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The earliest traces of inhabitation in Borne are archeological finds at the "Stroom Esch" and "Zuid Esch" of substantial settlements dating from the late Iron Age and the Roman period. Finds from around 800 CE.,the remains of two farmhouses and the grave of a man buried with his armour, a sword, lance and 16 silver denarii coined by Charlemagne near two farmhouses of the same age suggest inhabitation in the ninth century. The first historical mention of Borne, under the name Borghende dates from 1206 in a document which transfers churches in Steenwijk and Borne and their possessions by Fredericus, the abbot of the monastery in Ruinen to the bishop of Utrecht,
the Old Church of Borne was founded about the year 1000 by the Dominican monks
This is the earliest fall/winter season Snowy Owl sighting for me.
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ladyslipper orchid, denver botanic garden, colorado
Since my earliest childhood, I have been fascinated by nature. For me, the diverse country of Central Utah is my cathedral,
Simply by walking and observing nature, you can find solitude or clarity at any time. Sitting outside with nature and being present is like meditating.
The earliest existing historical records of the church date back to 1308, but the church was not new that year. The first church in Oppstryn was located at Nesje, about 2 kilometres (1.2 mi) northwest of the present location of the church. The medieval stave church was located at Nesje until the winter of 1662-1663 when an avalanche off the nearby mountain pushed part of the church down the hill into the lake Oppstrynsvatnet.[3]
The following spring, a new church was constructed at Fosnes in the village of Oppstryn to the southeast. The new building was a timber-framed long church. In 1863, this church was torn down and replaced with a new church that was consecrated on 1 November 1863
Texture's and Effect's by William Walton & Topaz.
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The earliest known record of the Church of England parish church of St. Peter ad Vincula dates from 1291.[ Early English style features that survive from this time include the tower arch, a doorway and several windows, including two in the nave. The bell tower was built after a gift of £10 for the purpose in 1412.
The earliest record of the church's dedication to St. Peter ad Vincula ("St Peter in Chains") dates from 1469. It is one of only 15 churches in England with this dedication, which is after the Basilica of San Pietro in Vincoli in Rome.
Late in the 15th and early in the 16th centuries extensive Perpendicular Gothic alterations were made to the church. The tower was rebuilt and the south porch and three-bay north aisle were added and the nave was increased in height.
A west gallery was added in 1714 and later removed, probably during rebuilding work in the 1850s. The works included rebuilding the north aisle, removing the chancel arch and blocking up the east window, causing Pevsner to describe the church as "much renewed". In 1966 the church was designated as Grade II* listed. Today the parish is part of the Chase Benefice, a group of nine on both sides of the Dorset/Wiltshire border.
This species is one of our earliest spring migrants showing up as early as late March and is also a late migrant in the fall so is often still seen in our area in late October. The results of tests done has proven that they do return to previously used nesting sites. Since they are early arrivals in spring their territorial defense system is already in place when other species start to arrive as well as having their nest building well under way.
At one time they nested solely midst rocky outcroppings but when man started constructing buildings and bridges they quickly accepted these structures when they found how easily they could build their mud nests in eaves and rafters. The benefits turned out to be twofold since man learned that his new tenant was a good source of pesky insect control.
They are heavy feeders of flying beetles, flies, wasps, grasshoppers. mayflies, etc and on occasion will pluck aquatic invertebrates and small fish off the surface of the water.
Fall and winter pretty much dictates a diet of small fruits.
This adult bird is perched on a small branch where it is watching very diligently for a passing insect to dart out and snatch out of the air.
Late March is the earliest we can hope for dragonflies again. Always hoping for overwintering butterflies in the next couple of months on warm days.
>> male Ashy clubtail @ the wetlands, N. Georgia, March 30th ... a sprinkle of pine pollen
Happy Dragonfly Thursday!
From Williamsville’s earliest days, a farmer's elevator, feed store and stockyards were built alongside the railroad to support the local livestock and farming industry to get goods to and from market. While the stockyards are no more, the grain elevators and storage silos are still here and are now operated by the Farmers Co-Op Grain Company.
On the right side of the tracks is the historic Williamsville Depot. When passenger service ended a half century ago, this circa 1900 depot began a new mission as the village library until 2016.
The Village of Williamsville was established in 1853. Located just 17 miles (27 km) north of the state capitol in Springfield, this central Illinois community had a population of 1,467 at the 2020 census.
The earliest existing record of a telescope was a 1608 patent submitted to the government in the Netherlands by Middelburg spectacle maker Hans Lippershey for a refracting telescope. The actual inventor is unknown but word of it spread through Europe. Galileo heard about it and, in 1609, built his own version, and made his telescopic observations of celestial objects.
I have a trip along the West coast of France starting tomorrow, so will be absent for a few weeks.
The earliest Clematis to blossom in my neighborhood. I can't wait to see new flowers sometime early next year:-)
I went back to my earliest digital photos. In 2005, I got my first digital point-and-shoot, a Canon Ixus 50 with a whopping 5 megapixels. I bought it specifically for the vacation this image is one of the first ones from. I used it until 2013 as it was so convenient to put it into my trouser pockets. Unluckily, it slipped from my pocket in that year on another vacation, never to be found again.
Seeing those images on a full HD screen with 1920 x 1080 pixels, they are fine. You just shouldn't zoom in more.
A few of my Flickr friends should recognize this place. If you do, please post in the comments, where exactly I was because I can't remember the locations anymore after all this years.
Schönbusch Park is one of the earliest landscape gardens in Germany. From 1775, the Archbishop of Mainz, Friedrich Carl von Erthal, had his game park redesigned in the English landscape style. The first building in the park, designed by the architect Emanuel Joseph von Herigoyen, was the Electoral Pavilion. It was built from 1778 to 1782 as a small neo-classical summer palace with exquisite furnishings in the Louis-seize style and is today called "Schönbusch Palace".
Der Park Schönbusch ist einer der frühesten Landschaftsgärten Deutschlands. Ab 1775 ließ der Mainzer Erzbischof Friedrich Carl von Erthal seinen Wildpark im englischen Landschaftsstil umgestalten. Als erstes Bauwerk im Park, entworfen von dem Architekten Emanuel Joseph von Herigoyen, entstand der Kurfürstliche Pavillon. Er wurde von 1778 bis 1782 als kleines klassizistisches Sommerschlösschen mit erlesener Ausstattung im Stil Louis-seize errichtet und wird heute "Schloss Schönbusch" genannt.
My earliest photo on bee was taken many month ago. At that time I still have no idea how to focus, follow or keep it in good composition. But I spend more time to learn its behavior later and know much more.
14th to 17th centuries Castle Wijchen is first mentioned in a written source in 1392. The earliest castle probably dates from the middle of the 14th century.
The castle has passed through the hands of many different families. In the middle of the 14th century it belonged to the family Van Galen, in 1536 it passed into the ownership of the lords of Batenburg. By then the castle had been thoroughly sacked at least once. The rebuilding is likely to have been the initiative of one of the lords of the manor of Batenburg (the Bronkhorst family), but the castle was only completed at the beginning of the 17th century. The responsibility for the completion of the current castle lies with the royal couple Princess Emilia van Nassau en Don Emanuel van Portugal.
17th to 20th centuries: In 1609 Emila, daughter of Prince Willem of Orange, bought the castle. It was some time before she moved in. First she had the castle extensively renovated. The money for this enterprise came partly from the sale of an extremely valuable pearl necklace. Emanuel was without prospects and a catholic. Because of this he and Emila had not received permission to marry from the government or Prince Maurits. They had eloped together, and thus had a long and rather difficult love story behind them by the time they came to Wijchen. Many of the decorations on the building are references to their struggle to be united together in marriage, such as the beam fixings in the form of a closed ‘S’ which stand for the French ‘fermesse’ – fidelity.
Emilia died in 1629 and the castle was eventually sold by her children to Philips van Nassau, lord of Grimhuizen near Breda. Having passed through the hands of a further thee families, the castle and estate came into the possession of the Osy family in 1771
The heirs of Baron J.J.R. d’Osy put the castle up for sale in the summer of 1903. It was bought by the honourable A.W. van Andringa de Kempenaer from Den Haag for 26,850 guilders.
As a result of a fire in one of the chimneys on the evening of December 5th 1906 the castle was gutted. Only the walls remained – the entire interior, furniture, books and works of art fell victim to the flames. However in a very short time the castle was completely restored under guidance of the Nijmeegse architect F.A. Ludewig. By 1908 Castle Wijchen had risen phoenix like from the ashes.
After the death of Miss van Andringa de Kempenaer in 1926 the castle passed to her nephews. They tried to sell it in 1932, but their were no buyers because of the economic crisis of the time. Spurred on by the mayor, the municipality of Wijchen bought the castle for the sum of 32,000 guilders. Since that time the castle has been the official meeting house for the council, and every resident of Wijchen is also ‘owner’.
21st century: The future looks rosy for the castle. Renovated in the 1990s the castle has housed, since 1996, Museum Castle Wijchen and the chief meeting room and wedding salon of the municipality of Wijchen. The Museum is situated on the second floor of the castle, and also makes use of a part of the castle gardens. The museum has collections of archaeology and modern art, with both permanent and temporary exhibitions as well as a regional history exhibit about the five castles within the parish. In the garden of the castle is Museum Garden ‘De Tuun’ with historic crops and herbs.
The ruins of St Serf's church lie in Levengrove Park in Dumbarton.
The earliest reference to the church of Cardross (St Serfs) occurs in a 13th century charter whereby the Earl of Lennox granted the income to the Bishop of Glasgow (1208-33). In the early 14th century this was the parish church for Robert I's manor nearby at Cardross.
The Rector of Cardross played an important part in the funeral arrangements of Robert I in 1329, and a tradition emerged as early as the 17th century that the viscera of the Robert I were buried in this church following his embalming.
The monument is of national importance because of the potential of the upstanding structure to contribute to our understanding of medieval ecclesiastical architecture. Its below-ground remains have the potential through excavation to add significantly to our knowledge of the historical evolution of church building on the site, as well as contributing to our knowledge of medieval life through the skeletal remains likely to be buried here. Moreover, the site has the potential to feature in the national consciousness due to its historical function during the life and death of Robert I.
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
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From it's most earliest days in the early 1900's to it's sad end in the mid 1950's Packard maintained a signature design element on their grill surrounds. Starting lower on the sides the grill surrounds would bump up and raise in the center, and you will find versions of this on every model of every Packard for every year of Packard's existence. When I first came upon the Reo in the photo the first thing I noticed was the Packard like grill surround, and thinking, in fact, that it was indeed a Packard. Well, that was only true until I noticed the emblem in the center with the letters R E O emblazoned on it. Like Packard in their day, Reo was considered somewhat of a luxury automobile, and as such, they were priced accordingly. I suspect, however, that they didn't have the same panache that Packard enjoyed. So, was the Packard like grill surround on this 1930 Reo a design coincidence, or could you say that "imitation is the sincerest form of flattery?" REO, the company, was founded by the former founder and owner of the Oldsmobile company, Ransom E. Olds (Notice the first letters in his name REO.) The company started in Lansing, Michigan, and had a long and somewhat successful history producing cars and trucks from 1905 to 1975. In 1936, Reo stopped producing cars in favor of devoting it's time to the end in 1975 to producing trucks.
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Although truck orders during World War II enabled it to revive somewhat, the company remained unstable in the postwar era, resulting in a bankruptcy reorganization. In 1954, the company was still underperforming, and sold its vehicle manufacturing operations (the primary asset of the company) to the Bohn Aluminum and Brass Corporation of Detroit. Three years later, in 1957, Reo's vehicle manufacturing operation became a subsidiary of the White Motor Company. White then merged REO with Diamond T Trucks in 1967 to form Diamond Reo Trucks. In 1975, this company filed for bankruptcy and most of its assets were liquidated. Volvo later took over White and thus currently owns the rights to the REO brand name.
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The earliest existing historical records of the church date back to the year 1329, but it was built before that time, likely during the 1200s. It was probably a stave church that stood about 2 kilometres (1.2 mi) southeast of the present church.
There is a plaque where the previous church once stood. The church was demolished in the early 1600s and replaced by a wooden church.
The wooden church was sold to private owners Arne Olsen Øvre Totland and Lars Olsen Øvre Birkeland in 1724. In 1839, the church was bought back by the parish.
Due to maintenance issues and population growth, that church was torn down in 1877 and replaced in 1878 with a larger stone church located about 2 kilometres (1.2 mi) away in Nesttun. The new (present) church was consecrated on 21 November 1878.wikipedia
Colors of dawn this Friday, one of the earliest of the year in Madrid. From June 9 to 20, the sun rises in Madrid at 06:43.
Photo taken at 06:26 am, just when leaving home to go to work.
It wasn't a very colorful sunrise, but I liked witnessing the variety of tonalities.
For tomorrow, Madrid expects a maximum of 95ºF (35ºC). It will be the first day of intense heat in the city. Patience!
Press "L" to enlarge the image.
Have a good start to the weekend!
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Amanecer del viernes, Madrid, España
Colores del amanecer de este viernes, uno de los más tempranos del año en Madrid. Del 9 al 20 de junio el sol sale en Madrid a las 06:43 de la mañana.
Foto tomada a las 06:26 am, justo en el momento de salir de casa para ir al trabajo.
No fue un amanecer muy colorido, pero me gustó presenciar la variedad de tonalidades.
Para mañana, Madrid espera una máxima de 35ºC. Será el primer día de intenso calor en la ciudad. ¡Paciencia!
Pulsa "L" para ampliar la imagen.
¡Que tengas un buen comienzo de fin de semana!
Clevedon is an English seaside town in Somerset. It lies along the Severn Estuary and features in the Domesday Book of 1086.
Clevedon grew in the Victorian period as a seaside resort and in the 20th century as a dormitory town for Bristol.
The seafront has ornamental gardens, a Victorian bandstand and other attractions including the Marine Lake
Clevedon Pier, which opened in 1869, is one of the earliest surviving examples of a Victorian pier. On 17 October 1970, two outward spans collapsed when the seventh set of legs from the shore failed during a routine insurance load test. A trust was eventually formed and the pier and its buildings were restored and reopened on 27 May 1989, when the Waverley paddle steamer berthed and took on passengers.
The earliest parts of this church date from the 13th century and include the south doorway and piscina in the chancel. However, the church was heavily restored in the 19th century with the tower being rebuilt in 1852 and more general work being carried out in 1862.
The earliest walls of this church are from the beginning of the 12th century. The present building then is not more than about 900 years old. About 1100 years before that the Romans came to what they were to name “Calleva Atrebatum”, later called “Silchester” by the Saxons Among the early Roman residents there would have been Christians who initially may have had to be secret about their faith. Some consider that the excavated remains of one building in the old Roman Town may be interpreted as a place for Christian worship dating from about 340AD, though this cannot be certain.
14th to 17th centuries Castle Wijchen is first mentioned in a written source in 1392. The earliest castle probably dates from the middle of the 14th century.
The castle has passed through the hands of many different families. In the middle of the 14th century it belonged to the family Van Galen, in 1536 it passed into the ownership of the lords of Batenburg. By then the castle had been thoroughly sacked at least once. The rebuilding is likely to have been the initiative of one of the lords of the manor of Batenburg (the Bronkhorst family), but the castle was only completed at the beginning of the 17th century. The responsibility for the completion of the current castle lies with the royal couple Princess Emilia van Nassau en Don Emanuel van Portugal.
17th to 20th centuries: In 1609 Emila, daughter of Prince Willem of Orange, bought the castle. It was some time before she moved in. First she had the castle extensively renovated. The money for this enterprise came partly from the sale of an extremely valuable pearl necklace. Emanuel was without prospects and a catholic. Because of this he and Emila had not received permission to marry from the government or Prince Maurits. They had eloped together, and thus had a long and rather difficult love story behind them by the time they came to Wijchen. Many of the decorations on the building are references to their struggle to be united together in marriage, such as the beam fixings in the form of a closed ‘S’ which stand for the French ‘fermesse’ – fidelity.
Emilia died in 1629 and the castle was eventually sold by her children to Philips van Nassau, lord of Grimhuizen near Breda. Having passed through the hands of a further thee families, the castle and estate came into the possession of the Osy family in 1771
The heirs of Baron J.J.R. d’Osy put the castle up for sale in the summer of 1903. It was bought by the honourable A.W. van Andringa de Kempenaer from Den Haag for 26,850 guilders.
As a result of a fire in one of the chimneys on the evening of December 5th 1906 the castle was gutted. Only the walls remained – the entire interior, furniture, books and works of art fell victim to the flames. However in a very short time the castle was completely restored under guidance of the Nijmeegse architect F.A. Ludewig. By 1908 Castle Wijchen had risen phoenix like from the ashes.
After the death of Miss van Andringa de Kempenaer in 1926 the castle passed to her nephews. They tried to sell it in 1932, but their were no buyers because of the economic crisis of the time. Spurred on by the mayor, the municipality of Wijchen bought the castle for the sum of 32,000 guilders. Since that time the castle has been the official meeting house for the council, and every resident of Wijchen is also ‘owner’.
21st century: The future looks rosy for the castle. Renovated in the 1990s the castle has housed, since 1996, Museum Castle Wijchen and the chief meeting room and wedding salon of the municipality of Wijchen. The Museum is situated on the second floor of the castle, and also makes use of a part of the castle gardens. The museum has collections of archaeology and modern art, with both permanent and temporary exhibitions as well as a regional history exhibit about the five castles within the parish. In the garden of the castle is Museum Garden ‘De Tuun’ with historic crops and herbs.
From its earliest days, Launceston was a river port city. Right up until the early 1960s small vessels would make their way up the Tamar estuary bringing in cargo and passengers. On the outward journey these ships would take on mainly wool, but also grain.
Now this is all that remains of what was once a massive wharf. In the 19th century the lighter wooden ships also used a wharf complex along the Esplanade on the North Esk River - where the Boag's Brewery sits today (see below).
The earliest variation of 'Sorry! ' can be traced back to England, with William Henry Storey having filed for a patent in 1929. It was sold in the UK by Waddingtons and then Parker Brothers in the USA in 1934. A fun game for all.
HMM!
Macro Mondays: Game Pieces.
Plas Newydd, Address: Plas Newydd, Llanfairpwllgwyngyll, Anglesey , LL61 6DQ
Plas Newydd Coordinates.....Latitude: 53° 12' 9.36" N
Longitude: -4° 12' 57.60" W
Plas Newydd is a country house set in gardens, parkland and surrounding woodland on the north bank of the Menai Strait, in Llanddaniel Fab, near Llanfairpwllgwyngyll, Anglesey, Wales. The current building has its origins in 1470, and evolved over the centuries to become one of Anglesey's principal residences. Owned successively by Griffiths, Baylys and Pagets, it became the country seat of the Marquesses of Anglesey, and the core of a large agricultural estate. The house and grounds, with views over the strait and Snowdonia, are open to the public, having been owned by the National Trust since 1976.
The house site was first occupied in the 13th century, and was known as Llwyn-y-Moel. By 1470 it belonged to the Griffith family, who also owned Penrhyn Castle near Bangor. Gwilym ap Griffith had acquired substantial Anglesey holding from his marriage to Morfydd, daughter of Goronwy ap Tudur of Penmynydd. Robert Griffith built the earliest parts of the current house in the early 16th century, creating a hall-house.
The Menai Strait (Welsh: Afon Menai, the "river Menai") is a narrow stretch of shallow tidal water about 25 km (16 mi) long, which separates the island of Anglesey from the mainland of Wales. It varies in width from 400 metres (1,300 ft) from Fort Belan to Abermenai Point to 1,100 metres (3,600 ft)
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Camera obscura (plural camera obscura or camerae obscurae from Latin, meaning "dark room": camera "(vaulted) chamber or room," and obscura "darkened, dark"), also referred to as pinhole image, is the natural optical phenomenon that occurs when an image of a scene at the other side of a screen (or for instance a wall) is projected through a small hole in that screen, as a reversed and inverted image (left to right and upside down) on a surface opposite to the opening. The surroundings of the projected image have to be relatively dark for the image to be clear, so many historical camera obscura experiments were performed in dark rooms.
The term "camera obscura" also refers to constructions or devices that make use of the principle within a box, tent or room. Camerae obscurae with a lens in the opening have been used since the second half of the 16th century and became popular as an aid for drawing and painting. The camera obscura box was developed further into the photographic camera in the first half of the 19th century when camera obscura boxes were used to expose light-sensitive materials to the projected image.
The camera obscura was used as a means to study eclipses, without the risk of damaging the eyes by looking into the sun directly. As a drawing aid, the camera obscura allowed tracing the projected image to produce a highly accurate representation, especially appreciated as an easy way to achieve a proper graphical perspective.
A camera obscura device without a lens but with a very small hole is sometimes referred to as a "pinhole camera", although this more often refers to simple (home-made) lens-less cameras in which photographic film or photographic paper is used.
The earliest known written record of the camera obscura is to be found in Chinese writings called Mozi and dated to the 4th century BCE, traditionally ascribed to and named for Mozi (circa 470 BCE-circa 391 BCE), a Han Chinese philosopher and the founder of Mohist School of Logic. In these writings it is explained how the inverted image in a "collecting-point" or "treasure house" is inverted by an intersecting point (a pinhole) that collected the (rays of) light.
The Greek philosopher Aristotle (384-322 BCE), or possibly a follower of his ideas, touched upon the subject in the work Problems - Book XV, asking:
"Why is it that when the sun passes through quadri-laterals, as for instance in wickerwork, it does not produce a figure rectangular in shape but circular?”
and further on:
“Why is it that an eclipse of the sun, if one looks at it through a sieve or through leaves, such as a plane-tree or other broadleaved tree, or if one joins the fingers of one hand over the fingers of the other, the rays are crescent-shaped where they reach the earth? Is it for the same reason as that when light shines through a rectangular peep-hole, it appears circular in the form of a cone?"
Many philosophers and scientists of the Western world would ponder this question before it became accepted that the circular and crescent-shapes described in this "problem" were actually pinhole image projections of the sun. Although a projected image will have the shape of the aperture when the light source, aperture and projection plane are close together, the projected image will have the shape of the light source when they are further apart.
Urban exploration finds us capturing the day moon at sunrise when it's most vivid due to the dawns earliest lighting.
The earliest existing historical records of the church date back to the early 12th century when King Øystein Magnusson (c. 1088– 1123) ordered that a church be built in Vågan to serve the Lofoten area. The first church was likely a stave church and it was located about 200 metres (660 ft) west of the present site of the church. In the mid-1600s, the old church was enlarged and renovated, giving the building a cruciform design. After centuries of use, the old church deteriorated and in 1712 or 1713 the old church began to collapse and so it was torn down. A new church was built on the same site in 1713-1714. It was a timber-framed long church design with a tower on the roof and a cemetery surrounding the church. This church was in use for nearly a century when in 1798, it was disassembled and moved to the nearby island of Værøya where it was rebuilt as the Værøy Church. A new church was built in Vågan to replace the one that was moved away. The new church was a timber building in a cruciform design.
In 1814, this church served as an election church (Norwegian: valgkirke).Together with more than 300 other parish churches across Norway, it was a polling station for elections to the 1814 Norwegian Constituent Assembly which wrote the Constitution of Norway. This was Norway's first national elections. Each church parish was a constituency that elected people called "electors" who later met together in each county to elect the representatives for the assembly that was to meet in Eidsvoll later that year.
By the late 1800s, the Kabelvåg area had seen a lot of population growth due to the tremendous fishing opportunities each season. In 1898, a new church was built about 200 metres (660 ft) to the east of the old church. It was designed to be large enough to accommodate all the fishermen who came to Kabelvåg each season. It was nicknamed the "Lofoten Cathedral" (Lofotkatedralen) by Eivind Berggrav, the Bishop of the Diocese of Oslo in 1929. The church was designed in Gothic revival style by the architect Carl Julius Bergstrøm (1828-1898). The new church was consecrated on 9 October 1898. After the new church was completed, the "old church" was still located just across the road for a couple of years until it was demolished in the summer of 1900.
Kali's earliest appearance is when she emerged from Shiva. She is regarded as the ultimate manifestation of Shakti, and the mother of all living beings. The goddess is stated to destroy evil in order to protect the innocent. Over time, Kali has been worshipped by devotional movements and Tàntric sects variously as the Divine Mother, Mother of the Universe, Principal energy Adi Shakti.
In this tradition, she is considered as a ferocious form of goddess Mahadevi, the supreme of all powers, or the ultimate reality. She is the first of the ten Mahavidyas in the Hindu tantric tradition
One of our earliest spring migrants to arrive and most of our Wheatears are now on their territories and beginning their nesting operations.
I encountered several pairs on a visit to Dartmoor yesterday .
This male was singing its short sweet little song,interspersed with a sharp 'Chack..Chack' call to ward of interlopers.
I have seen them singing before but mainly when they are in flight as they then parachute down to the ground.
Taken in Devon.
Eight "Brocades" were created in the earliest part of 2018. Five have been posted to Flickr up to this point. Number 6 here picks up where 1 - 5 left off.
In direct contrast to the 14 previous "straight" Pano-Sabotage images, the "Brocades" are at the further end of the Pano spectrum for their intense complexity both in terms of the image and the complicated layers that were build up to compose them. These images ARE heavily processed and are an exploration of how far the Pano-Sabotage medium might be pushed and still retain it's identification as a "Pano" piece. Each plane or facet in the larger image was a Pano-Sabotage piece subjected to extreme, stellated mirroring and processing.
These last "Brocades were brought out to be part of the "PANO-Vision" group's "The PANO to the Metal" Contest", where members are asked to experiment with the medium to the furthest extremes that they could muster while retaining some identification with Pano-Sabotage imagery. The contest ran from June 5 to June 31, 2018.
Image created Feb. 20, 2018.
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I am VERY proud to announce that I was chosen to be the feature artist of the "Kreative People" Group's Spring Gallery - Running until the end of June. I really must thank both abstractartangel77 and Xandram for bestowing me with this great honour. The link to the gallery appears below:
Please visit my Kreative People Highlight Gallery HERE
Cjherry Blossoms..
Last Thursday we went for a walk to Joyce Archdekin Park to get a few shots of the Japanese Sakura cherry trees which are in bloom. This is the earliest I can remember that they are blooming, usually we have to wait till the second or third week of May.
It started reining the next day and since then the constant rain has taken all the blooms off of the trees. Luckily we took that opportunity to get those shots.
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(Grus canadensis) Sandhill Cranes are known for their dancing skills. Courting cranes stretch their wings, pump their heads, bow, and leap into the air in a graceful and energetic dance. This one was tossing a leaf continually into the air - presumably to impress the female.
Interesting Facts:
Although some start breeding at two years of age, Sandhill Cranes may reach the age of seven before breeding. They mate for life—which can mean two decades or more—and stay with their mates year-round. Juveniles stick close by their parents for 9 or 10 months after hatching.
The earliest Sandhill Crane fossil, estimated to be 2.5 million years old, was unearthed in the Macasphalt Shell Pit in Florida.
Sandhill Crane chicks can leave the nest within 8 hours of hatching, and are even capable of swimming.
The oldest Sandhill Crane on record was at least 36 years, 7 months old. Originally banded in Wyoming in 1973, it was found in New Mexico in 2010.
My relatives for multiple generations rest here.
The earliest existing historical records of the church date back to the year 1320, but the church was not new that year. The first church at Fjære was likely a wooden church with a stone altar. That church was taken down at some point an replaced with the present church, likely around the year 1150, but the old stone altar from the old church was left in place and a new stone church was constructed on the same site surrounding the existing altar. The new church had a 18-by-12-metre (59 ft × 39 ft) rectangular nave with an 8-by-10-metre (26 ft × 33 ft) rectangular choir on the east end. There was a semi-circular apse built on the eastern end of the choir as well. The church was constructed with a basement crypt underneath it. (The crypt contains 26 bodies, mainly important people from the community during the 17th century. The basement was formally closed to visitors in 1997 to give respect to the dead.)[
The church was essentially the same from the early 1300s until the 1600s when changes were undertaken. First, the roof structure was changed, and the church got a flat ceiling and a new attic floor. Since then, the number of seats has been increased by adding balcony seating areas. During the 18th century, the apse had settlement damage, and the roof there was torn down and the apse was rebuilt along with a wooden sacristy on the east side of it. Around 1745 the gallery along the north wall was extended to the choir. In 1827, a large wooden tower was built on the west end of the building. In 1898, the west gallery was expanded to accommodate the organ. In the 1930s, plans were made to renovate and restore the old church. These got interrupted by the German invasion of Norway and the ensuing period of war. The restoration was finished during the 1950s and 1960s. When it was all finished, they had removed the old sacristy in the east and a larger sacristy was built on the north side of the nave. The foundations were all fixed to correct the sagging and skewed walls within the building. Frescoes were uncovered on the walls at this time as well.
29th of October 2021, the church was broken into and vandalised. Amongst other things, the offenders had entered into the 17th century crypt and damaged various artifacts such as the 13th century baptismal font
The earliest part of the church in the village is the nave, built in the 12th century. Towards the close of the 15th century the west tower was built and a clerestory added to the nave
The earliest record of explorers in the New World hinted that songbirds must migrate over water, at lest when close to land. In 1492, after sailing from Spain across the Atlantic for more than a month, Christopher Columbus noted many birds that stopped to rest on the ships or that passed overhead. On September 20, he recorded three pelicans, with he took as a sign of nearby land. Two or three landlords also appeared near nightfall, sang aboard the ship, and disappeared before sunrise. On October 7, when flocks of birds passed overhead to the southwest, the restless crew changed course to follow the birds, hoping to find the shore. On October 9 they heard calls of birds form above all night long, and on October 12, they finally sighted land.
Songbird Journeys, Miyoko Chu.
one of my earliest memories was sitting here with my family and having an ice cream in the cafe, moving on 30 years and the budget for this beautiful place has been cut leaving the building go into disrepair. such a shame.
Blackpool has been home to the mill that shares its name since the 17th century. The present building has stood at this site since 1813. The mill was used as an iron furnace through to the 19th century. The mill continued in use right up until 1945 for grinding corn. Blackpool Mill was once open to the public but, as of summer 2013, the site remains shut until further notice.
Blackpool Bridge, to the east of the mill, is a Grade II listed bridge contructed around 1825 to cross the River Cleddau.
Bloodroot (Sanguinaria Canadensis) is one of the earliest flowering plants to show up in forests and damp rich soil in my region.
This fragile spring flower develops and rises from the center of its curled leaf, opening in full sun, and closing at night. Like most members of the Poppy Family, it lasts for a relatively short time. The red juice from the underground stem was used by Native Americans as a dye for baskets, clothing, and war paint, as well as for insect repellent. The generic name, from the Latin sanguinarius, means "bleeding."
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Bloodroot (Sanguinaria canadensis) est l'une des premières plantes à fleurs à apparaître dans les forêts et les sols humides et riches de ma région.
Cette fleur printanière fragile se développe et s'élève du centre de sa feuille enroulée, s'ouvrant en plein soleil et se fermant la nuit. Comme la plupart des membres de la famille du coquelicot, il dure relativement peu de temps. Le jus rouge de la tige souterraine était utilisé par les Amérindiens comme colorant pour les paniers, les vêtements et la peinture de guerre, ainsi que comme insectifuge. Le nom générique, du latin sanguinarius, signifie «saignement».
At the earliest ending of winter,
In March, a scrawny cry from outside
Seemed like a sound in his mind.
He knew that he heard it,
A bird's cry, at daylight or before,
In the early March wind."
- Wallace Stevens
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Dwarf Iris 'Iris Reticulata' is one of the earliest blooming bulbs in spring, adding glorious blue/purple color to the garden.
My earliest memories of Monument Valley were from John ford western movies over 60 years ago. It is impossible to visit Monument Valley without thinking of John Ford, John Wayne and LOL Forest Gump.
My earliest memory of the Navratri AKA Garba AKA Dandiya season is that of adorning the best of chaniya choli, ornaments and everything Festive. Come evening time and I would be dancing and twirling to Falguni Pathak's Pari hoon main and all other fun numbers!
I am happy to say, you and I can do it on SL too!
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The castle has only been partially rebuilt since its demolition in the 17th and 18th centuries.
The earliest castle structure was built before 1214 and later expanded into two castles circa 1294; however, in 1537, a lightning bolt destroyed the upper castle. The present structures had been expanded by 1650, before damage by later wars and fires. In 1764, another lightning bolt caused a fire which destroyed some rebuilt sections.
(Continuation. Please see the texts of the earliest images of this series – my “letters from the other side”).
I keep working on my own freedom and inner peace. Doing the 1st from the early childhood and the 2nd at least from my hippie years (in which I didn’t considered myself as a hippie, more rather as a human being, but others did), and it’s still not enough. Meantime, freedom, peace, creativity, artful life and sharp sense of humour & self-irony seems must-have for me to return my human life. Which is currently stolen by my state and wanted. Deeply.
Also, I feel closer bond with the great American beatnik culture, that I grew up on (and still growing). It was beat the disgraceful Vietnam war, we’re now trying to beat the disgraceful Ukrainian war.
And also, sometimes I couldn’t keep up with your beautiful comments and drop by every page, when you’re faving my humble art. Though I really need them to keep going. I feel guilty about that. I’m doing it, backwards, to the deeper past, but sometimes too slow… Really don’t know what to do about that. What you could tell me about that?
The same thing with arts. My beautiful friend Irinka, when I posted the previous photo on insta, asked me, could I make some more from this photo-series. Which I did, and I’m glad. And joy is one more must-have ingredient in this quest. We mustn’t let them rob us of our joy and taste of life.
To be continued…
I remember back in my earliest days in world when I first experienced RL physical reactions to movement in SL. What I mean is feeling slight vertigo when I climbed to the top of a mountain and looked over the edge, as an example. I have had this happen when playing other computer games too. I am sure there is a scientific reason why we experience this but I don't really understand it.
But, when I can't get to the actual ocean to feel the salt water on my face and hear the sails flapping in the wind, nothing beats an early morning sail on the Blake Sea. It isn't real sailing but it feels close enough for a Tuesday in November.
The earliest reference found for this pub is in 1856. Although the inside of this pub has changed over the years it still retains it
complete and unaltered public house facade. Glazed tiles and polychrome terracotta adorn the front and the almost symmetrical 2-window street front is surmounted by a stilted triangular pediment with scrolled abutments and ball finials. The original name panel MARKET INN to centre of frieze flanked by blind arcades. Listed in 1993 as a Grade II building by English Heritage.
The Market Inn, Truro, Cornwall.
The earliest parts of the Church of England parish church of St Mary the Virgin are 11th-century Saxon or Saxo-Norman, and the remainder of the building is 12th-century Norman. New windows were inserted in the chancel in the 13th century and in the nave in the 14th century.The west tower was rebuilt about 1600. The east window of the chancel was inserted in 1638 but is significantly older, having been transferred to its present position from the manor house. The church contains a series of monumental brasses to members of the Barttelot family:three pairs from the 15th century and one set from the early 17th century. The church is a Grade I listed building.
The Church of Edward the Confessor
Situated in the Market Place, Romford, RM1 3AB. The earliest known house of worship was built in 1177 and was known as St Andrew’s Chapel. This building was demolished in the 14th century after many years of neglect. A new church was erected towards the end of the 14th century and completed in 1410. This was dedicated to The Virgin Mary and Edward the Confessor. Originally built with a Nave, a Chancel and extended North Aisle. It also featured a brick tower for five bells. Later a gallery was built for a charity for orphaned children. In 1710 it was renamed St Edward’s School and was later moved to another part of Market Place in 1728.
The church building was still in use but again fell into disrepair then work on a new church on the same site was started in 1844 and in 1849 the last service was held in the old church, then it was demolished. Only Blore’s chapel remained and was used as a burial yard until 1953, when this was also demolished.
The new building was consecrated in 1850 by Bishop of Rochester, George Murray. He was resident of Danbury Palace, Danbury, Essex. Architect John Johnson designed the church (he also designed Alexandra Palace). The church was designed in ‘Gothic Style’ and built from Kentish ragstone, it also used materials from John Nash’s in Regent Street. There are many carved heads situated in the church and this is thought to be the explanation of their being there.
It did suffer some war damage, but only minor. The biggest loss was the bells were used in the war effort and in 1944 a set of chime bells and an electric clock were installed.
Since then, major renovation work was completed in1988 and again in 1992. A new organ was installed in 1979 and in 2001 a statue of Edward the confessor was installed in the main porch.
Legend
There is a legend that the name Havering, a district close by to Romford, was named after a connection to Edward the Confessor and St John the apostle in the form of a ring. This was commemorated in a stain glass window of 1407, in the old chapel. I believe that this window does not exist now but a more modern one was installed in 1850 the 600th anniversary of the church.
This is the third and final of three postings.