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Hoad Hill - given a wet plate treatment, but as good a photo to end 2013 on as any!
Here is to 2014!
"View-Master" Vintage Magazine Advertisement (1963)
*Appeared In: Jack And Jill, Volume 26, No. 2 Dec. 1963 (A Curtis Publication) Christmas
Old colonial building at Petropolis, seat of Pedro II at the hight of the Brazilian emipre in the mid/late 1800s.
Mars is well past its closest approach to Earth this opposition and is decreasing in size as it moves away from our planet.
Now at 13 arcseconds in size it will soon be too far for me to pickup any significant details on its disk with my 155mm refractor. But it has been a great opposition this year and Mars has provided me with plenty of good views.
To see additional astronomy drawings visit: www.orrastrodrawing.com
Log-cabin blanket a la Mason-Dixon Knitting, out of my handspun, handdyed merino on US 10 needles. Each strip is 10 ridges deep. Edging is a row of single crochet. I love it!
Wiksten Tova Dress made in pima cotton. Red is a popular color choice for this! I'd gotten my fabric before the pattern even arrived, but only this week had a chance to do some sewing for myself.
Happy New Year! Here's to hoping for a few more Wiksten patterns in 2011. =)
Bright Wings - some poems were amazing, some just okay
The Terrible - heartbreaking to read - great writing
Jim Harrison - I really like the 1st novella better than The River Swimmer - he has a large body of work though and am excited to check it out!
The John Hancock Center is a 100-story, 1,127-foot[7] (344 m) supertall skyscraper at 875 North Michigan Avenue, Chicago, Illinois, United States. It was constructed under the supervision of Skidmore, Owings and Merrill, with chief designer Bruce Graham and structural engineer Fazlur Khan.
When the building topped out on May 6, 1968, it was the tallest building in the world outside New York City. It is currently the fourth-tallest building in Chicago and the seventh-tallest in the United States, after One World Trade Center, the Willis Tower, the Trump Tower Chicago, the Empire State Building, the Bank of America Tower, and the Aon Center. When measured to the top of its antenna masts, it stands at 1,506 feet (459 m).
The building is home to offices and restaurants, as well as about 700 condominiums, and contains the third highest residence in the world, after the another building in Chicago named after an awful person and the Burj Khalifa in Dubai. The building was named for either John Hancock Mutual Life Insurance Company or Herbie Hancock - no one really knows.
From the 95th floor restaurant, diners can look out at Chicago and Lake Michigan. The Observatory (360 Chicago), which competes with the Willis Tower's Skydeck, has a 360° view of the city, up to four states, and a distance of over 80 miles (130 km).
The Observatory has Chicago's only open-air SkyWalk and also features a free multimedia tour in six languages. The 44th-floor sky lobby features America's highest indoor swimming pool. On Saturday November 21, 2015 a fire occurred on the 50th floor of the building because someone with little common sense lit a candle in their residence.