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Messy painted plan for my current mosaic backsplash project.
It has a ragged edge and the copper bands will break free of the backsplash and go off onto the wall.
This part is about 4.5 ft long, 14" high. Caramel, gold, copper, bronze/brown and blue agate slices for materials.
The leading edge of a denser turbidity current as it intrudes into less dense clean water. The edge develops a pattern of lobes and clefts due to an instability.
See
www.physics.utoronto.ca/~nonlin/turbidity/turbidity.html
Photo by Jerome Neufeld
Ss Peter and Paul is a church that eluded my lenses for many, many years. At least inside.
Our old home on Crabble Hill used to overlook the River river valley, and very pleasant the view was. The town along the valley floor and downs rising steeply on both sides.
And inside River, its almost as pleasant, well, the road along Lower Road so narrow they had to make it one way, then along beside Crabble Mill being separated from the mill race by a flimsy wooden fence. It was also home to three good pubs, only one of which is open now. We used the Co-Op and the vegetable shop.
And it was in River that Nan went into care and faded from this world.
THe church sits at the end of Lewisham Road, near to where the trams used to terminate, and has been subjected to several rounds of "improvements". Somewhere under it there is an ancient church, but the signs are rare. The west doorway, now usually inaccessible as it lies beyond the door to the modern church centre was pretty much all I saw. Well, that and the Norman font, looking very out of place in the heavily Victorianised interior, which has been further brought up to date by the current parishioners.
In general, the church works, with its modern seating it can be used for many different types of events, concerts as well as services, and is clearly a lively and friendly place.
Many thanks to the vicar for allowing me to come along yesterday to take shots and add another church to the growing list of ones visited.
It is a modernised church, that suits it's location and parish.
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RIVER
LIES the next parish eastward from Ewell, being written in Domesday, both Ripa and ad Ripam; in other Latin records, Ripa and Riparia; and in English ones, River, taking its name from the river which flows through it.
A borsholder is chosen for this parish at the hundred court, and another for that part of the manor of Archers-court, which is in the parish of Whitfield, at the court leet of that manor.
RIVER is pleasantly situated about two miles from Dover, in a variety of country of high hills and deep extensive valleys; the high London road goes through it, on the left side of which the uniclosed down hills rise very sudden and high. On the other side, the slope of the value is as sudden for two or three fields, at the bottom of which the river Dour meanders its little silver stream; on the further bank, among a narrow range of meadows, is a long straggling row of pretty neat-built houses, among which are three papermills, a corn, and a seed mill, comprehending the village of River, having the church in the midst of them, beyond which the hills rise again very high, being frequently arable, interspersed with small coppices and clumps of wood wildly placed among them. The view of this from the London road forms a most romantic and picturesque scene, when at the same time straight forward, through the opening of the valley, there is a view of the town of Dover and its churches, and beyond, the British channel and the high hills of Bologne on the coast of France, and on the height of the hills to the left, the stately buildings of Dover castle.
The soil, in the northern part of this parish on the hills, is mostly chalk, and on those on the other side of it the same, but interspersed with a red earth, intermixed with quantities of sharp flints; a barren and hungry soil. In the vale near the river the meadows are rich and fertile. Upon the hill, on the left side of the London road, near the lime kiln, are several tumuli, some of which were lately opened, and in each of them was found a skeleton, a sword of about three feet long and two inches broad, and the head of a spear.
IT APPEARS by the Testa de Nevill, that this parish in the latter end of king John's reign was an escheat of the crown, and held in three parts; one of which, the castle of Dover held; another part, the canons of St. Radigund's held; and the third part was held by Soloman de Dover, of the gift of king John, and the whole was worth xxx pounds. The former of these afterwards came into the possession of the hospital of St. Mary, otherwise called the Maison Dieu, of Dover; the other part, belonging to St. Radigund's, will be further mentioned below in the ecclesiastical account of this parish; and the third part was, what is now called, the manor of Archers court, situated likewise within the bounds of this parish.
THE MANOR OF RIVER, which was comprehended in that third part of this parish first above-mentioned, seems to have been in the reign of the Conqueror part of the possessions of Hugh de Montfort, and perhaps described among those lands mentioned in the survey of Domesday before, under the parish of Ewell. His lands, on the exile of his grandson Robert de Montfort, in king Henry I.'s reign, escheated to the crown, whence great part of them in this neighbourhood were afterwards granted to Robert, son of Bernard de Ver, constable of England, who had married Adeliza, daughter of Hugh de Montfort; after which these possessions came to Henry de Essex, who was constable likewise of England, from his succession to which as well as from other circumstances, it should seem that he became entitled to them by inheritance. Henry de Essex was baron of Raleigh, in Essex, and hereditary standard-bearer of England, but for his cowardice in a battle against the Welsh, in the 10th year of that reign, he forfeited all his possessions, which became escheats to the crown; among them was this manor of River, held of the king as above-mentioned, and it appears to have continued in the crown during king John's and the beginning of king Henry III.'s reign, who in the 13th year of it, at the petition of Hubert de Burgh, earl of Kent, confirmed it to the hospital of St. Mary, at Dover, (afterwards called the Maison Dieu) which Hubert had founded, to hold in pure and perpetual alms; (fn. 1) after which, in the 21st year of king Edward I. upon a quo warranto, the master of the Maison Dieu was allowed the usual privileges of a manor in this parish, and king Henry VI. in his 2d year again confirmed it to the hospital, part of the possessions of which it continued till the reign of king Henry VIII. when on the suppression of it this manor came into the king's hands, where it seems to have remained without interruption till Charles II.'s reign, when it was alienated by the crown to the dean and chapter of Rochester, with whom it remains at this time. A court leet and court baron is held for this manor.
ARCHERS-COURT is a manor situated in the northern part of this parish, on the hills adjoining to that of Whitfield, in which parish, as well as in those of Guston and Waldershare, some parts of it lie.
In the time of king John this manor was in the possession of Soloman de Dovere, as appears by the Testa de Nevill mentioned before, and it seems as if this person was the same as is mentioned in the pleas of the crown, anno 21 Edward I. by the name of Soloman de Champs, or Chauns, who might from his residence there be likewise called de Dovere; in which pleas, as well as by the inquisition taken after his death in the 31st year of that reign, he is said to hold certain lands, called Coperland and Atterton, (part of this manor, as will appear by the records mentioned hereafter) of the king in capite, by the sergeantry and service of holding the king's head between Dover and Whitsond, as often as it should happen for him to pass the sea between those ports, and there should be occasion for it. He died possessed of this manor and land above-mentioned, in the 31st year of king Edward I. and was succeeded by his son and heir Gregory de Dovere; but I find no more mention of this name afterwards, but that it became the possessions of a family named Archer, and sometimes I'Archer, from whom it acquired the name of Archers-court, one of whom, Nicholas Archer, held it in the 1st year of king Edward II. as did William Archer in the 20th year of king Edward III. then holding it in sergeantry. At length, after this name was become extinct here, this manor was alienated to Bandred, or Brandred, in which it continued for several years, till at length the manor itself, with the court-lodge, and part of the demesne lands, together with Coperland, were sold by one of them, in the 1st year of king Edward IV. to Thomas Doilie, esq. and the other part of the demesne lands, since known by the name of Little Archers-court, to Sir George Browne, of Beechworthcastle; a further account of which will be given hereafter.
From one of the descendants of the above-mentioned Thomas Doilie, this manor was in king Henry VIII.'s reign exchanged with the crown, and that king in his 36th year granted it to Sir James Hales, in whose family it continued till it was sold to Lee, who passed it away to Sir Hardress Waller, of Dublin, and he with others, in 1657, alienated this manor to Mr. Thomas Broom, of London, one of whose descendants of the same name sold it to Richards Rouse, of Dover, whose arms were Sable, a fess dancette, or, between three crescents, argent, and his daughter carried it in marriage to Phineas Stringer, esq. of Dover, who is the present owner of it.
A court leet and court baron is held for this manor. A borsholder is chosen at this court for the borough of Archers-court only, but this is merely nominal, as he has never been known to act as such.
THE OTHER PART of Archers-court, which was sold in king Edward IV.'s reign, as has been mentioned before, to Sir George Browne, of Beechworthcastle, was afterwards known by the name of LITTLE ARCHERS COURT. Sir George Browne was sheriff in the 21st year of the above reign, but was attainted anno I Richard III. and restored again in the first year of king Henry VII. His son Sir Matt. Browne died anno 4 and 5 Philip and Mary, possessed of this estate, with lands in River, alias Archers-court, called Copland, held in capiteby sergeantry, and the service mentioned before, as was found by inquisition taken after his death that year. His grandson Sir Thomas Browne, of Beechworth-castle, who has his landsdisgavelled by the two acts of the 1st and 8th years of queen Elizabeth, afterwards passed away this estate to Capt. Isaac Honywood, who was slain at the battle of Newport, and dying s.p. devised it by his will to his nephew, Col. Henry Honeywood, who died in 1662, and was buried in the cathedral of Canterbury, the register of which says, he was a colonel sometime under that grand rebel Oliver Cromwell.
After his death, this estate seems to have come into the possession of his first-cousin Sir Thomas Honywood, of Marks-hall, in Essex; since whose death, in 1666, it has descended down in like manner as Marks-hall, and his other estates in this county, to Filmer Honywood, esq. now of Marks-hall, late knight of the shire for this county, who is the present owner of it.
CASTNEY-COURT, as it is commonly called, but properly Kersoney, is another manor, situated partly in the western part of this parish, adjoining to the river, and partly in the parishes of Ewell and Whitfield. It was antiently accounted part of the barony of Saye, being held of Dover castle, and at the latter end of king Edward I.'s reign was in the possession of the family of Paganel, or Painall, as they were usually called. John Paganel died possessed of it anno 12 Edward II. leaving a daughter and heir Maud; after which, I find it held by Elias de Bocton, by knight's service, by the description of lands at La Kersony. After this the family of Norwood became possessed of it, and in later times the Ropers, of St. Dunstan's; for John Roper, esq. of St. Dunstan's, died possessed of it in the 5th year of king Henry VII. holding it by knight's service. In his descendants this manor continued till the latter end of queen Elizabeth's reign, when it was conveyed by sale to Best, of Canterbury; the last of which name who held it was George Best, who alienated it to Capt. Nicholas Toke, who after the death of king Charles I. conveyed his interest in it to Charles Fotherbye, esq. and he dying s.p. it came to his brother Thomas Fotherbye, esq. of Crixall, in Staple, whose only son of the same name alienated it to William Richards, of Dover, and he in 1701 devised it to his nephew. John Sladden, merchant, of Dover, who devised it to his sister Mary, who married Mr. Thomas Fagge, of Dover. Her trustees, after his death, disposed of it to fulfill the purpose of her will, to Mr. William Andrews, of London, who in 1788 devised it to Thomas Biggs, esq. of Dover, who bears for his arms, Argent, on a fess, between three martlets, sable, as many annulets, or, and he is the present owner of it. A court baron is held for this manor.
There are no parochial charities; the poor have a right to commoning on the Minnis, which is a large common or heath of three hundred actres, called River Minnis, lying on the hills at the southern boundary of this parish, next to Polton. A new workhouse is built in this parish, for the united parishes of Alkham, Capel, Hougham, River, Buckland, Charlton, and Whitfield. The poor constantly relieved are about twelve, casually the same.
THIS PARISH is within the ECCLESIASTICAL JURISDICTION of the diocese of Canterbury, and deanry of Dover.
The church, which is dedicated to St. Peter, is a small building, consisting of a nave and a chancel, without any steeple, and has nothing worth notice in it.
¶King John, in his 9th year, granted to the abbot and canons of St. Radigund of Bradsole, this church of St. Peter of River, and his place and court of the manor, to hold in pure and perpetual alms, for the building of their abbey there, which was then at Bradesole. (fn. 2) After which the king, in his 17th year, granted licence to them to appropriate this church. Notwithstanding the grant for the removal of the abbey hither, it never took place, but continued at Bradesole, in the adjoining parish of Polton, to the time of its dissolution, which happened in the 27th year of king Henry VIII. when this appropriation, with the advowson of the vicarage, and the lands and possessions of the abbot and convent in this parish, as well as elsewhere, came into the king's hands, who granted them to the archbishop in exchange, and he soon afterwards reconveyed them to the crown, by an act specially passed for this purpose; but in it, among other exceptions was one of this church, appropriate of River, with the advowson of the vicarage, which have ever since continued parcel of the possessions of the see of Canterbury, his grace the archbishop being at this time entitled to them.—The parsonage, with two pieces of land, is demised on a beneficial lease, to Mr. Tho. Lamb, of Crabble.
In the 8th year of king Richard II. anno 1384, the vicarage, on account of it smallness, was not taxed to the tenth. It is valued in the king's books at 7l. 1s. 0½d. and is now of about the clear yearly value of eighteen pounds. In 1588 and 1640, here were fifty-eight communicants. The archbishop still pays the pension of 2l. 13s. 4d. formerly paid by the abbot and convent of St. Radigund's, to the vicar of this church.
Another collage of all my dolls that I currently own, plus their head sculpts right on the picture along with their names!
I'm getting closer to buying the Impldoll Azalea finally, but I haven't quite taken the plunge yet. I'm sure I will soon though!
For Beyond Layers ... Pieces of You - A Scavenger Hunt
Thursday : currently reading, a light fixture
Currently reading ...
Ann Voskamp's selections from 'one thousand gifts'
This is such a lovely little book (a tip from Kim),
beautifully written and with the most wonderful photos.
Current TRU promos for the movie.
February 8 at 12-2PM build event (online only describes car transforms to something but this sticker shows it)
Free movie ticket with any $50 The Lego Movie sets purchase
20% off all Lego City, Creator & The Lego Movie sets
We made our annual trip to London in November. We travel down by coach from Slaithwaite and stay at The Cumberland Hotel at Marble Arch. It’s actually a weekend ladies shopping trip that is run as a fundraiser for Slaithwaite Brass Band – I’m the only bloke that goes every year! We decided ( the two of us) to stay down in London until Thursday this time as we wanted to see weekday London and be able to explore a bit further afield on foot. We covered up to 16 miles a day, which is tough going on crowded pavements with hundreds of busy roads to cross. I photographed anything that looked interesting but I bent a contact in the CF card slot, fortunately I had quite a few SD cards with me and the 5D has dual slots so I was able to carry on using it. It’s currently at Lehmann’s getting fixed.
With it being close to Christmas the decorations are up everywhere so there was plenty of colour at night. In Hyde Park the Winter Wonderland was in full swing, we’ve never bothered going to it before but I went twice at night this time. It is massive this year, I couldn’t get over how big it is and the quality of some of the attractions. The cost and effort involved must be phenomenal – it was quite expensive though. It was very difficult to photograph, with extremes of light (LED’s) and darkness and fast moving rides into the bargain. I think I have some decent usable stuff but at the time of writing I am only part way through the editing process so I don’t know for sure.
We set off at around 8.15 am every day and stayed out for at least 12 hours. The weather was poor for a day and a half with drizzle and very dull grey conditions, fortunately we had some pleasant weather (and light) along the way as well. Being based at the end of Oxford Street – Europe’s busiest shopping street – meant that I did quite a bit of night shooting on there. Although I carried a tripod everywhere I only used it once and that was during the day! Because there is always a moving element in almost every shot it seemed pointless using a tripod. I would have got some shots free of movement – or I could have gone for ultra-long exposures to eliminate people and traffic but it would have been problematic I felt. In the end I wound the ISO up and hand held – fingers crossed.
We walked out to Camden Market and Locks but it had been raining and we were a bit early as many were only just setting up for the day. We tried to follow routes that we hadn’t used before and visit new places. We paid a fortune to get in St Pauls but you can’t use cameras. This something that I fail to see the point of, ban flash if you want but if you are going to encourage tourism why ban cameras when there is nothing in particular happening in there. It’s a rule that seems to be applied arbitrarily in cities around the world. Fortunately we could take photos from the outside of the dome, which was real reason for visiting, and we had some great light. Expensive compared with a couple of euros in some famous cathedrals. I’ve wanted to walk to Canary Wharf for a number of years and this year we did. We crisscrossed the Thames a few times and tried to follow the Thames path at other times. We covered around ten miles but it was an interesting day. It was also very quiet for the last four or five miles. We got there about 12.00 and managed to get a sandwich in a café in the shopping centre at the foot of the high rise office blocks before tens of thousands of office workers descended from above. It was mayhem, packed, with snaking queues for anywhere that sold food. We crossed to the other side of The Isle of Dogs and looked across to the O2 Arena and the cable car, unfortunately there isn’t a way across for pedestrians and it was around 3.00 pm. With darkness falling at around 4.30 we decide it was too late to bother. We made our way back to the Thames Clipper pier to check the sailing times. They sail every twenty minutes so we had a couple of glasses of wine and a rest before catching the Clipper. Sailing on the Thames was a first in 15 trips to London. The Clipper is fast and smooth, the lights had come on in the city and there was a fantastic moon rise. It was nigh on impossible to get good shots at the speed we were traveling though and there were times that I wished I could be suspended motionless above the boat. Again, hopefully I will have some usable shots.
We felt that the shopping streets were a little quieter, following the Paris massacre it was to be expected, I might be wrong as we were out and about at later times than previous trips. I think I have heard that footfall is down though. It was good to get into some of the quieter backstreets and conversely to be stuck in the city business district – The Square Mile- at home time. A mass exodus of people running and speed walking to bus stops and the rail and tube stations. It was difficult to move against or across the flow of bodies rushing home.
Whilst the Northern(manufacturing) economy is collapsing, London is a giant development site, it must be the tower crane capital of Europe at the moment. It was difficult to take a shot of any landmark free of cranes, it was easier to make the cranes a feature of the photo. It’s easy to see where the wealth is concentrated – not that there was ever any doubt about it. The morons with too much money are still driving their Lambo’s and Ferraris etc. like clowns in streets that are packed with cars , cyclists and pedestrians, accelerating viciously and noisily for 50 yards. They are just sad attention seekers. From Battersea to Canary Wharf we walked the Thames Embankment, the difference between high and low tide on the river is massive, but the water was the colour of mud – brown! Not very attractive in colour. We caught a Virgin Train from Kings Cross for £14.00 each – a bargain!. We had quite a bit of time to kill around midday at Kings Cross so I checked with security that I was OK to wander around taking photos, without fear of getting jumped by armed security, and set off to photograph the station and St Pancras International Station across the road. I haven’t even looked at the results as I type this but I’ll find out if they are any good shortly. Talking of security, following Paris, there was certainly plenty of private security at most attractions, I don’t know if it was terrorism related though, I can’t say I noticed an increased police presence on the streets. It took us three hours and five minutes from Kings Cross to being back home, not bad for a journey of 200 miles. I can’t imagine that spending countless billions on HS2 or HS3 is going to make a meaningful (cost effective) difference to our journey. Improving what we have, a little faster, would be good. There are some bumpy bits along the route for a mainline and Wakefield to Huddersfield is the equivalent of a cart track – and takes over 30 minutes – it’s only a stone’s throw. Time to get back to editing.
There have only been six Master Distillers in the history of the Jack Daniel's Distillery. Their pictures hang in what used to be Jack Daniel's office.
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August 9th, 2016
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Current shots from our aquascaping showroom. Come and visit us, we're open! We're working hard on our new display aquariums these days.
These are my favorites! They're temporary tattoos, which I probably won't use, but Kitty pirate still amuses me to no end!
The Church of Santa Maria dell'Ammiraglio or San Nicolò dei Greci, commonly called the Martorana, overlooking the renowned Piazza Bellini in Palermo, Sicily, southern Italy. It is currently the Co-Cathedral of the Eparchy of Piana degli Albanesi of the Catholic Church of Byzantine rite in Sicily.The name Ammiraglio ("admiral") derives from the founder of the church, the Greek admiral and principal minister of King Roger II of Sicily, George of Antioch. The foundation charter of the church (which was initially Eastern Orthodox), in Greek and Arabic, is preserved and dates to 1143; construction may already have begun at this point. The church had certainly been completed by the death of George in 1151, and he and his wife were interred in the narthex. In 1184 the Arab traveller Ibn Jubayr visited the church, and later devoted a significant portion of his description of Palermo to its praise, describing it as "the most beautiful monument in the world." After the Sicilian Vespers of 1282 the island's nobility gathered in the church for a meeting that resulted in the Sicilian crown being offered to Peter III of Aragon.In 1193-94, a convent of Benedictine nuns was founded on adjacent property by Eloisa Martorana. In 1433-34, under the rule of King Alfonso of Aragon, this convent absorbed the church, which has since then been commonly known as La Martorana. The nuns extensively modified the church between the 16th century and the 18th century, making major changes to the structure and the interior decoration.The nuns of the Martorana were famous for their moulded marzipan, which they made in the form of various fruits. Although the convent no longer exists, frutta di Martorana are still one of Palermo's most famous and distinctive foodstuffs.
La Chiesa di Santa Maria dell'Ammiraglio o San Nicolò dei Greci, detta Martorana, si affaccia sulla Piazza Bellini di Palermo. La chiesa fa parte dell'Eparchia di Piana degli Albanesi e officia la liturgia secondo il rito bizantino.Fra le più affascinanti chiese bizantine del Medioevo in Italia, è testimonianza della cultura religiosa e artistica ortodossa presente ancora oggi in Italia, ulteriormente apportata dagli esuli albanesi rifugiatisi in Sicilia sotto l'incalzare delle persecuzioni turche nei Balcani. Quest'ultimo influsso ha lasciato notevoli tracce nella pittura delle icone, nel rito religioso, nella lingua, nei costumi tradizionali proprie di alcune colonie albanesi nella provincia di Palermo. La comunità appartiene oggi alla Chiesa Cattolica, ma segue il rito e le tradizioni spirituali che la accomunano in gran parte alla Chiesa Orientale ortodossa.La chiesa si contraddistingue per la molteplicità di stili che s'incontrano, in quanto, con il susseguirsi dei secoli, fu arricchita da vari altri gusti artistici, architettonici e culturali. Oggi si presenta, infatti, come chiesa-monumento storico, frutto delle molteplici trasformazioni, sottoposta inoltre a tutela
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This structure is currently home to 9 FM stations and more. It is a 600' self-supporting ferro-concrete structure.
It is now 9 stations total - 8 stations on the combiner. 4 stations are doing HD, including KBOO. Six FM's get it together in a Shively balanced combiner with two more (including KBOO) feeding the wideband input using a branch combiner. It all feeds a Jampro Spiral antenna through MYAT 9-3/16" line. There is another FM station on a pipe above the main antenna using a Shively 1 bay 6810 DA.
Red Tide – Florida is currently experiencing a severe red tide event in Southwest Florida. Red tides have been occurring along Florida’s Gulf coast with documentation as far back as the 1840s. It is caused by a bloom of microscopic alga that lead to fish kills and respiratory irritation to humans and has no known practical or acceptable method of control. Since the last Commission meeting, FWC senior staff have continually engaged stakeholders, local officials, legislative delegations, and members of tourism councils in Lee, Charlotte, and Sarasota Counties to discuss the impacts of red tide and offer any assistance that could be helpful. With the support and guidance of the Governor and Chairman, we have taken numerous actions to aid in the recovery of the impacted fisheries and the community.
•FWC continues to work with partners and communities to provide support to dealing with the impacts of naturally occurring red tide, including helping to address and assess health impacts (DOH), provide clean up grants (DEP), tourism funding (VF), and business grants (DEO).
•FWC and DEP continue to provide expertise, funding and support to enhance research on addressing red tide and protect public health and wildlife.
•Although red tide is naturally occurring and has impacted Florida for years, the state is partnering with world renowned leaders, including Mote Marine Lab and Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, to research red tide and study innovative techniques to combat red tide and protect Florida’s communities.
•Over the past several weeks, the state of Florida has announced:
o$2.2 million to fund testing of potential mitigation strategies including specialized clay, enhanced ozonation treatment, the use of hydrogen peroxide and enzyme application.
o$13 million in grant funding to assist local communities impacted by red tide and blue-green algae.
o$1.2 million for FWC’s Stock Enhancement Research Facility to enhance research and production of redfish.
o$100,000 for Mote Marie Laboratory’s red tide response
o$500,000 for VISIT FLORIDA to create an emergency grant program to assist local tourism development boards in counties affected by the naturally-occurring red tide.
•In addition, our partners are also contributing to recovery efforts. CCA Florida and Duke Energy are partnering to release hatchery-reared red drum in Manatee through Collier counties. Mote Marine Laboratory and CCA Florida are partnering to release hatchery-reared snook through a two-year initiative beginning next April.
•Florida remains committed to working with local communities and leading experts to combat red tide and protect our communities.
Currently on a trip to St. Augustine from where these pictures are located (Wekiewa State Park). Was bored in the car so I decided to edit these, more coming soon :)
I am currently in the process of photographing so called ‘Marian Statues’ in Dublin. My information was that there were at least 28 such statues in Dublin but I am now discovering that the story is a little bit more complicated than expected especially as there are often conflicting histories associated with every structure.
I had believed that there was a Marian statue on Reginald Street. When I first saw it a few years ago it reminded of the Victorian Memorial Fountains in Dun Laoghaire, Belfast and Limerick but as I had not examined it in detail I assumed that it was a Marian Statue.
I now know that the large canopied structure was originally built as a water fountain until the top was knocked off during the War of Independence. In 1929 the local community converted it into a Sacred Heart shrine [not a Marian Shrine] and then in 1979 it was rededicated for the Papal visit to Ireland.
“Erected by the parishioners of St. Catherine’s to the glory and honour of God and in commemoration of the Centenary of the Emancipation, 1929″
“Restored to mark the visit of Pope John Paul II to the Liberties 29th Sept. 1975″
The houses in this part of the Coombe were built by Dublin Artisan Dwellings Company which is why they [and similar buildings in Dublin] are now known as ‘Artisan Dwellings’ or ‘Artisan Cottages’.
The original structure was a public fountain, funded by Guinness. It may have been a memorial of Queen Victoria’s visit to Ireland in 1897 but it also had the very useful function of water fountain at a time when water was often contaminated and householders filled buckets from unsafe wells.
According to some accounts the current structure is not original as it was replaced after the fountain had been demolished by a lorry. I do not know if the lorry accident and the War Of Independence incident were in fact the same event and to complicate the story even more some local historians maintain that pieces were shot off by British ‘Black And Tans’.
NOTE: The Roman Catholic Relief Act 1829, passed by Parliament in 1829, was the culmination of the process of Catholic Emancipation throughout Britain. In Ireland it repealed the Test Act 1673 and the remaining Penal Laws which had been in force since the passing of the Disenfranchising Act of the Irish Parliament of 1728. Its passage followed a vigorous campaign on the issue by Irish lawyer Daniel O'Connell. O'Connell had firm support from the Prime Minister, the Duke of Wellington, as well as from the Whigs and liberal Tories.
i am wearing the black polish by rimmel "black satin" like the previous picture. i just added a layer of petites "comet "so it wasnt all boring looking on Sunday.
3:45PM Tuesday: Catskills Hatzolah is currently on the scene of a serious MVA in Monticello, involving a ShortLine Bus. The crash is on Route 42 at the ShopRite Mall, (in front of Dunkin Donuts). Sources tell CatskillScoop.com that the crash involves the bus, as well as another vehicle. Emergency personnel from multiple agencies are on the scene, and have one victim in traumatic arrest. A Medevac has been requested to the scene for a second victim, reportedly with serious injuries.
UPDATE 4:00PM: Hatzolah & MobileMedics are treating numerous passengers from the bus – most of them with minor injuries. The victim in traumatic arrest has been transported to Catskill Regional Medical Center by ambulance.
UPDATE 4:50PM: Police tell CatskillScoop.com that the SUV was heading north on Route 42 just past the Dunkin’ Donuts where the road merges from two lanes to one. The SUV was pushed into the southbound lane, hitting the front of the bus head-on.
Further details will be published when they become available to us.
(CatskillScoop.com Newsroom)
The Madison River, a tributary of the Missouri River, begins in Yellowstone National Park at the confluence of the Firehole and Gibbon rivers at Madison Junction. This small section of the river is along Riverside Drive, a small one-way road which parallels the West Entrance Road. A quiet place of solitude and a great place for a picnic dinner.
Yellowstone National Park
Wyoming
Currently occupied by Tente's Auto Service, this former Texaco station is one of the best-preserved porcelain box stations in Connecticut. Put a banjo sign up at the corner and install some Texaco lettering on the building, and it would be like a museum.
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September 20
Today is my Sister Rosalind's birthday!
She is currently on holiday in Turkey with her Husband Phil
I hope you do get to see these photos Ros... and that you have a wonderful day and do something extra special to celebrate! We are all thinking of you back home in NZ!
Big hugs and kisses to you both!!! %-)
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This is our Family @ 1970... Mel Mum Susan Ros Lita and Me...
The little one is my niece Monique and Dad's taking the photo!
It always pretty rare to get the whole family together in one shot...
Ros has hardly changed a bit.... Phil will agree with that! %-)
When I was little.. probably not long after this...
Ros headed overseas for her big OE.
She worked in Canada for a while
Then on to London, where she worked and traveled around Europe and the UK too.
We had a big map of the world on the wall at home
And would put pins in all the places she traveled.
It was so exciting for us as kids! %-)
She would send us lovey cards and gifts too!
Ros inspired me to want to travel when I grew up.
She still has the travel bug... always will I'm sure!
I am so pleased for them both that they are getting away on adventures again...
Now that the boys are grown up!
So... have a WONDERFUL time in Turkey Ros....
You SO deserve it! %-)
XOXO
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The Rainmeter skin was "created" by myself, just taking pieces of code from other skins
Canoing the Current River in the Ozarks (rural Missouri) was a favorite family adventure for as long as I can remember. Three blissful days on a quiet, spring-fed river, camping on any of the plentiful sandbanks (sometimes the more uncomfortable gravel-banks if one started looking for a site too late) accompanied by the almost deafening choir of cicadas in the trees.
We rolled overboard for a swim whenever the spirit moved one to do so, had a million water-fights or jumped into the deep water from the limestone cliffs.
This summer, we had the opportunity to do it all again, this time with our own children and I think it moved our parents to see the next generation being initiated into this great tradition.
My previous ride : CL500 - Red
Old style houses vs New style car
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We will be moving soon so this is temporary. I really want to get a glass desk and a nicer chair. Maybe with a view?
© Nick Welsh Photography
St Botolph's, Aldgate (St Botolph without Aldgate and Holy Trinity Minories in full, sometimes known simply as Aldgate Church)[1] is a Church of England parish church in London, standing at the junction of Houndsditch and Aldgate High Street, in the historic City of London. The current 18th-century church building is made of brick with stone quoins and window casings.[2] The tower is square with an obelisk spire.[3]
The ecclesiastical parish was united with that of the Church of Holy Trinity, Minories, in 1899.
The church was one of four in medieval London dedicated to St Botolph, a 7th-century East Anglian saint, each of which stood by one of the gates of the London Wall. The others erected were St Botolph's, Billingsgate (destroyed by the Great Fire and not rebuilt); St Botolph's, Aldersgate; and St Botolph's, Bishopsgate.[4]
Medieval church
The earliest known written record of the church dates from 1115,[5] when it was received by the Holy Trinity Priory (recently founded by Matilda, wife of Henry I) but the parochial foundations may very well date from before 1066.[6]
The church was rebuilt in the 16th century[3] at the cost of the priors of the Holy Trinity,[7] and renovated in 1621.[8] It escaped the Great Fire of London, and was described at the beginning of the 18th century as "an old church, built of Brick, Rubble and Stone, rendered over, and ... of the Gothick order".[8] The building, as it stood at that time, was 78 feet long and 53 feet wide. There was a tower, about 100 feet tall, with six bells.[8]
Present church
St Botolph's was completely rebuit between 1741 and 1744, to a design by George Dance the Elder.[3] The exterior is of brick with projecting quoins, stone windows surrounds and a stone cornice. The tower, also of brick, has rusticated quoins, and a stone spire.[9] The interior of the building is divided into nave and aisles by four widely-spaced piers[10] supporting a flat ceiling. There are galleries along three sides. The church is lit by two rows of windows in each side wall, one above and one below the gallery.[9] The monuments from the old building were preserved, and reinstalled in the new church.[10]
The interior was redecorated by John Francis Bentley, the architect of Westminster Cathedral in the late 19th century.[11] The church was severely bombed at intervals during the Blitz in the Second World War and then, after its restoration by Rodney Tatchell, was much damaged by an unexplained fire in 1965, necessitating further restoration.[12] St Botolph's was rehallowed on 8 November 1966 by the Bishop of London, in the presence of Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother and Sir Robert Bellinger, the Lord Mayor of London, who attended in state.[3]
St Botolph's was often referred to as the "Church of Prostitutes" in the late Victorian period. The church is sited on an island surrounded by roadways and it was usual in these times to be suspicious of women standing on street corners. They were easy targets for the police, and to escape arrest the prostitutes would parade around the island, now occupied by the church and Aldgate tube station.[citation needed]
The church was designated a Grade I listed building on 4 January 1950.[13]
Organ
The organ by Renatus Harris was built in the early 18th century.[10] It has undergone a historical restoration by the organ builders Goetze and Gwynn, and been returned to its 1744 specification using many of the original components. The organ has been described as the oldest church organ in the United Kingdom.[14] Although there are older pipes and cases, this is the oldest collection of pipes in their original positions on their original wind chests.[15] Because of its historic importance, the organ was filmed and recorded for the documentary The Elusive English Organ.
Donated by Thomas Whiting in 1676, it was built between 1702 to 1704. It was enhanced for the new church (the current building) by Harris' son-in-law, John Byfield, in 1740. The organ was considerably enlarged several times in the 19th century and again rebuilt by Mander Organs in the 1960s. The decision to restore the instrument was taken by St Botolph’s in 2002 after which a fundraising campaign was launched. The restoration, which took nine months, was carried out under the consultancy of Ian Bell and the workshops of Goetze and Gwynn in Welbeck, Nottinghamshire. The instrument was reinstalled in May 2006.