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The 1834 Vídimyri turf covered church in North Iceland is considered to be a masterpiece of old Icelandic architecture. The turf has to be renewed regularly.
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Down the players tunnel at Turf Moor
Burnley FC.
The Burnley players come down these steps onto the hallowed turf to massive rapturous applause and cheering at the beginning of each game.
This always makes the hair on my arms and neck stand up. I love to see the Claret & Blue.
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Turf Moor is my church
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A disagreement over who should occupy one perch, when there were many to choose from. Sometimes birds behave like humans I guess. They want something just because someone else has it.
The hummer on the bottom was bathing inside a shasta daisy (I have a sprinkler going) when the guy above came along and interrupted him. The smoke makes for beautiful oranges, more vibrant than normal
Our yard is thick with hummingbirds right now. Certain times of the day are like Grand Central Station. Lot's a jockeying for position and aerial battles. Sometimes it even comes to fisticuffs as you hear physical contact being made. I came so close to getting clobbered yesterday as one male let it be known that I was not welcome in my own back yard. It is super entertaining to watch these guys. This is a male Anna's hummingbird.
The song that brightens up our winters and sounds enchanting to us is designed to tell rivals, in no uncertain terms, that this territory is taken!
The year ended with a fantastic morning on the Norfolk Broads. One of the highlights of my year, the rest can be seen on my blog looking back at 2016. www.justinminns.co.uk/blog/2016/12/2016review
A visit to Norfolk would never be complete without the obligatory shot of one of the many Water Mills. I didn't have much luck with sunrises or sunsets during my weeks stay. However, the forecast for sunset on my last night looked favourable. I made my way to the River Ant and walked out to Turf Fen Drainage Mill, which I had passed the day previously on a rented Boat. You cannot get across to the mill without a boat, but there is a footpath and mooring opposite. The mooring was pretty busy with boats but there was a decent gap to get this shot across the River Ant. There was very little cloud, but just enough to give a little bit of sky interest and colour.
Turf Fen Drainage Mill was built around 1875 to drain the Horning Marsh into the River Ant to make the land available for grazing. The Mill is 31 feet high and had a unique double scooped wheel. It went out of service in 1920 and like all the other Broads Mills has been replaced by modern pumping systems.
Turf church from the village of Hof in the Eastern Region of Iceland.
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A pair of Rainbow Lorikeets are under attack as they check out a pair of Red-rumped Parrots nest hollow.
Or should it be "Fighting on the Edge" A pair of Gannets locked jowl to jowl on a 500 foot cliff top at RSPB Troup head Moray coast.
I was treated to a nice moonrise in my "backyard" last month and was fortunate enough to have my small Konica Genba Kantoku with me at the time.
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March 2022
Old farm in Glaumbær in northern Iceland.
Because of the scarcity of wood on the island, turf was used to build houses in Iceland. This old farm from the late 18th century is built in burstabær style, with its wooden ends or gaflar.
2 G B Herons fighting over "The Spot"
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Hockey is a big deal in Edina and all of Minnesota, so how appropriate is it to grab a photo of the southbound MN&S Job near the Minnesota Made Ice Center? The train passed under the quirky tunnel structure at W 70th Street and is now coming alongside the stretch of artificial turf for athletes to run a quick 40-yard dash at the training center.
This is one of the last remaining "turf churches" in Iceland, and the only one that still has services.
It was built in 1884, and renovated in the 1950's.
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A couch made from strips and blocks of turf sits in a bayside park in Keflavík on the Reykjanes Peninsula, Iceland. Turf cut from the Icelandic landscape has long been used in construction on the Island. From the Age of Settlement up until the turn of the 20th Century, turf houses dominated Icelandic housing design. These abodes were in essence timber houses, methodologically based upon the longhouse designs of Norway, Sweden, Denmark and the Scottish Isles, but adjusted to specific Icelandic conditions.
The foundation of turf houses was usually one or more layers of rock, but with a wooden structural base. The walls were double-stacked and lined with compressed soil for isolation; before an outer layer of turf, cut into strings, diamonds or squares got pressed together; creating the grassy surface of these original and iconic Icelandic homes.