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Day 21. We were glad to be camped at a lower elevation, after experiencing altitude symptoms at 12,200' the previous night. This lenticular cloud 'wave' was a foreshadowing of a storm that would cause us to compress the last two days to reach the summit of Whitney into one. For now, this was welcome weather --enough to provide reason to prowl around with camera and tripod at sundown.
Part of the set "French provincial interiors", a tribute to the plast glory of French townhouses in provincial towns and rural houses.
Also part of Premonition: French interiors with an atmosphere foreshadowing an event.
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(adj.) *Forbidding
1. threatening or foreshadowing evil or tragic developments
2. harshly uninviting or formidable in manner or appearance
Forbidding Clouds, St-Zenon, Quebec, Canada
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Very odd looking sun, this morning...a pre-cursor to but, I hope not foreshadowing of, the remnants of ex-Hurricane Ophelia.
It’s almost 3:30pm, now, and the wind is starting to become a little worrying. Nothing like the conditions in the Republic of Ireland, bless.
From my (actually, through, my double-glazed) bathroom window - too spooky to go out;
South Carrick Hills
SW Scotland
(Apparently, Ophelia’s winds brought Saharan sand/dust, and smoke from Portuguese wildfires to Scotland, today, hence the red/orange around the sun over my house.)
This oil sketch, one of Rubens’s finest, is a preparatory study for a tapestry now in a convent in Madrid. The artist first laid out the main elements of the composition with brown paint (notice the contours of the woman’s arm in the lower right corner) and then enlivened the work with vibrant colors. Here Rubens exalts the Christian sacrament of the Eucharist (the miraculous transformation of wine into the blood of Christ) by depicting the Jewish sacrifice of a lamb on an altar, at left, as a foreshadowing of Christ’s own sacrifice.
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"If I had a world of my own, everything would be nonsense. Nothing would be what it is, because everything would be what it isn't. And contrary wise, what is, it wouldn't be. And what it wouldn't be, it would. You see?" - Alice, "Alice in Wonderland"
For my fairytale shadows series. So far the only title I could come up with for the series is "Fairytales Foreshadowed"... any other ideas?
A little foreshadowing of autumn, taken last year in Reno. Actually, autumn begins today, so never mind the foreshadowing. This is the real deal. I truly believe that autumn is my favorite season. It's a time of color and a time for reflection, as the natural world moves quietly toward it's winter slumber.
Reno, Nevada
Union Pacific's Home Plate Special rolls up the North Omaha Industrial Lead with a view of the Omaha, NE skyline in the background.
BNSF 8227 is waiting with empty coal gons just east of the switch in Fisher, MN before it takes the siding to meet two coal loads storming eastbound on the Grand Forks Sub.
An unusual evening as three trains were meeting in Fisher on a line that saw maybe a couple of trains per day. Also unusual was not the Warbonnet SD75M leading the way but rather the Exec MAC. DC-powered locomotives still ruled northern plains coal during this time, and it was uncommon to see any AC power at the time.
But that was just a foreshadowing of what was to come as over the next 12-18 months, the Oakways, the SD60Ms, and the SD75s were loved up here were slowly shuffled out of Glendive to make room for MACs and ACes. It was a great time to be a railfan up there as we were able to catch the last days of DC-powered coal...
El sábado 10 de junio de 1944 el señor Broussaudier había ido a la barbería de la pequeña localidad de Oradour-sur -Glane, cerca de Limoges, a cortarse el pelo. Sobre las dos de la tarde escuchó un ruido de vehículos pesados entrando por la carretera y salió a ver que ocurría. Fue a buscar su bicicleta y un soldado alemán se la arrebató diciéndole «ya no la vas a necesitar más».
Oradour era una pequeña población de unos 1.500 habitantes que había vivido completamente al margen de la Guerra. Ese sábado había mucho ambiente en el pueblo. Los niños estaban pasando el reconocimiento médico y era el esperado día del reparto de las raciones de tabaco. Nada hacía presagiar el infierno que se desataría horas mas tarde. El infierno se llamaba 3.ª Compañía del Primer Batallón del Regimiento Der Führer, integrante de la 2.ª División SS Das Reich comandada por el temible Adolf Diekmann. Después de rodear la aldea mandaron llamar al alcalde para que reuniera a la población en la plaza del mercado. Desde bebés hasta ancianos. Los sorprendidos habitantes colaboraron sin demasiados sobresaltos y media hora más tarde unas 700 personas se agrupaban en la plaza. Con la excusa de que estaban buscando armas escondidas en el pueblo trasladaron a las mujeres y niños a la iglesia y a los hombres a distintos lugares de la aldea para buscarlas. Curiosamente, el que estuvieran buscando armas los tranquilizó puesto que ellos nunca habían entrado en combate. Pero los planes de los alemanes eran, desgraciadamente, otros. Las mujeres y los niños cantaban en la abarrotada iglesia para vencer el miedo que ya empezaba a apoderarse de ellos. Sobre las 4 de la tarde un grupo de soldados metió en la iglesia, cerca del coro, una caja que tras explotar comenzó a emitir un humo negro sofocante. Entre gritos, las mujeres y niños que intentaban salir del recinto eran ametrallados. Al mismo tiempo se empezó a ejecutar a los hombres que estaban repartidos por la aldea. En la iglesia los soldados arrojaron paja y leña y prendieron fuego a las desesperadas personas que luchaban por salir. Los hombres, muchos de ellos aun malheridos, corrieron la misma suerte. Las tropas saquearon y quemaron todos los edificios y el pueblo pronto se convirtió en un infierno de gritos, disparos y olor a carne quemada.
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On Saturday June 10, 1944, Mr. Broussaudier had gone to the barber shop in the small town of Oradour-sur-Glane, near Limoges, to get a haircut. About two in the afternoon he heard the noise of heavy vehicles entering the road and went out to see what was happening. He went to get his bicycle and a German soldier snatched it from him saying "you won't need it anymore."
Oradour was a small town of about 1,500 inhabitants that had lived completely on the fringes of the War. That Saturday there was a lot of atmosphere in town. The children were passing the medical examination and it was the expected day of the distribution of the tobacco rations. Nothing foreshadowed the hell that would break out hours later. Hell was called the 3rd Company of the First Battalion of the Der Führer Regiment, a member of the 2nd SS Das Reich Division commanded by the fearsome Adolf Diekmann. After surrounding the village they sent for the mayor to gather the population in the market square. From babies to the elderly. The surprised inhabitants collaborated without too many surprises and half an hour later some 700 people gathered in the square. With the excuse that they were looking for weapons hidden in the village, they took the women and children to the church and the men to different parts of the village to search for them. Curiously, the fact that they were looking for weapons reassured them since they had never been in combat. But the plans of the Germans were, unfortunately, different. Women and children sang in the crowded church to overcome the fear that was already beginning to take hold of them. Around 4 in the afternoon a group of soldiers put a box in the church, near the choir, which after exploding began to emit suffocating black smoke. Screaming, the women and children who tried to leave the compound were machine-gunned. At the same time, the men who were scattered around the village began to be executed. In the church the soldiers threw straw and firewood and set fire to the desperate people struggling to get out. The men, many of them still badly injured, suffered the same fate. The troops looted and burned all the buildings and the town soon became an inferno of screams, gunfire and the smell of burning meat.
Pontsteiger, Houthavens Amsterdam, NL - arons en gelauff architecten
The building is located at the end of a 200 metre dam that projects into the water of the river IJ. The unusual form was designed with apartment dwellers’ preferences in mind: residential demand is highest either at the top of high rises (penthouse views) or at the base to connect to the liveliness at city level. In the Pontsteiger design concept the part in between is simply minimized. The large building consists of a six floor low rise block that wraps around a plaza on the waterfront. Two slender 60 metre towers at the open end of this block frame the river view. The towers carry a bridge spanning 48 metres rising to a height of 90 metres above the city. The result is an iconic building that foreshadows Amsterdam’s growth of high rise buildings around the river IJ.
As the rear clears a slow order, SBPC smokes them out (just a drop in the bucket) to get back to track speed. The range is already dry despite it being mid July.. a foreshadowing of the fire season to come.
Doughty Creek at Edwin B. Forsythe National Wildlife Refuge, Oceanville, NJ, USA.
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Probably not everyone knows the fact Venus is third brightest object on our night sky after the Sun and Moon. Venus traditionally foreshadows the sunrise and also follows it right after the sunset.
In Ancient Greece Venus was called Phosphorus, a name meaning “Light-Bringer”. Interesting that the evening Venus was considered to be another planet and called it Heosphoros — meaning “Dawn-Bringer”.
This photo was captured on Bali (Indonesia) just before the sunrise from the peak of Mt. Batur (1,717 m) with a view of Abang (2,151 m). To the left from it is a dazzling Venus, very close to it is Saturn and Scorpius Constellation.
UP KLBNS28 heads through Compton with a mix of UP and NS power up front. UP and NS pool service to Los Angeles is nothing new, with such trains dating back to the 1980s. But with current merger talks, scenes like this have taken on a different meaning in recent months.
The sea awoke at midnight from its sleep,
And round the pebbly beaches far and wide
I heard the first wave of the rising tide
Rush onward with uninterrupted sweep;
A voice out of the silence of the deep,
A sound mysteriously multiplied
As of a cataract from the mountain's side,
Or roar of winds upon a wooded steep.
So comes to us at times, from the unknown
And inaccessible solitudes of being,
The rushing of the sea-tides of the soul;
And inspirations, that we deem our own,
Are some divine foreshadowing and foreseeing
Of things beyond our reason or control.
'The Sound of The Sea.'
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.
« Une femme musulmane avec son bébé, un Japonais-Américain, un Juif européen et un Africain avec sa fille font la queue. Ils symbolisent des groupes qui se sont vu refuser l’entrée aux États-Unis à certaines périodes de l’histoire. La personne en tête de la file d’attente reste anonyme, présageant ainsi qui pourrait être le prochain à être refoulé! »
“A Muslim woman with her baby, a Japanese-American, a European Jew, and an African man with his daughter are standing in line. They symbolize groups that have been denied entry to the United States at certain periods in history. The person at the front of the line remains anonymous, thus foreshadowing who might be the next to be turned away!”
This monarch butterfly was feeding at the tithonia in the front yard when the hummingbird passed by. This shot foreshadowed the epic duel that followed for the right to feed at the Mexican sunflower!
After a discussion on my Ahsoka Trooper pic with Raven and Tim, I came across the concept art for what was to be Yoda's troopers and recreated it in LEGO! The SWCA Untold Clone Wars Panel revealed some really interesting designs that I hope to undertake into LEGO projects, with this trooper included.
From what I could gather, he had a design of Yoda's head silhouette painted onto his helmet with a couple other green markings that patterned his chest and shoulder pads. The designs came out really cleanly and I believe I'm the first to make this trooper, if I'm not mistaken. He's topped off with CAC's new Ranged backpacks, making for a great match to the concept art.
I planned only on making the trooper, but decided to make Yoda to go with it (foreshadowing future projects), especially since I haven't seen many Yoda customs. I loved the shape of the new Yoda head but couldn't stand the lack of hair detail, so I sculpted hair onto our little green friend. I also disliked the proportions of the official figure, so I modified the torso, legs, and arms to all be more accurately scaled, sculpting feet and hands on these modified parts and topping it off with a custom robe (with custom cloth sleeves!). I'm really liking how it turned out.
So, as seen here and on my Instagram (shamelessly self-promoting @avxtc_designs), clones won't be the only Star Wars customs I'll be making! So as always, expect more, and I'd love to hear your thoughts!
-Andrew
Somewhere in the last remaining undeveloped parcels of land between the Texas boom town sprawls of Frisco and Prosper is a tiny clutch of ancient abandoned cars that time forgot.
The car is a 1947 Buick Super Sedanet. It's a massive two door coupe with a long, aerodynamic 'torpedo' styled back end, where the roof line curves down to the rear bumper. Highly impractical and as heavy as a modern large SUV, the design would foreshadow the personal luxury car era of the 1950's through the late 1970's.
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The city of N*****. Life once teemed here, children ran carefree between the houses, and nothing foreshadowed trouble... Everything changed one day, when sirens sounded and planes and anti-ballistic missiles soared into the sky. Not everyone made it to the huge, self-contained shelters, not everyone survived the 30 years of waiting underground... But the time had come for safe exit to the surface. Forty-year-old childhood friends, who had spent almost their entire adult lives under artificial light, were sent to scout.
Step by step, the survivors climbed to the surface. The dusty, rusting door creaked open, and the bright sunlight blinded the friends' faces. Life above was bustling, but not like before. There were no children's screams, no hum of cars, no smoke from factories. Somewhere above, a falcon was hunting, flocks of birds were chirping in the trees, a rabbit was running along the ground, and butterflies were fluttering around. Nature had taken its toll.
Conrail train ALSR was rolling along the Reading Line west of Lyons on an August afternoon in 1991.
Conrail SD60 6850 was assisted by one of future owner Norfolk Southern's SD40-2s long before NS took over.
The 6850 escaped the monochromatic nightmare and would wind up owned by bland CSX as their 8714 until they retired it in 2017 and sold it to LTEX.
Even after a relative success at Omoide, I still wanted a large scale dystopian shot, industrial sure, but with a hint of a futuristic look which is something the izakayas didn't really offer. I had no idea my ultimate opportunity would arrive in the form of a Yodobashi store.
Researching once I got back from Japan, apparently a lot of Yodobashis have large neon signs out front. The only one I was familiar with beforehand in Akihabara just didn't have that, so I had no reason to suspect THIS was waiting for me at the plaza in Shinjuku. Come to think of it, I actually didn't expect to come back with a lot of shots from Shinjuku, yet it's very clear now that this eclipses all the other Tokyo districts on my camera roll, maybe even combined. There's just something about it's dirtier nature that seemed so photogenic.
So in my previous Yodobashi Plaza post I foreshadowed this as my "much better shot". I browsed for a while waiting for the sky to get darker and it started raining. Finding a spot to put my tripod was a bit challenging and I constantly had to wipe my lens off (I had to move my umbrella everytime it was actually time to shoot so it took a couple drops). The sky wasn't dark enough it was still a deep purple, so in editing I went all in. Tried to give this photo powerful shadows, a black sky, and a dominating red/yellow color scheme.
When I say "cyberpunk" I don't think I got closer to that then this. A large sign from above and the branching out signs to either side on the bottom, along with the contrast of the white sign (the only part of this image I couldn't read, I know what the rest say). What would've been even more awesome is if I managed to get a rain streak in my shot considering I was shooting on a slow shutter, but it wasn't that profuse, so it didn't end up in my frame. I have several slightly different and/or vertical frames as well so there is a chance I'll revisit this shot in the future (that is, if we're not already in said future).
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In the middle of the delta we find this abandoned boat. It was an epic dawn, unexpected because the masses of clouds in the sky foreshadowed more a storm than the sunrise, but ... suddenly a fringe of light was opened on the horizon, with great force.
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Austin K4 Tanker (1939-45) Engine 3489cc S6 60hp Petrol
Chassis no. K4VA11714
Engine no. M0197541K1675
Fleet Number 2227
Decals National Benzole Mixture fuel tanker
Registration Number KXY 774 (London)
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The Austin K4 was a heavy British truck that the Austin Motor Co. built in World War II, restyled in 1946 they were to continue in production until 1955. The vehicle number is divided into three parts, with the first part indicating the capacity (K2: 2-tonner / K4: 5-tonner), the second part is the type of vehicle, and the third part is the chassis number.
From February 1946, a new cab with a new grille was installed with centrally vertical ribs They were equipped with a 4-liter engine 90 hp engine. The postwar models received an updated radiator grille., previously they were consistently horizontal. It is the only visible difference.
KXY 774 - Chassis no. K4VA11714
This tanker was supplied new to National Benzole and had sold the vehicle to Brockman's in 1957, when it was repainted green and red livery, beneath which the old National Benzole colour scheme was discovered. It was rescued from scrap yard on the Sheerness dockside in 1991, after which it underwent a long and painstaking renovation The only notified deviation from factory specification is the provision of a Kenlowe electric cooling fan.
NATIONAL BENZOLE - a potted history
National Benzole was no ordinary petoleum brand, the clue is in its name. In the United Kingdom, benzole or benzol is a coal-tar product consisting mainly of benzene and toluene not to be confused with the word "benzol" (or benzole) which in some languages means benzene and can be confused can mean petrol, or gasoline.
In the early part of the 20th century Benzole was produced in a small scale and was used during the 1st World War for propelling mortar shells massively increasing production. With the onset of peace there was huge surplus of benzole which happily coincided with the increase in popularity of the Motor Car.
A group of men, including Samuel Henshaw, then the chairman of the Staffordshire Chemical Company, reckoned there was money to be made from these surplus-to-requirements stocks, setting up National Benzole in February 1919 in a room next to the boiler house of the Gas Light and Coke Company in London's Horseferry Road. Although the idea of using benzole to power automobiles was not new, cars fueled on neat benzole needed altered carburetor settings which was inconvenient for owners who had previously used petrol and the effectiveness of neat benzole as a paint stripper raised concern about the possible effect on carburettor floats made of varnished cork – a common feature in US imported vehicles. Also the quality of the new fuel was proving inconsistent. Henshaw and his team set about ironing out these problems which in 1919 was boosted by the award of the RAC Dewar Trophy to a Rolls-Royce 40/50 hp that successfully completed a 10,000-mile reliability trial fuelled exclusively by National Benzole. However in the same year there was a Coal Strike which restricted benzole availability, and increased demand in the ensuing years led to frequent shortages of coal shale from which the benzole was made. Neat Benzole was also proving to strong for the average engine. National Benzoles answer came in 1922 by replacing neat benzole with a fifty fifty mix of benzole and petroleum. While neat Benzole continued to be marketed as an effective anti-knocking performance enhancing additive.
Because garages were initially sparse, the Automobile Association ((AA) itself set up twelve strategically located filling stations, supplying fuel only to its own members and making no profit from the transactions initially supplying only National Benzole which was seen a particularly patriotic fuel choice because the coal shale which was the principal ingredient of benzole was domestically produced. The AA dismantled its garage network in 1927 due to motor fuel becoming more readily available but by now National Benzole had become a nationally established fuel brand in the UK. The company however had no oil refining facility of its own, and had to contract to buyer tanker loads already refined fuel. Which led to a long term contract with the Anglo-Persian Oil Company which foreshadowed still closer links with the future British Petroleum company: Effectively promoted and distributed into the second half of the twentieth century, National Benzole continued to be very popular with British motorists and the National Benzole brand remained a common sight at the roadside. However the proportion of benzole in the mixture was reduced progressively after World War II as a number of specialist applications for the chemical grew with the development of the UK's chemical industry. During the late 1950s Benzole was determined to be hazardous to health: its anti-knocking properties as a fuel ingredient were no longer so important for the smooth running of engines, since various additives including, ironically, tetraethyllead were now routinely included in refined petroleum. Therefore, from the early 1960s onwards National sold only petrol. National Benzole joined the Shell-Mex & BP family in 1957 but continued to trade separately by 1959 the motor fuel marketing business was now fully merged with Shell-Mex & BP Benzole (no longer part of the mixture) was dropped from the fuel's name. Following the de-merger of Shell-Mex & BP in 1976, the National brand continued to be distinctively marketed by BP for over a decade.
MR. MERCURY
In 1928 with its 50-50 mix firmly established the company created Mr. Mercury as a marketing symbol. At first he appeared startlingly naked in a National newspaper advertising campaign. Mr. Mercury, in National Benzole's black and chrome gold corporate colours, became one of the most powerful marketing images of this age. Almost every service station in the 1930s had a National Benzole pump, for single-brand sites were unknown in those days. Eventually, Mr. Mercury's head was used as the brand's logo. After WW2 he returned in 1953, now more modestly attired in the advertisements, though he retained his winged helmet, and National Benzole quickly re-established itself as a market leader.
Diolch am 98,463,824 o olygiadau gwych, mae pob un ohonynt yn cael eu gwerthfawrogi'n fawr.
Thanks for 98,463,824 amazing views, every one is greatly appreciated.
Shot 09.10.2022, at Bicester Heritage, Autumn Scramble, Bicester Aerodrome, Bicester, Oxon 166-067
Het belangrijkste gebouw van Orvieto is de kathedraal (Duomo di Orvieto), gebouwd tussen het eind van de dertiende en de vijftiende eeuw. Het schip van de kerk is gebouwd in romaanse stijl met horizontale zwart-witte banden zoals in Siena en Florence. In 1310 werd de Sienese architect Lorenzo Maitani aangetrokken, die de voorgevel in een revolutionair gotische stijl liet bouwen met een mengeling van vrolijke kleuren die samen met het expressieve werk van de beeldhouwkunstenaars (waarvan hij zelf niet de minste was) een ongewoon resultaat opleveren. Het interieur van de Duomo is majestueus, kleurig en licht, en bevat omvangrijke fresco's van Luca Signorelli, die een voorafschaduwing zijn van het werk van Michelangelo. Signorelli heeft hierin ook een dubbelportret van hemzelf met zijn collega Fra Angelico opgenomen, die eveneens korte tijd aan deze kerk heeft gewerkt.
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The main building of Orvieto is the cathedral (Duomo di Orvieto), built between the late thirteenth and fifteenth centuries. The nave of the church is built in Romanesque style with horizontal black and white bands, such as in Siena and Florence. In 1310, the Sienese architect Lorenzo Maitani was recruited, who had the façade built in a revolutionary Gothic style with a mixture of cheerful colors that together with the expressive work of the sculptors (of which he was not the least) yield an unusual result. The Duomo's interior is majestic, colorful and light, and contains elaborate frescoes by Luca Signorelli, which foreshadow Michelangelo's work. Signorelli has also included a double portrait of himself with his colleague Fra Angelico, who has also worked on this church for a short time.
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"It was beautiful, juicy-looking, shiny red, and anyone who saw it would want a bite. But one taste and the person's eyes would close forever in the Sleeping Death."
-Snow White and the Seven Dwarves
During the 10 hour car ride back from Oregon I started thinking about shadows morphing into different shapes that were metaphoric. The looming inevitable future or the past you can't escape. This brought me to think about the different fairy tales (cause you know me and my fairy tales) and how each of the characters has the one thing that changed their life. Their metaphoric shadow.
Until these clouds did not foreshadow troubles, but soon they enveloped everything and went very slowly down in heavy rain, there was no dry place left
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пока эти тучи не предвещали беды, но вскоре они окутали все и шли очень медленно вниз в сильный дождь, сухого места не осталось
Augury, which means 'the art or practice of divination from signs or omens', and hence 'an omen, token, or indication', is a Latin derivative. The immediate source is Latin augurium, which is derived from a Latin base form augur.
In ancient Rome, the augures were official diviners, and were one of the four main groups of priests. Though they used various methods of divination, an augur would often use the flight or behavior of birds as a primary method. (Compare a haruspex, an originally Etruscan diviner who divined by examining the entrails of slaughtered animals. I personally find tea-leaves a much neater procedure.)
In English, augur is normally used as a noun meaning 'a soothsayer; prophet' or as a verb meaning 'to divine or predict' and also 'to serve as an omen of; foreshadow'. The historical use meaning 'a Roman augur' is comparatively rare.
The ultimate origin of Latin augur is uncertain. It was once considered to be derived from avi and ger(o), meaning 'directing the birds', but this is now usually considered a folk etymology. The probable origin is from Latin augere 'to increase' (the source of English augment, among others), alluding to the growth or prosperity that successful divination would enable.
The word augury is first found in English in the fourteenth century.
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"In the great hall of duke Wifgrir the feudal city crest hangs on the eastern wall. A historic memento of the past but also a potential foreshadowing of future actions. The sword ‘The red dawn’ is depicted twined in the herb with the identical name. An homage to the first settlers finding the herb and therefore settling in the area.
The sword portrayed in the city crest belonged to the legendary heroine Dand El Alume. Her name was gifted to the city. Dand El Alume’s tale dates back to ancient times and is a living part of folklore in Avalonia in general, but in Dandelume in particular.
Dand lived during one of the centuries of the first druids and mighty wizards. A time long before Avalonia formed as a realm under the first king Artorious Rex. In a turbulent era of mystic and great dangers. Her many heroic acts are written down in the chronicles ’Bringer of the red dawn’ but are also recited in poems and traditional storytelling.
In the ‘horn-squadron’, the knights are taught the chronicles of Dand by feudal scholars. They all aspire to one day be able to become the new ‘bringer of red dawn’….."
This image is part of my photographic series Almodis, Countess of Montferrand, which I invite you to discover in the list of my albums.
By consulting the photos in chronological order, and paying attention to their titles, you can follow the story of Almodis's life as Countess of Montferrand - according to the freedom of my novelistic interpretation, the first known chatelaine of the fortress so named.
In 1085, Count Pierre de Melgueil paid homage to the Pope and began the bipolarisation of the county of Substantion, which became the county of Melgueil and Montferrand. Construction of the castle of Montferrand began at the same time. The Count did not survive the completion of the project, and probably died as early as 1086. His widow, Almodis, inherited the castle and administered the county for the rest of her life.
Many thanks to Ana Lys for the double session (and the two walks...), which were necessary to obtain the different phases of the narrative.
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Texte en français dans l'en-tête de l'album.
The Château de Villandry and its gardens, Loire Valley, France
Some background information:
The Château de Villandry is a large château located in the village of Villandry, in the French department of Indre-et-Loire. The palace sits in the Val de Loire in the former Touraine region, about 15 km (9.3 miles) to the southwest of the city of Tours. Both village and Château de Villandry are also situated on the Cher River Cher and Villandry is the last commune before the Cher River issues into the Loire River.
In medieval times, a stronghold named Colombier stood on the spot of today’s Château de Villandry. It was built in the 12th century and in 1189, it was that fortress, where the English King Henry II Plantagenet signed the Peace of Colombier after his defeat by King Philip II of France. In the early 16th century, the estate was acquired by the nobleman Jean Le Breton. He was the minister of finance of the then French King Francis I and also the Controller-General for War.
After having bought the lands, De Breton had the old Gothic castle torn down. Only the foundations and the former donjon from the 14th century remained. Around this keep the new palace and its gardens were built and finished in 1536. The Château de Villandry is one of the last châteaus in the Loire Valley that were constructed in the Renaissance style. Its architecture lacks both any Italian influence and decorative medival elements like turrets or murdering holes. Hence, the architectural style is very French, already foreshadowing the architecture of the châteaus d’Anet and Fontainebleau, which were built later during the reign of King Henry IV of France.
The mansion remained in possession of the family De Breton for more than two centuries, but in 1754, Michel-Ange, Marquis de Castellane, bought the estate. He had the palace rebuilt according to the standards of the 18th century and even the beautiful Renaissance gardens were converted into an English-style landscaped garden, which met the taste of the time.
As a consequence of the French Revolution, the Château de Villandry was confiscated. But at the beginning of the 19th century, the French Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte acquired it for his brother Joseph Bonaparte. In 1823, the estate was bought by the noble family Hainguerlot, who kept it for almost a century. In 1906, Joachim Carvallo purchased the property and poured an enormous amount of time, money and devotion into repairing it and creating what many consider to be the most beautiful gardens anywhere.
These formal Renaissance gardens, restored according to original plans, include a water garden, ornamental flower gardens, and also vegetable gardens. The gardens are laid out in formal patterns created with low box hedges. In 1920, both castle and gardens were opened to the public and in 1934, the estate was designated a national historic monument.
Today’s owner is Henri Carvallo, the great-grandson of Joachim Carvallo. Since 2000, the Château de Villandry and its gardens belong to the UNESCO Word Heritage Site "The Loire Valley between Sully-sur-Loire and Chalonnes" with its many breathtaking châteaux. Altogether there are more than 400 of them in the Loire region.
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