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Alongside the Island Pool at Dunham Park and looking into the mist across a carpet of Autumn leaves.
Standing at the far side of Prestwick Golf course, yesterday, admiring another wonderful day!
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I had so much fun this afternoon scouting for the perfect location for a canvas art scene to hang in our clubhouse. The course was closed for work on the greens and we had the place to ourselves. Riding with my friend in his golf cart as we bounced all around and the wind blew was awesome.
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after the surprise news of royal scot 46115 being used on the welsh mountaineer many expected that as in the past , the train would fail to reach it's destination--not so this time --here the scot climbs effortlessly round the sharp heavily graded curve at roman bridge
Former US Marine Corps Sikorsky CH-53D Sea Stallion
BuAerNo. 157159/YL11 from HMH-362 Squadron on display at the 2017 Blue Angels Homecoming Airshow held at NAS Pensacola, Florida
For several decades, these huge helicopters served the US Marines, US Navy and US Air Force in a variety of guises from Mine-Sweeping duties to Combat Rescue and Special Ops - currently about to be replaced by a similar reworked design featuring new engines and cockpit layout to be known as the CH-53K
In respect of this one - it and several static exhibits there that weekend were inmates of the co-located National Museum of Naval Aviation
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While dropping off some food to our friend at her house, we found her cats in the backyard with a full course of obstacles for their daily exercise. What a cat life!
Three more from winter walks at Warwick race course. In spite of the sun being so low in the sky, it was probably only about 2.30 in the afternoon.
On our walk we encountered a group of enthusiastic photographers experimenting with their landscape shots. Liathach and Torridon across the loch.
And now something serious and culturally very much Norman. The people of Normandy are mainly VERY Catholic and conservative. Some are of course the opposite. But the Catholicism goes really strong. And in all the years I lived there I often saw places that were still used by pilgrims. In former years pilgrims used to attach ribbons to statues and sometimes to wayside crosses. This was of course not practised as much as in the 19th century for example. Some pilgrims placed small notes with prayers or pleas under statues of the saints they worshipped. This time .. when I went into the village church of Le Bec-Hellouin, there were loads of notes under several statues. That's not because of Covid. Covid wasn't bothering the people as much. It's because of the war, I guess. So lets hope the pleas and prayers will work.
The last 3 nights I have not worked my usual night jobs, I did deliveries instead and have been home by 7 or so. The weather has been absolutely beautiful, in the 60s at 7 or 8, and I don’t need a jacket which is unheard of. I’m cold all the time. I wished and prayed for more nights like this, as I walked to the liquor store. I’m ready to be gone from here. I want to enjoy every evening like this on a patio in a house and my own yard.. but that will never happen. “Good” nights like this won’t last. I never really have a good night. It is always melancholy and I full the pain by working. And just endure physical pain instead. Which overpowers the emotional pain. I hate feeling so much. I don’t want summer nights like this to end. I wanted the bird to be ok. Or I wish I never saw it. Or I wish I didn’t have a sensitive heart. I don’t think I will ever meet anyone that likes it would appreciate saving a pigeon like I do.
I don't think I would play at this golf course as I yell, "Fore!" a lot. A few broken windows are not something I would like to risk.
Can you see hitting that little tiny ball over this ocean? I know I am missing something here haha...
My friend asked me to take pictures of the golf course for her she had a project my camera and I had a blast ...would love to see this one again when it's really green.. I don't play golf...but the golf cart is a lot of fun... hey thanks of for your support see you as soon as I can get to your page...
I can’t help it, I love ruins —they sadden me of course, on the one hand, because destruction is never pleasant to behold, but on the other there is also survival, albeit partial, and ruins are so full of atmosphere and so evocative that I can very much understand (and, to some extent, share) the attraction that 19th century “Romantics” felt for them. It is this very attraction that gave rise to the conviction that historic ruins should be protected and preserved, and that conviction, at the beginning only shared between the members of an intellectual élite, trickled down into the general public and turned into our modern concepts of heritage, protection and restoration of “old stones”... hopefully before they do turn into ruins!
The ruined priory church in the Burgundy village of Le Puley, which we will visit over a couple of days, exemplifies both this interest of mine, and the more and more widespread conviction that historic monuments and buildings must be cared for and, if at all possible, saved, or at least preserved from further decay, as I will explain below.
It is said here and there that the church was built between 1100 and 1150, but personally, I would rather date it between 1050 and 1100. For a Cluny subsidiary (which this priory of Benedictine nuns was from the beginning, except for the very few first years during which the sisters were canonesses), I find the apparel quite rough, and this indicates old age. I also see the beautiful bandes lombardes on the façade, and the archaic shape of the apse and apsidioles I will show tomorrow: all of this tells me that the church was built before 1100. If it had been built after, it would look more “accomplished”, so to speak. Cluny had the technical and monetary means to do better, and they did in all the subsidiaries I have visited to date.
What I would also like to stress is that the church was restored and saved from ruin entirely by volunteers between 1969 and 1984. Its bell tower had fallen during a thunderstorm in 1877. Even now, two-month restoration periods are conducted on the site every Summer under the ægis of the Rempart non-profit organization, the works being carried out mostly by architecture and archæology students.
As promised, this is the other side of the roadside cross I showed yesterday. I don’t know where it came from but it is in a safer place now!