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If you grew up in the UK in the 1970s/80s you might well be familiar with BBC TV's "Play School", a programme for younger children where the presenters invited you to look at something through one of their windows. I don't think an 'oblong' window ever existed, but I've a feeling 'round', 'square' and 'arched' windows all made the cut.
In this thinly veiled homage captured on the covered footbridge, East Midlands Trains class 156 no. 156497 stands in Platform 3 at Nottingham station with the 1.47pm Newark Castle - Matlock service (2A42).
2.16pm, 23rd April 2018
Trying out my new cell phone camera, this shot was taken as a panorama but I had to crop it a bit. Taken at the Fairview Shopping Mall in Pointe-Claire, Que.
Damn right they wanted! The surprise was just so comprehensive and so many questions about yesterday still floated in the air. But the q/a part could still wait awhile. Both Aunties and Manna stepped inside the greenhouse.
And what a greenhouse it was: an octagon-shaped, completely made out of old recycled materials which made it look like it had stood there ages giving it a beautiful rustic overall look. It was so charming with its old grey, orange and yellow worn-out windowframes and rustic ground not to mention its flower boxes and colourful lights- there were even drinks ready in a small table.
The Aunties melt unavoidably and almost instantaneously- what else could they? Frozen silence which prevailed just a moment ago, was now gone: fascinated aahs! and oohs! filled the space as the Aunties and Manna looked around. Who’d have believed that Uncles could be capable to create such a pearl?! The Uncles stood on a doorway and had a wide, smug smile on their face.
4 examples of the beautiful window frames that can be seen everywhere in Bhutan, these were all taken in Thimphu the capital.
This window really stands out on the red roof of an old Montreal house. It is nicely decorated and red roofs were in use a long time ago and are therefore quite historical.
Sassy the cat lives in a Wet’suwet’en Strong household on 10th Ave East at Fraser Street. Somedays Sassy will sit on the window ledge, but never when I have my camera.
Wet’suwet’en People:
The Wet'suwet'en nation have lived on their territories in what is now British Columbia for thousands of years. They have never signed treaties or sold their land to Canada.
The Wetʼsuwetʼen live on the Bulkley River and around Burns Lake, Broman Lake, and François Lake in the northwestern Central Interior of British Columbia.
The endonym Wetʼsuwetʼen means "People of the Wa Dzun Kwuh River (Bulkley River)".
In 2008, Wet’suwet’en clans opted out of the British Columbia Treaty process and asserted their land rights to their unceded territory in Canada.
31 December, 2019, the British Columbia Supreme Court issued an injunction to allow construction of the Coastal GasLink pipeline, giving the company unlimited access to Wet’suwet’en lands.
The Coastal GasLink pipeline is intended to be 416 miles long, stretching from northeast British Columbia to near Kitimat.
Within this swath of land lies 22,000 square kilometers of unceded Wet’suwet’en land. The injunction was firmly rejected by the Wet’suwet’en.
07 January, 2020 the Wet’suwet’en Hereditary Chiefs issued an eviction notice to the pipeline company, effective immediately.
UNCEDE LAND:
In 1997, the Hereditary Chiefs brought their claim for their ancestral land to the Canadian Supreme Court.
The court ruled the Wet’suwet’en People had not relinquished their land rights and titles to 22,000 square kilometers of land in northern British Columbia. The ruling also recognized the validity of hereditary governance.
Most of the territory of British Columbia was never ceded by the Indigenous Peoples of the land.
Indigenous Peoples have been living on their land for at least 14,000 years, while British Columbia, first a colony now a province, has been around for about 160 years.
The cultures, governments, and legal systems of many First Nation Peoples in the region were never extinguished.
At the time of colonization, international and British Law deemed Indigenous land interests were to be respected if the Indigenous People had not signed a treaty or been conquered.
The Wet’suwet’en were never conquered nor did they sign a treaty. Nonetheless, without any legal backing, in the 1860s British Columbia started to pass land laws and hand out property interests of the Indigenous land.
MORE HERE:
www.culturalsurvival.org/news/unceded-land-case-wetsuwete...
Captured from the adjacent clock tower, this photograph offers a captivating perspective of the Cathedral Basilica of St. Stanislaus and St. Ladislaus in Vilnius. The golden cross and intricate rooftop statues stand out against the city’s skyline, framed through the clock tower’s windows. A timeless moment of Vilnius’ rich architectural heritage.
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Taken in Adrspach. This is an incredibly beautiful Czech Rock Town literally taken out of fairy tale pages. Built of sandstone, with spiers reaching 100 meters high, complemented by an emerald lake, a waterfall and breathtaking landscapes.
HTT and HWW ;o))
I have to get up early to catch the rising sun as it hits the bay window - but it's worth it. I hope you agree ;o)
Cape daisies (Gerbera) and baby's breath (gypsophila)
Textures my own and 2 Lil Owls:Traveling Light collection
For the Textural Tuesday and Windows Wednesday groups
And for the 52 in 2017 Group. As well as the theme-based photo (monochrome for this week) members can post a "photo that best describes their week or perhaps is just their favourite photo of the week that they would like to share".
This photo describes my current week of getting up early catch the elusive dawn sun. Within an hour the grey clouds close in, and a grey day follows!
My Textured set here: Elisa Textured set
My Windows and Walls set: Windows and Walls
My 52 in 2017 set: 52 in 2017
My Gerbera, Daisy set: Gerbera & Daisies
Captured on campus in the ISE Lab Common Space in February , with iPhone and Contrast app.
I really liked how the sun screen created a gauzy filter and how the Contrast app accentuated the walls of the building and the people outside the window.
VWS1781 Copyright © VW Selburn 2010: The night view from my bedroom window at Durham Castle. Durham Castle is part of the Durham University and the student accommodation is let out in the summer to tourists. This is from my archive and was taken in 2010 at the Tall Ships Shootaboot. I still have lots of photos to upload from that shootaboot. It was early days for me with flickr so I was trying not to look too keen. Of course that has all gone by the board now hasn't it? I know I'm keen so I pick out my best photos and upload them anyway! In Explore at 271 on 20th September 2017.
Taken at Jack's Restaurant in Whittier just before closing
If you are in the Whittier area a print of this shot is hanging in the Nixon Room of the Whittier Library until 2016 end of May.
Windowsill with random lone autumn leave with raindrop.
Captured on campus on a cold windy rainy day, for Window Wednesday and this months 100x theme of Minimalism.
Used the usual iPhone and square shooting black and white app, Contrast.
I crouched down low to make the edge of this window painting blend into the afternoon sunset...did it work?
I'm enjoying the new skybox I'm living in a lot- but I'm also enjoying that it's been pretty chilly and I can pretend it's summer in SL!
Attic Skybox is from Trompe Loeil; the bar and mixing table are from Stockholm & Lima, the pipe bottle lamp is from tarte, and the monogrammed windowframe is from Commoner.
I dunno- I just really like how this place photographs.
Façade of the east wing of Het Loo Palace in the outskirts of the city of Apeldoorn, Gelderland, Netherlands
Some background information:
Het Loo Palace (in English: "The Woods Palace") is a palace in Apeldoorn, Netherlands, built by the noble House of Orange-Nassau. The symmetrical Dutch Baroque building was designed by Jacob Roman and Johan van Swieten and was built between 1684 and 1686 for the stadtholder-king William III and his wife Mary II of England. The garden was designed by Claude Desgotz.
After the elder House of Orange-Nassau had become extinct with the death of William III of England in 1702, he left his estates in the Netherlands to his cousin Johan Willem Friso of the House of Nassau-Dietz in his testament. However, the King of Prussia claimed them, as he also descended from the Oranges, and the Houses of Orange and of Prussia had, a few generations before, made an inheritance contract. Therefore, most of the properties, including Het Loo, were in fact taken over by the Hohenzollerns, who never lived there. Johan Willem Friso's son, William IV, Prince of Orange, finally received Het Loo Palace, as well as Huis ten Bosch palace in The Hague, from Frederick William I of Prussia in 1732.
The palace then remained a private residence of the younger House of Orange-Nassau until the death of Queen Wilhelmina in 1962. In 1960 Queen Wilhelmina had declared that when she died the palace would go to the State. She did, however, request that it would be returned to her family if the Dutch were to abolish the monarchy. The palace became property of the Dutch state in 1962 when Wilhelmina died at Het Loo Palace. Her daughter, Queen Juliana, never lived there, but her younger daughter, Princess Margriet, lived in the right wing until 1975.
The building was renovated between 1976 and 1982. Since 1984, the palace is a state museum open for the general public, showing interiors with original furniture, objects and paintings of the House of Orange-Nassau. It also houses a library devoted to the House of Orange-Nassau and the Museum van de Kanselarij der Nederlandse Orden (in English: "Museum of the Netherlands Orders of Knighthood's Chancellery") with books and other material concerning decorations and medals.
The Dutch Baroque architecture of Het Loo takes pains to minimize the grand stretch of its construction, so emphatic at Versailles, and present itself as just a fine gentleman's residence. Het Loo is not a palace but, as the title of its engraved portrait states, a "Lusthof" (a retreat, or "pleasure house"). Nevertheless, it is situated entre cour et jardin (in English: "between court and garden") as Versailles and its imitators, and even as fine Parisian private houses are. The dry paved and gravelled court, lightly screened from the road by a wrought-iron grill, is domesticated by a traditional plat of box-bordered green, the homey touch of a cross in a circle you'd find in a bourgeois garden. The volumes of the palace are rhythmically broken in their massing. They work down symmetrically, expressing the subordinate roles of their use and occupants, and the final outbuildings in Marot's plan extend along the public thoroughfare, like a well-made and delightfully regular street.
The private "Great Garden" is situated in the back. This Dutch Baroque garden, often mislabeled the "Versailles of Holland", actually serves to show more differences than similarities. It is still within the general Baroque formula established by André Le Nôtre: perfect symmetry, axial layout with radiating gravel walks, parterres with fountains, basins and statues.
The garden as it appears in the engraving was designed by Le Nôtre's nephew, Claude Desgotz. Throughout his military and diplomatic career, William of Orange was the continental antagonist of Louis XIV, the commander of the forces opposed to those of absolute power and Roman Catholicism. André Le Nôtre's main axis at Versailles, continued by the canal, runs up to the horizon. Daniel Marot and Desgotz's Het Loo garden does not dominate the landscape as Louis' German imitators do, though in his idealized plan, Desgotz extends the axis.
The main garden, with conservative rectangular beds instead of more elaborately shaped ones, is an enclosed space surrounded by raised walks, as a Renaissance garden might be, tucked into the woods for private enjoyment, the garden not of a king but of a stadtholder. At its far end a shaded crosswalk of trees disguised the central vista. The orange trees set out in wooden boxes and wintered in an Orangery, which were a feature of all gardens, did double duty for the House of Orange-Nassau.
Outside the garden there are a few straight scenic avenues, for following the hunt in a carriage, or purely for the vista afforded by an avenue. Few of the "green rooms" cut into the woodlands in imitation of the cabinets de verdure of Versailles that are shown in the engraving actually got executed at Het Loo.
The patron of the Sun King's garden was Apollo. Peter the Great would opt for Samson, springing the jaws of Sweden's heraldic lion. But William opted for Hercules. In the 18th century, William III’s baroque garden as seen in the engraving was replaced by a landscape park in the English taste. The lost gardens of Het Loo were fully restored beginning in 1970 and completed in time to celebrate the building's 1984 tercentenary. Het Loo's new brickwork, latticework and ornaments are as raw as they must have been in 1684 and will mellow with time.
Today, Het Loo Palace attracts more than 400,000 visitors each year, making it the 8th most visited museum in the Netherlands. The building and its gardens are a rijksmonument and are among the Top 100 Dutch heritage sites.