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I drove past this yesterday and thought it was a Bedford Bambi - so much more interesting when I saw it up close, although I presumed it wasn't as old as the reg claimed. Really nice to find that it is actually an early 90s example of this little van.
CSA's fleet of five ATR72's have been acquired second-hand, with this example coming from Jet Airways in October 2012. Taxiing past the viewing platform having just arrived from Prague as the CSA534.
A very original example! I think this is someone's daily car, because it does fairly high annual mileage.
Mileage in between MOTs - 7,426 Miles
Mileage at last MOT - 104,224 Miles
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Many of the islands of the Acores have steep coast lines.
Here is a typical example from the east coast.
Fajas are then places, where a creek or stream has really eaten all the materials on its way down and created a shallow landing zone at the sea level.
We went down to the Praia da Lombo Gordo. You go a narrow single track road down to the parking place, and always hope that no car will come the other way around. It seemed that the 20% descent scared a lot away, so we had the beach for us.
Love the shine on the wet sand, the contest between the golden sand and the darkness of the sea.
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© Copyright A Pendleton 2016 I love Eagles and this Bald Eagle is a super example of the prowess of these amazing birds of prey... Have a super week my dear friends,....... Alan.
This shows you all my pictures from the previous 2 pictures combined all together so if you want to since we've put in so much work all month on the last day you can combine your collages to create 1 big collage!!
I hope these pictures help you to understand and I'm looking forward to seeing all your collages this month in November
(3 of 3)
Sometimes I´m just happy about photography with this analog stuff. Just to show the reason why.
6x17 back on Chamonix 045N-2, Provia 100F 120, 150mm Sironar W, Tango drumscanner
A new rendering shows star-forming regions and more details in the galaxy core. Based on public data from the HLA archive.
NGC 1300 is an example of a barred spiral galaxy. Unlike in other spiral galaxies where the starry arms curl outward from the center of the galaxy, NGC 1300's arms twist away from the ends of a straight bar of stars that stretches across the galaxy's core. Observational evidence suggests that our own galaxy, the Milky Way, is a barred spiral as well.
NGC 1300's spiral arms include blue clusters of young stars, pink clouds that are forming new stars, and dark lanes of dust. Two prominent dust lanes also cut through the galaxy's bar, which contains mostly older, orangish stars. These dust lanes disappear into a tight spiral feature at the center of the bar. Interestingly, only galaxies with large bars appear to have such a "spiral within a spiral." Hubble's image of NGC 1300, taken with the Advanced Camera for Surveys, reveals finer details in these features than ever seen before.
Using Hubble to study more than 2,000 spiral galaxies both near and far, astronomers have learned that barred spiral galaxies are more common today than they were in the past. Led by Kartik Sheth of the Spitzer Science Center at the California Institute of Technology, the team found that 65 percent of present-day spiral galaxies have bars, but 7 billion years ago, only 20 percent of spirals had them. The researchers also noticed that the percentage of massive spiral galaxies that have bars was about the same in the past as it is today, but for low-mass spirals, more present-day galaxies have bars than the earlier ones do.
Galaxies take time to mature, so today's galaxies are typically more developed than those from billions of years ago. Astronomers also know that larger, more massive galaxies tend to develop faster — and thus earlier — than smaller, less massive galaxies do. The findings, therefore, imply that bars are a sign of maturity among spiral galaxies.
Constellation: Eridanus
Distance: 69 million light-years
Image credits: ESA/Hubble & NASA, Keith Noll
Processing & copyright: Leo Shatz
Text source: hubblesite.org/image/3880/category/37-spiral-galaxies
Previous artwork on ESA Hubble website - "A poster-size image of the beautiful barred spiral galaxy NGC 1300"
HMS Example, one of a number of Archer class patrol boats doing a Scottish tour. These vessels are assigned to universities around the country and used as training ships for those interested in a career at sea.
Nice example of Kreigslok with Polish smoke deflectors, Load 3 local service waiting to leave. Zenit E/ CT18 home scanned
A tree on Coochiemudlo Island in Moreton Bay, QLD, Australia.
Canon 5D Mk III with Canon EF 200mm F2.8L Mk II lens. 1/200th sec at F4, ISO 1600. Processed with Photoshop Elements 12.
Near Djúpivogur on the Southeast coast.
Followers of my stream have seen both Mom and chick before, but separately, for example: www.flickr.com/photos/80014607@N05/48901312278/in/album-7... . At least, I think it's the same chick. There were two, but the other seemed more content to stay under Mom, and the other wandered about a bit. In any case, this is the same or its sibling.
I spent quite a bit of time wandering around these wetlands looking for such scenes, even though it was chilly and it drizzled constantly . . . another words, your typical Icelandic day. :-)
A real timewarp example; period everything from mudflaps to the AA branded GB sticker.
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VV 340, also known as Arp 302, provides a textbook example of colliding galaxies seen in the early stages of their interaction. The edge-on galaxy near the top of the image is VV 340 North and the face-on galaxy at the bottom of the image is VV 340 South. Millions of years later these two spirals will merge -- much like the Milky Way and Andromeda will likely do billions of years from now. Data from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory (purple) are shown here along with optical data from the Hubble Space Telescope (red, green, blue). VV 340 is located about 450 million light years from Earth.
Because it is bright in infrared light, VV 340 is classified as a Luminous Infrared Galaxy (LIRG). These observations are part of the Great Observatories All-Sky LIRG Survey (GOALS) combining data from Chandra, Hubble, NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope and Galaxy Evolution Explorer (GALEX) and ground-based telescopes. The survey includes over two hundred LIRGs in the local Universe. A chief motivation of this study is to understand why LIRGs emit so much infrared radiation. These galaxies generate energy at a rate this is tens to hundreds of times larger than that emitted by a typical galaxy. An actively growing supermassive black hole or an intense burst of star formation is often invoked as the most likely source of the energy.
Work on the full GOALS survey is ongoing, but preliminary analysis of data for VV 340 provides a good demonstration of the power of observing with multiple observatories. The Chandra data show that the center of VV 340 North likely contains a rapidly growing supermassive black hole that is heavily obscured by dust and gas. The infared emission of the galaxy pair, as observed by Spitzer, is dominated by VV 340 North, and also provides evidence for a growing supermassive black hole. However, only a small fraction of the infrared emission is generated by this black hole.
By contrast most of the ultraviolet and short wavelength optical emission in the galaxy pair -- as observed by GALEX and HST -- comes from VV 340 South. This shows that VV 340 South contains a much higher level of star formation. (The Spitzer and GALEX images are not shown here because they strongly overlap with the optical and X-ray images, but they are shown in a separate composite image.) VV 340 appears to be an excellent example of a pair of interacting galaxies evolving at different rates.
These results on VV 340 were published in the June 2009 issue of the Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific. The lead author was Lee Armus from the Spitzer Science Center in Pasadena, CA.
Credit: X-ray NASA/CXC/IfA/D.Sanders et al; Optical NASA/STScI/NRAO/A.Evans et al
Read entire caption/view more images: chandra.harvard.edu/photo/2011/vv340/
Caption credit: Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
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p.s. You can see all of our Chandra photos in the Chandra Group in Flickr at: www.flickr.com/groups/chandranasa/ We'd love to have you as a member!
Two more examples of "fred's pharmacy" branded products, with the sheer bandages on the left sporting another of those odd "Compare to The National Leading Brand" details on the lower right of the box, similar to this example which was also seen in the Corinth location.
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Fred's, closed Summer 2019, Shiloh Rd. near Harper Rd., Corinth MS
Imagine a world before the Internet, where there was hardly any form of communication amongst the crossdressing/transvestite community. All was not completely lost however. One single light in the UK during the 1980's and 90's was Swish Publications's "World of Transvestism" (or WOTV as it became abbreviated). A successor to the much earlier "Tranz" magazine, WOTV was published monthly, inside was an "Aladin's Cave" of letters, photos (black and white), occasionally stories and illustrations. The publishing quality was quite poor and WOTV was not cheap (I think it was £6 when I first started to acquire my own personal copies).The cover usually graced some of the more photogenic girls, many of whom I am pleased to say are on Flickr. In view of their privacy I shall not post those, but I would like to share this cover showing an example of the sorts of illustrations that were often printed.
Stockists were few in fact in my area there was only one newsagent that stocked maybe one or two copies a month, but one could travel to Swish's main store in Greek Street London, to purchase missing copies or "bargain bundles".
Sadly I now longer have the magazines, but I did scan all the covers and most of the images of some of the girls from those magazines. If you did appear and would either like a scan, or have no objection to your cover (or image) being published here, by all means get in touch. The issues I have scans from are below.
Vol 11_10, Vol 12_01, Vol 12_02, Vol 12_03, Vol 12_05, Vol 12_09, Vol 13_01, Vol 13_02, Vol 13_04, Vol 13_08, Vol 13_09, Vol 13_10, Vol 13_11, Vol 13_12, Vol 14_01, Vol 14_02, Vol 14_03, Vol 14_04, Vol 14_05, Vol 14_06, Vol 14_07, Vol 14_08, Vol 14_09, Vol 14_10, Vol 14_11, Vol 14_12, Vol 15_01, Vol 15_02, Vol 15_03, Vol 15_04, Vol 15_05, Vol 15_06, Vol 15_07, Vol 15_08, Vol 15_09, Vol 15_10, Vol 15_12, Vol 16_01, Vol 16_02, Vol 16_03, Vol 16_04, Vol 16_06, Vol 16_11, Vol 17_04, Vol 17_05, Vol 17_07, Vol 18_10, Vol 19_03, Vol 20_06, Vol 21_01, Vol 21_04, Vol 21_05, Vol 21_12, Vol 22_02.
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Cool rocks that feel soapy smooth. Ref: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chert
The stone to the right is probably:
Cloverly and Morrison Formations (N,S) or Cloverly Formation, Inyan Kara Group, and Morrison Formation (Phanerozoic | Mesozoic | Jurassic-Late Cretaceous-Early) at surface, covers < 0.1 % of this area
CLOVERLY FORMATION and MORRISON FORMATION. CLOVERLY FORMATION--Rusty sandstone at top, underlain by brightly variegated bentonitic claystone; chert-pebble conglomerate locally at base. MORRISON FORMATION--Dully variegated claystone, nodular limestone, and gray silty sandstone. In southern Yellowstone and Jackson Hole areas the presence of Morrison is questionable; CLOVERLY FORMATION (Hartville uplift) or INYAN KARA GROUP (Black Hills) and MORRISON FORMATION. CLOVERLY FORMATION--Rusty to light-gray sandstone containing lenticular chert-pebble conglomerate interbedded with variegated bentonitic claystone. INYAN KARA GROUP--Rusty to light-gray sandstone containing lenticular chert-pebble conglomerate interbedded with variegated bentonitic claystone. Includes Fall River and Lakota Formations. MORRISON FORMATION, in northeast Wyoming, dully variegated siliceous claystone, nodular white limestone, and gray silty sandstone.
Lithology: sandstone; claystone; conglomerate; limestone
1989 Aston Martin V8 Zagato Volante G918 WGW at the Classic Motor Hub in Gloucestershire. This Aston Martin V8 Zagato Volante is unique in that it is the only right-hand-drive example to feature the 6.3-litre X Pack Vantage V8 engine. The upgrade was carried out at the Newport Pagnell factory when the car was only a few months old.
Another #IsolationPeregrination capture, another gasometer. This very fine example of cast iron construction can still be found in the charming hamlet known as Great Yarmouth hidden away in the sandy water of East Anglia. It is an amazing construction, but seriously in need of some care and attention. To find it, go to Yarmouth and look up. It will be there, hopefully, still.
Lightbox with a white background paper.
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He utilizado una caja de luz que me autoregale las pasadas navidades.
Modo de medicion puntual y enfoque manual
Stocks are devices used internationally, in medieval, Renaissance and colonial American times as a form of physical punishment involving public humiliation. The stocks partially immobilized its victims and they were often exposed in a public place such as the site of a market to the scorn of those who passed by.
The stocks are similar to the pillory and the pranger, as each consists of large, hinged, wooden boards; the difference, however, is that when a person is placed in the stocks, their feet are locked in place, and sometimes as well their hands or head, or these may be chained.
With stocks, boards are placed around the ankles and the wrists in some cases, whereas in the pillory they are placed around the arms and neck and fixed to a pole, and the victim stands. However, the terms can be confused, and many people refer to the pillory as the stocks.
Since stocks served an outdoor public form of punishment its victims were subjected to the daily and nightly weather. As a consequence it was not uncommon for people kept in stocks over several days to die from exposure.[citation needed]
The practice of using stocks continues to be cited as an example of torture, cruel and unusual punishment. Insulting, kicking, tickling, spitting and in some cases urinating and defecating on its victims could be applied at the free will of any of those present. The hapless feet were also taken advantage of by such savage cruelties as inserting burning materials between the toes or by such nuisances as carefully rubbing feces all over the feet and hair.
One of the earliest reference to the stocks in literature appears in the Bible. Paul and Silas, disciples of Jesus, were arrested. Their treatment by their jailer was detailed in the Book of Acts: "Having received such a charge, he put them into the inner prison and fastened their feet in the stocks." The Old Testament's book of Job also describes the stocks, referring to God: "He puts my feet in the stocks, he watches all my paths."
The stocks were also popular among civil authorities from medieval to early modern times, and have also been used as punishment for military deserters or for dereliction of military duty. In the stocks, an offender's hands and head, or sometimes their ankles, would be placed and locked through two or three holes in the center of a board. Offenders were forced to carry out their punishments in the rain, during the heat of summer, or in freezing weather, and generally would receive only bread and water, plus anything brought by their friends.
The stocks were popular during the Colonial days in America. Public punishment in the stocks was a common occurrence from around 1500 until at least 1748. The stocks were especially popular among the early American Puritans, who frequently employed the stocks for punishing the "lower class."
In the American colonies, the stocks were also used, not only for punishment, but as a means of restraining individuals awaiting trial.
Photo taken at Bewdley Museum, Bewdley Worcstershire.
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Dec 26, 2006 Calligraphy by Richard Lazzara
Photo taken on Oudeschans (canal and street) at intersection with Oostersekade street while on a canal excursion..
This photo, for me, is a good example of how the choice of b&w or color can affect how you might see or interpret a photography. I love the color photo because of all of the color. To me this shot almost jumps out at you with the color. However, the downside of the color photo is that you seem to lose the people.
I feel that the people become more of the central focus of the black and white photo and you see them within the context of the setting without the distraction of color.
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Spirals
For how long have people depicted spiral designs in their art and architecture, and why does the image have such a provocative effect?
From magnetic fields to vast galaxies swirling in space, spirals can be seen in every aspect in nature. We see them in the physical forces which shape the Earth - the tides of the ocean, the winds in the atmosphere - and within life itself. Plants and the horns and shells of animals grow in spiral formations and some animals, especially aquatic species, possess a twisting locomotion.
The spiral phenomenon within natural forms can be explained through mathematics - the pattern is a result of complex sequences, equations and algorithms which nature utilises in her designs of the Universe. But mathematics alone cannot justify the lure of the spiral to the human mind.
Some of the oldest examples of human art are depictions of spirals, painted or carved into rock, often found in burial sites. Later, the Romans and Greeks used spirals as designs for vases and the columns in temples. The Celtic and Norse people were well known for the mysterious and repetitive designs found on their jewellery, clothing, weapons, objects of worship and everyday items. The Celts even painted spirals on their bodies with blue dye to intimidate enemies during battle. They also created forms of animals and plants twisting into impossible spirals, sometimes interlocking with other elements of the picture.
The spiral has left no human culture untouched. It is an important feature in some Australian Aboriginal works, where it is often drawn as a coiled snake. The Islamic tradition prohibits depictions of people or animals, so spirals feature as an important element in the mathematically-governed Islamic designs. Spirals also feature in oriental and Indian clothing and pottery.
Today, the spiral still runs deep within our culture. It forms the logos of a large number of companies, and has come to symbolise magic, dreams, desires and, most importantly, eternity.
It is perhaps this never-ending quality of the spiral which intrigues and draws us so greatly. When a spiral is drawn or made using paper and then turned, it creates the illusion that it is twisting forever away or towards us. The repetitive animation of a twisting spiral also evokes deep relaxation and calm, which accounts for the spiral's close association with the art of hypnotism. In some cases, people even create spirals themselves in order to ease the constantly active mind. If a person is left to "doodle" on a piece of paper in a relaxed state, it is very likely that they will draw spirals and swirls as their subconscious mind controls the pen.
As a representative of the eternal forces of nature, or simply as an attractive and interesting pattern, spirals shall always remain within the cultures of man. For as long as they surround us in every aspect of nature, the spiral will imprint itself within our unconscious psyche, and shall be reflected in our arts for all time.
Written by Megan Balanck
www.ancientspiral.com/spirals.htm
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The phrase "when pigs fly" (alternatively, "pigs might fly") is an adynaton—a figure of speech so hyperbolic that it describes an impossibility. The implication of such a phrase is that the circumstances in question will never occur. The phrase has been used in various forms since the 1600s as a sarcastic remark.
An example occurs in the film The Eagle Has Landed: an Irish secret agent working for the Nazis replies to a German general speaking of Germany's shortly winning World War II, "Pigs may fly, General, but I doubt it!" Later, when the Irishman sees German soldiers parachuting before an attack, he says to himself, "Mother of God! Flying pigs!"
Similar phrases in English include "when hell freezes over", the Latin expression "to the Greek calends", and "and monkeys might fly out of my butt", popularized in Wayne's World skits and movies. They are examples of adynata. In Finnish, the expression "kun lehmät lentävät" (when cows fly) is used because of its alliteration. In French, the most common expression is "quand les poules auront des dents" (when hens will have teeth). In medieval Hebrew manuscripts, the expression "until the donkey ascends the ladder" is attested.
Lovely example of the magic of language. Made me smile when I came across this shop, so had to take it and include in the album.
Usually tucked away at the Lake Superior Railroad Museum, these two early diesel switchers show off similar body designs despite being from two different builders. Both locomotives were positioned outside for roster shots during a Railfan Weekend event on September 8, 2002.
Oliver Iron Mining Alco HH1000 was built in 1940 and has the distinction of being the first diesel to work on the Mesabi Range and is the only surviving HH1000 (it was also delivered a year before DM&IR's first Yellowstone 2-8-8-4 monsters arrived).
Sharing the limelight with 900 on this fine day is Hallett Dock Fairbanks-Morse H-10-44 HD11, built in 1946 for Minnesota Western as their 51 and then becoming MN&S No. 11 before being sold to Hallett in 1976.
Both units are not currently part of the museum's operating collection but could be made serviceable.
Amazing example of Art Nouveau architecture designed by Jules Lavirotte.
Jules Aimé Lavirotte (Lyon, March 25, 1864 - Paris, March 1924) was a French architect who designed no fewer than nine buildings still standing in the 7th arrondissement of Paris, or in immediately surrounding arrondissements. His flamboyantly presented work won him acclaim among his contemporaries, and won him the Concours de Façades de la Ville de Paris on at least two occasions: for the building at 29 Avenue Rapp (1901), and for the Ceramic Hotel, 34 Avenue de Wagram (1904).
A great addition to my collection of Coca-cola shots from around the World. Halfway up the High Atlas Mountains, perched on the side of the road, this cafe is a great example of the globalisation that is represented by the spread of brands like this.
More Coke (and other brands) here : www.flickr.com/photos/darrellg/sets/72157629410277455
UNESCO declared the Punic Town of Kerkouane and its Necropolis a World Heritage Site in 1985, citing among other things that the remains constitute the only example of a Phoenicio-Punic city to have survived.
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The New Mexico Photography Field School Landscape Photography Class.
I am deeply grateful to my teacher Craig Varjabedian and his workshop assistant Jay Packer. They were wonderfully skilled guides in helping me to orient myself to the basics of landscape photography. Their understanding and grasp of technical and aesthetic aspects of picture taking and the ineffable mysteries of photography are simply awesome and a delight. www.photofieldschool.com/craig.html
Craig Varjabedian is a fine-art photographer of the lands and peoples of the American West and Southwest and is Director of the Field School. He was born in Canada and began photographing at the age of thirteen. He has subsequently sustained an artistic career spanning over thirty years, which began in earnest in 1971 and involved studies with Phil Davis at the University of Michigan and Paul Caponigro in Santa Fe. Varjabedian’s first one-man show was at the Albuquerque Museum in 1994. Since that time he has been widely exhibited in museums and galleries throughout the United States. Grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Samuel H. Kress Foundation and the McCune Charitable Foundation have been awarded to Varjabedian over the course of his photographic career in recognition of his powerful imagery. His pursuit of an intensely personal vision has culminated in images of moments made extraordinary by light and life. He approaches his subjects receptively, preferring to utilize an intuitive approach rather than arranging forms and recording surface details. In the final analysis, Varjabedian’s photographs allow viewers to share in the authentic experience of an artistic process which celebrates luminous and heartfelt experience.
Upcoming books of his photographs include Four & Twenty Photographs: Stories from Behind the Lens (Spring 2007) and a book on Ghost Ranch (Spring 2008), both with Santa Fe author Robin Jones, which will be available from the University of New Mexico Press. The late Beaumont Newhall, preeminent photographic historian, wrote, “The remarkable photographs by Craig Varjabedian are not only beautiful but also extremely valuable documents of architecture, culture, and lifestyle of Northern New Mexico.”
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I took this photo at Ghost Ranch where Georgia O'keefe lived and painted. It is said that she claimed that if she painted a nearby mountain enough times god had told her that it would be hers. She is buried there. This is a spiritually and artistically inspiring awsome place.
Ghost Ranch was part of a land grant to Pedro Martin Serrano from the King of Spain in 1766. The grant was called Piedra Lumbre (shining rock). The name "Ghost Ranch", or the local name Rancho de los Brujos, was derived from the many tales of ghosts and legends of hangings in the Ranch's history.
"When I got to New Mexico, that was mine."
In this way Georgia O'Keeffe described her instant love for Northern New Mexico, a love that lasted the rest of her life. The time was 1917, the event was a trip O'Keeffe and her sister Claudia took to New Mexico and Colorado from their home in Canyon, Texas. Yet it was 12 years before O'Keeffe returned to New Mexico and even longer before she found her way into the beautiful valley that would eventually become her summer home.
In 1929 O'Keeffe went to Taos at the invitation of friends Dorothy Brett and Mabel Dodge Luhan. There she heard of Ghost Ranch and once even caught a tantalizing glimpse of it from a high plain. In 1934 she finally found the ranch but was dismayed to learn that it was a dude ranch owned by Arthur Pack. However, a place was available for her that night in Ghost House and she spent the entire summer at the ranch.
That established a pattern she would follow for years, summers at Ghost Ranch exploring on foot and on canvas the beauty of the place, winters in New York. Because she was basically a "loner," she soon sought Ghost Ranch housing that was somewhat isolated from the headquarters area. Pack offered to rent her his own residence called Rancho de los Burros; this suited her very well. One spring she arrived unexpectedly and found someone else in the house. She demanded to know what those people were doing in her house. When Pack pointed out that it wasn't her house, she insisted that he sell it to her. Thus she became the owner of a very small piece of Ghost Ranch land: a house and 7 acres. (In later years she told a ranch employee doing roadwork near her home, "I wanted enough land to keep a horse - all Arthur would sell me was enough for my sewer!")
But Rancho de los Burros was a summer place and also a desert one. O'Keeffe wanted a garden and a winter home. Eventually, she bought 3 acres in the village of Abiquiu. She spent 3 years remodeling and rebuilding the crumbling adobes before the place was fit for human habitation. After her husband, Alfred Stieglitz, died, O'Keeffe left New York to make Abiquiu her permanent home.
In 1955 Arthur and Phoebe Pack gave Ghost Ranch to the Presbyterian Church. O'Keeffe was aghast. The Packs should have sold her the ranch, she thought, and besides, she never cared much for Presbyterians anyway. Her precious privacy would be gone. However, from the very beginning of this new relationship the Presbyterians respected and tried to preserve the privacy of their famous neighbor. Visitors were told, as they are today, that Rancho de los Burros was on private land with no public access. Gradually her fears were allayed and the relationship grew warmer. Office personnel sometimes did secretarial work for her; Ghost Ranch folks replaced the pump on her well. O'Keeffe became friendly enough with long-time ranch director Jim Hall and his wife Ruth to have Christmas dinner with them.
She made a money gift toward construction of the Hall's retirement home on the ranch. When fire destroyed the headquarters building in 1983, O'Keeffe immediately made a gift of $50,000 and lent her name to a Challenge Fund for the Phoenix campaign which resulted in replacing the headquarters building and adding a Social Center and the Ruth Hall Museum.
During the last few years of her life O'Keeffe was unable to come to Ghost Ranch from Abiquiu. Eventually she moved to Santa Fe where she died in her 99th year, reclusive to the end. "I find people very difficult," she once said.
Ghost Ranch gave her the freedom to paint what she saw and felt. Knowledgeable visitors can look around and identify many of the scenes she painted. Red and gray hills like those across from the roadside park south of the ranch headquarters were frequent subjects. Kitchen Mesa at the upper end of the valley is an example of the red and yellow cliffs she painted many times. Pedernal, the flat-topped mountain to the south, was probably her favorite subject. "It's my private mountain," she frequently said. "God told me if I painted it often enough I could have it." And of course, the Ghost Ranch logo, used on everything from stationery to T-shirts, was adapted from an O'Keeffe drawing.