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Ankeny side of Russellville Park East building captured for Window and Wall Wednesday. HWW everyone!
My apartment window is the second one below the Ankeny sign. I have a deck the whole width of the apartment. My view is into the trees. Today was the first sunny day in over a week.
In Explore March 16, 2023 #326.
Ăžingvallakirkja is a church in the Ăžingvellir National Park, belonging to the national Church of Iceland, a Lutheran body. It is believed that the first church in Ăžingvellir was built in 1017 by Bishop Bjarnhard Vilráðsson, probably with wood brought from Norway, but the current church building was built by the Rev’d SĂmon Beck in 1858 and consecrated on Christmas Day, 1859. The church tower was added in 1907
In 1928, a vicarage was built next to Ăžingvallakirkja. From 1958-2000, the parish priest of Ăžingvallar Church was also the national park ranger at Ăžingvallar. Presently, the church is usually closed unless a member of staff is nearby, and none was nearby when I visited.
This description incorporates machine-translated text from the Icelandic Wikipedia.
November 10, 2015
"A person often meets his destiny on the road he took to avoid it." - Jean de La Fontaine
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The weather was lovely again today; so at lunch I took off towards the river once again. It's great working so close to trails and nature, it really breaks up the daily routine.
And with the nice weather pushing so far into November I'm going to continue to take advantage and enjoy the lunch hour walks.
Not that they'll stop when winter finally arrives, they'll just be a little less enjoyable with the wind blowing.
Hope everyone has had a good day.
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Water towers on the grounds of a defunct army ammunition plant. The grounds are fenced off, and this is the closest I could get to them.
The silhouette of a dead tree in the foreground can be thought as an ominous sign: the lifeless tree coexists in the very same frame with a wind turbine. There are a whole lot more of them (wind turbines) on the mountain peak “Katara” in Epirus, Greece. The most picturesque and unspoiled autumnal scenery could once be admired in lovely Epirus. Then, the wind turbines grew on the mountains…
One had earlier thought that renewable technologies would be environmentally-friendly, but we now comprehend that wind farms cause more environmenal impact than previously thought. The insatiable demand for energy is only a symptom of the disease: us, humans (there are almost eight billion of us).
The planet is facing a serious Overpopulation issue because he Earth's resources are finite. If our planet dies, how can mankind carry on with surviving? Should population control be thought as a blessing rather than curse…?!
Amherst Lake along scenic Rte 100 central Vermont. Our last day. One more iconic vision found. The stillness evaporated ten minutes later.
Last year on this day I was standing on what was once the old Virginia Turnpike looking down the road, envisioning the days when the road was full of horse drawn freight wagons waiting to cross the bridge just up the road at the river. It was a foggy morning, just right for capturing the moody shots I was hoping for.
Also, on this day last year, The World Health Organization (WHO) published their first Disease Outbreak News on the new virus. It was a technical publication to the scientific and public health community as well as global media. It contained a risk assessment and advice about the Covid-19 virus.
It seemed insignificant at the time, but ended up changing the world as we know it. As I stood on that road on this early winter day wondering what was just around the bend, it never dawned on me what the future held in store. It's safe to say, I never saw it coming.
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The River Tamar forms the boundary between Cornwall and Devon. Rising only 4 miles from Bude and the Atlantic Ocean, the it flows south, slowly at first, for nearly 50 miles to the English Channel. In its middle reaches, the River Tamar winds its way through steep wooded country.
This is also an area strewn with the relics of two centuries of mining and is part of Cornwall's and West Devon's World Heritage Site. On the Cornish side is Cotehele Quay, once a busy port on which the local community depended.
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Meteora looming out of the mist while it rains.
Meteora is the name of the group comprising many impressive and lofty rock formations: The sandstone rock masses were formed 60 million years ago, are geologically unique and listed in UNESCO world heritage sites.
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Black and white conceptual shot of an inundated chapel. The chapel represents the prelacy and even the fatherland itself being both currently plunged into vice and sin, as witnessed by dark birds roosting higher up.
In 1520 St. Bēssariōn (bishop of Larissa, Greece) had a bridge erected to cross the river Pēneios (aka Peneus) close to the village Sarakēna (aka Sarakina). The stone bridge was 394 feet long (120 m) and had six arches. In 1970 two arches collapsed; then they were built anew using concrete.
The bridge was deliberately cut off (severed) in three points by “Klefts” [¹] in order to intercept (or impede) the march of Ali Pasha’s troops [²] raiding against villages in Thessaly.
On and around the historic bridge a battle took place on April 6, 1878: three warlords’ revolutionary contingents [³] inflicted a heavy defeat on the Turkish troops.
The rock formation “Petra” (a climbers’ favorite) is viewed behind the bridge. It is similar to the nearby Meteora rock formations. A chapel was built beneath Petra in the 17th century; it was dedicated to Christ’s Apostles.
[1] KLEFTS: at first armed outlaws or irregulars in insurgency against Ottoman occupation, soon to become the first warriors of the Independence War in 1821
[2] ALI PASHA was the infamous satrap or tyrant of Ioannina, a Muslim Albanian who held sway over Epirus and other Greek-inhabited territory in the years before 1821
[3] The 3 WARLORDS were: D. Koukouravas, V. Chostevas & N. Paschalis)
Middleworth Tor and bare trees - yesterday after the rain.
A day of showers with sunshine breaking through occasionally.
A bit of a problem keeping the camera dry! ....But good to be out on the moor.
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