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souter lighthouse, the world's first to be powered by electricity. when this photo was taken it had just undergone a very expensive facelift. for more images in the eclectic series click here
I found this lovely flowering shrub at Bridgeport, Nevada County, California on 6 May 2017. I have never seen it in the county and indeed it is only noted in a few areas. What a beauty.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_River_(England)
The New River is an artificial waterway in England, opened in 1613 to supply London with fresh drinking water taken from the River Lea and from Chadwell Springs and, originally, Amwell Springs,[1] as well as other springs and wells along its course.
The river follows the land contours but certain parts have been straightened over the centuries. Although it was at one time threatened with closure, the waterway continues to supply water to the capital. There is a designated walking route along the canal called the New River Path. It is a 28-mile (45 km) long-distance footpath which follows the course of the New River from its source in Hertfordshire to its original end in Islington, London.
Route
It starts between Ware and Hertford in Hertfordshire and today runs 20 miles (32 km) down to Stoke Newington. Among the districts it flows through are (from north to south):
•Great Amwell
•Broxbourne
•Cheshunt
•Enfield
•Palmers Green
•Bowes Park
•Wood Green (passing close to Alexandra Palace)
•Hornsey
•Harringay
•Finsbury Park
Its original termination point was at New River Head near Clerkenwell, Islington, close to the current location of Sadler's Wells theatre — where water from the river was used to flood a large tank to stage an Aquatic Theatre at the beginning of the nineteenth century.[2] In 1946, the water supply to New River Head was truncated at Stoke Newington with the New River ending at the East Reservoir.[3] The reservoir is managed as the Woodberry Wetlands – a nature reserve and designated Site of Metropolitan Importance.
Construction
The design and construction of the New River is often attributed solely to Sir Hugh Myddelton. Edmund Colthurst first proposed the idea in 1602, obtaining a charter from King James I in 1604 to carry it out. After surveying the route and digging the first 2 miles (3 km) stretch, Colthurst encountered financial difficulties and it fell to Myddelton to complete the work between 1609 and its official opening on 29 September 1613. The project was also rescued by the King personally, whose house and lands at Theobalds Park were crossed by the river. James took half of the shares in 1612 for a half of the profits. In order to give the project a firmer legal and financial structure, The New River Company was incorporated in 1619 by Royal Charter, with the assistance of Sir John Backhouse. The company's first reservoir was built on his land in Islington. Myddelton gave some of the shares in the New River Company to Colthurst.
The expense and engineering challenges of the project—it relied on gravity to allow the water to flow, carefully following the contours of the terrain from Ware into London, and dropping around just five inches per mile (8 cm/km)—were not Myddelton's only worries. He also faced considerable opposition from landowners who feared that the New River would reduce the value of their farmland (they argued that floods or overflowing might create quagmires that could trap livestock); others were concerned at the possible disruption to road transport networks between Hertfordshire and the capital. Myddelton, however, was strongly supported by the king, who agreed to pay half the project's expenses in return for a 50% shareholding; such backing quickly silenced the scheme's critics.
When it was originally constructed, long sections, for example around Forty Hall and in Hornsey, wound around the heads of small tributary valleys of the Lea. Other sections of the river, including the one in Harringay, were carried across valleys in wooden aqueducts lined with lead and supported by strong timbers and brick piers. In at least one section, locals referred to the river as the boarded river. Improvements in canal construction in the eighteenth century led to these sections being replaced by clay-banked canals.[4]
New River Company
The New River Company was incorporated by royal charter in 1619 with Sir Hugh Myddleton as first governor. Under the charter, it was a penal offence to throw rubbish or carrion into the river, while anyone washing clothes in it or planting sallow, willow or elm trees within five yards of it would incur the "King's displeasure".[5] The company became a significant landowner in the Clerkenwell district of Islington and laid out streets and squares which take their name from people and places associated with the company, including Amwell Street, River Street, Mylne Street, Chadwell Street and Myddelton Square.
When London's population grew beyond a million inhabitants, the "New River" failed to give an adequate supply of water, and other companies were formed for the purpose of supplying different parts of London: Chelsea Waterworks and others were started by various companies in succession. This company's water was often by commissions found purer than the others.[citation needed] It was also, due to its source, not impacted by the ban on the supply of drinking water from the tidal Thames under the Metropolis Water Act 1852 from 1 August 1855. After this date the company continued to focus on its quality.
Dr. Frankland's analysis of water supplied to London during the month of October 1876 gave a relative degree of organic impurity compared to a given volume of the Kent Company's water. He also compared the samples from those of August and September. Organic impurity was measured relative to the Kent Water Company's benchmark, who supplied part of London (in areas, in direct competition with the others). The figures were:
Competing companyRelative impurity
New River0.9
Kent1
East London2.4
West Middlesex2.8
Grand Junction3.3
Lambeth4.1
Chelsea4.2
Southwark4.5
The water delivered by the latter five companies, drawing their supply exclusively from the Thames, when compared with that supplied in August and September, showed a marked deterioration in quality. It had a higher proportion of contamination with organic matter.[6]
The New River Company was taken over by the Metropolitan Water Board in 1904 and became part of Thames Water in 1973. The northern part of the New River is still an important link in the supply of water to London.
The company's former headquarters and laboratory at New River Head on Rosebery Avenue are now private flats; there is public access to a view point over the gardens. At the rear of the building (not open to the public) there is the remains of the medieval conduit-head of the water supply of the London Greyfriars, discovered in Bloomsbury in 1911 and re-erected here in 1927.
Later alterations
A winding original section of the channel that used to run through the town centre of Enfield has been cut off from the main flow, but is still maintained as an important local civic amenity called the New River Loop.
Another large loop originally ran around the Devonshire Hill area in north Wood Green and southern Enfield. This loop was cut off when the Wood Green tunnel, which starts at Bowes Park, was completed in 1852. The loop existed for some decades, but was completely filled in and lost by the early 1900s. Now entirely covered by residential development dating mostly back to the 1930s, its former course is visible on numerous maps drawn in the 1800s and early 1900s.
Originally the course was above-ground throughout, but in the second half of the nineteenth century some sections were put underground, enabling the course to be straightened. The picture (right) shows where the river now disappears underground in Hackney to reappear in Islington. This section used to run along the route of Petherton Road in Highbury and is now culverted. The algal bloom shows how stagnant the water is at this point, most of it being diverted into London's water supply just north of Clissold Park.
The route of the New River now provides a walking route through Islington. The broad verge down the centre of Petherton Road leads to Essex Road, where another semi-redundant section of the New River's course between Canonbury and Islington town centre forms a path alongside the now shallow stream. At Canonbury Road, the walk continues through a fernery to Pleasant Place, where an inscription in the pavement marks the New River's route. At Islington Green, there is a statue of Sir Hugh Myddelton; the route continues along Colebroke Row and Duncan Terrace to the Angel, then through Owen's Fields to Myddelton Square. The New River's course between Balls Pond Road and Essex Road, and along Colebrooke Row up to City Road, is marked by white boulders.
The Dame Alice Owen's School bombing
On 15 October 1940, approximately 150 people were sheltering in the basement of Dame Alice Owen's School, then situated on Goswell Road. A large parachute mine hit the building directly, causing the structure to collapse and blocking access to the basement. The blast wave from the bomb caused the pipeline carrying the New River to rupture, flooding the shelter and killing the majority of the people taking cover.[8]
A memorial to the victims of the bombing stands in Owen's Fields at the northern end of Goswell Road.
Drownings and accident
Charles Lamb wrote an essay about a friend he calls G. D. (probably the blind poet George Dyer) who walked into the New River by accident. From "Amicus Redivivus" in Essays of Elia:
I do not know when I have experienced a stranger sensation, than on seeing my old friend G.D., who had been paying me a morning visit a few Sundays back, at my cottage at Islington, upon taking leave, instead of turning down the right hand path by which he had entered—with staff in hand, and at noon day, deliberately march right forwards into the midst of the stream that runs by us, and totally disappear. A spectacle like this at dusk would have been appalling enough; but, in the broad open daylight, to witness such an unreserved motion towards self-destruction in a valued friend, took from me all power of speculation. […]
Waters of Sir Hugh Middleton—what a spark you were like to have extinguished for ever! Your salubrious streams to this City, for now near two centuries, would hardly have atoned for what you were in a moment washing away. Mockery of a river—liquid artifice—wretched conduit! henceforth rank with canals, and sluggish aqueducts. Was it for this, that, smit in boyhood with the explorations of that Abyssinian traveller, I paced the vales of Amwell to explore your tributary springs, to trace your salutary waters sparkling through green Hertfordshire, and cultured Enfield parks?—Ye have no swans—no Naiads—no river God—or did the benevolent hoary aspect of my friend tempt ye to suck him in, that ye also might have the tutelary genius of your waters?
Had he been drowned in Cam there would have been some consonancy in it; but what willows had ye to wave and rustle over his moist sepulture?—or, having no name, besides that unmeaning assumption of eternal novity, did ye think to get one by the noble prize, and henceforth to be termed the STREAM DYERIAN?
Rochemont Barbauld, minister of the nearby Newington Green Unitarian Church and husband of Anna Laetitia Barbauld, went violently insane, attacked his wife, and committed suicide by drowning himself in the New River.
Photographed in the Regional Parks Botanic Garden in Tilden Park in Berkeley, CA on Tuesday May 30, 2023.
In the rain the other day I ventured out in the hope of better weather to the Hortus Botanicus. The wetness let up a bit and this is what I saw.
Here's Epimedium alpinum, Bishop's Hat or Barrenwort. 'Epimedium' comes from the Greek, but an ancient Greek Redivivus wouldn't likely recognise our plant because in classical times that word seems to have been used for a different plant altogether. Early botanical writers say that they don't have a commonly understood vernacular name for this plant and thus they prefer to use 'Epimedium'. Such a one is the well-known professor of botany of the University of Groningen, Abraham Munting (1626-1683). In the chapter devoted to this plant in his great Naauwkeurige beschryving der aardgewassen he shows himself particularly taken by it and he writes of its 'wonderfully amusing flower' (wonderlijke kluchtige bloem). He also follows his botanist colleagues in describing the 'powers' of Epimedium: women are not to ingest it for it causes barrenness. Curiously, it has also been seen as an aphrodisiac; and apparently Epimedium contains icariin, a flavonoid also used in viagra. That I suppose belies another name: Bishop's Hat.
Styrax redivivus—snowdrop bush. A deciduous shrub with widespread but sporadic distribution around the Sacramento Valley with other populations in the Transverse and Peninsular Ranges of Southern California. The flowers attract hummingbirds and butterflies. Drought-tolerant with striking flowers and fruit, this Styrax would seem an ideal plant for California gardens, but its deciduous nature and slow growth prevent its widespread use. Photographed at Regional Parks Botanic Garden located in Tilden Regional Park near Berkeley, CA.
Developed by Tinkertron Weapons Industries (TWI), in the early annums of the previous century, this vintage ~
Pneumatic Aether Disperser is the last known fully functioning weapon of it's kind. The Aether Disperser has only recently been deemed safe (enough) to be displayed in public.
Redivivus Raygun assemblage sculpture by Dan Jones of Tinkerbots
Kings Cross gassholder 8, re-erected on its new site, north of the Regents Canal. 23rd November 2017.
ODC = Future
This is a full view of our Time Machine Redivivus that I posted a couple of sneak peeks of a few days ago. It still isn't finished but getting close. Today was all about unloading the trailer we haul the steampunk emporium in and putting the time machine in so we can decide how to pack around it so we can take it all to future conventions we have booked. We plan on having it on display in our booth for photo ops as well as using it for a parade vehicle.
Sneak peek at what Mike has been hard at work building and is getting close to finishing .... a Time Machine! Tonight we took it for the first spin up the block and it is really cool. Next picture shows the view from where we ride. I promise photos of the finished project soon!
A vintage Spitfire ~ From Tinkerbots'
Redivivus Raygun Collection.
I am very proud to have been a small part of an amazing new photographic series by a very talented Portland photographer , SmilingMonk. I encourage everyone to take a look and enjoy his amazing talent and vision at www.flickr.com/photos/SmilingMonk/
dan jones
San Diego, Ca USA
www.flickr.com/photos/gschroeder/10653223134/Many thanks to my friend Gary
for this fun artwork..
A Redivivus Raygun ~ Found Object ~ Assemblage Sculpture by Dan Jones of Tinkerbots
Start with one vintage Hamilton Beach Mixer and add a cup of misc. ingredients, handle safely and there you have it...
Here we have a fine example of a vintage Zenith Electroblast Raygun. model:K-D24
A Found Object ~ Assemblage Sculpture by Dan Jones of Tinkerbots
Here are the first new flowers of native Snowdrop Bush (Styrax redivivus) in the Styracaceae plant family fully open in the mountains today. This deciduous shrub has everything - gorgeous white flowers like these, edible nuts (here), and pretty autumn leaves (here). The flowers have a strong, sweet fragrance like perfume. For the few weeks that they flower, there is no finer wildflower in our mountains. They are pretty common here on San Marcos Pass - both in woodland and chaparral. They are stunning flowers, worth hunting for. (San Marcos Pass, 26 April 2019)
The shrubs are unusual, a singleton in their family here in California. The specimen map at the Jepson eFlora shows them all around the central valley in California, but I suspect their distribution is highly localized. They are common here on the pass, but I don't think I've seen them anywhere else in Santa Barbara County. There is just one record from San Luis Obispo county to the north and none from Ventura county to the south.
thank you Ԑtά-2 Ѧctiṩ for most of the design. The Flood (Latin Inferi redivivus[1] meaning "The dead reincarnated"[2] or The Parasite,[3] as they are known to the Covenant), are a species of highly virulent parasitic organisms that reproduce and grow by consuming sentient life forms of sufficient biomass and cognitive capability. The Flood was responsible for consuming most of the sentient life in the galaxy, notably the Forerunners, during the 300-year-long Forerunner-Flood War.[4] The Flood presents the most variable faction in the trilogy, as it can infect and mutate Humans and Covenant species, such as Sangheili, and Jiralhanae, into Combat Forms. They are widely considered to be the greatest threat to the existence of life, or, more accurately, biodiversity, in the Milky Way galaxy. (taken from the halopedia)
Here are beautiful new flowers of native Snowdrop Bush (Styrax redivivus) in the Styracaceae plant family in the woods today. This deciduous shrub has everything - gorgeous white flowers like these, edible nuts (here), and pretty autumn leaves (here). The flowers have a strong, sweet fragrance like perfume. For the few weeks that they flower, there is no finer flower in our mountains. They are pretty common here on San Marcos Pass -- both in woodland (like these) and chaparral. They are stunning flowers, worth hunting for. (San Marcos Pass, 8 April 2022)
The reason the Flxible Clipper Bus project has been on hold is because we have been working on converting this 1946 all aluminum travel trailer into one that can haul our Colonel Legerdemains Steampunk Emporium to conventions. The outside is almost complete now, the inside is 85% complete including an area in the front for sleeping with microwave and refrigerator with the rest of it designed to carry the T.A.R.D.I.S. the stock for the emporium and a side by side time machine which is in the works. Our goal is to finish the bus and travel with the bus pulling this trailer as Landship Redvivus. I have created a set for this with some other photos of the trailer if you would like to check out more details.
One of these ladybugs is not behaving like a lady!
This is a mating pair of Convergent Lady Beetles (Hippodamia convergens, Coccinellidae, Coleoptera) on a leaf of native native Snowdrop Bush (Styrax redivivus) in the Styracaceae plant family. That's a new flower bud in the background. These plants are just starting to flower, see this photo. The beetles can have any number of spots, or no spots at all, but they always have two white diagonal lines that converge behind the head. Here they are making more ladybugs. Happy hump day! (San Marcos Pass, 2 May 2019)
John's school does a project every spring called "Wax Museum." The kids each pick a famous person and prepare a little report in the form of a speech. On the appointed day, they dress up as their chosen personages and are arranged in the parish center as if they were wax statues. Visitors may "press" a "button" to make the statue "come to life" and hear its speech. John chose Benjamin Franklin. The costume was assembled from random crap lying around our house, except for the wig and glasses, which came from a local costume shop.
Light: SB-800 + 60" Photek Softlighter frame left; SB-600 + Rosco #375 Cerulean Blue behind and below, illuminating a white bed sheet. Triggered with PocketWizards.
Here are more almost-mating Timema insects (Timema cristinae, Timematidae, Phasmida) on a leaf of native Snowdrop Bush (Styrax redivivus) in the Styracaceae plant family. I've found them on this shrub before, see this photo. I found quite a few of them on this shrub today, mostly in pairs like this. There was a shrub of Chamise (Adenostoma fasciculatum, Rosaceae) right next door, and I didn't find any on that shrub. I say "almost mating" because there doesn't seem to be any actual physical contact between them. Maybe they are just snuggling? More likely, this is male "mate guarding" in which males ride on the backs of females for periods up to several days to keep other males away - see BugGuide. We have brown Timemas and green ones and green ones with stripes - and it doesn't seem to matter much, compare this photo. I first thought I hadn't seen a brown female, but look here. The males (on top) are typically smaller than the ladies. If you look close, maybe you can see that the males have asymmetric claspers while the females have symmetric cerci. Timemas are atypical walkingstick insects which are endemic to California and neighboring states, and I've been finding lots of them lately. I have a bit more info in my comments on this photo. Happy almost-hump day! (San Marcos Pass, 19 April 2017)
Today started in a cloud, then turn sunny and nice, and then the wind kicked up in the afternoon. There have been gusts to 40 mph so far. Oh well, the next Macro Mondays challenge is to show motion blur in a macro photo. Usually I do everything I can to eliminate motion blur, but this time the wind might help me get a photo!
This is looking into the woods during the surprisingly heavy rain today. The yellow leaves show the fall colors of native Snowdrop Bush (Styrax redivivus) in the Styracaceae plant family. What a remarkable shrub - it grows in both woodland and chaparral, it has gorgeous white flowers that smell like perfume, it has these interesting edible nuts, and the deciduous leaves turn golden in the fall. Also visible in the photo are Coast Live Oak and California Bay trees. Can you spot the Madrone tree in the upper-left? (San Marcos Pass, 22 December 2019)
We had more rain than was expected today - 2.4 inches and still falling! It's been raining since about 11:00 am this morning, and it hasn't stopped all day. We've been under an NWS Flood Advisory since before noon which keeps getting extended, now until 9:00 pm tonight. It's rained hard enough at times to cause debris flow problems on the recent wildfire burn, but I haven't heard of any problems so far. This brings our rainfall total to 9.10 inches for the season. We had dropped down to 85% of normal before the rain, but we're back up to 109% on the happy side of normal by my reckoning. I look forward to getting out with my camera tomorrow when there's only a 70% chance of more rain.
Downham Market station, following a heritage makeover in 1980s Network South East style. 5th July 2017.
After bending the circle and full-well realizing that I knew I was going to do a few more of these images, I decided that perhaps there should be a level of underestimated "tension" that should be visualized as I had originally thought. After producing a few other images in the same relation, of which I didn't particularly enjoy, I found this one to be more interesting. It often seems as though during the progress of creating something from a previous idea, whether it had been an idea a few days prior, months, or even years before, the progress takes a swing and will gradually veer off into another direction, whereas when completely improvising, there seems to be a 'wheel of fortune'-like binder --- one that continues to open, clipping the paper in, to then unopen and release the paper from its strangle --- where an introduction of wide-lensed recognition becomes relatively expanded versus that of the compressed idea that had been circling the mindscape for a few days, or whenever. I am, however, not stating that I am completely oblivious within the containment of such expressions, but I've found (with photography as well as with creating anything) that the plane of expression becomes xerophytic in the sense that what is in the mind is literally 'wanting' to be released. There's a particular "hight" that diametricalizes each splinter, or goove-cut which places me in the mind-frame (before even photographing any ideas) of how I would want the viewer to 'see' it, so that perhaps they are able to 'feel' something, whether in clusters or bunches (or even smaller, it doesn't matter, as long as it is something), or whether it is sympathy, comedy, fear, or an accumulation of deeply-rooted ramages. Perhaps this is one reason why I like to consider myself a "Pinecone", because a Pinecone can be the 'ramus' of an array of emotions for "others" to visualize.
The image here, which is the second and last image of this, I won't say "set" because it's only two photographs and I don't really like to consider two photographs as being a 'set' although they are technically, if anything a "pair", is an image where, after having my initial idea grow and progress, like when getting to know someone in a personal relationship, became a more experimental 'conception' as time had passed, and was the rationalism of not only the repellent of something that nature/mankind often possesses, because of fear or what essentially becomes our emotional 'state' after realizing "why" we are acting like that, which often stems from what we think in our minds, which creates such a reaction towards what we expect, but also the logic that is usually behind it. One sees a dead fly. One may not react as 'sadly' as if it were their pet dog, fish, cat, etc.
It may be a lousy example, but "chess" here is very much a part of this image, but what lies beneath the conceptuality, is an even more redivivus curvature to think upon...