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Autumn-Blogging

by DoDo Mon Oct 30th, 2006 at 09:31:45 AM EST

Today I took part in my family's traditional autumn tour of my ancestors' cemeteries in central Slovakia (like last year, I updated that diary with more photos!), something always followed by an excursion. Some impressions...

Bumped up for beautiful European fall photos ~ whataboutbob

After all cemeteries are done, we have a midday picnic at the castle of Bzovík (Hungarian: Bozók). The latest in a 15-year series of photos from the same position, looking towards the mountain chain Štiavnické vrchy (Hungarian: Selmeci-hegység) with its highest, our afternoon excursion target, Sitno (Hungarian: Szitnya) at center:

The cloud mass of a cold front makes way for sunshine on the pass road between Krupina (Hungarian: Korpona, German: Karpfen) and Svätý Anton (Hungarian: Szentantal, German: Sankt Anton in der Au):

Shore of a lake between the mountains, on the side of Sitno (Hungarian: Szitnya) mountain:

The rocky top portion of Sitno (Hungarian: Szitnya) mountain (1009 m high above sea):

The climb between rocks:

View from the top towards the North:

View to the Northeast, with dramatic light on the East side of the mountain, and with old mining town Štiavnické Bane (Hungarian: Hegybánya, German: Siegelsberg) in the background:

Any nice autumn pictures you have?

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The last photo shall become my new background image...

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by DoDo on Sat Oct 28th, 2006 at 02:09:08 PM EST

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Those are absolutely stunning photos, DoDo. Gorgeous.

Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities. -Voltaire

by p------- on Sat Oct 28th, 2006 at 02:33:54 PM EST
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Thank you, the countryside is really beautiful

keep to the Fen Causeway

by Helen (lareinagal at yahoo dot co dot uk) on Sun Oct 29th, 2006 at 02:02:21 PM EST
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Those are incredible pictures, amazing scenery and you've done a brilliant job of capturing the colours and composing the shots.

by In Wales (inwales aaat eurotrib.com) on Sat Oct 28th, 2006 at 03:26:47 PM EST

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Thanks! That praise makes me proud because I haven't manipulated these pictures in any way (except for re-sizing).

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One whose delusions are out of fashion.}

by DoDo on Sun Oct 29th, 2006 at 03:11:44 AM EST
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Great, DoDo, it all looks really beautiful. Particularly the soft autumn colours.

(You might like to change "cementeries" into "cemeteries", unless I've got it wrong and your forebears were cement producers... ;))

by afew (afew(a in a circle)eurotrib_dot_com) on Sat Oct 28th, 2006 at 04:00:34 PM EST

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Ocassion, dictature, tough-though, cementeries -- do I have many more left of those?... (If yes, just go ahead and correct me.)

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One whose delusions are out of fashion.}

by DoDo on Sat Oct 28th, 2006 at 05:26:24 PM EST
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"Cementeries" are mafia burial grounds Do Do! Old American joke referring to "cement overshoes" used to describe the favorite mob modus operandi for disposing of bodies in deep water. Great photos!! Everything here in Virginia is also red, yellow and gold at the moment. Hard not to love the autumn.

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by Gringo (stargazing camel at aoldotcom) on Sun Oct 29th, 2006 at 02:37:19 PM EST
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Wonderful poetic fotos. I love autumn more than other seasons for it's good time for inspiration. Thank you.

by FarEasterner on Sat Oct 28th, 2006 at 05:43:07 PM EST

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Thank you!

By the way, do you have a digital camera? I would love to see some pictures from the area you live in (which if I got it right is the Russian Far East), especially autumn pictures.

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by DoDo on Sun Oct 29th, 2006 at 03:01:54 AM EST
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Beautiful, so beautiful! Thanks, DoDo.

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by eternalcityblues (parvati_roma aaaat libero.it) on Sat Oct 28th, 2006 at 05:47:04 PM EST

Gorgeous photos DoDo! (none / 1)

I especially like the second last one ... the colours and the perspective are amazing.

by olivia on Sat Oct 28th, 2006 at 06:34:57 PM EST

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Looks very much like rural New England. Except for the castles...

by asdf on Sun Oct 29th, 2006 at 12:43:53 AM EST

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It really does.

Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities. -Voltaire

by p------- on Sun Oct 29th, 2006 at 05:03:19 PM EST
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If you liked my pictures, I recommend a visit to Central Slovakia, or more narrowly to Banská Štiavnica (Hungarian: Selmecbánya, German: Schemnitz) and its surroundings.

Especially in the second half of October, when this region has its indian summer. It's a special micro-climate, it happened multiple times that the Sun shone there while it rained 50 km further South in Hungary. During 25-30 years' cemetary visits, I remember maybe 3 or 4 when it wasn't sunny.

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One whose delusions are out of fashion.}

by DoDo on Sun Oct 29th, 2006 at 03:08:36 AM EST

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Beautiful pictures...I'll use the next to last as a desktop background for the rest of the fall. Thanks.

by gradinski chai on Sun Oct 29th, 2006 at 07:33:24 AM EST

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What is your screen size? It surely has to be bigger than 590 pixels wide. I would gladly make you a proper sized version (the original image is 2592 pixels by 1544 pixels). And anyone else who asks for it.

_{*Lunatic*, n.

One whose delusions are out of fashion.}

by DoDo on Sun Oct 29th, 2006 at 01:25:23 PM EST
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I don't know, but whatever it is, it looks wonderful as is...the detail and colors are great.

So thanks, but there's no need to do anything else.

by gradinski chai on Sun Oct 29th, 2006 at 02:43:04 PM EST
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Do you have Windows 2000 or XP? Then just right-click on the background, click "Properties", then in the window appearing, click on the last tab, the screen resolution should be displayed there.

_{*Lunatic*, n.

One whose delusions are out of fashion.}

by DoDo on Sun Oct 29th, 2006 at 03:03:42 PM EST
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Beautiful autumn photos!! You read my mind! And I didn' realize how mountainous Slovakia is...very nice, indeed. Thanks you!

I will try to post some Swiss autmn photos I have here...got to go find them...

"Once in awhile we get shown the light, in the strangest of places, if we look at it right" - Hunter/Garcia

by whataboutbob on Sun Oct 29th, 2006 at 07:43:43 AM EST

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Slovakia is almost only mountains, only a small part near the Danube is flat. On the right of the last photo, you don't see from the haze, but in real life [eyes seeing in a slightly different spectra than the camera's CCD] we could just barely see the 2000+m-high Lower Tatra mountain chain (depending on direction some 100-150 km away). Would there have been no haze at all, the view would have been dominated by the 2600+m high High Tatra chain on the right of the same picture (220-250 km away), the latter is at the Polish border -- so we could have seen from one end to the other of the country.

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One whose delusions are out of fashion.}

by DoDo on Sun Oct 29th, 2006 at 01:22:21 PM EST
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Great, Dodo...really nice. I almost forgot what autumn looks like, because there is no such a thing where I leave now (tropical Queensland in case you forgot). But my friend that lives in Melbourne sent me a few beautiful photos of that area last autumn and I'll post few of them here for you...

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by vbo on Sun Oct 29th, 2006 at 09:11:02 AM EST

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Beautiful photos, vbo, thanks!!

"Once in awhile we get shown the light, in the strangest of places, if we look at it right" - Hunter/Garcia

by whataboutbob on Sun Oct 29th, 2006 at 11:38:30 AM EST
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Ha ha! This year I saw no summer, because I went to Australia in May-September. But the autumn in Japan (where I am now) is still pretty warm. I still can walk in T-shirt some days. Of course, Japanese autumn will come soon, with all those colours.

by das monde on Mon Oct 30th, 2006 at 02:19:15 AM EST
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Incredibly beautiful, DoDo. Thanks. I really need to get a camera before autumn ends and grab a few shots here in Nott'm, especially of the campus, which has quite a few absolutely stunning views. There's definitely a new installment of "Drew's Most Excellent Adventures" in the pipeline.

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by Drew J Jones (pedobear@pennstatefootball.com) on Sun Oct 29th, 2006 at 12:42:14 PM EST

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They're all beautiful but I think I like the lake shore with the boat pulled up on shore best.

by Maryb2004 on Sun Oct 29th, 2006 at 12:43:58 PM EST

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Extra: after more cemetery visits today with family, a freak autumn storm descended upon the area North of Budapest:

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The photo doesn't really capture how surreal it looked. It was as if out of a sci-fi blockbuster; as if one of the giant UFOs from Independence Day was approaching or as if a supertornado formed.

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by DoDo on Sun Oct 29th, 2006 at 01:13:40 PM EST

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Absolutely beautiful colors, DoDo.

I'm jealous as hell because Autumn hasn't quite started here in Toulouse (some trees have started to lose leaves, like the Catalpas, but overall there is not much hint of Autumn in terms of colors)

by Alex in Toulouse on Sun Oct 29th, 2006 at 03:10:27 PM EST

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A couple of Canuck (Ontario) pix (by some guy on Flickr named Smaku):

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by Thor Heyerdahl (thor.heyerdahl@NOSPAMgmail.com) on Mon Oct 30th, 2006 at 04:05:52 AM EST

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Pretty country. In Illinois, USA, the leaves have mostly turned. I'm posting a tease for an upcoming book review. You're looking at the statue of Chief Black Hawk along the Rock River just north of Oregon, Illinois, on October 29.

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by SHKarlson (shkarlson at frontier dot com) on Tue Oct 31st, 2006 at 12:20:24 AM EST

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thanks so much for these beautiful pictures!

Rien ne réussit comme le succès.

by marco on Tue Oct 31st, 2006 at 06:26:35 AM EST

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