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Skating on lake Mälaren.../Vidsträckt, en långfärdskridskoåkare ut i Mälaren.../Espacioso...patinando en el lago Mälaren...(DSC_8679-13)
Poudre Canyon, Colorado. Looking toward the crags, the clouds and sky were exceptional this day!
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view of the western part (from the outer garden) of the Walewscy Palace in Walewice
Classicist building designed by Hilary Szpilowski or Stanislaw Zawadzki, built in 1773-1783 by Anastazy Walewski (chamberlain to King Stanislaw August Poniatowski); located on the Mroga River.
The palace is counted among the most interesting examples of classicist country seats in Poland, built at the end of the 18th century. The front faces east. It consists of a one-story rectangular main body and one-story side pavilions, also built on a rectangular plan, connected with the main body by communication galleries broken at right angles. The premise is based on the Palladian style, very popular in Poland in the second half of the 18th and first 19th centuries. From the front, the palace has a massive, four-column Ionic battered portico topped with a triangular pediment (tympanum) with the coat of arms of Pomian, the later owner Stanislaw Grabiński. From the garden there are two prominent extreme (side) risalits. Inside the palace, large representative halls with decorative brick fireplaces and elaborate furnishings were created, as well as spacious palace rooms. In one of the pavilions original painted wallpaper from the 19th century with mythological motifs has been preserved.
On May 4, 1810, the son of Napoleon Bonaparte and Maria Walewska, Alexander Colonna-Walewski, later French ambassador to Great Britain and foreign minister to Napoleon III, was born there. He also became heir to the estate, which he sold to Maria Walewska's brother, Teodor Łączyński, in 1831.
Much of the palace's charm is added by the perfect composition of the building with an extensive landscape park designed by Walerian Kronenberg. Original late Baroque and classicist sandstone sculptures depicting Mars, Venus, and Diana have been preserved there, as well as two hermits and an armed man in ancient costume.
In the mid-19th century, the palace and its estate passed into the hands of the Grabiński family of the Pomian coat of arms. The Grabinskis modernized and rebuilt the palace at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries, established a stud farm for half-breed horses (Anglo-Arabians), developed the breeding of cockerel sheep (the only one in the country), a huge fish farm (on more than 100 hectares of ponds), a factory of potato flour and starch. The last owners of Walewice were papal chamberlain Stanislaw Bohdan Grabiński and his wife Jadwiga, née hr. Potocki, and after his death in 1930 their minor children Stanislaw Wojciech, Maria, Wladyslaw, Róża and Jan Grabiński. The palace still contains some of the furnishings and furniture from the last owners.
During World War II, on the night of September 9-10, 1939, the 17th Regiment of Wielkopolska Uhlans from Gniezno of the Wielkopolska Cavalry Brigade fought battles for the Palace and the village of Walewice during the Battle of the Bzura River.
Each and every moment of existence, no matter how stressful or how fleeting, contains the potential for spaciousness.
— Anne Bogart
Sit with a cup of tea before sipping. Close your eyes and breathe for a while before reading. Give yourself a little space. Feel your soul arriving in restfulness.
"...for spacious skies..."
That's the first line of a poem written by Katherine Lee Bates in 1893, as she traveled by train to Colorado Springs, and then to the top of Pikes Peak. Her poem became a patriotic song,
"America the Beautiful", that many people have wanted as a replacement for "The Star Spangled Banner" as the National Anthem.
This picture was taken from the Cog Rail train, near the summit of Pikes Peak (a "Fourteener" at 14,115 feet, 4302 m), supposedly the view that inspired Bates' poem.
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Spacious new Modern Farmhouse by Trompe Loeil...out now at faMESHed:
Trompe Loeil - Padget Modern Farmhouse
faMESHed: maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/FaMESHed/226/144/1001
Trompe Loeil Mainstore: maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Baros/17/177/38
Trompe Loeil Flickr: flic.kr/ps/32Kg2u
Check out the Nutmeg bridges if you haven't!!
Nutmeg. Wooden Bridge / V3
Nutmeg. Wooden Bridge / V1 (Animated)
Access Event: maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/ACCESS/128/129/2002
Nutmeg Mainstore: maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/REKA%20NUTMEG/233/125/21
Nutmeg Mainstore Older Releases: maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/REKA%20NUTMEG/196/151/2001
Nutmeg Flickr: flic.kr/ps/Yr6Sn
New White Oak trees from tarte:
tarte. white oak tree (sparse) A
tarte. white oak tree (sparse) B
tarte. white oak tree (full) A
tarte. white oak tree (full) B
tarte. white oak tree (mid) A
Equal10 Event: maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/equal10/231/127/89
tarte mainstore: maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/tarte/154/112/21
tarte flickr: flic.kr/ps/2nRAmN
[Rezz Room] Golden Retriever Adult (Companion)
[Rezz Room] Golden Retriever Puppy (Companion)
[Rezz Room] Mainstore: maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Paris%20City/171/134/26
[Rezz Room] flickr: flic.kr/ps/37vrZw
Konoha -"Jest" Weeds - Square
Konoha Mainstore: maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Whitlock/147/173/2601
Konoha Flickr: flic.kr/ps/3S5rdX
:Fanatik Architecture: RIVER BED Straight
Fanatik Mainstore: maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/FANATIK/130/129/22
Fanatik Flickr: flic.kr/ps/opTnK
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[WaM] Wild Bare Roots [
hive // gone fishin clutter
Heart - WW - Alder Tree - Mature
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Pushing on that trigger is like pulling magic into my very soul...Darrell.
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Spacious Sky's Happy 4th of July, our Nations official birthday, may you all have a safe and happy holiday!
«Τί γύρευα ὅταν ἔφτασες βαμμένη ἀπ᾿ τὴν ἀνατολὴ τὸν ἥλιου
Μὲ τὴν ἡλικία τῆς θάλασσας στὰ μάτια
Καὶ μὲ τὴν ὑγεία τὸν ἥλιου στὸ κορμὶ - τί γύρευα
Βαθιὰ στὶς θαλασσοσπηλιὲς μὲς στὰ εὐρύχωρα ὄνειρα
Ὅπου ἄφριζε τὰ αἰσθήματά του ὁ ἄνεμος;
Ἄγνωστος καὶ γλαυκὸς χαράζοντας στὰ στήθια μου
τὸ πελαγίσιο του ἔμβλημα.»
Οδυσσέας Ελύτης, "Ἡλικία τῆς γλαυκῆς θύμησης" ("Προσανατολισμοί", 1940)
«What was I looking for when you came painted with the sunrise
The age of the sea within your eyes
And on your body the sun’s vigor – what was I looking for
Deep within sea-caverns amid spacious dreams
Where the emotions foamed of a wind
Anonymous and blue, engraving on my chest its sea emblem.»
Odysseus Elytis, "Age of Blue Memory" (From "The Sovereign Sun: Selected Poems", 1974)
www.nobelprize.org/prizes/literature/1979/elytis/biograph...
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One can see for many miles from this spot on Beartooth Pass.
I count at least 10 lakes or ponds from here. Long lake the largest in view, in the center.
Here looking south as one climbs Beartooth Pass. The Beartooth Highway climbs to 10,350 feet in Montana and 10,947 in Wyoming—the highest highway elevation in both states. The Absaroka mountain range is in the distance.
"The Beartooth Highway was opened on June 14, 1936. Heralded as one of the most scenic drives in the United States, the Beartooth Highway, a National Scenic Byways All-American Road, features breathtaking views of the Absaroka and Beartooth Mountains, and open high alpine plateaus dotted with countless glacial lakes, forested valleys, waterfalls and wildlife."
dangerousroads.org
A challenging drive as there are so many jaw dropping views as you drive the frequently winding curving road. Popular for motorcyclists as well.
In the beginning, O God, you made heaven and earth in your Word, in your Son, in your Power, in your Wisdom, in your Truth, speaking in a wondrous way and working in a wondrous way. Who shall comprehend it? Who shall declare it? What is that which shines through me and strikes my heart without injuring it? I both shudder and glow with passion: I shudder, in as much as I am unlike it; I glow with passion in as much as I am like to it.
-Saint Augustine, “Wisdom Itself,” vol. 11, chap. 9, The Confessions of St. Augustine, trans. John K. Ryan (Garden City: Image, 1960), 284.
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Fort Morgan, AL: Fort Morgan is a historic masonry pentagonal bastion fort at the mouth of Mobile Bay, Alabama, United States. It was fired upon during the Civil Ware Battle of Mobile Bay. Named for Revolutionary War hero Daniel Morgan, it was built on the site of the earlier Fort Bowyer, an earthen and stockade type fortification involved in the final land battles of the War of 1812.
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Valencia is the third largest city in Spain. Valencia is located on the Costa del Azahar on the Mediterranean Sea and is considered the birthplace of paella, one of the most famous dishes in Spanish cuisine. Valencia is also known as the orange city. Valencia is Spain's third economic engine, after Madrid and Barcelona. Valencia was founded in 138 BC. under the name Valentia Edetanorum, by a Roman leader. Valencia has a Mediterranean climate with warm summers and very mild winters. Valencia, like the entire region of Valencia, is officially bilingual; they speak both Spanish and Valencian. Valencian is very closely related to Catalan. Spanish Valencia is more than beach and paella. The highlight that you do not want to miss are the modern buildings of Calatrava. The 'Ciutat de les Arts i les Ciències' or 'the City of Arts and Sciences' is a cultural and scientific complex of seven special buildings designed by Calatrava and is located in the drained Turia River of Valencia. It includes Spain's finest aquarium L'Oceanographic, a planetarium, an IMAX theatre, a science museum and a striking event hall. This science park is definitely the number one attraction of Valencia!
Palau de les Arts Reina Sofía is Calatrava's showpiece. The construction of this opera complex started in 1995 and has been open since 2005. It is about 75 meters high with an area of 40,000 m2. There are four halls in the complex. One of the reasons the construction took so long was because Calatrava wanted the inside of La Sala Principal completely covered with dark blue mosaic of Valencian ceramics. It takes a lot of work anyway to mosaic such a large hall, but the acoustics also have to be perfect. Surprisingly, by placing wooden balconies in an undulating movement in the room, excellent acoustics have been achieved.
Valencia is twee na grootste stad van Spanje. Valencia ligt aan de Costa del Azahar aan de Middellandse Zee en geldt als geboorteplaats van de paella, een van de bekendste gerechten uit de Spaanse keuken. Valencia wordt ook wel de sinaasappelstad genoemd. Valencia is de derde economische motor van Spanje, na Madrid en Barcelona. Valencia werd gesticht in 138 v.Chr. onder de naam Valentia Edetanorum, door een Romeinse leider. Valencia heeft een mediterraan klimaat met warme zomers en zeer milde winters. Valencia is, net als de gehele regio Valencia, officieel tweetalig; men spreekt er zowel Spaans als Valenciaans. Het Valenciaans is zeer sterk verwant aan het Catalaans. Het Spaanse Valencia is meer dan strand en paella. Het hoogtepunt die je niet wilt missen zijn de moderne bouwwerken van Calatrava. Palau de les Arts Reina Sofía is het paradepaardje van Calatrava. De bouw van dit operacomplex startte al in 1995 en is sinds 2005 geopend. Het is zo’n 75 meter hoog met een oppervlakte van 40.000 m2. Er zijn vier zalen in het complex. Eén van de redenen dat de bouw zo lang duurde, was omdat Calatrava de binnenkant van La Sala Principal volledig wilde voorzien van donkerblauw mozaïek van Valenciaans keramiek. Nu kost het sowieso veel werk om zo’n grote zaal te mozaïeken, maar de akoestiek heeft natuurlijk ook nog eens perfect zijn. Door in de zaal houten balkons in een golvende beweging te plaatsen, is er verrassend genoeg gezorgd voor een uitstekende akoestiek.
Throw back from the archives--- two years ago we had a great trip through Arizona, including a couple of days at the Grand Canyon. This is one of many wondrous views along the canyon south rim