Amazing

                                       Before and after excavation of ancient Greece 

Amazing

 

                                               This is 4.5 million year old meteorite

 A meteorite is a solid piece of debris from an object, such as a comet, asteroid, or meteoroid, that originates in outer space and survives its passage through the atmosphere to reach the surface of a planet or moon

Amazing!!

A friend of ours from New York saw this product for your glasses at the shoot and bought some....

 

I am telling you...it is amazing stuff. If you wear glasses, you know how it seems you are always looking through one smudge or another but clean your glasses with this and they will stay clean for days!!
I am impressed!
(Click on pictrure for web site)

 

Gibraltar International Airport

Notice the water on both ends of the runway......... but that's not the scariest part.....



 Winston Churchill Avenue (the main road heading towards the land border with Spain) intersects the airport runway, so consequently has to be closed every time a plane lands or departs.
 

 

Think it is rarely used? Think again........In 2004 the airport handled 314,375 passengers and 380 tons of cargo.

Spots

Look at this picture of  the Diga del Cingino dam in Italy.....

See those spots?

Well you will never in a million years guess what they are!!!!

Sheep!!!

They are European Ibex and they like to eat the moss and lichen growing on the wall.

Now that is what you call "sure footed"

Amazing art

Look closely at this picture...................................................


























Would you ever guess it was created from these?

Only a genius could figure out how to place thousands of nails in such a way as to create beautiful art...

 

Meet   Marcus Levine

The British artist’s road to his brilliant career has been anything but predictable. Born in Yorkshire, Levine attended the Jacob Kramer Art College, but instead of pursuing his dream of making nail art, he opted for career as a TV graphic designer, and later joined the family business. It wasn’t until 2004 that he finally decided he wanted to make art for a living, and moved to Budapest. He began hammering nails into composite wood boards and completed his first real nail artwork in 2005. He continued to perfect his technique, creating increasingly dynamic interpretations of his subjects and pushing the boundaries with each new art piece.

He takes between three days and two months to complete one of his hammered masterpieces and uses anywhere between 15,000 and upwards of 50,000 nails. By placing them at various heights and distances, he can create various distinct tones and manipulate the intensity of the contours.

Owl

Just a little hoo hoo in the night and a head that swivels all the way around?

Check out the wing control and concentration shown on this amazing video....Get ready, you are the target!
http://www.dogwork.com/owfo8/

Amazing

Daily Photo Stream posted a picture similar to this a while back and of course I had to research it......

St. George's Monastery - Wadi Qelt

St.George's Monastery is an ancient retreat hollowed out of the sheer rock wall in the deep and narrow Wadi Qelt gorge. The monastery was founded in 480CE around a cluster of caves where, according to tradition, St. Joachim learned from an angel that Anne, his sterile wife and mother-to-be of the Virgin Mary, had conceived.

In 614CE invading Persians massacred the monks and destroyed the monastery. It was partially reoccupied by the Crusaders in the Middle Ages but only fully restored at the end of the 19th century. Some attractive 6th-century mosaics remain, and there is a Crusader-era church with a shrine containing the skulls of the martyred monks.

The sixth-century cliff-hanging complex, with its ancient chapel and gardens, is active and inhabited by Greek Orthodox monks.

 It is reached by a pedestrian bridge across the Wadi Qelt, which many imagine to be Psalm 23's Valley of the Shadow, and where shepherds still watch over their flocks, just as Ezekiel 34 and John 10:1-16 describe. The valley parallels the old Roman road to Jericho, the backdrop for the parable of the Good Samaritan (Luke 10:29-37).

The ringing of the bells at the monastery.....

The monastery is open to pilgrims and visitors.

If I had a bucket list.......this would be on it.