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Ten years ago I was a new transplant in Los Angeles, and after Christmas, my sister and I brought our cat, Milli, back home with us. In 2009 I shot a self-portrait every single day - and a decade later I'm still proud of the body of work I produced that year. I've had the intention to re-make one of those portraits this year, to honor the decade that has passed since then. In 2019 my sister and I have a new pet, Arrow The Corgi. While so much has changed since that first portrait, one thing that has remained constant is my relationship with Caitlin. She has been more than a sister, more than a best friend, but truly my rock and support through one of the most important and memorable decades of my life. I'm actually thrilled to be changing chapters, the time feels right. I'm ready to leave the 2010's and my twenties well behind me and march forward with more confidence and grace.
Here is a link to the original photo from 2009. www.flickr.com/photos/renolauren/4225101030/in/album-7215...
Many decades ago my partner in NZ had cats. Burmese cats. Not your regular haughty tail-waving ceream-with-brown-points Siamese variety of cat, but extra special, exotic, expensive, pure bred Burmese cats. I kid you not.The nicest one looked exactly like this brown blue eyed local cat on the street in the village I've lived in Bangkok for going on 20 years. In this part of the world kittens of cats like this are free to a good home. There is no accounting for the Western mind.
66732 'GBRf The First Decade 1999 - 2009 John Smith - MD' Passes Into Staffordshire While Accelerating Away From Its Booked Layover In Bushbury Goods Loop As It Works 4H88, The 08.15 Hams Hall to Hindow Empties, Passing Over Cat & Kittens Lane, Brinsford.
Tuesday 5th April 2022
Entering the decade, another Masurian route to loose passenger services ran Korsze-Skandawa on the northern borderlands.
The well-tended lineside memorial at Drogosze enhances idyllic Springtime suroundings as loco Ty42-33 passes upon the 14.35 Korsze-Skandawa service.
30th April 1991
'Polish Kriegslok' Ty42-33 is H. Cegielski, Poznań (HCP) 884/45, the first PKP Ty42 locomotives built from German parts and sub-assemblies.
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Lippo Memmi (ninth decade of 1300-1356) Maestà - large fresco (435 x 875 cm) - Dante Hall - City Hall (San Gimignano)
UNESCO World Heritage Site (1990)
Il Palazzo Comunale, detto anche palazzo del Popolo o palazzo nuovo del Podestà, di San Gimignano si trova in piazza del Duomo, tra la Torre Grossa e la loggia del Comune. Contiene il Museo civico con importanti opere d'arte di scuola fiorentina e senese dal XIII al XVI secolo, con artisti come Coppo di Marcovaldo, Lippo Memmi, Benozzo Gozzoli, Filippino Lippi, il Sodoma, il Pinturicchio e Azzo di Masetto.
Il Palazzo Comunale, sede del governo di San Gimignano, fu costruito nel 1288. Ampliato nel 1323, il palazzo divenne sede del comune dopo che esso aveva avuto luogo nel vicino Palazzo vecchio del Podestà, dal 1337. Caratterizzato da una facciata con finestre ad archi ribassati, il registro inferiore è a grosse bozze di pietra squadrate, mentre la parte superiore è in laterizio. Al primo piano è in bella mostra un balcone che poggia su mensole antiche, un tempo a sostegno di un ballatoio detto "arengo", dal quale il podestà parlava alla folla. L'edificio ospita il museo civico dal 1852.
The Palazzo Comunale (Italian: Municipal palace), also known as the Palazzo del Popolo (Italian: People's palace) of San Gimignano has been the seat of the civic authority in the comune since the 13th century. It is located on the Piazza del Duomo close to the Collegiate Church of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary. The building and Collegiate Church are at the heart of the medieval town, and are part of the UNESCO World Heritage Site of the "Historic Centre of San Gimignano"
The building contains important fresco decorations by Memmo di Filippuccio, Lippo Memmi and others, a museum and a gallery with works of the Florentine and Sienese schools of art - including paintings by Coppo di Marcovaldo, Lippo Memmi, Benozzo Gozzoli, Filippino Lippi, Il Sodoma and Pinturicchio.
The Palazzo Comunale dates from the late 13th century, and was built on the ruins of an existing building between 1289 and 1298. Further expanded in the 14th century, the facade is characterised by arched windows, with the lower half of the frontage built with stone, and the upper part in brick.
On the ground floor is a courtyard, which was built in 1323 and is decorated with the coats of arms of those who have held public office in the municipality. The main civic offices of the town council are now located on this ground floor.
On the first floor is a stepped gallery from which dignitaries would address the gathered crowd in the square. The structure is capped by the "Torre Grossa” (great tower). This tower was completed in 1300 and (at 54 meters) is the highest tower in the walled town.
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The Van Tran Flat Bridge was originally built in 1860 by John Davidson. The bridge crosses Willowemoc Creek and is 117 feet long. A Town truss was used in its design. The bridge was originally known as Motts Flats Bridge. It is the oldest of four remaining Catskill-type Town-Lattice covered bridges in Sullivan County, New York. The structure was closed for more than four decades until restoration work began on the bridge in 1984 with the Department of Public Works doing the work with consultation by Milton S. Graton of New Hampshire. The bridge reopened to vehicular traffic in November of 1985.
Nikon D850 with Nikkor 24 PC-E F3.5 Perspective Correction Lens @ F11, ISO 64. Made as a five-shot panoramic using the horizontal shift capability of the lens then stitched together in post.
For decades I have been driving by this adandoned house between Blind River, and Iron Bridge. I have witnessed it slowly deteriorating, every year looking a bit rougher.
I finally thought I would stop and get a few shots of this house, before it inevitably caves in on itself.
PS....I see I need to change the Copyright information in the EXIF info, it has the previous owners name...oops.
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Vor Frue Kirke (Church of Our Lady) a Cathedral located in Indre By (Inner City) in Copenhagen, Denmark.
Construction of the original Collegiate Church of St. Mary began no later than 1187 under archbishop Absalon. The church was located on the highest point near the new town of Havn, later Copenhagen. Named archbishop of Lund in 1178, Absalon accepted only under threat of excommunication.
In 1314, a fire destroyed the limestone church so completely that it was rebuilt in the popular new building material of the day, oversized red brick. The style of building was Gothic, with its typical pointed arches. The rebuilding of the simple church with a long nave and choir continued until 1388.
The Protestant Reformation was hard on St. Mary's. Citizens of Copenhagen had elected to follow Luther, but Roman Catholic officials at St Mary's tried to maintain the church as a centre of Catholic resistance to change in Copenhagen. By royal decree both Roman Catholic and Lutheran priests were commanded to use the church jointly, which incensed most of the Copenhagen's population. On 27 December 1530 hundreds of citizens stormed St. Mary's, destroying every statue and dismantling the choir stalls.
Lightning strikes damaged the church in 1573 and 1585, and some of the vaulting, tower, and roof collapsed after the resulting fires. The tower was eventually demolished but rebuilt by 1609.
The medieval proto-cathedral was destroyed by a four-day-long conflagration in October 1728 which destroyed a third of the city. All the many chapels and eighty epitaphs commemorating some of Denmark's most prominent nobles and wealthy parishioners vanished.
A decade later, the church was reconstructed, essentially on the same plan as the medieval church, in red brick with a simple long nave and rounded choir added at the end and ornate sandstone doorways beneath the spire. The interior combined Gothic and with the ornate Baroque style of the time.
In September 1807, the cathedral fell victim to the bombardment of Copenhagen by the British Royal Navy under Admiral James Gambier (1756–1833) during the Napoleonic Wars. The British demanded the surrender of the Danish Fleet and the city. The Danes refused, but with most of the army on the Schleswig-Holstein border, the city was nearly defenceless.
For three days the fleet bombarded the city and coastal forts. British gunners used the tower of Our Lady Church for range practice, setting it ablaze, which in turn burned the church to the ground, along with nearby sections of Copenhagen. Copenhagen surrendered and the fleet was turned over to the British.
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The rain was well-timed in that it passed overnight and once some minimal fog burned off it was another day of abundant sunshine. The radio was relatively quiet as I made my way across town and there didn't seem to be anything happening on the hill, nor at the south end of the yard. At the north end however, was 357 parked on the mainline for a crew change. Despite the all too common GEVO up front it was going in the right direction and I had some summer morning northbound shots in mind.
I've mentioned the trees taking over at the places I revisited but nothing compared to the forest that has sprung up at Van Dyne. Van Dyne had been the go-to place for elevated views where you could include the two mainlines, sometimes two trains, or nice sweeping panoramas looking east towards Lake Winnebago. Now I had to pick my spot and carefully time my shot according to gaps in the tree shadows. 357 is coming up the "SOO side" and the side track has been lifted. The "CNW side" is now Main 2 and obscured by the trees at left. July 21, 2024.
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Old Naples Pier, Naples, FL
I have no idea what these pilings are for or once were. I assume it's an old pier, but then who knows. They are a few blocks north of the famous "Historic Naples Fishing Pier" and another cool find of my Flickr friend Carlos. I promise, they won't be (erroneously) named after me like so many other things... LOL.
I wanted to shoot this place for a while now, but always ended up at the fishing pier for one or the other reasons. So on the last day of the decade I wanted to shoot these, told Ivan of my crazy plan which involved sunset and NYE fireworks in Naples and the fireworks in Miami, and off we went.
We got there about one hour before sunset and the place was hopping with people. I expected a crowd around the fishing pier, but almost a mile north of the pier? There was even a boat anchored next to the pilings, kids and adults in the water fishing. We already wanted to leave and cut our losses when the boat left, so we only had to deal with the people. I am sure I didn't make too many friends there yelling at people to get out of my shots... LOL. But hey, the sky and sunset were too nice to have them ruined by some inconsiderate people that had to walk right into my frame and stop there lost in thought.
Although this clock has not chimed in decades, I am quite certain that it chimed in the New Year in 1899 in my Great Great Grandmother's home. Happy New year to all my flickr friends. It has been a great privilege for me to enjoy your photography this past year. Here is to 2009!
IRM's CNW SD40-2 sits waiting to pull out of the station again as the UP family days special heads back west on the Belvidere with UP 1995 on the rear.
One may be excused for borrowing cliches from the realm of popular utterances. Then, that is how it does feel when you see sights such as this in real life.
A perma frosted river slam bang in the midst of tropical coconut trees in Bangalore.
This is Bellandur in Bangalore, a place notorious for foul smell, skin rashes and breathing troubles and a prime spot of ecological disaster.
Bellandur Lake is the largest water body in the plateau that is Bangalore. The terrain made it a huge reservoir which cheked the flow of water from the Koramangla and Challaghatta valleys and then slowly discharged it into the Pennar river that flows into Andhra Pradesh and Tamilnadu.
Till the 1980s it was a ecologically sound lake with fishing, irrigation of crops and potable water being drawn from it. The city population exploded in the late 1980s when it became the hub of IT business. Houses and offices sprung up everywhere at a frenetic pace. The income and cash flow generation was enormous. Money flowed everywhere. Business flourished, more people came in. In a few years time, the lake lost its potability, its fishing and its pristine beauty. The clear water became a turbid black pool with hyacinth growing wild.
The storm water drains which used to bring in the excess rain waters into the lake became channels of sewage that the residential and commercial buildings discharged unfiltered into the waterways. The lake just died a quick death. The overpowering stench of hydrogen sulphide and allied sulphur & phosphorus compounds infused the atmosphere all around it. A stench that we in India are familiar with where letting pollutants freely into the eco-space is not regarded as a danger.
Today the lake is about 700-800 acres big and is overgrown with hyacinth and weeds and it has two outflow channels that takes its polluted waters downstream. The public works departments have made two spillways which are narrow and it is here that on rainy days the lake water generates lather and foam that rises up many feet high and it piles up. The rustling wind over the lake ever so often raises large suds in the air and they keep on floating up like soap bubbles in a child’s play toy. At times the foam covers the bridge over the spillway and people have perforce to pass through it.
It is from one of these places that this photograph has been shot on a post rainy day in July 2016.
In the year 2016, we still have this problem and looks like will continue to have it in the near future as well. It is to do with how things are done in India. The Sewage treatment plants filter and throw the water into these water bodies. Even if you consider this as a clean and not a reprehensible act, then you must know that almost 50 percent of these plants do not even work and untreated sewage goes straight in. Secondly the number of STPs are not enough. The government of Karnataka expresses it inability by quoting lack of finances.
The situation is the same as governments in India have always expressed. Take urban transportation. UN, World Bank and a whole host of other nations and institutions had always been willing to fund a metro system in Delhi etc but the government would not take the money as such projects did not have kickbacks and opportunities for contractors to generate bogus bills as a tight fiscal discipline was always a pre requisite for such grants. So it took decades for the Indian government to agree to have the metro system.
That is how the cookie crumbles in India and I guess people in Bangalore as well as the ones living alongside the holy Yamuna river must wait for some succour and common sense to prevail in the corridors of the government where one day they may agree to being funded under a tight fiscal control.
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A decade after Western Maryland operations were integrated into the B&O and three years after the proud company was officially merged out of existence, WM caboose 1812 clears the boarded up train order office and deactivated interlocking at Emory Grove, MD. The train is westbound headed to Hanover, PA via the WM's Hanover Subdivision, usually referred to by fans and crews as the "Dutch Line". At this time, the former East Subdivision main line via Union Bridge was severed between Emory Grove and Westminster.
"The Basilica di Santa Croce (Basilica of the Holy Cross) is the principal Franciscan church in Florence, Italy, and a minor basilica of the Roman Catholic Church. It is situated on the Piazza di Santa Croce, about 800 meters south-east of the Duomo. The site, when first chosen, was in marshland outside the city walls. It is the burial place of some of the most illustrious Italians, such as Michelangelo, Galileo, Machiavelli, the poet Foscolo, the philosopher Gentile and the composer Rossini, thus it is known also as the Temple of the Italian Glories (Tempio dell'Itale Glorie).
The Basilica is the largest Franciscan church in the world. Its most notable features are its sixteen chapels, many of them decorated with frescoes by Giotto and his pupils,[a] and its tombs and cenotaphs. Legend says that Santa Croce was founded by St Francis himself. The construction of the current church, to replace an older building, was begun on 12 May 1294, possibly by Arnolfo di Cambio, and paid for by some of the city's wealthiest families. It was consecrated in 1442 by Pope Eugene IV. The building's design reflects the austere approach of the Franciscans. The floorplan is an Egyptian or Tau cross (a symbol of St Francis), 115 metres in length with a nave and two aisles separated by lines of octagonal columns. To the south of the church was a convent, some of whose buildings remain.
The Primo Chiostro, the main cloister, houses the Cappella dei Pazzi, built as the chapter house, completed in the 1470s. Filippo Brunelleschi (who had designed and executed the dome of the Duomo) was involved in its design which has remained rigorously simple and unadorned.
In 1560, the choir screen was removed as part of changes arising from the Counter-Reformation and the interior rebuilt by Giorgio Vasari. As a result, there was damage to the church's decoration and most of the altars previously located on the screen were lost. At the behest of Cosimo I, Vasari plastered over Giotto's frescoes and placed some new altars.
The bell tower was built in 1842, replacing an earlier one damaged by lightning. The neo-Gothic marble façade dates from 1857-1863. The Jewish architect Niccolo Matas from Ancona, designed the church's façade, working a prominent Star of David into the composition. Matas had wanted to be buried with his peers but because he was Jewish, he was buried under the threshold and honored with an inscription.
In 1866, the complex became public property, as a part of government suppression of most religious houses, following the wars that gained Italian independence and unity.
The Museo dell'Opera di Santa Croce is housed mainly in the refectory, also off the cloister. A monument to Florence Nightingale stands in the cloister, in the city in which she was born and after which she was named. Brunelleschi also built the inner cloister, completed in 1453.
In 1940, during the safe hiding of various works during World War II, Ugo Procacci noticed the Badia Polyptych being carried out of the church. He reasoned that this had been removed from the Badia Fiorentina during the Napoleonic occupation and accidentally re-installed in Santa Croce. Between 1958 and 1961, Leonetto Tintori removed layers of whitewash and overpaint from Giotto's Peruzzi Chapel scenes to reveal his original work.
In 1966, the Arno River flooded much of Florence, including Santa Croce. The water entered the church bringing mud, pollution and heating oil. The damage to buildings and art treasures was severe, taking several decades to repair.
Today the former dormitory of the Franciscan friars houses the Scuola del Cuoio (Leather School). Visitors can watch as artisans craft purses, wallets, and other leather goods which are sold in the adjacent shop.
Florence (/ˈflɔːrəns/ FLORR-ənss; Italian: Firenze [fiˈrɛntse]) is a city in central Italy and the capital city of the Tuscany region. It is the most populated city in Tuscany, with 383,084 inhabitants in 2013, and over 1,520,000 in its metropolitan area.
Florence was a centre of medieval European trade and finance and one of the wealthiest cities of that era. It is considered by many academics to have been the birthplace of the Renaissance, and has been called "the Athens of the Middle Ages". Its turbulent political history includes periods of rule by the powerful Medici family and numerous religious and republican revolutions. From 1865 to 1871 the city served as the capital of the Kingdom of Italy (established in 1861). The Florentine dialect forms the base of Standard Italian and it became the language of culture throughout Italy due to the prestige of the masterpieces by Dante Alighieri, Petrarch, Giovanni Boccaccio, Niccolò Machiavelli and Francesco Guicciardini.
The city attracts millions of tourists each year, and UNESCO declared the Historic Centre of Florence a World Heritage Site in 1982. The city is noted for its culture, Renaissance art and architecture and monuments. The city also contains numerous museums and art galleries, such as the Uffizi Gallery and the Palazzo Pitti, and still exerts an influence in the fields of art, culture and politics. Due to Florence's artistic and architectural heritage, Forbes has ranked it as one of the most beautiful cities in the world.
Florence plays an important role in Italian fashion, and is ranked in the top 15 fashion capitals of the world by Global Language Monitor; furthermore, it is a major national economic centre, as well as a tourist and industrial hub. In 2008 the city had the 17th-highest average income in Italy." - info from Wikipedia.
Summer 2019 I did a solo cycling tour across Europe through 12 countries over the course of 3 months. I began my adventure in Edinburgh, Scotland and finished in Florence, Italy cycling 8,816 km. During my trip I took 47,000 photos.
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Day 228
I started collecting my change around 10 years ago, and I think its neat that you can see a rough line when Canada got rid of the penny.
Final Weight was 85.8 lbs
Drink beer and throw away the can laying now between leafs probaly still laying there for next decade.
This is the view to the north from just inside the Tribal Park. West Mitten Butte is on the right. Sentinel Mesa is on the left. In the distance we have Big Indian, Saddleback, King on his Throne, Stagecoach, Bear and Rabbit, and Castle Rock
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Monument Valley (Navajo: Tsé Biiʼ Ndzisgaii, pronounced [tsʰépìːʔ ǹtsɪ̀skɑ̀ìː], meaning valley of the rocks) is a region of the Colorado Plateau characterized by a cluster of sandstone buttes, the largest reaching 1,000 ft (300 m) above the valley floor.[1] It is located on the Utah-Arizona state line, near the Four Corners area. The valley is a sacred area that lies within the territory of the Navajo Nation Reservation, the Native American people of the area.[2]
Monument Valley has been featured in many forms of media since the 1930s. Director John Ford used the location for a number of his Westerns; critic Keith Phipps wrote that "its five square miles [13 square kilometers] have defined what decades of moviegoers think of when they imagine the American West."[3]
Diné bizaad: Tsé Biiʼ Ndzisgaii, which roughly translates to the valley of rocks.
navajowotd.com/word/tse-bii-nidzisgaii/
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From a Facebook posting by John Barry Graham on 8 August 2023:
"A tornado in 2015 took the roof off. The community that saved and restored the two old churches has $16,000 saved up thus far to put a new roof on and save the elevator. It is the most photographed elevator in Western Canada."
Drone footage of Dorothy elevator and old bridge East Coulee, by DanOCan
I had put these five photos aside when I last deleted a few more photos from my computer. Gradually, I will add the description that I had written under a different posted photo taken on the same day.
Just playing with the settings of my camera, Panasonic FZ200, back in 2014. Taken on 29 September 2014, before the roof was blown off in a wind storm in 2015. Unfortunately, it has never been repaired.
"On 29 September 2014, I finally drove out to an area that lies NE of Calgary, that I had longed to go to for so many years. It must have been 30+ years ago that I first saw one particular area of the Badlands of Alberta. A few times since then, I had been fairly close when I went on several botany trips out that way, but when you are carpooling, you can't just go wherever you want. So, my youngest daughter and I decided that we both wanted to make this trip. All summer, we had been waiting for a day on which she didn't have to work and where the weather forecast was for no rain on the day or there had been no rain the previous day. The Bentonite Clay in the area becomes treacherously slippery when wet. The forecast for this day was for a mainly sunny day - at last, we were going!
I think this was the longest day of driving I had ever done, especially to, and in, an area that I'd never driven to before. For anyone who doesn't know me, I have battled a driving phobia for decades, plus I have no sense of direction, lol! Thankfully, my daughter has an amazing sense of direction, so I knew we wouldn't be stuck out on the prairies in the middle of nowhere. A typical question at too many intersections went as follows: me - "Do we go left?"; my daughter - "No, we go right", lol!
I met my daughter at 8:00 am. and I got home shortly before 9:00 pm. Much of that time was spent driving; the rest was spent wandering round three main areas - The Hoodoo Trail, Dorothy and Rowley, in different directions from Drumheller (known for its remarkable dinosaur findings). The forecast was far from accurate on our drive out to the Badlands and I began to wonder if we'd made a mistake going on this trip on that particular day. However, knowing that snow would be returning very soon ("returning" because we had two snowstorms on 9 and 10 September), I was beginning to feel rather desperate and really didn't want to risk not getting out there this year. The afternoon was less cloudy and we did have some sun.
So, the first of our destinations was The Hoodoo Trail, a small area of protected, spectacular hoodoos (rock formations), and then we went further, to the almost-ghost-town of Dorothy. I had longed, for such a long time, to see the two small, old churches that are to be found in Dorothy, as well as the old grain elevator seen in this photo. This photo was obviously taken before the sun eventually came out. This abandoned icon of the prairies stands at the edge of the main road and will probably end up crumbling or being destroyed before too long, like so many other grain elevators in Alberta. Such a waste, that they are not protected.
After that, we drove over 11 bridges and called in at the tiny hamlet of Wayne, passing the old Atlas Coal Mine. Much as we would have liked to visit the mine, we knew that we just didn't have time. Then we went to Rowley to see the old grain elevators and to wander round this very small, historical place. There are actually three elevators, with two being right next to each other and the other one a little further from them. Dorothy felt and looked almost deserted, whereas Rowley was beautifully kept.
From Rowley, we made our way back across the prairies to Calgary. I had planned on getting back before it got dark as I no longer like night driving and very rarely do it, but we didn't quite make it. On the return drive, the last sighting was a Great Horned Owl that was perched part way up a power pole. Well done, Rachel, spotting this welcome bird! Not easy to see in the dark. By the time I got home, I was so tired and my arms were so painful from driving, but, what a great day we had!!
"There were 1,651 elevators in Alberta in 1951, but by 1982 a total of 979 elevators remained. The 1990s spelled the death of the wooden “country” or “primary” elevator. At the end of the 1990s, as the full impact of both of the ending of the Crow Rate in 1995 and further impending rail abandonment was felt, the pace of demolition accelerated at an unprecedented rate. At the end of the 1996-1997 crop year, there were only 327 elevators left. Alberta’s largest cooperative grain companies, the Alberta Wheat Pool (which amalgamated with Manitoba Pool Elevators in 1998 as Agricore) and United Grain Growers, ultimately formed a new corporate entity known as Agricore United in 2001, issuing issued public shares. Demolition of country elevators has continued, and in 2005 there were only 156 wooden elevators of any kind still standing, only a handful of which are used by the grain trade.
The Government of Alberta has recognised the significance of the traditional wood grain elevators, and has designated 12 as Provincial Historic Resources. They are located in the following communities: Andrew, Castor, Leduc, Meeting Creek, Paradise Valley, Radway, Rowley (3 elevators), Scandia and St. Albert (2 elevators)."
www.grainelevatorsalberta.ca/articles/HRM-history.pdf
www.bigdoer.com/8049/exploring-history/prairie-sentinels-...
An interesting film about how the old grain elevators work (or worked). Grain Elevator by Charles Konowal, National Film Board of Canada, 15:57 minutes in length.
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Decades of great service, here today, here tomorrow, anytime you come to Burnley one of these will be around.
no. B9 TDV (Y171 HRN)
taken at "tokyo decadance." nishi-azabu, tokyo, japan. limited edition "happy flower" polaroid film.