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Out walking in one of my favourite places today to take advantage of one of the last really warm days of the year.
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This Cemetery is a combined municipal and military burial ground situated in the coastal town of Deal, Kent, in South East England. Opened in May 1856, it was created to provide a new burial ground for Deal at a time when its general population was expanding and when previous, often ad hoc facilities for dealing with deaths in the area no longer sufficed.
The cemetery's civilian burials are managed by Dover Council, and its military burials by the Commonwealth War Graves Commission. It contains a Cross of Sacrifice of some significance and the burials of military service personnel from Great Britain, Belgium, Canada, and, very unusually, Nazi Germany, many of whom took part in some of the most famous incidents in World War I and World War II, including: the Gallipoli Campaign, the Battle of the Somme, the 1918 Zeebrugge Raid, the Battle of Dunkirk, the Battle of the Denmark Strait and sinking of HMS Hood, the Battle of Britain, and the more modern tragedy of the Deal barracks bombing in September 1989.
It also contains 66 local civilian war dead from World War II killed by German bombing and shelling between 1940 and 1945, 127 military burials from World War I (including three unidentified Naval ratings), and 54 from World War II.
There is a small mortuary chapel associated with the cemetery, but no dedicated church as such.
I didn’t get the opportunity to visit the military war graves but hope to go back This is the Chapel building
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I just love how this abstract one turned out! A macro shot of oil in water with a coloured background placed underneath the bowl of water!
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Kruispoort, Brugge
Kruispoort or "Cross Gate" is the best preserved among Brugge's medieval gates. It was erected around 1297 when a second city wall was built around the city. At first, there were eight gates that served as entrances to the city of which only four survive today. The present Kruispoort is not the original one but a structure constructed in 1402. In the 1780s, the city walls were demolished as Brugge started expanding. Four of the gates were left intact to give visitors an idea of how heavily fortified Brugge was in the middle ages.
Kruispoort consists of two tall towers connected by an overhead passage. The passage and the towers have windows through which bullets were fired at the enemy. Initially, there were two bridges and a front gate that have disappeared over time. A drawbridge and two large doors were quickly closed as soon as guards could see the enemy approaching. The interior is preserved in its original condition and visitors can see the seats of the guards on each floor. Holy Roman Emperor Charles V, Napoleon, and the German army all entered Brugge through Kruispoort. The gate looks magnificent at night when it is illuminated.
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I had this odd notion that when I retire I would carve a totem pole, and so over the years, I learned more and more about northwest coast art, culture, and carving. One of the pieces I studied was this - a huge cedar sculpture carved by the great sculptor, Bill Reid, to whom the telling of this ancient story is credited.
Bill Reid was a Haida indian (Haida is their word for “human”). The Haida tribe lives in the Queen Charlotte Islands off the coast of northern Canada (below Alaska), in a special place they call Haida Gwaii. Bill is widely credited for reviving the arts of the northwest coast - he was an amazing sculptor. I am disappointed I will never meet him.
The northwest coast tribes have many gods - all animals. Raven is the Haida equivalent of “fox”. Tricky, playful, smart, inquisitive - these are all qualities of Raven, whose play and trickery created the stars in the sky, the sun, the ocean and man.
The man-size (literally) sculpture is inside the University of British Columbia museum in Vancouver, Canada. When it was installed, Bill had the children of Haida Gwaii come to the installation - each with bottles of sand from the beach at Haida Gwaii, so Raven, could be installed in his native soil.
Here is his telling of their genesis myth - one of the most sacred stories in Haida culture:
The Story of the Raven Creating Man by Bill Reid
The great flood which had covered the earth for so long had receded, and even the thin strip of sand now called Rose Spit, stretching north from Naikun village lay dry. The Raven had flown there to gorge himself on the delicacies left by the receding water, so for once he wasn't hungry. But his other appetites - lust, curiosity and the unquenchable itch to meddle and provoke things, to play tricks on the world and its creatures - these remained unsatisfied.
He had recently stolen the light from the old man who kept it hidden in a box in his house in the middle of the darkness, and had scattered it throughout the sky. The new light spattered the night with stars and waxed and wane in the shape of the moon. And it dazzled the day with a single bright shining which lit up the long beach that curved from the spit beneath Raven's feet westward as far as Tao Hill. Pretty as it was, it looked lifeless and so to the Raven quite boring. He gave a great sigh, crossed his wings behind his back and walked along the sand, his shiny head cocked, his sharp eyes and ears alert for any unusual sight or sound. Then taking to the air, he called petulantly out to the empty sky. To his delight, he heard an answering cry - or to describe it more closely, a muffled squeak.
At first he saw nothing, but as he scanned the beach again, a white flash caught his eye, and when he landed he found at his feet, buried in the sand, a gigantic clamshell. When he looked more closely still, he saw that the shell was full of little creatures cowering in terror of his enormous shadow.
Well, here was something to break the monotony of his day. But nothing was going to happen as long as the tiny things stayed in the shell, and they certainly weren't coming out in their present terrified state. So the Raven leaned his great head close to the shell, and with the smooth trickster's tongue that had got him into and out of so many misadventures during his troubled and troublesome existence, he coaxed and cajoled and coerced the little creatures to come out and play in his wonderful, shiny new world. As you know the Raven speaks in two voices, one harsh and strident, and the other, which he used now, a seductive bell-like croon which seems to come from the depths of the sea, or out of the cave where the winds are born. It is an irresistible sound, one of the loveliest sounds in the world. So it wasn't long before one and then another of the little shell-dwellers timidly emerged. Some of them immediately scurried back when they saw the immensity of the sea and the sky, and the overwhelming blackness of the Raven. But eventually curiosity overcame caution and all of them had crept or scrambled out. Very strange creatures they were: two-legged like the Raven, but there the resemblance ended. They had no glossy feathers, no thrusting beak. Their skin was pale, and they were naked except for the long black hair on their round, flat-featured heads. Instead of strong wings, they had thin stick-like appendages that waved, and fluttered constantly. They were the original Haidas, the first humans.
For a long time the Raven amused himself with his new playthings, watching them as they explored their much expanded-world. Sometimes they helped one another in their new discoveries. Just as often, they squabbled over some novelty they found on the beach. And the Raven taught them some clever tricks, at which they proved remarkably adept. But the Raven's attention span was brief, and he grew tired of his small companions. For one thing, they were all males. He had looked up and down the beach for female creatures, hoping to make the game more interesting, but females were nowhere to be found. He was about to shove the now tired, demanding and quite annoying little creatures back into their shell and forget about them when suddenly - as happens so often with the Raven - he had an idea.
He picked up the men, and in spite of their struggles and cries of fright he put them on his broad back, where they hid themselves among his feathers. Then the Raven spread his wings and flew to North Island. the tide was low, and the rocks, as he had expected, were covered with those large but soft-lipped molluscs known as red chitons. The Raven shook himself gently, and the men slid down his back to the sand. The he flew to the rock and with his strong beak pried a chiton from its surface.
Now, if any of you have ever examined the underside of a chiton, you may begin to understand what the Raven had in his libidinous, devious mind. He threw back his head and flung the chiton at the nearest of the men. His aim was as unerring as only a great magician's can be, and the chiton found its mark in the delicate groin of the startled, shell-born creature. There the chiton attached itself firmly. Then as sudden as spray hitting the rocks from a breaking wave, a shower of chitons broke over the wide-eyed humans, as each of the open-mouthed shellfish flew inexorably to its target.
Nothing quite like this had ever happened to the men. They had never dreamed of such a thing during their long stay in the clamshell. They were astounded, embarrassed, confused by a rush of new emotions and sensations. They shuffled and squirmed, uncertain whether it was pleasure or pain they were experiencing. They threw themselves down on the beach, where a great storm seemed to break over them, followed just as suddenly by a profound calm. One by one the chitons dropped off. The men staggered to their feet and headed slowly down the beach, followed by the raucous laughter of the Raven, echoing all the way to the great island to the north which we now call Prince of Wales.
That first troop of male humans soon disappeared behind the nearest headland, passing out of the games of the Raven and the story of humankind. Whether they found their way back to the shell, or lived out their lives elsewhere, or perished in the strange environment in which they found themselves, nobody remembers, and perhaps nobody cares. They had played their roles and gone their way.
Meanwhile the chitons had made their way back to the rock, where they attached themselves as before. But they too had been changed. As high tide followed low and the great storms of winter gave way to the softer rains and warm sun of spring, the chitons grew and grew, many times larger than their kind had ever been before. Their jointed shells seemed about to fly apart from the enormous pressure within them. And one day a huge wave swept over the rock, tore them from their footholds and carried them back to the beach. As the water receded and the warm sun dried the sand, a great stirring began among the chitons. From each emerged a brown skinned, black-haired human. This time there were both males and females among them, and the Raven could begin his greatest game: the one that still goes on.
They were no timid shell-dwellers these, but children of the wild coast, born between the sea and land, challenging the strength of the stormy North Pacific and wresting from it rich livelihood. Their descendants built on its beaches the strong, beautiful homes of the Haidas and embellished them with the powerful heraldic carvings that told of the legendary beginnings of great families, all the heros and heroines and the gallant beasts and monsters who shaped their world and their destinies. For many generations they grew and flourished, built and created, fought and destroyed, living according to the changing seasons and the unchanging rituals of their rich and complex lives.
It's nearly over now. Most of the villages are abandoned, and those which have not entirely vanished lie in ruins. The people who remain are changed. The sea has lost much of its richness, and great areas of land itself lie in waste. Perhaps it's time the Raven started looking for another clamshell.
Anna's hummingbird (Calypte anna) is a medium-sized stocky hummingbird native to the west coast of North America. This bird was named after Anna Masséna, Duchess of Rivoli. In the early 20th century, Anna's hummingbird bred only in northern Baja California and southern California. The transplanting of exotic ornamental plants in residential areas throughout the Pacific coast and inland deserts provided expanded nectar and nesting sites, and the species was able to expand its breeding range greatly.
Anna's hummingbird is 3.9 to 4.3 in (9.9 to 10.9 cm) long. It has an iridescent bronze-green back, a pale grey chest and belly, and green flanks. Its bill is long, straight and slender. The adult male has an iridescent crimson-red derived from magenta to a reddish-pink crown and gorget, which can look dull brown or gray without direct sunlight and a dark, slightly forked tail. Female Anna's hummingbirds also have iridescent red gorgets, though they are usually smaller and less brilliant than the males'. Anna's is the only North American hummingbird species with a red crown. Females and juvenile males have a dull green crown, a grey throat with or without some red iridescence, a grey chest and belly, and a dark, rounded tail with white tips on the outer feathers.
These birds feed on nectar from flowers using a long extendable tongue. They also consume small insects and other arthropods caught in flight or gleaned from vegetation. A PBS documentary shows how Anna's hummingbirds eat flying insects. They aim for the flying insect, then open their beaks very wide. That technique has a greater success rate than trying to aim the end of a long beak at the insect. On rare occasions, bees and wasps may become impaled on the bill of an Anna's hummingbird, causing the bird to starve to death.
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Film: Fuji Velvia 100iso
Camera: Canon A1
Shot: July 2,2015 4:42pm
F-stop: F4
Shutter: 1/250
Lens: 50mm
Location: Maligne Canyon, Jasper Nation Park, Alberta, Canada
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As more and more Boomers retire, scenes similar to this will be a normal occurrence.
In a month I will be moving back to Wyoming after experiencing this reality first hand.
Although the desert environment can be quite beautiful with its unique ecosystem, seeing it consumed like this is just plain sad.
"A well-ordered life is like climbing a tower; the view halfway up is better than the view from the base, and it steadily becomes finer as the horizon expands".
Nothing could be more true in Hanko. Down amongst the tall pines you can't see a horizon, but climb the fabulous "Tin Tin's Rocket" water tower in Finland and you get a magnificent 360 degree view, best out to where the sun sparkles and shimmers on the waters of the archipelago.
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Another warm, sunny day and another countryside walk. We seemed to climb over an awful lot of these stiles today, some requiring high levels of athleticism to be able to get over them!
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A local artist, Steven Brown, is very popular and has turned what was a hobby into a lucrative business and career ~ this is a tin of shortbread which shows his most popular work .. the McCoos, a bright and cheerful multi-coloured family of Highland cows.
The shortbread is also delicious!!
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The city of Bern, like other major Swiss cities except Lausanne, has a network of metre-gauge trams that has never completely disappeared but rather tended to expand. The photo shows an example of the latest series (211-237) of Stadler TramLink locomotives received in 2023-2024.
La ville de Berne, tout comme les autres grandes villes suisses à l'exception de Lausanne, disposent d'un réseau de tramways a voie métrique qui n'a jamais totalement disparu mais plutôt eu tendance à s'étendre. La photo montre un exemplaire de la dernière série (211-237) de motrices de type Stadler TramLink reçues en 2023-2024.
Built in 1852, this Gothic Revival-style house was built for J. B. Shipman, and was later purchased by Elizabeth Mills, and her husband, Professor J. L. Mills, in 1877. Elizabeth and J. L. Mills established Elizabeth College for Women, now part of Marietta College, in 1893. The house features a painted brick exterior, a gabled roof, two-over-two double-hung windows, decorative sawn wooden gingerbread trim on the gable ends, a one-story bay window on the side gable, and a wrap-around porch with stop-chamfer columns and decorative brackets. The building is a contributing structure in the Marietta Historic District, listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1974, and expanded to its present size in 2001.
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Alien art
My picture above is showing that tears are coming from an eye and spreading in space, crying from being alone.
Space, containing matters, didn’t start and will not end at all, existing always and endless. Space has our universe which has a lot of galaxies. Space might have a lot of universes. Our universe is expanding for now, but it would contract and die in a big crunch, like the Big Bang played in reverse.
If universes begin and die over and over again, like inflating and deflating balloons over and over again, space will have matters ( stars, galaxies and universes) just in certain areas of space. What escapes from a universe is light. Light can advance in to the rest of the space and can live billions of years. Light is made of particles called photons, bundles of the electromagnetic field that carry a specific amount of energy. Photons have no rest mass and they do not occupy any volume.
Speculation:
Light is pure energy, not matter, but matter could be created out of photons. Light might start a new universe in different part of space.
Einstein's famous E=mc2 equation states that energy and matter (or mass) are interchangeable. Photons from different universes might collide with each other and create matters.
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opens its leaves and expands its petals, at the first pattering of the shower, and rejoices in the rain-drops with a quicker sympathy than the packed shrubs in the sandy desert.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge.
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Water lilies are a well studied clade of plants because their large flowers with multiple unspecialized parts were initially considered to represent the floral pattern of the earliest flowering plants, and later genetic studies confirmed their evolutionary position as basal angiosperms. Analyses of floral morphology and molecular characteristics and comparisons with a sister taxon, the family Cabombaceae, indicate, however, that the flowers of extant water lilies with the most floral parts are more derived than the genera with fewer floral parts. Genera with more floral parts, Nuphar, Nymphaea, Victoria, have a beetle pollination syndrome, while genera with fewer parts are pollinated by flies or bees, or are self- or wind-pollinated Thus, the large number of relatively unspecialized floral organs in the Nymphaeaceae is not an ancestral condition for the clade.
The Huntington Library and Botanic Gardens. San Marino. California.
Paranaguá means "big round sea" in the Tupi-Guarani language, a reference to the wide bay that affords the city optimal conditions to function as an important port. The village was originally founded somewhere around 1550 on the island of Cotinga, and later expanded onto the mainland.
It is Paraná's oldest city.
Paranaguá preserves many of the oldest colonial remnants in Paraná.
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Sunday Feb 27th along the Canadian border and I'm within range of my U.S. cousins, barely a whisker from the three distinct shapely buttes of Montana's Sweet Grass Hills popping up in the distance. Today, it feels like we're breathing the same air. An exchange of sorts.
It's eerie quiet, I can hear my heart beating, a nearby gas compressor station reminding a sign of life. The Range/Township gravel roads are heavily drifted and deep in areas, caution always needed. The light is fading and slipping across the horizon, a vague sunset barely announcing the close of another day. The carpet of snow is crisp and supports a full body weight.
This ramshackle 20th century skeleton homestead house is THE Alberta prairie symbol, you'll find them many places, held together by sheer determination considering the area is notorious for winds.
"The Sweet Grass Hills are notoriously windy. The combination of lying on the east side of the Continental Divide and their elevation can really make them a very windy place. All the more so since there is absolutely nothing to block the wind except for the occasional barbed wire fence. During the winter, this area is also very cold - even without the wind chill."
To the left is a small wooden cross marking an undistinguished grave. I only leave my footsteps in the snow, nothing changed from the way I've found this icon. Yet somehow with each visit and adventure to these broad and flat prairies, my visual senses are forever expanded.....the metaphor of photography undeniably changes ME.
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*Textures courtesy of Skeletal Mess and Cathairstudios
**Birds courtesy of GoldenRules2
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On National Trust Land, this imposing and isolated lodge is available to rent out. Fabulous views but I'm not so sure about being there at night.
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Sculpture Expanded
17.5.-15.9.2019
Anna-Kaisa Ant-Wuorinen
Autokulta
2019
The artwork is part of Sculpture Expanded -Moving Laboratory of Public Art.
Teos on osa Sculpture Expanded -Liikkuva julkisen taiteen laboratorio -hanketta
Konstverket är en del av Sculpture Expanded -Rörliga laboratorium för offentlig konst.
You can see the Works in the following places/
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Du kan se konstverket i följande ställen:
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Kaari Shopping centre parking lot/
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…find freedom, aliveness, and power not from what contains, locates, or protects us, but from what dissolves, reveals, and expands us.
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NEW CHAPTER, MY FRIENDS (30.06.2010): After removing my website link (more than 1,000), I´ve just received the same message and I´m out of the search lists again. Or this has relation with the message above or has no sense...
I´m not allowed by Flickr to link my personal website.... amazing....! After so many years... Maybe it´s a consequence of the Israel message, I don´t want to think bad, but I don´t believe in coincidences, moreover when lots of user are allowed to. If I continue here is because the great number of friends I´ve meet, but I´m taking advantage of this in order to complain and let you see the kind of injustice that Flickr is doing these days. Let´s see who can be more annoying...
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This is the rules it is supposed I broke: Don’t use Flickr for commercial purposes.
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Where is it said that personal websites are not allowed? I do not do a commercial use of it!!! I´m a economist and work in a saving bank!!
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NUEVO CAPÍTULO, AMIGOS (30.06.2010): Después de eliminar el link a mi web (más de 1000!), acabo de recibir el mismo mensaje y me han vuelto a sacar de las listas. O esto tiene algo que ver con el mensaje de arriba o no tiene sentido...
Después de cuatro años no se me permite poner el link a mi web... es increíble! Probablemente es una consecuencia al mensaje de Israel, no creo en las coincidencias y menos cuando muchos usuarios lo hacen. Si continuo por aquí es debido al gran número de amigos que he hecho, pero aprovecharé esto para protestar y hacer ver y protestar por las estupideces que Flickr está haciendo últimamente. Veremos quién molesta más...
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Este tipo de cosas es lo que flickr debería cuidar (LADRONES DE FOTOS):
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Esta es la regla que me han dicho que he incumplido: Don’t use Flickr for commercial purposes.
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¿Dónde pone que no se pueden poner enlaces a páginas web personales? No hago uso comercial de ella! Joder, que soy economista y trabajo en una caja de ahorros!
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Zambujeira do Mar, Odemira (Alentejo - Portugal)
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Jodhpur is the second largest city in the Indian state of Rajasthan. After its population crossed a million, it has been declared as the second 'Metropolitan City' of Rajasthan. It was formerly the seat of a princely state of the same name, the capital of the kingdom known as Marwar. Jodhpur is a popular tourist destination, featuring many palaces, forts and temples, set in the stark landscape of the Thar desert.
The city is known as the "Sun City" for the bright, sunny weather it enjoys all the year round. It is also referred to as the "Blue City" due to the vivid blue-painted houses around the Mehrangarh Fort. The old city circles the fort and is bounded by a wall with several gates. However, the city has expanded greatly outside the wall over the past several decades. Jodhpur lies near the geographic centre of Rajasthan state, which makes it a convenient base for travel in a region much frequented by tourists.
Stayed one night in this castle turned into a hotel. Very sumptuous inside. Also has a School of Falconry connected with it. This image is the back of the castle, as the parking lot is full of guest's cars.
Ashford Castle is a medieval castle that has been expanded over the centuries and turned into a five star luxury hotel near Cong on the Mayo/Galway border in Ireland, on the shore of Lough Corrib. Ashford Castle is a member of the Leading Hotels of the World organization. It was previously owned by the Guinness family
The castle was built on the site in 1228 by the Anglo-Norman House of Burke. Since then It has had several owners.
When you look at the castle head on, all the walls of the building appear vertical, but in this image, some walls slant. I am assuming that was the way it was built. Any other view I photographed contained slanted walls.
My best view of the castle can be seen in the first comment section. There every one of the walls is vertical.
Teatro Antico di Segesta (Calatafimi Segesta, Sicilia)
Il Teatro Antico è un teatro greco dell'antica città di Segesta e ubicato nell'area archeologica di Calatafimi Segesta, comune italiano della provincia di Trapani, in Sicilia.
Ubicato sulla cima del monte Barbaro, l'imponente Teatro Antico venne costruito nel II sec. a.C. quando Segesta era già libera città sotto i Romani, ed è considerato uno dei teatri più belli del periodo classico tanto per lo stato di conservazione quanto per la sua posizione spettacolare sulle colline trapanesi.
Il teatro è una costruzione in pietra calcarea locale il cui accesso avveniva attraverso una strada lastricata. Esso poteva ospitare nella cavea 4000 persone ed era suddiviso orizzontalmente da un largo corridoio detto diazoma delimitato a sua volta da sedili dotati di schienale e, verticalmente, da sei scalette che formano sette cunei (kèrkides) di dimensioni variabili.
Recenti rinvenimenti hanno documentato l'esistenza di varie altre costruzioni, compreso un serbatoio d'acqua che certamente doveva servire per le necessità del pubblico e degli attori. All'orchestra si accedeva dagli ingressi laterali, detti pàrodoi. Pochi filari di blocchi permettono di ricostruire la pianta della scena (skené), un edificio a due piani in stile dorico e ionico con due corpi laterali avanzati (paraskènia) ornati da altorilievi fatti da immagini di satiri.
Nella prima età Imperiale romana il teatro subì delle trasformazioni: lo spazio dell'orchestra fu ampliato eliminando una fila di sedili e ingrandendo la fronte scenica. In età medievale (secoli XII e XIII) le superfici del teatro e della strada furono occupate da un vasto settore dell'abitato, come documenta la grande casa a due piani visibile nella media cavea occidentale.
Ancient Theatre of Segesta (Calatafimi Segesta, Sicily)
The Ancient Theatre is a Greek theatre of the ancient city of Segesta and located in the archaeological area of Calatafimi Segesta, an Italian municipality in the province of Trapani, in Sicily.
Located on the top of Mount Barbaro, the imposing Ancient Theatre was built in the 2nd century BC when Segesta was already a free city under the Romans, and is considered one of the most beautiful theatres of the classical period both for its state of conservation and for its spectacular position on the hills of Trapani.
The theatre is a construction in local limestone which was accessed via a paved road. It could accommodate 4000 people in the cavea and was divided horizontally by a large corridor called diazoma delimited in turn by seats with backrests and, vertically, by six steps that form seven wedges (kèrkides) of variable dimensions.
Recent discoveries have documented the existence of various other buildings, including a water tank that certainly served the needs of the audience and the actors. The orchestra was accessed from the side entrances, called pàrodoi. A few rows of blocks allow us to reconstruct the plan of the stage (skené), a two-story building in Doric and Ionic style with two advanced lateral bodies (paraskènia) decorated with high reliefs made of images of satyrs. In the early Roman Imperial age, the theater underwent transformations: the space of the orchestra was expanded by eliminating a row of seats and enlarging the stage front. In the Middle Ages (12th and 13th centuries) the surfaces of the theater and the street were occupied by a large sector of the inhabited area, as documented by the large two-story house visible in the western media cavea.
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:: “Suddenly, in this echoing house of Byzantium - one of the wonders of history - my spirit leapt out of its confines. I knew in that instant that, whatever happened, I could never go back to my old constraints. I wanted to follow life upward, to expand with it outward, the way this enormous interior swelled upward and outward. My heart swelled with it....” ~ {The Historian}.
Amidst the hustle and bustle of these upcoming days, I find solace & quietude nestled between the pages of two much loved, often read novels. A savoring of stories, a settling in to the comfort of the familiar. My deep breath. ::
My never-ending quest for EAT signs.
Portillo's is a local* chain serving Chicago specialties including Italian beef and sausage and Chicago-style hot dogs (no ketchup, dang it!). I was here because the camera club I was speaking to had their pre-meeting dinner and I was gonna get a free meal! Imagine my delight when I saw this as i walked in.
*A while back, they expanded to California and Florida, presumably to serve the Chicago expats in those places. I also think they just wanted someplace warm to take business trips in the winter. Since they got acquired, they've expanded even further.
Finally, we like this place so much that, when we were considering moving to our current home, the fact that there was a Portillo's on the corner didn't hurt.
Portillo's
Schaumburg, Illinois 42.049523, -88.063512
October 14, 2024
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