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Baobao (8 Mar 2005 - 1 Oct 2008)
Baobao had one eye with a blocked tear duct after a serious bout of flu when he was a kitten. That explained why the area around his right eye was always moist and slightly swollen. I had to use cotton buds to absorb the "spilled" tears very often throughout the day. Every day I would need to use cleaning solution to disinfect those areas. It became a ritual and he enjoyed the additional services like grooming and massaging, much like a spa treatment! :-)
A trip to the vet for possibly a cure had him put under anesthetic for a few hours in order to carry out the diagnosis. I was so worried he would not wake up after hearing stories of cats not making it after being drugged. The vet concluded the tear duct could not be cleared without risky operations and it was more advisable to just let him live with the condition.
So if you have kittens or adults starting to show symptoms of flu, please get them to the vet immediately for treatment and if possible, go for the annual vaccination.
衣櫃
比一甲子還老的衣櫃
是一座巍峨的黑巖
悄靜的聳立在無夢的天窗下
將祖母的一生鎮壓在我們王家
我打開衣櫃的門
鑲著明亮的鏡子
死了近六十年的祖父
站在裡邊
身穿風衣 戴著絨帽
他脫下那件祖傳的舊風衣
披到我身上
我搜索衣櫃
衣架上掛著祖母
二十歲 三十歲
到八十歲的髮絲
我拿它們來牢綁家中的
每一根樑柱與椽楹
我拉出衣櫃的抽屜
左邊是日據
滿是整齊規短的領帶
右邊是民國
一疊嚴重發黴的回憶
底下的 上了鎖
祖母說 鑰匙要重新打造
我關上衣櫃的門
祖父還在那裡
激動的指指他頭上那頂
從中國南京買回來的絨帽
我微微一笑
無意伸手去接
c1910 postcard view of unidentified women and a younger girl at Delacroix’s south of New Trenton, Indiana. New Trenton was on the east side of Whitewater River in southern Franklin County. The C. C. C. & St. L. (Cleveland, Cincinnati, Chicago & St. Louis) Railroad, commonly known as the Big Four and later as the New York Central, followed the river southeast from the county seat at Brookville toward Cincinnati. The track passed between the river and New Trenton where a station was located. This rail access facilitated the development of small resorts that became popular in the area.
The Delacroix property was actually across the Whitewater River from New Trenton in Dearborn, County. Their farm was on River (or Barber) Road on the southwest side of the river in the area known as Delacroix Heights and the house overlooked the river less than a mile from New Trenton.
The covered bridge at New Trenton was the only river crossing in the area. The Great Flood of 1913 destroyed that bridge and the train station at New Trenton. The station was rebuilt quickly, but the new iron bridge wasn’t completed until 1916. This situation probably created problems for the resorts across the river from the town and railroad station.
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RECOLLECTION, a group show at Superette Gallery with the works of Harvey Benge, Marcus Haydock, Nicolas Hosteing, Simon Kossoff, Paul Kwiatkowski, Damien Lafargue and Simon Letourneau, curated by Myriam Barchechat.
Exposition du 16 novembre 2013 au 28 février 2014
Superette Gallery
104 rue du Faubourg Poissonnière
75010 Paris.
Opening reception on November 15th at 6:30 pm
c1910 postcard view of Larwill, Indiana. The postcard has no caption, but shows the railroad in the foreground and the prominent LARWILL, IND. POST OFFICE sign. This view was probably looking north on Center Street, but, most of these buildings are now gone. In this scene horse-drawn buggies and wagons were present along with several pedestrians, some of whom were posing for the photographer.
According to a 1907 county history,¹ the town was laid out in 1854 along the Pittsburg, Fort Wayne & Chicago (P. F. W. & C.) Railroad. The original town name was Huntsville. However, when the post office moved from nearby Summit, it could not be renamed Huntsville Post Office because another Huntsville post office already existed in Indiana. Residents decided to change the town’s name to Larwill so that the town and post office could use the same name. There being no other Larwill post office in Indiana, the Post Office Department agreed to change the post office name as well.
A 1916 county atlas² includes a map of Larwill that appears to show the post office on the northeast corner at the Center Street railroad crossing. However, the hand-lettered label is unclear. A short distance north, the map shows a hotel on the northeast corner at North Street.
The 1916 atlas map shows the depot near the southwest corner of the Center Street crossing. This postcard scene shows a bandstand above the sidewalk near the left edge of this scene and near where the depot would have been.
Across North Street, beyond that bandstand, a sign advertised CITY DRUG STORE on one of the buildings. A smaller sign probably bears the name of the druggist, but is unclear. A 1905 druggist directory listed one druggist in Larwill, S. W. Byall. A 1908 directory listed John E. Berry and Edward L. Garrett, but only John Berry was listed in a 1912 directory. Farther up the street, another sign appears to include the word FUR or FURS.
Across the street, possibly near the Hammontree Street intersection, were signs advertising a FEED BARN and a LUNCH ROOM. At the North Street intersection, three men were standing beside a gas lamp. The sign on the side of the building on that corner is unreadable, but may have identified the name of the hotel that the 1916 map shows on that corner. The signs on the building north of the post office are unclear as well. The sign above the post office advertised the local Modern Woodmen of America chapter.
The P. F. W. & C. railroad extended across Indiana from Pittsburg and Ohio through Fort Wayne, Columbia City, Warsaw and eventually to Chicago. By the time a 1908 railway guide³ was being published, the railroad had become part of the Pennsylvania Railroad system. A schedule dated December 1907 showed six daily trains traveling westbound between Pittsburg and Chicago on this route. Five stopped in Fort Wayne, but none stopped in Larwill. That same schedule showed eight trains traveling eastbound with two of these stopping in Larwill. A separate schedule showed two trains from running in each direction between Crestline, Ohio and Chicago. They stopped at Larwill. A separate train ran daily between Fort Wayne and Chicago and it also stopped in Larwill. A note at the bottom of the schedules pointed out that this line was double-tracked all the way between Pittsburgh and Chicago. That was a big deal and showed how important this route was.
1. Samuel P. Kaler and Richard H. Maring, History of Whitley County, Indiana (Indianapolis, IN: B. F. Bowen & Company, 1907). Available online at books.google.com/books?id=-hUVAAAAYAAJ&printsec=front....
2. Standard Atlas of Whitley County, Indiana Including a Plat Book (Chicago, IL: George A. Ogle & Co., 1916). Available online at www.historicmapworks.com/Atlas/US/9079/.
3. The Official Railway Guide: North American Freight Service Edition (New York: National Railway Publication Co., 1908), pages 478-479. Available online at books.google.com/books?id=kLgbTCc-AOcC&printsec=front....
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preparing for photo shooting
I was doing some sewing.My friend hold her on my knees.
Is it too bored, Peiqi?
It seems like so long ago, but one of the very first macro shots that I thought deserved some post-processing was a shot very much like this one. It's nice to shoot this long-legged fly again and recall that nature can sometimes put on quite a show on her own without help.
The person takes some photographs of the person on a bridge
He is only standing there for a moment or two more
He is remembering what he looked like or maybe who he was
And when it finally comes, he knows exactly what to do
He's meant to fall into the sea
Be dragged down by the current
Be dragged down deep beneath
Be dragged down deep beneath
---Memphis, I Am The Photographer
I've always had an obsession with the sea. I always feel more alive when I'm near it.
Punggol End Beach, Singapore.
The Maurice River Reaches Project - River Recollections
Janice and Jeanette Burcham
Twin Efforts to Preserve an Icon
The Burcham Farm is an icon - the last diked farm on the Maurice River. There has been much written about the family and the property. What hasn't been written is the end of the story, and that is something that the property owners, Janice and Jeanette Burcham, hope will never come to pass.
The preservation of this historic 99-acre property was on their minds as the twins approached their upper years. The Burcham twins have attracted attention and have gained recognition for their work to preserve the farm. In 1989 they were the recipients of the NJ Agricultural Society's Century Farm Award. Since 1951, the twins have been instrumental in maintaining the family's legacy. Without the wall of "rubble" they continually bolster, the Maurice River will reclaim the land that lies below the water level. (see sluice gate used to drain farm of water after storm events) The family home where they live, with the very bed where they were born, is perched higher up, but around the hill, the river encroaches.
The Burcham house was given its final renovation in 1907. According to the research of Patricia Bovers Ball (1995) "the earliest identified farmhouse building on the Burcham property was a one-room, hall-plan structure that stood at the north end of the existing house. Its small size and high pitched roof suggest an 18th century date of construction." Bovers Ball reported that new sections were added to the building over the decades, but this original section of the structure was demolished in 1961. The date of the first addition came sometime in the mid-1900's, but there is no firm date about this. The addition was a 1 1/2 story with a gable roof structure and a western façade. Bovers Ball describes the last major additon to the house, built in 1907. "It consisted of a new southern front - a brick Gothic Revival building. The new addition was a 2 1/2 story brick building that still stands. "The twins were born, five minutes apart, in November 1925 to Frank A. and Maud Burcham. They have been interviewed by journalists, researchers, and the curious. Janice and Jeanette admitted that at this point they felt like robots, mechanically reciting the facts about their farm and the brickmaking business that was carried out there:
•In the morning workers would "dig the clay" and fill coal cars.
•A boiler-powered cable line pulled the coal car over the pit; The clay was dumped; The cart returned by gravity to the clay pits.
•After grounding the clay, it was packed into moulds to be shaped. Lengths of bricks were cut by a wire - 8 to a pallet -5 pallets high -which were sent to the drying shed.
•There were three grades of brick: commons, red hards, and salmons.
•Once dried thoroughly, the bricks were wheeled up to the kiln, where the wood-fed "fire box" was burning round the clock during the production period.
•At the height of the Burcham's brick operation, 15,000 bricks were produced weekly. Horse-pulled wagons carried the final product to buyers - except on one occasion when a barge carried away one load. That one shipment carried 70,000 bricks. The deal was not handled satisfactorily and no further shipments left on the barge.
•The brickyard ceased operation in 1942.
These details that the twins provided have been well documented, but there are some lesser-known tidbits that they shared. During the summers,efforts were directed to the brick making process, but after the first frost, when the clay was too hard to dig, the workers spent their time cutting the wood needed to fire the bricks. The Burchams owned a wooded tract of land along Delsea Drive. The wood on that property was cut by hand and then lined up along the lane that leads to the house.
The "bomb shelters" that serve as storage sheds on the property were erected on the site of the brickyard. They are actually halves of fuel storage tanks.
The twins shared some other lesser-known facts about the farm that lies between the Maurice River and Delsea Drive (Route 47): The "Horseshoe Bend" of the Menantico Creek is right across from the Burchams’ mailbox. The road leading to the farmhouse has always been called "the lane."
There are some misconceptions that they offered to clear up:
•The Burchams never grew salt hay.
•Theirs was not a truck farm; the vegetables fed the family and the laborers.
•It is costly to maintain the dike. The concrete, gravel and clam shells have been donated, but the laborers need to be paid.
•It would take only a few Nor'easterns or the wake of fast boats to wipe out all their work.
Chickens have always provided the Burchams with "egg money." There are no more horses on the farm. Long ago they were used for hauling the bricks. The Burchams do keep sheep, to the delight of the school children when they come to visit the farm on their class trips.
It hasn't been easy to hold onto history. The stories about "what was" are fast-fading memories: In 1935, Clarence Wolf of NJ Silica leased the land and riparian rights from Frank Burcham. Wolf constructed a commercial pier to transport NJ Silica's sand on the Maurice River rather than pay the increasing cost that the railroads were demanding. The sand company used the wharf only once, but that was enough to convince the railroad to roll back their rates. "Wolfie's Wharf" was demolished in 1994. Who will remember that?
Janice and Jeanette's swimming hole was their favorite place when they were growing up. It was relocated when Wolf leased that slice of the family property - and the riparian rights, for his wharf. Who will remember seeing the young twins frolicking at the river's edge - or tell the stories about their encounters with the occasional otter that drifted up river?
Two fishermen connected with this spot on the Maurice River were Toots Peterson and Joe Touser. Who will remember the two colorful characters whose fish stories and other tales entertained the locals?
Janice and Jeanette did not plan to gather so many memories of their family farm. They never expected to live out their lives on the family property. Their parents had aspirations for them and saw that they finished their four years at Millville High and continued on to college. The twins said that they were fortunate to have that opportunity and they looked forward to it.
Still, college was the first time the twin sisters were separated. They acknowledged the detrimental effect it had on both of them during their first months apart. They both recalled how they lost weight and agreed that they both experienced a real sense of loss. They remembered that they were so affected by the separation that their college counselors recommended that they build time in their busy college schedules to visit each other.
After that realization, they spent the time between their studies visiting each other.
Jeanette was at NJ's Montclair University while Janice went to a nursing school in Livingston, NJ. In her freshman year Janice joined the Cadet Corps (a government nursing corps). Without a second thought, Janice shared her monthly salary - $15 - with her sister, Jeanette said.
The obligation to serve in military hospitals was rescinded by the time Janice graduated, but she enlisted in the Navy anyway. During that time, she earned a bachelor's degree from University of Oregon and a master's degree from the Columbia University. She served in the Navy for 27 years, earning much recognition, including a Navy Commendation Medal. When she returned to Millville in 1975, she was offered the opportunity to be director of nursing at Cumberland County Hospital, which she declined.
By the time Janice enlisted, Jeanette had secured a teaching position in the state of Washington. In 1948, she was offered a job at an American school in Egypt. The school was established by the State Department for the children of American citizens who were working abroad, and for the children of foreign diplomats. Jeanette was excited by the opportunity and moved to the Middle East to teach American History, European History, and Problems in American Democracy to her 7 to 12th grade students. She also taught physical education.
Jeanette returned to the farm in 1951 to care for her mother. After her mother's death, Jeanette attended the University of Pennsylvania, earning her masters degree. She also studied transportation law at the Academy of Advanced Traffic and practiced transportation law in the federal courts before the Interstate Commerce Commission. While helping to maintain the farm, she also worked at her brother's trucking firm.
In this interview (October 2004), the Burcham twins quickly moved through the history of their education and careers to a less-talked about period in their lives - their high school years and their athletic endeavors.
Both played basketball in a church intramural program. "Jeanette was the star," said Janice with pride. Jeanette dismissed that comment and steered the conversation to their team, which earned the title, "Millville regional champs." They both delighted in recalling how many local teams their team put down in tournaments. During one memorable season, an outside group, an "RCA team," was invited to participate in one of the tournaments, "to provide some competition," the twins chuckled. They remembered that tournament well. "These weren't students. They played full-court, They played like men." The twins thoroughly relished the memory.
When Maud Jones Burcham, passed away in 1951, Janice and Jeanette had some decisions to make. Their father had died in 1948. The two Burcham brothers, Russell and Melvin, were not interested in living on the family property so their parents left the land to their twin daughters. Janice decided to continue her career in the Navy, looking forward to a retirement with a pension. An uncle, George Hessler, came to run the farm for them. Jeanette related that, although she wanted to go to Turkey to teach, she came home and took a job with her brother's trucking firm. "I wound up running the office for 33 years," she said. Uncle George, who once had a dairy farm in the Philadelphia area, stayed on to tend the farm.
Decades slipped away. Their worldly travels became another memory as the Burcham sisters occupied themselves with the daily upkeep of the family property. It was home - it is history. Future generations will be fortunate if preservation efforts can protect the legacy that the Burcham twins worked a lifetime to hold onto.
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Photograph taken at 11:32am at an altitude of Four hundred and sixty eight metres on Wednesday 10th September 2014 in the wilderness, off Squilax Anglemont Road and beguuelin Road in the grounds of Celista Estate Winery, in Celista, British Columbia, Canada.
Celista nestles on the shoreline of Shuswap Lake, which drains via the Little River into Little Shuswap Lake, the source of the South Thompson River, a tributary of the Fraser River. Shuswap Lake is Eighty nine kilometres in length, Five kilometres wide and has a maximum depth of 161 metres.
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Nikon D800 70mm 1/2000 f/2.8 iso100 RAW (14 bit) Handheld AF-S single point focus. Manual exposure. Matrix metering. Auto white balance.
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ALTITUDE: 468.0m
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See www.firstchurchguilford.org/about-us/history-mainmenu-92 for this church's history.
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1908 postmarked postcard view of Kendallville, Indiana. This view was looking southeast from the water tower at the Cray Refrigerator Company. The Cray factory was located northeast of the intersection of the G. R. & I. (Grand Rapids & Indiana) Railroad and the L. S. & M. S. (Lake Shore & Michigan Southern) Railroad. In this view, Main Street extends from the center of the left edge toward the upper right-hand corner of the postcard. In the foreground, the oil tanks and the locomotive house are identified in the 1908 Sanborn™ fire insurance map set for Kendallville. The railcar to the right of the locomotive house belonged to the Hocking Valley Railroad. The railcar at the right edge of the scene belonged to the L. S. & M. S. Railroad. One of the two tracks at the lower right-hand corner led to a small railroad turntable that was located just outside this scene. The area just beyond the tracks is identified in the map set as an 8- to 15-foot deep ditch.
The map set shows lumber piles belonging to Flint & Walling Manufacturing Company along the east side of North Main Street. These are at the left edge of this scene but much of the company was located just outside this scene. Across the street from the lumber piles, the map set shows two large houses. The one nearest the tracks is clearly visible in this scene and the other is nearby to the right. That second house had a mansard style roof. The street addresses were 203 and 129 North Main Street, respectively. Above that second house, a sign advertised the ____ PLACE SALOON. The map set doesn’t show a saloon in that block of Main Street, but there was a saloon around the corner at 111 East Mitchell Street. The church steeple just above that sign probably belonged to the Church of Christ on the southwest corner at Mitchell and State Streets.
Another sign to the right of the saloon sign and near the center of the postcard advertised the HOTEL REYHER. That hotel was located on the west side of Main Street (117-119 North Main Street) midway between the L. S. & M. S. tracks and Mitchell Street. The three-story building above the hotel in this scene was on the southeast corner at Main and Mitchell Streets. The 1908 map set shows the Kelly House at that location (101-105 South Main Street).
The two church steeples in the distance (above the Hotel Reyher and Kelly House) probably belonged to the First Presbyterian Church on the southeast corner at William and State Streets (201-203 South State Street) and the Evangelical Lutheran St. John’s Church on the southeast corner of Rush and Oak Streets (301-303 South Oak Street). Both steeples, according to the 1908 map set, were 80 feet tall. The large steeple to the right of the Kelly House probably belonged to the M. E. Church on the northeast corner at State and Rush Streets (231 South State Street). That steeple was 110 feet tall according to the map set.
Near the right edge of the postcard, two signs painted on the side of a three-story building advertised a 5c CIGAR and SELZ ROYAL BLUE $3.50 SHOE. This building was probably the three-story structure at 112-114 South Main Street. The 1908 map set shows a business that was selling boots and shoes (and dry goods) in the building next door (110 South Main Street) below those signs.
The houses at the right edge of the postcard were on the east side of North Orchard Street. The street ended at the ditch.
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This was strange to take, but I love the results.
Please click L, looks much better. (grr flickr sharpening)
Recollection is the only paradise from which we cannot be turned out.
~ Jean Paul Richter
Dedicated to my dear friend Mari Anne.
First shot with my new Canon 5D Mark II. :)