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Crews from the Maine Narrow Gauge Railroad Company & Museum and the Wiscasset Waterville & Farmington Railway Museum pose with their trains at Alna Center after performing all day for a group of assembled photographers. From the left, the crew members are as follows: Dan Malkowski (WW&F), Joe Monty (MNGRR), Jay Monty (MNGRR), David Fletcher (MNGRR), unidentified guest of MNGRR, Roger Whitney (WW&F), Bill Reidy (WW&F), Jonathan St.Mary (WW&F), Josh Recave (WW&F), Gordon Cook (WW&F), James Nobilini (WW&F)
After many years of operating separately, this event was a great opportunity for the members of both museums to work together to showcase their efforts to preserve the history of the Maine Narrow Gauge railroads.
Couldnt get as close as I would of liked too being the Zoo and all, but I still think its a sweet image. Even though the clarity is lacking. Gorgeous animals!
Ok partner. I was having some fun today. I saw this block in another swap and thought it would work well for a pouch. What do you think? Too pink? Right for you? Do you prefer this or the rainbow lines version?
I used this tute: badskirt.blogspot.com/2011/04/japanese-x-and-scrappy-quil...
The fine people at the Yamasaki Academy taught the girls some new moves in the forms of Brazilian Jiu Jitsu and Capoeira.
A step away from my usual nature themed shots for a tourist photo from Disney's Magic Kingdom. This statue depicts Walt Disney and Mickey Mouse. There are many stories as to the meaning of this statue on the internet. The website belows gives 3 versions of the story.
forums.wdwmagic.com/threads/very-interesting-info-about-p...
The old windmill on the site of the 1849 House.This is the only other period structure left on the property.Worked with a new program on this pic,hope everyone likes it!
Image Taken at the 2015 Pistol Pete Partners Party, Monday, October 12, 2015, Boone Pickens Stadium, Stillwater, OK. Bruce Waterfield/OSU Athletics
This picture was taken summer of 2007 by a good friend of ours. We were trying hard to keep from laughing.
Hong Kong
Morning sun above the skyline of the neighbourhoods 'Wan Chai', 'Admiralty' and 'Central' seen from Tsim Sha Tsui (Kowloon) across the 'Victoria Harbour'
Morgensonne über der Skyline der Viertel 'Wan Chai', 'Admiralty' und 'Central' von Tsim Sha Tsui (Kowloon) aus über den 'Victoria Harbour' gesehen
Some buildings (from the right to the left/ einige Gebäude (von rechts nach links):
'AIA Central'
Hong Kong, 1 Connaught Road Central
architect: 'Skidmore, Owings and Merrill'
'Cheung Kong Centre'
Hong Kong, 2 Queen's Road Central
architect: Leo A. Daly, Hsin Yieh Architects & Associates Limited, Cesar Pelli & Associates Architects
'Bank of China Tower'
Hong Kong, 1 Garden Road
architect: Sherman Kung & Associates Architects Limited, I.M. Pei & Partners
'Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre'
Hong Kong: Expo Drive
architect: Larry Oltmanns and Skidmore Owings and Merrill
'Central Plaza'
Hong Kong: 18 Harbour Road
architect: Dennis Lau & Ng Chun Man Architects & Engineers (HK) Ltd.
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Lochiel.
Captain John Ellis leased the land from Lochiel to Snowtown from the early 1840s. His Bumbunga and Barunga runs made him wealthy and covered around 100 square miles in 1860. He built a large 8 room stone house on Barunga Run in the Hummock Ranges just west of Snowtown near a spring. There was also a major homestead at Bumbunga just north of Lochiel facing Lake Bumbunga. In the 1869 the Hummocks and Bumbunga runs were resumed by the government for survey and for closer settlement. When most of the runs were resumed by the government the land
was put up for public auction in the new Hundreds of Cameron and Barunga which were declared in 1869. Robert Barr Smith took up all the hilly section of the Hundred of Cameron as freehold land as he said it was not suitable for cropping. His partner John Maslin took up other hilly section of the Hundred. They took up more land in the Hundred of Barunga. In 1886 the partnership between Maslin and Barr Smith dissolved and Barr Smith took it over the Hummocks Station. On his death in 1915 Hummocks station went to his son Tom Elder Barr Smith who in turn sold the Hummocks estate of almost 30,000 acres to the government for closer settlement. This boosted the town of Lochiel but it mainly depended on servicing farming needs and the salt industry of Lake Bumbunga. Lochiel was named after the town in Scotland which is home to the Chief of the Cameron Clan (hence the Hundred of Cameron) and near the old battlefield of Culloden.
The first salt harvesting began in the late 1880s at the northern end of Lake Bumbunga and it was this industry which kept Lochiel alive. Cave and Co took out the salt work lease from 1900. Salt was carted by drays to Snowtown, and then railed away to the port of Wallaroo. Then the Australian Salt Company started works on the southern end of Lake Bumbunga in 1913. Because the 1925 new broad gauge line to Redhill did not pass through Lochiel, a small branch line was built to Lochiel from Bumbunga to service the salt works. This 4½ mile line opened in 1926. The salt works continued and boomed in the 1930s and during World War Two when the harvesting was mechanized (horses dragged scrapping equipment before this time.) In the 1950s the Australia Salt Works Company built three new houses in Lochiel making a total of nine company houses in the town. By the late 1960s only six men were employed in the salt works. The railway line continued in service until closure in 1981 as by then the salt works had finally closed down.
The town has a few old buildings of heritage value. Longmires Inn was licensed in 1863. It was modernised at one stage but destroyed by fire just a few years ago. The Inn predated the town as the leaseholder Captain Ellis of the Hummocks Run permitted its construction. It was resumed as part of his run and sold by the government in 1870 to a new licensee. In 1909 it was renamed Lake View Hotel. The town building lots were offered for sale in 1870 but few were sold. The public hall in Lochiel was started in 1910 and opened in 1911. It is a grand sized stone and red brick building for a town the size of Lochiel. It was used for Lutheran Church services from 1951 to 1966. Recently it was an antique centre but it is now empty. The first general store opened around 1880 with huge four paned windows and roof line pediment. A second general store was built in 1910 but it has since been demolished. The government school opened in 1880 in a private house until a stone school was built in 1882 two miles east of the town. It closed in 1924 and classes were held in the hall for convenience of town dwellers as the old school was moved stone by stone and rebuilt in Ellis Street. It opened there in 1930 and closed in 1987 and is now a residence. Lochiel has a local limestone and red brick quoin Methodist Church. It began services in 1901 and the porch was added in 1936. But there was a pug and pine Wesleyan Methodist Church erected in Lochiel in 1891. It was demolished and removed when the new united Methodist Church opened in 1901. At its peak in the 1920s Lochiel had 220 residents.
YAVORIV, Ukraine - Spc. Zhabka Aleksey, a California National Guard Soldier from the 223rd Military Intelligence Battalion talks to a group of Ukrainian National Guard Soldiers during situational training exercise lanes at Rapid Trident 2014 here, Sept. 16. Rapid Trident is an annual U.S. Army Europe conducted, Ukrainian led multinational exercise designed to enhance interoperability with allied and partner nations while promoting regional stability and security. (U.S. Army photo by Spc. Joshua Leonard)
Merseyside Police, Mounted Section @ Orangemen's Day parade in Southport. Thankfully, they weren't needed.
Also thankfully, they recently avoided being axed due to the dreaded austerity 'cuts'.
liverpoolcitypolice.co.uk/mounted-section-history/4552010434
Grandmaster Carlson was wonderful enough to have the girls to his Master's school for a more intense session of Tae Kwan Do training.
Gery and her partner during a performance at a ballroom dance competition called the Duel in the Sun, held in Scottsdale, Arizona. The background of this picture is explained more fully in the description of a similar photo taken the same night, and linked here. At first I liked the other one better, but after seeing this one on the computer screen, I am having second thoughts. Comparisons and comments are welcome.
Here's the shot Alan captured of my camera taking this shot of Walt and Mickey. There's nothing like that time after park close in the hub to have that unique opportunity and honor to capture Walt and Mickey sans guests. I hope I did him and Mickey proud both in this shot and my service to them. =)
Deatil of the place settings in the dining room at the Springwood estate of Franklin D. Roosevelt. All furnishings are original, and the house remains unchanged since the day Eleanor Roosevelt vacated it in 1946. To the rear is the breakfast nook added by James Roosevelt, Sr. (FDR's father).
The table and chairs are walnut. The table is set for two, but can seat up to 12. Most of the dinnerware and serving dishes in the home are from China. The glassware and silverware are American.
This is at the Franklin D. Roosevelt National Historic Site in Hyde Park, New York. The claim of Native Americans to the area was ignored by King William III and given to nine New York City businessmen in 1697, and called the "Great Nine Partners Patent". A two-story wood frame house facing east was built on the property sometime between 1790 and 1805. It was 46 feet by 39 feet with a heavy timber frame. Crude bricks were mortared in place between the framing timbers. The house was covered in wide clapboards, with minimal decoration in the Federal style. The windows were two rows, each three panes wide. There were two sashes (one window above, one below), and both could be moved. (In jargon, this a "six-over-six double-hung sash".) These were symmetrically placed in the façade. (The house still features some of these in the central part of the building.) It also had a full basement.
Josiah Wheeler purchase a one-square-mile portion of the property in 1845. Wheeler added a three-story tower to the south end and a two-story servants' wing to the north. The Wheelers also added a garden to the north and east of the house and planted a hemlock hedge around it. (This hedge survives to this day.) Wheeler also added acreage to the estate, enlarging it to 110 acres. He also added a large stable (1850), laundry house (1850), small ice house (1847-1865), and gardener's cottage (1845-1865).
Franklin Roosevelt's father, James Roosevelt, bought Springwood in 1866 for $40,000 (at a time when a factory worker's earnings were $325 a year ). Roosevelt added two elements to the dining room: One was a deep bay (now the breakfast nook) to enlarge the dining space. The other was a two-story, modified hexagonal tower to the north of this nook. On the first floor, this tower was accessed via a door in the breakfast nook, and contained a smoking room. On the second floor, there was a small bedroom accessible from the "Chamber #6" bedroom. When the drawing room was refinished and new furniture added, the old furniture went into the south parlor. A delicately carved mantelpiece was installed there in 1887 to add class. In 1892, the main staircase leading from the lobby to the second floor was installed, and a year later the verandah was extended around the southwest and south parts of the house. James Roosevelt also added another 490 acres of land to the property, and not only farmed the property but used it for forestland. He also added a very large kitchen garden (1880), coach house (1886), duplex house (for staff housing; 1895), and large ice house (1898).
Franklin Delano Roosevelt was born on January 30, 1882. The Roosevelts had no other children, and James Roosevelt died in 1900. (Franklin had an older half-brother, "Rosey", who lived in a mansion just south of Springwood.) Franklin married his first cousin, Eleanor Roosevelt, in 1905. Sara had a "life estate" in the house. This meant that she could live there until she died, although the mansion belonged to Franklin. FDR's first child came in 1906, and he and Eleanor had five more over the next 10 years. With a rapidly expanding family, and Sara living in the house, major changes were needed. Springwood was electrified in 1908. In 1915, a massive upgrade was made to the structure, designed by Hoppin and Koen of New York City. The clapboards were removed and the exterior of the house finished in stucco. A new tower was constructed around the south parlor to match the north tower, and stone north and south wings added to the building. The south wing had a library on the first floor and three bedrooms on the second. The north wing had a large new kitchen in the rear (complete with "cold room"), and a servants' hall and small classroom (that later became FDR's study) for the children in the front. A loggia was added to the front of this wing, and a porch to the north side. On the second floor of the north wing were eight small servants' bedrooms, two new baths, a trunk room, a tiny valet's room, and a new servants' stairs. An entirely new third floor was added over the main building that contained a large playroom, nursery, three bedrooms, two baths, and two tiny "visiting servants" bedrooms. The third floor also featured elliptical and half-round windows capped with swags. The main entrance was also gussied up, with a four-columned portico. Window panes in bo0th new wings were eight-over-eight double-hung sash windows, and a roof balustrade placed atop the entire structure. Over time, Franklin also added a greenhouse (1906), garage (1911), rose garden (1912), and pump house (1916), and added another 900 acres to the property. During his lifetime, Franklin Roosevelt planted more than 200,000 trees (some in tree farms, others in orchards, some as reforestation projects) on the estate.
Until 1941, the two ice houses were filled with ice from the two large artificial ponds on the property. FDR claimed the ice had a special taste that made cocktails better. The night before each election day, Roosevelt's neighbors came in a torchlight parade to the front of the house to wish him good luck. He spent every election night in the dining room with his advisors. From the study in the north wing, Roosevelt delivered some of his famous "fireside chats".
James Roosevelt, his first wife Rebecca Rowland, and his second wife Sara Delano were art collectors. Franklin, too, was a collector – albeit of naval prints and taxidermied animals. Springwood contains family heirlooms going back more than 200 years; numerous pieces of porcelain, jade, wood, and painting from China; an extensive collection of family portraits (some by famous painters, like Gilbert Stuart); and statuary (bronze and marble).
The only building at the Springwood estate which is not original is the large Stables. The original structure burned to the ground in 1971, and was replaced by a steel-beam reproduction in 1974.
Interestingly, the Greenhouse (which cost a staggering $3,700), has three sections. The south and largest section is a hothouse for roses. The middle section is sealed to create moisture for ferns, and the northern section is cooler for plants like carnations. It remains in use today, providing plants for Springwood.
The Gardener's Cottage and Duplex House are both used as employee residences today.
In 1935, Franklin Roosevelt donated the Springwood mansion and 33.23 acres of land around it to the United States. He also donated 12 acres of land for a library, and designed and constructed on that land a presidential library. Congress accepted the donation by passing the Historic Sites Act of 1935 and legislation accepting the library building in 1939.
About 600 feet to the northwest of the Springwood mansion is Bellefield, the mansion of the Newbold/Morgan family. Originally constructed about 1795, the 16-room house was greatly enlarged between 1840 and 1860. Thomas Newbold, a wealthy local investor and state legislator, purchased the residence about 15 acres of land in 1885. The Newbolds, and their descendants the Morgans, were good friends of the Roosevelts. It is used for employee housing and office space today.
Hey Partner! I created this mosaic with color and design in mind. Each of these photos speaks to me on one of those levels and just makes me happy! I just looked through everyone else's mosaics and love pretty much all of them. My kitchen is mostly aqua (love pic #1 for that reason) so for a main color that would be great. I spend a lot of my time in the kitchen so I love to have pretty things hanging out in there.
1. my kitchen, 2. Organic Kitchen Towel & Coasters, 3. Dish Towels, 4. www.flickr.com/photos/misseskwittys/520223767/, 5. Hot Pad in Moda Arcadia, 6. ticker tape progress, 7. table runner2, 8. dishmat2, 9. Front of Hexagon Hotpad, 10. Doll quilt, 11. Nine Patch Quilt Along Progress, 12. another one, 13. Star quilt in progress, 14. Bridget's Pinwheel Quilt, 15. star quilt 2, 16. Stay-Put Kitchen Towel
Created with fd's Flickr Toys