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...in Hubberholme, Upper Wharefdale.
The church dates from the 12th century. The church's oak pews were crafted by Kilburn's Robert Thomson, whose trademark mouse can be found in the woodwork. (I couldn't take any interiors on this visit, as there was a function being held in the church.)
This church was featured in the final episode of the BBC television series All Creatures Great and Small as the venue for the wedding of Franco and Katharine Pedretti.
Original poster - 'Blowing in the Mind/ Mister Tambourine Man', colour screen-print from multiple stencils on gold foil paper, designed by Martin Sharp, London, 1968. It is a complex multi-stencil design in red and black inks screen-printed on gold foil paper, the design featuring multiple radiating circular motifs with two portraits of Bob Dylan, the large central frontal profile with reflecting dark glasses and caption 'Blowing in the Mind', the smaller side profile placed in front of an entwined 'Mister Tambourine Man'. Lyrics of the song are written within letters and circles. This was the first "serious" poster I bought.
I grew up in this town, my poetry was born between the hill and the river, it took its voice from the rain, and like the timber, it steeped itself in the forests.
Pablo Neruda
We came on this little trip to see Burney falls which we had heard about and here's a bit of the history of it according to Wikipedia
The park is within the Cascade Range and Modoc Plateau natural region, with 910 acres (4 km²) of forest and five miles (8 km) of streamside and lake shoreline, including a portion of Lake Britton.
The park's centerpiece is the 129 foot (39 m) Burney Falls, which is not the highest or largest waterfall in the state, but arguably the most beautiful. Additional water comes from springs, joining to create a mist-filled basin. Burney Creek originates from the park's underground springs and flows to Lake Britton, getting larger along the way to the falls.
The park's landscape was created by volcanic activity as well as erosion from weather and streams. This volcanic region is surrounded by mountain peaks and is covered by black volcanic rock, or basalt. Created over a million years ago, the layered, porous basalt retains rainwater and snow melt, which forms a large underground reservoir.
Within the park, the water emerges as springs at and above Burney Falls, where it flows at 100 million gallons every day (4.4 m³/s).
Teddy Roosevelt named it the eighth wonder of the world...
view on black it looks kind of cool I promise!
Rock City in Teplice nad Metuji, in Czech Republic. 29 August 2017. Also a rock castle Střmen with beautiful views from it's platform on the top of a rock. Wooden castle was built on these rocks in middleages.
Another from my smoke session. This is a combination of two images duplicated and flipped in photoshop plus a little saturation painting and sharpening.
All exposed at 160th sec, f11, ISO 100 at 70mm focal length. I used a slave flash slightly behind and below the smoke and used a home made snoot on my speedlight set at 50% power. With black card at the rear and also a nightlight candle on the floor hopefully to help the smoke form more interesting swirls from the rising heat.
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In the name of Artist Joynul Abedin, there is a festival of Joynul Utshob in Fine Arts Dept, Dhaka University.
The word Allah
The Semitic language which is spoken in the celestial spheres, is the language in which the angels and God address each other. Adam Safi-Allah spoke the same language in paradise. Adam and eve then came into the world and settled in Arabia. Their children also spoke the same language. Then as a result of the descendants of Adam spreading in the world, this language passed from Arabic, Persian, Latin and into English and God was then known by different names in the different languages. As Adam lived in Arabia, there are many words of the Semitic language which are still found in the Arabic language. God addressed the Prophets, Adam as Adam Safi-Allah, Noah as Nuh Nabi-Allah, Abraham as Ibraheem Khalil-Allah, Moses as Musa Kalim-Allah, Jesus as I’sa Ruh-Allah and Mohammed Rasul-Allah. All these titles, in the Semitic language were written on the Tablet before the arrival of the Prophets. This is why the Prophet Mohammed said: “I was a Prophet even before I came in to this world.”
Many people believe that the word Allah is a name given by Muslims, this is not so.
The Prophet Mohammed’s fathers name was Abd-Allah, at a time when Islam did not exist. Prior to the advent of Islam the Name Allah was announced with the title of every Prophet. When the souls were created, the first Name on their tongue was Allah and when the soul entered the body of Adam, it said, Ya-Allah, and only then it entered the body. Many religions understand this enigma and chant the Name Allah and many others because of doubt are deprived of the Name.
Any name which is used to point towards God is worthy of respect.
In other words, which points towards God. The mystical effect of the Name of God has been diversified due to the different names. Every letter of the alphabet has a separate numeric value. This is also a celestial knowledge. All the numeric values are connected with all of the human race. Occasionally the numeric values do not agree with the astronomical calculations as a result of which people become afflicted. Many people go to astrologers and experts of this knowledge and have charts prepared based on the stars. They name their children on this basis.
Just as the letters (a, b, j, d,) (1, 2, 3, 4) when added have the numerical value of ten. Similarly every name has a separate numeric value. As God has been given so many different names, this has caused a conflict between the numeric value of the different names. If all the people called upon God by the same name, then despite the fact that they would all have separate religions, they would all be united inwardly. They too, like Nanak Sahib and Baba Farid would then say:
“All the souls have been created by the light of God, even though their environment and communities are separate.”
The angels that are assigned tasks in the world are also taught the languages of the people of the world.
It is important for the people of every Prophet that they recite, chant and affirm the Title of their Prophet which was granted by God to the Prophet at his time, for the recognition, spiritual grace and purification of his people. The recital and affirmation should be in the same method and in the language of their Prophet.
The entry of any individual into any religion is subject to the condition that the individual accepts and affirms the Title of the Prophet of that religion. Just as the affirmation and the verbal vows are a condition of any marriage.
Entry into the heavens has been made subject to the acceptance and affirmation of the Titles of the Prophets. In the western world many Muslims and Christians have no knowledge of their Prophet’s Title furthermore many do not even know their Prophets original name (in the original language of the Prophet.)
People who only verbalize the affirmation of their Prophet’s Title rely upon their good deeds. Those that reject and do not affirm their Prophet’s Title are refused entry to paradise. Those individuals in whose hearts the affirmation of their Prophet’s Title has descended (entered) they will enter paradise without any accountability.
The revealed celestial Scriptures, whichever language they are in so long as they are in the original form, are a means to finding God. Where the texts and the translations that have been adulterated, just as adulterated flour is harmful for the stomach, the adulterated books have become harmful and people of the same religion and the same of Prophet have divided into so many sects.
To be sure of the straight and guided path it is better that you are guided by the Light (of God) also.
The method of producing light.
In prehistoric times stones would be rubbed together to make fire. Whereas a spark can also be produced by rubbing two metals together. In a similar way electricity is made from water. Similarly by the friction of the blood inside the human body, in other words electric energy is produced by the vibrating heartbeat. In every human being there is present, approximately one and a half volts of electricity due to which the body is energetic. As the heartbeat slows in old age, this reduces the electricity in the body and this in turn also causes a reduction of the energy level in the body.
Firstly, the heartbeat has to be made vibrant and pronounced. Some do this by dancing, some by sports and exercise and some people try to do this by meditating and chanting the Name of God Allah.
When the heartbeat becomes vibrant and pronounced then by chanting the Name Allah try to synchronize it with every heartbeat. Alternatively try to synchronize Allah with one heartbeat and Hu with the other. Some time by placing your hand on the heart and when you feel your heartbeat, again try to synchronize the Name Allah by chanting it with the rythm of the heartbeat and imagine that the Name Allah is entering the heart.
The chanting of Allah Hu is better and more effective but if anyone has an objection, or a fear of chanting Hu, then instead of being deprived one should solely use the Name Allah, repetitively in the chanting. It is beneficial for people who chant and practice this discipline and who read mantras to physically remain as clean as possible as the:
“disrespectful are unfulfilled and the respectful are fulfilled.”
The first method for producing light.
Write Allah on a paper in black ink, and do this exercise for as long as you wish on a daily basis. Soon thereafter, the Word Allah will be transported from the paper and hover over the eyes. Then with one-pointed concentration, attempt to transport the word from the eyes to the heart.
The second method for producing light.
Write Allah on a zero watt bulb, in yellow. Whilst you are awake or just before sleep, concentrate and try to absorb it into the eyes. When it appears on the eyes then try to transport it to the heart.
The third method for producing light.
This method is for those people who have perfect spiritual guides and teachers and who due to their spiritual connection are spiritually assisted by them.
Sit alone and imagine that your index finger is a pen. Using your finger and with your concentration, attempt to write Allah on your heart. Call upon your spiritual teacher (spiritually), so that he too may, hold your finger, and write Allah on your heart. Continue to do this exercise everyday, until you see Allah written on your heart.
By the first and second method, the Name Allah becomes inscribed on the heart, just as it was written and seen by you but when it becomes synchronized with the heartbeat, then it slowly starts to shine. In the synchronized method, the assistance of the spiritual teacher is provided and for this reason it is seen shining and well written on the heart right from the beginning.
Many Prophets and Saints have come into the world, and just for the sake of testing this, if you feel it appropriate, concentrate or call upon all of them when you are practicing your meditation.
Whilst concentrating on any Prophet or Saint, during your meditating practice, if the rhythm of your heartbeat increases, in its vibration or you feel an improvement then this means that your destiny (spiritual fruits) lies with that Prophet or Saint.
Thereafter it is beneficial to concentrate on that same person whenever you practice your meditation as spiritual grace is transferred in this way, because every Saint is spiritually connected to a Prophet, even if that Prophet is not physically living.
The spiritual fruit (grace) of every illuminated person is in the hands of one Saint or another. It is essential that the Saint is living. Sometimes a very fortunate person is gifted with celestial spiritual grace by a perfect Saint who is not living, but this is very rare. However Saints not living in our human realm can provide worldly spiritual grace and assistance to people from their tombs. This is known as Owaisi spiritual grace.
The recipients of such spiritual grace often get entangled in their spiritual insights, visions and dreams because the spiritual guide providing the assistance is in the spiritual realm and so too is Satan and the recognition of the two becomes difficult.
Along with the spiritual grace it is important to have knowledge, for which a living Saint is more appropriate. If a person (Saint) possesses spiritual grace but is without knowledge, that person is known as a Majzoob (Godly but abstracted due to the complete absorption into the Essence of God and who is not in full control of his faculties).
A person (Saint) having spiritual grace and knowledge is known as a Mehboob (literally, loved one). Such people (Saints) as a result of their knowledge provide worldly spiritual assistance as well as spiritual grace and benefit. Whereas the Majzoobs are known to provide worldly spiritual assistance to people by their unusual but accepted practices of shouting obscenities and poking people with their wooden sticks.
If any (Prophet or Saint) appears but does not help or assist you then put Gohar Shahi to the test.
You may belong to any religion, there is no condition in this respect as long as the individual is not eternally ill-fated.
Many people have received the spiritual grace of Qalb meditation from the Moon. This is obtained when there is a full Moon from the East. Look at it with concentration and when you see the image of Gohar Shahi on it say Allah, Allah, Allah three times and you will be blessed with this spiritual grace. Thereafter without any fear or reservation practice the meditation as described.
Believe (the fact) that the image on the Moon has spoken to many people in many different languages. You can try looking and speaking to it also.
About Muraqba
(transcendental meditation)
(Literally. journey. Meditation in which the soul leaves the human body)
Many people without having acquired the illumination of the spiritual entities (‘Lata’if/Shaktian’) and without attaining spiritual strength and prowess try to engage in this meditation. They either fail to reach the meditative state or become the subject of Satanic interference. This type of meditation is for illuminated people, whose spiritual entity of the self has been purified and the Qalb has been cleansed. The practice or attempt at this type of meditation is foolish no matter what type of physical worship is used to achieve this. To collect and gather the strength of the soul and the spiritual entities and then to travel to a place is what is known as meditation.
Sainthood is the one fourtieth part of Prophecy.
Every dream, meditative journey, inspiration or revelation of a Prophet is accurate and authentic and does not need verification. Only fourty out of a hundred dreams, meditative journeys, inspirations and revelations of Saints are accurate the remaining sixty percent are inaccurate.
God cannot be understood without knowledge
The lowest type of meditative journey is started only after the illumination and awakening of the spiritual entity of the Qalb. This is impossible without first achieving the meditation of the Qalb (meditation with the vibrating heartbeat synchronized with the Name Allah). It takes one jerk or shake to bring the person out of this meditative state and back to consciousness. The faculty of the augury (foretelling the future by reading verses or looking into designated books) is also connected to the Qalb.
The next stage is the meditative journey of the soul. It takes three jerks or shakes to return a person back to normality from this meditative state.
The third stage of the meditative journey is done by the spiritual entity, Anna and the soul together. The soul travels along with the spiritual entity Anna, to the realm of souls just as the Archangel Gabriel accompanied the Prophet Mohammed to the realm of souls.
People who are in this meditative state are sometimes even taken to be buried in their graves and they are unaware of this happening to them. Such a meditative state and journey was taken by the “Companions of the Cave” as a result of which they remained asleep in the cave for more than three hundred years.
When this meditative state and journey was undertaken by the Sheikh, Abdul-Qadir al-Jilani, in the jungle, the occupants of the jungle would regard the Sheikh as dead and would take him to a grave for burial but the meditative journey would break just before the burial (the Sheikh would return to consciousness).
How to recognize a special inspiration and revelation from God.
When a person has awakened and illuminated the spiritual entities in the chest and is worthy of receiving the rays of the Grace of God, then at that point God communicates with that person. God is All-Powerful and can do as he pleases and thus communicate with the human being in any way fit, but he has made a special method for his recognition so that his friends can be saved from the deception of Satan.
Firstly, text in the Semitic language appears on the seekers heart and its translation is seen in the language of the seekers mother-tongue. The text is white and shiny and the eyes close automatically and look at the text (internally). The text then passes the Qalb and moves towards the spiritual entity Sirri as a result of which it shines even more. Then the text moves towards the spiritual entity, Akhfa and from here it shines more and then moves onto the tongue. The voice then spontaneously starts to repeat that text.
If this inspiration is from Satan then an illuminated heart will dull the text and if the text is strong and prominent then the spiritual entities Sirri or Akhfa destroy that text. Further if due to the weakness of the spiritual entities the text does arrive at the tongue, then the voice will prevent it from being spoken into words.
This type of inspiration is for special types of Saints, whereas in respect of ordinary Saints, God sends messages to them through the angels or other spiritual entities. When the Archangel Gabriel accompanies the special and inspired text, this is known as revelation which is confined to the Prophets.
For more detail visit www.goharshahi.org or visit asipk.com and for videos visit HH rags
German postcard. Photo: Asta Nielsen and Hugo Flink in Die Kinder des Generals/The General's Children (Urban Gad, 1912).
Danish silent film actress Asta Nielsen (1881-1972), was one of the most popular leading ladies of the 1910s and one of the first international film stars. Of her 74 films between 1910 and 1932, seventy were made in Germany where she was known simply as 'Die Asta'. Noted for her large dark eyes, mask-like face, and boyish figure, Nielsen most often portrayed strong-willed passionate women trapped by tragic consequences.
Asta Sofie Amalie Nielsen was born in the Copenhagen suburb of Vesterbro, Denmark, in 1881. She was the daughter of an often unemployed blacksmith and a washerwoman. Nielsen's family moved several times during her childhood while her father sought employment. When she was fourteen years old, her father died. Asta's stage debut came as a child in the chorus of the Kongelige Teater's production of Boito's opera 'Mephistopheles'. At the age of eighteen, Nielsen was accepted into the drama school of the Royal Danish Theatre. During her time there, she studied with the Royal Danish actor Peter Jerndorff. In 1901, twenty years old, she became pregnant and gave birth to her daughter, Jesta. Nielsen never revealed the identity of the father, and chose to raise her child alone with the help of her mother and older sister. In 1902, she graduated from drama school. For the next three years, she worked at the Dagmar Theatre, then toured in Norway and Sweden from 1905 to 1907 with De Otte and the Peter Fjelstrup companies. Returning to Denmark, she was employed at Det Ny Theater (The New Theatre) from 1907 to 1910. Although she worked steadily as a stage actress, her performances remained unremarkable. Danish historian Robert Neiiedam wrote that Nielsen's unique physical attraction, which was of great value on the screen, was limited on stage by her deep and uneven speaking voice.
In 1909, set designer and director Urban Gad encouraged Asta Nielsen to become a film actress and she starred in his Danish silent film Afgrunden/The Abyss (Urban Gad, 1910). Gary Morris observes in Bright Lights Film Journal: "this film established from the beginning key components of her legend: scandalous eroticism and a uniquely minimalist acting style." Asta plays a music teacher lured away from her stolid fiancee (Robert Dinesen) by a sexy but faithless circus cowboy (Poul Reumert). In a startling sequence of sexual intensity, she lassos her boyfriend and does a lewd dance, bumping and grinding against him. Morris: "This vulgar ‘gaucho-dance’ was what most viewers remembered, but critics of the time also applauded Asta's naturalistic acting." The film was a huge success so she was encouraged to continue. The following year Balletdanserinden/The Ballet Dancer (August Blom, 1911) proved to be another success. Nielsen and Gad soon married. A German distributor, Paul Davidson, invited Nielsen to Germany, where he was building a new studio. Eventually, this would become Europe's largest film studio - the Universum Film Union A.-G. (or Ufa). Asta signed a contract for $80,000 a year, then the highest salary for a film actress. In 1911, she moved to Berlin with Urban Gad. In a Russian popularity poll of that year, she was voted world's top female film star, behind French comedian Max Linder and ahead of her Danish compatriot Valdemar Psilander.
In the next six years, Asta Nielsen played every conceivable kind of character in both tragedies and comedies. In Die Suffragette/The Militant Suffragette (Urban Gad, 1913), she is an English female liberationist whose beliefs force her to become violent, placing a bomb in Parliament. In Zapatas Bande/Zapata's Gang (Urban Gad, 1916), she plays a highway robber. In the comedy Das Liebes-ABC/The ABCs of Love (Magnus Stifter, 1916), she pretends to be a man and takes her wimpy boyfriend out on the town in order to "bring out the man in him." Nielsen was so famous that the name Asta became a trademark for cigarettes and perfumes. In the Dutch city The Hague, a cinema was named after her. Her beauty was praised by the poet Guillaume Apollinaire as "the drunkard's vision and the lonely man's dream". One of Asta's most interesting productions was Hamlet (Sven Gade, Heinz Schall, 1921). Gary Morris: "Asta brings a subtle twist to her version not by playing a man, but by playing a woman disguised as a man, adding another level of gender complexity. Hamlet was based less on William Shakespeare than on a popular book of the time that said Hamlet was actually a girl forcibly raised as a boy in order to provide an heir to the Danish throne. At first, the effect is more puzzling than effective, but the actress's strategy becomes evident in sexually charged scenes between Asta/Hamlet and Horatio, who caress and coddle each other in what surely appeared to viewers of the time (as it does to modern audiences) as a gay tryst. Asta brilliantly imparts the gender-unstable nature of the character in these scenes with Horatio and others with Fortinbras, whose encounters with Hamlet are also clearly coded as gay. The actress's effortless creation of these subtle, sympathetic homosexual tableaux gives a tremendous vitality to this production. The fact that the film was truly hers — being the first film she made with her own production company — shows just how daring and modern she was."
Nowadays Asta Nielsen is best known for Die Freudlose Gasse/The Joyless Street (G.W. Pabst, 1925). Asta plays in this film an impoverished woman who resorts to prostitution and murder. In the original prints there were two equal-time female leads: Nielsen and a young actress from Sweden, Greta Garbo. Ruthlessly cut for American release, the film suddenly became a Garbo vehicle. Fortunately, the print has been restored recently and Asta triumphs in it as the increasingly unbalanced Marie. Nielsen continued to be a screen legend in Germany, and appeared in films like Dirnentragödie/Tragedy of the Street (Bruno Rahn, 1927) and in her only sound film Unmögliche Liebe/Crown of Thorns (Erich Waschneck, 1932). After the Nazis came to power she was rumoured to be offered her own studio by propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels. Understanding the implications well, she left Germany for good in 1936, settling in Denmark where she returned to stage acting and became a private figure. In her later years, Asta Nielsen wrote articles on art and politics and a two-volume autobiography, 'Den tiende Muse' (The Silent Muse) in 1946. She also became an acclaimed collage artist. In 1964, Nielsen had to come to terms with the most severe blow of her life: her daughter Jesta committed suicide following the death of her husband. At 86, Asta directed her first film. Luise F. Pusch writes in FemBio: "After a film about her life did not meet with her approval, she set to work on the project herself. The result was a work of art." At 88, Asta Nielsen married her third husband, Christian Theede, an art dealer 18 years her junior and the great love of her life. The two enjoyed their travels together so much that they decided to leave their fortune to a foundation to fund trips for the elderly. In 1972, Asta Nielsen died in Copenhagen after a leg fracture. She was 90.
NB according to Danish Nielsen expert Ib Monty, in 1915, during a trip to South America, Nielsen met Freddy Wingårdh, Swedish fleet lieutenant and son of a shipbuilder. They soon fell in love. In the same year Nielsen separated from Urban Gad and in 1918 they officially divorced. Nielsen married Wingardh in 1919, but divorced him again in 1923. Apparently, during WWI, Wingardh made several photos of Nielsen, which were used for postcards issued by the German Photochemie company in Berlin. Wingårdh would also act in one of Nielsen's films: Das Eskimobaby ( Walter Schmidthässler, 1918). Together with Wingårdh, Nielsen founded the company Art-Film , with which she would produce three films: Hamlet, Fräulein Julie, and Der Absturz. In the latter film played with Russian actor Grigori Chmara, who became her film partner for some seven films, and from 1923 also her partner in private life.
Sources: Gary Morris (Bright Lights Film Journal), Luise F. Pusch (FemBio), Jim Beaver (IMDb), Wikipedia, and IMDb.
And, please check out our blog European Film Star Postcards.
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This shot is from a few years ago while traveling around southern Peru.
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The coast of the Gulf of Porto is one of Corsica's most famous landscapes, and rightly so - with its dramatic sculpted red rock and sweeping bays it has to be seen to be believed.
Porto is tucked away at the end of the gulf, and although deprived of the best views across the bay, it is well placed for exploring and has plenty of amenities. The Route de la Marine, lined with stately old eucalyptus trees, links the two parts of the resort. A strip of supermarkets, cafés and hotels is at one end of the village but the focus of activity is in the marina. From here it is about a 15-minute walk up to the recently restored Geonese watchtower. Amongst other amenities there is a well established aquarium and a helpful tourist office.
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We spent the last three days of our week-long Corsica trip on the north-west coast in the small and pretty village of Porto - cannot imagine how it does look like during summer season, but at the end of October everything was peaceful and quiet here.
WEEK 2 – Hernando Millennium Kroger Liquidation, I
However, I did manage to get this super close-up of the meat and seafood sign hanging above the service counter! Here I mean “super” in the “very” sense of the word, although I personally think it could work as “good,” too ;P Jokes aside, I was glad to be able to get this. Love when workers disappear momentarily, haha!
(c) 2017 Retail Retell
These places are public so these photos are too, but just as I tell where they came from, I'd appreciate if you'd say who :)
In frame: Carmen @Yungbanhmi
Photo by: Patrick Younger @illashootxr
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In diesen Augenblicken wird eine nichtige Kreatur, ein Hund, eine Ratte, ein Käfer, ein verkrümmter Apfelbaum, ein sich über den Hügel schlängelnder Karrenweg, ein moosbewachsener Stein mir mehr als die schönste hingebendste Geliebte der glücklichsten Nacht mir je gewesen ist. Diese stummen und manchmal unbelebten Kreaturen heben sich mir mit einer solchen Fülle, einer solchen Gegenwart der Liebe entgegen, daß mein beglücktes Auge auch ringsum auf keinen toten Fleck zu fallen vermag.
Es erscheint mir alles, was es gibt, alles, dessen ich mich entsinne, alles, was meine verworrensten Gedanken berühren, etwas zu sein.
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In these moments an insignificant creature - a dog, a rat, a beetle, a crippled apple tree, a lane winding over the hill, a moss-covered stone, mean more to me than the most beautiful, abandoned mistress of the happiest night. These mute and, on occasion, inanimate creatures rise toward me with such an abundance, such a presence of love, that my enchanted eye can find nothing in sight void of life.
Everything that exists, everything I can remember, everything touched upon by my confused thoughts, has a meaning.
Hugo von Hofmannsthal, Brief des Lord Chandos an Francis Bacon / The Letter of Lord Chandos
I thought we were in Wales, but apparently Llanymynech is in England.
Just.
Apparently the broder runs two feet outside the front door, making lockdowns very difficult in the village as the pub on the other side of the road, in Wales, would sometimes be open when the Bradford Arms was closed, or closed when the Bradford was open.
But hopefully those days are behind us now, although I think they're not.
But on with the holiday.
After getting up, we went down for a hearty fried breakfast and lots of coffee before deciding that we would visit Oswestry first.
We had never been, and was just a 15 minute drive up the main road from the hotel, and we ended up parking behind the main shopping area.
We saw a narrow passage leading to the centre of town, and despite only just having had breakfast I needed another coffee. So we we called in at a nice place that had just opened, and spent a fine half an hour people watching as customers arrived to meet friends and swap news. Just as they have on market days for centuries.
That done, we walk back to the centre of town, I take a shot of the old building, now a hairdressers, then browse the street market before declaring that we had "done" the town.
What else to do?
The aquaduct?
Pontcysyllte Aqueduct is an engineering marvel, designed by Thomas Telford, constructed out of cast iron and built by navvies.
It is in the village of Trevor.
I kid ye not.
In the Welsh cup draw next year we want to see Barry drawn against Trevor.
For a laugh.
Ha ha ha.
It is a popular place, and we had been here before, parking up and walking along the stub of the canal which must have been wharves back in the day, but is now a fine spot of fishing. Under the low bridge to the canal basin, with the aqueduct at the far end.
We join a line of folks walking across via the narrow path, it gets really tricky when folks come the other way, but we get across, and having been here before, we go no further, instead walk back as the tea barge was calling.
A narrow boat equipped to be a café, we order two teas and a slice of cake, then go and sit to enjoy the snack and do more people watching. This really is a fine way to spend an hour.
Nearby is Llangollan, home to a fine steam failway, and a place I love to visit. It took twenty minutes to drive there, then another twenty to find a place to park, in the end finding the only space in an out of town place.
Jools has come down with a bad cold, so she stays in the car and I walk down into town along the canal, which was very pleasant as giving the impression of being a green tunnel with the overhanging trees.
A train leavs the station out of my fiew, but the noise of the steam locomotove, working hard, as it leaves the station echoes around the valley. It sounded very good. To me.
The town was full. With more people arriving all the time, it was no place to linger. So I walked to the bridge over the railway and river, took some shots and watched a gonk shunting, and was done.
It was nearly two, and we had had no lunch, but there were three pubs on the way back to the hotel, we would call in there.
We stopped at the Crossed Guns in the village of Pant.
I kid ye not.
It was a family pub, but the food good and came quick. We had steak sandwiches which came with salad and fries, and was a meal in itself and not the snack it claimed to be.
Back to the hotel at four to relax, and for Jools to take more drugs and get her head down as she didn't sleep well that night.
We go down for dinner and eat just the one course this time, toast our host and his wife before going to be at nine.
Just like being at home.
-42C in Yakutsk, Yakutia, Siberia / Russia... Such a temp we had this morning :) Winter arrived at last!
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Vintage Fly In During Eagle Valley Days in Richland Oregon
Eagle Valley days is just one of the many small town festivals along the Hells Canyon Scenic Byway in the town of Richland, near Baker City Oregon. And the vintage fly in at the OKK Airstrip is always one of our nightlights when we attend.
Eagle Valley Days is a quintessential small-town festival celebrating the community's deep agricultural and working west heritage with a parade down Main Street, community BBBQ, classic cars and airplanes, and lots of family entertainment and games. Classic Americana at its best in Baker County Oregon.
The Oregon’s Hells Canyon Scenic Byway is a loop that encircles the Wallowa Mountains, beginning and ending at Baker City. Small towns along the way including Richland, and Halfway, offer visitor services and a chance to explore small town Americana while exploring a diverse and scenic landscape including the deepest river gorge in North America, lush valleys, rolling farmlands, and the spectacular Wallowa Mountains.
For more information about the Hells Canyon Scenic Byway, or any of the three Oregon Scenic Byways in Baker County, and other small town festivals, visit the Baker County Tourism website at www.travelbakercounty.com
book cover with twigs, wire, yarn, paint.
Geschichte, dazwischen.
Buchdeckel, Zweige, Draht, Garn, Farbe
Janus: Snowstorm in New York City - A delivery person walks their bicycle in the snow.
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Camera: Sony a99 | Lens: Zeiss Vario-Sonnar T* 24-70mm f/2.8
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Everyone pretty much knows that I am a total die-hard snow lover when it comes to experiencing New York City in the snow. The more gusty and snowy the storm, the more of a chance that I will be out in it traipsing around New York City with my camera. Janus delivered more of a snowy punch than the last snowstorm we had a few weeks back. By the time night pulled its cover of darkness over the city, there was a substantial amount of snow on the ground.
As usual, I bundled myself and my Sony A99 up and instead of just walking uptown as I have done for the last few snowstorms, I decided to take the train up to a part of uptown I have never photographed in the snow with the aim of walking back home to the Lower East Side. I wanted to experience Sutton Place and the east side of upper Manhattan at its most beautiful in the winter. I would have liked to have stayed out a bit longer but the wind chills were dipping below zero.
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Maldon.
The Simson family took out pastoral runs around what is now Maldon in 1840. They had the Cairn Curran and the Tarrangower runs. It was near the foot of Mount Tarrangower that gold was discovered in December 1853 precipitating a gold rush in early 1854. The discovered of gold at Maldon was John Mechosk who received numerous government payouts for discovering gold fields apart from the one in Maldon. He also discovered the goldfields at Dunolly, Maryborough and Fryerstown. He received around £1,000 from the Victorian government for his efforts. A town was surveyed and developed in 1854 and it is believed that a member of the survey party suggested the name of Maldon because the hilly country reminded him of Maldon in Essex England. The diggers, up to 20,000 of them, were controlled by the District Gold Commissioner Bernard Smith who arrived and set up camp in 1854.The diggers had their canvas areas throughout the region but the town of Maldon soon had several public buildings including an early timber famed Wesleyan Methodist church built in 1855 and a brewery and several hotels built in 1854.
The Maldon gold finds were especially rich and mining companies developed areas to the north, east and south of the town with mining sites such as the Beehive Mine, the Nuggetty Mine, Eagle Hawk Mine, Bell’s Reef, the North British mine etc. Mining continued for a long period and as late as 1903 there were still over 1,000 diggers on the sites around Maldon following the last gold rush of 1897. But this was the last period of active mining around Maldon and the population had shrunk considerably by the 1920s. Because it was not on a main road to anywhere Maldon languished in semi-isolation for the next 50 years until the National Trust declared it the “First Notable Town in Australia” as its mining sites and historic buildings were still largely intact and the town showcased the life of a 19th century Australian gold mining town. Whole streetscapes of Maldon are heritage listed and a number of significant mining structures are still standing such as the 98 feet high Beehive Mine tower built in 1863. It stands at the top of the main street. The cemetery a few kilometres out of town has a fine Chinese funerary burning chamber probably from around 1865 when the gold mines were at their peak. The cemetery was opened in 1861 and the gate house was built in 1866. 121 Chinese are known to have been buried in the Maldon cemetery but only a couple of headstone are known. But there is little other evidence of the significant Chinese population of diggers that were once in the Maldon district. The town proudly proclaims that fact that over 2.1 million ounces of gold was extracted at Maldon worth about 3 billion dollars at today’s values.
Because of the wealth of Maldon it has numerous outstanding or significant historic buildings although it was never a really large town. Apart from the many fine hotels and commercial buildings the town has the Penny or Denominational School built as an Anglican school in 1856 but open to any child whose parents could afford the fees. 120 pupils were enrolled at this small school in 1857. The building was enlarged and rebuilt in 1862. The state school in Maldon was not built until 1875. It is still an impressive building. Near the Penny School is one of the early churches of Maldon the Welsh Congregational Church which was built in 1863. There were many Welsh and Cornish miners on the Maldon diggings. Nearby are several churches including the Anglican Church (1861), the Catholic Church built 1891 (replacing an earlier 1859 church), the former Wesleyan Methodist Church built in 1863 (replacing the 1855 wooden one), the Presbyterian Church built in 1905 (replacing an earlier 1861 church) and the Welsh Baptist Church built in 1865 with matching 1890 additions. Further away on the hill near the state school is the impressive Maldon Hospital. A wooden temporary hospital was established in 1859 but this grand classical designed hospital was built in 1867 beside the temporary building. One wing of the classical façade hospital was built in 1860 and the other in 1862. In 1867 the temporary structure in the middle was replaced with the central two storey hospital section which still stands. A further wing was added after this. The design for the hospital was chosen from entries to a public competition. The current town museum was once the Maldon Market which was erected in 1859. Near this central government camp area of Maldon which the Gold Commissioners used you can also find the Courthouse built in 1860 and the Post Office built in 1870. Nearby is the Athenaeum Library built in 1934 and still in use as the town library. This 1934 structure replaced the previous Athenaeum library built in 1863 and destroyed by fire in 1933. In addition to the usual commercial buildings, banks and hotels in the main street there is also an old grain store and further away is the railway station. A train line was built to service Maldon in 1884 and a fine red brick station built in 1888. It closed in 1976.
Other buildings of note in Maldon are MacArthur’s Cottage in High Street with the very unusual three dimensional brick work effect around the door and windows. It is next door to the Anglican Holy Trinity church. McArthur’s cottage was built in 1860s. The old Grain Store and Brooks’ Store were built in 1866 for the Maldon Cooperative Trading Company. This cooperative was not successful and went into liquidation in 1872 when John Brooks acquired the property and it is probably at this time additions were added. Members of the Brooks family ran this store until 1986. The Maldon Hotel was built in 1909 and the adjacent Shakespeare House and gallery was erected in 1907. Across the street is the 1854 established McArthur’s Bakery. The sign on this building relates to the establishment of the bakery not the actual building. This corner bakery was built in 1895. The old Beehive Market in Maldon began life as Franklin’s boot and shoe warehouse in 1870. The building later became a timber yard. Upton’s Butcher shop in the Main Street was established on this site in 1859 and the store was built then with the veranda added in 1860. The parapet is more modern being added to the shop in 1907. The Maldon Timber and Hardware building with the fancy parapet was built in 1897 after the earlier building on this site burnt down. It began life as a drapery.
Santa Maria in Campitelli or Santa Maria in Portico is a church dedicated to the Virgin Mary on the Piazza di Campitelli, Rome, Italy.
The church contains a 25 cm-high icon of the Virgin Mary dated by style and dendrochronology to the 11th century, though it had previously been claimed by tradition to have appeared miraculously in 524 at the table of Galla, a Roman woman who was helping the poor, and then carried in processions since 590. It was previously housed in the now-demolished Oratory of Santa Gala, sited at what is now the piazza's far end near the Porticus Octaviae (giving the church and icon its name of "Madonna of the Portico").
The icon was believed to have saved the city from plague in 1656 (or 1658), when it was carried in procession through the streets. On account of this, the earlier church on this site was replaced by Pope Alexander VII between 1659 and 1667 with the present one, designed by Carlo Rainaldi in the high Baroque style.
The present church has a travertine façade with large columns against (but not attached to) it, thus giving it strong vertical lines. The original design included statues which were however never executed.
The main gate to Manshuin, reserved for the Imperial Family (and special visitors?). Part of my running course, this is the first time in 8 years I got this gate right for a photograph.
In a cloud of spray, GB Railfreight Class 92, 92014 blares through Hartford station with the Caledonian Sleeper Down Highlander service (1S25).
In the American cities, the main church is located in the central square, but in the case of the San Gabriel village, it is located at a block of distance from the main plaza and reproducing what the Indian laws (Leyes de Indias) mentioned in the case of the main temple: "In Mediterranean places the temple is not build in the square, but somewhat distant from it, .... and that it can be seen of all parts and better venerated.
This is the only church in Ecuador that has been build that way.
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