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Well, not really left behind! Dropped off at the top of the mighty Franz Josef Glacier in the Westland Tai Poutini National Park, South Island, New Zealand for a three-hour glacier hike.
The Grand Staircase. I didn't quite nail the symmetry as I would have liked to but this image feels very ghostly and poetic to me. A time gone by.
Photographed inside the Kansas City Museum.
Mike D.
Noch sind die Kindergartenkinder auf der Rennstrecke,
hier konnten sie auf den verschiedenen Go-Karts
und Fahrrädern ein Rennen gegeneinander fahren ...
Schönen Tag und viele Grüße ... Kindergartenkinder ...
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“But at times I wondered if I had not come a long way to find that what I really sought was something I left behind”
~ Thomas West
In truth, this umbrella really belongs to a story involving a portrait of a Chinese couple, but that's a rather boring tale. I'd rather ponder this image as a metaphor for needful things left behind. Perhaps a reminder during this Christmas season to treasure the tresures we already have. Too often we leave them behind in the cold.
Skin: TRES BEAU - Aisha Skin (Pale)
Body: LEGACY - Special Edition Mesh Body
Head: [AK Advanced] - Bento Head 4.0 #W14
Hair: Exile - Cersei
Outfit: Limited Addiction - LOTD 149
Tattoo: panDEMONium ink - Balerion Tattoo
Pose: Mewsery - Conjure [Bento] Pose Set
© Leanne Boulton, All Rights Reserved
Candid eye contact street photography from Glasgow, Scotland. Enjoy!
San Francisco Square in the Historic Center of Quito.
From left to right, in the San Francisco building, you can see the doors of the Chapel of Cantuña, the Chapel of Villacísla, the main church, the convent and the museum.
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The Church and its chapels (La Iglesia de San Francisco), which were considered sacred places.
Together, Church and Convent encompass three hectares including 13 cloisters (six of them major), three churches, and a large courtyard. In total, about 40,000 square meters of construction. San Francisco follows the classical typology of medieval monasteries. The main Church is the guiding axis and from there the cloister galleries extend: the refectory, the chapterhouse, and winery. These define a quadrangular courtyard, with the four respective pandas, or galleries: that of the chapter room, the refectory, the converts, and the mandatum. In addition to the basic dependencies of a convent, there were areas devoted to health care, education, crafts, a garden, and even a jail (to maintain strict discipline). The kitchen and dispensery operated in the cloister of services.
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Walking from the Old Town’s narrow colonial streets into this open plaza reveals one of the finest sights in all of Ecuador: a sweeping cobblestone plaza backed by the mountainous backdrop of Volcán Pichincha, and the long, whitewashed walls and twin bell towers of Ecuador’s oldest church.
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The Public Square (Plaza de San Francisco) was a purely urban space, demarcated and connected to various public activities (teaching, market, water supply).
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Sad part of our History.
In pre-Hispanic Quito, the current lands of the Church and Convent of San Francisco were occupied by the royal palace of the Inca Huayna Cápac, before the advance of the armies commanded by the Spaniards from the south and the impossibility of defending the city the indigenous general Rumiñahui arranged the total destruction of it. In the city fire the palace was destroyed and buried under a huge amount of rubble and garbage. One of Rumiñahui's soldiers was the great-grandfather of the indigenous Cantuña, who as an eyewitness to the events had full knowledge of what was buried in the place. The construction of the church and convent of San Francisco began around 1537, just three years after the Spanish foundation of the city, with the completion of a provisional temple that was maintained until 1550, when construction of the current building began and which was completed around 1680. Although the building was officially inaugurated in 1705.
This Rock Truck and other equipment was left behind after a new road was built, have a good Week!
Thank you all for your visits comments and faves much appreciated!
It's Mallard friends have flown away, taken at the park on Nolin Lake in Wax Kentucky.
Thank you all for your visit comments and faves much appreciated!
Have a good week stay well.
This shot was taken just before ‘Lockdown’ here. All shops,except those selling ‘essentials’, are now closed here in Düsseldorf.
Valle de la Luna, San Pedro de Atacama, Chile