Kategoria: Nature

PINK NIGHTS



Aurora borealis in Alaska

Dear PINK’s

My heart flow north, I am attracted to the pole, missing the White Nights… again I don’t know If I can drop to Sankt Petersburg this June but I would try – once you tested them you become addict – the bitter-sweet longing remains at the bottom of your soul – endless day is like a bite of endless life 🙂

I never seen northern lights but I am already longing for them. Seams like solar winds are at they peak around equinox so this isn’t exacty the best moment to write about auroras but it happened that right now I am sunken deeply into the Pullman‘s Trilogy and my head is full of them. Please enjoy one of the shinny fragments from this obscure book:

The sight filled the northern sky; the immensity of it was scarcely conceivable. As if from Heaven itself, great curtains of delicate light hung and trembled. Pale green and rose-pink, and as transparent as the most fragile fabric, and at the bottom edge a profound and fiery crimson like the fires of Hell, they swung and shimmered loosely with more grace than the most skillful dancer. Lyra thought she could even hear them: a vast distant whispering swish. She was moved by it: it was so beautiful it was almost holy; she felt tears splintered the light even further into prismatic rainbows. […] And as she gazed, the image of a city seemed to form itself behind the veils and streams of translucent color: towers and domes, honey-colored temples and colonnades, broad boulevards and sunlit parkland. Looking at it gave her a sense of vertigo, as if she were looking not up but down, and across a gulf so wide that nothing could ever pass over it. It was a whole universe away.

I am mesmerized by this man – I am finishing “His Dark Materials” right now – this is the best fantasy I’ve read since ages and the best fantasy written ever I would dare to say. Big thanks to AB for introducing me to Pullman’s Univerese 🙂

PINK NOT DEAD!

maurycy

check also:

Aurora Forecast

SHIBAZAKURA PINK

Śród fali łąk szumiących, śród kwiatów powodzi…



Hitsuji-yama Park, Saitama City, Japan

Dear PINK’s

Spring is at the door ( ( ( ( (( ((( ❤ ))) )) ) ) ) ) I am a bit worried that I will miss blossoming orchards at my Warsaw Headquarters (>_<) still my heart will be there :) As my next tribute to the Queen of Seasons I would like to share with U my latest "post-sakura" discovery - I do not know if anybody will celebrate the phenomena right now considering Japan's catastrophic condition anyway here it is: Shibazakura - Burle Marx in Living Color ✿✿✿✿✿✿✿ !

Pink Moss at Hitsujiyama Park in Saitama City, Japan

Hitsuji-yama Park, Chichibu, SAITAMA is a field of pink moss designed to make a pattern on the hill of hitsuji-yama, using more than 400,000 bulbs. This flower patchwork of pink, white and purple spreads over 16500 square meter and is truly overwhelming.

– Bloom Period: Mid April to Mid May


Open hour : from 8:00am to 5:00pm
Addmission fee of Hitsujiyama Park : JPY 300

Access to the Hitsujiyama Park from Tokyo: it takes about 90 mins. from Seibu Ikebukuro station to Yokoze station by Tokkyu express train of Seibu Ikebukuro Line. Cheaper trains take about 2 hours.
(There are also other nearest stations such as Seibu Chichibu station (Seibu Chichibu Line) and Ohanabatake station and Chichibu station (Chichibu Railways Line)). About 30 mins walk from Yokoze Station to the Hitsujiyama Park. You can go there in a day. It is good for hiking!

PINK NOT DEAD!

maurycy

Shibazakura. photographer / source unknown

SPATULE ROSE



Spatule Rose etching, courtesy of greyherbert, perhaps by Francois Nicolas Martinet?

Dear PINK’s

La Spatule rosée est la seule spatule de couleur rose au monde. Son cou et son corps supérieur sont blancs; ce sont les parties basses qui sont roses. Elle a aussi une barre rose à travers ses ailes et un grand bec gris. Les jeunes spatules rosées sont beaucoup plus pâles avec seulement des soupçons de rose sur les ailes, et ont des becs roses ou jaunes.

Dziś Roseate Spoonbill (Ajaja ajaja) – Różowy Rybołów a właściwie Warzęcha różowa (Platalea ajaja) – What else need I say? :>

PINK NOT DEAD!

maurycy

DUSTY PINK



Amaryllis belladonna at peacay ‘s flickr photostream

Dear PINK’s

Some dusty flowers seem right when ✿ The Very Lady ✿ wears Wet Pink Skirt. For all bibliophiles with love – in Culture the Spring is Timeless – enjoy peacay ‘s collection of etchings – he is a truly generous soul – plenty of treasures at one click away 🙂 Do not miss Antarctica Botany 😉

PINK NOT DEAD!

maurycy



Laelia superbiens at peacay ‘s flickr photostream

for those who want more: BibliOdyssey

PINK BLIZZARD

image removed on authors request

Dear PINK’s

I am back in Mexico – three days only in the Monster City then a week in Paradise and again back to Battlefield Warsaw – it seams that my next show is at Zachęta National Gallery December 6th – I am excited and slightly terrified – the cube is gargantuan 🙂 Lust Looking Terror closes Thursday so the last chance to see it is exactly now. As I am a bit obsessed with snakes lately and doing massive research of the photo material over the web so some more pink herpes for pink hungry eyes: just hatched Baby Cornsnakes. Cute – aren’t they?

From the other hand it reminded me that some time ago I was searching You Tube under the world “Pinky” and rather than clips with cute little fingers starring I was constantly finding videos depicting snakes devouring baby mice. Pretty nasty stuff – sort of “Legal Snuff” that I find revolting to watch but that stands for perfect example of the product of this bloody repulsion-desire dualism that most human share. The desire to rape our eyes – that means far more than pornography.

Jerzy Szyłak obublikował właśnie książkę pod podobnym tyułem ( Zgwałcone Oczy ) analizującą fenomen przemocy seksualnej w komiksie – nie czytałem jej jeszcze ale ciekaw jestem niezmiernie jak daleko autor posuwa się w penetracji i interpretacji zjawiska. Z drugiej strony w okrutnym eposie Littela, którym torturowałem się przez cały lot do Meksyku natrafiłem na cytat z “Państwa” Platona, który dobrze oddaje naturę rzeczy: Leontios, syn Aglajona, szedł z Pireusu na górę pod zewnętrzną stroną muru północnego i zobaczył trupy leżące koło domu kata. Więc równocześnie i zobaczyć je chciał, i brzydził się, i odwracał, i tak długo walczył ze sobą i zasłaniał się, aż jego żądza przemogła i wytrzeszczywszy oczy, przybiegł do tych trupów i powiada: “No, macie teraz, wy moje oczy przeklęte, napaście się tym pięknym widokiem”. (*)

PINK NOT DEAD!

maurycy

Eastern Worm Snake by Patrick Coin

(*) – Jonathan Littel “Łaskawe” (Les Bienveillantes, 2006) Wydawnictwo Literackie, Kraków, 2008, przełożyła Magdalena Kamińska-Maurugeon
str. 108 cytat z “Państwa” Platona w przekładzie W. Witwickiego, Kęty 2006

PINK NEBULA



Lagoon Nebula – astrophotograph by Adrian Hancox as seen from Austraila, September 22th, 2006

Dear PINK’s

Today a glimpse on the pinkness of the deep space – Lagoon Nebula – photographed by my flickr friend Adrian Naturalist. Check his mushroom shots – he even has a Pink One between them 🙂

PINK NOT DEAD!

maurycy

PS: It’s my 39th birthday today 🙂 (: – I am approaching Forties (!) I will take care to make them Pretty Pink 🙂

PINK BLOSSOM



Pink Blossom by Kurt Laitenberger at Flicker.

Dear PINK’s

Rozmawiałem dziś z mamą – powiedziała mi że sady już kwitą – Sady… w zeszłym roku spędziłem tam większość wiosennych nocy. Ranek kiedy biało-różowy śnieg sypie pod słońce to idealny moment na śmierć… a jeżeli jeszcze do tego głowę potrzymuje ci najada… Zrobiłem sporo zdjęć ale fotografowanie tak eterycznych zjawisk jest dla mnie niemal nierealne – powyżej znaleziona na flickerze fotka Kurta Laitenbergera – ten musiał mieć niezłą frajdę 🙂 Przylatuję do Warszawy 26 – mam nadzieję załapać się jeszcze na trochę tego szczęścia 🙂 ////// Hoy hable con mi mama – me dijo que los huertos por nuestra casa ya están floreando – Huertos… ano pasado pase mayoría de las noches de primavera en ellos. La manana cuando la nieve blanco-rosada cae contra el sol es un perfecto momento para morir. Mejor aun si una nayada con ternura te sostenga la cabeza… Hice bastantes fotos pero fotografiar fenómenos tan etéreos es una tarea casi imposible para mi – arriba una foto de Kurt Laitenberger que encontré en el Flicker – que abundancia, que suerte 🙂 Me voy a Varsovia el 26 espero que me toca todavía algo de esta felicidad 🙂 ////// I speak today with my mom – she said that orchard by our house are in blossom already – Orchards… last year I spend there most of spring nights. Morning when white and pink snow falls against the sun is a perfect moment to die. Better even when some naiad holds gently your head… I made quite a lot of pictures but photographing such ethereal phenomena is almost an impossible task for me – above picture by Kurt Laitenberger I found on Flicker – lucky guy 🙂 I am going to Warsaw 26th – I hope to catch ad least a bit of this happiness 🙂

PINK NOT DEAD!

Maurycy

SAKURA