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Hospitality to strangers are traditional virtues .That is what she was doing by serving a water to all those who came to visit the temple whether as pilgrim or as tourist.
A detail from one of Valença do Minho's façades! It was a difficult angle and I tried to remove most of the mess around it. Still you can see a bit of decaying fence and the wild plants growing beneath it! But I loved the tree framing this balcony on the 1st upper floor of this decaying old house, so I decided to post it anyway!
Enjoy your Sunday!
New hip as a result of broken hip, and bombarded by Trump supporters...
Portland, Oregon - September 2020.
Nikon F3/T
AF Nikkor 35-70 mm f/2.8
Kodak Ultramax 400
This beautiful Meteor Rideau and matching Boler camper were parked near the motel in Waterton Lakes National Park, where friends Cathy and Terry, and I, stayed at for two nights, 26 and 27 August 2014. Car and camper were both in spotless condition.
"The Meteor Rideau was a full-size automobile from the Canada-only Meteor brand of the Ford Motor Company sold from 1954–61 and 1965-76. It was named for the Rideau River, a river in Eastern Ontario, the province where the car was built. From 1957, the line included both the Rideau series and the higher-trim Rideau 500. The Rideau began as the top-trim level of the Meteor line, but beginning with the 1965 models, it was the lowest trim series." From Wikipedia.
Frankfurt (Germany) Copyright 2010 D. Nelson
On this day I met a high school friend in Frankfurt, and we spent 5 hours strolling along the river Main (Mainufer) in the most gorgeous weather, catching up on our lives and what old age has done to us.
At the risk of scaring my friend, Cindy, here's another shot from the education wing at the zoo. And a fun fact: the oldest recorded ball python lived to a ripe, old age of forty-eight, in human care.
a well worn cook pot, a long opened and aged fruit jar, and a rusted and abandoned aerosol can, all soaked in the spring, noonday sunshine...
just think of all the stories that have been acted out with these props through the years.
52 in 2013 - week #15 "theme: old, abandoned, decaying".
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Also known as House of the wheelchairs. Not sure on the history but it had some nice details left. Looked like an old age retirement home or a hospice of some sort.
Another month, another tour. The Benzine tour no doubt on the name. On tour with Camerashy, Wiffsmiff23 and FlashandBlur. Countless hours driving, some iconic places visited and efficient Police and Security encountered and hid from. Not to mention lots of places sealed, trashed or locked down.
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Some Stirling notes.
•Tiers men were woodcutters, cattle thieves, rustlers etc. ex convicts, notorious for bad men.
•Summer houses from 1870 onwards, and many more after railway in 1883.
•Richard Davies Hanson, chief Justice, later Sir, and his brother architect William Hanson bought a cottage bought land from G Stephen. George Milner Stephens built the cottage in 1848. Enlarged it to Woodhouse for his old age. He died here 1876. Moved in 1860s. Woodhouse photographed 1872 with a lake in front. George Tinline began Tinline Court in the late 1850s on his land. Boy Scouts purchased Woodhouse in 1975.
•Samuel Tomkinson in late 1850s began Mongona which became Manoah at Upper Sturt. A mansion. A large house. They came up there in December for Christmas and the summer. 2 servants. Lady Hanson from Woodhouse would visit. Sir Trent de Crespigny bought Manoah after WW2.
Then it went to the Symon family. They sold it for a health resort in the 1960s. It burn down in 1974. Then became Manoah Christian Community. It was restored for them.
•1850s the town of Bridgewater. Early school here wooden, then stone one in 1907.
•1878 Governor decided a bigger mansion not Govt House in Belair Park which was only a cottage. So Marble Hill mansion built.
•Before railway came. In 1875 a Royal Commission with 4 rail options to go up the ranges to go to Murray Bridge for intercolonial link. Selected was via Kent town, Norwood to Beaumont, Glen Osmond, up Brown Hill creek to Crafers. Very steep. Parliament adopted a different route via Mitcham, Blackwood and Belair. First section to Nairne and called Nairne railway. Tenders let for that section to Mt lofty and then Lofty to Nairne. Different tenders for next section. Construction began in May 1879. 8 tunnels in Nairne section; plus built up sections, and large cuttings. One cutting was 57 feet deep. 100 embankments and culverts. Longest tunnel and two viaducts. Next section to Nairne began July 1881. 2 bridges, one viaduct and one tunnel.
•Railway ready for opening in March 1883 to Aldgate. Train ran out of steam literally at Blackwood and most passengers including the Governor dumped there and one carriage went on . A second train took rest of the passengers to Aldgate. A non-entity gave opening address at Mt Lofty Station and not the Governor! Because of the railway camps and drunkenness and fights the Stirling Police station built in 1881. Railway completed to Aldgate in March 1883. Thomas Playford as cabinet minister resigned over the fiasco as the opening train had been too heavy and travelled too fast. He then continued on as politician. Line to Nairne opened November 1883. in 1887 it opened all the way to Melbourne.
• In 1919 the Sleeps Hill viaducts were replaced. They shook too much and engines were too heavy. One longer tunnel built to replace them. By 1928 the bitumen road to Mt Barker was completed for cars. Duplication of railway line to Belair in 1929.
•New subdivisions following railway at Waverly, Crafers and Mt Lofty Summit 1882, Aldgate Woodbury 1883, Montrose 1883 and Crafers Springs 1884. Hills Land and Investment Company did most of these new estates. They purchased 849 acres by March 1882 to subdivide when the railway come through. They had subdivisions at Blackwood, Belair, Crafers, and Aldgate. Aldgate was the most successful near the Aldgate Pump Hotel. That company built the two storey store at the corner of Strathalbyn Road and Kingsland Road. Dunn and Co, the miller from Mt Barker subdivided 100 blocks at Bridgewater.
•Dr Edward Charles Stirling built St. Vigeans near Mt Lofty. The town of stirlign was named after him in 1882. he was a Rhododendron specialist. His friend was Tom Barr Smith of Wairoa. William Austin Horn built Wairoa. He sold it to Sir Thomas Elder. Sir Thomas Elder was childless and left it to his nephew Thom Elder Barr Smith. Wairoa became a showpiece of Adelaide. When he died in 1919 part of the estate was sold off. Wairoa passed to Joanna Barr Smith who sold it to Mrs James Gosse. When Lady Gosse died in 1965 Wairoa was sold to Quarry Industries who in turn sold to Marbury School in 1972.
•After WW1, real estate agent Matters got permission to create very small blocks at Bridgewater for weekend shacks. This was a boom for business in Bridgewater.
•Sir William Milne, 1822-95, pastoralist, businessman and politician of Sunnyside Glen Osmond built a new house here. They chose Eurilla as the name (based on Uraidla). On the summit.
•Sir Thomas Elder 1818-97, built the Pinnacles nearest the Summit. Baronial style of Scotland. The tower of the pinnacles rose higher than the summit of Mt Lofty. Views to the Gulf. Gas lighting, showers, baths and flushing lavatories. But he supported local industry and had all the furniture made locally to create employment. Torode was a popular local builder of grand houses at Crafers etc. Sir Thomas Elder died at the Pinnacles in 1897. In 1902 the house was sold to Sir Langdon Bonython the owner of the Adelaide Advertiser. He renamed the house Carminow. Bonython had the eastern balconies added. Below Bonython lived his poor cousins at Summertown. Bonython hated felling eucalyptus trees to create his garden so he travelled to England and had them felled whilst he was overseas. Sir Langdon died in 1939.. Carminow went to his son John Lavington Bonython. He had also bought Eurilla from the Milnes in 1917. Kym Bonython spent much of his childhood here. During WW2 Carminow accommodated 120 troops and Eurilla 80 troops at a time!
•Edward Hawker of Bungaree built Wachenappee which is now Olivet House in Ayers Hill Road. The family lived there 1900 to 1910.
•Michael Hawker of North Bungaree built Pirralilla , later it became St. Joseph’s Convent at Aldgate on the other side of the road from Wairoa. This is on Arkaba Road, Aldgate. it became a convent in 1950.
•Walter Hawker built Derrymor. He was from Anama near Clare.
•Number Seven the Summit also built by Arthur Hardy. It was renamed Wonnaminta by new owners Robert Kennedy.
•Dr Charles Gosse had Thorpe on Ayers Hill Road. Built 1881. Sold in 1886 to a son of Sir Henry Ayers ,Ernest Ayers. Ernest's wife Barbara Milnes had her parents living at Eurilla.
•Summit: the trig point built there 1885. Used for surveying. Apertures 60 degrees Mt Torrens, 120 degrees Mt Barker, 240 degrees O’Halloran Hill, 300 degrees Adelaide CBD, 360 Black Hill. The Mount Lofty Obelisk was for built navigation in the gulf. Built 1911.
•Anglican Church of the Epiphany had first robed choir outside of Adelaide in 1899. The wealthy from Crafers and the Summit worshipped there. Rectory built 1885.
•Upper Sturt Soldiers Memorial Hall built 1935. One of many memorial halls in the top of the ranges.
•Downers at Glenalta Stirling east. He was the SA Premier etc. His son Alick built Arbury Park in 1935 nearby.
•Korralla House on Summit road became St. Michael’s Monastery in 1946. The House was also a refuge for the spiritually ill. it was burnt in the February 1983 bushfires and has not been rebuilt. Korralla was left to Church of England by Audine O’Leary, nee Bakewell on her death in 1945. It was offered to the English Brothers Society of the sacred Mission founded in 1894 in England. John Warren Bakewell bought a cottage when the Hills railway was constructed.. He employed architects Grainger and Naish in 1885 to designed an 8 roomed house plus gate house and stables and coach house. In 1901 a ballroom as added. Bakewell mansion had finest views of all. Korralla means--:seen from afar. Bakewell 1845-1922 a lawyer, businessman, research chemist author etc. Bakewell bridge in Adelaide named after him. He hHad a chemical laboratory built into the house. It was used by Sir William Bragg who got a Nobel prize. Bakewell had an early car before 1905. During WW2 Korralla House housed American officers with all comforts laid on including visits by professional women!
•A group of locals at Narrinyeri Stirling west set up the local National Trust in 1951.
•In 1947 the Dominicans purchased the Milne mansion Bythorne on Ayers Hill road and established St. Catherine’s School. The Bickford family home next door was acquired too then it later reverted to a private house.
•Beechwood. Tom Barr Smith purchased it from the Snows in 1969. He had the conservatory from Sir Thomas Elder’s Birksgate moved to his Beechwood garden. In 1979 Beechwoods was sold and the threat of subdivisions hung over it but it survived. Marbury School in Wairoa and the Botanic Gardens purchased it to open it to the public. It is now a private house again.
•Mount Lofty Summit became government land in 1945. It was added to the National Parks. Ugly kiosk built in 1958 and burnt down in 1983 bushfires.
•Mt Lofty Botanic Gardens. The land for it was purchased in 1952. The search for land for a new botanic gardens began in 1948. Noel Lothian the Director of the Botanic Gardens was the main moving force behind its acquisition. Some of the land had been owned by the Hardy family. Noel Lothian began plantings in 1959.
•Television channels to the Summit in 1959 when South Australia first had television. .
•The old 1882 wooden Bridgewater School was restored by Council.
•Ash Wednesday bushfires were in 1983. On Mt Lofty Summit only Wonnaminta escaped the fire. Shurdington, Arthurs Seat ( Mt Lofty House) and Green gables were burnt, Eurilla burnt for Kym Bonython. Flames roared up Carminow. St. Michaels Monastery destroyed with its 40,000 books on theology. Much rebuilding of mansions and restoration work began on the new summit restaurant and shop in 1996. Thorngrove built. 1988 Mt Lofty House was rebuilt and added to for the Mecure Hotel hotel chain . In 1990 the Aldgate railway station closed. Now all railway stations are closed in the Adelaide Hills.
This is how film photographers take a selfie. Shot on Lomography 100 colour negative film using Cosina CT-1 Super & Pentax M 50mm F2.0 lens.
Spotted near Maximeville just north of Cape Eggmont on Prince Edward Island.
This photo was taken with the Olympus OM-D E-M1 ans M.Zuiko 40-150mm f/2.8 Pro.
The artist is a second-year student and was ready to graduate in May. She has a similar - no arms - figure in the Graduate Degree program exhibit in the main museum.
During the OPEN STUDIOS at Cranbrook Academy of Art
Bloomfield Hills, Michigan
Cast me not off in the time of old age; forsake me not when my strength faileth. --Psalm 71:9
A portrait of 'Forest', my sister-in-law's Jack Russell terrier. She's growing old... and not quite as spunky as she used to be. This old chair sits on a porch. The sun had gone down behind the trees, so the natural lighting was beautiful. I'm really happy with how this turned out. =)
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Signs of growing old... It becomes painful to lug around a heavy tripod in addition to a heavy load on the back and around the neck. I have reached that point in life of needing to simplify things.
So I have reduced my tripods to three for travel, and they are configured by weight: 3, 4 and 5 lbs (1.4, 1.8 and 2.2 kilos). All are Gitzo tripods:
1. Series 1 Traveler + Gitzo Series 1 ball head;
2. Series 2 Mountaineer + Leofoto LH-36R ball head;
3. Series 3 Mountaineer + Arca Monoball P0 head.
Which tripod I bring on a trip obviously depends on which camera system I will be using and how much walking or hiking I expect to do, but option # 2 is increasingly becoming my go to tripod.
I am amazed by how stable even the Series-1 configuration is, although its biggest advantage is that it is only 14 inches (35 cm) long. That is small enough to keep inside a camera bag allowed as a hand-carry item on a plane. But in general, I use the Series-2 or 3, and the Series-3 sometimes with a geared head, if needed. These two travel in checked in luggage.
I also have a Gitzo Systematic Series 3 tripod with a fluid head for using with long lenses or for video, although I don't do a lot of videography. I find a fluid head much better than a gimbal. But I keep that as dedicated set up.
I bought each of my Gitzo tripods from eBay, in virtually brand new condition for about only 35-40% of their full retail price, including tax + shipping. They all came with their original box, cloth bag and all original contents, very nearly new. For whatever reason, interest in tripods comes and goes in waves, and there are times, there is such a glut that you can find fantastic prices on eBay!
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ODC- Old, Aged, Elderly
Circa 1920-1925
I've had this lovely old toaster for a lot of years and have photographed it many times. here it is again! These things were made to last, no wonder they stopped making them!
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Looking Back 100 Years.
The Somme, WW1.
They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old:
Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn.
At the going down of the sun and in the morning
We will remember them.
CATERPILLAR VALLEY CEMETERY now contains 5,569 Commonwealth burials and commemorations of the First World War. 3,796 of the burials are unidentified but there are special memorials to 32 casualties known or believed to be buried among them, and to three buried in McCormick's Post Cemetery whose graves were destroyed by shell fire.
On the 6th November 2004, the remains of an unidentified New Zealand soldier were removed from this cemetery and entrusted to New Zealand at a ceremony held at the Longueval Memorial, France. The remains had been exhumed by staff of the Commonwealth War Graves Commission from Plot 14, Row A, Grave 27 and were later laid to rest within the Tomb of the Unknown Warrior, at the National War Memorial, Wellington, New Zealand.