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This is my tribute to the lovely Lumpy Golightly. As I looked through her photostream I realised that I could not get up to her standard in food shots, nor do I have any quotes that would work as well as hers so I chose this shot and did a variation...
Can you spot the wierdo, the nutter, the strange person etc etc lol
I had so much fun doing this shot and I worked long and hard on it, I hope you enjoy it...
Here is the inspiration shot
www.flickr.com/photos/lumpy_golightly/3826442264/
(I don't know how to get the actual photo in here :( )
Photo prise au festival Complètement Cirque de Montréal
Babel, spectacle extérieur gratuit conçu pour le festival
Parc Émilie-Gamelin
Babel- moon rising
Photo taken during the festival Complètement Cirque
Babel was a free outdoor show that was created for the festival
Montréal, Québec
Voici la fiche complète de cette espèce : valeryschollaert.wordpress.com/pelican-brun-pelecanus-occ...
Et une vidéo qui montre notamment des Pélicans bruns pris au Mexique : youtu.be/FUBYa9NpoXM
Back story: In our 2016 visit to LA, we landed at LAX, got our rental car, ate an early lunch at Pann's, and then drove through the city, leisurely, to get to our hotel in Pasadena. As we drove, I got this Firestone neon shot (like old Arby's signs, I shoot old Firestone signs whenever I see them). I came across this photo again just today, going through old folders, and curious at what looked like construction in the photo, googled to search for info......and discovered that it was indeed construction. I'm really glad I shot this!
Details on what I learned: la.curbed.com/2017/5/9/15599700/firestone-tire-building-m...
The bus looks fantastic carrying its big LRT lothians, this is as I remember them and I am so happy with the way the bus has came out. Myself and Graham along with my father Brian have spent 15 years worth of Sundays grafting to get the bus restored. God only knows how many hours we have spent on the bus, but the £ spent would make a grown man cry... but seeing the bus today complete and driving makes every penny spent worth it. Going forward I have a range of smaller jobs to do on the bus and we will work into 2021 getting it ready for presentation to an MOT station then we can see about have a bit of fun driving her about Edinburgh again.
Having attached 13NMM and NQRs 29 and 91, 12A and its wood collection train are almost ready to depart for Lakeside and Gembrook beneath a sunny spring sky.
Completed design for shirt print! Looks like teefury will be doing it. Will update when i know when.....
Made from vintage finds - old pieces of scrap embroidery and doilies with some added stitchery and crochet edging.
Completed in 1905 the Brantford Station is the fourth station to serve this line, the first two being constructed by Buffalo & Lake Huron Railway and the next two by Grand Trunk. Designed as a propaganda piece to inspire confidence in the railway. Following the Picturesque aesthetic and incorporating Gothic, Romanesque, and Italianate details it is a grand example of turn-of-the-century architecture that would go on to inspire Guelph's Central Station. When Canadian National ceased passenger service, VIA rail took over operations and maintains it here today.
Graflex Crown Graphic - Fuji Fujinon-W 1:5.6/125 - Ilford HP5+ @ ASA-200
Pyrocat-HD (1+1+100) 9:00 @ 20C
Meter: Pentax Spotmeter V
Scanner: Epson V700
Editor: Adobe Photoshop CC
Hochkönig region, Austria. starting from Arthurhouse for 5 km on the "Königsweg" and than back. wonderful!
Bilden är främst en dokumentation av Daniaparken år 2009. Parken var en del av Bo01 men färdigställdes först en bra bit efter att utställningen hade stängt för gott.
Turning Torso syns i bakgrunden.
The picture is primarily a documentation of Dania Park in 2009. The park was part of the Bo01 Exhibtion but was completed quite a while after the exhibition had closed for good.
Turning Torso can be seen in the background.
Barrington Court is a Tudor manor house begun c. 1538 and completed in the late 1550s, with a vernacular seventeenth-century stable court (1675), situated in Barrington, near Ilminster, Somerset, England. It was the first house acquired by the National Trust, in 1907, on the recommendation of the antiquarian Canon Hardwicke Rawnsley.
Barrington Court, once dated 1514 and considered an early example of a symmetrical front, was completed in the late 1550s for William Clifton, a London merchant who had been assembling a Somerset estate. Its central entry porch leads into a screens passage with the Hall on the left and, an innovation, a service passage leading to the kitchen wing that occupies the right wing. A symmetrically sited gatehouse (rebuilt) was set far forward of the house, to permit a full view of its symmetrical facade.
The interior of the house suffered from its demotion to a tenant farm, and from a fire in the early nineteenth century; after being almost derelict it was repaired under the supervision of Alfred Hoare Powell. Barrington Court was acquired by the National Trust for Places of Historic Interest or Natural Beauty in 1907 and was leased to Col. Lyle of Tate & Lyle in the 1920s. He and his wife turned the house around and refurbished the court house and renovated Strode House (built by William Strode in the 1600s) which was originally a stable and coach block. It was at this time that the Lyles contracted Gertrude Jekyll to design the three formal gardens on the property that are kept in beautiful condition by the head gardener.
Texture by pareeerica:
Grunge Chocolate:
www.flickr.com/photos/8078381@N03/3173423766/
Explored 23.07.09 - #177
Well, it has been another eventful week on all aspects of life. And this weekend will be no different. Shooting a wedding tomorrow with my father in law Somewheretropical and then one on my own in an old west part of Las Vegas late in the morning of Sunday.
I hope to comment on all your photos soon. But if not this weekend, you know why.
Probably my last HDR for a little while. Expect lots of wedding stuff soon. Don't hate me.
4 12" Swoon blocks with wider sashing to accomodate extra stars. The finished quilt is 34x34" and all but one of the fabrics if from various Moda ranges. I straight line quilted it, echoing some of the seam lines.
Blogged here: jenniesthreads.blogspot.co.uk/2012/09/swooned-again-mini-...
Completed Quilt! Made with the help of two bees, the VIBees and the Stash Trad Bee. And Beautifully long arm quilted by Krista Withers/lolablueocean.
Happily at home on our guest bed.
I find it hard to believe that it's been 30 years since the Orpington local bus network was restructured with the creation of the Roundabout "R" routes. Here we see ROUNDABOUT RH1 C501 DYM 'Kestrel' on Petts Wood Station - West Approach waiting to run back to its home garage after performing successful runs on the R7 as part of the small Country Bus Rallies Bromley Mini-Running Day 2016. Sunday 11th December 2016.
Thanks to the efforts of Tom Gurney a selection of Orpington midi-buses continue to survive and enable scenes such as this to be recreated for many years to come. For further information about the services and buses on the Roundabout network I can highly recommend Tom's book "Roundabout: Orpington's Little Buses" which in my opinion is one of the most detailed books on any London bus topic.
Thanks for yet another great day out Tom!
Iveco - Robin Hood (Ex-ROUNDABOUT RH1 'Kestrel')
The Complete Works of William Makepeace Thackeray
Boston
Estes and Lauriat
Seen at the antique mall in Klipsan Beach, Washington
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William Makepeace Thackeray (18 July 1811 – 24 December 1863) was a British novelist, author and illustrator. He is known for his satirical works, particularly his 1848 novel Vanity Fair, a panoramic portrait of British society, and the 1844 novel The Luck of Barry Lyndon, which was adapted for a 1975 film by Stanley Kubrick.
Thackeray, an only child, was born in Calcutta,[1] British India, where his father, Richmond Thackeray (1 September 1781 – 13 September 1815), was secretary to the Board of Revenue in the East India Company. His mother, Anne Becher (1792–1864), was the second daughter of Harriet Becher and John Harman Becher, who was also a secretary (writer) for the East India Company.[2] His father was a grandson of Thomas Thackeray (1693–1760), headmaster of Harrow School.[3]
Richmond died in 1815, which caused Anne to send her son to England that same year, while she remained in India. The ship on which he travelled made a short stopover at Saint Helena, where the imprisoned Napoleon was pointed out to him.
Once in England he was educated at schools in Southampton and Chiswick, and then at Charterhouse School, where he became a close friend of John Leech. Thackeray disliked Charterhouse,[4] and parodied it in his fiction as "Slaughterhouse".
Nevertheless, Thackeray was honoured in the Charterhouse Chapel with a monument after his death. Illness in his last year there, during which he reportedly grew to his full height of six-foot three, postponed his matriculation at Trinity College, Cambridge, until February 1829.[citation needed]
Never too keen on academic studies, Thackeray left Cambridge in 1830, but some of his earliest published writing appeared in two university periodicals, The Snob and The Gownsman.[5]
Thackeray then travelled for some time on the continent, visiting Paris and Weimar, where he met Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. He returned to England and began to study law at the Middle Temple, but soon gave that up.
On reaching the age of 21 he came into his inheritance from his father, but he squandered much of it on gambling and on funding two unsuccessful newspapers, The National Standard and The Constitutional, for which he had hoped to write. He also lost a good part of his fortune in the collapse of two Indian banks. Forced to consider a profession to support himself, he turned first to art, which he studied in Paris, but did not pursue it, except in later years as the illustrator of some of his own novels and other writings.[citation needed]
Thackeray's years of semi-idleness ended after he married, on 20 August 1836, Isabella Gethin Shawe (1816–1894), second daughter of Isabella Creagh Shawe and Matthew Shawe, a colonel who had died after distinguished service, primarily in India. The Thackerays had three children, all girls: Anne Isabella (1837–1919), Jane (who died at eight months old) and Harriet Marian (1840–1875), who married Sir Leslie Stephen, editor, biographer and philosopher.
Thackeray now began "writing for his life", as he put it, turning to journalism in an effort to support his young family. He primarily worked for Fraser's Magazine, a sharp-witted and sharp-tongued conservative publication for which he produced art criticism, short fictional sketches, and two longer fictional works, Catherine and The Luck of Barry Lyndon.
Between 1837 and 1840 he also reviewed books for The Times.[6] He was also a regular contributor to The Morning Chronicle and The Foreign Quarterly Review. Later, through his connection to the illustrator John Leech, he began writing for the newly created magazine Punch, in which he published The Snob Papers, later collected as The Book of Snobs. This work popularised the modern meaning of the word "snob".[7] Thackeray was a regular contributor to Punch between 1843 and 1854.[8]
Tragedy struck in Thackeray's personal life as his wife, Isabella, succumbed to depression after the birth of their third child, in 1840. Finding that he could get no work done at home, he spent more and more time away until September 1840, when he realised how grave his wife's condition was.
Struck by guilt, he set out with his wife to Ireland. During the crossing she threw herself from a water-closet into the sea, but she was pulled from the waters. They fled back home after a four-week battle with her mother. From November 1840 to February 1842 Isabella was in and out of professional care, as her condition waxed and waned.[3]
She eventually deteriorated into a permanent state of detachment from reality. Thackeray desperately sought cures for her, but nothing worked, and she ended up in two different asylums in or near Paris until 1845, after which Thackeray took her back to England, where he installed her with a Mrs Bakewell at Camberwell.
Isabella outlived her husband by 30 years, in the end being cared for by a family named Thompson in Leigh-on-Sea at Southend until her death in 1894.[9] After his wife's illness Thackeray became a de facto widower, never establishing another permanent relationship. He did pursue other women, however, in particular Mrs Jane Brookfield and Sally Baxter. In 1851 Mr Brookfield barred Thackeray from further visits to or correspondence with Jane. Baxter, an American twenty years Thackeray's junior whom he met during a lecture tour in New York City in 1852, married another man in 1855.[citation needed]
In the early 1840s Thackeray had some success with two travel books, The Paris Sketch Book and The Irish Sketch Book, the latter marked by its hostility towards Irish Catholics. However, as the book appealed to anti-Irish sentiment in Britain at the time,
Thackeray was given the job of being Punch's Irish expert, often under the pseudonym Hibernis Hibernior ("more Irish than the Irish").[8] Thackeray became responsible for creating Punch's notoriously hostile and negative depictions of the Irish during the Great Irish Famine of 1845 to 1851.[8]
Thackeray achieved more recognition with his Snob Papers (serialised 1846/7, published in book form in 1848), but the work that really established his fame was the novel Vanity Fair, which first appeared in serialised instalments beginning in January 1847. Even before Vanity Fair completed its serial run Thackeray had become a celebrity, sought after by the very lords and ladies whom he satirised. They hailed him as the equal of Charles Dickens.[10]
Portrait of Thackeray in his study, c.1860
He remained "at the top of the tree", as he put it, for the rest of his life, during which he produced several large novels, notably Pendennis, The Newcomes and The History of Henry Esmond, despite various illnesses, including a near-fatal one that struck him in 1849 in the middle of writing Pendennis. He twice visited the United States on lecture tours during this period. Thackeray also gave lectures in London on the English humorists of the eighteenth century, and on the first four Hanoverian monarchs. The latter series was published in book form as The Four Georges.[3]
In July 1857 Thackeray stood unsuccessfully as a Liberal for the city of Oxford in Parliament.[3] Although not the most fiery agitator, Thackeray was always a decided liberal in his politics, and he promised to vote for the ballot in extension of the suffrage, and was ready to accept triennial parliaments.[3] He was narrowly beaten by Cardwell, who received 1,070 votes, as against 1,005 for Thackeray.[3]
In 1860 Thackeray became editor of the newly established Cornhill Magazine,[11] but he was never comfortable in the role, preferring to contribute to the magazine as the writer of a column called "Roundabout Papers".[citation needed]
Thackeray's health worsened during the 1850s and he was plagued by a recurring stricture of the urethra that laid him up for days at a time. He also felt that he had lost much of his creative impetus.
He worsened matters by excessive eating and drinking, and avoiding exercise, though he enjoyed riding (he kept a horse).
He has been described as "the greatest literary glutton who ever lived". His main activity apart from writing was "gutting and gorging".[12] He could not break his addiction to spicy peppers, further ruining his digestion.
A granite, horizontal gravestone fenced by metal railings, among other graves in a cemetery
Thackeray's grave at Kensal Green Cemetery, London, photographed in 2014
On 23 December 1863, after returning from dining out and before dressing for bed, he suffered a stroke. He was found dead in his bed the following morning.
His death at the age of fifty-two was entirely unexpected, and shocked his family, his friends and the reading public. An estimated 7,000 people attended his funeral at Kensington Gardens. He was buried on 29 December at Kensal Green Cemetery, and a memorial bust sculpted by Marochetti can be found in Westminster Abbey.[3]
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Makepeace_Thackeray
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Klipsan Beach, Washington.