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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.
Thank you for your favourites. :O)
Illustration inspired by the old nursery rhyme:
There was a crooked man and he went a crooked mile,
He found a crooked sixpence against a crooked stile;
He bought a crooked cat, which caught a crooked mouse,
And they all liv'd together in a little crooked house.
70809 is switched off at Whixley waiting to draw forward with new sleepers and rails for laying at Cattall.
I tried quite a bit to get the loco level, but in doing so the gatepost and box on the right were skewed. In the end I settled for the fact the loco was on a cant.
Lovely green leaves and loads of green berries.
This is in a flower pot in a niche in a gatepost.
Better viewed large and thank you for your favourites. :O)
Runner up for today's Smile on Saturday. I have walked past this gatepost(?) many, many times and I still don't know if it is something particular, or just a whim....The stones look like the tops of Staddle stones, cemented together - but did it have a purpose? There are 2 of them...
Happy Fence Friday - and have a great Easter weekend ;o)
Sudden sunshine took us to Fyvie loch-side walk to see the daffodils. Almost felt like Spring!
My Fence Friday photos set: Here
Helios 44-2 set: Helios 44-2
Displayed in a glass-fronted porch of a late 19th century burial chapel at Kirkmadrine are the oldest Christian monuments in Scotland outside Whithom. The most infonnative and oldest of the group, a pillar stone which dates from the 5th century, bears a six-line Latin inscription: 'Here lie the holy and chief priests (ie Bishops), Ides, Viventius and Mavorius', and, at the top, above a circled cross 'AClpha) and (Omega),. The incised equal-anned cross has a crooked loop on the upper ann, signifying the sacred chi-rho monogram. A similar cross and symbol are fonned on a second pillar, presumably of later 5th century date, which is more enigmatically inscribed '(Here lie) ... sand Florentius'. A smaller pillar stone has the Latin inscription, 'The beginning and the end', a variant of the Alpha and Omega symbol as defmed in Revelation 21:6. The fonn of the cross and the style of lettering suggest a date of around AD 600. The other funerary monument on display include fIve cross-fragments which range in date from the 8th to the 12th centuries.
When first discovered in the 19th century the three oldest pillar stones were serving as gateposts and as a stile-slab in the churchyard wall; the rest were found in the churchyard itself Collectively, they represent an early Christian cemetery of some importance in this neighbourhood. Unfortunately, nothing is otherwise known about the identity and authority of these bishop-priests; presumably they served Christian communities in this area, perhaps as an offshoot from Whithom (no. 79). The compound name, Kirkmadrine, implies a dedicatory saint, usually taken to be St Mathurinus, but the name is not recorded before 1500. The medieval parish was known as Toskerton and was united with Stoneykirk in 1618.Lady McTaggart Stewart of Ardwell had the chapel rebuilt in neo-Romanesque style out of the medieval ruins on the site.
Looking at the back of an Adelaide Botanic Garden sign with punched holes on either side of its mounting on the signpost, with the Friends' Gate in the background.
don't know what it is, but what ever it is. grows out of the top of this old silver lichen covered spruce gatepost, along the becks. langholm, dumfriesshire, scotland.
Gate to the Ancient Playground, Central Park. There are statues of bears on the left gatepost, and statues of deer on the right, Good idea to keep them separate. At E. 84th Street and Fifth Avenue, just north of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. NYC -- April 26, 2019
www.centralparknyc.org/things-to-see-and-do/attractions/a...
Sunrise over crooked oak tree alongside a redundant field gate in Helme, near Meltham, Huddersfield.
Founded in 1956, Ely and District Wildfowler’s Association is one of several clubs shooting over land falling between the Flood-banks of the Bedford Level’s or, Ouse Washes as they are more commonly known.
However, the area is presently heavily flooded, so the waterfowl have, for a period of time, safe passage.
This is the gatepost to the EDWA site, with the gate itself submerged under the floodwater.
Huntington was one of the most prominent animal sculptors of the early twentieth century, celebrated for her keen powers of observation. “Reaching Jaguar” and its companion piece, “Jaguar” (26.85.2), were based on Huntington’s studies of Señor Lopez, a jaguar from Paraguay who was the first feline occupant of the Lion House at the Bronx Zoo. Stone versions of the pair are installed as gateposts at the zoo. The powerful effect of “Reaching Jaguar” derives from the attenuated, muscular form and the illusion that the stealthy feline is about to pounce from its rocky outlook.
I love the color on this gate post...which is odd because the other gatepost, while nice didn't have the intense color to it that this one does. Nice looking little path leading off into the woods. HFF!
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.
© PHH Sykes 2023
phhsykes@gmail.com
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
www.historicenvironment.scot/visit-a-place/places/stones-...
Stones Of Stenness
On a long winterwalk over the "heavenly hills" I was attracted of this gate and the veranda and thought they looked good together, formating a structural unit...
Thanks for your comments and faves! I continue to catch up!
There used to be a Black Rose on this gatepost, but the very cold spell in January did it no good.
When I went past this house some time ago it was sadly almost dead.
At least it's been replaced by some other plants.
Better viewed large and thank you for your favourites. :O)
The gate to a house near Howden Dam , overlooking the upper reaches of Ladybower Reservoir , in the Derbyshire part of the Dark Peak . So called because of the darker gritstone of this part of The Peak District National Park. Derwent Lodge is a reference to the main river of this part of the Peak District. The Derwent rises near here and flows south to beyond Derby where it joins the Trent.
The name White Peak usually refers to the more southerly Limestone area through which the rivers Wye , Dove and Manifold flow.
And the Witch of Talysarn.
You wouldn't catch me round these parts in the dark. It's bad enough on a heavily overcast day. To make it worse the rain is coming down hard. I'm pushing my way through the undergrowth and bending to get under low and broken branches, water dripping down on my face. And suddenly I see a large gatepost. It looks so out of place. What is it doing in the middle of dark woodland? And then my eyes pick out more. Walls, the front of a building, window openings, a stylish doorway. Ivy creepers climb up, feeling for any way in, like the tentacles of a deep ocean monster reaching up the face and in through the eyes and mouth of the building. It spooks me. I don't want to hang around here longer than necessary just to get my shot, but then I will keep looking back over my shoulder as I get away. But everything in Dorothea quarry is slowly being strangled and pulled into the undergrowth. Things are disappearing without a sound. I didn't want to be one of them!
the lack of rain has meant that many of the Peak Distict reservoirs are showing the ruins of villages that were flooded to create the water reserves many years ago.
There have been many shots of the Derwent reservoir, but here is Errwood reservoir in the Goyt Valley once known as the hamlet of Goyt Bridge...
I found this dragon on a gatepost in town, and I thought he might be a good subject for my first real experiment with Photoshop CS3. The sky in the background is a complete fake. Please view in full size for the best effect - I am open for all constructive criticism.
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.
© PHH Sykes 2023
phhsykes@gmail.com
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
www.historicenvironment.scot/visit-a-place/places/stones-...
Stones Of Stenness