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It is a medium-sized francolin with males averaging 11.6–13.4 in (29–34 cm) and females averaging 10.2–11.9 in (26–30 cm). The males weigh 9–12 oz (260–340 g) whereas the weight of the females is 7–11 oz (200–310 g). The francolin is barred throughout and the face is pale with a thin black border to the pale throat. The only similar species is the painted francolin, which has a rufous vent. The male can have up to two spurs on the legs while females usually lack them. Subspecies mecranensis is palest and found in arid north-western India, Eastern Pakistan and Southern Iran. Subspecies interpositus is darker and intermediate found in northern India. The nominate race in the southern peninsula of India has populations with a darker rufous throat, supercilium and is richer brown. They are weak fliers and fly short distances, escaping into undergrowth after a few spurts of flight. In flight it shows a chestnut tail and dark primaries. The race in Sri Lanka is sometimes given the name ceylonensis or considered as belonging to the nominate.
Fort Lauderdale is a city in the U.S. state of Florida, 25 miles (40 km) north of Miami. It is the county seat of Broward County. As of the 2019 census, the city has an estimated population of 182,437. Fort Lauderdale is a principal city of the Miami metropolitan area, which was home to an estimated 6,198,782 people in 2018.
The city is a popular tourist destination, with an average year-round temperature of 75.5 °F (24.2 °C) and 3,000 hours of sunshine per year. Greater Fort Lauderdale which takes in all of Broward County hosted 12 million visitors in 2012, including 2.8 million international visitors. The city and county in 2012 collected $43.9 million from the 5% hotel tax it charges, after hotels in the area recorded an occupancy rate for the year of 72.7 percent and an average daily rate of $114.48. The district has 561 hotels and motels comprising nearly 35,000 rooms. Forty six cruise ships sailed from Port Everglades in 2012. Greater Fort Lauderdale has over 4,000 restaurants, 63 golf courses, 12 shopping malls, 16 museums, 132 nightclubs, 278 parkland campsites, and 100 marinas housing 45,000 resident yachts.
Fort Lauderdale is named after a series of forts built by the United States during the Second Seminole War. The forts took their name from Major William Lauderdale (1782–1838), younger brother of Lieutenant Colonel James Lauderdale. William Lauderdale was the commander of the detachment of soldiers who built the first fort. However, development of the city did not begin until 50 years after the forts were abandoned at the end of the conflict. Three forts named "Fort Lauderdale" were constructed; the first was at the fork of the New River, the second at Tarpon Bend on the New River between the Colee Hammock and Rio Vista neighborhoods, and the third near the site of the Bahia Mar Marina.
The area in which the city of Fort Lauderdale would later be founded was inhabited for more than two thousand years by the Tequesta Indians. Contact with Spanish explorers in the 16th century proved disastrous for the Tequesta, as the Europeans unwittingly brought with them diseases, such as smallpox, to which the native populations possessed no resistance. For the Tequesta, disease, coupled with continuing conflict with their Calusa neighbors, contributed greatly to their decline over the next two centuries. By 1763, there were only a few Tequesta left in Florida, and most of them were evacuated to Cuba when the Spanish ceded Florida to the British in 1763, under the terms of the Treaty of Paris (1763), which ended the Seven Years' War. Although control of the area changed between Spain, the United Kingdom, the United States, and the Confederate States of America, it remained largely undeveloped until the 20th century.
The Fort Lauderdale area was known as the "New River Settlement" before the 20th century. In the 1830s there were approximately 70 settlers living along the New River. William Cooley, the local Justice of the Peace, was a farmer and wrecker, who traded with the Seminole Indians. On January 6, 1836, while Cooley was leading an attempt to salvage a wrecked ship, a band of Seminoles attacked his farm, killing his wife and children, and the children's tutor. The other farms in the settlement were not attacked, but all the white residents in the area abandoned the settlement, fleeing first to the Cape Florida Lighthouse on Key Biscayne, and then to Key West.
The first United States stockade named Fort Lauderdale was built in 1838, and subsequently was a site of fighting during the Second Seminole War. The fort was abandoned in 1842, after the end of the war, and the area remained virtually unpopulated until the 1890s. It was not until Frank Stranahan arrived in the area in 1893 to operate a ferry across the New River, and the Florida East Coast Railroad's completion of a route through the area in 1896, that any organized development began. The city was incorporated in 1911, and in 1915 was designated the county seat of newly formed Broward County.
Fort Lauderdale's first major development began in the 1920s, during the Florida land boom of the 1920s. The 1926 Miami Hurricane and the Great Depression of the 1930s caused a great deal of economic dislocation. In July 1935, an African-American man named Rubin Stacy was accused of robbing a white woman at knife point. He was arrested and being transported to a Miami jail when police were run off the road by a mob. A group of 100 white men proceeded to hang Stacy from a tree near the scene of his alleged robbery. His body was riddled with some twenty bullets. The murder was subsequently used by the press in Nazi Germany to discredit US critiques of its own persecution of Jews, Communists, and Catholics.
When World War II began, Fort Lauderdale became a major US base, with a Naval Air Station to train pilots, radar operators, and fire control, operators. A Coast Guard base at Port Everglades was also established.
On July 4, 1961, African Americans started a series of protests, wade-ins, at beaches that were off-limits to them, to protest "the failure of the county to build a road to the Negro beach". On July 11, 1962, a verdict by Ted Cabot went against the city's policy of racial segregation of public beaches.
Today, Fort Lauderdale is a major yachting center, one of the nation's largest tourist destinations, and the center of a metropolitan division with 1.8 million people.
Credit for the data above is given to the following website:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fort_Lauderdale,_Florida
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Bass Wheeler was an inspiring figure as he walked slowly down Main Street that morning. He was of average height and build but the way he filled out his dark wool suit would make about any woman's head turn.
The old boards of the sidewalk creaked under his polished Hyer Brother's boots as the handsome man made his way toward the Jailhouse. Passing by the McKenzie Mercantile, he caught a glimpse of himself in the pane glass window. Stopping for a moment, he looked himself over, reaching up to straighten his tie and brush a hint of dust off the pin striped coat. Bass thought of the first day his wife had seen him in this suit, and a slight smile came across his face. He'd ordered it out of a catalogue there at the mercantile. Old man McKenzie's wife, Cora had helped him pick it out. The first time he'd worn it was on his wedding day and the last time was at his wife's funeral. He hadn't worn it since. Not until today. Refitting the derby that covered a bountiful head of dark hair, Bass eased his finger around the silk brim of his hat then brushed each side of his mustache. Turning once more toward the jail house, he reached in his pocket for his tobacco pouch and some paper and began to roll a cigarette together as he made his way to work.
There was a slight breeze this morning. The sun barely crested the Meadow Valley Range when Dan Buckley waved at Bass from the sidewalk in front of the Jail. Dan and his brother Jason were twins and if Dan had not sported a full beard, you'd never be able to tell the two apart. Dan's whiskers shown well however from under the banister where he stood holding a Springfield rifle. Bass waved back at the younger deputy, finished rolling the cigarette, and crossed the dusty street.
"Pretty quiet this morning." Bass said as he stepped up in the boardwalk shaking Dan's hand.
"That it is Bass. But it's sure workin' out to be one beautiful Sunday morning." Dan stood there looking Bass up and down then blurted out. "Gawl damn Bass you smell like a rose garden and you're all dressed up! You goin' to a funeral or somethin'?" The younger deputy threw his head back laughing as Bass stood there saying nothing. It was clear the older man didn't much care for his jest and in a hurry, Dan cleared his throat, nodded, and decided to let it go. Bass Wheeler was a pal and Dan had a lot of respect for him. Besides, you didn't want to get on Bass Wheeler's bad side. Switching back to the original topic he said, "Now tomorrow morning, well that'll be a different story all together, you can bet the farm on that. With the hangin' and all."
Bass nodded and slid the cigarette into his breast pocket and turned to look back down Main Street and then back up Meadow Valley Street toward the Hanley Opera House. He squinted as the breeze that flew off the vast expanse of prarie whipped in some sand and dust. Continuing to survey the area, Bass picked back on his coversation with Dan who'd eased himself into a chair there on the porch.
"Yea, I'm surprised old Judge Parker went through with it and sentenced her to hang."
Dan nodded leaning back in the chair, his rifle straddled across his lap, and responded.
"And a woman to boot! Kinda gets in my crawl Bass but she sure deserves it I guess. Bein' she's wanted and all. I didn't begrudge her defending herself from those men what attacked her, but then shootin' that kid!
Well, that just takes it all don't it?"
Bass nodded again as he turned. "Yea Dan, it was damned unfortunate. That poor kid. You know, when she got on the stand and told her side of it, how she'd just reacted in the moment and the kid startled her, hell I believed her. I still do! But that jury didn't care. One way or the other somebody was gonna pay for that kid's death and that was it."
With that, Bass turned toward the door grabbing the knob. "I'm gonna check on her. She had breakfast yet?"
No Bass, I'll run down to Henry and Martha's and see if she's got a plate for her."
That'd be fine Dan, thanks."
Dan Buckley jumped up to make his way down to the Calhoun's place when Bass stopped in the doorway, and yelled out. "By the way, you seen Henry yet this morning?"
Dan stopped, the oil lamp along the dusty street still casting a dim glow on the side of his face, "Naw, I ain't seen him. But you know him. He'll be around directly to check on the prisoner before he goes to church."
Bass smiled and nodded and thanked Dan again, motioning for him to continue on his way down the street to the Calhoun's cottage.
The old jail house smelled of old wood, cigar smoke, bourbon, and gun powder. Bass had always liked the smell of the jail. He'd always liked his job too. He was a respected member or the community even if he didn't attend church services. People tended to over look it since Bass Wheeler had done so much to protect the town and their interest. He sometimes wondered if they'd be so cordial and forgiving toward him if they'd known about his past. How he'd been a ruffian after the war and how he'd been on the end of a rope more than once, suspected of steeling cows, horses and even murder. Henry Calhoun was the only man in town who did know, and he'd forgiven Bass and placed all his confidence in the man years ago. For Sheriff Henry Calhoun it was a forgotten memory.
Bass grabbed the keys from the desk drawer and a gun and holster that hung on the wall. He slung the holster over his shoulder and proceeded to push the key in the lock. The latch bolt let out a clank when he turned it and pushed the door open. The cells were still very dark as they were on the west side of the building. The sparse amount of the sun's rays that actually got through the tiny windows in each cell were a long way off from making their way into old calaboose. Bass lit an oil lamp and held it up to see. The brightness of the burning wick was more blinding then helpful as he approached the young woman's cell and whispered out in a hushed voice.
"Millie! Millie you awake?!"
Just then Millie popped up rushing toward the iron bars and grabbed Bass. Bass used his free arm and held her up close to him leaning in to kiss her. She giggled a little when she leaned back from the kiss, still running her hands over him seemingly starved for affection. Bass pulled away a little and reached in his pocket to get her the cigarette he'd rolled on the way over.
"Dang girl you beat all! Look now, aint no time to lose! I got the horses in the back. If we're gonna go, we got to go now. And I mean right now!"
Millie reached in Bass' jacket pocket for a match and scraped the end across the course wood of the cell. The flame ingnited, and she lit the end of the cigarette looking at him. Bass noticed how lovely she was in the warm glow of the fire. How could a woman that was so good to look at be such a dammed bad desperado? And just maybe that was part of her allure. It was hard to say, and right now wasn't the time to figure it out. Taking another draw she winked at him and nodded, blowing out a trail of inhaled smoke.
"Well then hell Deputy, lets get the fuck out of this shit horse town! Open this damned door Bass."
Deputy Bass Wheeler did just that, and it was a decision that would change his life forever. When the door swung open he handed Millie the holster and gun, and she quickly strapped it around her tiny waist.
Millie Keller was small woman. The word they used back east was petite, but what she lacked in stature she made up for in ruthlessness, intelligence, and the art of manipulation. She had a scar along your left eye and cheek from a lashing she'd taken from her father years before and her long hair, even dirty, looked like the gold silk of corn husk. By all accounts she wasn't your run-of-the-mill whore.
Millie smirked at Bass and then with the skill and sleight of hand of a seasoned gunslinger she pulled the gun, rolled the chamber across her arm to be sure it was fully loaded, and shoved the colt back in its holster. Her hands were so fast even Bass Wheeler was impressed. He motioned toward the back door of the jail when they heard Dan Buckley walking up to the front door of the Pioche Jail calling for Bass.
"Hey Bass, I got the young ladies breakfast! Martha had it waitin' for me. She kept it warm in the oven. Sheriff's on his way to check on things! Hey Bass, you there?!"
Bass nervously pushed Millie out of the door way and into the lot behind the jail.
"Get on the damned horse Millie! Come on!"
She gave him a look as he pushed her into the dark bay but didn't say a word and quickly mounted. Bass noticed it, he'd have to apologize later. For now, he just needed to get them out of here so they'd avoid any gun play. These were his friends afterall, and he wasn't about to shoot anybody! It was then he saw Jason Buckley looking at them from the other side of the street. The expression on Jason's face was nothing short of terror and shock as Bass whirled the palomino around. Bass saw Millie reach for her colt and quickly grabbed her forearm. Looking back at him, Millie cursed Bass screeching out.
"What the hell are you doin' Bass? He's gonna kill us!"
Bass responded with a screech of his on. "Don't you shoot that kid! Now lets get the fuck out of here Millie. Let's go!"
Both of them kicked their mounts turning them down the street to the quickest way out of town. They had to gallop past Jason Buckley running toward them on their right, and out of the corner of his eye, Bass saw Dan Buckley rush out of the front door of the jail on his left, holding his Springfield. The horses would be way too fast for the boys to get a good shot off Bass thought to himself, but what happened next was the one thing he hadn't counted on.
Sheriff Henry Calhoun had seen the commotion on his way up the street and rushed up to fire his gun. He gave the warning shot he would have never given anyone but Bass, and it was the mistake that would cost him his life. Startled, Bass turned his shotgun and more out of instinct than anything else, pulled the trigger. Henry Calhoun's legs buckled. He grimaced in pain, his eyes glared at Bass in despair and disbelief as the blood splattered out of his back like a burst onto the dusty street.
Jason Buckley managed to run across the street to get off a shot as he aimed for Millie, missing when her horse reared up. Millie grabbed her gun's handle pulling it with lightning speed and aimed. She shot, hitting Jason Buckley across the right side of his face. His ear flung off like a bullet, and by the time it landed on the ground they were on the outskirts of town.
A huge cloud of dust swirled around in the air as the morning sun finally rose up past the top of the mountains. With their horses in a full gallop, Bass looked back over his shoulder. The picture of his friend Henry Calhoon's face staring at him, fading into oblivion, and the dark blood that splattered into the street, played again and again in his mind. It was over, and he was wrong. He'd ruined the rest of his life and he knew it. Worse than that, he'd betrayed men, a whole town, who'd placed their confidence in him.
Bass faced forward to the prarie in front of them when the bells of the church began to ring, not for Sunday service but to alert the town. He yanked the star from his breast shirt pocket and flung it into some chollas and thought about what Dan Buckley had said earlier. "It's sure workin'out to be one beautiful Sunday morning."
Big thank you to my friend Morgan Talbot for helping me with this shot and posing. You're the best Morgan!!♥
This shot was taken at Terlingua Texas. The folks there role playing were very curious about what we were up to and equally as nice and accommodating. Thank you guys.
This story takes place in Pioche, Nevada around 1876. I did a little research on Pioche and may have taken some liberties for the sake of the story when it comes to the layout of the town etc. For anyone who lives around Pioche or has visited this historic town I hope you'll forgive me for any historical inaccuracies.
Fort Lauderdale is a city in the U.S. state of Florida, 25 miles (40 km) north of Miami. It is the county seat of Broward County. As of the 2019 census, the city has an estimated population of 182,437. Fort Lauderdale is a principal city of the Miami metropolitan area, which was home to an estimated 6,198,782 people in 2018.
The city is a popular tourist destination, with an average year-round temperature of 75.5 °F (24.2 °C) and 3,000 hours of sunshine per year. Greater Fort Lauderdale which takes in all of Broward County hosted 12 million visitors in 2012, including 2.8 million international visitors. The city and county in 2012 collected $43.9 million from the 5% hotel tax it charges, after hotels in the area recorded an occupancy rate for the year of 72.7 percent and an average daily rate of $114.48. The district has 561 hotels and motels comprising nearly 35,000 rooms. Forty six cruise ships sailed from Port Everglades in 2012. Greater Fort Lauderdale has over 4,000 restaurants, 63 golf courses, 12 shopping malls, 16 museums, 132 nightclubs, 278 parkland campsites, and 100 marinas housing 45,000 resident yachts.
Fort Lauderdale is named after a series of forts built by the United States during the Second Seminole War. The forts took their name from Major William Lauderdale (1782–1838), younger brother of Lieutenant Colonel James Lauderdale. William Lauderdale was the commander of the detachment of soldiers who built the first fort. However, development of the city did not begin until 50 years after the forts were abandoned at the end of the conflict. Three forts named "Fort Lauderdale" were constructed; the first was at the fork of the New River, the second at Tarpon Bend on the New River between the Colee Hammock and Rio Vista neighborhoods, and the third near the site of the Bahia Mar Marina.
The area in which the city of Fort Lauderdale would later be founded was inhabited for more than two thousand years by the Tequesta Indians. Contact with Spanish explorers in the 16th century proved disastrous for the Tequesta, as the Europeans unwittingly brought with them diseases, such as smallpox, to which the native populations possessed no resistance. For the Tequesta, disease, coupled with continuing conflict with their Calusa neighbors, contributed greatly to their decline over the next two centuries. By 1763, there were only a few Tequesta left in Florida, and most of them were evacuated to Cuba when the Spanish ceded Florida to the British in 1763, under the terms of the Treaty of Paris (1763), which ended the Seven Years' War. Although control of the area changed between Spain, the United Kingdom, the United States, and the Confederate States of America, it remained largely undeveloped until the 20th century.
The Fort Lauderdale area was known as the "New River Settlement" before the 20th century. In the 1830s there were approximately 70 settlers living along the New River. William Cooley, the local Justice of the Peace, was a farmer and wrecker, who traded with the Seminole Indians. On January 6, 1836, while Cooley was leading an attempt to salvage a wrecked ship, a band of Seminoles attacked his farm, killing his wife and children, and the children's tutor. The other farms in the settlement were not attacked, but all the white residents in the area abandoned the settlement, fleeing first to the Cape Florida Lighthouse on Key Biscayne, and then to Key West.
The first United States stockade named Fort Lauderdale was built in 1838, and subsequently was a site of fighting during the Second Seminole War. The fort was abandoned in 1842, after the end of the war, and the area remained virtually unpopulated until the 1890s. It was not until Frank Stranahan arrived in the area in 1893 to operate a ferry across the New River, and the Florida East Coast Railroad's completion of a route through the area in 1896, that any organized development began. The city was incorporated in 1911, and in 1915 was designated the county seat of newly formed Broward County.
Fort Lauderdale's first major development began in the 1920s, during the Florida land boom of the 1920s. The 1926 Miami Hurricane and the Great Depression of the 1930s caused a great deal of economic dislocation. In July 1935, an African-American man named Rubin Stacy was accused of robbing a white woman at knife point. He was arrested and being transported to a Miami jail when police were run off the road by a mob. A group of 100 white men proceeded to hang Stacy from a tree near the scene of his alleged robbery. His body was riddled with some twenty bullets. The murder was subsequently used by the press in Nazi Germany to discredit US critiques of its own persecution of Jews, Communists, and Catholics.
When World War II began, Fort Lauderdale became a major US base, with a Naval Air Station to train pilots, radar operators, and fire control, operators. A Coast Guard base at Port Everglades was also established.
On July 4, 1961, African Americans started a series of protests, wade-ins, at beaches that were off-limits to them, to protest "the failure of the county to build a road to the Negro beach". On July 11, 1962, a verdict by Ted Cabot went against the city's policy of racial segregation of public beaches.
Today, Fort Lauderdale is a major yachting center, one of the nation's largest tourist destinations, and the center of a metropolitan division with 1.8 million people.
Credit for the data above is given to the following website:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fort_Lauderdale,_Florida
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Musca autumnalis
"Description: Averaging about 7 - 8 mm long with 4 dark stripes on the thorax. The male has an orange and black patterned abdomen whereas in the female this is a grey pattern.
"Habitat: This species gets its common name from its habit of landing on the faces of cattle where they feed on tears, sweat and blood (from the bites of other flies). However the adults also feed on nectar and can also be found on flowers, or just sunning on posts and fences.
"When to see it: March to October peaking in April and May.
"Life History: They breed in cattle dung where the larvae feed.
"UK Status: Widespread and common in England and Wales."
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Splendid Fairy-wren
Scientific Name: Malurus splendens
Description: The breeding plumage of the male is predominantly blue, varying from cobalt-blue in the east of its range to violet-blue in the west.It has black bands at the base of the tail (absent in the violet-blue birds), across the breast and from the beak, through the eyes to join a band across the back of its neck. Its crown and cheek patches are paler blue. Wings and long tail are brown with a blue wash. His beak is black and his legs and feet are brown-grey. In non-breeding plumage, called eclipse, he is very similar to the female, being pale brown above and buff to white underneath although he retains the blue wash on wings and tail. The female does not have the blue wash on her wings, but does have a reddish-tan line from beak to eye that extends into a ring around her eye. Her beak is reddish-tan.
Similar species: The male in breeding plumage is quite distinct but in eclipse he is similar to the males of other fairy-wrens in eclipse. A faint wash of blue on male wings during eclipse distinguishes this species from others. The female is similar to females of other fairy-wren species, but has a bluer tail than most.
Distribution: These birds are widely distributed across Australia in two areas. One area is from about Shark Bay south through WA, through SA except the coast to about the Flinders Ranges and the southern and central parts of NT. The eastern area include SA from the Flinders Ranges, the far north-western tip of Vic, NSW east to about Moree and Balranald and south central Qld.
Habitat: These birds live in arid to semi-arid areas, in mostly dense shrublands or woodlands of acacia, and mallee eucalypt with dense shrubs.
Seasonal movements: These birds are mostly sedentary, defending a territory all year, but the younger females may disperse to another territory. In some areas they are semi-nomadic, depending on local conditions.
Feeding: Like most of the fairy-wrens, Splendid Fairy-wrens eat mostly insects and forage on both the ground and in shrubs. They live in groups which forage together.
Breeding: The Splendid Fairy-wren female builds an oval domed nest of dry grass, strips of bark and rootlets, with an entrance two thirds of the way up one side. The female is the only member of the group to incubate the eggs, but all members of the group feed the chicks.
Calls: A rapid series of slightly metallic, high-pitched pips that blend into an "undulating" call.
Minimum Size: 12cm
Maximum Size: 14cm
Average size: 13cm
Average weight: 9g
Breeding season: mostly September-December, but can extend from August to April
Clutch Size: 2 to 4, mostly 3
Incubation: 15 days
Nestling Period: 11 days
(Source: www.birdsinbackyards.net)
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Chianti is a red Italian wine produced in Tuscany. The first definition of a wine-area called Chianti was made in 1716. The earliest documentation of a Chianti wine dates back to the thirteenth century when viticulture was known to flourish in the Chianti Mountains around Florence. Discover the most celebrated region of Tuscany. The vineyards of this area produce one of the best wines in the world: Chianti Classico. This Wine represents a major source of wealth for the Chianti area, no wonder then that this product has been particularly looked after and protected, in order to distinguish its quality from other wine productions. This is why a rigid legislation has been introduced to regulate the production of Classic Chianti. The first limit obviously regards the geographical area where the grape must grow. But not only the vineyards must be cultivated in the prescribed area: the whole process of wine-making, storage and bottling must take place inside the protected zone. The grape variety from which Chianti is produced is Sangiovese. The alcoholic strength must not exceed 12 %. In addition to this, there are other requirements that must be followed, regarding the average amount of dry product (24 g/l); the acidity rate (4,5 g/l), the colour (intense ruby red), the smell (fruity, with nuances of wildflowers, berries, cherries or plums) and taste (harmonious, dry, strong and with respectable tannin).
We drive on the glorious wine roads of Tuscany. We visit the farms and cellars and of-course taste the great Chianti wine. Photo of the warm colors of the Tuscany evening sunset taken on the Casale dello Sparviero estate.
Denk je aan Toscana, dan zie je stadjes op heuveltoppen, wijngaarden omzoomd door cipressen zover het oog reikt. Liefhebbers weten dat je overal tussen die landerijen. wijnhuizen kunt vinden waar je ook nog eens kunt proeven... het idee alleen al doet je toch bijna het water in de mond lopen. Ook als je weer thuis bent en je neemt een slok van je meegebrachte wijn, ben je er in je gedachten weer helemaal: op dat zonovergoten terras in Castellina in Chianti of bij dat fantastische restaurant met die truffelgerechten in Monteriggioni. Zeg je wijn in Toscana, dan zeg je Chianti, een wijn die zich in de laatste 30 jaar tot Classico heeft ontwikkeld. Chianti is de bekendste en populairste van alle Italiaanse wijnen. De wijn wordt gemaakt van de alom aanwezige Sangiovese-druif, die graag veel zon heeft en goed bestand is tegen grote temperatuurschommelingen. De belangrijkste Chianti-zones worden gevormd door de streek Chianti Classico gelegen rond Castellina. Zoals met zoveel in Italia, is ook de wijnbouw begonnen in het zuiden, maar hebben de noorderlingen het later overgenomen. Na de Romeinse tijd kwam de zuidelijke wijnbouw in de versukkeling. De oudste ononderbroken wijntraditie. In de Renaissance kwam de productie weer helemaal terug en wel in...Toscana. Rijke handelaars en bankiers zoals de families Frescobaldi en Antinori namen druivenrassen mee uit Frankrijk en legden daarmee de basis voor het feit dat Toscana tegenwoordig de oudste onononderbroken wijntradities van Italië kent.
Hollywood is a city in Broward County, Florida, located between Fort Lauderdale and Miami. The average temperature is between 68 and 83 degrees. As of July 1, 2015 Hollywood has a population of 149,728. Founded in 1925, the city grew rapidly in the 1950s and 1960s, and is now the twelfth largest city in Florida. Hollywood is a principal city of the Miami metropolitan area, which was home to an estimated 6,012,331 people at the 2015 census.
Joseph W. Young founded the city in 1925. He dreamed of building a motion picture colony on the East Coast of the United States and named the town after Hollywood, California. Young bought up thousands of acres of land around 1920, and named his new town "Hollywood by the Sea" to distinguish it from his other real estate venture, "Hollywood in the Hills", in New York
Young had a vision of having lakes, golf courses, a luxury beach hotel, country clubs, and a main street, Hollywood Boulevard. After the 1926 Miami hurricane, Hollywood was severely damaged; local newspapers reported that Hollywood was second only to Miami in losses from the storm. Following upon Young's death in 1934, the city encountered more terrific hurricanes and not only that, but the stock market crashed with personal financial misfortunes. It felt as though the city was tumbling slowly piece by piece with all of those tragic events taking place.
Hollywood is a planned city. On Hollywood Boulevard is the Mediterranean-style Joseph Young Mansion, built around 1921, making it one of the oldest houses in Hollywood.
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Hollywood is a city in Broward County, Florida, located between Fort Lauderdale and Miami. The average temperature is between 68 and 83 degrees. As of July 1, 2015, Hollywood has a population of 149,728. Founded in 1925, the city grew rapidly in the 1950s and 1960s and is now the twelfth largest city in Florida. Hollywood is a principal city of the Miami metropolitan area, which was home to an estimated 6,012,331 people at the 2015 census.
Joseph W. Young founded the city in 1925. He dreamed of building a motion picture colony on the East Coast of the United States and named the town after Hollywood, California. Young bought up thousands of acres of land around 1920 and named his new town "Hollywood by the Sea" to distinguish it from his other real estate venture, "Hollywood in the Hills", in New York
Young had a vision of having lakes, golf courses, a luxury beach hotel, country clubs, and a main street, Hollywood Boulevard. After the 1926 Miami hurricane, Hollywood was severely damaged; local newspapers reported that Hollywood was second only to Miami in losses from the storm. Following upon Young's death in 1934, the city encountered more terrific hurricanes, and not only that, but the stock market crashed with personal financial misfortunes. It felt as though the city was tumbling slowly piece by piece with all of those tragic events taking place.
Hollywood is a planned city. On Hollywood Boulevard is the Mediterranean-style Joseph Young Mansion, built around 1921, making it one of the oldest houses in Hollywood.
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Hallandale Beach (formerly known simply as Hallandale) is a city in southern Broward County, Florida. The city is named after Luther Halland, the son of a Swedish worker for Henry Flagler's Florida East Coast Railroad. As of the 2010 census, the population was 37,113.
The city is known as the home of Gulfstream Park (horse racing and casino) and Mardi Gras Casino, a greyhound racing track which hosts the World Classic. It also has a sizable financial district, with offices for a number of banks and brokerage houses, plus many restaurants. Due to the large number of tourists who eventually retire in the city, Hallandale Beach has one of the fastest-growing populations in Broward County and in Metro Miami.
Hallandale Beach, like most of Broward County, had no permanent European-descended population until the end of the 19th century. Seminole Indians, in settlements that lay inland of the Atlantic shore, hunted in the area and gathered coontie roots to produce arrowroot starch. The northern edge of Hallandale Beach (along Pembroke Road) still features noticeable hammocks, points elevated above sea level in the distant past.
Credit for the data above is given to the following websites:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hollywood,_Florida
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hallandale_Beach,_Florida
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Hollywood is a city in Broward County, Florida, United States, located between Fort Lauderdale and Miami. The average temperature is between 68 and 83 °F (20 and 28 °C). As of July 1, 2019, Hollywood had a population of 154,817. Founded in 1925, the city grew rapidly in the 1950s and 1960s, and is now the twelfth-largest city in Florida. Hollywood is a principal city of the Miami metropolitan area, which was home to an estimated 6,012,331 people at the 2015 census.
Joseph Young arrived in South Florida in 1920 to create his own "Dream City in Florida." His vision included the beaches of the Atlantic Ocean stretching westward with man made lakes, infrastructure, roads and the Intracoastal waterway. He wanted to include large parks, schools, churches, and golf courses; these were all industries and activities which were very important to Young's life. After Young spent millions of dollars on the construction of the city, he was elected as the first mayor in 1925.
This new town quickly became home to northerners known as snowbirds. These snowbirds flee the north during the winter and then escape the south during the summer to avoid the harsh climates. By 1960, Hollywood contained more than 2,400 hotel units along with the construction of 12,170 single family homes. Young bought up thousands of acres of land around 1920, and named his new town "Hollywood by the Sea" to distinguish it from his other real estate venture, "Hollywood in the Hills", in New York.
The Florida guide, published by the Federal Writers' Project, describes the early development of Hollywood, an early example of a planned community that proliferated in Florida during the real estate boom of the 1920s:
During the early days of development here, 1,500 trucks and tractors were engaged in clearing land and grading streets; two yacht basins, designed by General George Washington Goethals, chief engineer in the construction of the Panama Canal, were dredged and connected with the Intracostal Waterway. A Large power plant was installed, and when the city lights went on for the first time, ships at sea reported that Miami was on fire, and their radio alarms and the red glow in the sky brought people to the rescue from miles around.
— Federal Writers'Project, "Part III: The Florida Loop", Florida: A Guide to the Southernmost State (1947)
Prospective purchasers of land were enticed by free hotel accommodation and entertainment, and "were driven about the city-to-be on trails blazed through palmetto thickets; so desolate and forlorn were some stretches that many women became hysterical, it is said, and a few fainted. Young had a vision of having lakes, golf courses, a luxury beach hotel (Hollywood Beach Hotel, now Hollywood Beach Resort), country clubs, and a main street, Hollywood Boulevard. After the 1926 Miami hurricane, Hollywood was severely damaged; local newspapers reported that Hollywood was second only to Miami in losses from the storm. Following Young's death in 1934, the city encountered other destructive hurricanes and the stock market crashed with personal financial misfortunes.
Following the damage inflicted by Hurricane Irma in 2017, an initiative called Rebuild Florida was created by the Florida Department of Economic Opportunity (DEO) to provide aid to citizens affected by the natural disaster. The initial focus of Rebuild Florida was its Housing Repair Program, which offered assistance in rebuilding families' homes that were impacted by Hurricane Irma. The program priorities low-income vulnerable residents, such as the disabled, the elderly and those families with children under five.
Credit for the data above is given to the following website:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hollywood,_Florida
© All Rights Reserved - you may not use this image in any form without my prior permission.
Tashihunpo Monastery (扎什倫布寺), Shigatse (The average elevation here is in a range of 3840 meters (about 12598.4 feet) - 4464 meters (about 14645.7 feet), Tibet, China.
Tashilhunpo Monastery is one of the Six Big Monasteries of Gelugpa (or Yellow Hat Sect) in Tibet. Also called the Heap of Glory, it is located at the foot of Drolmari (Tara's Mountain), Shigatse. Founded by the First Dailai Lama in 1447, the monastery's structure was expanded by the Fourth and successive Panchen Lamas. Covering an area of nearly 300,000 square meters (3,229,279 sq. ft.), the main structures found here are The Maitreya Chapel, The Panchen Lama's Palace and The Kelsang Temple. Tashilhunpo is the seat of the Panchen Lama since the Fourth Panchen Lama took charge in the monastery, and there are now nearly 800 lamas.
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Average shot at best, but it's not every day that you see the McLaren F1 GTR that won the 1995 24h of Le Mans, driving around, with a 675 LT...
"There will come a time when you believe everything is finished. That will be the beginning" - Louis L'Amour.
So week one of another year, hopefully this year I will complete the 52 week project. So far one completed project out of the three years i have participated so i need to get my average up.
Week one complete and really impressed with everyones contributions so far and will shortly be looking to see what's been uploaded today.
Have a great week everyone and see y'all in week 2.
We moved from an area that averaged 5-6 inches of rain in a good year to a location that averages 51 inches of rain a year. Pretty nice actually having visible water instead of a dry river bed!
Stansberry Lake, Washington 2017
4 February 2021: In the week to 31 January on average 2,363 people tested positive each day in Belgium. The figure is up 8% on the week whilst the number of hospitalizations and fatalities continues to fall. Yesterday the Belgian government has agreed which ailments will qualify you for priority in getting vaccinated. Underlying health issues that provide a risk include all patients aged 45 to 64 with chronic respiratory, heart and vascular diseases, obesity, diabetes, chronic afflictions of the nervous system, dementia, tumorous cancers, kidney disease, chronic liver disease and high blood pressure. Patients in the 18 to 64 age category qualify if they have haematological cancers, Down syndrome, HIV or afflictions of the immune system. Also transplant patients and people with rare diseases will get priority. In total these are more than 1 million Belgians. The vaccination of risk patients will start next month. There was more good news yesterday. Researchers from the Oxford University reported the results of a study providing evidence that the AstraZeneca Oxford vaccine not only protects people from serious illness and death but also substantially slows the transmission of the virus. Assuming that the manuscript will get peer-reviewed published it underscores the importance of mass vaccinations as a path out of the pandemic. Personally, I find it a pity that many EU countries are taking a very conservative approach for the roll out of the AstraZeneca vaccine. Anyway, I’m not a virologist and, therefore, should not get involved in the debate. Instead, I’ll continue to focus on documenting daily life or what draws my attention during my daily corona walks in my hometown. It is sometimes surreal, ugly, paradoxical and complex. It’s a little bit of everything and a little bit of nothing but it’s unique in its own right – Ghent, Belgium.
8 March 2021: The average number of people being hospitalised with Covid is now increasing at a slower pace than in recent days. The number of new cases of coronavirus detected remains more or less stable. On average in the week to 6 March 147 patients with Covid were hospitalised each day. The figure is up 2% on the week. In the week to 4 March on average 2343 people tested positive each day. This figure is down 3% on the week. Whilst the figures are still very high the support for the curfew is faltering and other measures that were put in place to curb the spread of the virus, including the rationale for the slow rollout of the deconfinement strategy are challenged by more and more people. In addition, the increased gap between the number of vaccines delivered to our country and the actual vaccinations fuels a general dissatisfaction for the way our country is dealing with the crisis. Net-net, corona fatigue has never been as high, and most people are dreaming of a long vacation on a sun-drenched beach. I shot today’s picture in Saint Martin, an island in the northeast Caribbean Sea back in August 2008 – Saint Martin, Caribbean Islands.
My day was relatively average. I lounged around the house for a few hours before taking a shower and getting out. I went to World Market, which may be my favorite store next to Target, and bought a few things. On the way back home, I decided to stop downtown and take a few photos. I didn't get very far, because when I saw this little dandelion next to the rust, I was done. I took about 10 photos and then came on home. I am woobied and waiting for Masterpiece Classic. The second part of Sense and Sensibility comes on tonight. Hey, we all knew I was a geek coming into this. Don't judge.
This is my photo for February 8, 2009.
Here is the last Super Moon of year 2014, this September 8th from Mont St-Gregoire, Quebec, Canada.
What is a Super Moon?
The distance from moon to Earth varies throughout the month and year. On average the distance is about 238,000 miles (382,900 kilometers). During a month, when the moon is farthest away from Earth it's called apogee, when the moon is closest to Earth it is called perigee. When the full moon coincides with being closest to Earth, or perigee, it is called a Super Moon. Tonight Moon is 357 000 km far away from Earth.
The "Super Moon" is 14% larger and 30% more clear than usually. What it allows to get more precise pictures of a best quality.
Next Super Moons will be on August, September and October of 2015.
N.B. What is a Harvest Super Moon? This is when the Super Moon coincides with the Automn equinox day (September 20-21st). Then we call it a "HARVEST SUPER MOON". This one was on September 8th. Therefore this was not a Harvest Super Moon. :)
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Voici la dernière Super Lune de l'année 2014, ce 8 septembre, depuis Mont-Saint-Grégoire, province de Québec, Canada.
Qu'est-ce qu'une Super Lune?
La distance de la Terre à la Lune varie au cours de l'année. La distance moyenne est de 382 900 km. Lorsque la Lune est à son point le plus éloigné de la Terre, cela s'appelle "Apogée". Au contraire, lorsqu'elle se situe à son point le plus rapproché, cela s'appelle le "Périgée". Lorsque la position de la Pleine Lune coïncide avec le Périgée, c'est une Super Lune. Ce soir, la Lune se situe à 357 000 km de la Terre.
La Super Lune paraît 14% plus grande qu'à la normale et 30% plus claire. Ce qui permet d'obtenir des clichés d'une très grande précision et qualité.
Les prochaines Super Lunes auront lieu en août, septembre et Octobre 2015.
N.B. Qu'est-ce que la Super Lune des Moissons???
C'est lorsqu'une Super Lune coïncide avec l'équinoxe d'automne le 20-21 septembre. A ce moment, la Super Lune devient la Super Lune des Moissons. Cette Super Lune étant le 8 septembre, il ne s'agit donc pas d'une Super Lune des Moissons.
Hollywood is a city in Broward County, Florida, United States, located between Fort Lauderdale and Miami. The average temperature is between 68 and 83 °F (20 and 28 °C). As of July 1, 2019, Hollywood had a population of 154,817. Founded in 1925, the city grew rapidly in the 1950s and 1960s, and is now the twelfth-largest city in Florida. Hollywood is a principal city of the Miami metropolitan area, which was home to an estimated 6,012,331 people at the 2015 census.
Joseph Young arrived in South Florida in 1920 to create his own "Dream City in Florida." His vision included the beaches of the Atlantic Ocean stretching westward with man made lakes, infrastructure, roads and the Intracoastal waterway. He wanted to include large parks, schools, churches, and golf courses; these were all industries and activities which were very important to Young's life. After Young spent millions of dollars on the construction of the city, he was elected as the first mayor in 1925.
This new town quickly became home to northerners known as snowbirds. These snowbirds flee the north during the winter and then escape the south during the summer to avoid the harsh climates. By 1960, Hollywood contained more than 2,400 hotel units along with the construction of 12,170 single family homes. Young bought up thousands of acres of land around 1920, and named his new town "Hollywood by the Sea" to distinguish it from his other real estate venture, "Hollywood in the Hills", in New York.
The Florida guide, published by the Federal Writers' Project, describes the early development of Hollywood, an early example of a planned community that proliferated in Florida during the real estate boom of the 1920s:
During the early days of development here, 1,500 trucks and tractors were engaged in clearing land and grading streets; two yacht basins, designed by General George Washington Goethals, chief engineer in the construction of the Panama Canal, were dredged and connected with the Intracostal Waterway. A Large power plant was installed, and when the city lights went on for the first time, ships at sea reported that Miami was on fire, and their radio alarms and the red glow in the sky brought people to the rescue from miles around.
— Federal Writers'Project, "Part III: The Florida Loop", Florida: A Guide to the Southernmost State (1947)
Prospective purchasers of land were enticed by free hotel accommodation and entertainment, and "were driven about the city-to-be on trails blazed through palmetto thickets; so desolate and forlorn were some stretches that many women became hysterical, it is said, and a few fainted. Young had a vision of having lakes, golf courses, a luxury beach hotel (Hollywood Beach Hotel, now Hollywood Beach Resort), country clubs, and a main street, Hollywood Boulevard. After the 1926 Miami hurricane, Hollywood was severely damaged; local newspapers reported that Hollywood was second only to Miami in losses from the storm. Following Young's death in 1934, the city encountered other destructive hurricanes and the stock market crashed with personal financial misfortunes.
Following the damage inflicted by Hurricane Irma in 2017, an initiative called Rebuild Florida was created by the Florida Department of Economic Opportunity (DEO) to provide aid to citizens affected by the natural disaster. The initial focus of Rebuild Florida was its Housing Repair Program, which offered assistance in rebuilding families' homes that were impacted by Hurricane Irma. The program priorities low-income vulnerable residents, such as the disabled, the elderly and those families with children under five.
Credit for the data above is given to the following website:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hollywood,_Florida
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The averaged Crimean nature. My favourite kind of weather and terrain for hiking and photos. Thank you for Explore!
'From the moment of my birth, my tears have fed this earth'
Twelve weekends! Count em. The average agreeable summer in Southern Alberta has only twelve weekends for photography. You might have to subtract a couple for inclement weather. After that you're crying in your autumn leaves songs.
It's a rainy Sunday afternoon June 19th, suddenly I'm feeling timeworn again with a birthday quickly approaching, while I ponder what historical place in Southern Alberta would allow me to step back to antiquated time. Put everything in linear perspective. Just a visual hint that allows me to suspend belief and bring a European sensibility to my flatlined prairie mind. Anything.
When I arrived at the interpretative centre near Brooks, AB the lower gates were closed for the road that parallels the 3km long Aqueduct, with access to picnic areas. The attendant mentioned the gravel roads are saturated and too muddy. The upper weir and best viewpoint has a canal filled with water on one side, and steep slope on the other, it's narrow enough for one vehicle, and soaked. Not recommended today.
"Only ten left" I say
"Ten what?" she asks
"Only ten minutes before the skies flood,
and after this, ten weekends!"
I'm beginning to feel younger all over.
{Like a giant centipede, the Brooks Aqueduct spans a shallow 3.2 km wide valley, suspending a concrete sling twenty metres above the parched prairie landscape. Once filled to overflowing with precious water bound for the thirsty croplands of southwestern Alberta, today it holds only memories.
Erected over ninety years ago by the Canadian Pacific Railway's irrigation division to serve as a vital link in its expansive irrigation network. The Aqueduct stretched the limits of engineering design and technology then, just as it stretches the imagination today.}
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Nov. 16, 2022: Taking advantage of the wind by shooting low-hanging fall leaves at the Thousand Oaks Library. Used Average Camera Pro app on iPhone set for eight to 32 exposures.
Here are my favorite four.
Hallett is situated on the Barrier Highway 192km north of Adelaide. The average rainfall is 422mm (16.5 inches) and height above sea level is 601.52m (1973ft). The climate is pleasant in summer with warm to hot dry days and mild nights, and cold in winter with occasional fails of snow and very frosty nights. The area is noted for its merino sheep breeding, and the successful cropping of wheat, barley, oats, and lucerne.
The Hallett Brothers, John and Alfred, arrived in the district in the 1840s. In 1842, John selected a run known as Willogoleche which covered an area from Hallet to Burra. This town was named for them. The two main streets are named John and Alred and the three transversing streets are named Richard, Jessie, and Julia after John's children. Gold nuggets were foudn at Ulooloo in 1869. By 1886, 18 000 pounds worth of gold had passed through the Hallett Post Office, with (it is beleived) an almost equivalant amount being used for trade and barter.
The District Council of Hallett was formed in 1877 and included the towns of Whyte Yarcowie and Terowie. All three were once bustling towns servicing the surrounding farming properties. With state wide amalgamation of council areas in 1997 the Hallet Disctict Council became part of the Regional Council of Goyder.
Sir Hubert Wilkins, Australia's world renowned polar explorer and adventurer was born near Hallett in 1888. He was the first to fly over both the Arctic and Antarctic regions and travel under the Arctic ice pack by submarine. The Wilkins family home, restored in 2001 to its original condition, is situated near Mount Bryan East, 20km east of Hallett (the route is well signed).
Source: Regional Council Of Goyder.
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June 4, 2022: Locomotive at the Travel Town Museum in Los Angeles' Griffith Park.
Happy Time Travel Tuesday boys and girls, today's journey and challenge #1607 The Frog, started like my average challenging Tuesday. I woke up excited before dawn, to be on a time travel journey. I guess because I've been on so many and survived with only minor, bites, cuts, abrasions, and only a few life threatening, brain injuries. I woke up walked to the Budahunga hot mineral springs. Swam a few laps, got over to a stand of banana trees, ate a few, I've probably warned everyone, to never time travel, on an empty stomach. I entered the time travel cave, sat on a stump, opened the big crate, took out the big bottle of Rum, took a sip, after a few minutes my sense of smell and vision returned, I selected a green bottle of cologne, it smelled swampy but pleasant, rubbed a little on each cheek, within a minute I was covered, and tightly held by the blue time travel cloud, and hurling through a black portal. I was actually enjoying the ride, I opened my eyes and could see the vastness of the Cosmo's. Then suddenly I was heading down and being dropped onto a slime green pasture. I picked myself up, looked around for a clue to this challenge. Off in the distance there it was, who ever is responsible for creating these challenges, must know I love old cars, lately most journeys have involved a jalopy, vintage car, boat, or even Spacecrafts, or one-time a atomic powered toilet, with a note giving instructions for what golden object I must find, in a short amount of time, to be returned to the Tropical Volcanic Planet known as Budahunga. There it was on the top of a hill, A 1940 Ford Station Wagon, it was running, an 8 track player was playing the beach boys first album. The instructions were written in grey crayon, tapped to the dash, It read enjoy your drive to find and capture, the Golden Dart Frog before Sundown. How I managed to find and get the frog out of the tree, off of me and get picked up by the time travel cloud, will have to be a story for another time.
Landscape photographers tend to use more than the average truck drivers carbon quota in the endless pursuit to represent well know and well loved locations. Now please don’t misinterpret this observation, I understand why these honey spots exist with their magic ingredients of dramatic, mountain ranges, spectacular geology, an abundance of natural beauty. But paradoxically alongside the exceptional photographic ingredients comes multitudes of endless repetition, (not to forget swarms of glory clickers). Again, please don’t assume it is my view that there is anything wrong with enjoying dramatic locations, (that is in-fact what most landscape photographers have in common) and even wanting to capture a little bit of it to hang on your livening room wall for your grandmother to admire on Christmas day, is totally respectable. But this approach keeps the generalised perception of landscape photography very much lead by the masses and more importantly, rejects anything commercially that isn’t widely recognisable!
In most kinds of art there are commercial (effortless interpreted) and high brow (generally about concept, but often countering the popular). Now obviously this is a massive oversimplification, in order to keep the word count down, but please for a moment try to consider how this divide shapes the photographers, and art we see around us.
It’s almost as though one has to choose an ideology and develop a personal philosophical struggle that explores the shades of grey between internal and external recognition, between commercial and not. Does one follow the fast moving flow of popular praise, or does one meander and explore the deeper pools on the edge? Well that really does depend on your ideological vision and whether or not you are trying to forge a profession. This internal mental struggle has frequently occupied my thoughts over the years and personally I’ve slowly fashioned a tentative ideology based on personal development mixed with the occasional ego satisfying departures.
But this weekend whilst desperately trying to work a popular location to forge my own interpretation, I decided to turn my lens away from the iconic medieval abbey and in perfect conditions I chose to take a risk with an unfamiliar location, (just down river but somewhere I’d never visited). This was a big risk commercially, (considering the perfect conditions), but satisfying creatively because I had to work that bit harder to see something different. The results may or not be popular, or even groundbreaking, but that doesn’t really matter, for me in that location they highlight a refreshing shift outside my comfort zone.
Nothing new ever came from endlessly following the well trodden path, so just for a moment try to consider your own development and I challenge you to depart from your usual secure direction and who knows you may even make the next honey spot. I challenge you to force yourself into making your local area work, develop your skills by pushing yourself outside these comfort zones and hopefully develop a voice of your own! It will help you approach these locations with fresh eyes that can’t see the tripod holes of past pioneers!
On average, it takes a ship 8 to 10 hours to pass through the canal. While moving through it, a system of locks raises each ship 85 feet above sea level. Ship captains aren’t allowed to transit the canal on their own; instead, a specially trained canal pilot takes navigational control of each vessel to guide it through the waterway The 50-mile-long passage created an important shortcut for ships; after the canal was constructed, a vessel sailing between New York and California was able to bypass the long journey around the tip of South America and trim nearly 8,000 miles from its voyage. The canal, which uses a system of locks to lift ships 85 feet above sea level, was the largest engineering project of its time.
Enjoy this 2.9-mile loop trail near Breckenridge, Colorado. Generally considered a challenging route, it takes an average of 1 h 44 min to complete. This trail is great for hiking, and it's unlikely you'll encounter many other people while exploring. The best times to visit this trail are June through August. Dogs are welcome, but must be on a leash.
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Cerastes are small snakes, averaging less than 50 cm in length, but are relatively stout in appearance. The head is broad, flat and distinct from the neck. The head is covered with tubercularly keeled scales, which usually number 15 or more across, and a supraorbital horn may be present over each eye in some species. The snout is short and wide and the eyes, which are set well forward, are small to moderate in size. The body is short, stout and cylindrically depressed. The tail is short and tapers abruptly behind the vent.
From en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cerastes_(genus)
This snake is called in Libya the snakes of horns and it's very venom according to our guide because it's bites him before :).
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Average depth of 100 m deep, glacier water 4 °C
Jasper NP, the largest national park in the Canadian Rocky Mountains.
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Durchschnittliche Tiefe von 100 m, Gletscherwasser 4 °C
Jasper NP, der größte Nationalpark in den kanadischen Rocky Mountains.
It feels good to post again! I haven't been acting building lately but I've still managed to go through my contact list and see the sweet stuff everyone else is building! I've been wanting to build one of my local Lifeguard Towers for a long time, and since I had made one when I was like eight, the contest over in the Teen Lego group is perfect! There are lots of little details and techniques hidden, so make sure to check out the full photo. I will post some more photos of the car too, as well as a breakdown shot.
Thanks!
Oh, and since it is Halloween, here's a funny video I found over on Youtube!
Hollywood is a city in Broward County, Florida, United States, located between Fort Lauderdale and Miami. The average temperature is between 68 and 83 °F (20 and 28 °C). As of July 1, 2019, Hollywood had a population of 154,817. Founded in 1925, the city grew rapidly in the 1950s and 1960s, and is now the twelfth-largest city in Florida. Hollywood is a principal city of the Miami metropolitan area, which was home to an estimated 6,012,331 people at the 2015 census.
Joseph Young arrived in South Florida in 1920 to create his own "Dream City in Florida." His vision included the beaches of the Atlantic Ocean stretching westward with man made lakes, infrastructure, roads and the Intracoastal waterway. He wanted to include large parks, schools, churches, and golf courses; these were all industries and activities which were very important to Young's life. After Young spent millions of dollars on the construction of the city, he was elected as the first mayor in 1925.
This new town quickly became home to northerners known as snowbirds. These snowbirds flee the north during the winter and then escape the south during the summer to avoid the harsh climates. By 1960, Hollywood contained more than 2,400 hotel units along with the construction of 12,170 single family homes. Young bought up thousands of acres of land around 1920, and named his new town "Hollywood by the Sea" to distinguish it from his other real estate venture, "Hollywood in the Hills", in New York.
The Florida guide, published by the Federal Writers' Project, describes the early development of Hollywood, an early example of a planned community that proliferated in Florida during the real estate boom of the 1920s:
During the early days of development here, 1,500 trucks and tractors were engaged in clearing land and grading streets; two yacht basins, designed by General George Washington Goethals, chief engineer in the construction of the Panama Canal, were dredged and connected with the Intracostal Waterway. A Large power plant was installed, and when the city lights went on for the first time, ships at sea reported that Miami was on fire, and their radio alarms and the red glow in the sky brought people to the rescue from miles around.
— Federal Writers'Project, "Part III: The Florida Loop", Florida: A Guide to the Southernmost State (1947)
Prospective purchasers of land were enticed by free hotel accommodation and entertainment, and "were driven about the city-to-be on trails blazed through palmetto thickets; so desolate and forlorn were some stretches that many women became hysterical, it is said, and a few fainted. Young had a vision of having lakes, golf courses, a luxury beach hotel (Hollywood Beach Hotel, now Hollywood Beach Resort), country clubs, and a main street, Hollywood Boulevard. After the 1926 Miami hurricane, Hollywood was severely damaged; local newspapers reported that Hollywood was second only to Miami in losses from the storm. Following Young's death in 1934, the city encountered other destructive hurricanes and the stock market crashed with personal financial misfortunes.
Following the damage inflicted by Hurricane Irma in 2017, an initiative called Rebuild Florida was created by the Florida Department of Economic Opportunity (DEO) to provide aid to citizens affected by the natural disaster. The initial focus of Rebuild Florida was its Housing Repair Program, which offered assistance in rebuilding families' homes that were impacted by Hurricane Irma. The program priorities low-income vulnerable residents, such as the disabled, the elderly and those families with children under five.
Credit for the data above is given to the following website:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hollywood,_Florida
© All Rights Reserved - you may not use this image in any form without my prior permission.
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Average of 128 exposures taken in my home as I walked around for approximately two minutes. Image was then processed to bring out the red tones.
Explored! Jan. 23, 2019
the average strawberry has 200 seeds?
from this morning when we had a sun-drenched breakfast on the deck before VBS dropoff.
Purple, orange, yellow, and white never looked so sexy!
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