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On a wet day in Berlin, there wasn’t much photography to be had.
There was a lot of getting wet, and attempting to stay huddled under the brolly, but little photography.
However, while walking through the urban park around the Tiergarten area, I saw this lovely scene and decided to get the camera out of the bag to shoot it. I even had to change lenses from the 14mm to something a little better for the scene, so I went from super lazy to actually doing quite a bit to get this image.
Hope everyone had a lovely weekend. I booked flights to Vienna for the weekend after next so will likely be driving around Slovakia for a few days; I obviously want to see Bratislava but feel most of the time will be spent in the Tatra mountains.
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At the end of that street, you will find a red tori which leads, via a steep stairs, to the Enoshima Shrine main gate. If you don't feel like taking the steep stairs and slopes, this is also where you can take the Enoshima Escar, an escalator that will take you to the top of the island for ¥380.
The way down is done by foot however. The Enoshima Shrine is actually composed of three distinct shrines. Each of them is dedicated to one of the Shinto sea Goddesses of the Munakata trio; Tagitsuhime, Ichikishimahime and Tagirihime.
The Goddesses are thought to have been originally worshiped in a small shrine built inside one of the two Iwaya caves by the Emperor Kinmei (510 – 571).
They were however subsequently relocated in 853 to a more sturdy building, the Nakatsu-no-miya which is at the center of the island. This temple is still visible (it is one of the three shrines that compose the Enoshima Shrine) it and serves as the base for the temples present today.
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I know it's not a particularly exciting photo, but I really wanted to upload something as I haven't in a while!
Today we had our school Sponsored Walk, but because I'm in Sixth Form (last year ahhhhhhhhhhh), we just got to sit by the path and 'guide' them (it really wasn't that hard). So that was good fun. We sat on a picnic blanket, played cards and ate strawberries. So civilized!
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The Spinney is a prominent belt of mature beech, sycamore and lime trees planted in 1912 as a windbreak for the former Park Prewett Hospital estate, near Basingstoke, Hampshire. This lovely woodland avenue has a central path which provides opportunity for pleasant circular and short walks and wildlife spotting.
In landscaping, an avenue, alameda, or allée, is traditionally a straight path or road with a line of trees or large shrubs running along each side, which is used, as its Latin source venire ("to come") indicates, to emphasize the "coming to," or arrival at a landscape or architectural feature. In most cases, the trees planted in an avenue will be all of the same species or cultivar, so as to give uniform appearance along the full length of the avenue.
The avenue is one of the oldest ideas in the history of gardens. An avenue of sphinxes still leads to the tomb of the pharaoh Hatshepsut. Avenues similarly defined by guardian stone lions lead to the Ming tombs in China. British archaeologists have adopted highly specific criteria for "avenues" within the context of British archaeology.
This avenue was in the grounds of Park Prewett at Rooksdown which is the name of the locality and is shown as Rooks Down in the Ogilby strip maps of 1675. It is also the name of the old Roman road that passes through the Parish, and of the now demolished Rooksdown Hospital, originally Rooksdown House (the Private annexe of Park Prewett Hospital), which once occupied the north west corner of the parish at the junction of Kingsclere Road and Rooksdown Road.
The land which Rooksdown parish now occupies was originally part of the grounds of the former Park Prewett Hospital and farm. After the hospital closed in 1997, some small development took place on surrounding land. The main hospital site was acquired by English Partnerships in 2005 for the purposes of redeveloping the area. The original clock tower, water tower and entertainment hall have been retained as they are listed buildings.
This location now exists between Parcel Drive and Priestley Road behind the Post Office Building.
thelandtrust.org.uk/space/park-prewett/
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avenue_(landscape)