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Happy New Year to everyone.
The Bill is an important way-point for coastal traffic, and so three lighthouses have been built to protect shipping, in particular from its strong tidal race and shallow reef. Both Portland Bill and Chesil Beach are the location of many sunken vessels that failed to reach Weymouth or Portland Roads.
Portland Cement Works Engine Number 6. Peckett 1927 28 tons.
At Portland, New Zealand.
B&W negative.
located in Fort Williams park Cape Elizabeth Maine. Portland Head lighthouse is the oldest...and I think the prettiest lighthouse in Maine.
You are melody in numbers
I took this photo while the Vaux's swifts were amassing around Chapman Elementary School in Portland, as they do every September. Here is a 1600 pixel version
I found a Youtube video where you can watch the impressive tornado of birds spiraling into the chimney. And another.
This metal sculpture is in a window of a nearby apartment building. I noticed it for the first time just a couple of days ago.
Photo taken for Our Daily Challenge: I've never photographed one of these before.
One of TriMet's Gomaco-built replica heritage streetcars operating on the Portland Streetcar back in November, 2003. Two of these since-retired Gomaco "Council Crest" replica cars moved to St. Louis for a new trolley operation being built there. The other two went to the Willamette Shore Trolley operating out of Lake Oswego.
The Portland Vase is one of the finest surviving pieces of Roman glass, and is named after the Dukes of Portland who owned it from 1785 to 1945. It is made of cameo glass, a technique in which vessels and plaques, some free-blown, some cast, are created with two or more layers of glass, and are decorated by carving.
The lower part of the vase originally had another band of decoration, probably showing animals in a rural landscape.
It then tapered to a pointed base which was broken off and repaired with a flat cameo disk in antiquity (the cameo disk, probably depicting Paris, is also in the British Museum).
In 1845 a visitor deliberately smashed the vase, breaking it into over 125 fragments. But within five months the Museum conservator, John Doubleday, had repaired it. His restoration lasted until 1945.
There are many interpretations of the scene. One possibility is that the vase shows the marriage of Peleus and Thetis, whose son Achilles led the Greek armies to Troy.
Probably made in Rome, abt. 15 BCE - 25 CE. Discovered in a funerary monument known as the Monte del Grano, a few miles southeast of the old city wall of Rome.
Formerly in the Barberini and Portland Collections.
British Museum (1945,0927.1)
Portland streets at night. Great dinner at Boda and dessert at Gelato Fiasco. Must go place if ever in the area. #portland #nightime #boda #gelatofiasco
Portland Head Light is an historic lighthouse in Cape Elizabeth, Maine. The light station sits on a head of land at the entrance of the primary shipping channel into Portland Harbor. [Wikipedia]
Portland, OR. September 22, 2018. Shot on a Canon AE-1 and Fuji Superia 1600 (cropped to 4×5). Developed and scanned by The Darkroom.
Spring Point Ledge Lighthouse, Portland, Maine
Last post for "Lighthouse Week" on my Flickr page announcing Jeff Clow's upcoming Fall Lighthouse Photo Tour of Maine in October that I will be co-hosting.
The information about his tour can be found at here at this link madmimi.com/p/cc0a26?o=fs&facebook_like=true#.
If you have any questions about the main tour or the optional post tour in Acadia National Park, you can contact Jeff or me and we will be happy to help.
This photo was taken on our scouting trip at one of the twelve lighthouse stops planned for the tour in October.