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A ride on the Llanberis Lake Railway. After the train had gone from Gilfach Ddu down to Llanberis Station, it returned in the other direction.
It wouldn't stop at Gilfach Ddu but would continue on to the end of the line as far as Penllyn. Then it would turn back and make a stop at Cei Llydan (a picnic stop - you can get off there if you want to, we didn't). Eventually after the break it would resume it's journey and we got off at Gilfach Ddu (where we started) after about an hour!
The Llanberis Lake Railway (Welsh: Rheilffordd Llyn Padarn) is a 1 ft 11 1⁄2 in (597 mm) narrow gauge heritage railway that runs for 2.5 miles (4 km) along the northern shore of Llyn Padarn in north Wales in the Snowdonia National Park. The starting point is the town of Llanberis at the eastern end of the lake (53.1175°N 4.1193°W), with the western terminus at Pen Llyn in the Padarn Country Park (53.1370°N 4.1495°W). The return journey takes around 60 minutes.
The journey past Llyn Padarn. Could see a lot of people in canoes or boats on the lake!
Llyn Padarn is a glacially formed lake in Snowdonia, Gwynedd, north Wales, and is an example of a moraine dammed lake. The lake is approximately 2 miles (3.2 km) long (about 240 acres) and at its deepest point is 94 feet (29 m) deep, and is one of the largest natural lakes in Wales. At its south-eastern end it is linked to the neighbouring Llyn Peris (which forms the lower reservoir of the Dinorwig power station). The busy village of Llanberis lies on the southern banks of the lake.
The majority of Llyn Padarn is owned by Gwynedd Council and is part of Padarn Country Park. Whilst kayaking, rowing and sailing are permitted on the lake, powered craft require permission to use it. Bangor University Rowing Club row at Llyn Padarn.
In April 2014 Llyn Padarn was designated as Bathing Water under the Bathing Water Directive (2006/7/EC).
The outflow of Llyn Padarn is on the northern shore and is called Afon Rhythallt, which passes by the village of Brynrefail, Gwynedd and becomes Afon Seiont below Pont Rhythallt, near Llanrug. It reaches the sea at Caernarfon.
Padarn Country Park is located on the northern flank of the lake, including Coed Allt Wen, a rare and ancient sessile oak woodland. Both the woodland and Llyn Padarn are designated as Sites of Special Scientific Interest.
The Llanberis Lake Railway also runs along its eastern bank and various recreational activities take place on the lake, especially during the summer. These include canoeing, boating and fishing. The lake was the venue for the rowing events of the 1958 British Empire and Commonwealth Games.
Former local bus company Padarn Bus, which operated between 1979 and 2014 from a base at nearby Llanberis, was named after the lake.
High power electrical supply towers and lines crosss salt ponds of the South Bay. Salt evaporation ponds formed by salt water impounded within levees in former tidelands on the shores of San Francisco Bay. There are many of these ponds surrounding the South Bay. As the water evaporates, micro-organisms of several kinds come to predominate and change the color of the water. First come green algae, then darkening as orange brine shrimp predominate. Finally red predominates as dunaliella salina, a micro-algae containing high amounts of beta-carotene (itself with high commercial value), predominates. Other organisms can also change the hue of each pond. Colors include red, green, orange and yellow, brown and blue. Finally, when the water is evaporated, the white of salt alone remains. This is harvested with machines, and the process repeats. The Dumbarton Bridge runs through the middle of this shot.
Street Art Berlin was on the run with Street Artist Robi the Dog in Berlin.
Street Art BLN is showing photos of Streetart, Urban Art or Graffiti form Berlin, Germany.
Livingston County was formed in 1821, and in 1823 a courthouse was built at the north end of Main Street in the Village of Geneseo, the county seat. This image shows the building after it was expanded in 1898.
Recommended Citation: Livingston County Historian's Office, New York
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Skeleton of desert plant. Studio still life. Photo based mixed medium image. Extreme image softness, textures, and grain.
Anzac Airlines UH-1H A2-488, 0-16450, 0-60809, and A2-485 form echelon left in a rare formation flight over Sinai on 23 August 1982. The photos are taken from A2-488, flown by S/L Wood RNZAF, with Crewman Kym Manuel RAAF.
The ancient ruins remain to remind us of the beautiful people that lived! To live fully, outwardly and inwardly, not to ignore external reality for the sake of the inner life, or the reverse...that's quite a task ~ Etty Hillesum.
This chocolate mud cake was carved to form this electric guitar. My second guitar cake, and I was very happy with the result.
Former Minister for Africa Henry Bellingham met Cote d'Ivoire Foreign Minister Daniel Kablan Duncan in New York on 21 September.
A fully stocked Print Farm using Formlabs Form 2 SLA 3D Printers in against a white wall. Includes Resin Trays and Cartridges and manual post-treatment tools.
Free for use under Creative Commons license. If you use this image, please link to "formlabs.com/3d-printers/" in your attribution.
エキノプシス「桃花短毛丸」
Echinopsis eyriesii (Turpin) Zucc., 1839
(Pink Flower Form)
This name is accepted. 02/10, 2021.
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Synonyms:
Cereus eyriesii Pfeiff., 1837
Cereus jasmineus Pfeiff., 1837
Cereus multiplex Pfeiff., 1837
Cereus schelhasii Pfeiff., 1835
Cereus turbinatus Pfeiff., 1835
Echinocactus boutillieri Parm. ex Pfeiff., 1835
Echinocactus eyriesii Turpin, 1830
Echinocactus eyriesii var. glaucus Lindl., 1838
Echinocactus turbinatus Pfeiff., 1835
Echinonyctanthus eyriesii Lem., 1839
Echinonyctanthus turbinatus Lem., 1839
Echinopsis eyriesii (Turpin) Zucc., 1839
Echinopsis eyriesii var. grandiflora Rud.Mey., 1911
Echinopsis eyriesii var. pudantii P.Fourn., 1935
Echinopsis eyriesii var. schelhasii (Pfeiff. et Otto) P.Fourn., 1935
Echinopsis gemmata (Otto ex Pfeiff.) K.Schum., 1890
Echinopsis gemmata var. schelhasii (Pfeiff. et Otto) Schelle, 1907
Echinopsis multiplex (Pfeiff.) Zucc., 1839
Echinopsis oxygona (Link) Zucc. ex Pfeiff. et Otto forma grandiflora (Rud.Mey.) J.Ullmann, 1999
Echinopsis pudantii Pfersdorf ex Roth, 1900
Echinopsis schelhasii Pfeiff. et Otto, 1838
Echinopsis turbinata Pfeiff. et Otto, 1838
Echinopsis × wilkensii (Linke) K.Schum., 1897
Rebutia multiplex (Pfeiff.) Roeder, 1938
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Nikon D7100
Schneider-Kreuznach Apo-Componon HM 90mm F4.5
Enlarging Lens M39 Screw Mount
Schneider-Kreuznach UNIFOC 58 Helical Focus Mount
the forms are inspired by the traditional Nguni artifacts,
mainly clay and wooden storage vessels.
The gracious simplicity of these forms is classical and is being reinterpreted into contemporary art pieces
for a contemporary lifestyle.
The surface treatment is inspired by an old African traditional called body scarification.
this piece falls under the;
AFRICASSO-RANGE; While studying the history of art, I came across dif ferent artists that I could identify with, based on their philosophy; technique; use of color and their interpretations of life. Pablo Picasso is one of those great artists that are influential within my work along with Joan Miro; Salvador Dali and others. Using these influences, I am able to interpret and convey my childhood; mythical and everyday stories.
Dimensions: h/w - 18cm / 14cm
Designed by Andile Dyalvane and produced at Imiso ceramics studio
info@imisoceramics.co.za
We own the Uppababy's flagship welded and formed aircraft aluminum alloy frame stroller system called the Vista, 2009 model. We absolutely love it however we've (ok, just I..) have always complained that one wheel is just slightly wobbly whilst others are just ever so slightly lumpy in feel. I don't think anyone other than the highly picky would really have noticed. But, I do, and I care.
When 2010 model was released, they featured improved "smooth rolling 'no-flat' foam and rubber back" wheels. After a few emails and a phone call with Uppababy, they trusted my judgment with pretty much no argument and sent me free 2010 retrofit replacements. That's a value of $90USD+shipping/tax.
These wheels are SO MUCH smoother than the 2009 wheels. They also look much nicer with the 5-spoke black gun-metal style rims (as opposed to the 3 spoke dated silver rims). We feel like we just bought a new stroller.
Aside from the wheels, we ended up purchasing direct from Uppababy the retrofit replacement 2010 seat at wholesale cost (for my troubles with the wheels). That's about 30% discount;-). The new seat is an incredible improvement over the 2009 seat frame. A tonne of subtle changes to the seat which you'd never know until you actually compare side by side.
1. Seat has more more level of adjustment upright which allows Emma to sit a bit more comfortably since she's a tiny little girl.
2. The seat significantly more padded to help Emma sit longer.
3. The top ventilation window/flap has a simple elastic + wedge tie to keep the window open without any hacked up home made rig -- personally think this was a defect in design.
4. The seat back is higher by about 1.5 inches which means the seat will fit taller kids with a bit more head room. (Due to this, any retrofit situation will require purchasing of a new seat cover kit)
5. The seat harness now has three height levels of shoulder adjustment as opposed to two.
6. The seat crotch harness now can adjust as well, as opposed to ZERO adjustment before.
So far that's the main differences we have noticed in the newer seat. So for 2009 buyers of Vista, I truly think these two retrofit upgrades are WELL WORTH the money especially if you can get the wheels for free, as well as get a wholesale price direct from Uppababy. It makes the stroller feel brand new. It does not give you ALL the updates as in the actual 2010 model frame but for very little money, it covers all the upgrades that affect the child.
Uppababy customer service is second to none. Two thumbs up! Thank you !
todays #Disney Pic form the Park - Saturday Spotlight - Germany Pavilion - When walking through the shops I always stop and check out all of the cuckoo clocks - all the work and details put into these perfect time pieces.
Cenotaph with horizontal abutments in form of sarcophagus to either side. Statue of Peace on pedestal in front of cenotaph with bowed head and holding laurel wreath.
At a public meeting on 25 March 1919 a public war memorial scheme was proposed. On 9th April a committee was appointed which was made up of the Mayor (Joseph Nuttall) and some of the Chairmen of the various Corporation Committees. The memorial was intended to stand for "the spirit of heroism, the spirit of self sacrifice, the spirit of all that is noble and great that was exemplified in the lives of those men of Heywood sacrificed in the Great War."(1) It was unveiled by Hewlett Johnson, the Dean of Manchester on 22 August 1925 who spoke less of heroism and more of the "wastage of war-wastage of human life, our sons, the sons of our Allies, the sons of our enemies...the wastage of treasure [and] the wastage of civilisation, which we are feeling today in our unemployment." He called for an effort to maintain the peace comparable to that which had prosecuted the war, an effort which would surely end all war. He suggested that the pursuance of peace required a fundamental reordering of values in which instead of property and jewels, great spiritual qualities such as art, science, literature, music, fellowship and brotherhood, "things that can be shared without domination" should be held in the highest esteem. Only in this way could war be avoided.(2) The bronze figure of Peace was sculpted by Walter Marsden who also completed the statuary on Bolton War Memorial. The inaugural procession included a wreath-laying by the children, widows and relatives of the fallen. The roll of honour was not engraved on the memorial at the time because the Trust fund established to cover the costs only contained enough money for maintenance of the site. Lobbying by the Heywood British Legion secured a grant from Rochdale Council to cover the 5,000 st cost, and the names from both world wars began to be engraved on the monument in July 1986 - See more at: www.pmsa.org.uk/pmsa-database/4447/#sthash.wiNLcmJl.dpuf
The large red building behind the memorial is the Phoenix Centre
James -
Here are photos of the tornado forming, along with a description of each.
My friend, Nick Lee, is a storm spotter. He and I were out taking these
photos that day. He is the copyright owner and has given me permission to
share them with you.
Dirk
P.S.: Please use the descriptions somehow in your description of the photos.
Description of photos:
Tornado-1: shows the storm coming around the corner into view.
Tornado-2: Inflow notch seen - this is where the air feeding the updraft was
located at.
Tornado-3 & 4: Tornado on ground getting closer to City of Cullman. At this
point it was passing Good Hope and going through Cullman County.
Tornado-5: Here you can see another vortex forming. What we were witnessing
was a rapid intensification of this storm from an EF2 to a multi-vortex EF4.
Tornado-6: Even though the funnel is hard to see, the tornado was still on
the ground. Here you can see the multiple vortexes spinning around the one
in the middle that looks like it is invisible.
Title: Forms Int. Tunnel
Alternative Title: [Forms Interior Tunnel]
Creator: Unknown
Date: August 3, 1910
Part of: George W. Cook Dallas/Texas Image Collection
Place: Dallas, Dallas County, Texas
Physical Description: 1 photographic print: gelatin silver; 10.5 x 16 cm
File: a2014_0020_3_5_a_0114_tunnelforms.jpg
Rights: Please cite DeGolyer Library, Southern Methodist University when using this file. A high-resolution version of this file may be obtained for a fee. For details see the sites.smu.edu/cul/degolyer/research/permissions/ web page. For other information, contact degolyer@smu.edu.
For more information and to view the image in high resolution, see: digitalcollections.smu.edu/cdm/ref/collection/gcd/id/2021
At Tate St,Ives, bronze sculpture on a wooden base. With the actual beach and sea beyond through a window.
The caption below it read as follows: Inspired by the local landscape, Hepworth began to sculpt her responses to the natural forms around her. Trevalgan is the name of a hill near her home. There, she wrote, ‘the cliffs divide as they touch the sea facing west. At this point, facing the setting sun across the Atlantic, where sky and sea blend with hills and rocks, the forms seem to enfold the watcher and lift him towards the sky.’ The sculpture is not a literal representation of the divided cliffs, but a personal expression of Hepworth’s physical and spiritual encounter with nature.
Below you can see another shot I took which gives you a very different view of how the sculpture looks.
Dutch postcard by M.B. & Z., no. 1049. Photo: Metro Goldwyn Mayer. Sent by mail in 1942.
The only career Nelson Eddy (1901-1967) ever considered was singing. The classically trained baritone achieved his greatest popularity through eight films with Jeanette MacDonald, with whom he formed a regular screen couple in the 1930s and 1940s. At the height of his career, he received more fan mail than any other star on the MGM payroll.
Nelson Ackerman Eddy was born in 1901 in Providence, Rhode Island, USA. He was the son of Isabel (Kendrick) and William Darius Eddy. His parents were singers, and his grandparents were musicians. Nelson studied singing as a child, and in 1924, he won a competition and was allowed to perform with the Philadelphia Opera Society. The conductor of the Philadelphia Civic Opera, Alexander Smallens, began to train and promote Eddy. In the late 1920s, Eddy performed with the Philadelphia Civic Opera Company and sang a broad repertoire of 28 operatic roles, including Le nozze di Figaro. Eddy also appeared with the Savoy Company, which produced popular operettas by Gilbert & Sullivan. Eddy studied briefly with noted teacher David Bispham, a former Metropolitan Opera singer, and switched after his death to William Vilonat. Dr. Edouard Lippe coached him and loaned him money in 1927 to study in Dresden and Paris. Dresden was considered an essential training centre for American singers at the time. Eddy turned down an offer of an engagement with a small German opera house and returned to the United States. He gave his first concert recital in 1928 in Philadelphia. When Eddy went on his first tour, he hired Theodore Paxson, who remained his accompanist for four decades. In 1933, he did 18 encores for an audience in Los Angeles that included an assistant to MGM studio chief Louis B. Mayer, who signed him to a seven-year contract, which allowed him three months of concert tours per year. Mayer ordered Eddy to test for his debut in the film Broadway to Hollywood (Willard Mack, Jules White, 1933). The 33-year-old newcomer took a record 58 takes before the exasperated test director gave up. Despite this failure, Mayer overruled the consensus about Eddy's acting talent, non-existent, and ordered him to be used for a singing sequence in the film only. The producers at MGM didn't know what to do with Eddy and only allowed him to appear for individual songs in his following films. But the audience reacted favourably to this.
After MGM acting lessons, Nelson Eddy's first real success came as the Yankee scout to Jeanette MacDonald's French princess in the Operetta Naughty Marietta (Robert Z. Leonard, W.S. Van Dyke, 1935). It was a huge box-office hit made on a small budget. The film was nominated for an Oscar, received a Photoplay Award and was voted one of the ten best films of 1935 by the New York Film Critics. Eddy made six more films with Jeanette MacDonald, including Rose-Marie (W.S. Van Dyke, 1936), and Maytime (Robert Z. Leonard, Edmund Goulding, 1937), which grossed over 4 million US dollars at the box office. Concert appearances became increasingly lucrative for Eddy with his film fame, but he only sang occasionally on the opera stage. His last film with MacDonald was I Married an Angel (W.S. Van Dyke, 1942). Nelson Eddy also appeared with other leading ladies over the years, such as in Rosalie (W.S. Van Dyke, 1937) with Eleanor Powell and Balalaika (Reinhold Schünzel, 1939), where he appeared alongside Ilona Massey. The Chocolate Soldier (Roy Del Ruth, 1941) was an adaptation of a Viennese operetta by Ferenc Molnár. Eddy appeared in a double role alongside Met singer Risë Stevens. Critics nearly always panned his acting. After the financial failure of I Married an Angel, Nelson Eddy and Jeanette MacDonald left MGM. In 1943, Eddy signed a contract with Universal for two films: Phantom of the Opera and Follow the Boys. The musical Phantom of the Opera (Arthur Lubin, 1943), lavishly produced in Technicolour, was based on the well-known novel by Gaston Leroux and songs by Edward Ward. Eddy appeared in it alongside Susanna Foster and Claude Rains but was so dissatisfied with the film afterwards that he abandoned the filming of Follow the Boys, in which he would have appeared again alongside Jeanette MacDonald, and left Universal. In his home studio, he recorded three-part harmonies (tenor, baritone, & bass) for his role as a multiple-voiced singing whale in the animated Walt Disney feature, 'The Whale Who Wanted to Sing at the Met', the concluding sequence in the animated musical anthology film Make Mine Music (Jack Kinney, Clyde Geronimi, a.o., 1946). Eddy appeared with Ilona Massey in his last film, the musical Western Northwest Outpost (Allan Dwan, 1947), produced by Republic. Nelson Eddy had a large radio following. His theme song was 'Shortnin' Bread'. In 1959, Eddy and MacDonald issued a recording of their film hits, which sold well. In 1953, he had a fairly successful nightclub routine with Gale Sherwood, which ran until he died in 1967. He suffered a fatal stroke while performing in concert. He was interred at Hollywood Memorial Cemetery, now called Hollywood Forever. Nelson Eddy and his wife, Anne Denitz, had no children. He had one child, Jon, with ex-girlfriend Maybelle Marston, born in the early 1930s, and he had a stepson, Sidney Franklin Jr.
Source: Ed Stephan (IMDb), Wikipedia (Dutch, German and English) and IMDb.
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The Mayan ruins of Chichen Itza form Mexico's best known ancient site, as well as one of the most extensive. The monuments are hugely impressive and include some of the most iconic architectural statements surviving from Mayan culture, including the Temple of the Warriors, the enormous Ball Court and the great stepped pyramid known as El Castillo, the centrepiece of the first area of the city seen by the visitor from the site entrance.
The chief god worshipped here appears to have been Kukulkan (the Mayan form of Quetzelcoatl) whose open-jawed serpent heads adorn many of the main temple structures.
The city and it's monuments mostly date between 600-1200AD and thus exhibit a variety of styles, making this a kind of architectural open air museum or textbook on Mayan art, with most buildings following a more severe, monumental design (though often adorned with low relief), whilst a few in the southern group feature the lavish ornamentation of the Puuc style as seen at Uxmal.
Chichen Itza receives a far greater influx of visitors than Mexico's other ancient sites (being within easy shot of daytrippers from resorts like Cancun) and thus for their own protection most of the monuments are now roped off to prevent the wear and tear of thousands of feet climbing the pyramid and the many temple platforms. This was something of a disappointment to us having had so much more free reign to explore other sites, though having seen the numbers increase dramatically through the day can readily understand and support such measures.