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Karst peaks, the likes of which I had never encountered before, stood imperiously over the sleepy rural farmlands and dotted the landscape as though giants gathering to repast. Their verdant tops were shaggy green wigs which the hills wore with surprising composure; and the gray, craggy sides suggested a long, scarred evolution. In the confines of Yangshuo town, they loomed as towers under whose scrutiny our puny edifices appeared to cower in fear.
We settled ourselves at our lodgings and then went to the neighboring Xingping village to explore the natural beauty that lay there, a portrait of which in fact is found on the back of the 20RMB bill. A swarm of solicitous touts greeted us at the gates of the town, and after haggling with one to arrange our transportation down the Li river, we ambled over to the ferry pier. Along the way we stopped intermittently to inspect the local schools and stores; the locals, I remarked, tend to do things the old-fashioned way: by hands which embody a very humanizing dignity over work; the proletarian machines were nowhere to be found.
Sailing down a gentle waterway brought us in close proximity to the famed acclivities. Our eyes wide open, we marveled at their peculiar forms, and laughed when told their oft ridiculous names. Below them, ducks swam near their shores. And when we landed for a short break, dozens of elderly village women converged on us and requested vehemently the opportunity to relieve us of our lucre in exchange for oranges, or boiled eggs. The mountains must have laughed at the scene of these assiduous women chasing after Calvin and Irene, who eventually relented and accepted the natives' perishable goods. For my part, the lusty entreaties fell from me as if pebbles against chain mail. I wouldn't acquiesce to their demands. I would, however, later purchase quality sweets from the village to prop up their local economy.
Tackling the weedy old raspberry patch, once the roots are out I'll have more growing space on the allotment.
...at the Forum. The Forum was the center of political, commercial and judicial life in ancient Rome.
Rhonda Dixon, Sound Transit Community Outreach Coordinator, talks recently with Gerry Ochs, Lead Civil Inspector for the University Link project on Capitol Hill. They are standing on the landing of the Kroll Tower Crane looking down into the excavation for the Capitol Hill light rail station.
2/11
In this series of images, I am the model.
The concept behind the photographs is to simply change people's point of view of ordinary everyday objects.
This image here, depicts a digging site scene (made up of chocolate bar pieces) in which I become the archaeologist dusting 'debris' off the fossil (which is represented as a chocolate bar nut).
Not only does photography allow us to capture scenes around us, but it has also allowed me to capture images with double meanings.
The return leg of the "Steam Dreams' run to Eastbourne and Hastings climbs to Merstham tunnel, with 'Black 5' 44871 digging in for the final half mile to the summit, en route back to Victoria.
4K video frame.
4-H is a global network of youth organizations whose mission is "engaging youth to reach their fullest potential while advancing the field of youth development." They do this by learning through service. A 4-H group known as the O.W.L.S., Outdoor Wildlife Leadership Service, visited Brandon Spring Group Center at Land Between The Lakes in May 2016. O.W.L.S. educates kids on a variety of outdoor, survival, and identification skills. These include wildlife tracking, studying avian populations, Dutch oven cooking, and ice cream making. These 4-H’ers planted a butterfly garden, weeded flowerbeds, and helped with trail work and maintenance projects. Photo by Brian Truskey
With a new level backyard we needed to put in a retaining wall. The first step was building a trench.
Jim Siseta, constructing a toilet funded by Oxfam supporters in Sirovai, “my kids never used a toilet before”.
Intentional burial, particularly with grave goods, may be one of the earliest detectable forms of religious practice since, as Philip Lieberman suggests, it may signify a "concern for the dead that transcends daily life." Though disputed, evidence suggests that the Neanderthals were the first human species to intentionally bury the dead, doing so in shallow graves along with stone tools and animal bones.
The earliest undisputed human burial, discovered so far, dates back 130,000 years. Human skeletal remains stained with red ochre were discovered in the Skhul cave at Qafzeh, Israel. A variety of grave goods were present at the site, including the mandible of a wild boar in the arms of one of the skeletons.
Prehistoric cemeteries are referred to by the more neutral term grave field. They are one of the chief sources of information on prehistoric cultures, and numerous archaeological cultures are defined by their burial customs, such as the Urnfield culture of the European Bronze Age.
In modern times, the custom of burying dead people below ground with a stone marker to mark the place is used in almost every modern culture, although other means such as cremation are becoming more popular in the west (cremation is the norm in India).
While seen as a new trend in modern burial, natural burial, the process by which a body is returned to the earth to decompose naturally in soil, has been practiced in Islam for almost 1500 years. Natural burial became popularized in the United Kingdom in the early 1990s by Ken West, a professional cemeterian for the City of Carlisle responding to the U.K's call for changes in government that aligned with the United Nations' Environmental Program Local Agenda 21. The practice is gaining ground rapidly and has now expanded to Australia, Germany, the Netherlands, North America, China and Japan.
On the beach at the mouth of the river Wansbeck, next to the Sandy Bay Holiday Park campsite. North East England
My motorhome travels - ralph-dot-motorhoming.blogspot.com/2012/01/past-trips-uk-...
A student cleans up outside of Boulevard House, a partnership between People’s Community Services, The University of Michigan School of Social Work and El Museo del Norte. Boulevard House is a place-based residential space for campus-community collaborative work in southwest Detroit.
Photographer- Kevin Thomas