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A Young Man Being Introduced to the Seven Liberal Arts, also known as Lorenzo Tornabuoni Presented by Grammar to Prudentia and the other Liberal Arts or Lorenzo Tornabuoni Being Introduced to the Liberal Arts (Italian: Giovane Introdotto tra le Arti Liberali), is a painting by the Italian Renaissance painter Sandro Botticelli, circa 1483–1486. The painting and its companion piece, Venus and the Three Graces Presenting Gifts to a Young Woman, originally decorated Villa Lemmi, a country villa near Florence owned by Giovanni Tornabuoni, uncle of Lorenzo de' Medici and head of the Roman branch of the Medici Bank. They were probably commissioned for the 1486 wedding of Giovanni's son Lorenzo to Giovanna of the Albizzi family, and are therefore thought to depict the two.
A Young Man Being Introduced to the Seven Liberal Arts depicts a young man, perhaps Lorenzo Tornabuoni, led by a personification of Grammar into a circle of allegorical figures representing the Seven Liberal Arts. Presided over by Prudentia, the circle also includes Rhetoric, Logic, Arithmetic, Geometry, Astronomy and Music, each recognizable by means of various attributes. In antiquity, the liberal arts denoted the education worthy of a free person and the painting therefore testifies to the young man's broad education. The figure of Arithmetic is seen holding its hand out in greeting to the young man. Tornabuoni, a scion to a banking family, would have probably had an education focused on numbers.
Both paintings were discovered at Villa Lemmi in 1873 under a coat of whitewash and removed from their original location. They are now in the Musée du Louvre, Paris.
This lovely little former village school with the schoolmaster's house attached is opposite the village green in Orlingbury. Dating from the mid-1800s, and possibly by the same architect as the nearby church, this Grade II-listed building is now just the one residence. The village of Orlingbury lies between Wellingborough and Kettering in the north-east of Northamptonshire, a couple of miles from where I live. Most mornings I walk our little Yorkie on the village green here.
Schools from this era would have had just the one classroom and one teacher, with all different age groups mixed in together. Yet most pupils learnt to read and write very well and were able to do basic arithmetic having learnt their times tables. They would have probably left school at the age of 14, if not younger.
Island Of Madagascar
Off The East Coast Of Africa
Berenty Reserve
Wikipedia-
The ring-tailed lemur (Lemur catta) is a large strepsirrhine primate and the most recognized lemur due to its long, black and white ringed tail. It belongs to Lemuridae, one of five lemur families, and is the only member of the Lemur genus. Like all lemurs it is endemic to the island of Madagascar. Known locally in Malagasy as maky, spelled maki in French) or hira, it inhabits gallery forests to spiny scrub in the southern regions of the island. It is omnivorous and the most terrestrial of extant lemurs. The animal is diurnal, being active exclusively in daylight hours.
The ring-tailed lemur is highly social, living in groups of up to 30 individuals. It is also female dominant, a trait common among lemurs. To keep warm and reaffirm social bonds, groups will huddle together. The ring-tailed lemur will also sunbathe, sitting upright facing its underside, with its thinner white fur towards the sun. Like other lemurs, this species relies strongly on its sense of smell and marks its territory with scent glands. The males perform a unique scent marking behavior called spur marking and will participate in stink fights by impregnating their tail with their scent and wafting it at opponents.
As one of the most vocal primates, the ring-tailed lemur uses numerous vocalizations including group cohesion and alarm calls. Experiments have shown that the ring-tailed lemur, despite the lack of a large brain (relative to simiiform primates), can organize sequences, understand basic arithmetic operations and preferentially select tools based on functional qualities.
Details best viewed in Original Size.
According to Wikipedia, Fruita is the best-known settlement in Capitol Reef National Park in Wayne County, Utah. It is located at the confluence of Fremont River and Sulphur Creek and was established in 1880 by a group of Mormons led by Nels Johnson, under the name "Junction". The town became known as Fruita in 1902 or 1904 and in 1900 was named The Eden of Wayne County for its large orchards. Fruita was abandoned in 1955 when the National Park Service purchased the town to be included in Capitol Reef National Park. Today few buildings remain, except for the restored schoolhouse and the Gifford house and barn (seen here). The orchards, with about 2,500 trees, remain under the ownership of the National Park Service and are preserved by the Park Service as a "historic landscape". A small crew takes care of them by pruning, irrigating, replanting, and spraying them. The one-room schoolhouse was built and opened in 1896. The few students were instructed mainly in reading, writing, and arithmetic, but when the teachers were capable, they also studied other subjects such as history or geography. The schoolhouse, also used for balls and religious services, was renovated in 1966 by the National Park Service. Fruita is currently the heart and administrative center of Capitol Reef National Park.
Arithmetic is where the answer is right and everything is nice and you can look out of the window and see the blue sky - or the answer is wrong and you have to start over and try again and see how it comes out this time.
(Carl Sandburg)
I mix photographs arithmetically: this one is made from two exposures, each of colourful glass. It wasn't necessarily so colourful in the so-called-real-world though... Arithmetic is a powerful force in the world of pixel value imagery...
Percussion, beat, rhythm – that's what moves me in music. It makes me unable to listen to most music without some sort of dance or movement involved – without feeling an inner pulse in response. And so, using drum skin as my tabletop seemed the natural extension for this matching pair of aural pleasure providers.
"Music is the arithmetic of sounds as optics is the geometry of light." – Claude Debussy
Here I am, 7-years-old, with my Christmas presents in 1955. I got a crinoline, wool scarf, umbrella, doll umbrella (from my grandma..I loved it) an Uncle Wiggly game, a sewing kit and an arithmetic game (it would be worth a little money now). I think the croquet game was for the whole family.
Deutsches Museum, Munich.
I don't know what this was, but it's probably the first time I've ever seen a multiple of 37 (or 37 itself for that matter) "in the wild" written as an arithmetic expression.
The Skeen School, once educating children around the local area, continues to stand tall and proud. Within the confinements of academia, such academics once taught were arithmetic, reading and writing. Now [slowly] withering away at the edge of a wheat field, instead of providing adolescent moments to the youth, the former one-room school house serves its purpose of storing farming equipment.
Photo of the abandoned Skeen School House captured via Minolta MD Zoom Rokkor-X 24-50mm F/4 lens and the bracketing method of photography. Palouse Region within the Columbia Plateau Region. Whitman County, Washington. Early December 2017.
Exposure Time: 1/200 sec. * ISO Speed: ISO-200 * Aperture: F/8 * Bracketing: +1 / -1 * Color Temperature: 5400 K * Film Plug-In: Fuji Provia 100F
Milton Keynes Museum have a room set up as a Victorian school room. This was taken there. For those that weren't good at mathematics, h = hundreds, t = tens and u = units.
Entered into Buckingham Camera Club's POTY 2019 Round 3 (Things):
Judge's comments : This has been done well. It fits the brief. Can't fault it in a photography sense. However, there appears to be too many beads on the abacus unless it goes out of shot. (cropping and adjusting the perspective has resulted in the metal bars of the abacus going out of shot).
Judge's score : 18/20
"Arithmetic is where the answer is right and everything is nice and you can look out of the window and see the blue sky - or the answer is wrong and you have to start over and try again and see how it comes out this time."
Carl Sandburg
Have a great day!
Every time I see a Marigold, they instantly take me back to grade two in primary school, where we planted these at school. My wonderful teacher Mrs. Green also introduced us to the marigold song, made famous by Danny Kaye in the 1952 film Hans Christian Andersen.
Two and two are four
Four and four are eight
Eight and eight are sixteen
Sixteen and sixteen are thirty-two
Inch worm, inch worm
Measuring the marigolds
You and your arithmetic
You'll probably go far
Inch worm, inch worm
Measuring the marigolds
Seems to me you'd stop and see
How beautiful they are
Inch worm, inch worm
Measuring the marigolds
You and your arithmetic
You'll probably go far
Inch worm, inch worm
Measuring the marigolds
Seems to me you'd stop and see
How beautiful they are
Two and…
Alowyn Gardens, Yarra Glen.
To educate illiterate adults, literacy centres have been established in many villages. The various programs offered primarily target young people, women, and other adults, providing them with basic reading, writing, and arithmetic skills, and in some cases, practical skills. They include: Initial Literacy (AI), Basic Supplementary Training (FCB), Specific Technical Training (FTS), and Learning Fundamental and Functional French (A3F). They are supported by the government through a national program and then by certain NGOs.
Dans le souci d'instruire les adultes analphabètes, des centres d'alphabétisation ont été mis en place dans de nombreux villages. Les différents programmes proposés ciblent prioritairement les jeunes, les femmes puis les autres adultes en leur apportant les connaissances de base en lecture, écriture et calcul, avec dans certains cas des compétences pratiques. Ils comprennent: Alphabétisation initiale (AI), Formation Complémentaire de Base (FCB), Formation Technique Spécifique (FTS), Apprentissage du Français Fondamental et Fonctionnel (A3F). Ils sont soutenus par le gouvernement à travers un programme national puis certaines ONG.
My boss said that I was to supposed to familiarise myself with this new calculating machine to boost my flagging work efficiency. It certainly looks as if the new machine were capable of handling some quite large numbers.
Seriously now: This is a calculating machine that was built by the Darmstadt civil engineer Johann Helfrich von Müller from 1782-1784. It could perform the four basic arithmetic operations on numbers of up to 14 digits. Although the prototype worked, Müller could not raise the money to start the production run, but grand duke Ludwig I of Hesse-Darmstadt purchased the prototype for the sum of 4000 guilders.
Camera: Canon EOS3
Lens: Canon EF 50mm 1:1.8 II
Ilford HP5+ Black and White negative film
Developed and scanned by www.meinfilmlab.de
Built for the 2nd Blitz'ard flash MOC contest, "Best battle scene" category.
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It was that time of the year once again...
The famous Elken warrior R.N.R.* Rudolph, who led the Great Reindeer Revolution that overthrew the malicious regime of the reigning Santa Claus, was gathering his elves and santas to go on his annual destructive rampage across the Urtican Planes.
Throughout the year Rudolph makes a list of the Urticans, categorizing them according to their behavior: the nice Urticans will become a bacon-wrapped turkey** and the naughty ones a lump of coal. In the head...
Unfortunately, due to a computational error*** the threshold for being nice has been set way too high, so practically all Urticans are being classified as naughty.
So beware Urticans, Rudolph is on his way and his sack is full of coal!
Hit Urticans with lumps of co-al.
Fa-la-la-la-la, la-la-la-la!
'Tis the season to be jolly.
Fa-la-la-la-la, la-la-la-la!
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As for the sleigh: ironically enough, the lead Santa of the sleigh was chosen to be the rebellious S-ain't-a Claus, who has been dishonorably discharged after the great fiasco of 2015, where he forgot to show up on his only working day of the year due to a heated darts game with his buddies in the local pub. He has been charged with the horrendous crime of "Bros before Ho-ho-hos" and he pleaded guilty.
Just like R.N.R. Rudolph, he also has a red nose, but in his case it is not genetical, but a result of his excessive consume of mulled wine.
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*: no, not Rock'N'Roll Rudolph, more like the Red-Nosed Reindeer.
**: © Gary
***: the Elken are not great in arithmetic calculations because they can't write the numbers down and, unlike human with a total of 20 fingers and toes, only have two hooves on each foot
The Skeen School, once educating children around the local area, continues to stand tall and proud. Within the confinements of academia, such academics once taught were arithmetic, reading and writing. Now [slowly] withering away at the edge of a wheat field, instead of providing adolescent moments to the youth, the former one-room school house serves its purpose of storing farming equipment.
Photo of the abandoned Skeen School House captured via Minolta Maxxum AF 16mm Fish-Eye F/2.8 Lens. Palouse Region within the Columbia Plateau Region. Whitman County, Washington. Late June 2022.
Exposure Time: 1/250 sec. * ISO Speed: ISO-100 * Aperture: F/8 * Bracketing: None * Color Temperature: 5500 K * Film Emulation: Fuji Superia Xtra 400 * Filter: Cooling Filter (80) * Elevation: 2,594 feet above sea-level
According to Google, Museum Mile runs along Fifth Avenue from East 79th Street to East 106th. Neither arithmetic nor the number of museums uptown and downtown places the Guggenheim in the center of that mile but that title just feels right.
The Skeen School, once educating children around the local area, continues to stand tall and proud. Within the confinements of academia, such academics once taught were arithmetic, reading and writing. Now [slowly] withering away at the edge of a wheat field, instead of providing adolescent moments to the youth, the former one-room school house serves its purpose of storing farming equipment.
Photo of the abandoned Skeen School House captured via Minolta MD Zoom Rokkor-X 24-50mm F/4 lens and the bracketing method of photography. Palouse Region within the Columbia Plateau Region. Whitman County, Washington. Early December 2017.
Exposure Time: 1/250 sec. * ISO Speed: ISO-100 * Aperture: F/8 * Bracketing: +1 / -1 * Color Temperature: 6600 K * Film Plug-In: Kodak Portra 160 NC
Susan Sarandon presenta en Madrid la película Aritmética Emocional el día 5 de Junio de 2008. Fotografía de Francisco Bellón Ballesteros.
Pickett N600-T > Hewlett-Packard HP-35
Hewlett-Packard HP-35 calculator. $400. Introduced about April of 1972. Over 10x the price of a slide rule. HP Marketing forecast first year sales at 10K. Actually sold 100K. Pickett went out of business two yrs later. I bought one in 1973.
This is my slide rule from high school, 1963.
If you like it, you'll find the high-res version on my webdrive flash-dantz.com/Flickr_Drive (personal use only)
Hawkshead Grammar School in Hawkshead, Cumbria, England was founded in 1585 by Archbishop Edwin Sandys, of York, who petitioned a charter from Queen Elizabeth I to set up a governing body. The early School taught Latin, Greek and sciences, including arithmetic and geometry. Although the School closed in 1909, the building functions today as Hawkshead Grammar School Museum and is open to the public.
Notable former pupils included William Wordsworth.
From one side of the frame to another.
Nikon D700. 105mm f/2.8G IF ED AF-S VR Micro Nikkor. f/6.3. ISO 800. AWB. Manual Exposure, Manual Focus. Full Frame - No Crop
Adobe Photoshop CS3, image size reduction changed to a 1000 pixels. No other changes.
In the arithmetic of love, one plus one equals everything, and two minus one equals nothing.
Mignon McLaughlin (1913 - 1983)
Please view large.
---Has not yet frosted but the foliage is changing. I suppose even 8th graders in primitive Kansas knew why this happened:
---The author [Avis Carlson] talks of the evening in 1907 when she received the 8th-grade diploma from a small-town school in Kansas, USA. She was 11 years, 8 months of age...The piece speaks for itself.... please read. And this was in a one room 16/36 school representing 8-grades in one room taught by one teacher....!
---‘At that point in the history of Kansas education, the county superintendents had a rite known as County Eighth Grade Examinations... Recently I ran onto the questions which qualified me for my 8th grade diploma. The questions on that examination in that primitive, one-room school taught by a person who never attended high school positively daze me.
---‘The orthography quiz.. asked us to spell 20 words, including abbreviated, obscene, elucidation, assassination and animosity. We were also required to make a table showing the different sounds of all the vowels. Among the other 8 questions was one which asked us to divide into syllables and mark diacritically the words profuse, retrieve, rigidity, defiance, priority, remittance, and propagate.
---‘Two of arithmetic’s 10 questions asked us to find the interest on an 8% note for $900 running 2-years, 2-months, and six days and also to reduce 3 pecks, 5 quarts, and 1 pint to bushels.
---‘In reading, we were required to tell what we know of the writings of Thomas Jefferson, and for another of the 10 questions to indicate the pronunciation and give the meanings of the following words: zenith, deviated, Coliseum, misconception, panegyric, Spartan, talisman, eerie, triton, crypt...
---‘In grammar’s 10 were two directing us to analyze and diagram: There is a tide in the affairs of men, which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune'. [from Shakespeare]
--> Source: excerpted from, Small World Long Gone, by Avis Carlson.
The higher division of the seven liberal arts in the Middle Ages, composed of geometry, astronomy, arithmetic, and music. (Hong Kong)
Glenn Gould Plays Bach: Invention no. 13 www.youtube.com/watch?v=wpe3yTYpWKg&feature=related
I KNOW THERE IS NO "CHARACTER" in this shot...
but i feel "THE LIGHT AND NATURE" itself i made a character here..!!!
The SAGA..i like to capture "the travelling light"
the day break... its always makes me crazy about my "exposure settings" in my Canon...
and i always played the game with my mind and soul...!!!
here i reached that day on "muttukadu" river specifically to capture the dawn break to daylight...
i did fast arithmetics in my CANON...
in this frame i am able to captured the little bit of "travelling light"
one corner the day breaks up in orange light and and still the other end coverd with dark.. !!
its straight
from my mind..
from my soul
and from my canon ...no edit..
A fine break up of the day...
well next 4 days i am off from my FLICKR "office...
wishing you all a happy deepavali..(festivals of light)
we are celebrating on Friday( some parts of India on Saturday)
i wish you all" let the light brings happiness, cheers, wealth, health to you and your family!!!!
Hospital of St John the Baptist
The ruin of the hospital that existed in the town between 1180 and 1548.
What remains is thought to be part of the infirmary hall.
The ruin is situated on the main road that runs from Oxford to London (now the A40) east of the town centre.
The hospital was a classic medieval institution where a small group of monks or nuns cared for local people who were poor or sick, as well as wayfarers who needed shelter.
The hospital operated until the Dissolution of the Monasteries in the mid-16th century, when all property belonging to the Catholic church was seized by King Henry VIII.
Officially, the property of the King from that point in history, the hospital struggled to survive and eventually closed in 1548.
In 1550, the hospital's buildings were acquired by the mayor and burgesses of the town, who wished to establish a school.
The school accepted boys by subscription and trained them in academic subjects, including reading, writing, arithmetic, and the classics.
Most, if not all, of the boys who attended the school would have then gone on to university, probably at Oxford.
In 1562, the school received a Royal charter from Queen Elizabeth I.
From that point on, the school was (and still is) known as the Royal Grammar School.
The Royal Grammar School operated in the old hospital until 1883, when funds were found for a new building. See my image here: flic.kr/p/2rm7DvD.
The new school building was constructed just to the north of the old hospital, and the ancient building (apart from the surviving ruin) was finally demolished.
In 1993, the ruin was declared a Scheduled National Monument by English Heritage.
Today, the ruin is well-maintained and illuminated at night, making it a local landmark.
Grade II Listed.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hospital_of_St_John_the_Baptist,_Hi...
britishlistedbuildings.co.uk/101332369-ruins-of-st-johns-...
Formally known as the McMillin Mausoleum, Afterglow Vista is the final resting place of a mineral magnate's family, entombed among a symbolic structure that looks like something out of a fantasy novel. John S. McMillin owned a successful Washington lime works during his life, as well as being a staunch Methodist and active Mason. Thus when he constructed the epic mausoleum that would house the remains of he and his family's remains, he brought together all of his interests to conceive Afterglow Vista, the name which is actually placed on the stone arch leading to the burial site.
The so-called "mausoleum" is actually an open air rotunda with a huge limestone table in the middle. Around the table are thick stone chairs not only representing the members of the McMillin family, but actually containing their ashes and acting as headstones. This was meant to represent the family dinner table that the McMillins would rather around. There seems to be an empty space at the table and it is said that this was meant to represent the McMillin son who turned away from Methodism. The table is circled by a six Roman columns and a single broken column which is said to represent the unfinished nature of man's life. The columns were originally going to hold a brass dome over the table, but in the end the family opted to leave the site exposed to the elements. Even the steps leading up to the monument were numbered with Masonic significance to represent the stages of life. This meaningful and loaded statement on death and family is open to the public, although anyone wishing to shoot a swords and sorcery epic may need a permit.
The McMillin Family Mausoleum was built by John S. McMillin as a memorial for his family, and for the things in which he believed. It incorporates symbols from Masonry, the Bible, and the Sigma Chi fraternity, all of which were important to him. He also incorporated his own views of family unity. The structure is approached by two sets of stairs, representing the steps within the Masonic Order. The stairs on the east side of the mausoleum stand for the spiritual life of man. The winding in the path symbolizes that the future cannot be seen. The stairs were built in sets of three, five and seven. This represents the three stages of life (youth, manhood, age), the five orders of architecture (Tuscan, Doric, Iconic, Corinthian, Composite), the five senses, and the seven liberal arts and sciences (grammar, rhetoric, logic, arithmetic, geometry, music, astronomy). The columns were created to be the same size as those in King Solomon's temple. The broken column represents the broken column of life -- that man dies before his work is completed. The center of the mausoleum boasts a round table of limestone and concrete surrounded by six stone and concrete chairs. The chair bases are crypts for the ashes of the family, while the whole represents their reunion after death. The construction of the mausoleum began in 1930 and was completed to its present state by the spring of 1936 at a cost of approximately $30,000. McMillin had planned to erect a bronze dome with a Maltese cross atop the edifice. He had ordered the dome, but his son, Paul, cancelled the order, as the company did not have the $20,000 it would cost.
www.fridayharbor.com/roche-harbor-mausoleum-afterglow-vista
"I do come home at Christmas. We all do, or we all should. We all come home, or ought to come home, for a short holiday -- the longer, the better -- from the great boarding school where we are forever working at our arithmetical slates, to take, and give a rest." -- Charles Dickens --
"I haven't been home for Christmas in years... I prefer to go in the Summer time... It is more relaxing." --- Gregoria Gregoriou Crowe ---
How are you everybody? This is a very busy time of the year and to be honest I do love the lazy Summers very much... What about you?
I hope you all have a good week ahead and thank you for visiting and all your kind comments ... ;-)
website: www.ggcphoto.com/
An original Still Life Oil Painting in an Impressionist style of water bottles and glasses on canvass . I had thought I had already posted this still life painting but the painting I had in mind was similar but not the same. I recalled sometime back I had painted a short series of the subject matter. Probably with different apples as I usually ate an apple a day. The marigolds would be different for each painting as well. For many years they filled odd spots in the hallway. Inch worm inch worm climbing up the marigold you and your arithmetic will probably go far.
Island Of Madagascar
Off The East Coast Of Africa
Berenty Reserve
Female Ring-tailed Lemur with a youngster on her back.
Wikipedia-
The ring-tailed lemur (Lemur catta) is a large strepsirrhine primate and the most recognized lemur due to its long, black and white ringed tail. It belongs to Lemuridae, one of five lemur families, and is the only member of the Lemur genus. Like all lemurs it is endemic to the island of Madagascar. Known locally in Malagasy as maky ([makʲ] , spelled maki in French) or hira, it inhabits gallery forests to spiny scrub in the southern regions of the island. It is omnivorous and the most terrestrial of extant lemurs.
The animal is diurnal, being active exclusively in daylight hours.
The ring-tailed lemur is highly social, living in groups of up to 30 individuals. It is also female dominant, a trait common among lemurs. To keep warm and reaffirm social bonds, groups will huddle together. The ring-tailed lemur will also sunbathe, sitting upright facing its underside, with its thinner white fur towards the sun. Like other lemurs, this species relies strongly on its sense of smell and marks its territory with scent glands. The males perform a unique scent marking behavior called spur marking and will participate in stink fights by impregnating their tail with their scent and wafting it at opponents.
As one of the most vocal primates, the ring-tailed lemur uses numerous vocalizations including group cohesion and alarm calls. Experiments have shown that the ring-tailed lemur, despite the lack of a large brain (relative to simiiform primates), can organize sequences, understand basic arithmetic operations and preferentially select tools based on functional qualities.
The Skeen School, once educating children around the local area, continues to stand tall and proud. Within the confinements of academia, such academics once taught were arithmetic, reading and writing. Now [slowly] withering away at the edge of a wheat field, instead of providing adolescent moments to the youth, the former one-room school house serves its purpose of storing farming equipment.
Photo of the abandoned Skeen School House captured via Minolta MD Zoom Rokkor-X 24-50mm F/4 lens and the bracketing method of photography. Palouse Region within the Columbia Plateau Region. Whitman County, Washington. Early December 2017.
Exposure Time: 1/250 sec. * ISO Speed: ISO-200 * Aperture: F/8 * Bracketing: +1 / -1 * Color Temperature: 6600 K * Film Plug-In: Kodak Portra 160 NC
The Skeen School, once educating children around the local area, continues to stand tall and proud. Within the confinements of academia, such academics once taught were arithmetic, reading and writing. Now [slowly] withering away at the edge of a wheat field, instead of providing adolescent moments to the youth, the former one-room school house serves its purpose of storing farming equipment.
Photo of the abandoned Skeen School House captured via Minolta Maxxum AF 16mm Fish-Eye F/2.8 Lens. Palouse Region within the Columbia Plateau Region. Whitman County, Washington. Late June 2022.
Exposure Time: 1/250 sec. * ISO Speed: ISO-100 * Aperture: F/8 * Bracketing: None * Color Temperature: 5700 K * Film Emulation: Kodak Portra 800 * Filter: Cooling Filter (80) * Elevation: 2,594 feet above sea-level
Formally known as the McMillin Mausoleum, Afterglow Vista is the final resting place of a mineral magnate's family, entombed among a symbolic structure that looks like something out of a fantasy novel. John S. McMillin owned a successful Washington lime works during his life, as well as being a staunch Methodist and active Mason. Thus when he constructed the epic mausoleum that would house the remains of he and his family's remains, he brought together all of his interests to conceive Afterglow Vista, the name which is actually placed on the stone arch leading to the burial site.
The so-called "mausoleum" is actually an open air rotunda with a huge limestone table in the middle. Around the table are thick stone chairs not only representing the members of the McMillin family, but actually containing their ashes and acting as headstones. This was meant to represent the family dinner table that the McMillins would rather around. There seems to be an empty space at the table and it is said that this was meant to represent the McMillin son who turned away from Methodism. The table is circled by a six Roman columns and a single broken column which is said to represent the unfinished nature of man's life. The columns were originally going to hold a brass dome over the table, but in the end the family opted to leave the site exposed to the elements. Even the steps leading up to the monument were numbered with Masonic significance to represent the stages of life. This meaningful and loaded statement on death and family is open to the public, although anyone wishing to shoot a swords and sorcery epic may need a permit.
The McMillin Family Mausoleum was built by John S. McMillin as a memorial for his family, and for the things in which he believed. It incorporates symbols from Masonry, the Bible, and the Sigma Chi fraternity, all of which were important to him. He also incorporated his own views of family unity. The structure is approached by two sets of stairs, representing the steps within the Masonic Order. The stairs on the east side of the mausoleum stand for the spiritual life of man. The winding in the path symbolizes that the future cannot be seen. The stairs were built in sets of three, five and seven. This represents the three stages of life (youth, manhood, age), the five orders of architecture (Tuscan, Doric, Iconic, Corinthian, Composite), the five senses, and the seven liberal arts and sciences (grammar, rhetoric, logic, arithmetic, geometry, music, astronomy). The columns were created to be the same size as those in King Solomon's temple. The broken column represents the broken column of life -- that man dies before his work is completed. The center of the mausoleum boasts a round table of limestone and concrete surrounded by six stone and concrete chairs. The chair bases are crypts for the ashes of the family, while the whole represents their reunion after death. The construction of the mausoleum began in 1930 and was completed to its present state by the spring of 1936 at a cost of approximately $30,000. McMillin had planned to erect a bronze dome with a Maltese cross atop the edifice. He had ordered the dome, but his son, Paul, cancelled the order, as the company did not have the $20,000 it would cost.
www.fridayharbor.com/roche-harbor-mausoleum-afterglow-vista
"He giveth the Ring of Virtues; he teacheth the Arts of Arithmetic, Astronomy, Geometry, and all handicrafts absolutely. He giveth true and full answers unto thy demands. He maketh one Invincible. He showeth the place where Treasures lie, and guardeth it. He, amongst the Legions of Amaymon, governeth 72 Legions of Inferior Spirits."
Originally built for the wonderful Dictionnaire Infernal collab in 2019, where we depicted a number of demons from occult tradition. He's gone through a decent number of changes during the years and now I can safely say he's done.
Mio could handle arithmetic, but algebra mystifies her.
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Created for the Toy Sunday theme, FOREIGNERS.
On EXPLORE June 25, 2008
Best to: View Large and On Black
With the photo I wanted to say a personal HBW to each one of you, and to say "Hello, and Thank You All". I wanted also to communicate that I will not be able leave you a comment or a message for a few days. With the following quote I wish you a splendid week ahead and {{{HUGS}}} to all of you's.
"The hardest arithmetic to master is that which enables us to count our blessings." Eric Hoffer 1902-1983, Author and Philosopher
Peter all geared up for a game of golf. First of all, you have to understand that he is a scientist, with an extraordinary brain! Part of that brain - just a tiny part - has had some damage inflicted on it by a couple of strokes and a TIA. He has a few problems - like working out what time he has to leave home in order to arrive at the course for his tee time, remembering how many shots he has taken to get to the green, and simple arithmetic. He also doesn't give a hoot about what he looks like - but I think that goes back a long, long way! He hates anything new, unless its a fast car or a new golf club. Life is never dull with him around, which is why I enjoy his days on the golf course..... He's not even very good at it any more, according to the stories he tells when he gets home - but he loves the camaraderie and the fresh air and exercise! And I relish a few hours peace and quiet!