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You-all know I like the Gaasperplas, but today I left that delightful place on on my right and ambled out to Driemond. Driemond: Threemouth. Three little rivers meet here, the Gaasp, Smal Weesp and Gein. I bore to the right - more or less the west - and backtracked the meandering Gein towards Abcoude. Very green at this time of the year with pretty farms, mostly well taken care of, on the higher land along the Gein dike. In the distance the fenny greens lead eventually to the woods planted along the Gaasperplas. And the ditches - as this one - water down from the Gein to that lake. Once this entire area was fens, contested in the Middle Ages - broadly speaking between Utrecht and Amsterdam; both wanted to convert the area to pastures. It's hard to believe that these very wet lands - at least 10% of them - were at one time grain fields. Anyway... don't get me going on the water economics of this area; you'd be here until the wee hours!
On my little hike - near an ancient Weeping Willow - I came upon a farm with a lovely dairy shop. The farmer and his wife and beautiful daughter make cheese and other dairy products and also slaughter a modicum of meat. All in time-honored fashion. I'd not seen them before because they open only a few days a week when I haven't been passing. My knapsack was heavier on leaving...
Walking the Ruwelswal, a dike separating the Gaasper and Gein from the Broekzijder polder, I passed through the nature reserve De Hoge Dijk, and made my way to the Metro which would slip me back into town.
Don't let the name fool you, this is one of Kentucky's most beautiful waterfalls. It flows most of the year, but is most impressive after a good rain. This image was taken in late July with moderate flow.
Thousands of animals are killed in Poland each year during harvest. Over 1,5 million are killed during hunting season, how many are killed by poachers outside the season is hard to count.
Animal remains are common sight during hikes in rural areas and unprotected forests, sad testimony of how we are failing to adapt our lifestyle to the nature.
Edinburg, TX - Mark Slaughter of heavy metal rock band Slaughter at Bandtango Food, Art & Music Festival at Edinburg Baseball Stadium on July 15, 2007. Photo by Jason R. Johnston
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It's been a good few years since I was last enjoying this view in the Gloucestershire village of Lower Slaughter (my camera back then had film in it!).
Just back from a week in the Cotswolds and glad to report, I found this picturesque village, captured on the the final days of spring, looking exactly as I remember it.
If I was to nominate a location that captures the essence of a quintessential English village, from the ones I have visited, Lower Slaughter would be up there with the best.
This timeless location lies just a few mile south west of Stow-on-the-Wold, just off the Fosse Way Roman road.
The crystal clear River Eye flows through the centre of the village, adding even further to its charm.
The majority of the buildings in this view date from the 16th and 17th centuries, built using Cotswold limestones.
Although there is are a couple of hotels, there are no shops. Indeed, a few years back, the Parish Council decided to oppose someone wanting to sell ice creams from an icebox tricycle during the warmer months, six months of the year. Among the arguments against such a proposal were that the increased footfall would prevent the grass from growing and children could climb on the trike and fall into the nearby river.
As for the slightly macabre-sounding name of the village, it is thought to originate from the Old English term 'slough' meaning 'wet land'.
Thankfully, when I visited on the first official day of summer, it wasn't 'bin day' and so not a single wheelie bin to be seen!
Another rural Cotswold scene captured on a recent visit to Gloucestershire.
The weather Gods must have been smiling on us because prior to the visit, I'd been finding it hard to be enthusiastic about a week away in what had been a prolonged period of predominantly cold, cloudy and often rainy days. In fact, since returning back home, the weather has continued in that same fashion. Never known a year quite like this one.
So, this composition of a perfect summer's day in Lower Slaughter, Gloucestershire makes me smile when I look out of the window and see the rain coming down!
On the banks of the River Eye in the Gloucestershire Cotswolds village of Lower Slaughter, the former school building.
The village school opened in 1863, but it was closed in 1931.
Today, it serves as a community hall.
After the tragic events of Order 66, Jedi Knight Siadem Forte returned with some others to the planet of Kashyyyk to search out for Master Yoda. Shortly afterwards, Darth Vader arrived to seek out the Jedi that were hiding there. They ordered that the Wookies reveal the Jedi, but instead the Wookies attacked. In order to stop the massacre of the Wookies, the Jedi revealed themselves. Forte and another Jedi attacked Lord Vader, but they were no match and were slaughtered.
Hope you all enjoy this post! Haven't done a larger Star Wars build in a while, but I am working on a very large scale castle moc and weekly updates are being posted on my instagram.
In the shadows of the harvest moon, where fear and fascination intertwine, we carve our own destiny, one scream at a time.
A ‘noisy’ mono picture of the Cotswold village of Lower Slaughter.
It looks much better having been ‘denoised’ using Topaz denoise software. Which resulted in a very acceptable mono Print which I am entering for camera club competitions.
Be interesting to see how it does.
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The beautiful Cotswold village of lower slaughter.
Usually I don't like heavy photo editing, but the residents of this village clearly also don't like their houses being photographed either, so have put big fluorescent yellow signs and "no photography" signs all over the windows etc. So once I started cloning stuff out, I didn't stop, so the signs, pictures, warning notices, telegraph poles, people all fell foul of my clonestamp tool.
'The Spirit Of Slaughter' - ww1 trenches, 'Exotic Slaughter Series' - So I managed to finish my detailed illustration today, based on my train sketch, here it is in glorious colour! The spirit of slaughter on top of his wooden throne, made from the detritus of the war sitting in the trenches, I haven't created a full colour finished piece like this for a while, well since January! :) I was planning a wall today, but that never happened, this did instead.... new walls in London to come next week!
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