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On the idyllic Seychelles island of La Digue, huge granite boulders complement the beauty of translucent water, white sandy beaches and jungle vegetation
The Gulf of Mexico surf crashes onto granite blocks as the sun rises on the Galveston Island beach, Texas.
This lovely traditionally built granite house lies in the picturesque village of Hollywood, Co. Wicklow.
I dont think its a working farm anymore and it was probably bought privately. However, there are Swings and Slides in the garden to the right so there are children and happiness here. Now I love that.
Do hope you like too.
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Update;
Its funny really. This is a nice photo and so are my few flowery ones but, people seem to like my landscapes. Well, I do prefer them too but dont tell anyone! Lol!
I just need something different every now and again like us all dear!!!! Lol!
Your all brilliant anyway!!!
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Construido en el siglo XV, de estilo renacentista, con planta rectangular, se estructura en dos cuerpos: planta baja realizada en granito con arcos de medio punto con capiteles de tradición clásica y planta alta adintelada combinando piedra y madera. En uno de los laterales se conserva el sepulcro de la condesa Fronilde Fernández, dama encargada de la anexión de éste monasterio a la orden del Cister, en el año 1175.
Cloister of the Cistercian Monastery of Ferreira de Pantón.
Built in the fifteenth century, Renaissance style, with rectangular plant, it is structured in two bodies: ground floor made of granite with half-point arches with capitals of classic tradition and upper floor combining stone and wood. On one side is preserved the tomb of Countess Fronilde Fernández, lady in charge of the annexation of this monastery to the order of the Cistercian, in the year 1175.
Ferreira de Pantón (Lugo). Galicia. España.
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In the old part of Porto along the river (here the Rua da Reboleira in Ribeira) the frame of the houses is made from solid granite. Some of the buildings, such as that with the Gothic arches, go back to the 14th century. A number of Porto's buildings were damaged in the massive 18th century earthquake. Not these.
Located in the Ostiense district of Rome, its original appearance underwent a restructuring in period style and the mosaic of its façade was replaced because it was destroyed. Inside you can find a coffered ceiling and eighty columns of granite, also we have some beautiful remnants of the original basilica.
A side view of the 17th century gatehouse to the Lanhydrock estate in Cornwall. Magmatic intrusion materials, such as granite, form the geological skeleton of the Cornish topography. Since prehistoric times, granite has been used whenever the mark of permanence was required: we were here!
A granite jetty or, more-properly, groyne, reaches into the Gulf of Mexico from the Galveston Island, Texas, beach.
This granite knob lies in the Sweewater Rocks in the Granite Mountains near Jeffery City, Wyoming. Geologically, this granite knob is located in the Archean-age Sweetwater subprovince of the Wyoming Craton. These rocks represent a time when Wyoming was a separate microcontinent called the Wyoming Craton which existed 500 million years before the North American Continent formed. The Sweetwater subprovince has an east-west tectonic grain which is caused by a shear zone between the Sweetwater and Southern Accredited Terrane subprovinces along the southern edge of the Wyoming microcontinent.
Indian Chameleon (Chameleo zeylanicus) on a granite block.
The first thing that struck me was that this guy looks like a 'mosaic' of tiny colored pebbles - hence the caption : )
I went out after rain and found this unlikely garden thriving. The prolonged drought in the western U.S. has troubled the plants and wildlife. It's nice to see some surviiving
A nighttime view of the Texas State Capitol in Austin. This photo shows the front entrance, which faces south toward the heart of Austin down Congress Ave. The capitol building was designed by Elijah E. Myers in Italian Renaissance Revival style, and was constructed between 1882 to 1888. At 308 ft. it is taller than the United States Capitol, and is the sixth tallest state capitol building in the United States. The building was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1970.
Completed in January 1945 using Rubislaw (Aberdeen) granite. Architect Leo Durnin, with “Spirit of the Wind” figure designed by Thomas Huxley-Jones.
Silver Mines Recreational Area
State Highway D
Madison County Missouri
Photo taken on October 3, 2020
Granite is great. It’s hard, weathers through countless winters of freezing and thawing. It does break down, eventually but slowly. Lines laying across the rocky surface tells us when the next break will occur. The individual shapes and sizes of the rocks are like fluffy clouds, they remind us of something, maybe a snake sneaking through the water, a seal sunning on the beach in the cold north. One looks like it would make a perfect seat. I could sit here watch the dragonflies fizz by, the minnows erratic meandering the the pools of water the myriad of colors in the trees that’s changing into fall.
Classic view of this famous granite pillar as seen from Monument Beach, Acadia National Park, Maine.
Located north of Prescott, Arizona, these boulders are known as the Granite Dells. The Dells consist of exposed bedrock and large boulders of granite that date back 1.4 billion years, they have eroded into an unusual lumpy, rippled appearance.
Watson Lake and Willow Lake are two reservoirs that surround the Dells.
On this day we were hiking along Watson Lake, there was no rain in the forecast but yet we were caught in a rain and then hail storm.
This photo was taken before the rain arrived.
Shortly after the sun was swallowed by storm clouds and heavy rain came. We abandoned our plan to hike around the lake (~4+ miles) because we had no way to tell how long the storm would last with the weather app still predicting sunny conditions for the rest of the day. The storm did stop but by then the rocks were wet and slick, making it not safe to walk on.
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