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"Sault Ste. Marie (/ˌsuː seɪnt məˈriː/ SOO-seint-ma-REE) is the only city in, and county seat of, Chippewa County in the U.S. state of Michigan. With a population of 14,144 at the 2010 census, it is the second-most populated city in the Upper Peninsula after Marquette. It is the central city of the Sault Ste. Marie, MI Micropolitan Statistical Area, which encompasses all of Chippewa County and had a population of 38,520 at the 2010 census.
Sault Ste. Marie was settled as early as 1668, which makes it Michigan's oldest city and among the oldest cities in the United States. Located at the northeastern edge of the Upper Peninsula, it is separated by the St. Marys River from the much-larger city of Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario. The two are connected by the Sault Ste. Marie International Bridge, which represents the northern terminus of Interstate 75. This portion of the river also contains the Soo Locks, as well as a swinging railroad bridge. The city is also home to Lake Superior State University.
For centuries Ojibwe (Chippewa) Native Americans had lived in the area, which they referred to as Baawitigong ("at the cascading rapids"), after the rapids of St. Marys River. French colonists renamed the region Saulteaux ("rapids" in French).
In 1668, French missionaries Claude Dablon and Jacques Marquette founded a Jesuit mission at this site. Sault Ste. Marie developed as the fourth-oldest European city in the United States west of the Appalachian Mountains, and the oldest permanent settlement in contemporary Michigan state. On June 4, 1671, Simon-François Daumont de Saint-Lusson, a colonial agent, was dispatched from Quebec to the distant tribes, proposing a congress of Indian nations at the Falls of St. Mary between Lake Huron and Lake Superior. Trader Nicolas Perrot helped attract the principal chiefs, and representatives of 14 Indigenous nations were invited for the elaborate ceremony. The French officials proclaimed France's appropriation of the immense territory surrounding Lake Superior in the name of King Louis XIV.
In the 18th century, the settlement became an important center of the fur trade, when it was a post for the British-owned North West Company, based in Montreal. The fur trader John Johnston, a Scots-Irish immigrant from Belfast, was considered the first European settler in 1790. He married a high-ranking Ojibwe woman named Ozhaguscodaywayquay, the daughter of a prominent chief, Waubojeeg. She also became known as Susan Johnston. Their marriage was one of many alliances in the northern areas between high-ranking European traders and Ojibwe. The family was prominent among Native Americans, First Nations, and Europeans from both Canada and the United States. They had eight children who learned fluent Ojibwe, English and French. The Johnstons entertained a variety of trappers, explorers, traders, and government officials, especially during the years before the War of 1812 between Britain and the United States.
For more than 140 years, the settlement was a single community under French colonial, and later, British colonial rule. After the War of 1812, a US–UK Joint Boundary Commission finally fixed the border in 1817 between the Michigan Territory of the US and the British Province of Upper Canada to follow the river in this area. Whereas traders had formerly moved freely through the whole area, the United States forbade Canadian traders from operating in the United States, which reduced their trade and disrupted the area's economy. The American and Canadian communities of Sault Ste. Marie were each incorporated as independent municipalities toward the end of the 19th century.
As a result of the fur trade, the settlement attracted Ojibwe and Ottawa, Métis, and ethnic Europeans of various nationalities. It was a two-tiered society, with fur traders (who had capital) and their families and upper-class Ojibwe in the upper echelon. In the aftermath of the War of 1812, however, the community's society changed markedly.
The U.S. built Fort Brady near the settlement, introducing new troops and settlers, mostly Anglo-American. The UK and the US settled on a new northern boundary in 1817, dividing the US and Canada along St. Mary's River. The US prohibited British fur traders from operating in the United States. After completion of the Erie Canal in New York State in 1825 (expanded in 1832), the number of settlers migrating to Ohio and Michigan increased dramatically from New York and New England, bringing with them the Yankee culture of the Northern Tier. Their numbers overwhelmed the cosmopolitan culture of the earlier settlers. They practiced more discrimination against Native Americans and Métis.
The falls proved a choke point for shipping between the Great Lakes. Early ships traveling to and from Lake Superior were portaged around the rapids in a lengthy process (much like moving a house) that could take weeks. Later, only the cargoes were unloaded, hauled around the rapids, and then loaded onto other ships waiting below the rapids. The first American lock, the State Lock, was built in 1855; it was instrumental in improving shipping. The lock has been expanded and improved over the years.
In 1900, Northwestern Leather Company opened a tannery in Sault Ste. Marie. The tannery was founded to process leather for the upper parts of shoes, which was finer than that for soles. After the factory closed in 1958, the property was sold to Filborn Limestone, a subsidiary of Algoma Steel Corporation.
In March 1938 during the Great Depression, Sophia Nolte Pullar bequeathed $70,000 for construction of the Pullar Community Building, which opened in 1939. This building held an indoor ice rink composed of artificial ice, then a revolutionary concept. The ice rink is still owned by the city." - info from Wikipedia.
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Mount Constitution is a mountain on Orcas Island, and the highest point in the San Juan Islands and the second highest mountain on an ocean island in the contiguous 48 state. Only Devils Peak in the Channel Islands of California is higher. A stone observation tower patterned after a medieval watch tower stands at the summit. It was designed by architect Ellsworth Storey and built by the Civilian Conservation Corps in 1936. The tower offers panoramic views of the surrounding islands, the Cascade Mountains, and many Canadian and American cities. On a clear day, the view encompasses locations as diverse as Mount Baker, Mount Rainier, Saturna Island, and the cities of Vancouver, and Victoria, British Columbia. Mount Constitution lies within the 5,000 acres (20.2 km2) Moran State Park.
The prominence was named by Charles Wilkes during the Wilkes Expedition of 1838-1842 for the USS Constitution.
Bellingham can be seen to the left of picture mid distance. My in-laws house overlooks where we are standing. We told the girls we could see their Grandfather on the veranda through the binoculars :)
The term Tableware encompasses all of the dishes, utensils and vessels used when dining.
We use a variety of tableware and utensils when we dine. Such examples are knives, forks, spoons, chopsticks, skewers, tongs, and even cocktail sticks. Along with those we use plates and bowls. Not forgetting drinking vessels.
These items are made from many different materials such as stainless steel, plastic, wood, ceramic, and paper.
Built in 1914 at no. 911 Wellington Street East.
"This is a Prairie-style single-story residence, noticeably located at the south-west corner of Wellington and Woodward in the city’s east-central area. It encompasses part of Lot 15, Plan 568 and Lot 29, Plan 930. GIS coordinates: 705,711.336 5,154,111.585 Meters
This handsome, distinctive, well maintained home is the best example of a Prairie-style residence to be found in Sault Ste. Marie. It is an elegant Craftsman style bungalow with a variety of gently pitched roof slopes and a small hipped dormer. The eaves are deep and bracketed. The columns are plain with square abacuses and no base. The inclusion of classical modillions in a residence is rare in Sault Ste. Marie and to Prairie-style homes. A variety of rustic building materials have been utilized: stucco, wood, brick and stone. The window groupings consist of both casement and sash with inner muntin bars. Those windows on the front have been replaced with modern aluminum windows but the windows around the sunroom on the east side and those on the partial second floor are original. Many of the original storm windows are stored in the garage. Craftsmanship in the building is excellent yet simple and functional. Even the interior fireplace sports hand-carved brackets of similar design to those supporting the overhanging exterior eaves. With the exception of the kitchen and bathroom, the main floor rooms are still finished with the original oak trim and floors. An old photo of the house indicates that cedar shingles once adorned the roof.
This residence was constructed, in its present form, in 1914 for Richard H. Carney who was District manager for Canada Life Assurance Co. It was the Carney family who was responsible for construction of the Carney Block on Queen St. It thus reflects the affluence of an upper middle class business family which was profiting from the Clergue industrial expansion of the day. A 1914 date and initials of the stone mason builder may be found in the basement wall mortar between the sandstone pieces. It is likely this sandstone was quarried from the locks as was typical for the day. This house was purchased in 1939 by the MacIntosh family who owned it until 2004.
The key exterior features that embody the heritage value of 911 Wellington St. E. include:
- Variety of gently pitched roof slopes provide horizontal emphasis reflecting the Prairiestyle bungalow
- Clerestory lighting that provides light to a half story loft
- A hipped dormer and deep bracketed eaves
- Columns with abacuses and no base but adorned with modillions
- Rustic building materials including stucco, wood, brick and stone
- Original casement windows with sash and inner muntin bars on the sunroom (east side)
and on the half story loft
- Home and property have been well maintained in traditional style with little change to
the exterior
- An interior with oak trim, baseboards and flooring unchanged save for the kitchen and
bathroom
- A beautiful fireplace with brackets supporting the mantle matching those under the
eaves on the exterior
- The best example of a classical Prairie-style residence in Sault Ste. Marie distinctively
located in a prominent east-central location
- A residence which reflects the affluence of a prominent Sault business family built
during the heyday of the Clergue industrial empire" - info from the Sault Ste. Marie Municipal Heritage Committee.
"Sault Ste. Marie (/ˈsuː seɪnt məˈriː/ SOO-seint-ma-REE) is a city on the St. Marys River in Ontario, Canada, close to the Canada–US border. It is the seat of the Algoma District and the third largest city in Northern Ontario, after Sudbury and Thunder Bay.
The Ojibwe, the indigenous Anishinaabe inhabitants of the area, call this area Baawitigong, meaning "place of the rapids." They used this as a regional meeting place during whitefish season in the St. Mary's Rapids. (The anglicized form of this name, Bawating, is used in institutional and geographic names in the area.)
To the south, across the river, is the United States and the Michigan city of the same name. These two communities were one city until a new treaty after the War of 1812 established the border between Canada and the United States in this area at the St. Mary's River. In the 21st century, the two cities are joined by the International Bridge, which connects Interstate 75 on the Michigan side, and Huron Street (and former Ontario Secondary Highway 550B) on the Ontario side. Shipping traffic in the Great Lakes system bypasses the Saint Mary's Rapids via the American Soo Locks, the world's busiest canal in terms of tonnage that passes through it, while smaller recreational and tour boats use the Canadian Sault Ste. Marie Canal.
French colonists referred to the rapids on the river as Les Saults de Ste. Marie and the village name was derived from that. The rapids and cascades of the St. Mary's River descend more than 6 m (20 ft) from the level of Lake Superior to the level of the lower lakes. Hundreds of years ago, this slowed shipping traffic, requiring an overland portage of boats and cargo from one lake to the other. The entire name translates to "Saint Mary's Rapids" or "Saint Mary's Falls". The word sault is pronounced [so] in French, and /suː/ in the English pronunciation of the city name. Residents of the city are called Saultites.
Sault Ste. Marie is bordered to the east by the Rankin and Garden River First Nation reserves, and to the west by Prince Township. To the north, the city is bordered by an unincorporated portion of Algoma District, which includes the local services boards of Aweres, Batchawana Bay, Goulais and District, Peace Tree and Searchmont. The city's census agglomeration, including the townships of Laird, Prince and Macdonald, Meredith and Aberdeen Additional and the First Nations reserves of Garden River and Rankin, had a total population of 79,800 in 2011.
Native American settlements, mostly of Ojibwe-speaking peoples, existed here for more than 500 years. In the late 17th century, French Jesuit missionaries established a mission at the First Nations village. This was followed by development of a fur trading post and larger settlement, as traders, trappers and Native Americans were attracted to the community. It was considered one community and part of Canada until after the War of 1812 and settlement of the border between Canada and the US at the Ste. Mary's River. At that time, the US prohibited British traders from any longer operating in its territory, and the areas separated by the river began to develop as two communities, both named Sault Ste. Marie." - info from Wikipedia.
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Denali National Park and Preserve encompasses 6 million acres of Alaska’s interior wilderness. Its centerpiece is 20,310-ft.-high Denali (Mount McKinley), North America’s tallest peak. With terrain of tundra, spruce forest and glaciers, the park is home to wildlife including grizzly bears, wolves, moose, caribou and Dall sheep. Popular activities in summer include biking, backpacking, hiking and mountaineering.
We chose to spend more money to visit Denali National park in the hope of seeing more bears, but we were told that there are only around 350 grizzly bears in the park. Not that many when you consider that the park is 6 million acres.
Sydney’s Green Square is a made up suburb, but a real place.
Green Square encompasses parts of Alexandria, Zetland, Waterloo, Rosebery and Beaconsfield.
Originally is was a small park at the junction Bourke Road, Botany Road and O’Riordan Street. Named in honour of Frederick Green, Labor MP and tireless supporter of the local area.
The Zetland pub has had to include Green Square in its
Crystal Forest
Petrified Forest National Park is a United States national park in Navajo and Apache counties in northeastern Arizona. Named for its large deposits of petrified wood, the fee area of the park covers about 230 square miles (600 square kilometers), encompassing semi-desert shrub steppe as well as highly eroded and colorful badlands. The park's headquarters is about 26 miles (42 km) east of Holbrook along Interstate 40 (I-40), which parallels the BNSF Railway's Southern Transcon, the Puerco River, and historic U.S. Route 66, all crossing the park roughly east–west. The site, the northern part of which extends into the Painted Desert, was declared a national monument in 1906 and a national park in 1962. About 800,000 people visit the park each year and take part in activities including sightseeing, photography, hiking, and backpacking.
Averaging about 5,400 feet (1,600 m) in elevation, the park has a dry windy climate with temperatures that vary from summer highs of about 100 °F (38 °C) to winter lows well below freezing. More than 400 species of plants, dominated by grasses such as bunchgrass, blue grama, and sacaton, are found in the park. Fauna include larger animals such as pronghorns, coyotes, and bobcats, many smaller animals, such as deer mice, snakes, lizards, seven kinds of amphibians, and more than 200 species of birds, some of which are permanent residents and many of which are migratory. About half of the park is designated wilderness.
The Petrified Forest is known for its fossils, especially fallen trees that lived in the Late Triassic Period, about 225 million years ago. The sediments containing the fossil logs are part of the widespread and colorful Chinle Formation, from which the Painted Desert gets its name. Beginning about 60 million years ago, the Colorado Plateau, of which the park is part, was pushed upward by tectonic forces and exposed to increased erosion. All of the park's rock layers above the Chinle, except geologically recent ones found in parts of the park, have been removed by wind and water. In addition to petrified logs, fossils found in the park have included Late Triassic ferns, cycads, ginkgoes, and many other plants as well as fauna including giant reptiles called phytosaurs, large amphibians, and early dinosaurs. Paleontologists have been unearthing and studying the park's fossils since the early 20th century.
The park's earliest human inhabitants arrived at least 8,000 years ago. By about 2,000 years ago, they were growing corn in the area and shortly thereafter building pit houses in what would become the park. Later inhabitants built above-ground dwellings called pueblos. Although a changing climate caused the last of the park's pueblos to be abandoned by about 1400 CE, more than 600 archeological sites, including petroglyphs, have been discovered in the park. In the 16th century, Spanish explorers visited the area, and by the mid-19th century a U.S. team had surveyed an east–west route through the area where the park is now located and noted the petrified wood. Later, roads and a railway followed similar routes and gave rise to tourism and, before the park was protected, to large-scale removal of fossils. Theft of petrified wood remains a problem in the 21st century.
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Der Petrified-Forest-Nationalpark ist ein Nationalpark der Vereinigten Staaten im Nordosten Arizonas. Der Park gehört zum südlichen Colorado-Plateau und der Painted Desert, einer Wüste auf rund 1800 m über dem Meer. Er bewahrt geologisch bemerkenswertes Sedimentgestein der Obertrias mit einer Vielzahl an Fossilien. Im Gebiet liegen ausgedehnte Fundstätten von verkieseltem Holz, daher der Name „Versteinerter Wald“.
Am 8. Dezember 1906 wurde ein Teil der Fundstätten als National Monument unter Schutz gestellt, 1932 kam ein Teil der Painted Desert dazu, das Schutzgebiet umfasste seitdem eine Fläche rund 378 km². Der Kongress der Vereinigten Staaten stufte das Gebiet 1962 zum Nationalpark auf. 1970 wurden etwas mehr als die Hälfte der damaligen Fläche unter den erweiterten Schutz eines Wilderness Areas gestellt. Seit 2004 läuft ein Programm zur Erweiterung des Parkgebietes auf 885 km². Benachbarte Flächen anderer Bundesbehörden sollen dem Nationalpark übertragen werden, private Grundstücke werden angekauft, wenn Mittel verfügbar sind. Im September 2011 wurden rund 105 km² einer angekauften Ranch dem Park hinzugefügt.
Im nördlichen Teil des Parks, der oberhalb der Interstate 40 zwischen Holbrook und Navajo liegt, befindet sich die „Painted Desert“. Diese ist ein trockenes Brachland, wo Erosion eine farbenfrohe Landschaft gestaltet hat.
Das meiste versteinerte Holz kann im Südteil des Nationalparks betrachtet werden, hier finden sich auch alte Felsritzzeichnungen, sogenannte Petroglyphen. Die bekanntesten sind am „Newspaper Rock“ angebracht. In dessen Nähe liegen auch die Ruinen eines Pueblos aus dem 11. Jahrhundert, des Puerco Pueblo.
Das trockene Wüstengebiet am Rand des Colorado-Plateaus beeindruckt besonders durch die vielen Farben, die diese Landschaft zeigt. Besonders auffallend zeigen sich diese in der «bemalten Wüste» und an den «Tepees». Wie mit dem Lineal gezogen erscheinen die übereinander liegenden Gesteinsschichten:
ihre Basis besteht aus zum Teil von Eisenoxid rötlich gefärbtem Gestein,
die weiße Schicht darüber besteht aus Sandstein,
es folgt eine kräftig rot gefärbte Schicht von mit Eisen durchsetztem Sedimentgestein (Schluff),
die Kuppe schließlich besteht aus dunklem Ton, der seine Farbe durch Beimengung von organischem Kohlenstoff erhielt.
Innerhalb des Parks lässt sich das Fortschreiten der Erosion gut beobachten. Während an den „Tepees“ die oberste Tonschicht schon fast abgetragen ist, so ist im höher liegenden Gebiet der „Blue Mesa“ bislang nur diese sichtbar.
Vor etwa 215 Millionen Jahren, in der Zeitperiode der späten Trias, befand sich hier ein von vielen Flüssen durchzogenes Schwemmland. Araukarien, Baumfarne und Nadelhölzer bildeten die Vegetation. Krokodilartige Reptilien, Riesen-Amphibien, auch kleinere Dinosaurier lebten in diesem Land. Zeugnis davon geben viele Funde von Fossilien in der Chinle-Formation.
Umgestürzte Bäume wurden von Fluten unter Schlamm und Schlick begraben. Vergraben von weiteren Ablagerungen verlangsamte sich der natürliche Zerfall des Holzes aufgrund fehlenden Sauerstoffs. Unter der dicker werdenden Sedimentabdeckung sickerte kieselsäurehaltiges Grundwasser in die Baumstämme ein. Quarz und Chalcedon lagerten sich in den Hohlräumen der Stämme ein, ersetzten nach und nach das Zellgewebe und erhielten so die Holzstrukturen der Stämme in Stein.
Die Schichten sanken weiter ab und wurden erneut überschwemmt. Immer mehr Schichten von durch Wasser herangetragenem Material lagerten sich darüber ab. Sehr viel später einsetzende tektonische Bewegungen in der Erdkruste (siehe Laramische Gebirgsbildung) hoben die Landoberfläche heraus, die dabei auftretenden Spannungen innerhalb der Gesteinsschichten ließen die Stämme zerbrechen. Die nun verstärkt einsetzende Erosion durch Wind und Wasser trug nach und nach die weicheren Schichten der Sedimente ab und legte so die versteinerten Baumstämme, die aus harter Quarzsubstanz bestehen, frei.
Crystal Forest – hier gibt es einen kleinen Rundweg, etwa einen halben Kilometer lang. Entlang des Rundwegs liegen Stämme mit einer Dicke von zum Teil fast einem Meter. Das Besondere an den Stämmen sind klare Quarz- und Amethyst-Kristalle, die sich in Hohlräumen ausgebildet haben.
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Saltwell Park, based in the heart of Gateshead, it is one of Britain's finest examples of a Victorian Park. The park has seen an amazing transformation and has been restored to its Victorian splendour.
It encompasses 55 acres of landscapes, woodland and ornamental gardens as well as public sports facilities, a refreshment house, a lake, play areas, bowling greens, Saltwell Towers, the animal house, an education centre and a maze.
Saltwell Tower's a fairy tale mansion house, now houses a visitor centre and cafe.
This Golden Gate Bridge shot was taken about 15 minutes before sunrise on a particularly clear and beautiful morning. This is one of my favorite locations to view the Bridge from, and one of the only available via car before sunrise, in the first turnout up the Marin Headlands just below the WWII gunnery placements. The morning light is always a delight, particularly on clear mornings. The view encompasses on of the best views of San Francisco as well as the remainder of San Francisco Bay. I've shot a 180 degree panorama from the same location on another visit I'm planing on posting that gives the viewer a better take on the entire panoramic view available from this spot
This morning the cloud patterns were magnificent. I was only able to shoot off a few frames before the light had changed and the clouds dulled in color significantly.
This images is a combine of my best exposure blended with an HDR composite of four exposures in two stop increments.
Bhutanese schoolboys goofing off in front of the camera. Much has been said about Bhutan's unique approach to measuring its country's development. In addition to measuring GDP, Bhutan also measures GNH or "Gross National Happiness." The concept of GNH is built on the belief that true development in a country should encompass the holistic well-being of its people rather than focusing solely on economic growth.
The rocky shoreline of Acadia National Park encompasses most of Mount Desert Island's eastern side. I am guessing that if you walked along the edge of the shore, it would measure 25-30 miles. All along that walk, you would see one of the most rugged coastlines on the eastern US coast. Towering cliffs and rocks so rugged that you wonder how they were formed. Along the way you might expect some beautiful beaches to enjoy. Well, you would be disappointed. There is only one beach along the coast and it is this one, Sand Beach. This little beach (less than 300 yards long) is one of the most visited attractions in Acadia. Swimming is allowed, but the Atlantic Ocean rarely gets above a water temperature of 55 degrees.
The beach is protected by Great Head, pictured in the photo, and is probably why the beach was formed. Normally, the beach is packed with people, but being mid-October and with the ominous clouds approaching, there weren't many there. All the better to take in its beauty.
Built in 1914 at no. 911 Wellington Street East.
"This is a Prairie-style single-story residence, noticeably located at the south-west corner of Wellington and Woodward in the city’s east-central area. It encompasses part of Lot 15, Plan 568 and Lot 29, Plan 930. GIS coordinates: 705,711.336 5,154,111.585 Meters
This handsome, distinctive, well maintained home is the best example of a Prairie-style residence to be found in Sault Ste. Marie. It is an elegant Craftsman style bungalow with a variety of gently pitched roof slopes and a small hipped dormer. The eaves are deep and bracketed. The columns are plain with square abacuses and no base. The inclusion of classical modillions in a residence is rare in Sault Ste. Marie and to Prairie-style homes. A variety of rustic building materials have been utilized: stucco, wood, brick and stone. The window groupings consist of both casement and sash with inner muntin bars. Those windows on the front have been replaced with modern aluminum windows but the windows around the sunroom on the east side and those on the partial second floor are original. Many of the original storm windows are stored in the garage. Craftsmanship in the building is excellent yet simple and functional. Even the interior fireplace sports hand-carved brackets of similar design to those supporting the overhanging exterior eaves. With the exception of the kitchen and bathroom, the main floor rooms are still finished with the original oak trim and floors. An old photo of the house indicates that cedar shingles once adorned the roof.
This residence was constructed, in its present form, in 1914 for Richard H. Carney who was District manager for Canada Life Assurance Co. It was the Carney family who was responsible for construction of the Carney Block on Queen St. It thus reflects the affluence of an upper middle class business family which was profiting from the Clergue industrial expansion of the day. A 1914 date and initials of the stone mason builder may be found in the basement wall mortar between the sandstone pieces. It is likely this sandstone was quarried from the locks as was typical for the day. This house was purchased in 1939 by the MacIntosh family who owned it until 2004.
The key exterior features that embody the heritage value of 911 Wellington St. E. include:
- Variety of gently pitched roof slopes provide horizontal emphasis reflecting the Prairiestyle bungalow
- Clerestory lighting that provides light to a half story loft
- A hipped dormer and deep bracketed eaves
- Columns with abacuses and no base but adorned with modillions
- Rustic building materials including stucco, wood, brick and stone
- Original casement windows with sash and inner muntin bars on the sunroom (east side)
and on the half story loft
- Home and property have been well maintained in traditional style with little change to
the exterior
- An interior with oak trim, baseboards and flooring unchanged save for the kitchen and
bathroom
- A beautiful fireplace with brackets supporting the mantle matching those under the
eaves on the exterior
- The best example of a classical Prairie-style residence in Sault Ste. Marie distinctively
located in a prominent east-central location
- A residence which reflects the affluence of a prominent Sault business family built
during the heyday of the Clergue industrial empire" - info from the Sault Ste. Marie Municipal Heritage Committee.
"Sault Ste. Marie (/ˈsuː seɪnt məˈriː/ SOO-seint-ma-REE) is a city on the St. Marys River in Ontario, Canada, close to the Canada–US border. It is the seat of the Algoma District and the third largest city in Northern Ontario, after Sudbury and Thunder Bay.
The Ojibwe, the indigenous Anishinaabe inhabitants of the area, call this area Baawitigong, meaning "place of the rapids." They used this as a regional meeting place during whitefish season in the St. Mary's Rapids. (The anglicized form of this name, Bawating, is used in institutional and geographic names in the area.)
To the south, across the river, is the United States and the Michigan city of the same name. These two communities were one city until a new treaty after the War of 1812 established the border between Canada and the United States in this area at the St. Mary's River. In the 21st century, the two cities are joined by the International Bridge, which connects Interstate 75 on the Michigan side, and Huron Street (and former Ontario Secondary Highway 550B) on the Ontario side. Shipping traffic in the Great Lakes system bypasses the Saint Mary's Rapids via the American Soo Locks, the world's busiest canal in terms of tonnage that passes through it, while smaller recreational and tour boats use the Canadian Sault Ste. Marie Canal.
French colonists referred to the rapids on the river as Les Saults de Ste. Marie and the village name was derived from that. The rapids and cascades of the St. Mary's River descend more than 6 m (20 ft) from the level of Lake Superior to the level of the lower lakes. Hundreds of years ago, this slowed shipping traffic, requiring an overland portage of boats and cargo from one lake to the other. The entire name translates to "Saint Mary's Rapids" or "Saint Mary's Falls". The word sault is pronounced [so] in French, and /suː/ in the English pronunciation of the city name. Residents of the city are called Saultites.
Sault Ste. Marie is bordered to the east by the Rankin and Garden River First Nation reserves, and to the west by Prince Township. To the north, the city is bordered by an unincorporated portion of Algoma District, which includes the local services boards of Aweres, Batchawana Bay, Goulais and District, Peace Tree and Searchmont. The city's census agglomeration, including the townships of Laird, Prince and Macdonald, Meredith and Aberdeen Additional and the First Nations reserves of Garden River and Rankin, had a total population of 79,800 in 2011.
Native American settlements, mostly of Ojibwe-speaking peoples, existed here for more than 500 years. In the late 17th century, French Jesuit missionaries established a mission at the First Nations village. This was followed by development of a fur trading post and larger settlement, as traders, trappers and Native Americans were attracted to the community. It was considered one community and part of Canada until after the War of 1812 and settlement of the border between Canada and the US at the Ste. Mary's River. At that time, the US prohibited British traders from any longer operating in its territory, and the areas separated by the river began to develop as two communities, both named Sault Ste. Marie." - info from Wikipedia.
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The Rub' al Khali is the largest contiguous sand desert in the world, encompassing most of the southern third of the Arabian Peninsula. The desert covers some 650,000 square kilometres including parts of Saudi Arabia, Oman, the United Arab Emirates, and Yemen. It is part of the larger Arabian Desert. One very large pile of sand!!!
The desert is 1,000 kilometres (620 mi) long, and 500 kilometres (310 mi) wide. Its surface elevation varies from 800 metres (2,600 ft) in the southwest to around sea level in the northeast. The terrain is covered with sand dunes with heights up to 250 metres (820 ft), interspersed with gravel and gypsum plains. The sand is of a reddish-orange color due to the presence of feldspar. There are also brackish salt flats in some areas, such as the Umm al Samim area on the desert's eastern edge. Along the middle length of the desert there are a number of raised, hardened areas of calcium carbonate, gypsum, marl, or clay that were once the site of shallow lakes.
These lakes existed during periods from 6,000 to 5,000 years ago and 3,000 to 2,000 years ago. The lakes are thought to have formed as a result of "cataclysmic rainfall" similar to present-day monsoon rains and most probably lasted for only a few years. Evidence suggests that the lakes were home to a variety of flora and fauna. Fossil remains indicate the presence of several animal species, such as hippopotamus, water buffalo, and long-horned cattle. The lakes also contained small snails, ostracods, and when conditions were suitable, freshwater clams. Deposits of calcium carbonate and opal phytoliths indicate the presence of plants and algae.
There is also evidence of human activity dating from 3,000 to 2,000 years ago, including chipped flint tools, but no actual human remains have been found. The region is classified as "hyper-arid", with typical annual rainfall of less than 3 centimetres (1.2 in). Daily maximum temperatures average at 47 °C (117 °F) and can reach as high as 51 °C (124 °F). Fauna includes arachnids (e.g. scorpions) and rodents, while plants live throughout the Empty Quarter. As an ecoregion, the Rub' al Khali falls within the Arabian Desert and East Saharo-Arabian xeric shrublands. The Asiatic cheetahs, once widespread in Saudi Arabia, are regionally extinct from the desert.
Geologically, the Empty Quarter is one of the most oil-rich sites in the world. Vast oil reserves have been discovered underneath the sand dunes.[citation needed] Sheyba, at the northeastern edge of the Rub' al Khali, is a major light crude oil-producing site in Saudi Arabia. Ghawar, the largest oil field in the world, extends southward into the northernmost parts of the Empty Quarter.
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The Innenhafen (Inner Harbor) in Duisburg, encompassing an area of 89ha., was for over a hundred years, during the high point of the Industrial Revolution, the central harbor and trading point of the town. Since the mid-60s, the importance of the harbour declined and it lay in a disused condition for 20 years, before plans for renovation were drawn up. This former industrial area been fundamentally transformed, a process which started as a part of the International Building Exhibition Emscher Park (IBA) which ran from 1989 until 1999.
The basis for this model of development in the Ruhr district was delivered in 1994 by the British architect Norman Foster. Since then, the Inner Harbor has transformed itself into a district combining employment, housing, culture and water-based leisure activities. Today, the Inner Harbour is both an industrial monument and a main point on the Route der Industriekultur.
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Built in 1914 at no. 911 Wellington Street East.
"This is a Prairie-style single-story residence, noticeably located at the south-west corner of Wellington and Woodward in the city’s east-central area. It encompasses part of Lot 15, Plan 568 and Lot 29, Plan 930. GIS coordinates: 705,711.336 5,154,111.585 Meters
This handsome, distinctive, well maintained home is the best example of a Prairie-style residence to be found in Sault Ste. Marie. It is an elegant Craftsman style bungalow with a variety of gently pitched roof slopes and a small hipped dormer. The eaves are deep and bracketed. The columns are plain with square abacuses and no base. The inclusion of classical modillions in a residence is rare in Sault Ste. Marie and to Prairie-style homes. A variety of rustic building materials have been utilized: stucco, wood, brick and stone. The window groupings consist of both casement and sash with inner muntin bars. Those windows on the front have been replaced with modern aluminum windows but the windows around the sunroom on the east side and those on the partial second floor are original. Many of the original storm windows are stored in the garage. Craftsmanship in the building is excellent yet simple and functional. Even the interior fireplace sports hand-carved brackets of similar design to those supporting the overhanging exterior eaves. With the exception of the kitchen and bathroom, the main floor rooms are still finished with the original oak trim and floors. An old photo of the house indicates that cedar shingles once adorned the roof.
This residence was constructed, in its present form, in 1914 for Richard H. Carney who was District manager for Canada Life Assurance Co. It was the Carney family who was responsible for construction of the Carney Block on Queen St. It thus reflects the affluence of an upper middle class business family which was profiting from the Clergue industrial expansion of the day. A 1914 date and initials of the stone mason builder may be found in the basement wall mortar between the sandstone pieces. It is likely this sandstone was quarried from the locks as was typical for the day. This house was purchased in 1939 by the MacIntosh family who owned it until 2004.
The key exterior features that embody the heritage value of 911 Wellington St. E. include:
- Variety of gently pitched roof slopes provide horizontal emphasis reflecting the Prairiestyle bungalow
- Clerestory lighting that provides light to a half story loft
- A hipped dormer and deep bracketed eaves
- Columns with abacuses and no base but adorned with modillions
- Rustic building materials including stucco, wood, brick and stone
- Original casement windows with sash and inner muntin bars on the sunroom (east side)
and on the half story loft
- Home and property have been well maintained in traditional style with little change to
the exterior
- An interior with oak trim, baseboards and flooring unchanged save for the kitchen and
bathroom
- A beautiful fireplace with brackets supporting the mantle matching those under the
eaves on the exterior
- The best example of a classical Prairie-style residence in Sault Ste. Marie distinctively
located in a prominent east-central location
- A residence which reflects the affluence of a prominent Sault business family built
during the heyday of the Clergue industrial empire" - info from the Sault Ste. Marie Municipal Heritage Committee.
"Sault Ste. Marie (/ˈsuː seɪnt məˈriː/ SOO-seint-ma-REE) is a city on the St. Marys River in Ontario, Canada, close to the Canada–US border. It is the seat of the Algoma District and the third largest city in Northern Ontario, after Sudbury and Thunder Bay.
The Ojibwe, the indigenous Anishinaabe inhabitants of the area, call this area Baawitigong, meaning "place of the rapids." They used this as a regional meeting place during whitefish season in the St. Mary's Rapids. (The anglicized form of this name, Bawating, is used in institutional and geographic names in the area.)
To the south, across the river, is the United States and the Michigan city of the same name. These two communities were one city until a new treaty after the War of 1812 established the border between Canada and the United States in this area at the St. Mary's River. In the 21st century, the two cities are joined by the International Bridge, which connects Interstate 75 on the Michigan side, and Huron Street (and former Ontario Secondary Highway 550B) on the Ontario side. Shipping traffic in the Great Lakes system bypasses the Saint Mary's Rapids via the American Soo Locks, the world's busiest canal in terms of tonnage that passes through it, while smaller recreational and tour boats use the Canadian Sault Ste. Marie Canal.
French colonists referred to the rapids on the river as Les Saults de Ste. Marie and the village name was derived from that. The rapids and cascades of the St. Mary's River descend more than 6 m (20 ft) from the level of Lake Superior to the level of the lower lakes. Hundreds of years ago, this slowed shipping traffic, requiring an overland portage of boats and cargo from one lake to the other. The entire name translates to "Saint Mary's Rapids" or "Saint Mary's Falls". The word sault is pronounced [so] in French, and /suː/ in the English pronunciation of the city name. Residents of the city are called Saultites.
Sault Ste. Marie is bordered to the east by the Rankin and Garden River First Nation reserves, and to the west by Prince Township. To the north, the city is bordered by an unincorporated portion of Algoma District, which includes the local services boards of Aweres, Batchawana Bay, Goulais and District, Peace Tree and Searchmont. The city's census agglomeration, including the townships of Laird, Prince and Macdonald, Meredith and Aberdeen Additional and the First Nations reserves of Garden River and Rankin, had a total population of 79,800 in 2011.
Native American settlements, mostly of Ojibwe-speaking peoples, existed here for more than 500 years. In the late 17th century, French Jesuit missionaries established a mission at the First Nations village. This was followed by development of a fur trading post and larger settlement, as traders, trappers and Native Americans were attracted to the community. It was considered one community and part of Canada until after the War of 1812 and settlement of the border between Canada and the US at the Ste. Mary's River. At that time, the US prohibited British traders from any longer operating in its territory, and the areas separated by the river began to develop as two communities, both named Sault Ste. Marie." - info from Wikipedia.
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My one little word for 2013 is TRUE.
It encompasses many things for me and it's theme is thread through many of my favourite mantras and quotes...it's about enlivening, honouring and loving my true self, it's about standing my sacred ground and shining brightly in this world.
"To thine own self be true~" William Shakespeare
“Feet on ground, heart in hand, facing forward, be yourself.” Jann Arden
“Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, and fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There's nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine, as children do. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It's not just in some of us; it's in everyone and as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give others permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.” Marianne Williams
I stand alone here
encompassed by peripheral fear
wondering if you will shed a tear
if I walk away and disappear.
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tunnel vision is the retention of a central perspective
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The Monument and Preserve encompass three major lava fields and about 400 square miles (1,000 km2) of sagebrush steppe grasslands to cover a total area of 1,117 square miles (2,893 km2). All three lava fields lie along the Great Rift of Idaho, with some of the best examples of open rift cracks in the world, including the deepest known on Earth at 800 feet (240 m). There are excellent examples of almost every variety of basaltic lava, as well as tree molds (cavities left by lava-incinerated trees), lava tubes (a type of cave), and many other volcanic features.
NGC 7822 is a young star forming complex in the constellation of Cepheus.
The complex encompasses the emission region designated Sharpless 171, and the young cluster of stars named Berkeley 59.
The complex is believed to be some 800-1000 pc distant (3,000 light years), with the younger components aged no more than a few million years.
The complex also includes one of the hottest stars discovered within 1 kpc of the Sun, namely BD+66 1673, which is an eclipsing binary system consisting of an O5V that exhibits a surface temperature of nearly 45000 K and a luminosity ~100,000 times that of the Sun.
The star is one of the primary sources illuminating the nebula and shaping the complex's famed pillars of creation-type formations, the elephant trunks.
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Imaging telescope or lens:Teleskop Service TS Photoline 107mm f/6.5 Super-Apo
Imaging camera:ZWO ASI1600MM-Cool
Mounts:Skywatcher AZ EQ-6 GT, Astro-Physics Mach-1 GTO CP4
Guiding telescope or lens:Celestron OAG Deluxe
Guiding camera:QHYCCD QHY5III174
Focal reducer:Riccardi Reducer/Flattener 0.75x
Software:Main Sequence Software Seqence Generator Pro, Astro-Physics AAPC, Pleiades Astrophoto PixInsight
Filters:Astrodon HA 36mm - 5nm, Baader Planetarium Ha 1.25" 7nm, Astrodon S-II 36mm - 5nm, Astrodon O-III 36mm - 5nm, Astrodon B Gen.2 E-series 36mm, Astrodon G Gen.2 E-series 36mm, Astrodon R Gen.2 E-series 36mm, Baader Planetarium OIII 1.25" 8.5nm, Baader Planetarium SII 1.25" 8nm
Accessories:ZWO EFW, MoonLite NiteCrawler WR30
Resolution: 1696x2276
Dates: Oct. 13, 2017, Oct. 14, 2017, Sept. 20, 2018, Sept. 22, 2018, Sept. 23, 2018, Sept. 24, 2018
Frames:
Astrodon B Gen.2 E-series 36mm: 15x5" (gain: 200.00) -20C bin 1x1
Astrodon G Gen.2 E-series 36mm: 15x5" (gain: 200.00) -20C bin 1x1
Astrodon HA 36mm - 5nm: 56x300" (gain: 200.00) -20C bin 1x1
Baader Planetarium Ha 1.25" 7nm: 50x120" (gain: 200.00) -20C bin 1x1
Baader Planetarium Ha 1.25" 7nm: 25x180" (gain: 200.00) -20C bin 1x1
Astrodon O-III 36mm - 5nm: 21x300" (gain: 200.00) -20C bin 1x1
Baader Planetarium OIII 1.25" 8.5nm: 17x120" (gain: 200.00) -20C bin 1x1
Astrodon R Gen.2 E-series 36mm: 15x5" (gain: 200.00) -20C bin 1x1
Astrodon S-II 36mm - 5nm: 15x300" (gain: 200.00) -20C bin 1x1
Baader Planetarium SII 1.25" 8nm: 16x180" (gain: 200.00) -20C bin 1x1
Integration: 12.0 hours
Avg. Moon age: 16.28 days
Avg. Moon phase: 73.22%
Astrometry.net job: 2281894
RA center: 0.897 degrees
DEC center: 67.148 degrees
Pixel scale: 2.931 arcsec/pixel
Orientation: 1.157 degrees
Field radius: 1.155 degrees
Locations: Berga Resort, Berga, Barcelona, Spain
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This is the front of this beautiful church, chapel on St. Kate's campus.. The statue is called 'Our Lady of Victory'... Sometimes in summer students place flowers in the statues hands! ; )
The architecture is just beautiful as is the whole campus grounds! I just love those ornate blue doors! ; )
Life encompasses both light and darkness, symbolizing moments of clarity, enlightenment, and positivity, as well as periods of confusion, doubt, and adversity. Embracing the contrasts allows us to appreciate the beauty of life's complexities and find meaning in its challenges.
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The refuge is encompassed within 1,500,000 acres (6,100 km2) of hardwood swamps, lakes and bayous. The natural floodplain of the Atchafalaya River flows for 140 miles (230 km) south from its junction with the Mississippi River to the Gulf of Mexico. The basin's dense bottomland hardwoods, Bald Cypress-Tupelo swamps, overflow lakes, and meandering bayous provide a tremendous diversity of habitat for more than 200 species of resident and migratory birds and numerous other wildlife and the area has been recognized as an Internationally Important Bird Area.(wikipedia)
This week in 1969, Apollo 10 launched from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center. The mission encompassed all aspects of an actual crewed lunar landing, except the landing. It was the first flight of a complete, crewed Apollo spacecraft to operate in lunar orbit. Here, the first stage of the Apollo 10 Saturn V vehicle is hoisted in preparation for erection on a mobile launcher in High Bay 2 of the Vehicle Assembly Building at Kennedy. NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center designed, developed and managed the production of the Saturn V rockets that took astronauts to the Moon. The NASA History Program is responsible for generating, disseminating and preserving NASA’s remarkable history and providing a comprehensive understanding of the institutional, cultural, social, political, economic, technological and scientific aspects of NASA’s activities in aeronautics and space. For more pictures like this one and to connect to NASA’s history, visit the Marshall History Program’s webpage.
Image credit: NASA
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Boston, officially the City of Boston, is the capital and largest city of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts and the cultural and financial center of the New England region of the Northeastern United States. The city boundaries encompass an area of about 48.4 sq mi (125 km2) and a population of 675,647 as of 2020. The city is the economic and cultural anchor of a substantially larger metropolitan area known as Greater Boston, a metropolitan statistical area (MSA) home to 4,941,632 people as of 2020, ranking as the eleventh-largest MSA in the country. A broader combined statistical area (CSA), generally corresponding to the commuting area and including Worcester, Massachusetts and Providence, Rhode Island, is home to approximately 8.2 million people, making it the seventh-most populous in the United States.
Boston is one of the nation's oldest municipalities, founded on the Shawmut Peninsula in 1630 by Puritan settlers from the English town of the same name. During the American Revolution and the nation's founding, Boston was the location of several key events, including the Boston Massacre, the Boston Tea Party, the hanging of Paul Revere's lantern signal in Old North Church, the Battle of Bunker Hill, and the siege of Boston. Following American independence from Great Britain, the city continued to play an important role as a port, manufacturing hub, and center for American education and culture. The city has expanded beyond the original peninsula through land reclamation and municipal annexation. Its rich history attracts many tourists, with Faneuil Hall alone drawing more than 20 million visitors per year. Boston's many firsts include the United States' first public park (Boston Common, 1634), the first public school (Boston Latin School, 1635), the first subway system (Tremont Street subway, 1897), and the first large public library (Boston Public Library, 1848).
In the 21st century, Boston has emerged as a global leader in higher education and academic research. Greater Boston's many colleges and universities include Harvard University and MIT, both located in suburban Cambridge and both routinely included among the world's most highly ranked universities. The city is also a national leader in scientific research, law, medicine, engineering, and business. With nearly 5,000 startup companies, the city is considered a global pioneer in innovation and entrepreneurship. Boston's economic base also includes finance, professional and business services, biotechnology, information technology, and government activities. Households in the city claim the highest average rate of philanthropy in the United States. Boston businesses and institutions rank among the top in the country for environmental sustainability and new investment.
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Beacon Hill is a historic neighborhood in Boston, Massachusetts, United States. It is also the location of the Massachusetts State House. The term "Beacon Hill" is used locally as a metonym to refer to the state government or the legislature itself, much like Washington, D.C.'s Capitol Hill does at the federal level.
Federal-style rowhouses, narrow gaslit streets and brick sidewalks run through the neighborhood, which is generally regarded as one of the more desirable and expensive in Boston. As of the 2010 U.S. Census, the population of Boston's Beacon Hill neighborhood was 9,023.
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(United States) "الولايات المتحدة" "Vereinigte Staaten" "アメリカ" "美国" "미국" "Estados Unidos" "États-Unis"
(Massachusetts) "ماساتشوستس" "麻萨诸塞州" "मैसाचुसेट्स" "マサチューセッツ" "매사추세츠 주" "Массачусетс"
(Boston) "بوسطن" "波士顿" "बोस्टन" "ボストン" "보스턴" "Бостон"
Mount Etna is an iconic site encompassing 19,237 uninhabited hectares on the highest part of Mount Etna, on the eastern coast of Sicily. Mount Etna is the highest Mediterranean island mountain and the most active stratovolcano in the world. The eruptive history of the volcano can be traced back 500,000 years and at least 2,700 years of this activity has been documented. The almost continuous eruptive activity of Mount Etna continues to influence volcanology, geophysics and other Earth science disciplines. The volcano also supports important terrestrial ecosystems including endemic flora and fauna and its activity makes it a natural laboratory for the study of ecological and biological processes. The diverse and accessible range of volcanic features such as summit craters, cinder cones, lava flows and the Valle de Bove depression have made the site a prime destination for research and education. whc.unesco.org/en/list/1427/
An all encompassing view of a busy Bearwood Road, Bearwood, West Midlands in May 1991. A scene still very recognisable today.
The bus (WMT 2527) working the 82 service into the City Centre - via Cape Hill, hadn't long departed its terminal point at Bearwood Bus Station.
The Metrobus wears the company's then mainly silver livery, making the vehicle look like one of its then newer sisters at first glance. The silver paint wasn't found to be very durable, and buses were eventually repainted into a modified version of the livery that used more blue.
At the time of the photo, 2527 was a Quinton Garage based bus, where it had been allocated since delivery in 1982. As part of an on-going company rationalisation, Quinton bus garage was closed in 1997; a Tesco supermarket now stands on the site. As a consequence of the closure, 2527 was transferred to West Bromwich, and later to Walsall to see its service days out.
Withdrawn from traffic in late 2004, 2527 saw further use with McColl's, an independent bus operator based in Balloch, Scotland. Indeed, McColl's bought a number of secondhand Metrobuses from West Midlands Travel.
Built in 1914 at no. 911 Wellington Street East.
"This is a Prairie-style single-story residence, noticeably located at the south-west corner of Wellington and Woodward in the city’s east-central area. It encompasses part of Lot 15, Plan 568 and Lot 29, Plan 930. GIS coordinates: 705,711.336 5,154,111.585 Meters
This handsome, distinctive, well maintained home is the best example of a Prairie-style residence to be found in Sault Ste. Marie. It is an elegant Craftsman style bungalow with a variety of gently pitched roof slopes and a small hipped dormer. The eaves are deep and bracketed. The columns are plain with square abacuses and no base. The inclusion of classical modillions in a residence is rare in Sault Ste. Marie and to Prairie-style homes. A variety of rustic building materials have been utilized: stucco, wood, brick and stone. The window groupings consist of both casement and sash with inner muntin bars. Those windows on the front have been replaced with modern aluminum windows but the windows around the sunroom on the east side and those on the partial second floor are original. Many of the original storm windows are stored in the garage. Craftsmanship in the building is excellent yet simple and functional. Even the interior fireplace sports hand-carved brackets of similar design to those supporting the overhanging exterior eaves. With the exception of the kitchen and bathroom, the main floor rooms are still finished with the original oak trim and floors. An old photo of the house indicates that cedar shingles once adorned the roof.
This residence was constructed, in its present form, in 1914 for Richard H. Carney who was District manager for Canada Life Assurance Co. It was the Carney family who was responsible for construction of the Carney Block on Queen St. It thus reflects the affluence of an upper middle class business family which was profiting from the Clergue industrial expansion of the day. A 1914 date and initials of the stone mason builder may be found in the basement wall mortar between the sandstone pieces. It is likely this sandstone was quarried from the locks as was typical for the day. This house was purchased in 1939 by the MacIntosh family who owned it until 2004.
The key exterior features that embody the heritage value of 911 Wellington St. E. include:
- Variety of gently pitched roof slopes provide horizontal emphasis reflecting the Prairiestyle bungalow
- Clerestory lighting that provides light to a half story loft
- A hipped dormer and deep bracketed eaves
- Columns with abacuses and no base but adorned with modillions
- Rustic building materials including stucco, wood, brick and stone
- Original casement windows with sash and inner muntin bars on the sunroom (east side)
and on the half story loft
- Home and property have been well maintained in traditional style with little change to
the exterior
- An interior with oak trim, baseboards and flooring unchanged save for the kitchen and
bathroom
- A beautiful fireplace with brackets supporting the mantle matching those under the
eaves on the exterior
- The best example of a classical Prairie-style residence in Sault Ste. Marie distinctively
located in a prominent east-central location
- A residence which reflects the affluence of a prominent Sault business family built
during the heyday of the Clergue industrial empire" - info from the Sault Ste. Marie Municipal Heritage Committee.
"Sault Ste. Marie (/ˈsuː seɪnt məˈriː/ SOO-seint-ma-REE) is a city on the St. Marys River in Ontario, Canada, close to the Canada–US border. It is the seat of the Algoma District and the third largest city in Northern Ontario, after Sudbury and Thunder Bay.
The Ojibwe, the indigenous Anishinaabe inhabitants of the area, call this area Baawitigong, meaning "place of the rapids." They used this as a regional meeting place during whitefish season in the St. Mary's Rapids. (The anglicized form of this name, Bawating, is used in institutional and geographic names in the area.)
To the south, across the river, is the United States and the Michigan city of the same name. These two communities were one city until a new treaty after the War of 1812 established the border between Canada and the United States in this area at the St. Mary's River. In the 21st century, the two cities are joined by the International Bridge, which connects Interstate 75 on the Michigan side, and Huron Street (and former Ontario Secondary Highway 550B) on the Ontario side. Shipping traffic in the Great Lakes system bypasses the Saint Mary's Rapids via the American Soo Locks, the world's busiest canal in terms of tonnage that passes through it, while smaller recreational and tour boats use the Canadian Sault Ste. Marie Canal.
French colonists referred to the rapids on the river as Les Saults de Ste. Marie and the village name was derived from that. The rapids and cascades of the St. Mary's River descend more than 6 m (20 ft) from the level of Lake Superior to the level of the lower lakes. Hundreds of years ago, this slowed shipping traffic, requiring an overland portage of boats and cargo from one lake to the other. The entire name translates to "Saint Mary's Rapids" or "Saint Mary's Falls". The word sault is pronounced [so] in French, and /suː/ in the English pronunciation of the city name. Residents of the city are called Saultites.
Sault Ste. Marie is bordered to the east by the Rankin and Garden River First Nation reserves, and to the west by Prince Township. To the north, the city is bordered by an unincorporated portion of Algoma District, which includes the local services boards of Aweres, Batchawana Bay, Goulais and District, Peace Tree and Searchmont. The city's census agglomeration, including the townships of Laird, Prince and Macdonald, Meredith and Aberdeen Additional and the First Nations reserves of Garden River and Rankin, had a total population of 79,800 in 2011.
Native American settlements, mostly of Ojibwe-speaking peoples, existed here for more than 500 years. In the late 17th century, French Jesuit missionaries established a mission at the First Nations village. This was followed by development of a fur trading post and larger settlement, as traders, trappers and Native Americans were attracted to the community. It was considered one community and part of Canada until after the War of 1812 and settlement of the border between Canada and the US at the Ste. Mary's River. At that time, the US prohibited British traders from any longer operating in its territory, and the areas separated by the river began to develop as two communities, both named Sault Ste. Marie." - info from Wikipedia.
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The West Burton Place District encompasses a portion of one short residential block on West Burton Place in the Old Town neighborhood of Chicago. Old Town is one of Chicago's oldest residential neighborhoods, located at the foot of Lincoln Park, a few blocks west of the lakefront and approximately two miles north of the Loop. The district is comprised of twelve principal structures on either side of West Burton Place and five residential coach houses behind principal structures on the north side of the street, from LaSalle Street on the east to the alley adjacent to a small park on Wells Street on the west. The earliest structures on the block date from the mid-1870s and early 1880s, but the architectural, artistic and cultural significance of the street is primarily found in the remodelings of many of the buildings into artist studios from the late 1920s
through the 1940s.
Graffiti wall art is a powerful form of self-expression and urban beautification. It has evolved from a rebellious act to an admired art form celebrated worldwide. In this guide, we’ll explore the essence of graffiti wall art, its significance, and tips for creating stunning pieces.
What is Graffiti Wall Art?
Graffiti wall art refers to artistic designs, symbols, or messages created on walls, typically in urban areas. It encompasses various styles, ranging from:
Tagging: Simple, stylized signatures or initials.
Throw-Ups: Bubble letters or quick designs.
Murals: Large, detailed compositions that tell stories or convey themes.
Street Art: Intricate pieces blending graffiti with fine art techniques.
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Encompassing 7,300 square feet of prime Las Vegas real estate overlooking the legendary Fountains of Bellagio, LAGO by Julian Serrano brings a progressive luxury dining experience to the Bellagio Resort & Casino. LAGO’s design takes its cues from Italian Futurism – the sweeping artistic and cultural movement of early 20th century Italy – to stretch beyond the traditional and familiar in order to create a unique new signature for the Bellagio. This ethos aligns with, and is reflective of the Futurism movement itself: rejecting the past to focus on forward-thinking dynamism and experimentation, which is apparent in LAGO’s striking, innovative interior.
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Torres del Paine National Park (Spanish: Parque Nacional Torres del Paine) is a national park encompassing mountains, glaciers, lakes, and rivers in southern Chilean Patagonia. The Cordillera del Paine is the centerpiece of the park. It lies in a transition area between the Magellanic subpolar forests and the Patagonian Steppes. The park is located 112 km (70 mi) north of Puerto Natales and 312 km (194 mi) north of Punta Arenas. The park borders Bernardo O'Higgins National Park to the west and the Los Glaciares National Park to the north in Argentine territory. Paine means "blue" in the native Tehuelche (Aonikenk) language and is pronounced PIE-nay.
Torres del Paine National Park is part of the Sistema Nacional de Áreas Silvestres Protegidas del Estado de Chile (National System of Protected Forested Areas of Chile). In 2003, it measured approximately 242,242 hectares. It is one of the largest and most visited parks in Chile. The park averages around 150,000 visitors a year, of which 60% are foreign tourists, who come from all over the world.
The park is one of the 11 protected areas of the Magallanes Region and Chilean Antarctica (together with four national parks, three national reserves, and three national monuments). Together, the protected forested areas comprise about 51% of the land of the region (6,728,744 hectares).
The Torres del Paine are the distinctive three granite peaks of the Paine mountain range or Paine Massif. They extend up to 2,500 meters above sea level, and are joined by the Cuernos del Paine. The area also boasts valleys, rivers such as the Paine, lakes, and glaciers. The well-known lakes include Grey, Pehoé, Nordenskiöld, and Sarmiento. The glaciers, including Grey, Pingo and Tyndall, belong to the Southern Patagonia Ice Field.
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Der Nationalpark Torres del Paine (spanisch Parque Nacional Torres del Paine) ist einer der bekanntesten Nationalparks in Chile, gelegen im Süden des Landes um die Berggruppe der Cordillera del Paine. Paine heißt in der Sprache der Tehuelche-Indianer (Aonikenk-Indianer, Patagonier) „himmelblau“, Torres del Paine also „Türme des blauen Himmels“.
Der Nationalpark Torres del Paine liegt im Süden Chiles und ist ein Teil Patagoniens. Er gehört zur Región de Magallanes y de la Antártica Chilena (Provinz Última Esperanza) und liegt rund 140 km nördlich der Stadt Puerto Natales.
Im Norden grenzt der Nationalpark an Argentinien, wo der Parque Nacional Los Glaciares anschließt. Im Westen liegt der Grey-Gletscher mit dem See Lago Grey, im Süden der Lago del Toro und im Osten der Lago Sarmiento de Gamboa.
Die Nationalpark-Fläche umfasst 2420 km². Er ist durchzogen von bis zu beinahe 3000 m hohen Bergen, Gletschern, Fjorden und großen Seen.
Die „Torres del Paine“ sind das Wahrzeichen des Nationalparks. Dabei handelt es sich um drei nadelartige Granitberge, die zwischen 2600 und 2850 m hoch sind. Die Berge liegen etwa in der Mitte des Nationalparks. Südlich dieser drei Berge liegt der See Lago Nordenskjöld, benannt nach dem schwedischen Geologen Otto Nordenskjöld.
Der höchste Berg im Nationalpark ist der Cerro Paine Grande mit 3050 m.
Große Teile des Nationalparks sind vergletschert. Der bekannteste Gletscher ist der Grey-Gletscher, der in den Lago Grey kalbt.
Im Sommer liegen die mittleren Temperaturen bei 11 °C und im Winter bei ca. 1 °C.
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The Baton Rouge Audubon Society Peveto Woods Sanctuary currently encompasses approximately 40 acres and is located along the Louisiana coast in Cameron Parish. This site was the first chenier sanctuary for migratory birds established in Louisiana. Coastal woods were called cheniers by early French settlers. The word means oak place, so-called because live oak was the predominant tree. Cheniers are ancient beach ridges, formed by wave action, offshore currents, and the influence of the Mississippi River. They are a unique feature of the northern coast of the Gulf of Mexico, found primarily along the Louisiana coast.
Baton Rouge Audubon Society is proud to have preserved this unique habitat. Birders and other nature lovers have visited the Sanctuary from 50 states and 20 foreign countries. Although the Sanctuary is owned and operated by the Society, we are dependent on private donations for maintenance costs and land purchases. Because of the generosity of private individuals and groups, BRAS has been able to maintain and add to this important site.
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The Cleveland Metroparks’ Rocky River Reservation encompasses over 2,500 acres of protected land
along the Rocky River and portions of its East and West branches. From north to south, the Reservation
is located in Lakewood, Rocky River, Cleveland, Fairview Park, Brook Park, North Olmsted, Olmsted
Township and Berea. The 12-mile Valley Parkway meanders with the river for the entire length of the
Reservation between Lakewood and Berea. Many access roads lead into the valley and to the parkway.
South of Bagley Road, Valley Parkway continues into the adjacent Mill Stream Run Reservation, also a
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Yes , this way in to see Pevensey Castle .
Pevensey Castle has impressive remains from both Roman and medieval periods. Encompassing over 1,700 years of history – including some of the most pivotal moments in the country’s past – and with attractive grounds, it makes a great afternoon out.
History
Pevensey began life as the Roman fort of Anderida, built around 295 AD as part of a string of forts along the south and east coasts of England known as the ‘Saxon Shore’ forts. These were designed both as bases to defend against Saxon raids, but also functioned as administrative and customs posts. After the end of formal Roman rule in 410AD, the fort was the home of a sophisticated trading community, until overwhelmed by the Saxons in 491 AD. (The Anglo Saxon Chronicle records that all the inhabitants were slain.)
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There is no further mention of the fort in written records until 1066 when, as the landing site of the Norman forces of William the Conqueror, it played a pivotal role in English history. William camped here for a few nights until he moved his forces to Hastings. Given after the Conquest to his half brother Robert, Count of Mortain, the Roman walls were used as an outer bailey, and a wooden fort erected in the north east corner. This was rebuilt in stone some time after 1100. A fine gateway for the inner bailey was erected around 1190-1220, supplemented by impressive curtain walls by Peter of Savoy in 1250, strengthened by large semi-circular towers.
Unusually, the castle was attacked and besieged no fewer than four times: the first in 1088 during the rebellion by de Mortain against the forces of King William II (Rufus); then in 1147, during the rebellion by Gilbert de Clare, Earl of Pembroke; again (and most significantly) in 1264-5, when followers of Henry III held out against the forces of Simon de Montfort after the battle of Lewes in May 1264, until the battle of Evesham in August 1265, when de Montfort was killed and Henry III returned to the throne; and finally in 1399, when Joan Pelham, the wife of the castle constable John Pelham – supporters of Henry Bolingbroke – held out against the forces of Richard II until Bolingbroke was crowned Henry IV.
As its port silted up at the end of the mediaeval period, Pevensey waned in significance, although periodically, its strategic location led to refortification: earthwork gun emplacements were constricted in 1587 in defence against the Spanish Armada; Martello towers were built further along the coast against Napoleonic invasion in 1805, and two gun emplacements were built into the Keep in 1940, fearful of a German invasion. These emplacements were disguised to look like part of the medieval Keep, and indeed the modern barracks were also disguised to look like mediaeval buildings.
It is now in the less eventful care of English Heritage.
The castle
Whether entered from the east or west, it is the Roman walls you see first, and they are suitably impressive, rising up to 20ft (7m) with their distinctive banded masonry, and ten bastions. They survive almost complete except for the south side. The area within them – the outer bailey of the mediaeval castle – is open to the public at all times, with a public footpath through it. It makes an ideal spot for picnics,
Next comes the curtain wall and gatehouse of the impressive 13th century fortifications, built of high quality ashlar. These are well preserved, and the moat has been refilled with water, giving a good impression of what the castle would have looked like. The east and north towers are particularly well preserved, and rooms within them have exhibitions on the history of the castle and castle life. Beneath the main west gatehouse is a cellar labelled ‘dungeon’, and even on a fine warm day, it was dark, wet and cold!
Once inside the main gate, past the small wooden ticket office the inner ward is dominated by the massive base of the 12th century keep, which was of highly unusual design: the ground floor was solid clay and masonry, with the rooms on the first floor, and the keep had a series of huge semi-circular buttresses, effectively forming projecting towers. Little is left above first floor level, save the two incongruous 1940 gun emplacements, with their long horizontal slits.
In the grounds are the footings of the castle’s chapel, its design easily traced by what survives, and the well. A pile of heavy stone balls (more in a south tower cellar) remind you of the mediaeval catapult-like ballista, and a restored Elizabethan cannon on display is one of a pair which were recorded on an inventory of 1587.
Practicalities
The castle is in the care of English Heritage. The outer bailey is open all year around as it is crossed by a public footpath.
The inner bailey (entry charge) is open every day 10:00-18:00 April-September and 10:00-16:00 during October. From November until the end of March it is open 10:00-16:00 on Saturdays and Sundays only. An audio tour is available, as well guide-books and souvenirs from the ticket office / shop. There’s a small tea room by the east entrance, and several pubs in Pevensey village.
The inner and outer baileys are accessible to wheelchair users via mainly impacted gravel paths and some rough grass; assistance may be necessary. There are many steps to the towers. Some disabled visitors may be able to use steps to towers and dungeons with assistance; there are handrails in north and south towers. Benches are provided in the inner bailey. As well as the audio guide for visually impaired visitors, there is a hearing loop guide for hearing impaired visitors.
There is a car park (charge payable) by the east entrance (on the Pevensey side). There are frequent trains to Pevensey & Westham station, on the Eastbourne to Hastings line, about 500m from the west gate, via Westham High Street and Castle Lane. (Although Pevensey Bay station is nearer to the castle, the train service is very sparse).
Certainly this park was much larger than it is now, encompassing an immense area where there are now buildings and historic Miami houses.
Lummus Park, was created in 1909, as one of Miami's first open, green spaces. The opening of the park in 1909, spurred development in the area, and today, most of the building around the park were built before 1926. The neighborhood has a variety of Mediterranean Revival, Frame, and Masonry Vernacular styles of architecture, and is home to Miami's old Scottish Rite Temple.
Lummus Park represents development in Miami before the phenomenal growth of the Florida land boom of the 1920s. The Lummus Park area was platted in 1909, following the creation of Lummus Park in 1909. The park was the catalyst for the development of the surrounding area into a residential neighborhood. The land on which the neighborhood is located was originally owned by the Model Land Company, Henry Flagler's real estate company. The extant buildings and structures, such as the Scottish Rite Temple, are illustrative of the growth patterns in Miami, where areas closest to the water and downtown developed early in the history of the city.
The district is also significant as one of the last remaining residential neighborhood within close proximity to downtown Miami. Over the years, the historic district has been separated from the rest of downtown through the construction of I-95 to the east of the neighborhood and the construction of large high-rise structures on the surrounding properties.
Two of the buildings situated within Lummus Park – Fort Dallas, and the William Wagner House – are significant as the last remaining structures associated with Miami’s pioneer history. Both structures have been moved to their present site because they were threatened with demolition and there was no other alternative to assure their preservation. The erection of Fort Dallas at Lummus Park presents a combination of a reconstruction and moved structure. The 1920s endeavor to save the structure heralded the city’s first historic preservation effort. This was quite a civic undertaking, as the city was just more than three decades old when the preservation effort began.
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Starting in 2009, 103 artists were secretly escorted into the space to create works of art, encompassing installations, paintings, aerosol, murals and more. Each artist was given one full night to work on their piece. At the end of the project, the original entrance to the station was removed.
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This panorama encompasses almost the entire bowl of the crater, which is in the far northern reaches of Death Valley, California. The crater itself is 800m wide and 200m deep. It is the largest of a dozen craters in the immediate vicinity - others can be seen in the upper-left background.
All of the craters were formed during a series of explosions set off as molten rock (magma) rising toward the Earth’s surface flashed groundwater to steam (phreatic eruption). Although very little magma actually erupted during these events, the explosive magma-water interaction blasted pulverised rock high into the air. Debris from the explosions blankets about 40 square kilometres. The ages of these explosions are not known precisely, but the largest in the series may be as recent as 800 years ago, although c.6,000 years ago seems more likely.
Just beyond where the multiple layers in the crater wall end on the left, several parked vehicles can be seen on the rim. Between them they give a good sense of scale.
Death Valley National Park straddles the California-Nevada border, east of the Sierra Nevada, and occupies an interface zone between the arid Great Basin and Mojave deserts, protecting the north-west corner of the Mojave Desert and its diverse environment. Death Valley is the largest national park (13,650 sq km) in the lower 48 states, and the hottest, driest and lowest of all the national parks in the United States. The second-lowest point in the Western Hemisphere is in Badwater Basin, which is 86m below sea level and 105 km south of the location above.
Approximately 91% of the park is a designated wilderness area. The park is home to many species of plants and animals that have adapted to this harsh desert environment. Some examples include creosote bush, bighorn sheep, coyote, and the Death Valley pupfish, a survivor from much wetter times. UNESCO included Death Valley as the principal feature of its Mojave and Colorado Deserts Biosphere Reserve in 1984.
A series of Native American groups inhabited the area from as early as 7,000 BC, most recently the Timbisha around 1,000 AD who migrated between winter camps in the valleys and summer grounds in the mountains. A group of European-Americans, trapped in the valley in 1849 while looking for a shortcut to the gold fields of California, gave the valley its name, even though only one of their group died there. Several short-lived boom towns sprang up during the late 19th and early 20th centuries to mine gold and silver. The only long-term profitable ore to be mined was borax, which was transported out of the valley with 20-mule teams.
The valley later became the subject of books, radio programmes, television series, and movies. Tourism expanded in the 1920s when resorts were built around Stovepipe Wells and Furnace Creek. Death Valley National Monument was declared in 1933; it was substantially expanded and became a national park in 1994.
The natural environment of the area has been shaped largely by its geology. The valley is actually a graben with the oldest rocks being extensively metamorphosed and at least 1.7 billion years old. Ancient, warm, shallow seas deposited marine sediments until rifting opened the Pacific Ocean. Additional sedimentation occurred until a subduction zone formed off the coast. The subduction uplifted the region out of the sea and created a line of volcanoes. Later the crust started to pull apart, creating the current Basin and Range landform. Valleys filled with sediment and, during the wet times of glacial periods, with lakes, such as Lake Manly.
In 2013, Death Valley National Park was designated as a dark sky park by the International Dark-Sky Association.
The word Ubehebe is Native American in origin and means "big basket in the rock." The image above is a two-frame panorama. Both images were scanned from negatives and then worked on in Lightroom and Photoshop. An earlier, cruder, mono version of this image can be found in my stream.
Well, Scotch finally turned 13 on Friday. Do you think he's happy to be a teenager?
It has been quite a year for both of us, a year with substantial change, his dramatic deteriorating health, and a photography roadtrip across the country that encompassed 10+ days, over 4,000 miles and eventually turned into a permanent relocation. Even though I spent my entire life growing up with dogs in the family, I was either too young or too far away when they became senior or reached the end. I've had no real experience or even the slightest frame of reference for an aging pet, and while it's had it's challenges emotionally, I appreciate him him a tiny bit more each morning when I wake and he's still here.
Years before I got into manual photography, we spent each of his birthdays somewhere he loved. If the summer was long and Autumn reasonable, I'd bring him to his favorite river to swim, go on an extended road trip in search of great roadside BBQ to share, or we'd drive the hour plus to the country where he always had an open invitation at the barn where my sister used to board her horse. It usually was the latter though, and he knew the entire ride where we were going. The farm was 200+ acres of land with open fields and quail in the brush. Once I got into manual, I started taking his portrait on his birthday. It's hard to believe that this time last year we were living in the maryland countryside near the pennsylvania border and driving hours each day to shoot sunsets and search for waterfalls. Even a year ago in fact, while he was beginning to show some signs of laryngeal paralysis, it just seemed like normal older age stuff. He was running slower and getting tired more easily but he still wasn't restricted from any of the activities he loves like he is today.
When we drove to California in December, I was very ready for a change and was looking forward to the adventure ahead. It seemed like the last chance he and I would have to get out to california together and off we went. The trip was pretty grueling due to the altitude and weather and it really exhausted both of us. His health was ok here in the winter thanks to rain, cool temperatures and the Santa Ana winds but once summer arrived and trips to the vet became more frequent, I started trying to come to terms with the fact that 13 may never come. He slept most of the summer and even lost most of his hearing rather suddenly and I tried hard not to force him outside during the hot, shadeless summer afternoons. Around a month ago, the temps began to drop and his health seemed to stabilize a bit while his happiness improved. Some of the mountains a few hours away are already at or near freezing temps for the daily low and I imagine in a few weeks, we will like get some snow somewhere. Hopefully as the weather cools further, his energy level will increase enough to head out of Los Angeles and find some snow and countryside for us to enjoy for a day or two.
His health was always an issue his earlier years as he dealt with a lot of anxiety, nervousness, seizures and an inability to make friends. Dogs picked up on those traits and he was bullied or attacked by nearly each dog he encountered. I wasn't given an optimistic outlook from the vet due to the frequency of the seizures at such a young age and as a result, I simply started bringing him everywhere with me that I could. His reaction to me being gone for 2 minutes was the same as 5 hours just with a fraction of the stress so anytime he could join me--even if just to pick up takeout or run to a gas station--I thought the tiny inconvenience was worth whatever stress it could remove.
This birthday was a bit different than all the others. We didn't go to the beach, find a river for him to swim in, and he didn't get to run in any open countryside fields. We went on a walk every few hours and stayed out until he got tired each time. We drove to the grocery store where I bought him his birthday steak, took him to the pet store and let him pick out his treats, and then went home and cooked dinner. I spent about an hour photographing him that evening while he was awake and happy rather than while he was sleeping. I was bribing him with treats to follow my hand with his eyes but I wasn't too concerned with the results. I knew there would be some blur, poor framing, loss of detail, crooked rugs, and under exposure even with higher ISO. My main objective was to get a handful of crisp, well framed images and a large amount of him just being happy.
This particular shot was very early friday morning (about 3 am) after we returned from his last walk of the evening. I got some quick captures and then shot another set friday night. When I shoot while he's tired, I can be in complete control without making him do anything other than relax. When he's excited and breathing heavily, It's a lot of trial and error as he moves in and out of my manually focused points and shutter speed needs constant adjustment. This is on a rug he likes by my brother's desk with the room behind me lit and the lights off behind him. As my brother pointed out, he does look really happy in this shot and I think that was more important than a super detailed portrait.
While I know there's a chance this could be his last birthday, I'm trying hard just to focus on keeping him comfortable and happy now rather than worry about his future. In life, things don't always work out how they are written up but it's always reassuring to have something constant during all the many ups and downs, and for 12 full years now, Scotch has been that one constant. Who knows how year 13 will turn out but I'm definitely looking forward to a few more memories and adventures with the old ginger sidekick.
A very happy 13th birthday to Scotch
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•Age 13 portrait
•Hollywood, California
•October 21st, 2016
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Scarborough Castle is a former medieval Royal fortress situated on a rocky promontory overlooking the North Sea and Scarborough, North Yorkshire, England. The site of the castle, encompassing the Iron Age settlement, Roman signal station, an Anglo-Scandinavian settlement and chapel, the 12th-century enclosure castle and 18th-century battery, is a scheduled monument of national importance.
Fortifications for a wooden castle were built in the 1130s, but the present stone castle dates from the 1150s. Over the centuries, several other structures were added, with medieval monarchs investing heavily in what was then an important fortress that guarded the Yorkshire coastline, Scarborough's port trade, and the north of England from Scottish or continental invasion. It was fortified and defended during various civil wars, sieges and conflicts, as kings fought with rival barons, faced rebellion and clashed with republican forces, though peace with Scotland and the conclusion of civil and continental wars in the 17th century led to its decline in importance.
Once occupied by garrisons and governors who often menaced the town, the castle has been a ruin since the sieges of the English Civil War, but attracts many visitors to climb the battlements, take in the views and enjoy the accompanying interactive exhibition and special events run by English Heritage.
Scarborough is a town on the North Sea coast of North Yorkshire, England. Historically part of the North Riding of Yorkshire, the town lies between 10–230 feet (3–70 m) above sea level, rising steeply northward and westward from the harbour on to limestone cliffs. The older part of the town lies around the harbour and is protected by a rocky headland.
With a population of just over 61,000, Scarborough is the largest holiday resort on the Yorkshire coast. The town has fishing and service industries, including a growing digital and creative economy, as well as being a tourist destination. People who live in the town are known as Scarborians.
The most striking feature of the town's geography is the high rocky promontory pointing eastward into the North Sea. The promontory supports the 11th-century ruins of Scarborough Castle and divides the seafront into two bays, north and south.
The South Bay was the site of the original medieval settlement and harbour, which form the old town. This remains the main tourist area, with a sandy beach, cafés, amusements, arcades, theatres and entertainment facilities. The modern commercial town centre has migrated 440 yards (400 m) north-west of the harbour area and 100 feet (30 m) above it and contains the transport hubs, main services, shopping and nightlife. The harbour has undergone major regeneration including the new Albert Strange Pontoons, a more pedestrian-friendly promenade, street lighting and seating.
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Petrified Forest National Park is a United States national park in Navajo and Apache counties in northeastern Arizona. Named for its large deposits of petrified wood, the fee area of the park covers about 230 square miles (600 square kilometers), encompassing semi-desert shrub steppe as well as highly eroded and colorful badlands. The park's headquarters is about 26 miles (42 km) east of Holbrook along Interstate 40 (I-40), which parallels the BNSF Railway's Southern Transcon, the Puerco River, and historic U.S. Route 66, all crossing the park roughly east–west. The site, the northern part of which extends into the Painted Desert, was declared a national monument in 1906 and a national park in 1962. About 800,000 people visit the park each year and take part in activities including sightseeing, photography, hiking, and backpacking.
Averaging about 5,400 feet (1,600 m) in elevation, the park has a dry windy climate with temperatures that vary from summer highs of about 100 °F (38 °C) to winter lows well below freezing. More than 400 species of plants, dominated by grasses such as bunchgrass, blue grama, and sacaton, are found in the park. Fauna include larger animals such as pronghorns, coyotes, and bobcats, many smaller animals, such as deer mice, snakes, lizards, seven kinds of amphibians, and more than 200 species of birds, some of which are permanent residents and many of which are migratory. About half of the park is designated wilderness.
The Petrified Forest is known for its fossils, especially fallen trees that lived in the Late Triassic Period, about 225 million years ago. The sediments containing the fossil logs are part of the widespread and colorful Chinle Formation, from which the Painted Desert gets its name. Beginning about 60 million years ago, the Colorado Plateau, of which the park is part, was pushed upward by tectonic forces and exposed to increased erosion. All of the park's rock layers above the Chinle, except geologically recent ones found in parts of the park, have been removed by wind and water. In addition to petrified logs, fossils found in the park have included Late Triassic ferns, cycads, ginkgoes, and many other plants as well as fauna including giant reptiles called phytosaurs, large amphibians, and early dinosaurs. Paleontologists have been unearthing and studying the park's fossils since the early 20th century.
The park's earliest human inhabitants arrived at least 8,000 years ago. By about 2,000 years ago, they were growing corn in the area and shortly thereafter building pit houses in what would become the park. Later inhabitants built above-ground dwellings called pueblos. Although a changing climate caused the last of the park's pueblos to be abandoned by about 1400 CE, more than 600 archeological sites, including petroglyphs, have been discovered in the park. In the 16th century, Spanish explorers visited the area, and by the mid-19th century a U.S. team had surveyed an east–west route through the area where the park is now located and noted the petrified wood. Later, roads and a railway followed similar routes and gave rise to tourism and, before the park was protected, to large-scale removal of fossils. Theft of petrified wood remains a problem in the 21st century.
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Der Petrified-Forest-Nationalpark ist ein Nationalpark der Vereinigten Staaten im Nordosten Arizonas. Der Park gehört zum südlichen Colorado-Plateau und der Painted Desert, einer Wüste auf rund 1800 m über dem Meer. Er bewahrt geologisch bemerkenswertes Sedimentgestein der Obertrias mit einer Vielzahl an Fossilien. Im Gebiet liegen ausgedehnte Fundstätten von verkieseltem Holz, daher der Name „Versteinerter Wald“.
Am 8. Dezember 1906 wurde ein Teil der Fundstätten als National Monument unter Schutz gestellt, 1932 kam ein Teil der Painted Desert dazu, das Schutzgebiet umfasste seitdem eine Fläche rund 378 km². Der Kongress der Vereinigten Staaten stufte das Gebiet 1962 zum Nationalpark auf. 1970 wurden etwas mehr als die Hälfte der damaligen Fläche unter den erweiterten Schutz eines Wilderness Areas gestellt. Seit 2004 läuft ein Programm zur Erweiterung des Parkgebietes auf 885 km². Benachbarte Flächen anderer Bundesbehörden sollen dem Nationalpark übertragen werden, private Grundstücke werden angekauft, wenn Mittel verfügbar sind. Im September 2011 wurden rund 105 km² einer angekauften Ranch dem Park hinzugefügt.
Im nördlichen Teil des Parks, der oberhalb der Interstate 40 zwischen Holbrook und Navajo liegt, befindet sich die „Painted Desert“. Diese ist ein trockenes Brachland, wo Erosion eine farbenfrohe Landschaft gestaltet hat.
Das meiste versteinerte Holz kann im Südteil des Nationalparks betrachtet werden, hier finden sich auch alte Felsritzzeichnungen, sogenannte Petroglyphen. Die bekanntesten sind am „Newspaper Rock“ angebracht. In dessen Nähe liegen auch die Ruinen eines Pueblos aus dem 11. Jahrhundert, des Puerco Pueblo.
Das trockene Wüstengebiet am Rand des Colorado-Plateaus beeindruckt besonders durch die vielen Farben, die diese Landschaft zeigt. Besonders auffallend zeigen sich diese in der «bemalten Wüste» und an den «Tepees». Wie mit dem Lineal gezogen erscheinen die übereinander liegenden Gesteinsschichten:
ihre Basis besteht aus zum Teil von Eisenoxid rötlich gefärbtem Gestein,
die weiße Schicht darüber besteht aus Sandstein,
es folgt eine kräftig rot gefärbte Schicht von mit Eisen durchsetztem Sedimentgestein (Schluff),
die Kuppe schließlich besteht aus dunklem Ton, der seine Farbe durch Beimengung von organischem Kohlenstoff erhielt.
Innerhalb des Parks lässt sich das Fortschreiten der Erosion gut beobachten. Während an den „Tepees“ die oberste Tonschicht schon fast abgetragen ist, so ist im höher liegenden Gebiet der „Blue Mesa“ bislang nur diese sichtbar.
Vor etwa 215 Millionen Jahren, in der Zeitperiode der späten Trias, befand sich hier ein von vielen Flüssen durchzogenes Schwemmland. Araukarien, Baumfarne und Nadelhölzer bildeten die Vegetation. Krokodilartige Reptilien, Riesen-Amphibien, auch kleinere Dinosaurier lebten in diesem Land. Zeugnis davon geben viele Funde von Fossilien in der Chinle-Formation.
Umgestürzte Bäume wurden von Fluten unter Schlamm und Schlick begraben. Vergraben von weiteren Ablagerungen verlangsamte sich der natürliche Zerfall des Holzes aufgrund fehlenden Sauerstoffs. Unter der dicker werdenden Sedimentabdeckung sickerte kieselsäurehaltiges Grundwasser in die Baumstämme ein. Quarz und Chalcedon lagerten sich in den Hohlräumen der Stämme ein, ersetzten nach und nach das Zellgewebe und erhielten so die Holzstrukturen der Stämme in Stein.
Die Schichten sanken weiter ab und wurden erneut überschwemmt. Immer mehr Schichten von durch Wasser herangetragenem Material lagerten sich darüber ab. Sehr viel später einsetzende tektonische Bewegungen in der Erdkruste (siehe Laramische Gebirgsbildung) hoben die Landoberfläche heraus, die dabei auftretenden Spannungen innerhalb der Gesteinsschichten ließen die Stämme zerbrechen. Die nun verstärkt einsetzende Erosion durch Wind und Wasser trug nach und nach die weicheren Schichten der Sedimente ab und legte so die versteinerten Baumstämme, die aus harter Quarzsubstanz bestehen, frei.
Crystal Forest – hier gibt es einen kleinen Rundweg, etwa einen halben Kilometer lang. Entlang des Rundwegs liegen Stämme mit einer Dicke von zum Teil fast einem Meter. Das Besondere an den Stämmen sind klare Quarz- und Amethyst-Kristalle, die sich in Hohlräumen ausgebildet haben.
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Enchant is the world’s largest holiday light event experience encompassing over 10 acres, featuring a dazzling installation of over 4 million sparkling multicolored lights creating a one-of-a-kind, story-themed walk-thru maze with holiday trees over 100 feet tall. Produced on the playing fields of major league sports stadiums and iconic outdoor spaces, the event offers an ice-skating trail, live entertainment, interactive games, Santa visits and a charming holiday marketplace featuring local artisans, along with holiday foods and festive drinks.
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Christmas Lights, 12/17/2022, Nashville, TN
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The polar bear (Ursus maritimus) is a bear native largely within the Arctic Circle encompassing the Arctic Ocean, its surrounding seas and surrounding land masses. It is the world's largest land carnivore and also the largest bear, together with the omnivorous Kodiak Bear, which is approximately the same size.
An adult male weighs around 350 - 680 kg and measure 2.4 - 3 m in length. Adult females are roughly half the size of males and normally weigh 150 - 300 kg, measuring 1.8 - 2.4 m in length.
Although it is closely related to the brown bear, it has evolved to occupy a narrower ecological niche, with many body characteristics adapted for cold temperatures, for moving across snow, ice, and open water, and for hunting the seals which make up most of its diet. Although most polar bears are born on land, they spend most of their time at sea. Their scientific name means "maritime bear", and derives from this fact.
Polar bears can hunt consistently only from sea ice, which is why they spend much of the year on and near the edge of the frozen sea. The polar bear is an excellent swimmer and individuals have been seen in open Arctic waters as far as 320 km from land. With its body fat providing buoyancy, it swims in a dog paddle fashion using its large forepaws for propulsion.
This picture is taken in Wildlands Adventure Zoo Emmen, The Netherlands.
De ijsbeer (Ursus maritimus, voorheen: Thalarctos maritimus) is een grote geelwitte beer, die langer en groter is dan de andere beren (Ursidae). De ijsbeer komt enkel voor in en rond het Noordpoolgebied. Hij is het meest carnivoor van alle beren, en leeft vooral van zeehonden.
De ijsbeer is een vrij jonge soort die tijdens het Pleistoceen, in de laatste 200.000 jaar ontstaan is, vermoedelijk uit Siberische populaties van de bruine beer.
De ijsbeer is zeer groot: hij kan tot 3 meter lang en 800 kilogram zwaar worden. Hij heeft een lange nek en een grote neus. Onder de vacht is de huid zwart, wat te zien is op de naakte delen zoals de neus en de lippen. De haren van de vacht zijn niet wit, maar doorzichtig en hol. De kleur van de vacht is, afhankelijk van de tijd van het jaar, lichtval en de hoeveelheid vuil in de vacht, gelig wit tot vuilgrijs. Het is waterafstotend en houdt de warmte van de zon vast. Daarnaast heeft de ijsbeer een dikke onderhuidse vetlaag, waarmee hij warmte vasthoudt. De ijsbeer heeft vliezen tussen zijn tenen, waardoor hij beter kan zwemmen. Zijn achterpoten gebruikt hij als een soort roer om mee te sturen. Hij lijkt verder te zwemmen als een hond.
Mannetjes zijn groter dan vrouwtjes en hebben een opvallend grotere neus. Mannetjes worden gemiddeld 1,4 tot 3 m lang en 350 tot 680 kg zwaar, vrouwtjes 1,8 tot 2,4 m lang en 150 tot 300 kg zwaar. IJsberen hebben een klein staartje, ongeveer acht tot tien centimeter lang. De ijsbeer leeft meestal alleen en is zowel overdag als 's nachts actief. Ook in de lange, donkere winter zijn ze in de poolstreken actief.
Deze foto is gemaakt in Wildlands Adventure Zoo Emmen.
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The polar bear (Ursus maritimus) is a bear native largely within the Arctic Circle encompassing the Arctic Ocean, its surrounding seas and surrounding land masses. It is the world's largest land carnivore and also the largest bear, together with the omnivorous Kodiak Bear, which is approximately the same size.
An adult male weighs around 350 - 680 kg and measure 2.4 - 3 m in length. Adult females are roughly half the size of males and normally weigh 150 - 300 kg, measuring 1.8 - 2.4 m in length.
Although it is closely related to the brown bear, it has evolved to occupy a narrower ecological niche, with many body characteristics adapted for cold temperatures, for moving across snow, ice, and open water, and for hunting the seals which make up most of its diet. Although most polar bears are born on land, they spend most of their time at sea. Their scientific name means "maritime bear", and derives from this fact.
Polar bears can hunt consistently only from sea ice, which is why they spend much of the year on and near the edge of the frozen sea. The polar bear is an excellent swimmer and individuals have been seen in open Arctic waters as far as 320 km from land. With its body fat providing buoyancy, it swims in a dog paddle fashion using its large forepaws for propulsion.
De ijsbeer (Ursus maritimus, voorheen: Thalarctos maritimus) is een grote geelwitte beer, die langer en groter is dan de andere beren (Ursidae). De ijsbeer komt enkel voor in en rond het Noordpoolgebied. Hij is het meest carnivoor van alle beren, en leeft vooral van zeehonden.
De ijsbeer is een vrij jonge soort die tijdens het Pleistoceen, in de laatste 200.000 jaar ontstaan is, vermoedelijk uit Siberische populaties van de bruine beer.
De ijsbeer is zeer groot: hij kan tot 3 meter lang en 800 kilogram zwaar worden. Hij heeft een lange nek en een grote neus. Onder de vacht is de huid zwart, wat te zien is op de naakte delen zoals de neus en de lippen. De haren van de vacht zijn niet wit, maar doorzichtig en hol. De kleur van de vacht is, afhankelijk van de tijd van het jaar, lichtval en de hoeveelheid vuil in de vacht, gelig wit tot vuilgrijs. Het is waterafstotend en houdt de warmte van de zon vast. Daarnaast heeft de ijsbeer een dikke onderhuidse vetlaag, waarmee hij warmte vasthoudt. De ijsbeer heeft vliezen tussen zijn tenen, waardoor hij beter kan zwemmen. Zijn achterpoten gebruikt hij als een soort roer om mee te sturen. Hij lijkt verder te zwemmen als een hond.
Mannetjes zijn groter dan vrouwtjes en hebben een opvallend grotere neus. Mannetjes worden gemiddeld 1,4 tot 3 m lang en 350 tot 680 kg zwaar, vrouwtjes 1,8 tot 2,4 m lang en 150 tot 300 kg zwaar. IJsberen hebben een klein staartje, ongeveer acht tot tien centimeter lang. De ijsbeer leeft meestal alleen en is zowel overdag als 's nachts actief. Ook in de lange, donkere winter zijn ze in de poolstreken actief.
Deze foto is gemaakt in Wildlands Adventure Zoo Emmen.
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Built in 1914 at no. 911 Wellington Street East.
"This is a Prairie-style single-story residence, noticeably located at the south-west corner of Wellington and Woodward in the city’s east-central area. It encompasses part of Lot 15, Plan 568 and Lot 29, Plan 930. GIS coordinates: 705,711.336 5,154,111.585 Meters
This handsome, distinctive, well maintained home is the best example of a Prairie-style residence to be found in Sault Ste. Marie. It is an elegant Craftsman style bungalow with a variety of gently pitched roof slopes and a small hipped dormer. The eaves are deep and bracketed. The columns are plain with square abacuses and no base. The inclusion of classical modillions in a residence is rare in Sault Ste. Marie and to Prairie-style homes. A variety of rustic building materials have been utilized: stucco, wood, brick and stone. The window groupings consist of both casement and sash with inner muntin bars. Those windows on the front have been replaced with modern aluminum windows but the windows around the sunroom on the east side and those on the partial second floor are original. Many of the original storm windows are stored in the garage. Craftsmanship in the building is excellent yet simple and functional. Even the interior fireplace sports hand-carved brackets of similar design to those supporting the overhanging exterior eaves. With the exception of the kitchen and bathroom, the main floor rooms are still finished with the original oak trim and floors. An old photo of the house indicates that cedar shingles once adorned the roof.
This residence was constructed, in its present form, in 1914 for Richard H. Carney who was District manager for Canada Life Assurance Co. It was the Carney family who was responsible for construction of the Carney Block on Queen St. It thus reflects the affluence of an upper middle class business family which was profiting from the Clergue industrial expansion of the day. A 1914 date and initials of the stone mason builder may be found in the basement wall mortar between the sandstone pieces. It is likely this sandstone was quarried from the locks as was typical for the day. This house was purchased in 1939 by the MacIntosh family who owned it until 2004.
The key exterior features that embody the heritage value of 911 Wellington St. E. include:
- Variety of gently pitched roof slopes provide horizontal emphasis reflecting the Prairiestyle bungalow
- Clerestory lighting that provides light to a half story loft
- A hipped dormer and deep bracketed eaves
- Columns with abacuses and no base but adorned with modillions
- Rustic building materials including stucco, wood, brick and stone
- Original casement windows with sash and inner muntin bars on the sunroom (east side)
and on the half story loft
- Home and property have been well maintained in traditional style with little change to
the exterior
- An interior with oak trim, baseboards and flooring unchanged save for the kitchen and
bathroom
- A beautiful fireplace with brackets supporting the mantle matching those under the
eaves on the exterior
- The best example of a classical Prairie-style residence in Sault Ste. Marie distinctively
located in a prominent east-central location
- A residence which reflects the affluence of a prominent Sault business family built
during the heyday of the Clergue industrial empire" - info from the Sault Ste. Marie Municipal Heritage Committee.
"Sault Ste. Marie (/ˈsuː seɪnt məˈriː/ SOO-seint-ma-REE) is a city on the St. Marys River in Ontario, Canada, close to the Canada–US border. It is the seat of the Algoma District and the third largest city in Northern Ontario, after Sudbury and Thunder Bay.
The Ojibwe, the indigenous Anishinaabe inhabitants of the area, call this area Baawitigong, meaning "place of the rapids." They used this as a regional meeting place during whitefish season in the St. Mary's Rapids. (The anglicized form of this name, Bawating, is used in institutional and geographic names in the area.)
To the south, across the river, is the United States and the Michigan city of the same name. These two communities were one city until a new treaty after the War of 1812 established the border between Canada and the United States in this area at the St. Mary's River. In the 21st century, the two cities are joined by the International Bridge, which connects Interstate 75 on the Michigan side, and Huron Street (and former Ontario Secondary Highway 550B) on the Ontario side. Shipping traffic in the Great Lakes system bypasses the Saint Mary's Rapids via the American Soo Locks, the world's busiest canal in terms of tonnage that passes through it, while smaller recreational and tour boats use the Canadian Sault Ste. Marie Canal.
French colonists referred to the rapids on the river as Les Saults de Ste. Marie and the village name was derived from that. The rapids and cascades of the St. Mary's River descend more than 6 m (20 ft) from the level of Lake Superior to the level of the lower lakes. Hundreds of years ago, this slowed shipping traffic, requiring an overland portage of boats and cargo from one lake to the other. The entire name translates to "Saint Mary's Rapids" or "Saint Mary's Falls". The word sault is pronounced [so] in French, and /suː/ in the English pronunciation of the city name. Residents of the city are called Saultites.
Sault Ste. Marie is bordered to the east by the Rankin and Garden River First Nation reserves, and to the west by Prince Township. To the north, the city is bordered by an unincorporated portion of Algoma District, which includes the local services boards of Aweres, Batchawana Bay, Goulais and District, Peace Tree and Searchmont. The city's census agglomeration, including the townships of Laird, Prince and Macdonald, Meredith and Aberdeen Additional and the First Nations reserves of Garden River and Rankin, had a total population of 79,800 in 2011.
Native American settlements, mostly of Ojibwe-speaking peoples, existed here for more than 500 years. In the late 17th century, French Jesuit missionaries established a mission at the First Nations village. This was followed by development of a fur trading post and larger settlement, as traders, trappers and Native Americans were attracted to the community. It was considered one community and part of Canada until after the War of 1812 and settlement of the border between Canada and the US at the Ste. Mary's River. At that time, the US prohibited British traders from any longer operating in its territory, and the areas separated by the river began to develop as two communities, both named Sault Ste. Marie." - info from Wikipedia.
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