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What palace without a library and how nice would be to read in this library.
To be honest most of the time I would be distracted by the looks of it rather than reading ;)
Perhaps a bit early to be reflecting on the highlights of the year - however, having a trawl through my images this morning I keep coming back to the Lake District images from earlier this year - a few special days with some glorious winter scenes taking at some amaziing locations.
....and you will find that Love is spreading a carpet of flowers beneath your feet.
Hannah Hurnard
Texture with thanks to Cris Buscaglia Lenz
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Humbled and alive
feelings of pain and pleasure
in equal measure.
Dora Meulman
The is The South Kaibab Trail at the Grand Canyon and where Mother Nature showed me she was the boss.
If you zoom in you'll see two hikers on a narrow very exposed path over the ridge. I was on a spot half way between these two hikers when the wind picked up. Suddenly a fierce ridge lift on my left coming straight up the cliff wall left me paralyzed on the spot. It was a straight drop down on the left you couldn't see the bottom. I felt like I was going to be picked up and tossed into the canyon like a piece of tumble weed.
I dropped to my knees dust blowing in my eyes and crawled on all fours to shelter behind a rock. My camera handing from my neck and dragging along the dirt also suffered war wounds. I was scared to death it took me a few minutes to even attempt to get up.
You can see the path turn and head down to a pit stop, this hike is no joke and is where I nearly met my Waterloo. Would I do it again? you bet I would it's awesome.
Happy New Year!
This was one of my favorite hikes of 2016. We hiked up into a foggy ridgeline late afternoon, freaked out as it cleared at sunset just after reaching our camp spot, then braved the cold for a bit at night to enjoy the stars and the surrounding scenery. I always find it humbing being surrounded by mountains and by a sky full of stars.
Looking forward to what great views this new year has in store.
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Just a random idea I had. Might want to do this with Diana, J'onn, and maybe Barry.
© 2009 Loren Zemlicka
“Humble is the grass in the field, yet it has noble relations. All the bread grains are grass - wheat and rye, barley, sorghum and rice; maize, the great staple of America; millet, oats and sugar cane. Other things have their season but the grass is of all seasons... the common background on which the affairs of nature and man are conditioned and displayed.”
- Liberty Hyde Bailey
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Tunisia 1968 .
Silver gelatin , Kodachrome II .
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An old, restored Humble gas station in Madisonville, TX. Strangely, there is no indication on who is restoring this - no indication of city or museum involvement. It’s just there on a major intersection as if it were open for business (which it wasn’t).
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Well here it is - the very first shot on my first roll of film on my first Holga camera. I'm can now say I am instantly smitten with this camera and what it can do. For many years I turned my nose up, thinking who'd want to shoot with a cheap plastic toy camera? Well I stand corrected on my opinion of it. It has proven to me that a cheap simple plastic box with 1 shutter speed and 2 aperture settings does have something to offer. There, I've gotten that off my chest. More photos to come from this first roll. [ And no, I do not live here :) ]
Photo taken with a Holga 120N using Arista Ultra 400 black and white film and developed in Kodak HC-110.
The Boudhanath Stupa near Kathmandu.
Boudhanath is one of the holiest Buddhist sites in Kathmandu, Nepal. Located about 11 km (6.8 mi) from the centre and northeastern outskirts of Kathmandu, the stupa's massive mandala makes it one of the largest spherical stupas in Nepal.
The Buddhist stupa of Boudhanath dominates the skyline. The ancient Stupa is one of the largest in the world. The influx of large populations of refugees from Tibet has seen the construction of over 50 Tibetan Gompas around Boudhanath. As of 1979, Boudhanath is a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
The Stupa is on the ancient trade route from Tibet which enters the Kathmandu Valley by the village of Sankhu in the northeast corner, passes by Boudnath Stupa to the ancient and smaller stupa of Cā-bahī (often called 'Little Boudnath'). It then turns directly south, heading over the Bagmati river to Patan, bypassing the main city of Kathmandu (which was a later foundation). Tibetan merchants have rested and offered prayers here for many centuries. When refugees entered Nepal from Tibet in the 1950s, many decided to live around Bouddhanath. The Stupa is said to entomb the remains of Kassapa Buddha.
Most of us have been conditioned (brainwashed) into believing that success and happiness is directly related to our material wealth.
Some of us are only satisfied when we own a monster-villa with a multiple-car garage, tennis court, pool, etc. Some others are never satisfied, no matter how financially well-off they are. How much is enough for you?
I have recently relocated from Gouna to Bibby's Hoek. For me, happiness is only achievable through more satisfaction, or through less desire.
These days I have very few desires. Give me a cosy cabin in the woods, and I'm a happy man!
Nou gaan ons braai.
The last part of our visit of the Romanesque churches in Le Puy-en-Velay (central France) now takes us to the one that is possibly the most moving, and certainly the most spectacular of them all: the Saint Michael Chapel, perched on top of the Aiguilhe Rock, an enormous, 82 meters high geological dike made of hard basalt and left standing like a finger sticking out of the plain below by the erosion of all the sediment that once surrounded it.
There is only one way to get there: climb the hard, tall and uneven 268 steps carved out of the basalt, and in doing so, you will be following in the exact footsteps, not only of the millions of Compostela pilgrims that came here over the centuries, but also of innumerable historic figures, among which the Kings of France Charles VII, Louis XI and Charles VIII, who ascended the rock to pray under the humble vaults of the chapel.
According to persistent legends, the first edifice built on top of the rock of Aiguilhe (notice how close the name is to the French word aiguille, i.e., needle) was a Roman temple dedicated to Mercury. No trace of such a sanctuary was ever found by archæologists. The chapel that one can see today was built in two successive phases. First, the initial and very small square chapel, probably with three apses but only two remain today. This was built soon after 950, either by bishop Godescalc (who had been the first French pilgrim of Compostela in 950–51), or more probably by Truannus, dean of the canons of the cathedral chapter, duly authorized by Godescalc. I have not been able to find any definitive evidence pointing to one rather than the other. What is documented, however, is that the finished chapel was consecrated by the said bishop in 961. It was a pre-Romanesque monument.
Secondly, during the late 1000s, the primitive oratory was “surrounded” and augmented by a Romanesque chapel built on the flattened top of the dike. In the process, the probable third apse of the oratory was destroyed to open a way of access between the newly built “nave” and the square space of the oratory, repurposed as “choir”. The best way to understand the layout if to have a look at the floor plan drawn by architect Mallay in the 19th century, here: commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Plan_de_la_chapelle_Saint.... The imposing bell tower was also built at the same time.
A telephoto shot of the chapel emphasizing its stunning and unique natural location. When you see this rock in real life, you understand why men, since the dawn of time, wanted to build something on top of that to honor their god(s)...