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Valley Railroad "New Haven" 3025 is seen outside the engine house, waiting for the conductor to align the switch back to the Essex station. After running around, the locomotive will hook back onto its train and prepare for another trip to Deep River
El campanar romanic de Ribera de Cardós emula el pic del Puitavaca, dominant sobre la vall de Cardós.
L'església de Sta. Maria de Ribera de Cardós conserva prous elements romanics, com la porta, una absidiola i notablement el ferm campanar. Aquí vista des de l'Hotel Cardós, on varem passar una setmaneta de vacances.
ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ribera_de_Card%C3%B3s
ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Santa_Maria_de_Ribera_de_Card%C3%B3s
www.aldeaglobal.net/artmedieval/Santa%20Maria%20Ribera%20...
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The romanesque bell-tower of Ribera de Cardós church, in the Catalan Pyrenees, aligned with the mighty peak of Puitavaca.
The church of Ribera de Cardós, in the Catalan Pyrenees, retains part of its romanesque structure, specially the bell tower.
www.aldeaglobal.net/artmedieval/Santa%20Maria%20Ribera%20...
(page in Catalan)
The planets aligned and I had just returned from the VC Soiree in Atlanta, and was smooth and in character! One of the most exciting dressing sessions ever and the last one outside my yearly trips to events.
The funny thing is that I had Friday, Saturday and Sunday to dress and was so tired by Saturday night that took Sunday off.
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Los planetas se alinearon y yo recién volvía de la reunión del VC en Atlanta, y estaba completamente libre de vello y compenetrada del rol femenino. Una de las sesiones más emocionantes que he tenido jamás y la última sin contar mis viajes a eventos.
Lo divertido es que tuve el viernes, el sábado y el domingo para vestirme pero estaba tan cansada para la noche del sábado que ya no hice nada el domingo.
BNSF 7665 and company roar onto the seen as the high priority Z-train hits another suckerhole as the train dives into the small sag after the track separation. This train wil be put to the test as it will head up the 1.8 percent main track two generally used for eastbounds trains that are descending the hill, but when the star align Z-trains and baretables (light trains) will use this track to get around slower moving westbound drags.
Youtube Link: youtu.be/Gz_bWqVpZ1w
Focus could be better but I like the composition.
Thanks all for the well-wishes on Explore 03/13/2025! -L B
The Château de Hautefort and the village of the same name, seen from a distance, Dordogne, France
Some background information:
The Château de Hautefort (in English: "Hautefort Castle") is situated on a plateau in the northern part of the French department of Dordogne. It overlooks the village of Hautefort and is located approximately 34 kilometers (21 miles) northeast of the town of Périgueux. The building complex is the largest Baroque castle in southwestern France and one of the most significant castles in the Périgord region. Located in the far eastern part of the White Périgord (in French: "Périgord blanc"), the castle was classified as a historic monument in 1958. Since 1967, its French formal gardens and the landscaped park have also been listed as historic monuments.
As early as the 9th century, a fortress was located at the site of the present-day Hautefort Castle, belonging to the viscounts of Limoges. In 1030, the castle became the property of Guy de Lastours after he defeated the rebellious viscounts at Arnac on behalf of the Count of Périgord. Following his death in 1046, his sole daughter Aloaarz brought the property into her marriage with Aymar de Laron, who adopted the Lastours name.
Through the marriage of Agnes de Lastours in 1160, the castle passed to the family of her husband, Constantin de Born. Constantin and his brother Bertran de Born, quarreled over the castle, as they supported opposing factions of the English princes Henry the Young King and Richard the Lionheart. Bertran sided with Prince Henry, while Constantin aligned himself with Richard's camp. In 1182, Bertran managed to expel Constantin from the castle, but in the following year, after Henry's death, Richard the Lionheart laid siege to the fortress. After eight days, he captured it, took Bertran prisoner, and demolished the fortifications.
However, King Henry II of England granted Bertran his freedom and even restored the castle to him. In 1184, the rebuilding of the castle began. By 1196, Bertran retired to the Cistercian Abbey of Dalon and became a monk, while the grounds passed to his son. At that time, the structure consisted of a large donjon and several smaller towers connected by curtain walls and battlements.
In the course of the Hundred Years' War, English soldiers occupied the castle in 1355 and forced its owners to recognize the English king as their liege lord. However, in 1406, the castle returned to French control. Shortly before, the last male representative of the family, Bertrand, had died, and the property passed to his sole daughter, Marthe. Her son Antoine, from her second marriage to Hélie de Gontaut, adopted the name of the Hautefort lordship when he became the new lord of the castle. In 1588, the northwestern entrance wing of the castle was altered and fortified – perhaps influenced by the French Wars of Religion. This renovation likely replaced a less defensible Renaissance-style structure.
In 1614, under François de Hautefort, the seigneurie was elevated to a marquisate. Accordingly, he sought to replace the outdated structure with a representative château. In 1633, the marquis commissioned Nicolas Rambourg, an architect from Périgueux, to undertake a major renovation of the estate. When François passed away in 1640, the work was far from complete, leaving the task of continuing the project to his successor, his grandson Jacques-François. Jacques-François' sister, Marie, gained fame at the Parisian royal court as the platonic companion of King Louis XIII.
The death of Nicolas Rambourg in 1649 temporarily halted construction, but in 1651, the inauguration of a château chapel on the ground floor of the new logis was celebrated. In 1669, the marquis resumed the renovation project, enlisting the Parisian architect Jean Maigret. Maigret completed the château as a symmetrical three-wing complex in the style of classical Baroque, adding the current south tower and relocating the chapel there in 1670. Although the second marquis died in 1680, Maigret's work on the château continued until 1695. During the renovations, the defensive elements that had still been present at the beginning of the 17th century were gradually dismantled.
During the French Revolution, the citizens of Hautefort prevented the château's destruction. From 1793 to 1795, the estate was used as a prison. But after the revolutionary period, Sigismonde Charlotte Louise de Hautefort, the daughter of the last marquis, Louis Frédéric Emmanuel, regained control of the family seat. In 1853, the redesign of the château's gardens was commissioned and the plans were drawn up by Paul de Lavenne, one of the most renowned landscape architects in France at the time. He reimagined the baroque gardens on the terraces surrounding the château and designed a large English landscape garden with broad sightlines into the surrounding countryside.
After the death of Maxence de Hautefort in 1887, his second wife sold the estate in 1890 to wealthy industrialist Bertrand Artigues. Artigues undertook various restoration projects and demolished the old outbuildings to the northwest of the château. Despite these efforts, the structural condition of the château remained poor. After Bertrand Artigues passed away in 1908, his heirs sold the château in 1913 to a real estate speculator. Between then and 1925, the speculator sold off all the furnishings and interior elements, including paneling and parquet floors. Subsequently, the parceled estate was sold off piece by piece.
In 1929, Baron Henry de Bastard and his wife Simone, the daughter of banker and patron David David-Weill, purchased the château. They began extensive restoration work in 1930, which continued until 1965. The couple undertook a complete restoration of both the interior and exterior of the buildings and also worked to restore the baroque garden parterres based on historical plans. While the flowerbeds were replanted, the design created by Paul de Lavenne was preserved.
After the death of the baron in 1957, his widow opened the château to the public. However, this decision proved disastrous for the estate. In 1968, a major fire broke out, caused by a carelessly discarded cigarette butt from a visitor. The fire devastated the main northeastern wing, including its interiors and furnishings. Only the side wings with their round towers at the ends remained intact. But the baroness wasted no time and began restoration work as early as September of the same year. Using old photographs, the destroyed wing and its rooms were faithfully reconstructed and refurnished.
Today, the Château de Hautefort, along with its park and large sections of the French gardens, can be visited for an admission fee. Visitors can explore the interior rooms, including the grand reception hall, the château lord’s bedroom, Marie de Hautefort’s room in the Louis Quinze style, the chapel, and the kitchen. Furthermore, it is worth mentioning that the palace has also served as a film location for several productions. The last one was the movie "Ever After" from 1998, starring Drew Barrymore and Anjelica Huston.
This shot looks down on both Llyn laslyn and Llyn Llyddaw and looks out towards the Eastern side of Snowdonia
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A most Happy Mother's Day to all who have brought (slid) into the world the light of life!
And Happy Sliders Sunday!
Aligned to sunset - Sunset at Winskill stones with the grykes lining up with the distinctive lone hawthorn tree clinging to the limestone pavement under a colourful sky.
Winskill Stones, Yorkshire Dales National Park
Explore #2 15/09/2024
When composing a shot, you sometimes have time to figure stuff out and sometimes it is all about just geting one at all before the subject scurries away.
This sloe bug (Dolycoris baccarum) was helpful in aligning its anteanne with the spikes at the edge of the leaf - thanks for that!
I aligned this dandelion in the center to show off the amazing alignment of it's petals. Nature is amazing!
Litchfield National Park, covering approximately 1500 km2, is near the township of Batchelor, 100 km south-west of Darwin, in the Northern Territory of Australia. Each year the park attracts over 260,000 visitors.
Proclaimed a national park in 1986, it is named after Frederick Henry Litchfield, a Territory pioneer, who explored areas of the Northern Territory from Escape Cliffs in Van Diemen Gulf to the Daly River in 1864.
Flora
The Central sandstone plateau supports rich woodland flora communities dominated by species including Darwin woolybutt and Darwin stringybark, as well as banksias, grevilleas, terminalias and a wide variety of other woodland species.
Remnant pockets of monsoon rainforest thrive along the bottom of the escarpment, and in the deep narrow gorges created over thousands of years by the force of the waterfalls cutting into the escarpment walls.
They are significant because of their size and lack of disturbance. Here visitors will find lilies and slender ground orchids growing among Pandanus, paperbark and swamp bloodwoods.
Fauna
Common wildlife species include the antilopine kangaroo, agile wallaby, sugar glider, northern brushtail possum, fawn antechinus, black and little red flying foxes and the dingo. The caves near Tolmer Falls are home to a colony of the rare orange leaf-nosed bat and the ghost bat.
Litchfield is a habitat for hundreds of native bird species. Black kites, and other birds of prey are common during the dry season. The yellow oriole, figbird, Pacific koel, spangled drongo, dollarbird and the rainbow bee-eater inhabit the sheltered areas close to waterfalls. A species of marsupial mouse (the northern dibbler), the rufous-tailed bush-hen, a frog (the pealing chirper) and the primitive archerfish, occur in the Wangi Falls area.
Wangi, Tolmer and Florence falls and Buley Rockhole, are popular with visitors and tour groups. The falls have large pools that attract birds and reptiles such as monitors. orange-footed scrubfowl, honeyeaters, figbirds and Torres Strait pigeons share the fruit and berries in the areas with nocturnal mammals like the northern quoll, northern brown bandicoot and northern brushtail possum. Frill-necked lizard are common throughout the park, but will not be seen as frequently during the cool dry season months. The Finniss River area also hosts a number of large saltwater crocodiles, commonly abbreviated as "salties".
The magnetic termite mounds are a popular tourist attraction. These wedge-shaped mounds are aligned in a north-south direction as a response to the environment. The termites which build them feed on grass roots and other plant debris found in plains which are seasonally flooded. Therefore, the termites are forced to remain above the water, in the mound. The alignment of the mound acts as a temperature regulator, and allows the temperature to remain stable.
I have been fascinated by Austin Tott's photos of objects for a while now so I decided to start a little series by myself. Mine is about colours and starts with...no colour! I As we all know black is not a colour but the absence of colour ;) I kind of like that tought! It was very interesting to collect black things (which were all just black) and then realize that they all have a different kind of "colour"when putting them togehter. And I like to align stuff too ;)