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Iglesia de Nuestra Señora de la Asunción de Narros del Puerto (Ávila). Data del siglo XIII. Atendiendo a los testimonios arqueológicos encontrados (Hernando y Gamallo, 2004) (Rodríguez-Almeida, 2003), se considera que la iglesia está asentada sobre un santuario romano anterior, que dataría de los siglos I al III.
El interés artístico de este monumento se debe a que en su cabecera guarda ejemplos de arte mudéjar. Sorprende contemplar este ejemplo del románico-mudéjar en el Valle de Amblés, zona que se caracteriza por las construcciones en granito, y su singularidad estriba en que, junto con la antigua puerta de la Iglesia de San Sebastián, en Mironcillo, constituyen los dos únicos ejemplos de arquitectura románica presentes en el valle de Amblés, a excepción de las manifestaciones existentes en la ciudad de Ávila (de la Garma, 1999). Se encuentra en lo alto de un promontorio, a cuyo pie discurre el río Aulaque. Goza de un pretil que lo delimita y el templo se presenta como un hito dentro de la importancia del entorno natural que le rodea.
Es de tres naves y lo mudéjar se circunscribe a la cabecera, orientada al este, y en la que aparecen en el ábside central las repetidas fajas de arcos doblados, pero con la novedad de arrancar aquí desde un zócalo de mampostería y enmarcarse los arcos verticalmente, dos a dos, en recuadros geométricos, rematados por un pequeño friso de ladrillos a sardinel, y apoyando las jambas de la faja superior directamente sobre la rosca de los arcos inferiores. En su muy destrozado tramo recto, también se organizan dos órdenes superpuestos de arcos doblados enmarcados en una retícula. Los dos pequeños ábsides laterales, casi absidiolos, son de tosca mampostería rematada por cornisa de ladrillo cortado en nacela, al igual que la cornisa que corona el ábside central, y en su eje hay una pequeña ventana con dos arcos de ladrillo de medio punto. En su interior, los tres ábsides están cubiertos por sendas bóvedas de horno (FSMR, 2002)(Gutiérrez-Robledo, 2001)(Herbosa, 2000)(López-Fernández, 2007)(Sáinz, 1991).
A pesar de las alteraciones sufridas, en el ábside central se aprecia una cuidada articulación. Pertenece al Modelo de Tierra de Pinares (caracterizado por la superposición de varios cuerpos con arquerías de menor altura, en contraposición al Modelo Toresano, que se caracteriza por el uso de decoración mural basada en arcos de gran longitud).
La planta certifica las pequeñas dimensiones de estos ábsides laterales y, que éstos tienen tramos rectos con líneas divergentes y que los ejes de estos ábsides divergen del central. Luego, una vez más, el templo fue reformado, rehaciéndose las tres naves. El detalle de ornamentación con bolas del campanario o la fábrica de las columnas y arcos interiores que sostienen la cubierta, son típicas del estilo gótico isabelino, por lo que esta remodelación se dataría hacia el siglo XVI. También es de interés la pila bautismal de granito.
Respecto a la techumbre del templo, la nave central está cubierta por una armadura de par y nudillo de dos faldones, con siete tirantes sencillos en estribado, de madera en blanco sin decoración. Los pares y nudillos incorporan habituales gramiles, y en faldones y almizate el saetino es de almenillas en blanco y negro. Las naves laterales están cubiertas por colgadizos a un agua, de pares agramilados, y madera en blanco. Hay restos de saetino en almenillas en blanco y negro en las tabicas de la nave lateral derecha.(Fernández-Shaw, 1994).
Narros del Puerto (Ávila) 23/4/2021
S169UAL Optare Excel L1150 Mk1 at Panther Travel White Roding bus store in Essex on 20 January 2017.
Ex Hedingham 201, Konectbus and new as trent barton 169, this was used as spares for V203ENU which Panther Travel prepared for service.
Faster than a speeding bullet... it's a bird... it's a plane... no, it's a monkey, riding a border collie!
Oorspronkelijk is het een inheemse plant uit Noord-Amerika.
In de tijd dat de indianen Amerika bewoonden was het al een belangrijke medicinale plant. En al van oudsher van waarde door zijn bloedzuiverende werking bij letsel, brandwonden, insectenbeten en gewrichtspijn. De indianen kauwden onder andere op de wortels van de plant, wat verdoving gaf.
Onderzoek heeft aangetoond dat Echinacea infecties bestrijdt. De rode zonnehoed bevat pijnstillende infectiewerende en bloedzuiverende stoffen. Het doodt bacteriën en schimmels en verhoogt de algemene weerstand. Te gebruiken bij hoest, verkoudheid en opgezette klieren.
Naar de werking van Echinacea is veel wetenschappelijk onderzoek gedaan. Uit verschillende onderzoeken blijkt dat het gebruik van Echinacea purpurea stimulerend werkt op de aanmaak van de afweercellen. Door chronische stress ontstaat een verminderde aanmaak van de afweercellen in het lichaam. In dit onderzoek was duidelijk een positief effect op de weerstand te zien en was er veel minder onderdrukking van de afweercellen.
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Echinacea is a group of flowering plants in the daisy family. It may support the immune system and is a common ingredient in cold remedies.
Promoters of Echinacea believe that the supplement boosts the immune system and can reduce symptoms of infections and other illnesses, including the common cold.
However, researchers have yet to confirm that it provides these benefits.
Perhaps I should subtitle this photograph:
The Old and the New
or (just like the Rocky and Bullwinkle cartoons):
Nice Gneiss
This location is really exciting to my inner geo geek so, if you are like my daughters and wife, whose eyes start to glaze over when I start to talk about geology, just enjoy this panorama of one of the canyons emptying into the Badwater basin. But, if you would like to learn about the geology that created this vista, read on at your own peril:
This little canyon has exposed the contact between some of the oldest rocks in Death Valley (and the western United States) and some of the youngest in Death Valley. The right hand canyon wall is comprised of metamorphosed crystalline basement rock. These are very old rocks. They were formed and then put under a lot of heat and pressure and metamorphosed. The metamorphosis event has been dated to about 1.7 billion years ago so they were actually formed sometime before that. The 1.7 billion year date shows up a lot in the geology of the western U.S. That is probably because it is also accompanied by an extensive unconformity at its top that also covered much of the western U.S. So, to recap, the right hand rocks were formed and then deformed deep in the crust about 1.7 billion years ago then uplifted as part of a broad mountain building episode that covered a lot of the western U.S. The uplift caused erosion to remove any rocks that were deposited over the old metamorphosed crystalline basement rocks.
Eventually the uplift ceased and the western U.S. slowly built out the coastline in what we call a passive margin with just slow sediment deposition dominating the scene and no active uplifts. These rocks are largely carbonates (dolomites) and some pure quartz sandstones that occasionally flowed over the carbonate shallow flats and seas. These rocks are about 500 million years younger than the rocks in the right hand wall of the canyon.
I'm going to briefly summarize the next 700 million years. The western coast of the U.S. and the Death Valley area transitioned from passive deposition to active as the various Pacific plates began to spread. Compressive forces slowly began to squeeze the rocks in Death Valley and then volcanism began as the oceanic plates were stuffed under the western edge of the North American crustal plate. Some of the molten rocks erupted and some rose up into the Death Valley area but never made it to the surface.
Then about 75 million years ago something very special happened that changed this scenario. Many geologists think the Pacific plate that was being stuffed (subducted) under the North American plate somehow broke and instead of being pushed down toward the mantle, slid horizontally under the crust of the North American plate. This caused a ripple of compressive events to travel eastward across this region and then across the western U.S. all the way to the Rockies which mark the eastward boundary of the horizontal plate.
The compression that accompanied the shallow Pacific plate as it buoyantly rode under this area, folded and contorted many of the older passive margin rocks.
The deeper plate then foundered as the spreading center or mid oceanic ridge which was driving the eastward movement stopped probably because the spreading center finally began to be subducted under the North American plate.
In Death Valley, the compression stopped and a new round of volcanism began as the lower plate started to slowly sink into the mantle and melt. This sinking also began pull apart the western U.S. as the bulging area over the plate now began to sink also. We call this pulling apart extension and when the crust is extended like this faults begin to form that leave some blocks high but drop other blocks down along the fault to allow for the stretching. This faulting and movement started slowly and further east of this region - near the middle of the horizontally under-stuffed plate fragment. The high blocks and low basins caused by this stretching are called the Basin and Range province and cover the area from the high Sierras to the Big Bend in Texas.
The basin seen in the distance in this photograph is the deepest basin in this entire province and therefore, one of the youngest. The spreading started in earnest less than 4 million years ago. Spreading here allows the basins to fall faster than erosion of the surrounding blocks can fill them up. It is no accident that the highest relief in the United States is located here - Telescope Peak in the Panamint mountains on the western side of the basin is over 11,000 above sea level while Badwater Springs is almost 300 feet below sea level.
Now, back to this side canyon, the rocks on the left wall are young - deposited when the basin began to form around 4 million years ago. I am not sure of the formations that are exposed on the left but they look like the Furnace creek formation or the Artists Drive formation.
Those of you that have looked at the left hand wall enough probably have noticed the line that tilts upward at about a 30 to 40 degree angle in the middle of the wall. The line may represent a dis-conformity and may have initially been flat but tilted upward as the young sediments have slid westward and rotated over the crest of the turtleback.
What is a turtleback? A geologist named Curry first described them in 1938. He noticed three rounded (double plunging) rock outcrops on the western edge of the Black Mountains. He also described the contacts of the rocks within these rounded bulges and the overlying rocks at its edges and guessed that they very different in composition and age.
Some researchers believe that these rocks were first bulged upward during the compressional phase that I mentioned above. During the recent extension, these bulges were tilted down to east and exposed as Badwater basin sank past them. The overlying young basin fill exposed in the left wall "spilled" off of the turtle backs in fault blocks that all sole out along the back of the turtleback leaving the domed surface exposed and resembling a turtleback.
To those of you who read all the way to this point - congratulations - you far surpassed the eye glazing point!
I find this landscape beautiful and speculating on the long history that it represents, makes it that much more special to me.
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A wet Rose-breasted Grosbeak in the back yard on a rainy day. This was one of three in the same tree.
Built in 1837, this Greek Revival-style house was built by Robert Montgomery on land purchased from Doctor Todd, where he lived until 1848, when the house was sold to Clifton Rodes, whom became the president of the Deposit Bank of Danville in 1853, with the house becoming the Central National Bank of Danville. Following the death of Clifton Rodes, the house was inherited by Charles H. Rodes, his son, whom was a prominent local lawyer. The house was featured as the backdrop for much of the 1957 film Raintree County, portraying the home of the character played by Montgomery Clift, with the film also prominently featuring Elizabeth Taylor. The house features a red brick exterior, a front wing with a side gable roof, a five-bay front facade with six-over-six double-hung windows flanking a central bay home to a six-over-six double-hung window with two-over-two double-hung sidelights on the second floor, and an impressive one-story ionic portico with large columns, a simple cornice, and a front door with rectangular transom and sidelights, with the exterior wall at the rear of the portico clad in stucco. The south facade along Lexington Avenue features mostly blank walls at the front wing with a chimney at the peak of the gable, a mirror of the north facade of the front wing of the house, with a rear wing featuring a rear gable behind this, featuring a south facade five bays wide, twelve-over-twelve double-hung windows in an asymmetrical arrangement on the second floor except the second-to-westernmost bay, which features a nine-over-nine double-hung window, with a nine-over-nine double-hung window in the bay below it, a one-story shed roof on the first floor with a porch featuring square brick columns at the western end, an enclosed brick-walled room in the center with an angled side wall, and a large sunroom with massive windows at the eastern end. To the rear of this wing, another wing stretches to the north, featuring smaller six-over-six double-hung windows and an arched doorway centered on the east facade, as well as a two-story porch with a shed roof on the north side of this wing. In addition to the main house, the eastern end of the property is home to a wooden carriage house with a corrugated metal side gable roof, with gabled dormers, which presently functions as a shed and garage/carport. The house is a contributing structure in the Todd-Montgomery Houses Historic District, also known as Beaten Biscuit Row, listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1976.
I didn't know about this car until i saw it in Monaco during Top Marques in 2013. Wondering what 2015 edition will bring to supercar spotters heaven.
For my pending college graduation in 1982, I got an Amtrak trip that I took on Spring Break. In a week and a half, I rode twice between the west coast and Chicago - east on the San Francisco Zephyr and Sunset/Eagle, west on the Southwest Limited and Empire Builder.
After riding the Coast Starlight overnight from my hometown of Klamath Falls, Oregon, I detrained early the following morning at Davis. Probably the most unique part of the trip was a ten-mile ride on the Spirit of California train from Davis to Sacramento. My plan was to spend a few hours in the California State Railroad Museum library before I headed east from Sacramento on the San Francisco Zephyr.
The Spirit was a new service offering overnight travel between Los Angeles and Northern California. It had started operating the previous October. The train was something of a political football, and would be discontinued in 1983 when California changed gubernatorial administrations.
The ride on the Starlight was unique in its own right. A little over a month after my trip, the train would shift to a routing through Chico, rendering the West Valley Line north of Davis freight service only. What was a 70 mph speedway for Amtrak passenger trains at the time ultimately became a 25 mph shortline operated by California Northern.
After breakfast at a nearby Denny's, I waited for Amtrak 18 at the Davis station. While there, a westbound freight train came by from Roseville with Southern Pacific's research and test car tucked in behind the power. The car was a former California Zephyr 10-6 sleeper.
A little after 9 am, the Spirit arrived in Davis. It had an F40, a baggage, an ex-Santa Fe 10-6 sleeper, an Amdinette and two Amcoaches. This was the first time I had ever ridden on Amfleet equipment. As the train rolled in, I snapped these images. The day was so grubby that the color in the slides is almost non-existent, so I converted the images to black and white.
When I boarded, I was mildly shocked by the conductor's appearance - he was a dead ringer for Oakland Raiders owner Al Davis! The ten-mile ride across the Yolo Causeway went quickly. I was able to spend several hours reviewing books at the CSRM library before I boarded Amtrak 6 later in the afternoon.