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Also known as Lawyer's Wig
Very common, edible when young, this specimen is overmature and dissolving.
Hyde Lea Staffordshire UK 6th October 2013
This is Craig Walton. He works for the city with the water systems and other public duties. On his free time, he spends his time as a volunteer coach and supporting all the sports his son attends involving football, wrestling, and baseball. I chose Craig as my local stranger because from all his hard work helping the city and supporting Kodiak's sports, his outstanding involvement should not go unnoticed.
Holland Park Avenue, Kensington, London | September 2007 >>> imperial pint
Struck up a lengthy and animated chat with this guy -- wish I remembered his name! -- as both of us enjoyed several too many pints of stout at a neighborhood pub in Kensington, west London. He worked for the city's electric company and was ranting on and on about his wife and job, the government and life in Great Britain. It is locals like him that make travel the wanderlust that it is to me. Cheers to him, three years later!
Local calls were only .25 at the VFW on this retro pay phone.I wish I had grabbed the receiver and listened for a tone,but I didn't have a quarter!
A local Sicilian man. Amazing how many of the older men are very happy to have their photographs taken. They don't pose, they just look natural. I really liked the descriptive expression on his face.
In the muslim area of Ladakh, Near the border of Pakistan, and not too far from Kashmir.
Photo by Shai Dolinsky.
Detail of the north nave window at Burton Hastings, installed in 2001 and designed by local artist Roger Fifield.
Fifiled's work makes a very attractive contemporary adition to this ancient building, and is beautifully painted and stylised, echoing his earliest work from the 1960s, without looking backwards.
The subject appears to be a celebration of village life, with various landmark buildings and elements of the village featured without any obvious religious theme (beyond the small dove in the tracery light above).
This formula for stained glass seems to be popular with certain congregations, who prefer to commemorate 'down-to-earth' subjects of mainly local, secular relevance, than convey a spiritual message. The artist is then given a 'shopping list' of relevant features to include in the design at all cost!
Scania Wright Urban Eclipse UEZ2404, Ulsterbus fleet number 404 at Rushmere Bus Stance, Craigavon on a local service to Lurgan, 31st July, 2010.
Steam traction engine used to drive machinery in a 1930s logging camp at Lowden Forest Park, near Captain's Flat. Taken in 2018.
Wild Alaskan sockeye.
Corn from Yakima.
Fennel. Red onions. Potatoes left over from hash.
Danny whipped this up after we returned home, before Lu woke up from her nap.
I know that I'm spoiled.
The Keenan Local is gingerly picking its way through the wye track at Nugget headed for the Hinsdale Spur and Mesabi Nugget.
Jan 14, 2011
Of sorts... Spotted local restauranteur Marco Abdi lining up at Chef Mario's burger place in Bridgeland... Just knew I'd get a reaction... LOL Marco himself has owned a well known Italian restaurant a couple of blocks away for many years...
Austintown Local Schools 16 - 1997 Blue Bird TC/2000 FE; Bus Yard - Austintown, Ohio. Bought used in 2011 from Indiana. Bought from Cardinal Bus Sales. Currently the bus is used for the career center route. Replaced a 1991 Carpenter Ford.
A quick look around Palmers Rough Local Nature Reserve in Shirley, Solihull. It's not that a big an area.
Got on at Jacey Road and walked over to Northbrook Road, then up Olton Road.
I followed a dry path before that ended. And headed into the woods where I found the paths to be a bit muddy!
Palmers Rough is a Local Nature Reserve and Park located in Shirley, Solihull. It covers an area of approximately 7.3 hectares (18 acres) and consists of two separate woodland blocks; Palmers Coppice to the east, and Squires Coppice to the west. They are separated by open grassland and include for two football pitches and a small children's playground. A wide range of plants and animals makes Palmers Rough an important urban space and was therefore granted Local Nature Reserve status in 2000. The presence of Palmers Rough is noted within the Domesday Book, and suggests that the woodland dates back over 900 years.
Palmers Coppice - the footpaths here were just too muddy! This way to Northbrook Road.
a rim-lit semi silhouette close up of 14xx 0-4-2 1420 near arley on the severn valley railway----best seen large
Clearly unimpressed with my skill sets a local donkey cart driver offered to give me a lift 3000 km to Victoria Falls!
These are two bowls found in the Philippines and brought to the anthropology museum here on campus. They are beautifully crafted hand-made stoneware bowls most likely used for eating, or possibly decoration. They have a well-maintained glaze and seem to be of a line of similar mass produced bowls. They are akin to a collection of stoneware shown to my discussion section during a behind-the-scenes tour of the anthropology museum located on central campus. Although the items shown to us were found in the Philippines, they were determined to have been made in China. This immediately reminded me about the discussions we've been having concerning the concept of 'home' and 'Asian'. Even thought objects like these were made in China, they were very commonly found in places such as the Philippines, or otherwise non-Chinese places. I wonder if the people who owned these objects considered them to be Chinese or to be of their own culture? Thinking of these past peoples brings me to thinking about my own ideas of origin, and I find a similar mystery.
I look around at the items in my household, which I generally consider to be normal American household items. However I find that the television is produced by a company with a Japanese name, 'Toshiba'. I also find that many of my clothes were made in foreign countries, as well as our dishes, my keyboard and the lamp that lights my room. Even so, all of things items convey a distinct feeling of 'home', a home which lies within the geographical confines and social ideals of an American way of life. I don't look around me and think that I am living among and using foreign objects. It doesn't matter to me that they were made somewhere else. What is important is the fact that I have used these kinds of items since before I can remember. They are part of my life, that life which is not Asian or foreign, but my own. But these feelings are not extended to all the objects I posses. I look around me and see that I consider many of the objects in my room to be of foreign nature. For example, the Sumi-e supplies, used to create traditional Japanese art, or the two tea cups out of which I drink hot chocolate almost every other day. These objects are indeed part of my life, I make a Sumi-e painting more often than I watch television, and my two tea cups are the two most washed dishes by my hands. Even so, I retain the thought that they are of some foreign origin. Why is this?
I can think of no good answer, but I stretch to come up with an explanation. Perhaps our ideas of what is foreign and what is local come not from our understanding of the origins of an object, but rather from the objects prevalence in surrounding society and frequency in our up bringing. What I consider at first glance to be an object of foreign origin seems to have nothing to do with the object's actual geographical origins, but rather how prevalent this object is in the homes of my peers. If most everyone around me uses an object in their daily life, it becomes part of my surrounding culture, and therefore is of local origin in my mind. Or if the object is not found very often in the home of my peers, it only matters whether or not I remember the first time that this type of object was introduced into my home. If I cannot remember, it seems to me that I consider it to originate in my own culture, as I have never known any difference.
Perhaps the people of the Philippines held a similar notion of local and foreign. I would imagine that, were the types of stoneware found in the Philippines used in most homes of the time, the people in the area would have considered these objects to be of Philippine origin, rather than foreign. This would especially be the case if these objects were possessed over several generations, as those that grew up never remembering the purchase of such objects would find the stoneware to be an integral part of their up bringing, and therefore their life as a whole.