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column
an upright pillar, typically cylindrical,
supporting an arch, entablature,
or other structure or standing alone
as a monument
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Vatican City
One-Word-Sunday-Spiral
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One far away spiral one not so far away.
Ruakari cave
Ruakari cave
The Vatican’s
Spiral Staircase…
…complete with arches which could have
been used last week 🙂
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One Word Sunday Challenge: Spiral
FOWChallenge-Stairs
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stairs
a set of steps leading from one floor of a building to another,
typically inside the building
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Two different staircases.
The regular version inside Craigdarroch Castle
on Vancouver Island,
Canada.
And then stepless staircase inside The Vatican.
We were told that he public seldom see this staircase.
Not certain if true.
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Word-of-Day-Challenge-Admire
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During our visit to the Vatican…
…we found many…
…works of art to admire.
And although
The Creation of Adam
measures 280 cm × 570 cm (9 ft 2 in × 18 ft 8 in)
it looked much smaller.
However, perhaps the fact that it
was 14 metres above us contributed to the fact
that it didn’t appear a large as expected.
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Word of the Day Challenge: Admire
Word-of-Day-Challenge-Intricate
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intricate
adjective
very complicated or detailed.
One of the many scenes, or sites, of…
…of intricate art within the walls of
the Vatican City.
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Word of the Day Challenge: Intricate
Pic-and-Word-Challenge_Wk158_Giant
Toy
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Giants from new Zealand…although we begin in Italy.
Anyone who has visited the Vatican
may have climbed the spiral step less staircase
and been in awe at its construction.
However the entrance/exit to the Ruakuri Cave, at Waitomo,
makes the Vatican staircase look like a miniature.
We also visited the Giant Redwood Forest at Rotorua.
These trees are not as large as some
of the photographed Californian Redwoods,
however, they are still Giant Redwoods
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Pic and Word Challenge: Giant
SUNDAY-STILLS-PC-Work
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Workers from all over…
A gondolier.
My limited knowledge of lumberjacks’ work
tells me that they actually did climb trees
as part of every day work.
Memory could be way off though.
Happy to be corrected.
Beefeater Guide Tour
Amid that crowd is a Beefeater at work
guiding visitors around
the Tower of London.
While in Europe each guide carried a flag of some kind.
Trouble was there was so much to see
and dawdle over, the coloured flag
was often forgotten (by me).
All guides were very knowledgeable but
sometimes it was just nice to walk and look
without the constant commentary.
Our favourite African guide,
planning the next day.
Or was he offering up thanks for
a successful day just ended?
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SUNDAY STILLS PHOTOS: Work
FOWChallenge-Inspire
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My inspirations come from the Vatican today.
Wherever we looked…
we saw inspiring…
works of art.
Unfortunately the guide’s book was
as close as I came to
photographing ‘Creation’
Then (Step-less) Spiral Staircase.
In recent posts I have commented that we did not
see as much as I would have liked at Pompeii.
I probably have this state of mind because I
wanted to be an archeologist about 50 years ago.
However, the vatican more than compensated
for Pompeii.
