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The swollen Current River in Van Buren Missouri by Notley Hawkins Photography. Taken with a Canon EOS 5D Mark IV camera with a Canon EF16-35mm f/4L IS USM lens at ƒ/18.0 with a 3.2 second exposure at ISO 200. Processed with Adobe Lightroom CC.
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All belong to the same faction. The camo on the middle right is a Spetsnaz camo, with my own added twist. It will also go on the right guy. Not sure if I will put it on the legs. The left guys are more desert prepared, so I'm not sure if I should camo them. Knee pads by me.
Soon to be Modern Conflict Standards
-Sphinx
giving me the stink eye... She is currently sitting on me making it hard to sleep LOL #ginko #goofy #lolcat #catkote #catsofinstagram #ilovecats #neko
After a brief hiatus, I have been doing some actual building. The RG-99b was one my first MOCs, looking back at photos made me want to revisit it. As for the direction Grey ship has taken, well I have been watching too much Yamato 2199.
Currently the most recently delivered Ryanair Boeing 737-8AS seen landing at Dublin Airport, 15 December 2017
currently on transfer to East/West Scotland from Dover, via repaint at Bus & Coach World, Blackburn.
using "Airdroid" remote, this is a picture of the front camera, triggered online via wifi. It is the current-outlet of my lamp in the living room.
Joking! It is the dwarf star next to our sun. Just some lightyears away.
I'm afraid that I didn't get a chance to photograph the new stratolifter and the sparrowhawk before returning to university, so I took this quick picture of all my models before leaving for my student house.
On the positive side though, I've just been accepted to display my models at Brick 2015 at London Excel in December, so hopefully will get to see a lot of the awesome models I've seen other people make on flickr in person.
BNSF Crew 4/R-NWE704 rolls towards Sumner with a nice trio of EMDs, each wearing a different BNSF paint scheme
...in limbo with Canon...DH talking on phone to them now...busy with looking into rental for now. Fingers crossed that all will be well. Hopes up. Back soon...involved with all of this atm.
Taken not long before the big crash yesterday. The camera worked excellently, until it didn't. :)
***LATEST NEWS: Ten days from the time they get it...sooooo...overnight shipping here we come...and probably rental in the meantime...no more buying for my girls...DO hold me to that!
I’ve been keeping busy with other things and trying to stay one step ahead of the crazies.
This was from a couple of weeks back during my last outing. I had dinner outdoors with a friend and hung out with a some of my DVG friends for a while too.
Seeing the writing on the wall for our current surge, I decided not to stay to long, however.
I feel I’ll personally be OK, but I don’t want to be a spreader to friends and neighbors who might not be so lucky and with mask requirements back in place, I suspect Becky won’t be getting out again until this latest surge calms down a bit again.
I hope that will be before our Holiday Party, currently scheduled about 70 days from now.
It is really a totally unnecessary tragedy; we are back up to nearly 1000 deaths a day nationally and we had plenty of enough vaccine to avoid all of it here in the US.
My county is hanging in there, but we still have several hundred thousand folks who still refuse to get vaccinated. Fortunately, most of the folks who are suffering the worse consequences are them and not folks who have taken this pandemic seriously. But there are still many (kids under 12 and folks with additional risk factors) who are at increased risk, simply because of how much virus is still circulating in the community because of the thousands still unvaccinated here.
We are still getting a couple thousand folks newly vaccinated here each day, which will continue to help, but we could be totally vaccinated, ie 100%, if we had wanted to by now.
We are over 80 percent of folks over 12 fully vaccinated and over 86% have at least started (in my county), so are rates and deaths are no where near the crazy levels they are elsewhere, but we could be at basically zero and getting back to our lives if just more folks would get vaccinated here too.
Hang in there and stay safe.
Hugs to all of you from, Becky
Current estimates of average nodule abundance in four major locations.
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The current cold conditions in the UK are making the moon very clear, even in the daytime. Taken in the south of England at 3:15pm.
A bit experimental, combined from 5 of the sharpest images of a set, processed in RegiStax 6. Sony A77ii, Sony 70-400G2, Minolta 2xTC. 800mm (1200mm equivalent), ISO200, 1/250s, f11. Tripod.
A CORRENTE...
Chamei meu amigo
E disse-lhe assim:
- Vem amigo!...
Junte-se a mim
E aos outros também,
Formemos a corrente do bem
A exaltar o que é belo,
Sê, como eu, mais um elo
A torná-la resistente, forte,
Capaz de vencer a morte
Que o mal no mundo esparrama,
Acender a chama
Ardente da paz,
Do amor que refaz
As esperanças perdidas,
Salvemos as vidas!...
E ele me respondeu:
- Mas se só sobrarmos nós dois?
Lutando sem forças
Pra tombarmos depois?
Exangue,
Em sangue,
Vencidos na luta?
Eu, então, lhe respondi:
- Não importa a disputa,
A tormenta,
A gente se agüenta
Convictos no mesmo ideal,
Derrotarmos o mal
Que domina o mundo,
Imundo,
Onde o bem, já moribundo,
Agoniza
Ante o mal que enraíza
E se expande,
Grande,
Enorme,
Fétida massa informe
A cobrir toda Terra,
A incitar a guerra
Que aterra
Todas as esperanças,
O sorriso das crianças,
Os impulsos fraternais,
A alegria dos pais...
Monstro voraz que tudo consome,
Que semeia a fome
Nas populações combalidas,
Derrotadas, vencidas...
Que triste sorte,
A subjugação ou a morte
Onde antes havia paz.
Mal que se exprime
No crime,
Na violência,
No atentado à inocência
Das crianças ainda puras,
Na segregação das criaturas
Pelas origens raciais,
Nas injustiças sociais...
Nos vícios em que o homem se afoga,
No tráfico maldito da droga,
Que cresce,
Enriquece,
Mas enlutece a família,
Pois, quem segue sua trilha,
Emurchece,
Apodrece,
Definha...
E a culpa é tua
E também minha,
Que ficamos de braços cruzados,
Calados,
Vendo tudo acontecer...
Na politicagem vergonhosa,
Na intolerância religiosa,
Mãe de tantos conflitos.
Vem amigo!
Unamos nossos gritos
Mas, num ecoar doce e singelo,
Sê, como eu, mais um elo
A formar a nossa corrente,
Forte, resistente,
Capaz de fazer ouvir sua voz,
Sua vontade resoluta.
Afinal, Se Deus é por nós,
Quem será contra nós nesta luta?...
A current keeper since 1998 on this W124; it's LHD and appears to have been registered here in 1992. An early one, the W124 was introduced in late 1984. It's on a SORN and has no MOT history available.
Strangely, the Mercedes is now for sale here www.gumtree.com/p/mercedes-benz/1985-mercedes-benz-230-2....
Kedleston Hall is a neo-classical manor house owned by the National Trust, and seat of the Curzon family, located in Kedleston, Derbyshire, approximately 4 miles (6 km) north-west of Derby. The medieval village of Kedleston was moved in 1759 by Nathaniel Curzon to make way for the manor.[2] All that remains of the original village is the 12th century All Saints Church, Kedleston.[3]
Background
The current house was commissioned in 1759 by Nathaniel Curzon and designed by Robert Adam.[4]
The Curzon family, whose name originates in Notre-Dame-de-Courson in Normandy, have been in Kedleston since at least 1297, and have lived in a succession of manor houses near to or on the site of the present Kedleston Hall. The present house was commissioned by Sir Nathaniel Curzon (later 1st Baron Scarsdale) in 1759. The house was designed by the Palladian architects James Paine and Matthew Brettingham and was loosely based on an original plan by Andrea Palladio for the never-built Villa Mocenigo.
At the time a relatively unknown architect, Robert Adam, was designing some garden temples to enhance the landscape of the park; Curzon was so impressed with his designs that Adam was quickly put in charge of the construction of the new mansion.
On the death of Richard Curzon, 2nd Viscount Scarsdale in 1977, expenses compelled the heir, his cousin (Francis Curzon), to transfer the property to the care of the National Trust.[5]
Exterior
Kedleston Hall was Brettingham's opportunity to prove himself capable of designing a house to rival Holkham Hall. The opportunity was taken from him by Robert Adam who completed the North front (above) much as Brettingham designed it, but with a more dramatic portico.
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The design of the three-floored house is of three blocks linked by two segmentally curved corridors. The ground floor is rusticated, while the upper floors are of smooth-dressed stone. The central, corps de logis, the largest block, contains the state rooms and was intended only for formal entertaining. The East block was a self-contained country house in its own right, containing all the rooms for the family's private use, and the identical West block contained the kitchens and all other domestic rooms and staff accommodation.
Plans for two more pavilions (as the two smaller blocks are known), of identical size and similar appearance, were never executed. These further wings were intended to contain, in the south-east a music room, and in the southwest a conservatory and chapel. Externally these latter pavilions would have differed from their northern counterparts by large glazed Serlian windows on the piano nobile of their southern facades. Here the blocks were to appear as of two floors only; a mezzanine was to have been disguised in the north of the music room block. The linking galleries here were also to contain larger windows, than on the north, and niches containing classical statuary.
The north front, approximately 117 yards [107 m] in length, is Palladian in character, dominated by a massive, six-columned Corinthian portico; however, the south front (illustrated right) is pure neoclassical Robert Adam. This garden facade is divided into three distinct sets of bays; the central section is a four-columned, blind triumphal arch (based on the Arch of Constantine in Rome) containing one large, pedimented glass door reached from the rusticated ground floor by an external, curved double staircase. Above the door, at second-floor height, are stone garlands and medallions in relief.
The four Corinthian columns are topped by classical statues. This whole centre section of the facade is crowned by a low dome visible only from a distance. Flanking the central section are two identical wings on three floors, each three windows wide, the windows of the first-floor piano nobile being the tallest. Adam's design for this facade contains huge "movement" and has a delicate almost fragile quality.
Hall
Marble Hall 1763, decoration completed in 1776-7
Entering the house through the great north portico on the piano nobile, one is confronted by the marble hall. Nikolaus Pevsner describes this as one of the most magnificent apartments of the 18th century in England.[6] It measures 67 feet (20 m) by 37 feet (11 m) in plan and is 40 feet (12 m) high.
Twenty fluted pink Nottingham alabaster columns with Corinthian capitals support the heavily decorated, high-coved cornice. Niches in the walls contain casts of classical statuary by Matthew Brettingham the Younger and others;[6] above the niches are grisaille panels of Homeric subjects inspired by Palladio's illustration of the Temple of Mars. The stucco in the ceiling was created by Joseph Rose in the 1770s.[6]
The floor is of inlaid Italian marble. Matthew Paine's original designs for this room intended for it to be lit by conventional windows at the northern end, but Adam, warming to the Roman theme, did away with the distracting windows and lit the whole from the roof through innovative glass skylight.
The overmantels to the fireplaces are by Joseph Rose with firebaskets by Robert Adam.[6]
At Kedleston, the hall symbolises the atrium of the Roman villa and the adjoining saloon the vestibulum.
Saloon
The saloon
The saloon, contained behind the triumphal arch of the south front, like the marble hall rises the full height of the house, 62 feet (19 m) to the top of the dome, where it too is sky-lit through a glass oculus. Designed as a sculpture gallery, this circular room 42 feet (13 m) in width was completed in 1763.
The decorative theme is based on the temples of the Roman Forum with more modern inventions: in the four massive, apse-like recesses are stoves disguised as pedestals for classical urns.[1] The paintings of ruins are by Gavin Hamilton and the grisaille panels have scenes of British worthies painted by John Biagio Rebecca.[6]
The four sets of double doors giving entry to the room have heavy pediments supported by scagliola columns, and at second-floor height, grisaille panels depict classical themes.
From the saloon, the atmosphere of the 18th-century Grand Tour is continued throughout the remainder of the principal reception rooms of the piano nobile, though on a slightly more modest scale.
State bedroom
The "principal apartment", or State bedroom suite, contains fine furniture and paintings.
The state bed was constructed by James Gravenor of Derby.[7] The state bed posts are carved to represent palm tree trunks which soar up and break into flamboyant foliage at the top, sweeping in palm-fronds behind.[8]
Drawing room
Settee by John Linnell in the Drawing Room dated from around 1765.
The drawing room with huge alabaster Venetian window is 44 feet (13 m) by 28 feet (8.5 m) by 28 feet (8.5 m). The doorcase is also alabaster. The fireplace with a scene of virtue rewarded by honour and riches is flanked by large female figures sculpted by Michael Henry Spang.[6] The gilt sofas by John Linnell date from around 1765.[9] They were commissioned by the 1st Baron Scarsdale and supplied, together with a second pair of sofas to Kedleston in 1765.
Dining room
The dining room
The dining room, with its gigantic apse, has a ceiling that Adam based on the Domus Augustana in the Farnese Gardens. The apse contains curved tables designed by Adam in 1762[6] and a giant wine cooler. The ceiling contains panel paintings of the continents by Antonio Zucchi, the seasons by Gavin Hamilton and the centre is by George Morland. The original wall panels are by Francesco Zuccarelli, Frans Snyders, Claude and Giovanni Francesco Romanelli.
Music Room
The Music Room has Ionic doorcases and delicate plaster ceiling designed by Adam. The marble chimneypiece is inlaid with Blue John. The pipe organ was second hand by John Snetzler with the case designed by Robert Adam and built by Robert Gravenor.[10] A second manual with Hautboy was added in 1824 by Alexander Buckingham.[11] The organ was restored in 1993 by Dominic Gwynn.
Library
The Library
The library contains a Roman doric doorcase leading to the Saloon. The bookcases were designed by Robert Adam[6] and built by James Gravenor of Derby.[12] The plaster ceiling is divided into octagonal patterns. The library desk was built in 1764 by James Gravenor. Wikipedia
My current version of the Lego Batman family based on what minifigures I have in my collection currently.
Left to Right: Batwoman, Red Hood (Custom), Batgirl (Barbara Gordon), Red Robin (Mr. Incredible arms and legs), Damian Wayne/Robin, Nightwing, Batman (Rebirth costume), Lucius Fox (It's the purist design TheMooseFigs used for his Lucius Fox, but I used paint on mine), Alfred Pennyworth, Ace the Bathound, Jim Gordon, and Renee Montoya.
Credit to LordAllo for the inspiration for Batman's legs (Work well for his Rebirth costume), and credit to TheMooseFigs for giving me the inspiration for Lucius Fox with the parts he used for his purist Lucius Fox a while back.
Since Mattel is taking their time with the new Ever After High releases (I only collect the Signatures/Basics), then I guess this is the perfect time to catch up on my Barbie collection. Seriously, I haven't bought a Barbie in MONTHS!
1. Barbie: Life in the Dreamhouse Barbie & Midge giftset – I've been wanting this set ever since last year. I just didn't have the right opportunity.
2. Barbie: Style Barbie doll – Oh the fur! Oh the leggings! Oh the everything! Want, want, want!
3. Barbie: Style Raquelle doll – Best Raquelle I've seen in a while. I love how this one has a distinct style.
4. Barbie: Style Teresa doll – A boho doll that looks convincingly boho. Love her!
5.The Hunger Games: Catching Fire Peeta Mellark and Finnick Odair dolls – Okay, you got me. I'm a HUGE, HUGE fan of the Hunger Games. I'M OBSESSED! I can't get enough of it! I need these dolls STAT! I want my very own mini Josh Hutcherson, like now!!!
6. Divergent Four doll – Not a fan of Divergent, actually. But if it means I can get a Ken with good articulation then I'm all for it!
1. flickr.com/photos/96006596@N00/4432735862/, 2. 060923, 3. 羊たち, 4. Untitled, 5. Flower market, 6. Untitled, 7. Green stairs, 8. island man, 9. Which do you choose?, 10. old books and..., 11. love antique, 12. slim legs, 13. lovely basket, 14. peaceful, 15. g × g, 16. cold water*, 17. beautiful window*, 18. deep green*, 19. step*, 20. 7*, 21. Feb*, 22. Untitled, 23. Untitled, 24. Untitled, 25. Untitled, 26. Ladder, 27. Ready to fall, 28. Snuggle, 29. Mist, 30. Bird of Paradise, 31. afternoon tea, 32. Untitled, 33. Untitled, 34. tegami, 35. monet, 36. Untitled
blustery day, you can really see the wind gusts on the water — and this was a brief moment of relative clarity, otherwise it's all weird brief rain showers on and off… and plenty of building wind
Here's a view of my studio, abode etc. It's way too small , but it will be a great place to get started, with smaller things. I sleep here most nights :))
When the tide ebbs, it exposes sand that has been sculpted into a pattern of infinite variations by the retreating water.
Ocean Park, Washington.
Currently many architects, planners, and sociologists like Louis Wirth investigate the way people live in densely populated urban areas from many perspectives including a sociological perspective. To arrive to an adequate conception of 'urbanism as a mode of life' Wirth says it is necessary to stop 'identify[ing] urbanism with the physical entity of the city' , go 'beyond an arbitrary boundary line' and consider how 'technological developments in transportation and communication have enormously extended the urban mode of living beyond the confines of the city itself.'...
...taken at the Willy-Brandt-Platz...
Frankfurt, Germany...