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Every year at about this time I discover a few wildflowers which, because of the microclimate in which they find themselves, continue to bloom providing a pleasant surprise in an otherwise drab November landscape. The stalwarts are generally rudbeckia, linaria and asters, this example of the latter found in the back of my yard in the shelter of trees along the lake while raking.
Every time I pick up my camera and go outside, wind comes out of nowhere and makes it a challenge to get a photo. I'm Just back from New Hampshire and have missed everyone!
calvary is the site of the crucifixion of Jesus and when i saw this lamp post and how it resembled a crucifix and the heart-shaped cloud behind it, i thought God was talking to me. and the message is... God is Love! or it may be my overactive imagination.
An ex Limmer & Trinidad Lake Asphalt Co. 220ci diesel powered Bedford tipper- I'm guessing at it being an A type??
I took this picture in London. At first, it was just another picture of another street performer. It wasn't until I edited the picture, that I realized that you can see everything. You can see the crowd reflected upside down on the ball. You can see the ball and the crown in his glasses. You can even see some things reflected on his had. This is the reason why I love this picture.
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Still in Mackay and its region, as we will be for a few days, here's another of the rather imposing public buildings, interesting style in fact and the Mackay Town Hall. Should be city hall, as Mackay has been a city for many years and in recent years with the impetus provided by the huge mining areas to the west, it has grown enormously. With it comes the downside of heavy traffic and urban expansion in prime agricultural land.
This one is a bit older than the Court House, having been built in 1912.
Mackay Town Hall is a heritage-listed former town hall at 63 Sydney Street, Mackay, Mackay Region, Queensland, Australia. It is the second town hall to be built on this site. It was designed by Arthur Rigby built in 1912 by Charles Porter for the Mackay Town Council. It was added to the Queensland Heritage Register on 29 May 1998.
The former Mackay Town Hall, the second constructed in the city, was built in 1912 by local builder, Charles Porter, to the design of Mackay architect Arthur Rigby. It was constructed on land purchased by the Mackay Borough Council on 13 December 1872.
John Mackay and his party had explored what was to become the Pioneer Valley in 1860. The present city blocks were surveyed in June 1863 when the settlement consisted of several dozen huts and tents in a line along a track parallel to the southern bank of the river, and the first land sale was held at the police office, Bowen, on 13 October 1863.
The settlement became the business centre for the pastoral stations in the district, providing services, supplies and port facilities. By the mid-1860s the township of Mackay had a post office, telegraph connection to Brisbane, churches, banks, and a racecourse. The track through the valley and over the range to Fort Cooper pastoral run had been upgraded to a road.
By 1868, public meetings had discussed the establishment of a local municipal council under the Municipal Institutions Act 1864 for the purposes of establishing local government in the area.[2] Further meetings and a petition signed by 178 householders, freeholders and residents of Mackay resulted in the proclamation of the Borough of Mackay on 22 September 1869.
The inaugural meeting of the Mackay Municipal Council, which was composed of local businessmen, was held on 1 December 1869. This meeting was possibly held in the Court House in River Street, which served a number of government functions. Soon after, the Council met in the original Post and Telegraph Office in Wood Street. Subsequent meetings were held in a building in Sydney Street owned by Mr R Fleming.
The first Municipal Chambers (town hall) of Mackay was a timber structure, constructed on Allotment 3 Section 33 in Sydney Street in 1872. By 1884, when Mackay was experiencing a boom in sugar prices, the building was deemed to be inadequate and plans were prepared for a new town hall. However, it was not until 1909 that the Town Council accepted recommendations from its newly formed Town Hall Committee, that a town hall of brick be built and that Council apply for a ten year loan from the Queensland Government for that purpose. The following March, the Committee also recommended the building should be on the site of the original Town Hall in Sydney Street, and that competitive designs be called for.
Two designs were submitted, and that of Mackay architect and engineer Arthur Rigby was accepted on 30 November 1911, with modifications to the roof as recommended by the Treasury Department. Tenders for construction were called and the lowest, that of Charles Porter for £2327, was accepted. Porter had previously undertaken major building contracts for the South African Government, and his constructions in Mackay included several nearby places of local significance, including Paxton's Shipping Office and Store, St Patrick's Presbytery and St Mary's Church in River Street as well as the Australian Hotel. His company also supplied building material and furniture to the Mackay community.
The first town hall was moved to the rear of the block, to make way for the new building. Tenders were accepted from Thomas Cherry, a cabinetmaker in Mackay, and Victor Leon Thomas Warry for the supply of furniture and Porter's supplied gas fittings. Furnishings included "cork carpet" in the hallway, linoleum in the downstairs rooms, fibre matting on the stairs and the Council room left bare. Photographs of John Mackay and past mayors were hung in the entrance hallway.
The Town Hall was constructed of locally produced bricks and the plan featured a central, square tower designed to include a clock. The clock was never purchased and circular, glass paned windows still remain on the west, north and south sides of the tower.
The new Town Hall was constructed during the year of the "Jubilee of 50 years of economic growth".The official opening was on Wednesday 2 October 1912. The first official Council meeting was held in the new building on Friday 10 October 1912.
In October 1915 the Mackay Harbour Board requested that a Roll of Honour Board be erected in the Town Hall, listing the names of those from Mackay and district who had enlisted in World War I, together with photographs of those killed. The marble Honour Board, installed in March 1917, is mounted on the wall of the corridor of the Town Hall, although the inscriptions are incomplete.
In the 1918 Mackay cyclone, the Town Hall was one of the few buildings in Mackay which was not damaged and was used as a refuge for evacuees. A child born during this period was given the middle name of Hall.
Extensions to the rear of the building were completed by 1939-1940. Further extensions were added in 1949 and 1959 to accommodate an increasing Council staff.
After moving to the new Civic Administration Building in 1974, the council planned to demolish the existing Town Hall and offer the site and adjacent parkland for commercial development to help defray costs of the new building. Following a public meeting of 500 people protesting the decision, 18 months of debate and a petition of over 8500 signatures, Council eventually agreed to retain the building. However, the 1949 and 1959 extensions to the rear of the building were demolished.
In 1982-1983, Council spent $120,000 renovating the building. This work included repairs to structural weaknesses; the exterior repaired and painted; louvred extensions on balconies removed; floors tiled; railings on upper and lowers balconies restored; internal painting; wall papering and carpeting throughout; ceiling fans and new lighting installed; hand rails on stairs and all window sills scraped and polished and the original brass door knobs and fittings polished. In March 1983 the building was leased to the Department of Community Health.
In 1996, the Council coordinated public meetings to discuss the future of the now-vacant building. Strong attendance showed the community concern over the building, and favoured community uses for it. In 2016, the Regional Social Development Centre (formerly Mackay Regional Council for Social Development) operate in the former town hall.
The former Mackay Town Hall is a two-storeyed rendered masonry building facing Sydney Street, Mackay. The street facade, facing west, has a two-storey arcaded verandah is symmetrical about a central entry and clock tower. To the northern side and the rear of the building is a public park.
The street facade is divided into five bays of semi-circular moulded arches with pilasters between and string courses. At the centre is a square clock tower with balustrade parapet, ball finials and circular windows. Above the entry archway, which projects slightly forward of the others, is "Town Hall 1912" in relief.
The parapet of the verandah has a cornice and ball finials, and is at a lower level than the parapet of the main building. The upper level verandah has cast iron balustrading and the lower level masonry. The verandah ceilings are ripple iron.
To the side elevations are timber double-hung sash windows with arched heads, whilst those to the lower verandah have square heads. To the upper level verandah are several pairs of French doors. The side and rear windows have hoods of timber and corrugated steel.
Centrally located on the lower verandah, the main entry has a pair of timber panelled doors with brass handles and letter slots. Beyond the entry is a central corridor with offices to either side. The corridor contains the marble honour boards and the timber stair, which has turned balusters and newels. The honour boards, mounted on the southern wall of the ground floor corridor, list 1592 local servicemen from the First World War. The dedication inscription has not been completed.
Ceilings throughout are decorative pressed metal with metal roses.
The upper level is a single room, formerly the Council Chambers, from which French doors open onto the upper verandah.
Added to the south-east corner of the ground floor are toilets accessible from the exterior.
Gjirokastër is a historical city in southern Albania. Its old town is a UNESCO World Heritage Site described as "a rare example of a well-preserved Ottoman town, built by farmers of large estate". The city is overlooked by Gjirokastër Fortress, where the Gjirokastër National Folklore Festival is held every five years. It is the birthplace of former Albanian communist leader Enver Hoxha and notable writer Ismail Kadare.
The city appears in the historical record dating back in 1336 by its Greek name, Argyrokastro, as part of the Byzantine Empire. It became part of the Orthodox Christian doecese of Dryinoupolis and Argyrokastro after the destruction of nearby Adrianoupolis. Gjirokastër later became the center of the principality ruled by John Zenevisi (1373–1417) before falling under Ottoman rule for the next five centuries. Throughout the Ottoman era Gjirokastër was officially known in Ottoman Turkish as Ergiri and also Ergiri Kasrı. During the Ottoman period conversions to Islam and an influx of Muslim converts from the surrounding countryside made Gjirokastër go from being an overwhelmingly Christian city in the 16th century into one with a large Muslim population by the early 19th century. Gjirokastër also became a major religious centre for Bektashi Sufism. Taken by the Hellenic Army during the Balkan Wars of 1912–3 on account of its large Greek population, it was eventually incorporated into the newly independent state of Albania in 1913. This proved highly unpopular with the local Greek population, who rebelled; after several months of guerrilla warfare, the short-lived Autonomous Republic of Northern Epirus was established in 1914 with Gjirokastër as its capital. It was definitively awarded to Albania in 1921.
Por los que me preguntan que Gadgets cargo en la mochila para algún evento o viaje..... Si, creo que tengo problemas
You always need to take it easy when you are driving through the Forest as you never know what or who is on the road. A few weeks ago three donkeys were killed in a hit and run.
Every Day!
Author unknown, 1872
"Show me, O LORD, my life's end and the number of my days; let me know how fleeting is my life. You have made my days a mere handbreadth; the span of my years is as nothing before You. Each man's life is but a breath! Selah." Psalm 39:4-5
"So teach us to number our days — that we may apply our hearts unto wisdom!" Psalm 90:12
You alone, O Lord, can teach to profit — help me to number my days aright!
Surely my days are few and fleeting and uncertain! Days past are gone beyond recall — and my future days I cannot number. Let me then this day, and day by day, confide in You — and look to You for the very help and grace I need.
Surely it is the highest wisdom to renounce self, to cleave to Christ, and to keep the great end of my being in view — "to glorify God and to enjoy Him forever." This is an object worth living for, and which may well engage all the powers of my mind.
Nor let me suppose that it is needful to turn aside from the occupations of my daily life to honor the God of my salvation; for He teaches me that whether I eat or drink, or whatever I do — I may do all to His glory. To this then may I apply my heart, with all diligence and constancy — constrained by the love of Him who gave Himself for me!
"Every day I will bless You — and I will praise Your name forever and ever!" Psalm 145:2
“Let every dawn be to you as the beginning of life, and every setting sun be to you as its close.”
(John Ruskin - English Writer, 1819-1900)
At dawn, I took this picture along the Ganges at Assi Ghat in Varanasi (Benaras).
This lady was draping her silk sari after taking a bath in the holy waters melting with silver and gold at that peculiar hour.
This graceful choregraphy could be a kind of unconscious ritual which helps to face the new day starting as if it was a new beginning of life.
After all there is a new beginning coming with every dawn.
Every year on the day before their birthdays I make a portrait of my boys. Tomorrow is Luc's 18th birthday. I often imbue the portrait with something that is going on in their lives. This year with Luc it's pretty simple... he's on the cusp of being a man. He has made a leap of maturity in the last few months and every day that passes the boy he once was fades a little more. He is starting to find himself and starting to chart the future of his adult life. So here he is as a young man. Happy birthday Luc!
Lit with A Paul C Buff White Lightning Ultra 600 in a small strip box on a boom above and slightly in front. The box was pointed straight down in order to feather the light a bit. A speed light is behind at pretty low power creating a little separation on the backdrop. Triggered with Pocket Wizards and optical slave mode on the speed light. Fujifilm X-T3 and XF 90mm. Processed from raw in Capture One Pro.
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Meeting you
was pure destiny,
You and I
were ment to be.
Maybe not now
but someday soon,
We'll meet not under the sun
but beneath the moon.
We'll watch the stars
'till they fade away,
but we won't fade
together we'll always stay.
This is the day
I'm waiting for,
from that day
I'll love you more and more.
I can't wait to watch
the sun set with you,
every sunset from that day
'till the rest of our lives are through.
Watching lines waiting in line at the Frankfurt airport on the way to working our flight back home, arriving by road from the crew layover in Mainz after weekday morning stop-and-go traffic over Frankfurt’s autobahn crossing near the airport, Europe's busiest traffic junction
To all who visit and view, and – especially – express support and satisfaction: you are much appreciated!
Im Frankfurter Flughafen, Terminal 2
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Album – Frankfurt a.M., Germany – 2018JUL05 – Airport:
I begin – and end – each FRA layover in the Frankfurt am Main airport, located by the River Main, an important right- (east-) bank tributary of the Rhine; it is the longest river lying entirely in Germany. Frankfurt am Main and Würzburg are the largest cities along the Main River, which discharges into the Rhine at Mainz. The name "Main" (from the Latin Moenus or Menus) is unrelated to the name of the city Mainz (Latin: Moguntiacum).
Today, Frankfurt Airport is the third largest in Europe for passenger traffic and the largest for cargo.
Frankfurt prides itself on accessibility and on the green and sustainable aspects of its extensive public transport network.
By road, the city is easily reachable: Frankfurt’s autobahn crossing next to the airport is Europe's busiest traffic junction.
In 1948, Soviets blocked transport and electricity to West Berlin, leaving millions of Germans and Allied soldiers without access to food, medication, heating material, and energy. This attempted takeover of the West Berlin sector – at the time, an island in the middle of Soviet-occupied Germany – became one of the early events of the rising tensions of the Cold War.
As a solution, the Allies came up with the idea of the Berlin Airlift.
In record time, just 90 days, the French Forces built the Berlin Tempelhof airport, the landing airport for the airlift, providing West Berlin with over 2 million tons of goods from June 24, 1948 through September 30, 1949, including 23 tons of candy for local children.
I look for the Air Bridge monument every time I am here. (Want to go? It is easily reached by foot from Terminal 2 of Frankfurt Airport, a walk of about 1 mile).
In 2022, FRA, Germany's busiest airport and global aviation hub, expects its 3 Terminals will handle 80-85 million passengers.
The best of 1173 photos on this layover are in a 6-album set:
• North Atlantic – 2018JUL03-04 – Noctilucent Clouds
• Mainz, Germany – 2018JUL04 – Three Bridges Tour
• Gustavsburg, Germany – 2018JUL04 – Three Bridges Tour
• Kostheim, Germany – 2018JUL04 – Three Bridges Tour
• Kastel, Germany – 2018JUL04 – Three Bridges Tour
• Frankfurt a.M., Germany – 2018JUL05 – Airport
Hope you enjoy the 17% of 29 photos I took here this day!
Every time we come to Cornwall we manage to find 57602. Last year we got it on the same day, the same train, but fortunately we weren't at St Erth! We were going to go there though! Here is 57602 comes into the platform at Hayle with 1C99 the 05:21 Plymouth - Penzance. The train would have been from Paddington if it hadn't been closed 7/4/15
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Wooden stairs that lead from the main walkway through Aberdeen Harbour and Footdee down to the beautiful sands of Fittie Beach, I use them every time I visit to access and leave the beach , today the light caressed them and gave me the opportunity to capture them with my Nikon.
Footdee is an area of Aberdeen, Scotland known locally as "Fittie". It is an old fishing village at the east end of the harbour. The name is actually folk etymology. Far from being "Foot of the Dee/Fit o the Dee", it is actually a corruption of a former dedication to a "St Fothan".
The area has had a settlement as far back as the Medieval times and the first recorded reference to the area of Fittie was in the year 1398. This village was slightly further North than where Footdee is now located. It would have been near to where the St Clement's Church is located.
Footdee is a particularly interesting example of a planned housing development purpose-built to re-house Aberdeen's local fishing community. Laid out in 1809 by John Smith, then Superintendent Of The Town's Public Works. Smith went on to establish himself as one of Aberdeen's key architects. Occupying an isolated spit of land to the SE of Aberdeen's city centre, its regimented squares have been described as a cross between the neo-classical aspirations of Aberdeen and the close-knit fishing communities of the north-east.
The two squares of 'Fish Town' (known as Footdee), originally contained 28 single-storey thatched houses although this increased when the later Middle Row (circa 1837) and Pilot Square (circa 1855) were added. The entrances on each of the North and South squares were filled in the 1870s by William Smith (son of John and architect of Balmoral Castle). He also added additional storeys to the East and West sides of South Square creating a tenement feel. This was an attempt to ease crowding resulting from an influx of fishing families from other less prosperous areas and to help try to enforce the 'one-house-one-family' rule.
The Town Council decided to start selling the dwellings to occupiers in 1880, beginning a period of incremental development and reconstruction. Additional storeys and dormers were added piecemeal by the new owners as funds allowed. The result is one of individuality expressed within the constraints of a strictly formal plan and is a contributing factor to the special architectural and historical interest of Footdee as a whole.
Throughout the 19th century, 'tarry sheds' were added to the communal land within the squares opposite each dwelling and now every dwelling has its own shed. Originally constructed from drift wood and other found materials, the sheds have been built and rebuilt in an idiosyncratic manner over the years in a variety of materials with rendered brick now predominating slightly (2006). Some timber built sheds remain, predominantly on the North side of North Square.
North Square Mission Hall occupies the central area of the North Square, reflecting its significance as an integral part of village life. The building is plain, with simple detailing throughout, and as such, responds sympathetically to its setting and context. Known locally as 'the schoolie' the hall was built for general as well as religious purposes and continues to operate as a multi-purpose meeting space.
The entire Footdee village was added to the statutory list in 1967 as a single entity. The village was subsequently given Conservation Area status in 1968. At resurvey in 2006, each building within the Conservation Area was re-assessed separately. Key examples, demonstrating both individual architectural interest and representing the history and development of the village as a whole, were selected for listing.
On an 1828 map, the new housing squares were specifically labelled 'Fish Town'. 'Footdee' referred to the larger area from St. Clement's Church to 'Fish Town'. Later, the name 'Footdee' was erroneously used to refer specifically to the housing squares, with 'Fish Town' becoming forgotten.
On Tuesday 25 September 2012, Footdee became covered in foam from the sea after experiencing strong wind and rain conditions. The effect was like a blanket of snow and this made the UK national news.
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"If every fool wore a crown, we should all be kings."
Welsh Proverb
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Two photoshoots. Two movies. Countless meals. lack of sleep. And a splitting headache.
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Chicago must be the headquarters of Kay Jewelers, famous for their tag line "Every Kiss Begins with Kay!".
They have a huge store in the Millennium Park area, with this beautiful clock mounted on a corner of their building. Below is a sideways look.
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People try and hide the night
Underneath the covers.
People try and hide the light
Underneath the covers.
An avi / texture from Little Sideshow.
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