Nature By Vitlated

How Nature Fullfeel Space

2007-04-10T19:12:00.000+01:00

A beauty of nature is always masterpiece it self.

All the plants grow up as they can, trying to get the light. We can stop the their way to explore the world.

I hope they do!

The Journey Thru Time

2007-04-10T18:58:00.000+01:00

Well it's been a while, but I'm back.

My time is now less than ever, there is no time to rest . I have to learn more and more, and this is how my time is spending, learning and thinking.

Healthy plants, growing and flowering over time...

Bye Buy

The Lost Island

2006-10-12T23:56:00.000+01:00

The Lost Island, is a really true name for this aquarium. It has plenty of plants, with really nice colores, and full of life. It makes me remind a true lost paradize in the midle of somewhere...

LOST

The Land of Light

2006-07-16T09:30:00.000+01:00

Hello..

The Land of Light was built in the same week that Bears Home. I do not planned very mutch this time, and that's why it is not a very nice aquascape, but I could use new technique and I really improve a differently aprotch of planning a aquascape. Never the less is stills be a beautiful wealthy aquarium.

15/05/06

18/05/06

10/06/06

18/06/06

15/07/06

Well, and that is the finish of the season.

In september there will be more news...

Godby

The Beauty of Flowers

2006-07-15T23:34:00.000+01:00

Hello

Thanks mother nature, I admire the way sometimes you find out to make our world more beautiful, and flowers have a great role on that!
That's why I left here some pictures of some flowers that I made in Azores. I hope you like it.

What a beauty, dont you think?

Godby

Bears Home

2006-07-09T11:49:00.000+01:00

Hello.

This time, you will get you to know the newest layout I made, the "Bears Home". This big aquarium doesn't belong to me, but I setup this aquarium for a friend of me. This is the very first aquarium that I consider as a big step to the next times of making layouts, it is a big improve of my aquascape, and now I think I'm ready to setup some nice aquascapes. I and Carlos Alfredo(the owner)try hard to do something good, and I think we did that. This aquarium is very complex, and it has plenty of fish and plants and water conditions, but the start up, with the knowledge, and getting the right material make all of this a success. So as you can the, to have something like this, you have to study and get the right thing in the right time. I hope you enjoy as mutch as I do.

10/05/06

12/05/06

25/05/06

08/06/06

19/06/06

08/07/06

Well, for some more information just contact me, i will let you know all about the setup of the "Bears Home". It will be very dificult to make something more beatifull than this peace of work, but i will try, and most of all, it is the animals, and plants that benifits with all my improvement, so i get very happy for them.

GodBye

Anas platyrhynchos or Anas rubripes

2006-06-13T12:44:00.000+01:00

Hello...

Once more I'm here to introduce you another species that are around us in this beautiful planet. As you can see, in the picture, I will talk about a duck, that I photograph in the beautiful island of Azores.
Well lots of opinions came by to identify this duck, but still unable to identify for sure. Some say that it is a Anas platyrhynchos (Mallard) some say that it is a Anas rubripes (Black Duck), and even a Anas fulvigula (Mottled Duck). The most consistence opinion is that it is a hybrid between Black Duck and MAllard, never the less, it it for sure a very nice animal.The mallard is the most common duck in North America. It is easy to tell the males from the female mallards. Most male mallards have grayish or brownish feathers, a green colored head, and a purple breast. On the other hand, the female is only brown and white and is maller than the male. The length of the normal mallard is about 50-60 cm. Mallards molt in late spring or early summer. The males molt earlier than the females. The mallard duck is found mostly in North America and Northern Central America. They nest under boulders, in tree holes, in the crotch of trees, or in open areas.The sooty-brown American Black Duck Anas rubripes is a common sight in ponds and marshes in eastern Canada. It is the only common duck in eastern North America in which the sexes are almost identical in appearance. Male and female American Black Ducks resemble the female Mallard in size and appearance. Their brown bodies are darker than the MallardÃ’s, however, and lack the MallardÃ’s whitish outer tail-feathers and prominent white wing bars. The American Black DuckÃ’s head and neck are a lighter brown than its torso, and there is a beautiful purplish-blue patch, or speculum, on the wing. In flight, the American Black Duck is identifiable by the flash of its white underwings.The Mallard Duck To breed, the male attracts the female mate by ruffling his bright feathers. But the pair usually does not stay together for long. The male mallard, or drake, leaves the female when she begins incubation and forms a group with other males. Nine to thirteen eggs are laid at daily intervals. Incubation begins when the clutch is complete and lasts for 27 to 28 days. The ducklings all hatch within 24 hours, mostly during the day. Once they are hatched they are led to water. Mallards mature quickly and may breed under 12 months of age. Although mallard ducks have been known to live as long as sixteen years of age, most of them only live for one or two years.Adult black ducks begin selecting a mate in the fall, and probably most are paired by mid-December. Immatures begin pairing somewhat later, but almost all American Black Ducks arrive paired at the breeding grounds in the spring. The female selects the nest site, usually in a clump of grass, under a shrub or tree, or in a hole or fork in a tree, near the ground. She digs a scrape (nest) using both feet and her bill, then lines it with grasses, leaves, and other dry plant material. She plucks down, or fine feathers, from her body and adds it to the nest during the approximately one- to two-week period when she is laying her seven to 12 (nine on average) creamy white, or sometimes greenish-buff, eggs.During the summer, mallards spend much time asleep on water banks. The mallard has only three defenses- swimming, flying, and camouflage, and it is prey to large mammals. Mallards have no defense against humans who are their biggest enemy. Many are killed by oil spills and pesticides. As you can see this animal is very sensible and her life denpend on how we manedge the world, so think twice when you make something stupid on the envirement.This sweet animal may not surveive at you insanity.

Boiga Cyanea

2006-06-01T12:13:00.000+01:00

Hello...This time I will talk about a beautiful wild animal shutch as the Boiga cyanea, an incredible colorful animal.The unmistakable Boiga cyanea Snake inhabits primary and secondary forests, including mountain zones, and can also be found at sea level in coastal forests. By day it lies coiled up amongst tree branches, but by night it actively hunts for prey such as geckos.The body is strongly laterally compressed, the head large, and the eyes very large with vertical pupils. Dorsal scale color is green with bluish hints, and ventral color yellow.The species ranges from India, Southern China and Indochina to Burma, Thailand and northern Peninsular Malaysia, unfortunately it is not common in Portugal, but we have also a green snake, very beautiful in Portugal, that maybe in future I will introduce to you.This snake can measure up to 1.9 meters, and the eyes are large and seem to stick out at the side of the head and the brightest blue. It takes them from 8-14 months to go from the juvenile coloring to the adult going through greyish-red body coloration.The poison of Boiga cyanea resembles that of other Boigas, Though it is usually much weaker than say that of the better known Boiga dendrophila. A bite from Boiga cyanea is normally of no problem to adult humans and is no worse then a bee or wasp sting. It can be dangerous if the person bitten has an allergic reaction to the bite. Boiga cyanea has very small teeth that are right in the back of the throat that you would not normally come into contact with, I hope it never bite me, nether you...Well let me remind all of you that's all the photos that you find in this blog, are my own, they are unique, and you don't find it anywhere else...

The Valley

2006-05-23T19:35:00.000+01:00

Hello...

Well time to introduce to you "The valley". This is the second of my attempts to create the aquascape of my little journey to find an equation of the wild beauty environment. Seams to me that to get there it will take more time and patience. This aquarium will become more and more complex, and I'll try to make more and more beautifully...Time please pass by...
26/03/06
26/03/0606/04/0613/04/0627/04/0612/05/06

GodBy

TooL

2006-05-05T14:59:00.000+01:00

"In a perfect world, people in general will hear the album, be inspired and do something extraordinary. I hope someone might use us as a backdrop for inspiration for some other activity they excel in. I'm not going to spoon feed anybody and rob them of their own personal experiences. I read the interpretations of the lyrics that people send to the Tool web page. They're way off. But that ís fine.
I really do have more faith in humanity than most people think I do. I get resentful and upset when people donít use their head about stuff. It upsets me when people are selling themselves short and letting themselves down, whether it ís education or information." Ass:MJK

Sacred Mirrors

2006-05-05T12:33:00.000+01:00

The Sacred Mirrors may be used as a tool to visualize and focus healing energy on particular parts os the physical and subtitle bodies.

The series os twenty-one paitings divides into three sections of body mind and spirit. The entire progression of the series from Material to Spiritual World visually describes a process of transformation from body awareness through sociopolitical awareness to spiritual awareness.

The sacred Mirrors present a multi-dimensional search for the Self. The Self is recognized as that which underlies, unites, and directs the many phisical systems and the spectrum of consciousness. The purpose of the Sacred Mirrors is to reflect on and appreciate the sacredness of the individual, one's unity with other people and coltures, and one's connectedness with th earth and cosmos.

Podarcis hispânica

2006-04-15T22:44:00.000+01:00

Hello

Introduction

Podarcis Hispânica is a reptile from the Lacertidae family. It is a very common animal. We can find it in Portugal, Spain and France, and there are article that says this animal was found too in the north of Africa.
This animal was some variations, of color and shape. The males are little bigger than the females. Her body can measuree 4-6 cm, and only his tale can hit the 10 cm. In This kind of reptiles is common to count theire scales, the male has got between 25-30 and the females 28-36.

Habitat

The Podarcis Hispânica like pretty mutch to climb stones, and hide little caverns in the stones. It is usual to find in walls too, that provides some spots to get the sun, and hide from predictors.
This is a animal that can sometimes get in hibernation, but it is not usual, cause he lives in warm contrys, but if it get a very cold winter in can go in periodde of hibernation.
Her food is basically some bugs and insects less than 2,5cm , but himself is a very good food to some animal like birds and some mammals too.

Reproduction

Is in the summer that they becomes sexual active. The male look for an female, and they get together like a couple. The female can lay about 1-5 egges, and the little Podarcis hispânica get out from eggs in 40-80 days of incubation.

Conclusion

It is a very shy animal, but it is very beautiful. This animal still existing for a long long time, is very adapted to his world. His fisionomy still very solid since the sauros age.
I hope we still arroud us for a long time.

Bye
Thanky Nature

Water Fall

2006-04-13T17:51:00.000+01:00

Hello to all.

Well this is my first introduction of my nature aquariums.
This is the very first aquarium that I build on my own. With some experience that my father gave to me, and some that I seartch, and adquire by some of the aquascapers like Amano, Oliver Knot, and FAAO.

The Water Fall is the start point of my journey thro, to somehow show my gratitude to mother nature.

Water Fall was built in 19/02/06. From that day it is growing up considerably. I will show you the evoluction of this aquarium. Please if you want to know the setup of this aquasacpe send me an email.

Hardscape

Foto date 19/02/06

Foto date 02/03/06

Foto date 23/03/06

Foto date 13/04/06

Bye
Thanky Nature

An Adventure of the Mind and Spirit

2006-04-12T18:14:00.000+01:00

Ishmael
by Daniel Quinn
Ismael is an impassioned dialogue on our human future from a unique and illuminating perspective.
To start i would like to advice you to read a book.
It is not just a book, is "An Adventure of the Mind and Spirit".
The author of this book is a great men called Daniel Quinn, a professor that came thro with a solution to save the world.Yes it may seems that it is a joke, but is not, but if you don't belief, you really should read the book to find out.

Ishmael, by Daniel Quinn, is the story of a desperate young man in search of a teacher. The teacher he finds is a lowland gorilla, who, being a member of a species entirely different from ours, has an entirely different vision of our history and our role in the universe.

The book won the Turner Tomorrow Fellowship in 1991 for a work of fiction offering positive solutions to global problems. It was selected from more than 2500 entries from around the world by a panel of judges that included Nadine Gordimer and Ray Bradbury. Since its initial publication in English in 1992, it has been published in over a dozen languages.

Review of the book.

A thoughtful, fearlessly low-key novel about the role of our species on the planet . . . The state of the planet and what is probably the only way to its salvation are laid out for us with an originality and a clarity that few would deny."--Elizabeth Marshall Thomas, The New York Times Book Review

In Portuguese.

ISMAEL

Como o Mundo Veio a Ser o Que É!

Daniel Quinn

Era um anúncio de três linhas apenas na secção de classificados do periódico local, mas ele desencadeou uma aventura intelectual e espiritual sem precedentes.

Ismael foi distinguido em 1992 com o Turner Fellowship Award, destinado a premiar obras de ficção "oferecendo soluções criativas e positivas para problemas globais". Só superficialmente, porém, esta caracterização faz jus ao primeiro romance de Daniel Quinn -- a ambição desmesurada que tem Ismael é dar-nos uma nova mitologia para um novo milénio.

"Toda a minha vida sempre fui um leitor voraz. A partir de agora, dividirei os livros que li em duas categorias -- os que li antes de Ismael e os que li depois. Admito que este livro possa ser de facto uma obra teológica, um novo tomo da Bíblia talvez. (...) O autor é decerto um iluminado, quem sabe um santo".

- Jim Britell, Whole Earth Review

Now that i show to all of you what we are, and what we are doing on earth, i can start my existence.

Bye

Nature By Vitlated

2006-04-12T15:09:00.000+01:00

Hi everybody, from now on, I will introduce to you some of my aquariums, and some of nature pictures that I collect, make and find for you to see. I will also post some of the filosofical way of life, and art to inspire those who came to see this blog.
Bye