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An ancient stone gate-post, with no sign of the wall there once must have been. On Gun Moor, Meerbrook, Staffordshire Moorlands
Nestled on the northeast side of the Sandia Mountains is Madrid (pronounced with the accent on the first syllable: MAD-rid, not Ma-DRID).
Located just south of Santa Fe New Mexico, in the mineral rich Ortiz Mountains, Madrid is in the oldest coal mining region in New Mexico. As many as 1,500 years ago the first Native American inhabitants mined the turquoise and lead deposits in the nearby hills. When the Spaniards first arrived in 1540, they largely ignored the Indians and their turquoise, more interested in finding the more valuable minerals of silver and gold.
However they returned almost a century later and finding silver, forced the natives to work in the mines until the Pueblo Revolt of 1680. Thirteen years later, in 1693, the Spanish Crown re-conquered the area.
Spaniards continued to look for gold but also began to establish farms and ranches in the area. However, the region remained fairly unpopulated until large amounts of coal were discovered around 1835. Just five years later, placer gold deposits were discovered in the San Pedro Mountains and the area that would become Madrid began to grow as more and more prospectors arrived in search of their fortunes.
By 1892 the yield from a narrow valley known as "Coal Gulch" was large enough to warrant the construction of a 6.5 mile standard gauge railroad spur connecting the area to the main line of Santa Fe Railroad. Coal Gulch later became the town site of Madrid.
These imposing gate posts and wall are near the Oscar Huber Memorial Ballpark, which is named after the last superintendent of mines of the Albuquerque and Cerrillos Coal Company. The beautifully constructed structure is an oddity in a artist community with a population of 300. You can see mine tailings in the distance beyond the posts.
Thanks, as always, for stopping by and for all of your kind comments -- I appreciate them all. I will be mostly offline for the next few days and will catch up as time permits.
© Melissa Post 2017
At the top edge of the Peak District National Park, just above Digley reservoir and within the Holme Valley.
This picture was taken from the site of the now long gone Isle Of Skye pub, (previously The Wessenden Head Inn) on the A635 between Holmfirth and Greenfield. It is said that the pub was demolished as it had no connection to the public sewer and as it was in the catchment of the local water supply posed a risk to health. As usual there is plenty of interesting reading on the Internet www.doveheritage.com/isle-skye-road-a635/
En route to 'Eryldene' (a historic house in the Sydney North Shore suburb of Gordon) I passed these pine cone gate markers. This particular shape - or one very much like it - is a dominant decorative feature all over Bavaria and it always catches my eye: such a pleasing shape. My husband calls them Zirbelnuss, and after much research I have found out that they are the seed of the cembra pine (also called Swiss pine), which is found over a wide area of Europe.
Although I'm not sure I have ever seen the tree, I have seen the cones incised onto Roman gravestones discovered around Augsburg and on display in exhibitions of Roman remains. According to curators, the cone "was the field sign of the Roman legion stationed in Rhaetia in 15 BC, and hence it is used as the heraldic charge (known as Zirbelnuss in German) in the coat of arms of the city of Augsburg, the site of the Roman fort Augusta Vindelicorum" (from Wikipedia en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pinus_cembra).
The tree is said to be long living although slow growing, with lifetimes of over 500 years mentioned, so perhaps the Zirbelnuss was a symbol of longevity - hence its use on the Roman gravestones?
What I wonder is how did this shape get to the domestic architecture of North Shore Sydney in Australia?
There is still so much to find out! Including why so many of us like this shape so much.
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Just spotting ornaments on gateposts along the river today. I know one of the anglers in the angling club is very into 3D printing so I think that is the explanation. They are very well glued on!
For the 125 pictures in 2025 group: number 95. Strange
Joey Ramone - Stop Thinking About It
In the small village of Biggin-by-Hartington.
Explored February 23rd 2018 currently placed #26.
A zillion thanks to all for taking so much interest, you have really made my day.
I've spent the past four weeks working on BBC Springwatch. It took me and about 120 others to Ynys Hir RSPB reserve, where our production village operated from a farmyard throughout the broadcast.
It wasn't until our last shift that we managed to explore the reserve itself, which is incredibly beautiful.
Is it just me, or has Flickr squashed my upload? It's not clear until you lightbox it. Am NOT loving Flickr these days.
This, I am reliably informed, is a female Zootoca vivipara.
It was sitting on a gatepost in North Norfolk
Taking a tour round the lower car park and I found this tin on a gate post. Someone has put a heart on it, but I wish I knew why!
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The English Foxhound is a substantial galloping hound of great stamina. His long legs are straight as a gatepost, and just as sturdy. The back is perfectly level.
HSS!! ;o)
I'm not sure if this qualifies as 'sliding' as almost all the photo-manipulation was carried out in-camera. The Lensbaby lets you 'play' with the optics, and get some amazing texture and distortion effects within the actual shot. In Photoshop I only needed to tweak a few things, and adjust the brightness a little ;o)
My Sliders Sunday set is here: Elisa Sliders Sunday
My Lensbaby set is here: Elisa Lensbaby
My Leith Hall set is here: Elisa Leith Hall
Looking down on Ham farm, the old mill to the left, and the remains of the harbour to the right.
Staying awat from my normal walk out on the harbour, the bay and harbour is full of seals, chosing to leave them in peace, and find some new angles on the harbour.
Ham, Caithness, Scotland.
One of those old stone gateposts that finds itself oddly placed, standing with no real purpose when field boundaries change. The birds though find a use for it as a lookout, as though it never mattered to them where the field boundaries were.
Magnus posing on a gatepost.
Taken as a test shot to make sure that my 14-30 f4S was still working after my "field repair" of "appication of gentle force to a banana shaped lens following a fall with the aid of a wall and a bashing style motion". The lens is now straight and seems to be working. The zoom is slightly less smooth than it was... I think perhaps I will get a second one of these as it is my main "work lens" and keep this one as an emergency spare....
Perhaps.
Corrugated iron fence topped with barbed wire behind a convex safety mirror mounted on a gatepost at an industrial site on Montague Road in Brisbane.