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Volunteers are using machetes to chop down scores of rhododendrons in the woods at Towneley park.
I didn’t realise that rhododendrons are invasive, and a threat to habitats, fauna and flora.
Here’s a photo of a pile that they’re made.
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Burnley
Lancashire
Gunnison Bay was lined with piles of foam after last night's big storm. I shot this video with my iPhone 5, near the Spiral Jetty at Rozel Point. There were myriad forms floating down the playa.
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Dinamarca - Kvaerndrup - Castillo de Egeskov
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Egeskov Castle (Danish: Egeskov Slot) is located near Kværndrup, in the south of the island of Funen, Denmark. The castle is Europe's best preserved Renaissance water castle.
Egeskov was first mentioned in 1405. The castle structure was erected by Frands Brockenhuus in 1554.
Due to the troubles caused by the civil war known as the Count's Feud (Danish: Grevens fejde), general civil unrest, and a civil war introducing the Protestant Reformation, most Danish noblemen built their homes as fortifications. The castle is constructed on oaken piles and located in a small lake with a maximum depth of 5 metres (16 ft). Originally, the only access was by means of a drawbridge. According to legend, it took an entire forest of oak trees to build the foundation, hence the name Egeskov (oak forest).
Outside, the castle is a Late Gothic building. Inside the original elements already show Renaissance design.
The castle consists of two long buildings connected by a thick double wall, allowing defenders to abandon one house and continue fighting from the other. The double wall is over one meter thick and contains secret staircases and a well. Defenders were able to attack an enemy's flanks from the two round corner towers. Other medieval defences include artillery ports, scalding holes and arrow slits. The bricks composing the castle are of an oversized medieval type sometimes called "monks bricks". The conical towers are constructed in a series of separate panels.
The architecture includes depressed and round-arched windows, round-arched blank arcading within the gables, and a double string course between the high cellar and the ground floor. The structure contains some of the early indoor plumbing design first used in Europe with vertical shafts for waste. The thick double wall also contains a water well which is accessed from the servants kitchen in the east house. Several of the large rooms have massive parallel exposed beams with some end carving.
Contents of the castle include a massive iron chest from at least as early as the 16th century, which derived from Hvedholm Castle, a property earlier owned by the Egeskov estate about ten kilometers to the west.
Numerous oil paintings are found within the castle including a large painting in the great hall on the first floor of Niels Juel, who defeated the Swedish force in the Battle of Køge Bay in the year 1677.
Other buildings belonging to Egeskov include Ladegården, a thatched half-timbered building which is now part of the museum. Other buildings are used by the museum and for farming. Surrounding the castle is an old park, covering 20 hectares (49 acres) of land. The park is divided into a number of gardens. The renaissance garden features fountains, a gravel path and topiary figures. The fuchsia garden, one of the largest in Europe, contains 104 different species. Other gardens near the castle include an English garden, a water garden, an herb garden, a vegetable garden, and a peasant's garden (bondehave). The gardens also feature four hedge mazes. The oldest is a beech maze several hundreds of years old. This garden is trimmed every year to prevent the trees from dying. The newest maze is the world's largest bamboo maze. It features a Chinese tower in the centre, and a bridge from the tower provides the exit from the maze. The parks feature a three-meter-tall sundial designed by Danish poet and mathematician, Piet Hein.
The estate includes an additional eight square kilometres; 2.5 square kilometres (0.97 sq mi) is forest, with the rest being farmland. The estate has belonged to the Ahlefeldt-Laurvig-Bille family since 1784. In 1986, a full-sized replica of the castle was built in Hokkaidō, Japan, to hold an aquarium. This was constructed with the permission of the Egeskov's owners at the time, Count Claus and Countess Louisa Ahlefeldt-Laurvig-Bille.
Egeskov is home to the following museums.
- A vintage automobile collection
- A vintage motorcycle collection
- A collection describing the history of agriculture
- A collection of flying vehicles
- A collection of Falck and other emergency vehicles
Most of the castle is open to the public, except for the areas used by Count Michael and Countess Caroline Ahlefeldt-Laurvig-Bille. The museum of agriculture and the horse wagon collection is located in the building Ladegård mentioned previously.
Three large modern buildings are occupied by the vintage automobile collection, the vintage motorcycle collection, the Falck collection, and by a collection of airplanes and helicopters. The Falck collection is a collection of vehicles from the Danish rescue company, Falck, emergency vehicles such as fire trucks, ambulances, rescue boats, and other assorted emergency vehicles.
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ESPAÑOL
El castillo de Egeskov (en danés Egeskov Slot) es un castillo que se encuentra localizado en el sur de la isla de Fionia, en Dinamarca. El castillo es el castillo de estilo renacentista mejor conservado de Europa, por lo que se refiere a castillos que se encuentren rodeados de agua. Aunque la historia de Egeskov se remonta al siglo XV, la estructura del castillo actual fue erigida por Frands Brockenhuus en 1554.
Debido a los problemas e inestabilidades causados por la Guerra Civil Danesa en 1534-1536 (conocida por la historiografía anglosajona y danesa como Guerra del conde, en danés Grevens fejde), una guerra civil que introdujo en Dinamarca la Reforma Protestante, la mayor parte de la nobleza danesa construyó sus residencias planificándolas como auténticas fortalezas. Así, el castillo está construido sobre un lugar pilotes de roble y localizado en un pequeño lago con una profundidad máxima de cinco metros. En un primer momento, el único acceso desde el exterior al castillo era a través de un puente levadizo. Según la leyenda, se necesitó un bosque entero de robles para construir los cimientos del edificio, y de ahí derivaría el nombre de Egeskov (bosque de robles).
El castillo consiste en realidad en dos edificios distintos alargados y conectados entre sí por una pared de doble grosor, permitiendo así a los defensores del mismo abandonar una de las casas y seguir luchando en la otra. La pared doble posee más de un metro de espesor, y alberga escaleras secretas y un pozo. Por otra parte, estaba diseñado de modo que los defensores podían atacar por ambos flancos a los asaltantes desde las dos torres redondas de las esquinas. Otras defensas de tipo medieval incluyen portones para la artillería, matacanes o saeteras. Los ladrillos con los que se edificó el castillo son de un tipo medieval de gran tamaño, a veces llamado ladrillo de monjes. Las torres cónicas están construidas en una serie de paneles separados.
La arquitectura incluye ventanas en arco rebajado, en arco de medio punto y otros, rematadas algunas de ellas por gabletes, así como un doble cordón de arquillos ciegos entre la primera y la segunda plantas, además de un cordón entre el sótano levantado y la planta baja. La estructura incluye una primitiva fontanería, una de las primeras usadas en Europa, incluyendo ejes verticales para el desagüe de las aguas sucias. La gruesa pared doble también contiene canalizaciones de agua limpia que desembocan en la cocina de los criados, situada en la casa oriental.
El contenido del castillo incluye un peto o pectoral macizo de armadura, de hierro, con una antigüedad de al menos el siglo XVI, procedente del castillo de Hvedholm, una antigua propiedad de Egeskov, que se encuentra aproximadamente a diez kilómetros al oeste del castillo de Egeskov.
Igualmente, dentro del castillo existe una amplia colección de pintura, que incluye un gran cuadro situado en el largo pasillo de la primera planta, representando a Niels Juel, quien derrotó a las tropas del Imperio sueco en la batalla de la bahía de Køge, el 2 de julio de 1677, en el marco de las Guerras Escandinavas.
Otro edificios que forman parte de Egeskov es Ladegården, un edificio con armazón de madera que se encuentra cubierta con paja, y que actualmente forma parte del museo. Otros edificios auxiliares están en uso, bien sea por el museo bien para labores agrícolas.
El castillo está rodeado por un antiguo parque, que abarca una superficie total de 200 000 metros cuadrados de terreno. El parque se encuentra dividido en un elevado número de jardines. El jardín renacentista destaca por sus fuentes, un camino de grava y figuras de arte topiario.
El jardín de fuchsias, uno de los más grandes de Europa, contiene 104 especies diferente. Otros jardines inmediatos al castillo incluyen un jardín inglés, un jardín acuático, un jardín de hierbas, un jardín de verduras, y un jardín campesino. En los jardines también destacan cuatro laberintos de seto. El más antiguo es un laberinto que incluye un haya de varios cientos de años de edad. Este jardín es ajustado cada año para prevenir la muerte de los árboles. El laberinto más moderno es el laberinto de bambú, el mayor del mundo de dichas plantas. Destaca en él una torre en estilo chino en su centro, a la vez que un puente que parte de la torre proporciona la salida del laberinto. Existe también un reloj de sol diseñado por el poeta y matemático danés Piet Hein.
La propiedad incluye otros ocho kilómetros cuadrados más, de los que 2,5 son forestales, estando el resto formado por tierras de labranza. La finca perteneció a la familia de los Ahlefeldt-Laurvig-Bille desde 1784. En 1986 se construyó una réplica de tamaño natural del castillo en Hokkaidō, Japón, para albergar un acuario, con el permiso de quienes por entonces eran los dueños de Egeskov, el Conde Claus y la Condesa Louisa Ahlefeldt-Laurvig-Bille.
En la actualidad, el castillo de Egeskov acoge diversos museos o colecciones:
- Colección de automóviles antiguos.
- Colección de motocicletas antiguas.
- Colección museística sobre la Historia de la Agricultura y colección de coches de caballos, en el Ladegården.
- Colección de aparatos voladores.
- Colección de vehículos de bomberos y otros vehículos de emergencias, de la empresa danesa Falck.
La mayor parte del castillo se encuentra abierto al público, con la excepción las áreas reservadas para el uso privado por el conde Michael y la condesa Margrethe Ahlefeldt-Laurvig-Bille, actuales propietarios.
El Museo de agricultura y la colección de coches de caballos se encuentran localizados en el Ladegården, mientras que la colección de automóviles antiguos, la de motocicletas antiguas, la de vehículos de la empresa Falck y la de aparatos voladores (incluyendo aeroplanos y helicópteros) ocupan tres grandes edificios de factura moderna. La colección Falck es una colección de vehículos de la empresa danesa de rescate Falck, vehículos de emergencias como camiones anti-incendios, ambulancias, barcos de rescate marítimo, y otros vehículos variados de emergencias.
Day 10 - The Killing Fields
After surviving what must have been a horrific time at one the detention centre, people were then brought to the killing fields by the Khmer Rouge, led by Pol Pot. The fields are so named as this is where they were killed, by various methods from nails being hammered through the top of the skull, to beheading, to being beaten to death with various farming implements. After being executed the bodies were thrown in mass graves. When exhumed tens of thousands of bodies were found.
The Stupa contains thousands of skulls that have been exhumed from the Killing Fields. Many more bodies remain buried in mass graves but are being left to rest in peace as only a small fraction (as seen here) have been exhumed, enough to gather enough evidence of the crimes committed.
In the areas of the Salar de Uyuni that are relatively near settlements one often sees piles of salt left to dry, created by the local people as a precursor to removing the salt and purifying it with an eye to sale.
It is, as you can imagine, about the only thing (apart, perhaps, from llama and quinoa) that can be produced in the area.
if you're interested, take a look at en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salar_de_Uyuni
Made Explore on 10 Jan 2008 :-)
Coming 1/18/16 to Wayward Winter! An inexpensive set of snowball piles, that give throwable snowballs!
appearing in the shed, ready for friday
when my dottie angel dearies and i, get a little crafty!
Every Monday they're collecting old paper in our town.
And every Monday there is this much in this narrow street.
For: We're here - paper paper paper
A set of unattended timber piles reflected by the calm waters of Bermagui Harbour, NSW, Australia.
Day 15 of Pentax Forum's Daily in June 2017 Challenge.
I know pile ups have kinda died in the last few years but figured i'd give it a try asking anyway cuz.. i'm too shy to directly ask mofos x.x I MEAN HOW CREEPY DOES IT SOUND TO ACTUALLY GO UP TO SOMEONE N SAY HEY, CAN I TAKE YOUR PHOTO... >.< Sounds extra creepy so... Those who want to take part... feel free.. I can't promise to get to everyone... But I would greatly appreciate the opportunity to get some practice in. ♥ Thank you ♥
Yes, this is REAL money. Piles and stacks of money - coins and US dollars.
View on Black and LARGER.
Although it looks like a ton of money, there is only $10,000.00 dollars here in real money. (Even so, we were happy to get this much cash safely back into the bank when the shot was over!). Those are real money bags (with coins) from the Denver Mint and the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco. And those are real $100 bills (before the recent design change). We were able to style this shot using only 10 grand because many of the stacks of $100 bills have ones underneath. It takes a couple of hours to style a shot like this.
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I just self-published my first photo book (photos of the Grand Teton NP). You can see a preview of it at my blog, Your Photo Vision. Since this is a blog read by photographers and wanna-be photographers, I also discuss the advantages and pitfalls to self-publishing through the new print-on-demand format. I'd love to hear your comments.
The storm that brought so many interesting finds to the beach also left behind many extraordinarily large piles of kelp.
I wish I knew whether they were already floating offshore or whether the kelp was ripped off the seabed by the storm.
Ocean Park, Washington.
Stacked Stills Continued...a bit of laziness... no idea for another stack of something... so I opened my cupboard where I keep my bowls and made a few shots... and added some presets...
Linked to Texture Tuesday.
Font: KG Just Give me a Reason.
Nikon 50mm f/1.4 AI. I generate a HDR-File from a single RAW at one Layer, at the other I left the original. I masked it so that only the "Stone Piles" is HDR.
Exposure 1/4000
Aperture f/1.4
Focal Length 50 mm
ISO Speed 100
Here's a farm stead and barn at the west edge of Pella while I decide upon a different series. This place used to be into agricultural production back in the day before they sold off their lands for gravel production. Now it is mostly a left over pile of detritus around the remaining barn. Old wood, old plastic, old fencing, old tomato cages and an old wheel barrow... dumped in piles. Maybe they should have stuck with agriculture. Loads of young folk are starting organic farms around the valley. The folks in India relate how cows can't be used for milk and cheese after they are used for their meat.
Back in June, when the greenup was in full swing, I made a couple of treks out to Pella Crossing Park in Hygiene after BoCo reopened it. My first was a walk around one loop at Pella East. A crew was still working on replanting natural plant life. The natural habitat at Pella East is slowly recovering after getting flushed downstream. Boulder County eventually reopened Pella Crossing Park after the flood a decade ago. Who thought that a flood plain with multiple gravel pits, a river bottom and ditches would ever flood in the age of (whisper) global warming... Pruett and his Petroleum Parade is watching me and reporting to Sessions on his special Bat Phone. We have met the enemy and they are all liars and scum artists. 3,000 lies in two years; he's making Nixon look good.
This all started when Ronnie in Hygiene related that the park on the both sides of the highway south from Hygiene had reopened. It's been some time since I wandered the area so in June I checked out Sunset pond at Pella and found this natural path side junk pile. My Pella stories are tales from two different days as I found them.
Pella was an original St. Vrain river ford settlement after the mid 1800s, like Longmont, that long disappeared unlike Longmont. Now, there apparently are several prairie castle owners who prefer this flood plain and the flodd that barely missed. The mini-community of Hygiene eventually sprung up north of old Pella. First, I visited here, the park's east side of North 75th Street south of Hygiene. Any trek out here is pleasant. Boulder County volunteers were near reseeding some damaged area. The county already stood the flood damaged out house back up. HA.
In the park there are about 200 exotic woody-shrub species, varieties and garden forms. Here grow palm trees and laurels, cypresses and olives, small-fruited and large-fruited strawberries, Chilean araucaria and viburnum evergreen ... The park is broken in a landscape or landscape style, not distorting, but complementing nature, to which the human hand did not touch. Everything is done with skillful use of piles of stone chaos, mountain springs, aboriginal vegetation.
The coastal highway divides the park into Upper and Lower. The upper park is literally full of natural zest: stony stone chaos and mirror ponds, fragments of natural southern forest and groups of beautiful foreign trees. All of them have poetic names: Moonstone, Small and Big Chaos, Trout, Mirror and Swan Lake, Platanovaya, Solar, Contrast, Chestnut Glades.
Английский парк дворца — произведение немецкого садовода-ботаника Карла Кебаха, которого Воронцов пригласил в Крым в 1824 году, когда не было и проекта самого дворца. Он с рвением принялся за создание парка, учитывая рельеф, климат и местную флору, сочетая, впрочем, все с новейшими достижениями садово-паркового искусства. Со всего мира сюда были завезены около 200 видов деревьев и кустов. Посылки с семенами и саженцами приходили из Америки, Италии, Кавказа, Карелии, Китая и Японии. Рассказывали, что здесь одновременно цвело более двух тысяч сортов роз.
Карл Кебах четко спланировал парк по принципу амфитеатра, сохранив в его структуре связи с главным дворцом и прочими архитектурными объектами. Прибрежное шоссе (Ялта — Симеиз) делит парк на Верхний и Нижний.
Нижний парк оформлен в стиле итальянских садов эпохи Возрождения с фонтанами, мраморными скульптурами, византийскими колоннами, вазами и каменными скамьями. Верхний создан по принципу английских пейзажных парков эпохи романтизма — более естественным и природным: в нем скалистые обломки, тенистые пруды и сохраненные участки крымского леса перемежаются с живописными полянами, уникальной системой озер, водопадов, каскадов и гротов. Кебах создавал Верхний парк как место созерцания моря и горы Ай-Петри, возвышавшейся над парком и дворцом, словно руины замка великанов.