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Looking south-southeast at McCracken Library and the bell tower of St. Paul's Episcopal Church in Cleveland Heights, Ohio. The church is located in the Euclid Golf Allotment -- a historic district roughly bounded by Cedar Road, Coventry Road, West St. James Parkway, and Ardleigh Drive in 1913. Every structure on the development was a single-family residential home, except for two. One was a medical office located near the allotment's entrance on Fairmount Blvd., and the other was St. Paul's.
St. Paul's was founded as St. Paul's Church of the City of Cleveland in 1846. In 1876, the congregation moved into a new building at E. 40th and Euclid Avenue. The congregation grew in size and wealth. As rich people abandoned Euclid Avenue for suburbs further east, St. Paul's moved with them.
In 1928, St. Martin's Episcopal Church (established in 1916) merged with St. Paul's, and the congregation changed its name to St. Paul's Episcopal Church of Cleveland Heights. The church purchased several lots at the intersection of Coventry Road and Fairmount Boulevard and hired architect J. Byers Hayes of the noted Cleveland architectural firm of Walker and Weeks to design the structure. Construction began on the parish hall in 1927, and services were first held there in April 1928. The bell tower was finished in 1929, but the Great Depression halted further construction for the next decade. Work began on the sanctuary in 1941, but World War II forced a halt for several years. After the war, the congregation was too middle-class to afford the grandiose sanctuary (narthex, nave, St. Martin's chapel, bema, sacristy, and apse) it had planned. Hayes revised his plans in 1947 to reduce costs, and construction began again in 1949. The sanctuary was finished in 1951. A small nursery school wing was added to the northwest end of the church hall in 1956.
In 1991, St. Paul's expanded for the first time in four decades when it built a "South Wing" -- a wing of classrooms extending south from the former main entrance of the church hall. The old narthex was closed and the steps turned into a terrace, while a new narthex was added at the south end of the new wing. A gallery connected the new narthex to the south end of the nave, creating a "cloister".
From 2010 to 2013, the church built an ADA-compliant entrance in the tower on the north side of the hall, and renovated the hall, nave, sacristy, and dining room and kitchen in the hall basement.
View looking north west towards Tuatapere. Please note different date this pic was taken, plus with my new Nikon D5500 & Sigma 18-35mm f/1.4 DG HSM (art) lens. They worked their mojo I reckon and no editing software used either!
Forum For Confabulation
Forum For Confabulation was, much like the rest of my practice, a separate space for one to immerse oneself in. It was a place to relax, renew and revive, where the point was to spend some time away from the daily to-ing and fro-ing we all experience. Forum For Confabulation was a place for reinvigoration through shared sociality and meaningful devoted conversation.
Sometimes all that is needed is meaningful conversation with one another and the time and patience such an activity requires.
Flemington & Kensington Conservation Study 1985 survey images: 68 sheets of Kodak colour negatives (reduced for Flickr)
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I feel so lucky to be seeing the Whoopings Cranes! This pair has established a home base in a small pasture across the road from a bay. We've seen them both times we've been to the area. They were too far out to suit me with my 80-400, so I experimented with the Sigma & 2x teleconverter. I couldn't believe that just as I was starting to shoot with it, they went into a short mating dance. So cool! So yes, the quality could be better...but I thought you'd enjoy seeing it anyway. ;-)
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"The Pronghorn is the fastest land mammal in the world. It can sprint as fast as 60 mph and can sustain a speed of 30 mph for miles! The African Cheetah is often credited with being the fastest, but it is only a sprinter who flags out after a few hundred yards. No other land mammal can keep up with the Pronghorn over a long distance.
The eyes of a Pronghorn are nothing short of exceptional. They can pick up movement as far as three miles away. The eyes are located far back on the head so they can keep watch even while the head is down during feeding.
About 40% of the females have horns, but they don't get any longer than their ears and never fork." -www.gpnc.org
(25 de fevereiro de 1982), é o vocalista da banda The Used. Começou a fazer parte em 2002. Canta desde pequeno por influência do pai e já se envolveu com drogas.
Bert foi inspirado por Michael Jackson a transformar-se em um cantor na sua infância. Estudou também no colégio junto de Quinn Allman, também integrante da banda atual. Antes de criar o The Used, tocou trompete em uma banda local em sua cidade natal. Querendo procurar novas opções musicais, ele fez um teste para cantor. Após sua audição, Quinn Allman, Jeph Howard e Branden Steineckert convidaram-no para participar. Ele estava tão envolvido que viajava de carona para os ensaios da banda. Seus pais o expulsaram de casa porque ele se rebelou de sua criação pela religião Mórmon, e viveu com Quinn e seus pais por um tempo, antes de sua banda se tornar bem sucedida. Pelos 17 anos ele era viciado em Cristal Metanol. Entretanto, podia se superar com o apoio dos seus companheiros de banda. O vício continuou a seguí-lo. De acordo com uma entrevista, Bert bebia até 2 garrafas diárias de Jack Daniels. Porém viajar para tocar com alcoolismo constante não se misturaram bem. Mas com trabalho, The Used conseguiu intitular seu primeiro álbum. Bert desmoronou. Após ter consultado diversos doutores, foi diagnosticado com pancreatitis aguda, uma inflamação severa do pâncreas causada pela autodigestão do tecido pancreático por suas próprias enzimas, circunstância mais frequente do abuso do álcool. Atualmente, Bert tem um estilo de vida mais saudável. Porém, em 2005, espalharam-se boatos que havia retornado a seu estilo antigo de beber.