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Not the best image but this is a watercolor I painted this past weekend. I feel very much out of practice right now but had to paint something.
Gilbert Whitney & Co. is a retail store on the town square in Independence, MO.
I am hoping to start a much larger and more ambitious painting this coming Thanksgiving weekend.
Rome
sculptor: Frank Edwin Elwell
The sculptural grouping above the main cornice of the Customs House consists of twelve marble statues.
Each of the sculptures represent seafaring nations throughout history that were engaged in international trade.
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Alexander Hamilton U.S. Custom House
architect: Cass Gilbert, 1901-07
supervising architect: James Knox Taylor
architectural style: Beaux-Arts, Corinthian order
Bowling Green - Lower Manhattan
1 Bowling Green
New York City, NY
Gilbert's Transport Kenworth T904 Triple Road-Train makes it's way up Ranges View on the journey to Darwin.
Gilbert is a bit of a loudmouth. He likes being the center of attention and talks very, very fast. Sometimes his friends worry that he’ll pass out because he forgets to breathe! Despite his excitability, Gilbert is very resourceful and generous. What’s his is yours no matter what.
Gilbert is the project's fabulous poster boy who brought smiles to thousands of people during the build up to the trail.
He was stolen from the back of a truck before the trail started but luckily was found in a local garden.
Artist: Laura Schillemore
Gilbert is situated by the Bargate. The Bargate is a Grade I listed medieval gatehouse constructed c. 1180 as part of the Southampton town walls; it was the main gateway to the city.
Gilberts Kenworth T908 on triple fridges heading for the pad in Port Augusta to split up. Taken many Gilberts photos, but I think this is my favorite. Their 908s look better than their 909s cos they have better bullbars, and three matching fridges obviously helps. August 2015.
I took this photo on June 16, 2014 during a visit to Gilbert, a collector in Chelsea, Michigan of classic Kaisers and Frazers. This Kaiser had belonged to a close friend of Gilbert's who recently passed away. The owner had willed the car to the Ypsilanti Auto Heritage Collection in nearby Ypsilanti and Gilbert had brought the car to this area two days previously.
The visit was with my flickr contact Granttt73, who was visiting Michigan from his home in California.
All of my classic car photos can be found here: Car Collections
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Making quite a big setting compensation to keep up with speed of this bird.
Barn swallow (Hirundo rustica) having a drink during hot day.
The barn swallow (Hirundo rustica) is the most widespread species of swallow in the world. It is a distinctive passerine bird with blue upperparts, a long, deeply forked tail and curved, pointed wings. It is found in Europe, Asia, Africa and the Americas. In Anglophone Europe it is just called the swallow; in Northern Europe it is the only common species called a "swallow" rather than a "martin".
There are six subspecies of barn swallow, which breed across the Northern Hemisphere. Four are strongly migratory, and their wintering grounds cover much of the Southern Hemisphere as far south as central Argentina, the Cape Province of South Africa, and northern Australia. Its huge range means that the barn swallow is not endangered, although there may be local population declines due to specific threats.
The barn swallow is a bird of open country which normally uses man-made structures to breed and consequently has spread with human expansion. It builds a cup nest from mud pellets in barns or similar structures and feeds on insects caught in flight. This species lives in close association with humans, and its insect-eating habits mean that it is tolerated by man; this acceptance was reinforced in the past by superstitions regarding the bird and its nest. There are frequent cultural references to the barn swallow in literary and religious works due to both its living in close proximity to humans and its annual migration. The barn swallow is the national bird of Austria and Estonia.
Description
The adult male barn swallow of the nominate subspecies H. r. rustica is 17–19 cm (6.7–7.5 in) long including 2–7 cm (0.79–2.76 in) of elongated outer tail feathers. It has a wingspan of 32–34.5 cm (12.6–13.6 in) and weighs 16–22 g (0.56–0.78 oz). It has steel blue upperparts and a rufous forehead, chin and throat, which are separated from the off-white underparts by a broad dark blue breast band. The outer tail feathers are elongated, giving the distinctive deeply forked "swallow tail". There is a line of white spots across the outer end of the upper tail. The female is similar in appearance to the male, but the tail streamers are shorter, the blue of the upperparts and breast band is less glossy, and the underparts paler. The juvenile is browner and has a paler rufous face and whiter underparts. It also lacks the long tail streamers of the adult.
The song of the barn swallow is a cheerful warble, often ending with su-seer with the second note higher than the first but falling in pitch. Calls include witt or witt-witt and a loud splee-plink when excited (or trying to chase intruders away from the nest). The alarm calls include a sharp siflitt for predators like cats and a flitt-flitt for birds of prey like the hobby. This species is fairly quiet on the wintering grounds.
The distinctive combination of a red face and blue breast band render the adult barn swallow easy to distinguish from the African Hirundo species and from the welcome swallow (Hirundo neoxena) with which its range overlaps in Australasia. In Africa the short tail streamers of the juvenile barn swallow invite confusion with juvenile red-chested swallow (Hirundo lucida), but the latter has a narrower breast band and more white in the tail.
Taxonomy
The barn swallow was described by Linnaeus in his Systema Naturae in 1758 as Hirundo rustica, characterised as H. rectricibus, exceptis duabus intermediis, macula alba notatîs. Hirundo is the Latin word for "swallow"; rusticus means "of the country". This species is the only one of that genus to have a range extending into the Americas, with the majority of Hirundo species being native to Africa. This genus of blue-backed swallows is sometimes called the "barn swallows".
The Oxford English Dictionary dates the English common name "barn swallow" to 1851, though an earlier instance of the collocation in an English-language context is in Gilbert White's popular book The Natural History of Selborne, originally published in 1789:
The swallow, though called the chimney-swallow, by no means builds altogether in chimnies [sic], but often within barns and out-houses against the rafters ... In Sweden she builds in barns, and is called ladusvala, the barn-swallow.
This suggests that the English name may be a calque on the Swedish term.
There are few taxonomic problems within the genus, but the red-chested swallow—a resident of West Africa, the Congo basin and Ethiopia—was formerly treated as a subspecies of barn swallow. The red-chested swallow is slightly smaller than its migratory relative, has a narrower blue breast-band, and the adult has shorter tail streamers. In flight, it looks paler underneath than barn swallow.
[Credit to: en.wikipedia.org/]
Gilbert is a Barber in Silay City, Philippines. My intention was to get a photograph of him cutting a customers hair, but after 30 minutes with no customers in sight I settled for a portrait.
Gilberts Kenworth T909 on a triple road train crests the hill at 9 mile north of Port Augusta. June 2015.
Gilbert's Kenworth T904 and triple roadtrain heads south towards Alice Springs on the Stuart Highway
Gilbert's Transport Kenworth T908 reverses up to the third trailer before heading North bound for Darwin with a Triple Road-Train.