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Strider's cuff, crocheted from yarn left over from the Goblin Cleaver shawl. Size 8 glass beads and one really cool charm :-)
A most colorful character in cosplay, walking towards the entrance of the convention center for Phoenix Comicon 09. He's captured in another photo, here, one of my favorite photos from the whole weekend.
The flock of crows has discovered my side garden suet feeder, and I often find one or two or four of them on or below it. This one made its way into the back yard, where I took this photo of it striding along the grass while I aimed my camera through two panes of glass while sitting on my recliner.
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The neck assembly was quite ingenious, as it was only when the head swivelled far enough to touch the limit pins it actually turned to what it was looking at.
This machine was parked on a residential street in Portland. On July 17th, 2001, we drove it through the neighborhood for a hour.
Carnival was introduced to the Caribbean islands during the 18th century French rule when the French celebrated Lent with their, French-only, masquerade balls. Excluded from such activities the native population provided their own entertainment often mocking the colonial masters and inventing their own ways to celebrate in bringing in local folklore and rituals. Drink, dance and bikinis certainly characterize modern Carnival.
Newark replacement forward James Price on the charge at Kelham Road during a 24-18 defeat by visitors Kettering in rugby union's Midlands One East.
Admission: free. Programme: £3 (28 pages). Attendance: 210.
It's a bit hard to tell from this shot, but the male has wings. Probably around 99% of the striders in my pond are wingless.
The famous Striding Edge - Helvellyn.
This is one of a series of shots of 'The Edge' taken today. The light and cloud were ever-changing and fast moving.. A couple more to be uploaded shortly.
Mark Tilden's Strider was an excellent example of low-power walking. Using very shallow angles of attack, the swing of the legs did not create much vertical displacement in the walking gait. This meant it had _almost_ a shuffle-like walk, but in fact was very elegant in its motion.
This is our mutt dog that we picked up at the animal shelter. He is half poodle, and half terrier.
He has the great poodle characteristic of not shedding his hair -- which is a great blessing!
We love you, Strider
His personality and behaviors however, are pure terrier. He loves to play. He likes to catch/chase tennis balls and old socks that we have tied up into a bundle. As you throw items to him, he will make the most athletic jumps and acrobatic contortions in order to catch what you have thrown.
In the morning, he loves to snuggle and have his tummy rubbed until he wakes up.
At night, he likes to snuggle up next to you for warmth and security.
He is a mama's dog though. He is very protective of her, and a to a lesser extent toward Amy as well. He doesn't seem to have the same protective instincts for Bryan and I. I suppose he figures us boys can take care of ourselves.
Dawn Ann says that he is our eternal 2-year old. In fact she rarely calls the dog by his real name. She usually just calls him "baby".
Me, I just call him "puppy" most of the time.
He's been a great dog, and has become a dear part of the family.
We love you, Strider.
The Cystic Fibrosis Foundation (www.cff.org) held a "Great Strides" event where different teams walked for the cause of finding a cure to this disease. Highlights included a $43,000 check from Albertsons, raised by Team Shelby. - Copyright 2011 by David K. Smith - Website: www.dksmediasolutions.com/ - Email: info@dksmediasolutions.com
Heritage Weekend can be frustrating in that most of the activities take place on Saturday, the same day as Ride and Stride, meaning sometimes many interesting places can't be visited as I am chasing the lost cause of a long locked church.
But in recent years, the weekend has become very much that, and in some cases spreads over two weekends and some weekdays too.
St Mildred was listed as being open on Sunday, so we were at the church door a minute past ten, just as well as a service was due to start at eleven, and although when I arrived just the vicar was there, soon a small army of wardens and volunteers had arrived and were getting buy, meaning I would have got in their way, and they in my shots.
But, I work quick and already had many of the shots I wanted.
I had been here before, many years ago, maybe seven, and I did an OK job, but about 30 shots taken, nowhere enough to record this large and sprawling city centre church.
So, here we are:
By now other photographers and visitors had arrived, as well as the wardens and volunteers. I had to pick my shots carefully and shoot quickly to get the final shots of the church interior, although the memorials were easy enough.
One warden made sure I recorded the only piece of medieval glass in the church, hidden away in the north chapel.
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The Church of Saint Mildred is an Anglo-Saxon stone church in Canterbury probably dating from the 11th century. It has been a Grade I listed building since 1949.[1] It is located in the St. Mildred's quarter of the historic city centre. This is the only surviving pre-Norman church within the former city walls.[2]
It is unknown when the church was originally built, but two of the walls of the nave are Anglo-Saxon, i.e. are preserved from before 1066. It is believed that the chancel is Anglo-Saxon as well. The relics of Saint Mildred, who died in 768, were transferred from Canterbury Cathedral to St Augustine's Abbey in the middle of the 11th century, and it is likely that the church was built at that time.[1]
St Mildred's Church has a five-bay nave and a two-bay chancel. Most of the nave and the chapels date from between the 13th century and 1512. It was extensively restored in 1861.[1]
The church belonged to St Augustine's Abbey until the abbey was abolished during the dissolution of the monasteries in 1538, and since then it has belonged to the Crown.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Church_of_Saint_Mildred,_Canterbury
St Mildred was the daughter of Ermenburga, grand daughter of King Ethelbert of Kent and consecrated Abbess of the Convent of Minster in Thanet by St Theodore, Archbishop of Canterbury in AD694. Mildred supported the poor and is usually depicted holding a deer (the symbol of Minster) or a church and three geese. She died c.732, and her tomb became a place of pilgrimage. Her relics were acquired by St Augustine's Abbey in 1033, but Archbishop Lanfranc later also claimed them for St Gregory's Priory in the mid 11th century. The church was founded around 1033, but virtually destroyed by fire in 1246. A tower and new roof were added in the 1300s, North aisle and Nave windows in 1400s and SE chapel in 1500s. The tower was demolished and bells sold in 1832, the whole church restored in 1861 and again in 1920s. This has left a hall church with a five bay nave, two bay chancel, North aisle, SE chapel and North porch. Izaak Walton, author of The Compleat Angler who fished for trout in the Stour, married here in 1626.
www.canterbury-archaeology.org.uk/stmildred/4590809557
There are, within the walls of this city, twelve parish churches now remaining, and there were five more, which have been long since demolished; and there are three churches now situated in the suburbs of it, and there has been one demolished—Of those now remaining, there were only two, viz. St. Martin's without, and St. Alphage's within the walls, which were not of the patronage of some religious house or abbey, in or in the near neighbourhood of the city, and these two were in the patronage of the archbishop. (fn. 1)
It may be thought strange, that the number of churches in this city has decreased so much, and that so many of them have been united to others, and yet together, even at this time, make but a very moderate income to the incumbents; this has been supposed, in general, to have been occasioned by the great failure of their former profits, which they enjoyed before the reformation, of private masses, obits, processions, consessions, or the like; all which then fell to the ground, and lessened the income of most of them to a very small pittance. However, as will be seen hereafter, some of these churches were become desecrated and in ruins, and others were united long before the above time; which seems to have been owing, in great measure, to many of them having been built by the bounty of well disposed persons, in hopes of a future support and endowment, which failing, and the repairs and support of the fabric lying too heavy on the parishioners, they suffered them to run to ruin; and there being no susficient maintenance for the priests, they became desecrated, or were united to some other neighbouring churches. Indeed it appears plain, that poverty was the sole cause of their decay; for in their most flourishing state, the benefice of each of these churches was so low and poor, that they were for that very reason excused in all taxations, being of less value than the stipends of poor vicars, which had been advanced above five marcs a year. (fn. 2)
The decrease of the value of church benefices was equally felt in other cities and towns, as well as this, which occasioned an act of parliament to be passed at Oxford, in the 17th of king Charles II. for uniting churches in cities and towns corporate; in conformity to which, in 1681, a petition was made to the archbishop, under the names and seals of the major part of the mayor and aldermen, and justices of the peace, of this city, who being informed of the archbishop's intentions of uniting the parish churches of it, according to the above act, they did thereby give their free consent, that those within the city should be united, viz.
ST. PAUL'S and ST. MARTIN'S,
ST. MARY BREDMAN'S and ST. ANDREW'S,
HOLY CROSS WESTGATE, and ST. PETER'S,
ST. ALPHAGE'S and ST. MARY'S NORTHGATE,
leaving all things necessary to the perfecting of this union, according to the tenor of the above act; which instrument was dated March 6th, that year, and signed by Jacob Wraight, mayor, and P. Barrett, recorder, &c. To this was added a petition of the dean and chapter of Canterbury to the archbishop, as being perpetual patrons of the parish churches of St. George, St. Mary Magdalen, St. Paul, St. Mary Bredman, and St. Peter, within the city and liberties, for the uniting of those churches with each other and with others adjoining, in manner as above-mentioned in the former petition, which was given under their common seal, dated March 13th the same year. Upon the receipt of these, the archbishop issued his decree, reciting the two petitions for uniting the several above-mentioned churches, the particulars of which will be found under the description of each of them; which decree was dated at Lambeth, on March 24, 1681. To which the inhabitants of each parish signed their consents, by their several instruments, dated December 19th, 20th, and 21st, the same year. After which, by a decree of the archbishop's in 1684, with the consent of the mayor, aldermen and justices of the peace of this city, and of the king, under his great seal as patron, he united the church of All Saints with St. Mary de Castro, already united to it, to the parish church of St. Mildred; further particulars of which will be found under the latter parish. It should seem the decree of the archbishop in 1681, for the uniting of the churches of Holy Cross Westgate, and St. Peter did not have its full effect, for on April 6, 1692, there were two petitions, one from the mayor and eight others, and another from the dean and chapter to the archbishop, similar to the former ones, for this purpose; and the archbishop's decree, dated at Lambeth, the 13th of that month, united these churches; and with the same particulars in every thing else as the former decree in 1681.
T. MILDRED'S church is situated at the southwest extremity of the city, near the Old Castle and the river Stour, in the church-yard belonging to it. This church is a large handsome building, of three isles and three chancels, with a square tower steeple on the north side, in which are five bells. This church and a great part of the city, was, according to Stow, burnt in the year 1246, anno 30 Henry III. but as it should seem not entirely so, for at the west end of the south isle there is a very fair Roman arch, remaining over the window, and by all appearance the work of those times. (fn. 122)
¶This church is a rectory, the patronage of which was part of the possessions of the abbot and convent of St. Augustine, with whom it continued till the dissolution of that monastery, in the 30th year of king Henry VIII. when it came into the hands of the crown, where it has continued ever since, the king being the present patron of it.
The church of St. Mildered is valued in the antient taxation at eight marcs per annum.
This rectory, with that of the antient desecrated church of St. Mary de Castro, or of the Castle, is valued in the king's books, at 17l. 17s. 11d. and the yearly tenths at 1l. 15s. 9½d. (fn. 123) In 1588 it was valued at fifty pounds. Communicants three hundred and sixty. In 1640 it was valued at seventy pounds.— Communicants one hundred.
Archbishop Sancrost, by his decree, dated Sept. 29, 1684, united the rectory of All Saints, in this city, with St. Mary de Castro, of the king's patronage likewife, to this of St. Mildred, (fn. 124) in which state it continues at this time. It is now about the clear annual value of eight pounds. (fn. 125)
The neighbouring church of St. John, becoming desolated after the reformation, tacitly devolved to this church of St. Mildred, and it has ever since been esteemed as part of this parish.