This park in Austria is dry during the winter months,
but when the snow starts to melt, it turns into a lake.
For more info, check out this article on MailOnline.
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The G’morning Shot for May 19, 2012 13
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Good morning!
Hope your day is as good as walking in this bamboo park would be.
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Bishop arrested as #OWS protesters tear down fence to get to Duarte Square | Photos 8
On Saturday, a retired bishop was among more than 50 people arrested after the Occupy Wall Street movement stormed another New York City park in an attempt to find a new home.
Former Episcopal bishop George E. Packard was led away in cuffs after climbing a ladder to illegally enter Juan Pablo Duarte Square in the west SoHo neighbourhood of the city during the demo. More…
Dramatic photos of the Mississippi River flooding in Midwest, TN, MO… Reply
The Mississippi River and tributaries continue to rise, reaching record crests, and the worst may still be to come. Portions of Missouri, Illinois, Kentucky, Tennessee, and Arkansas are under water, with more to come. Pressure on levees led the Army Corps of Engineers to blow up a section below Cairo, Ill, inundating 130,000 acres of farmland while saving the town. As a bulge of river water makes its way downstream, levees are stressed and rivers that empty into the Mississippi have no outlet, backing up and flooding even more land. The bulge will reach the Delta later this month, and millions of acres are threatened.
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See my other posting: Flood waters near record levels in Memphis TN (Video footage / pictures) - click here to view
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Floodwater engulfs a home after engineers blew a hole in a levee to divert water from the town of Cairo, Ill. May 3 near Wyatt, Mo. (Scott Olson/Getty Images)
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The Quad Cities River Bandits and the Peoria Chiefs play a baseball game April 20 inside Modern Woodmen Park in Davenport, Iowa. The rising flood waters of the Mississippi River surround the stadium which is protected by a flood wall. (Paul Colletti/The Dispatch/AP)
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Floodwaters from the Mississippi River on May 3 swamp the area north of New Madrid, Mo. (Jeff Roberson/AP)
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Water flows through an intentional breech in the Birds Point levee May 3 in Mississippi County, Mo. after engineers blew the levee up in an effort to protect nearby Cairo, Ill. from rising floodwaters. (Jeff Roberson/AP)
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Roy Presson embraces his daughters Catherine (left) and Amanda as they stand on the edge of State Highway HH looking out at their family farm on May 3 in Wyatt, Mo. The Presson home and 2,400 acres of land that they farmed was flooded when engineers blew a hole in a levee to save the town of Cairo, Ill. (Scott Olson/Getty Images)
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With Green River floodwater over his calves, Daniel Davis stands in the kitchen with personal belongings on sawhorses May 3 in Livermore, Ky. (John Dunham/Messenger-Inquirer/AP)
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Workers use a boat to recover supplies from a flooded grain elevator May 4 in Caruthersville, Mo. (Scott Olson/Getty Images)
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Houses are surrounded by floodwater May 3 in Pinhook, Mo. (Jeff Roberson/AP)
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Linley Dennis plays in a boat while her parents and grandfather work the motor in their flooded front yard in Big Boy Junction May 6 near Finley, Tenn. (Scott Olson/Getty Images)
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Property owners and hired workers erect temporary flood walls along the Mississippi River in Natchez, Miss. May 7. (Gerald Herbert/AP)
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Lesli Lambert (left) and Tammi St. John row through their neighborhood as floodwaters slowly rise in Finley, Mo. May 7. (Eric Thayer/Reuters)
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Residents look at houses being engulfed by floodwater May 8 in Memphis. (Scott Olson/Getty Images)
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Cyril Forck, 90, catches a small perch fish from his backyard deck, which is usually 50 feet away from the edge of the Mississippi River, on Mud Island in Memphis, Tenn. May 4. (Lance Murphey/AP)
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Top ten reasons John Muir – the Father of our National Parks – is awesome! Reply
Often referred to as “The Father of our National Parks,” John Muir (1838-1914) was America’s most famous and influential naturalist and conservationist, and founder of the Sierra Club.
Ten Reasons John Muir Is Awesome
1. He has his own Woods, mineral (Muirite), bird (Muir’s Winter Wren), and minor planet (Johnmuir).
2. While working in a factory at age 29, Muir was blinded in accident. When his sight returned months later, he left factory work to study nature.
3. Muir once described himself as a “poetico-trampo-geologist-botanist and ornithologist-naturalist, etc., etc.”
4. Choosing to go by “the wildest, leafiest, and least trodden way I could find,” he walked 1,000 miles from Indiana to the Gulf of Mexico.
5. Muir was a vocal proponent of the awesomeness of dogs, even referring to them as “our horizontal brothers.” (His position on cats has been lost to the sands of time.)
6. Before he took President Theodore Roosevelt camping in Yosemite Valley: 0 national parks. After? Five national parks, 18 national monuments, 55 national bird sanctuaries and wildlife refuges, and 150 national forests.
7. He traveled on every continent (except Antarctica), including exploring the Chilean Andes at age 72.
8. His beard can go toe-to-toe with any beard in history (including Brian Wilson’s).
9. He appears on the California state quarter.
10. Muir loved him some sequoias. He discovered that soaking sequoia pine cones in water turned the water purple. He then used the purple liquid as ink, and also drank it, “hoping thereby to … render myself more tree-wise and sequoical.” Click here to see the Sequoia and Kings Canyon site.
Original post in Charlotte Sierra Club on WP
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Explore, enjoy, and protect the planet
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John Muir Trail
On the California State Quarter
Dog trying to get a stranger in park to throw the stick… too funny (VIDEO) Reply
The dogs’ owner quotes, “I love him to bits but once you throw the stick for him (by the way, the dog’s name is Robbie), he will NOT leave you alone! He runs up to random strangers in the street with a stick – not a care in the world 
I’ve never had a dog that loves the game of fetch so much before this one.”
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