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St. Cyril's Monastery (Ukrainian: Кирилівський монастир, translit. Kyrylivs’kyi monastyr) is a medieval monastery in Kyiv, the capital of Ukraine. The monastery contains the famous St. Cyril's Church, an important specimen of Kyivan Rus architecture of the 12th century, and combining elements of the 17th and 19th centuries. However, being largely Ukrainian Baroque on the outside, the church retains its original Kyivan Rus interior.
St. Cyril's Church, including the medieval interior frescoes and the 1880s murals by the famous Russian painter Mikhail Vrubel, were fortunately preserved. The remaining constructions of the complex, the rest of the monastic walls, one corner tower (see picture), and two buildings constructed by Barskyi were also preserved. Of the monastery's cemetery, only two 18th century graves remained.
St. Cyril's Church (Ukrainian: Кирилівська церква, translit. Kyrylivs’ka tserkva) is a rectangular-shaped structure with three apses jutting out on the eastern side. The church's dome and vaults rest upon six cruciform piers. A staircase built into the north wall leads up to the gallery in the western section. On this side there is also a chapel - a rare feature of ancient Kyivan Rus churches. The baptistery and the niches of the narthex are other uncommon features. Originally, each of the vaults was roofed with plates of sheet steel.
Throughout the centuries, the church suffered more than once from devastating enemy raids and a devastating fire in 1734. The church was restored and reconstructed many times, altering its original appearance. As St. Cyril's Church is located within the contemporary limits of Kyiv, the church is the only medieval church structure that survived until the 20th century without any major additions. The current exterior of the church was shaped during restoration works carried out during 1750–1760, by the Ukrainian architect Ivan Hryhorovych-Barskyi. Although containing elements of Ukrainian Baroque on the exterior, the interior remains largely unchanged from its original style.
Alex Pangman at one of her rare performances in public in the last 2 years. She had two lung transplants, so she is immune compromised and careful to stay healthy. She had mostly on-line concerts during the lockdowns. A miracle that she is still singing. Her voice is unchanged even in comparison when she had her own lungs. Toronto Jazz Festival 2022 with Russ Little, Drew Jurecka, Tom Slezniak.
115. Yorkville 2022 June 25, P1270947; Uploaded 2022 July 01. Lmx -ZS100.
St Nicholas’ Church
Situated in Arne Road, Arne, DORSET BH20 5BJ
The church was built in the early 13th century by the order of the Abbess of Shaftsbury and dedicated to St Nicholas of Myra. The building was first a chantry (a building dedicated to the saying of prayers or singing of hymns). It was then annexed by the Holy Trinity Church, Wareham as a Chapel of Ease (St Nicholas was a church used by the parishioners of Wareham to attend when it was too difficult to attend their main church).
The church consists of a body and a chancel, under one roof with a porch and a buttress. The architecture is early English. The East window is a triple lancet and can be used to dating the church to about 1220. There are a few other 13th lancet windows on both north and south walls. The walls are ironstone and the roof is tiled and partly stone slates. It is remarkably unchanged since its early construction.
There is a bell but no tower. The bell is hung in the roof space at the west end of the church. The original bell was installed in 1625 but then replaced in 1782. This new bell cast by the company Chapman and Mears. There were restorations in the 19th century and in 1952 but I cannot find out what they were.
The church is sat upon a mound and has a fine view from the altar window over the harbour. It has also won an award for the quality of wildflowers in the Churchyard.
Where else can I go
As this is all I remember
My life was bound up with yours
Everything else was split asunder
People have come and gone
And soon I didn’t recognise anyone
The years passed and still I stayed
Everything rolled into one
You let me still carry the flame
Or maybe I have become the light
I like to lead everybody in
See them seated left and right
I open up the book of words
My hands ghosting across the pages
I find and read my favourite psalm
Still unchanged through the ages
My heart soars with love again
As serenity and peace surrounds me
You were always waiting here
My fears and worries unfounded
I should have really always known
You would not have deserted me
I am your loyal priest and servant
The one who couldn’t leave here alone
The places we love, the lands we call home, the sacred buildings we worship in, are precious to us. The past can merge into the present, and spirits sometimes cannot leave.
Church of St.Mary, Eastbourne, East Sussex, UK.
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Die Peking, ein Hamborger Veermaster, hat es 34 mal um Kap Horn geschafft und liegt jetzt am Bremer Kai im Hansahafen. Die Hamburger Reederei F. Laeisz ließ die Stahl-Bark 1911 auf der Werft Blohm & Voss bauen. Sie ist bis heute nahezu unverändert geblieben. Bis 1932 wurde die PEKING als Frachtschiff zum Salpeter-Transport aus Chile eingesetzt.
The Peking, a four-master from Hamburg, has made it around Cape Horn 34 times and is now moored at Bremen's quay in the Hansa Harbor. The Hamburg shipping company F. Laeisz had the steel barque built at the Blohm & Voss shipyard in 1911. It has remained virtually unchanged to this day. Until 1932 the PEKING was used as a cargo ship for transporting saltpeter from Chile.
The train pauses at Staverton, a delightful count The Staverton Preservation Group are a dedicated band of volunteers from the South Devon Railway Association who look after Staverton Station and its environs. They are responsible for one of the most picturesque Great Western country stations.
It has been the focus of attention from numerous film and television crews; notably the BBC "Hound of the Baskervilles" with Tom Baker, the series "Lame Ducks" with Loraine Chase, Michael Palin's "Ripping Yarns" humorous series of fictious stories and the series "A Horseman Riding By".ry station, which has remained largely unchanged for 100 years, taking you back to halcyon days when life was slower and quieter.
It is typical small wayside station that served the nearby village as well as the adjoining mill and local farms, some of which used to produce Devon cider. If you have time, stop off here and take a walk and enjoy this tranquil spot and its 15th century river bridge.
There are a number of delightful riverside walks. Ask at the station for details.
Throughout the season, the Staverton Buffet Car is open for a delicious selection of teas, coffees, drinks and snacks every Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday, from 10am to 3pm. It is also open on certain special event days
If you look at the mountain from far away it does not seem so big, but once you get closer it reveals itself as this lonely giant that sit upon a plain, observing and controlling everything around. It seems as if it has been there since the beginning and will stay till the end, unchanged.
Mountain can be unforgivable for those who approach it unprepared and careless. Mountain knows how to deal with overconfidence... It doesn't care who you are or what you do, it treats everyone equally.
One needs to approach it with humility and respect to manage to conquer it. It should be conquered with patience embracing every step, as all the experience and all the growth happens while you are climbing it, not directly on the top.
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St Nicholas’ Church
Situated in Arne Road, Arne, DORSET BH20 5BJ
The church was built in the early 13th century by the order of the Abbess of Shaftsbury and dedicated to St Nicholas of Myra. The building was first a chantry (a building dedicated to the saying of prayers or singing of hymns). It was then annexed by the Holy Trinity Church, Wareham as a Chapel of Ease (St Nicholas was a church used by the parishioners of Wareham to attend when it was too difficult to attend their main church).
The church consists of a body and a chancel, under one roof with a porch and a buttress. The architecture is early English. The East window is a triple lancet and can be used to dating the church to about 1220. There are a few other 13th lancet windows on both north and south walls. The walls are ironstone and the roof is tiled and partly stone slates. It is remarkably unchanged since its early construction.
There is a bell but no tower. The bell is hung in the roof space at the west end of the church. The original bell was installed in 1625 but then replaced in 1782. This new bell cast by the company Chapman and Mears. There were restorations in the 19th century and in 1952 but I cannot find out what they were.
The church is sat upon a mound and has a fine view from the altar window over the harbour. It has also won an award for the quality of wildflowers in the Churchyard.
The house had been the home of the Dryden family since its construction in the 16th century; the manor house was built in approximately 1550 with additions in the 1590s, in the 1630s and 1710.The interior of the house is noted for its Elizabethan wall paintings and its Jacobean plasterwork. It has remained essentially unchanged since 1710 and is presented as it was during the time of Sir Henry Edward Leigh Dryden (1818–1899), a Victorian antiquary with an interest in history. His daughter, the historian and photographer Alice Dryden (1866–1956) was born in the house and lived there for 33 years. She moved away after her father died, since a woman could not inherit the estate and it went to her uncle, Sir Alfred Erasmus Dryden
Monschau
(French: Montjoie, Walloon: Mondjoye)
The town is located in the hills of the North Eifel, within the Hohes Venn – Eifel Nature Park in the narrow valley of the Rur river.
The historic town center has many preserved half-timbered houses and narrow streets have remained nearly unchanged for 300 years, making the town a popular tourist attraction nowadays. An open-air, classical music festival is staged annually at Burg Monschau. Historically, the main industry of the town was cloth-mills.
Source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monschau
St Ives has a timelessness and we should have been going here in a fortnight but its off now because of covid -19 but it will be waiting and unchanged I am sure......
Taken in 2009
Der Kniepsand auf Amrum ist von einer unfassbaren Weite, eine Wüste in der Nordsee, ein sich ständig änderndes lebendiges Medium. Es gibt keine zwei Stunden, in denen der Kniepsand unverändert bleibt. Wind, Wasser, Sonne und Regen hinterlassen unentwegt ihre Spuren. Ein Ort für Meditation und Besinnung.
The knee-saddle on Amrum is an ever-changing living medium of an incomprehensible expanse, a desert in the North Sea. There are not two hours in which the knee-joint remains unchanged. Wind, water, sun and rain always leave their mark. A place for meditation and reflection.
My older brother Georg had the idea that we should take a walk through the part of town where we were both born and where we lived until I was 5 years old. Then we moved to another part of the city.
We looked at the house we were born in. We looked at the stairwell, which looked unchanged ... after sooo many years, decades.
Incredibly many memories!
Then we went to the cemetery where our grandparents were buried.
The graves have not existed for a long time, but this avenue of trees. I remember as if it were yesterday when we walked this way behind my grandpa's coffin.
I was two and a half years old at that time.
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Mein älterer Bruder Georg, hatte die Idee, wir sollten mal einen Spaziergang durch das Viertel der Stadt machen in dem wir beide geboren wurden und gelebt haben, bis ich 5 Jahre alt war. Dann zogen wir in ein anderes Stadtviertel.
Wir schauten uns das Haus an in dem wir geboren wurden. Haben uns das Treppenhaus angesehen, das wie unverändert aussah.... nach sooo vielen Jahren, Jahrzehnten.
Unglaublich viele Erinnerungen!
Dann sind wir zum Friedhof, wo unsere Großeltern beerdigt wurden.
Die Gräber existieren schon lange nicht mehr, aber diese Baumallee. Ich erinnere mich, als wäre es gestern, daran wie wir diesen Weg hinter dem Sarg meines Opas gegangen sind.
Ich war zweieinhalb Jahre alt.
HONOR is the topic for Saturday, September 11, 2021 Group Our Daily Challenge
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Toruń - is one of the oldest Polish cities (in 1233 the town was granted municipal rights).
Nicolaus Copernicus Birthplace.
The Old Town Torun is one of the most valuable historical monuments in Poland. In 1997, he was listed on the UNESCO World Heritage List. It includes Old and New Town with almost unchanged 13th-century urban layout and the area of the Teutonic Castle.
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Toruń - jest jednym z najstarszych miast Polski (prawa miejskie uzyskał w 1233 roku).
Miejsce urodzenia Mikołaja Kopernika.
Zespół Staromiejski Torunia jest jednym z najcenniejszych zespołów zabytkowych w Polsce. W 1997 roku został wpisany na Listę Światowego Dziedzictwa Kulturowego UNESCO. Obejmuje Stare i Nowe Miasto z zachowanym prawie bez zmian XIII-wiecznym układem urbanistycznym oraz teren zamku krzyżackiego.
It received this name because it was the only block that survived to a catastrophic flood in the city. Its residents want to leave it unchanged as a tribute to those who lost everything after this event.
Each building has tiles along the facade's lower walls in bright colors and dimensioned images ("Zocalos"). Many of the tiles are tied to the products sold by the shops, or the beliefs of the residents. Others are cultural images of the farming heritage of the community.
Guatapé - Colombia
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“Photography for me is not looking, it’s feeling. If you can’t feel what you’re looking at, then you’re never going to get others to feel anything when they look at your pictures.” Don McCullin (1935)
The appearance is similar to the Ukrainian Athos called the Holy Trinity Monastery, located in the hills above the Dnieper between forests. One of the hills is called Kytay-mountain, according to one version is name and gave the monastery name. The first settlers came to the mountain of Kitay Lavra Kyiv-Pechersk in the sixteenth and seventeenth. The central temple of the monastery is the Church of the Holy Trinity.
It is commonly believed that the skete near the ancient Chinas caves originated in the 17th century. But the documented history of the monastery begins in 1716, when the means of Dmitry Golitsyn built a wooden church in honor of St. Sergius of Radonezh, a refectory and a cell. A new refectory, also wooden, with a church dedicated to the Three Russian Saints - Peter, Alexy and Jonah - was built on the donations of Empress Elizaveta Petrovna
The desert served as an agricultural "economy", and served as a cemetery for Lavra. In the second half of the 19th century, a separate economic compound was built, where the old and new corps of the almshouse were built.
Historically, Kytaev's deserts are the burial place of many thousands of devotees of the Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra, and now, who is in the monastery, historical burials. Due to sufficient distance from the city, the caves of the Kitaevo mountain preserved their ancient appearance almost unchanged.
The Namib Desert is often referred to as the world's oldest desert and has been in existence for some 43 million years, remaining unchanged in its present form for the last 2 million years. The Namib is an immense expanse of relentlessly moving gravel plains and dunes of all shapes and sizes that stretch along the entire coastline.
Jvari Monastery (Georgian: ჯვრის მონასტერი) is a sixth-century Georgian Orthodox monastery near Mtskheta, eastern Georgia. Jvari is a rare case of an Early Medieval Georgian church that has survived to the present day almost unchanged. The church became the founder of its type, the Jvari type of church architecture, prevalent in Georgia and Armenia. Built atop of Jvari Mount (656 m a.s.l.), the monastery is an example of harmonious connection with the natural environment, characteristic to medieval Georgian architecture. Along with other historic structures of Mtskheta, the monastery was listed as a World Heritage Site by UNESCO in 1994.
My favorite vacation spot starts in Eli, Minnesota. The Boundary Waters Canoe Area. I made a new crop of this photo for a current project:
Our trips to the paddle-only wilderness area along the border of Minnesota and Ontario are not really about fishing. It‘s just easier to tell everyone we’re “goin’ fishin’” than try to explain we’re going to rejuvenate our souls in a pristine world of natural beauty unchanged since the Ojibwa tribe made it home. People would just roll their eyes.
The magic of becoming one with nature has been a topic of conversation around many campfires. We’ve decided that when a traveler sacrifices modern conveniences and schedules, and leaves phones and work at home, the wilderness is more likely to bestow them with certain “gifts.” And for us, the most valued of these are the gift of loon calls, the gift of northern lights and the gift of the moose. Any one of those precious gifts makes for a GREAT trip. The rare perfect trip grants all three.
As usual, on this trip we tried to select campsites with northern exposures, and about the fourth night in were rewarded with a clear night and incredible show. The shimmering greens and red explosions of Aurora Borealis put civilized fireworks displays to shame. And twice we camped in lakes where we could sit quietly at the water’s edge and hear loons on both ends of the lake exchange hauntingly piercing calls. On most trips we would surprise more than one moose as we paddled into a secluded bay or drifted by a quiet marsh. But for 12 straight days the moose remained elusive.
Every morning we discussed if this would be the day for the gift of the moose. I was beginning to suspect one of my companions cursed us with a smuggled cell phone or something. And sure enough, on the last night of the trip my friend confessed he had packed a little plastic watch with an alarm function to make sure we got an early start on our final push home. I crawled into my sleeping bag, swearing to the moose spirits that it was not MY alarm clock, but resigned that two out of three gifts was pretty darned good.
It was still pretty dark when I woke to what sounded like distant grunts. HRUUP! HRUUP!
“What the heck is that?” I asked my snoring, technology-whipped tent-mate
“I don’t hear anything….scared of the dark?” he said sarcastically. Then he glanced at his uninvited clock and said, “Stop worrying and go back to sleep because we have to get up soon.”
Instead, I threw on some clothes, grabbed my camera, (acceptable technology) and jumped in the canoe to follow the grunts. I quietly paddled around our point and into a little bay behind our campsite. And there I received the ultimate gift of the moose.
For more than 30 minutes as the sun slowly peeked up through the morning mist I sat mesmerized as this majestic beast ate and explored less than 30 feet away. He posed, grunted, and swam in front of me several times before finally climbing back on shore and noisily disappearing through the trees. The BEST gift of the moose ever!
I love showing this photo to my friend with the alarm clock.
A fern (Polypodiopsida or Polypodiophyta /ˌpɒliˌpɒdiˈɒfɪtə, -əˈfaɪtə/)[citation needed] is a member of a group of vascular plants (plants with xylem and phloem) that reproduce via spores and have neither seeds nor flowers. The polypodiophytes include all living pteridophytes except the lycopods, and differ from mosses and other bryophytes by being vascular, i.e., having specialized tissues that conduct water and nutrients and in having life cycles in which the branched sporophyte is the dominant phase. Ferns have complex leaves called megaphylls, that are more complex than the microphylls of clubmosses. Most ferns are leptosporangiate ferns. They produce coiled fiddleheads that uncoil and expand into fronds. The group includes about 10,560 known extant species. Ferns are defined here in the broad sense, being all of the Polypodiopsida, comprising both the leptosporangiate (Polypodiidae) and eusporangiate ferns, the latter group including horsetails, whisk ferns, marattioid ferns, and ophioglossoid ferns.
Ferns first appear in the fossil record about 360 million years ago in the late Devonian period, but many of the current families and species did not appear until roughly 145 million years ago in the early Cretaceous, after flowering plants came to dominate many environments. The fern Osmunda claytoniana is a paramount example of evolutionary stasis; paleontological evidence indicates it has remained unchanged, even at the level of fossilized nuclei and chromosomes, for at least 180 million years.
Ferns are not of major economic importance, but some are used for food, medicine, as biofertilizer, as ornamental plants, and for remediating contaminated soil. They have been the subject of research for their ability to remove some chemical pollutants from the atmosphere. Some fern species, such as bracken (Pteridium aquilinum) and water fern (Azolla filiculoides) are significant weeds worldwide. Some fern genera, such as Azolla, can fix nitrogen and make a significant input to the nitrogen nutrition of rice paddies. They also play certain roles in folklore.
Cēsis Castle Park`s hills and ravines, cultural and historical monuments located in one small place made this the most favourable location for the successful creation of the park landscape more than 170 years ago. When forming landscape parks in Europe and Vidzeme other nobles also ordered artificial ruins to be built. Within Count`s Carl Gustav von Sievers territory, there already existed, Cēsis Castle stone ruins which were built during the reign of the Livonian Order, 14th – 16th century, naturally formed part of the park’s landscape created during 1832 – 1833.
Parks became freely available to visitors and residents of Cēsis after Russian Tsar’s resignation from the throne in February 1917. From the 1920s until now, song festivals, theatre performances, concerts and balls have taken place. In the 1930s there were demonstrations of figure skating and ice skating for local people. Children enjoyed feeding the ducks and swans and sledging on steep slopes of the park.
From 1935 the City Council took over the maintenance and improvement of the park. Steps were built as a safe passage to the pond (J. Rozenberg’s project). They are complemented by sculptor’s R. Āboltiņs travertine sculptures – figures of children at the step’s edges.
At one end of the steps sculptor K. Jansons’ sculptures were installed. During the tourism campaign “Travel native land!” in 1936 a souvenir kiosk was built, which has remained unchanged in appearance until now. A small stage was built in 1938, it was extended in the 1960s. Also, the upper part of the steps were built in the 1960s. Also, in 1960s A. Jansons’ sculpture “Man with a catfish” was installed.
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Saturday for Stairs!
Der Kniepsand auf Amrum ist von einer unfassbaren Weite, eine Wüste in der Nordsee, ein sich ständig änderndes lebendiges Medium. Es gibt keine zwei Stunden, in denen der Kniepsand unverändert bleibt. Wind, Wasser, Sonne und Regen hinterlassen unentwegt ihre Spuren. Ein Ort für Meditation und Besinnung.
The knee-saddle on Amrum is an ever-changing living medium of an incomprehensible expanse, a desert in the North Sea. There are not two hours in which the knee-joint remains unchanged. Wind, water, sun and rain always leave their mark. A place for meditation and reflection.
いろはにほへと
ちりぬるをわか
よたれそつねな
らむうゐのおく
やまけふこえて
あさきゆめみし
ゑひもせす (heian period)
Although its scent still lingers on
the form of a flower has scattered away
For whom will the glory
of this world remain unchanged?
Arriving today at the yonder side
of the deep mountains of evanescent existence
We shall never allow ourselves to drift away
intoxicated, in the world of shallow dreams (translation by Ruishi Abe)
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Oracabessa, Jamaica
Our small group of five were the only visitors at Firefly. We wondered if, perhaps, Noel Coward, is unknown to some of the younger tourists in Jamaica. The house is unchanged since the day Noel Coward died and clearly in desperate need of restoration...although the site is beautifully maintained. It saddens me to think how it will fare in the future.
On the right you can see a part of two of the four former gasometers in Simmering, Vienna's 3rd district. They were revitalized in an extensive reconstruction from 1999 to 2001, leaving only the facades unchanged, and now feature an entertainment center, several apartments, a students' hostel and an event hall.
Since the concept of a shopping mall did not prove successful, a transformation into the largest Music City in Central Europe took place by 2013. At its center are music schools and stores, including the Vienna Pop Academy, where young people are trained to become pop musicians in their free time, the Jam Music Lab, a jazz-pop conservatory for budding professional musicians. A concert hall offers the possibility of on-site performances.
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North side of Dundas in Chinatown is still unchanged for now. Tomorrow, it may be a vintage photo. Hong Luck Kung Fu Club was established in 1961. Chinese born Grand Master Paul Chan, the founder, died in 2012, but the club is still going. The also teach and perform Dragon Dance.
737. TMR Toronto 2021-Jul-04, P1500608. Uploaded 2021-Jul-10. Lmx -ZS100.
“There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.”
- Nelson Mandela
Soundtrack : www.youtube.com/watch?v=4JmrOXSbsOU
COMING HOME – SKYLAR GREY
Caught in the headlights
the details of the fence obscure
yet in the puddle reflections are
clearer, somehow they are much more
there is barbed wired jagged
there are trees and grasses ragged
imprinted tyre tracks in the mud
patterns ridged like browned-off pie crust
shadow play and light on crud
dust bunnies shine like diamonds and rust
as natural as the rain that falls
you walked back in; a miracle
seemed an eternity without your smile
yet now it seems but a little while
the posts that echo in the water
like chevrons pointing out the way
the spillage darkened on the tarmac
memories of another day
when you left you took the yellow
the sun was paler than the moon
the seashells and the sand were whiter
than the ghosts who walked that afternoon
whispers rose like whirling dervishes
drowning out my thoughts it seemed
I felt the distance keenly as
a thousand daggers cut through my dreams
and so of course the nights were darker
and daybreak dawned in ombred greys
as I walked a different pathway
in sombre mood from day to day
I tried to catch the falling stardust
that elusive treasure like shifting sand
like an hour glass I could not stop it
from slowly sifting through my hand
I had to try to forget the colours
the rainbows that fell after torrents of rain
what is love; it's so much more
than I can ever try to explain
but now the storm clouds suddenly lifted
the sun came out and you'll never guess
it was the brightest of all yellows
shining on me like I was blessed
and I think about infinity
I consider all possibilities
but some things we are not meant to know
or understand, but just accept the serendipity.
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In September I had a holiday in a bungalow attached to this farmhouse, tucked into a sheltered corner, away from the salt spray and wild weather that coastal areas can experience. It reminded me of visits to farms when I was a child, so much seemed unchanged.
When the stars line up for you, and the light on the trees is at just the right angle of back lit, the color can be astoundingly intense. It is also interesting that Aspen, whose large clumps can be the same organism, can range from leafless, through the brilliant yellows and reds, to unchanged green in the same group.
The Snowy River is a major river in south-eastern Australia. It originates on the slopes of Mount Kosciuszko, Australia's highest mainland peak, draining the eastern slopes of the Snowy Mountains in New South Wales, before flowing through the Alpine National Park and the Snowy River National Park in Victoria and emptying into Bass Strait.
While the river's course and surroundings have remained almost entirely unchanged, the majority of it being protected by the Snowy River National Park, its flow was drastically reduced in the mid 20th century, to less than 1% (as measured at Jindabyne), after the construction of four large dams (Guthega, Island Bend, Eucumbene, and Jindabyne) and many smaller diversion structures in its headwaters in New South Wales, as part of the Snowy Mountains Scheme. However, environmental flows have been returned to the river.
The river has been immortalised in cultural folklore through the poem The Man from Snowy River, written by Banjo Paterson in 1890, which formed the basis of many subsequent works in film, TV and music theatre. Wikipedia
So with all this in the background we thoroughly enjoyed exploring the river from source to mouth.
Once outside the urban economic zones, one does not have to go far into the countryside to step back 500 years in time. . .70 percent of Chinese are peasant farmers whose lives are relatively unchanged for generations. . .this village is in Shandong Province near where we lived for two years.
"Healer's of the Forest"
Olympic National Park, Washington. Four unique ecosystems in this National Park and has the distinction of being a World Heritage Site and a Biosphere Reserve by UNESCO
It's unique ecosystem has remained unchanged for thousands of years and it is now the most carefully preserved rain forest in the northern hemisphere. The most common types of trees that grow in the Hoh Rain Forest are Sitka Spruce and Western Hemlock (Washington's official state tree), which can reach over 300 feet high and seven feet in diameter. Most of them are covered with huge clumps of hanging moss and ferns. Best viewed in larger detail so give it a click why don't you?
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The National Gallery is an art museum in Trafalgar Square in the City of Westminster, Central London, England. Founded in 1824, in Trafalgar Square since 1838, it houses a collection of over 2,300 paintings dating from the mid-13th century to 1900
The present building, the third site to house the National Gallery, was designed by William Wilkins. Building took from 1832 to 1838, when it opened. Only the facade onto Trafalgar Square remains essentially unchanged from this time, as the building has been expanded piecemeal throughout its history.
Old Town Square, in Czech known as Staroměstské náměstí, is the central square of the historic part of Prague. The square is one of the greatest tourist attractions of the Czech capital city and there you can find different interest ing objects
The Old Town Hall itself is a little different from most town halls, in that it is not a single structure but rather a complex of connected medieval buildings. The tower of the Old Town Hall was completed in 1364, and at that time it was the tallest structure in the city. The tower is open to the public and its observation deck offers amazing views of Old Town Square.
Foundation of the Old Town Hall
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In 1338 the councillors of the Old Town bought a large patrician house from the Volflin family and adapted it for their purposes. Over the following centuries the original Town Hall building largely disappeared as a result of renovations and expansion of the building; one external remnant of the original structure still visible today is the Gothic stone portal with mouldings on the western side of the building.
The burghers of the Old Town extended the original Town Hall towards the west by buying the adjoining house, and construction began of a stone tower on a square plan. The tower, which was the highest in the city in the Middle Ages, was completed in 1364, and has been largely unchanged since then.
The Town Hall is architecturally unusual, because it is constructed from many different smaller houses. The expansion continued in 1458 when Mikeš house was added to the west side. The Council Chamber in the east wing was vaulted with a net vault, supported by two pillars, at the end of the 15th century.
The Gothic "Cockerel" house was bought in 1835 and the "Minute" house was sold to the town council for the extension of the Town Hall in 1896. Mikeš house was rebuilt in the Neo-Renaissance style in 1879–1880, according to designs by Antonín Baum. This wing was destroyed in last days of World War II during the Prague uprising. Many architectural competitions were held during the 20th century, with the intention of finding the right architectonic design for the expansion and reconstruction of the Old Town Hall, but all of the competitions either failed to produce a winner, or the winning projects were not built.
Sometimes, you have to sit down and breath.
This build goes back from 2010 and as far as I know, remains unchanged from the original form.
Also the sim for real life Japanese band, Chou Chou.
- Set the draw distance to 512m.
- Play land's music.
- The sky of Memento mori slowly and uniquely changes from sunrise to midnight about every 4 hours.
- Set the sun to "Use Region Settings" to fully enjoy the sky of Memento mori.
- Get and wear "Chouchou Cinematic HUD" at the entrance if you want to get the cinematic effect.
- The bell sounds every hour on the hour.
A moment in time.
Escenas que permanecen inalterables en nuestra memoria.
Scenes that remain unchanged in our memory.
A sudden snowfall made this shot of St Mary's Church in the Wiltshire market town of Devizes (pop. 15,500) possible.
St Mary’s Church was built in the 12th century to serve the new borough of Devizes, outside the castle area, which was served by nearby St John's. All that remains of the early church is the chancel, there being nothing dateable in the rest of the church earlier than the 13th or 14th century. There were radical alterations to the church structure in the 15th century when the walls were heightened, the south porch increased to two storeys with a stair turret and windows, buttresses and roofs replaced and renewed. The west tower was built against the nave. There were changes here during the Reformation including the removal of the rood screen in 1561. The church remained largely unchanged then until the 1850s when there was a restoration, the church was repewed and a vestry built.
By the 1890s cracks were beginning to appear in the walls of the tower and these were repaired in 1897-8. The church is of dressed stone with a chancel, an aisled and clerestoried nave with a south porch and west tower. In the chancel there is a dole table, probably of the 15th century. During the Civil War lead was taken from the roof to manufacture bullets. The church, sharing a common incumbent with St John’s since its 12th Century origins, has not held regular Sunday services since 2006 although at least one weekly midweek service takes place there.
Seagulls perched on the remnants of an old pier, the only visual remains of a once booming, Salmon canning industry.
Dating back to the turn of the century.
Washington (State)--Point Roberts
Well over a hundred years ago, this would have been a busy fishing port.
Today, we can only imagine the sights of the heavily loaded fishing vessels tied up alongside this pier, and the hardworking employees bustling the catch, up and down the pier.
On the horizon you will have left USA waters and entered Canadian waters, BC Canada
~C
Point Roberts is a pene-exclave of the United States on the southernmost tip of the Tsawwassen Peninsula, south of Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. The area, which had a population of 1,314 at the 2010 census, is reached by land by traveling 25 mi (40 km) through Canada. It is a census-designated place (CDP) in Whatcom County, Washington with a post office, and a ZIP Code of 98281. Direct sea and air connections with the U.S. are available across Boundary Bay.
Point Roberts was created when the United Kingdom and the United States settled the Pacific Northwest American-Canadian border dispute in the mid-19th century with the Oregon Treaty. Both parties agreed the 49th parallel would delineate both countries' territories, but they overlooked the small area that incorporates Point Roberts (south of the 49th parallel). Questions about ceding the territory to the United Kingdom and later to Canada have been raised since its creation but its status has remained unchanged.
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*For more history information , please see first image in this series.
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Happy Clicks,
~Christie
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The Neapolitan nativity scene is a representation of the birth of Jesus traditionally set in Naples in the eighteenth century.
The Neapolitan crib art has remained unchanged for centuries, becoming part of the most consolidated and followed Christmas traditions of the city. Famous in Naples, in fact, is the well-known via dei presepi (via San Gregorio Armeno) which offers a showcase of all the local crafts concerning the nativity scene. Moreover, there are numerous city and non-city museums (such as the museum of San Martino or the royal palace of Caserta) in which historical pieces or entire scenes set during the birth of Jesus are exhibited
Iowa Traction, formerly the Mason City and Clear Lake Railway, then the Iowa Terminal, has remained relatively unchanged since the beginning. Still utilizing a fleet of Baldwin-Westinghouse steeple cab electrics from the 1920s, this is the last glimpse of electric freight railroading in the United States. This simple four mile long railroad still sees action every weekday.
Iowa Traction 50 was built for the Washington & Old Dominion Railway in October of 1920, making it 103 years at the time of this post.
In the age of modernization, the Iowa Traction stands the test of time.
The church was built between 1814 and 1818, the author of the building was designed by the architect Theodor Gottfried Schultz, and from 1858 to 1859 a small interior reconstruction took place. Built in the style of classicism. The Orthodox Church of the Annunciation has remained almost unchanged to this day.
Happy Fence Friday!
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Der Kniepsand auf Amrum ist von einer unfassbaren Weite, eine Wüste in der Nordsee, ein sich ständig änderndes lebendiges Medium. Es gibt keine zwei Stunden, in denen der Kniepsand unverändert bleibt. Wind, Wasser, Sonne und Regen hinterlassen unentwegt ihre Spuren. Ein Ort für Meditation und Besinnung.
The knee-saddle on Amrum is an ever-changing living medium of an incomprehensible expanse, a desert in the North Sea. There are not two hours in which the knee-joint remains unchanged. Wind, water, sun and rain always leave their mark. A place for meditation and reflection.
St. Andrew's Church in Whitminster, Gloucestershire is a village church constructed from Cotswold stone.
The church site dates from 1086, although no part of the surviving fabric is visibly older than the 14th century. It was enlarged in 1842 to include a north aisle, designed by Bristol architect Thomas Foster, the tower was restored in 1844 and various other areas in 1884 by Sir A.W. Blomfeld, with the externals remaining mostly unchanged from that date. It currently has a peel of 6 bells, the earliest of which dates from 1634. It is one of only a few churches in Gloucestershire to retain a traditional Stoup, a stone basin used to hold Holy Water.
The church was constructed by the initiative of the King of Poland and Grand Duke of Lithuania Alexander I Jagiellon in 1495–1500; the exterior of the church has remained almost unchanged since then.
Der Kniepsand auf Amrum ist von einer unfassbaren Weite, eine Wüste in der Nordsee, ein sich ständig änderndes lebendiges Medium. Es gibt keine zwei Stunden, in denen der Kniepsand unverändert bleibt. Wind, Wasser, Sonne und Regen hinterlassen unentwegt ihre Spuren. Ein Ort für Meditation und Besinnung.
The knee-saddle on Amrum is an ever-changing living medium of an incomprehensible expanse, a desert in the North Sea. There are not two hours in which the knee-joint remains unchanged. Wind, water, sun and rain always leave their mark. A place for meditation and reflection.
Commercial Fish Boats moored at the Steveston Docks @ Sundown
Canada's Largest Fishing Harbour
Steveston. British Columbia
Canada
A bit of trivia information as found on Wikipedia:
A fishing vessel is a boat or ship used to catch fish in the sea, or on a lake or river. Many different kinds of vessels are used in commercial, artisanal and recreational fishing.
The total number of fishing vessels in the world in 2016 was estimated to be about 4.6 million, unchanged from 2014. The fleet in Asia was the largest, consisting of 3.5 million vessels, accounting for 75 percent of the global fleet. In Africa and North America the estimated number of vessels declined from 2014 by just over 30,000 and by nearly 5,000, respectively. For Asia, Latin America and the Caribbean and Oceania the numbers all increased, largely as a result of improvements in estimation procedures.
It is difficult to estimate the number of recreational fishing boats. They range in size from small dinghies to large charter cruisers, and unlike commercial fishing vessels, are often not dedicated just to fishing.
Prior to the 1950s there was little standardisation of fishing boats. Designs could vary between ports and boatyards. Traditionally boats were built of wood, but wood is not often used now because of higher maintenance costs and lower durability. Fibreglass is used increasingly in smaller fishing vessels up to 25 metres (100 tons), while steel is usually used on vessels above 25 metres.
Definitely one of British Columbia's best kept secrets.
If you enjoy quaint fishing villages, combined with light and vibrant colours, I am pleased to extend an invitation for you to browse through my.... 'I 💖 Steveston album'
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I appreciate your kind words of support and would like to thank-you all, for taking the time to view and acknowledge my photography.
Stay Healthy
~Christie (Happiest) by the River
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Der Kniepsand auf Amrum ist von einer unfassbaren Weite, eine Wüste in der Nordsee, ein sich ständig änderndes lebendiges Medium. Es gibt keine zwei Stunden, in denen der Kniepsand unverändert bleibt. Wind, Wasser, Sonne und Regen hinterlassen unentwegt ihre Spuren. Ein Ort für Meditation und Besinnung.
The knee-saddle on Amrum is an ever-changing living medium of an incomprehensible expanse, a desert in the North Sea. There are not two hours in which the knee-joint remains unchanged. Wind, water, sun and rain always leave their mark. A place for meditation and reflection.