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Today Kirsten, Hayley, and I drove scenic byway K-177 between US-54 and Cottonwood Falls. We had a great time and took lots of pictures.
Tumble-polished "Nellie Blue Flint" from the Pennsylvanian of Ohio, USA.
"Flint" is the official gemstone of Ohio. Flint is actually chert (the two terms are synonymous, despite what anyone else might say), a cryptocrystalline, quartzose sedimentary rock. High-quality, colorful, multicolored, and multipatterned flint is moderately common at some Ohio localities. A couple famous flint occurrences in east-central Ohio include the Vanport Flint at Flint Ridge and Nellie Blue Flint in Coshocton County.
Nellie Blue Flint is essentially restricted to the Nellie area of northwestern Coshocton County. It consists of attractive, frequently complexly-patterned, dark bluish to bluish-black chert. Fractures and cavities (vugs) are often present and have been filled or nearly filled with pale bluish-gray chalcedony and/or megaquartz (= visible hexagonal quartz crystals). Body fossils and trace fossils can be present.
Nellie Blue is a local color variant of the Upper Mercer Flint, which is usually a black flint with whitish speckles (= often body fossils and fossil fragments). The Upper Mercer Flint is a somewhat persistent horizon of chertified marine fossiliferous limestone in east-central and eastern Ohio called the Upper Mercer Limestone.
Stratigraphy: Upper Mercer Flint (= chertified Upper Mercer Limestone), upper Bedford Cyclothem, upper Pottsville Group, Atokan Series, lower Middle Pennsylvanian
Locality: unrecorded site in eastern Ohio, USA (likely at or near the town of Nellie, northwestern Coshocton County)
Poladroid conversions of the previous images of Flint Castle.
From Wikipedia:
Flint was the first castle of what would later become known as Edward I's "Iron Ring". A chain of fortresses designed to encircle North Wales and oppress the Welsh. Its construction began almost immediately after Edward I began the First Welsh War in 1277.
Five years later Welsh forces under the command of Dafydd ap Gruffydd, brother of Llywelyn the Last besieged the castle in an attempted uprising against the English Crown. In 1294 Flint was attacked again during the revolt of Madog ap Llywelyn; this time the constable of the castle was forced to set fire to the fortress to prevent its capture by the Welsh. The castle was later repaired and partly rebuilt.
With the conclusion to the Welsh Wars, English settlers and merchants were given property titles in the new town that was laid out in front of the castle. The plantation borough was protected by a defensive ditch with a wooden palisade on earth banking. Its outline remains visible in streets patterns.
In 1399 Richard II of England was held by Henry Bolingbroke at Flint before being returned to London.
During the English Civil War, Flint Castle was held by the Royalists. It was finally captured by the Parliamentarians in 1647 after a three-month siege. To prevent its reuse in the conflict, the castle was then slighted in accordance with Cromwell's destruction order. The ruins are what remain today.
By the 19th century part of the site's outer bailey was used as Flintshire's County Jail. A quarry also operated nearby.
Flint, Michigan,
Fall, 1994
This building no longer exists. Originally it was the IMA Sports Arena, later built across town. Later, as Autoworld, it was a failed museum/ theme park which also had an IMAX theater within. Demolished, the land is now a portion of The University of Michigan-Flint.
At dusk, running around 25 minutes late, 67001 arrives at Flint with the 1W91 Cardiff - Holyhead 'locohauled' service.
Formerly worked by Class 57/3s, the service is now operated by dedicated Class 67s in Arriva Blue livery.
My great-great uncle, John Morris Ellis (known as Jack) is pictured top right in the individual photos. He was a Postman in Flint and instrumental in setting up the Sunday School, as the booklet says "This move was not an exciting adventure, lightly undertaken, nor was the exodus due to differences of religious opinions. Men like Mr. J. Morris Ellis, whose roots were in Welsh culture, whose scripture was couched in the grandiloquent phraseology of the Welsh Bible, whose praise and supplications to the Almighty were framed and fashioned according to Welsh idiom, left "home" only in response to a great call".
Title: Flint, Michigan n.d.
Date: undated
Description: Flint, Michigan n.d. (Manning Lantern Slide: 1650)
Image ID: 218.LS.1650
Related Information: Warren H. Manning Papers at the Iowa State University Library
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Part of the allure the Flint Hills provides for me is finding old abandoned structures, like this barn. The worn colors just sing.
Flint agreed to have is pix taken in honour of World Animal Day, held every year on October 4th. Thanks Taco for reminding me...
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This Photo is of Flint Signal Box on the North Wales Coast.
This shows the interior of the Box.
Sadly this has all gone.
This picture was taken back in 1999 during the summer in Flint while the longest mural, at that time, was being painting. Not sure what the sludge going down the Flint River is, but it was not safe to even swim in it back then. Friends of mine had gotten rashes diving in from Skateboards. Its been polluted for as long as I can remember. Not sure why anyone would think it would be a safe place to get water to drink from.
Vice President Kamala Harris greets Earvin “Magic” Johnson Jr. at the Dort Financial Center in Flint, Michigan, October 4, 2024. (Kit Karzen/Harris for President)
Flint Mass Transportation Authority 1188 is a 2007 MCI D4500CT, operating on route 206 Great Lakes Crossing.
Photo taken on Harrison St at E 2nd St in Flint, MI.
This image was created by modifying a photograph within Adobe Illustrator. It is intended to demonstrate how these lithics would have functioned.
The high-dispersion properties of flint glass break white light into its constituent spectral components.