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An old wood hay wagon that I spotted in a field while driving down Butterville Road in New Paltz. In the background, you can see Mohonk Mountain House's Skytop Tower.
Old Rhine Estuary
The Rhine once flowed into the North Sea where Katwijk is now located. The river at that time formed the northern border of the Roman Empire from the second century BC to the fifth century AD. These so-called Limes, which stretched along the Rhine and Danube to the Black Sea and then into India, served as a line of defence.
The Romans built Fort Brittenburg to defend the mouth of the Rhine, where Katwijk played an important role as an army camp.
Until the seventeenth century, the remains of Fort Brittenburg sometimes appeared at very low water levels, but after that it disappeared for good in the North Sea bed. Diving expeditions in the 1960s also yielded nothing.
When the Lek and Waal had developed as the most important branches of the Rhine for shipping around 1900, the Old Rhine began to silt up more and more. The 'relocation' of the Rhine estuary from Katwijk to Hoek van Holland was finalized by the construction of the Nieuwe Waterweg between Rotterdam and the North Sea. From 1863, this four-kilometers sailing route made Rotterdam more accessible for increasingly larger seagoing vessels.
The current Old Rhine is therefore a remnant of the course of the former Rhine. The river is 52 km long, started in the early Middle Ages near the city of Utrecht and ran via the Utrecht Oude Rijn and Vleutense Wetering to Harmelen.
The Old Rhine now flows past Woerden, Bodegraven, Alphen aan den Rijn, Leiden, Valkenburg and Rijnsburg to Katwijk. The water of the Old Rhine ends up in the North Sea via the King Willem Alexander Pumping Station.
The only old-growth redwood tree on Timberview Trail in El Corte de Madera Creek Open Space Preserve that survived the logging era.
PENTAX K-5 II s • 100 ISO • Pentax DA* 50-135mm F2.8 SDM
Kenko Pz-AF UniPlus Tube 25
Metz Flash 48 AF-1 Digital with Ray-Flash ring adapter
Topaz Labs Texture Effects
She looked so shy and fragile ... but I succeeded to interview her about the history of the village.
Old City Hall on a cold night in December. Designed by Toronto architect Edward James Lennox, the building took more than a decade to build (1889-1899) and cost more than $2.5 million. For these reasons, city counsillors denied Lennox a plaque proclaiming him as architect for the building, so he had stonemasons etch his name in stone around the building. Old City Hall is a designated National Historic Site of Canada.
The old pier at Lavender Bay, Sydney
Photographed on Saturday 30th January, 2020, on my trek around the northern shores of Sydney harbour.
My Canon EOS 5D Mk IV, with the Canon 16-35mm lens.
Processed in:
Adobe Lightroom and PhotoPad Pro by NCH software.
A 'Smooth Chestnut' filter from the Flickr Photo Editor.
Betsy has apparently been in our family for over 200 years. At least according to this letter. My Dad gave her to me after I had helped him with my Great Aunt's estate 20 some years ago.
I am starting back up organizing all of the photos and letters we found and put them out on our website. A lot of work, which is why I stopped two years ago. Any how, here is a picture of Theodore with Old Betsy back in the day. www.familyhistoria.com/Ethelred%20Delk/John%20Delk/Joseph...
I apologize for the big watermark, but people were taking my photos and claiming them as their own out on Ancestry.com, which is another story. Enjoy, B.
At Home, March 16, 28
My Dearest Niece
I rec. your most of all kind and welcome letter I ever rec from you. Don't think dear I don't apprciate them all for I surely do. But dear when I see poor old Betsy arived to you all right it lifted a big load of of my mind for I have ben afraid I would drop off before you recievd it. You picture is following close to her. Now I can rest lots better. I read your kind and loving 4 times when I recieved it last eavning with lot tears blind my eyes. I was so glad to hear you were pleased with it. Oh child to hear a good player take hold of it. I can hear her speak to profsor Green in his church work. The most lovely player I ever heard play. He used to tell me many times I could beat any man handling the bow he ever seen in his life. He taught piano & violin in the Boston conservatory of music 5 years 10 dollars per day. Poor man lived with me an my wife at Hood River nearly a year. I gave his board and a nice room. Dear just to hear him play the violin while I played the acompayment on the piano. But it is all pased and gone forever. Your brother must have taken after me a little. I only took lessons in vocal but never took a lesson on an instrument in my life. Well I hope you all well and to from you again soon. I am getting better slow. with love to all. Your Uncle Joe Delk
Mary Dear coppy this side in ink so it will keep.
Now Mary Dear for the reccord and age of Old Betsy. In J.T. Delk's hands traded one 200 Dollar Orgon & one 35.00 violin 15.00 in money to my oldest brother Solimon Bennett Delk in Oceola Iowa. 250.00. kept it 54 years. He got it of Uncle Bill Kerns your Grand Ma's brother. Solimon kept it 35 years. Uncle Bill Kerns got it of his uncle Dave Kerns. Uncle kept it 27 years. He got it of his uncle William Kerns who bought it in Bublin Ireland of a french Italian by the name of Delonzo. William kept it 34 years. He paid for it 42 English Pounds. Thats why I would not sell it. Dear you will laugh when I tell you the truth about what I have been offered for it in Kansas. Pof. Hi Jones one 200 Dol horse one 75 Dol violin one 30 Dol Brood sow and 9 fine 80 and 90 pound pigs. Some trade but no trade. 300 Dollars cash too years ago last August. One violin 300 Dol and 250 Dol in money and from 100 to 150 dollars more than 20 times. That is why I sent it to you Dear for I was aftraid of temtation. But now I am safe. It is yours thank Providence and good luck. By By let me starve Old Betsy is safe.
Your Loving Uncle Joe Delk
These are our old money boxes with a selection of old pre decimal coins that we would have saved in them. The Burslem & District Industrial Co-operative Society Ltd are long gone. Leek United Building Society on the other hand are just like it says on the box "Firm and lasting". I can still vaguely remember my Mum taking me into the local branch with an ancient Leek United money box. The gent behind the counter commented on its age and went to find a suitable key. When he opened the box there was a collection of coins, buttons and an assortment of odds & ends that caused a certain amount of merriment. Mum made the total up to ten shillings and I became the latest member of Leek United Building Society complete with a brand new blue moneybox. Years later I got to know the gent who signed me up, it turned out that he retired on that day, I was his last new member. "Money Box"... "Smile on Saturday"...
I drive past this old tree every week and have been meaning to photograph it for some time. There is a layby off the main road nearby but it's a bit of a dogging hotspot. I decided to park about a mile away and hike through the fields, just in time for the fantastic light to change. I need to try again at sunrise.