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MacSimski is gently refreshing these 24 volt capacitors after not being in use for decades, and to prevent them from blowing up at their first use.
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Soda machine in McDonald's in Loma Linda, California, this seems to be a newly built restaurant, me and my folks went to Loma Linda for a Doctors appointment so we had a quick pit stop at McDonald's.
See it On Black
...keep cool man...and woman ;-))
a part of a fountain, in friedrichshafen at the lake of constanze!
Today my husband made a fruit salad using watermelon, pineapple, grapes and strawberries. Refreshingly wonderful on a hot Summer afternoon.
Who has measured the waters in the hollow of his hand, or with the breadth of his hand marked off the heavens? Isaiah: 40:12 (NIV)
Some birds refreshing on a hot summer day, at the Botanic Gardens of Central Park.
New York City, NY. Aug. 2008
St Peter and St Paul, Uppingham, Rutland
Another bike ride in England's smallest county yesterday. Sixteen churches altogether, which sounds a lot, but churches in Rutland are refreshingly close together, and generally open, although I did find two yesterday that said they were open and weren't, and one that said it wasn't, but was.
Part four.
From Preston I headed south across the next valley on the A600, which was thankfully downhill for most of the way, but just before reaching the junction with the A47 at Uppingham I turned off down a narrow lane into the hamlet of Ayston. This sits on the northern edge of Uppingham, joined to it but separated from it by the A47, but far too tiny and rustic to be called a suburb. You can see the church, but you can't easily see how to get to it. In fact, what appears to be the front garden of some cottages is a remnant of an old village green, and as it narrows between houses it reaches the church.
St Mary is redundant, and in the care of the Churches Conservation Trust. A small church, but with aisles and clerestories to scale. It is full of interest. At first sight simple, rural, pleasingly light and uncluttered, with box pews and an odd birdbath font. However, the church is home to some of the best medieval glass in Rutland. Three figures are set below a rood group in the south aisle east window, all from the second half of the 15th Century and unlikely to be in their original place. The continental glass in another south aisle window came from Ayston Hall at around the time of the First World War.
The English glass, which was restored in 1973 with the addition of missing pieces by the York Glaziers Trust, something I don't think we would do now, depicts the Crowned Blessed Virgin looking down on the Christchild in her arms, and flanked by two Bishops, one of whom has a sword blade through his mitre, and is thus St Thomas of Canterbury. The other may be St Augustine. The Christ child in the central scene is entirely new. The bowed, crowned head of the Virgin above looks more as if she has come from a Coronation of the Queen of Heaven scene than from a Nativity, but in fact more is going on here than meets the eye, for if you look closely at the 15th Century glass you can see that the Virgin is offering her breast to the child to feed. This image, known as the Virgo Lactans was popular in late medieval iconography, depicting as it does not only motherhood but, because of the crown, humility, for most people of royal standing at that time would have given their children to wetnurses to bring up. It seems odd that the 1973 child is lying down rather than sitting up.
The rood group above it is tremendous, the crucified Christ flanked by six angels, most of them original, catching the Precious Blood from his various wounds, Mary and John looking on, not with the agony which they suffer at Gipping in Suffolk (that will come a few decades later) but the effect is similar. All in all a tremendous window.
Elsewhere in the church is a striking double effigy, weathered beyond recognition, as Pevsner puts it. Until the CCT came along it was outside beside the porch. Presumably a knight and his Lady who once lay within a tomb recess in the church. Barmy Arthur Mee was even barmier than usual when he visited Ayston for the King's England: Leicestershire and Rutland in the 1930s, claiming that the effigy keeps alive the story of two sisters, one-armed twins. They appear to have been industrious cripples, busying themselves in much good work and making money by their spinning so that they earned enough to buy a field. A second, perhaps more leisurely look prompts him to observe that the craftsman was moved by the story of these devoted sisters to give one of them two hands, that he might show them clasped in prayer.
Meanwhile, back on Planet Earth, the war memorial is more moving and also grounded in an appalling reality. It lists eight names, which seems a large number for such a tiny hamlet, but with a shock you see that four of them are the Pykett brothers, two of these twins. Even worse, two of the other four are another pair of brothers, the Goodwins. They were obviously fighting together, because as the guide in the church notes, one was fatally wounded on the same day and in the same place that his brother was killed.
A sobering thought to move on with. It was less than a mile from here, and mostly downhill, into the centre of Uppingham. A small town of 5,000 people, but the second biggest settlement in Rutland after Oakham. The church sits right on the little market place, its north porch set among the run of buildings, a public house, bank and post office for company, a large 'Church Open, do come in!' sign outside.
You step into a remarkably wide nave, far wider than it is long. The aesthetic is very High Church indeed for a main town church, without overspilling into Anglo-catholic silliness. Ninian Comper was busy here, and so were many other workshops, mostly at the end of the previous century. Inevitably the large space is dark, but not without drama, as if it were a theatre awaiting a performance. Candles flicker in the north aisle before a Madonna of the Rutland fields triptych, and the vast east window is filled with the Ascension by Shrigley & Hunt, huge and effective. A church to feel a sense of the numinous, and unusual to be alone in I should think.
I cycled out to the edge of town, and at a crossroads kissed lightly the tour I had made a fortnight before. That time I arrived at the crossroads from the south and turned east, today I arrived from the west and turned north. Across a narrow valley stood the village of Bisbrooke. To be honest, I had chickened out of Bisbrooke two weeks previously on the strength of the alarming dip between me and it, but with a bit more physical and mental energy now I hurtled down, and then puffed and panted up into a delightful and intensely rural little hilltop village.
To be continued.
On set with 'Bubbz' aka 'Chief'....a refreshing vocalist....switching up styles with delectable pop undertones.....shooting the video for his track 'Citizens of the City'
The Video was put together by talented young director Joseph Oppenheimer and co-directed by Jade Angeles Fitton of FourSigth Films
A big thank you to all the people who helped make this happen!
A refreshing Diet Coke, at the Cosi in Rosslyn, Virginia, 1801 N. Lynn Street. It really hit the spot after hiking around Theodore Roosevelt Island on this warm fall day.
Kerala's backwaters are famous around the globe. It gives such a refreshing and divine silence to our busy hearts. Last week, I was out with a friend of mine who was doing a photography assignment for a heritage resort in Kuttanad called Emerald Isle. I had a share of clicks, and one from the bunch.
Hope you like it. Have a nice weekend friends.
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Strobist: 1/200 second, off camera flash at 1/64th power to camera right.
Refreshing morning. Up early for work, and discovered the wrong filming fate. See you, Shaw, again tomorrow. Lol.
While walking in the park, I felt some water splashing all over me.
I looked around and thought "what the...?" because the place was empty.
I started walking and, once again, more water.
I looked down instead of looking around and I saw this cute bird staring at me like "what? d'ya have a problem with that?". He was just refreshing a little and having some fun in a warm and sunny brazilian spring day.
My Father snapped this shot during our recent Road Trip. We were in an Oyster Bar in New Orleans, LA...
So today I went and visited my uncle and aunt, they gave me this drink and so I decided to go on a free-lensing frenzy. This is what came out of it. Used my 50mm F/1.8
MacSimski is gently refreshing these 24 volt capacitors after not being in use for decades, and to prevent them from blowing up at their first use.