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Shiliupu (十六铺) nowadays is the place just south of the Bund where the tour boats depart and a new business district. Telephoto shot from the Heroes Memorial.
The name generally refers to the area between Huangpu River, Zhonghua Road and Renmin Road in the southeast of Huangpu District .
The name of Shiliupu originated in the 1860s in the late Qing Dynasty. In order to defend against the attack of the Taiping Army, local officials of the Qing Dynasty organized the companies inside and outside the county, forming 16 (十六, Shiliu) “shops” for public security and public affairs. Among them, Shiliupu is the largest “shop”, including the county town and Xiaodongmen, between the city and Huangpu River, north to Xiaodongmen Street and the French Concession. Basically the entire area around Wangjia Wharf Street (Wangjiamatoulu, 王家码头路).
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to fortify our memory and reconstruct the narrative of our personal adventures. They’re a way of proving to ourselves, especially when we’re feeling dull, that we’ve led interesting lives and have always been surrounded by people who cared for us. They’re also a way of keeping at bay the perception that life is fleeting and we can’t hold onto the past :-)
John Rosenthal
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rose, 'Gemini', little theater rose garden, raleigh, north carolina
Even nowadays some people see me as the strange duck in the pond.
In other words, an outsider
HSoS dear friends!!!
Nowadays since they are protected birds they definitely have their saying in the neighbourhood. They act in group and even the buzzards are chased away around here !!
Der Leuchturm gehört zu meinen Lieblingen. Er liegt mitten im Meer und ist der einzige achteckige Leuchturm Norwegens. Man hat mir erzählt, er war nicht beliebt bei den Wärtern, wegen des oft schlechten Wetters und dem Umstand, dass man dort nicht mal einen Spaziergang machen kann. Man kann dort auch nichts anbauen, was bei dem kargen Gehalt eines Wärters wohl auch gerne gemacht wurde. Er ist heute nicht mehr besetzt. Man kann sich aber, wenn man will das Turmzimmer mieten.
One of my favourate lighthouses in Norway is Kjeungskjær fyr. It´s very special cause it´s surrounded by water (you can not even make a short walk, and it´s the only one in an octagonal shape. I was told the guards didn´t like it, because the weather is often very stormy und you can not farm anything (like potatoes). Nowadays it is automated, but if you like, you can rent a room.
Nowadays, I'm too much busy, not just work.....Sometimes visiting your photo/s are lately but I had to....Thanks....
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Welcome back to Africa! After the last year's 1920s setting the beautiful continent welcomes you in a nowadays look. Enjoy the stunning wildlife and nature!
Temple of the Forty Martyrs of Sevastia, Konakovo. Russia.
Date of foundation of the temple: 2004
The site allocated for the construction of the temple is located in the western part of the city of Konakovo, on the banks of the Volga.
Nowadays, daily services and ceremonies are held in the temporary church.
The priest had to master the profession of a builder in order to justify the hopes of the parishioners.
The projected temple is a two-aisled one, with a basement and choirs, an attached belfry, with a hipped-roof end of the main aisle and a four-pitched roof of the north side-altar. The main side-altar of the temple has a cubic main volume with four pillars carrying a light octagon with a dome.
The construction of the temple continues.
Father Oleg himself obtains and brings material for the future church, he negotiates with contractors, looks for workers. He can often be seen at a construction site. Father Oleg took upon himself a seemingly overwhelming burden - the construction of the first large church in the history of Konakovo. In the city, founded in Soviet times, the church was not foreseen. They built a state district power station, erected houses, laid out parks, but hands reached the temple only 14 years ago - in 2004. So the temple will be truly unique for the city.
Hello my amazing Flickr friends !!
Today is a blue day at Color My World Daily and the theme at the fabulous Looking close on Friday Group is mushrooms.
Once again, something came up in my life and I did not had enough time (yes, I’m a very poor planer and organizer…so dont ever ask me to plan an event for you…it may as well be a disaster …) to take a picture I had in my head… so very quickly I got few mushrooms: one from my kitchen (it was my last mushroom left !!) and the other two are from a scrapbooking kit (i use them as props for my pictures). I asked Red Lady for help and of course she was more than willing to participate in this picture. Red Lady loves mushrooms and so do I !!! She was the one who installed the top mushroom and I took my picture just few seconds after she climbed back down her ladder….
Mushrooms always bring such a great memories from my childhood in Poland. Mushrooms picking in Poland was a must! Here in Canada we go apples or pumpkins picking but in Poland mushrooms are the kings of the fall picking activity…I know nothing about mushrooms but my mother and grandmother were very good at recognizing all kinds of mushrooms and at cooking them after ! It was truly an awesome activity…
So who stills pick mushrooms nowadays ?
Thank you so much for all your lovely comments / favs/ general support / happy thoughts!! Stay safe and healthy!! And see you soon on Flickr !!
Little Tern - Sterna Albifrons
This delightful chattering seabird is the UK's smallest tern. It is short-tailed and has a fast flight. Its bill is a distinctive yellow with a black tip. It is noisy at its breeding colony where courtship starts with an aerial display involving the male calling and carrying a fish to attract a mate, which chases him up high before he descends, gliding with wings in a 'V'.
Its vulnerable nesting sites and its decline in Europe make it an Amber List species. It is also listed as a Schedule 1 species in The Wildlife and Countryside Act.
This bird breeds on the coasts and inland waterways of temperate and tropical Europe and Asia. It is strongly migratory, wintering in the subtropical and tropical oceans as far south as South Africa and Australia.
There are three subspecies, the nominate albifrons occurring in Europe to North Africa and western Asia; guineae of western and central Africa; and sinensis of East Asia and the north and east coasts of Australia.[4]
The little tern breeds in colonies on gravel or shingle coasts and islands. It lays two to four eggs on the ground. Like all white terns, it is defensive of its nest and young and will attack intruders.
Like most other white terns, the little tern feeds by plunge-diving for fish, usually from saline environments. The offering of fish by the male to the female is part of the courtship display.
At the beginning of the 19th century the little tern was a common bird of European shores, rivers and wetlands, but in the 20th century populations of coastal areas decreased because of habitat loss, pollution and human disturbance.
The loss of inland populations has been even more severe, since due to dams, river regulation and sediment extraction it has lost most of its former habitats. The Little Tern population has declined or become extinct in many European countries, and former breeding places on large rivers like the Danube, Elbe and Rhine ceased. Nowadays, only few river systems in Europe possess suitable habitats; the Loire/Allier in France, the Vistula/Odra in Poland, the Po/Ticino in Italy, the Daugava in Latvia, the Nemunas in Lithuania, the Sava in Croatia and the Drava in Hungary and Croatia. The status of the little tern on the rivers Tagus and lower Danube is uncertain.
This shot was taken from the rooftop of a building in Lisbon’s historic city enter.
From this perspective you have a view over the old downtown commercial area (known as “Baixa”) which is nowadays recovering its beauty with the maintenance works done on old buildings. In the distance you can see the top of the arch overlooking the Praça do Comércio and the river.
Being Lisbon my home town, my opinion is obviously biased, but I find this city, its light and ambience truly magnificent.
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Lisbon, Portugal
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Nowadays, there are only 8 apostles left. Due to the continuing erosion that effects, not just the limestone stacks, but the coastal land, the current cliffs are expected to eventually become rock stacks.
It is the first time I have ever visited when there was absolutely no people around, usually it's very difficult to get a spot to take a photo here!
See photo below...
Many thanks for your visits, kind comments and faves, very much appreciated.
Winter in São Paulo at the moment
23°C / 73°F
Nowadays it is still little known, but now it is being very commercialized, at least at CEAGESP (Market in São Paulo) I found several seedlings, they call succulent hedgehog.
This succulent caught my attention for its beauty. With a more delicate appearance, it certainly appears to be fragile, but on the contrary. Its rosette is very dense and can reach 10cm in height. The leaves are fleshy, dark blue-green, covered with tiny hairs. When kept in full sun, it intensifies its color, appearing black and keeps the rosettes denser and more compact.
Why choose this succulent at the time of arrangement? Firstly, it reproduces on the sides, which after some time fills a basin with several dense rosettes, secondly its color is very beautiful which gives a contrast of texture and interesting color in the arrangement.
The buds start to appear in summer, bright red in color, but with small white flowers, remaining for a few weeks.
The name "Sinocrassula" means "Chinese crassula". They come from the Yunnan province in the south of China, and also from the north of Burma. They grow at an altitude between 2,500 and 2,700 m
Synocrassula Yunnanesis prefers colder than warmer places. Remember that full sun does not mean hot places. What is easier to be cultivated in southern Brazil, due to our more tropical climate.
"Rapunzel, Rapunzel,
Let down your hair to me."
Immediately the hair fell down and the king’s son climbed up.
Nowadays the modern Rapunzel has a staircase in her tower...
"Rapunzel, Rapunzel,
laß Dein Haar herab"
Unverzüglich fiel ihr Haar herab und der Königssohn kletterte hinauf.
Heutzutage hat die moderne Rapunzel eine Treppe in ihrem Turm...
Nowadays when the smartphone is like an extension of the hand is so unusual to see children having fun in playing chess in the mall.
This shot was done one day in july in the mountains of Carinthia, when it was snowing suddenly. Some hours later the snow was melted again.
Nikon FM2 with a Nikkor 50/1.8 and Fuji Velvia 50 - "SOOC"
Finally I made it, sorting out my old slides. The colours of Fuji Velvia 50 are wonderful. I wondered, how good the quality is after scanning. This is so to say a SOOC picture. After seeing so many photos taken with film nowadays, I'm playing with the thought of reactivating my old Nikon FM2 and shoot some films.
Ursprünglich wurde das Wasserschloss als Unterkunft und Werkstatt für die Hafenarbeiter genutzt, welche die Wartung und Reparatur der hydraulischen Speicherwinden ausführten. Sie wurden Windenwärter bzw. Windenwächter genannt und hatten – neben anderem technischen Personal – das Privileg, in der Speicherstadt wohnen zu dürfen.
Die Winden waren ein wichtiger Bestandteil der Speicherhäuser: Es gab – und gibt bis heute – keine Lastenaufzüge. Sämtliche Waren wurden mit Winden außen an den Fassaden zu bzw. von den Lagerböden der Speicher gezogen.
Die für die Wartungsarbeiten erforderlichen, zum Teil schweren Ersatzteile konnten von hier aus über die Straßen und Kanäle transportiert werden. Auf dem Wasserweg über zwei Kräne an der Ostseite des Gebäudes, zu Land über eine alte Pflasterstraße, die direkt in das Gebäude führt und hinter den großen Flügeltüren des Wasserschlösschens endet.
Heutzutage wird das Gebäude gewerblich genutzt. Im Erdgeschoss befindet sich eine Gewerbefläche für Teehandel mit angeschlossener Gastronomie. In der ersten Etage ist ein Anbieter für Sauerstofftherapie ansässig. Wegen seiner Lage und Architektur diente es auch als Kulisse für Fernsehproduktionen, beispielsweise für die TV-Kinderserie „Die Pfefferkörner“.
Das Wasserschlösschen firmiert außerdem als „Außentraustelle“ des Standesamts Hamburg–Mitte.
Originally the moated castle was used as a shelter and workshop for the dockers, who carried out the maintenance and repair of the hydraulic storage winches. They were called Windenwächter or Windenwächter and had - in addition to other technical personnel - the privilege to live in the Speicherstadt.
The winches were an important component of the storage buildings: there were - and still are today - no freight elevators. All goods were drawn with winches on the outside to the facades to or from the storage floors of the store.
The spare parts required for the maintenance work, some of them heavy, could be transported from here over the roads and canals. On the waterway over two cranes on the east side of the building, on land over an old paved road that leads directly into the building and ends behind the large double doors of the water castle.
Nowadays the building is used commercially. On the ground floor there is a commercial space for tea trade with attached gastronomy. On the first floor, a provider of oxygen therapy is located. Because of its location and architecture, it also served as a backdrop for television productions, such as the TV series "Die Pfefferkörner".
The Wasserschlösschen also trades under the name "Außenentraustelle" of the registry office Hamburg-Mitte.
Of a small settlement to the Ee in the 10th century it developed into an important city, where trade, industry and fishery thrived. By growing prosperity and look to the commonalty of Zierikzee on March 11th 1248 municipal right was granted king. After the medieval flowering period calamity emergency with fires, shipping disasters, epidemics and floods followed.
The 17th century characterised himself by second flowering of the trade and fishery. Then the number of inhabitants stepped very drastic in the course of the 18th century stagnation and decreased. The large industrial developments went to Zierikzee past for the greater part. In contrast to other cities old buildings remained saved. The wealth to monuments is mainly considered as a precious possession and in 1970s has been discovered by the tourists.
Nowadays Zierikzee is, with wide 10,000 inhabitants, the administrative seat of the new and has in this a centre function. In the historical town centre with a lot of shops and sociable pavements it is for both the tourist and inhabitant well stays.
The old gasworks in Hrensko, Czech Republic was built in 1905 for production of acetylene gas.
Because the production process was dangerous and there was the fear that an explosion would cause serious damage to the surrounding area, the building was placed in a narrow rock canyon.
Nowadays it is used as a restaurant.
#macromondays #bookmark
When we nowadays hear or read the word bookmark, we usually think of it in relation with an Browser on our computers and mobilephones for our visit in the world wide web. But there used to be a time when this word was standing for use only for books. And this is how our tiny little helpers still use it in their little world. A nice Dragon brass bookmark is a great place for my tiny friend to sit down, relax and read for a little while. :)
Vielen Dank für Eure Besuche, Kommentare und Sternchen!
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This is from a walloon ironworks environment.
Walloon ironworks is a collective name for a number of industrial communities in northern Uppland, constructed in the 1600s.
A financier, Louis De Geer in Amsterdam, imported labor to Sweden, Walloons of Wallonia in southern Belgium current, which was then a world leader in the iron industry. Walloon ironworks in Sweden came in this way to become the world leader by, among other things because of the high quality of the iron ore from the Dannemora mines.
This was the foundation for the industrialization of the farming community Sweden.
The ironworks was strictly limited. The workers were given housing, food, education, healthcare, but few opportunities to move. For each work home was a building for livestock as cattle, pigs, chickens.
Nowadays, it is an industrial memory of an era that is almost forgotten.
Texture , brushes: My own, some layers from webb.
To see more of the emptiness or rather more of spaciousness, viewers from around the world are now tracking the following blogger:
Coming back to the musicians of the younger generation, some say few of them play with their heart. Competitions as a way of starting a career in music is devastating. And then there is the rise of recording business where audience would listen with the sheet music on hand ! And then the undue influence of the so-called critiques -- mostly paid one way or the other-- turning music into a money making machine, promoting populism even in classical music. Few musicians nowadays improvise anymore and rubato is a rarity; too many scales and etudes instead. Furtwangler used to interprete music there and then, so every time is different, making music a multi-facet expressive and organic entity. The tradition is gone. The change of modern human relationship, following the rise of metropolitan city life particularly so with the breaking down of families and family ties. Does one need to know life better before he actually knows about arts, the imitation of life ? Making things worse, noisy factories are full steam ahead... All in all, only 3-5 % of the population are still listening to classical music these days, according to numerous surveys! I, nevertheless, find the following players charming:
Josef Hassid: " Fritz Kreisler... said: 'A fiddler like Heifetz is born every 100 years; one like Hassid every 200 years.’’
www.youtube.com/watch?v=PhKkjIC2SWk&list=RDPhKkjIC2SW...
Auer's other pupils like Efrem Zimbalist,
www.youtube.com/watch?v=DXfIQ6yV3T4
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lf5lxLx_2iQ
www.youtube.com/watch?v=mdQwcNfaabU
Or, Toscha Seidel
www.youtube.com/watch?v=RTvLxByYoDk
Likewise, Manuel Quiroga
www.youtube.com/watch?v=VwyEx9Es9gE
Jacques Thibaud and Szigeti are impressive and there is Vasa Prihoda too.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=vH3SQBO8UiQ
Gluck - Melody
By S. Rachmaninoff
www.youtube.com/watch?v=I2O0mVzmftY
By Guiomar Novaes
www.youtube.com/watch?v=io-7CqUkuPI
By Nelson Freire ( traces of scales exercises are evident )
www.youtube.com/watch?v=McGLJ4Skuf4
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Marina Tarasova - Prokofiev Cello Sonata in C Major
Nowadays people know the price of everything and the value of nothing.
― Oscar Wilde
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Civilization is a limitless multiplication of unnecessary necessities.
― Mark Twain
A little town between Denali and Fairbanks that doesn't have too much to offer, Nenana used to be a regular stop for passenger trains on the Alaska Railroad. Nowadays, no passenger service is available, and the depot is small museum, gift shop, and an AirBNB (they don't answer their messages too well). After departing Fairbanks around sunset, the night freight headed for Anchorage passes the wonderful depot that just celebrated its 100th birthday.
When vultures discover the "carcasses" first, the pack of hyenas does not have much respect in front of them and will immediately drive them away from the body. The vultures then stand nearby and sometimes "test" to see if the hyenas would let them grab their share. Daredevils who have gotten too close, however, hyenas uncompromisingly report to a greater distance. From the moment the four-legged scavengers are full and the vultures finally have a free field of action, there are often only a few tens of minutes left to completely eliminate the remnants of the meat.
(I am sorry for my English)
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urteile selbst ...
nowadays the world is small and apparently all-inclusive information ... so I am even asked by friends from other countries about the Mondrian picture, which has hung upside down for years in a museum in Düsseldorf.
Supposedly it can't be changed now because the public got used to it and maybe the glue won't hold anymore if you turn it the right way ...
what do you think ? on the right hangs the original version, on the left the now retained wrong hanging ...
heutzutage ist die Welt klein und anscheinend allumfassend informiert ... so werde ich selbst von Freunden aus anderen Ländern auf das Mondrianbild angesprochen, das falsch herum über Jahre im Museum in Düsseldorf gehangen hat, angesprochen.
Angeblich kann es jetzt nicht mehr geändert werden, weil das Publikum sich daran gewöhnt hat und vielleicht der Kleber nicht mehr hält, wenn man es richtig dreht ...
was meint ihr ? rechts hängt die Originalfassung, links die jetzt beibehaltene falsche Hängung ...
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Nearly 6 years passed before taking another shot from this location and this time the image says that the cityscape has changed incorporating more buildings, which makes a more balanced photo nowadays.
Spring has arrived, birds get more active and days are getting longer.
When I started making pictures ca 2 years ago I didn't see much in my environment, but nowadays that has changed quite considerably. It is one of the pleasures of making pictures, going outside and enjoying the weather, landscape, animals, details etc.
This day it was great weather, and at the end of the day I saw a Nuthatch creeping over a tree. It was the golden hour, and sometime he moved into the sunlight, and then and again he moved over to the darker parts. He was looking for nuts I guess, and here he found one!
Nowadays the colonial structure of the Church & Convent of Santo Domingo sits on top of the original Korikancha foundations, but inside many of the original temple buildings remain.
ENG: A backyard view with many corners, edges and reflections in the middle of the Berlin district Mitte. I discovered this large backyard by chance while walking along the Spree river near the Friedrichstraße Structure suburban train station and was immediately thrilled by the sight of the architecture and the view of the sky.
Why "Am Zirkus"? Because that's the name of the street by the building today. ☻ The street was actually called Markthallenstraße when it was built in 1865, but it was quickly renamed. Because the market hall was an economic failure. In 1873, the "Markthallen-Circus" (later taken over by the Circus Renz) opened in the building, whereupon the street was renamed, first Am Circus, since 1903 in the current spelling. Nowadays, of course, the market hall is history and in the same place stands a new building since 2014 in which there is also a hotel.
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GER: Ein Hinterhof Ausblick mit vielen Ecken, Kanten und Spiegelungen inmitten des Berliner Bezirks Mitte. Ich habe diesen großen Hinterhof durch Zufall entdeckt beim Spaziergang an der Spree nahe des S-Bahnhofs Friedrichstraße und war sofort begeistert von dem Anblick der Architektur und dem Ausblick in den Himmel.
Warum „Am Zirkus“? Weil die heutige Straße am Gebäude so heißt. ☻ Eigentlich hieß die Straße bei ihrer Erbauung 1865 mal Markthallenstraße. diese wurde aber schnell umbenannt. Da die Markthalle ein wirtschaftlicher Misserfolg war. 1873 eröffnete in dem Gebäude der „Markthallen-Circus“ (später vom Circus Renz übernommen), woraufhin die Straße umbenannt wurde, zunächst Am Circus, seit 1903 in der heutigen Schreibweise. Heutzutage ist die Markthalle natürlich Geschichte und an selbige stelle steht seit 2014 ein Neubau in dem sich auch ein Hotel befindet.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=T60NaODHAEU
Once on the kind of day called “weather breeder,”
When the heat slowly hazes and the sun
By its own power seems to be undone,
I was half boring through, half climbing through
A swamp of cedar. Choked with oil of cedar
And scurf of plants, and weary and over-heated,
And sorry I ever left the road I knew,
I paused and rested on a sort of hook
That had me by the coat as good as seated,
And since there was no other way to look,
Looked up toward heaven, and there against the blue,
Stood over me a resurrected tree,
A tree that had been down and raised again
A barkless spectre. He had halted too,
As if for fear of treading upon me.
I saw the strange position of his hands
Up at his shoulders, dragging yellow strands
Of wire with something in it from men to men.
“You here?” I said. “Where aren’t you nowadays
And what’s the news you carry ––if you know?
And tell me where you’re off for ––Montreal?
Me? I’m not off for anywhere at all.
Sometimes I wander out of beaten ways
Half looking for the orchid Calypso.”
by Robert Frost
As a boy tagging behind my bushman father in the Motu bush, these birds were common.
In fact he gauged the coming weather by how far out of the water level the birds chose to nest.
It would not be easy to even find a nest nowadays.
Friendly, trusting and form an amazing pair bond that reflects the difficult terrain they choose to call home.
One of only two torrent ducks worldwide.
I once witnessed a pair of ducklings ( newly hatched ) get into a fight.
The mother quickly separated the two scolding each separately, something I had never seen before among birds of any kind or could imagine even happening.
Such dedication and care also reflects the isolated and extreme haunt of these sturdy ducks, where dependance on each other is vital
ZAANSTAD - nowadays amalgamates a number of smaller towns and villages, which have their origins in Late Middle Ages. The Zaan river connects the centre of Noord-Holland to the IJ river and Amsterdam, and on both sides of the river villages sprung up that soon became involved in all kinds of industrial activities. Most activity was concentrated on the west side of the river, where in the 17th century a string of small towns grew into the first industrial area in the world. Hundreds of windmills were employed to produce all kinds of produce like flour, timber, paints and oil for the city of Amsterdam - at the time the largest port of the world. While the Zaan Region lost much of its importance in the 18th century, it became the centre of Dutch food industry in the late 19th and 20th century.
In front the Voorzaan, left the Harbour with its Historic Ships.
Finiki is a coastal settlemennt, built by the local fishermen.
Until 1900 Finiki was the main commercial port of Karpathos. The village is situated in a large natural bay, which means a well protected marina for the smaller boats.
Sethi when he noticed that I wanted to take a photo. Nowadays it's quite hard to believe that he was a kitten who really enjoyed being photographed and loved all the attention he got during a photoshoot.
Nowadays of course strawberries are available all year round, but I'm old enough to always associate strawberries with summer when it was such a treat to look forward to in June.
Berries for Smile on Saturday
102/122 pictures in 2022: summer eating.
50/100x: The 2022 Edition
When we nowadays hear or read the word bookmark, we usually think of it in relation with an Browser on our computers and mobilephones for our visit in the world wide web. But there used to be a time when this word was standing for use only for books. And this is how our tiny little helpers still use it in their little world. A nice Dragon brass bookmark is a great place for my tiny friend to sit down, relax and read for a little while. :)
Vielen Dank für Eure Besuche, Kommentare und Sternchen!
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Brisighella is a typical Italian borgo near Ravenna (the Italian city of byzantine mosaics). This place has deep roots in farming, so that its main highlight is a unique walkway called “Via degli asini” (i.e. The Donkeys’ Alley). Some kind of street, perched high above the ground level, where merchants used to ride donkey to carry their goods.
Built by the end of 300 d.C., at first it was a defensive alley to check the enemies’ movements. Then it become a protected and covered street for trades. Strolling along the way, you can still notice the ancient stables for the donkeys. But nowadays it is a very nice trekking trails to get a great point of view on the whole borgo.
Sprotbrough Falls once known as Flint Mill Weir. The mill was built around 1705 and was used to grind flint for use in the pottery industry and which was eventually demolished in the 1930s.
Images from walks along the River Don.
Yorkshire's River Don is a river that has suffered over 200 years of industrial abuse, only to be declared biologically dead in the 1960's. Nowadays with the loss of heavy industries i.e. coal mines, power stations, steel works ,mills , factories and concerted efforts by environmental groups the River Don is now a river of fish and wild life.
Nowadays everyone has a wallet, but in the past it was different.
A money bag was seen as poor, not something for ladies and gentlemen.
Ladies and gentlemen did not do their business via the money bag.
The oldest known wallet was found with Otzi the Iceman who lived around 3000 years before Christ.
A small leather hip bag was found with him.
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