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Från kronogård till utarrenderad egendom
Även från 1600-talet finns uppgifter om skatt som betalades i form av mjöl och ål. Ålgård var en kronogård (ägd av staten) fram till 1689. Då donerades gården till kronobefallningsmannen (kronofogde) Johan Seth, som också bodde där något år. Gården förblev i släktens ägo till 1827.
Därefter kom en period med många ägarbyten, ibland bolag med flera ägare, ibland enstaka eller enskild ägare. Fåtal ägare har själva varit mjölnare. De som ägde fastigheten fick som regel en viss procentdel av intäkterna från kvarn, såg och ålfiske. Periodvis har ytterligare en arrendator eller en dräng tagit hand om djur och jordbruk.
Den ursprungliga kvarnen låg vid Grindsbyvattnets naturliga utlopp. Vattennivån i Grindsbyvattnet reglerades genom ett dämme fäst i berghällarna en liten bit nedströms. Järnbultarna från de gamla dammluckorna finns fortfarande kvar alldeles under den lilla träbro som byggts över vattnet.
Mjölkeviks Kile med utsikt mot Sundsby kile.
Höstdagjämning - men hösten är sen
ÅRSTIDER. Visst, dagarna mörknar minut för minut och från mitten av veckan är natten längre än dagen. Men termometern visar att sommaren hållit sig kvar ovanligt länge. Hösten får helt enkelt vänta.
Kalendern säger att det är höstdagjämning på onsdag, då dag och natt är lika långa. Fast höstdagjämningen är egentligen bara ett ögonblick, nämligen klockan 10.22 svensk tid. Astronomiskt är då hösten kommen på norra halvklotet.
Men meteorologiskt infaller hösten då dygnstemperaturen är under 10 grader fem dygn i följd. Hittills har detta skett ovanligt sent.
– Hösten kom till Norrlands inland för ett par veckor sedan, men det var varmt i augusti så den blev lite försenad. Och det är fortfarande sommar längs Norrlandskusten. I Luleåtrakten får man normalt annars höst den 7 september, så där är hösten också försenad, säger meteorolog Marcus Sjöstedt vid SMHI.
Sommar är det också i Götaland och större delen av Svealand, men det är som det brukar vara. Stockholm får normalt höst den 29 september, Göteborg den 10 oktober och Malmö den 15 oktober. Och höstdagjämningen skyndar inte på hösten.
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A candid snapped at the Ozora Festival ground.
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Supercharged 5.2L V8
ABOUT CAMILO PARDO
Born in New York city, Camilo moved to Detroit at the age of 10 and had by that age developed a fascination with 60s and 70s era sports cars and modern art. After graduating from Detroit’s prestigious design school Center for Creative Studies in 1985, Camilo was hired by Ford Design Center in Dearborn Michigan. His assignments included working in the Dearborn Advanced Studios, Ford of Europe- Torino, Italy Studio , and the Design Studios in Cologne Germany. After 15 years at Ford Motor Company, he took on what was for him the ultimate assignment... a state of the art re-design of the classic Ford GT race car. This project developed the 2002 Ford GT concept car.
As chief Designer of the Ford GT and the SVT Studio, Camilo’s team worked on the 2005 and 2006 production Ford GT . The GT became an instant success capturing the interest of car enthusiasts around the world.
At the end of the work day at Ford, Camilo continued to explore an additional avenues of art & design. With the integration of Design principles and the abstractions of Fine Art, Camilo explores alternative design solutions.
This work is created in his studios, located in the city of Detroit and Los Angeles. His studios has been the scene of more than a few of Detroit’s openings and receptions. For the last 15 years, his studio has hosted the Detroit Auto’s Designers’ Night. An internationally recognized event which is attended by top automotive personnel and designers from all over the world. The North American International Auto Show has included Designer’s Night as a recognized NAIAS event appearing in all NAIAS publications.
By evening, Camilo is a serious, multifaceted artist with incomparable creative energy. This creativity is evident in his large, brightly colored oil paintings on canvas. This includes a large production of Automotive Fine Art. The same quality of creativity reaches a line of fashion design, that he describes as advanced fashion concepts. These fashion pieces have been created for auto shows and runway exhibits. Camilo’s industrial design reaches into sculptural furniture design, that has made the rounds from main art galleries in Metro Detroit, Italy, Japan, and the Contemporary Furniture Fair in New York.
As a dedicated artist who sets no limits on his creative endeavors, Camilo has found that his outside artistic expressions further strengthen and complements his passion for automotive design.
We hosted an absolutely wonderful event in our bookshop recently, with storyteller Mara Menzies, who had adapted her own storytelling performance into a novel, Blood and Gold, which draws on her Kenyan and Scottish roots, history and mythology, exploring family, history, colonialism and more through various lenses.
Mara treated us to some of her live storytelling, which was just a delight to experience. Much as I am forever in love with the written word, I'm always aware the roots of the modern books (and plays and films and other media) run back millennia to oral storytelling.
Long, long before even the most ancient stories we have written down, such as Gilgamesh, there were storytellers talking, acting and singing and dancing these tales, each putting their own spin on them. Some would have been professional storytellers like Mara, others just the person in a village or small, wandering tribe, who had the gift and knowledge, and would spin them around a flickering camp fire at night to their small groups.
We have aways told stories, it's part of the spiritual element of our DNA as humans, and it's something that is still wonderful and thrilling and magical to experience, even in an age of instant digital gratification or giant screen entertainment or shelves full of books on every subject.
Mara's book Blood and Gold is published by Birlinn, and you can follow her on Twitter twitter.com/marastoryteller She may be bringing her performance back to the Edinburgh Fringe next year, if she does I highly recommend catching it.
Bilder från en promenad utefter Lärjeån och Aspen, Jonsered. 2021-10-21 - Picture from a autumn walk along Säveån and the lake Aspen, Jonsered, Gothenburg, Sweden. 2021-10-21
Hosting the VWE Golden Rope Awards this evening with my lovely lady, Jayde Robonaught, accompanying me.
Back together again, friends I've worked with in the past, so many years... Elli Pinion to the far left, VWBPE photographer, (me), in the middle and please if you know who is to my right, share...
Volunteer and Staff area: maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/VWBPE%20Gateway/129/36/24
Join us at the Conference, here's the calendar -> vwbpe.org/program/vwbpe-calendar
One of the features of the Sk8 Park in Grimsby, Ontario is a group of small billboard-style panels specifically intended to host the artistic expressions of those visiting the site. As a result, graffiti is encouraged in places that are acceptable. Furthermore, periodic cleanup of the panels by town staff ensures regular refreshment of the subject matter. This image was taken in mid-February, the dead of Winter, so the snow-covered park was not in regular use and had not been for several months. The last round of painting had been ignored, likely waiting for Spring to get a refresh, with the consequence being the multiple layers of paint had weathered and flaked off leaving colourful abstracts when viewed up close. This section features and area with yellow and green patches. - JW
Date Taken: 2019-02-21
Taken using a hand-held Nikon D7100 fitted with an AF-S DX Nikkor 12-24mm 1:4 lense set to 12mm, Daylight WB, ISO100, Program mode, f/8.0, 1/250 sec. PP in free open Source RAWTherapee from Nikon RAW/NEF source file: set final image width to 9000px, adjust Tone Curve 2 in parametric mode by darkening the ‘Darks’ and ‘Lights’ slightly, enable HDR Tone Mapping and apply a light amount of HDR, enable Shadows/Highlights and recover highlights just enough that the ‘white’ areas of paint show detail/texture, boost contrast and Chromaticity in L-A-B mode, set White Balance to Daylight (5300K), boost Vibrance, sharpen (edges only), save. PP in free Open Source GIMP: increase overall contrast, fine tune overall tonality using the Tone Curves tool, sharpen, save, scale image to 6000px wide, sharpen slightly, save, add fine black-and-white frame, add bar and text on left, save, scale image to 2048px wide for posting online, sharpen slightly, save.
Aristolochia is a large plant genus with over 500 species. Its members are commonly known as birthwort, pipevine or Dutchman's pipe and are widespread and occur in the most diverse climates. The flowers of this Giant Aristolochia are up to one foot in diameter. The flower is filmy and unusual. It is the host plant of the large and beautiful Polydamas Swallowtail butterfly.
Swallowtail caterpillars have a defense mechanism called osmeterium. Osmeterium is a fleshy organ where caterpillars store essential oils from their host plants, also known as terpenes. These oils coat the normally hidden osmeterium which can be everted or pushed out when the caterpillar is threatened.
The osmetierium are usually a bright warning color like red, yellow or orange and, because of the terpenes, they smell quite foul. Having to move swallowtail caterpillars to new host plants also means butterfly growers get their share of terpenes as the caterpillars arch backwards wildly, smearing predators faces and keepers hands alike with these gross smelling oils. Each species has its own unique odor based on what plants the caterpillar has been eating.
Video of caterpillar eating... and eating... and eating!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=dryUAicVSEQ
Here is one of it laying eggs...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=v_A-v-9BQlo
And here is a caterpillar transforming into a cocoon.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=C4iWSMxlFFQ&feature=related
Polydamas caterpillar on Aristolochia vine
Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden, Miami, FL
For more, see my set Lubbers, Butterflies and Bees.
I suspect this friendly looking fellow is an Alpaca, which is a species of South American camelid. But I may be wrong.
Taken during the tour around Walter Peak Farm, on the shore of Lake Wakatipu, South Island, New Zealand
We were taken onboard the vintage steamship TSS Earnslaw from Queenstown for a pleasant cruise on Lake Wakatipu, disembarking at Walter Peak Farm for an afternoon tea with scones and coffee and a leisurely tour around the farm.