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Plates piled high before the launch night reception for A Look Beyond, an exhibition created by mluisa and pannaphotos to support the fight against cancer.
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Rushton Triangular Lodge, built by Sir Thomas Tresham between 1593 and 1597, is the ultimate Elizabethan architectural conceit. Tresham was a Roman Catholic and was imprisoned for a total of fifteen years in the late 16th century for refusing to become a Protestant. On his release in 1593, he designed the Lodge as a protestation of his faith. His belief in the Holy Trinity is represented everywhere in the Lodge by the number three: it has three walls 33 feet long, each with three triangular windows and surmounted by three gargoyles. One wall is inscribed '15', another '93', and the last 'TT'. The building has three floors, upon a basement, and a triangular chimney. Three Latin texts, each 33 letters long, run around the building on each facade.
The windows on each floor are of different designs, all equally ornate. The largest, those on the first floor, are in the form of a trefoil, which was the emblem of the Tresham family. The basement windows are small trefoils with a triangular pane at their centre. The windows on the ground floor are of a lozenge design, each having 12 small circular openings surrounding a central cruciform slit. Heraldic shields of various families surround these windows.
A Suffragette poem... Pixievic Feb 2016
Warriors
Deeds not words!
They cried in their protest
Marching on Parliament
Intent on their quest
to the corrupt politicians
who recorded their struggle
but denied them the vote
and left them to juggle
their lives that equalled
less than their brothers
where they had no rights
not even as mothers.
As wives they were thwarted
their wages, their spouses,
they worked long hard hours
and still kept their houses.
Tea on the table,
washing hung out
the children looked after,
to their husbands - devout.
They stood up for their choices
the injustice they faced
were imprisoned & tortured
and fired in disgrace.
Children were taken
away from their mothers
who were labelled as mad,
their opinions were smothered.
Yet still they continued
to rally & fight,
secure in the knowledge
that they deserved rights
that equalled the men
that ruled their world -
So they took up arms
and fists were curled.
When one was killed
that brave young girl
who in front of a horse
her body she hurled.
"Votes for Women"
her banner announced,
so simple & honest
the message pronounced
to hundreds of people
who just stood & stared.
As her breath left her body
the women prepared
to fight their fight,
be true to their cause,
take down the men
and change the laws.
So thank you to those
brave women of old
who did what they did
without being told.
We now have the right
as women, to fight
without risk to our freedom
and stand up for our rights!
The stunningly beautiful village of Durnstein, in the Wachau area of Austria. The photo was taken from a boat on the River Danube.
The ruined castle on the upper right of the image is famous in that King Richard 1 (Richard the Lionheart) was imprisoned there by Duke Leopold V of Austria, as he was returning from the Third Crusade (1189-1192). he was later released after a ransom was paid.
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I'm starting an online petition to free this bench. I noticed it's plight during our recent visit to le Jardin Exotique de Roscoff and there comes a point in life you just have to make a stand (or should that be take a seat?) HBM & HFF!
Getting a roll on to the siding at Nelsons, the Eastbound L561 spans the unique SOO concrete bridge in the small town of Amherst. By now, the warm March sun has begun melting the dwindling snow piles. Alas, another of old man winters nights will imprison the water back to its icy cell with hopes of escape another day.
Instruction # 08
"Lines, straight or curved : People follow them, contradict them or imprison themselves in them."
(Les lignes, droites ou courbes : les passants les suivent, les contredisent ou s'y enferment.) - Thierry Clech
Benjeroop Belle, an old Ruston Proctor 10 horse power portable steam engine used to operate a 12" pump to draw irrigation water from the nearby Loddon River in the 1880s. Benjeroop, Victoria (ABC1 Weather)
stormy winds in front of meersbug's harbour
On the Right:
The Magic Column
The sculpture called "The Magic Column“ was installed on 28 April 2007. It is the work of German sculptor Peter Lenk from Bodman on Lake Constance who has polarized the public with his works of art for decades. His well-known works include the Imperia located at the harbor entrance of Constance, called "Constance Triumphal Arch" (Laubebrunnen) and, since October 2020, a sculpture in the state capital that addresses the controversial rail project Stuttgart 21. The artist, born in Nuremberg in 1947, claims to "expose the ambiguity of the concrete". Consequently, his works repeatedly face fierce criticism.
However, the "Magic Column" rises comparatively peacefully as a 15-meter-high monument on Meersburg's harbor rondel. This "magic vaudeville" gathers well-known personalities of Meersburg's town history illustrated in the costumes of their wishful fantasies; their impact is revealed by means of their presentation.
On the very top, a seagull with the face of Annette von Droste-Hülshoff follows the spinning dance in the wind giving the column opus a poetic dimension. In her poem "Am Turme" ("At the Tower"), Germany's most famous poetess wishes to experience freedom above the lake just like a seagull. Directly below the poetess, her brother-in-law Baron Joseph von Laßberg, a collector of medieval manuscripts and owner of the Meersburg Castle is perpetuated. Droste called him, among other things, "Nibelungen-Steckenreiter". Cupid appears as Meersburg's marksman right next to him. He hit the Lord of Castle Laßberg through the armor - twice in marriage, once out of wedlock. He also aimed at Droste's heart, whose beloved Levin Schücking (Laßberg's librarian) he missed with a grazing shot.
On the same level there is the noblewoman "Wendelgard von Haltnau". According to a legend, she was disfigured by a nose with a hump. Provided a councillor would dine with her every day and go out in a carriage every Sunday, Meersburg's poulation was allowed to farm her estate. Nontheless, it is assumed that the people of Meersburg rejected the offer; the people of Constance, however, accepted the offer - Constance enjoys the winery up until today, which is managed by the city's "Spitalkellerei".
At the column base the actions of the exorcist Johann Joseph Gaßner (1729-1779) is illustrated. In the truest sense of the word, the devils leave the body! His exorcistic healings caused a great sensation – in 1774, Meersburg‘s people also feverishly awaited the spectacular event.
Bishop Franz Konrad von Rodt and the physician Franz Anton Mesmer were opponents of exorcisms. Mesmer is considered by many as the founder of modern hypnosis therapy. He discovered a method of allowing the power of the body's own so-called "animal magnetism" to flow healingly into the suffering body. Unfortunately, it is not without irony that years later Mesmer suffered the same fate as Gaßner: his teachings were dismissed by the French Academy of Sciences as nonsense and charlatanry. Peter Lenk calls it grotesque to imprison recognized scientific capacities of Vienna like the court astronomer Hell, the president of the medical faculty Anton von Stoerck and the vaccinator Jan Ingenhousz as "intriguers" in a planetary cage and to let the "magnetisieur" Mesmer triumph over them!
Peter Lenk, the artist
The German sculptor Peter Lenk, born on 6 June 1947 in Nuremberg, is known for the controversial content of his art. Having passed various stations in life, he moved to Lake Constance after his vocational training. Lenk is based in Bodman- Ludwigshafen and created a variety of sculptures coming in Lenk'scher manner mainly with satirical character to the implementation. Within the Lake Constance area, the "Imperia", the "Triumphal Arch" and the "Career Ladder" located in Constance are included. The "Dix Curve" was made by him for Gaienhofen just as much as the "Sculpture Garden" in his hometown Bodman. Until 2015, the "Achaean" was on display at the train station in Fischbach. Today, it can be seen in the sculpture garden in Bodman-Ludwigshafen. At Meersburg's harbor pier rises the "Magic Column". Moreover, Lenk developed the "Bodenseereiter" for the "Landungsplatz" in Überlingen as well as a "Napoleon Monument" for the garden of the hotel "Gasthof Krone". In the municipal gallery of Überlingen, Lenk's "Celebrities and Proles" are also on display. The "U-Boot U20" (submarine U20) is set up on the Stockach savings bank grounds, and the "Ehrenwortbube" (jack of honor) at the "Untere Apotheke" (lower pharmacy). Peter Lenk also participated twice in the townscape of Singen am Hohentwiel, firstly through the "Paradise Tree" at Scheffelplatz and the "Doctor's Syringe" in Kreuzensteinstraße. In October 2020, the sculpture "S 21. The Monument - Chronicles of a Grotesque Derailment" was unveiled, commemorating actors around the billion-dollar rail project. The centerpiece is a figure based on Laocoon from Greek mythology and linked to the Trojan horse. More of his amazing objects have been installed throughout Germany, including in Berlin, Hesse, Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, North Rhine-Westphalia and Lower Saxony.
Slated to be "the spot" in the U.S., along the path of totality, for the 2024 total solar eclipse, many locations in Texas were obscured by some form of cloud-cover.
Here, we see the sun and corona with all it's "faded" glory, hidden behind thinly veiled clouds, trapped, like a shackled prisoner. You can see it was just aching to "Bust Out!!"
In the 4 minutes and 28 seconds we had of totality, only mere seconds here and there were 99% cloud free.
All was not a total loss though. If you stroll through my collection, you will see some pretty decent captures - "keepers", even with the clouds. We did the best we could as they say...
Next stop, any number of eclipse opportunities in various parts of the world will be on display - Alaska, Spain, Australia, Christmas Island, Luxor Egypt to name a few. Specifically, Luxor will experience almost 6 minutes 30 seconds of totality on August 2nd, 2027 😄
Until we meet again...