Presidio’s Immigrant Point Overlook, Washington Boulevard in the Presidio. “We opened the gates to all the world and said: ‘Let all men who want to be free come to us and they will be welcome.'” –Woodrow Wilson Address at Independence Hall: "The Meaning of Liberty, July 04, 1914.
#sanfrancisco #presidio #goldengate #immigration #immigrants #welcome #welcomethestranger #freedom #nps #sfparks #nationalpark #woodrowwilson #stonemason #california #usa #landofimmigrants
Love the quality of the craftsmanship on this sandstone sculpture of Jesus as a child on the remains of the 1891 Pollokshields-Gelencairn Church in Glasgow. How on earth they managed to carve the folds in material quite so exquisitely, I really don't know.
#glasgow #sculpture #stonemason #stonecarving #architecture #architecturalsculpture #architecturephotography #pollokshields
The Medieval mason who did this definitely had quite a sense of humor 🫣😃
(Abbey of Sainte Foy, Conques, France, 1050 AD)
#drthehistories #medieval #masonery #stonemason #religion #history
#Spending100TaxGoldenEmpireSavings
Expenses: 8k silver.
Acquired for guild island:
53 T3 stone blocks for T3 butcher for 8k silver.
In regards to spending silver...I'm no longer minus anything anymore in Alltime because I had some silver saved...after I put all my silver savings into the guild bank...but now I'm gonna retrieve it again...
+86,235.
Retrieving it as #Ruggothroar... I usually bank it in a crafting station...
Ok, now I got only 1k banked...meaning that all our contributed silver, mostly yours contributed to the Level 2 Guild Island plus upgrades to crafting stations.
This guild is much less like the ones I used to have when I was completely new to the game and had not discovered the Hellboy guild on East/Asia (which today I think has been disbanded, at least it got 0 members at some point recently).
Anyway, it's all thanks to your tremendous work that we could afford:
1️⃣ T4 #Toolmaker
2️⃣ T2 #RepairStation
3️⃣ T2 #Lumbermill
4️⃣ T2 #Stonemason
plus the buildings and upgrades we'll afford...
4️⃣ T3 #Stonemason but I did grind the materials myself and anyway T3 is such a low level so even a newbie can make it...
New building:
5️⃣ T3 #Butcher now exists.
For:
6️⃣ T2 #Smelter I need 150 T2 stone blocks...which I intend to farm by myself.
Which I did and now we got a T2 smelter...which isn't something to brag about.
7️⃣ I introduced a house. The idea is to put a laborer there. Specifically a fishing laborer. I still need materials for the house to be built. We got 2 spots left for other buildings.
97/150 T3 stone blocks have been gathered but now I'm planning to spend some silver to get the rest.
Just spent 8k silver to get enough stone blocks to finish the butcher.
#Spending100TaxGoldenEmpireSavings
Now that we got a guild island level 1, let's make 4 buildings for it!
1️⃣ #Toolmaker
2️⃣ #RepairStation
3️⃣ #Lumbermill
4️⃣ #Stonemason
Total silver spent:
5.5 + 25 + 8 + 4 = 42.5k silver.
Guild Silver bank says = -40.5k...
Materials needed for Stonemason T2:
87 T2 stone.(not blocks!)
Materials needed for Toolmaker T2:
300 T2 stone blocks.
Materials needed for Repair Station T2:
90 T2 stone blocks.
90 T2 planks.
Cost/spent:
87 T2 stone: 5.5k silver.
300 T2 stone blocks: 25k silver.
90 T2 stone blocks: 8k silver.
90 T2 planks: 4k silver.
Danish stonemason’s eco-friendly gravestones challenge tradition
In #Denmark, the tradition of using granite for gravestones has posed environmental challenges due to its heavy importation from countries like India and China, contributing significantly to CO2 emissions.
However, Nikolaj Tymm-Andersen, a visionary stonemason, decided to forge a different path by replacing granite with a local resource: clay.
https://www.euronews.com/2024/04/27/danish-stonemasons-eco-friendly-gravestones-challenge-tradition
Hi to anyone with an interest in #Scottish #geology and its history. After decades of amassing a dozen works by #HughMiller, it's time for me to be passing them (i.e. selling!) to other custodians.
Hugh Miller was a 19th century polymath, #stonemason, journalist, #Christian and #palaeontologist. Most importantly he was a superlative observer of geological phenomena, and able to lucidly describe the wonders he saw in rocks/nature.
If interested please send me a message
🚨 Attn #UK #Conservation, #History, #Geology, #StoneMason, #Architecture, & #Surveyor peeps!
Together w #BritishGeologicalSurvey, #HistoricEngland has launched a #BuildingStones #database for #England, the country's first online searchable tool featuring over 4,000 types of building stone, their uses & sources, with 45 illustrated guides to the distinctive stone buildings, geology, & #quarries that define local areas.
#BGS #GIS #England #Heritage #Lithology #Histodon
https://historicengland.org.uk/advice/technical-advice/buildings/building-stones-england
Calling on any stone masons and contractors-this is how our firebox was bricked this week and it just looks weird to me without the mortar between them. Is this an excepted application? #contractors #fireplace #outdoorliving #stonemason
Lovely film from Historic Environment Scotland about being a stonemason. https://youtu.be/ZF7T-3P_pQg
This stone carving speaks volumes to me, but I wonder what it says to you?
Any takers?
#carving #StoneMason #apple #skeleton #photography #photo #iPhone
@MichaelJDeLuca Throwing away! Gasp! 😉
Glad you are reclaiming the material. As a life-long, now 70, #StoneMason currently living in a #landscape with zero rocks, your discarded "urbanite" would be VERY welcome here. I got spoiled living in Bloomington IN where I had access to multi-tonnages of precut limestone cheap, 2 cents a pound (sigh). From my files, these two 'urbanite' examples.
PS In a closed system like a planet there is no 'away'.
Immensely proud of my #stonemason friends Richard and Rita - custodians of history in stone at #yorkminster https://yorkminster.org/latest/his-majesty-king-charles-iii-and-her-majesty-the-queen-consort-to-visit-york-minster-wednesday-9-november/
