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After heavy rainfall over winter, lakes and dams are full. Water is exploding from the base of the spillway at Scrivener Dam, Lake Burley Griffin, Canberra.
The Molonglo River, a perennial river that is part of the Murrumbidgee catchment within the Murray–Darling basin, is located in the Monaro and Capital Country regions of New South Wales and the Australian Capital Territory, in Australia. The river rises on the western side of the Great Dividing Range, in Tallaganda State Forest at 1,130 metres (3,710 ft) and flows generally from south to north before turning northwest, through Carwoola and the outskirts of Queanbeyan, where it has confluence with its major tributary, the Queanbeyan River, and then continues through Canberra, where it has been dammed by the Scrivener Dam to form Lake Burley Griffin. The river then flows to its mouth with the Murrumbidgee River, near Uriarra Crossing. Over its 115 kilometres (71 mi) course the Molonglo River alternates between long broad floodplains and narrow rocky gorges several times. One of these floodplains is called the Molonglo Plain. From source to mouth, the river is traversed by the Captains Flat Road at Captains Flat, Briars-Sharrow Road in Carwoola, the Kings Highway between Queanbeyan and Bungendore, the Yass Road, north of Queanbeyan, the Monaro Highway at Pialligo, the Commonwealth and Kings Avenues as Lake Burley Griffin between Parkes and Acton, Lady Denman Drive at Scrivener Dam, and the Tuggeranong Parkway north of the Glenloch Interchange. 57543
In 1989, Brian Spence, who hails from Toronto, crossed the Atlantic to bring his Abbey Bookshop to an international audience. The Abbey Bookshop in Paris’s Latin Quarter has for the last twenty years become a cultural epicenter for Canadians, Anglophones, and Anglophiles from all corners of the world. Although offering a wide variety of Canadian books, its main attraction is an eclectic collection of over 35,000 titles in English ranging from scholarly to popular literature.
The shop sits on rue de la Parcheminerie, originally named rue des Escrivains for the scribes and scriveners who were the heart of the Parisian book trade until parchmentmakers replaced them in the late Middle Ages. On July 1, 1989 the Abbey Bookshop brought the book trade back to this historic street.
The building Spence serendipitously discovered for his shop is the eighteenth-century Hotel Dubuisson, one of the most handsome in the Latin Quarter. The historic “hôtel” is protected as a monument for its picturesque façade, sculptural decoration and carved doors. ***Personally, I loved the section dividers that looked like road signs. That was very unique and eye-catching! ****
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St. Peter's was founded in 1100, fifty years earlier than the foundation of Sibton Abbey, which lies close to the church across the fields.
The earliest surviving parts of the church are the south and east wall of the nave and the Norman south doorway. The nave was widened and enlarged northwards in the 13th century. Later the nave acquired a richly decorated, low pitched Tudor hammerbeam roof.
The tower, complete with large gargoyles at the corners, was built in the 15th. century, but the crenellated parapet was not added until the early 17th. century. The tower once included a the spire which was removed in 1813, and obelisk pinnacles, taken down as unsafe in the 1970's.
In the early 17th. century the north aisle was added, built of stonework, including the 13th. century north doorway, taken from the ruins of Sibton Abbey. The money for the building of the north aisle was given in a will of 1534 by Robert Duckett.
The building was renovated by the architect Edward Charles Hakewill in 1872, when the chancel was rebuilt for the third time and the south wall of the nave re-faced in the Victorian Gothic style, together with the adding of a steeply pitched over-roof to the nave. The restoration was paid for by the Brooke family, industrialists from the north, two years prior to the wedding in the church of their eldest daughter to a mill owner from Halifax.
The church contains the mausoleums for the Scrivener family, Lords of the Manor of Sibton and owners of the abbey ruin since 1610, and the Chapman Barker family, Lords of the Manor of Peasenhall but buried at Sibton because in their heyday, Peasenhall was a mere chapel to Sibton.
The church received Grade: I listed building status, primarily for its surviving medieval features, on 21st. December 1984. (English Heritage Legacy ID: 285349)..
This dam was built in the 1960s about 7km from Canberra's centre to flood the corridor along the Molonglo River. This created Lake Burley Griffin, which is the centrepiece of the city.
This is a badge/emblem of "John & Francis West " . John and Francis were benefactors to the Christ's Hospital School when it was rebuilt after the Great Fire of London , their legacy remains today in the form of scholarships and pensions to blood descendants . John and Francis themselves did not have any children so the descendants are those of John and Francis's siblings . The three images on the three and one quarter inch diameter badge represent the sun setting in the "west" , the roll of cloth, John's training in the Clothworker's Guild and the last image to show that he became a scrivener .
Now my wife knew there was a family connection to the John and Francis line and with only three generations to show proof was able to have the family added to the pedigree !!!
Now on the pedigree a family line ( in fact two connections ) led straight back to early 1600s !
Once here the journey into history really began and with a few pointers from another member of the group the family line became history and not research . We found that some famous names from history are there such as William Marshal - the Greatest Knight that ever lived .
But , the favourite connection of my daughter is to Adeliza of Louvain - she was the second wife of King Henry the First . After Henry died, a few years later she married William d'Aubigny who was once one of Henry's aides and he became on marrying Adeliza The First Earl of Arundel and it was he that built the stone keep we see today . This was the time of The Anarchy , the first English civil war between Stephen and Matilda for the throne ( and that is a whole new chapter ) after nearly twenty years of fighting peace was brokered at Wallingford Castle by William d'Aubigny .
William also built Castle Rising Castle and that too is another chapter !!
So the badge we see does open a doorway to the past for my wife and daughter .
For those of you who remember the society class sketch with John Cleese , Ronnie Barker & Ronnie Corbett --- in the words of Ronnie Corbett " I KNOW MY PLACE !!! "
I could add so much more information but I am sorry for going on as I have and sorry to repeat it to those of you that have heard me rambling on about this in the past .
For those who have not seen the social class sketch - have a peep and a laugh.
It was amazing to watch entire huge trees going over the edge then being sucked under. Some would be caught in the maelstrom and reappear like a dying monster before going under again.
2024-09-13, Day 7
Golden Willows intermingle with the red foliage of Dwarf Birch and seem to glow with inner light in the late afternoon under gathering storm clouds, Kluane National Park, Yukon.
Cache Lake sits at the headwaters of Copper Joe Creek in a valley that begins about 850 feet above the Duke River. I can only imagine that the Creek would be named differently if the naming were to be thought about today. Regardless, most of the elevation must be gained in about ⅔ of a mile as the crow flies, and the route description led us to believe that an old mining road that once connected Cache Lake to the Duke River offers a reasonable grade to negotiate the ascent if it can be found. Alas, the features for which the route description instructs one to look from the riverbed to locate the old road appeared to have been erased from the landscape, perhaps shoved, bullied, and rearranged by the tumultuous and chaotic energy of flooding currents. As a result, we found ourselves pushing upward through steep Willow once more, feet looking for purchase on a rapidly climbing slope.
The larger trees thinned out and disappeared as the slope finally crested, and we were afforded a look down the valley toward Cache Lake. The route description suggested good campsites could be found around the Lake, but it looked to us like the storm clouds were coalescing ever more densely and the environs immediately round the Lake offered scant protection from wind. I have slept in a tent in the wind, and like Bartleby the Scrivener, I would prefer not to. We thus elected to continue northward along the creek bed, hoping to find a more sheltered place to pitch the tent, cook dinner, and learn what this weather system might deliver.
2Ti 3:16 πασα γραφη θεοπνευστος και ωφελιμος προς διδασκαλιαν προς ελεγχον προς επανορθωσιν προς παιδειαν την εν δικαιοσυνη
2Ti 3:17 ινα αρτιος η ο του θεου ανθρωπος προς παν εργον αγαθον εξηρτισμενος.
Textus Receptus (Scrivener) 1894
The Scripture is given by inspiration of God.
Take note of the word "Theopneustos" in verse 16, it means: God-inspired, God-breath, and or God-spirited.
That the Bible which is the "Scripture" is Inerrant, Infallible and Authoritative.
The only basis of Christian Faith.
The only "tool" to be used against wrong teachings.
The only "sword" to be used against the "wiles of the devil"
The only word to be used in evangelism.
Canon 5D, 15mm fisheye, 30 seconds, f5, 400 ISO. Cropped to a square for Patric Shaw's eyes.
Nice to be back into shooting "available darkness". I got the creeps shooting from this spot, too many weirdo arrivals in cars looking for a hookup...
I had planned to make this a HDR, but car headlights on the dam wall were a problem, so I went for a single shot with what seemed to me to be a balance of exposure. It was so dark that I couldn't see the bottom of the original frame. Next time I will take a torch.
As I was walking up to the giraffes I looked up and saw Black Mountain Tower and knew I was in the right spot to take a shot that would show not just the tower but Scrivener dam as well. Two of our landmarks in one photo.
The tower actually has two names it is known by, telstra tower and blackmountain tower. It is both a telecommunications tower and a lookout and if you stand at the top you can see nearly all of Canberra. There is a revolving restaurant at the top and it rotates 360 degrees in 81 minutes which means the view changes for the diners during dinner.
The tower was named after Australia's largest telecommunications company which is the telstra corporation.
It stands at 640 ft above the mountain summit and if you are ever driving around Canberra and get lost just look up at the sky and locate the tower, head in that direction and you will find your way again.
At the bottom right hand side of the photo you can see a glimpse of Scrivener Dam. It was named after Charles Robert Scrivener who recommended the site for the national capital in 1909. A competition was then held to design a lake which was won by Walter Burley Griffin. Scrivener recommended that Griffins's idea of three separate but connected lakes be modified to a single lake impounded by a dam. Scrivener's siting for the dam and proposed water level of 556 metres above sea level were adopted and the rest is history
Raleigh Tavern & Environs - Duke of Gloucester Street
Colonial Williamsburg, Virginia
Taking advantage of another nice (although mostly overcast) fall day, we went to Williamsburg a few days before Thanksgiving for lunch and a walk around the restored colonial area. This shows the north side of Duke of Gloucester Street near its east end (it ends at the Capitol); from left: The Golden Ball-James Craig Jeweler, Sign of the Unicorn and John Carter's Store (2.5-story brick building), Raleigh Tavern, Alexander Craig house, Scrivener's Store, Pasteur & Galt Apothecary, Nicolson Store, and John Crump house. Alexander Craig house and Nicolson Store are two of the 88 original buildings remaining in Williamsburg when restoration began in the 1920s. A few buildings were partially decorated for Christmas, but much will be added before Grand Illumination in early December.
Williamsburg Historic District, which is both a National Historic Landmark (1960) and on the National Register of Historic Places (1966; 66000925), includes most of the restored colonial area. In addition, three of 88 original buildings are also separately on both these historic lists: Bruton Parish Church, George Wythe House, and Peyton Randolph House
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The humble scrivener is a skilled laborer tasked with making copies of documents by hand. The less humble scrivener makes copies of the peculiar and sorcerous documents trafficked by wizards.
The work of capturing magical energy in writing is, of course, quite hazardous. Magical scriveners (top left) must wear heavy protective garments to mitigate the effects of prolonged exposure to untamed sorcerous energies. Particularly of note are the specialized blinders which prevent their mind from taking in the entirety of their work at any one time, an essential precaution against unwittingly activating a dire curse or untimely oracle.
A magical scrivening guild cannot be sanctioned without a designated warden. These stouthearted fellows are mundanes tasked with quelling accidents that may spill over into the community. The most prestigious halls maintain this position as a birthright among a family attached to the institution, their sons raised to be so profoundly illiterate that they would fail to comprehend even a crude pictogram, nevermind a blasphemous rune of arcane power. Top right can be seen shooing a rogue tome from a supply shelf.
The headmaster of this guild can be seen discussing a commission with a patron (bottom left). Notice his unnatural appearance caused by overexposure to magic. The headmaster is glad he is merely bald.
Finally, bottom left shows us the greatest danger in the guildhall- apprentices! Too often supplied as starry eyed children who believe they have a Chosen Destiny, by Zoz the Ancestral they can't even do the menial work right!
The old Fenton Town Hall, bequeathed to the people of the town by the philanthropist William Meath Baker.
Originally built in 1889 as part of a development, including the surrounding streets and built by Robert Scrivener and Sons, this building has been the scene of a local community demonstration over the last few months, including an organised sit-in in November 2014.
The Town Hall was passed on to the Ministry of Justice by the local council (free of charge) and was used as a Magistrates Court for many years. However, when the court was closed the Ministry put the building up for sale.
The building contains a large Minton Tile war memorial to 498 men from Fenton who lost their lives during the First World War. Due to the size and weight of this memorial it is thought that would be particularly difficult to relocate, and as the building does not have listed status the local community were worried about the future of both the building and its memorial.
Fenton Community Association and Urban Vision put forward plans to buy the building but were unable to raise the £500,000.00 price tag. It seeems that salvation has been found though. The great-grandson of the altruistic William Meath Baker, Justin Meath Baker is reputed to have agreed to buy the building, after fighting for the buildings future with the various local community groups.
It is hoped that the old hall may be used as a hub for community and commercial groups in the future.
One point of note regarding the building is that originally had a central spire which was dismantled after being deemed unsafe.
scrivener dam stops the mologlo river in canberra to form lake burley griffin, named afer the husband and wife team of chicago architects who submitted the winning design for the australian national capital in 1912. the dam construction commenced in 1960 and the lake was filled by 1964. the dam itself is named after charles scrivener who completed the official survey of the capital site. it is very uncommon for the top spillway to be opened - but during the march 2021 eastern australian rain event flooding in the upper mologlo and queanbeyan river catchments flowed through to lake burley griffin and necessitated the release of excess water into the lower molonglo.
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A few weeks ago, I was visiting one of the most important medieval festivals in Catalonia. For two weeks, the ancient streets and squares of Montblanc, a well-preserved medieval town with an entire set of walls and towers, are festooned with the colors of four noble houses and embellished with the noble flags and standards.
For a few examples of what you can see at the festival, view the full gallery here: Montblanc Medieval Festival 2015.
This one is for "Bartleby, the Scrivener".
I thought that I would dress up in a business outfit to fit the part :P
I chose a stapler because it is a common office thing. I wanted to have the stapler closing down on me to signify the pressure that Bartleby fought against to not conform to the office lifestyle. I did a black and white to show how drab office life can be. Sometimes we all feel little in a big corporate world.