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Built for durability versus beauty, the old fog alert station beneath the Golden Gate Bridge has stood stoically guarding the entrance to the San Francisco Bay since the 19th century. Still, there is a certain Sheng Fui about it me thinks--as the old stone building has gradually become one with its surrounding environment.
Marin County CA
This ball lasted over 13 years and survived many catches, throws and the occasional chews. Had to place it in the snow in memory of my best friend, who loved trying to find it in the winter, especially.
Taken for the "Cotton" theme for Macro Mondays. This was a Christmas gift for Cosmo. He's pretty much destroyed this "durable" toy.
The qualities that I think get underestimated quite often are durability and tenacity and a willingness to just keep at it. Time spent behind the camera is just phenomenally important.
Joe McNally
HMM!!
Loebner magnolia, 'Ballerina', j c raulston arboretum, ncsu, raleigh, north carolina
Bristlecone pines (Pinus aristata), the most durable living entities on this planet, are known to have achieved lifespans of several thousand years. A native of the American Rocky Mountains, these conifers are found at elevations which exceed 8,000 feet and are often found right at the timberline,11,500 feet. Colorado contains the most easterly found environments for bristlecone pines in the United States.
This is taken on Mount Evans Scenic and Historic Byway, the highest paved road in North America, a grove of remarkable trees whose gnarled trunks and knotty branches have stood here since the Roman Empire ended some 1,500 years ago. These trees are known for their ability to survive in very harsh conditions for a very long time; the oldest known specimen, which is located near Craig, is believed to be at least 2,461 years old.
Hope you all have a wonderful evening and thank your for your visit and support!
A view inside the beautiful teak sala of Wat Yai Suwannaram. Built in Ayutthaya during the 17th century it was later moved to Phetchaburi by boat.
Wikipedia: Teak (Tectona grandis) is a tropical hardwood tree species in the family Lamiaceae. It is a large, deciduous tree that occurs in mixed hardwood forests. Tectona grandis has small, fragrant white flowers arranged in dense clusters (panicles) at the end of the branches. These flowers contain both types of reproductive organs (perfect flowers). The large, papery leaves of teak trees are often hairy on the lower surface. Teak wood has a leather-like smell when it is freshly milled and is particularly valued for its durability and water resistance. The wood is used for boat building, exterior construction, veneer, furniture, carving, turnings, and other small wood projects
Crested Caracara, Canoe Creek Road, St. Cloud, Florida. A tropical falcon version of a vulture, the Crested Caracara reaches the United States only in Arizona, Texas, and Florida. It is a bird of open country, where it often is seen at carrion with vultures. Title quote by Oscar Wilde.
For a magazine I made this photo. It stands for durability and being economical. It was great fun to make this. I had to "snitch" some coins out of the piggy bank of my daughter though hahaha! Hope you like it.
Huon pine is an extremely durable wood. That is why it was prized in the 19th century for ship building. It was (and still is) very plentiful on the south west coast of Tasmania. In fact a number of early 19th century sailing ships were constructed in Macquarie Harbour on the west coast. Today, it is better known as a preferred timber for expensive furniture.
This red marker buoy was made in the mid 19th century and spent many years in service in the Tamar Channel. Considering its exposure to all weather conditions, it remains in good knick.
* If you've got a minute here's a great little article on the virtues of this amazing wood:
www.australianwoodwork.com.au/blogs/news/what-is-so-speci...
I found two old roll films in a shoe box with photos. The box moved more than five times with me and was last in the basement. Now I have developed one of the films, an Ilford HP5.
Caernarfon Castle in Wales was finished 720 years ago!
This is the original building. Guess they didn't use much MDF then.
Happy Fence Friday.
Explored: A million thanks everyone.
Durable L-plug with wire protector and regular plug.
Three black rings divides the plug in four sections : ground, microphone, left and right ( = stereo) and two black rings makes three sections: ground, left and right.
( I learn a lot from my two sons! One of them actually suggested I photograph his headphone plugs for MM)
Architectes : Jaspers-Eyers Architects, Saq, Mass Arch., Michel Janssen
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Democo a construit une nouvelle maison communale à Hasselt en collaboration avec Kumpen. En 2018, un grand nombre de services communaux et le CPAS ont déménagé sur le site de l’ancienne caserne de gendarmerie de la Guffenslaan. Ce bâtiment classé est restauré pour sa nouvelle affectation. Par ailleurs, une nouvelle construction peu énergivore se dresse derrière la caserne. Cette nouvelle maison communale illustre un mariage réussi entre une architecture moderne et des services conviviaux. Le concept de la nouvelle maison communale anticipe déjà la volonté de la ville de fonctionner de manière totalement neutre pour le climat et ce depuis 2020. Ce nouveau bâtiment répond donc aux exigences les plus strictes en matière d’énergie. Le niveau K s’élève à 19 à peine et le niveau E varie autour de 29. Grâce à ces efforts, les coûts énergétiques du patrimoine urbain ne s’élèvent plus qu’à ±40 % de la facture. Avec des mesures telles que des pompes à chaleur géothermiques, des panneaux solaires, un éclairage LED économique et une toiture verte, la maison communale devient l’un des bâtiments communaux les plus durables et économiques de Flandre.
La ville d’Hasselt exploite elle-même 14 000 m² sur les 17 000 m² que compte ce bâtiment. Elle loue la surface résiduelle (3 000 m²) à des tiers afin d’encourager des synergies. On assiste ainsi à l’émergence d’établissements horeca et de magasins dans les quartiers avoisinants. Democo assure la gestion complète du projet en BIM, associé à une ingénierie système.
Architects: Jaspers-Eyers Architects, Saq, Mass Arch., Michel Janssen
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Democo has built a new town hall in Hasselt in collaboration with Kumpen. In 2018, a large number of municipal services and the CPAS moved to the site of the former gendarmerie barracks on Guffenslaan. This listed building is being restored for its new use. In addition, a new energy-efficient building stands behind the barracks. This new town hall illustrates a successful marriage between modern architecture and friendly services. The concept of the new town hall already anticipates the city's desire to operate in a completely climate-neutral way since 2020. This new building therefore meets the strictest energy requirements. Level K is barely 19 and level E varies around 29. Thanks to these efforts, the energy costs of the urban heritage now amount to only ±40% of the bill. With measures such as geothermal heat pumps, solar panels, energy-saving LED lighting and a green roof, the town hall becomes one of the most sustainable and economical town buildings in Flanders.
The city of Hasselt itself operates 14,000 m² of the 17,000 m² in this building. It rents the residual surface (3,000 m²) to third parties in order to encourage synergies. We are thus witnessing the emergence of catering establishments and shops in the neighboring districts. Democo provides complete management of the project in BIM, combined with system engineering.
The Upgraded B6 Switcher: A Durable “Yard Goat”
Built: 1916 by Pennsylvania Railroad, Juniata Shops, Altoona, Pennsylvania
Retired: 1957
The addition of the Pennsylvania Railroad’s signature Belpaire firebox, superheaters and power reverse lever made this B6sb switcher one of the most modern, powerful, and efficient 0-6-0’s anywhere. The B6 class as a whole was the most successful of what the Pennsylvania Railroad called their “shifters.” Like most switching engines, No. 1670 led a career of little excitement, but great importance.
Scuttling back and forth, this little “yard goat” spent most of its life breaking down and making up new trains. Its sloped-back tender gave good visibility to the rear – an important feature on a locomotive that would spend half of its life in reverse.
The No. 1670 is one of two surviving Pennsylvania Railroad B6 locomotives and the only B6sb.
Always wore these jeans since I was a kid. Always found them comfortable and durable... Wish you a warm and wonderful day...
Le Cyclamen, symbole d'amour sincère et durable
Selon une des nombreuses légendes qui entourent cette fleur délicate, le roi Salomon portait une cou-ronne de boutons de cyclamens. Mais lorsque les Juifs furent déportés à Babylone, les fleurs se cour-bèrent en disant : « Quand un fils de David montera à nouveau sur le trône et que la couronne reviendra à Jérusalem, nous relèverons la tête. » Dans l’Antiquité et au Moyen Âge, cette plante tubéreuse était supposée faciliter les accouchements, et plusieurs superstitions l’accusaient aussi de provoquer des fausses couches. Depuis la Renaissance, cette fleur gracieuse, modeste-ment penchée en avant, est aussi devenue un symbole d’amour sincère et durable.
De nos jours, elle incarne au Japon le sentiment amoureux par excellence, exactement comme la rose en Occident. Graphique, dotée de pétales mauves ou blancs qui se détachent joliment sur d’épaisses feuilles sombres, le cyclamen a aussi beaucoup inspiré les artistes. Dans les scènes religieuses, les peintres flamands en dessinaient pour représenter l’amour durable du Christ. Léonard de Vinci parsemait également les marges de ses manuscrits de ses corolles.
The Cyclamen, a symbol of sincere and lasting love
According to one of the many legends surrounding this delicate flower, King Solomon wore a crown of cyclamen buds. But when the Jews were deported to Babylon, the flowers bowed, saying, "When a son of David ascends the throne again and the crown returns to Jerusalem, we will lift up our heads." In ancient times and in the Middle Ages, this tuberous plant was believed to facilitate childbirth, and several superstitions also accused it of causing miscarriages. Since the Renaissance, this graceful flower, modestly leaning forward, has also become a symbol of sincere and enduring love.
Nowadays, it embodies the quintessential love feeling in Japan, just like the rose in the West. Graphic, with purple or white petals that stand out nicely against thick dark leaves, cyclamen has also been a great inspiration to artists. In religious scenes, Flemish painters drew them to represent the enduring love of Christ. Leonardo da Vinci also dotted the margins of his manuscripts with his corollas.
The elegant 1948 Talbot Lago T26 Record Cabriolet, exquisitely restored and detailed to perfection to show off its pre-war Art Deco origins. The shine was blinding.
As part of the backwash from the bankruptcy and break-up of the Anglo-French Sunbeam-Talbot-Darracq combine in 1935, the French part of the business was purchased by Tony Lago, an auto-industry entrepreneur and engineer born in Venice, but who had built much of his auto-industry career during the 1920s in England. The registered name of the company Lago now owned was "Automobiles Talbot-Darracq S.A.", but in the English speaking world it is generally known as "Talbot-Lago". The cars themselves were badged in their home market simply as Talbots, using the badge worn by products of the predecessor company since 1922 (when the "-Darracq" suffix had been dropped from the names used for the cars in France). Nevertheless, after 1945, sources even in France frequently used some form the "Talbot-Lago" name combination.
After acquiring the company in 1935, Lago rapidly developed a range of executive and sporting cars with engine sizes ranging from 2.3 to 4.0 litres. The passenger car range was complemented by racing cars and a high profile motor racing programme. The Talbot Lago-Record Type T26 launched in 1946, relatively quickly after the end of the war, closely resembled models from the 1930s such as the Talbot Major and Talbot Baby and benefited from the reputation Talbots had built up in the prewar years, though the economic conditions made it unrealistic to produce the range of standard and special-bodied Talbots that had been a feature of the previous decade. Tony Lago was joined in 1942 by an exceptional engineering talent, Carlo Machetti, and from then the two of them were working on the twin-camshaft 4483 cc six-cylinder unit that would lie at the heart of the Talbot T26.
The French government that came to power in 1945 had a strong belief in political control of the economy. In addition to creating a taxation regime which savagely penalised cars with engine sizes above 2 litres, the government also introduced in January 1946 the so-called Pons Plan, under which different French auto-makers were told by government what car types they might build. Since government also controlled materials supplies – notably steel supplies – the Pons Plan could not be ignored. Talbot were not forbidden to build cars, but they, along with Hotchkiss and Delahaye-Deage were restricted to a class entitled by the bureaucrats "véhicules de classe exceptionnelle" – high-class vehicles. Plan implementation was at its most rigid in 1946, and in that year Talbot received government authorisation for the construction of an initial batch of 125 cars, provided the cars were exported.
The Talbot Lago-Record Type T26 was first presented in public in 1946. In October of 1946, following World War II, Talbot-Lago had a small stand behind Peugeot at the Paris Salon. It was there that they introduced the brand-new T26 Record, offering in four body styles, including a convertible. It used the trademark pre-selector Wilson-type gearbox, had a fully independent front suspension with transverse leaf spring, and a new 4.5-liter six-cylinder twin-cam Hemi engine that Anthony Lago had developed during the War with Carlo Marchetti, his chief engineer. Lago increased the displacement of the engine to 4.5-liters, and added yet another new Hemispherical combustion chamber head, this time with twin camshafts operating the valve gear and positioned near the top of the new seven main bearing block. The long-stroke (93mm bore by 110mm stroke) six gave Talbot-Lago's new grand Prix racer, designated the Type 26 Course or T26C They were, however, immensely powerful machines, which often enjoyed a much better fuel economy than the competition. The combined strategy of precise sports car handling, durability, fuel economy, and power continued to earn the company class and overall victories culminating in the overall win in 1950 of the grueling 24 hours of LeMans!
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Whilst no archaeological material was found in the durable, mineral and easy-to-clean interior, objects from the Chalcolithique (4,720-4,220 ybp) have been found around the site. The lower menhir may be from anywhere between 6,000 and 4,500 ybp and that whole transitional period from the end of the Neolithic into the first ages of metal looks to be valid for this site.
The cavity is 3.20 x 2.30 x 1.90 m The entrance hole is 70 cm in diameter. The outside rim is around 10 cm wide. The rock is granit and the cavity a clean cul-de-sac, so from my understanding must be considered as man made. There seem to be basins above the site and a 2.18 m high menhir stands 30m below on the same 'path'.
Unlike some of the troglodyte sepultures from a broadly similar period in Sardinia, the interior space is curved like a large bowl and, apart from the concentric entrance rim, has no lines of form or structure.
With the menhir close-by, one must expect the area to have been frequented and the great effort to make this cavity cannot have been for the creation of a secret place to hide people or objects - the outcrop is far too dominant.
Describing the acoustic qualities needs to tip from correlation to causation in that the acoustics were the aim of the site and not a by product. Why here? What is it about this section of landscape? ...
AJM 08.05.18
My durable, trusty old Pentax died today during this final drop shoot. It far exceeded the 100k shutter actuations guaranteed by the manufacturer. Thank you, my friend. Thankfully, the 50mm f/1.4 is fine and will go on another camera eventually.
Wiedersehen macht Freude! Seit Jahren erfreue ich mich in den USA an den fantasievollen Glasgebilden von Dale Chihuly, die dort viele Museen und botanische Gärten schmücken.
Nun endlich auch mal in Europa!
www.groningermuseum.nl/de/kunst/ausstellungen/chihuly
Finally a chihuly exhibit in Europe! In Groningen, The Netherlands:
www.groningermuseum.nl/en/art/exhibitions/chihuly
I fell in love with his art in the States and discovered his work in many a botanic garden, and the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts exhibit in 2012.
"Dale Chihuly (b. 1941, Tacoma, Washington) is known for revolutionizing the studio glass movement and elevating perceptions of glass. Over his 50-year career, he has become known for his iconic sculptures in glass, a medium that appeals to him because it is one of the few materials that transmits light. Durable yet fragile and breakable, glass continues to challenge Chihuly as he keeps pushing the material’s boundaries with regard to shape and scale."
Dale Chihuly, 'Mille Fiori' (2018)
acrylic on canvas, 13 x 18 cm
Sustainable Dictatorship is guaranteed by Pandemic Law
Duurzame Dictatuur is verankerd in de Pandemie-wet
La dictature durable est ancrée dans la loi pandémie
The "Lock Step" ( The Rockefeller Foundation ) outlines a scenario of authoritarian control in the wake of a hypothetical novel influenza pandemic similar to COVID-19.(anno 2010)
Lock Step = Een Corona-scenario voor ‘authoritarian leadership’ in reactie op een pandemie, dat de Rockefeller Foundation in 2010 bedacht. De Rockefeller Foundation lanceerde met The Lancet (Elsevier) ook al de nieuwe discipline van globalistisch doktertje spelen genaamd ‘Planetary Health’: alsof ‘het klimaat’ ons allemaal ziek zou maken, zoals via de Klimaatobsessierups. Hun doktersrecept is altijd meer ‘global governance’ en ‘interdependence’, centralisatie van macht. Dat is het zelfde recept dat het World Economic Forum ons nu ook voorschrijft uit naam van ‘Corona’. Wat de klimaatlobby decennia kostte, dat lukt nu via Lockdown in een handomdraai. We concluderen daarom: Samen zweren is pas fijn!
www.interessantetijden.nl/2020/04/22/wie-niet-in-complott...
Researcher and author Niki Friedrich Raapana accidentally stumbled into a pilot programme of the UN's ultimate agenda back in 1999, in Seattle. In her search for answers she found that the consortium of players, stakeholders and prime movers had one thing in common: jargon !
e.g. 'Sustainable Development' is a term we are all familiar with by now and there are many others. Tracing the terminology she was able to find an entire system which had infiltrated our governments and was rewriting state policies and objectives. The European Union was founded upon these principles. Anyone notice what happened to the once nation states that make up the EU? (They're all dead.)
Tracing the terminology to find an entire system which had infiltrated our governments and was rewriting state policies and objectives. Civil and individual rights and freedoms are abolished and the life becomes micromanaged.
The third way is no way - 2004 (logo ACL)
First Propaganda, then Criminalization of Dissent:
As Nazi Germany, now the dictatorship of the corporate globalist technocracy
Een regering die de toelating krijgt om
de wet te breken in een noodsituatie,
gaat blijven proberen om
fictieve noodsituaties te creëren.
(Jeff Hoeyberghs, 26 juni 2021)
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Jan Theuninck has been painting the evolution of Western totalitarianism for 20 years - he saw the evolution within the political spectrum where the socialist parties were lost (Fagospatose, 2001) in the Third Way (The third way is no way, 2004) movement of Clinton , Blair and Schröder with which they gave a face to communitarianism of the New World Order. He has often compared the latter to a new kind of National Socialism. His attention has always been fixed thanks to the more than 50 years of misery with blackmail games of the services and torture practices with chemical and energy weapons (Beyond the limit, 2001, Rinascimento, 2009, The culture of learned helplessness, 2011, Neostasi, 2012, Derailed system , 2012, The banality of Evil, 2013, Zersetzung, 2014, ils nous tiennent, 2015, Submission, 2015, Threat, 2016, Utopia, 2016, Conformity, 2017, Brainwashing, 2018, Warnung, 2019, Dein Kampf, 2019, Censorship, 2020, Post-truth society, 2020 and in 2021: Political Pandemic, New World Order, The Great Reset, Angel Vaccine, Aryan Corona Passport, Cytokine Storm, Back from never been away, Sustainable Dictatorship.
(In 2014 he already painted Virus Attack without believing that this would become a climax of the Davos counter-revolution years later)
ils parviennent à tout subordonner à une cause absolutée, quite à lui nuire en outrepassant les limites du sens
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Dentro Magistratura democratica, insomma, ci sono magistrati che ritengono che i decreti che hanno permesso e permetteranno di fronteggiare la pandemia siano un vulnus inaccettabile alla Costituzione.
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Jan Theuninck is a Belgian painter
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A durable selective-fire rifle built for operations in forested and mountainous regions.
Credit goes to Beck for the Magazine, Wezzy for the optic, and SPW for the colors and logo.
Rise and shine! 🌞
Hello everyone!
We got new Real Life products in our store. The Love Project sweater! This sweater features our original artwork, and it is now available for purchase on our website.
So while summer isn't here yet and spring gets a bit colder we got a solution!
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Affection is responsible for nine-tenths of whatever solid and durable happiness there is in our lives.
-- C. S. Lewis
Annual M.O.T tomorrow so:-
New oil and filter, check nothing has worked loose. Check lights indicators, tyres, horn. A quick wipe over with a damp sponge.
All done for the nest year.
Honda's XRV750 Africa twin is a tough bike, doesn't need much in the way of maintenance certainly nothing "High tech".
It starts every time and just runs, nothing fancy not high powered but durable. Mine is now 22 years old and still going strong.
With the forthcoming snow forecast for today in various parts of the UK, I thought I'd share this image of an 'Igloo' that had been skilfully built when I was trackside, near Oxenhope, on Saturday 11th March 2023 - day three of the excellent Keighley and Worth Valley Railway's Steam Gala.
During the preceding Thursday, the area experienced a heavy snowfall resulting in varying depths of over one foot deep. The snow was durable enough to build such structures as well as an abundant array of 'Snow People'!
Who knows with further snowfalls, in the coming days, similar structures might appear!
China, Shanghai, Xitang, one of the ancient water towns in the Yangtze Delta area in the north of Jiashan County, located about 140 km southwest of Shanghai. The town stretches across eight sections, linked by 104 historic stone bridges. In the older parts of town, the well-preserved buildings with "patina" are set along the banks of the canals, which serve as the main transportation thoroughfares in the area.
Entry fee about 10 € p/p, if you stay in one of the charming boutique hotels, they will reimburse you 50% of the entrance fee.
In the Xitang Water Village, there are well-preserved groups of buildings of the Ming Dynasty, 1368-1644 & the Qing Dynasty, 1644-1911, with relatively high artistic quality & research value. The village is famous for its large number of covered corridors, lanes & bridges.
Its history dates back to at least the spring & autumn period, 770 BC–476 BC, when it was located at the border of the State of Yue & Wu. According to legend, Wu Zixu, a well-known scholar & military general, ordered to dig many canals & a pond to facilitate water transportation & to channel water to Jiashan County, therefore Xitang is also called "Xutang".
The Xitang Water Town, people who live there are not rich, so no newer modern houses have been built there. That's maybe one of the reasons why the old constructions are preserved as a whole almost without damage. In those archaic houses, besides the culture & value of the houses themselves, there are also displays of cultural relics or woodcarvings or eaves tiles collected by the house owner. To this day there are exhibitions of the ancient rare books of the owners passed down from generation to generation or rubbings from a stone inscription of a famous calligrapher.
On the roofs of some old houses here, the grass is about "one chi" tall, 33 cm ++, believing that the spirit of the former owner of the house joins with the grass, making it flourish & blessing the peace and durability of the house, as well as the prosperity of the entire town.
The "Mission Impossible III", 2005, movie featuring Tom Cruise in Xitang, was leading to a boom of Xitang's popularity among tourists.
Because of the rainy climate, common ceilinged corridors have been created bordering the waterways. Each family roofs the stone-planked path in front of their house resulting in covered corridors of up to 1300 metres.
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D'habitide, j'aime bien intégrer du contexte urbain dans mes photos de peintures murales mais celle-ci valait bien aussi une version "zoom-in".
Mural "Gabriel Ottelet" par l'artiste espagnol Dridali (Adrián Mateo) à l'angle des rues Brunehaut et Ottelet à Mesvin (Mons).
Dridali est basé à Valence. Sa spécialité, ce sont les visages de personnes au style hyperréaliste et sa technique est le spray, une technique très polyvalente et durable.
Mesvin a été le théatre d’un courage hors du commun, celui de Gabriel Ottelet, résistant durant la Guerre 1940-45. Après avoir abattu un officier allemand, il s'était réfugié dans le grenier du facteur de Mesvin (dans cette même maison qui porte aujourd'hui le mural), ignorant que celui-ci était, lui aussi, recherché par les allemands pour une fraude au niveau des tickets de rationnement. Pensant que les allemands venaient pour lui, Gabriel Ottelet s'echappa par les toits mais fut abattu par une sentinelle le 5 juin 1944.
Source:
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www.visitmons.be/a-voir-a-faire/l-art-habite-la-ville/gab...
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I usually like to integrate some urban context into my photos of murals but I thought this one also deserved a "zoom-in" version.
Mural "Gabriel Ottelet" by the Spanish artist Dridali (Adrián Mateo) at the corner of rue Brunehaut and Ottelet in Mesvin (Mons).
Dridali is based in Valencia. His specialty consists in drawing poeple's faces in a hyper-realistic style and in spray technique, a very versatile and durable technique.
Mesvin was the scene of extraordinary courage, that of Gabriel Ottelet, resistance fighter during the 1940-45 War. After having killed a German officer, he took refuge in the attic of the postman of Mesvin (in the same house which today bears the mural), unaware that he too was wanted by the Germans for fraud of ration tickets. Thinking that the Germans were coming for him, Gabriel Ottelet escaped over the roofs but was shot dead by a sentry on June 5, 1944.
Continuing the Sixty Sixty Coaches Dennis Dart theme, this 9.8m Carlyle Dartline example was acquired in 2010, also as a support to the three 54-plate Plaxton Pointers for Service X43 (Abergavenny-Crickhowell-Brecon-Merthyr Tydfil-Treharris-Cardiff).
She was one of a pair new to Williamsons of Shrewsbury in 1991 for Shropshire CC contracted services, including one of the town's Park & Ride contracts. Arriva's Midlands North subsidiary purchased the company's local bus contracts in 1998 and she became 799 in the fleet.
She was nearly 20 years old when she arrived in South Wales, and I believe that she did not last long with the company.
My shot from April 2011 shows her arriving at Brecon Interchange Cardiff bound, missing both an 'X' and a destination blind.
An antique Adirondack guide boat appearing through the early morning mist on Blue Mountain Lake in New York’s Adirondack Park. These boats date back to the mid 19th century when city people would pay handsome fees to Adirondack guides who would provide their clients with a wilderness experience and the necessary survival skills of living off the rugged NY State landscape. The ADK guide boats could carry 3 people and enough gear for a full summer in the wilderness. Fast, light, and durable, these boats were an engineering marvel and truly a work of art and craftsmanship. To me, there’s a mystical quality to the early morning hours on the lakes in the Adirondacks, and seeing an antique guide boat materialize out of the mist lent a dreamlike sensation to my morning paddle. I felt out of place, and certainly out of time, sitting there in my plastic kayak, as if I had created a temporary break in the time-space continuum where technologies a century and a half apart collided for a brief instant. I realized that the lake is essentially unchanged since this approaching guide boat was built, so it was I that was the odd man out, a trespasser on a journey through the past.
(image title blatantly stolen from Neil Young: www.youtube.com/watch?v=73oO2XA_ihk)
Taken on 14 April 2016 and uploaded 6 December 2024.
A brick with, for British viewers at least, a familiar name. There is a helpful article, published by the Northern Echo, giving a little history of the brick, made by Stanley Brothers and identifying other users of the "trademark" (a manufacturer of bitumen roofing felt and, from 1929, the London Rubber Company). Warning; the Northern Echo page is hopelessly infected with advertisements, all meaningless.
There we have it...
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Durable side-fed battle rifle.
Usual credits: Wylee for the colors, and Arch for the logo.
Fun fact: This is actually one of my older designs, flipped upside-down and heavily modified.
Try and guess which one it is! Are you up to the challenge?