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I don't really have any good news since writing the decidedly negative caption to my last photo. So I could continue but...I just don't have time. It's cool how all the flares of the green lights seem to be occupying spaces along the path of the windshield wiper...I GUESS!
I mean seriously, there has to be something better I could be taking pictures of.
"yeah I know, right?"
Canon SD400. I'm changing the name to POS400. Piece. Of. S. hit.
POS400. Awesome.
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Arona, Aruna in Novara dialect , Aron-a in Piedmontese) is an Italian municipality of 13,693 inhabitants in the province of Novara , in Piedmont .
The sixth municipality in the province by population, it is a tourist - tertiary center on the shores of Lake Maggiore , whose development has been favored by its position on the Via del Sempione and the motorway and railway connection with Milan .
In the municipality there is the Lagoni di Mercurago natural park , included among the " prehistoric pile-dwelling sites around the Alps ", since 2011 in the UNESCO world heritage list
Physical geography
The city of Arona is located on the Piedmontese shore of Lake Maggiore and is crossed by the Vevera stream , which flows into the lake here. The hilly bas-reliefs of morainic origin extend all around (called "mottos"), incorporated into the Lagoni di Mercurago Natural Park where, in 1860 , the first pile-dwelling settlement found in Italy was identified . Most of the municipal territory is also hilly, with altitudes that progressively slope down from north to south (and from west to east in the town centre) from 513 m at Motto Mirabello (near the Dagnente hamlet ) up to 195 m on the shore at the lake.
The hilly reliefs are generally covered by woods which occupy over half of the Arona area, urbanized areas cover 33% of the surface and meadows or pastures cover 9%; smaller percentages are intended for parks, gardens and green sports areas (2.3%), vegetable gardens, orchards, nurseries and vineyards (1.7%), herbaceous uncultivated areas (1%) and arable land (0.4%).
Located in the southernmost part of the lake, Arona is about 37 km from the provincial capital Novara , but only about thirty from Milan-Malpensa airport .
Origins of the name
The toponym could derive from the Celtic roots art (mountain) and on (water), with the meaning of "mountain on the water" [ without source ] .
History
Origins
From Arona, in Roman times , passed the Via Severiana Augusta , a Roman consular road that connected Mediolanum (modern Milan ) with the Verbannus Lacus (Lake Verbano, or Lake Maggiore ), and from here to the Sempione pass ( lat. Summo Plano ).
The first written documentation confirming the existence of a socially organized locality called Arona dates back to 979 : it is a attestation that allows us to identify this date only by induction, so much so that some historians instead maintain that it is 963 .
In any case, the presence of man in this southern part of Lake Maggiore is confirmed much further back in time and dates back to prehistory ; in fact, in the Lagoni area, near the hamlet of Mercurago, a pile-dwelling settlement dating back to the Bronze Age (active from the 18th to the 13th century BC ) and, in 1971-1972, a necropolis of the Golasecca civilization from the end of the 6th century were discovered. - early 5th century BC Human traces are also documented in the Motto San Carlo peat bog , in which an arrowhead dating back to the Neolithic and the only object from the Copper Age was found .
Of the wooden finds extracted in the 19th century , such as the remains of three wheels that turned idle on a central axis and were equipped with rudimentary non-concentric spokes and those of a pirogue dug into a tree trunk, only the plaster casts remain. They were obtained from footprints in the peat by Bartolomeo Gastaldi , who collected and studied them at the time but was unable to treat them adequately for conservation given the restoration methods of the time so that, preserved for millennia in the particular anaerobic environmental conditions of the peat bog, they crumbled to dehydration shortly after their discovery. The remains of a village were also found whose huts had been built on the edge of a body of water and whose foundations had been preserved thanks to the peat in which they had been planted, as well as various everyday objects in metal or ceramic: jars, vase bottoms, plates, arrows, dagger blades and other defense tools, bronze pins. From the dozen tombs of the 6th century BC come vases of fine workmanship, bracelets, fibulae , rings, bronze belt hooks. The ceramics found in large quantities around the Rocca di Arona testify to a settlement subsequent to that of the Lagoni and have been assigned to the Canegrate , Protogolasecca and Golasecca cultures .
The Celt Gauls
The 5th century marks a moment of crisis in the lower Verbano area, and only in the 3rd-2nd century does a conspicuous presence of people reappear, this time Celto-Gallic . A valuable bronze anklet found at the foot of the fortress dates back to the 2nd century BC . It is precisely in this period that the first socially organized residential units were formed. The urbanization of the area is fully justified by the presence of the Rocca di Arona , as opposed to the Rocca di Angera on the Lombard shore of the lake, a position of strategic importance that could not go unnoticed by any local population. In fact, on the fortress there are the remains of a pre-Roman fortification, and three kilometers from Arona, the military campus of Borgo Agnello and Paruzzaro .
The Romans and the Middle Ages
In Roman times it was a place of passage towards the Simplon pass . Under the church of San Giuseppe the remains of a furnace and an artisan workshop for metalworking were found . Roman colonization is also documented by funerary tombstones found almost everywhere in the area.
The current inhabited center developed around the Benedictine abbey of San Salvatore, founded in 979 by Count Amizzone del Seprio. The proof of this development is documented in a "Chronicle" or " Pasionario ", a kind of medley in which lives of more or less reliable saints, texts of asceticism, letters of bishops and prelates , prayers and invocations are intertwined . In this context appears the narrative of the martyrdom of San Graziano and San Felino which occurred in 979 with the translation of their bodies to Arona, by Count Amizzone del Seprio, a troop captain under the command of Emperor Otto I. There are 249 sheets of parchment written in medieval Latin and written in Gothic . Over time, the Benedictine abbey lost its main prerogatives, mainly due to the rise of a civil authority which identified itself first with the Della Torre family , and subsequently, after its demolition, with the Visconti family , first of all Ottone who was archbishop of Milan , around the end of the thirteenth century under which the dominion of the archbishop of Milan passed . In 1263, the Milanese forces, led by the Torriani , besieged Arona by land and water, where the Milanese exiles led by Ottone Visconti had gathered [9] . Between the two hundred and three hundred years old, Stefano Visconti (1287/88 - 1327) appears to have been a Lord, married for the second time in 1318 to Valentina, daughter of Bernabó Doria, Lord of Sassello and Eliana Fieschi of the Lords of Lavagna. Stefano and Valentina had Matteo II, Galeazzo II and Bernabó Visconti, Consignori of Milan from 11 October 1354. Formerly property of the Torriani family ( 12th century ). After the battle of Desio ( 1277 ), it belonged to the family of Ottone Visconti, Visconti and from the third or fourth decade of the 14th century it was a free municipality under the government of the Benedictine abbey.
The Renaissance
From 1439 the territory was granted as a fief to the Borromeo family , a lineage of bankers originally from San Miniato in Tuscany . When the Visconti family became extinct with Filippo's daughter Maria Visconti marrying Francesco I in 1441 , the duchy passed to the Sforza family . But this vast territory also had to be defended, and in this sense Vitaliano in 1447 asked Filippo Maria for authorization to fortify the fortress and the village of Arona, granted to him in 1449 with a letter from Filippo Maria which authorized his vassal to create walls, drawbridges, war defense works, and also places for the gathering and custody of ships: first documented military port on Lake Maggiore . The fortress was defended so well that it resisted a siege in 1523 by 7,000 men under the command of Renzo de Ceri , one of the many wars that broke out between the Duchy of Milan and the French .
Modern era
During the Thirty Years' War , in 1636, the French, to prevent navigation between the lake and Milan, set up a ship equipped with four cannons, on which 100 musketeers embarked and placed it in front of Arona. The Spaniards then had some boats armed and, after some fighting, forced the French ship to retreat along the Ticino [10] . With the entire Duchy of Milan it was under Spanish and then Austrian rule . With the Treaty of Worms (1743) it passed into the dominions of the Savoy state , under Charles Emmanuel III .
It was taken by the Napoleonic army and the fortress was demolished following the peace agreements with the Austrians in 1801. With the Congress of Vienna in 1815 it was returned to the Savoy family . In 1838 Carlo Alberto of Savoy awarded it the title of city .
In 1848 Giuseppe Garibaldi entered the city during the first war of independence , returning in 1859.
In 1855 the railway line to Novara was opened and during the 19th century industrial and tourist activities established themselves. At the end of the century it suffered a disastrous lake flood.
On 15 September 1943, the roundups of Jews that began in the days preceding Baveno affected the town of Arona, part of that massacre on Lake Maggiore of which in the end there were 57 victims. There were 9 people arrested and killed in Arona by German soldiers, Their bodies were thrown into the lake. The large family of the Milanese industrialist Federico Jarach managed to save themselves by crossing the lake by boat from their villa, because they were notified by telephone just in time.
Symbols
Coat of arms
The coat of arms was recognized with DCG of 10 August 1928.
«Party of silver and green, the lowered fly and a star divided from the score line of one to the other . Exterior ornaments of the city."
The heraldic figure of flight (two spread wings) refers to the toponym Alona documented in ancient manuscripts. The coat of arms is reproduced on the frontispiece of the Statutes of Arona of 1319 although the design is certainly later and features wings and a gold star on a red background.
Banner
The banner was granted by royal decree of 7 May 1934.
«Dress made of white and green, richly decorated with gold embroidery and bearing the municipal coat of arms with the inscription centered in gold City of Arona .»
Flag
The Municipality has adopted a flag consisting of a white and green flag placed in the center of the civic emblem without shield and ornaments.
Monuments and places of interest
Piazza del Popolo with the church of Santa Maria di Loreto
Collegiate Church of the Nativity of the Virgin Mary . The parish church, whose first contract for its construction dates back to 1468, was consecrated, not yet finished, on 12 March 1488. At the beginning of the 17th century Cardinal Federico Borromeo ordered impressive restoration and interior decoration works, upon completion of which, on 10 March 1608, the church was erected as a collegiate church . After the substantial repairs of 1856-1867 it was reconsecrated in 1858 by bishop GF Gentile. It is in Gothic-Byzantine style, altered by later elements. The limestone façade, with a central rose window, has fifteenth-century elements, and a notable bas-relief of the Nativity of the Redeemer, ascribed by Luca Beltrami to the Mantegazza brothers, authors of the lower part of the Certosa di Pavia . Inside you can admire the main altar built in 1812 based on a design by Abbot Zanoia; the Holy Family by Gaudenzio Ferrari in six fields, with the signature Gaudentius Vincius and the date '15', on wood and closed in a carved frame of the time; the Nativity by Andrea Appiani ; the Annunciation and the Marriage by Francesco Mazzucchelli known as Morazzone , donated by Cardinal Federico Borromeo. Furthermore, four reliquaries are preserved there which contain the pallium, the miter and the crosier of San Carlo Borromeo donated by Cardinal Federico. They were renewed in 1920 by the citizens of Arono in fulfillment of a vow made during the last influenza pandemic, which was considered to have ended through the saint's intercession.
Church of the Holy Martyrs Graziano, Felino, Fedele and Carpoforo (also known as San Graziano). Formerly a Benedictine abbey, the church was annexed to the monastery of the Salvatore and Saints Graziano and Felino, founded in the second half of the 10th century. No traces of the original building remain. Completely rebuilt, it was returned to worship the year following the consecration of the Collegiate Church, 1489. In the church there is an altarpiece of the Madonna Enthroned and Saint by Ambrogio da Fossano, known as Bergognone , hanging behind the main altar. The painting was commissioned by the abbot of the time, Monsignor Girolamo Calagrani, who in the painting appears kneeling in front of the Virgin.
Church of Santa Maria di Loreto (also called Santa Marta) in the ancient Piazza del Popolo, where the Broletto and what remains of the ancient port are also located .
Church of the Visitation, annexed to the monastery of the order of the Visitation, was founded in 1652 by the archpriest Graziano Ponzone. On the main altar of the church there is a canvas by the painter Gaudenzio Magistrini (1820-1871).
Beolchi Chapel-Ossuary
Sanctuary of the Sacro Monte of San Carlo
Visitation Monastery
Small church of San Giuseppe , formerly dedicated to Sant'Eusebio
Parish church of San Giusto (in the hamlet of Montrigiasco )
Church of Santa Maria di Loreto (also called Santa Marta)
Church of San Giovanni Battista (in the Dagnente hamlet )
Church of San Giorgio (in Mercurago )
Church of the Holy Trinity
Church of the Sacred Heart
Church of Saints Anna and Gioacchino, in Corso Cavour (built in 1721, with façade rebuilt in 1841; altarpiece by Giuseppe De Albertis, from Arona, with Saints Anna and Gioacchino with the young Mary )
Civil and military architecture
Broletto or Palace of Justice, built at the end of the fourteenth century on the ancient Piazza del Popolo, where the church of Santa Maria di Loreto also stands. Between the Gothic arches of the portico are terracotta medallions with portraits of the nobles governing the city.
Villa Ponti, which hosted Napoleon Bonaparte on his return from the Egyptian campaign and where classical music concerts and exhibitions of important artists are currently organised.
Villa Leuthold, a nineteenth-century public park, with very large specimens of camellias.
Rocca Borromea , whose ruins are located on the hill above the city. It was historically disputed between the Torriani and Visconti families as well as the birthplace of San Carlo .
Asilo Bottelli , a 19th century building in neoclassical style originally used as a nursery school.
Villa Cantoni , built in the 1880s.
The Colossus of Saint Charles Borromeo
The same topic in detail: Colossus of Saint Charles Borromeo .
This statue, nicknamed the Sancarlone , dominates Lake Maggiore and can be reached by taking the provincial road 35 towards the Ghevio di Meina hamlet , in the San Carlo area. The colossus is approximately 35 meters high (23.40 m for the statue and 11.70 m for the base) and was built between 1614 and 1697 with copper plates . Originally it was planned that the statue, completed in 1698 , would be part of a Sacred Mountain of which, however, only three chapels were built.
Society
Demographic evolution
Inhabitants registered
Languages and dialects
Even though the city is in Piedmontese territory, the local Verbanese dialect is of the Insubre type ( Western Lombard ).
Culture
Museums
The Mineralogical Museum founded in 1983 and located in a nineteenth-century building in Piazza San Graziano.
The Khaled al-Asaad Civic Archaeological Museum .
Libraries
There is the Carlo Torelli Civic Library , founded in 1968
Economy
The definitive destruction of the Aronese fortress together with six other citadels in Piedmont was ordered by Napoleon Bonaparte in 1800 , the day following the victory at Marengo . This meant the possibility of expanding the urban fabric beyond the walls within which it was limited. Thanks to this, large spaces were created on which to build the port, the boatyard and the railway station. Arona's fortune has always been linked to its excellent geographical position, thanks to which it enjoys and has always enjoyed a highly respectable logistical condition.
The economy of Arona is mainly based on tourism and trade , although in the area there are some important chemical factories, such as Thurckon Srl, and confectionery, such as the Laica chocolate shop .
Infrastructure and transport
The station, under the responsibility of the Lombardy Region, is an important railway hub between the Domodossola-Milan and Arona-Novara lines , and is currently served only by regional trains based on the Service Contract stipulated between Trenitalia/Trenord and the Piedmont and Lombardy Regions. It is also the terminus of the Santhià-Arona railway , which has been replaced by self-service since 17 June 2012.
Arona is the headquarters of Navigazione Lago Maggiore.
Sports
Twice Arona was the stage arrival site of the Giro d'Italia .
1966 14th stage Parma - Arona, won by Franco Bitossi
2001 20th stage Busto Arsizio -Arona, won by Gilberto Simoni
On 24 August 2005 Damiano Cunego won the 8th edition of the Gran Premio Nobili in Arona.
The Arona football club is based in the municipality , whose internal field is the Valerio Del Ponte stadium .
There is an American football team , the Arona 65ers , Italian champions in 2015 and a basketball team, Arona Basket , which participates in the youth and Serie C championships.
Wanted to take a chance to document this buildings existence as it will be going away in the near future. This building has endured years of rumors of its demise, but it won't be dead yet as it has been sold to the University across the street. The irony is that my former boss that I worked for now works across the street and is inheriting this fine fine building.
les Beechnois sans doute parmi les plus anciens défenseurs de la nature sont prêts à sacrifier leur existence pour se porter au secours d'un animal en danger
The parish came into existence following the decision of the Diocesan Council, in the fall of 1998, following the repeated insistence of the faithful from the Drumul Taberei neighborhood, who were disappointed by the lack of places of worship in this neighborhood.
Thus, at the initiative of the priest Nicolae Burlan, a disassembled wooden church was brought from the Vicovul de Jos commune in Suceava county and reassembled on a plot of land belonging to the Ministry of National Defense located in Brașov Street, no. 21C, sector 6.
Later, interventions were made at the City Hall of the Capital, which ceded a 3000 square meter plot of land for the purpose of building a church and which was given in exchange to the Ministry of National Defense for the equivalent area on which the wooden church is already located.
The wooden church was consecrated by His Holiness Teodosie Snagoveanul, Vicar Bishop of the Archdiocese of Bucharest at that time, on July 26, 1998.
The shrine of the church is Saint Pious Parascheva, (in Greek "paraschevi" means "Friday") whom Orthodox Christianity celebrates on October 14 and whose Holy Relics are in the Metropolitan Cathedral of Iași.
Since the wooden church proved inadequate for the more than 1,000 believers from various neighborhoods who regularly participate in the Holy services, the decision was made to build a brick church, of larger dimensions absolutely necessary for a neighborhood like Drumul Taberei.
The plan of the new church belonging to the architect Florin Bucur Crăciun is in the form of an inscribed Greek cross.
From an architectural point of view, it fits into the style prefigured by the churches "Sfânta Sofia" in Constantinople and "Sfântul Nicolae Domnesc" in Curtea de Argeș.
A large central hemispherical dome dominates the spatial composition of the edifice.
A wide porch with six free and two engaged columns precedes the entrance.
Access to the church is through a portal with an arched frame, made of finely carved stone.
The vault is made up of 25 semi-arches, resting at the ends on two metal caisson rings, with other intermediate rings unfolding between them.
The covering of the altar, similar to the apses of the proscomidiary and the diaconicon, is made by a cone connected to a semi-cylinder.
On the opposite side, on the first floor, there is the cage which is accessed by stairs placed inside, in the northwest and southwest corners of the building, which also lead to the two balconies.
A previous existence as a military parachutist helped Patrick Baty on this project. The 185ft bridge had to be scaled at night, when the trains had stopped running, in order for paint samples to be taken.
See the BBC clip here.
He was able to establish that this famous bridge by Isambard Kingdom Brunel had originally been painted with a white “anti-corrosive” paint containing ground glass. The bridge had been painted twenty times and with a combination of physical and documentary analysis Patrick was able to work out how it looked since it was built in 1859.
I spend forty hours every week of my life at this work station. I consider my work desk as my dog house and the telephone as my leash. My cubical plays a role of my existence. I used window and florescence lighting.
A friend of mine, very inventive, had the idea to let a chair in his garden in order to observe its gradual decay, without interfering. An evolutive artwork, slowly modified by the natural elements. A mirror of our personnal existence, I suppose.
L'un de mes amis, très créatif, a eu l'idée de laisser une chaise dans son jardin afin d'observer sa dégradation progressive, sans intervenir. Une œuvre d'art evolutive, lentement modifiée par les éléments naturels. Un miroir de notre propre existence, je suppose.
Loretta Quinn
Bronze sculpture on granite plinth, 1993
Cnr Swanston St & Flinders La (Melway ref. 2F, G5)
Born in Hobart, Loretta Quinn studied sculpture at the Tasmanian School of Art and the Victorian College of the Arts. The City of Melbourne commissioned Quinn to create Beyond the Ocean of Existence as part of the Swanston Walk redevelopment in 1992; the sculpture was unveiled the following year. The city also commissioned Quinn’s Within Three Worlds, located in Princes Park.
Beyond the Ocean of Existence demonstrates Quinn’s reflective approach, and it is a work replete with religious references. There is a sense of ‘folk religion’ in much of her art, and whether the symbols derive from the mystery of a Latin mass or the animist universe, a Celtic myth or a Japanese garden, she says they are ‘visual references to which others will relate’.
A patinated bronze sculpture, Beyond the Ocean of Existence comprises a single large ball surrounded by eight bronze coils. A series of smaller balls and lengths of column, both triangular and circular in cross-section, surmount these coils. At the sculpture’s top is a stylised angel. The work is a mounted on a granite plinth of dressed and polished blocks.
Photograph by Louis Porter
157/365 6/8/2015
For some reason the letter "I" was omitted from this embroidered alphabet. If the letter I does not exist then do I exist? An existential question.
iPhone 4S processed with VSCOcam with a5 preset.
The record on the existence of Košice dating from 1230 in connected with that on the existence of the rectory church. In the process of the settlement's transformation from a rural community into a town, all its periods of success and failures had been reflected on St. Elizabeth's Cathedral. According to historic data the present-day cathedral was built on the site of an edifice of older date which was consecrated to St. Elisabeth as well. It was referred to in the document of Pope Martin V of the year 1283 and in the letter of 1290, which stated that Eger bishop Andrew II exempted Košice parish from the dean's sphere of jurisdiction.
This medieval monument was built in the High Gothic style between 1378 and 1508 in several stages on the site of a parish church that burned down in 1370, in memory of Saint Elisabeth of Hungary, the patrona of all armed mercenaries and also Portugal.
The cathedral was often damaged by calamities (1556) and underwent numerous restorations. The most extensive restoration works took place in the years 1877-1896 by the drafts of Imre Steindl. The northern tower was completed in 1775, while the southern, Matthias tower in 1904. During the last phase of the restoration a crypt was built under the northern nave of the cathedral. In 1906 the remains of Francis II Rákóczi and his friends from Rodosto were buried there.
Church of St Michael & All Angels, Cornwood Devon www.flickr.com/gp/52219527@N00/Lm7yNo1449 built of granite on the site of an earlier building on the highest point of a low ridge overlooking the old village which, 700-800 years ago, would have consisted of a straggle of cob and thatched cottages together with 10 outlying farms.
It was first mentioned in the first Diocesan Register of 1257, the rector being John de Langford
Overseeing a large parish which contained 4 large great houses and their estates. Three of these were manors mentioned in the 1086 Domesday Book - Cornwood (the present Delamore estate), Blachford and Fardel. The fourth house, Slade, was in existence in the reign of Edward I and was important enough to be shown on its own on the first map of the County of Devon in the late 16c.
The oldest parts of the church are the east end of the chancel and the squat, slightly tapering tower housing 5 bells cast by Pennington in 1770, .the lancet windows suggest a date from the early part of the 13c , They were probably part of an earlier building whose nave and chancel may have corresponded in size with the present nave. We know that this church had 3 altars which were rededicated in 1336 by Bishop Grandison after enlargement and restoration.
However the main body of the church was rebuilt in late 14c / early 15c in Perpendicular style.
It now comprises of a nave, chancel, chancel chapels, north and south aisles, north and south transepts, south porch and north door.
Henry Smith the rector of c1640 who had been instituted shortly before the rebellion against Charles I "was treated in a most barbarous and Inhuman manner… his house was also plundered by a party of soldiers form the garrison at Plymouth, who did not so much as leave him a dish or a spoon. At the same time they plundered him of his books also… himself, his wife and five or six children were all turned out of doors and subsisted for some time by the charity of the neighbouring gentry" His estate was sequestrated and "he was… sent to a common Jayl in Exeter, where he died soon after the martyrdon of his Prince…" Walter Shute was later intruded on the vicarage in his place and is said to have preached a blasphemous sermon, in which he derided kings and princes on the anniversary of the martyrdom of Charles I. However after the 1660 restoration of the monarchy he conformed and was allowed to continue in the living, being properly instituted on 8th November 1662. Although it was remembered that "he it was who allowed the church to be abused, the rood loft to be pulled down and the painted and stained windows to be broken". (All the stained glass in the windows were not replaced until the late 1800's) Communion plate still exists which must have been hidden from the plunderers
Also the early 17c pulpit seems to have escaped
In 1734 Waltham Savery of Slade was convicted of "chiding and brawling in the church and churchyard" and was forbidden to enter until he asked pardon of lord of the manor Sir John Rogers publicly in the church.
In 1783 the cost of church repair was 15s. 4d.
The chancel was largely rebuilt in 1867 with new furnishings including an alabaster reredos around the walls and gilded musical angels in the roof funded by Lord Blachford
A sixth bell was added in 1885
An inscription records that extensive repairs to the exterior was done in 1899 in memory of Anne Elizabeth Parker of Delamore, by her husband George Parker..
In the north transept is the altar from the former chapel of the ease in Lutton with a memorial over to the Fortescue family of Hanger.
The organ dates from 1876 , its oak front being given by Lady of the manor, Miss M. Deare of Blachford when the organ was restored in 1910. Behind it is the doorway, which led to the stairs up to the rood loft, the doorway to which is immediately above.
There are monuments to successive lords of two of the manors, however none to the lords of Fardel which included the Raleighs , who had their own chapel from the 14c. In Sir Walter's time it was held by his elder brother Sir Carew Ralegh, and later by the Hele, Pearse and Pode families.
In the south Slade chapel is one to Philip Cole of Slade 1596 and wife Joane Williams 1633 & Stowfordhttps://www.flickr.com/gp/52219527@N00/m980S7ygZA & two year old John Savery of Slade 1715 www.flickr.com/gp/52219527@N00/0u85VU9SK5
In the chancel kneel Robert Belmaine of Dalamore & wife Dorothy who died wihtin months of each other in 1627 www.flickr.com/gp/52219527@N00/v90h618Esf
The 18c / 19c Rogers of Blachford are also here on plainer memorials.
Electricity was installed in the church in 1952
Wayland Smith CCL www.geograph.org.uk/photo/6725185
"My heart and my whole belongs to you, for we are one. Attitudes change in time, but existence as self doesn't. You are myself. Golden bands are a weak metaphor for the love I have for you. "
In England, four pubs are closing down every day.
Taxed out of existence by a greedy government that has also banned the centuries-old tradition of enjoying English Ale and tobacco.
This gorgeous little house has ceased to be. Plowed under in the name of progress. We remember.
Process notes:
Three passes during scanning. One produced an image with only highlight information and just a small amount of midtone detail. This image looked very dark. Second image was for midtones. Highlights were completely blown out in this image and also no shadow detail. The third image was made to show only shadow detail. This was a very bright image, with no details in the highlights at all.
Arranged as layers in Photoshop, Highlight image on top, Multiply 50% opacity. Shadow image in the middle, Multiply 75% opacity. Midtone image on bottom, Normal 100% opacity.
I used a Levels layer on top of all of that to make final adjustments to the overall dark levels.
In botany they call it sympatric species, meaning that they exist together in the same place or locality. In this case we found the Costus globosus growing next to Etlingera (torch ginger)
See the other two photos of this series here and here
Once the barren land, now occupied by our footsteps everywhere. Our mother earth has changed her look so many many times in millions of years, and it has been changing even faster when humans activities are changing faster. What we hope is to preserve a little heaven among our existence, to keep our mother earth's original look wherever possible.
The shot was taken at Laurel Creek Reserve @ K-W area in Ontario. A forested area where also nurtures the biggest local water reservoir. Some plantations in the area makes me think how earth used to look like a million years ago. Hope we can preserve more and more forests like such for the sake of a sustainable home.
Happy belated Earth Day!
Despite my living in New York since i was six, I never knew of the existence of this lovely carriage-house-turned-day-hotel that was built in 1799. (Can you see "1799" written into the back of the house with brick?) Taking a break from the mountain of deliverables for work and school, I took advantage of this weekend's Open House NY and visited the house on East 61 St and 1st Ave.
Pictures of the interior were not allowed but after the tour we were allowed to roam within the small but charming back yard. For a day hotel it's not very large but I learned there were quite a few of its kind lining the East River for the growing population of the middle class emerging during the boom of New York below 14th Street. Another reason it's a bit small and unusual is it was originally built to house carriages and animals. The main house was supposed to be across the street, which is now parking for Bed Bath & Beyond.
The walkway leads from an upstairs room (now used to show a short film about the property) to the neighboring building which is now called the Abigail Adams Smith Auditorium. It's not open to the public but they hold events there that sometimes are. I just love the stonework covering the exterior of this lovely carriage house.
This place is located in-between Shilong to Shora road, namely Laitryngew of East Khasi Hills district of Meghalaya state, India. This place is well known for small scale mining and Rat Hole mining has been a conventional occupation of the people of the place and Sohra alike since time immemorial, the very mining has now put the lives of the residents of the area in an unprecedented danger.