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15-02-2018
This is a B&W close-up image of a bridge support section, photographed recently in central Bristol.
I thought it looked interesting, I hope you find it interesting also!
Rustic Pavilion Circa 1874.
Originally built of timber branches and twig.
Recreated in steel in 2009.
Fairmount, Philadelphia.
I was driving along a country road in Alton, Virginia, when I saw these two old steel work horses, who have long since been put out to pasture. There is just something beautiful and powerful about them sitting there in the middle of nowhere, among all those trees.
While driving around eastern Washington, I couldn't resist photographing this field of wheat as the sun beamed behind a cumulus cloud. The contrasts worked well converting into black and white.
This is the Smith Interpretive Center / Greenhouse. It originally was administrative offices and laboratory/greenhouse.
Now it serves its special function as an interpretive center and a greenhouse.
"Crude masonry and rustication characterize the initial architecture at the Boyce Thompson Arboretum. The Smith Building, the arboretum’s original visitor center and administration building, designed by Thompson and built by local contractor and mason Jack Davey in 1925–1926, is sited on the canyon floor. The rustic edifice, composed of locally quarried rhyolite, originally featured lichen-covered interior walls and flagstone floors. The 6,500-square-foot space contained offices, laboratories, a library, a herbarium, a seed room, a photography studio, supply rooms, and a fireproof vault; a soft-water cistern filled the basement. Flanking the structure are two attached greenhouses that display indigenous and exotic cacti and succulents. Measuring 50 feet long and 20 feet wide, the prefabricated iron-frame and glazed structures were supplied by the Lord and Burnham Company of New York."
sah-archipedia.org/buildings/AZ-01-021-0017
I haven't been here since I was a child. I consider it more of a walk rather than a hike. But it is incredibly interesting. Especially for photography. My Grandfather - Joseph Harris - was the Superintendent of Col. Thompson's Miami Inspiration Mines.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boyce_Thompson_Arboretum
Boyce Thompson Arboretum is the oldest and largest botanical garden in the state of Arizona. It is one of the oldest botanical institutions west of the Mississippi River. Founded in 1924 as a desert plant research facility and “living museum”, the arboretum is located in the Sonoran Desert on 392 acres (159 ha) along Queen Creek and beneath the towering volcanic remnant, Picketpost Mountain. Boyce Thompson Arboretum is on U.S. Highway 60, an hour's drive east from Phoenix and 3 miles (4.8 km) west of Superior, Arizona.
The arboretum was founded by William Boyce Thompson (1869-1930), a mining engineer who made his fortune in the copper mining industry. He was the founder and first president of Inspiration Consolidated Copper Company at Globe-Miami, Arizona and Magma Copper Company in Superior, Arizona. In the early 1920s, Thompson, enamored with the landscape around Superior, built a winter home overlooking Queen Creek. Also in the 1920s, as his fortunes grew, he created and financed the Boyce Thompson Institute for Plant Research in Yonkers, New York (now at Cornell University), and the Boyce Thompson Arboretum on the property of the Picket Post House, west of Superior.
Boyce Thompson wrote: “I have in mind far more than mere botanical propagation. I hope to benefit the State and the Southwest by the addition of new products. A plant collection will be assembled which will be of interest not only to the nature lover and the plant student, but which will stress the practical side, as well to see if we cannot make these mesas, hillsides, and canyons far more productive and of more benefit to mankind. We will bring together and study the plants of the desert countries, find out their uses, and make them available to the people. It is a big job, but we will build here the most beautiful, and at the same time the most useful garden of its kind in the world.”[3]
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Planet Earth Vintage Architecture, PEVA,
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37608 has just emerged from beneath the M1 Motorway at Pinxton hauling Elizabeth Line unit 345048 running as 5Q26 Old Dalby to Worksop where the unit will go into warm storage. Two moves along this lightly used line, within 40 minutes, meant a quick change of location from our original spot near Paddock Farm. This foot crossing accommodated all three of us nicely with the nettles occupying the stub of a telegraph pole.
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This captivating image invites you to experience the rustic charm of a lakeside gazebo, nestled amidst a copse of verdant pines and reflected in the still waters of a secluded pond. The gazebo, with its open sides and natural wood construction, offers a picturesque spot for contemplation and nature watching. A pair of ducks glide across the water, adding life to the tranquil scene. The light dappling through the trees casts a mosaic of shadows and highlights, creating a peaceful ambiance. This setting captures the essence of a serene escape, where time slows and the mind can wander amidst the whispers of the forest and the gentle lapping of water against the shore. It's a perfect representation of nature's ability to soothe the soul, a visual poem to the quiet joy of a day spent by the water's edge.