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Good thing spending your holidays at your in-laws house out in the country, you sometimes get a little free time since there are so many people giving your baby girl lots of attention! :-) I had received the Samyang/Rokinon 14mm f/2.8 that week and so testing was required. While the Samyang has amazing sharpness I feel that it lacks the "pop" that I get from my Zeiss lenses, doesn't have the contrast & saturation that I've gotten used to - but I can't be too demanding, this thing costs only a fraction of what Zeiss asks of you. And of course, you can fix it in post, at least to a certain degree. Thumbs up for Samyang though, for making these unbelievable lenses for so little money. PS. The straws are blurry because of wind, I couldn't expose fast enough.
Here's a Google Maps link to that location, it's fun sometimes to compare the views!
This shot includes only a fraction of the Snow Geese that formed this huge flock. The density reminded me of insect swarms! I estimated the flock to comprise several thousand birds. I like shots like this because you can examine them for the inclusion of the Blue Goose (dark morph)... there are several! This viewing was a real treat because large numbers of this species have not been that visible in the Bosque del Apache NWR and other regions along the Rio Grande flyway for the past several years. You should hear the "ear candy" from this group!
IMG_7803; Snow Geese
A fraction late for this shot as a reptile attacked and began consuming it. If you look closely you can see it's head behind the remaining thorax. I have been going down to the Lily pond at the Mount Coot-tha Botanical gardens early on December mornings for many years to capture morphing of this insect and it looks like I will be doing it for many years to come. It's sad for me that the moment was spoiled.
A change in the rates of postage, effective on July 1, 1931, to 3 cents for the 1st ounce or fraction of an ounce, on letters for Canada, the British Empire, the United States, and certain other countries - 13 cents covered both postage and registration on letters weighing not more than 1 ounce.
3 cents letter rate + 10 cents registration fee = 13 cents
From April 1, 1943 - a 1 cent War Tax was added to the first weight step preferred letter rate. The preferred letter rate was 4 cents for the first ounce and 2 cents for each additional ounce. 4 cents letter rate + 10 cents registration fee = 14 cents
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FOREST GROVE is an unincorporated place situated just off Highway 97, near 100 Mile House, in the Cariboo region of British Columbia, Canada. The population is 295. Prior to World War I settlers were making their way into the area and building small farms and/or living off the fur trade. One early settler, Oliver Philips, named the area Forest Grove after a town by the same name in Oregon. By 1917 Forest Grove consisted of a lodge, general store, post office, billiard hall, trading post, a large barn as well as a storage building. The first school was built about 1922 and serviced just the local area. Due to transportation difficulties communities further afield had their own small schools. By World War II farming was giving way to forestry as the main industry. Forest Grove remains a small community servicing the retirement and resort business on surrounding lakes. In the general area there is a school, store, legion, community hall and post office. There remains some farm activity as well as forestry.
A Forest Grove History project is under way. The objective is to bring together as much biographical material as possible relating to families or individuals that settled in the Forest Grove area between 1910 and 1950. LINK to the project - sites.google.com/site/forestgrovehistory/flora-and-ross-r...
(from - Wrigley's 1918 British Columbia Directory) - FOREST GROVE - a post office and ranching settlement, 16 miles from 100 Mile House, on Cariboo Road, in Lillooet Provincial Electoral District, reached by stage from Clinton on the P. G. E. Railway, 70 miles. Nearest telegraph office of Dom. Govt. Tel. line at 100 Mile House. The population in 1918 was 40. Local resources: Mixed farming and stock-raising.
FOREST GROVE Post Office was opened - 1 August 1917, having been named by Mrs. Ida Quackenbush. Forest Grove was not named after the town in Oregon, but after a grove here. The name was suggested by a sister of E. C. Phillips, the local storekeeper, at a public meeting held to choose a name for the Post Office.
LINK to a list of the Postmasters who served at the FOREST GROVE Post Office - recherche-collection-search.bac-lac.gc.ca/eng/home/record...
When this registered cover entered the postal system at FOREST GROVE, B.C. the Postmistress was Mary A. Phillips / Maude - she served from - 1 August 1917 to - 5 April 1938.
Mary Alice (nee Drumm) Phillips / Maude
(b. 7 November 1868 in Corvallis, Oregon, USA - d. 5 April 1938 at age 69 in California, USA)
Her first husband - Arthur St. Clair (or Sinclair) Phillips
(b. 16 October 1864 in Yreka, Siskiyou County, California, USA - d. 23 August 1911 (aged 46) in Kamloops, Thompson-Nicola Regional District, British Columbia, Canada) - they were married in 1885 - LINK to his Find a Grave site - www.findagrave.com/memorial/182921772/arthur-st_clair-phi...
Her second husband - Frederick Armitage Maude
(b. 26 April 1879 in Toronto, Ontario - d. 12 March 1961 at age 81 in Folsom, California, USA) - (his first wife) - On July 22, 1903, in Toronto, he married Mary Ann Graham. She was born in Toronto on October 11, 1882. Her parents were Thomas H. Graham and Annie Blackwell. Mary Ann died in Lynn Valley, North Vancouver, on June 9, 1915. She was buried in North Vancouver Cemetery. His third wife was Agatha K. Maude. - LINK to Agatha K. Maude's newspaper obituary - www.newspapers.com/article/the-sacramento-bee-obituary-fo...
By 1919, Frederick Maude was a rancher, living in Forest Grove, about 10 kilometres northeast of 100 Mile House in the Cariboo district of British Columbia. On October 11, 1919, in Ashcroft, British Columbia, Frederick married Mary Alice Phillips, who was the widow of Arthur St. Clair Phillips (1865-1911). She was born in Corvallis, Oregon, on November 7, 1868. Her parents were Joseph Abner Drum and Martha Howard. LINK to the biography of the MAUDE family - westendvancouver.wordpress.com/biographies-a-m/biographie...
In 1937, Frederick and Mary moved to Auburn, California, to establish a home. Mary died in California on April 5, 1938. She was buried in Old Auburn Cemetery in Auburn.
Frederick died in Folsom, California on March 12, 1961. He was buried in Lakeside Memorial Lawn Cemetery in Folsom, California. LINKS to his newspaper obituary - www.newspapers.com/article/the-folsom-telegraph-obituary-... and - www.newspapers.com/article/the-vancouver-sun-obituary-for...
- sent from - / FOREST GROVE / DE 12 / 33 / B.C. / - split ring cancel - this split ring hammer (A1-1) was proofed - 5 July 1917 - (RF B).
- sent by registered mail - / R / FOREST GROVE, B.C. / ORIGINAL No. / (592) / - registered boxed marking in black ink.
- arrived at - / VANCOUVER / DE 13 / 33 / B.C. / - cds arrival backstamp.
- addressed to: Swift Canadian Company Ltd / (Carrall & Water Streets) / Vancouver, B.C.
Fraction of a second too soon. I was on the tripod doing 7 bracket exposure HDRs on a 2 second timer for the sharpest possible image, This is the 7th exposure, the longest. I've compensated for the long shutter. If only I had hit the shutter button one second later......
NetJets Falcon 2000EX Reg: CS-DFG "FRACTION 988 UNIFORM" landing in dreadful lighting conditions at Dublin from Northolt.
The Flickr Lounge-Fraction
We woke to a very cold 19'F but the sun was out...Yay! Took this of Shizandra whilst in repose.
A teacher at a One School at a Time partner school using a chapati to teach students about fractions.
A fraction of a second is what it takes to capture a moment like this with the eagle splashing down on a fish with its powerful talons. www.troymarcyphotography.com
A fraction of a second earlier, this was a 2foot ripple - this place wedges hard
A fraction of a second later, I went over the falls backwards.
Undoubtedly my favorite place on earth, Banff Provincial Park in Canada captured my curiosity from the moment I entered the park. The park contains just a fraction of the Canadian Rockies and would take a lifetime to explore every corner of the park but I was fortunate enough to see just a sliver of this magnificent landscape.
Glacier Lake, Banff, Canada
This fraction of a second he looked into my eyes, is a moment I carry always through my life.
God Bless you and God help us now that you are gone.Here are a few snaps I took on June 30, 1990 in Oakland, less than 4 months after he been freed from 27 years in Robben Island, my whole life at that time.. We carry you in our hearts always.
"Man a man has done what he considers to be his duty to the people and his country, he can rest in peace. I believe I have made that effort and that is, therefore, why I will sleep for the eternity"- Nelson Mandela.
sony center roof - detail, berlin, germany.
For me this photography - its fractals and reflections - represents the fraction of Berlin and especially of the Potsdamer Platz., this important historical spot. Todays Potsdamer Platz architecture represents - on a deeper level - the fraction in history and in German culture. Even in the short time since Renzo Piano and the other architects (Jahn, Kohlhoff) created this "new center" it became a fraction: the facade of Kohlhoff's building (opposite of the Bahntower) is falling already apart....
Please see it framed.
Each of these bowls has a quarter "cut out," which took a lot of engineering to figure out how to do. I started playing with this idea about a year ago, but I didn't have the skills at that time to make it work well. Each is folded from a rectangle of Elephant Hide paper.
This shot includes a major fraction of the Snow Geese that formed this huge flock. They rose from this newly created shallow lake as if shot from a cannon!. I don't have a clue what spooked them! They circled this lake for several minutes and then returned as if nothing had happened. The visual flight density reminded me more of insect swarms! I estimated the entire flock to comprise several thousand birds. This viewing was a real treat because large assemblies of this species have not been that visible in the refuges along the Rio Grande flyway for the past several years. You should hear the "ear candy" from this group exercising a mass exodus as they pass overhead... it's deafening and exciting!
( A sharp-eyed observer can identify several Sandhill Cranes in the flight group... they were already airborne when the Snow Geese overwhelmed them! The feeding Cranes in the foreground and background completely ignored the Snow Geese panic!)
IMG_1144; Snow Geese
A change in the rates of postage, effective on July 1, 1931, to 3 cents for the 1st ounce or fraction of an ounce, on letters for Canada, the British Empire, the United States, and certain other countries - 13 cents covered both postage and registration on letters weighing not more than 1 ounce.
Columbia Gardens, B.C. to Cranbrook, B.C., 27 October 1931
3 cents forward letter + 10 cents registration fee = 13 cents.
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Columbia Gardens is a ghost town located in the West Kootenay region of British Columbia. The town is situated near Trail, British Columbia. Columbia Gardens is near the Waneta border crossing.
Columbia Gardens was established as the flag-stop of “Sayward” by the Nelson and Fort Sheppard Railway in 1893, it served at first the loggers who came to collect the forest’s trees and slowly became the centre of the small agrarian community which was growing up on the locality’s sandy, rich soil. In the early part of the twentieth century developers bought tracts of railroad land and subdivided them into 10-acre “fruit ranches,” and reflective of this land use, the settlement’s name was changed to “Columbia Gardens” in 1905.
PLACE NAMES: Columbia Gardens - article written by Greg Nesteroff - Surveyor J.D. Anderson deposited his Columbia Gardens plan with the land registry on Sept. 14, 1907. The Columbia Gardens post office operated from 1908-50, but the name Sayward persisted a little longer. A letter postmarked July 7, 1910 was addressed to “Mrs. Pipkin, Columbia Gardens, Old Sayward, BC (near Waneta).” And according to the Nelson Daily News of Jan. 20, 1913, it took the influence of the local Farmers Institute and a petition by residents to convince the Great Northern to finally change the name of the railway station from Sayward to Columbia Gardens: “The change was put into effect on Tuesday, Jan. 11, and express as well as mail will henceforth be addressed to Columbia Gardens.” LINK to the complete article - www.nelsonstar.com/community/place-names-sayward/
(from 1918 - Wrigley's British Columbia directory) - COLUMBIA GARDENS - a post office and farming settlement 59 miles south of Nelson and 7 east of Trail, on Kootenay River, Trail Provincial Electoral District, on the G. N. R. Nearest telegraph point Waneta, on the G. N. R., 4 miles. The population in 1918 was 60. Local resources: Mixed farming.
Columbia Gardens’ post office was established - 1 April 1908 and closed - 31 July 1950, and the school followed in 1954 with the kids heading for the new school in Fruitvale.
- sent from - / COLUMBIA - GARDENS / MY 17 / 34 / B.C. / - split ring cancel - this split ring hammer (A-1) is not listed in the proof book - it was most likely proofed c. 1908 when the Post Office opened - (RF D). (there is a period after the C - I saw a nice 1910 strike showing the period after the "C")
by registered mail - / R / COLUMBIA GARDENS, B.C. / ORIGINAL No. (576) / - boxed handstamp in purple ink
via - / NELSON / MY 16 / 34 / B.C. / - cds transit backstamp
via rpo - / MED. HAT & NEL. R.P.O. / 12 / MY 17 / 34 / No 1 / - rpo transit backstamp
arrival - / CRANBROOK / MY 17 / 34 / B.C. / - cds arrival backstamp
Addressed to: The Manager / The Canadian Bank of Commerce / Cranbrook / B.C.
- sent by: Mrs. H. I. Hild / Columbia Gardens, / B.C.
Hariette Isabelle (nee Parker) Hild
(b. 4 January 1905 in Cranbrook, B.C. - d. 1994) - she was a school teacher at Columbia Gardens from 1934 to 1941. In August 1941 they moved to the USA.
Her father - Charles Summerville Parker
(b. 15 August 1863 in Quebed – d. 12 April 1944)
Her mother - Anna Thersa Sheppard
(b. 4 December 1875 – d. 18 December 1946 in Vancouver, B.C.) - they were married - 12 March 1901 in Cranbrook, B.C.
Her husband - Victor Hjalmar Hild
(b. 12 November 1898 in Kingsville, Kent County, Ontario, Canada - d. 17 November 1962 at age 64 in Trail, B.C.) - he was a customs officer. They were married in Spokane, Washington on - 23 May 1927.
LINK to his Personnel Records from the First World War - www.bac-lac.gc.ca/eng/discover/military-heritage/first-wo... He served in France with the "Canadian Light Horse". Regiment No. 552825.
His father: Andrew Isaac Hild (b. 1868 in Kristianstad, Sweden – Deceased)
His mother: Johanna Sodergren (b. 1868 in Sweden – Deceased)
Kermit: “Hey, Fozzie. What’s with the numbers?”
Fozzie: “We’re here to see how numbers line up. And Kermit, remember that not all math problems are bad. Only sum.”
Kermit: “I heard the fraction and the decimal are no longer speaking to each other.”
Fozzie: “Why is that?”
Kermit: “The fraction couldn’t see the point.”
Fozzie: “Did you know that parallel lines have so much in common.”
Kermit: “Too bad they can’t meet.”
Fozzie: “I also have to introduce you to this king who loves fractions.”
Kermit: “Who is he?”
Fozzie: “Why, he’s King Henry VIII.”
Kermit: “I guess that makes King Louis XIV a little smaller king.”
Fozzie: “And to think, I always had problems with Math. I failed it so many times I couldn’t count.”
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Shave of a fraction and today marks the 1/3 point in the project. I thought this is a good time to give some of my thoughts on the project. I feel like I am hitting my stride, I no longer stress over my daily shot, they just come to me. If I do stress it is over things like the potential of a week working in montreal or denver. both might happen before the end of the project and yes I can take my camera but how interesting will my hotel room be? I have learned a great deal and at the beginning of the project i had to do several takes to 'get it right", this morning i did 2. The one getting the splash of the rock I got on the 3rd take. yesterday took me 2 takes, one to get the lines and framing correct..then the shot. I look forward to the next 2/3 and to see where it takes me. Thank you all for the interest and comments to this point on my project.
Best Viewed Large - This is just a fraction of the swarm of Gulls that were following our Lobster Boat out of the entrance of Shippagan Harbour - there's a community of what looks like thousands of Seagulls who've set-up home at the harbour mouth and who descend on all the returning fishing boats to pick up fish scraps and left-over bait.
This was one of the 'tidier' frames from the many I shot from the boat, none of which really does justice to the spectacle of hundreds of these spectacular birds all just swarming over the back of the boat.
The eagle-eyed among you may spot the falling piece of fish that one of the birds just dropped and which is about to cause pandemonium among the birds as it falls into the sea.
This was shot using the superbly crisp Canon 16-35/2.8 MKII L - I'm impressed at the amazing detail it's picking up in the wings of the birds.
A fraction of the exposure of my last post, picking out detail in the waves, while maintaining the effect of motion. The great thing about shooting a scene like this is that it constantly changes as the tide evolves new details.
A fraction of a second before being bowled by a Desiro on the up fast, 92015 passes Cow Roast with 6A42 Crick-Wembley empty vans. 25th June 2014
A change in the rates of postage, effective on July 1, 1931, to 3 cents for the 1st ounce or fraction of an ounce, on letters for Canada, the British Empire, the United States, and certain other countries - 13 cents covered both postage and registration on letters weighing not more than 1 ounce.
3 cents letter rate + 10 cents registration fee = 13 cents
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CAMPBELL CREEK, East of Kamloops. Originally the San Poel (Sans Poil?) River. It was named after Louis (or Lewis) Campbell, an American cattle drover who began building a fine ranch there in the 1860s, one that ultimately extended for about 6 miles along the south bank of the South Thompson River.
Campbell Creek, 35 miles long, runs into the south Thompson River, 13 miles east of Kamloops. There is a ranching settlement on the Creek, 11 miles southeast of Kamloops. Post office now called Barnhart Vale.
- from 1908 "Lovell's Gazetteer of the Dominion of Canada" - CAMPBELL CREEK, a rural post office in Yale County, B.C., 3 miles south of the North Thompson River, 8 miles from Ducks Station, and 10 miles from Kamloops, both on the C.P.R., 250 and 263 miles respectively west of Vancouver.
(from 1918 - Wrigley's British Columbia directory) - BARNHART VALE - a post office and settlement on Campbell Creek, 10 miles south of Kamloops, in Kamloops Provincial Electoral District, reached by stage from Kamloops. Farming, dairying and fruit-growing.
Barnhartvale, originally Barnhart Vale, is located at the southeast end of Kamloops, south of Dallas in British Columbia, Canada. The area includes riding stables, farms, honey bee farms, and ranches. There is a local store called Happy Valley Foods, and a local elementary school, Robert L. Clemitson. The main road which runs through Barnhartvale is Barnhartvale Road. Todd Road and Pratt Road are the main accesses through the subdivided western portion of Barnhartvale. In 1973, Barnhartvale and other outlying communities were amalgamated with the City of Kamloops. Barnhartvale was originally referred to as Campbell Creek or Campbell's Creek until 1909. It is now named after Peter Barnhart, who was the conductor on the first CPR train through Kamloops. He moved to Campbell Creek and opened a post office and in 1909 the name was changed to Barnhart Vale Post. In 1978 the spelling was formally changed to one word, Barnhartvale. 1865 marks the beginning of the written history of the area later named Barnhartvale. That was the year that James Todd and Lewis (Lew) Campbell, the first two pioneers, arrived. The next settlers in the region were John and William McLeod in 1879. A major road in the area is named after the Robert and Henry Pratt families who occupied the bulk of the valley after 1890.
(From Place Names of the Kamloops District; Kamloops Museum, 1978) - Campbell Creek Post Office was established 1 June 1905, named after a settler. Name changed to Barnhartvale Post Office 1 June 1909, Peter Ashton Barnhart, first postmaster. Barnhartvale Post Office closed 30 August 1951. Peter Barnhart was conductor on the first CPR train in 1886, but retired during the 1890's to run a hotel in Kamloops. In 1905 he settled a short distance up Campbell Creek and opened a Post Office to which he attached his own name - to the disgust of early settlers!
Peter Barnhart was the conductor on the first Canadian Pacific Railway (CPR) transcontinental train in 1886. Barnhartvale, British Columbia, Canada is named after him.
Barnhart Vale Post Office - In 1905 Barnhart purchased property in what was then known as Campbell Creek and in 1906 opened a post office there. Initially naming his post office "Campbell Creek (South) Post Office", he changed the name to "Barnhart Vale Post Office" in 1909 because of confusions with "Campbell Creek Post Office" established by Lew Campbell at the Campbell Creek Ranch in 1905.
In 1978, the spelling was officially changed to "Barnhartvale".
The Post Office was established at Campbell Creek - 1 June 1905 - it became Barnhart Vale - 1 June 1909 - in 1978 the name came one word - Barnhartvale.
LINK to a list of all the Postmasters who served at the CAMPBELL CREEK / BARNHART VALE Post Office - www.bac-lac.gc.ca/eng/discover/postal-heritage-philately/...;
sent from - / BARNHART VALE / NO 23 / 34 / B.C / - split ring cancel - this split ring hammer (A-1) was proofed - 9 June 1909 - (RF C).
by registered mail - / R / BARNHART VALE, B.C. / ORIGINAL No. (121) - registered boxed marking (in black ink)
via - / KAMLOOPS / 1 / NO 23 / 34 / B.C. / - cds transit backstamp
via the train - / X C. & V. R.P.O. X / 4 / NO 24 / 34 / B.C. / - rpo backstamp
via - / • MONTREAL • / 1 PM / 27 NO / 34 / CANADA / - transit backstamp
via - / • MONTREAL • / 1 PM / NO 28 / 34 / CANADA / - transit backstamp
arrival - / MONTREAL, P.Q. / NOV 28 1934 / REGISTERED / - boxed handstamp backstamp (in purple ink).
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Addressed to: Dept F.P. / Trico Mills / Montreal / Box 2503 /
This was a fun one too - Inspired by two amazing quilters:
r0ssie's fraction quilt:
www.flickr.com/photos/rossiebug/sets/72157622119666246/
r0ssie's inspiration for her quilt:
Cheryl Arkison:
naptimequilter.blogspot.com/2009/05/your-parents-are-cool...