TREES SILHOUETTES

Photos by myself, taken near my house.

A NICE PLACE TO ENJOY THE BEAUTY OF SUNSET

Love this restful place to sit, relax and read a book. It's a nice place to enjoy the lovely shadow and the scent of the cedars.

Photos taken by myself at my property's entrance

Update: Yesterday I received the Super Sweet Shots Award through Paz from Paz's New York Minute. Thank you so much Paz, I am honored and glad to have this Award from you.

GLORIFY THE NATURE!

Welcome, Bem-vindos, to Ecological Day!

1. Sonia2. Denise3. Luiz Ramos4. Max-e5. Luci Lacey6. Cláudia Kuser7. guild-rez8. Arboretto9. Pietro Brosio10. Elma Carneiro11. A Vision of Eden12. Paz's New York Minute13. Maria Augusta14. Eduardo15. Gepetto Pinocchio
16. Fernando Zanforlin17. JU Gioli18. noVÍ tá19. Marcos Santos20. Adelino21. Luma22. chicoelho23. Geraldine Sal24. Francine Esqueda25. Lizete Vicari26. mischief mari27. Cris - Brazil28. Rachel29. Gená F.30. Jim Otterstrom
31. Cláudia - Brazil32. Carlos A. Mascaro33. Chantal34. Lawstude35. Gená F.36. laura37. june38. Cuidado39. Salomao Rovedo40. joanne41. sonia novaes42. Lara43. silvia ellwanger44. Bram Antareja45.
You're next!

Ever since I have been living in Enseada Azul I have the nature all around me!

Ecology (from Greek: οίκος, oikos, "household"; and λόγος, logos, "knowledge") is the scientific study of the distribution and abundance of life and the interaction between organisms and their environment. The environment of an organism includes physical properties, which can be described as the sum of local abiotic factors such as insolation (sunlight), climate, and geology, and biotic factors, which are other organisms that share its habitat. The word "ecology" is often used more loosely in such terms as social ecology and deep ecology and in common parlance as a synonym for the nature environment or environmentalism. Likewise "ecologic" or "ecological" is often taken in the sense of environmentally friendly.The term ecology or oekologie was coined by the German biologist Ernst Haeckel in 1866, when he defined it as "the comprehensive science of the relationship of the organism to the environment.(Wikipedia)

A Ecologia é o estudo das interações dos seres vivos entre si e com o meio ambiente. A palavra Ecologia tem origem no grego “oikos", que significa casa, e "logos", estudo, reflexão. Logo, por extensão seria o estudo da casa, ou de forma mais genérica, do lugar onde se vive. Foi o cientista alemão Ernst Haeckel, em 1869 quem primeiro usou este termo para designar a parte da Biologia que estuda as relações entre os seres vivos e o ambiente em que vivem, além da distribuição e abundância dos seres vivos no planeta. Para os ecólogos, o meio ambiente inclui não só os fatores abióticos, como o clima e a geologia, mas também os seres vivos que habitam uma determinada comunidade ou biótopo. O meio ambiente afecta os seres vivos não só pelo espaço necessário à sua sobrevivência e reprodução - levando, por vezes, ao territorialismo - mas também às suas funções vitais, incluindo o seu comportamento (estudado pela etologia, que também analisa a evolução dos comportamentos), através do metabolismo. Por essa razão, o meio ambiente -- a sua qualidade -- determina o número de indivíduos e de espécies que podem viver no mesmo habitat. Por outro lado, os seres vivos também alteram permanentemente o meio ambiente em que vivem. (Wikipedia)

HAPPY BIRTHDAY DEAR SOFIA, THESE FLOWERS ARE FOR YOU!

Photos taken by my husband and by myself

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BLUE SKY AND YELLOW TREE

Welcome to Sky Watch Friday


Tabebuia chrysotricha (Golden Trumpet Tree)

These sets of photos of Tabebuia chrysotricha, known as Ipê-amarelo (yellow ipê), where taken by husband and myself in my garden just this week. Tabebuia is a genus of about 100 species of large shrubs and trees in the tribe Tecomeae of the family Bignoniaceae. The species range from northern Mexico and the Antilles south to northern Argentina and also Brazil. Many species are dry-season deciduous and flower on leafless stems at the end of the dry season, making the floral display more conspicuous. The bark of several species is used medicinally. The wood is used for furniture, decking, and other outdoor uses. (Deciduous means temporary or tending to fall off).

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TREES.... NATIVE FROM CERRADO LANDSCAPES

Tree in my yard

Tree in my yard

Tree in my yard

Tree in my neighborhood

Tree in my yard

Tree in my neighborhood

Tree in my yard

Those trees are Barbatimão (Stryphnodendron barbatiman Mart.) a luxuriant tree native to Brazil's cerrado vegetation. The Brazilian cerrado (savanna) bioma covers 2 million km² representing 23% of the area of the country (the same size as Western Europe). It is an ancient biome with rich biodiversity, estimated at 160.000 species of plants, fungi and animals. There are about 800 species of trees and large shrubs in the savanna vegetation. Cerrado is the second largest ecological dominion of Brazil, where a continuous herbaceous stratum is joined to an arboreal stratum, with variable density of woody species. Around 220 species from cerrado are reported as used in the traditional medicine. In terms of area it is exceeded by only one vegetation formation in Brazil, the Amazonian forest covering approx. 3.5 million km².

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Brazilian Biodiversity: approximately two thirds of the biological diversity of the world is found in tropical zones, mainly in developing countries. Brazil is the country with the most biological diversity in the world. It is estimated that we have between 15% to 20% of all the planet's biodiversity. There are 55,000 different native species of plants in Brazil (22% of the world's total), distributed over six major biomes : Amazon (30,000); Cerrado (10,000); Caatinga (4,000); Atlantic rainforest (10,000), Pantanal (10,000) and the subtropical forest (3,000).

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TREES... IN SUNLIGHT & SUNSET

I took these photos last year, in sunlight and in sunset, on the edge of the country road, while driving home.