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Dreamy and colorful - the corrosion and breakdown of the old leaded paints created a beautiful abstract scene I couldn't resist.
This will be last post for the Penitentiary series. Other images might be used in future but this ends the morbid series on a colorful note!
For Macro Mondays - Copper
I tried a few images with copper wire but was not happy with them so raided the plumbing spares drawer in the shed.
Happy Macro Monday!
Wire is the theme this week. I have lots of wire as I have been gradually rewiring my old house. I am fairly good with the electrical part of things. Plumbing? Not so much.
My brother passed away 2 and half months ago so this being Thanksgiving made things a bit sadder. I am not looking for condolences. It was just a weird day missing him.
I guess we should all be thankful for each other while we are here.
Happy Macro Mondays
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Above the grand staircase at Drottningholm.
Drottningholm palace is the home of the king and queen of Sweden - no, they do not actually live in the big palace in the middle of Stockholm, but in this much cosier creation just outside of Stockholm (in the small village of Drottningholm - which was actually built to house servants for the palace).
The name literally means the Queen's islet, and is older than the building itself. It used to refer to a palace built in 1580 for the queen Katarina Jagellonica - but that place burned down in 1661, and the current house is the one that was built to replace it. It was on order from the queen Hedwig Eleonora - at the time queen dowager but also regent for her son Karl (Charles) XI that was underage when his father (Karl X) died. The palace was designed by one of Sweden's most well known architects: Nicodemus Tessin the Elder, and after his death the work was continued on by his (equally famous) son Nicodemus Tessin the Younger. The queen used it as a summer residence, and as a place for hunting. The palace continued to be in fashion throughout the 18th century, and got a partly rococo interior during the time of queen Lovisa Ulrika.
But the place fell out of fashion with the new Bernadotte dynasty in the early 19th century, being to closely connected with the earlier regime. The last new add-ons to the place was electricity and modern plumbing at the beginning of the 20th century - after that the focus has been on conservation and preservation.
The royal family has lived there since 1981 (though the kids have moved out by now).
Happy Bench Monday!
Hope they were just remodeling their bathroom - however the yellow of the toilet is repeated on the bottom of door leading one to think it is coordinated that with the porch!
I really have absolutely no idea where I shot this. I believe it was somewhere in Milwaukee. Who cares, it's pretty nifty anyways. Of course, I love the blue neon drops, since I'm a sucker for blue neon.
Day 6 - Post 1
Fujifilm Instax mini EVO + Fujifilm Instax Mini Monochrome film
Settings: FILM No. 5 Monochrome + LENS No. 8 Mirror
I spent quite some time editing this, because the basin and wall are rather "ugly". The textures are fascinating, though. :-)
Have a wonderful day, everyone.
100x/87
Henry M. Flagler's Florida East Coast Railroad Line reached Palm Beach in 1894. The Seaboard Airline Railroad Line laid tracks to Palm Beach as late as 1921-1924. It was after 1921 that the Seaboard Airline tracks reached West Palm Beach. Reference to the Seaboard Airline Railroad Station appears in a book printed in 1926.
S. Davis Warfield was president of Seaboard Air Line and in 1924 Warfield built a cross-state line that serviced West Palm Beach and Miami and Homestead in 1926, making a direct rail connection from one coast to the other, across the state. In 1938 the Atlantic Coast Line and the Seaboard Airline Railroad Line formed a network over Florida. Trains were air-conditioned and streamlined, and power was generated by Diesel-electric locomotives.
Stockholders in the railroad were important Palm Beach residents, and this station combined their taste in architecture, and their desire for service and convenience, for the community related to their vacation and retirement residences.
L. Phillips Clarke, who designed all of the Seaboard Railroad stations, built his first station at Auburndale. The West Palm Beach station appeared in 1924-1925.
The north-south dimension, paralleling the tracks, is approximately 178 feet. It is 43 feet deep, not including (at the sides) a 13-foot platform on the west. The building is mainly one story high, with a single office on a two-story level near the center and a three-stage tower on the south corner of the east or entrance facade on Tamarind Avenue.
The plan is rectangular, divided essentially in half, with express room and baggage room to the left or south, and behind the loggia the two waiting rooms, now one, separated on the east by restrooms and on the west by the ticket office. The loggia surrounds most of the front and ends, and the shed—roofed passenger platform on the rear or trackside.
The City of West Palm Beach, following a purchase of the building in 1988, tapped local architecture firm Oliver Glidden & Partners to head a $4.3 million restoration of the structure. The project was completed and the station rededicated in a ceremony attended by the Florida Governor in April 1991. Architect Robert D. Brown directed the restoration of ornamental cast stone elements, exterior masonry, doors, windows, and iron and tile work. The red clay tile roof was replaced, as were the electrical, lighting, plumbing and heating, ventilation, and air conditioning systems. Abatement of lead and asbestos was further required to bring the historic structure up to modern building code standards. The restoration effort earned the Florida Trust Award for Historic Preservation in 1994.
In summer 2012, the city finished an improvement project that included the installation of new sidewalks and more than five dozen trees around the building. The improvements were funded with a $750,000 Transportation Enhancement grant from the Federal Highway Administration, to which the city provided a $150,000 local match.
The station has two side platforms, with access to the station on both sides. West of the southbound platform is a long loop of bus bays serving Palm Tran routes. East of the northbound platform is the station house, a small parking lot, and bus stops for Greyhound Lines buses and Tri-Rail shuttles.
Credit for the data above is given to the following websites:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/West_Palm_Beach_Seaboard_Coastline_...
historic-structures.com/fl/west_palm_beach/seaboard_railr....
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Popped in to get some 3/4" imperial olives, love this shop. Good old fashioned independent plumbing merchant.
The theme for Macro Mondays is "Guilty Pleasures".....One of mine is, I'm a collector.....of documents, stamps, coins, vintage photos.
Note the figures on the 1910 bill for plumbing work. Dec. 22- 30...dig a ditch and install 33 ft of pipe $26.50 for parts and labor and not the digger made more that the plumber did. HMM.