Donnerstag, 20. November 2014

Bees Awareness: Save the Bees! What you can do

“Bees pollinate a third of our diet,

yet they’re literally vanishing from their hives”

“Many people have no idea that honey bees play an essential role in our agricultural system. By raising awareness of the issue we hope to motivate people to take action and share many ways they can be a part of the solution.”

Honey bees pollinate more than 100 fruit and vegetable crops around the world, from cucumbers to almonds, and are essential to maintaining our food supply. Approximately one third of all the food Americans eat is directly or indirectly derived from honey bees, according to the American Beekeeping Federation.

What You Can Do
Whole Foods Market offers six easy ways for anyone to help declining honey bee populations. You can:

1. Bee organic. Buying organic is one of the easiest ways to support bee-friendly forage.
2. Bee a gardener. Plant bee-friendly fruits and flowers to provide forage for honey bees.
3. Bee savvy at home. Most lawn, garden and home pest problems can be solved without toxic and persistent chemical pesticides.
4. Bee a smart shopper. Several Whole Foods Market suppliers have donated funds to support honey bee preservation. Look for “Share the Buzz” signs on their products.
5. Bee a beekeeper. Whether you live in the country or the city, you can show your commitment to honey bees by hosting a hive in your backyard or even on a rooftop. The backyard beekeepingmovement is growing, so you’re sure to find swarms of folks who can help you find your way.
6. Bee social. Social media can be a powerful tool for busy bees. Share stories, videos and more honey bee action ideas from Whole Foods Market’s Facebook and Twitter posts.

Photos copyright ©by Gina Matt / Naturpunkt.at

Further links to the theme:
Meine Webseite Naturpunkt
Mein deutscher Artikel Bienen Bewusstsein

Article Information: Organic Authority com
My Playlist on Insects at You Tube

Samstag, 8. November 2014

Water is the driver of Nature. - Leonardo da Vinci

All things are connected, like the blood that runs in your family "The water's murmur is the voice of my father's father." 1854 The rivers are our brothers. They quench our thirst. They carry our canoes and feed our children. You must give to the rivers the kindness you would give to any brother. - by Chief Seattle

"May what I do flow from me like a river,
no forcing and no holding back,
the way it is with children."
― Rainer Maria Rilke

Eventually, all things merge into one, and a river runs through it.

The river was cut by the world's great flood and runs over from the basement of time.

On some of the rocks are timeless raindrops,

under the rocks are the words and some of the words are theirs.

- Norman Maclean - From A River Runs Through It

To put your hands in a river is to feel the chords that bind the earth together."

- Barry Lopez

Music from sundresslady / Biggi Bechtold with special permission. Great thank's to her.

Played on Yamaha CVP509 new age sounds: grand piano,strings,bells

Photographies: by me Gina Matt

Link to my Website Naturpunkt

Freitag, 7. November 2014

FLOWERS & COLORS Photography Compositions

Flowers seem intended for the solace of ordinary humanity.

~John Ruskin

The dahlia was declared the national flower of Mexico in 1963.

The tubers were grown as a food crop by the Aztecs, but this use largely died out after the Spanish Conquest. Attempts to introduce the tubers as a food crop in Europe were unsuccessful.

Dahlia is a genus of bushy, tuberous, herbaceous perennial plants native mainly in Mexico, but also Central America, and Colombia.

A member ofthe Asteraceae (or Compositae), dicotyledonous plants, related species include the sunflower, daisy, chrysanthemum and zinnia.

There are 42 species of dahlia, with hybrids commonly grown as garden plants.

Flowers are a proud assertion

that a ray of beauty

outvalues all the utilities of the world.

~Ralph Waldo Emerson

"The dahlia you brought to our isle

Your praises for ever shall speak;

Mid gardens as sweet as your smile,

And in colour as bright as your cheek.“

Verse by Lord Holland sent to his wife

One of my flower color Videos:

Nature Photographies copyright ©by Gina Matt / Naturpunkt

You might also like these other videos of mine about flowers and colors:

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Pink Roses Beauty ~ Symbol of Love https://youtu.be/SLWdUW7fZsM

Sunflower-life with many faces https://youtu.be/i3vvk1UnYQ8

Link to my website 'Naturpunkt'

Freitag, 31. Oktober 2014

Our forests: Places where souls can sing their free songs

Woods at the Walgau-Valley
Vorarlberg, Austria

picture with mirror effect:

“This life is yours.

Take the power to choose what you want to do and do it well.

Take the power to love what you want in life and love it honestly.

Take the power to walk in the forest and be a part of nature.

Take the power to control your own life.

No one else can do it for you.

Take the power to make your life happy.”

by Susan Polis Schutz

“Their life is mysterious, it is like a forest; from far off it seems a unity, it can be comprehended, described, but closer it begins to separate, to break into light and shadow, the density blinds one. Within there is no form, only prodigious detail that reaches everywhere: exotic sounds, spills of sunlight, foliage, fallen trees, small beasts that flee at the sound of a twig-snap, insects, silence, flowers.
And all of this, dependent, closely woven, all of it is deceiving. There are really two kinds of life. There is, as Viri says, the one people believe you are living, and there is the other. It is this other which causes the trouble, this other we long to see.”
byJames Salter - Light Years

One of my trees- and woods Nature Videos with music:

Link: to to my Website Naturpunkt

Link to my Playlist on You Tube "Trees&Woods Photography"

Hermann Hesse about trees:

Trees are sanctuaries. Whoever knows how to speak to them, whoever knows how to listen to them, can learn the truth. They do not preach learning and precepts, they preach, undeterred by particulars, the ancient law of life.

A tree says: A kernel is hidden in me, a spark, a thought, I am life from eternal life. The attempt and the risk that the eternal mother took with me is unique, unique the form and veins of my skin, unique the smallest play of leaves in my branches and the smallest scar on my bark. I was made to form and reveal the eternal in my smallest special detail.

A tree says: My strength is trust. I know nothing about my fathers, I know nothing about the thousand children that every year spring out of me. I live out the secret of my seed to the very end, and I care for nothing else. I trust that God is in me. I trust that my labor is holy. Out of this trust I live.

Sonntag, 26. Oktober 2014

Mallorca: Interesting places -Monument of "Crist Rei" at the Monastery of Sant Salvador

Ones first View when approaching Sant Salvador is the 7m high statue of the Crist Rei statue, which was erected in 1934. The statue was donated to his home village by a Felanitx-born canon of Palma Cathedral. Near by is the cross at the summit of "El Picot" (1957)

The small chapel half way up the road to the sanctuary was constructed in 1910 to remember the legend of the shepherd who found the statue of Our Lady.

Sant Salvador with the hermitage of the same name, Santuari de Sant Salvador, is to be found southeast of Felanitx and is easy to reach via a comfortable winding road the former Pilgrims' Way, passing by an impressive stone cross situated atop El Picot and the stations of the Cross. The foundation stone of the monastery was laid in 1348. When the primitive church dedicated to the "Passió de la Imatge" was built. The present building was constructed at the beginning of the 18th century and a statue, venerated in the 15th century, of the Lady of Sant Salvador was placed above the altar, also a magnificent carved stone altarpiece of "La passió de la Imartge", also from the 15th century, was moved to a side chapel.

View from Sant Salvador

Although the exterior looks like a fortress, partly due to the stormy history of the monastery, in the Middle Ages, the monks had to defend themselves against numerous attacks by Arab pirates.

The interior of the monastery is the opposite being richly decorated. Notably the altarpiece of alabaster (16th century), which depicts the Last Supper and parts of the Passion and was created by Guillem Sagrera

At a height of 510m. and with fantastic views this monastery is a popular place to visit although it is still used regularly for worship, weddings or communions.

Mass is usually celebrated on Sundays and holidays days at 17.00hrs, also on the Sunday closest to September 8, to commemorate the coronation of the Image of Our Lady in 1934, and also the first Sunday after Easter.

Links:

English informations from a2zmallorca

Deutsch: Wikipedia -Santuari de Sant Salvador

Website Naturpunkt

Donnerstag, 23. Oktober 2014

Nasturtium editible Plant with๑•.°°Innocent droplets of rain °° -Kapuzinerkresse mit spielerischen Regentropfen

“Innocent droplets of rain

make almost all events

quite natural.

― Visar Zhiti, The Condemned Apple: Selected Poetry

Botany of Nasturtium / Kapuzinerkresse

Indian cress, Capuchina, Grande Capucine, Tropaeolum, Chin-lien-hua
Tropaeolum majus

Family: TROPAEOLACEAE

Its known as a potent broad-spectrum antibiotic and healer which far surpasses any medical antibiotic in speed and effectiveness.

Nasturtium (English: nasturtium) the buds and flowers have slight "peppery" taste. The plant belongs to the Brassicaceae but botanically, but to a very different family (Tropaeolaceae). It has been brought in the 16th century from South America to Europe, grows in relatively harsh climate and delighted us in many gardens due to their intense colors. The nasturtium contains a lot of vitamin C; all parts of the plant are edible - an attractive variation in a summer salad.

https://middlepath.com.au/plant/Nasturtium_Tropaeolum-majus_medicinal-antibiotic-herb.php

Raindrops in photographically playful manner, I hope that you enjoy my Video:

This cute climbing plant comes originally from the Andean region, but it seem to do pretty well in most climates. It is praised as much for its ornamental aspect as it is for its culinary and medicinal uses.

Its hot-pungent taste, a little stronger than watercress at times, makes it a delicious - and cute! - salad ingredient. Leaves, flowers and seeds are all edible, very rich in vitamin C. I like using the larger leaves (when they grow in shadowy places the leaves can get as large as 15cm of diameter!) in my green smoothies, leaving the sweet flowers to salads. The young seeds are even hotter than the flowers and leaves and they can be ground, added as spice to salad dressings or stews, or they can be prepared as capers. The mature seeds contain more than 25% of protein and they can be dried and ground to be used as a healthier pepper substitute.

In medicinal herbalism is nasturtium mostly known as an expectorant and disinfectant. Its antibacterial, anti-fungicide and antibiotic properties make it an amazing plant to help relieve infections, both internally as externally, as in disinfecting wounds and cuts. Its high content of vitamin C together with other phytonutrients make it a good herb to treat scurvy.

http://healingweeds.blogspot.co.at/2013/06/nasturtium.html

Tropfen in photografisch spielerischer Form