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Lover Rose desgned by Zhang Anan, Stem designed by Hyo Ahn, Calyx and Leaf designed by Mi Chen, Tutorial by Malinda Huang; folded by me
Thanks to New Invention Junior School in Willenhall for such a warm welcome. (5th December, 2019)
Labour will ‘poverty-proof’ schools, introducing free school meals for all primary school children, encouraging breakfast clubs, and tackling the cost of school uniforms.
Drake Green Winged Teal and Drake Eurasian Teal at Guardbridge. A nice surprise find when I thought I was going to miss out on a Glossy Ibis which had been found at Loch of Kinnordy, where I had considered going that day (saw it mid-week anyway).
Visiting Santa
Santa: What is your wish this year?
Groot: I am Groot !
A build for the local LUG - create scenes with Baby Groot
2019 September Visiting on Top The Vessel Sculpture at Hudson Yards Tower near 34th Street Midtown Manhattan New York City NYC 09/21/2019 - West Side Construction in the Center of cityscape art architecture urban landscape scape view cityview shadow silhouette 21st close up skyline skyscraper railroad rail yard train AmTrak train tracks below grown stair stairs buildings above staircase dingus Fall Autumn climb climbing up down
Ryan Janek Wolowski visiting the Dyker Heights Christmas Lights Lucy Spata house 1152 84th St Brooklyn NY 11228 NYC USA December 18th 2021
Dyker Heights Christmas Lights Brooklyn NYC USA December 18th 2021
#DykerHeightsChristmasLights #LucySpata #ChristmasLights #ChristmasDecorations #ChristmasInNewYork
LOCATION:
Christmas light displays from 11th to 13th Avenues (also known as Dyker Heights Blvd) from 83rd to 86th St in Dyker Heights Brooklyn
DIRECTIONS:
D train to 79th street at New Utrech Ave via the MTA Metropolitan Transportation Authority New York City Subway $2.75 rate each way 1.1 mi 22 minute walk
Next closest subway is R train local to 86th st at 4th Ave in Bay Ridge 0.9 mi 18 minute walk
Third closes subway is N train to Fort Hamilton Parkway Station at 62nd st 1.2 mi 24 minute walk
NOTABLE HOUSES TO VIEW
Lucy Spata house
1152 84th St Brooklyn NY 11228
Between 12 & 11 Avenue
DHCL cited to be started by Lucy Spata when she moved to the neighborhood from Bensonhurst in 1986 no one on the block decorated back in the early 1980's Lucy started small with a snowflake and some blow mold light up soldiers then went bigger and the neighborhood caught on and joined in making it the uplifting display that it has gown to be. Lucy Spata first put up her display with 40 angels on her lawn to honor her mother after she passed away in 1986. In July 2019 Lucy's husband Anthony Spata passed away and had Lucy promise that she would keep on decorating for Christmas to which she agreed calling it a beautiful tradition. Lucy does not accept donations for the lighting bill as Spata does this from her heart wanting the children who visit to feel the warmth and joy of the season, if children visit at special time they can meet Santa Claus on the red chair in front of the home which is the same red chair where many pose for their annual Brooklyn Christmas photos, Merry Christmas from I Love NY!
Frank Fogliano house
with Michael Capolongo - Michael's Cause Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy DMD awareness display
1134 83rd St
Frank Mangano house
with St. Jude Children's Research Hospital awareness display
1023 83rd St
84 St at 13 Av green and white street sign that reads Dyker Heights Boulevard
Frank Seddio House
Flatlands Avenue at East 93rd Street
L train to Canarsie Brooklyn
Canarsie Brooklyn Christmas Lights started in 1963
Dyker Heights Christmas lights are 11 miles from the Rockefeller Center Christmas Tree Lighting 2021 🎄 lit on December 1st arrived November 13th
Closest landmark to Dyker Heights Christmas Lights
The Shrine Church of St. Bernadette
8201 13th Ave, Brooklyn, NY 11228
Roman Catholic Church
Our Lady of Lourdes - Bernadette Soubirous known as the Patron Saint of Illness and Poverty born January 7th 1844 in Lourdes France who experienced 18 Marian apparitions of the Immaculate Conception - Virgin Mary - Mother of Jesus - Bernadette was asked by Immaculate Conception to drink and wash in the water of the stream as well as to eat the herb that grew near - the next day the grottos muddy waters were replaced with clear fresh flowing water, there is now a chapel built at the site there have been 69 confirmed incidents of healing at the location in France. Healing water in Lourdes France can be drank and bathed in. Pope Pius XI canonized Bernadette as a saint in 1933. St. Bernadette feast day April 16 (April 16 1879 date of transition to non physical) as well as feast day on February 18 in France.
Brooklyn is located on the land mass known as Long Island NY - Brooklyn is more known for being one of the five boroughs of New York City - Brooklyn is in Kings County
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Apple iPhone 13 Pro Max smartphone photo and 4K video
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********* Christmas Origins **********
Authors Washington Irving (USA) and Charles Dickens (England) are both often credited for creating Christmas classics in the 1800's that still resonate with people today
Washington Irving (1783 - 1859)
The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent. 1820
Fifth installment
The Stage Coach
Christmas Eve
Christmas Day
Christmas Dinner
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
Author Charles Dickens (1812 - 1870)
A Christmas Carol 1843
aka Scrooge with quote from Tiny Tim God bless us every one!
Oliver Twist (1838) with quote from Oliver Twist Please, sir, I want some more
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Additional famous Christmas story:
A Visit from St. Nicholas 1823
Clement Clarke Moore USA
with the quote:
Happy Christmas to all, and to all a good-night
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Believed Christmas origins:
Christmas Tree - Germany
Advent wreath - Germany
Electric Christmas Lights - USA 1880
Christmas Cards - England 1843
Befana Christmas Witch - Italy
Santa Claus (Saint Nicholas) - Greece (area now Turkey)
Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer - USA 1939
Yule Winter solstice shortest day of the year
Birthplace of Jesus, the town of Bethlehem of Judea, about six miles south of Jerusalem (area now Palestine)
Poinsettia red flowers - México
First documented snowman Netherlands 1380
The first Times Square New Year’s Eve celebration was held in 1904
The first New Year’s Eve Ball lowering celebration atop One Times Square was in 1907
First Christmas tree at Rockefeller Center NYC was erected in 1931, during the Depression-era construction of Rockefeller Center, when workers decorated a smaller 20 foot balsam fir with strings of cranberries, garlands of paper, and even a few tin cans
1933, a Rockefeller Center publicist decided to make the tree an annual tradition, and they held the first official lighting ceremony with a 50-foot tree.
Rockefeller Center skating rink was opened below the tree in the plaza in 1936 and that year they put up two trees for the celebration
Rockefeller Center has been designated a National Historic Landmark this site possesses national significance in commemorating the history of the United States Of America 1987
Rockefeller Center Christmas tree every year since 2007, lumber milled from the Christmas tree has been given to Habitat for Humanity to help a family build a new home
The National Christmas Tree in Washington, D.C. was lit for the first time by US President Calvin Coolidge Republican on Christmas eve December 24th 1923
Carnaval de Québec Canada first opened in 1984 which ran from January 29 to February 3
Canarsie Brooklyn Christmas Lights in NYC first beginning in 1963
Dyker Heights Christmas Lights Brooklyn NY cited to be started by Lucy Spata when she moved to the neighborhood in the 1980s
The Annual Port Jefferson Charles Dickens Festival on Long Island in New York State started in 1996
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MERRY CHRISTMAS AND HAPPY NEW YEAR FROM NEW YORK CITY USA
Visiting CSUN EOP
(left to right)
Reggie Blaylock, Vice President for Student Affairs, San Diego State
José Luis Vargas, Director, Educational Opportunity Programs at CSUN
William Franklin, Interim Vice President for Enrollment Management and Student Affairs at California State University, Dominguez Hills
Shiva Parsa, Associate Director, Educational Opportunity Programs at CSUN
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At Ogrodzieniec Castle, Poland.
Visiting Baghdad We visited the Al Faw Palace.
for 2 weeks everyone kept talking about how Saddam had gold toilets and how we were going to take a shit on the golden toilet. I mean like everyday someone saying "I'm gonna shit in the gold toilet" or "pee in the gold toilet" ... " puke in it" whatever.
So we get to the palace and ask if we can see the golden toilets.
The guy looks at us like we have 3 heads!!! So we had to get a picture of the NOT golden toilets. Here I am suffering from Disappointed Ass Syndrome!
Pictures from driving through California in a convertible red Mustang: Firstly Sonoma to various vineyards - BR Cohn and Chateau St Jean. Then down Highway 1 to Big Sur and Julia Pfeiffer Burns National Park.
Office Depot is officially closed, their Temecula location on Winchester and Margarita by the mall remains open, leaving only Staples on Madison Avenue as the only office supply store in the city...
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