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Oh god...I knew it was a while since I'd uploaded a picture, but did not think it was THAT long!!!!
I'm gonna blame the arrival of this little mite...my beautiful black labrador puppy, Duke. He's now 16 weeks old and keeping me busy!!!!
I'm taking plenty of pics, just not getting round to getting them off the camera!!!! He's starting to settle down now so will have to cop myself on and get back into the world of flickr!!!!!
BR Britannia Class 8P 4-6-2 No.71000 'Duke of Gloucester', following its arrival at Euston Station (c.1961-62).
This is part of a collection of photographs taken by me as an 11 year old, using an old Brownie 127 camera.
For those of you who do not remember these cameras, they were very simple - no means of changing focus, exposure or balance. They just had one button - for the shutter. You pointed and clicked and got whatever was in the viewfinder. Looking back at them now, I know the photos are of poor quality, but given that they are 50 years old and illustrate what was important to an 11 year old at the time, I thought they were worth publishing.
Most of the collection were taken at York Station, York Sheds, Doncaster Station or Selby Station.
Save our Parks!
Duke and his owner Greg Remaud, from the NJ Baykeepers, join in Saturday's protest at Round Valley. About 250 people showed up to object to the planned state park closings. Here is what you can do to help (from NJAS Newsletter):
Governor Corzine's proposed budget includes a devastating 15% cut to the NJ Department of Environmental Protection's (DEP) budget. On April 1st the DEP announced that as a result of the proposed cuts, nine state parks will close and three others will close sections or reduce hours, including Round Valley, Highpoint, Washington Crossing and Monmouth Battlefield State Parks and Bryne State Forest.
Significant cuts to DEP's Divisions of Parks & Forestry and Fish & Wildlife threaten camping, fishing, wildlife-watching, swimming and educational programs for kids throughout the state. At the same time, the Garden State Preservation Trust, New Jersey's funding mechanisms for open space, farmland and historic preservation, will run out of money in less than a year and no plan is in place for continued funding.
Write your legislators today and tell them that this is not an acceptable way to resolve New Jersey's budget crisis! They should not approve a budget that includes these cuts. They must listen to New Jersey voters and continue to fund our state's parks, wildlife and preservation programs! Send a fax today by clicking the "Take Action" botton below.
Want to do more? Write a brief letter to the editor using the talking points provided and send it to your local newspaper and one or more regional or statewide papers.
Also, save the date for the Camp Out at the Capitol on April 23rd at 12:30 PM. Show your State Leaders you care, wear your outdoor gear, bring your own signs and rally to save our parks.
For more information, visit www.NJKeepItGreen.org.
Duke of Wellington Statue by Baron Carlo Marochetti.
Duke of Wellington Statue by Baron Carlo Marochetti.
My Flickr contact "wider world" says
"Arthur Wellesley, Duke of Wellington (1769-1852), a famous military leader during the Napoleonic wars, and later British Prime Minister.
The horse may be based on Copenhagen, Wellington's horse at Waterloo. Both Napoleon's horse Marengo, and Copenhagen caught the public imagination; Copenhagen's death in 1836 aged 28 and the military funeral he received were widely reported in the newspapers of the time.
Sculptor: Baron Carlo Marochetti, 1844.
Founder: Soyer.
This is the first of five statues created by Carlo Marochetti for Glasgow; it was designed and founded in Paris before Marochetti moved to England. He was a contraversial choice for the project - a French citizen who had produced a panel for the Arc de Triomphe and worked on the mausoleum for Napoleon. His work was also criticised as being too theatrical; one argument made against this statue was that it looked "too much like a real man on horseback."
After Queen Victoria paid her first visit to Glasgow in 1849, she wrote, "We then went on again towards the Exchange, in front of which is Marochetti's equestrian statue of the Duke of Wellington, very like and beautifully executed. We got out at the railway station and started almost immediately."
Originally, six British sculptors (Baillie, Campbell, Chantrey, Steele, Westmacott and Wyatt) and three from the Continent (Marochetti, Rauch and Schwanthaler) had been approached. To show his work Marochetti sent to Glasgow a miniature of his statue of Emanuele Filiberto, Duke of Savoy, with its theatrically waving sword. The committee supported Sir Francis Chantrey, but Marochetti received enthusiastic support from Dr. Archibald Alison (later Sir Archibald), the celebrated historian and Sheriff of Lanarkshire"
Duke has been suffering from Uveitis in his right eye (the one pictured). It's an epic battle three times a day to get prednisolone drops in his eyes... I should get Pete to take a picture one of these days. I'm holding on this collar and his jaw with one hand, prying his eyes open with the other and trying to get the drop in at the same time. I have to sit on his shoulders to get him to sit still, and even then I spill four drops down his face, on myself, on the floor, etc. before finally getting the one I need in his eye!
Duke cupcakes for a big Blue Devil fans' Birthday! Vanilla cupcakes with blue vanilla buttercream icing swirls - half with hand cut gum paste "D" toppers, the other half with simple white sprinkles to carry out the blue/white theme! :)
See blog post here:
5/3/11
Deafheaven
Duke Nukem Forever
Torch Runner
At Our Heels
Matsuri
at the sub mission in san francisco
more photos from this show at
My recent trip to JavaPolis got my some cool Java swag like this duke which now proudly stands on my desk. I'm such a geek!
Duke of Gloucester passing through Atherstone station pulling "The Salopian" heading for Shrewsbury.
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My great dane puppy at 9 months. He's taken over the couch. Here he's showing off his famous "I gottcha" wink.
On the opposite site of the Hudson Hall is the Fitzpatrick Center for interdisciplinary engineering, medicine and applied sciences (opened in 2004). If you want to learn something about nanosciences, this will be one of the world-best locations to study this.