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We came upon this strange scene on our Reykjanes trip last Saturday. There were dozens, maybe hundreds, of these rock piles all over the place. Who knows, perhaps this is the work of elves or a huldufólk (hidden people) artist?
... from Muse's Seaside Rendezvous concerts in Teignmouth, Devon, England! Been there, done that ... got the stick of rock! Well who can resist - it was at the seaside and we had to bring something back for our daughters who were left at home with the grandparents!
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Polished slab of agate rock - a gift from my brother. I held them up in front of the sun then took my fingers out. Oct. 2013.
..back to the Gunflint.
a big rock marks the place where you can stop and view the panramic scene of the lower country,
the view: www.flickr.com/photos/u4eah/4831863/in/set-124363/
the rock is about 12 feet tall, at least 6 feet wide and over 5 feet thick.
while our group was there, another couple pulled up on one sled, and proceeded to take out a picnic of store-bought sushi-rolls, crackers, cheese and a bottle of wine..
we toasted the day
Week 43 (10/24/2011 - 10/30/2011)
52 Weeks of Landscapes (a 365 days series twist)
Bonsai Rock at the North Shore of Lake Tahoe near Sand Harbor in Incline Village, NV. A couple of friends and I went to Hope Valley hoping for Fall colors. That was a bust, so we decided to go to this location instead. Mother Nature didn't provide a good light show for sunset, so a return trip is in order.
Well... my next door neighbour sent me a well timed email, late last night,... Telling me it was about time I got my act together & started posted regularly again on Flickr... sooo... Chris here we go... ha ha
My girlfriend brought me this lovely shaped rock the other week & asked me if I could cover it in crochet... I thought it's time I did a rather colourful one for her...
The Rock Garden lies in Wilayt AdDuqm in the AlWasta Region (the central region). It is a vast area of strange art forms, naturally sculpted from rocks.
Rock Face in North Curl Curl - See the image on the RHS and the rock looks like a woman face laying down.
This shot also found going through my archive of this amazing location.
Dusk at North Curl Curl.
Best viewed on black - Click L
Like most isolated petroglyph rocks in Georgia, Sprayberry Rock is not in-situ. It was moved a hundred feet or so to accommodate a new bank building, in 1984.
There are three prehistoric feature types on the rock. Only one of these features can be associated with a time period. During the Late-Archaic Period (5,000-3,000 years B.P), steatite or soapstone outcrops were quarried to produce bowls and other vessels. Soapstone bowls were traded all over the eastern and mid-western U.S. In Georgia, the bowls were often carved with tools fashioned from diabase (a very hard volcanic rock from instusive dikes found from Atlanta eastward). There are at least seven soapstone bowl preforms or bowl scars ( where a bowl was actually made and removed) on the rock. One preform was in the later stages of completion when abandoned.
The last two prehistoric features can't necessarily be associated with the Late-Archaic Period. Cupules are a poorly understood feature. In some cases they appear to have a utilitarian purpose and are often referred to as nutting holes. In other cases one to several hundred cupules were placed on isolated rocks or outcrops and appear to have no apparent function. Seldom are they arranged in a recognizable pattern. Cupules that appear to have a utilitarian purpose are often on outcrops near streams. It is thought they were used in the processing of nuts and acorns. This activity probably occurred from the Archaic and well into the Woodland Peroid, and possibly later. In come cases, cupules are considered an art form. There are over a dozen cupules on Sprayberry Rock. Their meaning or use is unknown.
The third type of prehistoric feature on Sprayberry Rock is petroglyphs. This is considered an art from. There are at least three images of concentric circles concentrated on one end of the boulder. There are various interpretations on the meaning of concentric circles. It is impossible to determine at which point these circles are produced. If they are associated with the bowl quarrying they are quite old. Concentric circles appear on other isolated petroglyph rocks in Georgia.
I have never seen an archaeological report on Sprayberry Rock. I have no idea if artifacts were recovered before it was moved. For more information: www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/articles/history-archaeology/...
This small pine tree that seems to be growing out of solid rock has reportedly fascinated travelers since the first train rolled past on the Union Pacific Railroad.
Cashel (an Anglicised form of the Irish language word Caiseal, meaning "stone fort"). Where king Aengus was said to have baptized by St. Patrick around 450 AD. Rock of Cashel, an ancient, hilltop fortress complex for which Cashel is named.In 1101, the King of Munster, Muirchertach Ua Briain, donated his fortress on the Rock to the Church.
Ageing cathedral built on this old pagan site in county Tipperary , Munster province, Ireland/Eire. Interior of the cathedral, looking west. The cathedral was built 1235-70 and the tower-house at the west end was added in the 15th century. Rock of Cashel, County Tipperary, Ireland.Seat of Irish Kings for 700 years.
More: www.sacred-destinations.com/ireland/rock-of-cashel
As I visited Christian lands ,Eastern Armenia and the Baltics on this same trip couldn't help to notice similarites , a contiguousness of christian culture, across much of old Europe, such as the churches, buried bishops or others in old graves within the sacred space.Often over Iron Age sacred sites.
The City of White Rock takes its name from the huge rock resting on the shore of Semiahmoo Bay. Composed mainly of quartz, feldspar and mica, the rock is over 4 metres high, 20 metres in circumference and weighs approximately 488 metric tonnes. Geologists describe it as a ‘glacial erratic’ because it was torn away from its original location in the Coast Mountains and dragged to Semiahmoo Bay by the advancing ice during the last ice age, 11,000 years ago.
Early European explorers found the rock useful for navigation. It is mentioned in the logs of several notable mariners, among them Captain George Vancouver.
When the railway was built in 1906, the rock was shifted a few feet towards the beach and a large part of the hillside was removed to make way for the track.
The Semiahmoo First Nation name for the rock is P’quals, which translates as White Top. Amongst the region’s First Nations there are many similar legends describing how the rock came to rest on the shore of Semiahmoo Bay. One version relates that, long ago, a Sea God ruled the Gulf of Georgia. His son fell in love with a Cowichan princess on Vancouver Island, but marriage between a god and a mortal was forbidden. Enraged, the young Sea God picked up a huge boulder and hurled it out to sea. He declared that they would make their new home, and start their own tribe, wherever the boulder landed. According to the legend, this was the origin of the Semiahmoo People, whose traditional lands include White Rock.
Balanced Rock is one of the most popular features of Arches National Park, situated in Grand County, Utah, United States. Balanced Rock is located next to the park's main road, at about 9 miles (14.5 km) from the park entrance.
The total height of Balanced Rock is about 128 feet (39 m), with the balancing rock rising 55 feet (16.75 m) above the base. The big rock on top is the size of three school buses. Until recently, Balanced Rock had a companion - a similar, but much smaller balanced rock named "Chip Off The Old Block", which fell during the winter of 1975/1976.
Balanced Rock can be seen from the park's main road. There is also a short loop trail leading around the base of the rock [Wikipedia]
Back on the beach and there has been more cliff fall recently. These rocks at the bottom of the photo have only just appeared. A few more rocks nearby almost clonked Mac on the head when they came down the other day.
A Rock Street estará com cara nova na edição 2013 do festival.
A novidade fica por conta da temática, que será inspirada na Grã-Bretanha e Irlanda.
Foto: Rock in Rio / Divulgação