Obsidian Urbex Photography
@ObsidianUrbex@photog.social  ·  activity timestamp 19 hours ago

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿⛪ An abandoned church, somewhere in the north of England

Built in the 19th century in Gothic Revival style, it features lancet windows and carved stone arches.

Declining attendance and upkeep costs led to its closure. The building now sits #derelict, its pews coated in dust.

This lost place was one of seven selected from my #portfolio for National Geographic's recent feature on abandoned places across England.

🔗https://www.obsidianurbexphotography.com/religious/evangelist-church-england/

#Photographer#Church#History
Obsidian Urbex Photography
@ObsidianUrbex@photog.social  ·  activity timestamp 19 hours ago

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿⛪ An abandoned church, somewhere in the north of England

Built in the 19th century in Gothic Revival style, it features lancet windows and carved stone arches.

Declining attendance and upkeep costs led to its closure. The building now sits #derelict, its pews coated in dust.

This lost place was one of seven selected from my #portfolio for National Geographic's recent feature on abandoned places across England.

🔗https://www.obsidianurbexphotography.com/religious/evangelist-church-england/

#Photographer#Church#History
Claudia Zahn
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#Wavellite crystals #Arkansas#USA

Aluminum basic phosphate mineral with the formula Al₃(PO₄)₂(OH,F)₃·5H₂O, typically appearing in green to yellowish-green hues.
It was named in 1805 by William Babington in honor of Dr. William Wavell, a Devon-based physician and naturalist.
Wavellite commonly forms in fractures of aluminous metamorphic rocks.
📷 Golden Hour Minerals

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RS, Author, Novelist, Prosaist
@sfwrtr@eldritch.cafe  ·  activity timestamp 2 weeks ago

#ScribesAndMakers 2025.07.22 — Show us something you've created. Tell us the story behind it.

There's not much of a story, here. Both my spouse and I have families where preserving fruit in alcohol was a thing (Ukrainian & Italian extraction). In both traditions, what got used was with a neutral spirit, aka vodka. My grandmother used to make her vodka, and reportedly blew up the kitchen sink in a Chicago apartment a long time ago.

These cherries are preserved in bourbon, and newly made so they've about a month to go to be fully enjoyed. I'm creative when it comes to food and food preparation, so a few years ago after making vodka cherries and having left over cherries after running out of the Tito's, I tried a bunch of things like Triple Sec and Old Granddad. The batch I made with Uncle Nearest generated a fandom.

Sadly, I used my reserved Uncle Nearest for this batch. The new bottles just bought, obviously made by a distiller who bought out the original entrepreneurs, cheapened it. It was obvious: dark brown verse light reddish brown, even discounting the address change. Sad.

I think they'll make good cherries next year, though, if not for drinking neat.

More in #AltText.

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Quart bottles stuffed with dark cherries, mixed with a solutions of mostly bourbon and sage honey diluted in water. The resulting cherry bourbon cordial is wonderful, as are the boozy cherries. An empty bottle of Uncle Nearest 1856 lays empty in the foreground.
Quart bottles stuffed with dark cherries, mixed with a solutions of mostly bourbon and sage honey diluted in water. The resulting cherry bourbon cordial is wonderful, as are the boozy cherries. An empty bottle of Uncle Nearest 1856 lays empty in the foreground.
RS, Author, Novelist, Prosaist
@sfwrtr@eldritch.cafe  ·  activity timestamp 2 weeks ago

#ScribesAndMakers 2025.07.22 — Show us something you've created. Tell us the story behind it.

There's not much of a story, here. Both my spouse and I have families where preserving fruit in alcohol was a thing (Ukrainian & Italian extraction). In both traditions, what got used was with a neutral spirit, aka vodka. My grandmother used to make her vodka, and reportedly blew up the kitchen sink in a Chicago apartment a long time ago.

These cherries are preserved in bourbon, and newly made so they've about a month to go to be fully enjoyed. I'm creative when it comes to food and food preparation, so a few years ago after making vodka cherries and having left over cherries after running out of the Tito's, I tried a bunch of things like Triple Sec and Old Granddad. The batch I made with Uncle Nearest generated a fandom.

Sadly, I used my reserved Uncle Nearest for this batch. The new bottles just bought, obviously made by a distiller who bought out the original entrepreneurs, cheapened it. It was obvious: dark brown verse light reddish brown, even discounting the address change. Sad.

I think they'll make good cherries next year, though, if not for drinking neat.

More in #AltText.

[Author retains copyright (c)2025 R.S.]

#BoostingIsSharing

#writer #author #photographer #chef #cooking
#writing #writingcommunity #writersOfMastodon #writers
#RSdiscussion

Quart bottles stuffed with dark cherries, mixed with a solutions of mostly bourbon and sage honey diluted in water. The resulting cherry bourbon cordial is wonderful, as are the boozy cherries. An empty bottle of Uncle Nearest 1856 lays empty in the foreground.
Quart bottles stuffed with dark cherries, mixed with a solutions of mostly bourbon and sage honey diluted in water. The resulting cherry bourbon cordial is wonderful, as are the boozy cherries. An empty bottle of Uncle Nearest 1856 lays empty in the foreground.