> From: PDML [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of steve harley > > on 2012-10-15 18:45 Rick Womer wrote > > A front view of Fountains Abbey, near Ripon, UK: > > > > http://photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=16519777&size=lg > > > > The place is vast, and extremely impressive (that's a family with a > stroller in the lower left corner). > > i like the perspective you chose, and with your description, a very > interesting place (i'd have had no idea it was so old); aye, those > lucky monks! >
There is a new visitors centre there which has a very impressive timeline in the floor. The thing that surprised me is how much older Fountains Abbey is than Macchu Pichu, which I always thought of as quite old, with an ancient civilisation etc. It puts into perspective how old and continuous our own civilisation is (notwithstanding Disraeli's remark to Daniel O'Connell). > i like the random stone in the middle of the impossibly green lawn; > what about "fountains"? > <http://iati.savethechildren.org.uk/files/ppa20110401.xml> It's in a very wet part of England. The last time I was in that area it had been raining very heavily for several days and the sides of all the hills were springing with vast quantities of water. B -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
