Ladies going to church on a rainy day on the island of Raasay in Scotland

Arch of Constantine, dedicated AD 315 I missed this yesterday, but I wanted to add some information regarding columns and piers: <A column is a freestanding round shaft. A square column is called a pier. When a round column is attached to a wall, it is called an engaged column; and when a pier is attached to a wall, it is called a pilaster.> (Note: Pilaster is pronounced with the accent on the second syllable.) I've seen other definitions online, but this is what I was taught in architecture class at UT, and it is also the definition in my History of Architecture book. I think that civil engineers may use different definitions from architects, however, and this can cause some confusion, but for architects, piers are square or rectangular and columns are round.

My walled garden patio. Not that many flowers, though, as we just had our raised beds dug out, relined to keep the invasive tree roots out of them, and then refilled with new ammended soil and automatic sprinklers added.

That is a hard one - not very many in my photo files either - but I did find this one... And this one - but I do think they are more accurately described as plinths...