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Found ages ago when someone at the private nursing homes had cats.
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Thema "Two-Same" am 05.02.2022.
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"The historic ghost town of Two Guns is situated on the eastern rim of Canyon Diablo about 30 miles east of Flagstaff, Arizona, United States of America. The town, originally known as Canyon Lodge, flourished as one of the significant tourist spots along the famous route 66.
The town had a gas station, a cafe, overnight accommodation, a store selling local souvenirs and even a zoo with animals characteristic for the area. But when Route 66 was redirected to the opposite canyon, the town of Two Guns, as many towns along the old unused section of Route 66, started slowly to decline. After several attempts for it to be resurrected, the town of Two Guns became a completely abandoned ghost town at the beginning of the 1970s. The several remaining buildings are now in ruins but the site remains a picturesque place full of history and mystery.
The area that would later become Two Guns was inhabited much earlier. Native artifacts discovered there indicate that this place was populated from 1050 AD. The first European settlers started to populate the area in the mid-19th century when the construction of the Santa Fe Railway was proceeding in northern Arizona. In 1880 there was built a railroad town called Canyon Diablo, which became a ghost town years before the idea of building the town of Two Guns was even born. The town of Canyon Diablo quickly became a favorite place for outlaws, gamblers, and criminals. Billy the Kid and his gang hid in a ruined house built from the stone on the west edge of Canyon Diablo in winter 1879-1890."
(www.abandonedspaces.com/towns/two-guns-arizona-cursed-gho...)
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Two images stitched.
Cliffs and Tasman Sea,
North Avoca, New South Wales, Australia
Two wooden figures, ingrained in time,
At the cigar store, where they silently chime.
A statement to art, to culture, to trade,
Two guardians, in their wooden parade.
Quail Hollow State Park, Ohio
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These two little hearts, which are about 1¼" across, were included in the packaging of something I bought online, just as decoration. I hate waste, so I stored them and was sure they'd come in useful for ... something. And here they are. The diminutive white flowers came from my lawn. It took a bit of patience to set this one up. :)
For this week's Looking Close... on Friday! group theme, Two.
which I created for today's Looking Close on Fridays: objects in pastel colours
If anyone has tips for achieving pastel colours in photos I'd be happy if you would share them, having tried everything I can imagine and not feeling very successful!
( I could not tone down the orange in the first shot and I find the turquoise beads a little too pale in the second. An interesting challenge, hoping to learn! )
I believe this is a Two-barred Warbler, but living in North America I am not very familiar with the Phylloscopidae. I put this to the Bird Identification Help Group here on Flickr to see if I am right, but don’t yet have a conclusive answer.
The sighting was on the Ang Ka nature trail near the highest point of Doi Inthanon National Park in northern Thailand, in late January.
A picture taken last April of 2010. The time where I don't even know what aperture, shutter, and iso mean :) Since this picture is that old, I gave it an old feeling by adding texture and changing to sepia tone ;)
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Two of my grandchildren chose these 3 photos to post, from my solo walk today. It was windy and felt very cold. My grandson chose this one.
Best seen large by clicking on the photo.
Tomorrow when the farm boys find this
freak of nature, they will wrap his body
in newspaper and carry him to the museum.
But tonight he is alive and in the north
field with his mother. It is a perfect
summer evening: the moon rising over
the orchard, the wind in the grass. And
as he stares into the sky, there are
twice as many stars as usual.
-Laura Gilpin
Happy "Looking close... on Friday!" with "bottles".
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So thankful for the generosity others show our family. We’ve been given eggs multiple times by different people, as well as being blessed by many other generous forms of sharing. This image serves as a reminder of the kindness we have been shown by others.
So thankful for these eggs that were generously given to our family (this is two dozen of the five dozen that were given), that helped provide some meals for our family. I was captivated by the colors and unique features of each of the eggs as I carefully washed them and found them and the goodness and meaning behind them so beautiful that I was compelled to photograph them.
Another one from the archives. This guy hauled and played two pianos for the people of Portland. He was pretty good, too.
Two old, possibly forgotten, certainly unloved, boats sit in the River Orwell, they are in good company with other, perhaps even less fortunate and more decrepid sunken, sinking hulks situated closeby.
A simple shot made tricky as I wanted to simplify the image to focus attention on the wrecks and provide them some much needed care and attention.
I photographed this Two-banded Puffbird (Hypnelus bicinctus) at Finca la Reserva de Ecoflora, near Monterrey in Casanare, Colombia. It is found only in Colombia and Venezuela, where it lives in llanos savanna, thickets and the edges of dry woodland, almost always below 500 meters. It hunts from a perch and sallies out to catch insects. It digs its nest burrow into a termite nest in a tree. The two black bands across its chest give it its name. IUCN lists it as Least Concern.
I used a Canon R5 with the RF 800mm f/11 plus the RF 1.4x extender for this one, at 1/60 sec, f/16, ISO 1600. Monterrey, in the foothills of the Eastern Cordillera about 105 kilometers from Yopal, was founded on September 6, 1953, and became a municipality in 1960.
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