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Road sign with Mt Ngauruhoe in the background.
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This image shows a view to Lake Constance on a rainy day in November. I liked the reduced details and nice waves of the reflections in the water.
Dieses Bild zeigt einen Blick auf den Bodensee von Lindau aus an einem regnerischen Tag im November. Ich mage die Beschränkung auf die drei Hinweisschilder und die kleinen Wellen der Reflektionen im See.
created for: Photoshop Contest week 844
Thanks to:
Jaci XIV for the starter image
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Starting to see little patches of blue in the yard, as the Bluets are showing their display of color for Spring.
Albuquerque, New Mexico has a wall with the old signs that have no longer been used. Route 66 was said to be developed as early as the 1900's which ran from North to South through Albuquerque. Part of the curve of route 66 was known to run from Santa Rosa, Santa Fe to Albuquerque, Los Lunas as well as many Native reservations. About half was said to be an unpaved road but eventually became paved. Route 66 today became I - 40 but for many remains a memory especially of Bobby Troup's song, "Get Your Kicks On Route 66."
Melton Constable lies six miles south-west of Holt.
Melton Constable is undoubtedly one of the strangest villages in Norfolk. Approached from Briston, you drive along the main street and notice the huge number of terraced houses - giving you the impression that you've magically crossed into Derbyshire or Nottinghamshire. The reason for the houses is that Melton Constable was originally a busy railway town at the hub of an important rail network. Lines converged here from King's Lynn, Yarmouth, Norwich and Cromer. The lines were designed by W. Marriott. Melton station was begun in 1881 and repair sheds, marshalling yards and houses for the railway workers soon followed. However, by the middle of the 20th century, the lines began to close - with the Cromer line being the last to go. Today Melton has no railway - but its history is commemorated in the village sign.
Melton Constable Hall - once the home of the Astley family (for seven centuries) - was built c.1670. It is located in extensive parkland and was one of the oldest enclosures in England (1290). Here is an illustration of the hall in its heyday. (It's hard to photograph because it's set a long way back from the main road.)
The hall was used as the principal location for Brandham Hall in Joseph Losey's 1970 film of The Go-Between. The film, which was based on the novel of the same name by L.P. Hartley, starred Julie Christie and Alan Bates as the doomed lovers. The screen play was written by Harold Pinter. The film makes great use of the house, the parkland and the surrounding countryside and, even today, portrays the beauty of the county in summer time. Sadly, the hall is now derelict.
The tower of Melton Constable church also features in one of the scenes where Ted Burgess is working on the land.
The church contains a number of memorials to the Astley family. Sir Jacob Astley, the Royalist commander, is famous for his prayer on the battlefield at Edgehill: 'O Lord, Thou knowest how busy I must be this day; if I forget Thee, do not Thou forget me.'
It's time once again to go off the grid. New postings to these pages will be deferred until it gets too hot out there in the desert. Goodbye asphalt, hello washboard. Near Big Pine, Inyo Co., Calif.
In the fog this day I pass this sign.
On my way to work and back home there its stands in rain and sunshine,night and day..and isn´t it a beautiful thing to feel and say to oneself and others!