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Vista desde el jardín de palmeras hacia el recinto del castillo y la iglesia
View from the palm garden towards the castle grounds and the church
Vista des del jardí de palmeres cap al recinte del castell i l'església
textures and effects by Remember Remember
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John Clare
Farmer's Boy
He waits all day beside his little flock
And asks the passing stranger what's o'clock,
But those who often pass his daily tasks
Look at their watch and tell before he asks.
He mutters stories to himself and lies
Where the thick hedge the warmest house supplies,
And when he hears the hunters far and wide
He climbs the highest tree to see them ride--
He climbs till all the fields are blea and bare
And makes the old crow's nest an easy chair.
And soon his sheep are got in other grounds--
He hastens down and fears his master come,
He stops the gap and keeps them all in bounds
And tends them closely till it's time for home.
A shot from earlier in the year, when every night seemed to be a perfect sunset, and i was living on the beach. I do get a bit obsessive and hate to miss good skies, I should relax more, there's always another one. Grounds for divorce is a great and appropriate title by Elbow, and perhaps it would be.
Sony ILCE-7M2, TTArtisan 50mm F0.95 LM
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Diana's Grove is a tranquil wooded area situated near to Blair Castle within the grounds of Atholl Estates. Diana's Grove is named after the Roman Goddess of Hunting. Blair Castle is the ancestral home of the Dukes of Atholl, known as the 'Planting Dukes' in the 18th & 19th centuries, by 1830 the family had planted over 27 million trees within the Atholl Glens.
The Niemeyer Sphere in Leipzig is among the last designs by Brazilian architect Oscar Niemeyer. He conceived it in 2011, it was realized after his death and opened in 2020. The white sphere, roughly twelve meters in diameter, appears to hover on a concrete pedestal above the grounds of a former factory and today extends the Techne Sphere canteen with a restaurant and event space. Its twenty centimeter thick concrete shell is broken up by two large geodesic glass openings with a total of 147 triangular elements that can darken by means of liquid crystal glass depending on the sunlight. The resulting window surfaces are striking and form a kind of glass dome that fills the interior with abundant daylight. The building is regarded as an example of how modern architecture can be integrated into a historic industrial ensemble.
Aschaffenburg Schloss grounds in Aschaffenburg, Germany taken on 07.05.2007.
That is the Main River in the background.
Nikon D80
Nikkor AF-S, 18-55mm, 1:3.5-5.6
Exposure: 1/320 sec.
Aperture: f/9
ISO: 800
Focal Length: 19mm
Evagelistria Monastery, the largest on Skiathos, is surrounded by beautiful grounds. It also served as a safe haven from invaders, hence the heavily fortified entrance gate.
At the back of the village where the Ryewater flows into the River Liffey. The boathouse is on the grounds of Leixlip Castle.
The Thatched Bridge can be seen on a small road / bridle way by the side of Polesden Lacey - A National Trust property . The bridge links the main grounds and property to the orchard and the old kitchen gardens at Polesden Lacey .
This shot does seem to have an odd perspective here as we are almost level with the underside of the bridge yet with not too may steps forward one will have dropped nearly 3 metres . The road continues on at a steep incline down and goes under another bridge and then vanishes completely before turning sharply to the left until it comes to an old farm . There is a shot of the farm in the third comment box and the first two comment boxes show a couple of also rans for the challenge .
As we can see , the thatched bridge is for pedestrians only and two can be seen crossing the bridge - only one face is visible and that is only a partial view - that is enough for a bit of Asia ---
With the onset of Louisiana heat and humidity, mosquitoes are emerging en masse. Time to stock up on some skeeter repellent.
The Trinity Monastery of St. Jonas is a Ukrainian Orthodox monastery in the Kyivan neighbourhood of Zvirynets, a short distance from the medieval Vydubychi Monastery.
It was Jonas, a Vydubychi hegumen, who founded this monastery in 1864. Princess Vasilchikov, the widow of Kyiv's Governor General, decided to support the undertaking and presented her dacha to the brethren.It was on these grounds that the katholikon was constructed. The monastery's bell tower, at 110 meters, was to be the tallest in the Orthodox world. Its construction was halted due to the outbreak of World War I. As many as 800 monks resided there at the time.
The monastery was closed in 1934 and its grounds were taken over by the M.M. Gryshko National Botanical Garden.The monks of the recently revived monastery now help to restore the nearby Zvirynets caves.
Taken through the trees of one of the renovated Pepper Pot Cottages in the grounds of St Giles House Wimborne St Giles
Ruff (male) in full breeding plumage
The ruff (Calidris pugnax) is a medium-sized wading bird that breeds in marshes and wet meadows across northern Eurasia. This highly gregarious sandpiper is migratory and sometimes forms huge flocks in its winter grounds, which include southern and western Europe, Africa, southern Asia and Australia.
The ruff is a long-necked, pot-bellied bird. This species shows marked sexual dimorphism; the male is much larger than the female (the reeve), and has a breeding plumage that includes brightly coloured head tufts, bare orange facial skin, extensive black on the breast, and the large collar of ornamental feathers that inspired this bird's English name. The female and the non-breeding male have grey-brown upperparts and mainly white underparts. Three differently plumaged types of male, including a rare form that mimics the female, use a variety of strategies to obtain mating opportunities at a lek, and the colourful head and neck feathers are erected as part of the elaborate main courting display. The female has one brood per year and lays four eggs in a well-hidden ground nest, incubating the eggs and rearing the chicks, which are mobile soon after hatching, on her own. Predators of wader chicks and eggs include mammals such as foxes, feral cats and stoats, and birds such as large gulls, corvids and skuas.
The ruff forages in wet grassland and soft mud, probing or searching by sight for edible items. It primarily feeds on insects, especially in the breeding season, but it will consume plant material, including rice and maize, on migration and in winter.
Friends & Family: Nearly 20 years old at the time, Rio Grande SD40T-2s No. 5400 and 5405 rest between assignments in their old stomping grounds at Helper, Utah the afternoon of Feb. 28, 1999. The late 1990s were a great time to watch and photograph Rio Grande “tunnel motors” here in their native habitat. On most occasions, a visitor could find at least 12 on site in the yard, running on a local, or working a manned helper to Soldier Summit.