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After a short hiatus, I was able to head out and shoot with Ed over the weekend. This time, my wife and daughter joined us. It was quite refreshing to be out shooting again.
Follow me and let's go!
To the place where we belong
And leave our troubles at home
Come with me, we can go
To a paradise of love and joy
A destination unknown!
Last picture in the series. The metro journey ends. / Dernière photo de la série. Le voyage en métro se termine.
Waiting at the Polar Express platform with a suitcase heavier than my life decisions. No clue where I’m headed, but hey, life’s just one big round-trip ticket, right?
Some days you just gotta pick a direction and ride..
Stopped off at yet another abandoned pub for a quick phone snap...
The lead mines chimney at Ballycorus is the last remaining remnant of the lead mine opened in 1807 near Kilternan, Co. Dublin. Open cast mining for lead began around 1807 and then underground mining started in 1826. This continued until 1863. The chimney from the smelting works remains. This is a popular walking destination for the people of Dublin, and also ends my walk!
A worn Eastern Comma butterfly wandering the forest floor at about the end of its season.
Considered common, though less so this year.
Hoping to get the Long December Cart Sale + Hunt in the destination guide.
December 1st to December 31st
As we were heading to Tioga Pass and the back road to Yosemite we passed through the quaint town of Bridgeport, California.
View the entire - San Francisco - Yosemite 2012 set.
View my - Most Interesting according to Flickr
The frozen footprints of some small animal, a fox most likely, meandering out on the ice of Cobbossee Lake in Maine. Looks like the surface was slushy when it went out there.
The tracks disappear and reappear in the distance, making me think perhaps it went for a brief and unplanned swim.
Dogbowl, Portland Oregon.
"The nearer your destination the more you're slip-slidin' away..."
2021 Winter Storm
12 February 2021.
Kodak Gold 200, Minolta SRT102. Damaged film. Processed by Blue Moon, adjusted in APS.
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Eyes, Teeth, and Elf ears
Face: 'SKIN' Nathan Skin - Peach. BRABOS (browless)
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Body Hair: Volkstone Vincent Arm Pit
Backdrop: (Milk Motion) love hotel - The love hotel -RARE
Pose: (Modified) DB Poses - Destination Abs
Windlight: Satomi's 2017 Golden Stage (new)
Porto is the second-largest city in Portugal after Lisbon and one of the major urban areas of the Iberian Peninsula.
Located along the Douro river estuary in Northern Portugal, Porto is one of the oldest European centres, and its historical core was proclaimed a World Heritage Site by UNESCO in 1996.
Porto is a fascinating and vibrant city that is rapidly becoming one of Western Europe's most respected tourist destinations.
Peggys Cove is one of the most beautiful places in Canada.
Home to the iconic Peggys Point Lighthouse, the community of Peggys Cove is a huge tourist attraction in Nova Scotia and looks out onto the Atlantic Ocean.
But it can also be very dangerous and people are known to get themselves into trouble on the rocks. Despite warnings to keep a safe distance, the temptation is too hard to resist for some people who unfamiliar with how unpredictable and dangerous the ocean can be, even on the most beautiful of days.
Popular destination to see the changing foliage colors of Autumn. Our trip was a bit early unfortunately to see the full effect of the color changes, but I loved it the way it was.
Alaska Mountain where Matenuska Glacier starts. The yellow specks in foreground are Birch trees, gives you a perspective about how big the mountain in background is...which is about 50 miles back
Fort Lauderdale is a city in the U.S. state of Florida, 25 miles (40 km) north of Miami. It is the county seat of Broward County. As of the 2019 census, the city has an estimated population of 182,437. Fort Lauderdale is a principal city of the Miami metropolitan area, which was home to an estimated 6,198,782 people in 2018.
The city is a popular tourist destination, with an average year-round temperature of 75.5 °F (24.2 °C) and 3,000 hours of sunshine per year. Greater Fort Lauderdale which takes in all of Broward County hosted 12 million visitors in 2012, including 2.8 million international visitors. The city and county in 2012 collected $43.9 million from the 5% hotel tax it charges, after hotels in the area recorded an occupancy rate for the year of 72.7 percent and an average daily rate of $114.48. The district has 561 hotels and motels comprising nearly 35,000 rooms. Forty six cruise ships sailed from Port Everglades in 2012. Greater Fort Lauderdale has over 4,000 restaurants, 63 golf courses, 12 shopping malls, 16 museums, 132 nightclubs, 278 parkland campsites, and 100 marinas housing 45,000 resident yachts.
Fort Lauderdale is named after a series of forts built by the United States during the Second Seminole War. The forts took their name from Major William Lauderdale (1782–1838), younger brother of Lieutenant Colonel James Lauderdale. William Lauderdale was the commander of the detachment of soldiers who built the first fort. However, development of the city did not begin until 50 years after the forts were abandoned at the end of the conflict. Three forts named "Fort Lauderdale" were constructed; the first was at the fork of the New River, the second at Tarpon Bend on the New River between the Colee Hammock and Rio Vista neighborhoods, and the third near the site of the Bahia Mar Marina.
The area in which the city of Fort Lauderdale would later be founded was inhabited for more than two thousand years by the Tequesta Indians. Contact with Spanish explorers in the 16th century proved disastrous for the Tequesta, as the Europeans unwittingly brought with them diseases, such as smallpox, to which the native populations possessed no resistance. For the Tequesta, disease, coupled with continuing conflict with their Calusa neighbors, contributed greatly to their decline over the next two centuries. By 1763, there were only a few Tequesta left in Florida, and most of them were evacuated to Cuba when the Spanish ceded Florida to the British in 1763, under the terms of the Treaty of Paris (1763), which ended the Seven Years' War. Although control of the area changed between Spain, the United Kingdom, the United States, and the Confederate States of America, it remained largely undeveloped until the 20th century.
The Fort Lauderdale area was known as the "New River Settlement" before the 20th century. In the 1830s there were approximately 70 settlers living along the New River. William Cooley, the local Justice of the Peace, was a farmer and wrecker, who traded with the Seminole Indians. On January 6, 1836, while Cooley was leading an attempt to salvage a wrecked ship, a band of Seminoles attacked his farm, killing his wife and children, and the children's tutor. The other farms in the settlement were not attacked, but all the white residents in the area abandoned the settlement, fleeing first to the Cape Florida Lighthouse on Key Biscayne, and then to Key West.
The first United States stockade named Fort Lauderdale was built in 1838, and subsequently was a site of fighting during the Second Seminole War. The fort was abandoned in 1842, after the end of the war, and the area remained virtually unpopulated until the 1890s. It was not until Frank Stranahan arrived in the area in 1893 to operate a ferry across the New River, and the Florida East Coast Railroad's completion of a route through the area in 1896, that any organized development began. The city was incorporated in 1911, and in 1915 was designated the county seat of newly formed Broward County.
Fort Lauderdale's first major development began in the 1920s, during the Florida land boom of the 1920s. The 1926 Miami Hurricane and the Great Depression of the 1930s caused a great deal of economic dislocation. In July 1935, an African-American man named Rubin Stacy was accused of robbing a white woman at knife point. He was arrested and being transported to a Miami jail when police were run off the road by a mob. A group of 100 white men proceeded to hang Stacy from a tree near the scene of his alleged robbery. His body was riddled with some twenty bullets. The murder was subsequently used by the press in Nazi Germany to discredit US critiques of its own persecution of Jews, Communists, and Catholics.
When World War II began, Fort Lauderdale became a major US base, with a Naval Air Station to train pilots, radar operators, and fire control, operators. A Coast Guard base at Port Everglades was also established.
On July 4, 1961, African Americans started a series of protests, wade-ins, at beaches that were off-limits to them, to protest "the failure of the county to build a road to the Negro beach". On July 11, 1962, a verdict by Ted Cabot went against the city's policy of racial segregation of public beaches.
Today, Fort Lauderdale is a major yachting center, one of the nation's largest tourist destinations, and the center of a metropolitan division with 1.8 million people.
Credit for the data above is given to the following website:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fort_Lauderdale,_Florida
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