rich