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Explore Dec 27, 2009 #348 .. interesting because the pic isn't that great and the views are not that many
anyway, my daughter took this shot. i didn't realize i'd come out in it or i would have dressed better (am the one in the big t-shirt and sweat pants;-)
*idea for this came from Trysha
This made Explore Front Page! Thanks so much!
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EXPLORED!
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God made the illusion look real
and the real an illusion.
He concealed the sea
and made the foam visible,
the wind invisible,
and the dust manifest.
you see the dust whirling,
but how can the dust rise by itself?
you see the foam,but not the ocean.
invoke Him with deeds, not words;
for deeds are real
and will save you in the infinite-life.
- Rumi
[Mathnawi]
Guest enjoy the "Build the Future" with LEGO activity during Explore@NASA Goddard day at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, MD on Saturday, May 14, 2011.
Credit: NASA/GSFC/Rebecca Roth
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1. Great pleasure to the eyes!, 2. Haven´t you got a Kärcher?;), 3. Wheel of life at Easter, 4. Bilberry-blossom twins, 5. A glimpse of sunshine in the living-room!, 6. Umbrella weather today!, 7. Werra plateau landscape, 8. Lost in snow,
9. Lord of the dogs (and of the sheep!), 10. By last night´s -10 degrees C ..., 11. Untitled, 12. They made my day!, 13. My pond-friend´s new clothing!, 14. Green corals in my village´s woods;), 15. Untitled, 16. It´s quitting time!,
17. Color power, 18. Untitled, 19. Dancing a spring dance!, 20. Winter is back to Bürden!, 21. Just before sunset, 22. Gauforum, 23. It´s cold outside. - You should burn some wood in your stove!:), 24. It´s cold outside. - You should burn some wood in your stove!:),
25. In fields of gold, 26. In Schiller´s garden, 27. Warm shades of beige, 28. Warm shades of beige, 29. I wish you the ´most wonderful time of the year´!, 30. Threading through, 31. Threading through, 32. Diamonds that are not forever,
33. Winter has almost arrived in the Werra Valley, 34. Good bye!, 35. Early spring in the Thuringian Forest, 36. Thank you so much, dear Flickr friends, for all your kindness, for all your wonderful photos! - Merry Christmas!, 37. Mist in the Werra Valley, 38. Spider´s home, 39. This morning at 5:50 - no sunrise, no sunshine at all, 40. White queen,
41. Glittering robes, 42. Lady in red, 43. Where daisies and snails like to be, 44. Greens, 45. Hidden, 46. Untitled, 47. One of my fav places in Meiningen, 48. My first wildflower bouquet in spring 2009,
49. "Kiss me, Darling!":), 50. It´s daffodil time in Hildburghausen!, 51. Geometry of reflections, 52. Waiting for spring, 53. March 12, 2009., 54. ... and a cup of coffee?, 55. Different generations, 56. Bimmelimmelimm!,
57. Snow in the sky, 58. Bim-bam bell, 59. Solitude, 60. Guardian trees, 61. Frosty curtain, 62. Floating crystal, 63. Elfs´ home, 64. The sun makes the lamps shine,
65. Christmas Eve in the church of Bürden, 66. Fairy-queens´ stage, 67. For a better view!;), 68. "Are you the sun or the moon?!", 69. Frosty breakfast, 70. Candlelight makes a dark day bright, 71. Dark, darker, darkest, 72. Bürden is welcoming the night
1. Olhar atento..., 2. Quinta - Flower, 3. Trofeo Maserati - 07/06/2008, 4. Panning 77, 5. Flower, 6. Libelula***, 7. Panning ( Porsche 911 GT3 Cup 997 )
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1. Festival of Lights (3), 2. Festival of lights, 3. Clouds, 4. Grand Béguinage of Leuven (Belgium), 5. Bryggen in the evening, 6. Bryggen by night - B/W, 7. Bright lights, big city, 8. Just a tad unusual,
9. Wet pink Viking, 10. Spiral of flower-filled shoes, 11. Brilliance, 12. Heaven and Earth (colour version), 13. owT \ Two, 14. Hodge-podge, 15. The end of the tunnel, 16. Close encounters of the fourth kind,
17. On the beach, 18. Sunset in wintery Yorkshire Dales, 19. The hills of Yorkshire Dales, 20. Gamlehaugen in a winter sunset - Bergen, Norway, 21. The old fire-station at Skansen (anno 1903) - Bergen, Norway, 22. Appelhuisje in autumn, 23. Bathing in the evening sun - Bryggen, Bergen (Norway), 24. Where old meets new - Bryggen, Bergen (Norway),
25. Christ Church Cathedral - Oxford, England, 26. "Big Boy" UP 4005, 27. Routes 82 & 83, 28. Fearless (S 305), 29. Vintage busses on a row, 30. Tiled roof at Bryggen, 31. Road to hell, 32. View on Rotterdam,
33. Oslo Opera House, 34. Interior details of Oslo Opera House, 35. Applehuisje in winter, 36. Hazy winter day, 37. Winter castle, 38. Floating in the snow-laden clouds, 39. Fantoft Stave Church, Bergen, Norway, 40. "Nederwaard 1" at Kinderdijk,
41. HBW to all of you, 42. Overwaard 1 to 3 at Kinderdijk, 43. New Year at Kinderdijk, 44. Hazy winter willows, 45. Hazy shade of winter, 46. Tysso I hydraulic power station, 47. Gamlehaugen in snow - Highkey, 48. Gamlehaugen in winter - silver edition,
49. Gamlehaugen in winter, 50. Welcome in Bergen, 51. Gamlehaugen - Royal residence in Bergen, 52. Sandviken Brannstasjon (anno 1903), 53. Hornbill at KL Bird Park, 54. Incense coils at Guandi Temple in KL, 55. KLCC at night, 56. HBW,
57. Red - green - blue, 58. Torup Strand, 59. Farewell..., 60. The end of the world, 61. Egeskov Castle, 62. Tall Ships' Race calling at Bergen, 63. Back home, 64. Never mind the neighbours...,
65. Night view, 66. Zigzag, 67. Around and round you're turning me, 68. The Ink Pots in Banff National Park, 69. Upside down... You're turning me..., 70. Early morning musings..., 71. Storm, 72. Sun breaking through
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73. Juegos de Transparencias y Reflejos. 07a Palau de la Música. Vestíbulo y escaleras 12537, 74. 13 Museo Provincial de Zamora Sala Central 21035, 75. 01 Playa de Sancti Petri. Chiclana de la Frontera Cádiz 21686, 76. 26 Caja Mágica Pista Tres 19318, 77. 06 VIÑEDOS Y BODEGAS YSIOS 18370, 78. Edificios La Triada Av. de Burgos Arq. F. Javier Sáenz de Oíza 1990-1993 17962, 79. 10 Torre de Cristal. “Simeón sentado” de Francisco Leiro 17484, 80. 07 Cuatro Torres Business Area (CTBA) 17998,
81. 01 Parque Güell 13175, 82. Casa Batlló B Fachada principal Cuerpo superior 12922, 83. Patio-Implúvium 02c Centro Turismo Colón Alvaro Siza 5252, 84. Santa Ana Fisac. Interior Presbiterio Lucernario. B 0298, 85. Desde el Circulo. Correos desde la ventana del Salon 06 10580, 86. Otoño Amanece en Madrid II.10656, 87. 00 San Cebrián de Mazote 0107, 88. 02 Esperando.... Monreale 060822 0168,
89. 13 Viviendas EMVs Sanchinarro. Garrido-Burgos 1431, 90. Tanatorio municipal León 881, 91. Catedral León Interior Nave Coro 706, 92. Colegio Público Rep. del Brasil. Madrid. Usera, 93. Zapatos junto al Danubio...., 94. Canales bajo la lluvia, 95. INE Cesar Ruíz-Larrea 4081, 96. Madrid. Biblioteca Pública José Hierro
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Because RED is my favourite colour...
I had so many other ideas for today's pic... But I haven't had time at all and I won't have any later, so here, another dull shot of my right eye (the good eye).
Red is by far my favourite colour!! I even wear it on my eyelids even though people say you shouldn't do it... They say it makes you look like you just had some pot, but I actually like the colour it gives to my brown eyes...
I wear a lot of red and have many red things in my room... I don't think it makes me violent or makes me feel hungry as many say, I just feel happy and radiant when I wear it...
My makeup today was prettier... It had yellow ad orange in it too but the stupid liner I used wouldn't dry and it ruined it so I had to apply a dark colour on top of the yellow and orange :(
Anyway, RED RULES!!
Yes, it's totally possible that I'm obsessed with black and red....
I have my MR Arthrogram tomorrow and I have to admit, I'm terrified.... shit.
Highest position: 134 on Wednesday, July 18, 2007
EXPLORED - Thanks everybody! :)
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hi flickr,
I'm back!!!! :-)
But now it's late and I have to sleep...
Catch ya laters...
love the color of my hair here. I wish I can get it done that way. i need more red in it I guess.
for GTWL-half a face
Another recently explored shot.
Highest position: 401, 10/4/09
Camera: Nikon D90
Lens: Sigma 10-20mm
Exposure: 0.025 sec (1/40)
Aperture: f/5.0
Focal Length: 10 mm
ISO: 800
Small mounds/vents/"volcanoes" around the periphery of a brine pool rose small heights (cm) from the seafloor. Some of these volcanoes, like the one in the image, were emitting gas, probably also mixed with liquid hydrocarbons and brine.
A small "volcano" around the periphery of a brine pool rose small heights (centimeters) from the seafloor. Some of these small volcanoes were emitting gas, probably also mixed with liquid hydrocarbons and brine. Note the bubble of gas rising from the small volcano reflecting the lights of Little Hercules giving an illusion of eyes staring back at the camera.
Image ID: expl8355, Voyage To Inner Space - Exploring the Seas With NOAA Collect
Location: Gulf of Mexico, Green Canyon, Ewing Block 915
Photo Date: 2012 April 20
Credit: NOAA Okeanos Explorer Program, Gulf of Mexico 2012 Expedition
An airplane crossed the field during the timed exposure. Interesting light-paint effects from plane's lights.
Mar 28, 2012
Explore: # 462
Los Angeles County, Los Angeles City, Glendale, Burbank, Compton, Oxnard, Rialto, Bakersfield and Fresno Fire Departments participate in live fire drills for their explorers as part of the 2014 Disaster Drills at Del Valle.
St Mary, Huntingfield, Suffolk
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It was the first day of the 2019 Easter holidays, and what better way to spend a Monday morning than heading off for a church-exploring bike ride rather than going to work? I caught the train up to Halesworth, and then cycled off out into the hills. The villages and their pretty parish churches come thick and fast around here, and almost all of them are open to pilgrims and strangers daily. There is a good mixture too, round towers, square towers, hardly-any-left towers, reed-thatched roofs, beflinted-porches, and all manner of treasures inside. A fair number of East Anglia's best small churches are in this area. But even given this variety, there is nowhere else in East Anglia quite like Huntingfield church.
This is one of Suffolk's more obscure villages, but the Huntingfield name was that of one of the county's most significant families. Huntingfield is the nearest village to the great pile of Heveningham Hall, with one of the largest Georgian frontages in England. It was rebuilt by the Huntingfields in the 18th Century. Standing on the road and looking across the sheep-scattered lawns to the great building, it is easy to imagine the gulf between the landed gentry and their poor workers in those days. Sandwiched between the traumas of the 17th Century and the energy of the 19th Century, it was the landowners of the 18th Century who had every reason to think that their world was permanent and unchanging, that it would always be as they knew it. Farming sheep, collecting art, patronising musicians, tinkering with primitive science and technology, dispensing benevolent largesse to the poor on their estate - it is a world that is at once attractive and appalling. For them, the Church of England was both an arm of the state dispensing laws, justice and charity, and the setting for the weekly liturgical reinforcement of the puritan-refracted Elizabethan settlement.
But the Industrial Revolution would bring it all to an end, and in more ways than one. In the second half of the latter century, many parish churches were drawn by the excitement of the age into major reconstructions and revisions. Their impulse came from Oxford, where the Tractarians had a vision of the Church of England as a national Church, no longer a protestant sect but restored to the catholicity of its roots, and from Cambridge, where the ecclesiologists decided what a building of the national Church should properly look like. As the young men graduated and were presented to parishes across the country, their ideas spread like wildfire. They had come from their univserities to churches fitted out for protestant worship, with whitewashed walls and box pews focused on the high pulpit, the rarely-used altar gathering dust in the chancel or even discarded. Preaching houses rather than sacramental spaces, and any surviving traces of the building's medieval life survived, perhaps, simply because they were not understood.
Essentially, what happened in England between about 1830 and 1870 was a cultural revolution, a new wave of ideas and the reaction to them. The litugical changes proposed by the Oxford Movement were, at first, objectionable, and then merely controversial. But gradually they seeped into the mainstream, until by about 1890 they had become as natural as the air we breathe. Galvanised by the ferment of ideas and the possibilities of the industrial age, these young men convinced their rich patrons, revolutionised their buildings, and in so doing altered their parishes forever. They often looked to London stars like Scott and Butterfield, or local plodders like Phipson, or else mavericks like Salvin. The demands of the new liturgical arrangements, coupled with a renewed sense of the need to glorify God, led them into what was often a rebuilding rather than a restoration.
Internal decorations were, perhaps, the bespoke work of the architect, Witness Phipson's meticulous attention to detail at St Mary le Tower, Ipswich. Other restorers relied on the big picture, a vision that encompassed walls and floors, but left the fittings to others. By the centenary of the movement in the 1930s, one Anglican clergyman could observe "It is as if the Reformation had never happened". Well, not quite. And now, the pendulum has swung the other way, leaving the ritualists high and dry. But the evidence of the energy of those days survives, especially at Huntingfield, where William Holland, the vicar, drove the Oxford Movement through the heart of the parish, like a motorway through a Site of Special Scientific Interest.
The Hollands were the patrons of the living, which gave them the authority and the money to reimagine Huntingfield church on a grand scale. Oxford and Cambridge universites were exclusively for men, of course, but it so happened that William Holland had an energetic and visionary wife. Between 1859 and 1866, Mrs Mildred Holland planned, designed and executed the most elaborate redecoration of a church this county had seen since the Reformation. For seven years, she lay on her back at the top of scaffolding, first in the chancel (angels) and then in the nave (saints on the ceilure, fine angels on the beam ends), gilding, lettering and painting this most glorious of small church roofs. Her husband kept a journal throughout this period, and there is no suggestion that she had any assistance, beyond that of workmen to raise the scaffolding, and a Mr E.L. Blackburne FSA, who was, apparently, an 'authority on medieval decoration'. J.P. St Aubyn was responsible for the structural restoration of this largely 15th century building, and it is very restrained and merciful. But you come here to see the painted roofs, which are perfectly splendid. You can activate the floodlighting with a pound coin in a box at the west end of the north aisle, and the illuminated work is breath-taking.
What else is there to see? Some 15th Century window borders in the east window of the south aisle depict hares and a little dog with a bell around his neck. And what is that at the bottom, a dragon, or a winged lion? Evidence of the church's continued High Church tradition into the 20th Century is in statues of the Blessed Virgin and child flanked by St Francis and St Dominic in a triple image niche set in a pillar of the north arcade. Was it originally for a rood group, perhaps above an altar? Any church is a palimpsest, history written and rewritten over its skin as a touchstone to changing liturgical imperatives and the long generations of its people. Across this canvas the enthusiasms and Huntingfield in Mildred Holland's time are writ large, and will last long.
And there is something else, and a great curiosity. Ann Owen, the Vicar's wife in the neighbouring parish of Heveningham, is also said to have been responsible for 19th Century work in the church there, this time in the form of stained glass. Visiting Heveningham, I am afraid it is difficult for me to find this convincing, although of course one likes to think it was so, and that the two women artists were friends, or possibly even rivals. But Mildred's story has been brilliantly captured in a recent novel, The Huntingfield Paintress by Pamela Holmes. Pamela tells me that 'it was a comment of yours about Mildred and Ann Owen which sparked my determination to write my first novel' which is very kind of her, although I am sure it was easy to be inspired when one stands here surrounded by Mildred Holland's work.
You might thnk that the towering font cover is also by her, but in fact it is her memorial, placed here by her husband, as is the art nouveau lectern. It is as if her art was a catalyst, inspiring others to acts of beauty. She died in the 1870s, predeceasing her husband by twenty years. They are both now buried by the churchyard gate. How fitting, that they should lie in the graveyard of the church they loved so much, and to which they gave so much of their time, energy and money.