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Farewell old box of faded red
The wires are cut, the phone is dead
What history has taken place
Since first you occupied the space.
What joys and sadness word by word conversations you have heard
Have passed the lips and many a sigh
From villagers and passers by.
Your time is past, you’re obsolete
With mobile phones you can’t compete
Old olive trees.
Certains disent que les oliviers peuvent vivre plus de 1000 ans. C'est bien possible, après tout.
Some say that olive trees can live for more than 1000 years. It is well possible, after all.
My very old "Teddy" who has always been very precious to me (his face is more like a monkey :). He was a gift from my Aunt & Uncle when I was born (66 years ago). He still has such a happy face even though his fur has worn away and is face has in-ground grime.
Macro Mondays: Treasured
The CNW twins sit in Homewood with Y-PRCN as IC 3115 shoves a pulldown back into Markham Yard. Nowadays the twins now wear UP armour yellow, IC 3115 wears a yellow frame stripe and that C40-8M will soon be history as well. Time marches on.
Fotografía de un capó de un Ford-T, en una exposición de coches antiguos en Reus, un coche mítico dentro de la historia del automóvil. La foto, la edite en blanco y negro en Lightroom.
With Mill Creek in the foreground, NS P87 rolls by the signals at Old Fort as it starts its run upgrade on the Loops.
High arched openings in the brick wall of an old textile mill. Lowell, Massachusetts. Hasselblad X1D.
One shot from today's hike. After I haven't been there for more than 20 years, we went to a spot near Mechernich, called "Katzensteine". It ist located in the Eifel-region in Germany. What a beautiful place this is. It also made for some nice pictures of old rocks and trees!
The present Stirling Old Bridge was built in the 1400s or 1500.
The stone bridge was constructed on rubble foundations around 1500 and replaced earlier wooden/ timber bridges, including that on which the Battle of Stirling Bridge was fought.
The bridge originally had arches at either end and a defensive gate at the end nearer the burgh. Tolls were levied on goods being taken across the bridge.
In December 1745 General Blakeney, lieutenant governor of Stirling⁹ Castle, had one of the bridge arches destroyed to hinder the movement of the Jacobite Army. The destroyed arch was rebuilt in 1749.
In May 1833 the adjacent new road bridge was opened to traffic and the Old Bridge was closed to wheeled traffic.
The bridge was designated as a Category A Listed Building in 1965.
The bridge today remains one of the best medieval masonry arch bridges in Scotland.
Yesterday I drove my mother to Stuttgart for her second Covid shot. While I waited for her I took a walk in the area and ended up on an old cemetery. This cemetery isn't used anymore nowadays, the graves date back to the 18th and early 19th century. It felt like entering a parallel reality in the middle of the city. What you see in this photo is one of the old gravestones.
Europe, Spain, Valencia, Ciudad de las Artes y las Ciencias, Museo de las Ciencias Príncipe Felipe, Saurus skeleton
Let’s return to delightful Valencia and the Ciudad de las Artes y las Ciencias.
As you probably know, the architecture of Santiago Calatrava is based on biomorphic shapes, skeletal structures are his thing. Whereas the Estação de Oriente is based on a whale, the ‘Turning torso’ in Malmö (Sweden) on a man, the morphology of the Museo de las Ciencias Príncipe Felipe seems to be based on creatures of the Jurassic era.
The Museo is a wonderful science, biology and environment museum. Full interactivity is one of its features, the motto of which is “Forbidden not to touch, not to feel, not to think”.
And indeed, visiting is an engaging delight. It’s located in "The City of Arts and Sciences (Valencian: Ciutat de les Arts i les Ciències. Spanish: Ciudad de las Artes y las Ciencias, a cultural and architectural quarter which formed one of the reason why we at last visited Valencia (the other reason was the spectacular ‘Fallas’). It's near the old riverbed of the river Turia, which was drained and rerouted after a catastrophic flood in 1957, and turned into a lovely park. The Ciutat’ is also designed by Santiago Calatrava (and Félix Candela) and opened in April, 1998.
True to the legacy of the star architect/engineer, it costed nearly three times the initially expected cost of €300 million and almost bankrupted the region.
Inside the Museo is the skeleton of a family member of the dinosaur and the relation between it keleton and Calatrava’s architecture is probably immediately obvious.
This is number 278 of Museum.