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Little River Railroad 0-4-0T No. 1 sits next to Nickel Plate Road 2-8-4 No. 765 outside the locomotive shop of the Indiana Northeastern Railroad during an open house that was part of the Indiana Rail Experience.
We took a trip up to Lake Morton right after Christmas. It is an intresting place there is quite an assortment of Water Fowl. The Swans and Geese belong to the city. They have feeders around the lake. There is also some pins that they have for injured birds.
A pair of matched angels in one of the windows of the church at Breedon on the Hill. The guide book suggests this is from around the turn of the 19th - 20th century
N453 RAC - Citroen XM 2.1 TDi Exclusive - August 1995 & X81 MDO - Citroen Xantia 2.0 HDi Forte - January 2001
Libby’s – 1984
Pairing: 2011 Spadafora Alhambria Bianco, Sicily, Italy
Course two featured a fragrant yellow and red tomato gazpacho studded with alphabet shaped pasta. The whimsical course was served in a paper cup and topped with grated Parmigiano-Reggiano and basil seedlings. Page’s reaction to the cold course was at first shock and teased that it was depressing. Like opening a cold can of the ready-to-serve pasta in the wee hours of the morning. He then turned and spoke to the filming camera, joking that he was serving the foodstuff to his children, cold, because he didn't want them exposed to microwaves.
A breeding pair of ospreys (Pandion haliaetus) perched in a dead tree. Having the pair in the same frame allows you to see the size difference between sexes, the larger female at the top and much slighter male with a fish at the bottom. Cairngorms National Park, Scotland.
A pair of Santas from my Holiday Snapshot series
Olympus E-P5
Olympus 12-50mm
Olympus Art Filter
Silver Efex Pro (75% layer)
The Red Arrows Synchro Pair practising for the display season at RAF Akrotiri in Cyprus - Circa 1988.
Red Arrows website - www.redarrows.com/index_flash.html
The CB&Q Nebraska Zephyr and Burlington Northern E8AU #9908 sit side-by-side at the Illinois Railway Museum. In the background is United States Army #8537, a 45-tonner.
A Pair of Narra/Balayong Pedestals
H: 34 1/2” (88 cm) each D: 14” (36 cm) each
Opening bid: PHP 2,000
Lot 866 of the Leon Gallery auction in October 2020. Please see www.leon-gallery.com for more details.
I was lucky to catch this installation at the Cathedral in April 2018, it was only up for a few more days but looked amazing while it lasted.
Hereford Cathedral is a fascinating place, not one of largest cathedrals or considered amongst the most architecturally significant, but one of the most interesting and rewarding nonetheless. It follows the usual cruciform plan for large churches but here the nave is the longest limb, the choir being relatively short for a cathedral, though the church extends further eastwards in the fine retrochoir and lady chapel. there are an eastern pair of transepts too, though here they do not rise above aisle roof level.
The central tower dominates the small city's skyline, but much less today than it once did, for originally it was crowned by a tall lead spire, and in addition there was a similar, slightly smaller tower at the west end (without a spire) thus the building's profile was very different to what we see today. Sadly this fine building has suffered several tragedies in it's history, the greatest of which was in 1786, when the west tower suddenly collapsed following an earth tremor, taking much of the nave with it. The architect chosen for the reconstruction was the notorious James Wyatt, who demolished all the remaining upper sections of the nave and substituted them with his own rather bland interpretation of Gothic. He also shortened the nave by one bay and built a rather mean west facade without rebuilding the west tower (the main tower also lost it's spire around this time). The present west facade is a more exuberant rebuilding by John Oldrid Scott from 1902-8.
The cathedral has generally been heavily restored throughout the 19th century (largely due to the red sandstone of it's construction) and parts of the exterior betray this, particularly the east facades of choir and Lady Chapel. There is still much to enjoy though, especially the 14th century tower with it's rich ballflower decoration. Entry is normally via the grand north porch, whichj has a large upper chapel and staircases either side, formerly for the veneration of relics.
The interior shows much more 12th century Norman work than the exterior suggests, with the main nave arcade, crossing arches, and much of the choir and south transept still substantially Romanesque structures. Aside from Wyatt's 1788 rebuilding of the upper parts of the nave, the rest is mostly of late 13th - early 14th century date, with distinctive window design of the Decorated period found throughout the nave and choir aisles. The most remarkable feature is the north transept, a unique design dating to c1260, where the Gothic arches and window heads are almost triangular in form.
There is a substantial complex of additional monastic buildings, including two cloisters, the main one being south of the nave (only the east and south sides remain) and the Vicar's Choral cloister, accessed via a long walkway off the south east corner, and still inhabited by cathedral staff and thus private. The real tragedy here is the chapter house, of which very little remains. This was once arguably the most exceptionally beautiful in the country, being ten-sided and covered by an exquisite fan vault. It was sadly neglected following the Civil War and demolished soon afterwards, a grevious loss.
The cathedral retains a fine set of 14th century choir stalls with carved misercords complete with the canopied bishop's throne. The font is Norman and features defaced figures of apostles and is guarded by four lions. The stained glass is mostly Victorian with only a few 15th century fragments in a south nave window and some good (but restored) 13th century scenes and grisaille in a Lady Chapel window. The best of the glass is found in the two smallest chapels, the Stanbury and Audley chantries, with Arts & Crafts and stunning contemporary work by Denny respectively. There was a rich Victorian metal choir screen at the crossing by G.G.Scott, but this was removed in the 1950s and is now (after years of storage and neglect) a major feature in the entrance to the Victoria & Albert Museum, London. A contemporary candleabrum, the 'Corona', now hangs in it's place.
The set of monumental effigies is one of the most extensive in any English cathedral, but only a few are of the finest quality, and many have suffered later disfigurement, in the case of the medieval bishops' tombs several figures have been quite literally de-faced, whilst the post-Reformation tombs clearly offended Wyatt, who removed their architectural settings altogether leaving only the recumbent effigies randomly placed throughout the church.
But last word must go to the most famous relic of Hereford, the Mappa Mundi, the renowned c1280 map of the medieval World and the star exhibit of the famous chained library, now housed in a modern extension at the south west corner of the cloister.