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Last June, on a day with a good sky, I this caught this corner shot of the facade from the southwest in the noon sun. Here is another view but from the long gone reflecting pool level to feature the clouds and sky in order to finish my St. Catherine's series of edits. The grand old fir tree that buttressed this corner is long gone with age and flood. The floods and highway repair wiped out that grand reflecting pool of the chuch on the rock. I left this series in my unedited stash, as I chased this fall's photos. I gotta do a wrap right now. My Peak-to-Peak series is about to end, "The days are just packed," Calvin.
Next, I'll finish my seasonal greetings card and post it in a year end rush. I grabbed a scan of a finished card but I found that I had to manually add visual elements, the fold and emboss, to better describe it. Two stone buildings were spared from the floods as well as St. Malo Convention Center fire. You have to like the intensity of this light in Colorado's high country thin air, regardless of alack of clouds. I models the stone exterior well.
Wait, wait, I think some politicians formulate their hair color from the extreme orange of some of these rocks so they can intensely worship only themselves and grift for overseas business funding, dead journalists aside!
Oh man... these clouds were a vast improvement over my fall series. I certainly snapped shots all around on that blank sky day. TV shows warned us that Rocky Mountain fall colors were over but I persisted. Check WunderMaps at [wunderground.com] for your area temps and clouds before treks.
At Union City, Georgia the CSX A&WP/WofA Subdivision and Manchester Subdivision interact with one another via two connections, the Stonewall Connection was built in the late 1980s to give intermodal trains a straight run from Hulsey Yard to Jacksonville and vise versa. Twenty years later the Vaughn Connection was built to the north to allow trains a more direct route into Tilford yard thus bypassing downtown Atlanta. Those traffic patterns have changed since the original plans were implemented and now it can be anyone's guess as to what will go where and when. In this view Q042 makes it's way north with CSXT 153 after departing the Fairburn Ramp as Q154 holds on the Stonewalll Connection. February 22, 2014
While homosexuality is not a crime in Turkey unlike many other Muslim countries, homophobia remains widespread.
Istanbul bans gay pride march after threats from hardline group
Authorities in Istanbul have banned transgender and gay pride marches this month, citing security concerns after ultra-nationalists said they would not allow "degenerates" to hold the events on Turkish soil.
ReutersJune 17, 2016
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Sorry its been ages since I uploaded. Still traveling. Currently in Kolkata, India. More pics to come. This one taken while in NYC on a fab night out in the West Village.
The statue of Thomas J. "Stonewall" Jackson on Henry Hill at Manassas National Battlefield Park, Prince William County, Virginia (USA).
During the Confederates' defense of Henry Hill, General Jackson gained his nickname "Stonewall." It is said that General Bernard Bee used Jackson's brigade to anchor his line, then motivated his men by shouting, "There stands Jackson like a stone wall! Rally behind the Virginians!" The battle was fought on 21 July 1861.
Posted 10 Dec 2013.
We all know the meaning of, stonewall: the act of refusing communication, stalling,or evading, especially to avoid revealing embarrassing information and escape accountability. The wall seems to be growing in height in legislative chambers!
This photo was taken by a Zenza Bronica S2 medium format film camera with a NIKKOR-H 1:3.5 f=5cm lens and HOYA 82mm HMC Y[K2] filter using Kodak T-MAX 400 film, the negative scanned by an Epson Perfection V600 and digitally rendered with Photoshop
Dedicated to Andrew Madden who has been stonewalled in his time.
This is Stephen Kettle's depiction, in Welsh slate, of RJ Mitchell, the chap who designed that great WW2 fighter plane, the Spitfire.
Science Museum, London.
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Kick-Off Reception for Stonewall Honors 2010
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The Stonewall National Monument is located in Greenwich Village's Christopher Park.
The designated area includes Christopher Park and the block of Christopher Street bordering the park, which is directly across the street from the Stonewall Inn—the site of the Stonewall riots of June 28, 1969, widely regarded as the start of the modern LGBT rights movement in the United States.
On June 27, 1969, the NYPD conducted a raid on the Stonewall Inn, operating as a gay bar, because the inn did not have a liquor license.
Riots started in the ensuing days, where thousands of rioters protested against the NYPD's raid. The riots solidified the Stonewall Inn's status as a gay icon. The park also played a significant role in the riots—people had gathered at the park the morning after the first day of rioting, discussing the events of the previous day.
In 1992, the Gay Liberation statue by George Segal was placed in Christopher Park, mirroring a near-identical statue at Stanford University.
The statue consists of four white figures (two standing men and two seated women) positioned in "natural, easy" poses.
Stonewall National Monument is the first U.S. National Monument dedicated to LGBT rights and history. It received its National Monument designation on June 24, 2016.
Sources: Wikipedia & Revoly.
The day of our visit use noticed two NYC policeman pacing back and forth in front of the Stonewall Inn. We chatted to them and found the reason for their daily patrol at the Inn was result of the 13 June massacre at Pulse Night Club in Orlando Florida. They have been patrolling the street ever since.
To delay or block (a request, process, or person) by refusing to answer questions or by giving evasive replies, especially in politics. Example: The stonewalling by American politicians concerning reform of firearm laws, in spite of overwhelming public support for such action.
This photo was taken by a Kowa/SIX medium format film camera with a Kowa 1:3.5/55mm lens and Zenza Bronica 67mm SY48•2C(Y2) filter using Fuji Neopan Acros 100 film, the negative scanned by an Epson Perfection V600 and digitally rendered with Photoshop.
On Stonewall Day, let's talk about Stormé DeLarverie. "DeLarverie, who was born in New Orleans in 1920 to a black mother and a white father. She reportedly did not have a birth certificate since the marriage of her parents was illegal in Louisiana, and she moved north to Chicago due the constant bullying for being biracial. She spent the ’50s and ’60s as the only “male impersonator” in the Jewel Box Revue, the period’s only racially integrated drag troupe". Diane Arbus took a photo of "Miss Stormé de Larverie, the Lady Who Appears to be a Gentleman, N.Y.C.", in 1961. On the first night of the Stonewall Riots in New York City, DeLarverie was outside the bar and was the first person rounded up during a raid by the New York Police Department. DeLarverie stated, "It was a rebellion, it was an uprising, it was a civil rights disobedience -- it wasn't no damn riot". The "Stonewall Lesbian" was known for years as the first person to throw the first punch, and later DeLaverie said of that night, "The cops were parading patrons out of the front door of The Stonewall at about two o' clock in the morning. I saw this one boy being taken out by three cops, only one in uniform. Three to one! I told my pals, 'I know him! That's Willson, my friend Sonia Jane's friend.' Willson briefly broke loose but they grabbed the back of his jacket and pulled him right down on the cement street. One of them did a drop kick on him. Another cop senselessly hit him from the back. Right after that, a cop said to me: 'Move faggot', thinking that I was a Gay guy. I said, 'I will not! And, don't you dare touch me." With that, the cop shoved me and I instinctively punched him right in his face. He bled! He was then dropping to the ground -- not me!"
Stonewall and it's surrounding area is on the National Register of Historic Places #99000562 and National Historic Landmark and also a National Monument.
Located in the Manassas National Battlefield Park, Manassas, Virginia.
First Manassas (or Bull Run) was fought on July 21, 1861, and it served to inform the country the war wouldn't be over within a few weeks. Each side had about 18,000 troops on the lines but for both sides, those troops were poorly trained and poorly led. The battle was a Confederate victory and the Union Army retreat turned into a rout. It was at the First Battle of Bull Run that General Thomas Jackson earned his famous nickname "Stonewall."
The Second Battle of Bull Run (or Second Battle of Manassas) was fought between August 28 and August 30, 1862. The troop numbers on both sides was larger (62,000 Union v. 50,000 Confederate), as was the casualty count (10,000 Union, 8,300 Confederate). The fighting was so fierce that some Confederate troops ran out of ammunition and resorted to throwing rocks at the Union troops across the battle line. The Confederates won a decisive victory but failed to follow up on the opportunity to destroy the Union Army of Virginia. In the end, the Union Army retreated in an orderly fashion and were shortly merged into the Army of the Potomac.
The Stonewall Jackson House, located at 8 East Washington Street in the Historic District of Lexington, Virginia, was the residence of Confederate general Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson from 1858 to 1861.
The house is a two-story, four bay, brick dwelling with a large, stone rear addition. It has a side-gable roof and interior end chimneys.
The house was constructed in 1800, by Cornelius Dorman. r. Archibald Graham purchased the house and significantly expanded it in 1845 by adding a stone addition on the rear and remodeling the front and interior to accommodate his medical practice. Dr. Graham sold the house to then-Major Thomas Jackson, a professor at the nearby Virginia Military Institute, on November 4, 1858, for $3000. It is the only house Jackson ever owned. He lived in the brick and stone house with his second wife, Mary Anna Morrison Jackson, until the outbreak of the American Civil War in 1861.
It housed Stonewall Jackson Memorial Hospital from 1907 until 1954; when it was converted to a museum. In 1979 the house was carefully restored to its appearance at the time of the Jacksons' occupancy. The house and garden are owned and operated as a museum by the Virginia Military Institute from April through December. Guided tours are given daily, every half hour, from 9:00 a.m. until 4:30 P.M.
It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1973.
The information above comes from Wikipedia: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stonewall_Jackson_House