TRUCKS OF THE GREAT LAKES
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"I live my life in widening circles
that reach out across the world.
I may not complete this last one
but I give myself to it.
I circle around God, around the primordial tower.
I've been circling for thousands of years
and I still don't know: am I a falcon,
a storm, or a great song?"
Rainer Maria Rilke
(My Texture)
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“Our task must be to free ourselves... by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature and it's beauty.”
― Albert Einstein
Acadia
it is an amazing coexistence of the lakes and the mountains this time hike on the trails around the water, so I can use
HISTORIO-DAGONAR 6.3 / 40 on M10 instead of Ricoh
# 94 - Explored on October 1, 2010
Vancouver - British Columbia / Canada
Quoting one of our TV commercial: "The Best Place On Earth" :)
It was such a beautiful late afternoon. Of course driving home I got caught up in our frustrating rush hour over the bridges. Took me more than an hour to get home. Oh well...I had the opportunity to practice being patient, "being VERY patient". ;)
Have a wonderful weekend my friends!
There is so much power in realizing that we control our circumstances. We cultivate negativity or positivity, we let our world crumble from within or we build it from within. It is too easy to feel like the cracks we see forming in our lives were put there from other people, but that is so rarely the case. The way we choose to deal with our situations can create those cracks or it can erase them. Power is not necessarily good or bad - it is something we all posses and depending on how we wield it, the cracks widen or disappear.
Day 27 of my December self-portrait challenge.
The Harry Elkins Widener Memorial Library, housing some 3.5 million books in its "vast and cavernous" stacks, is the center-piece of the Harvard College Libraries (the libraries of Harvard's Faculty of Arts and Sciences) and, more broadly, of the entire Harvard Library system. It honors 1907 Harvard College graduate and book collector Harry Elkins Widener, and was built by his mother Eleanor Elkins Widener after his death in the sinking of the RMS Titanic in 1912.
The library's holdings, which include works in more than one hundred languages, comprise "one of the world's most comprehen-sive research collec-tions in the humanities and social sciences." Its 57 miles of shelves, along five miles of aisles on ten levels, comprise a "labyrinth" which one student "could not enter without feeling that she ought to carry a compass, a sandwich, and a whistle."
At the building's heart are the Widener Memorial Rooms, displaying papers and mementos recalling the life and death of Harry Widener, as well as the Harry Elkins Widener Collec-tion, "the precious group of rare and wonder-fully interesting books brought together by Mr. Widener", to which was later added one of the few perfect Gutenberg Bibles—the object of a 1969 burglary attempt conjectured by Harvard's police chief to have been inspired by the heist film Topkapi.
Campus legends holding that Harry Widener's fate led to the institu-tion of an undergrad-uate swimming-proficiency requirement, and that an additional donation from his mother subsidizes ice cream at Harvard meals, are without foundation.
Legend holds that to spare future Harvard men her son's fate, Eleanor Widener insisted, as a condition of her gift, that learning to swim be made a requirement for graduation. (This requirement, the Harvard Crimson once elaborated erroneously, was "dropped in the late 1970s because it was deemed discriminatory against physically disabled students".) "Among the many myths relating to Harry Elkins Widener, this is the most prevalent", says Harvard's "Ask a Librarian" service. Though Harvard has had swimming requirements at various times (e.g. for rowers on the Charles River, or as a now-defunct test for entering freshmen) Bentinck-Smith writes that "There is absolutely no evidence in the President's papers, or the faculty's, to indicate that [Eleanor Widener] was, as a result of the Titanic disaster, in any way responsi-ble for [any] compulsory swimming test."
Another story, holding that Eleanor Widener donated a further sum to underwrite perpetual availability of ice cream (purportedly Harry Widener's favorite dessert) in Harvard dining halls, is also without foundation. A Widener curator's compilation of "fanciful oral history" recited by student tour guides includes "Flowers mysteriously appear every morning outside the Widener Room" and "Harry used to have carnations dyed crimson to remind him of Harvard, and so his mother kept up the tradition" in the flowers displayed in the Memorial Rooms.
Harry Elkins Widener, the man for whom this venerable Harvard landmark is named, died on April 14, 1912 aboard the ill-fated luxury liner Titanic. . . . . Widener, a 1907 Harvard graduate and heir to a Philadelphia streetcar fortune, had been in London to visit antiquarian bookshops and make purchases for his growing collection of rare books. . . . . In his coat pocket as he died, was a rare 1598 edition of Francis Bacon's Essayes (his other purchases from this trip had been shipped aboard the Carpathia, which had sailed earlier and would become the rescue ship for the survivors of the Titanic). . . . . With Widener on this voyage was his father, who also lost his life that night, and his mother who survived in one of the lifeboats. . . . . His mother, Eleanor Widener, subsequently commissioned this building in her son's name to replace one of Harvard's old, inadequate library buildings. . . . . Harry's rare book collection is housed here in a quiet room of dark oak and white marble.
Chippewa County seems to have widened the trail here to turn it into a temporary logging road.
I'm glad they avoided using gravel here.
The hogbacks were giving the throttle a workout, judging by the exhaust. UP 951 and friends are toting an officer's special down BNSF's Red River Valley east of Amarillo. I recall that this was not long after the UP/SP merger in 1996. The brass ran this inspection trip to acquaint themselves with their newly acquired trackage rights on the old FW&D between Dalhart and Fort Worth. Previously SP had gained the rights as a condition of the BNSF merger and now the UP had inherited them. Here the three E's and train are giving an eye full to the drivers on US 287. I'd guess the last E-units to travel this route wore the stainless of the Q.
Balloon car 711 with now wide doors and painted into Flexity colours is seen at North Pier on a special to Bipsham 31/8/15.
Photo of the Astoria-Megler Bridge and the Columbia River (near its mouth) captured via Minolta MD Celtic 28mm f/2.8 Lens. City of Astoria. Looking towards Pacific County, Washington State. Coastal Lowlands section within the Coast Range region. Oregon Coast. Clatsop County, Oregon. Late May 2014.
Exposure Time: 1/320 sec. * ISO Speed: ISO-200 * Aperture: Unknown * Bracketing: None * Color Temperature: 6600 K * Film Plug-In: Fuji Superia 100