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Dec. 9, 2021: Holiday light display in the Auburn Lane Community in Simi Valley, California. This small community on Summerwood Ave. goes all out with decorating. In addition, two of the homes have FM simulcast music.
Carnival in the south of the Netherlands (Catholic area) In the north of the country, above the river, carnival is not celebrated (Protestant area)
Thursday morning I took a walkabout around my 1942 Alma mater which was built in 1912.
That be what is now Oaklands School & Community Centre which was formed in 2000.
Looking online, I could not find any references to the time of my tenure: 1942-48
Mr. McKinnon was principal during most of those years and before I left for S.J. Willis High School in 1948, Horace R. Dawson (1913-2008) became principal. Horace first became a school principal in McKenzie Elementary School at age 17yrs. in 1931. He was a brilliant scholar.
Mr. Dawson (1913-2008) he was 94yrs 11 months
Horace is an Irvine descendant borne from the Mary Ann (nee Irvine) Laing family line. Mary Ann was the second-born, Irvine child in Victoria BC in 1853.
One can see from this missal that Oaklands is more than just a school to me.
Anabel González, Deputy Director-General of the World Trade Organization (WTO), at the Innovators Community Meeting 2023 in Geneva, Switzerland, 16 March. Copyright: World Economic Forum/Marc Bader
Hjertet multi-purpose community centre in Ikast, Denmark
Architecture & landscape by C.F. Møller Architects, 2018
Hjertet (‘The Heart’) in Ikast is a new meeting point centred round culture and communication. ‘The Heart’ combines teaching, activities, community spaces, physical exercise, recreational pursuits and play in new ways; and the building is designed to create and promote social and cultural meetings, based on an inclusive and integrating approach.
This was built as the new Laurel School in 1898, replacing the old Laurel School just up the road. The new school was one room with a pot-bellied stove in its center. It operated until 1923 when an even newer school was built. After the school board no longer needed the building, it was sold to the people of the community and has since been the Laurel Community Church.
[Italian Sikh Community]
Ogni anno il popolo sikh festegga il “Baisakhi”, la Festa del Raccolto.
Brescia per un intero week-end si fa città globale e vede le sue strade invase dai colori e dalla gioia dei numerosi esponenti dell'etnia Indiana.
Il Sikhismo si basa su tre principi:
- Ricordare il Creatore in ogni momento;
- Guadagnare lavorando onestamente;
- Condividere il guadagno.
The former US Courthouse, Custom House and Post Office, the Landmark Center is a cultural hub for downtown St. Paul. The turn of the (20th) century Richardsonian Romanesque gem is listed on the National Register of Historic Places (1969).
My meet-up group, Vancouver Photoxperience went on a guided photo walk in the southeastern-most side of the Strathcona neighbourhood here in Vancouver with historian James Johnstone
Sometimes you get yourself into a situation that is hard to get out of. We were on a small island off the coast of Portugal and we could see numerous birds on a shoal in the distance. To get a better look we ventured down a road that I am sure was never meant for vehicles and that got increasingly more narrow the further we went. Fearing we would have to back out the entire distance we started looking for a place to turn. When there was an opening, the beach sand was soft and sure to get us stuck. We eventually found a small spot where we could maneuver, get the car turned around and make our way back. We never did get a closer look at the birds. The only other vehicles we saw were bikes and motor bikes. I am sure the locals thought we were nuts!
Mendocino Community Library. The small victorian house, its many books and an endowment were left to Mendocino by 2 beloved local women 20-some years ago. It thrives with an all-volunteer staff and a nice budget for new books. Four times a year all are invited to donate books for book sales which augment the funds. Work is still done by hand. I heard today that digital checkout of books is on its way.
For Our Daily Challenge topic - 'Desk.'
bogachiel river trail
Buckiella, Kindbergia
my photos arranged by subject, e.g. mountains - www.flickr.com/photos/29750062@N06/collections
my lichen photos by genus - www.flickr.com/photos/29750062@N06/collections/7215762439...
For my birthday on the 12th September, I arranged a day out in Nottingham with Ash... The next 32 photos are all from the day, so please don't just look at the top five!
To start off the top five from the day though, here's one of the new Optare Solo EVs, which Nottingham Community Transport operate on the locallink services around the city. I'm not sure on the total number in service, but it's quite a few. Here's 956 at Lark Hill Village, Clifton, seen here waiting time before heading to Nottingham City Centre on the 1145 L64.
The restored Pears Mill (circa 1857), photographed here on a bright April morning, is a source of community pride and a contributing property in the Downtown Buchanan Historic District.
Final shot in the Val Marie image series. I haven't included any people in the other shots, but this one is entirely about people. That's the wonderful Madonna Hamel in the centre, in costume after giving a performance of her one-woman show, The Apron Pocket Archives. The other people are our friends and neighbours. I know each of them, to varying degrees. Some work for the national park; others are longtime residents, mostly ranchers and farmers. Ervin Carlier, Sr., at the far left, has won a raffle prize, a chapbook of the show Mado has just performed, with her related collages in addition to the dialogue.
This was the November before our first covid year. Not a mask in sight. Community events here are always well attended, and as usual everyone had a good time.
Some people recoil at the idea of using the apron as a theme. The first notion that comes to mind is the 1950s happy suburban housewife, aproned and dusting a lamp, or maybe the Playboy-like sexy frilly aproned "girl" we would see in magazine ads of the day. The apron as symbol of repression or male domination. This isn't what the performance was about. For homesteading women on the prairie, the apron was - and remains - an essential piece of gear, as important as the cowboy's hat. That was the grounding premise of her presentation.
From the chapbook:
"Madonna Hamel is a writer-broadcaster, performer and collagist. As both singer and monologist, she has toured throughout North America and Europe. Her latest monologue - a series of stories pulled from apron pockets - explores the lives of settler and Métis women on the prairie...
"Her work blends journalism, memoirs, shared stories, radio interviews and documentaries. Her documentary on Lhasa de Sela won World's Best Radio Arts Documentary at the New York Radio Festival in 2010.
"She holds a degree in Literature of the American South from University of Victoria and a degree in Interdisciplinary Studies from Emily Carr Institute of Art & Design"
No dull moments around here. Well, maybe a few.
Photographed in Val Marie, Saskatchewan (Canada). Don't use this image on websites, blogs, or other media without explicit permission ©2019 James R. Page - all rights reserved.
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"True community is based upon equality, mutuality, and reciprocity. It affirms the richness of individual diversity as well as the common human ties that bind us together"