Swan Lake - The Best of Tchaikovsky

The Best of Tchaikovsky
Swan Lake
The Queen of Spades
The Seasons
Eugene Onegin
2016

A Mute Swan from Wisconsin

Wisconsin Mute Swan
The graceful beauty of the Mute Swan was captured in this picture taken on the Fox River in Wisconsin.
Photo by Patrick Dean Photography
1991

Mute Swans

Mute Swans
Photo courtesy of  Apostle Islands' Park Service (in Wisconsin)
1991

A Graceful Swan at Sunset

Alle Anmut ist schon (loose translation: All grace is already)
(Freidrich Schiller)

Foto: Chrisian Prager
2008 (Mailed from Switzerland)

Swans from Bruges, Beguinage, Belgium

Brugge: Lngang Begijnhof
Bruges: L'entree du Beguinage
Bruges: entrance to the Beguanage
Brugge: Eingang des Beguinenklosters
1978


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The Beguinage is one of those typical areas in Bruges where one can find more peace and quiet than in the sometimes busy and overcrowded streets of the town center. The Beguinage is a group of houses around a little garden covered with large poplar trees. It was here that during the last seven centuries lived the beguines of Bruges. In 1937 the beguinage became a monastery for the Benedictine sisters who still live here now.

The Beguinage of Bruges was founded in 1245 by the Countess of Flanders, Margaretha of Constantinopel, daughter of Count Baldwin who conquered Constantinopel (now Istambul) during the crusades.

Visitors enter the place via a bridge over the canal. The entrance gate bears the date 1776. A lot of houses, however, are much older than that. Most date from the 17th and 18th century. Some houses were built in the 19th century in neo-gothic style. In the southern part is a little dead end street where still some houses of the 15th-16th century can be found.

Wild Birds of Oregon

Oregon Wild Birds

Left to right:
Rufous Hummingbird, Bald eagle, House Finch, Horned Puffin, Trumpeter Swan,
Western Bluebird, American Goldfinch, Blue Heron, western Tanager, Brown Pelican, Yellow-headed Blackbird, Ash-throated Flycatcher, Rufous Hummingbird, and Osprey.
2010

Golden Swan from Russia

The following translation was sent for this postcard:

Golden Khokhloma from Semenov is the soul of Russia!

on the back of the card:
Nizhegorodskaya oblast (Nizhegorodian region), gorod (town) Semenov.
2010

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Khokhloma or Khokhloma painting is the name of a Russian wood painting handicraft, known for its vivid flower patterns, red and gold colors over the black background, and the distinctive effect on the cheap and light wooden tableware or furniture, making it look heavier, metal-like and glamourous.

Leonardo Dicaprio and a Swan

Leonardo Dicaprio, Tejon Ranch, Lebec, California, 1997
Photograph by Annie Leibovitz
2011

Swan in Belarus

Lake Naroch

the sender writes that this is a Mute Swan
2011

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Lake Narach is a lake in North-West Belarus. The lake is located in the northern part of the country, in the basin of the Vilija river. It is the largest lake in Belarus .