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the eyes are resting,
and no light touches from the outside.
Left in the own darkness
safe - not born to be here.
rain is my second skin,
washing the world away,
covering me
in a shine of reflections -
which i do not be.
to be - be -
in the inside,
my god
and my holding heart,
knowing.
i did not win what is already lost,
but i swim
in the energy of my soul.
being.
knowing.
alive.
but not alive -
in this wrong neon lights,
fake lights
of illusions.
its all inside.
♥
(my words - i am not gone - i am just not here)
Seagull and views from Portmeirion looking to Talsarnau and Ynys.
In 1925, Welsh architect Clough Williams-Ellis acquired the site which was to become Portmeirion. He had been searching for a suitable site for his proposed ideal village for several years and when he heard that the Aber Iâ estate near Penrhyndeudraeth was for sale, he did not hesitate to make an offer.
He wanted to show how a naturally beautiful location could be developed without spoiling it, and that one could actually enhance the natural background through sympathetic development. The Aber Iâ estate had everything he had hoped for as a site for his architectural experiment: steep cliffs overlooking a wide sandy estuary, woods, streams and a nucleus of old buildings.
But the history of Portmeirion started long before 1925. The construction of Castell Deudraeth was recorded in 1188 by Gerald of Wales, who wrote: "We crossed the Traeth mawr and the Traeth Bychan. These are two arms of the sea, one large and one small. Two stone castles have been built there recently. The one called Castell Deudraeth belongs to the sons of Cynan and is situated in the Eifionydd area, facing the northern Mountains."
Castell Deudraeth was referenced again by the 17th century philologist, geologist, natural historian and keeper of the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford, Edward Lhuyd in 1700. Lhuyd recorded the name as Aber Iâ, stating " The Castle of Aber Iâ yet stood in ruined form overlooking the south western extremity of the peninsula".
In 1861, Richard Richards wrote a description: "Neither man nor woman was there, only a number of foreign water-fowl on a tiny pond, and two monkeys, which by their cries evidently regarded me as an unwelcome intruder. The garden itself was a very fine one, the walls of which were netted all over with fruit trees...Aber Iâ, then, gentle reader, is a beautiful mansion on the shore of Traeth Bach, in Merionethshire."
When Williams-Ellis acquired the land in 1925 he wrote, "a neglected wilderness - long abandoned by those romantics who had realised the unique appeal and possibilities of this favoured promontory but who had been carried away by their grandiose landscaping...into sorrowful bankruptcy." Clough immediately changed the name from Aber Iâ (Glacial Estuary) to Portmeirion; Port because of the coastal location and Meirion as this is Welsh for Merioneth, the county in which it lay.
His first job was to extend and convert the old house on the shore into a grand hotel. The concept of a tightly grouped coastal village had already formed in Clough's mind some years before he found the perfect site and he had quite a well-defined vision for the village from the outset.
Portmeirion was built in two stages: from 1925 to 1939 the site was 'pegged-out' and its most distinctive buildings were erected. From 1954-76 he filled in the details. The second period was typically classical or Palladian in style in contrast to the Arts and Crafts style of his earlier work. Several buildings were salvaged from demolition sites, giving rise to Clough's description of the place as "a home for fallen buildings".
"An architect has strange pleasures," Clough wrote in 1924. "He will lie awake listening to the storm in the night and think how the rain is beating on his roofs, he will see the sun return and will think that it was for just such sunshine that his shadow-throwing mouldings were made."
The first article about Portmeirion appeared in The Architects' Journal (January 6 1926) with photographs of scale models and preliminary designs prepared by Clough to impress potential investors. In this article, John Rothenstein writes: "On the sea-coast of North Wales, quite near his own old home, Plas Brondanw, he has acquired what he believes to be an ideal site, and he is engaged upon plans and models for the laying out of an entire small township. The results of his scheme will be significant and should do much to shake the current notion that although houses must be designed with due care, towns may grow up by chance."
The Hotel Portmeirion officially opened for the Easter Weekend, on 2nd April 1926. The last building, the Tollgate, was built in Clough's 93rd year.
They always seem to be in a state somewhere between awake and asleep.
Monochrome Bokeh Thursday.
Rietvlei Nature Reserve
Gauteng
South Africa
Coastal State Road A1A - Magical Palm Trees in Paradise
My favorite "sunrise in paradise" location on Key West. These palms are featured on Jimmy Buffett's A1A album, and the back cover is about 50 yards north of here. While he lived here this was a favorite spot of his and he wrote a few songs here. Have been attempting to get the best shot of these palms for many years. I'M STILL TRYING!
SUNRISE - Smathers Beach - Key West, Florida U.S.A.
Swaying Magical Palms - Late Fall - Nov. 26th, 2021
--------- Florida Keys Overseas Heritage Trail ----------
*[left-double-click for a closer-look - Sunrise Magical Coconut Palms]
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"Margaritaville" - Alan Jackson & Jimmy Buffett
www.youtube.com/watch?v=v4XtBiWgXLE
"It's Five-Oclock Somewhere" - Alan Jackson & Jimmy Buffett
these are part of a series I did on insomnia and the things I would see while I was awake in the late, late night/ early morning.
The AJAC challenge of the month was "Blast from the past" where we revisited past challenges. Take a look at our shots here : www.flickr.com/groups/ajac
"Low key"
Flickr doesn't like me.
Dress: UNA -> Estona dress //legacy, perky, maitreya, petite, reborn + waifus //
Headband -> Tentacio - desert headpiece
Hair: Olive
Enjoy ☻
I gather and listen
awake and dreaming
In the dark with
eyes open, screaming
then everything shines
a memory gleaming
between space and time
awake and dreaming
© justin haynes.
A deer or true deer is a hoofed ruminant mammal of the family Cervidae. The two main groups of deer are the Cervinae, including muntjac, elk, red deer, and fallow deer; and the Capreolinae, including reindeer, white-tailed deer, roe deer, and moose. Wikipedia
Speed: Reindeer: 60 – 80 km/h
Term for young: calf, fawn Wikimedia Foundation
Scientific name: Cervidae
Eaten by: Wolf
Domain: Eukaryota
Family: Cervidae; Goldfuss, 1820
I am not lucky enough to see these beautiful creatures in the wild, so generated with Ai, modified and textured with PS and Topaz
Sunrise for me can be a most magical time and certainly the best part of the day. The mistakes you made yesterday are put behind you leaving you with the prospect of opportunities to simply try and do things better. The early starts don’t worry me, most sensible people are tucked up under their 11 Tog* duvet, after all, there’s plenty of time to sleep when you make the Care Home.
Occasionally you are rewarded with conditions like these and the people who never get up for sunrise, and you know who you are, really don’t know what they’re missing. Well I guess you do now.
The inky darkness of a Lake District night was slowly receding as Crummock Water, majestically mirror still and protected with its own fluffy blanket of mist, rose from her slumbers. I find these moments quite humbling. Sunrise and sunset are the only real times when I am truly aware of the movement of our little globe around its star with the realisation of how truly insignificant we are in the wider scheme of things.
It was a blissfully peaceful start to the day, and as much as I like people, the solitude of these moments makes me appreciate the simple things in life and how much we have to be grateful for. Well, it was blissfully peaceful until a rather handsome black Labrador came and trashed the mirror. I love dogs.
I have so many ‘favourite’ pieces of music, from so many genres, but this is a special one……
*Tog clearly relates to the measurement of thermal resistance of your fluffy stuff, I’m not for a moment suggesting that you sleep with 11 other photographers, that would just be...... well………cosy, if not rather crowded..……to say the least!
autumn polaroid week day 2
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camera= polaroid slr 690
film= impossible color 600
How strange to dream of you
even when
im wide awake.
Today is my birthday :) and i dream of the aurora (last year i got this huge aurora present ) one can dream ....
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» I'm still viewing some shots I made a few months ago. This 70-200 lens picks up light as no other lens. Very wicked. If I had pointed (angle) it a little bit more towards the sun it pops out a flare... every lens has it own manual, I'm still at page 1 ;)
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Noticed this dog in a car beside me in traffic. The look in his eye the attentiveness in them got me.
so stay awake, and stay
i try and go, but your game
it waits for me and you, love
so cover up for the rain
you see way too much safety
cause I don't stand a chance
any longer than you do my friend
but you're still keeping me sane
lovely day with Lauren yesterday
it makes me happy that this is the first day of December's picture
and that it is of her
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Yesterday I met up with Sofia and her boyfriend Erik. We had all brought some native american styled things with us and the location was just perfect (even though you can't see it in this photo..). My camera didn't really give me the colors I wanted, so I put my sunglasses in front of the lense and woop - nice effect!
I'm such a sucker for backlight....