Your monastery photo is (geographically) very close to the one I submitted for the “Roads” contest a few months ago 
Same trip I took the one for this contest, I used up al my google storage space in that trip 
This is actually in Northern Ireland, if I remember correctly (I failed to mention that in the previous post, but I suppose some would consider that an important distinction). I’d have to do some research to rememebr exactly where it is, but as I recall we took a slight detour on the drive from Bushmills to Belfast to visit it.
Huh, interesting. There’s a similar one down south 
Now I want to go dig up my photo and compare them.
Sigh. A brutal crop on this months entry - do click trough to see the photo that I actually took.
The Crowhurst Yew is at least a thousand years old, and possibly four thousand. As the centre of an ancient yew rots out (which is why you can see through it) dating material is absent.
This puts me in mind of a - I guess it would have to be a hypothesis - which suggests that the idea that yews were traditionally planted in churchyards is at least partially wrong, and that the older relationship is that churches were built where yews stood.
j
@Treppenwitz - you need to pick one!
I suppose this will be cropped horribly as well. This was the alt choice: Lewes Priory on Saturday afternoon.
Words for Discourse
j
Yeah, posting on my phone - I screwed up and posted in the wrong thread. Corrected now.
j
And upon further research, it turns out my memory was faulty, and you were right. Apparently I misremembered the day we visited that site. It must have actually been a stop on the way back to Galway from the Cliffs of Moher, not the drive from Bushmills to Belfast as I thought for some reason.
Ah, thanks very much for the update! I thought I was going crazy there for a minute 
As April winds down… it took me a long time to figure out which photo I’ll use. I finally decided to use one from my recent trip to the Philippines. It was built in the 15th century. (Posted here ➜ Monthly Photo Competition #41 – April, 2026 – “Ancient” - #20 by Bullitt ■ )
From the wiki article — The old historic bell tower of the church known as the Bantay Tower, which served as a watchtower for pirates during the Spanish colonial era, gave the town its name – bantay (meaning “to guard”).
Because of its strategic location it was used as a watch tower during WWII.
@Bob_Blaylock
I used to have a Tek 316. Same form-factor. I loved the tiny, blue-trace CRT.
Heads up, deadline for entries is tonight (Saturday).
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A sillyscope is one of the few general-purpose technical instruments I don’t own. Part of me wants one, but part of me recognizes that I’d never actually use it.
I had a problem posting my entry this month. After much tral and error, I discovered that if a jpg is too large, it will only display as a link, not an image. After reducing the size of my image, it worked. I’m not sure if that is a Discourse limitation or an ImgBB limitation.
This the other pic I considered. I thought maybe too obvious.
Brian
They are extremely handy, but only if you are building / repairing electronics. Not otherwise very useful around the house - although you can use them for fun audio visualization.
April poll is alive.
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Ah missed it! Couldn’t decide between an old weathered abandoned farmhouse with a rusting roof ( ferrous oxide special) or a mornings sunrise over the ocean. And I see each would’ve been in good company with the old truck or smoky sun shot.
Well, it’s currently a five-way tie, including all three of my choices and another that was on my shortlist, so I can’t complain.
I had planned to take some photos of the Abenaki petroglyphs near Bellows Falls, Vermont. But when I got to their location on the Connecticut River, I found it more difficult to navigate the cliffs below the waterfall where they are located than I had anticipated. Better safe than sorry.