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Gargoyle from Notre Dame in Reims - the black stuff is lead. The original lead roof on the church melted when the church was severely damaged in the First World War, which had this rather strange effect.
At Palais du Tau - the former palace of the archibishop of Reims. It was here the French king stayed before his coronation in the cathedral close by and after the coronation the banquet was held here - the first recorded one in 990 and the last in 1825. The palace gets its name from the Greek letter Tau which shape it resembled, a name first attested in the 12th century.
The first attested building in the place was a late Gallo-Roman villa, later to be replaced by a Carolingian palace. This in turn was rebuilt and now the oldest part of the palace is the chapel (dating to 1207) and the rest of the palace dates to around 1500 (with a later, Baroque face-lift 1671-1710). The palace was damaged by fire in 1914. It now houses the Musée de l'Œuvre which shows a great collection of pieces of art connected with the cathedral - from statues and tapestries to reliquaries and items used at the coronations.
There are differences between the two, but another term for stained glass is leaded glass. We tend to see the images in stained glass, particularly ecclesiastical stained glass, as if they were two-dimensional cartoons without being aware of the lead that holds the composition together.
So, during an intermission in a recent nighttime performance at Portand's First Baptist Church, I took the opportunity to photograph a leaded glass window from the inside, thereby capturing the lead tracery as well as the jewel-like tones of the old glass.
As an aside, it would alarm some Baptists and some Muslims to learn that they share an aversion to representations of the human figure in their art. The First Baptist Church is a magnificent Richardsonian Romanesque structure whose interior decoration consists entirely of botanical motifs and geometric designs. Even Jesus's usual spot on the altar cross is vacant.
My immediate take on this fear of idolatry is that it silences an important source of stories. In other religious traditions, to enter a church is to be surrounded by images that repeat and reinforce the tenets of the faith. Looking at the ceiling of the First Baptist Church, with its abundant flowers and vines, will most likely remind the faithful that it's time to prune the shrubs.
Having said that, I discovered the Biblical characters at First Baptist inhabit the stained glass windows there. In fact, even this small sample of the glass there's a bit of the eagle of St. John the Evangelist. What happens when you see the eagle or, in this case, just a few of its wing feathers? Well, if you paid attention in Sunday School or Art History, you're drawn into a meditation upon "a figure of the sky, and believed by Christian scholars to be able to look straight into the sun. ... This symbolizes that Christians should look on eternity without flinching as they journey towards their goal of union with God."
I'm not endorsing the content of that message here, just admiring the universal human impulse to express complex ideas through symbolic images.
NBSR 6318 and 6200, both former "HLCX" units, lead a New Brunswick Southern Railway westbound freight shortly after departing Saint John, New Brunswick, along the NBSR's McAdam subdivision, heading to McAdam and points westward into Maine.
August 27, 2015.
The image shows details of the fracture surface of lead automatic pencil.
Courtesy of Francisco Rangel
Image Details
Instrument used: Quanta Family
Magnification: 1300x
Horizontal Field Width: 230 μm
Voltage: 30 kV
Spot: 3.0
Working Distance: 14.1
Detector: Mix: SE + BSE
There are few sights more deeply driven in my mind than this – the languid straight shot of Brown Road, appearing to approach a dead end at the old Miller's store. It was buried in my memory from years before I held a camera, from some half-known history in my childhood mind. All roads lead to here, supposedly, though a closer look gives away the north/south cross of Mount Hanley Road. There stands the middle point between Bay Shore and Annapolis Valley. Once a more significant centre, upon a time. Store and schoolhouse, grist mill on Sheep Shearer Brook, small Baptist church up the way. All those buildings still stand save the mill, but somewhat less lively these days. My passage is carried by all ghost-like and dreaming, where black trees drift in dark silhouette. Sometimes a shadow of all that was and will be – often my heart held dearest by loneliness.
February 4, 2025
Mount Hanley, Nova Scotia
Year 18, Day 6295 of my daily journal.
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These aren't that good. Because it was 100 degrees outside, and when I was posing them the concrete was burning my butt, and my legs, and it was annoying..>.< Urgh. Oh well.
The new research vessel, RRS Sir David Attenborough,
Boaty McBoatface is the lead boat of the Autosub Long-Range class of autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs).
It is used for scientific research
and is carried on this research vessel.
www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/boaty-mcboatface-launched-s...
www.kalw.org/post/boaty-mcboatface-internet-adored-sub-ma...
Eden and Lilith. They've been living with me since their release date, but this is the only (bad) picture that I have taken of them. Don't ask me why. I really don't know.
aka Shalita
I like her Britney looks, but her fashions aren't a 100% mine.. must find something else for her... her face is super cute and the hair looks nice. Her bag is very cool, her shoes are eeeww for me... well they are ok. I like the big earrings, they look great with her face screening.
Looking forward to redress this beauty soon....
...I think a picture always
leads you gently to someone else
Don't you? like when you ask to leave the room
& go to the moon.
From Bean Spasms, Ted Berrigan
I have some lead type stacked up next to the Tivoli. This is one shot from last night. Thought it was interesting. That and I LOVE type.