I love the autumn colours that stand out with the white buildings / church. we don’t see that a lot of autumn colours in South Australia unless we go to the botanic gardens in the Adelaide hills https://www.visitadelaidehills.com.au/article/icons-of-autumn-adelaide-hills. Most city street trees are imported flame tree variety’s We don’t tend to have allot of white buildings as most old buildings / churches / halls / schools are built from limestone in SA including where I live. Our famous Barossa Valley wine grape growing areas is nice which is old German settlement areas has extensive area of vines but it all tends to all the same to look at. Thanks for posting @John West
Nature is so beautiful in so many different ways, Thank you Kate for the smile and bringing back some good memories..
Typical image of churches where I live, how people constructed these building with next to no machinery back in-the 1800’s I’ll,never know it must have been very hot hard work carting and lifting limestone so high
Drone Flight Over A Small Town Common: Below is a video of a brief flight around Petersham, MA, town common. Absence of leaves on the trees makes it much easier to see the buildings around the center of town. This was a bit of motorcycle meandering with the drone in the backpack.
That looks like a little church and area in a small town in Thomasville Georgia. Winter does that at times. I always wanted to visit the little tavern 'The Perfect Storm movie' crew hung out after fishing trips.
An Enduring Mystery: This is one of those things I look into after some number of years have passed to see if anything new has been learned.
Fascinating. It had to have been made by humans but who and why? Have you ever been inside it? I'd love to see what the inside looks like.
I have not been inside this one as (1) the old knees and back wouldn't like it and (2) there is really nothing to see - just a 14 ft. long, stone-lined tunnel 4 ft or so high that ends in an empty spherical, stone chanber 11 ft. high. There is no doubt it was built by humans and most recent attempts at dating rock debris put these and similar structures between 800 and 1600 AD. This would make them pre-colonial and possibly the work of regional Nipmuc and/or affiliated, Algonquin-speaking tribes.To me, it looks every bit like an Inuit igloo built with rocks instead of snow/ice and covered up with sand, rocks and soil. As an aside, when I was a youngster, the kids in my neighborhood built similar structures in a nearby field using scrounged boards instead of rocks. You didn't find many loose rocks of any size in Illinois fields. We made these underground chambered structures using similar cut and cover techniques, not knowing anything about the New England chambers. Maybe Nipmuc children built these. Most likely, there were essentially stone igloos built into and/or covered up by earth, IMHO.
My first thought was, one would not want to live in it as it would be flooded most of the time. Then I thought cistern but there is plenty of water nearby. But maybe, underground, the water would stay liquid in winter. I like imagining stuff. Go make money with this on youtube!!!
As best I could tell, water would drain out of the chamber. Also, I remembered that the Nipmuc built and lived in spherical abodes out of saplings, like the structure below. Noting that the structure above is almost exactly the size and shape of the chamber, two things come to mind. One is that a below ground chamber could be kept far warmer in the winter than some wigwam above ground. Two, is the engineering aspect of using a frame like the one above, adding more saplings and then using it as form to build the stones around and hold them until all are in place. As for making money on Youtube, I probably should learn if that is possible and how. The videos I've made public don't get many views. There just aren't enough hours in the day for me to learn all the things I want to learn.
Lurking Turkeys - A Video Where The Subjects Tolerate Me More Than A Drone: It is not smart to fly your drone around territorial birds, as they will sometimes attack it. Wanting to get a video of the bunch of wild turkeys that come every day for breakfast lunch and dinner, I discovered they don't flee from me like they do other people. I also wanted to test out the video capabilities of the iPhone (13 Pro) and thought the turkeys would make for good test subjects since I could get up close. Thus, I walked out into the back yard with the iPhone, got the following 2 min. video, added some text/music and published it as unlisted (for a moto photo blog). You, however, can see it below.. Bottom line: The new iPhone takes a respectable video.
A Flying Look At A Rare Bridge: Covered railroad bridges are rare - very rare! There is one, however, up in Contoocook, NH, and I flew the drone to get a look at it.