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Looking just as good from behind as from the front notice how mirror-like the surface iof 1001 is here.
Fifty of these are on their way from London to join our ever expanding fleet of buses in Edinburgh.
The Dumfries and Galloway Aviation Museum is a volunteer-operated aviation museum located in and around the World War II-era watch tower (control tower) at the former RAF Dumfries. It is located two miles north east of the centre of Dumfries, Scotland, where it was in service from June 1940 until 1957, when it closed. The museum, founded in 1977 by the Dumfries and Galloway Aviation Group, has a collection of aircraft, both civil and military, aero engines, artefacts, and a small, but "ever-expanding collection of memorabilia honouring airborne forces".
This is the latest addition to my ever-expanding collection of LEGO models of missiles and missile launchers: the Transporter-Erector-Launcher for the Soviet SA-11 "Gadfly" Surface-to-Air Missile system.
My gear acquisition syndrome is not cured yet. I wonder if it will ever be...
This Minolta MC Rokkor-PG 58mm f/1.2 it my latest addition to my ever expanding collection. 58mm on full frame is an intresting focal length that I'm not used to that much.
picture taken with a Sony A68 / C.Z.J. Pancolar 50mm f/1.8
"The agony of breaking through personal limitations is the agony of spiritual growth.
Art, literature, myth and cult, philosophy, and ascetic disciplines are instruments to help the individual past his limiting horizons into spheres of ever-expanding realization.
As he crosses threshold after threshold, conquering dragon after dragon, the stature of the divinity that he summons to his highest wish increases, until it subsumes the cosmos.
Finally, the mind breaks the bounding sphere of the cosmos to a realization transcending all experiences of form - all symbolizations, all divinities: a realization of the ineluctable void."
(From "The Hero With a Thousand Faces" by Joseph Campbell)
A few days ago as I was coming to the Ganges at dawn I saw this sādhu on the top of Dasaswamedh Ghat.
He must have been transcending all experiences of form in order to become a follower of Lord Shiva...
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1436 waits to depart at 1320 for the Doro Valley
For anyone that is not aware these 14xx locos are based on uk class 20 locos
First 10 were built in the uk the rest under license
After many years not used in passenger service the government decided to overhaul locos and stock for the ever expanding Douro Valley tourist market
Also several 26xx electric locos and some second hand spanish carriages were overhauled for electric services based in Porto
So after 30 years since i last enjoyed the sound of English electric thrash and glorious scenery finally came back to enjoy
My partner enjoyed the scenery and very cheap wine
One euro for half a pint !
Large beer and very large wine three euros. Sir
They do rip off the tourist !!!
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I have been neglecting my flickr public, which is a shame because it's where I had my first break..
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Love the two lower garland additions to the fireplace this year. They were my daughter, Kimmerle's, idea. Have no idea how she remembered I had the extra glass bead garlands in the basement.
As I decorated my thoughts were full of nostalgia of my family and friends and how grateful I am for them. Grateful for my husband who has made so many of my dreams come true if not all of them; for my children my greatest teachers; for my children's families, in-laws and grandchildren who ever expand our joy; for my children's friends who always invited me to their parties and became my own dear friends; for my friends I met on Flickr, friends from all over the states and all over the world, I adore each and everyone of you, For the friends from my childhood, special in my heart then and special in my heart now. For friends I met along the journey of my life who have stuck by me through thick and thin; For my aunts and uncles and cousin who I seldom see but forever a delight on those rare occasions when we are together, for my lovely sisters, my lifelong companions, for my mentors, family members and friends no longer here, for new friends I have met through other friends. I love and adore each and everyone of you. Thank you all so very much for filling my heart until it overflows. Peace and joy to YOU!
“I wish there was some hip way of telling you this, baby, but, ah… you’re one with and part of an ever-expanding, loving, joyful, glorious, and harmonious universe.”
When my life nears the edge
You show me not to be afraid
You turn my aspiration upward
Away from all constricting fear
Until in that ever expanding view
My heart blossoms
You arouse every feeling of beauty
Intoxicate all my senses
Until I feel assured
That in the coming uncertainty
Every piece destined to blast apart
Is a great unveiling of Love
A rose bursting open
A culmination
Into a Perfect and Imperishable
Ideal
© Ganga Fondan, 2013
A few days ago, while walking to a local coffee spot, a street musician caught my attention. He was playing a beautiful violin piece through an electric amplifier. As I passed by, our eyes met for a fraction of a second. I felt a sensation of escalation and awe. Something stirred inside and this poem spilled onto the page. The romance of this experience still lingers within me and created this posting.
About Swift River Fly Fishing
Swift River Fly Fishing takes its name from the river that flows south through the hills of west-central Massachusetts and the valley that was cleared and dammed in the 30s and 40s to create the Quabbin Reservoir, now the principle source of drinking water for the Boston metropolitan area. This taking has always been viewed with mixed emotions. On the one hand it could only happen following the dissolution of four very lovely New England villages in the Swift River Valley. Yet, it also resulted in the creation of the largest completely undeveloped tract of land in the Commonwealth and a new-found “accidental wilderness”. This area is now home to many once extirpated wildlife species such as the wild turkey, the bald eagle, and moose. Its waters host not only the native brook trout but a thriving population of lake trout and landlocked salmon that now spawn in the branches of the Swift River when conditions are right.
Quabbin and the Swift River are symbols of many things for many people. These same hills and river valleys gave birth to Shays Rebellion, an oft forgotten piece of American history, when local farmers shortly after the American Revolution rebelled against the banking practices and government laws that allowed their farms to be taken away and resold without due-process if they were unable to pay their debts. More than a century later, as an ever expanding metropolitan Boston population looked further westward in its quest for clean water to support an even denser population, the Swift River Valley and a place called Quabbin (many waters) by the native American peoples who once lived there became the new target. It is one of many reasons behind the historical mistrust of Boston area politicians by residents of western Massachusetts who know that the more numerous and often ruthless politicians in populous eastern Massachusetts would never hesitate to impose their will on the western half of the state.
Yet, setting historical melodrama aside, the Swift River area towns and farm houses are still places where one could expect and often see a fine old bamboo fly rod standing in the corner, waiting for a pause in the chores to be taken out to the stream. In fact, one of those very towns, Pelham, gave birth to the first large-scale rod turning and bamboo rod manufacturing mill that a few years later became known as Montague Rod and Reel. The Pelham factory building still stands today and the Montague bamboo rod operation eventually became Sewell Dunton and Sons before being bought by Thomas and Thomas, one of the most prestigious bamboo rod shop in the world today. It is this great heritage that gave birth to the idea for Swift River Fly Fishing as a place where the classical fly fishing tackle of the past and present would be gathered and made available to discerning fishermen and collectors who appreciate the American craftsmanship and angling opportunities that gave rise to some of the most elegant and graceful tools yet made by human-kind.
The doublestacked containers of CPKC train 112 wrap around the curves in Glenbow Ranch. In the background can be seen the ever expanding communities of Cochrane.
Fight the poachers without arms and challenge the prejudices.
Have chosen the name of the world's most poisonous and dangerous snake: the Black Mambas, the first team against poaching composed only of women. In a world dominated by men, 2 years ago, this surveillance team was born to face the problem of ever-expanding poaching in South Africa: in 7 years, in fact, more and more the rhinos killed for their horns are being removed, causing the death of the animal and resold mainly to the Chinese market that uses it powdered in traditional medicine to heal fever, epilepsy, malaria and poisoning. It is a precious material that is very high on the black market (about $ 60,000 for kilo) and this is a strong incentive for poaching, in a densely populated and poor area like the one bordering the Greater Kruger National Park.
About this the Black Mambas have been awarded UNEP's annual recognition program (United Nations Environment Program) assigned to organizations and individuals who stand out for the protection of the environment and for building a sustainable future by acting, in their respective areas of expertise with tenacity and determination.
I heard this news this evening in the state TV
I searched the news in internet and the article goes back two years ago while they were born two years further back
And so I thought about how strange the world is, the bad news comes in a nanosecond, those beautiful in 4 years ......
I dedicate this to them
Thanks for your recent visits, favorites, comments and invitations. I go slow, but everything is very much appreciated, as always....
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It has been announced that well known North Hampshire coach operator Mortons Travel of Little London became part of the ever expanding Lucketts Travel Group based in Fareham as from 16/04/2018.
www.lucketts.co.uk/NewsID-Mortons-Acquisition
The Mortons fleet consists of around 40 vehicles including modern coaches, high capacity double-deckers and a small collection of heritage vehicles. Seen at the Little London depot in November 2017 are Plaxton Leopard YX67UOT, Van Hool F13BUS and VDL Futura 2 WF17DGX.
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DRS 57310 runs downgrade between the fairways of Carlyon Bay Golf Course with the summer Saturday only loco hauled stopper. First use of a non GWR class 57/6 this year was due to the entire GWR fleet being at Old Oak Common for an open day. The ever expanding town of St.Austell sprawls across the background hills with the horizon made up of china clay waste tips.
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2P70 10:28 St Erth to Plymouth.
Elisabeth Quay-Spanda.
Spanda è un'opera d'arte pubblica dell'artista australiano Christian de Vietri situata a Elizabeth Quay a Perth, nell'Australia occidentale.
È stato installato a gennaio 2016.
La scultura è elegante, astratta e minimalista e dà l'impressione di uno schema vibrazionale in continua espansione.
È stata descritta come una celebrazione dell '"unione dell'individuale con l'universale".
Misura 29 x 16 x 1 metri ed è la struttura autoportante più alta del mondo realizzata in fibra di carbonio.
Elisabeth Quay - Spanda.
Spanda is a public art work by Australian born artist Christian de Vietri located at Elizabeth Quay in Perth, Western Australia.
It was installed in January 2016.
The sculpture is elegant, abstract, and minimalist, giving the impression of an ever-expanding vibrational pattern.
It has been described as a celebration of the "union of the individual with the universal".
It measures 29 x 16 x 1 metres and is the world’s tallest freestanding structure made of carbon fibre.
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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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The Dumfries and Galloway Aviation Museum is a volunteer-operated aviation museum located in and around the World War II-era watch tower (control tower) at the former RAF Dumfries. It is located two miles north east of the centre of Dumfries, Scotland, where it was in service from June 1940 until 1957, when it closed. The museum, founded in 1977 by the Dumfries and Galloway Aviation Group, has a collection of aircraft, both civil and military, aero engines, artefacts, and a small, but "ever-expanding collection of memorabilia honouring airborne forces".
Sages used to offer respect to rising and setting Sun ,beside the cool clean flowing water of river Ganga ! They were awestruck by the marvel called creation; every bit of creation was of importance to them, every bit deserved highest respect , status of God bestowed upon them. That was a time when Hindu scholars uttered "Jagatam Jagat" - ever expanding universe ! Ffwd to 2020 ; today relation with creation is of transaction ; special Arti, special Darshan, Sponsored Puja in search of power, money , contract , business deal, male child...... every evening scores of favour seeking Hindu, Moksha seeking European gather here to join the hoopla called Ganga Arti ! Welcome to the world of uninitiated mind !
Ms. Essay positions herself at the edge of her living room’s L-shaped sectional sofa for a seated pose in her white long-sleeve turtleneck sweater and brown faux leather pants she wore for a February meeting convened virtually by the Missouri Historical Society and their Museum via Zoom.
In the background of this photo, the late afternoon sun cast an interesting shadow onto the sofa’s seat cushions that was created by the slats of the west facing living room window’s venetian blinds.
Some of the Missouri History Museum’s items in the ever-expanding Gateway to Pride Exhibit collection, at this moment mostly “oral histories” shared by LGBTQ+ community individuals, can be viewed on-line using the link, below:
My Grandson & I walking the Sinnissippi Dam Walkway between Rock Falls & Sterling, Illinois.
Built in 1906, this dam raised the Rock River water level by 11 feet so it would flow into the Hennepin Canal. In 2007, the State of Illinois, in a collaborative effort with Rock Falls, Sterling and their respective park districts constructed a 10’ wide walking bridge that spans the Sinnissippi Dam. Known as Sinnissippi Dam Walkway, the nearly 500’ bridge provides a much need safe link between the ever expanding trail systems of Rock Falls and Sterling; while also providing walkers, runners and bicyclists with a scenic view of the Rock River.
Comrades! Defend the Eastern Front with the latest addition to the ever-expanding Citizen Brick WWII collection. Finely detailed, our Russian Infantry Torso will make you the Pride of the Motherland!
I am fairly lucky as I live near to a small pond in the ever expanding town of Glenrothes in Fife, although still on the edge of the town, building work has started on a new scheme of housing not too far from the pond, but hopefully the pond will remain unspoiled, and any "run off" will not find its way into the fragile ecosystem that habitats the pond.
Hunslet Park based Enviro 400 MMC 33486 is pictured here on Burras Lane, Otley as it makes its way towards Ilkley. This route has seen quite a few changes over the past couple of years; the biggest being the withdrawal of buses to Skipton, only now running as far as Ikley. The Ilkley - Skipton portion of the route is now number '64' and operated by an ever expanding Transdev; typically using Keighley based B7RLEs. This comes after a brief spell of First running this section under the historic 784 route number.
Another change is the increase in frequency between Otley and Leeds, now running every 15 minutes (when lack of driver shortages allow). The Otley - Ilkley section maintains two buses an hour.
First briefly attempted to run an X85 variant via Pool in Wharfedale; something that seemed fairly well used from personal experience, but then later withdrew this and instead began to run an isolated '85' service from Leeds to Pool only. Every time I have seen this it has been carrying fresh air.
First Leeds YX66 WKJ 33486
- Fleet No.: 33486
- Reg: YX66 WKJ
- Operator: First Leeds
- Route: X84 - Ilkley
- Depot: Hunslet Park
- Livery: First Express, X84
- Type: ADL Enviro 400 MMC
- Chassis No.: SFDB32BR2GGX19348
- Body No.: AD G425/7
- Seating: H45/29F
- New to/ Year: First Leeds, Oct, 2016
- Livery new in: First Express
- Location: Otley, Burras Lane
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B737 Max8.200 EI-IHP arriving Shannon from Boeing Field today to join the ever expanding Ryanair fleet.
In this Covid 19 scene the heart of downtown Los Angeles is empty, typically a hustle & bustle section of Los Angeles's wholesale district, adjacent to the ever expanding "skid row"!
Also one can see one of the five remaining "working" pay phones in L.A.!
Modern contemporary sculpture of Lachlan Macquarie, who was the fourth Governor of New South Wales, and credited with leading development of the colony. He had hundreds of places named after him. This sculpture is located on Macquarie Street Liverpool : the town was founded in 1810 and has since become subsumed into the ever expanding suburbia of western Sydney. A very new civic centre has recently been constructed on the same block as this sculpture, making for an interesting sci-fi like background.
As you gaze up at the spectacular remains of Fountains Abbey, in its heyday one of the richest monasteries in medieval Britain, it strikes you as somewhat ironic that its founders had abandoned a comfortable lifestyle in favour of simplicity, servitude… and a considerable degree of suffering.
In December 1132, the atmosphere in the nearby Benedictine Abbey of St Mary’s in York was somewhat less than peaceful. Far from following the discipline prescribed by St Benedict in the sixth century, the monks at St Mary’s were indulging themselves a little too freely for the liking of some of their brethren.
According to reputable sources, a riot broke out and the rebels – 13 monks who craved a more spartan existence – fled to the Archbishop of York for protection. The Archbishop was not too badly off himself, owning extensive lands around Ripon, and he granted them permission to establish a new monastery in the valley of the River Skell.
Snowdrop carpetView from west, showing dormitory and cellariumGreat news for the monks… they could build a new life for themselves! The bad news was that it was winter, and they had nowhere to stay. The valley, far from being the rural idyll that it appears today, was considered at that time to be “more fit for wild beasts than men to inhabit.” It did, however, offer a degree of shelter as well as a plentiful source of building materials and a good supply of drinking water. The National Trust guidebook says that the monks lived under an elm tree and covered themselves with straw; if this was indeed the case, they were hardy and committed individuals.
Although the Archbishop of York sent regular supplies of bread, the monks needed support of a different kind. They wrote to Bernard, the Abbot of Clairvaux Abbey in France, who despatched a monk to instruct them in the observance of Canonical Hours; he would also teach them how to build an abbey in accordance with Cistercian principles.
DoorwayThe first church was made of wood, but soon afterwards a much more impressive edifice was rising from the valley floor: the present Abbey church, with its magnificent west front, was finished around 1160. Stonemasons used locally-hewn sandstone, and massive oak beams supported the roof. Inside, the white-painted walls reflected the sunlight that streamed in through the many windows, and the effect must have been both stunning and uplifting. What must it have been like to hear a choir singing in there?
The Cistercian order, which the monks had adopted, called for a life of self-imposed hardship; they wore coarse wool habits and followed a strict routine of prayer and meditation, which involved long night vigils as well as daytime worship. They must have been freezing for most of the time… although there is a crumb of comfort in the survival of a ‘warming room’, where huge log fires allowed them a precious few minutes of warmth before embarking on their next duty. In the south end of the transept there is still a doorway, through which the monks would have emerged at two o’clock in the morning as they made their way from their dormitory and down some stairs towards the church, their steps lit only by candlelight.
In 1170, around 60 monks were living at Fountains Abbey, along with 200 lay brothers. The lay brothers were essential to the survival of the Abbey, because they were skilled craftsmen such as stonemasons, shoemakers, smiths and tanners. Many more were farm labourers and shepherds, managing the monastery’s ever-expanding estates. Some of them slept in the large dormitory at Fountains Abbey, while others lived on neighbouring farms. The system worked so efficiently that, by the mid-1400s, the monastery was one of the richest in England, and fleeces from the sheep were being sold as far afield as Italy. Hardly the spartan establishment to which its founders had aspired.
With guest houses, abbots’ quarters, dormitories, a refectory, kitchens, a cellarium for food storage, an infirmary, and a muniment room for the safe keeping of important books and papers, this large complex required precise and careful management. The monks were pretty much self-sufficient: there was a mill just across the river, grinding wheat, rye, barley and oats for bread; in the wool house, fleeces from the Abbey’s sheep were made into clothes and blankets; a tannery ensured an ongoing supply of leather and skins, and fishponds offered a healthy source of food. Hillside springs provided fresh water, while the toilets or ‘reredorter’ were contained in a two-storey extension over the River Skell. Not a bad idea! Although chilly, I should imagine.
Passing travellers were always welcome, and beggars were given food left over from the monks’ table. While ordinary visitors were shown into modest accommodation, the more prestigious guests were entertained in style; there are records of minstrels, travelling players and a ‘strange fabulist’ in the Abbey’s expense sheets. The elderly and the sick were cared for in the infirmary, which was a sizeable building in itself. But no women were admitted within the sacred walls: they had to remain in the Outer Court.
Blood-letting was one of the monks’ less attractive pastimes, as if they didn’t already subject themselves to enough rigours. The practice, which was carried out three or four times a year, was intended to purify the body. (If I was ever in any doubt of my absolute unsuitability for a cloistered life, this seals the matter). The extracted blood was later buried in reverence.
It sounds as if they all did pretty well – blood-letting notwithstanding – but that’s not to say that the Abbey and its inhabitants never suffered hard times. There were years of poor harvests and famine, and these in turn led to skirmishes by desperate raiders from Scotland. In the mid-1300s the Black Death reared its ugly face, carrying away at least a third of the Abbey’s inhabitants and leaving a shortage of labourers to till the fields.
East frontThe Abbey’s most noticeable feature, the 167-foot tower known as Huby’s Tower, was a comparatively late addition; prior to this, there would have been a smaller ‘lantern tower’ placed centrally over the church. Built in 1500, Huby’s Tower was the inspiration of Abbot Marmaduke Huby, and it bears a Latin inscription on each face, as well as carvings and statues. Today its broken crenellations are home to a flock of jackdaws; when they all take flight, they look like bees around an enormous beehive.
Old bridgeThings went very badly pear-shaped in 1539, as they did for monasteries up and down the kingdom. Henry VIII, furious with the Pope for denying him a divorce from Catherine of Aragon, hit on an ingenious but ruthless solution. He turned his back on the Roman Catholic Church and declared himself head of the new Church of England. No more Pope-worship for him – he preferred the seductive delights of Anne Boleyn.
England’s abbeys and nunneries, which had been rising to a state of comfortable wealth over the centuries, were now in the firing line. To Henry, they represented an establishment that he hated with a vengeance – but their assets would come in very handy. He lost no time in destroying the buildings, evicting their occupants and seizing their estates.
A deed of surrender was signed at Fountains Abbey in 1539. In keeping with Henry’s orders, the place had to be made unfit for worship. The roof was pulled off, the lead and glass were stripped from the windows and any remaining religious relics were removed. Stone was plundered for new buildings elsewhere, and nature began to reclaim the broken bones of former glory.
The story of Fountains Abbey didn’t end at that point, though it was over 200 years before it entered a surprising new chapter. In 1767 the estate was acquired by William Aislabie, who soon set to work designing an elegant pleasure park. He planted trees, dug lakes and created paths that led past Gothic-style temples and summerhouses to a point on the opposite side of the valley, where guests could enjoy a ‘surprise view’ of the Abbey in its picturesque state of decay. Poets and artists came to explore and be inspired: J M W Turner painted the Abbey on several occasions.
Today, the ruins of Fountains Abbey are carefully tended, so they don’t have quite the same romantic abandon which they must have presented in Turner’s time. On the other hand, they are in much less danger of imminent collapse! As you walk down the nave towards the Chapel of Nine Altars the great east window gapes in front of you, bereft of its beautiful tracery and glasswork, but breathtaking all the same. Anyone who entered the church in its heyday would have been almost struck dumb with awe.
Huby's TowerBlind doorways in Huby's TowerColumns and arches soar to dizzying heights, and as your gaze follows them upwards, your attention is drawn to isolated wooden doors, once clasped by cold, pious hands, now leading into nothing but thin air. Deep shadows lurk in the aisles and transept, intriguing but not unkindly. Sacrilegious though it might appear, I searched for ‘Fountains Abbey hauntings’ and found that the voices of a ghostly choir sometimes echo through the Chapel of Nine Altars. That’s something I’d quite like to hear.
With a sudden flapping of wings, a pigeon launches itself from a window ledge. The songs of blackbirds and thrushes float across from the woodland. Otherwise, silence reigns – and it’s a peaceful silence.
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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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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.
All the best to those out there in Flickrland for Christmas (if we're still allowed to say that), the holidays and the new year.
Thanks for the daily visual feast that keeps me up with developments on the world's railways and the ever-expanding facets of this hobby as history is recorded in ever more creative ways.
Cheers!
DB
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Train 926 has been relatively long of late. On Dec 16th 2016, DXB 5137 and bumblebee DC 4847 cross Oamaru's Thames street at 10:40pm. The DC usually comes off the train here and goes back down on 919.
Title: borrowed from a chapter in Paul Davies’ book The Last Three Minutes. The book deals with scenarios for the ultimate fate of the universe. It was published in 1994 before the discovery of the accelerated expansion of the universe. With that, the scenario of an ever-expanding universe was considered to be not very likely, which has changed in the second half of the 90s. In an ever-expanding universe, pretty much everything will decay. Diamond will decay. Stars will decay. Galaxies will decay. Black holes will evaporate because of Hawking radiation, even if it takes 1E66 years for a black hole of one solar mass. And there is more: it might be that the proton is not stable. Different mechanisms were proposed, suggesting proton life times of 1E45 … 1E220 years (current detection limit is ~1E32, I think, no proton decay was observed so far to my knowledge). If such theories are true, all protons will decay because: forever is a long time. The proton may decay into a pion (which then will decay into 2 photons or a positron-electron pair) and a positron. So, at the end (whatever “end” means in that context), there will be a vast space with some left-over positrons and electrons (because not all of them may annihilate) and some photons.
Think about. Or better: do not think about.
Nikkor 10-20mm f/3.5. Not so bad, given the fact that it only has f/3.5. Some sharpening and noise reduction in photoshop. Reduced the red channel a bit because such pictures usually come out a bit reddish-brown which I don’t like.
This early 15th century 'Caraval' carries the name 'Orion Star' and is used for the transport of goods along the Mediterranean trade routes.
In 1486 Florence and Venice had widely accepted trade agreements and benefit of each others reach within the ever expanding worldwide trade routes.
Apart from creating the shape of this ship, the sails and the color scheme, the real challenge was to recreate the symbol of florence; the iconic fleur de lis.
Personally, I think this worked out pretty well 😁
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Some background story;
I chose this type of ship because it fits within the time frame and the characteristics of the venice laguna of that time (not deep and many sandbanks).
The caravel had a stern rudder and a raised forecastle and sterncastle. Caravels had a typical length-to-beam ratio of 3.5:1 with a shallow draught. It was also highly manoeuvrable and fast. All of these characteristics made the caravel ideal for exploring unfamiliar waters and coastal shallows where larger ships might easily have become stranded on sandbanks or damaged by rocks.
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Daisy has a number of sleeveless dresses in her ever expanding collection. But her discomfort at showing so much of her arms has limited them to cooler weather...when she can wear a cardigan over them. Well I don't know about Daisy, but I've personally never been one to blindly accept limitations. (Let alone self imposed ones.) So I resolved to do something about it. You might look silly wearing a sweater in the summertime...but who could argue against this stylish lightweight summer blazer? I had her try it out yesterday, and as you can see it looks marvelous on her...so I will see about outfitting her with a good many more before the summer is out. Trust me...she's gonna need them. 😁💖💖
Boo and the Bear...
This one is taken in Bosila, from under the Bosila bridge. A new Road is being made there. Boo lives in the adjacent House. Thus his Playground is in the shadow of the bridge in the dirt polluted area with his best friend Bear... He is growing up fast. bear is very worried to lose his friend... Neither of Boo and the Bear minds the existing surroundings unholy dirtiness. Cause together its always awesome and fun...... Alas the ever expanding city machine will catch them someday....
Renegade strike fighters dispatch a lone 'Fleet' auxiliary ship!
With the ever expanding reach of the somewhat mysterious 'Fleet', more and more systems are beginning to reject the crippling taxation demanded to further fund 'the cause'. A unexplained and fatal illness soon passes over any world unwilling to support the 'Fleets' aspirations. The combination of this and rationed healthcare meted out piecemeal to combat the deadly plague, affectionately know as 'brain fever', has pushed many to take up arms. The fightback has begun!
As you can probably tell story telling isn't a strenght of mine. I will endeavor to expand the narrative with each post. Having built a number of ships recently I figured it was time to tie them all together into some kind of as yet unrealised story.
Suggestions welcome. Thanks for looking!
Some photos i took with the stunning and busty Esther, Makeup was kept natural and convincing, you could see a few new outfits from my ever expanding wardrobe :)
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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.
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
I have been neglecting my flickr public, which is a shame because it's where I had my first break..
Take a look at an ever expanding but inconsistent website: bit.ly/iancleggwalsh
66784 tows a rake of former EWS HTA coal hoppers through Melton Ross on 23rd of October 2018. 66784 is one of GBRf's latest additions to their ever expanding fleet. The 'Shed' was previously 66081. (Photo taken with pole)
Dramatic storm clouds recede east forming a backdrop to the ever expanding plethora of high rise buildings on the south edge of West Dock.
Klick here for a large view!
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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This image represents the other significant Ferris Wheel from my ever-expanding lights series from the Puyallup Fair. This image was captured in September 2009 with my Nikon D90 amidst two other photographers all with their unique contributions to this night scene. I spotted this vantage point and thought this would be best for my long exposure and as I was setting up the tripod I noticed that there was another photographer around the corner firing his flash and capturing this, and after I was set, another photographer came after me on the other side and was doing some kind of movement photography, so you had flash, non-flash and movement photography all hovering this thing. Needless to say when people were walking out of the ride they were a little stunned to see all these cameras at this location. This image is a 7 second exposure and green and purple were the dominant colors of this ride, and the blue was mostly created out of the long exposure, along with the red striping on the edges. This was so much fun to capture, I could have stayed all night here, but my wife gave me the "look," which meant it was time to move on. Enjoy!