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it was our photo travel to the chinese 新疆 莎車縣
on Nov 9,2012, we went to the local market to take the 維爾吾族people living, that was interesting to us
The number of local breweries is rising by the minute. Particularly for beer you really do not have to look beyond the (Dutch) border anymore. Sorry, but Heineken, as many other big brands, taste like water from a ditch. They all have a tendency to sweeten their beers.
Amsterdam now has 19 small and micro breweries. The Hague has 8 and Rotterdam 4. Breweries like "De Kompaan" in The Hague and "Kaapse Brouwers" in Rotterdam, they do not brew traditional (sweetened) beers like blondes, radler's or triples. No Sir! I repeat: NO SIR! They produce proper beers, like Indian Pale Ales, tough red ale and vicious bitters. Or beers that have aged in old whiskey, cognac and wine barrels. Non-conformist and straight from the heart. Brewed with passion. Names like Kaapse Karel, Kaapse Koos, Vrijbuiter, Bondgenoot and Kameraad speak for themselves.
Each of these beers tells you an unique story while you drink it. No mantra as Heineken will do for you. So, why wait...go to Rotterdam or The Hague and have yourself a nice cold story! And blow the froth off a coupe... Cheers!
I was out and about not long after sunrise on the recent May bank holiday weekend. As usual I was chasing the light with a view to landscapes, I was on my usual patch on the hilltops west of Huddersfield, above Meltham and Marsden. I’m still getting over foot surgery so my walking is restricted a bit and I was sat in the pickup watching the light when I noticed three hares chasing around, occasionally stopping to box. I decided to go back after breakfast with a longer lens and see if I could catch up with them again. Initially I used a 300mm 2.8 with 1.4 and 2x convertors. I had some success over the next few days with this. In the end I decided to use a large and very heavy 500mm and monopod. I tried the convertors but the quality dipped so I reverted back to just the 500mm but also using it freehand, no support. The more I use it the better I get-like most things in life I guess. I spent the rest of the short holiday weekend in the sun photographing lapwings, their chicks, curlew and hares, getting a suntan at the same time. I’ve ended up on a bit of a mission, it looks like this will be this summer’s challenge.
Within days I had seen deer, owls, heron as well as the lapwings and curlews etc. I wasn’t always able to get a decent shot as I was often driving at the time. I’m on a learning curve now and the results are getting better. I’ve learnt a lot about the birds and animals that I’m stalking and I’ve had to start and study the camera autofocus choices available and experiment with them. Fortunately the weather has been ok for a couple of weeks, which is unusual around here these days. There are hundreds of lapwings guarding their eggs and some with chicks, oystercatchers, a variety of ducks and of course grouse, seeing as these moors are shooting moors. The grouse are favoured at the expense of everything else, anything that is a threat or competition won’t be treated favourably by the shooting fraternity, they certainly don’t like scrutiny and over the years have made entry to the moors in certain parts as difficult as is legal-or perhaps that’s just the perception of some of the rest of us who watch these things from a distance.
Company A, 8th Kansas Infantry and Company K, 12th U. S. C. Infantry
JOSEPH JAGGER
Captain Joseph Jagger, of Blaine township, Ottawa county, Kansas, whose post office address is Minneapolis, and who has been prominent in local affairs since 1866, enjoys the distinction of being an Englishman who fought for the preservation of the American Union in the Civil war of 1861-5.
Captain Jagger comes of a good old English family and was born in Yorkshire, July 1820, a son of John Dowson Jagger, a cloth dresser and a man of honesty, industry, morality and enterprise, who was of local importance and influence. Mr. Jagger’s mother was Mary Bolton, also a native of Yorkshire, and she died at the age of sixty-seven years. His father was a soldier under the Duke of Wellington in the great commander’s operations against Napoleon, died at the advanced age of ninety-two years. They had two daughters and three sons. Mr. Jagger’s brother Edward died in England in 1899. His sister, Mrs. Fannie Rogers, a widow, lives in Buffalo, New York. His sister, Mrs. Saran Crossly, lives at Leavenworth, Kansas. His brother John came to the United States at the age of eighteen and settled at Alton, Illinois. The subject of this sketch was early employed in the dyeing and finishing works of dress goods, in which business he became a foreman at the age of twenty-one. He was employed at such work in England , until 1849, when he went to Belgium, being located near Brussels, where he followed his vocation. In 1854 he moved to France to follow his occupation and was located near Lille. In 1856, he returned to England; in 1857 he came to the United States on board the City of Washington, on of the steamers plying between Liverpool and New York, arriving in New York thirteen days after his embarkation. He remained for a short time with his brother-in-law in Boston and after that lived for a few months in Canada. In 1858 he went to St. Louis, Missouri, where he remained for a few weeks, then moved up the Missouri river by boat to Leavenworth, Kansas. The county was then new and in many sections of the new populous state Indians were more numerous than white men and in nearly all parts buffaloes and lesser wild animals abounded. Mr. Jagger was employed as occasion offered until the outbreak of the Civil war, when he enlisted in a Kansas company which was organized to guard the fort at Leavenworth against an anticipated attack by rebels. August 27, 1861, he enlisted in Company A, Eighth Kansas Volunteer Infantry, under Colonel John A. Martin, afterward governor of Kansas. His company commander was Captain Abernathy. He served with that regiment for nearly two years and made a good record as a soldier. He was then discharged for promotion in the Twelfth Regiment United States Colored Troops, in which he served with great credit until January 20, 1866, winning the commendation of his superiors as a brave soldier and able officer. He fought with his company in the battle of Nashville.
Captain Jagger was married during the war to Catherine Elizabeth Nall, a patriotic southern girl, who was born near Nashville, Tennessee, a daughter of William Nall, a native of that state, and a niece of two soldiers of the war of 1812. Mr. Nall, who was of English descent, married Isabelle Laughlin of Scotch-Irish descent, who was born in Indiana. He was a farmer and a man of enterprise and influence, a Republican and a member of the Baptist church. He and his wife both died in Tennessee, at the age of ninety and seventy-nine years respectively. They had children as follows: John; Linden; Joseph; Rufus; William, who died at the age of six years; James, who lives at Gainesville, Texas; Andrew Jackson; Catharine Elizabeth, who married Mr. Jagger; Mary, who became Mrs. Taylor; and Frances, who became Mrs. Brown.
In 1886, Mr. Jagger took up a homestead, to which he has added until he now owns three hundred and twenty acres. Now, at the age of eighty-one years, he is so well preserved that he appears to be fifteen years younger and his military bearing is often remarked. He has been an extensive traveler and a close observer and is a diligent reader of good literature, both English and French. His pleasant home is noted for its generous hospitality and he is honored as a pioneer, a soldier and that noblest work of God, an honest man. Mrs. Jagger, who has been to her husband a most worthy helpmate, shares with him the honors of his advancing years. They have four children, named as follows in the order of their nativity; Minnie E, who is a popular and successful teacher, well known in the educational circles of Ottawa county; and Rufus Sidney, Joseph Frederick and George Charles, the last mentioned of whom is twenty-one years of age, are members of their father’s household. Captain Jagger is a Republican, heartily in accord with the purposes and policy of his party. Josephy Frederick Jagger is a member of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows.
This morning on CBC Victoria, they announced a contest to win tickets
to Feast of the
Fields : tell them what you would cook as a local food dish. As I
thought about what I could enter in the contest to win the tickets, I
was cooking breakfast and mulling over whether to enter a recipe
using some of Tom Henry's pork or my chickens or Lorea Tomsin's lamb...
Then I realized that my breakfast is mostly local. So here it is.
Tom Henry's Metchosin bacon, peaches from a friend's backyard,
tomatoes from Metchosinite Dieter Eisenhawer, onion bread made by
Langford baker and friend, Ray Drone, my eggs: left a chicken egg and
right a guinea fowl egg and coffee from (!) Saltspring Island coffee
company with cream from Vancouver Island's Avalon Dairy! If I'd
chosen my other loaf of bread, from the Roost in Saanich, even the
wheat would have been local!!
My food is the essence of "eating local": not a special dish or a one
time meal, just about everything.
PS. I didn't win, so I guess they wanted a real recipe...;-((
we have a little shop, i would call it a curiosity shop, the owner always has weird and wonderful old things ...this wooden carved little seat caught my eye this time
Seen in my local woodland on a long and enjoyable walk with my camera this morning
#21 for 100 flowers 2024
Day 14 for April 2024: A month in 30 pictures
Eggs Benedict and Eggs Florentine from scratch: blender hollandaise and buttermilk english muffins adapted from Michael Ruhlman
With Black Mountain looming behind the single-car Wenover local trundles along the old Western Pacific near Delle, UT on February 12, 2009. The cars in the background are parked on a spur leading to the Marblehead quarry.
Karamea, West Coast of the South Island
When you haven't got a sunhat, just cut a head-hole in a sheet of cardboard! Cheers, Uwani! Like your style. :-)
Scenes from the 6th Annual BALLE Eat Local Now Celebration, the first one co-hosted by Sustainable West Seattle, in the Alki Masonic Lodge on Sunday, October 11, 2009.
Temporary snow melt flooding allowed for this reflection of the Brainerd Local zipping west to serve the mill in Brainerd for the last time. By the time I was on my way back this was nothing more than a black field.
Heimatmuseum Weener - untergebracht in dem 1791 errichteten ehemaligen Armenhaus. Die Inschrift über dem Eingang lautet:
Weener Local History Museum—housed in the former poorhouse, built in 1791. The inscription above the entrance reads:
ANNO
1791
IS DIT ARM GAST HUIS
UIT DE LIEFDE GIFTEN DER
INTERESSENTEN GEBOUWT
ONDER HET BESTIER VAN
15 DIRECTEUREN
IM JAHR
1791
WURDE DIESES ARMENHEIM
AUS DEN LIEBEVOLLEN SPENDEN DER
FÖRDERER ERRICHTET
UNTER DER LEITUNG VON
15 DIREKTOREN
IN THE YEAR
1791
THIS POOR MAN’S HOME
WAS BUILT THROUGH THE GENEROUS DONATIONS OF
THE SPONSORS
UNDER THE MANAGEMENT OF
15 DIRECTORS
Part of Her Majesty's surprise visits to 3 public schools in Jordan, Queen Rania checks on students on their second day of the school year.
Amman, Jordan/ September 15, 2010
الملكة رانيا تتفقد أحوال الطلبة وذلك في ثاني أيام بدء الدراسة للعام الجديد وذلك خلال زيارة فجائية إلى ثلاثة من مدارس المملكة الحكومية
عمان، الأردن/ 15 أيلول 2010
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