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On our recent visit to Ellis Creek, which is right next to Shollenberger in Petaluma, we heard the loud cry of a Killdeer. We spotted her close to the trail we were walking on...she wasn't doing the broken wing thing but came right toward us. To our surprise we could see two newly hatched chicks in the nest and there was an additional egg unhatched. She seemed pretty 'excited' and upset so we left. I'm always amazed how close to trails and roads these birds choose as nesting sites!?
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We love our new hat! Hopefully the first of many? I mean, we need at least one more to match all the pink and pastel girls, right?
Knole has always excited a range of different reactions. Henry VIII liked it so much that he forced Thomas Cranmer, his Archbishop of Canterbury, to hand it to him in 1538. Yet, the following century, the diarist John Evelyn was so depressed by the greyness of this 'greate old fashion'd house' that he hurried out into the sunshine. In the 18th century, Horace Walpole was impressed by Knole's 'beautiful decent simplicity which charms one' but on a later visit decided that it 'has neither beauty nor prospects'.
These mixed emotions can partly be explained by the many faces Knole presents on different days and at different times of the year. On a dull winter's day, as you ride the crest of the knoll in front of the house and the north front looms in sight, Knole's sprawling mass of sodden Kentish ragstone strikes a sombre note. But on a sunny summer's day, the south front, with its colonnade of seven lightly coloured marble arches, dances to a very different tune.
The Sackvilles and Knole
Knole was rebuilt and then furnished in three main bursts of activity, each separated by around a hundred years. In the early 17th century, Thomas Sackville, 1st Earl of Dorset, transformed the late medieval archbishop's palace into a Renaissance mansion. Towards the end of the 17th century, his great-great-grandson, the 6th Earl, acquired Knole's unique collection of Stuart furniture and textiles through his office as Lord Chamberlain. And then, towards the end of the 18th century the 6th Earl's great-grandson, the 3rd Duke, added Old Masters bought on the Grand Tour to Italy and portraits commissioned from contemporary English artists such as Reynolds and Gainsborough.
Visitors today see a house and collection little changed since the 3rd Duke's day. By the end of the 17th century, the Sackvilles had withdrawn to private apartments on the ground floor and tended to live there rather than in the more formal, public rooms on the first floor - today's showrooms. The very fact that large areas of Knole were inhabited only intermittently from the end of the 17th century and that the furniture therefore remained under dust sheets for long periods, accounts for its miraculous survival.
Knole comes to the National Trust
In 1946, the Sackville family handed over Knole to the National Trust with an endowment towards its maintenance. The family retained possession of the park and many of the contents of the house and were granted a 200-year lease on various private apartments within the house.
Vita Sackville-West and Knole
Vita Sackville-West had grown to love Knole's many faces from her happy childhood there. In 'Knole and the Sackvilles' (1922), she wrote that Knole 'has a deep inward gaiety of some very old woman who has always been beautiful, who has had many lovers and seen many generations come and go … It is above all an English home,' she continued, 'It has the tone of England; it melts into the green of the garden turf, into the tawnier green of the park beyond, into the blue of the pale English sky.'
On display in the Great Hall is a facsimile of the bound manuscript of Virginia Woolf's novel 'Orlando'. The novel is dedicated to Vita Sackville-West and, in the words of Vita's son, Nigel Nicolson, it is 'the longest and most charming love letter in literature'. Vita is the eponymous hero/heroine (Orlando changes gender over the four centuries in which the novel is set) and Orlando's ancestral home is a house, like Knole, with a legendary 365 rooms. The pages are threaded through with similarly specific references to Knole and to its past and present incumbents. It ends with Orlando taking possession of the house whereas, in fact, Vita had been denied ownership of her beloved Knole because the house was passed through the male line.
In 1930 Vita fell in love with Sissinghurst Castle and bought it, along with 4,000 acres of farmland. Together Vita and her husband, Harold Nicolson, made a garden which reflected their different personalities - Harold being a classicist and Vita a romantic. Today, Sissinghurst Castle Garden is also owned by the National Trust.
Foe further information please visit www.nationaltrust.org.uk/main/w-vh/w-visits/w-findaplace/...
DescriptionA White-breasted nuthatch, Sitta carolinensis, is so excited about spring that he has pumped himself up. The White-breasted Nuthatch is the largest of the nuthatches, yet still a rather small songbird weighing in at .6-1.1 oz and 5.1-5.5 inches long. Like their cousin the Brown-headed Nuthatch who one can hear long them before seeing them, the White-breasted Nuthatch has a loud song/call for his body.
"Pumped About Spring - White-breasted Nuthatch, Sitta carolinensis" © by Christy Cox Photography ~ SEE~Stop Enjoy Explore the magic and beauty of nature
I'm thrilled that Saguaro National Park selected my photo to appear on their new "Passport To Your National Parks" sticker.
The "Passport" program began in 1986 and is administered by a non-profit partner with the National Park Service. They publish a set of ten "stickers" annually, representing ten different units in the NPS, as well as maintaining free cancellation stamps in most park bookstores or visitor centers that allow visitors to record the date and location of their visit. In 2022, they began for the first time to issue individual park stickers such as this one. It's a fun program and one in which I've participated every year since its origination. It's cool to look back and recall park visits from decades ago which would otherwise have been lost to this Old Guy's fading memory. There's more information here about "Passport To Your National Parks".
I'm leaving in a few minutes and I couldn't find a picture that I'd taken that conveyed what I felt, so I'm posting something I've made!! I am totally excited for tonight and I'll catch up with you all tomorrow!! Take care everyone!
Im so excited to get to play with this camera. :)
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So after having the Magna for almost 3 years, I was excited to take it out on an unusually warm Thursday in February. I had a great jaunt to work that morning, as well as a really fun commute back. When I was less than a mile from my house, I decided to take a quick detour through a cool windy farm road.
After coming around a corner and winding the bike up to 70, I am throttling down to enjoy the ride and THREE deer bolt out in front of me, racing me and meanwhile completely blocking the small road!
The only thing going through my mind are the instructions from motorcycle class, "If it's small enough to eat in one meal, don't try to swerve." I try unsuccessfully to cut in between the deer, and slammed right into the front shoulder of the middle one.
The bike comes down on its left side, ripping off my shoe and twisting my ankle.
My body hits the deer, and I proceed to roll down the street, with the front of my helmet grinding into the asphalt. The bike slides and spins into the ditch on the side of the road close to the now-dead deer.
My body easily could have suffered more damage than 2 broken fingers, a broken thumb, a twisted ankle, and some knee road rash.
6 weeks later, I am thankful for the invention of the helmet, armoured jacket, leather gloves, my awesome girlfriend, being able to walk, and use of my hands.
I'm very excited, I've got these beauties today! YAY! I love them! And today arrived my Violet Femme Tulabelle, too!!! Happy day! Can't wait to have some dolly time, and photograph them more together with Michaela's sweet presents! ;)))
Not my pics...thank you to Camilla for letting me share these...a new girl will be arriving!!!!!!! Guess I better look at my other girls and see if someone needs to leave.....
Excited to upload my first image from my 4x5 Super Graphic! The view from our deck in Blowing Rock, NC. Negatives 2 and 3 weren't quite as good... Oh well, thats how we learn
I'm excited to share my super news with you all! I'm having a debut! :-)
My "Spring. In Work" was selected for PHOTO-OP, a Juried Photography Exhibition!
I got the news on August 25, but kept silence till we physically delivered the work to the Gallery. So I'm debuting in this group photography exhibition! :-) And I'm delighted!! :-)
The objective of this annual exhibition, which is also having a debut :-), is to recognize, encourage and nurture excellence in photographic art practice.
The exhibition will take place at John B. Aird Gallery, Toronto Downtown, 900 Bay Street (at Wellesley)
September 3 - September 25, 2009
Reception (Vernissage): Thursday, September 3, 6 - 8 pm.
Gallery hours: Monday to Friday , 10 am - 6 pm
Everyone is welcome! The exhibition is free to public!
Along with other participants, we, Yuri (aka Julian) and I will be at Vernissage of course! :-) So will be glad to meet those of you who will have a chance to come.
about the image: the top part is a photo of happy me, taken by my husband, and the lower part is the exhibition poster; cropped, combined together by me :-)
Happy Blue Monday! And a great week ahead! See you on the exhibition! :-)
I'm excited about my new peacock fireplace screen!
Built in 1914 at no. 911 Wellington Street East.
"This is a Prairie-style single-story residence, noticeably located at the south-west corner of Wellington and Woodward in the city’s east-central area. It encompasses part of Lot 15, Plan 568 and Lot 29, Plan 930. GIS coordinates: 705,711.336 5,154,111.585 Meters
This handsome, distinctive, well maintained home is the best example of a Prairie-style residence to be found in Sault Ste. Marie. It is an elegant Craftsman style bungalow with a variety of gently pitched roof slopes and a small hipped dormer. The eaves are deep and bracketed. The columns are plain with square abacuses and no base. The inclusion of classical modillions in a residence is rare in Sault Ste. Marie and to Prairie-style homes. A variety of rustic building materials have been utilized: stucco, wood, brick and stone. The window groupings consist of both casement and sash with inner muntin bars. Those windows on the front have been replaced with modern aluminum windows but the windows around the sunroom on the east side and those on the partial second floor are original. Many of the original storm windows are stored in the garage. Craftsmanship in the building is excellent yet simple and functional. Even the interior fireplace sports hand-carved brackets of similar design to those supporting the overhanging exterior eaves. With the exception of the kitchen and bathroom, the main floor rooms are still finished with the original oak trim and floors. An old photo of the house indicates that cedar shingles once adorned the roof.
This residence was constructed, in its present form, in 1914 for Richard H. Carney who was District manager for Canada Life Assurance Co. It was the Carney family who was responsible for construction of the Carney Block on Queen St. It thus reflects the affluence of an upper middle class business family which was profiting from the Clergue industrial expansion of the day. A 1914 date and initials of the stone mason builder may be found in the basement wall mortar between the sandstone pieces. It is likely this sandstone was quarried from the locks as was typical for the day. This house was purchased in 1939 by the MacIntosh family who owned it until 2004.
The key exterior features that embody the heritage value of 911 Wellington St. E. include:
- Variety of gently pitched roof slopes provide horizontal emphasis reflecting the Prairiestyle bungalow
- Clerestory lighting that provides light to a half story loft
- A hipped dormer and deep bracketed eaves
- Columns with abacuses and no base but adorned with modillions
- Rustic building materials including stucco, wood, brick and stone
- Original casement windows with sash and inner muntin bars on the sunroom (east side)
and on the half story loft
- Home and property have been well maintained in traditional style with little change to
the exterior
- An interior with oak trim, baseboards and flooring unchanged save for the kitchen and
bathroom
- A beautiful fireplace with brackets supporting the mantle matching those under the
eaves on the exterior
- The best example of a classical Prairie-style residence in Sault Ste. Marie distinctively
located in a prominent east-central location
- A residence which reflects the affluence of a prominent Sault business family built
during the heyday of the Clergue industrial empire" - info from the Sault Ste. Marie Municipal Heritage Committee.
"Sault Ste. Marie (/ˈsuː seɪnt məˈriː/ SOO-seint-ma-REE) is a city on the St. Marys River in Ontario, Canada, close to the Canada–US border. It is the seat of the Algoma District and the third largest city in Northern Ontario, after Sudbury and Thunder Bay.
The Ojibwe, the indigenous Anishinaabe inhabitants of the area, call this area Baawitigong, meaning "place of the rapids." They used this as a regional meeting place during whitefish season in the St. Mary's Rapids. (The anglicized form of this name, Bawating, is used in institutional and geographic names in the area.)
To the south, across the river, is the United States and the Michigan city of the same name. These two communities were one city until a new treaty after the War of 1812 established the border between Canada and the United States in this area at the St. Mary's River. In the 21st century, the two cities are joined by the International Bridge, which connects Interstate 75 on the Michigan side, and Huron Street (and former Ontario Secondary Highway 550B) on the Ontario side. Shipping traffic in the Great Lakes system bypasses the Saint Mary's Rapids via the American Soo Locks, the world's busiest canal in terms of tonnage that passes through it, while smaller recreational and tour boats use the Canadian Sault Ste. Marie Canal.
French colonists referred to the rapids on the river as Les Saults de Ste. Marie and the village name was derived from that. The rapids and cascades of the St. Mary's River descend more than 6 m (20 ft) from the level of Lake Superior to the level of the lower lakes. Hundreds of years ago, this slowed shipping traffic, requiring an overland portage of boats and cargo from one lake to the other. The entire name translates to "Saint Mary's Rapids" or "Saint Mary's Falls". The word sault is pronounced [so] in French, and /suː/ in the English pronunciation of the city name. Residents of the city are called Saultites.
Sault Ste. Marie is bordered to the east by the Rankin and Garden River First Nation reserves, and to the west by Prince Township. To the north, the city is bordered by an unincorporated portion of Algoma District, which includes the local services boards of Aweres, Batchawana Bay, Goulais and District, Peace Tree and Searchmont. The city's census agglomeration, including the townships of Laird, Prince and Macdonald, Meredith and Aberdeen Additional and the First Nations reserves of Garden River and Rankin, had a total population of 79,800 in 2011.
Native American settlements, mostly of Ojibwe-speaking peoples, existed here for more than 500 years. In the late 17th century, French Jesuit missionaries established a mission at the First Nations village. This was followed by development of a fur trading post and larger settlement, as traders, trappers and Native Americans were attracted to the community. It was considered one community and part of Canada until after the War of 1812 and settlement of the border between Canada and the US at the Ste. Mary's River. At that time, the US prohibited British traders from any longer operating in its territory, and the areas separated by the river began to develop as two communities, both named Sault Ste. Marie." - info from Wikipedia.
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