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Starting to catch up. Apologies for not commenting.
These little ones are always in the dark shade. So if I can lure one into the sun, WOO-HOO!
Part of my road trip involved exploring the north coast of California. Most of the north coast is on a "marine terrace", a marine sea that got uplifted and is now FLAT land.
Our first stay for the afternoon was in a beach town called Eureka. Eureka is a "Tsunami Hazard Zone", with wave signs posted every few miles. The beach is almost level with the road - 100 yards from the surf. While I started scouting, my ex-surfer buddy kept saying "Wow. Those are BIG waves" .
They were big. We were unaware there was a NOAA advisory warning people to stay away from the local beaches due to 20 to 24 foot breakers. Instead, my buddy and I are thinking how cool to have the beach all to ourselves! I settled in on a pleasant flock of semipalmated plovers...and after five minutes my buddy says "Woah...That's a huge wave". The birds fly and I'm thinking "Plover flock flight shot - outstanding" - I shoot a few unfocused frames, then look back. Oh $#!+.
I'm running and then the rogue wave hits, and then I'm wet up to my chin...And then the wave wants to return and it wants to take me with it... I fall and I'm holding the 500mm like a soldier holds a rifle, trying to prevent it from getting wet as the wave drags me away. Luckily I grabbed for a piece of driftwood and then my buddy grabs me...
The iPhone in my pants pocket didn't survive. The camera did. Good thing that!
Thanks to the no-hassle Apple Genius Bar, I now have a new fully-restored iPhone for $100 less than the cost of the original. :-)
Major kudos to Canon for the MKIII being advertised as waterproof and actually being so, and major kudos to Apple for making getting a replacement phone SO EASY.
Actually found Thanksgiving fabric, with words, IN BARBIE SCALE! So, of course, I had to do these. :-)
www.ebay.com/itm/163354882997?ssPageName=STRK:MESELX:IT&a...
I actually thought this was a 16" Focus when i first drove by but i stopped anyway and I'm so glad i did no brake dust on the rear is a good sign!
Actually, I think everybody was looking at another Alaskan coastal brown bear just outside of the frame. I can't remember exactly, but to have all those photographers PLUS the momma bear looking right toward me must have meant there was something for them to look at other than than little ole me (grin).
This is the first of three viewing platforms just outside of Brooks Lodge in Katmai National Park, Alaska. This platform overlooks the Brooks River as it empties into Naknek Lake. I and the group of people around me had to wait until the bear in the pic (and possibly the bear outside of the pic) had moved away from the bridge over the river. This is what is called a "bear jam" and can last anywhere from 10 minutes to several hours, depending upon the whim of the bear(s).
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Actually as I am writing this I have one of my techno/dance tracks on called Raise your hands and these little Grevilia's look as if their little hands are being raised.
Another Grevilia I hadn't seen before and I just thought it was so gorgeous especially as some of the flowers look like Aliens (and we all know Aliens and me are close friends LOL).
I know I twiddled this into submission but I did like how the sunlight was twinkling on the leaves of the Gum Tree.
Actually, I should say in the midst of the storm as it has begun to thunder outside. Sandra is still making herself felt.
Better on black.
Actually, the Trent & Mersey Canal at Kidsgrove, Staffordshire heavily coloured by iron oxide from the nearby Harecastle Tunnel.
This abstract actually shows part of the facade of the public library in my home town of Kilsyth. Somehow, Kilsyth seems to inspire me to take abstracts, based on the Flickr evidence contained in my Kilsyth set.
It's many years since I've actually set foot inside this library. However, I remember avidly borrowing (amongst other tomes of course), lots of Billy Bunter books. Who can forget Bunter's memorable translation of: "sic transit gloria mundi" as "Gloria was sick on a bus on Monday". ;-)
5d mark ii + 85 1.2
Bowens 500r and Mola Setti with diffuser placed camera right. Silver reflector placed on model's right.
Actually, they're scurrying away from me....as fast as their little feets will carry them. :-) They can fly but I think that's a last resort especially when they know a slow moving human can't catch them.:-) Have to conserve energy, I guess.
Actually on-the-sale had-painted card from the USA, California, San Diego, featuring VW Bus Mk1 and FORD Falcon
Boardman Local Schools 59 - 2020 Thomas Saf-T-Liner C2; Myers Equipment Corp. - Canfield, Ohio. One of four new buses I ordered for the 2019-2020 school year. This is the only conventional I ordered of the four new buses during that school year. The number replaced a 1997 Thomas Ford but the bus actually replaced a 2004 Thomas Saf-T-Liner EF. This is the first bus for Ohio purchased new with Alcoa rims. Bus was in for warranty work on the Ped-Lok system.
The full version of what is now the Model 5C.
Now has a scope as well.
Still the same caliber and both(forgot to say before) are straight-pull bolts.
Thoughts?
Pastie: pastebin.com/raw.php?i=8vXF1GGN
So actually, this happened by accident.
I was going to shot my yesterday's photo, when a little spider web entangled in my hand with this star, which I have thousands in my room.
So I though it was nice so I just took a picture of it, all because of I dont know.
Press L :D
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Day 124
Actually pictures from 2018. A desert world with a Old Republic Sith base, including minifigures with decals from Timcan2904. Check out his other decals.
Actually it's a vintage "Penny Brite." Although, rumor has it that she is not that bright. I got this a loooong time ago in a lot of vintage toys at the Peddler's Mall. I had no idea who it was until doing a bit of research. She is around nine inches tall. The shoes are original, the dress is not.
There seems to be a re-issue of this in 2009 as well.
This is actually from a shoot I did with Syd London over a year ago but for some reason I missed this shot when I put the set up. So I'm adding to the mix now and hope you all enjoy it.
Actually not easy for me to do these kind of shots, but the Four Walls items are all great along with other decor releases I've mixed in here.
Credits on the blog: slposh.blogspot.com/2013/01/four-walls.html
Actually around 11 PM ... We get some pretty intense rainbows late in the evening in this region in the summer.
It's a beautiful feeling to be standing in the same spot where I was photographing the Aurora in all it's brilliance a few months ago and now be shooting this glorious light, which appears superficially similiar but is oh such a fundamentally different phenomenon. Kluane Lake,Yukon Territory, June 13.
Actually thought to make this into an actual fig. I painted the gas mask to try and give it more of a navy-style camouflage pattern (weather I was able to accomplish that well is up to interpretation). The MP5 is for a bud that I'm just showing off here.
Actually, I can find any tool I need almost immediately in this mess, and that's all that really matters... Right? Some of these tools are 50+ years old, so at least I'm not losing stuff.
See it on FLUIDR. (Just click any Fluidr photo to enlarge)
On June 3, 2019, a little (actually, big) bird tipped me off that Iowa Interstate was going to deliver cars to Buzzi/Unicem Cement Company later in the morning, and also surmised that Buzzi might be waiting for them to pick them up immediately. "Big Bird" was correct on all of that!
As soon as the two Iowa Interstate engines with the Bureau switching job (BUSW) began their trek back down the steep incline to the main, I heard what sounded exactly like a riding lawnmower coming from the old Illinois Central bridge. I looked and saw a headlight with a small switch engine and two people looking back at me. And I knew immediately the shot that I wanted!
The Conductor unlocked and opened up the gate to the yard. The engineer quickly connected to 6 cars, and began to pull them out. I hustled to I-39, parked, and after a brief moment, this happened.
I've been wanting this shot for a long time. It's been nearly 40 years since the Gruber line ended operations and was abandoned. A very small segment of the line from Freeport, IL to Centralia, IL was purchased by what is now Buzzi-Unicem, connecting their cement plant on the far southeast side of Oglesby, IL, with their Iowa Interstate interchange point in the old yard on the far southeast side of La Salle, IL, a distance of about 4 miles. To get to the yard from the plant, they cross the Illinois River via this old steel bridge. Checked just last year, it remains structurally sound, though the speed limit over the bridge seems to be about 5 MPH, and 10 MPH along the rest of the line, at least with that switcher. Although the line was built in 1855, the current bridge was built in 1896.
Although I'll never see F-units go across it, this old switcher with 6 cars heading back to the plant suits me just fine in 2019, taking me back to a golden era of railroading. So, here's the Buzzi GE 80 ton switcher, purchased in the late 1980s, slowly heading southbound after picking up 6 cars in La Salle, IL, crossing over a flooded Illinois River, swollen from recent heavy spring rains.
Thank you, "Big Bird", for the heads up!
Actually this is know as the 'False Cape Greco' as the actual cape is slightly behind this majestic outcrop.
Location: Doha, Qatar
About this shot
Camera: Nikon D700
Lens: NIKKOR 70-200 f/2.8 VR II
Exposure: 0.02 sec (1/50)
Aperture: f/2.8
Focal Length: 70 mm
ISO Speed: 500
Exposure Bias: -2/3 EV
Actually, there was quite a bit of footwear left in mid-November 2016, but going fast at 50% off.
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Kmart, 1979-80 built, Caraway Rd. at E. Highland Dr., Jonesboro AR
...actually it's a Texas Jackrabbit, which I've never seen before in the wild, let alone photograph one...guess it was a good decision to travel down a country road to see bluebonnet fields! ;-)
have a good weekend, y'all...take care!
Austin County, TX....April 3, 2009
actually, my dinner at Class 302, a cute little diner themed like a taiwanese classroom. 'students' eat at little school desks and food is served in metal lunch box cannisters. the decor is complete with a big chalkboard and other classroom-like items on the wall.
Class 302
Rowland Heights, CA
...actually didn't notice the little critter at the left when taking the pic...
Rolleiflex SL66, Planar 80/2.8 in retro position
Ilford HP5 in Rollei RHS DC
Actually not full of rage at all. I'm singing a Disney song, in fact.
From the 2019 JoCo Cruise.
Photo by Steve Petrucelli
Not actually a cathedral but, like the so-called "German Cathedral" across the Gendarmenmarkt Square and the nearby "Berlin Cathedral", the result of the mistranslation of the German word "Dom" which, generally speaking, does mean "cathedral".
More formally, it is the "French Church in the Friedrichstadt" and was built to serve the French Calvinist community in Berlin which in the 18th century made up about a quarter of the population of the city.
The earliest parts of the building date back to the early 18th century. It was modified in 1785 by Carl von Gontar who added the domed tower which gave rise to its popular name.
Opposite the French Church is the externally very similar German Church.
All the buildings on the Gendarmenmarkt suffered major bomb damage during the allied raids on Berlin in 1945. In 1969 little if any repair work had been undertaken. Rebuilding was undertaken between 1977 and 1981.
To the left of the Church. the statue of a lion on the back of which rides a cherub playing double pipes, flanks the stone stairs leading to the main entrance of the Concert House, built 1818-21 as the Theatre Royal.
Actually, a jet plane - airliner - that will land at LAX (Los Angeles International Airport) in less than 10 minutes.
"Leaving on a Jet Plane" was written in 1966 by John Denver (published in 1969). It's most remembered sung by Peter, Paul and Mary.
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Dane: “There’s a whole album, actually. I found it at the vinyl shop a few blocks over from the flat. They had another copy, if you want a physical one for your collection. Otherwise, I’ll just rip mine for you.”
Charley: *lowers the headphones* “I would love to drop by and grab a copy, but I’m going to be slammed this week.”
Dane: “The bake sale. I haven’t forgotten.”
Charley: *groans, covering her face* “I wish I could forget. I know it was my idea to go to Yuri, and I don’t regret it, but she is intense.”
Dane: “That’s one word for it.”
Charley: “I’m just glad we waited until the end of the school year. At least I don’t have actual classes to teach on top of everything else. But I need to start planning my lessons for next year, and there’s a new curriculum to learn for the high school kids. Also, I have tutoring for the school’s summer program as well as outreach at the community center. Danny wants to add another practice per week, and I still haven’t finished the required reading for book club, and the meeting is tomorrow night...” *starts to twist hair aggressively around her finger*
Dane: *squeezes her knee* “Breathe, Chuck, and tell me what I can do to help—other than pick you up a copy of Joey in the Hole, because that’s a done deal.”
Charley: *removes the headphones and sits up, curling her legs underneath* “Really? You don’t mind checking to see if the shop still has a copy for me?”
Dane: *tucks Charley’s hair behind her ear, gives her an ‘obviously-I-don’t-mind-at-all-I’d-do-anything-for-you-duh-you’re-really-dense’ look*
Charley: *faint smile* “Thanks.”
Dane: “You’re going to start the baking on Wednesday, yeah?”
Charley: *nods* “We’re using my kitchen and Yuri’s, primarily, but Kumi, Candy, and Emma have offered theirs to us, too. Yuri’s already visited each kitchen to assure they meet her cleanliness standards. She missed her calling. She’d make a great health inspector.”
Dane: *begins rifling through Danny’s vinyl collection* “I expect Yuri would make a great anything and everything, if she were so inclined.”
Charley: “She’s amazing. She got all the permits required for the event. She managed to secure so many donations that we hardly needed to pony-up any cash at all, and the stuff we did have to buy, Yuri used her own money. I’m just nervous I won’t live up to her expectations once we start baking.”
Dane: “You were upfront with her that you didn’t bake much. Besides, you’ve got Molly in your corner, and she can definitely bake. She sent something called hummingbird cake back to our place with Caid, and we inhaled it in about thirty seconds flat. She even impressed Dillon, and you know he’s picky.”
Charley: “Yeah, I’m really lucky to have both Molly and Dillon helping out. Molly can outbake just about anyone, and Dillon’s pastries are incredible. I don’t even like sweets, and I’ll eat his stuff. The way he mixes flavors is crazy. It shouldn’t work, but it always does…” *shakes head, mystified*
Dane: “Well, you certainly get enough chances to sample. He bakes at your place more than ours.”
Charley: “That’s because the stove at you guys’ place only has two working burners and an oven that won’t preheat past three-fifty. *grabs Dane’s phone, turns off music, expression agitated* I just feel like I started this whole bake sale thing, so I should be pulling my own weight, not depending on everyone else.”
Dane (patiently): “Charley, you always pull your own weight, and then some. The trick with you is getting you to ask for and/or accept help in the first place. Molly and Dillon seem dead chuffed to help, and so does Yuri.”
Charley: *noncommittal noise*
Dane: “Candy’s already cleared her schedule this week, and the guys and I are at your disposal. Caid often helped his grandmother bake, and Dillon’s a pastry savant, so they’ll probably be the most useful. Dan and I can fold boxes or wash pans. We all want to help. It’s for a good cause…and it’s for you.”
Charley: *looks at Dane, appreciation palpable* “Thanks. I’ll probably need a few more talk downs before this whole thing is finished. It is really getting to me. It makes me feel useless and out of control…and I’m not good with either.”
Dane: “I’m here for you. Anything you need.” *reaches up, brushes Charley’s cheek with his thumb*
Charley: *presses her cheek into his hand*
Fashion Credits
***Any doll enhancements (i.e. freckles, piercings, eye color changes, haircuts) were done by me unless otherwise stated.***
Charley
Jeans: Clear lan
Sweater: Cangaway (Etsy.com)
Sneakers: Sekiguchi – Momoko – Dash! After School Momoko
Glasses: Sekiguchi – Momoko Separate
Necklace: Me
Doll is a Morning Dew Giselle transplanted to a Poppy body, re-rooted by the super-duper valmaxi(!!!)
Dane
Pants: IT – Dynamite Boys – Radiant Child Remi
Shirt: Kelsie of Mutant Goldfish Designs; Screenprint by me
Hoodie: Kimberlee of Hazel Street Dezigns
Belt: Volks – WTG? – Selfish
Shoes: IT – Homme – Style Strategy Lukas
Necklace: Piecemeal from here and there
Doll is a Night Vision Count Adrian.
The Port of Maryborough.
The town actually began with a wharf as once prospective settlers learned that the River Mary was navigable white pastoralist and cotton and maize farmers moved into the districts upstream from around 1848. Then in 1859 as the colony of Queensland was created from New South Wales a new international port was created at Maryborough. The town had moved from West Maryborough to the present site. Consequently the first Customs House was erected in 1861. In 1860 the first vessels arrived at the port of Maryborough direct from Europe with a load of immigrants. By 1869 nearly 7,000 immigrants had landed in Maryborough and by 1878 nearly 16,000 had landed here. In fact between 1860 and 1900 around 22,000 immigrants arrived directly in Maryborough from England and Europe. Maryborough also had a coastal steamer service to Brisbane and Rockhampton. From 1867 it also handled all the goods going into, and the gold coming out of, the goldfields at Gympie. In the last quarter of the 19th century the port of Maryborough handled sawn timber, sugar, wool, meat, gold, maize, etc. Before the end of the 19th century when river ports like Maryborough were about to be forgotten because they could not handle larger steamers its imports and exports were roughly in balance in terms of value. The most valuable exports were: gold, silver, copper, fruit, hides and skins, sugar and wool. Of these the most valuable were sugar £50,000, raw and refined, followed by silver/lead £33,000, gold/silver £9,000 and skin/hides £8,000.
Among the early immigrants were shiploads of German settlers from 1860. As the numbers grew the first Lutheran pastor arrived in 1864 followed by a second in 1867. These and later pastors came from Germany or Denmark, mainly the Schleswig district, which was occupied by Germany from 1864 after it defeated the Danes. Between 1860 and 1891 around 180,000 immigrants arrived in Queensland with an assisted government passage and some rights to lease land. Around 16,000 were non British mainly Germans, Danes, Norwegians and Swedes. Other Australian colonies only gave assisted passages to British immigrants except for Tasmania and Queensland. Most of the non-British immigrants were German but the QLD government’s agent in Germany also recruited Scandinavians, Swiss etc. Queensland became the colony with the greatest number of Danes and it had almost as many Norwegians and Swedes as NSW. Some of these non-British immigrant’s landed in Maryborough with the first ship load arriving in March 1871 on the Reichstag from Hamburg. The Scandinavians especially settled at Tiaro and Tinana near Maryborough, around Bundaberg, Pialba at Hervey Bay and in other places like Kingaroy where Sir Jo Bjelke-Petersen lived. The town of Eidsvold, near Gayndah is a Norwegian name and it was established by the Archer brothers from Larvik in Norway. As most of the Scandinavians were Lutheran (but some were Catholic), Danish, Norwegian and Swedish names are often linked to the Lutheran churches of the Maryborough district. Some Scandinavian names (mainly Danish) of Maryborough early settlers include the Jocumsen, Claussen,Madsen, Kehlet, Weinberg, Okeden, Boge, Möller, etc. Many Danish and other Scandinavian names can also be found in the Polson cemetery at Pialba Hervey Bay such as Christensen, Hansen, Mortensen, Nielsen, Petersen, Thomsen etc.
A stroll down Kent Street from Pallas Street.
1. On the left is Queen Elizabeth rose garden.
2. The Dominion Milling Company factory site. Now derelict. The Maryborough flour mill when erected in 1890 was the furthest north in Australia. It was acquired by the Dominion Milling Company around 1910. The distinctive entrance arch was erected in 1915. All operations ceased in 1977. In more recent years it has been a saw mill and an antiques centre.
3. The old power house from the 1920s when cities like Maryborough had their own electricity generator.
4. The Freemasons Centre.
5. On the right Maryborough High School. Its original grand buildings were opened in 1881 as Maryborough Girls Grammar School.
6. On the left beyond the school oval is Maryborough Boys Grammar School erected in 1881 and the gates erected in 1909. It is now the TAFE campus.
7. The Maryborough Central School. The first school was established in 1862. The grand two storey building was erected at the height of the European immigration period in 1875. More wooden classrooms were built in 1882 as the infant’s school.
8. On right is the City Hall. Built 1906 in American colonial style in red brick. Australia’s only pneumonic plaque outbreak occurred in Maryborough in 1905. Eight people died and a plaque commemorates that sad event.
9. On the left the School of Arts. 427 Kent St. This grand classical building was designed by Adelaide architect John Grainger. It was completed in 1888 replacing a former wooden school of arts building. In 1972 it was purchased by the City of Maryborough for use as a library. The rounded windows above oblong windows is unusual. Cost £3,500.
10. On the right. Finney Isles and Co store 1908. The building was designed by the prominent Bundaberg architect, F. H. Faircloth. Alterations were undertaken to the building in 1918 due to the expansion of Finney, Isles & Co business. The building was purchased by Fritz Kinne in 1923 and their name is in the central pediment. This German background businessman was an alderman and twice Mayor of Maryborough. 384 Kent St
11. On the left before the next intersection. This was the Stupart’s Emporium built in 1883. No 373 Kent St.
12. On the right. The Royal Hotel. Built in 1868 and given its “royal patronage” authority by Governor Bowen of Queensland in that year. Established in 1856 and totally rebuilt in this classical style in 1902.
13. On left at 331 Kent St. The former Australian Joint Stock Bank built in 1882. Great classical features but the windows are too narrow and spoil the effect. Main facade is on the side street. Its proportions are much better. The author of the Mary Poppins book P L Travers was born in the building in 1899. Her father Travers Goff was the bank manager at the time. She was born as Helen Goff. Her statue is next to the building. Look for the street crossing lights showing Mary Poppins.
14. On the left at 327 Kent St. Built in 1915 as the Queensland National bank. Now known as Woodstock House. Good height, grand pilasters up the sides of the building, fine pediment, Corinthian columns with acanthus leaves at the top, both triangular and rounded pediments above windows, good symmetry. A great classical style building.
15.On right at 310 Kent St is the former Francis Hotel. This was the site of the first hotel in Maryborough around 1852. A second storey was added in 1919 with lots of Edwardian woodwork on the balcony. It closed as a hotel in 1992.
16. On the right next to the hotel is the former stores of Douglas Helsham. Construction began in 1874 and was completed in 1875. Helsham employed a Brisbane architect James Cowlishaw.
17. On left at 297 Kent St. The former Royal Bank built in 1888 with almost some Art Nouveau curves. The architect was Italian Victor Caradini. The roof line pediment is “broken” and now includes the name Monsour. Fred Monsour was a Middle Eastern silk and fabric importer. With his brother they had several stores and warehouses but he name in the cartouche these days refers to Dr Monsour a local medical practitioner.
18. At the very end of Kent Street and to the right is the former Engineer’s Arms Hotel. This strange very narrow hotel between two streets was built in 1889 and is Maryborough’s answer to the Flatiron building of New York.