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Walter and Vonny

On a grey and unpleasant day - weatherwise - your colourfull pictures really made my day. Thanks.

@saab,

Pretty grey and unpleasant here too, Saab, but due to become springlike by the weekend. Hope your weather improves soon.

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@vonny,

It's lovely here, a beautiful sunny day.

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@vonny,

At least the snow is melting but we have less

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-LycJcQv-o1A/T2S9p1Vm9XI/AAAAAAAAAUg/lElc6TKTeDQ/s1600/005.JPG

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@saab,

The sun came out this afternoon and turned it into a really springlike day. Izzy was lucky to have it early! It's been a pretty mild winter this year - next to no snow at all. Certainly nothing like that in your beautiful picture.

http://www.duskyswondersite.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/025-photo-manipulations-erik-johansson.jpg

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@vonny,

http://tidningenland.se/wp-content/uploads/sites/5/2015/01/0a211be135d90e097d2b1f20d3e2d251.jpg

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@saab,

The sun rises across the North Sea through a natural sea arch of magnesium limestone near South Shields, U.K.

http://i.telegraph.co.uk/multimedia/archive/03220/POTD-North-Sea-thr_3220643k.jpg

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@vonny,

and sunrise at the Swedish Westcoast

http://www.mikaelsvensson.com/photo/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/141005028-Edit.jpg

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@saab,

Wow, looks so peaceful!

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For hundreds of years the people of Cherrapunji, India have been crossing the chasms and rivers in their area by growing bridges from live trees. Living in one of the wettest places on earth, timber bridges would quickly rot. The rubber fig trees they use have roots that grow well above the soil surface as well as below.

http://www.duskyswondersite.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/root-bridge-7-drb.jpg

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Edmund Pettus Bridge, Selma, AL 36703, USA

The Edmund Pettus Bridge, which was built in 1940, carries U.S. 80/Broad Street traffic across the Alabama River on the south side of Selma. It had been named after a Civil War General and Grand Dragon of the Alabama Ku Klux Klan who served in the United States Senate from 1897 until his death in 1907. He was the last Confederate General to serve in the Senate.

50 years ago, the Edmund Pettus Bridge was the site of a horrific attack on some 600 civil rights demonstrators, traveling from Selma to Montgomery. When the then Alabama governor George Wallace ordered state and local police to stop the march on grounds of public safety, the group was confronted by authorities armed with billy clubs and tear gas in what infamously became known as "Bloody Sunday."

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