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Inside an abandoned souvenier shop on old Route 66 in Arizona as a thunderstorm gathers overhead. A hot wind was blowing at the time ~ It was pretty awesome to see and experience.
A side of the Palais de l'abbé Jacques d'Amboise, in the town of Cluny (in the département of Saône-et-Loire, located in Bourgogne / Burgundy, in eastern France), on a mostly clear midday in mid-October 2016.
Originally built as an elegant dwelling for two abbots of the Abbaye de Cluny -- Jacques d'Amboise (1485-1510) and Geoffroy d'Amboise (1510-1518) -- it now functions as the hôtel de ville (town hall). It combines and retains late Gothic and Renaissance architectural and decorative features
The Palais Jacques d'Amboise is set in a small park, the Parc abbatial, on a hill overlooking part of the ruins and remaining structures of the medieval Benedictine abbey, including its third and largest phase, known as Cluny III (consecrated 1095). It also stands above l'Haras national de Cluny, the stud farm and institution for equitation.
(Information partly from Bourgogne / textes rédigés avec la collaboration de Julie Roux (Vic-en-Bigorre: MSM, ©2002; Regionis), page 267, and from the website of Cluny's Office de Tourisme, last consulted 29 November 2018.)
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Cathedral Church of Saint Peter at Exeter
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Description: Long exposure captures stunning star trails circling above a traditional stone hut in Extremadura,s countryside.
A view looking towards the church of l’Abbaye royale de Fontevraud, or Fontevrault -- Abbaye Notre-Dame -- in the village of Fontevraud-l'Abbaye (in the département of Maine-et-Loire, Pays de la Loire region, in west-central France), from the main cloister garden, on a mostly clear day in mid-October (2016).
Founded in 1101 by Robert d'Arbrissel (1047-1117), the abbey was initially intended for both women and men but became an abbey exclusively for women. As its name suggests, for centuries it was associated with royalty, including abbesses with royal connections and other royal or aristocratic residents. Among the most famous was Aliénor d'Aquitaine, known in English as Eleanor of Aquitaine (1122?-1204), who retired and was buried there. Like many French religious establishments, in 1792 Fontevrault was suppressed by Revolutionaries. Napoleon I then established a grim prison on the site in 1804, which did not close until 1963, when restoration began.
Today, the abbey site, a UNESCO World Heritage site, is open to visitors for daily visits, as well as hosting many cultural events. Of the main convent of Grand-Moûtier, the Romanesque abbey church, the chapter house, the refectory, and this cloister -- Cloître Ste-Marie -- survive. The south side of the cloister dates from the early 16th century and is Gothic-inspired; the other sides, including the ones in this view, were built in the mid-16th century, in a Renaissance style. The site also features elements including a hotel (in the former Prieuré St-Lazare / St-Lazare Priory); the gatehouse (ca. 1785); a converted 18th-century stables; the former homes of abbots and abbesses; a large medieval kitchen with "pepper pot" towers; three eating places (at least as of 2016); and gardens.
This location was historically in the Saumurois area of Anjou, near its borders with the Touraine to the east and Poitou to the south. Today, it is within the Parc naturel régional Loire-Anjou-Touraine (Loire-Anjou-Touraine Regional Natural Park) as well as the Vallée de la Loire UNESCO World Heritage Site.
(Information from: the DuMont Guide -- Hansmann, Wilfried. Loire Valley, translated [from German] by Russell Stockman (New York: Stewart, Tabori & Chang, 1986; DuMont Guide); the Michelin Châteaux of the Loire Green Guide (Watford, Herts., UK: Michelin Travel Partner, 2015 printing); and the French- and English-language Wikipédia / Wikipedia, both last consulted 2 October 2020. Eleanor of Aquitaine’s dates are based on US Library of Congress "authority record" n81007375.)
[Fontevraud l'Abbaye abbey cloister towers vertical garden 2016 oct 11 f; DSCF0402]
Almost everything is white on an dull, overcast morning after a late November snowfall. The stone structure with the dark roof is the Mabee House, one of the oldest houses in upstate New York and the oldest in the Mohawk Valley, having been built c.1705 as part of the Mabee Farm. It was handed down through the Mabee family for almost 300 years before being donated to the Schenectady County Historical Society, which has opened the house to the public.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elora,_Ontario
The Historic Village of Elora is a community in the township of Centre Wellington (Wellington County) in the Province of Ontario, Canada. It is well known for its 19th-century limestone architecture and its geographically, historically, and culturally significant limestone gorge.
Elora is no longer an incorporated municipality in its own right, although it is the seat of the municipal government which succeeded it. The Township of Centre Wellington was formed in 1999 when, on the advice of the Province, the County amalgamated the Town of Fergus; the Village of Elora; and the surrounding townships of Nichol, Pilkington, and West Garafraxa (along with the northwestern part of Eramosa.)[2] The decision — along with the Ontario government’s role therein — remains highly controversial among Elora’s inhabitants.
In 2011, the Village was estimated to have had a population of approximately 7,756.[1]
History
Roman Catholic missionaries first visited the area in the early to mid 1600s attempting to Christianize the indigenous people, particularly the Neutral Nation on the Attiwandaronk Lands. The first European settlers arrived in 1817, and Roswell Matthews built a home here the next year.[3][4]
Captain William Gilkison (1777–1833) was born in Ayrshire, Scotland, and emigrated to North America in 1796. He served with the British forces in the War of 1812 as an assistant quartermaster-general, and in 1832 purchased some 14,000 acres of land in Nichol Township. He selected this area near the falls of the Grand River as a town site for his proposed settlement and named it Elora. It was laid out by Lewis Burwell, deputy provincial land surveyor, late in 1832, and the following year Gilkison established a sawmill and a general store. The founder of Elora died in April, 1833, before the full results of his foresight and enterprise were achieved.
One of the old stone buildings that is a part of the Salt Sulphur Springs Resort complex opened in 1820, Monroe County, WV.
This stone structure is all that is left of what was once the largest dual stack charcoal iron furnace in the world.
The structure of massive blocks of sandstone stands 81 feet (24.6m) long, 40 feet (12m) wide, and 60 feet (18.3) high and consists of two furnaces in a single structure. It was designed by Fred Fitch and built by Sam Worthley, a stonemason from Scotland, and operated by Red River Iron Works. Additional buildings were connected to the front and rear of the stone core visible here but have long ago disappeared.
Charcoal furnaces, first used by the Romans, began to disappear from Europe in the 17th century when forests became depleted of fuel. The same sequence doomed the Fitchburg Furnace to its brief life in Appalachian Kentucky.
The first blast at Fitchburg was celebrated in 1870. At full production, the Fitchburg Furnace employed more than 1,000 men and produced 10,000 tons of pig iron annually at its peak. By 1874, however, the local hills were denuded of stands of forest and iron ore was running out. Thus, after only about four years, activity at the Fitchburg Furnace came to an end.
The Fitchburg Furnace, listed in the U.S. National Register of Historic Places, is managed by the U.S. Forest Service as part of the Daniel Boone National Forest near Ravenna, in Estill County, Kentucky.
The ruined keep of Hopton Castle, just outside the small village of Hopton Castle (South Shropshire, in the Welsh Borders region of western England), on a mostly sunny morning at the beginning of June 2015.
The castle originated as an Anglo-Norman site, located by an earlier settlement -- there had been a late Anglo-Saxon manor there. The keep, all that remains, has Anglo-Norman features of the 11th or 12th century, but it may have been built during the 1260s (1264 being the date of the earliest surviving written record of it) in a deliberately "archaic" style. During the "English" Civil War (which actually involved Wales, Scotland, and Ireland as well as England), it was held by Parliamentarians until it was taken by Royalists during a fierce siege in 1644. The part of the structure that survived the siege subsequently fell into disrepair and ruin. A restoration project begun in 2006 shored up walls, conserved plaster, added railings for safety, and provided explanatory panels; the restored site opened to the public in December 2011.
Hopton Castle is located in a quiet valley off a side road not far from the border between southwestern Shropshire and northwestern Herefordshire.
(Information about the castle from the Hopton Castle Preservation Trust website and Wikipedia, both last consulted 30 July 2019.)
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This is St Peter and St Paul in the village of Sturton le Steeple in northern Nottinghamshire.
You're often advised in the art of photography never to have your subject in the centre of the frame - unless you have something to balance the image out - I think these two sets of trees at either side balance the setting rather well.
The medieval buildings and the clock tower of the old post office are illuminated in the Graslei area of Ghent Belgium. The Graslei (Grass Quay) on the right bank of the Leie River was once the center of the city's medieval port.
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Flotation Mill II
Monitor Belmont Mining Company
Belmont Ghost Town
Nevada
July 2021
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The former Saltaire woollen mill, now given over to art galleries, shops, exhibitions, cafes and an antiques market.
Salts Mill (or Salt's Mill - both forms appear on official documents) is a former woollen mill in Bradford, West Yorkshire. The mill and the surrounding housing was built at the behest of Sir Titus Salt, who wanted to provide both better working conditions for the mill employees and more salubrious surroundings, including improved housing. Textile production ended here in 1986 and the following year the site was bought by local entrepreneur Jonathan Silver, who regrettably died of cancer in 1997. It was his work and vision that more than anything else led to Salts Mill and surrounds becoming a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 2001.
Pride of place in the renovated building is a gallery devoted to the internationally renowned artist David Hockney, born in Bradford in 1937. Other areas are used for exhibitions, concerts, theatre and performances, whilst there are also cafes and restaurants, shops and antique stalls. A great place to visit for so many reasons.
The railway on the right is the line from Leeds up the Aire Valley to Skipton, then on to Hellifield and Settle Junction, where it spilts for Carnforth and for Carlisle.
The Oak Bluffs Waterworks Building. It continues to serve as the pumping station for the public water supply. However, the smokestack has been claimed by ospreys.
"Built in 1890, the Oak Bluffs Waterworks is an architectural gem off Barnes Road, registered with the Massachusetts Historical Commission as the oldest operating pumping station for ground water in the commonwealth, designed in the neo-Romanesque style. It looks more like a manse built for a nineteenth-century robber baron than a pump station built to provide the town’s water." (From Martha's Vineyard Magazine, 2006.)
It is brick on the inside, beach stone on the outer walls -- a great effort to haul and build, requiring twice as much stone as actually needed in order to pick and choose what would work. It is not a "stones' throw" from the beach -- though I do not not know the technical meaning of that distance. It is located inland from the beach where access to sweet ground water would be guaranteed.
Borders and walls in Coleton Fishacre Garden (South Devon, in the West Country region of southwestern England), beside and below the house, on a mostly sunny midday in early October (2008).
Coleton Fishacre was originally a home of the theatrical D'Oyle Carte family, with the house built in the Arts and Crafts style 1925-1926. It was designed so that all of the family and guest rooms faced the coast and had views of the English Channel. (Servants' rooms, unfortunately, tended to face the back of the property, inland.)
Coleton Fishacre is now a National Trust site, lying on the South Devon coast, near Brixham and Kingswear. With its relatively mild climate, the garden did not yet feature too much autumn colour, although there were hints here and there.
(From the "archive" -- 2008.)
[Coleton Fishacre house side autumn 2008 oct 3 c; IMG_1179]
We spent an enjoyable day at Beamish, the living history museum in Durham, the North East of England.
This was our 2nd visit and we still haven't seen it all!
If you're interested in social history, I'd highly recommend you visit here; it's quite pricey but definitely worth it!
A stone building in Dousland plantation. Lots of people have passed this in their car traveling between Plymouth and Princetown
A narrow canal in Venice at night, with buildings lining both sides. The water reflects the lights from the buildings, creating a beautiful scene.
Provides access from residential area to grounds of Cathedral Church of the Holy and Undivided Trinity (Ely Cathedral) - building is occupied by local private school
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This slave cabin was part of the historic Clover Hill Farm located in Manassas, Virginia. The cabin, along with 8 acres that included the family cemetery, was donated to Grace United Methodist Church in 1987 by the Johnson family who owned the farm.
I was visiting the castle of Loarre, when the sky changed rapidly from a uniform blue to menacing waves of darkening clouds; the vivid fields of wheat became more apparent with the contrasting sky, still receiving some light from the sun.
The Castle of Loarre is a Romanesque Castle and Abbey located near the town of the same name, in Huesca, Aragón, Spain. The castle was built largely during the 11th and 13th centuries, when its position on the frontier between Christian and Muslim lands gave it strategic importance. The castle's location on a rocky outcrop affected the layout; it was not possible to have one unified structure, and like many castles, Loarre was a collection of buildings bounded by curtain walls. Originally the internal plan included two towers and a chapel behind several curtain walls. Towards the end of the 11th century, an additional chapel was built in Romanesque style just outside the castle walls.
What we can see over the landscape is the Torre de la Reina, particularly noteworthy for three sets of twin-arched windows, with columns of exaggerated entasis and trapezoidal capitals that have been related to both Lombard Romanesque and Mozarabic architectural forms. [derived from Wikipedia]
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A Rua Longa é uma das artérias principais do centro histórico de Padrón, município da província da Corunha, na comunidade autónoma da Galiza, noroeste de Espanha. Esta via pedonal, pavimentada com lajes de granito, reflete a arquitetura tradicional galega, caracterizada por edifícios em cantaria de pedra com varandas de ferro forjado. À esquerda, observa-se um candeeiro de estilo clássico e a bandeira espanhola hasteada numa fachada, possivelmente de um edifício institucional. O espaço público inclui bancos de ferro fundido e vasos com flores, elementos que evidenciam a requalificação urbanística da zona antiga. Padrón é historicamente relevante como ponto final da translação marítima dos restos do apóstolo Santiago, sendo também uma vila intimamente ligada à vida da escritora Rosalía de Castro, figura central do Rexurdimento literário galego. A rua conduz ao coração da vila, onde a gastronomia local — nomeadamente os célebres pementos de Padrón — atrai visitantes ao longo de todo o ano.
Rua Longa is one of the main thoroughfares in the historic center of Padrón, a municipality in the province of A Coruña, in the autonomous community of Galicia, in northwestern Spain. This pedestrian street, paved with granite slabs, reflects traditional Galician architecture, characterized by stone-built buildings with wrought-iron balconies. On the left, a classic-style streetlamp can be seen, along with the Spanish flag flying from a facade, possibly that of an institutional building. The public space features cast-iron benches and flower pots, elements that highlight the urban renewal of the old town. Padrón is historically significant as the final destination of the maritime journey of the remains of the Apostle James, and is also a town closely linked to the life of the writer Rosalía de Castro, a central figure of the Galician literary revival. The street leads to the heart of the town, where the local cuisine—notably the famous Padrón peppers—attracts visitors throughout the year.
Shop and restaurant-tearoom (salon-de-thé), both with small gardens in front, in the village of Giverny (the département of Eure, in the Normandie / Normandy region of northern France), on a clear day in early October 2016.
Giverny is in the valley of the River Epte, just across the river from the Île-de-France region and a little upriver from the confluence of the Epte with the Seine. It is most famous as the site of the country house and gardens of Claude Monet (1840-1926). The Impressionist painter moved there in 1883, subsequently developing the gardens and painting many pictures of gardens and house. They have been open to the public since 1980.
This spot was seen along the walk from the car park to that museum. Nearby is a newer art museum, Musée des impressionnismes Giverny (Giverny Museum of Impressionisms), which features exhibits of impressionist art from different countries and has a garden of its own.
During our second visit to Giverny, we immediately noticed that the village and tourist activity there had grown considerably between 1991 and 2016, even outside of the main tourist season; nevertheless, it was a pleasant, garden-rich place to spend an early autumn day.
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The oldest church in Scunthorpe, St Lawrence in the early spring. The church is hidden behind all these trees once the leaves all come out. Winter is the only time you can get an (almost) clear view of the place.
Ilford FP4+ expired in 1974. I pushed this two stops in dev and this came out much better than the 1974 Tri-X. Pentax 645N, V800 scan.
I took a quick trip into the 'Tick today, and was wearing a camera. I knew the clouds would be interesting...
Stigliano is a village in Tuscany, Italy, a frazione (subdivision) of the comune of Sovicille, in the province of Siena
As showed by excavations of the ruins of castellieri (walls protecting ancient settlements) on the Sienavecchia height, the origins of Stigliano date to Iron Age times. Scholars have suggested that these structures could have been built by the Etruscans as a defence against the invasion of the Senones. The presence of the latter is confirmed by local toponyms such as the name of the village Brenna, close to Stigliano, which could stem from the name of their leader Brennus. The name of the local Merse river, which flows behind Stigliano, is potentially directly related to Merseburg, a town in eastern Germany. Orgia and Rosia are both non-Roman names, possibly related to the Lombard period.
Although very little is known of Stigliano during Roman times, the name Sextilianum, which appears in later records, may show the existence of a private property later on giving the name to the village.
The only way to reach the ruins at Songo Mnara from the landing point is through the mangroves. It's tidal so you need to go withy a guide who understands these things.
Sparta, Oregon
My fascination with this old building causes me to want to photograph it whenever I'm in the area.
Located in the little, remote ghost town of Sparta, between Richland and Baker City, this old building was constructed in the later 1800's as a stage stop for the stage between Richland and Baker. The stones that were used are volcanic tuft, the same type of stone that Smith Rock in Central Oregon consists of. It was subsequently used as a home. Today the building is in ruins. It seems like each time that I visit it there are more stones that have fallen to the ground.
I enjoy taking photographers to this spot. On this night there was a faint hint of the aurora on the horizon.
Nikon D850
Tamron 17-35 f/2.8
View from the Walled Garden of Glenveagh Castle Gardens (County Donegal, Ulster Province, in the northwest corner of the Republic of Ireland), looking down towards the castle, on a partly cloudy afternoon in early May 2024. In the background are part of the Derryveagh Mountains (Sléibhte Dhoire Bheatha in Irish) across from Lough Beagh (also spelled in English as Lough Veagh, Loch Ghleann Bheatha in Irish).
The castle, gardens, and mountains are all within the Glenveagh National Park – its Irish name is Páirc Náisiúnta Ghleann Bheatha – which had its origins in the Glenveagh Estate created 1857-1859 by John George Adair (1823-1885). He became notorious for abruptly evicting 224 of his tenants from the land in 1861, a deed recorded in contemporary documents, history, and local tradition as the Derryveagh Evictions. The castle itself was built along Lough Beagh between 1867 and 1873, designed by architect John Townsend Trench based on the “Scottish baronial” style popular during the Victorian period.
Adair’s widow, Cornelia Wadsworth Ritchie Adair (1837-1921), established the garden from around 1888, a sheltered spot around the castle that she continued to improve and expand. In the 1940s and 1950s, a later owner, art curator and collector Henry Plumer McIlhenny (1910-1986), oversaw the introduction of many new species. In 1979, he gifted the castle and gardens to the Irish State, after having sold most of the rest of the Glenveagh Estate to it in the mid-1970s. Today, the park is managed by the National Parks and Wildlife Service (NPWS), while the castle and gardens are in the care of the Irish Office of Public Works through its Heritage Ireland unit.
The gardens are noted for their lush appearance, as they benefit from and reinforce the micro-environment of a temperate rainforest in the midst of the rugged landscape of mountain and moorland. They contain a number of plants that originated in other parts of the world, including palms, bamboo, a wide variety of rhododendrons, and many others. In addition to this Walled Garden, there are the Pleasure Grounds (a long lawn framed by extensive borders), the Belgian Walk (with landscaping work done by World War I Belgian refugees), Italian Terrace, Himalayan Garden, Rose Garden, Oriental (Japanese-style) Garden, View Garden, Swiss Walk, and Tuscan Garden.
(Information from the print guide -- Ó Gaoithín, Seán. Guide to Glenveagh Castle Gardens: Glenveagh National Park (Glenveagh National Park, 2022) -- as well as from the NPWS Glenveagh National Park website and Wikipedia, both last consulted 27 June 2024. Place names in English and Irish from logainm.ie, the Placenames Database of Ireland (reference numbers 111338, 111119, and 111025), last consulted 28 June 2024. Names in tags partly from US Library of Congress/NACO name records (reference numbers n84081220, no2004019921, and n84153406).)
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