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Designer Showcase makes date dressing and snuggles simple. Info & links on my Blog ~ aznanasfandangles.blogspot.com/2020/02/022020ds3.html
Date: January 3, 2022
Location: My Back Yard - Ellicott City, Maryland (Howard County)
NOTE: Our first snowfall of the season.
-Credits-
Hair: Truth Collective - Gravity
Head: LeLutka - Xia
Skin: Glam Affair - Emma in Icy
Eyebrows: Nuve - Kalle Eyebrows Slit
Lashes: Michan - Mayhem
Eyeshadow: Someone - Saturn Eyeshadow and Stars
Eyeliner: Nuve - Dramatic Eyeliner
Body: eBody Reborn
Ears: Swallow - Gauged Ears
Nails: Avada - Stiletto Nails Nude
Earrings: e.marie - Arwen for Swallow Ears
Necklace: Rawr - Saturn Necklace
Tattoo: Adora-tions - Daddy's Collarbone Tattoo
Drink: tarte - Cosmic frappe lunar
Dress: 1hundred - Date Night Blue
Shoes: Oracle - Junko Boots
Warsaw, Poland
Summer
Finally added a 85mm lens to my kit and spent the afternoon testing it on the streets.
Clonmacnoise is a ruined monastery situated in County Offaly in Ireland on the River Shannon south of Athlone, founded in 544 by Saint Ciarán, a young man from Rathcroghan, County Roscommon. Until the 9th century it had close associations with the kings of Connacht.
Saint Ciarán founded the monastery in the ancient territory of Uí Maine at a point where the major east–west land route meets the River Shannon after crossing the bogs of Central Ireland known as the Esker Riada. The strategic location of the monastery helped it become a major center of religion, learning, craftsmanship and trade by the 9th century; and together with Clonard it was one of the most famous places in Ireland, visited by scholars from all over Europe. From the ninth until the eleventh century it was allied with the kings of Meath. Many of the high kings of Tara (ardrí) and of Connacht were buried here.
Clonmacnoise was largely abandoned by the end of the 13th century. Today the site includes nine ruined churches, a castle, two round towers and a large number of carved stone crosses and cross-slabs. The Irish government's Office of Public Works manages the preserved ruin. An Interpretive Centre is open to the public, the graveyard is in use and religious services take place in a modern chapel.
In 544 Saint Ciarán, a young man from Rathcroghan, County Roscommon, arrived at this location with seven companions. (Saint Ciarán is not to be confused or conflated with St. Ciarán of Saigir, patron of Osraige). Here he met Diarmait mac Cerbaill, who later became the first Christian crowned High King of Ireland. Together they built the first church at the site. This was a small wooden structure and the first of many small churches to be clustered on the site. In September 549, not yet thirty-three years of age, Ciarán died of a plague, and was reportedly buried under the original wooden church, now the site of the 9th-century stone oratory, Temple Ciarán. This location was particularly important because here the major east–west land route through the bogs of central Ireland along the Eiscir Riada (an esker left by the receding glaciers of the last ice age) crossed the River Shannon.
According to Adomnán of Iona, who referenced the testimony of earlier abbots of Iona who had known Columba, St Columba visited the monastery at Clonmacnoise during the time when he was founding the monastery at Durrow. While he was there he prophesied about the future debates in the churches of Ireland about the dating of Easter and claimed that angels had visited the monastery at Clonmacnoise. While he was there, a young monk named Ernéne mac Craséni (who would later be famous in Ireland) tried to touch Columba's clothes while Columba was not looking. However, the saint immediately noticed and grabbed the boy by the neck, told him to open his mouth, and then blessed him, saying that he would teach the doctrine of salvation.
Towards the close of the seventh century a plague carried off a large number of its students and professors. Clonmacnoise's period of greatest growth came between the 8th and 12th centuries. It was attacked frequently during these four centuries, most often by the Irish, the Vikings and the Normans. The early wooden buildings began to be replaced by more durable stone structures in the 9th century, and the original population of fewer than ten men grew to perhaps 1,500 to 2,000 by the 11th century. Although the site was based around a core of churches, crosses, graves and ecclesiastical dwellings and workshops, it would have been surrounded by the houses and streets of a larger secular community, the metalworkers, craftsmen and farmers who supported the monastic clergy and their students. Artisans associated with the site created some of the most beautiful and enduring artworks in metal and stone ever seen in Ireland, with the Clonmacnoise Crozier (on display in the National Museum of Ireland) and the Cross of the Scriptures representing the apex of their efforts. The Book of the Dun Cow, a vellum manuscript dating to the 12th century, was written here and its main compiler, Máel Muire mac Céilechair meic Cuinn na mBocht was reputedly murdered in a Viking raid in 1106.
By the 12th century Clonmacnoise began to decline. The reasons were varied, although attacks by the Vikings (under Turgesius) and the Normans contributed. Without doubt the most debilitating factor was the growth of the town of Athlone to the north of the site from the late-12th century.[citation needed] Athlone became the main trading town for the midlands of Ireland, and the most popular route for crossing the Shannon, as well as the best-defended settlement in the region. People migrated north from Clonmacnoise to Athlone, and along with the population decrease went much of the support that the site needed to survive, and former allies began to recognise the decline in the site's influence. The influx of continental religious orders such as the Cistercians, Franciscans, Augustinians, Benedictines, Cluniacs, etc. around the same time fed into this decline as numerous competing sites began to crop up. Ireland's move from a monastic framework to a diocesan one in the twelfth century similarly diminished the site's religious standing, as it was designated the seat of a small and impoverished diocese.
In 1552 the English garrison at Athlone destroyed and looted Clonmacnoise for the final time, leaving it in ruins.
The monastery ruins were one of the stops on the itinerary of Pope John Paul II during his visit to Ireland in 1979.
Source: Scan of a photograph.
Set: PER01.
Date: March 1998.
Repository: From the collection of R. Perry.
With thanks to Diane Everett.
Local Studies at Swindon Central Library.
Dating back to its original era, this WHSmith kiosk on Pickering Stations platform harks back to times gone by, especially with steam trains coming and going all day long. WHSmith started out as tiny little news kiosks exactly like this one, expanding to large stores in high streets across the UK.
Date: April 22, 2021
Location: Moses Creek Conservation Area - Saint Augustine, Florida (Saint John's County)
Duart Castle stands on a rocky headland overlooking the Sound of Mull, a strategic position that has defined its role for centuries.
Dating to the 13th century, the castle became the seat of Clan MacLean and played a central role in the history of the western Highlands. After falling into ruin, it was restored in 1911 by Sir Fitzroy MacLean, returning it to the clan and preserving it as a symbol of continuity.
Today, Duart Castle remains both a historic stronghold and a lived-in heritage site. Within its Great Hall are laid up the regimental colours of the Canadian Expeditionary Force’s 236th Battalion (New Brunswick Kilties), a reminder of the enduring ties between Scotland and its diaspora.
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Barber Shop / David @ Men’s Only Monthly
Meva Barron Bento Rings Silver
Meva Barron Bracelet
Pose: Purple Poses Couple 307
Background: FOXCITY. Photo Booth – Lucky Lounge @ Project Se7en
Date night. What is your favorite spot to enjoy when out with your significant other in your city? For us, its a wonderful cafe that stays open late and is where all of the actors that perform locally hang out after show. Each little seatign area is a curtained seperate area with little red lights that provide a warm glow. Always such a buzz of conversation, gloeeful laughing and a host of smells tantilazing the nose. Great place to stay in on a chilly foggy night such as this one.
Poznan, Poland
Autumn
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Date: August 2015
Medium: Digital Photomontage
Dimensions: 20" x 40"
© 2015 Tony DeVarco and Mayako Nakamura
Here is an image of Iteration I and Iteration II- flic.kr/p/qtZTzD
In collaboration with the work of Mayako Nakamura www.flickr.com/photos/ma85/
An interview (in English) with Mayako on her working methods- www.theactofpainting.com/interviews/interview-mayako-naka...