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“I became aware that there was no barrier between what was inside and what was outside. My body was illuminated by a bright light. I heard with my eyes and saw with my ears. I used my nose as mouth and my mouth as nose. I experienced the world with the totality of my senses as my spirit gathered and my form dissolved. There was no distinction between muscles and bones. My body stopped being heavy and I felt like a floating leaf. Without knowing it, I was being carried by the wind. Drifting here and there, I did not know whether I rode on the wind or the wind rode on me.”
― Liezi, Lieh-tzu: A Taoist Guide to Practical Living
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Hunslet Austerity 0-6-0 2890 heads northbound at Summerseat Foot Crossing on a Diner Circular on 18/02/2024
We were in St. Andrews, Scotland, on graduation day for the University of St. Andrews. It is one of the best schools in the United Kingdom.
Ex Hunslet Austerity 2890 'Douglas' passes through Burrs Country Park with the first diner since lockdown.
Just one shadow partly dissolving and steadily scattering through the doorway. Light makes so much of our world and it sculpts our picture. Still we need shadow for depth and distinction to stand out and to see, even if momentarily, where the light has not reached.
Much less visited than Rosslyn Chapel on the opposite Western Bank of The North Esk river you will find The Wallace Cave. There are several Wallace Caves in Scotland. There is only one Wallace Cave in Roslin Glen. There are also caves under Hawthornden Castle. If you are going to Rosslyn Chapel I hope that you have a great visit and if you have a chance do walk in the Roslin Glen. The Castle and the Chapel retain the older name of Rosslyn and the contemporary village has the newer name of Roslin.
In the pictures uploaded to Flickr immediately before these two those two both the Focused and Focusless Fabulous Fungi a Miraculous Magical Mushroom were a joint effort. I managed in Manual Focus to capture an impressionistic rendering and a photographic view of the same rather large mushroom. My lighting expert is not on Flickr so I cannot link them locally and I do not have permission to link them further afield. He is a great companion to share a historically important cave with. Our focus on photography led us to moths and small gnats and large spiders with varying fungi and moss and lichen. The clean air just 8 miles from Edinburgh enables some fantastic growths that increase in quantity and size as you move further away from the city into more vibrant landscapes that support such greater growth. The size and vitality of the Mushroom was so unexpected that I have labelled it fabulous, miraculous and magical as it certainly appeared that way being the only such branching out extended growth from the rock face with roots nestled in a shallow crack.
The cave shows many pick marks from it having being extended and masoned sections where door and fittings have been fitted and broken away. The valley side opposite Rosslyn Chapel and Castle has a path way and viewing platforms cut into the cliff sides. The cave itself is not too large and the Mushroom as focus of attention and camera here looks quite unlikely to be natural and also at the same time possible so. It does appear like something brought in affixed and maybe even tended. There is a bed of rushes in the cave, changed annually and often dressed into the form of a sleeping figure. This Both Focused and Focusless Fabulous Fungi a Miraculous Magical Mushroom that proudly proclaims itself present and potent whilst discreetly declining any casual further investigation beyond speculation such as I have delivered here.
There is a legend of a Black Hen, don’t say Pullet, that is noted as confusing treasure seekers and grail hunters by digging holes to false terrain the site and to fill in half dug holes for when seekers return to complete their excavations and further still through special skill to carefully indicate the better and best grounds to explore through careful talon and beak soil manipulation. There are further tails of either this Black Hen, or of another such similar still don’t say Pullet, Black Hen, maybe there is just the one, or possibly there are a pair of magical soil shrouders at work? The other hen story relates to a treasure hidden under a stair. The exact stair can be correctly deduced in a manner not fully revealed within the story. Any stair testing and excavating can and will lead to the Black Hen II, this time the truth will not out*, moving the treasure when the excavators are in the right area and also the hen will bamboozle the grail hunters with special Holy Hen Acts that will confuse, strain, enrage and bring chaos to order and the ‘BH II’ wonder guard will clear up after the said chaos and restore all to proper order til the right, maybe even righteous, approach of the mythic legendary treasure grail hunter seekers who are destined to step on the right step at the right time in the right manner possibly with the left foot.
Please only read good humour and faithful following in my words above. I have followed signs to Rosslyn Chapel and parked when there were just a few spaces next to the old barn and byre. I have wandered in the beauty of the landscape and listened to the stories and here share some quickly to say that this is a place of beauty and of mystery, both of folly and of faith with a river bend bringing out rock inscribed from thousands of years ago to natural and extended caves, with castles and chapels, formerly and currently hosting services and battles til a part of the past seems to have been deeply woven here such that we choose to look at it again and again making pilgrimage and enacting rampage all engaged through marvellous mysteries and eldritch histories far beyond our fascination and into our fine fashioned fulgent fabricated fantasies.**
*Black Hen I also assured that the truth would not out, Black Hen II is not a fully fledged sequel as of course it could be one Hen, not a Pullet, successfully stealth working both grounds and stairs.
**Please do not test the Hen, or Hens, not Pullets, as you could be destroying a beautiful and historial protected place that is best left none Hen tested and none destroyed. Age, atmosphere and our antecedents have done more than enough destruction and also they had with them those that fought to give enough preservation and conservation too.
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A Cave In Spain Contains the Earliest Known Depictions of Mushrooms by Brian Akers
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Welcome to Rosslyn Chapel
Hawthornden Castle
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hawthornden_Castle
Alexander Nasmyth - Hawthornden Castle, near Edinburgh - Google Art Project
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Hawthornden Foundation Hawthornden Castle
www.hawthornden.org/hawthornden-castle
Hawthornden Foundation
Wallace's Cave, cave and rock carvings SM6825
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ROSLIN GLEN AND HAWTHORNDEN CASTLE GDL00327
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Roslin Glen
Rosslyn Chapel Trust is responsible for the conservation and care of part of the picturesque landscape known as Roslin Glen, which is adjacent to Rosslyn Castle and Rosslyn Chapel.
www.rosslynchapel.com/about/roslin-glen/
Roslin Glen Country Park
www.midlothian.gov.uk/directory_record/171/roslin_glen_co...
Roslin Glen Country Park
www.rosslynchapel.com/about/roslin-glen/
Wallace's Cave, cave and rock carvings
canmore.org.uk/site/51808/wallaces-cave
Archaeology Notes
Roslin Glen And Hawthornden Castle
Date of Inclusion: 31/03/2001
1:20,000Map Scale:
Council: Midlothian
Designation Reference: GDL00327
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ROSLIN GLEN AND HAWTHORNDEN CASTLE
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Gorton House Rock Carving(S) (Post Medieval)(Possible)
In distinction to Rarapan, Velvia is one of my favorite films, with color vibrancy unparalleled by other films (although I need to qualify that with need to get some Ektachrome in 120). Using a Fuji GSWII 690, was able to find some color during these days of distancing.
Les oies blanches sont de retour dans notre région pour une pause dans leur voyage entre le Canada arctique et les côtes américaines atlantique et pacifique.
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The snowgeese are back in our area for a break in their trip between Arctic Canada and the U.S. coast Atlantic and Pacific.
Jethro Tull- Velvet green
At the Oklahoma Aquarium in Jenks, Oklahoma
They claim to have the largest collection of bull sharks in the world. Quite a distinction...
"In dreams you don't need to make any distinctions between things. Not at all. Boundaries don't exist. So in dreams there are hardly ever collisions. Even if there are, they don't hurt. Reality is different. Reality bites. Reality, reality."
— Haruki Murakami (Sputnik Sweetheart)
HDR Trees Series #1
* Pentax K20D + Samsung 50-200mm Lens - 3 Shot HDR
There are definitely different classes of folks in Bali. The owner of the house at the back lives an entirely different life to the people who work in the rice fields. (note though that these huts are for shelter from the sun and rain, not for living in)
Lodge brothers from around the state of Arizona (and Canada) gathered together at the Masonic Temple in Tucson. AZ to watch the presentation of a Military Degree to a junior lodge brother.
This was shot right before things kicked off, no photos once the ceremonies have started.
This place probably has the WORST lighting I've ever seen! Beautiful hanging lights are up 30 feet in the air and it looked like they had those CFL bulbs in them. I had 2 lenses with me, my Nifty Fifty and my 18-55. Couldn't get what I wanted in the shot with the 50 and the 18-55 only goes down to f5! Didn't want to use a flash, besides the only one I have is the on-camera one. I do have a homemade diffuser but didn't even think about it. Yeah, it's super grainy but what was I supposed to do?
Having said that I'm not sure of this butterflies ID? In the Heliconius family perhaps, but which one?
This one has one white spot on the wings and there were some with two white spots. So confusing. And the Cecil B Day Butterfly Center at Callaway Gardens does provide a chart of their butterflies but it was incomplete.
Positive ID welcomed!
If you shoot portraits of people, no matter how many photographs of plantlife you make/share, you will generally still be considered a portrait photographer. I've decided to take this idea and embody it: now when I photograph trees, flowers, dirt I always say, "Let me stop and take a portrait of this plant!"
Markers are laid out with no distinctions between rank or file of the veterans.
I spent some time in this cemetery over the summer, making it a destination to run to, with my camera.
That's freedom. Thousands of people died so some nobody in the future could do that.
Rest in peace.
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Lancashire and Yorkshire "A" Class Locomotive 52322 heads north with the Diner at Townsend Fold on 22/04/2018
A couple of years ago I returned to Colchester for the first time since this photograph was taken, on Tuesday 15th March 1977, and recognised the location ...North Hill. I must have been walking from the station, which is rather remote from the town centre, and making for the bus station. I naïvely hoped that I might see one of the VR prototypes which, by this time, were running in the fleet of local independent Osborne of Tollesbury. It was not to be, of course, and the VRs had to wait for a special trip a few years later.
In the days of the National Bus Company standard livery the subsidiaries were free to paint the mudguards of their half-cab vehicles black. Few availed themselves of this concession to individual company style, but Eastern National did, greatly improving the looks of their Bristol FLFs. The red background to the fleet number and depot plates was another pleasing distinction. These small things made a difference.
The Walthamstow Building Society sounds much too small-scale and local to have survived independently into the modern age.
The Percival P.56 Provost was a British ab initio trainer that was developed for the Royal Air Force in the 1950s as a replacement for the Percival Prentice. It was a low-wing, monoplane with a fixed, tailwheel undercarriage and had an unusual side-by-side seating arrangement. The Provost has the distinction of being the last piston-engine basic trainer aircraft to be operated by the RAF.