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Looking through what I shot in 2015 I found a few that I never bothered posting. On second glance, I thought these had some potential and saved them from the trash while I continue to clean things up for the new year. Here's hoping 2016 offers lots of new and exciting opportunities.
Additional Gear Brought After Posting Picture
Deck of cards: Played one round of "I'm not stupid" but then went back to the warmth of the fire.
Neck Gater: I wore this briefly in the morning. It was a last minute impuse grab but i don't regret it.
Neoprene shoe toe covers
Post Trip Notes
My watch (off body) register 35 degrees in the morning in the tent (and on the ground. Outside of the campground there was a heavy frost. I was warm enough and slept in all my clothes. I'm glad I have the long Golite quilt. I should have used the straps it came with since I think the sides were more susceptible to heat loss. I didn't actually wear the nano puff until the morning. I did use it to supplement my pillow at night. The only thing noticeably cold when I woke up was my nose.
The tarptent is light but I still don't really like the headloader. I was on a slope and slid near the foot of the tent by morning. Exped pad was comfortable and warm enough it seemed. I didn't take the hammock since it is more work to set up and the tree selection can be limited at state parks.
The wind jacket is nice but it holds a funk. I need to wash it regularly. The wool short was good for riding and around the fire but it is a little sloppy. I may look for a fleece or synthetic alternative. The fleecy inside Prana pants were nice in conjunction with the long johns at camp. I used the hand dryer in the park restroom to dry the wool socks then doubled up with the synthtic black ones at camp. The bike shoes were ok but were a bit cold (mesh sides). I used the toe warmer packs on the ride back to the ferry and they were still a bit chilly.
I almost didn't bring the stove since I was pretty sure I could get by without it but i decide to bring it in honor of a 'shakedown' ride. I almost didn't use it in the morning either but decided to see how well one Coghlan brand (aka Esbit fuel or Hexamine) worked. Water was probably near 35 degrees. and one tablet got ~10 oz of water only luke warm. I'm not sure if it fully burned either. The Bic was hard to operate with cold fingers, I need to remove the safety or maybe pack matches.
Food: Going to the grocery store went well. I bought an 8 piece of hot chicken (4baked/4fried) Ate two at the store and the rest were still hot in the deli bag when we got back to camp. I bought a salad in a bag which worked well. Also got a sixer of PBR tall boys, some chips (that I didn't eat) and an orange.
Didn't Use / Minimal Use :
Notebook
Fenix Flashlight
Spare Long Sleeve Layer (since my base one was dry enough)
Belt/Mora knife
Cookset
Backpack (as a backpack, it did help organize)
Posting the pics of the Harrier reminded me about this … designed it as a set for Tate’s birthday a couple years ago. Was the first fully Studio designed build I ever did. Ordered all the parts and boxed them up with the instructions printed and bound. Tate was stoked. Still says it is one of his favourite LEGO models he has ❤️
Posting for amusement value -- Ragnar's head (EID Arvid in RS) is temporarily on Gremory's NS nYID body for the wigmaking process, and he looks like an Arvid lollipop, LOL!
Wig is about half-done in this pic -- it's drying from Step 3 currently (I added more hair -- he's going to have a dread-y ponytail, so I first covered the wig cap in glued-down hair going the right direction, let it dry overnight, and applied loose hair (glued inside the hairline) today.
When it's all dry, I'll dread the remaining loose hair, and my sexy pirate captain can have his official debut ^___^
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I'm posting a large letter which, weighing just under 500 grams, costs £1.99 – happily I have plenty of stamps 😀
Posting five photos taken on 6 June 2023 during a drive SW and W of Calgary, along familiar roads.
Now I need to get back to rearching refrigerators and measuring my present one. I came across an old email to my daughters, from back in October 2007, mentioning that I had just had to buy a new fridge (with bottom freezer). I can't believe that it has been so long since then! I didn't think my present fridge was that old. The last four or so weeks, I have been getting a low rumbling/vibrating from 'something. Had my heating guy come and check, as I thought it must be the furnace that was causing this. However, it turned out to be the fridge. The last thing I feel like is having to go and look for a new one, but it has to be done, and fast.
I mentioned old emails above. Finally, I have got round to doing something that I meant to do the last few years. So far, I must have deleted something like 7,000 or 8,000 emails, many of them to and from both my daughters. I copied each of these emails and saved them to a Word document. They contain so much information, much of it really important. My computer, too, is getting old - almost 10 years now - so I know I will need to replace that as well, before too long. Needless to say, I would much rather be out looking for beautiful things to photograph: ) At the moment, though, the weather is hot and the air quality not the best. No knowing if/when it will become smoky like recently.
From the Government of Alberta:
"Warm and dry conditions persist with very little precipitation over the past week. The average wildfire danger in the Calgary Forest Area (CFA) is now VERY HIGH with pockets of EXTREME wildfire danger. The forecast is calling for very warm temperatures and dry conditions over the coming days."
Nathan Sykes
May 19, 2012
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Posting today five different Japanese brochures from my collection. I like little cars and these are just a bit different. This is a Japanese market version.
Here’s one of my photos from the Saturday night at Troy. Yes, I have two drinks but only one was for me, lol.
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Tonight I am re-posting this image of Paris on a far happier day. I took this photo during our trip to Paris in the summer of 2011. It's harder than you think to get a good photo of the Eiffel Tower. But I tried. This is a posterized version of the best picture I took. The song says, "I love Paris." And I do.
[posting the sketch cuz ... well, you guys know why]
All had gone so very well. Success would breed more success. Greater success. The ground beneath could be solid and stable or it could be the most capricious shifting sand it wanted, the Factor hovered over all. The Factor had returned victorious. The Factor had set in motion a plan. This first victory was mere proof of the plan’s efficacy. Greater victory was inevitable. The Factor would be a hero of the collective.
It allowed itself to fantasize deeper as it drove the stock before it to the hive. Cowed. Humiliated. Defeated. Harvesters. It would be a manager of lowly harvesters no more when this plan was complete. It would not even be a Factor of Factors. If all went well, and why should it not? The Harvesters it had dispatched would find the source of these prey animals. They would report. It would not sit and worry in another’s Collective any longer. It would lead and conquer. It would start its own Collective! Its own Hive! It would not be Factor, but Primate! No more fear. No more anxiety. It would be above. It would be the One-All-Feared.
The tip of the Spire of the Hive became visible on the Horizon as the sky was just beginning to lose the deep purple of night. It more than passingly resembled a harvester’s needle tipped feeding tooth. As if the hive had pierced the heavens and were drinking the ichor of god.
Where had that thought come from? When had the Factor ever had time for thought, much less poetry and metaphor? Never. Never had it been so flush. So full. So … foolish!
So vulnerable! The Plan was good. The Plan was victorious. But the Plan was larval. It’s shell soft. Much could go wrong. The full Factor was the one with most to lose. Other Factors would see. Other’s would grow suspicious. Other's would covet its success. Other’s would take what it had birthed. All was delicate and tenuous. All evidence must be obscured. It landed and vomited its fullness upon the sand and buried it. A terrible waste, a cardinal sin but then so was the traitorous plan. It has no intention of sharing its success, its victory with the Collective. So all evidence, no matter how hungry it would be, must be eradicated. Then it remembered the weakly struggling prey creature in its tentacles. It would arouse suspicion for the Factor to bring live prey into the Hive. Especially if it was seen entering the Hive with all of its stock full but unencumbered. Queries would be made. Queries it wanted to avoid.
It cast to its trembling stock and tossed the animal to them. “Dispose,” it ordered. “Stay. Wait. Come Tonight.” There. The evidence was covered. The spoor obscured. The Plan was safe. It could accomplish it, if it was cunning. So much could go wrong. It must be careful. It must consider. It must not be a fool. It was too close to ultimate victory. The Plan was tenuous, slender, easily broken by even one event the Factor failed to anticipate. It flew the rest of the way to the Hive feeling relieved but anxious, the shuttered, unblinking eyes of the Harvesters watching it all the way.
Posting shots of this bike never grows old for me. As it’s so much fun to ride and so capable as a #fastfar offroad / gravel bikepacking rig. And as these two photos were made in my last real holiday wit real sun in August / September last year. On my way to Badlands in Granada.
Posting this is partly because of a pal on here getting a little upset that despite some great work being in there, that such a lot of crap often fills up a vast proportion of the Explore top-500. Dont' give it a second thought, mate. Much better reasons in life to get upset.....
My coming back to Flickr was conditional on my not getting my knickers in a twist about it. Because one way of looking at it is that it is just a website. And my wife has seen me up late at night getting angry about stuff like video on here, and the whole theft thing and she didnt want my blood-pressure going up about it again. Life is too short to be starting groups to counter other groups or to be sitting writing tit-for-tat messages in help forum threads to try and get a point across that you never will.
But, I do feel that the whole 'Explore' thing is just daft. People get themselves in such a fizz over the whole fact that their pics have been 'Explored' and really, why? Because, guys, a computer algorithm has picked them out due to some random series of factors.
I have no pictures in Flickr's Explore. And I don't care.
So, this is the only picture you will ever see in my 'Explored' set, just as a reminder - if you need it - that it is the people who make comments here and encourage me to carry on creating stuff that really make me feel like my work has been explored.
As they say "nothing will change IMMEDIATELY"--remains to be seen what changes are in the offing, however, for surely there will be some.
I have admired SmugMug in the past, but never joined. Maybe, just maybe, this will be an improvement? Fingers crossed. . . . . .
Posting five more photos taken on 3 December 2024, from my last but one visit to the Saskatoon Farm. I am adding the description that I wrote under a previously posted image taken on the same visit.
"Along with all our fairly recent snow, everywhere turned white. Can't complain, though, as mild, fall weather lasted well into November, which was wonderful. So thankful that I managed to get out for groceries before the freezing fog arrived. On 3 December 2024, our weather turned 'warmer', which felt really good. Today, 11 December, it is overcast and our temperature is PLUS 2°C (feels like 0°C). Sunrise was at 8:30AM and sunset will be at 4:29PM.
I decided to make the short drive as far as the Saskatoon Farm late morning on 3 December. Their last day to be open will be 15 December, and then the Farm remains closed to the public till about 14 February. The owners and staff work so hard and deserve a good break for a few weeks.
My main reason to go to the Farm was that I wanted to catch a few Christmas decorations to photograph. I also bought a few food items to enjoy over the next while.
After the farm, I drove past a snowman in a farm yard along a back road. I'm not sure what it was made of - could they be old tires? I also quickly stopped to take a photo or two of a couple of my favourite old barns, in a winter setting.
It felt so good to get out for a short while that day. In the whole month of November, I only went out once for a drive, again to the Saskatoon Farm. This was partly because of trying to get my computer out of the 'danger zone' (i.e. out of space) and also because of an awful spell of cold weather. Still need to gradually do a lot more deleting."
Only be posting to Applauding Talent Around the World. I will not be looking at my 'contacts' and will be commenting from Fav`s 1st and 2nd photo comments. I hope that you feel the group above is worthy of your posting photos to it and hope to see you there.
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So glad you all like my new icon ... she is my alter ego and reminds me of me in my younger days. I like her because of the twinkle in her eyes and of course the long black gloves and slr camera. Basically ... she's got spirit.
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Finally got around to posting pictures of the completed model. I stater him in October of 2016 and had actually finished him in the following February or March of 2017. I was waiting until after Brickcon of the same year to take pictures as Brickcon was going to be his "grand unveiling". However I just kept putting it off.
In that time he actually won "Best large Bionicle" at Brickcon 2017 and made an appearance the following year.
He's not perfect as he does have a lot of gaps, the back is very exposed, and has some stability issues. However I'm very glad with the results as he is basically my first attempt at a Bionicle moc at this scale not including an older variation I had build back in 2008 that was the inspiration for this moc (comparison picture in the photo stream) but that is ugly and just a frame really. (I actually submitted the old original on to the Lego Club magazine. Didn't make it in.)
This is my first video posting - 11 images from the 120+ that I shot of the Pismo Beach July 4th fireworks from the Pismo Preserve. Takes about 1 minute to view them. They are severely cropped (with the exception of this first one) yet it is amazing the detail the camera was able to capture.
A refresh of a posting in February 2015, a once Wanganui-based 33 seater bus captured around the time of the official opening of the Foxton trolleybus museum system in December 1988, and which last saw service with Allen Motors of Shannon before being converted to movan status by a Waiterere Beach buyer..
Understood to have belonged to B C Landall of Foxton Beach at the time.
Ford V8s were first built in 1932. Bus chassis were introduced in 1934 although some buses were built in North America on earlier truck chassis. Right hand drive chassis were built in Canada and New Zealand models originated from there. Early models had a wheelbase of 157 inches although some chassis were extended when used for buses. From 1940 the bus chassis had a wheelbase of 194 inches.
Although a few were sold prior to World War II sales increased during the war when Ford V8's were almost the only bus chassis available. In 1945 when new buses were still very hard to obtain NZ Motor Bodies introduced the Steelbilt metal bus body for Ford V8's and sales took off. The last sales were in 1952 and from then New Zealand Fords were sourced from England and the Thames ET7 chassis replaced the V8. Ford V8s were the most numerous buses in New Zealand until sales of the next NZMB standard design, the Bedford SB surpassed them.
A history of ER6711:
- 13 9G.22650F 13/9/50 ? Parapara Motors Ltd, Wanganui ? ? 22/11/55 NZMB Steelbilt B33D
- Allen Motors Ltd, Shannon ? ER6711 27/4/64
- Hun, Waiterere Beach ER6711 25/8/76 Movan
- B C Landall, Foxton Beach ER6711 17/9/79 Movan
- R W Templeton, Foxton Beach ER6711 16/2/90 Movan
- J T White, Turakina Valley ER6711 28/6/93 Movan
- G E Governor, Palmerston North ER6711 22/10/98 Movan; Reg on hold 99
- R J & K Coe, Maxwell ER6711 22/11/02 Movan; Reg on hold
- mL M Kelly, Wanganui ER6711 2/2/04 Movan; Reg on hold
- W J McGrath, Wanganui ER6711 18/2/06 Movan; Reg on hold
- T C Skipps, Wanganui ER6711 18/10/07 Movan; Reg on hold 99
www.businfo.nz/index.php?R=17710&OP=2
Greyhound Buses Ltd. Ford V8 buses:
Wanganui Greyhound Buses were frequent buyers of Ford buses from their initial formation from Wanganui Tramways in 1950 right through until 1983 when Greyhound purchased a Ford N1117 the last Ford bus marketed in New Zealand.
Ford V8 movan ER6711, former Greyhound 13, at the Gypsy Fair in Rotorua...
Finished the first footie pajama set for lati yellow renewal size... so Amari can have sweet dreams!
I have two other fabrics for these sets - I just couldn't sew them up because I'm out of tiny snaps (I have plenty of small ones, but no more tiny ones!)... so as soon as something in the shop goes, I can buy some snaps (and, you know, maybe some food, lol!) and sew a few more up! Until then, I will take a snap of Amari next to the two other fabrics (tomorrow) ...but will be posting this one tonight (within the hour up now!) on the internETSY :) :p
Be sure to check out the other pics... these pajamas have an ultra cute butt flap!!
I'll be working on the Lati yellow sp size for next week (luckily those use the small - not tiny - snaps, so I can sew them up right away!
Detail from previous posting of Sherman and his Generals - 3D red/cyan anaglyph created from two sources:
1. Right side, an albumen silver print, courtesy of National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution. NPG Title: "Sherman and His Generals," posted at: npg.si.edu/object/npg_NPG.94.97
2. Left side, glass plate negative, Library of Congress. LOC Title: "Sherman and generals," posted at: hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/cwpbh.03225
Photo Date: May 1865
Photographer: Mathew Brady Washington D.C. Studio
Notes: John Alexander Logan was born on Feb 9, 1826, in Murphysboro, Illinois; died at age 60, on Dec. 27, 1886, in Washington, D.C., buried in the US Soldiers' and Airmen's Home National Cemetery, Washington, D.C.
Gen. Logan was married and had two children. Below, is a bio and information on his Civil War service from a couple obituaries.
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THE ROCK ISLAND ARGUS
WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 29, 1886.
Wounds of Five Battles.
“Washington City, Dec 29. One who saw the remains of Gen. Logan Monday morning, the embalmers having completed their work and the body being ready for the casket, describes its appearance as being lifelike and but little wasted. Eugenie Pedou and Miss Sophie S. Verdi have taken a plaster cast of the features of Gen. Logan. Those who prepared Gen. Logan's body for burial observed that he bore on his body the wounds of five battles for his country. One of these, in the spine, which has often given him trouble, is believed to have increased the tendency of the disease to fix the seat of its vital energy in the brain.”
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The Sun, Morris, Minnesota,
Thursday, December 30, 1886.
GEN. LOGAN DEAD.
John A. Logan, the Distinguished Soldier and Statesman, Cold in Death.
Surrounded by His Devoted Wife and Friends, He Peacefully Passed to the Great Beyond.
WASHINGTON. Special Telegram, Dec. 26-
Death of Gen. Logan
His Last Hours
“At three minutes of 3 o'clock to-day the soul of John A. Logan, patriot, soldier and senator, passed to his rest. The wife and children with whose life his own was so closely knit were by his bedside, and received the last flickers of intelligent recognition that his pain-racked brain was permitted to give…..
The lurking tendency to brain complications, which had been present in a greater or less degree, and constantly increasing in severity during his entire illness, had prepared his friends to expect the worst The racking pains which he suffered during the early days of his illness yielded to treatment, but left him in a weak and exhausted condition from which he never rallied, and upon which the fever preyed with increasing violence until the hour of his death….. While the public has been aware for a week or more that Gen. Logan was confined to his room with rheumatism, many even of his most intimate friends were as late as yesterday afternoon unsuspicious of the serious character of the attack, and to the masses the announcement in this morning's papers that the statesman lay at death's door brought a shock of sorrowful surprise….
WAR AND CIVIL RECORD.
John A. Logan was born in Jackson county, Ill., Feb. 9, 1820. His early life was spent in that county, where he obtained some education from his father and such school teachers as chanced to teach in the district. At the outbreak of the Mexican war young Logan volunteered and was chosen a lieutenant in a company of the First Illinois infantry. As a soldier he did good service, and was for some time adjutant of his regiment. In the fall of 1848, upon his return home, he commenced the study of law in the office of his uncle, Alexander M. Jenkins, formerly lieutenant governor of Illinois. In November, 1849, he was elected clerk of Jackson county. In 1850 he attended a course of law lectures at Louisville, Ky., receiving his diploma in 1851, when he entered into practice with his uncle. The following year he was elected prosecuting attorney of the Third judicial district, and in the fall of the same year he was chosen to the state legislature, to which position he was three times reelected. In 1850 he was presidential elector on the Democratic ticket for the Ninth congressional district, and voted for James Buchanan for president Two years later he was elected a member of congress from the same district, receiving 15,878 votes against 2,796 for Phillips, Republican. At the next election he was returned by 21,381 votes as against 5,439 for Linegar, Republican. In the campaign of 1860 he gave his ardent support to Stephen A. Douglas.
IN THE WAR.
Mr. Logan attended the called session of congress in July, 1861, and immediately afterward joined the troops going to the front. He was in the first battle of Bull Run, and among the last to leave the field. Returning to his home Sept 1, he assisted in raising troops, and Sept 13 the Thirty-first regiment of Illinois infantry was organized with Logan commissioned as colonel. The first engagement in which he and his command participated was the battle of Belmont, in November of the same year, when his ability as a commander, and his dash and intrepidity, foreshadowed the fact that he was to play a conspicuous part in the operations of the army. He was present at the battle of Fort Donelson, where he received a severe wound, and did not rejoin his command until some weeks afterward, on the evening of the last day of the battle of Shiloh. On March 3, 1862, he was made brigadier general, and participated in the siege of Corinth as commander of the First brigade in Gen. Judah's division of the right wing of the army, and for his valiant services was publicly thanked by Gen. Sherman in his official report.
When the attempt to take Vicksburg began in the fall of 1862 Gen. Logan was in command of the First division of the right wing of the Thirteenth corps. On the arrival of the command at Memphis, Dec. 31, 1862, the Seventh army corps was organized, and on Jan. 11, 1863, Gen. Logan was assigned to the Third division, in which position he remained until the fall of Vicksburg, when he was assigned to the command of the Fifteenth army corps in the movements about Vicksburg from February, 1863, until July 4, when Gen. Pemberton surrendered, Gen. Logan with his command was actively engaged, and it was through a number of brilliant movements by him that important advantages over the enemy were gained and the final result hastened. He was selected by Gen. Grant for consultation during the interviews with Gen. Pemberton looking to the terms of the surrender, and in consideration of his admirable services Gen. Logan's command was ordered to take the lead in the march into Vicksburg, July 4, after which he was given the command of that post, which he retained until placed in command of the Fifteenth corps, Nov. 14, 1863.
During the latter part of December and January Gen. Logan organized an expedition into Northern Alabama. In the Atlanta campaign his corps was a part of McPherson's command, which, as Gen. Sherman said, was the snapper to the whip with which he proposed to punish the enemy. During the movement Logan was conspicuously at the front, and the forces under his immediate command bore an important part in all actions and maneuvers that resulted finally in the taking possession of Atlanta and the surrounding strongholds of the Confederate forces at Dallas, as at Resaca, Gen. Logan's command was in the front, and the desperation with which the men under him fought showed their implicit confidence in their commander to lead them to victory even under the most perilous circumstances.
FROM ATLANTA TO THE SEA.
On July 22, 1864, Logan, as commander of the Fifteenth army corps, was ordered in pursuit of the enemy south of Atlanta In the hard-fought battle that followed Gen. McPherson was killed, and Gen. Logan succeeded him in command of the Army of the Tennessee. The success of the battle was accorded to Logan by Gen. Sherman's official report. The battle of July 28, which followed, was another hotly contested fight, in which Logan's command was equally conspicuous and successful. At Jonesboro, Aug. 29, he was again In advance, and, seeing the necessity of prompt action, without waiting for orders he pushed forward and saved the bridge across Flint river, went into a fortified position within a mile and a half of Jonesboro, fought a sharp battle and won a decided victory. On Jan. 20, 1865, the campaign of the Carolinas commenced, the movements being for the purpose of encountering Johnson's Army of the Potomac. This march was full of peril and privations, in all of which Gen. Logan was with his men day and night, wading swamps and streams, and enduring all that the men of his corps were called on to suffer. The command moved on, driving the enemy at every point, passing through Columbia, Goldsborough and Lafayetteville, until it reached Raleigh, near which the surrender of Johnson took place, and the campaign was closed.
After the close of the war Gen. Logan was offered the position of minister to Mexico, but declined. In 1866 he was elected to congress as a Republican from the state at large in Illinois by a majority of 55,987, and in the Fortieth congress was one of the managers of the impeachment of President Johnson. In the next, the Forty-first congress, Logan began to make his mark in various kinds of legislative work. In 1870 Logan was elected by the Illinois legislature to the United States senate to succeed Richard Yates. After serving his term he was defeated by the Independents who united upon the Hon. David Davis as his successor, but he was again elected to succeed Oglesby in 1879. He was a candidate for president in the Republican national convention in 1884, and after the choice of Mr. Blaine was unanimously nominated for vice president. He took an active part in all the legislation of the senate, and introduced many useful bills. His efforts for the soldiers were unremitting. The general was the fortunate possessor of a charming wife, whose efforts contributed materially to the success of his public career.”
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Findagrave Link:
www.findagrave.com/memorial/1653/john-alexander-logan
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Red/Cyan (not red/blue) glasses of the proper density must be used to view 3D effect without ghosting. Anaglyph prepared using red cyan glasses from The Center For Civil War Photography / American Battlefield Trust. CCWP Link: www.civilwarphotography.org/
Posting one a day...probably for the next few weeks. Otherwise I'll bury them in my stream right away like I have been already.
A few minutes later with the Leica and Fujichrome(but sans tripod). A warmer hue. I like the tones and format of this better.
Somewhere on the high plains, Eastern Oregon. Watching the sun set to the west.
A half day of work on Friday, followed by getting aimless in eastern Washington and Oregon. My friend Griz and I took a picture or two.
Posting photos scanned from Kodacolor prints shot at Air/Space America 88 San Diego’s Brown Field on May 22, 1988. As you can see print process, camera, lens and scanner were not of the quality in 1988 as the digital equipment is today.
This one came out really dark. Probably because of the light coming in the window from the background. I'm posting it anyway because this Tiffany pink gown was one of the most exciting dresses I ever wore!
Most of my photos were peek-a-boo shots as the bird fed on the Mahonia flowers, but occasionally it perched out in the open for a few seconds. I could not resist posting a few photos of this rarity for southwestern B.C.
For the best part of the last year, I have been posting shots of Kent churches on Twitter, to break up the torrent of horrible news relating to COVID, Brexit and our Dear Leader, and in doing so, I have discovered many churches I visited at the start of the project, needed to redone.
Goudhurst, is, apparently, the highest point in Kent, or so Jools tells me. I will just check that with Wikki: Hmm, it seems not. That is Betsom's Hill north of the M25 near to the border with London. Goudhurst is not even in the top ten.
I can confirm we approached the village along a long hill from a river valley, finally climbing up the narrow high street, getting round the parked cars and finding a space nearly big enough for the car near to the church.
On the other side of the road from the church, a series of very Kent houses and buildings, all decorated with pegtiles, in the Kent fashion, and to the south, the imposing structure of The Star and Eagle Hotel.
The church sits in it's large graveyard, pretty as a picture on a sunny summer's afternoon as on my first visit, but on a grey, late autumn afternoon, just as the light fades, it loses some of its charm.
The church itself is resplendent with it's honey-coloured stone, squat tower and spreading aisles on both sides.
There is a welcome notice on the door in the west end of the tower stating that the church is always open and all are indeed, welcome.
Its a fine touch.
Inside, it is light and spacious, so spacious to have to grand leather sofas in the nave, not sure if this is for glamping, or for some other reason, but they're doing no harm.
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Seen from afar Goudhurst is Kent's answer to Rye - a small hilltop village over which broods the lovely church. Its west tower, dating from the seventeenth century, is rather low, but the honey-coloured sandstone is particularly beautiful here. We enter the church through the tower, and are impressed by the way in which the width and height of the nave and its aisles combine to make such a noble structure. There are two remarkably fine wooden effigies dating from the sixteenth century, carved and painted and set into a purpose-built bay window. Nearby, in the south chapel, the walls are crammed with monuments and there are three brasses, one of which is covered by a stone canopy - not particularly grand but unexpected and functional.
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GOUDHURST
LIES the next parish southward from Marden. The northern part of it, as far southward as the stream formerly called Risebridge river, which flows from Bedgebury to Hope mill, and a smaller part likewise on the other side of it, adjoining to the rivulet called the Bewle westward, is in the hundred of Marden, and lower division of the lath of Scray; the rest of the parish southward of the first-mentioned stream, is in the hundred of West, alias Little Barnefield, and lath of Aylesford, comprehending the whole of that hundred. So much of this parish as is within the borough of Faircrouch, is in the hundred of Cranbrook; as much as is in the boroughs of Pattenden, Lilsden, Combwell, and Chingley or Bromley, is in the same hundred of West, alias Little Barnefield; and the residue is in the hundred of Marden. It lies wholly within the district of the Weald, and in the division of West Kent.
The borsholders of the boroughs of Highamden, Pattenden, and Hilsden, in this parish, are chosen at the court-leet holden for the manor of East Farleigh, and the inhabitants owe no service but to that manor; only a constable for the hundred of West Barnefield may be chosen out of such parts of them as lay within it for that hundred. The manor of Maidstone likewise extends into this parish, over lands as far southward as Rise-bridge.
THE PARISH OF GOUDHURST is very pleasantly situated, being interspersed on every side with frequent hill and dale. The trees in it are oak, of a large size, and in great plenty throughout it, as well in the woods, as broad hedge-rows and shaves round the fields. The lands are in general very fertile; the soil, like the adjoining parishes, is mostly a deep stiff clay; being heavy tillage land, but it has the advantage of a great deal of rich marle at different places, and in some few parts sand, with which the roads are in general covered; and in the grounds near Finchcocks, there is a gravel-pit, which is the only one, I believe, in this part of the county. There is much more pasture than arable land in it, the former being mostly fatting lands, bullocks fatted on them weighing in general from 120 to 130 stone. It is well watered with several streams in different parts of it, all which uniting with the Teis, flow in one channel, along the western side of this parish, towards the Medway. The eastern and southern parts of it are much covered with thick coppice wood, mostly of oak. The turnpike road from Maidstone over Cocksheath through Marden, leads through the upper part of this parish southward, dividing into two branches at Winchethill; that to the left goes on to Comborne, and leaving the town of Goudhurst a little to the right, joins the Cranbrooke road a little beyond it. That to the right, having taken into it a branch of the Woodgate road from Tunbridge, near Broadford-bridge, goes on to the town of Goudhurst, and thence eastward to Cranbrooke and Tenterden; and the great high road from Lamberhurst through Stonecrouch to Hawkhurst, and into Sussex, south-east, goes along the southern bounds of this parish.
The parish is about eight miles long and four broad. There are about three hundred houses in it, and somewhat more than five inhabitants to a house. It is very healthy; sixty years of age being esteemed, if not the prime, at least the middle age of life; the inhabitants of these parts being in great measure untainted with the vices and dissipation too frequently practised above the hill.
There are two heaths or commons here; the one called Pyles-health, and the other Killdown, in West Barnefield hundred.
THE TOWN, or village of Goudhurst, stands in the hundred of Marden, about half a mile within the lower or southern bounds of it, on an hill, commanding an extensive view of the country all around it. It is not paved, but is built on the sides of five different roads which unite at a large pond in the middle of it. The houses are mostly large, antient and well-timbered, like the rest of those in this neighbourhood, one of them, called Brickwall, belongs to the Rev. Mr. Thomas Bathurst. Within memory there were many clothiers here, but there are none now. There is some little of the woolstapling business yet carried on.
On the summit of the hill, on which the town stands, is the church, a conspicuous object to the neighbouring country, and near it was the marketplace, which was pulled down about the year 1650, and the present small one built lower down, at the broad place in the town near the pond. The market was held on a Wednesday weekly, for cattle, provisions, &c. till within memory; it is now entirely disused, there is a fair held yearly in the town, upon the day of the assumption of our lady, being August 26, for cattle, hardware, toys, &c. This market and fair were granted in the year of king Richard II. to Joane, widow of Roger de Bedgebury, the possessors of which estate claim at this time the privilege of holding them, by a yearly rent to the manor of Marden.
At the hamlet of Stonecrouch is a post-office of very considerable account, its district extending to Goudhurst, Cranbrooke, Tenterden, Winchelsea, Rye, and Hastings, and all the intermediate and adjoining places, to which letters are directed by this Stonecrouch bag.
ALMOST adjoining to the town eastward, on the road leading to Tenterden, there is A HAMLET, called LITTLE GOUDHURST, in which there is an antient seat, called TAYWELL, which for many generations was possessed by a family of the name of Lake, who bore for their arms, Sable, a bend between six crosscroslets, fitchee, argent. In the north isle of this church, under which is a vault, in which this family lie buried, there is a marble, on which is a descent of them. The last of them, Thomas Lake, esq. barrister-at-law, resided here, but dying without issue male, his daughters and coheirs became possessed of it; one of whom married Maximilian Gott, esq. and the other Thomas Hussey, esq. whose son Edward Hussey, esq. of Scotney, now possesses the entire see of this estate, which is demised for a long term of years to Mr. Olive, who has almost rebuilt it, and resides in it.
AT A SMALL DISTANCE southward from the abovementioned seat, is another, called TRIGGS, which was for several descents the residence of the Stringers, a family of good account in the different parts of this county. John Stringer, esq. son of Edward Stringer, of Biddenden, by Phillis his wife, daughter of George Holland, gent. resided here in king Charles I.'s reign, and married Susanna, daughter of Stephen Streeter, of Goudhurst, by whom he had Stephen, of Goudhurst; John, gent. of Ashford, who left a daughter and heir Mary, married to Anthony Irby, esq. Edward and Thomas, both of Goudhurst; the latter left two sons. Thomas and Edward, and a daughter Catherine, who married William Belcher, M. D. by whom the had Stringer Belcher, and other children. The Stringers bore for their arms, Per chevron, or, and sable, in chief two eagles displayed of the second, in the base a fleur de lis of the first.
Stephen Stringer, the eldest son of John, resided at Triggs in the reign of king Charles II. and was succeeded in it by his second son Stephen Stringer, esq. who kept his shrievalty here in the 6th year of queen Anne. He died without male issue, leaving by Jane his wife, daughter of John Austen, esq. of Broadford, four daughters his coheirs, Jane, married to Thomas Weston, of Cranbrooke; Hannah to William Monk, of Buckingham. in Sussex, whose eldest daughter and coheir married Thomas Knight, esq. of Godmersham; Elizabeth married Edward Bathurst, esq. of Finchcocks, and Anne married John Kirril, esq. of Sevenoke. (fn. 1) This seat was afterwards alienated to Francis Austen, esq. of Sevenoke, whose son Francis Mottley Austen, esq. of Sevenoke, is the present owner of it.
THE MANOR OF MARDEN claims over the greatest part of this parish; part of it, being the dens beforementioned, are within the manor of East Farleigh, and the remaining part, called Wincehurst-den, is within the manor of Gillingham, near Chatham. Although that part of this parish which lies within the hundred of West Barnefield, being the most southern part of it, contains those places which are of, by far, the greatest note in it, yet, for the sake of regularity in my description, I shall begin with those in the hundred of Marden, partly already described, and having finished that, proceed next to the hundred of West Barnefield, and the matters worthy of notice in it.
BOKINFOLD is a manor of large extent, situated in the hundred of Marden, having formerly a large park and demesnes belonging to it, which extended into the parishes of Brenchley, Horsemonden, Yalding, Marden, and Goudhurst, the house of it being situated in that of Yalding, in the description of which parish the reader will find an ample account of the former state and possessors of it. (fn. 2) It will, therefore, be sufficient to mention here, in addition to it, that the whole of this manor coming at length into the possession of Sir Alexander Colepeper. He in the 3d year of queen Elizabeth levied a fine of it, and three years afterwards alienated that part of this manor, and all the demesnes of it which lay in Brenchley, Horsemonden, Yalding, and Marden, to Roger Revell, as has been mentioned under the parish of Yalding, and THE REMAINDER OF IT in this parish, held of the manor of Marden, to Sharpeigh, whose descendant Stephen Sharpeigh passed that part of it away in 1582, to Richard Reynolds, whose son and heir John Reynolds, about the 41st year of queen Elizabeth, conveyed it to Richard Eliot, and he, about the year 1601, alienated it to Thomas Girdler, who the next year sold it to John Reynolds, and he, in the 5th year of king James, transmitted it to John Beale, who, about 1609, passed it away to John Harleston, of Ickham, and he settled it by will on Richard Harleston, who in like manner devised it to his kinsman Richard Bishop, and he, soon after the death of king Charles I. sold it to Mr. Stephen Stringer, of Triggs, in Goudhurst, whose son, of the same name, was sheriff anno 6 queen Anne, and left five daughters his coheirs, of whom Elizabeth, the third, married Edward Bathurst, esq. of Finchcocks, and on the division of their inheritance, he, in her right, became possessed of this manor. He died in 1772, upon which this estate came to his son, the Rev. Thomas Bathurst, rector of Welwyn, in Hertfordshire, the present owner of it. A court baron is regularly held for this manor.
In 1641 the archbishop collated Richard Amhurst, clerk, to the free chapels of Bockinfold and Newsted annexed, in the archdeaconry of Canterbury, then vacant and of his patronage. (fn. 3)
COMBORNE is an estate, situated in the northernmost part of this parish, adjoining to Winchet-hill, in the hundred of Marden likewise; which place of Winchet-hill was antiently the original seat in this county, of the family of Roberts, of Glassenbury.
An ancestor of this family, William Rookherst, a gentleman of Scotland, left his native country, and came into England in the 3d year of king Henry I. and had afterwards the surname of Roberts, having purchased lands at Winchet-hill, on which he built himself a mansion, calling it Rookherst, after himself. This place came afterwards to be called Ladiesden Rokehurst, alias Curtesden, and continued the residence of this family till the reign of king Richard II. when Stephen Roberts, alias Rookherst, marrying Joane, the daughter and heir of William Tilley, of Glassenbury, removed thither, and the remains of their residence here are so totally effaced, as to be known only by the family evidences, and the report of the neighbourhood.
But their estate at Winchet-hill continued several generations afterwards in their descendants, till it was at length alienated to one of the family of Maplesden, of Marden, in whose descendants this estate, together with that of Comborne adjoining, continued down to Edward Maplesden; esq. of the Middle Temple, who died in 1755, s. p. and intestate. Upon which they descended to Alexander Courthope, esq. of Horsemonden, the son of his sister Catherine, and to Charles Booth, esq. the grandson of his sister Anne, as his coheirs in gavelkind, and on a partition of those estates between them, Winchet-hill was allotted to Charles Booth, esq. afterwards Sir Charles Booth, of Harrietsham-place, who died possessed of it, s. p. in 1795, and his devisees, for the purposes of his will, are now in the possession of it; but Comborne was allotted to Alexander Courthope, esq. since deceased, whose nephew John Cole, esq. now possesses it.
FINCHCOCKS is a feat in this parish, situated within the hundred of Marden, in that angle of it which extends south-westward below Hope mill, and is likewise within that manor. It was formerly of note for being the mansion of a family of the same surname, who were possessed of it as early as the 40th year of Henry III. They were succeeded in it by the family of Horden, of Horden, who became proprietors of it by purchase in the beginning of king Henry VI.'s reign, one of whom was Edward Horden, esq. clerk of the green cloth to king Edward VI. queen Mary, and queen Elizabeth, who had, for some considerable service to the crown, the augmentation of a regal diadem, added to his paternal coat by queen Elizabeth. He left two daughters his coheirs, Elizabeth, married to Mr. Paul Bathurst, of Bathurst-street, in Nordiam, and Mary to Mr. Delves, of Fletchings, who had Horden for his share of the inheritance, as the other had this of Finchcocks. He was descended from Laurence Bathurst, of Canterbury, who held lands there and in Cranbrooke, whose son of the same name, left three sons, of whom Edward, the eldest, was of Staplehurst, and was ancestor of the Bathursts, of Franks, in this county, now extinct, (fn. 4) of the earls Bathurst, and those of Clarenden-park, in Wiltshire, and Lydney, in Gloucestershire; Robert Bathurst, the second, was of Horsemonden; and John, the third son, was ancestor of the Bathursts, of Ockham, in Hampshire. Robert Bathurst, of Horsemonden above-mentioned, by his first wife had John, from whom came the Bathursts, of Lechlade, in Gloucestershire, and baronets; and Paul, who was of Nordiam, and afterwards possessor of Finchcocks, from whose great-grandson William, who was a merchant in London, descended the Bathursts, of Edmonton, in Middlesex. By his second wife he had John, who was of Goudhurst, ancestor of the Bathursts, of Richmond, in Yorkshire. In the descendants of Paul Bathurst before-mentioned, this seat continued down to Thomas Bathurst, esq. who by his will devised this seat and estate to his nephew Edward, only son of his younger brother William, of Wilmington, who leaving his residence there on having this seat devised to him, removed hither, and rebuilt this seat, at a great expence, in a most stately manner. He resided here till his death in 1772, having been twice married, and leaving several children by each of his wives. By his first wife Elizabeth, third daughter and coheir of Stephen Stringer, esq. of Triggs, he had three sons, Edward, who left a daughter Dorothy, now unmarried, and John and Thomas, both fellows of All Souls college, in Oxford, the latter of whom is now rector of Welwyn, in Hertfordshire. Before his death he conveyed this seat and estate by sale to his son by his second wife, Mr. Charles Bathurst, who on his decease in 1767, s. p. devised it by will to his brother, the Rev. Mr. Richard Bathurst, now of Rochester, the present possessor of it. This branch of the family of Bathurst. bore for their arms the same coat as those of Franks, in this county, and those of Cirencester, Lydney, and Clarendon, viz. Sable, two bars, ermine, in chief three crosses pattee, or, with a crescent for difference; but with a different crest, viz. Party per fess, and pale, a demi wolf argent, and sable, holding a regal crown, or; which I take to be that borne by Edward Horden, whose heir Paul Bathurst, their ancestor, married, and whose coat of arms they likewise quartered with their own.
¶AT NO GREAT DISTANCE from Finchcocks, in the same hundred, lies a capital messuage, called RISEDEN, alias GATEHOUSE, which formerly belonged to a family named Sabbe, one of whom, Simon Sabbe, sold it, before the middle of the last century, to Mr. Robert Bathurst, from whom it descended down, with an adjoining estate, called TRILLINGHERST, to another Robert Bathurst, who died in 1731, and lies buried in this church, whose daughter Mary sold them both to Sir Horace Mann, bart. the present possessor of them.
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