It's very hot here in Florida right now, but we've been able to get to the Little Lake Manatee State Park down the street a few times when it gets cloudy. A breeze also helps!
As many as 180,000 people would gather to light candles in #Victoria#Park to remember June 4th 1989,
when China’s army brought a bloody end to weeks of peaceful pro-democracy protests in Beijing.
(China has never put a figure on the number who died in what it terms a counter-revolutionary incident.)
Hong Kong’s vigils became a symbol of #defiance of mainland authority
and an ardent evocation of the city’s #independence.
“It was magnificent,” says one resident. “We wanted to make [the massacre] known, not just in Hong Kong, but throughout the world.”
🔥 Organising such a vigil would be unthinkable now.
The commemoration was #banned in 2020, ostensibly because of covid-19.
Some 20,000 people gathered anyway.
The following month the central government in Beijing imposed a draconian national-security law on the territory,
a response to large pro-democracy protests in 2019.
The authorities have since snuffed out memories of Tiananmen.
Memorials have been removed.
The commemoration’s organisers have been jailed;
-- in March they lost a bid to overturn their conviction.
Wearing black or lighting candles near Victoria Park on June 4th may now be considered criminal activity.
This year, like the last, the park is filled with food trucks instead of candles.
Pro-Beijing groups have organised a carnival in the vigil’s stead.
It's firefly season at Congaree National Park in South Carolina, and a lucky few won the park lottery this year — an opportunity to see thousands of fireflies, blinking in synchrony, for a few short weeks this spring.
NPR reports: "According to the National Park Service, there are just three types of fireflies in North America that are synchronous, meaning they coordinate their belly lanterns to flash at exactly the same time."
Inhalte auf Wahlplakaten: eine ❤️-Angelegenheit war und ist mir die Zukunft des Robert-Koch-Parks. Ihn zu sanieren und eine weitere Öffnung und Nutzbarmachung für die Grünauerinnen und Grünauer ist wichtig. Der Erhalt der Außenstelle des städtischen Klinikums ist für den Stadtteil von großer Bedeutung. #Stadtratswahl#Grünau#dielinke#Park
Heute früh war ich Wählen, es standen gleich 4 Wahlen an. Bürgermeister, Stadtrat, Kreisrat und Landrat mussten gewählt werden. Am Nachmittag war ich mit meiner Tochter ein Eis essen und wir machten noch einen Spaziergang im Park
Humid but not hot #SilentSunday. Kengo got to get out and walk in peace. He didn't bark once at other dogs. The sound of water is so soothing and therapeutic.
Sweetwater Creek State Park, Georgia, USA