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Day 1 of a 5 day (count 'em) weekend.
And needless to say, we were awake and up at a very early hour as our brains wake us up when the sun rises.
But that means we could be out of the house very early, and on our way to a very spacial meadow. All meadows are special, but Kentish freshwater meadows are now very rare, apart from this one there might not be another.
The reason for going, and you won't be surprised, is to see an orchid. Trips out of East Kent are rare for orchids, but for the Early Marsh I am more than willing to make an excuse. Early Marsh are not that rare, nationally, but in Kent, most habitat has been drained for housing or industry. So, having seen photos of the spikes beginning to open online earlier in the week, its about time we paid our annual visit.
We were out of the house by half six, having had coffee. We would get breakfast at the filling station near the reserve we said. And park there for half an hour.
So we thought.
After a mostly uneventful journey up the A2 to the motorway, with just one lady driver who seemed to think indicators were for everyone else but her. She glared at me after I pass her having given her both barrels of the Audi headlights. I indicated I wanted to pass, she drifted over to block me off.
Anyway, we reach the motorway, then cruise up in lighter rush hour traffic, past Faversham and the Medway Towns, over the river before turning off and driving down the Medway valley through Cuxton.
Only to find the garage closed.
We park in a residential area nearby, away from houses so not to be trouble, grab my camera and we cross the road, walk through the industrial estate, past loading bays and stores of a distribution company. Through the underpass under the railway, and the sounds of the modern world left far behind.
We climb over the five bar gate, and into the water meadow, the soil a partially dried mud that we could just about get through.
We pass by a couple of ragged robin plants, fairly unusual in Kent, so I take shots. And then across the reserve, sticking to the poorly marked path leading to the far side where the orchids could be found.
And we find orchids. Including nearly a dozen Early Marsh, a huge increase on previous years. I snap most of them and the Southern Marsh there too. Although the CSOs were not in flower, but close.
We wander back, looking at each spike, taking shots so not to miss anything.
We walk back to the gate, climb back over and start to walk back to the car. Jools sees that the garage was open, so goes to get breakfast while I go to collect the car and will meet her back there.
Instead of eating in the car, we drive back towards the motorway, but stop at Ranscombe Farm and walk to the overlook with the river and viaducts leaping over the lazy water. We sit on the grass bank to eat, while a couple of Javelins zoom by.
I try to grab a shot with the compact.
After we had eaten, we walk back to the car and begin the trip hme, during which I had planned two or three further stops because orchids.
What were you expecting?
Next up was Stockbury, where I hoped to see the increasingly rare Lesser Butterfly.
Parking at reserves is tricky, not so bad now some of the lockdown has been lifted, but I make sure we park away from any houses, leaving us with a short hike up the lane to the reserve, and on the way I spot two Ivry Broomrape spikes, another fairly uncommon plant, one that leaches off ivy so need not photosynthesise.
Impressed, huh?
I snap those, then we walk up to the reserve, where just about every bluebell had gone to seed, and all that is left is dried spikes and collapsed leaves laying like seaweed on the ground. There's always next year.
We walk round, down the slip and into the lower meadow where there I spy an orchid. A butterfly orchid. Several butterfly orchids. Six butterfly orchids, all lessers.
Which is great. Up from just the one last year!
I take shots. Of course.
Further along are dozens of Lady, most just going over, showing how crazy early everything has been. I just take a group shot of three spikes looking good. We walk onto the lower road, now cleared of flytipped rubbish, and blocked off both ends well enough now to stop more dumping. The road is covered with an inch of dry leaves, turning the modern world back to nature.
Along the lane we find 31 Broad Leaved Heleborine spikes, which will be the highlight come July. But for now, a game to play in spotting them in the undergrowth.
Last call is back in Woolage to search for the Brdsnest.
I checked previous year's shots, and some years they showed late, so maybe we would find them?
Maybe not.
We park on the road, and search all at the east end of the wood, but find no sign.
Sigh.
But the White Helleborines are thriving, including one with three very open lips, which is unheard of. I take shots just to make sure, and another of a pale spike which I think is a var. chloriantha.
Or not.
And that is that.
So, back to the car for the final leg home, but going to visit Jen as I had not seen her in weeks. Anyway, she was in the process of getting a refund back from the cruise, so we sort ours out too, meaning we would no longer be in debt.
Which is nice.
Other than that, we are all well, though just wanting to get back to normal, if we just knew what normal would be.
We go home for lunch, and then a lazy afternoon spent in the sun (its too hot) and inside (its too cold) until it was time to cook dinner, which I tried some crossover cuisine: courgette AND aubergine fritters. Which come out very well I have to say. There was quite a pile, but we did make them all vanish.
The evening is made of Uckers and March Riley, until i decide at twenty to seven I needed to make a baked cheesecake, and as the baking part takes four hours, it was going to be a long evening.
I make the base, digestives, melted butter and sugar, then I mix up the filling; cream cheese, sour cream, eggs, sugar, vanilla seeds and extract.
It goes in the oven at half seven.
Four hours to kill.
There is radio, and sloe gin.
And sitting in the back garden under dark skies whilst a badger eats peanuts loudly out of view.
He is happy with the way the evening turned out.
And dead on half eleven, I turn the oven off and go to bed, slightly tipsy fart. And sleep soundly with Scully beside me.
“You can count on us to guard your house” / “Comptez sur nous pour garder votre chez vous”. The campaign is made for the French bank “La Banque Postale” with the advertising agency M&C Saatchi GAD, in collaboration with the illustrator Christoph Niemann (@abstractsunday). .
Art direction: Thomas Vauchel
Copyrighter: Estelle Barbier
Illustration: Christoph Niemann
Photography & Retouching: Marcus Møller Bitsch
Set-design: Catherine Moreau
Less than 24 hrs to go before Northampton station opens..seen here with the higher business innovation cube behind(started later,Completed earlier)...Saturday 10th Jan was the last day the old station was fully open as today its buses only so no access to the platforms...Jan 11 2015.
Second full day in Valencia, and a day of culture planned, or at least visits to several churches.
Which counts as culture, right?
We laid in bed to half seven, then leapt out, had showers and after dressing went down for breakfast. Breakfast was fruit, cold cuts, fresh rolls and cakes all with lashings of coffee, was good.
Traffic outside the hotel is mad in the morning, with it trying to get on the main roads alongside and over the long park, we walked over to the other side and flagged a taxi down to take us to San Nicolás de Bari, or close to it, though walking would not have taken much longer than the taxi ride. We think we got the driver to understand our required destination, and he drove off, weaving in and out of the other cars and buses.
He dropped us in a narrow alleyway lined with old shops covered in graffiti, not sure it it was art or just rundown. But with Maps on the mobile, we walked the three minutes to the church, and found out it opened at half ten. We had 90 minutes to kill.
Down the street was a coffee shop, so we had another coffee and watched the world go by from our small table on the street. We then sat on a bench nearer the church as time crept to half ten and the opening of the church.
I will be forever haunted by the homeless man who was in the doorway opposite, who had made a pair of shoes from offcuts of plastic, and who bought a coffee when he had begged enough. He had dreadlocks, and a trolley of possessions, but was young, handsome, and who knows what his story was.
I even thought about buying him some shoes and taking them there next day, but the heat of the day made me feel quite ill, so not up to the walk.
Both Jools and I have had luck, we both nearly went bankrupt and could have ended up homeless.
St Nicholas is an ancient church, but had something of a Baroque makeover in the 18th century, and the walls, ceilings and everywhere covered in paintings, frescos and statues. As a whole it is remarkable, and the work is of a very high standard indeed. As is the way here, it seems, the church was lined with side chapels with statues or triptychs.
I took lots of shots, though my vertigo was giving me grief, and I would have to sit down between taking shots up at the roof. This would come to a peak at the basilica later that morning, when snapping the inside of the dome I nearly fell over. Jools saw that I nearly came over to catch me.
Oddly, that was the last day I had vertigo, a week later after staring at choughs on the cliffs for ten minutes, I realised I wasn't getting dizzy.
So it goes, so it goes.
Or went.
A short walk away is the Cathedral, a large a sprawling complex meaning that in the search for the entrance I found another Basilica conjoined to it, so we went it and found a small square church by with the underside of the dome gloriously painted.
Basílica de la Mare de Déu dels Desemparats is a stone box with a dome, at least from the outside, but the Spanish Baroque had visited here as well, most impressively on the underside of the dome, which is magnificently painted.
It was crowded, which meant any detailed shots were impossible without annoying people who had come to actually worship.
We sat for a wile in the cool before moving on, but crowds at the entrance to the cathedral meant we thought we would return on Friday, early, to beat the crowds. It was half eleven, and in trying somewhere to shady to sit, I find two more churches which to visit, the second a service began at midday.
Santa Caterina offered a climb up the belltower for a few Euros: not in this heat I thought. So we entered the church and found a brick vaulted building, austere compared to St Nicholas and St Mary, but cool and calm.
I took a few shots before we went in search of somewhere to get a cool drink.
But only found cafes offering piping hot coffee.
We found Església de Sant Tomàs i Sant Felip Neri also open, but just before midday itmeant a service was about to start.
We did stay for a while, but in a break in the service, we make best our escape back into the bright sunshine.
Back outside it was hotter than ever, and packed with people. One last visit was to Pl. Redona, a circular plaza, which looked photogenic. But as most other photographers from Europe and beyond had the same thought, and it was filled with market stalls and street cafes, I take a few shots and we leave again through a portal into a quiet street.
But being after midday, it meant bars and restaurants were open, and on a side street we fond a small place that did cold beer and were happy to make us a bowl of Valencian paella, made with chicken and rabbit. Paella takes at least half an hour to make, so we sat, talked and drank cold beers until the tin pan full of rice, herbs, vegetables and meat was brought.
Once we had eaten, it being two in the afternoon, we walked back to the hotel for a siesta. Going was hard, but we walked on the shady side of the streets, and in 20 minutes we were back in our room, but it had yet to be serviced. When the maid came at three, we went and sat in the shade in the small park in the centre of the boulevard outside the hotel, watching people and traffic coming and going.
We sat in the room, writing and listening to podcasts until it was half six, and the heat of the day had left, to walk back to the centre for arts, so we could take shots of the complex once the sun set at quarter to nine.
In fact, the hour we took to ambe there on Wednesday could be done is close to 20 minutes if you don't stop every 20 yards to take photos. Who knew?
The paths and tracks were packed with people doing exercise, taking their dogs or children out for a walk, or just out.
Like us.
Once we reached the complex, crowds had thinned as all was closed to visitors, so it was just a hardy band of photographers and tourists waiting for the sun to set. We had 90 minutes to wait, so we walked up to the far end of the site, where the zoo was, and in there is another fine building, but it could not be seen from the road or paths, but the walk did increase our step could to over 16,000!
As the sun set, lights came on, so we walked back to the taxi rank, taking dozens, if not hundreds of shots, as the light changed minute by minute, and lights came on, illuminating and highlighting the shapes of the buildings.
Half nine, it was dark, and it took ten minutes for a taxi to come by that we could flag down, he whizzed us back to the hotel, and a walk over the road to the Irish bar where most of the city were inside watching the various games ebig shown. I got us a drink and we took them to sit on the cool pavement tables, watching the traffic and beautiful people passing by. Some were on their way out to paint the town, we were pooped, so went back to the hotel.
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The space occupied by the parish church of San Nicolás has been considered sacred practically since the Roman foundation of the city. Apparently in this area a temple was already dedicated to pagan divinities and was a burial place outside the city walls, according to Roman custom.
Historical documents state that the first building was built in the time of King James I, who donated the place to the Dominicans who accompanied him. Years later the Dominicans founded the Convent of Santo Domingo (current Captaincy General building) and the temple was directly linked to the diocese of Valencia and the secular clergy. It was erected as a parish around 1242 and is included in the first twelve Christian parishes of the city of Valencia after the restoration of the Diocese in the year 1238.
It is the Dominicans who dedicate this new Parish to San Nicolás Obispo, patron saint of the Order, since its founder, Santo Domingo de Guzmán, was writing the Constitutions of the Order of Preachers at that time in the Convent of San Nicolás de Bologna.
Later, an altar was dedicated to San Pedro Mártir in this Parish. A miracle occurred in it that saved the life of a newborn, so the devotion in Valencia for this saint grew until San Pedro Mártir ended up being co-owner of the Parish. And although the church maintains, and as such they appear on its High Altar, the ownership of San Nicolás de Bari and San Pedro Mártir, the church is popularly known as San Nicolás.
Later, in the middle of the Golden Age, San Nicolás will be linked to relevant figures of this century such as the writer Jaume Roig, administrator of the parish; and Alfonso de Borja, future Pope Calixto III. It is the century in which San Nicolás is fully transformed into a Gothic building and is enlarged towards the feet.
Centuries later, it will experience the great Baroque transformation that results in the architectural adaptation of the building and its redecoration with the excellent fresco paintings that decorate it and that we can currently appreciate in all its splendor.
In the 19th century, the environment of the parish changed substantially, since the Plaza de San Nicolás was opened within the Interior Reform carried out by the Valencia City Council. The neo-Gothic south façade that opens onto the square stands out from this period.
During the Civil War of 1936-1939, San Nicolás suffered serious damage: the chapels were destroyed and the temple looted and turned into a warehouse. After this sad episode, the Parish was declared a National Historic-Artistic Monument in 1981.
And in the 21st century the architectural and pictorial restoration of the Parish began under the patronage of the Hortensia Herrero Foundation, whose magnificent result allows us to contemplate the Parish in all its splendor.
The primitive church built after the reconquest began its transformation towards Gothic between 1419 and 1455. In this last date the temple was enlarged towards the feet, occupying the place where the parish cemetery or fossar was located . The ribbed vault was also built in the central nave.
It is a church with a single nave with six sections, side chapels between the buttresses (six on each side although two of them are occupied by the side entrance doors) and a polygonal presbytery facing east.
Between 1690 and 1693 the Gothic interior is covered with Baroque decoration in the style of the time, a reform attributed to Juan Bautista Pérez Castiel. On the architectural reform, the fresco paintings designed by Antonio Palomino and executed by his disciple Dionís Vidal in 1700, who covered the Gothic vaults, pillars and walls with scenes from the life of San Nicolás de Bari and San Pedro Mártir, together with with allegories of the Virtues in risky foreshortenings.
Includes the Merrick Room and Foyer. Guests have access to the Maritime Exhibit in the Lobby.
Classic and elegant, the Counting Room provides the perfect setting for smaller events such as a business or board meeting, small dinner reception or intimate lecture.
▪ 40 - 60 seated ▪ 100 standing
Rental Fees:
▪ Monday thru Thursday - $1300
▪ Friday and Saturday - $1500
▪ Sunday - $1700
Walter Ludwig is count Albin in the Austrian prostitution drama Hurenkarussell, directed by Cajetan Jacob
Guinness World Records Guidelines for A Collection.
The record is based on the total number of Individual (All Different) items of the same type in the collection. Duplications do not count. 1,202 and Counting....
The roses in the People's Garden
Plan
Rosarium History - Classification
Floribunda - new color range - Casting
Tree roses - new plantings - Pests - Winter Care
Rambling Roses - fertilizing, finishes
Shrub Roses - Rose Renner - Sponsorship - variety name
The history of roses in the People's Garden
The People's Garden, located between the Imperial Palace and the ring road is famous for its beautiful roses:
1000 standard roses
4000 Floribunda,
300 rambling roses,
(Also called Rose Park) 200 shrub roses.
Noteworthy is the diversity: there are about 400 varieties, including very old plants:
1859 - Rubens
1913 - Pearl of the Vienna Woods
1919 - Jean C.N. Forestier
The above amounts are from the Federal Gardens. My own count has brought other results:
730 tree roses
2300 Floribunda
132 rambling roses
100 shrub roses
That's about 3300 roses in total. Approx. 270 species I was able to verify. Approx. 50 rose bushes were not labeled. Some varieties come very often, others only once or twice.
Molineux 1994
Rubens 1859
Medialis 1993
Swan lake 1968
Once flourished here Lilac and Rhododendron bushes
1823 People's Garden was opened with the Temple of Theseus. Then made multiple extensions.
The part of today's "Rosarium" along the Ring Road was built in 1862. (Picture fence 1874)
What is so obvious to today's Vienna, was not always so: most of the beds in the People's Garden originally were planted with lilac and rhododendron.
Only after the second World War II it was converted to the present generous rose jewelry.
Since then grow along the ring side creepers, high stem and floribunda roses. On the side of Heroes Square, with the outputs, shrub roses were placed, among which there are also some wild roses.
1889 emerged the Grillparzer Monument.
(All the pictures you can see by clicking the link at the end of the side!)
Rhododendrons, output Sisi Avenue, 1930
Classifications of roses
(Wild roses have 7 sheets - prize roses 5 sheets)
English Rose
Florybunda
Hybrid Tea Rose
Rambling Rose
At the Roses in the People´s Garden are hanging labels (if they do not fall victim to vandals or for souvenirs) with the year indication of breeding, the name of breeding and botanical description:
Hybrid Tea Rose (TB): 1 master, 1 flower;
Florybunda (Flb): 1 strain, many flowers;
English Rose (Engl): mixture of old and modern varieties Tb and Flb.
Called Schlingrose, also climbing rose
Florybunda: 1 strain, many flowers (Donauprinzessin)
Shrub Roses - Floribunda - Tree roses - Climbing Roses
Even as a child, we hear the tale of Sleeping Beauty, but roses have no thorns, but spines. Thorns are fused directly to the root and can not be easily removed as spines (upper wooden containers called).
All roses belong to the bush family (in contrast to perennials that "disappear" in the winter). Nevertheless, there is the term Shrub Rose: It's a chronological classification of roses that were on the market before 1867. They are very often planted as a soloist in a garden, which them has brought the name "Rose Park".
Hybrid Tea Rose: 1 master, 1 flower (rose Gaujard )
Other classifications are:
(High) standard roses: roses are not grafted near the ground, but at a certain strain level. With that, the rose gardener sets the height of the crown.
Floribunda roses : the compact and low bushy roses are ideal for group planting on beds
Crambling roses: They have neither roots nor can they stick up squirm. Their only auxiliary tool are their spines with which they are entangled in their ascent into each other
English Rose: mixture of old varieties, hybrid tea and Florybunda (Tradescanth)
4000 Floribunda
Floribunda roses are hardy, grow compact, knee-high and bushy, are durable and sturdy
There are few smelling varieties
Polyantha classification: a tribe, many small flowers; Florybunda: a tribe, many big blossoms
New concept of color: from red to light yellow
The thousands Floribunda opposite of Grillparzer Monument shimmer (still) in many colors. From historical records, however, is indicated that there was originally a different color scheme for the Floribunda than today: At the entrance of the Burgtheater side the roses were dark and were up to Grillparzer monument ever brighter - there they were then already white.
This color range they want again, somewhat modified, resume with new plantings: No white roses in front of the monument, but bright yellow, so that Grillparzer monument can better stand out. It has already begun, there was heavy frost damage during the winter 2011/12.
Colorful roses
2011: white and pink roses
2012: after winter damage new plantings in shades of yellow .
Because the domestic rose production is not large enough, the new, yellow roses were ordered in Germany (Castor).
Goldelse, candlelight, Hanseatic city of Rostock.
Watering
Waterinr of the Floribunda in the morning at 11 clock
What roses do not like at all, and what attracts pests really magically, the foliage is wet. Therefore, the Floribunda roses are in the People's Garde poured in the morning at 11 clock, so that the leaves can dry thoroughly.
Ground sprinklers pouring only the root crown, can not be used because the associated hoses should be buried in the earth, and that in turn collide with the Erdanhäufung (amassing of earth) that is made for winter protection. Choosing the right time to do it, it requires a lot of sense. Is it too early, so still too warm, the bed roses begin to drive again, but this young shoots freeze later, inevitably, because they are too thin.
1000 Tree roses
Most standard roses are found in the rose garden.
During the renovation of the Temple of Theseus the asphalt was renewed in 2011, which was partially only a few centimeters thick, and so was the danger that trucks with heavy transports break into. Due to this construction site the entire flower bed in front had to be replaced.
Now the high-stem Rose Maria Theresia is a nice contrast to the white temple, at her feet sits the self-cleaning floribunda aspirin. Self-cleaning means that withered flowers fall off and rarely maintenance care is needed.
Pink 'Maria Theresa' and white 'aspirin' before the temple of Theseus
Standard tree rose Maria Theresa
Floribunda aspirin
The concept of the (high) standard roses refers to a special type of rose decoration. Suitable varieties of roses are not grafted near the ground, but at a certain height of the trunk. With that the rose gardener sets the height of the crown fixed (60 cm, 90 cm, 140 cm)
Plantings - Pests - Winter Care
Normally about 50 roses in the People's Garden annually have to be replaced because of winter damages and senility. Till a high standard rose goes on sale, it is at least 4 years old. With replantings the soil to 50 cm depth is completely replaced (2/3 basic soil, 1/3 compost and some peat ).
Roses have enemies, such as aphids. Against them the Pirimor is used, against the Buchsbaumzünsler (Box Tree Moth, Cydalima perspectalis) Calypso (yet - a resistance is expected).
In popular garden roses are sprayed with poison, not only when needed, but also as a precaution, since mildew and fire rose (both are types of fungi) also overwinter.
Therefore it is also removed as far as possible with the standard roses before packing in winter the foliage.
Pest Control with Poison
The "Winter Package " first is made with paper bags, jute bags, then it will be pulled (eg cocoa or coffee sacks - the commercially available yard goods has not proven).
They are stored in the vault of the gardener deposit in the Burggarten (below the Palm House). There namely also run the heating pipes. Put above them, the bags after the winter can be properly dried.
Are during the winter the mice nesting into the packaged roses, has this consequences for the crows want to approach the small rodents and are getting the packaging tatty. It alreay has happened that 500 standard roses had to be re-wrapped.
"Winter Package" with paper and jute bags
300 ambling roses
The Schlingrosen (Climbing Roses) sit "as a framing" behind the standard roses.
Schlingrose pearl from the Vienna Woods
Schlingrose Danube
Schlingrose tenor
Although climbing roses are the fastest growing roses, they get along with very little garden space.
They have no rootlets as the evergreen ivy, nor can they wind up like a honeysuckle. Their only auxiliary tool are their spines with which they are entangled in their ascent mesh.
Climbing roses can reach stature heights of 2 to 3 meters.
4 x/year fertilizing
4 times a year, the soil is fertilized. From August, but no more, because everything then still new drives would freeze to death in winter. Well-rotted horse manure as fertilizer was used (straw mixed with horse manure, 4 years old). It smelled terrible, but only for 2 days.
Since the City of Vienna may only invest more plant compost heap (the EU Directive prohibits animal compost heap on public property), this type of fertilization is no longer possible to the chagrin of gardeners, and roses.
In the people garden in addition is foliar fertilizer used (it is sprayed directly on the leaves and absorbed about this from the plant).
Finishes in the Augarten
Old rose varieties are no longer commercially available. Maybe because they are more sensitive, vulnerable. Thus, the bud of Dr. F. Debat already not open anymore, if it has rained twice.
Roses need to be replaced in the People's Garden, this is sometimes done through an exchange with the Augarten Palace or the nursery, where the finishes are made. Previously there were roses in Hirschstetten and the Danube Park, but the City of Vienna has abandoned its local rose population (not to say destroyed), no exchange with these institutions is possible anymore.
Was formerly in breeding the trend to large flowers, one tends to smell roses again today. Most varieties show their resplendent, lush flowers only once, early in the rose-year, but modern varieties are more often blooming.
200 shrub roses
Some shrub roses bloom in the rose garden next to the Grillparzer Monument
Most of the shrub or park roses can be found along the fence to Heroes' Square. These types are so old, and there are now so many variations that even a species of rose connoisseurs assignment is no longer possible in many cases.
The showy, white, instensiv fragrant wild rose with its large umbels near des Triton Fountain is called Snow White.
Shrub roses are actually "Old Garden Roses" or "old roses", what a time
classification of roses is that were on the market before 1867.
Shrub roses are also called park roses because they are often planted as a soloist in a park/garden.
They grow shrubby, reaching heights up to 2 meters and usually bloom only 1 x per year.
The Renner- Rose
The most famous bush rose sits at the exit to Ballhausplatz before the presidential office.
It is named after the former Austrian President Dr. Karl Renner
When you enter, coming from the Ballhausplatz, the Viennese folk garden of particular note is a large rose bush, which is in full bloom in June.
Before that, there is a panel that indicates that the rose is named after Karl Renner, founder of the First and Second Republic. The history of the rose is a bit of an adventure. President Dr. Karl Renner was born on 14 in December 1870 in the Czech village of Untertannowitz as the last of 18 children of a poor family.
Renner output rose at Ballhausplatz
He grew up there in a small house, in the garden, a rose bush was planted.
In summer 1999, the then Director of the Austrian Federal Gardens, Peter Fischer Colbrie was noted that Karl Renner's birthplace in Untertannowitz - Dolni Dunajovice today - and probably would be demolished and the old rosebush as well fall victim to the demolition.
High haste was needed, as has already been started with the removal of the house.
Misleading inscription " reconstruction"?
The Federal Gardens director immediately went to a Rose Experts on the way to Dolni Dunajovice and discovered "as only bright spot in this dismal property the at the back entrance of the house situated, large and healthy, then already more than 80 year old rose bush".
After consultation with the local authorities Peter Fischer Colbrie received approval, to let the magnificent rose bush dig-out and transport to Vienna.
Renner Rose is almost 100 years old
A place had been found in the Viennese People´s Garden, diagonal vis-à-vis the office where the president Renner one resided. On the same day, the 17th August 1999 the rosebush was there planted and in the following spring it sprouted already with flowers.
In June 2000, by the then Minister of Agriculture Molterer and by the then Mayor Zilk was a plaque unveiled that describes the origin of the rose in a few words. Meanwhile, the "Renner-Rose" is far more than a hundred years old and is enjoying good health.
Memorial Dr. Karl Renner : The Registrar in the bird cage
Georg Markus , Courier , 2012
Sponsorships
For around 300 euros, it is possible to assume a Rose sponsorship for 5 years. A tree-sponsorship costs 300 euros for 1 year. Currently, there are about 60 plates. Behind this beautiful and tragic memories.
If you are interested in sponsoring people garden, please contact:
Master gardener Michaela Rathbauer, Castle Garden, People's Garden
M: 0664/819 83 27 volksgarten@bundesgaerten.at
Varieties
Abraham Darby
1985
English Rose
Alec 's Red
1970
Hybrid Tea Rose
Anni Däneke
1974
Hybrid Tea Rose
aspirin
Florybunda
floribunda
Bella Rosa
1982
Florybunda
floribunda
Candlelight
Dagmar Kreizer
Danube
1913
Schlingrose
Donauprinzessin
Doris Thystermann
1975
Hybrid Tea Rose
Dr. Waldheim
1975
Hybrid Tea Rose
Duftwolke
1963
Eiffel Tower
1963
English Garden
Hybrid Tea Rose
Gloria Dei
1945
Hybrid Tea Rose
Goldelse
gold crown
1960
Hybrid Tea Rose
Goldstar
1966
deglutition
Greeting to Heidelberg
1959
Schlingrose
Hanseatic City of Rostock
Harlequin
1985
Schlingrose
Jean C.N. Forestier
1919
Hybrid Tea Rose
John F. Kennedy
1965
Hybrid Tea Rose
Landora
1970
Las Vegas
1956
Hybrid Tea Rose
Mainzer Fastnacht
1964
Hybrid Tea Rose
Maria Theresa
medial
Moulineux
1994
English Rose
national pride
1970
Hybrid Tea Rose
Nicole
1985
Florybunda
Olympia 84
1984
Hybrid Tea Rose
Pearl of the Vienna Woods
1913
Schlingrose
Piccadilly
1960
Hybrid Tea Rose
Rio Grande
1973
Hybrid Tea Rose
Rose Gaujard
1957
Hybrid Tea Rose
Rubens
1859
English Rose
Rumba
snowflake
1991
Florybunda
snow white
shrub Rose
Swan
1968
Schlingrose
Sharifa Asma
1989
English Rose
city of Vienna
1963
Florybunda
Tenor
Schlingrose
The Queen Elizabeth Rose
1954
Florybunda
Tradescanth
1993
English Rose
Trumpeter
1980
Florybunda
floribunda
Virgo
1947
Hybrid Tea Rose
Winchester Cathedral
1988
English Rose
Source: Federal leadership Gardens 2012
Historic Gardens of Austria, Vienna, Volume 3 , Eva Berger, Bohlau Verlag, 2004 (Library Vienna)
Index Volksgartenstraße
www.viennatouristguide.at/Altstadt/Volksgarten/volksgarte....
2001 was the third year that Pulaski, Tennessee went on the Trail of the Tattle Bogles...a delightful fall scarecrow contest, that has become a tradition in this town. It's so much fun to see the creativity that the local townspeople put into creating and displaying these Tattie Bogles. There was no theme this year, everyone was free to use their own imagination to come up with these interesting characters.
I don't usually post so many pictures at a time, but when these scarecrows come out, I just have to post them all at once! It seems to be a tradition for me to photograph these, and I look forward to it. I almost missed this year, as I've been on the road. They were put up while I was away, and the first day I was home it was raining on them! Luckily, most of them stayed together...and I had a chance to get my camera, and find as many as I could. I'm posting the link to the slideshow, so you can stroll around this little town, and follow the Trail of the Tattie Bogles if you have a few minutes. I hope you enjoy them!
www.flickr.com/photos/arrow734/sets/72157627799830175/show/
This one also fits this weeks theme: Words. I actually took most of these pictures a day early, so I had to go back to town to get an image for the right date. I was glad I did, because I found a few more of these!
For 52 of 2011 Theme: Words Week #42
The Count-Von_Count Tattie Bogle is encouraging everyone to get a dental check-up : )
I took this picture when I was in Bangladesh, Me and some friends drove around in a boat and a few curious children caught sight of us.
Where there used to be a building, there is no more. This is a cause way now, with tables and chairs. Little Rock has changed over the last couple of years.
A traditional finale at the Flying Legends show at Duxford is the mass flypast...of warbirds of course as this is very much the theme of the show.
This year 25 aircraft took part in this segment, comprising
6 Spitfires
2 Seafires
3 Mustangs
2 P-36
1 P-40 Warhawk
1 Martlet
2 Corsairs
1 Bearcat
1 Sea Fury
3 Bf109
1 B-25
1 P-38
Duxford, Cambridgeshire
11th July 2015
20150711 IMG_0302 16_9 std
We were the front... The front row.
Here's the setlist from their Phoenix show just a few nights later... probably identical to ours.
Set List:
Gary Lewis: Count Me In | Sure Gonna Miss Her | Green Grass | Save Your Heart For Me | Everybody Loves A Clown | My Heart’s Symphony | This Diamond Ring | She’s Just My Style
Mitch Ryder: Little Latin Lupe Lu| Jenny Take A Ride! | Sock It To Me Baby! | Too Many Fish In The Sea | Devil With A Blue Dress On/Good Golly Miss Molly
Mark Farner: The Loco-Motion | We’re An American Band | Bad Time | Some Kind of Wonderful | I’m Your Captain (Closer to Home)
Chuck Negron: Shambala | Celebrate | Mama Told Me Not To Come | Eli’s Coming | One | Joy To the World
Flo and Eddie (The Turtles): She’d Rather Be With Me | You Baby | It Ain’t Me Babe | You Showed Me| Peaches En Regalia | Elenore | Happy Together
Encore: Portions of This Diamond Ring | Devil With A Blue Dress On | The Loco-Motion | Joy To The World | Happy Together
And a review of the same show. Again, sounds pretty much like ours... right down to Mark Volman claiming guitarist Godfrey Townsend has been routinely fired.
The Happy Together Tour concert, July 19, 2014, Phoenix, AZ
Rating: 4 Stars
The audition for a lead singer continued on Saturday night, July 19, 2014 at the Celebrity Theatre in Phoenix for the Happy Together Tour band (or whatever name they prefer to call themselves). Guitarist Godfrey Townsend, keyboard player Manny Pocarazzo, bass player John Montagna and drummer Steve Murphy, who have played together since their days with the Alan Parsons Project Live and now for five consecutive summers as the Happy Together Tour band, backed six legendary singers in the hopes that one might stand out. The problem is, several did.
Admittedly, it was not the enormous talent of Townsend, Pocarazzo, Montagna and Murphy that promoters used to draw in the crowd. It was singers Gary Lewis of Gary Lewis and the Playboys, Mitch Ryder of Mitch Ryder and the Detroit Wheels, Mark Farner from Grand Funk Railroad, Chuck Negron from Three Dog Night and Flo and Eddie (Mark Volman and Howard Kaylan) of the Turtles that people came to see.
Also, admittedly, The Happy Together Tour is the brainchild of Volman and Kaylan who thirty years ago, got the idea of combining several popular 1960’s artists and placing them together for one concert experience. Although there was some gap between tours, this year’s Happy Together Tour marks the fifth consecutive year the musical revue has hit the road and will, by tours end, have appeared in 56 cities.
Over the last five years, the only constant members of the tour have been Flo and Eddie and the backing band. Using one set of musicians to back the artists insures that there are no gaps between performances. Saturday night, each artist played a twenty five to thirty minute set with the voice of legendary DJ, Shadoe Stevens, introducing each singer with a brief biography of their work.
First out of the chute was Gary Lewis of Gary Lewis and the Playboys fame. The son of comedian/entertainer, Jerry Lewis and not, as Lewis told in an amusing story, the son of rockabilly piano player Jerry Lee Lewis, Lewis started out with “Count Me In,” one of the eight songs, seven of which were Billboard Magazine’s top ten hits, that he performed.
Although the crowd was subdued for Lewis’ performance, as they were for most of the night, that didn’t stop Lewis from giving it his all. Strumming rhythm guitar, Lewis playfully interacted with the band, whose harmonies with Lewis enhanced each number. As Lewis pointed out, songs such as, “This Diamond Ring,” “Everybody Loves a Clown,” and “She Just My Style.” helped explain why Lewis beat out Sinatra and Elvis as Cashbox Magazine’s male vocalist of the year in 1965.
If Gary Lewis was the squeaky clean singer your parents would actually let you listen to, then Mitch Ryder was the dangerous artist they would not. Sporting a hat and dark glasses as he took the stage, Ryder’s gruff voice, coupled with Pocarazzo’s organ sound, made the opening number, “Little Latin Lupe Lu,” distinctively Ryder.
Following with “Jenny Take a Ride!” and concluding “Devil With A Blue Dress On/Good Golly Miss Molly,” Ryder’s five song set should have had people on their feet, clapping along. Through no fault of Ryder, only a few people in the crowd let go. But Ryder’s stage demeanor did not disappoint. His songs, coupled with his in between song banter, affirmed why Ryder was considered one of the mid 1960’s outlaws.
Grand Funk Railroad’s former lead guitarist and singer, Mark Farner, was next up. The energetic Farner did his best to coax some response out of the audience who warmly greeted him as he opened with “The Loco-Motion,” Grand Funk’s number one song from 1974.
Farner’s ability as a guitarist was then on display as he allowed drummer Steve Murphy to take over lead vocals for another Grand Funk number one song, “We’re An American Band.” As a solo artist, Farner embraced the band concept, not only allowing Murphy to sing, but firing off a nice guitar duet with band guitarist Godfrey Townsend. A rock concert had finally broken out.
But it took Farner’s version of “Some Kind of Wonderful,” to finally get the audience to sing along and stand before he closed with the Grand Funk classic “I’m Your Captain (Closer To Home). The song proved that Farner has not lost his strong vocal ability.
After an intermission, Chuck Negron, formerly of the group Three Dog Night took the stage. In an instant he went from quietly asking “how ya doing,” to strongly hitting the opening notes to “Shambala.”
From there it was a cavalcade of Three Dog Night hits. “Celebrate,” “Mama Told Me Not To Come,” which takes on a new flavor given Negron’s triumph over the demons the song talks about, “Eli’s Coming,” and “One,” showcased Negron’s flawless vocals. And although the audience still hadn’t jumped to their feet to clap and dance along, there were more than a few who were silently mouthing the lyrics.
But THE song of 1971 changed all that. With the familiar opening notes of “Joy To The World” emanating from Pocarazzo’s keyboards, the audience sang out “Jeremiah was a bull frog,” and never stopped. Negron had finally animated the crowd.
It was fitting that a concert that had begun with the son of Jerry Lewis ended with pop rock’s version of Martin and Lewis, The Turtles’ Flo and Eddie, Mark Volman and Howard Kaylan. With the energy level now up a notch or two, Volman entered the arena dancing “Gangam Style” while Kaylan preferred to stroll onstage holding a wine glass. After Volman had successfully thrown a drumstick to the ground and caught the rebound, the duo broke into the 1967 Turtle’s hit “She’d Rather Be With Me.”
Known for their sense of humor almost as much as for their musical ability, Flo and Eddie kept the audience entertained with both. Volman bounced tambourines off his arm as Kaylan did the lead vocals to “You Baby.” Kaylan warned the audience that despite the band’s playing a familiar song’s beginning, that “you don’t know what we’re going to sing.” He was right, Volman then rattled off portions of The Doors’ “Riders on the Storm,” “Back Door Man,” and Alice Cooper’s “School’s Out.”
A concert billed as the Happy Together Tour must have a reason. Kaylan and Volman coaxed the entire audience out their seats for “two minutes and forty eight seconds,” for The Turtle’s 1967 hit that gave name to the tour, “Happy Together.” The audience loudly sang and clapped along and why not? Despite what seems to be overplay of the song, it’s actually a great song.
Despite Volman’s pointing out that guitarist Townsend had been fired from every job he has ever had and that there was no guarantee that he’d be in the band next week, the Happy Together Band held one final audition for their lead singer.
For an encore, each performer was brought back on stage to do one verse from the most popular song of what they had previously sung. The result was a stage full of six legendary singers and four gifted musicians. Given the audience’s rousing standing ovation for each performer, it appears that the audition process will need to continue for another 20 dates.
www.examiner.com/review/concert-review-phoenix-crowd-cele...
I was sitting having a cup of coffee and this little girl said hello to me. Her mother said she liked men with hats. The girl then proceeded to show me how she could count to ten with the assistance of her fingers. Fujifilm x100s.
[Count Egmont and Horen (i.e, Hoorn), Monument, Brussels, Belgium]
[between ca. 1890 and ca. 1900].
1 photomechanical print : photochrom, color.
Notes:
Title from the Detroit Publishing Co., catalogue J, foreign section. Detroit, Mich. : Detroit Publishing Company, c1905.
Print no. "6377".
Forms part of: Views of architecture and other sites in Belgium in the Photochrom print collection.
Format: Photochrom prints--Color--1890-1900.
Rights Info: No known restrictions on reproduction.
Repository: Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Washington, D.C. 20540 USA
Part Of: Views of architecture and other sites in Belgium (DLC) 2001696375
Persistent URL: hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/ppmsc.05660
Call Number: LOT 13422, no. 047 [item]
Count Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy (1828-1910), usually referred to in English as Leo Tolstoy, was a Russian writer. He is regarded as one of the greatest and most influential authors of all time. Wikipedia
Best known for War and Peace and Anna Karenina.
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Tulalip Tribes researchers, accompanied by WSDOT biologists, set the net at high tide around 5:30 a.m. May 12, 2021. Once the tide lowered, caught fish were carefully put into a bin to be counted. This work helps us monitor the success of our efforts to restore the estuary near Marysville, WA that had been landlocked for decades.
The dike that blocked water from reaching this area was breached in 2019 as part of our efforts to improve fish habitat near I-5 and SR 529. Improvements to a nearby interchange will result in the loss of some habitat and this restored estuary will offset that loss. The early counts show this effort has been a great success. Fish returned almost immediately and began making it a home again where juvenile fish can rest and gain strength before journeying to the ocean.
Couldn't believe how beautiful these horses were. We came across several of these gorgeous animals in a field next to a path we were walking on for our Christmas Bird Count in Canmore, near Banff, in the Rocky Mountains. They seemed really friendly. Not sure if I'll lighten this photo a tiny bit. I did try it, but somehow the colour of the horse seemed too light. I love their light mane with the black stripe that goes all the way along it, and the little bit of snow below his/her nose.
"The Fjord Horse or Norwegian Fjord Horse (known in Norway as a Fjording or Fjordhest) is a relatively small but very strong horse breed from the mountainous regions of Western Norway. It is an agile breed of light draft horse build. All Fjords are dun in color, with five variations in shade recognized by their breed registries. One of the world's oldest and purest breeds, it has been used for hundreds of years as a farm horse in Norway, and in modern times is popular for its generally good temperament. It is used both as a harness horse and under saddle.
It is believed that the original Fjord Horse migrated to Norway and was domesticated over 4,000 years ago. Herds of wild Fjord Horses existed in Norway after the last ice age. Archaeological excavations at Viking burial sites indicate that the Fjord Horse has been selectively bred for at least 2,000 years. The Fjord horse also has a long recorded history of pure breeding without crossbreeding from other sources. Archeological excavations at Viking burial sites indicate the Fjord horse has been selectively bred for 2,000 years. The Fjord horse and its ancestors have been used for hundreds of years as farm animals in western Norway. Even as late as World War II, they were useful for work in mountainous terrain." From Wikipedia.
This scene was July 1994 in Fort Edward, NY on the CP Canadian Main. The F40PH was the regular for Amtrak "Adirondack" service, the Fort Edward Train Station (officially closed by GTI in 1986) had seen better days and was fully restored between 1999 & 2005, the south leg of the wye in the foreground has since been severed. On a good day, there will still be a crowd of paying passengers for the train...