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Friedrich Wilderness Park, Bexar County, Texas. Located on the northwest edge of San Antonio, Friedrich Park is one of only half a dozen nature parks in Bexar County. It began with a small land grant by Emilie and Albert Friedrich in the 1970's, and has grown to over 600 acres over the years.
The park is on the edge of the city, just off Interstate 10, within a stone's throw of the Fiesta Texas amusement park. At one time on the edge of the hill country wilderness, it has slowly been hemmed in by development over the years.
There are several hiking trails throughout the park, all short little paths ranging in difficulty from handicap-accessible hard pathways to steep, rocky deer runs. Friedrich Park is a prime example of hill country habitats, filled with buckeyes, oaks and cedar trees, prickly-pear cactus, moutain laurel and huisache; white-tailed deer and black-capped vireos. The front half of the park is loud with the noise of highway traffic, but the sound slowly disappears the farther back in the park you hike. The front part of the park is fairly level, but becomes steeper and rockier towards the far corners, the karst topography and heavily eroded limestone outcrops more prevalent as you enter the Edwards Aquifer recharge zone.
Nothing really special - just a local park with a few miles of walking trails and a chance to get away from the big city for a few hours. Pictures taken March 18, 2008.
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Sunny Fall day at Proud Lake nature trail, beautiful setting for rest and relaxation on a wooded trail.
This was the site of the Great Conservatory at Chatsworth Gardens. It got demolished and was eventually replaced by a maze!
The Great Conservatory was built in the 1830s to the 1840s (Time period of the 6th Duke of Devonshire). During and after the First World War there was not enough coal to heat the conservatory and many of the plants died. It was demolished in 1920.
The 11th Duke and Duchess of Devonshire planted a maze with 1210 yew plants in 1962.
Grade II listed walls.
Retaining Walls and Steps Surrounding the Site of the Great Conservatory, Chatsworth
PARISH OF CHATSWORTH CHATSWORTH GARDENS
SK 2669
6/78
Retaining Walls and Steps
surrounding the Site of
The Great Conservatory
GV II
Retaining walls and steps around the large sunken area created
for the demolished Great Conservatory. 1836-40 by Joseph
Paxton. Coursed squared sandstone and ashlar. Large
rectangular area with low retaining walls with flat copings. At
the corners diagonal flights of stone steps with two landings,
square piers and plain square caps. Some supporting urns. At
the north end a pedestrian bridge over a pathway. Rusticated
round arch with plain impost band. Coping and plain parapet
with ball finials. Curving walls with urn finials. Steps up on
either side of the bridge. The Gardens and Park are included on
the Gardens Register at Grade I. Sources: G F Chadwick
The Works of Joseph Paxton, Architectural Press 1961.
Listing NGR: SK2621769805
This text is a legacy record and has not been updated since the building was originally listed. Details of the building may have changed in the intervening time. You should not rely on this listing as an accurate description of the building.
Source: English Heritage
Listed building text is © Crown Copyright. Reproduced under licence.
Scientific name: Fagus grandifolia
Common name: American Beech
Family: FAGACEAE
Image by Guangyou Hao (2013)
Guangyou Hao, Arnold Arboretum Putnam Fellow, is comparing Arboretum trees to identify differences between the capacity of their xylem to transport water and differences in responding to drought or cold stresses.
The tree trunk plays an important role in whole-plant water relations but it remains the least studied aspect of the plant water transport pathway. Recent work by Hao and colleagues (abstract) found that the trunk xylem vessels are as equally vulnerable to drought-induced cavitation as terminal branches; however, no significant cavitation occurs in the trunk xylem during the whole growth season. Thus large trees must have certain mechanisms to avoid cavitation in the trunk xylem, which may involve daily and long-term wood water storage dynamics in buffering high transpiration demands. Hydraulic segmentation between branches and leaves may also play an important role in avoiding cavitation in xylem of large stems and the main trunks of trees. To study these potential mechanisms, Hao and colleagues are measuring the water potential gradient across the trunk directly in the tree to estimate the relative contribution of water storage to daily water use and compare xylem vulnerability to cavitation in a different part of the hydraulic pathway.
There is so much natural beauty in Goa..This pathway leads to a library. I wasn't looking at clicking a fancy photograph. Rather this pathway attracted me inot clicking this picture...
(Lion's rock) is an ancient rock fortress and ruins of a castle situated in central Matale District of Sri Lanka. It is a popular tourist destination and also popular for the ancient paintings (frescos) very similar to the paintings in Ajanta Caves of India. It was built during the reign of King Kasyapa (477 – 495 AD) and one of the seven World Heritage Sites in Sri Lanka.
Sigiriya may have been inhabited through prehistoric times. It was used as a rock-shelter mountain monastery from about the 5th century BC, with caves prepared and donated by devotees to the Buddhist Sangha. The garden and palace were built by Kashyapa. Following Kasyapa's death, it was again a monastery complex up to about the 14th century, after which it was abandoned. The ruins were discovered in 1907 by British explorer John Still. The Sigiri inscriptions were deciphered by the archeologist Senarath Paranavithana who published a renowned two volume work, published by Oxford, known as "Sigiri Graffiti". He also wrote the popular book "Story of Sigiriya".Still further interpretations have the site as the work of a Buddhist community, with no military function at all. This site may have been important in the competition between the Mahayana and Theravada Buddhist traditions in ancient Sri Lanka
Sigiriya rock is the hardened magma plug from an extinct and long-eroded volcano.
Sigiriya consists of an ancient castle built by King Kasyapa during the 5th century AD. The Sigiriya site has the remains of an upper palace sited on the flat top of the rock, a mid-level terrace that includes the Lion Gate and the mirror wall with its frescoes, the lower palace that clings to the slopes below the rock, and the moats, walls and gardens that extend for some hundreds of metres out from the base of the rock.
The site is both a palace and fortress.
The upper palace on the top of the rock includes cisterns cut into the rock that still retain water. The moats and walls that surround the lower palace are still exquisitely beautiful.
Sigiriya is considered as one of the most important sites of urban planning of the first millennium, the site plan is considered very elaborate and imaginative. The planning had combined concepts of symmetry and asymmetry to intentionally interlock the geometrical plan and the natural form of the surroundings. The west side of the rock lies a park for the royals which is symmetrically planned, the park contains water retaining structures which includeds sophisticated sub/surface hydraulic systems of which some are working even today. The south contains a man made reservoir, these were extensively used from previous capital of the dry zone of Sri Lanka. Five gates were placed at entrances. The more elaborate western gate is thought to be reserved for the royals.
The Gardens
The landscape of the Sigiriya city is considered to one of the most important aspects of the site, the gardens are one of the oldest landscaped gardens of the world. Gardens take three distinct but linked forms they are Water, Cave and boulder gardens. The water gardens are the more sophisticated in design and can be seen in the western precinct. The water gardens contained pools of various depths with streams flowing over slabs of marble. Underground hydraulic systems provide water into the fountains which even operate today. Other water gardens found combines pavilions with water courses which were used to cool the pavilions. Boulder gardens had a different design concept to the water gardens, the gardens included pathways, pavilions etc.
* Sigiriya is used as the location of many of the events in the science-fiction novel The Fountains of Paradise by Arthur C. Clarke, although Clarke changed the name to Yakkagala in the book.
BC announces it will help create a pathway for internationally educated midwives to practise in British Columbia. The new program at UBC will accept eight students per year starting January 2016.
Read more: www.newsroom.gov.bc.ca/2015/01/new-program-prepares-inter...
The Pathway event honors scientists, engineers, and support professionals for a number of achievements including:
-R&D 100 Awards
-Federal Laboratory Consortium for -Excellence in Technology Transfer Awards
-Software Awards
-Patents Awards
-Key Contributors
At the 2018 event, Steve Ashby named Rob Pratt Inventor of the Year.
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The "Pathway to Healing", paved with bricks from donors, leads to UC Irvine Douglas Hospital in Orange California.
One day, while walking the "Pathway to Healing" to see Tom in ICU, I decided that my brother was going to have a brick with his name on it along the Pathway. My donation is to thank everyone who cared for Tom during his 22 days in ICU. Everyone was so kind. Even on Tom's last day his nurse came in various times to re-position him so that he would be comfortable. I was so touched by everyone that I met, and I am very grateful for everything they did for Tom when he couldn't do anything for himself.
Eighteen students completed Anniston Army Depot’s Pathways High School cooperative education program May 17, 2018.
Match day at the GB Talent Squad training camp at the British Wrestling Academy on Thursday 24th February 2022.
The Wrestling Academy
41 Great Clowes St
Salford
M7 1RQ
The British Wrestling Talent Pathway.
The pathway will still consist of two tiers for those in secondary education with Regional squads leading to selection for the GB Talent Squad. The changes come in the change of focus to time spent on the mat working on technical and tactical skills and learning what it takes to be an elite athlete.
The Regional Squads consist of U13, U15 and Cadets with training on a monthly basis between September and April. Numbers will be limited to ensure that every athlete on the squad receives focused coaching to develop and improve. Club coaches are invited to attend along with their athletes to work alongside regional and national coaches.
The GB Talent Squad, for U15 and Cadets, will meet less frequently but with a focus on more time spent on the mat at three camps across the season in October, February, and April plus a summer camp. Numbers will be limited to approximately 18 in order that National coaches can work closely with the athlete, their club and regional coaches to develop and improve.