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Number 6 in my theme for this week Lone flower. Hueria flower a desert dweller that produces the aroma of decomposition attracting flies and other insects attracted by rotting flesh. Not one for the home. Taken in our conservatory in East Sussex, UK August 2021.
aki otro asalto a la realidad de maldita historieta sin sientido, eskuxando sin dios y ke wea rebentando la neurona neutral para dar paso a las convulsionadas, deskiciadas, blasfemas, herejes, refractarias de esta sociedad.
SIN SENTIDO, asalto a la realidad, un kalko de los dias y las noches, de las pulsiones y las represiones. MATA AL POLICIA KE LLEVAS DENTRO
pronto en la web!!!
Quite ugly control room of coal fired power plant.
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Visited in 2021.
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Current status: razed to the ground.
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Greetings to: Darker Shades of Black, Kriss and Aleksandra, for this extra fast evacuation from this object ;>
Colourful beach huts on Cromer beach. Eight is considered a lucky number in Chinese as it sounds like the word for wealth or good fortune. In Buddhism 8 is also auspicious, possibly because of the eight petals of the lotus plant, which is associated with Buddhism.
We can't tell much / about the condition at number 2. // The door has not been opened / in the past two months.
Pawns.
I thought of publishing one of my in-camera stacking repeated images thingies for the Crazy Tuesday group's Repeating Object theme.
Then I thought I was probably stretching things too far, and was in danger of incurring the admins' ire. I've done that before (and I have to say this group's admins have a very gentle wrath :) ), and it's an experience I don't want to repeat - for their sakes as much as mine.
So this is a repeat of a subject first published a month or so ago, but not a repeated image or even a repeated point of view. Repeated focus perhaps...
I liked the repeating pawns so much I wanted to repeat the experience of sharing them, but I hasten to repeat that I don't normally like repeating things like that.
Thank you for taking the time to look. I hope you enjoy the image. (I always seem to repeat these words don't I?)
Happy happy Crazy crazy Tuesday Tuesday :)
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Brescia, Lombarida, Italia
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Another entrance to the amazing house of nooks and crannies in Novelty, Ohio. This is the newer portion of the house. It's possible that my friend either made the stained glass window himself or found it when they were tearing down a building somewhere ... He's been known to do both, and it makes for a whimsically enchanting place to live. Also note how the trees are reflecting in the regular glass window.
A number of years ago now, dusk descended on the searchlights at Holliday. After a fairly productive day on the NS Springfield-Hannibal District, we concluded by messing around with some low light shots. These ended up being some of my favorite images I've ever taken. Although we paid the price with a chigger infestation.
This cottage on the Blickling Estate in Norfolk is over 200 years old and presumably once provided accommodation for an estate worker. It doesn’t appear to have a name or street identity and even on the listed building register it is just shown as 8!
I am not sure if it is currently occupied as it does seem in need of some repairs especially to gable end. Nonetheless, a nice place to live, just a bit of TLC required!
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die Zahl 2 ...
steile These ? ...
;-) ...
schaut genau hin ...
es sind zwei Sofateile mit 3 Unterteilungen ...
zwei Oberflächen auf dem Sofa (Stoff, Folie) ...
zwei Dreiecke ...
nahezu zwei Farben ...
zwei Frauen ...
und Bisou-Bisou ...
und mit den Spiegelungen ist jedes Objekt "doppelt" vorhanden ... so hätte der Titel auch "Paare" heißen können ...
es geht weiter ...
4x2 Stempel ...
zwei sichtbare Ecke ...
und noch mehr Doppeltes, wenn man es auf die Spitze treibt ...
;-) ...
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Number 29 for 2020 Weekly Alphabet Challenge : C is for Cheerful
He/she really enjoyed about 5 minutes in this position!
One of Metra's three F59PHs, number 99 flies upgrade at Noble Street with an outbound North Central Service train for Antioch. Just visible to the left is CNW 553, the UP-North Line's private commuter club car, being backed from California Avenue coach yard to Ogilvie Transportation Center along with the rest of what will be train 349.
Venezia
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More from Italy in my album Italia...
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Halberstadt ist eine Stadt in Sachsen-Anhalt mit knapp 40.000 Einwohnern nördlichen Harzvorland. Sie ist für den mittelalterlichen Dom und die Dosenwürstchen bekannt. IVon 804 bis 1648 war die Stadt Bischofssitz. Im 18. Jahrhundert waren die Stadtbewohner zu einem Zehntel jüdisch. Wegen der hohen Zahl von Fachwerkbauten galt die Stadt als "Rothenburg des Nordens". Die Innenstadt wurde am 8. April 1945 durch einen Luftangriff zu mehr als 80 % zerstört. Von 1949 bis 1989 wurde die zu großen Teilen zerstörte Innenstadt teilweise neu und in „sozialistischem Bauverständnis“ wiederaufgebaut; der noch erhaltene Bestand an Fachwerkhäusern in der Altstadt wurde geplant dem Verfall preisgegeben und 600 davon großflächig abgerissen. Am Ende der DDR 1989 existierten nur noch kleine Teile der Altstadt mit 447 Häusern. Nach 1990 erfolgte die Restaurierung der verbliebenen Teile der Altstadt sowie ab 1995 der Aufbau eines modernen Stadtzentrums auf den Grundmauern und der Maßstäblichkeit des historischen Stadtkerns. Das neue Stadtzentrum im Bereich der Marktplätze wurde 1998 mit dem Bau des neuen Rathauses fertiggestellt. Quelle: de.wikipedia.org
Halberstadt is a town in Saxony-Anhalt with a population of just under 40,000 in the northern Harz foreland. It is known for its medieval cathedral and canned sausages. From 804 to 1648, the town was the seat of a bishop. In the 18th century, one tenth of the town's inhabitants were Jewish. Because of the large number of half-timbered buildings, the town was known as the "Rothenburg of the North". More than 80 % of the town centre was destroyed by an air raid on 8 April 1945. From 1949 to 1989, the largely destroyed inner city was partly rebuilt in a "socialist architectural style"; the remaining half-timbered houses in the old town were planned to fall into disrepair and 600 of them were extensively demolished. At the end of the GDR in 1989, only small parts of the old town with 447 houses still existed. After 1990, the remaining parts of the old town were restored and, from 1995 onwards, a modern town centre was built on the foundation walls and the scale of the historic town centre. The new town centre in the area of the market squares was completed in 1998 with the construction of the new Town Hall.
Source: de.wikipedia.org
I was surprised to see this Eurasian collared dove in the park today. Eurasian collared doves were a year-round resident here for a number of years but disappeared a couple of years ago. How this beautiful "gray ghost" got here is anybody's guess.
As we fondly remembered him in "The Prisoner". and as he would say...
I'm not a number...I'm a free man."
Tell that to someone who lives in China,Russia,North Korea.Iran etc...you know all the best holiday destinations. :-)
So who was Number 1 then?
Jal Mahal Palace, Man Sagar Lake, Jaipur. India
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Front Page in the group The Apple Tree Of Texture Jan. 2012
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Jal Mahal (meaning "Water Palace") is a palace located in the middle of the Man Sagar Lake in Jaipur city, the capital of the state of Rajasthan, India. The palace and the lake around it were renovated and enlarged in the 18th century by Maharaja Jai Singh II of Amber
In the past, at the location of the lake, there was a natural depression where water used to accumulate. During 1596 AD, when there was a severe famine in this region there was consequent acute shortage of water. The then ruler of Ajmer was, therefore, motivated to build a dam to store water to overcome the severe hardships caused by the famine to the people inhabiting the region. A dam was constructed, initially using earth and quartzite, across the eastern valley between Amer hills and Amagarh hills. The dam was later converted into a stone masonry structure in the 17th century. The dam, as existing now (see picture), is about 300 metres (980 ft) long and 28.5–34.5 metres (94–113 ft) in width. It is provided with three sluice gates for release of water for irrigation of agricultural land in the down stream area. Since then, the dam, the lake and the palace in its midst have undergone several rounds of restoration under various rulers of Rajasthan but the final restoration in the 18th century is credited to Jai Singh II of Amer. During this period, a number of other historical and religious places, such as the Amer Fort, Jaigarh Fort, Nahargarh Fort, Khilangarh Fort, Kanak Vrindavan Valley were also built in the vicinity of the lake. All these places are now linked under a tourist corridor of road net work.
The church building was built from 1660 to 1710. Its construction was begun under the imperial architect Georg Gerstenbrand and the Italian Carlo Lurago. Its famous cupola was built by Jakob Prandtauer from 1708 to 1710. He also designed the current appearance of Melk Abbey. The Maria Taferl church is built in the baroque style with ample amounts of gold leaf and a frescoed ceiling. In the center of the high altar is the namesake Marian stature. The building's rear houses its crypt.
According to an inscription in the building's interior, the building of the church gave the local inhabitants new courage after the Plague, the Turkish Wars, and the Thirty Years' War had all taken their toll. It also supported the ideas of the Counter-Reformation in the heartland of the Catholic House of Habsburg. All this speaks to Maria Taferl as an important manifestation of the Catholic faith on the main traveling route of the Danube.
There are many traditional stories of angelic processions here, which come from the 17th century. The tradition of pilgrimage to Maria Taferl also dates back to that time. In 1760 alone, there were 700 pilgrimage processions and over 19,000 masses said there. The church is also a kind of information treasure chest about its pilgrims, their origins, and their number. Within it are the gifts of the pilgrims, who came on account of illness and were cured. Another reason for Maria Taferl's importance as a pilgrimage destination was the stone cross, a gift from the citizens of Freistadt for pilgrims who died on the journey. It is also evidence of the exhausting nature of pilgrimage in those days. The murdered Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria and his family lived in the nearby Artstetten Castle and is known to have regularly attended mass at Maria Taferl.
Maria Taferl became a Basilica minor in 1947.
By 2010, the basilica's interior should have undergone a complete restoration. It will then celebrate a double jubilee: 350 years since the laying of its cornerstone in 1660, and 300 years since its completion in 1710. The interior's last restoration was around 50 ago; the exterior was restored in 1982, and in 1998, the domes of the two towers were re-covered.
Besides the basilica, in Maria Taferl there is also a monument for the Fallen of both World Wars. These men are honored annually at meeting of veteran's groups.
There is a folk belief that the water from the well at Maria Taferl can help with eye complaints. - Wikipedia
Here are two more pictures from my recent stay in London, an opportunity I used to continue working on my long-term project titled Urban Serendipity. Some people have asked me about the meaning of serendipity. According to Webster's dictionary, it means "the faculty or phenomenon of finding valuable or agreeable things not sought for." Today’s photos were taken in Broadgate Circle in the City of London, very close to Liverpool Street – Broadgate Circle, London, UK