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They have virtually disappeared from the road, but they live on on Flickr. This very car has been on flickr at least 40 times. I took my photo last Easter (I think) but also check the work of Gerard74, Peterastn , Davidito, and (but different car and place, yet very nice picture) EudaldCJ .
Update: ... and I have just found two more by GiangoLunghibarbe and syawla
Many many others in here (thanks to peterastn for the link).
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The prints of Amy were hanging in wet strips when I got to the camera store today. Six feet of her were draped over the chair. (Tallest she's ever been.)
I have been feeling a little uninspired lately so I decided to take a trip over to the Joanns to see if I could find my muse. At first I wasn't impressed with what I saw and then I started looking a little harder and some ideas starting popping into my head.
I probably broke all sorts of "quilting rules" making these mug rugs. But I don't care, I love them.
Totally inspired by Amanda (MrsMcPorkchop) www.flickr.com/photos/frenchtoastcake/4964712064/in/faves...
My dear wife Judith having a 5 minute rest this afternoon. My first picture with my new Nikon 70-200 AF-S f2.8 lens. 1.7 tele converter arriving soon :o)
Note: Of course my wife knew, I showed her the picture too for approval
I have a scar from a repaired cleft lip. That is why I have facial hair. Plus, I just really like facial hair. I had my first plastic surgery when I was one month old. I'm still debating what my second plastic surgery will be. :-)
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"Scar tissue that I wish you saw
Sarcastic mister know it all
Close your eyes and I'll kiss you
'Cause, with the birds I'll share
This lonely view"
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Scar Tissue - Red Hot Chili Peppers
37422 Having Been "Victorious" on completing her full season of 3J51 DRS RA5 Hauled RHTT on the Wolds Coast and also the night shift 3S20 runs etc... she eagerley awaits some well deserved and hard earned TLC from us at the Depot...
Later that day she would emerge from York Holgate Thrall Works blue again with white wheel rims and red bufferbeams ready for my friend and I to tackle her brown window frames, the grime on the bonnet tops and the nose 16/12/2023
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Camera: Nikon F w/Photomic FTN Finder
Film: Kodak Portra 400
Lens: Nikkor 35mm AI 2.8 Lens
Original Caption: Trains Like This One Have Been Spray-Painted by Vandals. 05/1973
U.S. National Archives’ Local Identifier: 412-DA-5776
Photographer: Calonius, Erik
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New York (New York state, United States) inhabited place
Environmental Protection Agency
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I have lived in Tokyo for about a year and half now and I can confidently say now that I really enjoy living here. I have met a number of people living here from abroad and when asked the question on their thoughts of living here, it's either they love it or hate it. I come from the U.S., so living here(and maybe vice versa for Japanese) is very much like living on an alien planet. So many things are so different culturally and etiquette wise that it's the only way I think of to describe it. I am not saying it's good or bad, but it's just very different. I had visited here many times before moving here so I had a rough idea as to what I was getting into, but visiting and living here are two different things.
This is where it gets complicated. Regardless of who you are, or where you come from Japan will send you on a roller-coaster of emotion out it for most of the first year of you living there. When you first arrive here everything is fun and new. Going out everyday making friends, discovering off the beaten tourist path places, etc. Then eventually the uglier parts set in. (Now this can happen in any country I am sure, but this is the first place for me to live abroad so I am basing it on here.) Sooner or later the language will get to you here. Japanese is unrelated to any other language around the world. It has it's own set of rules, and somethings if you try to litterally translate to English will make no sense at all. After all that you have the written language. Made up of Chinese Kanji and combined with Hiragana and Katakana. It can get overwhelming really fast. Combine that with most Japanese people not being as quick as westerners to really open up and be friends can leave you feeling a bit isolated. Luckily for me I already knew people here, but if I didn't this would be a tough hurdle to get over. On top of that, there is a lot of racism here. This could be the toughest thing to look past of them all. It's always in your face, but there is little you can do about it. It's not like anybody ever attacks your or anything like that, but more of the kind of thing where you might not get a job for the simple fact that you are not Japanese.
After discovering all of this (and you will) now is where you decide how you handle it. Everyone will go through times where they are having a good time, but then some days it will really drag you down. This will go on for about a 8 months to a year for most people. Then where you end up is up to you. Some people stew in the things of the uglier side of it and it ends up making them hate here as well as the people. This is very easy to do.
For me I try to focus on the things I do like about living here. Living in the largest city in the world and not having to worry about crime really is almost enough to over come everything else. I can't count the number of times I have forgot something at a cafe etc. and it still being there the next day or if I fall asleep on the train (which I often do) and my cameras are out, nobody is going to try and take it. When I tell people outside Japan about this, they find that hard to believe, but it's actually true. Why is this? I really have no idea, but it's very utopia like in that sense. One of the big things for me is the lack of the alpha male complex here. This is kind of hard to describe, but I don't ever feel like I am being judged in a "you ain't no manly man" kind of way. You can literally dress and be just about anything you want here and nobody will make you feel as if you shouldn't.
Another thing that really stands out for me is the fact that I don't have to drive hardly anywhere in this country. Take a train no matter how you cut it beats a car in every way. Sure the trains can be packed, and you often have to stand, but it allows you a form of down time that you don't get when driving. Being able to read a book, play a game, study, or just read the internet in the middle of the day while going about your busy life makes your day all the better. Being trapped in a car and having to watch out for idiot drivers or sitting in traffic is enough to ruin anyone's day.
I guess I could go on and on about things, but really to sum it up the most important thing (like anywhere else) is to surround yourself with people that you like and to push away the things that you don't. For Japan I feel that's far easier to do than in the U.S., like everywhere else it's not the perfect utopia, but for myself I have found reasons that it comes as close for me as I think I could ever really get.
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Vandaag eens geen geoefen met lensflare, maar met een lekker bakkie koffie op de bank.
I didn't feel like practising lensflare again today. So just hanging on the sofa with a cup of coffee.
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I have observed that while some specimens of Asian wasp come to the flowers of the ivy to feed on their nectar, others go to hunt insects.
The behavior of the wasps that come to hunt is much more aggressive. They fly constantly among the flowers of the ivy and they are avalanzan against any insect that is in its way, from common flies and syrphids to bees and bumblebees. At this time of the year, the Asian wasp needs a lot of protein to feed its young, and therefore its hunting activity is much higher.
He observado que mientras algunos ejemplares de avispa asiática acuden a las flores de la hiedra a alimentarse de su néctar, otros acuden a cazar insectos.
La conducta de las avispas que acuden a cazar es mucho más agresiva. Vuelan constantemente entre las flores de la hiedra y se avalanzan contra cualquier insecto que esté en su camino, desde moscas comunes y sírfidos hasta abejas y abejorros. En esta época del año, la avispa asiática necesita mucho aporte de proteinas para alimentar a sus crías, y por ello su actividad cazadora es mucho mayor.
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Have a great weekend friends.
Happy Lunar New Year to all friends celebrating the New Year of the Tiger!!!
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both taken with 50mm f1.4G lens at f1.4
square cropped, (i love my 5x5's!), preset applied, sharpened.
this is for our still life theme; does it count? hell, i'm counting it! and the two still-life's (still-lives?) i did this weekend since they are technically taken within the right time frame.
Having attached antlers and red nose, the crew of electricians strings lights on Nibbles Woodaway's thorax.
The bug is quite photogenic at night, too:
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Tenuous link: Coffee ring -- Coffee cup
I have only used this base image a couple of times because of the unusual nature of the trailer, but felt that it might not have looked out of place in the Pickfords fleet. Best known as a household remover, Pickfords was (and is) also very active in the industrial removals sector. Whilst still under British Road Services ownership at the date depicted, the livery no longer incorporated the British Transport Commission crest. It is a great shame that this Doncaster-built US-style truck was not a commercial success. I always considered it to be rather stylish (06-Jan-15).
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… and thirteen other things that you may or may not have known about me ☺
1. I debated whether or not to post this and whether it was risqué or not, but then I realized that my pants and belts are so loose that anyone who sees me walking around campus or anywhere would see all this anyway.
2. I could not live without my camera, laptop, and coffee. I could live without a cell phone, or probably anything else.
3. Ever since I’ve moved into my apartment, I’ve had macaroni and cheese at least 2-3 times per week. Macaroni and cheese is best complimented with blueberry coffee.
4. My mom thought I was too skinny when I was in elementary school so she had the doctor put me on a milkshake diet… In other words, I had a milkshake with every meal to fatten me up. Well, I actually got kinda pudgy up until halfway through high school.
5. I have horrible skin caused by a genetic disorder that has never happened in my family before. Also, I’m a lefty, the only one in my family. In other words, I am a fluke. Or maybe I was adopted, except that everyone seems to think I look exactly like my brothers.
6. My top four job aspirations are: to become a filmmaker and make a living doing it, to become a professional photographer, to be a musician, to be a writer. I will never be a musician. My backup plan is to open up a nice coffee shop somewhere on the shores of the Mediterranean and live a quiet happy life. I will never have a desk job!
7. 7 was my favorite number until I realized that it is the most cliché lucky number in existence. Now my favorite number is 49538. Actually, that was a lie, I don’t have one.
8. I want to travel to every country in the world. Then I’ll decide where I want to settle down. Right now I go to school 5 minutes from the house I grew up in. I’ve never moved, and have only been to less than 10 states and only one country. I have a long way to go.
9. I am good at math and science, but swore a solemn oath while graduating high school that I’d never get a job in either. I never thought it would happen, but after a year of no math classes, I actually missed it and so I am taking calculus right now. It is fun. I like logic.
10. I’ve only ever had one girlfriend and we dated for a year and a half. I don’t mind being single though. It has it’s perks. Also, I’ve been facebook married to the same person for over a year now.
11. I can’t draw. Anything. If I pick up a pen or pencil my hand quivers. Everyone else in my family can draw amazingly well. I like writing though. Actually, in 9th grade I completely changed my handwriting. I just picked how I wanted to do each letter and then wrote “a quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog” over and over until it stuck.
12. I don’t like watching TV. There are maybe 3 shows that I’ll actually want to watch. Anything else I will only watch because I’m in a room where it’s on. Generally I’ll leave and listen to music or go on flickr or watch a movie. Or read a book, but I don’t read nearly as much as I’d like to, mostly because I don’t have time during school. In the summer I read a book a week on average.
13. I generally stay up 1-2 hours later than I’d like to every night because of flickr. Whether it’s responding to comments, checking out pictures, or gong through my pictures on my hard drive, or photoshopping… like right now. Ugh. Ok well this is 13 so that’s it!
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This old post card depicts a scene I have never seen. Apart from the strangeness of the antique bathing costumes, there's the sheer number of people in water. More on that later. What's completely new to me is the rope line that extends from the shore to the breakers. It seems to have been intended to help bathers make their way to and from the beach and stay upright at the same time. Whether it did any good or whether it was even necessary, I cannot say.
I've seen enough late 19th and early 20th century photos and illustrations of the beach here to conclude that the shore today is depopulated in comparison with the beach in its heyday.
These days, even at the height of summer people just don't spend much time on the sands or in the water.
Signs warning of dangerous currents and widespread coverage of drownings might be responsible for keeping people out of the waves. On the other hand, some people, especially young males, seem to love living dangerously. Even they aren't present here.
What accounts for the change? Until the 1920s, when cars became widely adopted and roads were built to connect Portland to the Oregon coast, the only beaches that were readily accessible to most Portlanders were on this peninsula. The crowds who disembarked from the paddlewheeler included wives and their children who would remain here for the summer while their husbands returned to the city.
In a time before motion pictures, if people wanted to see the living ocean they had to come to it. Then, as now, the ocean had a mesmerizing effect on the public. The well-dressed Victorian men and women who were captured on film or in art strolling along the water's edge must have found the people-watching as interesting as the endless motion of the waves.
Frank and I are part of a handful of people who wade in the waves. The conditions have to be just right. First, the tide must be coming in. Secondly, the ocean must be fairly calm, with no waves breaking where we plan to wade. Next, it must be sunny. Last, but certainly not least, the water temperature must be bearable.
It's this final criterion that's the most variable of the lot. August and September are the only months when we'd even consider taking a dip. However, even then water temperatures can change from one day to the next. If the first step into the water is painful, there's no point in going in any deeper.
One should never attempt to swim in these waters or wade any deeper than one's hips.
Columbia Pacific Heritage Museum, Ilwaco, Washington.
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Grand Hotels of the North Beach Peninsula April – July 2022
April 9 @ 10:00 am - July 9 @ 4:00 pm PDT
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I have this Indian Hawthorn shrub in my backyard. They bloom for a couple of weeks in the spring.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhaphiolepis_indica
Rhaphiolepis indica, the Indian hawthorn, India hawthorn or Hong Kong hawthorn is an evergreen shrub in the family Rosaceae.
They are shrubs or small trees, which rarely reach a size of 4 m in height. The branches are purple brown when young, greyish brown when old, cylindrical, initially brown tomentose, glabrous in old age. Petiole 0.5–1.8 cm or almost absent, slightly brown or tomentose, subglabrous; stipules deciduous, lanceolate, little brown tomentose, acuminate apex; ovate blade blade, oblong, rarely obovate, oblong-lanceolate, narrowly elliptical or elliptical-lanceolate, (2–) 4–8 × 1.5–4 cm, coriaceous, abaxially prominent veins, abaxially visible reticular veins and visible or non-adaxially, back pale, glabrous or scarcely tomentose, shiny adaxially, glabrous, the apex obtuse, acute acuminate.
The inflorescences in panicles or terminal of clusters, with many or few flowers; pedicels and peduncles rusty-tomentose; bracts and deciduous bracteoles. Flowers 1–1.5 cm in diameter. The petals white or pink, obovate or lanceolate, 5–7 × 4–5 mm, pubescent basal, obtuse apex. Stamens 15, as long or shorter than the petals.[1]
"Orange Tree Neighborhood"
IMG_0229 Indian Hawthorn bush acd
Hummingbirds have iridescent color in their feathers, so up until this year I have always used flash to bring out the color and have never really been pleased with the results no matter how many flashes were employed. Today I used the biggest light source of all, the sun and waited until the waning hours of the afternoon to catch the sun as it set. The current lord of my feeder was very accommodating by landing on the perch I was focused on and into the sun at the same time. The result was the beautiful shimmer in the feathers.
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Arecaceae, Palmae or commonly known as the palm tree. These are Coconut Palm trees. The palm family, is a family of flowering plants belonging to the Arecales. There are roughly 202 currently known with almost 4000 species, most of which are restricted to tropical and subtropical. Palms are one of the most well-known and extensively cultivated plant families. In many historical cultures, palms were symbols for such ideas as victory, peace, and fertility. Today, palms remain a popular symbol for the tropics and vacations. Palms first appear in the fossil record around 80 million years ago. The coconut remains floating so palm trees spread easily from island to island. Training schools for pig-tailed macaques still exist both in southern Thailand. Competitions are held each year to find the fastest harvester.
We Dutch love mountains, waterfalls and Palm trees. You know why? Cause we don't have them ;-)
De palmenfamilie is de enige familie in de botanische orde der Arecales. Van deze familie zijn bijna 4000 soorten bekend. Hierboven een foto van Kokospalmen. Er zijn vondsten van palmen van 80 miljoen jaar oud. De meeste soorten komen voor in tropen of subtropen. Hoewel de meeste palmen een stam hebben, zijn het geen bomen. Palmen hebben meestal een schijnstam. De stengel bestaat uit opeengestapelde bladvoeten en bevat geen bast. Hierdoor kan de plant ook niet in de breedte groeien, zoals echte bomen. Palmen dragen steenvruchten of bessen. Sommige vruchten blijven drijven, zoals de kokosnoot. Dit is om de verspreiding van het ene eiland naar het andere te vergemakkelijken. De vrucht, de kokosnoot, wordt voor verschillende doeleinden gebruikt. In sommige delen van de wereld worden de vruchten geoogst door getrainde apen. In het zuiden van Thailand komen nog opleidingsscholen voor en worden elk jaar wedstrijden gehouden wie het snelst kan oogsten.
In Thailand wordt de kokosnoot vers en jong verkocht, vaak op straat. Men kan dan bij een stalletje een hele vrucht kopen waar men eerst met een rietje het cocosmelk uit kan drinken.
Have missed everyone. I appreciate all the kind comments everyone left. Looking forward to catching up soon.
Have you ever felt passionate about feeling passionless? I'm talking about the grey days, the in-between moments like the Nova Scotian forest, after autumn but before winter. What do you say about the feeling of unfeeling, the solid state of sleeping in, wanting to awaken, but not wanting to get up?
It can be an expansive expression, standing in an open field with nothing but shivering grass between you and the furthest distance. Will Oldham called it "that grand dark feeling of emptiness", and I can't conceive of a clearer term for it.
I feel unendingly lonely on desperate days like these, with a chill in my fingertips and a creaking of naked branches, filling my ears with the quietest sounds. The world bends overhead, and the skeleton forest shines pale against the greying sky, like a small child on an x-ray. I hold myself close and write odd words without understanding their consequence. They peel back the layers of fallen leaves shrouding my soul. I pile them up elsewhere, and jump feetfirst into them instead.
I miss my love on days like these, indeed, I miss love itself – and in the voices of a softly settling forest, I whisper tales of dryness, hardness, and the fullness, surely, the overflowingness, of emptiness...