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A hot day at Mooney's Bay...
June 2011
Nikon D60
I don't usually change the colours etc but I find this way, the photos convey better how HOT the day was...
09/07/2012
Today was another day in school, learning about composition. One of the students was also trying to get the splash from this apple into the pool, so I snapped it floating past in the current - actually quite a difficult proposition given how fast the pumps were circulating the water!
MSH0820: 7. Pool anyone?
When everyone is trying to stay afloat, it’s nice to see messaging that serves to assist, not assault.
EVOK Advertising created a half-page, vertical print ad for First Monday, a Central Florida business newspaper supplement, promoting the assistance a local CPA firm can provide local businesses. The reassuring messaging was professional and positive during an otherwise economic downturn.
EVOK is adept at pairing the right words with the most compelling images to gain the desired results.
This giant of a building sits at the other end of main street. It was the old lumber building. It's huge and it extends all the way around the back. I believe this lumber business really helped keep the town afloat. In fact, from my research, the town was started because a Mr. E W Hyde couldn't purchase a lot for his lumber yard in Sims, a town just up the way (which is now a complete ghost town, so there's karma for you), so he just moved them to the next side track called "Almont". He and another man surveyed the town the same day.
I have my favorite spots in North Dakota. Obviously my home town of Garrison is one of them. And Lake Sakakwea which is by Garrison. I still have a soft spot for campy old Medora and the musical. The badlands are always stunning. I developed a deep love of the Lake Metigoshe area and the peace gardens, as I went to both when I was young and when I was a teenager with my high school. My dad's house in Bismarck is nice, and the city itself has grown so much and is so full of amazing things to do.
And then there is Almont.
​Oh, Almont. I'm not sure how I discovered it, but my first visit was packed into a car with my mom and dad and possibly brother just after his graduation from high school in 2009. It was gray and rainy but I wanted to see it so we all went. If you search my flickr you can find the crappy, grainy, wonky photos I snapped out the car window on my stream somewhere.
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Almont is about a ten minute drive from the interstate and it's some of the most beautiful ten miles you'll drive anywhere in ND. It's a land filled with buttes and hills topped with big rocks and rock formations.
The area doesn't feel like anywhere else in North Dakota. And I love it. And the town of Almont is so quaint. It has so many neat old buildings, and a commitment to it's history because it has a great town website. A little primitive, but great. It has so much information and photos, as you'll see as the weeks go by.
So let me introduce you to Almont :)
For more details, and to read ahead, check out my extensive blog entry on this wonderful hidden gem of a town: pictureprairieplaces.weebly.com/adventures/quaint-and-bea...
Paul has no worries
Paul has no cares
Paul knows the finer things in life
cuz he floats all day in the puddle in my driveway
GULF OF THAILAND (Oct. 24, 2012) A Sailor from the USS Vandegrift (FFG 48), fires a .50 caliber gun while participating in weapons and target training with Royal Cambodian Navy patrol crafts (PC 1141 and PC 1142), during Cooperation Afloat Readiness and Training (CARAT) Cambodia 2012. CARAT is a series of bilateral military exercises between the U.S. Navy and the armed forces of Bangladesh, Brunei, Cambodia, Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand and Timor Leste. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communications Specialist 1st Class Robert Clowney)
What an exciting day! As I finally got Daffodil back in the water after her refit. Here's yours truly about to set off down river to undergo "sea trials". www.theopenboat.co.uk
SINGAPORE (July 18, 2013) Hull Technician 1st Class William Ray, right, assigned to the Arleigh Burke class destroyer USS Fitzgerald (DDG 62), helps a Singaporean sailor clean some moulding at the Singapore Association of the Visually Handicapped during a community service event as part of Cooperation Afloat Readiness and Training (CARAT) 2013. CARAT is a series of bilateral military exercises between the U.S. Navy and the armed forces of Bangladesh, Brunei, Cambodia, Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand and Timore Leste. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 1st Class Cassandra Thompson/Released)
151217-N-CU914-093 (December 17, 2015) -- Lt. Cmdr. Chris Kennedy, Integrated Air and Missile Defense Warfare Tactics Instructor (IAMDWTI) at Afloat Training Group San Diego, explains the process to become a warfare tactics instructor (WTI) with training from Naval Surface and Mine Warfighting Development Center (SMWDC) to junior officers aboard USS Decatur (DDG 73). Akin to 'Top Gun' for naval aviators, SMWDC is increasing the tactical proficiency of the surface warfare community by plucking an elite cadre of surface warfare officers (SWO) to become specialized warfighters called WTIs. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 3rd Class Lenny LaCrosse/Released)
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KUANTAN, Malaysia (June 17, 2013) - The U.S. Navy's 7th Fleet Band, "Orient Express," performs at Kuantan Parade Mall during Cooperation Afloat Readiness and Training (CARAT) Malaysia 2013. More than 1,200 Sailors and Marines are participating in CARAT Malaysia. U.S. Navy ships participating in CARAT Malaysia include the amphibious dock landing ship USS Tortuga (LSD 46) with embarked U.S. Marine Corps landing force, the diving and salvage vessel USNS Safeguard (T-ARS 50) with embarked Mobile Diving and Salvage Unit (MDSU) 1, the guided missile destroyer USS Curtis Wilbur (DDG 54), and the littoral combat ship USS Freedom (LCS 1). CARAT is a series of bilateral military exercises between the U.S. Navy and the armed forces of Bangladesh, Brunei, Cambodia, Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand and Timor Leste. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 1st Class Jay C. Pugh) (RELEASED)