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A poppy is a flowering plant in the subfamily Papaveroideae of the family Papaveraceae. Poppies are herbaceous plants, often grown for their colourful flowers. One species of poppy, Papaver somniferum, is the source of the narcotic drug opium which contains powerful medicinal alkaloids such as morphine and has been used since ancient times as an analgesic and narcotic medicinal and recreational drug. It also produces edible seeds. Following the trench warfare in the poppy fields of Flanders, Belgium during World War I, poppies have become a symbol of remembrance of soldiers who have died during wartime. Poppies are herbaceous annual, biennial or short-lived perennial plants. Some species are monocarpic, dying after flowering. Poppies can be over a metre tall with flowers up to 15 centimetres across. Flowers of species (not cultivars) have 4 to 6 petals, many stamens forming a conspicuous whorl in the center of the flower and an ovary of from 2 to many fused carpels. The petals are showy, may be of almost any color and some have markings. 17752
Just having a look through some older photos and this one stood out. At the Legislature Buildings as part of the observance for the 6th Biennial British Columbia Fallen Fire Fighters Memorial Service.
Excerpt from torontobiennial.org:
Disrupting the hierarchy between art and fashion, Jarrell’s wearable artworks merge Black liberation politics and art. After producing her debut collection in 1963, Jarrell went on to cofound the influential art collective AFRICOBRA (African Commune of Bad Relevant Artists) in 1968. Aesthetic experimentation informs ideas of cultural revolution in this conceptual garment.
Installation art piece, Storm by Katie Pell at the Texas Biennial 2009 in Austin Texas, March 8, 2009. Located in the Mexican American Cultural Center.
Photo Copyright 2009, Steve Hopson.
Artwork: Alicja Kwade: Big Be-Hide.
Shot with Pinhof DIY pinhole camera on Lomography X Pro 200 film @50, home developed in Tetenal E-6
tim shaw where have all the flowers gone?
palmer sculpture biennial 2018, eastern scarp of the mount lofty ranges, south australia
sculpture on property
palmer sculpture biennial 2018, eastern scarp of the mount lofty ranges, south australia
The Chicago Architecture Biennial 2017 includes 140 architects and artists, exhibits, and events across Chicago and goes on until January 7, 2017.
"Digitalis (/ˌdɪdʒɪˈteɪlɪs/ or /ˌdɪdʒɪˈtælɪs/) is a genus of about 20 species of herbaceous perennial plants, shrubs, and biennials, commonly called foxgloves.
Digitalis is native to Europe, western Asia, and northwestern Africa. The flowers are tubular in shape, produced on a tall spike, and vary in colour with species, from purple to pink, white, and yellow. The scientific name means "finger". The genus was traditionally placed in the figwort family, Scrophulariaceae, but phylogenetic research led taxonomists to move it to the Veronicaceae in 2001. More recent phylogenetic work has placed it in the much enlarged family Plantaginaceae.
The best-known species is the common foxglove, Digitalis purpurea. This biennial is often grown as an ornamental plant due to its vivid flowers which range in colour from various purple tints through pink and purely white. The flowers can also possess various marks and spottings. Other garden-worthy species include D. ferruginea, D. grandiflora, D. lutea, and D. parviflora.
The term digitalis is also used for drug preparations that contain cardiac glycosides, particularly one called digoxin, extracted from various plants of this genus. Foxglove has medicinal uses but can also be toxic to humans and other animals.
Sault Ste. Marie (/ˈsuː seɪnt məˈriː/ SOO-seint-ma-REE) is a city on the St. Marys River in Ontario, Canada, close to the Canada–US border. It is the seat of the Algoma District and the third largest city in Northern Ontario, after Sudbury and Thunder Bay.
The Ojibwe, the indigenous Anishinaabe inhabitants of the area, call this area Baawitigong, meaning "place of the rapids." They used this as a regional meeting place during whitefish season in the St. Mary's Rapids. (The anglicized form of this name, Bawating, is used in institutional and geographic names in the area.)
To the south, across the river, is the United States and the Michigan city of the same name. These two communities were one city until a new treaty after the War of 1812 established the border between Canada and the United States in this area at the St. Mary's River. In the 21st century, the two cities are joined by the International Bridge, which connects Interstate 75 on the Michigan side, and Huron Street (and former Ontario Secondary Highway 550B) on the Ontario side. Shipping traffic in the Great Lakes system bypasses the Saint Mary's Rapids via the American Soo Locks, the world's busiest canal in terms of tonnage that passes through it, while smaller recreational and tour boats use the Canadian Sault Ste. Marie Canal.
French colonists referred to the rapids on the river as Les Saults de Ste. Marie and the village name was derived from that. The rapids and cascades of the St. Mary's River descend more than 6 m (20 ft) from the level of Lake Superior to the level of the lower lakes. Hundreds of years ago, this slowed shipping traffic, requiring an overland portage of boats and cargo from one lake to the other. The entire name translates to "Saint Mary's Rapids" or "Saint Mary's Falls". The word sault is pronounced [so] in French, and /suː/ in the English pronunciation of the city name. Residents of the city are called Saultites.
Sault Ste. Marie is bordered to the east by the Rankin and Garden River First Nation reserves, and to the west by Prince Township. To the north, the city is bordered by an unincorporated portion of Algoma District, which includes the local services boards of Aweres, Batchawana Bay, Goulais and District, Peace Tree and Searchmont. The city's census agglomeration, including the townships of Laird, Prince and Macdonald, Meredith and Aberdeen Additional and the First Nations reserves of Garden River and Rankin, had a total population of 79,800 in 2011.
Native American settlements, mostly of Ojibwe-speaking peoples, existed here for more than 500 years. In the late 17th century, French Jesuit missionaries established a mission at the First Nations village. This was followed by development of a fur trading post and larger settlement, as traders, trappers and Native Americans were attracted to the community. It was considered one community and part of Canada until after the War of 1812 and settlement of the border between Canada and the US at the Ste. Mary's River. At that time, the US prohibited British traders from any longer operating in its territory, and the areas separated by the river began to develop as two communities, both named Sault Ste. Marie." - info from Wikipedia.
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- Geranium is a genus of 422 species of annual, biennial, and perennial plants that are commonly known as geraniums or cranesbills. They are found throughout the temperate regions of the world and the mountains of the tropics, but mostly in the eastern part of the Mediterranean region. - WIKIPEDIA
- This tree was given to my mother by her second mother living in Russia (my family is Vietnamese). She was the one who cared for her mother during her time working here and this is also the place where her parents first met. After nearly 30 years of losing information about her, my mother and I found her at the old house in Kursk and received this small gift.
- Focus stack 31 pics. (extension tube)
The Dordt in Stoom festival is a biennial showcase not only for steam-powered boats, trains and traction engines, but it also attracts a plethora of other heritage vehicles, including buses that ferry visitors around the sites in Dordrecht. In addition to the short rides on steam trains out of Dordrecht station, a pair of NS heritage units were on display. On the left is a Plan V 2-car EMU of the Materieel ‘64 series. Alongside was a sight that warmed my own heart, a ‘Tommy’, the nickname bestowed on the six members of the NS 1500 Class of 1500v DC Co-Co locomotives that were acquired from British Rail in 1968. These locomotives were built in 1953 at Gorton Works in Manchester as the EM2 Class (later Class 77) to work the express passenger trains on the electrified Manchester-Sheffield Woodhead line. Sadly, this route lost its passenger service in January 1970 and was closed east of Hadfield in July 1981.
NS in turn retired the 1500 Class in 1985. Two survivors were repatriated and preserved in Britain, while a Dutch preservation group retained 1501, seen here. In BR service as E27003, it was named ‘Diana’, a name the Dutch later gave 1501.
May 2004
Rollei 35 camera
Kodak Ektachrome 100 film.
The biennial Farnborough Airshow is taking place this week (16-22/07/2018) and as normal the Hampshire town is flooded with visitors the show.
Go-Ahead London are once again operating the Queens Parade shuttle service into the Airshow using a fleet of buses including MMC E285 SN66WNF.
The biennial Farnborough Airshow took place in July 2018 and as normal the Hampshire town was flooded with visitors the show.
The weekend public days meant the addition of 16 buses operating the Park & Ride service from the Eelmoor and Rushmoor car parks into the airshow site. Once again the service was provided by buses from the Bluestar and Metrobus fleets.
It is native to Hungary, Romania, Turkey and the Caucasus. It is a biennial or short-lived perennial plant growing to 1.2 m (3 ft 11 in).
Taken in Kotor bay.
This reproduction of an antique photo was on display at the 20th biennial Finnish-American Festival, Naselle, Washington, July 2022.
Information about the Hundis family appears below.
I don't believe this photo was taken in 1910 because, based on the information in the 1930 federal census, only one Hundis child would have been born by then.
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Toronto Biennial of Art 2019 - Small Arms Inspection Building, Mississauga, Ontario
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Rock cradled in fabric probes thematic currents using tectonic shift as a starting point to suggest speculative fictions that stretch through deep geological time
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20th biennial Finnish-American Festival, Naselle, Washington.
July 2022
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First a bit of information about Naselle, Washington, and then some biographical facts about John Silvola and his family.
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"Naselle A Finnish village with history, character and hidden treasures"
Story by DWIGHT CASWELL
March 25, 2015
A river wends its way through the Willapa Hills, down its valley to bottomlands, and finally joins Willapa Bay.
Along the way, it passes a small village; both village and river are named Naselle, after the Nasil tribe of Native Americans. The Nasil were a Chinookan people obliterated by smallpox in the early 1800s; six surviving families made their home near the location of the modern village that bears their name.
“Nasil” means “hidden” or “sheltered;” the name is appropriate. Early trappers and traders bypassed the valley of the Naselle, protected as it was by dense forest that could only be approached from Willapa Bay by a maze of small rivers and creeks.
The first European to live in the area was a French-Canadian trapper with his Cree wife; they lived among the Nasil for the next 25 years.
Americans had entered the area by then, mainly bachelor loggers or fishermen, working a job and moving on.
In 1879 Jaakko and Sofie Pakanen and their daughter, Mary, became the first Finnish family to settle in Naselle.
Perhaps it was the fishing or the lush grasslands waiting for cattle and the plow, or perhaps the place reminded them of home.
Or they may have been seeking others like themselves, people who had fled the yoke of Russian oppression and welcomed the hardship of freedom on the frontier. For whatever reason, Naselle was an almost entirely Finnish community before Washington was a state.
Forest so dense that, settler Katarina Pakanen said, “You have to look straight up to see the sunlight,” assured that logging was king. And there was fishing, and some sheep and dairy farming. A 1925 photograph shows 100 children standing in front of the schoolhouse. 89 are identified as Finnish, and four as half-Finnish; only seven students were not Finnish.
To get to Naselle, take Washington State Highway 401 east for 11.2 miles from the north end of the Astoria Bridge.
The town boasts a post office, a Timberland Regional Library, Okie’s Select Market, and three churches built in the 1920s. Turn right immediately after the market, and immediately right again. You will see on your left the handsome Evangelical Lutheran Church, and on the right an unexpected discovery, Hoff Brothers Enterprises.
“When we moved to town a year ago,” says Nicole Hoff, laughing, “people told us our family increased the population to 424.” Her two sons, Lewis and Royce, are the “Hoff Brothers” of the name. Nicole and husband, Randall, are new owners, but the store is much the same as it has been for many years: a meat locker for local hunters and a liquor store. The changes the Hoffs have made are to include a small but select assortment of beers (with growler fills as low as $6), wines and spirits that are virtually unobtainable elsewhere. They also carry exquisite espresso and alder roasted coffee beans.
Fred’s Homegrown Produce is also in Naselle, and you can buy his organic beef at the Hoff Brothers.
Return to Highway 401, turn right, and a mile later right again onto Washington State Highway 4. After almost 2 miles, on your right, you will see the Archive Café and next to that the Appelo Archives Center, a trove of historical information about the area, with logging industry displays and a room of traditional Finnish clothing, instruments and reading materials.
Next to the café is Hunter’s Inn, which invariably has several pickup trucks parked in front; the restaurant is justifiably famed for its broasted chicken.
Take a few more minutes and go another 3.9 miles to West Deep River Road. Turn left and take a scenic drive up the river. The road intersects East Deep River Road in a couple of miles, and you can go back to the highway on the other side of the river.
Today, only a third of Naselle’s population is of Finnish ancestry, but it remains in any other important way a Finnish village.
Naselle is home to Emmy-winning cinematographer and historian Rex Ziak. There is also local pride in Oscar Wirkkala, who lived in Naselle. Wirkkala had a profound effect on industry in the Pacific Northwest; he invented both the “high lead” method of cable logging, suited to logging on steep slopes, and the ubiquitous choker hook.
In 2006 a staged version of Jennifer L. Holm’s 1999 Newbery Honor-winning novel, “Our Only May Amelia,” set in pioneer Naselle, was presented at FinnFest USA, a national festival that Naselle co-hosted with Astoria that year. Since 1982 Naselle has hosted the Finnish-American Folk Festival every other year, a three-day extravaganza of all things Finnish. The free festival will next take place at the end of July 2016.
Before you leave Naselle, take another short trip, seven miles or so east on Highway 4. You’ll enter Wahkiakum County and find the vanishingly small hamlet of Grays River. There you’ll see Duffy’s Irish Pub, which looks funky enough to be extolled by Matt Love. Inside it’s a traditional Irish pub with friendly people and good food. You’ll also see signs to the Grays River Covered Bridge, built in 1906 and worth the short trip, before you return from Willapa’s misty hills.
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John Silvola in the 1930 United States Federal Census
(Source Ancestry.com)
Name: John Silvola
Birth Year: abt 1876
Gender: Male
Race: White
Age in 1930: 54
Birthplace: Finland
Marital Status: Married
Relation to Head of House: Head
Home in 1930: Naselle, Pacific, Washington, USA
Home Owned or Rented: Owned
Radio Set: No
Lives on Farm: Yes
Age at First Marriage: 19
Attended School: No
Able to Read and Write: Yes
Father's Birthplace: Finland
Mother's Birthplace: Finland
Language Spoken: Finnish
Immigration Year: 1896
Naturalization: Naturalized
Able to Speak English: Yes
Occupation: Farmer
Industry: General Farm
Class of Worker: Working on own account
Employment: Yes
Household Members Age Birth Year Relationship
John Silvola 54 1876 Head
Maria Silvola 60 1870 Wife
Fred J Silvola 25 1905 Son
Charles O Silvola 23 1907 Son
Clyde Doll 41 1889 Son-in-law
Hilda Doll 34 1896 Daughter
John L Dolln 13 1917 Grandson
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John Silvola in the U.S., Find a Grave Index, 1600s-Current
Name: John Silvola
Gender: Male
Birth Date: 19 Sep 1875
Birth Place: Finland
Death Date: 5 Jun 1954
Death Place: South Bend, Pacific County, Washington, United States of America
Cemetery: Peaceful Hill Cemetery
Burial or Cremation Place: Naselle, Pacific County, Washington, United States of America
Has Bio?: N
Spouse: Maria Silvola
Children:
Charles Oscar Silvola
Mary Tyyne Wiitala
Fred J. Silvola
Viola Martha Silvola
Lilia J. Silvola
Tekla Johanna Keiski
Hilda Helen Doll
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