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A Scotrail Class 334 rails past Ardmore Point on its way to Helensburgh. This location is close to Craigendoran Junction where the West Highland Line starts. The hills of the highlands can be seen in the background of this shot and give an idea of the sort of terrain that it picks its way through.
I believe this is a Honey Locust tree, but I could be, and frequently am, incorrect.
During my walk through Stuart Park, this past weekend, I saw this tree with it's enormous clumps of spikes. It was a bit down a small slope, on the dam wall of a small pond. Having earlier picked up a handy walking stick, in the form of a small but straight dead branch, I felt safe enough to venture down the slope to get a closer (but not too swift or too close) look. I can't imagine the damage that these thorns would do if I slipped and butted any part of me into them. Ouch!
I grew up on land that is very similar to that in Stuart Park. We had 15 acres or so which included woods, a pond, a creek, and lots of grass to mow, driveway to shovel, and an orchard full of fruit trees to tend to. I recall trees just like this in the woods. Scary and not worth trying to climb. I don't recall ever having a run-in with these during my wild youth. One article I scanned while trying to identify the tree spoke of the author harvesting the clumps of thorns and using them for fishing spears.
Me, I just am intrigued by their odd placement by nature.
In this composition, I was imagining the large branches of the tree stretching towards the pond, or the horizon, pointing out some danger while protecting itself, the messenger. I have an active imagination.
I made it safely back up the small slope, after a small slip, saved by my leaning forward and the steady assist of the walking stick-branch. I figured that if I leaned forward, I wouldn't mind falling away from those spikes near as much as I would, had I fallen backwards into them.
Another enjoyable view of my world, taken while being outside.
Welcoming 2010 with Nagsasa Cove along with my friends Mon, Weng, Arvhin, Jar, Jieson, Randy, Cherry,Hazel,Kristen and Che. Two days and one night of camping in this wonderful place. It feels so good to be back shooting landscape.
Nagsasa Cove is twice the distance of Anawangin Cove from the shores of Pundaquit Zambales. The place is inhabited but occasional Aetas who travel around and will be willing to accompany you if ever you decide to trek the hills and forests behind the cove or nearby mountains.
Streams and waterfalls run water down from the mountains and will sometimes be a better place to hang out as the water can be cooler compared to the water from the beach. But they dry out during the hot summer and dry seasons.
source: www.pundaquit.com
“We cling to our own point of view, as though everything depended on it. Yet our opinions have no permanence; like autumn and winter, they gradually pass away.”
Chuang Tzu quotes
Point Bonita Lighthouse is a lighthouse located at Point Bonita at the San Francisco Bay entrance in the Marin Headlands near Sausalito, California. Point Bonita was the last manned lighthouse on the California coast.
Although it was cold and windy, the beautiful shoreline definitely had downplayed the weather effects.
Helene enjoying the view of the Sognefjord. Shot on Day 28 of project 365. About 10 meters from the point I shot day 28 to the right.
Have to admit that Flickr is kind of addicting. There is lots of rubbish there but also some amazing high quality photography. It’s way to easy to get lost for several hours ;)
View of Point State Park, seen from the platform outside the Duquesne Heights Incline. 1220 Grandview Ave, Pittsburgh, PA.
Zabriskie Point, Death Valley National Park, California; late spring, sunrise; winter is probably the best season for this photo; also perhaps should have stood further to the right, so the peak is not lost in the shadow behind
Senior third baseman Steve May went 3-for-11 in four games versus Navy April 9-10 at Doubleday Field. Army split the series 2-2 against the Midshipmen, but earned the "Star" after a 6-5 10th inning win April 10. Photo by Eric S. Bartelt
Centre Point was built as speculative office space by property tycoon Harry Hyams, who had leased the site at £18,500 a year for 150 years. Hyams and Seifert engaged in negotiations with the London County Council over the height of the building, which was much taller than would normally be allowed and was highly controversial; eventually he was allowed to build 32 floors in return for providing a new road junction between St Giles Circus, Oxford Street and Tottenham Court Road, which the LCC could not afford to build on its own. Hyams intended that the whole building be occupied by a single tenant.
On completion, the building remained empty for many years. With property prices rising and most business tenancies taken for set periods of 10 or 15 years, Hyams could afford to keep it empty and wait for his single tenant at the asking price of £1,250,000; he was challenged to allow tenants to rent single floors but consistently refused. The prominent nature of the building led to it becoming a symbol of greed in the property industry. Some campaigners demanded that the government of Edward Heath should intervene and take over the building, and at one point in June 1972 Peter Walker (then Secretary of State for the Environment) offered £5 million for the building. Eventually Hyams agreed to let the building by floors but the arrangements were stalled.
A more intriguing speculation was that the government was paying Hyams "a heavy but secret subsidy to keep it empty" for its own purposes. Various conspiracy theories circulated about what those purposes might be. One common theme was that since the building was 100% air-conditioned (a rarity in London at that time), and sited over Tottenham Court Road tube station and its deep tube lines, this would somehow make it useful to the government in the event of nuclear war.
Since July 1980, the building has been the headquarters of the Confederation of British Industry. In 1995 Centre Point became a Grade II listed building. Noted architecture critic Nikolaus Pevsner described Centre Point as "coarse in the extreme". In 2009, the building won the Concrete Society's Mature Structures Award.
The view from atop Dodger Point by the old fire lookout. This pano doesn't show the "in your face" that these mountains present from Dodger Point.
Winterised land below Malham Cove showing the worn paths and tracks made by people and animals.
Nice viewed in Lightbox
On the Californian coast is a town called Point Arena. Nearby is a coastal feature called Schooner Gulch, and this is where you can feast your eyes on what has become known as the 'Bowling Ball Beach'. Thousands of rocks appear to have gathered together to defy the tides like an army of small boulders. The weird thing is that these boulders are uniform in size and shape, as well as in their spacing, though man has nothing to do with it.
Access to Bowling Ball Beach is along a trail that leads to the north from a small staging area at the intersection of Highway 1 and Schooner Gulch Road south of Point Arena in California. The trail is currently listed as "closed due to erosion" and if you do venture down it you'll find that the last 15 feet of it consist of a suspended log ladder that ends right by Schooner Gulch Creek. You then need to cross the creek (there are a couple of driftwood logs across the creek that can be carefully used as a bridge) and clamber across 20 feet of washed-up kelp before you get to the beach itself. The rock formations that give the beach its name can be found about a quarter of a mile up the beach, but only when the tide is out.
© John Krzesinski, 2013.
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