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Oamaru is the largest town in North Otago, in the South Island of New Zealand, it is the main town in the Waitaki District. It is 80 kilometres south of Timaru and 120 kilometres north of Dunedin on the Pacific coast; State Highway 1 and the railway Main South Line connect it to both cities. With a population of 14,000, Oamaru is the 28th largest urban area in New Zealand, and the third largest in Otago behind Dunedin and Queenstown. The town is the seat of Waitaki District, which includes the surrounding towns of Kurow, Weston, Palmerston, and Hampden, which combined have a total population of 23,200.
Friendly Bay is a popular recreational area located at the edge of Oamaru Harbour, south of Oamaru's main centre. Just to the north of Oamaru is the substantial Alliance Abattoir at Pukeuri, at a major junction with State Highway 83, the main route into the Waitaki Valley. This provides a road link to Kurow, Omarama, Otematata and via the Lindis Pass to Queenstown and Wānaka. Oamaru serves as the eastern gateway to the Mackenzie Basin, via the Waitaki Valley.
Oamaru has been built between the rolling hills of limestone and short stretch of flat land to the sea. This limestone rock is used for the construction of local "Oamaru stone”, sometimes called "Whitestone" buildings.
Oamaru enjoys a protected location in the shelter of Cape Wanbrow. The town was laid out in 1858 by Otago's provincial surveyor John Turnbull Thomson, who named the early streets after British rivers, particularly rivers in the northwest and southeast of the country.
The name Oamaru derives from the Māori and can be translated as "the place of Maru". The identity of Maru remains open to conjecture.
It has been conjectured that the Milky Way was the World Ash ("Yggdrasill") of Nordic legends, the center of all creation. Photographed in Hofsstaðir, Iceland, before an Aurora Borealis storm set in. The familiar "W" of Cassiopeia can be seen on the lower left.
patron Saint of
Draguignan, France; and
Alchemy and has conjectured connections with the Priory of Sion, the world's historical elite master alchemists, as foretold in the book, "The Holy Blood & The Holy Grail", which also lists Leonardo Da Vinci, Isaac Newton and Rene d'Anjou as secret members.
CMQ 9011 was a good un-refurbished counterpart to the trio of overhauled CP 9021-23 Red Barns undertaking their pilot runs on revenue freight (seen here) based in Moose Jaw from November 2022 to April 2023 so that Canadian Pacific could assess performance differences across 9011 and 9021-23.
In the last weeks of 2022 through the New Year, the pattern was that the red barns would continue to demonstrate themselves with runs on the Bulyea Sub, since these runs often involved lots of switching, variable speeds, and intense grades sometimes with fully loaded grainers behind them. CMQ 9011 was meanwhile used occaisonally for the Regina turn E44 when it used to originate in Moose Jaw, likely borne out of crew preferences during the harshest winter conditions. Although this day in particular was forgiving temperature-wise, sitting around -17C when E44-06 was on duty, the southwesterly winds were cruising at 25 km/h, bringing the windchill down to a more prairie standard -30C. Having naively parked the car on the opposite side of the tracks and hopping out glove-less, I had my one-and-only frostbite incident whilst trackside thus far. I had also forgotten to bring my charger with me during the break, so despite buying a new battery, this was one of the last images my shutter was able to handle before the battery pack was lost to the cold temperatures and ice crystals formed on my telephoto lens as they departed Regina here.
My winter break back home wasn't long enough to fully captivate the experience of having a quartet of cowls assigned to Moose Jaw, as rumors from crews I've talked to claim that there were in fact a few operations of 4 barns all together when they had to lift a potential 301 originating from terminals on the Bulyea Sub earlier in December, unlike the trio which simply had to spot for customers. 2 days prior to this and 3 days after the infamous new-years run, there was a more credible conjecture that CP 5875 pre-repaint, assigned to the Lanigan Sub as extra power, ran paired with the red barn trio also to lift a grainer as follow-up to the spotter, though I was unable to verify this while catching up with friends and family instead.
At the center of our being is a point of nothingness which is untouched by sin and by illusion a point of pure truth, a point or spark which belongs entirely to God…. This little point of nothingness in us, as our poverty, is the pure glory of God in us….
-Thomas Merton, Conjectures of a Guilty Bystander (Melbourne: Image Books, 1968), 158.
A capture today , but earlier this year the scene looked quite different as you can see in the first comment box .
I came up here in search of my SSC shot for this week ( job done ) and this capture is a bonus shot !
Built during Anglo-Saxon and early Norman periods, the structure has been conjectured by the Victoria County History's architectural analysis to have been a redevelopment of an Anglo-Saxon church:
Roman bricks in considerable quantities in Fetcham Church, remains of Anglo-Saxon architecture in the church...
...quoins and dressings of thin red bricks, no doubt Roman, set in wide mortar joints.
Traces of its long past exist in many parts of its structure. These include the south-west quoin of the nave, and a single splay window high on the south wall with traces of Roman brick, as well as arches which fit with the architecture prevailing before the Norman Conquest of 1066.
In the 19th century a considerable amount of restoration and improvement in the church was carried out by Rev. Sir Edward Moon rector from 1854 to 1904. Moon inherited his baronetcy in 1871 on the death of his father Sir Francis Moon, 1st Baronet, who was commemorated in much of the restoration work in the church.
The structure gained listed status in 1951, has some stained glass windows, and is classed as Grade II*.
Hungarian Kuvasz Mother Dog with Puppy Portrait
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PP work in Adobe PS Elements 2024 Raw filters.
Prompt: realistic Hungarian Kuvasz mother dog and her puppy, portrait, smiling, in a studio setting clean grey background --ar 1:1
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During the Migration Period and later Hungarian conquest of the Carpathian Basin, numerous nomadic or semi-nomadic tribes moved into the area that is now Hungary. The Principality of Hungary was founded in 895 or 896 AD. The Magyars probably brought sheep and dogs with them, and established a pastoral culture in the Hungarian plains.
In the fifteenth century Matthias Corvinus is believed to have kept large numbers of Kuvasz dogs at his court as guard dogs or hunting dogs, or sometimes as war dogs.
Selective breeding of the Kuvasz as a breed began in the latter part of the nineteenth century, and a breed standard was drawn up.: 92 In 1934 it was accepted by the Fédération Cynologique Internationale,: 92 which lists the date of full acceptance as 1954. By the end of World War II, nearly all the Kuvasz dogs in Hungary had been killed. The dogs had such a reputation for protecting their families that they were actively sought and killed by German and Soviet soldiers, while at the same time some German officers used to take Kuvasz dogs home with them. After the Soviet invasion and the end of the war, the breed was nearly extinct in Hungary. After the war, it was revealed that fewer than thirty Kuvasz were left in Hungary and some sources indicate the number may have been as few as twelve. Since then, due to many dedicated breeders, Kuvasz breed have repopulated Hungary. However, as a result of this near extinction, the genetic pool available to breeders was severely restricted and there is conjecture that some may have used other breeds, such as the Great Pyrenees, to continue their programs.
Well, that 'Hylotelephium' for what used to be called merely 'Sedum' is quite the tongue twister if you're not used to such words. The genus was separated from 'Sedum' in 1977 by Hideaki Ohba (1943-) although not all taxonomists agree.
Whatever the case, that name is rather more evocative than mere 'Sedum', Stonecrop. It derives from two Greek words, one more or less for 'wood' or 'woodland' (ὕλη), the other τηλέφιον. In Greek τηλέφιον - as it is used by several ancient naturalists such as Galen - refers simply to the plant Andrachne telephioides, a Spurge. So our plant's name means accurately: Woodland Spurge, in this case growing on rocks (cauticola).
David Gledhill in his standard The Names of Plants curiously - to my mind - derives 'telephium' from τηλέφιλον, meaning 'distant lover', so the plant's name would be literally 'woodland distant lover', whatever that means. Many follow his derivation. Gledhill's Greek word signifies the leaf of some plant used as a charm by which lovers were said to learn whether their love was reciprocal. A romantic derivation indeed. But I see no reason to conjecture that extra λ (l) when the 'Andrachne' derivation is so much simpler and more reasonable.
The common name 'Live-for-ever' tells it like it is: this Stonecrop survives just about any kind of climate and soil!
Oamaru is the largest town in North Otago, in the South Island of New Zealand, it is the main town in the Waitaki District. It is 80 kilometres (50 mi) south of Timaru and 120 kilometres (75 mi) north of Dunedin on the Pacific coast; State Highway 1 and the railway Main South Line connect it to both cities. With a population of 14,000, Oamaru is the 28th largest urban area in New Zealand, and the third largest in Otago behind Dunedin and Queenstown. The town is the seat of Waitaki District, which includes the surrounding towns of Kurow, Weston, Palmerston, and Hampden, which combined have a total population of 23,200.
Friendly Bay is a popular recreational area located at the edge of Oamaru Harbour, south of Oamaru's main centre. Just to the north of Oamaru is the substantial Alliance Abattoir at Pukeuri, at a major junction with State Highway 83, the main route into the Waitaki Valley. This provides a road link to Kurow, Omarama, Otematata and via the Lindis Pass to Queenstown and Wānaka. Oamaru serves as the eastern gateway to the Mackenzie Basin, via the Waitaki Valley.
Oamaru has been built between the rolling hills of limestone and short stretch of flat land to the sea. This limestone rock is used for the construction of local "Oamaru stone”, sometimes called "Whitestone" buildings.
Oamaru enjoys a protected location in the shelter of Cape Wanbrow. The town was laid out in 1858 by Otago's provincial surveyor John Turnbull Thomson, who named the early streets after British rivers, particularly rivers in the northwest and southeast of the country.
The name Oamaru derives from the Māori and can be translated as "the place of Maru". The identity of Maru remains open to conjecture.
Oamaru is the largest town in North Otago, in the South Island of New Zealand, it is the main town in the Waitaki District. It is 80 kilometres south of Timaru and 120 kilometres north of Dunedin on the Pacific coast; State Highway 1 and the railway Main South Line connect it to both cities. With a population of 14,000, Oamaru is the 28th largest urban area in New Zealand, and the third largest in Otago behind Dunedin and Queenstown. The town is the seat of Waitaki District, which includes the surrounding towns of Kurow, Weston, Palmerston, and Hampden, which combined have a total population of 23,200.
Friendly Bay is a popular recreational area located at the edge of Oamaru Harbour, south of Oamaru's main centre. Just to the north of Oamaru is the substantial Alliance Abattoir at Pukeuri, at a major junction with State Highway 83, the main route into the Waitaki Valley. This provides a road link to Kurow, Omarama, Otematata and via the Lindis Pass to Queenstown and Wānaka. Oamaru serves as the eastern gateway to the Mackenzie Basin, via the Waitaki Valley.
Oamaru has been built between the rolling hills of limestone and short stretch of flat land to the sea. This limestone rock is used for the construction of local "Oamaru stone”, sometimes called "Whitestone" buildings.
Oamaru enjoys a protected location in the shelter of Cape Wanbrow. The town was laid out in 1858 by Otago's provincial surveyor John Turnbull Thomson, who named the early streets after British rivers, particularly rivers in the northwest and southeast of the country.
The name Oamaru derives from the Māori and can be translated as "the place of Maru". The identity of Maru remains open to conjecture.
The medieval Church of St Saviours, Stydd, Ribchester is reputed to be the third oldest Church in Lancashire. Though whatever conjecture it still harkens back to the 12th Century.
La aventura de LCR se acabo en Asturias, tras algo mas de un año de servicio del bobinero El Musel-Villadangos, LCR le dice adiós, se anda diciendo que lo hará Captrain, pero son solo conjeturas. Campomanes agosto 2021.
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LCR's adventure ended in Asturias, after a little more than a year of service from the El Musel-Villadangos bobbin, LCR says goodbye, it goes around saying that Captrain will do it, but they are just conjectures. Campomanes August 2021.
Die Stadt der Künste und Wissenschaften in València befindet sich im ehemaligen Flussbett des Flusses Turia, der an beiden Ufern von Ausfallsstraßen der Stadt begleitet wird. Als Begrenzung des Gebäudekomplexes der Stadt der Künste und Wissenschaften zur Ausfallsstraße hin ließen sich die Architekten diese aufwändig gestalteten "Ohren" oder Muscheln aus blau und weiß glasierten Keramikstücken einfallen, die in Mosaikform auf die Oberfläche geklebt wurden und so ein modernes Kunstwerk darstellen. Möglicherweise tragen sie dazu bei, den Lärm vom Autoverkehr zu schlucken. Möglicherweise sollen sie aber auch ausdrücken, dass es in der Stadt der Künste und Wissenschaften auch darauf ankommt, die Ohren zu spitzen. All diese Zweckangaben sind jedoch reine Vermutungen von mir; nix Genaues weiß man nicht.
The City of Arts and Sciences in València is located in the former riverbed of the river Turia, which is flanked on both banks by the city's arterial roads. The architects came up with these elaborately designed "ears" or shells made of blue and white glazed ceramic pieces, which were glued to the surface in mosaic form and thus represent a modern work of art, as a boundary between the building complex of the City of Arts and Sciences and the arterial road. Perhaps they help to absorb the noise of car traffic. Or perhaps they are intended to emphasise that in the City of Arts and Sciences it is also important to keep your ears open. However, all these statements of purpose are pure conjecture on my part; nothing is known for sure.
Trump is claiming a big win on his Muslim ban due to the Supreme Court ruling today. Now, immigrants from six countries that have a Muslim majority are banned unless they have a "bona fide relationship" with someone here in America.
There's been some conjecture of what the term "bona fide relationship" means legally but my guess is it's something like Trump's relationship with the Saudis who he bows down to and won't ban because of the financial investments. Because, really this is all about keeping Americans so safe, isn't it?
edition.cnn.com/2017/06/26/politics/travel-ban-supreme-co...
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Oamaru is the largest town in North Otago, in the South Island of New Zealand, it is the main town in the Waitaki District. It is 80 kilometres (50 mi) south of Timaru and 120 kilometres (75 mi) north of Dunedin on the Pacific coast; State Highway 1 and the railway Main South Line connect it to both cities. With a population of 14,000, Oamaru is the 28th largest urban area in New Zealand, and the third largest in Otago behind Dunedin and Queenstown. The town is the seat of Waitaki District, which includes the surrounding towns of Kurow, Weston, Palmerston, and Hampden, which combined have a total population of 23,200.
Friendly Bay is a popular recreational area located at the edge of Oamaru Harbour, south of Oamaru's main centre. Just to the north of Oamaru is the substantial Alliance Abattoir at Pukeuri, at a major junction with State Highway 83, the main route into the Waitaki Valley. This provides a road link to Kurow, Omarama, Otematata and via the Lindis Pass to Queenstown and Wānaka. Oamaru serves as the eastern gateway to the Mackenzie Basin, via the Waitaki Valley.
Oamaru has been built between the rolling hills of limestone and short stretch of flat land to the sea. This limestone rock is used for the construction of local "Oamaru stone”, sometimes called "Whitestone" buildings.
Oamaru enjoys a protected location in the shelter of Cape Wanbrow. The town was laid out in 1858 by Otago's provincial surveyor John Turnbull Thomson, who named the early streets after British rivers, particularly rivers in the northwest and southeast of the country.
The name Oamaru derives from the Māori and can be translated as "the place of Maru". The identity of Maru remains open to conjecture.
Cambridge Street, Manchester
Plenty of info online but I’ve lifted a few key paragraphs courtesy of Dani Cole’s The Mill…
Originally built on the bank of the River Medlock in 1801, it was soon dwarfed by Birley’s Cotton Mill and Marsland’s Cotton Mill – two enormous mills that later became known as Chorlton Mills. In the early nineteenth century, this stretch of Chorlton-on-Medlock was a sight to behold: one of the engine rooms of the city’s industry, thronging with workers, vehicles and mess. In the 1830s, more than 2,000 people worked at Birley’s complex alone, suggesting it was the largest mill in Manchester. Three of the mills on Cambridge Street were connected by tram tunnels to allow them to move material between buildings unimpeded by the crowds outside.
The building now call Hotspur Press was the largest structure in the Medlock Mills complex, which was owned by a cotton baron called John Fairweather, and then by a series of his heirs in the following decades.
According to a map published in 1888, the building had by this point ended the first phase of its life making cotton, and was now a printing works, owned by the Percy Brothers Ltd. A brass sign bearing that company name is still in place next to one of the building’s doors.
It has been suggested that the name ‘Hotspur Press’ has connections with the popular boys’ comic the Hotspur, which ran from 1933 to 1959 and Henry Percy (‘Harry Hotspur’), the medieval knight who was the son of the 1st Earl of Northumberland during the Hundred Years’ War. Sadly, the former of these is not true, and the latter remains conjecture.
Wasn’t sure this place was still standing but apparently it’s been bought and is going to be redeveloped into even more trendy apartments.
Man in his weakness and shortsightedness believes he must make choices in this life. He trembles at the risks he takes. We do know fear. But no. Our choice is of no importance. There comes a time when our eyes are opened. And we come to realize that mercy is infinite. We need only to await it with confidence and receive it with gratitude. Mercy imposes no conditions.
An lo! Everything we have chosen is granted to us. And everything we have rejected has also been granted. Yes, we get back even what we have rejected. For mercy and truth have met together. Righteousness and bless shall kiss one another.
-General Lowenheilm, Babett's Feast
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“At the center of our being is a point of nothingness which is untouched by sin and by illusion, a point of pure truth, a point or spark which belongs entirely to God, which is never at our disposal, from which God disposes of our lives, which is inaccessible to the fantasies of our own mind or the brutalities of our own will. This little point of nothingness and of absolute poverty is the pure glory of God in us. It is so to speak His name written in us, as our poverty, as our indigence, as our dependence, as our sonship. It is like a pure diamond, blazing with the invisible light of heaven. It is in everybody, and if we could see it we would see these billions of points of light coming together in the face and blaze of a sun that would make all the darkness and cruelty of life vanish completely ... I have no program for this seeing. It is only given. But the gate of heaven is every- where.”
-Thomas Merton, Conjectures of a Guilty Bystander
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"Look!" Rafe suddenly exclaimed and pointed fiercely toward the east. I turned toward the east and saw a perfect sliver of a crescent moon, brilliantly poised for its October debut, so delicate and perfectly suspended in the luminous night sky that it almost took my breath away.
"Look again," he said. I did, and then I saw what he was so fixedly pointing to. There behind that delicate sliver of a new moon was the perfect outline of the full moon, completely round and whole.
"What we have to be is what we already are."
You sit with this koan for a while, and suddenly you see the secret, which like all koans is so obvious once you've finally grasped it. Time doesn't flow in a linear direction. Never did, never will. It spirals out, like a nautilus shell, from the worm hole of the point vierge, weaving a tapestry of finitude as the glory of God. We are full at point of origin, and from that fullness flow out synchronously, into time. Like the moon, growing toward what it already is. Meaningful coincidence, not ruthless linear causality, knits our hearts onto the poetry of God's body. And if we can learn to flow in this direction-learning to row a rowboat, facing our origin, and hence effortlessly flowing toward your destination, the journey through time becomes a sacrament of God's own compassionate aliveness.
-Cynthia Bourgeault, Becoming What We are, essay in We are Already One, Thomas Merton's Message of Hope
"le point vierge"
Jerusalem, Israel: Hardly a day goes by, without a visit to our garden, from, at least, one stray cat. Therefore, when I heard meowing, coming from the direction of the porch, adjoining our kitchen, I didn’t pay it much attention. However, as the sounds persisted, they took on a more plaintive, urgent quality, than usual, that told me that this might be a cry for help. So, I went out, to investigate. Scanning the porch, from end to end, I was unable to locate the cat that was, still, meowing pitifully. I did notice, however, another visitor (appearing alone, in my previous photograph) perched on a ledge, on the lower level of the porch. It had entered our grounds, I conjectured, out of curiosity and of solidarity with a fellow feline.
Suddenly, I spotted the meower! There, it lay (as shown, in this photograph) partially hidden under some ferns, still meowing. Not having much experience with animals, I was at a total loss, as to what to do. Fortunately, a few minutes later, our doorbell rang. Two young women, college students living two floors above ours, had come to retrieve their pet cat, that had fallen from their balcony. To my inquiry, if they believed, the animal was injured, they replied that they weren’t sure, but that it most probably was in shock. They, then, left - one of them carrying their poor pet lovingly in her arms. (2/2; although first, of the two images posted, this image comes second, in the story’s chronology)
Do we have too much News?
Are our lives blighted by constant fear, worry and conjecture?
There is one simple answer……….
An inscription on this temple of the year 11 of Rajakesarivarma is ascribable to Aditya's period. It is an ekatala vimana with round griva and sikhara., the latter of brick and possibly built later. The Padabandha adhisthana supports a wall with Brahmakanta pilasters carved in the style of Aditya's time. The vimana faces east a.The palis of pilasters near the garbhagraha doorway show excellently wrought patterns. The present devakostha divinities are replacements.Those in the grivakosthas - Lakshmi-visnu (?)(east), Dakshinamurti (south), Siva-Parvati(west), and Brahma (north)--- seem original, though obscured under stucco layers. There is large, arachaic, but beautiful bhutamala underneath the prastara. The vrttasphutitas are applied at sub-cardinal points in the griva; the feature of the bharavahaka figures atop the brackets of the grivakosthas would support a date relately early in Aditya's time. The temple may thus have been rebuilt in stone slightly before A.D.882.
The ardhamandapa shows no devakosthas though it does use pilasters as ornament. The dvar is flanked by split pilasters as in few Pandya temples, and is crowned by a torana, an unusual feature for a cola temple. The two dvarapalakas flanking the doorway are arachaic and surely early cola.Since the pranala is attached to the upana below the jagati of the adhisthana, there possibly was an earlier (Muttaraiyar?) building on the spot. An early set of Matrikas within the precints , in Muttaraiyar style, supports this conjecture.
CSX J900 rolls west through Summerfield, IL at a blistering 10mph with 160 cars on the drawbar, passing the still functional defect detector at MP 311.4.
This rolling shit show started about 5 hours earlier with a plan to pull all 210 stored cars off this, the former B&O St.Louis-to-Cincinnati line, which has been out of service and chopped up in various places since 2015.
Unfortunately, this single SD40-2 wasn't having it and the train stalled across both crossings in nearby Trenton, and several more to the east. The crew progressively cut off 10-20 cars at a time and finally got everything moving again after leaving 50 behind. The crew later tied the train down near O'Fallon and cut off the power for the night.
I suppose there will be a continuation of this attempt soon, and a second rescue mission later in the week, but the fate of this once busy line remains the subject of conjecture.
The day awoke radiant to the sound of the Robin
Then all of a sudden a colder front appeared
On the horizon to bring down the curtain
On a long-lost age of vagueness, for certainty's sake
Summarised best by a morning sip of Lipton
On with the Bretagne flavour before the apricot Sun
Fades into oblivion on the 17th like a wayward swing
For critical acclaim wasn't in the forecast
Nor does it appear to be in the offing
Just a neglected pipeline for the economic gutter so downcast
Neither here nor there, or indeed anywhere I haven't seen
Like bread without spread swallowing hard before a foretaste
Of the Winter in wait, placid by name, impolite by Nature
It has icicle claws that see through every defence
Of the fallen crown that leaves nothing to the chance of human conjecture
And by She I will stand! beside Her very evident allure
Spoken tongues seduce the hidden language
Undefinable something's that come with her heaving attraction
I ebb where She flows the Autumnal tumble of dicing figurative's
The number's up, and it's always Hers to collect by abstraction
Her Autumn stance is suggestive, as she wears less and less
From a breeze She let's slip another precious item of Summer's past fashion
That catalogue forever recyclable will return to favour someday
For now, the November Princess is almost nude, yet glowing
Her golden boughs embraced by a mischievous sunrise display
Of affectionate lust or is just a yearning for Her undiscovered départements
The one of her western extreme, of Oceanic dream and theme
She is my Finistère; of cuisine and shipping, of navigable broadcast
Now made naked by one subtle gust, November eyes Her arousal
The icy wind undressed Her thighs so presently Her beauty is unsurpassed
Exposed to whatever elements may be, Her survival is my revival
Of nothing, so much as nothing has a chance
To stand in the way of love, because, to love and never give-in
Is the landscape, the painting, of belief and faith,
And the prize that can only ever truly be found within.
by anglia24
10h00: 16/11/2008
©2008anglia24
Father and son,
asleep
my intuition
my conjecture
The father is inebriated
the son is caught in this spider web
i may be wrong
we shall never know
GOA
Photography’s new conscience
Cooks' Cottage, previously known as Captain Cook's Cottage, is located in the Fitzroy Gardens, Melbourne, Australia. The cottage was constructed in 1755 in the English village of Great Ayton, North Yorkshire, by the parents of Captain James Cook, James and Grace Cook, and was brought to Melbourne in 1934 by Sir Russell Grimwade. It is a point of conjecture among historians whether James Cook, the famous navigator, ever lived in the house, but almost certainly he visited his parents at the house. (Wikipedia)
Thursday Doors day/ TDD/ DDD
The day awoke radiant to the sound of the Robin
Then all of a sudden a colder front appeared
On the horizon to bring down the curtain
On a long-lost age of vagueness, for certainty's sake
Summarised best by a morning sip of Lipton
On with the Bretagne flavour before the apricot Sun
Fades into oblivion on the 17th like a wayward swing
For critical acclaim wasn't in the forecast
Nor does it appear to be in the offing
Just a neglected pipeline for the economic gutter so downcast
Neither here nor there, or indeed anywhere I haven't seen
Like bread without spread swallowing hard before a foretaste
Of the Winter in wait, placid by name, impolite by Nature
It has icicle claws that see through every defence
Of the fallen crown that leaves nothing to the chance of human conjecture
And by She I will stand! beside Her very evident allure
Spoken tongues seduce the hidden language
Undefinable something's that come with her heaving attraction
I ebb where She flows the Autumnal tumble of dicing figurative's
The number's up, and it's always Hers to collect by abstraction
Her Autumn stance is suggestive, as she wears less and less
From a breeze She let's slip another precious item of Summer's past fashion
That catalogue forever recyclable will return to favour someday
For now, the November Princess is almost nude, yet glowing
Her golden boughs embraced by a mischievous sunrise display
Of affectionate lust or is just a yearning for Her undiscovered départements
The one of her western extreme, of Oceanic dream and theme
She is my Finistère; of cuisine and shipping, of navigable broadcast
Now made naked by one subtle gust, November eyes Her arousal
The icy wind undressed Her thighs so presently Her beauty is unsurpassed
Exposed to whatever elements may be, Her survival is my revival
Of nothing, so much as nothing has a chance
To stand in the way of love, because, to love and never give-in
Is the landscape, the painting, of belief and faith,
And the prize that can only ever truly be found within.
by anglia24
10h00: 17/11/2008
©2008anglia24
One must accept the fact that one’s own life may, from a human and historic point of view, be rendered absolutely meaningless by the course of events in which, while trying to participate reasonably, one has ony added to the general confusion – if he has added anything at all. The point is, most people seem to think that this implies despair. That it implies renunciation of all hope and all reason. I don’t see that. I don’t consider that my life has to make perfect sense to me at every moment. I certainly do not think it is at all possible for our society to make sense in the way it thinks it can. The history ot the world during my own lifetime seems to me to be marked by a monumental, almost comic senselessness, the comedy being provided not by the horror of some of the most caracteristic events, but by the pompous futility of the men who have stood up and tried to tell us what it was all about.
-Conjectures of a guilty bystander », 192
A short mixed freight has been given its turn by the dispatcher to proceed to the Gratiot Interlocking and then northward on the TRRA Merchants Sub.
I don't know for sure, but given the short length of the train and the presence of local power in the 2nd unit, I'm thinking this train is headed for the BNSF yard in north St. Louis.
But that's just conjecture on my part.
Terminal Railroad Association
Merchants Sub
12th Street
St. Louis, Missouri
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Candid eye contact street photography from Glasgow, Scotland. The split second that she noticed my lens and a beat afterwards she gave me a lovely smile. This trend of wearing scarves as big as blankets has been quite photogenic for street shooting. Enjoy!
macropaintograph 'stranger than fiction' - jAm (2020)
first public hanging
"On one of many daily lunchtime walks with fellow physicist Abraham Pais, who like Einstein was a close friend and associate of Bohr, Einstein suddenly stopped, turned to Pais, and asked: 'Do you really believe that the moon only exists if you look at it?" As recorded on the first page of Subtle Is the Lord, Pais' biography of Einstein, Pais responded to the effect of: 'The twentieth century physicist does not, of course, claim to have the definitive answer to this question.' Pais' answer was representative not just of himself and of Bohr, but of the majority of quantum physicists of that time, a situation that over time led to Einstein's effective exclusion from the very group he helped found. As Pais indicated, the majority view of the quantum mechanics community then and arguably to this day is that existence in the absence of an observer is at best a conjecture, a conclusion that can neither be proven nor disproven."
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Cape Cod
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For other uses, see Cod (disambiguation).
Coordinates: 41°41′20″N 70°17′49″W / 41.68889°N 70.29694°W / 41.68889; -70.29694
Map of Massachusetts, with Cape Cod (Barnstable County) indicated in red
Dunes on Sandy Neck are part of the Cape's barrier beach which helps to prevent erosion
Cape Cod, often referred to locally as simply the Cape, is an island and a cape in the easternmost portion of the state of Massachusetts, in the Northeastern United States. It is coextensive with Barnstable County. Several small islands right off Cape Cod, including Monomoy Island, Monomoscoy Island, Popponesset Island, and Seconsett Island, are also in Barnstable County, being part of municipalities with land on the Cape. The Cape's small-town character and large beachfront attract heavy tourism during the summer months.
Cape Cod was formed as the terminal moraine of a glacier, resulting in a peninsula in the Atlantic Ocean. In 1914, the Cape Cod Canal was cut through the base or isthmus of the peninsula, forming an island. The Cape Cod Commission refers to the resultant landmass as an island; as does the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) in regards to disaster preparedness.[1] It is still identified as a peninsula by geographers, who do not change landform designations based on man-made canal construction.[citation needed]
Unofficially, it is one of the biggest barrier islands in the world, shielding much of the Massachusetts coastline from North Atlantic storm waves. This protection helps to erode the Cape shoreline at the expense of cliffs, while protecting towns from Fairhaven to Marshfield.
Road vehicles from the mainland cross over the Cape Cod Canal via the Sagamore Bridge and the Bourne Bridge. The two bridges are parallel, with the Bourne Bridge located slightly farther southwest. In addition, the Cape Cod Canal Railroad Bridge carries railway freight as well as tourist passenger services.
Contents
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* 1 Geography and political divisions
o 1.1 "Upper" and "Lower"
* 2 Geology
* 3 Climate
* 4 Native population
* 5 History
* 6 Lighthouses of Cape Cod
* 7 Transportation
o 7.1 Bus
o 7.2 Rail
o 7.3 Taxi
* 8 Tourism
* 9 Sport fishing
* 10 Sports
* 11 Education
* 12 Islands off Cape Cod
* 13 See also
* 14 References
o 14.1 Notes
o 14.2 Sources
o 14.3 Further reading
* 15 External links
[edit] Geography and political divisions
Towns of Barnstable County
historical map of 1890
The highest elevation on Cape Cod is 306 feet (93 m), at the top of Pine Hill, in the Bourne portion of the Massachusetts Military Reservation. The lowest point is sea level.
The body of water located between Cape Cod and the mainland, bordered to the north by Massachusetts Bay, is Cape Cod Bay; west of Cape Cod is Buzzards Bay. The Cape Cod Canal, completed in 1916, connects Buzzards Bay to Cape Cod Bay; it shortened the trade route between New York and Boston by 62 miles.[2] To the south of Cape Cod lie Nantucket Sound; Nantucket and Martha's Vineyard, both large islands, and the mostly privately owned Elizabeth Islands.
Cape Cod incorporates all of Barnstable County, which comprises 15 towns: Bourne, Sandwich, Falmouth, and Mashpee, Barnstable, Yarmouth, Dennis, Harwich, Brewster, Chatham, Orleans, Eastham, Wellfleet, Truro, and Provincetown. Two of the county's fifteen towns (Bourne and Sandwich) include land on the mainland side of the Cape Cod Canal. The towns of Plymouth and Wareham, in adjacent Plymouth County, are sometimes considered to be part of Cape Cod but are not located on the island.
In the 17th century the designation Cape Cod applied only to the tip of the peninsula, essentially present-day Provincetown. Over the ensuing decades, the name came to mean all the land east of the Manomet and Scussett rivers - essentially the line of the 20th century Cape Cod Canal. Now, the complete towns of Bourne and Sandwich are widely considered to incorporate the full perimeter of Cape Cod, even though small parts of these towns are located on the west side of the canal. The canal divides the largest part of the peninsula from the mainland and the resultant landmass is sometimes referred to as an island.[3][4] Additionally some "Cape Codders" – residents of "The Cape" – refer to all land on the mainland side of the canal as "off-Cape."
For most of the 18th, 19th, and 20th centuries, Cape Cod was considered to consist of three sections:
* The Upper Cape is the part of Cape Cod closest to the mainland, comprising the towns of Bourne, Sandwich, Falmouth, and Mashpee. Falmouth is the home of the famous Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution and several other research organizations, and is also the most-used ferry connection to Martha's Vineyard. Falmouth is composed of several separate villages, including East Falmouth, Falmouth Village, Hatchville, North Falmouth, Teaticket, Waquoit, West Falmouth, and Woods Hole, as well as several smaller hamlets that are incorporated into their larger neighbors (e.g., Davisville, Falmouth Heights, Quissett, Sippewissett, and others).[5]
* The Mid-Cape includes the towns of Barnstable, Yarmouth and Dennis. The Mid-Cape area features many beautiful beaches, including warm-water beaches along Nantucket Sound, e.g., Kalmus Beach in Hyannis, which gets its name from one of the inventors of Technicolor, Herbert Kalmus. This popular windsurfing destination was bequeathed to the town of Barnstable by Dr. Kalmus on condition that it not be developed, possibly one of the first instances of open-space preservation in the US. The Mid-Cape is also the commercial and industrial center of the region. There are seven villages in Barnstable, including Barnstable Village, Centerville, Cotuit, Hyannis, Marstons Mills, Osterville, and West Barnstable, as well as several smaller hamlets that are incorporated into their larger neighbors (e.g., Craigville, Cummaquid, Hyannisport, Santuit, Wianno, and others).[6] There are three villages in Yarmouth: South Yarmouth, West Yarmouth and Yarmouthport. There are five villages in Dennis including, Dennis Village(North Dennis), East Dennis, West Dennis, South Dennis and Dennisport.[7]
* The Lower Cape traditionally included all of the rest of the Cape,or the towns of Harwich, Brewster, Chatham, Orleans, Eastham, Wellfleet, Truro, and Provincetown. This area includes the Cape Cod National Seashore, a national park comprising much of the outer Cape, including the entire east-facing coast, and is home to some of the most popular beaches in America, such as Coast Guard Beach and Nauset Light Beach in Eastham. Stephen Leatherman, aka "Dr. Beach", named Coast Guard Beach the 5th best beach in America for 2007.[8]
[edit] "Upper" and "Lower"
The terms "Upper" and "Lower" as applied to the Cape have nothing to do with north and south. Instead, they derive from maritime convention at the time when the principal means of transportation involved watercraft, and the prevailing westerly winds meant that a boat with sails traveling northeast in Cape Cod Bay would have the wind at its back and thus be going downwind, while a craft sailing southwest would be going against the wind, or upwind.[9] Similarly, on nearby Martha's Vineyard, "Up Island" still is the western section and "Down Island" is to the east, and in Maine, "Down East" is similarly defined by the winds and currents.
Over time, the reasons for the traditional nomenclature became unfamiliar and their meaning obscure. Late in the 1900s, new arrivals began calling towns from Eastham to Provincetown the "Outer Cape", yet another geographic descriptor which is still in use, as is the "Inner Cape."
[edit] Geology
Cape Cod and Cape Cod Bay from space.[10]
East of America, there stands in the open Atlantic the last fragment of an ancient and vanished land. Worn by the breakers and the rains, and disintegrated by the wind, it still stands bold.
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Henry Beston, The Outermost House
Cape Cod forms a continuous archipelagic region with a thin line of islands stretching toward New York, historically known by naturalists as the Outer Lands. This continuity is due to the fact that the islands and Cape are all terminal glacial moraines laid down some 16,000 to 20,000 years ago.
Most of Cape Cod's geological history involves the advance and retreat of the Laurentide ice sheet in the late Pleistocene geological era and the subsequent changes in sea level. Using radiocarbon dating techniques, researchers have determined that around 23,000 years ago, the ice sheet reached its maximum southward advance over North America, and then started to retreat. Many "kettle ponds" — clear, cold lakes — were formed and remain on Cape Cod as a result of the receding glacier. By about 18,000 years ago, the ice sheet had retreated past Cape Cod. By roughly 15,000 years ago, it had retreated past southern New England. When so much of Earth's water was locked up in massive ice sheets, the sea level was lower. Truro's bayside beaches used to be a petrified forest, before it became a beach.
As the ice began to melt, the sea began to rise. Initially, sea level rose quickly, about 15 meters (50 ft) per 1,000 years, but then the rate declined. On Cape Cod, sea level rose roughly 3 meters (11 ft) per millennium between 6,000 and 2,000 years ago. After that, it continued to rise at about 1 meter (3 ft) per millennium. By 6,000 years ago, the sea level was high enough to start eroding the glacial deposits that the vanished continental ice sheet had left on Cape Cod. The water transported the eroded deposits north and south along the outer Cape's shoreline. Those reworked sediments that moved north went to the tip of Cape Cod.
Provincetown Spit, at the northern end of the Cape, consists largely of marine deposits, transported from farther up the shore. Sediments that moved south created the islands and shoals of Monomoy. So while other parts of the Cape have dwindled from the action of the waves, these parts of the Cape have grown.
Cape Cod National Seashore
This process continues today. Due to their position jutting out into the Atlantic Ocean, the Cape and islands are subject to massive coastal erosion. Geologists say that, due to erosion, the Cape will be completely submerged by the sea in thousands of years.[11] This erosion causes the washout of beaches and the destruction of the barrier islands; for example, the ocean broke through the barrier island at Chatham during Hurricane Bob in 1991, allowing waves and storm surges to hit the coast with no obstruction. Consequently, the sediment and sand from the beaches is being washed away and deposited elsewhere. While this destroys land in some places, it creates land elsewhere, most noticeably in marshes where sediment is deposited by waters running through them.
[edit] Climate
Although Cape Cod's weather[12] is typically more moderate than inland locations, there have been occasions where Cape Cod has dealt with the brunt of extreme weather situations (such as the Blizzard of 1954 and Hurricane of 1938). Because of the influence of the Atlantic Ocean, temperatures are typically a few degrees cooler in the summer and a few degrees warmer in the winter. A common misconception is that the climate is influenced largely by the warm Gulf Stream current, however that current turns eastward off the coast of Virginia and the waters off the Cape are more influenced by the cold Canadian Labrador Current. As a result, the ocean temperature rarely gets above 65 °F (18 °C), except along the shallow west coast of the Upper Cape.
The Cape's climate is also notorious for a delayed spring season, being surrounded by an ocean which is still cold from the winter; however, it is also known for an exceptionally mild fall season (Indian summer), thanks to the ocean remaining warm from the summer. The highest temperature ever recorded on Cape Cod was 104 °F (40 °C) in Provincetown[13], and the lowest temperature ever was −12 °F (−24.4 °C) in Barnstable.[14]
The water surrounding Cape Cod moderates winter temperatures enough to extend the USDA hardiness zone 7a to its northernmost limit in eastern North America.[15] Even though zone 7a (annual low = 0–5 degrees Fahrenheit) signifies no sub-zero temperatures annually, there have been several instances of temperatures reaching a few degrees below zero across the Cape (although it is rare, usually 1–5 times a year, typically depending on locale, sometimes not at all). Consequently, many plant species typically found in more southerly latitudes grow there, including Camellias, Ilex opaca, Magnolia grandiflora and Albizia julibrissin.
Precipitation on Cape Cod and the islands of Martha's Vineyard and Nantucket is the lowest in the New England region, averaging slightly less than 40 inches (1,000 mm) a year (most parts of New England average 42–46 inches). This is due to storm systems which move across western areas, building up in mountainous regions, and dissipating before reaching the coast where the land has leveled out. The region does not experience a greater number of sunny days however, as the number of cloudy days is the same as inland locales, in addition to increased fog. Snowfall is annual, but a lot less common than the rest of Massachusetts. On average, 30 inches of snow, which is a foot less than Boston, falls in an average winter. Snow is usually light, and comes in squalls on cold days. Storms that bring blizzard conditions and snow emergencies to the mainland, bring devastating ice storms or just heavy rains more frequently than large snow storms.
[hide]Climate data for Cape Cod
Month Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec Year
Average high °C (°F) 2.06
(35.7) 2.5
(36.5) 6.22
(43.2) 11.72
(53.1) 16.94
(62.5) 23.5
(74.3) 26.39
(79.5) 26.67
(80.0) 25.06
(77.1) 18.39
(65.1) 12.56
(54.6) 5.44
(41.8) 26.67
(80.0)
Average low °C (°F) -5.33
(22.4) -5
(23.0) -1.33
(29.6) 2.72
(36.9) 8.72
(47.7) 14.61
(58.3) 19.22
(66.6) 20.28
(68.5) 15.56
(60.0) 9.94
(49.9) 3.94
(39.1) -2.22
(28.0) -5.33
(22.4)
Precipitation mm (inches) 98
(3.86) 75.4
(2.97) 95
(3.74) 92.5
(3.64) 83.6
(3.29) 76.7
(3.02) 62.2
(2.45) 65
(2.56) 74.7
(2.94) 84.8
(3.34) 90.7
(3.57) 92.7
(3.65) 990.9
(39.01)
Source: World Meteorological Organisation (United Nations) [16]
[edit] Native population
Cape Cod has been the home of the Wampanoag tribe of Native American people for many centuries. They survived off the sea and were accomplished farmers. They understood the principles of sustainable forest management, and were known to light controlled fires to keep the underbrush in check. They helped the Pilgrims, who arrived in the fall of 1620, survive at their new Plymouth Colony. At the time, the dominant group was the Kakopee, known for their abilities at fishing. They were the first Native Americans to use large casting nets. Early colonial settlers recorded that the Kakopee numbered nearly 7,000.
Shortly after the Pilgrims arrived, the chief of the Kakopee, Mogauhok, attempted to make a treaty limiting colonial settlements. The effort failed after he succumbed to smallpox in 1625. Infectious diseases such as smallpox, measles and influenza caused the deaths of many other Kakopee and Wampanoag. They had no natural immunity to Eurasian diseases by then endemic among the English and other Europeans. Today, the only reminder of the Kakopee is a small public recreation area in Barnstable named for them. A historic marker notes the burial site of Mogauhok near Truro, although the location is conjecture.
While contractors were digging test wells in the eastern Massachusetts Military Reservation area, they discovered an archeological find.[citation needed] Excavation revealed the remains of a Kakopee village in Forestdale, a location in Sandwich. Researchers found a totem with a painted image of Mogauhok, portrayed in his chief's cape and brooch. The totem was discovered on property on Grand Oak Road. It is the first evidence other than colonial accounts of his role as an important Kakopee leader.
The Indians lost their lands through continued purchase and expropriation by the English colonists. The documentary Natives of the Narrowland (1993), narrated by actress Julie Harris, shows the history of the Wampanoag people through Cape Cod archaeological sites.
In 1974, the Mashpee Wampanoag Tribal Council was formed to articulate the concerns of those with Native American ancestry. They petitioned the federal government in 1975 and again in 1990 for official recognition of the Mashpee Wampanoag as a tribe. In May 2007, the Wampanoag tribe was finally federally recognized as a tribe.[17]
[edit] History
Cranberry picking in 1906
Cape Cod was a landmark for early explorers. It may have been the "Promontory of Vinland" mentioned by the Norse voyagers (985-1025). Giovanni da Verrazzano in 1524 approached it from the south. He named Martha's Vineyard Claudia, after the mother of the King of France.[18] The next year the explorer Esteban Gómez called it Cape St. James.
In 1602 Bartholomew Gosnold named it Cape Cod, the surviving term and the ninth oldest English place-name in the U.S.[19] Samuel de Champlain charted its sand-silted harbors in 1606 and Henry Hudson landed there in 1609. Captain John Smith noted it on his map of 1614 and at last the Pilgrims entered the "Cape Harbor" and – contrary to the popular myth of Plymouth Rock – made their first landing near present-day Provincetown on November 11, 1620. Nearby, in what is now Eastham, they had their first encounter with Native Americans.
Cape Cod was among the first places settled by the English in North America. Aside from Barnstable (1639), Sandwich (1637) and Yarmouth (1639), the Cape's fifteen towns developed slowly. The final town to be established on the Cape was Bourne in 1884.[20] Provincetown was a group of huts until the 18th century. A channel from Massachusetts Bay to Buzzards Bay is shown on Southack's map of 1717. The present Cape Cod Canal was slowly developed from 1870 to 1914. The Federal government purchased it in 1928.
Thanks to early colonial settlement and intensive land use, by the time Henry Thoreau saw Cape Cod during his four visits over 1849 to 1857[21], its vegetation was depauperate and trees were scarce. As the settlers heated by fires, and it took 10 to 20 cords (40 to 80 m³) of wood to heat a home, they cleared most of Cape Cod of timber early on. They planted familiar crops, but these were unsuited to Cape Cod's thin, glacially derived soils. For instance, much of Eastham was planted to wheat. The settlers practiced burning of woodlands to release nutrients into the soil. Improper and intensive farming led to erosion and the loss of topsoil. Farmers grazed their cattle on the grassy dunes of coastal Massachusetts, only to watch "in horror as the denuded sands `walked' over richer lands, burying cultivated fields and fences." Dunes on the outer Cape became more common and many harbors filled in with eroded soils.[22]
By 1800, most of Cape Cod's firewood had to be transported by boat from Maine. The paucity of vegetation was worsened by the raising of merino sheep that reached its peak in New England around 1840. The early industrial revolution, which occurred through much of Massachusetts and Rhode Island, mostly bypassed Cape Cod due to a lack of significant water power in the area. As a result, and also because of its geographic position, the Cape developed as a large fishing and whaling center. After 1860 and the opening of the American West, farmers abandoned agriculture on the Cape. By 1950 forests had recovered to an extent not seen since the 18th century.
Cape Cod became a summer haven for city dwellers beginning at the end of the 19th century. Improved rail transportation made the towns of the Upper Cape, such as Bourne and Falmouth, accessible to Bostonians. At the beginning of the twentieth century, the Northeastern mercantile elite built many large, shingled "cottages" along Buzzards Bay. The relaxed summer environment offered by Cape Cod was highlighted by writers including Joseph C. Lincoln, who published novels and countless short stories about Cape Cod folks in popular magazines such as the Saturday Evening Post and the Delineator.
Guglielmo Marconi made the first transatlantic wireless transmission originating in the United States from Cape Cod, at Wellfleet. The beach from which he transmitted has since been called Marconi Beach. In 1914 he opened the maritime wireless station WCC in Chatham. It supported the communications of Amelia Earhart, Howard Hughes, Admiral Byrd, and the Hindenburg. Marconi chose Chatham due to its vantage point on the Atlantic Ocean, surrounded on three sides by water. Walter Cronkite narrated a 17-minute documentary in 2005 about the history of the Chatham Station.
Much of the East-facing Atlantic seacoast of Cape Cod consists of wide, sandy beaches. In 1961, a significant portion of this coastline, already slated for housing subdivisions, was made a part of the Cape Cod National Seashore by President John F. Kennedy. It was protected from private development and preserved for public use. Large portions are open to the public, including the Marconi Site in Wellfleet. This is a park encompassing the site of the first two-way transoceanic radio transmission from the United States. (Theodore Roosevelt used Marconi's equipment for this transmission).
The Kennedy Compound in Hyannisport was President Kennedy's summer White House during his presidency. The Kennedy family continues to maintain residences on the compound. Other notable residents of Cape Cod have included actress Julie Harris, US Supreme Court justice Louis Brandeis, figure skater Todd Eldredge, and novelists Norman Mailer and Kurt Vonnegut. Influential natives included the patriot James Otis, historian and writer Mercy Otis Warren, jurist Lemuel Shaw, and naval officer John Percival.
[edit] Lighthouses of Cape Cod
Race Point Lighthouse in Provincetown (1876)
Lighthouses, from ancient times, have fascinated members of the human race. There is something about a lighted beacon that suggests hope and trust and appeals to the better instincts of mankind.
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Edward Rowe Snow
Due to its dangerous constantly moving shoals, Cape Cod's shores have featured beacons which warn ships of the danger since very early in its history. There are numerous working lighthouses on Cape Cod and the Islands, including Highland Light, Nauset Light, Chatham Light, Race Point Light, and Nobska Light, mostly operated by the U.S. Coast Guard. The exception is Nauset Light, which was decommissioned in 1996 and is now maintained by the Nauset Light Preservation Society under the auspices of Cape Cod National Seashore. These lighthouses are frequently photographed symbols of Cape Cod.
Others include:
Upper Cape: Wings Neck
Mid Cape: Sandy Neck, South Hyannis, Lewis Bay, Bishop and Clerks, Bass River
Lower Cape: Wood End, Long Point, Monomoy, Stage Harbor, Pamet, Mayo Beach, Billingsgate, Three Sisters, Nauset, Highland
[edit] Transportation
Cape Cod is connected to the mainland by a pair of canal-spanning highway bridges from Bourne and Sagamore that were constructed in the 1930s, and a vertical-lift railroad bridge. The limited number of access points to the peninsula can result in large traffic backups during the tourist season.
The entire Cape is roughly bisected lengthwise by U.S. Route 6, locally known as the Mid-Cape Highway and officially as the Grand Army of the Republic Highway.
Commercial air service to Cape Cod operates out of Barnstable Municipal Airport and Provincetown Municipal Airport. Several bus lines service the Cape. There are ferry connections from Boston to Provincetown, as well as from Hyannis and Woods Hole to the islands.
Cape Cod has a public transportation network comprising buses operated by three different companies, a rail line, taxis and paratransit services.
The Bourne Bridge over the Cape Cod Canal, with the Cape Cod Canal Railroad Bridge in the background
[edit] Bus
Cape Cod Regional Transit Authority operates a year-round public bus system comprising three long distance routes and a local bus in Hyannis and Barnstable Village. From mid June until October, additional local routes are added in Falmouth and Provincetown. CCRTA also operates Barnstable County's ADA required paratransit (dial-a-ride) service, under the name "B-Bus."
Long distance bus service is available through Plymouth and Brockton Street Railway, with regular service to Boston and Logan Airport, as well as less frequent service to Provincetown. Peter Pan Bus Lines also runs long distance service to Providence T.F. Green Airport and New York City.
[edit] Rail
Regular passenger rail service through Cape Cod ended in 1959, quite possibly on June 30 of that year. In 1978, the tracks east of South Dennis were abandoned and replaced with the very popular bicycle path, known as the Cape Cod Rail Trail. Another bike path, the Shining Sea Bikeway, was built over tracks between Woods Hole and Falmouth in 1975; construction to extend this path to North Falmouth over 6.3 miles (10.1 km) of inactive rail bed began in April 2008[23] and ended in early 2009. Active freight service remains in the Upper Cape area in Sandwich and in Bourne, largely due to a trash transfer station located at Massachusetts Military Reservation along the Bourne-Falmouth rail line. In 1986, Amtrak ran a seasonal service in the summer from New York City to Hyannis called the Cape Codder. From 1988, Amtrak and the Massachusetts Department of Transportation increased service to a daily frequency.[24] Since its demise in 1996, there have been periodic discussions about reinstating passenger rail service from Boston to reduce car traffic to and from the Cape, with officials in Bourne seeking to re-extend MBTA Commuter Rail service from Middleboro to Buzzards Bay[25], despite a reluctant Beacon Hill legislature.
Cape Cod Central Railroad operates passenger train service on Cape Cod. The service is primarily tourist oriented and includes a dinner train. The scenic route between Downtown Hyannis and the Cape Cod Canal is about 2½ hours round trip. Massachusetts Coastal Railroad is also planning to return passenger railroad services eventually to the Bourne-Falmouth rail line in the future. An August 5, 2009 article on the New England Cable News channel, entitled South Coast rail project a priority for Mass. lawmakers, mentions a $1.4-billion railroad reconstruction plan by Governor Deval Patrick, and could mean rebuilding of old rail lines on the Cape. On November 21, 2009, the town of Falmouth saw its first passenger train in 12 years, a set of dinner train cars from Cape Cod Central. And a trip from the Mass Bay Railroad Enthusiasts on May 15, 2010 revealed a second trip along the Falmouth line.
[edit] Taxi
Taxicabs are plentiful, with several different companies operating out of different parts of the Cape. Except at the airport and some bus terminals with taxi stands, cabs must be booked ahead of time, with most operators preferring two to three hours notice. Cabs cannot be "hailed" anywhere in Barnstable County, this was outlawed in the early nineties after several robbery attempts on drivers.
Most companies utilize a New York City-style taximeter and charge based on distance plus an initial fee of $2 to $3. In Provincetown, cabs charge a flat fare per person anywhere in the town.
[edit] Tourism
Hyannis Harbor on Nantucket Sound
Although Cape Cod has a year-round population of about 230,000, it experiences a tourist season each summer, the beginning and end of which can be roughly approximated as Memorial Day and Labor Day, respectively. Many businesses are specifically targeted to summer visitors, and close during the eight to nine months of the "off season" (although the "on season" has been expanding somewhat in recent years due to Indian Summer, reduced lodging rates, and the number of people visiting the Cape after Labor Day who either have no school-age children, and the elderly, reducing the true "off season" to six or seven months). In the late 20th century, tourists and owners of second homes began visiting the Cape more and more in the spring and fall, softening the definition of the high season and expanding it somewhat (see above). Some particularly well-known Cape products and industries include cranberries, shellfish (particularly oysters and clams) and lobstering.
Provincetown, at the tip of Cape Cod, also berths several whale watching fleets who patrol the Stellwagen Bank National Marine Sanctuary. Most fleets guarantee a whale sighting (mostly humpback whale, fin whale, minke whale, sei whale, and critically endangered, the North Atlantic Right Whale), and one is the only federally certified operation qualified to rescue whales. Provincetown has also long been known as an art colony, attracting writers and artists. The town is home to the Cape's most attended art museum, the Provincetown Art Association and Museum. Many hotels and resorts are friendly to or cater to gay and lesbian tourists and it is known as a gay mecca in the summer.[26]
Cape Cod is a popular destination for beachgoers from all over. With 559.6 miles (900.6 km) of coastline, beaches, both public and private, are easily accessible. The Cape has upwards of sixty public beaches, many of which offer parking for non-residents for a daily fee (in summer). The Cape Cod National Seashore has 40 miles (64 km) of sandy beach and many walking paths.
Cape Cod is also popular for its outdoor activities like beach walking, biking, boating, fishing, go-karts, golfing, kayaking, miniature golf, and unique shopping. There are 27 public, daily-fee golf courses and 15 private courses on Cape Cod.[27] Bed and breakfasts or vacation houses are often used for lodging.
Each summer the Naukabout Music Festival is held at the Barnstable County Fair Grounds located in East Falmouth,(typically) during the first weekend of August. This Music festival features local, regional and national talent along with food, arts and family friendly activities.
[edit] Sport fishing
Cape Cod is known around the world as a spring-to-fall destination for sport anglers. Among the species most widely pursued are striped bass, bluefish, bluefin tuna, false albacore (little tunny), bonito, tautog, flounder and fluke. The Cape Cod Bay side of the Cape, from Sandwich to Provincetown, has several harbors, saltwater creeks, and shoals that hold bait fish and attract the larger game fish, such as striped bass, bluefish and bluefin tuna.
The outer edge of the Cape, from Provincetown to Falmouth, faces the open Atlantic from Provincetown to Chatham, and then the more protected water of Nantucket and Vineyard Sounds, from Chatham to Falmouth. The bays, harbors and shoals along this coastline also provide a robust habitat for game species, and during the late summer months warm-water species such as mahi-mahi and marlin will also appear on the southern edge of Cape Cod's waters. Nearly every harbor on Cape Cod hosts sport fishing charter boats, which run from May through October.[28]
[edit] Sports
The Cape has nine amateur baseball franchises playing within Barnstable County in the Cape Cod Baseball League. The Wareham Gatemen also play in the Cape Cod Baseball League in nearby Wareham, Massachusetts in Plymouth County. The league originated 1923, although intertown competition traces to 1866. Teams in the league are the Bourne Braves, Brewster Whitecaps, Chatham Anglers (formerly the Chatham Athletics), Cotuit Kettleers, Falmouth Commodores, Harwich Mariners, Hyannis Harbor Hawks (formerly the Hyannis Mets), Orleans Firebirds (formerly the Orleans Cardinals), Wareham Gatemen and the Yarmouth-Dennis Red Sox. Pro ball scouts frequent the games in the summer, looking for stars of the future.
Cape Cod is also a national hot bed for baseball and hockey. Along with the Cape Cod Baseball League and the new Junior Hockey League team, the Cape Cod Cubs, many high school players are being seriously recruited as well. Barnstable and Harwich have each sent multiple players to Division 1 colleges for baseball, Harwich has also won three State titles in the past 12 years (1996, 2006, 2007). Bourne and Sandwich, known rivals in hockey have won state championships recently. Bourne in 2004, and Sandwich in 2007. Nauset, Barnstable, and Martha's Vineyard are also state hockey powerhouses. Barnstable and Falmouth also hold the title of having one of the longest Thanksgiving football rivalries in the country. The teams have played each other every year on the Thanksgiving since 1895. The Bourne and Barnstable girl's volleyball teams are two of the best teams in the state and Barnstable in the country. With Bourne winning the State title in 2003 and 2007. In the past 15 years, Barnstable has won 12 Division 1 State titles and has won the state title the past two years.
The Cape also is home to the Cape Cod Frenzy, a team in the American Basketball Association.
Soccer on Cape Cod is represented by the Cape Cod Crusaders, playing in the USL Premier Development League (PDL) soccer based in Hyannis. In addition, a summer Cape Cod Adult Soccer League (CCASL) is active in several towns on the Cape.
Cape Cod is also the home of the Cape Cod Cubs, a new junior league hockey team that is based out of Hyannis at the new communtiy center being built of Bearses Way.
The end of each summer is marked with the running of the world famous Falmouth Road Race which is held on the 3rd Saturday in August. It draws about 10,000 runners to the Cape and showcases the finest runners in the world (mainly for the large purse that the race is able to offer). The race is 7.2 miles (11.6 km) long, which is a non-standard distance. The reason for the unusual distance is that the man who thought the race up (Tommy Leonard) was a bartender who wanted a race along the coast from one bar (The Cap'n Kidd in Woods Hole) to another (The Brothers Four in Falmouth Heights). While the bar in Falmouth Heights is no longer there, the race still starts at the front door of the Cap'n Kidd in Woods Hole and now finishes at the beach in Falmouth Heights. Prior to the Falmouth race is an annual 5-mile (8.0 km) race through Brewster called the Brew Run, held early in August.
[edit] Education
Each town usually consists of a few elementary schools, one or two middle schools and one large public high school that services the entire town. Exceptions to this include Dennis-Yarmouth Regional High School located in Yarmouth which services both the town of Yarmouth as well as Dennis and Nauset Regional High School located in Eastham which services the town of Brewster, Orleans, Eastham, Wellfleet, Truro, and Provincetown (optional). Bourne High School is the public school for students residing in the town of Bourne, which is gathered from villages in Bourne, including Sagamore, Sagamore Beach, and Buzzards Bay. Barnstable High School is the largest high school and is known for its girls' volleyball team which have been state champions a total of 12 times. Barnstable High School also boasts one of the country's best high school drama clubs which were awarded with a contract by Warner Brothers to created a documentary in webisode format based on their production of Wizard of Oz. Sturgis Charter Public School is a public school in Hyannis which was featured in Newsweek's Magazine's "Best High Schools" ranking. It ranked 28th in the country and 1st in the state of Massachusetts in the 2009 edition and ranked 43rd and 55th in the 2008 and 2007 edition, respectively. Sturgis offers the International Baccalaureate Diploma Programme in their junior and senior year and is open to students as far as Plymouth. The Cape also contains two vocational high schools. One is the Cape Cod Regional Technical High School in Harwich and the other is Upper Cape Cod Regional Technical High School located in Bourne. Lastly, Mashpee High School is home to the Mashpee Chapter of (SMPTE,) the Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers. This chapter is the first and only high school chapter in the world to be a part of this organization and has received much recognition within the Los Angeles broadcasting industry as a result. The officers of this group who have made history are listed below:
* President: Ryan D. Stanley '11
* Vice-President Kenneth J. Peters '13
* Treasurer Eric N. Bergquist '11
* Secretary Andrew L. Medlar '11
In addition to public schools, Cape Cod has a wide range of private schools. The town of Barnstable has Trinity Christian Academy, Cape Cod Academy, St. Francis Xavier Preparatory School, and Pope John Paul II High School. Bourne offers the Waldorf School of Cape Cod, Orleans offers the Lighthouse Charter School for elementary and middle school students, and Falmouth offers Falmouth Academy. Riverview School is located in East Sandwich and is a special co-ed boarding school which services students as old as 22 who have learning disabilities. Another specialized school is the Penikese Island School located on Penikese Island, part of the Elizabeth Islands off southwestern Cape Cod, which services struggling and troubled teenage boys.
Cape Cod also contains two institutions of higher education. One is the Cape Cod Community College located in West Barnstable, Barnstable. The other is Massachusetts Maritime Academy in Buzzards Bay, Bourne. Massachusetts Maritime Academy is the oldest continuously operating maritime college in the United States.
[edit] Islands off Cape Cod
Like Cape Cod itself, the islands south of the Cape have evolved from whaling and trading areas to resort destinations, attracting wealthy families, celebrities, and other tourists. The islands include Nantucket and Martha's Vineyard, as well as Forbes family-owned Naushon Island, which was purchased by John Murray Forbes with profits from opium dealing in the China trade during the Opium War. Naushon is one of the Elizabeth Islands, many of which are privately owned. One of the publicly accessible Elizabeths is the southernmost island in the chain, Cuttyhunk, with a year-round population of 52 people. Several prominent families have established compounds or estates on the larger islands, making these islands some of the wealthiest resorts in the Northeast, yet they retain much of the early merchant trading and whaling culture.
Maypole dancing is a form of folk dance from western Europe, especially England, Sweden, Galicia, Portugal and Germany, with two distinctive traditions. In the most widespread, dancers perform circle dances around a tall pole which is decorated with garlands, painted stripes, flowers, flags and other emblems. In the second, dancers dance in a circle each holding a coloured ribbon attached to a much smaller pole; the ribbons are intertwined and plaited either on to the pole itself or into a web around the pole. The dancers may then retrace their steps exactly in order to unravel the ribbons.
The first kind of maypole dancing is probably extremely ancient and is thought by some to have Germanic pagan fertility symbolism, although there is a lack of evidence to support this conjecture. It is traditionally performed in the spring around the festival of May Day, but in Sweden it is during the midsummer festivities. The church of St Andrew Undershaft in the City of London is named after the maypole that was kept under its eaves and set up each spring until 1517 when student riots put an end to the custom. The maypole itself survived until 1547 when a Puritan mob seized and destroyed it as a "pagan idol".
The second kind of maypole dancing originates in the 18th century, derived from traditional and 'art' dance forms popular in Italy and France. These were exported to the London stage and reached a large audience, becoming part of the popular performance repertoire. Adopted at a large teacher training institution, the ribbon maypole dance then spread across most of central and southern England and is now regarded as the most 'traditional' of May Day's traditional characteristics.
According to the polemic anti-Catholic pamphlet, The Two Babylons, the origin of the maypole dance began in ancient Babylon during sex worship and fertility rites. A carved upright representation of the human penis was danced around by young females and woven with ribbons to ensure offspring. There is a lack of evidence to support this view, however
My visit to one of the outlying structures in the Chaco Canyon complex, followed by a trip to Valley of Dreams (VoD) a few nights later got me to wondering what the people who lived there a thousand years ago thought of these strange and bizarre rock formations.
One of the features of the Chaco complex is the North Road, a 30 foot wide road that goes directly north from Pueblo Alto for almost 40 miles, and ends near the Salmon Ruins west of Bloomfield, New Mexico. Construction of this road required enormous effort. The builders had no shovels, axes, or wheelbarrows, no surveying equipment. When they encountered an obstacle, such as a mesa cliff, instead of going around it, they built steps into the face or perhaps constructed ladders, and continued in the same direction.
No one knows why these wide thoroughfares, now all but obliterated by the ravages of time, were built. They had no wheeled vehicles. It has been conjectured that the afterworld was believed to lie to the north, and the road was a path that dead souls could follow. The road was also used for processions of unknown purpose. It is littered with pottery shards.
The road passes through or very close to VoD, the Ahshislepah Primitive Study Area, a formation known as King of Wings, and the Bisti and Angel Peak badlands. Petrified wood is abundant, and dinosaur bones have been found in these areas. Pilgrims would have had to see these strange rocks and formations. There is no evidence that they stopped or had ceremonies there. Maybe they were so focused on a quest that these rocks and formations were not even noticed, unimportant parts of the landscape.
Nobody knows.
Built between 1190 and 1260, this Ancestral Puebloan Cliff Dwelling is known as Cliff Palace, and is the largest cliff dwelling at Mesa Verde National Park, as well as the largest cliff dwelling in North America. The building contains 150 rooms and 23 kivas, and was home to approximately 100 people. Believed to have been a major Ancestral Puebloan ceremonial, social, and administrative center within Mesa Verde, Cliff Palace fell into disrepair following the migration of its residents, with the process of deterioration accelerating after its discovery by European-Americans in 1888, which was partially the impetus for the area’s designation as a National Park. Following the creation of the park, the ruins were stabilized and reconstituted, with fallen stone being placed back onto the ruins, including on the buildings and terraces. Archaeological, reconstitution, and stabilization work on the Cliff Palace was undertaken between 1906 and 1922, with portions of the structure being rebuilt in a manner that was inferred from other structures in the park, or conjecture. The kivas and terraces were unearthed and stabilized, and the ruins were eventually opened to visitors, allowing the cliff dwelling to be directly experienced. The structure and the park were listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1966, and were designated a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1978. Today, Cliff Palace is open for guided tours, which allow visitors to traverse the main terrace with a ranger.
"You know more of a road by having traveled it than by all the conjectures and descriptions in the world." William Hazlitt.
During the 7 months I was living in Taiwan, I was lucky enough to tour some of the most incredible places in this country. The Island of Formosa (so the Portuguese called it when they discovered it) hides a lot of natural treasures, many of which have not yet been photographed a million times by the great travel and landscape photographers. That makes that even after a thorough search of the most interesting places, it is not until the moment of being there that you discover all the beauty that hides.
This time, we were making a route through one of the mountains of the spectacular Taroko Gorge. After a first part of ascent through the rainforest with a suffocating humidity, we arrived at this road, in which we had to one side the rocky wall of the mountain and the other a true abyss. The views were awe inspiring, but I could barely took this photo, since in a few moments everything was covered by a dense fog that showed only the next few meters of the road. We continued the march along the edge of that abyss, whose presence was no longer visible, but I could felt it even more than when there was no fog.
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"Se sabe más del camino por haber viajado en él que por todas las conjeturas y descripciones del mundo." William Hazlitt.
Durante los 7 meses que estuve viviendo en Taiwan tuve la suerte de recorrer algunos de los lugares más increíbles de este país. La Isla de Formosa (así llamaron a Taiwan los portugueses cuando la descubrieron) esconde una gran cantidad de tesoros naturales, muchos de los cuales todavía no han sido fotografiados un millón de veces por los grandes fotógrafos de viaje y paisaje actuales. Eso hace que, incluso después de una búsqueda exhaustiva de los lugares más interesantes, no sea hasta el momento de estar allí que se descubre toda la belleza que esconde.
En esta ocasión, estábamos realizando una ruta por una de las montañas de la espectacular Garganta de Taroko. Después de una primera parte de subida a través de la selva tropical con una humedad asfixiante, llegamos a este camino, en el cual teníamos a un lado la pared rocosa de la montaña y al otro un verdadero abismo. Las vistas eran sobrecogedoras, pero apenas pude hacer esta foto, ya que en unos instantes todo se cubrió de una densa niebla que dejó ver solo los próximos metros del camino. Continuamos la marcha por el borde de ese abismo, cuya presencia ya no se veía, pero se sentía incluso más que cuando no había niebla.
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Herbs & Spices
I could have taken a shop name board as there is a nearby curry take-away called " Surrey Spice " , but that did not appeal . Instead I have just taken a shot of what spices I had to hand looking down from above . What I do not have which may have been more interesting to take a macro of would have been Saffron !! Pound for pound or gram for gram Saffron is more costly than Gold !!!
In fact it is the most expensive spice to buy and here are a few facts about Saffron ( with thanks to The Cornish Bird )
For most people Saffron is a captivating and expensive spice which conjures up images of mysterious distant lands but for hundreds of years to the Cornish it has been a more homely than exotic ingredient and seen throughout the land of Kernow in Saffron Buns and Saffron Loaf .
It is a story of much conjecture and hot debate as to when saffron first arrived in Cornwall. There are stories of Phoenician and Roman traders from more than 2000 years ago but the more likely answer is a little later than that. In the 14th century Cornwall had a healthy trade in tin with its Spanish neighbours, who in turn had trade routes across the globe, one theory is that saffron first arrived through them.
And this fantastic aromatic spice made its way into our Cornish cooking. Saffron buns and saffron cake are an integral part of any cakey tea (well they always have been in my house anyway!) just as much as clotted cream. And there is even some evidence that saffron was cultivated in a few select places in Cornwall for a while – there are records of saffron fields in Launcells near Bude, Fowey, Penryn, Feock and Gerrans.
Further evidence of saffron of this can be found in old place names. The Falmouth Packet newspaper recorded a dispute over a lease in Devoran, the plot was called Saffron Meadow had been leased in 1898 by Mr Robert Treneer Mitchell, who was reportedly using the field to grow flowers. Another plot known as Saffron Park is mentioned in deeds at Veryan, near Tregony.
Growing and harvesting saffron is what makes it the most expensive spice in the world, it is very labour intensive. Saffron is in fact the dried red stigma of the autumn flowering purple Crocus Sativus. Each flower has to be hand picked and the three delicate stigma removed. It takes roughly 200 flowers to produce just 1 gram of saffron. But the result is a versatile spice with a unique flavour.
The name saffron comes from the Arabic word za’faran meaning yellow which gives a clue to its other use as a dye. Saffron also has medicinal properties and known to have a similar narcotic effect to opium. During the 18th and 19th centuries it was used in various opioid preparations, such a laudanum, for pain relief.
Saffron went out of fashion in cooking in England but it continued to remain a firm favourite here in Cornwall.
Recently however it has seen a bit of a revival with chefs both down here and in other parts of the country increasingly putting it on their menus and a small holding in Norfolk has even begun growing the precious crop. So maybe one day saffron will grow again in the Duchy that has taken this delicious spice from ancient Persia into its culture and its heart.
So Saffron may not be in the shot above , but Cinnamon is - so there is my choice for a sight & sound ----
"The last time Michelangelo’s “David-Apollo” came to Washington, the nation was preparing to inaugurate Harry S. Truman ...."
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Sala di Michelangelo.
Apollo, also known as Apollo-David, David-Apollo, or Apollino, is a 1.46 m unfinished marble sculpture by Michelangelo that dates from approximately 1530.
The sculpture can be interpreted as Apollo in the act of pulling an arrow from his quiver or as David with the head of Goliath under his foot.
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According to Vasari it is an "Apollo", perhaps in the act of taking an arrow from a quiver. In the inventory of Cosimo I of 1553, however, it is identified as, "David", by whoever drew up the historic catalogue. Art critics therefore identify the sculpture as one or the other, or, by showing a hyphenated title, "Apollo-David" or "David-Apollo", to note the uncertainty. Factors favoring the identity as Apollo are: the body is stocky and mature, as Apollo often was portrayed, rather than the typical portrayal of a youthful David; no bow is represented in the carving and, no unfinished portion of the statue allows enough area for one.
Conjecture exists that the sculptor had started the work as David, perhaps toward 1525, and later finished it as Apollo. There also are those who have attempted to identify the work as the lost Apollo Cupid (Valentinier, 1958), carved in 1537 by Jacopo Galli in Rome.
If considered as a "David" rather than an "Apollo", the statue presents a striking difference from the more famous, athletic and youthful figure in the Piazza della Signoria by the same sculptor. Instead of displaying the potential force and inward wrath of the biblical hero, it reads as almost melancholy or remorseful for his bloody action against Goliath if that be his head, perhaps revealing all consequences of the action.
Another interpretation is that the pose could express a veiled, but deep animosity by the sculptor against the conquerors of Florence, although work on the statue stopped with the change.
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"The last time Michelangelo’s “David-Apollo” came to Washington, the nation was preparing to inaugurate Harry S. Truman for his second term as the nation’s 33rd president. The statue, sent to the United States as a goodwill gesture by the Italian government, crossed the Atlantic on the USS Grand Canyon, was escorted from Norfolk and then greeted at the National Gallery of Art by a Marine color guard, standing at attention.
This time, the roughly life-size and tantalizingly unfinished statue arrived with less fanfare, but its appearance is just as welcome. When it was first seen in the United States, it was the first in-the-round sculpture by Michelangelo displayed in the United States. It is still very much a rarity. While here, it has the distinction of being the most substantial of any Michelangelo work on U.S. soil, including a disputed sculpture, “The Young Archer” (on loan to the Metropolitan Museum of Art), which might be a Michelangelo flic.kr/p/8Vi2Uh ; a painting in the Kimbell Art Museum in Fort Worth that might be a product of the artist’s teenage years flic.kr/p/21TLit3 ; and a “Pieta” or 'The Rochester Pietà' in a private collection that some scholars think is from the artist images.app.goo.gl/q9rSn1Ds5oGeqSYo7 ."
www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/museums/michelangelo...
Commission: Museu da Imaginação, São Paulo (permanent exhibition)
Parts: 114,000+ (~900 unique)
Scale: 1:650
Dimensions: 102in x 70in (260cm x 178cm)
Design Time: 520+ hours in 60 days
Build Time: 400+ hours in 50 days
PC: Brianda Mireles
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The year was 69 CE when Vespasian marched into Rome and claimed the title of Imperator, establishing the Flavian Dynasty. Just three years later, his son Titus was awarded a triumphal procession and a commemorative triumphal arch for his victories in the Judean campaigns he inherited when his father headed west to claim the throne. Construction on the monumental Flavian Amphitheatre began that same year. Both extant landmarks bear, in plain sight, the secrets of their engineering as well as those by which they were made remotely feasible in the first place. These stories lie just beneath the surface, known only to keen observers or learned students of history. One lesser-known example of such stories is told in a largely faded Medieval fresco surmounting an inner archway amidst the western arcade of the Colosseum. An even more ancient retelling is depicted on the Arch of Titus just a few short steps from the amphitheatre. Both the 'View of Jerusalem’ fresco and the sculptural reliefs of the triumphal arch depict the often-overlooked cost of the onset of Imperial Rome’s second dynasty. It was paid in gold from spoils looted from the Holy of Holies. It was exacted in the conscription of labor upon thousands of Judeans. And it would raise Rome’s edifices skyward even as one of the largest ancient cities of the eastern Mediterranean was reduced to rubble.
First Century Jerusalem marked the zenith of the city’s Second Temple Period, which lasted from 530 BCE until 70 CE. Here, during the twilight of the city’s golden age of antiquity, the Judeans flourished under numerous successive empires. First, under the Persian kings until the third century BCE, then under the Greeks following the conquests of Alexander the Great, then under the independent Hasmonean Kingdom until, finally, the Roman Siege of Jerusalem in 63 BCE; ushering in the final chapter of the Second Temple period under the Roman client king, Herod the Great. By the numbers, it would certainly seem that the predominantly Jewish population of the city did indeed flourish, especially considering the fact that the population of First Century Jerusalem is thought to have been as many as 80,000 by some modern estimates, and annually swelling to hundreds of thousands during religious pilgrimages. Even so, one need only look to the abovementioned prepositions in the successive list of Judean rulers to know where the Judeans consistently ranked: under. Under the influence of regional powers for centuries and, later, far-off autocratic upstarts. This understandably woeful hierarchy led to three major crises of the Second Temple Period, the final crisis of which, by 70 CE, would result in the displacement of vast swaths of Judeans, the destruction of the eponymous temple atop Mount Moriah, and the Siege of Jerusalem, with future-emperor Titus commanding the Roman assault. Not since the systematic destruction of Carthage, centuries earlier, had an ancient city been so utterly razed.
Just as it would be specious to imagine any context under which the people of Judea were truly prosperous during the Second Temple period, it would have been equally as naïve for me to imagine that such subject matter for my work would not have to walk a precariously fine line between historical representation and artistic license based on conjecture; both of which could, in plenty of contexts, be debated endlessly given the incredibly sensitive nature of a landscape diorama depicting Jerusalem of any period. Some may only have heard the story of the Year of the Four Emperors, in which Vespasian triumphantly succeeded Nero: indeed, it was this very story with which I introduced my SPQR piece in 2019. Others may only be familiar with either the biblical accounts of First Century Jerusalem, or the historical writings of that same period by Josephus. When all is said and done, I accept commissions and decide on personal projects all with no greater desire than to contextualize the subject matter both through historical analysis and a rigorous dedication to faithfully representing works of shared world heritage, wherever they may be. If even one reader of this passage will one day pass through the Arch of Titus upon entering the Forum Romanum and, as a result, pause to consider the reliefs depicting the plunders of the Second Temple paraded through the streets of Rome – and if such a reader also visits the Colosseum and, as a result, ponders not just the amount of travertine sourced for its cladding, but also considers the tens of thousands of Judean laborers brought from their homeland to toil in its construction – then I will consider this commissioned work to have accomplished that which I had hoped for most of all; a carefully measured and considerably nuanced understanding of the forces which were brought to bear upon one of the jewels of the Eastern Mediterranean, Jerusalem of Gold.
Die Stadt der Künste und Wissenschaften in València befindet sich im ehemaligen Flussbett des Flusses Turia, der an beiden Ufern von Ausfallsstraßen der Stadt begleitet wird. Als Begrenzung des Gebäudekomplexes der Stadt der Künste und Wissenschaften zur Ausfallsstraße hin ließen sich die Architekten aufwändig gestaltete "Zelte" aus weiß glasierten Keramikstücken einfallen, die in Mosaikform auf die Oberfläche geklebt wurden und so ein modernes Kunstwerk darstellen. Von der Strassenseite betrachtet sind die Kegel aber beschnitten und sahen so für mich ein wenig aus wie die Schlote von Ozean-Dampfern. Möglicherweise tragen sie dazu bei, Wärme und Abgase der darunter befindlichen Garage abzuleiten. Diese Zweckangabe ist jedoch reine Vermutung von mir; nix Genaues weiß man nicht.
The City of Arts and Sciences in València is located in the former riverbed of the river Turia, which is flanked on both banks by the city's arterial roads. The architects came up with these elaborately designed ‘tents’ made of white glazed ceramic pieces glued to the surface in mosaic form, thus creating a modern work of art, as a boundary between the building complex of the City of Arts and Sciences and the arterial road. Viewed from the street, however, the cones are truncated and looked to me a little like the funnels of ocean liners. Perhaps they help to dissipate heat and exhaust fumes from the garage below. However, this purpose is pure conjecture on my part; nothing precise is known.
I started hypothesising on 'warm water forms' around October 2019, and spent much of the first half of 2020 visiting, dissecting and analysing this subset of enigmatic carved monoliths. My texts align to the Flickr images of this period and can be retrieved from the said Flickr album. For those watching from a computer, a sample of key related images can be seen linked below. Many thanks for the interest and support on this quiet subject.
From looking at detailed surface features, such as cups and canals, and by seeing a similarity between the 'polished concavity' from one site with a 'polished concavity' on the orthostate of a nearby late Neolithic dolmen, I pushed dates for the origination of these monoliths back towards the chalcolithic bridge and towards the first ages of metal.
Just such forms are relatively rare and are currently understood as medieval presses, even if their placement and construction and attrition details do not help with the conjecture. Currently surrounded by the vineyards of one of Europe's greatest wine producing regions, it is obviously tempting to imagine this as an example of a very first press for wine, even if wooden presses are and were perhaps more suitable.
Heating water from naturally available solar energy, or by adding heated river stones to a shallow pool, would let communities improve how they clean, how they dye fibres, soften a range of materials prior to, for example, basket making and a range of other day to day activities. The same basin system (basin 3) could easily be used to sift dirt from roots, with the whole array also perfectly adapted as a focal point for leisure and health - mixed function. Saunas can be seen from, at the very least, early Iron age dates, and offering visitors that have been attracted to the area, a privileged and 'pampered' welcome, might have helped to encourage then future trade and exchange. This implies a stable social system with elements of policing and a shared mosaic of protocols and rules.
This site is close to the River Ebro E/W 'highway' and under significant amber deposits. Amber was traded in the Chalcolithic bridge period.
Whilst 'warm water forms' are varied, and whilst the above site has differences from the 'warm water forms' described in past posts from 2019 and 2020, similarities of logic and function are clear, and changes of style understandable when the 500km separation distance is taken into account.
AJM 27.10.20
#491
Open to patrons now.
Visit here: maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Jonestown/31/123/3352/
A drop fell on the apple tree
Another on the roof;
A half a dozen kissed the eaves,
And made the gables laugh.
A few went out to help the brook,
That went to help the sea –
Myself conjectured were they pearls –
What necklaces could be...
- Emily Dickinson
A small collection of headstones near to the St.Mary's Church in Fetcham , they are very close to the church and look very old . I have still not had a chance to look at these sones in detail or the other ones recently posted - should have done so at the time of taking the shots as possibles for the SSC repetition challenge .
St Mary's Church, Fetcham, Surrey, England is a Church of England parish church (community) but also refers to its building which dates to the 11th century, that of the Norman Conquest and as such is the settlement's oldest building. It is set off the residential road of its address, The Ridgeway, behind a small park, in the suburban part of the largely 20th century railway settlement adjoining the M25 London Orbital Motorway which has retained farmed rural outskirts. The closest secular building is Grade II* listed Fetcham Park House, which is in the same architectural category and the church has an adjoining church hall.
Built during Anglo-Saxon and early Norman periods, the structure has been conjectured by the Victoria County History's architectural analysis to have been a redevelopment of an Anglo-Saxon church:
Roman bricks in considerable quantities in Fetcham Church, remains of Anglo-Saxon architecture in the church...
...quoins and dressings of thin red bricks, no doubt Roman, set in wide mortar joints.
Traces of its long past exist in many parts of its structure. These include the south-west quoin of the nave, and a single splay window high on the south wall with traces of Roman brick, as well as arches which fit with the architecture prevailing before the Norman Conquest of 1066.
In the 19th century a considerable amount of restoration and improvement in the church was carried out by Rev. Sir Edward Moon rector from 1854 to 1904.Moon inherited his baronetcy in 1871 on the death of his father Sir Francis Moon, 1st Baronet, who was commemorated in much of the restoration work in the church.
The structure gained listed status in 1951, has some stained glass windows, and is classed as Grade II*.
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Candid eye contact street photography from Glasgow, Scotland. A 'Throwback Thursday' shot taken some time ago but sitting in my upload folder just waiting to be posted. Taken so long ago that my Nifty Fifty was still working. Enjoy full screen by pressing 'L' or clicking on the image. Enjoy!