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FORMASI SEMILIR DI PEGUNUNGAN SELATAN, JAWA TENGAH SUATU HASIL LETUSAN DAHSYAT GUNUNG API MIOSEN
Formasi Semilir tersingkap luas di sepanjang Pegunungan Selatan, pantai selatan Jawa bagian tengah. Formasi, yang memainkan peran penting dalam stratigrafi dan magmatisme di daerah tersebut, dialasi secara selaras oleh Formasi Kebo-Butak dan bagian atasnya ditindih oleh Formasi Nglanggran. Formasi Semilir didominasi oleh batuan vulkanik berupa tuf kristal, tuf lapili, dan breksi batuapung. Bagian bawah dari formasi ini tersusun oleh batupasir berupa lithic-feldspathic wackes. Lempung gampingan di bagian bawah mengandung fosil foraminifera dan nanno, mengindikasikan lingkungan laut dan umur Miosen Awal (NN3). Bagian atas terdiri atas breksi batuapung dan breksi batuapung andesitan. Di beberapa tempat di bagian atas terdapat beberapa lensa tipis lignit dan fosil kayu. Di bagian atas, menunjukkan penyebaran ekstensif dari grain-flow sediment. Bagian ini diinterpretasikan sebagai endapan terestrial. Berdasarkan penentuan umur dengan jejak belah pada sirkon di breksi batuapung menunjukkan umur 17.0 + 0 juta tahun dan 16.0 + 1.0 juta tahun atau akhir Miosen Awal. Lingkungan pengendapan Formasi Semilir menunjukkan pendangkalan ke arah atas, yang semula laut dangkal berubah menjadi darat. Fasies breksi batuapung dan breksi batuapung andesitan diendapkan dalam waktu yang relatif singkat. Hal ini menunjukkan bahwa kegiatan kegunungapian meningkat pesat pada saat pengendapan bagian atas formasi. Erupsi besar yang membentuk Formasi Semilir diduga berpusat di Cekungan Baturetno.
Mengacu pada zonasi fisiografi Pulau Jawa oleh Van Bemmelen (1949), maka daerah
fieldtrip termasuk zona fisiografi Pegunungan Selatan Bagian Barat. Zona Pegunungan Selatan merupakan pegunungan struktural yang memanjang dari barat ke timur (W-E) searah dengan geometri Pulau Jawa, dan terbagi menjadi Pegunungan Selatan Jawa Timur dan Pegunungan Selatan Jawa Barat. Satuan geomorfologi Pegunungan Selatan dibagi menjadi empat, yaitu : 1. Satuan Geomorfologi Perbukitan Karst Satuan ini terletak pada daerah paling selatan, terdiri-dari bentukan positif dan negatif yang memanjang dari Parangtritis sampai Pacitan. 2. Satuan Geomorfologi Perbukitan Lipatan Satuan ini terletak di daerah Ngawen dan sekitarnya. Bentukan yang ada berupa perbukitan yang dibangun oleh struktur homoklin, antiklin, sinklin, dan gawir terjal yang memanjang dari barat ke timur. 3. Satuan Geomorfologi Dataran Tinggi
Surono (1) dan M.A.Puspa (2-)
Pertambangan ini ada di Desa Sambirejo, Kecamatan Prambanan. Lokasinya tak jauh dari kompleks Candi Ijo.
Bukit bebatuan putih berlapis kehitaman karena cuaca, Ketinggiannya sekitar 60 meter. Puncak perbukitan ini mencapai 300 meter dengan ketebalan 250 meter. Di beberapa sisi nampak penambang tradisional melakukan aktivitas penambangan. Mereka ini masyarakat sekitar. Hamparan perbukitan ini adalah bekas tumbukan debu vulkanis erupsi super Semilir gunung api purba yang mahadahsyat sekitar 36-30 juta tahun lalu. Material, hamparan, dan ketebalan erupsi mencapai puluhan kilometer.
Meski nampak kokoh, batuan ini tidak seberat yang dibayangkan. Ringan sekali seperti batu apung dan mudah retak. Struktur batuan di bukit ini makin ke atas semakin halus dan berwarna kuning kecokelatan.
Tentu saja bukan sembarang bukit. Ini bukti episode katastropik, seperti karakteristik gunung api pada umumnya, gunung api strato Semilir tak kuat menahan tekanan magma yang semakin besar maka akan menghancurkan diri dengan cara erupsi.
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Blue sky, golden cloud...
What a feeling of forever!
The languid tree-tops
lithely remain mysterious.
A sign, you would think.
~Alberto Blanco
Scanned lith print.
Zeiss Ikon Super Ikonta (531/16) w/ Novar Anastigmat 75 mm/f3.5.
Fomapan 100 in Rodinal 1+100, semistand 1 h.
Neg from summer of 2022.
Lith printed on Kodak Medalist F.3 Single Weight FB 8x10".
Developed in Moersch Easy Lith (15A+20B+200OB+550H2O) @ 30°C.
Untoned.
Kudos to my US lith print friend Travis for sending me this unique lithable old paper!
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Scanned IR lith print.
Rolleiflex T w/ Tessar 75 mm/f3.5 + Rollei IR filter.
Sept 12, 2024.
Rollei IR 400 in Adonal 1+100, semistand 1 h.
Same neg, different paper:
Lith printed on Fomabrom Variant IV 123 BO and developed in Moersch Easy Lith (25A+25B+40D+100OB+H2Oqs900).
Se 1+9 30 sec.
These are the differences between warmtone and coldtone lithable papers.
The Fomabrom Variant IV 123 BO was a "short living" attempt by Foma to make a paper which could be used for Bromoil (and maybe replace the original cold tone FB Variant IV 123, which was a very good lithable paper).
This one was good for both bromoil and lith printing :-).
When lithing coldtone papers, you want the "pepper" to appear. It's by far not as colourful as a warmtone papers. But on the other hand not so "high contrasty", so you can get more b&w nuances from the process. Which, btw, is much slower than the warmtone lith process. Expect exposure times to be around 5 min and developing times up to or above 20 (!) min. That of course depends on your "soup".
This was perhaps too much boring information, but if I can pass the knowledge ahead to coming b&w analog printers, it's worth it :-). And I'm of course not taking credit of any knowledge that Wolfgang Moersch possesses. Almost everything I've learned comes from him. Kudos, Wolfgang.
La “Maschera di Pietra” di Golgo, detta anche “Faccia Litica”, è una parete basaltica che rivela un sorprendente antropomorfismo se osservata da un determinato punto del sentiero sottostante: bizzarro risultato dell’erosione provocata sulla roccia dagli agenti atmosferici. La parete rocciosa, alta dieci metri circa, sulla quale pioggia e vento hanno tracciato fattezze umane, definendo quasi nel dettaglio occhi naso e labbra, si trova nel versante orientale di “Baccu Dolcolce”, dietro un costone basaltico che si eleva a pochi metri dall’agriturismo “Il Rifugio” (costruito all’inizio degli anni Novanta nell’ambito di un programma di potenziamento delle strutture ricettive dell’altopiano di Golgo).
The "Stone Mask" of Golgo, also known as the "Lithic Face", is a basaltic wall that reveals a surprising anthropomorphism when observed from a certain point on the path below: a bizarre result of the erosion caused on the rock by atmospheric agents. The rocky wall, about ten meters high, on which rain and wind have traced human features, almost defining eyes, nose and lips in detail, is located on the eastern side of "Baccu Dolcolce", behind a basaltic ridge that rises a few meters from the 'Il Rifugio' farmhouse (built in the early 1990s as part of a program to upgrade the accommodation facilities on the Golgo plateau).
These pictures from 2024 were taken on one of my best days. The Witches' Stone just at the edge of the village of Spott is a good memorial of bad times and deeds. The Witches’ Stone always fills me with commemoration and remembrance of times not so long gone when Witch Hunts were after witches so upsettingly so that we still use the term Witch Hunt now more than ever for a falsely fuelled over active hunt often with vicious entanglements and outcomes.
The Witches’ Stone is on the East of Spott village and Easter Broomhouse Standing Stone is at the West of the village. In the village at the Church you can find The Jougs. From standing stone in the East past central stone church to a commemorative stone in the West there are three superb historic lithic sites. The Church has been a focal site to inspire and to contain history of the area and along with local archives there are some superb historic collections, myriad connections, and local recollections.
There are three tall Standing Stones near Spott, Easter Broomhouse, Pencraig Hill and Kirklandhill Standing Stones. Their placement in the landscape of natural bounties and hill forts is a key to some of the smaller monuments, This coastal area is full of life from the sea and the land and the stones stretch into the sky that keeps the seas calm and the lands fertile.
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Witches' Stone, Spott
canmore.org.uk/site/57667/witches-stone-spott
Easter Broomhouse Standing Stone
www.themodernantiquarian.com/site/1492/easter_broomhouse_...
Easter Broomhouse - Standing Stone (Menhir) in Scotland in East Lothian
www.megalithic.co.uk/article.php?sid=6706
Spott Church
www.scotlandschurchestrust.org.uk/church/spott-parish-chu...
Welcome to Belhaven and Spott Parish Church
Witches' Stone, Spott
canmore.org.uk/site/57667/witches-stone-spott
Easter Broomhouse Standing Stone (Prehistoric)
canmore.org.uk/site/57622/easter-broomhouse
Pencraig Hill Standing Stone (Prehistoric)
canmore.org.uk/site/56240/pencraig-hill
Witches' Stone, Spott
www.themodernantiquarian.com/site/6453/witches_stone.html
Witches' Stone, Spott
www.megalithic.co.uk/article.php?sid=8239
Easter Broomhouse Standing Stone
www.themodernantiquarian.com/site/1492/easter_broomhouse_...
Pencraig Hill Standing Stone (Prehistoric)
www.themodernantiquarian.com/site/1494/pencraig_hill_stan...
Pencraig Hill Standing Stone (Prehistoric)
www.megalithic.co.uk/article.php?sid=6703
Kirklandhill Standing Stone
www.themodernantiquarian.com/site/1493/kirklandhill_stand...
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Some sly miniature neurological intruder has strung a net across my brain - between the part that has ideas and the part in charge of executing. Ideas spring up like sockeye, silver, lithe, shimmering, leaping - only to flop back stunned and stupid after hitting the net. Again.
What happens to ideas when they're stymied like that? Do they starve, die, rot, without ever having spawned? Or do they regroup, reconstitute themselves, and come back later with a more developed business plan?
I guess we'll see.
My Country, our country indeed. I wanted to start the story of our recent journey through our country, in fact, some country Queensland but mostly New South Wales with a bit of a bang and I couldn't find any better shot than this one at the grain silos in Gunnedah, NSW which feature this marvellous mural of Dorothea Mackellar and her famous poem, "My Country".
I don't know what they teach at school today, but there wouldn't be anyone of my generation who didn't study and know her great poem. But I never realised to my regret in a way (obviously forgot) that the verse which no doubt stays is our memory the most is actually verse 2......"I love a sunburnt country, a land of sweeping plains....." Here is the full poem.
My Country by Dorothea Mackellar
The love of field and coppice,
Of green and shaded lanes.
Of ordered woods and gardens
Is running in your veins,
Strong love of grey-blue distance
Brown streams and soft dim skies
I know but cannot share it,
My love is otherwise.
I love a sunburnt country,
A land of sweeping plains,
Of ragged mountain ranges,
Of droughts and flooding rains.
I love her far horizons,
I love her jewel-sea,
Her beauty and her terror -
The wide brown land for me!
A stark white ring-barked forest
All tragic to the moon,
The sapphire-misted mountains,
The hot gold hush of noon.
Green tangle of the brushes,
Where lithe lianas coil,
And orchids deck the tree-tops
And ferns the warm dark soil.
Core of my heart, my country!
Her pitiless blue sky,
When sick at heart, around us,
We see the cattle die -
But then the grey clouds gather,
And we can bless again
The drumming of an army,
The steady, soaking rain.
Core of my heart, my country!
Land of the Rainbow Gold,
For flood and fire and famine,
She pays us back threefold -
Over the thirsty paddocks,
Watch, after many days,
The filmy veil of greenness
That thickens as we gaze.
An opal-hearted country,
A wilful, lavish land -
All you who have not loved her,
You will not understand -
Though earth holds many splendours,
Wherever I may die,
I know to what brown country
My homing thoughts will fly
There is no doubt we saw and experienced much of this during our short trip. Here finally is a link in Wikipedia to the life of Dorothea Mackellar.
There is a Vulcan and a Lithic Heart at the centre of the images depending which two are meeting in the middle. The Vulcan Heart is a Vulcanised Tyre Heart and the Lithic Heart is made by the Stones coming together. The reflections bring about some excellent wyrd wonders.
There is a Grass Heart and Shadow Heart too. Everyone needs Picnic Heart and a Calm Heart. Well at least I think that we all need a Picnic Heart and a Calm Heart.
[Oh yes and there is a Shadow Dove flying along the centre too, that is it is a Shadow Dove unless you see it as a young cow in which there is a Shadow Coo in the centre grazing not ascending.]
Final point to be made is a suggestion that the metal balance in some of the pictures looks very Dragon Like. Please note Dragon Like, not a Dragon, just an echo calling and falling through the seasons and over the years. Once seen the Dragon Like resemblance is an image to reflect upon especially so with Dragon Lore mentioning the sleepy long slumbers of such mythic beast. In those legendary snooze times surely there might be a little flaking and descaling as fresh ‘solid feathers’, not squalid fetters, regrow, well I am happy to suggest so.
From out the earth it came and return back into it is going.
© PHH Sykes 2024
phhsykes@gmail.com
Westray Heritage Centre
Around the remains of the castle on which Lauria is perched re-echoes part of the history of the village whose original nucleus probably dates back to the 10th century. The history of the town is linked to the passing of iconophilic monks coming from the East, but also to the Longobards and the Knights Templar, as well as the Saracens, who would have settled in the neighborhood "Ravita", just from the Arab "Rabit", which means "near area", and they would have built and built the castle "di Ruggiero". In feudal age the country is dominated by the Angioni, passing passed to the Sanseverino, the Borgias and finally to the Ulloa.
Walking along the historic center you are literally charmed by the typical signs of medieval times revealed starting from the remains of his castle. The ancient village has preserved traces of its ancient origins in the houses clinging to the hill, in the narrow alleyways and in the intricate streets, which in turn climb up forming arches, arcades and harmonious architectural motifs. Nor does it leave indifferent the heritage made of railings and wrought iron gates and stone portals, lithic crests and decorated cornices, in addition to the noble palaces. It is on the top of a rocky mountain that rise the walls and remains of the towers of the castle, which belonged first to Ruggiero di Lauria, then to the Sanseverino and the dukes of Candia. Do not miss the birthplace of Blessed Domenico da Lentini, Patron of Lauria, whose relics are kept inside the mother church of Lauria, San Nicola di Bari. Both places are a destination for pilgrimages throughout the year.
Lumen print on Kentmere Kentona Glossy Double Weight, grade 2.
Exposed for 30 min in Swedish morning light.
Now we are talking, this contrast is otherwordly. It looks like the Tuja is deep frozen.
Lithable and warmtone papers rule (as always, I would say).
Kentona - with or without Cd - you make a great lumen paper!
Chiesa di Santa Maria di Sibiola (Anno 1125)
Sul fianco sinistro è integra la scala d’accesso al tetto e al campanile, di cui rimangono invece solo i conci di base.
I mensoloni litici infissi nel muro ricordano le scalinate dei nuraghi.
Church of Santa Maria di Sibiola (Year 1125)
On the left side, the access staircase to the roof and the bell tower is integrated, of which only the base ashlars remain.
The lithic corbels fixed in the wall recall the stairways of the nuraghi.
There is a Vulcan and a Lithic Heart at the centre of the images depending which two are meeting in the middle. The Vulcan Heart is a Vulcanised Tyre Heart and the Lithic Heart is made by the Stones coming together. The reflections bring about some excellent wyrd wonders.
There is a Grass Heart and Shadow Heart too. Everyone needs Picnic Heart and a Calm Heart. Well at least I think that we all need a Picnic Heart and a Calm Heart.
[Oh yes and there is a Shadow Dove flying along the centre too, that is it is a Shadow Dove unless you see it as a young cow in which there is a Shadow Coo in the centre grazing not ascending.]
Final point to be made is a suggestion that the metal balance in some of the pictures looks very Dragon Like. Please note Dragon Like, not a Dragon, just an echo calling and falling through the seasons and over the years. Once seen the Dragon Like resemblance is an image to reflect upon especially so with Dragon Lore mentioning the sleepy long slumbers of such mythic beast. In those legendary snooze times surely there might be a little flaking and descaling as fresh ‘solid feathers’, not squalid fetters, regrow, well I am happy to suggest so.
From out the earth it came and return back into it is going.
© PHH Sykes 2024
phhsykes@gmail.com
Westray Heritage Centre
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Another one of a kind, the 1934 Voisin C27 Figoni Cabriolet. Only one of 2 made and the sole survivor still alive and kicking.
Looking back at his career as an automobile manufacturer, it is quite amazing that Gabriel Voisin managed to sell well over 11,000 vehicles between 1919 and 1939. His cars were never conventional, always highly expensive to buy and certainly not cheap to run, but nevertheless he had built a loyal following of customers particularly in the 1920s. They were certainly not idiots, but rather true enthusiasts that opted to accept the common Voisin quirks in exchange for driving one of the most advanced and exclusive cars on the market.
Originally trained as an architect, Gabriel Voisin quickly turned to the emerging aeroplane industry and together with his brother formed 'Avions Voisin'. The company did good business in the Great War and as soon as the peace was signed Gabriel switched interests once more and converted his business into 'Automobiles Voisin'. He immediately created his own style with influences from his two former interests, but also had a more than average focus on passenger safety; his brother had a fatal car accident a few years earlier.
Apart from the obvious unique styling cues sported by most Voisins, the cars also stand out for the use of lightweight materials like aluminium and exotic technical solutions. The best example of the latter is the Knight patented sleeve-valve engine design of which Voisin was a big fan. This design allowed the engine to run virtually quiet, thanks to the absence of the rattling created by a regular valvetrain. One of the downsides was the large amount of oil required to properly lubricate the sleeves, usually resulting in quite noticeable oil smoke from the exhaust.
Voisin's most successful period was the mid-1920s when the range consisted of four and six cylinder models with relatively small displacement engines. Quite unusual for the time, most the cars were offered as complete cars with the coachwork designed and constructed in-house.
The Paris Salon of 1934 was clear proof that Gabriel Voisin was at the very top of the game, but sadly the world was not ready yet for his exotic machines and the sales figures remained poor. Just 28 examples of the C25 chassis were ever constructed and with one and two built respectively the C26 and C27 were even less successful. Voisin tried once more with the even more advanced 3.3 litre C28 chassis, but despite the incredibly modern 'Aerosport' coachwork without separate fenders, the company struggled to find buyers for their cars. Sadly Gabriel Voisin was forced to give up just when he reached the peak of his abilities.
Very few Voisins were coached by Figoni because Gabriel Voisin believed he could create superior coachwork in-house. This Voisin is an exception. For this Voisin, Figoni created a unique one-off design with a lithe, sporting profile, unlike the quintessential Voisin styling. The car was showcased at the Madrid Auto Salon in December 1934 and purchased by the Shah of Persia. It passed through various ownerships, and was discovered in the 1970s in a barn in France. Jacques Buson purchased the dilapidated Voisin and, with the help of Claude Figoni, Joseph's son, and Henry Bernard, son of Voisin's chief designer, the car was restored. In 1991 the Voisin was acquired by Peter Mullin and restored to its original spectactular specification.
One of only two built, the well-balanced Figoni & Falaschi body on this Voisin was one of the first to be influenced by modern aerodynamic principles.
Augustus Saint-Gaudens' statue Diana dominates the Great Stair Hall entrance to the Philadelphia Museum. In 2013-14 it was restored to its original gold-leaf finish. In 2008, it looked like this.
Diana was the lithe Roman goddess of the hunt.
The statue was sculpted by Augustus Saint-Gaudens. From 1893-1925, Diana was the weather vane atop Madison Square Garden.
The statue was sculpted by Augustus Saint-Gaudens. From 1893-1925, Diana was the weather vane atop Madison Square Garden.
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Pete showing off some of his moves. He may not have the elegant and lithe physique of the classical ballet dancer, but he's got the moves down pretty good. Here he is showing me how he can spin on the tip of his toe.
Quite accomplished, wouldn't you say?
Move over Mikhail Baryshnikov, for Pete is here!
Scanned lith print.
Mamiya 645 ProTL w/ M-S 120 mm/f4 macro.
Fomapan 100 in Adox Adonal (=Rodinal) 1+100, semistand 1 h.
Lith printed on Foma Retrobrom 151 Sp and developed in two consecutive baths:
1. Moersch Easy Lith (25A+25B+800H2O)
2. Moersch Lith Omega 1+100, 2 min.
PS outer borders.
Untoned.
The last contemporary lithable analog photo paper there is. Still reacting like old Fomatone in Lith Omega, a joy to see :-). I wonder how long we'll still be able to get something like this? (Spoiler alert: not long enough!).
The Mamiya 120 mm/f4 macro is an exceptional piece of glass, making 1:1 MF macro effortless without extension tubes or anything else. Love it.
Which Way Home? -
Getting lost is easy. Getting out is hard. On the less beaten path, it’s my fault for not tying yellow ribbons around trees. Four computers can fail in the same way simultaneously; imagine legs two of a kind synchronizing at sea. My faltering feet points north but my unsure mind deviates to the south. Each is telling me to make different choices. If only there are no forks in the unmarked track. If only they make one brand of toothpaste.
Until at last! My decision seems made on a U-turn, but a strange glimpse hooded by shrubs pulled me back. Oh look! It’s a lithe spider who stitched himself on the bottom of leaves. Beauty, always seem to show when you take notice. Endowed with the sweet color of sour lemon, his pointy butt stood out with uniqueness unparalleled. How could something so tiny and unimportant be so appealing? Like how a Himalayan vulture takes a morbid interest on the corpse of a zebra, the task of averting my gaze proves too mighty. The pastel spider remained still… despite being eyed all over.
After a mere hesitation or two, I decided to cough up the urgent question. It hurts to ask a spider for help but in this case, pride will have to step to the side.
“Hi, I’ve lost myself in the garden of Eden,” the words tumble out from my lips straight upon the static being.
I spoke the next statement with a stuttering voice, “Could you point me in the right direction of the Eastern exit?”
As if not comprehending, the unmoving spider said nothing. Did he not want to talk to me? The awkward silence made me feel foolish. Perhaps too many lost soles barge into his realm so he’s sick of being a compass. What happened next was totally beyond imagination. The spider facing me began to swivel laterally and after that crane his ducky tail slowly skywards, halting at exactly 43 degree angle.
“That way,” his indicating tail fingered the North-west direction.
Looking on in plain bewilderment, my vision blurs as sweat filled up my eyes. A rush of emotion came out of nowhere. I gulped the lump in my throat and muttered a feeble thank. Where the arrow points, I follow.
Some spiders, no matter how beautiful, just say hi and take their leave. This one is the unforgettable type. His unspoken communication made an impact on my life. We have to be lost to eventually find where we belong. I wouldn’t understand if not for this spider. The carefree forest where one can fall asleep anywhere is truly where I fit and feel right.
Film - double exposure.
Scan of a lith print, no photoshop here. Kodak TRI-X film - double exposed toy camera image. Printed with LD20 on EMAKS paper. © Diane Kaye 2009
a pretty a day
(and every fades)
is here and away
(but born are maids
to flower an hour
in all,all)
o yes to flower
until so blithe
a doer a wooer
some limber and lithe
some very fine mower
a tall;tall
some jerry so very
(and nellie and fan)
some handsomest harry
(and sally and nan
they tremble and cower
so pale:pale)
for betty was born
to never say nay
but lucy could learn
and lily could pray
and fewer were shyer
than doll. doll
poem by E.E.Cummings
I have not been well and failed to keep up with everything. My edits have been ill with me. The Witches’ Stone always fills me with commemoration and remembrance of times not so long gone when Witch Hunts were after witches so upsettingly so that we still use the term Witch Hunt no more than ever for a falsely fuelled over active hunt often with vicious entanglements and outcomes.
The Witches’ Stone is on the East of Spott village and Easter Broomhouse Standing Stone is at the West of the village. In the village at the Church you can find The Jougs. From standing stone in the East past central stone church to a commemorative stone in the West there are three superb historic lithic sites. The Church has been a focal site to inspire and to contain history of the area and along with local archives there are some superb historic collections, myriad connections, and local recollections.
There are three tall Standing Stones near Spott, Easter Broomhouse, Pencraig Hill and Kirklandhill Standing Stones. Their placement in the landscape of natural bounties and hill forts is a key to some of the smaller monuments, This coastal area is full of life from the sea and the land and the stones stretch into the sky that keeps the seas calm and the lands fertile.
© PHH Sykes 2024
phhsykes@gmail.com
Witches' Stone, Spott
canmore.org.uk/site/57667/witches-stone-spott
Easter Broomhouse Standing Stone
www.themodernantiquarian.com/site/1492/easter_broomhouse_...
Easter Broomhouse - Standing Stone (Menhir) in Scotland in East Lothian
www.megalithic.co.uk/article.php?sid=6706
Spott Church
www.scotlandschurchestrust.org.uk/church/spott-parish-chu...
Welcome to Belhaven and Spott Parish Church
Witches' Stone, Spott
canmore.org.uk/site/57667/witches-stone-spott
Easter Broomhouse Standing Stone (Prehistoric)
canmore.org.uk/site/57622/easter-broomhouse
Pencraig Hill Standing Stone (Prehistoric)
canmore.org.uk/site/56240/pencraig-hill
Witches' Stone, Spott
www.themodernantiquarian.com/site/6453/witches_stone.html
Witches' Stone, Spott
www.megalithic.co.uk/article.php?sid=8239
Easter Broomhouse Standing Stone
www.themodernantiquarian.com/site/1492/easter_broomhouse_...
Pencraig Hill Standing Stone (Prehistoric)
www.themodernantiquarian.com/site/1494/pencraig_hill_stan...
Pencraig Hill Standing Stone (Prehistoric)
www.megalithic.co.uk/article.php?sid=6703
Kirklandhill Standing Stone
www.themodernantiquarian.com/site/1493/kirklandhill_stand...
Full video youtu.be/JefNZWhRBkY
An Otter is a small Carnivorous mammal. It is semiaquatic.
It is a better swimmer because it has a lithe & slender body with short legs and a long flattened tail which enables it to propel gracefully in water.
It's main food is fish though it sometimes feeds on snakes and other small invertebrates
Read more about ** Otters**, you will find it interesting.
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Another view over Yukon's disappearing past. At least the mountains remain steadfast and unchanging over the scale of time which we would recognise. Those great lithic mounds looked the same when these buildings were erected as they do now and they will remain the same long after these structures are gone. For us mortals, everything gives way to senescence and decay. Every dog has his day, and even memories will, in due course, evaporate, riding the wake of the people, places and things that formed them. . .
Photo taken with the Olympus OM-D E-M1 and M.Zuiko 40-150mm f/2.8 Pro hand held. All raw conversion and post processing carried out using DxO PhotoLab 6.1.1.
Scanned IR lith print.
Rolleiflex T w/ Tessar 75 mm/f3.5 + Rollei IR filter.
Sept 12, 2024.
Rollei IR 400 in Adonal 1+100, semistand 1 h.
Same neg, different paper:
Lith printed on Fomabrom Variant IV 123 BO and developed in Moersch Easy Lith (25A+25B+40D+100OB+H2Oqs900).
Se 1+9 30 sec.
These are the differences between warmtone and coldtone lithable papers.
The Fomabrom Variant IV 123 BO was a "short living" attempt by Foma to make a paper which could be used for Bromoil (and maybe replace the original cold tone FB Variant IV 123, which was a very good lithable paper).
This one was good for both bromoil and lith printing :-).
When lithing coldtone papers, you want the "pepper" to appear. It's by far not as colourful as warmtone papers. But on the other hand not so "high contrasty", so you can get more b&w nuances from the process. Which, btw, is much slower than the warmtone lith process. Expect exposure times to be around 5 min and developing times up to or above 20 (!) min. That of course depends on your "soup".
This was perhaps too much boring information, but if I can pass the knowledge ahead to coming b&w analog printers, it's worth it :-). And I'm of course not taking credit of any knowledge that Wolfgang Moersch possesses. Almost everything I've learned comes from him. Kudos, Wolfgang.
These pictures from 2024 were taken on one of my best days. The Witches' Stone just at the edge of the village of Spott is a good memorial of bad times and deeds. The Witches’ Stone always fills me with commemoration and remembrance of times not so long gone when Witch Hunts were after witches so upsettingly so that we still use the term Witch Hunt now more than ever for a falsely fuelled over active hunt often with vicious entanglements and outcomes.
The Witches’ Stone is on the East of Spott village and Easter Broomhouse Standing Stone is at the West of the village. In the village at the Church you can find The Jougs. From standing stone in the East past central stone church to a commemorative stone in the West there are three superb historic lithic sites. The Church has been a focal site to inspire and to contain history of the area and along with local archives there are some superb historic collections, myriad connections, and local recollections.
There are three tall Standing Stones near Spott, Easter Broomhouse, Pencraig Hill and Kirklandhill Standing Stones. Their placement in the landscape of natural bounties and hill forts is a key to some of the smaller monuments, This coastal area is full of life from the sea and the land and the stones stretch into the sky that keeps the seas calm and the lands fertile.
© PHH Sykes 2024 and 2025
phhsykes@gmail.com
Witches of Scotland is a campaign for justice; for a legal pardon, an apology and national monument for the thousands of people – mostly women - that were convicted of witchcraft and executed between 1563 and 1736 in Scotland.
The Witches of Scotland Limited. This tartan can be worn by anyone.
www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails?ref=14651
Witches of Scotland podcast
Claire Mitchell QC and Zoe Venditozzi, Author co-host the Witches of Scotland podcast. Over the forthcoming weeks we hope to bring you interviews from those who know about the history, law and stories of those accused of witchcraft. Join our mailing list and we will let you know when a new podcast is out.
www.witchesofscotland.com/podcast
Witches' Stone, Spott
canmore.org.uk/site/57667/witches-stone-spott
Easter Broomhouse Standing Stone
www.themodernantiquarian.com/site/1492/easter_broomhouse_...
Easter Broomhouse - Standing Stone (Menhir) in Scotland in East Lothian
www.megalithic.co.uk/article.php?sid=6706
Spott Church
www.scotlandschurchestrust.org.uk/church/spott-parish-chu...
Welcome to Belhaven and Spott Parish Church
Witches' Stone, Spott
canmore.org.uk/site/57667/witches-stone-spott
Easter Broomhouse Standing Stone (Prehistoric)
canmore.org.uk/site/57622/easter-broomhouse
Pencraig Hill Standing Stone (Prehistoric)
canmore.org.uk/site/56240/pencraig-hill
Witches' Stone, Spott
www.themodernantiquarian.com/site/6453/witches_stone.html
Witches' Stone, Spott
www.megalithic.co.uk/article.php?sid=8239
Easter Broomhouse Standing Stone
www.themodernantiquarian.com/site/1492/easter_broomhouse_...
Pencraig Hill Standing Stone (Prehistoric)
www.themodernantiquarian.com/site/1494/pencraig_hill_stan...
Pencraig Hill Standing Stone (Prehistoric)
www.megalithic.co.uk/article.php?sid=6703
Kirklandhill Standing Stone
www.themodernantiquarian.com/site/1493/kirklandhill_stand...
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In October 2020, NASA confirmed the existence of molecular water near Clavius, at concentrations of up to 412 parts per million.[1] Several ways have been suggested. The water could be trapped into tiny beadlike structures in the soil that form out of the high heat created by micrometeorite impacts.[2] The water might also be sheltered between lunar soil grains. Another possibility is from very small asteroid strikes, such as a rubble pile from a much more massive "parent" asteroid collision. Pulled apart in its descent to the lunar surface similar to Comet Shoemaker–Levy 9, and hitting the surface in a modest dispersal area with a small mass at low, oblique impact angle and bouncing could allow some water to remain in the lithic matrix. The carbonaceous chondrite class is often water-rich, and the CI sub group are as much as 22% water.
Volcanic gases rises from the active lava lake in "Overlook Crater " that lies within the Halema‘uma‘u Crater on Kīlauea's summit on the Island of Hawai'i. This eruptive stage start with earthquake and fumerolic activitiy in late 2007. Increasing gas emission rates in early 2008 produced high concentrations of sulfur dioxide around the Halema‘uma‘u parking lot. For this reason, the National Park closed the western portion of Crater Rim Drive to the public on February 20, 2008. The first signs of change on the surface occurred on March 12, 2008, when a fumarolic area abruptly appeared on the south wall of Halema‘uma‘u, directly below the Halema‘uma‘u Overlook. This fumarolic area, emitting a thick gas plume, enlarged over subsequent days and was incandescent (glowing) at night.
At 2:58 am on the morning of March 19, 2008 an earthquake was measured, The quake was coincident with collapse of the fumarolic area near the overlook. A new, small crater formed from this collapse, which was also associated with an explosive eruption of lithic blocks. The new crater was informally called the "Overlook crater". Over the next few years the eruption continued with a lava lake forming in the crater. The level of the lava lake flucuated with time. It wasn't until 2017, however, that lava spilled from the crater on to the floor of its host, the the Halema‘uma‘u Crater. So far there has been continous eruptive activity from 2008 until this photo was taken in Dec 2017.
Halema‘uma‘u Crater is clearly seen in the photo. The "Overlook Crater" is inside the older crater and is not visible in this view. The photo was taken from Uwekahuma Bluff just south of the Jaggar Museum in Hawai'i Volcanoes National Park.
There is a Vulcan and a Lithic Heart at the centre of the images depending which two are meeting in the middle. The Vulcan Heart is a Vulcanised Tyre Heart and the Lithic Heart is made by the Stones coming together. The reflections bring about some excellent wyrd wonders.
There is a Grass Heart and Shadow Heart too. Everyone needs Picnic Heart and a Calm Heart. Well at least I think that we all need a Picnic Heart and a Calm Heart.
[Oh yes and there is a Shadow Dove flying along the centre too, that is it is a Shadow Dove unless you see it as a young cow in which there is a Shadow Coo in the centre grazing not ascending.]
Final point to be made is a suggestion that the metal balance in some of the pictures looks very Dragon Like. Please note Dragon Like, not a Dragon, just an echo calling and falling through the seasons and over the years. Once seen the Dragon Like resemblance is an image to reflect upon especially so with Dragon Lore mentioning the sleepy long slumbers of such mythic beast. In those legendary snooze times surely there might be a little flaking and descaling as fresh ‘solid feathers’, not squalid fetters, regrow, well I am happy to suggest so.
From out the earth it came and return back into it is going.
© PHH Sykes 2024
phhsykes@gmail.com
Westray Heritage Centre
St. Johannis-Kirche/Meldorfer Dom Dithmarschen SH
“Steps” by Hermann Hesse
As every blossom wilts and every youth
Yields to age, so blooms every step of life,
So too blooms every wisdom and every virtue
In its time and may not last forever.
The heart must at all of life’s calls
Be ready to part and begin anew,
So that it may, with courage and without grief,
Give itself to new engagements.
In every beginning lives a magic,
Protecting us and helping us to live.
Lithely and cheerfully should we stride from room to room,
On none hang like we would a home,
The spirit of the world wants not to fetter or restrict us,
Rather to lift us step by step, to expand us.
We barely arrive in a phase of life
And already complacency threatens.
Only he who is ready to break off and travel
May break from crippling habituation.
Perhaps even the hour of death
Will dispatch to us fresh and new,
Life’s call to us will never end…
Well then, my heart, be and fare well!
“Stufen” von Hermann Hesse
Wie jede Blüte welkt und jede Jugend
Dem Alter weicht, blüht jede Lebensstufe,
Blüht jede Weisheit auch und jede Tugend
Zu ihrer Zeit und darf nicht ewig dauern.
Es muß das Herz bei jedem Lebensrufe
Bereit zum Abschied sein und Neubeginne,
Um sich in Tapferkeit und ohne Trauern
In andre, neue Bindungen zu geben.
Und jedem Anfang wohnt ein Zauber inne,
Der uns beschützt und der uns hilft, zu leben.
Wir sollen heiter Raum um Raum durchschreiten,
An keinem wie an einer Heimat hängen,
Der Welgeist will nicht fesseln uns und engen,
Er will uns Stuf’ um Stufe heben, weiten.
Kaum sind wir heimisch einem Lebenskreise
Und traulich eingewohnt, so droht Erschlaffen,
Nur wer bereit zu Aufbruch ist und Reise,
Mag lähmender Gewöhnung sich entraffen.
Es wird vielleicht auch noch die Todesstunde
Uns neuen Räumen jung entgegen senden,
Des Lebens Ruf an uns wird niemals enden…
Wohlan denn, Herz, nimm Abschied und gesunde!
Through the tears -
https://youtu.be/p5TG0PDBiT0
Bento Head: Catwa Catya Mesh Head
Mesh Body: Maitreya
Hair: [monso] - Carol - @Collabor88
Eyes:: Gloom.Death Collection - White (Left Eye) & [CX] - Osseous Species - A -(Right eye)
Eyelashes - [okbye]-Lithe Eyelashes
Eye Makeup-[POUT!] - The pain within
Lipstick: [CX] -Berry Lipstick Set
Collar: RealEvil - Inked Collar
Tattoo:Clemmm - Underworld Unkin Markings
Outfit-
=Zenith= Gothic Harnesses Dress - @ Collabor88
Rogue Leg Harness - +Psycho Barbie+
Fishnet Black - :villena:.
Accessories -
Ears:^^Swallow^^ - Pop Pixie Ears
Nose:^^Swallow^^ - Nasal Tip Silver
Piercing[CX] - Lance Piercing
Wings:[M.O.R] - AVIA - Wings Dark
Rings: \//.VoluptasVirtualis - Ophelia
Claws:[CX] - Shredder Claws
Feet[CX]- Heel Hugger
Items in photo -
Backdrop - (Milk Motion) The old hallway - @ Collabor88
Fancy Decor Royer Roses - @ Collabor88
Foxwood - The Raven - Dark @ Collabor88
DISORDERLY. - Century Gothic - Candles - @ Collabor88
“Life without love is like a tree without blossoms or fruit.”
- Khalil Gibran
Soundtrack : www.youtube.com/watch?v=lbjZPFBD6JU
COME AWAY WITH ME – NORAH JONES
I love the bones of you
of course I do …
I love the way those little golden flecks
dance in your smiling eyes
I love the rays of sunshine
that caress your hair and make me sigh
I love to be with you
in everything you do
to be a part of something
bigger than me; a puzzle; a clue
to piece it all together
to run away with you
to walk beneath the dappled shade
of the Jacaranda tree
the blossom hanging thick and scented
the air of love that sets me free
to lay lithe-limbed and amorous
on sprawling camomile lawns
the softness seeping into me
my eyes half-closed and stifled yawns
drowsy with this love for you
I fall asleep perchance to dream
a secret smile upon my lips
like a cat that got the cream
and as the golden hour falls
and dampens dust with jewels of dew
I linger longer than I should
to savour those few last moments with you
and in the dawn that breaks next day
I feel the warmth of early sun
and realise with joy in heart
another perfect day's begun.
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