Cool Pictures II
Classrooms Without Walls, A Forgotten Age Of Open Air Schools
The Grand Canyon
Troglodyte village in IRAN 700 years old - In the north west of Iran at the foot of Mount Sahand in Kandovan, The villagers live in cave homes carved out from the volcanic rock. The age of some houses is more than 700 years.
The world’s oldest tree (below) was discovered on Fulufjallet Mountain in Sweden. It is estimated that the Norway Spruce tree – named Old Tjikko, is around 9,550 years old (around the end of the last ice age)
The world’s oldest tree, a 9,500-year-old Norwegian Spruce named “Old Tjikko,” after Professor Leif Kullman’s Siberian husky, continues to grow in Sweden. Discovered in 2004 by Kullman, professor of Physical Geography at Umeå University, the age of the tree was determined using carbon-14 dating.
“During the ice age sea level was 120 meters lower than today and much of what is now the North Sea in the waters between England and Norway was at that time forest,” Professor Kullman told Aftonbladet. Winds and low temperatures made Old Tjikko “like a bonsai tree…Big trees cannot get as old as this.”
The world’s oldest tree, a 9,500-year-old Norwegian Spruce named “Old Tjikko,” after Professor Leif Kullman’s Siberian husky, continues to grow in Sweden. Discovered in 2004 by Kullman, professor of Physical Geography at Umeå University, the age of the tree was determined using carbon-14 dating.
“During the ice age sea level was 120 meters lower than today and much of what is now the North Sea in the waters between England and Norway was at that time forest,” Professor Kullman told Aftonbladet. Winds and low temperatures made Old Tjikko “like a bonsai tree…Big trees cannot get as old as this.”
Origami Art
103-year-old Clingstone mansion.
Clingstone, an unusual, 103-year-old mansion in Rhode Island's Narragansett Bay, survives through the love and hard work of family and friends. (Photo # 01)
Henry Wood, the owner, runs the house like a camp: all skilled workers welcome.The Jamestown Boatyard hauls the family's boats and floating dock and stores them each winter in return for a week's use of the house in the summer. (Photo # 02)
Mr. Wood, a 79-year-old Boston architect, bought the house with his ex-wife Joan in 1961 for $3,600. It had been empty for two decades. (Photo # 03)
Clingstone had been built by a distant cousin, J.S. Lovering Wharton. Mr. Wharton worked with an artist, William Trost Richards, to create a house of picture windows with 23 rooms on three stories radiating off a vast central hall. (Photo # 04)
The total cost of the construction, which was completed in 1905, was $36,982.99. (Photo # 05)
An early sketch of the house. Mr. Wood is as proud as any parent of his house, and keeps a fat scrapbook of photographs and newspaper clippings that document its best moments. Many of the historic photos he has were provided by the company that insured the house for its original owners. (Photo # 06)
The Newport Bridge is visible from the windows of the Ping-Pong room, to the left of the fireplace. (Photo # 07)
The house is maintained by an ingenious method: the Clingstone work weekend. Held every year around Memorial Day, it brings 70 or so friends and Clingstone lovers together to tackle jobs like washing all 65 of the windows. Anne Tait, who is married to Mr. Wood's son Dan, refinished the kitchen floor on one of her first work weekends. (Photo # 08)
There are 10 bedrooms at Clingstone, all with indecently beautiful views. (Photo # 09)
The dining room table seats 14. Refinishing the chairs is a task on the list for a future work weekend. (Photo # 10)
Sign by the ladder that leads to the roof reads: No entry after three drinks or 86 years of age. "It used to say 80 but we had a guy on a work weekend who was 84, so I changed it," said Mr. Wood, ever the realist. It would have been a shame to curtail the activities of a willing volunteer. (Photo # 11)
No lawn, no neighbors, no solicitors, no busy streets!
Clingstone, an unusual, 103-year-old mansion in Rhode Island's Narragansett Bay, survives through the love and hard work of family and friends. (Photo # 01)
Henry Wood, the owner, runs the house like a camp: all skilled workers welcome.The Jamestown Boatyard hauls the family's boats and floating dock and stores them each winter in return for a week's use of the house in the summer. (Photo # 02)
Mr. Wood, a 79-year-old Boston architect, bought the house with his ex-wife Joan in 1961 for $3,600. It had been empty for two decades. (Photo # 03)
Clingstone had been built by a distant cousin, J.S. Lovering Wharton. Mr. Wharton worked with an artist, William Trost Richards, to create a house of picture windows with 23 rooms on three stories radiating off a vast central hall. (Photo # 04)
The total cost of the construction, which was completed in 1905, was $36,982.99. (Photo # 05)
An early sketch of the house. Mr. Wood is as proud as any parent of his house, and keeps a fat scrapbook of photographs and newspaper clippings that document its best moments. Many of the historic photos he has were provided by the company that insured the house for its original owners. (Photo # 06)
The Newport Bridge is visible from the windows of the Ping-Pong room, to the left of the fireplace. (Photo # 07)
The house is maintained by an ingenious method: the Clingstone work weekend. Held every year around Memorial Day, it brings 70 or so friends and Clingstone lovers together to tackle jobs like washing all 65 of the windows. Anne Tait, who is married to Mr. Wood's son Dan, refinished the kitchen floor on one of her first work weekends. (Photo # 08)
There are 10 bedrooms at Clingstone, all with indecently beautiful views. (Photo # 09)
The dining room table seats 14. Refinishing the chairs is a task on the list for a future work weekend. (Photo # 10)
Sign by the ladder that leads to the roof reads: No entry after three drinks or 86 years of age. "It used to say 80 but we had a guy on a work weekend who was 84, so I changed it," said Mr. Wood, ever the realist. It would have been a shame to curtail the activities of a willing volunteer. (Photo # 11)
No lawn, no neighbors, no solicitors, no busy streets!
Orchids
Margaret River Lake Cave
Poor Country Folk Art
Driftwood Horses
Mosaic Sculptures
Aurora Borealis
Sand Sculptures
P.E.I. Sand Sculptures
If you have never seen this railway before, it runs from Whitehorse, Yukon to Skagway, Alaska.
It is a fantastic sight in real life. For those of you who have been there you will know what I am talking about.
It is a fantastic sight in real life. For those of you who have been there you will know what I am talking about.
Fruit Art
Ice Sculptures
Just Water
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