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Step into the cozy embrace of Beachwood Hall on this sunny afternoon, where a welcoming Angelina bed awaits, adorned with furry companions eager for snuggles. Ottomans and cuddle piles beckon, surrounding a crackling fire that adds warmth to the room, while the delightful scents of flowers and spring mingle with the comforting aroma of smoke, creating an atmosphere that brings the outdoors indoors. Slip on your favorite slippers, cozy up to the puppies on the bed, and revel in the pure bliss of home.
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Credits
∘ Dead Unicorn
Dead Unicorn - Beachwood Hall
Dead Unicorn - Phone Clutter Pink
∘ [Erfe Design]
Erfe Design Angelina Bedroom Set
Includes:
- Bed Head with Commods 15LI
- Bed 15LI (PG + Adult, 240 + Anims)
- Wardrobe with Decors 19LI
- Ottoman 4LI
- Luna Carpet 4LI
Erfe Design P Shape Rug
∘ Bricolage
Bricolage Clementine Ottoman Set
Bricolage Clementine Ottoman
Bricolage Victorian Gloxinia Botanical Illustration
Bricolage Olive Tree vs2
Bricolage Basketweave Rug
∘ [ SQUARE ]
[ SQUARE ] - ASTRA Chandeliers GOLD
∘ [Rezz Room]
[Rezz Room] Chow-chow Adult Animesh (Companion)
[Rezz Room] Chow-chow Baby Animesh (Companion)
∘ Pitaya
AB+Pitaya . Coastal Set . Curtains. 01
AB+Pitaya . Coastal Set . Curtains. 02
AB+Pitaya . Coastal Set . Curtains. 04M
∘ Nutmeg
Nutmeg. Morning Moments Folded Table & Chairs
Nutmeg. Morning Moments Table / Set2
Nutmeg. Morning Moments Chair
Nutmeg. Floor Lounging PG
Nutmeg. Floor Lounging Rug Bonus Item
∘ 8f8
8f8 - Tulips Vase WHITE - Whites
8f8 - Tulips Vase WHITE - White Yellow
8f8 - BloomLife - Painting - Frame WHITE
∘ - Scafall -
- Scafall - Letat / Flying Wall Birds Steel [PBR + Legacy]
- Scafall - Kassia / Floor Lamp - White [PBR]
- Scafall - Kassia / Chandelier - White [PBR]
∘ Fundati
(Fundati) Giant Oak Tree I
(Fundati) Shrub III
∘ Misc
BROKEN ARROWS - Relaxing Basket - Camomile
1990 - Bunny Slippers - Right - White/Pink
Ariskea[Chicory] Common Chicory Flowers[Pearl]-Group
.spruce. apothecary candles {lavender balsam}
Spargel & Shine - Arvelle Pillow Set Gold
Apple Fall Cushion - Toile, Blush
{what next} Butterfly Alarm Clock
Konoha - Wild Natoma Grass
From the Texas State Historical Association on Ridge, TX - "formerly known as Holly Springs, is on U.S. Highway 79 and the Missouri Pacific line in extreme east central Robertson County. The community of Holly Springs developed there in the late 1850s to supply the cotton farmers of the surrounding prairie. Around 1900 cotton prices tumbled, and the community was forced to diversify into watermelons, turkey farming, sawmills, and brickyards."
Bob Dylan - The Times They Are a-Changin' [LIVE IN ENGLAND - 1965]
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#HMMM
With heartfelt and genuine thanks for your kind visit. Have a beautiful day, be well, keep your eyes open, appreciate the beauty surrounding you, enjoy creating, stay safe, and laugh often! ❤️❤️❤️
Surrounding trail at Carlsbad Caverns in Carlsbad, NM. For Throwback Thursday.About a year ago we made the drive with the new car. It has been as hot as a desert here in Florida right now!
This was taken at about 12,830 feet on Mt. Evans, Colorado near Idaho Springs. Mt. Evans is one of Colorado's famous fourteeners and overlooks the city of Denver. You can drive the switchbacks to the top on the highest paved road in North America and there are several beautiful places to take photos along the way. The weather was perfect...cold, a little hazy from the surrounding fires but no moon to compete with.
Chigawa, which rises in Kita Alps, is a tributary of Saigawa river. Its middle reaches and surrounding forests are protected as Alps Azumino Park for local tourism such as hiking, camping and fishing as compared to Chuubusangaku (中部山岳 Central Mountains) National Park that covers most of the important peaks of northern Japan Alps and caters to mountaineers and climbers.
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All the photos I present were taken in the town of Taormina;
I made photos related to "street photography";
I photographed people who, for the most part, I had never met before, performing their portraits, I thank them for their sympathy and availability;
The volcano Etna, in recent days has shown an intense eruptive activity, I photographed that spectacular eruptions from Taormina;
I tried to capture minimal photographic stories, collected walking down the street .. ... in search of fleeting moments ...
For some photographs I used a particular photographic technique at the time of shooting, which in addition to capturing the surrounding space, also "inserted" a temporal dimension, with photos characterized by being moved because the exposure times were deliberately lengthened, they are confused -focused-imprecise-undecided ... the Anglo-Saxon term that encloses this photographic genre with a single word is "blur", these images were thus created during the shooting phase, and not as an effect created subsequently, in retrospect, in the post-production.
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Tutte le foto che presento sono state realizzate nella cittadina di Taormina;
ho realizzato foto riconducibili alla “street photography”;
ho fotografato persone che, per la maggior parte, non avevo incontrato prima, eseguendo dei loro ritratti, le ringrazio per la loro simpatia e disponibilità;
il vulcano Etna, nei giorni scorsi ha mostrato una intensa attività eruttiva, anche con intensi fenomeni chiamati "fontane di lava", emissioni a getto continuo perdurate intensamente per molti minuti, di altissime "fontane" di magma incandescente, molto spettacolari e non comuni, le fotografie dell'Etna sono state realizzate da Taormina;
ho provato a cogliere storie fotografiche minime, raccolte camminando per la strada ... alla ricerca di attimi fugaci s-fuggenti ...
Ho utilizzato per alcune fotografie una tecnica fotografica particolare al momento dello scatto, che oltre a catturare lo spazio circostante, ha "inserito" anche una dimensione temporale, con foto caratterizzate dall’essere mosse poiché volutamente sono stati allungati i tempi di esposizione, sono confuse-sfocate-imprecise-indecise...il termine anglosassone che racchiude con una sola parola questo genere fotografico è "blur", queste immagini sono state così realizzate in fase di scatto, e non come un effetto creato successivamente, a posteriori, in fase di post-produzione.
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I saw this Hermit Thrush kicking up leaves and foraging deep in the woods at about 5pm today. There was still enough light to provide backlighting to the surrounding foliage and when it hopped onto an old stump the setting was just right for a portrait shot.
2024-09-10, Day 4
An unnamed creek that drains the ice fields surrounding Mount Hoge fans out to reveal the many pathways chosen over the course of hundreds of spring floods as the water readies itself to join the Donjek River which is out of the frame to the right, Kluane National Park, Yukon.
Once the Glacier first came into view, its vast terminus dominated the landscape for miles as we pushed our way southward along the River’s east bank following game trails that bore the signs of Grizzly, Moose, and what were likely Wolf tracks. Though the days remained long, evening began to introduce herself, trailing tresses of lengthening shadow and rich colorful tones. We traveled further than expected on the previous day, so we thought to make camp in a place with a captivating view and stop early enough to allow time to explore the River and the place where the ice arrived at the end of its tortuous and crushing journey.
On the terrain east of the river where we walked, swales filled with sedge and lined with willow ran in narrow strips between heaved, billowing ridges comprised of moraine, cast-off material flung by the immense, sculpting artistry of the mountains themselves. Cresting one of these hills we encountered the scene here, where the ravages of the spring floods presented themselves overtly, leaving no doubt that powerful currents shape this place and give it its life.
After descending through the golden foreground trees and negotiating the cut-bank to gain access to the floodplain, we searched the opposite bench for a place to pitch the tent. Rather than immediately finding anything suitable for the tent, I noticed the print of a Grizzly’s rear foot hardened into the mud - it was more than a foot long (30+ cm) and likely 7-8 inches wide (18-20 cm). Clearly made by a large creature. Just a reminder to make good choices while living amongst dear Ursus, nothing more. We pitched our tent in the elevated meadow above the opposite side of the creek, then hung the food a good distance away off amongst the spruce trees. Finally, we followed the floodplain to the River to find out just what the ice and water had wrought.
I've been a bit tardy catching up with Flickr after the holidays, but I hope to see folks' recent images soon!
This shot is taken of glass insulators that were produced in the Denver, Colorado area, and were used in service in the state of Colorado and surrounding states.
The first insulators produced in the Denver area was at a small village, Valverde, Colorado southwest of Denver. Robert Good Jr rented out a small glass factory in 1895, and about a year later was in full production with both insulators and bottles. The name of his company was the Valverde Glass Works.
In the summer of 1899, disaster struck when a fire caused by a ruptured glass tank destroyed most of the glass plant. It was rebuilt in 1899 as the Western Flint Glass Company (W.F.G.CO.) at the same location in Valverde, Colorado by a group of young entrepreneurs who were sons of wealthy Denver businessmen. Robert Good Jr remained in Denver into the fall to assist with the reconstruction of the furnace, and getting the business back into operation. These new owners were not knowledgeable about the manufacturing of glass. With the bad color runs that failed to meet the satisfaction of its bottle customers and bad quality control of the insulators, the company in the summer of 1900 was reorganized, and the name was changed to the Western Glass Manufacturing Company (W.G.M.CO.).
When W.G.M.CO. took over operations from W.F.G.CO. they had a new and highly reputed plant manager from St. Louis, and he appeared to be turning the tide for W.G.M.CO. They also used new molds and new glass mixtures for their insulators which made their glass to be much more consistent in form and the colors more uniform. Production and sales were going good for W.G.M.CO. until May 5, 1906 when a fire totally destroyed the Western Glass Company's plant. With the great fire of 1906 and when it could no longer compete with the new bottle forming machines used by most of the newer glass works, W.G.M.CO. ceased operations about mid 1909.
Most W.G.M.CO. and a few styles of Robert Good Jr and W.F.G.CO. insulators have a distinct purple color from years of exposure to the sun. These insulators were made from glass which contained manganese, a decolorizing agent used to produce clear glass. The more manganese in a glass batch and the longer the insulator was exposed to the sun the darker the insulator got, sometimes to a purple blackglass.
More information about the insulators starting from the left.
CD 106, W.G.M.CO., Purple, Used for telephone distribution.
CD 106, W.G.M.CO., Royal Purple, Used for telephone distribution.
CD 121, Robert Good Jr, Purple, Used for long distance telephone distribution.
CD 121, W.G.M.CO., Purple, Used for long distance telephone distribution.
CD 121, W.G.M.CO., Royal Purple, Used for long distance telephone distribution.
CD 134, W.G.M.CO., Light Purple, Used for low voltage distribution.
CD 134, W.G.M.CO., Purple, Used for low voltage distribution.
CD 134, W.F.G.CO., Purple, Used for low voltage distribution.
CD 162, W.F.G.CO., Dark Purple, Used for low voltage distribution.
CD 162, W.G.M.CO., Purple, Used for low voltage distribution.
CD 145, W.G.M.CO., Light Purple, Used for telegraph distribution.
CD 145, W.G.M.CO., Purple, Used for telegraph distribution.
CD 145, W.G.M.CO., Black Purple, Used for telegraph distribution.
Excerpt from Wikipedia:
Pier 4 Park is a 2.4 hectare park found in the west-end of Hamilton Harbour near Bay Street North in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada.
The park features a multi-use asphalt trail, 349 metres in length and 4 metres wide which provides barrier-free access to all areas of the park and linkages with the surrounding harbourfront precinct.[1] A total of $2.2 million has been invested for the redevelopment of the park which includes a 24-metre tugboat which acts as the centrepiece of an interactive water play area for children. A dramatically curved lookout pier includes a protected sun shelter and benches to view the marinas, parkland and vistas of the surrounding Bay.
In addition Hamilton Harbour Commissioners (HHC) have constructed Hamilton Pier which provides 0.4 hectares of additional parkland and fish habitat.
Mendenhall Glacier
Mendenhall Glacier is a glacier about 13.6 miles long located in Mendenhall Valley, about 12 miles from downtown Juneau in the southeast area of the U.S. state of Alaska. The glacier and surrounding landscape is protected as part of the 5,815 acres Mendenhall Glacier Recreation Area, a federally designated unit of the Tongass National Forest.
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All the photos I present were taken on the beaches of Taormina and its surroundings (Sicily-Italy); I made photos related to "beach photography" (a genre similar to "street photography");
I photographed on a beach a young lady who, leaning her smartphone against a paper bag, in order to self-portray, assumed statuesque and plastic poses for "artistics selfies"; … .I photographed a couple of lovers entwined with each other, regardless of everything that was around "their world"; ... I photographed young and old people ... with a great desire for the sea and a great desire to dive into the wather to swim (even if the sea water is still a little cold now ...); I made some photo-portraits of people I didn't know, I thank them very much for their sympathy and their availability; I tried to capture the essence of minimal photographic stories, collected walking along the beaches ... in search of fleeting moments ...
I used a particular photographic technique for some photographs at the time of shooting, which in addition to capturing the surrounding space, also "inserted" a temporal dimension, with photos characterized by being moved because the exposure times were deliberately lengthened, they are confused -focused-imprecise-undecided ... the Anglo-Saxon term that encloses this photographic genre with a single word is "blur", these images were thus created during the shooting phase, and not as an effect created subsequently, in retrospect, in the post-production
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Tutte le foto che presento sono state realizzate sulle spiagge di Taormina e dintorni (Sicilia-Italia); ho realizzato foto riconducibili alla “beach photography” (un genere affine alla “street photography”);
ho fotografato su di una spiaggia una giovane signora che, appoggiato ad una busta di carta il suo smartphone, in modo da autoritrarsi, assumeva delle pose statuarie e plastiche da “selfie artistico”; ….ho fotografato una coppia di innamorati tra loro avvinghiati, incuranti di tutto ciò che stava attorno “al loro mondo”; …ho fotografato persone giovani e meno giovani…con tanta voglia di mare e tanta voglia di immergersi in acqua per fare qualche nuotata (anche se l’acqua del mare adesso è ancora un po’ fredda…); ho realizzato dei foto-ritratti di persone che non conoscevo, le ringrazio veramente tanto per la loro simpatia e la loro disponibilità; ho cercato di cogliere al volo l’essenza di storie fotografiche minime, raccolte camminando sulle spiagge... alla ricerca di attimi fugaci s-fuggenti ...
Ho utilizzato per alcune fotografie una tecnica fotografica particolare al momento dello scatto, che oltre a catturare lo spazio circostante, ha "inserito" anche una dimensione temporale, con foto caratterizzate dall’essere mosse poiché volutamente sono stati allungati i tempi di esposizione, sono confuse-sfocate-imprecise-indecise...il termine anglosassone che racchiude con una sola parola questo genere fotografico è "blur", queste immagini sono state così realizzate in fase di scatto, e non come un effetto creato successivamente, a posteriori, in fase di post-produzione.---------------------------------------------------------
Just before sunrise in unbelievably beautiful and romantic Oia on the Greek island of Santorini. Usually you see only pictures of the west side with that famous windmill (left part of the image). But that doesn’t show how the town stretches far along the crest of the mountain surrounding the Caldera. So now, finally, you get the whole picture.
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Photographer: Arthur Rothstein, December 1937, Union Square, New York, USA
Union Square is a historic intersection and surrounding neighborhood in Manhattan, New York City, United States, located where Broadway and the former Bowery Road – now Fourth Avenue – came together in the early 19th century. Its name denotes that "here was the union of the two principal thoroughfares of the island".
Colorized by Alain Girard, 2024, December 28
Original picture:
The Roaches and surrounding area in the Peak District is an absolutely fantastic location for photography. There are so many things to hike to and photograph in the relatively small area. One of my favourite subjects is Roach End Barn. Roach end barn is an old abandoned barn which is extremely versatile as a subject, whether you want a sunrise, sunset or astro shot.
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The gardens (known as Stowe Landscape Gardens), a significant example of the English garden style, along with part of the Park, passed into the ownership of The National Trust in 1989 and are open to the public. The parkland surrounding the gardens is open 365 days a year. National Trust members have free access to the gardens but there is a charge for all visitors to the house which goes towards the costs of restoring the building. In the 1690s, Stowe had a modest early-baroque parterre garden, owing more to Italy than to France, but it has not survived, and, within a relatively short time, Stowe became widely renowned for its magnificent gardens created by Lord Cobham. The Landscape garden was created in three main phases, showing the development of garden design in 18th-century England (this is the only garden where all three designers worked). From 1711 to c.1735 Charles Bridgeman was the garden designer and John Vanbrugh the architect from c.1720 until his death in 1726. They designed an English baroque park, inspired by the work of London, Wise and Switzer. After Vanbrugh's death James Gibbs took over as architect in September 1726. He also worked in the English Baroque style. In 1731 William Kent was appointed to work with Bridgeman, whose last designs are dated 1735 after which Kent took over as the garden designer. Kent had already created the glorious garden at Rousham House, and he and Gibbs built temples, bridges, and other garden structures. Kent's masterpiece at Stowe is the Elysian Fields with its Temple of Ancient Virtue that looks across to his Temple of British Worthies. Kent's architectural work was in the newly fashionable Palladian style. In March 1741, Capability Brown was appointed head gardener. He worked with Gibbs until 1749 and with Kent until the latter's death in 1748. Brown departed in the autumn of 1751 to start his independent career as a garden designer. In these years, Bridgeman's octagonal pond and 11-acre (4.5 ha) lake were extended and given a "naturalistic" shape, and a Palladian bridge was added in 1744, probably to Gibbs's design. Brown contrived a Grecian valley which, despite its name, is an abstract composition of landform and woodland, and developed the Hawkwell Field, with Gibbs's most notable building, the Gothic Temple (now one of the properties leased from the National Trust but maintained by The Landmark Trust). As Loudon remarked in 1831, "nature has done little or nothing; man a great deal, and time has improved his labours". After Brown left, Earl Temple, who had inherited Stowe from his uncle Lord Cobham, turned to a garden designer called Richard Woodward, who had been gardener at Wotton House, the Earl's previous home. The work of naturalising the landscape started by Brown was continued under Woodward and was accomplished by the mid-1750s. At the same time Earl Temple turned his attention to the various temples and monuments. He altered several of Vanburgh's and Gibbs's temples to make them conform to his taste for Neoclassical architecture. To accomplish this he employed Giovanni Battista Borra from 1752 to 1756. Also at this time several monuments were moved to other parts of the garden. Earl Temple made further alterations in the gardens from the early 1760s. This is when several of the older structures were demolished and this time he turned to his cousin Thomas Pitt, 1st Baron Camelford who was assisted by Borra, whose most notable design was the Corinthian Arch. The next owner of Stowe, the Marquess of Buckingham, made relatively few changes to the gardens. He planted the two main approach avenues, added 28-acre (11 ha) to the garden east of the Cobham Monument and altered a few buildings. Vincenzo Valdrè was his architect and built a few new structures such as The Menagerie with its formal garden and the Buckingham Lodges at the southern end of the Grand Avenue, and most notably the Queen's Temple. He also created the formal gardens within the balustrade he added to the south front of the house and demolished a few more monuments in the gardens. The last significant changes to the gardens were made by the next two owners of Stowe, the 1st and 2nd Dukes of Buckingham and Chandos. The former succeeded in buying the Lamport Estate in 1826, which was immediately to the east of the gardens, adding 17 acres (6.9 ha) to the south-east of the gardens to form the Lamport gardens. This work was overseen by the head gardener, James Brown, who remodelled the eastern arm of the Octagon Lake and created a cascade beyond the Palladian Bridge. From 1840 the 2nd Duke of Buckingham's gardener Mr Ferguson created rock and water gardens in the new garden. The architect Edward Blore was also employed to build the Lamport Lodge and Gates as a carriage entrance, and also remodelled the Water Stratford Lodge at the start of the Oxford Avenue. As Stowe evolved from an English baroque garden into a pioneering landscape park, the gardens became an attraction for many of the nobility, including political leaders. Indeed, Stowe is said to be the first English garden for which a guide book was produced. Wars and rebellions were reputedly discussed among the garden's many temples; the artwork of the time reflected this by portraying caricatures of the better-known politicians of history taking their ease in similar settings. Stowe began to evolve into a series of natural views to be appreciated from a perambulation rather than from a well-chosen central point. In their final form the Gardens were the largest and most elaborate example of what became known in Europe as the English garden. The main gardens, enclosed within the ha-has (sunken or trenched fences) over four miles (6 km) in length, cover over 400 acres (160 ha), but the park also has many buildings, including gate lodges and other monuments. Many of the temples and monuments in the garden celebrate the political ideas of the Whig party and include quotes by many of the writers who are part of Augustan literature, also philosophers and ideas belonging to the Age of Enlightenment.
Stowe House is a grade I listed country house in Stowe, Buckinghamshire, England. It is the home of Stowe School, an independent school and is owned by the Stowe House Preservation Trust who have to date (March 2013) spent more than £25m on the restoration of the house. Stowe House is regularly open to the public and can be explored by guided tour all year round or during the school holidays you can explore at your own pace with a multimedia guide.
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Winter is the only season to spot Common mergansers on Berlin surrounding lakes. Unhopefully, only 10% of days are sunny during this time ..
At the end, I did what I could by a grey and a bit snowy saturday morning. Mergansers are relatively shy and don't let people get close easily. I had to spot a small groups feeding along the lake shore, hide myself behind a dead tree waiting for them to come, and eventually could take a few shots before they unhopefully became aware of my presence and swiftly took their distance.
I will come back again with a bit of sun, to get better tones.
Departure Bay is a bay in central Nanaimo, British Columbia, on the east coast of Vancouver Island. The surrounding neighbourhood is also referred to as "Departure Bay". It was once a settlement of its own, it was amalgamated into the City of Nanaimo in the 1970s.
Tramore Beach, Horn Head Peninsula, Dunfanaghy, County Donegal, Ireland
The name ‘Tramore’ in Gaelic Trá Mór translates to 'Big Beach' so nothing too mystical 😄 but indeed very accurate! as this sandy cove stretches 2km across the stunning Donegal coast.
What I enjoyed almost as much as strolling along this sandy paradise was the actual walk to reach it. Starting off through a little woodland and following a winding path until greeted with a vast plain of grassy sand dunes (Lurgabrack Dunes) which stretched for miles. These dunes are carpeted in scented wildflowers and brimming with many butterfly, bird & bee species. On the final stretch they show a commanding view over Tory Island on the horizon which is timeless.
On this beautiful evening I patiently watched the sea mist and clouds for several hours, which showed no signs of rising or retreating. Never have I witnessed clouds lay so low over the ocean for so long before. I knew if there was a vibrant sunset then the light may reflect off the low-lying cloud tops, hopefully giving an ethereal look to the surrounding landscape.
I love to let my mind wander free and can just imagine the mythical lost kingdom of Tír na nÓg resting nearby under these calm Atlantic waters 🌊
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Mon troisième jour sur Séoul. Une matinée où je traîne encore dans les quartiers environnants la "Galerie K" où j'expose. L'art me semble présent ici et partout, s'affichant sous de si nombreuses formes. Ici aussi, comme à Tokyo, des immeubles peuvent être entièrement consacrés à une galerie unique. Eaux et gaz à tous les étages. Dans l'un d'entre eux, je ne croiserais pas âme qui vive sur 4 étages. Je finirai sur sa terrasse à succomber à l'enivrement des lieux et de la cité. Après un déjeuner délicieux composé surtout d'une poule cuite au bouillon, farcie de riz aromatisé, je file vers l'ambassade des Etats Unis, en passant par le bâtiment 119, histoire de prendre la température suite à l'énorme manifestation de la veille. Calme plat, flics un peu partout. Là se trouve aussi l'immense Palais royal de Gyeongbokgung. Un lieu où tout est vaste. Ici le mystère s'établit pas à pas devant vos yeux. J'y pénétrerai le lendemain et assisterai même à la levée de sa garde. Un peu plus tard après une nouvelle douche à l'hôtel, je reprendrai ma marche errante dans la nuit de Séoul. Le GPS sera ma boussole en des lieux que je ne saurai nommer, désolé.
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My third day on Seoul. A morning where I still hang in the surrounding neighborhoods "Gallery K" where I expose. Art seems to me here and everywhere, appearing in so many forms. Here too, as in Tokyo, buildings can be entirely dedicated to a single gallery. Water and gas on all floors. In one of them, where I would not cross a living soul on 4 floors. I will finish on his terrace to succumb to the intoxication of the place and the city. After a delicious lunch consisting mostly of a chicken cooked in broth, stuffed with flavored rice, I go to the Embassy of the United States, through building 119, just to take the temperature following the huge demonstration of the day before. Quiet flat, cops everywhere. There is also the huge royal palace of Gyeongbokgung. A place where everything is vast. Here the mystery is established step by step before your eyes. I will enter the next day and will even attend the lifting of his guard. A little later after a new shower at the hotel, I will resume my wandering walk in the night of Seoul. The GPS will be my compass in places that I can not name,sorry.
the garden has been revamped and will take time to establish but on its way ...
rocks, stones, broken crockery and canes surrounding the plants to help prevent pet damage - works to a certain extent :)
for many years my garden was a shrubbery flic.kr/p/Lhv9ag which i loved. a picket fence covered in an ivy hedge coming down in a storm meant that over time changes had to happen flic.kr/p/2mn2x8a i'll be glad when the trellis is covered in honeysuckle and jasmine. that's the plan ... i'm not making recommendations. it's just chat ...
www.flickr.com/groups/gardening_is_my_hobby/ helpful for ideas. thank you for sharing
Found in the area surrounding Lake Nakuru, Kenya, in beautiful early morning light..
More photos to come! Here is my African safari album link
Clouds of white, above the blue
That stretches out in front of you
Surrounding the tree that does rise
Placing beauty in my eyes
That gaze at the clouds of purest white
Roaming the air filled with glorious light
Tavistock is just a couple of miles from the western edge of Dartmoor, and is one of our favourite small towns in the south-west of England. It has a reputation for its food shops, and has a delightful indoor "pannier market", which we love visiting. There is an internal road surrounding the market building (out of shot on the right), and on one side is this charming cafe - Dukes Coffee House - with tables under cover. If we decide to visit Dartmoor we often call in here and have a coffee and a bite to eat. And Judy can never resist wandering round the market to see what bargains she can find.
Maple Ridge, BC
Jerry Sulina Park is actually an off-leash dog park which is situated along the Trans Canada Trail.
The park itself consists of a fenced area enclosing a small pond and marsh area with a short series of trails. The pond and surrounding habitat is apparently home to many animals including turtles, cranes and several species of waterfowl.
The Trans Canada Trail system that runs through Pitt Meadows and Maple Ridge is one of a kind. In total the portion of the TCT that runs through our communities is over 21 km. It winds its way along the dykes and through city streets. There are many places to access the TCT trail system, Jerry Sulina Park is just one of them.
The sections of the TCT which are along the Alouette and Pitt rivers are absolutely stunning. The waterways and blueberry fields with the Golden Ears mountains as a backdrop summarize the beauty of Maple Ridge and Pitt Meadows perfectly.
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Thank-you for your visit, and please know that any faves or comments are always greatly appreciated!
Sonja
As written previously some strange encounters and experiences only hit the full impact mark with some delay.
On a recent event I was viciously struck, once again, by the fact how people are trying so hard to stand out from the crowd.
Clutching for recognition haunted and conforming to some distant paradigm.
In an almost perverted way of begging for attention, they act just merely all the same…
Waiting for a miracle to get noticed, dwelling around (could be a side effect of too many mojo-cocktails though) with eyes closed to their own originality.
Peculiar fact: they want to stand out and simultaneously being simply slightly different from the crowd terrifies them …
Exhausted by too much conversation, by all those attempts to come up with jokey and lively epigrams as the hours and the evening evolve, they seem to fill less and less the room, a kind of emptiness silently surrounding them. Awaiting some miracle solution or advice on how to navigate the crowd.
Wouldn’t it be more simple, every now and then, just to merciless avoid the crowd and just stand tall, against the wind …
At this year's iLight festival held at the Marina Bay and surrounding areas, several light and art installations can be found within walking distance from each other.
Often, many have environmental themes that evoke us to think of the impact that our actions have on the environment and Mother Nature.
In this shot here, numerous truncated pyramids transform from a natural light shaft in the day to a glowing beacon of interactive artificial lighting at night. It invites visitors to experience the calming and healing world of chromotherapy.
Walls surrounding the bailey of Carisbrooke Castle on the Isle of Wight, seen through an archway on the castle's keep. The castle is in the village of Carisbrroke, just outside the town of Newport, the county town of the Isle of Wight. Managed by English Heritage, the castle is best known for being one of the places that tyrannical king Charles I was imprisoned by parliamentary forces following his defeat in the English Civil War.
Surrounding the castle are magnificent beech woodlands. Planted sometime in the 18th century, this magical forest is home to both wild and manicured gardens, winding trails, and majestic trees.
You can follow one of the paths down to the sea and beach at Port Mora.
Near Portpatrick, Dumfries and Galloway.
Captured: Lighthouse grounds, Fire Island, NY.
There was a very mysterious mood surrounding the Fire Island Lighthouse on this night, as heavy fog had settled into the area. The mist was quite thick, and even helped to bathe the lighthouse in some eerie color.
I couldn't help but think that this was precisely the type of weather this night watchman was made to handle. With its powerful beam, the light could easily cut through the fog, and serve as a landmark for any ships sailing off Long Island's southern coast.
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This light has always been one of my favorite LI locations to shoot, and tends to show up every now and again in my photostream. This time around, I was here to attend an onsite photography workshop put on by my new friends at National Parks at Night.
NPAN had introduced me to the Blue Ridge Parkway over the summer, and it was a blast catching up with them again. Big thanks to Chris Nicholson, Gabe Biderman, and the rest of the NPAN team for a really fun night of light painting and night photography at this famous Long Island landmark.
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Externsteine is a natural outcropping of five enormous rock pillars in northern Germany, has probably been regarded as sacred since prehistoric times. The tallest limestone pillar is 38m high. The pillars have been modified and decorated by humans over the centuries in a variety of fascinating and mysterious ways: holes were drilled for no apparent reason; stairs lead to dead ends; platforms serve no clear purpose; and a large space faces the midsummer sunrise. The holes may have symbolized entry-points into the earth to release its energies, as at other rock sanctuaries. At the top one of the pillars, accessible by a sturdy metal footbridge, is a roofless chapel with a tiny pillar altar carved out of the rock. Little is known about the early history of Externsteine, and its precise origin and significance has baffled generations of scholars. It is relatively clear, at least, that it was an important shrine for Germanic paganism. One large room is believed to have been used to initiate priests in the cult. Some maintain, however, that the site was used for sacred purposes beginning in the 12th century, and was intended as a re-creation fo the Holy Land inspired by Crusader's tales.
The Externsteine is a distinctive limestone rock formation located in the Teutoburg Forest, near the town of Horn-Bad Meinberg - Germany. The stones are amazing and look very imposing. The climb is very steep but it was well worth it. The surounding lake and forest add up to a nice trip. In the woods surrounding the rocks there are a number of nice walking routes. Good for a nice walk in the forest.
De Externsteine zijn een formatie van zandstenen in het Teutoburgerwoud in Duitsland. De formatie bestaat uit enkele lange stenen, die abrupt uit het heuvelachtige landschap oprijzen. De stenen zijn van zandsteen en zijn ontstaan in het Krijt. De Externsteine gelden als een bezienswaardigheid in Noordrijn-Westfalen en tevens als voedingsbodem voor een raadsel. Dit komt doordat er sporen van menselijk gebruik uit de middeleeuwen, mogelijk uit de prehistorie, op zijn teruggevonden. Een rij van 13 grijze rotsen van 20 tot 38 meter hoogte boven de bergrug uit. Voor geologen betekent deze groep rotsen niets anders dan de rest van een zandsteenlaag, ook osning-zandsteen genoemd, dat ongeveer 120 miljoen jaren geleden door een geweldige uitbarsting verticaal opgeworpen werd. Door het hoge neerslagsniveau en de vries in de rotssplijten verweren de rotsoppervlaktes ook vandaag nog, waardoor de kloven zich in verschillende richtingen ontwikkelen. De rotsformatie is voor een belangrijk deel ook door de mens bewerkt. Bewerkingssporen verraden dat het complex eeuwenlang is gebruikt voor ceremoniële doeleinden. De uitgehakte tempel boven op een van de zuilen is hiervan het beste bewijs. Een ronde opening in de tempelwand zou een rol spelen bij de vroegste zonnestralen bij de zonnewende.
Afternoon light over the woodlands surrounding Malana ,an ancient Indian village in the state of Himachal Pradesh. The only village in the Malana Nala, a side valley of the Parvati Valley northeast of the Kullu Valley, it is isolated from the rest of the world.
The area surrounding Èze was first populated around 200 BC as a commune situated near Mount Bastide. The earliest occurrence of the name "Èze" can be found in the maritime books of Antonin as a bay called the St. Laurent of Èze
Èze has been described as an "eagle's nest" because of its location overlooking a high cliff 427 metres (1,401 ft) above sea level on the French Mediterranean. It is so high that the light ochre church within (Notre Dame de l’Assomption built in 1764) can be seen from afar. An Egyptian cross inside the church suggests the village's ancient roots, when the Phoenicians erected a temple there to honour the goddess Isis.
The garden was created after World War II on a chateau's ruins by town mayor André Gianton and Jean Gastaud of the Jardin Exotique de Monaco. It is sited on steep terrain falling over 400 meters to the sea with panoramic views of the coast, and known for its impressive collection of cactus and succulents from the Mediterranean region, Africa, and the Americas.
The historically preserved half-timbered cemetery church from the second half of the 16th century and its surrounding area have undergone extensive renovations in the past five years. Thanks to these changes, the complex has transformed into a pleasant oasis in the middle of the city, radiating the charm of history, comfort and interesting discovery. Additionally, there is plenty of entertainment and experiences for the whole family.
Visitors can explore a lapidarium with historical stone and wooden artifacts (crosses, tombstones, parts of portals, and sculptures) as well as partially restored original architecture (floors, roofs, galleries, benches, and more) inside the church. The church can be visited during May and June only on weekends, from 10:00 AM to 6:00 PM. During the summer holidays, it will be open every day except Monday.
The historic structure is surrounded on all sides by a newly revitalized park with rich shrub and herb plantings, providing visitors a pleasant retreat amid a flood of flowers and scents. Nectar-producing plants also offer food for pollinators and, consequently for their predators, such as songbirds. Trees felled during the renovations have been repurposed as beetle habitats, creating a habitat for beneficial insects associated with decaying wood.
Part of the park, freely accessible every day except Monday from 10:00 AM to 6:00 PM, includes a new nature trail with accurately rendered models of the most common local insect species and interesting information about them. The trail connects the church area with its immediate surroundings, creating a larger complex that, in addition to educational stops, offers entertainment, social, spiritual and cultural-aesthetic experiences.
Excerpt from en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central_Government_Complex_(Hong_Kong):
The Central Government Complex has been the headquarters of the Government of Hong Kong since 2011. Located at the Tamar site, the complex comprises the Central Government Offices, the Legislative Council Complex and the Office of the Chief Executive of Hong Kong. The complex has taken over the roles of several buildings, including the former Central Government Offices (CGO), Murray Building and the former Legislative Council Building.
The architect was Rocco Yim, who premised the massing on the concept of "door always open". The new government building uses neither Chinese nor European government building designs, but instead it is a mix of postmodern architecture and low-frills international design. The building initially had an open design, but has been heavily fortified after various protests.
The complex was originally designed by Yim under the concept of "Door Always Open", symbolising the pride that Hong Kong holds in its "openness and transparency of governance". In keeping with this theme, the complex was meant to be accessible to the public and integrated with the surrounding urban context, and incorporates a range of public spaces. Tamar Park passes through the complex, leading to the waterfront promenade on Victoria Harbour.
The Civic Square in front of the complex's East Wing has been blocked off from public access with a permanent fence.
History:
There are many legends surrounding the Ekenäs Castle and every castle worth its salt has obviously Ekenäs several resident ghosts.
One of those eerie legends relating Earl Mauritz Vellingk (1651-1727) who was a general, diplomat, adviser to the Swedish King and Governor General of Bremen-Verden. When Frederick I, King of Sweden ended Vellink in conflict with him as the Earl urged the Holstein throne while the king took a stand for the hannoverska.
King Frederick I chose to show the privy Parliamentary committee documents relating to secret loans Vellink taken in Prussia for the Swedish state's behalf. Vellink arrested and sentenced to lose lives, honor and property. The punishment was changed, however, before it could be implemented and mitigated to imprisonment of Linköping Castle, loss of Vellinks councilor position and his shield of Nobility.
Vellink were never to sit in prison in Linköping, on his way to, he died in Mjölby inn.
It is not, however, Earl himself haunting in Ekenäs, but a boy as he let incarcerate in a vaulted cellar. It is said that when problems began to pile up for the count, he was looking up a bunch of important documents, placed them in the heaviest coffin he could find and took the help of a poor shepherd boy to dump the casket in the lake Teden just outside the castle.
In order not to let the shepherd boy, whose name was Nils, reveal what happened sounded Vellink turn him into a cellar. From this point on the various stories a bit apart. Some argue that Vellink from the start sounded mura the door to the vault for the boy would die there. Others say instead that the door was not walled up, but the idea was that the boy would eventually be released, but that he had forgotten where (or Vellink arrested and therefore could not return for placing Nils). Eventually Nils died of hunger and cold, and when the corpse eventually found bricked it up to hide what happened. Regardless, Nils became a ghost who still said to haunt Ekenäs.
According to legend, one should certainly not try to enter "Nisse's den" because then something bad happen with both Ekenäs Castle and its owner. There are also stories of people who tried not gone far before they hit by acute illness or horrific accidents.