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Testing uploading here again from my phone which is my primary camera these days (does as good if not better than any digital camera I'd buy and no bulky carrying). This is our newest addition and he's photogenic as all hell.

Mantingerveld consists of four small nature reserves, which are reduced to one large continuous area through activities of Natuurmonumenten (a Dutch society for nature conservation). The original landscape of the province of Drenthe with heathland, raised moors and fens must be restored over time. Mantingerzand - one of the four reserves - lies somewhat higher and that made it uneconomical to cultivate the area in the past centuries. On maps from the beginning of the 17th century, the area is already clearly distinguishable; it has hardly changed since then. Mantingerzand is an area with shifting sand hills with countless juniper bushes on it. The reserve with juniper berries was acquired by Natuurmonumenten in 1920; one of the first purchases of the organisation in the province of Drenthe. On the edge of the reserve are numerous old crooked oaks, which held the drifting sand. The oldest tree in the Mantingerzand is a pine, which has probably been here since 1840.

I grew up and lived most of my life in Vancouver BC. Fred Herzog came from Germany to Vancouver and with his Leica captured the essence of Vancouver street life. He was a pioneer of colour slide film. Sadly, he died in 2019 but left a legacy of over 85,000 images. I took this photo while visiting a small town on Vancouver Island.

Petrified Forest National Park is well known for its many chunks of petrified logs ( www.ipernity.com/doc/294067/45523794 ), but it offers more fascinating and intriguing scenery. The Blue Mesa area of the park is part of the second-oldest layer of the so called Chinle Formation, deposited approximately 220 - 225 million years ago. This formation can be seen across the park with the multi-coloured Painted Desert (PiP 1) and the Blue Mesa badlands. Blue Mesa (main image) - easy accessible by a three mile long loop road - is a very desolate landscape of mudstone and sandstone layers in blue, purple and greys. The landforms have been sculpted by erosion. The Tepees (PiP 2) is a part of Blue Mesa with tall, cone-shaped hill striped with almost perfect layers of reds, pinks, blues, greys, purples, and white.

Ein Blick aus dem Wintergarten der Gentzschen Villa in den Park lässt vergangene Zeiten wieder lebendig werden. Die orginal erhaltende Innenausstattung im orientalischen Stil prägt den einzigartigen Charakter des Cafés & Restaurants. Die Gartenterrasse und ein stilvoll eingerichteter Magnoliensaal (100 Plätze), Gentzstube (30 Plätze), Wintergarten (25 Plätze) ergänzen das historische Gebäude. Durch seine zentrale Lage - nur 5 min zum Stadtzentrum,10 min zum Ruppiner See, das Heimatmuseum gleich nebenan - ist der Tempelgarten ein idealer Ruhepunkt für Besucher der Fontanestadt. (Homepage des Restaurants)

Zalk is a small rural village with less than 800 inhabitants, situated between the towns of Kampen and Zwolle along the river IJssel. The village was part of the heerlijkheid (fiefdom) “Zalk en Veecaten”. After the creation of municipalities in 1813 the fiefdom was transformed to the municipality of “Zalk en Veecaten”. Nowadays Zalk belongs to the municipality of Kampen. The most important building in the village is the Sint Nicolaaskerk (St. Nicholas Church) with a Romanesque tower dating back to 1220. In addition, the village has a flour mill dating back to 1860. Zalk became well-known in the Netherlands as the home of the kruidenvrouwtje Klazien ("herb woman klazien").