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Ti rendi conto che stai arrivando alla città fantasma di Craco perché il paesaggio d’improvviso cambia: all’intenso verde dei boschi che hanno reso famosa la Basilicata si sostituisce il giallo ocra di sconfinate praterie su cui troneggiano come giganti addormentati i calanchi. È come se da un film di cappa e spada ci si spostasse sul set di un film western, o sul set di un film ambientato nell’antica Palestina, con le sue abitazioni che si fondono col paesaggio. Quando poi appare dietro una curva, Craco ti strappa il fiato come una fortissima emozione. Vedi le case arrampicate sulla roccia con quelle finestre scure che sembrano occhi che ti scrutano per capire chi sei e cosa ci fai lì, visto che non ci abita più nessuno. Ecco la prima impressione di Craco: un luogo dove il tempo si è fermato in un’epoca incerta, ancestrale.
TCI
You realize that you are coming to the ghost town of Craco because the landscape suddenly changes: the green intensity of the woods that have made Basilicata famous is replaced by the yellow ocher of endless prairies on which they throng as giants asleep the calamchi. It's as if a hood and sword film moves on a western movie set, or on a set of a film set in ancient Palestine, with its homes blend with the landscape. When it then appears behind a curve, Craco tears your breath as a very strong emotion. Look at the rock climbing houses with those dark windows that look like eyes that look at you to figure out who you are and what you're doing there, since no one lives there anymore. Here is the first impression of Craco: a place where time has stopped in an uncertain, ancestral era.
La fotografia ti permette di fermare l’attimo, cogliere l’istante, fermare il tempo. Lasciare ai posteri un ricordo della tua vita, lasciare che qualche altro veda con i tuoi occhi.
Gianni Amodio
Photography lets you stop the moment, catch the moment, stop the time. Leave the posterity a reminder of your life, let some others see with your eyes.
Gianni Amodio
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Street photography from Glasgow, Scotland.
Previously unpublished archive shot from February 2014 and captured with my old Canon 400D early in my Street photography journey.
I love the eye contact in this one and want to wish Flickr a very Happy 20th Anniversary. There are some awesome images in the Explore Take-over today including one from an old street photographer friend here on Flickr who passed away a few years ago. He would have been thrilled to get an Explore on such an occasion.
I wish you all a wonderful weekend of photography my Flickr friends. Stay safe, keep the shutters clicking and keep sharing your wonderful photographs. Enjoy.
Before the wretched bright green palisade fencing appears on the scene and taking advantage of recent conifer tree clearance, I just had to capture for posterity the 'classic' Shap Wells three-quarter view from the 'mound', personified by the late photographer's Bishop Eric Treacy and Derek Cross, among many others of the time. Perusing my copy of 'Roaming the West Coast Rails' by Derek Cross I was quite surprised by the amount of lineside vegetation present on this embankment in August 1952, far more so than today! 45690 'Leander' heads the 1Z45 07:14 Manchester Victoria to Carlisle on Saturday 21st January 2015.
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Probably a young male, but a lousy shot. The best of the bunch. My center point was off so focus was a problem. If you knew how hard I work to save bad shots, you'd laugh. But I do love it when they are in my yard and playing in the sprinklers. I just had to save this for posterity. I've been so sick this year ... this is better than nothing! Thank You, Jesus, for your precious creatures in God's garden.
Some images taken in October 2016 which I didn't include in the original collection so posting for posterities sake.
Diary note: After spending 5 days in the remote mountains of the Ben Alder Estate, we broke camp early on Friday morning. The Highland ponies watched us as we moved on out and one of them crossed the river to see me. I guess she was after seeing what food I had left, but we'd eaten the lot - otherwise we'd probably still be staying in there! These Highland ponies are free roaming on the estate and are used for carrying red deer off the hills when they are culled during the hunting season. They're tough, strong ponies and I couldn't help but be stirred by a pang of sadness as I said goodbye to them and their homeland on that Friday morning. I think it was knowing that I will probably never pass this way again - so many other wild places left to explore in the Highlands.
Having taken the night off work just to shoot the AAPRCO train I was rather disappointed that the VTR chose to put a long hood forward loco on the train. But Pan Am made up for things with word that their OCS train behind the two FP9s was deadheading from Ayer to Mechanicville. So after getting a couple shots for posterity of the strange backwards VRS special we drove straight south 90 minutes to Williamstown to intersect with the Pan Am freight main.
We set up for our first shot here where the old B&M west end crosses the Hoosic River on a low deck bridge about MP 424 just west of the center of town and waited. This would be the first shot of a spectacular chase west all the way back to Mechanicville completing quite the circle tour for the day.
North Adams, Massachusetts
Sunday September 27, 2020
Last of the photos from my last bike ride through Ascot Eaters and Maylands. This is one oif the old Brick Kilns for the old Midland Brick factory. They are no longer in use but have been preserved for posterity :-)
After a brief morning outing for a couple of trains on the east end of CSXT's Boston Line I took a pass through Worcester on the way back home to RI to check on the status of the GEO train. As shared already I found it doing nothing tied down on the Greendale Siding.
It was hemmed in by this, CSXT train M427 (Rigby to Selkirk manifest) parked at New Bond street at the end of CSXT's ex Pan Am nee Boston and Maine Worcester Mainline. A pair of MEC C40-8s lead the train but since they are not IETMS equipped they can't lead west over the old Boston and Albany. They would be capped with some CSXT power later and a Selkirk crew would take all this west in the evening, but I didn't wait around for that so grabbed this for posterity and headed south.
Worcester, Massachusetts
Friday July 8, 2022
I didn't get out shooting on Pan Am's last official day before CSXT took ownership on June 1, but I did grab this just for posterity. After wrapping up my night I decided to grab a few photos of BO1's power tied up on the west end of the Valley track at BET. It seemed appropriate to grab a shot of the locomotive assigned to 'The Last Freight Train In Boston' in the city that was once the namesake and operational hub of the Boston and Maine Railroad during its glory years.
MEC 505 is a GMDD GP40-2LW blt. Jul. 1974 as CN 9470. 505 was acquired in late 2000 and originally wore GRS gray and orange. In 2006 she was one of two repainted into the new Pan Am image featuring a medium blue color and large black upper section. Alas that good looking scheme wasn't adopted in favor of this deep navy blue solid dip scheme. Repainted in 2010, 505 is one of only three wide nose geeps with the globe on the nose which is a decided improvement to the otherwise bland scheme.
P.S. - If anyone is interested in the story I wrote about BO1 you can still pick up a back issue of the May 2019 Railfan and Railroad to check it out: shop.whiteriverproductions.com/products/rfr-201905
Somerville, Massachusetts
Tuesday May 31, 2022
The Hagen Open-air Museum (LWL-Freilichtmuseum Hagen – Westfälisches Landesmuseum für Handwerk und Technik; English: "LWL Open-air Museum Hagen – Westphalian State Museum for Craft and Technics") is a museum at Hagen in the southeastern Ruhr area, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. It was founded, together with the Detmold Open-air Museum, in 1960, and was first opened to the public in the early 1970s. The museum is run by the Landschaftsverband Westfalen-Lippe (LWL, regional authority for Westphalia and Lippe within North Rhine-Westphalia). It lies in the Hagen neighbourhood of Selbecke south of Eilpe in the Mäckingerbach valley.
The open-air museum brings a bit of skilled-trade history into the present, and it takes a hands-on approach. On its grounds stretching for about 42 ha, not only are urban and rural trades simply "displayed" along with their workshops and tools, but in more than twenty of the nearly sixty rebuilt workshops, they are still practised, and interested visitors can, sometimes by themselves, take part in the production.
As early as the 1920s, there were efforts by a group of engineers and historical preservationists to preserve technological monuments for posterity. The initiator, Wilhelm Claas, even suggested the Mäckingerbach valley as a good place for a museum to that end. The narrow valley was chosen, as wind, water and wood were the three most important location factors for industry in the 18th and 19th centuries.
In 1960, the Westphalian Open-Air Museum was founded, and thirteen years later, the gates opened to the public. Unlike most open-air museums, which show everyday life on the farm or in the country as it was in days gone by, the Hagen Open-Air Museum puts the history of these activities in Westphalia in the fore. From the late 18th century through the early years of the Industrial Revolution to the highly industrialized society emerging in the early 20th century, the visitor can experience the development of these trades and the industry in the region.
Crafts and trades demonstrated at the Westphalian Open-Air Museum include ropemaking, smithing, brewing, baking, tanning, printing, milling, papermaking, and much more. A favourite attraction is the triphammer workshop shown in the image above. Once the hammer is engaged, a craftsman goes to work noisily forging a scythe, passing it between the hammer and the anvil underneath in a process called peening.
The Hagen Westphalian Open-Air Museum is open from March or April until October.
“And the Universe, she's whispering so softly I can hear all ...”
- Gregory Alan Isakov, The Universe
Soundtrack : www.youtube.com/watch?v=3lKFQxdLXgs
THE UNIVERSE – GREGORY ALAN ISAKOV
Imagine what it's like
to have a photographic memory
to record the smallest details
the pain and loss of you and me
Imagine if you will
what it's like to live like me
a walking, talking history book
recorded for posterity
Imagine if you really need
to switch off all your thoughts
to seek that great elusive silence
it can be learned; be taught
Imagine though if you were me
unable to cancel out
every tiny little thing
good and bad; I want to shout
Imagine what it's like to be me
to hear; to see; to feel too much
to wander in the wilderness
without your tender touch
Imagine if you will awhile
the noisiest place on earth
a cacophony of the loudest sounds
since the time of my rebirth
Imagine waiting in the darkness
for light to shine on you
reflecting all your hopes and dreams
all the things you want to do
Imagine feeling intense pain
seeing kaleidoscopes of colour
so vivid; writhing snake-like visions
no comfort found in one and other
Imagine the intensity of loneliness
greater than you feel now
so fragile; so exquisite; so misunderstood
and then imagine how
It is possible to exist this way
it takes strength of will; resolve
I will always seek the stillness
to be alone; at peace; evolved.
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Two dozen decoratively frosted sugar cookies gifted to us by our 4 daughters for recent wedding anniversary celebration. Photographed few of them on a black canvas background for posterity...then promptly ate them...
Every window I looked at had a different reflection of this vintage 'pimped' orange truck ... so completely out of place (or so it seemed to me) in Tromsø, Norway.These are just a few of the perspectives I photographed that afternoon ... ironically, I never took a photo of the truck itself although I wish I would have if only for 'posterity.'
Although the Industrial Revolution increased life expectancy, it also produced many negative consequences. As a result, we live in a society that has lost much of its roots and moral grounding. Therefore, we live unfulfilling lives. As technology continues to advance, we will witness more social disruption. We now live in an industrial-technological system, which we will not be able to turn back. As this system marches forward, we will lose our dignity and freedom—even our humanity.
We have become a society of leisure; we have become decadent. As a result, we have become bored, hedonistic, and demoralized. An individual must have meaningful goals in life, which they can ‘autonomously’ work toward—goals with real adversity and reward. In accomplishing such goals, a person finds fulfillment. In our modern society, we have lost much of our autonomy. We have been trained to be obedient to the system. We must follow ever-increasing bureaucratic rules and regulations. Nowadays, experts tell us what to do and how to think. We are cogs of the machine—we are under the direction and control of the system. Yet this is not healthy for human beings. We must have our own independence, so that we can build our lives by our own initiative. If there is little room for a person to exercise autonomy, they will feel insignificant. If they have the autonomy to attain meaningful goals, they will gain self-confidence. A society that cannot make/create/set or fulfill meaningful goals will become demoralized; they will suffer from low self-esteem and feelings of inferiority; they will suffer from depression, anxiety, and guilt; they will become frustrated, hostile, and unfriendly; they will become bored and pursue hedonistic pleasures in order to cope.
Many young people today lack goals. They cannot see themselves attaining enough financial stability to marry a spouse or raise a family. They cannot see themselves owning a house or having a future to look forward to. This results in demoralization and defeatism.
In the past, people had to truly survive. This took serious effort. They had to make tools and weapons. They had to hunt down an animal, kill it, butcher it, get it home, cook it, and eat it. How manly and satisfying! A man would find fulfillment in a lifetime of roaming and exploring the land, hunting wild game for his family. He would have many adventures. Yet in our modern society, it takes minimal effort to attain one’s basic needs. Today, we work dead-end jobs that are unsatisfying. They provide us with a paycheck, but they don’t provide us with real fulfillment. We then try to find fulfillment in hobbies and other leisure activities, which will not bring us real fulfillment. What is worse, we spend our spare time sitting around staring at screens. The human body is not built to live a sedentary life. The human brain is not built to doomscroll. Living sedentary lives and doomscrolling obviously leads to unhappiness. Such activities are less satisfying than accomplishing meaningful goals such as buying land, clearing the land of trees by hand, using the trees to build a house by hand, carrying ones wife over the threshold, raising a family, working the land and raising livestock, thus conquering the land and continuing ones posterity. This in itself is Biblical. Why do you think, when Christ returns, He will divide up the land among the people (as it was done in the Old Testament)? It is so that man will work his ‘own’ land. Then man will work in nature, where he will be happiest. God made nature for man, not man for nature. The goal of the globalist agenda is to further divide man from nature; it is an antichrist agenda. Their goal is transhumanism, which will dehumanize mankind and further divide him from nature. Moreover, transhumanism will divide man from God.
A pre-industrial society is predominantly rural. With the advent of the Industrial Revolution, the population of cities vastly increased. A technological society changes rapidly, thus there is less stability. These changes affect all aspects of society and cause the breakdown of traditional values. Breaking down traditional values causes the breakdown of societal bonds. An individual’s loyalty changes: it must not be first to their family or community, but first and foremost to the system. Indeed, individuals must be tools of the system. This makes us less independent and autonomous, because we become reliant on the system. The system is constantly changing, and we are taught to obey its changing rules and regulations. Yet these regulations are laid down by others. We have little to no input in the making of these rules. They are made by corrupt politicians and bureaucrats, corporations and organizations. This makes us feel powerless, which gives us a sense of hopelessness. Can you see why society has become so frustrated, insecure, humiliated, and angry? The more unfulfilled a society becomes, the more restless it becomes. Restlessness causes friction, and friction causes factions. Thus, a society breaks into factions. A society of impoverished relationships makes for a toxic society. Science will give us the tools to alter the material world, but our relationships with one another and with nature will be destroyed.
As society advances technologically, we lose more freedoms. People can’t even put down their phones, let alone toss them away to fight the system. People don’t want to sacrifice what they have become addicted to and dependent on. Yet they will replace their current technology with something more advanced. They will go from cell phones to wearable technology to microchips. With the promise of eliminating diseases and gaining super intelligence, much of society will give up freedom to be genetically engineered and microchipped. Even though, such a step will never be reversed. Humans will be modified to suit the needs of the system. They will become one with robotic technology.
Many people are not concerned about these dystopian scenarios. Yet technologies such as robotics, genetic engineering, and nanotechnology pose a great threat to humanity. These technologies will be used as tools to redesign the world. Self-replicating technologies will cause great damage to the biosphere. In the end, self-replicating technology will be impossible to control.
Artificial Intelligence will replace human creativity. In the future, the internet will be accessed only by your personal AI assistant. You will ask your AI assistant questions, and it will surf the internet for you. You will not go on Youtube to watch videos. You will ask AI to make the kind of videos you desire to watch. There will be no human content creators. Get used to AI art, AI videos, AI music, AI articles, AI slop! That is what you will be fed. Many who want to fight the system will eventually become passive, and they will no longer resist. They will be sucked into the system and become zombified. They will become docile slaves of the system. It desires complete control over everything on earth, both man and nature. Humanity will then be reduced to the status of domestic animals. Of course, this will be for the good of the planet!
If university students are using AI to write papers, AI will replace them in their future jobs. If teachers and professors are using AI to write curriculum and mark papers, AI will replace them. If the younger generation has no work ethic, they will be replaced by subsidized foreign workers, then both will be replaced by AI. If generation Alpha can’t read, then AI will replace them. The (dangerous) foreign semi-truck drivers on our roads will be replaced by AI self-driving trucks. AI in the schools, AI in the hospitals, replace, replace, replace. The politicians make many terrible decisions, thus they will be replaced by AI.
Moving on! The more society moves away from the traditions of marriage and family, the more unfulfilled and unhappy society will become. Radical leftists feel the least fulfillment, because they long to destroy society and its traditions. How happy can one be if they want to destroy their roots? They are constantly deconstructing themselves, it’s the Maoist way—how else can you brainwash yourself? Therefore, they feel guilt and self-hatred. They gain an inferiority complex. They have a love-hate relationship with themselves. On one hand they loathe themselves, but on the other hand they selfishly desire power. For this reason, they are self-loathing narcissists. They feel unfulfilled and powerless. Therefore, they seek power to bring about fulfillment. They feel weak and helpless, so they desire to feel strong and competent. It’s a coping mechanism. They also hate anything that appears strong, moral, and successful. They hate America, Western civilization, capitalism, the family, patriarchy, whites, males, heterosexuals, the rich, the middleclass, and even rationality. They despise all who are more beautiful, talented, intelligent, or successful than them. Envy does not equate to fulfillment or happiness. Side note: social media causes much envy and unhappiness.
The far left wants society to take care of them, because they are lazy and lack confidence. They feel strong only as a member of a large group or movement. They like to be abusive to those who disagree with them, because they have masochistic tendencies. The Marxist ideology is an authoritarian ideology, which is masochistic in nature, because it revolves around revolution. The far left may act empathetic, but they are apathetic. Indeed, a study on this topic found that radical leftists were apathetic and narcissistic. Their goals revolve around revolution and power. Their insecurity causes them to feel hostile, and their revolution helps them to vent their hostility. They don’t care about diplomacy, so they act hostile. With them, it is all or nothing: they want revolution, they want power. How can you have a rational conversation with individuals who don’t want dialogue? They use minorities as an excuse for revolution. They hide behind minorities, using them to shield their intentions of revolution. They go into poor black communities to fight for poor black people, yet they burn down black businesses and ruin their local economy. The communist must fight for the revolution, for everything opposed to the revolution is a sin. The communist tries to find fulfillment in the act of rebellion; he tries to find fulfillment in the act of revolution. He, however, is never satisfied. Thus, the revolution moves onward.
For the radical, activism is a vent for their pent-up emotions. Activism produces unity among the young militants, creating a bond between like-minded people. Losers can feel accepted, like they belong. Many of these communist agitators are from middle and upper middleclass homes. They have had an easy but unfulfilling life. They are the most radicalized, because they feel the most unfulfilled. They have become so demoralized that they have become nihilistic. Their life seems to have no meaning. They have lost their moral compass. They rely on emotions rather than on reason. They rely on feelings rather than on facts. “Their political activism is thus only a reaction to the more basic fear that the times are against them, that a new world is emerging without either their assistance or their leadership.” These activists will gradually accept more deviant subcultures as they further divorce themselves from reality. “The supreme irony of that loose and volatile sociopolitical phenomenon of contemporary middleclass America named the New Left is that it is itself the creation of the technetronic revolution as well as a reaction against it.” “The New Left was able to draw on the deep-rooted traditions of American populism, Quaker pacifism, and the pre-World War II largely immigrant-imported socialism and communism.” (The ‘New Left’ refers to the leftist movement of the 60s).
Paying for your child’s first car, college tuition, wedding, or house down payment will give them little sense of accomplishment. Giving children everything not only spoils them but also makes life boring. There must be ups and downs for life to be interesting. Bad times can produce growth and maturity, that is, if a person desires to learn from life. Especially if they want to build a strong moral character. The rewards of being cogs in the system produce great boredom. These middleclass kids have a self-indulgent lifestyle that contradicts their professed anti-materialism. Their material existence tends to depend on their parents. Their ideological infantilism stems from obsolete nineteenth-century criticisms of capitalism. They are spoiled kids who are rebelling against middleclass society. These activists offer no real response to the dilemmas of our age. Their revolutionary movement is really an escapist movement. It is a way of coping with their unfulfilled lives. They supposedly desire to change society, but they really want to create a refuge (safe space) from society. Their activism is a psychological safety valve, in which they can blow off steam. They escape their boring lives through activism, so they can feel a sense of freedom and self-gratification. They pat each other on the back, because they are supposedly fighting against their capitalist enemy. However, this is really a form of group therapy.
The woke activists on the ground are the canaries in the coal mine. They are indicators of the problems of our society as a whole. Through them, we have the best lens on society’s anxiety, uncertainty, vulnerability, and dissatisfaction. Side note: we can see the incoming collectivist system through the lens of the United Nations. They want to eradicate poverty. Yet they hide behind poverty, using it to shield their intentions of ruling the world. With communism, it’s all about gaining power. Communism is meant to go worldwide. Collectivism seeks to bind together the entire world (both man and nature) into a unified whole.
Neo-Marxism went through the dialectic with postmodernism and produced wokeism. Some think that post-postmodernism will have a more spiritual element to it. I think that wokeism will go through the dialectic with some sort of religious spiritualism, which will produce antichristism. Wokeism is authoritarian in nature, yet it has a quasi-religious character. Post-postmodernism will lead to an authoritarian system with a spiritual flavour. Man must be grounded to a one-world religion to be grounded to a one-world government. Woke socialism must have a spiritual awakening, so to speak. Wokeism must awaken further in its social enlightenment in order to transcend to the next level of social consciousness. This dialectic enlightenment will mix socialism with a spiritual experience. It will lead to transhumanism. The coming socialist leader—the antichrist—will combine socialism, religion, and transhumanism. Modernity, with its globalization, technology, and social(ist) change, has produced a society that lacks fulfillment. Although technology will bring less fulfillment to humanity, the technological system will lead it forward on a leash. I can see one of the marketing strategies for the Mark of the Beast: we live in stressful times, take the microchip and become numb to the stresses of reality. The soma of the Brave New World Order will give you fulfillment. You will be modified to suit the needs of the system. Warning: do not follow the world system!
Revelation 18:4 “Then I heard another voice from heaven say: ‘Come out of her, My people, so that you will not share in her sins or contract any of her plagues.’”
1 John 4:4 “Little children (believers, dear ones), you are of God and you belong to Him and have [already] overcome them [the agents of the antichrist]; because He who is in you is greater than he (Satan) who is in the world [of sinful mankind].”
1 John 2:15-17 “Do not love the world or anything in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him. For all that is in the world—the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life—is not from the Father but from the world. The world is passing away, along with its desires; but whoever does the will of God remains forever.”
Proverbs 3:5-6 “Trust in the Lord with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding; in all your ways submit to Him, and He will make your paths straight.”
Romans 8:7 “For the mind that is set on the flesh is hostile to God, for it does not submit to God’s law; indeed, it cannot.”
Galatians 5:25 “Since we live by the Spirit, let us keep in step with the Spirit.”
Matthew 5:6 “Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they will be satisfied.”
In a sinful world, no individual can experience perfect fulfillment. When I’m in eternity with the Lord, I’ll know perfect fulfillment!
La commune de Saint-Vaast-la-Hougue abrite un patrimoine exceptionnel représenté par ses deux tours Vauban, à la Hougue et sur Tatihou, inscrites à l’Unesco en 2008 dans le cadre du Réseau des Sites majeurs de Vauban, avec 11 autres sites français, représentant chacun une facette de l’œuvre du célèbre poliorcète. Conjuguant l’observation et le tir à la mer, les tours de Saint-Vaast constituent l’archétype des tours tronconiques de défense côtière, à batteries hautes.
La frontière de mer du Cotentin prend toute son importance sous le règne de Louis XIV, avec la volonté de Vauban de mettre ce littoral en sécurité, car les coups de main ennemis contre notre côte s’intensifient au cours de la guerre de la Ligue d’Augsbourg (1688-1697) qui oppose la France à la majeure partie de l’Europe. Ainsi, en 1692, après une bataille de ligne tout à son honneur au large de Barfleur, le vice-amiral Tourville perd, les 2 et 3 juin, pratiquement sans coup férir, douze de ses vaisseaux incendiés par les brûlots anglais et hollandais, alors qu’ils étaient venus se réfugier sous l’île Tatihou et à la pointe de la Hougue, insuffisamment protégées.
Cet épisode, passé à la postérité sous l’appellation « Bataille de la Hougue », décide le roi à accorder à Vauban les subsides nécessaires pour renforcer la défense de Saint-Vaast. Le principe est arrêté dès 1693, et c’est à Benjamin Decombes que Vauban confie la tâche de faire bâtir deux tours dans le but de protéger la baie en rendant impossible tout débarquement grâce, notamment, au tir croisé des batteries.
Distantes l’une de l’autre, de 2,750 kms à vol d’oiseau, les tours s’élèvent à 20 mètres au-dessus de leurs fondations, mais elles se distinguent par leur silhouette : plus massive pour Tatihou qui a les pieds dans l’eau à marée haute et comporte 10 embrasures sur sa plate-forme de tir, plus élégante pour la Hougue qui s’élève sur son promontoire de granit si bien que la terrasse de tir à 6 embrasures culmine à 40 mètres au-dessus du niveau de la mer.
La construction des deux tours est achevée en 1699, lorsque Vauban effectue sa dernière visite en Cotentin. Elles s’intègrent alors totalement dans le système défensif côtier du Ponant. L’épreuve du feu a lieu en août 1708, lors d’une tentative de descente anglaise sous la Hougue, déjouée grâce au fameux tri croisé. Cet épisode prouve l’intérêt de la construction des deux tours, car les Anglais ne tenteront plus aucune descente sur le rivage saint-vaastais.
The commune of Saint-Vaast-la-Hougue is home to an exceptional heritage represented by its two Vauban towers, at La Hougue and on Tatihou, listed by UNESCO in 2008 as part of the Network of Major Vauban Sites, with 11 other sites French, each representing a facet of the work of the famous poliorcete. Combining observation and sea shooting, the towers of Saint-Vaast constitute the archetype of truncated conical coastal defense towers, with high batteries.
The Cotentin sea border took on its full importance under the reign of Louis Augsburg (1688-1697) which pitted France against most of Europe. Thus, in 1692, after a line battle to his credit off the coast of Barfleur, Vice-Admiral Tourville lost, on June 2 and 3, practically without firing a shot, twelve of his vessels set on fire by English and Dutch fireships, then that they had come to take refuge under Tatihou Island and at the Pointe de la Hougue, which were insufficiently protected.
This episode, passed down to posterity under the name "Battle of La Hougue", decided the king to grant Vauban the necessary subsidies to strengthen the defense of Saint-Vaast. The principle was decided in 1693, and it was to Benjamin Decombes that Vauban entrusted the task of building two towers with the aim of protecting the bay by making any landing impossible thanks, in particular, to the crossfire of the batteries.
Distant from each other, 2,750 km as the crow flies, the towers rise 20 meters above their foundations, but they are distinguished by their silhouette: more massive for Tatihou who has his feet in water at high tide and has 10 embrasures on its shooting platform, more elegant for La Hougue which rises on its granite promontory so that the shooting terrace with 6 embrasures culminates 40 meters above the sea level.
The construction of the two towers was completed in 1699, when Vauban made his last visit to Cotentin. They are then fully integrated into the coastal defensive system of Ponant. The trial by fire took place in August 1708, during an attempted English descent under La Hougue, foiled thanks to the famous cross sorting. This episode proves the interest in the construction of the two towers, because the English will no longer attempt any descent on the Saint-Vaast shore.
Helpers east out of Brunswick were a tradition for many years until DPU technology was finally embraced on CSX. Here a set of 'nines shove an eastbound by the Dickerson station on the Metropolitan Sub. Eastbounds on the Met had two stiff grades to defeat; the first and most severe almost right after leaving Brunswick was Parr's Ridge to Barnesville, followed by a shorter grade from Great Seneca Creek to Summit Ave in Gaithersburg. B&O #6432 was one of 16 GP9s delivered in the Spring of 1955, but I'm not sure why this one got the large plow? The helper jobs were coveted jobs, and I even got to work a few before they went away. DPUs squashed the use of helpers out of Brunswick under PSR but I'm glad I got to shove and be shoved over these grades for posterity. It's Spring 1974, and Walter Schopp took this image. JL Sessa collection.
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Candid street photography from Glasgow, Scotland. I just loved her posture while reading amongst the pillars at the Gallery of Modern Art. With earbuds in she clearly has a mobile device with her but is reading from an actual printed page, the way the world is going I felt the need to capture this for posterity. Enjoy!
22nd September 2019 - Mexican acoustic rock guitar duo 'Rodrigo Y Gabriela' were back in Liverpool's O2 Academy to promote their new album 'Mettavolution'. Of course I was there to record the events for posterity..
Phew ... struggling again with shots from this morning being backlit. This one was tough ... but this was a pretty cool juvenile Alligator so I wanted to post it for posterity!
This is an interesting edit from Topaz Impressions called "Cave Dweller" and I like it sometimes. As in this case!
Central Florida in the winter, with the bright sunshine, and low humidity ... can be challenging for a non-technical photographer old lady!
...now with an extra gift if you can find it. The character trees of the high limestone dales will disappear in a generation or so as sheep and rabbits prevent the regeneration by chewing the saplings. It is my public duty (and Stevemg's!) to record them for posterity. It also gives us something to do.
Pole lines, diamonds, pipeline, signals, Tiffin Tower and B&O eastbound CW94 in the middle of it all! This seen only has the rails the train is on and the one to the right of it. The rest is gone. Progress has taken its toll on the scene, yet I'm glad I recorded it for posterity for future generations. As a side note, the second unit, GP-9 6432 was the first Chessie painted engine I saw way back. It was in Lima, Ohio and talk about excited to see my first one! April 11, 1984 Photo by Dale A. DeVene Jr.
[DE] Das Straßenbahn Museum Wehmingen ist eines der Größten Straßenbahn Museen in Deutschland. Mit einem Fuhrpark aus ganz Europa. Neben Straßenbahnen aus den Unterschiedlichsten Betrieben in Deutschland finden sich auch Bahnen aus den Niederlanden, Österreich und Polen.
Neben einer Riesigen Ausstellungsfläche hat das Museum auch sein eigenen Rundkurs auf dem Fahrten mit unterschiedlichen Bahnen angeboten werden. Neben einer mitfahrt auf dem Rundkurs kann man auch mit der Fahrschule einmal selber eine Straßenbahn über das Gelände des Straßenbahnmuseums fahren.
Bei meinem Tages Ausflug wurde unter anderem auch mit einem E1 aus Wien gefahren. Dieser Straßenbahn Typ musste erst vor kurzem das Feld in Wien räumen. Währendessen wird ein E1 in Sehnde für die Nachwelt beibehalten.
Hier startet dieser E1 an der Starthaltestelle seine Rundfahrt über das Museumsgelände
[EN] The Tram Museum Wehmingen is one of the largest tram museums in Germany. With a fleet of vehicles from all over Europe. In addition to trams from a wide variety of companies in Germany, there are also trams from the Netherlands, Austria and Poland.
In addition to a huge exhibition area, the museum also has its own circuit on which trips with different trains are offered. In addition to taking a ride on the circuit, you can also drive a tram yourself with the driving school across the grounds of the tram museum.
During my day trip, an E1 from Vienna was also used. This tram type only recently had to clear the field in Vienna. Meanwhile, an E1 in Sehnde will be retained for posterity.
This E1 starts its tour of the museum grounds at the starting station
Spain, Andalusia, Malaga
Málaga is a city of Spain in Andalusia. It lies on the Costa del Sol ("Coast of the Sun") of the Mediterranean. Its history spans about 2,800 years, making it one of the oldest continuously inhabited cities in Western Europe. According to most scholars, it was founded about 770 BC by the Phoenicians from Tyre as Malaka. From the 6th century BC the city was under the hegemony of Ancient Carthage, and from 218 BC, it was under Roman rule, economically prospering owing to garum production. In the 8th century, after a period of Visigothic and Byzantine rule, it was placed under Islamic rule. In 1487, the Crown of Castile gained control in the Granada War. The Moors left posterity the dominating presence of the Castle of Gibralfaro, which is connected to the Alcazaba, the lower fortress and royal residence. Both were built in the 11th century. The Alcazaba stands on a hill within the city.
So I went back to one of my very first albums in 2011. Had a little pink Sony point and shoot with a macro setting and was already hooked on photography! Here's a B&W rendition of a Florida native Sea Grape tree! I'm going to save it into the Oldies but Goodies album for posterity!
Second time around: March 28, 2024. Fell hard day before yesterday and I'm not up to much. Smashed my face badly. Couldn't resist sharing this one again from my photography beginning.
View from one of the terraces around the Kärnan tower: Helsingborg city and the strait between Sweden and Denmark.
Kärnan is a medieval tower, the only part remaining of a larger Danish fortress which, along with the fortress Kronborg on the opposite bank of the Øresund, controlled the entranceway between the Kattegat and the Øresund and further south the Baltic Sea.
Dendrochronological dating has shown that the tower was built in the 1310s. It was surrendered to Sweden along with the rest of Skåneland as part of the Treaty of Roskilde in 1658. King Charles XI of Sweden ordered most of the fortress demolished fearing that it was too exposed to a sneak attack from Denmark. The only thing that was saved for posterity was the old medieval tower core.
The tower became slowly a ruin and was restored during 1893–94. The stairs and the terraces up to the tower were built in 1903.
The Golden Gate Bridge is a suspension bridge spanning the Golden Gate strait, the one-mile-wide (1.6 km), three-mile-long (4.8 km) channel between San Francisco Bay and the Pacific Ocean. The structure links the U.S. city of San Francisco, on the northern tip of the San Francisco Peninsula, to Marin County, bridging both U.S. Route 101 and California State Route 1 across the strait. The bridge is one of the most internationally recognized symbols of San Francisco, California, and the United States. It has been declared one of the Wonders of the Modern World by the American Society of Civil Engineers.
The Frommers travel guide considers the Golden Gate Bridge "possibly the most beautiful, certainly the most photographed, bridge in the world". It opened in 1937 and was, until 1964, the longest suspension bridge main span in the world, at 4,200 feet (1,300 m).
Strauss was chief engineer in charge of overall design and construction of the bridge project. However, because he had little understanding or experience with cable-suspension designs, responsibility for much of the engineering and architecture fell on other experts. Strauss' initial design proposal (two double cantilever spans linked by a central suspension segment) was unacceptable from a visual standpoint. The final graceful suspension design was conceived and championed by New York’s Manhattan Bridge designer Leon Moisseiff.
Irving Morrow, a relatively unknown residential architect, designed the overall shape of the bridge towers, the lighting scheme, and Art Deco elements, such as the tower decorations, streetlights, railing, and walkways. The famous International Orange color was originally used as a sealant for the bridge. The US Navy had wanted it to be painted with black and yellow stripes to ensure visibility by passing ships.
Senior engineer Charles Alton Ellis, collaborating remotely with Moisseiff, was the principal engineer of the project. Moisseiff produced the basic structural design, introducing his "deflection theory" by which a thin, flexible roadway would flex in the wind, greatly reducing stress by transmitting forces via suspension cables to the bridge towers. Although the Golden Gate Bridge design has proved sound, a later Moisseiff design, the original Tacoma Narrows Bridge, collapsed in a strong windstorm soon after it was completed, because of an unexpected aeroelastic flutter.[25] Ellis was also tasked with designing a "bridge within a bridge" in the southern abutment, to avoid the need to demolish Fort Point, a pre-Civil War masonry fortification viewed, even then, as worthy of historic preservation. He penned a graceful steel arch spanning the fort and carrying the roadway to the bridge's southern anchorage.
Ellis was a Greek scholar and mathematician who at one time was a University of Illinois professor of engineering despite having no engineering degree. He eventually earned a degree in civil engineering from the University of Illinois prior to designing the Golden Gate Bridge and spent the last twelve years of his career as a professor at Purdue University. He became an expert in structural design, writing the standard textbook of the time. Ellis did much of the technical and theoretical work that built the bridge, but he received none of the credit in his lifetime. In November 1931, Strauss fired Ellis and replaced him with a former subordinate, Clifford Paine, ostensibly for wasting too much money sending telegrams back and forth to Moisseiff. Ellis, obsessed with the project and unable to find work elsewhere during the Depression, continued working 70 hours per week on an unpaid basis, eventually turning in ten volumes of hand calculations.
With an eye toward self-promotion and posterity, Strauss downplayed the contributions of his collaborators who, despite receiving little recognition or compensation, are largely responsible for the final form of the bridge. He succeeded in having himself credited as the person most responsible for the design and vision of the bridge. Only much later were the contributions of the others on the design team properly appreciated In May 2007, the Golden Gate Bridge District issued a formal report on 70 years of stewardship of the famous bridge and decided to give Ellis major credit for the design of the bridge.
So wie man sich das aus heutiger Sicht vorstellt, Aufzeichnungen und Schriftstücke haben die Kelten der Nachwelt nicht hinterlassen.
As we imagine it from today's perspective, the Celts did not leave behind any records or written documents for posterity.
Ah, our brave new selfie world.
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Highly polished ex US Air Force Convair VT-29B 0-17899 seen during the 1975 Duxford Airshow
The trainer version of the C-131 Samaritan, the T-29 served in great numbers in various roles including a flying classroom and for medivac duties
This example was based at nearby RAF Mildenhall being used in the VIP transport and communications role and when retirement loomed she was kindly 'donated' by the USAF on long-term loan to the collection at Duxford
Performing several spirited low passes at the airshow there she remained on site, seemingly for posterity
However, several years into retirement her condition was deemed to be 'poor' and the USAF decided she was to be broken up on site. A sad and ignominious end to a lovely aeroplane
As a footnote, the first two digits of USAF serials denote the fiscal year the airframe was procured but here there is a '0' to start. The 0 was added to denote that the aeroplane was at least 10 years older than the current fiscal year and not O for obsolete which was a common myth.
In this case the fiscal year was actually 1951, making her some 24 years old at the time - a baby really'. Needless to say that as 10 year old USAF aircraft became far more common the use of the '0' was dropped.
Scanned 35mm Agfa50 Transparency
Another little beauty out front for just a second or two. Lousy shot, but only got ONE shot so this is for posterity and it makes me happy. Ugliest branches, too. Aarrgghh. A poor Dahoon Holly that's got some zeases or something. Getting chopped down soon. So ... a Northern Parula out front in God's garden. Thank You, Jesus.
On route to Tate Britain from Victoria I passed this wonderfully designed building and just had to get a few snaps for posterity and further playfulness in Photoscape X pro
Kristiansand, Norway
The silo was a great success and served its duty as a grain store for many years, for the nearby grain mill. When the mill was closed for good in 2008, the city council decided two years later that the silo should be preserved for posterity.
In 2015, the financier Nicolai Tangen donated a generous part of his private art collection, consisting of Nordic art from 1930 to the present day, to his hometown and the Sørlandet Art Museum. At the same time, he suggested that the then empty grain silo could be used as a new art center in Kristiansand. Four years later, work began on rehabilitating the large building into what it has become today.
En la mía última fotográfica nocturna gesta por los agrestes y rústicos campos de La Mancha, en compañía de mis buenos maeses Antonio e Isidro, fuimos a dar nada menos que con "el increíble árbol del rulo".
El cielo lucía encapotado, ofreciendo, mayormente, un aspecto insulso; mas hete aquí que hubo un momento en que despejose un tanto, permitiéndonos ver las estrellas y ofreciendo, todo él, un aspecto con ricas y curiosas gradaciones y matices, tal y como ese misterioso resplandor verdoso, asemejando una portentosa aurora boreal en mitad de los campos manchegos, era; o quizás tratárase de fuegos fatuos procedentes de algún presumido y coqueto espíritu que, en el suyo atormentado vagar por el terrenal mundo, y en un arrebato de coquetería sin parangón en el mundo del más allá, pretendiese captar nuestra atención y ansiara un retrato...👻 En todo caso, sea lo que fuere, ahí quedó plasmado para la posteridad 😉
-English:
On my last night photographic outing through the wild and rustic countryside of La Mancha in the company of my two friends and fellow photographers Antonio and Isidro, we found "The Incredible Stone Roller Tree".
The sky was mainly overcast, offering a dull look, but there was a moment when it cleared a little, letting us see some stars, offering then a look with some rich and intriguing gradations and shades, like that mysterious green glow resembling a kind of amazing northern lights in the middle of the fields of La Mancha, or perhaps it may be the will-o'-the-wisp of a presumptuous and flirtatious ghost that, in his tormented wanderings through the earthly world and iin an outburnst of narcissism without parallel in the far beyond, tried to capture our attention yearning for a portrait ... 👻 In any case, whatever it was, here it is photographed for posterity 😉
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Thankfully running 25 minutes late and enabling me to grab a shot, 57002 "Rail Express" approaches its final destination while working the 6Z82 10.57 West Ealing Plasser-Fairwater Yard, hauling freshly overhauled HOBC wagons. This was the highlight in a series of four loco-hauled workings within a short space of time; somewhat uncommon to witness a variety of traction within a day, let alone 20 minutes!
I'm not normally one to bother with posting "dull" shots, purely keeping them for posterity. This one I feel has a place in the gallery, if only for its rare value and vibrant colours.
Not mine I’m afraid. Better than any I’ve taken too, but the photographer’s name is lost to posterity. Just posted this as context for the contemporary Maheno shot, sorry it’s popped up on everybody’s feeds by the looks. But still worth a look and all our admiration. So in that spirit, and with further apologies to PBS...
...tell that the photographer well these light levels read, that still survive, stamped on this lifeless screen. The hand that mocked them and the heart that fed...
After driving back from the Eagle Bridge area I dropped in to East Deerfield for a look off the famous 'railfan bridge.' I'd already missed EDSP and all that was working was EDBF puttering about before building their train to head north to New Hampshire up the Conn River main. But I didn't feel like waiting around for that so took a few long telephoto shots for posterity.
It doesn't look like it's approaching a year since CSXT acquired Pan Am and out here nothing has seemingly changed. The railroad has continued to be operated in the same manner with the same power pending the start up of the new Berkshire and Eastern Railroad to operate the former Pan Am Southern property as a neutral third party on behalf of owners NS and CSXT. I expect that this scene will look much different this time next year and it won't have that gritty old Guilford/Pan Am feel.
In the background behind EDBF's two B40-8s rise the sand towers painted in faded Guilford gray and orange with a pair of blue SD40-2s and a Guilford gray GP40-2W waiting for their next call.
Deerfield, Massachusetts
Friday April 14, 2023
Auditorium of the Old Burgtheater (1888)
Gustav Klimt (1862 - 1918)
Gouache on paper
Wien Museum
"... When the old Burgtheater was slated for demolition, Gustav Klimt was commissioned to paint it for posterity; in the process, he created a who's who of city high society..." (Information text in the museum)
Not marble, nor the gilded monuments
Of princes, shall outlive this powerful rhyme;
But you shall shine more bright in these contents
Than unswept stone, besmear'd with skittish time.
When wasteful war shall statues overturn,
And broils root out the work of masonry,
Nor Mars his sword nor war's quick fire shall burn
The living record of your memory.
'Gainst death and all oblivious enmity
Shall you pace forth; your praise shall still find room,
Even in the eyes of all posterity
That wear this world out to the ending doom.
So, till the judgment that yourself arise,
You live in this, and dwell in lovers' eyes.
William Shakespeare
after driving to Horseshoe Bay and back, I fell asleep in the car, and awoke suddenly and saw this fabulous cloud through the windshield, picked up my camera, no idea what the settings were, and went click ... and I lucked out,
I ensnared it's pixels for posterity :)
listening to Benjamin Britten's
"Songs from Friday Afternoons" - "Cuckoo"
“We take the stars from heaven, the red from our mother country, separating it by white stripes, thus showing that we have separated from her, and the white stripes shall go down to posterity, representing our liberty.”
-- George Washington (American military officer, statesman, and Founding Father who served as the first president of the United States from 1789 to 1797) explaining the significance or each piece making up the American flag
This photo was taken in 2013 during my previous Project 365…please visit my album for this “REMASTERED” Project 365 as I revisit each day of 2013 for additional photos to share!!
Three bracketed photos were taken with a handheld Nikon D5200 and combined with Photomatix Pro to create this HDR image. Additional adjustments were made in Photoshop CS6.
"For I know the plans I have for you", declares the LORD, "plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future." ~Jeremiah 29:11
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Sliders Sunday - HSS!
Found this fallen tree by the shore of Buttermere and thought that it should be preserved for posterity. So, applied some colour to liven it up before encapsulating it in plastic wrap ... tiring work, time for a rest ..!
Happy Earth Day!
"Everybody needs beauty as well as bread, places to play in and pray in, where nature may heal and give strength to body and soul."
John Muir
So true! Here's an example of how Nature nourishes and rejuvenates me with Idaho's Sawtooth's mountains reflected in Little Redfish Lake.
We photographers have a special insight, respect and love for our planet. It's beauty moves us to explore it, know it and seek to capture it's wonders for others to enjoy and for posterity. This day we give thanks and recognition of the importance of the health and survival of our only home. We must cherish, protect and preserve this special biosphere. Not for us alone, but for future generations.
Thanks for any and all efforts you do to support this vital challenge.
Sliding to and fro about the interchange at Holbrook, three desert distractions build their train to tonnage while the spring sunshine warms the high desert's back. With a mindful eye on the encroaching haze and the surprising need for a light extra layer, things weren't looking peachy for their departure, so the sake of posterity saw me sprinting along the floodwall like a gotdamned loon to ensure some extra sunny frames while they shifted their traffic. Fortunately my efforts would be for naught, as the sky broke itself up as they made their way south, but I can't sneeze on this frame either!
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Waddesdon Manor is a country house in the village of Waddesdon, in Buckinghamshire, England. The house was built in the Neo-Renaissance style of a French château between 1874 and 1889 for Baron Ferdinand de Rothschild (1839–1898). Since this was the preferred style of the Rothschild's it became also known as the Goût Rothschild. The house, set in formal gardens and an English landscape park, was built on a barren hilltop overlooking Waddesdon village. The last member of the Rothschild family to own Waddesdon was James de Rothschild. He bequeathed the house and its contents to the National Trust in 1957. Today, following an extensive restoration, it is administered by a Rothschild charitable trust that is overseen by Jacob Rothschild, 4th Baron Rothschild. In 2007–08 it was the National Trust's second most visited paid-entry property, with 386,544 visitors. The Baron wanted a house in the style of the great Renaissance châteaux of the Loire Valley. The Baron, a member of the Viennese branch of the Rothschild banking dynasty, chose as his architect Gabriel-Hippolyte Destailleur. Destailleur was already experienced in working in this style, having overseen the restoration of many châteaux in that region, in particular that of the Château de Mouchy. Through Destailleur's vision, Waddesdon embodied an eclectic style based on the châteaux so admired by his patron, Baron Ferdinand. The towers at Waddesdon were based on those of the Château de Maintenon, and the twin staircase towers, on the north facade, were inspired by the staircase tower at the Château de Chambord. However, following the theme of unparalleled luxury at Waddesdon, the windows of the towers at Waddesdon were glazed, unlike those of the staircase at Chambord. They are also far more ornate. The structural design of Waddesdon, however, was not all retrospective. Hidden from view were the most modern innovations of the late 19th century including a steel frame, which took the strain of walls on the upper floors, which consequently permitted the layout of these floors to differ completely from the lower floors. The house also had hot and cold running water in its bathrooms, central heating, and an electric bell system to summon the numerous servants. The building contractor was Edward Conder & Son. The towers were modelled on the staircase towers of Château de Chambord. One of the twin staircase-towers inspired by those at the Château de Maintenon. Once his château was complete, Baron Ferdinand installed his extensive collections of French 18th-century tapestries, boiseries, furniture and ceramics, English and Dutch paintings and Renaissance works of art. Extensive landscaping was carried out and the gardens enhanced with statuary, pavilions and an aviary. The Proserpina fountain was brought to the manor at the end of the 19th Century from the Palace of the Dukes of Parma in northern Italy: the Ducal Palace of Colorno. The gardens and landscape park were laid out by the French landscape architect Elie Lainé. An attempt was made to transplant full-grown trees by chloroforming their roots, to limit the shock. While this novel idea was unsuccessful, many very large trees were successfully transplanted, causing the grounds to be such a wonder of their day that, in 1890, Queen Victoria invited herself to view them. The Queen was, however, more impressed by the electric lighting in the house than the wonders of the park. Fascinated by the invention she had not seen before, she is reported to have spent ten minutes switching a newly electrified 18th-century chandelier on and off. When Baron Ferdinand died in 1898, the house passed to his sister Alice de Rothschild, who further developed the collections. Baron Ferdinand's collection of Renaissance works and a collection of arms were both bequeathed to the British Museum as the "Waddesdon Bequest". During World War II, children under the age of five were evacuated from London and lived at Waddesdon Manor. Following Alice de Rothschild's death in 1922, the property and collections passed to her great-nephew James A. "Jimmy" de Rothschild of the French branch of the family, who further enriched it with objects from the collections of his late father Baron Edmond James de Rothschild of Paris. When James de Rothschild died in 1957, he bequeathed Waddesdon Manor, 200 acres (0.81 km2) of grounds and its contents to the National Trust, to be preserved for posterity. The Trust also received their largest ever endowment from him: £750,000 (£15,310,270 as of 2014).
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Chega um momento
em que somos aves na noite,
pura plumagem, dormindo de pé,
com a cabeça encolhida.
O que tanto zelamos
na fileira dos dias,
o que tanto brigamos
para guardar, de repente
não presta mais: jornais, retratos,
poemas, posteridade.
A minha bagagem
é a roupa do corpo.
There comes a time
where are birds in the night,
pure plumage, standing asleep,
with the shrunken head.
What we care so much
the row of days,
which both fight
to store all of a sudden
do not pay more, newspapers, pictures,
poems posterity.
My luggage
is the clothes on my Body..
aka 'If Looks Could Kill' - almost got mugged by this fella... here for posterity to remind me to pay attention to my surroundings as well as photo opportunities!
Remnants of the NP still remain on the MRL. Rarely, if ever, has this set of signals been recorded for posterity. Unique, and once found all over the railroad, their numbers have dwindled and they will all likely be removed over the next 3 years. In the distance is the eastmost industry served by the MRL, a grain facility.
No Mardi Gras parades in 2021; house floats got to be the center of attention, and SO many people enjoyed them that they seem to be a new tradition!
These photos are from 2021. I don't know if I am the only one, but I just seem compelled to post all these before I go on to new shots. As if I am documenting these for posterity or something . . . a record of events that someone in the future will look back on and it will be a clue about something, or a memory, or an inspiration. I don't know. Ken says do it for myself. I guess that is as good an answer as anything. It IS really fun to share the experiences.
Happy Carnival Season!