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The Savoy period (12th century to 1536)
The first written mention of the castle appears in 1150. At that time, the Counts of Savoy controlled the fort, as well as the path between the lake and the mountains.
From the 13th century onwards, the castle was extended, and under Pierre II of Savoy, it became the summer residence of the Counts.
As early as 1150, the Counts of Savoy controlled the fort, as well as the path between the lake and the mountains, which gave them a strategic location on the route leading from the north to the south.
In the 13th century, the Counts furthered their conquests of the territory of Vaud until their domination was extended over approximately two-thirds of the territory which makes up today’s French-speaking Switzerland. The Chillon Castle was extended at that time, in particular under Pierre II of Savoy who transformed it into a summer residence for the Counts. The Counts did not live in Chillon year-round as they moved around to govern and stay close to their subjects. Nevertheless, a castellan bailiff stayed in the castle at all seasons to take care of affairs.
Little by little, the Chillon Castle started to be neglected as the court of Savoy favored other castles. But from 1536 on, the Bernese brought the fort back to life.
The Bernese period (1536-1798)
The Swiss, or more precisely, the Bernese, conquered the Pays de Vaud. The conquest was completed once the Bernese took-over the Chillon Castle in 1536. For more than 260 years, the castle retained its role as a fortress, arsenal, and prison.
After a three-week siege, the Bernese finally entered the fortress. On March 29th, 1536, their conquest of the Pays de Vaud was completed as they took over the castle of Chillon. The Bernese divided the Pays de Vaud into twelve bailliages, and Chillon became the administrative center for the bailliage of Vevey.
Under the Counts of Savoy, the castle was divided into two parts, one for the castellan bailiff, and the other for the Counts, when they resided at Chillon. This division was no longer useful, and the Bernese took possession of all the space in the castle. Concerning the defensive aspects, the fortress was adapted to the then new firearms.
In 1733, the bailiffs left the castle, which had become isolated and uncomfortable, and moved on to a more modern residence in Vevey.
The Vaudois period (1798 to the present)
In 1798, at the time of the Vaudois Revolution, the Bernese left the castle, which became the property of the Canton of Vaud upon its foundation in 1803.
A major restoration campaign was launched at the end of the 19th century and is still ongoing.
The patriots of Vevey and Montreux occupied the fortress in January 1798. The castle became national property during the Vaudois Revolution, and belongs since then to the Canton of Vaud, from the date of its foundation in 1803. This old building was first used to stock weapons and ammunitions, and as a State prison. Thus, the first visitors to the castle would come across prisoners…
The medieval fortress attracted the Romantics. During his visit in 1816, Lord Byron, the British poet, found inspiration in the story of Chillon inmate François Bonivard to write his poem The Prisoner of Chillon, which made the castle famous. Many other artists were fascinated by Chillon and the landscape over which it towers.
At the end of the 19th century, cantonal archeologist Albert Naef was in charge of the restoration of the castle. Restoration campaigns are still ongoing nowadays.
www.myswitzerland.com/en/chateau-de-chillon-en-montreux.html
my phone sits on my desk all day at work, on vibrate mode. when it rings, it buzzes and skitters all over the place. so i have a pad of post-it notes devoted just to phone-setting, except that kind of bothers me. because i have to use the post-it notes too, and having two pads is dumb.
so i decided to knit something for my phone to sit on during the day, which will also provide me hours of cuteness. this was my solution. SUCCESS.
(it's also a cozy, and the bottom is open so i can plug my phone in.)
Useful landscaping stones to frame pathways, patios, decks, storefronts, planters, flowerbeds, and however else you find use for them!
Comes in dark, light or neutral tones. 4 LI per patch - these values will help you to get a much better LOD result than the previously released Landscaping Pebbles from Fourth Wall that were incredibly popular! 🙌 You can modify them & scale down for lower LI.
Hope you find great use for them!
Useful font for adding some authentic lego lettering to any project. A simple frame allows you to add one row of lettering at a time without the fear of total collapse that comes with most of my other lightsaber based MOCs. I built a spreadsheet to calculate how much space the lettering will take up but I'm still tweaking that. goo.gl/sbjtkF if you want to have a play around with it. Be warned though it's rather primitive and probably wrong at this stage!
teaching that personal hygene can be fun ( that's NOT gasoline in the plastic tank).
insegnando che l'igene personale può essere divertente ( quella nel bidoncino NON è benzina).
HMM… the them for today, 4/23 the day after earth day, is plastic. how smart to cause us think about how we use plastics and more importantly what we do when we’re done with them or how can we cut down the useage of the one-time use things that litter our oceans and our lands.
...corkscrew and bottle opener, and looks happy about it.
Apologies if you were expecting more landscapes and travel stuff.
A new part for 2017 Plate 1X1 Round W/3.2 Shaft/1,5 Hole a.k.a. the “Stud with Bar” (Design ID 32828) . Read more on New Elementary
"Dans les années 1970, découvrant une estampe de William Hogarth qui présente un ensemble d'impossibilités perspectives, Hockney la réinterprète en usant de sa propre palette de couleurs. Sous-titrée Useful Knowledge [Savoir utile], cette peintured'où la facétie n'est pas absente - parle d'elle-même : les plans fusionnent et le placement des figures, des objets et des détails de paysages n'obéit qu'à une logique analogique ou sémantique, au détriment du réel. Rien de ce que nous croyons voir n'est possible."
A very useful ground cover plant for a shady area in the garden. It flowers in late winter into early spring and is dormant from early summer onwards until it flowers the following year. Mine grows happily together with some of my ferns in an area which gets no direct sunlight during the winter. Great winter colour in the garden!
“Everyone knows the usefulness of what is useful, but few know the usefulness of what is useless.”
- Zhuang Zi (Chinese philosopher, died 286 BCE).
Did you know that everything we see is the product of reflected light? We don’t actually see the things-in-themselves, just their reflected light. In my recent series of infrared photographs I hope I made this point visible and clear. We cannot see infrared with the naked eye (in fact the visible light spectrum is just a tiny fraction of the entire electromagnetic spectrum in our universe). So just because we can’t see something with the naked eye, does not mean it is not real. Seeing infrared photographs however, enlightens us to this reality beyond our limited sense of Being. Radio waves is another example. Sure we can’t see them, but if we have an instrument to detect them and “tune in”, we can listen to wonderful music. The ancients would have seen this as pure magic. It is also analogous to spirituality.
In my posting yesterday, “Being Present in the World”, I opened that discussion with the concept of non-duality. We find the world and ourselves most real when we lose ourselves in the present moment and sense what it is to experience Being. The technical term for this philosophical approach is Phenomenology:
“...phenomenology studies the structure of various types of experience ranging from perception, thought, memory, imagination, emotion, desire, and volition to bodily awareness, embodied action, and social activity, including linguistic activity. The structure of these forms of experience typically involves what (Edmund) Husserl called ‘intentionality”, that is, the directedness of experience toward things in the world, the property of consciousness that it is a consciousness of or about something.” plato.stanford.edu/entries/phenomenology/
Long books of arcane philosophy have been written on these questions of the meaning of existence and how we understand our place in the world. Is it really possible to know anything about the world apart from our senses? Can we even trust our senses as a guide to what is true? Surely the world really exists “out-there”? Are there worlds we cannot see? But what phenomenology tells us is that it is pointless to look for a completely objectified ready-made world “out-there”, what we must do is understand that our consciousness of the world is what makes the world “real” to us. In perhaps the most influential phenomenological book of all time, “Phenomenology of Perception” (1945), the French philosopher Maurice Merleau-Ponty, grounds our understanding of the world in our body. Through our body and senses we participate in the world, and what we learn through this gives us insight into the reality of Being.
So how does all this relate to photography? Or is it in fact just “useless” knowledge?
Let me put this question several different ways. Why do we love taking photographs? What are we trying to achieve? Is it to impress others with our life experiences (as in our latest holiday snaps in Majorca)? Is it to create our own subjective and artistic view of the world? Is it to share the beauty of Nature? Is it to awaken consciences over social issues? Is it a way of impressing ourselves upon the world through taking selfies and sharing them on social media (both go together by the way)? Are we just collectors of image-experiences? Is photography a form of therapy? The list is really endless if we are looking for individual justifications of why we photograph.
But what if we begin by examining our own photographs to see if there are some clues there about our “intentions” (Husserl’s word) when we go out with a camera in hand? Because you can be sure that the kind of photographs we produce will shape our understanding of the world and vice versa. The very fact we talk about “composing a photograph” is a sure sign that we are not merely reproducing an external world. The clearest example of this that I have ever consciously produced is my slide show called “Suburban Dreams 65 Photographs”. www.flickr.com/photos/luminosity7/52275162056/in/dateposted/
But the photograph I’ve chosen to discuss here is of the Low Head Lighthouse at dusk. In fact it is one of the first photographs I took when I bought my Nikon D850. I had decided to make a return to photography after many years, having previously used film cameras. Perhaps these questions might give you some examples of how you can interrogate your own approach to taking photographs. It is also important that these questions are framed in the first person. “I” see it this way, “others” may not. These questions are in fact more important than the specific answers.
* Why did I frame this picture in a portrait or vertical orientation?
* What was the significance of this time of day for me?
* Why did I choose a lighthouse?
* Why did I wait until the light was on to make the photograph?
* What made me decide for colour and not black and white?
* Why did I take the photograph from a beach?
* What was so appealing about the sky that made me give it so much room in my frame?
* Why did I choose to emphasize the various layers in the photograph from the sand, rocks and grass in the foreground to the various layers of light and cloud above the lighthouse?
* What sort of mood am I creating?
We could go on, but the more questions like this we ask of ourselves, the better we will come to understand the role photography plays in helping us to see the world the way we do.
“The Art of Making Photos: Some Phenomenological Reflections”
www.alexandria.unisg.ch/228184/1/Eberle_Thomas_2014a_The_...
El carpintero de La Española / Hispaniolan Woodpecker
(Melanerpes striatus)
Hispaniolan Woodpecker (Melanerpes striatus) is an Antillean member of the genus Melanerpes , is endemic of The Hispaniola island, which means is only found in the forests of Haiti and the Dominican Republic.
Be recognized by its black plumage and yellow streaks and his head crowned in full red in males, and the red and black females. Very useful as it feeds on worms and insects that are pests.
Clase:Aves
Orden:Piciformes
Familia:Picidae
Subfamilia:Picinae
Género:Melanerpes
Especie:M. striatus
IMG_Carpintero-2609
The 11/4/19 theme for Macro Mondays is Brands and Logos. This Leatherman is probably the most useful tool I've ever owned.
This is a rootless plant that purifies the air, like
all Tillandsias, it helps improve air quality by absorbing pollutants, making your environment healthier.
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Questi sono i fiori della Tillandsia, una pianta senza radici che purifica l'aria.
Assieme all'umidità, le Tillandsie catturano anche il pulviscolo atmosferico che contiene agenti inquinanti. In ragione di questa proprietà, sono stati eseguiti studi volti ad esplorare l'utilizzo di queste piante come biorivelatori di inquinanti atmosferici, in particolare per rivelare gli IPA (idrocarburi policiclici aromatici), sostanze provenienti dalla incompleta combustione della benzina e del gasolio sospettate di causare il cancro.
La pianta è stata testata per sei mesi sulla trafficatissima circonvallazione di Firenze, per iniziativa del botanico Luigi Brighigna dell'Ateneo fiorentino, che ha poi portato le piantine "inquinate" al dipartimento di chimica 'Ciamician' di Bologna, attrezzato per studiarle. Secondo i risultati del test, resi noti dall'Università di Bologna, la Tillandsia può essere usata per monitorare l'inquinamento, ma anche, in dosi massicce, per assorbire le polveri cariche di idrocarburi policiclici aromatici, ovvero i benzopireni accusati di essere cancerogeni, provenienti dall'incompleta combustione della benzina e del gasolio. La mancanza di radici ha permesso, inoltre, di analizzare le sostanze depositate escludendo le interferenze con il terreno. La Tillandsia non solo cattura gli inquinanti, ma è in grado di assorbirli ed eliminarli, metabolizzandoli, ovvero "mangiando" una discreta quantità di inquinanti: 0,2 milligrammi per chilogrammo di pianta. Costa poco e sono già state ipotizzate le applicazioni: una piccola parete può essere usata per disinquinare un appartamento, ma non si esclude in futuro l'ipotesi di interi pannelli pieni di piante da collocare sulle autostrade e sulle vie cittadine di grande traffico.
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......especially if there is a delay again in public transport and you're wondering whether you will get your connection ....
Een dagje naar het Van Abbe Museum met Pieter
The quintessential classic 1950s, B.R. designed, really useful engines pose at the 2022 DRS open day at Crewe Gresty Bridge (photobombed by an 88).
There are many reasons why visitors flocked to this event at Gresty Bridge on 16 July 2022, but one of them must surely be that it may have been the last opportunity to view the DRS heritage fleet in significant numbers. The offer of a lease back scheme may mean that DRS will still have access to some of these magnificent machines and hopefully Kingmoor can produce a line up like this in 2024.
Silvertip badger hair after 15 years of use. No question about it, it's not over yet!
Asahi Super-Multi-Coated Macro Takumar 100mm/f4 @f16
@daylight
Soft focus
My dad is a Cowboy, Blacksmith and a Saddle-smith, among many other things. In his seventy-something years of life, his hands have done lot of work, and created many useful and beautiful things. Here he is building me a leather camera strap, made to fit me perfectly.
you can buy my art at james-sage.pixels.com/
In case you didn't know what 2 meters looked like....
It amused me to picture someone finding nine red squirrels and lining them up,,,,it is probable as likely as lining up three spaniels (that look like collies to me)!
And the Horton toilets were open too!
Negative astro images are useful for science sometimes as the fainter detail can stand out a bit more, but that's usually monochrome. I don't like the colours when I make a traditional colour negative so this is conventional colours of the Tarantula Nebula (in the Large Magellanic Cloud) but a negative luminance. And starless. It is interesting?
“Mock strawberry plants or False strawberry or Snake berry or Indian berry or Barren strawberry or Duchesne indica very useful Medicinal herb with yellow flowers in a small garden on the the shore of Lake Ontario in squires beach in Ajax , April 27. 2024”
“Mock strawberry plants or False strawberry or Snake berry or Indian berry or Barren strawberry or Duchesne indica very useful Medicinal herb with yellow flowers in a small garden on the the waterfront trail of Lake Ontario in squires beach , Martins photographs , Ajax, Ontario , Canada , April 27. 2024”
“Mock strawberry plants”
“False strawberry”
“Snake berry”
“Indian berry“
“Barren strawberry”
“Duchesne indica very useful Medicinal herb with yellow flowers in a small garden”
“on the the shore of Lake Ontario in squires beach in Ajax”
“Martin’s photographs”
Ajax
Ontario
Canada
“April 2024”
“Favourite photographs”
“iPhone XR”
“The shore of Lake Ontario”
Favourite
Favourites
“Tree roots”
“Simcoe point pioneer cemetery”
“Squires beach”
Blossoms
Rootstock
Autumn
“February 2024”
Shrubs
“Thorny trees”
“Large Oak tree”
Trees
Stones
Reflections
Reflection
blue sky
“cloud cover”
“Waterfront trail on Lake Ontario”
“Waterfront trail of Lake Ontario”
“Thorny trees”
Autumn
Shadows
“IPhone XR”
“iPhone SE 2020”
“Lake Ontario”
Fungi
Heron
“Gravel path”
“August 2023”
“Duffins creek marsh”
Log
“Wild Asters”
“Flowering trees”
Goldenrod
“Cropped photograph”
Family
“Old orchard”
“Apple tree”
Sunset
Shrubs
“Oak tree”
Trees
Stones
Reflections
Reflection
Dogwood
“Duffins trail”
“blue sky”
“cloud cover”
Autumn
Shadows
Mushroom
wildflowers
“Lake Ontario”
“Mouth of Duffins creek marsh”
“white Deadnetles”
River
Dogwood
Woods
Favourites
“Mock strawberry plants or False strawberry or Snake berry or Indian berry or Barren strawberry or Duchesne indica very useful Medicinal herb with yellow flowers in a small garden on the the shore of Lake Ontario in squires beach in Ajax , April 30. 2024”
“Mock strawberry plants or False strawberry or Snake berry or Indian berry or Barren strawberry or Duchesne indica very useful Medicinal herb with yellow flowers in a small garden on the the waterfront trail of Lake Ontario in squires beach , Martins photographs , Ajax, Ontario , Canada , April 30. 2024”
“Mock strawberry plants”
“False strawberry”
“Snake berry”
“Indian berry“
“Barren strawberry”
“Duchesne indica very useful Medicinal herb with yellow flowers in a small garden”
“on the the shore of Lake Ontario in squires beach in Ajax”
“Martin’s photographs”
Ajax
Ontario
Canada
“April 2024”
“Favourite photographs”
“iPhone XR”
“The shore of Lake Ontario”
Favourite
Favourites
“Tree roots”
“Simcoe point pioneer cemetery”
“Squires beach”
Blossoms
Rootstock
Autumn
“February 2024”
Shrubs
“Thorny trees”
“Large Oak tree”
Trees
Stones
Reflections
Reflection
blue sky
“cloud cover”
“Waterfront trail on Lake Ontario”
“Waterfront trail of Lake Ontario”
“Thorny trees”
Autumn
Shadows
“IPhone XR”
“iPhone SE 2020”
“Lake Ontario”
Fungi
Heron
“Gravel path”
“August 2023”
“Duffins creek marsh”
Log
“Wild Asters”
“Flowering trees”
Goldenrod
“Cropped photograph”
Family
“Old orchard”
“Apple tree”
Sunset
Shrubs
“Oak tree”
Trees
Stones
Reflections
Reflection
Dogwood
“Duffins trail”
“blue sky”
“cloud cover”
Autumn
Shadows
Mushroom
wildflowers
“Lake Ontario”
“Mouth of Duffins creek marsh”
“white Deadnetles”
River
Dogwood
Woods
Favourites
'Long and low' Northern Counties-bodied Volvo Olympian 16149 was unique in Stagecoach's South Wales fleet. New to Selkent in dual-door configuration, she lost her centre door upon transfer, and spent all her tenure at Cwmbran depot, where her 80-seat capacity came in useful for school and college contracts. However, she would frequently venture on to Tuesdays only Service X20 (Newport-Cwmbran-Pontypool-Abergavenny) and the Severnside network until it passed to Newport Transport in July 2014.
Withdrawn in July 2014, she quickly passed to Ensignbus, and then on DA Coaches of Coatbridge, re-registered MIG 9522.
I caught up with her on a Tuesday in Pontypool in November 2011 when she was operating the aforementioned X20, not long after a fresh repaint.
It was inevitable that the cheeky face of Thomas the Tank Engine would feature as a 'squared circle' and here he is!
The city of Mandalay, the capital of the Mandalay Region, Myanmar, lies on the eastern (true left) bank of the Irrawaddy River some 575 km (357 mi.) north of Yangon. Mandalay Hill (224 m, 735 ft,) rises some 135 m (443 ft.) above the northern part of the city. I took this shot in the Su Taung Pyae Pagoda, which lies on the summit of Mandalay Hill.
Useful Information
1. 30.5 acres
2. Headstones 3.812
3. Latin crosses 3.732
4. Stars of David 80
5. Missing in action 5.127.
6. Unknowns 24
7.Sets of brothers 1
8. Dedicated
Recently we travelled to southwestern Wisconsin to help move our granddaughter to UW-Platteville where she will be a freshman this fall. On the way home we took a detour on some back roads and came upon this scene. That barn looks abandoned, but it is being used to store hay.
A cool way to view mine or anyone else's photostream is on fluidr.
Old military truck, now slightly useful as parts. Turned out to pasture and the pasture is about to take over. I love boredom on train chases.
We did an up on Wednesday, up and up and up. Then down and down and down even further. Backwoods Near Gradbach Staffordshire Moorlands UK SWT looks after this now. A few beehives might be useful up here, the Heather was in full flower and yet we saw very few bees. We saw 6 Meadow Pipits.
This view is looking the other way from the sheep photo.