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Annie was a gift from my husband on our 5th anniversary, hence the name, "Annie". She has since departed us, but I have many fond memories of her. Even if she was a devil cat ;o
St. Croix landmark tumbles
Chuck Haga, Star Tribune
April 12, 2005
It stood by the river for thousands of years, shaped by wind, water, heat and cold, and was admired by countless visitors easing past in canoes, boats and inner tubes. It became part of a town's identity and a bond across generations.
But the Devil's Chair, an ancient natural rock formation on the Minnesota side of the St. Croix River near Taylors Falls, is largely gone -- a heap of broken stone scattered about what was the chair's base.
Officials at Minnesota Interstate State Park, which included the famous landmark among its attractions, said Monday that they believe vandals caused much of the chair's high backrest to fall.
"There were scuff marks and pry marks that look like people tried to push more of it over," said Larry Buchholz, park manager. "It was helped to fall."
A rock climber reported the landmark's destruction on Saturday, he said. The
climber had been in the area the previous weekend and saw the Devil's Chair intact, so the damage had to have been done since then.
It is "difficult and challenging but not impossible" to climb to the chair site, Buchholz said.
The Chisago County Sheriff's Office and state conservation officers are
investigating, and notices asking for information have been posted in the area.
Park officials plan to inspect the remaining rock to assess its stability.
"It was our primary scenic, geological and cultural formation, and now it's gone," Buchholz said. "You can't replace it. Once it's gone, it's gone forever."
Both the park and the town of Taylors Falls used the unusual rock formation as a logo.
"It's been a point of local pride since before the park was established in 1895," Buchholz said.
The park also features unusual formations collectively known as the Devil's Parlor -- three or four "potholes" caused by swirling water and sand from melting glaciers boring through solid rock. Two of those holes side by side are known as the Devil's Footprint. They were so named long ago, Buchholz said, "because if you couldn't explain something in the natural world you blamed it on the devil."
Mayor Mike Buchite, a Taylors Falls resident since 1989, said that he has admired the formation since he first saw it in 1971 on a post-prom field trip with other members of the Elk River High School graduating class. He said he hopes an investigation finds that the collapse occurred naturally.
"Mother Nature put it there, and you stand there and look at it in awe," he said. "If Mother Nature were to take it away, you'd still look at it in awe and wonder. But if vandalism was involved, that makes you feel violated."
The city may consider offering a reward for information if vandalism was involved, he said.
Buchite said he visited the site Monday and saw that part of the formation
remains. "It's the back rest area that's gone," he said. "It looks more like a stool now. Maybe we'll rename it the Devil's Stool."
Amy Frischmon, 35, operates Taylors Falls Scenic Boat Tours, which carries
thousands of area people and tourists past the Devil's Chair and other stone
formations each year. "The Devil's Chair is best seen from the river, in the Dalles area of the St. Croix," she said. "It was a pinnacle of rock that looked like a high-backed chair. Millions of visitors must have seen it over the years." Losing it "is quite a tragedy for our little community," she said.
Her great-grandfather started the boat tours company in 1906, "and I grew up climbing in those rocks," she said. "My older kids all got to know the Devil's Chair. Now all I can think about is my 3-year-old will never know it. That makes me sick to my stomach."
That vandalism may have brought the formation down "makes it that much more
horrible," Frischmon said.
The Devil's Arrows are three standing stones or menhirs in an alignment erected near where the A1 road now crosses the River Ure at Boroughbridge in North Yorkshire, England.
Erected in prehistoric times and distinctively grooved by millennia of rainfall, the tallest stone is 22 feet 6 inches in height making this the tallest menhir in the United Kingdom after the Rudston Monolith which is 25 feet tall.[1] The stones stand 150 feet from the A1 and it is thought that the alignment originally included up to five stones. One was apparently displaced during a failed 'treasure hunt' during the 18th century and later used as the base for a nearby bridge over a river. The stones are composed of millstone grit, the most likely source of which is Plumpton Rocks two miles south of Knaresborough and about nine miles from where the stones stand today.[2]
The outer stones are 200 and 370 feet away from the central stone and form an alignment that is almost straight, running NNW-SSE. It is thought that they may have been arranged to align with the southernmost summer moonrise. The stones are part of a wider Neolithic complex on the Ure-Swale plateau which incorporates the Thornborough Henges.
Devil’s Punchbowl in the Angeles National Forest, San Gabriel Mountains of Los Angeles County, CA. USDA USFS photo.
Devil's Lake, Wisconsin
Devil's Lake was originally a gorge of the Wisconsin River prior to the last ice age. At what is now the southern end of the lake, the river turned from a southerly direction to an easterly direction. During the ice age, a lobe of the glacier passed to the east of the Baraboo Hills and came up the river valley. It deposited materials and then melted, leaving a terminal moraine blocking the river, forming an earthen dam. Another moraine was deposited at the north end of the lake. The river eventually found a new course to the east of the Baraboo Hills, where the glacier had been, leaving a portion of the river gorge between the moraines filled with water. This body of water is Devil's Lake. - info from Wikipedia, the free encylopedia
To draw attention to the plight of the Tasmanian devil I am going to be making a work a day throughout October inspired by Tasmanian Devils.
Tasmanian Devils population has declined by 90% in large areas of Tasmania due to Devil facial tumor disease. In November I will be taking part in the Garmin Point to Pinnacle; a 21.4km long and just over 1,270 meters in elevation run up Tasmania's Mount Wellington to raise money for The Devil Island Project (www.savethetasmaniandevil.org.au/) If you would like to sponsor me you can at this link> garmin-point-pinnacle.everydayhero.com/au/Liz
Inked by June at Tattoo City (Kuala Lumpur, MY) on 03MAR'12.
First tattoo and love it so much.
If you notice, both of my shoulder blade size/width is different, I think it's due to my numerous racket sports...or her skill's sucks?
The University of Cape Town at the foot of Devils Peak. Rhodes Memorial can just be seen on the far right, but the Kings Blockhouse is hidden behind trees(!). A small building can be seen to the right, near the sight of the old Rhodes Zoo - wish there was more so I could claim the only remaining pic of this zoo ( ? )
This cross has an old legend around it. From www.guiarepsol.com/en/tourism/destinations/themed/popular...:
According to local residents, a brash young man, known for his party animal spirit, met a beautiful girl. His plight to win her affections in order to prove his heartthrob status finally won her over. Their date took place on a cold, stormy night. Lightning struck nearby, lighting up what should have been the girl's beautiful legs; however, what the man actually saw were claws. He fled in terror and reached the Convent of the Barefoot Carmelites, where he hung on tightly to the cross, asking for divine help to prevent him from being taken by the devil. To this day, his handprint can be seen on the cross.
Die Notrufzentrale erhält einen verstörenden Anruf: Maria Rossi (Suzan Crowley) gesteht, drei Menschen brutal ermordet zu haben. 20 Jahre nach diesem Ereignis versucht Marias Tochter Isabella (Fernanda Andrade) herauszufinden, was in jener Nacht 1989 wirklich geschah. So reist sie nach Italien, in die Centrino-Klinik, um herauszufinden, ob ihre Mutter tatsächlich geisteskrank ist, oder ob etwas anderes dahinter steckt. In der Hochsicherheitsklinik für psychisch kranke Straftäter trifft sie eine verwirrte Frau, die ihrer Mutter in keiner Weise mehr ähnelt. Sie ist am ganzen Körper mit seltsamen, grauenvollen Schnitten übersät und stößt furchteinflößende Schreie aus. In ihrer Not wendet sich Isabella an die zwei jungen Exorzisten Ben (Simon Quarterman) und David (Evan Helmuth) und bittet die beiden, ihre Mutter mit ihren unkonventionellen, auf Religion und Wissenschaft gleichermaßen beruhenden Methoden zu heilen. Doch der Exorzismus geht schief…und keine Seele ist mehr sicher...
Bereits mit "Stay Alive" schockte Regisseur William Brent Bell 2006 die Horrorfilmfans mit seinem perfiden Film über ein Killervideospiel, das in der Realität Opfer fordert. Als Spezialist für „shocking moments“, lockt Bell seine Fans diesmal mit der Frage, was passiert, wenn ein Mensch von mehreren Dämonen besessen ist. In bestem Reality-Doku-Stil zieht er seine Zuschauer immer tiefer in das teuflische Spiel von Gut gegen Böse, das sein Kinopublikum nach einer besinnlichen Weihnachtszeit ab 01. März 2012 in Schockstarre versetzen wird...
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This is the „Teufelsmauer“, a geologic oddity that can be found near the Harz mountains and near to my stay last weekend. I visited the place before, it's a strange landmark. Weather was great, bot so much the time I got there, but at least some landscape pictures.
The downs at the moment look truely amazing wish I could have captured it as it really looks. This is the Devils Dyke on the way to work yesterday
Devil's Backbone State Natural Area at Land Between The Lakes National Recreation Area. Devil's Backbone Project Area with new growth of Shortleaf Pine following the 2010 prescribed burning of the area. Photo by Yvonne Helton