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Definitively completed in the Swabian period, the Cathedral of Cefalù, which became a World Heritage Site in 2015, can now also be visited in its towers.
Built starting in 1131, its Romanesque style is enriched by Arab influences, and its appearance is pure wonder.
It is also possible to climb its Norman towers, which are different from each other: one is the square-plan tower, with battlements in the shape of flames, which would symbolize the papal miter and the power of the Church; the other is the octagonal-plan tower with Ghibelline merlons which would instead pay homage to the royal crown and the temporal power.
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Definitivamente completato in età sveva, il Duomo di Cefalù, divenuto dal 2015 Patrimonio dell’Umanità può essere ora visitato anche nelle sue torri.
Costruito a partire dal 1131, Il suo stile romanico è arricchito da influenze arabe, e il suo aspetto è pura meraviglia.
E’ possibile salire anche sulle sue torri normanne, diverse l’una dall’altra: una è la torre a pianta quadrata, con merli a forma di fiammelle, che simboleggerebbe la mitria papale e il potere della Chiesa; l’altra è la torre a pianta ottagonale con merli ghibellini che omaggerebbe invece la corona reale e il potere temporale.
Casa Loma (Spanish for Hill House) is a Gothic Revival style house and gardens in midtown Toronto, Ontario, Canada, that is now a museum and landmark. It was originally a residence for financier Sir Henry Mill Pellatt. Casa Loma was constructed over a three-year period from 1911–1914. The architect of the mansion was E. J. Lennox, who was responsible for the designs of several other city landmarks. 221
Esta curiosa y pintoresca formación montañosa denominada “Los Castillos”, pertenece a la Quebrada del Río Las Conchas.
Es imponente. No solo por su color y estructura, sino también por su gran tamaño.
Está situada en la Provincia de Salta en el Noroeste Argentino, y a sólo 90 kilómetros con rumbo Sudoeste, de la Ciudad de Salta.
La distancia que la separa de la Ciudad de Buenos Aires es de aproximadamente
1.400 kilómetros.
Tengo la esperanza que la imagen que abre para mí este nuevo período, y que hoy comparto con ustedes, sea de vuestro agrado.
Muchas gracias por mirar y comentar.
Argentina Enero de 2014.
Les mésanges nonnettes sont de petits oiseaux sveltes, généralement curieux et peu farouches. Les mésanges nonnettes apparaissent généralement en couple à la mangeoire, prospectant avec d'autres mésanges. Cependant il s'agit de "couple" composés d'individus du même sexe qui passent l'hiver ensemble. Dès le printemps, lorsque les mâles commencent à chanter, les « faux » couples se séparent. Elles préfèrent chasser dans les niveaux inférieurs de la végétation et au sol. Elles accumulent souvent des réserves pour les périodes de disette.
C'est une visiteuse assez habituelle de nombreux jardins des zones rurales. Elle est assez timide, mais elle ne dédaignera pas les mangeoires en hiver en compagnie d'autres variétés de mésanges, à condition de trouver des arbres ou des buissons à proximité. Les mésanges nonnettes sont tellement vives et rapides qu'un court instant leur suffit, pour prélever des graines à la mangeoire. Dès qu'une place se libère, les couples plongent continuellement sur la mangeoire pour emporter des graines, A la différence des autres mésanges, les nonnettes prennent chaque fois plusieurs graines ; elles peuvent ainsi emporter jusqu'à trois graines de chanvre dans leur bec. Ces graines ne sont pas cependant consommées en même temps mais bien disséminées dans des cachettes appropriées telles que des fourches d'arbres, des crevasses dans les écorces ou des branches tombées au sol. Chaque graine est cachée séparément et souvent n'est pas retrouvée. Dans la nature, elle inspecte les arbres à la recherche d'insectes. Sur le sol, elle se nourrit de graines d'adventices, faînes, baies et graines de tournesol.
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The chickadees are small, slender birds, usually curious and not very shy. Nutcrackers usually appear in pairs at the feeder, prospecting with other tits. However, it is a "couple" composed of individuals of the same sex who spend the winter together. From the spring, when the males begin to sing, the "fake" couples separate. They prefer to hunt in lower levels of vegetation and on the ground. They often accumulate reserves for periods of scarcity.
She is a fairly habitual visitor to many rural gardens. She is quite shy, but she will not disdain the feeders in winter with other varieties of tits, provided they find trees or bushes nearby. The chickadees are so quick and fast that a short moment is enough for them to collect seeds at the manger. As soon as a place is free, the couples dive continually on the feeder to take away seeds, Unlike the other tits, the nonnets each take several seeds; they can carry up to three hemp seeds in their beaks. These seeds, however, are not consumed at the same time but scattered in appropriate hiding places such as tree forks, crevices in bark or fallen branches. Each seed is hidden separately and often is not found. In the wild, she inspects the trees for insects. On the ground, it feeds on weed seeds, beeches, berries and sunflower seeds.
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In questo periodo c'è poca neve ovunque ma in questo caso ce la siamo cercata.
Dopo il terzo giorno di sole in Val Pusteria, l'ultimo dell'anno abbiamo fatto un giro in Valle Aurina e, a solo qualche decina di chilometri, abbiamo camminato sotto la neve per tutto il giorno.
Rientrati la sera abbiamo mostrato le foto, altrimenti nessuno ci avrebbe creduto.
Comunque in fondo alla valle le malghe erano aperte e ci si poteva riscaldare e rifocillare.
Nella foto la famosa chiesetta di Santo Spirito, anno 1455.
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Scusate il ritardo e buon anno a tutti!
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Sorry for the delay and happy new year to all!
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Autumn, the period of grey, the period of fog, the month before Winter...
but, please, look what warm and deep colors it has...
all around you trees are covered of yellow, orange and deep, deep red... warm colors which cover the ground too and make the scenery full or joy, wonder, surprise and infinite beauty...
even in an abandoned cottage in the countryside...
This is Autumn and it is here...
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they are made with the eye, heart and head.”
[Henry Cartier Bresson]
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Original MidJourney AI assisted digital abstract with iPad Pro, TouchRetouch, procreate, and Apple Pencil.
I recently tried out the new Text-to-Image AI called MidJourney. I am blown away. The quality of its images is a huge step up from previous tools I’ve used (‘WOMBO Dream, Starry AI, and NightCafe).
The output still needs to be upscaled, de-noised, and repainted a bit, but not nearly as much as with other tools.
The user interface is a crazy nightmare… Imagine a Unix-style command line you access from a Discord chat server. There is a bit of a learning curve, but the output is worth it.
En période de reproduction ( printemps - été, la mésange bleue a un régime alimentaire essentiellement insectivore. Elle se nourrit majoritairement d'insectes, d'araignées et de larves vivant sur les arbres et arbustes hauts. Ce sont les chenilles qui sont la principale source caraténoïdes responsables de l'intensité de la couleur jaune vif du plumage ventral. Mâle et femelle sont quasi identiques . La différence se fait au niveau du bandeau de l'oeil, noir chez le mâle et bleu foncé chez la femelle. La femelle est également plus pâle.Les jeunes sont plus ternes et présentent un dessous et une joue jaune pâle . Leur calotte est verdâtre. En dehors de la reproduction, son régime est majoritairement Granivore (graines) préférentiellement d'aunes et de bouleaux, complétées de bourgeons, de nectar, de pollen, voir de sève au printemps ou de noix et suif en hiver; en plus un peu insectivore ( oeufs d'insectes, araignées. - La mésange bleue réalise une couvée de 7 à 12 oufs par an( d'avril à mai) parfois une deuxième en juin -juillet. La taille de la ponte varie selon l'altitude, la qualité de l'habitat ou le volume de la cavité. La couvaison qui dure de 12 à 14 jours, est assurée par la femelle seule. Les fréquences de nourrissage impose aux parents jusqu'à quinze apports d'aliment pas heure. Chaque poussin en moyenne cinquante becquées par jours pendant 2 semaines. les études physiologiques de l'ornithologie montrent que les parents sont à la limite de la résistance physique en fin d'élevage; un couple devant chasser de 6000 à 9000 chenilles par nichée. - Le chat, même nourri par son " maître" n'en chasse pas moins par instinct et reste un redoutable prédateur des mésanges. Il arrive notamment qu'un pic épeiche ainsi qu'un geai arrache de jeunes oisillons de leur nid pour les manger. - Personnellement vu.
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per claudia, e .. per venezia!
Gualtiero Bertelli - Nina (solo perchè in rete non ho trovato "stucky"!)
Many thanks to adele for the beautiful texture :-)
The "Stucky Mill" is one of the most famous and symbolic buildings in Venice.
Built at the end of 1800, it employed 1500 workers, producing about 2500 hundred kilograms flour every day.
It definitely closed in 1955, after a long period of crisis and a very strong industrial action: 500 workers occupied the buildings for one mounth.
Mijn 1501 Foto op Flickr
C-Mines Genk/Winterslag
Een deel van de mijngebouwen en -installaties is behouden gebleven en heeft monumentenstatus. De gebouwen in neoclassicistische- en neo-Vlaamse renaissancestijl dateren uit de periode 1912-1925. Erachter liggen twee schachtbokken: één uit 1916 (het oudste van Limburg) en één uit 1963, de laatste ooit gebouwd. Verder zijn het ophaal-machinegebouw en de elektriciteitscentrale van de mijn nog te bezichtigen.
Okavango Delta
Botswana
Southern Africa
The wildebeest also called the gnu is an antelope in the genus Connochaetes native to Eastern and Southern Africa. It belongs to the family Bovidae, which includes antelopes, cattle, goats, sheep, and other even-toed horned ungulates.
Connochaetes includes two species, both native to Africa: the black wildebeest or white-tailed gnu (C. gnou), and the blue wildebeest or brindled gnu (C. taurinus).
In East Africa, the blue wildebeest is the most abundant big-game species; some populations perform an annual migration to new grazing grounds, but the black wildebeest is merely nomadic. Breeding in both takes place over a short period of time at the end of the rainy season and the calves are soon active and are able to move with the herd, a fact necessary for their survival. Nevertheless, some fall prey to large carnivores, especially the spotted hyena.
Wildebeest often graze in mixed herds with zebra, which gives heightened awareness of potential predators. They are also alert to the warning signals emitted by other animals such as baboons.
Some illegal hunting goes on but the population trend is fairly stable and some populations are in national parks or on private land. The International Union for Conservation of Nature lists both as least-concern species. – Wikipedia
KALDENKIRCHEN // Traditioneel vertrekt er in de periode december tot februari wekelijks een skitrein uit Den Haag richting Oostenrijk onder de naam 'Alpen Express'. Opvallend genoeg reed men in het seizoen van 2022/23 enkel op 25 februari richting de Alpen, een merkwaardig aantal. In Venlo werd er van locomotief gewisseld, net als tijdens het voorgaande seizoen zou de 110 459 uit Crailsheim de trein van tractie voorzien om de grens over te komen. Nadat ik vorig jaar in Venlo stond voor dezelfde trein, werd besloten om het dit jaar eens over de grens in Kaldenkirchen te proberen..
Het zou een avond worden waarbij het geduld aardig op de proef gesteld werd. Eenmaal onderweg per auto samen met een bekende, werd duidelijk dat de trein al met fikse vertraging zou vertrekken; het geheel had de Watergraafsmeer nog niet eens verlaten, tijd zat voor een maaltijd in Venlo dus. De TUI Ski Express zou diezelfde avond nog een keer via Venlo rijden door de enkelsporige beschikbaarheid van het baanvak naar Emmerich. 'De vorige keer was deze ook alweer gauw pleite, dus hou er rekening mee' - het werd dus 50/50. Helaas zat het ons niet mee bij de TUI-trein, die na 3 seconden alweer koers zette richting Viersen. De Alpen Express moest en zou dus slagen om er nog een redelijke avond van te maken, echter weer met (zoals gezegd) aardig wat geduld.. de trein was Utrecht pas bijna door.
Een aantal flauwe grappen, allerlei soorten gespreksonderwerpen en een plan voor een geïmproviseerd bos verder was de trein intussen in Venlo gearriveerd.. 23:30. De 110 stond intussen voor de trein en met het laatste sprankje hoop begonnen we af te tellen. Toen de trein Venlo verliet - het markante fluitje was aan de grens te horen - was de uitrijder nog rood.. en hij bleef rood... nog wat langer zelfs.. resulterend in een ruime stop op het desolate grensstation van Kaldenkirchen. Eindelijk was de trein in zicht, evenals de gehoopte foto van de fraaie 110 459 met Alpen Express 13489 naar Bludenz. Bij aankomst schreven we intussen zaterdag 25 februari, middernacht. Met zo'n +140 vertrok de 110 459 vrolijk fluitend richting het zuiden, richting Rheydt alwaar de volgende locwissel met de 182 596 op de planning stond. Ruim 5 uur verder werd er moe maar voldaan richting de Achterhoek vertrokken; een avond die niet snel meer vergeten wordt.
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Kaldenkirchen, 25-02-2023
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Dawn on Sydney Harbour.
Watch out, lol.
I was standing on Pier 19 at the Jones Bay Wharf, Pyrmont, where I had arrived at about 5.30am. AND, as soon as dawn arrived, so did all these boats - small and large, lol.
It was chaos on the water.
Jones Bay Wharf. Piers 19-21.
32 Pirrama Road, Pyrmont.
Across the water (Darling Harbour) is Barangaroo.
My Canon EOS 5D Mk IV with the Canon EF 16-35mm f/2.8L II USM lens.
Processed in Adobe Lightroom.
Het is een genot om na een periode van afwezigheid de museumtrams weer op straat te zien. Hier piept Ombouwer 36 uit het Haagse museumbestand door de boog in Voorburg.
Op het balkonscherm zit het geëmailleerde reclamebord waarmee Van Nelle's koffie en thee onder de aandacht gebracht worden. Passend bij het verschijningsbeeld van de jaren dertig is de Turmac-sigarettenreclame op het dak van de tram.
De fraaie villa aan het Westeinde uit 1901 is slechts enige jaren ouder dan het oorspronkelijke deel van de tram die in 1905 door Werkspoor gebouwd werd. In tegenstelling tot het pand onderging de tram een ingrijpende gedaante wisseling in de jaren 1929-31.
Meer foto's vindt u in het album Museumtrams in Den Haag.
Klik op de foto voor een grote afbeelding.
Bekijk mijn fotoalbum in de klassieke versie.
Becán ist eine archäologische Stätte und vormaliges Zentrum der Maya der präklassischen Periode. Sie befindet sich im mexikanischen Bundesstaat Campeche, im Zentrum der Yucatán-Halbinsel, 150 Kilometer nördlich von Tikal.
Der Name Becán bedeutet in Mayathan „Schlucht, von Wasser geformt“ und bezieht sich auf den umgebenden Graben, der einzigartig für eine Maya-Stätte ist. Becán, das im Rio-Bec-Stil erbaut ist, war ein regionales religiöses und politisches Zentrum der Maya. Die ersten Nachweise menschlicher Besiedelung gehen ins Jahr 600 v. Chr. zurück. Die Blütezeit der Stadt war jedoch in den Jahren 600–1000, bewohnt war die Stadt bis etwa 1250.
Die Stadt ist von einem Graben umgeben, der an sieben Stellen unterbrochen war. Er war damit kein wirksames militärisches Hindernis, oder wurde nicht als solches fertiggestellt.
Becan is an archaeological site of the Maya civilization in pre-Columbian Mesoamerica. Becan is located near the center of the Yucatán Peninsula, in the present-day Mexican state of Campeche,Archaeological evidence shows that Becan was occupied in the middle Preclassic Maya period, about 550 BCE, and grew to a major population and ceremonial center a few hundred years later in the late Preclassic.
Berkeley Castle is a castle in the town of Berkeley, Gloucestershire, UK. The castle's origins date back to the 11th century, and it has been designated by English Heritage as a grade I listed building.
The castle has remained within the Berkeley family since they reconstructed it in the 12th century, except for a period of royal ownership by the Tudors. It is traditionally believed to have been the scene of the murder of King Edward II in 1327.
In 1956 Berkeley Castle was opened to visitors and remains open today.
1977 Opel Typ City (1975-1979) Modell 3-türige Schrägheck-Limousine
Unfortunately, I will have less time to spend on FLICKR in the coming period due to my study 'Drone Pilot Advanced EASA Specific-Category STS-01/PDRA-S01' 🚁
I keep trying to post 2 automotives a day on my stream and not in groups except by request
Around this period Thornaby Depot would add certain touches to there depot allocated locomotives such as Large numbered 31283 along with the Thornaby Kingfisher decal passes Seal Sands on 22/May/1989 with ICI Hydrocyanicacid tanks into B.A.S.F. Chemicals
With a construction period that was disrupted by the First World War the Calais town hall took thirteen years to build before completion in 1925. Perhaps I should have waited two years to upload a centenary image.
The world over. town halls were built as a show of civic pride. This of course is a fine and elaborate example and one of many that spring too mind. Leeds being another and in America state capitol buildings do the same. Helena in Montana being another first class example.
This photo goes back to one of many regular cross channel trips we made either side of the millennium. This particular trip dates to 2002.
These adult and juvenile Red-Tailed hawks were seen over Lime Ridge Open Space in Walnut Creek, California.
This is a composite of two photos from the same time period, because I couldn't otherwise get both birds in focus. The hawks were flying in close proximity and were probably from the same family.
Brick Fair VA 2019 Moc
Bet you weren’t expecting that! Made surprise visit after spending all summer in Kyrgyzstan backpacking.
Detail shots to follow!
Warfare of the Kamakura Period in Japan tore society apart and people look to Buddhism for solace in a world ruled by samurai warriors.
It is a pity this Vespa wasn't a little older, but given its relative lack of change of appearance over the years I was happy to come across this combination of an original Fiat 500 and the scooter.
Photo taken in yet another UNESCO listed city at Noto.
It may not look it, but because of the tight angle I had here this is two vertical images stitched together.
The sides of this chickentransporter are still open. In one of the coming weeks they will be changed for closed sides (due to possible frost in october and the rest of the winter period)
Blackstone Edge
Millstone Grit is an informal term for gritstones which are found in Pennines and the Peak District. These sediments were laid down in the Paleozoic era, in the Carboniferous period, about 360 million to 300 million years ago. Gritstone is a hard, coarse grained, siliceous sandstone, the name is given to sandstones which are quarried for building material. British gritstone was used for millstones to mill flour, to grind wood into pulp for paper and for grindstones to sharpen blades.
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En febrero del año 2007, el periódico británico THE GUARDIAN, eligió la
Playa de Rodas como la playa más bella del mundo.
HABLEMOS AHORA DE MUJERES.
(El arte de ser un auténtico cotilla).
La vida de un “cotilla” es muy sacrificada y en verano roza casi lo tormentoso.
Los cotillas no dejamos de ser unos soñadores, seres muy alejados de las palabras que fija la Real Academia de la Lengua como chismosas y parlanchinas, todo lo contrario, intentamos averiguar el porqué de las cosas, de ciertas actitudes, el intríngulis de ciertos comportamientos.
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Íbamos todos camino de las Islas Cíes en un barco atestado de turistas.
Y de pronto apareció ella, brillando con luz propia sobre un mar de fondo completamente azul.
Y bajo un violento sol, una luz oblicua derramaba destellos nacarados en su pelo negro azabache.
Hay que reconocer que era una morenaza de muy buen ver, vamos, una chica de portada de revista, espléndida, solemne.
Un servidor elogiaba su fina elegancia, una auténtica reprimenda para mentes que ya creían haberlo visto todo.
Calculando a ojo, no tendría más de treinta y pocos años.
Hablaba por teléfono y me hubiera gustado estar un poco más cerca de ella, pero un vientecillo fresco me traía palabras sueltas, frases inconexas que mi imaginación descifraba de inmediato con cierta coherencia.
Al principio no entendía nada, pero poco a poco empecé a entenderlo todo.
Hablaba con el noviete, de eso no cabía la menor duda.
- No me fío de ti ni un pelo Carlos, siempre me has dado mala espina, aparte de que siempre has sido un auténtico sinvergüenza.
Ya tenía varios datos, el sujeto se llamaba Carlos y era un presunto sinvergüenza.
La cosa se ponía interesante.
-Por descontado que esta noche iré al BUDA y te cantaré las cuarenta a la cara y muy clarito Carlos para que no quede ningún género de duda.
Te dejo que ya hemos llegado a las Cíes, nos vemos esta noche, canalla.
Hay que reconocer que la chica tenía gran aplomo y cierto carácter.
La seguí entre pasarelas de madera y bellos pinares.
Ya en la playa, se quitó sus sandalias, se quitó su falda completamente negra, y su camisa, completamente blanca y quedó en un bikini que lo enseñaba todo y a la vez no enseñaba nada.
Tenía unas magníficas piernas, demoledoras, diría yo.
La miraba y la miraba y no daba crédito……y en eso me quedé dormido.
Al despertar ella ya no estaba.
Volví al muelle y vi partir barcos y más barcos, pero en ninguno estaba ella.
Cogí el último barco y una cosa tenía muy clara, esa noche estaría en el Buda. ¡Vamos, como hay dios ¡
A las once de la noche hacía guardia en la puerta del BUDA.
Sobre las doce llegaron ellos. El Carlitos era guapo, las cosas como son, pero ella iba con un traje sastre de chaqueta, chaleco y pantalón azul marino de corte muy masculino, una camisa de raya diplomática y un cinturón negro haciendo juego con unos zapatos de cordones.
La quintaesencia de la pura elegancia. Radiante, solo faltaba una alfombra roja para resaltar tanta belleza.
Me senté lo más cerca posible de ellos y me llegaba un aroma fresco a flor de naranja, a madera de cedro…..a vainilla.
No podía oír gran cosa por la música, pero siempre quedan los gestos…..y los gestos siempre son muy elocuentes.
En un momento dado ella se levantó y dijo:
-¡Y una leche ¡ Ahí te quedas.
Eso lo escuché perfectamente. El hizo ademán de retenerla, pero ella de un manotazo retiró la mano de él.
Y se marchó.
Y yo la seguí.
Pero en un cruce de calles la perdí de vista. Volví sobre mis pasos con la esperanza de encontrarla, pero en vano.
Me hubiera gustado saber su nombre……por todo, por nada.
Y ahora una canción de
Leonard Cohen: Closing Time.
Alhoewel de winter periode veelal een erg grijze periode is waarbij het fotograferen moeilijk wordt en iets en de goesting vaak de wensen laat. Maar als het dan eens een heldere koude dag is is het bangelijk lekker licht om foto's te maken! Op 17 januari 2023 was het zo'n dag er werd dan ook post gevat nabij de Antwerpse Oosterweelbrug. Echter reed er die dag zeer weinig en beter gezegd enkel deze trein. Het was de 6481 met haar ledige Zink-erts trein komende van Balen werkplaatsen. De foto werd bewust goed ingezoomd gemaakt omdat ik de trein in combinatie met het wegverkeer wilde hebben.
The brown dipper can either feed by diving into streams to eat larger benthic organisms, or wade in shallower parts of streams and pick smaller organisms of the bottom. The adults will dive for food from December through April, which is when there are more large benthic organisms. Since this period is also the breeding season of the brown dipper, more food is required, so diving for large food is necessary. However, the adults will forage by wading and picking at the stream bottom for the rest of the year. Brown dipper chicks and fledglings will also forage by diving. One small population wintering at a hot spring in Suntar-Khayata Mountains of Siberia feeds underwater when air temperatures drop below -55 C
Les bruants des prés semblent vraiment aimer montrer leur prises pendant une longue période de temps sans les consommer. Très drole de les voir changer de plante et toujours garder leur butin et essayer de signaler en même temps.
View of Adelaide Hills near Callington, South Australia
The Mount Lofty Ranges are estimated to have been formed over 70 million years ago during the late Cretaceous period or the early Tertiary period.
Give or take a month of Sundays or two.
On a 24hr clock this formed about 2300hrs in comparison to the earth's age of 4.5billion years.
Excerpt from historicplaces.ca:
Description of Historic Place
The Navy Hall stands alone in a carefully manicured park setting just below Fort George National Historic Site. Designed with clear, clean lines, it is a low, rectangular, stone-clad structure with a hipped-roof clad in copper, and with a symmetrical organization of its windows and entry points. The designation is confined to the footprint of the building.
Heritage Value
The Navy Hall is a Recognized Federal Heritage Building because of its historical associations, and its architectural and environmental values.
Historical Value:
The Navy Hall is a very good example of a building associated with the beginnings of the heritage movement in the first half of the 20th century. It illustrates changing approaches to the management of important historic buildings over time. In particular, it illustrates the role of aesthetics in conservation in the 1930s. Originally a commissariat storehouse, regular troops, the militia and also the Boy Scouts used the building, built in 1815. In the 1930s, the building was taken over by the Niagara Parks Commission.
Architectural Value:
The Navy Hall is valued for its good aesthetic design. The exterior fabric of the structure, the stone cladding, the copper clad roof, and the enhanced symmetry of the fenestration are features of the 1930s intervention. These features, clearly of a later era and philosophy, reflect the classical revival tastes of the period and the design idiom of the Niagara Parks Commission. Good functional design is evidenced in the placement of doors and windows, and in the spatial arrangement and planning of the interior.
Environmental Value:
The Navy Hall reinforces the landscaped parkway that runs along the Niagara lakefront and is a familiar landmark to residents and to visitors.
Character-Defining Elements
The character-defining elements of the Navy Hall should be respected.
Its good aesthetic, good functional design and good quality materials and craftsmanship, for example:
-the simple, rectangular massing.
-the low-pitched hipped roof, the copper roof cladding, and the symmetrically placed chimneys.
-the stone cladding of the exterior walls, the small multi-paned windows and large entrances.
-the interior spatial arrangement of the principal rooms.
The manner in which the Navy Hall reinforces the landscaped setting and is a familiar landmark, as evidenced by:
-its simple design and materials that harmonize with the landscaped parkway consisting of well-maintained lawns and walks, all introduced as part of the Niagara Park Commission’s parkway landscaping in the 1930s.
-its visibility and recognition by those frequenting the parkway and the National Historic Site.
Vallée de la Somme Picardie France
Nature in the autumn period
Natura nel periodo autunnale
Natur im Herbst Zeit
La naturaleza en el período de otoño
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...in this period the Japanese garden is at the height of its beauty, giant white and pink peonies bloom, the maples are putting tender green leaves, the sakura cherry trees have arms full of delicate flowers, hanging from the branches you can often read cartouches with poems zen, the tiny pond cradles huge darting carp and you can rest in the small pagoda enjoying the view of Rome, while maybe at your feet a couple of mallards go diving in the water ...
The building and the delivery van .. doing it in style .
Mathew Thomas .. Coffee . Meals and Homewares
Shorncliffe Parade
Shorncliffe
Via Brisbane
near the sauternes vineyards is the fabulous chateau cazeneuve, where many nobles including Henri IV and Queen Margot stayed. It began as a ninth century fortification and was further developed in the thirteenth and seventeenth centuries. It is furnished in the later period, and renewal occurs annually. Sony A6300 and PZ1650.
Macro Mondays theme: Glass
My subject is a bud vase I bought 60 years ago at a yard sale of an old family friend and antique dealer. To my 16 year old self it was a treasure and reminded me of the art of Aubrey Beardsley. I have always called it my Aubrey Beardsley vase, though he was from the Art Nouveau period and this vase is probably Deco. The glass is in two layers. The inside layer is a nearly opaque yellow and the outside layer is clear. The black and white details are painted on the outer part of the clear layer. It is difficult to photograph as the inner and outer surfaces both catch the light and the painted lines cast shadows. Unfortunately the best lighting had the worst background, so not as artistic.
HMM