"To be beautiful means to be yourself. You don't need to be accepted by others. You need to accept yourself." - Thich Nhat Hanh

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PAULA'S AWESOME CIRCLE VERSION 8 ✓  
Updated: February 21, 2014 
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This is a shared circle of people that have most been plussing, commenting and resharing on my personal profile posts during the last week. It is also included the most TOP INFLUENCERS: SEO, Social Marketing, bloggers, photographers, fashion addicted, social media addicted, musicians, architects, poets...

They are all Awesome People, and without a doubt, if you add them, you will have an even better Google Plus experience as they add you to their circles, plus, share and comment on your posts.

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If you would like to be included on my next circle, just follow these simple steps:

1. Make sure you have already added me into your circles
2. Plus, Comment and Reshare this post* in PUBLIC 

*Please make sure you plus, reshare and comment on the Original Post  or else I won't notice it :(
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If you received this notification, you are included in this Awesome Circle!
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If you should be in this circle and I forgot to add you by mistake - I´m sorry - please let me know and it will be corrected on the next share.
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If you didn't like to be included in this circle and you would like to be removed, please send me a message on this post and I won't share your profile anymore.
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Special Thanks to my best week engargers:

Jennifer Stelzer, Licensed Massage Therapist   +Jennifer Stelzer, Licensed Massage Therapist
Ray Bayless   +Ray Bayless
Altered DNA   +Altered DNA
Tom Martin   +Tom Martin
Jason Levy +Jason Levy 
Vladlen Nikulin   +Vladlen Nikulin
Dapinder Singh   +Dapinder Singh
alice yam   +alice yam
Steve Yamaguchi   +Steve Yamaguchi
Troy MacDonald +Troy MacDonald 
Mike Hubbard   +Mike Hubbard
Yuli Bok   +Yuli Bok
Chad Sideburn   +Chad Sideburn
Bhattacharya P.   +Bhattacharya P.
Alex Chris   +Alex Chris
David Payton   +David Payton
Randy Hilarski   +Randy Hilarski
Victoria D   +Victoria D
Jan Jansen   +Jan Jansen
Rhonda Dehnbostel   +Rhonda Dehnbostel
Karen Hoyt   +Karen Hoyt
Dubie Bacino   +Dubie Bacino
Maribel Torrecilla García   +Maribel Torrecilla García
Matt Massaro   +Matt Massaro
Tyler Casper +Tyler Casper 
Georg Srama   +Georg Srama
Monica Butler   +Monica Butler
Jennifer Roche   +Jennifer Roche
Kitten KaboodleInc   +Kitten KaboodleInc
Phillip Morales   +Phillip Morales
Ata Ner   +Ata Ner
Carl Witmer   +Carl Witmer
Philo Yan   +Philo Yan
Alberto Pasternak   +Alberto Pasternak
Michael B.   +Michael B.
Valentina Makovkina +valentina makovkina 
AKSHAY JAIN   +AKSHAY JAIN

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Thank you and have an Awesome Day!!!

Green Tree Crown by Enzo Leroy #treephotography   #greentree   #forest  bit.ly/1cxJv5w

Winter Campfire  #landscapephotography   #winter   #nightscapes   #campfire  bit.ly/1d6QqPR

Water Lines by Marc Adamus #waterfallphotography   #water   #photography   #waterfalls  

The Gate. Amsterdam, Netherlands, Holland. Photo by Ivan Maigua #photography   #photooftheday   #amsterdam  500px.com/imaigua

Zion National Park

It is located in the Southwestern United States, near Springdale, Utah. A prominent feature of the 229-square-mile (590 km2) park is Zion Canyon, which is 15 miles (24 km) long and up to half a mile (800 m) deep, cut through the reddish and tan-colored Navajo Sandstone by the North Fork of the Virgin River. The lowest elevation is 3,666 ft (1,117 m) at Coalpits Wash and the highest elevation is 8,726 ft (2,660 m) at Horse Ranch Mountain.

Located at the junction of the Colorado Plateau, Great Basin, and Mojave Desert regions, the park's unique geography and variety of life zones allow for unusual plant and animal diversity. Numerous plant species as well as 289 species of birds, 75 mammals (including 19 species of bat), and 32 reptiles inhabit the park's four life zones: desert, riparian, woodland, and coniferous forest. Zion National Park includes mountains, canyons, buttes, mesas, monoliths, rivers, slot canyons, and natural arches.

Human habitation of the area started about 8,000 years ago with small family groups of Native Americans; the semi-nomadic Basketmaker Anasazi (300 CE) stem from one of these groups. In turn, the Virgin Anasazi culture (500 CE) developed as the Basketmakers settled in permanent communities. A different group, the Parowan Fremont, lived in the area as well. Both groups moved away by 1300 and were replaced by the Parrusits and several other Southern Paiute subtribes. Mormons came into the area in 1858 and settled there in the early 1860s.

In 1909, U.S. President William Howard Taft named the area a National Monument to protect the canyon, under the name of Mukuntuweap National Monument. In 1918, however, the acting director of the newly created National Park Service changed the park's name to Zion. According to historian Hal Rothman, "The name change played to a prevalent bias of the time. Many believed that Spanish and Indian names would deter visitors who, if they could not pronounce the name of a place, might not bother to visit it. The new name, Zion, had greater appeal to an ethnocentric audience."  The United States Congress established the monument as a National Park on November 19, 1919. The Kolob section was proclaimed a separate Zion National Monument in 1937, but was incorporated into the park in 1956.

The geology of the Zion and Kolob canyons area includes 9 formations that together represent 150 million years of mostly Mesozoic-aged sedimentation. At various periods in that time warm, shallow seas, streams, ponds and lakes, vast deserts, and dry near-shore environments covered the area. Uplift associated with the creation of the Colorado Plateaus lifted the region 10,000 feet (3,000 m) starting 13 million years ago.

For more information visit:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zion_National_Park
http://www.zionnationalpark.com

Photo by +Graham Clark
http://www.grahamclarkphoto.com

#zionnationalpark   #utah   #springdale   #mountains   #landscapephotography   #landscape  

Bottlenose dolphin jumping at sunset. Caribbean, Honduras. 

Bottlenose dolphins, the genus Tursiops, are the most common and well-known members of the family Delphinidae, the family of oceanic dolphin. Recent molecular studies show the genus contains two species, the common bottlenose dolphin (Tursiops truncatus) and the Indo-Pacific bottlenose dolphin (Tursiops aduncus), instead of one.

Research in 2011 revealed a third species, the Burrunan dolphin (Tursiops australis). Bottlenose dolphins inhabit warm and temperate seas worldwide.

Bottlenose dolphins live in groups typically of 10–30 members, called pods, but group size varies from single individuals up to more than 1,000. Their diets consist mainly of forage fish. Dolphins often work as a team to harvest fish schools, but they also hunt individually.

Dolphins search for prey primarily using echolocation, which is similar to sonar. They emit clicking sounds and listen for the return echos to determine the location and shape of nearby items, including potential prey. Bottlenose dolphins also use sound for communication, including squeaks and whistles emitted from the blowhole and sounds emitted through body language, such as leaping from the water and slapping their tails on the water surface.

There have been numerous investigations of bottlenose dolphin intelligence. Research on bottlenose dolphins has examined mimicry, use of artificial language, object categorization, and self-recognition. They can use tools (sponging) and transmit cultural knowledge across generations, and their considerable intelligence has driven interaction with humans. Bottlenose dolphins are popular from aquarium shows and television programs such as Flipper. They have also been trained by militaries to locate sea mines or detect and mark enemy divers. In some areas, they cooperate with local fishermen by driving fish into their nets and eating the fish that escape. Some encounters with humans are harmful to the dolphins: people hunt them for food, and dolphins are killed inadvertently as a bycatch of tuna fishing.

For more information visit:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bottlenose_dolphin
http://bit.ly/1h7SCtu

#animalsphotography   #landscapephotography   #bottlenosedolphins   #sunset   #seascape   #seascapephotography   #dolphins