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It's one of those cold, clear February evenings in Wales and Doris the cat takes up position on her favourite gatepost. A nightly ritual of late, she leaves the house an hour before sunset 'to go to work'. Being a creature of habit she sits and listens for things we humans can only hope to discern, the scurrying of mice for instance or the not too distant wakening of badgers or even the rustling of an insect lost in the undergrowth. I wouldn't call her ears 'big' but they are a great help in this respect.

 

Cats are said to be partly colour blind in that they can see shades of blue and green, but reds and pinks less so and as a result they miss out on beautiful sunsets such as the one in the background of this picture. Their night vision however is good compared to humans even though they can't see fine detail but they have a superior ability to perceive objects and movement in the dark because of the relatively higher number of rods in their retinas which are more sensitive than cones in dim light.

 

Eventually, after a week or so she'll get fed up of sitting on that particular gate post and move somewhere else or do something completely unexpected, particularly if other cats are involved.

Taken for Worldwide Pinhole Photography Day 25/4/10 on a Zero Image 6x9 Multi Format, Pinhole 0.18mm, Kodak Ektar 100, 15 seconds exposure (approx) Gatepost, somewhere near Amersham, Buckinghamshire, UK. processed by Peak Imaging and scaned on a Nikon 9000, no tweaking, just as it appears from the scan.

 

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Arms of Ipswich carved on a gate post of Ipswich Old Cemetery. Although rather weathered and not the highest quality of stone work, the features can still easily be distinguished. Two sea horses act as Supporters. The shield shows three demi-ships and a lion, that somehow seems to have turned itself into a cat and the crest has a demi-lion holding a small ship, believed to be a cog, which would have been the vessel commonly used by merchants of the Hanseatic League, of which Ipswich was a main trading port in the Middle Ages. The cemetery was opened in 1855. A second gate post displays the same image on the other side of the gate.

There is a blue plaque at King Edward's School on the new brick gateposts on the Bristol Road in Edgbaston.

 

Near Vince House and The Andrew Brode Sports Centre .

 

For The U.S. Women's Army Corps 6888th Central Postal Directory Battalion who was stationed here in 1945.

  

They were African American postal workers.

 

Plaque unveiled in 2019.

Old red wall and gatepost in Cherry Road opposite Sheffield United's football ground main entrance. Redevelopment means that lots of old Victorian features like these gateposts have been destroyed. Even the wall would have worth keeping and building in to the new project. But developers don't think like that!

A bull's Head on the gatepost at the lodge

These are listed grade II

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The sandstone gateposts relocated to the park following the demolition of Moorecourt (their original location) lead to a wisteria walk which divides the main part of the park from the highway and from the parking area.

The Moorecourt gateposts are large square dressed sandstone posts with astragals and pyramidal caps. The Moore family crest carved on the posts has the motto "PERSEVERANDO ET CAVENDO". (By Never Giving Up and Taking Care) The crest is located on the east face of the northern gatepost and the west face of the southern gatepost. The northern gatepost has been set on a plinth at a higher level than the southern gatepost.

www.heritage.nsw.gov.au/07_subnav_04_2.cfm?itemid=1170158

"The old gates and gateposts of Bidadari Cemetery were also relocated and now form the entrance to the Memorial Garden."

 

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Detail of the metal gates to the Townsville Palmetum.

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In February 2023 we had decided to get our rural acreage gravel driveway resurfaced with 3 truckloads of Melinga Quarry brown crushed road-base. In mid-December 2022 the contractor, Innes Earth, had prepared the surface ready for the gravel. At the time though he could not finish the job as the quarry's gravel crusher had broken down with no immediate prospect of repair.

By February 16-17 the plant was back in full swing and the contractor was able to deliver the gravel.

With the road done we turned our mind to the aesthetics of the front entrance and decided to remove the existing front gate and gateposts, having already removed, several months before, all the rural fence posts on that side of the property.

We had also, several months before, collected large rocks from a friends' new housing estate development at Diamond Beach so the opportunity to create new rock gardens either side of the entrance seemed a worthwhile project.

Because we wanted to plant Lord Howe Wedding Lilys (Dietes robinsoniana) in the two gardens, we asked the excavator operator to rip the ground and once this was done, we filled the garden with a sandy loam, planted the Dietes robinsoniana plants and then mulched both gardens with a generous amount of woodchip mulch.

Dietes robinsoniana is an attractive strap like plant that can grow to 1.5metres tall while bearing attractive white flowers.

The species in enigmatic in that it is endemic only to Lord Howe Island and is one of the world's most intriguing and remarkable biogeographic disjunctions, considering its nearest phylogenetic relatives occur in Africa.

Botanists have yet to provide a plausible explanation how Dietes robinsoniana came to co-evolve on Lord Howe Island, given the rest of the genus are so far away and strictly endemic to Africa.

It is of course possible that one day, using DNA and modern methodology, botanists will place Dietes robinsoniana in a genus of its own, separate from the African Dietes.

  

Gateposts at entrance to Mandrake Park. Established in the late 1990s, the park is named in honor of an activist who helped end illegal advertising and advertising targeting African American children for alcohol and tobacco products.

Gatepost with a window on a little lamb.

Chain Link Fence Product From Steel And Fence Supply, San Jose, CA

Gates, gateposts and railings, by a local foundry that's today part of Bussey and Sabberton Bros

On Drumcondra Road Lower, Drumcondra, Dublin, Ireland

Arnold Pacey's last village walk. 'Museum of Gateposts', Riddings Lane. 2003-06-15

Gateposts at Kualii, the Charles Montague Cooke, Jr., estate in Manoa Valley, Honolulu, April 2009: The house was built in 1912.

oops - managed to drive 100+ miles safely through snowdrifts, icy roads, freezing fog on mountain passes.. then got home and reversed into my gatepost.

Went to a conference in Hammersmith this morning - with most of my time (six of us in all). Had to get up stupidly early for it, but made it in good time. It was a good conference, but a long day, and I didn't get home until 8pm - after a bit of a walk around the block to make up my hour of walking for the day (trying to be more consistent, on my physio's orders). This recently rained-on gate post caught my eye as I walked past it on the way home - and my camera really picked up how golden it looked with the evening sun shining on it.

 

Cooked a curry when I got in (with a curry paste Tim had made), and didn't sit down to eat until nearly 9pm. Tim and I both knackered! (He's upped his cycling distance this week, and is now doing 21 miles a day, to and from work - with quite a few detours to make up the distance).

Gatepost, 3087 Noela Drive, Honolulu, March 2009

These three avian sculptures are merely the public face of an extensive collection of outdoor three-dimensional bird art. Most of the flightless facsimiles sit in the driveway and backyard; you can start to get a sense of things from this Street View image. The woman who lives here claims that her statues are always being damaged or stolen, while her exasperated nephew says he can't ever get her to throw out anything. I think I may have a lead on your bird thief, ma'am...

Old gatepost and drystone wall at the abandoned Lower Whitley Farm at Crow Edge, near Hepworth, Yorkshire.

Nice example of a slotted gatepost on Dartmoor

A villager in Ano Gerakarion has incorporated a couple of ancient column capitals into his entrance.

An old stone gatepost still standing long after the house is gone near Roundwood Co.Wicklow

This rather odd setup is on a vacant lot at the corner of Washington & Walnut Streets in Hinsdale. I'm sure that the vacant lot once had a fairly good sized house on it (the house in the background may have been the coach house). The gare posts appear to be original, but I'm not sure whether the fireplace is or if for some odd reason it was put here after the house was demolished.

Newton-in-the-Isle, Cambridgeshire

An ornamental gatepost with the WA Baker foundry mark. The War Memorial is enclosed by iron railings by WA Baker of Newport. It honours the dead of WW1 and WW2. On the wall at the rear there are plaques to local miners who died in WW1, and to the servicemen involved in the post war atomic and nuclear tests conducted by the British Government. There is also a tree to commemorate the fallen of the Boer War(s).

Stainton , County Durham , UK .

Offering on gatepost, kolam on step in front.

A nice example of a slotted gatepost in the car park at Postbridge on Dartmoor

drawing of a typical occupation crossing, showing post bases under the ground.

Sitting on a gatepost i think this little Robin was willing passers by

to give him some tit bits on a cold snowy day in Keswick

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