Taken in North Holland - Grafelijkheidsduinen.

The area was used to extract drinking water. When this stopped in 1982, a beautiful area with dune lakes arose. Now the area is managed by Landscape North Holland. In the part that is closed off, Highland cattle and Konik horses are kept. The walking and biking trails in the area are freely accessible.

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That was my first thought when I saw this area couple of years ago for the first time. ;)

Grafelijkheidsduinen - Noord Holland

The area was used to extract drinking water. When this stopped in 1982, a beautiful area with dune lakes arose. Now the area is managed by Landscape North Holland. In the part that is closed off, Highland cattle and Konik horses are kept. The walking and biking trails in the area are freely accessible.

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This Great Blue Heron demonstrated great patience as it stood motionless stalking its prey. When an opportunity arose, it dove its head steeply into the water and returned with a struggling captive!

A Northern Pike, a nasty predatory fish, became the prey!

Nikon D7000 w/ 300mmf4D + 1.4X

(Archive image 2015, Sturgeon River, St. Albert, Alberta,

Canada)

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Thank you all very much for the visits and comments.

Borgo Parrini is a small fraction of the municipality of Partinico, in the province of Palermo, characterized by colorful houses decorated in full Gaudì style.

The name derives from the fact that the fields around Partinico were bought by the Jesuit fathers in the 1500s. The name parrini, in fact, in Sicilian means priests.

So it was an area managed by the religious consisting of a small country church and a convent around which, later, the village arose with lodgings for the settlers and agricultural labourers.

In 1767, then, this village became the property of the French prince Henri d'Orleans who set up a farm for the production of a wine that soon became much appreciated and sought after. After the Second World War many of the inhabitants preferred to move to the city and the village remained almost uninhabited and therefore began its inevitable decline.

Today very few people live there who, however, in the last ten years have decided to give the village a new life. A local entrepreneur had the intuition to make it an unusual place and started a renovation of the houses in the style of the Catalan artist Gaudì.

The facades of the houses are colored with bright colors and writings, the walls have mosaic decorations and colorful tiles and the small village has become a very popular place for travellers.

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Borgo Parrini è una piccola frazione del comune di Partinico, nella provincia di Palermo, caratterizzato da casette colorate e decorate in pieno stile Gaudì.

Il nome deriva dal fatto che i campi intorno a Partinico nel 1500 furono acquistati dai padri Gesuiti. Il nome parrini, infatti, in siciliano significa proprio preti .Quindi era un’area gestita dai religiosi costituita da una piccola chiesa di campagna e un convento attorno a cui, in seguito, sorse il borgo con gli alloggi per i coloni e i braccianti agricoli.

Nel 1767, poi, questo borgo divenne proprietà del principe francese Henri d’Orleans che vi impiantò una azienda agricola per la produzione di un vino che presto divenne molto apprezzato e ricercato. Dopo la seconda guerra mondiale molti degli abitanti preferirono trasferirsi in città e il borgo rimase quasi disabitato e quindi iniziò la sua inevitabile decadenza.

Oggi vi abitano pochissime persone che, tuttavia, negli ultimi dieci anni, hanno deciso di dare al borgo una nuova vita. Un imprenditore locale ha avuto l’intuizione di renderlo un luogo insolito e ha avviato una ristrutturazione delle case secondo lo stile dell’artista catalano Gaudì.

Le facciate delle case sono colorate con tinte vivaci e scritte, i muri recano decorazioni a mosaico e piastrelle variopinte e il piccolo borgo è diventato un luogo molto visitato dai viaggiatori.

Rocher de la Vierge, Biarritz, Aquitaine, France.

La Roca de la Virgen, en francés Rocher de la Vierge es un arrecife rocoso de la costa atlántica francesa, coronado por una estatua blanca de la Virgen con el niño rodeado de agua. Se trata de uno de los monumentos más famosos de la localidad costera de Biarritz.

La estatua de la Virgen María se colocó en lo alto de un afloramiento rocoso en el mar en 1864 para conmemorar el regreso seguro de los pescadores locales y actuar como patrona para apoyarlos en el futuro.

Debido al especial cariño de la emperatriz Eugenia por el pintoresco antiguo pueblo de pescadores, la pareja imperial francesa se alojaba regularmente en el palacio de Biarritz (hoy Hôtel du Palais1​), recién construido como residencia de verano. De Napoleón III. surgió la idea de conectar la Roca de la Virgen con el continente por medio de un puente. Gustave Eiffel implementó este plan en 1887 y creó un puente de hierro que se puede caminar sobre tablones de madera; además, se hizo un túnel por debajo de la roca.

The Rock of the Virgin, in French Rocher de la Vierge is a rocky reef on the French Atlantic coast, crowned by a white statue of the Virgin with child surrounded by water. It is one of the most famous monuments in the seaside town of Biarritz.

The statue of the Virgin Mary was placed atop a rocky outcrop in the sea in 1864 to commemorate the safe return of local fishermen and to act as a patroness to support them in the future.

Due to Empress Eugénie's special affection for the picturesque former fishing village, the French imperial couple regularly stayed at the Biarritz Palace (now the Hôtel du Palais1), newly built as a summer residence. Of Napoleon III. the idea arose to connect the Rock of the Virgin with the mainland by means of a bridge. Gustave Eiffel implemented this plan in 1887 and created an iron bridge that can be walked on wooden planks; in addition, a tunnel was made under the rock.

In the early days Veere was a flourishing commercial city. This prosperity can be found in the beautiful historical premises. The town of Veere arose in the twelfth century. The following centuries the town was being used to store Scottish wool. Veere still has these typical Scottish homes, which were built in the sixteenth century by rich Scottish merchants. At the Kaai in Veere, two of these Scottish houses still stand, and they remind people of the wool trade back in those days. Antique collections of the last private owners are among the things which can be admired here. Also fans of porcelain, furniture, style rooms and stitch costumes have much to look at. In the Scottish houses you can regularly go to see different expositions of the artists from Veere.

Big church

Big church Veere

The big church is from 1348 and it is a really great sight. As from 1811 the church was being used by Napoleon’s soldiers as a military hospital; the church was a beggars house and a barrack for a while as well. You can still clearly see the traces of an eventful past..

Sunset and thunderstorm on Lake Seliger. The sun sets over the Orthodox Convent of the Tver Diocese, located one and a half kilometers from the city of Ostashkov, on the island of Lake Seliger Zhitnom;

Lake Seliger is the largest (260 sq. Km.) Of the system of the Upper Volga lakes located in the Ostashkovsky, Penovsky and Selizharovsky districts of the Tver region and partly in the Novgorod region. In total, there are more than 240 large and small lakes. The uniqueness of Seliger in his geography. The lake, which arose as a result of the impact of the ancient glacier, is a system of reaches with numerous deep bays, channels and islands. As a result, for a relatively small lake, the total length of only the main coastline is more than 500 km. The coast is winding, with a variety of relief and vegetation. Many islands and peninsulas. The shores are represented by various types of vegetation, from moraine marshes to tundra and forest tundra to ancient pine forests.

Due to the relief and difficult shoreline, the lake is very popular among tourists traveling on various types of boats, as well as among fishermen. The lake is popular as a place of recreational recreation, cultural, educational and pilgrim tourism.

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Ploughman Singing

John Clare

Here morning in the ploughman's songs is met

Ere yet one footstep shows in all the sky,

And twilight in the east, a doubt as yet,

Shows not her sleeve of grey to know her bye.

Woke early, I arose and thought that first

In winter time of all the world was I.

The old owls might have hallooed if they durst,

But joy just then was up and whistled bye

A merry tune which I had known full long,

But could not to my memory wake it back,

Until the ploughman changed it to the song.

O happiness, how simple is thy track.

--Tinged like the willow shoots, the east's young brow

Glows red and finds thee singing at the plough.

Wernerkapelle Bacharach Germany

From Wikipedia: Widely visible is the Wernerkapelle, a Rheinromantik landmark of the town, lying on the way up to Stahleck Castle from the town. It is the expanded Kunibertkapelle, and is still an unfinished Gothic ruin today. Its namesake is Werner of Oberwesel, known in connection with pogroms triggered by his death. According to the Christian blood libel, which was typical of the times, a 16-year-old Werner was murdered on Maundy Thursday 1287 by members of the local Jewish community, who then used his blood for Passover observances. On the grounds of this alleged ritual murder, there arose an anti-Semitic mob who waged a pogrom, wiping out Jewish communities in the Middle and Lower Rhine and Moselle regions. In folk Christianity arose the cult of Werner, which was only stricken from the Bishopric of Trier calendar in 1963.

While folding another of my new pattern of my Block-tessellation serie I used thicker paper and because of that and the density of the pattern this bowl-shape arose ;-)

On the left you see the pattern from the outside and on the right the inside.

Here you can see a different view of my origami tessellation "Bricks".

I found (independently) a variation of the "Wall" of Momotani and I'm probably not the first one, correct me please when I'm wrong.

Folded from 21x21cm greenish Japanese paper, with some golden en silver dots in it.

Nilo-Stolobenskaya Desert is a monastery on Stolobny Island on Lake Seliger. This monastery arose on the site of the feat of the Monk Nile, Stolobensky miracle worker..Nilova desert gave the world not only architectural masterpieces and spiritual treasures, but also significant scientific achievements..In 1528 the hermit Nil Stolobensky settled on the island of Lake Seliger. Prior to that, for thirteen years he lived in a dense forest on the banks of the Seremkhi River, but there he could not hide from human fame. In the first year of life on the island, he digs up a small cave in the mountain, where he spends the winter. In 1529 he built a hut and a chapel on the island. On December 7, 1554, the Monk Neil died, in 1560 a chapel was erected over his grave..The most intensive construction was carried out in the monastery in the XVIII century. The works were supervised by the contractor Foma Pavlov, a peasant of the sub-monastic suburb of the Trinity Selijarovsky monastery, a highly-gifted master. More than ten years, he has worked in Nil's desert..At the beginning of the 20th century, the Nilova Pustyn was the second most visited pilgrimage site in the world after the Holy Sepulcher. However, after the Bolsheviks came to power in Russia in 1917, her life quickly began to decline. On February 25, 1919, the cancer with the relics of Rev. Nil Stolobensky was blasphemously uncovered. And later his relics were removed from the monastery and placed in the temple of the city of Ostashkov, which houses the exhibition of the local history museum. The Nilo-Stolobensky monastery was plundered, the new rulers seized more than 33 pounds of silver, two pounds of valuables from the monastery..In 2003, the relics of St. Nectarius (Telyashin) were acquired. It happened during the excavations in the basement of the Epiphany Cathedral, where relics are now stored..By the beginning of the 20th century, the Nilova Hermitage represented a grandiose complex, the dominant structures of which were the Epiphany Cathedral, the bishops' cells, as well as a long granite embankment with the Bishops and Svetlitskaya towers. The monastery lost its early secluded scenic appearance and began to resemble the St. Petersburg city square. In the formation of this image of the desert, the leading role belonged not so much to the classical central cathedral as to the high granite embankment. Despite the difference in functional, chronological, stylistic features, all buildings and structures of the Nilova Hermitage represented a single and harmonious architectural complex, which is now a unique world-class architectural and landscape monument.

And Spring arose on the garden fair,

Like the Spirit of Love felt everywhere;

And each flower and herb on Earth’s dark breast

rose from the dreams of its wintry rest.

~ Percy Bysshe Shelley

On an early morning in October, I decided to go take some dawn photographs on these infrequently used railroad tracks just on the outskirts of Windsor, Ontario. I arrived about a half hour before the sun arose and set about taking pictures. Little did I know that passing motorists were concerned about my safety. Eventually a Windsor Police officer arrived to find out why this senior citizen was on these tracks. He was happy to see that I was an over enthusiastic photographer who was very embarrassed and apologetic for causing a commotion.

And Spring arose

on the garden fair,

Like the spirit of love

felt everywhere.

Smile on Saturday: Spring flowers 2017/2018

Have a nice weekend! HSoS & HSS!

Thank you to Marezia57 for the texture.

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Thank you for your visits, kind comments and faves. Always greatly appreciated.

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Dome of the Epiphany Cathedral in the monastery of the Nilo-Stolobenskaya Desert. And the view from the bell tower to Lake Seliger. Seliger is a system of lakes of glacial origin in the Tver and Novgorod regions of Russia.

Nilo-Stolobenskaya Desert is a monastery on Stolobny Island on Lake Seliger. This monastery arose on the site of the feat of the Monk Nile, Stolobensky miracle worker..Nilova desert gave the world not only architectural masterpieces and spiritual treasures, but also significant scientific achievements.

Sunset on the Volga River in Konakovo. Russia.

The pride and pearl of the Konakovsky district is the Ivankovskoye reservoir. It arose in connection with the construction of the Moscow canal, and was formed as a result of the backwater of the Volga waters by the Ivankovskaya dam. Ivankovskoe reservoir, also known as the Moscow Sea.

The width of the reservoir is 2-5 km, the length is about 30 km.

The reservoir is held by a 9-kilometer dam up to 14 meters high. The canal soldiers poured it with wheelbarrows and manually reinforced it with stones from the outside.

During the construction of the reservoir in 1936, the district town of Korcheva and several dozen surrounding villages, which fell into the flooded zone, were destroyed.

The Moscow Canal originates from the Ivankovskoye Reservoir, supplying fresh water to Moscow and watering the Moskva River. The Ivankovskaya hydroelectric power station operates on the drain of the reservoir. The reservoir is used as a cooling reservoir for a large power plant - Konakovskaya GRES.

In the water area of ​​the reservoir, about three hundred islands were formed, most of which are uninhabited. Recreation centers have been created on the largest islands. On the shores of the reservoir there are many rest houses, boarding houses, pioneer camps and the famous Zavidovsky reserve, which houses one of the residences of the President of the Russian Federation, as well as the Zavidovo recreation complex.

Borgo Parrini is a small fraction of the municipality of Partinico, in the province of Palermo, characterized by colorful houses decorated in full Gaudì style.

The name derives from the fact that the fields around Partinico were bought by the Jesuit fathers in the 1500s. The name parrini, in fact, in Sicilian means priests.

So it was an area managed by the religious consisting of a small country church and a convent around which, later, the village arose with lodgings for the settlers and agricultural labourers.

In 1767, then, this village became the property of the French prince Henri d'Orleans who set up a farm for the production of a wine that soon became much appreciated and sought after. After the Second World War many of the inhabitants preferred to move to the city and the village remained almost uninhabited and therefore began its inevitable decline.

Today very few people live there who, however, in the last ten years have decided to give the village a new life. A local entrepreneur had the intuition to make it an unusual place and started a renovation of the houses in the style of the Catalan artist Gaudì.

The facades of the houses are colored with bright colors and writings, the walls have mosaic decorations and colorful tiles and the small village has become a very popular place for travellers.

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Borgo Parrini è una piccola frazione del comune di Partinico, nella provincia di Palermo, caratterizzato da casette colorate e decorate in pieno stile Gaudì.

Il nome deriva dal fatto che i campi intorno a Partinico nel 1500 furono acquistati dai padri Gesuiti. Il nome parrini, infatti, in siciliano significa proprio preti .Quindi era un’area gestita dai religiosi costituita da una piccola chiesa di campagna e un convento attorno a cui, in seguito, sorse il borgo con gli alloggi per i coloni e i braccianti agricoli.

Nel 1767, poi, questo borgo divenne proprietà del principe francese Henri d’Orleans che vi impiantò una azienda agricola per la produzione di un vino che presto divenne molto apprezzato e ricercato. Dopo la seconda guerra mondiale molti degli abitanti preferirono trasferirsi in città e il borgo rimase quasi disabitato e quindi iniziò la sua inevitabile decadenza.

Oggi vi abitano pochissime persone che, tuttavia, negli ultimi dieci anni, hanno deciso di dare al borgo una nuova vita. Un imprenditore locale ha avuto l’intuizione di renderlo un luogo insolito e ha avviato una ristrutturazione delle case secondo lo stile dell’artista catalano Gaudì.

Le facciate delle case sono colorate con tinte vivaci e scritte, i muri recano decorazioni a mosaico e piastrelle variopinte e il piccolo borgo è diventato un luogo molto visitato dai viaggiatori.

In the early days Veere was a flourishing commercial city. This prosperity can be found in the beautiful historical premises. The town of Veere arose in the twelfth century. The following centuries the town was being used to store Scottish wool. Veere still has these typical Scottish homes, which were built in the sixteenth century by rich Scottish merchants. At the Kaai in Veere, two of these Scottish houses still stand, and they remind people of the wool trade back in those days. Antique collections of the last private owners are among the things which can be admired here. Also fans of porcelain, furniture, style rooms and stitch costumes have much to look at. In the Scottish houses you can regularly go to see different expositions of the artists from Veere.

Big church

Big church Veere

The big church is from 1348 and it is a really great sight. As from 1811 the church was being used by Napoleon’s soldiers as a military hospital; the church was a beggars house and a barrack for a while as well. You can still clearly see the traces of an eventful past..

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Hernen Castle, locally known as Kasteel Hernen, lies in the village with the same name, in the Gelderland province in the Netherlands.

Hernen Castle started out as a tower house probably in the 14th century, because the Lords of Hernen were first mentioned in a document in 1247. This tower-house stood at the southeast corner of a rectangular bailey. The defence wall of the bailey was some 2,5 meters thick and had three corners towers beside the tower-house. This defence wall was equipped with crenellations, arrow loops, a wall walk on arches and a moat circling the castle.

With the passing of time the need arose for more room for servants, soldiers and new family members. Therefore several buildings were built against the inside of the defence wall of the bailey, thus reducing the size of the bailey. The arches supporting the wall walk however can still be seen in some of the rooms. Hernen Castle has a covered wall walk which makes it unique in the Netherlands.

In 1682 the castle was auctioned and became the property of a Philip Hendrik van Steenhuys. Later the castle went to the families De Béthune and D'Ennetieres. These families from the Southern Netherlands (present-day Belgium) weren't very interested in their castle in Hernen and almost never visited it so they didn't modernize the castle. This saved its medieval appearance although the moat at the eastern side of the castle was filled in.

The great tower-house however which formed the origin of Hernen Castle is now gone. It was still standing at the beginning of the 19th century, but when the first pictures of Hernen Castle were taken about 1890 it was gone. What happened to it is recorded nowhere. Probably it collapsed during a winter storm due to the fact that its late-medieval occupants had cut out the walls from the inside to gain space and so had weakened the walls of the structure.

L'esistenza del castello è documentata con certezza solo dal 1275. La leggenda narra che sul sito del villaggio di Monti sorse l'antica città di Venelia, distrutta dai Longobardi durante la loro discesa in Italia verso la metà del VII secolo. Un lato dell'antica chiesa è la strada che conduce al maniero medievale una volta una guarnigione per difendere la vicina via Francigena.

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The existence of the castle is documented with certainty only since 1275. Legend has it that on the site of the village of Monti arose the ancient city of Venelia, destroyed by the Lombards during their descent in Italy towards the middle of the seventh century. One side of the ancient church is the road that leads to the medieval manor once a garrison to defend the nearby via Francigena.

Spittal beach in Northumberland has some wonderfully patterned rock formations which lend themselves nicely to a bit of abstract art

Very sadly many years ago my Great grandfather was washed up on these shores, after losing his life in the Eyemouth fishing disaster on October 14th 1881

It was known as Black Friday, the UK's worst ever fishing disaster.

189 men lost their lives, including my Great grandfather, his son, his brother and two of his wife's brothers. Eyemouth alone lost 129 menfolk and many of their families had watched on in vain, as the boats had tried desperately to return to harbour

They had put to sea that day as money was short and they needed to pay the tithe demanded by the Church of Scotland. Twenty six boats in total were engulfed by the storm that arose that day. A storm of extraordinary violence

There was an occasional miraculous story, when days later a boat limped into harbour, having beaten the storm but left those onboard traumatised

The Eyemouth museum has a tapestry, depicting the scene, with details of all those lost.

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This was on my way down to the small bay area in Storkow last Sunday week, another for "Sunrise in Storkow", then I swear I'll post something different, I realised I have pretty much posted them in no particular order but hey. I loved how the descending branch seemed to be touching the Sun as it arose over the horizons, illuminating the lake in that albeit short lived colourations and ambience.

I hope everyone is well and as always, thank you!

Isla Corazón is part of Lake Mascardi, where I saw Cerro Tronador, which is the highest peak in the Park: 3,491 meters above sea level and has seven glaciers. However, I was there to find out how and why an island in the middle of that arm is called Heart.

This small piece of land in the middle of crystal clear and turquoise water is wrapped in a legend that involves two feuding indigenous communities and two young men, sons of caciques, in love: one of each. They fall in love and decide to escape, understanding that this decision would not be well received: a kind of Romeo and Juliet of our lands, one could say, with a different but equally tragic ending.

Once they flee, their communities begin their search and subsequent capture: they wanted to be free and enjoy their mutual love; when they realized there was no escape, they began to swim across Lake Mascardi, trying to reach the other shore. The arrows began to sink into the water but nevertheless they reached them and the young men, embraced, died in the lake. In this way, the legend tells, the heart-shaped island, Piuké Huapi, arose.

But, despite this version, there are those who disagree with it, with more or less arguments. There are those who cannot find a “coherent” answer to the name because the shape cannot be seen: it should be noted that the island can be seen from different points, one of them is from the route that leads to Cerro Tronador; another, which already implies more physical effort, is from the Isla Corazón viewpoint, which can be reached after a walk of -minimum- three hours one way and another three hours back.

Another renames the island Chalía, in homage to a girl named Rosalía who was born there many years ago. Clarisa Montenegro, huerquen of the Lof Wiritray, clarifies it. National Parks gives it that name, although she clarifies that it "also has to do with love" because it is through a beautiful memory and declaration of love, such as births.

“We are very respectful of the history that our ancestors who lived in this place told us,” adds Clarisa. Julio Gallardo, Clarisa and Ester Treuque, Lucia and Ester Rauque, Victoriano, Juan Inalef and Cipriano Inalef were the relatives of that woman who was born on the island.”

The love, the disagreements, the name: everything reveals to tourists and neighbors the magic and the profound history of the place for the enjoyment of the family, with friends or as a couple, and in any season of the year: a lake that at times it is turquoise, for others with green tones and others bluish. A mental photograph in each step that is taken. Isla Corazón is there, waiting for us to honor those who were born there or to understand that love does not understand enmities between families or tribes, it is simply love.

And in keeping with my previous reference to 19th century American poetry, here is something from one of the most famous of his day, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807-1882):

Softly the evening came. The sun from the western horizon

Like a magician extended his golden wand o’er the landscape;

Twinkling vapors arose; and sky and water and forest

Seemed all on fire at the touch, and melted and mingled together.

www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/henry-wadsworth-longfellow

In the early days Veere was a flourishing commercial city. This prosperity can be found in the beautiful historical premises. The town of Veere arose in the twelfth century. The following centuries the town was being used to store Scottish wool. Veere still has these typical Scottish homes, which were built in the sixteenth century by rich Scottish merchants. At the Kaai in Veere, two of these Scottish houses still stand, and they remind people of the wool trade back in those days. Antique collections of the last private owners are among the things which can be admired here. Also fans of porcelain, furniture, style rooms and stitch costumes have much to look at. In the Scottish houses you can regularly go to see different expositions of the artists from Veere.

Big church

Big church Veere

The big church is from 1348 and it is a really great sight. As from 1811 the church was being used by Napoleon’s soldiers as a military hospital; the church was a beggars house and a barrack for a while as well. You can still clearly see the traces of an eventful past.

"My old boat rests on the shore,

By the river's sedgy brink,

Where the meadow grass bends o'er,

And the cattle come to drink;

'Tis a rusty, batter'd boat,

Boat without master sail,

And it never again may float,

In dead calm or in gale;

For its timbers and ribs are rent,

Shiver'd and crack'd and bent,

And the paint has faded away,

From its sides this many a-day;

Sides gaping in every seam,

Wide open to the stream.

And yet a brave boat wast thou!

When I launch'd you long ago,

When thy shapely, sharpen'd prow,

Cleaved the waters like a plow;

Gay then each painted side,

With umber and green and white,

My triumph and my pride,

My glory, my heart's delight!

Was ever a joy in the past,

Like mine when first arose,

The flag at the head of the mast,

A pennon of purple and rose;

When first thy snowy sail,

I gave to the riotous breeze,

And steer'd from this river-vale,

Straight out to the open seas!"

- Isaac McLellan, My Old Fishing Boat

Capture and edit by Orchid Arado

Photo Locale, Remembering IASWAS (scenery change):

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Isla Corazón is part of Lake Mascardi, where I saw Cerro Tronador, which is the highest peak in the Park: 3,491 meters above sea level and has seven glaciers. However, I was there to find out how and why an island in the middle of that arm is called Heart.

This small piece of land in the middle of crystal clear and turquoise water is wrapped in a legend that involves two feuding indigenous communities and two young men, sons of caciques, in love: one of each. They fall in love and decide to escape, understanding that this decision would not be well received: a kind of Romeo and Juliet of our lands, one could say, with a different but equally tragic ending.

Once they flee, their communities begin their search and subsequent capture: they wanted to be free and enjoy their mutual love; when they realized there was no escape, they began to swim across Lake Mascardi, trying to reach the other shore. The arrows began to sink into the water but nevertheless they reached them and the young men, embraced, died in the lake. In this way, the legend tells, the heart-shaped island, Piuké Huapi, arose.

But, despite this version, there are those who disagree with it, with more or less arguments. There are those who cannot find a “coherent” answer to the name because the shape cannot be seen: it should be noted that the island can be seen from different points, one of them is from the route that leads to Cerro Tronador; another, which already implies more physical effort, is from the Isla Corazón viewpoint, which can be reached after a walk of -minimum- three hours one way and another three hours back.

Another renames the island Chalía, in homage to a girl named Rosalía who was born there many years ago. Clarisa Montenegro, huerquen of the Lof Wiritray, clarifies it. National Parks gives it that name, although she clarifies that it "also has to do with love" because it is through a beautiful memory and declaration of love, such as births.

“We are very respectful of the history that our ancestors who lived in this place told us,” adds Clarisa. Julio Gallardo, Clarisa and Ester Treuque, Lucia and Ester Rauque, Victoriano, Juan Inalef and Cipriano Inalef were the relatives of that woman who was born on the island.”

The love, the disagreements, the name: everything reveals to tourists and neighbors the magic and the profound history of the place for the enjoyment of the family, with friends or as a couple, and in any season of the year: a lake that at times it is turquoise, for others with green tones and others bluish. A mental photograph in each step that is taken. Isla Corazón is there, waiting for us to honor those who were born there or to understand that love does not understand enmities between families or tribes, it is simply love.

Nilo-Stolobenskaya Desert is a monastery on Stolobny Island on Lake Seliger. This monastery arose on the site of the feat of the Monk Nile, Stolobensky miracle worker..Nilova desert gave the world not only architectural masterpieces and spiritual treasures, but also significant scientific achievements.

Sant'Eufemia is a romanesque-style, Roman Catholic basilica church in the town of Spoleto dedicated to Saint Euphemia of Chalcedon. The church arose inside the walls of what once the palace of the Lombard-ruled Dukes of Spoleto. The oldest records date back to the tenth century

A spectacular October day on the lake yesterday, resulting in what was probably my longest paddle of the season. What few breezes arose quickly died down allowing easy going and pleasing reflections of the enduring colors at every turn...and resulting in far too many photos to quickly evaluate properly. This was one of the first, complimented by a soaring eagle whose circling this day never brought him quite over the lake...though I waited. Also in celebratory mood were a few straggler dragonflies whose appearance surprised me this late in the year. And the forecast is for this happy weather to continue throughout the week.

Unfortunately, unlike the optimistic Mary Hopkin (remember her?), I know that these days will end soon enough.

Yesterday evening towards sunset at one of the many biotopes that arose in my area after gravel extraction.

Panorma from 4 vertical images.

Gestern Abend gegen Sonnenuntergang an einem der vielen Biotope, die in meiner Umgebung nach dem Kiesabbau entstanden sind.

Danke für deinen Besuch! Thanks for visiting!

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The Basilica of the National Vow (Spanish: Basílica del Voto Nacional) is a Roman Catholic church located in the historic center of Quito, Ecuador. It is the largest neo-Gothic basilica in the Americas. The basilica arose from the idea of building a monument as a perpetual reminder of the consecration of Ecuador to the Sacred Heart. The basilica remains technically "unfinished." Local legend says that when the Basílica is completed, the end of the world will come.

Reconstruction of a pile embankment

A pile embankment was a wooden structure that was used to strengthen the dikes.

Because the first construction of dikes on the Zuiderzee did not provide sufficient protection against the water, the dikes were reinforced in several places with a pile construction from the 15th century.

This construction of pile dikes was used, among other things, on the Zuiderzeedijk between Amsterdam and Muiden. Long rows of posts of oak and / or coniferous wood are placed next to each other at the pile embankment, which are connected to each other by means of cross beams and anchored in the ground. This wooden construction was also not always resistant to the violence of the waves.

The biggest problems, however, arose in the 18th century. The pile dikes turned out not to withstand the pile worms that thrive in salt water. Since then, the dikes have been reinforced with other materials, such as boulders and basalt, and no longer with wood.

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Reconstructie van een palendijk:

Een paaldijk was een houten constructie die werd gebruikt om de dijken te versterken.

Omdat de eerste aanleg van dijken aan de Zuiderzee onvoldoende bescherming bood tegen het water, zijn de dijken op verschillende plaatsen versterkt met een paalconstructie uit de 15e eeuw. Deze constructie van paaldijken werd onder meer toegepast op de Zuiderzeedijk tussen Amsterdam en Muiden. Aan de paalwal worden lange rijen palen van eiken en / of naaldhout naast elkaar geplaatst, die door middel van dwarsbalken met elkaar zijn verbonden en in de grond verankerd. Deze houten constructie was ook niet altijd bestand tegen het geweld van de golven. De grootste problemen ontstonden echter in de 18e eeuw. De paaldijken bleken niet bestand tegen de paalwormen die gedijen in zout water. Sindsdien zijn de dijken versterkt met andere materialen, zoals keien en basalt, en niet meer met hout.

Amsterdam Castle Muiderslot, surrounded by water and gardens, was constructed near Amsterdam over 700 years ago. It is one of the oldest and best preserved castles in the Netherlands. The castle arose in 1285 and there are many stories to tell about its long and turbulent history. These days, the castle is a vibrant place enjoyed by many.

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wishing you a wonderful spring, thanks for all your support :-))

And Spring arose on the garden fair,

Like the Spirit of Love felt everywhere;

And each flower and herb on Earth's dark breast

rose from the dreams of its wintry rest.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

Castle Heeswijk is water citadel former at Heeswijk from the 11th century. The castle had been restored in 2005. Already in the year 1080 there a preamble of the current castle, so-called motte-burcht arose. In the course of the middle ages the motte (castle hillock) were blunted and on the place of the citadel a castle were built. Castle Heeswijk several times have played a role in the history. It did not succeed prince Maurits around 1600 up to two times to take the castle. It's halfbrother Frederik Hendrik succeeded in this in 1629, however, in, so that he could besiege then s' Hertogenbosch. In 1672 the sun king Lodewijk XIV the uninvited guest on castle Heeswijk were during its fight against the republic. On the end of the 18th century Pichegru, general still used the castle of the French revolution under the guidance of Napoleon, as a headquarter. In 1835, André bought baron of pine Bogaerde of Terbrugge the castle touched in decline and started immediately a massive reconstruction. For its growing collection art objects and curiosa, of him and of its sons, the noblemen Louis and Donat, the castle was extended with among other things the weapon room and the Irontower.

The current castle museum gives a picture of the life sitation and the collect tradion from the middle of the 19th century. After the recent restorations there meanwhile guided tours by the castle are possible. The weapon room of the castle does service as official marrylocation of the municipality Bernheze. In under the promenade cellar roofs lain (marry)partys and receptions are given and the carriage house of castle accommodate Heeswijk - and training facilities as well as congress - and presentation spaces meet.

if you want to see the castle and you use a car navigator is the end destiny is the Gouverneursweg, Heeswijk-Dinther

Kasteel Heeswijk is laying on circa 10 minutes from 's Hertogenbosch en 20 minutes from Eindhoven.

Sparrow's fights are not dangerous, they just push and scare each other. The problem arose when they both aspired to the same seed.

Umbertide : The Piaggiola

Umbertide, as well as almost all the markets that arose along the Tiber, demarcation in that period between the Umbrian and Etruscan people,

they were born on slightly raised hills. The piaggiola was the road that led from the square located on the highest area to the lower side areas.

Umbertide ,come pure quasi tutti i mercatali sorti lungo il Tevere , demarcazione in quel periodo tra Etruschi e Umbri ,nacquero sopra collinette leggermente rialzate . La Piaggiola era la strada che conduceva dalla piazza situata sulla zona più elevata a zone laterali più basse .

In the early days Veere was a flourishing commercial city. This prosperity can be found in the beautiful historical premises. The town of Veere arose in the twelfth century. The following centuries the town was being used to store Scottish wool. Veere still has these typical Scottish homes, which were built in the sixteenth century by rich Scottish merchants. At the Kaai in Veere, two of these Scottish houses still stand, and they remind people of the wool trade back in those days. Antique collections of the last private owners are among the things which can be admired here. Also fans of porcelain, furniture, style rooms and stitch costumes have much to look at. In the Scottish houses you can regularly go to see different expositions of the artists from Veere.

Big church

Big church Veere

The big church is from 1348 and it is a really great sight. As from 1811 the church was being used by Napoleon’s soldiers as a military hospital; the church was a beggars house and a barrack for a while as well. You can still clearly see the traces of an eventful past.

A view upwards into the crossing cupola of the St.Mang church of the eponymous St. Mang's Abbey.

A small early church stood here since around 800. Mid of the 11th century a larger church was built, this was extended around 1200. After looting and damage during the Thirty Years War, around 1687 the plan for a new church arose. Construction of the current building started in 1701. Interior decoration was completed in 1726.

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Mood ♪♫ The Greatest Showman Cast - This Is Me

so close that your eyes close with my dreams.

Bretagne...

Zoals je misschien merkt op de foto staan er jammer genoeg 2 auto's geparkeerd voor het huisje, wat natuurlijk het zicht verbrodt.

Een aantal jaren geleden ontstond er een discussie tussen de fotograaf en de bewoners omdat hij de foto zonder toelating gepubliceerd had in een toeristisch magazine. Er kwam uiteindelijk een proces van dat gewonnen werd door de bewoners. Sindsdien mag er nooit nog een foto genomen of gepubliceerd worden met commerciële bedoelingen. Maar blijkbaar waren de bewoners daar nog niet tevreden mee. Nu zetten ze altijd 2 auto's voor het huis om eventuele fotografen of hobbyfotografen zoals ik te ontmoedigen of beter gezegd te kl.....

De auto's staan er altijd, de bewoners zijn bejaard en gebruiken die niet meer...

Zo tof!!!!!!

Brittany...

As you may notice in the photo, unfortunately there are 2 cars parked in front of the house, which of course obscures the view.

A few years ago a discussion arose between the photographer and the residents because he had published the photo in a tourist magazine without permission. There was eventually a process that was won by the residents. Since then, no photo may be taken or published for commercial purposes. But apparently the residents were not satisfied with that. Now they always put 2 cars in front of the house to discourage or rather bully any photographers or hobby photographers like me.....

The cars are always there, the residents are elderly and no longer use them...

So cool!!!!!!

Soelen Castle, near the village of Zoelen, is a beautiful castle in the Betuwe, surrounded by a beautiful and large estate. The castle is privately owned and not open to visitors, but the estate surrounding the castle is located, is opened. Here one can stroll along the broad, posh avenues, paths and the pendulum through the vast meadows and cornfields. The castle with its beautiful port, its bridge over the Canal, its high Square Tower and beautifully crowned roofs is on a raised island. Castle Soelen is good to walk around it and to pictures out of it.

History

The popularity and history of Castle Soelen goes back to about 1263. in 1355 was the castle destroyed. Arnold van Soelen rebuilt the Castle, causing a conflict arose with the count of Geldre.

In 1362 had to Vijay Kumar is surrender to the authority of Duke Eduard. In the 17th century, a French-style park surrounding the Castle. A century later, this garden was made in the English landscape style.

The estate is now owned by the Forestry Commission and the castle is privately inhabited. The Castle Soelen and the estate is well seen by many nature lovers and photographers.

We arrived in Tursi with stormy skies the fading light and a rather hair raising adventure to make our way from the newer part of the city to the bottom of the oldest part to reach our flat in a historic before cars location for the evening. Making our way around the building and its neighborhood before climbing the hill for our supper in our walkabout we captured this homestead built between the old and new parts of Tursi to me it seemed like an observer of a lot of Tursi’s history and had probably seen better days itself.

Tursi is one of the oldest towns in Basilicata, it was founded by the Enotri peoples before 1000 BC then called Pandosia conquered and occupied as a Greek colony 400 years later lthen completely destroyed by the Romans during the Social War of the 1rst century BC . People apparently liked living in this area because the Roman city Anglona soon arose on the ruins finding itself destroyed by the VisiGoths after the fall of the Empire in 410AD.

The Visigoth’s tried to establish a stronghold here with a castle at the top of the hill but were drove out and soon a Saracen outpost was founded and stayed in place until the Byzantines took control in the 9th century when Tursi got its new name Tursikon.

I took this on Oct 3rd, 2018 with my D750 and Nikon 16-35mm f4.0 Lens at 26mm 2s f`16 ISO 100 processed in LR, PS +Lumenzia, Topaz , and DXO

Disclaimer: My style is a study of romantic realism as well as a work in progress

Castle Heeswijk is water citadel former at Heeswijk from the 11th century. The castle had been restored in 2005. Already in the year 1080 there a preamble of the current castle, so-called motte-burcht arose. In the course of the middle ages the motte (castle hillock) were blunted and on the place of the citadel a castle were built. Castle Heeswijk several times have played a role in the history. It did not succeed prince Maurits around 1600 up to two times to take the castle. It's halfbrother Frederik Hendrik succeeded in this in 1629, however, in, so that he could besiege then s' Hertogenbosch. In 1672 the sun king Lodewijk XIV the uninvited guest on castle Heeswijk were during its fight against the republic. On the end of the 18th century Pichegru, general still used the castle of the French revolution under the guidance of Napoleon, as a headquarter. In 1835, André bought baron of pine Bogaerde of Terbrugge the castle touched in decline and started immediately a massive reconstruction. For its growing collection art objects and curiosa, of him and of its sons, the noblemen Louis and Donat, the castle was extended with among other things the weapon room and the Irontower.

The current castle museum gives a picture of the life sitation and the collect tradion from the middle of the 19th century. After the recent restorations there meanwhile guided tours by the castle are possible. The weapon room of the castle does service as official marrylocation of the municipality Bernheze. In under the promenade cellar roofs lain (marry)partys and receptions are given and the carriage house of castle accommodate Heeswijk - and training facilities as well as congress - and presentation spaces meet.

if you want to see the castle and you use a car navigator is the end destiny is the Gouverneursweg, Heeswijk-Dinther

Kasteel Heeswijk is laying on circa 10 minutes from 's Hertogenbosch en 20 minutes from Eindhoven.

When it is good you can see the exif

The view from the window of the bell tower of Lake Seliger and the buildings of the monastery.

Nilo-Stolobenskaya Desert is a monastery on Stolobny Island on Lake Seliger. This monastery arose on the site of the feat of the Monk Nile, Stolobensky miracle worker..Nilova desert gave the world not only architectural masterpieces and spiritual treasures, but also significant scientific achievements..In 1528 the hermit Nil Stolobensky settled on the island of Lake Seliger. Prior to that, for thirteen years he lived in a dense forest on the banks of the Seremkhi River, but there he could not hide from human fame. In the first year of life on the island, he digs up a small cave in the mountain, where he spends the winter. In 1529 he built a hut and a chapel on the island. On December 7, 1554, the Monk Neil died, in 1560 a chapel was erected over his grave..The most intensive construction was carried out in the monastery in the XVIII century. The works were supervised by the contractor Foma Pavlov, a peasant of the sub-monastic suburb of the Trinity Selijarovsky monastery, a highly-gifted master. More than ten years, he has worked in Nil's desert..At the beginning of the 20th century, the Nilova Pustyn was the second most visited pilgrimage site in the world after the Holy Sepulcher. However, after the Bolsheviks came to power in Russia in 1917, her life quickly began to decline. On February 25, 1919, the cancer with the relics of Rev. Nil Stolobensky was blasphemously uncovered. And later his relics were removed from the monastery and placed in the temple of the city of Ostashkov, which houses the exhibition of the local history museum. The Nilo-Stolobensky monastery was plundered, the new rulers seized more than 33 pounds of silver, two pounds of valuables from the monastery..In 2003, the relics of St. Nectarius (Telyashin) were acquired. It happened during the excavations in the basement of the Epiphany Cathedral, where relics are now stored..By the beginning of the 20th century, the Nilova Hermitage represented a grandiose complex, the dominant structures of which were the Epiphany Cathedral, the bishops' cells, as well as a long granite embankment with the Bishops and Svetlitskaya towers. The monastery lost its early secluded scenic appearance and began to resemble the St. Petersburg city square. In the formation of this image of the desert, the leading role belonged not so much to the classical central cathedral as to the high granite embankment. Despite the difference in functional, chronological, stylistic features, all buildings and structures of the Nilova Hermitage represented a single and harmonious architectural complex, which is now a unique world-class architectural and landscape monument.

“And the Spring arose on the garden fair, Like the Spirit of Love felt everywhere. And each flower and herb on Earth's dark breast, Rose from the dreams of its wintry rest.”

― Percy Bysshe Shelley