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Dernière étape de ce périple sur la rive nord du Saint-Laurent, la Mauricie, Grandes-Piles et la rivière Saint-Maurice. Les couleurs d'automne sont en déclin et le mauvais temps prend sa place, l'hiver approche!
Bonne Année à tous!
Last step into this journey along the North shore of the St. Lawrence river, la Mauricie, Grandes-Piles and the St. Maurice river. Fall colors are passed their peak, and the bad weather conditions are a precursor to the coming winter.
Happy New Year to all!
A slide restoration, which was almost bleached, but converting it to monochrome has brought the image out.
Thank you soooo much Tori Slayer for my awesome lawn mower. I have been trying too find a shot to use it in and finally leave it to Fall for inspiration. ;-) Check out her amazing page and shapes here...https://www.flickr.com/photos/186532506@N04/
Sulawesi,
Tongkonan ist das traditionelle Ahnenhaus, rumah adat (indonesisch: traditionelles Haus) der Toraja, einem Volk auf der Insel Sulawesi, Indonesien. Tongkonans haben ein aus mehreren Bambusschichten bestehendes Dach in einer schiffsähnlichen Form. Wie für Indonesiens austronesische traditionelle Architektur typisch, werden Tongkonans auf Holzpfählen errichtet. Traditionell haben bei den Toraja nur die Adligen das Recht, Tongkonans zu bauen. Einfache Leute leben in kleineren und weniger aufwendigen Banua genannten Häusern.
Tongkonan is the traditional ancestral house, or rumah adat of the Torajan people, in South Sulawesi, Indonesia. Tongkonan have a distinguishing boat-shaped and oversized saddleback roof. Like most of Indonesia’s Austronesian-based traditional architecture tongkonan are built on piles. The construction of tongkonan is laborious work and it is usually built with the help of all family members or friends. In the original Toraja society, only nobles had the right to build tongkonan.
Limpkin --
From Audubon -
Looking like something between a crane and a rail, this odd wading bird has no close relatives. It is widespread in the American tropics, but enters our area only in Florida and southern Georgia -- only where it can satisfy its dietary requirement for a certain fresh-water snail. Mostly solitary, Limpkins may be overlooked as they stalk about in marshes and swamps; they draw attention with their piercing banshee wails, often heard at dawn or at night.
I saw this Limpkin on the edge of Lake Kissimmee - that is the Lake behind the Limpkin. i often find Limpkin which are usually hidden in growths along the water's edge by looking for piles of snail shells.
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Northeast view from The Hilltop of The Elliot Mine, Valley of The Moon, Jacumba, California. The view looks over the northeast end of the Upper desert, down to Ocotillo and the windfarms below.
The land here is located within a Stones throw of The U.S. and Mexico Border and gets even more rugged as you proceed south. I have hike beyond this area and it is a warren of gullies, washes, and giant rock piles. Even a GPS is of little use for backtracking
Yet more piles of slate on the slate island of Easdale :)
One of the most interesting places I’ve ever been to - Easdale, one of the Slate Islands off the west coast of Scotland, near Oban. Easdale was the centre of a huge slate-making industry in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth century - there are Easdale slates on roofs as far away as Nova Scotia and New Zealand. Then in 1881 disaster struck - a huge storm and subsequent massive sea swamped all the quarries on the island. All the machinery was lost and mining had to end.
The quarries are still filled with water today - the mining machinery is still at the bottom of some of them, so they’re quite eerie and a wee bit sinister. And the island is covered with bits of slate, millions of pieces of it. It’s very other-worldly.
For more about the Slate Islands and the rest of my trip:
Sidmouth beach from last Sunday. We explored the western beach of Sidmouth for the first time. That's when I spotted those piles - I couldn't resist to take this shot ;-)
What amazed me: there were surfers in the water - at 4 degrees! That is commitment!
Seen in # gravrøys
Bronze age cairn - Aremark - Norway
Bronze age cairn - about 3000 years old
In the Bronze Age was the custom to bury the dead in Monumentale rockeries on the hilltops.
The burial coffin - it is most often only one - located directly
on the rock in the middle of the cairn.
It's built of stone slabs and often hide a burned funeral.
The gifts to the dead are rarely preserved.
From today's hiking to Signalen
This is a charming little round at fairly narrow paths - and
some fine viewpoints against Asprekfjorden and Aspern.
Then there was the great stone
with broad and mossy back
which was a secret friend.
By it I was always confident.
There I could cry and laugh.
It knew and understood everything
and never cared about
how words fell.
Unwavering. Big and dumb.
The same sun and rain.
How well I comprehend them
which made themselves gods of stone
― Inger Hagerup - translated by me..:o)
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These striking yellow sulphur piles on the North Shore (just to the east of the Lion’s Gate Bridge) are a by-product from natural gas processing.
Sulphur is always in demand. It is used for fertilizer, matches, batteries, bleach, laxatives, wine-making, shampoo and loads of other ubiquitous products. [...]. Experts at The Sulphur Institute point out that around half of sulphur production goes into fertilizer. Google search
North Vancouver
Once again at near ghost town of Cottonwood (seen in the previous photostream post), but a different year, we see a freight making it's way past the old elevator. From this angle, the 'vader looks to be in better shape than it actually is, with a bit more collapsing going on at the west side. The train is making it's way east at 10 mph, but bags of tie plates and piles of spikes (not seen), will eventually work towards speeding that up at least a bit.
Moss covered pilings along the Washington side of the Columbia River on the way to Astoria, OR on 05-04-19.
Taken the other day. It is -13C today (warmed up quite a bit) but we have had a lot of snow during the day. It stopped for awhile, but now it is snowing again. It's supposed to snow for the next several days too. I don't think these winter cat piles are going to end anytime soon. Spring feels very far away.