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Etowah Indian Mounds, Cartersville, GA.
Summer field school is in session. College students and members of the Muscogee (Creek) Nation (now in Oklahoma, the people originally from this area) are digging for a few weeks. Their work is based on pictures made with ground-penetrating radar which reveals edges of old buildings, fire pits, etc., long buried.
This shovel has been at this monument for some time - why?
I seem to be spending way too much time in graveyards...
The girls and I tried to dig to China today at our beach in Saco. The continental crust at our beach appears to be something greater than four feet. We never made it through even to the mantle.
Karst peaks, the likes of which I had never encountered before, stood imperiously over the sleepy rural farmlands and dotted the landscape as though giants gathering to repast. Their verdant tops were shaggy green wigs which the hills wore with surprising composure; and the gray, craggy sides suggested a long, scarred evolution. In the confines of Yangshuo town, they loomed as towers under whose scrutiny our puny edifices appeared to cower in fear.
We settled ourselves at our lodgings and then went to the neighboring Xingping village to explore the natural beauty that lay there, a portrait of which in fact is found on the back of the 20RMB bill. A swarm of solicitous touts greeted us at the gates of the town, and after haggling with one to arrange our transportation down the Li river, we ambled over to the ferry pier. Along the way we stopped intermittently to inspect the local schools and stores; the locals, I remarked, tend to do things the old-fashioned way: by hands which embody a very humanizing dignity over work; the proletarian machines were nowhere to be found.
Sailing down a gentle waterway brought us in close proximity to the famed acclivities. Our eyes wide open, we marveled at their peculiar forms, and laughed when told their oft ridiculous names. Below them, ducks swam near their shores. And when we landed for a short break, dozens of elderly village women converged on us and requested vehemently the opportunity to relieve us of our lucre in exchange for oranges, or boiled eggs. The mountains must have laughed at the scene of these assiduous women chasing after Calvin and Irene, who eventually relented and accepted the natives' perishable goods. For my part, the lusty entreaties fell from me as if pebbles against chain mail. I wouldn't acquiesce to their demands. I would, however, later purchase quality sweets from the village to prop up their local economy.
Rhonda Dixon, Sound Transit Community Outreach Coordinator, talks recently with Gerry Ochs, Lead Civil Inspector for the University Link project on Capitol Hill. They are standing on the landing of the Kroll Tower Crane looking down into the excavation for the Capitol Hill light rail station.
2/11
Some of my ducks and the dogs having a great time on the iced over puddle down the field this afternoon
Intentional burial, particularly with grave goods, may be one of the earliest detectable forms of religious practice since, as Philip Lieberman suggests, it may signify a "concern for the dead that transcends daily life." Though disputed, evidence suggests that the Neanderthals were the first human species to intentionally bury the dead, doing so in shallow graves along with stone tools and animal bones.
The earliest undisputed human burial, discovered so far, dates back 130,000 years. Human skeletal remains stained with red ochre were discovered in the Skhul cave at Qafzeh, Israel. A variety of grave goods were present at the site, including the mandible of a wild boar in the arms of one of the skeletons.
Prehistoric cemeteries are referred to by the more neutral term grave field. They are one of the chief sources of information on prehistoric cultures, and numerous archaeological cultures are defined by their burial customs, such as the Urnfield culture of the European Bronze Age.
In modern times, the custom of burying dead people below ground with a stone marker to mark the place is used in almost every modern culture, although other means such as cremation are becoming more popular in the west (cremation is the norm in India).
While seen as a new trend in modern burial, natural burial, the process by which a body is returned to the earth to decompose naturally in soil, has been practiced in Islam for almost 1500 years. Natural burial became popularized in the United Kingdom in the early 1990s by Ken West, a professional cemeterian for the City of Carlisle responding to the U.K's call for changes in government that aligned with the United Nations' Environmental Program Local Agenda 21. The practice is gaining ground rapidly and has now expanded to Australia, Germany, the Netherlands, North America, China and Japan.
Vege themed cupcakes with wee worms for a boy who is involved in the E-team at school (environmental) . They raise their own veges and make fertiliser etc.
ZURB Wired 2013: Meet Rebuilding Together Pennisula, a bay area non-profit organization that takes on the challenge of helping our neighbors receive needed home repairs and enhancements to improve health, safety, and well-being.
The ZURB Wired 24-hour marathon is where our team and the team from one lucky local nonprofit get together to do something great in 24 hours. We spend the day helping the nonprofit solve a big challenge; whether it be marketing for an upcoming event, or completely overhauling their brand—and we get it all done in 24 hours.
ZURB is a close-knit team of product designers that help companies design better. (www.zurb.com).
I just joined a Lada forum and wanted to post some pics of my Lada. Digging through all my photos, I realised I don't have any photos at all of my current Lada. So I found this one of my first Lada, and I'll take some of my current baby tomorrow.
This was taken somewhere between Dungog and Townsville.
4-H is a global network of youth organizations whose mission is "engaging youth to reach their fullest potential while advancing the field of youth development." They do this by learning through service. A 4-H group known as the O.W.L.S., Outdoor Wildlife Leadership Service, visited Brandon Spring Group Center at Land Between The Lakes in May 2016. O.W.L.S. educates kids on a variety of outdoor, survival, and identification skills. These include wildlife tracking, studying avian populations, Dutch oven cooking, and ice cream making. These 4-H’ers planted a butterfly garden, weeded flowerbeds, and helped with trail work and maintenance projects. Photo by Brian Truskey
An image that blended a black and white conversion with color using 'darker color' mode. The whiteness on skin is a heavy layer of sunscreen...
On the beach at the mouth of the river Wansbeck, next to the Sandy Bay Holiday Park campsite. North East England
My motorhome travels - ralph-dot-motorhoming.blogspot.com/2012/01/past-trips-uk-...
Larry digs us out of the massive snow storm. We had a huge blizzard with an accumulation of 11 inches of snow. Larry is digging out!
I saw this old gent in the Kings Road. There was an intensity in his gaze that was quite unnerving. Was he thinking of the future, or of the past, I wonder?
I shot two frames with the little GR. The first frame was grossly overexposed for some reason, and by the time I got to the second, the moment had passed. Fortunately, with the help of the highlights slider in Lightroom, I was able to breath a little life into the first frame.
Kings Road
Billy Knights, a retired farmer began designing and creating the Water Gardens in 1970 in his 70th year. The site was a damp meadow which became too wet for cattle to graze. Mr Knights' son jokingly suggested he should have a water garden, which prompted him to draw out plans (on the back of a piece of wallpaper) and he soon had machines digging out the ponds and waterways. He worked on his garden with love and enthusiasm until he died aged 93. For over 20 years the gardens had been open to the public.
Both Billy and his wife Florence loved their gardens and sharing them with others. With this in mind and as a tribute to her parents Coral Hoyos began restoration in April 2002. Having been unattended and closed for five years, the Gardens had become quite derelict. However they were re-opened again in June 2003, with a new car park, refurbished tea-room / gallery, a toilet for disabled people and an 8 acre nature trail. There has since been the addition of a bird hide and a new plant sales area, bamboo grove, scented arbour and rustic roundhouse.
To help you find your way round, the bridges are numbered and when you have walked enough rest on one of the many benches provided, or perhaps visit the tearoom in the south-east corner where you can enjoy a relaxing cup of freshly brewed tea or coffee, soft drinks, ice-creams and delicious home made cakes.