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She was describing it to me from the back seat and said that I might not like it because most of the people in it were mad. They were upset because the youngest girl, who was happy, had brought out the trampoline and was jumping on it a thousand times. When she tried to play basketball with the others, they wouldn't let her. But she was nice and said that they could jump on the trampoline anyway. But when they left the ball outside, she said that she wasn't going to clean it up for them. There was more to it, but I have forgotten some of the details.
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Bagan formerly Pagan is an ancient city from the 9th to 13th centuries,. The city was the capital of Myanmar. Bagan is one of Myanmar’s main attractions. It was the capital of Bagan empire, where Theravada Buddhism was the main religion. The area also known as the Bagan Archaeological Zone, occupies an impressive 26-sq-mile area. Marco Polo described Bagan as one of the finest sights in the world. Despite centuries of neglect, looting, erosion, regular earthquakes, not to mention questionable restoration, this temple-studded plain remains a remarkably impressive and unforgettable vision. Bagan’s kings commissioned more than 4000 Buddhist temples. Htilominlo Temple is a Buddhist temple located in Bagan built during the reign of King Htilominlo, Anno 1211-1231. The temple is three stories tall, with a height of 46 metres and built with red brick. It is also known for its elaborate plaster moldings. On the first floor of the temple, there are four Buddhas that face each direction. You can climb up to terraces and view both the inside and outside of this temple. It has examples of painted stucco walls, many of which are still in good shape.
Probably because it is one of the first Bagan temples I saw but I was impressed by its magnificence and the way it was build inside. Situated close to the road between Nyaung U and Bagan, and about 1.5 km northeast of Bagan. This large temple was built by King Nantaungmya in 1218. The temple is known to be the last Myanmar Style temple built in Bagan. The name is a misreading of the Pali word for 'Blessings of the Three Worlds'. Inside the 46-metre-high temple, which is similar in design to Sulamani Temple there are four Buddhas on the lower and upper floors.
De stad Bagan is één van de vroegere hoofdsteden van Myanmar, en is gesticht in het jaar 849. Het was de hoofdstad van het Bagan-rijk, waar het Theravada-boeddhisme het belangrijkste geloof was. Bagan is één van de absolute top bezienswaardigheden van Myanmar. Een reis naar Myanmar zonder tussenstop in Bagan is gewoonweg ondenkbaar. Bagan wordt niet voor niets vaak op één lijn geplaatst met Angkor. Bagan, dat is 42 km² bezaaid met tempels. Er zijn er meer dan 4400 in totaal. Dat is waanzinnig veel. Ondanks dat deze rijkdom al lang is verdwenen worden er tegenwoordig nog steeds nieuwe tempels bijgebouwd. In 1975 zijn er echter veel tempels afgebroken bij een grote aardbeving in Myanmar en vandaag de dag zijn nog steeds niet alle gebouwen hersteld. Tijdens ons bezoek aan Bagan huurden we fietsen. We fietsen langs alle bijzondere boeddhistische tempels in Bagan. De
Htilominlo tempel is een boeddhistische tempel in Bagan gebouwd tijdens het bewind van koning Htilominlo, Anno 1211-1231. De tempel is drie verdiepingen hoog, met een hoogte van 46 meter en gebouwd met rode bakstenen. Het is ook bekend om zijn uitgebreide gipsen afgietsels. Op de eerste verdieping van de tempel, zijn er vier Boeddha's die in elke richting staan. Je kunt de terrassen beklimmen en bekijken van zowel de binnen- en buitenkant. De wanden binnenin zijn beschilderd waarvan er vele nog steeds in goede conditie zijn.
I found that my grandfather's old typewriter could be useful for annotating analogue paper-prints.
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Described as the 'Rock of Lutheranism,' the Zion Evangelical Lutheran Church is valued as the home of Canada's oldest Lutheran congregation. As well, it is valued as an architectural landmark in Old Town Lunenburg, with a steeple that can be seen for kilometers. When German Lutheran settlers first arrived in 1753, the settlers held services in the open air and later at St. John's Anglican Church. The first church on this site was built in 1772 and replaced in 1841 with a Gothic structure. The only remains of the first Lutheran church are the key to the building and the Saint Antoine-Marie bell that had formerly hung in the Fortress of Louisbourg (a French fort located on Cape Breton Island), and had been purchased by the congregation in 1776.
The present building dates from 1890 and was designed in the High Victorian Gothic style. The church's long nave runs the length of the block on Cornwallis Street, with an ornately decorated gable end on Fox Street. The dentil courses and stained glass windows are among the most noticeable elements of the nave. Two asymmetrical towers flank the front façade, each with a different design. The larger one has a pointed arch doorway oriented to the corner of Fox and Cornwallis Streets, and mullioned lancet windows on the upper storeys. It also has a tall spire housing the bell, which is highly visible from many points in Lunenburg, including the harbour approaches. The second tower is pyramidal with windows of various shapes and sizes, making it appealing to the eye. The large hall to the rear of the church was added in 1946 and serves as a meeting place and Sunday school.
The commanding scale and vertical composition of the Zion Evangelical Lutheran Church speak to the fundamental importance of the Lutheran congregation in Lunenburg from its settlement to the present day.
Described as "probably the oldest and toughest regular event for old cars, motorcycles and light commercials certainly in Britain". The Beamish run is approaching it's 50th year and follows some of the routes used by manufacturers to test the same vehicles when originally built.
It has been described as the golden age of railway travel which occurred at a time when it seemed that no expense was spared on passenger comfort, depending of course as to what Class you travelled.
It was the golden age era of steam trains.
Carriages were built using timber and the seats were more spacious and it was also the era when black and white framed photographs adorned the compartments promoting tourism to locations in each state.
Like everything though trains had to move forward with the times and the elegance of train travel came at a cost and that cost was the production of carriages that lost the old world charm and were mass produced and built down to a price rather than built up to a standard.
We are fortunate that there a dedicated people who have a strong desire to preserve the heritage and history of our railways past and this carriage is a fine example that has been retained.
It is located at the NSW Rail Museum at Thirlmere.
Thirlmere, New South Wales, Australia.
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The Calling of Saint Matthew is an oil painting by Caravaggio that depicts the moment Jesus Christ calls on the tax collector Matthew to follow him. It was completed in 1599–1600 for the Contarelli Chapel in the church of the French congregation, San Luigi dei Francesi in Rome, where it remains. It hangs alongside two other paintings of Matthew by Caravaggio, The Martyrdom of Saint Matthew (painted around the same time as the Calling) and The Inspiration of Saint Matthew (1602).
More than a decade earlier, Cardinal Matthieu Cointerel (in Italian, Matteo Contarelli) had left funds and specific instructions in his will for the decoration of a chapel based on themes related to his namesake, Saint Matthew. The dome of the chapel was decorated with frescoes by the late Mannerist artist Giuseppe Cesari, Caravaggio's former employer and one of the most popular painters in Rome at the time. But as Cesari became busy with royal and papal patronage, Cardinal Francesco Del Monte, Caravaggio's patron and also the prefect of the Fabbrica of St Peter's (the Vatican office for Church property), intervened to obtain for Caravaggio his first major church commission and his first painting with more than a handful of figures.
Caravaggio's Calling of Saint Matthew hangs opposite The Martyrdom of Saint Matthew. While the Martyrdom was probably the first to be started, the Calling was, by report, the first to be completed.[citation needed] The commission for these two lateral paintings — the Calling and the Martyrdom — is dated July 1599, and final payment was made in July 1600. Between the two, at the altar, is The Inspiration of Saint Matthew (1602).
The painting depicts the story from the Gospel of Matthew (Matthew 9:9): "Jesus saw a man named Matthew at his seat in the custom house, and said to him, "Follow me", and Matthew rose and followed Him." Caravaggio depicts Matthew the tax collector sitting at a table with four other men. Jesus Christ and Saint Peter have entered the room, and Jesus is pointing at Matthew. A beam of light illuminates the faces of the men at the table who are looking at Jesus Christ. This is a depiction of a moment of spiritual awakening and conversion, which was something many Baroque artists were interested in painting, especially Caravaggio.
There is some debate over which man in the picture is Saint Matthew, as the surprised gesture of the bearded man at the table can be read in two ways.
Most writers on the Calling assume Saint Matthew to be the bearded man, and see him to be pointing at himself, as if to ask "Me?" in response to Christ's summons. This theory is strengthened when one takes into consideration the other two works in this series, The Inspiration of Saint Matthew, and The Martyrdom of Saint Matthew. The bearded man who models as Saint Matthew appears in all three works, with him unequivocally playing the role of Saint Matthew in both the "Inspiration" and the "Martyrdom".
A more recent interpretation proposes that the bearded man is in fact pointing at the young man at the end of the table, whose head is slumped. In this reading, the bearded man is asking "Him?" in response to Christ's summons, and the painting is depicting the moment immediately before a young Matthew raises his head to see Christ. Other writers describe the painting as deliberately ambiguous.
Some scholars speculate that Jesus is portrayed as the Last Adam or Second Adam as titled in the New Testament. This is displayed in Christ's hand as it reaches out towards Matthew. It is almost a mirrored image of Adam's hand in The Creation of Adam by Michelangelo, the namesake of Caravaggio. Twice in the New Testament, an explicit comparison is made between Jesus and Adam. In Romans 5:12–21, Paul argues that "just as through the disobedience of the one man the many were made sinners, so also through the obedience of the one man the many will be made righteous" (Romans 5:19, NIV). In 1 Corinthians 15:22, Paul argues that "as in Adam all die, so in Christ, all will be made alive," while in verse 45 he calls Jesus the "last/ultimate/final Adam".
The National Churches Trust describes St Mary's in Potterne as a “an Early English church of exceptional purity and austerity.”
A priest, and land held by the Bishop of Salisbury, was recorded at Potterne in Domesday Book of 1086, and in Victorian times, a 10th Century font was found on the site of the present day Church of England parish church of St Mary. It was built in the 13th century and has survived with little change, beyond work to the tower in the 15th century and restoration by Ewan Christian. Pevsner describes it as, “An Early English parish church of exceptional purity and indeed classicity” and linked this to the Bishops’ ownership of the manor.
The church is cruciform, with a substantial tower over the crossing, and original lancet windows. It is built of rubble stone, with ashlar to the upper tower. The south porch was added in the 14th century, and in the 15th the tower was made higher and given an elaborate battlement. Restoration in 1870–2 included re-roofing and the removal of galleries, and the stained glass is from various dates in that century.
From the 11th century, the church had been linked to All Saints at West Lavington as tithes from both churches endowed a prebendary at Salisbury Cathedral. From 1967 the benefice was held in plurality with Worton and since 2017 the parish has been part of the Wellsprings benefice, which extends to Seend, Bulkington and Poulshot.
Potterne is a village with a population of 1,544 (2021), 2 miles/3 km south of the Wiltshire market town of Devizes.
This description incorporates text from the English Wikipedia.
The title pretty well describes the photo. I picked our first few blueberries (Vaccinium) yesterday, from bushes given us years ago by friends. We ate some on our breakfast cereal. It had rained the night before. The focus looks pretty good here, but it's not quite so clear at the larger sizes. This is straight out of the camera -- no processing except a crop. Isn't God a great artist?
There are more photos of blueberries, including flowers, leaves, and some food, in the Blueberries set that this photo belongs to.
The blueberry fruit on the left was almost ripe. The one behind it, and the two on the right, are less ripe. You can clearly see the sepals, left over from the flower, on these fruits.
There are wild blueberries that grow in Upstate South Carolina, but these aren't wild.
For more photos, from other people, of blueberry fruit, leaves, and flowers, see my blueberries gallery.
Described as 'the most interesting butterfly in the world' by the British entomologist E. B. Poulton on account of the females mastery of mimicry. Females are found in at least fourteen different morphs which mimic the colours and patterns of other butterflies which are poisonous or distasteful to predators. The males meanwhile are of a more uniform appearance.
Also known as the White Handkerchief they are found throughout Sub-Saharan Africa and Madagascar, this male sighted roosting in Kibale Forest, Uganda.
“THE WET” AND “THE DRY” IN THE NORTHERN AUSTRALIAN TROPICS
The Northern Tropics of Australia in the Darwin region are described as having only 2 seasons – the “wet season” (or simply “The Wet”)(broadly November to April) and the “dry season” (or simply “The Dry”) (May to October). There is no local designation of Spring, Summer, Autumn and Winter, although it should be noted that some ancient local indigenous calendars describe up to 8 seasons, categorised by not only weather but also flowering and fruiting of edible plants, appearance of migratory animals as food sources, river heights, etc.
While Europeans settled Darwin in the 1860s, indigenous Australians have occupied the area for at between 40,000 and 60,000 years.
In broad terms, the main differences between the Wet and the Dry relate to humidity levels, prevailing wind direction, and (as the names imply) rain, or the absence of rain.
Darwin has no frost, no snow and no hail.
Darwin is also largely flat and unelevated, with few locations exceeding 30 metres above sea level.
Darwin is located 12 degrees south of the equator, in the middle of the cyclone belt.
THE WET – NOVEMBER TO APRIL
During the Wet, temperatures range from a minimum of 27 – 28C overnight (sometimes not dropping below 30C) and 34 – 36C during the day. Humidity levels are in the range of 75 – 95%.
The prevailing monsoon wind direction is from the North West (i.e. from the Timor Sea), except during the frequent storms, which normally come from the South East.
Cyclones (the local name for a typhoon or hurricane) also form during the Wet as part of monsoon trough activity. The wind from a cyclone can come from any direction, depending on the relationship between the cyclone’s eye and the observer’s position.
Rainfall during the Wet approaches 2,000 mm; with the record for a 6 month Wet season period being 3,000 mm.
Sea temperature during the Wet is around 32C.
Towards the end of the wet season there are almost daily storms with strong winds from the south-east, generally late in the late afternoon. These storms are called “knock-em-downs” as they flatten the 2 metre tall native spear grass which covers all uncleared areas. The spear grass will eventually die off and a large proportion of it will burn in dry season grass fires. The spear grass seeds are a staple diet of many finches and parrots. The spear grass re-germinates when the first storms arrive in October or November.
THE DRY – MAY TO OCTOBER
During the Dry, temperatures range from a typical minimum of 20 - 21C overnight (on rare occasions dropping to 16C) and 30 -31C during the day. Humidity levels are in the range of 10 - 30%.
The prevailing wind direction is from the South East (i.e. from the direction of the Great Australian Desert); with an occasional light North West sea breeze rising in the late afternoon.
There is virtually no rain between April and October.
Because of the absence of rain, a high bushfire danger exists throughout the area during the Dry, with the highest risk occurring in August and September, before the next Wet season storms occur. During these months, the humidity is very low and the South East winds are at their strongest – up to 30 knots (around 55 km/hr).
Bushfire smoke blows out to sea and causes spectacular sunset effects.
As I have described in some of my other night shots, shooting the night sky reminds me of listening to a symphony that starts gently as my eyes adjust to seeing and builds to a crescendo then fades as dawn approaches. I often want to clap (and do) in applause for the night sky's performance before I walk back to my tent or car.
While in the area I was for this shower, I did not see the predicted 200/hour rate, this shower was still pretty darn spectacular. This is the last of my 2016 Perseid composite series. 27 individual images covering an elapsed time of 2:29 stacked to align the radiant point in PSCC2015.5 and Lightroom. I used a Rokinon 14 mm lens. © 2016 All Rights Reserved
Dirleton was described as a "castellum" c. 1225. Its principal structures were built by the de Vaux, an Anglo-Norman family granted the barony of Dirleton in the 12th century. In 1298, however, the castle was taken by Edward I.
There are three main periods of construction. Most recent are the 16th century additions of the Ruthvens enclosing the inner court or close at the SW corner. During the preceding two centuries, 14th and 15th, the Halyburtons had raised most of the E block including: cellars, bakery, kitchens and chapel. Below the chapel is a prison and a pit-prison hewn out of the natural rock. The imposing main entrance and drawbridge also date to this period.
Off the triangular inner court a semi-circular and a rectangular tower both project outwards; also the principal 'drum' tower of well-dressed masonry, with 3m thick walls to an overall diameter of some 11m. At first-floor level it contains the roughly hexagonal Lord's Chamber, with stone seats - three of them in window openings.
Although unable to be described as prominent with regard to its height or the wealth of its natural wealth, or the profusion of amazing karstic forms, Mosor has become the most popular mountain in Dalmatia. This karstic, at first glance quite formidable, massif extends from Kliski prijevoj (Klis Pass) in a south-easterly direction for about 25 km, all the way to the River Cetina, whose canyon forms a semi-circle around the mountain, thus providing it with a distinct natural boundary. The mountain can be divided into three sections. Mosor's central section begins with Ljubljanski prijevoj (Ljubljan Pass) from where it extends SE for 5 km towards to the Ljuto kame Pass (1089 m). Its main peaks are Ljubljan (1262 m), Mosor (1325 m) with Vicko's Column, and Veliki Kabal (1339 m). The main base in this section is the Umberto Girometta Mountain Lodge at Ljuvac. The western section of Mosor extends from Klis to the Ljubljan Pass, its highest peaks being Debelo brdo (1044 m), Plisivac (1053 m), and Kunjevod. The eastern section of Mosor extends eastwards from the Ljuto kame Pass to the River Cetina. Its highest peaks are Botajna (1196 m), Kozik (1319 m) and Lisnica (950 m).
Described by Pevsner as one of the world's great streets, Oxford High Street, generally known as the High, runs from Carfax, generally recognised as the centre of the city, and Magdalen Bridge to the east.
It forms a gentle curve and is the subject of many prints, paintings, photographs, etc. The looking west towards Carfax with University College on the left and The Queen's College on the right is an especially popular view. There are many historical buildings on the street, including the University of Oxford buildings and colleges
The towers of Queen’s College dominate the shot here.
“THE WET” AND “THE DRY” IN THE NORTHERN AUSTRALIAN TROPICS
The Northern Tropics of Australia in the Darwin region are described as having only 2 seasons – the “wet season” (or simply “The Wet”) (broadly November to April) and the “dry season” (or simply “The Dry”) (May to October). There is no local designation of Spring, Summer, Autumn and Winter, although it should be noted that some ancient local indigenous calendars describe up to 8 seasons, categorised by not only weather but also flowering and fruiting of edible plants, appearance of migratory animals as food sources, river heights, etc.
While Europeans settled Darwin in the 1860s, indigenous Australians have occupied the area for at between 40,000 and 60,000 years.
In broad terms, the main differences between the Wet and the Dry relate to humidity levels, prevailing wind direction, and (as the names imply) rain, or the absence of rain.
Darwin has no frost, no snow and no hail.
Darwin is also largely flat and unelevated, with few locations exceeding 30 metres above sea level.
Darwin is located 12 degrees south of the equator, in the middle of the cyclone belt.
THE WET – NOVEMBER TO APRIL
During the Wet, temperatures range from a minimum of 27 – 28C overnight (sometimes not dropping below 30C) and 34 – 36C during the day. Humidity levels are in the range of 75 – 95%.
The prevailing monsoon wind direction is from the North West (i.e. from the Timor Sea), except during the frequent storms, which normally come from the South East.
Cyclones (the local name for a typhoon or hurricane) also form during the Wet as part of monsoon trough activity. The wind from a cyclone can come from any direction, depending on the relationship between the cyclone’s eye and the observer’s position.
Rainfall during the Wet approaches 2,000 mm; with the record for a 6 month Wet season period being 3,000 mm.
Sea temperature during the Wet is around 32C.
Towards the end of the wet season there are almost daily storms with strong winds from the south-east, generally late in the late afternoon. These storms are called “knock-em-downs” as they flatten the 2 metre tall native spear grass which covers all uncleared areas. The spear grass will eventually die off and a large proportion of it will burn in dry season grass fires. The spear grass seeds are a staple diet of many finches and parrots. The spear grass re-germinates when the first storms arrive in October or November.
THE DRY – MAY TO OCTOBER
During the Dry, temperatures range from a typical minimum of 20 - 21C overnight (on rare occasions dropping to 16C) and 30 -31C during the day. Humidity levels are in the range of 10 - 30%.
The prevailing wind direction is from the South East (i.e. from the direction of the Great Australian Desert); with an occasional light North West sea breeze rising in the late afternoon.
There is virtually no rain between April and October.
Because of the absence of rain, a high bushfire danger exists throughout the area during the Dry, with the highest risk occurring in August and September, before the next Wet season storms occur. During these months, the humidity is very low and the South East winds are at their strongest – up to 30 knots (around 55 km/hr).
Bushfire smoke blows out to sea and causes spectacular sunset effects.
He had a bottle of some kind of drug propped up on his leg and in his right hand. It's my guess that it was some kind of opioid, though with those teeth, it could have been meth.
The buildings on this block of Market Street were torn down and a 13 story condominium with retail shops is being built. I could go on and on describing what I know about this block (for 18 years I worked about two blocks away), what used to be here, how I think the city of San Francisco has treated the local mom and pop merchants, etc. What I can say though with certainty is that it will change the neighborhood: www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/SF-housing-kicking-of...
Described as "probably the oldest and toughest regular event for old cars, motorcycles and light commercials certainly in Britain". The Beamish Safety and Reliability (Trial) Run is approaching it's 50th year and follows some of the routes used by manufacturers to test the same vehicles when originally built.
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Described as an "artistic little theater", the building was commissioned by John Stansel Taylor. Construction began December 1920, with the theatre opening three months later. it was advertised as having the best natural acoustics in the southeastern US.
In 2013, the City of Clearwater launched an elaborate $11 million restoration of the theater as part of a broader downtown revitalization. The theater reopened in 2014 to much acclaim and financial success.
Sky processed, as described on 'Golden Crops'. I'll copy it, so you won't have to search:
Technique/Processing
To get a sky like this, you have to duplicate your photo, convert the new layer to b/w (should be very contrasty, so that the blues of the sky are black and the clouds are white, without losing detail), set it to soft light blending mode and then apply a layer mask, so that it only has effect on the sky. I'd also recommend dialing down the opacity to ~50%, because the effect can get too strong.
Colors are simple cross processing with Nik CFX. Can also be done with an action like urban acid.
Black holes are often described as the monsters of the universe—tearing apart stars, consuming anything that comes too close, and holding light captive. Detailed evidence from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, however, shows a black hole in a new light: fostering, rather than suppressing, star formation. Hubble imaging and spectroscopy of the dwarf starburst galaxy Henize 2-10 clearly show a gas outflow stretching from the black hole to a bright star birth region like an umbilical cord, triggering the already dense cloud into forming clusters of stars. Astronomers have previously debated that a dwarf galaxy could have a black hole analogous to the supermassive black holes in larger galaxies. Further study of dwarf galaxies, which have remained small over cosmic time, may shed light on the question of how the first seeds of supermassive black holes formed and evolved over the history of the universe.
This dwarf starburst galaxy Henize 2-10 sparkles with young stars in this Hubble visible-light image. The bright region at the center, surrounded by pink clouds and dark dust lanes, indicates the location of the galaxy's massive black hole and active stellar nurseries.
Credits: NASA, ESA, Z. Schutte (XGI), A. Reines (XGI), A. Pagan (STScI); CC BY 4.0
If I could describe the music that I hear when I image and later edit this location, it would be published and I'd be in a different role...
Described by the RSPB as an omnivore and scavenger. In the garden this magpie seems to have found a store of wasps to eat.
Dreich. That’s the only word that could ever describe the steel, bitter, relentless, driving rain that pelts off the upright windshield of our Land Rover, as we weave our way along the coastal path that leads to the most westerly point on the British Mainland.
The week has been remarkably sunny and dare I say warm, at our base in Strontian, located at the most easterly point of Loch Sunart, separating the Morvern wilds from the Ardnamurchan Peninsula. We walked in the hills around Strontian one day, then drove over those wilds of Morvern to Lochaline to catch the ferry over to Fishnish another; the Isle of Mull is equally as beautiful and suited for meandering around, taking in the ambience.
Today though we make haste, for our allotted slot at 10:30am at the Ardnamurchan distillery has been shifted earlier to allow my guide enough time to show me around the place before he attends to some rather important duties. I’m chaperoned to the distillery by my father-in-law of last year's electrical lighting fame, affording me the courtesy of any potential drams that may be bestowed upon my eager face. He also loves his Land Rover, so any chance to stretch her legs is reason enough for him.
We’re soon slingshotting around Salen and onwards to Glenbeg, where the road seems to deteriorate further in both width and surface quality - we must work hard for these spoils. A bright white-painted cask end appears indicating there’s one mile left to go before we alight in the stony car park of the Ardnamurchan distillery and visitor centre. We mention it not - this isn’t the first time either of us have been here.
My in-laws visited this place in 2014 just after the distillery opened, enjoying a tour around the only warehouse on site - Warehouse 1 - where the grand sum of four casks had been laid down. A lot has changed since then. I visited in 2022 and in the time since my tour almost a year ago to the day, I too have changed a lot.
I’m nervous. Not because whisky tours make me nervous or because I’m worried I won’t like the whisky, but because I’m hoping to meet the people I’d spent so many months tagging in my Instagram posts and chatting over messages and emails. I guess my nervousness is a poor attempt to mask my desperation that they like me, that I don’t embarrass myself or make them realise I’m a giant fraud.
Last year at this time, the team had assembled at the distillery to blend the 2022 Paul Launois release and I’d been too shy to say hello. It turns out this year they’re doing the exact same thing. Today, in fact.
It’s no secret I'm devoted to the Ardnamurchan way - in fact it’s become a bit of fun for those wanting to tease me about my abject obsession with this place. I’ve spent many hours postulating why the Ardnamurchan distillery resonates so deeply with me, as a person and as a whisky exciter, and over the course of three hours, first in Warehouse 1 then up into the hills, nothing happens to change that. In fact, if you can believe it, my devotion has widened.
We started in the dark, cool climes of Warehouse 1. If you’ve never smelled a whisky warehouse then it's hard to convey the utterly absorbing aroma that greets you upon entry, arriving in waves through your red-hot olfactory machine. It’s easy to spill over into the saccharine romanticism when thinking and speaking about alcohol inside casks plopped inside a building (and oh boy do I fall foul constantly), but it’s undeniably a rather unique place to be. No-one gushes about the alluring aromas of an Amazon warehouse, do they? The difference being that whisky matures inside leaky wooden vessels, and that porosity allows alcohol vapours to find their way into the air circulating around the breezy warehouse and colours the environment with fabulous scents - Angels’ Share is what they call it.
But it’s more than smell - it’s touch and sight too. Casks and their condition are intrinsically linked to the quality and style of maturation and we get to see those variances as we walk along the warehouse. From rough to smooth, bright and clean to looking like a potato that you’ve just dug out the ground; the variety of casks, aesthetically, is quite amazing. If we are so inclined, we can touch the casks, feel their texture and knock on their wooden walls. Sometimes we get to stick our noses inside. There happened to be a cask waiting to get filled, and sniffing through the bung hole the diorama of scents unleashed into my frontal cortex was overwhelming. I managed to blurt out caramel, cherry and vanilla, but in truth it was a million things all at once and making sense of it was impossible - I only wish I could bottle that scent or turn it into a candle.
There’s a tasting element to a warehouse too, and today I was extremely fortunate to be accompanied by 3/5ths of the blending team, who were only too happy to see what was occurring in the warehouse. Drinking whisky decanted, through syphoning via a giant copper straw-like valinch, splashing all over the place before finally finding its way into a glass, surrounded by all this sensory overload is peak whisky for me. The liquid is really cold and viscous. It takes a moment for it to warm up enough in my hand to begin releasing aromas and flavours, but when it does, the mouthfeel, smell, sight and sound of it all is unbeatable. It’s untouched, unfiltered.
It’s been suggested I might soon get to a point where Ardnamurchan stops offering enough to keep my attention, and I’ll start to drift and dabble. Having now tried a number of remarkable whiskies maturing in the cask, from a variety of different cask types, styles, ages and sizes, I have to say I can’t see that happening anytime soon. I kneel down, lower my arms and prepare for the hiss of the blade - perhaps I’m blinkered and naive, or perhaps there’s nothing more to it than simple resonance.
Hmmm. Did you get all that? His words (Dramface) not mine. Landrover, knobbly tyres, type
The European Botanists who first described this Crossberry in the late seventeenth century wax eloquent over the remarkable purple of its flower. Indeed, even in still rainy and dark Amsterdam, it is highly visible.
Before great Carolus Linnaeus gave it the scientific name Grewia occidentalis, after one of his heroes, Nehemiah Grew (1641-1712), the Father of Plant Anatomy, it was known as a kind of Ulmus, Elm (yes, with notable purple flowers!). It appears to have been first collected on the Cape of South Africa around 1688 by Patrick Adair (fl.1674-1697) who worked e.g. for Leonard Plukenet (1641-1706), great British expert on exotic plants. The latter describes it in 1691/6 as Ulmifolia Arbor Africana baccifera floribus purpureis, and he adds that a similar plant also hails from Mexico. Allow me to boggle your eyes till they see purple with the marvelous words in his Almagestum about the American kind: '... arbor foliis Ulmi, Mexicanis Ayaquicuramo Tlacuilolquahuitl s. Arbor picta'. How's that for an eyeful!
Anyway, by this time our Grewia was already growing in the fine exotic garden in The Hague of Simon van Beaumont (1641-1726), a wealthy Dutch politician and statesman. His plants were catalogued by his gardener Frans Kiggelaar (1641-1726) in 1690, but each in only a few sparse words. The plants of Beaumont's garden were soon acquired by the Medical Garden of Amsterdam and again catalogued there with full, eloquent descriptions. And then of course Linnaeus in the middle of the eighteenth century named this Ulmifolia Arbor, Grewia occidentalis.
Whether this morning I gazed upon a descendant of the original shrub I don't know. Getting wet again, I contemplated no further but hurried indoors.
‘The Troubles’ that’s what we laughingly called the 30 years that can only be described as a very bloody and bigoted War, and by ‘we’ I mean everyone from the street, the media right up to UK and Irish governments. Troubles are more the heating has packed up in mid winter, financial difficulties or your partner’s bonking your cousin.
In 30 years I only had to look down the barrel of a gun once so I guess I got off lightly, was never in a bomb blast although lost friends and relatives to both bomb and gun.
I knew the car behind was following me, I’d done a few pointless left and right turns to confirm it, so I stopped and jumped out to confront him. He did the same.
It’s an odd feeling seeing an instrument of death with an anxious finger on the trigger pointing straight at you. He was in ordinary clothes, not paramilitary dress like this mural, and I was very relieved when he pulled out a police badge with his other hand. Apparently I’d jumped a red traffic light 3 miles earlier and he was tailing me while my car registration was being checked.
He must’ve been straight out of police school to pull a stunt like that but there you go, that’s what it was like during 'The Troubles'. The mural's in Bangor, the story's in Belfast.
Yes! Brilliant! That describes all of you! Your photographic skills and hearts behind your incredible work is just that...Brilliant!
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Yep! That describes you and your work!
I am so T H A N K F U L for all of you splashing your gifts on me!
A very Blessed and Delightful Thanksgiving to you here in the USA!
I Love You All!
AN ATTITUDE OF GENUINE THANKSGIVING by Charles R. Swindoll
Paul had an attitude of genuine thanksgiving: "Devote yourselves to prayer, keeping alert in it with an attitude of thanksgiving; praying at the same time for us as well, that God will open up to us a door for the word, so that we may speak forth the mystery of Christ, for which I have also been imprisoned; that I may make it clear in the way I ought to speak" (Colossians 4:2-4). Here's a man in his sixties who has been preaching for years asking for prayers for a clearer delivery. There was no pretense with Paul. No degree of success or number of years in the ministry gave him a false sense of ultimate accomplishment. He knew he had not yet arrived. He was convinced his preaching could be improved. And so with a genuinely thankful heart, he entreated his fellow believers for their prayers. Can you see the power of that kind of attitude? Very refreshing.
No wonder the man had such lasting impact for Christ. His secret bled through every one of his letters. He had learned to be content in all things. But we can't leave the ink of these truths to simply sit and dry on the page. We must embrace the same secret for ourselves if we are to have the same lasting impact. Some personal reflection is in order. Let's turn the spotlight away from the man housed in Rome back then and focus it on you and your life, wherever you find yourself right now. Are you making a difference in the lives of those closest to you by the way you respond to your circumstances? Are others inspired by your faith, or are they discouraged by your fears? Are the attitudes of unselfish humility, joyful acceptance, strong determination, and genuine thanksgiving evident in the way you respond to circumstances? Maybe it's time to make some changes. Let's see if I can help.
Start by refusing to let your situation determine your attitude. When your attitude overshadows your situation, transformation really begins. As we saw in Paul, the power to transform stubborn attitudes of fear and bitterness, anger and defeat, comes from Christ. The Lord our God stands ready to pour His strength in you. He alone has the power to deliver you from those relentless foes and send you soaring. Keep an attitude of genuine thanksgiving. Read Acts 16:16-40; Philippians 2:1-18"
"Praise the LORD. Give thanks to the LORD, for He is good; His love endures forever." Psalm 106:1
THANKSGIVING BLESSINGS TO YOU!
Gold Hill has been described as "one of the most romantic sights in England." The daylight image of this view appears on the covers of many books about Dorset and rural England, as well as on chocolate boxes and calendars.
Gold Hill has also been used as a setting for film and television. It appears in the 1967 film version of Thomas Hardy's Far From the Madding Crowd. The street is the main setting for the 1973 "Boy on Bike" television advertisement for Hovis bread, which has been voted Britain's favourite advertisement of all time. It was directed by Ridley Scott, and includes the distinctive main theme from the slow movement of Antonín Dvořák's Symphony No. 9. For this reason, the hill is still known to many people as "Hovis Hill". Gold Hill also featured in a recent advert for supermarket Morrisons. The tops of some of the houses along Gold Hill are on the cover of J.K. Rowling's book "The Casual Vacancy". [Wikipedia]
Last year the Boy on Bike (age 58) returned to Shaftesbury for a re-do on an e-bike to promote the bikes!
Often described as "Flying balls of fluff" the Long Tailed Tit is a very sociable bird. In Winter the birds will often show as flocks of easily twenty birds arriving at bird feeders. They will also huddle together for warmth at night. During the rest of the year they will feed on insects and invertebrates.
The Long Tailed Tit nest is a work of art. Both male and female work on it over a period of around three weeks. it is made up of moss camouflaged with lichen and bound together with cobweb silk. The inside is lined with lots of feathers. The finished product looks rather like a small sleeping bag! The silk binding allows the nest to expand as the fledglings grow.
Photographer: Fred H. Politinsky
Subject: Outside the Box Photography
When you are describing / A shape, or sound, or tint; / Don't state the matter plainly, / But put it in a hint; / And learn to look at all things / With a sort of mental squint.
----- Lewis Carroll, "Poeta Fit, Non Nascitur" (1869)
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Described as the largest and rarest of the UK's Blue butterflies, this was my first ever Large Blue sighting.
This species was always rare in Britain but the UK race became completely extinct in 1979 and no longer exists.
The re-introduced colonies today are from continental Europe as these are very similar. So far it has been a very successful re-introduction.
Remember everyone, there is a new competition!:
www.flickr.com/groups/ukbutterflies/discuss/7215764486969...
A little tucked away from the hustle and bustle of more well-known districts such as Shibuya and Shinjuku is Shimokitazawa. A former farming village that turned first into a dense residential area, and later into a thriving arts and music community.
It has been described as bohemian, hippie, artsy, indie, and in recent times, hipster; Shimokitazawa is all of these things.
Candid Street Photography
Shimokitazawa, Japan
February, 2019
Some places are too good to be described in words so I let the image speak for itself.
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That describes exactly what it's like right now in my neck of the woods! So remember I told y'all I'd buy some flowers and plant them? Well, I went to buy some and am planting them this weekend. I can't wait! I got some tulips, gerberas and am going back for some other flowers I saw that I fell in love with. I just had to wait till today (pay day) haha! Yayyy...
On a sidenote. I think I may be getting a job again. Yep. No worries though, Momma. Sofia will be going to work with me. Does that give you a hint? More details later. Gotta support this photography hobby of mine somehow! haha
*EXPLORED #72, thank you so much for all the lovely comments!*
Csikszentmihalyi (1991) describes engaged reading as a state of total absorption and completely focused motivation. It is a single-minded immersion and represents perhaps the ultimate in harnessing the emotions in the service of performing and learning.
A shaft of sunlight put to good use in one of my local coffee shop.
Sometimes described as Tudor, this beautiful Grade I-listed gatehouse at Lanhydrock actually dates from 1651, two years after King Charles I was executed. The gatehouse was originally attached to the main house, which had an east range and forecourt walls. Those were demolished in about 1780, leaving the gatehouse free-standing. In 1857, the gatehouse was again attached to the house by the low garden walls, designed by George Gilbert Scott.
Lanhydrock House stands in extensive grounds above the River Fowey almost midway between Bodmin and Lostwithiel. It has been owned and managed by the National Trust since 1953. Much of the present house dates back to late Victorian times when it was rebuilt after a major fire, but some sections date from the 17th century.