Showing posts with label flowers. Show all posts
Showing posts with label flowers. Show all posts

Sunday, July 18, 2010

Award Winning Astrocast.TV - and Lilies

Award Winning Astrocast.TV and Lilies.

I have been working for Astrocast.TV for more than a year now. Producing A Green Space - A Green Earth has been hard work, but particularly awarding for me personally as I have learned about a completely different world: the world of broadcasting and journalism.

From within science I had already been devoting time and resources on outreach and user linkage strategies related to geodesy and Earth observation. It was, and still is, a challenge to communicate the importance of a scientific field that almost no one have even heard of - geodesy. But I had not really 'gotten my hands dirty' with writing let alone producing any video material until I was contacted by Astrocast.TV.

In A Green Space - A Green Earth I cover both a larger and a narrower field. Earth observation is of course more than geodesy, but geodesy is more than space geodesy. I cover Earth observation from space for Astrocast.TV.



I am proud to work with the highly professional people at Astrocast.TV and of course delighted to be a member of an award winning organization. This year, again, Astrocast.TV was a multiple winner of Telly awards.



So, what's with the lilies, already?
You may have noticed that my middle name is 'Lilja'. That is Norwegian for 'lily' and I have a personal website named Lilja - A bouquet of stories about the Earth. When the news about Astrocast.TV winning 4 Telly awards announced I was generously congratulated with the words 'A lily for a lily'. I can share the images of the lovely bouquet (of real lilies, no Earths') but I regret I cannot share the wonderful scent that filled my living room for days. :-)

Monday, June 15, 2009

Velvet Iris




Iris



Incredible Iris!







Tuesday, March 31, 2009

Cherry Blossom Forecast in Japan




Cherry Blossom Forecast



FOR REAL!


How awesome is THAT? :-)





Forecast of cherry blossom blooming dates in 2009 (updated on 25 March 2009)

Saturday, March 14, 2009

Soon Spring




Blue Just Around The Corner...





On a delightful site about gardening is my cute little Delft vase with my favorite flowers in it. I am so looking forward to my Hepaticas... and some gardening. :-)




Sunday, February 8, 2009

Blue Iris




Blue







I just needed bright blue! :-)

Monday, November 24, 2008

Iris




Iris



Photo: Terry Lazar







Flower time.

Sunday, November 16, 2008

Lavender




Lavender



My favorite smell.




Wednesday, October 1, 2008

iris




Iris



Photo: Kai Edvard





Saturday, April 12, 2008

Flowers and Bees




"Flowers and Bees" in Danger



Credit: George F. Mobley/NGS


Flowers attracts bees, other insects and birds - and then nature reproduces. Not surprisingly pollution disturbs this process. Scents from the flowers are more specifically what attracts the insects making them move from flower to flower and the chemical composition of the scents mix with polluting chemicals in a destructive way. Most unfortunate.

This is a perfect excuse for me to post more Hepatica Nobilis images. The flowers smell of earthly freshness. Maybe you can "smell" it when seeing these two steaming fresh Hepatica photos? I know I do. :-)









Photos: Bente Lilja Bye