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For all my buddies who are vicariously experiencing this cruise across the Atlantic with me.
This is what it looks like out our back door.
The skies are leaden, and the air is hung in heavy mist. The waves are sheet metal grey, sometimes this marble green, and always capped in luminescent white caps.
Blessings,
Sheree
The MM theme for tomorrow, 1/22, is marble and this cute bank is a possibility.
But I really think this is going to become my Crazy Tuesday posting for close up/macro- it sure makes me grin. The context picture is even cuter.
…….💙🔎 HCT 🔍💙
The Flickr Lounge-Stone
The big one is polished granite and the two smaller green ones are mable. These are great for use in crushing seeds and herbs.
Façade, Siena Cathedral, lower section 13th century by Nicola Pisano and Andrea Pisano, upper section 14th century, gold mosaics 19th century; many of the sculptures by Nicola Pisano are now in the museum, replicas from the 1960s are now on the façade
Capitolio National dominates the Havana skies. Similar in architectural design to the US Capital Buillding in DC, though taller & much more ornate in detail, construction began in 1929 & took 5000 workers, working 24hrs a day, on 8 hr shifts, just over 3 yrs to complete, at a cost of $17 million. It was the seat of Congress until the revolution of 1959. Today it is the Academy of Sciences & the National Library of Science &Technology. It also houses one of only a handful of cyber-cafes in Havana, with 6 computers. But one can only access e-mail, not the internet. Cost : $5 an hour. An impossible sum for nationals earning $10 a month.
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Going to leave tragic Cuba behind for a couple of posts & focus on its beauty & history. How complete withdrawal of human rights could have gone on for so long in this day and age in the western hemisphere becomes more perplexing the more I dwell on it.
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Nicola Pisano with assistants Andrea Pisano, Arnolfo di Cambio, Lapo di Ricevuto, Pulpit, 1265–68, Carrara marble with green marble, porphyry, and granite columns, 460 cm high (Siena Cathedral)
Nicola Pisano with assistants Andrea Pisano, Arnolfo di Cambio, Lapo di Ricevuto, Pulpit, 1265–68, Carrara marble with green marble, porphyry, and granite columns, 460 cm high (Siena Cathedral)
Nicola Pisano with assistants Andrea Pisano, Arnolfo di Cambio, Lapo di Ricevuto, Pulpit, 1265–68, Carrara marble with green marble, porphyry, and granite columns, 460 cm high (Siena Cathedral)
Nicola Pisano with assistants Andrea Pisano, Arnolfo di Cambio, Lapo di Ricevuto, Pulpit, 1265–68, Carrara marble with green marble, porphyry, and granite columns, 460 cm high (Siena Cathedral)
Nicola Pisano with assistants Andrea Pisano, Arnolfo di Cambio, Lapo di Ricevuto, Pulpit, 1265–68, Carrara marble with green marble, porphyry, and granite columns, 460 cm high (Siena Cathedral)
Nicola Pisano with assistants Andrea Pisano, Arnolfo di Cambio, Lapo di Ricevuto, Pulpit, 1265–68, Carrara marble with green marble, porphyry, and granite columns, 460 cm high (Siena Cathedral)
Nicola Pisano with assistants Andrea Pisano, Arnolfo di Cambio, Lapo di Ricevuto, Pulpit, 1265–68, Carrara marble with green marble, porphyry, and granite columns, 460 cm high (Siena Cathedral)
Nicola Pisano with assistants Andrea Pisano, Arnolfo di Cambio, Lapo di Ricevuto, Pulpit, 1265–68, Carrara marble with green marble, porphyry, and granite columns, 460 cm high (Siena Cathedral)
Nicola Pisano with assistants Andrea Pisano, Arnolfo di Cambio, Lapo di Ricevuto, Pulpit, 1265–68, Carrara marble with green marble, porphyry, and granite columns, 460 cm high (Siena Cathedral)
Nicola Pisano with assistants Andrea Pisano, Arnolfo di Cambio, Lapo di Ricevuto, Pulpit, 1265–68, Carrara marble with green marble, porphyry, and granite columns, 460 cm high (Siena Cathedral)
Nicola Pisano with assistants Andrea Pisano, Arnolfo di Cambio, Lapo di Ricevuto, Pulpit, 1265–68, Carrara marble with green marble, porphyry, and granite columns, 460 cm high (Siena Cathedral)
Nicola Pisano with assistants Andrea Pisano, Arnolfo di Cambio, Lapo di Ricevuto, Pulpit, 1265–68, Carrara marble with green marble, porphyry, and granite columns, 460 cm high (Siena Cathedral)
Nicola Pisano with assistants Andrea Pisano, Arnolfo di Cambio, Lapo di Ricevuto, Pulpit, 1265–68, Carrara marble with green marble, porphyry, and granite columns, 460 cm high (Siena Cathedral)
Nicola Pisano with assistants Andrea Pisano, Arnolfo di Cambio, Lapo di Ricevuto, Pulpit, 1265–68, Carrara marble with green marble, porphyry, and granite columns, 460 cm high (Siena Cathedral)
Nicola Pisano with assistants Andrea Pisano, Arnolfo di Cambio, Lapo di Ricevuto, Pulpit, 1265–68, Carrara marble with green marble, porphyry, and granite columns, 460 cm high (Siena Cathedral)
Nicola Pisano with assistants Andrea Pisano, Arnolfo di Cambio, Lapo di Ricevuto, Pulpit, 1265–68, Carrara marble with green marble, porphyry, and granite columns, 460 cm high (Siena Cathedral)
I have always loved marbles, just to spill them out all over the place and see the way the light reflects through them and off of them. Jacob has amassed quite a collection over the years, some new, some old and some from my childhood. Today, I decided to sort out all the green ones, they remind me of beach glass and the sea.
Nicola Pisano with assistants Andrea Pisano, Arnolfo di Cambio, Lapo di Ricevuto, Pulpit, 1265–68, Carrara marble with green marble, porphyry, and granite columns, 460 cm high (Siena Cathedral)
Back in France for 2 weeks, it's been a long time I didn't get into some real urbex. That's what I did this week-end with Quentin (see his FB page here). We had a lot of fails but had some good surprises too. Here is a shot from an abandoned castle in south France. We get up early and we were on the castle before the sun rise. Watching the hall being enlightmented with no noise was very pleasant!
Shot with Canon EOS 5D Mk. I + Tamron SP AF Aspherical Di LD IF 17-35 f/2.8-4 @17mm
No graphic content in comments please! Thanks
“Green Marble” - serpentinite (undetermined commercial name; undetermined provenance).
“Green marble” is often available from granite & marble companies. However, the actual material is not even close to what the term “green marble” implies or suggests. “Green marble” is actually serpentinite, which results from the metamorphism of olivine-rich ultramafic igneous rocks (peridotites). Serpentinites are principally composed of serpentine, although small amounts of magnetite are often present.
Nicola Pisano with assistants Andrea Pisano, Arnolfo di Cambio, Lapo di Ricevuto, Pulpit, 1265–68, Carrara marble with green marble, porphyry, and granite columns, 460 cm high (Siena Cathedral)
Nicola Pisano with assistants Andrea Pisano, Arnolfo di Cambio, Lapo di Ricevuto, Pulpit, 1265–68, Carrara marble with green marble, porphyry, and granite columns, 460 cm high (Siena Cathedral)
Nicola Pisano with assistants Andrea Pisano, Arnolfo di Cambio, Lapo di Ricevuto, Pulpit, 1265–68, Carrara marble with green marble, porphyry, and granite columns, 460 cm high (Siena Cathedral)
Nicola Pisano with assistants Andrea Pisano, Arnolfo di Cambio, Lapo di Ricevuto, Pulpit, 1265–68, Carrara marble with green marble, porphyry, and granite columns, 460 cm high (Siena Cathedral)