Above a Transylvanian gate
Weekly Photo Challenge asked for a relic. Here is a gate from a UU Church in Transylvania that now stands in California at The Unitarian Universalist Church of Berkeley.
Really, Have you ever seen a dove cot?
I had only heard of them as places to hide in fairy tales!
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That is a beautiful gate!
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No I haven’t. Looks really beautiful and different to what I expected.
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This a very big one it seems… Thank you
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Just loved this!…
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Knowing those dove cotes,usually placed on a pole, I always wondered as a child how Aschenputtel (Cinderella) could hide in it – climbing that high? Now I know It must have been a bigger one, made of stone like those the Romans built to cultivate the doves, called ‘columbarium’.
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Oh thanks for the name…Little ash girl…I never could imagine it either. It would be fun to tell that old version in front of this. Didn’t she run away and hide in a dove cot. An weren’t the glass slippers originally fur?
Fun!!! 🙂
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this one is so pretty. I have seen them, in France, made of stone though.
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Please post one if you get a chance. I must get over and vistt your storks.
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I saw many when touring gardens in England; they seem fairly common there. This is a particular beauty, though!
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I had to look dove cot on Google images to see others. What a treat to one its native environment!
Thanks You Lynn
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This is a lovely gate and cot, and of course the photo. Thanks for sharing the photo.
do visit my ‘relic’ as well. Thanks 🙂
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thanks you Suyash,
And thank you for following
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🙂
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Gorgeous! Very different from the ones I’ve seen in England, but so charming.
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I think this is a very rare one. I’ll have to find out more about it from the person who brought it over.
Thank you Jenny 🙂
Carol
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It’s beautiful Carol, thanks for sharing. 🙂
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I suspect a fast entrance and exit might be in order. Although they do say a bird bombing from above is lucky.
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Hee hee! I’ve heard that too about bird poo..Truth be told we put mesh over the holes to keep the doves out and maybe Cinderella too 😉
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Excellent shots!
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