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105 Metcalfe Street:

This two storey yellow brick Italianate was built by Joseph McAdam, a local merchant in 1872.

The building has a three bay facade and a classical floor plan (four over four). The main door is centred and is surmounted by a semi-circular arch. Two two-storey bay windows balance the central door. Their upper sashes are elaborate with cross-banded mullions. The front porch is supported by ionic columns and has a garlanded frieze/cornice with a central Greek pediment. The comers of the building are cantoned and the lintels are made of brick. Eave brackets are six-paired.

The second storey has a central window framed with ionic pilasters, which support a garlanded entablature. It also contains a balcony situated over the porch.

The modern history of the library can be traced back to 1802, the time of the restoration of the Benedictine order. The first records referring to the library date back more than a thousand years, so except for a few interruptions, it is the oldest and most valuable art collection in the country. The library now consists of approximately 400,000 volumes compared to the original 70-80 codices. In terms of topics, the collection includes every conceivable scientific discipline. The language is more often Latin, but the books were also written in Hungarian, French and German. After the restoration of the Benedictine order, the library also made great strides, it began to prosper, and the collection reached its great size through purchases, collections and legacies. The Abbey, its library and its spiritual value was designated a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1996.

Designated Sept. 9th each year in honor of American President Teddy Roosevelt., our 26th President. CHEERS

Senate Concurrent Resolution No.3 of the 1927 legislative session designated the mockingbird as the State Bird of Florida. Not only a Florida favorite, it is the State Bird of Arkansas, Mississippi, Tennessee and Texas.

The northern mockingbird is a medium-sized songbird measuring about 23 cm (about 9 in.) and weighing about 50 g (about 2 oz.), with longish legs and tail and a slightly curved bill.

The grayish-brown color, two parallel white wing bars and broad white wing patch, which is easily seen in flight, distinguish this bird from its cousins, the brown thrasher and the catbird.

Food Habits

The mockingbird is omnivorous. About half its diet consists of arthropods, including beetles, ants, bees, wasps, and grasshoppers, but it will also eat earthworms and small lizards. These aggressive feeders can often be observed chasing down a grasshopper on a lawn, running, hopping and lunging at the prey, or flying just above the ground maneuvering behind a large wasp. They are also fond of zebra butterflies (Heliconius charitonius), which are commonly available in southern Florida. In the fall or whenever available at a feeder, the mockingbird enjoys eating fruits, both wild and cultivated.

I found this one at Lake Marian in Osceola County, Florida.

Masai Mara National Reserve

Kenya

East Africa

Happy Caturday!

The lion (Panthera leo) is a species in the family Felidae; it is a muscular, deep-chested cat with a short, rounded head, a reduced neck and round ears, and a hairy tuft at the end of its tail. The lion is sexually dimorphic; males are larger than females with a typical weight range of 150 to 250 kg (330 to 550 lb) for males and 120 to 182 kg (265 to 400 lb) for females. Male lions have a prominent mane, which is the most recognizable feature of the species.

A lion pride consists of a few adult males, related females and cubs. Groups of female lions typically hunt together, preying mostly on large ungulates. The species is an apex and keystone predator, although they scavenge when opportunities occur.

Typically, the lion inhabits grasslands and savannas but is absent in dense forests. It is usually more diurnal than other big cats, but when persecuted it adapts to being active at night and at twilight.

It has been listed as Vulnerable on the IUCN Red List since 1996 because populations in African countries have declined by about 43% since the early 1990s. Lion populations are untenable outside designated protected areas. Although the cause of the decline is not fully understood, habitat loss and conflicts with humans are the greatest causes for concern. - Wikipedia

(Wilsonia canadensis)

Canada warbler is designated a Threatened bird in April 2008. Its population has diminished 4.5% per year between 1968 and 2007. This reduction amounts to about 85% of its population. In the last 10 year period the rate of decline has been 5.4% per year.

Ings land is designated to flood in periods of high water. Ings is an old word of Old English origin referring to water meadows and marshes.

This field and numerous other are still well covered in flood water adjacent to the canal. The fields are farmed during the summer as can be seen from the bale of hay left over.

The Pocklington Canal is a broad canal that runs for 9.5 miles through nine locks from the Canal Head near Pocklington in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England, to the River Derwent which it joins near East Cottingwith. Most of it lies within a designated Site of Special Scientific Interest

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51 Mountain Street

Ball House

The original stone portion of this house has a two-storey, five bay aspect facing the driveway. The main facade is of split face ashlar coursing with cut stone quoins. The sidewalls are of a more random coursing and all stone is chiefly local. All the windows have solid stone sills; some with solid stone lintels and others with a flat arch of the same local stone. The land on which the building is located was originally a Crown Grant to George Ball in 1796. The property was sold to the Public Works Department in 1843 and was then turned over to the Welland Canal Loan Company. During this period, the building was used as the home of the lockmaster, overseeing the work of 17 locktenders.

Cobble Stone street in Vancouver, BC oldest neighbourhood.

Gastown was designated a National Historic Site of Canada in 2009

Gastown is the original settlement that became the core of the creation of Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. Currently, it is a national historic site and a neighbourhood in the northwest end of Downtown Eastside, adjacent to Downtown Vancouver.

Gastown was Vancouver's first neighbourhood and is named for "Gassy" Jack Deighton, a Yorkshire seaman, steamboat captain and barkeep who arrived in 1867 to open the area's first saloon. He was famous for his habit of talking at length (or "gassing") and the area around his saloon came to be known as "Gassy's town," a nickname that evolved to "Gastown."The town soon prospered as the site of Hastings Mill sawmill, seaport, and quickly became a general centre of trade and commerce on Burrard Inlet as well as a rough-and-rowdy resort for off-work loggers and fishermen as well as the crews and captains of the many sailing ships which came to Gastown or Moodyville, on the north side of the inlet (which was a dry town) to load logs and timber. The Canadian Pacific Railway terminated on piles on the shore parallel to Water Street in 1886. From this the area became a hive of warehouses. Carrall Street was particularly swampy owing to it being low ground between False Creek and Burrard Inlet. Bridges overcame this obstacle, and the low ground and beach was slowly filled in with refuse.

In 1886 the town was incorporated as the City of Vancouver. It fell victim to the Great Vancouver Fire that same year, losing all but two of its buildings, but the area was completely rebuilt and continued to thrive. Hastings and Main was the traditional centre of town, and the foreshore became an important staging area with the North and West Vancouver Ferries, and Union Steamships all having docks there. Evans, Coleman, Evans, a longtime merchandiser, had a warehouse; Fleck Brothers, and Koret distributors also had buildings. Department stores such as Spencer's, Hudson's Bay Company warehouse, Woodward's, Fairbanks Morse, Army and Navy stores, and food retailers Malkins and Kelly Douglas traded and were based there.

Its historical boundaries were the waterfront (now Water Street and the CPR tracks), Carrall Street, Hastings Street, and Cambie Street, which were the borders of the 1870 townsite survey, the proper name and postal address of which was Granville, B.I. ("Burrard Inlet"). The official boundary[citation needed] does not include most of Hastings Street except for the Woodward's and Dominion Buildings, and stretches east past Columbia St., to the laneway running parallel to the west side of Main Street. Wikipedia

Thank-you for all the overwhelming support and many friendships.

Stay healthy

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~Christie ( happiest ) by the River

Durdle Door is one of Dorset’s most photographed and iconic landmarks. It is part of the Jurassic Coast World Heritage Site and is an extremely popular beauty spot.

It is located on the Lulworth Estate in south Dorset and is part of the Jurassic Coast. The coastline is of such international geological importance that it was designated England’s first natural World Heritage Site by UNESCO in 2001 and is now part of a family of natural wonders including America’s Grand Canyon and Australia’s Great Barrier Reef.

The magnificent natural limestone arch was formed when the power of the waves eroded the rock and forged a hole through the middle. The name Durdle is derived from an old English word ‘thirl’, which means to pierce, bore or drill.

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The Grumman TBF Avenger (designated TBM for aircraft manufactured by General Motors) is an American torpedo bomber developed initially for the United States Navy and Marine Corps, and eventually used by several air and naval aviation services around the world.

The Avenger entered U.S. service in 1942, and first saw action during the Battle of Midway. Despite the loss of five of the six Avengers on its combat debut, it survived in service to become one of the outstanding torpedo bombers of World War II. Greatly modified after the war, it remained in use until the 1960s

There were three crew members: pilot, turret gunner and radioman/bombardier/ventral gunner.

( Info. according to Wikipedia)

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A photometeor designates an optical object or phenomenon that appears in the Earth's atmosphere when solar or lunar light undergoes a reflection, refraction, diffraction, polarization or interference determined by particular circumstances.

The most common are the halo, the rainbow, the crown, the iridescence, the glory, the parhelion, the Bishop's ring, the mirage, the flicker, the scintillation, the green ray, the tints and the crepuscular rays.

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The custom of hanging up tin cans when a baby girl is born is hard to explain as it involves a play on words and Bavarian dialect. But I'll give it a try:

“Büchse” is the German word for tin can. The custom of putting up a sign after the birth of a girl designating the father as Büchsenmacher (can maker / gunsmith) and hanging it with old cans has survived into the 21st century and still exists in Lower Bavaria and Upper Austria. Its origins can be found in the Bavarian dialect, which describes a girl as Bix (Büchse), or Bixel. Bix/Can is used here as the unflattering word for the female reproductive organs. The father is being made fun of for not producing anything better than a girl.

I guess it's time for that custom to die out.

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58 Victoria Street

This gracious residence was constructed in the late 1800’s is built in true Victorian style, with steep pitches and gables, gingerbread trim and elongated, mullioned windows. The interior retains its original hardwood floors and carved woodwork, along with 12” deep mouldings. An original wooden staircase completes the period interior setting.

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77 Bradley Street

Locktenders' House

Constructed in 1851, the former Locktenders' House served as accommodations to men tending the locks of the Welland Canal. The semi-detached, one and one-half storey dwelling is built of sandstone cut from a quarry within 500 feet of the house and accented with limestone corner quoins and stone lintels and sills. The designation recognizes both the impact of the Welland Canals upon the early settlement of St. Catharines, as well as the contribution of the locktender’s who aided the navigation of the ships through them.

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Thought to be named after a popular Gilbert and Sullivan operetta, Pinafore Park was first developed by the St. Thomas Street Railway Company in the later years of the 19th century. It was their hope that a recreational feature would encourage passenger traffic on the newly electrified railway.

Many changes have taken place since 1863, yet Pinafore Park still remains a unique spot for recreation and pleasure with something to offer everyone. Century old pavilions nestled among towering trees provide an ideal setting for family picnics. The beautiful flower displays created each year are the product of the hard work of our park’s crews.

Pinafore Park is oriented to the active outdoor enthusiast with hiking and cross-country ski trails, tennis courts and its first-class ball stadium, Emslie Field. In addition to its beauty and accessible layout, Pinafore boasts a small lake, the Rotary Splashpad, accessible playground equipment and the magnificent Morris F. Jones Memorial Bandshell for the music lover.

Within Pinafore Park, there are 6 park pavilions that can be rented for family reunions, birthday parties, staff gatherings, wedding receptions and more! Each pavilion is unique, but all offer access to water and hydro.

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In 1878 the American Hotel was constructed at 763-767 Talbot Street. This was THE hotel of the rail officials and its V.I.P.s. The buildings are located directly across the street and facing the Canadian Southern Depot and the Michigan Central Park.

Since then, there has been numerous businesses located here including Erie Smallwares, Hong Kong Variety, The Golden Crust Bakery and currently Streamliners Espresso Bar.

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479 Vine Street

Gibson-McIsaac-Smith House

This one and one half storey brick veneer home was built around 1870. It is one of the few remaining structures of its time in the north end of St. Catharines area. The house has a hipped roof with boxed cornice and frieze. All of the windows are double hung in a two over two pane arrangement. One interesting feature of the house is that above the door is a segmental transom which opens for ventilation.

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816 Princes Street: The house was built circa 1890 by the John Watson Family and in 1911 became the property of the William Mitchell Family. In the late 1930's it was purchased by Howard R Magwood and on his death it became the home of his daughter Dorothy and her husband Bert Hartley. During the late 1800's Architects and builders borrowed ideas from various styles including Classical Revival and Italianate and incorporated them in their design. The structure if of yellow brick and the distinctive decorative trim particularly around the eaves.

Designation By-law 4640, on December 20, 1984

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McIntosh-Ridley House 45-47 South Front Street (designated 1983):

Built 1817. This early building is of post and beam construction. To the big square timbers of the frame, clapboard was nailed on the outside and hand split lath on the inside. The space between was filled with bricks and mortar. The fireplace, with its bake oven, is still in place in the kitchen wing at the back. The original front door with side lights is still intact under the present stucco. The house is the keystone of at least one dozen early buildings still existing from the harbour front settlement.

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Dingman House, 91 Metcalfe Street:

This two storey brick neo-classic Greek Revival house with a three-bay front has a double-hung central door with a shallow curved fan light. Large Italianate brackets at the eves support a hip-roof. One two-storey Greek-revival porch is supported by Ionic columns which support a balcony over the door while another semi-circular porch is accessed from the main floor via double-hung doors.

The property continues to be owned by the Dingman family. L.H. Dingman was owner/publisher of the St. Thomas Times which St. Thomas Times-Journal newspaper.

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118 Bridge Street (designated 1984):

Two and a half storey clapboard house on the original stone foundation has a wealth of woodwork details representative of the late Victorian period. Built in 1895 by Mr. H. Pringle of the Pringle Company; these builders specializing in hardwood interior fittings. This company also furnished building materials for several prominent banks throughout the province. Each facade displays a peaked gable. Three of these gables are outlined with bargeboard of a design typical of the time. Windows have decorative trim, many with shutters and pedimented heads. The portico and porches are finished with elaborate wood detailing.

~ Intellectual Gatherings ~

*Georgian Squares in Edinburgh & a Poetry Garden in the City of Literature.A Square with Vibrant Colours & Verses ...

*The Grandeur of St Andrew Square & The designated Poetry Garden * UNESCO city of literature *

St Andrew Square was built in 1770 and is part of the New Town design.The centrepiece of the Garden is the fluted column of the Melville Monument,commemorating Henry Dundas,1st Viscount Melville,a politician described as the uncrowned king of Scotland.

*Its construction has a literary link as the grandfather of Robert Louis Stevenson,the world-famous author and poet, was a lighthouse engineer,and he was consulted about the foundations for the 150ft monument when it was built in 1823.

*In the 1780’s, during the Scottish Enlightenment period,St Andrew Square was free from the inconveniencies of the old city and was the most fashionable address in the New Town.

* On 4th April 2008,the Garden with the wonderful pool and the pathways around,opened to the public for the first time in 230 years and dedicated space to Poetry.

Richard Holloway,once Chairman of the Scottish Arts Council,said that the wonderful thing about having a Poetry Garden in a famous square,in a beautiful city,is the way it will help people to pause for a minute and let Poetry into their lives.

"Wring the Scottish Rain Clouds Dry ...

the summer's sun slowed down

to pearl-sheen dusk on hillsides and on lochs at midnight.

And, most of all, take the years that have already run to dust,

the dust we spill behind us…

All this,distill,and cask,and wait ...

The senselessness of human things resolves

to Who we Are and our Present Fate.

Let's taste,let's savour and enjoy ...

Here's life! Here's courage to go on ... " Ron Butlin

"A Recipe for Whisky" ~ Without a Backward Glance & a 'wee dram' just to calm me heid ... Aye All Good ‘N Fine ... ♥

* Grateful Thanks my Friends for your visits & comments *

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219 Lambton Street: Sir Alexander MacKenzie's summer home, he was the only native of Bruce County to have been knighted. This building dominated the streetscape and surroundings and reminds one of an important era in the town's history. It is now home to the Royal Canadian Legion Branch 183.

Designation By-law 4086, on September 15, 1977.

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Stone Barn | 2113 No 25 Side Road

The stone barn, also known as an English Barn, was constructed in 1875. It is a unique style of barn with 22 inch thick walls, and is known to have existed in England well before the seventeenth century. It is one of the largest stone barns still standing in the Region of Halton.

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59 Mill Street

This building, constructed in 1856, is a two storey terrace house on a raised basement which comprises the west half of a two unit building. It is Georgian in style with a 3 bay front elevation. The entrance consists of a panelled door with rectangular transom and sidelights. All windows are double hung with six lights in each sash. The front and side elevations are finished using ashlar limestone blocks with tooled faces laid in a coursed, broken-bond pattern. The south-west corner of the building is set off with bevelled limestone quoins and all openings are spanned with simple limestone lintels.

The home, one of the first semi-detached homes in Milton, was constructed by Edward Martin, son of Jasper Martin, and was rented. It was the residence of G.T. Bastedo, a lawyer and the first appointed Clerk of the Justice of Peace and County Attorney for Halton.

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110 Bridge Street West (designated 1986):

Built in 1867 by Smith Steven, clerk in the Grand Trunk Railway solicitor’s office. Excellent example of a family home owner of modest means. Has original 6/6 pane windows, window sills, and shutters. Acorn brackets extend under the cornice. The front door, balanced by narrow sidelights, has a false centre bead forming a mid-line, a feature which is a rarity in Belleville.

I've always found it very ironic that the one day in America designated for kindness and gratitude is also a day when the multitudes make a conscious choice to eat an animal when they don't have to.

It was my love of cats that made me decide to go vegetarian at 13 years old because I was taught to not discriminate against humans so why not apply the same to animals? How could I justify eating a pig, a turkey, a cow if I could never eat a cat or a dog? It made me question the way our society values some lives more than others and caused me to start thinking with a mind for social justice too. When systems say "It's ok to do this even when you feel this...." all you have to do is follow the money. Factory farming in this country in and of itself is a multi billion dollar industry that causes great harm to both animals and the environment. Why should we choose profit over the lives of animals as well as our own health?

There are so many stray cats in need of love and medical treatment. To me, it is like living in a city where you see people sleeping and begging on the street often. You feel like every dollar you give will never be enough. But, there's something to be said for when you are part of a vast world of great suffering and you help even one life.

This cat was found in a rescue orientated cat café and was actually provided with multiple medical treatments out of the pockets of the volunteers who worked there to keep it alive. One of the best cats I ever had, Buckley (named after Tim and Jeff), was a cat I adopted after a volunteer at the rescue agency paid over $2000 for a surgery, which I definitely would not have been able to afford at that time in my life. Buckley lived at least a decade in my arms and resembled this little guy. He would head butt me in bed and I'd lift up my blanket and he'd sleep and purr right beside me all night. When the time came for his life to end, I held him in my arms until his very last breath and I have no doubt he knew he was loved. All of this because someone said, "Yes, there is immeasurable suffering on this Earth but I can make a choice to make it less for this creature. "

Our choices matter.

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20 Walnut Street

This was the office building of Dr. John Wilson and the actual building was moved from 37 Elgin Street to this location in 1914.

Dr. Wilson was a prominent doctor and a member of the Legislative Assembly in 1871 and 1875. In 1882, Dr. Wilson was elected a Member of Parliament in Ottawa. He was appointed to the Senate in 1904 and died in 1912.

This small house is the only older building in St. Thomas clad in board and batten. Board and batten were a type of siding popular in the 1850s and 1860s.

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St. Thomas Public Library: The city's original Carnegie Library was designed and constructed in 1903 and opened for use in 1904. The building housed the library until a new library building was constructed in 1974. Subsequently, the building was occupied by the City Engineering Department. The building has been designated by the City of St. Thomas as a protected Cultural Heritage property under the Ontario Heritage Act - By-law 27-89, passed February 20, 1989.

Messier 13 (M13), also designated NGC6205 and sometimes called the​Great Globular Cluster in Hercules or the Hercules Globular Cluster, is a globular cluster of about 300,000 stars in the constellation of Hercules.

M13 is about 145 light-years in diameter and is 25,100 light-years away from Earth.

It was discovered in 1714 by Edmund Halley.​

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A globular cluster is a spherical collection of stars that orbits a galactic core as as satellite. Globular clusters are very tightly bound by gravity, which gives them their spherical shapes and relatively high stellar densities toward their centres.

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M: Mesu 200

T: TMB 152/1200

C: QSI683 Baader LRGB filters

30x600s Luminance

30x600s Red

30x600s Green

30x600s Blue

Totalling 20 hours.

This was all taken as well during the full moon period, as Globular clusters are less affected by moonlight than other Deep Sky objects.

The Pin Mill, Bodnant Gardens, Conwy, North Wales.

The Pin Mill coordinates...53.2337°N 3.8012°W

The Pin Mill at Bodnant Garden in Conwy, Wales, was originally built as a lodge or garden house around 1730 at Woodchester, Gloucestershire. The building was later used as a pin factory and later still as a hide store for a tannery. Henry McLaren, 2nd Baron Aberconway purchased the Pin Mill when it was derelict and arranged for it to be dismantled, transported and reassembled at Bodnant in 1938–39. The architect J. Murray Easton made some repairs and sensitive alterations.

The Pin Mill was designated a Grade II*-listed building in 1952 as a fine example of an early Georgian garden building.

The storeyed central tower has a pyramidal roof and is symmetrically flanked by two lower pavilions.

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Masai Mara National Reserve

Kenya

East Africa

Happy Caturday!!!

The lion (Panthera leo) is a species in the family Felidae; it is a muscular, deep-chested cat with a short, rounded head, a reduced neck and round ears, and a hairy tuft at the end of its tail. The lion is sexually dimorphic; males are larger than females with a typical weight range of 150 to 250 kg (330 to 550 lb) for males and 120 to 182 kg (265 to 400 lb) for females. Male lions have a prominent mane, which is the most recognisable feature of the species.

A lion pride consists of a few adult males, related females and cubs. Groups of female lions typically hunt together, preying mostly on large ungulates. The species is an apex and keystone predator, although they scavenge when opportunities occur.

Typically, the lion inhabits grasslands and savannas but is absent in dense forests. It is usually more diurnal than other big cats, but when persecuted it adapts to being active at night and at twilight.

In the Pleistocene, the lion ranged throughout Eurasia, Africa and North America but today it has been reduced to fragmented populations in Sub-Saharan Africa and one critically endangered population in western India.

It has been listed as Vulnerable on the IUCN Red List since 1996 because populations in African countries have declined by about 43% since the early 1990s. Lion populations are untenable outside designated protected areas. Although the cause of the decline is not fully understood, habitat loss and conflicts with humans are the greatest causes for concern. - Wikipedia

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Ernest Jay Farmhouse | 3053 Derry Road West

The Ernest Jay farmhouse is a two and a half storey red brick house that was built in 1913 and is a good representative example of vernacular Edwardian Classicism architecture and the use of brick from local brickworks.

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92 Henry Street

This one storey house was constructed in 1853 by prominent local builder James Dougan Senior. The building, which has been moved twice since its construction, was most notably used as the Classical and Commercial School by Reverend Thomas D. Phillips from 1862 to 1866. The building has been used for residential purposes since that time. Although the building has undergone some alterations over 150 years its basic structure remains unchanged. The façade is dominated by a broad Victorian style veranda and exhibits mid-nineteenth century Ontario vernacular style with such Classical Revival elements as the rectilinear door and window openings and the eave returns at the rear.

This view of Nidderdale is taken from Wath Road which runs from Pateley Bridge to Wath village.

Nidderdale, North Yorkshire was designated an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty in 1994

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Willow Grove House | 5576 Regional Road 25

This building, based on the Georgian style of architecture, is a large, tow storey square house with double thick brick walls made of hand pressed red brick; its design was very popular with traditional homes in the mid 19th Century.

The Crown registered this property under its name in 1827. Levi Wilson became the owner of the property in 1850. It should be noted that Mr. Wilson was the first Sheriff of the District of Halton and may have kept prisoners in the basement of the house.

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Elgin County Land Registry Office

The Elgin County Registry Office is a fine example of the registry offices constructed throughout the province during the last quarter of the 19th century. The building, erected in 1874, with additions in 1888 and 1909, is Italianate in style.

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Ο ωραιότερος κοιμητηριακός ναός,εξ όσων έχω δεί τουλάχιστον,είναι αναμφιβόλως ο Ιερός Ναός προς τιμήν του Αγίου Γεωργίου στο χωριό Γλίνος, ο οποίος,σύμφωνα με εντοιχισμένη κτητορική επιγραφή, ανηγέρθη το 1818 στη θέση Παλιοκόπρια, όπου βρισκόταν αρχικά το χωριό ως ενοριακός,τότε,ναός.

Σχετικά προσφάτως ολοκληρώθηκαν οι εργασίες υποστήλωσης,εξωραϊσμού και διαμόρφωσης του περιβάλλοντος χώρου με πλήρη σεβασμό προς την αρχιτεκτονική φυσιογνωμία του ώστε το μεταβυζαντινό μνημείο,όπως έχει χαρακτηρισθεί από το Υπουργείο Πολιτισμού,να κληροδοτηθεί στις επόμενες γενεές εδραίο και περικαλλέστερο.

The most beautiful cemetery, to my knowledge, is undoubtedly the Holy Church in honor of St. George in the village of Glinos, which, according to a built-in inscription, was erected in 1818 at the site of Paliokopria, where the village was originally then.

Recently completed work of restoration, landscaping and configuration of the surrounding area in full respect of the architectural character of the post-Byzantine monument,as designated by the Ministry of Culture, to be bequeathed to future generations well-established and more beautiful.

US 101 is designated as the Oregon Coast Highway No. 9, as it serves the Oregon Coast region. Much of the highway runs between the Pacific Ocean and the Oregon Coast Range, thus US 101 is frequently mountainous in character. Between Newport and Lincoln City, the highway is rather mountainous, as the Coast Range protrudes into the ocean. Cities on the route include Depoe Bay, Otter Rock (accessible via a side road), and the Gleneden Beach/Salishan area, famed for its resorts. Near Siletz Bay is the abandoned community of Kernville, followed by Lincoln City.

The New York, Susquehanna & Western has invaded East Binghamton, NY Delaware & Hudson's rail yards as ordered by a bankruptcy judge in New York State. Guilford has pulled out of town for the last time, a story we all know about and NYS&W now the designated operator for the D&H lines. The operation is in full swing by the time of this shot and there are no shortages of "45 power" on this day of my visit to the yard. several SD45s and NRL F45s are spread about. These two happened to be in a fine position for a clean roster, so the shutter went "click"!

FWIW, the 3618 still operates today on "Q".

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Kinsmen Park, 151 Dundas Street (designated 1991):

The Dundas Street East burying ground was consecrated on March 3, 1828 as one of Belleville’s first cemeteries. Old surveys and registered land plans shows a lot marked “WM burying grounds”, presumably meaning Wesleyan Methodist. In 1872 when the Belleville Cemetery on Dundas Street West was opened, it is speculated that bodies could have been transferred there and the cemetery ritually closed by the Wesleyan Methodist congregation. Belleville Cemetery did not keep precise records prior to 1895, therefore there are no records of any such transfers, leaving the only way to tell by identifying names on aged gravestones. In 1916 the land was sold to Francis and Mary O’Flynn by the City for tax arrears by the owner of the ground. The O’Flynn’s in turn sold the land back to the City in 1925 to preserve the property for use as a public park or “open breathing space”. In the early 1950’s the land was leased to the Kinsmen Club who have established and maintained the site as a children’s playground until this day. However, it is presumed that many of our earliest settlers are buried there and that the part they played in establishing the City of Belleville as very important.

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Kettle Creek Inn

216 Joseph Street, Port Stanley

Built as a summer home for the local Port Stanley Justice of the Peace in 1849, the main building first became an inn in 1918. The buildings was significantly restored in 1983 and 1990 by the present owners. English style gardens, a folksy gazebo, and the two cozy dining rooms all provide old world charm.

St Hilda's Church is recorded in the National Heritage list for England as a designated Grade 1 listed building

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236 Harbour Street: The Lighthouse structure is typical of an integrated lighthouse combined with the keeper's house. Although the element of the Lighthouse are similar to others of its type, the pleasing proportions, the rhythm of the windows, the colour scheme of the white and red and the location in the town scape make this Lighthouse unique. It has become the symbol-the-logo of the former Town of Kincardine and now for the Municipality of Kincardine and is featured on the majority of its promotional material.

Designation By-law 2009-008, on January 28, 2009.

This farm track runs parallel to Gouthwait Reservoir in Nidderdale, North Yorkshire looking towards Bouthwaite Village.

Nidderdale was designated an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty in 1994

Happy Fence Friday (HFF)

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18 Merritt Street

The house was constructed in 1880 by John Charles McNamara, who initially owned the home as well. The structure is two storey, rectangular building made out of brick, but originally could have been clapboard siding. The gable roof is trimmed with a boxed cornice with brackets and frieze. The door is located off-centre in the gabled end. It has engaged columns and an entablature. It also has flush side panels and a transom with mullions. The door itself is a single raised panel with moulded rail.

Florida designated the endangered gopher tortoise (Gopherus polyphemus) as the official state tortoise in 2008 (Senate Bill 1486). Florida recognizes two other reptiles as state symbols (American alligator and loggerhead sea turtle). All State Reptiles.

The gopher tortoise is a land based tortoise, preferring to make their homes in the high and dry sand pine scrub areas of the state. They dig burrows in the ground that can go as deep as 10 feet and 40 feet in length. These burrows are important not only to the tortoise but are also used by over 350 other species including other state residents such as the indigo snake, gopher frog and gopher cricket. On a sunny day you will find gopher tortoises out and about feeding on some of their favorite grasses and small plants

A major threat to our gopher tortoises is vehicle traffic, as they often try to cross roads to find new areas to feed or dig burrows.

I found this one at Walk In The Water Wildlife Management Area in Lake Wales, Polk County, Florida.

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258 Front Street (designated 1983):

Original stone building approximately 1824; this foundation still exists. A third storey was added about 1883. The present brick facade was probably added in 1891. This building was originally used as a bakery; in the basement are the remains of a large open hearth. Building retains original tin ceiling and wood ceiling at the store level.