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- challenge Flickr group: Macro Mondays, theme: Contained
- crystal salt cellar with sterling silver rim
- diameter of this salt cellar is 4 cm
- Not a good start of 2020 ???
- A superstition in Western cultures holds that spilling salt is an evil omen.
The European belief in the ill luck that comes from spilt salt is quite old, going back to ancient Rome. The 1556 Hieroglyphica of Piero Valeriano Bolzani reports that "salt was formerly a symbol of friendship, because of its lasting quality. For it makes substances more compact and preserves them for a long time: hence it was usually presented to guests before other food, to signify the abiding strength of friendship. Wherefore many consider it ominous to spill salt on the table.
This may not be the actual explanation since salt was a valuable commodity in ancient times and, as such, was seen as a symbol of trust and friendship. A German proverb held that "whoever spills salt arouses enmity". According to Charles Nodier, among "savages", the "action of spilling salt ... indicates among them the refusal of protection and hospitality from such strangers as they may have reason to suspect are thieves and murderers."
One widespread explanation of the belief that it is unlucky to spill salt is that Judas Iscariot spilled the salt at the Last Supper and indeed Leonardo da Vinci's The Last Supper depicts Judas Iscariot having knocked over a salt-cellar.
This is often taken as a questionable explanation because spilling salt was generally considered a bad omen already and indeed the imagery predates da Vinci's usage.
Across the road from Hailes Abbey in Gloucestershire is Hailes Church, a small country chapel that predates its more famous neighbour by a half-century. The small Norman church stands on the edge of a farm field, directly opposite the ruins of the Cistercian abbey. Hailes church was begun around 1135 and is famous for its wonderful collection of medieval wall paintings.
From Killynether Wood across the Castlereagh Hills to Belfast nestling in the valley below Black Mountain. A straight from the phone snap while out for a wander.
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Just left of centre, above the two white houses is my wife's old family home. Once a working farm it had a windmill some two hundred years ago, predating all the modern windmills dotted through out the landscape.
Inside this olive orchard is situated the Museum of Theophilos, the famous Greek painter. The trees are of a great age and predate the construction of the museum (1964). The olive orchard has not been altered in order to preserve the natural environment around the museum.
The power of life.
Salt-and-pepper geometer moths are a wee bit tougher to see than tiger swallowtails out in the woods. Believe it or not, but this bland moth is one of the most famous species in science. I first read about them when I was a wee lad myself. Also known as the peppered moth in the UK, they come in light and dark forms. Historically, the light form was dominant since they rested on light-colored lichens coating tree trunks during the day. That kept them from being seen by predatory birds. During the Industrial Revolution in England, pollution killed off the tree lichens and the trunks turned black. Most light-form pepper moths were predated then, but the rare melanistic form flourished since birds could no longer see them! Evolution happened right before our eyes! This camouflaged specimen would be considered the light form. Here in Iowa, paper birch trees are the host for their caterpillars that feed on the leaves.
Midsummer is the period of time centered upon the summer solstice, and more specifically the northern European celebrations that accompany the actual solstice or take place on a day between June 19 and June 25 and the preceding evening. The exact dates vary among different cultures. The celebration predates Christianity, and existed under different names and traditions around the world.
Yellow Wagtail / Kuhstelze (Motacilla flava)
The sight of the beautiful yellow plumage against the blue sky was great to watch.
66778 leaves the DP Port’s London Gateway and runs alongside Stanford Le Hope Marshes with 4m46, the 1155 departure for Hams Hall.
Opened in 2013, London Gateway is built on the site of the Shell Haven refinery which opened in 1916 and closed in 1999. However, the railway here predates the refinery significantly, having opened in 1855 to serve the lobster fishing village of Thames Haven. Public passenger services ceased in 1880, although workmen’s trains ran until 1958.
This image taken using a 5m pole. I have photoshopped out a badly placed (from my perspective) signal.
Looking back to another favorite from 2018 that predates my Flickr days. Here is the caption I wrote at the time on FB:
This is the shot immediately following the one seen in this post:
And in a first for this page I am posting the photos of these FP9s live from inside the cab of an FL9...the same one seen in the post immediately before this one!
Somehow that seemed apropos!
Pan Am Railways OCS
Hoosac Tunnel
Florida, Massachusetts
Friday December 14, 2018
52 Weeks of 2022. Environment.
Dragonflies are an ancient family of insects. They have been around for 300 million years and predate the dinosaurs. There are over 5,000 species spanning all continents except the Antartica. They are important bio-indicators for environmental health both of water and land.
For the last few years, the local grebes have been predated so it was nice to find this pair elsewhere in South Yorkshire. Will post some more when sorted.
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Found this Red Fox hunting on the Arctic tunda in Alaska. As he walked towards the photographer, he kept his eyes focused on the strange thing taking his pictures.
The Red Fox is not native to the Arctic regions of Alaska. When the Trans-Alaskan Pipeline was put in, the Red Fox followed the workers as they moved north. Now, they are common in the Arctic, and they are mostly found near where humans habitate. Unfortunately for the Arctic Fox, they predate on their smaller cousins. The Arctic Fox use their white coats to blend in during winter and often escape, but not all do.
This is perhaps one of the more architecturally original Buddhist temples you will find in Tokyo.
The temple predating this one on the site was destroyed in the Great Kanto Earthquake in 1923, and this one was built, with architecture inspired by Indian temples, 1931-34.
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Nuthatch use mud to reduce the size of their nesting hole in order to stop bigger birds from either evicting them or predating the nest. This Nuthatch worked on the outer as well as the inner depths of the hole approaching from all angles and with mud clearly visible on its bill. The nest is lined with shreds of bark and dead leaves.
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Majestic adults have blackish-brown body with white head and tail. Several stages of immature plumages aren't quite as majestic, from fully dark brown to messy and mottled with large patches of white. Look especially for white mottling on the belly on immatures. Scavenges and hunts near bodies of water. Soars with wings flat, like a large, dark plank. Head appears large in flight; projects far in front of wings. Surprisingly weak-sounding vocalization is a series of high-pitched whistles. (eBird)
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Bald Eagles nest and hunt from and on the Bird Islands. This proud parent was keeping an eye on its offspring in a rather gloomy cave. The eagles' presence is not appreciated by the other birds on the island as they tend to predate on the residents as well as the fish.
Bird Islands, Nova Scotia, Canada. July 2024.
Bird Island Boat Tours.
Black-Crowned Night Heron / Nachtreiher (Nycticorax nycticorax)
I couldn't personally tell if this was a chick of the same species, or if it was of one of the Cattle Egret or Little Egret chicks also nesting nearby (ID inputs welcome!). What's for sure is that it had well and truly been turned into a meal by this stage and this Black-Crowned Night Heron was wrestling with how to consume it. In this specific frame, the chick's head has been attempted first and is fully tucked away inside the predator's mouth. The circle of life continues...
Santo Domingo de Guzman: Located on Avenue 20 de Noviembre. This is one of the city’s most beautiful and emblematic buildings. The first stone for the church was placed in 1547 by Francisco Marroquin, Bishop of Guatemala. It seems that the current church dates from the 17th century, but elements predating this were undoubtedly used for its construction. The exterior has been modified - apparently the façade was between two structures of which the southernmost is gone and there remain only some traces of it on the church wall. The façade is exquisitely decorated and on it a great Dominican coat-of-arms stands out. The mortared decoration, which covers the entire façade, deserves special attention. The motifs are unusual and make this façade one of the most ornate from Mexican and Central American colonial art. To find these motifs requires a minutely precise observation: There are anagrams, little angels, sirens and personages between lions. The Dominican House of Antigua, no longer standing, may have been its model. The pulpit is of remarkable beauty. Its structure rises upon a pedestal profusely carved in the likeness of a sumptuous golden challis. It is one of Mexico's best. Inside you’ll see motifs of indigenous design. Sure to grab your attention are a pair of two-headed eagles that flank the sculpture of Santo Domingo. Open daily from 08:00 to 19:00.
Fushimi Inari Taisha 伏見稲荷大社
Fushimi Ward, Kyoto, Japan
Fushimi Inari Shrine (伏見稲荷大社, Fushimi Inari Taisha) is an important Shinto shrine in southern Kyoto. It is famous for its thousands of vermilion torii gates, which straddle a network of trails behind its main buildings.
Fushimi Inari is the most important of several thousands of shrines dedicated to Inari, the Shinto god of rice. Foxes are thought to be Inari's messengers, resulting in many fox statues across the shrine grounds. Fushimi Inari Shrine has ancient origins, predating the capital's move to Kyoto in 794. At the shrine's entrance stands the Romon Gate 楼門, which was donated in 1589 by the famous leader Toyotomi Hideyoshi.
Source: www.japan-guide.com/e/e3915.html
Loggerhead turtles are sparsely distributed in the warmer oceans worldwide. The carapace of adults is about 90 cm long. They are long-lived; one estimate suggests they can live from 80 to 100 years, although females are no longer fertile after about age 33.
One of their most important breeding sites in the Mediterranean is Iztuzu Beach, which fronts the Dalyan river delta in southwest Turkey. Breeding females haul themselves up this and other Turkish beaches at night during the summer months. They excavate a pit in the sand, into which they deposit some 50 to 200 eggs, and then cover them with sand. The hatchlings are nidifugous -- they are able to survive independently from birth without any parental assistance. They instinctively dig themselves out of their pit and make for the sea.
Conservation measures are in place to protect the nests: beaches are out of bounds at night; dogs are not permitted in case they dig up the eggs or predate the young. Known nest locations are protected with a cage and a warning sign.
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Visitors can enjoy stunning views of the Columbia River Gorge from the Historic Columbia River Highway. Historic Highway 30 — which predated I-84 was the only road connecting Portland and The Dalles. Built through the Columbia River Gorge between 1913 and 1922 as the first planned scenic roadway in the United States. We love driving this old highway, the trees were at their peak color.
At the golden hour even the eastern tower’s brown granite which was quarried and shaped on Vinalhaven Island Maine of the Brooklyn Bridge takes on a golden hue and as well as the suspension cables themselves. This remarkable structure built in the nineteenth century over 125 years ago continues to be one of the main arteries between Manhattan and Brooklyn in the twenty first century with its six lanes of automobiles (3 east & 3 west), it’s pedestrian walkway which in the summer can peak at an amazing 10,000 pedestrians and 3,500 bicyclist a day. John Augustus Roebling the German Immigrant that designed the bridge designed it as he had previous structures such as Roebling Suspension Bridge over the Ohio River between Cincinnati Ohio and Covington Kentucky so it was spec’ed out to handle 6 times the intended weight with its structure. It is one of the reasons that it still remains a viable traffic channel while many of the structures that were its contemporaries during the nineteenth century are long gone while the Brooklyn Bridge remains a century and quarter after it was built.
This perspective is from Brooklyn with ‘old’ Fulton Street in the foreground, many of the structures have been preserved from the time the bridge was built. Conversations about the building of a bridge between the cities of New York and Brooklyn started in the earlier in the nineteenth century predating the American Civil War. Roebling began drawing designs as early as 1857 while one of his designs a suspension bridge over the Allegheny River at Pittsburgh which was finished in 1859 and the bridge that would get eventually be named after John that I mentioned previously over the Ohio between Cincinnati and Covington was also in progress. The Ohio river bridge project would be stopped by the Civil War and the construction resumed post war and finished in 1867.
The street was named after Robert Fulton who had established the most prominent steam ferry service between New York and Brooklyn the terminal located at the end of the this very street. Picture New York and Brooklyn two growing and thriving cities separated by the east river, so the waterways between the two cities was full of sea vessels going back and forth, the larger ones were steam powered, so smog was prevalent. It had become a nightmare which is why both cities were pushing for a bridge. The ask was a true challenge for John Roebling which turns out is why he padded the specifications even more, it was by far the largest structure he had ever designed. When Brooklyn Bridge was completed it was the longest suspension bridge in the world and remained the longest for 20 years.
On a personal note, it is one of four New York City bridges that I’ve walked, bicycled and driven across actually the one I’ve walked and cycled across the most.
This was captured by an Olympus E-5 using an Olympus Zuiko Digital ED 12-60mm F2.8-4.0 SWD lens processed in Adobe Photoshop Lightroom.
Suffolk, Monk’s Eleigh – St Peter’s Church
Monk’s Eleigh is a small village about 15 miles from Ipswich in Suffolk. St Peter’s Church was erected around 1350 although there had been a Saxon church on the site for many years. There are a few things in the church that predate the church itself. Namely, the font, which is 13th century. This is made of Barnack stone and one of the six bells dates to 1330.
Over the next 100 years the church was enlarged, clerestory windows and the west tower was added. The tower has a beautiful exterior doorway. The South door also at the time very ornate, however has worn down over the years.
There is also a fine medieval pulpit, reputed to be one of the oldest in the county. There is an alms box with the date 1636.
The chancel and north vestry were added 1845 and in 1867 there was a programme of restoration and re-seating. There are some fine stained glass windows these were installed around 1880-1900 and were designed by Ward and Hughes
Hunting occurs mostly at night, but this owl is known to be diurnal and crepuscular as well. Its daylight hunting seems to coincide with the high-activity periods of voles, its preferred prey. It tends to fly only feet above the ground in open fields and grasslands until swooping down upon its prey feet-first. Several owls may hunt over the same open area. Its food consists mainly of rodents, especially voles, but it will eat other small mammals such as mice, ground squirrels, shrews, rats, bats, muskrats and moles. It will also occasionally predate smaller birds, especially when near sea-coasts and adjacent wetlands at which time they attack shorebirds, terns and small gulls and seabirds with semi-regularity. Avian prey is more infrequently preyed on inland and centers on passerines such as larks, icterids, starlings, tyrant flycatchers and pipits. Insects supplement the diet and short-eared owls may prey on roaches, grasshoppers, beetles, katydids and caterpillars. Competition can be fierce in North America with the northern harrier, with which the owl shares similar habitat and prey preferences. Both species will readily harass the other when prey is caught.
This amazingly intact box of Gordon's Gin cocktail mixes predates 1952. An incredible find but definitely not for tasting!
The ultimate 'Bad day at the office...' This Swallow possibly flew 11,000kms to get here and this happens. I've not seen a kestrel predating swallows before... hope it doesn't start a trend!
Spain; Alicante, El Hondo 14/2/22
great to see this little stunner 1 of its brethren is also leucistic but a tad less than this 1 also its other sibling is normal coloured. Been a few weeks since this pics and happy to say still healthy and happy and not been predated.
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Grass Snake / natrix helvetica. 09/07/22.
Head details of a Grass Snake, that was only partially submerged on the waters edge. Its black and yellow collar is very conspicuous too.
BEST VIEWED LARGE.
Saw a few nice webs, pulled over, caught this Queen Yellow Garden Spider who had predated a smaller female just earlier...encasing it for a meal later...large spiders. Argiope aurantia
The ultimate 'Bad day at the office...' This Swallow possibly flew 11,000kms to get here and this happens. I've not seen a kestrel predating swallows before... hope it doesn't start a trend!
Spain; Alicante, El Hondo 14/2/22
The Calanais Standing Stones on the Isle of Lewis are Scotland’s best-preserved Neolithic monuments. Erected 5,000 years ago. They predate the famous Stonehenge monument, and were an important place for ritual activity for at least 2,000 years.
Black Redstart (Phoenicurus ochruros).
Black Redstarts are very rare breeding birds in the UK. On average about 40-50 are recorded breeding in the UK and the majority of those are around London. This year, two pairs bred in the centre of Manchester and at each site 4 juveniles fledged. Sadly, one fledgling was predated by a Lesser Black-backed Gull within 2 hours of fledging. Black Redstarts (like European Robins) were once thought to be members of the Thrush family. However, recent studies now put them in the family of Old World Flycatchers. The bird shown here is a female (adult).
The ancient Shushtar Historical Hydraulic System demonstrates incredible engineering capabilities predating the Industrial Revolution by over a thousand years. Constructed in the 5th century CE under the Persian Sassanid Empire, this complex irrigation system was designed with weirs, dams, canals, tunnels, and watermills to harness the power of the Karun River. It provided water across the arid landscape for agriculture, industry, and human consumption. The system connected to an underground water supply via a spectacular cliffside waterfall to power watermills. Its network of channels and tunnels stretched for many kilometers, showcasing the advanced hydraulics achieved centuries before modern technology. UNESCO designated Shushtar a World Heritage Site, recognizing it as a masterpiece of creative genius demonstrating the sustainable use of natural resources in ancient times.
These eagles do predate on snakes and lizards and I have seen them hunting on the ground, picking off lizard hatchlings. This one was in relaxed mode, perched on a bare branch. Photographed near Nilaveli, in Sri Lanka. More at "Colin Pacitti Wildlife Photography & Fishing Travels" - www.colin-pacitti.com.
Every creature needs to find food but my visit to Beadnell, Northumberland was tinged with sadness as I watched a lone Ringed Plover on the rocks. The Ringed Plover chicks that had been reared in a small enclosure, as in previous years, had all been predated this year by corvids according to the warden who pointed an accusing finger at this Jackdaw.
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* Its Magnolia time in our garden again. I must say the tree is excelling itself this year I have never seen it with so many flowers . Just hope we don’t get any late frosts that can really damage thees sensitive flowers. The Magnolia is the largest plant in our garden and its the only thing that predates our arrival at this house in 1990. Whoever planted it did a good job
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Şanlıurfa Province or simply Urfa Province is a province in southeastern Turkey. The city of Şanlıurfa is the capital of the province which bears its name.
The province is famous for its Abrahamic sites such as Balıklı Göl, where Prophet Abraham was cast by Nimrod into fire that is believed to have turned to water, and Mevlid-i Halil Mosque where Abraham was born in the cave next to the mosque. Also lying within the district, approximately 12 km (7 mi) northeast of the city of Şanlıurfa, is the pre-historic site of Göbekli Tepe, where continuing excavations have unearthed 12,000 year-old sancturies dating from the early Neolithic period, considered to be the oldest temples in the world, predating Stonehenge by 6,000 years. [Text Source: Wikipedia]
When I read the theme for Looking Close on Friday for today I immediately thought of this sign outside a favourite local cafe. Smoking inside public places has been illegal in the UK since 2007 but this sign predates that time and has survived, I hope it raises a smile.
HLCoF 😊
Lisbon is one of the oldest cities in the world and the second-oldest European capital city (after Athens), predating other modern European capitals by centuries.
A boy is probably visiting a friend living in the stilt house.
Phluk is one of the floating villages in Cambodia, which look like floating on the water in the wet season.
The water level of Tonle Sap fluctuates by 10 meters between the wet and dry seasons. Houses in Phluk are constructed on stilts that are 6 to 9 meters to cope with the fluctuation. There are roads behind the houses but they inundate completely in the wet season.
Please note the spirit house on the balcony. It is for the guardian or ancestral spirit that probably predates the introduction of Buddhism. I also suppose that it has had an influence on the Phi houses in Thailand.
It is thought to have been first built circa 1627 as this date is carved on part of the framework. This is the earliest date to be found on any windmill in the British Isles. It should be remembered that such a structure would have had to have frequent repairs made to it, so the mill may predate 1627. It was dendrochronologically dated in 2004 by Dr. Martin Bridge of the Oxford Dendrochronology Laboratory when the oldest pieces in the buck were found to be from trees felled in winter 1595/96 and spring 1597. The 'new' crown tree was made from a tree that felled in spring 1670, while the quarter bars of the trestle were from trees felled between 1824 and 1826, so like most mills, it is a mix of old timbers variously recycled or hanging on from their original use.
For nearly three hundred years grain grown in the two adjoining villages was ground at the mill into flour. In 1874 the mill was bought by Adelbert Wellington Brownlow Cust, 3rd Earl Brownlow who owned the nearby Ashridge Estate. He subsequently left it to a local farmer, who ran a successful milling business from the mill.
In 1902 the mill was seriously damaged during an enormous gale, damaging it beyond the price of economic repair. Around 1922 the derelict ruined mill was bought from the Ashridge Estate by a farmer whose land was close to the mill. In 1937 he donated it to the National Trust. However, it was not until 1963 that a band of volunteers began to carry out renovations at their own expense. The mill appeared in an episode of The Champions titled The Invisible Man which was filmed in 1967.[2] In 1970, after an interlude of 68 years, the mill once again ground corn.
A Grade II listed windmill in England. It is thought to have been built in the early 17th century, and stands in the northeastern corner of a large field near the parish boundary of Ivinghoe and Pitstone in Buckinghamshire.
It is thought to have been first built circa 1627 as this date is carved on part of the framework. This is the earliest date to be found on any windmill in the British Isles. It should be remembered that such a structure would have needed frequent repairs, so the mill may predate 1627
This somewhat rare and unusual car/truck took Best in Class at the 2024 Lime Rock Concours Show. The truck was developed around Studebaker's Dictator car, (looks more like their Commander model, so the info could be wrong) used it's chassis along the front and rear styling features of the car. This hybrid car/truck predated Ford's Ranchero and Chevrolet's El Camino by around 20 years.
The Studebaker Coupe Express is a passenger car based coupe utility, produced by the Studebaker Corporation of South Bend, Indiana, between 1937 and 1939. Featuring an automobile styled cab and flared rear fenders right off the Studebaker Dictator, it was sold both with a manufacturer supplied pick up style metal bed, and as a rolling chassis and cab to be fitted with a bed or boxes by the purchaser.
The Coupe Express was designed by Raymond Loewy and utilized the Dictator passenger car frame, running gear, and front sheet metal. A new body stamping was made to form the cab back. The model was sold both with a manufacturer supplied metal bed and as a cab and chassis, with the Dictator’s automobile-style sweepingly flared rear fenders attached. A service box, built to specification, would be fabricated by (or for) the end user (such as a plumber or electrician).
The truck was powered by the larger of Studebaker's L-head six-cylinder flathead engines and mated to a 3-speed manual transmission. Studebaker offered a Borg-Warner 3-speed transmission with overdrive as an option. Other options included a radio, heater, wire reinforced sliding back window and turn indicators. Two optional wheels were available, including a stamped steel disc wheel and a stamped steel 'artillery' spoked wheel.
Production for the 1937 model year was approximately 3,000 units.
The truck's passenger cab was restyled in 1938 to reflect the modernized passenger car sheet metal resulted a slightly longer pickup bed. Production for 1938 was approximately 1,200 units.
The 1939 model was again remodeled to reflect Studebaker's annual design updates. Production was approximately 1,000 units. The Coupe Express model was discontinued after the 1939 model year, and Studebaker did not offer a successor model for 1940.
Studebaker introduced the M-Series pickup truck 1941, while the company used the Coupe Express name in advertising for a time,[citation needed] but no M-Series trucks were ever officially designated as the Coupe Express.
The fact that Studebaker itself labeled it a “coupe” rather than a truck (a very different thing at that time; retained a stylish, even luxurious, interior instead of replacing it with a more utilitarian one; and never named or officially referred to any of its actual pickup trucks with the terms “coupe“ or “express“, further distance it from being labeled as one.
This image reminds me of some that you get with edge-detecting artistic filters, but the curious thing is that it is created just using ‘statistical’ stacking and blend modes, with a little general tonal adjustment.
Five captures were stacked in Affinity Photo though you can do the same in Photoshop. My initial objective in taking the images was to get rid of the pedestrians that were wandering around. If you stack a number of images using the Median function then provided the pedestrians are moving about you can usually get rid of them without any selections and painting. The median function works by taking the most common value for a particular pixel in the stacked images and using that in the result.
But then my brain aroused itself from its usual torpor (concerning!) and asked ‘what if I just….’ (extremely worrying!). So I tried some of the other stacking functions, some of which gave interesting results.
This image is a combination of a Median stack, with no pedestrians, and Variance stacks which had dark ghosts of the people wandering about, blended together a number of times using various blend modes. Some of the ghosts appeared twice in different places :)
But what you really want to know is where the images were taken (I realise that I’m kidding myself). This is the Bridge of Sighs in Oxford. It joins two parts of Hertford College across New College Lane. It’s named after the famous Venice bridge. Cambridge also has a Bridge of Sighs so I am sure there was a bit of rivalry going on as there often is between these two universities.
I was a bit disappointed to discover that this particular bridge was relatively new, constructed in the 20th century (around 1914 - the Cambridge one predates it by almost 90 years).
As it’s heavily processed I thought I would post it for Sliders Sunday.
Thanks for taking the time to look. I hope you enjoy the image. Happy Easter and happy Sliders Sunday :)
Carondelet Castle is a lowland castle in the village of Crupet.
Erected in the first half of the 13th century, the fortified house has three levels in coarse limestone rubble crowned by a half-timbered storey topped with bricks, under a slate saddleback with butt and core. A staircase turret, which later embraced the left corner of the main facade, gives access to the upper floor. Only the three lower levels date from the Middle Ages. As for the imposing half-timbered level, it does not predate the 16th century, with repeated alterations in the 19th and 20th centuries.
Element of interest: a projecting latrine is hung on the second floor of the southern face.
The castle has recently been restored. The collaboration with a team of diverse specialists, including archaeologists and historians, has meant that the medieval Donjon de Crupet proudly reflects in the water again.