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The flint walls of St Martin's church, in Dorking, Surrey.
Shot with a Nikon D40, fitted with a Tamron 70-300mm F4/5.6 DI LD (Nikon AFS) lens and processed in GIMP and Photoscape.
In January 2018, I drove through northern Kansas, I saw many abandoned farms - almost all the country houses were abandoned. The small towns that I drove through were (at best) semi-ghost. The farm places almost all had open gates and there were few "no trespassing" signs. The people who farm these lands now live elsewhere and since there is no stock to keep fenced in why close the gate? I decided that I would go back when the weather was better but unfortunately it looks like I won't be able to make it - at least for now.
From my observations along US 36 this area has been completely devastated.
Update: Made multi day Kansas trip in 2019. See album www.flickr.com/photos/43531315@N04/albums/72157711055722873
On a busy afternoon at CN's Flint Yard, an empty autorack train makes at set-out into Flint's North Yard while the yard switcher waits to make its next move. The auto train, headed for Battle Creek, has a pair of SD70M-2's, while the yard job has an unblemished IC SD40-2.
E27121 (Autoracks- Taschereau Yard [Montreal, QC] to Battle Creek, MI)
CN SD70M-2 #8863
CN SD70M-2 #8806
R94161 17 (Flint Yard Switcher)
IC SD40-2 #6250
Flint, MI
September 17th, 2023
Flint corn, or Indian corn, is one of the oldest varieties of corn, a type that Native Americans taught the early colonists how to cultivate. Its kernels, which come in a range of colors including white, blue and red, have “hard as flint” shells, giving this type of corn its name. Flint corn kernels contain a small amount of soft starch surrounded completely by a larger amount of hard starch, which means the kernels shrink uniformly when drying and are dent-free and less prone to spoiling (and therefore ideal for autumnal décor). Despite its tough exterior, this type of corn can be consumed by livestock and humans, and is used in such dishes as hominy and polenta. -- Courtesy History.com
Just beautiful! I don't care what they say, the tallgrasses of the Flint Hills are just as beautiful as any tall Redwood tree.
DO NOT THROW PEBBLES
AT THE LITTLE FLINT MEN.
THESE ARE GREMLINS
IN DISGUISE AND CAUSE
TROUBLE
WHEN THE WIND
BLOWS
Disused now and since Covid closed for visitors.
Built in the late 17th Century or early 18th Century and used to crush Flint for the pottery industry in Stoke-On- Trent. That was something new I learned. I did not know powdered flint is used in the manufacture of porcelain.
Kibblestone Scout Camp Staffordshire UK 17th September 2023
The last three percent of untouched Tallgrass Prairie left in North America is in the Flint Hills of Kansas and the Osage Hills in Extreme Northern Oklahoma. The Flint Hills Tallgrass Prairie is clearly the last significant expanse of a unique prairie ecosystem and it needs to be protected and preserved for future generations.
The Flint Hills, in the eastern part of the state, fan out over 183 miles from north to south, stretching 30 to 40 miles wide in parts, the land folding into itself, then popping up in gentle bumps, with mounds looming far off on the horizon. Seemingly endless,
the landscape offers up isolated images — a wind-whipped cottonwood tree, a rusted cattle pen, a spindly windmill, an abandoned limestone schoolhouse, the metal-gated entrance to a hilltop cemetery.The hills are named after another native stone, flintlike chert that Indians used to make tools. Many artifacts have been found at area quarries.
The Flint Hills in Kansas and in Oklahoma are North America’s
largest remaining tract of tallgrass prairie. The preserve is at its
full glory in late spring, when yellow, white, purple and blue wildflowers
pop up amid a sea of green grass. The grass is tallest, about waist
high in the fall.
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Antler and flint cutting tools hand fabricated in the style of Native Americans for the Looking Close... On Friday challenge, Hand Made. Happy Friday
1284-2024 Flint Castle is also famous as the location of a fateful meeting in 1399 between Richard II and his rival to the crown Henry Bolingbroke (later Henry IV), an event immortalised in Shakespeare’s Richard II.
Portrait taken on the back roads in the Flint Hills of Kansas. This was about an hour before sunset and the sun was mostly blocked by a cloud at the time.
This sunrise not as spectacular as the other morning that I posted the other day. But any morning sitting in the Flint Hills of Kansas is a good morning.
Yesterday's photo illustrated the humidity in our area. Taken one day after the previous photo I posted, the storm pictured was forecast several days ago, and this is taken NW of Topeka, Kansas about 6:00 p.m. The tornado sirens had been activated but the rotation observed never touched the ground. It did rain a lot!. Lightning bolt was a bonus...
Cold and bright January afternoon at Pitstone Hill.
Just below The Ridgeway ancient track, an archeological survey identifies this dell as a Neolithic flint mine.
A Lake State southbound lead by GP40-2 800 leaves McGrew Yard in Flint, Michigan having just cleared the yard enroute for interchange with CSX at Novi, Michigan on August 30, 2019.
Business was quite good for the Huron & Eastern this day, as the 702 rolls south and crosses the Flint River bridge with 82 cars on the drawbar.
Flint corn (Zea mays var. indurata) also known as Indian corn or sometimes calico corn is a variant of maize, the same species as common corn. Because each kernel has a hard outer layer to protect the soft endosperm, it is likened to being hard as flint; hence the name. The six major types of corn are dent corn, flint corn, pod corn, popcorn, flour corn, and sweet corn.
typical of houses in Thetford the face of the building is studded in flint nodules, this old terrace is typical but new buildings continue the tradition.
2016 01 23 112319 Norfolk Thetford Water LR
This very nice flint tool measures only 6 cm across, and was found in 2003 during evaluation trenching at Swanscombe, Kent.
Well, a pseudo panorama anyway. It’s actually a full size 6X17 format crop of the frame.
Sprewell Bluff Park near Thomaston, Georgia USA
For 'New Wall Wednesday'. Norfolk flint and brick wall, Sheringham, North Norfolk.
This is the north facing gable-end of the former whelk boiling buildings. Now a house and tea rooms, called 'Whelk Coppers'
Flint Corn also known as Indian Corn gets its name from the fact that most of the starch in the kernels is "hard as flint" unlike the more common Dent Corn or Field Corn which is made up of mostly soft starches. The name Dent Corn comes from the fact that when the kernels dry out they become "dented" and do not retain their shape like Flint Corn.
Leading a Locomotive Services Limited private charter from Llandudno heading toward Bristol via Crewe, Class 40 locomotive D213 'Andania' heads east as it approaches Flint station. It would haul the train as far as Chester, where a pair of Class 37s would take over.
Flint è un pappagallo cacatua, proveniente dall'Arcipelago delle Molucche. Flint è la star assoluta della Biosfera che si trova la porto vecchio di Genova. E' un pappagallo dalle piume rosa che vive nella bolla da sei anni, ovvero da quando è nato. Il continuo passaggio di turisti e la vicinanza dei biologi che giornalmente si prendono cura delle piante e degli animali non costituiscono un problema per lui, che anzi ama farsi coccolare. Flint è anche un po' viziato, e vuole attrarre l'attenzione su di sé. Nessuno lo costringe a fare nulla (non è certo considerato un fenomeno da presentare ai visitatori), ma è un giocherellone e si diverte ad imitare i ragazzi e le ragazze che trascorrono con lui la maggior parte della giornata. Infatti sa aprire le bottigliette di plastica e aspetta i visitatori alla cassa.
Non sa parlare, ma solo perché per ora non ha avuto voglia di farlo. Chissà che in futuro non lo vedremo salutare i turisti con una frase di benvenuto.
Flint esce dalla bolla solo la sera, per andare a dormire. Ma il suo istinto non lo spinge a cercare di fuggire per conoscere il mondo: a quanto pare questo pappagallo, ormai genovese d'adozione, ama la sua Biosfera, che lo fa sentire al sicuro.