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Matterhorn, Obergabelhorn, Dent Blache - three stunning mountains dominated our views from Zinalrothorn to the south east.
Trevorton, PA. 2014
wow....this is strange. it's been a while.
three weeks till my diploma and mfa from risd is conferred. not quite there yet. thesis still isn't finished. I don't know what I'm up to here, but wanted to say hi to all of you. I'd still be working in a warehouse somewhere if it weren't for the best of you, in addition to my wife. if it weren't for her i'd probably be in a ditch somewhere...well not necessarily, but i'd give it a good 20% shot. so yeah. thanks all. will be in touch. i've got a website up, and oh yeah, my son sam was born last summer. he's 9 months old now and pretty much kills me every day, that's about it.
cheers, andrew
From Wiki:
The wreck that can be seen off the harbour is the coaster SS Vina which was used for target practice by the RAF before sinking in 1944. The Vina was built at Leith by Ramage & Ferguson in 1894, and was registered at Grangemouth. She was a coast-hugging general cargo ship which would have worked the crossings between the east coast of England and through to the Baltic states.
As she neared the end of her useful seagoing life in 1940, Vina was requisitioned as a naval vessel for wartime use, carrying a crew of 12. With Great Yarmouth being a strategic port on the east coast, the ultimate fate for the ship would have been to have had her hold filled with explosives, and destroyed at the mouth of the harbour, thus blocking entry in the event of Nazi invasion. However, as this threat passed, she was taken out of service and towed up the east coast towards Brancaster where she was used as a target for the RAF before the planned invasion of Normandy.
The ship was subsequently sunk and the wreck remains on the sandbank to this day. Numerous efforts have been made to retrieve the wreckage as the ship was not only a danger to navigation, but also an attraction to the holiday makers on Brancaster beach who regularly walked out to the vessel's remains at low tide. Lives have been lost due to these ill-advised actions and the local lifeboats and RAF rescue helicopters have been pressed into service on many occasions each summer.
Removal efforts have long been abandoned due to the excessive costs involved. One ambitious suggestion involved blowing the remains up, but it was calculated that so much explosive would be needed, the subsequent explosion would have broken every window in Brancaster and Brancaster Staithe. A touch apocryphal maybe, but, even so, the wreck is destined to spend many more decades on the sands before time and tide eventually erode it completely.
The tide was coming in so I didn't try to get any nearer :-) reading the above I'm glad!
I knew there were a pair of egrets but saw 5 today. I had been upset to find a dead one in the water, a few days ago, it looked like it was caught in a fishing line and the other one was sitting near it as to guard over it. Today the dead one was no longer there, I was pleased as I thought someone had taken action after I reported it, but as I walked along the other side I found another dead one, or was it the same one? it was not clear but could well have been. These guys were on the little island in the lake far away, (full zoom).
A trio of buses drive eastbound across the most Piastowski over the Soła river in Oświeçim.
The first one is a Solaris Urbino. The second bus is a Mercedes-Benz Mediano. The third bus appears to be a Jelcz L120.
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Went to Canada hoping to find a Three-toed Woodpecker. But the leaders of the workshop, Alan Murphy and Greg Downing, not only found them, but led us to a pair of Three-toed Woodpeckers actively feeding a couple of chicks in their nest. They were going non-stop the whole time I was there. Many more pictures to come.
06/18/19, Thompson Nicola, British Columbia, Canada
My wife handed her camera to our three year old son, asked him to take a picture of Daddy and this happened!
This jacket has THREE HOODS! Two hoods go 'forwards' and there's one backwards hood that fits between them for a super snug nopeep enclosure.
This is an over the head jacket with concealed internal zip-in sleeves and a tie at the waist so your friend gets to play with the hoods while you can just wriggle!
Three Chair Bench rustic old wood bench built from chairs, unique and unusual. Shot in North Carolina.
Jos metsään haluat mennä nyt,
Sä takuulla yllätyt.
Jos metsään haluat mennä nyt,
Näät sammalet myllätyt.
They call this building Three Eleven at 961 feet tall at 311 South Wacker drive. ..Standing next to Sears Tower 1451 feet tall.
So Gents — What if your smartphone suddenly started vibrating and you answered it to discover, to your shock and amazement, that your very lovely and fully vaccinated lady had decided to end her self-imposed 15 month Coronavirus Quarantine and had just arrived here at the NY-NY!?!? That while you were napping and sightseeing, she had hopped on the the first ‘Red Eye’ flight outbound to Vegas! What would you do? 😲
Three of the statues of the east pediment of the Parthenon of Athens, now in the British Museum.
The New Acropolis Museum is now open and is time for all the removed parts of the Parthenon to be united, to be returned to their birthplace. There are no more excuses for the British government and the British Museum which holds most of the Acropolis violently-removed parts.
Today, the new Acropolis Museum has a total area of 25,000 square meters, with exhibition space of over 14,000 square meters, ten times more than that of the old museum on the Hill of the Acropolis. The new Museum offers all the amenities expected in an international museum of the 21st century.
The Greek Minister's of Culture message for the museum follows:
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Welcome to the new Acropolis Museum. 188 years since the declaration of the Greek Independence, 33 years since Constantinos Karamanlis took the far-sighted decision to built it in this particular site, and 27 years since the campaign of Melina Merkouri, a duty is fulfilled and a dream is realized:
A whole nation’s duty to its own cultural heritage; the new Acropolis Museum. The paramount monument of Ancient Classical Times now has its own Museum – at last. In difficult times people need symbols to hold tight and stand straight. The Grand Opening of the new Acropolis Museum may be such a symbolic event. Where the Aesthetics of Logic, the Ethics of Freedom and the Rationality of Beauty, are all fused together and carved in stone for eternity. Acropolis hasn’t stayed intact over the centuries. Yet it is still radiating its Beauty and its Truth.
This unique embodiment of ideas, ideals, moral standards and aesthetic values is needed now, more than ever. And we enjoy these, for the first time in a Modern Museum deserving to the historical Monument. Take a tour in it. Appreciate its atmosphere and its exhibits. Be inspired by its transcending message. It is Greek because it is Ecumenical. It is ours only to share it with the rest of the World. And please, remember: What you will discover is not just a part of our History. It is also a part of our soul, of who we are…
There are strong, sacred bonds, connecting us with every single item, from the humblest archaeological fragment to the most ornate figure. All of the artifacts are parts of our soul… Mostly the ones missing! With the anticipation that eventually – better sooner than later – they will be re-united in their birth place and in the integral form they were meant to be.
Antonis C. Samaras
Minister of Culture
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Not a very common butterfly, only living at the coast and the heathlands. From the archive.
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