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The House Wren is one of the most common songbirds in North America. They can be found in backyards and forests wherever you care to look during nesting season.
However, capturing an image that I like is never as easy as catching a glance of one of these omnipresent birds.
One afternoon at Kurt Gondry State Park in Wyoming, I went wandering for anything that looked good. Several species were present in huge numbers, so I thought I would try to capture some images of the high visibility birds after spending the morning looking for warblers.
Suddenly I looked to my side and spotted this guy perched so wonderfully against a hilly backdrop of sage brush and rock. I like that the wren looks relaxed as the grasshopper appears deceased. The little guy can enjoy a minute before taking it to its house which is mounted on a tree to the left.
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Explore #12
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Foro Romano - Roma - Italia / Roman Forum - Rome - Italy
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Foro Romano
El Foro Romano (en latín, Forum Romanum, aunque los romanos se referían a él comúnmente como Forum Magnum o simplemente Forum) era el foro de la ciudad de Roma, es decir, la zona central —semejante a las plazas centrales en las ciudades actuales— donde se encuentran las instituciones de gobierno, de mercado y religiosas. Al igual que hoy en día, era donde tenían lugar el comercio, los negocios, la prostitución, la religión y la administración de justicia. En él se situaba el hogar comunal.
Series de restos de pavimento muestran que sedimentos erosionados desde las colinas circundantes ya estaban elevando el nivel del foro en la primera época de la República. Originalmente había sido un terreno pantanoso, que fue drenado por los Tarquinios mediante la Cloaca Máxima. Su pavimento de travertino definitivo, que aún puede verse, data del reinado de César Augusto.
Actualmente es famoso por sus restos, que muestran elocuentemente el uso de los espacios urbanos durante el Imperio romano. El Foro Romano incluye los siguientes monumentos, edificios y demás ruinas antiguas importantes:
Templo de Cástor y Pólux
Templo de Rómulo
Templo de Saturno
Templo de Vesta
Casa de las Vestales
Templo de Venus y Roma
Templo de César
Basílica Emilia
Basílica Julia
Arco de Septimio Severo
Arco de Tito
Rostra (plural de rostrum), la tribuna desde donde los políticos daban sus discursos a los ciudadanos romanos.
Curia Julia, sede del Senado.
Basílica de Majencio y Constantino
Tabulario
Templo de Antonino y Faustina
Regia
Templo de Vespasiano y Tito
Templo de la Concordia
Templo de Jano
Un camino procesional, la Vía Sacra, cruza el Foro Romano conectándolo con el Coliseo. Al final del Imperio perdió su uso cotidiano quedando como lugar sagrado.
El último monumento construido en el Foro fue la Columna de Focas. Durante la Edad Media, aunque la memoria del Foro Romano persistió, los edificios fueron en su mayor parte enterrados bajo escombros y su localización, la zona entre el monte Capitolino y el Coliseo, fue designada Campo Vaccinio o ‘campo bovino’. El regreso del papa Urbano V desde Aviñón en 1367 despertó un creciente interés por los monumentos antiguos, en parte por su lección moral y en parte como cantera para construir nuevos edificios. Se extrajo gran cantidad de mármol para construcciones papales (en el Vaticano principalmente) y para cocer en hornos creados en el mismo foro para hacer cal. Miguel Ángel expresó en muchas ocasiones su oposición a la destrucción de los restos. Artistas de finales del siglo XV dibujaron las ruinas del Foro, los anticuarios copiaron inscripciones desde el siglo XVI y se comenzó una excavación profesional a finales del siglo XVIII. Un cardenal tomó medidas para drenarlo de nuevo y construyó el barrio Alessadrine sobre él. No obstante, la excavación de Carlo Fea, quien empezó a retirar los escombros del Arco de Septimio Severo en 1803, y los arqueólogos del régimen napoleónico marcaron el comienzo de la limpieza del Foro, que no fue totalmente excavado hasta principios del siglo XX.
En su estado actual, se muestran juntos restos de varios siglos, debido a la práctica romana de construir sobre ruinas más antiguas.
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The Roman Forum
The Roman Forum, also known by its Latin name Forum Romanum (Italian: Foro Romano), is a rectangular forum (plaza) surrounded by the ruins of several important ancient government buildings at the center of the city of Rome. Citizens of the ancient city referred to this space, originally a marketplace, as the Forum Magnum, or simply the Forum.
For centuries the Forum was the center of day-to-day life in Rome: the site of triumphal processions and elections; the venue for public speeches, criminal trials, and gladiatorial matches; and the nucleus of commercial affairs. Here statues and monuments commemorated the city's great men. The teeming heart of ancient Rome, it has been called the most celebrated meeting place in the world, and in all history.Located in the small valley between the Palatine and Capitoline Hills, the Forum today is a sprawling ruin of architectural fragments and intermittent archaeological excavations attracting 4.5 million or more sightseers yearly.
Many of the oldest and most important structures of the ancient city were located on or near the Forum. The Roman Kingdom's earliest shrines and temples were located on the southeastern edge. These included the ancient former royal residence, the Regia (8th century BC), and the Temple of Vesta (7th century BC), as well as the surrounding complex of the Vestal Virgins, all of which were rebuilt after the rise of imperial Rome.
Other archaic shrines to the northwest, such as the Umbilicus Urbis and the Vulcanal (Shrine of Vulcan), developed into the Republic's formal Comitium (assembly area). This is where the Senate—as well as Republican government itself—began. The Senate House, government offices, tribunals, temples, memorials and statues gradually cluttered the area.
Over time the archaic Comitium was replaced by the larger adjacent Forum and the focus of judicial activity moved to the new Basilica Aemilia (179 BC). Some 130 years later, Julius Caesar built the Basilica Julia, along with the new Curia Julia, refocusing both the judicial offices and the Senate itself. This new Forum, in what proved to be its final form, then served as a revitalized city square where the people of Rome could gather for commercial, political, judicial and religious pursuits in ever greater numbers.
Eventually much economic and judicial business would transfer away from the Forum Romanum to the larger and more extravagant structures (Trajan's Forum and the Basilica Ulpia) to the north. The reign of Constantine the Great saw the construction of the last major expansion of the Forum complex—the Basilica of Maxentius (312 AD). This returned the political center to the Forum until the fall of the Western Roman Empire almost two centuries later.
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Not every house is falling down in this area. Here is an old house that has had the exterior redone. I kind of like the deep plum colored shutters.
I have no idea why this house is empty, unless the inside is being renovated. Possibly it is going to be put up for sale.
Courting House Finches in my backyard.
It is always fun to see the variety of avian courting behaviors. Female House Finches beg like a hungry fledgling - the male them comes and feeds her, presumably proving that he is able to provide for the family.
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Bettie and I went out for a country drive in RL today. We spotted this old abandoned house and I just had to photograph it :-)
When in England, we stayed with Sarah Fraser, my very good friend that I met on Flickr. While there, we met up with Gary Neave, also from Flickr, and we all went to Hastings, a wonderful coastal town. We took a funicular tram to the top of a rocky hill, and this was the view from the top, looking down at all the roofs and houses.
Highway 400 on the Colorado, Kansas, border.
This abandoned house just struck me with its somewhat unusual style. I think the tiles are made of some sort of metal.
They've cleared away it's outbuildings and are preparing to build town houses close by. However, they have left this nice old house alone. It is sitting right in the middle of all the construction going on..... Let's hope that that is a good sign that this wonderful old house is going to be restored and made useful again.....
Chastleton House was built between 1607 and 1612, for Walter Jones, who had made his fortune from the law,[2] although his family were originally Welsh wool merchants. The estate was bought in 1604 from Robert Catesby, although his residence was demolished to make way for the new house and no traces of the original building on this spot remain. The house is built of Cotswold stone, round a small courtyard, called the Dairy Court.
Chastleton House is famous for a scene from the Civil War where a loyal wife duped (and drugged) the Roundhead soldiers to save her husband. The anecdote shows the fundamentally domestic and peaceful world of England and the disorganization of war:
Young house sparrow (Passer domesticus) male standing on a fence – already moulted to adult plumage, but still with juvenile gape flanges.
Młody samiec wróbla domowego (passer domesticus) stojący na ogrodzeniu – już przepierzony w dorosłe ubarwienie, ale jeszcze z młodzieńczymi zajadami.
close to a well visited museum. If only all Istanbul houses were maintained like these......might be a bit boring though :)
Preliminary watercolour sketch of a proposed house at Helensburgh - commissioned in 1902 by wealthy Glasgow-based publisher, Walter Blackie to accommodate the Blackie family and their lifestyle.
Mr Blackie was known to have preferred a more traditional approach to the design, and had second thoughts about his wife's choice of architect: "The man is either a genius, or a charlatan - I'm not altogether sure which!"
In the end it was Mrs Blackie who won the day, and they confirmed architects/designers Charles Rennie Mackintosh and Margaret MacDonald Mackintosh for the project.
www.historicenvironment.scot/archives-and-research/online...
Imagined in Midjourney with additional work in Photoshop. My own textures.