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Taken at Kaleidoscope Monarch Education Project, Pebble Island: maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Pebble%20Isle/51/87/81
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Canon FD lens adapted via Metabones
South Pond, Lincoln Park - Chicago, IL
August 2021
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aka The Honeycomb
Canon FD lens adapted via Metabones
South Pond, Lincoln Park - Chicago, IL
July 2021
Follow on Instagram @dpsager
The totalitarianisms of the past are certainly different from what is currently becoming the wider context of our lives: surveillance capitalism. One of the main differences is that old-fashioned totalitarianism used, among other means, physical violence to enforce conformity, whereas surveillance capitalism delivers conformity via digitally manipulated information directly to our brains. Do we even know the choices we have not made?
One daylight LED lamp and two LED spotlights; edited in Fuji's raw converter and refined in Luminar.
While I was visiting the museum a workshop was being set up. One of the many interesting things was this Education Cart with art supplies. Of course it was in Brooklyn Museum Blue!
Taken for the Brooklyn Museum Spring Video Project
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7426-2 | MECONOPSIS BETONICIFOLIA
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From Wikipedia:
Elsie Stephen Meighen - born January 22, 1872, Perth, Ontario - and Robert Wilson Reford - born in 1867, Montreal - got married on June 12, 1894.
Elsie Reford was a pioneer of Canadian horticulture, creating one of the largest private gardens in Canada on her estate, Estevan Lodge in eastern Québec. Located in Grand-Métis on the south shore of the St. Lawrence River, her gardens have been open to the public since 1962 and operate under the name Les Jardins de Métis and Reford Gardens.
Born January 22, 1872 at Perth, Ontario, Elsie Reford was the eldest of three children born to Robert Meighen and Elsie Stephen. Coming from modest backgrounds themselves, Elsie’s parents ensured that their children received a good education. After being educated in Montreal, she was sent to finishing school in Dresden and Paris, returning to Montreal fluent in both German and French, and ready to take her place in society.
She married Robert Wilson Reford on June 12, 1894. She gave birth to two sons, Bruce in 1895 and Eric in 1900. Robert and Elsie Reford were, by many accounts, an ideal couple. In 1902, they built a house on Drummond Street in Montreal. They both loved the outdoors and they spend several weeks a year in a log cabin they built at Lac Caribou, south of Rimouski. In the autumn they hunted for caribou, deer, and ducks. They returned in winter to ski and snowshoe. Elsie Reford also liked to ride. She had learned as a girl and spent many hours riding on the slopes of Mount Royal. And of course, there was salmon-fishing – a sport at which she excelled.
In her day, she was known for her civic, social, and political activism. She was engaged in philanthropic activities, particularly for the Montreal Maternity Hospital and she was also the moving force behind the creation of the Women’s Canadian Club of Montreal, the first women club in Canada. She believed it important that the women become involved in debates over the great issues of the day, « something beyond the local gossip of the hour ». Her acquaintance with Lord Grey, the Governor-General of Canada from 1904 to 1911, led to her involvement in organizing, in 1908, Québec City’s tercentennial celebrations. The event was one of many to which she devoted herself in building bridges with French-Canadian community.
During the First World War, she joined her two sons in England and did volunteer work at the War Office, translating documents from German into English. After the war, she was active in the Victorian Order of Nurses, the Montreal Council of Social Agencies, and the National Association of Conservative Women.
In 1925 at the age of 53 years, Elsie Reford was operated for appendicitis and during her convalescence, her doctor counselled against fishing, fearing that she did not have the strength to return to the river.”Why not take up gardening?” he said, thinking this a more suitable pastime for a convalescent woman of a certain age. That is why she began laying out the gardens and supervising their construction. The gardens would take ten years to build, and would extend over more than twenty acres.
Elsie Reford had to overcome many difficulties in bringing her garden to life. First among them were the allergies that sometimes left her bedridden for days on end. The second obstacle was the property itself. Estevan was first and foremost a fishing lodge. The site was chosen because of its proximity to a salmon river and its dramatic views – not for the quality of the soil.
To counter-act nature’s deficiencies, she created soil for each of the plants she had selected, bringing peat and sand from nearby farms. This exchange was fortuitous to the local farmers, suffering through the Great Depression. Then, as now, the gardens provided much-needed work to an area with high unemployment. Elsie Reford’s genius as a gardener was born of the knowledge she developed of the needs of plants. Over the course of her long life, she became an expert plantsman. By the end of her life, Elsie Reford was able to counsel other gardeners, writing in the journals of the Royal Horticultural Society and the North American Lily Society. Elsie Reford was not a landscape architect and had no training of any kind as a garden designer. While she collected and appreciated art, she claimed no talents as an artist.
Elsie Stephen Reford died at her Drummond Street home on November 8, 1967 in her ninety-sixth year.
In 1995, the Reford Gardens ("Jardins de Métis") in Grand-Métis were designated a National Historic Site of Canada, as being an excellent Canadian example of the English-inspired garden.(Wikipedia)
LES JARDINS DE MÉTIS
Créés par Elsie Reford de 1926 à 1958, ces jardins témoignent de façon remarquable de l’art paysager à l’anglaise. Disposés dans un cadre naturel, un ensemble de jardins exhibent fleurs vivaces, arbres et arbustes. Le jardin des pommetiers, les rocailles et l’Allée royale évoquent l’œuvre de cette dame passionnée d’horticulture. Agrémenté d’un ruisseau et de sentiers sinueux, ce site jouit d’un microclimat favorable à la croissance d’espèces uniques au Canada. Les pavots bleus et les lis, privilégiés par Mme Reford, y fleurissent toujours et contribuent , avec d’autres plantes exotiques et indigènes, à l’harmonie de ces lieux.
Created by Elsie Reford between 1926 and 1958, these gardens are an inspired example of the English art of the garden. Woven into a natural setting, a series of gardens display perennials, trees and shrubs. A crab-apple orchard, a rock garden, and the Long Walk are also the legacy of this dedicated horticulturist. A microclimate favours the growth of species found nowhere else in Canada, while the stream and winding paths add to the charm. Elsie Reford’s beloved blue poppies and lilies still bloom and contribute, with other exotic and indigenous plants, to the harmony of the site.
Commission des lieux et monuments historiques du Canada
Historic Sites and Monuments Board of Canada.
Gouvernement du Canada – Government of Canada
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aka The Honeycomb
Canon FD lens adapted via Metabones
South Pond, Lincoln Park - Chicago, IL
July 2021
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Taking my Pentax to school.
This photo was taken by an Asahi Pentax 6 X 7 medium format film camera and Super Multi-Coated Takumar/6X7 1:3.5/55mm lens using Kodak Ektar 100 film, the negative scanned by an Epson Perfection V600 and digitally rendered with Photoshop.
The cover has been removed from the right wall where a bugged phone was relocated after its removal and its bugging facility completed. The whiteboard has been removed from the facing wall. All documents and data destruction logs on above are *lost* according to the Home Office/MoJ.
The Union phone at work was cut off.
Instructions were given to Frances, the telephonist, not to allow calls through.
A victimization meeting was held instructing staff to victimise re use of their phones to enable Prettypetal to do job and they followed those instructions.
All above authorized and carried out with the full knowledge and intent of the Governor. *
Home Secretaries:
▶️Mr. Jack Straw
▶️Ken Clarke KC 📮Lord Clarke of Nottingham - House of Lords 2026
▶️Ken Baker 📮Baron Baker of Dorking - House of Lords 2026 London U.K.
🔴Ms. Jac [Jacqui/Jackie/Jacqueline] Harvey - [Prison Lead for Libraries, Families and I.T.] and former Head of Education at Holloway jail sent Pp a handwritten memo re above removal of phone at the end of which she wrote "Richard [Mr. Richard Brown] agreed to this". She later bravely admitted the contents of her Memo was a complete fabrication.
Governors
Ex-Governor ▶️Mr. Tim Michael O'Sullivan
Ex-Assistant Governor: ▶️Mr. David M Lancaster
At the Monet exhibition in the Städel.
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Bergen-Belsen began as a camp for Allied prisoners of war. After it was turned over to the SS, it became a Nazi concentration camp in 1943. Beginning in fall 1944, the SS deported to Bergen-Belsen large numbers of prisoners evacuated from Nazi camps further east.
As a result of overcrowded and horrific living conditions, where disease and starvation flourished, tens of thousands of people imprisoned there died. Anne Frank was one of the people deported to Bergen-Belsen.
On April 15, 1945, British forces liberated Bergen-Belsen. The British found around 55,000 prisoners in the camp, many of them seriously ill.
Thousands of corpses lay unburied on the camp grounds. Between May 1943 and April 15, 1945, about 37,000 prisoners died in Bergen-Belsen. More than 13,000 former prisoners, too ill to recover, died after liberation. After evacuating Bergen-Belsen, British forces burned down the whole camp to prevent the spread of typhus.
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Canon FD lens adapted via Metabones
South Pond, Lincoln Park - Chicago, IL
July 2021
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This morning, my appointment to get two cortisone injections in my knees has just been cancelled and rescheduled for Monday. With a temperature of -9C (windchill -13C), I wish that meant I didn't need to go out in the cold and clear the snow off my car. However, I have a few errands that I really need to run.
On 17 October 2018, I managed to get over to Carburn Park for a walk. Though I have seen a number of Rusty Blackbirds, this species was still a bird I wanted to look out for. As it turned out, this was not one of my finds. However, I saw a few other things that were a delight to see, including meeting two Ferrets that were out for a walk (or rather, travelling in a stroller) with their 'people". Both are rescue animals, which was good to see.
"Ferret Rescue & Education Society (FRES) is a non-profit, charitable organization that was started by a group of devoted ferret owners in the Calgary area who recognized the need for a locally based rescue dedicated to ferrets. Our committed volunteers assist FRES in their goal to find permanent homes for all of the ferrets surrendered to us. They also provide shelter, basic needs, veterinary care, and if necessary, rehabilitation for all abused, unwanted, and abandoned ferrets regardless of their health status." From the FRES website.
Another lovely encounter was with the resident Great Horned Owl. Two friends that I bumped into in the park described where they had just seen it. Two or three strangers also helped pinpoint the exact tree : ) Over the years, we have seen Great Horned Owls in this park - always a joy. On this particular day, this owl was rather agitated and moved two or three times. One of the park's Eastern Gray Squirrels was teasing the owl.
As if a couple of 'rescue' Ferrets and a Great Horned Owl weren't enough, we were also very lucky to see a Harlequin Duck (male) out on the Bow River. When we first saw it, it wasn't too far out on the water, but it gradually swam further and further away, diving constantly. My photos were not the greatest, but they serve as a record of seeing this very handsome duck.
The weather was gorgeous, and much-deserved after the dreadful winter weather we have been having (in fall)! A perfect day to be outdoors, so I just couldn't resist. Lovely to see you, Pam, though unfortunate that you were just leaving when I arrived. Great to see you, Bonnie, and spend time with you. Had been a long time, no see.
my final class project 3 pictures depicting in some way time space and light. i chose to do three sisters of various ages. book titles carefully chosen....
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I am not certain that as a Primary Educations Studies student I should really be advocating procrastination over education, but if there were to be a degree in procrastination, I would get a first. But, my procrastination books are very educational (okay, perhaps not The Meaning of Liff, but the other two definitely are).
The Book of the Year was the book I went to the event for the other night and I have decided that, in order not to detract too much from my studies, I will read a letter a night, so tonight I read C and tomorrow I will read D. If you do not know what it is, it is a book of all the interesting, bizarre or funny news stories of the year that either never made it into the headlines or were brushed over so quickly that they never got the attention they deserved. So, there is a section for Aardvarks (a man in Poland performed CPR on an Aardvark) and a section on Citizenship (Australia are having problems with dual nationality). There are also conversations between the four QI Elves that wrote the book, which are both informative and amusing.
This is J, one of our twins aged 3, working out how to get down from the frame after easily climbing to the top*.
My name in the family has evolved from "Gramps" to "Danger-Gramps" as my grandchildren come home from exploring adventures with occasional bruises and scraped knees, so it is good that I can show the twins that this is not a new aberration but just a continuation of the process that encouraged them to become the capable and resourceful people they are now...
Please see also Marie & E a year or two later...
*PS after a couple of false starts she managed it by herself.