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I "Don't" adore you because.... of your obsessive need to reenact every World War on my arms and legs, without warning or provocation. Thus always causing scarred tissue and much loss of blood!
NOR because of.... The continual turf wars between you and the local Cat-Gang members, who walk by the house. Which activates your internal security alarms. Causing you to wake up the family (and neighbors) with your Death Calls Warnings at 3am in the morning.
Not even because of.... Your obsessive compulsive dissorder and pure hatred of all things on shelves, tables and walls! Thus explaining the mysteries on how things inexplicably leap to their doom and imminent destruction!
And FINALLY I don't adore you because of.... Your senseless warmongering and hateful rage against so many innocent victims!
Let's now take a moment to remember all those we've lost this last year... RIP my Cargo pants (riped by Toby), My favorite cardigan and 2 sweaters (also mauld by Toby), My FLICKR hardcover photobook (gift to mom...bitten to death), A livingroom cushion, 3 long sleeves shirts (victims of world war reenactments), 2 hand painted paintings of mine (damaged from fatal leaps off walls caused my Toby), A bag of spaghetti and 1 frozen streak!
I "DO" adore you because... Every morning I wake up and find a different toy, teddy or new found treasure found from the night before. Nicely placed at the foot of my bedroom door as a gift from you.
I ADORE you because... When I ask you if you were a Good-Boy. You look-up at me and softly assure me with a gentil meow. And proceed to affectionally head-bump my legs to reassure me.
And because.... Everytime I leave you, you run to the window and watch and wait for me to come home. And when I do... Your the first to greet me at the door, with a cuddle and a frantic scratching on my feet, as to say... "You will always be mine"!
And finally... I LOVE you because at night without a whisper of a wind. Or an once of a sound... You slither under the blankets and snuggle up to my body for warmth. And lovingly purr yourself to sleep in complete contentment!
Your my little buddy Toby and I love and adore you!! (even when your a pain in my back-side!! Silly cat :-)
Thank-you to anyone who managed to read all this, I realise it's a little long. I wrote this simply because tomorrow's his birthday and I was feeling sentimental. I'll post his official b-day picture tomorrow...till then)
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On New Year's Eve, Larry and I did a short walk on the BLT Rail Trail, about 8 km's return distance. BLT stands for 3 of the communities the former rail bed, now a trail, runs through: Beechville, Lakeside, and Timberlea, but it also goes through Hubley and Lewis Lake. Not the nicest walking condition, with slushy snow on the trail, but at least there was no slippery, dangerous ice...
A slightly different view of these great trees that I cannot walk passed without taking a photo of them!
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"There is another way of looking at the things..." riflesso su "Scrivere sull'acqua" di Maurizio Nannucci
The left hand side is a mirror that is reflecting a different scene further down the beach whilst the right hand side is just a window on the pier.
"In today’s world, justice is not blind. What truly matters is not the crime itself, but who commits it: your wealth, your status, your skin color, your connections. Power decides the verdict long before the law is applied. This work denounces a system where justice is never equal."
Two different type of sets going on here. The sun setting over Waianae Ridge and soul surfers catching the small sets at Magic Island Ala Moana Beach Park.
Here it is: Large
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Shanghai -Cina- ottobre 2011
Questa zona di Shanghai è stata appena restaurata, è stato mantenuto l'aspetto delle case dei primi del '900.
Ora viene utilizzato anche come set fotografico per servizi una delle ultime mode tra i giovani cinesi.
Ho visto molte ragazze abbigliate in questo modo, accompagnate da fotografo ed assistente, farsi riprendere per realizzare un proprio book fotografico.
Subito a fianco del quartiere è sorto l'immancabile mercato. ^_^
Who can recognise this castle I have just visited today? Obviously not Leeds Castle. I think a handful of my contacts will know.....
Music: Modest Mouse - March Into The Sea
I am sorry to spoil you with these not-perfect-in-focus-cherry-shots. But that's life, you can't always get what you want... In fact these are the same cherries (i think) but just in a different puddle on a different time.
About an hour after the rain of the other picture there was the brightest sunlight from the side but the puddles were still in the gutter.
So I went downstairs on the street, grabbed the cherries and put them into the light. I increased the saturation and cropped the picture, that's about it with the processing.
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.
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I love prime lenses, and I normally lean towards the telephoto end, so it was quite a shock to the system to use a wide angle zoom the other day in Worthing. I've had the lens for years, but rarely used it. It's probably not something I'll do very often, but it was certainly interesting to view the world in a different way.
Different possibilities
#watercolor #Indian ink on laid paper 200 g 30 x 24 cm
#art #Kunst by @MonikaSeelig
Just something a bit different today.
Jane and I were walking along the beach when she said i`ll make a stone stack, in no time at all she had built this little stack carefully balanced in the cleft of a rock.
A nice blue sky with some lovely clouds and a sparkling sea and I had my shot.
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A very blustery day with clouds shooting across the sky causing patches of sunlight to appear and disappear within short spaces of time.
I've dived into the archives to find something a bit different to break up the photostream somewhat.
This one does, however, follow the current theme of calamity...
A few years ago a group of us went to the Lake District in late November to get into training for our trip to Nepal the following Spring. Overnight whilst we were snug in our tent the weather broke and dumped a load of snow so we woke to a winter wonderland.
Properly armed and equipped, we climbed Bowfell with a bit of puffing and panting as we waded through the increasingly deep snow. Unfortunately when we got to the top, one of our merry band collapsed due to a previously undiagnosed heart condition. Being nearly 3,000 feet up, and a long way from the nearest road, there was nothing else for it but to call the intrepid mountain rescue.
...and along came this big yellow bird!
I can now understand how journalists work. Even though a friend was in a bad way, this shot was impossible to resist - it's not every day you find yourself underneath a Sea-King helicopter with your mate being dangled along with an RAF crewman on the winch line.
This was a good reminder that no matter how experienced and well equipped a group may be - we had literally 100's of years experience between us - there will always be situations that catch you out in the mountains.
I'm glad to say that it ended well, Phil got properly treated and he was fit and well enough to come to Nepal with us 5 months later.
I was holding up a toy that Max and Sirus both wanted. Sirus takes the "look what a good boy I am" approach. Max takes the "I'm going to bark my head off until I get it" approach!
On Black really is better large
Decided to go to a different site to see if I could photograph some Linnets, no Linnets
but there were some Skylarks. So I decided it would be great to capture them doing their Song flight. Hundred odd shots two hours , and a series of colourful metaphors later, Kay managed to persuade the gibbering foaming at the mouth photographer, that it was time to leave. This way maddness lies !!!
Overview
The skylark is a small brown bird, somewhat larger than a sparrow but smaller than a starling. It is streaky brown with a small crest, which can be raised when the bird is excited or alarmed, and a white-sided tail. The wings also have a white rear edge, visible in flight. It is renowned for its display flight, vertically up in the air. Its recent and dramatic population declines make it a Red List species.
Where to see them
Found everywhere in the UK. Likes open countryside, from lowland farmland to upland moorland. Often inconspicuous on the ground, it is easy to see when in its distinctive song flight.
When to see them
All year round.
MNR SD70M-2 6405 passes former Bangor and Aroostook caboose C-66 which was rebuilt into a caboose from a potato reefer by the shop crews at the Derby shops. The C-66 is currently owned by the Oakfield Railroad Muesum and is in the process of being rebuilt. The 6405 is one of seven SD70M-2's that was acquired in 2021 by NBM Railways from Progress Rail.
Maine Northern Railway
Train: 909-05
3/5/2022
Oakfield, ME
MDOT Madawaska Subdivision