This January 2018 video is about the coast near Lohme village on Rügen island in Germany.
After 8 October 2018 on Rügen came 9 October.
In the morning, house sparrows.
And a hooded crow on a Lohme roof.
This photo shows the coast near Lohme on 9 October 2018.
This video shows a sea eagle, and a mute swan, on Rügen island.
More than 300 mammal species have been eradicated by human activities, say researchers
Humanity’s ongoing annihilation of wildlife is cutting down the tree of life, including the branch we are sitting on, according to a stark new analysis.
More than 300 different mammal species have been eradicated by human activities. The new research calculates the total unique evolutionary history that has been lost as a result at a startling 2.5bn years.
Furthermore, even if the destruction…
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Thamirabarani is a river in Tirunelveli district of Tamil Nadu.
Thamirabarani River
This river starts from the southern end of Western Ghats – Sahayadri and flows eastwards into Bay of Bengal.
The shape of India narrows down in south substantially, and so the length of this river from origin to its meeting the sea, is all in one district, namely Tirunelveli.
Rishi Agastya mentions about this river. His Ashram was located on the upper reaches of this river.
Agastiyar Temple
Agastiyar Ghat
This river is mentioned in Ramayana.
Sugreeva mentions about this river.
Sugreeva dispatches a set of Vanara to the South and instructs them to search for Sita in the following locations –
“Search the Malayagir mountains, you will find Rishi Agastya there, then cross Kaveri river, then cross Tamaraparani river, then you will see the…
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After 23 November in the Corversbos nature reserve, the next day, 24 November, to Gooilust, not far away. We found these strict-branch coral fungi there.
Before finding these fungi, we had heard nuthatches.
A red admiral butterfly, flying to the top of a coniferous tree; basking in the sunshine on a branch. This was about the last mild autumn day. Next night, it would freeze. Has the butterfly survived that?
Clouded agaric mushrooms. A robin on a branch.
After the coral fungi, these small mushrooms. Probably one of many Mycena species.
This, on a fallen tree, looks like another Mycena species.
On a stump, much bigger fungi. Some of them whitish, some greenish like salad; between orange-reddish fallen autumn leaves.
As we went to the exit, a buzzard landed on a branch.
Don’t let their small size fool you. Fungi are capable of mind-blowing feats: here
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This 14 October 2018 video says about itself:
36 BEAUTIFUL BIRDS
1. BLACKBIRD
2. NUTHATCH
3. RED CROSSBILL
4. CHAFFINCH
5. ROBIN
6. BLUE TIT
7. STARLING
8. SISKIN
9. HOUSE SPARROW
10. WREN
11. SHORT-TOED TREECREEPER
12. HAWFINCH
13. WILLOW WARBLER
14. GREENFINCH
15. DUNNOCK
16. GREAT TIT
17. NIGHTINGALE
18. GOLDEN OREOLE
19. SONG TRUSH
20. BULLFICH
21. JACKDAW
22. GOLDCREST
23. FIELDFARE
24. CRESTED TIT
25. LONG-TAILED TIT
26. FIRECREST
27. BLACK REDSTART
28. MAGPIE
29. GOLDFINCH
30. JAY
31. GREEN WOODPECKER
32. CARRION CROW
33. ROOK
34. RAVEN
35. CHIFFCHAFF
36. KINGFISHER
These are bird species from Europe.
This photo by Marsel van Oosten from the Netherlands is the winner of the Wildlife Photographer of the Year 2018 competition.
It shows two golden snub-nosed monkeys, a male (in front) and a female, in a forest in the Qinling mountains in China.
This photo, like the others in this blog posts, is from 19 October 2018; from the woodlands of Gooilust nature reserve.
There were porcelain fungi, like these ones …
… and these ones.
And yet more fungi.
Navrathri Kolu at Sri Ramakrishna Mission Ashrama, Salem
October, 2018
Navarathri means nine nights in Sanskrit, and is the name of the festival dedicated to the worship of goddess Durga Devi. It refers to the nine nights of darkness and of battle against evil and the tenth day of victory and of light.
This year, at the Ramakrishna Mutt temple in Salem, there were five sections in the Navarathri Kolu.
The first section had the most beautiful rangoli of Durga devi, Lakshmi and Saraswati.
During this nine day festival nine different manifestations of the goddess Durga are worshipped. The nine goddesses are Shailaputri, Brahmacharini, Chandraghanta, Kushmanda, Skanda Mata, Katyayani, Kalaratri, Maha Gowri, and Siddhidatri.
The nine devis of Navarathri,the manifestations of devi Durga and the slokas in Tamil for each devi, to be recited during on the nine days of Navarathri
The message of Navarathri is the innate strength of…
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Hello! The name Voices-and-Visions has been changed to Echoes in the Mist.
We hope you like it!
Everything else will remain the same.
Thank you all!
Sharon St Joan
Echoes in the Mist
In a portent of misted beauty
The rain-wandering hawk
Awakens
The sleeping
Mother of the mountains
To ring the standing
Bowls of silence
There since
Before the wings of time took flight,
And in ringing, to empower
The wild places;
The trees, her children,
Blossom gold;
Bumblebees run races,
The stars sail
Their tall wooden ships
On the bobbing waves of the black, deep sea.
Will the antlered elk remain,
Even then,
Along with the swift falcon,
And the barred geese
Who rode so bravely
Near the fierce night
Of the wrath of the wind
And biting hail
Where the embattled sky
Flashed
White, unpinned,
And armies of air
Clashed
From outcrop to rocky hill
Echoing
Echoing
Where the old owl blinks?
In the aftermath, gray-gowned, shy
Rain beings fly by
On blue
Petals;
The band of geese settles
On the lapping lake, recalling
All the stone-stepped eons told
In the unfolding stories – or a leaf-borne tale
By the rocks that talk,
Voices of the dark red canyons,
Of the grass and plants, wind-whispering
Of the juniper-guardians
Of the all-knowing bear,
Of the small-footed mouse, smiling and meek,
And the so determined ants.
There the rattlesnake slinks.
Now only the wise ones who
Know the starry ways, by most forgotten,
Who tend the earth, will gather
Again,
Their songs to sing
Like the soaring sea,
In the bright land of the moon –
Gentle as the rain that drips
Among the sleeping flowers
Of the stars. Now all is connected in these most final holy
Hours
As it was before the beginning,
One in many,
Many in one,
And if we train
Our attention for a moment,
Soon,
As the gale is done,
We will
Find the one we seek
Standing by the silver tree,
Near the old
Railed fence
Speckled in sunlight.
Hear beyond the rivers’ torrent
The chant of Om,
The lost bells of home.
Thank you, blessed rain.
Thank you, Parvathi,
Ever there, peace
Falling
On the star-clad mountain peak.
© Sharon St Joan, 2018
Photo: 113186375 © Michael Chatt / dreamstime.com
