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This is one of the most congested segments of the Lakefront Trail.
The pedestrian path is cantilevered off the east side of the Lake Shore Drive bridge over the Chicago River and DuSable Harbor. It "broke" in September 2009 and a detour was made onto a travel lane.
The city installed metal plates over the open grates of the bridge deck, as well as a guardrail and reflective signs.
Read about my proposal alternative to the Navy Pier Flyover, a $45 million bypass structure, on Grid Chicago.
This is two exposure merged so that the landscape and sky have the correct exposure each.
The M3 motorway is a motorway in Hampshire and Surrey, England. It runs from Sunbury-on-Thames to Southampton and is approximately 59 miles (95 km) long. The motorway was built to relieve traffic on the A30 and A33, the congested single carriageway trunk roads that previously carried the traffic. Part of this motorway forms a section of European route E5 – these are not signed in the United Kingdom.
El vessant nord-oest de les Agudes acull una espectacular concentració de pous i congestes de neu i de glaç. Aquesta proliferació de dipòsits es va veure afavorida per les condicions d'exposició i altitud, que facilitaven la conservació de la neu.
La majoria de pous i congestes s'estenen per la zona dels antics emprius de les Agudes, i s'hi accedeix per un corriol anomenat el Camí de les Roques de Glaç, que és un corriol que duu del corral d'en Deumal fins al coll de les Agudes, i n'hi ha de realment espectaculars.
Town Hall station seems overly congested, people everywhere, moving in
every direction... but strangely this place feels more than anything
else, LONELY.
Commuters refrain from making eye contact, let alone indulge in
conversation.
This shot across the tracks hopefully gives you all an insight into the
lonely souls of what is, Sydney's peak hour public transport system.
Despite Shanghai being a big bad congested city full of buildings and built up areas, and is still growing at a breathless pace, somewhat like Dubai, the Shanghai Urban Planning Exhibition Hall is fortunately located in a slightly open area. Built at the site of a former race course,there is plenty of green open places around, not to mention the broad sweep of Peoples' Square, which adds much breathing space to the congested city. My visit to the urban planning exhibition hall was a brief one, and as we were descending the stairs back to our car, I peeped out of one of the large windows in the staircase landing to capture this view of a green lung in congested Shanghai.
(Shanghai, China, May 2017)
What turned out to be an extremely busy day at Shildon for the "The Great Goodbye" with the roads congested and people queuing to get into the car park and into the museum
Bogor, Indonesia
"Road to Bogor Botanical Gardens"
The journey to Bogor Botanical Gardens passes through Bogor town and along narrow congested road before reaching the destination.
"Agricultural produce sold near the main entrance to the botanical gardens by street vendors."
Baccaurea racemosa (Reinw. ex Blume) Müll.Arg. Phyllanthaceae, alt. Euphorbiaceae. CN: [Malay and regional vernacular names - Kepundung, Kepundung, Lulai paya, Setambun betina, Menteng, Mente, Bencoy, Jinteh merah]. Distribution - Thailand, Indonesia (Java, Kalimantan, Sumatra), Malaysia. 5–25m tall, 25–70cm in diameter with dense, irregular crown. Leaves simple, entire, ovate-oblong to obovate, 7–18cm long and 3–7cm wide, glandular, on 0.5–4.5cm long leaf stalks. Inflorescence on old branches or trunk. Male racemes 5– 13cm long, with many 3-flowered densely haired cymes. Flowers small with 4–5 sepals and 4–8 stamens. Female racemes 10–20cm long, with larger flowers, 5 sepals and no petals. Fruits yellow-green or reddish, 2–2.4cm in diameter. Sour fruits eaten fresh, stewed, pickled or fermented.
Synonym(s):
Baccaurea bhaswatii Chakrab. & M.Gangop.
Baccaurea wallichii Hook.f.
Coccomelia racemosa Reinw. ex Blume
Pierardia racemosa (Reinw. ex Blume) Blume
Ref. and suggested reading:
FRIM Flora Database
Kamus Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, Malaysia
www.theplantlist.org/tpl/record/kew-18675
www.ars-grin.gov/cgi-bin/npgs/html/taxon.pl?6225 www.fao.org/docrep/005/ac775e/ac775e03.htm link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007%2F978-94-007-4053-2_34#...
A small localized dense patch near highway 395 on the northwest margin of Owens Valley. The congested bracts were predominantly whitish in this population.
This HSBC taxi offers free services within Manhattan to HSBC customers.
So, it drives around all day, (probably most often with no passengers), generating air, noise, and heat pollution, and taking up street space so that other cars pollute more too, all for nothing but advertising.
I'm not opposed to "brand" vehicles if they serve a purpose other than clogging the streets. If they transport goods or passengers, then fine. But if they do nothing but drive around, then they should not be allowed. This is an example of the bad kind--how often do you really think it picks up and transports someone who's proven they're an HSBC customer?
A few blocks later, I saw one of those two damn Jeckyll and Hyde vehicles (the Hummer, not the stretch limo (both such gracious choices)) which also serve no purpose except driving around--they're loaded up with zombie mannequins so they CAN'T carry any goods or passengers...
Starting from left: Chichi, Notorious (AKA Nototo), Gigi, Boo, Pikachu (AKA Pika), Mika
It's been a very sad week. Chichi, the 12-year-old on the far left, has passed away due to congestive heart failure. I was afraid to even open flickr or picasa because I knew my PC is literally filled with his pictures. If you are dog lover or chihuahua lover, you know how they are not pets but they are literally members of your family.
He went to the hospital a year ago and was discharged from the hospital on 4/23/12. Doctor didn't give him a very good prognosis..perhaps 3months maybe 6, or may a year.
We kept him in good shape with 4-5 types of medication and 'stree-free' life. We took him everywhere to make sure he had a good quality life. We had so much fun! And exactly one year after to date (4/23/13), he started to show sign of not breathing too well...we decided to take him to the emergency hospital. But on the way to the hospital, he passed away in my arm.
He was the first Chihuahua we had and totally changed our life. He opened my heart like no other animal did. Even though he was a very difficult dog like a grouchy grandpa, he showed affection in his own way and he and I had a very special bond. He taught me to keep my heart open and a lot about unconditional love between dogs and human.
As he was passing, I felt him tell me to not close my heart even though I was so sad.
I will be creating a special memorial....and I will see him someday.
Typical everyday rush-hour traffic in the Netherlands. Speed limits in kph of course 70 = 43mph, 50 = 30mph (approximately), although there's little chance of breaking them.
The narrow path off Chandler to Margaret Jenkins Elementary School is congested with pedestrian and bicycle traffic during school rush hours.
This is one of the most congested segments of the Lakefront Trail.
The pedestrian path is on the east side of the Lake Shore Drive bridge over the Chicago River and DuSable Harbor. It "broke" in September 2009 and a detour was made onto a travel lane.
The city installed metal plates over the open grates of the bridge deck, as well as a guardrail and reflective signs.
Read about my proposal alternative to the Navy Pier Flyover, a $45 million bypass structure, on Grid Chicago.
As a very effective skin cleanser, Juniper has strong antiseptic & astringent qualities. Great for congested skin, both Juniper Berry & Grapefruit are frequently used as lymphatic stimulants which are useful in cases of oily skin and arthritis. A very refreshing blend.
to use: dip into sugar with a DRY hand. wet other hand & incorporate together. gently scrub hands, feet, or body. rinse under warm water.
pure cane sugar, proprietary oil blende featuring olive, jojoba, avocado, apricot kernel, sunflower, soya or coconut triglycerides, canola, grape seed, rose hip seed, & vitamin e oils, pure eAssential oils of juniperus communis(juniper berry), & citrus paradisi(grapefruit),pure honey, veggie glycerin, extracts of rosemary & grapefruit seed.
crowds teem as clouds travel swiftly
taken with a sony a57, i took this with the intention of capturing just the busy atmosphere of Trafalgar Square as well as the massive christmas tree. Then I realised after a few shots how fast the clouds were moving! So I was very pleased with this other interesting feature of the scene
It was one great Saturday evening before the start of a torrential downpour i saw this beautiful scenery ( like a storm domination ). So i grabbed my phone and took a shot , and this picture has not edits. And this one always reminds me of the saying “The best thing one can do when it's raining is to let it rain.”
Rain Clouds in the sky, Don't know why
They make me blue, when I'm thinking of you
I Try to smile once again, As they slash in my window pain
I quiet like that, I don't mind
I've got no complaint
-Colonial Cousins-
One more night in Memphis and we took another look at Beale Street. This time a lot less congested and a lot less intimidating. Altogether a much better experience. Ate in the Hard Rock Cafe. I know not very adventurous but it was decent. And a stroll along Beale Street led to BB Kings where we were thoroughly entertained by one Patrick Dodd. Amaze-ing!!! Terrific blues and made Beale Street feel so much more worthwhile. This guy is awesome. He's on facebook, so check him out and if he's ever in your neck of the woods and if you love blues you will defy love this guy... www.facebook.com/patrickdoddmusic
Before leaving Memphis for Nashville I wanted to visit the Lorraine Motel, the scene of Martin Luther King's assasination as I read it was a civil right museum. When we got there we met the most incredible woman Ms Jacqueline Smith. She has bee protesting there for over 22 years. I got chatting to her and decided not to visit the museum after all. Read her story she is an amazing woman. And I got a wee kiss from her too!!! :D www.fulfillthedream.net/
Next stop Nashville wooooohooooo! (At last!!!)
The sidewalks become congested at class change time. Photo by Kevin Bain/University Communications Photography
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Listed 05/02/2013
Reference Number: 13000252
The Pittsburgh Renaissance Historic District is significant under NRHP Criterion A for Community Planning and Development. One speaks of a renaissance of the city of Pittsburgh, and this expression is justified in view of this unparalleled achievement in city planning (Grohmann 1955: 366). After decades of studies, surveys, plans, and proposals that were meant to remedy the problems facing the twentieth century city of Pittsburgh-such as infamous pollution, frequent flooding, congested traffic, and blighted neighborhoods-but that were never realized, the transformation known as the Pittsburgh Renaissance finally began in the Post-World War II era. In 1945, an imposing group of local leaders, many of whom were prominent businessmen, accomplished an urban renewal initiative that reshaped the city and, in particular, reshaped the 59 acres at the Point. In 1945, the plan to clear 36-acres of land at the Point that had been covered with railroad sidings, exposition buildings, and warehouses to create a state park with historical references and reconfigured traffic patterns was accepted. The 23-acre Gateway Center, located immediately to the east of Point State Park, became the nation's first comprehensive downtown redevelopment accomplished without federal aid (Ben Rosen Associates c. 1964:3). It erased the historic patterns of the city's densely developed street grid and offered instead shining modern office and apartment towers set in landscaped parks on a new system of streets. The dramatic transformation of the western part of Pittsburgh's Golden Triangle contained within the Pittsburgh Renaissance Historic District boundaries was complete by 1974 when Point State Park was formally dedicated. The rebirth of Pittsburgh's image from a 'Smoky City' to a gleaming modern showplace caught the nation's attention, and though the Pittsburgh Renaissance was not without its critics, it has generally been considered one of the great U.S. urban redevelopment successes, serving as a model for other cities (Figure 9) (Colker 1995: 135). The Pittsburgh Renaissance Historic District is also significant under NRHP Criterion A for Military and Politics/Government because it includes within its boundary the listed Forks of the Ohio and under Criterion C for Architecture because it contains the listed Bell Telephone Building. Its Period of Significance is 1754-1790 (due to the inclusion of the Forks of the Ohio) and 1927 to 1974 (due to the inclusion of the Pittsburgh Press Building which was constructed in 1927 and predates the Renaissance development). In August 1974, following the completion of the buildings, infrastructure, and landscape design associated with the Pittsburgh Renaissance Historic District, Point State Park was formally dedicated. Because the period of significance ends less than fifty years ago, the historic district meets Criterion Consideration G.
National Register of Historic Places Homepage
SAIGON, VIETNAM - APR 30, 2015: Asian women selling foods on street in Saigon (Ho Chi Minh city), Vietnam. Saigon was the capital of Republic of Vietnam.
Sandy had a bit of a congested nose. She showed me her home remedy of rum & guineahen, which she places in a container and "sniffs" to decongest the nose. It really works!
it started Saturday but i thought i could battle it out. went out for the flickr meet up on sunday, popped a ton of cold/sinus meds...then sunday evening i had the worse fever to date. atleast that's what i felt, the thermometer gave me 98.0, then a later reading of 98.5. i have no idea what's wrong with me. so i took today off and slept most of the morning. here's my tea, tons of lemon, and my box of tissues lurking in the background. and you wonder how i still manage to get the camera and take a photo...i save my last burst of energy for a photo op =)
Lower Wacker Drive is a whispered wonder. Chicagoans in the know use it as a way to sneak around the congested traffic and stoplights of downtown.
One more night in Memphis and we took another look at Beale Street. This time a lot less congested and a lot less intimidating. Altogether a much better experience. Ate in the Hard Rock Cafe. I know not very adventurous but it was decent. And a stroll along Beale Street led to BB Kings where we were thoroughly entertained by one Patrick Dodd. Amaze-ing!!! Terrific blues and made Beale Street feel so much more worthwhile. This guy is awesome. He's on facebook, so check him out and if he's ever in your neck of the woods and if you love blues you will defy love this guy... www.facebook.com/patrickdoddmusic
Before leaving Memphis for Nashville I wanted to visit the Lorraine Motel, the scene of Martin Luther King's assasination as I read it was a civil right museum. When we got there we met the most incredible woman Ms Jacqueline Smith. She has bee protesting there for over 22 years. I got chatting to her and decided not to visit the museum after all. Read her story she is an amazing woman. And I got a wee kiss from her too!!! :D www.fulfillthedream.net/
Next stop Nashville wooooohooooo! (At last!!!)
Away from the congested cities, there are some magnificent mansions in the Kerala country side. Above is one of the houses that has direct street access. There is an impressive amount of detail that has gone into building these.
We stopped our car briefly on the shoulder of the road, so I could quickly take a few snap shots. I didn't know how people might react to someone snooping around their house with a camera in hand, so this was practically drive by shooting.
There are many other houses that are even bigger, some of them looking like small palaces. These houses are deep within large plantations, and are barely visible from the main roads.
Click any of the images below to see in larger size.
Kerala, India
Chieko Okazaki, a member of the General Relief Society Presidency of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints from 1990-1997, passed away recently.
Beloved Mormon women’s leader Chieko Okazaki dies
On best-selling Mormon author Chieko Okazaki’s 84th birthday in October, her family reluctantly moved her to an assisted-living center.
When she blew out the candles on a cake the family had provided, the frail and gray-haired grandmother said her birthday wish was “to get to know each and every one of [the residents],” adding that she was “so grateful” to be there and to have “all these new friends.”
Gratitude in the face of health setbacks, loss of independence and an uncertain future is rare, but “a classic Chieko response,” recalled Carol Lee Hawkins, a longtime friend who was with her at the time. “At every turn, she was totally at peace.”
On Monday, Okazaki — a popular speaker, master teacher and the first non-Caucasian woman to serve in an LDS general presidency — died of congestive heart failure in Salt Lake City.
With her death, the Utah-based faith has lost "a uniquely powerful voice," said Kathleen Flake, a friend who teaches religious history at Vanderbilt in Nashville, Tenn. "She accomplished that by being fearlessly honest about herself and the problems that members of the church faced."
Okazaki, who served as first counselor in the church's General Relief Society Presidency from 1990 to 1997, was one of the first speakers to address, in a church setting, the question of sexual abuse, Flake said, and to discuss balancing work and family; homosexuality; blended families; and coping — as she had — with racism.
"She took real and pressing problems and not only comforted," Flake said, "but led women in how to constructively engage those problems using the resources of the gospel."
She did it all by turning everyday items and experiences into powerful metaphors — a crazy quilt, a piece of rope, a "cat's cradle" string, left-side driving rules — that formed the centerpiece of her sermons.
Her first collection of speeches, Lighten Up, sold more than 100,000 copies. She went on to publish at least five more volumes, becoming one of the most-read LDS authors in history.
Physically, emotionally and spiritually, Okazaki "roamed everywhere," Hawkins said. "She had an ability to go where others didn't, to see past limitations and boundaries to ask deep questions that helped people see through silliness or traditions."
And she did it all with an unfailing optimism that created sermons out of sorrows, many of them her own.
Okazaki was a convert to The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints who married a non-Mormon, experienced infertility, faced racial discrimination, endured bouts of breast cancer and lost her husband.
She was born in 1926 to Japanese laborers on a plantation on the big island of Hawaii.
As a Buddhist, a young Chieko followed many of that religion's traditions. She faithfully put fruit and rice on the family's shrine each day. She recited prayers with beads draped over her hands.
When she was 11, an LDS missionary couple offered a class on Mormonism at her school. She often had seen the church's chapel behind the school and wondered about it. The class coincided with her study hall, so she and three friends enrolled.
"It was a different experience,'' she told The Salt Lake Tribune in 1996. "I was used to shrines and incense and gold brocade materials. This was just plain, nothing there except listening to the gospel."
Okazaki continued to go to the Mormon meeting every Wednesday for four years and also to Sunday services. She enjoyed being both Mormon and Buddhist, but eventually joined the LDS faith at 15.
Okazaki's parents were set on her getting an education. They worked extra hours in the fields and made slippers to send her to the University of Hawaii. There, she met Ed, a World War II veteran. He was a Congregationalist, which caused another dilemma: Should she marry outside her newfound faith?
Ten months after their wedding, Ed joined the LDS Church. The couple moved to Salt Lake City in 1951 so he could pursue graduate studies in social work at the University of Utah. Okazaki worked at Uintah Elementary on the city's east side.
There the couple faced discrimination against those of Japanese descent. Though she had never lived in Japan, Okazaki was associated in the minds of some Utahns with "the enemy.'' Three mothers refused to allow their children to be in her kindergarten class.
"I made a fuchsia-colored dress that showed off my skin and black hair and tucked a fuchsia flower in my hair," she wrote years later. "I was the most vivid thing in the whole school that first day. ... What I wanted the children to feel was my own joy and excitement."
By the end of the day, the three mothers wanted their kids back in.
Because of medical conditions, Okazaki had only two children, Kenneth and Robert. She continued to teach school in Utah and later Colorado, eventually becoming a principal.
In 1961, she became the first non-Caucasian to be on the church's Young Women's Board. Seven years later, she joined her husband when he served for three years as an LDS mission president in Okinawa, Japan.
A few years later, she was asked to work on the LDS Primary Board, which oversees the religious education of Mormon children. She was there until her appointment in 1990 to the Relief Society Presidency.
Okazaki then became highly visible.
Typically bedecked in striking colors and often wearing a Hawaiian lei, she would call out to her all-female audience, "Aloha," and thousands of women would answer back, "Aloha." She even gave that unconventional greeting during LDS General Conference.
Her speeches were tightly woven masterpieces that she worked over for weeks and refined continuously. She then read and reread them, practicing each word so it sounded natural and fluid.
Every speech was a teaching moment, recalled Elaine Jack, the Relief Society president who chose Okazaki as her counselor. "She used words and examples so judiciously to make a good and memorable point."
With her light touch and subtle humor, she was able "to bring religion down to earth," said Okazaki's son Kenneth. "She inspired women to have a backbone."
And, after her two sons were grown and her husband died in 1997, the gentle mother turned her nurturing attention outward to the world. She visited mobile homes and nursing homes; she spoke in tiny branches in Africa and big conferences in Australia; she found women who felt lost or alone. Her reach was global, even as her approach remained individual.
"Every trial she had — including cancer, widowhood and prejudice — she consecrated to the good of others," Hawkins said. "She saw them each as a gift to be able to connect to other people — and to the Lord."
pstack@sltrib.com —
Funeral
P Chieko Okazaki's funeral is set for 11 a.m. Aug. 10 in the LDS Holladay South Stake Center, 4917 S. Viewmont St. (2200 East). —
Chieko Okazaki
Oct. 21, 1926 â Aug. 1, 2011 —
In her words
"Perfect people don't need a savior. He came to save his people in their imperfections. He is the Lord of the living and the living make mistakes. He's not embarrassed by us, angry at us, or shocked. He wants us in our brokenness, in our unhappiness, in our guilt and our grief."
Lighten Up, p. 176
"Adversity is frequently a call to do something great with our lives."
Aloha, p. 154
"Again, look around the room you are in. Do you see women of different ages, races or different backgrounds in the [LDS] Church? Of different educational, marital and professional experiences? Women with children? Women without children? Women of vigorous health and those who are limited by chronic illness or handicaps? Rejoice in the diversity of our sisterhood! It is the diversity of colors in a spectrum that makes a rainbow. It is the diversity in our circumstances that gives us compassionate hearts. It is the diversity of our spiritual gifts that benefits the church."
"Rejoice in Every Good Thing," Ensign, November 1991
It was March holiday in Singapore, my family and i selected Vietnam as our getaway destination. This is the first time in my life i ever seen so many motorcycles in a road. Too many that i couldn't even barely count. And it really bad as they had this crazy wire or the electrical wires or stuff hanging around the top. I mean look at the more developed countries or developing countries, i don't see such crazy moment of wires hanging around in anywhere in my country. This is an eye-opener trip for me.
I edited it till i thought it did look very much like a postcard, in my own personal view that is.
More edited and non edited pictures on craponlove.blogspot.com Post: 20th on March.
Late morning on Monday, October 5, and we step off the train into yet another quite warm autumn day, this time in hectic Varanasi, at the eastern edge of Uttar Pradesh. Though we’d be going to Delhi/New Delhi on the noon train tomorrow, I didn’t realize at the time that this would be the last of my photo shooting in India for this trip. (We were in Delhi for roughly 48 hours, but I got sick from train food on the 18 hour journey between Varanasi & the capital. Since the capital seemed way too smoggy, dirty, congested, disorganized…I didn’t feel like I’d missed out terribly, though there were a few places I would have liked seeing there.)
I’ll finish this posting on a good note, though, and focus on Varanasi. Before getting there, I wasn’t terribly excited about the tourist attractions I’d read about, but that’s not why people come to Varanasi. Varanasi is to Hindus what Mecca & Medina are to Muslims, or Jerusalem to Christians. It’s their holiest city. On the banks of the Ganges, people come here to die, then have their ashes spread in the river.
Varanasi has a lot of poor and indigent people as well, who come and hope to be cremated and buried in the river, and there are a few places that serve as pseudo-hospices to help them. They tend to try to collect donations from anyone to afford to pay for the wood – it’s a specific wood they use for the cremation – so they can help these people.
So Varanasi is an interesting place. There are many ghats (ghat is like…a pier, or a place where you can access the river), and the most famous are probably Dashashwamedh Ghat (the liveliest and most colorful) and Manikarnika (the Burning Ghat). There are many other ghats, as well, and some have specific histories attached to them.
For me, the best plan was to stay in a hotel near the ghats in the Old City so we could enjoy the sunrise and stroll around. The Hotel Alka was my random choice, and it turned out to be good. It’s cheap, riverside, has a decent restaurant (though, as it’s a hotel restaurant, not as good as many of the others where we’d eaten in the past two weeks), and overall a comfortable room.
After getting checked in (and this place was pretty crowded), I took a shower, then headed off with a local guy who gave me a tour of the Old City. Now, a word on that… It’s not recommended that you go with any local who offers because most of them will steer you into various businesses, or towards people who are all too happy to try to get your money. I was very firm with this guy, though, and told him the maximum price I’d pay regardless of what he showed me, and that he should plan accordingly. He didn’t, and was a bit disappointed when I paid him exactly what I said I would.
The tour included stops at a few temples – they all started to look a bit alike after the second one – and at Manikarnika (one of the places where you’re herded and they try to make you feel guilty if you don’t fork over five million dollars to pay for everyone’s cremation). The last stop was at his boss’s store, well away from the old city, over in the Muslim Quarter, where I had to sit patiently through a whole lot of lecturing on textiles and their pleading that I buy the entire building. I tried to be as polite as possible with the last part, stating up front that I wouldn’t buy a thing before going in, though that disappointed them to no end. In the end, perhaps it’s better to go on your own…
After about four hours with my guide, it was already dusk and the city actually felt less safe than others. (There were a lot of police out and about.) It turns out that there wa s a religious ceremony that the police were banning this particular year for some reason, so there was a bit of tension. And since Varanasi isn’t a city that is lit up much at night, there wasn’t much to see, so I was glad to just get to my room and call it a day.
Waking early on Tuesday morning, I caught the sunrise over the Ganges, then wandered up and down the ghats for an hour or so. This really was an interesting experience as it seems the entire city comes to bathe in the river, and everyone seems pretty happy. There are plenty of boat tours, too, which I skipped, as I just wanted to take a walk.
After an hour or so of wandering the riverside, I went back to the Alka, had breakfast, and enjoyed my remaining few hours just watching the sun rise higher before heading to the train station for the unofficial (though still unbeknownst to me) end of this trip to India.
In hindsight, this was a terrific two weeks. Though I enjoyed Uttar Pradesh, I wouldn’t go out of my way to return here – unless going to different parts of the state, and I would certainly include a trip to Agra in that – but Rajasthan…I would gladly go back to anytime. However, India has a lot to offer, and I’m not sure if I’ll return here or go to different parts of the country. Anything is possible…
City streets alongside canals are pedestrian and bicycle friendly rather than smelly, noisy and congested with motor vehicles.
SMITH-ee-uh -- named for British botanist and physician Sir James Edward Smith ... Wikisource
KON-fer-tuh or kon-FER-tuh -- crowded ... Dave's Botanary
commonly known as: congested flower smithia • Assamese: অলক্ষণী alokhyani • Dogri: लक्ष्मन बूटी laxman booti • Gujarati: લક્ષ્મણા lakshmana • Hindi: लक्ष्मणा lakshmana • Kannada: ಕುಡುಹುಲ್ಲು kuduhullu • Konkani: नाईची भाजी naichi bhaji • Malayalam: മുതിരപുല്ല് muthirapullu, തിരുതാളി thiruthaali • Marathi: बरका barka, नाईची भाजी naichi bhaji • Mundari: boror ara, loyong-masuria, pui-masuria • Nepali: लक्ष्मन बुटी laxman buti • Odia: ଲକ୍ଷ୍ମଣବୁଟି laxmanbuti • Punjabi: ਲਖਸ਼ਮਣਾ lakshmana • Sanskrit: लक्ष्मणा laksmana • Tamil: இலைகண்ணி ilaikanni • Telugu: లక్ష్మణా laksmana • Tulu: ಕುಡುಪಂತಿ kudupanthi • Urdu: لکشمنا lakshmana
botanical names: Smithia conferta Sm. ... homotypic synonyms: Damapana conferta (Sm.) Kuntze • Smithia geminiflora var. conferta (Sm.) Baker ... accepted infraspecifics: Smithia conferta var. conferta ... heterotypic synonyms: Smithia hispidissima Zoll. & Moritzi ... POWO, retrieved 29 August 2024
Names compiled / updated at Names of Plants in India
Saigon, Vietnam - Jun 30, 2017. People walk on Nguyen Hue Street in Saigon, Vietnam. Saigon (Ho Chi Minh City) has exotic food, colonial architecture, and memories of war.
Prevent Los Angelization Now (of San Diego).
San Diego I-5 freeway near 805 / 56 merge.
As you can see in this photo, the northbound lanes are still backed up. It seems that no matter how many lanes they build, they will never keep up with population growth. More southbound lanes are still under construction as you can see in the photo.
Taken in my neighborhood from the balloon shortly before thankgiving break, that accounts for extra holiday traffic I think.
If you feel like it, view large and try to count all these lanes, and then figure how many more are under construction. Is Everyone moving to Southern California?
Attaba Square, Cairo. The most crowded place in a crowded city. Taken from a taxi window, in a traffic jam on the flyover.
NORFOLK, Va. --- Quinton Chievous scored a game- and career-high 23 points and grabbed 16 rebounds to lead four players in double figures as Hampton University defeated Norfolk State (20-13), 75-64 in the semifinal round of the Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference (MEAC) tournament at the Norfolk Scope.
The Pirates (15-17), the Number 6 seed, will take on Delaware State, the Number 5 seed in the championship on Saturday at 1 pm. The game will be televised on ESPNU.
Chievous made an impact early, tallying 13 first half points to give Hampton a 36-33 lead at intermission. The Pirates extended the lead to 50-39 in the first seven minutes of the second half on the scoring of the play of Chievous, Reginald Johnson and Ke’Ron Brown.
Red Weasel Media (RWM) was there to capture all of the jaw dropping action.
The Strasburg is looking like a model railroad with SRC 8618 shifting freight cars, LO&S 10 awaiting passengers, and several coaches staged. Strasburg, PA
When things got too congested in the city, Janus pops this folding motor scooter out of his boot, and goes off in hot pursuit
When things got too congested in the city, Janus pops this folding motor scooter out of his boot, and goes off in hot pursuit
As we mentioned earlier, traffic in Istanul is a bit congested. Getting on and off the brige takes in normal traffic up to 2 hours...!
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