As last night on a very cold chill crispy silky night of 29th June 2017 in Auckland, New Zealand it was frosty cold night showing crowds the three most key items of the last nights sky The Summery Autumn Planet Jupiter with it four large Galilean Moons Io Europa, Castillo, also Ganymede in the Bodice of the Constellation Virgo the Virgin. In which right next to the direction of the East rising is the Constellation Scorpio …
As the last night the moon progressive into the forty percent Waxing Gibbous progresses throughout the week, you can see more of the lacy crater terminator veil unveiling unrobes in revealing more shadowy depth in revealing more of the layers of history of Luna landscape geography… Winter, the winter season is one of the best season in which to get crispy sharper silkier images of the starry night sky where light is more frozeningly still. In which for the Summery season in which the images are satin softer as there are warmer humidity during the warm summery nights where light is slighter blurred……
As Auckland, New Zealand transition from autumn towards winters is coming, arrived already on that day of early morning from midnight 21st June 2017, However the Game of Thrones season seven is due out on 27 August 2017 in which you know that winter is coming in which you will notice when the constellation Scorpio also the winter planet Saturn in which you’ll know that you’re in a HBO George R.R. Martin- Game Of Thronesseries..
As of wintery chill cold recent nights, the moon was transitioning from New Moon towards the Full Moon, in which currently it stands at only a few nights from New Moon into being Crescently…as the Earth shadow terminator unveiling moves away from the direction its organic natural satellite… in which looking at the circumference Luna Edge of the moon you can see the Craters silhouettes in details ……
On A very wintery cold autumn night sky in Auckland, New Zealand, that night also day of 17th June 2017 was an extremely foggy day that also fog out Auckland in particular… In which it stood there for the whole day for a moment till the Sun- the nearest star to Earth, was able to warmth up radiant wintery heat the Auckland landscape only…… That Day the foggy landscape roam over with silent in which during the later hours in the afternoon of the Manukau Harbour encompassing any possible views of story telling the night sky….
Until that night there was moments off pockets of windows to storytelling of the night sky in which the Planet Jupiter in the bodice of the Constellation of the Virgin –Virgo… orthough it was observable through the thin layers of fog there it was in the clear window in which you could see only forty light minutes ago, least eight hundred million kilometers away from Earth as well with the tropical bands In with the many layers of intensive impressive weathering system as too among its Galilean Moons as progressively going from occultation into transiting with multiple eclipses. .
Before settings out onwards to the Fortaleza do Monte also Senado square… there was one place that was outside the central older neighborhooding sections of Macau square there was one site of interest it’s The Kun Lam Tong-Ecumenical Center in which sits off at 1101 Avenida de Sun Yat-sen In which is located off land on artificial island interconnecting with a sixty meter long causeway bridge… in which the bronze 32 meters tall Kun Lam Tong- Goddess of Mercy statute is only not facing the sea, or harbour.. In which is facing the shoreline.. In which facing the ocean will bring good luck to sailors whom traveling onwards to sea…
Arriving in the morning before setting outwards to the Senado Square walking up to in before lunch is the towards the Causeway bridge that’s leading up towards the Ecumenical Center, in which the center serves as an educational center with a library also a moderate size convention center to house events in which of various cultures in accumulating them together..
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The Buddhist, Taoist Chinese Painting works inspired me, in how to see the many layers of different tones of painting drawn out with each every layer of brushwork brings out a story within the whole storyline.. As the different tones of colours bring life out from those painted stories on like on textures that helps to date it back on the many Buddhist cave Grottoes that can be found among the Old Silk roads in which during those time many Buddhist cave Grottoes are detailed illustrated with gorgeous carvings with paintings.. in which you could see the various elements of Buddhism and Taoism fusion together in merging many philosophies together..
A gorgeous fine late morning that radiant the – Kun Lam Tong- Temple of the Goddess of Mercy of it’s fifty bronze panels…
The Ecumenical Center, is innovated modern… in which the base of the structure is designed with a white lotus petal inspirational hall in which people can rest while rest within the round hexagon setting arrangement like in the Taoist nature … while observing the illustrations within the round ceiling walls.. With Buddhist also with Taoist inscriptions collections of art works with focusing on Buddha, Lao Tse, and Confucius… the round walls within the Ecumenical Center walls are designed with harmony as with the them Taoist white black Ying Yang apporachment, in which the focuses on the Eight Trigram seating while observing the “Thought from both from the Occident and the Orient”….
Among the galleries inside the – Kun Lam Tong- Ecumenical Center in which marveling at the construction work on the inside also the outside with the fifty bronze casting paneling that makes up the structure like how the big Buddha is constructed at Lantau island.. The views of its surroundings of Macau Tapa island shore land with impressive adjacent bridge engineering of in between Governddor Norbre de Carvaho Bridge also it other in parallel of Pte, da Amizade in which viewing from the causeway bridge..
As I enter within the walls of its fortifications, as the Fortaleza do Monte was primary in built in between 1617- 1626 on as the walls its fortifications are build fifty two meters high… in which is built on a mountain name Mount Hill.. As the construction begins its original design of the complex was to protect the local inhabitants from Pirates, local bandits in the area patrolled station wise around the fort is watch towers, the fort proved its worth in which holding of any 1622 Dutch incursion in the past.. As the fort was providing in provision in defense for the neighborhood in which later as time progressive, it was later converted in first Governor Residences during 1623 to 1470… Later wards onwards it became a police battalion for two companies 1810 towards 1841… Later onwards taking on another form of defense, as the defense of as weather observation for Meteorological Department of Portuguese Macau in the year 1966 to 1996… from that point it slowly transition to a Museum of Macau as the relocation of the Observatory was place at Tapa..
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As walking around, in looking at the city landscape onwardly towards the accompany Macau’s island Tapa, in its distance which had the retro looking casino buildings that dates with the 1960’s Las Vegas look but with its character to its own.. In which there’s one that looks Jaded that looks like seven swords adjoining in which is the Grand Lisboa, the Design speaks out retro Las Vegas meet East in which it design by Hong Kong architects Dennis Lau and Ng Chun Man in which during its day it was the tallest building 261 meters tall in which now has superseded by it 21st century counterparts as Macau becomes more maturely in its developments…
Fortaleza do Monte have stood the changes through time..
There are several parts in of Fortaleza do Monte, in which one notability outside with the defense walls in which the internal museum contains the relics that have been savage by the Ruins of St. Paul’s in which some have been discovered within from the after the fire from that time.. Also among the exhibition is the restoration of the persons that was buried within the Crypts that was exposed after the fire as their skeletal remains restored..
the Many Portuguese cast iron cannons have stood its time beyond it’s previous owners..
Among the remains there are other relics that associated with the Church also its historical past as a fort, Governor Residences, to its final emplacement from a Meteorological Observatory to a National Maco Museum… As above wise the Fortaleza do Monte-Maco Museum, contains most of the historical elements. In which has a reflecting pond alongside the fort main building…… along with most of its retain features is the door way which open up from within towards the outside as it only has one way in also out.. in with its stairways are design for two purposes one to carry up or down of those cast steel cannons, on the flat rail paths that helix away from also it munitions.. To the top or bellow confinement as all are ramp like paths that lead internally inward inside the fort……..
