#chimneys

[thunderstruck9]

Charles Ginner (British, 1878-1952), Roofs and Chimneys. Oil on canvas, 63.5 x 49.5 cm. Bradford Museums and Galleries

[boschintegral-photo]

Industrial Sunset Duisburg, Germany

[streetmatt]

Red on the roof.

By Matti Merilaid.

[geopsych]

Chimney swifts (not sweeps) have been gone or at least silent in my town for over a month, but today I went down to Bethlehem, less than 10 miles away, and they were up above chattering all over town as if it were the middle of summer. Why the difference I wonder? Did my town cap the big communal chimney they were using when they first arrive every year and also once the young fledged*? I hope not or we won't have them here next year. We'll have to wait and see.

*A few years ago a Bethlehem birding group crowd-funded a big chimney for swifts to use when one on an old building was being demolished. I made a contribution in memory of my brother who loved swifts.

[fabien-euskadi]

Despite being a late-XIX Century invention, the Algarve typical chimneys became one of the most distinctive elements of the traditional architecture of the southernmost region of Portugal. These examples were photographed in the village of Alte.

[vox-anglosphere]

Vicars' Close - Somerset

[eopederson]

Chimneys, Cambridge, England, 2010.

[grandboute]

Chimneys