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Shakers are said to have built the first true round barn in western Massachusetts using stone.

 

Many round barns are on historic registers across America, others remain tucked away on back roads.

 

Round barns didn’t catch on in part because they represented a change that farmers simply weren’t able to accept.

"Accept the fullness in life's balance, which demands that there are positive gifts along with adversity."

- Bryant McGill

 

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What started out as pleasant and leisurely morning stroll in the garden, quickly developed into a perilous and risky outing. Brian soon found himself wishing he had accepted the invitation to go hang-gliding with his friends...

 

For Macro Mondays theme 'Danger'.

 

No snails were harmed in the making of this photograph. At no time did the snail come into contact with the sharp points of the barbed wire.

I write this with a heavy heart. The last couple of years have found me with a progressively debilitating spinal column and joint problems. If it were just me, I would never ask, but I have 2 young daughters that look to me for support, so I have to swallow my pride...

 

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We all have some of that special magic inside of us...no matter what colour it may be!

This photo is a small celebration of mine for being accepted into the 2019 Mr and Miss Pride Pageant today, I've been very worried about showing that side of myself and today it feels like a boost to embrace it more often, even if some have left me in the dust because of it it is not me who has lost. But instead I am more free without having to hide myself around certain people or being looked down on or even being treated like it prevents me from being in a relationship. This past month has been rough but today is a win in my book. I have pride in myself and confidence I can do my best!

 

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And did you know

That every flake of snow

That forms so high

In the grey winter sky

And falls so far

Is a bright six-pointed star?

Each crystal grows

A flower as perfect as a rose.

Lace could never make

The patterns of a flake.

No brooch

Of figured silver could approach

Its delicate craftsmanship. And think:

Each pattern is distinct.

Of all the snowflakes floating there –

The million million in the air –

None is the same. Each star

Is newly forged, as faces are,

Shaped to its own design

Like yours and mine.

And yet… each one

Melts when its flight is done;

Holds frozen loveliness

A moment, even less;

Suspends itself in time –

And passes like a rhyme.

 

Snowflakes

-Clive Sansom

 

For Kreative People December Contest 57 Snow, Ice & Rain.

 

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I write this with a heavy heart. The last couple of years have found me with a progressively debilitating spinal column and joint problems. If it were just me, I would never ask, but I have 2 young daughters that look to me for support, so I have to swallow my pride...

 

If you are in a position to help, I have setup an account to accept donations, even as little as the price of a coffee. Anything would be greatly appreciated. See my "About" page on Flickr for the link. Thank you.

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New Arrivals - August 6 2020 - TS2 LR

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A geeky computer joke. This shell is nature's way of exploring cellular automata :).

 

A cellular automaton is a mathematical technique that evolves a collection of data using very simple rules. This shell exhibits that sort of evolution along its outer surface.

 

In the computer world, a shell is a program that accepts a persons inputs (usually by typing commands) and then spits out the results.

  

I'm more of a carpe 9 am person, but fog motivates me to get moving. Fog is fascinating, both to photograph and simply walk around in, to be enveloped by it. It's often elusive, sort of like trying to walk up on a rainbow. If you walk toward patches of fog, it never seems to get closer. It seems to recede with every step you advance. On this morning I quit trying to chase it and simply accepted it. Shooting directly into the sun provided rich foreground texture but kept the distant tree line wonderfully misty.

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In a neighbouring tree, this pair were together and you can see the food morsel being passed between each other. A courting ritual where the male offers food to the female and it could get passed between them multiple times until the female accepts the offering and it establishes the pair bonding.

Getting as close as I possibly can on a circuit board, harvested from a remote-controlled power outlet whose remote went belly-up, capturing examples of tiny surface-mount devices, possibly resistors. The ruler scale at the bottom is in millimeters.

 

Taken with the Canon MP-E 65mm macro lens at 5X magnification. At that setting, the lens has to be less than an inch (25.4mm) from the subject, making lighting difficult. The lens and camera were attached to a macro focusing rail, a necessary but very finicky device (more so at extreme magnification) used to move the camera fore and aft to focus. Given my sometimes uncooperative set of hands I have, it was a challenge, indeed.

  

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I (Bleue here) made this video two days ago intending to share it, but I wasn't reminded of it until I accidentally smacked my head into my headboard this morning. Send help.

 

Anyway, here's little ol' me in my new Iʟᴋ shape (😍), showcasing every bento pose in our Bubble Pop (a collaborative project between Go&See and Cat-Noodle) fatpack, which is currently available at Dollholic Event until the 11th of this month.

 

Note: Several of the face and mixed bento poses near the end of the video are exclusive to the Bubble Pop fatpack.

 

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I'm not very good with Black Dragon, but I try! 😅

 

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time is the final, undisputed judge. its verdict is written on the body. a slow, inevitable decline. most accept the judgment. they retreat into the shadows. but some offer a rebuttal. a simple, physical argument against the coming darkness. a single, difficult step into a harsh light. it does not change the final verdict. but it is a powerful, honorable defense.

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Happy New Year!!!

We have had 9 around our table this last week and great family times including a walk to a salt lake about an hour from town with strange looking rocks.

Donations gladly accepted. California Scrub Jay, Lake Vancouver, Washington. Formerly known as the Western Scrub Jay, until that species was split into the California and the Woodhouse's Scrub Jays.

Kitlens, flash with small diffusor, partly shielded by my hand.

Cropped and Vignetted in Apple's Aperture.

Thought I'd update you on the latest member of my furry 4-legged family - little hammie's been with me just over a week now. I named him "Pippin" (after the hobbit in Lord of the Rings, it just suited him - he's an adventurous little thing!). I'm so pleased with how well he's settled in... I'd been told in the shop he wasn't yet tame and worried he'd be shy. However, whoever bred him handled him well (or he's just an exceptionally confident little hammie!) cause from the start he's been a happy and nosy little character... After 24hrs, I started stroking him, then a little while later, gently scooping him up in my hands]. At first, he scurried off quickly, but now he will happily sit or walk over my hands for a few minutes at a time. He's never once tried to bite or anything :)

 

He goes out for little adventures each evening in his ball. Of course it's hard to tell with such a tiny creature but I think he really enjoys the explorations around our downstairs. He rolls up and down the hall, the living room and the kitchen, stopping only to sniff an interesting item in his path, give his face a quick wash... or, to investigate Barney!! I'd originally planned to keep dog and hamster apart, particularly when Pippin was in his ball - as Barney is ball obsessed and also a hunter of voles when we're on walks (albeit a very ineffective one!). However as Pip likes to roll everywhere on the ground floor, it wasn't really feasible, so I've taught Barney to be very quiet and calm when Pip's rolling around.

 

After one quiet but firm "settle down" from me, (he looked a bit too interested on the first evening) he has been good as gold. He actually tries to keep away from Pippin but there's no escape! Pip will spy Barney from up the hall and make a beeline straight for the big dog. He will then sit right up against Barney, sniffing at his paws and fur with obvious interest. Pippin doesn't seem scared, he's happy to groom right next to either dog and doesn't freeze or try and run off... In fact, if I move him away, he often rolls straight back to Barney! Barney lies quietly, deliberately not looking at the hammie and gently moving his paws out the way from time to time. Don't like everything the "Dog Whisperer" says but to use his phrase, Barney's the model of a dog in a "calm, submissive state". Obviously, I wouldn't leave them alone though, it's nice they seem to be co-existing but I wouldn't want Pippin to get hurt...

 

Anyway, Pippin seems happy in his new home, the dogs have accepted him and he's being very friendly and confident. All going very well really, now, if I can just clicker train him to pose for the camera.... ;-) Haha, will try getting some nicer pics soon, maybe of the odd pair together, reminds me of Bolt and Rhino (if you've seen "Bolt", you'll know what I'm talking about!)

 

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Sounding its whistle continuously through Garsdale station, the driver of Bulleid 'Merchant Navy' Pacific 35018 'British India Line' acknowledges the signalman's wave. This was the 1Z52 07:48 Chester to Carlisle 'The Dalesman' charter on Tuesday 8th September 2020. This was a real step back in time, for both myself and my lifelong friend, who had made the journey to meet up here. We had originally met whilst train spotting at Woking station in 1964, when such sights, sounds, and occasionally misty/foggy conditions like this were the accepted norm!

 

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Minnekhada Regional Park, Coquitlam, BC.

 

Just some nice side light on a cluster of maples.

Today was sunny. That's the good news. The winds were steady at 20mph, gusting to 30. That makes macro photography a bit of a challenge. Still, that was the calmest the winds have been in several days, so I went out. Some good results, some a bit less so. I liked this one.

 

Flickr is really screwed up right now. The kids doing Flickr coding right now haven't yet mastered CHECKING THEIR WORK. A number of features -- several related to groups -- have been messed up to the point of unusability. I spend most of my time in groups, so it is troubling.

 

Plus, though I am indeed using the most recent version of FF, every page gives me an unsupported browser -- please update -- error. Based on the HUNDREDS of postings to the Help forum, it is just a screw up of ponderous proportions. If you are NOT seeing the various problems, I can't even guess why not...though I know most of my contacts do not participate in groups.

 

If I fall behind in commenting -- every photo page access is a hassle -- I'll try to make it up once Flickr gets its game together YET AGAIN.

 

The WonderRig Ultra did arrive today. VERY highly engineered gear. Will take some time to dial in...but it is completely wonderful. Probably totally conspicuous consumption, but you only go around once.

 

If you didn't see it before, this is the WonderRig Ultra:

 

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The covered bridge was built in 1862 by a certain David I Wood, who used to charge teamsters to travel across the bridge. The bridge was built using wood from Mr. Woods's lumber mill in Sierra County, California. There is a plaque on the northern side of the bridge that commemorates this.

 

This bridge was built to replace an 1850 bridge that washed away in a storm. At 251 feet (229 feet after the end walls were removed) it is thought to be the longest single-span covered bridge in the United States. As with all such bridges, the cover serves mainly to keep the rain off the load-bearing structure, which would otherwise soon rot from the moisture. Some said covers also made the bridge look like a barn so horses wouldn't be frightened to cross, but this was not universally accepted by teamsters of the day.

 

This road in the late 1800s was part of the Virginia Turnpike, a link between Marysville and the Comstock Lode silver mines in Virginia City, Nevada. Wagon teams, horsemen, buggies and livestock were charged a toll to cross the bridge. The Turnpike ran 14 miles from Anthony House (submerged under Lake Wildwood) to North San Juan.

 

The main visitor center to the South Yuba River State Park lies just to the south of the bridge.

The remains of 58022, a recent arrival at Wirksworth, Ecclesbourne Valley Railway, 29th August 2020. 58022 is to be further dismantled to allow the chassis to be used in the recreation of a London Midland and Scottish Railway prototype main line diesel 10000.

 

Locomotive History

The British Rail designed Class 58 was of modular construction, allowing quick and easy interchange of parts with the most noticeable departure from previous designs being that the body sides were non load-bearing. Instead, the chassis which supported all the weight, was of girder construction. Another departure from the norm was that there was no interior walkway between the cabs (i.e. within the engine room. The class were built at Doncaster Works and deliveries commenced in 1983, with the last locomotive being accepted in March 1987. 58022 entered traffic in December 1984 and was withdrawn in March 2002 and has been slowly decaying now for nearly eighteen years.

  

Wellington Arch, also known as Constitution Arch or (originally) as the Green Park Arch, is a Grade I-listed triumphal arch by Decimus Burton that forms a centrepiece of Hyde Park Corner in central London, between corners of Hyde Park and Green Park; it stands on a large traffic island with crossings for pedestrian access. From its construction (1826–1830) the arch stood in a different location nearby; it was moved to its current site in 1882–1883. It originally supported a colossal equestrian statue of the 1st Duke of Wellington by the sculptor Matthew Cotes Wyatt, acquiring its name as a result. Peace descending on the Quadriga of War by sculptor Adrian Jones, a bronze quadriga (an ancient four-horse chariot) ridden by the Goddess of Victory Nike, has surmounted the arch since 1912.

Both the Wellington Arch and Marble Arch (originally sited in front of Buckingham Palace) were planned in 1825 by George IV to commemorate Britain's victories in the Napoleonic Wars. During the second half of the 1820s, the Commissioners of Woods and Forests and the King resolved that Hyde Park, and the area around it, should be renovated to match the splendour of rival European capital cities, and that the essence of the new arrangement would be a triumphal approach to the recently completed Buckingham Palace. The committee of the project, led by the Prime Minister, Lord Liverpool, and advised by Charles Arbuthnot, President of the Board of Commissioners of Woods and Forests, selected Decimus Burton as the project's architect. In 1828, when giving evidence to a Parliamentary Select Committee on the Government's spending on public works, Arbuthnot explained that he had nominated Burton "having seen in the Regent's Park, and elsewhere, works which pleased my eye, from their architectural beauty and correctness". Burton intended to create an urban space dedicated to the celebration of the House of Hanover, national pride, and the nation's heroes.

The renovation of Hyde Park, Green Park, and St James's Park began in 1825, with the demarcation of new drives and pathways, subsequent to which Burton designed new lodges and gates, viz. Cumberland Gate, Stanhope Gate, Grosvenor Gate, the Hyde Park Gate/Screen at Hyde Park Corner, and, later, the Prince of Wales's Gate, Knightsbridge, in the classical style. There were no authoritative precedents for such buildings, which required windows and chimney stacks, in the classical style, and, in the words of Guy Williams, "Burton's reticent treatment of the supernumerary features" and of the cast iron gates and railings was "greatly admired".

At Hyde Park Corner, the King required "some great ceremonial outwork that would be worthy of the new palace that lay to its rear", and accepted Burton's consequent proposal for a sequence comprising a gateway and a classical screen, and a triumphal arch, which would enable those approaching Buckingham Palace from the north to ride or drive first through the screen and then through the arch, before turning left to descend Constitution Hill and enter the forecourt of Buckingham Palace through Nash's Marble Arch. The screen became the neoclassical Hyde Park Gate/Screen at Hyde Park Corner, which delighted the King and his Committee, and which the architectural historian Guy Williams describes as "one of the most pleasing architectural works that have survived from the neo-classical age". The triumphal arch became the Wellington Arch at Constitution Hill into Green Park, London, which has been described as "one of London's best loved landmarks". Burton's original design for the triumphal arch, which was modelled on the Arch of Titus at Rome, on which the central and side blocks of the Screen had been modelled, was more technically perfect, and coherent with the Screen, than that of the arch that was subsequently built: this original design, however, was rejected by the Committee – who had envisaged a design based on the Arch of Constantine, on which Nash's Marble Arch had been modelled – because it was not sufficiently ostentatious. Burton created a new design, "to pander to the majestic ego", which was much larger and modelled on a fragment found in the Roman Forum, which was accepted on 14 January 1826, and subsequently built as the present Wellington Arch.

The arch has a single opening, and uses the Corinthian order. Much of the intended exterior ornamentation was omitted as a cost-saving exercise necessitated by the King's overspending on the refurbishment of Buckingham Palace, which was underway at the same time. A contemporary account, written in anticipation of its completion to its original plan, describes what was intended:

The entabulature is lofty and elegant with a richly sculptured frieze, and a row of boldly projecting lions' heads on the cymatium, marking the centres of columns and other sub-divisions of the order. Above the entablature, on a lofty blocking course, is raised an attic, the body of which is embellished with a sculptural representation of an ancient triumph. On each of the columns is a statue of a warrior, and on the summit of the acroterium which surmounts the attic is a figure in a quadriga or ancient four horse chariot

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Come gather 'round, people, wherever you roam

And admit that the waters around you have grown

And accept it that soon you'll be drenched to the bone

If your time to you is worth savin'

And you better start swimmin' or you'll sink like a stone

For the times, they are a-changin'

 

Come, writers and critics, who prophesize with your pen

And keep your eyes wide, the chance won't come again

And don't speak too soon, for the wheel's still in spin

And there's no tellin' who that it's namin'

For the loser now will be later to win

For the times, they are a-changin'

 

Come, senators, congressmen, please, heed the call

Don't stand in the doorway, don't block up the hall

For he that gets hurt will be he who has stalled

The battle outside ragin'

Will soon shake your windows and rattle your walls

For the times, they are a-changin'

 

Come, mothers and fathers throughout the land

And don't criticize what you can't understand

Your sons and your daughters are beyond your command

Your old road is rapidly agin'

Please, get out of the new one if you can't lend your hand

For the times, they are a-changin'

 

The line, it is drawn, the curse, it is cast

The slow one now will later be fast

As the present now will later be past

The order is rapidly fadin'

And the first one now will later be last

For the times, they are a-changin'

 

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#MazeOfMetamorphosis According to an estimation by the Japanese government, there are about one million people in the Country who live a life of self reclusion. They remain inside their house for years without any social interaction. Hikikomori phenomenon is a typical cultural syndrome that can be understood not only as an escape from too demanding school and work standards but also as an extreme protest against violent conformism.

After a three-months-long continuous research I finally came in contact with a self isolated man who accepted to be portrayed by me. I knew it was going to be difficult to gain his trust, precisely because those who isolate themselves from the world do it by definition because they don't want to have contact with it. I was ready for his refusal, even at the last moment, and I would have respected his will. Anyway, he accepted me to enter his house.

I asked to Fumihiro Yoshino (a butoh performer) to become the space of the room. I used a plexiglass cube to represent this space too, as a barrier. As I learned from butoh dance, I didn't ask Yoshino for anything in particular, just to be the space of the room, waiting for things to happen. My project on the one hand wants to illustrate social issues, but on the other wants to do it in an unusual and artistic way, letting things happen in front of me, and butoh dance has proved to be an excellent means, precisely because it is a form of non-conceptual, meaningless art that freely leads people to occupy a space and change in it. The metamorphosis concerns the subject, but also the viewer.

Looks like the squirrels have accepted the new stone owl and bird bath I purchased for my yard.

 

The squirrels who visit my yard don't seem to like change very much. A new Goodie Bowl, or a different kind of treat seems to cause all sorts of anxiety. My squirrels are a bunch of scaredy cats.

 

It's taken about 3 weeks but over the weekend they finally accepted these latest changes.

Portrait that does not conform to the accepted standard rules of photography.

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... Resign yourself to the fact that you life is not going to get any better.

 

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Accept one another, then, just as Christ accepted you, in order to bring praise to God.

Romans 15:7

Ok....so there's nothing to buy here along the LA River, but it's good to know they accept credit.

But otherwise bundling up

Brigadier General Smedley D Butler

United States Marine Corps

Director of Public Saftey Philadelphia

January 7, 1924

December 23, 1925

He enforced the law impartially

He defended it courageously

He proved incorruptible

 

Located at City Hall.

 

In 1914 Butler won the Medal of Honor for outstanding gallantry in action while fighting against the Spanish at Veracruz, Mexico. Major Butler returned his medal arguing that he had not done enough to deserve it. It was sent back to Butler with orders that not only would he keep it, but that he would wear it as well. Butler won his second Medal of Honor in Haiti on 17th November, 1915.

 

Promoted to the rank of brigadier general at the age of 37 he was placed in command of Camp Pontanezen at Brest, France, during the First World War. This resulted in him being awarded the Distinguished Service Medal and the French Order of the Black Star.

 

Following the war, Butler transformed the wartime training camp at Quantico, Virginia into a permanent Marine post. In 1923 the newly elected mayor of Philadelphia, W. Freeland Kendrick, asked Butler to leave the Marines to become Director of Public Safety. Butler refused but eventually accepted the appointment in January 1924 when President Calvin Coolidge requested him to carry out the task.

 

Butler immediately ordered raids on more than 900 speakeasies in Philadelphia. He also ordered the arrests of corrupt police officers. Butler upset some very powerful people in his crusade against corruption and in December 1925 Kendrick sacked Butler. He later commented "cleaning up Philadelphia was worse than any battle I was ever in."

 

Butler returned to the US Marines and in 1927 was appointed the commander of the Marine Expeditionary Force in China. Over the next two years he did what he could to protect American people living in the country.

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We send great waves of love into your heart and mind, awakening your love of life itself. Your clear decision to accept and enjoy romance has triggered this awakening. Allow your self to spontaneously celebrate love in all its glorious aspects.

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Tout ce qui a une forme finit par disparaître. Une fois le corps humain sans vie, il ne peut plus continuer à exister dans ce monde. C'est une évidence, mais il m'est parfois impossible de l'accepter. Ce fut le cas avec la mort de ma mère, méme s'il est normal qu'un parent meure avant son enfant.

 

Son corps n'était plus là. Les possessions qu'elle laissait derrière elle, qui lui étaient autrefois attachées, étaient devenues inutiles sans leur propriétaire. Avant de m'en débarrasser, j'avais décidé de prendre des photographies.

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