'The man' has done it
'They've' finally turned the centuries old road, back into a road from being a muddy & glorious forest track
first image is from 4 or 5 years ago
the rest are from today
#PolishOldRoads #jmzRIDES #MotoSky #Poland #Polska #OldRoads #Shrines #Kaplicki
Crikey!
Looks there are reinstating this forest track as a road.
Headed over there today & they have scraped the top layer, widened it and placed markers along its route.
#MotoSky #OldPolishRoads #jmzrides #Kaplicki
A field track with a very long shadow of a person, a motorbike further down the track, forests in the distance
a field track with a motorbike casting a long shadow newly sewn winter crops in the field on the right on the horizon a very bright sun forests in the distance
A clean motorcycle on an extremely muddy forest track. the forest track has huge tyre tracks of logging machines recently felled trees and forest lay behind the motorcycle
a very muddy forest track with puddles and various agriculture tyre tracks, also recent bicycle tracks, disappears into the distance. To the left of the track a very substantial religious shrine with a wooden cross behind, forests behind the shrine and in the distance
Long shadows and deep mud!
...and I really wish I hadn't just washed the bike!
Nice sunny day, a bit chilly,
but my favourite forest road had recently been logged,
I came back filthy!
#MotoSky #jmzrides #OldPolishRoads #Mud #MoreMud
#Shrines #Kaplicki
Motorcycle on a leaf covered forest track that disappears off into the distance to the left of the motorcycle at the edge of the forest is a new wooden shrine attached to a tree
Motorcycle on a leaf covered forest track that disappears off to the left into the distance to the right of the motorcycle at the edge of the forest is a new wooden shrine attached to a tree
New wooden shrine with a bird house at the top
a muddy leafy forest track with a motorcycle on the left, the mud abruptly ends and new tarmac begins in the distance tarmac laying machinery and workmen
a couple more pictures of the brand new shrines, possibly 3 months old,
on an ancient forest track / road,
also an image of the end of the track which has just been covered in tarmac
#MotoSky #Shrines #OldPolishRoads #Kaplica #Kaplicki
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I wish I had the discipline of this man
[ I have thousands of images of all sorts of ethnographic subjects from places I have lived,
I'm just crap at filing and often get distracted
'...look at the size of that cow!!!' ]
#Shrines #Kaplica
#Chapel #grotto #Kaplicki
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a small white chapel in the centre, a motorbike to the left, a dral green tree grows in front, forest behind
The date stone of the chapel 1938
The interior of the chapel painted blue and purple with a faded yellow paisley carpet benches either side, sunflowers in a vase infront of an altar with various effigies, the main being St. Mary
Rear side of the white small chapel with a wooden fence
However
I did come across a lovely old Chapel / Kaplica from 1938 that was new to me
#MotoSky #Shrines #Kaplica #OldRoadsPoland
#Chapel #grotto #Shrine #Kaplica #Kaplicki #Poland #Polska
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a large rock in a field of long grass with a metal decorative cross inserted into the rock. Trees behind
a forest track on the right, with a motorcycle on the left of the track. a shrine in long grass to the left of the motorcycle. trees on the right and left of the track
a close-up of said shrine: a large rock with a decorative metal cross inserted into the top
a very intriguing shrine on a forest track not far from the rickety bridge
[really need something to put under my stand when on soft sand,
it almost fell over again!]
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#MotoSky #Shrines #Kaplica #OldRoadsPoland
#Chapel #grotto #Shrine #Kaplica #Kaplicki #Poland #Polska
foreground a grass covered field mid-ground a mature tree in the centre with a large votive shrine to the right, clear blue skies behind
A lovely mature tree next to a significant shrine today
Not sure what type of tree
but I think it has remained there due the its proximity to the shrine
#Chapel #grotto #Shrine #Kaplica #Kaplicki #Poland #Polska
A new Kaplica / Chapel for me
I was off to see a site where pilgrims were robbed, murdered & buried in shallow graves in 1752, but came across this beauty
THe man who lives next door came out and showed me inside.
fantastic!
#Chapel #Shrine #Kalica #Kaplicki
a shrine in sw Poland that is a blue perspex see through tower with a cross on top surrounded by a concrete fence
a shrine in sw Poland that is a blue perspex see through tower with a cross on top and orange perspex on the side surrounded by a concrete fence
a shrine in sw Poland that is a blue perspex see through tower with a cross on top and orange perspex on the side surrounded by a concrete fence
the rear view of a shrine in sw Poland that is a blue perspex see through tower with a cross on top and orange perspex on the side surrounded by a concrete fence
as it says in my job description...
I document old roads & shrines.
I used to do a lot of audio recording; stories & the like in Ireland & GB
Sadly, despite over 20 years of trying my Polish is rubbish
How I wish I could ask so many questions about this perspex beauty!!
#Shrines #Kaplicki
It was my cats' vet that told me about this one,
he rides an old 1980s Honda XL 250 [jealous as..!]
he gave me a vague description of where to find it, I was lost, deep in the forest
I'd almost given up, when I saw what I thought was a Sloth climbing a tree stump!
#kaplicki
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