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Manchester city centre is jam-packed with unique and eclectic restaurants, bars, shops, museums, galleries, hotels and places to stay whilst the surrounding Greater Manchester boroughs offer a patch-work of visitor experiences including quaint market towns, traditional pubs and beautiful green spaces and waterways to be explored on foot or bike. The city region is easily navigated, with great transport links both in and around Greater Manchester.
Furthermore, a packed calendar of world-class events and festivals – from the landmark Manchester International Festival to the enchanting Manchester Christmas Markets – mean there’s always another reason to visit Manchester
Picture taken in Horville en Ornois - France. Pitch black evening with a very small lightsource in the back.
One of nature's little surprises that caught my attention whilst on a wander....
© Dominic Scott 2022
"The Barbican Centre is a performing arts centre in the Barbican Estate of the City of London and the largest of its kind in Europe. The centre hosts classical and contemporary music concerts, theatre performances, film screenings and art exhibitions. It also houses a library, three restaurants, and a conservatory" (from their website).
"The name of the Barbican comes from the Low Latin word 'Barbecana' which referred to a fortified outpost or gateway: an outer defence of a city or castle or any tower situated over a gate or bridge which was used for defence purposes."
I haven't made up my mind yet whether I like the grey concrete architecture of the Barbican estate or not. It is forbidding and gloomy and yet at the same time somehow futuristic and impressive. And there can be some nice light play on those textures at night time..
St. Georges Square)
Hebden Bridge.... complete with Busker, pedestrians and shoppers...
(Hebden Bridge, West Yorkshire UK)
Sundial, with the gnomon in the shape of a fustian cutters knife or needle.
The one-tonne sculpture of a "fustian knife" was unveiled on the Summer Solstice by the Mayor of Calderdale, Cllr. Conrad Winterburn and the Mayor of Hebden Royd, Cllr. Susan Press.
Fustian knives were used in the manufacture of corduroy, a fabric for which Hebden Bridge was known throughout the world.
This large scale replica of a Fustian knife points directly north towards Nutclough Mill, former home of Hebden Bridge Fustian Manufacturing Society Ltd, founded in 1870. Pecket Well mill was the last mill in Britain to manufacture corduroy fustian cloth ( 1858 – 1989 ).
The sculpture was developed jointly by the Traffic Review Steering Group, Council Officers and local sculptor / artist, Mike Williams. It is cast from bronze in a Sheffield foundry and stainless steel fabricated by a firm in Halifax.
My beautiful flaming pink peony with bright yellow centre bloomed all last week giving us an amazing splash of color in the garden. Alas, the petals have fallen and it is time for the “three sisters” to take centre stage as they pose regally in the new light.
Here is my cheerful umbrella again, this time on the footbridge over the river near the lake where I took my other photo of the umbrella which I posted three days ago. I opted for selective colour here which didn't mean a dramatic change as it was a very gloomy morning and the vineyards in the background don't offer much colour either at this time of year.
The cold has really set in here in the UK and there's the possibility of snow today and I'm dreaming of the Spring and warmer weather! :-) This artwork is from a photo I took at a local Garden Centre recently.
The glacier was said to be advancing downstream at a rate of between 1.50m and 3m per day, under the pressure of the mass of ice accumulating at the top, and is crumbling and breaking as it meets the Rico River.
The glacier crumbles and breaks up when it meets the Rico River, but in the centre of the picture is the area where the glacier occasionally blocks the flow of water from the left-hand branch of the Rico, and the water accumulates in the upper branch and the flow decreases in the lower branch, which flows into the lake. The water then accumulates in the upper arm, the flow decreases on the lower arm which joins the lake. The water gradually digs into the base of the glacier..... which, at the critical moment, collapses, releasing enormous masses of water.This sudden influx of water rushes downstream, tearing away part of the banks in the process....... To this end, the footbridges do not go down to the bottom of the slope from which the photo was taken...
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Se dice que el glaciar está avanzando río abajo a un ritmo de entre 1,50 m y 3 m por día, bajo la presión de la masa de hielo que se acumula en la cima, y se está desmoronando y rompiendo al encontrarse con el río Rico.
El glaciar se desmorona y se rompe al encontrarse con el río Rico, pero en el centro de la imagen se encuentra la zona en la que el glaciar bloquea ocasionalmente el flujo de agua de la rama izquierda del Rico, y el agua se acumula en la rama superior y el flujo disminuye en la rama inferior, que desemboca en el lago. El agua se acumula entonces en el brazo superior, el caudal disminuye en el brazo inferior que se une al lago. El agua va cavando poco a poco en la base del glaciar..... que, en el momento crítico, se derrumba, liberando enormes masas de agua.Esta repentina afluencia de agua se precipita río abajo, arrancando parte de las orillas en el proceso....... Para ello, las pasarelas no bajan hasta el fondo de la ladera desde la que se tomó la foto...
Setting outside of Custom's House , Newcastle , a beautiful building of a bygone era. These days it operates mainly as a function cntre and cafe's
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Crazy Tuesday 9/15/20 theme = In The Centre
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Opened in November 2004 - just 33 months after construction had begun - the Millennium Centre is an imposing structure faced with metal, glass and Welsh slate.
A major venue for the performing arts, the centre houses the 1,900-seat Donald Gordon Theatre, the Weston Studio, rehearsals studios and several spaces to eat, drink, relax and watch free entertainment.
Wales Millennium Centre, Cardiff Bay, docks and Tiger Bay, Cardiff, south Wales
Above the main entrance is a monumental inscription by Welsh writer Gwyneth Lewis, written in both Welsh and English.
The text is... In These Stones Horizons Sing
A flower. Of some sort.
I'd love to say it was an osteospermum because that has a certain attractive lilt to it but I'm not sure it is.
It was captured while investigating someone else's garden in September. The image was a bit of a challenge to process - pollen everywhere!
For the Friday Flora group.
Thank you for taking the time to look. I hope you enjoy the image :)