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Half way up Shakespeare Cliff and the land is managed by the National Trust as a wild flower meadow and nature reserve. Its a bit windy and cold up here but a number of wild flowers are beginning to bloom including meadow buttercups, rock rose, common milkwort, common spotted, pyramidal and early spider orchids.
I took this while waiting for my husband to get a milkshake at Flo's (it was yummy and creamy with "gravel" bits in it!) and I'm not sure exactly what it is, but I really love the curves and lines in this shot. Hope everyone is having a happy Thursday! I pack and furiously clean house tonight before our awesome house/animal sitter comes so we can depart for Walt Disney World tomorrow! Hope everyone else's day is less busy :)
Thanks for looking and I appreciate comments and critiques!
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47357 is seen at Swanwick Junction on the 31st August 2003. On earlier visits to the Midland Railway Centre it was carrying LMS Red as 16440. It's currently under overhaul and is being out-shopped in LMS Red once again.
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I made this for a friend of my sisters little boy. She was only having a small party so just wanted a cake for 10 people but he is mad on Thomas.
Obviously a fully sculpted model would have been way too pricy and excessive for her needs so we went for the other option of just the face.
Carved from a 7" round chocolate cake and then covered in sugarpaste.
This is my contribution to the Swedish photo project Fotosöndag (Photo Sunday). This weeks theme is "rund" (round).
This is the first "real" photo I took for this class. It's a picture of my dogs water dish. What I really liked about it is the reflection of the tree in the water. I used my tripod and timer on this for the first time, which is something I also liked about it. Looking back now, I would've tried getting more directly over it, but then the reflection of the camera would've caused an issue, so I guess this worked out pretty good.
Illustration of a Tiny house with round door and windows and smoke coming out of the chimney. There are flowerbeds in front of the house and a tree.
Hand embroidered in cotton thread on calico.
One of a kind artwork as I don't work from a pattern.
Part of a tiny house collection.
Ready to hang on a handspun wool loop
Framed in a 3" hoop
Will be up in our Etsy shop by the end of the week
Would work like a regular 1x1 tile, but would fit over a 1x1 round brick and act as a cap. I guess it would be better with a grove along the bottom, but my art skillz aren't that good.
On the floor in the centre of the room are 3rd Century AD ancient Roman mosaics. The colours are still vibrant.
Round Hall/Sala Rotonda, Pio-Clementine Museum, Vatican; July 2019.
30 June 2014
Nikon D7000
Tokina AT-X 116 PRO DX-II 11-16mm f/2.8
The B&O Railroad Museum is a museum exhibiting historic railroad equipment in Baltimore, Maryland, originally named the Baltimore & Ohio Transportation Museum when it opened on July 4, 1953. It has been called one of the most significant collections of railroad treasures in the world and has the largest collection of 19th-century locomotives in the U.S.
The museum is located in the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad's old Mount Clare Station and adjacent roundhouse, part of the B&O's sprawling Mount Clare Shops site begun in 1829, the oldest railroad manufacturing complex in the United States.
Mount Clare is considered to be a birthplace of American railroading, as the site of the first regular railroad passenger service in the U.S., beginning on May 22, 1830. It was also to this site that the first telegraph message, "What hath God wrought [disambiguation needed]?" was sent on May 24, 1844, from Washington, D.C., using Samuel F. B. Morse's invention.
The museum houses collections of 19th- and 20th-century artifacts related to America's railroads. The collection includes 250 pieces of railroad rolling stock, 15,000 artifacts, 5,000 cubic feet (140 m3) of archival material, four significant 19th-century buildings, including the historic roundhouse, and a mile of track, considered the most historic mile of railroad track in the United States. Train rides are offered on the mile of track on Wednesday through Sunday from April through December and weekends in January. In 2002, the museum had 160,000 visitors annually.
The museum also features an outdoor G-scale layout, an indoor HO scale model, and a wooden model train that children will enjoy climbing on. From Thanksgiving through the New Year, local model railroad groups set up large layouts on the roundhouse floor and in select locations on the grounds of the museum. A museum store offers toys, books, DVDs and other railroad-related items.
The museum and station were designated as a U.S. National Historic Landmark in 1961.
In 2008, the Museum won three awards in Nickelodeon's Parents' Picks Awards in the categories of: Best Museum for Little Kids, Best Indoor Playspace for Little Kids, and Best Indoor Playspace for Big Kids. Television and film actor Michael Gross is the museum's "celebrity spokesman"
Arriva London HV45 on Route N253, Tottenham Court Road/Centrepoint
Route N253 is a very large horse-shoe shaped route, reaching Hackney between Aldgate and Tottenham Court Road/Centrepoint
The Orphir Round Church was built in the late 11th or early 12th century. The current ruin is the only evidence of a medieval round church in Scotland.
The church consisted of a round nave about six metres in diameter and a two-metre wide and equally deep semi-circular apse with a central window. The walls are one metre thick. Only the apse and a small segment of the nave remain. The church survived almost entirely until 1757, when it was demolished and its stones used in the construction of the new parish church. No remains of this parish church remain.
It is thought to have been built by Haakon Paulsson (Earl of Orkney from 1103 to 1123) as penance for murdering his cousin and co-ruler Magnus Erlendsson (later Saint Magnus). According to the Orkneyinga saga, Haakon took sole power in 1117 after the killing of Magnus. The saga refers to a "large drinking-hall" with a "magnificent church" nearby. The remains of the drinking hall, known as the 'Earl's Bu', can still be seen.
a classic view of Round Bald from Jane Bald - Roan Highlands in the Cherokee National Forest and along the Appalachian Trail
On a typically sunny San Diego day you might be drawn to the sights and the sounds of the Balboa Park Carousel. As you approach, you see the horses, frogs, dogs and pigs bobbing up and down on their brass poles.
Most of us who grew up in San Diego took a spin on it at one time or another. But for me, it had even more significance. You could say it was a member of the family.
Balboa Park: Heart Of San Diego
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My grandfather started working there in 1925. My parents bought it in the '50s. I got to ride endlessly as a child in the 1960s, and I spent many days in the '70s sitting in that small white ticket box, selling tickets to help put me through college.
Bill Steen, the carousel's owner, told me that its history started five years before the 1915 Panama-California Exposition in Balboa Park — an event whose centennial is being celebrated this year.
“The carousel is a 1910 Herschell-Spillman menagerie carousel, and it was made in North Tonawanda, New York, and shipped to California,” Steen said.
It was initially sent to Los Angeles, then turned up at the resort called Tent City in Coronado in 1915. As Balboa Park grew into a popular spot, the original carousel owner decided to place it near where the Plaza de Balboa & Bea Evenson Fountain sits today on the eastern edge of the park.
The carousel "finally settled down in the park in about 1922,” Steen said.
It remained in that location until 1968 when it was moved to its current spot, he said, adjacent to the San Diego Zoo.
KPBS news ancher Sally Hixson takes a trip down memory lane by taking a ride on the Balboa Park Carousel, Jan. 19, 2015. Her family used to own the carousel.
By Roland Lizarondo
KPBS news ancher Sally Hixson takes a trip down memory lane by taking a ride on the Balboa Park Carousel, Jan. 19, 2015. Her family used to own the carousel.
For me, that move in 1968 stands out. The city asked my mom to move her carousel three blocks, near the zoo. It was done to make way for the Reuben H. Fleet Science Center and the fountain.
Now 92, my mom, Virginia Long, owned the carousel for nearly 30 years. She still speaks with pride of its features, especially the craftsmanship on each animal.
“They’re hand carved. And I know the kind of wood — Lindenwood — from the Linden trees in London, England,” she told me.
Many of the horses have real horsetails, which raises an interesting story for both my mom and me: The story of where they came from.
“The zoo was very kind, and they kill horses when they’re old and feed the meat to the tigers and lions. And they would cut off the pretty tails,” Mom said.
Virginia Long, the former owner of the Balboa Park Carousel, sits near the center of the historic merry-go-round, Jan. 19, 2015.
Richard Klein
Virginia Long, the former owner of the Balboa Park Carousel, sits near the center of the historic merry-go-round, Jan. 19, 2015.
What my mom didn’t say is that she hated to see the bloody tails that had just been removed from the horses. So I would go with her, then take the tails to the tanner, where I watched them clean them up for the carousel. I was a kid and I didn’t care.
The carousel was a fount of stories for our family. Here’s one.
A standard rule is that only the employees can move about the carousel during a ride. As a kid, I remember hearing how actor Robert Preston — who played Professor Harold Hill in the movie “The Music Man” — rode the carousel and wouldn’t stay still. My father gave him several warnings, and finally he stopped the carousel and kicked Preston off.
As a kid, I couldn’t believe my father kicked a famous actor off our merry-go-round. Dad later told me Preston had too much to drink.
The merry-go-round had an added feature for kids, and this one that was special among carousels: the ring toss. A bunch of rings, loaded into a hollow stake, would be extended just within reach of carousel riders. The lucky rider who grabbed the brass ring would win a free ride.
“And I believe we’re the only active ring toss game west of the Mississippi,” said Steen, who now owns the carousel.
The Balboa Park Carousel, brought to the park in 1922, allows its riders to straddle anything from a horse to a tiger or a frog, Jan. 19, 2015.
By Roland Lizarondo
The Balboa Park Carousel, brought to the park in 1922, allows its riders to straddle anything from a horse to a tiger or a frog, Jan. 19, 2015.
Almost everything on the carousel is original, including the “band organ” and the hand-painted murals above the animals. The upkeep is extensive.
My mom calls owning it a year-round labor of love.
“It’s a well-loved merry-go-round,” she said, “and I’m so glad’s there’s a variety of animals: tigers and lions and pigs and cats. I painted the animals, and if they were all horses I would’ve been very bored!”
Steen sees it the same way.
“It’s been 35 years of loving care, carrying on the fine traditions that Virginia and (her dad) Clarence Wilcken set up for the merry-go-round. So little has changed over these, gosh, 90 years that the two families have owned or operated the merry-go-round,” Steen said.
So as you head to Balboa Park to celebrate its history, take a spin on the carousel, which truly can take you back in time.