SFRD 12246 on display at the Shafter Depot Museum, 150 Central Valley Hwy / CA 43 ~ Shafter, CA

Note - The Santa Fé Refrigerator Despatch [reporting mark SFRD] was a railroad refrigerator car line established as a subsidiary of the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fé Railway in 1884 to carry perishable commodities. Though the line started out with a mere 25 ventilated fruit cars and 8 ice-cooled refrigerator cars, by 1910 its roster had swollen to 6,055 total units [compared to the 8,100 units its largest competitor, the Pacific Fruit Express, operated].

As of 1929 the line was carrying some 43 percent of California's citrus crop, most of which travelled aboard its "Green Fruit Express" refrigerator car special. Some 100,000 produce loads were shipped from the fields of Arizona and California to East Coast markets each growing season.

Source: Wikipedia

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SHAFTER DEPOT: This building originally located 4 blocks southeast of this site and was opened for use and dedicated October 11, 1917. Until it closed in 1978, this building served as Shafter’s gateway to the world as the Mail, Western Union Telegraph, Express, Freight and Rail passengers passed through it’s doors. The concern for preservation of this building resulted in the formation of the Shafter Historical Society in July of 1979. In March 1980, the society accepted the gift of the depot from the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fé Railway Co. and moved it to this site donated by the Harlan Wilson Family and by the S.A. Camp Ginning Co. with much public support, the society restored the building to it’s original format and dedicated it for many more years of service as the Shafter Museum October 9th, 1982.

This property has been placed on the National Register of Historic Places by the United States Department of Interior.

Construction date: 1886-1898 (built in stages) - Architect: Benjamin Mountfort - Architectural style: Carpenter Gothic

"St Mary's Cathedral Church, also known as St Mary's Church, is the former Cathedral Church of the Anglican Diocese of Auckland. Located in Parnell, it replaced the earlier Old St Mary's. This wooden Gothic Revival church was designed by the prominent Christchurch architect Benjamin Mountfort and completed in 1897. The building served as the Cathedral Church and principal Anglican church of Auckland until 1973 when the Chancel of Holy Trinity Cathedral, for which the foundation stone was laid in 1957, came into use. In 1982 St Mary's Church was moved across Parnell Road to its present site beside the Cathedral.

Old St Mary's, as it came to be known, was replaced by a large wooden church, for which the Foundation Stone was laid in 1886. At more than 50 metres long, it is the largest wooden Gothic church in the world. Its English born architect Benjamin Mountfort had become one of New Zealand's most eminent architects, responsible for many of the Gothic Revival buildings in Christchurch. St Mary's is the most impressive of his wooden church designs.

The original intention had been to build the church in stone, but the plan had been rejected as too expensive. Mountfort seems to have ignored the perishable and limited qualities of wood, and built a vast church worthy of the finest stone. St Mary's covers an area of 9,000 square feet (840 m2) and has architectural features normally associated only with the great medieval cathedrals of Europe.

Bishop William Cowie instigated the decision to make St Mary's the Cathedral Church during 1887, and the first part of the church, consisting of the Chancel and three bays of the Nave was consecrated and used from 1888.

The church was completed to its present state by the addition of the four final bays and consecrated in 1898. It was Mountfort's final large scale work.

Externally the most noticeable architectural features of the long rectangular building are the numerous gables of the mostly single story structure. The gables, often placed above lancet shaped windows, serve to accentuate the Gothic motifs. This is particularly evident on the exterior of the altar tribune where three tall narrow windows rise up into the gables themselves, the tribune itself is three sided, the wooden construction making the traditional Romanesque curve in stone impossible.

The opposing end of the church containing the principal entrance, displays the full height of the building with one large gable, containing not only ground floor windows but two levels of clerestory windows above. The gable here slopes at two angles. The architect's reasoning for this was to increase the height of the gable at the façade's centre, rather than allow it to rise uniformly according to the width of the building. This central steeper roof pitch increased the ceiling height to the central aisle, as would be found over the central aisle of a true Gothic cathedral. However, the resultant effect has been to create a gable which to European eyes appears as though designed to bear the weight of heavy snow falls. In an area where snow does not occur this gives the façade, with its protruding decorated architrave above the first clerestory, an almost whimsical Swiss chalet atmosphere, which adds greatly to the building's individuality. Almost a hundred years later this feature was subtly suggested in the corresponding roof-line of the new Cathedral Nave.

In 1982 St Mary's Church was moved into the precinct of the Cathedral of the Holy Trinity, a major feat of engineering when the church was transported across the road and turned through 90° onto its present site."

Extract sourced from Wikipedia: St Mary's Cathedral Church (10th June 2013)

Tree shadows are just clearing the track at the start of a perfect summer morning as the "Super Fruit" unit perishables train eases down the east slope of Donner Pass, seconds from entering one of the parallel curved tunnels at Andover. Beautiful and serene Donner Lake lies in the valley below, while the summit of the Sierra Nevada looms just a few miles to the west.

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A couple years ago the Frosty's Village team (Melissa & Christina (shown here) along with Annie and Leah and Robert) started putting up the same Frosty inflatable, hoping to brighten up their neighbourhood. That grew into a campaign to see if the neighbours would band together and put up as many Frostys as possible. If you want to join in on the fun, Christina has a few Frostys ready to go. They’re building on last year's great success and it's become a MUST-SEE nighttime drive thru for your family in December with about 100 Frostys up so far. So many Frostys went up last weekend, and now is a great time to visit and count all the Frostys in Frosty’s village. They partnered with @burlfoodbank to collect food donations as well – the food drive will run for the month of December. When you visit Frosty’s Village consider dropping off a non-perishable food item at 1148 Lockhart Rd! It is well lit with two Frostys, some signage and a bin for your donation!

IMO: 9890745

Name: WHERO

Vessel Type - Generic: Cargo

Vessel Type - Detailed: Reefer/Containership

Status: Active

MMSI: 370820000

Call Sign: 3FIY2

Flag: Panama [PA]

Gross Tonnage: 13014

Summer DWT: 12354 t

Length Overall x Breadth Extreme: 158 x 25 m

Year Built: 2021

Home Port: PANAMA

A reefer ship is a refrigerated cargo ship typically used to transport perishable cargo, which require temperature-controlled handling, such as fruits, meat, vegetables, dairy products, and similar items.

Frankfurt Liebieghaus -

Mummy portrait of a pretty young girl -

Original photo by courtesy of Carole Raddato

www.liebieghaus.de/de/antike/mumienbildnis-eines-maedchens

Mummy Portrait of a Girl

Roman Egypt

120–150 AD

Encaustic on sycamore wood

Height 35.5 cm

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Even during the period of Greek and Roman rule in Egypt, the old burial customs from the days of the Pharaohs were not abandoned. The dead continued to be embalmed and laid to rest in the form of mummies. However, a new element was introduced: a very faithful portrait of the deceased, painted on a wooden panel, was sometimes enclosed with the mummified body. This lively portrait of a young Roman girl, whose beautiful hair is adorned with a wreath of leaves, is painted on a panel of sycamore wood. Thick eyelashes frame her large eyes. She looks sideways and into the distance, not directly at the viewer.

We learn from ancient writers that the art of painting on wooden panels had been brought to perfection as early as 350 BC. Because of the perishable nature of the material, however, the masterpieces of the admired painters of antiquity have been lost. It is therefore all the more significant that mummy portraits survived in the hot, dry climate of Egypt. They were executed in the tradition of the Greek artists’ workshops and testify to the efflorescence of ancient painting. Areas of light and dark (chiaroscuro) lend depth and threedimensionality to the girl’s face. Beneath the fine curls on her forehead lies a delicate shadow, a highlight accentuates the ridge of the nose, and the shadow cast by the nose is brought out by hatching.

According to the Roman writer Pliny, the leading panel painters were also commissioned to apply polychromy to marble sculptures. We have to imagine ancient sculpture from around 350 BC onwards as being painted in as sophisticated a manner as this mummy portrait.

Source: Liebieghaus

A pair of St. Louis Southwestern B40-8s lead a priority Oakland, California to Chicago, Illinois Forwarder through Sutro, Utah approaching Spanish Fork Canyon on July 28, 1990. The power includes a quartet of Rio Grande geeps followed by perishables in refers and piggyback trailers on flat and spine cars.

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This enchanted garden is less than three hours from Toronto, and, because of it's eerie vibe, is the perfect spot to visit for those interested in the spooky and unusual.

The Screaming Heads are located in Burk's Falls, and is half-art gallery, half-outdoor playground.

This surreal property is owned and operated by the Screaming Heads artist himself, Peter Camani, on his 300-acre land.

Visitors are welcome to wander around and admire the 20-ft concrete sculptures that adorn his gardens, including heads and hands that seem to be exploding out of the earth - making the property feel otherworldly.

Often referred to as Ontario's Stonehenge, the arrangement of the artwork may seem random, but seen from above, you'll discover the concrete sculptures form the shape of a dragon.

The Screaming Heads of Midlothian is open year round, but perhaps is best seen in fall because of the vibrant autumn foliage of the Almaguin Highlands Region.

Although it's free to enter, there is a donation box at the entrance, and visitors are encouraged to bring donations of non-perishable food items for the Burk's Falls and District Food Bank.

PLEASE, NO invitations or self promotions, THEY WILL BE DELETED. My photos are FREE to use, just give me credit and it would be nice if you let me know, thanks.

The present lighthouse has been in operation since 1884. This was the rear range light for the harbour, the front range light is no longer there. The lighthouse is white tapered wooden tower, with a red lantern. It was a guide for coastal steamers transporting non-perishable goods into the only protected harbour on the western side of Cape Breton Island. Over the years gypsum was shipped from here, there was also a lobster and salmon canning factory right next to the lighthouse.

Tower Height: 14.3meters (47ft)

Light Height: 13.4 meters (44ft) above water level

Spring House, Middleton Place Plantation, Charleston, South Carolina, March 17, 2009. This structure was built in the mid to late 1700's at the site of a spring. Stone compartments on the bottom of the building were filled with the spring water, and then dairy products and other perishables were placed in the water as a primitive form of refrigeration. The water stayed stable in temperature throughout the year - around 42 degrees, I believe.

Our tour guide told us an amusing story about how the head of the Middleton family was in Europe one summer and discovered billiards. He was so enthusiastic about the game that he sent instructions back to his plantation foreman to add a second story to this building to house a billiards table. He sent the dimensions of the table so that the foreman could have a table constructed and ready for him when he returned. However, when he returned, he rushed out to see his game room and found that it was... a chapel! Seems that his devout Christian wife found out about his plans to house an immoral game room there and had it changed to a chapel instead. Poor guy.

Taken with a Holga 120N using Fuji Velvia 100 film.

DESIGNATION: Protector-018

NICKNAME: Galaar

RANK: ARC Captain Grade 1

UNIT: Vornskr, First Regiment, "Bralor's First", 253rd Elite Clone Legion

"General Tiin, the ship is lost."

"Bright green streaks of plasma flew past me as I lazily drifted towards the hull of a Separatist Munificent-class Frigate. I checked the status of my squad in my HUD as the hull of the frigate grew beneath me. Two if my men had already landed engaging a vulture droid that appeared to be attempting defend the ship's turbo lasers, my squads primary target. As I neared the hull I activated the magnetics in my boots causing me to quickly cover the last few meters and slam into the hull. I lurched as my boots stuck to durasteel halting my momentum, righting myself, I assessed my surroundings, I was on target, right bellow the line of dual turbo lasers which were peppering the Absolver above. Dodging explosions from the Absolver's return fire I lead my squad along the frigates hull until we were above the turbo laser control room. Using a special charge we breached the hull, staying outside until the room had both finished venting it's droid crew and pressurizing. Now we just had to wait for the engineers to link up and seal the room, until then our mission was complete. Now it was time to sit back and hope that the rest of the Legion was having the same luck."

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I finally got around to building something, it's nothing crazy, but Brady put a lot of work into writing mission 15 for the 253rd so I had to put something together. Over the last 4 months of working abroad and not having time to build I've come to realize that building is a bit of a perishable skill, I'm pretty sure I've forgotten how to terrain, which isn't great, but I'm determined to make something presentable with the new green and dk tan bricks I recently picked up so we'll see.

Anyway, thanks for stopping by and Happy Easter to those who celebrate it!

- Tommy

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The weather is damp and dark and miserable as you'd expect. The Milwaukee Road's local freight between Bellingham and Sumas, Washington, has left the "mainline" for the five mile trip down the spur to Lynden, a small dary and farming community in Whatcom County. On the east edge of town, short of Nooksack Street, the single SD10 has stopped and cut off its train. The crew will pull into town an come up with a plan to swap freight cars out. Included inbound are a few cars of feed and empty mechanical refrigerator cars for perishable loading.

On West Rim Trail, Zion National Park, Utah

When the perishable has been clothed with the imperishable, and the mortal with immortality, then the saying that is written will come true: “Death has been swallowed up in victory.”[a]

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“Where, O death, is your victory?

Where, O death, is your sting?”[b]

56 The sting of death is sin, and the power of sin is the law.

Often trade entrances into cities in Historica are modest affairs... not so however in Sultan's Gate! The cities strategic location has seen flourishing trade down the centuries, which has made some merchants very rich indeed. This allowed the powerful merchant's guild to commission the lift many years before, completed in the grand style to advertise the wealth and power of the city. Goods that are perishable or particularly valuable are often sent by lift to avoid the treacherous climb up the escarpment. The lift is very safe with only a few losses, mainly from overbearing merchants ordering it's use on high wind days. (A local legend has it that a giant roc once bit through the lift chain and made off with the entire box, but this has never been substantiated.) A ride in the lift to the ground and back again is a rite of passage for many of the young thrillseekers in the city, who often try to stow away or bribe the guards for the experience.

Finally got around to taking and editing some pics of my Brickvention model for this year - which was originally going to be my entry into the Sultan's Gate community build on GoH (last year!), but then life happened and suddenly it was 6 months later. :P The lift actually is remote controlled using PF, which was fun to build and operate. Sorry the pics aren't that good but this was quite a challenge to photograph - significant height and length taxed my home set-up, and the large area of white didn't make things easy either.

Photo taken in the blue container at Marina Munter's Non-Perishable installation at Berg Arts.

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Rob Renierd and b. bode are in this photo, too, but I couldn't add them for some reason. My apologies to anyone I left out. Please add yourself, if you wish to be recognized. I preferred to hide behind sunglasses, myself. : )

Plain of Jars, Site 1 near Phonsovan in Laos.

The Plain of Jars (near Phonsovan) is a megalithic archaeological landscape in Laos. Scattered in the landscape of the Xieng Khouang plateau, Xieng Khouang, Lao PDR, are thousands of megalithic jars. These stone jars appear in clusters, ranging from a single or a few to several hundred jars at lower foothills surrounding the central plain and upland valleys.

The Xieng Khouang Plateau is located at the northern end of the Annamese Cordillera, the principal mountain range of Indochina. Initial research of the Plain of Jars in the early 1930s claimed that the stone jars are associated with prehistoric burial practices. Excavation by Lao and Japanese archaeologists in the intervening years has supported this interpretation with the discovery of human remains, burial goods and ceramics around the stone jars. The Plain of Jars is dated to the Iron Age (500 BC to AD 500) and is one of the most important sites for studying Southeast Asian prehistory. The Plain of Jars has the potential to shed light on the relationship between increasingly complex societies and megalithic structures and provide insight into social organisation of Iron Age Southeast Asia’s communities.

More than 90 sites are known within the province of Xieng Khouang. Each site ranges from 1 up to 400 stone jars. The jars vary in height and diameter between 1 and 3 metres and are all without exception hewn out of rock. The shape is cylindrical with the bottom always wider than the top.[1] The stone jars are undecorated with the exception of a single jar at Site 1. This jar has a human bas-relief carved on the exterior. Parallels between this ‘frogman’ at Site 1 and the rock painting at Huashan in Guangxi, China have been drawn. The paintings, which depict large full-frontal humans with arms raised and knees bent, are dated to 500 BC - 200 AD .

From the fact that most of the jars have lip rims, it is presumed that all stone jars supported lids, although few stone lids have been recorded; this may suggest that the bulk of lids were fashioned from perishable materials. Stone lids with animal representations have been noticed at few sites such as Ban Phakeo (Site 52). The bas-relief animals are thought to be monkeys, tigers and frogs. No in situ lid has ever been found.

Jaulian (Urdu: جولیاں‎; meaning Seat of Saints[1]) is a ruined Buddhist monastery dating from the 2nd century CE,[2] located in Pakistan. Jaulian is located in Haripur District, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, near the provincial border with Punjab and the city of Taxila.

Jaulian, along with the nearby monastery at Mohra Muradu, form part of the Ruins of Taxila – a collection of excavations that were inscribed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1980.

Location

Jaulian is located on a hill 100 metres above the nearby modern village of Jaulian. The cities of Rawalpindi and Islamabad are approximately 35 km and 45 km to the southeast, respectively and situated near Khanpur Taxila road; a picnic place near Khanpur Dam. Jaulian is located near the Mohra Muradu monastery, and the ancient Taxilan city of Sirsukh. Moreover, Piplan Remains, Badalpur Stupa and Jinnah Wali Dheri Stupa are nearby places.

History

Jaulian was built by the Kushans in the 2nd century CE – around the same time as the nearby Mohra Muradu[3] Jaulian, along with the rest of Ancient Taxila, was devastated in the 450s CE during the invasion of the White Huns, and later abandoned. Subsequent rulers, such as the Hun King Mihirakula, persecuted the region's Buddhists,[4] and the site never recovered.

Excavations

The ruins at Jaulian are situated on a hill top, and consist of: a main central stupa, 27 peripheral smaller stupas, 59 small chapels displaying scenes from the life of Buddha, and two quadrangles around which monastic living quarters were arranged. The form and building of Jaulian is similar to that of the nearby Mohra Muradu.[3]

Main stupa

The main stupa at Jaulian was much smaller than that of Mohra Muradu or the Dharmarajika Stupa,[3] and is badly damaged. It was extensively coated in stucco plaster, as are almost all the sculptures and architectural details.[3] Despite the use of an easily moldable material, the quality of decoration at Jaulian is considered to be less impressive than that of Mohra Muradu.[3] The original plaster is preserved at some places.

The main stupa is surrounded by 21 smaller "votive stupas" that contained religious iconography – though some posit that some of the votive stupas were actually built as tombs for revered monks. The statues located in the votive stupas are mostly preserved; though a number of have been removed and are housed in museums.the original fabric of the main stupa itself which stands in the middle of the upper court

A statue of Buddha in a votive stupa with a hole in the navel was called the "Healing Buddha". Pilgrims would put their fingers in the icon's navel, and pray for cures of various ailment. A 5th century inscription preserved under the statue shows that it was given by a friar Budhamitra Dharmanandin.[5]

Monastery

The monastery at Jaulian is similar to that of nearby Mohra Muradu.[3] Jaulian monastery was a two-level building that contained 28 students' rooms on the first floor, and 28 more on the second floor. The two levels are connected by stone stairs which are still preserved. Some of the rooms contain preserved statues of the Buddha. Each room had a niche to hold lamps, and a window offering a source of fresh air and natural light. The windows were designed to be narrower at the outer edge, of and larger at the inner edge in order guard against wild animals. The rooms were plastered and decorated with plasterwork and paintings.

As was common at other large monasteries in the Gandhara region such as Takht-i-Bahi and Dharmarajika, a section of the monastery was set aside specifically for the production of Buddhist manuscripts, typically on birch bark,[3] a highly perishable material.

The monastery further contained a large pool that was used for washing, and a kitchen. A stone for grinding spices is well- preserved at the site, as well as two stone mills that were used to grind grains.

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A couple years ago the Frosty's Village team (Melissa & Christina (shown here) along with Annie and Leah and Robert) started putting up the same Frosty inflatable, hoping to brighten up their neighbourhood. That grew into a campaign to see if the neighbours would band together and put up as many Frostys as possible. If you want to join in on the fun, Christina has a few Frostys ready to go. They’re building on last year's great success and it's become a MUST-SEE nighttime drive thru for your family in December with about 100 Frostys up so far. So many Frostys went up last weekend, and now is a great time to visit and count all the Frostys in Frosty’s village. They partnered with @burlfoodbank to collect food donations as well – the food drive will run for the month of December. When you visit Frosty’s Village consider dropping off a non-perishable food item at 1148 Lockhart Rd! It is well lit with two Frostys, some signage and a bin for your donation!

Goshen Pass, Virginia

Perishability in a photograph is important in a picture. If a photograph looks perishable we say, “Gee, I’m glad I have that moment.”

John Loengard

This 1:48 scale model is of the Edwardian triple-screw turbine steamer Virginian, built in 1904 for the Allan Line's Liverpool-Halifax service, which in 1915 was absorbed into the Canadian Pacific Railway Co. Ltd., which loaned this model to the Science Museum in London in 1933.

She was 10,754 grt, with an overall length of 164.6m, beam of 18.4m and a draught of 11.6m. She carried 470 first-class, 240 second-class and 940 third-class passengers distributed over five decks. In addition, the holds fore and aft provided space for about 8,000 tons of perishable cargo, such as chilled beef.

The triple-screw vessel was built by Alexander Stephen & Sons Ltd., of Glasgow. Her sister ship, the Victorian, built by Workman, Clark & Co. Ltd of Belfast was the first liner on the Atlantic service driven by steam turbines.

Each propeller shaft was coupled to 12,000 shp Parsons steam turbines. The centreline shaft was only used for increasing the ship's speed and it was coupled to a high-pressure turbine. The two wing shafts were each driven by low-pressure turbines which incorporated astern turbines that revolved idly when the ship was moving ahead. Steam was provided at 180 lb/sq in by nine single-ended cylindrical boilers. On trials this gave the Virginian a speed of 19.8 kt but her mean service speed was 14.2 kt.

In 1918 the ship was sold to a Swedish company who refitted her with geared turbines and the boilers were adapted for oil fuel. This gave her a mean service speed of 16.3. kt.

Carta (Sibiu County): Cistercian monastery

The city and monastery of Carta are located 43 km from Sibiu on the road to Brasov. Here are preserved the ruins of the Cistercian monastery, one of the oldest and most important monuments of the primitive Gothic church in Transylvania. The Cistercians are a monastic order originating in France and widespread in several countries.

The Carta Cistercian Abbey played a major role in the political, economic and cultural history of medieval Transylvania, as well as in the introduction but also in the dissemination of Gothic art in the inter-Carpathian space.

The monastery was founded in the years 1205-1206 by King Andrew II of Hungary.

The beginnings of the monastery are confirmed with the erection of its first buildings, used, as the Cistercians used it, from perishable materials, that is to say wood. These can be dated with relative certainty between the years 1205-1206.

The stone parts of the monastery will be erected between the years 1220 and the end of 1230. The construction of the monastery was carried out in two main phases of execution, chronologically interrupted by the great Tatar invasion of 1241.

In the first phase of construction, which has stylistic characteristics dependent on the late Romanesque, the general plan of the monastery was drawn, the walls delimiting its inner courtyard being raised to a height of 3-4m above the ground.

In 1260, after the assassination caused by the Mongol invasion in the spring of 1241, construction work will resume under the direction of a new architect, trained in the environment of mature Gothic, and with the contribution of a workshop of stone with an eclectic structure.

By 1300, the church and the eastern wing of the Charter Monastery were completed, with the completion and construction of the southern wing of the abbey continuing for approximately two decades.

The fierce struggles with the Ottomans from 1421 to 1432 and the decline of the order made the church and its monastery a ruin. This also led to its closure by King Mathias Corvin in 1474.

However, the west facade is still standing and above the Gothic portal is a large rose window. The tower attached to the facade was built later, in the middle of the 15th century, and its transformation into a bell tower took place later.

Currently, the monastery no longer has all the original buildings and annexes, many of which collapse. The vaults of the huge church have collapsed and there are only a few exterior walls and two interior beams (south and north). To the south, there is still a single Roman column, and the side ships, according to the Cistercian plan, end in a small square choir. The main ship no longer has a ceiling - in its place is a cemetery in memory of the German soldiers killed in the First World War.

The Reformed Church today occupies only the choir and the apse of the old basilica. The Gothic portal has probably been moved from a side entrance and its profile betrays Gothic influences.

Numerous examples of the tombs of the founders of Cistercian churches allow the existence of a royal necropolis under Carta.

Smashed food storage lockers and empty Quonset, behind the cafeteria at Boron AFS/Prison.

it had been a while

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A couple years ago the Frosty's Village team (Melissa & Christina (shown here) along with Annie and Leah and Robert) started putting up the same Frosty inflatable, hoping to brighten up their neighbourhood. That grew into a campaign to see if the neighbours would band together and put up as many Frostys as possible. If you want to join in on the fun, Christina has a few Frostys ready to go. They’re building on last year's great success and it's become a MUST-SEE nighttime drive thru for your family in December with about 100 Frostys up so far. So many Frostys went up last weekend, and now is a great time to visit and count all the Frostys in Frosty’s village. They partnered with @burlfoodbank to collect food donations as well – the food drive will run for the month of December. When you visit Frosty’s Village consider dropping off a non-perishable food item at 1148 Lockhart Rd! It is well lit with two Frostys, some signage and a bin for your donation!

A Southern Railways branch line mixed train brings some freight loads to local industries as well as perishable food items, a few passengers and the daily mail. On the point today is the 1907-vintage Baldwin Consolidation #401, a work-a-day freight locomotive, one of 25 of her class that literally spent 4 decades doing this unglamorous, yet essential work to support the economies of the rural south through years of depression and war.

This image was captured during a May 2018 photo shoot at the Monticello Railway Museum in Monticello, IL, which own and operate Southern Railway Locomotive #401. The train is pictured along East Prairie Path, just northeast of the City of Monticello.

There were about a half dozen BAR empty iced-reefers on this train. These cars were used in the east during the spring potato harvest and my guess is that they were available for use in the summer for perishable west-coast traffic. These are impressive graphics for the time and it was great to see them coupled up to the Tidewater's classic, outside-braced caboose, constructed by the WP shop in Stockton from a boxcar.

The Mundo Perdido is to the west of the Plaza of the Seven Temples. It is the largest ceremonial complex dating from the Preclassic period at Tikal.

The complex was organised as a large E-Group consisting of a pyramid aligned with a platform to the east that supported three temples.

The Mundo Perdido complex was rebuilt many times over the course of its history. By AD 250–300 its architectural style was influenced by the great metropolis of Teotihuacan in the Valley of Mexico, including the use of the talud-tablero form.During the Early Classic period (c. 250–600) the Mundo Perdido became one of the twin foci of the city, the other being the North Acropolis.From AD 250 to 378 it may have served as the royal necropolis. The Mundo Perdido complex was given its name by the archaeologists of the University of Pennsylvania; it is centred upon the Lost World Pyramid and a small platform to the west of it.

The Lost World Pyramid (Structure 5C-54) is the largest structure in the Mundo Perdido complex. It lies in the southwest portion of Tikal’s central core, south of Temple III and west of Temple V. It was decorated with stucco masks of the sun god and dates to the Late Preclassic; this pyramid is part of an enclosed complex of structures that remained intact and un-impacted by later building activity at Tikal. By the end of the Late Preclassic this pyramid was one of the largest structures in the Maya region. It attained its final form during the reign of Chak Tok Ich'aak in the 4th century AD, in the Early Classic, standing more than 30 metres high with stairways on all four sides and a flat top that possibly supported a superstructure built from perishable materials. Although the plaza later suffered significant alteration, the organization of a group of temples on the east side of this complex adheres to the layout that defines the so-called E-Groups, identified as solar observatories.

You are a perishable item. Live accordingly.

"The Shortest Distance Between Two Humans"

568-507-151 lead train HFRSR1 (Fresno, CA - Streator, IL Conrail interchange) down Curtis Hill at Quinlan on April 20, 1995. This train consisted mostly of perishable and non perishable food items as well as wine products.

A balanced diet!

Beer

Cider

Crisps

Pizza

Baked beans

Burgers

Fish Fingers

Onion bhaji

Crème de Bananes

Bloody Mary

Ice lollies

Peas

Special fried rice

Cointreau

More Beer

More Cider

Frozen chips

peanuts

Salted Caramel Cream Liqueur

Spaghetti hoops

Bird seed.

Peanut butter.

Butter

Scotch eggs

Baileys Irish cream

Stilton

Sliced white loaf

Milk

On a more serious note - - buying for one can be tricky.

Fresh fruit and vegetables are expensive and perishable.

Unless you are sure you can eat all of it before it goes off buy frozen.

(How many times have I thrown half a cabbage, cauliflower, broccoli, melon in the bin ?)

A Picture For Herr Fränkel

High summer at the end of the 'Wonderful Railway' sees the 12.48 parcels and perishables to Crewe with D1033 'Western Trooper' while alongside D1034 'Western Dragoon' is released to later take the 12.35 departure to London Paddington.

7th August 1975

In the course of the Federation's ever expanding exploratory activities, many extraordinary phenomena were observed. Particularly perishable specimens had to be analysed on the ground and so roving laboratories were employed to allow speedy analysis of the exotic minerals, flora, and fauna found on newly discovered worlds.

Solar panels allowed for much longer journeys into these boundless vistas.

One I didn't post last year, but thought I'd post it now!

El Prado - Balboa Park

Perishable are those rising beauties. Higher higher in the sky and then a big explosion and everything is over... just the smoke reminds of the beauty...

Canon PowerShot S5 IS

Aufnahmedatum/-zeit: 14.10.2007 21:53

Aufnahmemodus: Manuell

Tv (Verschlusszeit): 2.5

Av (Blendenzahl): 5.6

Filmempfindlichkeit (ISO): 80

Objektiv: 6.0 - 72.0mm

Brennweite: 11.1mm (crop)

La facciata della chiesa, con i suoi fregi e le figure in cotto, riveste un notevole interesse artistico. Si tratta di opere fittili realizzate verso il 1450-1460 circa da maestranze piemontesi che guardano verosimilmente al linguaggio tardogotico d'oltralpe. Nella decorazione della facciata vennero impiegate, oltre a rilievi di personaggi modellati in terracotta, figurine di angeli e putti ed altri motivi ornamentali ottenuti a stampo. La deperibilità del materiale impiegato ha comportato nei secoli numerosi interventi di restauro: i primi risalgono al 1666, mentre all'inizio del XX secolo si dovette procedere ad integrazioni più consistenti (come si osserva dalla tonalità più chiara dell'argilla).

Le decorazioni fittili si dispongono in modo da comporre un'alta ghimberga che arriva con le sue cordonature sino al colmo del tetto movimentando la semplicità della facciata a capanna; essa sottolinea, sul piano simbolico, l'ingresso della chiesa come porta del cielo. La cuspide della grande ghimberga è simbolicamente sorretta da dodici coppie di figure umane, sei a destra e sei a sinistra del portale; in ogni copia si riconosce un profeta (con in testa un pesante berretto o una corona regale) ed un apostolo (con la testa circondata da un'aureola), posti uno a fianco all'altro per sottolineare la continuità tra Vecchio e Nuovo Testamento. Ciascuna figura è sormontata da baldacchino, sul quale si appoggia la figura sovrastante.

Il portale, fortemente strombato, è impreziosito da altre sei figure di santi fra le quali si riconoscono Giacomo il Maggiore, Giovanni Battista, San Pietro e San Paolo. Al centro della lunetta, tra tracce di affreschi ormai illeggibili, è posto il bel rilievo in terracotta con il busto della Madonna col Bambino. Subito al di sopra della lunetta, si innalza una seconda e più piccola ghimberga, al centro della quale è posta la figura del Redentore, mentre sui lati troviamo le immagini dell'Angelo Annunziante e della Vergine Annunciata. Il vertice della piccola ghimberga si interseca con il rosone, nel quale si ripetono in cerchio teste barbate e altri motivi ornamentali.

In alto, nella grande cuspide compare un angelo che reca fra le braccia un tondo raggiato con al centro il monogramma del nome di Gesù reso celebre dalla predicazione di San Bernardino da Siena.

Il campanile della chiesa si innalza sulla destra della facciata: la sua costruzione in mattoni prese il via nel 1457 sacrificando la prima delle cappelle laterali. Originariamente culminava con un'alta guglia ottagonale costituita da una struttura in legno ricoperta con lamine metalliche (di qui il soprannome scherzoso dato ai Chivassesi di facia ‘d tòla, faccia di latta, che ancor oggi si conserva). La guglia andò distrutta ad opera della cannonate francesi nell'assedio del 1705. Al suo posto, nella seconda decade del Settecento, venne innalzata la attuale cella campanaria.

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Chivasso - (TO) - Cathedral of Santa Maria Assunta

The facade of the church, with its friezes and terracotta figures, is of considerable artistic interest. These are clay works made around 1450-1460 by Piedmontese workers who probably look to the late Gothic language of the Alps. In addition to reliefs of figures modeled in terracotta, figurines of angels and cherubs and other ornamental motifs obtained by mold were used in the decoration of the facade. The perishable nature of the material used has led to numerous restoration interventions over the centuries: the first date back to 1666, while at the beginning of the twentieth century more substantial additions had to be made (as can be seen from the lighter shade of the clay).

The clay decorations are arranged in such a way as to compose a high gable that reaches with its creases up to the top of the roof, enlivening the simplicity of the gabled façade; on a symbolic level, it underlines the entrance to the church as a gate to heaven. The cusp of the great gable is symbolically supported by twelve pairs of human figures, six to the right and six to the left of the portal; in each copy we recognize a prophet (with a heavy cap or a royal crown on his head) and an apostle (with his head surrounded by a halo), placed side by side to emphasize the continuity between the Old and New Testament. Each figure is surmounted by a canopy, on which the figure above rests.

The heavily splayed portal is embellished with six other figures of saints including James the Greater, John the Baptist, St. Peter and St. Paul. At the center of the lunette, among traces of now illegible frescoes, is the beautiful terracotta relief with the bust of the Madonna and Child. Immediately above the lunette, a second and smaller gable rises, in the center of which the figure of the Redeemer is placed, while on the sides we find the images of the Announcing Angel and the Annunciated Virgin. The vertex of the little gable intersects with the rose window, in which bearded heads and other ornamental motifs are repeated in a circle.

Above, in the great cusp, an angel appears carrying a rounded circle in his arms with the monogram of the name of Jesus in the center made famous by the preaching of San Bernardino of Siena.

The bell tower of the church rises to the right of the facade: its brick construction began in 1457 by sacrificing the first of the side chapels. Originally it culminated with a high octagonal spire consisting of a wooden structure covered with metal sheets (hence the playful nickname given to the Chivassesi of facia 'd tòla, tin face, which is still preserved today). The spire was destroyed by French cannon fire in the siege of 1705. In its place, in the second decade of the eighteenth century, the current belfry was raised.

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Another upload from last months London Flickr Group Photowalk, this time it's a view from a railway bridge arch in Bethnal Green.

Click here for more photos from this and other London Flickr Photowalks : www.flickr.com/photos/darrellg/albums/72177720301569918

Our next photowalk still be held on the 8th June where we'll be venturing south of the river...... More details here if that sounds of interest : www.flickr.com/groups/londonflickrgroup/discuss/721577219...

From Wikipedia, "Bethnal Green is an area in London, England and is located in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets. It is in east London and part of the East End. The area emerged from the small settlement which developed around the Green, much of which survives today as Bethnal Green Gardens, beside Cambridge Heath Road. By the 16th century the term applied to a wider rural area, the Hamlet of Bethnal Green, which subsequently became a Parish, then a Metropolitan Borough before merging with neighbouring areas to become the north-western part of the new Tower Hamlets.

Economic focus shifted from mainstream farming produce for the City of London – through highly perishable goods production (market gardening), weaving, dock and building work and light industry – to a high proportion of commuters to city businesses, public sector/care sector roles, construction, courier businesses and home-working digital and creative industries. Identifiable slums in the maps of Booth in Life and Labour of the People in London (3 editions, 1889–1903) were in large part cleared before the aerial bombardment of the Second World War which accelerated clearance of many tightly packed terraces of small houses to be replaced with green spaces and higher-rise social housing."

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Mabou Harbour Lighthouse Door Window

The present lighthouse has been in operation since 1884. This was the rear range light for the harbour, the front range light is no longer there. The lighthouse is white tapered wooden tower, with a red lantern. It was a guide for coastal steamers transporting non-perishable goods into the only protected harbour on the western side of Cape Breton Island. Over the years gypsum was shipped from here, there was also a lobster and salmon canning factory right next to the lighthouse.

Tower Height: 14.3meters (47ft)

Light Height: 13.4 meters (44ft) above water level

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The present lighthouse has been in operation since 1884. This was the rear range light for the harbour, the front range light is no longer there. The lighthouse is white tapered wooden tower, with a red lantern. It was a guide for coastal steamers transporting non-perishable goods into the only protected harbour on the western side of Cape Breton Island. Over the years gypsum was shipped from here, there was also a lobster and salmon canning factory right next to the lighthouse.

Tower Height: 14.3meters (47ft)

Light Height: 13.4 meters (44ft) above water level

Overpowered and running hot, the rear DPU on the 1-ZDLCYP-26 (Delano - Cheyenne Expedited Perishables) enters Tunnel 36, just east of Yuba Gap. Today's train only has 12 reefers, a fifth of what this train used to have.

Carta (Sibiu County): Cistercian monastery

The city and monastery of Carta are located 43 km from Sibiu on the road to Brasov. Here are preserved the ruins of the Cistercian monastery, one of the oldest and most important monuments of the primitive Gothic church in Transylvania. The Cistercians are a monastic order originating in France and widespread in several countries.

The Carta Cistercian Abbey played a major role in the political, economic and cultural history of medieval Transylvania, as well as in the introduction but also in the dissemination of Gothic art in the inter-Carpathian space.

The monastery was founded in the years 1205-1206 by King Andrew II of Hungary.

The beginnings of the monastery are confirmed with the erection of its first buildings, used, as the Cistercians used it, from perishable materials, that is to say wood. These can be dated with relative certainty between the years 1205-1206.

The stone parts of the monastery will be erected between the years 1220 and the end of 1230. The construction of the monastery was carried out in two main phases of execution, chronologically interrupted by the great Tatar invasion of 1241.

In the first phase of construction, which has stylistic characteristics dependent on the late Romanesque, the general plan of the monastery was drawn, the walls delimiting its inner courtyard being raised to a height of 3-4m above the ground.

In 1260, after the assassination caused by the Mongol invasion in the spring of 1241, construction work will resume under the direction of a new architect, trained in the environment of mature Gothic, and with the contribution of a workshop of stone with an eclectic structure.

By 1300, the church and the eastern wing of the Charter Monastery were completed, with the completion and construction of the southern wing of the abbey continuing for approximately two decades.

The fierce struggles with the Ottomans from 1421 to 1432 and the decline of the order made the church and its monastery a ruin. This also led to its closure by King Mathias Corvin in 1474.

However, the west facade is still standing and above the Gothic portal is a large rose window. The tower attached to the facade was built later, in the middle of the 15th century, and its transformation into a bell tower took place later.

Currently, the monastery no longer has all the original buildings and annexes, many of which collapse. The vaults of the huge church have collapsed and there are only a few exterior walls and two interior beams (south and north). To the south, there is still a single Roman column, and the side ships, according to the Cistercian plan, end in a small square choir. The main ship no longer has a ceiling - in its place is a cemetery in memory of the German soldiers killed in the First World War.

The Reformed Church today occupies only the choir and the apse of the old basilica. The Gothic portal has probably been moved from a side entrance and its profile betrays Gothic influences.

Numerous examples of the tombs of the founders of Cistercian churches allow the existence of a royal necropolis under Carta.

The Santa Clara River Valley has always had a strong tie with the agricultural community which is evident here as the Oxnard Local trundles past a farmer plowing his field. This line once generated a significant amount of perishable load traffic for the Southern Pacific, but lost it in the 70s due to trucking deregulation.

From the Time Machine. 196 feet of power with only 2 units.

Union Pacific eastbound manifest powered by UP6906 and UP6927, pulling what appears to be perishables in PFE mechanical refer cars. Looking at my own photos, it would seem unusual to see any train with 2 of the giant EMD DD40AX and no other diesel units mated, although the DD40AX duo alone would be 13,200 HP up front. Photo at Hermosa, WY taken circa 1973/74.

Originally I planned to take a picture for Yu-Fen with a lampion (Physalis) and the moon, as there is moon festival in Taipei. Well I was not successful, never mind, the result of the new experimental layout was almost as nice as a combination with the moon. I like especially the reflection and the blue ray of the flashlight behind the balloon.

Canon PowerShot S5 IS

Aufnahmedatum/-zeit: 23.09.2007 21:55

Aufnahmemodus: Manuell

Tv (Verschlusszeit): 0.4

Av (Blendenzahl): 3.2

Filmempfindlichkeit (ISO): 80

Objektiv: 6.0 - 72.0mm

Brennweite: 11.1mm (Crop)

Corn flower crusted tofu squared served over sauteed leeks and broccoli. Topped with a flavorful cornflower sauce and dashed with a pinch of Celtic sea salt.

We rarely "plan". Our approach is generally, what perishables need to be used and what staples do we have to work with. Fortunately Art is a creative cook!