The Surviving Seventies
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Born in 1776, William John Bankes was as a young man an aide-de-camp to the Duke of Wellington and became an active Member of Parliament.
While in residence at Kingston Lacy, William John made many changes, including the installation of the Egyptian obelisk that may be seen in the gardens to this day. One of the first things he did was to plant a beech avenue lining the road from near the houseās entrance drive to beyond Badbury Rings. The road was a turnpike, and the Bankes family enjoyed the revenue from it. The avenue was a birthday gift to William Johnās mother, Frances, and there were 365 trees on one side of the road for each day of the year and 366 on the other, for a leap year.
Today the road is the B3082, the main route between Wimborne and Blandford. The trees are not surprisingly showing signs of age and disease. The National Trust have so far replaced some seventy of them with hornbeams, which are just as attractive but are better able to withstand the disadvantages of being alongside a busy road.
Text courtesy of Dorset Life Magazine.
Embarcadero Center (complex built throughout the seventies) and the Transamerica Pyramid (completed in 1972).
ONR NB from North Bay rockets through the fall colours of Latchford, Ontario on their way to Englehart.
ONT 2121 ex NS SD70M
Union Pacific's LUE43 local pulls 15 cars through the Fourth South Yard in Salt Lake City, Utah on Aug. 23, 2021.
Today I was wondering why everything on my Friends page is orange - didn't realize that they are all crazy. At least on Tuesdays.
In 1972 I came to school, and my first bike was orange, also in that year.
A seventy plus year old Christmas tree ornament discovered along with many others in the attic of Pamās mother who passed at 99+ April, 2022. Ornament is slightly under 2 1/2 inches. Composition cropped to just under 3 inches. Sidelit in soft box with glitter paper background. iPhone flashlight aimed toward background glitter paper. Square.
My dad is a Cowboy, Blacksmith and a Saddle-smith, among many other things. In his seventy-something years of life, his hands have done lot of work, and created many useful and beautiful things. Here he is building me a leather camera strap, made to fit me perfectly.
you can buy my art at james-sage.pixels.com/
Who, that you know, would photograph a tiny snail from the sticky side, edit the photograph like this and name it as above.. :)
Palau.
Ngerukewid is a set of islands located inside Palau's lagoon. The islands and the area around them are protected under the Ngerukewid Islands Wildlife Preserve, which was established in 1956.
D-ABUM, a Boeing 767-31BER, on approach to runway 23 at Toronto Pearson International Airport in Mississauga, Ontario.
It was arriving as CFG2402 (Condor Flugdienst GmbH) from Frankfurt, Germany.
It was wearing the special Condor retro livery.
This is a shot of the Milky Way along with a Man in the foreground as a pictorial representation of God's Creation (Genesis 1, 1ā28). The man allows his mind to drift towards the past (up to seventy six thousand years ago) by gazing at the Milky Way.
The disk of the Milky Way is about 100,000 light-years in maximal diameter; Earth is located 25,800 light-yrs from the galactic core: It takes the light of the Milky Way's most remote stars 75,800 years to reach the stargazer's eyes; he now looks at the stars as they were in the past (so he looks into the past). There are four hundred billion (4 Ć 10Ā¹Ā¹) stars in the Milky Way.
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Canon EOS R5
Sigma 24mm F1.4 DG HSM | Art
ISO 3,200 ā f/1.8 ā 8 sec Ć 37 shots (stacked)