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Less than three hours from Seattle, an alpine landscape beckons.
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For you People who have never been to large mountain's, yes snow in May. In fact snow all year around, yes that is right, all year around, some of the snow melts, but there is snow all year around, even in summer :) The ice in this photo is not a lake, that is a spot the snow melted then froze, over time it will re-melt and be gone by mid to late summer, it is in fact a meadow that will be full of wild flowers :) , every year same thing, anyway I got 2 comments People find it hard to believe there is snow in the mountains the time of year when this picture was taken lol
And speaking of comments, it is very difficult for me to spend a lot of time typing, I lost a hand in a fire I was trapped in also I can not sit for long amounts of time do to all my injury's, so I want to add, thank you all very very much for all your beautiful comments, you are very kind People, If the whole world was like you People there would not be any of these evil wars, you People on this platform set an example that the world should follow, I can not always reply to every comment so I will reply to you all in the info thank you so very much, I love you all
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I already posted a summer version of Maria Eich (see comments) and I'll just insert the same text here:
The pilgrimage church Maria Eich has quite a history of miracles:
In 1710 the blacksmith sons Franz and Kaspar Thallmayr from Planegg placed a Loreto image of Mary in a hollow oak. Twenty two years later a day laborer made a pilgrimage to the Virgin Mary in the oak tree and recovered from an injury. As early as 1734, the influx of those in need was so great that a hut was built that surrounded the tree with the miraculous image. In 1742 a brick church building was built around the oak, which was consecrated on May 18, 1768. A hermitage was built in 1745, which also served as a school from 1790 to 1804.
Maria Eich gained supraregional importance in 1775 when the Bavarian Elector Max III. Joseph held a par force hunt in the forest. A hunted deer sought refuge by the chapel. The elector saw the miraculous image and spared the animal. To commemorate this event, a memorial plaque was attached to the chapel after the elector's death.
Maria Eich is still a popular pilgrimage destination, no pilgrims today though.
Guild Church of St Mary Aldermary
Situated at 69 Watling St, London, EC4N 4SJ.
There has been a church on this for about 900 years. The patronage belonged to the Prior and Chapter of Canterbury and was later transferred to the Archbishop in 1400.
Sir Henry Keeble paid for the building of a new church in 1510, but he died in 1518 leaving the tower still to be finished. It wasn’t until 1629 where two legacies enabled the church to be completed by 1632.
Poor Henry Keeble what was supposed to be his resting place, his dream was short-lived. His mortal remains were removed to be replaced by those of Two Lord Mayors, Sir William Laxton and Sir Thomas Lodge. To add insult to injury, his monument was also destroyed.
The church was badly damaged by the Great Fire of London in 1666, the tower and parts of its walls survived. A gentleman called Henry Rogers had left a legacy of £5,000 of which his widow had stipulated that the church should be rebuilt as a replica of the old one.
Sir Christopher Wren did the majority of the rebuilding in the ‘Gothic’ style. Pevsner writes ‘It is the chief surviving monument of 17th century Gothic revival in the City’.
Another church that was destroyed in the Great Fire ‘St Thomas the Apostle’ was now united with St Mary’s. St Thomas’s was not rebuilt.
A new organ was installed, built by George England and Hugh Russell in 1781. There were major restorations between 1876-77. A new Oak Screen was added, pews and stalls were replaced. The organ was moved from the Western Gallery to the Chancel, new glass to windows and a new Reredos installed.
The church was damaged in the Second World War but the damage was minor when set against the destruction to other churches in the vicinity.
The church was designated a Grade 1 listed building in 1950
April 2005 was the last major restorations, particular attention to plaster ceilings, memorials on the North Wall.
There are many famous people buried here but many are forgotten to us. Past Lord Mayors, Military figures and members of the Clergy glorified at the time but now not remembered in the mists of time. I found one reference to Richard Chaucer, a vintner, said to be the father of Geoffrey Chaucer of Canterbury Tales fame.
Since 2007 St Mary’s has been the Regimental Church of the Royal Tank Regiment. Also if you look at the many stained glass windows you will see many emblems of the London Guilds (Trades).
Definition of guild church. : an English metropolitan church that has been freed from parish responsibilities in order to minister full time to nonresident city workers during their hours in the city. This provided by Merriam-Webster.
The marks on her throat were angry and red where the Hand had put his hands, strangling her until she lost consciousness.
Chotocabras macho fingiendo estar herido
Nightjar male feigning injury
Caprimulgus europaeus - Chotacabras europeo - European nightjar
Clase: Aves
Orden: Caprimulgiformes
Familia: Caprimulgidae
Género: Caprimulgus.
Nombre Científico: Caprimulgus europaeus
Name in English: European nightjar, Eurasian nightjar
Nombre en Español: Chotacabras europeo
As the sign says in the background “500,000 Hours Injury Free” as UP 6579 sits quietly in the Roseville Shops awaiting injury free maintenance.
The eastbound M train does a whopping 10 mph over the Villa Grove diamond and past the Watseka Union Depot on their way to Hoosier Lift. Huron Eastern SD40M-2 3485 with the "0 injuries" decal is leading the four pack of engines; which is rumored to be on the G&W "kill list."
It's really hard for me to try to explain how hard it is to motivate myself to do any photography these days whilst I continue to recover from my knee injury. Recovery has been seriously interrupted by lockdowns and closures of gyms...indeed, I've not even been able to see a physio for over 6 months. With all of that my fitness has suffered considerably and so even short excursions can sometimes feel like I'm hitting the wall at mile 22 of a marathon. Therefore, the thought of making the effort to climb a hill for photography when the conditions are less than ideal...well, it doesn't appeal.
When on the hill, a different fear now presents itself. Fear of another injury. I used to head out without a care in the world really. Sure, I might slip and fall, but I always felt that I was the master of my own destiny, even in those circumstances...but now it is different. My body just failed when I injured my knee, with very little in the way of warning, just a little knee pain like I've had for years anyway. The actual step I took when my tendon snapped was so incredibly innocuous, it's the type of step I've taken thousands, if not millions, of times before...it was just like going down the stairs at home...but in that moment, my tendon chose when I was alone, on a hill, in inclement weather and without a mobile signal, to snap...not at home, going down the stairs. And now, although the injured knee presents no pain, my other one does, so the fear is that that will someday go too, as so often seems to happen with people who rupture one tendon, eventually the other one ruptures too. Add to that a lack of strength in the injured knee, some balancing issues and a tendency to give way without warning...that all adds up to a heck of a lot of nervousness when going off the beaten track.
The day I took this photo was no different in many ways. I was solo. The weather was inclement. There was no-one really around. I did have some extra protection in the form of a satellite transceiver that enables me to send an SOS and I did tell my wife where I was this time. But with boggy conditions underfoot, it still meant my mind wasn't wholly invested in photography until I'd set up my tripod and decided to wait, in the cloud and drizzle, for things to happen. And so I waited...and waited...and waited. About 2 hours later I felt the subtle change in temperature on my neck as the sun tried to break through the misty conditions. Poised with my finger on the shutter just hoping for the mistiness to clear a little to reveal the landscape, the conditions brightened to the left of the scene you see here until not only were the two tress visible, but also the landscape beyond...and low and behold, a rainbow. What resulted was a stitch pano consisting of 7 vertical frames and 160 megapixels of Lake District loveliness. This scene lasted for all of 30 seconds...and then it was gone.
I don't tend to big-up my photography, especially these days. I tend to work behind the scenes, especially for anything from Snowdonia, where I spend most of my time, refining my project and building, what I hope will be, a quality book. However, when I go elsewhere, it is sometimes nice to share what I captured, and I think even I like this one enough to shout about it.
Proverbs 9:7 “Whoever corrects a scoffer gets himself abuse, and he who reproves a wicked man incurs injury.”
"I am not as lovely as I once was
I am not as shameful as I used to be"
It's all about control.
(Self harm is not a sign of weekness, it's a sign of strength and survival.
I call them 'war injurys' becuase that's what they are.)
Agave
Detail of a leaf.
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Photographic work in a hospital shown in my exhibition entitled "Care" on 2 July 2021 in Paris, France.
This is my life and my story - then and now
This is my brother. we were raised in foster homes and throughout most of our early adulthood. I went one way (military) and he went another, (street life and in and out of prison for non violent crimes)
Homelessness and alcohol ruled his life, mine was ruled by raising a family and living thousands of miles away from him while I was in the army. We connected several times during those 20 years and he lived with me for over a year at one duty station in the 1980′s but then we went our separate ways again.
I moved to California after retiring from the military 14 years ago and he would visit the kids and I but was drunk most of the time.
About 10 years ago he hit rock bottom when he was drinking sun up to sun down and had a severe car accident that required surgeries for internal injuries and several broken bones in his hand and arm. 6 months later he had an alcoholic seizure that caused him to incur a traumatic brain injury, surgery and a month in a coma. I kept him at my place after his release from the hospital, got him on disability and was looking for long term care but all this still didn’t stop him from drinking – so we were estranged and he lived with a family he knew.
I found him this past April and learned that he has been sober for 8 years. He still has a few seizures a year from the scarring on his brain.
It is amazing how people can change – it is even more amazing that in this photo he is only 53 years old and I was 51.
I felt 107 in this photo but it was a good day.
you can see his left hand (yes he is a lefty) can't open fully and he has scars on his face. On the left side of his head there is a big dent and scar that runs from his temple to the back of his head and he has a scar from his chest to his belly button. Loma Linda Hospital saved his life twice but he saved his life once and that is what brought us to this day.
He has a memory like steel for the past but can't remember something from 12 hours ago - he tries to write down reminders and then forgets where he left them or the importance of them when he sees them. Something as simple as fasting the night before a blood test is lost from when he goes to bed to when he gets up in the morning, or even the fact that he has a doctor's appointment.
Part of a set I did on self-injury. No, it's not real. Corn syrup and food coloring. But it's a real situation that countless people have experienced.
It was cathartic to do these. I wanted to turn my painful past experiences into something beautiful.
Apparently a friggin' TON of people have viewed this, and yet... no comments.
Come on, guys.
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Injury Rollover Accident on Northbound I-35 Just South of 119th Street in Olathe on July 3, 2011 at 1010 hours
Picture ID# 6031
Yep. My first skateboarding accident. The bruise was fierce. Too bad my camera-phone couldn't capture the lividity of it very well.
Muskegon County, Michigan
A Killdeer feigns injury to lure hostiles away from its vulnerable ground nest. Coupled with a persistent chattering alarm call, the broken wing gambit continues until the threat is drawn a safe distance from the nest. Then the killdeer simply flies away.
There were apparently only 2,000 monks in 1959.
Ganden Monastery was completely destroyed by the People's Liberation Army during the 1959 Tibetan uprising. In 1966 it was severely shelled by Red Guard artillery, and monks had to dismantle the remains. The buildings were reduced to rubble using dynamite during the Cultural Revolution (1966–76). Most of Tsongkhapa's mummified body was burned, but his skull and some ashes were saved from the fire by Bomi Rinpoche, the monk who had been forced to carry the body to the fire.
Re-building has continued since the 1980s. Early in 1996, after a ban had been imposed on pictures of the Dalai Lama, 400 monks at Ganden rioted. They were fired upon by PLA troops, apparently causing two deaths and several injuries, followed by the arrest of one hundred monks. As of 2012 there were about 400 monks, and rapid progress was being made on rebuilding the monastery. The red-painted lhakang in the centre is the reconstruction of Ganden's sanctum sanctorum containing Tsongkapa's reliquary chorten called the Tongwa Donden, "Meaningful to Behold."
Live in Cornwall? Suffer sports injury, back, feet, nutrition or any other health related issues? Well the Chiropractic Clinic at Foundry Square in Hayle might just be the place for you........
Not that I was there for any of that today but rather to suss out the elegant viaduct running right across the centre of town and which once pounded to the bark of a Castle and throbbed to the tune of a Western.
Sadly those days have long gone and while decent motive power this far west is now almost non-existent, at least the 2-car DMU did fit nicely into the gap between tree and road-sign. The train is FGW's 05.24 Bristol Temple Meads - Penzance (2C42) in the form of a Sprinter class 150. Perhaps not the service of choice for anyone making the full journey though - at just 8 minutes under 5 hours you'd certainly need your holiday by the time you arrived in Penzance.
15th January 2016
I visited Richmond Park ,a week or so back and came across the Stag Fallow Deer. It had been in the "wars" and looked as he was the "loser". Carrying injuries to his face. It's tough at the top for a Stag.
In developing news as written on 28th November 2025, EASA (the European Union Aviation Safety Agency) has issued an Emergency Airworthiness Directive on recommendation from Airbus which affects all Airbus A320 family aircraft across the world (the Airbus A318 even though not listed is affected by the EAD) which does include the next-generation Airbus A320neo family.
Earlier in the day, reports began emerging from Airbus and various news sources that they were issuing guidance that a new software update must be implemented on affected Airbus A320 family aircraft before their next scheduled flight which will affect numerous airlines across the world.
The guidance comes following a major incident on 30th October 2025 where JetBlue Flight 1230 bound from Cancún to Newark-Liberty, New Jersey suffered an uncommanded sharp loss of altitude in-flight causing injuries to several passengers, whereby the flight was ultimately diverted to Tampa, Florida. Airbus has stated that intense solar radiation could corrupt safety critical flight controls, notably the Airbus A320 family fly-by-wire ELAC system (Elevator & Aileron Computer) for which there are 2.
Since Airbus published the news, EASA have published their EAD which stipulates that all 5,100 aircraft have until 23:59 UTC on Saturday 29th November 2025 to comply with the new software update, any aircraft that does not meet this deadline will ultimately have to be grounded until they have been modified. The software update according to Airbus takes 2 hours, however as stated by BBC News that "the remaining 900 aircraft which are older versions will need new hardware as well and will need to be taken out of service to be modified."
Good on Airbus for swiftly getting information out on a potential safety problem for the Airbus A320 family (now the most popular jet in the world), a fix for the issue plus EASA for the publication of the EAD. There is going to be disruption as many airlines have indicated their fleet are affected, but better to keep everyone safe.
Airbus A320-251N G-TTSD on final approach into Runway 27R at London Heathrow (LHR) on BA653 from Santorini (JTR).
NS 369 heads south for Macon through Flovilla. Leading is UP 1111, their "Powered by our People" specialty-painted engine meant to honor their employees. Just one thing, its poorly-timed release happened shortly after they announced their intentions to start using the PSR business model & right after they started making massive layoffs all to please Big Daddy Wall Street. If you ask me, "Powered by our Furlough" is a more appropriate name.
Also, to add insult to injury, the people on the long hood look like they belong in a Soviet Union-era propaganda poster about working hard for the "state" for the good the "collective." 7-4-22
The Florida Brewing Company building is a historic brewery building that once housed Ybor City Brewing Company, which became Florida Brewing Company. It has been restored and converted into a law office. It is the tallest building in Tampa's Ybor City Historic District.
The Florida Brewing Company Building was built to house the Florida Brewing Company, which was founded in 1896 by cigar industrialists Vicente Ybor and Edward Manrara. The brewery building is six stories tall and remains the tallest building in Ybor City.
Florida Brewing Company was the first brewery in the state of Florida. When operational in the late-19th and early-20th centuries, the building housed the leading exporter of beer to Cuba and was a leader in western Florida. After brewing operations ceased, the building was used for a variety of purposes, although it was eventually abandoned and fell into disrepair. Recently, the building was renovated and is now home to several commercial enterprises.
It was built on the Government Spring, which originally supplied water to the military men of Fort Brooke. This spring was valued by many cultures to be sacred. Florida's Paleo Indians believed the water in the spring to be of a sacred nature. They brought their sick and wounded to bathe in the water with the belief that it would cure their injuries and diseases. Nearly every Indian tribe respected the spring's holiness and thus would use the land around the spring as a peace zone, where no one would attack. Influenced by these tales and others in Europe, Spanish Conquistadors fell under the belief that there were crystalline fountains of youth hidden in the springs. Juan Ponce de León helped spread these rumors when he and a Spanish Armada set out to find a mythical fountain of youth. Many still believe the spring to have supernatural powers.
In its prime, The Florida Brewing Company produced 80,000 barrels of beer annually. It was the leading exporter of beer to Cuba in the U.S. and the premier brewery on Florida's west coast. Theodore Roosevelt and his Rough Riders visited for a beer in celebration after the Spanish–American War.
The brewery survived the adversities of the Prohibition and the Great Depression. However, the business closed in 1961 as a result of the embargo on Cuba and the opening of rival breweries by Anheuser-Busch and the Joseph Schlitz Brewing Company in Tampa.
In the years following its closing, the former brewery served several purposes. It was used as a storage place for fresh tobacco in the 1960s and later became a bomb shelter throughout the Cold War. However, it was abandoned for the latter 25 years of the 20th century, and its condition declined. The former brewery became generally considered a detriment to the redevelopment of Ybor City
In 1999, attorney Dale Swope and contractor Joseph Kokolakis purchased the building to restore and convert it into a law firm and office space. The restoration project received a Builders' Choice grand award in adaptive re-use.
www.emporis.com/buildings/285674/florida-brewing-co-tampa...
wiki2.org/en/Florida_Brewing_Company_building
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Happy New Year
Tiva starts the year dry partly because the puddles are frozen and also because we are keeping her on a flexi as she has a slight shoulder injury
Well, where do I start? It was Missy's 13th birthday last Wednesday. We had hired a field out for private use and ordered some special baked goodies for her, it was to be a fun day to celebrate her turning 13. Only it didn't plan out that way. Moments after this picture was taken Missy jumped clear off the bale, landed awkwardly and immediately held her back left leg up. She didn't cry or otherwise act in pain, seemed to carry on actually so we assumed it was a bad sprain. She hobbled along very carefully, not weight bearing on this leg, but still eager for her treats and continued her walk without us knowing the extent of her injuries.
We left after a further 30 mins and on returning home she became very withdrawn and spaced out. Still unable to bear weight on that leg and it was decided we should take her to the vet after advice from them during a phone call. Get to the vet and she's shaking violently as she's super stressed during vet visits but was being a good girl. On inspection the vet immediately comments that she thinks it's a fracture as she can feel bone crunching in her leg. Missy was incredibly brave, despite being in absolute agony. Not a peep from her. Anyway, we return home with pain meds and the advice to return the next morning for x-rays. Over night she was whining somewhat and very unsettled. The next morning we are referred to the Veterinary Hospital in the city. Missy was very stressed again and very difficult to examine as she was wrestling and resisting, but after some time and realising she was better behaved on the floor rather than the table, these other vets thought it felt more like a dislocated knee than a fracture and that she wasn't showing obvious signs of pain. They decided to keep her in and x-ray her. Later on that day I receive the news that the x-ray shows she has NO fracture or break to her bone as feared, but she has ruptured her cruciate ligaments and possibly damaged her meniscus too. The vet said her symptoms and behaviour even fooled her a little! She said she was in a huge amount of pain. So, with further discussion it's suggested she needs surgery and that they should keep her in overnight, ready for surgery the next day hopefully. However, come the next day I receive a call that things have taken a turn for the worse and Missy had been sick throughout the early hours of the morning and had bloody diarreah. I was fearing the worst at this stage, I really was as it just seemed like a downward spiral. The vet was to uncomfortable to put her under anaesthetic due to how ill she was feeling. So we bought her home on the advice she has strict crate rest. She was SO ill yesterday - shallow and noisy breathing, dazed, drooling, shaking violently, cold to the touch. She refused all food and continued to have bloody diarreah. She was supervised carefully throughout the day and night, given her pain meds, and by today she had perked up considerably! No more sickies, and whilst she still has some diarreah it's no longer bloody!
So, that's where we're at really. Missy still refusing most food, but looking brighter and us just waiting for a rescheduled surgery date. It's been super stressful and worrying, but fingers crossed she can make a full recovery x