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Not one of my greatest, but topical in view of the interest generated by another trouser-themed photograph I posted a few days ago. The impressively capacious thunderbags entering left were captured at Stockport on Monday 6th February 1978. We must allow Youth its errors ...and what would Youth be without them? ...but, ignoring the cut of his strides, the young man has taken considerable care to dress presentably and does not conceive his costume as an affront to others or as the emblem of his indifference to their opinion. It is not an egotistical, anti-social statement of the kind so familiar today. Today, as I sometimes reflect when waiting at the checkout queue behind a fifty year-old man with a tattooed neck and a stringy, pepper-and-salt pony tail, everyone ...including many who are old enough to have more sense... flatters himself that he is an outsider or bohemian: but what can a universal bohemianism be but another form of orthodoxy?
The bus, a Leyland Titan PD3/14 with East Lancs body, had been new to Stockport Corporation in 1969 ...just pre-SELNEC I think... but had now been swallowed into the fleet of the Greater Manchester PTE and had, alas, succumbed to that operator's lamentable colour scheme. "Livery" seems too elevated a term to be applied to this dirt-emphasising orangeade and off-white get-up. I would imagine that the Low Cost Apex Fares to Australia, U. S. A. and Canada, advertised in the travel agent's window, would be quite expensive relative to contemporary incomes. Travel agents would soon find themselves exposed to cut-throat competition from "bucket shops" and ahead-of-their-time budget airlines such as Laker and Dan Air. I believe I saw a travel agency in Bury St Edmunds the other day, but with the growth of online booking it is surprising that they survive at all.
Experimenting with textures. This is a 2-layer overlay. I have to say it's not really my style so much with the music notes. (c) 2013
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Editor's note: NASA's Curiosity Rover is scheduled to land on the surface of Mars on the evening of Aug. 5/6, 2012. (Read more here: www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/msl/index.html). In honor of this historic event, here are some breathtaking stills of the Red Planet.
Image caption: Curiosity landing site in Gale Crater. This is a southward-looking view of Gale Crater, seen by the Mars Odyssey MOLA Thermal Emission Imaging System.
Image credit: NASA
More about Curiosity and the Mars Science Laboratory:
www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/msl/index.html
View the "Mars Landscapes" photoset:
www.flickr.com/photos/nasamarshall/sets/72157630860188338/
View the "Mars Landscapes" video:
www.nasa.gov/multimedia/videogallery/index.html?media_id=...
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An upclose picture I originally took of some piano music, I photoshopped it to make it look more dramatic.
Note to self: if a friend wants some pictures of fox red Labrador puppies don't leave the camera bag on the floor. The puppies will chew the straps, lick and chew the lenses and try to get in the bag even though there's clearly not enough room . . .
I was going to say they are "little monkeys" but clearly they are "little dogs".
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The gardener picks armfuls of flowers from the Charleston cutting garden to display in large vases on the festival marquee speakers' platform. This large pot is glazed lapis blue.
I was there to listen to Angelica Garnett, author and artist, daughter of Vanessa Bell and painter Duncan Grant, and niece of Virginia Woolf. Angelica grew up at Charleston, the country home in Sussex of the Bloomsbury Group.
Oh, and punctuation mistakes - I was taking notes at a fast pace while listening and drawing - that's my excuse.
Note on reverse: "Ballon wird abgerüstet in der Champagne Lager I" - 'Balloon is dismantled in the Champagne region at Camp I'
Most of today has been spent making notes. Zoom meetings, phone calls, reading student work, planning for further socially distanced course delivery and drafting sections of a paper that I should have had finished *ages* ago. I'm still one for old-fashioned pen and paper. I'm also quite OCD when it comes to pens and notebooks. For example - in this particular work notebook I have to use a fountain pen with a specific blue ink. Yeah, I know. Weird.
As part of the hidden gardens in Vannes, this garden of pots was not hidden but beautifuly laid out in a wave.
2015 07 30 142846 France Brittany Vannes 1HDR
Today is my Mom's birthday. She would have been 58. I keep thinking it will get easier, but it is hard to know that one person that loved you no matter what is gone forever.
Photo Taken in Sandy Springs, GA
This morning I golfed in lovely sunshine, albeit, it wasn't overly warm!! Now, out and about for my afternoon walk the sky still looks a little blue, as does Arran, but there is a definite chill in the air!!
365/2023 - A Never Ending Journey ~ 365/138
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