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The Ball of Light seems quite an industrious little lad this night a few weeks ago. This was up in the Barossa Valley.
I was hanging around these old buildings and caught this Ball of Light at the work bench with all of these old tools. I hid behind the trees to see if it would have any luck. Alas it just sat there getting more and more frustrated, and BRIGHT, until I thought it was gonna POP.
This was a great sighting from a wonderful night.
Enjoy
(There is no photoshop manipulation of this image at all. It is taken in a single exposure, with no use of "mechanical devices". Only adjustments are to level, brightness sat etc)
Chipping Campden is a small market town in Gloucestershire. It is notable for its elegant terraced High Street, dating from the 14th century to the 17th century. ("Chipping" is from Old English cēping, "a market, a market-place".) A rich wool trading centre in the Middle Ages, today it is a popular Cotswold tourist destination with old inns, hotels, specialist shops and restaurants. The High Street is lined with honey-coloured limestone buildings, built from the mellow locally quarried oolitic limestone known as Cotswold stone, and boasts a wealth of fine vernacular architecture.
County Courthouse
Pulaski County
Pulaski, Virginia
Our October 2016 tript to Great Smoky Mountains National Park took us near Pulaski, which I had never seen, so we made a brief stop. According to on-line information, this limestone courthouse was built in 1895-96, combining Romanesque and Queen Anne styles; it was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1982 (82004582). The light was not the best for photographing the courthouse, but at least the sun was to my back.
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A hot-air balloon (montgolfier) sails over the Château de Castelnaud (Périgord Noir, Dordogne), which beetles above the River Dordogne, under a deep blue sky -- seen on an early morning walk to the village of Castelnaud-la-Chapelle at the beginning of June 2009.
Within the département of Dordogne, Castelnaud is in the Périgord Noir. The yellow-tinted limestone construction is typical of the area.
[Castelnaud balloon chateau 2009 jun 2 c]
According to KirkbrideBuildings.com:
"This massive Kirkbride building was designed by the Worcester architect Ward P. Delano and completed in 1877 at the cost of well over a million dollars.
Today the Worcester State Hospital Kirkbride is mostly gone. Severely damaged by fire in 1991, large sections of the building were torn down and only a few fragments remained standing. Even with Route 9, a large office park, and the current hospital site nearby, the abandoned building was a peaceful place. It must have been even more peaceful before the city grew up and around it. In spite of this peacefulness, the Kirkbride was somewhat ominous and foreboding. The building looked more like some weird castle or fortress than a hospital. It's odd to think that the parties involved felt this building would help create a calming or stabilizing influence.
In his book The State and the Mentally Ill, Gerald Grob argues that the building actually resembles a prison and that this is not by chance. State asylums were becoming more custodial in nature when this Kirkbride was constructed. The belief that mental illness was highly curable was being seriously questioned and asylums were being built with a stronger focus on confinement rather than treatment."
D.A. Jolly & Sons Seed and Grain store was built in 1870 on the then-main street in Cromwell, NZ. In the late 1960s or early 1970s, the building was renovated and served as the local doctor’s surgery. When the Clyde dam was completed in 1990, Cromwell’s main street disappeared under Lake Dunstan. This building was among several of the historic buildings dating back to the gold rush of the 1860s that were disassembled, stored and later reconstructed on higher ground, creating the Cromwell Heritage Precinct.
The building now houses the Seed and Grain Cafe.
The former Lemuel General Store in Cushing (Brownsburg-
Chatham), Quebec, Canada.
This former stone-built general store was built during the
1830s by Lemuel Cushing who was very successful.
Cushing was also involved in the fur trade as well as inland commerce. The store is said to have had a jail in the basement.
As per Wikipedia:
Lemuel Cushing (April 29, 1806 – May 18, 1875) was a businessman and pioneer in the Ottawa valley.
He was born in Trois-Rivières, Lower Canada, the son of Job Cushing, who came to the Eastern Townships from the United States.
Cushing moved to Montreal with his parents at the age of eight. In 1821, he moved to Vermont for a short time but returned to Chatham Township in Lower Canada after a few months. There he established himself in business in the location which later became the municipality of Cushing.
In 1836, Cushing married Catherine Hutchins. Cushing operated a hotel at Caledonia Springs, the site of springs thought to have medicinal properties.
He organized a group of volunteers during the Lower Canada Rebellion of 1837 which protected the village of Saint-Eustache and the registry office at Saint-Benoît from pillaging.
In 1859, he bought Cushing Island near Portland, Maine. Cushing was mayor of Chatham township from 1861 to 1872 and then warden of Argenteuil County from 1872 until his death three years later.
His son Lemuel Jr. was a Montreal lawyer who served one year (1874 to 1875) in the House of Commons of Canada as a Liberal member.
Another one from Northumberland
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St Mary's Church, or Our Lady's Church (nave 10th century?), seen from the churchyard of the main (lower) archaeological site of the monastery of Glendalough (County Wicklow, in eastern Ireland), on a cloudy midday in mid-May 2011.
This view looks partly across and up the valley into the Wicklow Mountains. The entire site, nestled in the Valley of the Two Lakes --- the meaning of "Gleann dá Loch" -- on the eastern side of the Wicklow Mountains, is located within the Wicklow Mountains National Park / Páirc Náisiúnta Sléibhte Chill Mhantáin; it is maintained by the Office of Public Works (Heritage Ireland).
The historical information in this caption is based on the Glendalough Visitors Guide published by the Office of Public Works.
(A picture in my Sacred Ireland album / set.)
[Glendalough site church below slopes 2011 may 14 cd; IMG_0176]
Vintage photo of Palotaszálló hotel in Lillafüred, Hungary, with Gothic Revival architecture and trees.
St. Tanwg's Church in Llandanwg
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The First National Bank building of Gettysburg was built in 1906 and is an excellent example of Beau-Arts architecture. In 1962 it became (and still is) the Adams County National Bank.
Halton Gill, which means a farmstead in a narrow valley, is situated at the head of Littondale in the Yorkshire Dales. Along with the four other villages in this small dale, there are some beautiful stone houses dating back to the 17th century. Littondale is located to the west of Wharfedale and follows the River Skirfare. The nature of the dale and its characteristic smooth form was the result of many ice ages, especially the one 20,000 years ago.
For much of the week we spent in the Dales it seemed to be raining, and this was one of many occasions when it did, as the rainbow on the left of the picture shows.
Southend, in the harbour town of Stromness (on the island of Mainland, Orkney, above the north coast of Scotland), as the midday sun of mid-September shines on rain-washed pavement stones.
The main street through Stromness jogs and winds its way just behind and along the harbour, generally from north to south (this view is looking north). The flagstone walls visible on the middle house in this picture are characteristic of Orkney as well as of Caithness, across the Pentland Firth.
(From the "archive" -- 2007.)
[Stromness wet flagstones sunshine 2007 sep 10 o; P9100538]
Putti on safety curtain. Auditorium of Theatre Royal, Haymarket. 19th Century AD. London, England. Copyright 2017, James A. Glazier
This is The Parish Church of St James, in Louth, Lincolnshire (UK). The church is one of the largest parish churches in the UK, many people mistake it for a Cathedral. The spire is 295ft high or just about 90 metres.
The construction of this church started in the 15th century, somewhere around 1430AD.
I'd lost this sketchbook, mourned it's passing and memories of the special trip it held. It turned out that friend John had it..so eureka!!!...we're into another short trip..back in 2002 a wonderfully peaceful, lesser known landscape at the outer reaches of the Lake District..one of my favourite places. Fascinating cottage from the outside..great to draw with its mish-mash of differently sized stones and windows.
Chipping Campden is frequently described as 'the jewel in the crown' of the Cotswolds. Chipping Campden is also one of the best preserved and historically important towns dating back to the late 12th century. Its original layout can still be traced along this street following the line of an important trading route.
The oldest building in Greenfield Village was imported from England's Cotswold Hills to represent America's ties to England. It is surrounded by a lush country garden.
June 20, 2023 - "The Cité de Carcassonne is a fortified medieval city located on a hill in the old town of Carcassonne, in the Occitanie region of southern France. It is located on the right bank of the Aude and in the southeast of the current city. Its origins date back to Gallo-Roman times and it was enlarged into a fortress in the Middle Ages. The fortified city is surrounded by a double wall (each about three kilometers long with a total of 52 towers). The main buildings within the Cité, which is still inhabited, are a castle (Château comtal) and a church (Basilique Saint-Nazaire).
In the 19th century, the already decaying city of Carcassonne was restored under the direction of Eugène Viollet-le-Duc. This resulted in an extensive well-preserved historical monument that was declared a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1997.
Carcassonne was founded as Carcasso in the 1st century BC. Founded by the Romans on the site of today's Cité. The so-called Gallo-Roman towers with a horseshoe plan on the inner wall testify to the Carcasso period.
On the 14 hectares, where between 3,000 and 4,000 people lived in the Middle Ages, 229 permanent residents live today. All the others work for tourism and live abroad. La Cité is a large open-air museum used by tourists and is not normally accessible by car.
Legend has it that the fortress was once besieged by Charlemagne, when Mme Carcas was the lady of the castle. The siege lasted so long that famine soon claimed the first victims in the Cité. Mrs. Carcas then decided to stuff a pig with wheat and, when she was fat enough, she threw it off the castle wall. The besiegers, already exhausted, thought when they saw the fat animal that fell from their towers that the city must have food to spare. Dejected, Charlemagne's men gave up and returned home. When the town bells rang to celebrate the end of the siege, one of the besiegers is said to have exclaimed Madame Carcas sonne (Carcas sounds).
In 1208, Pope Innocent III, faced with the increase and extension of Catharism, decreed the Albigensian Crusade. The Count of Tolosa and the Viscount of Carcassonne are accused of heresy and their territories become the main target of the attack by the barons from France. On August 1, 1209, the city is besieged by the Crusaders. Raymond Roger Trencavel surrenders to them on August 15 in exchange for the lives of its inhabitants. The villages around the city are destroyed. The viscount dies of dysentery in his castle prison on November 10, 1209. Other sources speak of an assassination planned by Simon de Montfort.
The city becomes the headquarters of the crusade troops. The land and city are delivered to Simón de Montfort, military chief of the Crusader army. He died in 1218 during the siege of Toulouse and his son, Amaury VI de Montfort, took possession of the city, but was unable to manage it. He cedes the rights to it to Louis VIII of France, but Ramon VII of Toulouse and the counts of Foix allied against the king. In 1224, Ramón Trencavel II took possession of the city after Amaury fled.
Louis VIII launches a second crusade in 1226 and Ramón Trencavel must flee. The city of Carcassonne becomes part of the domain of the King of France and becomes the seat of a seneschal. A period of terror is installed inside the city among the inhabitants; the search and hunting of the Cathars multiplies the bonfires in the squares and there are continuous savage denunciations, with the installation of an Inquisition Tribunal within the city precincts.
Louis IX of France orders the construction of the second walled enclosure so that the city can withstand long sieges and sieges. Trencavel, refugee in Aragon, intends to recover his land. At the same time, the king of Aragon, Jaime I the Conqueror, is considered a constant threat to the region, very close to the borders of his kingdom, the city being part of the defensive system of the border between France and Aragon.
After the annexation of Roussillon to France by the Treaty of the Pyrenees, the military role of Carcassonne was greatly reduced, as the distance to the Spanish border increased considerably. The role of command post for the defense of the border was transferred to Perpignan.
The walls of the Cité date from various periods of construction. The oldest parts of the wall were erected at the time of the Visigoths. They can be recognized by the layers of small cube-shaped stones, interrupted by layers of bricks, and by the narrowness of the towers, which are already equipped with real windows. The castle was mainly built in the 12th century. The outer ring of walls with their smooth ashlars dates from the middle of the 13th century.
At the end of the 13th century some of the towers and parts of the inner wall were built, which was then being rebuilt and advanced. The ashlars from this period are mostly carved with art. The towers have several floors and are provided with loopholes. The building material for the two concentric belts of fortifications was brought from the surrounding quarries: hard sandstone, difficult to extract and work, but which over the centuries began to erode under the influence of violent storms from the southwest.
The interior of the walls is made of rounded stones, fragments of rock and sand, agglutinated with lime, which also serves as mortar. The texture of the masonry varies with each period of construction.
The regular outer wall, 1.5 kilometers long, was built in 15 years shortly after 1230, hence its uniform appearance. The construction history of the 1.3 km long inner wall is much more complicated and its masonry is far from uniform. At that time, the city already had a wall from the Gallo-Roman era that was around 1,000 years old, but it was no longer up to date. Today it forms the skeleton of the inner belt and can often be seen at the bottom of today's wall.
As always in such cases, the area between the two walls is called the Zwinger. The kennel kept the attacker in an area that militia projectiles could reach. The wall must be as high as possible, because until the 14th century people did not shoot back, they shot back. In times of peace, such a kennel was used for games and knightly combat festivals. In some cases, the old parts of the wall were supported on new foundations when they were tapped, so that the strange picture arises that the oldest part is higher than the later one.
The ditch around the wall was not filled with water, but it had the function of preventing the use of larger siege engines, which had to be directed against the wall at right angles to the direction of the Zwinger and therefore did not have sufficient access. here. The fortification of the city with a double fence corresponded to a new defensive tactic that had been designed around 1200 around the king in the time of Philip Augustus (1180-1223). His principle was: the defense must be active, it must be able to inflict heavy losses on the attacker. Therefore, more than a thousand archers were stationed on the battlements, and the towers flanked the entire wall without leaving a blind spot.
It was possible to advance towards the Zwinger between the two city walls without exposing oneself to the full mass of besiegers. This allowed early attackers who were said to have advanced this far to be pursued individually or in small groups. With this tactic, one could successfully resist even a numerically superior siege force.
Many towers of the outer line are so-called shell towers, i. that is to say, they are open at the back, so that the enemy could not take refuge once they crossed the first wall. Then it could still be attacked from the inner wall, for example by archers. However, the effectiveness of this defense has never really been proven." Previous description: www.topworldimages.com/Cite_de_Carcassonne.htm
Situated on the banks of the River Corrib in Galway city, Galway Cathedral is the most recently built of Europe's great stone cathedrals.
Stone pulpit by Niclaes Gerhaert van Leyden in late Gothic Style. 15th Century AD. Gothic pulpit with saints. St. Stephen's Dom (Cathedral) Catholic temple (church). Gothic. Begin in 1304 AD, vaulting completed in 1474 AD. North tower begun in 1450 AD and finished in 1511 AD. Austria, Vienna. Copyright 2016, James A. Glazier. St. Augustine of Hippo, St. Ambrose, St. Gregory the Great and St. Jerome
Late afternoon at the ruins of a house near Hawker in the northern Flinders Ranges in outback South Australia.
Abandoned stone building on Moira River on Station Street in Belleville, Ontario. This structure was restored to become the offices of the Quinte Construction Association circa 1990,
One of a series of photographic slides taken by the Keller family of Belleville between 1964 and 1994.
Great Western, Pleasant Valley, Taylor wineries all had operations at the grounds this is on. This is a small part of a large building complex. The cellar is now a conference room for the Finger Lakes Boating Museum.
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Looking down on Arncliffe in the Yorkshire Dales on a beautiful spring day with ever-changing weather. Our destination, The Falcon, to rebalance our fluids after the walk is visible if you know where to look.
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Steps leading up towards the city walls in the north of Dubrovnik Old City.
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The Aztec Ruins National Monument in northwestern New Mexico. These are not ancient Aztec temples. Ancestral Pueblo people -- the Anasazi -- built this place. Scholars once thought the Aztecs migrated to Mexico from the southwestern U.S., causing early settlers to mistakenly call these 900-year-old ruins along the Animas River the "Aztec Ruins."
Hauptbahnhof facade with the coat of arms of the German Empire (1871 AD - 1918 AD), below, the coat of arms of Bielefeld. Floral reliefs and lion head. Art Nouveau, 1910 AD. Bielefeld, North-Rhine Westphalia, Germany. Copyright 2016, James A. Glazier. Bielefeld was thoroughly flattened during WWII. Pleasant town center, but very few historical buildings.
View back along a side lane in the village / small town of Azay-le-Rideau (the département of Indre-et-Loire, located in the Centre-Val de Loire region in central France), looking from the grounds of the château, on a mostly clear late afternoon in mid-October 2016.
As is characteristic of the area of the Touraine, a historical, pre-Revolutionary province, the buildings are of pale, silvery-grey to near-white tufa limestone (in French, tuffeau or tufeau).
While broadly considered part of the "Loire Valley" or Val de Loire, Azay-le-Rideau actually lies along the River Indre, which is a tributary of the Loire itself. Several mills were established in and near the village. The village is probably best known for the Château d'Azay-le-Rideau, a small gem of the Renaissance period primarily built between 1518 and 1527. The château is surrounded by the Indre, which forms a natural moat, as well as a garden and parkland.
[Azay-le-Rideau lane from château 2016 oct 10 f; DSCF0322]