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Mary Ann Dimand

@maryanndimand

Pissed-off nature poet, modern metaphysical. Any pronouns. Don’t call me Mary. I’m Mary Ann.

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Mary Ann Dimand@maryanndimand· Jul 15

Land’s End

A gull— a think a juvenile common gull— flying by a boulderous cliff and over the ocean.

White sea lychnis and the punctuation of a scarlet pimpernel

Seascape with grass, gravel, rocks, sea, and a sky with clouds.

Farm landscape just off the point.

Mary Ann Dimand@maryanndimand· Jul 15

Land’s End

The first and last post box in England, no longer in use. It’s a George VI one.

Armeria maritima

Rocks and a lighthouse off Land’s End

A picturesque natural stone jetty

Mary Ann Dimand@maryanndimand· Jul 14

Surely someone can tell me who this obviously -commercial feller is?

Outsize gumbyish figure of a long-nosed, big-eyed, smile entity. It’s arms are folded, it is clay-colored, it is unclothed and very smooth in every literal way. Its head and head conformation remind me of a lightbulb.

Mary Ann Dimand@maryanndimand· Jul 14

Land’s End

Looking out from the rocky cliff shore toward the lighthouse on a small island

Footpaths, sheep land, the ocean, and a modern white building.

Stone walls, offshore boulders, and hilly grassy land leading to a modern white building and the ocean.

The Land’s End signpost points to New York, John on Groats, the Isles of Scilly and Longships Lighthouse, and whoever pays to have their names put up and phot taken.

Mary Ann Dimand@maryanndimand· Jul 14

Minehead

A friendly conversation among four white men probably in their forties: three in conventional sports clothes and one in a frill pink dress and pinny, with pink knee socks, opera gloves, and a pink cat headband.

Looking along a Minehead street, up the hill.

A Dutch iris

Gulls gossiping and foraging on the beach.

Mary Ann Dimand@maryanndimand· Jul 11

Minehead Beach

An unusual polemonium, perhaps boreal Jacob’s ladder

A sign celebrating the one-time institution of the beach pony ride.

Jove’s beard blooming the the foreground; dunes and shingle and a couple of people mid ground; gulls and beach edge and ocean and sky further back.

Beach flowers: lots of Jove’s beard, docks and daisies and yarrow and mallow

Mary Ann Dimand@maryanndimand· Jul 11

Railway station artifacts

Great Western Railway Friends of Progress monument

A little railway work car

A plaque honoring the West Somerset Railway as the Ian Allan Publishing Railway of the Year (2004 and 2006). The Duke of Gloucestattended the ceremony in 2004, but not 2006, further demonstrating that the royals do get round.

Looking uphill from the Minehead train station

Mary Ann Dimand@maryanndimand· Jul 11

AI never touches grass. Its proponents call this greatness.

Portrait of skeptical maid, St. Pancras Hotel

Mary Ann Dimand@maryanndimand· Jul 10

Grand Cascade, Alnwick Gardens

Mary Ann Dimand@maryanndimand· Jul 10

Watchet harbour scenes

I took this for the pier, on whose side is officially written: The fair breeze blew, the white foam flew, the furrow followed free. Note dolphin’s structure right medium foreground.

Docked yachts in the harbour, a lighthouse, and a most enticing signpost

A minimalist war memorial: black silhouette of a soldier on a brick wall, and a sign that says “Lest we forget.”

Harborside street with church

Mary Ann Dimand@maryanndimand· Jul 10

The West Somerset Railway is both a real commuting/travelling train and a tourist experience

Giant bugloss at a station, through the train window

Art display at a station showing a 1920s waiting room, through the train window

A little historical display of luggage, at the Watchet station

Stationmaster’s garden, Watchet station

Mary Ann Dimand@maryanndimand· Jul 9

On the West Somerset Railway train from Minehead to Watchet

Looking along the Watchet platform

Mary Ann Dimand@maryanndimand· Jul 9

Minehead

Beautiful tree, including one graceful, blasted stump

A glorious monkeypuzzle

At the Minehead train station

Train officials at the Minehead train station

Mary Ann Dimand@maryanndimand· Jul 9

Minehead

Mary Ann Dimand@maryanndimand· Jul 8

All Saints, Monksilver

Famous man-with-a-toothache stone head on an external battlement

Where the little old door from the side chapel comes out

Looking up a battlement

A rose bush by a licheny gravestone

Mary Ann Dimand@maryanndimand· Jul 8

All Saints, Monksilver

Carved wood separator between the main sanctuary and the right aisle

List of Monksilver & Elworthy rectors back to 1324 in front of an old wood door with an arched stone lintel: a bible on a simple lectern before them.

I *think* that Jesus is meeting with the Pharisee Nicodemus in this painting.

Looking over from the side aisle chapel into the choir of the main sanctuary.

Mary Ann Dimand@maryanndimand· Jul 8

All Saints, Monksilver

Side aisle and chapel

Photo emphasizes wooden side aisle roof with carved rosettes

Chapel window

Carved stone table, main sanctuary, with a corner of altar

Mary Ann Dimand@maryanndimand· Jul 8

All Saints, Monksilver

The central altar and communion rail. Stained-glass window.

Decorated floor tiles.

A pastor’s widow who never left— this stone commemorates her burial within the church.

An odd holy of holies in the side aisle: a photo commemorates a visit from King Charles.

Mary Ann Dimand@maryanndimand· Jul 8

I would also point out that Graham Platner has not stepped down as Dem nominee. He is said to be considering it. To whom does he seem to be a public-spirited person in action and deed?

Statue in Wakefield depicts a large, grinning armored being in a dragon helm, holding two winged yet otherwise conventionally suited humans on a platter.

Mary Ann Dimand@maryanndimand· Jul 7

All Saints Church, Monksilver

The small organ

I fancy this picture, which seems to show Jesus crouched to look for a lost button while some robed parties seem put out. In fact, he’s writing with his finger, in illustration of John 8: 1-11. What he’s writing looks vaguely Hebrew, but I can’t read it.

A secondary lectern , its document holders draped in yellow brocaded fabric.

An eagle lectern, one of just 21 wooden eagle lecterns in England.

Mary Ann Dimand@maryanndimand· Jul 7

All Saints Church, Monksilver

A metal plaque dedicated the ringing chamber to the memory of Gordon Yeo, churchwarden 1994-2011.

Below that, a beautifully carved botanical wood panel.

An indoor marble memorial marker for James Withycombe (died 1752) and his wife Elisabeth, in the ringing chamber.

A beautiful small sanctuary with wood pews, stone-tiled floor, a lovely arched ceiling, a charming carved wood reredos scene, and a stone baptismal font at the back of the church.

A closer look at the stone baptismal font and its carved wood cover, along with a look into the side aisle.

Mary Ann Dimand@maryanndimand· Jul 6

Monksilver -All Saints Church

Another window, and a charismatic carved-rose-I-think

This is a living C of E church, though so old: here a church notices.

The ringing closet

Bells are dangerous— a warning message

Mary Ann Dimand@maryanndimand· Jul 6

Monksilver-/ All Saints

All Saints, its old stone walls and slate roof, and battlements. One carving glimpsed.

Gravestones in the churchyard . One with a substantial white deposit, much lichen.

A piece of window and a glimpses of two carvings: a toothy dog (left) and a scarecrow-looking man alongside a terrapin of sorts(right).

A slice of another window, and a glimpse of a carvings of some sort of scoffing dentist and its victim.

Mary Ann Dimand@maryanndimand· Jul 5

Monksilver

Fern-leafed chervil by a stone wall

The Church of All Saints, in which Sir Francis Drake married his second wife

Some of the graves of the Church of All Saints from a little distance, across some meadowy distance.

The cross is decorated with stone animals associated with the four gospel evangelists. Directly in front of it, a renewed 13th century grave.

Mary Ann Dimand@maryanndimand· Jul 5

Monksilver

Wall, stone cottage, trees and shrubs

Looking along the stream, stone wall and bridge, Jove‘s beard

Smoke tree in flower, the scapes fairly inconspicuous amid the red leaves

Looking along the stream

Mary Ann Dimand@maryanndimand· Jul 4

Scenes at the Notley Arms, Monksilver

The lounge— big leather couches and lots of pictures

Looking through into the back premises

Tables in the garden

The dining room— fabric clouds suspended from the ceiling, many pictures of feathers

Mary Ann Dimand@maryanndimand· Jul 4

Monksilver

A couple of days lodging at the Notley Arms in Monksilver

Looking across the lane from th Notley Arms at a cottage with a thatched roof

Looking down the street at Monksilver, which is one of those folkloric-seeming villages

The Notley Arms

Mary Ann Dimand@maryanndimand· Jul 3

Exmoor Zoo

Folklore information about about the Exmoor Beast, reputedly something like a black panther. This placard includes an invitation from Trevor Beer to contact him if you think you’ve spotted one: unfortunately,he has been deceased for a few years. He sounds nice.

Information about big cat sightings in Devon.

The current Exmoor Beast at the zoo, not at all folkloric, essentially.

Mary Ann Dimand@maryanndimand· Jul 3

Exmoor Zoo

I don’t remember what these stunning red birds were! Maybe scarlet ibis? But they seem too red.

Information sign on the scarlet ibis.

A caracal cat strolling away.

Mary Ann Dimand@maryanndimand· Jul 3

Exmoor Zoo

The zoo frames and describes some classic Exmoor moorland, with its rich complex of plant and animal life.

Exmoor land framed by gunnera leaves.

Wallabies and ostriches provide soothing company for each other.

Fake eggs to soothe the broody ostrich.