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"One.....two.....THREE! Yay!!! Everybody clap!
Oh wait....I can't."
Taken at Dunkerhook Park in Paramus, NJ.
Cropped image.
Wisteria frutescens from Sabine County, Texas.
Today I'm starting a long set of native Texas plants. First up is our spectacular native Wisteria. Much less aggressive and common than the invasive W. sinensis, the native W. frutescens can be distinguished from the former by subtle differences in flower morphology and fruit characteristics. This was an exciting find for me, as W. frutescens seems to be quite rare in Texas, and I can count on one hand the number of times I've come across it in the wild. This vine tends to grow in low, wet areas and along the margins of waterbodies. This particular plant was twining on buttonbush (Cephalanthus occidentalis) in a scrub wetland in the floodplain of a large east Texas stream.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isle_of_Purbeck
The Isle of Purbeck, not a true island but a peninsula, is in the county of Dorset, England. It is bordered by the English Channel to the south and east, where steep cliffs fall to the sea; and by the marshy lands of the River Frome and Poole Harbour to the north. Its western boundary is less well defined, with some medieval sources placing it at Flower's Barrow above Worbarrow Bay.[1] The most southerly point is St Alban's Head (archaically St. Aldhelm's Head). It is suffering erosion problems along the coast.
The whole of the Isle of Purbeck lies within the local government district of Purbeck, which is named after it. However the district extends significantly further north and west than the traditional boundary of the Isle of Purbeck along the River Frome.
In terms of natural landscape areas, the southern part of the Isle of Purbeck and the coastal strip as far as Ringstead Bay in the west, have been designated as National Character Area 136 - South Purbeck by Natural England. To the north are the Dorset Heaths and to the west, the Weymouth Lowlands.[
Geology
The geology of the Isle is complex. It has a discordant coastline along the east and concordant coastline along the south. The northern part is Eocene clay (Barton Beds), including significant deposits of Purbeck Ball Clay. Where the land rises to the sea there are several parallel strata of Jurassic rocks, including Portland limestone and the Purbeck beds. The latter include Purbeck Marble, a particularly hard limestone that can be polished (though mineralogically, it is not marble). A ridge of Cretaceous chalk runs along the peninsula creating the Purbeck Hills, part of the Southern England Chalk Formation that includes Salisbury Plain, the Dorset Downs and the Isle of Wight. The cliffs here are some of the most spectacular in England, and of great geological interest, both for the rock types and variety of landforms, notably Lulworth Cove and Durdle Door, and the coast is part of the Jurassic Coast World Heritage Site because of the unique geology.
In the past quarrying of limestone was particularly concentrated around the western side of Swanage, the villages of Worth Matravers and Langton Matravers, and the cliffs along the coast between Swanage and St. Aldhelm's Head. The "caves" at Tilly Whim are former quarries, and Dancing Ledge, Seacombe and Winspit are other cliff-edge quarries. Stone was removed from the cliff quarries either by sea, or using horse carts to transport large blocks to Swanage. Many of England's most famous cathedrals are adorned with Purbeck marble, and much of London was rebuilt in Portland and Purbeck stone after the Great Fire of London.
By contrast, the principal ball clay workings were in the area between Corfe Castle and Wareham. Originally the clay was taken by pack horse to wharves on the River Frome and the south side of Poole Harbour. However in the first half of the 19th century the pack horses were replaced by horse-drawn tramways. With the coming of the railway from Wareham to Swanage, most ball clay was dispatched by rail, often to the Potteries district of Staffordshire.
Quarrying still takes place in Purbeck, with both Purbeck Ball Clay and limestones being transported from the area by road. There are now no functioning quarries of Purbeck Marble.
Wild flowers
The isle has the highest number of species of native and anciently introduced wild flowers of any area of comparable size in Britain.[3] This is largely due to the varied geology. The species most frequently sought is Early Spider Orchid (Ophrys sphegodes), which in Britain, is most common in Purbeck. Nearly 50,000 flowering spikes were counted in 2009. Late April is the best time, and the largest population is usually in the field to the west of Dancing Ledge. Smaller numbers can be seen on a shorter walk in Durlston Country Park. This orchid is the logo of the Dorset Wildlife Trust. Cowslip meadows (Primula veris and Primula deorum) are at their best shortly afterwards and Durlston Country Park has several large ones.
In early May several woods have carpets of Wild Garlic (Allium ursinum). King's Wood and Studland Wood, both owned by the National Trust, are good examples. At around the same time and later some Downs have carpets of yellow Horseshoe Vetch (Hippocrepis comosa) and blue Chalk Milkwort (Polygala calcarea). In late May the field near Old Harry Rocks has a carpet of yellow Kidney Vetch (Anthyllis vulneraria).
Blue and white flowers of Sheep's bit (Jasione montana) and pink and flowers of Sea Bindweed (Calystegia soldanella) lend colour to Studland dunes in June. Both Heath Spotted Orchid (Dactylorhiza maculata) and Southern Marsh Orchid (Dactylorhiza praetermissa) are frequent on Corfe Common that month, and Harebells (Campanula rotundifolia) and Purple Betony (Stachys officinalis) flowers add colour to the Common in July.
Dorset Heath (Erica ciliaris), the county flower, can be found in July and August in large numbers, especially on and around Hartland Moor, in damper parts of the heathland. Bog Asphodel (Narthecium ossifragum) gives displays of yellow flowers there in early July. Marsh Gentian (Gentiana pneumonanthe) is found less frequently in similar areas from mid August to mid September.[3]
Roman, Saxon and Norman
A number of Romano-British sites have been discovered and studied on the Isle of Purbeck, including a villa at Bucknowle Farm near Corfe Castle, excavated between 1976 and 1991.[4] The Kimmeridge shale of the isle was worked extensively during the Roman period, into jewellery, decorative panels and furniture.[5]
At the extreme southern tip of Purbeck is St Aldhelm's Chapel which is Norman work but built on a Pre-Conquest Christian site marked with a circular earthwork and some graves. In 1957 the body of a 13th century woman was found buried NNE of the chapel which suggests there may have been a hermitage in the area. In 2000 the whole chapel site was declared a Scheduled Ancient Monument. The precise function of the chapel building is disputed with suggestions that it may have been a religious retreat, a chantry for the souls of sailors who had drowned off St Aldhelm's Head or even a lighthouse or warning bell to warn sailors. Victorian restoration work of the chapel found signs that a beacon may have adorned the roof. The present cross on the roof is Victorian.
The town of Wareham retains its Saxon earth embankment wall and it churches have Saxon origins. One of these, St Martins-on-the-Walls was built in 1030 and today contains traces of medieval and later wall paintings.
At Corfe Castle village is the great castle which gives the village its modern name. The castle commands the strategic gap in the Purbeck Ridge. The present castle dates from after the Conquest of 1066 but this may replace Saxon work as the village was the place where Saxon King Edward the Martyr had been murdered in 978. The supposed place of his murder is traditionally on, or near, the castle mound. Corfe was one of the first English castles to be built in stone - at a time when earth and timber were the norm. This may have been due to the plentiful supply of good building stone in Purbeck.
Sir John Bankes bought the castle in 1635, and was the owner during the English Civil War. His wife, Lady Mary Bankes, led the defence of the castle when it was twice besieged by Parliamentarian forces. The first siege, in 1643, was unsuccessful, but by 1645 Corfe was one of the last remaining royalist strongholds in Southern England and fell to a siege ending in an assault. In March that year Corfe Castle was demolished ('slighted') on Parliament's orders. Owned by the National Trust, the castle is open to the public. It is protected as a Grade I listed building and a Scheduled Ancient Monument.
The isle
A large part of the district is now designated as an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty (AONB), but a portion of the coast around Worbarrow Bay and the ghost village of Tyneham is still, after nearly 60 years, in the possession of the Ministry of Defence who use it as a training area. Lulworth Ranges are part of the Armoured Fighting Vehicles Gunnery School at Lulworth Camp. Tanks and other armoured vehicles are used in this area and shells are fired. Due to safety reasons, right of entry is only given when the army ranges are not in operation. Large red flags are flown and flashing warning lamps on Bindon Hill and St Alban's Head are lit when the ranges are in use.[6] At such times the entrance gates are locked and wardens patrol the area.
Other places of note are:
Swanage, at the eastern end of the peninsula, is a seaside resort. At one time it was linked by a branch railway line from Wareham; this was closed in 1972, but has now reopened as the Swanage Railway, a heritage railway.
Studland: This is a seaside village in its own sandy bay. Nearby, lying off-shore from The Foreland (also Handfast Point), are the chalk stacks named Old Harry Rocks: Old Harry and his Wife.
Poole Harbour is popular with yachtsmen; it contains Brownsea Island, the site of the first-ever Scout camp.
Corfe Castle is in the centre of the isle, with its picturesque village named after it.
Langton Matravers, which was once the home of several boys preparatory schools until 2007 when the Old Malthouse closed.
Kimmeridge Bay, with its fossil-rich Jurassic shale cliffs, and site of the oldest continually working oil well in the world.
As we walk down the path that leads us through life, let us express our gratitude to God, the giver of every good and perfect gift. Count your blessings; name them one by one…for when we reach the other side of the mountain our greatest reward will be in Heaven.
21/30 Today I am grateful that I am grateful…being able to give thanks and realize where these gifts and blessings abound from.
I did a closet count yesterday. Not counting shorts, skorts, rompers, or dresses I had 47 skirts ! I also have 27 tops to mix and match with those skirts which makes a lot of different outfits! I know this could be more than many women have but I still want to go out and get more ! LOL
Photo taken by Carsten / topfloor - please enjoy !
Brighton beach - Dave is counting the fish he caught, using a bamboo stick in the pretty cold water at Brighton beach (cou can see the pier in the background). Caught with the first electronic viewfinder camera (read: ancient), an EPSON / Seiko R-D1s and the Leica 21 mm f/1.4 Summilux lens at f/1.4.
This Photo made it as the winner (Aug 2010) in Brian Auer's Epic Edits Pool for the Environmental Portrait EE-Challenge. See here for more info blog.epicedits.com/category/challenges/
Thank you Brian for your great Blog and your time and energy to keep these challenges going!
See more of my Environmental Portraits in this set www.flickr.com/photos/geopirat/sets/72157624817059428/
This photo was selected by Brian Auer in his monthly photo (Oct 2009) selection over here blog.epicedits.com/2009/10/25/photodump-10-18-2009/commen...
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EPSON DSC Picture
Taken with a digital Rangefinder camera en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epson_R-D1
Five SD40-2s in command of H-NTWGFD1-09A
BNSF 1687
BNSF 1688
BNSF 1997
BNSF 1940
BNSF 1698
Yes, this is a mainline train with nothing but SD40-2s, just what decade are we in?
Too bad 1687 fell victim to the primer door.
First outing for Sigma 12-24. No AF for the F50 and that's a bit tricky with the focusing. That's the moment I've waited, a bit of color in the sky and lights turned on. The lights were bright enough for the reflection. My verdict of the lens is not as good as the Nikon 24mm F2.8 Prime, in term of crisp-ness and clarity. Well, I need the Sigma for it's 12mm!
Fujifilm Reala 100, 18mm, F22, 20 sec, Manfrotto tripod.
Tsing Ma Bridge, Hong Kong
Hasselblad 500C/M + C80 T* + Portra160NC
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My own photograph of a female mallard, taken with a Canon EOS 550D - 400mm focal length at 1/4000 sec.
'Out of Bounds' effect created in Paintshop Pro.
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This is a response for the Get pushed Group round 45, This time I was paired with rafartreides2009 he challenged me to follow the theme of one of this flickr groups challenges:
Bench Monday, Treemendous Tuesday, Bokeh Wednesday, Fenced Friday, Sliders Sunda.
I chose bokeh!
...also week 16
My idea was to focus on and show the snowflakes in the air. Every one of them.
Good thing I don't have to count them.
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Abandoned places in Berlin
The former investigative and district court prison in Berlin Köpenick * 1899 was begun in Berlin-Köpenick with the construction of a district court and a prison and taken at the end of 1901 in operation. In May 1933, the SA took over the prison. She used it as a central detention and torture center. During this time, known as Blood Week, communists, dissenters, and Jews were maltreated and murdered behind thick brick walls.
At the time of the GDR, the building was initially used as a men's and youth prison and later converted as a remand prison. Since the eighties, the building is largely empty.
The dilapidated Berlin-Köpenick prison shows Spartan prison conditions at the time of the Emperors. No heating, no toilets, sleeping in dark, tiny cells on wooden bunks
Decades of decay have left their mark: once green and white paint peeling off the walls,
Cell to cell, four stories high, door latch and folding spy doors through which the guards watched the inmates.
If you were here, you whould not feel the need to come back here after the dismissal.
Burg Katzenstein ist eine der ältesten erhaltenen Stauferburgen im nach ihr benannten Teilort Katzenstein von Dischingen im Landkreis Heidenheim in Baden-Württemberg.
Die Höhenburg befindet sich am Rande der Ries-Alb, dem östlichsten Teil der Schwäbischen Alb. Sie liegt über einem Seitental der Egau, dem Tal des Katzensteiner Bachs, nahe der Römerstraße Faimingen–Oberdorf bei Bopfingen (auch Frankensträßle genannt).
Im Jahre 1099 wird in einer Urkunde, in der Bischof Emehard von Würzburg eine Kirche in Heilbronn an das Kloster Amorbach gibt, ein Odalrich de Cazzenstein als Zeuge genannt. Vor allem aufgrund der Herkunft der anderen Zeugen ist anzunehmen, dass der genannte Ritter nicht zu dieser Burg Katzenstein, sondern zur Burg Katzenstein in der fränkischen Stadt Langenburg gehört.
Eine mit Sicherheit zu diesem Katzenstein gehörende Adelsfamilie tritt spätestens im Jahre 1153 mit Rudegerus de Kazzenstein auf, diese waren Ministerialen der Grafen von Dillingen. Das letzte bezeugte Mitglied dieser Familie war Conrad von Katzenstein, welcher ab dem Jahre 1288 belegt ist und zu Dillingen saß.
Bereits seit 1262 saß eine Linie der Adelsfamilie Hürnheim auf Katzenstein, welche kurz zuvor ihren alten Sitz Burg Rauhaus verließen. Von nun an nannten sie sich nach Katzenstein. Im Jahre 1354 verkaufte Hermann von Hürnheim-Katzenstein die Burg an die Grafen von Oettingen. Diese verpfändeten die Burg an die Grafen von Helfenstein, welche 1382 Berthold von Westerstetten mit Katzenstein belehnten. 1572 erlosch die Katzensteiner Linie der Westerstetten. Daraufhin verkauften die Erben des letzten Westerstetters Katzenstein an ihren Lehensherrn, den Grafen von Oettingen.
Im Jahre 1648 steckten die Franzosen die Burg in Brand. Graf Notger Wilhelm von Oettingen-Baldern ließ sie ab 1669 wieder erneuern und baute sie zu seiner Residenz aus.
Katzenstein ging nach dem Tod vom Franz Wilhelm, dem letzten Grafen von Oettingen-Baldern, im Jahr 1798 an die fürstliche Linie Oettingen-Wallerstein über und wurde 1810 in das württembergische Oberamt Neresheim eingegliedert.
Seit 1939 ist die Burg in Privatbesitz, aber öffentlich zugänglich. Sie ist seit 1997 eine herausragende Sehenswürdigkeit an der Straße der Staufer.
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Katzenstein Castle is one of the oldest remaining Hohenstaufen castles in Germany. It is located in a borough that shares its name with the castle in the Dischingen municipality of the Heidenheim district of Baden-Württemberg. The castle is open to visitors and contains several dining rooms as well as hotel rooms.
In 1099, the Lords von Cassenstein were first mentioned. The family was a ministerial or unfree knightly family in the service of the Graf (or Count) von Dillingen. In 1262, Edlen von Hürnheim was listed as the owner of the castle von Katzenstein when it was sold by Hermann von Hürnheim-Katzenstein.
Ownership changed again in 1354 when the Graf von Oettingen acquired the castle. He quickly pawned the castle on the Graf von Helfenstein, who gave the castle to Berthold von Westerstetten in 1382. In 1572, the Katzenstein line wiped out the Westerstetten line. The inheritance of the Westerstetten family was sold again to the von Oettingen family.
The castle was burned to the ground by French soldiers in 1648, at the end of the Thirty Years' War. The castle was rebuilt in 1669.
Burg Katzenstein went to the Oettingen-Wallenstein line in 1798. Later, in 1810, the castle was taken over by the state of Württemberg and placed under the district of Neresheim.
Since 1939, the castle has been privately owned.
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Candid street photography from Nuneaton, England.
Counting on his coin and counting on passing traffic at this 'short cut' between the town centre and the supermarket. Being at the top of some steps allowed for this perspective.
It's grim down south. I grew up with Nuneaton being the nearest urban centre and I had never, until this visit to my family, seen anyone begging there. Six homeless beggars were clustered in a short space in the town and half of the town was a no-go zone. Small and major stores closed and shuttered, former major retailers replaced with pound shops and charity shops. This was during Easter with children off school and I barely saw any. The town was almost exclusively full of brow-beaten elderly and disabled people and I saw nobody smile.
It is truly grim down south and I am genuinely pleased to be living in Scotland now, near to a big city where there is life, culture and style.
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Listenwave Photography
What does not matter ?😜
1.What to photograph - Camera. 📷📱
2.Where to photograph - Place. 🌋
3.When to photograph -Time.🌅🌄
What is important ?😎
1.Study and tune the camera. 👨🔧
2.Learn where you are going.
3.Study the lighting at different times.🌞🌚
What's the secret?♀️
1.Feel the instrument, hear what it says. 🙏
2.Feel the atmosphere of the place, catch the wave. 🌊
3.Switch on .Catch the moment!⚡️
What to photograph?
✨Finding the observer, comes awareness!✨
The "count" wearing Henry the 3rd's hat, in Venice.
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