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Somewhat of a fixture in one's peripheral vision while driving, have driven past it for about 40 years. Almost wrecked craning my neck to see it, as it was not noticeable. Stopped on the return trip and grabbed the pile of wood pic. Like loosing an old passing acquaintance. Sadly it appears to be making way for apartments, civilization is getting way to close.
My heart was in a thrill
in this misty, morning chill
It was a magical view,
on tulips danced drops of dew
The Sun was on its way to rise
the Moon felt bad, to again take leave
The stars fell dim, in the shining light
the clouds heaved a sigh of relief
The Sky was golden, darkness lost
birds sang, to welcome Dawn
The people rose, from their retreats,
to make way for another morn
The day is bright, flowers bloom
happiness does away with gloom,
My heart begins to sing a song,
Something good is coming along.
Vishnu Sampoorn
Chloe Elisabeth is one year old today. She has completely reorganised our lives, has enriched it with her presence, has taught us how to see again, to play again, and to love with an intensity that I thought not possible. Her latest sentence is 'oh wow'. Oh wow Chloe how good it is to be your granny. Thank you Claire and Andrew.
One; a gridcycle inspired by 'Tron: Legacy' & 'Ewok in Disguise'. Got blogged by The Brothers Brick.
this is one of my favourite places in lisbon for a coffee or brunch! it's an austrian inspired cafe, owned by an austrian that fell in love with lisbon and decided to live here!
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"This picture is #001 in my 100 strangers project. I started interacting more and knowing stranger's names specifically for this project. Find out more about the project and see pictures taken by other photographers at www.100Strangers.com"
I tried telling a story from his point of veiw. :)
I am Assah Thamby. I live in Kuala Lumpur. When I was coming out of Murugan temple at Batu Caves, I heard some gun shots and a group of people chasing a man into a restaurant close to the parking area. Then I saw a huge group of people rushing in to see what was happening. I got panicked and tried to join them, but there was a barricade. Then I was looking around and I saw some people laughing about it saying its a film shoot of Telugu movie 'Billa' remake of Tamil one. I was relaxed and I thought its fun to watch a movie shoot, so making most of the time, I lighted a cigarette, and stood there with my daughters for a while.
Among the film crew, an Indian photographer caught my eye, to my surprise he came up to me and asked if he could take a picture of mine. I said yes, he clicked a picture, and he didn't stop there. He said he wants to take some more shots while I was smoking. For the last one he wanted a serious face, then I figured what he was looking for. I asked him 'like a crooked fellow?'. He was too happy for what I said and immediately said 'yes, thats the one'. He showed those few pictures to us and asked my name and e-mail ID so that he can send the shots. I told him my name, but I don't have an e-mail ID. My daughter gave him her e-mail ID.
This series is a swipe at barns. I drove back toward Longmont on Oxford then jogged to Nimbus Road on my way home. I caught this view toward the southeast and another long shot across a field. Haying seems to be the agriculture status of this farm. I see a New Holland bale wagon near the silos. At least they are baling legal bales here. Cows can't get a square meal from the round bales! Perhaps they stored ensilage in those silos that all have rebar sticking from the tops. All three are cast cement from slip molds. I wonder if they wanted all three silos to be taller.
The foot hills are still fewer than 10 miles away as is Longmont. I was still a dandy day among throwaway days of overcast. That dictated a day of trolling with the camera.
Although still in September we were suffering August heat, I'd say the mown grasses were greening again, sort of like Boy George. It often seems agricultural has been sucked from this area. Fortunately, we can buy food from the Sam n' Ella's farm in Mexico. The area is learning how valuable water in the west really is but have yet to learn the true value of watered land and soil and that it certainly doesn't need paving.
Strangely, we had a summer that was closer to normal, if high in humidity, but I don't think ignoring climate change or pumping petroleum will make rougher weather go away. This was a summer that was hotter than any on record. This August was hotter then any on record. This September was the hottest on record, all set world wide. perhaps you see a trend. That is at least until the looming petroleum wars are settled and the Koch Brothers and their political tea purchases are put away in their place. Until then CO2 levels in the atmosphere which are at an 850 million year high, will not be turned around. We all live in Kochistan now!
Owls and hawks eat a lot of voles and control numbers of these destructive rodents. When populations explode Great Grey owls are known to irrupt from the northern boreal forest and gorge on the pests. In winter, voles often feed on the bark of young saplings and fruit trees, frequently girding them and thus preventing forest regeneration after fire or logging operations. They can also wreak havoc on gardens and lawns in the summer. They can give birth to multiple litters of about 5 pups a year under ideal conditions.
ONE BILLION RISING began as a call to action based on the staggering statistic that 1 in 3 women on the planet will be beaten or raped during her lifetime. With the world population at 7 billion, this adds up to more than ONE BILLION WOMEN AND GIRLS.
Every February, we rise – in hundreds of countries across the world – to show our local communities and the world what one billion looks like and shine a light on the rampant impunity and injustice that survivors most often face. We rise through dance to express joy and community and celebrate the fact that we have not been defeated by this violence. We rise to show we are determined to create a new kind of consciousness – one where violence will be resisted until it is unthinkable.
And we here in Second Life can be part of this global movement.
Read about the One Billion International Campaign for 2020 here.
One Billion Rising in Second Life 2020
For the 8th year, on February 14, 2020, men and women in Second Life will join activists, writers, thinkers, celebrities, and people across the world to Rise, Resist and Unite as a show of unity, individual strength, and the need for change.
The Second Life event will feature a four-region stage where 200 people can come together to dance, surrounded by an area of art installations, arenas for poetry, live music, and dance and dramatic productions, and informational exhibits. A variety of performers will play over the 24-hour period and poetry and dance events will be held at different times, enabling people all over the world to attend this virtual event no matter their timezone. The regions will have a General maturity rating to allow all residents an opportunity to participate. Pictures are welcome on the event’s Flickr group.
I realized that I had not taken a photo in a while, so I went to re-shoot this Brooklyn location in the early blue hour and knowing the sun would be setting just left of the left bridge pillar.
What I did not know was that the post-sunset colors would match the one from the carrousel in the middle of the photo...
It was great to be out on this mild winter day.
Existing outcrops of rock have been modified into similar form all within a 60km radius. These sites are currently under the category of medieval fruit press or sacrificial stone.
Left: Grandmont "pressoir" near Lodeve.
Centre: "Pierre de Sacrifice" du Causse de Lunas.
Right: Haut-Languedoc "medieval village of monoliths".
I propose to remove elements in inverted commas and group the three sites into a commonality. With granite deposits nearby and the skills to surface menhirs; and with all of the sites being in areas known for megalithic activity - or even with high adjacent megalithic activity - I am going to look at these sites from the chronological optic either side of the first age of metal, so either side of the copper age or Chalcolithic - late Neolithic to early bronze age.
If there is too much flat surface for a fruit-press, and not enough local fruit, and if the opposite edges are not aligned or showing the correct wear marks of a fruit press's weight, and if sacrificial stones might struggle to provide so much local wear and edge detail (grooves, curve wear, cups and short ledges all appearing 'episodic' rather being from repeat ritualised behaviours), the question should be asked: what was the reason behind taking the time to carve so large a surface?
Water for drinking, water for cooking and water for making.
Cisterns tend to be much deeper and in summer months, when water is most required on these mid to upper altitude sites, just such a depth would evaporate at speed. The storms of summer months could be collected in just such a structure, and distributed via the lips into large pots for reserves of fresh water - as seen in the prehistoric village of Cambous for example (a site from a similar time scale and not so far away). But, a well run croft should have leather sheeting or abutting huts with loze and gutter management for water collection - again as alluded to in Cambous, so the question remains, why make a water capture surface in stone when sheets and ground holes and managed roofs can all be repeated and replicated in a third of the time? Carving into hard sandstone (probably close to a millstone grit) is a labour intensive prospect and water collection alone does not explain the 'episodic' edge variations.
Maybe there is a detail missing. Each of the three above sites has at least one output lip, and blocking these outputs would either allow water to collect or water to be added to form a shallow pool. In summer months the stone would expose in the sun and quickly heat the water to an agreeable temperature. Removing encircling trees would allow for a simple test of experimental archaeology. Warm water in winter is simply a matter of adding river stones to a fire and then transferring them into the waiting water. If the water gets dirty then the plug can be removed and the procedure started once more.
A shallow pool of warm water is attractive to mothers and babies, children and even adults, and the ludique side of being clean or bathing aching legs does not need to be explained. Late prehistoric sweat rooms and saunas are suspected in sites from Ireland to Spain. Getting up onto the flat top surface 'basin' would need a simple construction of wooden platform and step, and assuring that this does not 'sheer' and fall may be attained by carving mortise trenches into the heavily used "entrance point". These are clearly visible on two examples, with a platform not required on the above left example which is largely close to the ground.
A young toddler may still find the basin's edge too high from the upper wooden platform, and this may explain the diagonal clearly visible on the far side of the centre example.
Now, just such a shallow pool of water can be created aside a river or with an oiled leather 'sheet' wrapped into an indent, so the great effort to carve the stone is still in need of explanation and gravitas.
Riversides have fish and ease all sorts of craft production, and being near to a river is enjoyed by man (apart from, floods, insects, morning frost and less sunlight). Moving uphill to exploit resources of grazing, pigment, shrub and wood has the disadvantage of moving away from the guaranteed flows of water especially if springs are lower down the valley. Providing an upper valley community with a solid point of water may attract a larger crofting population base. Imagine a shallow pool of water and steps and see people positioned around the edge in their regular spaces, shaping their dissect of the monolith's perimeter with their idiosyncratic style and action.
Imagine now that it is not 'playtime', and although there is a baby splashing in the centre, most of the people assembled around the edge are softening sapling and reed bundles in the warm water and are busy weaving baskets, wicker toy animals, roof forms, chicken pens, masks, fish-traps and rug-wacks to keep the village clean of dust. The water is still getting warmer and was only changed late afternoon. Before that, the same "monolithic water-warmer" was being used to soak acorns that had been pounded in a smaller basin - soaked to take out some of their tannin for a future exchange of finest dried acorn flour at the local barter. Now the assembled group has a 'medium' amount of time, as there are men working aside another monolith and others who will put their goats up for the night and will all want to light an oil flame in a couple of the cups that are found around the edge, and have some quality time relaxing for a chat. Other uses of the tough monolithic space pepper their weeks - cleaning, "winnowing" and softening as the seasons come and go, and the people who took the time to convert the stone often say that it was an effort, but worth it in the long run. Now, rather than being at the end of an explanation, this may be the point of a 'dome' when the last stone of explanation is dropped into place...
Of the three sites, there is one detail that is of great interest. The central site has a 'cross bar' carved over the basin space (just visible here but clear in associated posts). It's difficult to see how this can greatly improve the basin (a shallow half basin to warm in winter sun and a specific rinse side?), and rather than being functional, the cross bar may be an example of representation.
The three sites are within a radius of 60km, but 60km of rolling hills, so far from being neighbours - and yet the function and three above examples of model seems so similar and worn into place. Used and used and used. With a solid scattering of neolithic crofts far higher than the three above sites, surely such a good idea for higher crofts away from riverbanks would be taken up elsewhere? Suitable outcrops of sandstone are not available for all crofts, and the stone carving skills of menhir workers were perhaps also a slight speciality, but more to the point, it is perhaps the case that other crofts had the same facility for pools of warm water but simply not in stone, and that the stone versions are representations of structures common at the time, but long faded from the archaeological record. Now the crossbar of the central example may come into light.
The first migrants into the hill will have been met by a landscape of cold humid winters and hot dry summers. Cold winters and big shepherds cloaks (visible in the statue menhirs) and dry summers with flocks often away from overt water. Sleeping under small semi portable leather covered tents of wood frame. In the summer months, the heavy winter cloaks may have been stuffed around the edge of the inner frame of the tent, almost by accident making a rim so that storm rain could be captured into water pots with a smile of happenstance. At this point you can almost hear the conversations: 'I don't mind you using the 'roof pool' for the babies, but I don't want the kids up there as they are too big and will damage the leather as it rubs against the frame" ... And then the same children playing when the father is out with their flock to a point where he decides to make them a stone 'tent' so that nothing can be damaged, with the cross bar being the cross bar of the tent and the lumpy edges being the cloaks stuffed under the leather tarp. "A lot of work, but when you see the smiles and the productivity it was worth it." Other water collection pools and warm water basins may have been apart from tent/huts and lower to the ground and each croft would not bother that someone in the future may need to think through their day to day.
There is an example in recent history that maps a similar visual story of copycat function-style. The very first cars looked like carts without horses as they directly emulated their adjacent world before moving away to perfect new lines apt for the greater subject.
Perhaps second; third, fourth... generation of new rural crofters made this monolithic innovation, which would take the date right back into the neolithic and prior to ideas of Gaul and Celt and in parallel with adjacent menhir and dolmen culture and cups and canals witnessed on the central example.
Rites associated with the site can sit aside the day to day functionality, in the flexible and yet serious way that a school entrance hall can have a jumble sale, an election booth, an art show, an assembly and an informal meeting of parents. One of the rites may include the sacrifice of an animal to a God (although special stones on overlooking hills may have been more adapted). My own feeling is that this 'potential' sub element would give the wrong impression of a years activity, which is why I prefer to call this idea "warm water forms" (a term wide enough to include projected summer hut design and lower tarp models) rather than "Pierre des Sacrifices".
AJM 14.05.20
Yet another shot of the gorgeous River Otter who was barking at me from between the ice floes the other night,
As someone who was once a hunter, I'm sure that many animals definitely sense my "harmlessness", despite my armament of photographic devices. I only pray they are as empathetically encountered by other humans ... but, fortunately, these are rarely met by our kind ... Once the ice is melted, they'll be gone, in the hinterland.
Near Donjek River, Yukon territory.
One Of the 5 FLOWS of LAVA, year 1928 - In THE FOREGROUND 1928 OLD LAVA. LOOKS at the NOTES please.
Thanks to all friends for the visits, the comments and the invitations.
One of Delta's newest aircraft, Airbus A330-900neo N402DX, being towed from the Delta hangar to a gate at Seattle Tacoma Airport. It would later operate to Shanghai, China. Delta have ordered 35 A330neos.
ابادلــك يا غايتي حــس واحســساس..
وشعــــور مع حرف مع الشعر محســـوس
في يوم"عيــد ميلادك" يابريق المــاس
اهديــك همس الغـــلا بالنبض ملمـــــوس
لك الغـــلا والود يا اغلــــى الناس خلف الحنايا وداخل القلب محبــــوس
happy birthday sis i hope for you all the best...
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The Anderson job is swapping cars with the Belton job in Anderson, SC on Nov 19, 2015.
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Para mi es muy dificil elegir una sola canción como favorita, pues adoro la musica y me gustan muchiiiiiiiiiiiisimas, pero bueno, me decanto por esta:
One de U2,