37: 29 March 2010 - Boundaries - A Meeting of Minds

***Hans*** · Mar 29 2010, 03:12 PM

Open to post; theme: boundaries.

***Pam*** · Mar 29 2010, 04:47 PM

Flanigan shows Chip his personal boundaries (no one was hurt.) Plus, there's a fence in the background, the boundary of my property.

StevenB · Mar 29 2010, 05:52 PM

Lanen gets the credit for this photo - taken at the England/Scotland border:

P'ter · Mar 29 2010, 06:57 PM

blondmom989 · Mar 29 2010, 09:30 PM

A couple of summers ago, I hiked to Connecticut 4th Lake (the headwaters of the Connecticut River). It was a awesome hike, especially for my aging body. It's in northern New Hampshire. In order to get there you have to go to the regular Canadian/American border station, park your car between the two stations and then start hiking up and up and up some more. The path takes you across into Canada across this marker and then back into the US again across a similar marker. Easiest border crossing I ever made. I made sure I had my passport along, in case I got lost in the woods in Canada. Heck there might have been a bear checking passports.

08_23_07 083 by blondmom989, on Flickr

I continued my vacation by taking a trip down the Connecticut River which is the boundary between the states of Vermont and New Hampshire. It then continues down through Massachusetts and Connecticut. I crossed every bridge and went to every boat launch, and had a thoroughly good time exploring the river without having to get in a boat.

08_23_07 073 by blondmom989, on Flickr

***Hans*** · Apr 3 2010, 08:28 AM

A philosophical and practicle appeaoch in the first photograph; the beach is a boundary of sorts, between land and water but I took this picture because of the line between wet and dry beach sand.

And here is the boundary between 'mainland' Ireland and the Atlantic Ocean, 'Europe's most western frontier'

The Cliffs of Moher. Beautiful, imposing and (if you have vertigo) terrifying

Trust a Dutchman to come up with two boundary photos involving water

StevenB · Apr 4 2010, 06:16 AM

My second entry, representing an ancient boundary. Hadrian's Wall, marking the northern-most limit of the Roman empire (at the time it was built).

Some parts of the original Roman wall still exist, although most of the stone has been reused or reassembled into a traditional dry stone wall. The older Roman parts are the ones that look neat and ordered, as in the above picture. The wall used to be much taller - only the bottom parts remain today.

blondmom989 · Apr 5 2010, 03:09 PM

oooo. Steven's picture of Hadrian's Wall reminded me that I have some shots of the Great Wall in China. Alas two's the limit and I'll stick with the chosen ones because of the local (to me) interest.

I love all these pictures. They are stunningly unique and good and interesting pictures.

ARGH! I'm blond for a reason. I was here about 10 minutes ago. I typed in my comments and then logged out without posting them. I need a picture of the boundary between my actions and my brain.

AnnMarie · Apr 5 2010, 04:24 PM

Soory Mom...I had too. It's just the way my head is working today.

***Hans*** · Apr 5 2010, 04:49 PM

@ AnnMarie

I especially love the pic by Lanen because photographs of persons standing exactly on a border, or multiple border, are always interesting (nobody photographed him- herself standing on the equator?)
and
blondmom's second pic with the water so blue and absolutely flat, without a ripple in sight.

r2005 · Apr 5 2010, 05:23 PM

The baseball season has just started, so in honor of that, I present Pesky's Pole.

blondmom989 · Apr 5 2010, 10:46 PM

LOL AnnMarie. You got it right.

StevenB · Apr 6 2010, 08:58 AM

also at AnneMarie.

P'ter, is there a story behind your wall or is it just a lovely piece of brick work? It looks quite old. I agree: Blondmom's second picture is fabulous. I also especially like Han's first picture - it's very creative and unusual. (However, shouldn't a Dutch theme on boundaries involve a wall and a finger as well as water?

)

**Cheryl** · Apr 6 2010, 09:43 PM

Day/Night boundary

Tidal boundary

P'ter · Apr 7 2010, 04:41 AM

Steve: the wall is known as a "crinkle-crankle" wall. (Don't tell Hans, but they were originally Dutch!) The sinuosity lends a lot of strength so they don't need buttressing. They were often used around kitchen gardens with fruit trees in each south facing bay.

This particular one is part of the wall right round Easton Park in Suffolk. It was originally about five miles long (bits have been taken down to allow for new housing estates) and, it's rumoured, was built by French prisoners of war around 1800.

Platinum · Apr 10 2010, 08:42 AM

Land/Sea, Civilian/Naval boundaries!

Boundary JUST too far!

P'ter · Apr 10 2010, 03:13 PM

My second one (for this title anyway)

Mar 29 2010, 03:12 PM	#1
*Hans* Master Archivist Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: The Netherlands Gender: M Fan of: Pern!	37: 29 March 2010 - Boundaries Open to post; theme: boundaries. __________________ Hans, also known as Elrhan, Master Archivist Visit The Pern Museum & Archives for all your Pern and Anne McCaffrey News and Resources! The Pern Museum & Archives is the home of the Pern Encyclopedia and the Pern Bloodlines.

Mar 29 2010, 04:47 PM	#2
*Pam* Heptite Guildmaster Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: The Four Corners Fan of: Lars Dahl	Re: 37: 29 March 2010 - Boundaries Flanigan shows Chip his personal boundaries (no one was hurt.) Plus, there's a fence in the background, the boundary of my property. __________________ You can take me down, you can show me your home. Not the place where you live, but the place where you belong. ~Toad the Wet Sprocket The Crystal Singer Continuum

Mar 29 2010, 05:52 PM	#3
StevenB Bitsmith/Starsmith, Master Sneak Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: Scotland Gender: M Fan of: Skies of Pern: what else? Now Reading: My computer screen	Re: 37: 29 March 2010 - Boundaries Lanen gets the credit for this photo - taken at the England/Scotland border: __________________ Steven

Mar 29 2010, 06:57 PM	#4
P'ter Crafter Craftmaster Join Date: May 2006 Location: Wolverhampton Gender: M Fan of: Favorite? Now Reading: avidly	Re: 37: 29 March 2010 - Boundaries __________________ "Truth is stranger than fiction: fiction has to make sense." Leo Rosten. "When I became a man I put away childish things, including the fear of childishness and the desire to be very grown up." C. S. Lewis "I find television very educational. Whenever somebody switches it on I go in the other room and read a book." (attributed to Groucho Marx) The Pedants are revolting! (against bad grammar)

Mar 29 2010, 09:30 PM	#5
blondmom989 Inactive Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: Follow the yellow brick road	Re: 37: 29 March 2010 - Boundaries A couple of summers ago, I hiked to Connecticut 4th Lake (the headwaters of the Connecticut River). It was a awesome hike, especially for my aging body. It's in northern New Hampshire. In order to get there you have to go to the regular Canadian/American border station, park your car between the two stations and then start hiking up and up and up some more. The path takes you across into Canada across this marker and then back into the US again across a similar marker. Easiest border crossing I ever made. I made sure I had my passport along, in case I got lost in the woods in Canada. Heck there might have been a bear checking passports. 08_23_07 083 by blondmom989, on Flickr I continued my vacation by taking a trip down the Connecticut River which is the boundary between the states of Vermont and New Hampshire. It then continues down through Massachusetts and Connecticut. I crossed every bridge and went to every boat launch, and had a thoroughly good time exploring the river without having to get in a boat. 08_23_07 073 by blondmom989, on Flickr Last edited by blondmom989; Nov 8 2010 at 10:22 AM. Reason: photo

Apr 3 2010, 08:28 AM	#6
*Hans* Master Archivist Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: The Netherlands Gender: M Fan of: Pern!	Re: 37: 29 March 2010 - Boundaries A philosophical and practicle appeaoch in the first photograph; the beach is a boundary of sorts, between land and water but I took this picture because of the line between wet and dry beach sand. And here is the boundary between 'mainland' Ireland and the Atlantic Ocean, 'Europe's most western frontier' The Cliffs of Moher. Beautiful, imposing and (if you have vertigo) terrifying Trust a Dutchman to come up with two boundary photos involving water __________________ Hans, also known as Elrhan, Master Archivist Visit The Pern Museum & Archives for all your Pern and Anne McCaffrey News and Resources! The Pern Museum & Archives is the home of the Pern Encyclopedia and the Pern Bloodlines.

Apr 4 2010, 06:16 AM	#7
StevenB Bitsmith/Starsmith, Master Sneak Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: Scotland Gender: M Fan of: Skies of Pern: what else? Now Reading: My computer screen	Re: 37: 29 March 2010 - Boundaries My second entry, representing an ancient boundary. Hadrian's Wall, marking the northern-most limit of the Roman empire (at the time it was built). Some parts of the original Roman wall still exist, although most of the stone has been reused or reassembled into a traditional dry stone wall. The older Roman parts are the ones that look neat and ordered, as in the above picture. The wall used to be much taller - only the bottom parts remain today. __________________ Steven

Apr 5 2010, 03:09 PM	#8
blondmom989 Inactive Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: Follow the yellow brick road	Re: 37: 29 March 2010 - Boundaries oooo. Steven's picture of Hadrian's Wall reminded me that I have some shots of the Great Wall in China. Alas two's the limit and I'll stick with the chosen ones because of the local (to me) interest. I love all these pictures. They are stunningly unique and good and interesting pictures. ARGH! I'm blond for a reason. I was here about 10 minutes ago. I typed in my comments and then logged out without posting them. I need a picture of the boundary between my actions and my brain.

Apr 5 2010, 04:24 PM	#9
AnnMarie Dragonrider Weyrwoman Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: On the Edge Gender: F Fan of: Pern and Talent Now Reading: The Name of the Rose	Re: 37: 29 March 2010 - Boundaries Soory Mom...I had too. It's just the way my head is working today.

Apr 5 2010, 04:49 PM	#10
*Hans* Master Archivist Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: The Netherlands Gender: M Fan of: Pern!	Re: 37: 29 March 2010 - Boundaries @ AnnMarie I especially love the pic by Lanen because photographs of persons standing exactly on a border, or multiple border, are always interesting (nobody photographed him- herself standing on the equator?) and blondmom's second pic with the water so blue and absolutely flat, without a ripple in sight. __________________ Hans, also known as Elrhan, Master Archivist Visit The Pern Museum & Archives for all your Pern and Anne McCaffrey News and Resources! The Pern Museum & Archives is the home of the Pern Encyclopedia and the Pern Bloodlines.

Apr 5 2010, 05:23 PM	#11
r2005 Crafter Student Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: Maine Gender: F Fan of: Dragonriders of Pern Now Reading: 1632 Series by Eric Flint	Re: 37: 29 March 2010 - Boundaries The baseball season has just started, so in honor of that, I present Pesky's Pole. __________________ There is no life I know to compare with pure imagination, living there you'll be free if you truly wish to be

Apr 5 2010, 10:46 PM	#12
blondmom989 Inactive Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: Follow the yellow brick road	Re: 37: 29 March 2010 - Boundaries LOL AnnMarie. You got it right.

Apr 6 2010, 08:58 AM	#13
StevenB Bitsmith/Starsmith, Master Sneak Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: Scotland Gender: M Fan of: Skies of Pern: what else? Now Reading: My computer screen	Re: 37: 29 March 2010 - Boundaries also at AnneMarie. P'ter, is there a story behind your wall or is it just a lovely piece of brick work? It looks quite old. I agree: Blondmom's second picture is fabulous. I also especially like Han's first picture - it's very creative and unusual. (However, shouldn't a Dutch theme on boundaries involve a wall and a finger as well as water? ) __________________ Steven

Apr 6 2010, 09:43 PM	#14
Cheryl Master Archivist Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: Maryland, USA Gender: F Fan of: Pern! Now Reading: Paladin of Souls (Bujold)	Re: 37: 29 March 2010 - Boundaries Day/Night boundary Tidal boundary __________________ Visit one of the other sites of Cheryl's Anne McCaffrey Triad: Sariel's Guide to Pern: a detailed guide to the series The Many Works of Anne McCaffrey: largest fan site about Anne and ALL of her works McCaffrey Quest: annual trivia contest.

Apr 7 2010, 04:41 AM	#15
P'ter Crafter Craftmaster Join Date: May 2006 Location: Wolverhampton Gender: M Fan of: Favorite? Now Reading: avidly	Re: 37: 29 March 2010 - Boundaries Steve: the wall is known as a "crinkle-crankle" wall. (Don't tell Hans, but they were originally Dutch!) The sinuosity lends a lot of strength so they don't need buttressing. They were often used around kitchen gardens with fruit trees in each south facing bay. This particular one is part of the wall right round Easton Park in Suffolk. It was originally about five miles long (bits have been taken down to allow for new housing estates) and, it's rumoured, was built by French prisoners of war around 1800. __________________ "Truth is stranger than fiction: fiction has to make sense." Leo Rosten. "When I became a man I put away childish things, including the fear of childishness and the desire to be very grown up." C. S. Lewis "I find television very educational. Whenever somebody switches it on I go in the other room and read a book." (attributed to Groucho Marx) The Pedants are revolting! (against bad grammar)

Apr 10 2010, 08:42 AM	#16
Platinum Inactive Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: Newcastle, England Gender: F	Re: 37: 29 March 2010 - Boundaries Land/Sea, Civilian/Naval boundaries! Boundary JUST too far!

Apr 10 2010, 03:13 PM	#17
P'ter Crafter Craftmaster Join Date: May 2006 Location: Wolverhampton Gender: M Fan of: Favorite? Now Reading: avidly	Re: 37: 29 March 2010 - Boundaries My second one (for this title anyway) __________________ "Truth is stranger than fiction: fiction has to make sense." Leo Rosten. "When I became a man I put away childish things, including the fear of childishness and the desire to be very grown up." C. S. Lewis "I find television very educational. Whenever somebody switches it on I go in the other room and read a book." (attributed to Groucho Marx) The Pedants are revolting! (against bad grammar)

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