Roses Station

09/03/2022

Camera Flash on a Spider Web 🕸️🕷️

Image credit: DC Roberts / Truly Enchanted Photography

09/03/2022

Still one of the best monologues ever written.

08/20/2022

06/24/2022

Good morning Hikers,
“To Eat Or Not To Eat” that is the question. Here is a list of edible trail options for you next adventure. Thank you Survival Life for sharing! We hope to see you on the trail soon!! 🥾🏔 Thank you Survival Lifefor posting!

04/04/2022

When she was a little girl
they told her she was beautiful
but it had no meaning
in her world of bicycles
and pigtails
and adventures in make-believe.

Later, she hoped she was beautiful
as boys started taking notice
of her friends
and phones rang for
Saturday night dates.

She felt beautiful on her wedding day,
hopeful with her
new life partner by her side
but, later,
when her children called
her beautiful,
she was often exhausted,
her hair messily tied back,
no make up,
wide in the waist
where it used to be narrow;
she just couldn't take it in.

Over the years, as she tried,
in fits and starts,
to look beautiful,
she found other things
to take priority,
like bills
and meals,
as she and her life partner
worked hard
to make a family,
to make ends meet,
to make children into adults,
to make a life.

Now,
she sat.
Alone.
Her children grown,
her partner flown,
and she couldn't remember
the last time
she was called beautiful.

But she was.

It was in every line on her face,
in the strength of her arthritic hands,
the ampleness that had
a million hugs imprinted
on its very skin,
and in the jiggly thighs and
thickened ankles
that had run her race for her.

She had lived her life with a loving
and generous heart,
had wrapped her arms
around so many to
to give them comfort and peace.
Her ears had
heard both terrible news
and lovely songs,
and her eyes
had brimmed with,
oh, so many tears,
they were now bright
even as they dimmed.

She had lived and she was.
And because she was,
she was made beautiful.

~ Suzanne Reynolds, © 2019

Photo credit: Nina Djerff
Model: Marit Rannveig Haslestad

02/17/2022

The Arctic Ocean photographed in the same place 105 years ago vs today. 😮

02/16/2022

WHY UKRAINE MATTERS For those who ask 😎
How the nation of Ukraine 🇺🇦 ranks:
📌1st in Europe in proven recoverable reserves of uranium ores;
📌2nd place in Europe and 10th place in the world in terms of titanium ore reserves;
📌2nd place in the world in terms of explored reserves of manganese ores (2.3 billion tons, or 12% of the world's reserves);
📌2nd largest iron ore reserves in the world (30 billion tons);
📌2nd place in Europe in terms of mercury ore reserves;
📌3rd place in Europe (13th place in the world) in shale gas reserves (22 trillion cubic meters)
📌4th in the world by the total value of natural resources
📌7th place in the world in coal reserves (33.9 billion tons)

🇺🇦 Ukraine is an agricultural country:

🥇1st in Europe in terms of arable land area
🥉3rd place in the world by the area of black soil (25% of world's volume);
🥇1st place in the world in exports of sunflower and sunflower oil;
🥈2nd place in the world in barley production and 4th place in barley exports;
🥉3rd largest producer and 4th largest exporter of corn in the world;
🏅4th largest producer of potatoes in the world;
- 5th largest rye producer in the world;
- 5th place in the world in bee production (75,000 tons);
- 8th place in the world in wheat exports;
- 9th place in the world in the production of chicken eggs;
- 16th place in the world in cheese exports.

❗️Ukraine 🇺🇦 can meet the food needs of 600 million people.

🇺🇦 Ukraine is an industrialized country:

💥 1st in Europe in ammonia production;
💥 2-е Europe's and 4th largest natural gas pipeline system in the world (142.5 bln cubic meters of gas throughput capacity in the EU);
💥 3rd largest in Europe and 8th largest in the world in terms of installed capacity of nuclear power plants;
💥 3rd place in Europe and 11th in the world in terms of rail network length (21,700 km);
💥 3rd place in the world (after the U.S. and France) in production of locators and locating equipment;
💥 3rd largest iron exporter in the world
💥 4th largest exporter of turbines for nuclear power plants in the world;
💥 4th world's largest manufacturer of rocket launchers;
💥 4th place in the world in clay exports
💥 4th place in the world in titanium exports
💥 8th place in the world in exports of ores and concentrates;
💥 9th place in the world in exports of defence industry products;
💥 10th largest steel producer in the world (32.4 million tons).

Translated from InVenture: "Is Ukraine a Country underestimated by investors?" by Anatoliy Amelin