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Mixed herbaceous border containing Cephalaria gigantea, Cardoons, Nepeta, Geraniums and Salvia, Town Place, late June.
Back in the UK in '65 my mom strikes a pose at the border of Scotland and England. It would be interesting to find out which road this is.
The pillow says it all..."I'm just a rag doll in a barbie doll world". Ranger is a border collie that cant herd sheep...he's the border collie version of a rag doll.
I started out this week with the worst case of pneumonia I have ever had (sorry I have missed making comments - catching up now). I had originally hoped to get a shot of Ranger 'not' herding sheep, but we never made it outside. I couldn't think of anything good - so I went with what I know. I love quilts, teddy bears and my dogs - so why not combine them. Then I remembered this rag doll I had with the pillow & saying. It was PERFECT!
Ranger is the easiest dog to photograph EVER. I When he saw me laying out the quilt & teddy bears he walked into the room, happy as can be and laid down on the quilt, turned and looked at me and said "Okay, where are the treats?". He kept his stay, as I piled teddy bears and dolls all over him, clicking away. He is intently watching the camera - because he knows when he looks at the camera he gets a treat. Smart boy!
I shot this manually with exposure 1/20 , f/5.0, ISO 640, FL 33mm - no special lighting in the room other than the overhead and natural light coming in the window. I played with the white balance a bit because I wanted that slightly yellow aged look. Very little post processing, other than the frame and vignette. I am happy with it..
Constructive criticism is happily welcomed!
A small one bedroom cottage behind the abandoned Montgomery Pass Motel in a remote portion of western Nevada just past the California border. I've heard that these small buildings were part of a brothel complex, but I'm not sure if this particular building was.
Exposure: 5 minutes @ f/8, 200 ISO. Full moonlight and AA maglight
Construction workers erect steel forms as the foundation of the steel wall panels to go up in the Rio Grande Valley as part of U.S. Customs and Border Protection’s effort to install new border wall along the U.S. – Mexico border near Weslaco, Texas, Oct. 29, 2019.
CBP photo by Jaime Rodriguez
Number two son picked up his number two dog today, an 8 week old Border Collie puppy. Already has bountiful energy at 8 weeks.
Robson’s was persuaded to take two Leyland Roadtrains Border Ophelia and Border Hamlet as long-term demonstrators, following less than perfect back-up experience with previous big Leylands. Although both were returned to Leyland in December, they had impressed sufficiently to secure an order for 16 similar tractor units from Solway Leyland DAF in Carlisle (26-Jan-25).
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At the time I captured this store, the Borders chain had already closed...although the shock of the fact was still taking its time to sink in.
Milwaukee, Wisconsin. 2011.
Alas, more sad news to share, our lovely flickr friend Lynda had to bid farewell to her beloved Border Collie earlier this week. I hope Lynda will not mind me sharing an flickrmail that she sent to me but this sums up the bond between them more eloquently than I ever could.
"In 1964, when I was just a young teenager of 14, my parents were in Wales and my mom videotaped a border collie herding the sheep. When she returned home from vacation and showed me the tape, I decided that ONE DAY, I would have a border collie. That dream was filled 32 years later, when I got my Molly. I had waited until I retired from the workforce, because I wanted to be able to share my days with her, without having to leave her alone while I went out to work.
Molly was EVERYTHING that I had dreamed she would be, and we hiked together every day until she became too infirm last year. I believe in all my heart and soul that I will be with her again one day, and we will hike together again on the other side. It will bring me solace when my time comes, knowing that she is waiting for me."
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Borders (21,017 square feet)
12300 Jefferson Avenue, Patrick Henry Mall, Newport News, VA
This location opened on November 26th, 2005 and closed in April 2011. It operated as a Spirit Halloween in September-November 2011 and a ToyZam! in November 2011-January 2012, and became a Forever 21 in October 2012, which closed on April 29th, 2025.
The property originally housed a 65,000 square foot Hess's department store, which opened on August 20th, 1987 and closed on March 15th, 1993. It became Proffitt's on August 12th, 1993, which closed in March 1997 and became Dillard's on August 2nd, 1997. Dillard's closed in 2005 and was demolished shortly after.
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Parish Church to the Holy Trinity and Franciscan Monastery
Object ID: 20593 Town Square 12
The late Baroque building, taking up the whole north side of the town square, is dominated by the Rococo façade. 1707 the Carmelite order at the request of the benefactor, Maria Antonia Montecuculi, settled down in St. Pölten, at the north side of the square the men convent should find its place. Although architect's plan and financial resources were available, was the start of construction not until 1757, there was missing the planning permission of Empress Maria Theresa. The church then was built to 1768 according to plans by Johann Pauli, the monastery was completed in 1773. Yet 10 years later, the monastery by Emperor Joseph II was repealed. Because of its strategic location, the church in 1785 became parish church, the pastoral care took over the by the dissolutions not affected Franciscan Order.
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History of the City St. Pölten
In order to present concise history of the Lower Austrian capital is in the shop of the city museum a richly illustrated full version on CD-ROM.
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On the occasion of the commemoration of the pogroms of November 1938, the Institute for Jewish History of Austria its virtual Memorbuch (Memory book) for the destroyed St. Pölten Jewish community since 10th November 2012 is putting online.
Prehistory
The time from which there is no written record is named after the main materials used for tools and weapons: Stone Age, Bronze Age, Iron Age. Using the latest technologies, archaeologists from archaeological finds and aerial photographs can trace a fairly detailed picture of life at that time. Especially for the time from the settling down of the People (New Stone Age), now practicing agriculture and animal husbandry, in the territory of St. Pölten lively settlement activity can be proved. In particular, cemeteries are important for the research, because the dead were laid in the grave everyday objects and jewelry, the forms of burial changing over time - which in turn gives the archeology valuable clues for the temporal determination. At the same time, prehistory of Sankt Pölten would not be half as good documented without the construction of the expressway S33 and other large buildings, where millions of cubic meters of earth were moved - under the watchful eyes of the Federal Monuments Office!
A final primeval chapter characterized the Celts, who settled about 450 BC our area and in addition to a new culture and religion also brought with them the potter's wheel. The kingdom of Noricum influenced till the penetration of the Romans the development in our area.
Roman period, migrations
The Romans conquered in 15 BC the Celtic Empire and established hereinafter the Roman province of Noricum. Borders were protected by military camp (forts), in the hinterland emerged civilian cities, almost all systematically laid out according to the same plan. The civil and commercial city Aelium Cetium, as St. Pölten was called (city law 121/122), consisted in the 4th Century already of heated stone houses, trade and craft originated thriving urban life, before the Romans in the first third of the 5th Century retreated to Italy.
The subsequent period went down as the Migration Period in official historiography, for which the settlement of the Sankt Pöltner downtown can not be proved. Cemeteries witness the residence of the Lombards in our area, later it was the Avars, extending their empire to the Enns.
The recent archaeological excavations on the Cathedral Square 2010/2011, in fact, the previous knowledge of St.Pölten colonization not have turned upside down but enriched by many details, whose full analysis and publication are expected in the near future.
Middle Ages
With the submission of the Avars by Charlemagne around 800 AD Christianity was gaining a foothold, the Bavarian Benedictine monastery of Tegernsee establishing a daughter house here - as founder are mentioned the brothers Adalbert and Ottokar - equipped with the relics of St. Hippolytus. The name St. Ypolit over the centuries should turn into Sankt Pölten. After the Hungarian wars and the resettlement of the monastery as Canons Regular of St. Augustine under the influence of Passau St. Pölten received mid-11th Century market rights.
In the second half of the 20th century historians stated that records in which the rights of citizens were held were to be qualified as Town Charters. Vienna is indeed already in 1137 as a city ("civitas") mentioned in a document, but the oldest Viennese city charter dates only from the year 1221, while the Bishop of Passau, Konrad, already in 1159 the St. Pöltnern secured:
A St. Pöltner citizen who has to answer to the court, has the right to make use of an "advocate".
He must not be forced to rid himself of the accusation by a judgment of God.
A St. Pöltner citizen may be convicted only by statements of fellow citizens, not by strangers.
From the 13th Century exercised a city judge appointed by the lord of the city the high and low jurisdiction as chairman of the council meetings and the Municipal Court, Inner and Outer Council supported him during the finding of justice. Venue for the public verdict was the in the 13th Century created new marketplace, the "Broad Market", now the town hall square. Originally square-shaped, it was only later to a rectangle reduced. Around it arose the market district, which together with the monastery district, the wood district and the Ledererviertel (quarter of the leather goods manufacturer) was protected by a double city wall.
The dependence of St. Pölten of the bishop of Passau is shown in the municipal coat of arms and the city seal. Based on the emblem of the heraldic animal of the Lord of the city, so the Bishop of Passau, it shows an upright standing wolf holding a crosier in its paw.
Modern Times
In the course of the armed conflict between the Emperor Frederick III . and King Matthias of Hungary pledged the Bishop of Passau the town on the Hungarian king. From 1485 stood Lower Austria as a whole under Hungarian rule. The most important document of this period is the awarding of the city coat of arms by King Matthias Corvinus in the year 1487. After the death of the opponents 1490 and 1493 could Frederick's son Maximilian reconquer Lower Austria. He considered St. Pölten as spoils of war and had no intention of returning it to the diocese of Passau. The city government has often been leased subsequently, for instance, to the family Wellenstein, and later to the families Trautson and Auersperg.
That St. Pölten now was a princely city, found its expression in the coat of arms letter of the King Ferdinand I. from 1538: From now on, the wolf had no crosier anymore, and the from the viewer's point of view left half showed the reverse Austrian shield, so silver-red-silver.
To the 16th Century also goes back the construction of St. Pöltner City Hall. The 1503 by judge and council acquired house was subsequently expanded, rebuilt, extended and provided with a tower.
A for the urban history research important picture, painted in 1623, has captured scenes of the peasant uprising of 1597, but also allows a view to the city and lets the viewer read some of the details of the then state of construction. The economic inconveniences of that time were only exacerbated by the Thirty Years War, at the end of which a fifth of the houses were uninhabited and the citizenry was impoverished.
Baroque
After the successful defense against the Turks in 1683, the economy started to recover and a significant building boom began. Lower Austria turned into the land of the baroque abbeys and monasteries, as it is familiar to us today.
In St. Pölten, the change of the cityscape is closely connected to the Baroque architect Jakob Prandtauer. In addition to the Baroquisation of the interior of the cathedral, a number of buildings in St. Pölten go to his account, so the reconstruction of the castle Ochsenburg, the erection of the Schwaighof and of the core building of the Institute of the Blessed Virgin Mary (Englische Fräuleins - English Maidens) - from 1706 the seat of the first school order of St.Pölten - as well as of several bourgeois houses.
Joseph Munggenast, nephew and co-worker of Prandtauer, completed the Baroquisation of the cathedral, he baroquised the facade of the town hall (1727) and numerous bourgeois houses and designed a bridge over the Traisen which existed until 1907. In the decoration of the church buildings were throughout Tyroleans collaborating, which Jakob Prandtauer had brought along from his homeland (Tyrol) to St. Pölten, for example, Paul Troger and Peter Widerin.
Maria Theresa and her son Joseph II: Their reforms in the city of the 18th Century also left a significant mark. School foundings as a result of compulsory education, the dissolution of the monasteries and hereinafter - from 1785 - the new role of St. Pölten as a bishop's seat are consequences of their policies.
1785 was also the year of a fundamental alteration of the old Council Constitution: The city judge was replaced by one magistrate consisting of five persons, at the head was a mayor. For the first mayor the painter Josef Hackl was chosen.
The 19th century
Despite the Napoleonic Wars - St. Pölten in 1805 and 1809 was occupied by the French - and despite the state bankruptcy of 1811, increased the number of businesses constantly, although the economic importance of the city for the time being did not go beyond the near vicinity.
Against the background of monitoring by the state secret police, which prevented any political commitment between the Congress of Vienna and the 1848 revolution, the citizens withdrew into private life. Sense of family, fostering of domestic music, prominent salon societies in which even a Franz Schubert socialized, or the construction of the city theater were visible signs of this attitude.
The economic upswing of the city did not begin until after the revolution of the year 1848. A prerequisite for this was the construction of the Empress Elisabeth Western Railway, moving Vienna, Linz, soon Salzburg, too, in a reachable distance. The city walls were pulled down, St. Pölten could unfold. The convenient traffic situation favored factory start-ups, and so arose a lace factory, a revolver factory, a soap factory or, for example, as a precursor of a future large-scale enterprise, the braid, ribbon and Strickgarnerzeugung (knitting yarn production) of Matthias Salcher in Harland.
In other areas, too, the Gründerzeit (years of rapid industrial expansion in Germany - and Austria) in Sankt Pölten was honouring its name: The city got schools, a hospital, gas lanterns, canalization, hot springs and summer bath.
The 20th century
At the beginning of the 20th Century the city experienced another burst of development, initiated by the construction of the power station in 1903, because electricity was the prerequisite for the settlement of large companies. In particular, the companies Voith and Glanzstoff and the main workshop of the Federal Railways attracted many workers. New Traisen bridge, tram, Mariazell Railway and other infrastructure buildings were erected; St. Pölten obtained a synagogue. The Art Nouveau made it repeatedly into the urban architecture - just think of the Olbrich House - and inspired also the painting, as exponents worth to be mentioned are Ernst Stöhr or Ferdinand Andri.
What the outbreak of the First World War in broad outlines meant for the monarchy, on a smaller scale also St. Pölten has felt. The city was heavily impacted by the deployment of army units, a POW camp, a military hospital and a sick bay. Industrial enterprises were partly converted into war production, partly closed. Unemployment, housing emergency and food shortages long after the war still were felt painfully.
The 1919 to mayor elected Social Democrat Hubert Schnofl after the war tried to raise the standard of living of the people by improving the social welfare and health care. The founding of a housing cooperative (Wohnungsgenossenschaft), the construction of the water line and the establishment of new factories were further attempts to stimulate the stiffening economy whose descent could not be stopped until 1932.
After the National Socialist regime had stirred false hopes and plunged the world into war, St. Pölten was no longer the city as it has been before. Not only the ten devastating bombings of the last year of the war had left its marks, also the restrictive persecution of Jews and political dissidents had torn holes in the structure of the population. Ten years of Russian occupation subsequently did the rest to traumatize the population, but at this time arose from the ruins a more modern St. Pölten, with the new Traisen bridge, district heating, schools.
This trend continued, an era of recovery and modernization made the economic miracle palpable. Already in 1972 was - even if largely as a result of incorporations - exceeded the 50.000-inhabitant-limit.
Elevation to capital status (capital of Lower Austria), 10 July 1986: No other event in this dimension could have become the booster detonation of an up to now ongoing development thrust. Since then in a big way new residential and commercial areas were opened up, built infrastructure constructions, schools and universities brought into being to enrich the educational landscape. East of the Old Town arose the governmental and cultural district, and the list of architects wears sonorous names such as Ernst Hoffmann (NÖ (Lower Austria) Landhaus; Klangturm), Klaus Kada (Festspielhaus), Hans Hollein (Shedhalle and Lower Austrian Provincial Museum), Karin Bily, Paul Katzberger and Michael Loudon ( NÖ State Library and NÖ State Archive).
European Diploma, European flag, badge of honor, Europe Price: Between 1996 and 2001, received St. Pölten numerous appreciations of its EU commitment - as a sort of recognition of the Council of Europe for the dissemination of the EU-idea through international town twinnings, a major Europe exhibition or, for example, the establishment and chair of the "Network of European medium-sized cities".
On the way into the 21st century
Just now happened and already history: What the St. Pöltnern as just experienced sticks in their minds, travelers and newcomers within a short time should be told. The theater and the hospital handing over to the province of Lower Austria, a new mayor always on the go, who was able to earn since 2004 already numerous laurels (Tags: polytechnic, downtown enhancement, building lease scheme, bus concept) - all the recent changes are just now condensed into spoken and written language in order to make, from now on, the history of the young provincial capital in the 3rd millennium nachlesbar (checkable).
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In 1938 Czechoslovakia mobilized against the German threats of war, but hat to give in to the Munich Agreement and withdraw from the border fortifications, even if the army was fully capable to stand against the Wehrmacht. After this not only Germany, but also Poland and Hungary ripped pieces of land from the country, and there were also extensive fights with insurgents, which cost lives of many Czechoslovak soldiers and gendarmes. Today it´s a tradition to reenact how the situation could be, when we would have defended ourselfs. It´s a fact that Hitler was affraid of the Czechoslovak military, which at that time had better tanks, more heavy guns, and a very effective fortification system. Of course we win in the reenactments :-)
Trying to get Paddy to jump up into frame .. he was very willing but got a bit too close .. this at 15mm!
Benvenuti nel nuovo millennio
Due anni dopo questa sparatoria nella scuola [Columbine], le Torri gemelle di New York crollarono come castelli di sabbia.
Questo attacco terrorista uccise tremila lavoratori.
Il presidente George W. Bush ricevette, così, la licenza di uccidere. Proclamò la guerra infinita, la guerra mondiale contro il terrorismo, e poco dopo invase l’Afghanistan.
Questo altro attacco terrorista uccise tremila contadini.
Vampate, esplosioni, grida, maledizioni: scoppiavano gli schermi della televisione. Ogni giorno ripetevano la tragedia delle Torri, che si confondeva con gli scoppi delle bombe che cadevano sull’Afghanistan.
In un paese sperduto, lontano dal manicomio universale, Naùl Ojeda era seduto per terra accanto al nipotino di tre anni. Il bambino disse: “Il mondo non sa dov’è la sua casa”.
Stavano guardando delle cartine.
Eduardo Galeano, “Le labbra del tempo”
Can we learn from trees (!) about border conflicts, possession, land use?
Some historians say our original sin was to take land as possession (agriculture). Trees protect themselves and their families, but accept continuous change around them. And they literally live on the land..
A patch here, there, its all natural :-)
A 9x12 inch oil painting of the American and Canadian Border Peaks rising up from the Slesse Creek Valley. It's a shame that you have to search for this view now that the trees have grown up along the Chilliwack River Road.
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The Missouri Monument at Vicksburg. Being a border state both sides had Missouri units in the ranks. Often the lines were close enough that Missourians would call back and forth to inquire about the status and well-being of family, friends and neighbors back home. The left bronze panel depicts attacking Union soldiers from Missouri while the right panel depicts defending Confederate units from the state.