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Macro Mondays – My Favourite Novel (Fiction), Trainspotting by Irvine Welsh.
The first novel by Scottish writer Irvine Welsh, Trainspotting was first published in 1993 and takes the form of a collection of short stories, written in either Scots, Scottish English or British English, revolving around various residents of Leith, Edinburgh who either use heroin, are friends of the core group of heroin users, or engage in destructive activities that are implicitly portrayed as addictions that serve the same function as heroin addiction. The novel is set in the late 1980s and has been called "the voice of punk, grown up, grown wiser and grown eloquent".
The novel has since achieved a cult status, added to by the global success of the film based on it, Trainspotting (1996), directed by Danny Boyle.
The 7.19.20 sun setting behind the #hogfire as seen from atop Thompson Peak near Janesville California.
"Alcohol is a pervasive fact of life, but an extraordinary fact, pleasurable and destructive, anathematized and adulated, and deeply ambiguous ... the genie in the bottle." Griffith Edwards.
Ireland is undoubtedly a country associated with beer, and among all those produced on the island, the most famous internationally is without any doubt the one that bears the surname of Sir Arthur Guinness, who was its creator in the year 1759. Nowadays, its brewery located in Dublin is one of the most modern in the world, and can produce 3 million pints of this stout per day. Its flavor does not leave anyone indifferent, and even if it is not true, an Irish joke says that the beer is made with water from the nearby river Liffey.
Although you can enjoy a Guinness in any Irish pub, a different option is to go to the Guinness Storehouse to visit the museum that shows its history and production. The tour ends with a pint of the dark elixir in a bar located in the last floor of the building from which you have a magnificent view of Dublin.
Both my girlfriend and I avoid alcohol for most of the year, and we always advise consuming it in moderation. Still, we did not want to miss the opportunity to show this famous place in Dublin with our particular artistic touch.
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"El alcohol es un hecho omnipresente de la vida, pero un hecho extraordinario, placentero y destructivo, condenado y adulado, y profundamente ambiguo ... el genio en la botella." Griffith Edwards.
Irlanda es un país asociado sin duda a la cerveza, y de entre todas las que en la isla se producen, la más famosa a nivel internacional es sin duda la que lleva el apellido de Sir Arthur Guinness, quien fuera su creador en el año 1759. Hoy en día, su fábrica de cerveza localizada en Dublín es una de las más modernas del mundo, y puede producir 3 millones de pintas de esta cerveza negra al día. Su sabor no deja indiferente a nadie, y aunque no sea así, una broma irlandesa dice que la cerveza está realizada con agua del vecino río Liffey.
Aunque se puede disfrutar de una Guinness en cualquier pub irlandés, una opción diferente es acercarse a la Guinness Storehouse para recorrer el museo que muestra la historia y elaboración de la cerveza. El tour termina con una pinta del oscuro elixir desde un bar localizado en la última planta del edificio desde el que se tiene una magnífica vista de Dublín.
Tanto mi novia como yo evitamos el alcohol durante la mayor parte del año, y siempre aconsejamos consumirlo con moderación. Aún así no queríamos dejar pasar la oportunidad de mostrar este famoso lugar de Dublín con nuestro particular toque artístico.
No, I don't know why Linnaeus presumably gave this Papilio its specific name 'demoleus'. Demoleus was a Greek soldier in the famous siege of Troy who was killed by Aeneas, that hero of Troy, sung by great Vergil. Aeneas then took his armor and gave it as a second prize to Mnestheus (incidentally, there's also a Skipper Butterfly called Mnestheus) at the Sicilian Games which he later organised.
Anyway... This marvelous Swallowtail Butterfly makes its home in the fine Butterfly House of the new Botanic Gardens of Utrecht University. It's called a Lime Butterfly because it favors those citrus trees and it is often seen as an invasive, destructive pest. Here in this glasshouse it does no harm and delights its observers! One of whom went home to a delightful rereading of a part of the Aeneid...
Some critters I enjoy seeing in the yard, and some I do not. This is one that I do not wish to see! They are very destructive, dig huge holes in the ground etc. However, when he is right here.... as in only about 6 feet from me, the squirrels disappear and my bird feeders are temporarily safe. :) They say there is good in everything! LOL
Noisy, colourful, slightly destructive and bloomin' hard to get a decent shot of as they are always so high up in the trees! On this occasion my 100-400 was not with me...oh well!! As good as it gets with a 55-200 and a huge crop 😁
From ancient times to the present, philosophers have repeatedly emphasized the importance of living a frugal or minimalist life. The ancient Greek philosopher Diogenes said, “True wealth is not in increasing possessions, but in reducing one’s needs.” Mahatma Gandhi pointed to the destructive side of human greed, stating, “The Earth has enough for everyone’s needs, but not enough for everyone’s greed.” From the Buddha to Karl Marx, across the passage of time, many have expressed similar ideas. This minimalist concept in philosophy has greatly influenced the photographer, and its mark is clearly visible in his vision and framing.
The absence of color or the use of minimal composition in framing reflects the photographer’s inclination toward a minimalist approach. The fog, wrapped like a thick winter blanket, creates a serene atmosphere. In this calm and pure dramatic setting, human presence becomes secondary. Before nature, even humanity’s vast achievements become insignificant. That is why the photographer has kept humans and their architectural achievements in the background, framing the scene in a minimalist style. Here, nature is the primary subject—not humans or their constructions.
According to nihilism, or the philosophy of pessimism, human life does not has inherent purpose. Evolutionary theory has shown that humans are an unintended outcome of nature’s evolutionary process. Yet human beings, regarded as the finest of creations, continue to exploit all their knowledge and effort into seeking meaning in life. They establish ever-greater architectural structures upon the heart of nature. In proving their superiority, they seem to challenge nature itself. Viewing nature as an adversary, humanity gradually distances itself further and further from it.
2018 Road Trip to Tuktoyaktuk, NWT via Dempster Highway and the Inuvik-Tuktoyaktuk Highway or ITH (Tuk Highway).
"Technology is destructive only in the hands of people who do not realize that they are one and the same process as the universe." Alan Watts
Balance sheet of life ..
This tree trunk with its textured bark, lying on the beach, attracted my attention yesterday.
"Humber Bay Park West is a narrow park jutting out into the water of Lake Ontario in the City's west end. It's an excellent spot for bird watchers hoping to find interesting waterfowl and shorebirds. Along the shores of Humber Bay West, you'll also spot a wide variety of ducks overwintering in Lake Ontario. Combine your walkthrough Humber Bay Park West with a loop around Humber Bay Park East for a great day of hiking. A number of parking lots and paved pathways make this an accessible park."
Just mixing it up, stay healthy and hopeful. #BeKind
These thumbnail-size brutes eat only boxwood leaves :( My humble hedge grows so slow, took many years to reach waist height - and they come and viciously destroy it :( ((
The Declaration of Independence of the Thirteen Colonies
In CONGRESS, July 4, 1776
The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America,
When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. --That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, --That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security. —Such has been the patient sufferance of these Colonies; and such is now the necessity which constrains them to alter their former Systems of Government. The history of the present King of Great Britain [George III] is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute Tyranny over these States. To prove this, let Facts be submitted to a candid world.
He has refused his Assent to Laws, the most wholesome and necessary for the public good.
He has forbidden his Governors to pass Laws of immediate and pressing importance, unless suspended in their operation till his Assent should be obtained; and when so suspended, he has utterly neglected to attend to them.
He has refused to pass other Laws for the accommodation of large districts of people, unless those people would relinquish the right of Representation in the Legislature, a right inestimable to them and formidable to tyrants only.
He has called together legislative bodies at places unusual, uncomfortable, and distant from the depository of their public Records, for the sole purpose of fatiguing them into compliance with his measures.
He has dissolved Representative Houses repeatedly, for opposing with manly firmness his invasions on the rights of the people.
He has refused for a long time, after such dissolutions, to cause others to be elected; whereby the Legislative powers, incapable of Annihilation, have returned to the People at large for their exercise; the State remaining in the mean time exposed to all the dangers of invasion from without, and convulsions within.
He has endeavoured to prevent the population of these States; for that purpose obstructing the Laws for Naturalization of Foreigners; refusing to pass others to encourage their migrations hither, and raising the conditions of new Appropriations of Lands.
He has obstructed the Administration of Justice, by refusing his Assent to Laws for establishing Judiciary powers.
He has made Judges dependent on his Will alone, for the tenure of their offices, and the amount and payment of their salaries.
He has erected a multitude of New Offices, and sent hither swarms of Officers to harass our people, and eat out their substance.
He has kept among us, in times of peace, Standing Armies without the consent of our legislatures.
He has affected to render the Military independent of and superior to the Civil power.
He has combined with others to subject us to a jurisdiction foreign to our constitution and unacknowledged by our laws; giving his Assent to their Acts of pretended Legislation:
For Quartering large bodies of armed troops among us:
For protecting them, by a mock Trial, from punishment for any Murders which they should commit on the Inhabitants of these States:
For cutting off our Trade with all parts of the world:
For imposing Taxes on us without our Consent:
For depriving us, in many cases, of the benefits of Trial by Jury:
For transporting us beyond Seas to be tried for pretended offences:
For abolishing the free System of English Laws in a neighbouring Province, establishing therein an Arbitrary government, and enlarging its Boundaries so as to render it at once an example and fit instrument for introducing the same absolute rule into these Colonies:
For taking away our Charters, abolishing our most valuable Laws, and altering fundamentally the Forms of our Governments:
For suspending our own Legislatures, and declaring themselves invested with power to legislate for us in all cases whatsoever.
He has abdicated Government here, by declaring us out of his Protection and waging War against us.
He has plundered our seas, ravaged our Coasts, burnt our towns, and destroyed the lives of our people.
He is at this time transporting large Armies of foreign Mercenaries to compleat the works of death, desolation and tyranny, already begun with circumstances of Cruelty and perfidy scarcely paralleled in the most barbarous ages, and totally unworthy the Head of a civilized nation.
He has constrained our fellow Citizens taken Captive on the high Seas to bear Arms against their Country, to become the executioners of their friends and Brethren, or to fall themselves by their Hands.
He has excited domestic insurrections amongst us, and has endeavoured to bring on the inhabitants of our frontiers, the merciless Indian Savages, whose known rule of warfare, is an undistinguished destruction of all ages, sexes and conditions.
In every stage of these Oppressions We have Petitioned for Redress in the most humble terms: Our repeated Petitions have been answered only by repeated injury. A Prince whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a Tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of a free people.
Nor have We been wanting in attentions to our British brethren. We have warned them from time to time of attempts by their legislature to extend an unwarrantable jurisdiction over us. We have reminded them of the circumstances of our emigration and settlement here. We have appealed to their native justice and magnanimity, and we have conjured them by the ties of our common kindred to disavow these usurpations, which, would inevitably interrupt our connections and correspondence. They too have been deaf to the voice of justice and of consanguinity. We must, therefore, acquiesce in the necessity, which denounces our Separation, and hold them, as we hold the rest of mankind, Enemies in War, in Peace Friends.
We, therefore, the Representatives of the united States of America, in General Congress, Assembled, appealing to the Supreme Judge of the world for the rectitude of our intentions, do, in the Name, and by the Authority of the good People of these Colonies, solemnly publish and declare, That these United Colonies are, and of Right ought to be Free and Independent States; that they are Absolved from all Allegiance to the British Crown, and that all political connection between them and the State of Great Britain, is and ought to be totally dissolved; and that as Free and Independent States, they have full Power to levy War, conclude Peace, contract Alliances, establish Commerce, and to do all other Acts and Things which Independent States may of right do. And for the support of this Declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our Lives, our Fortunes and our sacred Honor.
— John Hancock
New Hampshire:
Josiah Bartlett, William Whipple, Matthew Thornton
Massachusetts:
John Hancock, Samuel Adams, John Adams, Robert Treat Paine, Elbridge Gerry
Rhode Island:
Stephen Hopkins, William Ellery
Connecticut:
Roger Sherman, Samuel Huntington, William Williams, Oliver Wolcott
New York:
William Floyd, Philip Livingston, Francis Lewis, Lewis Morris
New Jersey:
Richard Stockton, John Witherspoon, Francis Hopkinson, John Hart, Abraham Clark
Pennsylvania:
Robert Morris, Benjamin Rush, Benjamin Franklin, John Morton, George Clymer, James Smith, George Taylor, James Wilson, George Ross
Delaware:
Caesar Rodney, George Read, Thomas McKean
Maryland:
Samuel Chase, William Paca, Thomas Stone, Charles Carroll of Carrollton
Virginia:
George Wythe, Richard Henry Lee, Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Harrison, Thomas Nelson, Jr., Francis Lightfoot Lee, Carter Braxton
North Carolina:
William Hooper, Joseph Hewes, John Penn
South Carolina:
Edward Rutledge, Thomas Heyward, Jr., Thomas Lynch, Jr., Arthur Middleton
Georgia:
Button Gwinnett, Lyman Hall, George Walton
1864: The ruins of an extensively damaged Roundhouse in Atlanta, Georgia after the Atlanta Campaign in the summer of 1864. After Union Maj. Gen. William T. Sherman captured the city, he began his destructive March to the Sea, finally taking the port of Savannah on December 21. Mathew Brady/NARA
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This is back from July of this year when I went to Michigan Central Station while it was pouring outside. I felt it would make a nice addition to the collection. I made a fatal mistake in photoshop, saved it, and then slapped myself in the face for doing something so stupid. I finally got back to finishing it today! It's not my favorite shot of the place, but I had to do something with it!
The elevator house is located on the 18th floor of the trainstation. It’s really interesting during sunrise as the light shoots through the room, especially if the ground is soaked to make a good reflection. This area was probably a goldmine to scrappers with all the copper wire used to wind the gigantic elevator motors. Bullet holes have ravaged the HVAC system and are most likely the effect of a bunch of bored destructive kids. Oh yea, and by kids, I mean 20 year old, scrawny, bored, total douche bag, immature, white kids.
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Amalfi
Fino al 1136 Amalfi visse un periodo sereno ma il 1137 segno un tristissimo inizio di eventi drammaticamente negativi, tra invasioni distruttive, calamita naturali, un’epidemia di peste che decimo la colazione perdendo la sua opulenza precedentemente conquistata con tanta dedizione e sacrificio. Tutto ciò obbligo gli Amalfitani a ritornare all’artigianato ed all’agricoltura, che avevano abbandonato precedentemente per i traffici marittimi. Tra la fine del XII Secolo e gli inizi del XIII Secolo gli Amalfitani applicarono l’uso della bussola nella navigazione, perfezionandone le caratteristiche tecniche, contestualmente essi già producevano in modo industriale la carta applicando metodi e tecniche già introdotti dal mondo arabo.
Tra la dominazione degli Angioini e lo scoppio della guerra dei Vespri Siciliani durata venti anni, per gli scontri avvenuti tra gli Angioini stessi e gli Aragonesi intenti al controllo del Regno Meridionale, le condizioni di Amalfi peggiorarono in modo repentino, poiché gli Angioini imposero il blocco navale della città confiscando la flotta navale. Anche le forti competizioni dei mercanti catalani per il controllo del basso Tirreno, le pestilenze del 1306 e del 1348, la drammatica mareggiata del 1343, che distrusse tutta l’area portuale, diedero un durissimo colpo alla Repubblica Amalfitana. Dal 1392 al 1583 Amalfi fu sotto controllo dell’infeudazione e durante il XVII e XVIII Secolo tutta l’area Amalfitana fu oggetto di una notevole trasformazione urbanistica con l’imposizione del barocco sulle antiche costruzioni romaniche. Nei primi anni del XIX Secolo tutta la Costa Amalfitana visse il controllo di G.Bonaparte e di G. Murat.
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Translation performed by the translator of google. I apologize for the imperfections
Amalfi
Until 1136 Amalfi lived a quiet period but 1137 marked a sad beginning of a dramatic adverse events, including destructive invasions, natural disasters, a plague epidemic that decimated the breakfast losing its opulence previously conquered with so much dedication and sacrifice. Everything must return to the Amalfi crafts and agriculture, who had left earlier for maritime traffic. Between the end of the twelfth century and the beginning of the thirteenth century the Amalfi applied using the compass in navigation, refining the specifications, together they have produced on an industrial paper by applying methods and techniques already introduced by the Arab world.
Between the domination of Anjou and the outbreak of war of the Sicilian Vespers life twenty years, the struggle between the Anjou and Aragonese same intent to control the Southern Kingdom, conditions worsened in Amalfi so sudden, the blockade imposed because of Anjou Naval confiscating the city fleet. Even the strong competitions of Catalan merchants for control of the Tyrrhenian, the plagues of 1306 and 1348, the dramatic storm of 1343 that destroyed the entire port area, gave a huge blow to the Republic of Amalfi. From 1392 to 1583 dell'infeudazione Amalfi was under control and during the seventeenth and eighteenth century the whole area was covered by a Coast remarkable urban transformation through the imposition of the ancient Baroque Romanesque buildings. In the early nineteenth century the whole Amalfi Coast lived control of Bonaparte and G. G. Murat.
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The last, warm light of the sun embraces cold, wet granite after a long day of thunderstorms and hail.
taken on White Bear Pass at 11800 feet of elevation
lpfw.org/forest-service-to-expedite-logging-and-habitat-c...
The Forest Service recently announced plans to selectively log old-growth forest and chaparral across 755 acres deep in the Ventura County backcountry. The agency quietly released the proposal in late May amid a pandemic, economic crisis, and period of civil unrest, offering the public a single 30-day period to submit comments. Officials indicated that they hope to use a loophole to approve the project without an environmental assessment or environmental impact statement.
The project would allow the logging of centuries-old trees, up to five feet in diameter, and the clearance of rare old-growth chaparral along six miles of the prominent ridge known as Pine Mountain stretching from Highway 33 to Reyes Peak. The area is a popular recreation destination beloved by hikers and climbers.
Despite the project’s massive scale, the Forest Service intends to use two controversial loopholes to bypass requirements under the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) to conduct a detailed study of potential impacts to the area’s unique ecosystems. These loopholes would also limit the public’s ability to voice their concerns while eliminating the official objection process that helps reduce the potential for litigation.
“Once again, the Trump administration has shown its willingness and desire to avoid conducting the level of environmental review needed to ensure that places like Pine Mountain are protected from damaging and unnecessary projects such as this one,” said Los Padres ForestWatch conservation director Bryant Baker. “To make matters worse, the Forest Service’s use of loopholes for this project has diminished the public’s ability to participate in the decision-making process—and they made their announcement at a time when citizens are focused on the COVID-19 crisis and fighting racial injustice.”
The ridge is home to some of the most diverse and unique habitats in the Los Padres National Forest. Pine Mountain hosts the greatest diversity of coniferous tree species in Ventura County, which occur next to large expanses of rare old-growth chaparral. Altogether, the ridge is home to over 400 species of native plants, including dozens that are rare or sensitive. As a biodiversity hotspot, the area is also home to several species of wildlife that depend on the mountain’s unique ecosystems. Mountain lions, black bears, bobcats, and numerous species of birds and small mammals can be found in and around the project area.
The agency has not confirmed whether this project will involve the selling of cut trees, but the Forest Service often uses agreements known as “stewardship contracts” for similar projects that allow private logging companies to profit from the timber harvest in exchange for services. Regardless, the agency has stated that trees and chaparral will be removed using mechanical equipment which can cause significant damage to soil, water, and plants that are not being targeted.
“The Trump administration is trying to hand over our southern California national forests to the logging industry, at taxpayer expense,” said Dr. Chad Hanson, forest ecologist with the John Muir Project, based in Big Bear City, California. “This destructive logging proposal would degrade wildlife habitat and make climate change worse, and would increase threats to human communities from wildland fire; we need Congress to protect our National Forests from logging once and for all,” he added.
The Forest Service has proposed the project under the guise of community protection from wildfire despite countless scientific studies that demonstrate that remote vegetation treatments, such as the Pine Mountain project, are ineffective against the fires that cause the majority of damage to communities each year. Pine Mountain is several miles away from any community, and the agency itself admits that the project will not help mitigate fire spread under extreme weather conditions. In fact, the Forest Service’s own assessment of existing and potential vegetation removal projects in the Los Padres National Forest ranks the one on Pine Mountain as only 118 out 163 in terms of priority for community protection and other factors.
In 2017 and 2018, just six fires out of 16,600 throughout California caused nearly 90% of the total damage to communities. All six fires burned under conditions that render vegetation removal projects, such as the one proposed on Pine Mountain, useless for suppression purposes. Moreover, vegetation clearance projects can increase wildfire risk by removing fire-resistant trees, increasing heating and drying of the forest floor, and spreading non-native invasive grasses and weeds that ignite more easily and spread wildfire more quickly.
Scientists and conservation organizations have long advocated that funding should be directed instead to creating defensible space directly next to homes, retrofitting and building structures with fire-safe materials, and reducing development in the wildland-urban interface.
“The Los Padres National Forest administration has a record of not only ignoring the science,” Richard Halsey, director of the California Chaparral Institute, said, “but also of violating agreements to collaborate with scientists and community members to manage the public’s land. Los Padres officials are well aware that the science does not support this project to clear fragile habitat far from communities at risk. This project is about obtaining taxpayer dollars to support the agency, not protecting citizens from fire.”
Over 30% of the project is within two proposed additions to the Sespe Wilderness approved by the House of Representatives with the passage of the Central Coast Heritage Protection Act earlier this year. The legislation would designate an area along part of the western portion of the ridge and an area that includes Reyes Peak. The bill is currently awaiting a vote in the Senate.
The proposal comes at a time when the Trump administration is attempting massive rollbacks of regulations under NEPA and similar laws. Earlier this month, the president issued an executive order that would waive requirements under these bedrock environmental laws for a wide variety of projects on federal lands. The Forest Service has also been directed to ramp up vegetation removal projects across the country, especially those that involve timber harvesting. Last year, Los Padres National Forest approved two commercial logging projects near Mt. Pinos under loopholes that similarly allowed the agency to avoid conducting the level of environmental review that is normal for such projects.
The public comment period is open until June 30 and may be the only chance the public has to weigh in with concerns about the Pine Mountain project. To submit a comment online or learn more about the project, visit p2a.co/IASAFIf
St. Mary-le-Bow
Situated in Cheapside, London EC2V 6AU, St Mary’s occupied the site as far back as Saxon Times. This is through archaeological work done on site.
Unbelievably there was a medieval church also on the site but this was destroyed by the ‘London Tornado’ in 1091. This was one of the most destructive and one of the earliest tornados recorded. However the crypt survived the devastation.
During the Norman reign (1066-1154), probably towards the latter end the church was again rebuilt and renamed St. Mary de Arcubus.
Fate had not finished with the church. It was destroyed in the Great Fire of London (1666). Being second in importance to St. Paul’s Cathedral it was one of the first churches to be rebuilt. This was done between 1671 and 1673, under the control of Sir Christopher Wren. The steeple, which was 223ft high and was completed in 1680 by Thomas Cartwright one of London’s leading stone masons.
A stone from the crypt of St Marys was donated to Trinity Church in New York in 1914.
According to tradition a true cockney must be born within the sound of the Bow Bells and it’s the bells of St Mary-le-Bow and not Bow Church itself.
Unfortunately the church again suffered and was largely destroyed in the blitz of 1941. The bells were completed put out of action. New ones were cast in 1956 and were finally installed in 1961.
Inside the church is a memorial to members of the Norwegian Resistance who died during WWII.
The churchyard is noted for having a statue of Captain John Smith, husband of Pocahontas and was leader of the Virginia Colony based in Jamestown.
The stained glass windows dating back to 1961 and were part of the restoration after war damage and were by John Hayward.
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"The spotted lanternfly is a planthopper indigenous to parts of Southern China, Taiwan, and Vietnam, and has spread invasively to Japan, South Korea, and the United States."
Yes, I know they are invasive and destructive but man are they beautiful. Photographed at Conowingo Dam in Maryland. I saw at least six of these at Conowingo Dam. I reported my sightings like I was supposed to but I couldn't bring myself to kill them like the Maryland Department of Agriculture (MDA) has requested.
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These little things are very destructive if you have pretty flowers, but, while they kill 'em they sure are cute!
Scientific name: Tettigoniidae
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MEDUZA, Becky Hill, Goodboys - Lose Control
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I know I can be destructive
And I can change the atmosphere
All I ask from you is patience
Some patience, some patience
Just let me know
Can you be the one to hold and not let me go?
I need to know
Could you be the one to call when I lose control?
When I lose control (I, I)
When I lose control (I, I)
When I lose control (I need your love)
When I lose control (I need your love)
When I lose control (I, I)
When I lose (I, I)
Could you be the one to call
When I lose control
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"When the world seems crazy, chaotic, destructive, you can choose to create your own world of peace and love. You do not have to immerse yourself in the illusion of craziness. You can create your own heaven on earth by being kind, surrounding yourself with good people, and nurturing the earth" (unknown)
I guess if you concentrate on one spot for too long , your eyes can become fixated and locked until you start banging your head. It gave me a headache just watching this male pileated woodpecker "bang his head against the wall". They have a lot more white on them than I expected.
Subject: Abstract wheel of a destructive force.
Medium: Digital Artwork.
Inspiration: Feeling anxious about the recent decision made by the US The Supreme Court to overturn Roe v. Wade and what is to come next...
Every man must decide whether he will walk in the light of creative altruism or in the darkness of destructive selfishness.
~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
Hunker down coastal residents....a powerful, destructive, and deadly storm making its way up the coast. 17 foot seas expected over the next 72 hours.
A destructive little beetle, they can kill an Ash tree if left unchecked.
They are not native to the U.S. and were most likely brought over from Asia in shipping crates.
They were not identified in the U.S. until 2002 and first seen in Canto, Michigan. Now you can find them scattered in areas as far as Colorado and as far south as Louisiana.
If I had known what this was and how destructive they are, I might have crushed his little head!
Trees on a trail at a small creek in Darlington Provincial park , Martin’s photographs , Courtice , Ontario , Canada , July 14. 2022
American Larch trees with beautiful small cones
Tamarack trees with beautiful small cones
Cones
Blooming Dogwood
flowering white dead nettles
Looking down at the front end of my bicycle
Bicycle
Four days after the destructive storm of 21 May 2022
old apple trees with beautiful blossoms
old orchard on the waterfront trail of Lake Ontario
blue sky in Squires beach
July 2022
Blossoms
Flowering trees
apple trees with blossoms
old orchard on the waterfront trail
Old orchard
Trees with blossoms
tall grasses
the large stone block walls
system to keep the Carp from entering Duffins marsh and creek system
viewed from the bridge across the marsh in Squires beach
Having a nice walk with granny in the woods
Family
Sunset
Shrubs
Oak tree
Trees with blossoms
Trees
Stones
Reflections
Reflection
Dogwood
Duffins trail
blue sky
cloud cover
yellow Tamarack tree
Tamarack tree
Tamarac
American Larch tree
Beautiful Nettles and it’s flowers
Nettles
Waterfront trail on Lake Ontario
Waterfront trail of Lake Ontario
Autumn
Shadows
Reflections
Large mushroom
Bird houses
Autumn
Duffins creek
Discovery bay
closeup photograph
Martin’s photographs
Ajax
Ontario
Canada
Duffins creek
Favourites
IPhone XR
Mushroom
Large Mushroom
wildflowers
Trout lilies
Lake Ontario
Mouth of Duffins creek marsh
white Deadnetles
River
Dogwood
Woods
Granny
Favourites
White Trilliums
Duffins marsh
Duffins trail
Ferns
Trilliums
Large tree
Grey Squirrel / sciurus carolinensis. Cannock Chase, Staffordshire. 04/12/15.
Wherever I go photographing at the moment, it's not too long before I find myself in the company of Grey Squirrels. They manifest from nowhere, as if by magic, then advance towards the area I am focussing on. Clearly they are associating a human being with possible food rewards.
Although they have chosen the wrong human being in my case, they don't take the hint either! They hang around (literally), just on the off-chance. Once my cover is blown there is only one choice to be made.....time for ME to move.
Half-demolished building of the Hungarian Radio in downtown Budapest, seen from the garden of the Hungarian National Museum.
The destructive nature of fire is no match for these Giant Sequoia trees. Their bark has a unique property of resilience to the hot flames, which occasionally sweep through the forest floor. This trick helps maintain a lifetime that spans thousand of years.
The reproductive process is also helped along as the treeâs cones open in the heat and drop their seeds onto the ground. With heavy underbrush burned away, sunlight provides nutrients and energy to the small seedlings.
The happiness of most people is not ruined by great catastrophes or fatal errors, but by the repetition of slowly destructive little things.
Ernest Dimnet
Extract from the Preston Chronicle January 25, 1879.
Of interest is the way that the journalist describes the location of the mill as "a country place"
An aerial photograph of the re-built mill can be seen below (see related image)
This is some of the destructive nature of an Ice-Storm. The full size--I believe a small leaf maple--tree I heard from across the street actually split in half in a very loud icy crash missing a small house and the house in this photographs background. (the house in background is a pot store, if your wondering about the green neon pot leaf sign in the houses window. Pot here in Oregon is legal for medical, and also recreational use.) Anyway, surprisingly, and luckily both dwellings had no human injury's! The snow in the photo is from the next storm that came in after the mentioned Ice storm.
Weather Eugene Oregon Winter