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(Continuation. See the texts of the earliest images of this series).
As said Russian writer Irina Govorukha, war is crazy gal and if we wouldn’t manage to stop her, she’ll stop us all, and pretty soon.
Beautiful model, my good friend and sister in arts – Irinka, @kraskivrukah on Insta. Yesterday we made another collab, which is more about unbelievable fragile beauty of peace. This is the main theme of my newest work in progress. I feel that to show this is as important in our common anti-war, as to show the horrors of war. How do you think?
To be continued…
The earliest mention of the settlement dates back to 1028. Amersfoort has come up with a forthe or crossing of the river Eem.
When the settlement arose, the Eem made is thought to be an eastward turn. That curve would now still be found in the course of Zuidsingel and Havik.
The ford was probably at the Havik. There crossed the Bloemendalsestraat - as part of an old north-south route - the river Eem. Havik canal was excavated in early 1200.
This is what we saw during our Bicycle tours in the Netherlands, where we have cycled through the beautiful landscape.
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(Continuation. Please see the texts of the earliest images of this series – my “letters from the other side”).
I’ve thought of uploading this photo in the morning instead of in the nowhere at the night but that’s the Green Corn Moon, the last supermoon of the year after all. Right after that I decided to start uploading the next project with the same character, our Alice, who, as it seems, grow up a bit (which is the most natural thing for Alice, as we know). The title of this newest unfinished project is “She could move herself all the way” («Она может двигать собой»), which is my very approximate translation of the quote of the song “She could move” («Она может двигать») of our legendary group Aquarium (Аквариум). That quote is very probably the English calque, maybe the literal translation of some Dylan’s or Bolan’s or some other’s song, but I couldn’t find the original. So be it. I have such a lot to share with you, but I’ll rather not make it the longread. See you soon with rather different Alice.
To be continued…
Lahore Fort started life as a defensive wall on the banks of River Ravi by the earliest settlers who founded Lahore. It was attacked, damaged, demolished, and rebuilt into various structures several times over, until it acquired its present general form under Emperor Akbar in 1566. Succeeding emperors, Sikh conquerors, and British colonists used the fort as the seat of their governance, and added their architectural influences to the citadel to give it its present configuration.
This pavilion was built by Emperor Shah Jehan in 1663, who also built the Taj Mahal in Agra. It is reportedly called Naulakha because it cost 900,000 rupees to build, and the number 900,000 in Urdu language is "Nau Lakh." The Emperor spent time here when he was in Lahore, and was entertained from the large court yard that the structure overlooks.
For more detailed information on the Naulakha, please see: www.dawn.com/news/1195182
For more detailed information on Lahore Fort, please see: sites.ualberta.ca/~rnoor/lahore_fort.html, and
Some of my earliest childhood memories are of this place.
When my children were young I brought them here and once or twice we made it to the top of the peak in the distance.
The views are wonderful on a clear day.
I love hiking along rivers and this is one of my favorites.
The source of the river Tawe in the Brecon Beacons National Park. It oozes out of the peat bogs up above and it is just cascade after cascade of small waterfalls no more than two of three metres high. This is just one of many.
At the top under the escarpment is a glacial moraine lake, Llyn y Fan Fawr, invisible from the road. You have to make the climb to see it.
The peak above is Fan Brycheiniog at 802.5 metres (2,633 ft), it's a bit more of a challenge than the lake though.
A famous pure-white Laelia anceps! One of the earliest recorded alba form Laelia anceps, and renowned in breeding for its pure-white progeny. Temperature Tolerant. November blooming. Species from Mexico.
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Built in 1882, this 1,040 square house stands in one of Winnipeg's earliest housing developments. Few houses are left in this industrial area. Bay windows seem to be quite prevalent in the original houses in the area.
Bean Station is a town in Grainger and Hawkins counties established in 1776 as a frontier outpost by William Bean and is considered one of the earliest permanently settled communities in Tennessee. The Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) flooded much of this area in the 1940's to create the Cherokee Reservoir. The Veterans Overlook Memorial is dedicated to the Grainger County veterans and all veterans who served. Print Size 13x19 inches.
Thank you all who served.
The earliest one of the year, taken near Hollins Cross on the Great Ridge with Lose hill pike in the distance.
Peak District National park.
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The music of Iran has thousands of years of history , as seen in the archeological documents of Elam, one of the earliest world culture, which was located in southwestern Iran.
Major instruments:
Harp , Taar , Ney and....were such as the most ancient instruments and Instruments used in Persian classical music include the bowed spike-fiddle kamancheh, the goblet drum tombak, the end-blown flute ney, the
frame drum daf, the long-necked lutes tar, setar, tanbur, dotar, and the dulcimer santur and ..... The ordinary violin is also used, with an alternative tuning preferred by Persian musicians.
Radif is a collection of many old melodic figures preserved through many generations by oral tradition many types of radif and avaz that still remained are as follows:
Dastgah-e Shur
Avaz-e Dashti
Avaz-e Abu'ata
Avaz-e Bayat-e Tork
Avaz-e Afshari
Dastgah-e Homayoun
Avaz-e Bayat-e Esfahan
Dastgah-e Segah
Dastgah-e Chahargah
Dastgah-e Rastpanjgah
Dastgah-e Mahur
Dastgah-e Nava
Dance :
Ceremonial dances: 1- Bazmi(Special dance for parties and celebrations) 2-Razmi(Martial dances)
Ritual and religious (the oldest dancing in Iran such as Manichaeism,and Daravish dances)
Ethnic and Folk dances:Bandari , Bojnurdi , Khaliji , Khorasani , Lori , Mazandarani , Qasemabadi , Kurdish (Kordi) , Azari , Torkamani and.... are main parts of family groups folks dancing in Iran
موزیک و رقص تاریخی چند هزار ساله در ایران دارد و از قدیمیترین مدارک در مورد موسیقی از دوران عیلام باستان میشود نام برد
از قدیمیترین سازها در ایران باستان میشود چنگ و نی و تار و....اشاره کرد و از سازهای کلاسیک ایرانی میشود به کمانچه و تنبک و دف و تار و ستار و سنتور و نوعی ساده از ساز ویالون اشاره کرد..سازها در ایران باستان بسیار گسترده بودند ولی بخشی از این سازها بعد از دوران
ساسانیان از موسیقی ایران حدف شدند و حتی به نام کشورهای دیگر ثبت شدند که میشود از میان آنان سازهای قانون و رباب و چنگ و عود را نام برد
موسیقی سنتی ایران شامل هفت دستگاه و پنج آواز است (البته ابن دستگاهها و آوازها باقیمانده تعداد بیشتری از دستگاهها و آوازها بودند و بسیاری در طول تاریخ حذف شده اند). هفت دستگاه ردیف موسیقی سنتی ایرانی عبارتاند از:
دستگاه شور
دستگاه سهگاه
دستگاه چهارگاه
دستگاه همایون
دستگاه ماهور
دستگاه نوا
دستگاه راستپنجگاه
آوازها : دشتی . ابوعطا . بیات ترک . افشاری . دشتی . بیات اصفهانی
خوشبختانه ردیف های موسیقی ایران امسال ثبت جهانی شدند
رقص: گروههای اصلی رقص در ایران شامل تاریخی . سنتی .مذهبی . تشریفاتی و رقصهای قومی و محلی ایران هستند
رقصهای تشریفاتی شامل رقصهای رزمی و بزمی میشدند
رقصهای مذهبی ریشه در تاریخ دارد ولی از معروفترین آنان رقص مانویان که مادر رقص دراویش بوده و رقص دراویش رو نام برد
رقصهای محلی و سنتی ایران که بسیار گسترده و زیبا هستند و میشود از میان آنان رقص های بندری و بجنوردی و خلیجی و لری و مازندرانی و قاسم آبادی و کردی و آذری و ترکمنی و رقص شمشیر و رقص پارچه......رو نام برد
One of my earliest memories is of being on holiday here.
My father teaching me to skip stones right at this spot.
Nothing has changed in fifty years, thank goodness.....
The lake was still as I remembered it, like glass.
We stayed at the Pen-y-Bont hotel, the old 16th century coaching Inn right behind where I'm standing.
Llyn Mwyngil, at Tal-y-llyn.
God help any child skipping stones here with a photographer around, although it probably is the best place in the world for skipping stones :-)
Polarising filter only!
Old stone country inn was built in 1865 along Mission Creek where wagons could ford the stream (about 15 miles southwest of Topeka, Kansas). In 1878 the inn was expanded to also serve as a layover station for the Southwestern Stage Company. The building served as an inn, post office and eating establishment. The grounds included a livery, corral and blacksmith shop. The inn's owner was Alfred Sage, but it is thought that Mark Sage was the stone mason. The inn is an excellent example of vernacular architecture. Many of the earliest buildings in Kansas were made of native limestone.
Earliest ever FOY, documented today March 5, 2023
Typically a migrant from southern states usually arriving in late May. Did he arrive so early or survive winter here?
First sighting in 2022 on May 29th.
Waterloo is Britain’s largest and busiest station.
From
www.networkrail.co.uk/who-we-are/our-history/iconic-infra...
Waterloo Station was opened in 1848 by the London & South Western Railway as part of extending the line two miles to be nearer the city. This original station, known as ‘central station’, had six platforms.
From its very earliest days the station was popular with race goers travelling to Epsom; the original station opening in 1848 was brought forward a week to enable passengers to travel to the Derby by rail for the first time.
Through the remainder of the 19th century, Waterloo was extended in an ad-hoc way to cope with demand. In 1860 the ‘Windsor station’ was opened on the north-west side of the original central platforms. In 1878 Waterloo gained an additional two platforms on the south-east side for mainline suburban trains in an extension known as the ‘south station’. In 1885 the ‘north’ station was opened, adding a further six platforms bringing the total at Waterloo to eighteen.
It was however a confusing station for passengers with platforms divided between four different sections of the station, unclear platform numbering, four areas which were classed as concourses and poor information displays. There were significant delays to services as the whole station was served by just four approach lines, and difficult ticketing arrangements with rival railway companies such as the South Eastern Railway did not help.
A new station is designed
In 1899 London & South Western Railway (as the London & Southampton had become) sought permission to completely rebuild and expand the station. The Company sent its chief engineer J W Jacomb-Hood to America to gather information on termini buildings to assist its redesign.
Over twenty years as building work took place, Waterloo became a spacious station with a large open concourse. With 21 platforms under a huge ridge-and-furrow roof it became light and airy compared to the dark maze it once was. Widely praised for its architecture, the new curved building to the front of the station housed the LSWR’s offices and facilities for passengers including a large booking hall and upstairs dining room which were simple and elegant with Georgian style panelling in the dining room and Edwardian decoration in the bars.
The Victory Arch
As the station rebuild was drawing to a close, and as a memorial to their staff that died in the First World War, the LSWR commissioned the Victory Arch; designed by J R Scott, their chief architect and made of Portland stone and bronze it depicts War and Peace, with Britannia holding the torch of liberty above. Leading from Station Approach onto the concourse, the Victory Arch forms the main entrance to Waterloo.
International rail services
Waterloo remained largely unchanged until early 1990s when platforms 20 and 21 were demolished to make way for Waterloo International. Opened in 1994 this was the terminus for Eurostar services running through the new Channel Tunnel. However on completion of the new high speed line in 2007, Eurostar services were taken instead to St Pancras and the international platforms at Waterloo closed.
In July 2012 a first-floor balcony opened at Waterloo to help reduce congestion at the station in time for the London Olympic Games. Space has been created for passengers on the concourse by repositioning shops from the middle of the main concourse onto the balcony. With new escalators and lifts Waterloo station now provides step-free access to its neighbouring station, Waterloo East.
Did you know?
Waterloo provided the terminus of the London Necropolis Company. Opened in 1854, the small, private station was designed to accommodate mourners and hold funeral services before coffins were transported for burial at Brookwood Cemetery in Surrey.
The original station building was demolished in 1902 to make way for the expansion of Waterloo; its successor was destroyed during an air raid in 1941 and never rebuilt.
One of my earliest memories of birds concerns Eiders. I remember my parents telling me that my eiderdown was filled with feathers from Eiders, and I remember looking the species up in my bird books. I also remember my Dad telling me a knock-knock joke; Eider who? Eider ducked if I was you, as he swung his hand to tap my head. The name Eider first appeared in 1655 in the book Museum Wormianum by the Danish naturalist Ole Worm (pronounced Vurm) (1588-1654). Eider was his Danish phonetic spelling of an old Icelandic word for this duck which meant down bird, referring to the soft plumage. Their feathers have incredible properties for trapping warm air and nesting females pluck down from their breast and belly to line their nest. These plucked feathers have traditionally been harvested to put in "Eiderdowns" though we now call them duvets. The French name for these ducks is Eider à duvet, and duvet also means down. According to Stephen Moss there are tens of thousands of tonnes of goose down sold worldwide for duvets, pillows and coats, but the entire annual production of Eider down would fit into a single truck. I'm wondering whether my childhood Eiderdown really did contain genuine Eider down. Its scientific name Somateria mollissima also refers to its downy plumage. Somateria means woolly body and mollissima means very soft. I photographed this totally wild male on the Northumberland coast.
1913 Type 22 Bugatti Torpedo raceabout. The earliest Bugatti I have ever seen, and restored better, I suspect, than original.....and I approve. Exquisite car and engine, and this is the first time I have uploaded 2 images at once.
Ettore Bugatti was born in Milan, Italy, and the automobile company that bears his name was founded in 1909 in Molsheim located in the Alsace region which was part of the German Empire from 1871 to 1919. So the very Italian, self taught engineering magician, from a very artistic family, started his operation in a German province, that was ceded to France after WW I, and became a quintessential French aristocratic Autocrat (dictator in his small world) When he died in 1947, the company died with him,though they did make a feeble attempt to survive through 1950 with a new model. Only 8,000 cars were made in that just over 40 years, so each is very precious. Enjoy this enlarged for details, and the details of the engine in the next image.
I am a bit pre-occupied with the fire in Sonoma County, which is currently only about 6 miles from my place. We were 'prescient' in evacuating to Mexico a week and 1/2 before the actual evacuation order. The Morgan is probably safe at the British Garage where it is getting some repairs, but we may return to????a moon scape.
I had better go find the Tequila....just a sip......or 2.......sigh .
I couldn't do anything if I was there, but run for my life, so I am in a que sera sera realistic mood. The fire can't burn our memories.
The stone circle at Castlerigg is situated near Keswick in Cumbria and is one of around 1,300 stone circles in the British Isles and Brittany. It was constructed as a part of a megalithic tradition that lasted from 3,300 to 900 BC, during the Late Neolithic and Early Bronze Ages. This circle was probably constructed around 3200 BC, making it one of the earliest stone circles in Britain and possibly in Europe.
Various archaeologists have commented positively on the beauty and romance of the Castlerigg ring and its natural environment. In his study of the stone circles of Cumbria, archaeologist John Waterhouse commented that the site was "one of the most visually impressive prehistoric monuments in Britain."
Source: Wikipedia.
The Shot
One of my earliest attempts at Star Trails was taken from this crater in Lanzarote last year. Then there was a high wind and quite a few clouds around. This time it was a crystal clear sky with little wind. Another difference was using the fisheye lens to get more of the Crater Rim in the image which I think gives a more dramatic look
This was taken from the floor of the crater Montana Cuervo near Masdache, Lanzarote. It is not as well visited as many places on the Island. It requires an easy 20 minute flat walk on a footpath from the road to the base of the Crater. Round the right hand side there is a great gash in the Crater wall permitting easy access to the crater floor. There are large numbers of rocks scattered across the Crater floor.
I used my Interval Timer and set the camera at ISO 200 and bulb and the timer at 2 minutes at f3.5. I set the timer for 1 hour 45 minutes but did not use the last 30 minutes due to condensation on the lens building up. This is a really big advantage of blending a number of exposures for Star Trails rather than one long exposure.
I locked the Tripod in one place, well pushed the legs down in the regolith. The foreground image was taken as an HDR while there was still some light. With the camera in the came place the star trail images were started when it was dark enough. The final blended star trails image was pasted as a selection into the HDR landscape.
Full details of the processing together with before and after images and more information about taking Star Trails images are on my Blog see Edwin Jones Photography Blog
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One of my earliest memories is of my mother singing the song, Mamma to me. The lyrics 'quanto ti volgio bene' is a deep expression of love. These two at Henley Beach reminded me of the love I have with my mother.
Il Volo - Mamma www.youtube.com/watch?v=kmYhux9AKqs
Snow fell for about 15 minutes this morning (March 23) and now the sun is shining. This is one of the earliest blooming plants in my flower garden after Canby's desert parsley and about the same time as the earliest daffodils. IMG_3126
Almost 1500 years ago in 540, one of the earliest Christian settlements in Ireland was founded by St Finnian at Movilla. Local tradition claims that St Columba attended the abbey as a student. While there is little trace of the first abbey which was destroyed when the Vikings invaded and plundered the area in the 9th Century, it has continued to be a place of pilgrimage for succeeding generations.
In 1244, the Dominicans visited the area and built a priory. Each year within the remains of that priory in Court Street, present day parishioners meet on or near St Columba's Day in June. On that site, the small Church of Ireland community worshipped in the 18th Century. However, the building was insufficient to meet the needs of a growing population.
In 1817, St Mark's Parish Church was built. Forty years later, the north aisle was added, increasing seating capacity to over 650 people. In 1992 extensive repairs were carried out, and some changes made to the interior of the parish church, including the creation of St Columba's Chapel.
The south façade is an outstanding example of Strawberry Hill Gothic architecture. Much of the restoration work in the past four years has concentrated on this area of the church, which contains rare examples of medieval stained glass.
This may be one of the earliest digital photos I ever took. ALthough I had the camera in 2000, I wasn't as active since I was still working. However, Alex, our Cairn, and I did go for his demanded three walks a day. Anyway, this was taken with my Olympus C300Z Digital 20 years ago May!
I still have the camera and just had to check: sure enough, I could set speed, aperture, even exposure bias. Not only could I, I did. Btw, all things considered, it was one of the best closeup cameras I've ever had! (I've had better lenses, but they cost more than my entire equipment I use today.)
This photo was taken at Heather Farm Rose Garden in Walnut Creek, California. The software use I believe was what came either with this camera or one of the first "high end" software packages called Thumbs Plus. Imagine that the last software I had that allowed for diptychs was free with the first Canon digital camera's software.
I have the distinct impression that the concept of "end user" died in 2005.
My earliest tulips this spring are from previous plantings that my husband thought he had moved—but the ones he missed are coming up between the flagstones and this one that barely made it from beneath the garden bench!
One of the earliest MK3 Escorts I have spotted in recent times. Despite it looking worse for wear, I have no doubt that an enthusiast would pay a fair amount for the car, as values of old Fords have gone through the roof in the past few years. With it parked next to a busy main road, I can only imagine that the owner has had a fair few people asking if it is for sale, but only to be turned away. I have no doubt that the car is being kept for sentimental purposes.
Mileage in between MOTs - Unknown
Mileage at last MOT - Unknown
Last Ownership Change - 29th July 1999
XLM 661X
✓ SORN
MOT
No details held by DVLA
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White Peacock, Anartia jatrophae. We had gone directly to the butterfly pavilion when the botanic garden opened. This was about the earliest light we could manage, hoping to catch the butterflies before they had warmed up and become active.
Even so, as I was pressing the shutter, that other anartia snugged up behind the one I had been focusing upon. A couple snaps later, both had flown to other bushes.
Happy Wing Wednesday.
Some sunset colors in one of the earliest sunsets in Madrid, Spain.
This handheld photography was taken on last Thursday´s evening at 17:51.
Residential buildings in the new urban development of Valdebebas.
Best viewed large.
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Algunos colores al atardecer en uno de los más tempranos atardeceres en Madrid.
Esta foto a pulso fue tomada el pasado jueves a las 17:51.
Edificios residenciales en el nuevo desarrollo urbanístico de Valdebebas.
Mejor visualizar en grande.
The earliest recorded visit to this area was made by settler William Collins in 1804 when exploring the Port in the ship "Lady Nelson". He was particularly impressed by the South Esk and its cataract and wrote, "Upon approaching the entrance I observed a large fall of water over rocks, nearly a quarter of a mile up a straight gully between perpendicular rocks about 150 ft high.
The beauty of the scene is probably not surpassed in the world". For the early development of this resort we are indebted to a private organization call The Launceston City and Suburbs Improvement Association, formed in December 1899. This body undertook to construct an access along the Cataract Gorge, which took eight years to complete. In 1940, a suspension bridge was constructed across the South Esk River at the head of the First Basin to connect the two sides of the River area.
One of my earliest images when I got started in landscape photography about 5 years ago, and still one of the most astonishing sunsets I've seen in Washington's Skagit Valley. When I got to this daffodil field the sky was one big mass of grey clouds. I almost packed up and left, but decided to stick it out to see what would happen. Then about half an hour before sunset the sky started to open up and the colors just exploded. I just love that warm light raking across the rows of daffodils, and the backlit glow of each individual flower.
PARAGNEISSES OF ASSUMED EARLIEST PROTEROZOIC AGE intermediate to mafic volcanites and terrigenous
sediments metamorphosed up to amphibolite facias/
metamorphosed up to granulite facies and partly an atectic" -
www.ngu.no/filearchive/NGUPublikasjoner/Bulletin427_33-36...
my lichen photos by genus - www.flickr.com/photos/29750062@N06/collections/7215762439...
my photos arranged by subject, e.g. mountains - www.flickr.com/photos/29750062@N06/collections
The best known kind of event horizon is that of black holes - one of the earliest fruits of Einstein's General relativity, due to brilliant work by Karl Schwarzschild in 1916. A black hole's horizon is a boundary in spacetime from which no signal or radiation can come out to affect an external observer. Put in a simpler way: no light, radio waves, or any other kind of radiation emitted from inside the event horizon can ever hope to escape from it, because in that region the black hole's gravitational pull is so strong that not even light (travelling at the craziest possible speed in the whole universe) can overcome it. So the event horizon is what makes the hole, well... black. Incidentally, I would slightly prefer something like "not-even-black hole", but I suspect that this term would not stick ;-)*
Of course, this narrative is not about black holes - the direct observation of the immediate environment of a black hole with angular resolution comparable to the event horizon is one of the Holy Grails of astrophysics - but I felt the need to attempt and clarify a bit what the concept means.
I was at Cala de la Vinyeta in Calella, as in my previous upload, Primeval light. No black holes there, but a pretty unremarkable, middle-aged yellow star some 4.5 billion years old - yet our most precious friend for a whole lot of reasons.
I was fairly sure that the sun was still below the horizon, as my watch suggested; but the cliff enclosing the Eastern end of the cove hid the very point of the horizon from which the Sun would have risen. I perceived that looming bulk of rosy rocks - would-be rosy sand in a handful of centuries - as an event horizon effectively keeping out of my view the focal point of the approaching sunrise. I decided not to mind the thing - who knows, I thought, sometimes one discover unexpected treasures just out of the trodden track... Moreover, I would not waste precious minutes in tentatively looking for another pov - since, I knew, there are further rocks beyond the cliff.
As the radiance beyond the cliff was growing more and more in the cloudless sky, I began to feel thankful to my personal event horizon for shading my camera from the intense glow :-) So I happily took my exposure bracketing to be processed with luminosity masks and went on enjoying my photographic session.
I am not happy with some parts of this shot - mainly the sea - but I like the glorious glow beyond the cliff, hinting to the hidden sunrise without revealing it. This is the common thread of this series from Cala de la Vinyeta.
* Hope that Hawking will forgive my omission of the radiation named after him, which, however, is produced at the event horizon - so effectively endowing black holes with a temperature, if not with colour.
Earliest mention of the Langegracht was 1411. Together with the Kortegracht both forms, aligned with each other, the right main drainage canals of the valley- / Veluwe water to the Eem.
The skippers of Waterline Amersfoort sail with much enthusiasm about the beautiful canals of the historic city and tell you all kinds of interesting facts along the way.
This is what we saw during our Bicycle tours in the Netherlands, where we have cycled through the beautiful landscape.
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The earliest mention of St Margaret Lothbury is from 1185. The church was destroyed in the Great Fire of London in 1666 and rebuilt by the office of Sir Christopher Wren from 1686 to 1690.
The church has exceptionally fine 17th-century woodwork from other now-demolished Wren churches. Among the best are the reredos, communion rails and baptismal font, which are thought to be by Grinling Gibbons from St Olave, Old Jewry, the pulpit sounding board and the rood screen from All-Hallows-the-Great. Two paintings of Moses and Aaron flank the high altar, and came from St Christopher le Stocks when it was demolished in 1781. The organ was built by George Pike England in 1801. It was restored in 1984, stands in its original case and contains nearly all its original pipework.
Pilot Mountain, a metamorphic quartzite monadnock rising to a peak 2,421 feet . It is a remnant of the ancient chain of Sauratown Mountains, NC. The Saura Native Americans, the region's earliest known inhabitants, called the mountain "Jomeokee", meaning "great guide❤️
(Hurray! The first posting and shot of 2024! My summer starts here!)
Never a castle in the true sense, this one tower is the only survivor of the original four that marked the corners of a once large and fashionable house that was begun in 1498. It is the earliest brick building in north Oxfordshire.
The house originally surrounded a large courtyard with a tower on each corner, although some believe the plan was U shaped with the eastern side unenclosed. Despite being of sound construction and by all contemporary accounts well maintained, the rest of the building was demolished for no apparent reason in 1770.
Behind the house are a series of landscaped fishponds descending the valley and the grounds now house the Hanwell Community Observatory founded in 1992. A private house, the grounds and observatory are open occasionally to the public.
Hanwell is a surprisingly pretty and unspoilt village, but over the last decade or so 'Poundbury' style large housing developments have crept ever closer from nearby Banbury, the edge of which is now only a large field away.
The medieval market cross (earliest parts 14th century - and a good place to sit and have a pasty whilst looking at the OS map app and checking your route for the next walk!) and its top restored in 1878; no doubt having been knocked off by the Puritans in the 16/17th century.
Until then it had been fitted with a gas lamp. (actually a very good idea.)
Stow-on-the-Wold's marketplace is generally regarded as the most picturesque in the Cotswolds, but sadly as most are, now basically a car-park.
This is one of the few angles that that is not swamped with cars.
The picturesque King's Arms, although the interior is disappointingly bland and opened up, knocked through as they used to say, probably in the late 60's/70's without even a spectacular fireplace as one would expect.
If you want a traditional, chatty, old fashioned market town pub, I would recommend the Queen's Arms on the opposite corner of the marketplace.
But at least the King's Arms has retained its charming handwritten signage, unlike that clumsy, ugly one of the new pet store next door.
Time to revue the 2019 Wild Orchid season here in Kent. One of the many highlights within the county are the Early Spider Orchids on and around the White Cliffs. Its a small community, orchid enthusiasts in Kent and the news on the jungle drums were these beautiful orchids were yet to bloom. There is one small area tucked away under the reflective chalk cliffs which has it's own protected micro-climate, where the Early Spiders open at their earliest. So, off we went and were not disappointed to find a small number of open orchids whilst around the more open spaces only rosettes were visible. However, we would be back to see the natural spectacle of these gorgeous little orchids in the main opening season. Ophrys sphegodes.
The earliest record from 1137 gives the owner of the estate as Lambert de Scoteni. Roger Ashburnham is credited with building the castle c.1378-80.
Construction of the castle began as a roughly rectangular fortified house with towers in each corner. The original plan may never have been finished, and by 1558 it is likely only the southern tower remained. In 1580 the south wing was rebuilt in Elizabethan architecture style, and around 1630 the eastern range was rebuilt in three story Inigo Jones style. The Elizabethan wing remained a bailiff's residence until 1905, but the eastern range was partly dismantled on the completion of the new house in 1843, leaving the ruin as a garden feature.
(Continuation. Please see the texts of the earliest images of this series – my “letters from the other side”).
Time to introduce the new hero, I thought, contemplating the activity on the previous photo of this series. In it I wrote the letter which I myself singled out from many others. But it seems that it somehow fell through the cracks (or maybe not?). (By the way, though I’m not only speak English, but think English from time to time, I learned it all by myself and so could make mistakes. If you’ll see some, please, let me know!)
And we need action, of course. So, there’s the action: I created the new group, Art work for peace, and already invited as much of you as I could and continue to do so. The art moves in mysterious ways, and I hope that it could cross the ways of the war. Also, I invented the hashtag #artworkforpeace . At least it wasn’t on Flickr yet. Ow, it was on insta already. Good. Because I believe in the power of the collective action. And in doing the things in which you’re good. And the things which you’re really want to do. A lot of freedom in it. Though I really-really want to write about something else than this disgraceful nightmare war. But couldn’t yet.
To be continued…
The former Landowner’s Castle surrounded by town-wall and the moat is situated in the north-western corner of the inner city. In the Castle Courtyard, the earliest remnants of the former pile-dwelling were found. After the Siege by the Tatars in mid-13th century, they started to build this lower castle in the valley beside the settlement. This lower castle substituted the former upper castle’s role in the middle age, as the upper old castle was too complicate to be approached for trade and administration.
The castle have two distinct parts: the Outer and the Inner Castle. The guards and the service personnel of the castle was settled in the buildings of the Outer Castle. At the end of the 13th Century its owner was the Heder family. Prince Habsburg Albert took the castle in 1289. Andrew III, the last king of the Hungarian Arpad House ruined the upper old castle int he Kőszeg hills, according to the terms of the Hainburg treaty.
In 1327 the Anjou king Carlo Roberto took the castle from the family Kőszegi after harsh years of fightings. He gave strong royal privilages to the town after his victory. Town walls with strong towers were built protecting Kőszeg against the onslaughts of the Austrians. The water of the river Güns (Gyöngyös) was directed into the moats around the castle walls. The castle went to the Garai family in 1392, then to the Habsburg family until the renessiance Hungarian King Mathias Corvinus took it back in 1482. The Habsburgs took Kőszeg again after the death of Mathias in 1492.
The most wellknown Siege of Kőszeg happened in 1532, when the Ottoman Sultan Suleiman attacked Kőszeg fiercly with his 80 thousands soldiers on his way to Wien. The Captain and Protector of the Castle, Nikolaus Jurisich has its sculpture today in the outer courtyard. Even today, there is a festive 11 o’clock bell-ring in Kőszeg conmemorating the ending of the month-long, unsuccessful Ottoman Siege in 1532.
A brick bridge over the moat leads us to the inner castle. Just next to the gate we can find the traditional herb-garden of the castle, together with a smal handicraft shop, the Nature Shop where one can buy the traditional products of the Kőszeg region and the Írottkő Nature Park. A nicely planned inner court receives us behind the gates. A rich Castle Exchibition is located in the southern and eastern wings. Centuries of Kőszeg exhibition, the Royal Crown Room, the Golden Room and Armoury awaits the visitors. The renessiance corridor and the Cavalier’s Room gives place to numerous cultural events and to various art exchibitions.
Avebury Manor
The earliest parts of the present house were probably built after Sir William Dunch of Little Wittenham in Berkshire (now Oxfordshire) purchased the estate in 1551. It was some way from most of his lands which centred on Wittenham, but he appears to have purchased it because of an interest in ancient monuments such as the Avebury Stone Circles. In the 1580s, he passed it on to his younger son, Walter Dunch. The latter's daughter, Deborah, Lady Moody, grew up at the manor before emigrating to America and founding Gravesend in Brooklyn in 1645. In 1787 Sir William Hallett of Morning Walk fame, bought the estate along with Faringdon House Berkshire. The house has had many extensions and changes over the centuries, the final addition to the manor is the West Library. The library was added by the Jenner family who occupied the house in the early 20th Century.
Earliest light begins to creep over the mountains edge to paint the mountains on the western side of the lake.
Yoldath Aloho (Meryem Ana) is an 8th century Syrian Orthodox church near Mardin, Southeast Turkey. The church is a blend of Byzantine, Georgian and Armenian Church architecture and is one of the earliest surviving and still functioning monastic churches of the world. It is part of the UNESCO designated Late Antique and Medieval Churches and Monasteries of Midyat.
They are one of the earliest of summer migrants to arrive in Britain and I have sometimes seen them with snow on the ground during March. They nest colonially in river banks or sand quarries and dig holes up to a metre deep. They can dig about 8 to 10cm a day, but are happy to use a nest hole dug a previous year. In America this same species is known as Bank Swallow, and its scientific name (Riparia riparia) means "of the river bank". Their populations are depleted in Britain and across Europe partly because of our tendency to stabilise river banks, as it is unstable eroding banks that are the preferred nesting habitat of these birds. But this is a good news story as they started nesting in a sand pile in a busy works yard. I was really worried that the nests would be destroyed as they used the sand but no, they put barriers around the sand pile saying that it had to be left alone while the Sand Martins were nesting. And they were still present yesterday.
I have photographed flying Sand Martins from below but I think this is my first photo showing the plain brown upperparts. Not as pretty as its two cousins (Swallow and House Martin) but still a great bird to photograph.
The earliest church on the site was probably built in the 8th century, by the monk Serapion. The extant edifice dates from the early years of the 14th century.
After the Ottoman conquest of the area later in the 16th century, the monastery was abandoned and lay in disrepair until the early 20th century, when it was reconstructed, but some of the unique characteristics of the design were lost in the process.
One of my earliest memories – almost 70 years old - is of Mom bringing in fresh bottles of milk left on the front porch by the milkman. We lived on a dirt road miles outside of town and with 4 little kids and no car this service was considered a necessity.
I went to one of the older neighborhoods in town today to get some shots of historic buildings for today’s theme. I changed my mind about my subject when I happened upon a milk delivery, just like we had 70 years ago! I did not know you could still get milk delivered - in re-usable glass bottles, no less!
Chickens first came to Hawaii with the earliest Polynesian settlers. Then, even more arrived during Hawaii’s plantation days. As the sugar plantations closed down, many chickens were released into the Hawaii wild. Many residents will tell you that Hawaii chickens really grew in numbers with hurricanes [1982 (Iwa) and 1992 (Iniki)], as these disasters allowed for their escape. And, since the islands don’t have snakes and other typical predators, Hawaii chickens enjoy a relatively safe life. Of course, that doesn’t mean they don’t meet their fate at the hands of some local wildlife, many cars, and other unfortunate circumstances. It’s also widely accepted that these feral chickens don’t taste good at all, so they are rarely captured for eating or egg laying.
www.hawaii-aloha.com/blog/there-be-chickens/
-- Technical Information (or Nerdy Stuff) --
‧ Camera - Nikon D7200 (handheld)
‧ Lens – Nikkor 18-300mm Zoom
‧ ISO – 500
‧ Aperture – f/5.6
‧ Exposure – 1/400 second
‧ Focal Length – 145mm
The original RAW file was processed with Adobe Camera Raw and final adjustments were made with Photoshop CS6.
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