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Chasing the Milky Way rainbow can result in lack of sleep, yawning during work, red eyes and an obsession to do it all over again the next night.
Taken from the southeast coast of Maui next to the Wai`opai Bridge after sunset. Milky Way rising over the cloud enshrouded Big Island of Hawaii on the horizon. I think the rainbow effect is from the stuff in the air and the remaining light from the sun and stars.
The conditions were a bit nasty with gusty winds, an occasional drizzle and waves pounding the shoreline creating a lot of salt spray. I had to wipe the lens twice.
Headlights from passing truck lit up the rock wall. Not many vehicles were on the road this night.
Day 63 - June 2, 2010
I've never liked tau huay. But in the last two weeks, I've suddenly fallen head over heels in love with this insanely smooth tau huay in my neighbourhood and I find myself eating it every other day. I know our late-night rendezvous cannot go on forever and I'll grow tired of it soon enough but oh, let me indulge in it while the stomach is still willing.
Tower Grove Park is a rectangular tract of almost 285 acres located in the south-central part of the City of St. Louis, Missouri. Although Tower Grove Park has about 8,000 trees of over one hundred varieties, it takes its greatest distinction from its buildings, structures, and objects — its pavilions, gateways, and statues (like the one above). All four of the major entrances to the park are distinguished by monumental gateways, while more modest gates are placed at other points. A dozen ornamental pavilions dot the grounds, along with four major sculptures, an artificial ruin, a conservatory, two gate lodges, a caretaker's house and stable, two other residences, a tennis club, and a community center. The great majority of these features were built during the lifetime of Henry Shaw (1800-1889), a retired hardware merchant of St. Louis & the founder of the park and thus contribute to the park's historic significance. Tower Grove Park was described in 1892 as "one of the most beautifully artistic and classically adorned places of its kind, of such limited area, that any city in the land can boast of" by Theo Brumsfeld of the Missouri Historical Society. Today, it appears to be the largest and best preserved nineteenth-century park in the Gardenesque Style in the United States, although this is difficult to state categorically in the absence of a national inventory of municipal parks. The Gardenesque Style derived from the writings of John Claudius Loudon and the practical example of public parks abroad, particularly in England and France. It is characterized by winding paths, sometimes arranged in conjunction with more formal symmetrical features, and richly adorned with native & exotic plants.
As previously mentioned, Tower Grove Park is nationally significant in the areas of architecture and landscape architecture to the extent that those two areas encompass the design of public parks and park facilities in the nineteenth century. Included in the list of significant 'structures' within the park are six busts of composers surrounding the Music Stand and three monumental bronze statues to occupy key points along the Main Drive that were all commissioned by Henry Shaw. All of the bronze statues were created by Ferdinand von Miller of Munich (1842-1929), with individually designed pedestals of polished red granite by George I. Barnett. William Shakespeare (in the photograph above) and Alexander von Humboldt, both erected in 1878, face each other from the 3rd & 2nd circles respectively. The 15-ft high pedestals were designed with bronze reliefs. Below Shakespeare are reliefs of his characters Falstaff (Ben de Bar as Falstaff), Hamlet, Queen Katherine (of Aragon), and Lady Macbeth. The latter two are signed "P. Soyer."
This statue, among many other fantastic features of Tower Grove Park, contributed to the parks listing as a National Historic Landmark (NHL) on December 20, 1989 as well as on the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) on March 17, 1972. All the information above, and much more, was found on the original documents submitted to the NRHP for listing consideration and can be viewed here: npgallery.nps.gov/NRHP/AssetDetail/50377c59-7e71-418c-aee...
Three bracketed photos were taken with a handheld Nikon D7200 and combined with Photomatix Pro to create this HDR image. Additional adjustments were made in Photoshop CS6.
"For I know the plans I have for you", declares the LORD, "plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future." ~Jeremiah 29:11
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I am addicted to poetry and beer and adrenaline and euphoria. I am addicted to
"Pots and Pans" and "Laredo" and "Jar of Hearts." I am addicted to people and
places and routines and spontaneity.
I start in the morning. I shoot my words into my veins while I drive; I inject songs.
When the words and songs go in, I get high. And when they come out, I cry.
And I cry.
I have written so much poetry during National Poetry Month that they are going
to carry away my tears in buckets.
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I was moved by this shot (pardon my pun!).
Mr Macdonald displayed again since he is so good looking:))
I love to have animals around.
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Depois de aprontar todas ele faz essa cara de anjinho
He racks havoc and then goes to sleep like an angel!!!
Had a great time hanging out and blowing stuff up with light-painting guru Jeremy "Tackyshack" Jackson at his place in the hills of Virginia.
This is me making a big mess.
youtu.be/OOxU425OxrY .Fishing for pike in spring from the kayak is exalting .Those fish are caught and released to fight another day .
The northern pike (Esox lucius), known simply as a pike in Britain, Ireland, most of Canada, and most parts of the USA, (also called jackfish or simply "northern" in the Upper Midwest of the USA and in Manitoba, Canada), is a species of carnivorous fish of the genus Esox (the pikes). They are typical of brackish and fresh waters of the Northern Hemisphere (i.e. holarctic in distribution). Pike grow to a relatively large size: the average length is about 70–120 cm (28–47 in). Even so, lengths of up to 150 cm (59 in) and weights of 25 kg (55 lb) are very rare. The heaviest specimen known so far was caught in 1983 at an abandoned stone quarry in Germany, where the species is called Hecht. This specimen was 147 cm (58 in) long and weighed 31 kg (68 lb). The longest pike ever recorded and confirmed was 152 cm (60 in) long and weighed 28 kg (62 lb). A pike of 60.5 in (154 cm) was caught and released in May 2004 in Apisko Lake, Manitoba. Historic reports of giant pike, caught in nets in Ireland in the late 19th century, of 41–42 kg (90–93 lb) with a length of 173–175 cm (67–68 in), were researched by Fred Buller and published in The Domesday Book of Mammoth Pike. Neither Britain nor Ireland has managed to produce much in the way of giant pike in the last 50 years, so substantial doubt exists surrounding those earlier claims. Currently, the IGFA recognizes a 25 kg (55 lb) pike caught by Lothar Louis in Lake of Greffern, Germany, on 16 October 1986, as the all-tackle world-record northern pike.
The northern pike gets its name from its resemblance to the pole-weapon known as the pike (from the Middle English for pointed). The genus name, Esox, comes from the Greek and Celtic for "big fish" and "salmon" (see Esox: Name). Various other unofficial trivial names are: American pike, common pike, great northern pike, Great Lakes pike, grass pike, snot rocket, slough shark, snake, slimer, slough snake, northern, gator (due a head similar in shape to that of an alligator), jack, jackfish, Sharptooth McGraw, Mr. Toothy, and other such names as long head and pointy nose. Numerous other names can be found in Field Museum Zool.