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Cochise Arizona (settled 1880s, pop. <100)
“In its heyday, the old hotel was one of the best of its kind in Southern Arizona, serving the miners and others who toiled at the settlements at Russellville, Gleeson, Courtland and Pearce. Cattle from the range, en route to market, were driven into the railroad yard pens across the street from the hotel, and ranchers also used the hotel as headquarters while in town.” —Tucson Daily Citizen, 6 Jun 1964, by Margaret Kuehlthan
• Cochise Hotel, aka Cochise Royal Hotel & Water Works • opened as Hotel Rath [c. 1912 photo] by railroad telegrapher John Jacob “J.J.” Rath (1870-1905), known as the “father of Cochise” a town named for the American Chiricahua Indian leader
“The original 30 x 60 foot adobe structure had a lobby, Wells Fargo office, seven guest rooms and an outhouse out back. The cinder wall false front was added (c.1919) [photo] along with a new wing which included porches on the front and back, a kitchen and a great room. The modern hotel had a water closet with lavatory, tub and hot water. The hotel was illuminated by gas lighting generated by an acetylene machine made by the Colt gun manufacturing company.” —The Skinner Years
• around the turn of the century, Lula & John /Rath hired a housekeeper, Mary Katherine Cummings, history's "Big Nose Kate" [photo], memorialized in movies as Katie Elder —Tombstone Daily Prospector
• Mary Katherine "Big Nose Kate" Horony (1850-1940) was born in Pest, Hungary, 2nd oldest daughter of Hungarian physician Miklós Horony • emigrated to the U.S. with her family in 1860 • placed in a foster home after her parents died • stowed away on a steamboat to St. Louis, where she became a prostitute • in 1874 was fined for working as a "sporting woman" (prostitute) in a "sporting house" (brothel) in Dodge City, KS, run by Nellie "Bessie" Ketchum, wife of James Earp
• moved to Fort Griffin, TX in 1876 • met dentist John "Doc" Holliday, who allegedly said he considered Kate his intellectual equal • Kate introduced Holliday to Wyatt Earp • Doc opened a dental practice but spent most of his time gambling & drinking
• the couple fought regularly, sometimes violently • according to Kate they married in Valdosta, Georgia • moved on to AZ Territory where Kate worked as a prostitute at The Palace Saloon in Prescott • they parted ways but she rejoined Holliday in Tombstone [photos] • claimed to have witnessed the 26 Oct 1881 Gunfight at the O.K. Corral from her window at C.S. Fly's Boarding House
• Kate, nearly 50 [photo] & divorced from an abusive husband, was long past her romance with Doc & too old for prostitution when she took the Rath Hotel job • in June 1900, still employed at the hotel, she answered a want ad for a housekeeper at $20/mo. plus room & board in nearby Dos Cabezas
• among that town’s dwindling population was a man who "sharpened the first tools that opened up the first gold discoveries of Dos Cabezas district" • John Jessie “Jack” Howard (1858-1930) was born in Nottingham, England • as one of the first miners in the Dos Cabezas mining district, he is memorialized by Howard Peak & Howard Canyon
• Howard lived in the hills near Dos Cabezas • remembered as a crusty churl who hid in a manhole behind his shack to fire at intruders as they rode into range • on the other hand, some of his fellow Dos Cabezans considered him friendly • divorced his wife Mary who, according to court records, "displayed a vile and disagreeable disposition coupled with frequent outbursts of the most violent temper until she made his life a burden he could stand no longer.”
"…witnesses testified about Mary’s barrage of insults that included publicly calling Howard a white-livered son of a b—. She kept a filthy house, never washed dishes or clothing and even threatened to burn down his house and poison his stock." —He Lived with Big Nose Kate, True West
• Kate lived with Jack as his employee ("servant" according to the 1900 census) until 1930
• on 3 January of that year, Kate walked 3 mi. to the home of Dos Cabezas Postmaster Edwin White.
“Jack died last night, and I stayed up with him all night.”
• Howard was buried in an unmarked grave in Dos Cabezas Cemetery • after living alone for 2 yrs. Kate sold the homestead for $535.30 • In 1931 she wrote Arizona Gov. George W.P. Hunt, requesting admission to the Arizona Pioneers Home at Prescott • although foreign born thus not eligible for admission, she claimed Davenport, Iowa as her birthplace & was accepted • she died 5 days shy of her 90th birthday • was buried under the name "Mary K. Cummings" in the Home's Cemetery—Big Nose Kate, Independent Woman of the Wild West —Kyla Cathey
• Cochise Hotel, National Register # 76000370, 1976
Abby checks out Meg as she strides by. Meg will get up and finish, and then head for the trainer to get her skinned knees taken care of.
Along Hwy 26 in central Oregon. People just stop an throw their old shoes at the tree and have been doing so for years.
For some, privacy is tantamount. But for others, letting a little light through the fence adds to the decorative nature of the surrounding landscaping.
So a small comprise here . there is a rain gutter on the real bus. I have take this detail and turned it into a staircase stringer to give the fragile stairs some strength.
Well... After a thinking it over a little, I decided to go ahead and add two additional features to the unit. I have now added an Intervalometer and a Lightning Detector to it's capabilities! :-)
The Intervalometer is a bit more capable than the standard ones out there and certainly the one I have built into my camera. It has the ability to set intervals down to the milliseconds! The ones have used in the past only allowed me to set intervals in seconds and not fractions of a second. I am sure there are other uses for it but I know for sure it would have been handy in doing some time lapses while doing higher speeds in a vehicle. The Lightning detection circuit is about as simple as it can get and will work with any camera having a shutter lag of less than 90 milliseconds (just to be on the safe side).
I also spent a lot of time re-writing the code for the update routines to make it easier to navigate through the system parameters, make changes to them, and then added the ability to save them to non-volatile memory so that the saved parameters will be reloaded on power up of the system. All in all, I think this unit will work very nicely in what I want it to do! :-)
All of this has taken up pretty much every moment of the last two days, but most of that time was spent fighting a bug that I ran across in the Arduino compiler in dealing with complex OR comparisons. That was bit frustrating to figure out, but I finally worked my way around it. :-)
So... now I can get back to work on finishing the tutorial and getting the wiring diagram drawn up!
Tonight, 1 June 2018, I have just added six extra photos, to get them into my albums. I will be so glad when I eventually come to a few photos that I feel better about uploading. I am trying to post more or less in the order that the photos were taken, and unfortunately, there are so many odds and ends that I want to keep just for the record. I promise that, later on, I will have photos of some very different things - thank goodness.
Not having much success with seeing and photographing all the tiny, very fast-moving Warblers at Pt Pelee, I was delighted to come across a few fungi. Not much variety, as it was still only spring. Not sure, but I think this is Dryad's Saddle fungus / Polyporus squamosus aka Cerioporus squamosus.
Four friends (four of the six friends with whom I went to Trinidad & Tobago in March 2017) and I left Calgary airport on 6 May 2018 and flew to Toronto, Ontario, Canada. There, we rented a van and did the long drive to Point Pelee for four whole days of birding. We stayed at the Best Western Hotel in Leamington, which is close to Point Pelee National Park. It fills up very quickly (with birders) and our rooms were booked months ago.
Our four days walking at Point Pelee were interesting and I, for sure, saw various things I had never seen before, including my very first Raccoon : ) Various friends had told me that the Warblers at Pelee were fantastic - so many and numerous species, and so close. Have to disagree with the "closeness" when we were there! I don't have binoculars as cameras are enough for me to carry around, so I know I missed all sorts of birds. Though my Warbler count was lower than my friends' counts, I was happy to at least get a few distant photos of some species. So many of my shots are awful, but I will still post some of them, just for the record of seeing them. Some photos are so bad that I doubt anyone can ID them.
We covered several different trails at Pelee, and also drove to a few places somewhat further afield, such as Hillman Marsh. If you are unfamiliar with this Conservation Area, just wait till you see a photo of the old barn that was there. I couldn't believe my eyes! I was in so much pain that I wasn't sure if I would be able to walk across a grassy area to take a few photos. However, it was so unusual and beautiful, that I reckoned I could try and move forward inch by inch - and crawl (ha, ha) if necessary. Another place we enjoyed was Rondeau National Park. One amazing and totally unexpected sighting just outside Pelee was a very distant male Snowy Owl sitting in a fieldl!!
We walked every single day that we were at Pelee and the areas mentioned above, seeing not just birds, but a frog/toad, snakes that we suspect were mating, several Painted turtles, a few plants (including both white and red Triliums, that I had never seen growing wild before, and a couple of Jack in the Pulpit plants).
The Friends of Point Pelee have food available at lunch time that one can buy. They also have a shuttle bus that one can take from the Visitor Centre all the way to the southern tip of Pelee, which is the most southern part of Canada. They also have birding walks with a guide each day (there is a charge). On 9 May, we spent the morning from 6:00 am to 11:00 am on a birding walk at Pelee with guide, Tom Hince, whom we had contacted while we were still in Calgary.
At the end of our stay at Point Pelee, we had to drive all the way back to Toronto, from where we flew to Quebec airport. From there, we had a four-hour drive to Tadoussac on the coast of the St. Lawrence Seaway. This is such a delightful, small place and in a beautiful setting. One of our friends, Anne B, and her husband have a summer cabin further along the cliff from the few stores and port. She had invited the four of us to go with her from Pelee to spend a week at her beautiful home. What an absolute treat this was! We were able to meet some of her relatives, too, who also have built cabins out there. We were looked after so well, and we were able to see and photograph all sorts of birds and other things. We made several trips to see different places, including the Cap Tourmente National Wildlife Area, where we were able to see endless thousands of Snow Geese. Breathtaking!
We also had two boat trips from Tadoussac - one was a whaling trip in a Zodiac, where we saw very, very distant Beluga and Minke Whales. The Belugas looked almost like the white wave crests - but they were Belugas. The other boat trip was to Brandy Pot Island, inhabited by thousands of Razorbills and Common Murres, which were new birds for me, and Double-crested Cormorants that were nesting in tree tops. That long boat trip (in a tiny boat named Juno, piloted by Greg) started off in the rain and dark clouds and it was soooo cold! Thermal underwear, layers of fleece and toque and gloves were needed. This day was arranged through a contact of Anne's and it was so much enjoyed! Of course, we anchored a distance away from the island and sat there and ate our sandwiches and took endless photos. It is forbidden to land on the island at nesting time.
Anne B, I can't thank you enough for organizing this holiday for us all and for inviting us to spend a week at your cabin. You worked so hard and it was so much appreciated by each and every one of us. Thank you for doing all the many hours of driving, too! Janet and Anne, thank you so much for compiling the lists of birds seen each day at various locations, and posted to ebird. These entries will be a huge help while I try and sort out where we were and when, and what species we saw. Miss your cookies and muffins, Janet, that you kindly made for us in Tadoussac, to go along with the wonderful meals that Anne planned and made for us : )
ADE40439 "ADE39" (YX62BXY) is seen on the H98 at Hayes & Harlington Station.
This bus route is served by a variety of fleets, and is varied everyday!
Getting quite close to being finished. Sometime next week the floor gets painted. Then I will complete the flow of the checkerboard road right out to the edge of the stage. Should be a pretty cool effect.
Everyone at the school has been very excited to see this evolve. This back drop is in plain view of the main entrance hall where they all have lunch, assemblies etc. So the kids get to see it every day and so many of them come up to me with there compliments and excited energy. In our art starved educational system, the kids crave a connection to creativity now more than ever.
Thank u, Ann wood. I made a boat for my 88 year old father. He suffers from dementia. Hopefully, he will remember happy times with my mom, when he sees it!
Here are some finished pages of the art journal I shared on my blog.
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Cliveden
(aka Cliveden House)
There have been three houses on the site.
The first house, built in 1666, burned down in 1795. The second house, built in 1824, burned down in 1849. The present house, built in 1851, by the architect Charles Barry for the 2nd Duke of Sutherland.
Cliveden has been the home to a Prince of Wales, two Dukes, an Earl, and finally the Viscounts Astor. As the home of Nancy Astor, wife of the 2nd Viscount Astor, Cliveden was the meeting place of the Cliveden Set of the 1920s and 1930s—a group of political intellectuals.
Later, during the early 1960s, when it was the home of the 3rd Viscount Astor, it became the setting for key events of the notorious Profumo affair.
The house was passed to The National Trust in 1942 with the condition that the family would continue to live there.
The Astor family stopped living at Cliveden in the 1970s.
The house is surrounded by 376 acres of gardens and woodland that are always open to National Trust visitors.
The house is currently on lease to a company that operates the estate as a luxurious, five-star, Relais & Châteaux hotel and is generally not open to National Trust Visitors.
Grade I Listed
www.nationaltrust.org.uk/visit/oxfordshire-buckinghamshir...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cliveden
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Profumo_affair
The Clock Tower
by Henry Clutton, London
1861
A prominent and historical landmark located in the grounds of Cliveden.
Described by the architectural critic Nikolaus Pevsner as "the epitome of Victorian flamboyance and assertiveness."
Commissioned by the 2nd Duke of Sutherland, who owned Cliveden at that time.
The tower was part of the Duke’s vision to enhance the grandeur of the estate and to illustrate his wealth and status.
Originally intended to serve as a water tower supplying water to the estate. Over time it became more of an ornamental feature but it is still a functional water tower that provides water to the house.
The structure is built in the Italianate style and is notable for its elaborate design and the use of gold leaf.
Topped with a gilded ball and a weathervane which adds to the decorative appeal.
The clock was made by the famous clockmaker James McCabe of the London firm McCabe & Sons.
The tower stands at 100 ft making it a prominent feature on the estate’s skyline.
Grade II* Listed
Added an NG Creations pattern fishtail skirt to the Shannanigan sheath dress yesterday, which gave Spectra an upgrade ! Instead of making this a single 'cut one on fold', I cut two, sewed 'em together at the hem, and flipped 'em right side out. That way, you get a great fabric view inside and out, since it shows.
Looking forward to trying the double fishtail pattern this weekend !