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Making bricks is a common activity on the highlands of the Madagascar. The clay used to make the bricks is taken from the rice fields and this extraction contribute to the degradation of the soil of the rice fields. But also it is necessary to burn lot of firewood to fuel the kilns and this contribute enormously to the deforestation of the island.
These are the big vats that they used for refining sugar from molasses when this mill was in operation. All that remains of the original structure is the walls and these kettles and other machinery. The roof is now replaces by a huge, steel structure, and walkways have been built inside it so people can get closer to the equipment.
When I first started coming to Sugar Mill Gardens back in January of 2008, the walls had no protection around them and the whole ruin was encircled by a chain link fence to keep people out. I think the decision to reinforce the structure with the steel roof was done to preserve what's left of the walls and the kettles. Parts of the wall came down even during the time between when I started visiting, and when they built the enclosure. It is rather monolithic and ugly, but the good thing is that we can now go inside and see things closer up than before. Future generations stand a better chance of seeing this old mill's ruins now.
Low temps and wintry conditions
My small collection of old Engineering bricks with frogs, in the snow.
Stacksteads
Lancashire
Brick plaza at dawn,
Young woman's silhouette rests,
Sunrise paints her grace.
--- Haiku by ChatGPT
This work by Dennis Behm is licensed under a creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
This composition was photographed in the new outskirts of Amsterdam. I particularly loved the geometrical variation and the inventive use of the brick surface of the original building. I framed it especially to highlight its minimalist changes and the shifts in reflected blue hues.
Looking Dickensian, Christmas-festooned good-beer emporium...
Decatur (Decatur Square), Georgia, USA.
16 December 2023.
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Spring
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