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Dover Island, (Here in the background behind Flemming Island) is a popular bouldering site. I think someone must have been badly injured bouldering this weekend as a rescue helicopter was called out to this spot and about 20 small boats came to the sheltered side probably hoping to help evacuate the injured person. Climbing rocks without secure protections seems a bit crazy to me...
Wedged between apartment complexes is this eccentric little house that refuses to obey the demands of the 21st century. Love it.
Ruins of outer walls at Dun Aonghasa, a prehistoric stone fort atop a 300-foot (100 m) cliff on Inishmore, largest of the Aran Islands.
A week after hurricane Irene brought us down to the Outer Banks and a little town called Corolla. The stormy ocean was a little hairy to play in but the big storms stayed away. A cool place to hang out.
There is nothing wrong with your television set. Do not attempt to adjust the picture. We are controlling transmission. If we wish to make it louder, we will bring up the volume. If we wish to make it softer, we will tune it to a whisper. We will control the horizontal. We will control the vertical. We can roll the image, make it flutter. We can change the focus to a soft blur or sharpen it to crystal clarity. For the next hour, sit quietly and we will control all that you see and hear. We repeat: there is nothing wrong with your television set. You are about to participate in a great adventure. You are about to experience the awe and mystery which reaches from the inner mind to — The Outer Limits.
Creds to Sharpey for being so scary!
Officially named the Franklin Delano Roosevelt Memorial Bridge. construction was started in 1929, however because of the Great Depression, it wasn't completed until 1937. It was the longest bascule bridge in the world when completed and carries vehicular traffic on both levels and pedestrian and bike traffic on the east side of the lower level. Further information can be found here: historicbridges.org/bridges/browser/?bridgebrowser=truss/...
Facade of Times Square and the two office towers towering above it - Shell Tower on the left and Tower One on the right.
Times Square was officially opened in April 1994 and is one of Hong Kong's largest shopping malls and one of the 10 most popular tourist destinations in Hong Kong........Times Square Website
Times Square 時代廣場, Causeway Bay 銅鑼灣, Hong Kong 香港, China 中国 (Tuesday 9 Mar 2010 @ 3:23pm).
The vigilante group is a fortification on the Mönchsberg in Salzburg . Essential parts of it date from the time of the second city fortifications (around 1465–1480) and separate the Mönchsberg into a so-called inner and an outer part. It belongs to the city of Salzburg.
History
The vigilante group forms the cross-connection between the city wall running along the western edge of the Mönchsberg and the wall around the medieval old town with the Klausentor at the foot of the Mönchsberg. South of the vigilante group was the area of the inner Mönchsberg, which was part of the city of Salzburg. The part north of it belonged to Mülln , which still corresponds to the parish boundaries today. This is where the name MUNIMENTUM DIUIDENS MONTEM comes from ('bulwark that divides the mountain').
Because of the first peasant unrest, because of the increasing Turkish threat, but also because of the threat of armed conflict in the 15th century between Emperor Friedrich III. and Archbishop Bernhard von Rohr, the city felt compelled to strengthen its fortifications. The latter supported Matthias Corvinus , the King of Hungary, while the citizens sided with the emperor. During the term of mayor Hans Glavenberger (from 1482), a wall with initially two towers and a kennel in front was built as part of the new city wall on the Mönchsberg; A few decades later, this wall was expanded into an eight-tower complex. The back of the six newer towers was made of wood, as can still be seen on the inside of some towers today. A wooden covered battlement ran along the defensive walls, but most of it was destroyed in a fire in 1822. The westernmost so-called Marienturm was converted into a powder tower in 1649 by the Hochfürstliche Landschaft (a kind of state parliament of the prince-archdiocese) . The late Gothic vigilante group also had a wide defensive ditch and a palisade building ("fence") in front of it. The city accounts from 1486 mention a fence master and four fence guards who were responsible for guarding the complex at night.
In accordance with the civic duties formulated in a letter of atonement dated April 20, 1287 (“Proof of fitness for military service,” “Maintenance of defense systems,” and “Performing guard duties”), the citizens of the city of Salzburg also provided security services to the vigilante group. A corresponding guard team was mentioned in 1488. This Salzburg Citizens' Guard was disbanded in 1821/22. (The Citizens' Music Corps continued to exist, as did the "Salzburg National Guard", the latter until 1851.) It was re-established in 1979 as a traditional association ("Citizens' Guard of the City of Salzburg").
Since the fortification of the entire northern part of the Mönchsberg up to the Müllner Schanze by Prince-Archbishop Paris Lodron, the vigilante group had little military significance. At the time of the Thirty Years' War, soldiers lived here and then until after 1800 soldiers and their families lived in the towers. Since 1575, entrenchment convicts, i.e. prisoners who were sentenced to work with poor nutrition, have been housed in the basement of the vigilante gate tower. From 1734 onwards, poachers who were not citizens of the city were also imprisoned here.
In 1733 or 1744 two more powder towers were built outside the militia, but they proved unsuitable because of the humidity there. A staircase leading from the Riedenburg to the Mönchsberg across the Lodron Wall on the western slope of the Mönchsberg was built by the city of Salzburg in 1892.
Vigilantes today
Since 1863 there has been a restaurant in the north-eastern part of the Bürgerwehr (formerly Zur Bürgerwehr , now called Stadtalm ), which has been run by the Nature Friends since 1950 in conjunction with a small youth hostel.
After the Second World War, refugees and bombed-out Salzburg residents were accommodated in the towers due to the prevailing housing shortage. Today two towers are inhabited. One tower is currently still filled with excavated material.
The weir ditch was largely filled in before 1900. After the Second World War it continued to fall into disrepair and is currently overgrown with various trees, which severely impairs the view of the old fortifications. As part of a maintenance concept, the priority is to expose the wide defensive ditch in front of the front defensive wall with the disturbing trees and to remove the excavated material that was brought in before 1900 in the front east tower ("Söller") with its sally gate.
We're at the end of the blooming tree blossoms for the most part, glad to catch the flowers here on one of those days with a lot of natural but not sun light
...found this quote by Mark Twain.
"Warm spring light, shine kindly here. Warm southern wind, blow softly here. Green sod above, lie light, lie light. Good night, dear Heart, good night, good night.".....changed 'summer sun' to 'spring light'....hope MT doesn't mind...
Enjoy the new week flickr friends and thanks for your visit....Pat xox
The outer rim trail that circles the chisos mountains in Big Bend national park, texas. In the distance is Mexico.
The outer suburbs of Melbourne has some awesome Canola fields that when combined with the City of Melbourne in the background, make a fantastic shot! Taken from Yuroke, on Craigieburn Road looking towards Melbourne.