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A view of the devil's teeth from the top of Husfjell. Converted to mono as the midday light made the colour version a little flat for my liking.
The Devil's Marbles are made of granite, which surfaces like a little geological island in the desert, surrounded by incredible amounts of sandstone. The granite is thought to be formed about 1.7 billion years ago as a result of the hardening of magma within the earth's crust. Thick layers of sandstone on top of it put a lot of pressure on this granite. After the folding of the earth's crust, which lead to the lifting of the granite, and the erosion of the sandstone the granite came to surface. The pressure was gone which caused the granite to be able to expand; cracks formed, and it fell apart in big, square blocks.
The second phase of the formation of the Marbles started when these blocks got exposed to water. The surface of the blocks began to decay under the influence of the water, and a layer of loose material surrounded the individual blocks. When they came to the surface completely, this layer was flushed away by water and blown away by wind.
The roundening of the granite blocks is a result of both chemical and mechanical weathering. Firstly, exfoliation plays a part. Chemical processes cause the surface of the blocks to expand and/or shrink. Thin layers of rock come off the boulder. This rounds the granite block, because the chemical processes have more effect on areas with edges. These processes cause the rock to look like it is made of layers like an onion. In effect, only the outer few centimeters are affected by chemical weathering. This process is called spheroidal weathering. Secondly, the boulders are suffering from solarisation. Because the temperature differences between day and night are so great, the rocks expand and shrink a little bit every 24 hours. This causes some rocks to crack, sometimes even splitting them in half.
The area is located near Wauchope, approximately 114km south of Tennant Creek, in the Northern Territory. The site is known as Karlu Karlu to the land's Aboriginal traditional owners. The ‘Devil’s Marbles’ or ‘Karlu Karlu’ with its gigantic, rounded granite boulders, some spectacularly poised, is a remarkable landscape. Scattered clusters of these ‘marbles’ are spread across a wide, shallow valley. The Devil’s Marbles is a nationally and internationally recognised symbol of Australia’s outback
I met the devil two summers ago at a dairy operation just down the road from me. I didn't know she was the devil until I came home and looked at her image on my monitor---then I saw the 666! The devils number! Yipes!
I made this image with my Pentax K5 and my Pentax 18-135mm lens. Processing was with Aperture 3 and Snapseed for macs.
Camera settings: ISO 800, aperture f/11, shutter 1/320, focal length 135mm
the devil
disguised as a cow
its only a number
Image and haiku by John Henry Gremmer
From Wikipedia:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Devils_Tower
Devils Tower (also known as Bear Lodge Butte) is a butte, possibly laccolithic, composed of igneous rock in the Bear Lodge Ranger District of the Black Hills, near Hulett and Sundance in Crook County, northeastern Wyoming, above the Belle Fourche River. It rises 1,267 feet (386 m) above the Belle Fourche River, standing 867 feet (265 m) from summit to base. The summit is 5,112 feet (1,559 m) above sea level.
Devils Tower was the first United States national monument, established on September 24, 1906, by President Theodore Roosevelt. The monument's boundary encloses an area of 1,347 acres (545 ha).
In recent years, about 1% of the monument's 400,000 annual visitors climbed Devils Tower, mostly using traditional climbing techniques.
As rain and snow continue to erode the sedimentary rocks surrounding the Tower's base, more of Devils Tower will be exposed. Nonetheless, the exposed portions of the Tower still experience certain amounts of erosion. Cracks along the columns are subject to water and ice erosion. Portions, or even entire columns, of rock at Devils Tower are continually breaking off and falling. Piles of broken columns, boulders, small rocks, and stones, called scree, lie at the base of the tower, indicating that it was once wider than it is today.
Fur trappers may have visited Devils Tower, but they left no written evidence of having done so. The first documented Caucasian visitors were several members of Captain William F. Raynolds's 1859 expedition to Yellowstone. Sixteen years later, Colonel Richard I. Dodge escorted an Office of Indian Affairs scientific survey party to the massive rock formation and coined the name Devils Tower. Recognizing its unique characteristics, the United States Congress designated the area a U.S. forest reserve in 1892 and in 1906 Devils Tower became the nation's first National monument.
The 1977 movie Close Encounters of the Third Kind used the formation as a plot element and as the location of its climactic scenes.Its release was the cause of a large increase in visitors and climbers to the monument.
Similarly, the 2011 movie Paul used the formation at the film's climax as an homage to Close Encounters of the Third Kind.
The Native American story of the formation of the stars of the Pleiades at Devils Tower is featured in the 2014 science documentary series Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey.
It is featured in a 2019 episode of The UnXplained titled "Unnatural Nature", documenting and speculating about the formation.
Devil's Tower featured in 2019 film Godzilla: King of The Monsters as Abaddon resting.
Devil's Tower, by the name Mato Tipila, is featured as one of 34 discoverable natural wonders in the 2016 Firaxis video game Civilization VI.
Photo by Eric Friedebach
Devil's Courthouse Overlook, Blue Ridge Parkway, North Carolina. I purposly exposed this shot for the cloudy sky which put the mountain into almost a silhouette. I thought the feature would still be recognizable. If you view large you can see two hikers standing on top of the overlook at middle edge left.
Datura fastuosa (or metel) = Devil's trumpet, Purple Hindu Datura, Jimson weed, burladora, downy thorn-apple
This native to India plant is toxic, most parts of the plant contain Alkaloids...
Victoria Falls is one of the largest waterfalls in the world. At full flood, the water appears almost like a single sheet of water cascading over the gorges, but we were there at the end of dry season and the waterfall comes down in various streams across the width of the gorge. This stream, if I'm not mistaken, is the Devil's Cataract, which is westernmost stream in Zimbabwe and the first part of the falls we saw in the park.
This amazing exhibition tells the story of arguably the Greatest Munitions Factory on Earth, which was constructed on the Anglo-Scottish Border between scenic Dornock in Scotland and bustling Longtown in England. During 1915, Britain was at a massive disadvantage in the early part of the Great War through lack of a decent and consistent supply of quality ammunition.
That is until 30,000 women and men travelled from all over the world to come and work in this one massive factory, purpose built by the government on the northern shore of the Solway Firth specifically to mass manufacture cordite: a smokeless explosive usually made from nitro-glycerine and nitro-cotton that would go on to turn the battle around! Within 2 years this one uber factory was producing 1,100 tons of cordite a week, which was more than all the other munitions plants in Britain put together!
Taken on a particularily well-lit afternoon walk on Devils Peak - think it was the combination of late-afternoon sun and the brisk, clear air.
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.
Devils Hole", Jersey, Channel Islands
Following a shipwreck in 1851, when's a ship's figurehead washed up in the Devil's Hole, a statue of a devil adapted from the figurehead was set up above the Hole. The wooden statue was replaced by a succession of modern versions in the 20th century.
Soooo I'm in Colorado. Arrived yesterday and drove up to Estes Park by myself to hike and relax and distract my mind before my interviews tomorrow. After two gorgeous hikes in almost white-out conditions, I headed back to Denver on US 34, Big Thompson Canyon, the bestest way to get to and from Estes Park.
Just before getting to Loveland, there's a striking rock feature that sticks up in the middle of grasslands. It's called Devil's Backbone and I've always wanted to stop. So today I did. And it's really cool! I didn't explore much because it was getting late, but the ridges are pretty sweet. Also the howling coyotes really started to creep me out.
On to tomorrow.... (starting to get nervous!)
Lots more pictures too, eventually :)
When I used to visit family in Leeds, we often stopped off at the Devil's Bridge by Kirkby Lonsdale and as the sun was shining, I decided to continue that childhood tradition. I didn't get anything from the snack van this time, though.
The bridge dates back to around 1370 so considering it's age, it's in great condition. The name comes from some weird story involving a woman, a dog and bread and a deal with the devil. Put those pieces together in whatever order you want and I'm sure you'll come up with a realistic sounding story...
If you look at the bridge carefully, it looks like this panorama suffers from stitching errors. This isn't the case as the parapets genuinely have a few misaligned stones on them.
Datura metel L.
This plant may be toxic if ingested in large quantities, symptomatically expressed as flushed skin, headaches, hallucinations, and possibly convulsions or even a coma.
La zone est située près de Wauchope, environ 114 &100bsp; km au sud de Tennant Creek, dans le Territoire du Nord. Le site est connu comme Karlu Karlu aux propriétaires traditionnels aborigènes de la terre. L''Devils Marbles »ou« Karlu Karlu' avec sa gigantesque, arrondi rochers de granit, quelques spectaculaire prête, est un paysage remarquable. Épars grappes de ces «billes», y compris de nombreux équilibre entre les rochers , sont répartis sur une large vallée peu profonde. Les Devils Marbles est un symbole reconnu nationalement et internationalement de l'Outback australien.
A little animated loop on a new Halloween painting based on an old Dutch lightbulb poster from the 1930's
Crazy way to sell lightbulbs!
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Holy Trinity, Balsham, Cambridgeshire
The Brass of John Sleford records he "gave these stalls" and it is to him that the Parish Church owes the Chancel seating and the lower part of the Chancel Screen (about which more below). He became Rector c. 1367 but until 1377-78 he was a "king's clerk" and served king Edward III in the "government supplies departments" as Keeper of the Great Wardrobe and Keeper of the Privy Wardrobe of the Tower, before that he had been Clerk of Works; a brother (?) William Sleford was Clerk of Works and later Dean of the king's Free Chapel of S. Stephen at Westminster. In these positions, Sleford was in contact with all the major craftsmen and suppliers of his time. He lost his positions when the young king Richard II came to the throne in 1377 and it was probably after this that Sleford turned his mind to church fabric at Balsham.
The reason why the Parish Church has such magnificent seating is probably because of Sleford's "connections" and also because the whole parish was "Church property" and there was a Bishop's residence that might have entailed occasions when a number of clerics might be in attendance and needing seating. The furniture blocks the south access door (no need then to make sure what was done was 'in keeping' with the rest of the church!). The Chancel seating in no way represents either the medieval staffing at the Parish Church or a large "choir" in the modern sense. At one time there were 28 seats but in the 1870s when the doorway in the North side of the Chancel was pierced to provide access to new vestries the seat on that side was removed and, to match, another was taken from the South side whose place is apparent as the moulding along the wall stops a "seat-space" from the remaining seats. After repair, the seats were replaced badly so that at the SW and SE corners the lower arm rests no longer coincide as they ought. It is likely the seating was carved in East Anglia for one of the figures (on the north side, third from the front) is of a man wearing either a pleated "cotte," cloak or kilt; he has stilts strapped to his legs, his left hand holds a dog on a leash. That could represent a "Fen Fowler" going about his busi¬ness catching fish, eels or water-fowl amidst the (then mainly) undrained fen.
The seats are called "Misericords" (from Latin "have mercy"), When first placed they were hinged and beneath each was located a small ledge which enabled an occupant to "perch'* while seeming to stand, hence the seats "had mercy" on occupants tired of standing a long time during church services. Because the ledges were hidden, mediaeval woodcarvers had free rein to exercise their imagination and carve all manner of scenes, often ribald and sarcastic as they mocked pretension, hypocrisy, and current morality, es-pecially that of the clergy, on the basis "out of sight, out of mind !" You will find some of the seats at Balsham can be lifted up; others vanished long ago.
There are two sets of arms to each seat for use when sitting (at lower level) and again when standing (at upper level). The carving has in many instances become mutilated over time but, with some imagination, figures of animals, birds, men and angels can be recognised. The desk ends have holes in the top, probably for candle sconces (like those on the riddle posts about the altar); the desks themselves bear graffiti from the centuries.
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Devil’s Dice deliver big riffs, melodic twin lead guitars, soaring vocals and catchy choruses that evoke memories of the greats like Judas Priest, Thin lizzy and AC?DC.
The Devils Glen is outside Ashford, Wicklow and the waterfall is at the end of a forest walk along the river.