Notices by Rick Gaehl (rickgaehl@mstdn.social), page 2

Britain loves its beach huts. I must have seen thousands on my recent trip to Kent. They are a direct descendant of the bathing machines of Georgian and Victoriam times, and the changing tents of the Edwardian era. Their heyday was probably the post-war holiday boom of the 1950s, but they remain improbably popular and, in the right location, can change hands for eye-watering sums.

#Photography #History #Beach #Psychogeography

A #SilentSunday scene from Snape, in Suffolk.

#Photography #Suffolk #Boat #Bridge #Water

If it's Friday, it must be time for a window, so here is a random art dealer's shop window in Vienna. I really liked the apparent untidiness of it all - reminiscent of an artist's studio...

#Photography #FensterFreitag #Art #Shopping #Vienna #Psychogeography

[Looks like this turned out to be my 3,000th post on Mastodon. I'm really beginning to feel at home here now. 😁]

I went to see a beautiful garden yesterday, on the western edge of Dartmoor... and here it is!

Lovely flowers for your #SilentSunday contemplation...

#Photography #Gardening #Colour #Bloomscrolling #Devon

Here's a lovely, old, Kentish beech tree for #ThickTrunkTuesday.

#Photography #Trees

[Turns out, in retrospect, that this was my 2,000th Mastodon posting - and also my most popular to date 😊.]

I thought I'd bring a bit of colour into everyone's timeline this Saturday.

This is a selection of colour pigments I saw in the window of a craft shop in Venice recently.

This sort of thing is one of the joys of wandering aimlessly around city streets.

#Photography #Colour #Abstract #Psychogeography #Art #Venice

I really do like empty corridors and passageways - and taking pictures of them. There's something about the perspective they bring, and the potential narrative they imply that always stirs my thoughts.

This one is in the remains of a Roman settlement near Seville.

#Photography #Architecture #Psychogeography #History #Travel

My offering for #MeerMittwoch this week is a summer sunset by the seaside. That's three good things in one shot - and also a pleasant piece of alliteration.

#Photography #Sunset #Seascape #Clouds

Here is an old gumtree for #ThickTrunkTuesday. It may be dead, but it is still beatiful - especially as the sun goes down...

#Photography #Australia #Trees #Travel #Nature

Funny... but pretty much also true...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jz5jUMVfJP4

A view from yesterday's walk for #SilentSunday

#Photography #Nature #Cumbria #Woodland #Trees

Everywhere I go this week, the snowdrops are out. They are always a welcome sight. They aren't so much a sign that winter is ending as that spring is beginning to stir...

#Photography #Closeup #Flowers #Nature #Winter #Spring #Gardening

Today is #FensterFreitag, and this is the ceiling of one of the buildings in the astonishing Hospital de Sant Pau, in Barcelona. Built between 1901 and 1930, under the direction of the architect Lluís Domènech i Montaner, the hospital was still in use until June 2009. It is peak Art Nouveau to the very tips of its fingers.

#Photography #Architecture #Barcelona

This is the northern rose window from Notre-Dame de Paris. I was there not that long before the fire. Amazingly, it seems as though all the stained glass in this photo actually survived the conflagration. This window was first made in about 1250, and most of the original glass is still in place.

#FensterFreitag #WindowFriday #Photography #Travel #Church #Glass #Colour #Paris

We went for a long walk on Dartmoor yesterday. It was a tad chilly, but the frosty landscapes were really pretty.

#Photography #Landscape #Devon #Walk #Winter #Frost #Trees

@pluralistic
It all starts with what I call "the tyranny of the school bell" - and then it never lets up till you retire or die (whichever comes first).

It was a bright, sunny day yesterday, so I went out for a bit of a bike ride. The river was looking particularly lovely...

#Photography #River #Landscape #Trees #Water #Sun #Devon #Nature

This is St Michael's Mount, in Mount's Bay, Cornwall. It's a famous tidal island that you can walk to at low tide, but once upon a time it was just a prominent rock in the middle of a forest. Its name in Cornish is 'Karrek Loos yn Koos', which translates as 'the grey rock in a wood'. Sometimes, after big storms, the remains of trees are still washed up on the Mount's Bay beaches.

#MeerMittwoch #Photography #Seascape #Cornwall #Travel #Island