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This photo is from the stern, on the promenade deck, of a cruise ship. I was the only on there taking photos. The bars in the ship were packed and passengers were already buying thousands of dollars of jewelry. Cruise ships are a different world.
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Early morning departure for this Vancouver yachtsman, with the fog still clinging to the trees and skeletal harbour structures.
"Next time a sunrise steals your breath or a meadow of flowers leave you speechless, remain that way. Say nothing, and listen as Heaven whispers, do you like it? I did it just for you." - Max Lucado
The Henry Mountains and the surrounding deserts are located in south-central Utah, just north of Lake Powell. Almost 2 million acres of public land are administered by the Bureau of Land Management in the area.
The Henry Mountains run in a generally north-south direction, extending over a distance of about 30 miles. They were named by Almon Thompson in honor of Joseph Henry, the first secretary of the Smithsonian Institution
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The colourful coats caught my eye as we were leaving Upton House last week on one of the foggy days we’ve had recently.
Happy New Year!
HTMT 😊
Clifton, Arizona, USA. Once a booming copper mining town but now mostly declining or already in decay and the majority of people and business have moved just up the road to Morenci. The Freeport McMoRan copper mine located in Morenci is one of the largest in the world
Cliff dwellings along the San Francisco and Gila Rivers are evidence of an advanced civilization that existed long before Caesar ruled Rome. Many specimens of pottery and stone implements are still to be found in these ancient dwelling places. In the mid-1500s, both Fray Marcos de Niza and Francisco Vasquez de Coronado passed through the area, following the San Pedro north to the Gila River. Geronimo was born in 1829 near the confluence of Eagle Creek and the San Francisco and Gila Rivers.
In 1856 the first mineral discoveries of the Morenci/Clifton area were found by California volunteers pursuing Apaches, and conflicts between the Apaches and advancing Anglo settlers touched off a 26-year-long war. Mining for gold and silver began in 1864, followed by copper in 1872, and the mine at Morenci quickly grew to become the largest copper producer in North America. Clifton's population ballooned from 600 in 1880 to 5000 by 1910, and it quickly earned its reputation as the wildest of the "Wild West" boomtowns. Neighboring Morenci was swallowed up by an open pit mine in the 1960s, but Clifton was preserved, and today Chase Creek Street is still graced with lovely Victorian-era buildings from the town's halcyon days as the place to quickly make and lose a fortune.
In 1983, Clifton survived two nearly fatal blows, first a nearly three-year-long strike that began on June 30, 1983. Then later that same year, on October 2, 1983, Tropical Storm Octave sent 90,900 cubic feet of water per second into the San Francisco River, which burst its banks, destroying 700 homes and heavily damaging 86 of the town's 126 businesses.
I was hoping to get a picture of this osprey leaving the Chesapeake Bay with a big striped bass. Instead I got a picture of failure. This might have been a young and inexperienced osprey as it aborted several other attempts before hitting the water. It was still fun to watch and photograph.
Landschaftspark Duisburg-Nord --Importance of memory--
Landschaftspark is a public park located in Duisburg-Meiderich, Germany. It was designed in 1991 by Latz + Partner (Peter Latz), with the intention that it work to heal and understand the industrial past, rather than trying to reject it. The park closely associates itself with the past use of the site: a coal and steel production plant (abandoned in 1985, leaving the area significantly polluted) and the agricultural land it had been prior to the mid 19th century
Conception and creation
In 1991, a co-operative-concurrent planning procedure with five international planning teams was held to design the park. Peter Latz’s design was significant, as it attempted to preserve as much of the existing site as possible. Unlike his competitors, Latz recognized the value of the site’s current condition. He allowed the polluted soils to remain in place and be remediated through phytoremediation, and sequestered soils with high toxicity in the existing bunkers. He also found new uses for many of the old structures, and turned the former sewage canal into a method of cleansing the site.
Design
The park is divided into different areas, whose borders were carefully developed by looking at existing conditions (such as how the site had been divided by existing roads and railways, what types of plants had begun to grow in each area, etc.). This piecemeal pattern was then woven together by a series of walkways and waterways, which were placed according to the old railway and sewer systems. While each piece retains its character, it also creates a dialogue with the site surrounding it. Within the main complex, Latz emphasized specific programmatic elements: the concrete bunkers create a space for a series of intimate gardens, old gas tanks have become pools for scuba divers, concrete walls are used by rock climbers, and one of the most central places of the factory, the middle of the former steel mill, has been made into piazza. Each of these spaces uses elements to allow for a specific reading of time.
The site was designed with the idea that a grandfather, who might have worked at the plant, could walk with his grandchildren, explaining what he used to do and what the machinery had been used for. At Landschaftspark, memory was central to the design. Various authors have addressed the ways in which memory can inform the visitor of a site, a concept that became prevalent during Postmodernism.
Source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Landschaftspark_Duisburg-Nord
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A westbound BNSF grain train throttles up on a clear out of Helena with a “fakebonnet” C44-9W leading.
Dusk was setting in as we sailed under the bridge leaving Busan , Korea. The bridge and the abutments were all lit up. And as we sailed through under it , the lights changed color going from green to purple to yellow and to pink. Phenomenal scene to remember.
455910 is seen leading the 2U30 1101 Windsor & Eton Riverside - London Waterloo shortly after leaving Putney. Nearest bridge in the background is the District line to Wimbledon 24/4/22.
8-19-15 MS Veendam Traveling on the Fjord heading back to the sea after docking at Akureyri Iceland.
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a parting shot from brownie to end the ferry series.
thank you all so much for your incredible support and encouragement through this series, i can't tell you how much i appreciate it!
hey all!!!! sorry for my absence for the last few weeks....my hard drive crashed and it's been a crappy time...I haven't left......I'm back!!!
Sade - By Your Side
youtu.be/C8QJmI_V3j4?si=IYlo_hCHSTABQUbP
Lyrics:
You think I’d leave your side baby
You know me better than that
You think I’d leave you down when you’re down on your knees
I wouldn’t do that
I’ll tell you you’re right when you want
And if only you could see into me
Oh when you’re cold
I’ll be there
Hold you tight to me
When you’re on the outside baby and you can’t get in
I will show you you’re so much better than you know
When you’re lost and you’re alone and you cant get back again
I will find you darling and I will bring you home
And if you want to cry
I am here to dry your eyes
And in no time
You’ll be fine
You think I’d leave your side baby
You know me better than that
You think I’d leave you down when you’re down on your knees
I wouldn’t do that
I’ll tell you you’re right when you want
And if only you could see into me
Oh when you’re cold
I’ll be there
Hold you tight to me
Oh when you’re low
I’ll be there
By your side baby
Oh when you’re cold
I’ll be there
Hold you tight to me
Oh when you’re low
I’ll be there
By your side baby
We are leaving tomorrow morning and will be back on the 22nd May 2017. Our intention is to travel to Mapungubwe National Park and the northern part of the Kruger National Park. Cell phone and Internet connections will be a problem.
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A scene from the economic shift:
The news was not unexpected, Ford Motor was offering over a year's pay to any employee who'd agree to pack up and leave. Still, the decision of whether to stay or go required some thought. It was not any easy decision. So he talked it over with his wife- she was ready for them to take the money and run- and he talked to his family. His folks, having been raised in the Depression and War years expressed caution- maybe it is best to stay, they said. In the end he decided to leave.
One item that tipped the scale to leaving was this long sense that he was never cut out for production work. As a kid and young man he always seemed to work at a slower pace as if his own internal clock was set two ticks behind everyone else. Perhaps this was due to the artist deep in side of him, always struggling to get out. Now he had the means to capitalize on his dream of building things. At first work and money flowed in, there was zero second guessing his decision. Then as the wheels of the economy came completely off the work dried up. Soon the money dried up, too.
Work in Michigan became scarce even for the new skills he acquired. The idea of the $30 per hour semi- skilled laborer already seemed like something from another era. So just like his ancestors did over 100 years ago, he looked west. Figuring he could pack up his belongings and take his new skill to places where folks could still afford to pay him. In some ways this felt like a fun adventure and a terrific opportunity. New is good is what he kept telling himself. And he believed it until that moment the last piece of furniture was loaded on the truck and he turned the ignition. At that very moment he realized he was leaving and may never return home. He spent his entire 40 years in Michigan. It is all he ever knew as home. He wept.
Spring - easter bunnies are scratching with their hoofs - time to leave the winter and white forest with a bright one
Great Blue Heron taking off at dusk on Wilde Lake. There were four Great Blue Herons at one end of the lake... three seemed to be protecting the fourth...the fourth heron's bill was pierced by a fish hook and trailing debris. If you are a fisherman--do not leave your hooks, lines, bobbers and other potential hazards hung up in trees and on the shore. Too many birds and other creatures are maimed by your total disregard for the environment where you are or are not allowed to fish.
Chicago Northwestern passengers ride north out of the Milwaukee station past the tony east side in this lovely photo from (I presume) the early 60s. The origin of this photo is unknown to me.
66509 heads out of March past one of the few semaphore signals remaining to the south end of the station on a Felixstowe bound liner.