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J'ai été promené le bébé d'une amie hier. Je devais constamment lui dire de se cacher, car il faisait peur aux gens qu'on rencontraient. Les gens ne sont pas habitué de voir un bébé démon, avec des cornes et une très longue langues. N'empêche que c'était drôle de voir la réaction des gens choqués.
I helped a friend of mine yesterday. She has a baby and she needed some time for herself. So i went for a walk, with her baby. I was always saying to the baby, hide yourself, because people that we met on the sidewalk, were shocked to see the baby. They don't see often a devil baby with corns and a long tongue. I was saying to him, to hide but i must admit it was funny to see the reaction of the people we met, aha.
Taken from the rock formation known as the Devils Marbles, on the Stuart Highway in the Northern Territory.
Basically massive red, round boulders all stacked precariously on top of one another - God knows how some of them stay balanced!
Livingstone Island, Zambia
Devil's Pool is adjacent to the famous Livingstone Island situated on the edge of the Victoria Falls.
During the drier months of the year, May to October, it is possible to walk along the lip of the falls. This can only be done from the Zambian side. After thousands of years of erosion, many rock pools have formed and one of them has formed right on the very edge of the sheer drop.
Over 500 million litres of water a minute cascade over the almost 2km wide falls, causing a deafening and spectacular explosion of spray which can be seen 30 miles away. This is why it is known locally as Mosi-oa-Tunya, or The Smoke that Thunders.
You can find guides who will take you on the Zambian side, at the entrance to the Falls.
If Superman asked an architect to design him a home here in the U.S., it might look something like Devils Postpile. Devils Postpile is a rare sight in the geologic world and ranks as one of the world's finest examples of columnar basalt. The Postpile was formed less than 100,000 years ago when a cooling lava flow cracked into multi-sided columns.
"This means something, this is important!"
Nice vintage postcard of the strange mountain that's featured in one of my favorite films, Steven Spielberg's classic CLOSE ENCOUNTERS OF THE THIRD KIND (1977), which has just been released on Blu-Ray and DVD.
The back of the card reads: No. 3943—The Devils Tower, Devils Tower National Monument in Northeastern Wyoming.
This landmark is an immense uplift of phonolite porphyry, unlike anything else in the world. The first National Monument in the U. S. A. (created in 1906), the tower rises 800 feet from it's base and 1280 above the Belle Fourche River.
©Sunborn Souvenir Co., Inc., Denver, Colo. 48402
Dextone, Made Direct from Kodachrome and Ansco Color By Dexter Press. Pearl River NY.
I wish I had a picture of this entire costume. It included a full-face foam latex appliance from screamteam.com, ears, teeth, a foam-latex tail I sculpted and molded myself, a very short red toga, and red liquid latex on all my exposed skin. It was friggin' cold and getting the latex off was a pain, but dozens of people had to have their picture taken with me.
And yes, that was my real hair.
Local folklore explains the valley as the work of the devil. The legend holds that the devil was digging a trench to allow the sea to flood the many churches in the Weald of Sussex. The digging disturbed an old woman who lit a candle, or angered a rooster causing it to crow, making the devil believe that the morning was fast approaching. The devil then fled, leaving his trench unfinished. The last shovel of earth he threw over his shoulder fell into the sea, forming the Isle of Wight.
One of the many carvings adorning the wall arcading in the north aisle.
There is a danger of running out of superlatives when trying to describe Beverley Minster. It is not only the second finest non-cathedral church in the country but is architecturally a far finer building than most of our cathedrals themselves! It will come as a surprise to many visitors to find this grand edifice simply functions today as a parish church and has never been more than collegiate, a status it lost at the Reformaton. What had added to its mystique and wealth was its status as a place of pilgrimage housing the tomb of St John of Beverley, which drew visitors and revenue until the Reformation brought an end to such fortunes and the shrine was destroyed (though the saint's bones were later rediscovered and reinterred in the nave). That this great church itself survived this period almost intact is little short of a miracle in itself.
There has been a church here since the 8th century but little remains of the earlier buildings aside from the Saxon chair near the altar and the Norman font in the nave. The present Minster's construction spans the entirety of the development of Gothic architecture but forms a surprisingly harmonious whole nevertheless, starting with Early English in the 13h century choir and transepts (both pairs) with their lancet windows in a building phase that stopped at the first bays of the nave. Construction was then continued with the nave in the 14th century but only the traceried windows betray the emergent Decorated style, the design otherwise closely followed the work of the previous century which gives the Minster's interior such a pleasingly unified appearance (the only discernable break in construction within can be seen where the black purbeck-marble ceased to be used for certain elements beyond the eastern bay of the nave). Finally the building was completed more or less by 1420 with the soaring west front with its dramatic twin-towers in Perpendicular style (the east window must have been enlarged at this point too to match the new work at the west end).
The fabric happily survived the Reformation intact aside from the octagonal chapter-house formerly adjoining the north choir aisle which was dismantled to raise money by the sale of its materials while the church's fate was in the balance (a similar fate was contemplated for the rest of the church by its new owners until the town bought it for retention as a parish church for £100). The great swathes of medieval glass alas were mostly lost, though seemingly as much to neglect and storm-damage in the following century than the usual iconoclasm. All that survived of the Minster's original glazing was collected to form the patchwork display now filling the great east window, a colourful kaleidoscope of fragments of figures and scenes. Of the other furnishings the choir stalls are the major ensemble and some of the finest medieval canopied stalls extant with a full set of charming misericords (though most of these alas are not normally on show).
There are suprisingly few monuments of note for such an enormous cathedral-like church, but the one major exception makes up for this, the delightful canopied Percy tomb erected in 1340 to the north of the high altar. The tomb itself is surprisingly plain without any likeness remaining of the deceased, but the richly carved Decorated canopy above is alive with gorgeous detail and figurative embellishments. There are further carvings to enjoy adorning the arcading that runs around the outer perimeter of the interior, especially the north nave aisle which has the most rewarding carved figures of musicians, monsters and people suffering various ailments, many were largely restored in the 19th century but still preserve the medieval spirit of irreverent fun.
To summarise Beverley Minster would be difficult other than simply adding that if one enjoys marvelling at Gothic architecture at its best then it really shouldn't be missed and one should prioritise it over the majority of our cathedrals. It is a real gem and a delight to behold, and is happily normally open and welcoming to visitors (who must all be astonished to find this magnificent edifice is no more than a simple parish church in status!). I thoroughly enjoyed this, my second visit here (despite the best efforts of the poor weather!).
This is one of the Falls at Devil's Den. This one has a decent looking swimming hole and I have encountered swimmers here before.
We spent 3 nights camping at the Devil's Postpile Natl. Monument in the Eastern Sierra, California. The distortion is intentional, but to be honest I spent very little time here photographing it. The mosquitoes were horrendous. I just wanted to get out of there as quickly as I could. They were only really bad right here; the rest of the area did not have too many of the little buggers (but there were some). I was definitely surprised there were as many as there were.
View in larger size and read about my adventure on my blog.
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These whirlwinds are common in the river bottom. They call them dust devils for for obvious reasons.
Ohio State University Extension Fact Sheet Entomology
"Hickory Horned Devil
Citheronia regalis (Fabricius)
This caterpillar is the larva of the Royal Walnut Moth, also known as the Regal Moth. The larva is not one for a timid person to suddenly discover. It has a scary, frightful appearance resembling a small dragon with up to five pairs of long, curving hornlike structures over the back of its thorax with the rest of the body covered with shorter spikes. The body color ranges from deep blue-green to tan with orange spikes tipped with black. Shorter spikes are black. Though very ferocious appearing, it is quite harmless to handle. They are enormous in size, being five to six inches long and nearly 3/4-inch in diameter. They feed for a period of 37 to 42 days on the leaves of hickory, walnut, butternut, pecan, ash, lilac, persimmon, sycamore, sumac and sweet gum. Larvae mature in late summer, wandering around searching for a place to burrow underground to pupate. Overwintering occurs in the pupal stage.
The moth has a wingspan of five to six inches and is seen in midsummer. It has a long body covered with orange yellow hair. The forewings are gray with orange veins and yellow spots. The hindwings are primarily orange with scattered yellow patches. "
And a youtube video:
This capture of Devil's Thumb is located North of Delta, Colorado. Devil's Thumb Golf Course is named after this rock formation.