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Photo of a slide I took in Glen Etive Scotland circa 1981
Photo of a slide I took in Glen Etive Scotland circa 1981
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Looks like a beautiful place.pitot-tube said:http://img115.imageshack.us/img115/9873/picture26962313da1.jpg
Photo of a slide I took in Glen Etive Scotland circa 1981
Very nice, Larkspur!larkspur said:I took this shot last Spring when everything was that bright green.
Click on the photo to see it in a larger format.
Astronuc said:Very nice, Larkspur!
Where's Abe?
I love late afternoons and sunsets when the sun shines on the clouds, and the sky and clouds glow shades of blue, yellow, orange, pink, red/crimson. I wish that I had taken my real camera.larkspur said:Beautiful colors Astronuc.
I was thinking they looked almost like watercolors. Interesting effect.turbo-1 said:The low-rez pictures out of that cell-phone almost look like impressionist paintings.
Astronuc said:As far as I know - yes.
It's interesting that some recorded history goes back to 1245.From: The History of the County Palatine and Duchy of Lancaster
By Edward Baines, Esq.
Volume IV. 1891. Pages 48-49.
RISHTON, three miles east-north-east of Blackburn, is a large, dreary, barren tract of moorland, near the Leeds and Liverpool Canal, and containing a spacious reservoir belonging to that navigation. It was styled a manor in the time of Edward de Lacy, who died 42 Henry III. (1257-8), and in 4 Edward II. (1310-11) two carucates of land in Rishton were in fee of the castle of Clyderhou. Before the reign of Edward I, it had given name to a family who held a moiety of the manor of Clayton-le-Moores, and, like the latter, it was held in equal portions--one moiety by the Rishtons and the other by the Talbots of Bashall. The Rishtons were an offshoot of the ancient family of Blackburn.
In 30 Henry III. (1245) Gilbert, son of Henry de Blackburn, had the manor of Ryssheton-juxta-Harwode bestowed upon him by Robert de Praers in free marriage with Margery, sister of the said Robert, when he assumed the name of his estate, and in the "Liber Feodorum" is returned as holding the tenth part of a Knight's fee in Ruston. His son and heir, Henry, married, in the reign of Edward III., Margaret, a daughter and coheir of the house of Clayton, of Clayton-le-Mores, by whom he had a son, Gilbert, who died 18 Edward I. (1290). The estate descended in direct lineal succession from father to son until the death, without issue, in 1425, of Richard de Rishton, the fifth in descent from Gilbert, who died in 1290, when his younger brother, Roger, was found to be the next heir. This Roger was father of the Richard who inherited the Rishton property, and of a younger son, Roger, living in 1474, the first of the line of Pontalgh.
Richard, the eldest son, who inherited Rishton, was the progenitor of the line that continued in possession for six generations, the last of whom, Nicholas, son and heir of John Rishton, sold his patrimonial lands in Rishton, with Dunkerhalgh, to Judge Walmesley before 1582.
In his notes to the Visitation of 1533, Mr. Langton relates a curious story concerning John, the father of Nicholas Rishton. His kinsman, Ralph Rishton, of Pontalgh, having formed an illicit connection with Anne, daughter of James Stanley, of Cross Hall, the lady's mother, who was then a widow, living at Holt, in Rishton, carried her daughter by night to Harwood Chapel (Great Harwood Church), and forced the unfortunate young woman, who was then three months gone with child, into marriage with John Rishton. In spite of the efforts of her unnatural parent, Mistress Anne effectually resisted cohabitation, and she was eventually released from her difficult position by a divorce.(1) In 4 Edward II. (1311) Joan, daughter of Sir Robert de Holland and widow of Sir Edmund Talbot, son and heir of Thomas Talbot, of Bashall, held two carucates of land in Risseton as the fourth of a knight's fee, which had been granted to her and her husband by Henry de Lacy, Earl of Lincoln, and which had been previously held by Adam de Rishton, a bastard; and William de Haskayth other two carucates of the Lacys, earls of Lincoln.(2) In 23 Edward III. (1349) John de Radclive and Joan, his wife, held, in dowry of the same Joan, one carucate of land of the inheritance of Thomas Talbot's heir, in Rushton, of which twenty carucates constituted the fee of one knight.(3) The heir was Edmund Talbot, who died 46 Edward III. (1372), leaving a son, Thomas Talbot, who was outlawed for debt 3 Henry V. (1415), when his manor of Rishton was taken into the king's hands. In 15 Henry VII. (1499-1500), Sir Thomas Talbot, who had married Alice, daughter of Sir John Tempest, of Bracewell, and who, by deed dated 2nd August, 2 Richard III. (1484), had a grant of an annual payment of L40 for the part he took in the betrayal (in conjunction with the Talbots of Salesbury) of King Henry VI., enfeoffed Thomas Tempest, apparently his maternal uncle, with the tenth part of a Knight's fee, and the rent of 9d. in his lordship of Risshdeen.(4) The Talbots had the privilege of free warren in this township. Sir Thomas Walmesley purchased the moiety held by this family before 1598 from Thomas Talbot and his brother and next heir, John Talbot, of Halton, and it is now enjoyed by his representative, Henry Petre, of Dunkenhalgh, Esq., who now owns all but a very limited portion of the township.
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Yeah - about 400 million years ago.turbo-1 said:Rugged part of the Earth for sure. Beautiful.
The Appalacians have been so heavily glaciated, rounded and otherwise weathered - they were probably gorgeous during and after uplift.
And who would you get to light it? Nearby villagers would think "Wow! Look at all the nice fire-wood." and take it home.Astronuc said:The only problem is that I'd have to haul the wood for my pyre many km.
Does this mean you've decided against the Tibetan Sky Funeral?Astronuc said:Yeah - about 400 million years ago.
I would be happy to sit down and die (when the time comes) right here!
http://www.pamirs.org/images/panoramas/new/big/Wakhan%20from%20Yamchun.jpg
Although the Baltoro Glacier at the base of Paiju Peak is equally alluring.
The only problem is that I'd have to haul the wood for my pyre many km.
Did you see what that brave team of climbers went through to reach the summit? I'm really surprised someone didn't twist an ankle in one of those cracks. I know that I, for one, could have never made it across that ladder bridge.Borek said:I always wonder how long it takes till such place becomes just a view, as any other. Sure, better to see Pamir than Mount Sunflower in Kansas.
I don't know if there are any vultures up that high. I need to do research.Evo said:Does this mean you've decided against the Tibetan Sky Funeral?
I'd light it myself.turbo-1 said:And who would you get to light it? Nearby villagers would think "Wow! Look at all the nice fire-wood." and take it home.
Evo said:Did you see what that brave team of climbers went through to reach the summit? I'm really surprised someone didn't twist an ankle in one of those cracks. I know that I, for one, could have never made it across that ladder bridge.