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The Brant Point Lighthouse on Nantucket, Massachusetts.
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I believe this is a Honey Locust tree, but I could be, and frequently am, incorrect.
During my walk through Stuart Park, this past weekend, I saw this tree with it's enormous clumps of spikes. It was a bit down a small slope, on the dam wall of a small pond. Having earlier picked up a handy walking stick, in the form of a small but straight dead branch, I felt safe enough to venture down the slope to get a closer (but not too swift or too close) look. I can't imagine the damage that these thorns would do if I slipped and butted any part of me into them. Ouch!
I grew up on land that is very similar to that in Stuart Park. We had 15 acres or so which included woods, a pond, a creek, and lots of grass to mow, driveway to shovel, and an orchard full of fruit trees to tend to. I recall trees just like this in the woods. Scary and not worth trying to climb. I don't recall ever having a run-in with these during my wild youth. One article I scanned while trying to identify the tree spoke of the author harvesting the clumps of thorns and using them for fishing spears.
Me, I just am intrigued by their odd placement by nature.
In this composition, I was imagining the large branches of the tree stretching towards the pond, or the horizon, pointing out some danger while protecting itself, the messenger. I have an active imagination.
I made it safely back up the small slope, after a small slip, saved by my leaning forward and the steady assist of the walking stick-branch. I figured that if I leaned forward, I wouldn't mind falling away from those spikes near as much as I would, had I fallen backwards into them.
Another enjoyable view of my world, taken while being outside.
Along Artist Ridge Trail
Artist Point is located in northwest Washington State, at the end of the Mount Baker Scenic Highway. At an elevation of 5,000 feet, Artist Point is an area of exceptional beauty.
Point Bonita Lighthouse is a lighthouse located at Point Bonita at the San Francisco Bay entrance in the Marin Headlands near Sausalito, California. Point Bonita was the last manned lighthouse on the California coast.
Nash Point Lighthouse stands 37 metres high and is 56 metres above sea level. It stands about a mile from the village of Marcross in South Wales.
While we were worried about the fires burning all around southern California, my son was busy finding a wooden block that had been discarded. He played with this block for hours and wanted to have a picture of it. Funny what's important from someone else's point of view.
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The southernmost point in continental Asia is across the bridge. I found this amuzing, since both Sentosa and Singapore are islands.
Helene enjoying the view of the Sognefjord. Shot on Day 28 of project 365. About 10 meters from the point I shot day 28 to the right.
Have to admit that Flickr is kind of addicting. There is lots of rubbish there but also some amazing high quality photography. It’s way to easy to get lost for several hours ;)
Vista Point is a park that abuts Lake Lewisville in North Texas.
The warm tones of this winter scene appealed to me.
I personally believe it is much better if viewed at the larger sizes....
Army West Point Black Knights football team takes on the Villanova Wildcats on Saturday, September 17, 2022 at Michie Stadium, West Point, New York. (U.S. Army Photo by John Pellino/USMA)
A view from court point depicting the hussle and bussle of Sylhet City life. Including Ali Amjad's Clock Tower, Keane Bridge over the river Surma, "The gateway to Sylhet" and the gates of Circuit House Park.
School children in the Body Worlds exhibition at the Franklin Institute, Philadelphia. The controversial exhibition of preserved human cadavers and embryos caused a storm of protest in the States but continues to attract busloads of people each weekday. Anatomist Gunther von Hagens aggressively defends his plastination technique through copyright suits and his stance means visitors who pay to see the exhibition cannot use cameras or cell phones while touring the exhibition space.
Centre Point was built as speculative office space by property tycoon Harry Hyams, who had leased the site at £18,500 a year for 150 years. Hyams and Seifert engaged in negotiations with the London County Council over the height of the building, which was much taller than would normally be allowed and was highly controversial; eventually he was allowed to build 32 floors in return for providing a new road junction between St Giles Circus, Oxford Street and Tottenham Court Road, which the LCC could not afford to build on its own. Hyams intended that the whole building be occupied by a single tenant.
On completion, the building remained empty for many years. With property prices rising and most business tenancies taken for set periods of 10 or 15 years, Hyams could afford to keep it empty and wait for his single tenant at the asking price of £1,250,000; he was challenged to allow tenants to rent single floors but consistently refused. The prominent nature of the building led to it becoming a symbol of greed in the property industry. Some campaigners demanded that the government of Edward Heath should intervene and take over the building, and at one point in June 1972 Peter Walker (then Secretary of State for the Environment) offered £5 million for the building. Eventually Hyams agreed to let the building by floors but the arrangements were stalled.
A more intriguing speculation was that the government was paying Hyams "a heavy but secret subsidy to keep it empty" for its own purposes. Various conspiracy theories circulated about what those purposes might be. One common theme was that since the building was 100% air-conditioned (a rarity in London at that time), and sited over Tottenham Court Road tube station and its deep tube lines, this would somehow make it useful to the government in the event of nuclear war.
Since July 1980, the building has been the headquarters of the Confederation of British Industry. In 1995 Centre Point became a Grade II listed building. Noted architecture critic Nikolaus Pevsner described Centre Point as "coarse in the extreme". In 2009, the building won the Concrete Society's Mature Structures Award.