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The Bridge House Ambleside is a 17th century building reckoned to be the most photographed building in the Lake district, Cumbria. Supported by the National Trust it survives from its early days as many things including a counting house, weavers room, cobblers, chair makers, tea room and surprisingly a house for a family of eight!! It straddles the Stock Beck and is now used as the Trusts information centre and can be visited free of charge to see the two very small and sparse rooms. An attractive piece of architecture built with the typical slate of the area has and interesting history and well worth a visit.....and a photo or two!
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when a generation speaks their mind during tough times. it never was easy. democracy, people's right to speak, fight without flee could never be an empty slate or organized few lines. it seems like it would always be messy.
picture was taken inside zoomies the skateboard shop. this is the door that leads to change room.
We hiked two and a half miles in pouring rain from the village of Skelwith Bridge along the River Brathay to this place, Slater Bridge.
Fortunately when we arrived the rain let up and we had a dry spell for lunch and some photography. It wasn't as photogenic as I had hoped but it was a lovely spot and the hike back was mostly dry!
The ancient Slater Bridge is a 17th century pack-horse bridge which was built to serve the nearby slate quarries.
Slate Canyon above Provo, Utah is one of my favorite nearby hiking spots, and this stretch of the canyon is my favorite view of the hike, especially in the morning. I thought the spot looked especially good on this hike in late March. A small storm had come through the day before and drop just enough snow to make the whole trail seem wonderful and new.
Slate Canyon trail; Uinta-Wasatch-Cache National Forest, Utah; March 2017
A small selection of slate details all made at Hodge Close Quarry in the Lake District. Have uploaded a slightly larger version on this occasion so you can enjoy the detail.
This magnificent bridge is near the village of Little Langdale in the English Lake District. It was built for/by the slate quarrymen, between the village and the quarry. The area around Tilberthwaite and Coniston was heavily mined for slate and copper.
The bridge stands in a beautiful position in this beautiful valley and is testament to the ancient skills used in its construction. It is a wonder to look at.
A B&W 10 stop filter was used to blur the water.
Scrub and trees are gradually reclaiming these cliffs at the huge abandoned Dinorwig Slate Quarry near Llanberis, North Wales. This was a technical 'mistake' - I'd left the ISO much higher than intended for the shot - but when I looked I really liked the abstract feel and the texture and colour changes across the frame. So no grand view here, but another more personal image that I like very much.
Dinorwig really is a little slice of heaven for landscape photographers.
Completed in 1886, the Second Empire-style John Bremond Jr. House is the most outstanding home in the Bremond Block Historic District - a collection of eleven historic homes in downtown Austin, constructed from the 1850s to 1910. The block was added to National Register of Historic Places in 1970, and is considered one of the few remaining upper-class Victorian neighborhoods of the middle to late nineteenth century in Texas. Six of the eleven houses were built or expanded for members of the families of brothers Eugene and John Bremond, who were prominent in late-nineteenth-century Austin social, merchandising, and banking circles.
Located on the corner of Seventh and Guadalupe, the John Bremond, Jr. House is a graceful and exuberant example of Texas Victorian architecture. Its crested mansard roof has elaborate dormers, polychrome slate shingles, and concave bracketed curves on the front gable. The cast-iron work on the wrap-around gallery is outstanding. This house and several of the others were built by George Fiegel. All the buildings within the Bremond Block are beautifully maintained. The John Bremond, Jr. house is currently owned by the Texas Classroom Teachers Association, who have made it the association headquarters.
As of 2021, Austin had an estimated population of 964,177, The city is the cultural and economic center of the Austin-Round Rock metropolitan statistical area, which had an estimated population of 2,421,115 as of July 1, 2022. Austin is home of the University of Texas at Austin, one of the largest universities in the U.S. with over 50,000 students.
Sources:
Williamson, Roxanne. "Bremond Block Historic District". Handbook of Texas Online. Retrieved March 26, 2024.
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This is a stack of slate waiting to be used as outside patio flooring at my neighbors house. I thought the way the workers had it stacked had a certain eye appeal and decided to take a couple of snaps. I liked the results and thought I would share it with all of you..
Slate is a fine-grained, foliated, homogeneous metamorphic rock derived from an original shale-type sedimentary rock composed of clay or volcanic ash through low grade regional metamorphism. The result is a foliated rock in which the foliation may not correspond to the original sedimentary layering. Slate is frequently grey in colour especially when seen en masse covering roofs. However, slate occurs in a variety of colours even from a single locality. For example slate from North Wales can be found in many shades of grey from pale to dark and may also be purple, green or cyan. Slate is not to be confused with shale, from which it may be formed, or schist.
Chemical composition
Slate is mainly composed of quartz and muscovite or illite, often along with biotite, chlorite, hematite, and pyrite and, less frequently, apatite, graphite, kaolin, magnetite, tourmaline, or zircon as well as feldspar. Occasionally, as in the purple slates of North Wales, ferrous reduction spheres form around iron nuclei, leaving a light green spotted texture. These spheres are sometimes deformed by a subsequent applied stress field to ovoids, which appear as ellipses when viewed on a cleavage plane of the specimen.
Slate in buildings
Slate can be made into roofing slates, also called roofing shingles, installed by a slater[1]. Slate has two lines of breakability: cleavage and grain. This makes it possible to split slate into thin sheets. When broken, slate produces a natural appearance while remaining relatively flat and can be easily stacked. Silicone glue adheres to slate.
Slate tiles are often used for interior and exterior flooring, stairs, walkways, and wall cladding. Tiles are installed and set on mortar and grouted along the edges. Chemical sealants are often used on tiles to improve durability and appearance, increase stain resistance, reduce efflorescence, and increase or reduce surface smoothness. Tiles are often sold gauged, meaning that the back surface is ground for ease of installation. Slate flooring can however be slippery when used in external locations subject to rain. Slate tiles were used in 19th century UK building construction (apart from roofs) and in slate quarrying areas such as Bethesda there are still many buildings wholly constructed of slate. Slates can also be set into walls to provide a rudimentary damp-proof membrane. Small offcuts are used as shims to level floor joists. In areas where slate is plentiful it is also used in pieces of various sizes for building walls and hedges, sometimes combined with other kinds of stone.
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I sometimes get slated for repeatedly going back to the quarries of North Wales. Well they are slightly closer than other slate quarries, but this morning I thought I would venture to an 'English' slate quarry a little bit further away in the Lake District. OK it is December, and it is one of the wettest regions there is this side of the Amazon Rain forest, but when I spotted a gap in the weather I thought I better go for it.
So I made an early start and got up above the Honister mine as the sun was rising, producing this brief fiery glow. But I never saw it develop as the cloud washed over the top from behind me and I was left floundering about a bit in 50 -70m visibility in a place I've never been to before. However I did have a pirate map with me (honest!) and I managed to find my way to my objectives. There should have been an amazing wall to wall view out over Buttermere but all I got were very brief partial gaps in the cloud. But I will return. If nothing else, to do the Via Ferrata extreme.
This Slate-throated Redstart with its bright yellow underparts looked very different from its counterpart I had seen near Puerto Vallarta in the state of Jalisco, Mexico: www.flickr.com/photos/luminouscompositions/50680468816/in... . It turns out the yellow is more typical through most of the large range of this species, which is found from northern Mexico as far south as Bolivia in South America. This individual was seen along the road from the town of Minca in northern Colombia, South America, that leads up to the renowned birdwatching area of San Lorenzo Ridge in the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta.
A squall dumps a load of rain on the little island of Easdale. The cluster of little white houses sit around the slate quarries on the tiny island. It may look wild and grey, but explore its little coast, and examine the community and you discover an idyllic life is possible here: a real escape from the rat race