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Zwei Tornados stehen nachts im Zelt auf der Air Base Incirlik, Türkei, am 29.06.2016.
©Bundeswehr/Thorsten Weber
""If you have food in the refrigerator, clothes on your back, a roof overhead and a place to sleep you are richer than 75% of this world." Author unknown.
This image has been cropped and re-sized, a method shown to me by Ottavia who was taught this by her contact Ted.
Thanks for your visits and comments, much appreciated:) Best seen large in the light box, by clicking on the photo.
One of the dioramas depicting estate activities in the afterlife of Meket-Re, an 11th Dynasty (ca. 21st cent. BCE) high official buried in the cliffs of Deir al-Bahari, Thebes. The arrangement of the figurines is modern, but the maquettes clearly show cattle being driven by servants in front of a kiosk where Meket-Re and his son are seated; scribes are taking a headcount. The woodcarvers have carefully rendered the breed of cattle with long, curiously straight horns and a variety of piebald spotted markings. The cattle are male but quite small relative to the human figures, implying that this may be an annual cull of the young bulls prior to a feast.
Egyptian museum, Cairo
One final look at Ghent's Gravensteen Castle.
Gravensteen Castle is built on a small piece of land that juts into Leie Canal giving the castle the appearance that it is floating on water. The outer walls are the castle’s most unique feature. Unlike most castles, whose walls tend to be of the flat curtain type with round or square towers placed at intervals, Gravensteen’s walls have exterior supports, with turrets not rising from the water but jutting out over it.
Also known as “Castle of the Counts” in Dutch, the was built in 1180. Today it houses the Arms Museum and the Museum of Judicial Objects displaying various weapons used in warfare and other contraptions used for punishment and torture during medieval times.
Castle History:
After the death of Charlemagne, Belgium and the other Low Countries were incorporated into the short-lived Central Kingdom. Soon afterwards the kingdom collapsed and most of the local area broke apart into a succession of tiny feudal states nominally under the influence of the Holy Roman Empire and France.
Ghent, the region’s largest city and capital of the province of Flanders soon became a local power and eventually chief city of the region. Located in the geographic heart of Northern Europe, neutral Ghent became a major trading centre for the Germans, French and English. By the 11th century it was one of the largest cities on the continent.
Ghent was the seat of the County of Flanders, but it lacked an aristocratic residence that reflected the region’s political importance and wealth. When Count Philip returned to Ghent from the Second Crusade, he immediately set about rectifying the situation. Adapting the architectural style of the castles he had become familiar with in the deserts of the Holy Land to the watery landscape of Belgium, he designed and built Gravensteen Castle towards the end of the 12th century.
Gravensteen remained the residence of the Counts of Flanders for the next two centuries. When they moved out in the 14th century, the practical citizens of Ghent put the castle to good use. For years it housed governmental offices as well as the city’s court and prison.
Ghent and Gravensteen were ravaged during the Thirty Year’s War, at which time the castle was abandoned and frequently used as a stone quarry. Later, during the earliest stages of the Industrial Revolution, Ghent became one of Europe’s chief manufacturing centers. Desparate for space, Gravensteen Castle got a reprieve when it was pressed into service as a textile factory.
By the 1800s, Gravensteen had been substantially reduced due to years of war and neglect. However, the good citizens of Ghent again came to their castle’s rescue. Shortly before it was to be demolished, what was left of the castle was publicly acquired and subsequently fully restored. Even sections that were long gone, including substantial portions of the keep, were replaced. It is now only threatened by the hordes of tourists who visit every year.
Hair Fair Preview - Exile - Counting Stars
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Through the early parts of America’s involvement in World War II, the United States forceably moved and imprisoned over 120,000 of its Japanese citizens. They were mostly taken from the West Coast to more inland places such as Idaho, Utah, and Camp Amache in Colorado, pictured here.
The camp, near the town of Granada, was opened in August of 1942. Over its three-years of existence, nearly 10,000 Japanese-Americans were shuffled through. The population at any given time was around 7,000.
Most of the prisoners came from the Los Angeles area. The were allowed only one bag per person, and were forced to sell homes, businesses, cars, pets.
Local white residents grew resentful when the Camp built a high school for its imprisoned children. They saw this as coddling.
But though they were prisoners, the history and reality of the situation isn’t so simple to digest. For example, their high school football team was treated like any other high school team, playing against other nearby schools (and winning all but one game in three years).
Words like “prisoner” and “forceably removed” are accurate and necessary, but – as will most history – there is nuance. The white culture of the United States is replete with racism. We’ve allowed it to soak into every page of our history. But white culture, like any human culture, also has empathy, goodness, and compassion. The mixture of this hatred with goodness, even love, is difficult to parse and understand. It never pleases either “side” in any debate.
History, it seems, has no sides. It just is. We can twist and interpret it to meet our ends, but ultimately, history doesn’t give a damn about us, and we should probably just accept it as it is.
All that is left today at Camp Amache is this watertower, a rebuilt barracks, a graveyard, and a sprawling gridwork of streets. It’s open to the public, and well worth a visit – as are all of the Japanese-American interment camps.
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‘Counts as Straw’
Camera: Ansco Color Clipper (c1950)
Film: Kodak Gold 100 (x-03/1996)
Process: DIY ECN-2
Granada War Relocation Center (Japanese Interment Camp Amache), Colorado
12 more days. until i can finally go back. not to this exact place, but to this beautiful country. i am also very much looking forward to finally being able to make use of my new camera and lens.
So the last day of 2015 is here. The moments of 2015 will disappear, but the memories will still be with us for ever. The good memories and the bad ones. Things we have to take with us on our journey. Happy new year everyone😘💖
Hint: I initially miscounted, and I was right there in front of them. Hint #2: View large
Sorry about the slight blurriness. Once again, the snakes chose to be in an area not conducive to good photography. I wasn't about to manually adjust them either. Shortly after this photo was taken, they took turns crawling out of sight.
I always have vivid dreams when I take a nap. Today, I dreamed that Lei and her hubby Andy, Charlie and I, my friend Missy and my grandmother crashed a wedding. The preacher was wearing a t-shirt with a Dodge City Red Demon on it and had an ASU Sun Devil painted on his face. A woman was speaking about how women are like rivers, ever changing.
In honor of today which is Festival of Sleep Day!
©2011 LKG Photography
Mechanical and functional requirements worked out between TBS and Citizen シチズン Watch Company, Tokyo.
Developer: TBS Tokyo Broadcasting System, Akasaka, Tokyo
Date: Installed December, 1992.
Hundertwasser comment about the work:
This monument is a token, a landmark serving as an ambassador for a peace treaty between men and nature. (...) A consciousness of eternal cycles in harmony with nature and human creation becomes vital, just as timeless constant values, the knowledge of the cosmos where no up and no down exists, no right and no left. It is not the time, which is important but the cycle which develops in organical, beautiful form. Time should create new life, slowly, in spiral form, vegetativ and creative. Time should not destroy past time, should not create last panic before the time of tomorrow. The idea of counting time is a human misleading idea, an invention like the straight line, but there is only eternity developing in an organical cycle. (...) The same water is permanently flowing through the purification plant. The way of the water through the roots of the plants takes about 1 hour. The roots of these waterplants are producing oxygen and are turning what we call dirt into plant substance. We become witness of a permanent purification and renewal process in harmony with the laws of nature. (excerpt from Hundertwasser's text of August 1992) (from: Hundertwasser 1928-2000, Catalogue Raisonné, Vol. 2, Taschen, Cologne, 2002, p. 1261)
Information:
Hundertwasser designed the ecological monument for the Tokyo Broadcasting System (TBS) in commemoration of the company's fiftieth anniversary in 2001. The digital display of a Citizen Clock, which could be read from both sides, counted down the days to the anniversary. The monument was erected on the TBS grounds in Midoriyama/Yokohama in December 1992 and moved to Akasaka in 1994. The accompanying program upon arrival of this event with the theme "Our Beloved Planet, Earth" was focusing on the everchanging Japan, the global environment and mankind. (Source: hundertwasser.com).
Public Clock Photography by Arjan Richter
Another restless night and I woke at 4.30 am, shift work really doesn't suit me! Dawn looked a poor prospect with hazy cloud filling the sky, so I looked back through some shots for something to edit. This from last winter when our area was,unusually, graced with snow. A group of [mainly] Herdwick Sheep on Eskdaleside, a few miles from town.
Der französische Flugzeugträger Charles de Gaulle fährt im Verband im Rahmen der Mission Counter Daesh II im Mittelmeer, am 23.09.2016.
©Bundeswehr/Torsten Kraatz
...I have a passion for white benches...there must be more than a dozen inside our home...and then there are even some outdoors...most are functional, but these three are just sittin' pretty...
Textures by Kim Klassen, CatHairStudios, and French Kiss...
Vintage frame by Florabella
Visiting the RH&DR for the gala was Count Louis which was working up and down the line at New Romney. Obviously not a Romney loco, but was built for Louis Zborowski who was a racing driver and started the RH&DR project along with Captain Howey. Sadly Count Louis was killed in a racing accident in Monza before the Romney Hythe & Dymchurch railway opened. The loco was named after him after his death and spent most of its life at the Fairbourne railway. Taken on 13/5/23.
No birds to capture (crows do not count...) so I remembered what Lucy had instructed me to do 9 years ago and did it again.
The area that was to become West Palm Beach was settled in the late 1870s and 1880s by a few hundred settlers who called the vicinity "Lake Worth Country." These settlers were a diverse community from different parts of the United States and the world. They included founding families such at the Potters and the Lainharts, who would go on to become leading members of the business community in the fledgling city. The first white settlers in Palm Beach County lived around Lake Worth, then an enclosed freshwater lake, named for Colonel William Jenkins Worth, who had fought in the Second Seminole War in Florida in 1842. Most settlers engaged in the growing of tropical fruits and vegetables for shipment the north via Lake Worth and the Indian River. By 1890, the U.S. Census counted over 200 people settled along Lake Worth in the vicinity of what would become West Palm Beach. The area at this time also boasted a hotel, the "Cocoanut House", a church, and a post office. The city was platted by Henry Flagler as a community to house the servants working in the two grand hotels on the neighboring island of Palm Beach, across Lake Worth in 1893, coinciding with the arrival of the Florida East Coast railroad. Flagler paid two area settlers, Captain Porter and Louie Hillhouse, a combined sum of $45,000 for the original town site, stretching from Clear Lake to Lake Worth.
On November 5, 1894, 78 people met at the "Calaboose" (the first jail and police station located at Clematis St. and Poinsettia, now Dixie Hwy.) and passed the motion to incorporate the Town of West Palm Beach in what was then Dade County (now Miami-Dade County). This made West Palm Beach the first incorporated municipality in Dade County and in South Florida. The town council quickly addressed the building codes and the tents and shanties were replaced by brick, brick veneer, and stone buildings. The city grew steadily during the 1890s and the first two decades of the 20th century, most residents were engaged in the tourist industry and related services or winter vegetable market and tropical fruit trade. In 1909, Palm Beach County was formed by the Florida State Legislature and West Palm Beach became the county seat. In 1916, a new neo-classical courthouse was opened, which has been painstakingly restored back to its original condition, and is now used as the local history museum.
The city grew rapidly in the 1920s as part of the Florida land boom. The population of West Palm Beach quadrupled from 1920 to 1927, and all kinds of businesses and public services grew along with it. Many of the city's landmark structures and preserved neighborhoods were constructed during this period. Originally, Flagler intended for his Florida East Coast Railway to have its terminus in West Palm, but after the area experienced a deep freeze, he chose to extend the railroad to Miami instead.
The land boom was already faltering when city was devastated by the 1928 Okeechobee hurricane. The Depression years of the 1930s were a quiet time for the area, which saw slight population growth and property values lower than during the 1920s. The city only recovered with the onset of World War II, which saw the construction of Palm Beach Air Force Base, which brought thousands of military personnel to the city. The base was vital to the allied war effort, as it provided an excellent training facility and had unparalleled access to North Africa for a North American city. Also during World War II, German U-Boats sank dozens of merchant ships and oil tankers just off the coast of West Palm Beach. Nearby Palm Beach was under black out conditions to minimize night visibility to German U-boats.
The 1950s saw another boom in population, partly due to the return of many soldiers and airmen who had served in the vicinity during the war. Also, the advent of air conditioning encouraged growth, as year-round living in a tropical climate became more acceptable to northerners. West Palm Beach became the one of the nation's fastest growing metropolitan areas during the 1950s; the city's borders spread west of Military Trail and south to Lake Clarke Shores. However, many of the city's residents still lived within a narrow six-block wide strip from the south to north end. The neighborhoods were strictly segregated between White and African-American populations, a legacy that the city still struggles with today. The primary shopping district remained downtown, centered around Clematis Street.
In the 1960s, Palm Beach County's first enclosed shopping mall, the Palm Beach Mall, and an indoor arena were completed. These projects led to a brief revival for the city, but in the 1970s and 1980s crime continued to be a serious issue and suburban sprawl continued to drain resources and business away from the old downtown area. By the early 1990s there were very high vacancy rates downtown, and serious levels of urban blight.
Since the 1990s, developments such as CityPlace and the preservation and renovation of 1920s architecture in the nightlife hub of Clematis Street have seen a downtown resurgence in the entertainment and shopping district. The city has also placed emphasis on neighborhood development and revitalization, in historic districts such as Northwood, Flamingo Park, and El Cid. Some neighborhoods still struggle with blight and crime, as well as lowered property values caused by the Great Recession, which hit the region particularly hard. Since the recovery, multiple new developments have been completed. The Palm Beach Mall, located at the Interstate 95/Palm Beach Lakes Boulevard interchange became abandoned as downtown revitalized - the very mall that initiated the original abandonment of the downtown. The mall was then redeveloped into the Palm Beach Fashion Outlets in February 2014. A station for All Aboard Florida, a high speed passenger rail service serving Miami, Fort Lauderdale, West Palm Beach, and Orlando, is under construction as of July 2015.
Credit for the data above is given to the following website:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/West_Palm_Beach,_Florida
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Step out the front door like a ghost into the fog
Where no one notices the contrast of white on white
Part of the backlot of urban Poughkeepsie, a reality television show seen daily.
Also seen here.
I keep coming back to these two houses. I find the attempt at "beautification" to be profoundly depressing. I would love to buy them and preserve them just like this. A reminder of old Poughkeepsie.