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Lisbon, Portugal
Laying the mosaic pavement requires backbreaking labor. It's an arduous job performed in a prostrate position, making this traditional art of calçeteiros both rare and expensive. When wet, the surfaces of "calçadas" tend to be slippery and can contribute to slips and falls. Also, the moisture breaks down the design requiring frequent maintenance. For this reason, today’s government is considering a way of creating a safer pavement for the pedestrian while at the same time maintaining the unique beauty of this art form as an important part of the nation's identity and heritage.
Apparently, I am easily amused spending countless hours thinking about lights and motion My mornings are spent blowing bubbles, waving my arms and lights around in the dark, and hoping for magic. I've mentioned that I am not one that feels like sitting and meditating does anything for me but the act of creating my photos puts me in a flow state. It is one of the times I can maintain mental focus for a prolonged period of time. What activities help you?
Life is a series of peaks and valleys. We each learn to navigate our own way through the twists and turns of its often unforgiving territory. The challenge is maintaining one's footing on the peak while the valleys nip at our heels.
(Created from a damp, mildewy wall in Vancouver.)
ferryman, maintaining dental hygiene
awaiting a ride to cross the BURIGANGA river.
Bangladesh is flat country with so many rivers.
Larger ferries are the the only ways to get certain places.
Many go down when they load hundreds on them.
But no one makes big deals about tornadoes,
hurricanes,cyclones or typhoons in Bangladesh when tens of thousands of people die.
Here in the USA if it rains 1/4" it becomes a headline news item.
SADARGHAT
DHAKA
Photography’s new conscience
Witton Lakes a park with a pair of former drinking water reservoirs in Witton Lakes Park, Erdington, Birmingham, West Midlands.
Two brooks, arising at Kingstanding and Bleak Hill, Erdington, respectively, feed first Witton Lakes, then overspill into Brookvale Park Lake, before reaching the River Tame.
While the brooks are natural; the lakes were created at the end of the 19th century to supply drinking water for Birmingham. They were then in the countryside, and the water relatively clean. Industrialisation and urban sprawl led to the water no longer being fit for drinking, so the city turned to the Elan Valley in Wales for a supply.
The lakes are now maintained as a leisure amenity by Birmingham City Council. One is used for model boating and the other nature conservation. The north Birmingham cycle route runs through the park.
All governments of the world should be reasonable
and terminate the corona restrictions immediately,
to maintain or restore peace!
Tous les gouvernements du monde devraient être raisonnables
et mettre fin immédiatement aux restrictions de la couronne,
pour maintenir ou rétablir la paix !
Alle Regierungen der Welt sollten vernünftig sein
und die Corona-Restriktionen sofort beenden,
um den Frieden zu wahren bzw. wieder herzustellen!
Todos los gobiernos del mundo deberían ser razonables
y terminar con las restricciones de la corona inmediatamente,
para mantener o restaurar la paz!
Tutti i governi del mondo dovrebbero essere ragionevoli
e porre immediatamente fine alle restrizioni sulla corona,
per mantenere o ripristinare la pace!
Todos os governos do mundo devem ser razoáveis
e acabar imediatamente com as restrições corona,
para manter ou restaurar a paz!
Wszystkie rządy świata powinny być rozsądne
i natychmiast zakończyć ograniczenia koronne,
aby utrzymać lub przywrócić pokój!
[8. Oktober 2020]
How desperately we wish to maintain our trust in those we love! In the face of everything, we try to find reasons to trust. Because losing faith is worse than falling out of love.
~ Sonia Johnson
Have a Great Weekend Everyone!
Falcon Hospital in Souq Waqif, Doha.
In Qatar, the state sponsors a full-fledged hospital for falcons – more than 40 thousand birds pass through it every year. They do everything there – from treating fractures (often caused by a falcon crashing into something at high speed) to prosthetics for broken feathers (necessary to maintain aerodynamic properties) and cosmetic procedures such as sharpening beaks and claws.
these days it's 10% cleaning surfaces i haven't touched for 4 months, 10% throwing out precious valuables i didn't know i owned, 10% pretending to exercise, 20% playing fetch with the dog (not this one), and 50% waiting for the next meal. cheers.
The historic and beautifully maintained revival-style mansion was built in 1851 and occupies 29+ acres. There are 24 rooms including 7 guest bedrooms, 8 full bathrooms and private living quarters on the 3rd floor. Comes with a fully furnished gourmet kitchen. Banquet facility can accomodate up to 200. An octagon banquet hall provides additional opportunities for the owner and adds to the splendor of the structure. There is a cottage with 3 private bedrooms as well as 3 additional structures. The inn is situated in the charming Gaslight Village of Wyoming, NY which features quaint shops and the Appleumpkin Fall Harvest Festival. Letchworth State Park (the “Grand Canyon of the East”) is just a stone’s throw away, where there are many activities such as hiking, hot air ballooning, museums, historical sites and much more! Rochester, Buffalo and Niagara Falls all within about an hour’s drive from this location, giving the new owner access to approximately 2 million people in a 60 mile radius. An hour’s drive (or less) from these cities brings you back to the restful elegance of the Hillside Inn.
Historic Hillside Inn mansion built in 1851. Formerly both a spa in the 1850?s, to private residence, to Bed & Breakfast. Twenty four fully furnished rooms (7 which are guest rooms) with 8 full bathrooms, 13 fireplaces, private living quarters on the 3rd floor of the main house are loaded to the rafters with history and charm. An octagon banquet hall as well as 3 additional structures add to the grandeur of this 29+ acre estate. Could be used for a private estate or Commercial. Visited by Susan B Anthony, The Roosevelt's, and many other historic figures. Mineral water stream on the premises with natural granite. This site is truly picturesque with beautiful surroundings and loaded with history.
The castle and garden at Sissinghurst Castle in the Weald of Kent, in England at Sissinghurst village, is owned and maintained by the National Trust. It is among the most famous gardens in England and is grade I listed.
Sissinghurst's garden was created in the 1930s by Vita Sackville-West, poet and gardening writer, and her husband Harold Nicolson, author and diplomat. Sackville-West was a writer on the fringes of the Bloomsbury Group who found her greatest popularity in the weekly columns she contributed as gardening correspondent of The Observer, which incidentally—for she never touted it—made her own garden famous. The garden itself is designed as a series of 'rooms', each with a different character of colour and/or theme, the walls being high clipped hedges and many pink brick walls. The rooms and 'doors' are so arranged that, as one enjoys the beauty in a given room, one suddenly discovers a new vista into another part of the garden, making a walk a series of discoveries that keeps leading one into yet another area of the garden. Nicolson spent his efforts coming up with interesting new interconnections, while Sackville-West focused on making the flowers in the interior of each room exciting.
For Sackville-West, Sissinghurst and its garden rooms came to be a poignant and romantic substitute for Knole, reputedly the largest house in Britain, which as the only child of Lionel, the 3rd Lord Sackville she would have inherited had she been a male, but which had passed to her cousin as the male heir.
The site is ancient; "hurst" is the Saxon term for an enclosed wood. A manor house with a three-armed moat was built here in the Middle Ages. In 1305, King Edward I spent a night here. It was long thought that in 1490 Thomas Baker, a man from Cranbrook, purchased Sissinghurst, although there is no evidence for it. What is certain is that the house was given a new brick gatehouse in the 1530s by Sir John Baker, one of Henry VIII's Privy Councillors, and greatly enlarged in the 1560s by his son Sir Richard Baker, when it became the centre of a 700-acre (2.8 km2) deer park. In August 1573 Queen Elizabeth I spent three nights at Sissinghurst.
After the collapse of the Baker family in the late 17th century, the building had many uses: as a prisoner-of-war camp during the Seven Years' War; as the workhouse for the Cranbrook Union; after which it became homes for farm labourers.
Sackville-West and Nicolson found Sissinghurst in 1930 after concern that their property Long Barn, near Sevenoaks, Kent, was close to development over which they had no control. Although Sissinghurst was derelict, they purchased the ruins and the farm around it and began constructing the garden we know today. The layout by Nicolson and planting by Sackville-West were both strongly influenced by the gardens of Gertrude Jekyll and Edwin Lutyens; by the earlier Cothay Manor in Somerset, laid out by Nicolson's friend Reginald Cooper, and described by one garden writer as the "Sissinghurst of the West Country"; and by Hidcote Manor Garden, designed and owned by Lawrence Johnston, which Sackville-West helped to preserve. Sissinghurst was first opened to the public in 1938.
The National Trust took over the whole of Sissinghurst, its garden, farm and buildings, in 1967. The garden epitomises the English garden of the mid-20th century. It is now very popular and can be crowded in peak holiday periods. In 2009, BBC Four broadcast an eight-part television documentary series called Sissinghurst, describing the house and garden and the attempts by Adam Nicolson and his wife Sarah Raven, who are 'Resident Donors', to restore a form of traditional Wealden agriculture to the Castle Farm. Their plan is to use the land to grow ingredients for lunches in the Sissinghurst restaurant. A fuller version of the story can be found in Nicolson's book, Sissinghurst: An Unfinished History (2008).
For further information please visit en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sissinghurst_Castle_Garden and www.nationaltrust.org.uk/sissinghurst-castle-garden
Popped down to the reserve before heading back to York. We saw a guy standing in a field and I realised why when this Owl popped up.
This image was cropped in a bit, levels and curves to darken the background whilst maintaining the exposure on the Owl. I also added a bit of a vignette as well. I don't think this is all that sharp, thoughts?
I hope that you like this and all comments and criticisms are welcome.
Matt
Painterly effect from Topaz Studio 2, a program that I wish was still being developed and maintained.
Snowdon this is a must for any photographer, the Maine's Track isn't that hard to do the path is well maintained and 10 feet wide , the Llyn Llydaw, this was taken at 8:30pm, the Half moon, still too bright to get a good stars effect in the sky.....Thanks a lot for your comments, faves, invites, etc. Very much appreciated!
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Tempio di Bulguksa.
Lo stagno, si incontra prima di accedere al tempio, circondato da una splendida vegetazione ben studiata e ben curata.
Bulguksa Temple.
The pond is encountered before entering the temple, surrounded by splendid, well-studied and well-maintained vegetation.
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New Brighton Lighthouse (also known as Perch Rock Lighthouse / Black Rock Lighthouse) is a decommissioned lighthouse situated at the Mersey estuary on a rock outcrop off New Brighton known as Perch Rock. Together with its neighbour, the Napoleonic era Fort Perch Rock, it is one of the Wirral's best known landmarks.
Click here for more photographs of Perch Rock Lighthouse: www.jhluxton.com/Lighthouses/Mersey-Docks-and-Harbour-Boa...
The name Perch Rock comes from a Perch; a timber tripod supporting a lantern first erected in 1683 as a crude beacon to allow shipping to pass the rock safely.
As the Port of Liverpool developed in the Nineteenth Century the perch was deemed inadequate as it required constant maintenance and only produced a limited light.
Construction of the present tower began in 1827 by Tomkinson & Company using blocks of interlocking Anglesey granite using dovetail joints and marble dowels. The design uses many of the same construction techniques used in the building of John Smeaton's Eddystone Lighthouse 70 years earlier.
Modelled on the trunk of an oak tree, it is a free standing white painted tower with a red iron lantern. It is 29 m (95 ft) tall. It was first lit in 1830 and displayed two white flashes followed by a red flash every minute; the light-source was thirty Argand lamps, mounted on a three-sided revolving array (ten lamps on each side, with red glass mounted in front of one side).] There were also three bells mounted under the gallery to serve as a fog signal; the bells were rung by the same clockwork mechanism that caused the lamps to revolve.
The lighthouse, which was always operated by the Mersey Docks and Harbour Board (Not Trinity House – the lighthouse authority for England and Wales) was in continuous use until decommissioned in October 1973 having been superseded by modern navigational technology.
Although the lighting apparatus and fog bell have been removed, the lighthouse is very well preserved and retains many features lost on other disused lighthouses.
It was restored and repainted in 2001 when an LED light source was installed which flashed the names of those lost at sea; including all the 1,517 victims of the sinking of the Titanic.
At low tide, it is possible to walk to the base of the tower, but a 25-foot ladder is needed to reach the doorway. The lighthouse is privately owned and maintained by the Kingham family, and is a Grade II* listed building.
Another plan to illuminate the lantern using LEDs and solar panels was achieved with a grant from the Coastal Revival and New Brighton Coastal Community Team (NBCCT) and has been operating (albeit only to be seen from land) since 2015.
The morning sun has just topped the horizon, as Wisconsin & Southern's L597 (left) and L599 (right) anticipate the morning warmth and leave the frosty ground behind.
WSOR L597
WAMX 3872 (maintaining air)
WSOR L599
WAMX 4185, HLCX 6313
Horicon, WI.
Spring 2018
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Giant otters are mainly aquatic, but they frequently come ashore for intriguing behaviors such as rolling in sand, often in areas where they have previously urinated. This behavior is believed to serve multiple purposes, including scent-marking their territory and potentially maintaining coat health by reducing parasites. They dig dens into riverbanks for shelter, raising young, and staying safe from predators like jaguars and caimans. These unique behaviors make them truly fascinating, but sadly, they face threats from habitat destruction and poaching.
Unfortunately, the old cemetery from the former Dixon State School is not being maintained again. About 10 years back,the lack of care and maintenance was brought to the city and the problem was corrected...temporarily it seems. Now these unfortunate souls are being disrespected again...
Dixon State School was a state run mental institution. It was told mentally and physically challenged people were routinely dropped off there. It had a popular nursing school for many years. It closed in the late '70s,early '80s as private care and more focused rehab facilities became the go to. It is said this sad cemetery contains as many as 1000 unmarked graves....
Piper Cub in original bright yellow color, this one has been updated to a radio and transponder, clean and well maintained, found in North Carolina.
After pulling out of their well-maintained engine house, the engineer does a walk around inspection of his office for the day - a rebuilt RS3 that contains an EMD prime mover.
In 1972 Penn Central began a rebuild program for ALCo RS3s in which EMD V12-567 power-plants were used to replace the Schenectady-built 244 engine. The replacement engines came from recently retired E-Units. Work was performed in shops at Altoona (Juniata Shops) and Syracuse, NY (DeWitt Shops) and Con Rail continued the program until the year 1979. Ultimately 97 units were completed by Juniata, DeWitt and later the Wilmington (Delaware) Shop. Regardless of which shop produced them, the group was collectively known as "DeWitt Geeps."
A recent trip with friends Stan Short and Jack Bruce took us to the DelMarVa Peninsula in search of the Maryland & Delaware RR's trio of rebuilds that were performed at the Juniata Shop. We saw two operating, 1201 and 1203, with the 1202 sidelined at the shop at Massey, MD awaiting a part that will hopefully allow its return to service.
Front View
1911 Baker Electric Special Extension Coupe, Model V
In the first decades of the 20th century, electric vehicles seemed poised for primacy. Early internal-combustion engines were rudimentary, dangerous, and difficult to operate, requiring all sorts of pump priming and starter torqueing. Those tasks were uncouth for the wealthy gentlemen who were the automobile’s first customers and downright risky for the era’s women, clothed in voluminous, billowing Edwardian dresses and patriarchal notions of competence. Electric cars, on the other hand, were extremely simple to use. So long as the heavy batteries were maintained and charged, all one had to do was click the on switch, twist the go lever, and roll.
Having founded the American Ball Bearing Company in 1895, Midwestern engineer Walter C. Baker understood the basics of carriage production. This background gave him faith that he could make the leap into car building. Teaming up with his father-in-law and brother-in-law, he started the Baker Motor Vehicle Company in Cleveland in 1899. Seeing the aforementioned advantages inherent in electric vehicles, Baker decided to place his faith in this powertrain.
“Number one, it’s comfortable, and it’s not terribly difficult to drive,” said Stew Somerville, a volunteer mechanic at the Old Rhinebeck Aerodrome museum in upstate New York, which holds a 1911 Baker in its eclectic collection. “But part of the attraction of the electric automobile was the fact that it did not emit gasoline fumes, you didn’t have to crank-start the engine, there was no big wheel to wrestle with. It was a very smooth-handling automobile. You didn’t even have a loud, offensive horn. There’s a dainty little bell to warn of its coming.” Period ads were frequently, although not exclusively, pitched directly at women.
Baker’s first car to market was a two-seater, the Imperial Runabout. Priced at a competitive $850, it was first shown in New York at the city’s (and nation’s) first auto show. It attracted a number of notable buyers, including Thomas Edison, who purchased one as his very first car. (Edison designed the long-lived nickel-iron batteries used in some Baker vehicles.) By 1906, Baker was, briefly, the world’s top producer of electric vehicles.
But like many of his cohort in the emergent automotive industry, Baker wasn’t just in it for the business. He was in it for the speed. As his company was enjoying success in the consumer market, he was pursuing his dream by developing a series of advanced, record-setting racing cars. His first, the Torpedo, was built in 1902, at great personal expense to Baker. With its 11 batteries, 14-hp mid-mounted motor, outrageously low-slung 48-inch height, streamlined and lightweight white-pine and oilcloth body, and bizarre webbed canvas seat restraints, it seemed poised to set a world land speed record.
Sadly, in that year’s Automobile Club of America speed trials on Staten Island, the car was involved in a disastrous crash. After crossing the 1-kilometer (0.6 mile) mark in just over 30 seconds, Baker and his co-driver lost control and crashed into a group of spectators. One person died at the scene, and another died later from injuries. The drivers were both arrested and charged with manslaughter but were freed when it was determined that the crowd had pushed past protective barriers and onto the course. (Baker’s innovative safety harness likely protected the car’s occupants from serious injury.)
Further attempts with two smaller, single-seater race cars he named Torpedo Kid were also employed in pursuit of the land speed record but were subsequently abandoned following another, nonlethal spectator crash in 1903. Baker has often been noted as the first person to cross the 100-mph barrier, although his records weren’t official due to these wrecks.
Given this peril, Baker decided to forgo his quest for top speed. As gasoline-powered vehicles increased in popularity and gained infrastructural support, he shifted his attention instead to diminishing the electric car’s liabilities, particularly their limited range. He worked diligently on new battery designs, shaft drives, and other componentry. In 1910, Baker’s new chief engineer, Emil Gruenfeldt, set a record for distance driven on a single charge, taking a Baker Victoria for a 201-mile trip at an average speed of 12 mph. Not exactly Ludicrous speed, but an impressive feat nonetheless.
Baker’s successes gave the company prominence among the elite, and the company capitalized on this publicly. In advertisements around 1909, the brand boldly boasted about the King of Siam owning a Baker. The company made a similar splash in American politics when President William H. Taft’s administration purchased a 1909 model as one of the White House’s first automobiles. (A steam-powered White and two gasoline-powered Pierce-Arrows were also included, Taft hedging his bets on how the battle of the powertrains was going to play out.) Taft later added a 1912 Baker Victoria that went on to be driven by five First Ladies. The Baker brand maintains some celebrity allure today, with car-collecting comedian Jay Leno holding a 1909 model in his expansive collection.
As a means of offsetting some of the powertrain’s inherent shortcomings, Baker made investments in battery-charging infrastructure. The brand announced plans to open stations at every major intersection in Cleveland and to grow the network from there, although this effort became cost prohibitive and never came to fruition. Expansion into the production of electric trucks, police patrol wagons, and even trucks and bomb handlers for the U.S. Army during World War I was not enough to fend off the rising dominance of the internal-combustion engine, especially after the proliferation of the electric starter, first available on the 1912 Cadillac, significantly increased safety and convenience. By 1915, the Baker company was defunct.
By Brett Berk, Car and Driver
This Palladian Bridge is located at the National Trust’s Stowe Gardens near Buckingham and was built in 1755. Two other similar bridges are in National Trust properties in England, one at Prior Park near Bath and the other at Wilton Park in Wiltshire. All are listed buildings and as such have legal protection from demolition or major changes without the consent of the relevant Local Authority. The building in the background is the Gothic Temple, also a listed building and now let as holiday accommodation by the National Trust.
The main building at Stowe Gardens is Stowe House which dates from the early part of the 16th century when it was known as Stowe Manor and Rectory and owned by Sir George Gifford MP who on his death bequeathed it to his son Thomas Gifford. In 1589 the estate was purchased by John Temple and remained in the family until the house was completely rebuilt in 1683 by Sir Richard Temple.
Throughout the 18th and 19th century British and foreign aristocrats and royalty frequently stayed at the property. The list includes Queen Victoria and Prince Albert, the King of Poland, the King of Denmark, Tsar Alexander of Russia and John Adams a future President of the United States. The list of famous people goes on and on.
Today the estate is owned and maintained by the National Trust who have spent a considerable amount of money restoring various structures in the gardens. Stowe House is now a private school but is still the most prominent and impressive building in the park.
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I think this is a wonderful and unusual flowering plant that has the ability to change the colour of its petals during the lifetime of the flower and therefore on just one bush you can have a variety of different coloured flowers all at the same time. The flowering season can be very long depending on where you live and also if the temperature does not drop too much during the winter months. Lantana can spread quite a lot, but it can be maintained easily in gardens by pruning, but if they grow in the wild they can grow very large and grazing animals will not eat this plant as it is poisonous to them. When the flowers fade they form fruits which many birds enjoy and in this way the plant can propagate. Butterflies love these plants as well.
A greeter Scaup maintaining his fathers off Tampa Bay, on route north. a quick stop before the flight home at the Causeway always yields a few interesting finds.
More white cottages for you to see all with different coloured doors, very artistic. These are so well kept and maintained, they would need to be with all the rain they get on the west coast. For me my time on Easdale was nearly done I think I caught a glimpse of what makes this place so special.
Sitting at the very edge of Kent and looking out to sea the view from the cliffs at North Foreland. With the London Array windmills on the horizon, look very carefully and one of the "Maunsell Forts" can just be seen, a dredger that has been maintaining Whitstable Harbour dumping its sand out on the "Goodwins" and a little white boat reminds me of my favourite Ronald Binge ditto "Sailing Bye"
Prairie blazing star (Liatris pycnostachya) blooms in profusion in a high quality longleaf pine savanna in Newton County, Texas.
This is another image taken on private land in the Pineywoods of east Texas. In stark contrast with the imperiled forest I posted yesterday, these woods are protected through legal agreements with nonprofit conservation partners and are managed to maintain exceptionally high quality habitat. I use the term “woods” lightly for this longleaf pine savanna, as, despite the trees, places like this are more prairie than forest. This site is rich in prairie genera like Schizachyrium, Andropogon, Eryngium, Silphium, and so on. This savanna received a growing season burn this year, which is typical of the fire regime under which the community evolved, and contrary to the cool season burns that primarily occur today due to a variety of non-ecological reasons. The results were spectacular, and Liatris pycnostachya in particular seemed to respond.
Three women socialising outdoors during national lockdown as a couple walks past while maintaining social distance. A sunny morning with no public transport.
What was once so common but seemed to disappear almost overnight were the various vintage railroad sheds and shanties that one could easily find trackside in towns and cities everywhere.
I didn’t take the time to photograph them nearly as much as I should have, but I did on this particular occasion back in late September of the year 1986 along the Soo Line in Marshfield, Wisconsin. – What I did neglect to do that day however was to look more closely for markings or a car number that may have still showed on the worn paint to be able to attempt a bit of history tracing, I bet this retired box car hauled a lot of freight back in the day.
For the purpose of creating a maintainers shack, this old outside-braced wooden car had windows and a doorway cut in, a stove added for heat, and you can see that at one time it even had an electric power hook-up for interior lights.
Of course this shanty disappeared decades ago, and this area along the now Canadian National mainline in Marshfield has changed so much that its difficult for me to place the exact location this relic was even located, my best guess is near N. Vine Avenue or Ash Avenue there in town. – September 27th, 1986 ~~ A Jeff Hampton Photograph ©
It's one thing to have a car in Cuba, but you have to know how to maintain it.
This photo was taken with permission.
The red cliffs of Capitol Reef tower above the well maintained homestead in Fruita, Utah. Once one of the most isolated communities in the U.S., Fruita (formerly known as "Junction") is now HQ for the National Park Service, who maintain fruit orchards and a few of the old buildings. The campground is one of the most scenic in the NPS system, just a stones throw behind this scene. The park is a great example of how human impact on the landscape is nicely blended in with the surroundings, with "historical" orchards adjacent to 1500+ year old petroglyph panels, just below the cliffs of the reef.
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Excerpt from Wikipedia:
Storkyrkan (lit. 'The Great Church'), also called Stockholms domkyrka (Stockholm Cathedral) and Sankt Nikolai kyrka (Church of Saint Nicholas), is the oldest church in Stockholm. Storkyrkan lies in the centre of Stockholm in Gamla stan, between Stockholm Palace and Stortorget, the old main square of Stockholm. It was consecrated to Saint Nicholas in 1306 but construction of the church probably started in the 13th century. Inside, Storkyrkan still maintains much of its late medieval appearance in the form of a hall church with a vaulted ceiling supported by brick pillars. The exterior of the church is however uniformly Baroque in appearance, the result of extensive changes made in the 18th century. The church played an important role during the Reformation in Sweden as the place where Mass was celebrated in Swedish for the first time. It currently serves as the seat of the Bishop of Stockholm within the Church of Sweden since the creation of the Diocese of Stockholm in 1942.
Storkyrkan was for a long time the only parish church of Stockholm, and from an early date it was connected with the Swedish royal family. It has been the scene of historical events on numerous occasions, and was used as a coronation church for centuries. More recently, the wedding between Crown Princess Victoria and Daniel Westling took place in the church in 2010. Military victories as well as national tragedies have been commemorated in Storkyrkan, and it is still used for funerals of public figures such as the writers Astrid Lindgren and Sara Danius.
The church contains several important works of art as well as elaborate furnishings, among these a late medieval sculpture of Saint George and the Dragon and Vädersolstavlan, a painting which shows one of the earliest images of Stockholm.
Train #101 is about to enter Flathead tunnel. Blowers to clear out exhaust of the seven mile bore are at the ready. A maintainer takes a break and watches the train pass.
10-12-88
9-17-16 Crawford, Nebraska. BNSF train C-WTMPAM1-25A is rounding the top of the horseshoe curve known as Breezy Point. With two engines up front and three on the rear, it's taking everything they have to maintain 10mph.
PANCHET Dam Maintained by DAMODAR VALLEY CORPORATION (DVC) over DAMODAR River During the Winter Season in a Bright Afternoon. Tourists Visit the Dam Situated in WEST BENGAL (PURULIA) - JHARKHAND (DHANBAD) Border Mostly in Monsoon and Winter. Though scenes of Water release from Dam during Monsoon Attracts more than Winter. Tourists Enjoy Boating Ride Facility on the River Which is Exquisite.