PhLB - Luc Boonen's photos

Scavenger Hunt #49

Ths Sunday Challenge = Skin ---------------------------------------- Very tasty, beautiful skins

Toscaanse Jasmijn (Trachelospermum jasminoides) smells deeeelicious

The Sunday Challenge = Palindrome - words or sentences that read the same in reverse ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MirrorriM - what a great challenge!

The Sunday Challenge = Table or tables Amused by the discussion about what definition we should use: table definition = 1. a flat surface, usually supported by four legs, used for putting things on. SImples. And the restricions: a table, not a table in other meanings, not mathematic tables, or any other kind of table that doesn't have a top and legs!! :) Important: processing is OK. That’s how I got inspired. Let’s create a table in Excel, the program that usually helps us calculating complex tables. Manipulate every cell to make it look like a table that complies to the definition. Anyway this is the result: a recent photograph of my newly created file. Mark the name of the file, that is part of the image

The Sunday Challenge = Nightshot ------------------------------------------------ Exceptional bright clouds were visible around midnight, last wednesday. Noctilucent clouds are also called Polar Mesospheric Clouds, PMCs. They are 80-85 km high (50-53 mile) a few km below the mesopause, the coldest part of the atmosphere. NLCs are comprised of extremely small ice crystals some 0.1 micron (1/10,000 mm) diameter. We see them by sunlight scattered by the crystals which are not large enough to show iridescent effects. Their bluish coloration is likely a result of absorption of red light by the stratospheric ozone layer. Occasionally they show reds and golds from the colour of low sunlight illuminating them. NLC formation requires a combination of very low temperatures, a source of water vapour, and nuclei on which ice can grow. More info on noctilucent clouds in this link

This is a really ancient book, from 1832; Victor Hugo - Notre Dame de Paris en français - in French - in het Frans - auf Französisch The very same cathedral got destroyed by fire in 2019.