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I just love the late-afternoon light, especially this time of year, it paints everything in golden warmth.
I've photographed this ornate gate several times before but it looked especially nice in this beautiful light on Sunday afternoon. Because of the way the light was hitting everything, I think it's the first time I've actually noticed the fabulous lines of the gate against the neighbour's staircase and veranda. Lucky me to catch all these things at once AND have my camera with me.
I wasn't intending to take something quite so abstract straight after our colander but when I saw this I just had to take it. It's a lamp and a remote controlled gate operator on a gatepost.
The only problem I had was that I was taking straight into the sun, so just hoped for the best. It actually came out far better than I thought it would.
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One from the Archives! The old gate at Leith Hall
Now overgrown and unused, it is still a wonderful imposing gate. Taken at Leith Hall Gardens Kennethmont Aberdeenshire Scotland.
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Gorgeous Begonias growing in a gatepost, with some Salvias behind.
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St Michael's Street in St Albans. The tower of St Michael's on the right. Carved stone gatepost finials in the shape of pine cones supported by acanthus leaves became fashionable during the Georgian era. As symbols of life's regeneration and even immortality, they do have a longer prehistory and reach back into pre-Christian times.
The crops into the original pictures show the Watchstone in closer detail and the two holes in the gatepost towards Odin. The demolished Odin Stone famously and religiously had a hole through which bargains and bonds were made. The tale of the Orkney Pirate involves a divorce through the stone. The light here makes evident that holes are still to be found even if only for light and wind making near silent mouths except for in the imagination and maybe also in the reverence given to them.
In betwixt the Ring of Brodgar and the Standing Stones of Stenness Circles stands a tall, commanding, proud, orienting, way making, shadow avenue casting and processional marking stone. There used to be more, one with a whole within it. The remaining tall stone stands as your companion when you cross the Brig O’Brodgar and it stays outside the the two large circles that were once stoned, henged and kept ready for the Sun to bring along the days of praise and for the set stones to cast the ways standing within the haze.
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Orkney's Stones of Stenness. Yes, they are older than Stonehenge!
www.orkneyology.com/stones-of-stenness.html
The Watchstone
www.nessofbrodgar.co.uk/watching-the-watchstone/
The Watchstone, Stenness
orkneyjar.com/history/monoliths/watchst.htm
Ring of Brodgar Circle henge
www.themodernantiquarian.com/site/388/ring_of_brodgar.html
The Ring of Brogar
www.megalithic.co.uk/article.php?sid=139
Ring of Brodgar Stone Circle and Henge, Mainland Orkney
www.historicenvironment.scot/visit-a-place/places/ring-of...
Ring Of Brodgar
canmore.org.uk/site/1696/ring-of-brodgar
The Standing Stones of Stenness Circle henge
www.themodernantiquarian.com/site/389/standing_stones_of_...
Stenness - Stone Circle in Scotland in Orkney
www.megalithic.co.uk/article.php?sid=158
Stones of Stenness Circle and Henge
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Stones Of Stenness
The male yellow wagtail was one half of a pair, and although they stayed very close together the female didn't pick such nice perches as he did! Looks like this gatepost has been used a few times before :-(
Looking towards Rannoch Moor along a section running parallel to the A82 at the foot of Beinn a' Chrulaiste.
Slightly eccentric Victorian corner house that would look better if they removed their cheap looking lions from the gateposts :-).
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Lovely bright October flowers, on the top of a gatepost.
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Growing in a gatepost, which may be too small for it quite soon!
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in the background:
St Hubert's Church, Idsworth
in the foreground:
lost property and a gatepost
a chance to use the in-camera s/c feature on my Sony
Krumlin
This is quite unusual as we don’t normally see cereal crops growing around here, we assume it may be for animal feed.
This area is called Krumlin, it is near the village of Barkisland in the Civil Parish of Ripponden. This is about as busy as it ever gets, that is apart from one day in August 1970, the day of the Krumlin Pop Festival.
Groups billed to appear included Pink Floyd, The Kinks, The Who, Manfred Mann with a surprise visit by Jimi Hendrix, it all sounded as though it was going to be wonderful. Around 15,000 people arrived and pitched their tents ready for the experience of a lifetime. Sadly the weather had other ideas, storm force winds and torrential rain swept in during the night, smashing up tents and swamping the people. Thirty people were admitted to hospital suffering from hypothermia. One of the organisers was found wandering the moors days later in a very sorry state, he along with the second organiser went bankrupt with a net loss of £31, 431 (around £490, 000 now) The whole event went down in local history as a complete disaster.
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Mrs. H.S. came by after the Jackdaw and was only too happy to stay on top of the gatepost while I took some photos.
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I was wondering down a side road in town the other day when this Starling landed on a garden gate. Grabbed a shot as fast as I could.
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Tŷ Hyll, Capel Curig, Conwy
LL24 0DS
Tŷ Hyll coordinates 53.1008° N, 3.8595° W
Tŷ Hyll is a house full of history, legend and mystery; no one really knows who built the house, or when.
Legend says that the house was built in the 15th century overnight – a ‘tŷ unnos’ or ‘one night house’. According to tradition at that time, a house built during one night on common land, with a chimney smoking by dawn, could be claimed by the builders as their own property.
Other legends say it was built by robbers and thieves, taking advantage of travelers on the old main road as they journeyed through Snowdonia – ‘ugly’ people that gave the house a fearsome reputation.
Tŷ Hyll may have been a robbers’ hideout in the 15th century, and Irish labourers constructing Telford’s bridge over the Llugwy in 1820 could have used it for shelter. But Tŷ Hyll goes unmentioned by travel writers until 1853, so it might be a Victorian folly – a romantic attraction for the increasing numbers of visitors to Snowdonia.
It would have taken a lot of manpower to move the huge stones and put them in place. By the mid-19th century the skills to manoeuvre such large boulders would have been readily available among Welsh quarrymen, expertly tilting them out to stop rain entering the house and, with no mortar, plugging gaps in the thick walls with moss to block out the draught.
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Went to the local fireworks display this evening. Was a bit foggy which made for a slightly subdued display but gave some interesting soft lighting! Took this just as we were setting out from the gatepost on our drive.
Clevedon Court Woods, Clevedon, Somerset.
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I found a tree with some wonderful lichen on it, but when I tried to take a photo this piece dropped off.
A good thing really as the photo I got of another bit on the tree didn't come out, but I took this bit that had landed on the gatepost below, thankfully.
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