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period of travel: 11.05. - 27.05.2018
Flight from TXL via LHR to Los Angeles, from there roundtrip by car through California, Arizona, New Mexico, Colorado Wyoming and South Dakota
stations were: Yoshua Tree NP (CA), Tucson (AZ), Carlsbad (NM), Taos Pueblo (NM), Rio Grande Gorge Bridge (NM), Great Sand Dune NP (CO), Colorado Springs, Top of the Peak Pike - 4200 meters (CO), Denver (CO), Badlands NP (SD), Rapid City (SD), Mount Rushmore NP (SD), Crazy Horse Memorial (SD), Rocky Mountains NP (CO), Canyonlands NP (UT), Flagstaff (AZ), Seligman (AZ), Los Angeles Harbour - USS Iowa (CA)
47 828 heads 5Z60 Carnforth to Tyseley heading down the Sutton Park line with 57 315 on the opposite end of the train. The tree growth at this location has been phoenominal during the past 12 months with the shot of anything heading in the Park Lane direction nigh on impossible.
Part of the curious southern small tor in the copse to the north of Two Moors Way between Dog Marsh Bridge and Hunter's Tor East Dartmoor. This looks like a tree monster choking on a rock.
Brisbane Ranges, Anakie trip: Stony Creek reservoir, valve housing, smal stone weirs, stone lined tunnels, cast-iron siphons etc.
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WATER SUPPLY .
In 1866, a large area comprising 1,560 .
hectares at the head of Stony Creek was .
reserved for catchment protection. The Stony .
Creek Dam was constructed in 1866-67 as .
Geelong’s first water supply catchment .
reservoir. The eastern embankment which .
formed the dam was 25 metres from ground .
level to the crest of the embankment. At the .
time of construction it was one of the highest .
earthen embankments in the world. .
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The dam was designed to provide a storage .
capacity of 3,427 million litres. The high .
earthen embankment did not prove completely .
satisfactory. Shortly after construction the .
embankment sank several feet. After a .
serious slip in 1872 water was drained from .
the reservoir. .
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At the same time, a smaller additional storage .
reservoir was built at Lower Stony Creek to .
provide a storage capacity of 645 million litres. .
The water was piped to Geelong via Anakie. .
Miners provided the labour to dig tunnels and .
channels and to build dams and roads. .
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After the formation of the Geelong Waterworks .
and Sewerage Trust (now Barwon Water) in .
1908, the embankment of the Upper Stony .
Creek Dam was restored to its original design .
height..
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CREATION OF A PARK .
The use of Brisbane Ranges as a water supply .
catchment was significant, as it resulted in the .
protection of valuable area of native .
vegetation. As early as 1918 the Field .
Naturalists Club of Victoria proposed the .
reserve of the Brisbane Ranges as a national .
park. ....
Botanical Garden of the University of Vienna
Botanical Garden in September 2007. In the background, the Upper Belvedere .
(pictures you can see by clicking on the link at the end of page!)
Botanical Garden, ginkgo Jacquin, April 2005.
Botanical Garden, succulents, outdoor area, April 2005.
The Botanical Garden of the University of Vienna (Hortus Botanicus Vindobonensis, HBV) is a botanical garden that was established in 1754 in the 3rd Viennese district Landstraße.
The Botanical Garden is a facility of the Faculty of Life Sciences at the University of Vienna. It is approximately 8 acres and is home to about 9,500 species. The tasks of the Botanical Garden include university research and teaching, the conservation of endangered plant species and seed and plant exchange with other institutions. A large part of the garden, adjacent to the Belvedere gardens is open to the public and serves as a recreational area.
History
The Botanical Garden was founded in 1754 as a "Hortus Medicus" (Medizinalpflanzengarten) on 1 ha. To this end, Maria Theresa - at the suggestion of her personal physician, Gerard van Swieten - had bought at Rennweg a 2-hectare estate. The order for the planning and design got Robert Laugier (1722-1793), who was since 1749 in Vienna. After having taken place the acquisition of the property, Laugier became first garden director (a position he held from 1754 until his retirement in 1768) as well as first chair holder of botany and chemistry, chairs that had been created afresh.
It subsequently evolved into a scientifically oriented botanical garden, the plants were arranged according to the Linnaean system (Linnaean taxonomy). Laugier's successor as director was Nicholas Joseph von Jacquin (Director 1768-1796). At that time the garden was home for about 8,000 species, the area was increased to approximately 7.8 acres. Jacquin's son Joseph Franz von Jacquin became his successor as director (1796-1839).
From 1841 on, the open land following the English garden style according to the system of Stephan Ladislaus Endlicher, who was director from 1839 to 1849, was redesigned. It had been layed out an officinal department with 196 beds. 1844 the Botanical Museum was built. Head gardener Joseph Diefenbach continued the redevelopment of the gardens in the sense of Endlicher. Director from 1849 to 1879 was Edward Schimmer. At this time the to European Botanic Gardens new concept of the phytogeographical groups was developed .
From 1883 to 1890, the Jacquingasse was created whereby the garden area was reduced to about 6 ha. 1890-1893 was built by director Anton Kerner von Marilaun (1878-1898) the greenhouse plant with tropical house. 1904/ 05 followed the new construction of the Botanical Institute and laying out of the biological groups.
1930, the Botanical Garden was to the so-called Host'schen garden at the southern end extended (formerly private garden of the Hapsburgs), as a result the garden reached its present size of approximately 8 ha. The adjacent Alpine Garden remained with the Belvedere gardens. Director from 1899-1931 was from Richard Wettstein. At the beginning of the 40s under director Fritz Knoll (1931-1945) the Alpine Garden was recreated in its current area.
Due to bomb damages during the Second World War (more than 40 hits), the demolition of the Botanical Museum and the felling of about 200 trees was necessary. Up to the 1970s under director Lothar Geitler (1945-1969) took place the removal of war damages and the reconstruction of the collections.
1970 the Host'sche garden was opened to visitors. 1975 began the general refurbishment of the institute building (until 1992) and the greenhouses, Director 1970-1995 was Frederick Ehrendorfer. In the 80s, the experimental house were built and created new experimental areas. In 1991, the Association of the Friends of the Botanical Garden was founded.
From 1995 on, the rehabilitation of the greenhouses was continued and the tropical house opend to the public. The Canaries group was built and expanded the group of the Austrian flora. Michael Hesse (1995-1997) was followed by Tod Stuessy (1995-2005) as director, since January 2006, Michael Kiehn is director of the botanical garden.
The garden collections include:
Abies pinsapo
Aesculus pavia
Cephalotaxus harringtonia
Diospyros lotus
Elaeagnus angustifolia
Ephedra
Ficus carica
Ginkgo biloba
Gunnera chilensis
+Laburnocytisus adamii
Liriodendron tulipifera
Magnolia
Metasequoia glyptostroboides
Graves of Nikolaus Joseph von Jacquin and Joseph Franz von Jacquin on the grounds
Nothofagus antarctica
Ostrya carpinifolia
Parrotia persica
Paulownia tomentosa
Phyllostachys viridiglaucescens
Pinus aristata
Platanus orientalis
Poncirus trifoliata
Prunus tenella
Rhododendron
Salvia
Sequoiadendron giganteum
Syringa
Viburnum
Vitis riparia
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When the kids were 2 and 4 years old (1990) acorn got translated to egg-horn. We wouldn’t have dreamed that high winds would take it down 35 years later.
A shot like this would be impossible in colour...
IR @665nm, red and blue channels swapped, individual colours tweaked.
Put a mirror down the middle of these tall trees in the woods of Hampden and they would probably appear as if they could be mirror images of one another - clever mother nature!
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The work is in the middle of a roundabout on the Canary Wharf Estate - can it really be true that motorists were initially confused by it, and tried to obey the signals?
From the plaque nearby:
"The sculpture imitates the natural landscape of the adjacent London Plane trees while the changing pattern of the lights reveals and reflects the never-ending rhythm of the surrounding domestic, financial and commercial activities."
Watch this clip of the lights in action.