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The Roman watermills of Barbegal, dating back to the IV century CE and located in southern France

Grainy distorted gradient blob: 1 #SVG `radialGradient` (setting a focal point `fx,fy`) vs. multiple #CSS `radial-gradient()` layers (no option to control focal point).

Using filters for distortion & grain effect.

A bit more detail on this https://www.reddit.com/r/css/comments/1j03iyv/comment/mf89ri9/

House of Day. Those facade panels are

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#architecture #italy #larunhouse #zarcolaarchetti #haptic #grain #texture #materiality #adaptivereuse

#grain : a kernel, especially of those plants, like wheat, whose seeds are used for food

- French: grain

- German: das Getreide

- Italian: grano

- Portuguese: grão

- Spanish: grano

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See previous words @ https://wordofthehour.org/r/past

_The Evening Post_, 30 November 1923:
      ANXIETY FOR GRAIN CROPS
       TOO MUCH DRY WEATHER
(BY TELEGRAPH.—PRESS ASSOCIATION.)
                        ASHBURTON, This Day.
  Anxiety is felt for the #grain #crops owing to the recent dry, hot spell. Unless the #weather breaks soon, #oats will be ready to harvest before Christmas, with a light crop; while #wheat, of which much is spring sown and backward, promises to ripen off with only a 60 per cent. average yield. Pastures are also affected. One live stock man stated that a day’s soaking rain would benefit him a hundred sterling [£100 = ca. $12,000 today].
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/EP19231130.2.107

“Made up of a mix of all the grains, legumes, and edible seeds grown in any given area,” writes Siobhan Ball, “polysporia belongs to that most fundamental class of agricultural ritual: the kind that gets down to the bare bones of the relationship between man and gods, expressing plainly what we want and what we’re willing to give in exchange.”

https://wildhunt.org/2024/11/polysporia-a-dish-that-dedicates-every-grain-to-the-gods.html

#DailyHaikuPrompt #Grain

A tree grows each year
Hiding an indelible
Record of past times

Are drying #rivers a warning of #Europe's tomorrow?

by Paul Hokenos
13 September 2022

"Across southern #Romania, much of which relies on the #Danube for fresh #DrinkingWater, hundreds of villages are rationing water supplies and curtailing the irrigation of #farmland that Europe relies upon for #corn, #grain, #sunflowers, and #vegetables. The cruise ships that normally ferry tourists along the iconic waterway are docked. In the first six months of 2022, Romania's #hydropower utility #Hidroelectrica generated a third less electricity than it normally does. And Romanian #wheat farmers say that drought has cost them a fifth of their harvest. Romania is one of Europe's largest wheat producers, and all the more important for the international market in light of Russia's blockage of much of Ukraine's wheat exports.

"'At towns up and down the Danube, #drought and #ClimateChange take on an existential meaning,' explains Nick Thorpe, author of The Danube: A Journey Upriver from the #BlackSea to the #BlackForest. 'In contrast to city dwellers, they're having this disaster unfold before their eyes.'"

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"Scientists say that the economic cost of the rivers' decimation is only part of the problem. The less water in the water system as a whole, explains Gabriel Singer, an ecologist at University of Innsbruck, Austria, the less dilution for #salts and the slower a river flows. This leads to higher #saline content and #HigherWaterTemperatures, which can be lethal for many species of #Riverine life, such as Danube #salmon, b#arbel, and European #grayling, among many others.

"Higher temperatures also feed #AlgaeBlooms, Singer explains, which can be #toxic for river systems. This is what has happened in several German rivers, including the Moselle and Neckar, as well as perhaps the Oder River, where in mid-August more than 100 metric tons (220,000lbs) of dead fish – among them #perch, #catfish, #pike, and #asp – washed up on its shores within a week. (Experts are currently investigating the cause of the die-off.)"

Read more:
https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20220912-are-drying-rivers-a-warning-of-europes-tomorrow