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Caught this wonderful sight on my way to the parking lot after getting off work. I'm not the patriotic sort, but thought it was beautiful just the same. =o)
A project for the 30th anniversary of the Solway Quilters' Group was for us each to make a bunting flag. They will all be displayed at the 30th Anniversary meeting, and will be kept for posterity. The blue fabric was provided and we were asked to include a pinwheel in the design. The rest was up to us. I have included a naif-style applique, including some petals on the flowers, which echo the shapes in the pinwheel.
#patchwork #bunting #solwayquilters #groupproject #applique
In 1981 the U.S. Air Force needed a new air superiority fighter that would take advantage of new technologies in fighter design including composite materials, lightweight alloys, advanced flight control systems, higher power propulsion systems and stealth technology. Lockheed Martin's F-22 won the design competition in April 1991, and the roll-out ceremony for the first F-22 Raptor occurred in April 1997.
From the very beginning, the F-22A exceeded the USAF's expectations, and during exercises and deployments, it proved to be more than a match for any fighter opposing it.
During the highly realistic Exercise Northern Edge 2006, the F-22 proved itself against as many as 40 "enemy aircraft" during simulated battles. The Raptor pilots achieved a 108-to-zero "kill" ratio against the best F-15, F-16 and F-18 "adversaries." The stealthy F-22A also proved that it could avoid and destroy enemy surface to air missiles, and recorded an impressive 97 percent mission capability rate.
The aircraft on display at the Museum of the United States Air Force, (S/N 91-4003) was one of nine F-22s built for Engineering, Manufacture and Development (EMD) testing, and it rolled off the Lockheed Martin assembly line in Georgia on May 22, 1999. Assigned to the 412th Test Wing at Edwards Air Force Base, Calif., the aircraft made its first flight on March 6, 2000. After completing its phase in the test program, this aircraft came to the museum in January 2007. It is painted to represent an F-22A flown by the 1st Fighter Wing at Langley Air Force Base, Va.
A morning in red, white and blue! Glorious!
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The American flag flies over Little Italy section of San Diego. Photographed during a Composition In The Field workshop for Digital Photo Academy. Photo ©2011 William Morton (http://mortonvisuals.com).
a red version of the Australian flag that is only at used at sea, never on land. It is also allowed for use by citizens vs government use.
A photograph of a poppy (Papaver somniferum ‘Danish Flag’) at the Monet’s Garden exhibit at the New York Botanical Garden (Bronx, New York)—May 20, 2012.
The Monet’s Garden exhibition is a stunning tribute to French Impressionist Claude Monet. The exhibit showcases a seasonally changing interpretation of the garden that inspired his art.
Monet brought together the best of old species with the latest in the horticultural trade—both imports and new hybrids—in his gardens.
Dignitaries and journalists traveled to Giverny to see the gardens, and during Monet’s lifetime the gardens became as intrinsic a part of his public persona as the paintings in which they were forever immortalized.
In a letter to art dealer Paul Durand-Ruel, Monet wrote, “I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers.” Monet took such pride in his painstaking construction and maintenance of his garden that he proclaimed to his stepson Jean-Pierre Hoschedé, “My most beautiful work of art is my garden.”
In a masterstroke of differentiation, Monet forged his own path rather than following the artistic trends that took hold during the 20th century. Monet underscored his commitment to depictions of the natural world in his paintings in the 20th century, even as his fellow artists at the time were abandoning nature as a modernist subject.
Curator Paul Hayes Tucker, the world’s foremost authority on Claude Monet and Impressionism, is the Paul Hayes Tucker Distinguished Professor of Art at the University of Massachusetts Boston, where he has taught since 1978. He earned his Ph.D. from Yale in 1979 with a dissertation on Monet, the subject of five of his eleven books and three of the dozen exhibitions he has curated around the world.
Designer Scott Pask is an award-winning scenic designer, whose extensive Broadway credits include the hit revivals of Promises, Promises, HAIR, and Nine. Educated in architecture and theater design, he has won Tony Awards for his design of The Pillowman, The Coast of Utopia, and The Book of Mormon, and has recently designed the latest show for Cirque du Soleil, Amaluna.
Happy Independence Day, USA. Despite its problems and scandals it's still a great country but we need to get back to the integrity that it once had.
This picture was shot at Fort Douglas, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA
I loved the sunlight glowing through the back of the flag. It was a mildly breezy day so it took some time to get the right composition with the flag moving around.
((Los Angeles)) • At the Grand Prix of Long Beach, where Italian-made racing chassis are mated, in part, to Japanese and English-made motors, which are then driven by drivers from various nations, through a track set up in the very multi-cultural setting of Los Angeles county - comes the American flag via a skydiver.