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The Fletcher Block Building was built by William Henry Sternberg (1832-1906) in Wichita, KS in 1887. This photo from approximately the 1930s appears as if the building were modernized a bit from 50 years prior... chimneys and spires were taken off and the top arched crown on the front of the building was removed (compare this photo with the Artist's Drawing of the Fletcher Block). The Fletcher Block Building (or Fletcher Building) was located on the northwest corner of Main & Second Street and was built for William Fletcher who also had his business office here. William Fletcher moved to Wichita from Illinois and is described as a "Capitalist" and a "Speculator". It was a first-class office building equiped with steam heat, an electric elevator, stained glass windows and stained glass skylights and other upscale appointments. This building no longer exists. The term "block" is rarely used today, but was a common term in the late 1800s. It was somewhat of a generic term for any large commercial building that covered all or most of a block or even part of a block as long as it was fairly square or rectangular in shape. The Fletcher Block was a well-known building throughout Wichita. When referring to an office location, city directories sometimes omitted an address altogether and simply noted, "Fletcher Building". It contained professional offices including doctors and mortgage brokers.

 

Sternberg was the most prolific builder in the area and erected more of the commercial block-style buildings than any other builder in the late 1800s. Some of the buildings he erected include: the Eads Block Building, Smyth & Sons Block Building, the Union Block Building (corner of Douglas and Water), the Temple Block Building, the Bitting Block Building (also called simply, the Bitting Building at the corner of Market and Douglas), the Roys Block at the corner of Lawrence and Douglas, the Market Street Block (erected in August 1887), the Naftzger Building (a block-style building three stories high at the corner of St. Francis and Douglas), the Porter Building (a four-story brick at 211 – 213 E. Douglas), Ferrell’s Brick Block (opposite the Post Office) and many others. Sternberg employed a crew that at times reached 40 men. As population in Wichita has grown about 10-fold since then, that translates into a construction firm with roughly 400 workers by today's standards. William Sternberg was a significant employer in Wichita, all at a time before electric tools and cars.

 

At the time the Fletcher Building was built Mr. Fletcher had his personal residence just a block south of Mr. Sternberg's residence on the then very exclusive north Waco Avenue residential district. Mr. Sternberg's residence was at 1065 N. Waco Avenue. Mr. Fletcher's residence was at 933 N. Waco Avenue. At the time, Waco Avenue was an elite cul-de-sac, accessible only from the east. South of this area, the Arkansas river's path swung further to the east than it does today, cutting off Waco Avenue from going all the way through to downtown as it does today. There are no known photos of the Fletcher residence. It is not unlikely that Sternberg may have designed and built Mr. Fletcher's personal residence in addition to building the Fletcher Building (which Sternberg is confirmed to have done). In a number of instances, Sternberg is known to have done both a commerical and residential building for the same individual, sometimes more than one commercial building and/or house (for example, the A.W. Bitting and C.W. Bitting residences as well as two stores for the Bitting brothers). Sternberg is known to have designed & built Finlay Ross's residence at 821 N. Waco Avenue and Finlay Ross's 3-story Furniture Store, "Ross' Great Furniture & Carpet Emporium" at 119 & 121 N. Main (photos of the Ross block posted to photostream soon). Fletcher's home would have been in between Ross's (at 821 N. Waco Avenue) and Sternberg's own home at 1065 N. Waco Avenue. Early fire insurance maps for 933 N. Waco indicate there was a large home at this address, but other than identifying the perimeter of the structure those maps don't say anything else about it. Any additional information about the William Fletcher residence at 933 North Waco Avenue in Wichita, KS is welcome.

 

Bricks for buildings like the Fletcher Block above were made locally at any number of brick manufacturers. In the 1800s, bricks were made by hand in a slow, laborious process. In 1879, the steam shovel was invented which speeded up the first step: just the getting the clay to begin with. Clay was often stored over the Winter because the freezing made working the clay easier in the Spring and the cold helped remove unwanted oxides. Clay was then ground into powder and screened to remove rocks. The dry clay was then mixed with water and then kneaded (“pugged” in a “pug mill” whereby a horse drawn cart worked the clay mixture by walking round-and-round the pug) to mix all the elements together in a uniform mixture. Wooden brick molds, usually made from beech wood (because beech wood didn’t stick to the clay mixture), were “sanded” (moistened first, then covered with sand) and filled with the clay mixture. These wood molds were then turned over and the “sand-struck bricks” slid out of the wooden brick molds and cured for a few days before being fired. Kilns were not massive ovens as they are today but usually dug-outs or pits in the ground and temperatures reached about 1800 degrees F, although the heat was not even throughout the pit. Bricks closer to the center (closer to the fire) ended up being "over-fired" and were called “clinkers” because they were noticeably cracked and/or warped. They broke easily and were mostly used for decorative purposes (garden borders, decorative walls and walkways, etc). Some bricks, furthest from the fires were typically under-cooked (under-fired) and this resulted in a brick being more porous and having a lighter density and a significantly lighter color (more salmon colored than red). Other bricks toward the middle of the fire hole received a more even temperature and became quite dense and hard with a good uniform shape and a deep rich red brick color. The sand from these middle-range good quality bricks would fall off the bricks during the firing process and vaporize and would then float back up with the heat and coat the outside of the bricks creating a slight gloss or sheen on the outside of the brick. Because bricks were stacked there wasn’t always a glass sheen on all sides of the bricks. The better bricks were chosen for use on the exterior walls of a building or outside of a chimney column. Sand from the under-fired bricks (those furthest from the pit fire) simply fell off into the pit and didn't vaporize and coat the bricks resulting in bricks with a dull, rougher texture on the outside. These slightly under-fired porous bricks were often used for interior walls and chimney flues because the they contained more air within them and they insulated better.

 

Bricks were in extremely high demand in early Wichita (1870s – 1890s). By some accounts Wichita was growing faster in the 1880s than any other city in the country (according to the value of real estate transactions). In second and third place behind Wichita were: (1) New York City and (2) Kansas City. Bricks were used not only for buildings but for street paving and construction of drains and sewers. Several brick factories (collectively producing well over a million bricks per day) sprung up in early Wichita and elsewhere in south central Kansas (notably Pittsburg and Coffeyville). Each brick factory imprinted their name and/or logo on their bricks and bricks from early south central Kansas have ended up all over the world! Some of those bricks are now quite collectable. A popular and very collectable brick today is the "Don't Spit on Sidewalk" brick which originated in Topeka and which according to legend kicked off a health campaign that eventually swept the country to combat tuberculosis. The word “spit” was a fairly rough word at the time and more refined persons preferred the word, “expectorant” or “expectoration”, so “Don’t Spit on the Sidewalk” was a fairly “in-your-face” campaign that was intended to put a stop the practice of spitting once and for all! It was believed at the time that spitting on the floor in public places or on the sidewalk was a major source of the spread of tuberculosis (indeed direct contact with saliva can spread tuberculosis), however, it was later found that a more significant route of transmission was the practice of drinking water from water buckets at train stations or other community water bins. Trains (no air conditioning then) stopped every several miles and thirsty travelers would go to the water bucket, pick up the drinking cup or dipper, dip it in the water bin, take a drink and lay the cup or dipper back down for the next drinker. The public then was not generally aware that disease could be spread in this way. Paper plates were invented in 1904 and paper cups in 1908. It should be noted that the first paper cups were originally called “health cups” and the first company to manufacture these “health cups” was . . . the Dixie Cup Company. So the bricks for the Fletcher Block were undoubtedly made locally. The limestone was probably quarried locally (Arkansas City - Cowley County area) and brought to Wichita by train. Once in Wichita it was carried to the job site by mule.

 

Examples of all these various types of bricks (clinkers, porous, durable and durable with glass sheen) are available for public viewing and demonstration at the Historic Sternberg Mansion and can be seen and felt and weighed which helps visually clarify the process by which bricks in Wichita were made.

 

Your comments, ideas, suggestions, interests, thoughts and information are all welcomed and appreciated!!

 

All photos from this photostream will eventually be on display for public viewing within the Historic Sternberg Mansion for public viewing. As of today (05/07/2010), only a few dozen are up.

 

This photo is courtesy of the Wichita-Sedgwick County Historical Museum (www.WichitaHistory.org).

Little photograph that just looks better as a video. Shot with the Sony A7s.

 

Audio: "Rain" by Uncle Neptune is licensed under a Attribution-NonCommercial License.

Canon EOS R6 with Canon RF50mm f1.8

stack of flower pots in a potting shed at Audley House Essex

bits and pieces of my photodiary from Prague : www.thebloomingpond.com/

I've been stopping by Ryerson Woods on my way to work (what...you thought I only stopped at Half Day Pond?) to check out a bluebird pair. I managed to get this shot of Mr. Bluebird, and it's almost full frame. I just love the little bit of peace and happiness I feel before heading off to the grind.

 

Happy Friday, everyone!

 

Details of the Doge's Palace side of the basilica of San Marco, Venice.

If you are old enough the name Dave Clarke should come to mind!

Before skateboarding, before hip hop, before punk rock, before geeks and fandom...just a bit past Star Wars and Classic Space, there was Krass & Bernie.

 

It was a long walk in winter, or a good bike ride in summer, to the center of my hometown back in the day. I would go there to the only magazine shop to pick up G.I. Joe comics. One day, back in 1982, something different caught my eye. It was what became my first issue of CARtoons magazine! It was hard to believe that someone published an entire magazine of drawn automobile humor, but that's what it was. I read that mag so much that the whole thing fell apart, tattered and torn up. From then on I obsessed about finding issues, which was no easy thing. They came out sporadically every two months or so, there was no subscriptions, and the store didn't always receive them. I managed to find about twenty or so before they called it quits in 1992. To this day I still have actual dreams every once in a while about finding an issue in a store!

 

Within the pages I discovered many artists. My favorites being Shawn Kerri(RIP) (who would reappear later in my life when I discovered punk / Circle Jerks / Black Flag),Tom Harding, and George Trosley (who would later reappear as a joke illustrator in mens magazines!).

 

George's "How To Draw cars" section played a huge role in my artistic life, but it was the magazines' staple go to duo Krass & Bernie that was always the high light. This low-brow team would always get caught up in hot-rod building adventures that resulted in a multitude of freaky cars. It is from their title header, the first page that I would turn to every issue, that I got the inspiration for this MOC.

 

I've never read the origin story about this mash up of dragster & Beetle (if there is one), but I can say this: for some reason they are powering this dragster with the VW's motor, but the geometry is very wrong. Just look at the squished hood and the angle of the chain! I had to be a bit more realistic for the MOC, but I think it's still very Trosley. I like this MOC very much, sticker cheat and all.

 

As a foot note I know someone began a new run of CARtoons a couple of years ago (cartoonsmag.com/) and there are often back issues of the original CARtoons on EBay and some are on download sites. Also, as I was researching this project, I found out that George Trosley has published a couple of books collecting his Krass & Bernie stories. www.georgetrosley.com/

  

but i bought it today because i heard someone likes acorns around here.

 

to tempt a giant squirrel

 

On 19th October 2024 the 'Eems Delf' (2007, 3,800DWT) arrives at Teignmouth on the top of the high spring tide with a draft of 5.2m with a transshipment cargo unusually loaded in Dublin.

  

Icebergs in Pouch Cove, NL, Canada

Bit noisy but I had to hand hold...amazing cloud though.

Little bit of lightning and little bit of Milky Way

Lossiemouth today, end of an era. Goodbye Tonkas!

Bit of a muddy photograph, was not a good day for photography light, but what an interesting consist on this train coming through Ridgewood NJ on February 24, 1979. I chased it up to Suffern, NY, where it dropped all the cars and the two switchers, picked up another cut of cars, and came back east. Power here is an ex Erie Lackawanna GP35, an ex Lehigh Valley GP38AC and an ex Penn Central GP35 (along with the two Conrail end cabs that were bound for Suffern, I assume to work at Mahwah maybe, an NW2 and an SW1200).

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"A Bit of Craic" 29x47cm

Painted onto metal found in a skip on Ravenhill Road, Belfast

 

Asbestos Boxing Club

 

Everybody still talks about 'The Troubles' in Northern Ireland. But as I approached the Ligoniel Amateur Boxing Club in North Belfast on a cold November evening, I was at an advantage because I had no preconceived ideas as to whether the boxers were Protestant, Catholic or Hindu for that matter. I hadn't even thought about asking before that night, and as my visit wore on, I started to assume from their names that they were catholic (Sean, Joe, Paddy). You see, there's been so much conflict in Belfast over the last thirty or so years, that both communities have become isolated in their own suburbs. So for me, this boxing club in the suburbs in North Belfast and the men who give their time for free intrigued me.

 

I was introduced to this boxing club by the guys who run the Safehouse Gallery and on my way to Belfast on the train that day, the usual images and preconceptions of 'The Troubles' in Northern Ireland came to mind. But I wasn't interested in adding to a landscape of film, painting and literature that couldn't escape the images of violence and division from the past. It was my intention to create a body of work focusing on people who're making a difference in their community despite all the shit that goes on around them.

 

I photographed the boxers training and sparring in Ligoniel Amateur Boxing Club (it's been on the go since 1971 and has been funded by the boxers and the community around Ligoniel) late one Wednesday evening. Upon arriving I was welcomed in by Eddie, who stood in the doorway eclipsed in the stark boxing hall light, his hand, decked out in gold rings reached out to greet me and welcome me into a club he's been volunteering in for over thirty years.

 

I got to know the guys from the club, each had a story, each had a reason to be drawn to boxing and the small club that was a home and a safe family. I came away from that club with a head full of stories and a meaningful idea for an exhibition in Belfast. My initial fear was that these guys would treat me with suspicion, but each was open and honest, happy to talk while I photographed.

 

The following day, I scoured the streets in different parts of Belfast for the signature yellow Ace Bates skips (he's the king of the Belfast skip world). I hoped that they might contain the detritus of the city; wood, metal and any other objects that told the cities history for me to paint on. I pulled pieces from skips in the Holy Land, the Shankill Road, the Lisburn Road and the Falls, then I hauled them home to the studio in Dublin to paint.

 

Back in Belfast on the night of the show, it was a very humbling experience for me to see each boxer come to see his portrait. It was singularly, the most rewarding and emotional moment in my entire art career. One boxer told me that it's usually "generals or dead politicians that get their portraits painted, not amateur boxers from north Belfast". But to me, these guys are the heroes of the community, they're the guys who keep the kids off the steets, training three nights a week, they're the guys who get screamed at by their wives "for volunteering more time at the club than at home". It was a privilege for me to spend time with and paint the portraits of these contemporary heroes.

 

The whole process was filmed by King Adz and will be online in the next couple of weeks at www.theartofasbestos.com

Bit disappointed by the quality (again!) to be honest, but thought I'd share it anyway! This is a typical destination for us on Saturdays! It's a little look around Commerical Road and the roads where the city's main shops are. While we were there this week, there were a few people banging away on drums, which seemed to fit in very well with the Take That track that I added!

“You know sometimes, life brings on its complications. It throws you an unexpected curve ball. That's what happened to me about 2 1/2 years ago when I was diagnosed with diabetes. Look at how well it turned. When I got out of the hospital that night, I made a commitment to myself that I wouldn't let it slow me down. And I'm here tonight to tell you, that it hasn't slowed me down. You know sometimes, you just need a little bit of hope. And sometimes you just need a friend. When I had one of those days when nothing was going my way about 6 months ago, so I sat down and wrote this song. So tonight, tonight this song, is for you. This song is for every broken heart and every lost friend. For every high and for every low. The day after I got out of the hospital, we did a show. A place called Bloomfield Avenue Café, about 10 minutes away from here. There was 100 people at that show. There's 15,000 here tonight and it sold out in 2 minutes. It hasn't slowed me down. So if you're out there tonight and you just need a little bit of hope, let me tell you something, I want you to sing this out with me right now. At the top of your lungs Joe, show them what to do with their hands. C'mon people! Sing it out!” --Nick Jonas

 

Question of the picture:

 

1.Isn't Nick Cute ?!?

 

2. I know you guys (and me too) love all the jonas brothers but everyone has a 'cutest' so who's yours? (:

 

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Fixie bits by bits

 

Fixie bits by bits

Sizewell Beach, Suffolk UK

Tested with a 50mm FD lens.

2/4

bit like life really!

Hmmm.... By far my best work... Its a panograph constructed using over 35 snaps by merging pics in photoshop.. (I lost count of the snaps :-)

 

I spent over 16 hours to put all the pics together and make sure they merge properly..

Please view it on Black

 

Now something about the subject..

 

This is my college BITS-Pilani where I am doing my engineering in Electronics & Electrical...

 

This place is the reason why I am what I am today ! I stepped in this institution during the early monsoons of 2004 and its been almost 4 years here..

 

When I came here I didn't know what to expect.. Felt I won't enjoy this place and just wanted to spend my four years & move ahead.. But God had other plans..

 

Time flew and I feel in love with this place.. Though its a very boring place to live but still it taught me a lot.. Met lots of people... Made lots of friends.. Today I am almost on the verge of passing out.. Though I am looking forward to the life I have after this but there is a feeling of sadness coz I will have to move ahead.. All the fun I have had, friends, the enthu... I will miss it.. :-(

  

IMO: 9256432

Name: BIT POWER

Vessel Type - Generic: Tanker

Vessel Type - Detailed: Asphalt/Bitumen Tanker

Status: Active

MMSI: 244944000

Call Sign: PDSV

Flag: Netherlands [NL]

Gross Tonnage: 6556

Summer DWT: 6719 t

Length Overall x Breadth Extreme: 116.9 x 18 m

Year Built: 2003

Home Port: DORDRECHT

Bit of livery put on but now been taken away by Merseyside Police for them to finish off which is nice of them. Recovered today form the museum & taken to Edge Lane workshops to be finished off. It was actually collected by the police recovery truck with a police car already on the back

A shame they didn't put a shilling in the meter and switch them on!

 

Manchester on a wet and gloomy day, with this art installation adding a splash of colour. There are five of these sculptures showing lamps through the ages, designed by Acrylicize studio.

 

(My thanks to Lord Lucan for the info. Yes he's alive and well and posting on Flickr!)

Credits: Anita Designs - Field of Dreams and Country Girl; Gibby Frogett Craftations - Maelstrom; Pixabay; Unsplash Effects PhotoMania and CraftArtist 2

 

Tib street, Manchester.

For a bit of background to this picture, take a look at this one, along with the companion image to which it is linked. The young lady in this very impressive duo is the pretty blonde in the other picture. I have since learned that her name is Gery, and that she is from Bulgaria, where ballroom dancing is apparently something of a national sport. Gery's first name is very easy for me to remember, as it is pronounced just like my own.

 

I was invited to attend a professional ballroom dance competition, called "Duel in the Sun," which was held at the Scottsdale Hilton. I asked if I could take my camera, and was told yes. (As you can see here, I was by no means the only spectator with a camera that evening.) I set the camera to program mode -- this being the first time I have ever used it extensively -- and shot away, capturing perhaps 200 images during the three-hour event. This was also my first serious effort at any kind of action photography, which presents some unique challenges of its own, so I ended up discarding about two-thirds of the images right there on the spot. Of those that remained, this one emerged as my clear favorite. (I showed it to Gery on my camera's LCD screen, and she liked it; in fact, she asked me to e-mail it to her, which I will probably do sometime tomorrow.)

 

Although I photographed a number of other dancers, nearly all of the good images included Gery, a fact which might evoke a bit of teasing. But this result was not by design; it just sort of turned out that way. There were always other couples on the floor, and I wanted to isolate individual couples and focus exclusively on them. Moreover, I did not use a zoom lens for this occasion, relying instead on my 50mm f/1.8 because I knew indoor lighting would be a problem. Finally, Gery and her partner, whose name I do not know, tended to spend a bit more time in the floor area closest to where I was.

 

I regretted all evening that my wife was in Utah, because she would have savored this experience and it would have been a perfect date night for both of us. I loved the dancing, and relished being able to celebrate it through my photography. As it was, though, I took Vanessa, who was a little bored at first but really got into this event toward the end. It was time and money well spent for both of us.

 

Meanwhile, I wanted to post something here that would honor the dancers and their skill, and I hope I have done this couple justice. There will be other images from this delightful evening, which will be posted later. I regret that I didn't have an Expo-disk, which will almost certainly be the next photo accessory I will purchase; but white balance was a major problem with this image. I spent a lot of time tweaking Levels in PSE, and finally came up with this result, which was pretty close to the way it really was in that ballroom. And although the result is not perfect, I love this image anyway, and hope you folks do, too.

Bits and pieces of a abandoned farm on Shoe Factory Rd. in Hoffman Estates, Illinois

Bit of botanical trivia for the day, Bear Grass (Xerophyllum tenax) is closely related to the lily family.

I am getting a fat head. I feel compelled to brag a bit. I don't usually show more than Page 1 of my photos that were/are Explored by Flickr, and I don't even necessarily show Page 1 every time a new photo gets added. But this time, I have a *first* in 9 ½ years on Flickr. I had three of my photos chosen in a single day (November 20, 2014)! Almost always it is none or one, very rarely two, but three for me is amazing. So I am showing all 3 pages. Page 1 is the one with three in one day on it. I hope my viewers enjoy some of them.

  

1. Elderly Couple Walking Into the Fog, 2. Gorgeous Great White Egret, 3. I Like My Hawks Unleaded..., 4. Blue Pickup Truck with Taillights ~ a Rainting, 5. Two Little Girl Kittens, 6. Hooray! Arctic Tundra Swans are Back!, 7. Ribbon of Fog from Green Peak on to the North, 8. Autumn Trees Near Maple Ridge,

 

9. Big Fluffy Clouds & Reflections in McFadden Marsh, 10. Scrawny Tree Hill a Bit Somber & Spooky for Halloween, 11. Abandoned Store Window at Disston, Oregon USA, 12. Sweet Gum Tree (I think) from a Distance ~ Painterly, 13. McKenzie River, Lane County, Oregon ~ Painterly, 14. Sun Rays with Sort of Hidden Little Red Orb, 15. Vintage Metal Farm Equipment (Amazing), 16. One of My Favorite Shots Ever ~ 3 Beautiful Dogs Swimming & Fetching Cooperatively,

 

17. Caps for Toy Pistols, 18. Beautiful Fuzzy Weeds, 19. Great Blue Heron Catches Late Dinner, 20. Great Blue Heron Just Prancing Right Along, 21. Sunset Out My Rear Window ~ SOOC, 22. A Gazillion Gorgeous Pink, Red & White Poppies, 23. Sunrise with Red Orb and One Dark Duck, 24. Sunset with Red Orb,

 

25. Elk Family ~ Maybe Cow, Calf & Daddy?, 26. Quilt with Bare Trees (No Leaves Trees) ~ Best Viewed Large, 27. German Shepherd Looking Right at Me, 28. The Third Little Pig Foiled the Big Bad Wolf ~ But then Came that Darned Hurricane, 29. Sunrise from Out Back ~ July 8, 2014, 30. 5 Ducklings ~ I Like the One in Front with His Beak Open, 31. Male American Goldfinch ~ Carduelis tristis, 32. Female American Goldfinch ~ Carduelis tristis,

 

33. Grass is Great for Elk ~ They Eat Several Blades of It while They Hide Behind One, 34. Great Blue Heron in Flight ~ Looks Painterly but it is SOOC, 35. Gorgeous and Exotic Looking Flowers ~ Showy Milkweed, Asclepias speciosa, 36. More Grasses in Black & White, 37. Snake Like the One a Bittern Ate in One of My Photos Years Ago, 38. Magenta or Cerise Wildflowers with Yellow Centers, 39. Guess What I Saw at the Hospital Yesterday ~ 2 Deer with Cute Antlers, 40. Best Viewed Large to Spot all the Creatures Here,

 

41. Poppies Sandwiched Between Earth and Sky ~ Painterly, 42. Field of Poppies and Orchard with Tiny Specks of Sheep, 43. More Poppies Swaying in the Breeze, 44. Bittern Stalking the Next Meal ~ Get a Load of that Right Foot, 45. Female Cinnamon Teal Duck Shows Off Pure White Feathers Under Her Wing, 46. Male Cinnamon Teal Duck Stretching & Fanning Out Some of His Feathers ~ EXPLORED, 47. Part of a Large Herd of Elk ~ Best Viewed Large, 48. Cutest Cinnamon Teal Duck Pair Ever!,

 

49. Used to Be Quaint Little Pink House ~ Now Entrance is Boarded Up, 50. Don't Laugh ~ It's My First Time Photographing a Hummingbird, 51. Sunrise at McFadden Marsh with Guardrail and Fence, 52. Which 2 out of these 4 do you like the best? This is #6993, 53. Which 2 out of these 3 do you like the best? This is #7004, 54. Matt & Thomas Bringing Down a Huge Tree, 55. Pigeon Butte & Queen Anne's Lace or Wild Carrot, 56. Hey Man, We Have Here a Barn, a Marsh and a Rainbow with Like Some Way Weird Processing, Ya Know?,

 

57. Canada Geese, One Show-Off & Some Small Birds, 58. Quaint Old Barn that I Like, 59. Gorgeous Hawk at William L Finley National Wildlife Refuge, 60. Sunset out My Window, 61. Swans in Flight (Parts of Seven of Them), 62. Tchaikovsky ~ A Noble Looking Long-Haired Cat, 63. Christmas Tree Made Out of Books, 64. Trees in Front Yard ~ Almost Black & White ~ Some Specks of Color,

 

65. Blueberry Bushes & Poplar Windbreak on the Way Out ~ Painterly, 66. Bulldog in Muddy Black Truck ~ Light Rain, 67. Freshly Painted Fence Ornamentation at US Post Office, Corvallis, Oregon, 68. ************************************************ Some of the 29,000 Canada Geese Coming Back for the Winter, 69. It's Not Snow! It is Super Artsy Techniques on my Photo of a Very Hard Rain, 70. Concrete Cluster Benches at Corvallis Riverfront Park, 71. Sunlit Clouds & Douglas Fir Trees in My Back Yard, 72. Giant Marshmallow Farm

 

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