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Community leaders, who have shaped their careers through perseverance, vision and discipline, shared their journey to inspire the younger generation to become leaders in their own right, during Pathways to Leadership Thursday, Feb. 11.
Photos, sketches, tables and plans of the New Town of Cumbernauld, Scotland. Taken from the JR James Slide Collection.
Another shot of the Salt Lake Temple. Still one of the more photographic buildings I have been to, the beautiful grounds help a lot.
Dockey Wood, Ringshall, Buckinghamshire. Ashridge Estate, National Trust. Bluebells in the Chilterns 2013.
My first attempt at lens zoom blur, quite pleased with the result. looking forward to using this technique again
The Pathways Hotel hosts an Artist's Night every week. We missed it while we were snorkeling the night before but it sounds like a good time. Local artisans come to demonstrate how they make various handicrafts and then the crafts go on sale at the front table of the hotel.
Steve spent some time explaining the different uses of each product, and showed us the ones that he had made (see the notes above).
Pathway through old growth forest in Cathedral Grove, BC, Canada
Fuji GX617 Camera
180mm lens
Kodak Ektar 100 film
The San Antonio River Walk (also known as Paseo del RÃo) is a network of walkways along the banks of the San Antonio River, one story beneath downtown San Antonio, Texas. Lined by bars, shops and restaurants, the River Walk is an important part of the city's urban fabric and a tourist attraction in its own right.
Today, the River Walk is an enormously successful special-case pedestrian street, one level down from the automobile street. The River Walk winds and loops under bridges as two parallel sidewalks lined with restaurants and shops, connecting the major tourist draws from the Alamo to Rivercenter mall, to the Arneson River Theatre close to La Villita, to HemisFair Park, to the Tower Life Building, to the San Antonio Museum of Art, and the Pearl Brewery. During the annual springtime Fiesta San Antonio, the River Parade features flowery floats that literally float.
(Via Wikipedia - Link Below)
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Millions of people visit the River Walk each year to enjoy this unusual urban sanctuary that winds along the San Antonio River in central San Antonio, one story below the bustling street level. Restaurants, galleries and shops line the banks of the downtown River Walk while the north and south banks of the River are less commercial.
The lush landscapes, quaint pathways, tinkling waterfalls, quiet pools, outdoor art and relaxing outdoor patios evoke the renowned public spaces of Europe.
(Via Visit San Antonio - Link Below)
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The River Walk History
The Historic Events from 1536 to 1792
In Texas, water has been a lifeline for many generations for centuries past. The San Antonio River is a source of a South Texas Treasure, The San Antonio River Walk. Development of San Antonio and its most popular tourism attraction have come along way together.
1536
Alvar Nuñez Cabeza de Vaca, a shipwrecked captive of Indians, visits the interior of Texas, sees and describes the River.
1691
June 13. Domingo Teran de los Rios, first Governor of the new Province of Texas, accompanies Father Damian Massanet on his return trip to East Texas. Camping at a rancheria of Payaya Indians on a stream called Yanaguana, someone said "let's celebrate mass and rename the stream 'San Antonio' because it is Saint Antony's day"
1709
The Espinoza-Aguirre-Olivares expedition stops at the springs which Father Espinosa names San Pedro. Father Olivares notes the river as a good site for later missions.
1716
The Spanish Council of war approves a site on the San Antonio River for a fortified presidio (fort). The Domingo Ramon expedition, accompanied by the trader St. Denis from Louisiana (who had come to the site two years previous) establishes a presidio on the river. This same council also approves the request by Father Olivares to establish a mission at the site.
1718
Martin de Alarcon, Governor of Texas, reinforces the presidio. Its ten soldiers and their families are recognized as the beginning of the villa. Alarcon names the presidio San Antonio de Bejar in honor of the Duque de Bejar, the viceroy's brother, who died a hero's death defending Budapest from the Turks in 1686.
The Mission of San Francisco de Solano is moved from the Rio Grande to merge with Mission San Antonio de Padua. Father Olivares renames his merged mission Mission San Antonio de Valero. The presidio, the villa and the mission comprise the municipality named San Antonio de los Llanos (of the Plains) by Governor Alarcon.
1719
Mission San Antonio moves to its second site on the east bank near the present day St. Joseph's Church on Commerce.
1720
Mission San Jose y San Miguel de Aguayo is founded by Father Margil de Jesus, who names it in honor of San Juse, San Miguel and Gov. Aguayo (Jose de Azlor y Vlrto de Vera, the Marquis de Aguayo, appointed Governon of Texas and Coahuila in 1719.) Olivares protests Its closeness to Mission San Antonio. Captain Alazan lays out the 10 leagues distance between the missions required by the Laws of the Indies in order to give it the protection of the presidio
1721
The Marquis de Aguayo moves the presidio San Antonio de Bejar to Its present site on the Plaza de Armas, where permanent-quarters are constructed for the soldiers. In 1726 the settlement population is 200, Including 45 military and their families.
1723
May 10. The King of Spain issues a royal cedula ordering that 400 families be transported from the Canary Islands for the purpose of establishing a civil settlement in the vicinity of the Presidio de Bejar.
1724
Mission San Antonio is moved to its third and final site on Alamo Plaza because of hurricane flooding at the previous site.
1727-1744
Acequia Madre de Valero/Alamo Ditch is begun from the east side of the San Antonio River, south of the springs and north of the present day Witte Museum/Alligator Gardens building.
1729
The first 15 Canary Island families, of the 400 slated, begin their trip to the Presidio San Antonio. The King completely funds their journey via Havana and Vera Cruz; then overland to their new homes, providing detailed provisions for their final destination at the Presidio San Antonio.
1731
March 9. The 15 families, plus 1 bachelor, arrive at the presidio to establish the first legally recognized civil settlement. The call It Villa de San Fernando In honor of King Ferdinand II.
1731-1739
San Jose Acequla constructed.
1731-1745
Espada Dam, Acequia and Aqueduct constructed. Still in use.
1734
The cornerstone of San Fernando Church (later Cathedral) is laid.
1736
Construction of the first bridge to span the San Antonio River, connecting the Presidio with Mission San Antonio, at site of the present Commerce St. bridge.
1738
Acequla Principal/San Pedro Ditch begun, diverting water from San Pedro Creek and returning it to San Antonio River south of downtown. It was sited on the ridgellne separating the San Pedro Creek and the San Antonio River watersheds. Water could be drawn-from both sides of the ditch.
1778
Beginning of American Revolution. Acequia Labor Arriba/Upper Labor Ditch is begun, diverting water from the west side of the river south of Hildebrand and terminating in the Acequla Principal near 5 points.
1792
All the missions are closed down by order of the Spanish government. Their lands are distributed to the mission Indians attached to the compounds
(Via The San Antonio Riverwalk - Link Below)
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The Paseo del Rio Association is a non-profit organization founded in 1968 to promote and support the San Antonio River Walk, the number one tourist attraction in Texas.
Paseo Del Rio Association
110 Broadway
Suite #500
San Antonio, TX 78205
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I have my first set of four exams tomorrow, so this is an accurate snapshot of my life for the last week and a half.
A photo of the Root River Pathway in Racine. There wasn't too much going on, but I did see a doe. A deer, a female deer.
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Hidcote - the most influential English garden of the 20th century - and Lawrence Johnston, the enigmatic genius behind it. Hidcote was the first garden ever taken on by the National Trust, who spent 3.5 million pounds in a major programme of restoration. This included researching Johnston's original vision, which in turn uncovered the compelling story of how Johnston created such an iconic garden.
Until recently, little was known about the secretive and self-taught Johnston. He kept few, if any, records on Hidcote's construction, but current head gardener Glyn Jones made it a personal mission to discover as much about the man as possible to reveal how, in the early 20th century, Johnston set about creating a garden that has inspired designers all over the world.
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Hidcote is an Arts and Crafts garden in the north Cotswolds, a stone’s throw from Stratford-upon-Avon. Created by the talented American horticulturist, Major Lawrence Johnston its colourful and intricately designed outdoor ‘rooms’ are always full of surprises. It’s a must-see if you’re on holiday in the Cotswolds.
Explore the maze of narrow paved pathways and discover secret gardens, magnificent vistas and plants that burst with colour. Many of the plants found growing in the garden were collected from Johnston’s many plant hunting trips to far away places. It’s the perfect place if you’re in need of gardening inspiration.
Find a quiet spot and sit on one of the ornate benches and watch green woodpeckers search for their lunch or listen to the calls from the buzzards circling overhead. Time it right and you might catch a glimpse of the elusive hummingbird moth.
Meander through the intricate gardens and into the Wilderness. This secluded stretch of tall trees is just right for a picnic. Take a glimpse beyond the boundary and see the garden blend effortlessly into the countryside beyond.
The Monarch’s Way path runs close-by. Follow it for a brief time from the car park and into the chocolate-box Cotswold hamlet of Hidcote Bartrim. You’ll be treated to traditionally thatched stone cottages that were once home to Johnston’s gardeners.
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Hidcote Manor Garden
Hidcote Manor Garden is a garden in Britain, located at Hidcote Bartrim village, near Chipping Campden, Gloucestershire. It is one of the best-known and most influential Arts and Crafts gardens in Britain, with its linked "rooms" of hedges, rare trees, shrubs and herbaceous borders. Created by Lawrence Johnston, it is owned by the National Trust and is open to the public.
History
The Americans, Lawrence Johnston and his mother, settled in Britain about 1900, and Lawrence immediately became a British citizen and fought in the British army during the Boer war. In 1907 Johnston's mother, Mrs Gertrude Winthrop (she had re-married), purchased the Hidcote Manor Estate. It was situated in a part of Britain with strong connections to the then-burgeoning Arts and Crafts movement and an Anglicized American artistic expatriate community centred nearby at Broadway, Worcestershire.
Johnston soon became interested in turning the fields around the house into a garden. By 1910 he had begun to lay out the key features of the garden, and by the 1920s he had twelve full-time gardeners working for him.
After World War II Johnston spent most of his time at Jardin Serre de la Madone, his garden in the south of France; and in 1947 he entrusted Hidcote to the National Trust.
Character of Hidcote garden
Lawrence Johnston was influenced in creating his garden at Hidcote by the work of Alfred Parsons and Gertrude Jekyll, who were designing gardens of hardy plants contained within sequences of outdoor "rooms". The theme was in the air: Vita Sackville-West and Harold Nicholson's Sissinghurst Castle Garden was laid out as a sequence of such spaces, without, it seems, direct connection with the reclusive and shy Major Johnston. Hidcote's outdoor "rooms" have various characters and themes, achieved by the use of box hedges, hornbeam and yew, and stone walls. These rooms, such as the 'White Garden' and 'Fuchsia Garden' are linked, some by vistas, and furnished with topiaries. Some have ponds and fountains, and all are planted with flowers in bedding schemes. They surround the 17th century manor house, and there are a number of outhouses and a kitchen garden.
Johnston's care in selecting the best plants is reflected in the narrow-leaved lavender, Lavandula angustifolia 'Hidcote', in the Penstemon 'Hidcote Pink' and in the hybrid Hypericum 'Hidcote Gold', acclaimed as the finest hardy St John's Wort, Alice Coats records.
Your dreams are right in front you, so close you can almost touch them. So many paths to choose to get there, mystery and fear behind each door. Will it aid your journey, or will adversity need to be overcome? Or will fear of failure, or possibly fear of success, keep you from going past the next door?