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*Erdener Treppchen at dawn*
Last week before sunrise in the famous "Erdener Treppchen" vineyard on the Middle Moselle. I'm standing at one of the viewpoints on the "Erdener via ferrata" above the excavation site of a Roman wine press.
Letzte Woche vor Sonnenaufgang in der berühmten Weinlage "Erdener Treppchen" an der Mittelmosel. Ich stehe an einem der Aussichtspunkte des "Erdener Kletterwegs" oberhalb der Ausgrabungsstätte einer römischen Weinkelteranlage.
Danke für deinen Besuch! Thanks for visiting!
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Coronado Heights is a hill northwest of Lindsborg, Kansas. It is alleged to be near the place where Francisco Vásquez de Coronado gave up his search for the seven cities of gold and turned around to return to Mexico.
Coronado Heights is one of a chain of seven sandstone bluffs in the Dakota Formation and rises approximately 300 feet.[1]
In 1915 a professor at Bethany College in Lindsborg found chain mail from Spanish armor at an Indian village excavation site a few miles southwest of the hill,[2] and another Bethany College professor promoted the name of Coronado Heights for the hill. In 1920 the first road was built up the hill, known as Swensson Drive, with a footpath known as Olsson Trail. In 1936, a stone shelter resembling a castle was built on top of the hill as a project of the Works Progress Administration. In 1988 a sculpture by John Whitfield was placed half-way up the hill with the inscription "Coronado Heights 'A Place to Share'".[1]
Machrie Moor 2 (grid reference NR91143241) is the most visually striking of the circles on Machrie Moor.[1] This circle has a diameter of 13.7 metres, and may originally have consisted of seven or eight tall sandstone slabs, three of which survive intact, while stumps of others may be seen.[9] The heights of the three intact stones range from 3.7 metres to 4.9 metres.[9] Within the circle are two large stones, apparently cut from a fallen pillar, one of which now has a central hole as if for conversion to a millstone.[9] Excavations in 1861 revealed a cist in the centre of the circle.[9] A food vessel was found in this central cist.[1] A second, empty, short cist was found between the centre and the northeast upright stone.[9]
Archaeology of emotion, part one (work in progress; let us see how I feel about it). Helios 44M-7 at F11.
The excavations of Herculaneum
UNESCO World Heritage Site: Archaeological Areas of Pompei, Herculaneum and Torre Annunziata
A view of the loneliest part of Canyonlands- the Maze District, from Cleopatra's Chair sandwiched by the Henrys, across Turks Head with the Green River flowing around its White Rim cap, then south (left) past Ekker Butte and the Chocolate Drops barely visible on the far left. This view (from Green River Overlook) is one of my favorites off the Island in the Sky, though it is so massive and lacking of a main subject, it relies on the beauty of the gestalt to keep the eye entertained.
I will be out of Flickr action for about 3 weeks, though will hopefully be able to check in periodically- would hate to miss your wonderful posts!
I was photographing a pair of chickadees and was wondering why they were staying at a single tree for such a long amount of time. When the female flew into a cavity in this red alder, it all started to make sense. The female chickadee was considering this as a potential nesting site!
Chickadees are cavity nesters. They may excavate their own nests or use cavities previously excavated by woodpeckers. Nevertheless, it is habitual for them to remove wood shavings, even if the "cavity" is already complete (as in nest boxes). This female chickadee is doing just that.
I really hope this pair will settle down in this nesting. However, when I returned to the site later that evening, the chickadees were nowhere in sight. Perhaps they will return later after considering other nesting sites. Wherever they are, I hope they will raise a successful brood.
"the labor of love nourishes the soul,the loss of it causes it to wither...
This sad abandoned farm in northern Illinois has been the subject of many pics the last few years.But it maybe all a memory now as a recent trip by found the farmstead being cleared out,the excavation equipment in the yard of the old house. This was one of those abandonments where family pictures and memories abounded,making its plight all the more poignant.It has been said that love can solve all problems,but this place makes one wonder....
MUSEO NAZIONALE.
Il Museo Nazionale di Ravenna ha sede nell'ex monastero benedettino di San Vitale. L’atmosfera dei due chiostri rinascimentali e degli spazi abbaziali, accessibili attraverso lo scalone settecentesco, conferisce particolare piacevolezza al percorso.
Il nucleo primitivo del patrimonio museale è costituito dalle collezioni formate, durante il Settecento, dai monaci camaldolesi di Classe poi arricchito attraverso donazioni, acquisizioni, ritrovamenti e scavi.
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NATIONAL MUSEUM.
The National Museum of Ravenna is housed in the former Benedictine monastery of San Vitale. The atmosphere of the two Renaissance cloisters and the abbey spaces, accessible via the eighteenth-century staircase, lends a particularly pleasant experience.
The original core of the museum's holdings consists of collections formed during the eighteenth century by the Camaldolese monks of Classe, later enriched through donations, acquisitions, finds, and excavations.
CANON EOS 600D con ob. SIGMA 10-20 f./4-5,6 EX DC HSM
ꒌ ОТКРИВЕН зимски брлог Ситроена у Црној Гори!
► █░▓ EXCITING MOMENT! Finally, after a lot of digging, we have reached the first actual part of the find. It seems that the early humans had a fair use of plastic materials too!
My car's winter den revealed on Durmitor mountain. The hydraulics have given way to the pressure from above and the vehicle sank almost to the ground (its the lowest position). But everything remained unharmed actually. Only after half a year the car won't survive a typhoon without injuries.
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If you look hard enough you may find one, too.
SEVENTY-SIX
“No one who, like me, conjures up the most evil of those half-tamed demons that inhabit the human beast, and seeks to wrestle with them, can expect to come through the struggle unscathed.”
Sigmund Freud
11 days to Halloween!
From December, 2008; four years before I joined Flickr.
This one is for Jason Hendricks, with thanks.
Sand flying from the hole as this sand martin digs into the cliff at Happisburgh, Norfolk. D500_83416.NEF
Archaeological excavations demonstrate a continuity of life in Calnic (judet Alba), starting with the Neolithic and Bronze Age settlements, the Dacian and Roman remains, or from the period of migration to the Middle Ages.
The name of the city, mentioned for the first time in 1269 (villa Kelnuk) is of Slavic-Romanian origin. The name of the place was taken over by the Saxons (Kelling) and the Hungarians (Kelnek).
The Romanesque fortress of Calnic is an old noble residence, which by its small size cannot compete with those of the big cities, but which is considered as very representative of a local civilization, transylvaine and a particular time.
The fortress consists of two rows of walls (enclosures) with an oval path, arranged concentric and reinforced with flanking elements: two towers and a bastion. The front door is defended by a fortified corridor. The belts protect the interior courtyard, at the heart of the fortress, where the chapel, the fountain and the dungeon are located. The latter dominates by its height (27m) and its massiveness (walls of 1m) the whole complex. During the romantic era, this impressive medieval vestige was nicknamed the Siegfried Tower.
The outer enclosure or zwinger has a maximum diameter of around 70 m with a height of 3 m. The inner enclosure is the most imposing with its 7m height. On the small diameter, it is fortified by two towers: the portal tower (NW) and a defense tower (SE). 24 m high, the portal tower is one of the vertical domes of the complex. There are four bells here, which is why the building is also called the bell tower.
Due to its preservation in good condition, in the middle of a locality bearing until now the imprint of the civilization of the German colonists established in Transylvania, the edifice was inscribed in the UNESCO World Heritage List (1999).