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This is the No 1 busies airport in the world.
This airport is explanding every day ...
They are going to have 1-2millions visitors per day. in facr they are already serving 1millions people a day.
Beijing is a great city, with the economy is taking off, this airport is ever expanding.
Looking at the atmosphere & those pollutants in the air these are un-healthy for people to live.
The hours before I took the shot, there was raining. otherwise, we would never be able to see this beautiful scene.
Dreammy & foggy & misty!!
This button is a new addition to my ever-expanding vintage collection. It's just under 1½" wide and dates back to the late 1800s. The button is leaning against a vintage cotton reel and it's surrounded by hand-dyed silk ribbon. I think it's fair to say that I like pretty things. :)
The last commuter train of the morning from Lebanon to downtown Nashville (154) is about to arrive at Riverfront Station. An ex-Amtrak F40 shoves as the train passes the ever expanding skyline. Known as Music City Star until recently, the train has been rebranded as WeGo.
1943 War Effort. Still relevant today in efforts to respect our shared Home! Photo posted in my complex’s lobby.
In the spirit of Recycle, Repurpose, & Regift, Richard Rohr in his daily meditations, quotes Potawatomi botanist and author Robin Wall Kimmerer [who] critiques our obsession with economic growth:
“The threat of real scarcity on the horizon is brought to us by unbridled capitalism. Extraction and consumption outstrip the capacity of the Earth to replenish what we have taken. An economy based on the impossibility of ever expanding growth leads us into nightmare scenarios. I cringe when I hear economic reports celebrating the accelerating pace of economic growth, as if that were a good thing. It might be good for [some in power], for the short term, but it is a dead end for others—it is an engine of extinction.”
Kimmerer learns about the benefits of a “gift economy” from a local farmer and businesswoman who occasionally offers surplus Serviceberries to her neighbors for free.
Paulie has a reputation to uphold for being no-nonsense in her approach to life …:
“It’s not really altruism,” she insists. “An investment in community always comes back to you in some way. Maybe people who come for Serviceberries will come back for Sunflowers and then for the Blueberries. Sure, it’s a gift, but it’s also good marketing. The gift builds relationships, and that’s always a good thing….” The currency of relationship can manifest itself as money down the road, because Paulie and Ed do have to pay the bills….
“Even when something is paid for as a commodity, the gift of relationship is still attached to it. The ongoing reciprocity in gifting stretches beyond the next customer, though, into a whole web of relations that are not transactional. Paulie and Ed are banking goodwill, so-called social capital….
“I cherish the notion of the gift economy, that we might back away from the grinding system, which reduces everything to a commodity and leaves most of us bereft of what we really want: a sense of belonging and relationship and purpose and beauty, which can never be commoditized. I want to be part of a system in which wealth means having enough to share, and where the gratification of meeting your family needs is not poisoned by destroying that possibility for someone else. I want to live in a society where the currency of exchange is gratitude and the infinitely renewable resource of kindness, which multiplies every time it is shared rather than depreciating with use….
“I don’t think market capitalism is going to vanish; the faceless institutions that benefit from it are too entrenched. The thieves are very powerful. But I don’t think it’s pie in the sky to imagine that we can create incentives to nurture a gift economy that runs right alongside the market economy. After all, what we crave is not trickle-down, faceless profits, but reciprocal, face-to-face relationships, which are naturally abundant but made scarce by the anonymity of large-scale economics. We have the power to change that, to develop the local, reciprocal economies that serve community rather than undermine it.”
Quoted in Richard Rohr’s Daily Meditations,
Center for Action and Contemplation, October 9, 2025.
Museums - The British Museum
The British Museum was founded as a ‘Universal Museum’. Its beginnings are bequeathed from the will of Sir John Sloane. He amassed 71,000 items, manuscripts, books and many natural history items. He has a statue in the London Physic Garden, Chelsea.
In 1753 King George II gave his Royal Assent to build the Museum, the body of trustees chose Montagu House for its location. This was purchased from the family for £20,000. Ironically Buckingham Palace was rejected as being too expensive and the location, unsuitable.
The first exhibition for scholars was opened in January 1759. In those early days, the Library took up the whole of the ground floor, the first floor a large part was taken up by the Natural History collection.
In 1763 the Natural History collection was reclassified using the Linnaean System, after Carl Linnaeus, famous Swedish botanist. This made the Museum a centre of learning for European natural history scholars.
In the oncoming years there were many new additions particularly in the Library, David Garrick plays (approx. 1000) were one example but it wasn’t until 1772 when the first real quantities of antiques were purchased. This was the collection of Greek vases from Sir William Hamilton. More items came into the Museum. In 1778 objects from Capt. Cooks round-the-world voyages were brought back and donated. By the early 1800’s it was clear that further growth was not possible, furthermore there were signs of decrepitude and overcrowding.
In 1802 a building committee was set up. The upshot was that the Old Montague House was demolished and work began on the new building in 1823. It’s original intention was for a Library and Picture Gallery but this was changed because another new gallery was commissioned in 1824 (The National Gallery). So this building now housed the Natural History collection, the building work was completed in 1831.
Whilst this building work was going on items still came into the museum. In 1802 King George presented the Museum with the Rosetta Stone, (this was the key that opened the lock to deciphering hieroglyphs). In this period from 1802 – 1820 there were many gifts and purchases of Roman, Greek, Egyptian, Assyrian and Babylonian sculpture.
Because of the overwhelming number of objects coming into the museum, it was decided to move the whole of the natural history collection to The Natural History Museum in Kensington. In 1847 over 20,000 books were bequeathed by Sir Thomas Grenville (former trustee). These arrived in horse-draws carts, all 20 of them.
From 1840 – 1900 there were many new sources of objects coming into the Museum. Partial Tombs from ancient Lycia, more Assyrian artefacts from excavations, a valuable collection of antiquities belonging to the Duke of Blacas, (this collection the French government at the time refused to buy so instead it was sold to the Museum for FFr1.2m in 1867). In 1881 came a collection of armour, from William Burges and in 1897 another bequest, this time of Finger rings, drinking vessels, porcelain, Japanese inro and netsuke from A. W. Franks, curator and collector.
More pressure for room for the ever expanding collection culminated in the purchase of 69 surrounding houses. The first stage of construction began in 1906.
Over the years there have been many changes to the internal rooms in the museum itself. The Classical and Near East, The Duveen Gallery which was destroyed during WWII, now bought back to its best.
Notable additions to the museum include in 1939 ‘The Sutton Hoo’ treasures from the Anglo Saxon burial ship. In 1972 The Tutankhamun Treasures exhibition attracted over 1.6 million people. Also in that year Parliament passed a resolution to establish a British Library. This was a real necessity as 1.25 miles of new shelving was needed to house the books coming into the Museum on a yearly basis. However it wasn’t until 1997 that the books actually left. Redevelopment of the space took place and was opened in 2000 as the ‘Queen Elizabeth II Great Court’.
From those original days of 1753, the British Museum has 13 million items, The natural History Museum 70 million and the British Library has 150 million. An impressive collection of items. I have merely scratched the surface. Definitely worth the visit and don’t forget, it’s F R E E.
-->> Lunar 8
-- -- -- > > > >
..behind the 8s..
..constant behind the 8s..
.. it's out if this world..
..what good is libery when they are all dead..
sacrifice in the unjust..
.. die in stead ..in the vanity of the truly insane..powers so much larger than myself are hell bent on destruction..
..it didn't make sence on day 1,whenever that was..
..it makes no sence on day 1000 or whenever it is.
.. o,"Military town".. slaughter me for you hatred of me near equals the illusion that i had of what was once my home too..
..anxiety ever expands ..the hopless ever expands..
..the rhetoric won't stop .. and the delusions that "i'd matter" ..truly imbead themselves in the fibs of the cliches..
.. i can't know normality.. perhaps i wasn't ever meant to know..
.i suppose that term didn't truly exist for anyone i knew anyway.
If it did.. it's presence is on the decrease for certain.
..the pain is not a concern so much as continually searching to be real..
.. the more they are fighting..the less i understand why they are fighting..
8 8 88 ..8s..
.. behind the 8s..
.. will i ever catch it.. up . .1-up .. confront.. conquor ??
..
.. need to be dead.. i conquer ..
.. San Diego is looming..
it shouldn't be looming..
it should be charging me up.. exciting me..
instead i am a manic wreck tryig to pull it all together ..((as usual))..
8s..
8s..
.. gun .. need gun ..
.. need silence..
they won't allow me to have it..
.. i shall have it..
.. i shall shoot the 8s ..
.. ..
..i need in front..
and only i can do it.. noone can help me..
..everyone has more powerful tools.. more powerful computers and equipment.. i work with what weak little i have in the junkyard..
..still as ghetto as it is i try to maintain..even this is used against me.
WHY ?? Cuz i ain' cutting edge.. ?? Cuz i ain' Mp3in' the ipods and the laptops and calling my Skype on the Blackberry.. ?! Oops ya dropped your earpiece in your Starbucks..
..
Yeh .. you got money .. good for you..
i'm sh7t.. my artwork is sh7t.. my life is sh6t.. and i bust my arse too to make it un-sh8t..
.. got grab your 8 and f7ck yourself.. all think they better than me !?
.. fine YOU ARE..
.. take you 8 and swallow it.. scince you can't seem to swallow your pride..
..stoopit fag.. 'tOkKa' ..
.. schizo .. and snapper.. and his 8s..
.. 8 8 8 .. ..overwhelm..
anxiety city.. 8 88 8 ..seein to much..
.. but at least i feel again for now.
..corner pockets..
>v<
In the course of the Federation's ever expanding exploratory activities, many extraordinary phenomena were observed. Particularly perishable specimens had to be analysed on the ground and so roving laboratories were employed to allow speedy analysis of the exotic minerals, flora, and fauna found on newly discovered worlds.
Solar panels allowed for much longer journeys into these boundless vistas.
The 40th anniversary of Classic Space keeps on roving! I actually finished this build well before Febrovery, but didn't manage to photograph properly until recently. The lab is detachable. It has an interior with two scientists, but I found it impossible to capture! (It also has a windscreen below the steering, though it's hard to see here.) All old grey of course.
siamese chairs, Doel, Antwerp.
Doel is a small ghost town next to the ever expanding port of Antwerp.
Since 1999 the villagers are being expropriated, and most of them left. Anarchist squatters and Roma families have taken their places, since then living illegally in the abandoned houses. Kids are playing outside (instead of going to school), dogs look for food amongst the garbage, and the household stuff is often thrown on the streets. Yet, a couple of pubs are still serving their customers, the police is driving around, and the government is promising a quick solution for the 100 or so illegal Roma gypsies...
Doel, Antwerp.
Doel is a small ghost town next to the ever expanding port of Antwerp.
Since 1999 the villagers are being expropriated, and most of them left. Anarchist squatters and Roma families have taken their places, since then living illegally in the abandoned houses. Kids are playing outside (instead of going to school), dogs look for food amongst the garbage, and the household stuff is often thrown on the streets. Yet, a couple of pubs are still serving their customers, the police is driving around, and the government is promising a quick solution for the 100 or so illegal Roma gypsies...
The original Dr. Evil
This is the look you get when a Red tail Hawk is fantasizing about implanting its talons into your ever-expanding forehead.
Taken at Muscatatuck NWR, Indiana
Visiting Brussels, of course I had to go to the National Botanic Garden of Belgium just north of the capital at Meise. A truly marvellous place and a fine Sunny Day. Enormous glass houses, a castle, a large bee-stall; but the Oudoors with its two pretty lakes drew me more today as it did also these Honeybees, Apis mellifera, as if flying 'relay' for Pollen. Just look at the filled Pollen Baskets, corbicula, of the Bee about to set off, and her Sister's not yet quite full one.
They're on the flower of a Rose shrub sign-posted as Rosa pulverulenta. That Rose was first scientifically described in 1808 by Friedrich August Marschall von Bieberstein (1768-1826), a German naturalist, botanist, explorer and sometime diplomat in the service of the Russian Empire. He'd travelled and explored the Caucasian Regions of ever-expanding Russia. Near Kislovodsk, Stavropol Krai, in the Circassian Mountains from which plunges the 'acidic' Narzana River (supplying spa-waters to Kislovodsk), he found this Rose. In his description he doesn't mention the pine smell of its foliage upon which later descriptors remark. Indeed, try as I might I could discern nothing of the sort myself this morning. I also attempted to find the 'powderiness' on stems or leaves - 'pulverulenta' - which is said to protect plants such as these from the UV light of high altitudes. But saw none; perhaps the word is descriptive rather of the powdery red color of the Rose.
Regardless my failures, you might imagine I spent some happy time with this Pretty Rose and its other Two Visitors...
I thought this image of the Canary Wharf Underground station would work well in black and white but I think I actually prefer the colour version.
I'd be interested to know what other people think ?
Taken on a recent 12hr photo-marathon to mark the 31st birthday of the Docklands Light Railway, I've photographed Canary Wharf Underground station several times before but I think this panoramic crop of a fisheye shot is one of my favourites.
Click here to see more shots of Norman Foster (and Richard Rogers) architecture : www.flickr.com/photos/darrellg/albums/72157604136925631
From Wikipedia : "Above ground there is little sign of the vast interior: two curved glass canopies at the east and west ends of the station cover the entrances and allow daylight into the ticket hall below. The Jubilee Park, a public park is situated between the two canopies, above the station concourse. It had originally been intended that the infilled section of the dock would be reinstated above the station, but this proved impractical because of technical difficulties and the park was created instead.
As with the other below-ground stations on the Jubilee Line extension, both station platforms are equipped with platform screen doors.
Canary Wharf station has become one of the busiest stations on the network, serving the ever-expanding Canary Wharf business district. Although it shares its name with the Docklands Light Railway station at Canary Wharf, the two are not directly integrated (in fact, Heron Quays DLR station is nearer at street level). All three stations are connected underground via shopping malls. Out-of-station interchange within twenty minutes between any two of the stations entails no additional charge."
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Shanghai is the largest city in China in terms of population and one of the largest metropolitan areas in the world, with over 20 million people. Located on China's central eastern coast at the mouth of the Yangtze River, the city is administered as a municipality of the People's Republic of China with province-level status.
Originally a fishing and textiles town, Shanghai grew to importance in the 19th century due to its favourable port location and as one of the cities opened to foreign trade by the 1842 Treaty of Nanking. The city flourished as a center of commerce between east and west, and became a multinational hub of finance and business by the 1930s. However, Shanghai's prosperity was interrupted after the 1949 Communist takeover and the subsequent cessation of foreign investment. Economic reforms in 1990 resulted in intense development and financing in Shanghai, and in 2005 Shanghai became the world's largest cargo port.
The city is an emerging tourist destination renowned for its historical landmarks such as the Bund and Xintiandi, its modern and ever-expanding Pudong skyline including the Oriental Pearl Tower, and its new reputation as a cosmopolitan center of culture and design. Today, Shanghai is the largest center of commerce and finance in mainland China, and has been described as the "showpiece" of the world's fastest-growing economy.
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TAKEN @ SATURN ENTERTAINMENT - COME SEE US IN SECOND LIFE FOR AN EVER EXPANDING COLLECTION OF BACKDROPS AND POSES.
Roma family, Doel, Antwerp. Kids watching a Bollywood dvd.
Doel is a small ghost town next to the ever expanding port of Antwerp.
Since 1999 the villagers are being expropriated, and most of them left. Anarchist squatters and Roma families have taken their places, since then living illegally in the abandoned houses. Kids are playing outside (instead of going to school), dogs look for food amongst the garbage, and the household stuff is often thrown on the streets. Yet, a couple of pubs are still serving their customers, the police is driving around, and the government is promising a quick solution for the 100 or so illegal Roma gypsies...
The other reason I was standing on a bridge in the pouring rain being pitied by passing drivers!....
The latest of GBRf's ever expanding fleet to enter service, 66312, weaves its way through Atlantis (sorry - Syston) in charge of 4M29, the 10.28 modal from Felixstowe North to Birch Coppice.
NEW HASHIMA a Sector 08 (端島): Apartments Available
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Happy to share a new addition to the New Hashima collaborative project. A high rise apartment building ready to house the residents of the ever expanding city. Keep an eye out for more updates coming soon. The city is headed to ATL Brickcon in Feb and Brickworld Chicago in June. Come out and see it for yourself!
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A pair of Cotswold Rail's Class 47's, #47828, "Joe Strummer"; leads #47813, "John Peel"; lead Heartland Rail's charter from Wolverhampton to Penzance through Coryton's Cove in Dawlish on Saturday the 19th of August 2006.
Both locomotives are surprisingly still with us - #47828 is now part of Locomotive Services ever expanding fleet of diesel locomotives and #47813 is working for West Coast Railways (WCRC).
The Inventor
Don't question his methods
Hector was the creator of the original Plague Mech: Alpha. Ever since it went rogue and escaped, he has been doing all he can to combat an ever expanding army of Plague Mechs, now being created by his rival who goes by the name - Artillerix. Hector now marks all Plague Mechs of his own with gold accents - something to look out for when determining whether you've encountered a friend, or a foe
Museums - The British Museum
The British Museum was founded as a ‘Universal Museum’. Its beginnings are bequeathed from the will of Sir John Sloane. He amassed 71,000 items, manuscripts, books and many natural history items. He has a statue in the London Physic Garden, Chelsea.
In 1753 King George II gave his Royal Assent to build the Museum, the body of trustees chose Montagu House for its location. This was purchased from the family for £20,000. Ironically Buckingham Palace was rejected as being too expensive and the location, unsuitable.
The first exhibition for scholars was opened in January 1759. In those early days, the Library took up the whole of the ground floor, the first floor a large part was taken up by the Natural History collection.
In 1763 the Natural History collection was reclassified using the Linnaean System, after Carl Linnaeus, famous Swedish botanist. This made the Museum a centre of learning for European natural history scholars.
In the oncoming years there were many new additions particularly in the Library, David Garrick plays (approx. 1000) were one example but it wasn’t until 1772 when the first real quantities of antiques were purchased. This was the collection of Greek vases from Sir William Hamilton. More items came into the Museum. In 1778 objects from Capt. Cooks round-the-world voyages were brought back and donated. By the early 1800’s it was clear that further growth was not possible, furthermore there were signs of decrepitude and overcrowding.
In 1802 a building committee was set up. The upshot was that the Old Montague House was demolished and work began on the new building in 1823. It’s original intention was for a Library and Picture Gallery but this was changed because another new gallery was commissioned in 1824 (The National Gallery). So this building now housed the Natural History collection, the building work was completed in 1831.
Whilst this building work was going on items still came into the museum. In 1802 King George presented the Museum with the Rosetta Stone, (this was the key that opened the lock to deciphering hieroglyphs). In this period from 1802 – 1820 there were many gifts and purchases of Roman, Greek, Egyptian, Assyrian and Babylonian sculpture.
Because of the overwhelming number of objects coming into the museum, it was decided to move the whole of the natural history collection to The Natural History Museum in Kensington. In 1847 over 20,000 books were bequeathed by Sir Thomas Grenville (former trustee). These arrived in horse-draws carts, all 20 of them.
From 1840 – 1900 there were many new sources of objects coming into the Museum. Partial Tombs from ancient Lycia, more Assyrian artefacts from excavations, a valuable collection of antiquities belonging to the Duke of Blacas, (this collection the French government at the time refused to buy so instead it was sold to the Museum for FFr1.2m in 1867). In 1881 came a collection of armour, from William Burges and in 1897 another bequest, this time of Finger rings, drinking vessels, porcelain, Japanese inro and netsuke from A. W. Franks, curator and collector.
More pressure for room for the ever expanding collection culminated in the purchase of 69 surrounding houses. The first stage of construction began in 1906.
Over the years there have been many changes to the internal rooms in the museum itself. The Classical and Near East, The Duveen Gallery which was destroyed during WWII, now bought back to its best.
Notable additions to the museum include in 1939 ‘The Sutton Hoo’ treasures from the Anglo Saxon burial ship. In 1972 The Tutankhamun Treasures exhibition attracted over 1.6 million people. Also in that year Parliament passed a resolution to establish a British Library. This was a real necessity as 1.25 miles of new shelving was needed to house the books coming into the Museum on a yearly basis. However it wasn’t until 1997 that the books actually left. Redevelopment of the space took place and was opened in 2000 as the ‘Queen Elizabeth II Great Court’.
From those original days of 1753, the British Museum has 13 million items, The natural History Museum 70 million and the British Library has 150 million. An impressive collection of items. I have merely scratched the surface. Definitely worth the visit and don’t forget, it’s F R E E.
Knysna in the Western Cape province of South Africa. It is one of the destinations on the loosely defined Garden Route tourist route. It is situated 60 kilometres east of the city of George on the N2 highway, and 33 kilometres west of the Plettenberg Bay on the same road.
Forty fossilised hominid footprints, dating to about 90,000 years ago, along with various other archaeological discoveries suggest that humans have lived in Knysna for well over 300,000 years. The first of these were various San Hunter-gatherer peoples who inhabited most of Southern Africa in paleolithic. The San were gradually displaced and absorbed by south migrating Khoekhoe peoples.
The indigenous inhabitants of the Knysna area are a southern Khoekhoe people called the Houtunqua or Outeniqua. Their name means "The People Who Bear Honey". From the Khoekhoegowab words /hao, 'honey', tun'(teni), 'to carry (verb)', and khoe rendered as qua meaning people.
Little is known about Houtunqua society prior to European contact. What little historical sources exist are not elaborate. It is suspected that at the height of the Houtunqua's society, their territory stretched from the mouth of the Krom River in the east, along the Outeniqua Mountains which bear their name, up until the mouth of the Grootbrak River in the west.
The Houtunqua seem to have remained autonomous from the Inqua (Hamcumqua) expansion in the north with smaller Khoekhoe tribes like the Gamtobaqua coming into the fold of the Houtunqua to seek protection from the ever expanding Inqua to the north east. The Houtunqua were connected to trades routes with the Attaqua and Hessequa to the west.
Archaeological evidence suggests that the Houtunqua kept livestock and practised Nomadic Pastoralism but made extensive use of the resources in mountain forests. Excavations in the region have unearthed many caves showing signs of pre-colonial occupation.The discovery of shell middens at Knoetzie beach confirms the idea that like other Khoekhoe peoples, the Houtuniqua made use of the ocean for its resources.
Oral tradition among the Houtunqua tells how the Houtunqua held specific superstitions about Europeans and believed them to be "baleful spirits". Thus the Houtunqua went out of their way to avoid contact with Europeans. Where other Khoekhoe tribes established formal relations and trade with Europeans, the Houtunqua receded deeper and deeper into the mountain forests. As a result the Houtunqua disappeared from the historical record for some time with some Houtunqua eventually assimilating into colonial society of the time. Chief Dikkop, who died in 1816, was the last recorded Chief of the Houtunqua.
The first Europeans arrived in the area in 1760, and the farm Melkhoutkraal (literally translating from Afrikaans as 'milk wood kraal') was established on the eastern shore of the Knysna Lagoon. Stephanus Terblans, the first European farmer to settle in the area, was given a loan permit to farm here in 1770.
Upon moving to Knysna George Rex, a British-born entrepreneur credited as being the founder of Knysna, acquired the loan rights to Melkhoutkraal in 1804 and later, in 1816, to the farm Welbedacht, which he renamed Eastford. He gave 80 acres (32 ha) of Eastford to the Colonial Government, on which the Royal Navy established the township of Melville. Rex's properties were sold when he died in 1839.
In April 1817, the transport brig Emu, belonging to the Cape Town Dockyard, was the first European vessel to enter the Knysna Heads. She struck a rock, now known as Emu Rock, and was holed. Her crew ran Emu ashore to prevent her sinking. In late April HMS Podargus arrived to render assistance. After surveying the area, Podargus sailed safely into the Knysna and retrieved Emu's cargo.
The next major settler in Knysna was Captain Thomas Henry Duthie, who married Caroline, George Rex's daughter, and bought a portion of the Uitzigt farm from his father-in-law which Rex had named Belvidere. The construction of a small Norman-style church was commissioned by Duthie on his property, and was consecrated in 1855. The settlement's population grew slowly, and Englishmen such as Henry Barrington and Lt. Col. John Sutherland, who established the settlement of Newhaven on a portion of purchased land, settled in the area. At the time, Knysna was a field cornetcy of Plettenberg Bay within the Magisterial Division of George. In 1858, Knysna became a separate Magisterial Division, new stores and accommodation facilities were opened, and Knysna became the new commercial centre of the region.
On their way to New Zealand, the Thesen family who were travelling from Norway fancied the little hamlet of Knysna so much that they decided to stay, bringing with them their knowledge of commerce and sailing. Soon, timber was being exported to the Cape from the vast areas of forest surrounding Knysna, and a steam sawmill and small shipyard were established. Later, these were relocated to Paarden Island, later known as Thesen's Island.
In 1878, an important discovery was made in the area. A gold nugget was found in the Karatara River, near Ruigtevlei. Soon fortune hunters from all over the world arrived at the Millwood Forest in search of gold, and Millwood grew into a bustling town. Millwood was declared a gold field, the first in South Africa. However, soon not enough gold was being recovered to sustain a growing town, and the mining industry in the area collapsed. Some miners relocated to Knysna, bringing their little homes with them. One of the houses, known as 'Millwood House', now functions as a museum.
a recent addition to my ever expanding "Glass Works" series.
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My guilty pleasure is my ever expanding collection of saltwater corals. This is a mushroom coral that I got for free because it was "dead". Clearly it was not dead as it is now 6" across and my clownfish lives underneath it.
Valley Heights Rail Museum
"THE WORK HORSE: The ever expanding rail network in NSW at the start of the 20th century saw the need for larger locomotives, built for heavy goods service.
TF class was a further development of
the earlier, very successtul T class locomotives.
These TF locomotives saw service on most main lines in NSW, with only a few
lines being closed to them due to weight limits. Large numbers were allocated to country depots such as Bathurst, Lithgow, Goulburn and Broadmeadow.
A total of 190 of the class were built between 1912 and 1917 by local manufacturers: 160 by Clyde Engineering and 30 by Eveleigh Railway Workshops. Construction of the class by NSW manufacturers reflected the trend towards using local builders and the ongoing commitment to the development of local railway technology
5461 was built in 1916 at Clyde Engineering Granville and commenced service
as engine No 1174. Following a new numbering system introduced in 1924, its number was changed to 5461.
The majority of the class were built with or later fitted with superheating steam
technology
Superheating is where steam is returned to the firetubes and reheated to a higher temperature. This superheated steam produces more energy than normal steam, resulting in increased power.
While still under its former number of 1174, this locomotive gained the unenviable reputation for being the worst performing in the class due to its poor steaming efficiency. It was nearly impossible to maintain a good head of steam. Later it was established that its blast pipe did not line up with the chimney, resulting in a lack of draft for the firebox.
During their working life the whole TF class underwent mechanical changes, including the fitting of boilers suitable for the (D) 50. (D) 53 and (D) 55 class locomotives. This improved their overall performance, making them more productive.
5461 saw service all over NSW including periods here at Valley Heights during the 1950s, working as a pilot engine assisting goods (freight) and passenger trains up the steep grade to Katoomba. After a service life of 50 years, it was then used by the NSW Rail Transport Museum until the 1980s. Boiler defects forced its retirement to Valley Heights Rail Museum where it is displayed as a static exhibit.
Locomotive 546l is rare. It is one of a few surviving locomotives of the T, TF and K classes that once numbered over 500.
One of God’s creations that has avoided my lens, or should I say may ability to properly focus my lens, has been the Bull Elk. On at least four separate occasions I have had the opportunity to photograph these lads in the wild, and for some very irritating reason, highway and pasture fencing was involved that kept me at great distances and allowed atmospherics to hamper that crisp clear shot I so desire.
An October 21st to the 28th trip to Colorado was approved by my personal banker and keeper of the funds (Jojo) to rectify this gap in my ever-growing critter repertoire.
Many hours of research placed us in Grand Lake Colorado, a beautiful little gateway town to the Rocky Mountains National Park. My research indicated that elk would surely be everywhere…this is where the first thing that I didn’t know comes into play.
Colorado experienced its largest wildfires in its history some 5 or so years ago. The Rocky Mountains National Park at Grand Lake took a major hit with thousands and thousands of acres still to this day showing a recovery that will not be fulfilled in my lifetime. I was told by locals here are still some elk in this part of Colorado, but they would be sporadic. I was so disappointed that I considered climbing into bed for the rest of our time there. As we kept questioning the local population, the conscious advice was “Go to Estes Park for The Gathering.”
Estes Park was on our list of day/shopping trips for the ladies and I knew that it was famous for the gathering, where thousands of elk descend into the valley as they have done for thousands of years. When man came along and started the ever-expanding town, the elk simply refuse to go elsewhere as it is a matter of surviving winter. There are so many elk there now that the golf courses provide rainchecks when it rains and elk-checks when the elk are all over the golf course. Photographing elk in Estes Park is muck like shooting fish in a barrel and wasn’t what I desired, but was a back-up for sure.
The next thing that I didn’t know that I didn’t know is that the hour and a half drive from Grand Lake to Estes Park was only available certain times of the year. This route took you though the Rocky Mountains National Park along the highest road in the US…with no guardrails! I for one was looking forward to the drive! Unbeknownst to this kid, this option was closed for the winter the day before our arrival…thus making Estes Park a 7+ hour round trip drive and thus, mentally ejected as a possible back-up to get my much desired “wall hanger” elk shot. This road closure also blocked us from seeing more than 90 percent of the park.
The last thing from this trip that I didn’t know was how much I am loved. Without hesitation, our friends and Jojo jumped on the idea of driving to Estes Park and spending the night there. A suggestion that since we already had a cabin paid for in Grand Lake, doubled the lodging costs for that night. They went on to discuss how this plan would provide me an opportunity to photograph elk in both the evening and morning light. My heart immediately did the Grinch growth thing as it was overwhelmed by kindness. Sleeping well that night wasn’t an option!
Arriving in Estes Park around lunchtime, we were all surprised that “The Gathering” that was in progress yielded no elk in sight. The ladies at the visitor center and in many of the shops all said the same, almost robotic response when asked about the elk…” They’re Everywhere,” a phrase that became a joke amongst our tribe as we scoured high and low for these massive creatures.
Just as the sun started to set, what was once a joke to us became a reality as too many to count elk began appearing from a hillside near the high school. With the exception of getting a strand of downed barbed wire rapped around my leg as I tried to change angles and lighting, I was in elk heaven!
This shot, from our evening with the elk would represent everything that I could have prayed for. What I didn’t know was what God had planned for me the next morning!
It’s amazing how one act of compassion, flowing from love by those in our life can wipe away so many little disappointments that previously seemed so large?
Adventure before dementia!
Considering their ever expanding fleet of locos, it's difficult to believe that GBRf were short on traction! However, on this occasion, Freightliner stepped in to provide the power for this GBRf turn.
Freightliner's 66555 eases into Bingham in charge of 6G35, the 09.30 engineers from Heckington to Toton North Yard.
In the course of the Federation's ever expanding exploratory activities, many extraordinary phenomena were observed. Particularly perishable specimens had to be analysed on the ground and so roving laboratories were employed to allow speedy analysis of the exotic minerals, flora, and fauna found on newly discovered worlds.
Solar panels allowed for much longer journeys into these boundless vistas.
One I didn't post last year, but thought I'd post it now!
A trio of IC SD70s- 1001, 1015 and 1017- power the Kirk-Markham-Glenn transfer past 16th Street Tower, while Chicago's ever-expanding skyline sprouts a new building.
"I do live here. Do not enter!" - abandoned house, Doel, Antwerp.
Doel is a small ghost town next to the ever expanding port of Antwerp.
Since 1999 the villagers are being expropriated, and most of them left. Anarchist squatters and Roma families have taken their places, since then living illegally in the abandoned houses. Kids are playing outside (instead of going to school), dogs look for food amongst the garbage, and the household stuff is often thrown on the streets. Yet, a couple of pubs are still serving their customers, the police is driving around, and the government is promising a quick solution for the 100 or so illegal Roma gypsies...
TAKEN @ SATURN ENTERTAINMENT - COME SEE US IN SECOND LIFE FOR AN EVER EXPANDING COLLECTION OF BACKDROPS AND POSES.
Even in the pink stillness of pre-dawn, there are the lights of ever-expanding suburbia and the constant drone of traffic. This lake was surrounded by kilometres of paddocks only 5 years ago.
From the old days... The wonderful Jokulsarlon ice lake in Iceland. Rediscovered this gem while cleaning up my ever expanding hard drives. HDR tone mapping on 3 bracketed shots.
Sony Alpha 230 + Sony 18-55mm.
Worsley Loopline, Monton
The Beeching cuts (also known as the Beeching Axe) were a reduction of route network and restructuring of the railways in Great Britain, according to a plan outlined in two reports, The Reshaping of British Railways (1963) and The Development of the Major Railway Trunk Routes (1965), written by Dr Richard Beeching and published by the British Railways Board.
Like many areas that lost branch lines, my area suffered as well. There is no line that connect Atherton, Tyldesley, Astley, Walkden, Worsley and Monton. Whilst Manchester has been reversing this loss with the ever expanding Metrolink light rail network to the affluent areas of Greater Manchester, the west side has not been as fortunate. So to make amends we have the mis-guided busway that connects with the East Lancs Road and this walking trail that utilises the old railway lines from my home at Mosley Common all the way to Monton.
As part of an exercise regime we have walked this route half a dozen times now - from front door to Costa Coffee in Monton (can't do these things on an empty stomach) and back again - a round trip of about 8.6 miles. I'd taken my camera and tripod this trip with the intention of capturing the Park Runners that set off from the Monton end on their weekly 5km circuit. There are the remnants of the old Worsley station platforms that I hoped to capture them running through, but we arrived too late to setup and the results a bit rushed but promising so another trip beckons.
This is taken on the way back... after coffee and toast!
By the 6th of November 1958 Lake Moondarra, originally known as Leichhardt Dam, was officially supplying water to Mount Isa Residents.
A history of the Mount Isa region, like most towns in Australia's arid interior, is a story about securing reliable water for domestic and industrial development. Prior to the construction of Lake Moondarra, Mount Isa's water needs were met by a series of bores near the bed of the Leichhardt River and the old Rifle Creek Dam.
But with a burgeoning town population and ever expanding mining operations, these water supplies became inadequate for the thirsty town. Subsequently, Mount Isa Mines Limited took the unprecedented decision to construct what was at the time Australia's largest privately funded water scheme.
In late 1956 a rocky gorge on the Leichhardt River (Tharrapatha) 16kms downstream from the township was selected due to its natural bedrock attributes and proximity to town. American company Uta Construction was awarded the contract and works began without delay with the building of a bitumen road from town to the clearing of trees within the basin.
However, this ambitious project was not to progress without drama, and by December 1956 seasonal rains sent flood waters rushing through the gorge causing extensive damage to the partially completed wall. When construction did resume several months later, it was the Australian company Thiess Brothers that completed the 26.5 metre concrete-faced wall thereby concluding Operation Big Water in 1957 at a cost of 2.4 million dollars.
On the 11th of July 1962 the Mount Isa Mail announced Lake Moondarra and 'Warrina Park' as new official names selected from over 400 entries by local school children.
In 1968 Clear Water Lagoon was partition off from Lake Moondarra to address water quality issues during flood events and interestingly remains one of few examples of natural filtration reservoirs in Australia.
On average 2000 megalitres/month is filtered through Clear Water Lagoon after being pumped from Lake Moondarra. Due in part to Moondarra's high evaporation rate and the region's sustained growth and development the need to secure additional water supplies continued. In 1971 the height of Moondarra's spillway was increased and later in 1976 Lake Moondarra's sister dam Lake Julius, also on the Leichhardt River, was completed 70km downstream from Mount Isa. During times of prolonged drought, Lake Julius water can be pumped directly into Clear Water Lagoon.
Undeniably, economic growth and development are the catalysts for offering forever our inland waterways and natural, cultural landscapes.
Source: Southern Gulf NRM & Mount Isa Water Board.
The sad and loneliness of the once was Grand Avenue of downtown Los Angeles! The heart of the arts and business in the ever expanding regenoviation of L.A.'s center. Buildings seen here are the Wells Fargo Building, MOCA ,behind me The Broad Museum and Frank Gehry's masterpiece the Walt Disney Concert Hall!
By the 6th of November 1958 Lake Moondarra, originally known as Leichhardt Dam, was officially supplying water to Mount Isa Residents.
A history of the Mount Isa region, like most towns in Australia's arid interior, is a story about securing reliable water for domestic and industrial development. Prior to the construction of Lake Moondarra, Mount Isa's water needs were met by a series of bores near the bed of the Leichhardt River and the old Rifle Creek Dam.
But with a burgeoning town population and ever expanding mining operations, these water supplies became inadequate for the thirsty town. Subsequently, Mount Isa Mines Limited took the unprecedented decision to construct what was at the time Australia's largest privately funded water scheme.
In late 1956 a rocky gorge on the Leichhardt River (Tharrapatha) 16kms downstream from the township was selected due to its natural bedrock attributes and proximity to town. American company Uta Construction was awarded the contract and works began without delay with the building of a bitumen road from town to the clearing of trees within the basin.
However, this ambitious project was not to progress without drama, and by December 1956 seasonal rains sent flood waters rushing through the gorge causing extensive damage to the partially completed wall. When construction did resume several months later, it was the Australian company Thiess Brothers that completed the 26.5 metre concrete-faced wall thereby concluding Operation Big Water in 1957 at a cost of 2.4 million dollars.
On the 11th of July 1962 the Mount Isa Mail announced Lake Moondarra and 'Warrina Park' as new official names selected from over 400 entries by local school children.
In 1968 Clear Water Lagoon was partition off from Lake Moondarra to address water quality issues during flood events and interestingly remains one of few examples of natural filtration reservoirs in Australia.
On average 2000 megalitres/month is filtered through Clear Water Lagoon after being pumped from Lake Moondarra. Due in part to Moondarra's high evaporation rate and the region's sustained growth and development the need to secure additional water supplies continued. In 1971 the height of Moondarra's spillway was increased and later in 1976 Lake Moondarra's sister dam Lake Julius, also on the Leichhardt River, was completed 70km downstream from Mount Isa. During times of prolonged drought, Lake Julius water can be pumped directly into Clear Water Lagoon.
Undeniably, economic growth and development are the catalysts for offering forever our inland waterways and natural, cultural landscapes.
Source: Southern Gulf NRM & Mount Isa Water Board.
Still looking good after it repaint, ROG's 37800 heads away from the ever expanding Little Bowden with 5Q46 08.55 Doncaster works wagon shops - Wembley Reception 1-7 with Southeasterns 465933 in tow on 23rd November 2022.
This sculpture is one of Leigh Dyer's pieces installed in St.Leonards on Sea and Bexhill in East Sussex
I had been looking for it for a while and was happy to find it on a day that was sunny and the blue sky reflected in the stainless steel surfaces.
Leigh Dyer says of himself
"Being a self taught sculptor who works in metal, I've never wanted or been able to pigeon hole my work. Each of my pieces starts with a sheet of A4, my trusty fine-liner and a spark of an idea. As the design develops I draw upon the history and environment the final piece will reside. I translate my drawings into reality with an ever expanding vocabulary of metal work techniques, that are both traditional and modern. From the architectural forms of an art deco printing press, to an octopus playing chess, I endeavour to create visions that are engaging for all generations. I particularly love to work on publicly commissioned sculptures, as the integration of my work becoming part of a community, is a constant inspiration to me.
To learn more about the making of this structure watch:
In a non-creedal, non-doctrinal religious association like Unitarian Universalism, one where we are charged with individual and collective searches for truth and meaning, it's especially important for each of us to know what we believe.
During the last few weeks, I have been leading a class called "Healing the Wounds of Our Religious Past," in which twelve members of the congregation, including myself, looked at the ways in which we have been affected by the religious heritage of our families, our own spiritual journeys, and the history of Unitarian Universalism. Each of us created a "prayer book," a resource that we could use to explore our own truths and hopefully use to share with others on a similar journey. This is mine. Inspired by Kathleen Norris' book Amazing Grace: A Vocabulary of Faith, and the 365 Days project so many here on Flickr are taking part in, I used photographs and captions to explore my own relationship with theological terms.
This is the beginning of an ever-expanding and ever-changing personal creed.
Valley Heights Rail Museum
"THE WORK HORSE: The ever expanding rail network in NSW at the start of the 20th century saw the need for larger locomotives, built for heavy goods service.
TF class was a further development of
the earlier, very successtul T class locomotives.
These TF locomotives saw service on most main lines in NSW, with only a few
lines being closed to them due to weight limits. Large numbers were allocated to country depots such as Bathurst, Lithgow, Goulburn and Broadmeadow.
A total of 190 of the class were built between 1912 and 1917 by local manufacturers: 160 by Clyde Engineering and 30 by Eveleigh Railway Workshops. Construction of the class by NSW manufacturers reflected the trend towards using local builders and the ongoing commitment to the development of local railway technology
5461 was built in 1916 at Clyde Engineering Granville and commenced service
as engine No 1174. Following a new numbering system introduced in 1924, its number was changed to 5461.
The majority of the class were built with or later fitted with superheating steam
technology
Superheating is where steam is returned to the firetubes and reheated to a higher temperature. This superheated steam produces more energy than normal steam, resulting in increased power.
While still under its former number of 1174, this locomotive gained the unenviable reputation for being the worst performing in the class due to its poor steaming efficiency. It was nearly impossible to maintain a good head of steam. Later it was established that its blast pipe did not line up with the chimney, resulting in a lack of draft for the firebox.
During their working life the whole TF class underwent mechanical changes, including the fitting of boilers suitable for the (D) 50. (D) 53 and (D) 55 class locomotives. This improved their overall performance, making them more productive.
5461 saw service all over NSW including periods here at Valley Heights during the 1950s, working as a pilot engine assisting goods (freight) and passenger trains up the steep grade to Katoomba. After a service life of 50 years, it was then used by the NSW Rail Transport Museum until the 1980s. Boiler defects forced its retirement to Valley Heights Rail Museum where it is displayed as a static exhibit.
Locomotive 546l is rare. It is one of a few surviving locomotives of the T, TF and K classes that once numbered over 500.
The Bohemian Den was created in out of a desire to offer an unparalleled retail experience in Macon, Georgia. A place where artisans and artists can showcase goods that speak to the essence that is Downtown Macon.
They have added an ever-expanding array of bells and chimes, books, candles, crystals and stones, incense, faire trade jewelry, kantha quilts, singing bowls, smudging wands, soapstone, tarot, totas, and more.
The Bohemian Den recently won the OUT Georgia Business Alliance 2022 Small Business of the Year and our owner, Scott Mitchell, was named the Macon-Bibb Chamber of Commerce Small Business Leader of the Year.
Ever expanding mine waste from the RioTinto/Kennecott open pit copper mine, Salt Lake County, Utah.
Photographed in 665 nanometer infrared using an infrared modified Canon 20D and rendered in true color infrared.
Photographically-speaking, I was pretty productive at the cherry blossoms this year, but it has taken me a while to really follow up on that productivity. I made two of these holgaramas this year, and one of them still remains unassembled. But I am inspired again to sit down finally put that one together, after showing a number of them during my Holga lecture at the state fair this weekend. I posted this one originally to 500px a couple months ago and decided to share it over here too. I still intend to write up a good comparison of the two sites, but my keyboard broke a week ago and I finally replaced it. You try typing with a non-functioning B and N key. Heh, it really makes you more conscious of word choice because using the on-screen keyboard is tedious at best. ;-)
Notes from an exhibit in Venice in 2019.
The wallpaper room created by Nadia Myre to welcome visitors consists of three walls and a heart-shaped sculpture woven over with beads. Guided by a soundscape evoking a mythical origin story of the universe beginning with a single sound, the visitor enters a built environment that mixes European and Native elements around which mutually shared stories were variably passed on by American peoples and Europeans each in their own way. Contextual elements such as ships, sections of maps, and other culturally relevant icons displayed on Myre’s design walls furnish the background for the centre piece of her installation: a human heart covered with Murano beads. Presented in much the same way as a man-made object in a Renaissance cabinet of curiosity this three-dimensional piece is emblematic of the relationship that Venice has indirectly had with indigenous North Americans over the centuries. Beads are here a marker or difference and identity simultaneously. Europeans conquered with Venice beads the hearts and imagination of Native peoples who eagerly welcomed this new trade good since the early contact phases. Historically appreciated for their brilliance and versatility, indigenous women created artworks of accomplished skill and beauty. Myre’s glass-covered heart continues in a long-standing artistic tradition that poignantly reminds us of the centrality of women in shaping history. If, as proven by commercial records and economic history, Venetians saw the North American bead trade as a lucrative enterprise, it is equally true that indigenous women’s desire for this merchandise was the incentive for Venetians to produce more, and as a consequence, make more profits. Equally treated as both a commodity and a colonial tool, beads have historically been the means by which European imperial powers established diplomacy and trade with Native North Americans. Used as the soft arm of colonisation, beads are therefore not just trade items, but agents of historical change in a cross-cultural conversation that Myre here invites us to peruse and ponder over.
Myre calls upon deep mythologies and re-examines European claims to a ‘discovery’ of the New World. For Myre, the exhibit brings to mind an ordinary sound--a sort of zero-vibration, an uncontained note or utterance--that recalls the many creation myths wherein the world was formed around an unending aural reverberation. Calling on this notion of an unfettered, ever-expanding energy as a point of origin, Nadia Myre’s works in this exhibition juxtapose Native creation stories with European contact history. These works investigate the role that European print media, especially maps, played in imposing a new, colonial origin story on North America’s Indigenous peoples; one that was rooted in a Eurocentric narrative of discovery and ignored existing modes of self-determination and historical record. Jumping off from her practice’s continual interrogation of transcultural mutation, these works focus on critically reversing the gaze of the othering eye through remixing and Indigenizing symbols of control and production of knowledge that formed a legacy of European nation states as the centre of the world.
Depicted in Myre’s damask-patterned wallpaper is a woman falling through a dark, vast expanse to begin human life on earth. To the Haudenosaunee, Sky Woman signifies a matrilineal line of descent which traces the people of Turtle Island to North America. Cradled, framed, or entrapped by images of European ships and mapping motifs, Sky Woman continues her fall to earth, enduring amidst the impending colonial origin narrative of discovery. Here, Myre translates a typical floral damask motif into colonial and indigenous signifiers, whose forms reflect, repeat and oscillate between evocations of growth, nature, violence and destruction, forming a doubled narrative of struggle, resilience, and layered points of origin. Based on the decorative double-sided textile from the Middle East, damask, as a popular luxury wall covering in Renaissance Italy, resonates with thematics of mirroring, cultural transmutation, and power. Through her incorporation of an ornamental circular motif used in Giacomo Gastaldi’s 1556 Map to delineate Hochelaga (Montreal), Myre uses the decorative and narrative nature of this wallpaper to abstract devices of circumscription and colonial naming of territory in a move to reject settler cartographic and claiming practices towards a consciousness of Indigenous knowledge of land and history. Aptly positioned as the nucleus of the installation is a terracotta sculpture of a human heart--standing in for the hungry heart of capitalism, greed, empires and colonies--covered in an Anishinaabe floral pattern made with Venetian trade beads. Used as ballast in slave/trade ships, beads were an important economic currency and exchanged for both goods and services as well as people. As a call to indigenization--a return to a focus on the environment and relational ways of knowing--the wounded heart, blanketed with beads, reminds us to centre with respect and love on all our relations. As a haunting story of the start of the world from a zero-point that precedes humanity, life, and form alike, the soundscape in Myre’s installation is a representation of the mythic original sonic vibration--rethinking the ways beginnings are identified, inscribed, written, and read. Points of origin are chosen; they do not indicate an end to nothingness, but only an inability to read what previously existed. Engaging creation stories are powerful tools of self-determination, cultural definition, and expression of value.