[jacamar]

An old log barn on Ontario's Carden Alvar.

[jacamar]

Mind the step

[que es tu]

I was finally able to photograph this one. The second photo is a bit blurry because it was taken from a moving car and I had to just shoot and hope for the best!

[Lord Lucan]

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Wroxeter Roman City

An entire city past its best. Near modern Shrewsbury and known to the Romans as Viroconium or Uriconium. It was the third largest city in Roman Britain. The upstanding wall was part of the side of the baths.

The Shropshire poet A.E.Housman wrote of it :

To-day the Roman and his trouble
Are ashes under Uricon.

Pentax K-1, DFA 24-70 @7Omm, CPL filter

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[que es tu]

This one isn't too bad, but could still use some work

[womble]

I spent my summers for five years excavating there. Happy times. It isn't, however, the third largest city. That honour goes to Verulamium (near St Albans). London was the biggest, Cirencester 2nd largest.

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Wroxeter Roman City

An entire city past its best. Near modern Shrewsbury and known to the Romans as Viroconium or Uriconium. It was the thrird largest city in Roman Britain. The upstanding wall was part of the side of the baths.

The Shropshire poet A.E.Housman wrote of it :

To-day the Roman and his trouble
Are ashes under Uricon.

Pentax K-1, DFA 24-70 @7Omm, CPL filter

[Lord Lucan]

I spent my summers for five years excavating there [Wroxeter].

I have posted photos of the replica of a Roman Villa which has been constructed there
Show us buildings, structures, heck, architecture inside and out - Page 57 - PentaxForums.com

I knew of the lines "... are ashes under Uricon" which is a phrase heared sometimes, but only in the site museum did I learn that A.E Housman wrote them and that "Uricon" was here. Housman's more familiar lines :

On Wenlock Edge the wood's in trouble
His forest fleece the Wrekin heaves;
The gale, it plies the saplings double,
And thick on Severn snow the leaves.

... are the opening words from the same poem, a slightly surprising combination. I thought that might be the Wrekin in the background of my photo of the ruins.

[womble]

I thought that might be the Wrekin in the background of my photo of the ruins.

Yes, that's the Wrekin in the background behind the Old Work. We walked there one morning to see dawn, the walked back in time to start work at 8am!

Best wishes, Kris.

[noelcmn]

Someone investing in a restoration project


An hotel, maybe below 1*

[Wasp]

[steamloco76]

Cloe, Jefferson County Pennsylvania KP HD DA LTD 35/2.8 Macro

[Wasp]

[jacamar]

At Byng Inlet, once a major lumber town, now gone quiet.

[Lord Lucan]

At Byng Inlet, once a major lumber town, now gone quiet.

I guess it was better under the old management.

[jcdoss]

Pentax K-1 mII and Pentax-M 40mm f2.8 at f8.0, 1/750s, and ISO 400