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When the nights are cold and the days warm from the sun, appears the wonderful mist over the water, the trees glowing in the sun, all is quiet in nature, the birds have emigrated, you can only hear a mouse run across the dry leaves.
Texture my own
A winter view south across Utah's Emigration Canyon to the higher Wasatch beyond. The canyon was first traversed by the Donner Party in 1846, and then, a year later by the Mormon pioneers who settled the Salt Lake Valley below. This became a favored route through the imposing Wasatch Mountains to the far west.
Texture: Topaz.
A tighter crop on a beautiful sunrise in Canmore AB. Mt. Lawrence Grassi, Ha Ling Peak and Ship's Prow reflected in Policeman's Creek.
Mount Lawrence Grassi is named for an Italian miner, who emigrated to the country in 1912. In addition to his career as a miner, he was an avid climber and became well-known and well-respected as a climbing guide at the time.
Mt. Ha Ling is named for the intrepid Chinese cook that first scaled its intimidating summit in 1896, who climbed it on a bet. This prominent peak is situated between Mt. Rundle and the Three Sisters and is over 2408 meters.
So much beauty in the Canadian Rockies.
I'm off to visit my 93 year-old father and other family members I've not seen for over a year. Many hugs ahead!
Thanks for taking a look. Always appreciated!
He was born 30 December 1869 at Swanmore, county of Hampshire, England.
In 1876 he emigrated to Canada with his family and settled on a farm near the hamlet of Egypt, south of Sibbald Point on Lake Simcoe.
Leacock was educated at Upper Canada College, Toronto. He completed a degree in modern languages at the University of Toronto in 1891.
Bruno Catalano "Khadine". Sculpture from The Travelers series
Text from Wikipedia:
The Travelers, also known as Les Voyageurs, are bronze surrealist sculptures by the French artist Bruno Catalano. The central part of each statue is missing. The artist has said that the statues are meant to represent emigrants.
Catalano has said that the statues are a representation of his own life. He was a native of Morocco who emigrated to France. He believes that emigrants and travelers leave a part of themselves behind that they have to forget, but yet it is always connected to them.
In 2004, when he was constructing his first traveler statue, Catalano found a flaw, which gave him the idea to remove a large part of the statue. To him it represented an emigrant being "uprooted" and also depicted "suffering". Even though the statues represent something left behind, they all carry a bag and seem "to walk towards the hope of a better future".
The sculptures have been interpreted as a visual representation of the losses experienced by emigrants.
Catalano created a whole series of these sculptures, which look like human working people. They are collectively called Les Voyageurs.
The sculptures are examples of surrealist art. They portray human beings with large parts of their bodies missing. Each statue carries a single case. The case represents a weight on the traveler, and also connects the upper and lower parts of the sculpture. The missing space is left for the viewer to interpret.
On August 21, 1968, the occupation of the Czech Republic by Warsaw Pact troops began. This happened after changes began in this country, which could have been the beginning of democratic processes. Many people emigrated from the Czech Republic after this occupation. among them was also later Karel Kryl, a poet and singer. This song is his work of art and is one of the most famous Czech forbidden songs of the time: youtu.be/10PQf_Vhzmg
English translation:
Brother, don't cry, those are not bogeymen,
you're old enough now, those are just soldiers,
they came in square, iron caravans.
With tears in our eyes, we look at each other,
stay with me brother, I fear for you,
on winding roads, brother, in thin boots.
It's raining and it's gone dark outside,
this night will not be a short one.
The wolf hungers for the lamb,
brother, have you closed the door?
Brother, don't cry, don't waste your tears,
swallow your curses and save your strength,
you mustn't blame me if we don't arrive.
Learn the song, it's not that difficult,
lean on me brother, the road is shattered,
we'll stumble on, we can't go back anymore.
It's raining and it's gone dark outside,
this night will not be a short one.
The wolf hungers for the lamb,
brother, close the door! Close the door!
Translator's comments:
I took a bit of artistic license with some of the translations to keep the flow of the speech more natural, so this is not a word for word translation (particularly in the first two paragraphs)
translator: soren
Photographed on a beautiful sim: ELVION - Woodland Realm
flickr group: www.flickr.com/groups/4127613@N25/
Blennerville was the main port of emigration from County Kerry during the Great Famine (1845 to 1848) and was, during those years, the home port of the famous emigrant barque 'Jeanie Johnston'. The visitor centre houses a fascinating display on Irish emigration including models of the infamous coffin ships.
The Capelinhos (from Capelo + -inhos diminutive, which literally means "little cape") is a monogenetic volcano located on the western coast of Faial Island in the Azores.
A volcanic eruption lasted for 13 months, from September 27, 1957 until October 24, 1958, which may have been two overlapping volcanic eruptions. While enlarging the land by 2.4 km², it spawned 300 seismic events, hurled ash 1 km, destroyed 300 houses in the parishes of Capelo and Praia do Norte and caused the evacuation of 2,000 people (emigration to the US and Canada). On October 25, the volcano entered a period of dormancy. It is a part of an active fissural volcanic complex which creates multiple seismic and volcanic events.
One of my favourite places in NZ is Staglands which is a wildlife reserve in the hear of the NZ native bush. It was created in 1972, 2 years before we emigrated from the UK and I have such lovely memories of visiting as a child so I always visit when we return to NZ. These doves took quite a liking to my husband, two decided to check him out as soon as we walked through the entrance, although it was only because he had food for them!
This is an edited photo from my archive. About 1.5 years ago, I made it for the song Anděl, which was composed and sung by Karel Kryl.
Karel Kryl released this song shortly after the occupation of Czechoslovakia by Warsaw Pact troops with the Soviet Union in 1968. Then he emigrated. His songs were not allowed to be published anywhere, yet even after twenty years, every Czech knew them from memory. They were a symbol of resistance and defiance against the violent occupation of my country.
Now I remember this photo again, edited it a bit and I think it's worth publishing, along with the lyrics to this song, which are still current.
HELP FOR UKRAINE: www.peopleinneed.net/
tune: youtu.be/wboXUpgjYcg
/recorded shortly after his return from emigration after the Velvet Revolution in 1989 /
English translation:
Angel
From a wrecked church
in a soap box
I have brought an angel
with a broken wings
he was full of dedication
I was nervous
So I gave in his palm
a bottle of parfume
¨
Then we watched the sky
observing birds
talking about the god
and playing at soldiers
I could not see in his face
He was trying to cover it
Maybe he envied birds
they can fly around
And so, please believe me
I want to ask him
to help a a guess
What is waiting for me
necessarily
What is waiting for me
necessarily
When he was telling me news
near bedroom window
I forged him wings
from a bullet shell
By this way I have lost my angel
he flew out of the window
Well, friend have promised me
to make a new one from my helmet
And so, please believe me
I want to ask him
to help a a guess
What is waiting for me
necessarily
What is waiting for me
necessarily
translator: jaroslavzvacek
Il capitello ricorda in poche parole una storia di emigrazione di molti anni fa, questo il testo:
B.V. DELLA CORONA
RICORDO LASCIATO DAI CONIUGI
BRUTTI MARCO E LESO MARIA
EMIGRANTI PER L'AMERICA SUD
IL GIORNO 14 GEN 1884
The votive capital recalls a story of emigration from many years ago, this is the text:
BLESSED VIRGIN OF THE CROWN
MEMORIES LEFT BY THE SPOUSES
BRUTTI MARCO AND LESO MARIA
EMIGRANTS FOR SOUTH AMERICA
THE DAY 14 JAN 1884
Parco regionale della Lessinia
This more recent abandoned shepherd’s cottage remains among the other ruins at the cleared village of Suisinish, south Skye as a sad reminder of the Clearances. The people evictions from about the mid 1850s led to emigration and the rural depopulation of the Scottish Highlands.
"La madre del emigrante"
es una escultura de Ramón Muriedas Mazorra ubicada en el paseo marítimo de Gijón en homenaje a la emigración asturiana por el mundo. La obra en bronce representa a una mujer, de pelo encrespado y vestido pegado al cuerpo por el viento, con la mano extendida, en un adiós, y la mirada hacia el mar, lugar por el cual desaparecieron sus hijos, esperando su regreso mientras sufre expuesta a los elementos del Mar Cantábrico.
"The mother of the emigrant"
It is a sculpture by Ramón Muriedas Mazorra located on the seafront of Gijón in homage to Asturian emigration around the world. The bronze work depicts a woman, with frizzy hair and dress glued to the body by the wind, with her hand extended, in a goodbye, and the look towards the sea, place where her children disappeared, waiting for her return while suffering exposed to the elements of the Cantabrian Sea.
This part of Morvern was the traditional home of the Macleans of Kingairloch. From the late 1400s their main base was at Glensanda Castle, on the shore of Loch Linnhe four miles south-west of Kingairloch. They seem to have given this up in about 1780 in favour of a more modern and better sheltered house known as Connach, built at the head of Loch a' Choire. In 1800 the Macleans sold their Kingairloch estate to an English landowner, James Forbes, and emigrated to Canada. Forbes had the existing house at Connach extended to become the first Kingairloch House.
These halls are a reconstruction of the accommodations for emigrants in Hamburg. Emigrants from Germany and Eastern Europe could wait here for their ship to America.
Today the emigration museum is in the buildings.
Nachbau der Unterbringungen für Auswanderer in Hamburg. Heute ist hier das Auswanderer Museum Ballinstadt untergebracht.
Nikkor 18-70mm
A tulip blooms in a display graden at Roozengaarde, a tulip farm in the Skagit Valley, Washington. The farm, established in 1985 by the Roozen family and The Washington Bulb Company, covers more than 1200 acres with bloom fields and another 15 acres with green houses. The business was built from scratch by William Roozen. He emigrated from Holland in 1947 with years of experience in the bulb industry. In the Spring each year the Roozen family display their colorful varieties of tulips in gardens around the farm.
I apologize for my absence from Flickr for the past few months. I was finally able to get out and use my astrotracer. It really comes in handy to reduce the noise in these high ISO long exposures. I didn't use any noise reduction for this shot. The foreground is light painted with low ISO and blended in with a multi sky shot blended in the software called Sequator.
It basically takes multiple sky exposures and blends them together reducing noise. That along with my astrotracer which moves the sensor in my camera along with the rotation of the stars allows for up to 5 minute shots. I find much over 1 minute has some star trailing in the corners so I keep mine to about 60 seconds each.
A big shout out to the father and his kids who stopped and chatted with me. It really helped to pass the time as I'm standing in the dead of night by myself waiting for the Milky Way to show itself.
A bit about the barn per the AG Week article published online... A stone barn that rises out of the far western Minnesota prairie like a cathedral was built by Frank Schott and his sons, William and Anthony, starting in 1923. The construction began with the foundation and the family worked on the barn for 20 years. The foundation is 2 feet wide and 5 feet deep.
Frank Schott emigrated from Germany to the United States in 1907. He learned the art of stone masonry from his father and grandfather.
The rocks were raised by block and tackle using horses or a tractor to pull the rocks into the desired location. The rocks were dropped into a fresh cement mixture.
The roof of the barn constructed of wooden shingles was burned by vandals, according to a story in The Land magazine.
He was born 30 December 1869 at Swanmore, county of Hampshire, England.
In 1876 he emigrated to Canada with his family and settled on a farm near the hamlet of Egypt, south of Sibbald Point on Lake Simcoe.
Leacock was educated at Upper Canada College, Toronto. He completed a degree in modern languages at the University of Toronto in 1891.
Inspired by Thorstein Veblen’s The Theory of the Leisure Class, he enrolled at the University of Chicago, receiving a Ph.D. in political economy and political science under Veblen in 1903.
Concurrently he joined the Department of Economics and Political Science at McGill University, Montreal.
In 1906 he published his first and most profitable book: Elements of Political Science, a university textbook. Twenty-seven other books of non-fiction followed.
In 1908 he became head of his department at McGill, helped found the University Club and began developing Old Brewery Bay.
The first of his thirty-five books of humour, Literary Lapses was published in 1910. Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town followed in 1912 and in 1914 Arcadian Adventures of the Idle Rich.
Leacock was elected to the Royal Society of Canada in 1919 and in 1921 made an extensive lecture tour of the United Kingdom. In 1935 he received the Mark Twain Medal. He retired from McGill in 1936.
Stephen Butler Leacock died 28 March 1944 at Toronto from throat cancer and was buried, across the lake from Old Brewery Bay, in the Leacock family plot at St. George’s Church, Sibbald Point.
♫My mood now: Emigrate ft. Till Lindemann | Let's Go
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He was born 30 December 1869 at Swanmore, county of Hampshire, England.
In 1876 he emigrated to Canada with his family and settled on a farm near the hamlet of Egypt, south of Sibbald Point on Lake Simcoe.
Leacock was educated at Upper Canada College, Toronto. He completed a degree in modern languages at the University of Toronto in 1891.
Inspired by Thorstein Veblen’s The Theory of the Leisure Class, he enrolled at the University of Chicago, receiving a Ph.D. in political economy and political science under Veblen in 1903.
Concurrently he joined the Department of Economics and Political Science at McGill University, Montreal.
In 1906 he published his first and most profitable book: Elements of Political Science, a university textbook. Twenty-seven other books of non-fiction followed.
In 1908 he became head of his department at McGill, helped found the University Club and began developing Old Brewery
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'Another Place' consists of 100 cast-iron, life-size figures spread out along three kilometres of the foreshore, stretching almost one kilometre out to sea.
The figures - each one weighing 650 kilos - are made from casts of the artist's own body standing on the beach, all of them looking out to sea, staring at the horizon in silent expectation.
Having previously been seen in Cuxhaven in Germany, Stavanger in Norway and De Panne in Belgium, 'Another Place' is now a permanent feature in the UK, at Crosby Beach, near Liverpool.
Speaking in 2005, Antony Gormley said the installation was the poetic response to the individual and universal sentiments associated with emigration – sadness at leaving, but the hope of a new future in Another Place.
Historically this was where emigrants from Clonegal parish had their last view of their native valley and the Hills, and made their final goodbye to their relatives
'Familiar and new' - Poster at the Emigration Museum Hamburg - Ballinstadt. Many emigrants from Germany and Europe gathered here for the crossing to America.
Am Auswanderer Museum in Hamburg-Ballinstadt
The Harvard Chapel: ‘The Baptism of Christ’ (1905) by John La Farge is a rare example of this American artist’s work.
John Harvard (1607-1638), son of a prosperous butcher in the Borough High Street, was baptised in this church (then St Mary Overie) in 1607 and attended the local grammar school. After graduating from Emmanuel College, Cambridge, he emigrated to Massachusetts in 1637 to establish a college of education there. He died of consumption a year later, leaving his library and half his fortune to the College of New Town, later renamed Harvard University.
Joseph Choate, US ambassador to Britain (1899-1905) and former Harvard alumnus, encouraged the University to commemorate Harvard’s link with Southwark by refurbishing this Chapel. Choate commissioned the American artist John La Farge (1835-1910) to create the three-light window which dominates this space.
The main subject is the Baptism of Christ, alluding to the original dedication of the chapel to St John the Baptist and also to the baptism of John Harvard himself. Above the transom on the left are the arms of Harvard University, and on the right are those of Emmanuel College, Cambridge. In the centre are the Royal Arms as they appeared between 1415 and 1603. However, the supporters and crest are of a later period, probably dating from the window’s restoration in 1948.
The striking difference between this window and others in the cathedral can be attributed to the original research and development in glass making undertaken by John La Farge himself.
‘The Baptism of Christ’ is the only example of this brilliant American artist’s work in England. La Farge is widely regarded as the creative inventor of opalescent glass for church windows.
Maker: John La Farge of New York, 1905 and his maker's mark appears in the bottom right corner.
Note: The irregularities and mixtures of colour in the angels’ wings and the robes of Christ and St John. This sculptural approach to glass is typical of La Farge windows, combining layers of contoured glass in swirling colours, requiring minimal glass painting to achieve its effect.
Presented by J.H. Choate, U.S. Ambassador in 1907 to commemorate the Baptism at St Mary Overie of John Harvard,1607-1638, founder of Harvard University. The donor described the window as emblematic of ‘the deep-seated and abiding relations of friendship which unite England with the United States’.
Damaged in World War II, the window was restored in 1948 through the generosity of Harvard alumni in the USA. Harvard alumni also contributed to the full conservation of the window
Happy Window Wednesday!
Fishing boats somewhere in the harbor of Cuxhaven, Germany. The tower in the background is part of Hapag-Hallen, an important place for European emigration to America in the 19th and 20th centuries.
In 1876 he emigrated to Canada with his family and settled on a farm near the hamlet of Egypt, south of Sibbald Point on Lake Simcoe.
Leacock was educated at Upper Canada College, Toronto. He completed a degree in modern languages at the University of Toronto in 1891
Inspired by Thorstein Veblen’s The Theory of the Leisure Class, he enrolled at the University of Chicago, receiving a Ph.D. in political economy and political science under Veblen in 1903. 460
I thought they emigrated because of the heat. I found hundreds of them hidden and hiding among the branches and leafs of trees. Trees provide them shelter and food.
Ireland, County Cork, Cobh, Spring 2023
Cobh, formerly known as Queenstown, is onthe south coast of County Cork, Ireland and it is one of the major Irish ports. It was the departure point for 2.5 million of Irish people who emigrated to North America between 1848 and 1950. On 11 April 1912, Cobh was famously the final port of call for the RMS Titanic. Another tragically-notable ship to be associated with the town, is the RMS Lusitania that was sunk by a German U-boat off the Old Head of Kinsale contributing to the American entry into World War I. On a high point in the town stands St Colman's Cathedral, one of the tallest buildings in Ireland.
Cobh's houses have been generally very colourful, but the best known of them are the so-called “Deck of Cards” houses. These 23 almost equal houses were built on 23 levels and each one differs in colour from its neighbouring building.