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The birthplace of Thomas Bewick, Northumbria's greatest artist, wood engraver and naturalist. Also the 19thC farmhouse, home of the Bewick family, houses a small exhibition on Bewick's life and work. Birthplace cottage, farmyard animals including pet donkeys, lambs and poultry and garden with picnic lawn. Beautiful views of the Tyne Valley and short walk from south bank of River Tyne. Print workshop on the premises.
Created for Saturday Self Challenge ~ DIAGONALS
Probably not acceptable, as this is a creation of my mind - please delete if you wish
All work done in Photoshop 2024 and MidJourney
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Thank you very much for your comments and faves, regretfully, I am finding it increasingly difficult to reply to your comments, because of my very limited time on the internet, due to constant power interruptions in South Africa. I do read and appreciate every one of them, however! Thanks again!!
The National Trust is usually thought of as an organisation to protect historic buildings but as I learnt in Dorset they all protect precious habitats. These delightful sand dunes on Studland Bay are managed by the Trust and appear to be thriving . Maintaining a sand dune is clearly a complex process . The following notes are from the Trust website the information contained I thought was fascinating .
“What we know about sand dunes, how they function and thrive, has changed. Previously, we thought dunes should be stabilised – protected from disturbance and cornered off from people. And so, fences were put up, we were told to stay away, and the dunes had nothing to keep them dynamic. Climate change and air pollution only made matters worse. They sent a boost of energy and nutrients into an ecosystem that had formed on the bare minimum, catalysing plant growth. Combine our intentional and unintentional efforts, and we began to lose the essence of our sand dunes.
We removed factors that would normally result in cycles of dune formation and instead accelerated the forward process. Now Studland’s mosaic landscape is slowly becoming smothered by gorse and trees. Open sandy habitats are being buried and rare wildlife pushed out. Data from the Cyril Diver citizen science project in 2016, reveals species like the Sand Lizard and Meadow Pipit shrinking in distribution, their numbers squeezed to the dune edges.
Studland’s dunes need our help. We need to slow down the acceleration of plant growth, restore Studland’s mosaic landscape and bring back the dynamic nature of our dunes into a self-regulating system. These are the aims of the Dynamic Dunescapes project. The project is a partnership between Natural England, Plantlife, Natural Resources Wales, The Wildlife Trusts and the National Trust, with National Trust sites including Woolacombe and Studland Bay.
At Studland Bay, four routes will be taken to restore the dunes:
1 Bare ground creation: Using tractors and mechanical excavators to clear sections of dense vegetation and re-create areas of bare sandy ground.
2 Reintroducing cattle grazing: Cattle mimic the benefits wild herbivores have on an ecosystem; they create bare ground, crop vegetation and form mosaic landscapes. In 2021, ten Red Devon cattle will arrive to Studland and start grazing the dense vegetation at the centre of the dunes.
3 Removing invasive carp from Little Sea: Carp were illegally introduced to a freshwater lake, known as Little Sea, triggering an ecological collapse. Dynamic Dunescapes will provide funding to remove carp from Little Sea and restore the ecosystem.
4 People: What better way to open the land, limit vegetation growth and create some much-needed disturbance than our very own feet? We want to remove the presumption that exploring the dunes will harm them. Instead we want to encourage people into the dunes, to learn about them, experience their beauty and help get them back to their sandy ways.
THANKS FOR YOUR VISITING BUT CAN I ASK YOU NOT TO FAVE AN IMAGE WITHOUT ALSO MAKING A COMMENT. MANY THANKS KEITH.
ANYONE MAKING MULTIPLE FAVES WITHOUT COMMENTS WILL SIMPLY BE BLOCKED
The bridge is the Almond Eye Bridge (from information sign).
And after a bit of help from Uncle Google the building on the island is the Shinto Shrine (some call it the Shinto temple).
www.tattonpark.org.uk/what_to_see_and_do/gardens/garden_a...
Turkey Vulture (Cathartes aura) and a juvenile Red-shouldered Hawk (Buteo lineatus) - Joe Overstreet Landing, Lake Kissimmee, Kenansville, Florida
Trust to a point,
but they'd just as soon not look at each other.
I could understand the RS not looking at the butt ugly TV,
but can't understand why the TV wouldn't look at the handsome SR. Jealousy??
Note:
This is a 2 capture composite image,
with one capture was focused on the TV,
and the other focused on the RS.
I could have gotten both in good focus at Æ’/22,
but favored a larger aperture (Æ’/4.5) to get better subject isolation from the background.
A bond of trust exists between the Kazakh eagle trainers and their golden eagles, as can be seen in this black and white image from the Sunkar Raptor Falcon Sanctuary, Almaty, Kazakhstan.
06/10/2018 www.allenfotowild.com
While not forever, this will be the last one for the year.
Time to forget the old, and welcome the new.
Time for champagne and hopeful promises.
Time for resolutions and grand ideas.
Time for the last toast and final kiss.
Time for a brand new year!
Here's to a happy 2009! Hope for a good one for all my Flickr friends.
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I have to pop back to Attingham Park to have a better look at these, I think they're just great. All start from a simple log, I'm inspired to get outside and try doing one myself!!
The garden team consists of the Head Gardener, Assistant Head Gardener and four full-time gardeners, aided by two National Trust trainees, a college placement and many volunteers.
Their aim is to present this natural paradise at its best to the 350,000 annual visitors, whilst also caring for the walled gardens and greenhouses near Stourhead House. Their challenge is to balance the needs of visitors with those of conservation.
This farmhouse is located in the grounds of Barrington Court, a National Trust property in Somerset. The farmhouse is not open to the public although the main house and grounds are.
I quite like the stonework and the climbing flowers on the front of the property. The gate and path leading to the front door also caught my attention and the sense of mystery created by the two trees in the front garden.
The property is a grade 2 listed building although it only dates from the early 1920’s. The listing gives it legal protection from demolition or major alterations without prior approval from the Local Authority – South Somerset Council.
To view more of my images, taken The Vyne, please click "here" !
The Vyne is a 16th-century country house outside Sherborne St John, Basingstoke, Hampshire, England. It was built for Lord Sandys, King Henry VIII's Lord Chamberlain. The house retains its Tudor chapel, with stained glass. The classical portico on the north front was added in 1654 by Inigo Jones's pupil John Webb. In the mid-eighteenth century The Vyne belonged to Horace Walpole's close friend John Chaloner Chute, who designed the Palladian staircase, whose magnificent apparent scale belies its actual small size. The Vyne was bequeathed by its final Chute owner, Sir Charles Chute, to the National Trust in 1958. Each year a number of concerts, plays and family events are run. The grounds contain large woodland and a wetlands nesting site which is populated by swans and Common Redshanks. There are a number of woodland, wetland and parkland walking trails. Dogs are welcome into the grounds (on leads), in Morgaston Woods and the Organic Parklands (under direct control). The Vyne holds an inscribed Roman ring as well as a lead tablet that speaks of a curse on the one who stole it. J.R.R. Tolkien was asked to comment on it as an expert on Anglo-Saxon history, including its connection to a mine fabled to have been dug by dwarves, and a few days after began writing Lord of the Rings.
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