J. Gafarot's photos with the keyword: Alcácer do Sal

All pines have a lot of Grains Each fruit, called pinhão, when clean of its cover, weights : 0.50 to 0.85 gram. Pinheiro manso Stone pine Pin parasol The Pine: The whole Pinha/Pine cone/Pomme de pin, average weight is : 500 to 830 gram. The fruit/pinhão average market price, clean: 100.00 to 120.00 €/kilogram.

Museum. Remains dating back around 2,700 years can be visited at the renovated Pedro Nunes Municipal Museum, opened on April 6, 2019. This journey through time is made through the Sado River, the main link that unites Time and Space. The same river that brought the Mediterranean and the Atlantic, their cultures and people, to Alcácer do Sal.

They are just playing . . . For they were a bit rusty from last Winter. Happy Wednesday everybody . . .

The Age and Peace of white air.

RIP Andy.

Keep your face always toward the sunshine . and shadows will fall behind you. - Walt Whitman

The metallic bridge of Alcácer do Sal became, for decades, an obligatory crossing point for those heading to the southern beaches. Inaugurated in 1945, the iron structure, reminiscent of the “Eiffel style”, replaced a wooden one existing in that location since the end of the 19th century. The primitive bridge had a movable span to allow the passage of sailing ships transporting cereals, including wheat and rice. The metallic deck, with a length of 107.45 meters spread over three spans, is intended for road transport. To alleviate congestion, a temporary hold was set up next to the metal structure so that crossings could be made simultaneously in both directions. HFF to all my Friends and Visitors.

Storks dwell in many regions and tend to live in drier habitats than the closely related herons, spoonbills and ibises; they also lack the powder down that those groups use to clean off fish slime. Bill-clattering is an important mode of communication at the nest. Storks tend to use soaring, gliding flight, which conserves energy. Soaring requires thermal air currents. Ottomar Anschütz’s famous 1884 album of photographs of storks inspired the design of Otto Lilienthal's experimental gliders of the late nineteenth century. Storks are heavy, with wide wingspans: the marabou stork, with a wingspan of 3.2 m (10 ft) and weight up to 8 kg (18 lb), joins the Andean condor in having the widest wingspan of all living land birds

The stone pine, with the botanical name Pinus pinea, is also called the Italian stone pine, umbrella pine and parasol pine. It is a tree from the pine family (Pinaceae). The tree is native to the Mediterranean region, occurring in Southern Europe, Israel, Lebanon and Syria. It is also naturalized in North Africa, the Canary Islands, South Africa and New South Wales. The species was introduced into North Africa millennia ago, such a long time that it is essentially indistinguishable from being native. The stone pine is a coniferous evergreen tree that can exceed 25 metres in height, but 12–20 metres is more typical. In youth, it is a bushy globe, in mid-age an umbrella canopy on a thick trunk, and, in maturity, a broad and flat crown over 8 metres in width. The bark is thick, red-brown and deeply fissured into broad vertical plates.

Please click to see note. Cones The cones are broad, ovoid, 8–15 centimetres long, and take 36 months to mature, longer than any other pine. The seeds (pine nuts, piñones, pinhões, pinoli, or pignons) are large, 2 centimetres long, and pale brown with a powdery black coating that rubs off easily, and have a rudimentary 4–8 millimetres wing that falls off very easily. The wing is ineffective for wind dispersal, and the seeds are animal-dispersed, originally mainly by the Iberian magpie, but in recent history, very largely by humans.

Ciconia is a genus of birds in the stork family. The genus name is the Latin word for "stork", and was originally recorded in the works of Horace and Ovid.Six of the seven living species occur in the Old World, but the maguari stork has a South American range. In addition, fossils suggest that Ciconia storks were somewhat more common in the tropical Americas in prehistoric times. These are large storks, typically 100 cm tall, with a 180 cm wingspan and a long thick bill. Members of this genus are more variable in plumage than other storks, but several species have black upper bodies and wings, and white belly and undertail. Juveniles are a duller, browner version of the adult.