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A little difficulty in capturing my awesome estate sale finds... the heads kept rolling away!
Everyone else at the estate sale was fighting to get to the complete dolls... and then there was me... I’m sure the guy I had to ask for prices for all the severed doll heads wondered about me... yes, for this... I’m going to be called “sick and twisted”... again! I did ask the estate sale guy.... "You're going to be talking about me tonight...aren't you?" He assured me that he has seen weirder things, and I bet that he has.
Oh, and.... that has become my dream job... working at an estate sale... and since I have really come to hate my present job, I just may pursue that!
Whenever people suffered the difficulty in real life, they either faced the challenge with courage or hided themselves in their secret garden temporarily, made their sophicated thoughts within, and then find way to breakthrough again.
Have you ever own your secret garden ? It could be a real place in the world , or just a mental place at your mind, which made yourself feel safe & help you calm down from the suddently sufferings in real life.
Try to create the secret garden through the overlayering composition, it can be a place mixed with variable emotions, happiness, sorrow, hate, sadness, peaceful etc, not necesarry a subjective garden in vision, maybe just a private corner under the tree, on the meadow, or even the space between the leaves & air.. tell me how you think about your secret garden.
really? there seems to be some difficulty on the question of democracy. the point of civility was to advance society, to better meet the needs of all it's peoples.
genocide, and murdering dissenters, is not about promoting civil discourse. it's about stifling the discussion.
no need to ruminate....hate does not equate.
"Difficulties make you grow"
I have been absent lately due to a small foot injury that did not allow me to walk. Now that I am a little better, I take the opportunity to show a photo that I have been able to make today of some flowers on my terrace. Little by little I will go back to my photographic activity.
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"Las dificultades te hacen crecer".
Últimamente, he estado ausente de Flickr debido a una pequeña lesión en mi pie que no me permitía andar. Ahora que estoy un poco mejor, aprovecho para enseñar una foto que he podido hacer hoy de algunas flores de mi terraza. Poco a poco, iré retomando mi actividad fotográfica.
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Para el grupo Seasons 19 My dairy: Reto "Me gusta"... Me encantan las flores!
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Portrait of a bedouin brave guide from 'Jabaliya' tribe with his dromedary. Jabaliya means in Arabic "From the Mountain" as it is in the mountains of the southern third of Sinai peninsula around Saint Catherine where this tribe lives.
Not an easy land there, mountains are arid, temperatures are extreme and resources are minimal. Despite all difficulties, they learned how to optimize the few resources available and greatly revered nature.
UP's Marsh Job picks up an empty boxcar at National Warehouse Corp in Milwaukee's Harbor View area. The crew is shoving all the way to the end of the short spur in order to make the hitch as a dip in the spur created difficulties coupling. The car was spotted Monday of that week, having been only the second load in about two months. High water levels and well below freezing temperatures had kept the KK River swing bridge frozen in the open position the previous week, resulting in two switches for the customer this week. The crew would replace the empty with another load of bagged salt/aggregate before returning to Jones Island. Milwaukee, WI
I understand the difficulty in coming up with ways to comment about flowers, so I thought it was time for a very brief respite. Some years ago, when I hiked the hills of Mt. Diablo, it was not unusual to spot a Red Admiral butterfly. What was unusual was to find a Red Admiral sipping nectar from a flower rather than minerals from a mud puddle. The pear tree, btw, is in the middle of an open field, and since I doubt that it's wild, has not been cared for since the heyday of ranching on the mountain a century ago.
Prunus domestica, the European plum is a species of flowering plant in the family Rosaceae. A deciduous tree, it includes many varieties of the fruit trees known as plums in English, though not all plums belong to this species.
Vanessa atalanta, the red admiral is a well-characterized, medium-sized butterfly with black wings, red bands, and white spots. It has a wingspan of about 2 inches (5 cm).
It was first described by Carl Linnaeus in 1758. The red admiral is widely distributed across temperate regions of North Africa, the Americas, Europe, Asia, and the Caribbean. (That's pretty much world-wide, no?) It resides in warmer areas, but migrates north in spring and sometimes again in autumn. Typically found in moist woodlands, the red admiral caterpillar's primary host plant is the stinging nettle (Urtica dioica); it can also be found on the false nettle.
Red admirals are territorial; females will only mate with males that hold territory. Males with superior flight abilities are more likely to successfully court females. It is known as an unusually calm butterfly, often allowing observation at a very close distance before flying away, also landing on and using humans as perches.
In times of difficulty we tend to blame ourselves for things we are not guilty of. I've learnt to accept my mistakes and know when to apologise. However, I have some friends who blame themselves when something bad happens instead of thinking that maybe it is not them who made the mistake but the other person. Looking how they feel bad for those kind of things really gets on my nerves
I bought the famous Nikkor 105mm f/ 2.8 macro lens about one month ago.
I thought that I would take fantastic photos, but everyday is a great frustration...
Does someone have a little idea about how to focus well with this lens?
I had difficulty sleeping in the early morning today but woke from a doze when the dawn was showing these lovely red and golden tones. A storm is forecast later today so perhaps this is the foretelling!
Nombre común: El colibrí rubí, tucusito rubí, colibrí rubitopacio, topacio rubí, picaflor topacio
Nombre científico: Chrysolampis mosquitus
Nombre en ingles: Ruby - topaz Hummingbird
Nombre en alemán : Moskimkolibri
Nombre en francés: Colibri rubis- topaze
Lugar de la foto: Parque de la Uva, La Unión , departamento del Valle del Cauca, Colombia
High difficulty to photograph.
Alta dificultad de fotografíar.
After five trips to Parque de la Uva, located in the municipality of La Unión, Valle del Cauca department, Colombia, accompanied by my wife Norma Cecilia and my daughter Laura Elizabeth, we finally captured this photograph, the first in a series I will publish. The fifth time was the charm, and we were finally able to see this beautiful and elusive hummingbird with a golden throat, ruby-red crown, and orange tail, unique to the Chrysolampis genus. Thanks to the collaboration of the park's Ivan Santacruz Acosta management and Juan Sebastian Ospina, an expert bird guide dedicated to assisting locals and tourists who come in search of this splendid species. Hidden among the aloe vera flowers, it eludes the presence of the Amazilia hummingbirds and the cameras of photographers from all over the world who flock to the site seeking a beautiful memory.
Después de cinco viajes al Parque dela Uva, ubicando en el municipio de la Unión, departamento del Valle del Cauca en Colombia, en compañía de mi esposa Norma Cecilia y de mi hija Laura Elizabeth, logramos esta fotografía, que será la primera de una serie que publicaré. La quinta fue la vencida, y al final pudimos ver plenamente a este precioso y difícil colibrí de garganta dorada, corona rojo rubi y con una cola anaranjada con puntas oscuras, único de la especie de Chrysolampis. Gracias a la colaboración de los directivos del parque Ivan Santacruz Acosta y de Juan Sebastian Ospina, guía experto en aves, dedicado a la atención de nacionales y extranjeros que van en búsqueda de esta espléndida especie, que mezclada en medio de las flores de sábila, evade la presencia de los Amazilias y las cámaras de fotógrafos de todo el mundo que concurrimos al sitio en procura de un bello recuerdo.
Today a few pictures from last years my trip to Thailand fall into my hands (basically they fall into my eye but who wants to be so petty).
I hope it's okay if I add them here little by little. Somehow they put me in the holiday mood and give me warm thoughts. Both are very convenient for me right now.
I would like to start with a small part of the Grand Palace, the former residence of the Thai royal family, which is now one of the tourist hotspots in Bangkok and a national shrine.
Thailand's economy has had major difficulties over the last year. Perhaps the dark clouds over the palace already indicated this back then.
The building that can be seen here is a small palace within a palace (for the brother of the then ruler) called Prasat Phra Thep Bidon which was built between 1855 and 1868.
Da sind mir doch tatsächlich heute noch ein paar Bilder von meiner letztjährigen Reise nach Thailand in die Hände gefallen (im Grund sind sie mir in die Augen gefallen aber wer will schon so kleinlich sein).
Ich hoffe es ist ok, wenn ich diese so nach und nach hier mit unterbringe. Irgendwie bringen die mich in Urlaubsstimmung und machen mir warme Gedanken. Beides kommt mir gerade sehr gelegen.
Anfangen möchte ich mit einen kleinen Teil des Grand Palace, dem ehemaligen Wohnsitz des thailändischen Königshauses, der inzwischen eine der tourstischen Hotspots in Bangkok und ein nationales Heiligtum ist.
Die Wirtschaft Thailands hatte im letzten Jahr große Schwierigkeiten. Vielleicht haben das die dunklen Wolken über dem Palast damals schon angedeutet.
Das Gebäude, welches hier zu sehen ist, ist übrigens ein kleiner Palast im Palast (für den Bruder des damaligen Herrschers) mit dem Namen Prasat Phra Thep Bidon welcher zwischen 1855 und 1868 erbaut wurde.
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I'm still getting used to my new collage maker: size is my main difficulty.
This is just a little flavour of our back garden which is no credit to me as all I do is sit in it, take photos and, occasionally, pick a flower or two.
The top shot shows the enclosure Ray made, in addition to doing all the usual garden maintenance. It was for our rascally Cairn terrier, Jinks, who had houdini tendencies and never missed an opportunity for escape. Now that he is dearly departed, we find the enclosure around the deck has become a sort of outdoor room which we use a lot - when it's not raining etc.
And sometimes I think of Jinks and all he brought to my life - and Ray's!!
Sharp eyes have noticed that the numbering is reversed in the permalinks. This is because I used "Replace Image" for the first time on this project, and didn't know the difficulties until later.
1. SEVILLA CATHEDRAL 2, 2. MAIN STREET, 3. DAWN MIST, 4. SILHOUETTE
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I have difficulty identifying mushrooms to species and making this more difficult is the fact that some Boletus have been recently been assigned the genus Suillus. If I have the species correct, perhaps this is correctly called Suillus edulus.
Also, maybe this is B or S. granulatus. These specimens are large (6-9 inches across). This and the other 3 that I photographed were growing along a road that the South Fork Tieton Trail, Yakima County, Washington crosses. Animals are eating them and apparently uprooted one of them.
My goal was to hike this trail, locate and photograph Spruce Grouse but I found none. I hiked to the Wilderness Boundary.
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In 1955, Ford had difficulty naming this car. Among the 5,000 suggested names were Hep Cat, Beaver, Detroiter, Runabout, Arcturus, Savile, El Tigre and Coronado. One serious suggestion was Whizzer.
Not having a name for their two-seater sports car, Ford ran a competition within its company to name their two-seater, with the prize – a $250 suit. The name, Thunderbird, came from a Ford stylist from the Southwest, Alden “Gib” Giberson, who submitted the Thunderbird name after having coffee one morning seeing a drawing of a two-headed bird on his cup.
His submission was a reference to a legendary Indian creature, a supernatural bird with great power and strength. Although winning, at the time you could not find a $250 suit in Detroit so Alden was happy to settle with a $95 suit and two pairs of pants.
In Native American mythology, the Thunderbird creates thunder and lightning. Many different tribes of the American Southwest, Great Plains, and Pacific Northwest have their own version of the Thunderbird, including the Lakota, the Ojibwa, and the Sioux.
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Dyslexia is a learning difficulty that primarily affects the skills involved in accurate and fluent word reading and spelling.
I've never been formally diagnosed, but I've always struggled with my spelling and fluent communication. Forming coherent sentences has always been a challenge for me, but with practice and modern tech, it easier to get by.
I thought dyslexia was an excellent topic to combine with the brief 'Dutch angle'. By tilting the image, it helps to suggest a sense of confusion and chaos while interpreting text.
This image was taken for the 'Macro Mondays' - 'Dutch Angle' challenge, 21st September 2020.
This Small Blue Heron caught itself a small Florida Pike. This fish is native to Florida. They are found in vegetated lakes, swamps, black water and rivers. They are sport fished in many of the regions of the Southern United States. This Heron was having difficulty dispatching this fish due to its size and almost dropped it several. I capture this shot as the little blue flew to a clump of marsh grass. It seems heron’s are smart enough to take a difficult meal to the grass because it prevents the meal from escaping if dropped. The blue finally swallowed its meal with some effort.
We had difficulty convincing my then 2 yrs old grandson that Wonderland at Retford near Nottingham - just checked and actually called Sundown Adventure land now…this was indeed a wonderful place, lol like being in fairytale land . Grim more like it...making memories that you never forget :)
Despite of the serious difficulties we all have to pass during these hard times we keep taking photographs, keep doing what we like the most. Life goes on and it's great. No matter if the cold winter is outside. We, for example, have about -25 and very heavy snowfalls for a couple of recent weeks. I feel some warmth inside, a summer state of mind. And I wish you to have same bright feeling too.
Here you can see one of the many many beautiful churches of Veliky Ustyug, a small town in the north of European Russia. A true pearl of northern architecture.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Veliky_Ustyug
Photo is taken while traveling around this region in August 2020.
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I had no difficulty in coming to an opinion about what is "Best with the Holidays" as it is undeniably the fact that it is the one time in the year that our entire family, i.e., Pam, myself, our four daughters and their husbands along with my 6 grandchildren make a point of getting together. Coming up with a representative macro was a bit harder. The image is "The Hunt" monogram on a small plate from the Christmas china on which we serve our traditional Christmas Eve meal. Less than 3 inches. Happy Holidays to all!
Mist Trail
Vernal Falls
Yosemite National Park, CA
This one was taken from this past summer as we were hiking up the Mist Trail up to Vernal Falls in Yosemite National Park. This is the view looking down the mountain. The climb is almost entirely uphill. I shot this with the ultra wide lens at 10mm I still feel like I barely captured most of the views. I probably should have done a panorama. Lessons learned.
Top of Vernal Fall
Distance: 2.4 mi (3.9 km) round trip (via Mist Trail)
Elevation gain: 1000 ft (300 m)
Difficulty: Strenuous
Time: 3 hours
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Nach den vielen Grün- und Brauntönen der letzten Bilder heute zur Abwechslung für das Auge mal wieder etwas Blau im Stream. Die Aufnahme der Erdkröte nach dem ablaichen ist schon etwas älter, dieses Jahr habe ich die Laichwoche völlig verpasst weil sie wg. des wärmeren Wetters viel früher stattgefunden hat. Dass sich diese Zeiten so verschieben ist eine (neue) Schwierigkeit beim fotografieren von Tieren/Vögeln und macht das planen von Aufnahmen schwieriger wenn man von der Lokation entfernt ist.
After the many green and brown tones of the last pictures, today there is a bit of blue in the stream to make a change for the eyes. The photo of the common toad after spawning is older, this year I missed the spawning week completely because it took place much earlier due to the warmer weather. The fact that these times shift so much is a (new) difficulty when photographing animals/birds and makes planning shots more difficult when you are away from the location.
The sun light coming across those dense tree leaves make us realized that no matter how many difficulties do we have in our life there will always be a light of hope to have a problem free and happy life like a clear and blue sky in the picture. This hope will make us motivate to move further in life with a fresh spirit.
Così Reinhold Messner descrive il Cerro Torre nel suo libro "Grido di pietra".
Questa guglia incredibilmente verticale è una delle più spettacolari cime del Campo de Hielo Sur, situato in una regione della Patagonia fra Argentina e Cile ad ovest del Cerro Chalten, conosciuto anche come Fitz Roy.
La vetta del Cerro Torre è considerata fra le più inaccessibili del mondo perché, qualunque via si scelga, bisogna affrontare una parete granitica verticale per arrivare ad una cima perennemente ricoperta da un "fungo" di ghiaccio.
"The impossible Mountain": This is how Reinhold Messner describes Cerro Torre in his book "Scream of stone".
Cerro Torre is one of the most spectacular mountains of the Southern Patagonian Ice Field in South America. It is located in a region which is disputed between Argentina and Chile, west of Cerro Chalten (also known as Fitz Roy).
The top of the mountain often has a mushroom of rime ice, formed by the constant strong winds, increasing the difficulty of reaching the actual summit.
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Lytes Cary Manor
A house created by two families.
The Lyte Family
From the 13th century to the 18th century, Lytes Cary Manor was the home of the Lyte family. The founder of that family was William le Lyte, who was a feudal tenant of the estate as early as 1286. It is believed that his grandson Peter built the chapel which dates back to 1343.
The Lyte family lived here for over six generations and gradually expanded the house.
By the mid eighteenth century, the family were in serious financial difficulty and in 1755 the family had no other option but to sell Lytes Cary.
The Jenner family
Lytes Cary was then tenanted by a series of farmers until Sir Walter Jenner bought the estate in 1907. When the Jenners arrived the Great Hall was being used as a cider press, the Great Parlour was housing agricultural materials and the Little Parlour was a carpenter’s workshop, it later became Sir Walter's private study. He restored the house to a 17th-century style and also added on a new west wing.
The house as it stands today is filled with the collection lovingly restored and used by the Jenners.
Sir Walter decided to pass the house onto the National Trust in 1948. His daughter, Esme had died of pneumonia at the age of only 37, so he had no family to leave Lytes Cary to.
The difficulties you meet will resolve themselves as you advance. Proceed, and light will dawn, and shine with increasing clearness on your path.
Jim Rohn
Rupert Spira about the difficulties in dealing with uncomfortable mind content coming up during one's spiritual practice:
away till June!
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Thank you for your wonderful music and the moments shared!
Our difficulty is we don’t see things as they really are. Dharma helps us to understand how to see things as they actually are. When we do this, it stops our negative mind, negative projections, and negative emotions. Then our life becomes simpler and more peaceful, and it also gives us a great opportunity to take more responsibility, with more compassion, and we can handle problems in a much more positive way. Problems then don’t become real problems. We become more accepting and understanding of what is happening around us, whether it concerns business or relatives. There is no separation; there are not two worlds, of business and private life.
~ Lama Zopa Rinpoche
Legends
The legends focus on Nicholas' compassion for vulnerable people in difficulty. For example, he threw gold coins into the house of a poor man who could not pay his daughters' dowry. In doing so, he prevented the daughters from falling into prostitution. Bishop Nicholas also rescued shipwrecked people and returned a kidnapped boy to his mother. The most sensational story is that the saint is said to have raised three children from the dead. They had been murdered by a greedy innkeeper and their bodies were pickled in a barrel for cannibalistic purposes. Another version of the story speaks of three priest students who were brought back to life by Nicholas.
Bari
From the sixth century onwards, Nicholas was venerated as a saint throughout the Byzantine Empire. Because the Turks threatened to conquer Myra in 1087, the bones of Saint Nicholas were transferred to the southern Italian port city of Bari.
The ancient veneration of St. Nicholas gradually spread throughout Christendom. In Utrecht (the Netherlands) the name of the saint appears in a book dating from 1183.
Beautiful sunset behind the peak Llom del Matxo Flac (around 625m) near Alzira, Valencia.
The difficulty of shots like this is always the area that is in the shadows (in this case the entire right side of the peak). Hitting the right exposure is impossible, so for this picture I used bracketing creating a HDR shot from three images merged in Lightroom.
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Bonita puesta de sol detrás del pico Llom del Matxo Flac (unos 625m) cerca de Alzira, Valencia.
La dificultad de tomar fotos como esta siempre reside en las sombras (en este caso la toda la parte que está a la derecha del pico). Encontrar la exposición correcta es imposible, así que para esta imagen usé la técnica de 'bracketing' creando una imagen HDR (Alto Rango Dinámico) basada en tres fotos unidas en Adobe Lightroom.
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The only difficulty with tight rules on MM is that during COVID 19 not everyone will be able to fulfil the strict rules of the time line. If I get the time I’ll add into the MM pool just to highlight the problem for some of us when we’ll be a bit busier than normal.
The larger shell is 3inches in size, so then significantly smaller then, they are 3-5mm in size.
HMM all stay safe
My graduate student is studying stonecrop (the yellow flower), so I am always looking for them. I am also intrigued with plants that seem to grow out of rocks. Finally, I am fascinated with colorful lichen communities. The next person to come by might not give this rock a second glance, while I had difficulty leaving it. Like art, we perceive natural beauty differently.
Handheld, with the wrong lens for the job. But I was far from the 4Runner, and I just couldn't help myself.
Skylark / alauda arvensis. Derbyshire. 06/05/21.
I had been watching the Skylark preening on top of the wooden fence post for a couple of minutes. It was being jostled by gusts of wind and had difficulty keeping balance. Then it started to rain so it dropped to the ground where rocks and grasses afforded some shelter. My image was made at the point of take-off.
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If we wait until our lives are free from sorrow or difficulty, then we wait forever. And miss the entire point.
~ Dirk Benedict
Anything Goes 2021: Forest
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If he who does not know kept silent, discord would cease. -
Socrates
Three Rules of work:
1. Out of clutter find simplicity.
2. From discord find harmony.
3. In the middle of difficulty lies
opportunity. -
Albert Einstein
Change is never easy, and it often creates discord, but when people come together for the good of humanity and the Earth, we can accomplish great things.
- David Suzuki
By union the smallest states thrive. By discord the greatest are destroyed. - Sallust
Please bear with me, I will not get to all of your works right away but I am making my way slowly am having some computer problems that are slowing me down even more, sorry.
Thank you for your kind visit. Have a wonderful and beautiful day! xo❤️
I had difficulty identifying this moth, as I used two books that I had on Butterflies and Moths, and finally I Googled it. I am not 100% sure if this is what it is, so if anyone thinks differently please let me know. I found it in a patch of scrub by the river at Waterperry Gardens this week. It was totally at rest for a long time so was easy to photograph.
While walking along the strolling deck above the stormwater management area, we saw a lot of branches in the water, which I have never seen before. Best seen large by clicking on the photo.
Stay safe and don't let your guard down in the holiday season. Do your part, stay apart and wear a mask. #BeKind
Having difficulty in identifying these. My current thought is that they are mergansers, a male in eclipse and a female, but would welcome comments. Seen on the Tyne today.
I am having difficulty with the identification of this stint. Maybe somebody can help ID this bird? I am inclined to believe it is a Little Stint judging by the bill shape and colouring of the upper parts. It was by itself among a large flock of similarly sized Wrybill out at Lake Ellesmere a couple of months ago. As the Little Stint is very rare, this bird is likely a Red-necked Stint.
On the 23rd of June I went to Kananaskis with a friend. It was great to have company for the day.
We had hoped to see a bear or two. That did not happen but we enjoyed the scenery, the wild flowers and any other critters we came across.
The pikas are just so cute! I was happy to see one fairly quickly. There are times when you have great difficulty finding them in the rocks. Lucky for us there was still a large patch of snow where they normally scramble about. This one was much closer to the path!
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Weather is often the main difficulty in Scotland but there is a saying in Scotland that if you don't like the weather there wait for ten minutes. Yes the weather is so changeable that often if you wait you will be rewarded with some sunshine. I took this shot on one of my weekly visits to the Highlands and lo and behold the whole week was end to end sunshine. I had to delete the last two images as they were over processed. Thank-you for your comments and critiques. Constructive criticism is always welcome.
The construction of the church was accompanied by difficulties, including due to the Polish uprising of 1830-1831. Only in 1835, the Kiev landowner Anthony Savitsky contributed the final amount, but construction was completed only after 7 years. On August 30, 1842 of the same year, the temple was consecrated.
St. Alexander's Cathedral remained the only major Catholic religious building in Kyiv until the Church of St. Nicholas was built in 1909.
Будівництво церкви супроводжувалося труднощами, у тому числі через Польське повстання 1830—1831 років. Лише 1835 року київський поміщик Антоній Савицький вніс остаточну суму, але будівництво завершилося лише через 7 років. 30 серпня 1842 року того ж року храм було освячено.
Собор Святого Олександра залишався єдиною великою католицькою культовою спорудою Києва, доки 1909 року не було збудовано костел Святого Миколая.
Український дім – місце в центрі столиці, яке використовують для проведення різних заходів: конгресів, форумів, конференцій, виставок. У п’ятиповерховій будівлі близько десятка виставкових залів.
Будівлю споруджено в 1978–1982 роках для розміщення в ній експозиції музею Леніна, який до переїзду був розташований у приміщенні Будинку вчителя, знаного серед киян як «Центральна Рада». Ленінська експозиція працювала до 1993 року, після цього її демонтували і розмістили у фондах, а установу почали використовувати як поліфункціональний виставково-презентаційний комплекс.