Xenophyte
An introduced species (also known as naturalized species or exotic species) is an organism that is not indigenous to a given location but instead has been accidentally or deliberately introduced to a new location by human activity or by natural meansHouse sparrow
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Kubla Khan
OR, A VISION IN A DREAM.
A FRAGMENT.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
In Xanadu did Kubla Khan
A stately pleasure-dome decree :
Where Alph, the sacred river, ran
Through caverns measureless to man
Down to a sunless sea.
So twice five miles of fertile ground
With walls and towers were girdled round :
And there were gardens bright with sinuous rills,
Where blossomed many an incense-bearing tree ;
And here were forests ancient as the hills,
Enfolding sunny spots of greenery.
Forest of Xanadu
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(Click on the photo to see the sunny spots in the Ancient forest)
Troy and Martha
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34 comments:
Xenophyte is a new word for me. The photo of the valley of Xanadu is especially lovely. I enlarged it and felt as though I could almost walk into it.
lovely shot for xanadu...
Visit me in here Thanks
lovely view....
Mine in here at My Imaginary site. Thanks
Xanadu, I forgot about Xanadu! Nice poem too!
Very informative x word!
nice x good shoots to
What an informative blog. Thanks!
I've been looking for Xanadu for years - thanks for finding it for me!
Great shots and a great post.
Gary
Bodge's Bulletin
It is hard to believe that sparrows are quite uncommon these days. However we get quite a few in the garden now and it very heartening.
Great post.
Another Wednesday, another new word.
Excellent stuff!
Very enjoyable visit today. I haven't read that one since college days. Keep up the good work.
Troy: What a great Sparrow photo you have here. I posted a Sparrow as my opening photo also. You did a really nice job on your capture.
A couple of great choices. Xenophyte is a neat bit of information to know of.
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varying seasons
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nature tales and camera trails
Xanadu and Xenophyte
were put in a new light!
Your photo is better than best!
Last but not lest:
The colours are fine and true
I really like that shade of blue.
I am no poet at all and certainly not in English!
Thank you for the visit! I like your visits!
Great choices. Very creative! Cheers, Klaus
Troy and Martha., You did so much better coming up with X than I did.. I had to streatch it a bit.
Beautiful forest photo.
Hay thanks for your consern on my X post, I used my Sigma 50-500mm lens, I was too close, but my Tripod was the armor plated window sill of my car (wink)
That's a lovely bird photo.
And the damselfly is amazing!
Yes, I am loving your photos and learning some new literature... very nice post.
This makes me laugh, since yesterday, my friend and I were singing bad seventies songs, and were trying to recall the words to the Olivia Newton John song Xanadu. I had to memorize this poem in High School!
That's a great poem -- I think I'll make a screencapture and tack it up on the wall.
Beautiful scene!
Hope both of you are having a great X day.
Nice poem and a great photo.
That's one of my favorite poems ... and the pix are as always Xtremely good!
:-Daryl
A very special combination, but with X being the subject everything goes ;-)
Hello Try and Martha,
Very Good and creative,XANADU??? haha I love this area, very much
Thanks that you visited my ABC-X
Greetings from JoAnn/Holland
Our native sparrows (your X) are becoming endangered over here. Didn't know you had them over there though. X-cellent post!
I have always loved the Xanadu poem. I had a friend who could recite it; probably still can. Thanks for bringing back that memory for me.
I am learning lots of new words with the letter X this week. I love the sparrow photograph.
You know, that Forest of Xanadu looks an awful lot like a valley I know of in Idaho! I love this poem by the way. I didn't know an indroduced species was a Xenophyte. Nature Tales and Camera Trails (meannmycamera) has a xeno something or other as her X. She posted pictures of an evening grosbeak that lacks the black coloration so it is almost all yellow! eX-ceptional!
Deligthfully original in this most difficult of letters.
X-ellent post and great shots!
These are both new words for me, you have done an excellent job of this X post.
Now that I'm back online I'll be reading your blog, even if I can't leave a comment every post. Please do drop by my blog if you have some time and try to answer the "guess what" question.
Cheers,
David Webb
Both so stunning! I even thought of Xanadu, but the movie with Olivia Newton-John, but changed my mind and found something else!
Beautiful X post!
Kisses from Nydia.
Lovely post! I know I'm late, but I did manage a teeny post for the letter X.
I always wondered exactly where Xanadu was.
We also have those sparrows over here. They are everywhere
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