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Clear Lake is a wonderland of Grebes!
At the top of my 'bucket list' was to see a baby bird riding on it's mothers back so I booked a trip with "Eyes of the Wild" owned and operated by Faith Rigolosi who made it all happen and is also a flickr member...thank you Faith!
She gives Eyes of the Wild it's true meaning as she watched out, spotted and got the boat in position to give us our best shots while always keeping respect to her beloved grebes. This is a trip I will always remember as one of my best boating, birding experience's and can't wait to go back again!
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Good Stewards of Nature
Recently, Evan has shown an interest in photography so I've taken him out with me a few times.
Thought I'd try him out with a long exposure shot, but not sure an energetic 9 year old has the patience to stand still for a long time - he prefers wandering around looking for subjects (probably advice I should follow..)
Anyway, this is what we came up with between us, and I asked him for his input with the processing too.
Will likely revisit when the tide is a bit higher..
Listed Building Grade II
Listed Entry Number : 1164366
Date First Listed : 24 February 1986
Late 19th century animal pound which is in sandstone, and is roughly circular in plan. There is an opening on the south side.
Hamilton, Ontario Canada
The Lister Block, first built in 1886, was destroyed by fire in 1923 and the second building was erected in 1924. This classic Renaissance building is 32,000 square feet (3,000 m2) with six floors and sits on the corner of James and King William Street. It is a pivotal building in the commercial history and environment of downtown Hamilton.
When it was erected, in 1923-24, to the designs of Bernard H. Prack, architect, it demonstrated the most advanced retail marketing ideas of the time, and reflected the transition from smaller 19th Century retail establishments to the emerging 20th Century phenomenon of integrated department stores.
Its ground floor and 2nd floor L-shaped arcades, accessible from both James and King William, were remarkable innovations for their time and contributed to its success. Its key corner location, large double street frontage, six-storey height, and robust architectural design helped give it a dominant character within the James Street North urban streetscape. It originally stood in the heart of Hamilton’s civic core, directly across from City Hall (1888) and Market Square, and just south of the Federal Building (1856- 1920).
A changing retail environment of malls with free parking and the demise of downtown anchor "Eatons" brought about a huge shift of consumer spending. After thriving as a business and retail space for years, tenants eventually began to vacate. The building was closed in 1991 . The building sat empty in 1995 and was seen as a symbol of downtown decay. LiUNA bought the Lister Block back in 1999, letting it sit vacant for over a decade. In the following years, there were three failed attempts to revive the building, and after decades of vacancy, neglect, and sprawling development. a demolition permit was submitted in 2005.
In 2010, LiUNA and Hi-Rise Group began to renovate the building at the cost of $25 million, with a $7 million contribution from the province. The renovation was completed in early 2011.
I got to shoot the super handsome canoeist Matt last summer at his training ground.
Go check him out on instagram: www.instagram.com/mrmattlister/
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I took this photograph on the exit of Lodge Corner during the Guards Trophy GTSR Race at the Gold Cup meeting at Oulton Park in August 2008. It's Phil Bennett in his 1958 Lister Knobbly which has the 3,781cc version of the Jaguar XK6 engine. Brian Lister started producing sports cars in 1954 first with an MG engine and later with a Bristol engine, but he had the most success with the 1957 car which used the Jaguar D-type engine. The first version of this car was known at the time as a Lister-Jaguar, but after the 1959 car was given a smoother aerodynamic body designed by Frank Costin (and designed to use the Chevrolet Corvette powerplant) the more bulbous earlier car became known as the Lister Knobbly.
One of my neighbors many bird houses has seen better days. I don't think I've seen a bird anywhere near it in years!
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grey-headed flying fox (Pteropus poliocephalus) escaping the heat in trees on the banks of the torrens lake
the relatively-recently arrived colony in adelaide is the most south-westerly outpost of this species, which, despite its often prominent (if not notorious!) presence in the cities of the east coast, is in marked decline
the grey-headed flying fox is now listed in the IUCN red list of threatened species as 'vulnerable'
adelaide, south australia
.... Etnea avenue, On 5 February 2018, the day of the feast of the Patron Saint of Catania, the very young martyr St.Agatha ....
.... via Etnea, il 5 febbraio 2018, il giorno della festa della Santa Patrona di Catania, la giovane martire Sant'Agata ....
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Listed Building Grade: II
List Entry Number: 1283058
Date First Listed: 6 May 1976
Terrace of workers' housing and shop. c1895.
Red brick with graduated slate and composition tile roofs. 2 storeys, single window on each floor to each house; doorways paired. No.46 is a corner shop. Various doors with plain overlights; projectingsills to ground-floor windows; 1st-floor sill band on brick dentils; decorative lintels. Nos 24, 32 & 36 have original 6-panel doors and 4-pane sashes. No.46 has corner entrance flanked by shop windows with wooden pilasters and continuous dentilled cornice. Eaves corbel table; some original cast-iron, ogee guttering. Right end stack and party-wall ridge stacks. Rear: shared 2-storey utility wings with end stacks. Built on former Parade Ground as a late progression of the mid-C19 planned housing to the south-west of Duke Street.
Listed Building Grade II
List Entry Number : 1218825
Date First Listed : 15 February 1993
Originally designed in 1899 for the Manchester and County Bank by Mills and Murgatroyd in Tudor style, it was later used for other purposes. The building stands on a corner site, and is in red brick with red sandstone dressings and a slate roof. It has a rectangular plan with a canted corner, it is mainly in a single storey, and has fronts of three and five bays. On the corner is a Tudor arched doorway with an elaborately carved surround, above which is a panelled parapet and a shaped gable containing a plaque with the date.
This is a list of available options in which I will start a contest:
1. Expand the Multi Sharp universe (even though I own most of the characters), create a villain or hero who can be independent or part of a group but no more than 5 people. If the characters get my approval, then I'll put it in my stories. Characters have to be a little more realistic than usual, no boundaries on nationalities or etc.
2. Submit your version of mixing a villain with a hero, can be both from Marvel or DC, for example Bronze Tiger + Superman, Nova + Doctor Doom, or even Lex Luthor + Nightwing.
3. Cyberpunk/dystopia and fantasy combined, could be a set build or just plain figs. Can be with stories.
4. Mou lei tau, which is Cantonese for something nonsensical, ridiculous and makes completely no sense. It is often comical and involves slapstick humour. Write a story that could involve yourself or make up your own. For preparation, watch Stephen Chow's movies as a good source.
5. A sig-fig representing your future, e.g. where would you be and what's your job going to be like etc.
Vote for one only in the comments!!!
just experimenting a bit in the bright winter sun shining into our house. the dry flower may be a Carline thistle (Silberdistel), and the book you have to guess... (an all time favourite childrens book)
-Added to the Cream of the Crop pool as my most favourited photo
My original intent for this day was to chase 23M west with the NS 1069 (Virginian HU) on the point. However, by the time I had gotten to Harrisburg, 23M was already half an hour ahead of me. Upset and just looking to kill an hour or so, I decided to head a little further west to Port Royal.
In the back of my mind I knew that the 62V had 8102 leading, but wasn't expecting it to show. Last week I had gotten burned waiting for 62V to come east because it had gotten held up in Altoona due to track work around Antis. After about 20 minutes of waiting, I heard clear as day on the scanner, "62V Clear Mifflin". I couldn't believe it. And now I can proudly say that I can check this shot off my photography bucket list!
The Grade II* Listed Old Defensible Barracks, Pembroke Dock, Pembrokeshire.
A Victorian-era 20-sided stone fort surrounded by a dry moat with masonry walls. A parade ground occupies the centre of the fort. It was built in the mid-1840s to house the Royal Marines based in Pembroke Dockyard and to protect the dockyard.
The barracks were built in 1841–46 to house the dockyard's garrison of Royal Marines and to cover the landward side of the dockyard from an infantry assault. It was probably the last trace bastion fort built in Europe. Prior to the Defensible Barracks' construction, the Royal Marines were housed in the hulked 74-gun ship, HMS Dragon, that had been deliberately run aground in 1832.
The barracks is in the form of a square bastion trace with four two-storey, barracks ranges surrounding the central parade ground. "The enclosed yard remains notable for being the finest Georgian-style square in Wales". A fortified gatehouse is in the middle of the north wall. The moat is about 16 feet (4.9 m) deep and 42 feet (12.8 m) wide and is crossed by a fixed modern steel bridge that replaced the original wooden sliding drawbridge that leads to the gatehouse.
The scarp or inner wall of the moat rises above the height of the platform to serve as a parapet with musketry loopholes, except at the salient angles of the bastions to allow the guns mounted on the bastions' platform to fire over the parapet. All but the southwestern bastion still has some gun mountings remaining. The external walls of the gatehouse and the barracks ranges are also loopholed, although some of these have been fitted with sash windows.
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.... Etnea avenue, On 5 February 2018, the day of the feast of the Patron Saint of Catania, the very young martyr St.Agatha ....
.... via Etnea, il 5 febbraio 2018, il giorno della festa della Santa Patrona di Catania, la giovane martire Sant'Agata ....
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The decommissioned Staten Island ferry Gov. Herbert H. Lehman sits partially sunken on the shores of the Hudson River in Newburgh, NY. She took on water during the first part of March for unknown reasons.
The elegant village of Semur, listed as Un des plus beaux villages de France (“One of the Most Beautiful Villages in France”), although I am not at all sure it deserves the title when compared to truly stunning villages such as Èze, Pérouges or Collonges-la-Rouge, is the capital of the small barony of Brionnais, at the extreme southwestern tip of the old duchy of Burgundy.
The Semur family of local barons would have gone basically unnoticed through History, had it not been for Hugues, born in 1024, who went on to become probably the most famous abbot of Cluny, having succeeded Odilon de Mercœur from 1049 until 1109. Builder of the so-called “Cluny III” abbey church, the largest ever in Christendom, he considerably expanded the Order of Cluny (which was part of the Benedictines) all over Europe during his 60-year abbacy.
One of the most powerful people (and one of the most learned minds) of his time, later canonized by the Church as saint Hugues (Hugh in English), he sent architects and builders from Cluny to his native small town of Semur-en-Brionnais to build this church dedicated to Saint Hilaire (Hillary in English). Hugues himself never saw the church being built, as its oldest parts (traditionally, the apse and apsidioles, the choir and transept, and the beginning of the nave) were erected during the years 1115-1130, but then construction was interrupted and did not resume until around 1170. The portals were finished and decorated during the 1180s, towards the end of the Romanesque age, at a point when many consider the Romanesque art was already “perverted” by mannerisms announcing the age of the Gothic.
Saint-Hilaire was turned into a college church in 1274 when Baron Jean de Semur and the bishop of Autun jointly incorporated a college of 13 canons to take care of the Opus Dei in the church. Damaged during the Hundred Years War (1364), and yet again during the Wars of Religion (1576), the church was listed as a Historic Landmark in 1862 and the stone vaulting which had been destroyed and replaced temporarily by a timber roof, was rebuilt.
Being the last Romanesque church ever built in the Brionnais, Saint-Hilaire skillfully incorporates tradition from the local art, and inputs from the most noble and powerful house of Cluny, which was then undoubtedly the dominant power in Western Christendom, above and beyond the Pope —in practice, if not in principle.
The other (northern) side of the western portal shows an architectural and decorative layout that is exactly symmetrical to that of the southern side.