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The Liszt Ferenc Academy of Music (Hungarian: Liszt Ferenc Zeneművészeti Egyetem, often abbreviated as Zeneakadémia, "Liszt Academy") is a music university and a concert hall in Budapest, Hungary, founded on November 14, 1875. It is home to the Liszt Collection, which features several valuable books and manuscripts donated by Franz Liszt upon his death, and the AVISO studio, a collaboration between the governments of Hungary and Japan to provide sound recording equipment and training for students. The Liszt Ferenc Academy of Music was founded by Franz Liszt himself (though named after its founder only in 1925, approx. 50 years after it was relocated to its current location at the heart of Budapest).
This clock used to be near the old entrance on Orange Avenue. It is relocated to the new entrance. It is not as prominent.
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For 137 years, the Hotel del Coronado has stood as a monument to Gilded Age opulence, a place where presidents brushed shoulders with Hollywood’s glitterati, its Victorian architecture a timeless symbol of grandeur.
Following a $160 million restoration on track to be completed by June, the hotel’s historic Victorian neighborhood will be revitalized, blending its 1888 heritage with contemporary luxury.
The Victorian neighborhood’s restoration is part of a $550 million project, a transformation extending across its five distinct neighborhoods — bringing the resort’s total accommodations to 938 guest rooms — as well as its culinary offerings, front porch and lobby, ballrooms and more.
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“People think they want an 1888 room,” Petrone remarked, “but I tell them, ‘No, you don’t.’”
The original rooms were sparsely furnished, with hard wooden chairs, small beds and minimal conveniences.
The redesigned interiors now feature botanical-inspired artwork, round mirrors, period-appropriate headboards, plush bedding and expanded bathrooms, marrying historical charm with contemporary luxury.
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The Hotel del Coronado, also known as The Del and Hotel Del, is a historic beachfront hotel in Coronado, California, just across San Diego Bay from San Diego. A rare surviving example of an American architectural genre—the wooden Victorian beach resort—it was designated a California Historical Landmark in 1970[4] and a National Historic Landmark in 1977.[3][5] It is the second-largest wooden structure in the United States (after the Tillamook Air Museum in Tillamook, Oregon).
When the hotel opened in 1888, it was the largest resort hotel in the world.[6] It has hosted presidents, royalty, and celebrities, and been featured in numerous films and books.[7]
San Diego 2025
Happy Bench Monday, HBM,
UP GP40-2 1361 leads a local in Superior, WI. Once a regular unit on the Harvard Sub, the elimination of ATS in favor of PTC has caused it to be reassigned up here to the other end of Wisconsin.
Fast Forward about six minutes from yesterday's post and we come to a subject that I try to visit on each trek to the park. The relocated boulders that for some time occupied a spot on the hill where they were surrounded by a bright orange plastic snow fnce. I was so happy when they were moved to their new location.
Rarely do I ever clone things out of a photograph, and when I do it may just be a blade of grass or something minor at the edge of the frame. In this case though I cloned out a couple of my footprints from a previous visit. They were at the lower right hand corner, and were in my opinion both distracting and messed with balance. I am good with that as it does not really alter permanent reality, if that makes sense. The snow will not always be there. If there was say a powerline running through the sky i would never think about removing that as that would be changing the actual scene.
Likely a couple of clicks to the best detail.
I made this image fairly late in my trip to the Faroe Islands. I was staying in the town of Leirvik at this point, having relocated to the eastern part of the archipelago to be closer to the islands of Kalsoy, Kunoy and Viðoy. By this point I had hit most of the spots I had really wanted to see and was poring over Google maps to visit any places that looked interesting but had been passed over in my initial examinations. I had already discovered that it was impossible to go anywhere on these islands and not be amazed, so I was really just looking for a place to point to as an initial direction to head, content to enjoy whatever I discovered along the way. Kunoy Park seemed just such a spot and I wanted to see the island of Kunoy as it was, so this seemed like a good place to start. One upshot to visiting the park here and reading about its history is it made me realize that one thing the Faroe Islands is almost completely lacking is trees. I had noticed but not noticed this already. I think initially I was so distracted by the beauty of the place and once I had gotten used to that I had also gotten used to not seeing trees. Kunoy Park is one of the few places in the islands you can find trees and even these were planted by people. Later, after I had moved back to Tórshavn I asked my Airbnb host about this. According to her, the islands have pretty much always lacked trees. Before shipping became a reliable means of importing goods the islanders relied upon driftwood as a source of their building materials (I was especially curious how they built boats without forests for lumber). There were several beaches and coves on the islands known for collecting driftwood and these became prime harvesting locations. Most of the trees the islands saw wash ashore came from Norway, in case you were curious.
Anyway, with my affinity for forests and trees I really enjoyed my visit to Kunoy Park. Despite being planted by people, this park had a very natural feel to it and like any good forest was quite contemplative and quiet. I hiked up through its short length, passing a father and son playing in the woods and came to this back exit looking out on pasture and mountains and found this view moving enough to unpack the Hasselblad. Much of the islands is pervaded by a sense of quiet and timelessness steeped together. This is just one more example of such a spot where that came out. At least while I was standing there.
Hasselblad 500C/M
Kodak Portra 400
Meeting at CMAC with Civil Affairs and some NGO’s
- UN will meet with NGO’s concerning Internally displaced Person’s (IDP’s). Iraqi refugees have taken over an orphanage. Need to relocate refugees. IDP’s are just showing up at M.P.’s checkpoints and looking for help. They try to move in with the G.I.’s.
There were two Iraqi women present with a little boy. Apparently they were looking for help as well. Before the meeting General Strock was walking by them and he stopped and fished an orange out of his pocket and offered it to the boy. It was a spontaneous gesture and it elicited a big smile from the boy, as he accepted the orange, and from General Strock as he gave it to him. General Strock must have gotten the orange at breakfast this morning and was planning on eating it himself.
“Queen-for-a-day” feel to the meeting. (This was an U.S. daytime TV show from back in the late 1950’3-early 1960’s or so. The premise was a live studio audience and three women “contestants” who told their hard luck stories. The reaction from the audience decided the “winner” who received various items that related to resolving her problem. Even as a kid I remember reacting to this show. Like viewing a car wreck; a morbid curiosity.)
- Black market in arms is prevalent in Baghdad
- “Bad guys” have set up their own checkpoints in the City
- So far, 650 UXO missions have been identified in Baghdad
Franz, the “garbage guy”, (another Corps of Engineers civilian) saw 15-18 cluster bombs at a garbage dumpsite. It is unsure how they got there. A little girl was hurt when one of them exploded. This UXO is “beer can” in size, yellow in color, and affects a football field size area when it explodes. The size and color attract kids who are very curious. Great. Those damn things have no business being used, especially in an urban environment with so many civilians present.
(I saw a destroyed Iraqi tank being picked up in the green zone recently; some of Franz’s good work.)
The de-Baathification process is unsettling. Franz said that the lead Iraqi that he has been working with, a former Iraqi Army Lt. General, came to their last meeting, read a letter of protest about the policy which now prevents him from working with us, and walked out. Now what will he and the others just like him do? They may have been too close to Saddam’s regime, but they know how to get things done. They know the system and people. Now they may have to go over to the dark side.
A raw water pumping station was fixed twice and looted again according to the Civil Affairs folks. General Strock responds,
“Fix it again and have an ambush set up for the looters”.
The other officers, who know General Strock, laugh and one says,
“The General is showing his Ranger training”.
A reference to the Army Ranger patch on General Strock’s uniform designating that accomplishment earlier in his career.
Later someone mentioned that General Strock couldn’t line up a Military Police escort for a drive out to Baghdad City Hall for a meeting. So, the General got in an SUV with his driver, chambered a round in his M-9 pistol and said,
“Let’s go”.
And go they did. It’s only a ten minute ride across the Tigris River, but an armed escort is required.
I don't care for staging shots at all, but sometimes, when I find a bug on the side of the house, shooting it right there can make for a pretty boring backgound. This broad-nosed weevil is the species Otiorhynchus raucus and it was one of those - on the (light grey) side of the house.
I therefore took the liberty of relocating it two meters and place it one a leaf in the garden and proceeded to shoot it there instead.
This was shot at 2.7:1 magnification and is a short focus stack of three exposures as it was kind enough to stay still for me.
Church of Panagia Akathistos Hymn (1965) on the main square in Oia, Santorini, Greece, had to be relocated and rebuilt after an earthquake in 1956.
Wikipedia described this as, “a group of relocated Anasazi ruined cliff dwellings and a museum located just west of Colorado Springs”.
I had time to grab the camera as one of our resident squirrels found an easy way to defeat the built in security of the wire mesh on this feeder. I had only my 85mm manual focus lens to hand but this chap was so confident that it let me get quite near. I feel he deserved a feed before I relocated the feeder in the tree... There's a bit more detail viewed large, but I guess you all know what a squirrel looks like...
Kiev-88, Volna 2.8/70. Kodak PPN 160 negative film, expired in 2006.
Jianmincun, a village from the 60's near Zhongtan Lu.
Subway #22506 (closed) [1,800 square feet]
2291 George Washington Memorial Highway, The Shops at York River, Hayes, VA
Opened in 2000, closed/relocated in October 2008
"Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ! In his great mercy he has given us new birth into a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead, and into an inheritance that can never perish, spoil or fade. This inheritance is kept in heaven for you," 1 Peter 1:3-4
Excerpt from www.stationarts.ca/history-of-the-station:
Barn Quilts Trail 'Roads to the Station'
The coming of the railroad was an exciting event! This block is located at the Great Western Railway Station (1879-1975), which today has been re-purposed to the arts-based, community involved, Station Arts Centre. The design originates from the Railroad Crossing pattern, with each arm representing a function of the Station: arts programming, galleries, in-house groups and visitor information – all coming together at this heritage site.
Members of the Station assisted in the layout and painting of several of the quilt blocks displayed throughout Southwest Oxford County.
The CN Caboose
The CN caboose originally ran on the tracks in front of the Station Arts Centre (currently known as Bridge St. W.). When the railway service was discontinued in the late ‘70’s, many of the engines, cars and caboose units were redistributed on other lines.
During the ‘90’s, the Tillsonburg Lions and Lioness Clubs raised funds to purchase the caboose with the purpose of using it as a visitor information site. Originally, the caboose was located by the Clock Tower on Broadway St. Issues arose due to lack of: water, electricity, washroom facilities and staffing. The project had come to a standstill and another concern that the footings were weakening under the caboose would cause it to move or become unstable.
The board of directors of the Tillsonburg Station Arts Centre offered to have it moved and would take on the stewardship of restoring and maintaining the caboose. As approved by Town Council, the Station, along with local businesses, relocated the caboose to its present site.
I'm in the middle of a front porch remodel. I had to move all the furniture, etc. off before the workers got here yesterday. When I took down the curtains, this little beauty was exposed. This is the creature that keeps my cats entertained (usually in the middle of the night) by jumping onto my bedroom window. When he first came down onto the railing his whole body was dark like his head. This all happened really quickly. Then when he landed on this white railing, he started to turn colors. On the left just his backside and back legs had changed. When I finally got him to the ground on the mulch he was pretty much white all over. God's creation! I think he's relocated somewhere else by now.
From our adventures up north. The Eagle had a fish with no plans to relocate so I took advantage of the photo op.
Do not use this image on websites, blogs, or other media without my explicit permission © 2016 M Leeson - all rights reserved.
BNSF 5156 heads south on the BNSF Hannibal Sub. (track mark west) with the final CitiRail power move, the D-ALNSTL3 27T, here at Mp. 28 at Machens, MO. The units are headed for the Prairie Lines yard for storage in St. Louis, MO. near the Anheuser Busch brewery.
All pics courtesy of Pixabay and Unsplash.
NO ANIMALS WERE HARMED DURING THE MAKING OF THIS VIZION AND BY THE TIME YOU SEE THIS THEY WILL ALL BE IN A MUCH SAFER PLACE
Due to 7470 being down for maintenance this year's annual Mass Bay RRE's 'Steam In The Snow' charter on the Conway Scenic Railroad was instead billed as 'Covered Wagons In The Snow' and it did not disappoint. Having traveled as far as the Notchland Inn where four photo runbys were performed the two original Boston and Maine F7s (4266 and 4268) owned by the 470 Railroad Club are on their way back east with the train.
This route opened in 1875 as the Portland and Ogdensburg Railway and would remain an important through freight route for succesor Maine Central until 1983, known for most of its life as the Mountain Subdivision. Shuttered for a dozen years it was purchased by the State of New Hampshire from MEC Guilford Transportation in 1994 and revived by 1996 to become a wildly popular 25 mile extension of the little Conway Scenic.
This was the only true 'must have' shot I wanted for the day, and I couldn't be more pleased with how it turned out. They are seen at Sawyers River, MP 74.8, where fom 1877 to 1928 the 8 mile long Sawyers River Railroad (a logging operation) connected, although the MEC agency at this spot was closed in 1921. Two historic structures survive to this day, the section men's car house at right and the foreman's dwelling at left, both now privately owned. To the left of the train obscured by the snow is a 21 car passing siding that once again sees use in the summer season as a run around track. One interesting fact is that the house used to also be located on the right (north) side of the mainline but was moved across in the 1950s when Route 302 was relocated. Not wanting a private grade crossing here the railroad chose to move the home instead!
I now have good shots in three of the four seasons here, and a true spring one isn't really possible as the railroad doesn't run their first regularly scheduled Mountaineer train until May 27th.
To see a green summery view here if you missed it before check out this shot:
And for a favorite fall scene this shot:
And for a 'Steam In The Rain' shot this same weekend three years ago check out this:
As for the two classic EMDs, 4266 was built in Mar. 1949 and was acquired for preservation in 1981 off the Billerica deadline. Restored a couple years later, she has called North Conway home ever since and has been operational off and on for the past four decades.
4268 was built in Oct. 1949 and ran for the very first time in almost a half century in early 2022. I'm not sure when her last run was, but I can find no photos of her in service after about July 1974. She languished for a decade behind the Billerica shops after being stripped of all major components including prime mover, main generator and traction motors. In 1986 she finally left Billerica by truck after being acquired by George Feuderer who displayed her in a field in East Swanzey, NH until acquired by the 470 Club and trucked to North Conway in October of 1991.
She received a cosmetic restoration in 1993 and had been prominently displayed at the Conway Scenic in the company of her operational sibling ever since. After years of planning, the club began restoration in earnest in 2018 with the full support of the railroad and its shop using ex New Hampshire Northcoast GP9 1757 (ex PRR) as a major parts donor for the four year long restoration project.
Addendum: thanks to Carl Byron for supplying the fascinating historical information below that I'd never read about before.
The 4268A was actually built in March, 1949 as Engineering Test Dept Locomotive #930. Used for high altitude component testing on the DRGW's Soldier Summit among other locations. It spent some of that summer masquerading as a CB&Q locomotive leading their passenger car display at the 1949 Chicago World's Fair. It was then was cleaned up, re-engined, and made into to a standard F7A and offered for sale at a "slightly used demo" price. The B&M bought it and it was renumbered and painted into the B&M livery and shipped east, so while the builders plate may well say 10/49 but it certainly had a prior interesting career.
Harts Location, New Hampshire
Saturday January 7, 2023
Most spiders don't enjoy the indoor climate here very much. It is generally way to dry for them and even though they might be drawn to the warmer temperatures, the low humitidy will kill them (with some exceptions).
The common candy-striped spider (Enoplognatha ovata) like this male are definitely better off outside so when I found him on a wall inside I swiftly relocated him to the garden - and tooka couple of shots of course!
The "candy stripe" part of the name is a reference to the female which is a paler colour with a pinkish-red stripe along the abdomen.
The official state reptile of Florida, the American Alligator can grow up to 15ft and weigh 453kg (adult male). They inhabit freshwater wetlands including swamps, rivers, ponds and lakes and eat pretty much anything that's available.
Although American Alligators are less aggressive towards humans than Nile and saltwater crocodiles, caution should still be exercised when gators are, or might be, present.
Despite Florida having more than a million gators and being a very popular holiday destination, reported attacks on humans have been about 250 in the last 70 years with 23 of these being fatal.
Following the tragic death of a two year old boy at a Disney Resort in 2016 (he had been playing in shallow water at the edge of a lake at about 9.00pm), the authorities advised that families with young children should stay clear of waterways at night-time, when gators can’t readily make out the difference between a small child and their normal food sources such as wading birds and mammals.
Female gators can also be very aggressive during the nesting season (June/July) and quite often wardens of wildlife reserves will close paths and trails during this time if there are nests close by.
The gator in this photo is a rather small one. It was taken at Lakes Regional Park which is quite a well used public park near Fort Myers in Florida. I have seen much larger gators there and I understand that the local authorities will occasionally remove these large gators and relocate them to somewhere more appropriate.
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Metro-North BL20GHM 112 leads train 1936 from Bridgeport to Waterbury and arrives in Naugatuck on the evening of Friday, February 9, 2024. Except for Waterbury, the other five Waterbury Branch stations are low-level platforms with small shelters. There are plans to upgrade these to high-level, including Naugatuck, which is slated to be relocated just south of the current one. The former New Haven Railroad Station also visible is occupied by the Station Restaurant & Bar.
We've relocated from Greece to the UK so the last few months have been really busy. We're settled now though so things should get back to normal . . .(whatever that is :-)
This is a Geum and the textures I used are by French Kiss Textures
I couldn’t get to Sad Hill Cemetery while I was in Spain ... so I checked out Madrid’s Cemeterio de la Almudena instead. More people are buried there than are alive in the city.
Apparently, the remains in this large tomb were relocated. There seemed to be no urgency about repairing or demolishing the remaining structure.
We followed a caravan through the cattle drive. You can see how orderly they generally were. Barraba, New South Wales.
This project spurred the emergence of Columbus’ riverfront as a revitalized mixed-use destination. On a tight urban site flanked by new public parks and requiring relocation of public roadways, Synovus’ office headquarters’ traditional street-side façade addresses the historic downtown while the riverside façade is a more contemporary addition to the surrounding progressive community.
Pictured is one of fourteen taverns Vann built across the state of Georgia, which included another tavern that stood on or near this location. This particular tavern was moved to this location in 1955 from Forsyth County and restored. New Echota was established in 1825 as the capital of the Cherokee Nation, which tried to assimilate with the advancing settlers. Unfortunately, the Indian Removal Act of 1830 forced out all eastern tribes who had to relocate to the west of the Mississippi. In 1835, the Treaty of New Echota forced out the Cherokees. Forced relocation of Indian tribes between 1830 to 1850 by the U.S. government is often referred to as the Trail of Tears. New Echota State Park and Historic Site is near Calhoun, Georgia.
Relocated in a beautiful little park just downstream from the confluence of the East and West Forks of Tanner's Creek. Many busloads of elementary school kids visit this park every year.
Work has been progressing rapidly in Michigan City with the last bits of pavement being removed and relocation of Water, Sewer and Power lines well underway.
Drifting along two miles from the depot in Heber City, the Lakeside Limited crosses Edwards Lane as it enters the Deer Creek Line Change. Built in 1940 by the US Government, the new track alignment relocated 10.4 miles of Rio Grande's original 1899 built Provo Canyon Branch above the flood waters of Deer Creek Reservoir.
Key West Cemetery was relocated from Higgs Beach to this site in 1847 after being ravaged by a hurricane the previous year.Over 75000 people are interred here in in-ground and crypt style graves,given the closeness to sea level.Some prominent memorials in the cemetery include those to the Battleship Maine Disaster and one honoring those who served in the 1868 Cuban Revolution.Cultural diversity is in prominent display here as sites range from elaborate markers to simple headstones.
A Florida State Historic site...
Zaanse Schans is a neighbourhood of Zaandam, near Zaandijk, Netherlands. It is best known for its collection of well-preserved historic windmills and houses. From 1961 to 1974 old buildings from all over the Zaanstreek were relocated using lowboy trailers to the area. The Zaans Museum, established in 1994 near the first Zaanse Schans windmill, is located south of the neighbourhood.
The International Car Forest of the Last Church is a rural Nevada piece of outsider art created from the collaboration of two people, Mark Rippie and Chad Sorg. The Car Forest was built after Sorg relocated to the small town of Goldfield to help Rippie bring to fruition his vision of setting the world record for having the most upturned cars as part of an art piece - a record that previously belonged to Alliance, Nebraska's Carhenge monument.
Photographed in infrared.
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