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December 5, 2015
The branches of this big old linden tree bend to the ground and back up again. On the low ones, the bark is worn smooth from kids standing and climbing on them. (TMT)
Ocean Edge Mansions
Brewster, Massachusetts
Cape Cod - USA
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Sony A7R RAW Photos of Pretty, Tall Blond Ballerina Model Goddess Dancing Ballet! Carl Zeiss Sony FE 55mm F1.8 ZA Sonnar T* Lens & Lightroom 5.3
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Epic Goddess Straight Out of Hero's Odyssey Mythology! Pretty Model! :) Tall, thin, fit and beautiful!
Welcome to your epic hero's odyssey! The beautiful 45surf goddess sisters hath called ye to adventure, beckoning ye to read deeply Homer's Iliad and Odyssey, whence ye shall learn of yer own exalted artistic path guided by Hero's Odyssey Mythology. I wouldn't be saying it if it hadn't happened to me.
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She was a beauty--a gold 45 goddess for sure! A Gold 45 Goddess exalts the archetypal form of Athena--the Greek Goddess of wisdom, warfare, strategy, heroic endeavour, handicrafts and reason. A Gold 45 Goddess guards the beauty of dx4/dt=ic and embodies 45SURF's motto "Virtus, Honoris, et Actio Pro Veritas, Amor, et Bellus, (Strength, Honor, and Action for Truth, Love, and Beauty," and she stands ready to inspire and guide you along your epic, heroic journey into art and mythology. It is Athena who descends to call Telemachus to Adventure in the first book of Homer's Odyssey--to man up, find news of his true father Odysseus, and rid his home of the false suitors, and too, it is Athena who descends in the first book of Homer's Iliad, to calm the Rage of Achilles who is about to draw his sword so as to slay his commander who just seized Achilles' prize, thusly robbing Achilles of his Honor--the higher prize Achilles fought for. And now Athena descends once again, assuming the form of a Gold 45 Goddess, to inspire you along your epic journey of heroic endeavour.
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Forrest fairy! Wood nymph! Dancing ballet beside an old tree and creek!
Waterloo Lake
The main lake, Waterloo Lake was built by soldiers after their return from the Napoleonic Wars after the Battle of Waterloo. The lake is 60 ft (18 m) deep and 33 acres (13 ha) in area. It was originally used for boating, but now only fishing. In the twentieth century the boat house was made into a cafe. Until 1900 a steamboat called the Maid of Athens ran on the lake. The dam at the south end was once a waterfall.
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Roundhay parks secret 300 million year history
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ONCE – 300m years ago – an orange lizard called the Europs walked the fields that are now Roundhay Park.
It dwelt among tropical trees and baking heat – for the land was close to the Equator. This is the secret history of the north Leeds playground being brought to life by the Friends of Roundhay Park. They have published 5,000 copies of A Walk Back in Time, a glossy guide to the geology of the parkland. A trail with nine marker stones has been created and will be launched officially on Wednesday. The Friends will gather at the Education Centre in the Mansion at 2pm to hear a talk by expert geologist Bill Fraser, a teacher in Garforth, before walking the trail. Mr Fraser has a collection of fossils from Roundhay Park and has provided the scientific basis for the guide book.Bob Reid, one of the Friends, was the driving force behind the creation of the trail "The dates given in the guide are not fictitious – they are real, based on the evidence of radioactive decay," he said.
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Glacier...............(Both Freshwater And Sea Water)
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At different times, Roundhay Park has been under both freshwater and sea water. We tend to think the park is as it has always been but over millions of years it has been continually changing . "The V-shaped ravine was formed by melt water from a glacier. "And a geological fault runs in front of the Mansion and is said to form the northern boundary of the Yorkshire coalfields .Bob visited viewing site No. 6 – Dog Mouth Spring – which is found in the woodland. The rock here is sandstone which is porous and allows water to bubble from it. At marker No. 9 by the banks of the Waterloo Lake, visitors can look back to the head of the lake where the fault crosses the valley. And the last marker, No. 10, also by the lakeside, reveals sandstone rock where burrowing worms have left their imprint. A Walk Back in Time costs 1 and can be bought at the Roundhay Park visitor centre, City Stationers at Oakwood, and at the tourist centre in Leeds City Station.
The Gorge at Roundhay Park has recently been cleared and new pathways introduced, a waterfall leaves the Upper Lake and tumbles down into this area of outstanding natural beauty. Take a short walk along the edge of the Gorge and emerge at the Caste Folly. You can also take the longer 'Secret Gorge Walk' This peaceful walk passes through an area of outstanding natural beauty. The walk has rough, good quality footpaths with sections of steep ground - approximately 2.7 km,
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Secret Gorge Walk "The Ravine"
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This peaceful walk passes through an area of outstanding natural beauty. The walk has rough, good quality footpaths with sections of steep ground.
Approx 2.7Km
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Upper Lake Walk
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This walk circumnavigates the Upper Lake with wooded areas, natural water space and a host of wildlife.
The walking surface is rough in sections but mainly flat.
Approx 0.7Km
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Lake View Walk
This walk circumnavigates Waterloo Lake passing Parkland, Woods and the Dam. The main focus of the walk is the tranquil beauty of the Lake. The walking surface is rough in.
sections but mainly flat. Approx 2.7Km
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Roundhay Park
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Roundhay Park in Leeds, West Yorkshire, England, is one of the biggest city parks in Europe. It has more than 700 acres (2.8 km2) of parkland, lakes, woodland and gardens which are owned by Leeds City Council. The park is one of the most popular attractions in Leeds, nearly a million people visit each year. It is situated on the north-east edge of the city, bordered by the suburb of Roundhay to the west and Oakwood to the south.
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Old Local History (11th century - Present Day)
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In the 11th century William the Conqueror granted the lands on which the park stands to Ilbert De Lacy for his support in the Harrying of the North in the winter 1069-70. De Lacy, who founded Pontefract Castle, was a knight from Normandy. During the 13th century, the area was used as a hunting park for the De Lacys who were the Lords of Bowland on the Yorkshire-Lancaster border. Ownership of Roundhay passed through succession to John of Gaunt and then to his son, Henry IV. In the 16th century Henry VIII gave the park (though not the manor) to Thomas Darcy. Through succession and marriage, it was acquired by Charles Stourton (1702-1753) in the 18th century.
In 1803, Charles Stourton's nephew, another Charles Stourton (1752–1816), sold the estate to Thomas Nicholson and Samuel Elam. Nicholson took the northern part which became Roundhay Park. Thomas Nicholson's land had the remains of quarries and coal mines. He disguised these former industrial areas by constructing the Upper Lake and the Waterloo Lake. The mansion house was built between 1811 and 1826 with a view over the Upper Lake. Nicholson constructed a castle folly. The Nicholson family was responsible for building the Church of St John, almshouses and a school on the south side of the park. After Thomas Nicholson's death in 1821, the estate passed to his half-brother Stephen. In 1858, his nephew William Nicholson Nicholson inherited the land on the death of his uncle. In 1871 Roundhay Park was put up for sale. It was purchased for £139,000 by a group including the Mayor of Leeds, John Barran. Leeds City Council was unable to buy such a large tract of land without an Act of Parliament, which was obtained on 21 June 1871. The local authority agreed to pay the same price and gave the estate to the people of Leeds as a public park.
Leeds architect, George Corson, won the competition for landscaping Roundhay Park. Some parts of the estate were then sold for building plots to offset the cost to the council and Barran. Prince Arthur officially re-opened the park in 1872 in front of 100,000 people. In 1891 the first public electric tram with overhead power (trolley system) in Britain was inaugurated linking Roundhay Park with Leeds city centre 3 miles (4.8 km) away. The tram terminus is now a car park but some of the trolley poles remain.
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a sunny Saturday
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suny feisa
bsee the winter, she's crawling up the lawn
I feel her breathing beneath my pal She tears the trees down while curses roll from her tongue
Got eyes like anvils and storms for lungs
Hiding in our house, sunburn in his mouth,
Summer's in our basement now
Light beneath the door, light beneath the door,
Just enough to keep us warm
Don't you let it out, don't you let it out,
Just make sure he's always around
But we're all out of time, nothing left to decide
Pack your things up quick, this one can't be fixed
Leave the rest of it behind
We push through trees now, our house is covered in ice
Our breath falls from our mouths like tiny rainclouds
We tug on Summer, and he melts the snow at our feet
She's on our heels, there's never time to stop and sleep
I feel you breathing, I hear you curse my name
I hope that you'll forgive me one of these days
The sky is bleeding, the fog is thicker than walls
She's wrapped up in it, like cloth on a wrecking ball
Everything we stole, everything we broke,
Everything we bought is gone
A couple dumb mistakes, bigger than we thought,
Nothing to left to do but run
If I could put it back, fill in all the cracks,
Nothing there I wouldn't change
But wishing never helps, wishing never helps,
Wishing never solved a thing
You were right
Yeah, you were right
You were right
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Date Taken: August 6th, 2010
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Wilson Arch, also known as Wilson's Arch, is a natural sandstone arch in southeastern Utah, United States just off U.S. Route 191 located in San Juan County, 24 miles (39 km) south of Moab. It has a span of 91 feet (28 m) and height of 46 feet (14 m).[1] It is visible from the road to the east where there are turnouts with interpretive signs. The elevation of Wilson Arch is about 6,150 feet (1,870 m)
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A surreal beachscape captured at dusk and low tide, "Stretching Into The Afterglow" is among my limited-edition print releases (edition of 12).
I absolutely loved the shape of this weathered, old tree and the roots stretching out across the sand - it just exudes so much character! As soon as I spotted it, while walking the beach at Burrum Heads on Queensland's Fraser Coast, I knew I had to photograph it.
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This is the fallen tree you have seen in previous images. Look at the survival level with it on it's side..
This set of images were taken in a remote park in Osceola County and is not widely known. I only saw about one third of it but you can bet I'll go back again.
A much loved Monterey Cypress tree had to be cut down for health and safety reasons but, rather than waste the iconic tree, Dublin City Council commissioned the UK tree sculptor Tommy Craggs to create a work of art from the remaining tree stump.
Chainsaw sculptor Tommy Craggs recycles fallen trees or trees felled for tree management reasons. Some of his works can be purchased but others are permanent installations carved from stumps. Tommy’s work made the news in 2012 when members of the public reported that a "guerrilla sculptor" had carved three stumps in a forest in the UK. They were, in fact, commissioned sculptures created by Tommy Craggs.
The piece shown in my photographs was inspired by the wildlife found in the nature reserve on the nearby Bull Island and in St. Anne’s Public Park.
My father died six years ago this May. He built a birdhouse for me for the yard of the home I moved from some years ago. It was a very popular spot for the birds and I watched season after season the nests being built and baby birds learning how to fly. Unfortunately, the squirrels also found it popular and they took to tearing it apart. I tried to patch it up, but the damage was too great to repair. This is the birdhouse my father built for his own garden. After all these years it's still a nesting spot for the birds in the spring and summer, and shelter for them in the colder months.
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(Untamed nature) The golden hour brought beauty and nature to full glory! But, the dove is teasing the squirrel, and the squirrel wants to jump the wreath to get the dove to fly away! Both are possessive of the feeder that is down below!
Our part of the world is home to one of the oldest human civilizations. The region has been ruled by ancient civilaztions, Hindu Rajas, after which the Mughals came into power.
British seized the power from the Mughals and ruled for more than 100 years, during which many improvements were made to the infrastructure. The British Indian Railway, was a part of the development program, this locomotive belonged to the North West Railway before partition, and is now preserved at the Golra Railway Station in Islamabad.
P.S. This is a handheld 3, 1EV shots HDR, I've tried to keep this as natural as possible, hope it's worthy without much processing as well!
A much loved Monterey Cypress tree had to be cut down for health and safety reasons but, rather than waste the iconic tree, Dublin City Council commissioned the UK tree sculptor Tommy Craggs to create a work of art from the remaining tree stump.
Chainsaw sculptor Tommy Craggs recycles fallen trees or trees felled for tree management reasons. Some of his works can be purchased but others are permanent installations carved from stumps. Tommy’s work made the news in 2012 when members of the public reported that a "guerrilla sculptor" had carved three stumps in a forest in the UK. They were, in fact, commissioned sculptures created by Tommy Craggs.
The piece shown in my photographs was inspired by the wildlife found in the nature reserve on the nearby Bull Island and in St. Anne’s Public Park.
On one of our walks we saw this great landscape and I liked immediately the old and knobby trees. I got the idea of taking a picture with Cocktail on the tree at the blue hour and today we decided to to this shot with him. Again, Cocktail was a brave and patient dog and posed perfectly for this shot.
When I am more experienced in shooting dogs, I will try more complex setups with rim lights and so on. Right now I am glad to get a well focused picture :)
Strobist setup:
- 580 EXII @ 1/1 24mm through softbox cam left
- 430 EXII @ 1/2 35mm through mini softbox cam right
- EOS 5D MKII @ 1/15 ISO 800
- EF 24-70 2.8 L @ 25mm f/6.3
- triggered with Phottix Tetra
The strongest snowstorm of the season up to this point was initially forecast to stay south of my region. It most certainly made its way further north. I was relieved to make it past the challenge of driving in it. Afterwards I had to get a photo of some sort to appreciate the beauty of it all.
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On the rim of Bryce Canyon Park resides this old bristle Pine cone (?) tree, I believe it has the best view of endless sun rises and sets.
(1 in a multiple picture album)
This old man has finally succumbed to many harsh winters in the foothills of the Sierra Nevada just below Mt. Whitney. But before he gave in, he dropped a seed or two and now his sun sprouts up behind him ready to take his place.
In the upper left of the picture you can just make out Lone Pine Peak which sits immediately in front of Mt. Whitney, the highest point in the lower forty-eight states.
Dublin City - Official Policy For Removal of Trees - Trees are removed only when necessary as a last resort.
The criteria for tree removal are:
1 The tree is dead, dying or is considered hazardous due to its poor structural or biological condition,. Hazardous conditions may exist above and/or below ground and may include significant root, trunk or crown decay, split trunks and crotches, and large dead limbs.
2 The tree has declined beyond the point of recovery and is no longer meeting the functional or aesthetic requirements of a street tree. Typically, a tree with 30 percent or less of its foliage remaining would meet this criterion.
3 Fatally diseased trees (eg. Ash dieback, Fireblight Disease) may be removed before they reach the primary threshold in order to prevent the spread of disease to healthy trees.
4 To allow space for development of nearby trees that may be more desirable for retention
5 To allow space for new planting
6 To make way for any approved engineering or building works when unavoidable construction work will immediately compromise the stability or viability of the tree.
7 Tree proven to be causing significant structural damage that cannot be reasonably addressed by an alternative solution and proactive tree management has had no mitigating effect.
8 To abate actionable nuisance
9 The trunk of the tree is within 2m of a public lighting column and the long term viability of the tree if retained in its location would be compromised by a requirement for ongoing maintenance in order to maintain the effectiveness of the adjoining street light.
If a site where a tree was removed is suitable to support a new tree, the site may be replanted with a suitable tree species. Because the stump has to be placed on a stump removal list and sufficient time needs to elapse to allow breakdown of residual underground root material, the
process from removal to replanting may take up to 3-5 years. Replacement tree planting will only take place during the dormant season.
The rock feature in the middle ground is not Bell Rock, but this image was made shooting from the parking area for Bell Rock, near Sedona, Arizona, shortly after a thunderstorm passed over.