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Chromolithographic patterns from La Plante et ses Applications Ornementales (1896) by Maurice Pillard Verneuil (1869–1942), French artist and decorator in the Art Nouveau and Art Deco movement. Verneuil studied and developed his style from Eugène Grasset, a Franco-Swiss pioneer of Art Nouveau design. Inspired by Japanese art, nature and particularly the sea. He is known for his contributions to the Art Deco movement through the use of bold floral designs on ceramic tiles, wallpapers, textiles, and posters. We have digitally enhanced the decorative illustrations from La Plante et ses Applications Ornementales (1896) for you to download for free under the creative commons 0 license.
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[ENG] The Chestnut forest of El Tiemblo (Ávila, Spain) it is a small forest of municipal property placed to approximately 1.100 m. of altitude in the header of the Reservation of Iruelas's Valley, to approximately 100 km from Madrid. It is the most extensive chestnut forest of the Central System, and on the autumnal station -the most showy and colouring- its paths are crossed by numerous visitors. Along the route we will be able to observe different species of trees and shrubs that they accompany on the chestnut-tree or form a part of the undergrowth of the chestnut forest (white hawthorn, hazel, elm of mountain, cherry, willows, holly, alder-tree, birch, heathers, ferns...). A section of the path passes parallel to the creek of the throat of the Yedra (Ivy), with it waters down all the year round and with a row of alder-trees that forming a small forest of gallery they wind close to the creek. With luck we can contemplate some species of birds of forest character (mocking-bird, blue climber, blackbird, thrush...).
[ESP] El Castañar de El Tiemblo (Ávila) es un pequeño bosque de propiedad municipal situado a unos 1.100 m. de altitud en las laderas de la Reserva del Valle de Iruelas, en la cabecera de la garganta de la Yedra, a unos 100 km. de Madrid. Es el castañar más extenso del Sistema Central, y en la estación otoñal –la más llamativa y colorida- sus senderos son recorridos por numerosos visitantes. A lo largo de la ruta podremos observar diferentes especies de árboles y arbustos que acompañan al castaño o forman parte del sotobosque del castañar (majuelo, avellano, olmo de montaña, cerezo silvestre, sauces, acebo, arraclán, abedul, brezos, helechos, ...). Un tramo del sendero discurre paralelo al arroyo de la garganta de la Yedra, con agua todo el año y con una hilera de alisos que formando un pequeño bosque de galería serpentean junto al arroyo. Con suerte podemos contemplar algunas especies de aves de carácter forestal (arrendajo, trepador azul, mirlo, zorzal...).
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Always loved this wee house at the gates of the old bone orchard on Dalry Road, this time of year the large chestnut tree that leans out over the cemetery wall is turning into beautiful autumn shades and the chestnuts are splitting out of their green, spiky casing and dropping down.
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It's conker season!!! For those unfamiliar with this term, conkers is an old, old game for kids, taking fallen autumn chestnuts, piercing a hole through the centre and threading a string or shoelace through it. The "conker"is then swung on its string at the opponent's conker with the winner being the one with the conker that survives relatively intact.
For generations this was a game played in school playground by kids, especially young boys, and often, impatient for good ones to drop from the chestnut trees, you'd see groups of boys hurling branches and stones at the boughts, trying to dislodge some ripe chestnuts in their prickly casings so they'd drop.
It's a game little played now and I doubt most schoolkids today have heard of it - this tree hangs over the wall in Dalry Cemetery, two minutes from a school, but I've never seen any of the kids picking up the conkers on their school walk. I supposed if we'd had the distractions and games they have now when we were that age, we'd probably never have bothered with them either! Still, every autumn I walk by this magnificent chestnut tree and admire the conkers falling from it, and remember playing with friends, long ago, when we were kids and something as simple as a chestnut on a string and a groups of pals was all you needed to be happy.
Walking home today after a mix weather day of rain showers, clouds and sudden bursts of lovely sunlight.
Luckily it was dry on the walk home from work, and the evening light was lovely, so I walked through the old bone orchard to take some snaps of the old chestnut tree.
Most of the trees are still rich with summer greenery, but you can see brown and gold leaf colouring sneaking in as autumn slowly arrives, and in the case of this chestnut tree, autumn is pretty far advancedeven by the second day of September.
Efecto de los rayos del sol entre las ramas y el humo de la quema de los erizos (las cáscaras espinosas de las castañas).
Effect of the rays of the sun among the branches and the smoke of the burning of the "hedgehogs" (the thorny husks of the chestnuts).
It's conker season!!! For those unfamiliar with this term, conkers is an old, old game for kids, taking fallen autumn chestnuts, piercing a hole through the centre and threading a string or shoelace through it. The "conker"is then swung on its string at the opponent's conker with the winner being the one with the conker that survives relatively intact.
For generations this was a game played in school playground by kids, especially young boys, and often, impatient for good ones to drop from the chestnut trees, you'd see groups of boys hurling branches and stones at the boughts, trying to dislodge some ripe chestnuts in their prickly casings so they'd drop.
It's a game little played now and I doubt most schoolkids today have heard of it - this tree hangs over the wall in Dalry Cemetery, two minutes from a school, but I've never seen any of the kids picking up the conkers on their school walk. I supposed if we'd had the distractions and games they have now when we were that age, we'd probably never have bothered with them either! Still, every autumn I walk by this magnificent chestnut tree and admire the conkers falling from it, and remember playing with friends, long ago, when we were kids and something as simple as a chestnut on a string and a groups of pals was all you needed to be happy.
This was my favourite tree in Oxford.
It can be found in the Wytham wood, so much celebrated by Mr. Tolkien.
And have a break in the Trout Inn on the way back! It's worth it...
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In my childhood, I've collected chestnuts from this tree numerous times, so despite its rather menacing appearance, it makes me a certain juvenile comfort.
I took this picture the day after one of the storms that hit us in December, so things were a bit different than usual.
The water level in the pond was higher than I can recall ever seeing before, and it had a somewhat unpleasant smell. My father later told me, that it was probably drainwater from the surrounding houses - poor ducks living in the pond.
It's difficult to imagine that, in former, more turbulent, times, this isolated valley was transformed into a place of refuge for nuns from Funchal. One can only salute their fortitude and strength : before modern roads were constructed, the only way into the valley was along rough, precipitous, paths. They made this laborious climb high into the mountains to escape from the unwelcome attention of marauding pirates.
The valley [ now known as the ' Nuns' Valley ] is now a tourist destination, famed for its chestnut trees, and a liqueur made from their fruit.
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[ENG] The Chestnut forest of El Tiemblo (Ávila, Spain) it is a small forest of municipal property placed to approximately 1.100 m. of altitude in the header of the Reservation of Iruelas's Valley, to approximately 100 km from Madrid. It is the most extensive chestnut forest of the Central System, and on the autumnal station -the most showy and colouring- its paths are crossed by numerous visitors. Along the route we will be able to observe different species of trees and shrubs that they accompany on the chestnut-tree or form a part of the undergrowth of the chestnut forest (white hawthorn, hazel, elm of mountain, cherry, willows, holly, alder-tree, birch, heathers, ferns...). A section of the path passes parallel to the creek of the throat of the Yedra (Ivy), with it waters down all the year round and with a row of alder-trees that forming a small forest of gallery they wind close to the creek. With luck we can contemplate some species of birds of forest character (mocking-bird, blue climber, blackbird, thrush...).
[ESP] El Castañar de El Tiemblo (Ávila) es un pequeño bosque de propiedad municipal situado a unos 1.100 m. de altitud en las laderas de la Reserva del Valle de Iruelas, en la cabecera de la garganta de la Yedra, a unos 100 km. de Madrid. Es el castañar más extenso del Sistema Central, y en la estación otoñal –la más llamativa y colorida- sus senderos son recorridos por numerosos visitantes. A lo largo de la ruta podremos observar diferentes especies de árboles y arbustos que acompañan al castaño o forman parte del sotobosque del castañar (majuelo, avellano, olmo de montaña, cerezo silvestre, sauces, acebo, arraclán, abedul, brezos, helechos, ...). Un tramo del sendero discurre paralelo al arroyo de la garganta de la Yedra, con agua todo el año y con una hilera de alisos que formando un pequeño bosque de galería serpentean junto al arroyo. Con suerte podemos contemplar algunas especies de aves de carácter forestal (arrendajo, trepador azul, mirlo, zorzal...).
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